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LNC Tries On Some Capes For Christmas · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the largenr John Collider Podcast, the
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Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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Speaker 1: I'm aerial casted and with me as always is ever
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Speaker 1: so jolly Jonathan Strickland.
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Speaker 2: I've been boiled with my own pudding all.
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Speaker 1: And visited by three ghosts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been buried with a stake of holly through
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Speaker 2: my heart since.
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Speaker 1: Send a toothpick. I don't know there's a toothpick in
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Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. Somewhere.
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Speaker 2: There's more about the gravy than grave about you. So
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Speaker 2: we are here. We are barreling our way to the
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Speaker 2: festive season. You know there's no escaping it. Have you
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Speaker 2: been sent to wham agaedin yet?
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Speaker 1: I haven't, mainly because I haven't been paying attention.
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Speaker 2: Yea, But I technically have because I started watching a
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Speaker 2: trailer called Last Christmas not even thinking about it, and
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Speaker 2: then like just the beginning of the song started went ah,
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Speaker 2: and it hit stop and I was like, oh, it
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Speaker 2: already counts well it was long enough for me to
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Speaker 2: recognize it.
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Speaker 1: So you have now evolved to godhood where you can
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Speaker 1: play wham Hunter and see how many times you can
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Speaker 1: hear it throughout the holiday season. I did not come
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Speaker 1: up with this. My brilliant bandmate did, but I thank
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Speaker 1: her for it because I actually liked the song last Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like a happy song, but it's
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Speaker 1: a fun song. And yeah, yeah, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: avoid it all holiday season.
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm I'm indifferent towards that one. But it
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Speaker 2: does bring us to our question for this week, which
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Speaker 2: is what is your favorite Christmas song? And if you
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Speaker 2: have more than one, that's fine, if you have more
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Speaker 2: than what you have one in different categories, like you're like,
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Speaker 2: here's my favorite novelty Christmas song versus you know, here's
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Speaker 2: my favorite Christmas song, whatever it may be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna troll our audience and say Christmas shoes,
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Speaker 1: but that depresses me to say.
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Speaker 2: Shay Shay sang that at Christmas karaoke a couple of
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Speaker 2: last weekend.
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Speaker 1: I love you say. I would have if I were there,
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Speaker 1: I would have had to have left the room. That
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Speaker 1: song is.
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Speaker 2: It was the first one she sang. Like.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, Like I get that it's a
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Speaker 1: pretty song, and like I understand the value of the
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Speaker 1: gift of the magi story, but it's just like an
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Speaker 1: extra level of depressing for no reason.
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Speaker 2: It's it's also it just lay ladles on the mellow
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Speaker 2: drama so hard. It's so heavy handed and so tone death.
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Speaker 2: She sang it ironically, she was doing she was doing
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Speaker 2: like a send up version. She was doing a voice
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Speaker 2: for it and everything.
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Speaker 1: So yeah. So uh. At one point in time, I
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Speaker 1: would have said my favorite Christmas song was Santa Baby,
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Speaker 1: but I realized as I thought about it that that
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Speaker 1: is not actually my favorite song. I just liked it
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Speaker 1: because I wrote a parody of it for the Robin
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Speaker 1: Hood scenario at GARF one year. It's hard because I
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Speaker 1: like them all rocking around the Christmas Tree is always
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Speaker 1: a pretty good bop. And then like, but I had
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Speaker 1: a soft spot in my heart for like all of
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Speaker 1: the traditional ones that you'd sing in a church choir,
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Speaker 1: because I've sung them at a church choir and gone
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Speaker 1: like caroling around and like hitting all those beautiful harmonies just.
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Speaker 2: Really yeah, like angels we have heard on high yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh holy Night, even Folice Navidad. There was one year
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Speaker 1: I did that in a Christmas Christmas CANTEENA and I
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Speaker 1: had a whole bunch of like layering and like rounding
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Speaker 1: of like different languages, and that was really cool for
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Speaker 1: nostalgia purposes. Carol the Bells is also pretty fantastic, but
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Speaker 1: for nostalgia purposes, I would say here we come a whastling,
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Speaker 1: But specifically the version from the California Raisins Christmas television special,
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Speaker 1: just because they gifted with it so much. And I
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Speaker 1: think watching that as a child is what gave me
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Speaker 1: a love for parody music. So that you know, it's
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Speaker 1: hard to pick a favorite Christmas child. I like anything
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Speaker 1: that gets me in the Christmas spirit, so I tend
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Speaker 1: to go for upbeat stuff, traditional stuff, but modern stuff
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Speaker 1: doesn't hit me quite as well, like the newer Christmas songs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't mind like a modern cover
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Speaker 2: necessarily depending on how they do it. One of my
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Speaker 2: favorite this isn't This is like twenty years old at
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Speaker 2: this point, maybe more, but one of my favorite covers,
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Speaker 2: and it wasn't of a traditional Christmas song, was Collective
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Speaker 2: Soul did a cover of Blue Christmas, you know, the
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Speaker 2: song that was made famous by Elvis. But they did
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Speaker 2: a fantastic cover, so Collective Soul's Blue Christmas is a
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Speaker 2: really great fun cover because it's not it's not like
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Speaker 2: exactly like the original, has a very different kind of
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Speaker 2: approach to it, and I love that one. I did
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Speaker 2: that one at karaoke. Actually my favorite, though, is Christmas
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Speaker 2: also known as Baby Please Come Home.
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Speaker 1: That is Tony's favorite as well.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's such a good song. Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry,
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Speaker 2: and Phil Spector wrote it. Darlene Love in nineteen sixty
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Speaker 2: three recorded it. Her version is still my favorite. But
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Speaker 2: I also really like Joey Ramone's version, which was only
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Speaker 2: released after he had died in like two thousand and one.
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Speaker 2: That one's great if we're going by novelty songs, that
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Speaker 2: changes depending upon the year, But I mean have a
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Speaker 2: I have a somewhat ironic love of Dominic the Donkey.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's a good song, but holy cow,
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Speaker 2: I am so entertained whenever it comes on.
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Speaker 1: That is a special one that I I didn't learn
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Speaker 1: about until I was an adult.
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Speaker 2: Same same I didn't. I had never I think it
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Speaker 2: was more popular in the Northeast than in the Southeast,
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Speaker 2: so I never heard of it until I was up
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Speaker 2: in Philadelphia one year, and then I started hearing it
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Speaker 2: occasionally played. Like you know, I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: markets have that radio station that just starts playing Christmas
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Speaker 2: music twenty four to seven once Thanksgiving is past, and
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Speaker 2: that's where I heard it down here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I also love when it is not my favorite song,
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Speaker 1: but I love watching everybody try to be creative with
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Speaker 1: the Twelve Days of Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Muppets have a great version of that.
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Speaker 1: They do. I I hadn't heard, so I did listen
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Speaker 1: to a new song. It's not super new. It's from
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, so I guess six years old.
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Speaker 2: Jeer God.
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Speaker 1: But it came on my holiday playlist the other day
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Speaker 1: and a guest ire Sugar and Booze.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't heard this one.
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Speaker 1: She apparently had like an entire holiday spectacular. It feels
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Speaker 1: like one of like those like oldie pop Christmas songs,
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Speaker 1: but it's cheeky's talking about our favorite things about the
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Speaker 1: holiday or sugar and Booze, and I absolutely loved it.
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Speaker 2: So it so sounds like sounds like it was made
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Speaker 2: in the same sort of tongue in cheek approach as
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Speaker 2: that Bill Murray Christmas special from it. Several years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or or the Guardians of the Galaxy Santa Comes
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Speaker 1: with his Laser Eyes song.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well those are some great suggestions. I mean I
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Speaker 2: didn't even get into Ray Steven Santa Claus is Watching You,
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Speaker 2: which I also did at karaoke. Or or the two
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Speaker 2: Christmas songs from Weird Al Yankovic, both of which were
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Speaker 2: sung at karaoke.
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Speaker 1: Those are fantastic, one.
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Speaker 2: By me and one by Lucas. So yeah, we I
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Speaker 2: would say eighty five to ninety percent of the songs
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Speaker 2: we sang were Christmas oriented. And for those of you
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Speaker 2: out there wondering why wasn't Ariel with you, Jonathan, she
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Speaker 2: was invited, she just had a prior engagement so she
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Speaker 2: couldn't go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was in by being in music that night,
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Speaker 1: but I was watching Off Book, which is Zach Reno
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Speaker 1: and Jess McKenna. They had a podcast for a long time.
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Speaker 1: They've done a bunch of stuff on Dropout, which if
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Speaker 1: you've listened to our podcast, you know Jonathan and I
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Speaker 1: love that channel. And so they've been touring around doing
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Speaker 1: like a full hour and a half improvised musical and
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Speaker 1: the one this year because I saw them last year
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Speaker 1: when they came through town, which is the first time
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Speaker 1: I had seen them come through town, So they may
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Speaker 1: have done it before, but I didn't know about it.
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Speaker 1: And this time they're in a bigger venue. And it
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Speaker 1: was about people being hornied during the Renaissance. And that's
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Speaker 1: why Renaissance festivals are so cheeky.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it would definitely explain things. I think. Honestly,
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Speaker 2: the reason Renaissance festivals are so cheeky is people dress
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Speaker 2: up and they get to they get to pretend that
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Speaker 2: they're not themselves, which means their inhibitions drop quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean but it was funny, right, so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's a funny concept. I like it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So there we go. There's are our favorite Christmas songs.
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Speaker 2: There's a nice selection for y'all. Let's move on to
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Speaker 2: talk about what we watched this last time we recorded.
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Speaker 2: I believe we both watched last week's Four of Us.
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Speaker 1: We did.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, the new episode I think is already out,
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Speaker 2: but we haven't. I haven't watched it yet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, like you know, I had been waiting till
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Speaker 1: nine pm on Fridays when it was supposed to drop.
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Speaker 1: But apparently it drops early.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know what the deal is Apple TV.
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Speaker 2: Could you like, I don't mind that you dropped things early,
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Speaker 2: but you know, there's schedules for a reason, y'all. Like
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Speaker 2: if I had known, we would have Well, actually, I
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Speaker 2: take that back. I fell asleep early last night because
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Speaker 2: I was exhausted. But I will say I'm still enjoying it.
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed the reveal. Even though the last episode we
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Speaker 2: watched had my least favorite character in the series so
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Speaker 2: far in it a lot, I still enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think, so, there's this there's this character
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Speaker 1: who is very charismatic, and he plays the character incredibly well.
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Speaker 1: The actor is doing a phenomenal job, but he's doing
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Speaker 1: charismatic in a way that is definitely problematic. Well, he
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Speaker 1: didn't really think about it.
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Speaker 2: I would say he's not even charismatic. It's that the
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Speaker 2: the the hive mind is all geared toward pleasing him
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Speaker 2: so that he will eventually consent to joining them, and
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Speaker 2: therefore they're playing up like he's charismatic. What he is
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Speaker 2: is a slime bucket.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And sorry if that's a bit
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Speaker 1: of a spoiler. I don't think that's too much of
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Speaker 1: a spoiler.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean, like we I'm not going to get
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Speaker 2: into any more particulars because I just like you're meant
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Speaker 2: to not like him, Like that's the way the and
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Speaker 2: the actor is doing a great job. It's not like
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Speaker 2: I don't like him because of the performance. I don't. Well,
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Speaker 2: it is true, I don't like him because of the performance.
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Speaker 2: That's because the performance is doing what it's supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So here's the thing, Like I do have
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Speaker 1: a friend that's like, if you think about it too harder,
11:19
Speaker 1: you try to unravel the story too hard. If you're
11:22
Speaker 1: like looking at it as a puzzle box story, then
11:26
Speaker 1: you might get a little frustrated because some of the
11:29
Speaker 1: things like just don't make sense. But if you're just
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Speaker 1: enjoying the ride, I'm quite enjoying it. I do know
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Speaker 1: that I read an article with Its Gilligan where the
11:38
Speaker 1: creator who said that he's got like a two or
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Speaker 1: three year arc planned and he knows how he wants
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Speaker 1: it to end, but he is open if someone has
11:46
Speaker 1: a better idea. So I know a bunch of people
11:49
Speaker 1: were worried that it was going to be like Lost,
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Speaker 1: where each week they were just throwing darts at.
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Speaker 2: A yeah, or one of those one of those cases.
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Speaker 2: And I think we've talked about this before, where showrunners
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Speaker 2: or filmmakers decide to go in a drastically different direction,
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Speaker 2: not because that's what the story demands, but because they
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Speaker 2: feel that the fan base has already caught on to
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Speaker 2: where they were going and they don't want to be predictable.
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Speaker 2: And they do. They go unpredictable, but at the cost
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Speaker 2: of the cohesion of the world and the story. And
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Speaker 2: I would listen. I love Shakespeare. We all know how
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Speaker 2: shakespeare plays end. People in Shakespeare's time knew how those
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Speaker 2: plays would end. They knew that going into it, and
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Speaker 2: they still enjoyed it. So knowing the destination isn't a problem.
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Speaker 2: Don't make it one unless you're just like someone like
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Speaker 2: m Night Shyamalan, where your entire persona is based off
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Speaker 2: the concept of a twist, in which case you've got
12:49
Speaker 2: other issues.
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Speaker 1: I do feel like the story has picked up, and
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Speaker 1: I don't want to necessarily go into why, but I
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Speaker 1: do feel like the plot is moving along quicker now,
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Speaker 1: yeah than at the beginning. A similar feeling about Lost,
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Speaker 1: except for Implorabis it was two episodes that I quite
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Speaker 1: enjoyed before things started picking up. For Me and Lost,
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Speaker 1: it was ten episodes until the others appeared, which is
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Speaker 1: not necessarily congruent. It's just a much shorter time for
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Speaker 1: the plot to pick up in Plurabis.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I never, I never got pulled into I tried
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Speaker 2: with Lost and it lost me.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, the first ten episodes are them surviving
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Speaker 1: on an island, and it's when the weird stuff starts
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Speaker 1: happening that it gets really interesting. But I see that
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Speaker 1: that is not all you watched this week. You watch
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Speaker 1: something else that I thought for sure you had given
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Speaker 1: up on.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Welcome to Dary. Yeah, oh no, I've given up
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Speaker 2: on it. It's just that I had not seen the
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Speaker 2: penultimate episode the last time we recorded, and now I have,
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Speaker 2: and I've given up. I'm not even gonna bother watching
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Speaker 2: for finale. Like there's literally only one episode left and
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Speaker 2: I have no desire to watch it because I had
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Speaker 2: said at the beginning, like I think one of the
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Speaker 2: plots is really dumb, and if it it's dumber, I'm out.
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Speaker 2: It got dumber. I'm out.
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Speaker 1: It is not good that it got dumber, but good that,
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Speaker 1: like you realize that, like you recognize your boundaries and
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Speaker 1: are like, I've got better things to spend my time on.
14:14
Speaker 2: What's funny is I went online because I wanted to
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Speaker 2: be validated, and so I was looking to see if
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Speaker 2: other people had the same reaction I did. Like the
14:23
Speaker 2: reviewer for the av Club felt very much the same
14:27
Speaker 2: way I did. But on Reddit there was such an
14:30
Speaker 2: incredible surge of people saying this is the best episode yet,
14:34
Speaker 2: most powerful episode, amazing, and I'm thinking I feel like
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Speaker 2: an alien on the planet Earth, Like I just don't
14:42
Speaker 2: understand humans at this point. But it's fine, Like people
14:46
Speaker 2: can like stuff I don't like. That's totally cool. It
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Speaker 2: makes the world interesting. It's just I came to the
14:53
Speaker 2: conclusion that this plot line is not for me. It
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Speaker 2: makes it not to draw like parallels. But it reminds
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Speaker 2: me of my reaction to American Horror Story, where I
15:07
Speaker 2: just felt they were trying to do everything and nothing
15:10
Speaker 2: seemed to be really good to me. Like, I know
15:13
Speaker 2: people who absolutely love that franchise, and that's awesome, but
15:17
Speaker 2: for me, it felt like a kitchen sink approach where
15:20
Speaker 2: nothing was really handled really well, and that there's there's
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Speaker 2: some similarities in Welcome to Darry. It's not like they're
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Speaker 2: doing too much, but the stuff that they're doing I
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Speaker 2: feel is really dumb.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I I haven't even tried it. I did
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Speaker 1: enjoy the new movies, but there's so many other things.
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Speaker 2: I want to watch, and that's valid. Like I started
15:46
Speaker 2: watching this out of mostly curiosity, like can they make
15:49
Speaker 2: a compelling show that's a prequel where you already know
15:53
Speaker 2: where the story ends? Like you know what the ending
15:55
Speaker 2: of that story is, and you also know like if
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Speaker 2: you don't recognize a character's name, like if that character
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Speaker 2: that isn't directly connected with someone in the story of it,
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Speaker 2: there's a decent chance that character is not going to
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Speaker 2: make it out alive, or they're going to move away
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Speaker 2: from Dary, because otherwise, why would they not appear later on?
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Speaker 2: Which I didn't, which which eventually ends up imploding on itself.
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Speaker 2: That's in needful things, as I recall. Yeah, I I
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Speaker 2: for the people who love it. I'm glad you love
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Speaker 2: it it, just I don't know. I had a large
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Speaker 2: problem from the get go, and the seventh episode just
16:41
Speaker 2: pushed it beyond any any point of return for me.
16:45
Speaker 2: I also watched a couple more episodes of Superstore, which
16:48
Speaker 2: you know that's been off the air for ages now.
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Speaker 2: But but I kind of fell into it. I think
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Speaker 2: I talked about it like weeks and weeks ago when
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Speaker 2: I first started watching. Then I fell off again. I
16:58
Speaker 2: fell off of watching it. I picked it back up,
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Speaker 2: and I realized why I fell off watching it. It's
17:05
Speaker 2: not because it's not a good show. I think it
17:06
Speaker 2: was a really good show. It's a very funny comedy,
17:10
Speaker 2: but so much of the humor is based off of
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Speaker 2: like that cringe factor where people are doing something that's
17:17
Speaker 2: just so unbelievably cringey and you're just like you're yelling
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Speaker 2: at the screen like don't do it or whatever. I
17:24
Speaker 2: can only watch a few of those at a time
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Speaker 2: before I hit my tolerance. They do it really well,
17:30
Speaker 2: and I mean, like, and to be fair, that show
17:33
Speaker 2: came out once a week when it was on, and
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Speaker 2: I'm binging, I'm doing this to myself. I fully admit that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I totally get that. There are
17:43
Speaker 1: like back when I was trying Walking Dead, because I
17:46
Speaker 1: did watch it for a few seasons before I gave up.
17:48
Speaker 1: It was really when they started glorifying megan hitting a
17:52
Speaker 1: character and beating a character to death with his bat
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Speaker 1: that I was like, oh, I'm out, but started off
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Speaker 1: binging it because it made the story move quicker, and
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Speaker 1: then eventually I was like, I can't because it's too
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Speaker 1: it's too much.
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Speaker 2: At one time, too grim and dour.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean that's the same thing for cringe,
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Speaker 1: Like sometimes I can only experience other people's embarrassment for
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Speaker 1: so long before I need to take a break.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you're still enjoying Superstore even though you
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Speaker 1: did take a little bit of a pause from it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you? What have you been watching besides
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Speaker 2: Blur of Us? Uh?
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Speaker 1: So, one thing I didn't add on here, I've started
18:34
Speaker 1: Gilded Age on HBO. It is kind of so for me.
18:39
Speaker 1: Dalton Abbey is kind of like the epitome of well
18:43
Speaker 1: done more recent well done, like historical drama. Like it's
18:50
Speaker 1: just I find it. I find it good stories, I
18:53
Speaker 1: find the characters fun to watch. I find it believable.
18:57
Speaker 1: Bridgerton is the complete opposite, where it's cheesy and unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, it's a romance story, so shouldn't hold
19:05
Speaker 1: it into higher regard. This feels somewhere in between, like
19:08
Speaker 1: they're definitely trying to be closer to down in Abbey
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Speaker 1: for sure, where they're trying to look, you know, historically accurate.
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Speaker 1: But it does feel a little bit more melodrama. It isn't.
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Speaker 1: It just feels a little bit more that way. But
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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it. The costumes are beautiful, some of the
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Speaker 1: stories are great. It's got some amazing actors in it,
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Speaker 1: so I'm enjoying that. Since I've finished up with everything
19:34
Speaker 1: for task Master UK until except for Junior until the
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Speaker 1: holiday episodes come out, I've started task Master New Zealand
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Speaker 1: and I'm one season two of that, which is very funny.
19:48
Speaker 1: I have laughed very hard a couple of times. The
19:51
Speaker 1: host and the task Master and the task Master's assistant
19:56
Speaker 1: still in season two, feel a little bit like they're
19:59
Speaker 1: uncmfortable just completely riffing it, so they don't have quite
20:02
Speaker 1: the same chemistry as Greg and Alex. Some people would
20:08
Speaker 1: disagree with me. Even at the off book show, I
20:10
Speaker 1: had like people around me who we were chatting about
20:12
Speaker 1: Dropout and task Master and all that, and they're like,
20:15
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love tast Master in New Zealand.
20:17
Speaker 1: It is very funny. It's a different sense of humor
20:20
Speaker 1: than the UK sense of humor. And when the taest
20:25
Speaker 1: Master and the assistant riff, it's great, but it feels
20:28
Speaker 1: like they're uncomfortable just doing that all the time. So,
20:31
Speaker 1: like the segues between tasks is a little bit clunky,
20:35
Speaker 1: claggy or whatever, but I'm enjoying it. The task Master
20:39
Speaker 1: was doing a US tour in January this year, sold
20:42
Speaker 1: out in thirteen minutes.
20:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that goes to show that their
20:48
Speaker 2: strategy of releasing on YouTube was incredibly successful.
20:52
Speaker 1: Well, and I love that one. I love that it
20:55
Speaker 1: happened because I couldn't have made any of the January dates,
20:57
Speaker 1: but also this they'll come back for sure.
21:01
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, But they did try to do a US version
21:04
Speaker 1: of task Master, and I like listening to interviews, Like
21:09
Speaker 1: they cut it down to like twenty two minutes, Like
21:12
Speaker 1: it just didn't work because of the chemistry between Alex
21:16
Speaker 1: and the host. And it's not that either of them
21:18
Speaker 1: did a bad job. I actually quite enjoyed the clips
21:20
Speaker 1: I watched of it in arrears, but like they just
21:23
Speaker 1: had to make so many concessions to the format that
21:26
Speaker 1: it didn't quite work, and I think if they tried
21:28
Speaker 1: to do it again it would do well because I
21:31
Speaker 1: really loves it now. But also u as humor tends
21:33
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more mean.
21:35
Speaker 2: Kind of reminds me a little bit of when they
21:37
Speaker 2: tried to do a pilot for an American version of
21:40
Speaker 2: The It Crowd and like Joel McHale was in it
21:44
Speaker 2: as the Chris O'Dowd character, and Richard Iowade came over
21:49
Speaker 2: and was in was playing still playing Moss. But it
21:53
Speaker 2: just doesn't work. And part of it is because I
21:56
Speaker 2: feel like American TV producers don't have faith in American
22:02
Speaker 2: viewers to just go with the absurdity that was the
22:06
Speaker 2: IT Crowd, so they would undercut jokes where something really
22:10
Speaker 2: absurd happens, but then there's like almost like an acknowledgement
22:14
Speaker 2: that that was an act, most specifically the boss, Like
22:19
Speaker 2: the boss is making the ridiculous denim requests or whatever,
22:26
Speaker 2: but then indicates that he's not really crazy, he's just
22:31
Speaker 2: acting crazy. I'm like, don't undercut it. That's what makes
22:34
Speaker 2: the jokes work. But anyway, Yeah, another proof of that
22:38
Speaker 2: would be a different Joel McHale property entirely community They
22:42
Speaker 2: committed to the crazy and it worked.
22:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I think also with like the Office
22:49
Speaker 1: and Friends making it their own thing just inspired by
22:53
Speaker 1: a UK property worked. I do think again, if task
22:56
Speaker 1: Master was to have another go at a US version,
23:00
Speaker 1: I would want them to keep more of the UK sensibility,
23:02
Speaker 1: just because I appreciate that more. Yeah, but I don't
23:06
Speaker 1: know that they would. I also watched No Go Ahead.
23:10
Speaker 2: Oh. I was just gonna say, it's so funny because
23:11
Speaker 2: I would have originally said that American comedians just don't
23:14
Speaker 2: have the right sensibility to compete on task Master because
23:19
Speaker 2: of a different approach to comedy, but Jason Manzukus completely
23:24
Speaker 2: proving me wrong.
23:25
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah. It was so funny because when
23:28
Speaker 1: they like going watching backwards every time they'd have a
23:31
Speaker 1: Canadian on, I'm like, I thought they said they didn't
23:33
Speaker 1: have a mayor. Oh they're Canadian. Yeah. Jason Manzukus was
23:38
Speaker 1: the first US comedian on the show to minus saying.
23:42
Speaker 1: I also watched the third episode of ninety nine. I
23:44
Speaker 1: am way behind on it because I'm watching with a
23:46
Speaker 1: group watch, but in the third episode they finally get
23:49
Speaker 1: to past session zero, which was really nice to see
23:53
Speaker 1: I did think it was a better episode that moved
23:55
Speaker 1: along more quicker because you were you were able to
23:59
Speaker 1: care a little little bit more about what was happening.
24:01
Speaker 1: And that's it for me. Okay, And we are running
24:07
Speaker 1: short on time, so let's get into it.
24:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we're gonna try and keep this tight
24:12
Speaker 2: because Ariel's got places to go. So let's move on
24:14
Speaker 2: to thirty seconds or less. Who's first? Is it? You? Me? Okay?
24:19
Speaker 2: Here we go. The Game awards were this week, Claire
24:22
Speaker 2: Obscura Expedition thirty three to one Game of the Year,
24:25
Speaker 2: Best Indie Game, Best Debut Indie Game, Best Art Direction,
24:29
Speaker 2: Best Score, Best RPG, Best Narrative, Best Game Direction, and
24:32
Speaker 2: Best Performance. No other game won more than a single
24:38
Speaker 2: award that night. Expedition thirty three was the only one
24:41
Speaker 2: to win multiple awards. That's a big old yauza. There
24:44
Speaker 2: are also a ton of trailers for upcoming games, but
24:46
Speaker 2: we don't have time to talk about it.
24:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you like control, check out the Control to trailer.
24:51
Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. I know he said we
24:52
Speaker 1: didn't have time.
24:53
Speaker 2: That's it.
24:53
Speaker 1: Okay. So last week we talked about how Netflix was
24:56
Speaker 1: acquiring Warner Brothers. Well, that may not happen unless this
25:00
Speaker 1: news has changed today. I haven't looked today. Paramount's trying
25:05
Speaker 1: to get back into the bidding war by offering eighteen
25:07
Speaker 1: billion dollars more in cash. The weird thing about that
25:10
Speaker 1: is they felt kind of snubbed. We won't get into
25:13
Speaker 1: all of that, but the weird thing is they would
25:16
Speaker 1: have to convince shareholders to sell some of their shares
25:20
Speaker 1: to reach that amount. So we will see what happens.
25:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's complicated. We could do a whole episode on
25:26
Speaker 2: another time. Okay, Now for more awards news, this time
25:29
Speaker 2: Golden Globe nominations. Genre programming did really well this year,
25:33
Speaker 2: with Frankenstein and Centers nominated for Best Motion Picture in
25:36
Speaker 2: the Drama category. Bugonia got a nod for Best Musical
25:40
Speaker 2: or Comedy. K Pop, Demon Hunters, le Eo, Demon Slayer,
25:44
Speaker 2: and Zutopia two are all among the nominees for Best
25:47
Speaker 2: Animated Film, and there are tons of nominations in the
25:51
Speaker 2: various actor categories for genre performances. So I say take
25:55
Speaker 2: a bow geeks.
25:57
Speaker 1: Oh yes, for sure. And one of the ultimate geeky
26:01
Speaker 1: things that happened in recent years was Avengers Endgame. It
26:04
Speaker 1: broke box office records, and guess what, it's coming back
26:07
Speaker 1: to theaters in advance of the release of Avengers Doomsday,
26:14
Speaker 1: so it'll be coming out on September twenty fifth, twenty
26:17
Speaker 1: twenty six. I don't know how I feel about this,
26:19
Speaker 1: because I don't know how much I want Doomsday to
26:21
Speaker 1: directly tie to to directly tie into Endgames.
26:25
Speaker 2: But listen, I mean, there's a whole bunch of movies
26:27
Speaker 2: that happen in the middle. So well, did you ever
26:30
Speaker 2: get the chance to see the original Star Wars film
26:33
Speaker 2: in its original form in an original movie theater, No,
26:37
Speaker 2: just a movie theater? Well I did because I'm old.
26:40
Speaker 2: But soon tons of people will get their chance, because
26:43
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty seven, Disney is going to re release
26:46
Speaker 2: the original nineteen seventy seven cut of the film to
26:50
Speaker 2: theaters to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Han will shoot first,
26:54
Speaker 2: there will be no CGI, and it's even possible that
26:58
Speaker 2: the words a New Hope won't beyond the title.
27:02
Speaker 1: Oh man, I have been looking for an original cut
27:05
Speaker 1: for Tony for Christmas for years, and now I've just
27:07
Speaker 1: shared this article with him, so I will get to
27:09
Speaker 1: surprise him with it, But that's okay. If I could
27:11
Speaker 1: not be more excited for something than that, it would
27:15
Speaker 1: be for Fallout, and I am even more excited for Fallout. Now.
27:18
Speaker 1: That was a really clunky sideway because they said they
27:22
Speaker 1: have recently talked about how if they could use a
27:25
Speaker 1: practical effect in season two over cgi. They have chosen
27:29
Speaker 1: to do that. I think that's wonderful. They're like, it's
27:32
Speaker 1: so much better to act against something that's real. So
27:35
Speaker 1: I look forward to watching those elevated performances.
27:39
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're all pro practical effects on this show. Well.
27:43
Speaker 2: As we wait for Fallout season two to come out
27:46
Speaker 2: on the seventeenth, the team behind the show hopes to
27:48
Speaker 2: begin work on season three as early as next summer,
27:51
Speaker 2: which would be a nice change of pace from shows
27:53
Speaker 2: that take off multiple years between seasons. In other news,
27:56
Speaker 2: it looks like we will not get a playerbus season
27:59
Speaker 2: two any time soon, maybe late twenty twenty seven at
28:03
Speaker 2: the earliest. So you's hoping Fallout does buck the trend.
28:09
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that. Now, I'm sad. Okay, Netflix is
28:12
Speaker 1: coming out with an animated Stepsister fairytale, The steps Distress
28:17
Speaker 1: from Cinderella, played by Ali Wong and Stephanie Hsou who
28:21
Speaker 1: have an unwarranted reputation and then get into some hijinks
28:25
Speaker 1: that kind of don't help that situation, and then they
28:28
Speaker 1: team up with Cinderella to make everything better.
28:31
Speaker 2: Nice. We know certain characters from the original run of
28:34
Speaker 2: Buffy the Vampire Slayer will make an appearance in the
28:36
Speaker 2: reboot of the show, but Faith or at least the
28:39
Speaker 2: version played by Eliza Dishku, will not be among them.
28:43
Speaker 2: Deushku formally retired from acting in twenty seventeen to focus
28:46
Speaker 2: on advocacy work dealing with managing trauma, and has confirmed
28:50
Speaker 2: she has no plans to return to acting.
28:53
Speaker 1: Someone who has not taken a break from acting, Sigourney Weaver,
28:57
Speaker 1: is in talks to join the Amazon series Tomb Raider,
29:00
Speaker 1: which we know has Stephanie Turner. So oh pooh, pardon
29:05
Speaker 1: me Sophie Turner in the lead. We don't know who
29:07
Speaker 1: she's in talks to play, but she is a great actress,
29:12
Speaker 1: so I think she would be a good addition to
29:14
Speaker 1: the show.
29:15
Speaker 2: If you ever wanted a bird'seye view of Hawkins, Indiana,
29:19
Speaker 2: the fictional town and stranger things, well, I got good
29:21
Speaker 2: news for you. And update to Microsoft Flight Simulator twenty
29:25
Speaker 2: twenty four, will allow virtual pilots the chance to control
29:28
Speaker 2: a simulated helicopter to survey Hawkins as it was between
29:32
Speaker 2: seasons four and five of the show, complete with malls, schools,
29:36
Speaker 2: and dimensional rifts.
29:38
Speaker 1: That is freaking cool. Less cool. Disney has signed a
29:42
Speaker 1: licensing deal with Open Ai for this, so for people
29:45
Speaker 1: to use their characters over two hundred of them on
29:48
Speaker 1: the Sora platform. Jonathan and I don't really like the
29:52
Speaker 1: Sora platform or deep fakes in general. I worry that
29:57
Speaker 1: this is going to be bad for Disney the because
30:00
Speaker 1: I don't know how well they can control how their
30:02
Speaker 1: characters are used, but they're investing one billion in the platform.
30:05
Speaker 1: Sagaft has come out and said they're closely monitoring it
30:08
Speaker 1: to make sure that it doesn't hurt any of the things,
30:12
Speaker 1: so that Dizzy isn't breaching any parts of the Sagafter
30:15
Speaker 1: contract in doing so. That at least is one slight
30:19
Speaker 1: maybe solve for it.
30:23
Speaker 2: Well, if I get this show edited and published the
30:25
Speaker 2: day we record it, not good odds you might still
30:28
Speaker 2: have time to catch a five minute plus long prologue
30:31
Speaker 2: of Christopher Nolan's epic Imax film adaptation of the Odyssey,
30:35
Speaker 2: which will play in front of IMAX screenings of Sinners
30:38
Speaker 2: and One Battle after another. If you missed it, well,
30:41
Speaker 2: a shorter version will play ahead of Avatar, Fire and
30:44
Speaker 2: Ash starting on the nineteenth.
30:46
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that's already coming out. Lastly, in holiday news, Fallout,
30:52
Speaker 1: Amazon has dropped a Fallout yule log. I put on
30:57
Speaker 1: a little yule log every year to open Christmas presents.
31:00
Speaker 1: This one. I love the music for it, but it
31:03
Speaker 1: starts off with the ghoule and dog meat and then
31:07
Speaker 1: it focuses on a hand burning in a fireplace, so
31:11
Speaker 1: I don't think that will make me feel very cheery
31:14
Speaker 1: on Christmas morning.
31:17
Speaker 2: Fair enough? All right, Well, we're going to blast through
31:20
Speaker 2: some stuff now before we conclude our episode. So first up,
31:25
Speaker 2: we've got a couple of things that are in our
31:27
Speaker 2: stuff what we shouldn't talk about, but we're going to anyway,
31:31
Speaker 2: We'll keep it real short. First up, we got a
31:33
Speaker 2: trailer for a series called The Revenge Club. It's based
31:37
Speaker 2: off a novel called The Othello Club. It's an English
31:40
Speaker 2: series and if I were to give a like one
31:43
Speaker 2: sentence line, it would be a bunch of people and
31:46
Speaker 2: a divorcee support group decide to work together to get
31:50
Speaker 2: revenge on their exes.
31:53
Speaker 1: Yep, it looks kind of fun. We also got a
31:57
Speaker 1: trailer for season two of Hijack starring Idris Elba Thank You,
32:02
Speaker 1: I knew it until I had to say it, where
32:05
Speaker 1: he negotiates hijacked vehicles. I think this year is a
32:08
Speaker 1: subway or was that season one?
32:10
Speaker 2: No, this seri is a subway. Season one was a plane,
32:14
Speaker 2: and he plays like a business to negotiator who just
32:17
Speaker 2: happens to find himself wrapped up in these hostage situations.
32:21
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like Diehard, except instead of a cop,
32:23
Speaker 2: it's a business guy, except it's Idris Elba is a
32:26
Speaker 2: business guy, so you still don't want to mess with him.
32:29
Speaker 2: We also got a trailer for a series called His
32:34
Speaker 2: and Hers. This is based off a thriller novel from
32:37
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. It starts Tessa Thompson and John Burenthaal. This
32:42
Speaker 2: is unlike the novel, but they're playing a married couple
32:45
Speaker 2: in the series. She's a reporter, he's a law enforcement officer.
32:49
Speaker 2: There's a murder that happens. It brings up tensions in
32:53
Speaker 2: their relationship because she suspects that he might have had
32:55
Speaker 2: something to do with it. I read spoilers about the
32:59
Speaker 2: novel that this story is based off of, and I
33:03
Speaker 2: don't think i'll watch this.
33:05
Speaker 1: It does look intense for sure. Yeah, now we're into
33:11
Speaker 1: things that do fit, but we might also have to
33:14
Speaker 1: blast through these a little bit. We're so sorry. Yeah,
33:16
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk with each other at the beginning.
33:19
Speaker 2: The Big one. The Big one is one that we
33:21
Speaker 2: were all waiting for. There was like a teaser for
33:23
Speaker 2: the trailer, and then the trailer itself is still kind
33:25
Speaker 2: of a teaser and it's for Supergirl. What did you
33:28
Speaker 2: think of the Supergirl trailer?
33:32
Speaker 1: It started off, I thought with a really great vibe
33:36
Speaker 1: where you see Crypto the Menes dog wandering around Supergirl's
33:40
Speaker 1: bedroom peeing on a newspaper, which I could have done without,
33:43
Speaker 1: but I understand why they did it because it follows
33:45
Speaker 1: up with a really cute moment of Supergirl going, oh
33:47
Speaker 1: you got it mostly on the paper, good boy, while
33:49
Speaker 1: she's hung over. Delightful vibe. I loved it. And then
33:52
Speaker 1: it turned into Guardians of the Galaxy.
33:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had it, where it's this huge Guardians vibes
33:59
Speaker 2: on this as far as tone goes complete with like
34:02
Speaker 2: the music choice that goes with it. You know, James
34:05
Speaker 2: Gunn has talked about Supergirl gets to be messy, gets
34:08
Speaker 2: to be a messy superhero the way male superheroes have
34:12
Speaker 2: been allowed to be, but frequently we don't really accept
34:16
Speaker 2: that with female superheroes, like they suddenly we require them
34:19
Speaker 2: to be perfect. But the male superheroes they could be
34:23
Speaker 2: damaged or whatever. And she's like, He's like, nope, this
34:25
Speaker 2: girl is damaged. And we also got a very quick
34:28
Speaker 2: look at Lobo in.
34:30
Speaker 1: The trailer, played by Jason Momoa.
34:33
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. So mostly we see see glowing eyes and
34:36
Speaker 2: a glowing end of a cigar and otherwise mostly a silhouette.
34:42
Speaker 2: The other thing I wrote is that this one comes
34:44
Speaker 2: out on my birthday, June twenty sixth.
34:46
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday. I really did like Superman. I know not
34:49
Speaker 1: everybody did, but I really enjoyed it. I realized that
34:52
Speaker 1: the formula that James Gunn has been playing with in
34:54
Speaker 1: these big like company kind of pieces with you know,
34:59
Speaker 1: cheeky humor and great classic music, works really well. It
35:03
Speaker 1: is doing. It's not a bad formula. I have enjoyed
35:05
Speaker 1: quite a few of the movies he's made that way.
35:10
Speaker 1: I just I hope that it doesn't become too boiler plate,
35:15
Speaker 1: because then it will lose its term.
35:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if we were looking at a spectrum
35:19
Speaker 2: on the DC side and saying Superman on one side
35:22
Speaker 2: and the Suicide Squad on the other side, this probably
35:25
Speaker 2: falls closer to the suicide Squad side than the Superman one.
35:28
Speaker 2: But also, like, there's a line in that trailer where
35:31
Speaker 2: she differentiates herself from cal El from Superman by saying
35:36
Speaker 2: he sees the good in people, I see the truth.
35:38
Speaker 2: So she's a much more cynical character.
35:41
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I've enjoyed his work, so I will
35:44
Speaker 1: continue to watch it. I just I don't want it
35:46
Speaker 1: to get people had Superhero, you know, super Hero movie
35:51
Speaker 1: fatigue for a while, and I don't want this to
35:53
Speaker 1: fall into the same category, because if the DC universe
35:56
Speaker 1: has a chance, I want it to have that chance.
35:59
Speaker 2: Yeah. We also got a trailer for season five of
36:03
Speaker 2: The Boys. There's not a lot of context in this trailer.
36:07
Speaker 2: It's a lot of sequences that just kind of give
36:09
Speaker 2: a vibe, and that vibe being like overwhelming odds, incredible violence, oppression,
36:15
Speaker 2: gore so there's not a lot to talk about as
36:19
Speaker 2: far as like what we think is going on, except
36:21
Speaker 2: for the fact that it's gearing up toward the final
36:24
Speaker 2: confrontation between the Boys and Vought and their superheroes, specifically Homelander.
36:30
Speaker 2: So although we did get to see Jared PADLEECHI finally.
36:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love the Supernatural Boys. They've got such
36:38
Speaker 1: a great chemistry together, it's not enough to make me
36:42
Speaker 1: watch this final season. The first half of the trailer
36:45
Speaker 1: was less upsetting than several of the previous season trailers,
36:48
Speaker 1: and then we got to the second half of the
36:49
Speaker 1: trailer and I'm like, oh, okay, it's hard to watch again.
36:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're seeing Homelander beat somebody to a pulp and
36:57
Speaker 2: we don't know who yet. You know, there are good
37:00
Speaker 2: odds that someone that's on his own side, because he
37:03
Speaker 2: is not a very he's not stable.
37:06
Speaker 1: Are you Are you going to be watching this final season?
37:10
Speaker 2: I might, simply because I did watch the other four,
37:13
Speaker 2: but I didn't watch gen V season two, so I
37:15
Speaker 2: don't know, Like it's possible that I'll just read about
37:18
Speaker 2: it right Because the issue I have with the Boys
37:22
Speaker 2: is the same as the issue I have with a
37:23
Speaker 2: lot of you know, postmodern superhero takes in that it
37:27
Speaker 2: often feels over the top Grim for the sake of
37:30
Speaker 2: being over the top Grim And I get the idea
37:33
Speaker 2: that if you, if you were to hand people, you know,
37:36
Speaker 2: practically unlimited power, they would do very selfish, terrible things.
37:40
Speaker 2: But I don't need that for my escapism because I
37:43
Speaker 2: see that already, right, like I see people in positions
37:47
Speaker 2: of power doing very bad things. So I don't need
37:49
Speaker 2: that in.
37:49
Speaker 1: My entertainment, for sure, for sure. Moving on, we got
37:54
Speaker 1: a trailer for the Copenhagen Test starring Seemuli Yu, and
37:59
Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest, then the trailer didn't give
38:02
Speaker 1: me the full concept behind what is happening in this story,
38:06
Speaker 1: and I'm having a hard time wrap in my head
38:07
Speaker 1: around it.
38:08
Speaker 2: Oh sure, So Simuelo is playing an intelligence agent who
38:13
Speaker 2: has been hacked, Like literally he has been hacked. His
38:18
Speaker 2: brain is emitting Wi Fi signals, So they figure that
38:22
Speaker 2: someone has compromised him, not even knowingly, like he's not
38:26
Speaker 2: necessarily knowingly acting as a double agent, but effectively he
38:30
Speaker 2: is because he's gathering intelligence and someone else is profiting
38:35
Speaker 2: from it. So they decide to use him in a
38:38
Speaker 2: way to spy on the spies who are spying on
38:40
Speaker 2: the spies. So I don't know why you couldn't follow that.
38:44
Speaker 2: I mean, that's so simple, right.
38:46
Speaker 1: You're you're right, You're right. I should have paid more attention.
38:49
Speaker 2: But it is. It is absolutely ludicrous. It is one
38:52
Speaker 2: of those things where it's like, Okay, how many layers
38:54
Speaker 2: does the onion have? But but it looks, it looks interesting,
38:59
Speaker 2: and yes, Simu is great, he's a great actor. Comes
39:02
Speaker 2: out December twenty seventh or eight episodes, so it is
39:05
Speaker 2: a series and this one's on Peacock Nice.
39:10
Speaker 1: We also got a trailer for Paradise season two. Paradise
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Speaker 1: is a story about you find out in the first
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Speaker 1: episode that everybody is living inside of this giant like
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Speaker 1: bunker after an apocalyptic event similar to Fallout, but I
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Speaker 1: think came out before Fallout. I actually don't know, actually
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Speaker 1: don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's a Hulu series. It's got Sterling K. Brown in
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Speaker 2: the lead role. He plays a secret service agent. In
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Speaker 2: the first season. It's kind of like a murder mystery
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Speaker 2: type thing where the President's been killed and he's trying
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Speaker 2: to find out who did it while he himself is
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Speaker 2: under suspicion for possibly having committed the murder.
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Speaker 1: Because they're all in a bunker with a limited amount
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Speaker 1: of people who have been spared from the apocalypse that
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Speaker 1: they knew was going to happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and season two looks like he's going beyond that.
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Speaker 2: He's going back out into the world for some reason,
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Speaker 2: like they need to find out what's going on out there,
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Speaker 2: and either he volunteers or is volunteered to do it.
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Speaker 2: It opens with him trying to get out of a
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Speaker 2: crashed airplane, like a small heat airplane.
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Speaker 1: He's looking for his family who didn't.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I did not know that that was what was happening.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry if that's a spoiler. Season one's been out
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Speaker 1: for a while.
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Speaker 2: It really gives me, honestly, it gives me a lot
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Speaker 2: of Silo vibes, like I was feeling a lot like Silo.
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Speaker 2: This one comes out February twenty third.
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Speaker 1: I did watch a couple of the first episode, a
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Speaker 1: couple of the episodes of the first season. I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I stopped watching it. It might
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Speaker 1: be one of those ones that's hard to pick back
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Speaker 1: up without a reminder of.
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Speaker 2: What I watched. Gotcha. Next time, we got a trailer
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Speaker 2: for All You Need Is Killed. This is based off
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Speaker 2: the exact same light novel source that Edge of Tomorrow
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Speaker 2: slash Lived, I Repeat came from, but it's not a
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Speaker 2: direct adapt like it's not seen for Seeing a direct
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Speaker 2: adaptation of All You Need Is Kill. It actually shifts
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Speaker 2: the POV to a different character who is also going
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Speaker 2: through a time loop situation. So if you don't know
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Speaker 2: what this is. In the basic story, aliens that are
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Speaker 2: able to mimic humans are attacking Earth, and a person
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Speaker 2: who's been conscripted into Earth's fighting force is killed by
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Speaker 2: the alien, but then wakes up that from that same
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Speaker 2: morning before they were killed and relives that day over
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Speaker 2: and over while trying to figure out a way to
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Speaker 2: both break the time loop and defeat the aliens. This
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Speaker 2: one looks like it's focusing on a totally different character
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Speaker 2: who's also experiencing a similar thing. So set in the
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Speaker 2: same world, same sequence of events, but a different character.
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Speaker 1: I kind of got the vibe that she wasn't in
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Speaker 1: the fighting force. Maybe she is, but rather that like
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Speaker 1: this alien like and I probably just misunderstood the trailer.
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Speaker 1: It almost felt like the Alien Force was being you
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Speaker 1: by society, and they didn't realize the danger that it was,
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Speaker 1: that it was trying to take.
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Speaker 2: Over entirely possible, entirely possible, Like, I don't know that
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Speaker 2: you misinterpreted. We'll find out more when it comes out
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Speaker 2: in January sixteenth. And then we got a trailer for
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Speaker 2: Avatar the Last Airbender season two, the live action adaptation
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Speaker 2: that's on Netflix. This season will introduce the Earth Benders,
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Speaker 2: including Tof Byfong, and it comes out next year on Netflix.
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Speaker 2: What did you think of this trailer?
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Speaker 1: I didn't finish season one, but I did enjoy what
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Speaker 1: I watched. This trailer looks great tofas one to Tof,
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Speaker 1: I don't know is even though I don't remember how
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Speaker 1: to say her name is one of my favorite characters.
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Speaker 1: She's snarky and powerful and just so much fun. I
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Speaker 1: know that my niece is like, if they ruin her,
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Speaker 1: I'm burning the show.
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Speaker 2: To the ground. I will say, like, the music in
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Speaker 2: this trailer was great, very percussive.
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Speaker 1: I know your partner is a huge fan of Avatar
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Speaker 1: The Last Airbender. Did they watch season one?
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Speaker 2: Not the first season?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: I need to we need to sit down and start
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Speaker 2: watching it because if season one is as good as
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Speaker 2: the trailer was for season two, I might actually be
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Speaker 2: into it. I infamously bounced off Avatar pretty early on
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Speaker 2: because it didn't grab me in the first couple of episodes,
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Speaker 2: and then everyone said, well, you gotta wait till it
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Speaker 2: gets good, like there's too much stuff to watch. I
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Speaker 2: can't wait for something to get good.
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Speaker 1: I do know that my sister and her kids, who
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Speaker 1: her kids love Avatar the Last Air Under cartoon, were
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Speaker 1: ify on some of the changes they made. Again, I'm
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Speaker 1: fine with that for for live action. Some you know,
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Speaker 1: they were like some of the some of the growth
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Speaker 1: that some of the characters had changed paths a little bit.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, Well, we also got a trailer because the
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Speaker 2: Game Awards. We got a trailer for the Street Fighter movie.
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Speaker 2: You're either gonna love this trailer or you're gonna hate
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Speaker 2: this trailer because it makes some choices.
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Speaker 1: I didn't get to say, so these last two stories
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Speaker 1: I didn't see.
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, okay, so ariel, Yes, this this trailer looks
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Speaker 2: like a live action like it like if you were
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Speaker 2: to say, adapt Street Fighter two into a movie, that's
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Speaker 2: what this is like. It is like the tournament. They
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Speaker 2: even have the bonus scene where like in between fights
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Speaker 2: where you would have to do things like destroy a
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Speaker 2: car with your moves and try and destroy a car
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Speaker 2: faster than your opponent. That's in the trailer that it
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Speaker 2: happens in the movie. It's got a crazy cast too,
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Speaker 2: like like two wrestlers. You got Roman Reigns as a
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Speaker 2: Kuma and Cody Roose as Guyle, but you also have
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Speaker 2: Jason Momoa as Blanca, Orville Peck is Vega, fifty Cent
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Speaker 2: is Balrog, and David Desmalkian is Ral Julia. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: m Bison, and it comes out October because of October sixteenth. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to say this looks cheesy and schlocky, and
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Speaker 2: I loved it because it was so like it shocked
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Speaker 2: me how ridiculously cartoony it is.
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Speaker 1: You've got to know what you are and embrace it,
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Speaker 1: and like you, if you fully, if you fully commit
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Speaker 1: to the bit you're doing, it's going to go over better.
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Speaker 1: So I love that they've done that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're looking for something that's gritty
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Speaker 2: or whatever, you're not going to find it there. It's
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Speaker 2: very very silly.
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Speaker 1: Similarly, very quickly. Something you took out. We got like,
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Speaker 1: we've been getting clips of Slattery, the Mandarin character from
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Speaker 1: Yes Iron Man doing talks about wonder Man, and I
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Speaker 1: love this marketing choice.
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Speaker 2: Is is cute. I only took it out just because
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Speaker 2: I was like, well, we've talked about wonder Man a
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Speaker 2: couple of times. Yeah, No, that's very cute. Finally, I'll
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Speaker 2: just do this real quick. We got coming in twenty two,
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Speaker 2: twenty six video from HBO which showed lots of clips
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Speaker 2: from all of their original programming, which included stuff like
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Speaker 2: glimpses of nine of the Seven Kingdoms what we've seen
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Speaker 2: more of that in trailers. We also saw there's a
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Speaker 2: clip that you're going to be interested in this arel.
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Speaker 2: There's a two part documentary about mel Brooks and it's
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Speaker 2: called mel Brooks the ninety nine year Old Man. That
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Speaker 2: looks like that's going to be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: There's an untitled Larry David project that's how it was credited,
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Speaker 2: that sets it sets the comedian and his friends in
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Speaker 2: different historical settings. So I don't know what the deal
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Speaker 2: is with that. We got a very quick look at
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Speaker 2: Stuart fails to Save the Universe. That's the Big Bang
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Speaker 2: Theory spin off is not shot in a sitcom style
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Speaker 2: at all. App Yeah, totally different approach, which surprised me.
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Speaker 2: They give a quick look at the next season for
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Speaker 2: House of the Dragon, a quick look at the next
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Speaker 2: season for the Gilded Age, quick look at Dune Prophecy,
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Speaker 2: and the reason why you might want to watch this
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Speaker 2: video when you have some time Aeriel. We get our
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Speaker 2: first quick look at Lanterns, the series about the green lanterns.
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Speaker 1: I do, I do want to see that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they have a very short scene, like it's
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Speaker 2: it's not long, but it does give us our first
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Speaker 2: look at at interaction between Hal Jordan and John Stewart's
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Speaker 2: my favorite green lantern. There we go and yeah, like
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Speaker 2: we haven't seen green lantern since Superman. That is Guy Gardner.
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Speaker 1: Yeah real quick. Did they show a clip from the
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Speaker 1: pit for this?
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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, yes, I didn't include it because it's not genre.
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Speaker 1: It's not genre. It would be in stuff that doesn't fit.
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Speaker 1: But I freaking love that show and I'm so excited.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they had clips from lots of other stuff
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Speaker 2: as well. Besides those were the ones that were in
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Speaker 2: the genre category.
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Speaker 1: Amazing, well, I thought that the holiday season would be quiet,
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Speaker 1: but we're getting a bunch of great stuff. It's making
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Speaker 1: me excited for next next year, just as a consumer
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Speaker 1: of media and also as an actor.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, pretty cool. So because we are running
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Speaker 2: short on time, Ariel, just go ahead and let everyone
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Speaker 2: know how they can get in touch with us, and
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Speaker 2: let's wrap this sucker up like.
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Speaker 1: A great present, like a Christmas present, a couple weeks early,
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