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LNC Will Never Be Hosted By AI · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large End Drunk 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 aerial cast and with me is always just so wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Strickland foolish criminal one eyebrow has the power of
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  Speaker 2: a million exploding galaxies.
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  Speaker 1: I I oh, I feel bad. I don't know this reference.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there's you shouldn't. It's a it's a quote from
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  Speaker 2: a goofy, juvenile comedy book that came out in like
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  Speaker 2: the eighties about how to be a superhero, and it
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  Speaker 2: was done by like people who had worked in the
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  Speaker 2: comic books industry, but it was a parody slash satire
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  Speaker 2: of superhero stuff, and one of them was about, how'll
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  Speaker 2: you know if you're going to be a superhero, make
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  Speaker 2: sure you're not too powerful, because then you'll never get
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  Speaker 2: to do anything because everyone will give up as soon
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  Speaker 2: as you show up. And so I had a little
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  Speaker 2: comic book panel thing of this superman like superhero landing
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  Speaker 2: and the criminal is trying to give up, and the
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  Speaker 2: superheroes like, no, come on, put up a fight. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: you'll just beat me. It's like, well, what if I
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  Speaker 2: have my hand tie behind my back? No, you can
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  Speaker 2: like pick up mountains. I am not going to fight you.
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  Speaker 2: Well what if I have both my hands tied behind
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  Speaker 2: my back and I'm blindfolded? Still? No, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: what if I only use my left eyebrow? And so
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  Speaker 2: you're only only going to use your left eyebrow? Yes? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's like cook a pal and then foolish criminal.
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  Speaker 2: Even one eyebrow has the power of a million exploding galaxies.
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  Speaker 2: So very silly stuff. I will say. There's a lot,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, a lot of juvenile humor. It is
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  Speaker 2: also a product of the eighties. I don't I haven't
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  Speaker 2: read in a really long time, but I do remember
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  Speaker 2: there were quite a few jokes. There's also some dated
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  Speaker 2: references in there that I don't think a modern reader
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  Speaker 2: would necessarily pick up on. But I really enjoyed it
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  Speaker 2: because it was just so silly and making fun of
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  Speaker 2: comic book tropes. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Were you just like reading it or just feeling all
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  Speaker 1: eyebrow powerful today?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No, No. It was one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: it just it hit me this morning that quote out
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  Speaker 2: of nowhere. Maybe it was because I was watching the
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  Speaker 2: third episode of Invincible season four, which I'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: more when we get to what we watched. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: finished that episode. I started it, but you know, Invincible
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  Speaker 2: is one of those shows that does fall victim to
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  Speaker 2: the and this is the most powerful being ever known,
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  Speaker 2: and here's someone even more powerful. Like wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: you just finished telling me. Yeah, but that's another comment thing.
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  Speaker 2: And comic books, right, like I I have like the
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  Speaker 2: big coffee table book that is like the Encyclopedia of Marvel,
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  Speaker 2: which by now is incredibly out of date, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the time was like a go to resource for
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  Speaker 2: information about different characters in the Marvel universe. Same thing there.
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  Speaker 2: Like you'll read through it and you'll come across some
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  Speaker 2: character or entity that's supposedly all powerful, and then you'll
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  Speaker 2: come across another one that's more powerful, and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: how can something be more powerful than all powerful?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's just you. You you get market saturation on
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  Speaker 1: powerful beings and that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well yeah, well, also what story do you tell? Right? Like,
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  Speaker 2: if something cannot be defeated, that it's not very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: You got to figure something out that's why. I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people have find it challenging to create
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  Speaker 2: compelling Superman stories because as a hero, you know, Kryptonite
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  Speaker 2: aside Superman is is pretty difficult to take down, and
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  Speaker 2: so it makes it, you know, like, you don't put
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  Speaker 2: Superman up against a bunch of cat burglars that's totally unbalanced.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, maybe they have kryptonite claus.
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  Speaker 2: Then that would make a difference, but you know, your
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  Speaker 2: your average band of ne'er do wells stands no chance
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  Speaker 2: against Superman, which I'm kind of hoping that with the
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  Speaker 2: Green Lantern, if we get more Guy Gardner stuff, that
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  Speaker 2: will get elements of Guy Gardner just being ridiculously over
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  Speaker 2: the top with how he deals with like common criminals
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  Speaker 2: because he just doesn't care as opposed to like someone
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  Speaker 2: who's actually heroic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited. Part of me. I'm sorry everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I am on a new sleep schedule, and my body
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine. Mentally, I'm more here than oftentimes, but my
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  Speaker 1: body is like, yeah, on verbs, so I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get those muted out. Yeah, I'm excited for legends, not
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  Speaker 1: legends lanterns. Maybe I'm not here mentally as much as
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  Speaker 1: I thought. I'm excited for Lanterns, and part of it
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  Speaker 1: is because they haven't told us any of those answers yet.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm hopeful that it'll be a really
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  Speaker 2: interesting series. I mean, obviously we're all still kind of
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  Speaker 2: curious as to how the DC stuff will play out
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the whole Paramount acquisition thing, which
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  Speaker 2: you know, everyone's treating like it's a done deal. I
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  Speaker 2: tell you, I don't know that that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a done deal, at least in Europe. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: be complicated.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, well I read today because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: this is this in our show notes? Did you talk
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  Speaker 1: about where the deal currently is? Do you have that?
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  Speaker 2: I I did not put that in the notes, and
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  Speaker 2: see it.
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  Speaker 1: They they've the they're promising to keep w B Paramount
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  Speaker 1: and HBO all his separate entities and active, and like
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  Speaker 1: promising for a certain number of movies from each for
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  Speaker 1: theatrical release plus a forty five day theatrical release window.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember all the details because I didn't put
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  Speaker 1: it in just because everything's been so back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: But and I was like, oh, well, that's all really
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  Speaker 1: hopeful from an actor's perspective, right, I mean that's some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff we were worried about, was everything just
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  Speaker 1: becoming one studio and things being cut. And it seems
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  Speaker 1: like they're saying we're not going to do that, but
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  Speaker 1: then they're like, and then federal tax incentives and more
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  Speaker 1: stuff in LA and I'm like, no, i want more
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  Speaker 1: stuff in Alanta. I'm very selfish when it comes to that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's also like they're gonna be thousands of
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  Speaker 2: people laid off because there's gonna be redundancy. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care how independent they say they're going to keep the
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  Speaker 2: studios at certain levels within the organization, there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be redundancy and there's just gonna be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people laid off. That always stinks. I mean, like you
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  Speaker 2: could argue that the entertainment industry in particular might have
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  Speaker 2: an issue with too many layers of middle management, and
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  Speaker 2: that might be true, but it still sucks to see
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  Speaker 2: people get laid off.
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  Speaker 1: It really does. Yeah, I guess we just got to
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  Speaker 1: keep waiting to see how stuff turns out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. We don't have any control over it, or
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  Speaker 2: else it would not have gone this way for me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm largely worried about the consolidation of media in companies
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  Speaker 2: that have a bias, right, Yes, And that's what I
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  Speaker 2: worry about because I'm like, I want unbiased access. I
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  Speaker 2: want access to unbiased information or as unbiased as I
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  Speaker 2: can get. And there still are outlets that have that
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  Speaker 2: work very hard to try and eliminate bias from reporting,
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  Speaker 2: but they're fewer and farther between than ever before, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of media outlets now become kind of loud
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  Speaker 2: speakers for whatever the political perspective is of their corporate ownership,
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  Speaker 2: and that that, to me, is something that worries me.
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  Speaker 1: And it's happening on a lot of sides of opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I Yeah, I've gotten to a point where I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I have to check the media bias level of any
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  Speaker 1: article that I'm reading from anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a wise thing to do. Like whenever I
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  Speaker 2: see something that seems to reinforce my beliefs, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: before I start jumping up and down and patting myself
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  Speaker 2: on the back, I should really look into making sure
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  Speaker 2: this is a reliable resource and not just not just
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  Speaker 2: something that's you know, there for the click, you know.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. I mean even with like our show notes,
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  Speaker 1: we have to do that too, right, There's so many
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  Speaker 1: things that are clickbait.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, well don't even give me. Let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you the one that gets me the most now
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  Speaker 2: are things that are related to Disney in general, but
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  Speaker 2: Disney World and Disneyland in particular, as well as like
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  Speaker 2: just just theme park. So just the other day, I
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  Speaker 2: was out with friend of the show Shay Lee, and
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  Speaker 2: I saw a headline pop up on my little like
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  Speaker 2: like notifications. It's you know, if I just open up
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  Speaker 2: Chrome on my phone, but I don't have it going
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  Speaker 2: to any website, I get like headlines, and one of
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  Speaker 2: the headlines was Dolly Parton shuts down theme park in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: And I show the headline to Shay and she's like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, are they closing Dollywood. I'm like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: early by three hours because of weather. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: but the way the headline is structured, it makes it
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  Speaker 2: look like they're talking about like the permanent closure of
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  Speaker 2: a park, but instead it was just because of weather conditions,
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  Speaker 2: they had to close the park three hours early. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, obviously you don't put that in the headline
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  Speaker 2: because you want people to click, and you want to
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  Speaker 2: try and serve as many ads as possible, so you
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  Speaker 2: don't actually put the relevant information until you're like four
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  Speaker 2: or five scrolls down to get to where you're like okay,
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  Speaker 2: and the first the first few screens are just filler
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  Speaker 2: so that you can serve as many ads as you can.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this is what has sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: No, please please. I was just gonna say, as someone
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  Speaker 2: who used to write articles for websites, for a website specifically,
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  Speaker 2: this really grinds my gears. And I could see it
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  Speaker 2: beginning when I was writing for that website, Like it's
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  Speaker 2: not the writers who wanted this to happen, but it
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  Speaker 2: was the business side where it's like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: web advertising is tough, Like it's hard to make money
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  Speaker 2: doing web advertising, so you gotta use as much of
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  Speaker 2: it as you can. You gotta saturate your content with
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  Speaker 2: ads in order to be able to make it a
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  Speaker 2: worthwhile return on investment. But then it makes it a
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  Speaker 2: terrible experience for the user, and eventually get to a
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  Speaker 2: point where people are just like I'm not even going
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  Speaker 2: to go to that side anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Oh for sure. I mean what I was going to say,
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  Speaker 1: is like, I think this might be part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason that whenever I start to read something now, my
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  Speaker 1: eyes immediately start to glaze over because I'm like, just
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  Speaker 1: scan for the pertinent information. And that's really bad because
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  Speaker 1: it carries over to like my book reading. I used
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  Speaker 1: to love reading, and one I'm very busy, so it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to just stay focused on the book. But when
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  Speaker 1: I do stay focused on the book, like, I immediately
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  Speaker 1: like go into that habit of like glaze over and
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  Speaker 1: look for pertinent information, which when you're reading a story
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  Speaker 1: you absolutely should not do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for one thing, you're yeah, no, totally
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  Speaker 2: I agree, and I'm there with you. I've it has
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  Speaker 2: changed the way I consume text, and I have to
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  Speaker 2: make a conscious effort to work against that now. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of those people who I don't immediately say
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  Speaker 2: tech is good or bad, but I will say our
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  Speaker 2: use of tech can easily go bad, and in my view,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the way we use the Internet, in
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  Speaker 2: particular as a delivery mechanism, leaves a lot to be desired.
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  Speaker 2: Not that I have any solutions, but boy, howdy do
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  Speaker 2: I not like where things have gone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I agree for the most part, but we
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  Speaker 1: also rely on the Internet to put this show together,
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  Speaker 1: so before we sound it to boomery.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, also, I am gen X, so don't come for
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  Speaker 2: me with those boomer comments. My generation is never talked about.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to be lumped in with a different group.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about something positive. So our question this week
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  Speaker 2: was one that I put together, which was just what's
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  Speaker 2: your favorite geeky thing that happens in the spring or
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  Speaker 2: gee thing about the spring in general? So Ariel, did
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  Speaker 2: you give this any thought?
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  Speaker 1: I did? From Originally I was going to say pilot
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  Speaker 1: season that's actually technically winter in early spring. But with
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  Speaker 1: the change in media and platforms and streaming and releases
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, pilot season isn't as much of a thing anymore,
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  Speaker 1: although some some media outlets are trying to bring it back,
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  Speaker 1: like great, we have this slate of shows that now
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  Speaker 1: you get to look forward to throughout the year. But
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  Speaker 1: I think the other thing is just gardening. My favorite
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  Speaker 1: flowers come out in the spring. And you might say
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  Speaker 1: that gardening isn't geeky, but I would wager that it is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why did the Netflix show about gardening not go
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  Speaker 2: in our lineup? And instead of and stuff that doesn't fit.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's just where I put it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get there.
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  Speaker 1: So I love gardening, but I also hate the Georgia pollen.
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  Speaker 1: Like it used to not bother me so much, but
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  Speaker 1: last year in this year, man, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it was earlier this week. It might have been
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  Speaker 2: three nights ago when my eyes just felt like they
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  Speaker 2: were on fire, like they were stinging. And that's normally
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  Speaker 2: like my allergies are not that severe when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to seasonal allergies, but earlier this week it was just brutal.
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  Speaker 2: Then we got a cold snap and some rain and
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  Speaker 2: that helped a bit. But I know it's just going
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  Speaker 2: to be a rough season because we're just at the
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  Speaker 2: very beginning of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I have a good allergy medication that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make me too drowsy. It doesn't have bad side effects
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  Speaker 1: that I got through my allergist, but it's still Actually
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  Speaker 1: I use the generic brand of zizol because it's cheaper
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  Speaker 1: and it's not super drowsy for me, and it worked
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. It also helps with I used to have
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  Speaker 1: spontaneous hives and if they happened to start pop and
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  Speaker 1: up again. It does help with that as well, though
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to help a shot. That is more information
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  Speaker 1: than anybody needed to know. But hey, yeah, I'm an
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  Speaker 1: open book.
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  Speaker 2: I just I just showed Ariel that. Next to me
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  Speaker 2: at my desk, my work desk, I have a bottle
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  Speaker 2: of Children's Been a Drill, which technically I had for Timbolt,
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  Speaker 2: but but I had to break into it this week
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  Speaker 2: because because I could not, I couldn't find I know
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  Speaker 2: I have been a dyl tablets, but they weren't in
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  Speaker 2: any of the places where I thought they should be,
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  Speaker 2: which means I probably packed them for a trip and
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  Speaker 2: it's just in a bag somewhere. But anyway, all right,
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  Speaker 2: Well from me, my favorite Spring thing when I was
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  Speaker 2: a kid, it probably would have been Star Wars Day
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  Speaker 2: if we had really made that a thing. I'm old
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  Speaker 2: enough where no one was geeky and clever enough to
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  Speaker 2: call me the fourth Star Wars Day, but if they had,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been my thing as a kid. As
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  Speaker 2: an adult who hates Star Wars Now, I actually said,
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  Speaker 2: I really like in in Atlanta in particular, we have
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  Speaker 2: a real like big patio culture and like outdoor festival
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  Speaker 2: culture in the spring. I think a lot of cities do,
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  Speaker 2: but Atlanta it's like every weekend there's at least one,
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  Speaker 2: if not multiple. And I really like walking around spring
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  Speaker 2: festivals and seeing things like like artists made creations and
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  Speaker 2: different types of specialty foods and listening to local musicians.
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  Speaker 2: I really dig that. I find it like it's a
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  Speaker 2: nice communal atmosphere. You can see some cool stuff. You
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  Speaker 2: might end up buying some art or other crafts, or
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  Speaker 2: you know, buying some really cool food. So that's like
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  Speaker 2: my thing because it's it's an it's an experience where
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  Speaker 2: I can be around other people, but my discomfort of
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  Speaker 2: being in a crowd doesn't typically kick in because I'm
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  Speaker 2: still outside and there's plenty of places I can go
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  Speaker 2: to if I start getting overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Nice, I mean, I do like outdoor festivals as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I've got like childhood memories of going to them
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  Speaker 1: in the town that I currently live in, so it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit extra nostalgic. I used to go with
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  Speaker 1: my mom back when we lived in my town when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, and I live here now again,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, just going to like an outdoor arts festival
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  Speaker 1: or food festival or food truck day or out like
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  Speaker 1: all those little outdoor community things. I absolutely love.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, And you'll be performing at an outdoor festival
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times coming up later in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Well at one next weekend. Really, yeah, my band is
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  Speaker 1: playing at the Cobb County Mini Renaissance Festival at the
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  Speaker 1: Art Place in Marietta on the twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. That's nice. I wish I could go, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: be of state. Actually, that reminds me there won't be
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  Speaker 2: an episode next week because I'll be out of state.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's that's good to know. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff next weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's fine. Totally. I totally forgot to tell
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  Speaker 2: you because I was like, we still haven't finalized the
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  Speaker 2: plans we have. We have plane tickets, so we know
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  Speaker 2: when we're leaving, and we know where we're coming back,
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  Speaker 2: where we're staying in the middle. That's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: toss up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it'll be fun. It's interesting. It's the first
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  Speaker 1: time that so my band often plays with like minus
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  Speaker 1: one people, uh, because we're a four person band, so
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  Speaker 1: we often play with three people. Usually when we play
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  Speaker 1: without people, it's without me or without our violin. Player,
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  Speaker 1: and this time it's without our recorder flautist, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just an interesting dynamic. But I think we're in a
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  Speaker 1: really good place and I'm very excited about it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we'll talk more about Ariel's performances later in
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the spring as we get close start to it. But yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: so if you happen to be at the was it
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the cob Renaissance Festival thing?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the Cobb County I'm going to pull up
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the actual name of it in case there's anybody local
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: who actually wants to go. It's the Cobb County Public
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Services Renaissance Fair March twenty eighth, twenty twenty six at
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the Art Place, eleven am to four pm. They've got
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a schedule, they've got a map. The Shakespeare Tavern and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Center for Puppetry Arts are both performing there. Yeah, it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: going to be a fun time.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds really cute. I would totally go if
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it weren't for the fact that I'll be somewhere in
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the Pacific Northwest where I don't know yet, but it'll
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: be somewhere there. Yeah, Here's it'll be fun. All right. Well,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: then let's talk about stuff we've watched since last time
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: we recorded, and unlike previous weeks, I watched a ton
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: of stuff.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: You really did, Yeah, I had. I had one overlap
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: with you, vague So.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Do you want me to go first and just rattle
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the room? Sure? So I did watch Good Luck, Have Fun,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Don't Die, which I liked. I said in my notes,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I said it made me think of books like fair
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Night four fifty one nineteen eighty four and Brave New World.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Made me think of films like Brazil and Twelve Monkeys.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe a little more slapstick than some of that stuff,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: but definitely that that dark future plus satire kind of tone.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It was darker than I anticipated it being.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: It was. It was a little, honestly a little less
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: gory than I anticipated, and it was less wacky than
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I expected. It wasn't that it was darker than I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: expected when I watched it, but it was different satirical
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: than what I was prepared.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I definitely feel that like I enjoyed it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: It just surprised me because it wasn't what I had
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: It wasn't what I had thought it was going to be,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: but I still really liked it. Amazed that it got
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: made then I've now watched the first two episodes of
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: The Urbs, but it's on hold because after watching two,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I thought Becca would probably like this, So now the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: timer has started on trying to find time when she
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: and I can watch it, and she's in the mood
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to watch something, and we just haven't had that time
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: this week. So I've only seen the first two episodes,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: but I have really enjoyed those two episodes, so I'm
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: hoping that I can get her to sit down and
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: watch some of it soon. I watched the first episode
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. This is
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the TV show where Tracy Morgan is playing a disgraced
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: NFL football player, Reggie Dinkins, who was kind of exiled
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: out of football for betting on himself, and Daniel Radcliffe
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: is playing a documentarian who who is hired to do
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a documentary film about this guy. It's very silly, as
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you might imagine for a Tracy Morgan helmed show or
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: centered show. I shouldn't say helmed, I guess, but anyways,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: it feels like the sense of humor is kind of
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: similar to stuff like Stumbled and Parks and rec and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to some extent, thirty Rock. It's very silly. I enjoy it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Then I saw the first two episodes and part of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the third for Invincible season four. It is the normal
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: insane mix of humor and crazy, over the top violence
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: that has been part of the series since the beginning.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'll say this, it's still an easier watch than The Boys,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: but not by a whole lot. And then I started
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: watching murder Bot, which Ariel talked about when she watched
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: it ages ago, and I'm just finally getting around to it,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and I'm very much enjoying it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: How far are you in?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Only like two episodes? I think maybe three?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: The episodes are short, though, so it's easy to watch.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: They're so short and you're like, no, don't stop there.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: But it's easier for you because you aren't watching week
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to week.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could just bene it if I wanted to think.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I think I did watch the first three. I'll say this,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: he is it. The murder Bot is currently inside a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: different surveyor group's base and has just been been fired upon,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and that's how that episode ended.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: That's a good episode. They all are. I really enjoyed
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: murder Bot quite a lot. Nice I also have watched
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a lot, but not but like, but it's been like
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: an episode. So I watched an episode of Fallout, the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: one where Ron Perlman shows up, which is fun and
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: good and I feel like it's moving somewhere, and I
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: really liked this episode. It's maybe my favorite episode so far.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of movement. It's episode six, I think
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of season two. I watched the first episode of The
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Urbs finally, like my husband was like, oh, I like
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: The Urbs. I love that movie. I'm like, we should
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: maybe check this out and he was like maybe, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: then like the closer we got to it, he was like,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you know, but we watched it and he was like,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: it's okay. It's not amazing, but it's okay. I enjoyed
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: it a lot more than I thought I would, because
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: from the trailer it looked like there was going to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: be a lot of like cringey, stupid joke type humor,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and there was a lot less of it than I wanted.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I not wanted than I expected.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot more of the humor is now watching
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: white people make microaggressive racist comments or actions through the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: lens of the black female protagonist played by Keiky Palmer.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Who is I is astonishing. I love her in this series.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I liked all the neighbors a lot, and they
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: said something in the first episode which was like they
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: pretend to be nice until they are nice, and the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: very first like racist Pam character very quickly becomes very nice,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and I like, yeah, because they all.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Occasionally occasionally still says dumb stuff, but it's clearly it's
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: because you know, there's too much ingrained. Yeah, it's not
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: said out of malice, yeah.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's not. And the main character, Keiki Palmer
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: is not the only othered kind of person in the neighborhood,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: which is lovely. That's a great dynamic. The jokes that
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they had were funny, and the one in the trailer
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that I was like, oh, that's so dumb, like it
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: was something about like white women like salads or whatever.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: H worked really well in the context of the show.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: It was kind of like the D and D trailers
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: versus the D and D.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, where you're like, oh, this is one of
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: those movies where or one of these series where some
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: moments just don't work better out of context, like they
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: don't fly out of context, but within the context they're fine.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I found it suspenseful, I found it funny,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I found it charming at points. I think the husband
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: is the weakest link out of everybody in the show.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Like Jack Whitehall.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Intriguing character, Yeah, like everybody.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I'll say this like when you watch, when you watch
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the second episode, you might go, huh.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I mean I already am. I already am. But like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: just from an acting perspective, it's not that he's a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: bad actor. I just I think that he's written a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: little less compellingly than everybody else in the first episode.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I watched the latest episode of Shrinking. It's still doing
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a really good job of making me laugh and making
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: me cry. I really like the show a lot. I
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: watched this week's dropout. Stuff dropped a new trailer for
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: this is not in our show notes for their next
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: actual play, and it's called Welcome to Purpy and it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: like a it's similar to like Meowolf. It's a weird,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: eerie Indiana kind of a vibe show and they The
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: interesting thing about the trailer is they don't show at
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: least I don't think they show any of the cast.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It's all like eighties style grainy stock footage with voiceover,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: which is interesting. So I don't know much about it
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: beyond it's like weird, eerie, bizarre happenings kind of thing.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I finished Ponies, and I am very upset that so
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: far they are preparing to do a season two and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: seasons beyond that, but it hasn't actually been green light
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: yet and goddamn better well be pardon my language, otherwise
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: it's gonna have a very like far Scape final season ending,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: which you will only get if you've watched Farskape. But
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: if you do, know, I don't want to spoil anything
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: beyond that. Continue to watch the Pit. I watched the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: first episode of Falling Skies that like ten year old
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: sci fi No Wiley, and it was okay. I think
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it does suffer from being ten years old.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Were you like, the Pit's not enough Noah Wiley for
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: me here?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Well, look when we get down with Fallout in like
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: two more weeks, we're like, what are we going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: watch next? Well, there's like the Librarians I've heard of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: before and none of us have ever seen it, which
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: is also No Wiley. I don't know. Uh, he's he's
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a very good actor. I like him a lot. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: am on season two of One Piece already, so uh
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it has it has grown on me. I'm quite enjoying
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it and I like all the excellent It's bizarre and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: weird and surprisingly dark in adulted points, but fun. And
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: then this this weekend, I'm going to see Come From Away,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and I'm if I can fit it in, I might
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: also go see Project Tail Mary.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Oh cool. You'll have to let me know what you
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: think of Come from Away. Come from Away as one
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: of the I haven't seen the show. I've heard a
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: couple of songs from it, and it's one of those
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: where the first time I heard the first song, I
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: was like, is this a joke? Because it was just
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: it was so sincere and like on the nose that
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: it felt like it was almost like a joke musical.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And I had no idea what it was about either, right, Like,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I just heard the beginning of the song and I'm like,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: this is ridiculous. And then and then you find out
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: what the show's about, and you're like in the song,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: like in the song, it happens and you're like, whoa, whoa,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: this is heavy stuff.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's sobriety, but who doesn't know it's the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: story of there was a plane that got rerouted during
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the nine to eleven attacks and had to land on
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a twiny little island in Canada that barely had resources,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and how the people of that plane and that tiny
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: community in Canada all kind of all together to take
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: care of each other. So it's really interesting. It is
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: very sincere. It's also because of kind of the story
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: behind it. It's a very sparse staging, or at least
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: what I've put the clips I've seen is all very
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: sparse because you know, you're on a plane, you're in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a tiny town with not a lot, so there's just
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: not a lot on the staging. So it's very interesting.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: You'll definitely have to let me know what you think.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Like I think the other song I heard again very sincere,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: but I actually really liked it. But the opening song,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Rock is the name of the song.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Just I was like, this has got to be a joke, right,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: this is so ridiculous, And then when it becomes clear
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: that it's about nine to eleven, which happens in the song,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I was a true.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Story, by the way, Yeah, it's a true story.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, you'll have to let me know what you think.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Yep. Cool.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Well that's that's a lot of stuff to talk about
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: in our first thirty minutes of this show. Shall we
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: move on to our thirty seconds or less?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Sure I start?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, breath?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, do I not start? I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: do start? So I took a.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Breath to say you start. But then you were like
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: you were gonna start, and I was like, well, now
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I'm just now I'm doing what I'm doing now, which
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: is derailing.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Now It's fine, back on to the railing out. I've
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: got a wedgie. So the Oscars happened this past weekend
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and a bunch of geeky things won. Sinners took home
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a bunch of awards, which not surprise Best Actor, Best
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Original Screenplay, and Best Score completely and Best Cinematography completely,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: all well deserved him. Neet won Best Actress and Weapons
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: one Best Supporting Actress Actress, which is interesting. Frankenstein won
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a bunch of like artistic like hair makeup setting the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Law Awards, and then K Pop Demon Hunters won Best
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I think Best Animated Film and also Best Song, which
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is the first time for a K pop song. All
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: really cool. That is fantastic.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: My turn to get railed at the Firefly panel at
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Awesome Con. We finally found out what was up with
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the cryptic series of Instagram reels that the podcast Once
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: We Were Spacemen were teasing for a couple of weeks.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Firefly is coming back as an animated series. It will
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: be set between the live action show and the film Serenity.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: All surviving core cast members are coming back. Joss Whedon
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: gave his blessing but will not be involved.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: That's good Faaramount Pictures is not moving forward with the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: g I. Joe movie with Max Landis at the Helm. Instead,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: they're looking at one possibly written by Danny McBride. Yeah, yeah,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I gotta say about that.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: We don't feel too bad about that, considering Max Landis's
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: past and during the Me Too movement. So we found
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: out that the Buffy revival series will not be moving
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: forward at Hulu. Despite lots of science seeming to point
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to an inevitable series pickup, Hulu has passed on it.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Sarah Michelle Geller is upset and said that one particular
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: executive just didn't get the show and essentially torpedoed the
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: whole thing. Some others say that Hulu felt the series
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: lacked mainstream appeal, and Hulu might try again in the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: future with a different team, but for now, Buffy is
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: dead again.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sad to hear it, but also like that's how
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: media works, all right. So next we have Last of
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Us news. One of the show is promoting three of
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: their actors series regulars, which is kind of hopeful for
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a show where a lot of people die. In addition
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to that, Jason Ritter and Patrick Wilson are joining the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: season three cast. It won't be Jason riders first time
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: on the show. He played a clicker in season one.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's really cool that he gets to work
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: alongside his wife and sky.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Neat The Quiet Place. Is gonna go all quiet a
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: third time, with Emily Blunt and Kelly and Murphy returning.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Reports Variety. Jack O'Connell aka Rimick from Sinners will be
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: joining them as well. John Krasinski broke the news on
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Instagram with the song One Last Time from Hamilton playing
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: in the background, which suggests this third entry might be
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the finale for the franchise. It's slated for June thirtieth,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: We have a little bit more news on the Lubooboo
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: live action movie from Sony, which will actually be a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: mixture of live action and CGI. Not surprising there. Michael
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Schaeffer from The Martian and Lynchin Sheet from A Beautiful
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Day in the Neighborhood, which are both amazing movies, are
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: serving his producers. And then ooh word. Stephen Levinson will
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: be doing the script and he's mainly known for writing
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: stuff for Broadway, and Paul King, who I think directed Wonka,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: will be directing it as well. That is a really
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: interesting team to put together for this thing.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes me wonder if audiences will cheer or
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: if they will laboo boo. All right, One thing y'all
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: might not know about me is I really love a
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: good schlocky, tournament based action movie. They don't have a
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: lot of plot getting in the way of the story,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: as Joe Bob Briggs would say. One grand example of
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: this is blood Sport, which is a Jean Claude Van
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Damn movie from the nineteen eighties and now nearly forty
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: years later a twenty four and Mikayla Cole of all people,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: plan to revive this and write and direct the movie.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Michayla that is and I say bring it on.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Something else that I say bring it on to is
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Mister Rogers. Mister Rogers Neighborhood is coming to YouTube, which
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: is awesome. I feel like this show holds up to
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: any time. You know, it's very old now and is
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: something that everybody can use in their life to remember
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: to be a little bit kinder and understanding towards.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Their neighbor right, and also to it's okay to talk
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: about emotions and to get a better understanding of them.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: You know, yes, he did that for kids, but goodness knows,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I'm a fifty something year old dude and I still
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: find it helpful. Well. Netflix's upcoming Assassin's Creed television series,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: based off the video game franchise, is now confirned to
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: take place in ancient Rome in the year sixty four AD.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: None of the games actually take place during that time,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: so this will be an original story set in the
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Assassin's Creed universe, and it might mean our protagonist will
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: need to contend with the capricious whims of a certain
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: emperor named Nero Fun.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Also fun. Netflix has announced their main cast for the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: live action Scooby Doo series that's upcoming McKenna Grace from
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: they say from Hunger Games, but I know her from
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the reboot of Ghostbusters, will be playing Daphne. Blake Tanner
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Hagen will be playing Shaggy. He looks perfect for the role.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Abby Ryder Fortson, who is the daughter in ant Man,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: will be playing Velma, and Maxwell Jenkins, who is in
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Lost in Space in The Bondsman, will be playing Fred.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I think that this casting means great. I think they're
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: all wonderful actors and they really looked apart, so looking
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: forward to it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: This week, Bob Iger officially stepped down as CEO of
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: the Walt Disney Company for the second time, with former
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Disney Experiences director Josh Tomorrow taking over. As Deadline reported,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the transition has been a fresh change of pace and
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: that there wasn't a massive shakeup of departing executives or
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: outside leadership being brought in, which gives us a little hope.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: For people who are hoping to own a bit of
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Stranger Things you can do that. The complete series is
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: coming out on Blu Ray and four K all forty
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: two seasons by or forty.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Two forty two seasons jeez.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's available for pre order now and will release
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: in the UK on July twenty seventh, and then in
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the US and Canada on July twenty.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: The Avengers won't just be facing off against Doctor Doom
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: in their next film, They'll have to go to war
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: with sandworms because Dune three Avenger's Doomsday. Both are currently
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: slated to release on December eighteenth, something that seems to
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: have upset some theater owners who feel that spacing the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: two films apart would produce better results for the brick
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: and mortar theaters. But will either of them budge?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Last for me? But not last for Jonathan. Saturday Night
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Live UK, which comes out tomorrow night, March My first
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: at ten pm UK local time, has been expanded from
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: six live episodes to eight live episodes. That's pretty fantastic.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: The first episode is being hosted by Team Bay with
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: musical guest at.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Lag Yeah, which they do a great song called Shay's Long,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: which I will play for Aeriel after we're done because
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I love it. It's so good, you know.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I'm excited for this again. I don't know if the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: political humor will hit quite as well for UK because
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not as familiar with it. But MC Sheety is
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: a part of the cast and nominal, and I'm hoping
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: that the extension of the run just means that they're
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: really knocking it out.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Of the park. All right, Well, here we go. Here's
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: a bummer of a news. I am to end it on.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, Kurt Verhe's cast Val Kilmer to star
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: in a drama titled As Deep as the Grave, but
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Kilmer's failing help prevented him from working on the movie,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: and he passed away in twenty twenty five. Vorhe's really
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: wanted Kilmer in the picture, though, so he got permission
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: from the actor's family to recreate Kilmer using generative AI
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: so that the actor could posthumously star in the film,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: which we have feelings about.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I mean I do have feelings about, because I don't
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: want it to set a precedence for doing that with
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a live actors. However, his family feels very strongly that
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: he would have wanted to continue to be a part,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: because I think he did film some scenes, but he
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't able to do all of his scenes.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: He never ever was able to actually film a scene.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: He was going to be the focus of the picture,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: but he uh, he was his medical condition deteriorated before
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: he could actually do any work.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: He had vocal cancer, he had he had a vocal
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: cord cancer or throat cancer. And uh, but they had
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: done some filming of the movie already and they couldn't
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: afford to do reshootes, so they could have recast. But
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I understand if not, if this is something Doogcoma was
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: very passionate about on a one off basis, I understand,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't want it to set a precedent. However,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: he has previously worked with AI in a film before,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and in that instance, I'm one hundred percent okay because
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he lost the ability to speak from his cancer, and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: so they used AI to recreate his voice while he
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: did the acting for Never Top Gun, And I'm okay
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I Yeah, I don't know. I I feel very conflicted,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: largely because I mean, like, we work in an audio medium,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: and I remember years ago when a company came forward
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: and asked if they could work with me to develop
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: an AI voice based off my own, and it just
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: immediately led me to think, well, then why would you
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: need me?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, I fully get that, but at least in
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Top Gun, Bell Kilmer was acting.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: He sure, no, I agree. I just think I just
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: think that the cases where you can say, oh yeah,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I understand that that's like the beginning the leading edge,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and what I worry about, and like same thing with
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: like using digital trickery to create grandmof Tarkin in Rogue
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: one right, like to recreate the actor who played grandmof
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Tarkin who had passed away years earlier. That was for
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: a little cameo role. And again they got the permission
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: from the family and everything, Like I understand all those things.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I do think it's going to set a precedent. I
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: think we're going to be seeing a lot of back
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: and forth. And what'll really determine where this goes is
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: how ultimately the public receives it. Because if people just
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: refuse to watch stuff that has like AI generated actors
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: in it, then that als send the message of well,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter how good the technology is. If people
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: reject it, then you're not going to make any money.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: So but if people do watch it, then that's where
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: things are going to go.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Now I know, well, the seg after is currently going
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to the negotiating table for the contract as we're already
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: up on the one from the last strike. And one
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: of the things is that they're going to make it
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: as expensive, if not more expensive, to use an AI
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: actor in a union production, which will be a determent
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: because if you're not saving money, then it's a lot
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: easier to just direct an actor. And I can see
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: what you're saying about the full AI performance also, it'll
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: be very uncanny Valley. But I do think that there
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: is something to be said for using it as an
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: aid with somebody who has disability and otherwise would not
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: be able to still act.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I can see that. I just know that, like, if
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I'm if I'm weighing it against this one instance can
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: help someone achieve something that otherwise they could not achieve,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: versus that one instance was the gateway to lots of
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: other very disruptive decisions that ultimately impact an entire industry,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: then I'm like, well, if I'm if I'm weighing those
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: the second one is worse. And if it means like
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: if it means like, yeah, I understand that this technology
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: would help in this one case, but if we do
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: that it opens the door for all this other stuff,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: then maybe you have to just draw a line there.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: As much as that sucks, right, Like, it's a tough call,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: you know, because like, if you're looking at it individually
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: as a case by case basis, it's very clear. If
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: you're looking at it as a timeline, it becomes less clear.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: And that's where like I tend to look as a
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: timeline simply because I've seen it advance so much since
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I started working in media, and also just knowing how
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of media companies work where they're like, when
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: you get to a certain level of leadership, everything becomes numbers.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: And to your point, like that's why the union is
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: pushing to make AI at least as expensive, if not
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: more so, than using human actors, because then it's a
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: number that those levels can really grapple with. But if
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: they're just looking at numbers and they're not thinking about
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: the actual impact on people, and I'll tell you this
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: they never do, then you could see where some decisions
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: will be made where it would of a negative impact
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: all down the whole line. So we'll see. I don't
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: mean to be all doom and gloom about it, it's
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: just I've seen too many media companies make bad decisions.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I get that, and I fully agree on
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the business side of things. I don't trust goodwill as much,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: although there are some there are some people in some
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: companies that really do think about their impact on people.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: You know, there there are a lot of very powerful
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: companies that don't. But I mean, like I am an actor,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: you know, I also don't want to get replaced by
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: AI and or either on the vocal side or on
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the acting side. And I know some some like commercials
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: already use AI voices or websites or whatever because it's
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: cheaper and easier and quicker, and they don't have the budget,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and I like, yeah, I don't like it. Plus it,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: you know, takes so much water and energy to do.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I guess it's it's just the like I like being
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: able to help somebody who's passionate about a thing and
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: has a limited amount of time to do it. But yeah,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want it to. I don't want it to.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I don't want it to become a trend because it
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: worked so well. And you know, on the one hand,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: like if a company uses an AI actor, that money
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: will go in towards pensions and healthcare, which could use
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: a boost in the union from my understanding, because I'm
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: not a part of the union yet just I don't
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: qualify it. But also on the other hand, like, don't
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: bolster it using fake actors and give real actors for
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: your opportunities. So like I do get I do get it.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: It is it is a tricky, interesting middle ground.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and there's this is playing out across other industries,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: not just film and television. I read an article this
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: morning about how this self published book that came out
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: earlier in the UK in February is no longer going
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: to come out in the United States, and in fact,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the the it's no longer going to be produced in
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: the UK because it became evident that the book was written,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: at least in some part by AI, and it was
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: just a big backlash against it. So this is something
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: that's playing out in numerous creative fields. And we've seen
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: it also with things like editing. We've seen it with
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: you know, actors, obviously, music summarizing stuff, and as good
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: as AI is, it's not human and if you're exposed
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: to a lot of it, you start to feel that.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's why I'm kind of holding out hope
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: that it won't replace actors because I've had a couple
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: of coaches say that perfection is the enemy of of humanity, right,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: and if you if your AI is acting perfectly to
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: a scenario, you're not going to get those little human
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: things that really take somebody off guard and get them
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: invested in a scene. And then also like, AI actors
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: require a lot more directing, Yeah, to get to a
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: good place. You can look at the few AI commercials
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: that have come out and they're like not great. And
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: there's a whole guy on Instagram who's like, Okay, I'm
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: gonna audition this AI actor. Why can't they follow my direction?
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Yeah, Yeah, we're just not at that point.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I want to get to that. Maybe maybe
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: we never do. You don't know, like maybe we never
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: get to a point where it's indistinguishable, or maybe we do.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Like I don't want to underestimate it either, but yeah,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: it's it's a complicated thing. And I can also understand
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: people who are excited by AI because maybe they had
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: aspirations of taking on a specific kind of project, but
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: they're not able to do all of it. So for example,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: you know, we use music from Kevin McCloud at a
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: competec dot com. I say it at the end of
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: every episode, like he has royalty free music that you
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: can use as long as you credit him. But there
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: are a lot of people who aren't aware of that
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and they want to find music for
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: their their project, and they are not themselves musicians. Maybe
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: they don't know any musicians, maybe they know some, but
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: they can't afford to pay them, so they do AI
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: generated music. And I understand like why they go that way,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: cause it's like, well, this is the thing that lets
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: me create my project. But uh, yeah, it's still one
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: of those tipping points that I feel really uncomfortable about.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: So I totally understand like the motivations behind it, and
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: I know they're not all you know, it's not all
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Sam Altman out there trying to push open AI as
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: becoming like the next biggest company in the world, despite
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: the fact that it hasn't made a profit and it
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: just burns through billions of dollars every year. But yeah,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: I just have lots of strong opinions about it because
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: I am skeptical of the good it will do. Overall.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I think it makes things easier but not necessarily better.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think we're just gonna have to wait
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: to see what the outcome for that is.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe maybe maybe it'll turn out that this movie,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: like you'll watch it and you'll think, this is exactly
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the performance that Vell Kilmer would have given, and you'll
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: feel like and his family gave their blessing, and maybe
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: at that point you'll say, like, this is actually a
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: very sweet goodbye to an actor. And you know, it
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: would be hard for me to argue against that for sure.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: And now let me go back to my segue. I
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: guess we'll just have to wait for the outcome for that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't even think about your well, because outcome
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: is just a word. Who would title their movie outcome?
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Jonah Hill?
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I think so it is? I I think so.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He co wrote and directed and also appears in
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: this It's a movie starring Keanu Reeves playing an actor
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: within the movie named Reef Hawk, who had a trouble
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: He was addicted to heroin and he leaves acting for
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: several years to kind of focus on getting his life
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: back together, and then his crisis lawyer played by Jonah Hill,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: calls him up to say that somebody claims that they
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: have a video that has something incriminating on it. Involving
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Reeve Hawk and they're blackmailing him, and the rest of
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: the movie is Reef Hawk and his team trying to
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: get a handle on the situation.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I completely did not even recognize Joannahill. This is
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: our stuff that what not really does not sort of
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: kind of fit section. By the way, Yes, yeah, I
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: didn't recognize him in the trailer at all. It is
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: It's got a huge cast in it. It honestly looks
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: kind of touching, and it's an interesting role for Keanu Reeves.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I'm I really like him in the trailer.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because he comes across as someone who is
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: aware that he's been a terrible person, but not he
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: doesn't fully understand how he's been terrible to other people
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: because he's encouraged to go and make apologies to anyone
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: who might be mad at him, but because he was,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: you know, so addicted to heroin and like in his
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: past he was out of control. So it's like it's
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: like him going and apologizing to people and they're like,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: do you even know what you're apologizing for? Which makes
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: me think of a song, you know, they say that
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I don't know what I'm sorry for.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well that's not good enough, mister. You
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: need to be aware of what you're apologizing for. Yeah,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: you mentioned that the cast is huge. There are some
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: big names. Cameron Diaz, isn't it, Laverne Cox, Drew Barrymore,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: David Spade, Martin scorsesey appears in this movie as an agent.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a lot of a lot of big
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: names that are part of this. And yeah, it looks
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: like it looks like a kind of a dark comedy
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: sort of film comes out April tenth. Any other thoughts.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I do think it looks like a dark comedy, but
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: it also looks like it's got a little bit of heart.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: But that just might be because Keanu Reeves is involved.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who knows, Like is this going to be
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: one of those where it ends in sort of a
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: uplifting or you know, satisfying way or is it going
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: to have a dark ending? Who knows? I can't go
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: either way. Yeah, it's hard to say.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Just like, just like Jack Ryan is uplifting, now, I
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: hope it's more uplifting than that.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Sometimes Jack Ryan can be uplifting. Sometimes he's uplifting a
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: person off the ground before they get blowed.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Up or you know, uplifting. Now, I don't have something.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: So Jack Ryan is a character created by Tom Clancy
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: and has been the center of several movies and series
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: over the years. Lots of different actors have played him,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: including like Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford have both played
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Jack Ryan in the past and various projects, but John
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Krasinsky has been playing him since twenty eighteen in the
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: TV series and now there is a film. There's a
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: continuation of that with John Krasinsky back in the role
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: of Jack Ryan, called Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Ghost War
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: and it's an Amazon Prime original movie.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Ghost in the show. Now. I watched the first season
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: of Jack Ryan and it was okay, it was a lot,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: but it was the story kept my interest. He didn't
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: watch the second season. The story didn't appeal to me
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: as much. But I do like John Kruzinski. I think
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: he's a good actor.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack Ryan's like a CIA. I don't think he's
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: even an agent originally, he's like more like an analyst,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: but he kind of finds himself pulled into operations like that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Was the whole thing with the Hunt for October, right,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: was that he was an analyst who thinks he's come
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: up with some information about potentially defecting Russian submarine captain
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: turns out that he's right, and so then he's put
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the action, even though he's not
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: really like an operations guy, except that then that just
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: keeps happening, like that's the whole series.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly get all because beyond the first
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: season of Amazon Prime, I don't know that I walked.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think I watched Hunt for about October. I
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: get it confused with the other things that I haven't watched,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: like the Born movies and Da Vinci Code and National Treasure.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean they all kind of share similarities, although
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: National Treasure is obviously much lighter in tone. But first
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: of all, I highly recommend the Hunt for October. I
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: think that's a very entertaining movie, and Tim Curry's in it.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: But Jack Ryan Ghost War comes out May twentieth. I
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: thought this looked like it was well made. But I
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: have not watched any of the John Krasinski Jack Ryan stuff,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: and I feel like I kind of need to because
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: I think I'd be entertained by it, and I have
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: a feeling It's the kind of thing that I would
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: just watch on my own because I don't think beck
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: It would be interested at all.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Don't think Becka would be interested. It is heavy because
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: it deals with some more current type topics.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, no, it usually involves things like, you know,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: clandestine operations in a lot of Tom Clancy stuff. It's
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: characters finding out that their own governments are worse than
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: they could have possibly imagined.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Just Season one was good, but it was very heavy.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: The next thing we've got is a trailer for Wildhorse nine,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: which I just find amusing considering I just finished Ponies,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: which was the CIA doing spy stuff in Russia in
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: the seventies, and now we have Wildhorse nine, which has
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: a very similar vibe from the trailer.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's CIA doing clandestine stuff, this time on Easter
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Island off the coast of Chile, in the time leading
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: up to a military coup in Chile which the CIA
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: was had some involvement with. And this is kind of
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: another dark comedy set in the early seventies, and it
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: features John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell playing CIA agent partners.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Malcovich's like Rockwell's mentor, and he's kind of Malcovich's I mean,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: he's Malcovich. He's nuts, not as nuts as his character
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: in Red, not that nuts, but still pretty like, uh facetious.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: And Steve Busimi's playing their boss who is stationed in Chile.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: And it also has Parker Posey and Tom Waits in
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: this why'd you think of the trailer?
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Parker Posey was almost unrecognizable to me. I thought it
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: looked good and fun, darker subject but a little bit
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: more lighthearted in its delivery.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can tell him. John Malcovich seems to be
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: having the time of his life, and I love Sam rockwell,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: so I'll probably watch this. It comes out November sixth,
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: so it looks like a fun kind of dark comedy,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: spy action sort of thing. And then we have the Yeah,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: then we have the show that we alluded to earlier
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: in this episode about gardening.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently Zach Zach galaka Nikki's now I don't know.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: He mispronounces his name in the trailer and I was
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: trying to copy it and I failed. Zach Galifanakis is
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: doing a show about gardening and how we as a
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: society really need to hold on to the knowledge of
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: how to like grow plants in our own food and
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: that it's really important for, you know, the survival of society.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: And it looks funny and thoughtful and a little scary
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: at times.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it's really about connecting everything, like you
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: were saying, like the art, the science, the humanity around
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: agriculture and gardening in particular is titled this is a
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Gardening Show. Since we didn't mention that, but that is
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: the title of the show. And yeah, it looks silly
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: and it feels like Zach galavan Akis even said in interviews,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: like the whole the whole reason he wanted to do
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: this was to learn, And so the audience gets to
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: learn while he is learning, and they get to see
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: him ask the dumb questions and to blindly stumble into
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: stuff as he is learning about agriculture and gardening. And
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I was like, that's that sounds great. I love things
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: that are entertaining and educational. I love science communicators, and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: even if he is not a science communicator himself, the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: fact that he's going to be interacting with people who are,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: I think is really interesting.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: I agree. It is also interesting because there are a
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: few very adult jokes in the trailer, but He also
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: spends a lot of time with kids, because it's that
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: childlike wonder.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the bit where he takes a call
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: on an ear of corn.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cute.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. This is corn.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: I think. I think I'm going to very much enjoy
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: this show and maybe learn some stuff about growing plants,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: because I'm like, as much as I love planting my
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: spring planters, I'm only mediocre at keeping them alive.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. I have a plant to my
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: left that I'm looking at right now. I have had
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: it for a couple of years, and it has survived
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: despite my best efforts not thrive, though it's consistently looking
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: like it's only barely hanging on. But it's only been
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: barely hanging on for like three years now. Yeah. The
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: show comes out on Netflix on April twenty second, So
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: it looks looks pretty cute.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: It does. It does, And that's all for our stuff
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: that only kind of whatnot sort of fits.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Which means we have come to that special time of
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: the episode where we shake our flashlight as it sputters,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: where we pass that television that's tuned to the static
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: channel for some reason that we set foot on the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: bottom step on a flight of creaky stairs as a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: billion spiders swarm us and carry us up to the
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: top level. I'm out by, Sorry, you're you're ahead of me,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: so spider Spider Cherriot, it is okay. We only have
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: to two movies to talk about, So I really lost.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: I really had to. I really had to wind you
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: up because we only have two movies to talk about.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Did you watch.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I did? I did half watch them.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: I don't have a whole lot to say because I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: don't think either of these I think both of these
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: are interesting ideas, and I don't know that I would
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: like the execution of either of them. The first one
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: is a thriller. It's titled Longtime Listener, and the premise
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: is a true crime podcaster finds herself the target of
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: a stalker who is a frequent call in listener to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: her show, and then there's a mystery like could the
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: stalker actually be her partner? Could it be her manager?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Could it be this young woman who is sort of
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: an up and coming potential competitor who also wants to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: become like a true crime podcast phenomenon. However, I will
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: say that the trailer made it blatantly clear that whoever
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: wrote this doesn't actually know how podcasts work, as the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: one pointer or manager comes up to her and says,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: the quarterly ratings are in, and I'm like, no, no,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: they're not. You don't get ratings on a quarterly basis.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: You get analytics real time, like whenever you want, Like
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: you don't have to wait for the quarterly ratings to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: come out on your podcast. You can really use several
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: different tools to get analytics on your show and how
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: it's doing so, like they're treating podcasting like its radio,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: you know, or TV.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was honestly kind of because the trailer we
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: have is on Vimeo. It's kind of surprised that you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: even came across it.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: Well, it's only because so here's a peak behind the curtain.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: I had not really found anything to put in the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: horror hutch, which is unusual. I mean typically I'm like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: cutting things out because there's way too many. So I
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: went to Bloody Disgusting dot com to see what they
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: had been writing about, and this was one of the
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: things they wrote about. And I was like, oh, why
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: haven't I seen this trailer. I'm like, oh, it's on Vimeo.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: That's why so I watched it. It comes out April
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: second on AMC's All Black Network, a LLB LK network,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: and then has wider release for digital rental on April third,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: and maybe like everyone looks like they're doing a good job,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: but it does give me that low budget digital video
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: shot kind of feel. Yeah, And that's what throws That's
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: what kind of puts me off, is that it doesn't
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: quite look polished enough. And I like the idea, but
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: the fact that they clearly don't really know how podcasting
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: works kind of irritates me as someone who's been doing
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: it since two thousand and eight.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Totally understandable. I will say it does have a geeky
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: tie in because the director has acted in both Third
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Rock from the Sun and The Flash, which I would
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: wager are both peek shows.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think you know what, again,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: the premise sounds interesting to me, and I mean maybe
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: it's because I am a podcaster, and it's that thing
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: where like entertainment loves movies or shows or whatever that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: are also about the business of entertainment becomes kind of
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: self congratulatory. The other thing that's on my list is Saturnalia,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: which is a movie that's been made to kind of
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: mimic Italian jallo films from the seventies, like the works
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: of Dario Argento. Oh yeah, those are incredible, like Suspiria, isn't.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Both Suspiria's are incredible movies. They're very different, despite the
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: fact that one is kind of supposed to be a
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: remake of the other one, Really it's more like it's
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: more like they both took the same core idea and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: then did a totally different variation on it. So I
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: really like both Suspiria movies, but Dario Agenta's Suspiria in
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: particular looks like it's a big influence on Saturnalia. So
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: the movie setting is in the nineteen seventies. It's a
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: young woman whose parents have died and she is finds
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: herself sent to like a girl's boarding school, and the
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: headmistress is like this sadistic leader who deals out corporal
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: punishment at the drop of a hat. There's also mysterious
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: men and some masked individuals running around doing who knows what.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: So it's got a lot of the elements of jello,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: like the lighting effects, you know, highlighting Someone's eyes, the
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: Gloved Attacker. That's a big thing in Jello movies. But
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: it feels like it's it's like a copy of a copy,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Like it feels like someone knows, like I really like Jello,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna take all the things I like and
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: try and make a movie like that. And again, it's
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: shot on digital, and I would argue that if you're
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: going to make a Jallo movie, you need to shoot
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: it on film because it just doesn't look right.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Also the trailer like Beyond just not looking right.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: The story just only vaguely intrigued me, and then there
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: was a speculum and then I was.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Like, ah, yeah, I'm you know, I I wanted to
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: like this more. Claudio Simin of Goblin did the score.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: If you aren't aware, Goblin is a progressive rock band
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: out of Germany that did music for Dario Agino movies,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: including Suspiria. So it's like it has like all the
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: superficial tie ins with the Yello movies of the seventies.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: But it does feel like it's kind of a weak
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: copy to me. That's just my opinion. I have not
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: seen any reviews about this, so maybe it turns out
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: that it's way better than I'm giving it credit for,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: in which case I'll own up to it. It comes
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: out on April twenty fourth on digital platforms, and that's it.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: So let's just take the spider Elevator down and we
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: can get out here.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: I'll go out the window.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Okay, How yeah, the windows shattering effect that I'm
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: sure I put in there is going to really jush
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: up the pot guest.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, like I tried to Spider Man
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: my way out, but I am just not a Spider
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Man of course.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Now, no, we we had the Spider Man last week,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: remember the Men. The Men's like it.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Well, now we have actual Spider Man. Welcome to the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: actual show and our show notes.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. First up, we've got a teaser for Spider
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Man brand new day, and we see Peter Parker kind
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: of dealing with the repercussions of his choices from the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: previous Spider Man movie where he made everyone forget that
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: he was that Peter Parker is Spider Man.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Including vaguely his own body.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah maybe. Yeah. So it's it's like him peeking in
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: on his former friends who no longer know who he is,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: and seeking advice from Bruce Banner, who does not know
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: who he is. It's it's an interesting teaser. Also shows
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: the Punisher and it shows the hand Sorpion.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Scorpion. Yeah, I'm so excited. I love that actor.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: It's cool to see him see him come back because
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: he was in the very first Spider Man one, right,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: the one with Michael Keaton as the Vulture.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: He works for the Vulture. Yeah, he was maybe in
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: the Easter Egg at the end, but he's also done
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: voices on Far Cry and he was in I Think
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Better Call Saul. He's just a really phenomenal actor. So
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: it was either Better Saul or Breaking Bad, but he
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: was better.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: I like the teaser. I don't really know what's going on,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: but there also seems to be a villain that can
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: possess people as long as it can see someone that
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: can shift its consciousness to them. There's this brief sequence
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: where it appears to go through like start at one person,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: go to a second person, then go to a third person.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what the it's about.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, despite the sadness of the trailer, it kind of
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: leaves you a little bit hopeful at the end. There's
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: a little nod in the trailer where he says like,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just a neighbor and the other person's like friendly neighbor,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: which nods to friendly neighborhood Spider Man, which is delightful.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: You're very cute.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we know that Daredevil has been in Spider Man
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: in the past. They don't show him in this trailer,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: so like there's a there's a logical leap to having
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Frank Castle the Punisher in it, but he feels like
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: a tonally so because I have watched some Punisher. He
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: is totally so different from Spider Man the way that
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: he's been portrayed in the Marvel Netflix.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there is a cute bit where he's about
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: to let loose with a big curse word and then
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Peter zaps his mouth with webbing. So it's like, that's
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: kind of like you're trying to have it both ways, right,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: You're trying to have Frank Castle still be the gritty
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: character he is in his own series, but also stay
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: true to the more lighthearted tone of the Spider Man series.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm cool with that. I think that's fine.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: I do hope Daredevil shows up in it. I mean,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: the fact that the hand, isn't it.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just you know, it feels like they're tying him
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: into the Defenders, which are you know, slowly coming back
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: to Disney Pluss.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Jessica Jones shows up, that'd be great too.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: I would love that.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: That would be a hard tie in. But I mean,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Spider Man is a more street level kind of character.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I think that's the big challenge this
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: movie faced was how can they reframe Spider Man as
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: being more of a street level character, because you know,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: in his past outings he's had sort of more cosmic
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: level adventures and and yeah, that's tricky. Also, if you're
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: thinking that Ariel is taking off into the stratsphere, she's not.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: There's just people doing long work outside her windows.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: They were here at eight am this morning, in front
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: of my window. They should not be back. I'm so sorry, folks.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I wasn't sure where they
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: were going to go, but I'm now I have to.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Know, I have to know. I you know, I think
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: I feel the same way like I was, Like, I've
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: kind of cooled on Marvel in general, but this does
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: have me interested. It comes out July thirty, first, yes.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: Next, we have a trailer for Dune three and their
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: teaser rather and it looks okay. I've kind of cooled
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: on the Dune movies. The third movie, I don't I
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't have any purchase in this.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: This is an adaptation of the second Dune novel, Dune Messiah,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: So it's a continuation of the series. Interesting that it's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: just going to be one movie, because you know, they
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: famously split the first novel into two, but then the
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: second novel, which I think is just as long, it's
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: going to be a single movie. The the director has
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: said that this is it, like this is the last
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: one he's doing, that this third movie is going to
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: be his swan song for or sand worm song I
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: guess for Doune. So this one shows like Paul and Chohannie,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: his lover expecting the birth of their child, while various
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: forces conspire to take him down because he now he's
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: he has the new emperor of the whole empire. That's
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: what happened at the end of the second movie, if
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: you didn't know. I think the most important thing to
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: note about this film is that two of my girlfriends
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: are in it, because Florence Pugh is in it, and
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Anya Taylor Joy is in it.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, Robert Pattinson.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Robert Pattinson is not one of my girlfriends. But if
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: he wants to, you know, if he wants to make
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: out a little bit, I'm not going to say no.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: I mean he pulls off Harconan pretty well, well.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: He's not a Harcona. He's a he's a he's a
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: He's able to mask himself, he's able to change his form.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that anyhow, but he still he still
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: pulls off the look. Well, they're also samurai in this trailer.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Well, there are so in the Dune universe. There are
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: all these different factions of warriors who are have various reputations.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: So I think that's what you're seeing there. But yeah,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of like giant epic formations of warrior
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: shots in this teaser.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm I I am less familiar past the
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: first book for sure. If you couldn't tell, uh, it
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: is interesting. It is the third movie that Zendaya and
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: Robert Pattinson are in in current times, the O there's
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: the Drama and the Odyssey.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: And the it's the second Zendaya movie in a row
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: that we talked about on this show because she's also
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: obviously in Spider Man.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: We had a really great interview. It was either on
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert. I can't remember which, but
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: like this past week talking about the drama and Doune
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: and Robert Pattinson. So that was cute to check it out.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am interested in learning more about this. You
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: know what, I watched the first Dune movie. I never
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: saw the second one. I've read the book, so you know,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: part of it was just like, well, I've read the book.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the second movie was better, partially because
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: there was just more going on, Like there was more action, right,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: I had a bit better pacing, and there was we went,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: We got through a lot more story in the second movie.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: So I liked the first movie. I liked the second
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: one better. I honestly thought the first movie just ended
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: in a really weird place.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and as I mentioned earlier in this episode, the
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: film will come out December eighteenth, right up against Avengers Doomsday.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: Assuming that one our both of those movies don't change dates.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have to, we have to write a mashup
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: at that time, Avengers Doomsday.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: The thought had crossed my mind.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: I mean technically you could. We did the Dune Spice
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: Girls mash up not too long ago. You can pop
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: that in at the end of this episode too.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I had completely forgotten about that. Like,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: after I write something and record it, it's like, well,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: don't need that anymore. My brain just rewrites over it.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's that's all we got on some we're doing.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: We're done with Dune.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can move on and get real savage.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's a trailer for this movie called Savage House,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: which is broke satire.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: Well, if it's baroke, then I don't think it could
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: be satire. You got to fix it first.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's it's like powdered wigs in white makeup and
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: and aristocracy but also gross.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a dark comedy set in the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: seventeen hundreds in the UK during a pox outbreak and
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: the Jacobite Uprising. And this this noble house, led by
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: Sir Chauncey Savage played by Richard E. Grant and Lady
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: Savage played by Clairefoy, are doing their best to scrabble
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: together more wealth and power, and they'll they'll resort to
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: stuff like violence if they have to. It does look
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: like it's very British, like very British insensibility and humor,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: dark humor. But golly, I love Richard D. Grant so
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: much that dude, he is a scenery chewer. There is
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: no piece of scenery left unchewed if he is needs setting.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: To it, which you need in this movie. I want
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: to want to see it, but it just looks like
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: it might be just a little too gross for me.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. Well, here's the thing. You might
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: not get a chance to see it because as far
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: as I've seen, there's no US release date yet. There
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: is a UK release date of June fifth, but I
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: haven't seen anything for the United States yet. I'd probably
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: at least try to watch some of this to see
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: if I would gel with it. There are like some
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: dark comedies out of the UK where it just doesn't
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: like I'm like, no, there's just too much of a
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: cultural divide, as much of an Anglo file as I am.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: I can't really get on board with this tone and
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: humor that does happen sometimes. But there are other times
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: where I'm like, oh no, this is right up my street,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, And I guess if you don't live
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: in the UK, there's possibly still a way to if
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: you're creative and resource well, you might still be able
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: to catch it if you have like box or something.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm sure it will eventually come to us somehow.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: Whether it gets a theatrical release or not, I don't know,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: but maybe it'll come to digital next we come back.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this before. We had a teaser before,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: and now we have a trailer for Star Wars Mall
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: shadow Lord, and mall is in Darth Maul, not as in,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: let's go to the mall.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Everybody stop anticipating my jokes and not anticipating my jokes.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: That we could we could do. We could do a
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: crossover of Forbidden Fruits and Star Wars Mall Shadow Lord.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: It's the different kind of mall.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Mall Rats, which only half of our listeners would remember.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm going with Forbidden Fruits, a movie
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: that is coming out soon that I.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: Won't watch, but I so the The Star Wars cartoon
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: series are very well done. I kind of fell off
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: of them and this story is the least interesting of
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: all to me. For me, the best thing I can
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: say about this trailer where Darth Maul pretends to have
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: varying sensibilities and loyalties is that it makes me want
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: to play the Star Wars RPG again.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The basic premise here is it's after the Clone Wars.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: So the Clone Wars have come to an end, the
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Glactic Empire is established, and Mal is trying to re
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: establish his criminal empire. Is trying to become a crime
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: lord because apparently he was that in the Clone Wars
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: at some point. I never watched the Clone Wars, so
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: I'm only kind of tangentially aware. Like in my mind,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: Darth Maul's story ended when he was cut in half
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: in Phantom Menace, but clearly that's just where it began,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: and he's also.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Looking to can fix anything.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: He's also looking to take on a new apprentice. Yeah,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: getting bisected is not a fatality in the Star Wars universe.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: He's looking to take on an apprentice, and of course
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: there's a Jedi on the run. And honestly, like I
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: wrote it says it continue use the long tradition of
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: Star Wars, which is undermining everything that was established in
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: the very first Star Wars movie, where you feel like, oh,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: everything Obi Wan ever said was a lie based upon
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: how everything else plays out. So I think Star Wars
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: like a New Hope. I had recognized that the Empire
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: strikes back. A lot of people think of that as
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: the best movie in the whole series, and it's hard
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: for me to disagree. First of all, you aren't allowed
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: to talk anymore. But second of all, Ewok movie is trash.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: But and I said that as a kid effort. I
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: saw it when it came out. I remember when it
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: came out as a kid, and I hated it. And
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: then I watched the sequel and I hated it more.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: The sequel was but the sequel really feels like a
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: continuation of Willow.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Almost the sequel kills off one of the characters that
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: you're you're try, you're rooting for for the entire first movie,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: and then they turned around and the beginning of the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: second movie kill that character off.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: I like the first one better, okay, but.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: I like a New Hope. The first Star Wars movie
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: that's my favorite. I think Empire is probably a better movie,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: but New Hope is still my favorite and so seeing
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: like the continuation of the Star Wars franchise where there
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: are more and more contradictions to what was established in
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: a new Hope hurts as a fan because I liked
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: that movie so much and there are justifications you can make,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: like and they are legitimate justifications, and I can't really
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: argue with them, and it could just be that, you know,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: it's my mistake for taking the movie at face value,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: but it's still my the way I feel. So when
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: I watched this trailer, I was like, Yeah, this is
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: just doing more of the stuff that I don't like
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: about Star Wars. But it does come out on April sixth.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: Two episodes come out on the first day, and it
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: will play out until Star Wars Day, May the fourth.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: I am I agree. I I have said this before.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just tired of sequels prequels. But if you're interested
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: in it and you like the cartoons, they are well done,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: I hope you super enjoy. The next trailer we have
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: is one that I watched the first like quarter of
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: and when oh this this doesn't feel like a fit,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: and didn't bother watching the rest of the trailer, and
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: if I had I would have included it in our
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: show notes, but thankfully Jonathan is more steadfast than I am.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: It's for a movie called The Highest Stakes. Oh shoot,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: I can't remember his name.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: It stars Seth Green.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: Seth Green. I was gonna be like Jamie Fox, but
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: it's not.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: No, it's Seth Green tying back lay.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was seeking Jamie Kennedy, who's not Jimmy Fox.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: And it's also not Seth Green.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: No. Jamie Kennedy was in the first two Scream movies, Yes,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: and then Seth Green was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: Look. I didn't watch Buffy or Scream until well after
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: they were initially popular, and so yes, I get those
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: two A little bit confused, that's fair.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: I do it all the time. I can't really criticize you.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: Everyone knows I mess up names constantly. Usually it's two
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: names that are similar to one another. But I have
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: done what you just did. Yeah, so Highest Stakes. I
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: can understand what you're saying, Ariel, because when you start
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: watching this movie or this trailer, the premise seems to
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: be that a group of people, a diverse group of people,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: not that diverse. I think they're all white, A group
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: of people, one of them a woman. That's how it
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: makes it diverse. Four men and the woman are picked.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: It's seql to three men and a baby. There's just
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: been an a.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: Dish, wasn't it last week where we talked about how
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: there was that Guy Ritchie movie where it's like two
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: two secret agents and a woman.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, where the woman's the grays in the gray,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: in the gray in the gray.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not only that, like it's it's it doesn't just
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: seem like it's these these random people playing a poker game.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: It's got like a B movie feel to it.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, totally. It's got that same sort of digital
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: video look that I was talking about with Saturnalia. It's
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: got that kind of look, except this one is about, Uh,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: they're mysteriously summoned to play like a high stakes poker
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: game where there's supposed to be like a twenty million
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: dollar prize purse at the end, but they realize as
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: they're playing that there's more on the line than just money,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: their own survivals on the line, and also weird stuff
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: is happening, like they try and leave and there's no
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: one outside, and if they try and leave, more than
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: that they find themselves right back inside their hotel rooms.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Little do they know that they're actually playing at the
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: Hotel California. If that is the twist, I'm so smart.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: Now you can check out whenever you want, but you
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: can never leave. It's not because it's it's in. It's
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: supposed to be in New Orleans. But did you if
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: you if you start this trailer and ariel, you should
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: do this afterwards, Like look at the caption for New Orleans,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: Louisiana because they misspelled Orleans.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: Amazing.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: It's O R E L A N S. So it's Orleans,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: New Orleans, not Nolans anyway.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: The Also, it's not you can check out any time
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: you'd like it. You can cash out anytime you'd like
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: That should be the tagline the trailer.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: The fact that the trailer has a typo in it
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: should not give you much confidence. But yeah, I think
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: the the high level concept is really of interesting. This idea,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: this this group of people who appear to share no
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: commonality between them apart from playing poker, are put into
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: this situation. It kind of puts me into the mind
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: of things like cube or saw. Yeah, it doesn't look
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: like it's nearly as violent as either of those things.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: But but I mean.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: It's just a trailer because it's set in New Orleans.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: I think that, like my guess is that they have
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: made like they've all kind of separately, maybe not even
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: realizing it, made a deal with like a crossroad devil
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: for their soul.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's degatory. It definitely feels like there's some
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: sort of devilish thing going on, like Seth Green is
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: either an agent of the devil or perhaps the devil himself,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: but it's hard to say. Like some of the some
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: of the shots in the trailer show Seth Green seemingly
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: leading the group as they're trying to escape, so it's
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: it's hard to say. Based on the trailer, I do
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: feel like if this were just perhaps a little more
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: professionally made and shot on film, I might be intrigued
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: enough to check it out. But at the moment, I'm
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: just feeling like it's missed the mark. For Me Slightly
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: comes out April fourteenth on digital, so maybe I'll take
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: a look and see what the reviews are when it
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: comes out, and maybe maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. But
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: because I like Seth Green as an actor quite a bit.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: So maybe if it's if it's well reviewed, maybe I'll
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: check it out.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Even if it's poorly done and it's fun. Yeah, if
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: the review is good, you know that I'm for it.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: Something else that is fun and almost always well done,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the whole like wallet and gramas
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: extended universe.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: Really wallet and gramas.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: You say, I said, Wallace, you did not?
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: You said wallet?
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, well I stand by it now that you've pointed
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: it out. The wallet in gramas extended universe, of which
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Sean the Sheep is a part of. And we're getting
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: a new shown the sheet movie, The Beast of the
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: Soggy Bottom Boys. I'm just gonna really lean into it now.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: It's the Beast of Mossy Bottom in.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: The Easy Way and the Mossy Bottom.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, in case you want to
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: actually look this up.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: Also has a mossy bottom. I don't know.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's the trailer. Is it's got that, you know,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: armand studios, classic humor and charm. Sheep kind of behaving
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: like zombies for a second. The titular monster is is
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: sort of a bigfoot stand in. I'm sure it'll be
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: revealed to be something else by the end of.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: The movie, a giant sheep dog or something.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just looks like a fur ball with arms
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: and legs really as it's running around. But uh, it
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: looks super cute.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: It does. I was gonna say the monster in it
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: reminds me of Gossamer from Bugs Bunny, the big just
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: red haired because in it kind of style monster. But
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like this is going to very much be
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: like a purple flower shaggy dog story or dogs I
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: don't know what they're called. We're like like the Viking story,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: right where you've got all this lead up to something
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: scary and then it's just Hi, I'm your neighbor and
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: I like you.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we have come to the end of our episode. No,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: because I want to mention that we've come to the
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: end of our episode. But it wouldn't be a larger
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: drug collider episode if there weren't some sort of technical
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: problem as well as people doing yard work routes at
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: our windows.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: So for those of you to the yard work, we're
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: going to have to switch days.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's the problem is that if we do thursdays,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: then we have to deal with my yard work. The
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: show actually came to a rinding halt because we had
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: that same issue where massive lag hit us out of nowhere.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: But we had just finished talking about Sean the Sheep,
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  Speaker 2: the Beast of Mossy Bottom.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: The Beast with Soggy Bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Comes up, comes out September eighteenth. I think we're both
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  Speaker 2: on board as saying it looks very cute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and now from a really cute from really cute
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: furry creatures too, I would say less cute furry creatures.
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  Speaker 1: We got a title revealed teaser for Sonic four, which
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's a little bit more than a title
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: revealed just proper, but also like it's not why. It
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: just shows the characters we already know are in it,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: and it's like something's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And also the title is Sonic the Hedgehog four four. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see like a subtitle or anything, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so, So how is this a
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: title reveal?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, I guess. I guess in our
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: age we should be thankful that a sequel has the
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: number after it, because so many movies have just dumped that,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: you know, recently.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the miss they say, the mystery title of Sonic
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  Speaker 1: the Hedgehog four has been revealed. Uh is it?
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: It's Sonic the Hedgehog four.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to film now be known as Sonic the
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: hedge How okay? From Polygon? This sentence is hilarious. Paramount
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  Speaker 1: Pictures and Sega revealed the final title for next year's
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: Sonic the Hedgehog four. The film will now be known
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: as Sonic the Hedgehog four and not Sonic CD, Sonic
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: three and Knuckles Sonic the Hedgehog four coll An Episode one,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: Dash Parabellum or Amy the Hedgehog, featuring.
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  Speaker 2: Sonic who wrote who wrote that? Can you tell me who?
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: Michael make Worther?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah. Polygon's got a lot of smart alecs on
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: their their site, which that, by the way, is a
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: compliment from me. It's not. I'm not dismissing it.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: I like that, But that sentence fully encapsulates how I
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: feel about the fact that we got a teaser for
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: the title reveal.
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  Speaker 2: In a way, I respect it because it is such
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: a cheeky kind of trolley move, and in another way
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: it is kind of exasperating. But you know, I do
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  Speaker 2: think it would be fun. Fun is probably too strong
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: a word. It'd be amusing to take someone who has
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: never seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, such as, oh,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know me, present them with all the titles
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: of all the different Fast and Furious movies and say
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: put these in order, because I don't think I could
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: do it after the first two. And I might even
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: get that, And I might even get the first one
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: wrong because the Fast and Furious and then there's Fast
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: and Furious.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and in fact, there is an um actually
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: question in this season of them actually on dropout where
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: they ask you to name it's I think I'm it
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: might be on there Couples one where they ask you
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: to name all of the Fast and Furious movies in order.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: I would never be able to do it. I maybe
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: could do the third one, because third one, I think
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: is Tokyo Drift, So I think I could probably do
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: the first well, I could do the second one, and
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: the third one. I don't know that I could get
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: the first one right.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched any of them, but I also know
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: like the first one takes itself a little too seriously
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: and then they get fun. But I don't want to
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: sit through the first one to watch the rest.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: Well. It's also it's one of those series where with
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: each subsequent entry it becomes more ludicrously cartoonish, like people
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: are able to do things that you just physically cannot
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: do in a car just on the rag.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: The closest I've watched to Fast and Furious is Never
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Stop Blowing Up, which is a Dimension twenty game where
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: they do some ridiculous things with cars that you shouldn't
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: be able to do, and some of them infuriate the DM.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I've not watched the movies. I've been told
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: that they're fun and I should, but I've also not
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: watched the Sonic movies, where you're also about being Fast
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: and Furious.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: So true, it's true. Yeah, I bet there are more
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: Chili Dogs than the Sonic ones, which is better.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: Which, by the way, I take it back. If you're
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: going to stick one of our old mashups on to
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: the end of this episode, it should not be the
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: Spice Girl's Dune one. It should be the Sonic the
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: Hedgehog Dune one, which was one of our og ones.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: Was it? Holy cow? I don't have any memory of
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: that either. I won't be I won't be doing any
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: of that because it would mean I'd have to go
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: back and find those audio files. And also this episode's
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: already more than an hour and a half long.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: So but but if y'all want to if y'all want
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: to hear it, yes, one of one of our OG's.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: If you go on our website, both of those episodes
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: have character art, so our episode art, so you should
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: be able to find it based on that.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, back in the day, this show was a
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: little different, and we did include mashups in pretty much
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: every episode. But you know, we it got longer and longer,
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: to the point where the mashups just it was it
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: was it was, it would each episode would be two
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: hours plus if we were to do them.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll start pairing down in the future, or
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: on a quiet week we'll do a mashup. We've considered
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: it a couple of times recently, and then the news
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: has just blown up, which I am grateful for. I
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: am grateful that we've got so much new content coming
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: out and lately so many things that are like seem
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: a bit more original, Like I'm all for that. So
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, maybe we'll take a day if
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: there's enough asked for it because we've had we have
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: had some people say they miss our mashups and just
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: do like, take the list of the mashups that we've
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: thought of and maybe just do a week where maybe
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: sometime when we know that we're going to be off
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: further in advance, just do a bunch of mashups in
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: an episode.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to remember how I think I always
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: had it where so and so has a problem. I
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: think that was how I started every single one. Yeah,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: it's been so long since I've written one that I
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: was like, man, how did I do the formula? Yeah? No,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: I would I wouldn't mind flexing the muscles again. It's
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: been I'm pretty rusty, but I would love to give
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: it another shot and maybe we'll maybe you know, if
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: I will say this, if we did this show where
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: we were Patreon supported, that would be bonus content right there.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: But yeah, y'all, we don't monetize this sucker at all,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: so you can just get the bonus content from us straight.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: Well, and I guess technically OG is wrong. OG are
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: video mashups, which I would love to do again if
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: I can ever find a videographer.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: So yeah, those were fun. I still think like our
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: seven Sons of the Seventh Samurai was a really good one, Yes, and.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: Our reboot of or Versus Clash of the Titans was
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: also quite good.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: It was a great visual gag. Fantastic that that one.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: And the Game of Thrones muppets one was. Yeah, that
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: visual gag was fantastic.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: I'm really proud of those. Yeah, I wish we could
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: have done more of them. It's just so time consuming
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: and just trying to find someone who can shoot and
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: edit video because neither of us or Aeriel's better at
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: it than I am. Certainly I could not do it.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: I could edit video, I don't have quite the resources
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: to shoot it well. And I know, like we could
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: do something that's like vertical short level. I just have
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: to figure that out and do it a bit more. Really,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: the big problem is my computer only does so much
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: video editing, and that is usually to the extent of
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: an audition, which I'm grateful it'll even do that.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it's very resource intensive, it is.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: But that you know that aside. We have come to
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: the end of our show for this week with high
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: aspirations for the future. If we can make them work.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: So if you enjoyed what you listened to, or you
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: had thoughts on any of the many, many things we
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: talked about, Jonathan, how would they reach out to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the best way to reach out to me is
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: to assemble a group of friends who all have particular
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: abilities and skills, you know, put them in some really
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: cool outfits, and then you're all going to band together
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: and as a unit, go out and do battle with worms.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: Just you know, find some worms that maybe wait for
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: it to rain. Just go out there and find them
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: and then challenge them. Don't squish them or anything, because
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: that's just rude, but you know, challenge them and see
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: what they do. And if they put up a fight,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: then you can fight back obviously. And then whoever wins
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: on December eighteenth, you can come to me and tell me,
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: like who won, just so I'll know And in the
• 1:40:28
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• 1:40:31
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• 1:41:01
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• 1:41:04
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• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: I thought Wednesday was Thursday. So but I have seen
• 1:41:12
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• 1:41:24
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