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LNC Cruising Out of Control · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large Nerdon Collier Podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Castin and with me, as always is be
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful genre industry group.
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  Speaker 2: Oh hoy, hoy, Ariel hoy HOI I am back from
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  Speaker 2: the sea. You are, Yeah, I hate the sea and
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  Speaker 2: everything in it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We're recording this on Saturday, January twenty fifth. We
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  Speaker 2: usually record on Fridays, but I just got back from
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  Speaker 2: a cruise, a Disney cruise as it were, and so
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  Speaker 2: we decided we would record today rather than go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like another hiatus. I've got a lot of travel coming
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  Speaker 2: up over the next couple of weeks, so we're going
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  Speaker 2: to work around that as best we can, because we
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  Speaker 2: feel bad that, you know, we had so much time
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  Speaker 2: off over the last couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I also have a tiny bit of travel. But
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  Speaker 1: well we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we will get you your dosage of geekery one
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  Speaker 2: way or another.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, who is on weekend already?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I mean it's it's in the afternoon on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: We have been. We've been in weekend mode for a bit,
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  Speaker 2: so Ariel, before we started recording, before we even got
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  Speaker 2: on camera or anything, you had sent me a message
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  Speaker 2: and I was delighted to hear that you have started
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  Speaker 2: to watch Severance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been trying to watch it like all week since,
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  Speaker 1: maybe like last week even. But it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that were like, well, when we started, we want
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  Speaker 1: to sit down and pay attention to it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it's late at night. I've been having some very
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  Speaker 1: late nights, so if it's late at night, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be sleepy and only paying half
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  Speaker 1: attention to it. So we started last night. We got
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  Speaker 1: through the first three episodes. It is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of scratching that lost itch that I have
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  Speaker 1: of like I want to watch a show with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mystery and bizarreness and not know what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're trying to figure out what's going on, what
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  Speaker 2: is significant, what's not significant, and what's funny is stuff
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  Speaker 2: that you will be absolutely certain is insignificant later becomes important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I assume everything's significant, but it's it is so
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  Speaker 1: well written. In my opinion, Yeah, I'm so glad you
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  Speaker 1: recommended it because I was a little on the fence.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded interesting, but I wasn't sure. But for being
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  Speaker 1: so bizarre, it's also the humor is incredibly relatable. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't call it a comedy, but there is a good
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  Speaker 1: amount of humor in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially especially character based humor. Yeah. Like like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: the brother in law of Adam Scott's character is such
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  Speaker 2: a new age weirdo.
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  Speaker 1: I just I first episode and I'm like, how did
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  Speaker 1: a sister that cool marry that person?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you got to look at my relationship
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  Speaker 2: with my partner and then you say, all right, it
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  Speaker 2: happens in real life too, really cool people like my
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  Speaker 2: partner end up with total dufices.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, fair enough. You know, normally I would
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  Speaker 1: I would stop you from insulting yourself. But Becca is
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  Speaker 1: remarkably cool.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Beca's Beca's the coolest, so cool uh.
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  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, So I'm really enjoying it. Also, it's
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  Speaker 1: funny because last weekend I got together with some friends
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  Speaker 1: my D and D group, and we're going to try.
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  Speaker 1: One of them got a new RPG in called The
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  Speaker 1: Triangle agency and we're gonna try that. And it's about
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people who are weird that work in
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  Speaker 1: this really weird meow Wolf Severance kind of corporation that
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  Speaker 1: go after anomalies but nothing's really explained and it's really
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  Speaker 1: bizarre and just so it fits right in. It's really
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  Speaker 1: helping me develop my character.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah, I remember when I first watch it,
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  Speaker 2: started watching Severance like I was coming to some certain
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  Speaker 2: ideas about what was going on, and by the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season, I was delighted to find out that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't anticipate the actual like some of the bigger
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  Speaker 2: reveals of the season at all. And that's my favorite
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  Speaker 2: kind of show where, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want to give the writers too much credit because
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  Speaker 2: I'm also dense. So often I don't often I don't notice,
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  Speaker 2: Like sometimes I notice stuff, but it's like small stuff
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't actually pertain to the narrative. It's more like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I noticed that they use this particular editing trick or
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  Speaker 2: camera trick, and unfortunately that pulls me out of the
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  Speaker 2: moment and I'm thinking more about the making of the
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  Speaker 2: thing instead of the thing itself. That was my big
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  Speaker 2: problem with Nosfaratu is not that Nosfaratu was a bad movie,
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  Speaker 2: but that it's like I could see the filmmaking happening
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  Speaker 2: in front of me, and that's what distracted me. So
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, no, Severance has has a great reveal, and
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  Speaker 2: I've heard mixed things about the second season. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: watched it yet, so I don't have a personal opinion.
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  Speaker 1: But i've heard mixed things. I am purposefully stepping away
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  Speaker 1: from I mean, I'm still on social media, but I
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  Speaker 1: am limiting my time on there as a general New
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  Speaker 1: Year's resolute anyhow. Yeah, so just because I have limited
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  Speaker 1: time in the day and I want to spend it
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  Speaker 1: doing more productive things. But I still get on there
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen some interviews with people, so I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I have spoilers, but I don't for season two.
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  Speaker 1: But it's okay because as I'm watching it, I still
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. I have a lot of theories.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing I'll say about it is I
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  Speaker 1: like shows that make you think, because I don't. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I like to be mindless, but sometimes I like to think,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I wanted to have a good attention
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  Speaker 1: span for Severance. But it doesn't feel like work.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun, right, And my biggest hope is that the
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  Speaker 2: showrunners had a firm idea of what's actually happening from
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  Speaker 2: the get go, and that they're not doing a loss
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  Speaker 2: where it slowly becomes clear that they were kind of
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  Speaker 2: making it up as they were going along, because that's
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  Speaker 2: my biggest problem with Abram JJ Abrams in general is
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  Speaker 2: that I often feel like he gets really good ideas,
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  Speaker 2: he does not flesh them out enough before they start
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  Speaker 2: going into production, and the next thing he knows he's
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  Speaker 2: in a corner and he has to kind of cheat
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  Speaker 2: to get out of the corner or to find some
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  Speaker 2: sort of unsatisfying solution. And one way to work around
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  Speaker 2: that is flesh your ideas out enough so that you
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  Speaker 2: know where you're going to. It may be that the
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  Speaker 2: destination changes along the way, that's okay, but at least
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  Speaker 2: have an idea of where you're going. Don't be like
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  Speaker 2: Abrams and lost or was it who was it that
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  Speaker 2: did X Files? I can't remember his name now, but
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  Speaker 2: X Files was the same way right Like X Files
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  Speaker 2: was supposedly planned from the get go, but it became
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  Speaker 2: very clear as the Chris Carter, thank you. It became
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  Speaker 2: very clear as the seasons went on that Chris Carter
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  Speaker 2: did not have a real roadmap for where that's series
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  Speaker 2: was going to go.
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  Speaker 1: I've only seen like four episodes of The X Files.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. I mean, if it's not your thing, it's
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  Speaker 2: not your thing. Like back in the day when that
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  Speaker 2: was on TV, it was such a revolutionary series, you know,
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  Speaker 2: But now we've got tons of stuff that is clearly
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  Speaker 2: inspired by X Files that in some ways is better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it's less that it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: my thing. Is I didn't watch it when it was new,
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  Speaker 1: so it does feel a little a little dated. And
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  Speaker 1: then also like I know so much, like even just
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  Speaker 1: watching Jeopardy, I know so much of what's happened in
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  Speaker 1: The X Files that it isn't a surprise to me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: There are a couple of episodes. There's one episode in
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  Speaker 2: particular called Home that to this day is one of
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  Speaker 2: the most disturbing episodes of television, like just broadcast TV,
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  Speaker 2: that I've ever seen, and it's one of my favorite episodes.
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  Speaker 2: It is my favorite episode of X Files. I remember
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  Speaker 2: when that came out because I was in college, which
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  Speaker 2: means you were in diapers. So not quite, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: making a joke.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, Jonathan, I definitely was not in diapers.
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  Speaker 2: Buriel was a late bloomer when it comes to body training,
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  Speaker 2: is what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I was an early bloomer in all things in child
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  Speaker 1: Actually I don't know about potty training, but like I
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  Speaker 1: started reading very early.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, well I'm merely joshing, but yeah, Home was
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  Speaker 2: what you certainly would have been too young to have
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  Speaker 2: watched Home. That was a dark and disturbing episode, but
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  Speaker 2: it happened. It did one of my favorite things in
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  Speaker 2: the world, which is where you pair like a really
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  Speaker 2: disturbing and violent scene with music that is kind of cheerful,
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  Speaker 2: and the juxtaposition of the two makes the scene more
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  Speaker 2: even more impactful like it to me, it hits way
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  Speaker 2: harder then if the music was like your your stereotypical
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  Speaker 2: horror music.
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  Speaker 1: Because the comforting music makes you feel safe, and then
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  Speaker 1: they're invading on that safe.
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  Speaker 2: Feeling exactly exactly, and it was. It was Johnny Mathis's
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  Speaker 2: song Wonderful, wonderful, Oh oh, such a such a incredible
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  Speaker 2: act of disturbing violence. Yeah, I highly recommend if you
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  Speaker 2: if you like creepy. Also, Home is one of those
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  Speaker 2: episodes that was a standalone, like it wasn't deeply connected
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  Speaker 2: to the rest of the mythology of the series, so
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  Speaker 2: you could, you know, you could watch it like it
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  Speaker 2: was just an episodic television show and not really be
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  Speaker 2: too out of.
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  Speaker 1: The loop, too scary for me.
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  Speaker 2: Per I think you can handle it, but I think
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  Speaker 2: it would be pushing your limits.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I will skip that one if I go back
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  Speaker 1: to X Files.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's so good though, Well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see. There's I have to finish Severance first, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but also I am caught up on pop culture Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this one. I expected it to be
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  Speaker 1: a short season, like eight episodes, and it is absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: There's like eighty one teams wow, and then they go
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  Speaker 1: to the quarterfinals, and then they go to the semifinals
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  Speaker 1: and then the finals. So it's a nice long run
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  Speaker 1: of episodes, which I really like. And then the other
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  Speaker 1: cool thing I think they're doing is there's been a
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  Speaker 1: big debate among some of my friends groups of whether
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  Speaker 1: it's better to release weekly or to release all it
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  Speaker 1: once and allow for a binge. But a shorter subscription period,
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  Speaker 1: and they are releasing three episodes a week, so at
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  Speaker 1: least during the initial rounds, which gives you the feeling
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  Speaker 1: like you're binging, but also makes you come back every week.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's incredibly smart and I'm quite enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: Although this week was not my week for pop culture Jeopardy,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know many of the answers. I felt a
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  Speaker 1: little silly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, three a week to me, makes perfect
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  Speaker 2: sense for like a game show, you know, because traditionally
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  Speaker 2: you would get those like one a day, right, Jeopardy
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  Speaker 2: Monday through Friday. Right, So uh so something like that
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  Speaker 2: to me feels like it falls right in with the
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  Speaker 2: traditional release of game show formats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what did you watch?
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  Speaker 2: A whole bunch of whole bunch of Disney stuff and
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  Speaker 2: Marvel stuff? Because I was on a Disney boat, And
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  Speaker 2: I mean, technically I could have seen movies I have
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  Speaker 2: not watched before, like Mowana Too, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't, or Elements Question.
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  Speaker 2: Elementals but I didn't, or Mufasa but I didn't. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: I watched a bunch of stuff I have seen before.
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  Speaker 2: So I watched a bunch of the Marvel movies older
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  Speaker 2: ones because they were there. I'm being honest, Like it
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  Speaker 2: was when I was just kind of hanging out in
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  Speaker 2: the room and relaxing, and you know, I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to go around and do stuff in the on the ship.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching lots of them. But what was funny
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  Speaker 2: was that I'm sure I noticed this at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but I forgot about it. I was watching ant Man
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  Speaker 2: in the Wasp and was delighted when someone I know
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  Speaker 2: shows up on screen and even had a couple of lines,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I totally forgot she was in
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  Speaker 2: this movie. I'm assuming I noticed it, but I'd only
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  Speaker 2: ever seen it once because the Becca's afraid of insects,
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  Speaker 2: so she will not watch the ant Man movies, Like
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  Speaker 2: that's just a no go from the beginning, and and
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  Speaker 2: so I've only seen them once each until now. Now
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  Speaker 2: I've seen ant Man and ant Man in the losp twice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One like, I think that's Sueila Sueila el Atar. She
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  Speaker 2: played Agent Pearson. Yeah, so she's a local writer and
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  Speaker 2: actor here in Atlanta. She's actually done quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: of stuff on screen. But I've known her for years
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  Speaker 2: and years and years, and one of my favorite things
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  Speaker 2: she ever did wasn't a movie. She wrote a touching
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  Speaker 2: play about her relationship with her father and she anchored
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  Speaker 2: it to their shared love of Doctor Who. And her
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  Speaker 2: father is from Egypt, so she's a first generation, you know,
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  Speaker 2: American citizen and her parents were from Egypt, are from Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: and actually that's I believe she's in Egypt right now
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  Speaker 2: visiting family. But yeah, so she had this great play
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  Speaker 2: that talked about her relationship with her father and related
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  Speaker 2: it with their love of the show Doctor Who. And
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  Speaker 2: it was very very sweet and funny, and uh, it
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  Speaker 2: just it was nice to remember that. Like seeing her
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  Speaker 2: on screen, I just had this big flashback to that
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  Speaker 2: show she did years ago. But anyway, yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: watch anything new. I just saw a lot of Disney stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They did do three stage productions on the ship while
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  Speaker 2: I was gone. So they did Tangled, a stage production
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  Speaker 2: of Tangled, which was adorable. They did a stage production
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  Speaker 2: called Twice Charmed, which is a retelling of Cinderella, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the premises what if at the end of Cinderella,
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  Speaker 2: if Lady Tremaine and the Stepsisters were visited by a
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  Speaker 2: wicked fairy godfather and they were able to turn time
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  Speaker 2: back and destroy the Slippers before the Prince could meet Cinderella,
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  Speaker 2: before he could you know, find her. And it's funny
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  Speaker 2: because I've seen that show now three times and it's
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  Speaker 2: changed each time. They've they've gone back and they've reworked it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh And honestly, the second version is my favorite. This
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  Speaker 2: one was. This one was still still good, still entertaining,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the second version, which had more of
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  Speaker 2: the Stepsisters in them, and they're my favorite characters. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was my real favorite. This one had a little
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  Speaker 2: less of the Stepsisters and a little bit more of Gus,
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  Speaker 2: Gus and Jacques the Mice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's fine. I don't dislike Gus gust In Shock,
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  Speaker 1: but the Anastasia and Drazilla Drizilla Drizilla are delightful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're delightful. I will forget. That sounds I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about the third show too, But that sounds wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds so wonderful that I'm not mad that it's
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  Speaker 1: not what I expected it to be, which was the
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  Speaker 1: life of the two Princes into the woods when they
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  Speaker 1: weren't singing agony.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because there is kind of a moment like
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  Speaker 2: that in the show, because there's when Cinderella's prince is
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  Speaker 2: searching for her. There's one point where he encounters snow White.
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  Speaker 2: It's just done as a joke, but he encounters snow
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  Speaker 2: White and she he says, I'm looking for my princess
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  Speaker 2: and she turns so she says, yes and it's not
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  Speaker 2: it's not you. And she said someday my prince will come.
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  Speaker 2: And then she just starts bursting into tears and runs
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  Speaker 2: off stage. But then there's another bit where where the
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  Speaker 2: duke is saying because he's talking about being in love
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  Speaker 2: with Cinderella and dukes saying, Prince, you fall in love
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  Speaker 2: every week. I mean last week it was the Duchess
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  Speaker 2: so and so, the Countess so and so, and do
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  Speaker 2: you remember the two sisters from Arundell? And he says,
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  Speaker 2: let it go, Duke, and it's just very meta, you know,
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  Speaker 2: tongue in cheek Disney humor. We also later encountered the
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  Speaker 2: actor who played Franco. He was super nice, very very talented,
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  Speaker 2: performed her great singer, a lot of stage presence. He
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  Speaker 2: really played like he ate up being a villain. It
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  Speaker 2: was fantastic. So he was awesome. And then the last
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  Speaker 2: show they do is called Disney Dreams, which is I
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  Speaker 2: would say an original show, but it's it relies heavily
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  Speaker 2: on established Disney music, and it's about a little girl
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  Speaker 2: who's who's about to go into middle school, so not
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  Speaker 2: that little, and she's, you know, on the verge of
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  Speaker 2: growing up, and Peter Pan visits her in order to
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  Speaker 2: teach her how to continue to dream, essentially to make
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  Speaker 2: believe even as she gets older, because she's worried that
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  Speaker 2: she's going to lose that she's been told by one
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  Speaker 2: of her friends that you know, when you grow up,
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  Speaker 2: you stop doing these silly, childish things. And then he
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  Speaker 2: takes her through a journey that has her meeting all
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  Speaker 2: these different Disney characters which allow for the production of
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  Speaker 2: different songs from different stuff, and in this one that
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: included the Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Cinderella, a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: Frozen as well, and Becka and I were like frozens
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  Speaker 2: knew what did Frozen replace? And we cannot remember for
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  Speaker 2: the life of us. So I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 2: look it up at some point to figure out what
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  Speaker 2: section did they take out so that they could put
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  Speaker 2: in a Frozen segment. But they actually do have a
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  Speaker 2: beauty in the B section two and they also have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of Lion King, so yeah, it's weird.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to look it up. We did figure there
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  Speaker 2: was a previous version where they had both I Just
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: can't Wait to Be King and Circle of Life. This
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: one just had Circle of Life, which is one of
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: their showstopper numbers. Anyway, if you ever go on a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Disney cruise and you're on either the Magic or the Wonder,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Disney Dreams is their signature show that is produced just
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: on those two ships. The Fantasy and the Dream have
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: a different one called Believe, which is not as good.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha? Well, that sounds like a lot of fun,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and honestly, spending the week watching some fun Disney and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Marvel stuff sounds delightful.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Not a bad way to spend the week, if I'm
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: being honest.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not a bad way at all. I guess at this,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Oh I did mention. Well, no, I'll get to that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: later because I think it's in our It's in our
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: thirty seconds or less, so I'll get to that point later.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Y'all just gonna have to be an expense in suspense expense, suspense,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: wake up brain for like another two and a half minutes.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were kind of heading right to that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less already. I mean, we've we've been
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: gabbing for twenty minutes without ever really getting it into
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: anything other than how awesome Disney cruises are.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: We talked about severance for a good while. We did,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you know, and I think conversation. I love running through
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: trailers because I do have friends who listen to I
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have friends who listen to this show. Everybody's my friend
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: who listens to the show. But I have people who,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like I see on a regular basis, who listen to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the show and they're like, I didn't know about this,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: thank you. So I like running through that. But I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: also really like discussing stuff because then it opens up
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the door for other people to give their opinions on it,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and I enjoy that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so let's get to a part of our
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: show where we don't discuss anything. We just rattle through
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a bunch of stories as fast as you can. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: it's called thirty seconds or less, And I think, Ariel,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: you are first.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I am in Broadway news a show called Dead Outlaw
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: is coming this spring. I'm talking about it because my
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: childhood acting friend, Andrew Durand we used to do community
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: theater together, is the lead in it. He was also
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in Shocked, a lead and Shocked, and he was also
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in Head over Heels. But he is playing Elmer mccurnie,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: who is an outlaw who then dies and then his
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: corpse becomes famous and goes on all of these adventures.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So if you ever wanted a wild, wild West version
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of Weekend at Bernie's, then this is for you. I've
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: heard that the music is great. It was off Broadway
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: last year. I'm just absolutely delighted for Andrew. He's so talented,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and I know any show he's in is he is
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: at least going to shine. So I'm very very excited
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you want a slightly more recent reference
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: than Weekend at Bernie's, let's say Swiss Army Man. That's
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: another fair You know, I still haven't seen that boy.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Daniel Radcliffe puts on a dead amazing performance, all right.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Ah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Dark Horse Comics has dropped Neil Gaiman in the wake
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of abuse allegations brought against him by eight women. So far,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the comic book publisher has been producing a series of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: comic book based off Gayman's Nansi Boys novel, which is
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a spin off of American Gods. This comes after news
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: already broke that Good Omens is not getting a full
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: third season, but rather a ninety minute film that wraps
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: up the story without Gaman's involvement, and Disney has paused
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: production on a film adaptation of the Graveyard book. No
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: word on what effect, if any, this is going to
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: have on the other few Gayman productions that are out there.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wrote my next title, Joe Russo declaring soccer
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: war on Ryan and Rob. How's that for clickbait? So
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: most people know that Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhoney own
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the Wrexham football team. Well, Joe Russo, one of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Russo brothers from all that amazing Marvel stuff, has decided
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to join the board for Sheffield United, so which is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: not the same team as Wrexham. So it kind of
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: feels like he's declaring soccer war, all though I'm sure
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: they're all friendly. Joe did go to a Wrexham game
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: with Ryan and Rob, so fun.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: That is fun. Well, back in two thousand and two,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Paul W. S. Anderson directed a film adaptation of Resident Evil.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: That's where he met his future wife, Milla Jojoviovic he
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: then or Mila Jehovivic. He then kept making movies in
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the franchise, and she kept starring in them, which is
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: why I joked that he's her agent in some ways.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But those movies only bear a passing resemblance to the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: video game source material. Now there's a reboot series in
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the works with the whitest Barbarian. You know, Zach Kregor
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: at the Helm Studios are currently in a bidding war
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: over this project, which is said to be more faithful
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to the video game source material.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting. I'm tentatively excited about that. Okay, if
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: you looked at the list, We're going to go over
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Oscar Noms later in the show. But if you looked
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: at the list and went, man, I haven't seen many
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of those movies, well, you're in luck. If you live
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, or San Francisco and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: are near an AMC, you can join a one or
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: two day marathon of watching nine of the ten films.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: That's that's a long long time. There's a one of
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: them is a twenty four hour marathon, and one is
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a two day marathon. And the twenty four hour marathon
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: starts on March first and wraps up with Wicked at
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: ten ten the next morning. So that's a long day.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: But if you're committed to the Oscar movies, have fun.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I am curious which one was left out?
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Oh oh it was Amelia Perez.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: The one that beat Wicked. Okay, all right, Well, Ryan
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Gosling isn't just Ken Maybe he's can Nobe, well not Kenobi,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: but some sort of Star Wars character. Ryan Gosling is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: reportedly and talks to star in a Star Wars film
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: held by Sean Levy, the guy behind Dead Bull and Wolverine. Also,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: he played one of the punk bad guys in a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: terrible movie called Zombie Nightmare. You should check that out.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: There are a few details available about this Star Wars film,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: which Levy first began writing back in twenty twenty two.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: We do know it's not going to be connected to
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the Skywalker saga, which is kind of a relief really
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: if you ask me.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now we have to do a Barbie Star Wars mashup,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you know that, right?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, next in Star Trek News. Going from Star Wars
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to Star Trek Section thirty one, which was supposed to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: be a TV show about Michelle Yoh's character in an
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: alternate universe and then got turned into a movie, is
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: not getting great reviews at best. I've heard that there
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: are too many ideas squished into too small of a space.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: But it is only ranking thirty one percent on Rotten Tomatoes,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and the only Star Trek property that has ranked less
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: is Star Trek five, the final front tier. So that's
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: a little sad.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, O man uh, but yeah, like movies with too
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: many ideas, and it have been a thing recently. I
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: feel like Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice had the same issue. Well, back
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: to Star Wars Now and back to the Skywalkers. George Nolfi,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: who has written screenplays for movies in the Bourne franchise
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: as well as Ocean's Twelve, is the latest in a
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: long line of writers connected to a Daisy Ridley centric
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Star Wars movie called New Jedi Order. Previously, folks like
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: David Lindeloff, Justin Britt Gibson, and Stephen Knight worked on
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: versions that then got scrapped. The delays mean that this film,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: if it ever does get made, is going to happen
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: after the mysterious Levy film mentioned earlier, a.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Very interesting uh Aggers Eggers No, if we're about to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: talk a lot about him in three seconds or last,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: if you didn't watch nast for Rucu not so too.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: That's fruit by the foot in the theaters. You can
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: now watch it at home if you're like me. If
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you want your shouldn't be sexy scary film viewing in
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the privacy of your own home, you can do that now,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: along with Saturday Night and Sonic three.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I already did watch it at home. Ha ha ha.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That's what That's what I get for being part of
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: the WGA. Well, turning from vampires to wear wolves. Egger's
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: next project is a quote thirteenth century werewolf thriller end quote.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: According to the Hollywood Reporter, it's titled Werewolf. But there's
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: a U in there, and it's well, it's it's not
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: where you think, no, it really it totally is where
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: you think two ys and one in Yeah, you know, Eggers,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the bitch wasn't weird enough spelling, I guess anyway. He
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: co wrote the screenplay with Sean that's Sjo with the
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: little both thingy over, and he's an Icelandic writer. He
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: collaborated with Eggers on The Northman, and that's all we
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: have to say about Robert Eggers, right areel No.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: So there was rumor that he was going to make
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a Labyrinth movie, and those rumors apparently have been substantiated.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: He is making a Labyrinth sequel with TriStar, also with
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Chris and I think Elaine Columbus who did like Home
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Alone and Gremlins and things like that, and also two
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of the Henson children. So we don't know if it's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: going to be musical. We don't know if any, if
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: any of the characters will be returning. We know when
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the news first came out, Jonathan and I and my
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: husband Tony, we all in separate conversations but all tied
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: together debated over who might be the Goblin King. But
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: now we don't even know if the Goblin King.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Is going to show up. So yeah, but if you
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: do need an otherworldly human character to serves and antagonists,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I think Tilda Swinton still has my vote. I think
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: that was that was one of your suggestions, and I
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, that's really good. All right. Well, The
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporter projects that Captain America Brave New World is
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: on track to open it around ninety million dollars over
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Valentine's Day weekend. That's against a reported one hundred and
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: eighty million dollar budget, which is a big chunk of change,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: but notably, that is smaller than a lot of other
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Marvel films. Now, in some ways, this is the film
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: that's going to test the near future of Marvel movies
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: after several previous movies failed to perform well at the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: box office, excluding Deadpool and Wolverine of course.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of things that will surely do well in
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the box office, Scary Movie is having a sixth installment
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. I said that with a tongue
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in cheek intenation. If people did not pick up on it, Yeah,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I think it's inspired because we've been getting a whole
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: bunch of new screen movies, and Scary Movie is a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of horror movies, and Scary Movie is just
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to spoof on all of those things. So there's a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: lot of new content for them to riff on.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised if they have
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: a bunch of AI stuff in it, right, because we
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: had so many AI horror movies coming out, Like, it
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: would shock me if that isn't one of the elements
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: that they lampoon in Scary Movie six, the Scary Movie franchise. Actually,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: just the movie movies in general have a really terrible
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: track record with me. There's like a couple that I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: find passively entertaining and then a whole bunch that I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: just find miserable, Like it's just not a fun experience.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it goes close to like we can
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: we can we can talk about this a little bit
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: more because it's the last episode and three seconds or
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: lest so technically we're done, So technically we don't have
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to be beholden to it anymore. Like it falls into
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that shark Nato category, like because it is such self
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: referential humor essentially or referential humor, not self referential, but
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it and it knows that it's dumb. It it plucks
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of low hanging fruit.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are movies that can do that that I
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: find funny, Like Airplane I still think is a very
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: funny movie, even Airplane two, which is I don't think
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: is as good as the First Airplane and it does
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: repeat a lot of the same jokes, but it's still
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: pretty funny. Or the Naked Gun movies or the Police
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Squad series upon which the Naked Gun movies were based,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: those all, to me often succeed where the movie movies
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: frequently fall short, Like a lot of the movie ones.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: To your point, they'll make a reference and that's the
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: extent of the quote unquote joke, Like it's not even
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: it's not even a joke. It's just here's a thing
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: that you recognize out of context, and that's it. Hahahah
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah, And it's so it's such lazy writing. The
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: first Scary Movie had moments that I thought were pretty funny.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: The Second Scary Movie had one moment that actually made
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: me really laugh. And then I can't remember if. I
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: think I may have watched the third one, but I
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: didn't even know that we're a fourth and fifth one
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: out there. I do know that the other movie films
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: that I've tried to watch, like I think there was
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: like Epic Movie and date movie and all that kind
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: of stuff, they're just terrible. Like I was, I think
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I said at one point, this was years ago that
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: they should just stop naming them and just call it
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: generic lampoon movie and then put the year at the end.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they'll listen and they'll get that idea,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and if they do, they owe you royalties. Yeah, I agree.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever watched any of the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: scary movies all the way through, but I've certainly seen
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: enough clips. Yeah, every once in a while there's a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: really funny joke and then it's just and a whole
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff that just doesn't land for me.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: So well, Yeah, and a lot of the humor in
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: those is incredibly crude, which is it's fine if that's
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: your thing. Like, I get that they're catering to a
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: particular demographic, and I don't begrudge that demographic their humor
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: or whatever. But like I think about Airplane, it did
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: have some Airplane has some crass jokes in it. Don't
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: get me wrong. There's some really kind of crude and
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: crass jokes in that movie. But for the most part,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: it's just silly, and that's what appeals to me. Like,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I'm a silly person, so I like silly humor.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's only one show that leans really heavily
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: into the crude and crass, far too much for me
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: that I still enjoy so much that I enjoy rewatching it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And I feel shame for that because it is so crass,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: but the storytelling is really well done, and it's done
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: in a clever way, often so.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Well. Now you have to tell me what it is.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: You can't just I don't want to, but you have to.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: You have to.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's future man.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with this one, so you're safe with me.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's it's the guy who played Peta in Hunger Games,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Josh Hutchinson, and it's it's a Seth Rogan production. What
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: tells you about how like crass? And it's really raunchy
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and it's really crass. There's a lot of like sex
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and potty humor jokes, like a lot, and it's gross.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: But then it's also it also deals with a lot
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of time travel uh cliches, and it's very funny in
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the way that it does it, and the characters have
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: interesting arcs to them that I enjoy. Like, I enjoyed
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the story, I hated all the crassness and the rudeness.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting this show to anyone. I'm just using
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: it as a point of like, you can do that
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in a way that is still compelling, or you can
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: do it in a way that is it's you're just
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: watching that and it's just taking up time.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, there's nothing, there's nothing of more substance behind
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: it or of value. And yeah, I feel like again
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: like a lot of those movie movies fall into that
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: really lazy writing category. And you know, no shade on
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the people who wrote it. I guess other than you know, maybe,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I guess if you don't have to put forth effort
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: and you can still make money, that's a great job
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to get.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And I can. I am horrible at writing, so I
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: can't even say that they didn't put forth effort.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: It's just well, I'm good at writing, and I can
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: say that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, well you do that.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Well, well we'll now move. We'll now move from Jonathan
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: slagging off actual produced Hollywood writers because I am not
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: one of those, and we'll talk about some trailers and
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: stuff that we saw. So first up.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I want to say, most of
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: these have in parentheses after them, may not fit. Can
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: cut if you want. I'm surprised he only cut one,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't the one I thought.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Well, the one I cut was only because it was
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: a trailer that's actually been out for several months, because
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I almost added it to one of our episodes, like
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: two weeks ago ago. But it was because it's the
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: same It was the exact same trailer that's been out
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: for months. It's just that we didn't notice it, which
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: is can I get a witness? Which does look like
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: it's a pretty compelling movie, but at this point, like
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: that trailer has been out for so long that I mean,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: it's possible that people listening to this have not heard
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: of it. But yeah, it's a kind of a sci
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: fi like sci fi is like in the background, there's
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: a sci fi world that this is happening in, but
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: that's not really what the movie's about.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Kind of also supernatural, fantastical.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Vaguely yeah, and about things like grief. And it's in
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: a world where people have essentially elected to be euthanized
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: once they hit the age of fifty, which means this
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: is this is my last six months right here.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Ariel so glad it's not true.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not true. It's essentially like Logan's run except
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: that they made the age limit higher. But but yeah,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: and again like that's just the backdrop. That's so so
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: go check out. Can I get a witness? We talked
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: about it anyway, You can check out that trailer if
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: you like. But that's technically not in our notes, although
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Ariel will add it before we get to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the point where.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: She I'll do that. Also, there was a new trailer
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: for I don't remember it was. It wasn't Utopia, it
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: was something.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Else, Nutella. It was a trailer for Nutella.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: It's Utopia, it's just spelled differently Newtopia, which was the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: zombie girlfriend broke up with her boyfriend but is now
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: trying to get back to him.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Oh the Yeah, it's like a Korean film or something, right.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they came out with a new trailer too,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: so I'll we didn't put them in our lineup, but
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I'll add those two just for anybody who wants to
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: watch them.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Groovy. Well, the first trailer we actually have in our
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: lineup is kind of what if John McClain of Diehard
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: fame was a window cleaner and also a woman when
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: stuff went down in a high rise building.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's called the Cleaner. It stars Daisy Ridley,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: which is one of the biggest reasons I put it
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: in our lineup because you know, it stars a Jedi essentially,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's interesting. She's like an agent, but she's
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: also she heard cover as a window cleaner.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's a cover. I think she works
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: as a wind I think she works as a window cleaner.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: And her connection is that she's former Armed Forces but
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, dropped out or left the Armed Forces
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: and took a job as a window cleaner and happens
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: to be cleaning the windows of this building when a
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: group of baddies end up taking over the top of
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the building for some reason.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it kind of looks like generic action
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: but with a Jedi and with a die Hard esque feel.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, And I'm curious about what the bad guy's
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: motives are because in the trailer, it seems like what
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: they're saying is they are targeting rich people and exposing
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: the crimes these rich people have committed in the pursuit
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: of their wealth, which makes me wonder, Okay, is that
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: going to just be the cover they're using a lah
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: die Hard where Diehard looks like it's going to be
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: a terrorist thing, but really they're just bank robbers essentially. Yeah,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: so I'm guessing it's going to be something similar to that,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: because otherwise you're running the risk of the audience being
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: on the bad guys side.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean also figure if they are doing that,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: if they're doing this thing that some people might perceive
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: is not a bad thing in the pursuit of them
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: also becoming rich.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, if, like I said, if their true motives
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: are uncovered as being you know, selfish, I can understand that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: If that's not what's happening, and like they really are
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: these anarchists or whatever, I have a feeling that right
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: now public sentiment might be more on their side. Uh yeah,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: it's just an interesting direction to go. So I'm guessing
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: that it has to be a cover story and that
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: their actual you know, motivations are more selfish.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: You know. It's an interesting you say, it's an interesting
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: direction to go. But this was started on a while ago,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: So like movies.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: And then we get like this next one opus. It's
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: making me think of, what's the movie that came out
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: not that long ago.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: It just started streaming Blink twice?
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Is that the one where it's the young women who
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: go to the Yes. That one also on my list
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: to watch soon. Yeah. When I saw that it was
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: on streaming, I'm like, oh, I got to check that
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: out because I was interested when the trailers hit. I
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: just never made it to the theater to see it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Opus looks like it's a slightly more trippy kind of
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: variation on that, Like what if the Menu and Blink
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Twice had a baby and John Malkovich was there and
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: he was like a cult of personality rock star character.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the official write up is he's a legendary
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago, and then
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: a journalist gets surrounded by his cult of sick offence
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: on like an island or something.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So, like it's this story about a incredibly
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: famous performer who just drops off the map and then
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: suddenly re emerges and invites a bunch of people to
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: come see like an exclusive listening a party for a
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: brand new album, and you know, he hasn't produced anything
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: for like thirty years, so this is a really big deal.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I'd be like if suddenly well, first of all, it'd
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: be like if all the Beatles were alive, and secondly
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: that they got back together and just did an album
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: and didn't tell anyone until they invited everybody to come
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: and listen. And but one of the people who for
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: some reason is invited is this young journalist and she
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: immediately thinks something hinky is going on, and something hinky
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: does appear to be going on.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the journalist is played by. We talked about John
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Malkovich being kind of the I guess villain of this movie.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: The journalist is played by. I've heard her name pronounced
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a couple of different ways, and I meant to look
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: it up before we started recording, so I apologize if
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I've mispronounce it because I didn't look it up. It's
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: io a debois at a biri. I always thought it
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: was io a deboiris no at a bierri. That's it.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: But any how, she was sid on. She is sid
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: on the bear, so she'd been doing a lot of
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: stuff lately. She plays a character named Ariel. That's not
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: why I put it in the lineup, just putting.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: That out there. Yeah, it's the trailer looks good like,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: it looks very creepy. It does look creepy and very trippy.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: It makes me want to see this movie. It's like, oh,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: this this kind of feels like something that would be
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: interesting to me. Whereas our next trailer for a movie
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: called Drop is one where I was like halfway there
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: but they didn't stick the landing.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: For me, this is one that I thought you might cut.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Well. I kept it because like, there doesn't well one,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: it's it's a thriller horror movie and it does involve technology,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: so it's one of those things where we're like, well,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: there's definitely geeky elements here, but it also I don't
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: know the premise. It's to me like if the name
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: m Night Shayamalan had popped up at the end of
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: this trailer, I would not have been surprised.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the premise is there's this woman who has
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a single mom basically, and she gets a date with
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: someone via basically like a tinder called I think it's
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: called Drop because you drop your pictures in your files
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: and things to them and messages. And she goes on
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: this date and really seems to be hitting it off,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and then a I guess a serial killer.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Breaks into a serial killer slash cyber stalker.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, d breaks into her home. And threatens her child
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: in the babysitter who is it looks like a very
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: good friend of hers if she doesn't kill people and
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: kill the guy that she's on a date with. And
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: then at some point she's hanging out the window, which
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: gives another level to the meat to the title drop
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: because she's in a high rise.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bit in the trailer where her date
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: explains that the only way anyone could be dropping like
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: meme photographs, which is how the at least one of
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: the people responsible for this are communicating to her, Like,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I get the feeling there's got to be at least
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: two people, But he says the only way that works
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: is if they're within a certain radius of the phone,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: So they have to be somewhere in the same general
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: area as the two of them, So they don't quite
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: narrow that down as far as I can tell. But
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: because the killer also shows a feed from the camera
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: system back at the woman's home, that's what makes me
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: think there's at least two people involved in this, and
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: the fact that they're targeting her date for some reason,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Like you get the feeling that this ultimately is an
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: assassination attempt on this dude, and the reason will be
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: revealed at some point in the movie, and they want
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: to use her as the assassin by blackmailing her into
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: doing it.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see, I kind of got the impression that
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: he might be the bad guy, which is probably some
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: strings that they're trying to pull. They want to make
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: you suspicious of him and everyone. You said you wouldn't
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: be surprised if the name m. Knight Shyamalan showed up
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: on it. I wouldn't have been surprised if there were
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: like jigsaws behind it because it's a Saw movie, because
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: that's the kind of like, these people do these horrible things.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: But what lesson is she supposed to be learning like Saw?
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: At least the argument is that all the people that
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Saw is torturing have at some point in their past
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: made a terrible decision that was harmful to others, and
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: now they are forced to make some sort of ironic
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: choice related to that.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: You're right, they don't show that in the trailer, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched many Saw trailers, but I feel like
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: they probably didn't show that in the first Saw trailer.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Well no, because it's kind of a reveal. But I'm
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: just trying to imagine what this seemingly nice woman who's
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: a single mother has done that would merit her being punished, Like, Oh,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: it turned out she forced her son to watch Teletubbies.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Maybe her husband is really alive and told her not
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: to date anybody else after his passing. I'm sure that's
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: not it. It might even be in the trailer. I'm
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: gonna be real honest. I didn't rewatch this trailer after
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the first time.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, so I watched everything just before we started recording,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: because of course, I was gone for the whole week.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: I couldn't watch anything that wasn't connected to Disney. They
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: really indoctrinate you on those boats. But yeah, so I
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: just watched all this stuff. But yeah, I thought it
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: was an interesting premise, but I don't know that it's
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: enough to carry a film, And I'm more than happy
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: to wait for this to come to streaming and to
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: hear what other people's opinions are before I decide whether
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: or not to spend my time watching it.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Same, I added a second horror movie for you, Jonathan.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you were really really thoughtful. Actually, there's a few
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: movies on this list that kind of fall into the
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: horror category or like they're buddying up to horror. But
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: this one is Hell of a Summer, which is a
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: finn Wolfhart is behind at least partially behind this.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Right, he's at least one of the characters of it.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: I think he's also I think he's actually also one
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: of the writers for the film.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a director for it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, director. So Hell of a Summer. It's a horror,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: like a slasher horror slash comedy movie about a summer
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: camp and a bunch of counselors get there and they
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: start doing your typical counselor things that are on the
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: forbidden behaviors list, you know, like smoking, drinking, fooling around,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, and then a slasher is on
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: loose and starting to kill people. But there's jokes.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's like if you made wet Hot
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: American Summer Oh, slasher film.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's it's kind of like that, And it's
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: not it's not set in like the eighties or anything
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: like that. It's it's set in modern times as far
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: as I can tell. But it's so weird to say
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: modern times and say it's different from the eighties.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the same time, you know what I'll say,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: and maybe again, I watched this a few days ago
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: and you watched it today. There was a little bit
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: of like sex potty humor in it, but not too much,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: not as much as I would have expected from.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Not so much in the trailer, but I'm guessing in
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: the film there's more. But yeah, it's One of the
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: characters is a twenty four year old who apparently can't
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: let go of this camp. He likes to come back
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: and serve as like headcounts, and I feel.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Like they're making fun of Brennan Lee Mulligan for that one.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe his mother is disappointed in him for holding on
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: to this camp out for so many years. And at
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: one point the other kids all say like, he's got
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: to be the killer. He's fifteen. He's like, I'm twenty four.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think, you know what, I think it's
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: really great if you went to a summer camp and
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: it had a good influence on your life to go
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: back and volunteer when you're an adult personally, But I
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: can get how kids wouldn't get that.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, it looks cute. I would definitely check
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: this one out. This one is one of those where
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I would watch this one.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It Also it also gave me Stage Fright, which
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: is another camp slasher film vibes, which you haven't seen yet.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Correct, No, I have not seen Stage Fright.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, if you have it.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I don't?
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Is it any good?
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Yes? I watched it on a bad movie night, so
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: it's that kind of good.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Got it? Maybe I'll check that out at some point
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: next week. Got a trailer for season two of School Spirits.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I have not watched season one of School Spirits, so
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening other than there are ghosts
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: that are haunting this school and mysteries are happening.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I also haven't watched season one, not because I
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: haven't had interest, but because there's so many things on
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: my list. This is the one. We talked about it
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: when season one came out. It stars Peyton List from
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Cobra Kai, where she's a girl at a school and
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: then she dies and realizes that there's a whole bunch
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: of kids who are kind of like stuck at the
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: school because that's where they died and they have unfinished business.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: But in season two, it looks like she may not
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: actually be dead. It looks like maybe one of the
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: ghosts that had been inhabiting the school took over her body,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and so her spirit is displaced, which I think is
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: a cool concept.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: It is, but it does raise the question of what
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: has her body been up to ever since, I mean,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: she got displaced.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: It looks like they are going to cover that based
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: on the trailer a little bit.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting. I don't know that I'm gonna watch it,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: but I'm still interested to learn more about it. And
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I say that as someone who has still not watched
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: the first season, nor do I have any idea of
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: what happened in it.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: So yeah, next we get I guess this is one
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: of another movie that kind of side buddies up to horror,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: which is we got the UK trailer for the movie Elevation.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is where it says like from the people
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: who brought you a Quiet Place, and like, well, of
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: course it is because it's the same story, except instead
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: of being quiet, you have to be above eight thousand
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: feet or else the monsters get you.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the monsters look the same, look at least
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: very similar to the Quiet Place monsters. I actually watched
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: this UK trailer of Elevation on zero point twenty five
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: speed to try to get a good look at the monster.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: So really trippy.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: It's like the opposite of how you usually watch these
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: horror trailers.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: It was so weird. But yeah, they look it looks
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: like a fun, scary alien movie. It doesn't look super unique,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: you know. It's it's a number of people they get
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: to talk in this one. It has vague like Last
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of Us feeling vibes, but it's got Anthony Mackie.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: And then Marina Bakeran.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is it Maria, But it's not Marina Bakeran.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Is it not? I thought it was when I was
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: watching it, but I'm really bad at recognizing people.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: It might be it might be right, Yeah it is
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Marina Bacheran. I get her confused. There's maybe there's an
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Italian actress who I get her confused.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Oh you're thinking you're thinking of Oh, I'll get it
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: in a second. Hang on, it's uh, all right, now,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I got to look it up because but I know
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: who you mean, because I know you mean Monica Balucci.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get her confused with Monica Balucci. Yeah, there's
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: no reason for it just the mb in their names.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: But well, they're both gorgeous brunettes too.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: They are, and they're both really great actresses. But here's
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the thing is, I look at the character and it's
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: a good design for an alien. It looks kind of
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: like a dinosaur panther mix with like tentacles.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It made me think of a displacer beast in
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: D and D.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But my question is, if they can't stand high
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: elevations and their take and they're killing out like urban areas,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: why why are they on Earth? It feels like our
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: structure won't fit their needs.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: An excellent question that I would also pose to m
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Night Shyamalan in his movie Signs, where his aliens are
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: allergic to water and our planet is covered by that
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: by like seventy eight percent of our planet is covered
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: in the stuff that kills the aliens.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I have that question about a
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: lot of aliens because like alien design, we don't have
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: to go I put maybe a discussion about alien design
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: in here. But like whenever there's an invasion, it feels
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: like an invasion movie. It feels weird when it doesn't
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: feel like this would be a good like it feels
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: like the aliens should look at our ecosphere and also
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: our infrastructure and go, m this isn't the place for
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: us and leave.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, like a lot of the movies where apparently
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Earth has been picked to be the source of something,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: whether it's energy or food or whatever, and you look
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: at it, you're like, really, because we've been doing a
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: great job of messing all that stuff up for the
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: last several decades, and you might be better off somewhere
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: else where people haven't done that. I feel like this movie,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: like I like the people involved, I like Anthony Mackie,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: and I like Marina Brackern. But but like you were saying,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: it feels so similar in concept and tone to so
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: many other movies we got, you know, whether it's what
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: was it bird Box or A Quiet Place or that
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: one where you know the people had to tie themselves
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: to their like go don't let go, like all of
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: the or the one what was the one with Nicholas
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Cage and those two sons, Like there's like all of
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: these movies that have these similar concepts behind them of
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: there's this monstrous or or several Arcadian you know, several
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: monstrous beings that will get you if you don't follow
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: these rules. And I'm just I feel like they all
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: are telling the same story.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: So and here's the thing. I liked a quiet place.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: You know, there are definitely some big plot and you
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: can't think about them too hard, but it was a
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: fun ride. I like a lot of alien movies. But yeah,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: it feels like we've been getting a lot lately and
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: that they're pretty similar and now.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: We're getting so it's like there was that maybe this
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: is going to be the tail end of that trend
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: for a while, because I just feel like it's kind
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: of played out and now right what we're in right
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: now is the height of the AI as bad guy
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: like trend. Yeah, and I'm worried that's going to stick
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: around for a while. But I'm just like, I get it.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: I agree AI is potentially very dangerous. None of your
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: stories are really telling me anything I don't already know,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: and they all seem to be the same story. Like
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: it feels like someone wrote one treatment and like twenty
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: different writers wrote a screenplay based off that treatment, and
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: those are the movies we're getting now.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I almost went into this conversation about the
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: AI that we had is not really the AI that's
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: being portrayed, and some people would argue it's not even
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: really AI. But that's a conversation for a different time
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: because I haven't done enough research on it.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean well, and yeah, artificial intelligence is complicated.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: That's all we really have to say for right now. Well,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: let's talk about this trailer that you have included, because
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: I guess reading is geeky.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: It is. It is if you want some like thematic whiplash.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: The next trailer I added, it's a super short one.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: It's for like a BBC show movie, TV movie I'm
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: not sure, called Miss Austin. It follows Jane Austen's lesser
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: known sister and her burning some of Jane's Austen's like
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: private letters to keep her life more private, Jane Austen
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: being the person who wrote like pride and prejudice and
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: sense and sensibility, which I would wager are geeky.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, you find out Jane Austen has tentacles, yes,
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: and she can't go above eight thousand feet.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, and she hears you if you whisper. You know,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: it's just if you're looking for something delightful and periody,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: because I think period pieces very easily fall into the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: geeky sphere. Then this might be a fun, happy calm,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: like a cozy thing to watch.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it certainly deserves a place in
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: our lineup, because as much as I'm joking about it, like,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: if there were a fun series about you know, like C.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: S Lewis, or about Lloyd Alexander, you know, anything like that,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: I would be interested in seeing those. So yeah, absolutely
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: I think it belongs here.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Now, Okay, if there are any TV producers out there,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I would totally watch something on C. S Lewis. I
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: know that most people know him from like Chronicles of Narnia,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: but some of his other stuff is really.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Cool, So yeah, my Chronicles of Narnia is really cool too.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just because it got produced a lot doesn't mean
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: it's bad.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Which I think. Isn't there another one coming? Isn't Greta
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Gerwig doing a Narnia series on Netflix?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: We talked about, Wow, we might have. We might have,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: but you know me, my brain is Swiss cheese.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: So if it hasn't been dropped, but I doubt it
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: would be because.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: It's hard to say, just because like studios have gone
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: through so much tumultuous change over the last couple of years,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: really ever since the pandemic. It's hard to keep track
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: of which projects are still in production and which ones
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: were set aside.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: So google ai AI over you So take that into
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: account with accuracy, because it's not always, says Greta Gerwig
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: is adapting The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix, and the
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: film will be released in theaters on Thanksgiving Day and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: then on streaming on Christmas Day. It's untitled of this year,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, next year. Okay, I'm guessing the production
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: of that has got to be extensive.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: To oh sure. That's why I was like surprised. I
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my gosh, it's been in stealth mode.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: But I have like her take on the Barbie movie
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: was fantastic, so I'm really looking forward to see what
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: she does with the story. I think she's a good director.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: I hope Ryan Gosling is mister Tumness.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: That would be amazing.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: I'm just tumbness. We also got a new trailer for
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Mickey seventeen. This is the send in the Clones movie.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has nothing to do with Mickey Mouse no.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this once before because we watched
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: we saw the teaser a few weeks ago.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the original teaser didn't give us a whole
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: lot of the overarching story beyond there's this guy who
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: signed up to be cloned whenever he dies to do
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: like grunt work, and then one day he finds another
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: of his clones. There's only supposed to be one of
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: them at a time. This second trailer gives us a
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: little bit more story into like his personal connections with
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: other people and kind of the the trajectory he goes
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: once he finds out he has another clone in trying
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: to maybe get out of this crappy life he didn't
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: fully read into before he signed up for.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really made me wonder why is there a
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: policy to eradicate all versions of a clone if there
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: ever are two of them? And what you were just
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: saying just made me think, Oh, maybe it's so that
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: you can't have someone be like, oh good, someone else
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: is here to carry the bag and I can go
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: off and live my life without just being an expendable
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: body thrown into some deadly situation so that the company
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: is able to profit from it.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have. Christopher Pattinson has done a lot of
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: stuff and I haven't seen all of it. Christopher not
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robert Rober Pattinson, Okay, Christopher Robin.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: No, Christopher Robin went to the hundred Acre Wood and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: found another Christopher Robin there and they had to fight
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: to the death. Well, Winnie the Pooh watched.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: It was in a honey jar, a giant honey jar. Yeah. No,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Robert Pattinson, He's done a bunch of stuff. I haven't
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: watched a lot of it, but of the things I
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: have watched, I think this might be the most excited
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: I've been for one of his properties.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, this it's striking me as one of those
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: kind of quirky science fiction thrillers with like a pretty
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: big sense of humor behind it too, Like it's I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: don't think it's an outright comedy, but I think there's
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of humor, almost like satire humor that's feeding
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: into it. So I'm definitely intrigued because if it's handled well,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: I think it could be another one of those, you know,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: sort of satirical science fiction films that gets a decent
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: following something like like a I mean not nearly as
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: violent as RoboCop, but something along those lines.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Okay, more thematic with lash.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we go from I didn't have time to reassemble
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: the trailers to put them in an order that made sense.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Look, I expected to do it, and then I saw
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: you in here. I'm like, I'm just not going to
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: mess with the order because you're going through it. So
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: if you hadn't been in yet, I was going to
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: re order it, but I didn't get there. The next
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: is for we got a second trailer for Queen of
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the Ring, which is the female wrestler story that we
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: talked about the other week. Still looks good.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it gave us a little bit more of
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: the story behind it. You also, if you are someone
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: who follows wrestling at all, will hear a very familiar
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: name being mentioned in this A certain it's actually the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: father of someone who became known as the head hauncho
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: of wrestling in the eighties, nineties, and two thousands. Yeah,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Vince McMahon Senior would be that name. But yeah, you know,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: I think there's going to be a little bit of
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: revisionist history in here, like it's meant to be. Let's
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: tell the story that was never really told. But I
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: think it's also going to perhaps elevate the impact that
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: these people had on the business, because if we're being
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: brutally honest, women in wrestling were pretty much buried for decades,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: Like they had a real moment up through the seventies
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: and into the early eighties, and then you know, largely
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: because of what was then called WWF, they were relegated
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: to being valets and managers and eye candy for the audience,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: like to the point where the role of women in
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: wrestling for a lot of the late eighties into the
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: two thousands was largely dehumanizing and pretty despicable in my opinion.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: So while I think that we're getting past that now, me.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Too, Oh yeah no, because there now there are pay
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: per views where women are headlining the pay per view
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: and putting on just as good, if not better, of
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: a match than the men are. And they've always been
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: capable of doing that if they were given the right
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: amount of time to train and prepare and to work
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: on their craft. But for a long time that just
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: wasn't the case. Like there were women like lead Up
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: and Victoria, Trish Stratus and others who kind of change
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: that game in more recent years. The thing that, like,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: I think the story is important. I think it needs
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: to be told for Queen of the Ring, But I
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: also would caution people against feeling like, oh, this is
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: what established women their place in professional wrestling, because for
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: a long time that just wasn't true.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I based on a true story. Is
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: is always based on a true story. But you know,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: it does go into her dealing with with trying to
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: get like rights and on the business end of things,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: and you know, even if the outcomes are a little different,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that struggle was very true and real.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, And I'm sure that like, like,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: there's some great points that are made in this trailer
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: where someone like her son says to her at one point,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: your name is the one that shows up on the tickets,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: not the promoters. The promoter's name doesn't show up on
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: the tickets. That's not what selling the tickets. You're selling
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: the tickets, which is totally true. Like, you know, the
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: wrestlers were the ones that people were coming to see.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: They weren't going there because they heard oh so and
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: so promoter put the show together. No one cared who
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: the promoters. Were they cared who was showing up to wrestle?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is true. I'm still looking forward to it.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Me too. Like I said, I think
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: that the story itself is still important and I look
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: forward to seeing it.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: So now we're going to go from a Queen of
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: the Ring to something called small town Big Story that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: when I saw it, I was really surprised. Wasn't a
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Simon Pegg property.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: No, it's a Chris o'dowelled property. So he's Ireland's version
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: of Simon Peg.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It stars Christina Hendricks, who is from Ireland
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: but then goes and lives in the US for a
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: long time and becomes a TV producer and then goes
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: back to Ireland. Tell me if I'm misremembering this. Goes
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: back to Ireland and then a bunch of like weird
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: supernatural stuff starts to happen.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Well, whether it's supernatural or not remains to be seen,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: but she does return to Ireland in order to run
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: a production of something you never In the trailer, you
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: don't really find out what the production is, but you
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: know she's also taking opportunities to check in on her ex,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: who still lives in this small town in Ireland. And meanwhile,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: this small town is also a site where weird stuff
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: is happening, primarily that weird stuff being that birds occasionally
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: just drop dead out of the sky.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The only thing that makes me feel like it's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: supernatural is that at one point in the trailer she asks, uh,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: shamey shit, I don't remember the other the leading male
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: if he's going to tell people about their past, and
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: it shows them young making out in the woods on
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: a very specific day when like bright light appears out
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: of the sky, right.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: So, like, is it Aliens? Is it? Is it one
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: of those chapter and one of those Irish helicopters we
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: hear so much about. Is it leprechauns? We don't know.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: But yeah, also that could just be a memory where
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: like the memory itself has been, you know, changed over time.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: We don't know. Like this is a series that is
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: going to be on I think sky in the UK
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: and in Ireland. I'm not sure where we'll be able
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: to see it here, but it looks charming. It definitely
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: is one of those things where it's a small town
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: filled with quirky individuals kind of thing.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does say that we're going to be able
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: to watch it this year in the USA online, but
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know where. Maybe Sky can we watch Sky
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Atlantic in the USA.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, but I think it would probably
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: be on some other partnered service like Hulu or Amazon
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: or something or Netflix, who knows.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: I hope that we get to see it, much like
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I hope eventually the Australian Office comes here. Yeah.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, Well, I feel like that story's over. Now
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: we have a movie that doesn't belong in our lineup
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Really we can take it out then.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: Well, no, we can keep it, like because you said
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: it's sweet and it's uplifting, and I agree. I just
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: don't feel it's geeky.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: I you know, I think it's I think it's geeky
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: because it does deal with the impacts of social.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Media well and of estrangement from family. And also, I mean,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: it's the kind of movie that I could easily envision
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: you in, Like if you had told me that you
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: had auditioned for this twice, I would not be surprised
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: That's very kind of you, Jonathan.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I said it like that.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you said it like that either, I'm.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Also the editor, so I get to decide what stays
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: in and what goes.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a story about a woman who
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: has a bad relationship with her father and they become estranged,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: and then she tries to look them up one day
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: but finds a different Bob Trevino, Bob Travino being the
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: name of her father, and they end up connecting and
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: she kind of ends up getting a surrogate family that's
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: really understanding and carrying out of it. John Leguizamo plays
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: the other Bob Trevino. It it just looks heartwarming, and
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: I just there's so much horror movie out there that
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: I wanted to promote a heartwarming movie as well.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: That I think is totally legit. Like this does look
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: like a very sweet movie about with familial trauma, finding friendship,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: being supportive. Like John Legzamo's character seems like a genuinely
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: good person who is concerned for the well being of
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: this person he's never met, and like, you know, I
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: feel like that is the sweet kind of story that
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: is nice to get, especially in a time where a
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: lot of people are feeling like untethered and disconnected and
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: afraid and you know, ends anxious and all of those
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: negative things like having something where and this is you know,
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  Speaker 2: supposedly based off an actual story, like something that actually happened,
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  Speaker 2: although I imagine great liberties were taken in the process.
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  Speaker 2: But like a story about someone reaching out and showing
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  Speaker 2: support to a total stranger because they recognize that need
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  Speaker 2: is there, as well as someone who's going through their
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  Speaker 2: own struggles and trying to find a way to reconcile them.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's going to resonate with a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely going to see this one. I'll
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  Speaker 1: probably see it in the I think it's coming out
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  Speaker 1: in theaters and if so, I'm going to see it
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  Speaker 1: there because I want to support more movies like this.
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  Speaker 2: That's totally cool. Our last story is to talk a
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: bit about the Oscar nominations that came out. Now, obviously
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  Speaker 2: we've already had the Golden Globes, which is from the
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: Foreign Press Association or actually now I think it might
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: be called something else because there was that whole like
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: organizational change of Golden Globes. Anyway, the Oscars, obviously, the
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  Speaker 2: Academy is all based off the Academy of emotional pictures.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: So we've got the nominees for stuff, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of geeky properties have some representation in the various categories.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, Best Picture includes The Substance, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a horror movie with Demi Moore, Wicked which is a
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  Speaker 2: horror movie with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rivo, and Dune
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  Speaker 2: Part two which is a horror movie with Florence Pugh
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  Speaker 2: and Timothy show In Zendaya.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and that's just Best Picture. Nostatu also gets
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  Speaker 1: some nods. Sing Sing which isn't necessarily geeky, but is
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  Speaker 1: kind of because it deals with the impacts of theater
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  Speaker 1: on people's lives, it gets a nod or the actor
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  Speaker 1: from that gets a nod. Yeah, all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Gladiator too, which I guess is geeky.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm guessing that gets like some technical nominations. I
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  Speaker 2: don't expect that design. Yeah, So Cynthia Arrivo got a
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  Speaker 2: nomination for Lead Actress, Ariana Grande got a nomination for
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Supporting Actors. Demi Moore got the nomination for Lead Actress.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: So again, like some more geeky representation there. If you
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  Speaker 2: started going to animated features. You've got Inside Out Too,
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  Speaker 2: which was like the top performing box office film or
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  Speaker 2: one of the top ones for twenty twenty four. I
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: don't remember if it actually came out as the number
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  Speaker 2: one or not, because Mowana Too did really well too,
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. I remember Disney had like three of
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  Speaker 2: the top four spaces.
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  Speaker 1: One of those was Wolverine and Deadpool, right.
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  Speaker 2: Might have been, but I think it was Deadpool and Wolverine.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that one, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're like, that would be that would be
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  Speaker 1: brilliant if they gave us a second one that was
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: from the other perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Wolverine and Deadpool. Yeah, well, then you would get you
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: would skip out on all the Deadpool or all the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: rather all the Wolverine variants, because you would just be
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: following the one that eventually pairs up with Deadpool.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We also got let's see. Other animated films that were
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  Speaker 2: nominated include Wallace and Grammet, Vengeance, Most Foul, as well
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  Speaker 2: as The Wild Robot, So those are up there. Doune
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  Speaker 2: also got a nomination for Achievement in Cinematography. Nosferatu did
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  Speaker 2: as well. You know, costume design, like you said, as
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  Speaker 2: Gladiator two which is up against Nosfaratu, which is up
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: against Wicked. That's a heck of a group right there.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: You've also got You've also got a couple other movies
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  Speaker 2: Conklave and a complete unknown in that category. But I
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: kind of want to see a face off between Gladiator too, Nosferatu,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: and Wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be really cool. Uh it is. It
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: is the only year that going into Oscar season, I
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: have seen more movies in the theater nominated than my
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: friend who holds her Oscar party every year at.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: The get Go. Yeah, her Oscar party. I have never
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: actually I think maybe I went to one, but yeah,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: she's a mutual friend of ours, holds this big Oscar
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: party and she tries typically to catch every single film
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: that's been nominated for Best Picture before the Oscars so
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: that she has kind of a working knowledge of them
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: before the Oscars are announced. And then she even does
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  Speaker 2: like a little thing where everyone writes down their pick
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: for what's gonna win one award. I always think that's
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: tricky because I am convinced, and I actually I'm not
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: just convinced. I know for a fact that members of
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: the Academy often will vote on stuff that they either
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: haven't seen or they haven't seen all of them, so
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: they only like, I've seen two of these movies. I'm
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: going to vote for one of the two I saw,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: or I'm voting for this one because it sounds like
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: it would be better.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, and she still might see a
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: bunch of these movies. But usually when they announced the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: OSCAR nominated movies, she's like, I've seen this many and
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: this year I've seen more than her.
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  Speaker 2: So which ones have you seen?
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: I saw? Wicked?
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Wicked? Yeah, Wicked?
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: What's the other one that I saw? I'm scrolling down
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: now because yes, doune too. Okay, she hadn't seen either
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: of those.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Wow, so she hasn't seen any.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: She saw one and for which one? But it wasn't
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: those two.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not seen any of these at all.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: For sure, you saw the Substance.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: It's on my list to watch, but I have not
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: yet seen it. So yeah, I have not seen any
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: of the one. But then like I've been pretty you know,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: slow on catching movies for the last few years. If
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: we're being honest, like I've seen a few, I've made
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: the trip out to the theater to see. If you
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: and I've watched a couple at home, but it's it's uh,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: I've really fallen behind, which is great for someone who
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: hosts a pop culture podcast.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: Well, but it's nice because sometimes we talk about things
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: that fill off of other people's radars too, and so
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: when we bring it up, it kind of gives it
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a resurgence.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: And the nice thing is is that in a couple
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: of weeks, I'm going to have two fourteen hour airplane
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: rides and I'll be able to watch some stuff and
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: catch up on things.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: If you watch things that I can also stomach to watch,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: let me know, and I'll try to watch them too
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: so we can have an educated conversation about them.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: I'll let you know after I ride the first flight
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: when I find out what's actually available for me to watch.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure, that's it. You know. As always,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: we actually had a lot of discussions this time. There
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: were a lot of things to talk about, but yep,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of just Gavin as well,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: and I like that. So I like talking with you,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: my friend.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I have missed doing it. Over this past week.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: I had very limited connectivity while I was on the boat.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you need to disconnect. But if people don't
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: want to disconnect and they want to connect with us,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: how do they reach you, Jonathan.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: Well, to reach me, you're going to need to take
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: a little stroll through the woods. And you're just going
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: to walk through the woods and sort of enjoy the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: experience and listen to the sounds of nature, which will
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: not include the crumpling of paper, but might include you know, burdyes,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: singing in the trees and such. And as you walk through,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to see like another person kind of up ahead,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: sort of somewhat blocked from your view because of the
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: trees and brush and stuff. So you're going to keep
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: walking thinking, oh, well, that must be Jonathan. I can
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: ask him my question, And as you get closer you realize, wait,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: that's not Jonathan, that's me. It's another me. And you're
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: going to get right there where suddenly you see the
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: other you has pulled out a knife. And then you'll
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: hear here, catch this, and a knife will be coming
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: flying at you from the woods. But but you know
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: in a way where you can actually catch the knife.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Not the.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: Oh i'm stabbed kind of way, and you're gonna pick
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: up that knife, and then you're gonna see Winnie the
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: Poohs stroll out of the woods and say it's a
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: honey pot. And then the two of you, you and
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: your clone are gonna have to fight it out. Whichever
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: one of you wins will then have your arm raised
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: in the air. It may not be you, by the way,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: it might be your clone, but don't worry. Your clone's
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: gonna have the same question you did, and you're gonna
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: look over and see who raised your hand in victory,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: and hey, it just happens to be me, so you
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: can ask me then.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Wow, that was impressive, Jonathan.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: If if you have bad short term memory and you
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: can't remember all those steps, you can also reach out
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: to us on social media and if you want to
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: reach Jonathan, I'll relay your message. Yea, sometimes he does
• 1:24:03
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• 1:24:07
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• 1:24:12
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• 1:24:16
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• 1:24:21
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• 1:24:26
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• 1:24:28
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• 1:24:32
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• 1:24:35
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• 1:24:39
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• 1:24:41
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• 1:24:45
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• 1:24:49
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• 1:24:51
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• 1:24:54
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