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LNC Plays the Game "Time Traveler, Alien, or Little Old Lady?" · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: And hey, everybody, welcome to the Larger Drunk Collider podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel cast In, and with me, as always,
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  Speaker 1: is the delightful Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Pie Day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's pie day. H I didn't make any pie plans.
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  Speaker 1: Holy moly, ha, thank you for letting me know, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's the geometrically minded among us are
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  Speaker 2: on top of our games. But you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna need to have pizza tonight, and then I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to go to Doodle Pies and get their their
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  Speaker 1: monthly pie. Their pie this month is a lemon pie,
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  Speaker 1: so huh. And they also have Girl Scout cheesecakes, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to pie it up.
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  Speaker 1: A cheesecake is technically a pie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that I caught you before you you missed
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  Speaker 2: the chance to observe. Yes, yeah, probably won't be having
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  Speaker 2: any pie because I'm not allowed. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to figure out a way to make you
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  Speaker 1: like a pie that is acceptable to your dietary needs
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  Speaker 1: like a.
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  Speaker 2: Pot pie or I can have pie. It's just that
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  Speaker 2: I I know me and my lack of self restraint.
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  Speaker 2: If you give me, like, for example, if you were
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  Speaker 2: to gift me a standard issue regular sized key lime pie,
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  Speaker 2: I'd eat that mfor in one sitting. I would. They
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  Speaker 2: would not be a have a slice of pie. It
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  Speaker 2: would be a have a pie. And that's how that
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  Speaker 2: would go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you this little shop. It's up
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  Speaker 1: in Roswell.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're ever up in this air, okay, I
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  Speaker 2: won't be going there because if you're.
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  Speaker 1: Ever will I will, I will get you a pie
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  Speaker 1: the next time we're going to see each other. They
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  Speaker 1: they're they're like personal so they're like little little pies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ariel, I love that you're gesturing for an audio podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're doing it for my benefits.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well listen, eventually we're gonna go to video and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have video too, and then I'll edit that
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  Speaker 1: part of it or not edit it, and everybody will
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  Speaker 1: just have to watch all our mistakes. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a little three inch personal pie. And you can
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  Speaker 1: get like hot pies, like a cherry pie or a
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  Speaker 1: brownie pie or an apple pie or a peach pie
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  Speaker 1: or whatever and put all your mixings in and then
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  Speaker 1: they bake it right there for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I've heard of this place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's really good. You can also get savory
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  Speaker 1: pies like a meatball or a brisket or a chicken
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  Speaker 1: pot or pot pie or whatever. So and their keishas
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  Speaker 1: are really good too. But they have a pie like
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  Speaker 1: it's always there. It's a passion fruit pie. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like a key line pie but with passion fruit instead,
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  Speaker 1: and it's maybe the best pie I've ever had in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds great, so good. I think I learned about that
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  Speaker 2: place through like either Facebook or Instagram. One of the
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  Speaker 2: reels that plays because for a while, like local food
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  Speaker 2: places were often in my algorithm that were being served
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  Speaker 2: up to me. But of course now I don't have
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  Speaker 2: Instagram or Facebook, so I have to rely upon random
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  Speaker 2: people saying, hey, have you eaten at this pie place?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like no, but please tell me more.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice because they are not a chain at all,
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  Speaker 1: They're just the owners work. Yeah, the owners work there daily.
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  Speaker 1: I get a lot of reels like that too. I
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  Speaker 1: love them. There's so many dessert places I need to
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  Speaker 1: visit in the metro Atlanta area. It's even funny for me.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could just do a global food tour
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  Speaker 2: up and down Buford Highway because there's just so many
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  Speaker 2: different like, yeah, like Vietnamese places, Mexican, you know, Central American.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many international places, often with restaurants where if
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  Speaker 2: you don't speak whatever language is presented by the cuisine,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to read the menu.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I still think about that Stone Bowl restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: We went to that one.
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  Speaker 2: Time, Oh yeah, where they have the super hot stone
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  Speaker 2: ball and then they would serve you the stuff where
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was a Beaver Highway that was It
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  Speaker 2: was really good.
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  Speaker 1: We went prior to like a karaoke night or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think about it to this day.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly we talk about this because we record right around lunchtime.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, my lunch is coffee and a slice of sharp
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  Speaker 1: cheddar cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Mine was some pasta and a little bit of rotisserie
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  Speaker 2: chicken thrown in. Yeah, so it was good. But now
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about a feast for our other senses. As
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  Speaker 2: we chat about the stuff what we've watched since the
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  Speaker 2: last time we recorded.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and just a real quick disclaimer, I meant to
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  Speaker 1: put it at the beginning Jonathan's little Sniffley And I've got
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a tickle in my throat because not
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  Speaker 1: only is it PI Day, it's March in Georgia. And
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't have allergy, when you move to Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: you will have them. You will have them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they Actually it's part of your arrival gift, like
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  Speaker 2: you get a little basket. There's some peach jam, some pecans,
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  Speaker 2: and a whole bunch of allergies, seasonal allergies.
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  Speaker 1: But the weather is beautiful and the flowers are blooming,
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  Speaker 1: so I guess it's a trade off. Yeah. So what
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  Speaker 1: we watched? You beat me this week, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's be careful how we say that.
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  Speaker 1: You watched more than me this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Okay, So I watched Severance. I am actually
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  Speaker 2: an episode ahead of Ariel because I discovered last night
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  Speaker 2: that the Friday episodes actually go up nine pm Eastern
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night, and I happened to be looking on Apple
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  Speaker 2: TV when it happened, and I was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: will watch this. Then I have promised not to say
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  Speaker 2: anything about it because Ariel hasn't seen it and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to spoil anything because there were some fun
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  Speaker 2: elements to the most recent episode. The episode that came
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  Speaker 2: before that, the one that Ariel has seen, was probably
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  Speaker 2: my least favorite of the season so far. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you some insight into some motivations and backstory
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  Speaker 2: of a character, but I found it to be a
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  Speaker 2: little gratuitous, Like I don't think we needed a full
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  Speaker 2: episode to explore that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they could have done it in a half
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  Speaker 1: episode for sure, but it did. Also, it's the term
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  Speaker 1: flesh out or flesh out, flesh flush, flesh, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I thought, Yeah, it did maybe both. I did flesh
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  Speaker 1: out some weird bits of like world building trivia that
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  Speaker 1: they dropped in previous episodes two, just like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is a place that exists in this version of our reality,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get to see it and learn a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about it.
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  Speaker 2: So but I agree, it expands the mythology of Kre,
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  Speaker 2: the founder of Lumen, and that to me is interesting
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  Speaker 2: because I'm like, it's hard for me to get a
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  Speaker 2: grip on how important here is. Clearly here is centrally
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  Speaker 2: important for Lumine itself, right, Like it's essentially a religion.
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  Speaker 2: Is this the founder is essentially treated like a messiah
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  Speaker 2: in the world of Lumen. Yeah, but then you whenever
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  Speaker 2: the Mark has interacted with when Audi Mark has interacted
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  Speaker 2: with characters on the outside, you don't, or at least
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  Speaker 2: I didn't, get the feeling that Kre is considered to
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  Speaker 2: be some sort of you know, incredible like central leader
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  Speaker 2: and philosopher, like all the stuff he is treated as
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  Speaker 2: in Lumen doesn't seem to hold sway in the outside world. Now,
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  Speaker 2: granted we only have limited vision into the outside world.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting. I haven't looked into this, so this is
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  Speaker 1: purely speculation on my part. But Tony was talking with
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  Speaker 1: some of our friends because we're watching where we watch
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  Speaker 1: we just fit reugh. We finished rewatching season one with
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  Speaker 1: our friends who don't have Apple TV, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start season two on Sunday with them while watching
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  Speaker 1: the new episodes by ourselves. But apparently Ben Stiller and
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  Speaker 1: Tom Cruiser friends and so it's it does feel very
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  Speaker 1: like scientology, right, Oh yeah, absolutely, we're like on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know, but on the inside it's weird as all.
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  Speaker 2: Heck.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we do know now, but for a long
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  Speaker 1: time we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I don't want to say any more about
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  Speaker 2: Severance because I don't want to accidentally leak something that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna spoil Aerial's enjoyment when she gets a chance to
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  Speaker 2: watch it. I do want to talk to you about
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  Speaker 2: it after you watch it, and I will say this
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  Speaker 2: is not really a spoiler because people noticed it before
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  Speaker 2: the episode went love. There is a connection to a
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  Speaker 2: classic episode of the Twilight Zone in the most recent
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  Speaker 2: episode of Severance. Whether that has any significance or not,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but the references are pretty cool, and honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I would not have picked up on it because I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember having watched that particular episode of Twilight Zone before.
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  Speaker 2: I may have, but I had totally forgotten it. I
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  Speaker 2: did watch it again last night, and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if there's supposed to be anything else you draw from it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's cool that it happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is really cool, and I apologize if I
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  Speaker 1: was cranky about it last night. Part of the problem
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  Speaker 1: is I stumbled across There's a fine line on social
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  Speaker 1: media between Severance fan base videos like watching interviews and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that and fan theories that possibly leak ruined
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  Speaker 1: stuff for you, and they're all speculations and so it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really ruin. But somebody made a connection that I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I wish I hadn't seen that. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I've already seen the two episodes that relate to that connection,
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  Speaker 1: and I missed it, but I still didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: see it for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I get it. I mean, like, I certainly
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  Speaker 2: there is a balance to me between fandom and potentially
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: spoiling something for yourself or ruining it for yourself or
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  Speaker 2: for other people. And like getting together with people and
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  Speaker 2: talking about your thoughts and your perspectives and stuff is fun,
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  Speaker 2: but it can also become kind of a joykill depending
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  Speaker 2: on where it goes, and it can be really like
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  Speaker 2: I think honestly that content creators, the people who are
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  Speaker 2: making these shows, would serve themselves best if they ignore
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  Speaker 2: all that as much as they can so that they
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: can focus on the story they want to tell, as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to feeling obligated to switch gears. If people actually
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  Speaker 2: catch on what's happening, like we've seen time and again,
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  Speaker 2: where a story goes Haywire because the creator was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh crap, they know where I'm going. I still want
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  Speaker 2: to surprise them. Well, I think the surprise is less
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  Speaker 2: important than telling a good story.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I agree, Ben Stiller. If you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: if I tag you on this and you actually listen
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  Speaker 1: to this episode, you're telling a great story. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: anybody change that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean like, I'm going to be satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how many people guess or don't guess
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  Speaker 2: where things are going. I'm in, So don't feel like
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  Speaker 2: the need to switch gears just because someone might be
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  Speaker 2: honing in. Beyond that, I watched a few episodes of
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  Speaker 2: Invincible season three. I'm about I'm about halfway through the
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  Speaker 2: number of episodes that are published already. I still have
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  Speaker 2: a few more to go. And it's good. It remains good,
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  Speaker 2: remains incredibly violent. And I was talking to a mutual
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  Speaker 2: friend of ours earlier, not shay Lee, friend of the show.
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  Speaker 1: We have many mutual friends. You may not believe it,
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  Speaker 1: but it is true.
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  Speaker 2: But me talking to people, that's the surprising part, right
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  Speaker 2: like that, just because I have so few people I'm
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  Speaker 2: in touch with. No our friend Rachel. I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to her and saying talking about how I am growing
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: tired of the superhero is secretly a total jerk kind
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: of stories. Right, So The Boys, Invincible, all the Snyder
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: hero films like those bother me. I want to see
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: heroes being heroic, and I realized that that could be
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: naive and optimistic and all that kind of stuff, but
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: I kind of need it. However, that being said, Invincible
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  Speaker 2: still walks a line where the protagonist wants to be
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  Speaker 2: that kind of person. Is just they're just finding it
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  Speaker 2: very difficult to be that person in the world they
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  Speaker 2: live in. So I find that one easier to watch
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  Speaker 2: than say, The Boys for sure. For sure same uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then I watched I'm all cut up on Reacher.
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  Speaker 2: Man Meat Mountain showdown has not yet happened, but it's
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  Speaker 2: coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I know you said man meat and that's less appetizing,
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  Speaker 1: but it made me think of barbecue and I'm already hungry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but you're you're so against cannibalism. I figured
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  Speaker 2: that would help counteract.
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  Speaker 1: It's fair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, so Reacher has not yet thrown down with
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  Speaker 2: the super giant human being that that is a heavy
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: on the this particular season, it is gonna happen. He
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: did punch him once in the midsection to no effects,
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: so maybe we'll get more about that later. I have
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: watched a little bit more of Mythic Quest. I'm almost maybe,
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  Speaker 2: I am maybe. I did finish second season. I got
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: to be close to the end of season two, and
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: I also watched all of season one, season two of
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: the Harley Quinn animated series, and have just started season three.
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  Speaker 2: And that is all the stuff I've watched since the
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  Speaker 2: last episode.
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  Speaker 1: Great. I watched the there's not a good word for it,
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  Speaker 1: there probably is, and then my brain is nothing even
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  Speaker 1: the not penultimate episode of Severns but the one before, Yeah, penultimate,
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  Speaker 1: but one penultimate but one try ultimate tread ultimate, try
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  Speaker 1: no mil look. I couldn't even say Podiatris yesterday, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good. Today. I watched I caught up
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  Speaker 1: on White Lotus season three. So far they have not
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  Speaker 1: pulled the ick trigger that would make me no out
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  Speaker 1: of it. I'm really interested in some of the characters storylines,
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  Speaker 1: so I think this might be my favorite season so far,
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  Speaker 1: with Walton Goggins and and such.
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  Speaker 2: Walton Goggins, who has has managed to be in everything.
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  Speaker 2: He's Anya Taylor joying it.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say, he's he's your he's your
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  Speaker 1: male equivalent equivalent of Anya.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Joy and Florence Pugh and Florence Peele. Let's not.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not forget flow Pew.
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  Speaker 1: We're I think media in trying to get back to
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: good numbers post COVID is using a lot of a
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: lot of like very popular people right now. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that a little bit later in this episode when
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  Speaker 1: we go into our trailers. But yeah, it's he's doing great.
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  Speaker 1: There is a British Amy lou Wood is in it.
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  Speaker 1: She plays uh the sh of Walton Gongan's character. She
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  Speaker 1: is just maybe the best written character I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: on the show. She's genuinely nice and genuinely cares about
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  Speaker 1: other people and has a level head on her. And
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, the actress, she's British, She's done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like British stage and stuff like that. She's got
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  Speaker 1: really bucked teeth and she said she's never seen anybody
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  Speaker 1: like her on TV before, and so that's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: I love when you get a broader range of can
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: what should be considered attractive in the public eye because
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  Speaker 1: it's such a wide spectrum of amazing people with unique features.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm enjoying that. Although the character that I'm worried
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  Speaker 1: about the ick with, I hate him more than any
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  Speaker 1: other character on White Lotus. I feel really bad. It's
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  Speaker 1: the actor is Arnold Schwartzenegger's son. I'm sure he's not
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: a creeper in real life. But yeah, I'm up on Daredevil.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still enjoying it. I still will never forgive it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good.
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  Speaker 2: I now know what you won't forgive it for, even
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  Speaker 2: though I haven't watched the episode yet, because even in
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  Speaker 2: my sequestered, insulated state, spoilers still find a way to
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  Speaker 2: get to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, did I ruin something?
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  Speaker 2: No? Not you, okay, not you, No, it was it
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  Speaker 2: was one of the headline things on my phone. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Like it just had a headline where it just told
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  Speaker 2: me what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait, really, I turned off headlines on
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  Speaker 1: my phone, and let me tell you. I have been
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  Speaker 1: much happier since then. Even my therapist was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you seem less stressed, and I'm like, this is why good.
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  Speaker 2: Advice going through life uninformed is really helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, choosing choosing when you're informed. Yes, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: AOC said something on social media that I came across,
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  Speaker 1: which is a lot of because a lot of people
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: are stressed about current and everything everything, and most people
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  Speaker 1: can't do a whole lot about it. There's always stuff
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: you can do about stuff. But what she said, and
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  Speaker 1: I also think it's great advice that mirrors what my
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  Speaker 1: therapist said, is most people don't need to check news
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  Speaker 1: more than once or twice a day, and you should
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: choose when that is when is best for you. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not that I'm uninformed, it's that it's not berating
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  Speaker 1: me constantly all day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can. I can choose to catch up
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  Speaker 1: when I'm in a good headspace to handle it. I've
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  Speaker 1: also caught up or not caught up something to say.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first show that hasn't been producing in tech decades.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching BSG. I tried to watch it. I failed
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  Speaker 1: because I liked the original, went back and I watched
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  Speaker 1: it and now watching it the third time. I remember
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  Speaker 1: very little about the second time, but that's fine. He
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  Speaker 1: it's a dark show, but we're having fun with it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I watched Mickey seventeen over the weekend, which is the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Robert Pattinson movie where he signs up to go into
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: space to be inexpendable, where they put him in dangerous
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: situations and when he dies, they just print out a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: new one of him with all of his memories. I've
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: never seen anything else by that director. They also did
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: snow Piercer and Parasite and some other oak Jah and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: some other things. Yeah, so I had no idea what
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I was stepping into. I expected a different movie. It's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: not that I didn't like it. It was more disjointed
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: than I anticipated, which probably if I hadn't seen other
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: stuff by this director, I would have anticipated it. But
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I loved the end so well.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I love Parasite, and I enjoyed snow Piercer, So I'm
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: looking forward to finally seeing this. I have not seen
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: it yet.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, And then I started playing Balderskate three.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: You just started it? You decided to join twenty twenty one?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Is that?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Well so, actually I don't know. It may have come
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: out in twenty twenty. I don't remember when Balder's Gate.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Came out, not that long ago.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It's been a couple of years.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: It has been. But here's the thing. We have been
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: busy in my house. Yeah, and so twenty twenty three.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's been like two years. Okay, but we've been.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Busy in my house. And so we have a backlog
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of games on our Xbox one or Xbox three, sixty
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: our PS four, and so like, the the urge to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: get a new gaming system when we have so many
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: games we already want to play was pretty low, Like
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I want to play Boulders K three, and also like
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: my desktop for gaming is really old, but I've been
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: too busy so I haven't bothered to replace it. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: my lap my work laptop, which is also like my
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: casual laptop is not powerful enough, is not powerful enough,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and that's fine. I wanted something that would work for
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: work or watching videos. Sure I didn't need more. So
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: uh so, yeah, so I've started playing. I'm playing a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: bard Barian because of.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Course I am. I was about to ask what you're okay,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: what's your species? And we know so you're multi classing
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: as bard and Barbarian.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not multi classing yet, I am so okay, So
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I am a half elf Barbarian with the background of Entertainer,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I will multi class into Bard.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Probably Bard is fun because Bard gets a lot. I mean,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I'm sure all this is true for all the different classes,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: but Barred in particular, it gets unique interaction capabilities that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: just don't don't they don't show up for other classes,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and some of them are really funny. Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, none of my characters, none of my party can
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: speak to animals yet.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, that also gets really funny when when you do
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: unlock that. I will say that, like my first playthrough,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: or my first attempt at a playthrough, I played a Bard,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: but I hit a wall at one point, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: figuratively speaking, I hit a wall where I just could
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: not survive. And it was because I didn't have enough.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I didn't have enough firepower on my side to be
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: able to get through some of the trickier fights. And
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: part of it was just because I don't do well
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: in positioning my characters to make effective use of terrain,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and I just don't have that like strategic ability. I'm
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: very bad. I would watch videos online. I'm like, yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: this fight is super easy. As long as you can
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: get this exploding barrel in this one spot, you can
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: knock everybody off the bridge and you know, oh.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So frustrating. So I'm I'm still in the beginner area
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: where you meet up with all of your initial party,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you know, right with Sally Gale and Asterian and shadow
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Heart and all that. I've finally gotten them all. I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: went into the ruined Chapel yep, yep, and died in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: there about ten times. And I tried switching out party.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'll bring Hysterian because he can sneak
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and maybe he can get around them. Absolutely not. They
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: block the door before we can, so he just dies
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: in one shot. I had to go back and get
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Lazelle to do it. And still I'm like, okay, I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: just gonna be okay with people dying and then get finally,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I finally just beat everybody in the first first room,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and now I have to go through the rest. But
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I was just like, I didn't expect it to be
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: so hard.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: There's quick There's a couple of different ways into that room,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and depending on which way you've gone in, it can
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: be slightly easier than so the other one.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: There's a hole that you can jump down and the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: top I did not. I couldn't get into the top.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I opened up the hole and then I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: couldn't get in. And I'm playing on my PS five.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you were playing on. But I tried.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I tried jumping, I tried walking, I tried using a rope,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and it just wouldn't let me in. I tried going
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: down around to the bottom near the near the water
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and picking the door, and that didn't work. I used
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: every single lock pick, every single one of my characters had,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and we all failed the.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Twenty Wow, you had real bad luck.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I have. Maybe it's because I picked a barbarian, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it's okay. I was able to revive Gale and shadow
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Heart and it's all fine.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well Gail's got some issues, let me tell you.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: But anyway, and they all seem to have some issues.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Gale's issues are particularly challenging as this as the story
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: goes on, I mean, they all are to something. And
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I say this as someone who never finished the game,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: like I got pretty far into Act two. Uh, but
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I never I actually never made it to Bulder's Gate.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: It was it is a huge I'm also one of
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: those people. I have that terminal condition where I have
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to do every side quest before I move on, because
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: what if I miss something and it meant there's so
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: many in Balder's Gate that if you're determined to do
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: that one, you might come across something and realize, Oh,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I closed this off from an earlier decision I made.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to with save I made
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: three days ago and just replay all that stuff so
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I can get this one side mission. It's it's terrible
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: for a person like me.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I don't need to do everything I do try, but
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: as I'm more worried about, like doing the Sky. The
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: first time I played through Skyrim, I just wandered and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I ended up in a level that was far too
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: high for me, and then everything else was closed off,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And so I'm worried about doing that. So I just
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: have to make sure as long as I'm following the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: main plot line, I'll be okay and everything else is gravy.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Are you? Are you playing as heroic or evil
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: or somewhere in between?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I mean I guess it would be. I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: playing true to the character class and background.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So alignment do you have? Then?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, it didn't make me pick?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, if you had to give your character in Alignment,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: what would be chaotic?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Good? Okay, yeah, because like I'm generally nice to people,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: but I will pick the barbarian answer as well. Gotcha,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Like hey, let me punch face and see who goes harder.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: But also like like when you askew Gale at the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: beginning and his hand is sticking out the rock, right,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I slapped it first. I gave him a high five first,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: because barbarian. Also, I did go back and do similar.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, I read that you can
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: get the sword off of the Notdylloid at the very beginning,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: so I went back twice before I realized none of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: my characters had command to get the sword off of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the bad guy before escaping the Notdylloid. So that was
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: like two hours wasted. Yeah, and the first time, but
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that's okay because the first time I took all of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: my like out of play knowledge of Hysterian and was
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: really crappy to him the first time through, which is fine,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: but I was like, yeah, no, I'll play it. I'll
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: let his character develop and make me hate him within
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the game, as opposed to just shutting that off the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: first time through.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I want to say, like the first time I tried playing,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I think I created a paladin and almost immediately abandoned
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: that went with Bard. Stuck with Bard for quite some time,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: but like I said, started hanging wall. And then my
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: third character, which was the one I got the furthest with,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: was a Ranger, which works great for that first section
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: of the game that you're in. The part that you
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: are in, it works great, Ranger's fantastic. Get a little
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: further in and Ranger suddenly becomes way less effective.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not ineffective totally, but like a lot of the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: abilities just aren't accessible at that point, and that got
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: really frustrating.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I might have to turn on karmic dice because
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I've just had really bad roles, like even all of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: because I have reckless attack as a barbarian and it
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: just fails.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: You're just flailing wildly at someone and not connecting.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Yep, just wasting turns, and it's like they're not even
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: like higher level. We're all level two. So that's how
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: early in the game I am. So yeah, I'm enjoying it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I know I will continue to enjoy it, but it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: been a challenge.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. Well, I'm curious to hear
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: your thoughts as you get further in the game, because
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: you will get to a point where will get past
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: where I was, and then I'll be like, and then
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: what happened.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Thirty minutes at a time, It'll be ten years from now, I.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Mean faster than when I'll do it. Like, I don't
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: think I have a computer that can run my copy
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: of it, because I got it on PC, and my
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: gaming PC, which was also the PC I used to
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: edit podcasts on, died, so I have another PC fortunately
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: that is good enough to edit podcasts on, not good
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: enough to run Balder's Gate three.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: So I feel that.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's now that we have thoroughly talked about
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: what we have been watching and playing.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: We're done with the episode, right, No.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: No, now we have the actual episode to go, So
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: we start off with thirty seconds or less and I
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: actually begin time. So here we go. So he's been
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a comic book character since nineteen thirty nine. He's been
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: a character in a racy and sometimes nonsensical television series,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: and in twenty fourteen he even got fatally shot. But
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: now the iconic Archie is getting ready for a hazy
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: crossover as he will meet Jay and Silent Bob from
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Kevin Smith's Ask Universe. The story takes place after the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: events of Clerk's three. The comic debuts on July ninth
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: and is a double sized crossover.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't read any of your stories, so that's interesting.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: We got news that john Wick five is officially in
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the works. We don't know if Keanu Reeves is coming back.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: They're also looking at more spinoffs, like a TV series
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in a video game. Have we not already gotten a
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: john Wick video game? I don't know anyhow, Keanu Reeves
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: is not like excited to go back, so we'll see.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I think a john Wick video game would just be
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Hitman but with hair.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: The independent horror slash comedy slash romance film Dead Lover
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: has landed a distributor while screening at south By Southwest.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Writer director actor Grace Glowicki is behind the movie, which
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: plays with the themes of Frankenstein. To paraphrase doctor Duffen Schwertz,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: if I had a nickel for every Frankenstein horror romance
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: comedy I know of, I would have two Nichols, which
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: isn't a lot, but it's weird. That it's happened twice.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: No good segue for me. Ryan Kugler's latest movie, Sinners,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: is getting a rated R rating, which is not really
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: surprised if people watch the trailer, which we have. We've
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: talked about it on the show. It's going to be
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: his first one in thirteen years. The last rated AR
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: movie he did was Fruitvale Stage, which I'm not familiar with,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: but create in Black Panther and Black Panther will kind
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of work forever, we're not righted R. Also, he's working
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: on a couple of new Black Panther states.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: John Butler Jack spent a few years following the late
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: great stan Lee capturing candid moments on camera, including some
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: allegedly bad behavior among those in Lee's circle. Now, Butlerjack
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: wants to turn this footage into a documentary titled stan
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Lee The Final Chapter. He has launched a Kickstarter campaign
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: to help crowdfund the project, though at the time of recording,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: he's not even a third of the way there to
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: funding it.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. Nintendo is opening its second brick and mortar
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in the United States. The first one is in New
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: York City at Rockefeller at Plaza. It is really cool
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: They have a bunch of like big characters that you
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: can interact with and a bunch of like memorabilia, memorabilia
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of old games. I went there when I wanted to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: see Beetlejuice. The new one will be in San friand Cisco.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: It opens on May fifteenth, and they are doing a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: sweepstakes for people who want to attend the store's grand opening.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: You could win a four day trip for two to
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: San Francisco with a tour of the store, tour of
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the store, tour of the store. There's a link to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the sweepstakes on in gadget dot com. We will share
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that in our show notes.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Sadie Sink of Stranger Things Fame. Oh, now I'm doing it.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Sadie's Sink of Strangers Things Fame will be joining our
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: friendly neighborhood spider Man in the next spider Man film.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Whom she will play is unrevealed as of yet. It
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: could be a new character or perhaps someone from Spidey's
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: rich comic book history when Stacy Black Cat Kitty Pride.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: No clue, but I'm glad that progress is being made
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: on the project.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Me too. And that is it. For thirty seconds or.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Less, Yayu, and we have a couple of things we
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: want to chat about before we get into all the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: trailers we saw. So Ariel and I both came across
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: trailers for movies that we don't really think fall into
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the genre fields, but they still look kind of interesting.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: So we wanted to give a quick shout out to
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: some of those that we saw. And you know, I'm
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: trying to be a little more discerning when I'm going
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: through trailers, Like sometimes I'm like, oh, this is a
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: light science fiction touch on an otherwise dramatic story. Now
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I'm like, is it science fiction enough? Though, Well, in
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: this case, these are not really science fiction or fantasy
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: or horror or any of that, but they still look interesting.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: And first up, we saw a trailer for a Is
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: it a film or a series?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it's it's a TV series. It's a Canadian comedy
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: television series that will be showing on Netflix or actually
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: what you know what? I just got the trailer for
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: it the other day, but it says it came out
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in January, oh, in Canada, so now it's coming to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the US.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It's about an Inuit woman who's a mother and a
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: wife who decides to reinvent herself.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, her husband, her husband's kind of like an influencer type,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and everyone seems to define her just as being her
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: husband's wife.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm sorry it's in in Ook. I did
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: not I said Inuit, and that is wrong. Anyhow, she
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: her marriage ends and she decides to reinvent herself. It
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: looks very very touching. It's got a great look on
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that sort of I've lost words now. I went from mispronouncing.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Them to losing on the technical side.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Not on the technical side, just like it's a great
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: view of like the culture of that area.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: The costuming looks amazing.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks It looks delightful, it looks fun. I'm
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: sure there are going to be very heartfelt moments, but
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it also looks pretty fun and uplifting.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: We also saw a trailer for a film called Psychotherapy
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: that has Steve Bussemi in it. The general premise is
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: there's an author and he wants to write a book
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: that involves a serial killer, and Steve Bussimi offers to
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: be a counselor on the book because, as he puts it,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: he's a retired serial killer. Meanwhile, the author is also
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: going through a rocky period in his marriage and his
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: wife mistakes the serial killer for being a marriage counselor,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: so then the serial killer is filling in as a
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: marriage counselor. It looks like it's funny and also has
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: elements of like an actual thriller, like a psychological thriller
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: type thing. So they hint at some murderous intent in
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the trailer, but they also have a lot of comedy
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: in it, So I honestly don't know where it comes
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: out at the end, but I am intrigued.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we also saw me too. We also saw a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: trailer for The Luckiest Man Alive, which stars Paul.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Wal Luckiest Man in America.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Luckiest Man in America. I'm sorry, I'm even looking at
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the IMDb. It stars Paul Walterhauser and Walton Goggins. It's
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: about and Johnny Knoxville. Those are the names I recognize
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the most. It's about a guy who figured out a.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Way to win shoot, press your luck.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Press your luck, and then he just keeps winning and
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: they're like, we have to stop him, we being the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: TV execs. So based on a true story.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real thing that happened, a real thing
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: that happens is an ice cream truck driver who videotaped
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: episodes of Press Your Luck and watched them until he
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: realized that the lights on Press your Luck. So it's
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: one of those games where you press a buzzer and
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: you stop lights at a particular spot on a board
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and then you either get you know, money, or you
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: get to spin again, or you hit a whammy. You
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: hit three whammies, you're out.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: It's where the term no whammys came from.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Right, And he figured out that there were five different
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: sets of patterns, and as soon as you recognize which
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: pattern said it as you could time it to hit
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the square you wanted to hit, you know, pretty regularly,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: and he ended up auditioning for the show and got on,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: and he ended up winning more money. At that time,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: he won the most money anyone had ever won on
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: a game show in a single appearance. And his story
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: sadly gets really fishy and tragic. After his winnings, he
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: became like a kind of a con artist, got into
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of multi level marketing scams, and then ultimately
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: passed away at the age of forty nine in Florida.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: But this is clearly a dramatization of that Press your
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: lux which really was pretty wack a doodle crazy.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, less wacka doodle and less crazy. We also
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: saw a trailer for The Uninvited, which premiered in twenty
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: twenty four. It's south by Southwest. It's about a couple
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: who kind of have a tense relationship and then this
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: old woman shows up saying that she lives in their house.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're like in the entertainment industry, right, They're
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: in Hollywood entertainment industry, and there's this big party that's
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: going on, and this woman just shows up insisting that
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: she lives in the house, and so it's kind of like,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: what do we do about this person? You know? The
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: husband wants to just get rid of her so that
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: he can focus on the party, and he wants his
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: wife to go to the party too, to have a
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: show of solidarity. Meanwhile, the wife is like one kind
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: of fed up with the husband's bs and two concerned
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: about this woman. So yeah, the trailer looked really interesting,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: but again not really in the genre field. Yeah. Well,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the last aerial suspects the woman is actually an alien.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I did you said alien? I think she's the wife
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: from the future, So she did actually live in the house.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: You're right, far more grounded than what I was suggesting.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, much more grounded. Look, we're going about to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: talk to talk about a whole bunch of trailers in
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: more depth that I swear we've seen before.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: So well, some of them we've seen teasers for certainly.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I feel like I'm living in the matrix today.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: For sure. I'm not going to look deeper into it
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: because I don't want to creep myself out. The last
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: trailer we got for UH that we looked at that
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: didn't quite fit our m O was uh. Yeah, Emma
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: was a dad quest.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is uh? Was it Spanish? I can't remember.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: It's a it's a foreign language film. As I recall
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: where the uh you kind of had the story about
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: a guy who encounters a young girl who could be
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: his daughter and the mother unfortunately passes away, and so
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: then he is taking care of her. He then finds
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: out that she is not his daughter, and so he
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: is trying to help her find her biological father. Meanwhile,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: the two are bonding as they are going through this experience,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: and it feels like it's one of those really heartwarming
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: films where someone who was not anticipating having this role
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: in life and was initially resistant to it turns out
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: to embrace the role of being effectively the girl's father,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: if not her biological dad.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, similar to we talked about a movie about it
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and I can't remember the name of it. All of
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: a sudden, it's like, this is a second movie with
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: that kind of or thing piece of media with that
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: kind of a story lately, so kind of cool.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but those are the ones that did not
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: make our list. Let's talk about the stuff that did
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: make our list. Starting off with a trailer that was
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: never meant for us to see.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and one that I'm gonna say I am ashamed
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to say actually looked pretty good.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what, I didn't hate this either, but
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: it is getting so much hate.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that. So it's the trailer for the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Powerpuff Girls Live action series. If you recall, from way
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: back in the day, they were supposed to have had
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: like a tragedy and now their lives are kind of
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: because of it.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've grown up.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've grown up dealing with that trauma and then
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: they come back home. But it looks fun. It's got
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Dove Cameron and Donald Fason in it, and I like
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: both of them a lot.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: And Chloe Bennett from Agents of Shield Kloe Bennett.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: So maybe maybe I am biased because I like those actors,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: but it looks cute and it looks fun despite the
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: characters having unexpected trauma.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was initially very negative about this because I
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: didn't like the idea of the Powerpuff Girls being treated
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: again like that cynical side of superhero storytelling, right, same
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: thing with like The Boys or Invincible, where you have
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: these characters who were presented as being very positive and
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: heroic with occasional little quirks and stumbles along the way
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: because they're young girls being turned into a much more
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: cynical kind of young adult character of all of whom
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: each of the girls have their own issues, like one
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: of them is just angry all the time, one of
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: them is like an alcoholic, like that kind of thing.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I as I watched the trailer, I thought, this is
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: not as bad as I was expecting, and in fact,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: it looks like it could have been okay. And then
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: I look at all the reaction on Laine, and it's
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of what you would expect of people saying
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: this was the worst thing ever, the worst thing that's
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: ever been made, ever, ever, ever, And I'm like, no,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: it's not. You're just trying to get clicks your thumbnail. Goblin.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: But no, Goblin, I love that.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know. I don't think it would
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: have been a very good series ultimately. I think there
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: were incredibly talented people working on it and that they
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: would have done their best. But I think ultimately it
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: probably would not have succeeded had it actually gone into
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: full production. But it was nowhere close to what I
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: was expecting based upon the synopsis that we had seen
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: in the past years.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would. It didn't look it doesn't look dark
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and dreary and miserable. It looks like it's fun. Like
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: they had fun with it. I could see it worst.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe there isn't enough meat there to make it a
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: a full series, right, Like we got a three minute
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: clip of the best moments.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: That they feeld so, and they also make some choices
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: that are going to upset people who are like, no,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I want Mojo Jojo to be a super intelligent monkey
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: running around.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know me. Maybe it will get enough
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say before because I didn't look at
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the comments. I'm surprised you did, but good good reporting.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: I actually did not look at the comments. What I
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: did was I looked for the trailer because what I
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: saw was I saw reactions to the trailer and I
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: just wanted to see the trailer itself because all the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: reactions where you're predictable, this looks like the worst thing ever. Like,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: let's be let's face it. Most of them white guys
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: just acting like like it's Star Wars fans is what
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: they are. The Star Wars fan the toxic Star Wars
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: fans community turned out big time to do reaction videos
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: to the Powerpuff Girls trailer. Uh, and they it's just
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: as toxic as you can imagine. Now, I'm not saying
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: that if you go and watch the trailer you're gonna
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: have a life changing experience. It's gonna be amazing. You're
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: gonna be sad that it never came out. You might
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: hate it too, which is fine. This just felt like
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: manufactured outrage and which is totally ridiculous because it's not
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: even happening.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I was originally gonna say, maybe
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: it we'll get enough like cult following that it will happen.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: But maybe it'll get enough cult following where one day
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: the pilot episode will leak. I think that's the boat
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: most you can Yeah, you would expect. But so we
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: got a trailer for something that didn't happen. We also
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: got stuff for things that are happening. Like we got
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: an actual trailer, not just a teaser for the live
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: action And I use those words loosely Lelo and Stitch remake.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I would say two thirds of the cast or live action.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just saying Stitch isn't go out and find
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: an alien.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: But what I wish they did. I actually I don't know.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Because I don't know aliens. I make a bunch of
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: assumptions about aliens.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Could have gotten that little old lady from the Uninvited.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Not an alien, a time traveler. They're different unless you're Doctor.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Who, in which case you're both.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: You're both. You know what I'll say. And I said
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: this with the teaser, and it holds true in the trailer.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I was worried during the Super Bowl. Like teasers, the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: CGI looks really good. I think maybe the best that
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Disney has done so far on these live action not
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: live action movies again, because Stitch and the other aliens
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: don't need to look photo realistic.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: I also think that it looks like they did not
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: commit the sin that I find really annoying with these
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: live action remakes in that it doesn't look like it's
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a shot for shot, angle for angle remake. Like there's
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: stuff where you're like, oh, yeah, I know this part
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: of the animated movie, but it's it doesn't look like
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: they just tried to recreate the animated film but in
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: real life. And I appreciate that. I think the young
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: girl who's playing leelo Is seems great, like I totally
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: get like she's got she's got screen appeal. And yeah,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I still feel like it's an unnecessary movie because you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: we have the animated film and it's really good. But
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: this doesn't look bad to me, not the way like
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: some of the other live action remixed it. Like as
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to pile on hate for
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: snow White because I think most of that hate is
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: really misplaced. A lot of it is racist and misogynistic.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I don't want to add to that because I don't
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: think any of those comments have any merit. But I
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: will say I don't think it looks good.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: No, those dwarfs hunt my mas. I. You know, here's
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: the thing. I think the two thousand and two Leelo
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and Stitch cartoon was near perfect. It's such a good
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Disney movie, right, such a good original, like actually original
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Disney movie.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I think, right, right sequel not a remake that.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't think you could improve upon perfection, but
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: there probably is. And I'm not as in tune with
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Jen Alfha. There's probably a whole bunch of kids that
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: may not sit down for a two D cartoon, that
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: would watch this and get to enjoy the things that
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: we also loved back in the day.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if it's an accessibility thing, then absolutely, And again
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: like it looks to me, at least based on the trailer,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: everyone involved is doing their best, so it doesn't feel
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: like anyone's sleepwalking their way through it, which again, some
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: of the live action stuff, I'm just like, I don't
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: know if this person was just kind of dragging their
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: heels or if it's just they're just not the right
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: person for this part. But it hasn't always been the case,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: but in this one, everyone looks like they're being really
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: sincere in their efforts.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I need to clarify, I'm not dissing on
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: two D animation. I absolutely love it. I prefer it
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: to three D animation usually. I'm just saying.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, just that, you know, cultural tastes change, and
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, I know for a fact, there are
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: movies that I loved as a kid that my nieces
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: can't sit through, right, like the original Pete's Dragon. I
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: love that movie and my nieces think it's boring, and
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: I get it, like it's it's a different pace, it's
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: a different style. It doesn't appeal to them, and that's fine.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: They're just wrong and will always be wrong.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: There is, of course, people who are unhappy with the
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: fact that the Lelo and Stitch trailer is not a
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: shot for shot.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Of course there are You're never gonna make everyone happy, right,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: because if you do it shot for shot, then the
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: question is why did you bother? We already have the
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: animated film that looks exactly the same. If you don't
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: do it shot for shot, then you have the people like, well,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: this is too different from the cartoon I love. Well,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: just watch the cartoon you love your jerk face.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're entitled to their opinion, and I hope it.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: But yes, I hope that they are prove themselves wrong
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: and enjoy something despite their best efforts.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, now, I don't know if all that being said,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: if it's going to turn out where I'll watch this
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: live action Lee Low and Stitch and walk out in
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: the theater saying, boy, I'm glad I saw that. I
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: might not, but the trailer at least made me feel
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: less grouchy about it.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did walk out of The Little Mermaid saying
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I watched this. It did not improve on
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: all parts of the movie, for sure, but at least
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: put a little teaser on the end that I felt
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: was needed to the story, which is.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Saying a lot because Ariel for a while did not
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: like The Little Mermaid simply on principle.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you're seven or eight.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: And your name is Ariel and you have.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: A friend whose name is Eric that you hang out
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: with all the time.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: You could see where it could get irritating. Yes, I
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: get it.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's now now I'm embracing it. Now,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I'm embracing it, which is fine. I like I like
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: being like hey, other mermaids out there, because I do
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: love water, like that's that's the ridiculous thing. I could
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: be a mermaid. If I could breathe underwater, I'd be underwater.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: All the time. Yeah, well, which.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Makes for really bad audio quality.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: But still it would be a little more gurgly and
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: we'd be going through a lot more microphones. We also
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: got a trailer for the Netflix animated adaptation of Devil
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: may Cry. Devil May Cry is a video game series
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: if you're not familiar with it, and there's now an
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: animated version that is coming to Netflix, and uh, I'm
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: happy to say that it unapologetically says this is taking
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: the Devil may Cry characters and world and telling an
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: original story. It's not retelling the video games. It's going
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: in a different direction, which I think helps avoid those
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: issues of well that's not how it was in the game.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I've never played the game. The cartoon looks good.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: It kind of looks like you took Percy from Vox
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Makna and threw him into a modern Alice in Wonderley.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: I have.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: There's far more white rabbits than I anticipated.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The main villain is a demon that looks like
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: an anthropomorphic white rabbit, which does take some getting used
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: to because like it, I could not take it seriously.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Upon the initial appearance of the white rabbit, I'm like, oh,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: this is your big bad But I think it looks
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: in interesting for people who are into that kind of animation.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: It's not something that I would typically seek out, but
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that for folks who enjoy that kind of
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: animation and who enjoy those sorts of stories, that they
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: dig it. Yeah.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of digging things, we both dig to season
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: one of Last of Us, and then for season two,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: we got like a pre trailer and then we got
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: a teaser which I could have sworn was the official trailer.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: But now we've got the official official trailer. And how
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: do you feel about that, Jonathan? I know you've been
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: concerned you won't be able to watch season two.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: I have a feeling I know how season two is
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: going to end.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Me too. I mean, I feel like most people who
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: are familiar with the property do.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I might. I might call it
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: season one and call it a day. Not to say
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: that season two is going to be bad. I don't
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be bad at all. I think
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: it's going to be compelling television, but knowing where things
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: go in the games, I don't know if I have
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: it in me to watch it. Still, it looks incredible, though,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Like the trailer looks great.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is there the thing that you're afraid of?
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Is there a lot of story after that happens in
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: the video game? Oh? Yes, Okay, so that's how they
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: can break it into part one.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Huh yeah, okay, just.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Making sure because I haven't played the video game, I
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: think it's a I am not going to force you
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: or peer pressure you into watching season two. I do
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting to see how my reactions as
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: somebody who's only familiar with the story but hasn't played
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: it will be compared to people who have played the game.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hate, you know, pussy futting around all
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: this and everything, but I want to make sure I
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: don't spoil anything for anyone. Essentially, the big event that
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I anticipate will end the first half of season two,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: because the season two really I think it's season two
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: and season three right like they're dividing part two of
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: the game into two seasons. I think the thing that
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: will end this season the next season is essentially going
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: to be the consequences of that action, because that's what
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Part two is all about. Consequences and cycles and how
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: to break out of a cycle once you find yourself
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: in one. That's really what Part two is all about,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: in a very high level sense. I don't want to
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: get more into it, because to do so would be
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: spoiling the very nature of the story. We could have
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: a whole conversation about that, and about how I feel
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: that the video game studio is trying to have its
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: cake and eat it too, because they essentially they force
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: you down, like there's no way to avoid certain aspects
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: of the narrative, and they're trying to teach you a lesson,
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: but if that lesson is dependent upon free will, they've
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: removed the free will part because you have to go
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: down that one bath and you're like, well, yeah, I
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: know this is bad. I would not have done that,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: but you made me do it because that's the way
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: the game works.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. People felt the same way similarly about like
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the end of Mass Effect, yes, or Tony even felt
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: this way. He was playing Fallout two or three. It's
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: a really old Fallout game where he had to like
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: he was helping the goals. He could either help the
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: goals or hurt the goals, but either way it was
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: a decision that he felt like a bad or an
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: evil decision to him, Like there wasn't a good option,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: and he just stopped playing because he was playing like
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: a paladin upstanding kind of character.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's like, I don't like it.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: They're forcing me to do this.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: I can appreciate a game that gives you a choice
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: where it's not clear if what you're doing is good
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: or bad, and then you only find out after the fact,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: because that's realistic, right. You can go in with the
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: best of intentions and do what you think is right,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: only for that to turn out to have been the
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: bad option. But you didn't there was no way to
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: know that until after it happened. That I can deal with.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: What I can't deal with is you don't really have
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: a choice. You have to do this thing, and now
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: we're going to lecture you about how that was the
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: wrong thing to do. I'm like, but I didn't get
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: to choose that. You made me do it.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like just Star Trek Discovery, where they don't
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: let you come to the decision on your own. They
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: have to really pound it into you, which I know
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: you don't understand, but I've had several people say that
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: that's how they feel that show goes, even.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Though I enjoyed it well. Moving on, we also got
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: a teaser for a series that I've been anticipating for
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: a while, the second season of poker Face. I really
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: enjoyed the first season, with some caveats, like I had
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: grouchy old man complaints about certain episodes, and I do
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: make the joke that if Charlie shows up in town,
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: don't become her friend, because you're guaranteed to die. But
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: the thing that I like about this teaser, it's very short.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: You don't get a whole lot of content, but you
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: do get a long list of actors who are gonna
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: be in it, and it is impressive.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, remember when I said earlier, it seems like to
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: get people reinvested in in entertainment media, they're they're bringing
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: in a bunch of actors people like this is the
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: first of those.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Cynthia Rivo is one of them. You got, like,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: it's such a huge list. I'm going to see if
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: I can find I'm actually scrubbing through the trailer right now,
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: while John Mulaney, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Aquafina, a method man,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Justin Threau, kumeil Nan, Johnny Like. There's just a crazy
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: list of of actors who are appearing as guest stars
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: in this which is similar to what happened in season one.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: You had some great actors who were in season one
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: as well, including ones that I wish were still in
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: poker Face, but gosh darn it, Charlie went and made
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: friends with them, and so they're dead now.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Charlie being the main character played by natash Leone. Yeah,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: and don't confuse Justin th Row with Justin Trudeau, like
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: You love the Canadian Prime Minister with.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: In former Canadian Prime Minister? Yes, yes, No, it looks cute,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: it looks fun. I don't have Peacock, so I didn't
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: watch season one, but.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: It looks good. It's good. Yeah, if you ever do
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: get Peacock, it's worth watching, I think of it. It's
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: really similar to something like Colombo, or like any of
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: those procedurals where you have the preternaturally brilliant detective. In
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: this case, though she's not brilliant. She just knows automatically
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: if someone's lying, Like she just knows, and they kind
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: of half wave it away in the very first episode
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: where they're just like, yeah, she just can. Like there's
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: no there's no logical reason why she's able to.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: There's no like monk observing behaviors. There's no like Daredevil,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I can hear their heart speed up.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: No, it's literally like if someone lies and she doesn't
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: even have to be looking at them, she just has
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: to be able to hear it. She knows immediately if
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: it's a lie. She doesn't know what the truth is,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: she just knows that they are lying.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I think it should be a scent based power.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: You stink of lies, You stink of lies. Yeah, that'd
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: be a great line.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: It would be. You should get on the writing cast
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: for that show.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Well, i'll apply after we're done with this episode.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Speaking of things I haven't watched, we also got a
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: trailer for Black and Mirror season seven. It looks really good.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: I might actually watch this season. It doesn't look quite
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: as depressing as the previous season trailers have.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: To me. Yeah, it gave me a real Twilight Zone
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: kind of feel to it, like that weird fiction version
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: of Twilight Zone, not the super super dark episodes like
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: of Twilight Zone, but more of the Well, wasn't that
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: a strange story that we just told you?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, And like there is some blood and
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: violence in the trailer for season seven, so we know
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: there's going to be dark stuff. But if it's a
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: little bit lighter than the previous seasons, the storylines look cool,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: so I'd be in.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's stuff in there that touches on things like
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: virtual reality and artificial intelligence and do AI. Characters within
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: virtual worlds have their own feelings and if you aren't careful,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: you will hurt their feelings. That kind of stuff.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is interesting and mine it hurts. It hurts
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: your head.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: As much as our next trailer does, though, because I
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: know what that story is.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I I just put it in because it
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: was Stephen King.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Huh so Stephen King, Okay, So it's not bad. It's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: not horror. In fact, that's kind of the problem. So
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: Stephen King has some of his most successful novel to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: screen adaptations have been outside the realm of horror. Because
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: only a few of his horror movies have been held
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: up to acclaim and some of them after he had
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: denounced them because filmmakers had made massive changes to his work,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: like Stanley Kubrick with The Shining But you know, things
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: like The Green Mile or Shawshank Redemption or stand By Me.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: These are more about works he's written that aren't outright
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: horror stories. Same is true for the Life of Chuck,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: which is a novella that appeared in one of his collections,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: and it's not that old. I can't remember the name
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: of the clue. It's they bleed something like that, Yeah,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: something it bleeds. Yeah. Life of Chuck is a story
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: that's told in three acts, and at least in the novella.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: This might be a spoiler, so I apologize, But in
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: the novella it's told in three chunks in reverse chronological order.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: So the first chunk you get is the end of
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: Chuck's life, the middle chunk is the middle of his life,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: and the first chunk is his early life. So presumably
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: that's the way the movie will do it too, where
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: you're gonna get to see how Chuck, how Chuck's life
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: ends at the beginning of the film, and then it
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: will work, you know, in a backwards chunk for the
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: next one.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: So it's like merrily we roll along over the last
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: seven years or whatever.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Last five years where last five years is interesting because
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: one half of the story is told chronologically and the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: other half it's told reverse chronologically and you alter scenes. No,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: the uh, I don't know what to say about the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: life of Chuck. I don't like this novella personally. That
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: the act too is like a fifty page long section
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: about him dancing, So get ready for a lot of
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Tom Hidleston dancing. I guess I'm I.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Mean, I'm down for that.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: That That to me is more entertaining than reading page
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: after page about it.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: The book of short stories is if it bleeds?
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Got it? So, yeah, this is not a horror I
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: almost thought about taking this out and putting it down
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: with the other like non genre stuff, because this is
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: not one of Stephen King's horror stories. Okay, there is.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: There is some sort of like horror slash science fiction
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: slash maybe not so much stuff going on, but it
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: depends upon your interpretation of the story.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: That's okay. I put it in because it's seemed sci
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: fi ish, if like he's he's living his life out.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: Of order, like it's literally, that is that the story
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: is being told out of work life chronologically.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Well, that's that's misleading, and that makes me sad. And
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: I am posthumously removing it from.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: A storyline that's dead.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: I am retroactively removing it from our storyline. We can
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: leave this into the episode, but now I'm mad.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: Well, then we'll move on to a post apocalyptic musical
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: because that's definitely in the genre category.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: It is. It's called The End. We talked about it
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: before when the teaser came out. Uh, and actually the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: full trailer for it came out like nine days ago,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: so it's a little bit of an older story.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is this is a movie that's also
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: played the festival circuit, so some people out there may
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: have already seen it.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it. It's about a family who lives underground
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: after an apose glips and they think everybody else is dead.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: It's kind of fallouty. And then a person shows up
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: and like a love interest shows up for the young
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: boy protagonist or the child protagonist teenager, young adult anyhow.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: He's just referred to as Son in the middle Son.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it's a whole about a whole bunch
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: about like, well do they accept her? Where is she from?
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Mostly done through song?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Mostly done through songs that put me to sleep.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so I can give a little more context
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: about this. So sure, it's a it's an environmental disaster
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: that has led to the above ground world being uninhabitable.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: And the father in the father mother son triptych was
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: an oil executive and the father and mother are trying.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: The son was born underground. He's never been to the surface,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: and he's a young adult now, he's actually you know,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: like an older teenager, but he's he's been sheltered literally
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: and figuratively and taught a very whitewashed kind of history.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: And this young woman who shows up after they've been
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: sequestered for so long. There's a few other characters also
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: who live underground with them. It's not just the family,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: but this woman who shows up, and it's the first
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: outsider to have shown up in years. She's there and
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: she starts to challenge some of the things that the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: son has learned that turn out to not be, you know,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent accurate, and the two of them start
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: to kind of fall in love with one another and
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the the anchor for the story that unfolds.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: That's a much better telling than what I said.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: It's not well, I I looked into it, so okay,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: it's not meant to be realistic, Like that's not the point,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: which is why it's a musical too. Right. So I
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: agree with you, though, Ariel. The music that I've heard
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: did not blow me away. It didn't throw me into
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: a song coma. But I wasn't like ready to tap
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: my toes and start humming along.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like for me, who did the like
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: the Royal Tenant bombs.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Oh it's a Wes Anderson.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like Wes Anderson took some melotonein and
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: wrote a bunch of music. The story looks good to me.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: That's the thing is, the story seems really interesting. It's
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: like I said, got a very fallout vibe to it
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: followed season one of the Amazon show vibe to it
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: at least. But yeah, I don't I don't know if
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: I can sit through that music.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know how the whole story goes u because
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: I read it, But yeah, I don't know that. I mean,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: maybe the telling of it is better than just the
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: synopsis that I read, but I'm not. I am impressed
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: with the ambition of the project. From what I understand
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: about half the people who see who have seen it,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: felt that it was a worthy endeavor and the other
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: half feel like swinging a miss.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jonathan is saying, watch it your own risk,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: but it's not as risky as like watching Metropolist whatever
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: that one is. Patietry.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Now, I could have been Muppetopolis. I would have been
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: there day one.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: There should be Well, no, I was gonna say there
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: should be a muppet Opolis version of Megopolypse, but I
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: don't believe that.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: No. No, there's that one scene where the guy's in
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: the bed. You would not want to hear any of
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: it say the things he says. No, absolutely not. We
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: also got a trailer for a Viga game for Silent
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Hill F. If you're not familiar with the Silent Hill series,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: it's one of the series that defined the survival horror
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: genre of games. Typically, in those games, you play as
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: a person who has few abilities to fight back. You
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: are typically encouraged to run and hide more than you
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: are to get into combat situations. Things like weapons, ammunition,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: and health are an extremely short supply so that you
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: have to be very careful with the way you play,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: and it's to crank up the tension. So Resident Evil
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: kind of falls into this category as well as Silent Hill,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: and between the two, I think Silent Hill has been
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: more consistently adhering to that formula. Resident Evil some of
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: its entries get in to a more like action horror
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: game than Silent Hill does. This one Silent Hill f
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: looks like it's like, yeah, we're wholeheartedly going into the
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: spirit of survival horror, and you will not be the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: same person at the end of this game as you
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: were when you started it.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: It is really interesting. We actually got to see a
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: first look at this game. We talked about it on
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: the show I think in twenty twenty two or twenty
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: twenty three, back when Kanami said, hey, we're doing all
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: of these Silent Hill projects, right. I think it looks
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: prettier than any other Silent Hill. I've never played Silent Hill.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Prettier than any other Silent Hill footage I've ever seen.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. I mean, yeah, terrifying, but beautiful.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's hard. It's hard to follow, like I you know,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: you can so if you watch the video that we have, Like,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: if you don't have close captions turned on and you
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: don't speak Japanese, you're probably not gonna get a lot
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: out of it. But if you turned close captions on,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: it does have the English captions on there. Because I
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: watched it the first time and it did not, and
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: I was like, whoa.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: It did immediately for me. Maybe that's just a default
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: setting I have on my YouTube.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe my default setting has it turned off. And
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: that was my problem. Whatever. I did not have any
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: captions when I first started watching it, and I was like,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: how am I supposed to get anything out of this?
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: I Am not smart enough to know another language. I'm
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: American and dumb. But yeah, once it turned on the captions,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: it didn't help that much because Japanese storytelling is very
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: different from Western storytelling. Also a lot of translations, right
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: that can be really literal, and you can miss some
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: of the nuance that was in the original language, So
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: that could be part of it too. But yeah, as
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: I was reading along, I'm like, I'm not entirely sure
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: what's going on here, but the trailer is very evocative
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  Speaker 2: and compelling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like a basic Wikipedia rundown is that you play
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: a high school student named Tanako Shimizu who tries to
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  Speaker 1: survive after her town is consumed in a fog that
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: results in monster showing up. There's a whole bunch of
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: like viscera that looks like flowers. There's like a whole
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: like cult school thing going on. You can't tell if
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  Speaker 1: she's jumping through time herself. Apparently that's the theme of
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  Speaker 1: this week. You don't know if it's time jumps or not.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just remarkably pretty and I remember the the
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  Speaker 1: little teaser peak we got at It also gave me
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: that vibe. Maybe it's just because there's a red color
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: palette as opposed to just the dark brown and black
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: color palette of most Silent Hill games. Yeah, it also
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: gave me really like Uzumaki, which is another story that
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: we talked about on the show. Like in Uzumaki, the
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: town that has like all the spirals and a evil
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: curse about spirals right right vibe to it.
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  Speaker 2: So, which I still haven't watched, and I need to.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched I So it's the the anime that
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: came out I think on Adult Swim is not the
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: first telling like visual telling of that story outside of
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: like the anime that it was based, anime manga it
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: was based on. Yeh, there was like a Uzumaki movie
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: that was live action that was weird, and I haven't
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: watched it, but I've seen clips from it because it's
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: it's bizarre. I think I think both Uzumaki and this
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: will be actually like doo frightening for me in the
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  Speaker 1: long run, but I appreciate the little glimpses into it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh, I think this will be one that
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: I'll watch someone do a playthrough of. I don't tend
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: to play these games very much. I play the Resident
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Evil games more than I play the Silent Hill games.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: I think I played started to play one Silent Hill
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  Speaker 2: game early on, and I found because it was a
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: very early one and it was for like one of
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: the older consoles, I found the control scheme to be
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: a little too clunky and the camera to be too clunky,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't have fun, so I didn't really get
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: into it. But I appreciate the artistry that goes into it.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: And you know, there are certainly hardcore fans of the series,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: so I'll be interested to see what their take on
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: it is. It's also interesting to me because it feels
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: like it's one of those series where and resident evils
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: the same way, where there might be some connective tissue
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: between different entries, but it's really more about an aesthetic
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: and a tone than it is the continuation of a story.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: That is interesting, and I also think oftentimes a good
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  Speaker 1: choice because how many times do we look at sequels
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: and go that just wasn't as good as the original.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Or it was just the same movie but less good.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: See also Anchorman two or any of the Austin Power sequels.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: I have not seen Anchorman two and I've only seen
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: an Austin Power sequel, so well.
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  Speaker 2: If you the problem with the Austin Power sequels is
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: that Mike Myers will repeat the same jokes from one
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: from one to another to the point where you're like, oh,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: this is the part of the movie where he does
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: the the shadow silhouette joke, or this is the part
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: of the movie where he does X Y or Z.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: Anchorman is literally the same movie again, cha, except that
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: it has.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Karl in it, Anchorman two, Carl as in Betina and
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: Carl oh and also has an actor friend of mine
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: in it as well. Yeah, so that's awesome, which I
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: thought originally this actor friend of mine, Dave, was in
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Anchorman one, so I watched Anchorman one on a plane
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: looking for him the entire time, and it turns out
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: he was an Anchorman too.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: Wop wop wop wop.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Well, let's hope that the final story in our
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: lineup today does not fall into the same trap of
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: what we just talked about, of just repeating all the
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: same jokes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the teaser has a joke that was made in
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: the first movie.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: It does, so I don't know how hopeful we can be.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Spinal Tap too.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, if you're not familiar with this is Spinal Tap.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: It's a mockumentary, one of the earliest mockumentaries where it's
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: done in documentary style, and it has a fictional documentarian
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: named Marty de Burgee following a fictional heavy metal band
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: called Spinal Tap while they are on tour. And it's
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: an absolute send up of heavy metal met ya, of
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: rock and roll, of documentaries. It's hilarious. It is incredibly quotable.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: If you've ever heard this, one goes to eleven that
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: comes from Spinal Tap, and in fact, that's the joke
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: that they reference in this teaser. You see a close
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: up of an amp that has all these different controls
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: and each of them until the last one goes up
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: to eleven instead of ten because eleven is one louder.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: The one that they change is master volume at the
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: very end goes up to the infinity symbol.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I'm still excited to give it a chance.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Some of their other things, they've done, other monumentaries, Waiting
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: for Guffman, Best in Show, things like.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: That, the A Mighty Wind, which was the that was
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: the folk music one. Yeah, Harry Sheer, Mike Michael McKeon,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: and oh why can't why is his name escape me?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: The one who's really the mastermind behind it all?
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, ah, it's not It's not Cross.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: That's he was for Guest, Christopher Guest, I was gonna
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: say it was Count Rugen in Princess Brian.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: I was like David Cross and like, no, he's from
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: Arrested Development.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, he Christopher Guest. They're they're brilliant. They do
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: a great job. Very This is smile Tap is funny.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: The DVD. By the way, if you get the special
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: edition DVD, or some variation on it. Just the menus
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: as the DVD boots up, are hilarious because the band
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: does commentary over the menus. It's great, and they the
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: actors all as the band members do commentary for the film,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: so they're in character doing commentary and it's fantastic. There's
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: also outtakes that are almost as long as the movie is,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: where they could have put together a second movie just
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: from the outtakes that they didn't use for the first film.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what this is could be.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would certainly save them a lot of trouble.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: I know that this is spinal tap. The original movie
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: is supposed to be rereleased to theaters this summer in
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: advance of the sequel coming out later on in I
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: think September, so I'm very much looking forward to that.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: I plan on going to the theater and seeing this.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: I want to bring friend of the show Shaye Lee
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: to one, as long as I'm reasonably certain that the
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: audience is just going to enjoy the movie and not
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: quote along with it.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was worried about that with Wicked, and
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: thankfully my audience was pretty chill. I would like to
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: do the same. You know what. I had completely forgotten
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: that Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis were married.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's like such.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: A great comedic pairing of people.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, Christopher Guest is brilliant. Michael b Kean and
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Harry Shearer are too, Like they make a great comedic trio.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: And they also play like so in a Mighty Wind,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: they're the Folksmen, so they play the band the Folksmen.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: So the same three people who play Spinal Tap are
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: playing folks singers in a Mighty Wind, which is just
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. And yeah, I highly recommend if
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: you have not seen this as spinal Tap checking it out.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: You also see lots of fun cameos like Billy Crystal
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: and Fran Dresher and Dana Carvey and Jelica Houston. Like
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: there's a bunch of people who are just like in
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: it for just a moment, but it's great.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: You're going through all those people. I'm like, I don't
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: remember all that, but that is very cool.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, some of them were dressed up as mimes,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: so they're harder to recognize that Billy Crystal and Dana
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: Carvey in particular Star.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Wars, Star Wars level of guest appearance, which so speaking
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: of Dana carve as watching After Midnight last night, that
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: that's the last story. We're gonna wrap up in a second.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: But I was watching After Midnight last night. It was
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: an episode from a couple of days ago, and they
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: played to Chi or not to Chi, where they would
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: quickly bleep up flip up a picture and you had
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: to guess whether it was Stanley Tucci or not, and
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: one of them was Danny Carvey from Master of Disguise.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: Of course, great story, got I only got one wrong
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: because it was Stanley Tucci and I thought it was
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: John Locke from Lost. Even when they showed the full picture,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: I still wasn't certain.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: So well, that wraps it up for this episode. We
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: ended a little early. We instead of it being an
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: hour and a half, for like an hour and twenty
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: four minutes.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: Jeez, Louise, you know what, because you said it was
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: going to be a short episode, so then of course
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: we had to talk forever.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: Well it was, and then you started adding in all
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: these non genre.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: Well we don't have to keep doing that.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I like it. I like that we're
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: able to chat about them and we talked about them,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: you know, a tidy bit probably abow as much as
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: we would have if we had just kept them in
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: the lineup. We just we we recognize that doesn't fit
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: the same way that stuff from sci fi and horror
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: and fantasy would.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe in the future, we'll just go here's the title,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: here's like the sentence synopsis.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the log line for the movie.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: Here's when it comes out. Check it out if it
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: sounds good to you. Yeah, So that's it, Jonathan. If
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: people want to write us and talk to us about
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: the things we've talked about, how do they do that,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: or if they want to contact you about it.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: Rather, you're gonna have to go and get yourself a
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: VR headset. So if you don't have one already, you're
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: gonna need to do that. Once you get the VR headset,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: you're gonna put that on, you're going to connect that
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: to your computer, and you're going to start to watch
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: Black Mirror season eight, which is crazy because season seven
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: is the one that's coming out. But you're gonna find
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: a secret menu in your headset. It's gonna let you
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: watch season eight that's going to plunge you into a
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: virtual environment. Where the people you talk to seem really real.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: Then it turns out those really real simulations of people
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: they're having rich, varied lives even when you're not around.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: So if you leave and you come back, things have
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: continued to progress in their lives, and you realize that
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: these folks have just as much of a valid life
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: as the people you know outside of the game. You're
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: going to continue to explore this world. You're going to
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: actually land a job in that virtual world. You're going
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: to end up meeting someone, and the two of you
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: are going to really hit it off, and after just
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: hanging out for a few times, you're going to realize
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: you're actually having feelings for this artificial person. The two
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: of you are going to develop a relationship that starts
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: to have its own, deep and rewarding elements to it. Meanwhile,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: your job is progressing and you're getting more and more
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: involved in it. You're rising up the ladder at your
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: virtual office. But this is taking you away from the
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: time that you would be able to spend with your
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: virtual partner, and that relationship is going to suffer as
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: a result. It's actually going to start getting more difficult
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: for you to balance those elements of your virtual life.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: You've got to find yourself really stressed out when you're
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: back over at your virtual job. But you need to
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: put the effort in, because that's what this is all about, right,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: It's about number go up. And that number doesn't go
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: up unless you're actually working your butt off, so you
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: keep doing that. Meanwhile, you start to realize that the
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: person you're coming home to doesn't even really recognize you anymore.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: You're a different person than when you started off, and
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: things are drifting and lifeless, and you don't want it
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: to be, but you know you can't just fix it.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: You still have everything back at your office to worry about,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: and eventually this is going to come to a head,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: to the point where your virtual partner leaves you one
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: day and it's incredibly painful, and you go into the
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: office and it turns out they've outsourced all of it
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: to real intelligence, and all the AI has been fired
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: and there's no job to go to anymore. And you'll
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: take off your headset and turn to your left and
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: you'll see me there, and I'll be like, told you,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: AI is terrible.
• 1:27:12
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• 1:27:19
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• 1:27:21
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