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LNC Forgot to Nominate Wicked for the Oscars · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I am Ariel cast In, and with me, as always
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  Speaker 1: is the super heroic Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I'm filled with an adult rated loathing.
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  Speaker 1: Dude.
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  Speaker 2: Why well, when we get to our thirty seconds or less,
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  Speaker 2: it will all become clear. I'm actually I'm actually not
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  Speaker 2: upset about that, but it is foreshadowing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was worried you were loathing the fact that
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  Speaker 1: here in Atlanta we're about to get a second weekend
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  Speaker 1: of snow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, I am Listen. I know Atlanta's not known
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  Speaker 2: for having horrible winter weather. Wherever you are, it's worse.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. It's colder, there's more snow and ice.
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  Speaker 2: You have to walk up hill to school both ways.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. So you can just get off my back
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  Speaker 2: for a second. But I am here, yes, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: break it hup because I'm old. Now, Yes, I am old.
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  Speaker 2: If I fall down, I go crunch. I don't bounce
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  Speaker 2: back anymore. I fell on the airport last year, and
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  Speaker 2: it was so bad that I thought I was going
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  Speaker 2: to need to be taken to the hospital, but luckily
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  Speaker 2: I was able to walk it off. And by walking off,
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  Speaker 2: I mean slowly shamble it off anyway. No, what I
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  Speaker 2: was going to say is that like last weekend, we
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  Speaker 2: we we really dodged a bullet Like. It didn't get
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  Speaker 2: as bad in Atlanta as what some of the forecasts
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  Speaker 2: were suggesting earlier in the week. Like there was one
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  Speaker 2: forecast that suggested it could be up to fourteen inches
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  Speaker 2: of snow. We didn't get that at all. We did
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  Speaker 2: get some ice, mostly on like trees and power lines,
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  Speaker 2: some icing on the streets as well, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: as bad as it could have been. The forecasts for
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  Speaker 2: this weekend are suggesting that we could get a couple
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  Speaker 2: inches of snow, which for most places is no problem,
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  Speaker 2: but here in Atlanta, we don't have the infrastructure to
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  Speaker 2: deal with it, and we still have people who think
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  Speaker 2: they can drive on it, like it's the you know,
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  Speaker 2: NASCAR race and that's bad. That's where the bad stuff happens.
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  Speaker 1: So I can drive on snow. I've driven in blizzards
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  Speaker 1: in the mountains between Pennsylvania and Maryland and not the
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  Speaker 1: safest thing. But you know, slow and steady wins the race,
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  Speaker 1: Like the steady is the important part, right, You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to like speed up or slow down because you'll
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  Speaker 1: lose momentum and skin. Yeah, which happened to many cars, thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: not super close to me. But I'd see someone zoom
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  Speaker 1: past me and then like later on, I'd be down
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  Speaker 1: the road. Mill Ope, they're in a ditch. They well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but goodness, I also can't stop because I won't be
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  Speaker 1: able to get started again, and then I'll be stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the ditch on the side of the road. And
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  Speaker 1: I have driven in snow in Atlanta, but you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas like a town might have multiple snowplows for a
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  Speaker 1: very short, very small area, Atlanta, at least for a
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  Speaker 1: very long time, only had like twelve snowplows for the
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  Speaker 1: entire state. I was not in Georgia last weekend, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited for the snow because I missed it.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say I was really surprised my house
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  Speaker 1: only lost power for a couple of hours because Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Power was prepared to get everything back and up, and
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  Speaker 1: I was getting notifications all day that the roads were
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  Speaker 1: salted in ice prior and when I was driving home
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, everything like I didn't get home until it
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  Speaker 1: was getting dark and everything was super clear and dry.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if it will even accumulate on
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  Speaker 1: the roads because there's still salt in sand on the roads.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's not everywhere because just like you were
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  Speaker 2: saying with plows, we don't have that many salt trucks either,
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  Speaker 2: So it all depends upon where in the city you
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  Speaker 2: are and how well that is served by those trucks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My philosophy is that if it is coming down and
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  Speaker 2: if it's accumulating, just if you if you can just
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  Speaker 2: stay home, because even if you can drive well doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean that everybody else is doing the same. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it makes me sad because, as Ariel knows, we're mourning
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  Speaker 2: two different losses today on large Nardron Collider, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say the flippant one. First. We're mourning the loss here
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta of our one and only location of Torchies Tacos,
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  Speaker 2: which is closing next week and Torgy's Tacos. I think
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  Speaker 2: Torchies was much better before they opened up, Like investment
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  Speaker 2: from private investors in twenty twenty. I think the food
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  Speaker 2: was better back then, and it was definitely better in
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  Speaker 2: Austin than it was in Atlanta. But I still have
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  Speaker 2: a soft spot in my heart for Torchiese Tacos, especially
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  Speaker 2: the Rosco, the famous chicken and waffles taco that only
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  Speaker 2: was available in March. So for it to go away
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  Speaker 2: makes me sad because now I'll have to go to
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else to get like Orlando or Texas to get
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  Speaker 2: Torchiese tacos. But the more serious loss, Oh please, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was gonna ask first. I also have some stuff this
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  Speaker 1: weekend that I'll get to do, but it's less serious.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to do it in the future. Have you
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  Speaker 1: done velvet taco because we did talk about how they
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  Speaker 1: are similar, and we do have many velvet tacos in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: also with a chicken and waffle taco.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I have not tried velvet taco. I remember when
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  Speaker 2: I looked at the menu, I was like, huh, this
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  Speaker 2: is awfully similar to Torchiese Tacos menu, but I have
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  Speaker 2: not tried it. I've been near one because I remember
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  Speaker 2: there's like an escape room that's right around the corner
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  Speaker 2: from one that's in Midtown. The Midtown location is like
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  Speaker 2: a block away from the Torches location. Uh. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's part of the problem, is that Torchies was one
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  Speaker 2: in a bad part, like not a great location for
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  Speaker 2: that particular franchise. But no, I have not tried Velvet
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  Speaker 2: Taco yet.
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  Speaker 1: I have not tried Torchies. I do like Velvet Taco.
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  Speaker 1: I can't eat a few more of their things than
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  Speaker 1: you can, but like their chicken picnic that has like
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  Speaker 1: fried chicken with chicken skins and potato salad on it's
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  Speaker 1: very good.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, so yeah, we're also talking about trashy white
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  Speaker 2: people tacos gil because we're from this well, I'm from
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  Speaker 2: the South. She's just lived here long.
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  Speaker 1: I have to Yeah, people would debate whether I'm Southern
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  Speaker 1: or not.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't born here, You're like my wife, she's been
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  Speaker 2: in she's been in Georgia for thirty years. She is
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  Speaker 2: not a Southerner.
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  Speaker 1: But I will also say, like I have an excuse
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  Speaker 1: to do the trashy white person tacos because I can't
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  Speaker 1: do spicy talk.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I am on allergy shots and they do help a
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  Speaker 1: lot so eating potatoes and even ketchup and tomato sauce
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  Speaker 1: have a lot less of an effect on me, though
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  Speaker 1: I still try to limit it because there's an intolerant
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  Speaker 1: side to it too. But like my allergic reactions have
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  Speaker 1: gotten worse as I've grown older, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times that happens. But holapinos, I have learned because I've
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  Speaker 1: never acclimated to anything that is spicy in that way,
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  Speaker 1: the cap sayson like it's still rex Havoc on me.
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  Speaker 1: Even if I'm not having an allergic reaction. I am miserable,
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  Speaker 1: So I can't I just stay away from spicy peppers.
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  Speaker 2: It's sad, Yeah, I mean there's tons of food that
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  Speaker 2: you know I can't have too, so I get that. Well.
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  Speaker 2: The more serious loss that we wanted to mention, something
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  Speaker 2: that we learned about shortly before we got together to
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  Speaker 2: record this, is the actress Catherine O'Hara has passed away.
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  Speaker 2: She was seventy one years old. And Catherine O'Hara was
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  Speaker 2: in so many geeky beloved projects, like she was Delia
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  Speaker 2: in Beetlejuice, she was Sally in the Nightmare Before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: She was the Mom and Home Alone.
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  Speaker 2: The mom and Home Alone, she was. I wrote down
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  Speaker 2: some of the projects. This is just a small selection
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  Speaker 2: because she had a prolific career. But she was in
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  Speaker 2: Franken Weeney. She was in the Dick Tracy movie if
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  Speaker 2: you remember that from way back when she was in
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  Speaker 2: Waiting for Guffman. She was in a version of Pippi Longstocking.
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  Speaker 2: She of course was in the mockumentary comedies Best in
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  Speaker 2: Show and a Mighty Wind.
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  Speaker 1: Those were which also by the Waiting by for Guffman people.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and they also did Spinal Tap, but she
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  Speaker 2: was not in that one series. She was in two
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  Speaker 2: different versions of a Series of Unfortunate Events. She was
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  Speaker 2: in the film as one character and the series as
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  Speaker 2: different character, which I did not know until I was
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  Speaker 2: looking at her IMDb. And she was in the Last
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  Speaker 2: of Us, the most recent season of The Last of Us.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't I didn't watch that season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I didn't either because I knew what was
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen. But I was, you know, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: she was working all the way up to the end
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  Speaker 2: and doing great work like one of the funniest people.
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  Speaker 2: She you know, made a name for herself an SCTV
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  Speaker 2: in Canada that was really dear friends with folks like
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  Speaker 2: Martin Short and Eugene Levy and whom she worked with frequently.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's I'm very sad to hear of her passing.
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  Speaker 2: I am so happy that we were, you know, given
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  Speaker 2: such a huge body of amazing work from somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, it feels it feels too soon, feels like
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  Speaker 1: she's too young, But I am very appreciative of her work.
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  Speaker 1: Is an inspiration and one of the things that makes
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  Speaker 1: me excited to be an actor because I see the
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff that she does and I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's just putting so much joy into the world. I
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  Speaker 1: want to do that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she was. She was so good, Like her
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  Speaker 2: chemistry with people was so good, Like it was the
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  Speaker 2: the interactions she would have, Like she was funny, and
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  Speaker 2: she was really good at bouncing off of other funny people. Ye, Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's some folks who are like like. And she wasn't
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  Speaker 2: playing the straight man either, she was she was being
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  Speaker 2: just as weird like. There's so many great clips of her.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, we salute you, Catherine O'Hara, Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: all the amazing entertainment you have provided us over the years.
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  Speaker 2: You were gone too soon for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's it for her episode today.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, we have a super long episode today because so
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  Speaker 2: we I actually went in and removed stuff from our
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  Speaker 2: our other segments besides the main like this is the
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  Speaker 2: core of llenc thing, because we had so much genre
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  Speaker 2: stuff come out over the last two weeks, right, so
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  Speaker 2: that ended up taking over. So the Horror Hutches is
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  Speaker 2: still three projects, but small and the stuff what shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be here but we put it in here. Any way.
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  Speaker 2: Segment is shorter than usually is thirty seconds or less as.
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  Speaker 1: Long, and our victual lineup is long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Before we get into any of that, though, we
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  Speaker 2: do have a question for this week. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you looked at it.
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  Speaker 1: I did, and it's a super easy answer. The question
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  Speaker 1: is that Jonathan pos Us, and I'm sorry I need
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  Speaker 1: to start sending you questions again too.
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  Speaker 2: You were out of town and busy, so it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I was out of town and busy. The question is
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  Speaker 1: if you could have an action figure made of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what genre world franchise would you want it to be in.
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  Speaker 1: I would want it to be like a fantasy genre, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of for world and franchise for ease,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say Dungeons and Dragons. I'd want to be a
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  Speaker 1: barbarian action figure. And I mean, like, I know that's
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  Speaker 1: an easy answer, and there's probably there are. There are
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  Speaker 1: a ton of franchises that I would like to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of outside of that, but that one just
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  Speaker 1: feels the most true to me. And I could have
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  Speaker 1: been like, what Game of Thrones or this or that,
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  Speaker 1: but that one's kind of like all encompassing. Hint, hint,
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  Speaker 1: If Sean Levy listens to our show, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be in the Dungeon and Dragon series you're working on anyhow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's like my original one that I wrote down.
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  Speaker 2: Should be no surprise to anyone who knows me and
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  Speaker 2: has seen my upper left arm, which is I wrote
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  Speaker 2: down Middle Earth slash Lord of the Rings. Like, that's
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  Speaker 2: the world franchise thing I would want to be part of.
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  Speaker 2: But if it, if it weren't going to be fantasy,
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  Speaker 2: and fantasy shouldn't be a surprised for either of us either.
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  Speaker 2: We both worked at the Rest Festival for years. But
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  Speaker 2: if it weren't going to be fantasy, I'd say Star Trek.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one. That's that's a really good one.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm thinking star Trek from my era, not like
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  Speaker 2: current Trek, but like like eighties, nineties Trek.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched Starfleet Academy yet.
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  Speaker 2: I have not heard good things.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard good things and not good things. It's very divided,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like Discovery was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well that's that's our question for the week.
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  Speaker 2: Let us move on to what we have watched this
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  Speaker 2: last time we got together, Ariel, have you been watching
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  Speaker 2: stuff or you've just been buried under work in vacation?
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I went to vacation. I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: talk about where I was going, but I went to
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  Speaker 1: Epic Universe and the Universal Parks, and so I was
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  Speaker 1: very busy. But we had a day in between the
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  Speaker 1: We went to the two original parks on one day
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  Speaker 1: and then to Epic Universe on another day, and we
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  Speaker 1: had a day in between for rest, which is great
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  Speaker 1: because I walked ten miles a day, which is a
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  Speaker 1: lot for me in my little home desk job. And
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  Speaker 1: the day that we had off, we did watch The Latest.
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  Speaker 1: So we are apparently caught up on all of task
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  Speaker 1: Master exception of task Master Junior. And then, like Sweden,
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, but we watched the last episode that was
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  Speaker 1: available for Task Master Australia. There's one more episode that
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  Speaker 1: comes out. I will say I like the later seasons
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  Speaker 1: better than the earlier seasons of that show. And then
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  Speaker 1: we also watched the latest episodes of The Pit. I
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: know that's not really it is geeky for people who
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  Speaker 1: are like medical type stuff. It's very well done. It's
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  Speaker 1: such a good show. And then when I got home, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I just like plowed through a bunch of stuff I
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  Speaker 1: had missed. So I finished up season one of mighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: The last two episodes are the best two episodes of
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  Speaker 1: the show. They are a little less gory and depressing
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  Speaker 1: and horrifying. The team kind of comes together. I've watched
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  Speaker 1: both episodes of Night of the Seven Kingdoms, which I
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  Speaker 1: know you did too.
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  Speaker 2: Did my warning? Did my warning to you help at all?
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  Speaker 1: The potty humor portion I didn't like, But it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as bad as I was fearing. Yeah, the nudity was weird.
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  Speaker 1: It was just weird. Like it wasn't like The Pit
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  Speaker 1: has some nudity in it because it's very medically accurate
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  Speaker 1: and sure you have to do with that. It's not
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  Speaker 1: sexualized or anything like that. It's incredibly well done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, like, and I know this will not
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  Speaker 1: stay the case, but the nudity that I saw wasn't
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  Speaker 1: super sexualized.
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  Speaker 2: No. No, I mean there's there's an old man and
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  Speaker 2: you get full frontal on him and he has what
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  Speaker 2: I am just going to assume is a prosthetic because
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  Speaker 2: if not, that guy's got walking issues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And you see some butts and you
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  Speaker 1: see some boobs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But it was really interesting because I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: humor in the episodes. First of all, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I like it better than Game of Thrones proper. And
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched House of the Dragon because the main
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  Speaker 1: character is so upstanding and likable and just like you
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  Speaker 1: root for him, and and there's this wholesomeness to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's very earnest and naive, but he's also kind hearted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lot of the world around him.
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  Speaker 2: Is still pretty awful.
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  Speaker 1: It's still pretty awful. And so because and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that juxtaposition is on purpose, it makes it a little
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  Speaker 1: harder to like keep the swearing and the rudeness palatable.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of it makes it hit a little bit
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  Speaker 1: harder and a little bit grosser for me.
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  Speaker 2: I think. I think if we get through this and
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  Speaker 2: it's clear that Dunk is not fundamentally changed by the
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  Speaker 2: world around him, and that he remains true to who
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  Speaker 2: he is, then I'm okay with all the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the world being terrible, because I'm like, Okay, even in
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  Speaker 2: this world, there are still intrinsically good people who do
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  Speaker 2: not fall to the corruption of everything else that's around them,
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  Speaker 2: Whereas in Game of Thrones, you're like, listen, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a good person, you're just gonna die. We're gonna kill you.
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  Speaker 2: And you're either gonna get corrupted or you're gonna get killed,
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  Speaker 2: or you're gonna be corupted and then killed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say there are like it is very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: We're only two episodes in, right, Yeah, the kid actors
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  Speaker 1: very good, exception of one moment where he just turned
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  Speaker 1: in incredibly kid actor in episode two when they're watching
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  Speaker 1: the Justin talking and Donk doesn't want to tell him something,
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  Speaker 1: he does this like thing with his hands like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and like it was super kitty.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, really weird because he kept yelling
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  Speaker 2: six seven.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean that's essentially what he was doing, but
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  Speaker 1: several of the like the houses, like the brathy and
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  Speaker 1: king or lord or whoever he is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the drunkard. H I love him, he's great, you
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  Speaker 2: know who. I don't know if you've seen this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen X Makina?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet, and it's on my watch list.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: He reminds me of Oscar is it? Oscar Isaac? Is
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: that his name?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: And he reminds me of Oscar Isaac in general?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but Oscar Isaac's character in that there's like
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a dance sequence in that movie, and there's a dance
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: sequence in Nie of the Seven Kingdoms, and I was like,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: this is not it's it's weird that in my head
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I'm making this connection, but that connection is happening. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I loved the dancing part of that episode. Yeah. No,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I feel everything you said about Nine of the Seven
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Kingdoms is exactly the way I feel about it. So
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I just want to say that I'm one hundred percent
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: in alignment with where you are.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: They also made me like a targarian, one of the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Targarian leaders.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you like two targarians.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but spoilers.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: He says his name is Egg and then you later
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: hear another name that starts with the syllable egg.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, like if you haven't read
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the books anyhow, I do like it. I will keep
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: watching it. I'm also the love interest for Dunk is
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: seems really cool and I can't wait for her to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: get to do more because she's a puppeteer and a storyteller.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's also awesome. And yeah, I love all the performances.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I love the costumes. I'm feeling very much the same way.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I wish that they had gone a little lighter on
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the grim stuff, only because I don't think it's like
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: we know that that exists in that world. We had
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: multiple seasons of that in Game of Thrones and House
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: of the Dragon. So but like, I don't think it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think it really hurts my opinion of the show.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I just am like, you kind of didn't need to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: The crash jokes that they make, the vulgar and the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: grim stuff, I find it unfunny. The jokes don't quite
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: land there. Some of the jokes do, but it's more
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: around the wholesome content. But I agree it's not really needed.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It's usually Dunk being very awkward, right, Yeah, there's something
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that Dunk encounters and he isn't really sure how to
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: navigate through that situation. But in turn, that ends up
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: making the people he interacts with kind of charmed by
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: him because they can tell he's not conniving, he's not cunning,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: he's not smart in that way, but he's very sincere.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Well, like, I don't know, that's kind of I fail
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: at this a lot, but that's kind of like how
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I want to live my life in a way that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that's not naive, but like where my kindness positively affects
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: other people, right, Yeah, yeah, I feel like that should
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: be everyone's goal, because what a better world we'd be
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: living in. So it's kind of nice to see that portrait.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And then I've been watching glad Lands Want to.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Mention twenty gotcha? Uh? Yeah? Okay, so nine of the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: seven Kingdoms, as you said, I saw those first two
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: episodes too. I was the one warning Ariel about some
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: of the more graphic content. There's not a lot, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: when it happens, it happens big time.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: It wasn't peace Maker season two, episode one.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: No, No, it wasn't that. Yeah, I kind of feel
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: like I'm a I'm a you know, I'm a vanguard
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: that goes out and then I quickly let Ariel know, like, Okay,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: here's what you need to know going in. So that way,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: if you need to have something to distract you from
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: whatever's happening on screen, you got it nearby, which I appreciate.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: On top of Night of the Seven Kingdoms, I also
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I watched for the first time the twenty twenty two
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Hell Raiser movie. So I had watched Hell Raiser like
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: some at least the first three. I don't know if
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I went beyond the first three, but I've seen the
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: first three a couple of times. I saw him when
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: they were on cable. I didn't see them in the theater.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Those came out when I was a kid, so it's
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: not like I would have been old enough to go.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: You should not let your kids watch hell Raiser. No,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: it's yeah, that's like deeply disturbing stuff. It's not always
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: done well, but the thought behind it is deeply disturbing.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: The reason I watched hell Razor twenty twenty two is
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: because I know the guy who directed it, David Brucknery.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: He used to be an Atlanta local, and in fact,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I was in one of his projects I was in.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I was just an extra, like background extra in a
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: blink literally a blink and you miss it sequence in
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: The Signal, which was directed by three different directors, David
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Bruckner being one of them. He also once crashed my
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: anniversary party. But yeah, that's a fun story. But anyway,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I decided I wanted to watch it because I wanted to.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I really liked his movie The Ritual, which is kind
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of this sort of pagan god horror movie set in
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the woods of Scandinavia and has a lot of Scandinavian
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: folklore kind of woven into it. So I actually really
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: like The Ritual. I don't think it's a perfect movie,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: but I think it's good. So I was looking forward
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: to this. I don't think hell Raiser is as good
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: as I wanted it to be. I think it had
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: like all the elements there, but it didn't quite gel
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: for me, and I can't really put my finger on
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: what it was. But I still enjoyed it more than
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I did it. It's not like there was any point
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: in the movie where I was like, I'm just gonna
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: turn this off. I wanted to see how it ended
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and everything, but it didn't blow me Away. I also
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: have been watching Superstore with Becca because after I watched
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I got through all of the first four seasons and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: early into season five before we started watching it together.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: We are now at the point where I haven't seen
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the episodes either, like they're new to me because I
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: didn't get that far. So that's kind of fun. And
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I'm also caught up on Fallout and i cannot wait
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: for the last episode. I'm very much enjoying Fallout, even though,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: like some people are arguing that not much, like if
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you were to really break it down narratively, not much
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: is actually happening, and I can understand that criticism. I
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: don't think it's unwarranted. But I love the world and
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the performance is so much that I'm really enjoying it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: So I'm okay with the fact that it's kind of
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: light in story but really deep in world building and characterization.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And I'm usually a story guy, so usually that doesn't
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Usually that's not enough for me, but in this case,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I'm really enjoyed. Plus my girlfriend's in that. Don't tell
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: her she's my girlfriend.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, so yeah, I have only seen like the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: first three episodes maybe four, because I am really enjoying it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But my husband, who I'm watching it with, kind of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: feels like he loved the first season. There were so
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: much like interesting, cool world building and things that were different,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and he feels like this is just kind of a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: standard sci fi posts apocalyptic second season. But we're about
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to since we finish mighty nine, we're about to go
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: back into it with the group watch that I did,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the virtual group watch that I do, So I'm gonna
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: end up watching the entire thing. Now, what was gonna happen?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: It was just when there's like task Master, which is
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: lighthearted in whatever, or Fallout, the easy, lighthearted thing was
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the thing that was winning totally.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: No, I get that one hundred percent, Like you need
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: to be in a mood to be able to watch.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Becca will not watch Fallout because there are too many
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: big bugs and she's gonna insectphobia. So but I would
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: say that to me. The thing about Fallout season two,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: even more than the first season, is exploring the pre
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: war world through flashback, Like there's there's so much of
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: that where they're kind of setting up what actually happened
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: to precipitate into the Great War, which is an that's
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: an open question in the Fallout games like Bethesda as
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: purposefully not given definitive information about how the war actually
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: happened and what was the sequence of events, which makes
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: sense because you think, okay, well, this is two hundred
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: years after the war has happened, and as a war
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: on that kind of scale, there's a good chance that
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you don't have access to records of what actually unfolded,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: so it makes sense that there'd be a lot of
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: unanswered questions. So yeah, I'm digging it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I was digging it so far, and I will continue
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to dig it. I know that there was one episode
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that did bug me, and it's the one I think
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that I ended up watching before you did. Otherwise you
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: would have warned me that there is some animal cruelty
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that happens in it, because it bothered me. It was
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in a flashback. No, it wasn't in a flashback. It
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: was Lucy's dad going into the vault.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Oh right, right, right, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, if
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: you if you have if you if you have strong
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: feelings about mice, that's a tough one.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: They're very sweet.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that storyline goes really bonkers.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I bet it does. Yeah, I like Rodents, so yeah,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I think Fallout.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Fallout and the first season of Last of Us have
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: both been like head and shoulders above other video game
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: adaptations that I have seen. That's not to say that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: there there may be others that I have not seen
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: that are also like super good, but these two have
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: just really impressed me.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I really hope that the Andromeda series that they're working on. One,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I hope I can get an audition for it at
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: some point, but but two, I hope that it's as good. Yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: to have good source material and then not to be
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: afraid to veer from it and build it into its
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: own thing, I think is what's really.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, right because you want to be faithful
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: because otherwise you're alienating the fan base, but you also
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: want to be able to tell your own story, so
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: it is it is a tricky thing. Like like I
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: my favorite episode of The Last of Us is still
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the one that completely moves away from where the game
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: went right, Like it was almost like a bottle episode.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: It's not quite, but it's almost a bottle episode. And
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: it was my favorite of the entire season.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So I mean, I think it was everybody's favorite, not
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the happiest episode. But definitely everybody's favorite.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I cried my eyes out? Are you
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: kidding me? I was, like I was, I was an
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: emotional wreck. But for something to affect me that strongly,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: that's just that's just an amazing work of fiction. Like,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of quote unquote sad stories that
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I can watch and say, oh, that's sad, and that's
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: as far as it goes, right, Like, I'm not tearing
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: up or anything. I was a wreck at the end
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: of that episode of the Last of Us, Like, and
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I thought I had gotten better too, because there's like
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a ten minute, fifteen minute that kind of coda at
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the end where you've just gone through all the emotionally
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: harrowing stuff and then the dang song.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, Okay, I don't want to cry this episode. Okay,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: well then maybe I need to write that down. Is like, hey, Ariel,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you need to cry on cue watch the last ten minutes.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Put Linda Ronstat's Long, Long Time on a repeat, and
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: get ready to be an emotional wreck. All right, Well,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the thirty seconds or less stories we have.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: We've got quite a few, and Ariel gets to go first.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one will be super quick because I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: did not have time to find a new article. But
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: New York Times does. I don't have a subscription, so
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I could read it. But the news of it is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that Wicked did not do as well this year for
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the Baftis as it did with Wicked Part one. It
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: only got two nominations and that was for costumes and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: hair and makeup yep ouch. And then Sinners got thirteen nominations,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: maybe fourteen.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Anyhow, I think you're right with thirteen, which is.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Really interesting because I loved Sinners. I thought it was
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a great movie. I honestly thought before the vampires really
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: came in and became a part of the main plot,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that it was a better story, like the first half
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: was better and it's I saw a lot of people
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: after watching it were like, well, what's the moral? Horror
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: stories always have a moral, and they left it vague,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: which was really interesting. But it is a very good
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: horror movie, and they do some amazing stuff with music
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and imagery and layering, and I'm very excited for them.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I disagree with people who say that horror movies
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: always have a moral. I think many do not. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: that's a discussion for another time over at the Academy Awards,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Sinners set a new record with sixteen whopping nominations. That
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: beats the last record of fourteen, and these include a
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: nomination in a new category called Best Casting. But it's
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: not all fun news. So last year, the first Wicked
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: film got ten nominations. This year Wicked foly Ado managed nothing, zero,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: not a single nomination. Do they deserve each other?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's a Wicked reference.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if I had sung it, Do they deserve each other?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yes. Only two songs will be live performed at
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the Oscars this year. One of them is I Lied
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to You from Sinners, which sounds exciting, and the other
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: one is a fun song, but I've seen it performed
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: live so much that it feels like it's a bit
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of a whiff to do it at the Oscars, which
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: is Golden from Kpot Demon Hunters. It's a good song,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: it's wonderfully performed. It's wonderful performed live. I've just seen
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: it performed a live a whole bunch.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I get the feeling that this is the Academy
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: saying to young people, please watch our our award show
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: over at Amazon MGM Studios there's a reorg. So previously
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: teams were built around each series or co production, but
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: now teams are going to be genre based in buckets
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: like drama and comedy, world building, which is all the
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: genre stuff, animation, and unscripted. Amazon as a whole announced
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: it would cut sixteen thousand jobs, which is sobering, particularly
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: after they cut fourteen thousand last year.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Yikes. In more Yike's news, there's a Senate committee hearing
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: over the Warner Brothers Netflix proposed acquisition merger thing that's
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: happening on February third. I'm honestly like, because they're worried
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that there might have been like some information that was
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: shared to help move it along or something. I don't know.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: It might just be that people are sore about the merger,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: or it might be that it's too big of a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: market share. I guess we'll see what happens soon, because man,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I'm ready for them just to figure out what's going
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to happen and do it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, what happens when the staff at a union
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: are unhappy with how their union negotiates deals, Well, the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: union staff might go on strike against the union. That's
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: potentially unfolding at the Writer's Guild of America West organization.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: More than eighty percent of WGA West staff voted to
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: authorize a strike, saying union leadership isn't negotiating in good faith.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: This can make upcoming industry negotiations as a whole pretty tricky.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yikes. Okay. There is a new AI animated short form
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: series out about the American Revolution called On This Day
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy six. It's done by Primordial Soup and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Darren Aronofsky, or maybe those are the same company. I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: don't know. It's using Google Deep Mind. I don't like
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: AI animated and scripted and acted movies. That's using it
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: as more than just a small tool to help out.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I watched the trailer for it, and man, the Uncanny
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Valley was weird and strong for me.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: One of the many irons in the fire over at
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: James Gun's DC Productions is a feature titled The Brave
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: of the Bold. This is a Batman and Robin story,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: specifically the Damian Wayne incarnation of Robin. Christina Hodson is
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: writing the script. She previously wrote Birds of Prey and
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: The Flash, so she has DC roots. Andy Muskietti, who
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: recently directed Welcome to Dairy not Dairy Girls is slated today.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Are you are you certain?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I double checked?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Oh okay. So a while ago we talked about how
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Henry Cavill jered his leg and it pushed back the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: start of production for the New Highlander reboot till twenty
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: twenty six, which we're in now. But we did finally
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: get some pictures of Henry Cavell as the Highland, and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: by that I mean like two pictures. He's in some
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: leather coats with some shaggy hair, but not as shaggy
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: as the Witcher, So that's what you got. That movie
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: has a one hundred million dollar plus budget.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Yeah. There's one shot of him in a
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: church and one shot of him in what looks to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: be a temple. So I'm guessing Cavell's version of McLeod
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: as a coward because immortals are not allowed to fight
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: on holy ground. All right. The God of War film
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: adaptation announced it's Odin, and it's none other than Mandy
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and Yingo Montoya a dinket. In fact, I actually titled
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: this entry, Hello, my name is Odin. You killed my
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: son Prepared to die, which it's not actually accurate to
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the game. But never mind that Olafer Dory Olofsson will
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: play four severance fans will remember Oloffson as the enormous
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and intimidating mister Drummond, which is real good casting.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Speaking of casting, Mikey Madson and Leah se Doo are
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: cast in the Mask of the Red Death being done
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: by A twenty four. Julie Hammer and Eric Fieedg are
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: producing and James along with James Pressen and Lucy McKendrick.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: It is interesting because they're like, we aren't really releasing
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the plot yet, and I was like, we already know.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: The plot, but Edgar Allen Poe beat you to it
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: by one hundred years.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but apparently it's going to be, quote from Hollywood Reporter,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: wildly revisionist and darkly comedic. The story is about people
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: like trying to escape the plague and death kills him anyhow, Like, yeah,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: that's the story.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean it kind of makes me think
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: of the Fall of the House of Usher. How that
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: series was I wouldn't say revisionist, but a very loose
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: adaptation of a lot of Poe stories and have a
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: lot of dark humor woven into that as well. We
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: have a bunch of news related to theater, and first
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: up as the announcement that Donya Taymoor will direct a
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: film adaptation of the play John Proctor is the villain
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: in that follows a group of five young women classmates
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: in a school in rural Georgia as they study the
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Arthur Miller play A Crucible. Taymoor directed the show on
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Broadway and the original playwright is adapting the script into
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the screenplay.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Next. I'm kind of surprised Jonathan gave me this one.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: It's one of the ones that we'd have to like
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: arm wrestle for. Probably there's a version of The Rocky
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Horror Picture Show coming to Broadway, which Jonathan loves. I'm
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: less of a fan of the story, but I am
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a fan of the person who they cast is Brad
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Andrew Durand I know I've talked about him before. They
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: used to do community theater with him and Rossold. He's amazing.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: He's going to make it amazing, Brat and he's with
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: an amazing cast. Luke Evans Is Frank and Ferter, Juliet
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Lewis's Magenta, Stephanie Sue from Everything everywhere, all at once
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: as Janet Harvey, Gulian is Eddie, Amber Gray is Riff Raff,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: and Rachel Dratch as the narrator, which I think is
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: such a brilliant choice.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gave this to you because you know someone
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: who's in the cast, so you beat me. Well, you
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: might be familiar with the melodramatic reality competition showed the Traders,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: and now Studio Lambert announced it it tends to produce
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: a play based off the series and bring it to
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: the West End. John Finnemore, who wrote The Good Omen's
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: series adaptation, will write the script and Rob Hasty, known
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: for Operation Mincemeat, will direct. I just don't know who
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: to trust in general, just.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Like a Game of Thrones story, which, speaking of George R. R.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Martin is saying that the end he says he's actually
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: writing the end of a Song of Ice and Fire,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and that it's going to be way darker than the
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: end of the show, which had to make stuff up
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: because the series that it was based on was not finished.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Next thing, well here they're going to be doing a
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: comedic version of it on Broadway.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think Martin is trying to say, hey,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I know you hated that last season of Game of Thrones,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: but don't worry. The books will have a different ending.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't think it's because it wasn't grim enough.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the reason people disliked it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he did specifically say that if you're a
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Tyrian fan, you're probably not gonna like how it ends up. Well.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Blumhouse Atomic Monster announced it is developing a film adaptation
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: of Hannah Rose May and Vanessa del Rey. That's the
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: writer and artist, respectfully, of a comic book series called
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: The Exorcism at sixteen hundred pen So that title references
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: the address of the White House, aka where the President lives.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: So in May's story, the president is a woman who
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: is facing global as well as familial crises, including a
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: pesky demon problem. Now I'm being cheeky, but it is
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: not a comedy.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: That's not what I thought was going to be exercised. Okay,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I thought it was just going to be like a
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: running course around the White House. Okay, that's not I'm
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: gonna that's it for thirty seconds or less. Woo.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a long one. There's a lot of stuff,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: but yeah, we'll just go ahead and keep this moving along.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of the movie trailers that don't
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: really fall neatly into our lineup, like our genre focused stuff,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: but we still kind of wanted to touch on. I
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: took a lot out of this segment because again, we
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: do have a lot of genre films and shows to
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: talk about too. But first up, we have a trailer
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: for a movie called Tuonor. This is about a piano tuner,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: a young man who has hyper sensitive hearing, and how
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: he totally by accident, gets pulled into a life of
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: crime because he uses that ability to do safe craft
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: when he kind of just falls upon a group of
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: thieves who have broken into a place. I'm curious what
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: you felt about this trailer. I know my first thoughts,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: but I want to hear yours without coloring it.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I think we talked about this offline, so it is
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: colored slightly. You had said it's kind of like Baby Driver,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: which I agree, but in this one, his baby driver
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: kind of gets conscripted into it. I don't remember fully
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: if it was on camera off camera, but he's already
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: in that life, so we watch this guy enter that life.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: But it is interesting because I got the impression that
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the whole reason he agreed to help the thieves was
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: because he just wanted the noise to be over. Yeah, like,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: if I help you, then it'll be quiet again.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because he does have hyper like he's always wearing
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: ear plugs and sometimes ear protection on top of those,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: because his hearing is so sensitive that even even low
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: noise is distracting to him. And meanwhile, the thieves are
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: like trying to use jack cameras and stuff to get
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: into a safe. So he's like, it's almost like I
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: really need to do this, piano. So if I do
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: this for you, can we like move this along. Dustin
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Hoffman is also in this. He plays a supporting character,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: kind of the mentor to the main character, and Hoffman's
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: character is ill and doesn't have the money to cover
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: his medical expenses, so that also adds motivation for the
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: main character to get more actively involved in the crime.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: But then he finds out the hard way that getting
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: into crime is is much easier than getting out of it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, it looks it looks like it could be fun.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes out May twenty second, So yeah, I
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: think this looks interesting. I don't know that I would
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I'd probably catch it on streaming. If I'm being totally honest,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I would go to the theater
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: to see this. Next up is one where I probably
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: would go to the theater if I could find someone
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: who wanted to see it with me, which is a
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: movie called Heel h E E L.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Do you know it's not about wrestling, right?
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Well? I didn't initially, but then after I watched the trailer,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I kind of picked up on it. There is a
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: wrestler in one of our trailers that's later, so there's
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: a It's about a nineteen year old criminal named Tommy,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: and while he is out being a rowdy, rambunctious, violent
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: ne'er do well, he ends up getting kidnapped and forced
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: into a rehabilitation process with a dysfunctional couple named Chris
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: and Catherine, who and this is a quote from the
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: log line, trying to make him a good boy. It
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: looks like it has a lot of dark comedy elements
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: to it too, but yeah, it's a story of about
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: a bad person running into other bad people who think
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: that they're good people and are trying to make him
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: into a good person.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's kind of violent, and angry at the
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: beginning of the movie. But I would be too if
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I got abducted and chained in a basement.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Just saying he was violent and angry before he gets subducted,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: that's the problem, but I would be.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: More so after being abducted. That's that's I don't know.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know if I'll see this one.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: No, no, I totally get it, Like it's this is
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: kind of an extreme, Like it doesn't look like the
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: violence is going to be over the top in graphic
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: although that might be the case. It may just be
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the trailer didn't show it, but there is violence, Like
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: there's a point where Chris, the guy who's captured Tommy,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: starts to beat him with a baton for disobeying rules. Right,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's not gentle, but it does look like
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: it's like it's almost on the dark comedy side of
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: thriller and horror, although I think that they're doing a
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: very light touch with the comedy part, like it's more like,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: look at how messed up as opposed to haha, this
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: is funny. And then we have Idiotka, which is a
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: movie starring Anna Barishnikov. If that name sounds familiar. He
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: might be a child of the eighties like I am,
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: and remember the ballet dancer Mikhail Bershnakov. Anna is his daughter.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a relation. Yeah, it's it's
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Project Runway to Dramedy.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Anna Barishnikov plays a young woman named Margarita.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: She she belongs to a family that's in financial trouble
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: and they don't really have a way out, and she
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: sees a possible lifeline in the form of a reality
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: fashion competition show, which in this world is called Slay, Serve, Survive,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: and so she decides to apply to be a contestant
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: on that show. And then the show's producer gets like,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: this is like so real. I felt it in my
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: bones because I work for Discovery Communications for a while,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my, and you've been on a
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: reality show, Ariel, so you know this too. The producer
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: is like really pushing to create drama and narratives and
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: really wants her to exploit her family situation for the
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: purpose of making a compelling story and making ratings. And
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: you're like, that's gross, but it happens in TV all
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Well, because reality TV isn't reality, it isn't reality. Some
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: of it is more real than others, but it's still
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: an entertainment project first and foremost, right, so they want
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: to keep it intriguing and entertaining. That being said, my
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: time on reality TV was wonderful and I would do
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: it again in a heartbeat.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I will say, in case you ever do hunt down
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: that episode that Ariel was on. When it comes to
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: the big reveal, I can't tell you how many times
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: we got that reveal. Yeah, it was four or five,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: I think something like that, and we had we had
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: to be surprised and excited every time. No, it wasn't
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: hard because Ariel she already looked great, but she looked
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: she was just done up to the nines for that show.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: So I had a.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Really cool hair and makeup artist in Atlanta. We went.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: We went to the Botanical Gardens to do a bunch
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: of like posts like here's Ariel after shots, and then
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: we revealed at a theater downtown.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was fun. It was a fun event. I
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: also realized I didn't say this for any of the movies,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna do a quick rundown. Tuner comes
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: out May twenty second. Heel comes out March sixth, and
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Idiotica comes out on February twenty seventh. So we're done
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: with that. Now come with me, my friends, as we
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: take a turn down a dark hallway with a creaky
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: floor and spiders and there's bats.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Why do you have to say spiders.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Because they're there, you know where they live inside John
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Boy's horror hosh uh. I'm gonna start this well. First,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: one of them I know you've seen because you sent
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: it to me. I'm assuming you actually watched The Lord
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: of the Flies previous.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: I watched the first half to make sure it was
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: real and new and to get an idea, and then
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I skipped this. I skimmed the second half where it
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: gets really disturbing. Okay, I do not like that one.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's mostly watch it. I didn't watch it, but
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing you didn't watch either of the other two.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, this time all right, So we're gonna start off
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: with a different one first, which is called Bow of Hell.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: It's a Brazilian horror movie with a really crappy premise
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: because it's kind of about possessed toilets, so toilets in
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: a condo complex, go absolutely haywire and start maiming and
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: killing people. It's all gross out horror comedy, very gross stuff.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, don't watch it if you got a delicate tummy. Reportedly,
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: and I say reportedly because I have not seen this myself,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: but reportedly it satirizes many elements about life, but in
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: a way that's just super disgusting, but like, underneath that
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: super disgusting exterior is like actual, like hard truth kind
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: of stuff. The lead character is a woman who is
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: organizing a gender reveal party for an influencer client, but
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: she's also dealing with her own transgender child's transgender child,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I should say, transgender child's disapproval for facilitating this gender
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: reveal in the first place, right like their child is like,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: this is a barbaric practice. It's setting people up on
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: a path that they don't have any agency to choose
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: for themselves kind of thing. The initial release is oh
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: gosh today, but I think it's only out in the
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Netherlands so far, so I don't know if and when
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: it will come. It will probably come to a streaming
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: service if I were gonna guess, maybe a couple of
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: like independent theaters, movie theaters in America. But I don't
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: know that I would be able to watch this because
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I have a tolerance for gross out stuff. But it
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: does have a limit, and I feel like this is
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: gonna push well past that limit, probably in the first
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: half hour.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Do you know what my limit is? Slight slightly below
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: that pawny humor monster in Dogma that usually gets edited
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: out of the TV version.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask about the or think about the
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: moment where Sir Dunk is behind a tree in the
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: first episode.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: That was unnecessary, but again not as bad as I
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: anticipated it.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Next up, we do have the Lord of the Flies series.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: This is a four episode series by the BBC. It
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: is an adaptation of the novel by William Golding. So
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: for those of you who had not read the novel,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: I almost said had to read the novel. In my case,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: it was a book that was part of my schooling,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: so I quote unquote had to read it, but I
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: wanted to read it. The basic story is that it's
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: a group of boys who get stranded on a remote island.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: In the novel, at least, and I'm assuming in the
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: series as well, they are in the process of being
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: evacuated during wartime when the plane they're on crashes and
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: they're the only survivors that make it to this island,
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: and so they're attempting to kind of create a very
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: loose hierarchy slash civilization, and then things go really bad,
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: and the novel explores themes like the frailede of civilization,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: like how close we are to everything unraveling at any
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: given moment, as well as things like morality. And it
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: comes out February eighth, and it looks like it's a like,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: at least from the trailer. I can't really speak to
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: the series, but it looks like it's going to be
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: faithful to the novel. You know. When I watched it,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, this feels like it's from
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Lord of the Flies. And then we have a trailer
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: for Dolly. D l l Y is not a biopic
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: of Dolly Parton, although that joke has been made a lot.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: It is a slasher film and it follows a couple
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: who are hiking through the woods when they come upon
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: an area where dolls have been lashed to trees. Then
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: they encounter a stranger who wears a doll mask, and
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: at first they're still okay with approaching this person. I
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: don't know about you, Ariel, but I would probably take
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: that as a sign to maybe go back.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: But then yeah, slashing ensues. It reminds me a bit
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The doll stuff actually reminds me
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: of the dolls Head Trail in Atlanta. You can go
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: and walk this trail and it is pretty creepy. The
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: trailer is done in like a seventies grindhouse style. Sean
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: William Scott is in this movie, but to me, it
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: looks like he's not in it for very long. Hand
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: tintint and it comes out March sixth. There we are
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: done with John Boys horror Hutch let me, I'm just
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: start our next thing. I gotta get all these spiders
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: back in there.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Well send some flies in there and the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: spiders will follow them. I just have to say the
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety I didn't read Lord of the Flies, but
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I did watch the nineteen ninety movie and it still
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: disturbs me to today.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: It's a disturbing story. It's really well done. The novel
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: is very short, too, so if you ever do want
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: to read like it's well done, it's upsetting, but it's
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: a very well done story.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so our first trailer and our actual show
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: notes is for he Man. We got a full trailer
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: for he Man, and now we know what the story is,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: which is he Man's mom sends him to Earth to
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: protect him from the war, and he is trying his
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: darnedness to get back to Eternia, and one day he
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: gets a message that someone has found pardon me his sword,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: and then he goes back to Eternia. It looks delightful,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: it looks fun. I think the casting is great all
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: exception of one person, skeletor Skeletor. Anybody who listens to
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: our show knows that we're not a huge fan of
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Jared Letto. That's not to say that he can't do
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal job in the role he might.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: You certainly can't recognize him, which is you know that's something.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I don't know. I hope, I hope
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: he didn't. I hope he was nice to people on set,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: that's all I hope.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he went all method for Skeletor one, that's stupid,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: but two, I definitely want to hear those stories.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Listen as an actor. Well one, I am a people
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: pleaser as a person, and I try not to be
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: because you can overdo it. And I know that that
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: hurt John Candy as well.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: But like.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Being method, acting skeletor would require some pretty big click building,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: and that would hurt my very soul.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even I can't even begin to think
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: of what that would entail. I was sad that we
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: don't get a really good look at Alison Brie as
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Evil Lynn in the trailer. There's like a moment where
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: she's in a fight with I'm assuming Tila, but you
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: don't get a really good look at her. And I'm
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: just I'm ready to add another girlfriend to my list.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: She's not already added to your list.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: I mean she kind of is because she's really funny
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: and smart and I really like her work, and she
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: chooses crazy projects, like so many crazy projects, and also,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: like Annie on Community was one of my favorite characters.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, this comes out June fifth. I really
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: like this trailer too. I thought it looked a lot.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: I thought it struck the right tone. I was worried
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: it was gonna be super grim dark serious, and I'm
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: like it was a freakin' toy line in the nineteen eighties,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: and the original show only existed to sell toys. That's
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: the only reason it was made.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just think the casting is super brilliant,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Like it just Elbows man at Arms and Ailson Breeze
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Evil And if you look for the screenshot of her
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: from the trailer, she looks pretty badass.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I did see someone who got like the perfect
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: screenshot where there's no motion blur or anything, and she like, yeah,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: she looks good.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: There was a meme going around because in the trailer
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: they show this is maybe more social political than I
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: usually like to get on the show, but it's it's
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: funny and I want to mention it in case you
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: haven't seen it. There was a meme going around where
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: somebody's like, oh, they're so upset because he's sitting at
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: a desk with his pronouns he him underneath him. It's
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: like his name is literally he man, his name is
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: he Man.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a there's a there's a song. There's a
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: song by Flight of the Conchords called the Summer of
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: like thirteen forty three or something like that, where it's
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: it's done as if it's a medieval ballad, and and
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: there's a point in that where a woman is telling
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: the main character of the song that his hairstyles rather feminine,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: and he says, he man has this very same haircut.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: He double masculine. He man. It's one of my favorite bits.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I just thought it would very funny. But yeah, I'm
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: super into this. I'm gonna see it. I really liked
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the Kevin Smith cartoons. The two seasons of the cartoon
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: series we've gotten as well, So.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: I have not seen those. I keep thinking I need to,
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: and I just haven't watched it yet.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, they are a little they can be a
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: little heavy handed in the messaging at time, but it's
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: it's a fun ride, okay.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Well, next up we got a fun extra look at Supergirl,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: this time in a little promotional video that is more
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: about Jason Momoa and his taking on the role of Lobo.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Has a cute little moment at the beginning where he
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: steps out of the trailer. He's got cigar in his mouth,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: and someone off camera says like, what's your your response
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: to getting to play Lobo? And he just looks at
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: the camera and goes finally and then starts laughing. And
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: then we get clips of Lobo on a motorcycle and
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: it's real, it's really short, but he looks good as Lobo.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I think. I mean, he looks like Lobo,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: and Lobo looks like the love child of Jeene Simmons
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: from Kiss and the Crow.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's true. That's a good I never heard
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: anyone describe him like that, but that is accurate.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like really, Lobo is the thing that I know
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: most people in my circles are the most excited about.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: With the Supergirl movie, I think it looks fine. By
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: the way, Jonathan, that Jason Momoa Dave Batista as Brothers
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: movie came out this week.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that it was when I was popping
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: on my television earlier this week that it was something
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: available to watch. I have not yet seen it, but
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: I might watch it because they seem like they're both
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: very charismatic, so I may watch it just for to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: see the chemistry between the two of them. Supergirl as
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: a Reminder comes out on my birthday, June twenty sixth,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, thank you. And then we get a trailer
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: for Daredevil Born Again season two. Now, if you recall
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Originally this was going to be part of season one,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: but then they split season one into two seasons, so
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: this is the second half and they've already renewed for
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: season three. Season three will go into production this spring,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: so this is not the end of the story. And
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: the trailer gives us lots of shots of interesting stuff,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: like the return of another member of the Defenders.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jessica Jones, which means season three we should get
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Luke Cage because that's how they released on.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Netflix, and then after and then post credits you get
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: Iron Fists, and then they just never talk about them again.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks good. I am mad at one thing
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: in it. I don't want to spoil it for you, Jonathan,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: but I know you've got a long time till you
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: watch it.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Is this going to be about Foggy? Yes, the fact
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: that they show Foggy on the trailer, I'm.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Like, how dare they? How dare they?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I've I've had I don't know the details,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: but I've had Foggy's fate spoiled for me because it
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: was impossible to avoid, Like there were so many headlines. Yeah, right,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: but I don't know any of the details because I
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: haven't watched it.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: I did like season one of Daredevil Born Again. It
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: felt like the like they did who It felt like
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the Daredevil series. Too many d's there, And it did
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: also feel long, so like the episodes were kind of
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: long because it's a slow nor type pace much of
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the time, not all of the time. But I very
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: much enjoyed it. I am looking forward to season two.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: I can kind of understand why they split the two seasons.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I felt like a full story arc was told in
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: season one.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did see that they have incorporated the Anti
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Vigilante Task Force, which is, you know, King Penn's kind
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: of brute squad, which I feel like that's going to
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: resonate with a lot of people in the United States
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: these days for reasons I'm not going to go into,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: but yeah, using a law enforcement as your personal thugs,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of parallels. There's always kind of
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: been a lot of parallels between Dareduvil.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: And current events that kind of stuff. Yeah, there will
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: be eight episodes in total, comes out March twenty fourth,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: and as I mentioned before, they already are planning a
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: third season, which is great news for everyone involved there.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, then we've got a trailer for Invincible
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: season four. Are you caught up on Invincible, Aeriel? Are
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: you still behind?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm not. We watched I think part of
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: season three, and then we stopped. We watched season two.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: I don't The problem is we don't remember where we stopped.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotcha. Yeah.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: And every time I'm like, hey, let's catch up on Invincible,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Tony's like I do like it and I want you,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: but I'm just not feeling it.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and then it's the longer you go. It's
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: also like a thing where you're like, I feel like
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: we kind of need to go back to see what
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: has been happening, and then you just never make progress.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: So there are several series in which we've done that,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it's right or wrong, and I
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: know it's a frustration to many people, and I know
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: that sometimes the call is made too early. But I
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: am part of the problem. Obviously, not with Invincible, but
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: like with shows that get renewed or don't get renewed,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's because people do what I do and they're like,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: I will go back to this show later, and they
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: never do.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm caught up on Invincible. So I'm looking forward
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: to season four. If you know anything about Invincible, if
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: you don't know Invincible, none of what I'm going to
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: say next is going to make sense. But season four
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: looks like it's leading up to the actual Vitrium invasion
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: of Earth and the war between Earth and Vitrium, and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: also Adam Eve she seems to be having some trouble
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: with her superpowers. The first three episodes premiere on March
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: eighteenth on Prime Video. And if you haven't watched Invincible,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: the caveat that I offer to you is that it
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: is an exceedingly violent show. It's animated, but it is
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: her think about how violent it could be and probably
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: knock that up a couple of notches because it's intense.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: It's not as bad or as depressing as The Boys.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not as No, it's in the same world,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: not literally, not literally in the same world, but it's
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: in that same genre of dark takes on superheroes and
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: like the idea of if superheroes were real, what would
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: they really be like? So kind of like The Watchmen
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: or The Boys, I think Invincible kind of falls into
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: that realm too, same as like Kick Ass that kind
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: of thing, but it's not as bleak as The Boys is. Yeah,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: it's still pretty darn dark. Also, like, I get that
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: it's a trope in superhero stories, but good lord, when
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: you are certain someone is dead because because their brain
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: matter has been spread across the sidewalk, and then they
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: show up half a season later, you're like, what does
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: it take to put someone away in this Oh? I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: get it. They have to be a good guy.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I have a question for you because
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: in the beginning of the trailer and also in the teaser,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: they showed Invincible with like some copper things on it,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: like a copper arm. Yeah, and legs. Are those casts
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: or does he regrow his limbs at some point because
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: the rest of the trailer he does not have those on.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: It's it's like, think of it as like a recovery.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: It's like a cast. It's like a recovery a piece
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: of machinery. That's at the end of season three boiler
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: alert for anyone who hasn't watched it, including Aeriel. He
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: gets his stuff messed up pretty bad, and.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: So see the end of every season.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean this one is real bad, but
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: everyone is real bad. You're right, like you start to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: lose any sense of context or comparison. But yeah, he
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: has those on. I'm assuming to help repair the incredible
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: amount of damage he absorbed at the end of season three.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Next, we have a trailer for mister Oh. I was
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: about to say that the bunchline to my joke before
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I said the name of the trailer for mister Melvin,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: mister Belvidere's lesser known cousin.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, mister mel mister Melvin, who cares. According to New Arrival,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: life is more than me survival sending me down a
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: neural path way I wasn't prepared for. Mister Melvin. Is
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: a recut edit of The Toxic Avenger Part two and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: The Toxic Avenger Part three, So it's taking two movies
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: and putting them into one movie. Now. According to the trailer,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: these were two films that were both intended to be
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: a direct sequel to the original Toxic Avenger, but there
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: was a massive falling out on the production side, on
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: the director slash producer side, and you got two different
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: movies that then became Toxic Avenger two and three, and
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: now they've been squished back together to be what they
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: were supposed to be in the first place. That's according
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: to the trailer. I've seen some stuff that contradicts that.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: But if you're not familiar with Trauma, first of all,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: James Gunn did early work in Trauma, but it is
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: known for like Gonzo over the top, gross out horror
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: action type stuff, and Toxic Avenger is kind of like
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: their mascot. It's a character who we talked about when
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: they did the remake with Peter dinklic right. It's a
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: It's a janitor who gets hit by toxic sludge and
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: turned into this mutant who then goes on to become
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: like a vigilante. What did you think of this trailer?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: It was okay, yeah, it's bonkers. I I did see
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: the Toxic Avenger. I didn't rewatch it, and I didn't
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: watch the new one, so it really didn't have a
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: lot of meaning for me.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, it's I mean it looks it looks to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: be entertaining. Like I think of Trauma as kind of
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: being like John Waters but with less to say. Like
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: John Waters movies, I feel has something to have something
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: to say. It's just that they revel in trash in
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: ways that you have to get past the trash to
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: see what is being said and if you can get
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: out South Park kind of like, if you can get
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: past that, then you can you can see what the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: perspective is. If you can't get past it, all you
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: see is trash. I feel like Trauma has got even
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: less to say, so it's it's like, no, it's just
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: trash all the way down. But that's okay because it's
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: just made for entertainment. This movie has been making the
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: rounds in the festival circuit. There is not currently, as
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: far as I can tell, any information about any kind
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: of wider release, but if you are curious, if you're
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: a Toxic Avenger fan, you can check out this trailer
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: just to see, you know, what it looks like. And
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: the fact that there's this re edit making the rounds.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: You can maybe plan a trip to one of these
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: festivals to check it out.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that John Waters did cry Baby.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. He also did Hairspray, the original Hairspray.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the original Hairspray.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Oh it's good. It's the original Hairspray is really good.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Like I was surprised when they made the musical because,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: first of all, I'm surprised that anyone made a musical
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: out of a John Waters movie, but I was surprised
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: when they made the musical, and then I really liked
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: the musical too, But I still have a soft spot
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: in my heart. It is Ricky Lake, who played the
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: main character, Oh Nice in the non musical version of Hairspray,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: which still has like singing and dancing in it. It's
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: just not a musical. Next up, we've got a mystical
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Chinese kung fu film called Blades of the Guardians. I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: can't tell you what this movie is about based on
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: the trailer, but it sure is action packed.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a bodyguard who has to like bodyguard and
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: escort like a notorious figure. That's like the log line
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: kind of.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an adaptation of a comic book. It looks
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: like the filmmaking is pretty darn incredible. The trailer is great,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: like they picked a great song to pair it with
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: and it it's one of those trailers where they've queued
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: up the action beats to be like the rhythm of
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: part of the trailer, which is a lot of fun.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: This movie, by the way, was supposed to come out
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: last year. I found out while looking into this movie
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: that some drama happened. So there was a big controversy
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: around the lead actress who was supposed to be in
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: this movie, and the controversy was that she had not
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: been completely honest about her educational background and had apparently
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: failed to live up to her end of the obligation
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: she had to her education, and as a result, there
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: was this big backlash among the Chinese public saying celebrities
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: should not be given a free pass to do this
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: kind of thing if it affects like if the rest
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: of us weren't given clemency, then they shouldn't eat there.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: And ultimately the studio decided to cut her from the movie,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: recast her, and do eleven days of reshoots to replace
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: her in the film, which must have been really hard
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they did that with Tig Nataro and
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: what was it Day of the Dead Vegas edition.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: It was like Army of the Dead or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: where Tig is notoriously shot against green screen and never
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: appearing with any of the other actors. Yeah, it doesn't
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: appear literally seems to be in a different movie. But
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's to the movie's benefit, like it actually
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: makes the movie better.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Fair enough. I haven't seen it, but I do like
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: taking Natara.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Well well, Blades of the Guardians looks. It looks really entertaining.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I will resonate with the story,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: but the action sequences look gorgeous and really impactful. It
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: comes out February seventeenth.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Can I can I say, when you were introing it,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: you're like this whirling dervish blade whatever kung Fu movie.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: My brain had already skipped to the next story, and
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: so I thought you were cheaply introducing the next trailer,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: which is for Star Wars mall shadow Lord.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh no. The only thing I have to say
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: about this is I don't I am so far removed
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: from the Star Wars timeline now I'm like, when did
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: he get legs again?
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I forgot that he lost legs.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, he got cut in half in Phantom Menace.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: I forgot that. Are they trying to make him sympathetic?
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think he's supposed to be
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: a crime lord. I think, okay, I think in the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: Star Wars canon. So I went to Wookiepedia, I had
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: to look at wookie Pedia take.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: Out that sad attempt at being Rubacca.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Wookipedia is hard to read, y'all because it's written by
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Star Wars fans who have a deep love and knowledge
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: of the thing they're writing about. But it's almost like
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: they assume you have the exact same level, so when
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: they make a reference like that makes sense to them,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: they don't realize that for someone who's not as deep
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: into Star Wars, it's just impenetrable. And I was reading
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: it was like, I can't tell. I don't know when
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: he because I remember the shots of him with the
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: spider legs right, like for a while he had spider legs,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: but now he's got he's got men's legs where they're
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: supposed to go. So I don't know, but I know
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: that that did happen at some point in the storyline. Anyway,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: this takes place after the Clone Wars. Oh ok yeah,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: this this story Star Wars Mall shadow Ward happens after
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: the Clone Wars. That's why in the trailer you have
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: the young woman who is wielding a lightsaber. She's constantly
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: on the run because Order sixty six is an effect.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I totally remember all of that. I do.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it's uh. This comes out April sixth,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: and the last episode will come out on Star Wars Day,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: May the fourth.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: I'm uh, I still like Star Wars. I'm feeling meh
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: about this one.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like Star Wars and I feel mad
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: about this one.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Like I just I'm ready for and I say, I'm
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: ready for some new series stories within the world. And
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: then I didn't watch some of the ones they did release.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I mean I hear you like. Oh,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: I will say, Richard Iowade does a voice in this.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: I do like Richard Ayowati.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He plays a robot called T two b zero T,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: but is known as two Boots.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: Oh that's so cute. I'll look up two Boots clips.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you next up. We are just going to spend
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: a very short time on this one. We got a
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: full trailer for the Muppet Show, but we've talked about
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: the Muppet Show a couple of times before. I think
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: this trailer's cute. I love the interaction between Sabrina Carpenter
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: and Miss Piggy. I just think it's really it's very
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: typical Miss Piggy there's also a fun dirty joke in
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: this trailer, which it's.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: I mean like og Muppets definitely had adult jokes in there.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're They're pilot episode was called like sex
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: and Violence, but the yeah, it's a it's a family
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: safe dirty joke. Like it's one of those where if
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: you're too young, it's just gonna go over your head.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: It's not like it's not like gratuitous or anything. It
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: was just it made me smile. We also see that
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Maya Rudolph has a little bit in this, and obviously
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Seth Rogan's in it as well. We have mentioned this
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: before it comes out on February fourth. Please please please
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: watch it because I need more Muppets in my life.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: I need the Muppets to be sources of joy and
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: love than compassion and craziness and corny jokes. And if
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: this becomes another fizzled out attempt, it's going to really hurt.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: Apple just needs to pick it up. Yeah, they won't
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: be able to because that is a Disney property, but
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: they've got Fraggles, so that's interesting. We also got a
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: trailer for Super Mario Galaxy. Yoshi. Yoshi is almost like
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: a bad word in my house. My husband does not
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: like Yoshi at all. He calls him a stupid dinosaur.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: I have not formed an opinion either way. So wait,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: what was his reaction at Epic Universe.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: First of all, he loved Nintendo Land. We rode Mario
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Kark twice. Yeah, we didn't get to ride Donkey Kong
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: because the line at its shortest was ninety minutes and
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: it's such a shortcoaster that Tony's like, I don't want
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: to wait that long. Yeah, we didn't ride the Yoshi ride.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: By the time it was five minutes, which is how
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: long I was told it was worth waiting for it.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: We had other rides we wanted to get to.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: That's fair, I wrote it is it's really good for
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: little kids.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's the point. Yeah, I my
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: obviously my favorite world was Dark Universe. I will say
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: that I think we chatted about this offline. I think
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: I've forgotten how to instigate character interactions as a patron.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: It is tough, like it's usually on the character to
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: initiate the initial interaction unless you're going up to ask
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: for like a photo or something.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know, or like there are lots of patrons
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: who make gifts for the character there and or, and
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: we'll try to start a bit with them. And I
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: never minded it when I was a character actor. Yeah,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: it never minded people trying to start a bit with me.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: But watching it, it's so cringe.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Oh I can't. I can't beat that. I can't. I'm
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: too self conscious.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: I feel the same way like I feel this. I
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: don't mind participating if I've been drawn into one, but
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: I don't want to initiate one for the exact same reasons.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: And again, as a performer, it never bothered me that
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: someone wanted to come up and play. For one thing,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: You're like, hey, you're making my job way easier. But
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: seeing it from a third person perspective where I'm not
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: the performer and I'm also not the person trying to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: create this interaction, I get it. I feel that way too,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: where I'm just like I kind of want to find
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: a hole to crawl and do.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so I saw I saw Igor twice, and
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: I saw the Invisible Man twice, and I saw.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: The violinist really really not doing a good yeah.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: So the first time I was I was we were
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: done with the park. First of all, it's really cool
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: that in that area they ring a bell, and you know,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: when they ring the bell, you can go to the
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: different parts where the characters are and find them. So
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: the Invisible Man is over by Doss Steakhouse, and then
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: the violinist is quite at the beginning of the park,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: and we'll kind of circle around by the bathrooms and
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: the Misting Fountain, and then Igor starts at the front
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: of the park by the I think by the this
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: is at least the pattern he was following when I
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: was there by the coffins, and then ends up back
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: by the Curse of the Werewolf where his cart normally is.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: So the first time I saw them, I was kind
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: of like sitting by the Misting fountain waiting for my
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: husband who was in the restroom, and people were interacting
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: with the Invisible Man, and I was just sitting at
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: the fountain, kind of in between where he was and
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: the thing, and I'm like, I'm by myself. I don't
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I'm by myself, so I don't
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: want to go up and ask for a picture. What
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: I don't have anybody to take a picture with me. Yeah,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: And then nobody was in acting with the Invisible Man,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm just sitting there staring forward at the Burning
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: Blade tavern or at Frankenstin's and chain, I don't remember
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: what it was there, and the Invisible Man is just
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: standing out by the side of this building and we're
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: both kind of like every time I look over, he's
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: staring at me, but neither of us are interacting with
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: each other, and it was awkward. So eventually I went
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: up and I took a picture and I'm like, thank you,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: and he nodded. But like, he's a fun character. It
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: was fun to see him interact with other people. Igor
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: is brilliant And when I asked for a picture from him,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: he was kind of walking from the front to the
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: back of the park. He's like, come on, and I
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know how to take a picture.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: So he stopped and I took a picture, and then
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: he went off because I think he was trying to
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: get by. Yeah, I like that is the thing I
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: like about Epic Universe. It is fun if you're not
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: into the immersion. And if you are into the immersion
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: or you've been a street character before, they do a
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: really good job at it.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting that you said the bell thing, because
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: that was not something I noticed when I was there,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: which doesn't mean that it wasn't happening, but I didn't
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: know about it, and i'd been watching a lot of videos,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: So I'm wonder if that's something that they instituted in
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: between when you went and when I went.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: I kind of so I kind of pieced it together
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: from videos because I knew that they the blades of
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: the burning burning bid. Yeah, those blades light up when
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: there are monsters near. And when I was standing outside
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: the tavern the first time, when we were looking at
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: the menu there, we heard ding ding ding ding, and
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: the guy who was kind of like ushering people at
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: the front of the taverns like, oh, the bell rang,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: the monsters are nearby, and then it lit up. And
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: then the next time I heard the bells bell ring,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: that's when I saw the characters.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: Hmm. So that's really interesting. Well, all all of that
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: to say I was gonna say all of that is
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: to say, Super Mario Galaxy comes out April first.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks fine, like kids will like it.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks cute. I mean it looks cute like
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: the first film. Did. I never saw the first one,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: so I don't anticipate seeing this one either, even though
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: my other girlfriend is one of the voices in this
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: don't tell her she's my girlfriend.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she might know by now.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: No, I keep telling you, don't tell her.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: I didn't, but you know, maybe she's a fan of
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: Well, Anya Taylor Joy, if you're a fan of the show, Yes,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: I'll go to the prom with you, the.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Real one or the Broadway show.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'll go see the Problem with you.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then we got a teaser for an animated
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: film short film called Deer Upstairs Neighbors that would be
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: really cute if they didn't use AI.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, also uses Google Deep Mind. Yeah yeah, yes, just
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: like you were mentioning the one previously, like when we
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: were doing our thirty seconds or less. So I read
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: a whole blog post about this, and the blog post
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: it was on Google's block, so you know, obviously I
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: have to take it with a huge grain of salt
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: because Google was involved in the creation of this thing, right,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: But they were talking about how the artists were the
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: ones in charge of creating the esthetic, the look, the
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: storyboard of what happens, like the actual order of events,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: and that the AI was really used to generate animated
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: sequences based off the concept art and the color palette
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: and the art style, all that kind of stuff, and
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: then they used a lot of iteration, a lot of
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: tweaking to get it just right. So they said, they
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: were saying this as it is a tool. It's not
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: like a type of prompt and hit a button and
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: then you get a animation. It's a thing that you
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: collaborate with over and over and over again until you
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: get what you want. And that was also kind of
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: a learning process for Google on how to do something
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: like this. All that being said, I still am not
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: comfortable with it. Like, I get what they're saying is
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: that this is just an extension of the tools that
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: people already use, like and I understand that things like
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: like think of something simple like copy paste. Well, I
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: get that copy paste is something that really makes life
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: easier if you need to put the same asset into
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: a space, whether that's a you know, a word document
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: or a presentation or animation, whatever it may be. I
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: get that, but I really get uncomfortable the closer you
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: get to we have an idea, we're going to use
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: AI to flesh that idea out, like because one one
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: that AI is pulling from other sources of creativity. It's
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: not like it's generating that in a vacuum. It is
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: pulling from other examples, and the the proximity to plagiarism
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: is too much for me.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: I agree. I have used when in a big rush,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: AI to edit an email before, but even then I
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: double check it and I still change it. It's just yeah,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: and I don't like using it, just partially because of
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: the resources that it takes.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's also I didn't even touch on that, but
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: that is also true. Like the amount of processing power
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: required to do these things is non trivial and it
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: takes up a lot of resources. And you know, you've
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: got whole areas in places like Georgia where you have
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: these these big, big, questionable and sometimes shady deals to
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: build out massive data centers that are going to put
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: a huge tax on the power grid. And meanwhile you're
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: giving like these crazy tax breaks to these companies. So
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: it's like they're not even the ones paying the power bill,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: Like all of us end up paying the power bill
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: because our rates go up. Like it's so it's just
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: there's so many problems so there.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: This isn't necessary. This is maybe not what we would
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: normally talk about on this show. It is interesting because
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: Hank Green, who I think is a big nerd culture figure,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: actually did an entire video on this. There are there
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: are like checks and balances for power conglomerates or water conglomerates,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: like I think it's power conglomerates for rates because it's
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: not a very competitive market. Yes, and he's got a
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: really informative, cool, like learning type video on it, based
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: around Georgia and our data centers because we recently had
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: a vote for the board that manages those caps and
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: limits and things, and thankfully we do have a pretty
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: balanced board now, so hopefully it won't make huge rate increases.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: But if you want to learn about that, watch some
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: of Pint green stuff. It's really fantastic.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great science communicator in general. So yeah, yeah.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: It's really interesting too.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Then we got a trailer for a Croatian movie,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: a Croatian science fiction movie called storm Writer Legend of Hammerhead,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: and I wrote, this is like Mad Max but with boats.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: I put a water World Fury Road.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we're on the same page. Yeah, yeah, So
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: it's it's set in the world where there's been a
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: giant flood like water World, yeah, water World, yeah.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: And then they have races.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was reading like a synopsis of the story,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: and it's so funny because it didn't mention a race
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: at all, but the trailer is what makes it seem
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: like that's what the whole movie is about. So in
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: the trailer, if I were just to watch the trailer
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: and tell you what the story was, my guess would
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: be there's this massive fortified city and they hold a competition,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: and the winner of the competition gets to bring their
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: island of population into the safety of that fortified city.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: The losers have their respective islands completely plundered of resources
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: in order to continue to support this massive fortified city.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: That's what I understood from the trailer. When I read
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: the synopsis, however, it talked about this fortified city being
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: founded by apparently immortal Founders, that there's this massive storm
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: that cuts them off from the rest of the world,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: but the storm itself turns out to be manufactured in
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: order to keep the Founders in power, So they don't
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: want anyone to try and go through the storm because
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: if they find out that it's not as bad as
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: everyone assumes it is. They lose their grip on the
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: population and that makes right, and then the main character
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: is convinced that that's something they that he needs to do.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, huh, the synopsis in the trailer feel
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: like two different movies to me.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I will say at least one person I know
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: watched the trailer and did kind of get the synopsis
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  Speaker 1: vibe from it because they were like, this feels very
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  Speaker 1: Tracksuit Mafia, which is maybe closer to the synopsis than
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  Speaker 1: the trailer.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. It comes out March thirteenth. I think it looks, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for a movie that is trying to tackle
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  Speaker 2: a somewhat original take on sci fi. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a really noble effort. I don't know that it's enough
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  Speaker 2: for me to like go and get a ticket to
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  Speaker 2: go see it, although if I am going to see it,
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  Speaker 2: I should watch it in a theater because it's definitely
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: a spectacle film.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, the the production value is really good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Next we learn that sourn didn't I he just jumped
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  Speaker 1: into the cyber verse and is now controlling people in
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you got something out of that trailer that I
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  Speaker 2: didn't for a matter of time. This is This is
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: a film with the Astons, Sean and Ali.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Aston aka Sam Wise Gamgees retires and opens up
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  Speaker 1: a shop where he controls a magical ring that can
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  Speaker 1: send you through time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well you can't say Samwise Gamgy retires because some
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  Speaker 2: people are going to think this really is a Lord
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: of the Rings spinoff, and it is not. Sean Aston
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  Speaker 2: plays a guy who runs a hobby shop like a
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  Speaker 2: game hobby shop, hobby a game shop, comic book shop.
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  Speaker 2: Good Lord, you are impossible, and he makes friends with
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's a video game designer who discovers that
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: among Sean Aston's possessions is a ring that allows you
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: to stop time, but you continue to age. Apparently there's
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: like a price you have to pay for stopping time.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: But you can stop time and then make adjustments and stuff,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: and then start time again and thus alter the course
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  Speaker 2: of where things were going. You can't, as far as
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: I can tell, travel back in time. You can only
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: pause time around you. And there is a Lord of
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: the Rings reference like joke in the trailer. You notice
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: that right the trailer.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: Joke, I did not notice the reference.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: So there's a point where the protagonist says to Sean Astin,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: a magic ring does not solve all your problems, and
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: Shawn Asked's response is really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I remember that line. I didn't actually equate
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: that to Lord of the Rings.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: But yeah, because a magic ring doesn't solve all your problems.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but so the movie makers they know.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a low budget or load
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: to mid budget sci fi comedy. Like the lead character,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like he uses the power to be able
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: to do things like make video games in apparently no
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: time at all, right, like, you know, because video game
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  Speaker 2: development takes so long, but he can freeze time and
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: meet deadlines that nobody else could meet because he's frozen
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: time for everyone but himself. And there's other elements going
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: on in here too. Comes out February twenty seventh. It
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  Speaker 2: looks cute.
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  Speaker 1: It does look cute. I like that the Astons are
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: working together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And last, we have a trailer for the documentary Beat
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Me Up Sulu Yep, which is looks really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So do you remember Ariel. I don't know if you.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you heard about this, but it was many
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: many years ago now, where a fan made version of
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: Raiders of the Lost Arc, like a bunch of kids
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: got together and remade Raiders of the Lost Arc shot
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: for shot over the course of several years, and then
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: they even got screenings of this fan made version. It's
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: similar to that in that some Star Trek fans when
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: they were very young wrote a Star Trek fan fiction
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: story and even went so far as to invite George
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: to Kay to be part of it, and he agreed
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: to do it. This is back in nineteen eighty five
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: when they started working on this thing and they put
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: it together and it went missing for like four decades.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: And this documentary is really about the process of what
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: making that fan film was all about, you know, why
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: they decided to do it, what inspired them to do it.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: And it's really sweet, Like it's a really sweet story
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: about people who found representation and media where traditionally they
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: just didn't see that.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it is so cool. And also
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: I think George dk is super cool. He's had quite
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: the extraordinary life.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, and very nice guy too. I've met him a
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: few times. Super nice guy and yeah, he every it's
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: so nice. It's also funny, like if you watch this
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: trailer for this documentary, people just outright say, yeah, it's
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: a terrible movie, but it's kind of it's got a
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: great heart. It's just it's really bad, Like it's not
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: a good movie.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: You know. That's that's where cult classics come from, right,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I think sincerity goes a long way, right, Like,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: if you are sincere in what you are doing, even
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: if what you're doing isn't, you know, technically very good,
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: people res with that sincerity. It's when people are both
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: making terrible stuff and they are insincere about it when
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: it's just the worst. Like to me, that's Sharknato Sharknato.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: Like if Sharknado was something where people were sincerely trying
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: to make a movie about sharks that are being thrown
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: around by a tornado, like, then that could have been fun.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: But for me it wasn't fun. It was like they're
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: trying to skip ahead to getting that cult status without
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: having that earnest place, that earnest core, and instead it
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: just felt hollow and calculated. That's why I don't resonate
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: with like those asylum movies. This, however, where it's a
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: product of love from a really engaged fan base at
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: something else.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is something else. Speaking of love, we love
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  Speaker 1: that you have stuck through with us for this very
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: long yet shorter than a normal we missed a week episode. Yes,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: and now we are at the end of our time
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: with you. For today we are Jonathan. Yes, do you
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: have any instructions on how people could reach you if
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: they wanted to?
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: I am so glad you asked, because yes, Okay, this
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: one's almost like a personal favor to me. If you
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: want to get in touch with me. What I need
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: you to do is, I'm going to need you to
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: just dig up this old fan film I did where
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: I did a musical adaptation of ET the Extraterrestrial. This
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: is an all singing, all dancing fan made recreation of ET.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: I made it in nineteen eighty seven. I have no
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: idea where it is now. There's some great song numbers
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: in there. There's a oh and uh. There's there's a
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: song called Phoning Home that was really great. But the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: the show stopper, the big number, the one that everyone
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: goes home singing, is called I Stuck my Neck Out
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: for You. It's great, really emotional. So if you can
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: find it and if you can hold a screening of it,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: I'll be happy to answer any question you have.
• 1:39:21
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• 1:39:23
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• 1:39:28
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• 1:39:55
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• 1:40:01
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