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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdroun Collider Podcast is a production of My
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdrun Collider 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 casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: as Hulk Smash Jonathan Strickland. I'm going to eat, pray,
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Speaker 1: and love. That's clever. Yeah, that's that will be more
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Speaker 1: clever as we get further into this episode. Well, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: before we get started, I of course have a question.
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Speaker 1: So Ariel, Yes, what is a skill you would love
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Speaker 1: to develop? Oh? Goodness gracious, all of them? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean you can pick one. It doesn't have to be
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Speaker 1: your favorite or anything. Um I would I mean I
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Speaker 1: would like to, um be able to fly do you
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Speaker 1: mean like an airplane or like up up in a way.
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Speaker 1: That's not a skill, that's a superpower. Now, I would
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Speaker 1: really like to be better at martial arts. It's something
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Speaker 1: it's completely attainable. Um. I keep saying. I want to
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Speaker 1: take stunt work and and and some more martial forms
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Speaker 1: and so that's really it. It's high on my list. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's a good one. Yeah, it goes along with being
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Speaker 1: a barbarian in real life. What about you, Jonathan, I'd
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Speaker 1: like to develop my skill at shopping at Marshall's Martial Arts.
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Speaker 1: It's the art of art of shopping. No, it's not.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like, Yeah, you're not being honest.
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Speaker 1: I mean shopping at Marshall's is a skill. No, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't have it. But no, no, no, no, the
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Speaker 1: s I'll tell you what. I what skill I would
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Speaker 1: actually love to develop because I've never been good at
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Speaker 1: it and I always invied people who took in the
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Speaker 1: time and figured out how to get good at it.
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Speaker 1: That would be roller skating. Ah. Yes, I used to
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Speaker 1: be able to roller skate. I wasn't like phenomenal. I
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Speaker 1: could go in a big circle and a rink and
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Speaker 1: that was it. Like I couldn't do any other like
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Speaker 1: I couldn't. I certainly couldn't use the brakes properly because
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Speaker 1: if I tried, I would have just like flipped over
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Speaker 1: onto my face. Yep. I also had a habit of
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Speaker 1: losing my balance and falling down and that's how I
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Speaker 1: sprained my wrist once because I did what you're not
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Speaker 1: supposed to do, which is to put my hands out.
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Speaker 1: Um I I you know, whereas I've got friends who
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Speaker 1: could do things like they could do the turnaround and
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Speaker 1: skate backwards and you know, do some of the just
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Speaker 1: the cool stuff. And I'm like, I know that this
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Speaker 1: is all out aided in like late seventies, early eighties
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But I've always thought it would be
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Speaker 1: really cool to to develop that skill. I've just never like,
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Speaker 1: I never went skating enough to ever get good. I
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Speaker 1: was always incredibly awkward and one step away from totally
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Speaker 1: wiping out. So I was decent at roller skating. I
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Speaker 1: used to do late skates all the time, but that
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Speaker 1: was years and years and years ago. But I was
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Speaker 1: never very good at roller blading. I remember back when
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Speaker 1: roller blades first became like a public consumption thing as
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Speaker 1: opposed to just a tool that hockey players used to
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Speaker 1: train in the off season. And I tried them at
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Speaker 1: a fall festival and I went down a ramp on them,
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Speaker 1: and I grabbed onto the ramp and I got a giant,
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Speaker 1: giant splinter in my hand. And ever since then, I
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Speaker 1: had kind of been afraid of them because they didn't
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Speaker 1: have the same stability as I did in roller skates,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of my friends have actually picked up
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Speaker 1: roller skating during the pandemic and bought pairs and are
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Speaker 1: relearning the skill. Wow, I haven't, but it is one
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Speaker 1: of those things that I when I see like a
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Speaker 1: a video of people, Like there was some music video
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Speaker 1: I watched not too long ago where it had a
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Speaker 1: group of people doing like choreographed skating and the kind
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Speaker 1: of did some dancing along with it, and I was
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Speaker 1: just like, this is cool, and it's very seventies, but
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Speaker 1: it's cool. So I had pictures of my aunt doing
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Speaker 1: roller disco, like in full costume and everything. That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's super cool. Well, we have lots of
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Speaker 1: cool stuff to talk about today, none of it involves
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Speaker 1: roller skating as far as I know. I mean, maybe
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Speaker 1: there could be roller skating and some of these things,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not aware of it. But our first thing
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Speaker 1: is something that popped up just before we started recording,
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Speaker 1: and Ariel, why don't you introduce what that is? Disney
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Speaker 1: releases trailer for the Shehawk series that's coming to Disney
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Speaker 1: Plus and Jonathan and I had very different reactions to it. Oh,
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Speaker 1: you didn't like it. I did not. I why did not?
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Speaker 1: I love it? I thought the comedy was great and
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Speaker 1: the acting was good, but the c g I faces
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Speaker 1: made me feel like I was back on that old
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Speaker 1: movie The Polar Express. Yeah, okay, I get it. Like
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Speaker 1: the especially she Hulks face definitely looks more cartoonish than
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Speaker 1: it looks realistic, and I don't disagree with that. I
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Speaker 1: did think that was probably the weakest part, but I'm
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Speaker 1: able to forgive it simply because it is a Disney
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Speaker 1: Plus series and hopefully it'll be refined a bit before
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Speaker 1: it actually ends up airing. But yeah, no, there's no
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Speaker 1: there's no denying it. The face of she huwk is.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is very cartoony. It looks like a cartoon.
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Speaker 1: It does not look like an actual face, which is
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Speaker 1: weird because you know they've done this so much like
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Speaker 1: Fanos didn't look cartoony, didn't look human, but it looked
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Speaker 1: like it was like a real face. Um that is unfortunate.
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Speaker 1: But I love the content. Yeah, I liked the content.
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Speaker 1: Now Moonnight, I guess is the every All of the
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Speaker 1: other Disney Plus TV shows have seemed okay with their
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Speaker 1: side with their um c G I even one division
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Speaker 1: because I used a lot of practical effects in that
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Speaker 1: Moon Night looked a little bit c g I, but
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Speaker 1: I was able to get past it in the context
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Speaker 1: of the story. Um. But yeah, this is this is
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Speaker 1: even a step down from that for me, which is
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Speaker 1: a shame. I'm hopeful that when the series comes out
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Speaker 1: that maybe they will have spent a little more time
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Speaker 1: and then it will look a little more refined. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I can see where that's an issue. But but like,
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Speaker 1: if you can get past that, I think there's a
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Speaker 1: lot to enjoy their Like the characterizations were fun. Um
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Speaker 1: And I'm also really kind of hoping that we get
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Speaker 1: Matt murdochs showing up in an episode. Yeah. Yeah. At
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Speaker 1: one point in the trailer, she Hulk, who is played
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Speaker 1: by Tatianamislani. If you've if you've watched Orphan Black, that's her.
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Speaker 1: She's a great actress. Um says I'm not a superhero,
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Speaker 1: and I expected her to say I'm a lawyer, and
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Speaker 1: she didn't, But that's what I expected to come out
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Speaker 1: of her mouth. Yeah, you know, I I suggest people
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Speaker 1: go out seek it out, watch the trailer and yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you can get past that cartoon face, see what
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Speaker 1: you think, Like, I don't know. Maybe I was just feeling, uh,
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Speaker 1: very generous because I'm hallucinating due to heat exhaustion. I
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Speaker 1: mean maybe, But the problem is, like the first face
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Speaker 1: that I noticed it being weird on was actually Mark Ruffalo,
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Speaker 1: the Hulks face, because he's in it, and the first
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Speaker 1: time they showed his face, I'm like, well, that looks
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Speaker 1: a little dorpy. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't look nearly at
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Speaker 1: the same quality as the films. And you get it, like,
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Speaker 1: you know that the budget they're working with and the
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Speaker 1: resources they're working with are a fraction of what they
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Speaker 1: have for the big ticket Marvel movies, but you do
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Speaker 1: hope that they can at least come close to matching
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Speaker 1: it so that you're consistent. Yeah, I will still watch it,
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Speaker 1: though that's going to happen, because I used to want
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Speaker 1: to be to she well, are you going to watch
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Speaker 1: Pixar's next big film, which is called Elemental? You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't watched a lot of their
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Speaker 1: more recent stuff, honestly. Um, yeah, so I didn't watch
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Speaker 1: The Good Dinosaur. Well that's not recent at all, and
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Speaker 1: it's terrible. Gosh, I'm trying to remember what their other
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Speaker 1: more recent stuff is sol Thats good, It's good. Inside
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Speaker 1: Out would be another one. I did watch inside Out,
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Speaker 1: which is what this Elemental movie looks like from it's
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Speaker 1: very uh like, we don't know much about it yet
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Speaker 1: other than it's it's about other than some basic um
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Speaker 1: concept art and a little bit about the premise, which
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Speaker 1: is it's about being in a melting pot city, and
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Speaker 1: it's about elements like Earth, fire, windwater, heart, Right, what
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Speaker 1: the heart? What are you doing captain planet? That's I'm okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: we're not doing our matchup right now, Ariel, and that
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Speaker 1: is not that's not in our match up either, So
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Speaker 1: you just you just captain Planet yourself backwards a bit. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The the article we we cite is from Polygon, and
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Speaker 1: it has a little passage that says Elemental takes place
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Speaker 1: in a world where the four elements Fire, water, land,
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Speaker 1: and air land instead of Earth whatever, are alive and
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Speaker 1: live alongside one another. The movie will follow Ember, a
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Speaker 1: fiery young woman, and Wade a go with the flow
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Speaker 1: guy water. In other words, and U they have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a of a like a sketch kind
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Speaker 1: of showing a concept. And yeah, we we both decided
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Speaker 1: that this looks like it's a mash up of insight
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Speaker 1: Out where you have characters who have one defining characteristic
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Speaker 1: that the guides their personality, and Zootopia, where you have
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Speaker 1: characters who are mismatched pushed together all the inside out?
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Speaker 1: Was that too because you had joy and sadness together
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Speaker 1: the whole time. So yeah, I don't know. They like,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that Pixar will do a lot with this.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that it will go well beyond the little
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Speaker 1: premise we've been told. But just based on the very
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Speaker 1: small amount of information we have, I feel like this
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Speaker 1: is retreading ground they've already you know, thoroughly marched across.
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Speaker 1: Possibly it could also be horrific because in the picture
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Speaker 1: we see we see the go with the flow, and
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Speaker 1: we see the water. Didn't we see the fire girl,
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Speaker 1: but air and land. They're walking on land and they're
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Speaker 1: walking through air. And also fire needs oxygen to burn, right,
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Speaker 1: So maybe this fire character is constantly burning the air
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Speaker 1: character just by walking through her all the time, assuming
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Speaker 1: the airs of her. Um, that's probably gonna happen. We're
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Speaker 1: just gonna hear. We're not gonna be able to hear
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Speaker 1: any any dialogue at all. It'll just be air screaming
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Speaker 1: the entire time. Um, and that will be it will
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Speaker 1: be a very art piece. Okay, well we're not obviously
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Speaker 1: we're not. We're not sold on this concept yet. But again,
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Speaker 1: it's Pixar. Pixar has a pretty good track record. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how light Year is going to come out,
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Speaker 1: but you know they have a pretty good track record. Um.
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Speaker 1: But our next story is one that I assume has
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Speaker 1: my co host a little excited, excited and scared. So
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Speaker 1: David Tennant and Katherine Tate are coming back to Doctor
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Speaker 1: Who for the sixtieth anniversary, along with Rustle T. Davies.
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Speaker 1: And on the one hand, they were by far my
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Speaker 1: favorite duo, even though Tenant David Tennant was not my
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Speaker 1: favorite doctor, Doctor ten which is the doctor he played,
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Speaker 1: and Donna, which is who Katherine tap played, were my
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Speaker 1: favorite pairing because they had a really good friendship and
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Speaker 1: I felt it was especially as the character grew as
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Speaker 1: the campaigning character Donna grew became pretty balanced. Some people
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Speaker 1: disagree with me there, um, but I'm also very worried
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Speaker 1: because the end of their arc left them with the
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Speaker 1: Doctor wiping Donna's memory and she could never see him
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Speaker 1: or remember him, or she would instantly die. So I'm
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Speaker 1: really worried. There's so many ways around that. One while
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Speaker 1: they could kill her, but two, this could be some
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Speaker 1: This could be an alternate timeline. It could take place
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Speaker 1: in the past and not have anything to do with
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Speaker 1: current time. Like, there's so many ways of having those
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Speaker 1: characters interact with one another that doesn't involve them meeting
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Speaker 1: up in the present timeline of the Doctor Who chronology.
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Speaker 1: So there are there are ways. Yeah, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: a show that's all about wibbly wobbly timmy wymy stuff.
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Speaker 1: So there's entirely the possibility that what we're going to
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Speaker 1: see is maybe the current doctor, which by that time
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Speaker 1: might be Shooty, going into the tenth Doctor's timeline and
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Speaker 1: interacting that way. And so it's not that those characters
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Speaker 1: are pulled into the most present timeline for the doctor,
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Speaker 1: but rather the doctor goes back to a past timeline
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Speaker 1: and then you get around all the the dangerous mind
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Speaker 1: wipey stuff. Yeah, I guess we'll see. Um, it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a big undertaking for I feel like wrestle to
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Speaker 1: David Davis to pick back up on. Yeah, but you know,
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Speaker 1: Davies ran the show when it was going through some
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Speaker 1: of its most popular arcs. It was essentially all the
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Speaker 1: way through Tenant and then he left after Tenant. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he and Tenant had the same final episode, and um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see how that turns out.
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Speaker 1: We're also going to have to wait and see what
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Speaker 1: are other news items are, because it is time for
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Speaker 1: us to take a break. How's that heat delirium going, Jonathan?
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Speaker 1: I am sweating my buns off. I have no air
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Speaker 1: conditioning in my office and it is hot today, but sorry,
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Speaker 1: it's no hotter than the news which. Our next news
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Speaker 1: item is about a movie that premiered a south By
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Speaker 1: Southwest Film festival, Linoleum. Yes, you would not think a
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Speaker 1: film titled Linoleum would really fit into kind of our
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Speaker 1: podcast world, but no, Linoleum is a science fiction there.
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Speaker 1: It's described as a drama, y drama and comedy. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and it stars Jim Gaffigandy, the actor I always think of,
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Speaker 1: who is you know? I don't understand like he has
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Speaker 1: that weird kind of sing song delivery that he goes
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Speaker 1: is very very pale as well, Uh, that he plays
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Speaker 1: a a science um host, like a host of a
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Speaker 1: science show meant for children who always wanted to be
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Speaker 1: an astronaut, and a big ancient satellite. By ancient, I
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Speaker 1: mean like something from like the eighties or seventies maybe
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Speaker 1: ends up crashing in his backyard and convinces him to
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Speaker 1: try and make a rocket out of the satellite, which
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Speaker 1: I have all sorts of problems with from a from
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Speaker 1: a science standpoint, But um, it sounds like the actual
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Speaker 1: film is really charming and unusual. Yeah. Yeah, it fears
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Speaker 1: far away from from science. It sounds like because they're
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Speaker 1: stopplegangers and cars falling from the sky and all this
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Speaker 1: surreal nous. Um. I also like it because I think
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Speaker 1: it's uh Ria Sehorns playing his wife, and she's a
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Speaker 1: better call solid. She's a brilliant actress. Um, she's really
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Speaker 1: good at playing like friendly but straight, like dead pant.
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Speaker 1: It's really good at that. And I mean it, it
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Speaker 1: sounds like this was one of those things that kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of sparked something in my head, which
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Speaker 1: is that based on the right up we read, it
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Speaker 1: sounds like they're playing with some sort of um parallel
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Speaker 1: universe kind of stuff and I just thought it's interesting
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Speaker 1: to see that there are so many different properties coming
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Speaker 1: out that are playing with that everything obviously from Marvel
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Speaker 1: with the Multiverse to the real world area where you
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Speaker 1: have all these companies getting into the metaverse, which is
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Speaker 1: sort of just a virtual parallel reality if you want
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Speaker 1: to think of it. That a um, and that this
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Speaker 1: this is really kind of become a go to trope.
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Speaker 1: It has and I also say like this, this is
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Speaker 1: a film that kind of snuck under our radar um
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Speaker 1: because of all the Marvel and and and bigger stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. A couple of sci fi things are coming
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Speaker 1: out soon that I've completely missed. I think Jonathan is
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Speaker 1: completely missed too. Um. Another one is a film, TV
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Speaker 1: show film something like that called Night Sky that's coming
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Speaker 1: out with Sissy spec SPACEC and U J K. Simmons
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Speaker 1: not e commings like I keep calling him not e comings,
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Speaker 1: which is a very different person j K. Simmons, A K. J.
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Speaker 1: Jonah Jameson not not not the not the poet. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a series. It's a series that is uh.
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Speaker 1: It follows some characters who have discovered that their house
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Speaker 1: has a poor ole that goes to an abandoned world
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Speaker 1: and very odd like I couldn't quite get a handle
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Speaker 1: on what the tone or story of that series really is.
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Speaker 1: It looks like it's gonna I mean, it's a drama,
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Speaker 1: and it looks like there's gonna be some some potential
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Speaker 1: thriller aspects to it. But also there it looks very wistful.
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Speaker 1: It does, and it's it's very much in my wheelhouse
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Speaker 1: of what I'm interested in watching um and it really
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Speaker 1: just means I've got to be more careful about seeing
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Speaker 1: the smaller things that are not remakes read us big
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Speaker 1: continuous movies, Marvel movies that are coming out. I really
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Speaker 1: got to dive deeper into the news. But if you
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Speaker 1: want to watch Night Sky that actually comes out on
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Speaker 1: so possibly by the time you are listening to this
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Speaker 1: technically Friday, but you may not listen to this as
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Speaker 1: soon as it comes out, right, in which case, what
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Speaker 1: are you a slacker? I mean, I'm Summer Jonathan. I'm
19:03
Speaker 1: not going to blame people, uh for her slacking. But
19:06
Speaker 1: also you know who's not slacking and who will not
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Speaker 1: let us miss anything that's coming out that they think
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Speaker 1: will be a big hit. I'm gonna guess you're gonna
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Speaker 1: say Netflix, even though we know for a fact that
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Speaker 1: that's the same company that recently acts pretty much all
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Speaker 1: of its animated projects. Yeah, I'm really sad about that,
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Speaker 1: but not not all of them. There are some new
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Speaker 1: animated projects coming out, such as The Sea Beast, cup Head, Cyberpunk,
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Speaker 1: Edge Runners, uh, and some other things that I'm not
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Speaker 1: as familiar with. Because Netflix has released it's Geeked Week
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Speaker 1: two trailer that shows all of like the biggest properties
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Speaker 1: that they're excited about showing, including some games, things like
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Speaker 1: Stranger Things for Resident Evil and Brella Academy, The Gray Man,
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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. Yeah. The the Geeked Week Week
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Speaker 1: itself starts I think June six and goes through the tent,
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Speaker 1: but we're already getting teased about it now. Um. I'm
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Speaker 1: really interested to see more about Sandman. That's the one
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Speaker 1: that I'm really curious about. Everybody I know is excited
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Speaker 1: about Sandman. Um. I'm currently rewatching Good Omens with my friends.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I was just about say, like, like, Good
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Speaker 1: Omens was such a a nice adaptation. Uh. Sandman is
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Speaker 1: a very different story from Good Omens, has some really
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Speaker 1: dark stuff in it, especially in those early issues well
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Speaker 1: really through the whole thing, but um, it makes me
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Speaker 1: very curious about the adaptation, So yeah, I am. I
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Speaker 1: am interested to see what else comes out during geeked Week,
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Speaker 1: including Spiderhead. Correct, Spiderhead probably yeah, I'm guessing. Like so,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about Spiderhead because we watched a
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Speaker 1: trailer for that for during our lineup. And Spiderhead is
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Speaker 1: an adaptation of a short story which I believe is
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Speaker 1: titled Escape from Spiderhead, was published in The New Yorker.
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Speaker 1: It's actually available to read for free online, though warning
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Speaker 1: it's definitely a story for older readers. It has a
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Speaker 1: lot of not safe for work kind of words and
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Speaker 1: content in it um and has Chris Hemsworth in the
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Speaker 1: film adaptation playing this almost sociopathic administrator of a facility.
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Speaker 1: And the trailer pretty much makes it clear that this
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Speaker 1: facility is an alternative to prison, worst alternative to prison.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah no, but that's not clear immediately, like like,
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Speaker 1: the selling point is that you are given the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to send spend your time at this facility and take
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Speaker 1: part in medical experiments, and as a result of taking
21:46
Speaker 1: part in those experiments, you take time off your sentence,
21:50
Speaker 1: um and uh. In the the trailer, it's clear that
21:55
Speaker 1: each person there has a device surgically attached to the
21:59
Speaker 1: base of the spine that administers different types of drugs
22:05
Speaker 1: to the participants, and those drugs have incredible effects on
22:10
Speaker 1: the people's thoughts and behaviors. Now in the story, it's
22:15
Speaker 1: made clear that these drugs can make you do pretty
22:17
Speaker 1: much anything, like it can alter your brain chemistry so
22:20
Speaker 1: precisely that very very specific behaviors result as as uh.
22:27
Speaker 1: As part of that, so like you might suddenly become
22:31
Speaker 1: much more descriptive and your vocabulary increases tenfold, And that
22:37
Speaker 1: is obviously unrealistic, but it's one of the the ways,
22:40
Speaker 1: one of the things that can happen with these drugs.
22:43
Speaker 1: The story is really dark. Um and I think that
22:50
Speaker 1: the trailer suggests that the series is going to or
22:55
Speaker 1: the movie is going to go in a very different
22:57
Speaker 1: direction in the sense that the in the story, the
23:01
Speaker 1: main character does not develop any kind of personal feelings
23:06
Speaker 1: for any of the other characters in the In the story, UM,
23:10
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't wish them harm, but he doesn't
23:12
Speaker 1: have any feelings for them either, Whereas in the trailer
23:15
Speaker 1: it appears that he does, in fact develop actual feelings
23:20
Speaker 1: for another person in the program, which is a very
23:24
Speaker 1: different take. And I'm curious, after having read the story,
23:28
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how the movie treats it. Yeah,
23:31
Speaker 1: I'm a little scared it's going to fall into that
23:33
Speaker 1: with and I don't want you to spoil for me
23:34
Speaker 1: that it's going to fall into that too bleak for
23:37
Speaker 1: me category like C for Zachariah or Glad the other
23:40
Speaker 1: sci fis that have miserable endings. I'll say this, if
23:43
Speaker 1: it follows the short story, it definitely will cool cool.
23:47
Speaker 1: So I like you watch it and then tell everybody
23:50
Speaker 1: about it, and I will live vicariously through you. Sure,
23:53
Speaker 1: I mean, well, at least at least I can watch
23:55
Speaker 1: it and tell you whether or not. The like I
23:58
Speaker 1: would probably the most would say, is whether the ending
24:02
Speaker 1: is true to the ending of the short story. I
24:05
Speaker 1: have a suspicion it will be a one eight from
24:09
Speaker 1: the ending of the short story, and then it will
24:11
Speaker 1: be almost like the opposite outcome. However, if they have guts,
24:18
Speaker 1: they will have it in the way the short story ends,
24:20
Speaker 1: and we're talking about something like the original ending of Brazil.
24:23
Speaker 1: In that case, spoiler spoiler if you know what Brazil
24:27
Speaker 1: held Brazil ended. Yeah, all right, Well I feel a
24:31
Speaker 1: little bit hypocritical because I do kind of plan on
24:34
Speaker 1: watching the movie Prey that is coming to Hulu this year. Yeah,
24:39
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not the middle chapter of Eat, Pray, Love,
24:42
Speaker 1: which I was joking about earlier. Yeah, I thought it
24:45
Speaker 1: was very clever. It's p R E Y, which you
24:49
Speaker 1: know it's about. It's a pretty cool to predator. And
24:52
Speaker 1: I guess the predators do eat and they do pr
24:54
Speaker 1: e y. I don't know if they love. They so
24:59
Speaker 1: they have to leasty. Yeah, and maybe maybe love is
25:02
Speaker 1: being too We don't know if they have emotions apart
25:04
Speaker 1: from laughing at Arnold Schwarzenegger. We know that they find
25:07
Speaker 1: our Donald Schwartzenegger funny because there's that bit. But yeah,
25:12
Speaker 1: So when I started this trailer, because I had I
25:15
Speaker 1: went into it blind except knowing that the title was Prey.
25:18
Speaker 1: As soon as it started, I went, is this a
25:20
Speaker 1: predator movie? And then there was that moment where the
25:23
Speaker 1: little red laser lights show up and then you hear
25:25
Speaker 1: the clicking sound of the predator growl, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
25:29
Speaker 1: it's a predator movie. Yeah, yeah, and it's three years
25:34
Speaker 1: before the first Predator movie. Uh. It deals with the
25:38
Speaker 1: Comanche nation and the main character, Naru, who is a
25:41
Speaker 1: highly skilled warrior who is protecting her family, her her
25:45
Speaker 1: nation from predators. And I thought it was really interesting
25:49
Speaker 1: because they want to they want to portray the Commanche
25:52
Speaker 1: nation really well and they want to do do right
25:55
Speaker 1: by this indigenous culture. But at the same time, they're
25:57
Speaker 1: pitting against predators, and that feels like a really weird
26:00
Speaker 1: mixed me. I mean, I can see it being respectful
26:04
Speaker 1: if done properly, but I could also see it becoming
26:07
Speaker 1: exploitative if done poor. Um. But we've already had Predator
26:12
Speaker 1: movies that did made some really really bad choices. Uh.
26:17
Speaker 1: A recent one in fact, which which treated things like
26:21
Speaker 1: autism and mental illness as like a punchline. That was
26:27
Speaker 1: a really bad call. Uh. But um but yeah, I
26:32
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I've I don't have a deep
26:35
Speaker 1: love of the Predator franchise, not not anywhere close to
26:39
Speaker 1: how I feel about at least the first two Alien movies. Um.
26:43
Speaker 1: I like the very first Predator movie and the second
26:46
Speaker 1: one I like just fine, and then after that I
26:48
Speaker 1: do not care. I mean same way. But I feel
26:51
Speaker 1: the same way about Alien. The thing that makes me
26:53
Speaker 1: really interested in this movie is that Dan Trachtenberg is
26:58
Speaker 1: directing it, I believe, And he made Ten Cloverfield Lane,
27:01
Speaker 1: which I thought was an amazing movie. It was so
27:04
Speaker 1: nuanced and well acted and suspensible and scary without going
27:09
Speaker 1: over the top, like it was just it was masterfully done.
27:12
Speaker 1: I would say I would have loved it more if
27:15
Speaker 1: it had ended one act earlier, because I loved him.
27:19
Speaker 1: I loved ten Cloverfield Lane. But I feel like the
27:21
Speaker 1: ending loses its way, Like I feel like the ending
27:25
Speaker 1: could have come twenty minutes earlier. There's an event that
27:28
Speaker 1: happens that I'm not going to say because I don't
27:30
Speaker 1: want to spoil it, because it really is a movie
27:31
Speaker 1: that you should watch. John Goodman is so intimidating in
27:36
Speaker 1: that film, Like it's a master class of playing a
27:40
Speaker 1: terrifying character without having to do too much, like like
27:46
Speaker 1: actual violence, Like the violence is always you can tell,
27:50
Speaker 1: it's like one step away. But he doesn't have to
27:53
Speaker 1: be violent to be incredibly scary. He doesn't have to
27:57
Speaker 1: try to be scary to be incredibly scary. Like it's
28:00
Speaker 1: phenomenal it's it's it's one of my favorite performances. But yeah,
28:04
Speaker 1: like like that does give me some hope that this
28:08
Speaker 1: will be a really like intense and interesting film. But yeah,
28:12
Speaker 1: we'll have to we'll have to see when it comes out.
28:15
Speaker 1: Um okay, Well that those were the news items that
28:19
Speaker 1: we picked. We had, like as always, an embarrassment of riches,
28:23
Speaker 1: but we'll have to probably save some of that for
28:25
Speaker 1: future episodes or maybe we'll talk about stuff when they're
28:28
Speaker 1: further along. For now, we're going to take a break
28:30
Speaker 1: and when we come back, it is mash up time.
28:50
Speaker 1: I apologize to everybody for this mash up point. Um, well,
28:56
Speaker 1: we started with three options and I was the one
28:59
Speaker 1: who picked the out of the three. So Ariel did
29:02
Speaker 1: give me choices and then I was the one who
29:05
Speaker 1: picked it, So tell them what we picked. We picked
29:08
Speaker 1: two properties based off of Dix Week's news. One is
29:11
Speaker 1: Resident Evil and the other is this is spinal tap. Right,
29:17
Speaker 1: so the two news items that we specifically used as
29:22
Speaker 1: our ore are jumping off point. Netflix released a trailer
29:26
Speaker 1: for the Resident Evil series. Um, I thought it made
29:30
Speaker 1: it look kind of like a zombie movie mixed up
29:33
Speaker 1: with alien like it really had a like gave me
29:35
Speaker 1: alien vibes a lot. Um, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
29:40
Speaker 1: I don't know how or even if it it uh
29:45
Speaker 1: ties in with existing Resident Evil lore, apart from the
29:49
Speaker 1: fact that the main character does start off in Raccoon City,
29:52
Speaker 1: which is like the jumping off point for the Resident
29:56
Speaker 1: Evil games. But um, but beyond that, I don't know
30:00
Speaker 1: if there's any other connective tissue with the actual games,
30:03
Speaker 1: or if it's a more original story that just takes
30:06
Speaker 1: place in that world. Yeah, I think I think the characters, uh,
30:12
Speaker 1: the main characters are a couple of girls, and I
30:14
Speaker 1: think their dad does work for Umbrella Corporation, so, which
30:18
Speaker 1: is the big corporation that causes all the problems in
30:22
Speaker 1: Resident Evil. So I think it ties in. It looks
30:25
Speaker 1: like there's kind of two different realities going on in
30:28
Speaker 1: the show, or maybe it's just a before and after.
30:31
Speaker 1: We don't know a whole lot. Honestly, for a zombie
30:34
Speaker 1: movie based on a video game that's too gross for
30:37
Speaker 1: me to play, it looked pretty intriguing. Well, I'm sure
30:40
Speaker 1: you could play the earlier Resident Evil games and maybe
30:44
Speaker 1: Village would be a little too much. Um, But yeah,
30:48
Speaker 1: so for those who don't know are aren't familiar with
30:51
Speaker 1: the Resident Evil series. The basic premise is the Umbrella
30:54
Speaker 1: Corporation is really just a front. It's a pharmaceutical company,
30:59
Speaker 1: but that's a front because the real purpose of the
31:01
Speaker 1: company is to develop viruses that can turn people into
31:05
Speaker 1: biological weapons. And um, most people end up turning into
31:10
Speaker 1: zombies because why not some of them turn into giant
31:13
Speaker 1: tentacle monsters because this did come out of Japan and
31:17
Speaker 1: um and so uh, that's that's essentially all you need
31:20
Speaker 1: to know. It's a survival horror series. Typically you're playing
31:24
Speaker 1: as a person who is sent to investigate or squash
31:29
Speaker 1: the biological weapon type stuff. Obviously in the first game,
31:32
Speaker 1: it's the discovery process because you don't like, it's not
31:35
Speaker 1: a known thing by the time you get to resideval village. Uh,
31:39
Speaker 1: it is a known thing. Like that's gotten to the
31:41
Speaker 1: point where the United States has bombed cities that had outbreaks,
31:46
Speaker 1: and it's usually it's either the T virus, the G virus,
31:50
Speaker 1: or the C virus those are the three, or the
31:52
Speaker 1: progenitor virus if you want to go way back. But
31:54
Speaker 1: those are like the the various viruses that that initiate
32:00
Speaker 1: these mutations, which typically means that people turn into zombies. Also,
32:05
Speaker 1: in the first game, you could drive a train a tank, yeah,
32:09
Speaker 1: and then like in every other game, you had monsters
32:13
Speaker 1: that were effectively tanks. You also almost always have to
32:18
Speaker 1: kill the last monster with a a um a rocket
32:22
Speaker 1: launcher that has become a trope in this series. Rocket
32:25
Speaker 1: launchers are kind of like the thing you need to
32:29
Speaker 1: defeat the final boss, and the other trope is more.
32:33
Speaker 1: Nine times out of ten, the game ends with wherever
32:37
Speaker 1: you're at self destructing, Like whatever, whatever environment you are in,
32:42
Speaker 1: someone initiates a self destruct sequence and you have to
32:46
Speaker 1: escape before it blows up. That's that's literally, like, that's
32:49
Speaker 1: like the real hero of the series is the self
32:51
Speaker 1: destruct button. Um As for Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap is
32:58
Speaker 1: is a a a fake band. Well, it's real band,
33:01
Speaker 1: but it's made up of fake people. UM just said
33:08
Speaker 1: you said people. I said fake band, we made of
33:11
Speaker 1: real people. I thought you said real band made of
33:14
Speaker 1: fake people. Oh maybe I did. Well, that's that's the
33:17
Speaker 1: opposite of what I meant. Well, fake people in the
33:19
Speaker 1: sense that the characters they're they're fake characters played by
33:23
Speaker 1: real actors. The characters are played by Michael McKean, Christopher
33:28
Speaker 1: Guest and Harry Shearer. Listen, it is hot and I
33:32
Speaker 1: am hallucinating. You just gotta be nice to me. I
33:34
Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm gonna be able to read
33:36
Speaker 1: my mashup u, but yeah, so. Harry Shearer, Michael McKeen,
33:40
Speaker 1: and Christopher Guest play the characters Nigel, David and Derek.
33:45
Speaker 1: And they're in English rock band. They started off as
33:49
Speaker 1: being kind of a folk band and then they transitioned
33:52
Speaker 1: to becoming a glam metal band sort of, and they
33:57
Speaker 1: take on the name Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner plays a
34:00
Speaker 1: trick called Marty de Berghee who is a documentarian following them.
34:04
Speaker 1: And this is Spinal Tap is a a classic mockumentary
34:10
Speaker 1: that is supposed to be following the band as they're
34:12
Speaker 1: on tour and they're releasing albums. It's absolutely hysterical. Uh.
34:17
Speaker 1: They actually shot twice as much footage as what they needed,
34:23
Speaker 1: so there there are on the on the DVD. You
34:27
Speaker 1: can get a DVD version where there's the outtakes, and
34:29
Speaker 1: the outtakes are as long as the original movie and
34:33
Speaker 1: have totally different material in them, which is said they
34:37
Speaker 1: didn't keep it for the sequel that they're coming out with. Yes,
34:41
Speaker 1: that's the news item. Yes, they are coming up with
34:43
Speaker 1: a sequel where apparently the the um the story is
34:47
Speaker 1: that the band has a contractual obligation where they have
34:51
Speaker 1: to play this concert and they know they haven't seen
34:55
Speaker 1: each other for ages, Like the band is kind of
34:57
Speaker 1: all you know, they're they've split up. Um, but they
35:01
Speaker 1: have to get back together and play this because they
35:03
Speaker 1: have this contractual obligation and Marty de bergis back to
35:06
Speaker 1: film the whole thing. So I'm really looking forward to it.
35:09
Speaker 1: I love this is spinal Tap. That's the film that
35:13
Speaker 1: has famous quotes that everyone knows, like this one goes
35:15
Speaker 1: to eleven. Yes, it's really great. Uh they there's where
35:20
Speaker 1: the song Stonehenge comes from. Uh. I like all of
35:23
Speaker 1: the Christopher Guest mockumentaries almost, so I'm very excited for
35:27
Speaker 1: the sequel. All the actors are coming back. Um. Yeah,
35:32
Speaker 1: so so that's it. If you don't know these properties,
35:34
Speaker 1: you aren't going to follow the mashups. But that's okay
35:37
Speaker 1: because um it's what we're doing anyhow. Yeah, I uh,
35:43
Speaker 1: I make some references that go a little deep, so
35:46
Speaker 1: not even that deep. But you have to have you
35:48
Speaker 1: have to be aware of Resident Evil Lord to understand mine.
35:52
Speaker 1: I haven't watched This is Spinal Tap in a long time,
35:55
Speaker 1: and I've never played Resident Evil, so I kind of
35:57
Speaker 1: wrote myself into a corner before even starting, which means
36:01
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start. Okay, this is go for it. This
36:05
Speaker 1: is called Residents Spinal Tap. The Umbrella Corporation was at
36:10
Speaker 1: a standstill. Their experiments to turn animals and other people
36:13
Speaker 1: into zombies had been going well in Raccoon City until
36:16
Speaker 1: an all too nosy reporter, Martin Marty die Burgee noticed
36:20
Speaker 1: something was fishy and decided to do an expose on
36:22
Speaker 1: the town, causing the Umbrella corp To shut down their
36:25
Speaker 1: headquarters and get rid of any remaining bio hazards, including
36:28
Speaker 1: all of their experiments. But like any evil corporation, they
36:31
Speaker 1: weren't really gone, just hidden. And now with all eyes
36:34
Speaker 1: on Raccoon City, the Umbrella Corps had to figure out
36:37
Speaker 1: a new way to test their biohazard weapons on the
36:39
Speaker 1: town in the world. And that's when Albert Wesker, who
36:42
Speaker 1: you think is a good guy but is secretly working
36:44
Speaker 1: for the Umbrella Corporation, saw it a flyer for a
36:47
Speaker 1: band playing in the neighboring city Possum Town, a band
36:51
Speaker 1: called Spinal Tap. He had heard about their patented up
36:54
Speaker 1: to eleven sound tech hidden and amp by one of
36:58
Speaker 1: the bandmates, Nigel, and he thought that the Umbrella Corps
37:01
Speaker 1: latest mutagen might be able to be adapted to be
37:03
Speaker 1: delivered to be a sound wave. So Albert called Spinal
37:07
Speaker 1: Taps manager Ian Faith and convinced him that their venue
37:10
Speaker 1: had changed to Raccoon's City Music Hall instead. Now all
37:14
Speaker 1: that Albert needed to do was to make it into
37:16
Speaker 1: the band's dressing room that night before they were playing,
37:19
Speaker 1: dose their extra beefy amp with the mutagen, and if
37:22
Speaker 1: it worked in Raccoon's City, who planned a roady to
37:24
Speaker 1: do the same in each town they traveled to. As
37:27
Speaker 1: of the night of the concert, everything seemed to be
37:29
Speaker 1: going well. The band was playing and the audience started mutating,
37:33
Speaker 1: but the band, feeling a gig is a gig, kept
37:35
Speaker 1: playing through their fear. What Albert and the rest of
37:37
Speaker 1: Umbrella's underground team didn't expect, and honestly the band didn't
37:40
Speaker 1: expect either, was that Spinal Taps song Stonehenge. Once they
37:44
Speaker 1: launched into it, being about banshees and demons had the
37:47
Speaker 1: side effect of suiting creeping, mudiated monsters. As long as
37:50
Speaker 1: Spinal Tap kept playing, the monsters would be fixated, slowly
37:53
Speaker 1: swaying back and forth in the audience so play. They
37:56
Speaker 1: did in faith notice this happening and quickly went to
37:59
Speaker 1: call the National Guard to come in and help, but
38:01
Speaker 1: he was confronted by Albert Wesker. After a brief scuffle
38:04
Speaker 1: that seemed like it was going to go completely in
38:07
Speaker 1: Albert's favor, Ian found a tank with rocket lunchers attached
38:10
Speaker 1: to it and jumped into it. Despite it having some
38:12
Speaker 1: clunky controls, Ian was able to maneuver the vehicle to
38:16
Speaker 1: stay safe until the National Guard arrived. When the National
38:19
Speaker 1: Guard arrived, they rounded up the mutated audience, uncovered the
38:22
Speaker 1: rest of the Umbrella Corps operation, and finally put an
38:24
Speaker 1: end to the evil once and for all, and Spinal
38:27
Speaker 1: Tap continued their tour. What they didn't see, though, were
38:30
Speaker 1: the additional vials of mutant gin hidden in Nigel's amp,
38:33
Speaker 1: just waiting to break by the amp, vibrating to eleven
38:36
Speaker 1: and ready to infect future crowds. It was only a
38:39
Speaker 1: matter of time. The end Dun Dun Dune. So so,
38:45
Speaker 1: the thing I really loved about your mash up is
38:47
Speaker 1: that you got very meta with the mechanics of the
38:50
Speaker 1: video game itself, because anyone who's familiar with the first
38:54
Speaker 1: to Resident Evil games knows really it's beyond the first two,
38:58
Speaker 1: but the first two, in particular, the controls those games
39:02
Speaker 1: were very tanky and very difficult, like not the most
39:07
Speaker 1: intuitive or easy to master, especially when you're trying to
39:10
Speaker 1: do things like aim at an oncoming zombie that's that's
39:13
Speaker 1: shambling down the hallway. Yeah. Yeah, well, I don't figure
39:16
Speaker 1: if you if you aren't familiar with fighting mutated creatures,
39:21
Speaker 1: any weapon or vehicle you find it's going to be clunky,
39:26
Speaker 1: very likely. And I love that you included the rocket
39:29
Speaker 1: launcher of course, uh, one of the real heroes of
39:32
Speaker 1: the series. All right, well here's mine. Mine is titled
39:35
Speaker 1: Evil Taps Back. Spinal Tap has a problem. The band's
39:41
Speaker 1: latest drummer, reg Bendel Stiff, met an early end when
39:45
Speaker 1: he drowned while touring a rubber Ducky factory. He had
39:48
Speaker 1: fallen into a display pool that only had an inch
39:51
Speaker 1: of water in it, but it proved to be too
39:53
Speaker 1: much and so once again the band found itself in
39:57
Speaker 1: want of a drummer. Fortunately, they were able to entice
40:01
Speaker 1: a drummer named Ray of Light, famed session drummer for
40:05
Speaker 1: the band Spilt Milk, to join them as they continued
40:08
Speaker 1: their tour. Next stop Raccoon City. On the outskirts of town,
40:13
Speaker 1: they stopped at a burger joint where Ray insisted on
40:16
Speaker 1: ordering sushi, while documentarian and filmographer Marty de Berge, once
40:21
Speaker 1: again accompanying the band on its tour, suggested to Ray
40:23
Speaker 1: that maybe it's not the best idea to order sushi
40:27
Speaker 1: off the menu of a greasy spoon burger joint. Ray
40:30
Speaker 1: would have none of it, and, in a tale as
40:33
Speaker 1: old as time, it turned out the sushi was absolutely
40:37
Speaker 1: riddled with T virus, and before you could sing the
40:39
Speaker 1: chorus to Tonight, I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight, Ray began
40:43
Speaker 1: to turn into a mindless zombie. But to be fair,
40:47
Speaker 1: he wasn't the brightest bulb in the utility closet before,
40:50
Speaker 1: and it took the band about seven hours to figure
40:52
Speaker 1: out what was going on, and by then they had
40:54
Speaker 1: already really done the sound check. While Ray was slowly
40:58
Speaker 1: mutating and growing interesting new a pindages. The band had
41:01
Speaker 1: to admit that a sense of rhythm was at worst
41:04
Speaker 1: on par with their previous drummers, and so they decided
41:07
Speaker 1: to keep him on. But then, while sitting in the
41:10
Speaker 1: green room of Club Spencer at Raccoon City, Ray really
41:13
Speaker 1: lost his marbles and began to invade the personal space
41:16
Speaker 1: of Derek Small's, the bass player. Suddenly, the door to
41:20
Speaker 1: the green room burst open and a buff dude with
41:23
Speaker 1: incredible hair jumped in, gun drawn and just absolutely unloads
41:29
Speaker 1: on Ray. And it is messy. So there you have Derek, Nigel,
41:34
Speaker 1: and David the other band members, staring at what just happened,
41:37
Speaker 1: And Nigel says what and the buff dude says, you're
41:42
Speaker 1: safe now, and Derek looks at the dude and says, WHOA.
41:46
Speaker 1: That's good to know. But David says, but where are
41:49
Speaker 1: we going to find another bloody drummer? And the buff
41:52
Speaker 1: dude says, uh, I just saved you from a zombie
41:56
Speaker 1: and Nigel says, yeah, and you just killed the drummer.
42:00
Speaker 1: Uh spilt milk And Derek says, no use crying over him,
42:03
Speaker 1: I suppose, and then he gets a little giggle fit
42:07
Speaker 1: for a spilt milk joke, and David cuts in with, Look,
42:10
Speaker 1: we go on in thirty minutes, which means we're on
42:12
Speaker 1: stage in an hour and a half, and we need
42:15
Speaker 1: a bloody drummer and since you just had limited our
42:18
Speaker 1: last one, you have to find us a new one.
42:20
Speaker 1: Who the hell are you? And the buff dude says
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Speaker 1: Leon Leon Kennedy, and Nigel says do you play the drums?
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Speaker 1: And Leon now totally law says a little. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: more than Ray did, says Derek, and right says David.
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Speaker 1: Let's glam you up and next thing you know, we
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Speaker 1: have a costuming montage. As we see Leon Kennedy feigned
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Speaker 1: member of the Division of Security Operations, trying on sparkly
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Speaker 1: jackets and ripped T shirts until they outfit him kind
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Speaker 1: of like a Napoleonic soldier, which honestly just brings up
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Speaker 1: some pretty bad memories for Leon, but he doesn't put
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Speaker 1: up a fuss about it. That night, Spinal Tap went
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Speaker 1: on to have their most rhythmically consistent show ever. The
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Speaker 1: reviews the following day were outstanding. They sure did keep
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Speaker 1: the beat. The A V Club said, not once did
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Speaker 1: the drummer catch fire, remarked Rolling Stone Magazine not as
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Speaker 1: good as Broken Social Scene, Red Pitchfork. Well, most of
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Speaker 1: the reviews were fairly positive. Moreover, that night, Leon discovered something.
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Speaker 1: He found a sense of joy and excitement in performing.
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Speaker 1: Playing on stage with these somewhat questionable legends was far
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Speaker 1: and away better than traveling to remote locations and wiping
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Speaker 1: out entire populations of people who, through no fault of
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Speaker 1: their own, have become infected with a terrible virus that
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Speaker 1: takes away their free will and turns them into vicious creatures.
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Speaker 1: And so began the renaissance of Spinal Tap, with the
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Speaker 1: band entering into its most prolific period since the early
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. The new band put out some incredible new
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Speaker 1: songs like it Takes a Village to Eat Your Love,
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Speaker 1: sext to Death, and the immoral classic my Pants Are
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Speaker 1: Set to Self Destruct. The incredible outpouring of work would
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Speaker 1: only last ten months, however, because while stopping over in
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Speaker 1: Louisiana between gigs, Leon was unfortunately kidnapped by Chris Redfield
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Speaker 1: for reasons that we don't fully understand but will likely
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Speaker 1: become clear in the next Resident Evil game, maybe or
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Speaker 1: definitely in that game's DLC or maybe the game's sequel.
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Speaker 1: We we maybe we'll never know. I I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I can't follow this lore. But anyway, the band was
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Speaker 1: once again in search of a drummer. This time it
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Speaker 1: actually hit a little close to home. They all likely
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Speaker 1: on and his influence on the band was a positive one.
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Speaker 1: But they did get one interested musician when they put
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Speaker 1: out word that they needed a new drummer, a guy
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Speaker 1: named Albert Wesker. A bit odd and he did have
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Speaker 1: a few too many arms, but seemed very keen on
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Speaker 1: rocking out with the guys on stage. Plus it turns
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Speaker 1: out that pretty much nothing could kill him, so the
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Speaker 1: band figured it was a good investment. Then they went
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Speaker 1: on to infect the entire world with their music and
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Speaker 1: also the SA virus. It turned out Nigel had caught
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Speaker 1: that way back in the seventies. The end, I loved it, Uh,
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Speaker 1: that was that was brilliant um and I liked I
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Speaker 1: liked all the drummer fiasco because that's something I keep forgetting.
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Speaker 1: Happens in Spinal Tap, but it's a big part of it.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, they have a they have really bad
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Speaker 1: luck with drummers. They drummers in spinal Tap. Uh, die
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Speaker 1: in odd and sometimes spectacular ways, sometimes when they're performing
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Speaker 1: live on stage. Yeah yeah, which really just means I
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Speaker 1: need to go back and watch Spinal Tap again four
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Speaker 1: more times before the sequel comes out in two years.
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Speaker 1: I want to say it was the second DVD I
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Speaker 1: ever bought. Nice. That's impressive. Yeah, it's impressive. And then
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Speaker 1: I loaned it out and I never got it back. Ah,
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Speaker 1: I think I can. I can buy another one, I guess, um,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I remember, I remember, because the thing that
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Speaker 1: really tickled me about the DVD was that they had
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Speaker 1: a commentary track where the actors were playing their characters
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Speaker 1: doing the commentary. So it's the band doing the commentary
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Speaker 1: of the commentary track and that was hilarious. Um, well
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