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Baby Yoda Meets Baba Yaga · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: M Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large nurderun Collider podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting, and with me as always is my
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  Speaker 1: good friend an amazing co host, Jonathan Strickland. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should have reversed that amazing friend and amazing co host
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. Wow, I'd just like the pig. I'm everything
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  Speaker 1: to everybody. Also, it's the podcast so nice. We decided
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  Speaker 1: to record it twice yea because my computer decided to
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  Speaker 1: restart to do one of these days, Ariel, I swear
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  Speaker 1: one of these days it will be a tech problem
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  Speaker 1: free recording, but it will not be this day. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what they say in theater, Uh, bad dress rehearsal,
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  Speaker 1: great show, So maybe it's just technical problems. Great episode
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  Speaker 1: we just did. Yeah, I must say we just didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that what we were doing before was a dress rehearsal. Uh. Well.
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  Speaker 1: One thing we want to start off with is that
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  Speaker 1: we've been receiving some great messages from you guys. You
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  Speaker 1: you wonderful listeners. When I say guys, I'm being completely
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  Speaker 1: uh inclusive here. Everybody out there has been sending us messages.
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  Speaker 1: are in the United States and who celebrate Thanksgiving had
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  Speaker 1: had a great Thursday. Yes last week. We we are
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  Speaker 1: today is not going to be one of them, but
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  Speaker 1: we do have them on our shortlist for future episodes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out that this week we have, as has
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  Speaker 1: happened in the past, way too many stories to cover.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't think that was going to be the case,
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  Speaker 1: and then yesterday happened, and uh, the whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stuff came out all at once. So we've got a
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  Speaker 1: fairly packed episode, which means that we also have a
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  Speaker 1: returning segment of thirty seconds or less. Do Do Do? Do?
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  Speaker 1: Do Do? It's our official starting music. We've got music
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  Speaker 1: that goes behind each segment. But that's that's the music
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  Speaker 1: that we used to introduce it. That's it. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna cut that and use that over and over all. Right, No,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that to people. Well, our first thirty seconds
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  Speaker 1: or less. Story will be arial explaining to us something
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  Speaker 1: so arial. Are you ready? I'm ready and go all right,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to talk slow because there's not much
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  Speaker 1: to say about this one. We got news, uh this
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  Speaker 1: week on Mandalorian season three, we now have a release date.
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  Speaker 1: That release date is March one, and the whole internet rejoiced, Ye,
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  Speaker 1: well done. When we did that the first time, Ariel
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  Speaker 1: was finished in ten seconds. This time it took you
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  Speaker 1: twice as long. Yay. So, so are you excited about
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  Speaker 1: the Mandalorian coming back? Um? I think much like you,
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  Speaker 1: which people didn't get to listen to. UM, I wish
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  Speaker 1: that they hadn't brought the Mandalorian into the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Boba Fette, but I understand why they did, because they
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  Speaker 1: sure needed to do something that show was. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like I think if you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the discourse on Star Wars series and or is being
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  Speaker 1: held up as like the best of the best, and
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  Speaker 1: I think Book of Boba Fett is being held as
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  Speaker 1: one of the like the worst of the worst. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we got that one Mandalorian centric episode of
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  Speaker 1: Book of Bubba Fett. And then of course he showed
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  Speaker 1: up for the rest of it, and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: wish they had not reunited Mando and Grogu at that point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say something. It's controversial. I realized we're in
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds or less and now we've gone twice as long,
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  Speaker 1: which we said we weren't going to do, but we're doing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think Mandalorians better than Andora. Interesting, I have not
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  Speaker 1: I have not watched and Or yet, so I can't comment,
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  Speaker 1: but I just know that I've I've heard a lot
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  Speaker 1: of positive things about that series. Okay, Now I will
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  Speaker 1: say the and Or being the prequel to Rogue one,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Rogue one as much as a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other people do, but that that's a discussion for
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  Speaker 1: another time. Instead, I'm going to just go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: jump into our next little thirty second sport last segment
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  Speaker 1: and go Okay. So we didn't report on this, but
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  Speaker 1: back in September, in fact, I didn't even know this,
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  Speaker 1: but Marvel said goodbye to the director of the upcoming
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  Speaker 1: Blade film. Um. He stepped down because of artistic differences.
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  Speaker 1: Now French director Yawn DeMange is taking over the job,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a new screenwriter Michael Starbury. So they are
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  Speaker 1: starting from scratch, but they're trying to hold on to
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  Speaker 1: the release date and done. Uh they're filming in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand twenty three in Atlanta. I'm hoping to get an
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  Speaker 1: audition across your fingers for me. Yeah, yeah, I am.
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  Speaker 1: The last little thing I'll say about this is that, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: what a huge deal, right to like totally lose your
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  Speaker 1: director and writer and start over and still try and
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  Speaker 1: keep to your release date. Uh. Really makes you wonder
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  Speaker 1: if that post credit sequence and eternals is still gonna
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  Speaker 1: make sense. Probably that's a joke. Okay, you ready for
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  Speaker 1: your next one? Ail yep and go all right. We
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  Speaker 1: are getting a spinoff of john Wick based off of
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  Speaker 1: Angelica Houston's character in john Wick three. Uh. The spinoff
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  Speaker 1: is going to be called Ballerina, and Ada Armis is
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  Speaker 1: also in it. Um and yeah, it's already I think
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  Speaker 1: in production or pre production or something like that. So
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  Speaker 1: the ball is already rolling. Just what you like? That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I like Angelica Houston, um, and I like to watch
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  Speaker 1: women kick. But so sure is fun. Yeah. That that
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  Speaker 1: reindorsement is a sound of Aerial having probably enough pure
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  Speaker 1: action films because that's at least maybe I'm projecting. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I feel. I super loved john Wick one, minus
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  Speaker 1: the animal stuff, because animal engagement, as we all know,
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  Speaker 1: makes me anxious, minus the thing that sets the whole
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  Speaker 1: story in motion. But I love good stunts. I love
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  Speaker 1: good fight choreography, which of course john Wick had. Um.
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  Speaker 1: The second one wasn't a strong, The third one wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a strong. Um, haven't watched the third one is the
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  Speaker 1: last one. Okay, we're getting a fourth one. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: watched all of the third one. So UM. That tells
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  Speaker 1: you how much the subsequent movies meant to me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I I have things to say about john Wick, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll save it because the thirty seconds or less. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to from already extending every single one of
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  Speaker 1: these beyond that. So all right, next up and go.
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  Speaker 1: So many of you may have already heard this, but
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  Speaker 1: Albert Pune, a filmmaker who was known mostly for making
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  Speaker 1: really kind of schlocky, low budget directed video cult films,
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  Speaker 1: sadly passed away recently. His health had been failing. He
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  Speaker 1: directed films like The Sword and the Sorcerer, which was
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I love that foot movie. He
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  Speaker 1: also directed the Captain American movie, which is hysterical because
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  Speaker 1: Houth America keeps stealing cars through the whole thing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: rest in peace. Yeah, our our thoughts go out to
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  Speaker 1: his family. Um, ready for the next one and go? Alright,
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  Speaker 1: Top Gun is flying back into theaters, which is what
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  Speaker 1: I wrote, and maybe that's what the article says to Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: they're rereleasing for two weeks in December from the second
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  Speaker 1: tot It'll play at one hundred and fifty locations. Um Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the movie did really well the first time it was
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  Speaker 1: in theaters. I didn't watch it. Um. I like the
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  Speaker 1: original Top Gun. Fine, um, I didn't watch this new one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it will have enough traction to
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  Speaker 1: get that much more money from being rereleased, Like a
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  Speaker 1: rerelease always seems like a pretty tricky thing to me.
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  Speaker 1: You went so over two seconds, areal? I just I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even with you. Okay, Well, go on to
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  Speaker 1: the next I also have not seen the latest Top Gun,
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  Speaker 1: but I again, I've only heard good things. Everyone who
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  Speaker 1: saw it seems to have loved it all right, final
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  Speaker 1: one and go So you might remember that Margot Robbie
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  Speaker 1: talked about how the female focused parts of the Caribbean
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  Speaker 1: film was dead in the water, so to speak. I
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  Speaker 1: did a whole mash up making playing on that idea. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Bruckheimer says, maybe not. They are developing a different
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  Speaker 1: parts of the Caribbean film right now, but you said
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  Speaker 1: that there's no reason to believe that the other one
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  Speaker 1: won't reservice at some point the end. Yes. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if Margot Robbie would be involved at that point,
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  Speaker 1: but it is at least possible that we will get
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  Speaker 1: that movie in the future. I mean, if it's her script,
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  Speaker 1: um and they want to use it. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: get it if they if they had two movies and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, well, we think this one's going to do better,
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  Speaker 1: or we're further in the process of this one, like
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  Speaker 1: they're going to go with the known quantity more than likely. Um. So,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan and I both did a lot of really geeky things,
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  Speaker 1: or at least geek geeky media intake over the holidays,
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  Speaker 1: and we just wanted to um chat about it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit because most of it did not overlap. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting because we we kind of listed out stuff
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  Speaker 1: that we had watched now. In one case, I saw
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  Speaker 1: something that Ariel watched ages ago, which was Werewolf by Night,
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  Speaker 1: the m c U horror adjacent video on on Disney Plus,
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  Speaker 1: and I loved it. I was. I was so surprised
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  Speaker 1: by it because I think I was expecting it to
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  Speaker 1: have a more like dark tone to it, and it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't. I mean there's some there, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: There's violence in Werewolf by Night, some pretty extreme violence
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  Speaker 1: in some cases, but the tone is still it's almost
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  Speaker 1: a little campy. And and the the appearance of Man
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  Speaker 1: Thing a k A. Ted was delightful. Yeah. I um,
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  Speaker 1: I think I said this before. It feels exactly like
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  Speaker 1: an old nineteen thirties pulp movie to me, where it's
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  Speaker 1: got some of the comedy. Um, it does have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of violence, it doesn't have a lot of gore
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  Speaker 1: though they were much like its predecessors in old horror movies.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of did camera tricks to avoid most of
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  Speaker 1: the gore, which I appreciated. I did feel some of
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  Speaker 1: the characters were like Gotham, not all playing in the
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  Speaker 1: on the same level field as far as like where
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  Speaker 1: their characters campiness came from but unlike Gotham, I really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I get what you're saying. Yeah, when when
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you're looking at characters who are inhabiting
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  Speaker 1: different versions of the m c U but all in
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  Speaker 1: the same video, and you're like, um, can we get
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  Speaker 1: some tonal consistency here? I get it, because it does
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  Speaker 1: feel weird, like pretty much everyone outside of the the
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  Speaker 1: two arguably three protagonists have varying degrees. And I totally
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  Speaker 1: agree with you that something else I saw but you
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  Speaker 1: have not yet seen is The Guardians of the Galaxy
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  Speaker 1: Holiday Special. Yeah. Um, I highly recommend if you have
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  Speaker 1: Disney Plus and you have not watch The Guardians of
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  Speaker 1: the Galaxy Holiday Special. High recommendation for me. I am.
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  Speaker 1: It is on my list. I was gonna do it
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  Speaker 1: this week and then my husband said, Hey, we're decorating
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas this weekend. How about we save it for that,
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  Speaker 1: Because usually when we're decorating for Christmas, we're like, what
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  Speaker 1: are we going to put on? And it always ends
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  Speaker 1: up being National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, which fine, once it
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  Speaker 1: was Gremlin's and once it was Home Alone, but usually
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  Speaker 1: it ends up being National Lampoon's Christmas vacation because that's
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  Speaker 1: what gets my partner in the holiday spirit. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely think that this is one you need to watch, watch, like,
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to. I think we will. I think what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen is we're going to decorate and then
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  Speaker 1: we're going to put it on to continue the holiday spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Got it? I will say, without giving anything away, I
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  Speaker 1: will say it was nice to have a story where
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  Speaker 1: Mantis really gets to shine. M hm. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: love Mantis's character, So you're gonna you're gonna love her.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna love her so much more after this special.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, I don't. I don't think that's possible. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it'll happen. I'll talk to you next week and you'll say, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: you were right. I do love her even more. Um.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And the last thing I have to bring
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  Speaker 1: to kind of our catch up is shortly after our
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  Speaker 1: last episode, because obviously we took a week off for Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go see the menu. And in case
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  Speaker 1: any of you were kind of debating on seeing the
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  Speaker 1: menu and you're wondering, well, am I gonna like it? Am?
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  Speaker 1: I not? I loved the menu. It has kind of
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  Speaker 1: a thriller aspect to it. And also if you have
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  Speaker 1: ever gone to any kind of trendy, fancy restaurant where
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  Speaker 1: they take a lot of time him to describe the
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  Speaker 1: dishes to you in detail, you will find the satire
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  Speaker 1: in this movie to be on point. It is dark,
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  Speaker 1: it is that there is some violence in it, not
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  Speaker 1: that much gore. There's a little bit, not a whole lot. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there's some pretty horrific things that happened, but most of
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  Speaker 1: it is left up to the audience's imagination. And um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's all you need to know. Because the less you
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  Speaker 1: know about this movie, the better you are going the
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  Speaker 1: more you're going to enjoy it interesting. Um, I might
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  Speaker 1: give it a shot. Um, I'll probably wait till it
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  Speaker 1: comes to my Netflix, much like gear Menators, Pinocchio and
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  Speaker 1: although that might already be out. And um also Glass Onion,
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  Speaker 1: because I wanted to see that in theaters, but I
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  Speaker 1: did not get a chance to. All of my friends
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  Speaker 1: who saw in theater said said, you really need to
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  Speaker 1: see it with a big group of people, and I
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  Speaker 1: just I had I had a very large gathering of
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  Speaker 1: family for Thanksgive and um did not get to nego
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  Speaker 1: see it but at least at least a few of
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  Speaker 1: those people who were at your your house were of
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  Speaker 1: an age that would not have been receptive to a
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  Speaker 1: murder mystery movie. So you couldn't just put everybody in
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  Speaker 1: a bus and go to the theater. Exactly exactly, however,
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  Speaker 1: my house guests, um, who who were you know, tween
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  Speaker 1: tween ajorie. Uh. Did watch a couple episodes of Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: with me. Um, the Adams family spin off, so much
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of media that comes out, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, very high school based, um, like
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  Speaker 1: high school protagonists based, um, which is fine, It's totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: UM for that. I thought it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: I really think the actress who plays Wednesday Wednesday is phenomenal. Um.
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  Speaker 1: There there's an iconic dance scene going around the internet.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to that episode yet. I've only watched
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  Speaker 1: the first two. Uh. And I just love it because she,
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  Speaker 1: the actress who placed Wednesday, choreographed it, and she really
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  Speaker 1: took pains to research and bring in like dances that
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  Speaker 1: the original Wednesday Adams did in the television show and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, or Gomez Adams did and and so
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a love letter to the history of
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  Speaker 1: the Adams family and I really like it, um and
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  Speaker 1: and like the teen drama is fine, it's actually not
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  Speaker 1: too bad. I will say that, uh, I felt and
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad even saying this because I love her
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  Speaker 1: as an actress, but I felt Catherine Dada Jones was
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  Speaker 1: just missing something. As more Tisha, I've I've seen some
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  Speaker 1: like conversation happened on TikTok where they think that maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's that Gomez was failing a little bit, and since
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  Speaker 1: Mortisia plays off of Gomez, that that's why she. I
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  Speaker 1: felt like she was a little too low key. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not that Mortisia isn't low key, but like she
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  Speaker 1: always has like a little I don't know, zip she's
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  Speaker 1: got an intensity to her, and the intensity is not there,
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  Speaker 1: then that's a problem them. Um. But again, I've only
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  Speaker 1: seen the first two episodes, so it's possible that my
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  Speaker 1: opinion of that will change the reviews I've seen. So
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  Speaker 1: I have not seen any Wednesday yet except for the
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  Speaker 1: dance sequence. I've seen that because because that one so
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  Speaker 1: viral and I'm not on TikTok, but it showed up
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube, so I watched it there and I love
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  Speaker 1: the well. First of all, they they put the Cramps
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  Speaker 1: song Googo Muck into the show, so automatically, I was
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  Speaker 1: like sold because the Cramps are you kidding me? But
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  Speaker 1: then the dance sequence is fantastic. It's got like it's
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  Speaker 1: got like some broken doll energy going on in there,
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  Speaker 1: and then like there are those little dance sequences where
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, this is this is an homage to
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  Speaker 1: like Ralph Julia and uh Angelica Houston in the nineties
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  Speaker 1: Adams Family movie. So yeah, it's um, it's a uh,
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  Speaker 1: it looks really interesting. But like the like you said,
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  Speaker 1: some reviews I saw suggested that the family dynamic among
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  Speaker 1: the Adams is doesn't quite feel right, that Ortega as
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday is killing it, but that the Adams family as
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  Speaker 1: a unit doesn't quite live up to expectations. But that's
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  Speaker 1: based upon what other people have said. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I have not yet watched it. Um, I mean it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't offensive. They didn't like I said, it didn't quite
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  Speaker 1: hit with me on the family dynamic, but it wasn't offensive.
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  Speaker 1: The Cramps song is very similar to the song that
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  Speaker 1: the Very Little Like Young Wednesday Adams dances too. When
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  Speaker 1: she's trying to teach Lurch to dance, not when she's
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  Speaker 1: trying to teach him ballet, but when she's trying to
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  Speaker 1: teach him like a shuffle or something like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I forget what the name of the dance was, by
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  Speaker 1: I know what episode you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: that's she puts that dance in her dance number two.
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  Speaker 1: So um, it's it's great that they used a similar
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  Speaker 1: sounding piece of music. Uh the I watched two other
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  Speaker 1: things this week, um that we're geeky, and one was
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  Speaker 1: the first episode of Willow, which is out on Disney Plus,
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  Speaker 1: which I absolutely adored. Again young adult drama, because of
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  Speaker 1: course that's that's their target audience, right, But it was
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  Speaker 1: really good. Um I thought. I felt that the characters,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: especially the supporting characters, had a lot of depth to them,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and we're not one note. They were like well rounded
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and interesting and like I found myself thinking about their
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: motivations and I loved it. Um it's beautiful. The costuming
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: is amazing. The only complaint that, uh my, tony are
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I have is that the song they played over the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: end credits felt incongruous with the rest of the episode.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It felt out of place, but it was over the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: end credits, so who really cares. Yeah. I also thought
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it was weird that they got the Cramps Goo Goo
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Muck to play over the end credits of Willow. I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: guess they're just trying to get as much attraction on
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: their old music as possible, like like, uh like uh,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Master Puppets did Away said Aerosmith, that is not you're
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: talking about like Metallica. Um, so, y'all, if you're really curious,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: by the way, it was slight, slight, tangent here Google muck.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Great song. The Cramps did a great job. It is
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a cover. You can go look up the original Ronnie
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: did it. Uh, And yeah, it's also a great song,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: but but not the one that played over the credits
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: of Willow. I imagine. I still haven't seen Willow. I'm
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing it. But um yeah, so what
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was it like a modern song playing over the credits? Yeah,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it was a modern song. Some of the lyrics kind
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: of fit what happened in the first episode, So I
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: get it, but like I don't, I don't want to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: spoil anything. The show ended on one tone and then
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you had this very different tone piece of like modern
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: music afterwards, and sometimes it works, but I don't know. Yeah,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that's yeah. But that being said, it's end credit music.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: So does it really matter for purposes of the quality
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of the show. I guess not. It's just I think
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: part of the problem is that I'm thinking of the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: film Willow, and that was all like either soaring movie
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: score type music or diagetic like folk music, like it
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: was what the the the little people's were playing, the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: ones that are diminutively referred to as PEX by all
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the bad people in the in the film. But yeah,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: they had their little folk music that would play, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that's what was playing over the end credits at the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: beginning anyway of Willow, and then it goes into the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: full theme. So for me, like again, I haven't seen
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the series yet, but that would probably make me do
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a double take as well. Yeah, but thankfully it wasn't.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Throughout the the episode. I really enjoyed the episode. Oh
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: but speaking of I we're also you know, watching Three
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Rings of Power, which is not news to anybody listening
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: because I've talked about it before. But the freaking Bear McCreary,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: like Hartfoot song I love, I Love so much and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I know every Renfest performers going to do it, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I'm fine with that because I love the song so much. Uh.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: For anybody who's watching, you know, I'm talking about that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: guy works. Let me tell you, Bear McCreary, he gets
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: work and he does it well. I really like his
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: his musical stylings. UM. And then the last thing I watched,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be for a real niche uh
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: section of our listeners is Dimensioned twenties. New campaign came
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: out Never After, which is like their horror fairy tale UM.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: And there was some scary bits and there was some
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: like gory bits, but overall it was really funny and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: fun and I look forward to watching the season. So
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that's a that's a real play role playing series, right, Okay, yeah, yeah,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if they're doing Role twenty
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: or ravens Loft or whatnot, but UM or fifth Edition
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: or rather or but some of those actors Brian Murphy
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and Emily Oxford and then another person who's been on
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: actually do a podcast. It's not another D and D podcast.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: They're actually in Atlanta this weekend, Atlanta and Savannah performing
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and they're completely sold out the tangent aside. Yeah, well
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: bummer that they're sold out. I tried selling out, but
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: no one will pay me. Okay, let's move on to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the news. So obviously we were off last week. As
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I think I've probably said multiple times, I don't know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: because honestly, this recording session has legitimately spanned half a
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: day at this point. But um, we didn't get a
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: chance to cover huge, huge news in the entertainment world
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: where Bob Chpeck, the former now former CEO of the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Walt Disney Company, stepped down or was told step down
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: or was fired, depending upon which version you you like.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Jenny Clear, Yeah, and Bob Iger, the CEO who was
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in charge of Disney before Chapec, who actually chose Chpec
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: as his successor, has come back to once again take
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: charge of Disney. This had an enormously positive impact among
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of Disney employees or cast members if you
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: prefer if you're talking about the parks, who felt like
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: this was a good move. There's been a lot of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: back and forth in the press about what this actually means,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: whether or not it's good, whether or not the problems
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that Disney has been going through were in fact begun
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: under Igor and then Chapec just failed to shepherd it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: properly or whether they were Chapeck's fault. So there's a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: lot of discussion and disagreement going on about this, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: generally speaking, Uh, the reaction I seen has been a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: fairly positive one to Bob Iger's return. Yeah, which is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: interesting because I thought people were kind of happy when
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: he left. Um, but I guess when you do a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: comparative thing, um, when you don't know. Yeah, he's said that,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you know, some of the things that Check put into
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: place are going to continue, like the hiring freeze, at
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: least for now, because we still are in the economy
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: we're in you know. Um, But he's trying to fix
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: what he can, is what he says. But one of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the rumors that came out during that time is that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Apple was going to buy Disney, And I was like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: please know, yeah, this has been but this has been
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a rumor that's been around for like on and off
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: for a really long time, and I think I think
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it stems from some faulty reasoning because Apple is rich
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in that that company has all of the money's you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a trillion dollar company, and Steve Jobs obviously had a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: relationship with Disney because Steve Jobs was the guy who
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Pixar was founded under. So there's there's We talked about
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that on Business on the Brink. We did we did
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a whole episode about Pixar, and we talked about how
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Steve Jobs was kind of instrumental in the in the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: producers side of Pixar and then ultimately shepherded it to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the point where it could be merged into the mouse House.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I I don't I don't know that I've
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: ever seen any indications that Tim Cook, who CEO of
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Apple or Apple in general, has been interested in the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: concept of acquiring Walt Disney. I think that just ends
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: up being people playing kind of like armchair quarterback or
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: armchair ceo. I don't know where these ideas are coming from,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: apart from maybe wishful thinking on some people's behalf and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: anxious thinking on other people's depending upon how they would
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: view you such an acquisition. I also wonder, if you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: like when you're in the office place and I'll be
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: at Disney office, work space is very different. Which one
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of the things that Tiger said is that he wants
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: his employees to work together because he feels like creativity
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: works better. And I kind of agree, even though I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: push back very much against making everybody go back to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the office, but I kind of agree if you're if
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you're in a think tank of creativity, sometimes it's easier
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: to all be in the same room. Jonathan and I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: have felt that before, but that mostly comes from the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: technical limitations that we face, like whether it's lag so
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: that one of us finishes talking and then there's like
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: five seconds of silence and the other ones like, yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: that's right, or you know, a computer crashes, as was
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the case earlier today, or a computer network goes down,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: as was the case for the other one of us today.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You know, that's really why I think. But yeah, I think, fine, fine,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it's not because you want to see my beautiful face
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in person. Also yes, also yes, I would much prefer
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to be in the same room as you, Arieal, because
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: we we have we have what is called chemistry. Um.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I I think. I think considering the fact
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that the Walt Disney Company next year is celebrating a century,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: like it's been incorporated for a century in I can't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: imagine that one of the things, like you're saying is, hey,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: how can we end the century long stance of Walt
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Disney as a standalone company? I agree, I feel like
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: maybe again, knowing how how workplace gossip goes, maybe somebody
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're talking to Apple about this thing,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: or I got this tiny piece of information, so it
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: must mean this huge, big thing that then gets blown
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: out of proportion and put down the telephone chain of gossip. Yeah, yeah,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I think again. I think again. It's a lot of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: people kind of doing a what if and then running
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: on what if as if that were a real possibility.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: And who knows, Maybe I'm totally off base. Maybe we'll
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: wake up tomorrow and there'll be news of Apple acquiring
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Walt Disney a company. But I don't know. Yeah, maybe,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: But you know, I personally think that what if should
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: be um relegated to the realms of Marvel. Me too, Hey,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: why don't we talk about Marvel? Yes? Yes? Uh so uh.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: This week we got a bunch of Disney trailers kind
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of back to back to back, and one of them
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: was for Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three, Yeah, which
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I might have a different response to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it than the majority of people Honestly, it kind of
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: looks sad and not as fun to me. Uh, you
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: do not have a different response to the majority of people,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: because if you do any searching on Twitter for reactions
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three trailer, you'll
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: see a lot of people already clenching their their fists
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and and and wringing their hands in worry over their
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: favorite characters, because the trailer does make it look like
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: this is the This is the the end of the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Guards of the Galaxy as a series, which we already knew,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: at least in its current incarnation, it's going to be over,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and James Gunn is done after this one, right, He's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: over at d C at this point, so this is it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: We also know that Batista said he is retiring from
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the role of Drax after this one, so there's a
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: very good possibility that that's a character who's not going
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to make it um. In the trailer, there's a sequence
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: where you see that Drackx has suffered a wound to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: his chest. Perhaps we're getting an early look at the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: beginning of the end of that character. We don't know.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: We know that James Gunn has referenced the fact that
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a very sad film, or
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: at least it's going to explore the very sad backstory
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: for Rocket. We don't know if Rockets going to make it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are terrified that Rocket won't. They
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: sure make it seem like he won't in the trailer.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: They got to give him a happy ending. They just
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: got a Jonathan Well, it's James Gunn and I could.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I hate to tell you this, but it's the Galaxy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: It's true. But I mean, like, okay, I'll give you
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: my predictions of who I think may not make it,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and I'll give it in order of likelihood. So the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: one I think is most likely going to be dead
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: at the end of Guardians the Galaxy Volume three is Dras.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: If I had the guest, number two would be Nebula
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and number three would be Rocket. I hope that they
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: give many of them happy endings, even if they don't
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: come back, because Guardians of the Galaxy, even though it
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: has definitely had some heart wrenching moments, has overall been
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: very positive and and therefore a stand out to me
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in the Marvel universe. UM. I do like the look
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: of aut Am Warlock. I will say, I'm I'm I'm
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: rocking that. I think it's a good catching choice I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: looking for. And we finally got to see him, like
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: we've been waiting since the end of Guardians two to
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: see this character he's been incubating for years. Yes, yes,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and his egg is finally hatching. Uh. Well, before we
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: run on, I just want to say, I imagine we
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: are going to see ah at least some of the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: characters make it through, because I would be shocked if
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a few of them aren't called upon to make appearances
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: in the pair of Avengers films that are going to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: end phase six, Right, so we know that they're going
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to be two different Avengers movies to close out Phase
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: six of the whole Marvel storyline, and if it's going
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: to be similar to what we saw at the end
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: of Phase three, it means that we should expect some
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: of these characters to make appearances as you know, supporting cast,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: maybe principles even in those films. So I don't think
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a team wipe. I don't think
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it's going to go that bad, but I would be shot,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: just will survive. I sure listen once you see that
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: guardens of the Galaxy Holiday Special. You are going to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: be like, if they kill mantis offt that is a
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: freaking crime anyway. Yeah, so it's it is a heavy
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: looking trailer, right, but then Guards the Galaxy Volume two
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: had heavy stuff in it too. Yeah, but the trailer
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: was much more fun. I don't know. I will definitely
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: see it. I have to see it. This is one
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that I'm not racing to the theaters though, for like,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: especially with Rocket, an animal endangerment gives me anxiety. And
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: if your Rocket is so much more, he's a he's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: a person, just like, just like all the others, So
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: therefore you should be fine. Okay, Well I'm I am
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: h more fine than I expected to be. With another
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: upcoming Disney movie, which is Indiana Jones Retirement Home The
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Dial of Destiny. You don't like it when animals are
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: put in danger, but octogenarians are totally fine. Yeah, we
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: got the trailer or a teaser. Actually, we should also
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: point out that the Guards the Galaxy Volume three trailer
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: is a teaser trailer, so maybe they really emphasize the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: dramatic stuff for that. But maybe future trailers will have
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: more comedy. There was some comedy in the Gardens of
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Galaxy teaser too. It started and ended with some comedy yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and then Indiana Jones, we get the teaser for that,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: which actually surprised me because I hadn't been keeping up
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: with the production right, so I didn't know that they
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: were far enough along for a teaser to be shown already. Um,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I thought, well, I thought, for one thing, that it
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: looks better than Crystal Skull. I did not like Crystal Skull. Um.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Crystal Skull probably has its fans, but
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I think I wouldn't say hey, because that's a very
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: strong word. But I really deeply disliked Crystal Skull. This
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: felt a little better to me, although there was one
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: line in that trailer that that made me say, oh,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: come on out loud at my computer screen. And what
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: line is that? Jonathan? I already know, but don't Why
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: don't you tell us I don't believe in magic? Okay,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that's that's fine, Jonathan, But what was the line? That
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: was the line in the end of I'm saying I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: don't believe in magic? And I'm like, are you kidding me?
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: You have been in multiple films where the stuff you
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: have witnessed could only be described as magical unless you
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: think that a character being able to reach into another
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: character's chest, pull out their beating heart as their chest
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: seals shut, and watch them still living as their beating
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: heart is in your hand, get lowered into lava, and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: only then do they die. If that's science, you gotta
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: be kidding me. Also also like the it's not the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Holy Grill, it's they're not the Grills. Yeah, yeah, they
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: all have some supernatural level around it, but maybe in
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: his old age he's becoming a bit of a skeptic, Like,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: you separate yourself from a miraculous event long enough and
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: you're going to start coming up with reasons of how
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: it practically happened. Um My, my reaction was that, And
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I think I posted about this. I said that that
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it reminded me too much of Scully and X Files
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: being there has to be a logical reason for this,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: even when you're like four seasons into the X Files
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and you're like Scully, how many times do you have
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to be proven wrong before you say, huh, maybe this
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: one is supernatural? Yeah. Other lukewarm takes on the trailer Um,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: there's one John Royce Davies is in it, and I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: got to run a panel or two for him. He
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is such a gracious person, or at least he was
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: for the panels that I ran for him at Dragon
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Con that I'm excited to see him in something again.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Um and in Indiana Jones again. Uh. There, it looks
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: like there's gonna be a whole bunch of like d
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: aging um, which Disney is super into right now. So
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of poking at your nostalgia feels and like, hey,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: remember when you liked this or felt this about this,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: feel it again, because we're showing you the same face
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: uh with c g I um and it. I mean
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it has Phoebe waller Bridge in it, who is an
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: actress from Fleabag, which is certainly not a show for everybody. Um,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: but she is a phenomenal comedic actress and I am
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: so looking forward to her in the Indiana Jones franchise.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: And I hope that she is the person to pick
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: up his mantle because she would make a brilliant Indian
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Indiana Jones. Um. Just her her delivery, her her level
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of sarcasm with like with genuineness. Um. Yeah, I think
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I think she's got like the perfect acting chops for it.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I could totally dig that. Also, I want to just
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: want to mention since you mentioned your connect to John
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Reis Davies, I've acted with him, so I just wanted
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: to Oh yeah in Guards Cards. Yep, he was the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: bad guy in Guards Guards spoiler Alert, and I was
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I was a good guy. Now. I didn't share any
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: scenes with him, unfortunately, but yeah, we were in the
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: same production together and we got to got to hang
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: out with him a bit. It was cool. I've I
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: feel like that performance because I saw that performance at
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Dragon Con is kind of outside of the realms of
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: spoiler even though it only more recently got approved for
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: a Guess distribution. Oh well, the Yeah, actually, at the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: very beginning, we were told we were given permission to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: do it as long as any money that was generated
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: from it would be donated to the Orangutan Foundation. That
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: was that was really cool. Yeah, that was that was
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Pratchett's request, and so yeah, we did a radio play
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: of Terry Pratchett's Guards Guards, and I played Corporal Nobby
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Knobs and my dad played Sergeant Colin. So yeah, it
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: was it was. It was fun and if you do
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: seek out the Atlanta Radio Theater Companies recording of Guards Guards.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I will let you know ahead of time. Performances are
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: uneven across the board. There there's some people who are
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: are fantastic because we've got John Race Davies, so we
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: have a professional like actor playing an important role. Some
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: of the performances are good, like amateur actors. I would
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: say I fall into the good category. Some of the
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: performances are enthusiastic. Yes, yes, that is usually the case.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Um yeah, but but you know, anyway, we've got other
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: news stories we can cover. We don't need to be
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: name dropping or I don't need to be name dropping
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: like this. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to name drop either.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I just I really meant to compliment the actor. Yeah, no,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: you really were. I was being like, but I also
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: got to hang out with Johndrey Davies. That's cool. Trivia
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Jonathan and and you know, maybe one day we'll make
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: a trivia game. If you remember this factoid, we'll send
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: you I don't know. Yeah. Also, here's another trivia a bit.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: One of the two hosts here was once called cute
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: by Charles and Heston. Can you guess which of the
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: hosts of Large Negrounkallider was once called cute by Charlton Heston.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Was it Oswald the Rabbit. Oswald the Rabbit is not
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: one of the hosts of Large Nerdnka Lighter. He could
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: be he's a silent character, right, that's true. It could
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: be that he has been on every episode. We just
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: didn't know. Yeah, why are you talking about Oswald the
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Lucky Rabbit, because with Disney hitting there, you know on anniversary,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: that's that's it, correct one. We just said that, Yeah, No,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: they've come up with a new Oswald the Rabbit short. Uh.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Disney actually lost in again. Jonathan and I actually talked
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: about this on Business on the Brink on one of
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: our Disney episodes. They actually created Oswald the Rabbit Disney
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and um of Eye Works and then lost rights to
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: to Oswald the Rabbit, and then that's why Disney created
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse. And then in two thousand and six they
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: got the right back. So now we have this lovely
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: little It is an absolutely charming short. It's like a
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: minute six seconds long. UM. I will post the Polygon
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: article to our website at some point this weekend. UM.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: By Monday, it will be available to you if you
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: don't want to google it. Um, and it's just delightful.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: It's it's a cute throwback to the because it's a
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: black and white silent I mean, there's music, but it's
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a there's no dialogue or anything in it, so it's
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: a little like silent movie era style animated short. And
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: it's absolutely adorable. And uh it has enough of the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: nostalgic throwback to the nineteen twenties style of animation to
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: be charming, but also has some more modern um takes
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: as well, like some modern expressions and modern reactions to
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: stuff like it's it's cute. It's a great marriage of
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: the two. So yeah, I really, I really liked it.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I also liked the fact that it was a minute
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: in six seconds long because I was like, oh man,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: we had to watch so much stuff for this episode. Yeah, no,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I enjoyed that a lot more
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: than I enjoyed the Super Mario Brothers trailer even Oh yeah,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: so we got a new Super Mario Brothers trailer, an
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: actual trailer trailer, not a teaser. Um. We got to
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: hear a little bit more of Chris Pratt's Mario, including
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: a let's a go. We gotta lets a go From
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Chris Pratt, I'm fine with it. Sorry. I've seen articles
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: about how people are freaking out about how other countries
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: are way better off with the voice actors who are
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: picked to do Mario into their language, and I'm like, oh, man,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that that's a that's a twist of the knife in it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, for for purposes of this is just me
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: upsetting everybody who listens to our show. This episode. I
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: thought he sounded fine, Like I thought he sounded like
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: a perfectly acceptable h M version of Mario that is
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: not super super stereotyped. But Luigi also doesn't sound super stereotyped,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I think I think it was more that
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: people felt that it was a low energy performance in
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: comparison to some of the voice actors from other countries. Honestly,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: uh h, I think the teaser was more effective for
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: me than the trailer I didn't have. I didn't feel
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: like the trailer put the film with its best foot forward.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: The teaser I felt, had a little bit more amusing
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: charm to it. There was some but um, you know,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: seeing my girl Anya Taylor Joy Princess Peach love that. Yeah,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: she'd her voice been a lot better than I imagined
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: it would. Um. But honestly, I think it's just that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: this trailer maybe isn't for us because my my niece
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and my nephews watched it and they are crazy excited
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: for the movie. Like that ridiculously totally fair. I mean like,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: it's only a character that debuted when I was a kid,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and you would only think that, you know, I would
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: have a connection with a character that debuted when. I
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: mean like I was alive when not just Super Mario
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Brothers when the first Mario Brothers came out. Heck, I
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: was alive when Donkey Kolin came out and Mario was
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: just called jump Man. You wouldn't think that I'd have
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: a deep emotional connection to such a character and thus
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: feel maybe if they made another live action with John
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Legazamo and it maybe, But I think, do you legitimately
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: like that movie in the same way that I like
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: uh uh Kiss of a Vampire Vampire's Kiss or whatever
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: it's called or the Room? Well, you and Shay are
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: mutual friend. Set should get together and watch it because
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: you two both seem to I don't know, maybe it's
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: the Redheads I know who all like Super I I
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: like it in that it's a bad movie that is
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: also so bad that it's funny. It's not something that
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I seek out to watch. Yeah, I okay, well, fair enough.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Well anyway, the trailers out. You can watch it if
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you haven't seen it already. Maybe maybe you still have
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: a spark of joy in you and you will really
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: respond well to the trailer. But it's dead inside me,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: and I felt nothing. Did you feel anything for the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Transformers Rights of the Beasts trailer? Nausea? Oh? That is
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that worse or better? But something? Uh? No, the Transformer
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Rise of the Beasts. Okay, I have made it no secret.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Anyone who knows me knows I hate the live action
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Transformers films. Uh that's probably another strong word. I've only
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: seen two of them, but I hated both of them,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: so I haven't watched. I think I've watched the first
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: one and then The Dark Side of the Moon I
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: guess what, or Dark of the Moon. That's what it
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: was called, right, Dark of the Moon? Um? Yeah, is
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: that the one that had the nights in it? Like
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that was kind of medieval? No? That was the one
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: after that? Um No, Dark of the Moon. I hated
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: them both. Uh. I actually watched Dark of the Moon
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: for a different podcast I used to do called Podcast
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Without Pretense, And if you want to hear Jonathan curse
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: a lot, you can find that episode and you'll hear
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: me really let loose on that film. Um. Yeah, I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: don't like them. I find them incomprehensible. The Transformation sequences
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: are just visual noise to me, like nothing seems to
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: make any sense, which really irritates me because I don't
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: really like the toys. And the toys like you saw
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: how they had to figure out, like how can we
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: make this form factor into a robot and have them
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: go back and forth? And that requires you to make
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: certain choices, right, But the films they're like, well, this
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: is all c g. I. We don't have to do that.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: We we are not We're not confined by that. So
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: you just get these visually noisy sequences where nothing that's
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: in motion is really making sense and you go from
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: one form to another. And I hated it. Um, I
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: really hated this trailer. I just I just did nothing
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: about it appealed to me. I also should point out
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: that I'm I like the original run of Transformers and
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I was out by the time the Beast Stuff started.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm also the wrong demographic for this movie because
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the beasts stuff means nothing to me. I don't know
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: those characters. I was familiar with the earlier ones. So
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: maybe for fans of the Transformers during the original Beast Stuff,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the Beast Wars or whatever it was, maybe they will
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: really love this. Uh. For one thing, I guess, I
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: guess my biggest problem is I just don't connect with
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: any of the characters ever. Yeah, yeah, I have to agree.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I have. I've watched less Transformers than you, and I
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that I hate them. I would just say
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: that they I didn't find them entertaining. Um, and I
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: wanted to because I also love Transformers. I love the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: old toys over the old cartoon even some of the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: older movies. Um. There's even a Transformer who was previously
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: known as Ariel fun fact uh way back when. Um
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: she is not in this new Transformers movie, although our
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: c is who has a really cool design and I
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: did like that. Um. But yeah, it's just I haven't
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I haven't found the storylines intriguing enough to care. And
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: it's sad because like this one has Anthony Ramos in it,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: and I think he's a phenomenal actor, and I want
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: to care that he's in this movie, and I don't yea.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: And again, maybe it's a bad teaser. Maybe the next
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: trailer will make us turn around and say, oh oh,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I was totally off base because I got the wrong impression.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I was making too many assumptions based on the teaser.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm totally open to that. I want that to
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: happen because I want to have a Transformers film that
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I'm like excited to see. Uh Again, this gets back
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: to to the fact that in general, big action things
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: fall flat for me unless I care about the people
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: in the story. And you know, like the original Transformers
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: movies with Sam Witwicky as your protagonist as the worst
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: human being ever makes it very difficult for me to
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: act with the film. Yeah, yeah, and I agree with you.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I also get visual fatigue because there are too many
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: pieces moving pieces that don't all fit together. In the Transformers.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I've been told Bumblebee as good. I haven't seen that one,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: but um, I feel like I need to give that
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: one a shot. I think out of all the ones
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: that have been made, that's the one that I'm most
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: likely to connect with so, but I haven't seen it either. Um, yeah,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: you know. And I also I think I think Michael
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Bay not that not the Rise of the Beasts of
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Michael Bay film. It's not, but Michael Bay did the
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: original Transformers movies. I think Michael Bay has a point
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: of view and philosophy that is just not in alignment
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: with anything that I hold important, and that's part of
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the problem. Mhm. Yeah, Well there's the Rise of Another
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Beast that I bet you are more interested in. Oh no, okay, great.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: So this trailer came out the other day. Everybody kind
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: of went crazy for it, even like my own friend group.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: It's called Cocaine Bear. It's based on a a true
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: story about a bear who kind of who ate cocaine
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: and then um, but it is very much like fictionalized.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: It's a dark comedy. It looks like like scary you know,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: bear attack stuff, but also really bizarre humor. Like the
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: tone is all over the place. You know what it
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: makes me think of. It makes me think La Placid,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: but instead of a giant alligator in a lake, it's
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: a cocaine infused bear. But yeah, like if if Betty
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: White had survived, I would to do more movies. I
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: would have expected her to show up in Cocaine Bear
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: as her character from Like Placid, because, um, that's the
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: kind of movie this looks like. Here it does so well.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: What did you think of the trailer? You watched the trailer,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: you saw that it has this weird tonal issue. It's
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: got like the mix of gory horror and uh, weird comedy.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: What was your reaction? Um? I felt like the brief
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: scene where they showed the bear talking was completely out
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: of tone with the rest of it. Um. I felt
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: it it was inconsistent, Like there are some bits that
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: just look scary, there were some bits that looked funny
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: and scary. Um. I suspect this is one that I
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: will not seek out to watch, but I will have
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: a group of friends watching it for a bad movie night,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: and I will have to suffer through it. Uh. That
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: being said, One of the kids, one of the main
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: kids in the movie is the little child who played
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Sweet Tooth in the Sweet Tooth series, and I am
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: excited to see him do more things. So well, that's
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: that's good. I'm glad that you're able to find silver
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: linings and stuff areal because I watched this and I
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: just thought this, this feels like it's one step away
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: from an US asylum movie. To me, it's not quite
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: to the level of asylum that like a Sharknado will be.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: It's almost there. It's it's it's like they're sitting. They're
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: sitting elbow to elbow at the bar right like asylum
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and this movie, um and and I don't feel like
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the people who made Cocaine Bear set out to make
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Like you watch asylum movies, you feel like, I don't
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: think anyone here had a vision. They just had a
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: set of bullet points that they had to hit and
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: a a very low budget and that's it. In the
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Sharknado movies, I feel like their goal was, let's make
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: a really bad schlocky movie on purpose, which is why
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: those movies don't work for me. Cocaine Bear, I don't
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: know if they were aiming to make like a bad
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: schlocky movie or they just wanted to make a schlocky
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: movie and it just looks like it's not good to me. Again,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: this is all my opinion. Nothing's wrong with anybody who
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: thought it looks amazing and they really want to see.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I think that's great. It just didn't again, like it
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: didn't hit anything for me. It looks better than Santa Jaws.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: A raptor pastor, raptor rapter pastor pastor. It's called pastor,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: like it's a it's a crime that one didn't get
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: up any Academy nominations. I don't they're making a second one.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're I don't know what your
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: problem is here. But but going from white substances to
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: white noises, we that's a really horrible segue, and I'm
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: so sorry it's bad. We have another trailer for a
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Netflix movie that's coming out. Honestly, I saw this. The
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: name of this trailer, I hadn't heard of it. Jonathan
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: found it White Noise, and I thought it was going
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: to be a super scary trailer. And I was like,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: what are you doing to me. It's the Christmas season.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: You can't scare me. John at it and I didn't.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: It's not scary. Yeah, So this is This is actually
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: based off a novel um The non Role was by
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Don Delilo I think came out in the eighties, and
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: the novel is it uses sort of absurdest humor two
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: look at some big ideas, like things like the concept
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: of your own mortality and uh like lots of big
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: big things, but through like an absurdest humor lens and
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: the the the event that the trailer really focuses on,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: it's one element of the book. It's in one of
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the segments. Um is the airborne toxic event. And if
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: you've ever heard of a band called that, they got
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: their name from this. But there's a there's a train
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: accident that releases this This toxic fumes into the air
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: and requires a group evacuation of the entire region. It
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: becomes kind of a post apocalyptic sort of thing. And meanwhile,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: you have this family that's made up it's a blended
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: family made up of two people who have each been
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: married numerous times and have numerous children from their various
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: marriages that are with them. They also have more children,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: by the way, who don't live with them. The book
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: explains that there's like six other kids that are not
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: part of this family unit. But yeah, the couple are
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: on their fourth marriage. Yes, each they're each there, each
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: each other's fourth, and the book, I think she's actually
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: his fifth, although one of his wives he married twice. Um, so,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: so yeah, it's a it's it's based off of a
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: very weird book that that got a lot of notoriety
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: in the eighties, Like it's the one that got this
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: author kind of really recognized. The author had been writing
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: for a long time before that, but this was like
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the breakout hit. And um, you know the trailer has
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Adam Driver playing the main character. I think the novel
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: is told in first person, so he's like the the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: protagonist of the film. And uh, I don't know, why
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: did you actually think of the trailer when you saw it.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's got a very peculiar sense of humor
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: in tone. Yeah. Again, it's it's got kind of like
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: this Napoleon dynamite sort of banality to it, but also
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: uh like apocalypse vibes, but also like, uh I guess
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Cheaper by the dozen, learning to work as a family.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: It's a lot um but it looked interesting to me.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: It definitely looked more interesting to me than Transformers. Uh I. Honestly,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: there was one thing about the trailer that bothered me.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: If they're all evacuating from this airborne toxin, why do
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: they keep having their car windows down? Yeah? I don't
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: think they're I don't think they're super super focused on
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: a realistic depiction of how you should evacuate an area.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, like I agree with you. Uh, the Napoleon
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Dynamite comparison is one that did not occur to me,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: and I think you are spot on. I think it's
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: that that almost disaffected, like you're taking one step back
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: and trying to survey everything that's happening and makes sense
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: of it while you're also going through it. And so
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: there's this almost disassociative feeling that you're having as you're
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: trying to navigate through the situation. That's the kind of
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: feeling I got so interesting. It also kind of and
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: this is another Adam Driver movie. It actually reminds me
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit in tone of the Dead Don't Die,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: which was a comedy zombie film with Adam Driver and
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Bill Murray, and that one had sort of a meta
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: textual element to it too. I would be shocked if
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: White Noise doesn't have something akin to that, um, maybe
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: even just sort of some textual thing, but it was.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: It's given me some feels of that too, which just
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: makes me kind of think that Driver's got he has
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: a type. Yeah, yeah, I think this is one I'll
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: probably check out um on some afternoon. And I'm like,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I want to watch. I don't
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: want to watch the Office for the twenty ninth time. Um. Yeah,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: when you can, when you can put dress up your
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: pets in costumes from characters from Community and act out
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: entire scripts, it might be time to adopt a new show. Ah. Snap,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: I need to start watching Community again. I stopped at
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: the Christmas episode and oh, no, you definitely need to
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: watch it. Yeah, because we've got that movie coming out before,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe eight or nine anymore years. So well,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I guess. I guess then I just have no time
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: to watch Darby in the Dead. Uh yeah, so yeah,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: this was another trailer we got. Um where we got
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Darby and the Dead gave me kind of Buffy the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Vampire Slayer vibes. Um. Yeah, like if they try it
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: a little too hard, maybe, yeah. I don't know. Like
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: part of me thinks, is this just because we Ariel
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: are of a certain age and so maybe this is
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: just a style And Okay, I am of a certain
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: age and Ariel is just an old soul and so
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: so like there's just maybe there's just a different approach
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: to these kind of these kind of teenager stories that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: is similar enough to what we are used to from
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: when we were watching these kind of things when we
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: were less uh wise, let's put it that way. Um,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: And so maybe that's why it doesn't connect quite as much.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: But the premise is that you have this character Darby.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: She is able to see dead people. She she uses
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: that phrase, um, and she tries to help ghosts get
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: to the other side. She also tries to fit in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: in high school. The head cheer leader dies and needs
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: to finish her business on Earth, which involves having a
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: big birthday party bash Throne, and so she is haunting
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Darby until Derby becomes popular and is able to have
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: this party so that the head cheerleader can go off
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: to her final rest. That that seems to be the premise. Um,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: that's that. And Yeah, the trailer's cute, I thought, I mean,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the chail is cute. Honestly, it gave me um clueless
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: vibes as well, which I did like clueless, um a
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: little bit of mean girls too. Yeah. I think part
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: of the problem for me is I didn't watch Buffy
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: until it had already completely finished. Like I didn't watch
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Buffy till I was an adult, um, and so by
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: the time I watched it, I'm like I am an
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: old soul, like I started working in high school. So
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of like teen drama that I
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: just never ever connected with really, um and so I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: would find it frustrating sometimes or I'd be like, you're
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: smarter than this, stop whining about that, um, which is
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: very very mean of me and not very sympathetic. Uh.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: But most most teen movies I didn't like, Like I
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: liked Ten Things I Hate About You, and I liked Clueless,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: But then there's a whole other slew of them that
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: just I had no interest at all in when I
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: was a kid or a teenager or a young adult. Um.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I was already an adult when
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer came out, right, Like, I was
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: already well passed high school when that show started. Ah,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: so I kind of hear you on on that as well.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's this was one where I thought
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: it looked cute. I don't. I don't think it hit
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: all cylinders either, like Darby, I don't think it quite
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: uh uh struck a tone with me in the same
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: way that Buffy did when it first came out. But um,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: but that again, the older I get, the more the
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: more distance there is between me and high school, and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: also the more the high school experience changes from what
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: it was when I went to high school. Like, when
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: I went to high school, there was no publicly available internet.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: There was no such thing as the World Wide Web.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: You know that the world was people didn't have cell phones,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: let alone smartphones, so it was a very different world.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: And thus the further we get away from that era,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: the more I'm going to find it difficult to connect
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: with a story. I think the actress who's playing Darby
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: is doing a great job, at least from what we
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: seen the teaser. Yeah, I will agree with that. I'll
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: probably give it a chance. I'm more excited about the
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: the High School Breakfast clubby eighties Vibe Frankenstein movie that's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: coming out. Um, that is is Zelda Williams's debut directorial debut.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, I might give this one a try. Um,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: something I don't I don't know if I can give
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: a try to is if Guerma de Toro actually makes
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: a stop motion animated Mountains of Madness, which is a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: HP Lovecraft story. It is, and I've got good news
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: for you. So, so, there was an interview that Guenermo
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: del Toro did where he kind of off handedly said
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: that one thing he would love to be able to
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: do is do a stop motion animated adaptation of the
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Mountains of Madness. Then people ran with that. Now this
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: kind of goes back to something else we talked about
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: earlier in this episode that people ran with that, and
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: it quickly evolved into Guiermo del Toro is developing a
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: stop motion animated adaptation of the Mountains of Madness. Guermo
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: del Toro himself went on to Twitter and said, no,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: I am not. This was just a random pull quote
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: from an interview. I would love to see it happen,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: but there's no work being done on this. So he
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: was kind of putting out the fire early on, saying,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: I know I have this reputation. You know, he's been
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: connected to wanting to make a film about the Mountains
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: of Madness for years, Like I remember hearing rumors about
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: him supposedly getting into that, like more than a decade ago,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: maybe even two decades ago. At this point, they have
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: a c g I clip like test footage clip, um
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: from ten years ago. Yeah, but but but he is
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: not actually planning on doing that unless, like some studio
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: comes forward and says, you know what, Cabinet of Curiosity
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: was great, here's a truckload of money. So I think
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: that's part of the speculation. And you know that ten
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: years ago when he was looking at it, it HP
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Lovecraft was a very hard sell to a lot of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: movie studios for for bucket load of reasons. Um. But
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: for me, like I think Ayrmo to Toro could do
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: some really cool stuff with some HP Lovecraft esque stories,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Mountains of Madness just has a very unsatisfying end to me. Yeah, well,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I mean for me, a lot of Lovecraft does. But
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: he did, like there were a couple of stories and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Cabinet of Curiosities that were either directly adapted from Lovecraft
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: stories or were heavily influenced by them. So it's clear
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: he's always going to have kind of a hand in,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Like that's always going to be an influence. And we
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: know Guiermo del Toro he loves monsters just like Ariel,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: So I would be shocked if we don't get some
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: sort of adaptation at some point. Just we shouldn't be
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: expecting a stop motion animated film at least anytime in
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: the near future. Yeah, we have three more stories. Let's
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: cover them super quick so that we have time to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: get to your mashup, Jonathan. Uh. The first is that
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: you said you had a surprise for me, and I
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: guess I don't technically know. Yeah, well that's that. We
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: we said that off Mike, though. Now our listeners all
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: know that I've got a mash up. You you can
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: cut it out. I could know me. I'm lazy. I'm
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: not going to cut it out. Okay, well, okay, so
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: everybody who's listening for what let's do those last stories though. Yeah,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: but everyone who's listening just forget she said that part. Yeah,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: forget like the last two and a half three minutes. Um, okay,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: so we're getting that nineties show. Um, the trailer just dropped.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: We knew were we we knew, We've been getting it
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: for a while. The trailer dropped. It's still about Red
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: and Kitty, but this time it's their grandkids coming over. Um.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: It actually looks a little bit sweeter to me than
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: that somebody show did. Yeah, it does. It does look
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: against some of the like ribbing between the friends appears
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: to be toned down. It doesn't look like it's quite
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: as mean spirited as some of the that seventy show is.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, Red still has his his edge to him
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: where he wants to, you know, he'll threaten to kick
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: someone's ass if they don't, um, you know, do whatever
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: he says or get the heck out of his way
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: or whatever um I have to say. Like, like, I
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: watched it and I thought, this looks very kind of
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: bland to me. Like the trailer did not look particularly
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: it didn't look bad. It just didn't look super funny
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: to me either. And they weren't really leaning heavily into
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the nineties stuff, right like the seven That seventy show
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: had so many jokes and references that were very much
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: dependent upon the seventies era. That nineties show the trailer
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: we saw, I mean, the series might be different, but
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: the trailer did not do that. Like there didn't. I
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: didn't see people talk about like like grunge or any
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: anything like that, or like man they had a shortage
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: on flam roll at the local store or anything like that. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: for all we know it could have been you know
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: that show or the ten show. Um it was it
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: was a little nondescript. I will agree there. Yeah, I
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: mean again, it might turn out to be okay, But like, uh,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: if the trailer is really representative of what the series is,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: I would be shocked if this gets renewed for the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: next season. But you know, maybe we just got a
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: little bit that was available and what will actually premier
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: will be better. We'll have to see. Next up, We've
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: got also got a trailer for one of the Murderville
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: murder mysteries. If you don't know, this is a series where, uh,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: they have scripted murder mysteries, but then they bring in
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: celebrities who are not given a copy of the script
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: and who have to kind of navigate as an assistant
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: to the detective as they try to solve the murder.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: And this one, Santa is the victim. Yes, yes, And
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: the special guests are Jason Bateman and Maya Rudolph. I
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: really liked the Murder Raal murder mystery series. I am
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: absolutely delighted to get a holiday special. I cannot wait
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: to watch this. Yeah, I and you know, of course
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Bateman and aren't will Arnatt, who's sort of the central
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: figure of the series. Are old colleagues, friends. They've held
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: hands in New York. It was one of my favorite bits.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Did you ever see those pictures? No? No, I just
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: watched Arrested Development, which they were both on. Yes. Yes,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: So they were walking together in New York and they
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: spotted paparazzi who were rushing to get into place to
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: take pictures. So they held hands and pointed at apartments
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: as they strolled down the sidewalk. Is one of the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: most adorable things you'll ever see. The they look genuinely
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: joyful as they walk hand in hand. So anyway, yeah,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this one too. And our last story.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I hadn't heard about this, but we're
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: getting a Brittany Spears inspired musical called Once Upon a
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: One More Time on Broadway next June. Yes, it's going
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: to the Marquet Theater, which is currently housing Beetlejuice until January. Um.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they've got a show in between. Um. So,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: this was a show. It ran for a short time
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: and then the pandemic happened and it lost traction. It's
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: it's like a Fairytale Britney Spears Jukebox Musical. I tried
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: to find videos of it and all you could find
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: were like curtain call videos. Yeah, well, because they only
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: did a very short engagement when they were workshopping essentially
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: and in d C. And then they were supposed to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: go to Chicago and do kind of a preview series,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: which a lot of Broadway shows will do. They'll do
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: a run in a second dairy market like Chicago or
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: sometimes Atlanta. Atlanta has been home for a few of these,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: and then it will go on to Broadway once the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: show has been kind of polished and refined. But this
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: one kind of skipped the Chicago step because of multiple reasons,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: including a pandemic, and now is going to open next summer.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: The the promotional photos make it seem like the princess
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: characters in the series in the musical are and I'm
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: gonna be really generous here inspired heavily by Disney iconography,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: because there's one actress who I think is supposed to
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: be snow white because her yeah, her outfit has got
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: like the snow white colors. It's I told Ariel, it's
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: a lot like these people are Disney bounding super hard, Like,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: they're not identical to the costumes of the animated films
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: from Disney, but it's the same color ski in same
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: general form factors, but then modernized a bit. Yeah, Honestly,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: at first I was gonna say, I'm kind of surprised
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: they're able to do that, But then I remember that
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Britney Spears was a mousketeer, so but she supposedly has
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: had no official involvement in this. She just she is
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: reportedly excited about it, but didn't. She's not listed as
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: like a producer or a writer or a contributor of
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: any kind for this film. All the all the songs
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: were obviously licensed because they weren't that they would just
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: get sued out of existence by the the music studios.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm not a big fan of jukebox musicals
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: in general. That's just not my my jam. I prefer
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: musicals where the songs are specifically written to either further
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: the plot or give us more insight into a character,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: rather than have a character be conformed in such a
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: way so that a song fits whatever they're going through
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Like that just doesn't work as well for me. So
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not big on jukebox musicals. I will say, though
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: I am perhaps morbidly curious about this one. I am
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: morbidly curious. I don't know if I'm curious enough to
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: go to Broadway to watch it or watch it the
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: next time I'm at Broadway, but I am morbidly curious.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I remember watching h Hit Me Baby One
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: More Time when it came to like the knockoff MTV
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: public Access music channel on my antenna back when I
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: was a kid. Um, so I do. I do have
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: some love for those old songs, although Britney Spears herself
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: did not stay on my radar too long. As far
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: as pop music that I listened to, well yeah yeah.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: And also when you start thinking about the songs, you're like,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: what context is that going to work for princesses? Like
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: hit Me Baby one More Time has a different connotation
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: to it, or Oops, I did it again. It's gonna
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: make me hit Me Baby one more Time. They're they're
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: playing Blackjack Jonathan. Okay, that's super child friendly. Sure that works, okay,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: and that that's like our epic news episode. Man, this
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: episode is gonna be super long when I edited all
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: at the end, but now it's Okay, it's okay. I
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: mean mostly me because I'm such a chatterbox. But I
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: did do a mashup. I did not tell Ariel beforehand
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: that I was going to do a mash up, so
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: this is a surprise for her. It is a a
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: mash up that I did based upon um one of
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: the news stories we covered, as well as an upcoming
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: film we we well, we talked about Ballerina john Wick
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: is thrown into here, but there's also another there's also another,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: uh major, major, major influence into this mashup that I'm
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: not going to to tell you because I want you
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: to discover it Ariel, because it's a movie I know
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: you've seen, and I don't want to tell you ahead
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  Speaker 1: of time. So all right, we're gonna just start. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even gonna tell you the title. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: the title at the end, because if I tell you
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  Speaker 1: the title, you know you're gonna We're gonna guess it, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Den Jarin aka the Mandalorian, has a problem. He's got
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  Speaker 1: this crazy black lightsaber called the Dark Saber of all things,
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  Speaker 1: and because the Mandalorian people are really into our Thurian legend,
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  Speaker 1: this means he is the rightful ruler of Mandalore. But
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  Speaker 1: you see, there's this woman who is at least fifty,
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  Speaker 1: but she looks closer to forty, and she's named Bokaton. Cries,
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  Speaker 1: and really, we should talk sometime about the muddled timelines
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  Speaker 1: and ages of characters across different Star Wars properties, but
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  Speaker 1: this is not the time or place for it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Bokatan has aspirations of ruling Mandalori, and she's wanted it
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  Speaker 1: for a really long time, and she wants to return
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  Speaker 1: Mandalori to its place as a militaristic power in the
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  Speaker 1: galaxy as opposed to the more pacifist version that was
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  Speaker 1: in power prior to the rise of the Empire. So
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  Speaker 1: bo Katan really wants that Dark Saber, and the only
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  Speaker 1: way to hold it is to defeat the current wielder
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  Speaker 1: of the Blade, that being den Jarin, the Mandalorian, and
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  Speaker 1: that's his problem. He has a former ally now seeking
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  Speaker 1: to defeat him in single combat, so things are kind
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  Speaker 1: of rough. Anyway, we joined Jarin and his merchandise gold
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  Speaker 1: mine known as grow Goo, which from now on we
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  Speaker 1: are going to refer to as Baby Yoda because we
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  Speaker 1: all know that's his real name, and they're on a
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  Speaker 1: train that's rushing its way across the surface of Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just say tattooing, because while presumably there's an entire
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  Speaker 1: galaxy of planets out there, for some reason we keep
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  Speaker 1: coming back to this one. So the Mandalorian and Baby
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  Speaker 1: Yoda are sitting on this train when a couple of
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  Speaker 1: dudes sit across from them, and they introduced themselves as
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  Speaker 1: Tangerine and Lemon. Lemon seems particularly interested in Thomas the
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  Speaker 1: tank engine and immediately points at Mando and says, you're
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  Speaker 1: a dazel. And then he points to Baby Yoda and says,
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  Speaker 1: and you're a bird. Now. Before Mando can respond, the
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  Speaker 1: one called Tangerine says, look, we've been I had to
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on you, isn't it. And you better
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve that will take you out for a
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  Speaker 1: ball of chalk and push in your fireman's hose if
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  Speaker 1: you give us any Bondie rubble. And Mando says, okay,
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  Speaker 1: none of what you said even makes sense. But before
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  Speaker 1: Tangerine can elaborate, there's a ruckus further up the train,
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  Speaker 1: in front of Mando and Baby Yoda but behind Tangerine
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  Speaker 1: and Lemon. Because they're facing each other right, and for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, the two Tangerine and Limit they're they're distracted,
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  Speaker 1: so Mando does the old conk two heads together, trick
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  Speaker 1: and out they both go. So he picks up baby
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  Speaker 1: Yoda says, come on, that doesn't sound good. Mando walks
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  Speaker 1: forward carefully and looks into the next car up the train,
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  Speaker 1: and through the train door window he can see this
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  Speaker 1: guy in snazzy clothes and he's fighting off like three
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  Speaker 1: or four other people, Like there's a stormtrooper and an
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  Speaker 1: i G Series assassin's droid and giant fluffy teddy bear
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  Speaker 1: looking thing, and also a guy flashing a regular old
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  Speaker 1: sword around. But the dude in the nice clothes takes
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  Speaker 1: them all out by doing this weird combination of gun
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  Speaker 1: fighting and martial arts. So the nicely dressed dude, once
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  Speaker 1: he has dispatched his opponents, straightens out his suit and
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  Speaker 1: then he turns and he sees Mando looking at him
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  Speaker 1: through the window in this door, and the guy kind
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  Speaker 1: of looks down and he sighs, and Mando slowly opens
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  Speaker 1: the door and says, hey, I don't want any trouble,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: and the guy is like, wait for real, WHOA, that's awesome, because, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: like everyone I meet, and I mean literally everyone, including
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  Speaker 1: random people on the street just passing me by, are
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  Speaker 1: all professional assassins. Like all of them. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: we're all assassins, and we're all hired to do jobs
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  Speaker 1: on each other, and I'm stuck in some sort of
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  Speaker 1: assassin based economic model. It's really ridiculous. I'm John Wick,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: by the way, and that's how the Mandalorian met John Wick.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, says Mando. In my line of work, everyone
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  Speaker 1: is either a bounty hunter or a criminal. That's about
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  Speaker 1: the extent of it. I don't even know who hires
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  Speaker 1: me at this point, John nods, I get it. So
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  Speaker 1: any trouble back that way, he says, and he points
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  Speaker 1: back to the back of the train, you know, behind Mando,
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  Speaker 1: and Mando says, oh yeah, two men made some vague
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: threats and a lot of Thomas the tank engine references
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  Speaker 1: at me back there. But before them, it was really
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  Speaker 1: pretty quiet, says Mando, and John Wick nods, All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to rest here as I have received injuries,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: and any other reality would totally sideline me for like
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  Speaker 1: a week, but I just need to catch my breath.
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye on your friends back there. And
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: so Mando and Baby Yoda keep moving on up the train.
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  Speaker 1: In the next car, they find Brad Pitt and he's like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: have you guys seen a briefcase? And Bando says no,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: and brad Pitt says man, and then he keeps going
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: towards the back of the train. So Mando looks at
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: Baby Yoda and says, Okay, you're right, we should have
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: taken a sky transport to moss Eisley, and Baby Yoda
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  Speaker 1: looks up at Mando adorably and then burps. So then
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  Speaker 1: Mando and Baby Yoda get to the first car on
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  Speaker 1: the train, and inside it are a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: guys with swords and knives and guns, and there's one
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  Speaker 1: woman with a snake and everyone is fighting everybody else
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  Speaker 1: and it's just like crazy, And before Mando can even
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  Speaker 1: do anything, they've all managed to wipe each other out.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the other end of the train, on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of this pile of bodies, he sees
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  Speaker 1: her Bo Katan, the Dark Saber. I need it, she says,
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  Speaker 1: I told you before you can take it, says Mando.
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  Speaker 1: You know that's not how it works, she says, and
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  Speaker 1: Mandoz size and he sets down Baby Yoda, who casually
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  Speaker 1: grabs the snake that that one woman was using and
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  Speaker 1: then starts to eat it. And Mando and Bokaton begin
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  Speaker 1: to close in on each other, and when they're about
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  Speaker 1: fifteen feet apart, Mando says, oh and points behind Bokatan,
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  Speaker 1: and she says, you don't really think I'm gonna fall
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  Speaker 1: for that. You don't think I'm that stupid, do you?
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  Speaker 1: And Mando says nothing, but he braces himself and we
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  Speaker 1: see what Mando saw that the train has no driver
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  Speaker 1: and it is rapidly approaching a barrier laid across the tracks,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: a thick barrier, and Bokaton, unable to resist, turns to
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  Speaker 1: look just before the collision and lets out of oh
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  Speaker 1: s and then boom, the train crashes. Cars go flying
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  Speaker 1: off the track, Some of the train cars break in half,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: some slide hundreds of feet, colliding with small buildings nearby,
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  Speaker 1: and out of the rubble, we see Mando stand up,
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  Speaker 1: and before he can even panic, he looks over to
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  Speaker 1: his right and there's Baby Yoda happily slurping up the
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  Speaker 1: last of the snake's tail. Come on, Mando says, and
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  Speaker 1: picks up baby Yoda. Together they walked towards the little buildings,
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  Speaker 1: and we watched them walk further away from camera, and
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  Speaker 1: then the foreground we see a bit of rubble move
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  Speaker 1: and an arm clad in Mandalorian armor emerges, and then
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Bullock shows up for a cameo cut to credits.
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  Speaker 1: That was That was delightful. Thank you for the surprise
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  Speaker 1: and gift. I do not have any pitch meeting quick
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  Speaker 1: mashups that I can throw in there. So did you
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: also watch a Bullet Train over the holidays? Hey? I
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: watched Bullet Trade on a plane, well two plane flights technically,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: one from Atlanta to Philadelphia, and then I watched the
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  Speaker 1: second and half from Philadelphia to Atlanta. What do you think? Um?
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  Speaker 1: I like, okay, funny enough. I like the first half
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and the second half kind of didn't work
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  Speaker 1: nearly as well for me. But um like all the
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  Speaker 1: tangerine and lemon stuff I loved. I loved every scene
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: that they were in. Um, But yeah, it things get
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: so crazy in the second half of that movie that
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: I started to kind of not connect with the film anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when I found it less interesting. But the
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  Speaker 1: first half I actually really liked. I thought when originally
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: when I was watching it, I told my wife Becca,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: I said, this is like smoking Aces, but better. And
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: then by the end of it, I said, no, this
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: is like smoking Aces. I really like the the cameos
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: in there, because there was more than just a Sandra
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: Bullet cameo. Um. There was also a Ryan Reynolds cameo,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: which hilarious because Brad Pitt did a cameo and a
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds movie Deadpool two. Yeah. Ryan, Ryan Reynolds has
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: no lines, but he does appear, yes, And then Channing
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: Tatum Channem t. Channing Tatum also has a Channem Chating
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: also has a cameo, which is hilarious because Brad Pitt
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: and Cedro Bulick and Channing Tatum We're all in the
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Lost City of d which was a cute uh Romancing
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: the Stone knockoff. Yeah, I I agree. Once you once
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: you find out what's happening and all of this stuff
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: kind of hits the fan, it does lose a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of its magic for sure. Yeah. I felt like
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: it was something it was building to something that could
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: not possibly pay off, And that's kind of how I
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: felt it all turned out in the end. Not that
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's a bad movie. It's just I don't
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: think it's sort of like when you watch a fan
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  Speaker 1: made trailer where the trailer is super cool, but then
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: if you really think about it, you realize there's no
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: way to actually make a full movie based off this
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: trailer that would one make sense and to actually build
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: to a satisfying climax. Um. The example I give everybody
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: is years and years and years ago, some some filmmakers
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: made kind of almost like a demo reel that where
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: they made a fake trailer for a movie called Grayson
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: that's about Dick Grayson, the former Robin. And to this day,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: I think that that trailer is pretty good. Like it's
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: it's clearly done on no budget at all. Some of
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: the acting is cringeworthy, but it's a really neat idea.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: It got people really excited. They didn't realize it was
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: just a kind of a film exercise. But if you
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: were to watch that and really critically think, how would
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: you make a movie that has all these different pieces
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: in it? You would come to the conclusion of oh,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: you couldn't or if you did, it would just be
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: a mess. Yeah. Um. But that being said, I'm glad
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: you watched it and thank you for the mashup. It
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: was wonderful. If our listeners out there have an idea
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: of how they would mash up Mandalorian, Bullet Train and
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: John Wick. Uh, the name of it was the Mandalorian
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: and grow Goo in Train of Death. I love it.
• 1:28:27
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• 1:28:48
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• 1:28:54
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• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: time to do that. She's the workhorse who does that
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: sort of thing. I edited the shows and she does
• 1:29:04
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• 1:29:09
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• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: And again, thank you to the people who man, I'm
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: just steamrolling you, Jonathan. Again, thank you to the people
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: who sent us uh episode suggestions. We are definitely working
• 1:29:38
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• 1:29:42
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• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: we record ahead of time so that we can take
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: time off for things like you know, Christmas, New Years,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: so you might still get an episode that way. That
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: all depends obviously on us being able to make time
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: to do the recordings, and it's not all that kind
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: of stuff, but we're hoping to do it. We're doing
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: this for fun, like that's We're doing it for the
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: love of one each other, to all of you folks
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: and three of all the geeky stuff out there. So
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: you know, the bigger the community is, the more love
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: there is to go around. That's ultimately what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: this for. Until you hear me talk about Casper mattresses,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: in which case then I'm just doing it for the money.
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  Speaker 1: We batt'll he to day, Jonathan, until next time, when
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be shorter. I have been aerial, hasn't been
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