Latest / Large Nerdron Collider / Margot Robbie Pirates A Christmas Story

Transcript

Margot Robbie Pirates A Christmas Story · Large Nerdron Collider

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large new drunk a Ladder podcast.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: about them. I'm arial casting and with me as always
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: is the super awesome Jonathan Strickland Boo, she's my baby.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: What brought that on? My friend? Well, before I hit record,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: you were doing this little head popp and number, and
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, man, it's sure as sad that this
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: isn't a video podcast. I mean I was thinking it
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: sure's sad that it's not a video podcast too, because
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: we're both looking pretty cute today. I will say, well, yeah,
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, on a on a scale of
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: of dead too gorgeous, I think I'm hitting a solid cute.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: I mean same, same, Yeah. Really I should look at it,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: taking this video and doing a little something something with
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: it at some point so you can watch us as
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: we've take correl faces at each other, and maybe we'll
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: someday get together in person and actually do some more
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: of our video mash ups that we used to do
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: that launched this whole show in the first place. I
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: want to do that. I think I think a big
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: hurdle to that will be finding a camera dude. Yeah,
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: and someone who's willing to do the edits as well,
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: because that's a skill set I have not developed. I
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: can edit podcasts, but video is a step further than
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: I am capable of doing. Plus I don't even if
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: I did learn, I'm not sure where I would fit
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: that in in my schedule. But I can do some
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: some basic video edits, but I don't have the machines
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: to do anything more than cut up auditions and self tams.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: So well, while ariels cutting up in her auditions, we
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: also took some time to you to come up with
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: a show today, and we've got some thirty seconds or
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: less stories we're gonna get to in a minute. But
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: before we do that, we're going to chat a little
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: bit about some stuff we saw that we had been
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: talking about previously, for example, Zutopia. Plus, you know when
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: I talked to when we talked just last week, I
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: think it was about the preview finally being out. I
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: didn't realize that the series was out too, you know,
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: I honestly hadn't either. That's that's what I get for
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: rushing through my my geek news sometimes. Yeah, so, so
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: I hop on Disney Plus last night, and I see
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: that the Utopia series is right there, the whole series
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: of shorts, six episodes, and so I think, huh, I
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: can watch these right now. Each video looks like it's
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: about seven minutes long. No, No, the videos are like
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: three minutes long. So more than half the videos are credits. Uh.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: So I started watching them, and, like I said, there
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: are six of them, and they all kind of tie
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: into Zootopia, as in, like, these are things that are
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: happening while the story told in Zootopia is also unfolding.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: And I felt they were a real mixed bag aerial
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: mm hmmm. I think I remember you saying that there
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: are only like two that you liked. There were two
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: that I liked and one that I thought was cute,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: but it was so predictable that I didn't have any
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: kind of like positive response to it. So the two
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: I liked. One was the story of the Shrew Godfather,
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: which is told as a parody of really the Godfather
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: Part two is really what it is a parody of, um,
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: And that one was cute. It was also kind of sweet.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: It was actually a very sweet little story. I think
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: that's part of the reason why I liked it because
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: some of the other stories didn't come across as sweet,
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: like I felt like they were pushing a little hard
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: to be not edgy because they don't go far enough
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: to be edgy, except with maybe one exception, the Bridesmaid episode,
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: the one about the Godfather's granddaughter getting married um or
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: maybe it's his daughter anyway, when she's getting married. That
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: one had a pretty twisted ending to it that I
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: actually found kind of disturbing. But the two that I
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: liked were the Godfather one and then the The Sloths
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: going to Dinner, which again was very predictable, but was
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: at least cute. Um. I mean you you said before
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: you watched it, you thought the Slots was going to
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: be your favorite, and I said, I thought the Godfather
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: was going to be my favorite. So yeah, well, I
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: think I think honestly, the Godfather one's the better of
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: the two. I just thought the slast one was charming.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: It's again very predictable, like there's nothing surprising in it.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: It is cute how they tie each of the episodes
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: kind of into the overall story of Zootopia, like like
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: the fact that these things are also happening in the
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: background while that story is playing out. That's kind of cute,
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: but I don't know. It just didn't work for me,
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: unlike the other thing we wanted to talk about before
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: we got into the news. Yeah, well, I was real
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: quick before we do. I was just going to ask,
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: do you think that maybe these little shorts are things
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: that they cut from the original's Utopia script? No? No,
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: because they focused too much on on incidental background characters,
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: so it wouldn't make sense for them to have been
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: part of the original movie because it's not their story, right,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: it's the story of that rabbit and that fox whose
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: names I don't remember. Yeah, okay, Yeah, so anyhow, that
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: didn't quite work, unlike Weird the Al Yankovic story, which
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Jonathan and I have both watched now, which was very
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: funny and ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, it's uh. They did a
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: great job doing a parody of the the clichee rock biopic,
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: the type of movie where they're taking a very liberal
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: take on the quote unquote true story of a band
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: or personalities rise to fame. Think of things like Rocketman
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: or Bohemian Rhapsody, right, like these are these are movies
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: that are tied to people who in some cases are
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: still alive or or who were alive at one point,
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: but are not really representative of how things really unfolded.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: At least they're not telling the full story, and Weird
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: takes that ball and freaking runs with it. They do.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: I Um, I watched it with some friends over the
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: weekend and completely by accident, guessed the twist before it happened.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: Were there were there any standout moments in the film
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: that I mean without spoilers or anything that you really
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: responded to. There was. I think my favorite bit of
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: it was the entire I guess it was like a
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: couple of scenes are extended scene in the bar where
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: weird Owl does like his first live performance with like
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: the Dive Bar. I thought that, Yeah, I thought that
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: whole that whole deal was delightful. Um. I thought the
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: kids were really well cast because it starts off with
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: childhood weird al or childhood Alankovic and like. I thought
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: those children were very well cast and did a great
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: job at playing weird al Um. There was a joke
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: at the end uh that I didn't care for. I
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: thought it was a little base and I wasn't sure
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: why they were including it, so maybe it's just commentary
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: that went over my head. But for the most part,
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: it all landed really well and need made me laugh
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: or girl, oh no, or I love the clothes. I
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: love the song that goes over the closing credits because
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: it's a commentary on the movie itself. Uh and and
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: even pulls out the fact that by writing an original
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: song for a film, that song can be considered for
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: an Oscar because it's an original song written for a movie.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: And and it's actually in the lyrics where it talks
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: about the fact that this is Oscar. Uh. At least,
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: at least it could qualify for being nominated for an Oscar.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Whether it is or not, we'll have to wait and see.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: I doubt it, but it was funny. And but my
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: favorite scene in the whole movie is the pool party scene,
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: and it's largely because it's just fun seeing actors and
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: comedians standing in for other actors and comedians. Yes, it
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: was like this giant wears waldo of casting. Yeah, like
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Emo Phillips playing Uh, who was he? He was Salvador
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Dolly I think, yeah, s Dally. And we had Conan
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: O'Brien as Andy Warhol and you know, but you had
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: actors they're standing in for people like Divine, who was
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: known as uh, the the phenomenal performer in several John
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: Waters movies. Um. Then you know you had the Peewee
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Herman and Gallagher rest in Peace. Uh. That was that?
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: That was like I was like, oh no, yeah, just
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: before the actual Gallagher passes away. Yeah. It was a
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: a fun sequence though, just to see all these these
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: actors clearly having fun doing over the top impersonations of characters.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Elvira is in that sequence. These these are not necessarily
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: characters who get to do anything, but they're there. Yeah.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: I also so they also have during Uh, there's an
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: award ceremony in the movie. Without spoiling anything, there's an
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: award ceremony in the movie, and it's another it's another
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: one of those moments where they're just all of these
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: actors playing other actors, which is hilarious. But I liked
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: that scene because Alankovic's wife was in it. Yeah, yeah,
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: it was. And of course weird al himself shows up
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: in it as a record producer. Uh. And there's also
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: a really fun scene with him and Will Forte where
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: where Will Forte is is chewing out Daniel Radcliffe as
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: weird Al, while the real weird Al is sitting there
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: and going like, you might be kind of going a
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: little far because he's insulting weird Owl's musicality in front
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: of This is funny because the actual weird Al is
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: there and he's like, oh, can we maybe he's off
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: on this bed. Yeah, it was absolutely delightful. Uh. I
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: want to actually watch it again because I bet there's
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: some dumb little stuff that I missed. Um, you should
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: watch it too if you have the Roku channel, which
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: is a bizarre, bizarre channel. I flipped through. It was
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: really weird. I so I had not I didn't even
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: know if I still had an account with Roku or not,
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: because I once upon a time had a Roku box
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: that I connected to my television, but I haven't used
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: that in my probably six or seven years maybe, And um,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: but I just went online to the Roku channel online
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: on the web. So I just used a regular web
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: browser on my computer and I was able to pull
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: it up there and watch it. And I mean it
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: is a little frustrating because there are ad breaks through
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I'm not used to dealing with
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: ads anymore, so that that I found a little off putting.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: But most of the ads were for Roku products, So
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: I just sat there and watched the same like three
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: ads for Roku sticks and stuff and then got through
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: it eventually. So yeah, perfectly ad breaks. I really enjoyed
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: the experience. Yeah, I mean I had ads to because
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: it was a free movie on Roku. Uh, they weren't
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: all for Roku products, so they were for other things
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: because because I was watching it on a Roku. All right, So, uh,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: let's do our thirty seconds or less, okay, and I've
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: got the timer out this time. We actually uh put
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: in the bare minimum effort and sorted the stories so
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: that we can alternate and not have back to back
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: thirty second spots. And Aeriel, you are up first. Are
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: you ready? Go? All right? So a little while ago
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: we talked about the fact that there is a true
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: Lies television series coming out. If you're not familiar, it's
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger Jamie Lee Curtis about this
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: dude who's secretly a spy and his wife doesn't know,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: his family doesn't know. Well, we're getting a TV show
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: about it on CBS, and we finally got the release date.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: It's February nine pm. Fun fact, they're filming that in Atlanta. Um,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I really like that movie.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: I hope the show is super awesome. Going bam, good job,
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah you got you got out with a couple of
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: seconds to spare, all right, Well, well then here I go.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be quick, so I don't even think
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: I need to hit the timer, but I'm gonna and go. Okay,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: So last week we talked about how there's gonna be
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: a Gears of War live action movie. Well, now we
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: know that there's a person who wants to play the lead,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: and it's Dave Batista, which makes sense. He's a mountain
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: of a man and the main character in the video
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: game is a mountain of a man. And I'm sure
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: that Dave Batista could wield a machine gun that's also
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: a chainsaw and not break a sweat dot. Oh you
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: missed the important part. He posted on Twitter about it
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: and like had himself dressed up in like a full
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: costume and like tagged the Gears of War people, um
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: and and uh whole and Netflix and was like, you
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: need to cast me Uh, we have a game Spot
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: article on it. There's some shade in there that's kind
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: of funny that we won't go into, but I will
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: post it on our website. Well and Ariel, I only
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: had thirty seconds. Well, but you could have said that
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: he did like a whole costume deal. That's two seconds
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: worth of things. Okay, sorry, I will cut my next
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: one extra short. Okay, all right, are you ready? Yes?
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: And go? Okay. So Microsoft Teams has added some classic
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: work uh, Distractor Games, two Teams, Solitaire, Mind Sweeper, Icebreakers,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: and something else. They're like, it's great for people to
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: play together, but honestly, Mind Sweeper is the game that
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: I played to slack off at work by myself. So yeah,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: if you have m S teams you can do that. Excellent. Yeah,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: this is you more than the music still play you
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: more than than crushed that story. I covered this on
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: tech Stuff and I mentioned I bet the same bosses
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: who are ending that people come back into the office
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: are going to hate this idea that people could play
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: games through Microsoft Teams, even though Microsoft showed some data
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: that suggests that that teammates who play games together end
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: up being more productive than people who go through your
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: other type of team building exercises, which I can believe
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: because I've had to do team building exercises a few times,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: and it's always a miserable experience because no one wants
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: to be there. I mean, you know what else makes
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: people more productive working from home? Often? Yes? Anyhow, that
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: was also well more than well more than thirty seconds
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: in the end, so we gotta make it up. Well yeah,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: but but you know it's fine. All right, here we go,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm going, hey, you know, Quentin Tarantino, he's gonna
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: make a TV series, eight episodes. We don't know what
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be. It's gonna come out at some point done.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe all right, next, some of those things go away.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Hang on, we can't just go next. We can't just
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: go next because the music is going to play for
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: thirty seconds and that was eight seconds. Shoot, okay? So yeah,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: so so, um, what's what's your favorite Quentin Tarane? My
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: favorite Quentin Tarantino? Oh God, I don't know, Yeah, I
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't have one. You don't have a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: favorite Quentin Tarantino? What from Dust to Dawn, pulp fiction,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: reservoir dogs? I like Restip Woard Dogs until the end.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: It gets kind of scary at the end. Well, yeah,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's all about tension. Hateful eight, Once
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: upon a Time in Hollywood? Watch What's Upon a Time
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood? Still Bill Volume one? I guess Kill Bill?
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I guess Kill Bill? Um which volume one? Um? I
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: fell asleep during pulp Fiction. I haven't watched at all. Hatefully.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It was okay, Django and Change was very hard but okay,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and Glorious Bastards was okay. But if I'm going to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: watch a movie about how bad Nazis are, it's going
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: to be Jojoe Rabbit. So okay, okay, I think my
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: favorite wolf? Um? Wow, what is my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Now that I've said it out loud, I'm not sure.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, I really like the Hatefully a lot. I
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: like it a lot until you get to the first
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I don't care for it, but it is I mean,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I get what he's He's he's purposefully going over the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: top with the violence. I get it, like I understand
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: what the what he's doing. But yeah, this thirty seconds
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: or less segment has really totally failed. Okay, okay, So
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: next one? Okay, uh did we ready, yeah, go okay,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: So we've gotten the news that they are making a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Princess Diaries three movie. Princess Diaries started Anne Hathaway as
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a girl who was a surprise princess but didn't know
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: it because she was actually kind of geeky in her
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: San Francisco home. I think, I don't know. Don't quote
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: me on that anyhow. Uh. And Hathaway is not like
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: she she I don't even know. She's in talks to
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: come back. But she's totally on board for the third
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: because it will be a continuation of her story, her
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: character story, not like a brand new character story. Good
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: thing too, because we had just hit thirty seconds, all right,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: finally last story and it's mine and I am gonna
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: hit go now. Okay, So you know how Henry cavill
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: isn't gonna do the Witcher no more because now he's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: gonna go and be the Superman and he's gonna put
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: off show blue tights and the red underwear and he's
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: gonna go flying around. Well you might wonder who's Superman's
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: main squeeze is gonna be that's lowest lane And in
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the other movies it was Amy Adams so you wonder
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: if Amy Adams is coming back, She says, no, one's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: asked her the end, they ask her back. I liked her. Okay,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: So now into our regular news that might also are
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: also not be thirty seconds. Yes, some of these are
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: going to be really short anyway. But like we we
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: specifically went through our lineup and said, which of these
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: do we not have that much to say about them?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And then and then we went and and then I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: guess we were wrong. We didn't know ourselves to well.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: This week it's yeah, okay, so uh, the first thing
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: we want to talk about is Parts of the Caribbean.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Oh not Pirates of the Caribbean, that's almost just played
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: out as avatar Um maybe more so. But Margot Margot
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Robie Robbie, Margot Robbie was supposed to play or direct
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: star in something like that. She was making the Parts
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean movie. That wasn't a spinoff. It was
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: going to be its own standalone thing. In the Parts
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean World, which to me is still kind
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of a spinoff, but they say it. It wasn't gonna
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: be a spinoff, and it was gonna, you know, be
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a female starring cast Um and now apparently despite the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: fact that there are some parts of the Caribbean projects
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: in the works that one isn't and they're all a
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: little disappointed. Yeah, there was some suspicion that that this
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was part of the implosion that happened with the whole
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Johnny Depp amber heard uh kerfuffle, which is, I know
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that's dismissive. I don't mean to be dismissive, but that
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: whole scandal now that that that that court case played
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: out for everybody, whether you wanted it or not. I
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: remembered distately every time I went on to YouTube, YouTube
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: was trying to push videos on me about it, and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, YouTube, I don't This is private family
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: stuff that I don't have any right to know about,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: so stop. But I kept trying anyway. There was some
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: suspicion that this was a casualty of that kind of stuff,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that the parts of the Caribbean I p might need
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a little scrubbing before they can come back, uh, which
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is it's a shame because first of all, Margot Robbie's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a really good actress um or at least I think so.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I think she's pretty talented and I think she could
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: have had a lot of fun being a pirate. And
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: now the only way we'll ever know if she'd have
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: fun being a pirate is if someone wrote a mashup
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: with her in it as a pirate. Spoiler alert. Oh goodness, Jonathan,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: weren't you gotta I guess you can tell by this
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: which one of us hasn't mash up in which one
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of us maybe doesn't. Um. And to be fair, I
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: literally wrote my mash up about ten minutes before Ariel
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: jumped on the call. So it's not good, but it exists. Listen.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Now I might Now, I might try to come up
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: with something anyhow, but it's not going to be written.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It's going to be all like off the Dome, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting anyhow. Um. Jonathan and I
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: have talked about Pixars Elemental Um just completely spe kido speculatively,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: because we didn't have anything other than a little bit
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: of concept art and a description for it until now. Yeah,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the concept art and description made us both kind of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: get Zootopia meets inside Out vibes. I'm definitely getting more
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in a Zootopia in this than inside Out necessarily, but
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: it's it you can sort of feel the similarities there.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: The we got a teaser for Elemental and it's a
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: bare minimum teaser. It's kind of cute, gives you a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: little sense of the world that the characters inhabit and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the types of characters there are. And it shows like
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a a water subwaying like a subway train that well
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it's because it's underground, right. So the character who's uh ember,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: she's a fire elemental, gets onto the subway and she's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: walking down the subway listening to music, and you get
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to see some of the other elementals, including you know, air, earth,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and water. Although I didn't see any other fire elementals
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: on that subway train. She was the only one. I mean,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that might be the point fire Fire tends to be
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: considered more destructive than those other elements, even though they're
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: all pretty destructive. Interestingly, though, none of the other characters
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: on the train react negatively to her. And and she's
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: she's donald ducking it, meaning she's got no pants. She's
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: just flames like a super baller hoodie that I definitely
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: want to own. So they better make some merch off
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: of it. It's Disney, They're gonna have so much merch,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: but you know, it's a pretty nice looking hoodie. But yeah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: she accidentally drops her headphones and as she's reaching for it,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: a water elementals reaching for it. And you find out
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: this is the meeting of Ember, the fire elemental, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Wide very cute the water elemental, and that there's a well,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I guess there's a fizzle between them literally because a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: little bit of water falls on her, but there's a spark. Yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it looks cute. Visually, Um, it's very pretty. It's a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: it's a it is still like a I think it's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a Pixar movie, right, it's still a Pixar like style,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: but it's a little bit more stylistic then regularly kind
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of like the characters of Inside Out. I'd say even
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a little bit more so. This is um it almost
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: lends itself, at least Ember does too. And some of
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the like the earth ele mentals to like almost hand
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: drawn aesthetic a little bit for like a watercolor aesthetic,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit to me. I don't know, maybe that's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: just me m Visually, I found it very pretty story wise,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I'm I I'm worried that it's just gonna be Oh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that Pixar story. I again. I mean it might be.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I can tell you this. The director is the same
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: guy who directed The Good Dinosaur, which is the Pixar
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: movie everyone forgets because it was not a good one.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I did not watch it because it just again I
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: was like, maybe, yeah, it's yeah, okay, Well, what's your
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: least favorite Pixar movie? Oh golly, um we should yeah,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: like you should ask me these things in advance, because
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: now not only do I have to like go through
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: my emotions for each Pixar movie, I have to remember
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: all of them. So let's see. There's Funny Nemo, there's
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: all of the Toy Stories there, there's Inside Above's Life,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: there's Cars, there's Inside Out. I haven't watched Soul yet.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: But there's the Onward. I haven't watched Sean Ward yet.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a Disney animation, not a Pixar. No,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that's a I'm gonna say Toy Story one. What that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: your least maybe Toy story too? You you think Cars
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: is better than Toy Story one or two? So here's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I need a new co hosta. Okay, I liked Cars
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: just because they had a spoof on Click and Clack.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: The Tappert brothers I like Toy Story. I like Toy
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Story two. Toy Story three is very emotional for me.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But the problem is is that Toy Story one started
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: off really good and then again it's like this, this,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: The second half of the movie just became a giant
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: chase movie for me. Um became like Homeward Bound with
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: toys and it was just um, it made me anxious
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the entire time. Cars is literally just chasing the whole
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: time it's about racing is just chasing, but on a
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: professional level. Okay, okay, okay, but okay, oh gosh, I'm
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: so sorrybody gonna listen to me lose by crap. I
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: don't remember a whole lot of cars, but I specifically
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: remember just being anxious all the way through Toy Story,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: which maybe means it was a better story, but I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: had a well more anxiety through it. So I'll say this, what,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: whichever Pixar movie you think is the worst one, The
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Good Dinosaur is worse than that? Okay, okay, what is
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: so The Good Dinosaurs your least favorite Pixar movie? Yes,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: followed probably pretty closely by Cars too. I haven't watched
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Cars too. Um, well, I got problems with cars to Listen,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I'm behind on many Disney properties and I need to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: catch up, and many Pixar properties and I need to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: catch up. But that being said, I still like Toy
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Story and Toy Story two. I just didn't like it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: as much as like Finding Nemo or Bugs Life for yeah,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: those things. So okay, Well, we know you have Disney Plus,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: so we're just gonna have to sit you down for
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like two days to have you start catching up on stuff.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, listen, the first one is going to be
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: up in Emperor's New Groove, and that's not even Pixar,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: so you haven't seen up. No, I don't want to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be depressed for ten minutes and then watch a mediocre movie.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It's not a mediocre movie. It's actually quite good. I've heard.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Wait is Wally? Is Wally also Pixar? Yes, if you're
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: gonna say Wally is the worst time, no, no, no,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I love this is okay, So I love the beginning
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of Wally, and then when they get onto the giant
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: ship with all the people, I feel like it's no
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: longer fun. But the first half of it I love. So.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Ariel also famously thinks that Into the Woods is a
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: great one. Act. It just leaves halfway through an intermission.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: She was gone many things that are like the second
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: act of but yes, the first act of Into the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Woods is definitely better. Uh okay, So we're gonna move
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: on because otherwise, otherwise we're just gonna be. We're just
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be here all night, is what we're gonna be.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And you'll be listening to us, to me having discoveries
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: about my co host, someone I have legitimately known for
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: two decades, and I'm learning things now that are really
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: like shaking me to the gay Yeah thanks, yeah, yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: another bringing it back to Into the Woods. All right, well, children,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you'll listen to this. Sony is planning a whole bunch
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a little spider Lings spinoffs of Spider Man. There's a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: plan to create a bunch of live action Spider Man
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: TV series, the first being Silk, which is a fairly
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: recent entry into the Marvel comic books. Technically, she shows
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: up in the first Spider Man movie, but my guess
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: is that they'll just ignore that. The rather her alter
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: ego shows up in the first Spider Man movie, but
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: they don't really do anything with her. So my guess
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: is they're not going to have that Cindy become Silk
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in this. But the plan is to have a bunch
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of these because they're really hoping to to leverage those
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Spider Man properties, and they will air on MGM Plus,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: which I didn't know was a thing, And that's because
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: it used to be Epics. That's the channel that was
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: showing up Pennyworth, the Batman Butler origin story. I think
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: they were showing Pennyworth. I think they were showing um,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: maybe the Evil Dead and like one other one. But yeah,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: now they're now they're combining into new things. I so
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: very torn because I like Spider Man characters. Um, there's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: like a Spider Man cartoon or he's got like quite
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Tiger and a bunch of other people with him that
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I love. It's great, but I also like it's weird
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to have a Spider Verse separate from the m c
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: U but kind of in the m c U but
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: not really. And also like, you can't call them Spider
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: links because that turns it from really cool to really gross. Jonathan, Sorry,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you know, I just it's how I roll. Really gross
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: is how I roll. By the way, if you don't
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: have MGM plus or you are like me and you've
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: stopped watching television. It will also come to Amazon Prime,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: so it'll be available for streaming on Amazon Prime at
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: some point after it airs on television. So yeah, that's um,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll I'm curious enough to give them a
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: shot because depending on who they get to run the show,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: it could be a lot of fun. And also, like,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you gotta hit the right tone for it to be
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: a good Spider Man spinoff for me, Like there needs
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to be a level of fun to it for me
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to really get on board. I don't want to see
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: like a super drama heavy bummer of a series. Yeah,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I will say I you know this, the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Spider Man movies are good and the first Venom movie
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: was fun. It wasn't too much of a bummer. It
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was kind of funny. Um you know more. Bus I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: still haven't watched it and I kind of don't can't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: bring myself to suffer through it. But um, I hope
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: they give Cindy Moon a better, better backstory than what
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the article in Avy Club says that she has um
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: because it's just that right where she gets bitten by
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the exact same spider that Peter Parker was bitten by
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and then it is almost immediately like locked away, thrown
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: into solitary confinement. Yeah. Yeah, until somebody comes and tries
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to eat all of the Spider people. Um, that's sad.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: That's a sad life. Sometimes Spider Man stories are just
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: really depressed. Um, like in the comics. Well yeah, I
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: mean like well in the movies too, Like the ending
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of the most recent Spider Man Tom Holland film has
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a very sad ending. Does it didn't leave me comul sad? Middle,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: it didn't leave me completely hopeless? Um, but yeah it
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: was a little blue. Yeah. I mean, he's he's always
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: got on. Oh okay, anyhow you want to cheer up,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your new favorite news of the week,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: which is we're getting a musical coming to Broadway about Corn.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And and before we even started, like I had not
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: read this story before we were jumping on the call,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and I told Arielison, please tell me this isn't about
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: that stupid TikTok thing that I keep hearing about but
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: haven't seen because I don't have TikTok. I mean, it's
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: not It's not not about the apparently cute little kid
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: who likes corn. I mean who retired. According to TikTok,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: he retired, he said, he retired, but he still loves corn.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Um it's a new video. If you have TikTok, I
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: will be surprised if you haven't seen it. Um. Now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I included this simply because, Um, there is a fantastically
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: talented individual that I used to do community theater with.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: His name is Andrew Dram and he posted on his
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: social media that he was going to be in this musical.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Most recently before this, at least as far as I know,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: he was in like a really cool musical that was
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a jukebox musical called Head over Heels um. And so like,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: he's super talented. He does amazing work, even way back
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in the day when we were doing little community stuff
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: in Roswald, just always so fantastic and great to be around.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And so if you like corn, if you like stories
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: about uh, like rural Middle America and learning how to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: get along with people, um, then maybe check it out
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: because I know at least one of the people in
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it is gonna be super awesome. Of course, it would
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: help if you told him what the title of the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: musical was, because that could be so many things. It's
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: called Shocked. Uh. It's by h Robert Horne and Shane
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Annalie and Brandy Clark, and it opens in the spring
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: made me laugh because I know what what pronunciation you
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: were stumbling over there? Yes, and it's there there. The
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: show is described as a hilarious and audacious farm to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: fable musical about the one thing Americans everywhere can't get
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: enough of. Corn. Shocked is the new musical comedy that
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: proves sometimes tearing down a few walls, rather than growing them,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: is the only way to preserve our way of life.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: And then later on goes to say, uh, and of
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: course about corn because the basic thing that unity and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: acceptance need for survival is a kernel of truth. Jonathan
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Jonathan is so unhappy. I and I I am known
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: for liking puns, but this was too much for me.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Like I told Ariel, as, I feel like this, this
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: author chose this story just to throw as many corn
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: puns as possible. Do you think when they start the show,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: this is the show that's that's apparently a love letter
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: to corn, that if people come into the theater the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: bags of popcorn, they just point out at the audience
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and scream. I mean, I think if it's farm to fable.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like maybe people eat corn in the musical,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: and so eating popcorn is not going to be the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: worst thing. It's not like it's not like it's Veggie
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Veggie Tales, Children of the Corn um No, but it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it's making me think a lot more of war Horse
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: now where they have that whole scene where they eat
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the horse. I haven't watched war Horse, haven't seen it,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: and now I will nothing like that happens. Are you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: sure because you haven't seen it, sir, I mean, okay,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: as far as I know nothing, How about I should
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: have said Eques something way word Okay, hey, look, let's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: talk about something else that you can enjoy. Vodka. Yes,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: if you've just seen Equis, you may need vodka. Uh So,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: there is a commercial out for vodka. I don't even
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: know the brand, because like that was Belvedere Belvidere vodka
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that starts Daniel Craig doing silly dancing and it's directed
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: by Tycho Wahiti. And the very first thing I said
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: was the same thing that everybody else who has seen
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: this commercial and also seen the music video for Weapon
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of Choice said, which is that it is extremely reminiscent
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: of Christopher Walkin dancing around a hotel in Fat Boy
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Slim's Weapon of Choice video. Yeah yeah, so like I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: have friends making up like this whole like extended universe
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: for people who get trapped inside these hotels just dancing. Um. Yeah.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: And it also has a cute little bit at the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: very end where the you get a reverse shot, so
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: you see Tycho with TV sitting in the director's chair
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: calling cut, and then you get out takes at the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: end of your commercial. You get out takes from your commercial. Yeah. Yeah, honestly,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: it also kind of reminds me of like the old
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: was it the BMW that we used to get like
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the little mini movies about. I mean, there were several
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: commercials that started to push the envelope on things like
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: like length as well as spanning multiple commercials. I remember
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: being completely blown away during the Super Bowl one year
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: when the Energizer Rabbit made its way through like four
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: or five different commercials throughout the coverage, you know, the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl commercial breaks, and nothing like that had been
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: done before, and it was really kind of fun and innovative.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: These days, it would be like you're like, Okay, what's
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the big deal, but at the time it was so
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: different from what you were used to that it really
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: kind of caught your attention. And then from that moment on,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like some brands really pushed hard to go
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a kind of cinematic route with their ads. Yeah, but
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: like back in the early two thousand's, BMW had a
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: series called to Hire. Did you ever see that, Jonathan?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I don't watch commercials, and it was like it was
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: like it starred Clive Owen, and like there was one
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: where he was driving Madonna around and I think it
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: was her ex husband who directed that particular short video
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: and like just throwing her all around. Yeah, yeah, directed
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: by guy Ritchie um And and trying to deliver her
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to like an awards show. And then there was one
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: called Beat the Devil that had James Brown and Gary
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Oldman as the devil in it. Like they're actually really
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: interesting little short movies. I'll have to see man. Well,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I feel okay because I don't drive, so you know,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: their AD's not gonna work on me. I'll just watch it. Yeah,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I mean it's super it's they're super old. But it
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, just like little short short, actual short
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: movies that were made by a bunch of celebrities and
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: directors that are some of them are pretty pretty interesting.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I would I would definitely check it out. But this
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: reminds me of that I kind of like when I
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: can get some actual interesting story along with my um
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: along with my product. Uh Like, my favorite product placement
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and TV shows are the ones where like it's so
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: like it's either blatant or it's subtle because you have
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to do it really well. Um hm, it has to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: be one or the other, right, it can't. It needs
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to either be over the top drawing attention to it,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: or it has to be so well integrated that you
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: only really pick up on it if you're really paying attention. Yeah,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, like I would say the same thing that
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the ads I like are the ones that are are
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: narrative and entertaining, except that I find myself remembering the
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: gist of the ad, but not remembering what the ad
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: was for. I mean, you know, it's it keeps you
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: from buying a bunch of stuff, so that's not too bad,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: It's true. Yeah, I need all the help I can get.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Someone else who needs some help David Zaslov Yes, yeah,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: And we keep coming back to this and and Jonathan
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: is still upset, but he continues to tell us all
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: about his thoughts on UM his new streaming platforms. Yeah yeah,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: he he had some more to say about streaming, saying
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't really get it because from a business
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: perspective is and you know, there's a there's a no
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: win scenario there because unlike television where you're playing against
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: ad revenue, or films where you're you're counting on box
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: office returns, there's no like direct feedback of revenue when
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you're creating stuff for streaming, like you're, what you're doing
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: is you're trying to drive more subscribers to the service.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: But then once you do that, you know where do
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: you go? And and you can't just keep escalating productions
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: because if you do that, you'll eventually run yourself bankrupt.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: And he has a point, like there's a legit point
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: to be made there. The problem as I see it,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: is that lots of audiences have sort of migrated over
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: to streaming services. More and more people are either cord
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: cutters or their cord never's. There are people who have
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: never had cable and have no plans to get it.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: And while we've seen people return to movies. It's only
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a few movies that have really done pretty well at
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the box office. Like every every headline I see about
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: a blockbuster hit, the money they're talking about is almost
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: like an order of magnitude less than what we used
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: to see before the pandemic. Right, So it's great, I'm mean,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: there are fantastic box offices, but it's it's not comparable
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: to what was before the pandemic hit. And I don't
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe we will eventually build back up
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: to that, but it's hard to say right now, right
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I am. I am going to go see just the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: second movie since the pandemic tomorrow night. I'm gonna go
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to the movie theater and actually watch a movie, What
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: kind of Forever? Oddly enough, no, I cannot watch Wakonda
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Forever because my wife is in Pennsylvania and I'm in
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Georgia and if I see it without her, she will
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: divorce me. So what is the second movie you're going
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: to see? Then? The menu? Ah, You'll have to let
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: me know how it is, because it looks a little
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: scary for me, but it also looks very interesting. Um,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: We've we've talked about it previously on the show. It
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: is interesting because Zaslov talks about and I'll puss the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: article the deadline article on on our web page www
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: dot large eners on clider dot com um because he
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: talks about, uh, how like you can get a whole
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: bunch of viewers to watch a show, but then they're
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: gone in two months, you know, in the show is over,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: which is totally true. That's what I do with my
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: streaming services because there's way too many um. And then
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: he's talking about like how they can sell content non
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: exclusively and maybe create adlite and free services to join
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: their premium tiers like a tow b or pluto um
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: with their content. So it's just it's all over the place,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and I think I think, like many people, he's just
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to make streaming work. But
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: on the plus side, he does say that d C
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: is a hugely undervalued assets, so that's good for DC lovers. Yeah,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: he's he's essentially saying that that DC's value has been
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: somewhat squandered with a haphazard approach. That kind of at
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: least that's that's what I infer from the way he
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: talks about it. It sounds to me like he feels
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: DC has the potential to be as big a player
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: in the in the TV and film space as Marvel.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: And while we've had some standouts, in general, Marvel overall
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: has performed better than d C. If you if you're
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: talking about a film to film kind of sequence as
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: opposed to picking specific titles, right, because DC has had
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: some specific titles that had that really performed spectacularly well.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I agree with that too. And I mean,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: like again, zas Love is a cable guy. He comes
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: from the cable world. That's a world that's that was
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: all about getting on as many different cable providers as
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: possible and getting as many viewers as possible, and so
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the business made sense to him in that respect and
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: streaming does not. Which on the business side, I totally
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: get it. The problem is that's where the audience is,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: so you've got to figure out a way to make
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it sustainable. It may very well mean that, you know,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: in the not too distant future, the productions we get
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: for streaming services will be scaled back a bit, like
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: they won't be quite as extravagant and high production value
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: as what we've had. Maybe we'll get to a world
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: where the average quality of a streaming show will be
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: like an old episode of Doctor Who. I mean, that
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: couldn't be. That wouldn't be for some people, it wouldn't
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: be so bad for me. For other people they would
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: hate it, like my husband. Um, but uh, you know
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: it's not It's not the Warner Brothers, HBO, Max Discovery
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: is not the only streaming network that is trying to
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: figure stuff out that's making changes. Uh, Paramount is Hulu
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: is as well. Paramount is doing two things. One they're
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: bringing on Walter Hammada, who was heading dc UM over
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: to kind of head up their horror department, at the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: same time that they're doing a bunch of layoffs to
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the ads department. It so it's weird to hear all
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: these streaming services talk about using ads in various ways
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: because they're underperforming right now, right that that's actually true
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: across pretty much all of the Internet. I mean, you've
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: you've probably are aware that companies all across the Internet
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: are having issues. Companies that rely on ad revenue are
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: having problems. So Meta and Facebook and Instagram they're running
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: into problems. Twitter is running into problems for other reasons,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: not just because advertisers are are just cutting back on spending,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: but Twitter has proven itself to be a undesirable location
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: for a lot of advertisers at the moment. That might
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: change in the future, but right now it's too chaotic.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: But generally speaking, it's getting harder to uh to conduct
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: a business if you're dependent on ad revenue because we're
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: in this sort of uncertain economic period that no one
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: knows what to call. I rant about this all the time,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: but the fact is, it means that there are a
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: lot of companies that are choosing to curb spending, and
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: advertising is one of the first things they pull back on.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: So any company that depends upon advertising as a chief
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: source of revenue is really facing some tough decisions right now,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: including laying off parts of ad departments, because if they're
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: not able to get ads anyway, then what are they
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: paying the people for. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, you know,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: if if that's the case and they just want to
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: get more subscribers, bringing somebody on who has a good
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: track record with horror movies like Walter Hammada, it's not
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: a bad decision. Um No, no, it's not. And I
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: mean like it. It's interesting to see the kind of
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of of merry go round effect you get when someone
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: gets the boot from one from one big studio and
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: then they just pop on over to another one. UM.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Gives me hope that if I'm ever fired, some other
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: podcast network will scoop me up. Yes, I believe that,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: but you know you're let's talk about happy things. I
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: don't want you to get fired. I just want you
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: to be a wonderful, loved asset to everybody in the world, Jonathan,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: because you are awesome. I'm definitely an ass uh So
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: A little bit last uh last little bit of streaming
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: network news, which is Hulu Live, is also trying to
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: keep subscribers. They're doing that by adding some music channels
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and some other light channels like Hallmark and things like that. UM,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: which is hilarious because my husband and I were just
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: talking about after the Thanksgiving Day parade getting rid of
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Hulu Live and downgrading just to Hulu because it's also
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: getting a price increase. It's going up from seventy dollars
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: a month to seventy five dollars a month. Basically, you're
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: getting cable you still have like you're just getting cable
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: through Hulu. It's commercials. It's it's you know, some channels
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: it doesn't include like HBO, Holy Cow. Yeah, I mean
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: it's seventy a month right now. But I get I
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: get a DVR. I get to watch things live as
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: opposed to like regular Hulu where you might have to wait,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit after it airs. So especially
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: like it for the connors Um and then for like
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: so you think you can dance and stuff like that.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: There are a few shows, but it's it's not enough
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: for me to keep it. That's probably more information than
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: any of our listeners needed about me. Who alive is
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: not that? If you're looking for a cable alternative that
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: isn't through your internet provider. Yeah, it's interesting to see them,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: you know, trying different things or to to add more subscribers.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Like I said, like you you typically with the subscription services,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: you do see them hit a plateau right where they've
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: kind of hit the saturation that the service can manage
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: in whatever market it's in. And that's really where a
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: lot of these services sort of languish because there's an
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: expectation on the stakeholder side to consistently grow and and
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: to add value, and the truth of the matter is
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: you can only grow so much and then you have
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: to figure something else out. The growth strategy isn't enough anymore. Yeah, Yeah,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see how um entergy and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I say this as an actor and someone trying to
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: to make it in the uh, you know, entertainment industry
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: and trying to tell these stories that are all up
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: in limbo based on how all of these various delivery
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: methods do. It'll be interesting to see how um it
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: all evolves. Um. I think the next two stories we
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: have we talked about, or we're talking about, we should
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: have put in thirty seconds or less at least from
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: my end, but maybe you have more. Oh, I'll just
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: say I'm really quickly. So we've got a couple of
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: stories about different entertainment entities coming together to create partner ships, collaborations,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing to bring various types of content
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: to folks. So the first one is Blumhouse Productions, Blumhouse
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: being mostly known for making horror films of varying degrees
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of quality. Some of them are very very good and
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of them aren't. And then Atomic Monster and
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: they're gonna become the vultron of horror movie studios, as
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I wrote in our little show notes, so they're gonna
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: combine or partner together to bring some uh you know,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: new qualities to horror, and Blomhouse really has been kind
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: of setting setting a bar for horror, for better or
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: for worse. Something Like I said, some Blumhouse I think
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: is really really good and some some I don't respond to.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Was Blumhouse Get Out, Yes, I believe, which was fantastic. Well,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: I I also get a twenty four mixed up with
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: all this, but anyway, Yeah, so it's uh, I'm encouraged
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: by this because I want to see more horror I like.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I like horror a lot, and in fact, I'm always
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: looking for good horror to watch. The problem is I
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: almost always find bad horror, which can be entertaining in itself,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: but it's not what I was looking for. I really
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: like with this, they are not becoming They're still keeping
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: the Blumhouse productions and the Atomic Monster identities and doing
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: their own projects. They're just also working together, so they're
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: they're like a production house together with these two products underneath.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of cool. Uh. The other story we
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: have is that Sony is partnering with Crunchy Role, which
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: is known for bringing anime to audiences online, and a
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Japanese pay TV broadcaster called Wow Wow in order to
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: produce more anime projects. So again, it's kind of this
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: collaborative effort to to create more material, more content for
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: folks to watch. And I think you know that has potential. Like,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: on the one hand, I don't really care for like
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: mass consolidation in any field, because I feel that you
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: can start to lose some interesting perspectives that way. But
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: on the other like, if you get together and do
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: partnerships or whatever in order to to complement one another's strengths,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: great stuff can come out of it. So I am
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic. Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. I am
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: also not huge into consolidation, although some some things need
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: to be consolidated right now a little bit, so, uh,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: I mean sooner or later Disney will own everything, yeah,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: but they'll still own it under like a thousand different
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: umbrellas that you'll have to buy separately. Um. But speaking
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: of Disney owning things, they own alien and aliens, Um
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: do they Yeah? Well, yes, yes they do. I guess so.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Because it's twentieth century, right, it's twenty Century Fox, and
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: then they bought Fox back, and they bought Fox. There's
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: a huge joke about the alien the xenomorph queen being
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like a Disney princess. Ah See, this is what I
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: get for jumping off of social media. I miss all
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the good meetings. Anyhow, so we knew we were getting
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: an alien TV show in three that has it. It
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with like the whaling Utahn in
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: corporation or you know, it's not like a direct chunk
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: of the stories that have already been told. Um. But
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: now we're also getting a new alien movie, yes, and
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Fede Alvarez is going to direct it. So that's really
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: pretty much all the information we have. We don't know
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: a whole of details. But if you're wondering who Alvarez is, uh,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: it's the director behind the Evil Dead reboot that came
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: out back in the very super duper violent and not
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: at all funny version of Evil Dead. Doesn't that like
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: defeat the whole purpose? I mean, the very first Evil
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Dead wasn't intended to be funny. It just kind of was.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Because of the overton, over the top approach. Sam Ramie
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: and Bruce Campbell had to the film, But yeah, it's
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I actually have not yet watched the two version of
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Evil Dead. I just understand that it's much more um
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: gory and intense than the original Evil Dead was. I mean,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: it would be not impossible, but difficult to make Alien
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: more gory and intense than like Alien Covenant was. Like
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I had to turn that one off. I've watched Alien Aliens,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: I've watched Prometheus. I had to turn Alien Covenant off
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: because it was just too upsetting so it could be done,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: which I don't think it should be done. We do
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: know that this is going to be a standalone movie
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: and likely not related to the what's happening in the
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: TV show, So yeah, So so what we're getting with
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Alien is our own little micro DC universe. I mean,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: sci fi is made for anthologies, so like you can
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: buy pick up all entire book of Asimov and just
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: have a bunch of different stories within the same universe
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: that don't really tie together maybe a little bit. So
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: it's it's not as bad as d C because like
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you this zenomorph queen from this that
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: xenomorph queen, you know, whereas like I can tell Superman.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Superman is very distinctive. Yeah, he's the one who has
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: the brother named Martha. Oh wait, Jonathan, this is okay,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we gotta talk about this next thing. Uh.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: If you like a Christmas story and you want to
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: live in a Christmas Story, you can buy the town
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: over Christmas Story. Essentially, it's not an entire town like that,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: the whole town. It's like a can't purchase Cleveland. Okay,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: you're just not trying hard enough. It's like seven different
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: buildings and it's a little more than an acre. So
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: these these are on small plots of land, but includes
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: several locations that were used as filming locations for the
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: for a Christmas Story, the original film. So the house
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: that Ralphie grew up in is one of the Bumper's house,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the one that had all the dogs. That that's one
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: of them. There's a building that currently houses a Christmas
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Story museum that's part of it, and um and also
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: a gift shop. So the article of nerdus says, hey,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: you even have a way of generating revenue to help
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: pay off this house. However, what is not expressly uh
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: admitted on the website the listing for this is the
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: price it's one of those where you have to ask,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: and if you have to ask, you can afford it. Yeah, yeah,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: you got to make them an offer. It's really interesting
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: because like I would feel obligated to keep the museum
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: in the gift shop running, but I don't want to
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: buy I mean, I guess it for somebody who likes
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: doing stuff like that, but like, pardon me, I don't
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: want to I don't want to buy it just to
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: make more work for myself. Also, like, let's say you
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: wanted to just live in a like you wanted to
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: live in the Christmas story House because you thought it
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: would be nice. You would have a bazillion people around
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: your home every Christmas, and it would you would have
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: no peace. Maybe I'm looking at this. Yeah, that's why.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: That's why I just walk around naked with the curtains open.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jonathan, eventually, you're gonna have people complain. Maybe
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: that's fine, they'll stop coming around the house. I don't.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think your next door neighbors can avoid it.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Um well, you know, depending on how these houses are
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: are located, I might own the next door neighbor's house
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: that's pretty dark. It's pretty dark. Maybe even darker than
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Sonic Prime. It's just a new Sonic. Explain this to me.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: It's a new cartoon, a new Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: coming to I think Netflix. Um, and it's basically Dr
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Robotic or Dr Egghead or I don't know what they're
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: calling him in the cartoon shatters the universe and Sonic
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: gets sent back into like another universe, and it's kind
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: of like Cyberpunky and he's got to restore things. And
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: they say it's dark, but it actually looks pretty cute
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: to me. It's a whole new voice cast. Um, I
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: don't know, it looks fun. If you like Sonic the
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Hedgehog and you like the old cartoons, you might like this.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: You should check the trailer out. Gosh, it's everyone is
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: really running with that whole multiverse idea right now. Yep.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Next it's going to be an l n C multiverse. Yeah,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: well we'll do one. We actually have an episode that's
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: less than an hour long. All right, Well we're not
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: done yet because I wrote a mashup and I'm gonna
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my mashup. Now. Before I do this mashup,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I do want to point out that I plagiarized liberally
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: in this mashup from myself, because I once wrote a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: comedic little radio play for the Atlanta Radio Theater Company.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: They still perform it on occasion. But I wrote it,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: and it's called Christmas on the High Seas. But I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: I took some of it. Not all of it I took,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: but I liked a lot of the jokes I made
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: for it, So I took a couple and I put
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: them into this mashup, which combines the Margot Robbie parts
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean uh canceled project and a Christmas story,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: so it's called Pirates of the Christmas Story Awesome. Margot
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Robbie has a problem. Her Pirates of the Caribbean movie
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: has been canceled, but she's decided that's not going to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: stop her. She wants to buckle her swash, and by Golly,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: she's going to do it. So Margot does the only
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: sensible thing. She travels to Macy's department store in New
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: York City and gets in a very long line to
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: see the big Man himself, Santa Clause. It takes ages,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: but finally it's her turn, and so she hops up
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: on Santa's lap, and Santa lets out a little oof
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: and says aren't you a bit old for this? And
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Margot says, I reckon, I am mate, but I'm disparate, Ah,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: says Santa. Throw a little shrimp on the barbie Ho
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: ho ho now, mate, says Margot Robbie. Already been Bobby,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: been dead done that. I want to be a pirate now, oh,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: says Santa. Well, uh so if you say fit to,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: you know, do the I twink gold thing and help
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: me out. Show would appreciate you, says Margot Robbie. Well,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: I'll see what I can do. I see that you've
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: been very good this year. I really liked your performance
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: in Amsterdam, says Santa. Where were you a wrotten tonight?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: As nte, says Margot Robbie. Then she grins and hops off,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: See you, Santa, And then Margot Robbie goes to head
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: off to whatever beautiful location she stays in whenever she's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: in New York City. That night, as she drifts off
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: to sleep, she imagines for a moment that she can
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: smell the faintest hint of salt air and maybe the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: light scent of coconuts. Also there's a steel drum band
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: in her bedroom. She wakes up and sees that rather
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: than the magnificent penthouse apartment she was in, she now
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: is in a smallish room and the room is a rocket.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: She gets up and realized she's on a ship, and
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: she's wearing a pirate blouse and black leggings, and there's
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: a sort of pirate gear sitting on a chair near
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: her bed. So she leaps out and gets outfitted with
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: all the pirate gear, and she heads up to deck,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: where she sees a crew hard at work swabbing the
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: ship and manning the forecastle and pooping on the deck
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Pirates do our mayties, says Margot Robbie,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: And in unison, all one hundred seventeen members of her
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: crew turned to look her in the eye and say
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: our Captain, Margot Robbie. A scarred man with a hook
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: for a left hand walks up to her, and instinctively
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: she knows him as Mr Teal, the quartermaster report. Mr Tale,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: says Margot Robbie. Hey captain, says Mr Teale. The crew
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: are all eager to learn what our next venture be.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: He indicated that today be a very special day. Well,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: what be the day, asks Margot Robbie. Why tis December
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: the twin D fourth captain says Mr Teal Christmas Eve.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: I haven't missed it, says Captain Margot Robbie. Christmas Eve
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: says one seventeen crew members, in perfect unison, looking at
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Margot Robbie with their full attention, I lubbers tis Christmas Eve?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Do you not know the story of Christmas? Asks Margot Robbie,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: and in perfect unison, all one seven D crew members
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: slowly shake their heads no. And so Margot Robbie told
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: the pirates the story of Christmas, which they immediately got wrong.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: But they were so enthusiastic they swapped stories about what
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: they were going to ask. The flying pirates Santa the Claw.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: They brewed egg grog. They sang songs about a woman
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: named Carol. They decorated the pirate ship, though they quickly
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: discovered that hanging cannonballs in the rigging wasn't a sound idea.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: And that night, while on eighteen people slept aboard the ship,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: a jolly pirate in a big red broad coat landed
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: you ho ho ho, he said, and he gave gifts
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: to all the good little pirates, of which there were
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: none because they were pirates. So he flew away, but
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: he left behind some coal. The next morning, the pirates
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: were all so excited to have coal. Finally we can
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: stop burning the rats for warmth, said Mr. Deal and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Margot Robbie, pleased with her crew of cutthroats, sailed off
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: into the Seven Seas and that's why she doesn't make
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: movies anymore. The end. I liked it. I liked it.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you did the Barbie thing because I was like,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: she's she's Barbie. Oh you did that on purpose. Um. Okay,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: So I have a bash up. It's going to be
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: super fast because it's not written down, um and not
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: totally dissimilar, but I'm going to do it anyhow. Okay. Uh.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: So Ralphie Ralph here from a Christmas Story is getting taken.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: He really wants like this red writer Beaty must get
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: for Chris miss but he can't get a Red Rider
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: baby musket for Christmas because his parents are are like, no,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: you're gonna shoot your eye out. Uh. But his parents
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: take him to see Santa to cheer him up so
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: that they can't ask for anything else that he wants
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: maybe they can get some ideas, because you know, they
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: sure are Santa's helpers. Anyhow, when they get there, Santa
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: is outsick and so are all of his elves, and
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: so they had to get like this last minute volunteer
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: who's way too excited but actually dressed like a clown. Um.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: So Ralphie goes up and the clown Santa's like, hey, kid,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: what do you want for Christmas? And Ralphie goes, I
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: want a red ride her beanie musket, and the Santa
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Clown goes, okay, kid, but you know you're gonna shoot
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: your eye out, and uh then she kicks u Ralphie
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: down the slide. That night, Ralphie goes home sad, and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: then here's like a scuttle on the roof and all
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, out of his chimney appears to Santa Clown,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: who's feels him because she is uh ruined her reputation
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: so much in the city that she now has to
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: start a new villain crew on international waters. And so
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: she brings Ralphie to her ship, and sure enough he
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: does shoot his eye out with his Red Rider baby musket,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: but he's happy because he got it. What he wanted
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: for Christmas the end, and next year he gets to
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: ask for an eye patch. Yes, but you know, we'll
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: have to see if it's in the budget. Your Santa
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: was Harley Quinn, Yes, who was also Margot rob Yeah. No,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: I mean they're they're the same person, really is when
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: you get down to it. I mean, uh, yeah, it's
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: amazing that I resisted. I resisted putting Anya Taylor Joy
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: in my mashup because she's in everything now. So uh,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: that was for for something that was extemporaneous, was extremely entertaining.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: And uh and you know I sat there and immediately
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: thought that a baby musket wouldn't be the most terrifying
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: weapon because you have no idea where that thing is
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: gonna go. I mean, you know, it's it's the darkest timeline. Well,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I mean it could have been worse. You could have said,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: a B B blunderbuss and that would have been like
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: weapon of mass destruction. It's the duskiest timeline. Okay, uh
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: if thank you all for listening to this incredibly long episode.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: If you have ideas of how you think of Christmas story,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Empires of the Caribbean and Marco Rubby should be mashed up.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: You should definitely write us and tell us. Yes, you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: can do that on the social media's over at Facebook
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: and Instagram we are Large Drown Collider. Over on Twitter
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: we are l n C Underscore Podcast. Yes, uh and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: uh we might come up with a few additional ways
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: you can contact us in the future if you don't
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: like doing social media's like Jonathan. Also, if you like
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: the show, please tell your friends, share episodes, rate, review us,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: all of those wonderful things, because, uh, we sure love
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: kicking out with you this uh it is if nothing else,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: you will be supporting two friends making time every week
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: except for next week because it's Thanksgiving to get together
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: and be very very silly for like an hour, and
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: we definitely appreciate it. So yeah, we will be taking
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: a break next week because it's Thanksgiving here in the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: United States and will be in different states of chaos
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: on on all next week, but we'll be back the
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: following week, or at least we should be unless something
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: crazy happens, we should be back the following week. Uh.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: And until next time, I have been arial. It's corn casting.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I've been up. Is that corn with a k Strickland
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Aerial Casting and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland, music by Kevin McLeod.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Having Comptech dot com Ms