LNC Cries Out "May Day! May Day!"

We recorded this episode on May 1st, so solidarity! We chat about the Georgia Renaissance Festival, which song from "Six" is our favorite, some odd movie trailers and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky things in the
world around us and how very excited we are about them.
I'm Ariel cast In, and with me, as always is
the amazing Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Whoa huzzah, huzza huzzah, because that's what Ariel's gonna be
here in and or say in this weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I think I'll be hearing it more than saying it.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't I don't you know that? Did you hear
about the time where the the the the set dressing
crew hung the huzzah sign upside down outside front gate
Like they didn't realize what the word was and they
thought it went the other way around. So so that
year the cast would yell out yeas because that's what

(01:01):
it looked like. We fixed it before opening gate, but
like we came out there for dress rehearsal, there's this
big site that just says yazd and we're like, wait,
that's huzzah upside down. They hung it upside down.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah. So we're talking about this because my band is
performing at the Georgia Renaissance Festival this weekend. As well
as May sixteenth and seventeenth. It's gonna be a slightly
shorter episode this week, which is great because Jonathan has
things to do and I still have to fix some
of my costume. Turns out thirteen years of sitting in
a box creates some damage.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I was debating on whether or not I want
to try and do a sausage casing fitting of my
costume and wear a costume on Sunday. I'm still going
back and forth. I may just go in mundane clothing,
but it would be it would be an altered costume anyway,

(01:55):
because well, I'm not working, so I don't need to
wear all the different elements. But yeah, I don't even
I'm not even fully convinced I could fit it too.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Everything I can only half fit into things. I had
to do some creative altering, which thankfully doesn't show up
too badly. However, I am going to freeze to death
because the only cloak I have is purple and green
veild it and it's going to be chilly on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I still say wear it and just deal with it.
No one's going to care. No one cares about what
the musicians wear. They care about what the musicians play,
they don't care what they wear.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Speaking of fun Renaissance antidotes, one of the former fight
captains for Battle Chess posted that they like an old
picture like, oh, that was such a great time, and
gen posted underneath it, are a former king posted underneath it,
not Battle Chess, And then our mutual friend Jen said,

(02:55):
you know, it took me many years to realize that
that was supposed to be said with horror and not
like exasperation.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean to be fair, like, I think the horror
does become real the later in the season you get
because that chessboard became the surface of the sun.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
That is true. That is true. And I made the
comment that like it was today that I realized that
it was supposed to be said before, which I don't
think is actually true, but I did often forget.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, we we have obviously tons and tons of battle
stories from our respective years at the festival, many of which,
but not all, of which overlapped where Ariel and I
were on cast the same time. But yeah, it's exciting
that your band is going back to fill in for
a couple of weekends, and I plan on being there

(03:45):
with my partner Becca and a friend of the show,
shay Lee, will be there too, and we're gonna wander
around and we're gonna watch Ariel's band play. We might
see a few other acts. Mostly, I think I'm gonna
be besides enjoying the acts, I'm going to be taking
in like what's different. How does the street cast look?
Does it feel like it's filled out a bit so

(04:09):
that the festival doesn't feel like largely empty. That was
my biggest problem when I would go as a patron,
because as part of the street cast, like, your goal
is always to create an environment that feels immersive and
feels like lived in. But if you walk through that
and all you see are other patrons and it's just
like it just looks like a big outdoor fair ground,

(04:30):
then it kind of you don't really have much immersion
to work with.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, yeah, for sure that will be interesting. It is
hard because my band has filled in before, but it's
been so long that like back then, I kind of
knew how everything ran and so it was just easy
to step in for a day because it was all
had and this year, like I have pore. Jonathan knows

(04:57):
I have a significant amount of anxiety just because I
remember how things went, but I don't know if there's
still that way.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, there's new management at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. They
took over really like two years ago, but this is
like the first big full spring season with the new
management team in place and really running things. And you know,
it's some of We've been through a couple of regime

(05:25):
changes at the festival, but it was the same owner.
It was just different management, right, Yes, different Now it's
a different owner and different management. And my hope is
that all of that is ends up being a net
positive for the people who work there, which I think
I genuinely feel trickles down into a net positive for

(05:46):
patron experience. That's my belief, which I am biased because
I did work the street cast, but I really do
think that that's the case. So I'm hopeful. I'm hoping
that people come up to play with us, which may
or may not happen depending on if we're in costume,
so that may be another another vote to go in Monday.

(06:08):
If I am going in Mundane, I plan on wearing
my nineteen ninety nine cast shirt that references the Blair
Witch Project, which I'll also reference later in this episode.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
There's a couple of street casts who I think you
might know.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, well, I know the King and Queen.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know the King and Queen, I don't you might
know the Black Widow. I don't remember if she was
around when you were doing it.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
I don't know who's playing her. I know the Queen,
the African Queen, who is also there. She goes way back.
So and then Bryce. Probably some of the fairies. I
think I know at least one of the fairies.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
I mean, the gargoyle is the same as always.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I don't know who's playing fairies this year. I think
a former fairy. I don't know. I feel like some
people have come back. I know that the person who's
playing the natural List this year used to play the
rat Catcher and was also a part of a former
improv try people did stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah yeah. Yeah. Also, I know that the Navigator, the
Lord Navigator, will be there because he is always there.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, I think. But I think there are like
some older casts that came back, and it's just a
matter of whether they overlapped if you or not, because
I know you came in and out.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, and it was still long ago.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, No, I was always joke. I would work like
two seasons and then retire for like five seasons, and
then I'd come back again.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Oh and then kat Lyons is back and I'm excited
to hear her music.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
So yeah, playing Lady Prudence, which I'm sure she has
done at Georgia before, but mostly she did that at
other affairs. When she was at Georgia, she was largely
a faery.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
At least while we were there.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, she also played a lady in waiting at least
one year, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, I don't remember, but yeah, it'll be exciting and
interesting to see. Despite all my anxiety, I am. I
am looking forward to it. I know it's going to
be great. I hope that audiences enjoy the weird missmash
of music we're going to play.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
And the weather is going to be really mild. I mean,
you're probably going to get some rain tomorrow, which stinks.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Keeps changing right now. It says in Fairburn, which is
where the Georgia Renaissance Festival is. If your local and
you're coming out, my band's playing at Drunk Monk Pub
off and on throughout both days this weekend. It'll change
for the next weekend that we're there. But by nine
am it'll be a five percent chance of rain and
by ten am it'll be ten percent awesome, and like

(08:39):
so by ten am it's not even showing right now.
That does keep going back and forth because weather is
impossible to actually predict. But I'm hoping that it's that.
The big thing is that it's when I arrive, it's
going to be low fifties.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's not that bad though, Like you've been there when
it was below freezing.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So yes, and I got sent home with frostbite and
hypothermia and I had a cloak, I mean the beginning,
like not actual, but like it was beginning to creep up.
So they're like, you need to go get warm, and
they actually sent me home and I tried to, like
I held warm things, I bundled up, I put extra
layers on. It still didn't rain. It's not right. It

(09:18):
snowed one opening weekend at Fair when I was there before.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I haven't I haven't ever worked there when it snowed,
but I have rehearsed there when it was snowing, and
like we rehearsed in the snow, which was quite the
experience when you're doing combat on a stage that's getting slick.
But yeah, it's uh, the weather in Georgia is unpredictable,

(09:42):
but yeah, I think Sunday, the high I believe is
in the low seventies, so it should be.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Pretty nice, perfect performing weather.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, great, great weather, no matter if you're a patron
or you're working, like it definitely gets brutal toward the
later half of the season, like you're getting truly torrential downpour,
which is not fun because when you're working, you still
got to be out there or you're getting there when

(10:11):
it's you know, getting up into the nineties and the
same with the humidity, and it's just wearing those costumes
and man, it's rough, like you have to look out
for each other because heat exhaustion is a real threat.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
It is. I'm very lucky for the weather.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, now we have our weekend plans all laid out
before us, and I really look forward like this is
great because the next time we record, I'll get to
say what did you watch last week? Like Ariel's band.
But before we get into what we watch, let's go
over to the question of the week, and it is

(10:49):
May day as we record this and among other things.
The first of May is known for many things, if
you ask Jonathan Colton, but one of those things is
celebration of labor solidarity. So in honor of labor solidarity,
our goofy question of the week is what is a
geeky job? And it could be real or it could

(11:11):
be something that's in fiction that you would want if
you could not do what you already do. So you
can't be an actor in the Middle Ages. That actor
is part of what you do already. Yeah, it's got
to be something else.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
So I can't be an executive assistant either, darn it.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
No, shoot, I was going to be executive assistant to
a dragon.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I mean, I don't know. I actually would not want
that at all because dragons, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Not fun, very temperamental.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, yeah, lots of lots of shady stuff they do
depending on the dragon. So the problem is, like I've
I've had a lot of geeky career aspirations throughout my
life growing up as a kid. So it would be
one of those, I'm pretty certain, But which one?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Which one it? Well? Remember, whatever you choose right now
does not define all of eternity Tomorrow. You might have
a completely different geeky job that you would.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Want to do inacceptable, so I have. I'm gonna pare
it down to two.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
One is a fashion designer. I used to love designing fashion,
but I hated sewing. But I've gotten better at sewing,
so I would revisit that. Or I used to want
to work with like exotic animals.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh cool, like a like a zoo keeper or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
My sister is currently working with Zoo Atlanta and does
educational outreach with animals. So nice. She's although a lot
of the exotic animals she works with are ones that
we used to have as pets, like ferrets.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, ferrets, lizards and reptiles and stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah that's cool.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, what about you?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I wrote Dum Captain of a Pirate Ship, but a
fiction version of a pirate ship, not the real version
of a pirate ship.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah. Yeah, a real version would be pretty.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Rough, pretty grim, pretty grim. But I like the you know,
the whole swashbuckling fantasy stuff, like as you know, the
D and D campaign that I had been working on,
still haven't played it yet. It has is very much anchored,
so to speak, pun intended in swashbuckling and piracy, but

(13:38):
in a fantasy setting. But yeah, I think of things like,
For one thing, I've always liked certain ship designs which
are not at all practical but are really pretty on screen.
So like the Captain Hooks ship, the Jolly Roger, or
the Tarantula, which I believe was the Pirate of Penzance ship,

(14:03):
or the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was a real ship,
but the one that was in the otherwise Terrible Pirates
of the Caribbean movie was not at all representative of
what the actual ship looked like. But it looks great.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you get motion sick on small.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Vessels, No, No, not as long as I'm able to
get sea air, like I'm if I'm below decks, then
it can get a little dicey, depending upon but usually
that's only if it's like the seas are really rough,
or I'm in a ship that not a ship but
like a tender boat that's going super fast, like then

(14:43):
I'm like, oh, I don't feel so good. But on
cruise ships and stuff, those those are so big, like
the world might be moving around you as opposed to
you moving through it.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I'm mostly okay on cruise ships, and I'm mostly okay
on smaller boats. I just kind of have to like
watch how I handled myself, knowing how you mainly get
motion sickness, So make sure that I'm facing a certain
direction or moving at a certain pace.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Oh please. I was just gonna say, the only time
I can remember feeling a little motion sickness on board
a boat was a tender boat where it was an
enclosed tender boat, so there's no access to the outside air.
It was warm, so there wasn't like really any air
conditioning inside the boat, and the seas were choppy as
we were moving very fast. So it was like a

(15:34):
perfect combination of it's too warm, you're crammed in there
with too many people, you can't get access to fresh air,
and there's a lot of motion. Becca got it way
worse than I did, but I wasn't feeling so hot
either by the time we got to know the pier.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I tend to get more carsick or more motion sick
in a car than I do on a boat, even
like reading or whatever like that. It's just because it's
a different it's a different way that your body is moving.
I will say, though, on every cruise I have ever been,
which is all of three in the Caribbean coming back

(16:14):
to the States has always resulted in choppy water, in
turbulence and back and forth, and that always gets me
at least one night.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
I usually end up taking a drama mean.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
A drama mean before I go to bed, and then
hoping it lasts me through the next day.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I've only had choppy seas maybe once or twice, and
every other time it's been pretty calm, which is a
miracle because on one of those times, the cruise I
was on had to be extended by a couple of
days because there was a hurricane moving into Florida, so
we could not go back, and luckily I had Luckily

(16:51):
those extra days fell on a weekend, so it's not
like I suddenly was going to start missing work or something,
which would have been hard to explain. But it did
mean that every body had to figure out, you know,
their how were they going to get home? Like most
people weren't living in Florida, so their flights and everything
would have to be changed. Luckily, Becca works for an airline,

(17:11):
so that made it a lot easier for us. But
I can't imagine how many people were scrambling. We just
enjoyed having two extra days on a cruise ship. It
suddenly made it suddenly made our cruise ship go from
being expensive to still expensive, but way more worth it
because we got two full days on top of it.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah. Yeah, I do have some friends who had like
a bad enough experience on a cruise ship that it
made the news and I'm not going to share that.
But also one of our mutual friends, Kate, who likes
to do marathons, had to endure the Drake Passage to
get to Antarctica and get back out of Antarctica, and

(17:52):
that way out had like twenty five and a half foot.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, no, thank you. Becca Becka tells stories about how
she was on a Transatlantic cruise once with her mom
and it was so bad in the middle of it
that you weren't allowed to go outside because it was
too dangerous, and that if you were on a lower
deck you could actually on some of the swells, you
could see the water come up past your porthole. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Not for me.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Start seeing like all mermaids and stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean, seeing mermaids is fine, Seeing sharks is even fine.
I Like, I just watched the Poseidon adventure at too
young an age to be able to handle that.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Now, Yeah, I get it, Like, yeah, well, you have
no control over the situation, and you know, you want
to have the confidence in the crew that they're going
to do everything to keep you safe. But when you're
not in control for a lot of people, that is
just like an anxiety spiral situation. For me, I'm just like,

(18:56):
oh man, I'm so glad I'm not responsible for this.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah. Well, I'm sure if you were captaining a fictional
pirate ship.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
That the seas would yeah, one would, hope, maybe even
the wind that we just don't go anywhere, and it's
just like, yeah, we're just gonna sit on deck, drink
Margarita's and sing shanties.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
All right, Well, then let us talk about the stuff
we've watched since last week. I'll go first. Nothing, I'm
gonna I'm gonna see hokum this evening. But which is that?
That's the one that Adam Scott is in the the
horror movie that has the rabbit faced person or maybe
they're wearing a yeah, maybe they're wearing a mask. Maybe

(19:39):
it's a pookah, who knows. I'll know after today. Hopefully.
Uh so that's the only thing I have. What about you?

Speaker 1 (19:47):
I look forward to hearing your review of it. I
also have not watched much this week because it's just
been busy, busy week. I think I know I much
the most recent task Master, which is very good drop
out TV because it's easy. Uh. I think I think

(20:12):
that just might be it. This week is a blur.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm seeing six.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh, that's great. That's right. You're you're seeing six. I'm
seeing Hocum. So we'll both have stuff to report on.
I really hope that it's an amazing show. You have
a lot of fun. Like, I know you've seen six before, right.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
I saw? Yeah. I so the last time it came
through Atlanta with my sister and my niece and Jen,
And this year I've gotten a couple more people really
into the music, so they're tagging along. But we had
such a great time last year that immediately we're like,
next time it comes, we're going back. And so my
niece is bounding and I'm gonna bound with.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Her, and awesome. Well, I if I went like the one,
what's the song you look forward to the most?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
If I might ask it is. Before my first time going,
I would have said don't lose your head or sorry
not sorry, which is the ambulance song, but it's actually
the Catherine of Aragne. Some one of my friends keep
saying Catherine of Aragorn, which led me down a whole
rabbit hole of trying to make a Lord of the Rings.
The choice of Henry the Eight's mash up.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
But yeah, there's not enough women in Tolkien's world, so
you can't have enough wives for Henry.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean it would be Catherine of Aragorn.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Uh glad real uh aowen.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
We weren't we weren't we weren't gender casting it, so
it wouldn't matter. It would be Catherine of Aragon and
then Aragorn, and like it doesn't matter how it mashes up. Yeah,
I don't remember. I don't remember the rest of them.
We came up with like a mashup for most of
the one, but yeah, Captain of Aragon, because uh, the

(22:05):
lyrics in that song are just really great. There's a
moment where she says, you think it's a pity kids,
quoting Leviticus, I'll end up kitty liss all my life,
And I like that is just such a perfect little
rhyming scheme.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, that a little like triplet kind of thing. I
I uh, for me, it would be House of Holbeind.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
That is a really good song.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's just it's so dumb but high energy.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, I do. I do love that one. I was
honestly surprised how fun the show was because I was like,
it's just gonna be a concert. All it is is songs,
but there's there's enough through line and fun and back
and forth and playing that makes it just really enjoyable.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's great. I look forward to hearing your report when
you when we reconvene, and then and then I don't
if I don't corner you on Sunday to ask say.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Because then we're both going to go to Renfair, where
there is Irish folklore, and I think King Henry.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it's Henry this year it's Henry and Catherine. I think. Okay,
the first one, not Katherine Howard. Now the first Catherine
some had three Catherines, two ANNs.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
And on one medicine woman.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
He already had a full house. Yes, well, there we go.
So that's that's what we've watched. I guess now we
can move on to thirty seconds or less, and before
we really get into it, I am going to say
there at least a couple of mine where I know
I'm going to go over thirty because I could not.

(23:41):
I was like, man if I edited this down anymore,
it's not going to make sense.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Well, let me tell you there's a couple that I'm
going to be under thirty because I don't know much
about them.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
So fair enough.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
So, speaking of the under thirty ones, I'm not sure
how to stretch this one out, but Scrubs has been
renewed for a second season on ABC. It's one of
the three popular comedy series that ABC has right now.
Shifty Gears has also been renewed and we're waiting to
hear on r J. Decker.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
So, speaking of ABC, Rachel Bloom, who co created the
musical series My Crazy Ex Girlfriend, has had a setback.
She and her husband pitched a series titled Do You
Want Kids that ABC has decided not to pick it up.
The series would have seen a couple that in one
universe has kids and in another universe they don't have kids,

(24:34):
and how the lives of these two different groups are
different Because of that, it sounds like it's a fun premise,
So it's kind of a bummer that ABC didn't pick
it up. They said, Nope, We've got the comedies we need.
I'm not going to add more.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, that is said from one Bloom to another. The
sequel or the spinoff from Big Bang Theory, Stuart Fails
to Stay the Universe. The BOK characterschool name is Stuart
David Bloom Huh has gotten her release date on HBO.
It's coming out this July. It's about the character messing

(25:07):
with a time travel machine that Sheldon made and messing
up history and then trying to fix it. Big Bang
Theory is one of those shows where I loved the cast.
They're all super talented and wonderful and I love them,
and the storyline fell a little flat for me. But
I'm actually pretty interested in the spin off. The screenshot

(25:31):
they show for it makes it look a little bit grittier,
which I'm intrigued to see what they do with.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, it's not set up like the sitcom style right
like it looks Yeah, very weird. What a high concept anyway. Well,
not all the drama in White Lotus happens on screen.
We learned this week The hell in the Bottom Carter,
who was set to play a character in season four
of the show, has exited the show once it became

(25:58):
clear that she and the character she was played we're
just not gonna work. And then stepped Laura Dern, who
is playing an all new role in the show rather
than taking over Helen the bottom Carter's previous part. Which
is a really wild thing, like one odd structure that
show must have where you can you can pivot and

(26:19):
introduce an entirely new character with a different actor, Like
it requires so much rewriting and I just can't imagine
what that's like as an actor to to run with that.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean, it is one of those shows where they
have like a bunch of like it's almost like an
anthology within one show because everybody has her own storyline
going on and they only kind of touch here and there.
But still that's still difficult. Yeah. I wonder if show
friend of the show Shay will like it better with
all the rewrites.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I'm very curious too.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
If she even watches it anymore. Okay, so I don't
have a good segue. Guild is coming back or they're
hoping to that. Lucia Day wants to make a Guild movie.
They're going to kick start it to see if they
can get it on.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's you, So you want to tell people what the
Guild is.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Oh yeah, I never actually watched it. The Guild is.
I think it was a web series. It was about
friends playing D and D and then they kind of
step into the roles of their characters. And my understanding
is that it's kind of subverted people's expectations of geeks
and stereotypes and things like that.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, it was more. It was more that they were
playing essentially World of Warcraft, so they were playing online.
They knew each other's voices, and they played online, but
they had not actually met irl until the series get started.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, a lot of creative, talented people were involved in it.
It was just a matter of like, I don't know,
I was too busy or had other stuff on my
radar at the time. That No, no hate to the Guild,
and I hope they're very successful. If you want to
learn about it, you can go to launch Oracle dot
com slash r slash Z one J L A A
W E.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, easy enough. It'll also be in the show notes,
I'm sure, but uh, but yeah, I'll also say like
Felicia Day herself in an interview I saw said I
rewatched some of those. There are jokes I made then
that I would not make now.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
I mean, I feel like that's the case in everybody's life.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Absolutely. Oh yeah, No. I think about I think about
the jokes I made at the festival years ago, and
I'm like, man, well, I know I wouldn't do it now,
so that's the important part. But I wish I hadn't
done it then either. Uh. Okay, So Ariel, I'm gonna
need you to I'm gonna need you to take your
headphones off for this one because you don't want to

(28:43):
hear it, and then I will wave to you when
I'm done. Okay, Ready here we go. All right. So
Production Studios, Roadside Attractions and Saban Films have picked up
the domestic US rights to Spanish filmmaker on Yell Gomez
Hernandez's horror Sure Crawlers. It's a visceral horror film in

(29:04):
which the titular crawlers are venomous spiders that invest in
apartment building, which sounds horrifying, and it comes out on
October second.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Now, I didn't listen at all.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Like I could vaguely hear you, but not I could hear.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, it's like amr Yes.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
So Marvel just did a bunch of layoffs and among
the people that got laid off were Andy Park. You
had worked with them, I think for like sixteen years
or something in visual development, just worked really hard on
all of the Marble stuff, and it was integral to
a lot of what we got, especially in early Marvel.

(29:51):
You know, even Evangeline Lily kind of spoke up against it,
thinking that it's horrible. She thinks Disney is going to
replace him with Ai. I hope that's not the case
if he was mainly involved. I don't know a lot
about him, but if he was mainly involved in Marvel.
We know that Disney is trying to take a new
Marvel approach, so it might just be getting fresh blood in.

(30:13):
But it is unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, it's that fear of people working on a tool
that ultimately might replace them, right, Like it's a It's
kind of the other thing you would say is like,
it's like if you were if you were told that
your position at a job was going to be ending
in like three months, but in the meantime, could you
train your replacement. It's like, it's that kind of crappy thing. Well,

(30:41):
I saw the original Blair Witch Project at the perfect time,
which was before the hype had really overshadowed the original film.
I found it unsettling, to say the least. And now
there's a reboot in the works from Lionsgate and Blumhouse
Atomic Monster. And one cool little bit of information is
that Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, who both were

(31:03):
in the original Blair Winch Project, are serving as executive
producers of the new one, as well as the original
directors of that movie, which I think is pretty neat.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
That is pretty neat. Again, no good segue. So Andy
serkis let slip an actor who will be in Avengers Doomsday.
He wasn't supposed to. Shame on him. I don't think
he's in it.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
If he is, his character was killed.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
I mean, it's comic book. That doesn't stop anything.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
That's fair.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
But but he was speaking with another actress and I
will post I will post the article in our show
notes if you want to see. I'm not going to
say it here just because some people may not want
to know and may have missed this. And when he said,
I'm excited to see you in Doomsday. She said, you're
not supposed to say that, and of course the internet
ran with it.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, I was marveling at it. My director, Louis Letterier
made a film that was originally titled eleven eight seventeen
and then subsequently retitled to the Last House, which follows
a family of four who become trapped by a mysterious
horse and it prevents them from leaving their home, so

(32:17):
they have to figure out a way to escape while
also like rationing out their limited resources. And now we
know that this movie is going to hit Netflix on
August seventh, so I can't wait to talk about that
in my horror Hutch when we get a trailer for sure.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Apparently there is I think a movie being made of
the game Battlefield, also something I haven't played, and everybody
wants to do it, or at least they're hoping everybody
wants to do it. So it's being helmed by Christopher
Corey of Mission Impossible and Michael B. Jordan, and they
are putting it in front of studios hoping that there

(32:56):
will be a big bidding war.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Is crazy, I mean, Battlefield's it's just a war movie.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
It's just a war game.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, so the movie would have to just be a
war movie, right, Like there's no it's kind of like
it's kind of like this, like it's like when they'd
made a movie out of Battleship. But I'm like, what's
your story?

Speaker 1 (33:17):
I mean it could be they could they could be
creative with it, right, because Michael B. Jordan is nothing
but creative. Where maybe it's so there's an old whitest kids,
you know sketch that I know you're not a fan
of them, where it's what you're watching some Call of
Duty characters. Yeah, and then one of them's one of
their mothers, interrupts them and so they call it duty

(33:39):
characters starts to being like Mom, stop it, Mom, Yeah,
a peanut butter sandwich.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Right. Well, maybe maybe since it's Michael B. Jordan, it'll
end up being battlefield and it'll be vampires versus jazz musicians.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I mean I would watch that. But also it could
just be a thing where like jamungi ish Right.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
So, because yeah, you make some good points, I should
not be so skeptical. I don't know anything about it
and the people involved are very creative.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Do I have do I have a huge desire to
watch this movie based on what I know about it
right now? No, I've seen enough World War two stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like same with Vietnam stuff, right,
all right? Well, A movie titled Angels in the Asylum
starring Simon Pegg among other people, was supposed to be
a pretty straightforward shoot. It was based on true events
in which women who are suspected of carrying typhoid were
incarcerated in a former mental hospital in the early nineteen hundreds.

(34:38):
Production began in January twenty twenty five, but by February
the promised money from their producers dried up. Now there
are numerous accusations about what exactly happened, and it sounds
to me like the drama behind the scenes dwarfed the
story they were trying to tell. So it wouldn't surprise
me if down the line we get a documentary about this.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, very interesting. My last story, but not the last
story in thirty seconds, is that Patrick Clanton will be
temporarily stepping in as a role of Harold Ziggler and
Mulan Rouge the musical on Broadway after Megan v. Stallion,
who has been playing Harold Ziggler up to this point,

(35:22):
recently leaves. He will be on Broadway May second through
Sunday May seventeenth. He originated some rooms.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
He was no.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
He made his Broadway debut in Yulan Rouge.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Or Mouland Rouge, and that's just a very red Mulan. Yeah.
So Meghan d. Stallion's final performance is the same night
as the day we're recording this. It was supposed to.
She was supposed to stay in the role for an
extra couple of weeks, but she's had both some physical
like medical challenges as well as a pretty public breakups.

(36:01):
Oh it's it's it's not pretty, and I'm not one
to spill tea or anything, but like, I just want
her to focus on herself and get back to being
absolutely phenomenal. Like, yeah, I genuine I genuinely loved her

(36:23):
in The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dink and she
made me laugh so much.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Oh is that her?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, she's supposed to three episodes. I haven't gotten that far.
I've only watched the first two or three episodes so far.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah, she's she's a postal worker in one of the episodes,
and that's all I will say about that because the
joy of discovery is something I will not rob you of.
It is a lot of fun, all right. Well, my
last one is Trading Places, the nineteen eighties comedy that
saw a privileged stock trader played by Dan Aykroyd forced

(36:59):
to swap a place is with a swindler played by
Eddie Murphy, is headed to the stage as a musical.
Because of course it is Bryce Pinkham, who is currently
in Chess as the Arbiter, will play Akroyd's role, and
Ephraim Sykes, who is in the Fear of Thirteen, will
play Murphy's part, And right now it's in workshops. The

(37:19):
guest list is invitation only. Mine must have been lost
in the mail, And technically the show actually already premiered
right here in Atlanta at the Alliance Theater back in
twenty twenty two, but my invitation was lost then too.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
That happens a lot. The Alliance Theory gets a lot
of shows that eventually make it to Broadway, like Water
for Elephants.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Aida was one.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Aida.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yeah, there have been a few that premiered. So Atlanta
and Chicago are the two places that I know of
that have premiered plays that I have personally, like, I
don't think I've seen one here in Atlanta that went
onto Broadway, but I've seen one in Chicago that went
on to Broadway, little play called Spam a Lot. I

(38:01):
saw that one there.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, I almost saw Death Becomes Her in Chicago, and
I ended up because I've only been to Chicago once.
I went up last year the year before for a wedding,
and it was wonderful. I loved it. It's like New
York but spaced out like Atlanta and friendlier. But I
ended up seeing Judgment Day with George Costanza in it

(38:24):
Jason Alexander instead, because I've never watched the movie Death
Becomes Her, But I feel like Chicago is more known
for that. Atlanta kind of sneaks it in, Like Atlanta
has a theater scene, but it's it's low key.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah. Yeah, we have the Alliance Theater is like our
big professional theater in the city. We used to have
another pretty prestigious theater for many years, like when we
first started the again, going back to the Renizance Festival.
When you and I first started there, there was the
Georgia Shakespeare Festival, which is independent like completely separate from

(39:00):
the Georgia Shakespeare Tavern, two totally different companies, and the
Shakespeare Festival was like like they were taking the really
big swings, particularly with Shakespeare and works. But that that
theater closed down decades ago. Now, so Alliance is like
our big local professional theater. And then we've got lots

(39:20):
of regional theaters in the city as well.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
We have had a because theater took a real hit
in Atlanta for a while, like same with improv. We
used to have a ton of improv places, a ton
of theaters, and it got real small for a while,
even in community theater, and it's been building back and
it's been wonderful seat to see. We do have several
semi professional professional theaters, they're just smaller still like City Springs. Yeah,

(39:47):
hey's some pretty good equity.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
It gets people from New York and I hear you,
I just don't think of anything OTP as being real theater. OTP,
by the way, means outside the perimeter. I'm narrow casting.
I TP is inside the perimeter, and the perimeter is
a big highway that goes around Atlanta. And as you

(40:09):
might be able to tell from my snobbish attitude. I
am I t P and Aurial is OTP.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
It is so asinine because like if just inside the
I t P is about the same as where I
live OTP.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
So yeah, I just live in the city of Atlanta.
Like my my address is an Atlanta address, and I
do have I do have a four O four number, so.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
You know what I do too. Yeah, I've lived in
Roswell my whole life, well not my whole life, but
I got my number in Roswell.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
This is just razing each other for no good reason.
All right, Well, then now that now that we're done,
or now that I'm done being a petulant manchild, let
us move on to our next section, which we're calling
this week. Stuff we're gonna talk come out because it's
out there, and what else are we gonna do?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, it was kind of a slower Okay, so a
bunch of it looks like some more stuff came out
yesterday that I didn't get to look at because this
week has been insane, And I say it's a slower week,
but it just seems that way. I haven't had much
time to Jonathan is a superhero and very kind of,
very patient and has been putting stuff together. Well, I
get my day commitments in order. But yeah, not a

(41:25):
whole whole lot this week. But we did get a
trailer for season four of ted Lasso.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, it's the first of our soccer stories.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah. You know, I don't really like soccer or I
guess football, but I really like television shows about underdog
football teams.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, soccer teams. So you know, we we thought that
season three was going to be the true finale, like
the series finale, but nope, Ted Lasso is back. He's
back in the UK. Now he is going to coach
a women's football club, and of course he faces all
new you know, derision for coaching a women's club. Also,

(42:16):
I noticed, like I delighted in this trailer because I
saw an actress and comedian that I really love.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yes, yes, Tracy Allman, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Looking yeah and looking a little ferreal.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
I mean the last honestly, the last thing I saw
Tracy Ullman in was Once Upon a Mattress when Disney
did the televised version of that, and she loved a
little Ferrell there too, So it's my preferred Tracy Allman appearance.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah. I love Tracy Ullman. I love I've loved Tracy
Ullman since she did a cover of the song they
Don't Know About Us, which was in the early eighties.
But yeah, this series series comes out obviously Apple TV,
so Apple TV Plus if you have that, and it
comes out on August fifth. I thought, like, the trailer's short,

(43:08):
so it doesn't give you a whole lot, but you
get to see a lot of returning characters and kind
of like get get a sense of where their lives
are at based upon the little moments you see. But yeah,
it looks like it's going to be like the way
we think of ted Lasso as being, you know, on
the on the whole, a wholesome and uplifting series.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, did you did you watch the previous seasons.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
I've only seen like extended clips. I have never sat
down to watch an episode from beginning to end, Like, uh,
part of it is just that because I've seen so
many clips, I feel like, well, if I watch an episode,
I'm going to start getting distracted when it hits something
that I've you know, I've seen, right, Yeah, does that

(43:55):
mean like I'm going to drift off and then I
have to remind myself to come back to the show.
So I have not, but you you watched it, didn't you.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I did watch it. It took me a while because
again I'm not a big soccer fan. And while I
find gosh, what is the name of the lead actor.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
In it, Sadakas?

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah, Jason Sidakis. I've watched his ted Lasso skits and
they're kind of funny because it started off as a
skit between him and coach guy. He plays coach in
the show. But it is it has so much heart.
It is such a feel good even when it deals

(44:36):
with heavy subjects or heartbreaking moments or touching moments, like
it's one of those shows that just makes you feel
good watching it, And so I binged the goodness out
of it.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Well, then I look forward to hearing what your thoughts
are when it comes back, because I assume you're gonna
check it out, whether whether or not you check it
out right when it o are, like shortly after whatever.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
But yeah, I will say I also loved Wrexham for
a similar reason. It's the documentary they make about it
is Welcome to Wrexham. It's very cool. It's it's the
soccer league that Ryan Reynolds.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
And Rob mcalinny.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Well that's not his name anymore.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Oh, that's right, he changed it. Yeah, I can't remember
what he changed it to. I just I think of
mcalenny because that what they did the whole song about
it and everything. Yeah, yeah, I forgot because it was
like two summers ago or something where he changed it,
and but I just think of it as Rob macalon.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
He's now professionally known as Rob mack, which close enough.
It's about the league that they bought that had so
much heart but just wasn't doing well, and kind of
how it has succeeded, and the hardships of running a
soccer league and the hard decisions you have to meet
and what the players go through and the care and
how much it means to the team and the history
of the city and it's all very very cool and

(45:59):
I loved it and I accidentally stopped watching that one,
but it's also very good and we're getting the season
five of it. I think they've hit Premier League now
and that is awesome.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Well, that's what they're aiming to do, is hit Premier League.
So they're in. They're in the English Football League Championship.
I think they're ranked six out of all the teams
that are in that particular championship, and that's still ongoing
as we record this, but the season debuts on May

(46:28):
fourteenth on FX and Hulu and the final episode of
that season. There's gonna be eight episodes total. The final
one will come out on June twenty fifth, and so
it follows the current Wrexham season. And yeah, so if
you're not familiar with the way UK soccer works, I

(46:48):
don't blame you because I wasn't. But it's a tiered
system for their leagues. So you've got Premier League's the
that's like the where you want to be, but they
have several leagues below that, and you can be promoted
up or demoted down leagues depending upon your team's performance.
And they've gone from very low to going up to

(47:12):
you know, moving promoting up a league a couple of
times now where they are actually in contention to joining
the Premier League, which is a big deal.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Yeah. Yeah, In the trailer it says something I think
they said, like one of the only teams to be
promoted three times in a row. You can also stay
where you're at.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
But yeah, demos to be promoted or demoted.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yeah, demotion is hard because it comes with usually a
pretty big pay cut and it's really hard to get
back from that, so you get demoted far enough.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Yeah, so it's a it's a different system like here
in the US, like you know, I mean you have
farm teams for our various sports leagues where it's like
you're playing in the minor leagues as opposed to the
major league. So we do have something similar to that,
but it's uh, I think it's far more structured over
in the UK. But yeah, that comes. Like I said,

(48:01):
May fourteenth is when the first episode drops.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'll have to catch
up because I really again really enjoyed that show. It's
another one that's that's all together uplifting even when you're
dealing with hard moments, And that's just the kind of
media that I super super lean towards lately.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
I really like. I really like how the documentary spends
time focusing not just on the team and the owners obviously,
like it could just focus on Ryan and Rob because
they're famous, right, Like, yeah, it could just focus on them,
but it also focuses on the community of Wrexham and
how it's affected the town and the surrounding area, and

(48:44):
I think that is a really powerful story and I'm
glad that that's included in the documentary because, like you
see how people are have renewed pride in their community,
not just the team, but where they live, and that's
kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a a lovely young person who works
at the British Shop, the British theme shop in Delanaga
Old Town Square, who they also have a British tea
room up in Delanaga, and she was talking to me.
My family visited recently and we went up there for
a day. She was talking to me about how she
went to Wrexham and got to see the pub that
was just like and how there was so much Deadpool

(49:20):
stuff just everywhere and it was delightful. Yeah. But even
in Wrexham they've been building up their women's league as well,
because those players are badass and yeah, work so hard
and are so talented, but don't but only get half
of like the acclaim.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
So yeah, so that's that's a nice tie. And like
ted Lasso and Wrexham really feel like spiritual siblings in
many ways. Well, next up, we have a film that
I feel could join the ones that we talked about
in the Seven Sons of the Seven Samurai.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
For sure, and you know, again uplifting because it's a
out friends coming together to help out somebody in trouble.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Now, I mean yeah, shooting and shooting Tim Roth.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
It's called Seven Snipers, so it's a It's based on
a woman who.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Margarita Time.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Margarita Time, a woman who used to be a sniper
and her daughter and uh, I guess a warlord played
by Tim Roth eventually finds her and wants to seek
revenge and all of like her team comes to help
protect her.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah that's I mean, you you nailed it. That's like
the basic idea. It's an Australian film or Australian film
if you prefer. It's I think it's already had its
premiere in Australia, but it comes to yeah, Australia, but
it comes to digital platforms this June. I mean I
almost didn't include it because like it felt like, okay,

(50:53):
this is kind of a like it's it doesn't look
like it's a bad action movie, but there wasn't anything
that made it stand out. And then I saw Tim Roth,
I'm like, okay, It's got one of my favorite actors
in it, so I'll include it.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
I just wonder if he's going to be super serious
or super hammy, because he does chew the scenery a bit.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I love it he can. I think Gary Oldman choose
it more than Tim Roth does. But well, except for
like a couple of cases.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Except for like Rosen Krantz and Gildensterner Dead, I feel
like Tim too, But he also had the more liquacious character.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
In that Gary Gary Oldman was the more doofy character
between the two. But now I think of like I
think of Gary Oleman and like Leon the professional, no
one choose scenery like him, except maybe Willem Dafoe.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Was it The Four Rooms or something like that?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
It was, yeah, yeah, it was a Tarantino thing that
was a four was.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
In it, and he tim Roth supe the scenery in that.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I liked him in a Hateful Eight, which is saying
something because that's a hard watch. But I really like
Tim Roth in that watch.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, I mean, I love Tim Roth, I love Gary Oldman.
But yeah, it'll be I don't know if I'll watch it,
but if I do, i'll be interested to see.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
I would be watching it for Tim Roth, honestly, if
I'm being brutally honest, because like otherwise, this does look
like a very stripped down, you know, seven Samurai kind
of thing, except now everyone's just carrying sniper rifles, so
which not as interesting to me. But I do kind
of want to see Tim Roth. Like if someone did

(52:30):
a super cut of just all of Tim Roth's scenes
for that movie, I would probably watch that instead.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
You know, I bet you could find that eventually.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I'm sure. Next up, we have a TV series, a
dark comedy action thriller TV series called Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Yeah, it starts Tatiata Maslani, and I have forgotten already
what it's about. I only watched it like thirty minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Okay, sure I can take this. So she you might
remember her as a she Hulk if you watch the
She Hulk series. She's very funny. But it's weird because
this trailer like kind of kind of emphasizes a little
bit of comedy, but there's also a lot of like
traumatic action you see. So Tatiana plays she's a single mother.

(53:20):
Her daughter is like I don't know, maybe in a
tween or maybe a teenager. And she is an adult
cam performer, and she is on camera with one of
her clients on the other end, right like a zoom
call kind of thing, but it's you know, adult camming.

(53:43):
Her client is on the other end, when suddenly someone
bursts into her client's room and seems to abduct him,
and then she's not sure if what she witnessed is
real or if it's a scam slash prank. Then she
is starting to be harassed by someone who seems to
know a lot about her and her personal situation, including

(54:05):
the fact that she's a mother. So like, the beginning
of this trailer makes it feel like this is like
a kind of like a psychological thriller, but then there's
a bit where she's chatting with her two friends, and
then it feels a little more like dark comedy ish.
So it's hard to get a finger on the pulse
of the tone of this particular thing. It's coming to

(54:26):
Apple TV on May twentieth, or ten episodes total. It's
not really my deal, Like, it's not really the kind
of thing I typically seek out. I do think Tatiana
is a very funny and talented actor, so maybe I'll
try and watch it. But it also feels like the
kind of thing that if I'm watching in Becca walks in,

(54:47):
I feel like I'd have a lot of explaining to do.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Very possibly, very possibly. Yeah, I think I do like
her as an actor. I still need to go back
and watch Black Orphan or Orphan Black or whatever it
was called she was in.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Oh was she? And that?

Speaker 1 (55:02):
I always heard that that was the lead and the
lead and the lead and the lead in the lead.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
I heard that was really good. That and Russian Doll.
Those are like two series that everyone kept telling me
I needed to watch and I still haven't done it.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
I think you would like Russian Doll. I can't say
anything about it Orphan.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Black because you didn't watch it.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
I haven't seen it. Yeah. And also she's you know
we talked about last week. She's in Atlanta now or
was recently or will be very soon filming a movie.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Oh good, Like I was just thinking I've got more
room on my roster.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
The Josh Tuban movie we talked about last week, right,
the Green Zone or whatever it's called.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, okay, good, you know, fake girlfriend spot potentially open.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
So and then we have one more thing and the
things that we're going to talk about because they're out there.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
And if it's the purge. But but instead of you
get to kill people one night, it's you get to
be busy. If you're single, you.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Get to hook up. When I read what you wrote,
I was like, this sounds like it is everything I
do not want. But the trailer seems to focus around
the hero of the story, the protagonist of the story,
I guess, like trying to be smart in who she
hooks up with and really find a connection and stuff

(56:20):
like that, and I kind of love that.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
It's it's a romantic comedy with a bizarre, high concept premise.
The premise is it's it's in New York, but for
some reason, in New York, it is illegal for unmarried
people to hook up. Like there's some descriptions I've read
where it's even said have romance, and I'm like, okay, wait,

(56:46):
then how do you go from being single to being
not single? But apparently there's one night a year where
people who are not married are legally allowed to boink
their brains out, and apparently that's what a lot of
people end up doing. But the two main characters here

(57:06):
both are actually seeking out real connection or at least
appear to be based upon the trailer, and it's a
lot of things like missed connections, that kind of stuff,
And it looks like the actual romance part looks kind
of cute. It does look a little weird, but what
a strange concept it really is.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
It looks well done. Like I again, I didn't think.
I thought I was gonna watch this and be like, yep, yep,
this is why it's stuff we don't talk about, but
it actually looks pretty cute. I might watch this.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
It's it was almost weird enough to be to bump
it into the next section, almost not the next one,
but the one.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
After the I mean it is pretty horrific.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Yes, just yeah, you don't even need the premise there.
It's just scary. It comes out August. So yeah, I
was like when I started watching, I just thought it
was just a regular romantic comedy kind of thing. And
then as it went on, I'm like, wait a minute,
they're saying stuff that is very strange about like, oh,

(58:13):
it's the one time they're allowed Like what do you
mean by that?

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Yeah? Yeah, but I do like that.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
I do like it's the romantic comedy version of the Purge.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Yeah, yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Well, we don't need to worry about spiders because there's
plenty of that in this episode already, So I'm not
even gonna bother you. I'm sorry. I did not like
I had you take the headphones off for one of
the stories.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Yeah, yeah, no, the other one I would have seen anyhow,
so it's fine.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Yeah, but boy, that one took me by surprise. But
we'll get there. So no spiders in the r Utch
as far as I know. I mean, there probably are
in Resident Evil. But we're gonna start off with talking
about a psycho sexual thriller called Verity. And the only
reason I'm really including this is one there's just actually,
for once, weren't that many trailers for horror movies this week,

(59:08):
you know? But for another. This is based off a
novel that came out in twenty eighteen, and I am
familiar with the novel, and it's one of those books
where you're like, this is this is bonkers, This is
nuts because there's so many characters who have been deeply
affected by tragic accidents in their lives that you're feeling

(59:31):
like everyone in this book universe is like a day
away from losing someone important. To them in a terrible
tragic accident, and there's like a fifty to fifty shot
that there's something suspicious about the accident and maybe it
wasn't accidental at all. But the high level premise here
is that you have the main character, Lowen Ashley. She

(59:52):
is a struggling writer and she is hired by a
guy named Jeremy Crawford to to finish his wife's unfinished manuscript.
His wife was in an accident and is now comatose,
so he invites her. Jeremy invites Loewen. Oh, and his
wife's name is Verity. That's why the film is called Verity,

(01:00:14):
and why the book is called Verity. Verity Crawford is
the comatose wife, so he invites Loewen to come into
his home in order to access verityes like notes and
outlines and all that kind of stuff and the unfinished
manuscript in order to complete it. The two of them
end up getting into hot and heavy relationships stuff. You know,

(01:00:40):
if they were in New York, it would not be allowed.
But actually, to be fair, he's still married. She's it's
just his wife's comatose anyway. So yeah, they end up
having an affair. Then there's like Lowen starts to suspect
that Verity maybe is just faking being comatose. Then there's
all this question about like they had Verity and Jeremy

(01:01:01):
had three kids, twin girls who are older siblings, and
then a younger son. But both of the twin girls
have passed away in accidents, and so then there's like
suspicion that did Verity do that before she had her
own accident and went coma TOAs did Jeremy actually do it.

(01:01:23):
The end of this book is truly off the rails
and like to a point where I'm like, I don't
this has lost me entirely. But I'm curious if the
movie will follow suit. The trailer will be very confusing
if you watch it, because Anne Hathaway plays Verity, and
you're like, well, that's a character's in a coma and

(01:01:45):
Anne Hathaway's in this trailer a lot, so I'm guessing
that there's stuff where it's representing flashbacks or visions that
kind of stuff. Dakota Johnson plays Loewen. It comes out
October second. This is not my bag. I will not
be this, but yeah, the book is a is truly
bonkers if you ever want to check it out of

(01:02:06):
the library and just have a crazy read. And the
other one in the horror hutch is Resident Evil. This
is Zach Kreiger's next movie. He's the guy who brought
us Barbarian and Weapons, and he's doing an adaptation of
the video game series Resident Evil. He is not adapting
a specific title in that series. Rather, he is taking

(01:02:27):
the series as the inspiration for this film. So there
are elements of it that I feel like, oh, this
looks like this came straight from Resident Evil seven Biohazard,
like that looks like that, or oh, this sequence reminds
me of Resident Evil two or three. So you can
tell where he's inspired, like what he drew his inspiration from.

(01:02:50):
But he's not involving as far as I can tell,
he's not involving any of the established characters from the
franchise in his film, which I personally think is a
good idea. There are fans of the games who are
very much in opposite opinion of mine.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Well there, you know, it's just a trailer. There might
be stuff that they like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
There might be like Leon might show up at some
point he strikes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
So I've never played the Resident Evil Games. I never
watched the movies. I did watch the TV show and
that was interesting. But I will say watching this trailer
because I did watch this trailer because Zach I appreciate
what Zach Kreeger does. I never watch Barbarian and I
haven't seen Weapons yet, though you know, I did audition

(01:03:35):
for it. He's so good at setting a scene and
building suspense. It feels like, yeah, this trailer was. It
was intense, but not in the way I anticipated, and
I appreciated it for that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Yeah, it's creepy and disturbing, but on like a mainstream
entertainment level like it. I don't think it goes so
far as it will use a mainstream horror audience, right, Like,
it's not that extreme, but it looks interesting to me.
But yeah, I saw a lot of derision, a lot
of dismissal in the comments under the trailer that we

(01:04:13):
will be posting in our notes. But I don't think
that's really fair because I think I think it was
the right decision personally, Like anyone who's played video games
and then has watched video game adaptations, and it's very
rare that you get adaptation that actually follows the story
of the video game where it's a satisfying narrative. The

(01:04:36):
Last of Us is one of the few that I
can think of, right because even Fallout, it's a great series,
but it isn't following a specific Fallout game. It incorporates
elements of some of those games, but it doesn't follow
the storyline of any of them. And I think that
was for the best because we already have that story. Plus,
that's a story that was designed to be played through

(01:04:59):
for the to have that experience, and like story, movie
making is just fundamentally different. So I'm all for this,
But I get it, Like, if you're a super fan
of Resident Evil and you were really hoping to see
like Veronica, Code Veronica or like Leon or you know,
Chris or whatever any of the characters' names are showing up,

(01:05:19):
I get that you could be let down by this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Yeah, for sure, that was a pretty non traumatic visit
to the Horror Hutch.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yeah. I didn't figure that we had enough trauma still
ahead of us. Uh So, yeah, we're now into the
show lineup, and like I said, there's only two That
time I talked a lot, so I apologize for that,
but there are only two but now we can go
on to talk about stupid stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Yes, and the first one's gonna be real stupid. But
I just want to say, uh, our listeners love listening
to you talk. And also if I didn't like listening
to you talk, I wouldn't be doing a podcasts with you.
So quick.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Okay, Well, I'm the one. I'm the one who looks
at the waveforms, and every time I do, I'm like,
oh my god, Jonathan, You've got to shut up.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
I mean it's hard because we're doing we're doing this,
you know, remotely, so it's harder to catch like, oh
the other person has something to add.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Or yeah, and that happens Jonathan. Jonathan apparently doesn't need
to breathe. He just keeps talking.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Look as a singer, that's an admirable quality. But let's yeah,
let's go back to our show notes because I know
that again, we do need to keep this. It's not
it hasn't been a shorter episode I thought it would be,
but we do need to keep it short.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Ish much shorter than last week at least, well last week.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Was like a three episode week.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
First, the first thing we've got to talk about, I'm
actually surprised you added it to our lineup because it's
an Asylum film.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Well that's I put it on there because the trailer
came out today, even though okay, here's the other thing.
This movie's already out. It's already out on digital platforms.
It came out April twenty eighth, but we just got
the trailer. Weird, like three days ago it came out,
and we got the trailer today or maybe yesterday. But yeah,
the film is called Ice Pocalypse. It is an Asylum film.

(01:07:06):
You've heard me talk about The Asylum before, if you've
listened to this the show for a while. The Asylum
is mostly known for making things like Mockbusters, or they
make intentionally crappy movies and hope that it goes viral.
So the big one that everyone knows is Sharknado, that series,

(01:07:26):
but they also are known for making movies that are
mimicking bigger, more known ip so like when Transformers came out,
they had Transmorphers, when Pacific Rim came out, they had
Atlantic Rim, which isn't even a thing. But Ice Pocalypse.

(01:07:49):
At first, I was thinking it was going to be
a cheap knockoff of the Day After Tomorrow, which is
wild because that movie came out more than twenty years ago,
like Way to Strike While the Iron is Cold. But
after watching the trailer, I'm like, okay, no, it's really
the day after Tomorrow and Armageddon had a baby.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Yeah yeah, I mean it could be that they're trying
to play off of vaguely Project hill Mary without trying
to give spoilers to people who haven't seen it or
haven't read the book. Yeah, because it deals with going
into space because of apocalyptic type event happening to Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Yeah. So the basic premise is that a new moon
has entered Earth's gravitational orbit. I don't know where it
came from or how it did that, but it has.
And then the effect of that is it has plunged
the Earth into a new ice age, and so they
have to scientists have to come up with a plan

(01:08:49):
to dislodge this moon from orbit so that the Earth
can return to its normal climate. So that's where you
get the Armageddon thing, right, It's okay, well, we have
to either destroy or deflect this celestial body so it
doesn't impact Earth. Looks super dumb, Like I said, it's

(01:09:10):
already out on on things like Fandango at Home. Maybe
other platforms came out on April twenty eighth, but I
had to include it because I watched it, and now
I felt like other people at least at least know
that I watched it and feel sorry for me. Oh
one other thing that I thought was dumb is they

(01:09:31):
named the new moon Nemesis.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
I mean, I don't know. I kind of like a
moon being named Nemesis.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
I guess at it's better than jerkface, which is what
I would have called it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
I mean, I would also be for that, because the
moon does have a face, and it does sometimes like
a little jerky, not motion wise, but personality wise. Speaking
of jerks, we got a trailer for a House of
the Dragons Sees three. I actually haven't watched this. I
just Game of Thrones has a lot of people who
are jerks in it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
No, so yeah, I have you watched any of the
House of the Dragon at all?

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
I haven't. What I have done is I have watched
the first two episodes of Night of the Seven Kingdoms twice.
I've watched the first two seasons and the last two
seasons of Game of Thrones, and that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
So there's like a big chunk in the middle where like, wow,
there's you start those final two seasons and you're like, man,
there's a lot of characters I don't recognize, and a
lot of characters that I'm looking for that I don't see.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
I kept up with what was happening, but I just
didn't need to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
It, gotcha. Yeah, So I had to look all this
up because I have not watched House of the Dragon either,
and I was just I couldn't even remember where it
falls within the chronology of George or are Martin's world.
And so House of the Dragon takes place one hundred
years after House targari and has established itself as the

(01:11:02):
holder of the Iron Throne, the uniter of the Seven Kingdoms.
So it's one hundred years after Targerians have established themselves,
but two hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones,
which means Nine of Seven Kingdoms happens one hundred years
after the events of House of the Dragon.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Oh I thought it happened before.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
No. Nine of Seven Kingdoms is one hundred years about
one hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones.
House of the Dragon is two hundred years before the
events of Game of Thrones. Anyway, they're dragons and there's
the dragons.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
They're fighting. They're fighting for power and for who wants
to be a leader, yeah, or who the gods are
going to declare as the leader, which is really just
I think who has the biggest, best.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Army or biggest best dragon in this case.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Yeah, it looks intense. It kind of looks like things
are coming to a head. So I don't know. I
don't know how many seasons they have planned.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Yeah, I don't know either. Yeah, I was gonna say
I don't I don't either. It does feel like things
are are ramping up. Like within Martin's work, there are
all these references to various civil wars like it. It
seems like like civil wars are pretty common within the
history of wester Ros. So this is one of those.

(01:12:22):
And but yeah, my hope is that I don't know.
Actually I don't care if they wrap it up or not.
I'm not watching it either way. But this comes out
June twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
First, Okay, so if you're a fan, enjoy The next
trailer we've got is for something called Relive, which I
have misread every time I've looked at it. First, I
was like revile Relieve. No, it's a it's a British
sci fi Yep. It looks to be pretty independent yep,

(01:12:55):
but super super.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Cool yeah, and pretty polished to like, it looks like
it's a polished production, which you don't always get with
independent British work. But this is the basic storyline is
it's set in a future, like it's it's definitely the
future because they've got like hologram phones and stuff, and

(01:13:18):
there's this time anomaly that kind of eliminates like one
hundred thousand people from existence, like they just pop out
of existence and yeah, and one of those people is
the son of the protagonists, so obviously she is deeply
affected by this. She is then recruited by this woman

(01:13:41):
who says they've identified that the problem is this this
guy that the protagonist knew when she was like twenty
years younger, created time travel and that apparently that cascaded
into this anomaly that made like one hundred thousand people
just disappear. So her job is to use the time

(01:14:02):
travel technology to go back to a time when she
twenty years ago was on a hiking trip with friends,
which included the guy who would ultimately invent time travel
and then to kill him grave dead, graveyard dead, as
Griffin McElroy would say.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
But the problem is, even if you mess with time
in the past, it will still create anomalies in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
I mean, I guess it depends on your rules of
time travel, like they're not consistent from time travel story
to time travel story. Yeah, I don't really Like for me,
I was sitting there thinking why does it need to
be her, Like, couldn't literally anyone go back in time
and kill this dude before he invents time travel? But
maybe there are restrictions on how this works.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Yeah, it's also like this is just the random person
that they picked. Maybe it was affected by him.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Well yeah, But what I'm saying is that, like I
think they pick her her because she actually does have
a history with this guy, because there's they look at
a photo that was taken when they were younger, right,
and when they're on this hiking trip, and so she's like,
this is an opportunity. It's before the algorithm goes live.
You can kill him and then it will prevent all
this from happening. But I'm like, well, unless the only

(01:15:18):
reason she's able to go back is because she was
physically there when it happened, or when she was physically
in the same space as he was at some point
in the past. Maybe that makes sense. But I would
think anyone could go back in time because you clearly
still know what you're supposed to do, right, So it's
not like your memory got white and then you just

(01:15:39):
find him right because you know where he's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Yeah, So why didn't they hire an assassin or something.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Right, instead of just a random woman who? I mean,
she has she had, she has incentive because she wants
her son back. But yeah, I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
It could be because she was there on that hike
that it wouldn't create an and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Who That's entirely possible. Yeah, I'm sure they explain it
in the film, like we just got the trailer right,
so we don't there's probably explanations for this. It's just
those questions that immediately pop into my head when I
watch it. It's Uh. I don't know if it's going
to get a wide release yet. It is coming to
the Sci Fi London Film Festival on May fifteenth. I

(01:16:22):
am curious to read later on like what people's reactions
were to seeing this film.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Yeah, I'm actually interested in this one. And it's you know,
it's a conundrum that sci fi likes to play with
a lot. But it looks it looks well done.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Yeah, it kind of reminds me. It's like Heinlen esque.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Yeah, yeah, which is cool. I like. I like some
of Heyland's sci fi stuff. Yeah, the stuff the kids kids.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Spokes, right, the stuff that's not as creepy. Yeah, you know,
we're not going to go We already talked enough about blinking.
I'm not going to go into it more.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Yeah. Yeah, like the rolling Stones and stuff like that.
That was really cute. Less cute, but it's not deterring
me from my excitement. Is the trailer we got first
Spider Noir.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Yeah, I chose the true hue, full colored trailer. I'm
sure there's a black and white version out there too,
I'm certain.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
So. Yeah, it just shows us a little bit more
of the through plot. It's got some really funny beats
in it. Like towards the end of the trailer, Nick
Cage as Spider Noir is a little bit beat up
and the fem fatale asks what happened to you? And
he says, I walked into a door. She goes how
many times he's liked and it made me laugh out loud.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Yeah, it's cute. You also get to see some cool
super villain action like Mega Watt and Tombstone and others,
so that's really cool. Silvermin as well. Yeah, this looks good.
It did have. This is the moment that shocked me,
like there was some spider based body horror in this trailer.

(01:18:08):
I had to write to Ariel to let her know.
I don't know, did I get to you in time
or had you already seen it?

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
I hadn't already seen it. It's good to know it's again.
It's not gonna stop me from watching this because I
love noir and I especially old old timey noir, and
I like Spider Man, and I really liked the across
the Spider Verse kind of cartoons and stuff, so uh,
I am excited for it. But yeah, like just watching

(01:18:34):
a thousand uh a thousand spiders call out if somebody
reminds me of that, like stories to tell in the
Dark series or whatever it was, Yeah, what about a
girl who got bit by a spider and then had
like spiders coming out of her face and these the
spiders weren't like super ugly spiders. They were just little,

(01:18:56):
big butted spiders.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
Right, Yeah, I yeah, they weren't like big, hairy spiders
or anything. But yeah, when I when I saw that,
I thought, oh, I'm going to need to warm Becca
before we watch this, because if I don't, she will
divorce me.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Yeah. Yeah, hopefully hopefully you can like find where it's
at and she can just close her eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Yeah. Yeah. My guess is that's going to be like
a hallucination type moment, is it. That's a guess. I
don't know for sure, But if it's actually happening to
a character, that's horrific.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Yeah, we don't really know how horrific this is going
to be.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
It's true. It comes to MGM Plus on May twenty
fifth and then comes to Prime on May twenty seventh.
And I believe we said this last week that the
whole series is going to be dropped as a binge watch,
so you can watch it, like, you can watch it
all the way through if you want to, on day
the day it drops. So that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Sometimes I like the week two week because it helps
build anticipation. It also helps cover perhaps some inconsistencies. Because
you have enough time to forget. But if you watch
them back to back, you're like, wait a minute, that's
not what he said like five seconds ago.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Yeah, yeah, it is interesting to me, Like I think
it must just be like a mental metrics thing, because
if you're releasing it all at once, just do like
a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Well, but it's going to be longer than like it's
ten episodes or something, so it's gonna be more than
a movie.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Yeah, it'd be a five hour thing. Oh, I mean
Zack Snyder movie but.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Uh yeah, or a Peter Jackson movie.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Yeah, but I mean I guess that does build in,
like you can watch it at your pace. I know
that I have tended to, Like when Cobra Kai seasons
came out, or the Stranger Things season, we just set
aside a day and watch it all. But even that's
a fun thing to do, and you still have potty
breaks built in or yeah, like it's a break.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Becca and I would sit there like we would say, okay,
let's watch a couple of episodes of Superstore, and like
three hours later we're like, wow, we watched a lot
of Superstore.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Yeah. Yeah, I like the ones that I can binge
on the weekends, and I also like having the week
to week, and sometimes the week to week is nice
and full, and I'm like, I've got this to look
forward to every day, and some weeks I'm like starting
to watch and there is stuff to watch, but it's hard.
It takes energy to start a new show.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Yeah, and like, honestly, it's that that paralyzed feeling you
get when you have too many options, right, Like if
you had three choices, you might be able to pick something,
but you have three thousand choices.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
It's also hard because sometimes you get done with the
show and you're not ready to be done with it,
and you're like, this is what I really want to watch.
I want to watch more of this and yeah, So, like,
for instance, Ending the Pit and Shrinking, because both of
those recently ended, I've I've finished up this season of it.
I want to watch more of both of those shows.

(01:22:04):
And the shows that I have on my list to
watch next are exciting, but they aren't that style. Yeah, So,
like for All Mankind, I want to start, but it's
not the same feel at all, and so I have
to wait to like decompress from those two shows that
I both very much enjoyed to start this new different genre.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
That makes sense. Well, we have one more story and
I don't have very much to say about this, but
we got a full trailer for Strange New World's season four.
This is the penultimate season. They're going to do a
season five and then that's it for this series. So
it comes to Paramount Plus on July twenty third. And

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I mean, sure does look like Star Trek.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
It does. I really enjoy Strange New Worlds. I think,
like I haven't watched Academy because I think it's only
got the two seasons, but well, the one season out
and I think they're doing one more. I can't remember.
We've talked about it, but I have truly enjoyed Strange
New Worlds. It's had enough of the old school Star
Trek feel with lovely news stories, and I've enjoyed how

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they treated the characters, and this feels like more of it.
This will also be our last I think ten episode season.
Season five is going to be only six episodes from
what I've heard. That could be wrong, that could change.
I'm really enjoying the journey. I also totally respect them
sticking to the five years. I don't know if that
was their original plan, but it was set out as

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a five year mission.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
So yeah, that's how the original Star Trek, the original
series was framed right our five year mission. Yeah. This
is also I think the season where we get the
puppet episode where Jim Henson's Creature shop created all the puppets.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Well, let me tell you the in season three there
was a prototype Holid Deck episode that was amazing that
I almost like you could just watch that alone and
be completely happy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Have they out of curiosity, have they done a Tribles
episode in Strange New Worlds.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
I think they made a I don't remember. I feel
like they maybe made a nod to it, but there
wasn't like a Tribles episode because it is like they've
introduced Captain Kirk, but it's still most of the members
are part of Captain Pike's crews, so.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
Right, And I guess they really shouldn't introduce that because
like that would mess with the continuity of the original series,
because I think that the idea was that everyone was
not really familiar with what Tribles were in that episode,
and so when they start like reproducing like crazy, it's
a surprise to them all. So it would be kind

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of spoiling that to have that happen in Strange New Worlds.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
Yeah, but I could be misremembering. I think if they
are mentioned, it's only like a little nod to it.
They do bring in like the Zorn and things like that,
so uh, which they handle really well. It's really cool,
and I just I really like it. I really really
like it good. I'm sure not everything lines up completely,

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but it lines up well enough that I can overlook
any inconsistencies. And like, again, it's just one of those
it's did you watch Orville? I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
No, No, I've never seen a Orville.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Okay, it's both Orville and Strange New Worlds do this
thing where they'll have like a fun episode and then
a serious episode and it doesn't feel it's genuine like
it feels it still feels genuine. It doesn't feel like
there's a big, like crashing conflict. I can't my word
is failing at the words, but like, I'm fine going on.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
It doesn't feel like an artificial mandate where like it
feels natural as posed to well, last week was a
fun one, so get ready for a grim one.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Yeah, yeah, and the fun ones are really fun and
like the actor ansign Mount who plays Captain Pike plays
series very well, but he's also kind of like how
you liked Daniel Radcliffe and Reggie Dinkins. He's not afraid
to play and be a goof. Captain Pike isn't either,
which I love.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
Yeah, yeah, So there are some episodes that, like, I
wasn't as much of a fan of the musical episode
as some people, but I like that they swung for
the rafters with it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Yeah yeah, no, I like. I like when when shows
and films and stuff take big swings, even when I
don't fully enjoy the result, I respect the heck out
of taking the risk because it's so much easier to
just play it safe and just be like people like Klingons.

(01:26:59):
Let's do a kling On one or something like that. Right, Like,
to really take big swings is refreshing, so I applaud
that it doesn't always pay off, and you know, the
big swing still needs to make sense, y'all. If you
make a big swing where it's just like weird, like
well just for weird sake, that doesn't really work either.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
I still hope that there's a day where you get
bored enough to watch a few episodes to see if
you do like it or not, because I know that
it would.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Mean that I have to get Paramount Plus. I know,
and I've already got so many.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
I have been like I have been as soon as
I finish Reggie Dinkins Peacock Goes Away and I go
back to Disney Hulu to watch jaredehel.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
Yeah, I need to figure out. I need to figure
out really sit down and say, Okay, which of these
do I really feel like I should keep, because like
part of me feels like I'm keeping them, like it's
fear of missing out. I think it's that, but or
it's just that I'm used to having these even though
I don't necessarily tap into them that much, and I'm

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starting to wonder like I should really hone these down
to the ones that I actually go to the most often,
and right now though it would probably be Disney Plus
and Apple TV Plus. Those would be the two, and
to a lesser extent, Max, which I almost always go
to just to see what their film library is at

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any given moment, and then like within fifteen minutes of scanning,
the titles go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Like nah, So we used to keep Max because it
had all of like the DC stuff, so like Harley
Quinn and yeah, Doom Patrol and stuff like that. Now
we keep it because it's got well Tony likes Toree
you watching the old stuff like Sopranos or Newsroom or
stuff like that. But we keep it because the pit
is so freaking amazing, so.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
Our yes are kind of I need to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
Uh uh It's it is hard because it deals with
stuff that happens in an e er, but it deals
with it in such a good way.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
But I've dealt with things in an er a couple
of times myself.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
So yeah, there's just enough humor in it, right, and
the and the characters are interesting and it's it's just
so well done. But yeah, we we have our our standards.
Some we don't get rid of because of ease, like
and then some and some that we cycle through. But uh, yeah,

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we've alloviated enough on streaming channels. I think we need
to wrap this up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Okay, Well, uh, I guess I'll hand it over to
my co host to give me the prompt.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Oh, I guess I can do that. Sorry, I'm getting
distracted by all the margarita is being made on my lawn. Yeah, Jonathan,
how do people reach out to us if they want
to tell us how they feel about stuff that we
talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Well, you're gonna have to slip on some flip flops,
step on a pop top top, uh huh, and you're
gonna have to smell all those tourists covered in oil,
and you're gonna have to eat some sponge cake, and
you're gonna have to drink that frozen concoction that helps

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you hang on. That's right. You gotta take a trip
down down to Margaritaville.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
You have to. You have to steal the shaker of
salt from Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
Yeah, yeah, you have to. You also have to secretly
give me a tattoo without me knowing it, and it
needs to be a Mexican qutie so that I can
really relish in this. Actually, the most important thing is
you need to convince Margaritaville to bring back the cheeseburger
and Paradise Restaurant, and specifically the pressed cheeseburger, which they

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would do as a turkey burger if I asked them to,
and was one of the best things I ever had
at any sit down restaurant, and it is a crime
that I can't get anymore. And yes, I know I
can make it myself, but it's not the same. They
turn the bun upside down essentially, and they have the
patty in the middle with the cheese and with all

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the fixes and stuff, and then they griddle the bun
so like the the part that would normally be facing
the burger is facing out, and they toast that on
the grill, so it's like a it's almost like a
mix between a grilled cheese sandwich and a cheeseburger. And
it's so good. And if you can bring that back,
I will answer anything you want. If you can get

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that to come back, let's sit down and chat. You
have me for as long as you need me, or
at least as long as it takes me to finish.
I don't know. Let's say five of those.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Their dessert notchos were also pretty balm. Yeah, no, honestly,
I agree. I missed Cheeseburger Paradise as well for the
exact same reason. So that's how you contact us this week.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
That's it. That ends. That's no other way.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
I'm kidding. You can't reach out to us on social media.
We love you too. We love hearing from you, so
on Facebook and Instagram and threads. We are a larger
neur Drunk Colider. We also have a discord that is
Large Nurdron Collider. You can visit our website which is
www dot largerenurdron collider dot com for show notes and
the invitation to the discord. You can also send us
an email. We love hearing from you. If you've got

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something longer to say to us, we are happy to listen.
It is Large Nerdron pod at gmail dot com. Thank
you for being a part of our geeky family. For
listening and geeking out with us, We truly do appreciate you,
and until next time. I am Ariel no Way Castin.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
I am Jonathan Speider. He is our hero. Strickland, there
we go. The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel
Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted, published again, cursed
at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin McLeod of incomptech

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