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LNC Serves up Beans and Cotton Candy · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large Neurdron Collider Podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are for them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always, is the
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  Speaker 1: incredible Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I'm full of beans today.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have did you see a movie with George Went?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what happened?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, I did. However, I did have black beans
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  Speaker 2: as part of my lunch today. But no, it's that
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  Speaker 2: Ariel knows this already, is that I'm a high energy
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  Speaker 2: on this recording because I'm flipping out. I'm about to
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  Speaker 2: take a vacation, which in theory won't impact Large Nurdron
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  Speaker 2: Collider if we are happy to record late next Friday,
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  Speaker 2: but Saturday or Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how Jonathan feels.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, anyone who has a gig, like
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  Speaker 2: a regular gig, and they're about to take vacation, you
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  Speaker 2: all know how this goes. You have to get everything
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  Speaker 2: lined up and buttoned down and everything before you actually
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  Speaker 2: head out on vacation. And I'm I'm in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of that process and we're recording at about two twenty
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  Speaker 2: pm on Friday, so I'm running out of time to finish.
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  Speaker 1: Oh goodness, and I'm taking up more of your time
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  Speaker 1: after this help with an audition. So if we run
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  Speaker 1: long and you're like, Nope, can't do it totally okay.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be fine. Everyone who's covering for me is a pro,
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  Speaker 2: and if I mess up by not including something that
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  Speaker 2: they need to know about, they'll handle it and then
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  Speaker 2: they'll just let me know all about it when I
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  Speaker 2: come back. So, so Ariel, you know, we like to
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  Speaker 2: start these things off by talking about what we've seen,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I'm actually going to flip to the
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  Speaker 2: very first story in our lineup just to really kind
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  Speaker 2: of kind of cover something that is important to me,
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  Speaker 2: which is that this week we lost the great film
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  Speaker 2: director David Lynch. He passed away this week. And David Lynch,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not familiar with his work, has done incredible
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  Speaker 2: movies that often defy easy description. They're they're strange and
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  Speaker 2: unsettling are two words that I think could easily be
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  Speaker 2: applied to much of his body of work. But if
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  Speaker 2: you were a fan of Twin Peaks, that's thanks to
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  Speaker 2: David Lynch. I remember watching a racer heead and being
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  Speaker 2: horrified and captivated by his work, and incredibly prolific director.
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  Speaker 2: A weird guy who was absolutely unafraid of speaking what
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  Speaker 2: he saw as the truth in very blunt terms. Like
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  Speaker 2: if you ever watch interviews with him or whatever, he
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  Speaker 2: does not mince words. He is very clear about that
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  Speaker 2: and sort of a beloved figure. I would say in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: I think The Elephant Man might be my favorite film
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  Speaker 2: that he did. Very moving film. Uh, The Elephant Man,
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  Speaker 2: It's it's It's not an easy watch, but I do
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  Speaker 2: recommend it. I saw it when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same same. I think The Elephant Man, some of
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  Speaker 1: Twin Peaks and then his version of Dune are the
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  Speaker 1: only David Lynch movies I have seen.
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  Speaker 2: Eraser Head I can't. I don't know that I could
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  Speaker 2: recommend a racer Head, but I can certainly say a
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  Speaker 2: horror kind of like It's I think it's I think
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  Speaker 2: of it more like, think of it like a nightmare
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  Speaker 2: that has been captured onto film, but not not a
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  Speaker 2: nightmare where there's like a really identifiable antagonist or really
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  Speaker 2: identififiable danger. Just kind of a sense of dread really, so.
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  Speaker 1: More is it closer to like Donnie Darko than let's say, Pinhead,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably what I'm confusing it with.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I would say it's even more abstract
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  Speaker 2: than Donnie Darko. Wow, Like it's hard. Yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a very abstract movie. Like it's there are cuts, like
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  Speaker 2: scene transitions in that where you're in a totally different
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  Speaker 2: space with totally different stuff happening that has little to
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  Speaker 2: no connection to what you've seen before. It's it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to follow when you watch it the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to recommend watching it more than once. But
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  Speaker 2: but I do really like that movie as well. There's
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  Speaker 2: so much that he did, and and honestly, when I
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  Speaker 2: look at his filmography, it's a lot shorter than it
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  Speaker 2: was in my head. But it's it's that these are
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  Speaker 2: movies that meant something to him. I think there was
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  Speaker 2: at one point where he was rumored to have been
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  Speaker 2: considered to direct one of the Star Wars movies, and
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  Speaker 2: instead he did Dune, which I guess it all depends
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  Speaker 2: on your point of view about whether or not Dune
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  Speaker 2: is a triumph or a tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was A quick Google search says that
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  Speaker 1: he was slated to or that Return of the Jedi
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  Speaker 1: was originally intended for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then if you watch in the interviews where
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  Speaker 2: he talks about his reaction to being asked about it,
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  Speaker 2: we can't play it on this show because it's a
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  Speaker 2: family friendly show, but it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I enjoy his dune though it's bonkers.
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  Speaker 2: But you want to know what one of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: things he ever did was what so in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: when the world went into lockdown because of COVID for
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  Speaker 2: reasons that I still don't understand, he decided to start
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  Speaker 2: doing doing daily weather reports about the Los Angeles weather,
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  Speaker 2: and it would just be him at his desk saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, it's such and such, like it's March sixteenth,
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  Speaker 2: and it's Monday. Can you believe it? Weather right now
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  Speaker 2: is cloudy and still the temperatures are at around sixty
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  Speaker 2: two degrees fahrenheit with a height today of around seventy
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  Speaker 2: three degrees. All this fog should be burning off by
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  Speaker 2: then and we'll have a beautiful day see it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Like that would be like, And then occasionally he would
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  Speaker 2: just have weird stuff in the frame with him and
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  Speaker 2: he would draw attention to it. But not explain it,
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  Speaker 2: and it.
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  Speaker 1: Was the best creators need to create, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially during the pandemic. I bet you anything that those,
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  Speaker 1: if his estate will allow, will be sampled for some
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  Speaker 1: other horror in the future.
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  Speaker 2: They're all on YouTube. You can watch every single weather
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  Speaker 2: report he did. I think it was between like March
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  Speaker 2: and November, so it wasn't even a full year, but
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  Speaker 2: it was. I had to go back after I heard
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  Speaker 2: of this passing and find out what the weather in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles was like on my birthday. It was nice.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice. Hopefully the weather in Los Angeles will be
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  Speaker 1: nice again soon. Yes, there have been some other people
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  Speaker 1: who have entertained on, like some Broadway stars and stuff
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  Speaker 1: who have passed this week as well. They sadly, I
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  Speaker 1: just read about them right before we got on, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get to add them to the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: But and the producer who was responsible for bringing Punky
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  Speaker 2: Brewster to television, he passed away this week too.
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  Speaker 1: There was a Broadway actress who passed away too, and
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember her name at the moment because my
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  Speaker 1: brain is in twelve places. But I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 1: my brain back to this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Ah well, how about I help you out by asking
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  Speaker 2: you what kind of stuff have you watched since the
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  Speaker 2: last episode.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like a lot, but I've really
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  Speaker 1: watched very little. It's been a busy week for me,
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  Speaker 1: I guess first and foremost, I went and I saw
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  Speaker 1: myself on the big screen. One of the production companies
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  Speaker 1: that I did a short with was screening a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of their works at the Strand this week, so I
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  Speaker 1: went to go watch that and it wasn't of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I picked apart my performance because that's what
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  Speaker 1: I do. But it wasn't as terrible as I thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be to watch myself on screen, so that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And then other than that, I watched a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: more pop culture Jeopardy, which I can tell it is
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  Speaker 1: a good LITMSS for what I'm getting tired because I
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  Speaker 1: watch it at night before bed and when I stop
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  Speaker 1: being able to answer things like there was a question
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  Speaker 1: of like what are the names of the three alter
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  Speaker 1: egos for the Marvels in the Marvels, So not like
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  Speaker 1: Captain Marvel and Proton and Miss Marvel, but like what
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  Speaker 1: are their street names? And I couldn't remember a single one,
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  Speaker 1: and I could tell you them all right now, but
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  Speaker 1: I was too tired, and I'm like, oh, it must
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  Speaker 1: be time for bed. So that's been fun because then
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  Speaker 1: like I'll but I won't. I'll be stubborn and I'll
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  Speaker 1: watch another episode and I can't remember anything and it's
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  Speaker 1: all like on the tip of my brain. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's so frustrating. I watched one more episode of Chaos,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is the way for me to do it,
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  Speaker 1: because it's pologies. Greek mythology is a lot and it's
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  Speaker 1: very dark, and so this is a lot. I watched
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  Speaker 1: The New Very Important Person on Dropout and it's interesting
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  Speaker 1: because they are getting more into the backstory of the
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  Speaker 1: host in it, and that's fun.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with that show, Ariel, can you
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  Speaker 2: give out like a brief kind of overview of what
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  Speaker 2: that show is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So it's actually based off of a previous college
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  Speaker 1: humor show that I can't remember the name of at
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  Speaker 1: the moment because I never watched it when it was
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  Speaker 1: on College Humor. But it is a show hosted by
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  Speaker 1: Vic Mchaelis, and they play the host and they interviewed
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  Speaker 1: different comedians who have been dressed up, So the comedians
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  Speaker 1: get dressed up as a fantastical or bizarre character. They
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  Speaker 1: don't get to see what they're being made up as
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  Speaker 1: until they're completely made up, at which point they get
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  Speaker 1: to look in a mirror. And then they have a
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  Speaker 1: short amount of time to come up with their character,
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  Speaker 1: and then they get interviewed by Michaelis and then they
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  Speaker 1: will put in like little sketches and bits that I
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  Speaker 1: have to be post produced because it's like, oh, you're
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  Speaker 1: a pop singer, here's a clip from your song and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't know because it's improv right, so they'll go
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  Speaker 1: back and record it. But this season it's on the
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  Speaker 1: second season of VIC. Mchaelis hosting it and being called
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  Speaker 1: very important person at people and they like they had
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  Speaker 1: a PA involved in one of the bits and there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a cutaway. And then also another person who was
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  Speaker 1: set as a PA who is actually an actor at
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  Speaker 1: college humor honestly, and they could be both a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people run double duty at sorry not college humerior
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  Speaker 1: dropout and write or produce and do sketches and bits
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  Speaker 1: and appearances. So it's very interesting. That's a very long
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  Speaker 1: description of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in some ways, I feel like it's a
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  Speaker 2: little closer to some of the old college humor stuff,
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  Speaker 2: although that was heavily scripted out, that wasn't improvised, but
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  Speaker 2: it has that same kind of mad cap, absurdist energy
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  Speaker 2: to it that you would see in old college humor videos.
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  Speaker 2: I still miss the script and stuff from college humor.
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  Speaker 2: I understand they've gone in a totally different direction, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that the direction they're going in makes total sense.
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  Speaker 2: But there are times where I'll go back and I'll
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  Speaker 2: watch some of those old college humor things. I just
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  Speaker 2: love that they would set up like a gag and
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  Speaker 2: then occasionally revisit that gag, even like year years later,
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  Speaker 2: And to me that that was always so rewarding, like
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  Speaker 2: to be a fan of something and see references to it,
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  Speaker 2: like it still worked even if you didn't understand the reference,
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  Speaker 2: but understanding the reference made it better. It's harder to do,
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  Speaker 2: obviously when your work is largely extemporaneous or improvised, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear so it's still entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: It is. I will say this not every episode. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's drop out. It's not necessarily kid friendly, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, just be aware of that. Don't like, don't
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  Speaker 1: let your kids run around on dropout on supervised. And
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  Speaker 1: then I watched one episode, one more episode of and
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  Speaker 1: Or I think it was I finished episode nine, or
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  Speaker 1: I did episode ten, I can't remember and Or what. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that joke every time, and the Star Wars show that's
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  Speaker 1: old that I never finished that I keep like once
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  Speaker 1: every five months watching another part of an episode. So
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  Speaker 1: that was that. It was a decent ending to an episode,
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  Speaker 1: but I had to like go on wiki and look
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  Speaker 1: up what had happened.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha. Yeah, I've had shows like that too, where it's
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  Speaker 2: either so dense or more likely I'm distracted. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: paying full attention to what's going on. That's on me.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I watched a movie called Hundreds of Beavers.
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering when you'd get to that.
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  Speaker 2: So hundreds of Beavers as a film came out quite
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  Speaker 2: quite some time ago, now, I think it originally was
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  Speaker 2: making the festival circuit, probably as early as like twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. But and I had heard about it for
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  Speaker 2: a while, but I hadn't actually sat down to watch it,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't really know what to think about, Like
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what it was going to be, and
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  Speaker 2: there's no way I would have predicted it. It's such
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  Speaker 2: a weird, weird movie. So it's it's not a silent film,
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  Speaker 2: but it's done much like a silent film. There's almost
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  Speaker 2: no spoken words at all in this movie. It's done
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  Speaker 2: in kind of a stylized black and white and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's sort of an homage to the silent film comedies
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  Speaker 2: of like the twenties and thirties, as well as a
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  Speaker 2: healthy dose of classic, like classic classic Warner Brothers cartoon
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  Speaker 2: kind of humor. And the basic premise is there's this
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  Speaker 2: guy who had an apple jack business and that he
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  Speaker 2: was making apple jack like hard apple cider, and some
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  Speaker 2: beavers end up sabotaging his business and he becomes destitute
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  Speaker 2: and meets a fur trader with a beautiful daughter, and
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  Speaker 2: he wants to marry the beautiful daughter, but first hes
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  Speaker 2: to go through all this process of becoming a fur
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  Speaker 2: trapper in order to get in good with her father
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  Speaker 2: and everybody. All the animals are played by people in
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  Speaker 2: animal mascot costumes, so like all the beavers are people
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  Speaker 2: dressed up as like humans dressed up as beavers. The
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  Speaker 2: horses are humans in a two person horse costume. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's bonkers. It is. It is like a live
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  Speaker 2: action cartoon. Parts of it I found kind of tedious,
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  Speaker 2: and parts of it made me laugh out loud because
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  Speaker 2: of how just truly weird it was. So I recommend it.
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  Speaker 2: I recommend checking out Hundreds of Beavers, particularly if you've
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  Speaker 2: got like a group of people and you know you're
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  Speaker 2: paying a decent amount of attention to what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: because otherwise it's not like the plot is very complicated,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of the jokes are things that are
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  Speaker 2: based upon repetition and then being subverting the expectation of
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  Speaker 2: what happens the next time the circumstances pop up. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of Beavers. What a weird movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that beat out What If Season two and three.
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  Speaker 2: Oh actually I did watch What If Season two or
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  Speaker 2: most of it. I haven't finished it. I've watched a
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  Speaker 2: little more than half of What If Season two because
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching that with my partner Becca, and so I
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  Speaker 2: have to wait until we're both available to watch something
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  Speaker 2: to get episodes of that end. Whereas Hundreds of Beavers
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  Speaker 2: I watched on my own because I don't think Becca
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  Speaker 2: would have had the patience for it fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, what if season two you
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  Speaker 1: need to watch because there is an overarching storyline between
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  Speaker 1: season one, two and three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was my least favorite of the seasons because.
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  Speaker 2: Captain Carr or I just got to the I'm at
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  Speaker 2: the one now I think where Captain Carter is sent
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  Speaker 2: back in time to like the Renaissance era, maybe the
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  Speaker 2: early seventeen hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: That one was fun.
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  Speaker 2: That was. I haven't watched that one yet, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I did see the one with the Native American superhero,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought was a pretty cool story. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: I am looking forward to finishing it off so I
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  Speaker 2: can move on to season three. It is interesting that
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  Speaker 2: they decided to weave in a narrative. It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: similar to the strategy for Marvel as a whole, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like Marvel started off with these standalone films that gradually
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  Speaker 2: became more and more intertwined until it was just one big,
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  Speaker 2: you know, meta story.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I do feel like most of Season three
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  Speaker 1: can stand on its own, but it does have each
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  Speaker 1: season kind of ends with the with the three line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, I'm glad you're watching it again. Really, the
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  Speaker 1: the I can't remember what tribe she is. The indigenous
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  Speaker 1: hero is Kohori.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, I don't remember what the I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the tribe is. I don't know if they reference
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  Speaker 2: the name of their tribe in the episode. They might have,
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  Speaker 2: and I just didn't pick up on it.
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  Speaker 1: I think they don't. But she does speak as Kohori. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she does speak a specific She's Mohawk.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so she speaks she's speaking in the Mohawk language
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to know one of the dozens of other
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  Speaker 2: native languages here in the North America, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know which it's I saw this thing, and I fully
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  Speaker 1: agree that. Like much like you want to be specific
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  Speaker 1: about what Asian culture you're talking about, you want to
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  Speaker 1: be specific about what Indigenous culture you're talking about, because
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  Speaker 1: they're vastly different. But it's just a level of knowledge
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  Speaker 1: and edgytion right now of still learning to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, like, you know, we're both products of
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  Speaker 2: an American education system that frequently would group all indigenous
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  Speaker 2: peoples under the same umbrella and wouldn't like we would
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  Speaker 2: be aware that there be different tribes. But we wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily know anything more than that, Like we might know
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  Speaker 2: where they were located, like you know the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we're in Georgia. Now you'll hear about Cherokee, for example,
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  Speaker 2: but we wouldn't necessarily know, all right, well, what was
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  Speaker 2: their relationship with the other tribes of the region. None
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  Speaker 2: of that was really taught to us in history, which
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: is a shame, because you know, we our ancestors absolutely
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: wipe the slate clean as much as they could with
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: their colonizing ways. So I think it is important. I
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: think it's also understandable for people of a certain age
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: to still be trying to catch up.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, certainly. But you know that's why I looked
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it up. I know that I am the queen of
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: googling while we record, and sometimes it's to the detriment
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of Jonathan's editing. I thought it was important. I do
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: think it was one of the stronger episodes in one
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of season two, that one and the one that you're
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: about to watch where Captain Carter goes to medieval times,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: just because I like when they play with that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I liked the Christmas episode, but I had seen that
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: one before because we had skipped ahead and watched that
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: episode just by itself gotcha when it first came out,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: but we went ahead rewatched it because I was like, well,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: it's been a while.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I think there might be a party boy thor episode two,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if that's in season one or
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: season two.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I think that's season one.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but okay, Well, I'm glad you're watching it again,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: mostly to get to season three because it's so bonkers,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: but it's such a good way. Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Cool, So I guess we can move on over to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: our famous segment, to the thirty seconds or less couch.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: So here we go. We're gonna walk on over to
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: our thirty seconds or less couch and take a seat.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Means, if we ever put it on video, we're gonna
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: have to have a couch.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: What would be great is if we do split screen
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: video and we each go to what is obviously a
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: totally different couch and then have to have to line
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: it up as best we can and edit it'll one
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: of us will one of us will obviously be way
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: too big then the other one because the camera will
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: be a different does sense.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Which which, by the way, there's a new Okay Go
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: music video Out that plays with that. It's all shot
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: on like sixty different phone screens. It's really cool.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll have to check that out. I love their
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: music videos. Well for thirty seconds or less. I'm up first, right,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I don't have Okay, I have my stories, but not
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the lineup. All right, here we go. The nominations for
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the British Academy Film Awards aka BAFTA are out, but
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Wicked is not among the nominees for Best Film. Still,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Cynthia Arrivo did score a nomination for Leading Actress and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Ariana Grande for Supporting Actress. But other Gigee nominations in
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the Baptis include Inside Out two and The Wild Robot
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: for Best Animated Film, Hugh Grant for his performance in Heredic,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and Coralai Farge for the screenplay to the Substance, among others.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Oh Dune Part two got several nominations for technical awards
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Very interesting. I know you're not biging two awards, but
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: those are interesting. Severance, their red Carpet may have been canceled,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but they did Jonathan's favorite kind of promotion, which is
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: a pop up kind of viral thing where they built
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a large glass cubicle in the center of Grand Central
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Station in New York, and the main actors of Severance,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the main work or Inny's I guess as they're called,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: occupied that cubicle had worked for several hours of the day.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: The article on USA Today does say that there were
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: other hours that because I think this exhibit was up
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: for two days, there are other hours that other people
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: inhabited the cubicle that weren't the main actors, but Adam Scott,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Britt Lauer, Zach Cherry, and Tramille Tillman were all in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: there at one point. Adam Scott's va vacuuming the carpet
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: with a little push broom. I guess, so push brooming
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the carpet. And Ben Stiller, who I found out through
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: this is the executive producer, was there filming on his phone,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: as many people have equated it to like a proud dad.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: The show season two comes out today, So Jonathan, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: guess you've got something new at the top of.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Your watch list. Absolutely, what a wild promotion. I can't imagine.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I'm sure I'd be stressed out if I saw it,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: simply because I'd be worried about somebody being purposefully disruptive
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and I hate that for performances. But anyway, Okay, Well,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: if like me, you were looking forward to the second
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: season of The completely made up Adventures of Dick Turpin,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I have some bad news. Apparently Noel Fielding has decided
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: not to continue doing the series after having already shot
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: about three quarters of season two. After the holidays, he
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: stopped coming to work. Fielding's agent has said, quote one
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: of the main cast members who has not been well
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: is not recovered enough to complete the film name end
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: quote sad times.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope he's all right, and I hope if
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: it is indeed sickness, that they're able to pick it
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: back up. Things are weird right now, but I guess
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: UK is different than US TV and film. If you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: watched the first seven minutes of Craven the Hunter and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: wanted to see what the rest of the movie was like,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: but did not want to go to the movie theater,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you're in luck because now you can watch Craven the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Hunter home. It only made fifty nine million global total,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: which is much less than It's like half under. It
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: is almost just half of.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: What the budget was, and that's fall marketing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because they spent like a report at one
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million, so like, so, but.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Two dollars, you made two million dollars, not just two dollars.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, two million dollars under half. My brain was
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: not adding the extra zeros. And like this weekend it
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: made three hundred and forty five thousand domestically, and that's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: not much. But you can watch it at home if
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you like twos.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: If you were looking forward to seeing Shrek five on
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: July first, twenty twenty six, I have some bad news. Okay,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: not really bad. Universal Pictures has moved the film's debut
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: to December twenty third, twenty twenty six. Meanwhile, Millions three,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: which was supposed to release on June thirtieth, twenty twenty seven,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: has been moved all the way up to Shrek's old
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: release date of July first, twenty twenty six, so a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: whole year earlier. This might have something to do with
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: family films being such a huge box office draw in
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Speaking of family movies, it is well, it's a rumor,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it's reported. I don't know if it's actually true. I
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: haven't looked out since two days ago when I saw
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: this that Warner Brothers Discovery is making a new Goonies movie.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be a reboot
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: or a sequel. I guess we'll have to wait. I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: guess it's true that Goonies never say die.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: If you thought rumors of a new Goonies film was
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: all there was to that story, I have some bad news,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: all right, So it's actually potentially really good news. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the news is that the same talks about Goonies also
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: mentioned a possible Grimlins three film, And on top of that,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Christopher Columbus, the writer and director, not the Colonizer, is
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: said to be back as the writer for this one.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Old Columbo wrote the first Grimlins film way back in
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighties, and it sounds great. Just don't feed them
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: after midnight.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I wonder if they're going to use puppets or CGI.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I hope it's puppets.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Oh please, please let it be puppets.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Speaking of sequels, Peacemaker two is in the works. We
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: knew that, but we have now learned that there will
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: be a brand new dance sequence at the opening credits
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of it, also choreographed by Alan Tudik's wife, Carissa Martin.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: She did the first one as well, so that's very exciting.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Cool. Well, if you thought the Hunger Games stories were over,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I have some bad news or good news if you're
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: a fan. Author Suzanne Collins has a new Hunger Games
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: book that's coming out next year, and this one is
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: called Sunrise on the Reaping and will serve as a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: prequel that tells the story of how hamich Abernathya with
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: the Harrelson's character in the films one his own megas
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: of the Hunger Games before the events of the main story.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Next up, I don't have a QUIPI Transition six the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Musical Live will be airing in UK cinemas on April six.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Can't watch it here, but it will be featuring the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: original queens of the musical. That's pretty exciting. I hope
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that it eventually makes it over here as like a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Fathom event.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: That would be cool. Well, if you don't like customer
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: loyalty programs, I have some bad news. So AMC Theaters
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: has had a customer loyalty program called Stubs for Ages,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: but this year there's a free tier that's an upgrade
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: from the previous free version. It's called AMC Stubs Premiere Go,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: and it applies to anyone who accumulates at least five
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: thousand stubs points or sees at least eight movies in
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the calendar year. Benefits include waived fees if you're buying
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: like four tickets or more at once, or you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: a free popcorn and drink on your birthday. I'm not
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: sure that that's going to get me into the theaters more.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: If I'm being totally honest.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I am a member of a different movies free rewards program,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't necessarily get me into the movies more
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: unless it's the month where you get like a free ticket,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you buy one, get one free, or a discount. But
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: it is nice to be like, oh, I get a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: free popcorn. That's lovely. Scream seven is currently filming in Atlanta.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I saw extras casting notice the other day, but we
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: have news that Joel McHale is joining the cast as Sidney.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Prescott's husband Jonathan talked about I think last week that
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Nev Campbell was coming back to the movie, but apparently
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Patrick Dempsey, who played the detective in Scream three, is not.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. In our notes, I titled this that Joel mckill
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: joins the Scream Community.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: It's very clever. Yeah, sorry, I didn't read that.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Because he was in a show called Community.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, there's gonna be a movie. Don't worry.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Six seasons in a movie.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I mean it's that works in theory.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows whenever that'll happen. Like, it's one of
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: those things that like we hear about and until they're
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: actually shooting film, I'm gonna consider it a rumor. So
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: let's talk about some of the stories we've got. We've
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of trailers that came out. This
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: was another one of those weeks where early in the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: week I thought we weren't going to have much to
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: talk about, and.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Then cash up and a discussion.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I was like, man, we're gonna be able
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to fill this with a whole bunch of other stuff.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: And then all the trailers came out. First up. These
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: are not particularly organized because I didn't go through. Sometimes
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I'll go in and I'll change the order of trailers
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and stuff so that there's kind of a flow. This time,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: it's just sort of as we encountered them.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've got Castlevania Nocturn season two I did.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be real honest here. I added it because
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I know Castlevania is a geeky thing and a lot
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of people liked the original cartoon on Netflix, which was
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: far too crass for me. I didn't get past the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: first episode. I'm not sure if Castlevania K Nocturn is
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: separate from the original Castlevania, but this season two looks
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: really interesting.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched it. I have to say, if you
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: watch this trailer on one and a half time speed,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: it's real hard to pick up what's happening.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm not going to give you crap because
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I do it all the time.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: There was a big like the energy here is like
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: what if we combined Dracula with Lemezarabla. Although not really
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: lame is it's but it does involve like revolutionary France
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: as the backdrop for the story, So there's like all
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: this military stuff happening on top of it it being
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: a vampire story, which actually reminds me of some novels
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: by an author named Kim Newman, and he had created
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: some vampire novels that combined historical actual historical figures and
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: fictional characters who would have been alive at the same
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: time as those historical figures in his novels. This just
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: kind of gave me similar energy, even though there aren't
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: like it's not like, you know, fictional characters like Phantom
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of the Opera are popping up, nothing like that, but
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: it just reminded me a little of that.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I might give it another try if I don't
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: have to go back and watch the previous season, because
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: this looks more like adventury actionly with a little bit
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: of gore, unless just Ronchi.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never saw the Castolania series. I've played a
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: little bit of the old games, like the old Nintendo games,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: but I've never watched the show. So this was I
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: think I probably saw the preview for the original Castlevania cartoon.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I think we I'm sure we chatted about it on
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: this show, but I haven't ever watched it. Yeah.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then we've got kind of two stories, but
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: they're really just one, which is a trailer for the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Until Dawn movie, which is based off of a video
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: game Tooma than correct or book.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: So no, you were right the first time in that
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: it's supposedly based off the video game, but it's based
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: off a video game, the way the original Mario Brothers
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: movie was based off a video game, and that you're like,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I see tiny little bits of connective tissue, but this
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: feels like it is totally not connected to the supposed
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: source material. Yeah. So in the original video game of
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Until Dawn, it's part of a series of games where
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like choose your own adventure and depending
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: on your choices, that determines the kind of ending you're
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: going to get, and.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Like, is it usually death or something?
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Well, depending like best case scenario, you get as many
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: people who are capable of surviving survive worst case scenario
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: because of your choices, everybody dies, right, and usually it's
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle. Usually you you lose one or
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: two people because you made the wrong choice, which is
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: not always obvious. It's not always like I cheel, Like, so,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: do you run into the field of daisies or do
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you walk across the broken glass and all the the
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: rakes that are on the ground just ready to be
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: stepped on so that it comes up and slaps you in
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: the face, Like, oh, let's try the broken glass one.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Oh you die. It's nothing that obvious but the movie
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: looks like it looked to me like if I were
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to give you the high elevator pitch version of the film,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what if you took Cabin in the Woods
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: and Groundhog Day and put them together into a movie.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I had a very similar feel. So these kids,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: young adults, maybe adults, I don't know, it's hard to
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: tell in movies, get stuck in a house where every
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: time they die, they come back and something else is
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: hunting them to kill them, and they just have to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: make it till dawn. And they learn in the trailer
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: that no one has made it past thirteen nights in
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the house, So I guess past thirteen deaths, which is
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: a great number to end on for a horror movie.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: It looks actually really interesting to me.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if it were not called Until Dawn, I think
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I would actually want to see this movie, and I
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: kind of still do. But it just feels like it
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: really has no resemblance to the story of the original
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Until Dawn, and that story it starts. It's kind of
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: like a prologue where they're these two twin sisters or
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: two twins who are part of this group and they're
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: all at this cabin. The sister's family owns the cabin,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: and through a series of events, the sisters end up
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: being put in a precarious situation and then apparently they
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: both die at the beginning, and then the next year
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: or sometime further down the future, their brother invites everybody
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: back to the cabin, supposedly to honor his sisters and
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to reconnect because they all lost touch after the tragedy.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And also, what's important to know is the reason why
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: the sisters were in the predicament they were in in
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the first place is because the others in the house
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: played a really nasty prank on one of the two sisters,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of what precipitated the events that lead
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to their deaths. At the reunion, people start running into
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: very dangerous situations. There appears to be a killer on
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: the loose. There's some supernatural stuff going on, and you know,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: obviously your choice is determined who lives and who dies
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: and who tells your story if we're doing Hamilton, But
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: uh uh, that's that's the story of the game, And
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: like none of that seems to have carried over into
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: this trailer, which is why, if you read the comments,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the trailer. A lot of people
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: are calling it out for not really being an Until
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Dawn adaptation. Not that it looks bad, but it does
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: not look like Until Dawn.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: That's sad because it does look interesting, like it looks
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: too scary for me, but it also looks really cool.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Uh Like, it didn't It didn't give me like this
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: skivie I'm super creeped out vibes. It it gave me
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: like I want these these protagonists to win vibes. I
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: love that Peter stormare, isn't it He He's such an
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: interesting fun actor to watch.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: He was also in the game.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Was he really?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah? He played one of the characters. He plays a
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: psychiatrist in the who Is. The psychiatrist's job in the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: game is to kind of berate you for your choices,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: So like, every so often, as the game unfolds, it
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: cuts to this psychiatry session and you're not fully sure
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: who you are because you're seeing it from first person,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: so you don't really know who you're embodying. But the
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: psychiatrist is kind of like, so that's the way you
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: decided to go.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Huh, Well, I think he's playing the same character because
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the cast list has him listed as doctor Allan J.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Hill, so that is the name of the psychiatrist, and so.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: There's at least one through line.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Yayyay. So I go back and forth. Part of me
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: is like, I don't want him to tell the exact
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: same story because we already have that in the video game.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: But the other part of me is like, why even
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: bother calling it an adaptation if there's not really any
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: connection to the source material.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I call it Peach Dragon if it has nothing to
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: do with the original Peach Dragon story, which was already
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: an original story.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: We got a bill of sale right here with dear
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Little PD's name.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Well, well, we'll move on, okay to the next trailer,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: which is Back in Action, which is I think in
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Netflix movie Yes.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Playing parents used to be unofficial CIA operatives essentially.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Or secret operatives. Yeah. So it's like mister and missus Smith,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: but now they've got a family and suddenly they get
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: pulled back into the spy life for reasons that we're
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: not They're not made clear in the trailer. It's not
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: really important for the trailer, and it has a much
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: more lighthearted tone to it, and uh, I thought it
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: looked cute. It looks like a really kind of funny,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: fast paced, like tongue in cheek spy action movie.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't look as cheesy as let's say, Spy Kids,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't look as serious as mister and Missus Smith. Yeah,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it rides a good line and the mom and dad
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: jokes they make kind of actually hit.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My favorite being when when someone calls Cameron Diaz's
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: character a boomer and then she beats him up and says,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: at most we're gen X.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, which they definitely are gen X if you
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: look at the actors, yes, agents as am I, which
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: is which is a proud place to be. I. You know, I,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: if you had Elevator pitched me this movie, I'd be
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: like meh, but it looks it looks fun. I will
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: probably watch it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel the same way. So, oh, you know
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: what other movie I forgot to put in the stuff
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: that I watched? I actually finally watched Fall Guy. Oh yeah,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: which obviously has been out forever, but I I I
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: had talked, we had talked about it a few times
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: and talked about like how in the stunt community people
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: were saying it was great for them to call out
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: the importance of stunt performers and everything. I finally actually
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: watched it, and I really enjoyed it. In some ways,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the tone of this reminds me of Fall Guy in
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: that there's kind of a joyfulness to it that while
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: there is like all this action and the tone.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: The tone of Fall Guy reminds you of Fall Guy.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Uh, tone of Fall Guy reminds me of Back in Action. Okay,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: that's what I meant. So so that Fall Guy, like
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Fall Guy and Back in Action both have kind of
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: a joyfulness to them, at least as far as we
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: can tell from the trailer for Back in Action. And uh,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: it takes a lot to get me interested in action
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: movie these days because so many of them I feel
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: are similar. Like I feel like every Jason Stathan movie
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: is the same film. So, uh, this made me want
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: to watch it because of the tone.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I've been leaning more towards comedy lately.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And again I think it's just because there's there's been
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a lot the past few years. We talked, I'd say
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: this like every week. I'm a broken record. I know.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's enough stuff out there that is miserable that
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: it's nice to have some stuff that's kind of fun.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Speaking of fun, Pixar has its series Win or Lose
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: coming out soon on February nineteenth, and we got another
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: trailer for it. We talked about this when we first
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: got a teaser. It kind of feels a little inside
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: out ish to me.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: It feels like they took inside out and turned it
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: inside out, so now the things that are inside are
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: on the outside, so we get to see them interact
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: with the real world.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I had the same feels about it.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Essentially, it's telling the story of a softball team
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: and their journey to playing a game, and from what
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I understand, the will follow eight different characters whose lives
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: intersect due to the softball game, and what we're seeing
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: are kind of their internal feelings and thoughts being shown
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: to us in an external way. So it's the stuff like,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're supposed to literally believe that there's
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: an anthropomorphized blob of sweat that is sentient and speaking
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: on this young lady's shoulder, but rather that that's what
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: represents her anxiety in a moment where she's expected to perform.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I was interested in the trailer. It shows that these
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: emotional superpowers or yeah, superabilities as I would call them,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: because they aren't necessarily powers, they're they in the trailer.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Sometimes detrimental don't just apply to the kids in the show.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: So it's not like it's not like most of Turning Red,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: where only this child really turned into this giant red panda.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: It applies to the adults as well. We get to
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: see their struggles and how they deal with them as also.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: As also yeah, like like emotional armor being a literal
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: thing that shows up in one of the scenes. Did
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: you watch all of Turning Red?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I did?
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: I know? Eventually I know I was about to say,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, it's not.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Just the kids, so I said most of okay, most
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: for the like the first three quarters of the movie.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Well, uh I thought Winner lowse look cute. Uh, I
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: mean it doesn't. It doesn't convince me that it's doing
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: something new, at least from Pixar's perspective. Like, it does
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: have a lot of inside out vibes for me, but
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: it looks like it's done well. So if you if
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: like it's hard for me. Because Pixar was such a
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: powerhouse early early on with its movies that it set
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: the bars so high that sometimes I feel like, oh,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: you didn't hit the bar, but to be fair, that
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: bar is real high.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll be I'll be interested to see how
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: because they also have was it Dream Institute that's out
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: that is directly inside out?
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yes, yes.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: How much market there is on Disney Plus for these
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: emotional narrative shows. I think it's great if we have them,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: you know, teaching kids how to deal with their emotions, sure,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: even if they're difficult is really powerful.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we don't have mister Rogers anymore. So yeah,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: that's how I learned, was mister Rogers. Mister Rogers also
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: taught me that sometimes humans get into conflict with non
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: humans and witchers get stuck in the middle, and then
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: the witchers have to kind of act almost like where
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: the negotiator slash arbiter between these two groups, even though
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: the Witcher's real job is to kill mom.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Was that the second half of the episode with the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West East
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: West West?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: He was Wicked Witch of the West? Yeah, yeah, Margaret, Yeah,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: it was that one.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, because I don't I only remember the first half.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: It was so impactful that I forgot the Witcher part.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: But yes, we've got a trailer for Witcher Sirens of
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: the Deep. It looks fun.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like I said, the setup here appears to be
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: that there are these I mean, they're essentially like Mrfolk
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: kind of or fish people that are in a conflict
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: with humans, and the very taciturn Witcher is lamenting the
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: fact that humans are sometimes not fully honest with the
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: reasons behind conflicts, like they're they're justifying conflict by portraying
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: these fish people as being monsters, and the Witcher's like, no,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I kill monsters. I know what they are. This is
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: this is something that needs to be resolved in a
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: way that doesn't involve one side completely eradicating the other.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Plus he gets to kill a lot of monsters in
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: the in the process.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I know. Some people are disappointed because the Witcher
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: in the cartoon is Henry Cavill's version of the Witcher,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: not voiced by Henry Cavill, voiced I think by the
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: actor who does his voice in the video games, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: it has Yes Giera and Hannafher in it and all that,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so they're.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, Yeah, it's I'm not so deep in the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Witcher lore. I've only ever played a little bit of
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: the Witcher three. I actually have all three of the games.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: I just those games are such a huge time commitment.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I haven't really dove into them. H So my familiarity
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: with the Witcher series is next to nothing. So I
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: don't really have a stake in this.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, next we have Hey do you think is good?
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about another trailer for another movie that
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: tells you probably.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Not there you go, that's better than he's just going.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Next we have this for that. Uh. Yeah, there's a
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: movie coming out called Renner about a guy played by
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Frankie Munitz who creates an AI and I guess accidentally
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: programs his mother's personality into the AI. And his mother
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: is not a great person from what we can tell
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: in the trailer, and or at least isn't. The AI
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: isn't and Frankie gets a girlfriend. The AI's voice is
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: played by Marsha gay Harden and Frankie Means's character gets
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: a girlfriend and the mother AI does not like it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this again feels like we have had so many
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: movies that play around with similar themes. Most of the time,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: it ends up being that the AI is somehow jealous
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: of some other entity, right like, and then the AI
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: turns sinister. That happens in Megan, It happened in that
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Megan Fox movie we were talking about. It happens, and
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: it appears to happen in that other AI robot movie
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: we were talking about like last week, and again, no
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: big surprise. AI has been such a huge topic of
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: conversation over the last couple of years that obviously we
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: were going to get a glut of sci fi horror
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: movies with AI as the villain, and goodness dows, that's
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: not new either. We've had AI science fiction horror stories
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: for decades. Uh. This one it's interesting because it actually
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: makes me think of the movie Christine. Did you ever
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: see Christine?
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: No?
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, So it's based off of Stephen King novel and
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: the basic story is a teenager who ends up getting
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: this car, the car one. Yeah, it's a car. That's
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: it's a car that ends up gaining intelligence and through
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: his intern actions with the car, the kid becomes more
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: confident and popular, but then the car also gets jealous
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: of the kid, forming romantic relationships with other people This
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: is kind of the same thing as since it's a
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: robot instead of a sentient car. So there's nothing wrong
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: with any of this. I'm not trying to downplay that,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: but we've seen it before. The interesting thing is the
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: second half of this trailer has the AI telling Frankie
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Munis's character, someone's trying to get at my code. They're
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: out to get me and they're out to get you.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: And it looks like it turns into like a paranormal
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: psychological thriller in the second half.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like maybe the mom ai was right about
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: this girl that showed interest in him, or.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe she's inventing it all. Oh maybe maybe there's
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: no one out to get him, Maybe no one's out
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: to get her code. Maybe she's doing this. He focuses
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: on her and not the girlfriend character.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: So it is still jealousy, but it also feels a
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: little unique in the jealousy play that they're doing.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there it looks like there's like some culture
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: personality stuff because you get to see Frankie Muniz essentially
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: mutilating himself to some extent. Yeah, it's pretty gruesome, but
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: that yeah, it's so that part to me is interesting.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Because like the first half, I'm like, we've seen all
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: this a lot, actually, and then the second half I
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: was like, Okay, I haven't seen this.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks if it weren't so gruesome, it would
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: look almost funny and I would be for it.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: You compared it to Megan, though, and surprisingly it's not
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the movie that is being made by the Megan creators
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about, but the Woman in
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the Yard is.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this one is not a Roebut movie. It's
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: a ghost movie, or at least it looks like it
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: is it.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I saw this and I didn't add it to
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the lineup because I was too scared to watch through
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the entire trailer, Like it made me. The first like
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: half of the trailer made me anxious, and then I
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: turned it off, so I wasn't sure if it would fit.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you added it because then I did go
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and watch through the entire trailer.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I'm interested because so often like I love ghost stories.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I love ghost stories, and I love movies that are
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: ghost stories, good ones. Anyway, I was interested because this
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: is the first time I remember seeing a trailer to
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: a like a ghost movie where all the characters appear
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: like all the characters I saw in the trailer anyway,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: are black, including the ghost, when frequently this ends up
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: being the domain of very pale British white people. So this,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I feel like, has an opportunity to dive into some
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: folklore that doesn't get shown as much.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: We had a lesson also kind of hit this tone
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: with the majority black cast a horror movie. Yeah, but yeah,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: it looks interesting. It also looks there's a little bit
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: of blood, there's a little bit of scary in it,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: but it looks very suspenseful, honestly. It also kind of
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: reminded me of a Doctor Who episode in the latest
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: season where the companion keeps seeing this creepy woman who
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: is saying something far away, and she can never get
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: closer to the woman. The woman is always exactly the
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: same distance from her, but whenever anybody else goes to
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: talk to the woman, they run away scared and never
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: talk to this companion again. So it vaguely reminded me of.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: That interesting, well, fine story. I don't know enough about
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: what the story is going to be in this based
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: on because the trailer was pretty like it was more
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: atmospheric than it was revelatory as far as the narrative goes,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: but I'm certainly intrigued. I think that the visuals look
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: really good, like the cinematography and the lighting and the mood.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: The atmosphere feels sufficiently creepy to me, And that's what
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I really love about a good ghost story is I
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: love that creepy atmosphere and the tension that's there. I
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: always find like a good ghost story doesn't necessarily have
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: a ton of jump scares. It might have a few,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: but for the most part, the actual emotions you feel
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: are a little more substantial than just a oh it's quiet,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: oh loud noise.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Something that was not quiet at
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: all was the trailer we finally got for Daredevil Born Again.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Yep. I was excited to see the trailer opening with
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Matt Murdoch sitting down to chat with Wilson Fisk and
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: has apparently been elected mayor of New York.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: So that's in the comics, yes, yeah, which means that
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: he's still not a good guy, but he's not the
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: or at least the trailer makes it look like he's
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: not the main antagonist.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Ariel though, I mean, come on, how believable. Is it
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: that a man who is a convicted criminal would go
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: on to get elected to a powerful position like mayor
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: of New York? What kind of world would we be
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: living in?
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Jonathan, quit filling yourself full of more beans.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: I'm full of beans today.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's it's interesting. It looks uh. The trailer
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: for this makes it look as gruesome as the Netflix
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the original Daredevil Netflix series was. Yes, And I actually
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: had a friend after watching the trailer say can they
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: please stop showing the mutilation of limbs? And I have
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: a theory, And my theory is because this looks like
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: a very violent sho more so than Echo. And my
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: theory is they put it all into the trailer so
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: that people could not go into the TV show not
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: knowing what they were getting in for. So they wouldn't
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, you can watch Daredevil. He was
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: in she Hulk to their kids, that's fine.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: He was in Spider Man.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So like I almost I wonder if the show
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: will not be quite as gory as a trailer because
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: they just really wanted to warn everyone.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, obviously, they have to try
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: and appeal to the fans of the original Netflix series
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: because that first season is still one of the best
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: seasons of Marvel Television. I think Wandavision's better, but I
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: think Agatha All Along is mostly better. But Daredevil's real good.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: And I also liked seeing some other characters that are
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: being pulled into the MCU now, like Frank Castle. You
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: know that's great. Luke Cage, I believe might have shown
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: up in that, so.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: I missed him. If he did, I know Foggy and
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Karen are back, so.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw so full disclosure. I saw a just
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: a thumbnail for a video that was going through all
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: the like Easter eggs on the trailer or all the
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: little character moments in the trailer, and it had Luke
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Cage on the thumbnail. That does not mean that Luke
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Cage necessarily shows up in it, because it could very
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: well be that that was clickbait because I didn't have
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: time to watch the video.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: I hope he does. I loved It's so interesting because
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: I loved Luke Cage. I didn't think he had the
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: strongest series on Netflix, but I loved his character so much.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: He was so likable and I really rooted for him.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: I definitely want Jessica Jones back in the action too.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, ooh that's hard though because her her later
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: she only had two seasons, right, yeah, her second season
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: and was not like it wasn't bad, but in comparison
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: to the first season of Jessica Jones.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: It just yeah, like the first one was like, you know,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: setting her up against her ultimate nemesis because it's the
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: person who has set her life on the path that
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: it is. And and to have it, oh yeah, brilliantly
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: handled but very upsetting. But yeah, to have that resolved
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: in one season, which honestly, like it would have been
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: a tough call, like do you say, okay, let's not
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: resolve it in just one season without knowing for sure
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: if you're going to get a season two, or do
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: you wrap it up in the first season? But then
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: where do you go for season two? Like what is
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: her next big hurdle? But yeah, I'm looking forward. I mean,
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: I've been looking forward to the Daredevil return for a while.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that Daredevil will get incorporated in some mc
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: you cinematic stuff, like I would love to see me
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: Matt Murdoch show up as part of the Doomsday Aventures
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: film for example.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be great. I will say the main
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: villain for Daredevil Born Again, at least for this first season,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: looks to be a character called Muse.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: And when I did research on that way more upsetting
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: than Wilson Fisk.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: I have not yet looked into. I saw that it
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: was Muse, like I saw again, like one of those
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: thumbnails where it's is, here's what to know about Daredevil
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: villain Muse. But I haven't watched it, so I don't.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: I am unaware of how upsetting it is.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can tell you I don't know if
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: it'll be a huge shocker, but I cannot if you
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: don't want.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, okay, oh wait.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, just just a warning out there. What Mews does
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: is at least to me, pretty upsetting.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: So that's fair. I mean, they're not they're not good guys.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Uh So, Yeah, we got Dared Devil Born Again coming up,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: and it looks to me like they've really decided to
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: lean pretty hard on the Netflix aesthetic of Bone goes
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Break now, so we'll see how that turns out. On
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: the Disney Plus service. We also got a trailer. Aeriel
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: shared a trailer of a wild Chinese mythology film creation
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: of the Gods to Demon Force.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I guess, the second in a trilogy adapted
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: from a Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods, And yeah,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: it's basically these two forces fighting, but they have all
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: these gods and demons and dragons and stuff fighting with them,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: so it this is this is no way to belittle
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: this story. But the only thing that I've got to
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: compare it to is if there were an entire movie
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: set with with the tone of the Land of the
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Ancestors in shang Qi, but in for in the for
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: real world and not in some hidden glade, it made
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: no sense.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, like, the trailer made me think like,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: what if we took the battle at Helm's Deep but
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: made it an entire movie, and also there were more
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: mythological critics involved. But yeah, I clearly don't have the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: cultural context necessary to truly understand what's going on in
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: the trailer. I will say, like, it looks wild, like
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: really crazy action. And I'm sure if I did have
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: that knowledge of Chinese cultural touchstones that that this would
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: resonate more with me. I think it looks entertaining, but
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: I would be completely out of my depth if I
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: try to watch.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: It, Yeah, I want to. I want to go back
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and watch Creation of the Gods Wan Kingdom of Storms,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: and then I want to watch this. There's a lot
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: of times.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Where like.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: My my algorithm will suggest foreign movies to me, and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I really need to stop sleeping on them because you
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: miss cool stuff like this.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, and if you sleep on them, you can't
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: read the subtitles, then you have no idea what they're saying.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: You also can't plan on your phone while you're.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Watching, It's true. That's also true, which is good. Like
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: being able to actually paying attention to stuff is good.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Like I've you know, I'm really guilty of the second
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: screen stuff. So when I can like set things down
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: and just pay attention, I always enjoy it more and
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: I certainly have better recall if I do that. Otherwise
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: it's like.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, go ahead. Otherwise it's like.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Otherwise it's like I didn't watch it at all. Like
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: you could say, like, hey, what about when such and
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: such happened?
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Yeah, yeah, for sure. One of my
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: goals and I'm not super successful at it, but I'm
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: working on it. This year is to be more present
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: to put down my phone more. I work on that
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: a lot, just because I'm always I always, I'm like,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: I have to stay on top of everything, and the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: phone is an easy way to do that.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I have gone back and forth between
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: trying to limit as many notifications as possible in my
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: life too. Now I need all the notifications because my
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: role and my day job has changed and I need
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: to be really responsive, and it is wrecking me. I'm
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: sure I'll find a balance. I'm just not there yet.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do put. I have started doing this when
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: I do auditions and also when I work, and then
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: at night I will Because I work in short, like
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: short bursts of time, I can do this. It's a
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: little easier for me. I will put my phone on
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: do not Disturb so I don't get those notifications, and
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: then when I take a break, i'll take it off
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: do not Disturb, and then i'll put it back on.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: It's great when I need to focus on a script
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: or I'm trying to get ready for bed, so I'm
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: not bombarded with the fifty thousand things to put my
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: brain on.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: But you know what's wild is when I was in
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: my early twenties, we didn't carry phones with us, and
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: if someone wanted to get in touch with us and
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: we weren't home, the phone would just ring unless we
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: had an answering machine, and then you could potentially leave
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: a message on a piece of cassette tape and I
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: wouldn't hear it until I came back home and played
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: the cassette tape, and then I would know that someone
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: was trying to get in touch with me. And otherwise
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: I could just live my life and be president in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: the moment, and everything was so much nicer.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's definitely that there's some benefit to being
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: able to reach somebody in an emergency.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just don't don't let it be me, y'all,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: because if you're reaching out to be in an emergency,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: things have gone real bad.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Now, did I'll take you off my contacts.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, now that we've finished with that, so I'm
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: gonna guess that you did not watch our next trailer
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: because I, oh no, no, I'm sorry, I slipped ahead.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: You watched it.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: I watched them all, Oh.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: Really, even the ones I told you you could skip.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Even the one who said please skip this.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, Well, we're not quite there yet. I skipped
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: our next one, which is for Fallen. Fallen originally was
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: a young adult romance fantasy novel series, and it's been
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: adapted a couple of times, but now we're getting a
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: series on AMC starting February sixth, and there are some
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: hints as to what Fallen is kind of about, Ariel.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: I'm curious unless you looked it up, did you catch
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: on to what was going on?
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: I caught on and then I looked it up, okay,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: to make sure I was right. Yeah, I mean do
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: we want to tell I guess we can tell people.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like the books have been out forever,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: there's six of them, I think six. But the surface
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: story is a young woman is accused and essentially convicted
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: of a crime, essentially involuntary manslaughter or manslaughter at least,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: but she has no memory of it, and she is
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: shipped off to kind of a juvenile corrections facility called
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: the Cross and Sword or the Sword and Cross, Sword
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: and Cross, one of those two, and there there's like
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: a group of other young adults who are all there
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: for various reasons, and she's still not entirely sure why
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: she's there. And then weird stuff is happening, and also
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: there's a cute boy and isn't he cute? And weird
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: more weird stuff happens in the trailer. But what's that
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: actually going on?
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Are what what actually is going on is Lucy is
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the main character is Lucifer is a fallen angel basically,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: and uh, I can't remember does she has? She not
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: picked sides yet. There are some angels there, there's some
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: demons there, and one person, her love interest, who hasn't
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: picked a side which side he's on?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're essentially all angels, it's just they're all
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: fallen angels and some of them have sided with Lucifer,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: and Lucy is Lucinda, she's not Lucifer, okay, And some
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: of them have sided with the Throne a ka god
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: uh and and Daniel her her would be fallen angel
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: boy Toy, who whom she has loved in numerous other incarnations.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: And she always dies when she does.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: She always dies. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer. It's
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: a very happy death day sort of thing for loose
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: oh Lucy. But anyway, he's the one who hasn't picked
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: a side, and it's like both sides are evenly matched,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: and so both sides are vying to get Daniel to
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: join them because that will give them the tipping point
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: they need to finally win out over the other side.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: And the romance novels mostly follow Lucy learning about herself,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: her past, her relationship with Daniel. You know why they
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: all fell in the first place, because it's not exactly
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: she doesn't remember anything. Yeah, she doesn't remember anything. She
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: has no memory. She's also, I believe it's she's not
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: technically an angel in this incarnation. She she was an angel,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: but for some reason, she's not an angel in this incarnation.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: That's just what I know from osmosis about this series. Uh,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: the trailer made me think, Okay, it's Twilight but angels.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: It's Twilight. Yeah, that's better than me. I was like,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: it's Riverdale meets Kingsman meets Supernatural, but Riverdale because it's
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: so teeny boppy. But teeny boppy. God, why did that
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: come out in my mouth? Boomer, I'm not I'm not
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: even jen X geez.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: That's true. I'm the old one in this guest. But yeah,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's your bag, you should definitely check
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: it out. It's not my bag. I don't foresee myself
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: watching this unless I'm at like a friend of the show,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Shaye Lee's place, and she just has decided that this
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: is the thing that everyone has to watch while we're there.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: I don't otherwise think I'll see it.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: It didn't make our lineup. But also, there was a
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: trailer for the prequel to Outlander that's coming out.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I did see that. There was something about that.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: I was just like, ah, menon kilts.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: It follows it. It follows Jamie, who's the main guy's parents,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: and it follows Claire, the main woman's they're the main
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: characters her parents, and I don't think they're either of
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: their parents ever time travel, So I'm not sure how
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: it connects.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: I'll say, like, it's going to have to cut back
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: and forth between twentieth century and whatever century outland.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Land already does, so you know, we'll see I don't.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know if it counts without the time
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: travel as geeky, but.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: That's another It's another series I never got into, but.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Something it has real like some people I know love
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: it and some people I know hate it because there's
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of like unconsensual stuff. Ooh yikes, I mean
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: from bad guys.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean like that's it's such a it's
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: such a a stereotypical go to, like how do you
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: how do I make people hate my villain? I know,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: I'll have my villain force themselves on innocent people. Yeah,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: it's that's rough. I mean, it could be effective, but
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: it's rough.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: It's effective. It is really rough. It makes it incredibly
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: hard to watch. Also because me, because I'm I am
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: that way. The sex also makes it hard for me
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: to watch, but because it's it's very there. But but
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: the real secretly gen Z the relationship. I don't understand that.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: Oh gen Z's apparently are really against depictions of sex
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: and media.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I I'm not always against it,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: but I do think that there is a certain art
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: to panning to the fire, pain place or fading to black.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: And I've always been that way, So I guess I've
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: always been gen Z cool. I'll take it.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm too. I grew up in the era of cinemax.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I was corrupted from a young age.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: But I will say, like the acting in the show
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: is very good, and the relationships outside of those moments
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: are very, very fun to watch, and the jumping through
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: time is interesting. So it is a mixed bag. I
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: am not caught up on it. It is hard for me.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: I do a lot of fast forwarding through it.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha comes off, fast forward comes on? All right. Well,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: the trailer where I suggested Ariel skip it, and I'm
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: surprised you watched it anyway, is the full trailer for
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: The Monkey. And we talked about this for the teaser.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I watched the teaser, so I figured I'd watch
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: the whole thing.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: This one was gorrier than the teaser. The teaser was gory,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: and this one was. This one had some viscera and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: it was pretty gross. But if you're unfamiliar with The Monkey,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: it's based off of Stephen King short story.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: And it's a lot like Christine. No, I'm kidding.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: So there's a wind up monkey, like a wind up
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: monkey toy where you wind it up and it plays
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: a little drum, but every time it does, disaster strikes
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: and somebody dies. And this again is based off a
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: short story that Stephen King had written, and it gets
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: fleshed out literally and figuratively in this film. The deaths
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: look pretty extreme. Like, it's not It's not just like, oh,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: a shotgun, a loaded shotgun in a closet fell over
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: and discharged and happens to kill someone. No, it's a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: shotgun fell over and discharged and now the person who
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: was standing in front of the closet has been vaporized.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah there. Yeah, and then there's like the body bag
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: that's just goo.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the part where it was like when
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I saw that that that's the part where I said,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: I need to warn Aeriel about this.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: I kind of expected it because in the teaser it
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: does show a person like cutting off their finger, which
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: is honestly more upsetting to me.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: I actually have a real hard time with fingers, fingers
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: and eyes when it comes to body horror. Fingers and
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: eyes in particular really bother me.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: I mean I have issues with body horror in general. So, yeah,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: what parts of it were hard, But I did watch
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: it on fast forward, so that helped.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's also clearly got like a wicked sense of
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: humor going on with it. There's like an element of
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: very dark comedy being incorporated, at least into the trailer.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's actually in the movie and it's not
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: just manufactured for the trailer, which is interesting, Like the
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: short story doesn't have dark comedy elements in it at all.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: But I don't blame the filmmakers for incorporating dark comedy
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: into this, because otherwise it can come across as such
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: a Chris premise that I would worry about people laughing
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: at my movie if I did not intend for them
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: to laugh at it.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think. I think having the comedy in
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: there is, or the humor in there is an important move.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Also having the cast that they have also helps give
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: it a little more weight. Yeah, because Tanya Mislani, Elijah Wood, THEO,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: James Sarah Levy.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it looks it actually looks kind of entertaining.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: So I probably will watch this. It comes out February
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: twenty first, so that one's on my radar to.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Tell me all about it. I will fast forward over
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  Speaker 1: the parts that I don't want to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Next up, I don't know why it's highlighted. It hard
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: to light up. But we got a trailer for a
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: kind of a thriller film called Cold Wallet. It's one
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: of those psychological movies. The only reason I included it
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: here is because it circulates around the idea of some
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: cryptocurrency investors or people who have sunk money in cryptocurrency
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: suddenly finding themselves at a loss, and so they decide
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: they're going to rob a guy who I presume they
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: blame for whatever happened to the cryptocurrency. It's not entirely clear,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: but they've got this target who is clearly a more
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: wealthy individual who owns cryptocurrency, and they want to get
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: at his storage wallet, which they know is stored on
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: some external hard drive, so that's why they're calling it
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: cold wallet. They're there to steal the cold wallet, a
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: digital wallet that is not actively connected to a computer.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: But then the guy that they've targeted is up playing
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: mind games with them, So it's almost one of those
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  Speaker 2: situations where the hostage is the one who starts calling
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: the shots. So it's an interesting like all of these
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  Speaker 2: elements I've seen before in different movies, but not like
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: in this combination.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's got Tony Cavallero and who I wasn't
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: familiar with until I watched The Connors, but he's done
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff and I tend to really like him,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: and who the guy who is playing the victim who
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: ends up being not the victim that you were talking
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: about is Josh Brenner, who is also one of the
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: voices of Donna Tello, the teenage mutant Ninja Turtle, So
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: it makes sense that he would be the one kind
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: of pulling some strings because Donna Tello is really smart.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah. Also, one of the most famous bitcoin purchases
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: ever happened, like back in twenty ten, where someone spent
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: ten thousand Bitcoin to buy a couple of pizzas, So
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: Donna Tello would be really interested in that too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, See, brought it right around to extra geeky,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: from just kind of geeky to extra geeky.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I do, It's what you do.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: In some sadder news, Sony has canceled some of their
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: live service PlayStation games that they were working on, most
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: notably a God of War multiplayer live service spin off. Yeah, Sam,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: that's not too sad about it.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's I don't think anyone should
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: necessarily be sad about live service games getting called well, okay,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: let me backtrack. I find live service games to be
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: a sticky situation because the whole purpose of those games
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: is to continue to exist and convince people to continue
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: to spend money on them, and often this can be
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: done in ways that are fairly predatory. I think not
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: everything is predatory. There are games out there that do
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: it well, but it's hard to do well, and it's
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: very easy to do it in a way that is
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: kind of exploiting the player base. So live service games
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: kind of have a bad reputation because there's only a
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: few out there that are really doing it right. And
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of the companies have been incentivized to develop
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: live service games because again, it's a way to continue
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: to generate revenue off of a single title, you know,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: instead of like releasing a title and then people buy it,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: and then that's kind of it. Maybe there's a long tail,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: but it's not as robust, and then you have to
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: go right back into the development cycle to make the
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: next big title. If you make something like a grand
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: Theft Auto online and people continue to spend money on
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: it year after year after year, suddenly you don't need
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: to worry so much about building the next big thing
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: because your current big thing is still bringing in money.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: So live service is rough. Now. The part where I
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: think is, you know, kind of tragic is that this
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: means the studios that we're developing these games now have
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: to redirect and figure out what the next step is,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: and that's always a risky situation, especially in a market
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: where we've seen time and again layoffs across the industry.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bloomberg did see an email from Sony that said
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: they're doing everything they can to ensure there's minimal business impact.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: I was less aware of the live service reputation. I
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: was more sad that, you know, a God of War
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: spinoff game was being canceled, So that's my bad. But
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: if Sony's trying to uphold a higher quality of service
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: to their player base, then that's good. And if they're
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: trying to make sure that as many people can keep
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: their jobs as possible, that's even better.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, So, Like, I don't think live service
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: games are automatically terrible, but I do think they're hard
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: to do in a way that players find like acceptable,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: because otherwise it just feels like you're being exploited. Like
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: I think back to the Suicide Squad game that came out,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of people really dunked on that one and
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: said it was obviously an attempt to create a live
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: service cash grab and that the game suffered as a
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: result of that. And you know, it's tough, Like it's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: it's hard to find that balance because, like, game development
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: has grown to be an incredibly expensive venture, and finding
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: a way to make it profitable without having to sell
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: a copy to every single human who's ever lived it
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: gets tough.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and I you know, I'm currently
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: playing Ascension with my parents, which is wow. But it's
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: free unless I want to buy stuff. But I don't
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: have to to play the game or enjoy it.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So there are there are versions of this that
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: are done very well, and like, like, I like the
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: ones where what you're paying for tends to be for aesthetics, Like,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: it's not for anything. It's not that is required for
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: you to be able to advance the game further. You
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: can advance the game as much as you like, but
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: if you want certain like esthetic components to customize your character,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: maybe you drop a couple of bucks in order to
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: do it. That I think is fine. I've also, I mean,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: I've played mobile games where I've occasionally dropped some money
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: because I'm like, dude, I've been playing this game for
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: three or four years, and the developers, I feel, deserve
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: some cash because they've made something that's entertained me for
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: countless hours while I'm like waiting in line or something.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: So like, I think there are ways to do it correctly.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: But honestly, if this was one of those things where
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: they detected that the direction they were going in was
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: perhaps not the best, I think it's I think it's
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: the right call.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I agree. Okay, well, we are down
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: to our last story, which is also about video games.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Hey hey, not about a hey Hey video game. Now,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: this is not a chicken.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: It's Alan Tudix. Hey Hey, the video game.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, people have played the untitled Goose game and
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: scroll with a gun. It's not outside of the realm
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: of imaginability.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: I have to admit, if there was like a hey
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: hey game that was akin to those that you just mentioned,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: I would be intrigued. But instead, it's that we got
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: our first look at the Nintendo Switch, to which you know,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: obviously people have been waiting for this for a while.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of expectation that it would be
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: unveiled last year that just never happened, but we.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: Got it was an alarm clock instead, yeah.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: That's true. We got a really really expensive alarm clock,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: like I think it was like one hundred dollars alarm
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: clock something like that. It was crazy. But no, we
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: finally got a little promotional video showing off the physical
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: appearance of the switch to and a little bit of
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: gameplay of a Mario Kart game at the end, but
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: was beauty shots CGI beauty shots of the switch To,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: which has a larger screen than the original switch. It
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: looks like the controllers have been redone a little bit
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: as well. But apart from that, we didn't get like
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: a rundown of new specs or anything, so like I
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: don't know, like how much better the resolution is or
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: any of that stuff.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we do know we're getting a Mario Kart game,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: and it looks like maybe an old side scroll or
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: Mario game. I'm not sure.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it wouldn't shock me if there were a couple
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: of like like anchor Nintendo game titles that are released
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: at the same time as the switch To. That that's
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: typically what they do. I know a lot of people
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: are really excited about this. They've a lot of folks
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: have felt that the switch has been showing its age
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: over the last year or so. We still don't have
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: a date for when the Switch Too will come out.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: They said that they will reveal more at a Nintendo
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: Direct event that will happen in April. Yeah.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll just have to wait a few more
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: months and that's it. I don't want to own a switch,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: but I would like to play more Mario Kart. Now
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: that's it. Fair enough episode, unless you've got something else
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: to add. You know, you had to look, you're just
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: waiting for me to get past my brain block. Yeah.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for listening to us. Jonathan was full of
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: beans and I apparently am full of tissue. I don't know, uh,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: just my brain cotton candy. My brain is not there.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: It's melting. So thank you for going on this crazy,
• 1:25:43
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  Speaker 2: see that hanging in the air in front of you
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: is like this big sort of gold block just like
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  Speaker 2: in the air. It's gonna have this big question mark
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: on it. I'm gonna need you to walk right underneath
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: that big block with the question mark, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: need to jump up as high as you can and
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  Speaker 2: but is legally distinct in a copyright sense, so that
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  Speaker 2: weird hallucination that you're having. You're going to go on
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: an adventure. On that adventure, you're going to encounter an
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  Speaker 2: AI controlled robot that's going to make you floss, both
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• 1:27:29
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• 1:27:33
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• 1:27:38
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• 1:27:55
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• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: this isn't like the game at all. But you can
• 1:27:59
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