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LN Under the C · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nor Dunk Collider podcast
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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 Caston and with me is always is the
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  Speaker 1: amazing Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: And just like video games, we are back, baby, we are.
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  Speaker 1: Word to the wise, if you have, you know, physical limitations,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't push yourself too hard or you might also
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  Speaker 1: find yourself in a break of podcasting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of us I am not naming names, had
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  Speaker 2: had a bit of a physical medical whoopsie that put
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  Speaker 2: one of us a little out of commission for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and so that's why our recent hiatus.
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  Speaker 2: I guess this is a good time also to just
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  Speaker 2: mention and that as we get up to fourth of July,
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  Speaker 2: that weekend I'm taking off. I'm going to go to
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  Speaker 2: a remote place where hopefully there will be no fireworks
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  Speaker 2: and just have a quiet weekend. So for that fourth
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  Speaker 2: of July weekend, it will also be dark, at least
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, since I don't have the ability to publish,
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  Speaker 1: it will also be dark from me.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I have not and I can't get it
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  Speaker 2: for you for reasons that I can't go into. I
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  Speaker 2: cannot get you access and we won't go into why,
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  Speaker 2: because this whole thing is like a delicate balancing act.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I I could also, I guess, be very proactive
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  Speaker 1: and record something that is not, you know, so timely
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  Speaker 1: as what we normally talk about, like we could do
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  Speaker 1: we could do some mashups or something, or a discuss topic.
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  Speaker 1: But we've both been very busy. It's been a very
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  Speaker 1: busy start to the year, so I can't guarantee that
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  Speaker 1: what happen.
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  Speaker 2: We're almost halfway through the year.
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  Speaker 1: Now shut your face.
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  Speaker 2: Hold at the end of this month, we will be
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  Speaker 2: halfway through the year.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, it's still first quarter.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be fifty one before this month is over, so my.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness, still so young. But also I can't believe it's
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  Speaker 1: that time of year.
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  Speaker 2: So I did think, like, I'll probably bring my computer
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  Speaker 2: with me when I go out of town. So if
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  Speaker 2: if you were to record something, you could always put
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  Speaker 2: it in like a shared folder and then I could
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  Speaker 2: download it and then I could upload it. So it
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  Speaker 2: is possible, but not that I want to put any
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  Speaker 2: extra work on.
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  Speaker 1: You Jonathan Game recognized Game it's okay to not work
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  Speaker 1: when you're on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: I said that to somebody who all right, the peak
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  Speaker 2: behind the curtain. I'm not going to name names because
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  Speaker 2: you know this has nothing to do with anyone connected
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  Speaker 2: to this podcast besides me, because I'm an executive producer.
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  Speaker 2: A show that is on my slate is scheduled to
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  Speaker 2: go live on July first. The producer I'm working with,
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  Speaker 2: like I don't have any contact with the talent. I
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  Speaker 2: just have contact with the producer. The producer I'm working
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  Speaker 2: with goes on vacation the same day the show goes live,
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  Speaker 2: and is on vacation for a month as he rides
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  Speaker 2: across the United States on a motorcycle.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be a fun trip.
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  Speaker 2: Though it's gonna be a fun trip. It's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a fun launch. But but that's that's neither here
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  Speaker 2: nor there. I forgot to write a question of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any Do you have any questions? If not,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just skip it from your expression. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: say you don't have one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't and I would have come up with them,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't realize you hadn't put one in question
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  Speaker 1: of the week. Do you have any fun weekend plans?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, apart from the fourth of July weekend
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  Speaker 2: where I'm going out a town friend of the show,
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  Speaker 2: shay Lee is coming with us, it's just gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a quiet weekend of me Becca, Shay and Tibbalt.
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  Speaker 1: So well, I is not gonna be a quiet weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's true. That's that is sadly very true, especially
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  Speaker 2: for the first night.
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  Speaker 1: Tiblet, he's the best boy.
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  Speaker 2: But also yeah, I mean he gets wired if he's
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  Speaker 2: in a new place, he's over stimulated, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: hard for him to settle down the first night at
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  Speaker 2: a new place, And so that means that if you're
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  Speaker 2: not careful, nobody gets any sleep on that first night.
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  Speaker 2: But the plan is just to have a nice, easy going,
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  Speaker 2: quiet weekend away from Atlanta. We're also gearing up, as
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure many other cities in the world are at
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  Speaker 2: the moment for World Cup, Like that stuff really kicks
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  Speaker 2: off starting Monday, but we're already seeing the pregaming stuff
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  Speaker 2: happening in this city. So like, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff I just want to get away from, right, So
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  Speaker 2: that's it, And there's a nebulous plan to do karaoke
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  Speaker 2: at some point, but figuring out schedules is a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a challenge and Ariel is part of that, so
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  Speaker 2: she's aware of that too.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, darn adult adulting, busy adulting.
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  Speaker 2: The World Cup is what's impacting that, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: like that's the World Cup is because one of the people,
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  Speaker 2: the person who actually requested we do karaoke together, is
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  Speaker 2: a work set a sports bar, and as you might imagine,
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  Speaker 2: the sports bars are planning on being particularly busy. But
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  Speaker 2: what about you? Any fun weekend plans coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday? I believe that a couple of so. Last weekend
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  Speaker 1: I got to go to my essentially my sister, she
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  Speaker 1: is my sister. I went to her black second degree
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  Speaker 1: black belt test, and while I was gone, my husband
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of people over to play some Clank expansions.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't know Clank had expansions until we watched.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, before you continue, I am not familiar with what
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  Speaker 2: clank is. Could you give me a quick overview.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Clank is a board game. It's you might it's competitive,
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  Speaker 1: but you might like it.
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  Speaker 2: Where Yeah, I am infamously a poor loser and a
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  Speaker 2: worse winner.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind. I don't mind that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind playing competitive games with you. But I know
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  Speaker 1: some people do.
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  Speaker 2: They should clam I am unpleasant. I listen. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like me when I play competitive games.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I one time got shamed by a very prolific
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  Speaker 1: Xbox and gamer person for moving the thief on the
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  Speaker 1: first turn to the most profitable profitable space in Settlers
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  Speaker 1: of Katan. So no judgment from me. Not that I'm
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  Speaker 1: a sore loser or a horrible winner, but I am not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm vicious. Yeah, I'm either vicious or chaotic. But Clank
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  Speaker 1: is a game. It's a four player game unless you
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  Speaker 1: get an expansion where you have to basically go into
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  Speaker 1: a dungeon and collect artifacts that are worth points before
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  Speaker 1: before the dragon wakes up and kills you all. And
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  Speaker 1: you collect cards, so some are treasure and some are companions,
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  Speaker 1: and some are like actions and things like that as
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  Speaker 1: you go through. So it's a deck building game, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also a board game. And so some of the
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  Speaker 1: cards give you movement, and some of the cards give
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  Speaker 1: you money, and then some of the cards give you clank,
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  Speaker 1: which is noise, and the more noise you make, the
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  Speaker 1: more likely you're you are to get attacked by the dragon.
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  Speaker 1: So when you generate clank, you put one of your
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  Speaker 1: little cubes into a pile, and then when you pull
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  Speaker 1: a card with a dragon on it, all that all
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  Speaker 1: those cubes go into the bag and you pull a
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  Speaker 1: certain number of cubes based on where the dragon is
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  Speaker 1: on the board, and if they pull your cue cube color,
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  Speaker 1: you take damage. It's a really fun game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's also kind of like a risk versus reward
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  Speaker 2: game where you decide do I keep going in the
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  Speaker 2: hopes of getting a bigger payout or do I play
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  Speaker 2: it safe and try and cut losses now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, and especially once once, and like you
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  Speaker 1: can only get certain kinds of treasure one time unless
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  Speaker 1: you get like a backpack and that allow you to
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  Speaker 1: get more treasure, or there's some things you can get
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  Speaker 1: more of, but like the big items, you can only
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  Speaker 1: get one of unless you spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: getting other things. Because like there's some some spaces where
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  Speaker 1: you can't move through unless you have two movement or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, and it's all dependent on the cards
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  Speaker 1: you pull in the deckuboty.
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  Speaker 2: So like encumbrance and inventory space play a part too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it's it's a lot of fun. It's
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  Speaker 1: not it's not too hard to when you're in it
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  Speaker 1: not too hard to understand. It's pretty simple. I hardly
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  Speaker 1: ever win this game. But once the first person gets out,
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  Speaker 1: the dragon goes every turn or every round and so,
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  Speaker 1: and the person who got out gets to play the
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  Speaker 1: dragon at that point, and so you also have to
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  Speaker 1: make it out before you die or the dragon reaches
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  Speaker 1: the end of the board. So at that point you're
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  Speaker 1: racing the clock, which is kind of fun. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: not the longest it's not the shortest game, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not the longest game. And having that clock once somebody
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  Speaker 1: is like I've got enough points, I'm getting out. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the board, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take them a while to get out shortens
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  Speaker 1: it a bit. I didn't get to play last week
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  Speaker 1: because I was away, so we might do that this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm probably gonna go see Masters of the Universe.
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  Speaker 2: Well after your description, I think I might have played
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  Speaker 2: that game once ages and ages ago, because it it's
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  Speaker 2: tickling a memory in my head. I have no like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not confident in that because I've played a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different games, but it does. That does sound familiar
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  Speaker 2: to me. I may have only watched it played. Was
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  Speaker 2: it ever played on something like the Will Wheaton Show
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  Speaker 2: on Geek and Sundry.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, but I'm sure it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it might be. Yeah, maybe maybe that I've seen
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  Speaker 2: seen it on on YouTube. That's a possibility.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there is a second there is a second
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  Speaker 1: version where you pull it's mixed up with like uh,
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  Speaker 1: House on Haunted Hill or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It is called Betrayal, Betrayal of.
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  Speaker 1: The Hill, Yeah, where you build the dungeon as you go.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a fun version too.
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  Speaker 2: And then I've played I've played Betrayal quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: I love Betrayal. That's a great game because it's cooperative
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  Speaker 2: and then it's it's uh, then it becomes competitive, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a one versus many kind of competitive where you know,
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  Speaker 2: one player takes over the role of kind of like
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  Speaker 2: what you were saying with the dragon, right, Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: one player takes over the role of being the big
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  Speaker 2: bad and everybody else Their goal is to either escape.
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  Speaker 2: I think actually usually the goal is you have to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to defeat the big Bad. But and
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting because like there are two sets of instructions,
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  Speaker 2: one set of instruction for the player who becomes the
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  Speaker 2: big Bad and one set for everybody else, so that
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  Speaker 2: they can they only get some of the information. They
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  Speaker 2: have to actually use logic and some and some guesswork
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how best to deal with this new
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  Speaker 2: threat on the board. And there's multiple different scenarios that
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  Speaker 2: could play out. And the idea is that because there's
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  Speaker 2: so many, and because it's conditional, the whatever villain is
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  Speaker 2: conditional based upon what the board is. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: not likely to play the exact same scenario twice in
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  Speaker 2: a row. So there's a lot of replayability. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: sounds great. I need to play more. I need to
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  Speaker 2: have more game nights. Friend of the show Shay Lee
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  Speaker 2: has threatened to hold game game nights, which would be
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  Speaker 2: great to participate in.
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  Speaker 1: I've also offered to like volunteer MySpace for that too,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's probably a little bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that would be fine too. We just need
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  Speaker 2: to what we need to do is just actually make
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  Speaker 2: the plan right. We need to sit down and say,
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  Speaker 2: let's set aside this day in time, and we will
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  Speaker 2: do the thing, because that's the way to get me
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  Speaker 2: to do it, because otherwise if it's just nebulous and
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  Speaker 2: I hate. I don't mind making plans, but I hate
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  Speaker 2: making plans if I'm not the one actually hosting, because
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  Speaker 2: it feels like it's an imposition. So I also get
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  Speaker 2: tired of making karaoke plans because I always feel like
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  Speaker 2: everyone's doing it out of pity for me.
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  Speaker 1: People like karaoke.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a karaoke place that we like to
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  Speaker 2: go to that, you know, Ariel and I and some
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  Speaker 2: of our friends we like to go to because it's
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  Speaker 2: a place where you rent the room and then your
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  Speaker 2: party just has exclusive use of that room, which means
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  Speaker 2: we can sing whatever we like. So sometimes, although it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been this way for a couple of years, but
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  Speaker 2: for a while it was like show tune heavy, and
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  Speaker 2: we still do show tunes on occasion, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: nearly as pervasive as it used to be. But that's
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  Speaker 2: the kind of thing that will get you kicked out
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  Speaker 2: of an actual karaoke bar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, unless you go to our Luke Smart's karaoke,
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  Speaker 1: because yes, he's got a lot of show tunes. Any
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  Speaker 1: play some places that are more friendly to it, But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I tend to lean heavily into show tunes because those
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  Speaker 1: are the ones that, like having done a lot of
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  Speaker 1: musicals and having to have a lot of audition songs,
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  Speaker 1: those are the ones that I'm practiced at, and I
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  Speaker 1: remember a lot of like popular culture songs. I'll put
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  Speaker 1: on and I'll get to the bridge and be like, crap,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember this part.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that happens to all of us, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like even Luca, even Luke will have it happen, and
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  Speaker 2: he's incredibly well versed in music. But yeah, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: now we've talked about weekend plans, let's talk about stuff
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  Speaker 2: we've watched since the last time we record. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. But I only have two things
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  Speaker 2: to add. You had mentioned that you might see he
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  Speaker 2: Man this weekend. I might see Obsession this weekend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really I need to see both. Well, I need
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  Speaker 2: to see Obsession, he Man and back Rooms. Like I
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  Speaker 2: want to see all three of those things. And I
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: worry that Backrooms is going to have to wait till streaming,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know that I'm going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to find time to see all three in the near future.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like he Man is another one that
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  Speaker 2: you need to see this weekend if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see it in the theater, because despite the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it's gotten great reviews, it didn't get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get a big box office turnout last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I tried to go last weekend. I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: it gets a big one this weekend, like second weekend,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I like, because I wanted to go, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I wasn't able to, and so I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. This weekend a bunch of people were like
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  Speaker 1: me and also want to go, especially because it's getting
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  Speaker 1: decent reviews. It's got pretty good review so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, even even reviewers I know who are particularly
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  Speaker 2: grouchy and critical liked it. They didn't love it, but
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  Speaker 2: they enjoyed it. They found it entertaining, And I thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's all you. I mean, it's a movie based off
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: an action figure line. I mean, the only reason the
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: cartoon existed was to sell action figures, So for it
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  Speaker 2: to be good is a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, you're not on social media, so you don't
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  Speaker 1: see it as much. But like they know, I've seen
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: several bits with like Dolph Lundgren or them recreating.
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  Speaker 2: The the the what's going on? Yeah, so what's up? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that song has the wrong title.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have that one as one of my karaoke
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  Speaker 2: wants to do next time we do karaoke, is What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Because I've always wanted to and I've just never done it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the the disco version that went viral with
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  Speaker 2: the animated he Man stuff I did see. I did
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: see like a YouTube short of that of the cast
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  Speaker 2: like lip syncing to it and stuff, which was fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they definitely look like they've had a good time with
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  Speaker 2: it that you know, they you know it is. It
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  Speaker 2: is campy, and they don't shy away from it, though
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  Speaker 2: they don't apparently like wholeheartedly embrace it either. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like somewhere in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I was gonna say, I know, you were
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: a little disappointed, and it sounds like a lot of
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: people were at the person who they cast a skeletor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've heard good things.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I've heard good things. You know. That's That's thing
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  Speaker 1: is like, I don't like that actor. I think they've
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: had some like assault charges put on them that I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: don't know if they've been guilty of. Yeah, but but
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and they but if if those things are true, it's
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it's kind of despicable. But they're on set behavior oftentimes.
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  Speaker 1: I find when they're in character, like, oh gosh, all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Cara, Sorry, it's been a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, like they go super method.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they go super method. And I don't appreciate that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: because it can be detrimental, and it sounds like other
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: people haven't appreciated it either. But they A part of
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that is they do work very hard and are very
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: committed to the character. But that person has not been
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: on any of the press tours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I wonder if the physical performance was even
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: that actor or if it was just.
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  Speaker 1: The Okay it was, Yeah, he was in a suit
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  Speaker 1: with his face dots. Yeah, And I've heard like his
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I've heard a couple of things on the press tour.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: A lot of it is speculation, some of it is
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I've heard that he's not particularly happy with the way
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the movie came out. I don't know about that. And
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: then the other part is, you know, with the allegations
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: that are floating around and some of the that that
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: came out after he was cast. That's the thing, is
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the allegations, Yeah, came out after he was cast.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: The wild thing though, is the wild thing though, is
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: everybody already knows that he has a history of bad behavior.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: If not, let's say take criminal out of it. Yeah,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: he has a documented history of behaving badly, like all
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: in the name of going method. And we've had this
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: discussion multiple times on this show about how why is
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: it that actors seem to embrace method only when they're
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: playing total jerk faces, but not if they were, like
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: playing a nice person, like they don't you never hear
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: about stories about someone going method and because they were
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: playing a really nice, decent person, they got flowers for everybody,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and like, you never hear that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: That's because it's the same reason I would wager because
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: this person has played some nice characters, I would wager
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that you the reason you don't hear about that is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: because it doesn't create waves. It's the same reason that
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of times restaurants will have more bad reviews
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and good reviews because if you like the place, you
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: don't always think to leave a review. But if you
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: don't like the place and you're angry at it, you're
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: going to leave a review.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Right Like, I get that. I just in my own experience,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: and this is anecdotal, so it's not really evidence. The
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: only people I've ever encountered who considered themselves method would
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: only seem to employ method if they were playing total
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: pieces of crap.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: You may not notice that they're methoding if they're playing
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a nice person because you're used to that more often.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But the.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Though that's different from the things that have come out
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: since he was cast. Yes, those allegations have nothing to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: do with his on set behavior, but also he's had
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: several flops in a row like tron Arey's and yeah, Marius,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: there's there's no vague casting there.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, clearly we're talking about Sidney Sweeney.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, uh, problematic crush, Jonathan.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I don't have I don't have a crush on Sidney Sweeney.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I want to be totally clear about that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know anyhow, going from vague casting to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: narrow casting. If you wanted to see Masters of the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Universe and back rooms, there is a double feature on
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Saturday night at the Starlight Drive in.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: But it goes very wow. Well yeah, I mean he
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Man is like two and a half hours long, so.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Well, and it has to start after it's dark, so
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: he Man starts at nine and then Backroom starts at
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the night.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I would totally do that too. I might let Friend
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: of the show Shayley know about that, because although Friend
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: of the Show shay Lee's vehicle does not have air conditioning,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: so maybe I won't.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Could she borrow your vehicle and drive it?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Well, my vehicle is currently parked down at the Atlanta Airport,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: so that will entirely depend upon whether or not my
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: partner has returned from Pennsylvania. Fair enough, So that's enough
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: of that. Okay, Well, we were going to talk about
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: what we actually saw. It's like, we're well past twenty
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: minutes now, keeps up short. Yeah, well, this is a
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: long episode two because we missed two weeks. But okay,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: so a couple things I saw. I finally watched All
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: of the Burbs, which Ariel had already seen. I had
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: seen the first three or first two episodes two or three,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I can't remember, and then maybe it was three and
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: then we put pause on it. But then Becka and
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I binged it over two days and watched the rest
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: of it. I overall, I enjoyed it, thought it was entertaining.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Got a little frustrated because it felt like it got
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: a little repetitive, and also that there were moments that
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: were supposed to be reveals except that the characters in
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the scene kind of already knew the information that was
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: being revealed. So it didn't like it was weird because
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: like it almost felt like it it wanted you to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: be like, as you see these characters get this information,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: except that you're like, put that she already knew that. Like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: there were a couple of moments like that. There's there's
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: one in particular where the protagonist has learned something about
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: someone who's close to her in the previous episode, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: in the subsequent episode she learns specific information, but it
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: doesn't it doesn't contradict or even really escalate what she
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: already knew, Like it just it's just confirmation, but it's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: treated like it's a huge reveal and I'm like, but
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: we know this, it literally just happened. But apart from that,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I really liked the verbs. I hope there's another season.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: They left it open for another season.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was surprised that they did that. I was like,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: there's no way they could do that. I agree there
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are a lot of false endings and some repetitiveness, but
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I really liked the character the characters that they created,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I agreed, way more likable than I thought.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: And then the other thing I saw, which I think
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you also watched with Spider Noir.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the very last episode.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you still have one to go, all right.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I watched the whole thing, but it was just me
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: because my partner has a fear of insects and arachnids,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: so there are some body horror like sequences that definitely
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: focus on spiders that she just would not be able
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: to handle, so she skipped it. I thought it was
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: very entertaining. It feels noir adjacent because it's not really noir,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: but it has a lot of the tropes and trappings
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: of noir, and Nick Cage's performance gets progressively bonkers as
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the show goes on, which I appreciate. I was like,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: this is weird and it doesn't really feel like it fits,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: but I'm here for it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I do feel like several of the characters get lean
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: into the noir a bit more as the show goes on,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: but since it also gets a little bit more whack
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a doo as the show goes on, that kind of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: counteracts the commitment to the characters.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the thing is like, so like I play
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: in a noir actual play Tuesday nights at nine pm
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Eastern play on One Word Studios, YouTube and twitch folks,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and it's a noir setting, but sometimes it can be
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: hard to lean into it because you're thinking out like
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you're thinking out of character for certain things or asking
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: questions or whatever. So like it's we do lean into
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the noir, but it's a little bit it's a little
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: bit lighter at times, just because we're actively creating it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Whereas this is scripted, they could have fully leaned in.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: They could have gone full Maltese Falcon, you know.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, although I think I think it's because I mean,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: obviously it's also the spider noir that was introduced in
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the Spider Verse movies, and so it's it's like it again,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: it's almost like cause playing noir right, Like it's it's
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: got the look of it, especially if you watch it
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: in black and white, which is the way I did it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, same.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: You can also watch it in true color if you prefer.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I just I just wanted to watch it in black
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: and white, which was interesting because there's points where they
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: talk about how a character has yellowed skin, and I'm thinking,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I wonder if I were watching this in true color,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: if their skin actually would be yellowed, because right now
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: it's just the normal color because it's black and white. Yeah,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: but uh, yeah, it's it's I think I think it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: one where again, it's almost like if you watched an
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: improv scene and the suggestion being thrown out was noir,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: you know that kind of thing, which is, yeah, that's fine.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I think it works just fine for this this show.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: It's just that for people who are fans of the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: noir genre, you might get frustrated as you watch it,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: thinking like, no, this is silly, Like, yes it is silly,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and yes, spider Noir is in the name, but it's
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: not really noir.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I had that issue at first. I had to,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: but like I said, I feel like it leaned a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: little bit more later on. But I definitely you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you and I have worked with the Atlanta Radio theater company.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: They do a lot of noir adjacent stuff, so, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: which means I listened to a lot of radio theater,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and I've listened to a lot of old time radio theater,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: which is heavily noir, and so yeah, I was like, oh,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it's not quite right. They're not quite hitting the beats,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: but I still like it. Who are your face characters
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: in that show?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Well? Uh Riley? Uh Spider spider Man or the Spider
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: is one of my favorites. I mean, I like everybody
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: in that. I think every single character is interesting. Like
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I like the reporter, I like I like the I
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: like the fem fatale, I like the I like the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: secretary slash more capable detective. I like Yeah, I like
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: everyone in that. I don't think there was a single
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: performance in that show that I did not like like,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and that's rare. Usually there's maybe one or two where
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I wish they had gotten someone else.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: But in this case, I think the whole ensemble they
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: understood the assignment. As the kids say, Nick Cage is
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the one who goes the most off the rails, Like
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: like you could you could argue that everybody understands the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: assignment and Nick Cage wanted extra credit.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: But I mean that's the thing is you put Nick
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Cage in a role in whether or not you like
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: his act style or you like his project. He fully commits.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's up to the director to pull stuff
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: back if they feel that it's not like working in
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the project. So I would actually say that if you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: find Nick Cage's performance off putting, a lot of the
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: blame needs to be or at least a lot of
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the responsibility not blame, needs to have.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: A lot of creative control in the project.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That's true. He was I think one of the producers.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and like wanted to do it black and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: white and all that stuff, So, which great because that's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the right choice. It gives it more of a noir feel.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: My favorite characters were Robbie the Reporter, but I also
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: love Lamar Morris so much. I think he's such a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: clever actor. And then Tombstone just such a likable, fun
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: character and a good character arc like I genuinely felt
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: for him. He wasn't live it was voltage right, not
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: live wire, mega watt, megawatt. He leans fully into the noir,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but it almost sticks out because nobody else is.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's he's getting almost to caricature, right, like
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: he's he's doing he's doing very broad. His performance is
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: exceedingly broad.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: But which if everybody does it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Well, he's also it's also revealed that he's a he
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: want he wanted to be an actor, So part of
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: it is him kind of behaving in the way that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: he views acting right, like he is putting on a performance.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: It's not that he's being a natural kind of person himself.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: He's choosing and I'm like, that's that's valid, that's it's
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: it's it makes me think of a Clayface in the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Harley Quinn animated series, the Alan Tudix version. It's that
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: it's it's performing in the way you think actors are,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: not the way they actually are.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, which, by the way, seeing the clay Face,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the James Gun clay Face trailer on the big screen, Wow, yeah, I.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: What movie did you see where they showed that first?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Do you remember that Mortal Kombat? Okay, yeah I haven't.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it on the big but I haven't
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: been to a movie in a while.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It was a lot of trailers for scary movies, not
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: all of them were scary movies, some more action, but
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I was like, why why do I have to watch
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Evil Dead rises again? I don't want to see this
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: all the big screen.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: That's a fair question, Harry, that's a fair question. All right,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Well what else have you seen? So you've seen most
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: of but not all of Spider Noir.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I finished up this series of Task Master. Delightful, delightful,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: delightful series. Everybody had such a good time and it
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was such a good sport and there was like friendly
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ragging on people, but there wasn't a lot of like
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: yelling and getting angry. Sometimes in previous seasons some of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the people get angry trying to prove their point or
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: get points or whatever, and this time it was just delightful, wonderful,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: wonderful series. I watched season two pop Culture Jeopardy to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: better than season one. It's on Netflix. I'm caught up
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on City Council of Blood, which is the Vampire of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the Masquerade actual play on Dimension twenty. I'm watching. I've
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: had a lot of so, you know, I'm the I'm
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sure everybody is guessed I'm the person who had a
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: medical whoopsie. So I've had a lot of time to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: sit on the couch and watch TV. So I've watched
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of Smash, I'm watching the new season of Oxmachina,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: which is great, and I'm playing a lot of Dredge.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: So Dredge is great. Are you enjoying it?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I had to turn it onto passive mode. Not that
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I mind trying to get away from the from the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Leviathan horrors that chase me. Like I've been able to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: do it, but I hate steering the boat like I like,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I've turned it all the way up, I've turned the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: sensitivity all the way up, all the way down, and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: it's just constantly I'm constantly having to go so slow
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to not run into rocks.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's purposefully clunky, like that's part of the
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: mechanic of the game, but it is not necessarily a
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: fun thing to experience.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So, like, I still get the scares of the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: viathing creatures, and I will turn it on and off.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, so far, I've only gone to the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: gil Cliffs and to Greater and Little Marrow because I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: keep thinking that I've missed things.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: So for completionists, games like Dredge can be frustrating. Yeah,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I had a lot of fun playing through it. I
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: am I'm a casual player. Like, I'm not gonna I'm
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: not one of those folks who can knock something out
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: in a couple of hours. It took me a while
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: several play sessions. But I really like the atmosphere. I mean,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: it's super heavy handed, but it does like it's it's
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: like ensmuth right, it feels like it's a love crafty
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and kind of story. I got into it. I was
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: obsessed with trying to make sure that whatever ending I
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: got was the best one in my view what the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: best one, like, you know, all depends on your view,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I guess. But I also really like that there are
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: crossover DLCs for things like Dave the Diver, which is
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: has got a could not be more different tone than Dredge,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: but there's a there's like some crossover with Dredge, which
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: is a lot of fun too. It's just kind of silly,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: like what if Dredge but in the Dave of the
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Diver universe? And uh so I really appreciated that too,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: because those were Dredge and Dave the Diver were both
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: games that came out around the same time and and
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I became obsessed with.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Does is Dave the diver easier to steer on?
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: No, No, Dave the Diver's much easier. I think it's
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: the basic it's really two different games, and one and
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: one part of the game you're collecting fish and other
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: types of sea life in order to, in the second
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: part of the game, turn them into sushi. Although your
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: sushi chef actually does the work, but you're the one
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: who sets the menu and serves the dishes as they
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: come up, so you're not actually constructing the sushi, but
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the kinds of sushi that the chef can make are
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: dependent upon what you have collected.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the other thing is my in dredge,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: my boat is not fully upgraded.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that takes a while too.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so like, there are there are times when
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is going way slower than I know
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: my boat can go. And that is also frustrating because
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and that's another reason I turned it on passive, because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, the last time I slept was here,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and if I die from this, Leviathan, I'm going to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: have to go all the way back and spend two
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: whole more days getting across to here and like, yeah.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Well and there's yeah, it's it's it's a thing where
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: like I focused early on to improving my motor so
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: that I could move faster. But you know there are
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: other issues too, like your inventory system and dredge, Like
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: you have limited inventory which you can expand over time,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: but you have to collect and spend the resources in
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: order to do it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Or what kind of motor that it won't let me sell.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Or trash that's weird. But the other thing is like
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: like the types of fishing gear you have. Fishing gear
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: is only good for certain types of fishing, like if
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: it's deep sea versus shallow water, that kind of thing.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: And so it's a lot of balancing, it's a lot
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: of figuring out. Okay, let me just focus on shallow
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: water fish for a while while I upgrade certain aspects
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: of my boat. And then I know that I'm not
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: going to be advancing the story during this time, but
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I'll be improving my boat's capability so that I can
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: further advance the story. So it becomes a lot of that,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and if that frustrates you as a player, you're probably
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: not going to have a good time with the game.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I was okay with it, because like the individual activities
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: were entertaining enough to me. But if it's not, that's
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: not a slam on you as a player. That's just
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: different preferences.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not big into inventory games, so I don't particularly
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: like that, but I I am enjoying the story and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I am enjoying the minigames. I just don't like inventory.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And then like the steering is also about great. But yeah,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: it's good enough that I'm still playing it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: So are you playing with controller or mouse and keyboard?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I'm playing on my PS four, so.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: You're playing controller. Gotcha. See, I haven't played on controller.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I played mouse and keyboard because I did it on
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: the so don't I don't have the experience, or maybe
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I did. Maybe I did play like because I might
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: have used an Xbox controller linked to my computer. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: can't remember it because it's been a while since I
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: played it. But that can make a big difference too.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Well, all right, sometimes sometimes the joystick lets you turn
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: in place, and sometimes it does not let you turn
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: at all, despite your you doing the same exact thing.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a feeling then that I did not
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: experience that because I was playing it on a different platform,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: but you know selav All right, Okay, so we've talked
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: about the stuff we've seen. I guess now we're ready
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to move on to thirty seconds or less. We got
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: quite a few to get through, did I I don't remember,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: did I put in or did you put in the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: announcement of the cast for the next season of Task Master? Nope,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: we can mention that really quickly before we go into it,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: because since you just finished the most recent uh, they
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: did release the cast for the next one. The only
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: name I remember rapt the top of my head is
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Richard Iowada is going to be on it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which I love him. He is so funny. I
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed him in the second season of Last One laughing.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: But he definitely has He definitely has a style that
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: is super deadpan, and I've seen him drop it before
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: because you know, he's a human and he has fun.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: But it'll be interesting to see how much of that
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: he keeps up in task Master, which needs to be
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: a bit more of a collaborative and open minded game.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And then also I'm sure this isn't a problem because
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: he's an actor and he knows what he's getting into,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Like he has said that he's he prefers like don't
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: give him a hug when you see him, you know
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Yeah, but also Jason man Zukas
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: is also not like the most physical or like he
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: has a severe egg allergy, so he can be a
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: little bit like cautious about things. And he enjoyed the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: game too, so you know, it'll just be interesting to
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: see the dynamic.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully. My hope, of course, is always that everybody
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: has a really good time. I think it can be
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: weird for the audience if it appears that someone's not
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: having a good time. Yeah, right, because it kind of
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: had that issue. It kind of drags things down. But
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: like if that's your shtick as a comedic performer, then
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, it's a delicate balance. But it would
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: also seem really weird if Richard Iowada suddenly became just
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: like incredibly like enthusiastic and outgoing and like it would
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: just seem so against type. That would be weird too.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The other name that I recognize is Matt Lucas Yep,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: who I guess was a part was heard of the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Mighty Bosh Mighty Boush.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: No, he was not part of the Mighty Bosh Richard Iowai.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Was, but he has done some sketch comedy stuff.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Wow, you're doing like Margarita's right next to the microphone.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: This time, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna have to talk
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: to my neighborhood because it seems like every week they
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: set up closer to my front yard. And this is
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: a big community. They could park elsewhere.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Matt Lucas was in Little Britain, and he was also
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: for a while he was one of the hosts of
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: The Great British British Bake Elf.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the other three people their names sound familiar,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: but I'm not as familiar with them. Chloe pets As
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: He Suddy and Nina Kanti. There's a person, there's an
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: actor in Atlanta named Nick Kanti. So that's where my
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: brain keeps going.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember when I looked at their pictures, I
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, I recognize these people mostly from
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: other like chat show type things. But because I'm just
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: very casual, like usually I'm just watching excerpts of those
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not watching like full episodes of any of the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: panel shows that are really popular in England. So my
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: familiarity is very surface level.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, Well let's.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Go on, all right, here we go thirty seconds or less.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I get started. First up, Well, we are sad about
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the passing of Anthony Stewart Head. He had a long
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: and amazing career from musical theater performances. He was frankenferg
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: on the West End for Rocky Horror. He was Giles
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was Rupert Mannyon and
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Ted Lasso. He even gained notoriety for a series of
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: nes Cafe commercials back in the eighties and early nineties.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: He passed away at the age of seventy two from
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: complications of pneumonia. So our love goes out to his
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: friends and family.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a loss fault there, Roman into I guess,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: complete whiplash of emotion. Rome and Michelle's high school reunion.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: They are getting a new one for their thirty year reunion.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: It is coming out to Hulu and to theaters.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Do thirty seconds donuts. So, like I said earlier, I
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: have not seen obsession. I hope to fix that this weekend.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: But meanwhile, filmmaker Curry Baker is enjoying the film's impressive success.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: According to The Hollywood Reporter, one unnamed studio has made
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: a preemptive offer of ten million buckaroos for Baker's next
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: original project. And here's the kicker. Baker hasn't even indicated
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: he has a next project cooking yet. Flawn a baby
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Flawn It.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: We had talked a while back about the fact that
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Amazon was going to do a new Stargate TV series.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I think we might have even gotten like a tiny,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: tiny teaser, But it turns out that they are not
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: moving forward with it, mainly because the person who was
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: going to be the writer and showrunner and executive producer,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Martin Garrow, who has worked on Stargate SG one in
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Atlantis and various other things. They feel that he will
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: not bring in the new audiences that they are hoping
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: to get, but rather just appeal to the current audiences.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: It feels like they're having the same dilemma that Star
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Trek has been having.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Filmmaker and future novelist Lindsay Anderson Beer plans to direct
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: a film adaptation of her yet to be published novel Hollow,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: which is a sexy reimagining of the legend of Sleepy Hollow.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: This version will focus on Katrina van Tassel rather than
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: on Ikabad or Brahm or the Headless Horseman, and it
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: said it will be a steamy, supernatural love triangle story.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: The book and film are aiming for release next year.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Oh and Sidney Sweeney is playing Katrina.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Ghostbusters on to celebrate. Oh goodness, I read this and
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: my brain is losing all the details. Ghostbusters had Ghostbuster's
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Day recently, and a part of that was raising money
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: for various children's hospitals to do things like put in
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: hospital gowns that are Ghostbusters themed and things like that.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: They had an event at the New York City at
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the fire department of the the FDNY Hook and Ladder
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: fire House Number eight, which is the exterior of the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Ghostbuster's House. And it's also to promote their new animated
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: series comming out in twenty twenty seven, Ghostbusters Night Shift.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I Finally Got There.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Well. John Carpenter's Escape from New York is a fun
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: cult classic at set in the not too distant future
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven, in which New York City has been
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: turned into a giant prison colony and anti hero Snake
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Blisken is forced to infiltrate the city to rescue a
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: stranded president of the United States, and now Zack Snyder
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: is poised to remake this classic film. I am not optimistic.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: I am sure that will not have Kurt Russell playing Snake.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting a gem in the Holograms series reboot.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: It is coming from Hasbro Entertainment in Kilter Films. Kilter
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Films is the creative studio behind Westworld and Fallout, which
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: both have a much darker sensibility than I would expect
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Jem to have. But I really liked Jem as a kid,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm very excited for it.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: It's also live action, not animated, unlike the original. You
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: might know about the Canadian series Slings and Arrows, which
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: told the story of a troubled but largely successful Shakespeare
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: theater in Canada. If you haven't heard of it, you
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: should check it out. It is a fun series anyway.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: The team behind it is now going to hold a
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: public reading on July twenty sixth of The Amateurs, which
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: sounds like a staged prequel of sorts. It's the origin
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: story of a Shakespeare festival in rural Ontario set in
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties, we.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Are getting a high concept sci fi called I Promise
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: We're Cool, with a really interesting creative team behind it.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Mac zonis mispronounced that is directing. Charlie Hall, who is
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Julia Luis Dreyfus's son, is writing, and it's being produced
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, who have done such
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: things as twenty one drump Street Project, Hill Mary, the
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Lego Movie, the Spider Verse movies. So I'm interested.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Well, back in the nineties, there was an animated series
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: called The Critic that followed the misadventures of film critic
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Jay Sherman as he endured abuse from his family, his boss,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and an endless parade of terrible movies. It only ran
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: for two seasons. There were just twenty three episodes, but
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: according to the show's creators, we've quote never been closer
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: end quote to a reboot of the show. Here's hoping
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: it doesn't stink.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Ridley Scott is set to do a new Treasure Island thing.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: It's a new Treasure Island thing with you Jackman attached
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: to play long John Silver.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: They are like they're pitching this to like all the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: studios except for twentieth Century, who has said no, thank you,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: because they don't want to compete with pirates of the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: care of You.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which means that no Disney. I don't like the
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: idea of long John Silver being that darn handsome, but anyway,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Deadline reports that Jason Momoa will not be choosing his
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: load out in Justin Lynn's film adaptation of the Hell
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Divers video game series. The game is known for over
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: the top combat, a tongue in cheek sense of humor,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: and it's friendly fire settings, which often lead to unexpected hilarity.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: No word on why Momoa noped out.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Next, a bunch of other people are noping out, as
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: in the creative team behind the Doctor Who Christmas Special
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: that was supposed to be upcoming, which apparently was never
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: actually written and was just a stop gap like the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: old Roger Corman. Did I get the name right? Fantastic
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: four movie?
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Okay. Also, Russell T. Davies is stepping down. They want
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: to take some They want to get a new creative
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: team behind Doctor Who, which is also partly Russell T. Davies'
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: idea before bringing it back since it's changing networks. I
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: think we last said it was at MGM plus. I
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: haven't heard that it's changed, but they want to make
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: sure that they're bringing something fresh and new for old
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and new audiences to like together. Sadly, this means we
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: may not see Doctor Who until twenty twenty eight. Honestly,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: we had a this will be the first break for
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Doctor Who, like extended break for Doctor Who since two
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: thousand and five when it came back, But before that
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: we had a huge break in Doctor Who. May it
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: is time to give people a breather. As much as
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I like it, yeah, it's just.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: For less, it's just unfor well, you had two in
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: a row because there were two stories that kind of
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: went back to back. Yeah. I was just gonna say,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: it is unfortunate that they had like this big kind
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: of cliffhanger of apparently Rose coming back, I mean spoiler.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: I guess if you haven't've been watching Doctor Who, but
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Rose coming back? Uh, And then you know that's like
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: the cliff cliff you're left on. And then the whole
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: creative team that created that decision is essentially leaving, which
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: means I worry that we're going to run into another
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Star Wars sequel situation where you have one person set
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: things up a different person come in and like kind
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: of subvert and undercut everything that was set up in
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: the first film, and then the first person coming back,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: and then subverting and undercutting everything that was done in
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: the last one in order to get things back on track.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: I worry about a similar situation for The Good Doctor.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: But here we go. Yeah, all right, same well, last
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: one for me. Paramount has moved to acquire the film
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: rights to Matt Haig's novel The Midnight Library. The story
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: follows protagonist Nora Seed, who finds herself in a weird
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: library where she can explore alternate reality versions of herself.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Florence Hugh is set to star as Nora, and Garth
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Davis is set to direct.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: That's it for me as well.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Yay, that's all the thirty seconds or less is so so.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Some other stuff I want to mention before we go
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: further is that this lineup used to be probably a
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: about thirty percent longer than what we currently have because
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff, you know, a lot of news
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: broke between when we last recorded and today, but some
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: of it I felt was just less relevant, Like it
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: just wasn't geee enough even for our stuff that doesn't
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: fit section. Some of it fell a little stale, and
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: some of it I just Plaine didn't want to talk about,
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: so and since I determined what was going to go in,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: I made the executive decision to cut it. So there
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: may be things that you expect us to talk about
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: that we will not be touching on. But that doesn't mean,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: like I mean, if it's important to y'all, you can
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: always reach out. You'll hear how at the end of
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: the episode, and we will, you know, maybe circle back.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: But for now, we're going to get into the section
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: we like to call stuff that wasn't even supposed to
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: be here today.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: And the first one I feel like could have maybe
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: gone into our regular show notes. It is a trailer
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: for a movie called How To Rob a Bank. And
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I say this because it's coming from the same creative
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: team as The Fall Guy and Deadpool.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's comedy heist action movie, and it follows a
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: group of bank robbers who document their heists and post
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: those to social media, so they get a big social
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: media following. And I get the sense that it kind
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: of has like an anti capitalist message sort of underlying it,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and it has some Gegey like actors who have been
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: known for their performances in geeky properties, right, Like, you
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: got Nicholas Holton.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: There, who's currently in Atlanta.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would. I'm just gonna go ahead and
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: say it. My fake boyfriend Nicholas Holts in it. Zoe Kravitz,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: John c Riley is in it as like a police officer,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: I think, or a FBI something like that. Christian Slater's
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: in it, Pete Davison's in it. What did you think
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: of the trailer?
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I loved it and I want to watch it. I
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: didn't think I would when I saw the name pop
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: up in like the thumbnail in my YouTube, But this
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: looks great. It's like, so Nicholas Holt way back in
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the day. The first thing that I knew him from
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: was Warm Bodies, which is a zombie retelling of Romeo
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and Juliet. And this feels like a modern zombie retelling
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: of Romeo and Juliet. And this feels like a modern
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: retelling of Robin Hood And I am all for it.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: What about you?
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I really enjoyed it too. I had low expect
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be a little too
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: edge lordy, but I honestly don't think it is, it
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: didn't come across that way. It made me think a
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: little bit of movies like Baby Driver, in that you
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: get the sense that not everyone in the gang is
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: necessarily on the same page, Like there might be some
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: edge cases that are like the dangerous types who are
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: necessary in order to pull off the heists, but they
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: could end up being troubled down the road. Like you
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: get that sort of feeling, and I think about things
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: like Baby Driver, where that was very much part of
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: the story. Yeah, I thought this trailer looked great. They've
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: got some powerhouse actors in this. It comes out September fourth.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: I think this is one that I will try and
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: catch in the theater.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Me too, Me too. I'm not so sure about the
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: next item on our stuff that doesn't fit.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: I want to I want to like it so bad.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I like the idea. I've had ideas for
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: similar kinds of stories. It's a movie called Above the Line,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: and it's basically, I think five actors are put into
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: a mansion for an escape room to rescue a producer's
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: like awards, and these actors are picked because they've all
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: been so Above the line means that you're like a
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: name worthy of noting in a production like a television
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: or movie.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, Usually it also means it usually also
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: means that you've been able to negotiate your compensation before
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: production even starts, whereas anyone who's below the line, like
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: that all happens after the production has been initiated and
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: you're not like you're not billed at the top, Like
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: you're not going to see that person's name on the poster.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And below the line is generally like when
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: you're at the movie theater, if you stay for the credits.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I usually do, especially for things that are done in Atlanta,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: because I like seeing my friend's names pop up. Occasionally
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: it's something I know that you know someone's been on
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: or that's filmed d Atlanta. I'll definitely stay for the credits,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: not just for post credit scenes, but below the line
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: is usually when the credits start moving faster too, because yeah,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: they're just trying to get through. So it's a bunch
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: of jaded actors who maybe haven't had the best luck
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: or have been mistreated put in this situation.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's actually not just actors. I think
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to be like a director and like they're
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: supposed but all people who you would associate with being
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: above the line on a film production. And the I
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: think the idea is that whom they're being contacted by
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: a mysterious stranger who wants them to steal this producer's awards,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: and the producer is someone who has like screwed over everybody.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Like it's kind of like Clue, where everyone's got a
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: motive for doing the thing that they're doing. So there's
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of I think they're supposed to be suspicion
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: that maybe one of the participants is actually the one
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: responsible for getting this group together to do this thing.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like the idea I think is really interesting
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: and could be, like, if handled properly, a really entertaining
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: dark comedy heist movie, but it comes across a little
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: too Like the quality looks fine from a technical perspective,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: but it looks a bit amateurish to me. Yeah, which
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: that's not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe this is like
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: someone's first effort in creating a movie, and maybe they
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: learned a lot and maybe their next one will be better,
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: But it does look like this one is well, you know,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: if you were to watch it, I would imagine you'd
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: watch it streaming. It comes out on my birthday, June
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: twenty sixth. The last time we recorded June twenty six
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: came up a lot dates around then are going to
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: come up a lot on this one too.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it be someone's first time though,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: because they do have cedric the entertainer.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm talking more about the writer slash director like
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: that kind of like like on the production side, not
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: on the not not before the camera part.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: But yeah, well no, I'm just saying like generally, if
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: it's someone's first time, it's a little harder to get
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: those bigger name polls. I mean, if you're consider the entertainer.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, if you're able to get the
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: budget and the person's willing to work for a paycheck,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: that's a possibility. But yeah, I don't know. It just
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: it didn't come across to me as a like really
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: well put together, slick kind of production, right Yeah. Or
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: maybe of course that could also be the fold of
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: the trailer house that cut the trailer together. That might
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: be the issue, but it might be. Next up, We've
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: got Apple TV mini series that's based off a novel
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: by Marissa Stapley called Lucky and it stars one of
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: my fake girlfriends.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sidney Sweeney, No, I'm kidding.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: No, she's not one of my fairite girlfriends, Cidy Sweeney.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not calling you back, not that she's ever called me,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: but if she did, I wouldn't call her back.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I was kidding. Yeah, it stars on you, Taylor Joy.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: I'll call her back.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we all know, nice zing singing. Uh, I need
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: to be careful throw my back out again anyhow, Yeah,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: she's it feels like. It feels mostly like a generic
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: spied movie like Atomic Blonde or Red Sparrow or Ballerina
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: to me, exception of the fact that she has to
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: deal with I guess her mother in law.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, so let me tell you what the plot is
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: because obviously the trailer I don't think gives you a
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: very good Yeah, this is what I get from you.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: That's fine because I'm aware of the novel. So because
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: the novel exists, I know what the story is. So
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: she learns from her father how to be kind of
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: a con artist. Her father is played by Timothy Oliphant,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: and so he's like a con man. He's taught his
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: daughter how to con people. She ends up hooking up
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: with a guy who is also a criminal. She buys
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: a lottery ticket and she just happens to win. However,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: because she's a con artist and she has warrants out
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: for her, there's no way for her to claim the
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: prize without getting arrested because she would immediately be identified
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: and caught. So meanwhile, there are all these different parties
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: that are very interested in talking to her, let's say
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: that she's trying to evade. So it's kind of got
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: like that high sort of energy to it as well,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: and it's a lot about her reckoning with her past
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: and learning more about the people that kind of shaped
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: her into who she is, including her boyfriend who apparently
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: has done some really bad things, which is part of
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: the reason why she can't just cash in the lottery
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: ticket because she's associated with them. This mini series debuts
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: on Apple TV Plus on July fifteenth. And I agree
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: with you that it looks very similar to the things
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: you mentioned. I mean, I don't think that she's supposed
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: to be like action movie you know, upper Tier can
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: do everything kind of character, but it's definitely like our
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: protagonist is a heroine who has a shady past and
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: tries to use the things that she's learned in order
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: to escape capture while also trying to figure out how
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: she can possibly catch in this life changing amount of
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: money that she potentially has access to.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, I maybe I'll watch it.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll at least give the first First of all,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Timothy Oliphant and Anya Taylor Joy, I love their performances
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: and stuff, so I'll probably give the first episode a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: go just to see if it clicks with me. But
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: I feel like you like, I feel like this looks
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: like it's well made. It looks like they've got some
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: great actors in it. I don't know that the story
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: will catch me, but I'm willing to let the first
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: episode give a shot.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I like that genre, but yeah, the story
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: will have to catch me. Like I didn't stick with Alias.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Either, So yeah, yeah, no, it's a valid Next up,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Ariel can tell us all about the next season of
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: The Bear because it's the show I've never watched.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I can tell you about the next season, but I
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: can't tell you about the latest season because I haven't
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: watched it yet.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: How far into The Bear have you watched? The first
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: three seasons.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I watched the first three seasons and I think like
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: episode one or maybe episodes one and two of the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: fourth season, and then then we dropped Disney for a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: while because we're trying to We used to have like
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: all the streaming networks, but we weren't watching most of them.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: So now we're bouncing around based on what we're watching. Right,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: So we don't currently have Hulu and Disney, but as
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: soon as we do, I am finishing the Bear and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: I'm finishing Welcome to Wrexham, or at least catching up.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: So season five, though, is apparently going like the Rush
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: every season. The restaurant is facing being closed, but apparently
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: they're serving their last meal because and viewing it as
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: a there's no risk only reward situation, right because if
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: it doesn't go well, it's their last meal anyhow, and
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: if it does go well, great.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the idea is that the building's owner
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: is selling the building and so they won't have a
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: they won't have a space any more.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and from the beginning, the person who helped
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: because from the beginning, the whole show starts in season
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: one with this little Chicago. I'm give me one second
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: discord will not shut up. And I know you can't
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: hear it, but I can hear it in my ear,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: and people need to stop talking to me. Okay, so
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to everybody else and Jonathan. So season one
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: starts with the owner of like a Chicago Beef Italian
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: beef place dies and leaves it to his younger brother
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: who has gone to school to be like a Michelin
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: star chef. But it's hemorrhaging money and because of that,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: they have to get funding from basically the uncle or
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: the surrogate uncle of the main character, but the restaurant
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: throughout the seasons continues to hemorrhage money They've got. It's
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: a dysfunctional family. They have to learn how to work
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: together and listen together, and everybody has trauma that they're
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: working through. And so it's not a news story. So
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of people thought season three was a rehash
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: of season two, and I've heard that season four is
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: not that. So even though it's similar themes that they
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: keep dealing with, it's news storytellings or new goood points.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to finishing season four. Season five
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: looks great. I do still love the Bear and I
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: do still want to watch it?
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it comes to Hulu and FX on June
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: twenty fifth, so the day before you know, Jonathan Birthday Eve.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Happy Birthday Eve for something you do not care about. Yeah,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I think it would give you anxiety. You cannot watch
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: this show.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: I've only seen excerpts, and I think that that's the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: best I can manage. I agree with you. I think
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I would have anxiety watching it. We also didn't mention
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: in case you aren't familiar. So the younger brother who's
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: brought in to manage this Italian beef type sandwich shop,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: decides to kind of turn it into a fine dining establishment. Yeah.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: So it's a complete transformation of the identity of the restaurant.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it gives me anxiety, but I like so I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: can't binge an entire season in one day, though I
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: can watch Shuffle episodes because there is humor in it.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: It's great storytelling. There's really good Everybody is so very
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: good in it. But it does get hard at times.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: But the way that it makes me anxious is really
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: cool because I imagine that's what it would feel like to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: work in a restaurant. Like it gives me that same
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: kind but like I understand, like if you're already a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: stressed person or you tend toward that, it may not
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: be the healthiest thing.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: Agreed, Well, then let's move on to something else that's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: not healthy.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: That also has Jeremy Allen White in it.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something that I feel very strongly is
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: not healthy, which is all about social media and social networks.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: This is The Social Reckoning, which is a long awaited
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: sequel to the Social Network the Aaron Sorkin film. The
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: first one was directed by David Fincher. This one is
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: actually directed by Aaron Sorkin himself, and it tells the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: story of Facebook whistleblower Francis Hogan as she comes forward
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: with really damning evidence about how Facebook has known about
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: and even implemented various technologies that were shown to be dangerous,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: harmful and invasive. And so you may remember a few
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: years ago, like Facebook was really going through it, like
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: it was being pulled. Zuckerberg was being called before Congress
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: to answer about the allegations that the company had been
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: implementing these technologies that were particularly harmful toward kids, but
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: not just kids, but that was the big focus, and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: that was around the same time that Facebook, the company
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: changed its name to Meta, presumably because they were going
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: to focus on the metaverse, but a lot of people
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: were more cynically suggesting, and I'm one of those people
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: cynically suggesting that was in large part to distance itself
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: from the name Facebook, because the Facebook name was really
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: starting to get some heavy duty baggage due to these
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: incredibly disturbing allegations, which which were backed up by mountains
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: of evidence. I might add, So the movie, the movie
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: is telling that story about the whistleblower coming forward and
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: the consequences that followed as a result of that.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's It's interesting because I do like a lot
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: of Alan Sorkin's Aaron but yes, sorry, Aaron Serkin. I
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: do like a lot of his shows, which are all
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: political commentary right mostly Yeah, yeah, like West Wing in
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: the Newsroom. Both are very good. I've heard wonderful things
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: about his To Kill a Mockingbird before the pandemic happened.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: I was planning on seeing it when I went to
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: go see Beetle Juice, which just didn't happen. I'd never
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: watched the Social Network, I know that what's his face?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Who played Jesse Eisenberg? Didn't particularly like having played Mark
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg after the Fat Yeah.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: And he's not He's not playing Zuckerberg in this one. Instead,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: it's Jeremy Strong who's playing Zuckerberg in this one.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: But I never watched The Social Network. I didn't realize
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: it was Aaron Sorkin. Ye, I didn't realize it was
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Carl Urban and.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's so Social Network. It kind of shows,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: you know, the the cutthroat strategy Zuckerberg used in order
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: to establish Facebook, and like, how like he really comes
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: across as associopath in that And it just looks like
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: this one is that times ten, right, Like the trailer
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: shows him practicing his speech before Congress, where he's talking
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: to like he's essentially got a crisis PR expert working
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: with them, who is like, you're coming across as likable
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: and unsympathetic as you possibly could. You might want to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: change things, and he's like, like, no, because I rule
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: the world now. Sad thing is like, it's hard to
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: argue against that, but you really, you really want to
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: see him get punched in the stupid face. And I
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: feel that way about the actual Mark Zuckerberg. And I'm
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: not afraid to say it.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that's how it's coming across the movie.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: That makes me feel a little bit more hopeful about it.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I do really love the cast in The Social Reckoning.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Beyond Jeremy Strong, we've also got Mikey Nudson, Madison, Jeremy
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: Allen White, Billy Magnuson, Beddy Gilpen. It's a really good cast.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, Musaku, who's amazing.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, this comes out October ninth, So yeah, it
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: looks like it'll be riveting. Whether or not not, I mean,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: it'll we'll have to wait for it to come out
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: for people to to weigh in on how accurate it is.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: But like I was following that story closely. I was
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: covering tech news at the time when it was happening,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: and nothing that was revealed particularly surprised me. But it
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: did confirm a lot of beliefs I had about social
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: media in general, but specifically Facebook and Instagram. And I
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: don't think things have gotten better since then, if I'm
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: being completely honest. But that's coming from a grouchy old
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: man who no longer is on social media.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: So since you followed that story so closely, do you
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: think you'll watch the movie I might.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it'll like I'll need to be in
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: the right headspace to do it, because it feels kind
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: of like the sort of thing that would trigger PTSD
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: in a way, because I do feel that a lot
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: of more. I think Facebook has created more negative outcomes
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: than positive ones. Like for me, the positive one was
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: that that's how I stayed in touch with my friends.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Ariel can tell you I do not do that anymore. Like,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: there are two friends I have that I'm in regular
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: contact with. One of them is Aeriel, the other one
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: is friend of the show Shayley. That's it. Like, but
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: that's the only positive I could say is that it
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: helped me stay in touch with my friends. But like,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: the negative aspects are too numerous to even go into whether,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, even if you're just looking at things like
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: from a user experience, like the fact that scrolling through
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: your Facebook feed means that you're seeing one post from
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: an actual friend for every forty things you're actually scrolling past.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: That's not great.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, on the phone app, you can select just friends
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: and you will just get friends posts, but they make
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: it difficult on the like on the web browser version,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: which ye, I'm so frustrated at people being like have
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: the app on your phone because no, I want to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: be able to go to you in my time. I
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: don't want you to constantly bombard me.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: You also don't want to. You also don't want to
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: like not notice in terms of service that it's tracking
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: your physical location and using that to try and get
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: even more information about you so that it can target
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: you even more accurately when it comes to things like
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: stuff that the algorithm thinks is going to get you engaged. Right,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: and we also know that the easiest way to engage
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: people isn't by showing something heartwarming or uplifting. It's showing
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: something that makes them angry. The algorithm doesn't care how
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: you feel about the thing you see. It cares if
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: you engage with it. And if making you angry is
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: what keeps you engaged, that's what the algorithm is going to. Like,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: I just see it as psychologically harmful, which is one
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: of the many reasons I bailed on it. That and
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: just the moral objections I had to the company itself.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: So moral of the story. If you use social media,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: set timers so you aren't constantly doom scrolling and always, always, always,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: always fact check the things you're seeing good bad in between.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't. I don't. I don't judge anyone who does
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: use social media, honestly, I judge the companies and I
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: and I know that for myself it was unhealthy, which
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: is why I got off. But I think everyone has
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: to come to that conclusion on their own.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of friends who are even like,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: uh de scaling down to dumb phones because all this
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: stuff really makes you pine for a simpler time, a
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: time before technology.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a time when you could just rely upon
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: your hard work and efforts in order to survive on
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: say a frontier, maybe not like in a heavily wooded area.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe more of like a meadow or what's the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: other word, not a field? Like they have dogs about
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: the prairie.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: That's it, Like a prairie dog. Do you want to
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: live on a prairie dog?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: Listen?
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Given half a chance, well, listen, as long as there's
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: also dysentery. So it's not all it cracked up to be.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: We're not. Yeah, we're we're not talking about Oregon Trail
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: the movie where we are instead talking about a reboot
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: series of Little House on the Prairie based off the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: novel series by the same name. Yeah, not by the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: same name, of the same name.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: I you know, and like to be fair, I don't
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: want to actually go back to that simpler time. There
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: are a bunch of problems there, and a lot of
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: it had to deal with the way people were treated.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: But I used to like the show way back in
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: the day, and the reboot gives me those very nostalgic feelings.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was aware of the show, because obviously I
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: was a kid when that show was still on the air.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: I was aware of the show, but I never really
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: watched it. It was more like, you know how you're
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: culturally aware of stuff just because it gets popular, but
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: it's not because you have had personal experience with it.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: That's my experience with Little House in the Prairie. So
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: I saw this trailer and I was like, I have
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: no memory of the original series. I'm sure I've seen episodes,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: but I don't really remember it. But it looked like
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: this was at least a well made version. I have
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: to admit, though. I looked at the list of actors,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure there are people whose work I have seen,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: but I didn't recognize any of the names.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: You know what, I prefer unknown actors being used a
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: lot of the times. Give actors a chance Hollywood me,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: because yeah, it's good to get some new people. I
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: know that Little House in the Prairie does have some issues.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: The original story did not treat people of color or
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: indigenous people well, right, I am hoping that this version
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: of it does better.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: I mean it's also dependent on how it's like, is
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: it a apting the original stories that were in the books? Right?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: Like if in the book that's there, then you have
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: to make the question of Okay, do we include that
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: because it's in the source material, but try and treat
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: it in a twenty first century lens where we can
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: indicate that this is part of the story. It doesn't
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: mean we're in favor of this thing that's happening. Like,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: there are ways of doing it. It's delicate. I don't
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: know if this show is doing that or not. It's
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: coming to Netflix and it launches on July ninth. Interestingly,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Netflix has already greenlit season two, so the show's not
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: even out yet, but season two has already been green lit.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: I think so. The original show ended the year after
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: I was born, but I do think that it tried
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: to fix a lot of the issues of Engle's original writings,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: which were harmful and even like there were like I
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: think the National Library tried to striper of a Children's
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: Author award because of it. There's a lot of harmful
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: stuff in her books. But I think the TV show
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: tried to fix it. I would hope this TV show
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: would try to fix it more closer to like a
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: doctor Quinn medicine woman kind of a thing, you know,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: because you can show a family that tries to do
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: better than the people around them. For sure, I don't know.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: I do know that it's gotten a lot of like
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: a plum for the types of fabrics they're using in
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: the dresses, because a lot of like shows and televisions
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: from that time period put people in very like basic
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: clothings and like single colors, and there was a lot
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: of like paisley and cool patterns used back in the time.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: So I know a lot of costumers are very excited
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It's like like whenever you hear about people
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: watching anything that has to do with Nordic people, and
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: it's like all the really plain tunics and like no
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: they use like really colorful trim and they use lots
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: of dyes in their fabrics, and so yeah, seeing something
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: like that where it might counteract your instinctual belief of
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: what people look like back then, but it's actually more
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: historically accurate, I think that's cool. Yeah, this is this
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: is this is something I will not be watching. It's
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: just not my bag, but I wanted to reviews. Yeah,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: it's one of those where it's like it's such a
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: recognizable title, I'm like, well, we have to include it. Plus,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: I was like, there's a good chance that Ariel was
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: a little House on the Prairie kid, like I think
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Beca watched it. I might be mixing that up because
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: I know she watched things like Anne of green Gables
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: so well.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing is, like I was watching this
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: trailer and I was like, this is giving me the
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: same sort of like feeling I got when I watched
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Anne of green Gables. And I really liked the new
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: version and with an e which did deal with the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: issues of the time, but in a in a good
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: way that Netflix came out with. So yeah, I listen.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: I loved Punky Brewster, I liked Pippy Longstocking. I love
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Dan of Green Gables and I love I Love my Mom.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: But I was really drawn to these orphans stories.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Harry did sneak in there.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: I was a big fan of Oliver, so that's a
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: bunch of orphans in that one. All right, Well, next
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: up we have a trailer for Life Larry and the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: Pursuit of Unhappiness. So this is a comedy sketch series,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: and sketches the wrong word because apparently the scenes they
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: had they had like a structure that they had planned out,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: but the actual dialogue is heavily improvised, so it's not
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: like it was fully scripted. It was only lightly scripted,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: and there was lots of room for improv but like
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: for yeah, it's a it's a Larry David project where
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: it spoofs various US historical moments and eras and historical figures.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: And what did you think of this trailer?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: I think it looks great. I have been excited about
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: this since HBO dropped there. It's not the upfronts, but
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: since they dropped like they're coming this year kind of trailer,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: it's it is Obviously I haven't watched it, but the
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: feeling I got from it was that this is what
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: I wanted History of the World Part two to be. MM.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: The sort of remind right, it sort of reminds me
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: of of drunk history, but but even sillier than that,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: because drunk history it's people who got intoxicated and tried
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: to relate historical stories. This is more making fun of
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: or making funny situations in the context of different historical
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: eras in the in the US. So there's also an
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: incredible cast like Bill Hayter, Catherine Hahn, Jon Hamm, Sean Hayes,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Parnell, Jane Grakowski, Vince Vaughan, Lynn Manuel Miranda,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: Alan Tudic and a little known actor named Barack Obama
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: are all in it.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: That is so cool. I love that Obama's in it.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: I've never really watched a lot of Larry I wanted
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: to say, Larry.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: Bird, that's a basketball player, Larry David.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Larry Larry Davis's stuff, but until very recently, he's so funny.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm very much looking forward, Yes, and obviously like he
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: was behind, you know, not just curby your enthusiasm, but
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: the but Seinfeld, Yeah, I've only seen clips like it's
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: another one of those shows where I feel like I'd
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: cringe too much watching it, you know, because it's all
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: about like a kurmudgeon and just trying to make it
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: a way through and all everybody being weird around this guy.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: But anyway, this comes out on HBO on my birthday
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: on June twenty sixth, so I'll I'll probably watch this.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: I might watch this on that fourth of July weekend
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: because it looks like the kind of thing that would
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: be sort of fun to watch as sort of a
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: silly version of celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: of our nation.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: For sure. For sure.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: Well that means it's time for us to go to
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: your favorite place, my favorite place. It's just down the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: hallway and down this disused set of stairs with the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: one bare light bulb hanging and flickering down at the
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: base of it. And just be careful because I'm sorry, Ariel.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: There's just so many spiderwebs all the way down.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: I was about to don't worry. I'll just bring Emma.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: She loves the forbidden cotton candy. Yeah, if there's just webs,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: she'll eat them.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: There's also like lots of cave crickets down here.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Nope, yeah, nope, nope.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Not a big fan of them. I mean that we're
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: just that's where we live, Like we've got a basement here.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's you're just gonna get lots of cave crickets.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: But at the end of all this, right over here
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: we have my John Boy's horror Hutch.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: I just picked up a picture of a cave cricket
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: and it had a predator face. And that's the most
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: terrifying thing I ever see.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know. You didn't know what they looked like.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: Those suckers are hideous. Fun fact, fun little side story.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: When I was in high school senior year, I think
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: we had to have we had to do like an
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: insect collection where you had to collect, preserve, and then
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: pin insects and label them, and you know, you had
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: to have a certain number of them. And because there
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: were lots of cave crickets in the crawl space under
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: my house, and because my fellow students learned about that,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: I was tasked with gathering enough for pretty much everyone
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: in the classroom. So I ended up being under my
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: house for a good half hour getting covered in cave crickets.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: As they crawl and jumped all over me while I
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: was just trying to collect them in a jar. And
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: that stays with me to this very day. Anyway, here's
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: the horror Hutch. I told Ariel not to watch two
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: of the three trailers. Did you watch any of these?
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: The only one I watched because I ran out of time.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: I've been running a bit slow. This week is Whale
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Fall because I had to know. I had to know
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: if it was going to be like a Jonah in
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: the whale situation or how they were going to portray it,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: and they didn't tell me, and so I just traumatized
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: myself nothing.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, you know what, I'll start with that
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: one instead of the one that no, No, it's fine,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: Like you told me which one you watched. It's so
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: funny because I told you not to watch it because
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: it was animals involved. But it's a whale. So I thought, well,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: maybe this one will.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is. It doesn't show the trailer,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't show the animal horribleness as much.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know that's coming.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't have to see it. I will
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: not watch anything else from.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: It, but go ahead, Okay, So this is one of
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: the most intense trailers I've seen in a long time,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: and it affected me like it was one of those
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: where I was like, I don't know if I can
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: watch this movie, partly because I genuinely love the ocean
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: and I love swimming in the ocean. I love going
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: out on the ocean. But every time I do go
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: out in the ocean, even as I'm enjoying it, I'm
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: thinking there's stuff I can't see all around me, much
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: too much Jaws. Not just Jaws though, Like I mean,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: you know, people get bit and stung by stuff all
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: the time in the ocean, so I'm aware of that
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: when I go out there, but I still love the ocean.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: Watching this was like, do I need another thing to
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: convince me that I should not love the ocean. This
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: is based off a novel. The story of the novel
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: is you have this young man named Jay Gardner who
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: is a scuba diver. He's also the son of a
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: renowned scuba diver, and he had a troubled relationship with
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: his father. His father, due to various things, decides to
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: end his own life, and the way he does it
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: is he attaches weights to himself and he drowns himself
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: in the ocean. So the son wants to recover his
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: father's remains, partly to kind of find some sort of
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: closure because he holds himself at least partly responsible for
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: his father's decision to end his own life. So the
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: son is going out to search for his father's remains.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: While doing so, he encounters a sperm whale that is
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: in the process of catching and eating a giant squid.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: He gets caught up in the squid's tentacles and then,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: along with the squid, is pulled into the whale and swallowed,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: And then he has to find figure out how to
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: survive and escape the inside of this whale. And so
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: the trailer is essentially the sequence of him being eaten
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: by the whale swallowed by the whale, and it is
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: for me anyway. Maybe not for everybody, but for me
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: it was insanely effective and terrifying.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So I think one the squid is more
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: to blame than the whale. So I'd be afraid of
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: a squid before a where.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, the sperm whale would not purposefully eat you.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And squids are scary anyhow, Like octopus, they're
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: smart you can probably communicate with one, but a squid
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: they're just mean.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: But it was honestly, it was less than getting swallowed
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: part because I expected that. It was after he dove
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: into the water, when he is on the base and
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: you see the whale come up and you hear the
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: clicking and it's so dark that moment, that moment is
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: what terrified me. I turned off the trailer and I
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: had to wait to watch the rest.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: Of it later. Yeah. No, I mean the idea of
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: something huge that you can't see but that is clearly
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: not far away. That is terrifying. Right, whether it's a
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: whether it is underwater or not, it's scary underwater. I
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: would argue it gets scarier because you are in an
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: environment where you cannot survive if somehow you are you know,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: cut off from your oxygen.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: So there there is there is the like the comforting
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: facts that most of the places that you or I diver,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: swim or snorkel, right, that wouldn't be the situation. Like
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: the places that I have gone generally don't see giant squid,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: Like I'm not diving that deep or in those areas. Yeah,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've been around sharks and eels and things
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: like that, and it's possible to have squids. Like I
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: went snorkeling. I went snorkeling and free free diving in Fiji,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: not very deep. I'm not a free diver, but I
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: did a little bit of diving without a tank there.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: So there is dangerous sea life there. None of it
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: wanted to mess with me at all. It was just
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: like whatever, right, I'm not its food source. It didn't
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: care about me. I'm leaving it alone. And then also, like,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: there are not reports of people being eaten by sperm whales.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: That's the only whale that could swallow a human. The
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: other whales all their throats are too small. So like
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: there have been viral stories of people getting swallowed by
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: like maybe a humpback, I don't know what it is,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: and then being like accidentally gulped and then spit out.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because yeah, there should.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: Still be terrifying, but not as Yeah.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: I mean you could definitely get like really badly injured,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: but you wouldn't be swallowed. Yeah. The film comes out
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: October sixteenth, So if you are interested, first of all,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: watch that trailer because y'all, I mean, it is so
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: well done. It's scary. Yeah, Like I was like, most
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: most horror movie trailer don't affect me that way, like
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: I might get like creeped out or even a little
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: tense or something, but this one it was deeper than
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: that for me. I have swam with a squid before,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: not giant squid, but I was in a whole school
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: of squid once and it was really pretty. They were
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: all they were all kind of a rainbow ish. Yeah,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: that was really pretty. That was where was that? It
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: was in the Caribbean or the Caribbean.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: If you prefer like little squid, they don't care about you.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: They're going to leave your bigger They're going.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: To leave you alone. Yeah. I was just I was.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: I just happened to It was one of those things
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: where I was looking down, so I wasn't looking forward.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: I was looking down and I was in an area
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: where the seafloor was probably fifteen twenty feet down, but
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: it was perfectly clear water, so I could actually see
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: and I was looking at fish down there. And then
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: I started to look more forward because I was like,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: I need to orient myself. I need to figure out
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: where I am in relation to the boat that we
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: came in on. And as I look forward, I realized,
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I'm like right at the tail end
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: of a whole school of squid. Now, these were like
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: the bodies of the squid were maybe three inches long,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: so much longer once you figure in the tentacles, but
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: like they were small, tiny squid. But yeah, this definitely
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: looks intense. I don't know that I could watch the movie.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: I don't, especially since I did read what happens in
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: the novel, so I know what I mean, assuming that
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: it stays true to the adaptation. I know what happens,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if I can watch that. But
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: it's incredibly well done. So let's talk about the other
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: two movies that are in the horror hutch so we
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: can get out of here. Es Cave Crickets are really itchy.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: So we've got ice Cream Man. We talked about this
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: in the past. This is Eli Roth's next horror movie.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: We got a red band trailer for it, and it's
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: the premise is that there's this mysterious and malevolent ice
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: cream truck dude who shows up and serves kids ice
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: cream that turns the kids into these like savage psychotic killers.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: So the trailer has a little bit of weapons energy
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: in it, Like I don't want to spoil it, but
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: there are parts and weapons that you if you watch
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: this trailer like, oh, this is kind of like Weapons,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: except way more gory and mean spirited than Weapons was.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: It comes out on August seventh. It looks trashy, but
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: in a way that I kind of vibe with. I don't.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: I don't frequently find myself entertained or wanting to watch
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of Eli Roth's horror stuff. His sensibilities are
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: just different from my horror sensibilities, but something in this
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: trailer makes me kind of want to see it. The
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: problem is, I don't know anyone who will go watch
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: this with me because friend of the show, Shaylee, one
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: of her big things is like she does not like
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: movies with child endangerment, and there's definitely that in this movie.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: So it may just be me going by myself.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: There was there's a there's an indie horror filmhouse that
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: I have production team that I've worked with on a
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: on a short dark comedy before. They made something that
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: got filmed at the Horror Festival over at the Strand
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and Marietta, Like the Indie Horror Film Festival that won
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: some awards. It was about an ice cream truck run
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: by monsters. It was much more palatable. It was really good.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: I quite enjoyed it, like it was fun and campy
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: and the acting was great. I loved it. I wasn't
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: in it, but I got to hear about it beforehand
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: because they were looking for ice cream trucking kids. But
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: that would be more Shay's uh speed.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah this one. This one also has an aerial ick
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: like aerial no no on it in that there's an
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: ice cream scoop taken to someone's brain. So yeah, nope, nope, Yeah.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: I figure like that's not not for either of you.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: So if I watch it, it'll be by myself and
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: then we have time of death. This was actually the
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: one that I figured you would have watched, because it
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: was the only one I said, you know, I didn't
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: have the thing of you might skip it.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: I meant to, I ran out of time, so because
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: I guess I wasn't going to be specific. But then
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: later earlier in this episode, I threw out my back.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: I threw out my back, which means like I'm mostly
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: better but going places, I'm still going slow because I'm
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: like at seventy five eighty percent better, so if I
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: move too quick, it will hurt, and I don't want
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: to throw it out again, so I'm being extra cautious,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: which means that everything takes longer, including recording this episode.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: So I just ran out of time.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and you've still got like, you know, work
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: and stuff that you have to do, so it's not
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: like you know, you do too well. Yeah, but like
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: I meant that, you know, you also had time off
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: because you were dealing with the medical situation, and then
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: you have to make up for that time, so like,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: and you're moving slower, so it just it becomes a
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: domino effect. So it's totally understandable. But this one feels
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: more like it could be under crime thriller than horror.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: But I put it in here because in the trailer
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: there are elements that imply supernatural horror. But my guess
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: is that there isn't any actual supernatural horror in this
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: It's just that's used as a as a way of
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: like either like it's like someone's imagination or it's like
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: a nightmare sequence or something, but that the actual thrills
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: and horror come from more grounded sources, is my guess.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: But it's the story about a detective who is investigating
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: the death of a probation officer, and the death happened
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: in this sort of decrepit prison. It's still active, but
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: it's like run down and not particularly good, and there's
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: like an unhelpful warden played by Kevin Pollack, who is
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: in charge. And there's clearly some sort of shady and
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: probably illegal stuff going on in the prison, but the
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: warden's being very you know, standoffish and not helpful at all,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: and like also affronted. Like that sounds like an accusation
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: kind of thing. But like apparently prisoners are disappearing, and
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: some bodies are showing up near the prison, not necessarily
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: in the prison grounds. There's a mystery about someone who
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: was the last person to be executed at this prison,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: but there's discrepancies in the actual records of this person.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of information to go on as to
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: what the actual narrative is a lot of vibey kind
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: of stuff, but like I said, there's elements of it
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: where it makes it look like there might be a
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: supernatural component, but I don't believe that that's actually the case,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: that's my guess, but I could be wrong about it. Actually,
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: this film is out today as we record this, which
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: is June twelfth, in select theaters, and it's also available
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: video on demand. I don't think it's a bad necessarily
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: a bad idea. It doesn't look like it's badly made,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: and it's got some people in it that I like.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: Kevin Pollack, I think is a good actor. But I
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: don't know that it's enough to make me want to
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: watch it.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: It does sound interesting, for sure.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: You could totally watch it, like this is something that's
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: totally within your wheelhouse.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Yeah, it sounds like something that I would
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: find interesting. I've just got it is interesting because like
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: on a day to day basis, I'm like, oh, I
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: don't know what to watch. All the things I want
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: to watch either out today or I've finished, But in
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, I've got so much to
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: watch that I feel like.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: This might be one that yeah, it just gets lost. Yeah, No,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: I mean that's fair. Like there's I feel the same way.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: Like I'll like today, for example, after work is done
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: and everything, I'll probably think, oh I should watch something.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm all by myself, I might as well
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: watch some horror or something, but I'll I'll get that
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: like Frozen by Choice kind of thing right where I'm like, oh,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: there's like there's all these things I've been thinking about watching.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: I could actually do it now, and then I just
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: never end up and I'm like, Okay, well, let's watch
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: a smash games thing. I've seen sex times.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: You could. You could watch for the two seasons of
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: four seasons. It's a quick watch, and.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: It's that's eight seasons. No, it's two seasons, four seasons,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: four eight seasons. I can't do. You know.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: It's based off an Alan aldamovie with Carol Burnett. I
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: did not yes, and Ellen Alda makes a guest appearance
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: in it. I want to go back to one more thing, Okay.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: Sure, please please. I was gonna have us get out
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: of the I was going to have us get out
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: of the cave cave cricket infested basement.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Before we do. I know you're itchy, but before we do,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: if you want to see deep sea stuff that is
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: not terrifying, this is geeky to me, and I love it,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: so I'm just going to share it. Nautilus the ev
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Nautilus crew every year in the summer does a bunch
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: of like seafloor mapping and exploring of seafloors in different
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: areas to map the they're trying to map the entire ocean.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: That's not entirely possible, but you know they're going to
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: go into the Marianas Trench this year. Lots of really
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: cool stuff. They they live stream it all. They've just started,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: so right now they're doing seafloor mapping and they have
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: multiple cameras. You can watch the ship moving on the water,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: you can watch the mapping, and then when they do
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: the dives, you can watch the dives from several different angles.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: At one point they did find a whale fall, not
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: the not the novel or the movie, but like a
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: giant whale carcass on the ocean floor that just became
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: like an octopus nursery. There are hundreds of octopus there
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: to safely have their children. And then they went back
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: like a year later to see how it had changed.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: It's not to me, it's not spooky, it's just super interesting.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: They find so many cool things. They find like dumbo
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: octopus and tiny little anglerfish that are adorable and it's
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: just really cool. So if you like deepca stuff and
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: you don't want to be or and you watch that
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: trailer and you need something not horrifying, check it out.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: They've just started. They're going to be going for a
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: couple of months. You can go to their website and
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: find their schedule. I love it. It is like the
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: most relaxing.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: Thing to me. I won't be satisfied until they come
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: across either nay More or Aquaman.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: They haven't done that, but they have found some incredibly
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: cool stuff. They have highlight videos too from past years.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen some of their videos. That is great.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get out of here because I need
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: to brush these crickets off me. I don't want them
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: in my house. So all right, okay, Well, we're now
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: into the lineup section of our episode, now that we're
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: almost like two hours in, but I.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Want to mention the shortest section.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: I want to mention that between when we had to
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: take a break and now, there have been multiple events
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: in the video game and computer game space, and there's
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: tons of stuff coming out, like like you know, a
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: new Persona game and a new Spiro game and all
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. We only have one video game
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: story in our lineup only because it also ties into
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: geeky properties and if you want to learn more about
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: the stuff that's been announced at those different like directs
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: and events and stuff, there are other shows and other
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: like venues that will give much more in depth information
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: than we could. If we were to do it, this
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: show would be like five hours long.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, as much as we probably have read it
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: and would like to talk about it. Yeah, we got
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: a cherry pick.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but what is the one thing? What's the one
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: thing we picked?
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: I picked it. It's a game trailer for Teenage Meetant
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles The Last Ronen, which to me, I haven't
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: read all of it, but The Ninja Turtles if you
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: didn't know had comic books, if you've missed our episodes
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: where we've talked about in the past, and The Last
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: Ronin has some of the best artwork I've ever seen.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's such a cool story. It gives
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: me very much like the original TMNT movie vibes do
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: it when I read it, and we're getting a trailer
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: for the video game and the tears teaser, it looks
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: so good, it looks so pretty.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: The teaser actually reminded me more of the tone of
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: the original comic books, which were less zany and less silly.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: They were a little more like it was more of
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: a spoof on Daredevil and street level superhero comic books.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't like cartoonish, right, It wasn't like the
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: same sort of stuff you would see in the TMNT
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: cartoon or the original run of the movies. And this
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: teaser gave me those kind of vibes of this is
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: a little grittier and darker than that other stuff. Now,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: whether that's what the game is going to turn out
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: to be, I don't know, but the art style and
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: the presentation made me think that.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: I it looks so good to me, I'm very interested
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: in this. I also like Teenage Mutant. Like I've liked
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: most of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle video games that
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: I've played. I've got the one up TMNT console in
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: my basement to like to the arcade game I and you,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: it's it's interesting you mentioned Daredevil. I don't know if
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: this is canon or not because I haven't looked it up,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: but I have heard that the same ooz that blinds
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: Daredevil is the one that transforms in Ninja Turtles, so
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: it makes sense that it's a similar style.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, that was that was done as a joke kind
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: of in the origin story for the original Teenage Mutant
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: Ninja Turtles. Like they never outright say that it's you
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: know that it's it's Matt Murdoch, but the implication is there,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: like it's heavily implied that it's that exact same accident
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: that gives Matt Murdoch his powers that also creates the Turtles.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so it's it's one that may have been
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: acknowledged or maybe even discarded in subsequent retellings of Teenage
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: Mutan Ninja Trolls. Like it's like any comic book, right,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: there's no single, like purely canon version of a character's origin.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: There are always variations, like we, yes, we know, we
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: know that Bruce Bruce's parents both got shot in Crime Alley,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: but there are so many different variations of how that
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: actually plays out. So same sort of thing with the Turtles,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: I'm sure, but we don't have information on when this
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: is going to come out, Like the teaser was really
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: more like a title reveal than anything else. But it
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: does look cool, Yes.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: Still in my childhood. We got a trailer for season
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: two of X Men ninety seven, which is, you know,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: not the show for my childhood, but definitely tugs on
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: those heartstrings on purpose.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you watch the first season?
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: I did. I liked it. They brought well, there's a
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: lot of jubilee and a lot of gambit, so of
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: course I liked it.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: But my two favorite characters, so so I have not
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: watched it, but I want to hear what your thoughts
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: are on this trailer.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: It looks good. It looks like more of the same.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: The the plot lines are. They are not shying away
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: from comic book level plot lines, which means a lot
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: of through lines and connections and a little bit of convolutedness.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: But it's characters are all split up in different eras
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: of time and it's an apocalypse storyline, right Yeah.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't, but I liked it. It was good.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: It was entertaining, It kept me interested. I was able
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: to follow it enough, even though there were certain times
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, Tony, my husband, who is that character?
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: Remind me how what a role they play in the
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: car books. Because he's read a lot more of the
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: X Men comic books than I have my my main
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: comic book, My main x ME knowledge is from like
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: the old cartoons and TV shows and movies.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: And things like that. So yeah, I want to say
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: I saw a Bishop and maybe even Deadpool and one point,
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 2: but mostly it was characters that I was more familiar with.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: Well they did. They did pull out characters that were
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: more obscure in the first season for sure, So it's
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: exciting that they're doing it again. It's a it's a
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: it's the first season had a lot to do with
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: like Jean Gray and the Phoenix and her evil self
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: and the birth of Cable and all that stuff.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I want to say that that this was
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: the show that the show runner famously kind of parted
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: ways with the show, Like there was like some bad
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: blood that happened after season one, like the person was
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: kind of running things, or at least one of the
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: main writers. It was like a pretty pretty public dust up.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: So this, I think is going to be a season
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: where it's going to be without that specific person. However,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: based on the trailer, I couldn't really I didn't notice
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: a difference in quality or anything.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks the same to me. It gave me
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: the exact same vibes. I either didn't catch the dust
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: up or I forgot about it.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was a whole thing. I think we
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: even covered it a little bit, but you know, there
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: was a long gap between seasons, so.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't remember it and I didn't notice it.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: So there it comes out July first on Disney Plus,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: and next up we have the reason why what's her
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: face as it is mckinna Grace, Why mckinna Grace is
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: in town, and why she was actually well, not why
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: she was at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, but she was
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, and I only found out
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: after the fact and was upset that I didn't get
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: a chance to haunt her as the town ghost.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: And you got to meet more famous people at the
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: Georgia Renaissance Festival during your one day than I did
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: during my two weekends.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: It is one person. I met one person who's a celebrity.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: Too, technically if you count Katieosaurus.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: But we got a teaser for Scooby Doo origins, and
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: that is why McKenna grace is in town. She is
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: shooting that. That's going to be in production until mid September.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: I think, yep, yeah, so those folks are still in town.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 2: You still have a chance of running into them if
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: you're here. Sarah Gilbert and Paul Walter Hauser are also
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: in this series. And yeah, this is an origin story
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 2: for the Mystery Gang and their encounter with Scooby Doo,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: and the teaser shows us Shaggy meeting puppy Scooby do.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: This is a lot of action series, I should add.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: So what was your thought about this teaser? I think
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: this is one of those that's kind of dividing people online,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: though I don't understand why.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: I think it looks cute. I knew about this project
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: before they started announcing the cast for reasons, and I'm
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: excited for it. Yes, I'm excited for it. I will
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: admit I'm I'm consistently looking for who they cast in
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: the role that I auditioned for. It would be cool
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: for Sarry Gilbert. I don't know. They haven't announced to
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: everybody that they've announced as cast who they are, but
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: I think, like the albeit, when you audition for a project,
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: and I don't normally talk about my auditions until the
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: project is released. Well released, and I'm not going to
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: give anything away. When you audition for a project, you
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: often don't get sides that are the actual script, right right. Yeah,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: they want to keep it under wraps or there are
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: changes that are if you do, there are changes that
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: are made afterwards. It depends on the project. What little
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: bit I got to read was really good. I like
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: the premise of the Scooby Gang getting together. I think
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: it's it's cool the directions they're taking with it from
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: what I was able to read. And I like the
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: idea of a puppy Scooby Doo that is not scrappy
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Doo so uh.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: And I thought the design of the puppy. I thought
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: the design of the puppy was cute.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think the casting choices for the Scooby
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: Gang are fantastic.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. I don't get where the negativity like, not
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: that I didn't look deeply into it, and it may
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: just be that it's your standard like reactionary folks online
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: who either they don't like anything or you know, they're
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: rage baiting or whatever, or maybe they just genuinely don't
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: like it. But I don't get why that would be
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: the case, because like I thought it looked absolutely fine.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: I also, I mean to be fair, I also don't
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: have a deep love of the property. Like I'm aware
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 2: of Scooby Doo. I watched some Scooby Doo. I never
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: watched the like two thousand movie. I never watched those.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: But you know, I just thought this was fine. It
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: comes to Netflix next year, and there will be eight
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: episodes in that first season, assuming that, you know, there's
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: possibility of it getting renewed. Who knows, maybe it'll be
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: renewed before it comes out, kind of like Little House
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: in the Prairie.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope that it's good. I'm of all the
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: Scooby Doo stuff that's been coming out, I think that
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: this is the most promising.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think again, looks cute to me. I'm curious
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: that the storyline is that the future Mystery Gang are
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: all attending a summer camp and then there's a murder
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: that appears to have a supernatural element connected to it,
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: and they decide to investigate to find out what happens,
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: and in the process they also meet this adorable puppy.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to watch it.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: I'm more excited for this than for Wednesday.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, same. Next up, we got a teaser for
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: the next Pixar film, Gatto Gatto, which is set in
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: the world of feline organized crime.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like a The art style is cool.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: It looks like a Pixar Disney movie.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they make I mean heavy use is putting it
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 2: too lightly Extensively. Throughout the entire teaser, they're playing the
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: theme from Godfather. It is the music from Godfather playing
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: in the background, so they're making no subtle implication about
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: this being like organized crime in the in the cat
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: World comes out March fifth, twenty. Yeah. It's weird because like,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: once upon a time Pixar was making movies that I
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: felt compelled I needed to see the next Pixar movie
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: because they were just so effective, Like they would they
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: would hit me hard emotionally. I would laugh, I would cry,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: I would connect with the characters. But it's been a
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: little while since I've had that experience now. To be fair,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen everything. I still haven't seen Hopper and
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: friend of the show Shay Lee swears that that movie
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: is amazing. I haven't seen it, but like it isn't
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: Avatar as the character says, it's totally not Avatar. It's
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: I saw the one before that though, Elio. I saw
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: that one, and I thought that one was fine, but
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: it didn't.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: It better than the one that was basically lost in space,
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: which one was that all of a sudden, I don't
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: remember the name of it.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if I still haven't seen The
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: Incredibles too, which is kind of wild because I really
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: love the first Incredibles movie.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: It was what was it? It was the one that
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't It happened like after the pandemic, and it wasn't
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: really promoted.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: Well, well you're not talking you're not talking about Strange Worlds, right,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: because that was not Pixar. That's Disney. That's not Pixar Disney. Okay, Yeah,
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: I did see that one, and it's okay. It's it
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: was okay. It was like, I don't think it deserved
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: to be buried the way it was, but I also
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 2: don't think of it. It didn't come across to me
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: like a classic, like it wasn't like in Kanto took
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: my breath away. Strange Worlds did not. But it did
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: deserve better than what it got anyway. Yeah, Gano looks
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: like it'll be, you know, fine. Maybe when we get
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: an actual trailer, I might feel differently about I remember
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: Elemental I kind of flipped on that one because I
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 2: thought the initial teaser was interesting, and then when I
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: saw the trailer, I was less interested. And I thought
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: that movie was fine too, Like I didn't think it
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: was bad, and I think it was great. Yeah. Something
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 2: I am more curious about is I am frank Elda.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: So I am unfamiliar with the series Frank Elda's Book
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 2: of Spooks. That is a series that I did not
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: know about. I hadn't heard about. This is out of
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 2: Mexico and it is a stop motion animated dark fantasy.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: But good golly, I love the art style of this thing.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the art style is beautiful. It feels like it
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: feels like a very interesting take on Doctor Frankenstein where
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: the monsters are being created from a book and not
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: from a lab.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I read up on the premise. So this movie
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: came out in Mexico like last year, but it hasn't
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: come out in the United States yet. Actually, it's coming
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: out today in select theaters and on Netflix, so by
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 2: the time you hear this, it is out. But The
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: story follows a character named Francisca Amelda, and it's set
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: in the eighteen hundreds, and she's an aspiring writer and
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: she likes to write horror stories, but she's discouraged by
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: the people in her life. She keeps at it secretly,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 2: and it turns out her horror stories, which are just
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 2: stories in our world, are true events in this alternate universe.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: And then one of the residents of that alternate universe
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: seeks her out to help him because there's his kingdom
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: is under threat, and so she's kind of like a
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: reality creator in this alternate universe. And like I said,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 2: this is a prequel to fran Kelda's Book of Spooks,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: where I think all this is already established, but this
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: is the story of how it happened. So because I
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: lack that context, I haven't seen this series. This just
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: looked very fantastical to me, but really interesting. Like and
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: I again, that art style is so nice.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see this. So is there already
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: another movie or is this the first movie?
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: And then so there's a series that is called frank
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 2: Kelda's Book of Spooks that already exists, but I haven't
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: seen it. I imagine it's probably also available on Netflix,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: since this is coming to Netflix, but I haven't checked.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: I hope so, I know that I suspect if it
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: picks up, which I hope it does, because again, great
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: character design and it looks like a fun story, that
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: there will be a lot of cosplay of the two
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: main characters at dragon Con.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I hope so, because like it's always nice
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: to see representations of characters from sources that you wouldn't
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: necessarily anticipate, because like, there are certain ones that you
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: know you're going to see, right, You're always going to
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 2: see Dead Bull. There's always going to be Dead Bull, right,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: But there are other ones that you know, and sometimes
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: it's like stuff that didn't take off but did come out.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: It would be cool to see those characters represented on
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: the floor at dragon Con for sure. Next up, we
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 2: have I Object, which I'm guessing is the title is
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 2: a sly spoof of Eye Robot.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I missed the I missed the apostrophe, and
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: so from the thumbnail I saw online of just Carl
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: Carl Urban screaming, I thought it was Eye Object, which
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: I guess is also on purpose.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, premise is there's a young boy who imagines,
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 2: or appears to imagine. Maybe it's true, but he appears
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: to imagine that the the inanimate around him are actually
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 2: alive and have sentience and personalities and such. His family
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 2: are somewhat like bemused slash concerned about him, but he
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 2: also encounters a young girl who appears to have the
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: same perception of the world around her. It is a
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 2: project that was written, produced and directed by Andrew Nicole,
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 2: which tells me, like, this is definitely a singular vision.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 2: So if you don't like this, there's one person you
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 2: could point to, because like he's the same one who
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: wrote it, directed it, and produced it. It's got Ethan Hawke,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: Carl Urban, Jermaine Clement, Anna Faris, and others on the cast.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: Kind of looks cute, also looks like it might have
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 2: been inspired by those memes of inanimate objects that appear
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: to have faces, Like you know, like a meter that
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 2: looks like a face, or I think of the two
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 2: cardboard boxes that look like they're really judgy that Barbara
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: Dunkleman of Rooster Teeth posted once and it went viral
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: without any attribution to her. Yeah, but this one comes
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 2: out July twenty third in New Zealand. I didn't see
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 2: anything about a broader release yet, but I imagine if
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 2: it does well there, it may end up seeing broader distribution.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 2: What did What did you actually think of it?
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: I think it looks cute. I mean, it looks like
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: a kid's story, which is fine. It's not necessarily the
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: thing that always gets me to the theater, but it
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: looks fun. I love that. I love the I don't
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: remember what it's called when you see human faces and
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: inanimate objects, but I love that trend. I love when
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: people do it.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like paradolia, I think, is what ye think?
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you?
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah? And I liked The Truman Show, which I know
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: Andrew Nicol had. Didn't he write the script or have
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: a hand in that.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe it could be. I'd have to look it up, because,
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 2: like I.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: Have, he was a writer in Truman Show. He was
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: a writer on Gatica, which I don't think I've watched Gyadika.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 2: Oh Gatika's Fan. I mean it's heavy, but it's great
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 2: science fiction.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: And then he also wrote on Goodkill and The Host,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: which I've not heard of or seen. So I like
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: the stuff that I've seen from him or I like
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: his storytelling, so yeah, yeah, I think it might be good.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: He also was the director of Lord of War with
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: Nick Cage.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: So wow, wow, that's that's the one about an arms dealer.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's Nick Cage is entertaining in it.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 2: He plays a total horrible human being, but he does
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: it well. All right, Well, moving on, we have a
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 2: trailer for a Nola Holmes three, so we get more
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 2: adventures of Sherlock's little sister and as just like her
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 2: older brothers, she is brilliant. Unlike her older brothers, she
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 2: also occasionally breaks the fourth wall, which is a weird
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 2: thing about that series. In this one, she is engaged
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 2: to be married, but her plans are somewhat complicated by
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: the tiny imposition of her brother Sherlock getting kidnapped.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, not a terribly surprising next chapter to the story,
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: but looks like it could be cute. Also a great
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: way to not have to pay Henry Cavill too much,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: because if he's kidnapped, then you.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: Might might not be on screen that often. Yeah. Have
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: you watched the other and Noola Holmes movies.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: I keep saying I'm going to and then whenever I'm
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: looking for something new to watch. I forget about it.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't watched them either. I think they look
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 2: they look like they could be charming. They also look
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 2: like they could irritate me. Breaking the Fourth Wall is
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 2: something like you've got to be really careful with how
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 2: you approach that so that it's so it is like
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: entertaining and you know, something you look forward to as
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: opposed to something that's just kind of like chafed at you.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if av Nola Holmes, if the
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 2: if the story as a whole hits the tone I
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 2: need for Breaking the Fourth Wall to be entertaining but
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 2: not frustrating.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for same, same, But I know a lot of
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: people who like it, so that's good. I don't have
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: I don't have much more to say about that again
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: because I keep forgetting to watch it.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Same. It comes out July first on Netflix, so
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 2: if you are interested, you should check out the trailer.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 2: Next up, we have a trailer for In the Hand
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 2: of Dante. This is a film featuring Oscar Isaac playing
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 2: two different characters. Gal Godott also playing two different characters,
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 2: so as Gerard Butler. John macviitch is only playing one.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 2: Martin Scorsese is playing one, al Pacino's playing one, Jason
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: Momoa is playing one. And more so, this is a story.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 2: It's kind of got two branches. One of them is
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: the story of Dante Alighiri, the poet and author of
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 2: the Divine Comedy, and the other is a journalist who
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 2: is kind of put on the trail of a handwritten
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 2: manuscript of the Divine Comedy. He's the journalist is Nick Toski's,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: who was an actual person. It comes out today as
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 2: we record this on June twelfth, comes to Netflix on
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 2: June twenty fourth. And it's also interesting because, like the
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 2: more modern day segments are shot in black and white,
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 2: whereas the Dante segments are shot in full color. You
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 2: would think that would maybe go the other way, but no,
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 2: going to say the.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: Exact same thing. Like, I think it's interesting that the
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: modern day is in black and white and Dante is
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: in color. I like that oscarisg place, I think both
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: Dante and the reporter. I'm also surprised with the cast
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: that it has that unless my brain is just being
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: a sieve right now, which is entirely possible, I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: really heard of this before now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently it played some of the festival circuit, but
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 2: I had not really heard about it until I saw
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 2: the trailer. I am sad to report that based upon
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 2: early reviews, like it's getting mixed to negative, like not
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 2: it's not getting panned, and not everybody hates it, but
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 2: the people who don't like it typically really don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: They say that it's just kind of messy and directionless,
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: like it's bloated, and that it kind of goes off
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 2: the rails halfway through. And that's unfortunate because I, being
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: in a medievalist I love the divine comedy and I thought, Wow,
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 2: what an interesting premise, But apparently it just goes kind
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 2: of of bananas.
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's sad to hear that their concept maybe
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: didn't have the best editing and directing, because it is
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: a really cool concept. But I can also one hundred
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: percent believe that maybe the outline of it is a
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: bit messy.
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Then we have a full trailer for the end
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 2: of Oak Street. Probably don't need to spend a lot
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: of time on this because we talked about the teaser previously.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: This is the film in which a suburban neighborhood appears
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 2: to just be ripped up and planted into some sort
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 2: of alternate world where there are prehistoric dinosaur like critters
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 2: going around. This trailer gives us more of that, including
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: people's heads getting chomped, which I was like, whoa.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it also shows us more pets, so I really
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: have to I'm interested in this. I like the fan
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: theory that it's in another Cloverfield movie, even though it's
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: straight up dinosaurs and not monsters. I like the concept.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: It looks like it looks like the best sequel to
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: Jurassic Park that we've seen so far. But there are
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: pets in it, so I will have to read the
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: reviews or does the dog die before I watch it,
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: which is unfortunate.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, it looks like the message of this is
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 2: it's a family that finds out that if they work
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 2: together and get closer as a unit, that's how they survive.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, okay, but I'm really hoping that that
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: the at the end of the story they are able
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 2: to make it back to present day Earth and that
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 2: they've learned through their trials and tribulations how to be
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 2: a better family and maybe finally stand up to that
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 2: pesky hoa.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do like a lot of bad robots.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true. This is a jj Abrams Bad
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 2: Robot production company thing comes out August fourteenth that has
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 2: Anne Hathaway and you and McGregor in it. So it's
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 2: got like very good actors in it and it is
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 2: an interesting premise. So I'll probably check this out. I
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: don't know if I'll see it in the theater maybe
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 2: because it does look like it's kind of a spectacle film.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 2: But we'll see. Now something I know I'm singing in
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: the theater.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I need something between he Man
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: and Supergirl.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well this next thing, I know I'm singing
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: in the theater because I've already got my tickets. And
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: that's the Hadestown pro shot. So Hadestown is a musical.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 2: It's the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and had a
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: very long developmental process off Broadway. It's had a very
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 2: successful run on Broadway as well as on the West End.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 2: And last year they had a camera crew come in
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 2: and shoot a production a performance of actually a couple
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 2: performances of Hadestown with the original Broadway cast. They were
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 2: performing in the West End, and that production is coming
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 2: to select theaters on July twenty fourth, though I did
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: find one in in our neck of the woods, meaning
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 2: Atlanta that's actually showing it starting the twenty third. It's
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: only running for a few days, so if you wanted
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 2: to see Haities Town, especially with the original Broadway cast,
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: this is your chance. You should look in your area
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 2: if it's available. I guessaid, I already got my tickets
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: to see it.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we've talked about it before. I'll keep
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: it super brief, and I know Jonathan's doing a lot
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: of talking. It's because we're having some lag. But I
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: really love I know you've said this too, the trend
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: of doing pro shots of the original casts of movies,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: because if you aren't in a place where you can
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: go to Broadway, or you aren't in a place where
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: you can even see your regional Broadway production of a show,
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: which is often very different from the original Broadway production
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: due to just technical limitations. It's a really great way
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: for people to get to enjoy the original vision of
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: the playwright and the actors. And it's not the same
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: as seeing a play because you're getting close up ankles.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: But I think it's so cool and I'm fully for
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: this trend coming out in August as well, which we've
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: already talked about.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and I get encouraged by it because you
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 2: never know what is going to inspire the next generation
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: of actors, right, And it could be the fact that
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 2: they were able to see this, you know. I'm sure
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 2: someone saw the pro shot version of Hamilton and that's
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 2: what sparked their interest in theater. Like, the same thing
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 2: could be true of these things. So also, I was
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 2: I meant to tell you that if you and I
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 2: watch this, or even if it's just me, I'm supposed
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 2: to keep my eyes open for someone in the front
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: row mezzanine because someone we know was there during the
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 2: actual filming. Yeah, Rachel, Do you know Rachel? Right?
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, Rachel has been mistaken for me in the past.
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: Apparently she messaged me once and told me, Hey, somebody
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: thought I was you at fair and I'm like, oh, interesting.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people who just see the red hair and that's
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 2: as as much as they go. Yeah, Rachel was at
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 2: the filming of that production, so it's possible if they
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 2: have like shots of the audience that will see her
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 2: which is kind of cool, amazing.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, I hope to see it. I
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: don't know yet, but we'll try.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: I'll come out to streaming sometime.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I got tickets to the matinee showing because I
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, it's fifteen dollars. That's like one tenth
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: of the price easy that I would pay for a
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 2: okay seat at the actual Broadway production, like not maybe
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 2: even maybe even partial view for one hundred and fifty bucks, right,
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 2: but I'll be able to see it for fifteen in
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 2: the Grantite. It's in a screen and it's not like
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: live right in front of me. But I've wanted to
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 2: see this ever since I listened to the original album,
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about actually getting a chance to
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: watch the whole thing play out. I have not sought
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 2: out one of the quote unquote slide tutorials of Hades Town,
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 2: specifically because I knew there was a pro shoot in
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 2: the works, and I want to support that because, like
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 2: you were saying, Ariel, like I understand wanting to watch
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 2: the bootlegged stuff because that might be the only way
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: you get a chance to, but that can actively discourage
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 2: the trend of arranging for a pro shoot, and obviously
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: there's tons of business decisions that have to fall into
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: place for that to even work because you've got all
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 2: the different royalties and residuals and rights and all that
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. I'm not suggesting that it's easy, but
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 2: I would love to see it happen as just a
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: more frequent thing.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to see a pro shot of Beetlejuice,
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: which I think they were hoping to do before the
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: pandemic and then it got scrapped. But maybe they'll come
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: back to it at some point because the Haiti Hadestown
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: original cast pro shot as well after the original cast left. Yes,
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: I'd also love to see one for Groundhog Day, which
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: is an Alan Menkin Broadway show that I love the
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: music to and I think the staging is very cool,
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: but it's just not being produced anymore. So.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Unfortunately, there were a few shows, particularly shows that
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 2: were adaptations of films like you know, Miss Doubt, Fire
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 2: and stuff that or Tutsie That Got Uh. There were
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 2: there were different varying levels of quality arguably, but have
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 2: all kind of come and gone right. Some like it
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: Hot was another one, but yeah, I would love to
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: see this be more of a thing, also, like for
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: preservation sake, because, like we were just saying, there are
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: shows that may not ever really reach a level of
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: production again that we just lose and part of that
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: is the beauty of theater. But it's also unfortunate because
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 2: it means so few of us actually get to experience it.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, unless someone does a revival way in the
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: future and gets permission to do it. Well, I I'm
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: excited for Hadestown. I'm also excited that we got to
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: do this episode and spend so much time together.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 2: Today, multiple hours.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, and if you all are excited about any of
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: the things we talked about, we'd love to hear about it. Jonathan,
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: how can they reach out to us?
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I would normally at this point give a long
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 2: and convoluted response as to how you could track me down,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 2: and it would typically involve some sort of blood sacrifice
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 2: or dangerous trip into the woods. But honestly, I just
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 2: can't be bothered because we've been talking for like two hours,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 2: and and Ariel's got places to be, so they can't
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 2: get in touch with me this week. You just can't.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you do want to get in touch
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: with us or me, you can reach out to us
• 2:14:46
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• 2:14:49
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• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: find show notes at our website www dot Larger drunk
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: Collider dot com. That is out of date, but I
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: will be updating it this weekend. What else have I
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: got to do? And then I oh? You can also
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: send us an email. The email is large nerdohn potditt
• 2:15:07
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• 2:15:09
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• 2:15:12
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• 2:15:15
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• 2:15:18
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• 2:15:21
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