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Gushers and Coffee · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nor Droun Collater Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always
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  Speaker 1: is the delightful, amazing, wonderful friend that I have named
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan strictly.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, Ariel, I'm curious, do you have any suggestions
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  Speaker 2: for an ideal afternoon snack?
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  Speaker 1: For an ideal afternoon snack, No, but for a nutritious
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  Speaker 1: afternoon lunch. I certainly do gushers and coffee.
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  Speaker 2: This is actually true. She is currently drinking coffee, and
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  Speaker 2: before we started recording she was eating gushers.
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  Speaker 1: I spared you all that ASMR, but I did not
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  Speaker 1: spare Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I was not spared. I sat through the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing. But then I told her it made me
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  Speaker 2: think that she was having the lunch of champions, or
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  Speaker 2: at least of Griffin McElroy, because it sounded like a
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  Speaker 2: very macelroy kind of kind of meal.
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  Speaker 1: Great minds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you said you would work it into
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  Speaker 2: the show if it would come up naturally. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's because you're such a good friend, Jonathan that you
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind putting my eating habits on blast. So
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  Speaker 1: I am working with a personal trainer and I have
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  Speaker 1: been all year. So I'm trying to put more protein
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  Speaker 1: and then like less fat and diet of fat and
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  Speaker 1: carbs in my diet. And it's not that I'm cutting
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  Speaker 1: out fats, are carbs, All of these things are important
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  Speaker 1: for a healthy body. But I'm trying to adjust how
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  Speaker 1: much of each I eat each day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, your macros.
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  Speaker 1: My macros. Yeah, because I've always kind of held to
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  Speaker 1: the moderation right as my mindset. But then there are
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  Speaker 1: some weeks where I'm just so busy and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: it's a gusher's kind of a day. And when Costco
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  Speaker 1: has them in a giant box, that can be every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now I understand. Uh Uh. We've been getting some
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  Speaker 2: vegan gummies because a lot of gummies are made with
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  Speaker 2: with essentially collagen is what it really comes down to,
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  Speaker 2: so their they're animal byproducts. Uh. And because we don't
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  Speaker 2: eat mammals, we go with a sort of a veep
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  Speaker 2: plant based approach, and we found some that are so
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  Speaker 2: good that it's a it's not it's a bad thing
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  Speaker 2: because I I have to. I have to really impose
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  Speaker 2: limits on myself otherwise I'll eat a whole bag in
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  Speaker 2: one sitting.
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  Speaker 1: So I hear you, I want to know what those
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  Speaker 1: are now, because I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Look it up after the show and i'll let you know.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't remember offhand. I do remember that I
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  Speaker 2: saw an ad for it online and then I I
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  Speaker 2: ordered them just kind of to see how they were,
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  Speaker 2: because typically we just picked these sorts of things up
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  Speaker 2: if we happen to see them at a store, and
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  Speaker 2: it's usually someplace like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or
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  Speaker 2: something like that where we'll find them. But this one
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  Speaker 2: I ordered right from the company online, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a European company that only recently fairly recently started
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  Speaker 2: selling gummies in the United States. So when I find it,
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  Speaker 2: I'll send it your way. They have normal gummies, but
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  Speaker 2: they also have like the sour patch kind, and those
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  Speaker 2: are my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds amazing. I've been getting like ads for like
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  Speaker 1: licorice stores lately, and I'm weird. Yeah, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: a Facebook thing, and so it's always one of those
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  Speaker 1: things like when you get a Facebook ad, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just going to click on this ad and
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  Speaker 1: buy from it because you don't know. You don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say something about that after you're done, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: But they're like, some of these are like salmiaki or,
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  Speaker 1: which is a very salty finish liquor. Salty's an equipment
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  Speaker 1: an equiv equivalent word licorice because it's not really salt or.
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  Speaker 1: But then they're like, and then we have these sour
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  Speaker 1: fruit rainbow fruit leathers, and I'm like, is that really
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  Speaker 1: licorice or is that just a fruit and gummy candy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as a as a sane person, I despise all licorice,
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  Speaker 2: So I would never have idea of that. And I
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  Speaker 2: realized that you have your Scandinavian roots, and therefore, by law,
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to like things like pickled fish and licorice.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I've had pickled fish. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been able to bring myself to to eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Pickles are one of those things that I've only recently
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  Speaker 1: come to like, I want to say, in like the
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  Speaker 1: past five to ten years, Pickles and Sauer kraut and giannardi,
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  Speaker 1: the other pickled vegetables the.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff you find in Italian foods, the.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff you find in Italian foods, and licorice is the same.
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  Speaker 1: So I was very picky. I was a rather picky
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  Speaker 1: eater as a kid at certain times, and then as
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  Speaker 1: an adult I was a limited eater. Now, I like
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  Speaker 1: most foods that don't hurt me. Not all, but most,
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  Speaker 1: and licorice is one of them. Although a Twizzler, a
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  Speaker 1: red Twizzler, I still cannot get behind.
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  Speaker 2: Now. To me, those are just they just taste like wax,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, like the old wax lips, those kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things where you're like, oh, you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 2: chew on that. I mean you can, but why I prefer.
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  Speaker 1: The wax lips because there's no like real flavor to them.
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  Speaker 2: Well there's, I argue, there's not really any real there's
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  Speaker 2: like the twizzlers have flavor the same way that Lacroix
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  Speaker 2: has flavor.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But I'd rather drink water than a Lacroisse lacrosse laqua.
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  Speaker 2: I say, Lacroix but whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Like kriiky but uh but yeah, so I'd rather chew
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  Speaker 1: on like the wax that comes around an old wax
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  Speaker 1: bottle candy than on a red Twizzler. Any listeners out
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  Speaker 1: there who like Twizzlers more, you can have all of mine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you like them. We're not go to waste.
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  Speaker 2: We're not judging you, at least at least not to
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  Speaker 2: a point that we'll admit on on microphone. I was
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  Speaker 2: going to say, though, you mentioned the Facebook thing and
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  Speaker 2: the tendency to not click on Facebook ads, which is
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  Speaker 2: a good instinct because in my experience, nine times out
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  Speaker 2: of ten those are like scams. They're not real ads.
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  Speaker 2: So the one that I've been running into recently not
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  Speaker 2: food related at all. So I'm going to throw that
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  Speaker 2: out there. But and I mentioned this to you, Ariel.
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  Speaker 2: I think I we talked about this. But sam Ash,
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  Speaker 2: which is a was was a music store chain, but
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  Speaker 2: it's been going up of business and so they've been
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  Speaker 2: trying to sell off their stock. And I've been checking
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  Speaker 2: the sam Ash store just to see like what's been
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  Speaker 2: kind of going on sale, and a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: are still pretty much priced the way they normally would be.
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  Speaker 2: So I haven't really bought anything, but I keep an
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  Speaker 2: eye out because I'm like well, if anything gets marked
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  Speaker 2: way down. I'm left handed, so things like left handed
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  Speaker 2: guitars they don't sell as fast because there's not as
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  Speaker 2: many left handed players out there. So I keep thinking
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  Speaker 2: I might have a good chance of scooping up a
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  Speaker 2: decent guitar for a decent price. Facebook, I keep getting
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  Speaker 2: ads that are about sam Ash closing down, but they're not.
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  Speaker 2: They're all like fakes. They're all stores that are posing
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  Speaker 2: as sam Ash but they're not actually the store. And
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  Speaker 2: in fact, the sam Ash website has a link that
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  Speaker 2: says beware of scam, like they are aware that this
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  Speaker 2: is happening, and they're like, the only site that is
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  Speaker 2: ours is samash dot com. So I started reporting some
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  Speaker 2: of these fake ads and Facebook was like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: that turns out this doesn't violate our terms of service
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. And I'm thinking, so your terms of service
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  Speaker 2: allow for fraudulent advertising. That's good to know. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying it right now to everybody out there. Facebooks
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  Speaker 2: official terms of service allow for fraudulent advertising. That's not libel.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they said to me, based upon the fact
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  Speaker 2: that I reported a fake ad and they said, this
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  Speaker 2: doesn't violate our standards.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So if you see something on Facebook that
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  Speaker 1: you might like, look it up outside of Facebook and
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  Speaker 1: also look it up on like the Better Business Bureau
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  Speaker 1: or reviews or something like that, because even if it
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  Speaker 1: is a real business, it may not be a great business.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody listening already knows that, but.
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  Speaker 2: Just in case. I mean, often I have seen stuff
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  Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, well, that seems like a crazy
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  Speaker 2: price for whatever it happens to be, And then I'm thinking, wait,
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  Speaker 2: chances are this is either outright scam, which means you're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna get you know, whatever it was you ordered.
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  Speaker 2: You might get like a super cheap, knockoff version of it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not going to be the thing you wanted,
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  Speaker 2: or you won't get that at all. Like you, I've
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  Speaker 2: heard stories about people ordering stuff online and opening up
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  Speaker 2: a box for like, like, for example, a power drill
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  Speaker 2: and finding three cans of doctor pepper in there, so
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  Speaker 2: that would make up the same amount of weight, but
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  Speaker 2: it's clearly not a power drill. And then like the
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  Speaker 2: story was the guy called up uh this was through Amazon,
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  Speaker 2: though it wasn't through Facebook, but same sort of principle
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  Speaker 2: called up Amazon was like, yeah, I spent two hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars on this drill and I got these cans of
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  Speaker 2: doctor pepper and they were like, could you send it
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  Speaker 2: to us? Like do you want me to send you
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  Speaker 2: three cans of doctor pepper? And they're like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, that doesn't make sense. We'll just refund you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've had that happen where like I get but
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  Speaker 1: with Amazon, I know it's usually well unless it's something
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  Speaker 1: like the three cans of doctor pepper, Like I will
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  Speaker 1: occasionally get something other than what I ordered, and half
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  Speaker 1: the time, if it's under a certain dollar amount, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: just keep it, donate it, give it to somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, what am I going to do with
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  Speaker 1: these baby shark stickers? I don't need them? But it's
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  Speaker 1: because it's something else that the company that particular storefront cells.
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  Speaker 1: But they're usually pretty good about it. I will say, though,
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  Speaker 1: if it's something like Kickstarter, I will I will fall
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  Speaker 1: down that rabbit hole and then I will get immense
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  Speaker 1: amount of ads from that same Kickstarter on my Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess is better than fake ads. So there's
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  Speaker 1: like in dice bites right now, which is silicone molds
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  Speaker 1: to make things like macarons that are shaped like D twenties.
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  Speaker 2: Cute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not necessary. I've I've had very good self control,
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  Speaker 1: but it is cute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've. I tend the kickstars I tend to back
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  Speaker 2: are ones that are about RPGs that I think sound interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And despite the fact that I know, deep down in
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  Speaker 2: my heart the likelihood of me ever getting my act
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  Speaker 2: to get together and doing an RPG it's very very low.
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  Speaker 2: I keep wanting to, but it hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited if you ever do for your for your.
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  Speaker 2: Piracy D and D. Yeah, yeah, I mean I've got that.
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  Speaker 2: I've got that world set up. We I've got half
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  Speaker 2: of an adventure kind of sketched out, so I could
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  Speaker 2: technically do that. I just need to get again get
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  Speaker 2: my act together and actually do it. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: I I have a real problem. I have to talk
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  Speaker 2: myself out of backing kickstarters for RPGs because that's my kryptonite.
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  Speaker 2: I did one for a punk rock post Apuckalyptic RP.
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  Speaker 2: I did one for Blade Runner. I did one for
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  Speaker 2: a Monty Python RPGs.
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  Speaker 1: We had friends who worked on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: So you're supporting my friends.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Yeah, well you know I gotta I.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta support yourself too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta at least show some self control or
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  Speaker 2: else I'm I'm just gonna I have to admit I've
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  Speaker 2: got a problem. Uh. So, before we jump into thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds or last, because we've got a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: to talk about this week, which, by the way, that
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  Speaker 2: means that we will not be doing a mash up
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  Speaker 2: yet again. But that's because we have a mountain of
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  Speaker 2: stuff to get through. But before we do that, let's
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about what we have watched. And for once,
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  Speaker 2: Ariel and I both watched all of the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we both finished dead Boy Detectives, albeit I only
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  Speaker 1: had what like seventy five percent of one episode left.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had like I had like more than
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  Speaker 2: half the series because I was telling Ariel, I have
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  Speaker 2: this issue. It happened to me on dead Boy Detectives.
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  Speaker 2: It happened to me big time on American Horror Story
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  Speaker 2: season one, which is that in my head, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I've watched at least half a series and then
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  Speaker 2: it'll turn out like, no, you just watched the first
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  Speaker 2: like three episodes or whatever. Yeah, So I had about
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  Speaker 2: half the series to get through. So ultimately, what did
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  Speaker 2: you think of Dead Boy Detectives?
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  Speaker 1: I liked it, and they left it in a place
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  Speaker 1: where I hope that it gets a season two because
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  Speaker 1: the storyline that they left hanging, of course, is the
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  Speaker 1: one that you're most interested in. I think. I think
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  Speaker 1: throughout it kind of had the same kind of like
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  Speaker 1: tonal issues for me. But in the last two episodes,
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  Speaker 1: once they wrapped up the one character's character growth storyline
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  Speaker 1: and that was no longer the crux of that character's problem,
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  Speaker 1: I found I found it just the show flow better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually actually because the character you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: is Edwin. Yes, not to spoil anything, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to spoil what his character journey is. But once that happened,
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  Speaker 2: I found Edwin to be far more relatable and likable.
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  Speaker 2: And because that was the issue I told you before, right,
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  Speaker 2: was that I was not clicking with either of the
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  Speaker 2: two lead characters. I liked. I liked a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the supporting cast, although arguably there's more than two leads,
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  Speaker 2: because Crystal Palace is technically I mean, I would say
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  Speaker 2: she's just as important as the two boys, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I liked him more after that, I still didn't click
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  Speaker 2: with them as much as I did all the supporting cast.
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  Speaker 2: So my my question for you, Ariel, is who was
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  Speaker 2: your favorite character in that first season of dead Boy Detectives?
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  Speaker 2: So I I have to no, tragic Nick has got
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  Speaker 2: to be up there.
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  Speaker 1: Tragic Nick is definitely up there. But tragic Nick is
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  Speaker 1: very much a supporting character. I think he's he's just
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  Speaker 1: such a fun character and he he falls into like
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  Speaker 1: the whole like almost almost less of like a Neil
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  Speaker 1: Gamen trope and almost more like like a Stephen King
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  Speaker 1: trope to me, because tragic Nick is a man who
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  Speaker 1: used to be a walrus.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's tragic Mick because you switch the letters around.
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  Speaker 2: It's magic trick.
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  Speaker 1: Oh huh clever.
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  Speaker 2: Never you did. You didn't pick up on that, did you?
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  Speaker 1: I did not pick up on that. Sometimes I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little uh face value on the media that I watch.
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  Speaker 1: But also I didn't watch it with subtitles.
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  Speaker 2: So that that's fair. That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: So like it's a lot easier for me to pick
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  Speaker 1: up on stuff like that when I'm reading it. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: And also I'm legitimate thought they were saying tragic Nick
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  Speaker 1: the entire time, so I wouldn't have picked up on
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  Speaker 1: tragic mic magic Trick because I didn't think that was
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  Speaker 1: his name. He's a great character. He's played well. He's
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  Speaker 1: like it just brilliantly cast. He's very likable without having
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  Speaker 1: without being like a black or white good or bad character.
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  Speaker 1: He's just delightful. I really like Nico, though I feel
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  Speaker 1: like she she didn't sup. She also didn't super fit
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  Speaker 1: into the series until the last couple of episodes, once
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  Speaker 1: Edwin resolved his first character arc.
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  Speaker 2: And she has a lot of elements of kind of
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  Speaker 2: the tropy manic pixie dream girl thing going on, like
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  Speaker 2: to a point where you're like, you're you're treading awfully
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  Speaker 2: close to some Asian stereotypes that perhaps are a little
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  Speaker 2: little too reductive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I do feel like she had good
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  Speaker 1: character growth, and I really like her friendship with Edwin.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, of like the main character of like
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  Speaker 1: I would say the main three characters, Charles is my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know you didn't super connect with him,
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  Speaker 1: but I relate to the whole like putting on a
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  Speaker 1: happy face and pretending everything's okay when you're maybe not,
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  Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people do. And then also,
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  Speaker 1: like I guess both boys were bullied in their childhood.
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  Speaker 1: But there are just some certain things about him that
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  Speaker 1: I related to, and so I found his character relatable
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  Speaker 1: and believable and very likable. So yeah, that's what about you.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite character is Esther the Witch.
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  Speaker 1: The Witch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's my favorite character. She is so awful and
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  Speaker 2: I love her. And although I did say, like, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of funny because all the characters that's at one
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: point or another are kind of chewing the scenery. I
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  Speaker 2: think Crystal Palace probably the least amount, honestly, out of
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  Speaker 2: all the regulars. But like everybody has like they're kind
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  Speaker 2: of over the top moment, except that's all Esther has.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't have anything other than over the top moments.
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  Speaker 2: So she like destroys the scenery of every scene she's in.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like she belongs in a different show. And
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  Speaker 2: I kind of love her for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, and with her, it's fine. It like,
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  Speaker 1: but with like the talking cat, so the Dandelion sprites,
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  Speaker 1: those felt like they belonged to a different show in
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  Speaker 1: a jarring way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, especially the Dandelion Sprites because they were in
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: a jar.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Although I do like I don't remember the actress's name,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: but she was also on some episodes of Make Some
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Noise on Dropout, so that yeah cool.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no. Yeah, she's a comedian who's been in a
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: lot of like I've seen her like doing lots of
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: improv type stuff. So seeing her in a series was fun.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of what is it. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: can't remember what I was watching, but I mean it
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: might have even been Dead Boy Detectives. I can't remember
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: at this point, but it was I was watching something
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and Chris of Call Me Chris. She's like a YouTuber
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and a TikToker. She shows up just as a supporting character,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: like not even supporting, Like she's kind of a kind
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: of like almost like a featured extra, like she has
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: a couple of lines. But it was I remember seeing
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: her in something and being like, oh, I know who
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: this person is. I didn't know that they ever did
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: any acting.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, she was a part of like a comedy troupe.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I don't remember which one. It wasn't it wasn't similar
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to like she's now it's going to drive me crazy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Because they do a lot of a lot of TikTok stuff.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: She at least used to be a part of it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: It's not like bouche or anything like that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: It's yeah. But anyway, so we both watched Dead Boy Detectives.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I would give it a recommendation. I think it's worth watching,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: even though like there were moments that didn't really click
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: with me, and like I said, I had trouble connecting
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: with the two male leads, but I still enjoyed the series.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I have questions about the like the justification to have
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: characters move into a situation where they could presumably be
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: included in the second season, when you would think, like, okay,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: but realistically this character would not go along with everybody
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: else so that they could be in season two. I
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: understand why you want them in season two, but with
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the logic of the story going, it seems like a
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: big stretch to be like and me too. It's destiny
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: and there are characters who you know, if they do
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: show up in season two, you're like, Okay, do you
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: just not live in that New England town and that's
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: why you're here in London or whatever. No, I don't
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: mean to spoil anything but like there there there is
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: a change of scene by the end of the series,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and you know, naturally certain characters you would not expect
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to make the transition from Town number one to town
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: number two.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I will say I connected more with
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Dead Boy Detectives than I did with Sandman, which you
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: also watched more of this week I did.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I'm still not quite finished that I was watching the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Dolls House, which that's about how far I got when
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I was reading the Sandman comics. I think I read
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: maybe one or two, just kind of random issues after that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: But so I'm rapidly reaching the point where like the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: stuff I'm watching is not going to jog a memory
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: because I hadn't read the stuff. Even now, It's not
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: like I know where things are going because I read
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Sandman when I was in college. That was like thirty
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: years ago. So when I'm watching this stuff, those memories
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: are pretty fuzzy anyway. But yeah, I'm getting to getting
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: up to the convention with the Collectors and the Corinthian
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: if you know what that means that you know where
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I'm at. Otherwise, Yeah, I'm getting toward the end of
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: season one, and I understand I think there's like a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: two parter that's kind of a spin off after that. Okay, yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen those either, So I've got like, I think,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: three more regular episodes plus the two parter, and then
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'll be caught up and ready for season two of Sandman.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: One of those, I thought, so you've passed my favorite
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: two episodes of Sandman already, both of which have death
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in them. But one of the two parters I thought
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: was really amazing, and then the other two parter was
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: just weird mm hmm and about cats. And the only
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: funny thing about that is one of my cats was very,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: very interested in it. This is a little creepy.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Does the King of Cats from Dead Boy Detectives make
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: an appearance?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, but it's been a while, so
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I could be wrong.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Because there's there's definitely references to, like because Despair shows
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: up in Dead Boy Detectives.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know if the King of Cats
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: showed up it was it might maybe, but as a cat. Yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: so because it's that episode's animated, gotcha. Yeah. I I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: thought saman was well done, but I didn't super connect
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: to it. I wanted to, I just didn't.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because dead Boy Detectives and sand Man,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: they like, they exist in a world that's similar to
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: ours but not identical to ours, and that can be confusing.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: At least it was confusing to me, right because I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: just assumed, Oh, this is set in our world, except
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: there are these other forces and characters and stuff. But
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: there would be little differences where I'm like, oh, this
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: isn't our world, because because that's different enough where that's
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: departure from our world, and that would just create a confusion.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Like I do really well with purely fantasy settings where
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you've just got a world that's just made like Middle Earth,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: it's just made up, and you know, once you get
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: your head around that, you're fine, or ones that's more
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: like magical realism, like the Dresden books, the ones that
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: are set in Chicago. I get set in modern day Chicago,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: except that there's all these fantastical creatures and people that
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: inhabit the world. I can get my head wrapped around that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It's when it's somewhere in between where I start getting lost.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yep, same here, same here. I didn't really I didn't, really, Uh,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I guess notice that, But maybe it's because I was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: just assuming it was in some weird bizarro world from
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the get go, like some American gods level world.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, which I mean, And that's a totally cromulent assumption.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: As the Simpsons would say.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: It's a big word. But yes, I follow. Uh that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: is that is interesting. If I ever go back and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: watch it, I'll have to pay attention for that, I do.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't go back. You told me that in the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: episode with the Fish and dead Boy Detectives that they
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: play the Wellerman, and I still haven't gone back and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: listened for it. Yeah, I'm mad that I didn't notice it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think you'll have to have headphones
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: on to really pick it up because it's so quiet.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It's it's just this little it's almost like a music
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: box instrumental version of the Wellerman. And you've got these
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: two characters who are inside the belly of a sea monster.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And at least in the first scene that features these
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: two characters, the background music is the Wellerman, which Ariel's
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: band has been playing for years and years and years
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: before it ever became a viral sensation on TikTok, And
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: so when I heard it, it made me laugh. But The
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: only reason I noticed is because I was watching the
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: show on my computer with headphones on, and if I
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: hadn't had the headphones on, I might have been able
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: to tell that there was music playing, but I doubt
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I would have been able to recognize it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That is okay, I don't feel as bad now, but
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I still have to go back and watch it. Anything
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: else that you have watched, Jonathan.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Now, that's pretty much it for me. I believe I
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: haven't been to the theater, so I still, I mean
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: still haven't seen Furiosa. By the time I make time,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: it's going to be out of the theater. I know it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a similar boat.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still want to see that, and I know
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: there's other stuff coming out that I would be interested in.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Still haven't seen Fall Guy.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Which is in theaters but also available for rent at home.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, so I need to I need to get
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: off my keyster and watch some stuff.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: If you get off your key star, it's going to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: be hard to watch it, John.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I gotta at least make an effort to get
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: someplace where I can watch it. I think the next
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: thing I want to tackle, because you mentioned it in
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: our last episode, is Umbrella Academy. I think I want
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: to actually get into that. I did see It's funny
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: because it was after you had already mentioned this on
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the episode. I did see a clip of the Footloose
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: sequence from Umbrella Academy, and it made me laugh so
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: hard that I'm like, I need to see the context
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: for how this actually happens.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's still just delights me. There are definitely
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: very dark moments of the show too. It's kind of
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: not as dark as Dead boyd Detectives, but goes between
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the funny and the dark, similarly.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Kind of like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I loved the Footloose. I love anytime
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: they put a little bit of dance and joy into
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: it because I think that's just such a delightful part
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of life.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad that that exists, and so I look
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: forward to Finally, It's so funny because I heard so
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: much general buzz about Umbrella Academy without hearing enough specifics
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: to get my head wrapped around what it actually was.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: But I knew that people were into it, like some
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: people were really into it, but everyone seemed to at
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: least think it was interesting and worth watching, and I
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: just never got around to it. And then you know,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: you talked it up. We talked about the final season
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: coming up, and then I saw that video and I
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, you know what, I think I've I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: think I've really been sleeping on this. I need to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: watch it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just don't play the Umbrella Academy game that was kickstarted.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: That is nigh unplayable.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Good to know.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It's a beautiful game, but it's just the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: gameplay is not great. I also, well, I guess now
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that we're recording this on a we're recording this on Friday,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: so technically I'm no longer caught up on Doctor Who
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: because this is the day that it releases. But I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have been keeping up with it. And I feel kind
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: of bad because I think I'm in the minority of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: people for this past week's episode Rogue, because I had
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of friends who loved it and for
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: for interpersonal reasons and romantic type reasons and things like that,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and that was all fine, but the actual plot of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the story itself felt so pandery to me as a geek,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: like they were just trying to shove in a bunch
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of popular culture references to make me go oh, popular
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: cultural references that I didn't like it. I felt like
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it was poorly written, like they could have put those
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: things in in a good way, but it just was.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: So it sounds like it was ready player, who it
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: really was.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: At one point, the Doctor, if you haven't caught up
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and you don't want to spoiler, it's not really a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: spoiler because it's not really a plot point. And I
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: think that's my problem with it. The Doctor is on
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: this spaceship and he talks to this other person and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: he sees some like a set of dice like Dungeons
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and Dragons type dice, like a D twenty set on
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the console. He goes, oh, do you play D and D?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Is that where you got your name from? And that's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: all they ever say about it. They pan to some dice.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: He asks that it's confirmed, and then that's all they
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: ever say about it, And why did you That was
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: so poorly put in there in an episode where one
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: of the first lines, oh, my Bridgerton.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: This is an episode that's about cose playing in a
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: really creepy ways.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I as I understand, Yeah, yeah, it's it's bird people
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: who want to cosplay is like Bridgerton folks, so they
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: go back in history and kill people and take on
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: their forms, which does sound kind of cool. They use
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the word cosplay so much that it almost lost meaning
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to me, and I just again it's you could have
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: done it in a good way. And I know why
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: people like the episode, but I just still think it
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: was bad writing. I hate to say that.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: That I think it would appeal to me if all
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the bird people talk to like bird Person from Rick
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: and Morty.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. I was about to
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: say they don't, but then I realized I have no idea.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I've watched all of zero point four five episodes of
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Rick and Morty.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not recommending Rick and Morty necessarily, but anyone
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: who has watched it will know what I mean when
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I say bird person.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's it. You guys can totally come at
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: me and discord if I've way missed the mark on
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: this past episode of Doctor Who. If you loved it,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad it just it didn't quite hit for me.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But I also liked the episode before that, Bubble Dott
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and Bubble. And I know a lot of people didn't,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and I thought.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: It was pretty good.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: So that's what I've watched.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: So if you're wondering, if you're wondering who it is
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: that keeps skewing all the demographics, it's Aerial. She's the one.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: It's me. She's the one who likes the stuff that
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: no one should like, and that's why it keeps getting made.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: So now we know Van helsing.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, dog dead of Night.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: We got so much to get through. And once again
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: we're half an hour in and we haven't even hit
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less. So how about we do that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Let's tear through these.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, and first, Arcane, which we will actually be
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: talking about again later in this episode, has announced that
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: they are doing a video on demand in four K
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Blu Ray release, and that's really cool because you don't
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: normally get that from Netflix. But it kind of gives
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you shirty if you like this series. Our Kane is
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: based off a League of Legends, which is a video game.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: A bunch of people loved it. I thought it was okay,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: thought that the animation was great. But anyhow, it gives
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: you a bit of surety that if Netflix decides to
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: drop the show, you'll still be able to watch it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: So that's really cool and kind of a big deal.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Definitely friend of the show. Shaye Lee is excited for
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: this next story. So Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock are
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: returning for a sequel to the nineteen ninety eight film
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Practical Magic, in which they play a pair of which
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: sisters who have the absolute worst aunts ever. And I
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: will stand by that, Shaye Lee. Anyway. Akiva Goldsman, who
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: worked on the original screenplay, is back to pen the sequel.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: The original film was not an initial success, but found
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: appropriately enough a cult following, and now here we are.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I've never seen it. We talked about how glass Onion
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and Knives Out was getting a next movie, Wake Up
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: dead Man, while Ria Johnson has released his first image
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: from that. It's a Benois Blanc or Daniel Craig and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: he looks I don't know to mean, he looks a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: little rough, like maybe they thought he was a dead
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: man or something.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: This is just purely speculation. Anyhow, I'm excited for it.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: It's not really news. It's barely news. It's barely thirty
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: seconds or less.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: It's great audio. I saw a picture that you can't see. Well,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: we've been waiting for a while for the upcoming spinoff
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: series The Penguin, which of course is a spinoff of
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the playful Metagascar films. In The Penguin, one of the
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: little mafiosa like birds named cobble Pot strikes out on
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: the Zone to really conquer the underworld of Gotham City.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I'm almost sure this is one hundred percent correct. Anyway,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Now we know that The Penguin is going to launch
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: in September with an eight part series, and presumably it'll
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: set up The Batman Part.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Two Rebel Noon, that two part masterpiece that Netflix said
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: was too long for Zack Snyder to release. His one
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: part is getting a directors two part director's cut in August. Yes,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: because twenty one percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes really calls
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: for it. It is bloodier and sexier, and as Slash
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Film puts, there's even more wheat.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: All right. Twenty two years after its original release, The
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings the Two Towers hit the domestic
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: box office top ten list again. It was screened this
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: past Sunday as a sort of special event, and the
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: film brought in just under two million dollars, which you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, but
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: still impressive for a movie that originally came out more
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: than two decades ago. And if you missed it last weekend,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: good news, Warner Brothers has extended it to this weekend.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: That is good news. Next is barely news again. Avity
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Falls might be getting another season. It was a really
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: cool cartoon that ended up being a bunch of books
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: after it got canceled after two seasons. But it looks
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: like we might get more. And that's really cool. That's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: coming from a Disney executive, Meredith Roberts, so that rumor
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: might actually hold a little bit of weight.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: That will make my father and my nieces very happy,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: all right too.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I really like that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Eric Kripke, the dude running the show The Boys on Amazon,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: has announced that season five will be the swan song
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: for the series, so as a reminder, Season four premiered
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: yesterday on June thirteenth. I haven't seen it yet, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: we get one more season before everyone hangs up their tights,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: at least for this part of the story. And I
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: can't say that I'm surprised, because I don't think Billy
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Butcher is going to make it that much longer since
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: they've been teasing his demise for pretty much all of
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: season three.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: That's Carl Urban, right, mm hmm. Okay, if you liked Coraline,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: another movie I haven't watched, I hear that, I just
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: haven't watched it. Henry Selick is adapting another Neil game
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: in Work the Ocean at the End of the Lane.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: It's also going to be stop motion animation. It is
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: not a direct sequel to Coraline, and the original story
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: is at least in any way, but it's going to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: kind of be like a cousin to the movie.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that book. I read it many years ago,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: so I look forward to seeing that adaptation. Well.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: National Chater actually did a stage play of it that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you can rent.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, I should check that out. Thank you for letting
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: me know and for letting our listeners know well. James
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Gunn is dealing out tiny little tidbits about season two
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: of Peacemaker. One such tidbit is that Tim Meadows will
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: be taking on the role of a character named Langston Flurry,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: presumably an agent of Argus, the department headed by Suicide
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Squad's Amanda Waller. We also know that gun has an
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: anime ad DC series called Creature Commando's coming out soon,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: another Amanda Waller group, and that Frank Grillo, who voices
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Rick Flagg Senior on that show, will be in Peacemaker
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: as the same character.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Yes. James Gunn has also been dribbling out news about
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the upcoming Superman movie, most recently a couple of pictures
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of the store from I guess it's not a storefront.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of a storefront The Daily Planet,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: which looks like a bookstore. I'm really confused anyhow, some
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: sneak peets of The Daily Planet, and also because it
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: films in Atlanta, I'm trying to determine where in Atlanta
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: this particular bookstore is. I should talk to Hose a
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Monkey on TikTok and see if you can find it
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: for me. It's probably a lot easier to find than that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I could probably figure it out myself.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Well, buckle up, Princess Bubblegum, because Adventure Time is coming back.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Variety reports that Cartoon Networks Studios will be launching a
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: film and two different TV shows tied to the beloved series,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: The New offerings will include adventure Time side Quests, which
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: is said to look like early Adventure Time episodes and
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: named at kids. It'll be more episodic in nature. Then
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: there's Adventure Time, Heobmo, a preschool series, and finally a
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: film of some type and we don't know any details.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Fun. I liked Gravity Falls better than Adventure Time, but
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Adventure Time did give me some really good fun MEMI
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: type culture stuff.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Cool. I guess the thirty seconds songs For some reason,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I thought you had one more.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: No, I was like, why are you judging me for that?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I wasn't judging it was. I mean, like, I'll definitely
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: cut down the pause in the edit, but I'm keeping
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: all of this. But now for those listeners at home
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: who are wondering what the heck just happened, So I
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: write out all of my thirty seconds or left stuff.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: That way, I can have all my snarky, smart ass
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: jokes in it. But it means that I don't have
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: our lineup up, and I only write mine. I don't
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: write I don't write down aerial stories. So in my head,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: you had one more and that's why it was a long,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: awkward pause.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine, I'm not going to judge you for
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: writing yours. I probably should write mine, but I'm lazy,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and that's why you guys get such succinct stories from
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: me all the time.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with it. I mean, I used to
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: do the same thing. I just got to a point
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: where I was like stressing myself out trying to do
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: the thirty seconds or less. So I wrote it because
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: it was less stressful for me. That's the only reason
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: it's not. I don't think it's better, it's just that's
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: how I can do it without raising my blood pressure,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: which I cannot do anymore.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, No, I get that. I get that.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I have a question for you, Ariel. Yes, this is
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: a question that again, it's kind of like the story
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: about the picture, uh where like, how do we how
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: do we talk about a first look at something when
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: it's literally just a still photo? But in this case
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: are you.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Are you really trying to tell me that I shouldn't
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: include those in thirty seconds or less.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: No, that's not me saying that at all. I've done
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the same thing. I have also talked about first looks
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: at stuff. It's it is funny to do because you know,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: we're just having to describe a picture. But no, the
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: reason why I would ask is Ariel, you're wearing a
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: T shirt that has stitch on it. What does the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: there's words on it too? What does your T shirt
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: actually say? Oh?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Shoot, it says out of this world?
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Got it? So the reason why I had to ask
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: you is that from the beginning of this episode, because
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: of where the camera cuts off, I thought the first
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: word was we not out, And I was like, why
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: are you wearing a French lelo and stitch T shirt?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: See, I thought you were gonna say I couldn't see
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: what the rest of it said, so I thought I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: said out damn stitch.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Which also would have been funny, But no, I thought
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I was convinced you were wearing a French stitch shirt
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: because we means a me yeah, we means yes but yeah,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: or or we means cute and fluffy, depending upon your
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: your interpretations.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: So a lot of stuff happened this past week one thing,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: and we cut back a lot of what we were
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: going to talk about. But a lot of things that
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: happened this past weekend were various game showcases. Because E
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: three used to be a thing, it isn't anymore. It died,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: but we do have other events that happened, Like there
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: was Summer Game Fest with Jeff Keeley's group, there was
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: a PC Game Expo, there was an Xbox Game event.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: There was an Ubisoft event coming up next week. Probably
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: they haven't officially announced when it's happening, but we know
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that before June is over, Nintendo is going to hold
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: their Nintendo Direct event. So we've got a lot of
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: video game news that's been coming out, and we've got
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: a few of those stories that we wanted to talk
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: about here, some stuff that just kind of stood out
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: to us. One interesting thing I thought was that there
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: weren't that many Triple A titles being talked about over
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: that weekend. A lot of the titles were kind of
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: independent games or what you might think of as like
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: maybe Double A titles, not Triple A titles. Yeah, doesn't
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: mean they're bad. They look amazing. A lot of these
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: games look phenomenal. They just have smaller budgets and teams
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: working on them, than say, your your Elder Scrolls games,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: or your Fallout games or your Grand Theft Auto games
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: or whatever. And we've got about three games here that
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: we specifically wanted to mention, but obviously, like there were
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: dozens talked about over the weekend.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but the first is Not is a game
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: we've known about for a while, but we just got
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: a new trailer for it, which is South of Midnight.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one looks so atmospheric. You're playing a young
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: woman and she has these weaving abilities, and by weaving
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: she can do things like grapple onto specific points on
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: levels and help that helps her traverse parts of levels
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: takes place in like the Bayous of Louisiana. It's got
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: an incredible atmosphere, Like the atmosphere of this game is
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: in my mind. It's doing ninety eight percent of selling
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: the game. Yeah. Yeah.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: And the art, like the character art is also absolutely beautiful.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it reminds me. It reminds me a little bit.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: I mean it it almost almost looks stop motion in points,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: but it also kind of reminds me a little bit
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: of the art style of border Lands. Not I mean,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: it's obviously not in that same aesthetic, but the art
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: style itself kind of gives me a little Borderlands feel.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I've I don't know, I really like it.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I feel like we haven't gotten many, if any games
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: set and kind of BUYO with in the Bayou with
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: like creole type magic, it seems just really cool.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And to have like a young black woman as
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: the protagonist is also really cool, And all the character
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: designs look really interesting. The fact that one of the
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: big monsters is a truly enormous gaiter, Like I can't
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: tell if she has been shrunk down. That's kind of
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: like I get the feeling that almost that she has,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: because otherwise every creature she's encountering is of gargantuan proportions.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think she has, though, because the gameplay trailer
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: she's riding a giant catfish and then she goes to
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: ring a bell at a church. That's true to to
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: get the I guess the alligator to come after her
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: so that they can get a clear path past it,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: which is it actually was like I held my breath
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: during that gameplay trailer. This is very good, Like I
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: can I can imagine playing it and then having that
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: cut scene and being like, oh my goodness, Oh my goodness,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: because that's how I respond to video games now, you know.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the church is normal size.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: To her, that's true. Yeah, I didn't even think about that,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: but you're absolutely right. So yeah, I guess all the
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: critters are just truly as that means. The alligator is
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: like the I mean, it is the size of an island, So.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got trees growing off of it, you know,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: which which could be I don't know. And this is
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: this is because I haven't done the right amount of
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: research to remind me. I don't know if it's like
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: the weaving type magic is like voodoo or woodoo or
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: something else like that. So that's why I am not
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: using any of those terms. But it could be that
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: whatever those forces or powers or energy is is causing
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: those animals to become massive, and maybe that's part of
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: what she's got to fix.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Could be.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, although I know she's looking for her mom.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: So all I know is that that the teaser and
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: then this trailer both have shown me everything I need
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: to know that I want to check this game out
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: like it's I don't need to see anything else to
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: know that this is one I'm interested in. It's supposed
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: to come out in twenty twenty five. We don't have
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: a specific release date yet, but yeah, it should be
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: out next year. I mean never count on that because
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: obviously game development is a very challenging and complicated process,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: and sometimes things have to be delayed. Just be patient.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the goal is to have it out next year.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: The next trailer we have is for a almost like
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: a reimaginating, reimagination I guess I should say of Doom.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Doom the Dark Ages, so it's all of that.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I've actually never played Doom.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Well, it's the it's a lot like the most recent
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: reboot of Doom, but you have kind of medieval inspired
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: or fantasy armor inspired elements to it, with weapons that
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: have been influenced by the fantasy genre, monsters that have
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: been as well. It's very similar to the Doom action
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: you would expect, but with a almost like a reskin.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: It's more than that. It's not just reskinning Doom. It's
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: more it's deeper than that. But it also looks to
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: me like there are some of the gameplay involves taking
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: on larger groups of enemies, whereas my experience, at least
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: with the last time I played Doom was that it's
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: more like you're encountering sometimes a small group, but usually
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: it was like maybe just two or three at a time,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: and you would have to kind of deal with those
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: before moving on and dealing with the next group of
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: two or three. This one is like occasionally you're seeing
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: groups of thirty or so and you have the kind
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: of weapons to take on those sorts of numbers. So interesting.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the art. The art is pretty is the
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: wrong word. It's well done.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of got a very industrial medieval look
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: to it.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if that one's on my
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: game playlist. I'm going to be completely honest, Like I
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, Doom, that's super geeky, and then I
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: mistook it for those Dead Space dead Space see reason.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I like Doom when it first came out, But as
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: I get older, the first person shooter games, I mean,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: they're just harder for me. My twitch skills are not
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: keeping up with my age, which is just kind of
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: the way of things. So this may not be a
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: game for me simply because I would probably find it
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: very frustrating. It is supposed to come out in twenty
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: twenty five as well.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: What about old arcade style games, I do love them, Yeah,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: like the old teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, game.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Like the side scrolling beat them ups, like like you
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: could go all the way back to Double Dragon, but
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: the sweet spot would be like the Teenage Mutant Ninja
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Turtles games, the Simpsons game, those sorts of things where
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: you're it's a side scrolling beat them up. And the
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: reason why you're bringing this up is we're getting an
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: IP that has never had that treatment is getting it
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: some time later this year.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting a new Power Rangers game. At first, honestly,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: both myself and my husband thought it was a reskin
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: of Teenage Meeting Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time, which we own.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: We have both the one up Arcade Ninja Turtles game,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and then we also have the new one that released
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: for every shreds Revenge or whatever it was, Shredder's Revenge,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: which is phenomenal.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: It's great, it's so good.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I love it. It is like one of my favorite current
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: games because you can just switch in and out who
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: you're playing, whether you can play by yourself.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: It's wonderful.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Anyhow, Yeah, so this one, at first, I thought was
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: just a reskin of that, but it's not. Apparently they're
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: gonna do a bunch of different art styles in it,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: so it may not just be solely side scroller. Oh okay,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: but it looks like a lot of fun, And because
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I had so much fun with Shredders Revenge, I immediately
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: think I'm have fun with this.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: It sounds like they were supporting local player co op
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: up to like five players, which makes me wonder what
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: system you can have five controllers hooked up to.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's one of those things where you can remote party,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: which yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess you could,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: like if you had wireless controls, maybe you could hook
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: up more Xbox controllers. Yeah, maybe it'll be something like
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: jack Box where you all use your phones to control.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: I doubt that though, Yeah, I mean, any latency would
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: make that really tricky. But yeah, I think that's cool.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I love these style of games. I don't have any
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: connection to The Power Rangers IP. I never watched it,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: so I don't really care so much from that perspective,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: But seeing games of this nature come out, I think
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: that's cool.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah I do too. It's called reata my morphin Power
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Rangers readers rewind so oh no, it is saying online
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: and local So that is interesting. Super excited?
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Are you just as excited over the fact that Blade
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: has lost yet another director. No, no, I guess not. Yeah.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: So we've known that Blade has been in development over
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: at the MCU for years, Like it was announced before
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: the Pandemic that that was going to be one of
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: the movies coming out on the MCU slate, and it
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: has seen multiple delays. We have now lost a second director,
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: and there's also been kind of a revolving door of
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: screenwriters as well, with people coming on board and then leaving.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, the most director, Jan Demige, who directed
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Lovecraft Country or was like the showrunner of Lovecraft Country,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: has now left the project. So yeah, not great, But they.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Did say it was an amiable parting.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I hope that that's true. I
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: seeing how many people in general have left Marvel projects. Typically,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: the reason that we hear is that the director gets
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: frustrated that they don't have the amount of control they
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: would like over the project, because, you know, Marvel has
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: this desire for every piece of the Marvel puzzle to
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: fit in the larger picture, and as such, there are
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: often requirements or requests that Marvel will make for a
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: film to include certain things in order for it to
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: have this kind of connection to the other property, and
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of directors kind of bristle at that for
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: understandable reasons, like I don't think they're wrong to resist that,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: but when you're resisting against a multi billion dollar global company,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's easy to see who's going to win.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I and maybe it's because they want
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: to bring the Eternals back. Yes, that's the one.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why would we want to bring the Eternals back?
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Well, because in theory in the Easter Egg, at the
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: end of the Eternals, that was Blade's voice.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: That's true, Yeah, which I did not know. I had
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: to look that up to find out that there was
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Blades Voys.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, and not all of the delays
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: with so one. The original Blade movie was dorky and
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: fun and I quite enjoyed it. So I, of all
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: of the properties to be remade, I think this could
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: be a fun one that they could do some cool
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: stuff with. And it's filming in Atlanta. And as a actor,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I'm always a little bit selfish about stuff like that
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: because I'm like an opportunity for me to be in
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: a thing. But you know, not all of the delays
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: are their fault because it also came during the strikes
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: and all that.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got the pandemic and then the strikes and
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: but yeah. According to Kotaku, apparently, at one point during
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: this development, the character of Blade had been so deemphasized
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: in his own movie that it sounded like they were
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: going to lose their blade. Like the actors like, hey,
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: I did not sign up for this. I didn't sign
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: up to be a supporting character in a movie that
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: is titled after the character.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I guess I can understand that.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so hopefully that gets that ship gets righted. Originally,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: that movie was supposed to come out I believe in
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: twenty I think that movie was slated to I mean,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: it's been rescheduled a couple times already, but I would
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: place money on a bet that it is not coming
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: out next year.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm guessing that it's also going to be I'm
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: also guessing that it's going to be delayed. That's how
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: that sentence should be structured. Something that is no longer
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: getting delayed is season three of Vox Makina. We just
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: got a trailer and the release date.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the trailer is Essentially, it's the opening for
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: like the opening credits or the opening sequence for the
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: show for season three. It's releasing on October third. I
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: will say, if you have listened or watched the actual
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: play sessions that this is based off of, you are
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: going to pick up on a lot of references to
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: some heavy stuff that's going to happen to those characters.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, I will say that intro looks pretty sad.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: I've not actually watched the actual play of Vaux Macana,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: just mighty nine and listen to a little bit of
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Bell's Hell's So I don't know what those things are,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: but every season has had some kind of dark, heavy stuff.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna spoil anything for anyone. I do
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: know what happens, uh, and it's it's I mean, it's
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: gonna provide some incredible drama for some of the characters
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: in Vox Makina. And yeah, there's lots of little nods
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: to that in this opening, nothing so overt that you
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: would be like, oh, I watched the opening of the
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: first episode of season three, and now I know everything
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: that's gonna happen. That's not what I'm talking about. But
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: if you do know where it's going. You're gonna be like, oh,
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: I know what that's referencing.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll have to have you spoil it for me
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: after the episode.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Sure. So yeah, we also got a trailer
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: for Arcane season two. You mentioned Arcane in the thirty
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: seconds or last segment.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this looks like more of that.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Story, which I haven't I haven't watched, so I got
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: nothing to say. I mean, I'll say this, I agree
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: with you. The animation style is really impressive.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very pretty, it's very unique. I watched season one,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: so a bunch of my friends watched season one, and
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: I played a lot of League of Legends. I was
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: never good at it, but I played a lot of it.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: It was like the thing my friends group did for
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a while either before after Minecraft, and I enjoyed the game,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: and then I watched the series in like a group
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: watch with my friends, and I kind of just didn't care.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Like there were parts of the story that I liked,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: but none of the characters really grabbed me enough for
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: me to be invested. And I ended up playing on
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: my phone while watching it, like I know enough of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: what happened, but it just it didn't. The story didn't
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: grab me the way I was hoping it would. Maybe
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: my hopes were too high for it.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I, having not watched it, I don't really have
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: any comment on this. We do know, you know, it's
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: coming out in November, and that this is being touted
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: as the final chapter. So it's kind of funny because
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: when you think of like, I don't know, maybe it's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: because I've been just trained on trilogies, but I would
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: expect season three to be the final chapter, not season two.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: But I'm like, well, if that's how long your story is,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: that's how long your story is.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think that that's it's they're calling it
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: the final chapter because it's wrapping up the story with
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: VI and Jinks and all of that, And I think
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: that's another part of the problem I had with the
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: story is like there were some characters that I recognized
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: because there were definitely characters from the game in there,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: but it was hard to figure out who they were
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: all the time because they were at a different point
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: than when you play them in the game. So I
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: didn't get to enjoy the Easter Eggs as much as
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I had hoped. But even though it'll be kind of
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: the final chapter for this sibling storyline. In theory, they
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: have a lot of other stories within the universe that
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: they want to tell, so you might get a different
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: League of Legends series that is maybe not either not
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: called Arcane or its own thing.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little spin off of some sort. It's interesting because,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't that long ago when we talked
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: about how Netflix had really gutted the animation side of
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: its original programming. So just the fact that anything at
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: all is coming out, I think it is pretty encouraging.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: We also got a very brief look at Severance season two.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: There was a tweet that went out that gave an
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: eleven second long video which really told us nothing. And
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: we don't even get a date for when it's coming out.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: It's just supposedly still coming out later this year. This
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: is a series. It's on Apple TV Plus. If you
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: aren't familiar with Severance, the plot is it takes place
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: in a near future where this company has developed a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: technology that allows it to sever to separate your memories
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: so that when you go into work, the memories you
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: have at work are completely separate from your own personal
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: memories and vice versa. So you have no memory of
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: your work when you're in your normal life, and you
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: have no memory of your normal life when you're at work,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: and then things get weirder from there, like that's the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: jumping off point for where things get weird. And the
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: first season was fantastic. I loved it, and I have
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: been anticipating season two ever since, so I'm glad that
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: we got a first look. It is frustrating that we
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: don't know when that second season is going to drop.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: So they released that ex tweet whatever Twitter's blip, but
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: it was also a part of a larger like here's
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the slate of our shows ad So I think that's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: why you don't have more information, but I really just
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: added it there so that you would know.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm pleased to know, because you know, you always
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: worry that something's just going to fall through the cracks
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: at some point, and the first season was It ended
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: in such a way that you really wanted to see
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: where the story goes next, Like it was a cliffhanger
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: kind of ending. So I'm curious to see how it
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: continues from there. Are you curious to see the ongoing
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: adventures of a certain marmalade loving bear.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I am. Yeah, Jonathan is referencing Paddington, which is a
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: movie franchise that I did not think I would like
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, And then I watched
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: the Paddington two out of laziness and loved it, and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: so yes, this in Paddington three, Paddington in Peru. Paddington
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: goes to visit his aunt, I believe in Peru and
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: then they have to go into the Amazon to find her.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: And it looks delightful.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Olivia Coleman looks like she's having the time of
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: our frickin' life. In this trailer. She plays a nun,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: a nun that plays guitars. Ala the nun from the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: Sound of Music.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, i'llah, Maria.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I loved this trailer. It's I mean, like the Paddington
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: movies come across is so wholesome and delightful and silly,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: and those are things that really appealed to me. So yeah,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: I love this trailer.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I know. Jonathan said, we don't have a
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: mash up, but if you go back to our older episodes,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: there is a padding to Deadpool mash up.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this one will be coming out in November eighth.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: This year.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, something coming out a little bit sooner is another
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Zack Snyder project, Twilight of the Gods.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you are thinking, gosh, it's been ages
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: since I've seen Zack Snyder figuratively pick up a couple
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: of action figures and smash them together while going, uh,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: this show is for you.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: It's a cartoon. It's Norse mythology. I will say one
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: thing for it. Unlike a lot of Zack Snyder's stuff,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: the trailer was pretty short.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, the trailer is fairly short. Twilight of the Gods.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: It tells the story of this romantic couple who end
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: up essentially declaring war on the gods. And so it's
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: like if you took three hundred, but instead of the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Spartans defending against the Persians, now it's humans fighting against gods.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: That's kind of the gimmick. And like I said, it
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: does I mean, like I always say, the sex Snyder's
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: action movies, like all, whether it's three hundred or whether
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: it's you know, the the the superhero stuff, it does
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: just feel like he's just smashing action figures against each other,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: and like you can't tell if they're fighting or kissing
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: and that's a Zack Snyder movie, and this looks like
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: that except animated.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: All right, so does that mean that Superman and Aquaman
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: were just kissing.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: That's more like Superman and Batman. They were kissing for
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: a whole movie. For yeah, until until until for a second,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Batman was worried that they were actually brothers when they
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: found he found out that both of their moms are
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: named Martha.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's brilliant, brilliant. I mean, I get that that
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: is actually true to the.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Comics, but it's so dumb. It's it is so dumb.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: It's dumb for the reason like, I don't mean it's
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: dumb that they both have a mother named Martha. I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: mean it's dumb that Batman would use that as the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: reason to stop beating the crap out of Superman.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: I mean they both have parent trauma, parent issues. Yeah,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: well Superman shouldn't.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: But I've got so well, I have nothing good to say.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: Let me put it that way, which should be pretty
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: clear at this point.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's move from infuriating dumb to fundum, which
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: with the fact that teenage mutant Ninja Turtles is getting
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: a new paramount TV show.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: YEP, It's a twelve episode series that debuts on August ninth.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: It's called Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: is it is essentially a continuation of the tmn T
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: Mutant Mayhem. We got that film, so it's that animation style.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: I did tell Ariel that based on the trailer, it
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: felt to me like, I mean, animation for television is
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: almost always cheaper than what you get for animation and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: film like, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the animation in this looks cheaper to me than Mutant
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Mayhem does. But the thing that kind of got to
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: me is it felt like they were intentionally dropping frames
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: like like, have you ever seen those old old cartoons
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: from like the sixties and seventies where they saved every
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: penny they could by reusing the same like moment space
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: spacehest coast to coast did this right? Like like, that's
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: how this feels to me, and it was distracting to me.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: But apart from that, like the performances and all that,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: that's that was very much in line with the Mutant
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Mayhem film.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't get that so much
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: with the animation, though there are some moments that feel
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: kind of like an anime comic as opposed to an
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: animated cartoon. The thing is the thing that threw me
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: with the movie and I haven't watched it, but with
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: the movie trailer and with this, and I want to
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: watch a movie, and I want to watch this because
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: I've heard good things about the movie. Is one of
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: the Ninja Turtles sounds infinitely younger than the rest?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true. One of them sounds like a
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: legit kid, and a lot of the others sound like
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: an actor playing a kid or.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: A teenager or something. But it's like, hey, we've got
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: a bunch of seven sixteen seventeen year olds and then
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: a ten year old. I'm like, what what that doesn't
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: but it still looks fun.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks fun. I'll probably check Well, no, I won't,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: it's Paramount plus. I won't check it out, but that's
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: because I don't have Paramount Plus.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: I will check it out, and I will tell you
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: what you're missing out on sounds good.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: You can also check out and tell me about my
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: spy the Eternal City. Because I have no intention of
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: watching it.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Do I have to you put it on the lineup line. Yeah,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: so My Spy was a Dave Fautista movie that went
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: through like name changes and massive rewrite reshoots and like
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: massive delays and isn't it isn't it a kids movie?
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: It's a kids movie, and I think it only got
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: mediocre reviews. So I was gobsmacked to see that a
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: second one is coming out, and this time it looks
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: like it's set in Italy, Italy, Italy.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Italy, Italy Italy, which is Italy three times as Italian
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: as Italy is.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: Look now, I've like, if you say beetlejuice three times,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: you summoned beetle juice. I've just summoned to the spaghetti monster.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: That's fine. I could go for some pastar right now.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the trailer looks like cute spy kids, spy
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: movie type stuff. I was starting to worry that Batista
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: is becoming like the Rock, you know how The Rock
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: was like in every movie for a while, Because we
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: just got a different Batista trailer last week, which was
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: that the assassin's film The Killer something or other but anyway,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: a movie in which he plays an assassin who puts
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: a hit out on himself because he thinks he has
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: an inoperable brain tumor, and it turns out he was misdiagnosed.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, what what sort of weird project were
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: we going to see Dave Batista in next week? Yeah?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got similar feels, you know, But good for him.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: I guess this movie hits a kind of dumbchord that
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't appeal to me, but the cast does. Anna Ferris
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: is in it, Kristin Shawl is in it, Craig Robinson, Kenjieong,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: and Flula Borg who Fluaborg is just such a weird,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: funny person that I'm like, I don't know, I don't
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: want to watch it, but I almost want to watch
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: it just for him.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will give this one a skip. But I mean, like, again,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: it's not made for me. I don't have children. It's
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: not the sort of thing I would necessarily seek out.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen the Paddington films, even though everyone I've
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: ever heard talk about them. It sounds like I would
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: totally love those movies. It's just again, one of those
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: is just never on my radar because it's not like
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: I have a kid to bring to it. Not that
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: you need to have a kid in order to enjoy
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: a family film. I don't think that's true at all.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: I love lots of family films. It's just in order
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: for me to see it first, there usually has to
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: be some other circumstance in place, like someone else's idea
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: for us to go that kind of thing.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. I have a hard time
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: getting out to a movie theater right now.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: Well me too. I mean we you know the fact
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: that we still haven't seen Furiosa, and that's right up
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: our alley. So yeah, yeah, See the problem is that
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: we don't live close enough together, because I guarantee you
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: if we did, you and I would have already gone
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: to see Furiosa together.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: We would have.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: We'll have.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: We don't live that far apart. It's just finding remembering that, hey,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: we both have some free time.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and it has to be enough free time
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: to build in the actual driving as well, right, because yeah,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: it's not that far apart, but it's not super close.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: And that like when you're adding it to the running
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: time of a movie, both before and after the film
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: is played, you're like, Wow, this is a significant time
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: devotion that we're asking from each other. And yeah, we
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: just haven't. I don't know. Maybe when we hit thirty
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: years of friendship we'll be able to do that. It's
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: got to be not that far off, not that far off. No,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Like we met in two thousand and one, that's so
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: we have. Yeah, we've known each other. We've known each
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: other for more than two decades. We've been good friends
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: for a little less than that. Yeah, because it took
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: some time for Ariel to like me.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: No, not at all, but probably the reverse. But okay,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: so we are you know, we have known each other
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: a long time, and I feel like we're really good
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: friends and sometimes we think on the same wavelength. Because
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: I also watched the trailer for Those About to Die
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: and considered putting it on the lineup.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is kind of like, this is my version
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: of my spy the Eternal City, where I put something
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: on the lineup where I was like kind of sort
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: of feeling it. So, for Those About to Die is
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: a series that's premiering on Peacock on July eighteenth, and
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: it come the title comes from for Those About to Die,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: We Salute You, And it's essentially a Gladiator series. It
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: almost feels like Gladiator. The series based on the trailer.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, isn't it also Troy?
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: I guess, like, but like it's you know, Anthony Hopkins
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: plays a Roman emperor, a lah, you know, similar to
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: Julius Caesar. I don't think it's supposed to be Caesar.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe it is, I don't know, but yeah, it's uh,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: it looks like it's one of those stories of down trodden,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: oppressed gladiator is swearing too up in the social structure
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: of Rome and to take down the powerful. It's essentially
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: eat the rich Roman.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Addition, yeah, he is not playing Julius Caesar. He's playing
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: a character called Vespasian Vespasian.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's a vespa Yeah.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: And then there's and then there's tighter Titus flavor punch.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: Titus flavor punch. I don't I can't see whatever it
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: is you're looking at.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: So flav Avinus probably okay, it's it's Flavia Nus. I'm
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: putting the space in those letters.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: In a very nice place. F L A V I
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: A n U S.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: Flavianus. Thank you. I swear I can read and speak English.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Well that's not English, so you're fine.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: The letters are. But yeah, I don't know. It could
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: be interesting. It's on Peacock, so you know it may
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: not be Stars or Showtime or HBO level gory sexy,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: which means I might like it better because sometimes those
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: channels can.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: A little too extreme, a little.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Too extreme for me. But it does feel very much
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: like Troy, another show I didn't watch because I heard
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: it was too extreme.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, this one, Like I included it because I
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: felt that it was it touched on things that we
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: would typically talk about, but I didn't feel I didn't
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: feel a strong desire to follow this, which is unfortunate
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: because I actually do have Peacock, so I could watch
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: it if I wanted to.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: But this one, I guess you don't think about the
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: Roman Empire that much.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: I don't and had no idea what the heck anyone
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: was talking about for the longest time, Like I was like,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: why is Roman Empire showing up? Because like, I'm not
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: plugged into social networks, so I don't like I only
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: become tangentially aware typically when one of my friends says
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: something and I'm like, oh, this must be one of
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: those mean things I hear so much about. A meme,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: A meme, a meme.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am plugged into social media and I had
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: to still look that up at one point.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: Well, next, next up, next up, We're getting We're getting
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: a two part animated treatment readaptation of Watchmen. Yes, the
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: same graphic novel that inspired the live action film several
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: years ago, which then, of course created a spin off
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: HBO series, which was, in my opinion, far better than
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: the movie, also far better than the original graphic novel.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: I am not a fan of the graphic novel. I
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people are. It always struck me
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: as equal parts silly and disturbing, Like there's some disturbing
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: ideologies that characters are expressing in that, and I'm not
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: entirely I'm not convinced that they are ideologies that Alan
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: Moore intended people to think. We're good ideas, but that's
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: not how audiences work, And so some people have really
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: embraced the nihilism of Watchmen in a way that's upsetting. Anyway,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: we're getting an animated version of it.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I agree with you. I think it was
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: supposed to be commentary of Hey, let's maybe not yeah.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe Arshak is not the role model you think
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: he is.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's look at let's look at our shortcomings and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: maybe be better. But uh, you know, it looks like
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: a decent animated whatever. But it feels exactly the same
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: as the book, and it feels exactly the same as
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: the movie. Like I don't feel like there's any new
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: ground being tread.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe the ending of this animated one is
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: going to be closer to the original Graphic novel, which
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: in my mind means it'll be dumber. Like I didn't
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: think the live action movie was perfect, but I think
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: the way the live action film created the global threat
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: at the end made a billion times more sense than
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: the way the Graphic novel ends.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: And yet you like the TV show better, which picks
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: up where the Graphic novel.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: It does, Yes, the TV show. The TV show ignores
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: the film and is more of an extension of the
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: original Graphic novel. But uh, they don't really, they don't
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: really deal with the whole thing. Like in the Graphic novel,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: psychics are real, Like psychics are a real thing, but
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: that's not explained right away. This is again getting back
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: to where I was talking about how I have trouble
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: with worlds that are not clearly defined, where you start
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: to assume that because in the original Watchmen graphic novel,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: super heroes are not super powered, right, they don't have superpowers.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: They're vigilantes. They're mass vigilance. And then you have masked
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: criminals who kind of pop up almost as an ant
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: sir to the mass vigilantes. This is sort of like
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: the whole concept of Batman created his own villains kind
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: of thing. But no one has superpowers. They're all normal humans.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: They just dress up in different stuff and they train
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: really hard, but they don't have powers except for Doctor Manhattan,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: he's the only exception. And then midway through the graphic novel,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: Alan Moore introduces psychics who are real in this world,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: who have real psychic powers, and I'm like, well, hang on,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: you've explained that human beings don't have superpowers. I would
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: argue psychic abilities are a superpower. They're certainly not real.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: So like I balked at that when it was introduced
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: in the graphic novel, and the global threat at the
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: end of the graphic novel heavily involves psychics working together
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: to create a false threat to the Earth, and that's
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: where I thought was super dumb. And then the film
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: version instead what they do is they they frame Doctor
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: Manhattan as the existential threat to the Earth, which I
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: think made perfect sense based upon Doctor Manhattan's nature and abilities.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: I agree, I can't actually say that he isn't a
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: threat to Earth. But yeah, but then the TV show,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: because the threat that they make up is a giant
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: space squid. So in the TV show it starts with
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: just these random squid showers happening. Yeah, which is delightful.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: But here's it. Like, the thing is, I didn't ever
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: read the comic until the movie came out. I wasn't
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: a super fan of the movie, though I did like
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: some of the stylings, like the original Silkspector's costume was
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: super cute. But but I when they made the TV show,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: I saw the reason why, and I saw the value
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: in it because it was a continuation and just a
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: phenomenal story and relate characters and just just so well,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: so well done.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: This I just.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know, there's got to be something that makes
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: it special.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't, and I don't know if there
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: will be, apart from the fact that it will obviously
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: showcase talented artists who brought the animation to life. That's
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: always you know, that's an admirable thing, and there'll be
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: some things that you can do in animation obviously that'll
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: be way easier than having to try and bring that
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: to a live action screen. So yeah, yeah, this almost
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: felt like why bother. It's kind of like how I
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: occasionally hear rumors. There was this one piece I almost
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: put it in for discussion, but decide not to because
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: ultimately it's all speculation. But it was about how Warner
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: Brothers would love to buy the rights of Harry Potter
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: off JK. Rowling with the ultimate tent of rebooting the
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: like essentially redoing the whole Harry Potter series. And I'm like,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: do we need to We already have all those movies
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: and sure the movies aren't perfect either, neither is the
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: source material. But the movies aren't perfect, But do we
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: need to remake all of those? And I guess for
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers the answer is yes, But that's because of
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: financial reasons.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Financial reasons, you know. I would say that maybe if
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: they were able to separate the material from the artist further,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: that they might get some of that audience back. Yeah,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: but like you said, the source material itself has problematic stuff.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: In it.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just think it doesn't like I feel
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: like the Harry Potter series is one that ramps up
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: really nicely up to the middle point of the series
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: and then kind of sadly declines. It's not like a
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: roller coaster so much as great build up up through
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: Prisoner of Azkaban in particular, and then after that it
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: starts to falter.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: I agree. I haven't read the books, but I've seen
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: the movies and I agree with you. It's like really
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: good ramp up and it doesn't jump the hippogriff. It
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: just kind of falls underneath it as it flies.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and then and then a bunch of characters
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: that you have emotionally invested in all die at the end.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: So it's the children's edition of Game of Throne, it.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: Kind of is, And so yeah, I but anyway, the
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: speculation was essentially saying something similar to how Disney bought
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: the rights of Star Wars off George Lucas, and that
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers would like to do this partly because it
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: would allow the separation of the material from the author, which,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: you know, the author continuing to be transphobic has been
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: a huge issue for that, like for many reasons, and
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: the fact that she is not very good at screenwriting,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: that the Fantastic Beasts movies didn't do so well and
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: in fact petered out, like there were supposed to be
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: five of those and they only made three.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and then like the latest Harry I don't
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: know if it's the latest, one of the more recent
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter games was also just the plot line of that.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: Was super troubling, So I guess I did add it
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: into our lineup accidentally just by talking about it. But anyway,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: the likelihood of Warner Brothers doing that I think is
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: really low, largely because I don't think Warner Brothers has
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: the capital to spend to buy that material off. JK. Rowling.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's such a valuable ip. I can't imagine.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: You know, you're talking about a company that is willingly
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: shelving finished movies, never to show them ever ever, in
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: order to get a tax right off. That doesn't sound
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: like the kind of company that's going to shell out
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: billions of dollars to purchase the rights to the Harry
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: Potter franchise.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah, I hope they don't. With Watchmen, I
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: A get okay, So like you get a bunch of
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: DC animated stuff and it's all Batman or Superman or whatever, right,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot, but it's all different stories. So
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: maybe this will encourage other stories within the universe. And
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: if they can hit similar chords as the HBO TV
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: show that I could get behind that. So if this
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: is a launching point for that, then I support it.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I was always hoping for a second
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: season of the Watchmen live action series. Still.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: Look, I still vaguely hope for that. I still vaguely
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: hope for a third season of Gallivant.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: That's never going to happen. Need to let the dream die.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Look, I can't, and maybe if I hold on to
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: it long enough, it will come true.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: Look, I've already had to come to terms with the
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: fact we're not getting a third season of Shmigadoon, so
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: that that hurts too, because the second the first season
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: was okay, but the second season was great.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: I would rather get a third season of Gallivant than
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Shemiga Dune.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: But that's just it is, just you, So that's why
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: it's never gonna happen. Okay, Oh that's okay. Smiga Dune
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: is also not getting a third season no matter what either.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: So I've exlained and next we're going to talk about
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: a trailer for something I hadn't seen. Thank you Jonathan
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: for adding it. It's the story of me during this episode.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: It's called Space Kide.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like it's I mean, I almost
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: didn't put this in, but I saw it just before
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: we were to get together and record, and I thought
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: it was, like, it doesn't seem like the kind of
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: movie I would typically find funny because it's a it's
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: a party girl movie, and it's a movie about this
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: woman in Florida. She is a party girl type like
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: she It's clear that she was kind of like the
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: sorority party girl in college and she never really grows
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: out of that. As a young adult. She's working in
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: a bar and all this stuff. But she secretly wants
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: to be an astronaut. And then NASA ends up essentially
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: saying like, you can apply to be an astronaut in
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: the space program, and she decides to fake her credentials
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: and apply for the chance to be able to go
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: up into space, and it works. It gets her in
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: the door for the training program, and then she has
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: to figure out how to survive the training program in
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: order for her to actually go to Space. And it
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: looks pretty funny.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: It looks really funny, it looks really cute. I'm hoping
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: that it's one of those like that there's it's a
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: character growth story and that she learns to be a
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: really badass space. And it's got some great cast in it,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: and I'm trying to remember their names. All of a sudden,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Why can't I remember anybody's name?
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's like you caught it from me.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: Let's see if I can check out the cast here.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: Tom Hopper's in it. He is a character in Umbrella Academy.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: Gabrielle Union's in it, so that's really good.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: Dave Pholly of Kids in the Hall he's in it.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a I mean, I'm like, I'm a
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: big Dave Pholly fan.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: I'm a big Kids in the Hall fan. So I
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: love seeing those guys pop up in movies all the time.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: Ah yeah, I don't. I don't know that this looks
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: like it's going to be super good, But it does
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: look like it would be entertaining. It doesn't also doesn't
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: look like the kind of film that I would ever
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: go to the theater for. But that's okay because it's
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: an Amazon Prime movie, so it'll be on Prime on
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: July fourth.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: I might I occasionally have like these. I call them
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: Crochet and Rose days, though we never actually drink rose,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: just kind of crochet and talk. So maybe I'll put
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: that on in the background next time I have a
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: Crochet day.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: It sounds good, and it definitely sounds more like the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: kind of film that would go over well for such
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: a gathering, as opposed to Sonny.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, which is not the dramatized version of Always Sonny
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I said that if this were an LLENC mashup,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: it would have been what happens if you mash up
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: Big Hero six with Megan, you get Sonny.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I believe it's an Apple Plus TV show. Now
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure, but it's about this woman whose
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: family dies and they give her a robot and she
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't like robots, and then she finds out that her husband,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: her late husband, created it. And it starts with Shida Jones,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: who you might know from as Anne from Parks and
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: Rec Parks and Rec and so so it's and then
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: there's like this big mystery, so it also feels very
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: like intriguy in a fun way, despite that it's dealing
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: with her family's death. I don't know, it looks interesting
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't really. I can't really get a handle
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: on what the tone is because there are parts of
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  Speaker 2: it that make it look like dramedy and other parts
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: that make it look like thriller slash horror. There's obviously
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: the science fiction elements, because you've got this anthropomorphic, you know,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: humanoid robot that has this AI stuff built into it. Yeah,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: so I don't have a handle on what the story
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: actually is. I don't know how to feel about it yet.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: And maybe it is the kind of thing that if
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: I were to watch it, I'd be like, oh wow,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: this is really clicking. But the trailer did not do
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: that to me.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: I'll probably give it a try while I wait for
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: the murder Bot series to come out.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: Our last story and we'll wrap things up, is that
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  Speaker 1: we are getting an among Us animated series and there's
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: a trailer for it. And the thing that amuses me
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: the most is this trailer has like maybe one scream
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: and nobody else really talks in the entire trailer, but
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: it has an insane voice cast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's funny because it's the trailer whether
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: there's no voice acting whatsoever. And then at the end
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: you get like the list of voice actors who are
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: or actors who are part of it. And it was
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: shown this this trick teaser was shown during the Summer
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: game Fest because I was watching a live stream of
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: the Summer game Fest when this came on, and everyone
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: was like huh, because everyone was hoping to hear some
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: of the voice acting. I mean, you've got folks like
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: Patton Oswalt does a voice for it, Phil Lamar, who
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: does lots of Elijah would does voice. Aculey Johnson actually
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: Johnson yep. Wayne Knight uh Uga alumni, Wayne Knight alumnus.
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  Speaker 1: I should say, wait, is that please tell me he
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: has played Batman?
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: No, Wayne Knight, No, he played Newman in Seinfeld, the
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: post office guy. He's he's the dude from Jurassic Park
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: who is the reason why the fences fail.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: So my brain has always just assumed that that guy's
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: name was Newman, and I know that's not true.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that wayn Knight playing Batman would probably
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: make me pee my pants.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: It would be that. And also it's the perfect name,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: Bruce Wayne the Dark Knight Wayne.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, yeah, yeah, from a from a name standpoint, sure,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: but every other standpoint, I mean, Patton Oswald being Batman
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: would be more believable.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: I I would listen to either of them play Batman.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: No one's ever going to be Kevin Conroy anyhow.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: So event Nicole Brown is in it too. She was
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: in Community, so oh nice, she's one of the other voices.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the trailer actually looks pretty cute. It looks
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: lighthearted for a for a sabotage series based on a
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: game that ended many friendships.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's funny how it's come out, like, you know,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: so late after the phenomena of the actual game. Not
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: that the game is over, I mean people still play it,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: but I would say that it's definitely well pasted. Its
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: like peak social relevance.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's peak relevance was during the pandemic
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: because it was a perfect game to get online.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, yeah, it would know. It's it's just funny
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: to see a TV show. Finally, I mean, these things
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: take forever to go through development, so it shouldn't be
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: a surprise, but it does make you wonder, like, you know,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: what's the what's the thought process that goes into green
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: lighting either a series or a film based off something
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: that's hot right now, because you've got to know that
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: by the time the thing comes out, that wave will
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: have passed and maybe you'll be able to recapture it.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: Like some things end up being evergreen and they last,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: they're timeless, but others are not. And so I'm curious
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: to see if this ends up being a timeless thing
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: or if everyone's like, oh, you remember that time when
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: they tried to make a TV show out of among Us?
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hope. I hope because I like a
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: lot of the voice actors, a lot of them are geeks.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: I hope that it's very successful and that's it. Yeah,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: okay by everybody.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we we have our we have our
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: regular sign out stuff for our show.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: Oh okay. So so yeah, Jonathan, if people want to
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: contact us and talk to us about among Us and
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: reveal that they're the trader, how do they do that?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: Well, what you're going to have to do is you're
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: going to have to go out there, and you're going
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: to need to make a animated TV series based off
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: the jack Box Party games, but like jack Box Party
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: games circa twenty twenty one, and your animated series is
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: going to be extremely relevant only to the games that
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: were available in the Jackpux Party packs of twenty twenty one,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: nothing since then and nothing from before that. And I
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: need it to be like twelve episodes long. You're also
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: going to need to get like some really decent cast
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: members to be part of it. They'd be great if
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: you can mix it up where some of them are
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: more known for like their on camera work, but a
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: lot of them are just known for their voice work,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: and make it a real ensemble show. Don't bother with
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: a plot. No one's there to see it, h and
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: just you're going to need to make this and get
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: it launched on one of the popular streaming services you
• 1:38:13
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• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: you're going to get some pretty rough reviews, Like they
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: might say, like the cast is great or whatever, but
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: you know, who the heck thought it was a good
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: idea to adapt this into a series. That's going to
• 1:38:28
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• 1:38:31
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• 1:38:34
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• 1:38:36
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• 1:38:38
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