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Is Everything a Musical Now? · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large nor Drunk Ladder podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about him. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: is the crazy cool Jonathan Strickland free Bird, Free free Bird,
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Speaker 1: Free Free Freebird. I'm shouting out my request pure band, Freebird.
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Speaker 1: You're a day late, Johnathan. Well, and I was there. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we come to you a day later than usual because
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Speaker 1: of lots of life was busy this past week, especially
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Speaker 1: for Ariel. Yes, Ariel has has various gigs to do,
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Speaker 1: especially her band playing at the gig we've been talking
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Speaker 1: about the last couple of weeks. It all went very well.
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Speaker 1: I can report that her band sounded great and it
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Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Well, thank you, Jonathan. We
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Speaker 1: had a lot of fun doing it. If if you
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Speaker 1: listen and you were there, like I know my bandmate listens,
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Speaker 1: so this doesn't really count for her. But if you
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Speaker 1: listen and you were there, thank you for showing up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was a ton of fun. I am super tired
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Speaker 1: today and a little bit horse. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you can all hear that or maybe it's just you know,
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Speaker 1: my sexy vocal fry. I like to say that Ariel's
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Speaker 1: doing a genuine pony. She's a little horse. Also, because
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Speaker 1: we won't have an episode next Friday, Jonathan is going
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Speaker 1: to south By Southwest, so this kind of fills out
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Speaker 1: that space just a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: we apologize ahead of time for a lack of an
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Speaker 1: episode this coming week. But yeah, as Ariel said, I
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Speaker 1: will be in Austin, Texas. It's a work trip. I'm
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Speaker 1: just there for the weekend to do a panel and
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Speaker 1: then I'll be coming back. So we should be back
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Speaker 1: to normal following that. Don't hold us to it, but
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Speaker 1: that's the plan. Yeah, our goal is always to do
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Speaker 1: like some buffer episodes, but this was this is kind
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Speaker 1: of a last minute schedule change for you, I know.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, it's wild to get a text message
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere saying, hey, do you want to go
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Speaker 1: to south By Southwest for a panel for us? And
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Speaker 1: I think that's a very casual way to ask if
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Speaker 1: I will participate, because I mean, you figured that the
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Speaker 1: panel thing that already had to be in motion well
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Speaker 1: before I got that text message, right, So yeah, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: it should be a lot of fun. If you're in Austin,
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Speaker 1: Texas and you happened by the Saint Cecilia Hotel and
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Speaker 1: you see me, you can wave. I will not answer you.
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Speaker 1: I will not answer your questions because you have to
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Speaker 1: go through way more steps than that. It. We'll find
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Speaker 1: out about that at the and um, yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: it's I'm not surprised they want you on their panel
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Speaker 1: because you are super cool. Uh. Yeah. So we get
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Speaker 1: a lot of news to talk about this week. UM,
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun geeky stuff, some like stuff that
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Speaker 1: didn't that I saw and didn't necessarily come across as
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Speaker 1: geeki to me. But when Jonathan saw it, he goes, yes,
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Speaker 1: this needs to be at it, and I think he
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Speaker 1: was right. Um, so we're very excited to talk about
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Speaker 1: all that. But first we're going to do thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: or less her usual UM, and we're the first thirty
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Speaker 1: seconds or less is not it's not a story that
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Speaker 1: really deserves to be at a thirty seconds or less,
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Speaker 1: So it's just kind of we're just starting off with it. Um,
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Speaker 1: which is that Rico Browning, who was a like an
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Speaker 1: underwater stump person an actor, passed away recently most famous
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Speaker 1: for being the gill man in the Creature from the
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Speaker 1: Black Lagoon. Our our thoughts. He also was inte role
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Speaker 1: in creating this show and franchise. Flipper just did a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of really cool swim stunt type stuff. Our
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Speaker 1: thoughts go out to your family. Yes, yeah, he uh.
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Speaker 1: If you look for YouTube videos for interviews with him,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of it of interviews where people
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Speaker 1: went to like conventions that he was appearing at and stuff.
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Speaker 1: He always came across as genuine and friendly and enthusiastic.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, I know that Ariel is probably touched by
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Speaker 1: this because she has a very strong fondness for the creature,
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Speaker 1: feature film ography, and mythos. Yes, yes, definitely. Well. Our
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Speaker 1: next one is a story that made made me a
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Speaker 1: little puzzle. Dead by Daylight the video game. The computer
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Speaker 1: game is being made into a film. If you're not
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Speaker 1: familiar with that game, it's an asynchronous, cooperative competitive game
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Speaker 1: where one person plays a killer and the other people
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Speaker 1: play survivors who are trying to escape the killer. The
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Speaker 1: reason why I think it's weird is that a lot
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Speaker 1: of Dead by Daylight characters are either directly inspired by
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Speaker 1: or our famous film Monsters, so I'm curious to see
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Speaker 1: what the movie is actually gonna be. Yeah, it feels
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Speaker 1: like a weird one to me, just because if I
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Speaker 1: can't be the killer, then what's the point? Yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: next story is that we've got some cast announcements for
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Speaker 1: the final season of Umbrella Academy, which Jonathan still has
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Speaker 1: not watched and is sorely missing out on. Nick Offerman
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Speaker 1: and Megan mollally, who, if you don't know, they're married.
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Speaker 1: Nick Offerman was Ron Swanson in Parkson Raki was also
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Speaker 1: in episode three of the Last of Us. Megan mollally
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Speaker 1: has done many things, but I know her most as
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Speaker 1: Karen and from Willie Grace and then David Cross, who
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Speaker 1: was the never nude in Arrested Development, are all joining.
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Speaker 1: Nick Offerman and Megan Malali will be playing being a
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Speaker 1: married couple college professors, and David Cross will be playing
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Speaker 1: a business owner who is trying to reconnect with his
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Speaker 1: daughter at any cost. So I look forward to these
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Speaker 1: great actors joining the cast. They're really good at doing
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Speaker 1: a good mix of like serious and quirky. Yeah, Nick
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Speaker 1: Offerman and Megan Milelli are really good at playing a
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Speaker 1: married couple because they're a married couple. Yes, I mean
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Speaker 1: I did say they were married. Yeah, well I'm saying
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Speaker 1: like like, they'll be very good at it. They've also
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Speaker 1: played exes because they were both in Parks and Breck
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Speaker 1: and she played Oh yeah, no, they're they're they're phenomenal
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Speaker 1: on stage. First of all. They're phenomenal on stage or
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Speaker 1: on screen by themselves period. But they're so good together
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Speaker 1: as well. Uh, it's it's really entertaining stuff. Okay, here's
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Speaker 1: my next one. So you remember Stranger Things, Well, now
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Speaker 1: there's going to be a play version. Ariel, you don't count.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, Stranger Things is getting a stage play at
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Speaker 1: London's Phoenix Theater. It is called Stranger Things The First Shadow.
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Speaker 1: No casting announced yet, so we don't know who will
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Speaker 1: be playing the various kids and or monsters. So I
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Speaker 1: thought this was an interesting little discussion. This is gonna
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Speaker 1: be a play because I don't really think of Stranger
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Speaker 1: Things as something that would be easy to convert to
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Speaker 1: the stage. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Also, something
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Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting is Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting
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Speaker 1: his own Netflix series called Fubar, where he's a Cia
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Speaker 1: operative on the verge of retirement, and he discovers a
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Speaker 1: family secret and he has to go back into the
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Speaker 1: field for one last job. It's like an action comedy.
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Speaker 1: So like the people I've been seeing talk about it
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Speaker 1: are kind of comparing it to True Lies, which is
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Speaker 1: also coming out. It's filming in Atlanta right now. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting, um it it The teaser trailer shows very little,
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Speaker 1: but it's not at all what I expected from the description.
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Speaker 1: M Yeah, the True Lies that's shooting in Atlanta is
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Speaker 1: a series, yes, And obviously the True Lies that came
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Speaker 1: out in theaters was a film, so it'll be fun
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Speaker 1: to see how they stretch a already thin premise into
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Speaker 1: an ongoing series. All right, here's my next one that
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Speaker 1: is gonna be real tricky to talk about. So there's
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Speaker 1: a film called Glorious. It has a trailer out about it.
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Speaker 1: It's a horror kind of comedy film. It is not
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Speaker 1: safe for the family, so don't go watching it if
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Speaker 1: you got little ones. And all I can really say
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Speaker 1: about is that JK. Simmons is voicing in old ones
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Speaker 1: style God that is trapped in a bathroom at a
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Speaker 1: rest stop, and the less said about the particulars perhaps
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Speaker 1: the better on our family friendly podcast. Yes, but before
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Speaker 1: you go looking for it. If you don't like raunchy
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Speaker 1: horror comedy, maybe don't watch it. I think you can
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Speaker 1: broaden your horizons. I made Ariel watch it on purpose.
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Speaker 1: I'm not happy about that. Okay. Last one, AMC Movie
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Speaker 1: Theaters is releasing their own brand of microwavable popcorn. You
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Speaker 1: can get movie butter, you can get lightly salted, and
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Speaker 1: you can get extra butter. The really cool thing about
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Speaker 1: it is that if you get the extra butter, you
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Speaker 1: actually get some liquid movie theater butter that you can
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Speaker 1: pour on top. AMC's very excited about it. It's coming
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Speaker 1: to Walmart. I think Marcha left on some endcaps and
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Speaker 1: then later on in most Walmarts. I sometimes like microwave popcord.
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Speaker 1: I like fresh pop popcorn better, but occasionally microwave will do.
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Speaker 1: And I'm interested to try this because I actually do
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Speaker 1: like AMC popcorn. Movie theater popcorn has such a a
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Speaker 1: unique quality to it. So yeah, and if you buy
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Speaker 1: it in bulk, it actually comes with its own surly
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Speaker 1: teenager who will put it in a bag and then
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Speaker 1: and then hand it over to you and then overcharge
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Speaker 1: you for it. Yeah, it's look, we did a whole
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Speaker 1: we did a whole thing about Walmart and price dynamics
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Speaker 1: on business on the brink. I think with our pickle episode,
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Speaker 1: hopefully this won't be the same. Hopefully people have learned
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Speaker 1: and this will not be the same. Well, I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna also say before we move into into the episode,
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Speaker 1: which aerials eager to get to, because it's about thirty
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Speaker 1: news items long. Yeah, so these these may not be
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Speaker 1: much longer than or shorter than the thirty second I
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Speaker 1: don't even know how to say that. They we might
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Speaker 1: talk about each about the same amount of time as
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Speaker 1: we've been doing. Well, I was gonna say that that
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Speaker 1: I am I am not a fan of microwave popcorn
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Speaker 1: because and I assume this is mostly psycho somatic. I
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Speaker 1: don't think there's anything that's actually I don't know. Maybe
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Speaker 1: the fumes being given off by microwave popcorn are to
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Speaker 1: are at fault, but I have often developed migraine headaches
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Speaker 1: after being around microwave popcorn, to the point where I
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Speaker 1: would request my coworkers to just give me a heads
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Speaker 1: up if they were going to have some so I
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Speaker 1: could go work in a different office temporarily because I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to. I didn't want them to not have
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Speaker 1: a snack. But I can't work if i've got a migraine.
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Speaker 1: M sure, you just they have to earn their snacks.
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Speaker 1: I get it. Now. Question question for you. I know
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Speaker 1: it's been a long time, well not as long. I
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Speaker 1: know you don't frequent the theater as much as you
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Speaker 1: used to. Do you get the same sort of reaction
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Speaker 1: to movie theater popcorn? No, because it's been air popped there.
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Speaker 1: I think it's something some chemical that's in maybe not
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Speaker 1: even all microwave popcorn, but some of them have something
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Speaker 1: that sets me off. So but yeah, if I walk
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Speaker 1: into a theater like a movie theater and there's the
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Speaker 1: smell of popcorn there, that doesn't do anything too me.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know. Again, I don't know if it's psychosomatic,
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Speaker 1: which it probably is. It's probably just my brain deciding
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Speaker 1: that it hates me, which I get. I'm a terrible person.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, but well I'm not gonna judge you. Look,
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Speaker 1: I can't do spicy foods because I have at best,
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Speaker 1: I have an intolerance and at worst, I have an
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Speaker 1: allergy to night shades, which I'm sure everybody who listens
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Speaker 1: already knows. But even if I smell something that's super spicy,
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Speaker 1: I start feeling bad, Like, yeah, I start I start
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Speaker 1: feeling like I should not be there, and like we
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Speaker 1: have some taco truck jelly beans, and one of the
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Speaker 1: flavors is like spicy salsa. I don't think there's any
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Speaker 1: tomato actually in it, but it tastes so similar to
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Speaker 1: jalapeno and tomato that like I have to spit it out.
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Speaker 1: My body just goes no. So I'm not gonna there's
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Speaker 1: no judgment for Mica with popcorn. M yeah, I'll say
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Speaker 1: it smell different. Ariel has a lot of frictions on
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Speaker 1: things that she can eat that do not make her
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Speaker 1: feel bad afterward, and yet she's also one of the
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Speaker 1: most phenomenal bakers you'll ever meet. So she is like
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Speaker 1: she's crazy in the kitchen, which is amazing considering all
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Speaker 1: the limitations she has to work there. Most of the
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Speaker 1: stuff that I can't eat goes into savory. I don't
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Speaker 1: hardly ever cook with potato starch. Everything else is like paprika, tomatoes, eggplant,
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Speaker 1: which I actually, you're gonna I'm gonna be real honest here,
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Speaker 1: I totally cheated. Maybe part of the reason I've got
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Speaker 1: a sore throat today is because when I got done
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Speaker 1: with my gig, I have this thing or like my
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Speaker 1: allergy is not so bad that it sends me to
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Speaker 1: the hospital. It has been getting worse. But it used
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Speaker 1: to be that after I got done with a musical
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Speaker 1: where I did not touch anything that would have a
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Speaker 1: bad effect on me. I was super careful about labels
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Speaker 1: because paprika and potato starch and spices are in everything,
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Speaker 1: and spices often have like chili powder, cayenne or whatever,
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Speaker 1: which I can't have. After a show, I would indulge
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Speaker 1: in something like French fries or tater tots, or before
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Speaker 1: I started having a worse reaction to it, like spaghetti
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Speaker 1: with real marinera as opposed to my nomato sauce. My
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Speaker 1: nomato sauce is really good, but there's something about the
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Speaker 1: real thing. I love these foods, they just don't love me.
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Speaker 1: So last night I had a Guinness burger, which was
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Speaker 1: a burger with mashed potatoes and guinness gravy on top. Wow,
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Speaker 1: so good, it was so good. Where the heck was that?
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Speaker 1: There's a little tavern near me called North Tavern. It's
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Speaker 1: actually where they filmed the pub scenes for the movie Tag.
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Speaker 1: So this was after the gig. Yeah, they're open until too.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say this was a late night burger, y'all,
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Speaker 1: because she was still she was still rocking. When I
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Speaker 1: left the theater after ten pm, I did not close
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Speaker 1: to where she lives. I didn't get food to like one,
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Speaker 1: I am, but it despite me reminding everybody to eat
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Speaker 1: before the gig, very few of us actually did. Uh. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's uh, that's TMI for most of you. I am sure.
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Speaker 1: So let's go on to other happy things other than
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Speaker 1: me hurting myself with potatoes, which is week. We have
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Speaker 1: to talk first about what we've seen, because that's what
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Speaker 1: we do now. Oh fine, okay, what have you seen?
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Speaker 1: All right? I'm all caught up on last of us?
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Speaker 1: What episode are you currently on? Are you still on three?
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Speaker 1: Have you? Are you still on four? Or I finished three?
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Speaker 1: I haven't started. Look, I have been rehearsing so much
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Speaker 1: for this gig. I got it. I got it. We
15:25
Speaker 1: both saw episode eight of Night Court because it last week.
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Speaker 1: If you remember, I said that I could not finish
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Speaker 1: episode seven. I just thought it was a terrible episode.
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Speaker 1: Episode eight is better. It's a definite return to form
15:38
Speaker 1: of old night Court, like especially the more zany episodes
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Speaker 1: of night Court where over the top crazy things are happening.
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Speaker 1: The same sort of thing is going on in that episode,
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Speaker 1: so it felt like a real callback. And what else
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Speaker 1: did I? Oh, I watched No. I talked about that
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Speaker 1: last week, So that's because I was anna say I
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Speaker 1: watched Megan. I've been watching Voxmachina. Oh okay, yeah, the
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Speaker 1: series that's based off Critical Role. Yeah, yeah, it's um
16:05
Speaker 1: like I've I've listened to some Critical Role. They're just
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Speaker 1: even longer episodes than us, which is you know, a lot.
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Speaker 1: But it's one of the things that like my husband
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Speaker 1: and I will watch together, so we watch Fox Makina
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Speaker 1: because like he won't watch Last of Us with me,
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Speaker 1: not that he doesn't want you, but he wants to
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Speaker 1: play the game first. I know I've said them before. Um,
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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, we might if we can
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Speaker 1: find an empty theater, which I don't know, I hope not,
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Speaker 1: it's getting really good reviews, we might go see Creed three. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've heard that that's a really good film I have.
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Speaker 1: I still haven't been out to the theater since the
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Speaker 1: last time, so I still haven't seen Quantum Mania or
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Speaker 1: anything like that. I am. I really like the Creed
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Speaker 1: movies and I really yeah, I think they've been really good,
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited. Cool. All right, Well, now we can
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Speaker 1: move on to the many, many mini news items we have.
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Speaker 1: And first up, so everyone who listens to me knows
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Speaker 1: that I get real grouchy about live action remakes of
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Speaker 1: Disney animated films because I feel like they're kind of
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Speaker 1: creatively bankrupt, Like a lot of them end up being
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Speaker 1: so similar to the animated version that you questioned, why
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Speaker 1: is this even a thing? Like you're not working anything different,
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Speaker 1: or you know, like we talked about last week off
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Speaker 1: Loo and Stitch or Lion King, it's not really actually
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Speaker 1: live Yeah, which is interesting because we got the trailer
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Speaker 1: for Peter Pan and Wendy, which we've talked about previously.
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Speaker 1: We talked about the fact that this is a live
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Speaker 1: action Peter Pan story that's that Disney is putting out.
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Speaker 1: We got the trailer and I actually thought it looked
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Speaker 1: pretty that the story and the casting and all of
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Speaker 1: that looked pretty good. I agree. I think that it
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Speaker 1: does something so like the last Pan movie that came
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Speaker 1: out seemed to be all pretty and like the story
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Speaker 1: wasn't great, but it was very very visually stuck. This
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Speaker 1: feels like they found a really good mix between story
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Speaker 1: and just completely fantastical visuals. Yeah, it does. I have
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Speaker 1: seen some criticism about the color grading for the trailer,
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Speaker 1: that it looks a little too dull and dark, and
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Speaker 1: I kind of get that. Like I see it and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I kind of has that feel of
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Speaker 1: certain cinema from the early two thousands where it is
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Speaker 1: a little more muted in color and things like that.
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Speaker 1: I get to look at the Mermaids. The Mermaids are
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Speaker 1: very very bright, but like almost everything else is pretty drab,
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Speaker 1: and I understand. I get that criticism. I don't necessarily disagree. Also,
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Speaker 1: the filmmaker, the director for this is the same person
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Speaker 1: who directed the recent live action remake of Pete Dragon,
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Speaker 1: and I was so disenchanted with the trailers for that
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Speaker 1: that I never bothered to see it. So it's weird
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Speaker 1: for me to even make this argument, But I thought
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Speaker 1: that what we saw on screen felt very Peter Pan,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about the Disney Peter Pan, I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about Peter Pan. Yeah, I agree. It felt very
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Speaker 1: um well, it very much gave me the same feeling
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Speaker 1: as like when I read the book Peter Pan, which
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Speaker 1: is a very dark bro book. Peter Pan is not
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Speaker 1: a good guy, except from Peter Pan seems a little
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Speaker 1: bit nicer in this version. Yeah. And you know, I've
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Speaker 1: seen some people get very critical about the fact that
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Speaker 1: that's another you know, it's Disney remaking Peter Pan, And
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, if you know the history of Peter Pan,
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Speaker 1: it originally was a stage play before it was a novel.
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Speaker 1: It was a stage play back in nineteen oh four,
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Speaker 1: and it has been you know, remounted numerous times with
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Speaker 1: different actors, different set directors, you know, like like it's
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Speaker 1: had so many different takes on this story that I'm
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Speaker 1: not really it feels different to me than a lot
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Speaker 1: of other Disney live action remix because I think of
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Speaker 1: it more as going back to the source material as
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Speaker 1: opposed to let's just remake the cartoon. Although there are
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Speaker 1: obvious nods to the cartoon, like there's a bit where
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Speaker 1: they're all standing on the tower that houses Big Ben,
20:13
Speaker 1: which is straight from the cartoon, like there are moments
20:16
Speaker 1: like that. But I don't know. Maybe it's because I
20:19
Speaker 1: didn't see enough, but the trailer I saw made it
20:21
Speaker 1: feel very different. Or maybe it's because I haven't watched
20:24
Speaker 1: the animated one and so long. Maybe I'm just not
20:27
Speaker 1: seeing all the references and parallels, but it felt very
20:30
Speaker 1: different to me. Plus, most importantly, I think everyone can
20:35
Speaker 1: agree with this. The most important thing is that they
20:38
Speaker 1: put the hook on the correct hand. For Captain Hook,
20:42
Speaker 1: it's his right hand that is replaced with a hook,
20:46
Speaker 1: not his left hand. Almost every adaptation has Hook with
20:49
Speaker 1: his left hand replaced, because it's way easier to teach
20:53
Speaker 1: a right handed actor how to fight with a sword
20:55
Speaker 1: if they're using their right hand that it is to
20:57
Speaker 1: teach them to fight with their left. But the whole
20:58
Speaker 1: point in the story is that Hook is actually way
21:02
Speaker 1: more deadly with his hook than he is with his
21:04
Speaker 1: sword because it's on his dominant hand. Yeah, you know,
21:10
Speaker 1: I think it looks great. I'm super happy about that too,
21:13
Speaker 1: even though it's not like a sticking point for me.
21:16
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I love some of the changes
21:19
Speaker 1: they've made to update it, like some of the Lost
21:20
Speaker 1: Boys or Girls and and I think that's fantastic. And
21:23
Speaker 1: they even call that out in the trailer and the
21:25
Speaker 1: girls are like, so what, but you aren't boys? So what?
21:28
Speaker 1: Because I very much felt that way as as a
21:31
Speaker 1: as a young girl with a lot of friends that
21:33
Speaker 1: were boys. You know, like, so what, I'm not a boy.
21:35
Speaker 1: I can still you know, hang yeah, yeah, no, I'm sorry,
21:40
Speaker 1: Please go ahead, No, you go ahead. I was just
21:43
Speaker 1: gonna say I agree with you. I've seen comments that
21:47
Speaker 1: were negative about that, because I mean, there's always this response,
21:51
Speaker 1: right there are certain people who I don't think are
21:53
Speaker 1: making arguments in good faith, who are like, oh, they're
21:57
Speaker 1: going woke. And I'm thinking representation and film is a
22:01
Speaker 1: really important thing, and if you have enjoyed it your
22:04
Speaker 1: entire life, you obviously have no concept as to how
22:07
Speaker 1: important it is when you start to see it for yourself. Yeah. Look,
22:12
Speaker 1: I never wanted to be Wendy, like I love Peter Pan.
22:15
Speaker 1: I never wanted to be Wendy. I always wanted to
22:17
Speaker 1: be a lost boy. So that's super exciting to me. Honestly,
22:20
Speaker 1: I have not been this excited about a Peter Pan
22:22
Speaker 1: movie since the two thousand and three one we had
22:24
Speaker 1: where Jason Isaacs was Captain Hook. Oh, he has the best,
22:28
Speaker 1: the best on screen Captain Hook moment in my opinion,
22:32
Speaker 1: like right behind it would be Dustin Hoffman and Hook,
22:35
Speaker 1: who gets to say the peeling spawn? How I despise them.
22:39
Speaker 1: But Jason Isaacs is the one where he sneaks up
22:43
Speaker 1: on a log and he's looking over the log to
22:45
Speaker 1: spy on Peter Pan and there's a little fairy next
22:47
Speaker 1: to him, and he just very casually says, I don't
22:50
Speaker 1: believe in fairies and kills it, and I'm like, that's amazing. Look,
22:54
Speaker 1: that movie was so good. It had it wasn't Disney,
22:58
Speaker 1: and it had a great balance between making Peter Pan
23:01
Speaker 1: accessible and still like touching on those darker moments from
23:05
Speaker 1: the more original versions of the story. I'm a surprise
23:08
Speaker 1: that you mentioned Dustin Hoffman's Hook performance because I know
23:11
Speaker 1: you don't like Hook. No, I don't like them. I
23:13
Speaker 1: don't like the movie Hook, but I love Dustin Hoffman's
23:17
Speaker 1: interpretation of Captain Hook. I love his version You're you
23:22
Speaker 1: are entitled? Well, I loved his version two You're entitled
23:24
Speaker 1: to not like Hook, even though I personally think that's
23:28
Speaker 1: a shame. I was going to say you're wrong, but
23:30
Speaker 1: that's not true. It's just a shame. But yes, I'm
23:32
Speaker 1: super excited about this. If you haven't caught the trailer,
23:35
Speaker 1: you should. I'm yeah, this is the most exciting thing
23:40
Speaker 1: coming out of Disney as far as a remake that
23:42
Speaker 1: I've seen in quite a while. I'm probably more excited
23:45
Speaker 1: for this than I am for The Little Mermaid, quite honest. Okay, well,
23:49
Speaker 1: don't don't spoil everything, because in like four more news
23:52
Speaker 1: stories we're going to talk about another Disney movie, and
23:55
Speaker 1: I expect you to be excited about that too. I
23:57
Speaker 1: will be okay. Before we get to that, though, we
24:00
Speaker 1: have to talk about the fact there's also a new
24:02
Speaker 1: trailer for Agent Elvis. If you remember, we previously talked
24:06
Speaker 1: about the teaser for this and how I was a
24:10
Speaker 1: little thrown off because Elvis already seemed like preter naturally
24:14
Speaker 1: good at being an agent, and I thought that I
24:16
Speaker 1: wasn't sure where the humor was going to come from.
24:19
Speaker 1: This trailer gives us a lot more of the humor.
24:21
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, if you are a fan
24:23
Speaker 1: of shows like Archer or Metalocalypse, where you have over
24:29
Speaker 1: the top violence and in some cases gore that seems
24:33
Speaker 1: to be where the humor is going to come from.
24:35
Speaker 1: Based upon this longer trailer, Yeah, it's it's very archer esque,
24:40
Speaker 1: Like I don't know. This trailer honestly personally made me
24:43
Speaker 1: a little bit less excited because there was there was
24:46
Speaker 1: this sweetness to the first trailer. Yep, no, I same page. Yeah, yeah,
24:51
Speaker 1: I felt I felt like it was almost like a
24:53
Speaker 1: bait and switch from the teaser because it looks like
24:56
Speaker 1: it's a lot. I mean, it still looks like it's
24:58
Speaker 1: going to be putting Elvis in the best light possible,
25:01
Speaker 1: which is not a surprise considering the fact that his
25:03
Speaker 1: whole family's behind it. But it it feels like it's
25:08
Speaker 1: trying to be one of those super edgy and hyper
25:13
Speaker 1: violent cartoons, like something like metal Ocalypse or or Archer.
25:18
Speaker 1: And I agree, I feel like I feel like they
25:24
Speaker 1: kind of lost me on this trailer. Yeah, not that
25:27
Speaker 1: they had you super strong in the first one, but yeah,
25:29
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a step back. I am you know,
25:33
Speaker 1: I have no problem with his his family being behind
25:35
Speaker 1: this and wanting to showcase him in a in a
25:38
Speaker 1: fun secret agent way. The concept I think is fun um.
25:42
Speaker 1: I guess we'll just have to see when it comes out. Uh,
25:46
Speaker 1: the next the next trailer we have to talk about.
25:49
Speaker 1: I had no idea was a thing, but I'm I'm
25:52
Speaker 1: super excited because it's got Diego from Umbrella Academy in it,
25:55
Speaker 1: and it's got Skylar from Breaking Bad in it. Um,
25:58
Speaker 1: it's called the most Degerous Game New York. Does that
26:01
Speaker 1: mean there have been other Most Dangerous Games before this?
26:03
Speaker 1: Or yes? Yes? So? So first, the original, the original
26:08
Speaker 1: Most Dangerous Game was a novel, like a pulp novel
26:11
Speaker 1: that got turned into a film back in like the forties.
26:15
Speaker 1: I want to say, Okay, so it wasn't Stephen King. No, no,
26:19
Speaker 1: but you'd be forgiven for thinking that because there's a
26:22
Speaker 1: lot of overlap with The Running Man's. Yeah. So, the
26:27
Speaker 1: original concept of Most Dangerous Game is that you have
26:29
Speaker 1: this this suber wealthy sociopath who traps people on his
26:36
Speaker 1: island so that he can hunt people, because people are
26:39
Speaker 1: the most dangerous game game, as in like game animal
26:43
Speaker 1: that you would hunt. So that's where that comes from.
26:46
Speaker 1: People who are familiar with the Zodiac Killer know that
26:49
Speaker 1: he was super into the film version of Most Dangerous Game. Well,
26:55
Speaker 1: there not too long ago was a series done Most
26:58
Speaker 1: Dangerous Game that was you know, played out, and now
27:02
Speaker 1: we have Most Dangerous Game New York, where as the
27:05
Speaker 1: name suggests, it's set in New York, and it very
27:09
Speaker 1: much is similar to the short story The Running Man,
27:13
Speaker 1: not the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, but the short story in
27:18
Speaker 1: which a person is put into the position where they
27:23
Speaker 1: are going to be on the run, and they're on
27:26
Speaker 1: the run for a certain amount of time, and the
27:28
Speaker 1: more time that they're able to avoid capture or injury
27:33
Speaker 1: or death, the more money they earn until the time
27:36
Speaker 1: is up. And so the protagonist is the person who's
27:40
Speaker 1: essentially earning a million dollars an hour as long as
27:43
Speaker 1: he can stay alive and remain uncaptured, and then everybody
27:47
Speaker 1: else is after him. So you get a little John
27:49
Speaker 1: Wick in there, a little Running Man in there, and
27:51
Speaker 1: you've got Most Dangerous Game New York. Yeah, it's interesting, Like,
27:56
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've never read The Running Running Man.
28:00
Speaker 1: I've never watched The Most Dangerous Game. It's a it's
28:04
Speaker 1: not as bad as The Long Walk to me, but
28:05
Speaker 1: it's still a concept that upsets me. They're like, there
28:07
Speaker 1: was talk about doing a reality I think we talked
28:09
Speaker 1: about it before, a reality show based off The Running Man,
28:13
Speaker 1: which seems like the most stupid idea ever just because
28:17
Speaker 1: it's so dangerous for the players. Yeah, Ben Affleck was
28:19
Speaker 1: behind one of those once upon, Now this one was
28:22
Speaker 1: before we ever started doing a large dargdron collider, but
28:25
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck was going to produce a show that was
28:29
Speaker 1: essentially The Running Man, the idea being that the person
28:32
Speaker 1: would attempt to avoid capture and the entire audience would
28:38
Speaker 1: potentially be in on this and be able to capture
28:42
Speaker 1: somebody and if they did, they would win a prize
28:45
Speaker 1: instead of the participant. And you just start to think
28:48
Speaker 1: this sounds like it is a recipe for people getting
28:51
Speaker 1: seriously hurt. Yeah, because like maybe a fun concept if
28:56
Speaker 1: everybody plays nicely is and it's considerate, But people do
28:59
Speaker 1: not have good common sense. Individuals might people as a
29:03
Speaker 1: general whole do not have good common sense, and they
29:05
Speaker 1: don't make good decisions, and they don't treat others with
29:07
Speaker 1: maybe the respect quite often with the definitely they don't
29:10
Speaker 1: treat them with the respect they deserve. So yeah, just
29:13
Speaker 1: not don't put somebody in that position. Don't do it. Yeah, No,
29:17
Speaker 1: I think I think that's good. Keep it, keep it
29:20
Speaker 1: to fiction, and we're okay, We're okay. I'm not still
29:24
Speaker 1: not great, but okay. Uh speaking of okay, which is
29:30
Speaker 1: still miles better than the original version of what we're
29:33
Speaker 1: about to talk about. Yes, we got a trailer for
29:36
Speaker 1: the new Haunted Mansion movie that's coming out. Everybody who
29:39
Speaker 1: I've shown this trailer two has been like, didn't we
29:41
Speaker 1: already get one of those movies? Recently? Not recently? The
29:44
Speaker 1: last Haunted Mansion movie we got based off of the
29:46
Speaker 1: Disney ride, The Haunted Mansion was I think in two
29:49
Speaker 1: thousand and three, and it was Eddie Murphy. Yeah, so,
29:55
Speaker 1: and that was two thousand and three. It was definitely
29:58
Speaker 1: an Eddie Murphy movie from that era. Yeah. I never
30:03
Speaker 1: watched it because everything I saw about it just turned
30:07
Speaker 1: me off of it. Whereas the trailer for this one,
30:11
Speaker 1: it looks okay. First of all, it looks like it's
30:14
Speaker 1: made for kids, which there's nothing wrong with that, but
30:16
Speaker 1: like scary for kids, scary for kids, but like scary
30:19
Speaker 1: in a way that is safe for kids, right, Like,
30:22
Speaker 1: I look at this and I think, oh, this kind
30:24
Speaker 1: of reminds me of some of the films and TV
30:27
Speaker 1: shows that were scary but made for kids when I
30:30
Speaker 1: was growing up, like maybe goose Bumps or are You
30:33
Speaker 1: Afraid of the Dark or something that was after my time.
30:36
Speaker 1: But yes, something along those lines. I am old, I
30:40
Speaker 1: will remind you. I'll keep I'll keep mentioning Erie, Indiana,
30:43
Speaker 1: which was definitely after your time because it was a
30:44
Speaker 1: little after my time. Yeah, yeah, you have to go
30:47
Speaker 1: back before that. But but no, this and there are
30:51
Speaker 1: so many nods to the various things you encounter in
30:55
Speaker 1: the Haunted Mansion ride, from the Wallpaper which is to
31:01
Speaker 1: the hat Box Ghost, which is a relatively new addition
31:04
Speaker 1: to the ride, to you know, like the organist and
31:09
Speaker 1: all these kinds of the pictures expanding. Yep. Yeah, they
31:13
Speaker 1: have the stretching room, which is I was surprised to
31:17
Speaker 1: see that in the trailer. I think it looks cute
31:20
Speaker 1: and fun, and you know, I don't think it's going
31:23
Speaker 1: to I think there's going to be like adult Disney
31:25
Speaker 1: fans who are going to be disappointed that it doesn't
31:28
Speaker 1: look more I don't know, like it doesn't look more
31:31
Speaker 1: intense or something. But I will also say, as an
31:35
Speaker 1: adult Disney fan, adult Disney fans are Krai Kray. Yes,
31:41
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it because, as I have mentioned many
31:44
Speaker 1: times before, I had the pleasure of meeting Danny DeVito
31:46
Speaker 1: stunt double. He told me he was coming to Atlanta
31:49
Speaker 1: shortly after I met him to work on the Hotted
31:53
Speaker 1: Mansion and then another Danny DeVito film that will remain unnamed.
31:57
Speaker 1: But but yeah, like not like I'm friends with him,
32:02
Speaker 1: but it was cool to meet this this other industry
32:04
Speaker 1: person and find out, you know, Hanna Mansion was filmed
32:08
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. It's got a great cast. Yeah, it just
32:11
Speaker 1: looks fun. I think we have some friends who are
32:13
Speaker 1: extras in it. So oh cool. So yeah, so we're
32:17
Speaker 1: kind of looking forward to Hanna Mansion, certainly more than
32:20
Speaker 1: the previous version of Hanned Mansion. I do not think
32:24
Speaker 1: this is going to take off the same way Pirates
32:26
Speaker 1: of the Caribbean did, but it might do better the
32:29
Speaker 1: Jungle Cruise did. Yeah, I think this was supposed to
32:33
Speaker 1: be a part of their whole like collective Disney Adventuring World.
32:36
Speaker 1: So Jungle Cruise, Pirates, Hanned Mansion. You know, it talked
32:41
Speaker 1: like the thing I wanted the Adventurers Club to be
32:44
Speaker 1: a part of. Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense
32:45
Speaker 1: because Hanna Mansion is not an adventure land. It's true,
32:49
Speaker 1: It's true. I don't know either, maybe in tier Land
32:51
Speaker 1: or it's a Liberty or New Orleans Square. Listen. Maybe
32:55
Speaker 1: I'm just wishful thinking and making up my own memories.
32:58
Speaker 1: It's entirely possible. Speaking of making things up, let's talk
33:04
Speaker 1: about up Here. Yeah, so we got another trailer for
33:09
Speaker 1: a series called up Here, and I described it as
33:13
Speaker 1: Crazy Ex Girlfriend meets Inside Out because the series it's
33:17
Speaker 1: a romantic comedy series and has May Whitman in it,
33:23
Speaker 1: and it follows a young woman who has all these
33:28
Speaker 1: voices in her head that are played by actual actors
33:31
Speaker 1: who made John Hodgeman. Yes, John Hodgman, So hey, if
33:35
Speaker 1: you want to hear John Hodgman sing, you can watch
33:38
Speaker 1: this series and get it. Yeah. And then the young
33:41
Speaker 1: man also has voices in his head, also played by actors.
33:45
Speaker 1: And on top of that high concept, so you're like, oh,
33:49
Speaker 1: it's inside Out but with live actors kinda. But also
33:53
Speaker 1: it's a musical, and so you get a little crazy
33:56
Speaker 1: ex Girlfriend in here too because of the whole like
34:01
Speaker 1: there's they're dealing a little bit with mental health. There's
34:04
Speaker 1: the musical aspect, which obviously crazy ex girlfriend was all
34:07
Speaker 1: about that as well, and I thought this looked interesting.
34:12
Speaker 1: It looked interesting enough for it to pique my interest
34:16
Speaker 1: beyond it being a rom com, which typically unless there's
34:20
Speaker 1: something really spectacular about it, I just don't have any
34:24
Speaker 1: desire to watch. I want to watch it. I like
34:28
Speaker 1: Mate Whitman. I also like Carlos Valdez, who plays the
34:31
Speaker 1: fellow with the voices in his head. Um. He was
34:35
Speaker 1: previously Cisco in the Flash series. He's also done a
34:38
Speaker 1: ton of Broadway, and he can he can play instruments,
34:41
Speaker 1: and he can sing really well. Um. So they did
34:45
Speaker 1: an entire musical episode of like the Flash slash Supergirl
34:47
Speaker 1: where you can kind of see him. I don't know
34:49
Speaker 1: if he sings that. No one hed better sing in that. Um,
34:53
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, he definitely should be in a musical show.
34:57
Speaker 1: He's a he's a great actor. He's a lot of
34:58
Speaker 1: fun to watch. So I'm going to watch this series,
35:01
Speaker 1: providing I still have Hulu at the time. Yeah I might.
35:04
Speaker 1: I might be asking you to summarize the episodes for me, because,
35:08
Speaker 1: as we all know, that's one of the streaming services
35:11
Speaker 1: I do not actually have Well, I may not have
35:14
Speaker 1: Hulu much longer, but anyhow, or at least I might go.
35:18
Speaker 1: I may not have live cable Hulu anymore. How's that
35:22
Speaker 1: because that's expensive and I don't watch most of it
35:25
Speaker 1: most of the time, Like at the most what I'm
35:28
Speaker 1: doing is watching an episode a couple of hours after
35:31
Speaker 1: it airs, which is not something you can do on
35:33
Speaker 1: like ad supported Hulu. But there's like a sixty dollar
35:38
Speaker 1: cost difference, so it's not worth it. Yeah, or it's
35:43
Speaker 1: not worth it for me right now. It has been
35:45
Speaker 1: worth it for me in the past. I got it. Yeah,
35:48
Speaker 1: I get a question for you, Jonathan. Yeah, why is
35:51
Speaker 1: it that all the movies that do like really cool
35:54
Speaker 1: viral marketing are scary movies. That's a good question. I
36:00
Speaker 1: think it's because the having a scary movie cross over
36:04
Speaker 1: into the real world has a lot more of an
36:07
Speaker 1: effective impact on a potential audience than say a rom com.
36:13
Speaker 1: Like if you were to turn around and just see
36:15
Speaker 1: meat cutes everywhere, you would probably think this stakes I
36:22
Speaker 1: do not want to be here. I mean maybe, but
36:26
Speaker 1: like I think maybe they did it with Despicable Me,
36:29
Speaker 1: where they hit like minions everywhere, but like if they
36:32
Speaker 1: had done it with Inside Out, where you just see
36:34
Speaker 1: like that elephant creature everywhere. Oh the the the imaginary
36:39
Speaker 1: friend who dies and I felt nothing and everyone thinks
36:42
Speaker 1: I'm a monster when I'm like, even in the context
36:45
Speaker 1: of the film, this character doesn't actually exist. So that's
36:48
Speaker 1: why I don't care. That wasn't what I was alluding to.
36:51
Speaker 1: But I'm glad I gave you an outlet to like
36:53
Speaker 1: express your feelings. Jonathan, I get a lot of flak
36:57
Speaker 1: for thinking Bing Bong's death doesn't mean anything whatever. Uh
37:03
Speaker 1: No it was. It was okay, Uh, it would have
37:08
Speaker 1: been cool. Um. But yeah, anyhow, the new movie Scream
37:11
Speaker 1: is doing some viral marketing um, and people have been
37:14
Speaker 1: kind of scared in calling police because there have just
37:16
Speaker 1: been ghost face faces. Like yeah, yeah, there's been ghost
37:21
Speaker 1: face the killers, not the the not the Woutang clan member,
37:26
Speaker 1: but the ghost face Killer has shown up in a
37:29
Speaker 1: few cities like New Orleans and Saint Louis and a
37:32
Speaker 1: couple of others. Uh. And it's all been part of
37:36
Speaker 1: a viral marketing campaign to promote Scream six. It's kind
37:42
Speaker 1: of similar to how when Smile was coming out, the
37:46
Speaker 1: movie studio hired actors to sit behind home plate at
37:51
Speaker 1: baseball games and then try and crack the that super
37:55
Speaker 1: creepy smile into the camera so that whenever the camera
37:59
Speaker 1: was focusing in on the batter, you could see in
38:01
Speaker 1: the background someone smiling that creepy smile. I just think
38:04
Speaker 1: how much your face must hurt at the end of
38:07
Speaker 1: a baseball game, right like, because those games, lad, they're long, man,
38:11
Speaker 1: they last like three hours. But anyway, so this is
38:15
Speaker 1: one of those little things where it's bringing that marketing
38:19
Speaker 1: into the real world. I think it's kind of a
38:22
Speaker 1: nifty idea. I suppose. I don't know how much it's
38:25
Speaker 1: boosting awareness of screen because I think that that's just
38:28
Speaker 1: one of those properties that anyone who's into horror is
38:32
Speaker 1: already well aware of. So I don't know like how
38:35
Speaker 1: it's contributing to the bottom line. But I like seeing
38:37
Speaker 1: stuff like this. Yeah, me too. We've said it in
38:40
Speaker 1: the past. We like creative marketing other than just showing
38:43
Speaker 1: us more and more clips from the movie. You know,
38:45
Speaker 1: I don't want to be one of the people in
38:47
Speaker 1: the ghost face costumes and have the police called on me.
38:50
Speaker 1: They are also they are also pairing it with their
38:53
Speaker 1: Twitter account, which is a little cute. But speaking of nightmares,
38:58
Speaker 1: it looks like, dude, the Sister Hood, the prequel series
39:01
Speaker 1: that we've been hearing about, is facing some nightmares or
39:05
Speaker 1: the nightmares to me, yeah, yeah, So we only know
39:10
Speaker 1: little bits and pieces about this. Officially, Dune the Sisterhood
39:16
Speaker 1: was always supposed to be going into kind of a
39:18
Speaker 1: hiatus after a certain amount of production, which the show
39:23
Speaker 1: now is in. That's the official line. Whether that's true
39:27
Speaker 1: or not is a matter of debate. What we do
39:30
Speaker 1: know is that Johann Rink, who had been signed on
39:36
Speaker 1: to direct the first two episodes, is no longer part
39:40
Speaker 1: of the project. They're going to have to get a
39:42
Speaker 1: replacement director for those first two episodes. One of the
39:46
Speaker 1: leads in the series, Shirley Henderson, is also exiting the series,
39:52
Speaker 1: so her whole role is going to have to be
39:54
Speaker 1: recast with somebody else. There's one of the co showrunners
39:59
Speaker 1: has up down. It just sounds like like whatever was
40:04
Speaker 1: going on with this project was not going in there,
40:08
Speaker 1: like there must have been a fundamental disagreement at the
40:10
Speaker 1: studio level about where things were going and it could
40:14
Speaker 1: not be reconciled. That's the only conclusion I can come to.
40:18
Speaker 1: But it's not like anyone's willing to come forward and
40:21
Speaker 1: talk about this because that's unprofessional. It's a great way
40:24
Speaker 1: to stop getting work in the industry. Yeah. Yeah, we'll
40:28
Speaker 1: see what happens. You know, it's an interesting concept for
40:32
Speaker 1: a show to focus on the Benny Jesser. It's more
40:37
Speaker 1: so we'll see, we'll see what happens. Something else we
40:42
Speaker 1: have been able to see kind of are some images
40:48
Speaker 1: from the new Disney Hercules musical that just opened at
40:52
Speaker 1: the paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. Yeah. So it's
40:57
Speaker 1: obviously in a stage adaptation of the Animal Did Hercules film,
41:01
Speaker 1: which came out many years ago at this point. And
41:05
Speaker 1: I was curious about this because I've been on several
41:09
Speaker 1: Disney cruises and once upon a time, Hercules the muse
41:14
Speaker 1: Icole was one of the shows that you could see
41:18
Speaker 1: on the Disney Cruise line, and I was curious to
41:21
Speaker 1: see if they had kept any of the jokes and
41:27
Speaker 1: the meta commentary, and it appears they did not. It
41:31
Speaker 1: looks like this is a completely different adaptation of the
41:34
Speaker 1: source material. They've added new music, new songs, and the
41:39
Speaker 1: reviews I've seen have been pretty middle of the road,
41:43
Speaker 1: like nothing like, no one's panning it, but no one's
41:47
Speaker 1: praising it either. They're praising performances. They say, like, some
41:50
Speaker 1: of the performances are phenomenal, but it doesn't sound like
41:54
Speaker 1: the critics have been won over quite so much to
41:59
Speaker 1: this stage induction, which is a shame, because I mean,
42:01
Speaker 1: this is one of those Disney films that I I
42:05
Speaker 1: think the film itself is okay, but I think the
42:07
Speaker 1: music is phenomenal. You see, I was going to say
42:09
Speaker 1: the same thing, middle of the road, but great performances
42:12
Speaker 1: the actual movie. The music was great. I didn't care
42:15
Speaker 1: about the story. I was actually kind of you know,
42:17
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I love the myths of Hercules
42:19
Speaker 1: and Greek mythology, and I don't want to see to
42:22
Speaker 1: mess with it. At the time I was, I might
42:23
Speaker 1: have still been a little bit better about The Little
42:26
Speaker 1: Mermaid at that age, but you know, for Disney to
42:30
Speaker 1: make it family friendly, they definitely have to mess with
42:32
Speaker 1: Greek mythology some Yes, yes that's true. But you know,
42:36
Speaker 1: the music is great. I love the music from the movie.
42:39
Speaker 1: I was familiar with the music well before, like I'd
42:42
Speaker 1: be like, oh I love this song and be like
42:43
Speaker 1: it's from Hercules what so I'd be interested to see
42:49
Speaker 1: it if it comes on like a touring show to Atlanta.
42:51
Speaker 1: The thing that I absolutely love is just like the costuming.
42:55
Speaker 1: The people that they cast at the paper Mill look
42:57
Speaker 1: very much like the characters I expect, um and then
43:01
Speaker 1: um Megara's. Megara's costume is a pants like pants corset
43:09
Speaker 1: tunic set and I love it. Yeah. Megara also, I
43:14
Speaker 1: would say, has the best song in the entire film,
43:18
Speaker 1: like I won't say I'm in love is possibly It's
43:22
Speaker 1: up there for like my favorite Disney songs of all time.
43:25
Speaker 1: I don't know the name of it, but the one
43:27
Speaker 1: that the Muse is saying that's Blessma so um yeah
43:32
Speaker 1: zero to Hero yes uh is one of my favorites. U. Yeah.
43:36
Speaker 1: The gospel, the decision to make the Muses gospel singers
43:40
Speaker 1: was really interesting. Um. I'm very curious about what the
43:45
Speaker 1: thought process was behind that. Like, I don't know that
43:48
Speaker 1: I disagree with it. It's just such a unique choice
43:51
Speaker 1: to go gospel, which obviously has its connections to Christianity,
43:55
Speaker 1: and you're using it for a Greek mythology. I don't
43:58
Speaker 1: know what the thought process was behind it, but I
44:00
Speaker 1: do love the music. It really works within the context
44:04
Speaker 1: of the story that Disney put forth as like setting
44:09
Speaker 1: fun feels. You know, Bradley Gibson plays Hercules. He looks
44:14
Speaker 1: like there's a picture of him on the Playbell article
44:17
Speaker 1: that gives us all of the pictures is only six.
44:20
Speaker 1: I don't know. He just gives off perfect Hercules vibes
44:23
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, He's got kind of like a wholesome
44:25
Speaker 1: look to him. And the dude is buff. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
44:29
Speaker 1: So that if you are excited. You know, I have
44:33
Speaker 1: family members who absolutely love Disney's Hercules, so they will
44:36
Speaker 1: be excited for this because they're also in that area
44:40
Speaker 1: of the country. So that's what Also Also, we don't
44:46
Speaker 1: have it in our notes, but along the lines of theater,
44:49
Speaker 1: Billy Boyd and Dominic Monahan yes are performing. Rosenkranz and
44:55
Speaker 1: Guildenstern are dead up in Nova Scotia in January and February.
44:58
Speaker 1: Super cool January February of twenty twenty four, just in
45:01
Speaker 1: case you were worried that we had somehow aired these
45:03
Speaker 1: episodes out of order. Super cool and also super cold
45:06
Speaker 1: because January February in NOA Nova Scotia. We actually, did
45:11
Speaker 1: you see the little YouTube video where they did the
45:13
Speaker 1: announcement together. I did not know. It's very cute. It's
45:17
Speaker 1: very cute they as they talk about the fact that
45:19
Speaker 1: they're doing this show. And I left the very first
45:24
Speaker 1: comment on that video, which was that looks like I
45:27
Speaker 1: need to visit Nova Scotia. Yes, I nobody has been
45:31
Speaker 1: able to beat out Gary Oldman and Tim ross Roth.
45:35
Speaker 1: Yeah for me, and Richard Dreyfus to Richard Dreyfus is
45:39
Speaker 1: great in that movie. I mean, that whole movie is great.
45:41
Speaker 1: I've seen some great casts do it, and I've been
45:44
Speaker 1: a part of some productions of it. But uh, you know,
45:48
Speaker 1: these two, these two have the best chance of knocking
45:52
Speaker 1: off my favorite performance of it. I would, I would
45:54
Speaker 1: love it. So it's one of my favorite plays of
45:56
Speaker 1: all times. I absolutely adore rosen Krantz and Gillinster are dead.
46:00
Speaker 1: Also fun note, it's one of two plays that I
46:05
Speaker 1: dropped out of. Oh that's said. The other one was Hamlet.
46:10
Speaker 1: They were being done in rep and I dropped out
46:12
Speaker 1: of both of them at the same time, which is
46:14
Speaker 1: fun because Rosencranz and Guildenstern is one of my favorite
46:16
Speaker 1: non musical plays, and the other is I hate Hamlet,
46:20
Speaker 1: which is a romp um Uh. I don't know how
46:27
Speaker 1: to segue into this next story. Well I can, I can. Hey,
46:32
Speaker 1: how do you how do you express how you are
46:35
Speaker 1: not right for a part that you were never asked
46:38
Speaker 1: to play in the first place. Well you can ask
46:40
Speaker 1: Taron Edgerton, because Darreon Egerton has has said that he
46:45
Speaker 1: said he will not play James Bond, that he's not
46:48
Speaker 1: right for the role. And also he was never approached
46:50
Speaker 1: and no one ever asked him to do it, which
46:52
Speaker 1: which you know, just goes to say, like you can't.
46:54
Speaker 1: You gotta verify your information because there was so much
46:56
Speaker 1: rumor going around about him possibly taking it. Yeah, I
47:00
Speaker 1: just I love that. When I because I saw the thing,
47:02
Speaker 1: it was like, huh, I know that there was like
47:04
Speaker 1: speculation because there's always speculation about who will be the
47:07
Speaker 1: next James Bond. Right, Idris Elba was a name that
47:10
Speaker 1: was being kicked around for years, and I think people
47:14
Speaker 1: have finally kind of given up on that, even though
47:17
Speaker 1: I think he would have been a truly phenomenal James
47:20
Speaker 1: Bond had they gone that way. Yes, he's already Luthor
47:25
Speaker 1: and he's he's great at whatever, Like he doesn't need
47:29
Speaker 1: James Bond to establish himself or anything. He's phenomenal. I
47:33
Speaker 1: don't think it really. It just says that the speculation
47:38
Speaker 1: had nothing underneath it, like there was no there was
47:41
Speaker 1: no evidence or even hearsay that kind of fed into it.
47:45
Speaker 1: It's literally people just Blue Sky fan casting the role
47:49
Speaker 1: of James Bond, and the question is do they end
47:51
Speaker 1: up going with someone who is already recognizable and therefore
47:55
Speaker 1: kind of a box office draw, or do they go
47:58
Speaker 1: with someone who is relatively unknown and depend upon you know,
48:03
Speaker 1: James Bond the brand, having the draw, and then this
48:06
Speaker 1: can end up being the series that establishes that performer.
48:10
Speaker 1: We still don't know, We just know Terren's not doing it. Yeah,
48:13
Speaker 1: I'd prefer the ladder just mean too. Like I also
48:18
Speaker 1: would prefer that I don't know that's what they're going
48:21
Speaker 1: to do, because, like I mean, James Bond is such
48:23
Speaker 1: an important tent pole franchise that I would see studios
48:28
Speaker 1: wanting to try and lean on at least an established
48:32
Speaker 1: name if not, like you probably wouldn't go necessarily top
48:37
Speaker 1: top of the line, but an established name, because I
48:40
Speaker 1: don't think they would want to risk their tent Bowl
48:43
Speaker 1: franchise having duds, even though we know that the duds
48:47
Speaker 1: really come from the writing side and the directing side
48:50
Speaker 1: more than the actor side. Yeah. Yeah, well, we'll just
48:55
Speaker 1: have to continue to wait and see because we're going
48:58
Speaker 1: to get so many James Bond movies. Uh. Something we're
49:02
Speaker 1: not going to get much more of is Star Trek Discovery.
49:05
Speaker 1: The next season coming out, which is being pushed to
49:07
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, will be the final season. Yes, after
49:11
Speaker 1: five seasons, which you know memory, it's a good run
49:14
Speaker 1: if memory serves, that's how long the original enterprise mission
49:18
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. It's had a five year mission,
49:21
Speaker 1: like if you go back to the original series and
49:24
Speaker 1: the opening, this is it's five year mission to explore
49:28
Speaker 1: new worlds and all that kind of stuff. So I
49:31
Speaker 1: think there's an interesting little poetry there. You know, it
49:34
Speaker 1: rhymes as George Lucas would say, but I think that's fitting.
49:41
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of Star Trek Discovery, but
49:47
Speaker 1: for those who are fans, I hope that they continue
49:50
Speaker 1: to enjoy the series for the final season, and I
49:52
Speaker 1: hope that the conclusion is satisfactory to all the fans
49:55
Speaker 1: out there. I was not a fan of Star Trek Discovery.
49:59
Speaker 1: I definitely at first, I like it now. It took
50:02
Speaker 1: me most of the first season and part of the
50:05
Speaker 1: second season to really get into it. But I also
50:08
Speaker 1: do feel like they're like that where the last episode ended.
50:12
Speaker 1: They're kind of at a point that they can always
50:15
Speaker 1: come up with more stories, but at a certain point
50:17
Speaker 1: it becomes less poignant, you know. So I think I
50:19
Speaker 1: think it's good that there may be saying, Okay, let's
50:23
Speaker 1: call it quits for whatever reason. But also the fact
50:27
Speaker 1: that it's moving to twenty twenty four means hopefully they'll
50:29
Speaker 1: be able to wrap it up in a neat little
50:30
Speaker 1: bow that is satisfying to all. Yeah, if you are
50:35
Speaker 1: a fan of twentieth century films like Planet of the
50:40
Speaker 1: Apes or Predator or Alien, I got some good news
50:44
Speaker 1: for you. Marvel's launching a comic book line, which is
50:47
Speaker 1: essentially putting into comic book form these classic film stories.
50:52
Speaker 1: So they're starting with Planet of the Apes, but that's
50:55
Speaker 1: just the first one, and I'm sure there will be many,
50:57
Speaker 1: many more to come. And yeah, I just thought we
51:00
Speaker 1: would throw that in here. This probably could have gone
51:02
Speaker 1: in thirty seconds or last action. Now I'm actually excited
51:04
Speaker 1: about it. Look, the way that I read Frankenstein and
51:07
Speaker 1: Dracula in grade school was via comic book. So but
51:13
Speaker 1: they were like comic there were comic versions of the
51:17
Speaker 1: actual stories. Um, maybe with a few little bit, like
51:21
Speaker 1: a few of the couple, Like Dracula has a lot
51:24
Speaker 1: of tawdry bits, so a lot of very it's got
51:29
Speaker 1: a lot of steamy bits. So like they were still
51:32
Speaker 1: in there, but they weren't graphically in there because it
51:36
Speaker 1: was a it was a great school comic book. Um,
51:38
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm I'm I'm excited for that. You know,
51:41
Speaker 1: some of these some of these things are easier for
51:45
Speaker 1: people to digest in a written paper, you know, on
51:50
Speaker 1: the page format, as opposed to an acted out format.
51:53
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I always like to see the story
52:00
Speaker 1: get different kind of approaches in different media because it
52:04
Speaker 1: gives storytellers an opportunity to explore something from slightly different perspectives.
52:10
Speaker 1: And you might get something different out of one version
52:13
Speaker 1: than you do of another, and it's not necessarily better
52:15
Speaker 1: or worse, it's different. And I like it when a
52:18
Speaker 1: story can stand up to that, as long as it
52:21
Speaker 1: it doesn't end up being a comic book where it
52:22
Speaker 1: feels like, oh, this almost feels like the storyboard for
52:28
Speaker 1: the movie, right, Like it feels like this is almost
52:30
Speaker 1: frame for frame, you know, stills from the film. I
52:34
Speaker 1: can go without that kind of stuff, but yeah, I
52:37
Speaker 1: like to see artists and writers get a chance to
52:41
Speaker 1: take a crack at something and put their own spin
52:43
Speaker 1: on it, which is also what we're getting with the
52:46
Speaker 1: new Hellboy movie coming out or yeah, okay, yeah, so
52:50
Speaker 1: Hellboy the Crooked Man. It's gonna be a new Hellboy film,
52:54
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a new Hellboy. Like it's new actor.
52:58
Speaker 1: It is not Ron, it's not David Harbor, who both
53:02
Speaker 1: have played Hellboy in the past. The last Hellboy movie
53:05
Speaker 1: was largely seen as being a total catastrophe. It was
53:09
Speaker 1: a bomb. A lot of Hellboy fans were really disappointed
53:12
Speaker 1: in it. The creator of Hellboy is actually writing the
53:16
Speaker 1: screenplay for this one, so at the very least it
53:20
Speaker 1: should be very true to the spirit of the comic book.
53:25
Speaker 1: And this one is set in the past. It's not
53:27
Speaker 1: like a modern day setting, so it will be very different.
53:34
Speaker 1: And you know, the very first Hellboy film that came
53:37
Speaker 1: out I thought was really entertaining. I had not read
53:40
Speaker 1: the comics at that point. Once I did dive into
53:43
Speaker 1: the comics a little bit, I realized, Wow, they made
53:46
Speaker 1: some traumatic changes to some of these characters, because that
53:49
Speaker 1: clockwork Nazi character wasn't nearly as dangerous and capable in
53:55
Speaker 1: the comics as he was in the film version. It's
54:00
Speaker 1: interesting because they've cast it looks like they've cast Jack
54:03
Speaker 1: Kessie as hell Boy in this new movie. Um or
54:08
Speaker 1: at least that's what reports are saying. And he was
54:10
Speaker 1: black Tom Cassidy in Deadpool two. Um, but he's almost
54:15
Speaker 1: I don't know. Ron Pearlman and David Harbor I think
54:18
Speaker 1: are both attractive but very unique gentlemen. Yeah, and Jack
54:25
Speaker 1: Kessie might look a little too like Hollywood pretty. He
54:28
Speaker 1: looks almost like um, if Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling
54:32
Speaker 1: had a baby, I figure if first of all, it's
54:35
Speaker 1: in fact, that's exactly what's if Ryan Reynolds and Ryan
54:38
Speaker 1: Gosling had a baby. Yes, this is who he would
54:42
Speaker 1: be like. Uh, listen, can we not talk about this
54:45
Speaker 1: because it's like getting my heart racing a bit and
54:48
Speaker 1: I need to like calm down. No, what I would
54:53
Speaker 1: say first of all, you know, eight hours in the
54:56
Speaker 1: prosthetics chair can change a guy alive, So yeah, I will.
55:02
Speaker 1: I will withhold any judgment or enthusiasm until we get
55:06
Speaker 1: closer to it. Because while I enjoyed the first Hellboy movie,
55:11
Speaker 1: the second one didn't do much for me, and I
55:14
Speaker 1: wanted to see David Harbor's Hellboy, but by the time
55:18
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity, the word was out and it
55:21
Speaker 1: was so negative that I was just like, I don't
55:23
Speaker 1: think there's any way I can go in with low
55:25
Speaker 1: enough expectations where I'm going to enjoy myself. So I
55:28
Speaker 1: never did see it. I did watch the David Harbor one.
55:32
Speaker 1: It was not a great story, it was it was
55:34
Speaker 1: a pretty weak story. There wasn't there wasn't much, and
55:37
Speaker 1: it wasn't fantastic. But David Harbor did a phenomenal job
55:41
Speaker 1: and I just enjoyed watching him in the role. So well,
55:44
Speaker 1: he's great and I've had a conversation with him in
55:47
Speaker 1: real life and he was super nice and funny and
55:53
Speaker 1: probably desperately looking for a way to get out of
55:55
Speaker 1: the conversation with me, So I have no doubts he
55:58
Speaker 1: would have been great. So if I ever do watch it.
56:01
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll have the similar response. Yeah, we had
56:05
Speaker 1: our last two stories as we come come to the
56:08
Speaker 1: end of this monumentous news episode. Is that are both
56:15
Speaker 1: related to the Lord of the Rings. So first is
56:16
Speaker 1: that The Return of the King is coming back to
56:18
Speaker 1: theaters on April thirteenth for its twentieth anniversary. Hang on,
56:22
Speaker 1: hang on, what one anniversary? Twentieth anniversary? Have you said
56:29
Speaker 1: that wrong? Aeriel, There's no way The Return of the
56:32
Speaker 1: King came out twenty years ago. I feel that way too.
56:35
Speaker 1: I look, it's okay, So it's like the nineteenth and
56:39
Speaker 1: a half anniversary because it technically came out in December.
56:42
Speaker 1: I saw it from a birthday. No, the twentieth anniversary
56:50
Speaker 1: it hurts, yeah, a lot. But also if you get
56:55
Speaker 1: a big gulp when you go to watch it at
56:56
Speaker 1: the theaters, that's going to hurt too, because it's the
56:58
Speaker 1: extended version, be like four hours. Yeah, we've talked in
57:04
Speaker 1: the past about how we were telling Hollywood directors they
57:07
Speaker 1: need to stop making movies so long. Peter Jackson kind
57:11
Speaker 1: of really got that trend going for like, obviously there
57:14
Speaker 1: have always been long, long epic movies right there, The
57:18
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings series was not the first to
57:20
Speaker 1: do that, but Peter Jackson's films were so successful that
57:25
Speaker 1: it kind of led to an era of excess that
57:28
Speaker 1: we're still in today. And seeing that they were going
57:33
Speaker 1: to do the extended version for a film that has
57:36
Speaker 1: since it came out been criticized for having too many endings, yeah,
57:41
Speaker 1: it's just very funny. Look, I didn't mind it at
57:44
Speaker 1: the time, and I actually owned the extended versions of
57:48
Speaker 1: all three films, but so do I. Yeah, but and
57:51
Speaker 1: I enjoy them. But yeah, I don't know if I'd
57:54
Speaker 1: want to watch the extended version in the theater, although
57:59
Speaker 1: it would be interesting to see how it holds up
58:01
Speaker 1: on the big screen. I think the visuals still look fantastics.
58:03
Speaker 1: I think so too. I don't think so. My enjoyment
58:08
Speaker 1: of the Lord of the Ring series decreases with each
58:11
Speaker 1: successive movie, Like I really love Fellowship of the Ring,
58:16
Speaker 1: I really enjoy Two Towers, I like Return of the King,
58:20
Speaker 1: and when it gets to the extended editions, then it
58:24
Speaker 1: goes to, oh wow, I really really love Fellowship of
58:27
Speaker 1: the Ring. I like Two Towers a little bit less now,
58:31
Speaker 1: and then oh my god, when is this movie going
58:34
Speaker 1: to be over Return of the King. Look, Return of
58:37
Speaker 1: the King has Billy Boyd singing in it, which is beautiful.
58:40
Speaker 1: I just I mean, I think, well, there's certain things
58:43
Speaker 1: that I do think are important, like seeing what actually
58:45
Speaker 1: happens to Saraman, for example, So it's nice to have
58:49
Speaker 1: that in the Return of the King extended edition, but
58:53
Speaker 1: they also I think. The other problem I have is
58:56
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to let go of my love
58:59
Speaker 1: of the books because I've loved the books since I
59:02
Speaker 1: was a kid. And and as you go on, I
59:06
Speaker 1: would say that The Two Towers has more departures from
59:08
Speaker 1: the books than Fellowship did, even though Fellowship didn't include everything.
59:12
Speaker 1: It's not like we had Tom Bombadell, but he would
59:14
Speaker 1: not have fit in that film anyway. And then Return
59:18
Speaker 1: of the King takes even more departures than Two Towers did,
59:20
Speaker 1: And I think that might be why I enjoy each
59:23
Speaker 1: successive film a little less. I don't think that's fair necessarily.
59:27
Speaker 1: I don't say that my opinion is the right one.
59:30
Speaker 1: That's just how it hits for me. That's how I
59:32
Speaker 1: feel about the never Ending Story movies. The first movie
59:35
Speaker 1: follows the book pretty well. The second movie kind of
59:38
Speaker 1: follows the book, and the third movie has absolutely nothing
59:40
Speaker 1: to do with the book, you guys, never ending story
59:44
Speaker 1: is like the first two movies are only like the
59:46
Speaker 1: first third of the book, and the book is amazing,
59:48
Speaker 1: of course, because the book doesn't stop, or else it
59:52
Speaker 1: would be false advertising. Oh like there's an end to
59:56
Speaker 1: what you can read, but the story goes on. Well,
1:00:00
Speaker 1: you know, that's okay. If you don't want to go
1:00:01
Speaker 1: watch Return of the King all four hours at the theaters,
1:00:04
Speaker 1: you can just go to the UK and do the
1:00:06
Speaker 1: immersive musical that's being put on. Yeah, of the entire
1:00:11
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings saga, I don't know. I don't
1:00:16
Speaker 1: know what they keep in, what they leave out, because
1:00:20
Speaker 1: presumably this is not going to be an eight hour experience. Yeah,
1:00:24
Speaker 1: I mean it's outdoors. I can't imagine you could do
1:00:26
Speaker 1: that successfully. No, especially in the UK, where like it
1:00:31
Speaker 1: could rain at any minute. Yeah, so it's a musical,
1:00:36
Speaker 1: it's an it's outdoor theater. I am both intrigued and
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Speaker 1: convinced this is going to be a total disaster. I
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Speaker 1: think I think of it as a total disaster because
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Speaker 1: I think of it from the production standpoint. I think
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Speaker 1: of all the things that can go wrong with theatrical productions,
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Speaker 1: and then how that is complicated when you're talking about
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Speaker 1: an outdoor venue, and then further complicated when you're talking
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Speaker 1: about immersive elements, and it's just you've set the bar
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Speaker 1: so high, and then you're making it a musical, which
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Speaker 1: is really tricky to do in a way that doesn't
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Speaker 1: come across as a campy or comedic. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: it's impossible for them to get it done. I'm just saying, like,
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Speaker 1: if you were to pitch this to me, I'd be like, listen,
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Speaker 1: someone better than I am needs to take on this job. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well you know you can do that. You can see
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Speaker 1: how much you should go to the UK and see
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Speaker 1: how much of a weird thing it is, and then
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Speaker 1: you can also go watch the Great British Bake Off
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Speaker 1: musical that's also happening. Yeah. Yeah, I am morbidly curious
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Speaker 1: about this. Also, I wonder if they're only doing it
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Speaker 1: for one day, because they said they're doing it for
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Speaker 1: Bilbo's eleventy first birthday, So is this like a one
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Speaker 1: and done duction, because it sounds to me like it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be really involved. They're talking about having like puppeteers
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Speaker 1: and stuff to represent all the different creatures, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you just think about all the work that has to
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Speaker 1: go into something like that. If it's a one performance
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Speaker 1: and that's it, that's really crazy. Yeah, yeah, it's a little,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot. I mean, it sounds interesting. I hope
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Speaker 1: that they catch like video of it or something so
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Speaker 1: I can. It won't be the same because I won't
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Speaker 1: be immersed, but right, honestly, I don't feel like I
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Speaker 1: need to be immersed in Hobbits. That's probably a little
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Speaker 1: too hairy for me. And on that note, we're going
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Speaker 1: to end this episode fair enough. Yep. If you have
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Speaker 1: have the direct line to me. What you must do
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Speaker 1: is immerse yourself in hobbits. I'm talking neck deep, which
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Speaker 1: means you need at least two layers of hobbits and
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Speaker 1: you immerse yourself in them, and then you say, does
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Speaker 1: anyone want a crumpet. What will happen next defies explanation,
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Speaker 1: and I feel you will be a changed human being
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Speaker 1: when it is all said and done. But just as
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Speaker 1: things are about to go dark, as a swarm of
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Speaker 1: Hobbits climbs over, you, shout your question up to the
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Speaker 1: heavens and I shall hear it, and upon your recovery
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Speaker 1: in hospital two weeks later, I will whisper into your
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Speaker 1: ear the answer you seek. I'm glad. I'm glad that
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Speaker 1: took the turn that it did because I feel like
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Speaker 1: it's it's murky water telling to people to immerse themselves
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Speaker 1: in hobbits. Yeah, you don't want to do it too much.
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Speaker 1: It is hobbit for me. Okay, Well, until next time,
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Speaker 1: I have been Ariel. I'm very tired Caston, and I
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