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We Need Another Hero · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large nor Dron Collier 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 exceptionally awesome Jonathan Strickland.
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Speaker 2: I do need another.
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Speaker 1: Hero, me too, Jonathan. This week we all need another hero.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we wanted to start off before we jump
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Speaker 2: into all the news and stuff, to take a moment
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Speaker 2: to talk about a couple of different people who have
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Speaker 2: passed away this week. And first up is Tina Turner.
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Speaker 2: Obviously a legend in entertainment, had a musical career that
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Speaker 2: spanned multiple decades, numerous hits, incredible blye influential in rock
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Speaker 2: and roll, in rhythm and blues. Some of my favorite
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Speaker 2: songs are Tina Turner songs. But not only that, but
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Speaker 2: she also obviously had a big impact in the geek sphere.
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Speaker 2: She's been in a few properties that stand out to me.
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Speaker 2: The first one I would say is Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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Speaker 2: That's the third of the Mad Max movies. She played Auntie.
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Speaker 2: She was like the chief antagonist of that film and
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Speaker 2: did a great job. But she also had a notable
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Speaker 2: turn as the Acid Queen in the film adaptation of
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Speaker 2: the whose concept album Tommy So Yeah.
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Speaker 1: She also I think she was in Last Action Hero.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't She.
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Speaker 2: Might have been. It has been so long since I've
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Speaker 2: seen Last Action Hero. It's hard for me to say,
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Speaker 2: but it's possible. Well, Tina Turner was obviously, like I said,
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Speaker 2: iconic in multiple respects, you know, music and in entertainment
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Speaker 2: in general. There's an entire stage musical dedicated to her career,
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Speaker 2: which is also phenomenal. If you need a suggestion for
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Speaker 2: songs to listen to, I actually really like Nutbush City Limits.
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Speaker 2: It's one of her early songs with Ike Turner. It's
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Speaker 2: an incredible song, like it rocks so hard.
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Speaker 1: And you're being genuine about that. You're not just picking
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Speaker 1: it because the name of it is Nutbush City Limits.
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Speaker 2: It's named after a town in Tennessee. It is it is.
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Speaker 2: I get that it has a funny sound, but no,
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Speaker 2: it really like that song rocks Aeriel, It rocks like
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Speaker 2: it melts my face off. It is a great song.
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Speaker 2: If it rocks, yeah, yeah. If you need a different one,
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Speaker 2: listen to Proud Mary that's another great one or we
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Speaker 2: Don't Need Another Hero, which was from the Beyond Thunderdome soundtrack.
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Speaker 2: But Tina was not the only person we lost this week.
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Speaker 2: We also lost actor Ray Stevenson. He passed away this
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Speaker 2: week and he also has been in geek properties, including
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Speaker 2: the Thor movies. He was one of the Warriors three
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Speaker 2: who appeared in several of the Thor films and yeah,
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Speaker 2: he passed away this week rather suddenly too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was also I Punisher King Arthur and the
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Speaker 1: upcoming of Shoa Ahsoka series. The worst part about Ray
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Speaker 1: Stevenson is he was young. He was only fifty eight, so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tina Turner was eighty three, which is a I
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Speaker 2: mean still well. She also had had experienced multiple medical
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Speaker 2: issues over the last several years, like she had kidney
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Speaker 2: failure and all these other medical problems, but was able
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Speaker 2: to get a kidney transplant. Her husband actually donated a
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Speaker 2: kidney to her, and so she was able to live
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Speaker 2: several more years. On top of that, it wasn't expected
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Speaker 2: because how severe her medical issues had become. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: Ray Stevenson was That was a real shock because it
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Speaker 2: was like it wasn't that long ago that he was
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Speaker 2: actively working on set.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because Ahsoka hasn't even come out yet. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: well so that's so unfortunate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we want to shout out to both of those performers,
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Speaker 2: and you know, we're fortunate to be graced with work
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Speaker 2: that they have created that we can continue to enjoy
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Speaker 2: for years to come. And so we're thankful for what
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Speaker 2: they have done. And with that, rather you know, somber
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Speaker 2: news out of the way, we thought we would segue
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Speaker 2: over to thirty seconds or less.
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Speaker 1: Yes, a little bit of a pick me up.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I guess I will get started and actually,
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Speaker 2: well here we go. Are you totally bummed that, after
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Speaker 2: one more entry in the Fast and Furious franchise that
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Speaker 2: story will finally be over? I mean apart from hiring
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Speaker 2: a local toddler to come to your house and use
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Speaker 2: matchbox cars to create action sequences at random, how are
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Speaker 2: you going to get your fix? Well, good news, bam,
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Speaker 2: because Vin Diesel has revealed there will be spinoffs, starting
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Speaker 2: with a quote unquote female spinoff his words, not mine.
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Speaker 2: And also the two part ending could end up being
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Speaker 2: a three partner. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you are not quite feeling like beginning
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Speaker 1: the end for Fast and Furious. Yet you can go
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Speaker 1: see The Little Mermaid Little Mermaid instead, which has been
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Speaker 1: getting mixed reviews. The initial reviews were, oh, this is great,
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Speaker 1: this is the best Disney live action remake, and then
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Speaker 1: a bunch of other reviews came in saying it's it's
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Speaker 1: not reimagined, it's lost a lot of edge, so it's
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Speaker 1: veryly middling. It is amusing to me that they're saying
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Speaker 1: it's the best live action remake so far because it's
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Speaker 1: seventy one percent critically fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, which is
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Speaker 1: much lower than Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King,
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Speaker 1: Jungle Book, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: I will say that my favorite review so far was
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Speaker 2: one you shared with me Ariel, where NPR referenced Ariel's
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Speaker 2: friends Flounder, Sebastian, and Aquafina.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, also because the new song is called the Scuttle.
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Speaker 1: But I've been using every opportunity I can to say
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Speaker 1: that and upset my friends.
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Speaker 2: Fair enough, All right, Next up, If The Silmarillion has
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Speaker 2: been on your list of books to read forever but
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Speaker 2: you still haven't cracked the spine, maybe you could consider
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Speaker 2: an upcoming audiobook adaptation of the work. Andy Serkis, who
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Speaker 2: played Smiegel slash Gollum in the Peter Jackson, Lord of
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Speaker 2: the Rings and Hobbit films, narrates the new audiobook, which
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Speaker 2: comes out June twenty second. The Silmarillion is a collection
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Speaker 2: of poems and stories relating to the creation of Tolkien's mythical.
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Speaker 1: World Next, speaking of mythical worlds, kind of, we got
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Speaker 1: a new trailer for Strange New Worlds that star Trek
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Speaker 1: prequel with Daddy Pike, as so many people call him.
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Speaker 1: It again looks delightful. Season two looks like it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a lot of fun. There are things in
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Speaker 1: it that excite me, there are things in it that
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Speaker 1: kind of upset me. And the thing that's been getting
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Speaker 1: the most buzz is apparently a couple of the characters
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Speaker 1: from Lower Decks makeing a live action appearance on this
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Speaker 1: new season.
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Speaker 2: Cool. Well, if you've been waiting on the edge of
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Speaker 2: your seat for a follow up to the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: one Moral Kombat film, we've got some casting news about
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Speaker 2: the sequel. Rumor has it Carl Urban is in talks
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Speaker 2: to play the Hollywood superstar Johnny Cage. Tati Gabrielle is
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Speaker 2: in talks to play Jade, and Adeline Rudolph is slated
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Speaker 2: to play Kitana. We're also likely to see characters who
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Speaker 2: survived the first film return and heck, maybe even some
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Speaker 2: of the dead ones will be back to.
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Speaker 1: Next is a little bit of a It may not
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Speaker 1: be a story for everybody, but the story for me.
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Speaker 1: There is a TV show called The Chosen that goes
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Speaker 1: about the life of Jesus, made news because it was
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Speaker 1: crowd funded. Millions of dollars were raised for it. It's
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Speaker 1: got a bunch of i would say, higher name actors
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Speaker 1: in it. It's actually very well done, and Lionsgate is
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Speaker 1: picking it up, which to now that it's in a
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Speaker 1: third season, to give it more distribution, which is really
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Speaker 1: interesting to me because of the whole crowd funding structure.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what comes of that and how the
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Speaker 1: show changes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if it's anything like the community episode where Abad
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Speaker 2: makes a movie, a meta movie about Jesus, then I'm
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Speaker 2: all in all right. Renegade Game Studios will release a
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Speaker 2: card game called Good Omens and Ineffable Game on June fifth.
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Speaker 2: The game is inspired by the novel by Neil Gaman
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Speaker 2: and Terry Pratchett, which was subsequently adapted very well. I
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Speaker 2: might add into a series that's now getting a sequel,
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Speaker 2: and it will go beyond where the book left off.
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Speaker 2: But the game includes both cards and dice, and it
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Speaker 2: is a cooperative game for two to four players. It'll
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Speaker 2: cost twenty five bucks for a set, and there will
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Speaker 2: be three different versions of the boxed set, although the
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Speaker 2: game and z will be the same, but there'll be
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Speaker 2: you know, differences in the cover art and maybe some
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Speaker 2: extras thrown in there too.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, in our thirty seconds or less part of me,
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Speaker 1: Diablo for is breaking the fourth wall with their new
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Speaker 1: live action trailer. It's got real people asking you to
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Speaker 1: help in the Diablo world interspersed with Diablo gameplay. It's
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Speaker 1: really interesting. It feels like a call to action commercial
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Speaker 1: from the from the big sports football game every year.
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Speaker 1: It's really it's really interesting. It's a it's a different
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Speaker 1: approach for them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I told Dariel Lefter i watched this trailer that
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Speaker 2: it should be called Diablo for Spike the camera because
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Speaker 2: character after character looks right down the barrel of the
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Speaker 2: lens to deliver their line. And I found it very
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Speaker 2: off putting and cringey based on a from a filmmaking perspective,
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Speaker 2: it really I was like, this was not a good idea.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they do it in commercials too, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: it really feels like a like a sports drink commercial
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Speaker 1: or something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's why. I think that's why it's
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Speaker 2: not hitting right for me, because it doesn't feel like
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Speaker 2: like it doesn't cause it's made to look like it's
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Speaker 2: a fantasy epic, but with fantasy characters spiking the lens.
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Speaker 2: And that's just if it had more, if it had
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Speaker 2: more of a sense of humor to it, I think
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Speaker 2: it would work. But it's being done like with no
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Speaker 2: sense of humor at all, because that's not what you know.
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Speaker 2: Diablo really lacks a sense of humor. For the most part.
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Speaker 1: I feel like Diablo does have a sense of humor.
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Speaker 1: It's just very strategically placed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like maybe once every six hours in gameplay or so,
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Speaker 2: or if you go to.
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Speaker 1: Like the Unicorn or cow Level or whatever they.
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Speaker 2: Are, Your man, you're talking old Diolo there. I'm thinking
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Speaker 2: about the more recent ones where it's like, hey, do
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Speaker 2: you remember how grim things got at the lowest point
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Speaker 2: in Lord of the Rings. That's our starting point.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, you can always cheer yourself
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Speaker 1: up playing Diablo if if you still play it by
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Speaker 1: just picturing what the voice actors have to do to
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Speaker 1: voice those monsters, because they're all done by people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hilarious, that's true. But yeah, if you have
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Speaker 2: to look for the meta to get to the humor,
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Speaker 2: then But you know what, I'm just a grouch. I'm
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Speaker 2: being a grumpy, sour puss. Let's talk. Yeah, I was
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Speaker 2: gonna say, let's talk about stuff what we watched in
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Speaker 2: the last week, And I watched as Ariel just alluded
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Speaker 2: to grem Len's The Legend of Bagua. The first two
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Speaker 2: episodes launched on what is now called Max, but it
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Speaker 2: used to be called HBO Max and and it's pretty good.
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Speaker 2: I watched the first two episodes. I thought that the
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Speaker 2: animation is great, the humor is fun. It's not like
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Speaker 2: just a comedy. It's not like all slap dash comedy
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Speaker 2: like Grimlin's two is. There's some drama and some horror
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Speaker 2: added into this. But but it's got a real good
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Speaker 2: comedic voice and the voice acting is really good too.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I was I have low expectations going into
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Speaker 2: watching these, but I really enjoyed them.
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Speaker 1: Did they in the first two episodes explain why they
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Speaker 1: called Gizmo Gizmo, even though he didn't get that name
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Speaker 1: until the movie.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I was going to avoid Okay, no no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: that door has been opened and now I must burst through. No,
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Speaker 2: they do not. They do not explain how Gizmo magically
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Speaker 2: got the name Gizmo, even though we know from the
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Speaker 2: first film that name was given to him by an
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Speaker 2: inventor of Gizmo's That's why his name is Gizmo, because
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Speaker 2: an inventor gave him that name. But no, in this car,
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Speaker 2: he's just magically called Gizmo because that's what the merchandising
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Speaker 2: already has. It would be confusing for him to have
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Speaker 2: a different name, I guess, because it is supposed to
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Speaker 2: be the exact same critter. But no, no, they do not.
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Speaker 2: And yet, now that you've said that, Ariel, I have
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Speaker 2: to change my opinion. Worst cartoon ever made.
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Speaker 1: Ah, just you know, I, Jonathan enjoy it. It's fine.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I said it. Forget I said it. Edit
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Speaker 1: it out of your brain. I haven't done much geeky TV.
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Speaker 1: Watching after an episode of um Actually, which is a
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Speaker 1: dropout original TV show that's kind of like Jeopardy, but
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Speaker 1: where you're geekly correcting people. My husband and I decided
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Speaker 1: to try Succession is Wow Yeah, which is not really geeky.
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Speaker 1: It's it's like a sad, depressing Arrested Development as a
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Speaker 1: drama and not a comedy. There are funny bits in it,
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Speaker 1: it's very dark.
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Speaker 2: It's like if you put Arrested Development with Game of
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Speaker 2: Throw Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's not it's it's a well known show.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it geeky other than that. Continuing to
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Speaker 1: watch King of the Hill, Continuing to watch The Ravening War,
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Speaker 1: which is the latest D and D campaign from Dimension twenty.
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Speaker 1: I'm about to start picking up Last of Us in
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Speaker 1: community again so that I can, you know, share your pain,
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Speaker 1: Jonathan and your joy. But but this week, and I
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Speaker 1: watched Creed a couple weeks ago. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I ever mentioned that I meant to, and then I
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Speaker 1: think it slipped my mind Creed three, But I am
14:38
Speaker 1: looking forward to this week watching American born Chinese. I
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Speaker 1: think is the name I always I always transpose the
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Speaker 1: words in that. But that's coming out this week and
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Speaker 1: I might even go see The Little Mermaid over the
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Speaker 1: long weekend. Despite the middling reviews, I feel obligated on
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Speaker 1: a couple fronts to see it, so and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: I'll enjoy the spectac and Melissa McCarthy's performance of nothing Else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really I need to watch the rest of Mayhem.
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Speaker 2: I watched the beginning of Mayhem, the first episode and
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Speaker 2: fell in love with it. It is that, by the way,
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Speaker 2: that's the show about the Muppets Electric Mayhem band, and
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Speaker 2: it's kind of the story supposedly of how they finally
15:22
Speaker 2: have to make an album. They've been touring forever. There's
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Speaker 2: just a touring band on an album band. And the
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Speaker 2: first episode is just about perfect, Like it's the perfect
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Speaker 2: level of corny humor, it's the perfect level of Muppet chaos.
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Speaker 2: It makes me think of the original era Muppets, like
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Speaker 2: the seventies and eighties era Muppets, and as a gen xer,
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Speaker 2: it really speaks to me because it makes me it's like,
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Speaker 2: these are the Muppets I remember when I watch that
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Speaker 2: and it's done, and I'm modern saying, like it's not
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Speaker 2: all outdated jokes or anything, and I I can't speak
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Speaker 2: highly enough about it because it's just so darn entertaining.
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Speaker 2: But I'm currently on hold watching it because I'm supposed
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Speaker 2: to watch it with my partner and currently she's in
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Speaker 2: another state, so I have to wait till she gets
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Speaker 2: back home before we can watch any more of it.
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Speaker 2: Quick question for you too, a lot of curiosity. Did
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Speaker 2: you finish out the first season of the night Court reboot?
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Speaker 1: I did finish the first season of night Court. I've finished.
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Speaker 2: There's a cameo in that last episode of a character
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Speaker 2: who came out of the original night Court show.
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Speaker 1: I don't look I watch it. I also started watching
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Speaker 1: the second season of How I Met Your Father, which
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Speaker 1: I'm not really enjoying, so I don't know why I
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Speaker 1: put it on, despite the fact I know some people
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Speaker 1: who auditioned for it and they're great actors, and the
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Speaker 1: people in it are great actors. But I don't remember cameo.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's been so.
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Speaker 2: It's Ra's it's the uh oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: She shows up in the very last episode of season
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Speaker 2: one of the night Court reboot. Yeah. So they sixteen
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Speaker 2: episodes for season one. They were renewed for a season
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Speaker 2: two surprising, yeah kind of. Well they were renewed early too,
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Speaker 2: but then they got like seven million views on that
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Speaker 2: first episode, which then dramatically dropped to less than half
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Speaker 2: of that for the second one. And if you watch
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Speaker 2: the first episode you can understand why.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I also plan on very soon picking up Foundation,
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Speaker 1: because I really do on Apple TV, because I really
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Speaker 1: do want to watch the second season of that. The
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Speaker 1: trailer did hook me, much like the article that we
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Speaker 1: posted or yeah, we shared said it would. Speaking of articles,
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Speaker 1: our first news item this week really surprised me and
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Speaker 1: it rides the line of too much when it comes
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Speaker 1: to method acting. So Jude Law is doing a King
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Speaker 1: Henry or did a King Henry movie and where he
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Speaker 1: played King Henry the eighth, and he decided called Firebrand,
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Speaker 1: and he decided that he was going to smell the part.
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Speaker 1: So he had a perfume made that smelled like blood,
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Speaker 1: quote blood, fecal matter and sweat to smell like King
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Speaker 1: Henry because like King Henry had like this big deeping
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Speaker 1: wound on his leg and like I'm sure he did
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Speaker 1: not smell great. Yeah, but like and on the one hand,
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Speaker 1: they don't say they put any rose oil in the perfume,
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Speaker 1: which apparently King Henry used which to cover the smell. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: which could have made it much worse or much better.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Like, on the one hand, this is
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Speaker 1: not a harmful action like sending people dead rats, or
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Speaker 1: pulling out your own teeth or living inside a bear
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Speaker 1: carcass in the woods. However, I would not want to
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Speaker 1: be on set with this man. And I'm an actor.
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Speaker 1: I can imagine bad smells. I don't actually have to
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Speaker 1: act with someone who smells like an outhouse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, we've had discussions about method acting before,
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Speaker 2: and you know, not to dismiss an entire school of acting.
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Speaker 2: I don't mean to suggest that method acting doesn't have
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Speaker 2: its place. The problem I have is that often when
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Speaker 2: we talk about method acting, it really seems to boil
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Speaker 2: down not into how can I inhabit this character, but
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Speaker 2: rather how can I use this job. I've got to
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Speaker 2: create as much grief on everybody around me as possible
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Speaker 2: and have a very selfish experience performing in this production.
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Speaker 2: I get that it's not how the people who are
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Speaker 2: engaged in method acting are necessarily looking at it, but
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Speaker 2: from the outside that's what I always get. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: how come you're so selfish that your process has to
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Speaker 2: be so important that it impacts the people who are
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Speaker 2: trying to work around you, because guess what, they all
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Speaker 2: have lives too, they all are working too, They're all
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Speaker 2: trying to do a great job too. And if you're
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Speaker 2: impacting them through your selfish actions, you are a bad actor.
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Speaker 2: Jude Law.
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Speaker 1: I mean, now, I'm sure everybody had very realistic, like
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Speaker 1: trying to hide the fact that it smells reactions, which
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Speaker 1: probably happened back in the day. But yeah, and I
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Speaker 1: will admit that I have been a person that in
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Speaker 1: my LARPing and in my acting. I have mainly in
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Speaker 1: LARPing I've gone, oh, i'm playing this character who's a baker.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to smell a little bit like cinnamon and
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Speaker 1: vanilla because I think that's a nice little touch. However,
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Speaker 1: I'm very particular about it, especially with sense, because I
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Speaker 1: know so many people who cannot handle perfumes, essential oils,
20:48
Speaker 1: sense things like that because it really upsets them. It
20:50
Speaker 1: makes it hard for them to breathe and give some
20:52
Speaker 1: headaches things like that. Yes, so you know, maybe maybe
20:56
Speaker 1: they didn't talk about it because it's not as good news.
20:58
Speaker 1: But maybe he was like, hey, I have this idea
21:00
Speaker 1: to the rest of his actors and the director, and
21:02
Speaker 1: they said, oh, yeah, that's great, We're on board. And
21:05
Speaker 1: if that's the case, wonderful. But the director is quoted
21:08
Speaker 1: as saying that it was miserable to be around that smell.
21:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, he's already doomed himself. This
21:14
Speaker 2: is a Jude Law. This was a dumb idea you had.
21:17
Speaker 2: It was a dumb idea. And I'll tell you why,
21:19
Speaker 2: because no matter how good you are in Firebrand, it
21:22
Speaker 2: doesn't matter how spectacular spectacular you are, there will be
21:26
Speaker 2: someone who writes a headline Jude Law stinks up the place,
21:29
Speaker 2: and it will be accurate because you did this. Okay,
21:34
Speaker 2: you did this, Jude Law. You brought this on yourself,
21:37
Speaker 2: Jude Law.
21:39
Speaker 1: Jonathan says lovingly, in case you're a friend of the show.
21:43
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I don't. I don't hold him in
21:45
Speaker 2: as much contempt as I do some other method actors.
21:48
Speaker 1: Yeah.
21:48
Speaker 2: So uh. And I honestly I like a lot of
21:51
Speaker 2: Jude Law's work, but this was just this was just
21:53
Speaker 2: one of those decisions where I'm like, you know, when
21:55
Speaker 2: I watch a movie about Henry the Eighth, I don't
21:57
Speaker 2: need to see how everybody else instinctatively has that recoil
22:02
Speaker 2: reaction as soon as they get close enough to him
22:05
Speaker 2: to pick up his scent. I don't need that. That
22:07
Speaker 2: doesn't it's not going to really matter much to me.
22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I will say, like method acting does
22:14
Speaker 1: get somewhat of a bum wrap from people who do
22:16
Speaker 1: it poorly. Stanislovsky didn't necessarily mean for people to do
22:21
Speaker 1: the things that they do that make all the headlines.
22:25
Speaker 1: It's kind of been by other people who've worked with
22:28
Speaker 1: Stanislovsky have said that it's his method has been pushed
22:33
Speaker 1: to extremes in a way that he did not intend.
22:36
Speaker 1: So I have not studied method acting. I've just studied
22:39
Speaker 1: things based off method acting. Kind of most acting methods
22:43
Speaker 1: come off of Stanislovsky and he I was in a
22:46
Speaker 1: workshop with the casting director recently who said, in Stantoslovsky
22:49
Speaker 1: take it from people before him. So interesting. But if
22:54
Speaker 1: if you don't want to method act, but you rather
22:57
Speaker 1: just want to rememb good memories, you can pick up
23:02
Speaker 1: some very expensive memorabilia to do.
23:04
Speaker 2: So, yes, there's gonna be this huge props in costumes
23:09
Speaker 2: auction that is coming up toward the end of June.
23:13
Speaker 2: It's June twenty eight through the thirtieth. It's taking place
23:16
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, but there will also be an online
23:20
Speaker 2: method for people to place bids. It's a huge, huge auction.
23:25
Speaker 2: One of the jewel pieces in the auction is a
23:29
Speaker 2: dress worn by Carrie Fisher in Star Wars A New Hope.
23:32
Speaker 2: It's the gown she wears at the end when she's
23:35
Speaker 2: giving everyone their awards. Not you, Chewbaka, you have to
23:39
Speaker 2: wait until film number nine, but you don't get it
23:43
Speaker 2: in film number four technically, So anyway, that one's probably
23:48
Speaker 2: like the top level. It's gonna I'm guessing. I guess
23:51
Speaker 2: that's probably gonna be the highest priced item if I
23:54
Speaker 2: had to make a guess, because of the sentimental connection
23:58
Speaker 2: to Carrie Fisher as well to Star Wars itself. And yeah,
24:03
Speaker 2: this is not an auction to jump into if you're
24:07
Speaker 2: looking for something for like one hundred bucks or less.
24:11
Speaker 2: Just the catalog alone, if you want to see what
24:15
Speaker 2: items are going to be up for auction, will set
24:18
Speaker 2: you back sixty dollars.
24:20
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they've like I love Star Wars and Princess
24:26
Speaker 1: Leah and Kerrie Fisher and all that. Honestly, were I
24:28
Speaker 1: to spend more money than I have on something, it
24:32
Speaker 1: would either be a bat, a bat vehicle because they're
24:38
Speaker 1: selling a batpod, or one of the hammers from Shawshank Redemption, which,
24:42
Speaker 1: to be fair, one of the hammers from Shashank Redemption
24:44
Speaker 1: is one of the more affordable options that they're guessing
24:48
Speaker 1: like it's going to go for like fifty thousand.
24:51
Speaker 2: Or not.
24:52
Speaker 1: If you yeah, fifty thousand.
24:53
Speaker 2: When you're saying that's one of the more affordable ones,
24:55
Speaker 2: that kind of puts into perspective. How Now, A lot
24:59
Speaker 2: of prop bocs will also include stuff that are not
25:02
Speaker 2: like hero costumes or hero props, hero being the ones
25:06
Speaker 2: that the lead is using in the close up shots
25:09
Speaker 2: and stuff. Sometimes you'll get stuff that is more like,
25:12
Speaker 2: you know, like extras costumes and props, and those often
25:16
Speaker 2: don't look anywhere close to as good as the hero
25:19
Speaker 2: stuff because they don't need to write why would you
25:21
Speaker 2: put in the unless you're Peter Jackson, you don't put
25:24
Speaker 2: in the effort for the thing that no one can
25:27
Speaker 2: see to make it look like it's amazing. So those
25:30
Speaker 2: tend to be much less, much lower in value and
25:34
Speaker 2: much lower auction prices typically, So this memorabilia will probably
25:39
Speaker 2: have a whole range. It's just that the top items
25:42
Speaker 2: are going to be like more than a house.
25:46
Speaker 1: And you know, along the line of props, I got
25:48
Speaker 1: to give props to some.
25:53
Speaker 2: That is the best segue.
25:56
Speaker 1: Thank you. I had time to think about it as
25:58
Speaker 1: I turned on lights in my my recording studio. Yeah.
26:03
Speaker 1: So League of Legend pro leagues are actually talking about
26:09
Speaker 1: staging a walkout to protect the minor leagues because the
26:15
Speaker 1: basically the federation that oversees esports and specific specifically specifically
26:20
Speaker 1: League of Legends has said that pro leagues no longer
26:24
Speaker 1: have to like basically sponsor and mentors minor leagues, which, yeah,
26:29
Speaker 1: which is something that happened in the past, and a
26:33
Speaker 1: lot of the pro leaguers are saying that's not cool
26:36
Speaker 1: if we want sports to be sustainable and good and
26:40
Speaker 1: healthier because esports, like you guys don't. I don't know
26:44
Speaker 1: how many of you realize, but esports takes a big
26:46
Speaker 1: toll on you physically and mentally. There's a lot of training,
26:49
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like stress, there's a lot of
26:53
Speaker 1: you know, having to supplement all the time you're sitting
26:55
Speaker 1: in a chair learning a game, and like carpal tunnel
26:58
Speaker 1: like it sounds it sounds like not a lot, but
27:01
Speaker 1: actually a lot of esports people retire early. So you
27:04
Speaker 1: want to have good succession plan and you want to
27:06
Speaker 1: have good mentorship so that it grows as a healthy
27:09
Speaker 1: arena for sports.
27:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so the issue here is that when the
27:13
Speaker 2: Federation said teams would no longer be required to have
27:18
Speaker 2: these minor league teams that are a corollary to the
27:22
Speaker 2: major leagues, the major leaguers were saying a lot of
27:26
Speaker 2: us came up through those minor leagues, Like a lot
27:28
Speaker 2: of us came from there, and we wouldn't have the
27:31
Speaker 2: opportunities we have now if it weren't for the minor leagues.
27:33
Speaker 2: And by removing that requirement from teams, a lot of
27:36
Speaker 2: the teams like, not the players, but the people who
27:39
Speaker 2: own the teams are like, oh, well, if we don't
27:42
Speaker 2: have to manage the expense of having a minor team,
27:45
Speaker 2: that's more money for us. So let's just eliminate the
27:47
Speaker 2: minor teams. And the players are like, Okay, it's not cool.
27:51
Speaker 2: The Federation's not cool. Riot games isn't cool. For allowing
27:54
Speaker 2: this to happen. We want a change here, and it
27:58
Speaker 2: may mean walking out if we don't see a reversal
28:02
Speaker 2: of this decision, because they feel, as Ariel was saying,
28:06
Speaker 2: then the long run, this is harmful for the entire sport.
28:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, and esports, you know, it's it's interesting because it's
28:13
Speaker 1: something that I know Jonathan has seen in his time
28:16
Speaker 1: on this planets as I have. I esports weren't a
28:19
Speaker 1: thing when I was a kid, and they're more recently
28:22
Speaker 1: being recognized, but they're being recognized by you know, the
28:27
Speaker 1: entertainment industry. Frequently, some of the partnerships that I'm a
28:31
Speaker 1: part of, or the organizations that I'm a part of
28:34
Speaker 1: that help with film and Georgia specifically have entire panels
28:39
Speaker 1: or workshops or events based around esports because it's both
28:44
Speaker 1: a legitimate sport and a legitimate entertainment venue now. So
28:49
Speaker 1: I'm glad that players are taking accountability and standing up
28:54
Speaker 1: for what is good and right for the industry. I like,
28:57
Speaker 1: I've liked watching League of Legends and also StarCraft tournaments,
29:01
Speaker 1: so good on them.
29:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, No, solidarity, y'all. Solidarity. We've talked about it
29:07
Speaker 2: before because we talk about with the writer strike, which
29:09
Speaker 2: is still obviously a thing. I fully believe that this
29:13
Speaker 2: is the way to enact change where especially when you
29:16
Speaker 2: have people who are higher up in an organization speaking
29:19
Speaker 2: out for people who otherwise would not be heard. It's
29:23
Speaker 2: really cool. Something else that I think is really cool,
29:27
Speaker 2: and it's going to seem weird that we're going to
29:29
Speaker 2: talk about it in a geek oriented podcast. But we
29:31
Speaker 2: got a trailer for the new film adaptation of The
29:35
Speaker 2: Color Purple. So The Color Purple originally nineteen eighty two
29:38
Speaker 2: novel written by Alice Walker. It was adapted into a
29:42
Speaker 2: feature film in nineteen eighty five.
29:45
Speaker 1: You know.
29:45
Speaker 2: It was directed by Steven Spielberg. It's a big movie. Well,
29:49
Speaker 2: we're getting another adaptation now. But this is a film
29:53
Speaker 2: adaptation of a stage musical adaptation of The Color Purple.
29:59
Speaker 2: So it's a music version of the story. And the
30:03
Speaker 2: trailer looks good. It's interesting because I think the trailer
30:06
Speaker 2: also buries the fact that it's a musical until toward
30:10
Speaker 2: the very end of the trailer.
30:13
Speaker 1: Yeah that I was curious on whether it was going
30:17
Speaker 1: to be the musical version till we got halfway through
30:18
Speaker 1: the trailer. But the fact that it is the musical
30:21
Speaker 1: version means that it is geeky, because we have already
30:25
Speaker 1: commandeered musical theater into our geek ship.
30:29
Speaker 2: Yes, and I've heard some of the songs from The
30:32
Speaker 2: Color Purple because they've come on. I haven't listened to
30:35
Speaker 2: the album all the way through, so I don't I
30:37
Speaker 2: can't comment on it all the way through, but I
30:39
Speaker 2: have heard some of the songs playing because of them
30:43
Speaker 2: being on iHeartRadio Broadway. That's not a plug, it's just
30:45
Speaker 2: that's where I heard it from, and I liked. I
30:48
Speaker 2: liked what I heard. So my hope is that this
30:51
Speaker 2: will be a really well received film because I love
30:57
Speaker 2: musicals in general. I also love movie musicals, and if
31:00
Speaker 2: we get more movie musicals that are done well and
31:04
Speaker 2: we avoid you know, like Travesty's, like Phantom of the Opera,
31:07
Speaker 2: I'm all for it. Yeah.
31:09
Speaker 1: I also like The Color Purple, I like, so yeah,
31:13
Speaker 1: I'm all around. I'm excited for this. I've I've known
31:16
Speaker 1: that it was we've known it's finnhap was going to
31:18
Speaker 1: happen for a while, and I'm glad the trailer's finally out.
31:21
Speaker 1: Something I missed was happening was a Skull Island cartoon,
31:25
Speaker 1: or maybe I didn't and I just forgot.
31:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew that there was the Skull Island adaptation
31:32
Speaker 2: that's gonna happen at Disney, plus that one is based
31:36
Speaker 2: off a book by Joe DeVito that my dad worked on.
31:40
Speaker 2: I know that one is coming down the pike at
31:42
Speaker 2: some point. But yeah, I didn't. I didn't catch on
31:46
Speaker 2: to the fact there was going to be an animated
31:47
Speaker 2: series for for Skull Island. But we got a teaser
31:51
Speaker 2: for that and it's coming to Netflix, and the teaser,
31:55
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks pretty good. It's the animation style
31:57
Speaker 2: reminds me a little bit of things like, you know,
31:59
Speaker 2: Avatar and Legend of Korra. So it looks I mean,
32:05
Speaker 2: it looks like it's going to be exciting. It's kind
32:07
Speaker 2: of hard to get a real read on it because
32:09
Speaker 2: it was really a bunch of disconnected action sequences.
32:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it feels like one of the Kong's
32:16
Speaker 1: Kong Godzilla movies, just a bunch of disconnected actions. Honestly,
32:23
Speaker 1: I haven't watched Skull Island to the movie. I really should,
32:26
Speaker 1: but I've been told by friends of mine that it
32:29
Speaker 1: feels like every actor is in their own movie. So
32:31
Speaker 1: your description of the cartoon sounds accurate.
32:36
Speaker 2: Ah, man, that that is about so, I haven't watched it.
32:38
Speaker 2: I'm not as big on the Giant Monsters as Ariel is.
32:41
Speaker 2: Arial tends to catch those films more than I do.
32:44
Speaker 2: I think I have an appreciation for the original King Kong.
32:47
Speaker 2: I think that still is a phenomenal movie, you know,
32:50
Speaker 2: even with all the years that have passed. But like
32:53
Speaker 2: that that film, I have a genuine love for less
32:57
Speaker 2: so for Godzilla, don't. I've never really connected with the
33:00
Speaker 2: Godzilla movies, like either the classic ones or the more
33:05
Speaker 2: recent ones. So so this one was one where it
33:07
Speaker 2: was going to be an uphill battle to sell me,
33:10
Speaker 2: and I'm not sold on it. But I will say
33:12
Speaker 2: it looks like it was well made. I just don't
33:15
Speaker 2: know that it will appeal to me, because again, whatever
33:19
Speaker 2: the gene is that connects you to oh big Monsters,
33:23
Speaker 2: I want to watch, I'm missing that one.
33:26
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I get it. Godzilla is definitely more
33:29
Speaker 1: for me than King Kong. King Kong falls dangerously close
33:32
Speaker 1: in many of its iterations to animal endagement, and I
33:35
Speaker 1: don't like that, or it just is in many cases
33:38
Speaker 1: because he's just a giant, a giant gorilla. But like
33:40
Speaker 1: in Godzilla versus Kong, it's fine because he's capable. Eventually
33:45
Speaker 1: he's capable and can fight for himself.
33:48
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and in those movies, Kong can change height
33:51
Speaker 2: at a given between scenes, like in this scene he's
33:54
Speaker 2: one hundred feet tall and this scene he's a hundred
33:56
Speaker 2: stories tall.
33:57
Speaker 1: And there is a difference, yes, but if you want, yes,
34:01
Speaker 1: there's a difference. If you want mutants instead of monsters,
34:09
Speaker 1: we guess for you.
34:11
Speaker 2: This segue was not as good.
34:14
Speaker 1: No, no, But the trailer that we're about to talk
34:18
Speaker 1: about is so we're getting a new teenage Mutant Ninja
34:21
Speaker 1: Turtles movie, Mutant.
34:23
Speaker 2: Mayhem, Yeah, animated film, and we got a trailer for it.
34:28
Speaker 2: And like, I run hot and cold on Teenage Mutant
34:31
Speaker 2: Ninja Turtles, like I am aware of their long history,
34:35
Speaker 2: how they started off as a comic book that was
34:37
Speaker 2: not really meant for kids. It was kind of almost
34:40
Speaker 2: like a send up of Superhero, but like a dark
34:44
Speaker 2: send up, not like a wacky, silly thing like a
34:47
Speaker 2: lot of the versions of the Tick. In fact, the
34:49
Speaker 2: Tick is kind of similar. The Tick also started as
34:51
Speaker 2: a harder edged satire, but this animation it looks like,
34:59
Speaker 2: this looks like a movie. Yeah.
35:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got really great casting. It's interesting because, uh,
35:08
Speaker 1: the the voice actors in this movie, are they like
35:13
Speaker 1: Jackie Chan has Splinter right, Yeah, tons, tons of great
35:18
Speaker 1: voice actors. It looks like mostly kids playing the turtles,
35:21
Speaker 1: but they don't know sound like kids to me. The
35:25
Speaker 1: thing that so, I got to see this trailer or
35:27
Speaker 1: a trailer similar to it before Dungeons and Dragons in
35:30
Speaker 1: the movie theater, and I thought it also looked very interesting,
35:35
Speaker 1: and then I forgot about it. The thing though, that
35:37
Speaker 1: was super interesting to me is that the screenplay is
35:40
Speaker 1: by Seth Rogan.
35:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, and speaking about those voice actors, it's nice to
35:46
Speaker 2: hear teenage mutant ninja turtles who sound kind of like teenagers, like, yes,
35:52
Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like adults who are just saying doing
35:55
Speaker 2: like Californifornia surfer style delivery. It sounds like it teenagers
36:01
Speaker 2: and that's great. And I also love the like the
36:04
Speaker 2: animation style makes me think a lot of across the
36:07
Speaker 2: Spider Verse type stuff, not quite as not as multi
36:10
Speaker 2: media as across the Spider Verse, but it has similar
36:14
Speaker 2: feel to it and yeah, I don't know. Man, this
36:18
Speaker 2: this trailer really struck a chord with me, and that's
36:22
Speaker 2: that's not easy to do because I'm kind of I
36:24
Speaker 2: kind of just don't care about the Teenage Mutant Ninja
36:26
Speaker 2: Turtles in general, because a lot of the stuff I've
36:30
Speaker 2: seen over the years just just I didn't find very entertaining.
36:34
Speaker 2: But this looks good. I'll probably watch it.
36:38
Speaker 1: I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You know, my last
36:40
Speaker 1: car was named after one. I've got the arcade down
36:43
Speaker 1: in my basement, but like, I haven't watched a lot
36:47
Speaker 1: of the more recent stuff, so like the original cartoon
36:50
Speaker 1: and then the like the old movies that are still
36:53
Speaker 1: like the costumes of that are still really good. And
36:56
Speaker 1: then the more recent movies where the story is stunk
36:59
Speaker 1: but the characters were correct. But yeah, I'm excited for this.
37:04
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was happening until, you know, a
37:07
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. I'm super excited for this. I'm definitely
37:09
Speaker 1: gonna watch it. The next trailer. I would say this
37:14
Speaker 1: is the thing that fits the least into the geek
37:16
Speaker 1: verse for us this week.
37:18
Speaker 2: I disagree. I disagree entirely. And the reason why so
37:23
Speaker 2: the trailer is for a film called Problemista, which is
37:26
Speaker 2: a surrealist comedy that is written and directed by Julio Torres,
37:33
Speaker 2: and it's a film where there's a lot of sort
37:38
Speaker 2: of magical realism stuff going on inside the film. You
37:42
Speaker 2: don't know how much of that is supposed to actually
37:45
Speaker 2: be happening in the world versus what is, you know,
37:49
Speaker 2: just going on kind of to show elements of what's
37:52
Speaker 2: going on in people's heads and that kind of stuff.
37:55
Speaker 2: It looks really like a Terry Gilliam movie to me,
37:59
Speaker 2: and that's why I think it really fits in the
38:01
Speaker 2: geek's sphere, because it has visual aspects of it that
38:06
Speaker 2: make it reminds me of Terry Gilliam's approach in movies
38:11
Speaker 2: like Brazil or even Twelve Monkeys, but not dark like
38:15
Speaker 2: Twelve Monkeys, but that weird absurdism that kind of falls
38:21
Speaker 2: into it. And it looks really interesting to me, and
38:26
Speaker 2: I the trailer really caught my attention.
38:31
Speaker 1: The trailer does look good. It's written and directed and
38:35
Speaker 1: starred in by Julio Torres, as you said, who's a
38:38
Speaker 1: writer for SNL, and I definitely get some SNL vibes
38:42
Speaker 1: in it, but like good SNL vibes.
38:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's definitely there's definitely comedy, Like it's not
38:49
Speaker 2: it's not dark like a Terry Gillia movie would be,
38:51
Speaker 2: but I think it's imaginative in a way that Terry
38:55
Speaker 2: Gillia movies are.
38:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were definitely some some moments where like is
39:00
Speaker 1: this really happening or is this like in his brain?
39:02
Speaker 1: It kind of felt very Napoleon Dynamite to me, honestly.
39:06
Speaker 2: Yeah. I have only watched bits of Napoleon Dynamite because
39:10
Speaker 2: I found the character insufferable, so I couldn't watch it
39:13
Speaker 2: all the way through, So it's hard for me to
39:16
Speaker 2: comment on that. It's just I don't know, there's something
39:19
Speaker 2: sort of whimsical about it, but also like the character
39:24
Speaker 2: is in a predicament where they're trying desperately to stay
39:28
Speaker 2: in the country and they're kind of at the whims
39:32
Speaker 2: of a manipulative person in order to try and achieve
39:38
Speaker 2: that goal. I don't know. I saw this and I
39:41
Speaker 2: thought this is not normally the kind of thing I
39:43
Speaker 2: gravitate toward, But it looks like it's done so well
39:47
Speaker 2: that I really want to see it.
39:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I can totally see that I will likely
39:52
Speaker 1: watch it myself. Something else that I will probably watch,
39:59
Speaker 1: although this news has me wondering if I like it
40:01
Speaker 1: as much. Oddly, is the Barbie movie We got a
40:05
Speaker 1: new trailer?
40:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one has a bit of an edge to it.
40:10
Speaker 1: It's got a bit of an edge to it, and
40:12
Speaker 1: it flushes out some aspects that we knew were going
40:15
Speaker 1: to happen, like Barbie going to the real world, but
40:18
Speaker 1: in a way that makes me worry it's going to
40:20
Speaker 1: be like the parts of the Lego movie I didn't like.
40:24
Speaker 2: Hmm, interesting, Yeah, maybe, well both of them involved Will Ferrell, Right,
40:30
Speaker 2: So then in the real world. Yeah, in the real world,
40:35
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying, I guess, but I don't know.
40:38
Speaker 2: To me, this actually made me even more interested. I
40:40
Speaker 2: was already interested because it looked like it was such
40:42
Speaker 2: a a goofy, silly take on the IP and I
40:48
Speaker 2: was like, oh, okay, well, I'm kind of on board
40:50
Speaker 2: this one. I thought, Wow, there might be there actually
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Speaker 2: might be more to say in this film than I
40:57
Speaker 2: was giving it credit for. And I was already, like
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Speaker 2: I said, kind of on board, And now I'm intrigued. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it really just falls down to can they pull it
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Speaker 2: off in a way that comes across as not just
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Speaker 2: entertaining but genuine, Or is it going to feel like
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Speaker 2: it's a bunch of lip service about you know, representation
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Speaker 2: and body image issues and things like that. Where are
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Speaker 2: we going to land on that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, if you haven't watched the new trailer, basically
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Speaker 1: half of the trailer is Barbie in the Real World.
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Speaker 1: After Kate McKinnon's Barbie, who is always doing the splits,
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Speaker 1: tells her that she can basically pick the red pillar
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Speaker 1: or the blue pill in shoe form to decide which
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Speaker 1: truths she wants to live with.
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Speaker 2: Except she doesn't really she doesn't really get a choice.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't know. She wants to pick the high heel.
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Speaker 1: She wants to stay in happy Barbie Land, and Kate
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Speaker 1: McKinnon's like, no, pick the sandal, this is the real world.
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Speaker 1: Pick the sandle. It's interesting. Watch the trailer decide for yourself.
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Speaker 1: I will still watch this movie, I think. I just
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Speaker 1: hope it doesn't lose the bizarre whimsy of the first
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Speaker 1: half of the movie going to the real world. When
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Speaker 1: that happened, when the real world stuff happened in the
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Speaker 1: Lego movie, it just made the movie feel like it
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Speaker 1: slowed down for me, and it also it lost my interest,
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Speaker 1: so I made it too long.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't disagree with you about the Lego movie stuff.
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Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if it will be like a
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Speaker 2: half and half or if the Barbie world stuff will
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Speaker 2: be like the first twenty minutes and the rest of
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Speaker 2: the movie is the real world, Like, Yeah, I don't like.
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Speaker 2: It might just be a first act and then the
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Speaker 2: other two acts are in the real world. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: but I don't know. I'm definitely still intrigued, so I will.
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Speaker 2: I am more likely to see this now than I
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Speaker 2: was before, and I was already kind of leaning toward
42:48
Speaker 2: it even before this trailer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is hilarious because when we very first heard
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Speaker 1: about the movie, I think both you and I had
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Speaker 1: the reaction of why so yes, way to go everybody
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Speaker 1: involved for completely changing our minds and telling it reminding
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Speaker 1: us that we need to not be quite so cynical
43:07
Speaker 1: all the time. So, back when we first started talking
43:12
Speaker 1: about large Ner Drunk Collider, and then back when we
43:14
Speaker 1: picked it up as a podcast, one of the things
43:18
Speaker 1: that we had mentioned doing was as a segment was
43:21
Speaker 1: finishing off with a weird food item, a weird geeky
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Speaker 1: food item, because at the time we were getting bombarded
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Speaker 1: with bizarre food stuff and while we didn't stick with that,
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Speaker 1: this last story made me feel like I'm at least
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Speaker 1: getting to it once.
43:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the story made me think of like, have
43:40
Speaker 2: you ever played in a session of D and D
43:44
Speaker 2: where somebody just catchually says, you know, do you think
43:48
Speaker 2: gelatinous cubes taste like jello?
43:52
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, So this news, this last story is about.
43:56
Speaker 1: I think it's a show. It's an anime coming out
43:58
Speaker 1: called Delicious in Dungeon where a group it's basically D
44:03
Speaker 1: and D Gormond where a bunch of adventurers have to
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Speaker 1: save one of their party members, but they're out of
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Speaker 1: food and money, and so they decide to eat monsters.
44:11
Speaker 1: But uh, secret of secrets, Like the leader of the
44:16
Speaker 1: party has always wanted to do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the leader of the party has always wondered what
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Speaker 2: monsters taste like and wants to eat monsters.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so like, I kind of get it. Also,
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Speaker 1: it looks it looks cute. It honestly looks kind of cute,
44:35
Speaker 1: But I am worried about where they're going to draw
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Speaker 1: the line of what a monster is and what they're
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Speaker 1: willing to eat.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to save. Based on the trailer, I
44:46
Speaker 2: would not be surprised if they push that line pretty hard.
44:48
Speaker 2: But yeah, it looks amusing. There's a woman in the
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Speaker 2: party who is dead set against trying to eat monsters
44:57
Speaker 2: and has like some pretty hard lines she do that
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Speaker 2: want to cross, and it looks like that's where a
45:03
Speaker 2: lot of the comedy's going to come from. It's apparently
45:05
Speaker 2: it's based off a manga, so this is an existing
45:08
Speaker 2: property that's being adapted into an anime. And the trailer
45:13
Speaker 2: was amusing it. I laughed a couple times.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, also, because like, on the one hand,
45:20
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, you're eating monsters, what's a monster? Are
45:23
Speaker 1: you eating something you really shouldn't eat? On the other hand,
45:25
Speaker 1: everybody has had to deal with piggy eaters before, and
45:28
Speaker 1: that's the other side of the comedy. So yeah, it
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Speaker 1: comes out January twenty twenty four if it isn't delayed
45:34
Speaker 1: by writers strike type stuff, and I will probably give
45:38
Speaker 1: it a try. I've been wanting to watch some more animes,
45:41
Speaker 1: so I'll probably give this one a try. Me too,
45:46
Speaker 1: And that silence means we've hit the end of our episode.
45:50
Speaker 2: I have to wait for you to introduce the way
45:52
Speaker 2: to contact me. That's why I can't just say anything.
45:55
Speaker 1: Shoot yeah, so yeah, that silence reaches the end of
45:58
Speaker 1: our episode. It's kind of a shorter one this week.
46:01
Speaker 1: If you're sad about that, write us and tell us.
46:04
Speaker 1: Or if there's anything you want us to talk about topics.
46:07
Speaker 1: I swear we've got your topic suggestions. We will get
46:11
Speaker 1: to them. We even have a couple of ideas for
46:13
Speaker 1: mashups that we might bring back in the future. But yeah,
46:17
Speaker 1: if you want any of that, or you just want
46:19
Speaker 1: to share your opinions on something we've talked about, you
46:21
Speaker 1: should write us. Jonathan, how do they do that?
46:24
Speaker 2: Well, the way to get in contact with me is
46:26
Speaker 2: to go to a family reunion, And by that I
46:28
Speaker 2: mean an auto show. When you go to the auto show,
46:32
Speaker 2: because families forever, you're gonna look around and you're gonna
46:35
Speaker 2: see there's this just this random auto part just sitting
46:39
Speaker 2: on the ground. You walk up to it, You'll look around,
46:41
Speaker 2: nobody's looking your way, nobody seems to be looking for
46:44
Speaker 2: this part. You're gonna just sort of casually bend over,
46:47
Speaker 2: pick it up, put it in your pocket. You're gonna
46:49
Speaker 2: forget about it till you get home. You put your
46:51
Speaker 2: hand in your pocket, you're like, what's this? Pull it out.
46:53
Speaker 2: It's that auto part. You're like, huh. Then you're gonn
46:55
Speaker 2: feel this weird compulsion to go and install it in
46:58
Speaker 2: the nearby car. If you don't have a don't worry.
47:01
Speaker 2: You'll be pulled to the nearest car to do it there,
47:03
Speaker 2: and then you'll install the part in the car, and
47:06
Speaker 2: then you'll feel compelled to get behind the driver's seat
47:08
Speaker 2: and get back there, and the car will just start
47:10
Speaker 2: up magically and it'll drive off and take you on
47:13
Speaker 2: a wild and crazy ride, breaking several traffic laws along
47:17
Speaker 2: the way, and when you finally get to the destination,
47:20
Speaker 2: it'll be in this weird clearing surrounded by trees. You'll
47:23
Speaker 2: even wonder how you even fit through there, and there
47:26
Speaker 2: will be this myst that's just kind of hanging over
47:29
Speaker 2: the car, and you'll step out and you'll hear, so,
47:32
Speaker 2: what's your question?
47:33
Speaker 1: And it's me, I actually like that, So everybody's just
47:40
Speaker 1: right Jonathan this week. Okay, Now, if you don't want
47:45
Speaker 1: to do that, or you don't drive. You can contact
47:49
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48:08
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48:13
Speaker 1: or you just want to go old school, you can
48:15
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48:18
Speaker 1: really do love hearing from you. We really do appreciate
48:21
Speaker 1: you listening. You are all friends of the show and
48:25
Speaker 1: we just adore you so much.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and until next time. I'm Jonathan It's about family Strickland.
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Speaker 1: And I'm Ariel room Room Caston.
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Speaker 2: The large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
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Speaker 2: published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland. It's music by
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