LNC Forgot that it was Friday the 13th

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Drug Collider podcast, the
podcast that's all about the geeky stuff happening in the
world around us and how very excited we are about it.
I'm Ariel cast it and Whicky is always is the
amazing Jonan in Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go if.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
The darn plane would just stop going to and fro.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Ariel and I have both been experiencing weird motor sounds
outside of our homes, and we don't live anywhere close
to each other.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, no, like thirty minutes away, so it's not horrible.
But also, like the plane I am hearing, Jonathan would
not be hearing.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, And I'm not sure what I'm hearing. I don't
think it's a plane, but it's this like oscillating motor sound,
and it's far enough away where I actually stepped outside.
I told Aerie old this. I stepped outside to take
a look around and see if I could figure out
what the heck this noise was because I'd never heard
it before, and I still don't know. My guess is

(01:13):
there's some sort of construction project happening on the other
side of the railroad tracks from where I live, and
I just can't see that that's what it is, at
least that's my guess. Either that or you know, maybe uh,
maybe the aliens are here, just like Spielberg is indicating.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Maybe, Or it could be mad Max Thunderdome.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Could be it could be a very small track because
it's it's like it's like yewww, like that's the frequency.
So like either a very small track or those cars
are going super fast, that turn is super tight. It's
so you.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Had some new neighbors move in and they are the
like they are the Thunderdome, like motorcycle drivers at a circus, and.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Or or they're transformers. Maybe that's that.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, you could. I mean I don't know. A transformer
might be a really bad neighbor.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, all depends on whether they're an autobot or
a decepticon, I guess.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Or did you mean like actual transformers?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh not like not like an electrical transfer you met,
like the if one of those goes off, then you
will know. Yeah, have you ever this is not the
question of the week, y'all, but have you have you ever?
Have you ever been present when an electrical transformer blewe.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, I mean like not touching one or staring right
at it. However, I live in a big tree like
Big Tree Preserve area, So anytime we have a big
storm or a big snow or a big wind or
butterfly sneezes, yeah we we have. I have transformers go
out regularly. I hear them pop at least.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah. I uh. The first time I ever was present
for one going off, I was in the family car.
I was a kid, like a teenager, sitting in the backseat.
We were going through Atlanta. We didn't live in Atlanta,
we lived up in Northeast Georgia, but we were in
Atlanta for something. And as we were going through, there's

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this massive storm and then it sounded like a shotgun
had gone off right next to the car, and sparks
flew everywhere, and I didn't know what had happened, but
my dad hopefully informed me that it was a transformer
that exploded, and then hopefully explained that no, it's not
the more than meets the icon. And I've seen a

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few since then, and yeah, if you want an experience
that'll make your heart jump hearing a transformer go off,
if you're like even a few hundred feet away can
be a pretty darn dramatic experience.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, and so I think part of it for me
is I live on the river, and so things that go.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Not many people know this, but Ariel lives in a
van down by the river.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Listen, I would if I could. I love the water
so much, I would just sit in front of the
water all the time, exception of when I'm doing stuff
like this. But but so transfer informers going out are
very loud. Fireworks are very loud. Car backfire from like

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exhaust pipes, which is less common nowadays, Yeah, but it
still happens on occasion because some people drive classic or
older cars. A lot of people do because they're affordable.
And then also occasionally gunshot gunshots, Like I don't live
someplace dangerous, but you can hear a gunshot anywhere.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I was once looking at a house, like we were
looking at a house as a sort of getaway house
for weekends, and we were looking like within a two
hour radius of Atlanta, and one of the houses we
looked at was actually just over the state line in Alabama.
And as we're being shown the house, we can start

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hearing the crack of rifles in the background, which like
hunters obviously, or shooting practice or something. But as we're
sitting there, I'm like, this is I know people like
Atlanta has a reputation, but I heard more gunshots in
that like fifteen minutes of looking at that house than

(05:34):
I have living in inside the city of Atlanta for
ten years. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, And that being said, the bigger thing is maybe
I haven't heard any gunshots here, but because I live
by the river, they all echo reverberate similarly, and it's
really hard to tell the difference.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Apart could be. Well, let's move on to the actual
question of the week. Now. Last week I asked you
about your favorite mad character, right, And you know why
I asked you that question. I'm guessing the March, not
because of the IDEs of March, but because of a
certain I was going to say, a certain basketball event

(06:12):
that we can't name because it's like the big Game.
You can't it's a no, no, it's fine, no one's
going Maybe I will bleep you out if I remember,
but yeah, that's why I asked you. So what was
your question that you had for us this week?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
What's your favorite weather related movie?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now, initially My answer for this was going to, well,
let's see if it's the same as yours. My answer
was going to be Wizard of Oz. Was that your
answer hopefully not? Okay, okay. I decided against Wizard of
Oz because I thought, while the tornado is like the
inciting incident for the movie, it's really just that one moment.

(06:54):
You don't really you know that weather does not play
a big part in the rest of that film. We'll
come back to Wizard of Oz though, later in this episode,
So ultimately I decided that doesn't count. And then I thought, man,
most weather related movies I hate, like the ones I've seen,
like The Day After Tomorrow is so stupid, Twister is

(07:16):
kind of schlocky fun, and I almost put that, but
instead I chose the nineteen I thought about snow Piercer,
but that I don't think is really a weather movie.
That's a train movie. But I instead chose the nineteen
eighty version, the John Carpenter version of the Fog, because

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that is a weather event and it's central to the
plot of the movie. And I don't think it's one
of Carpenter's best films. But even a not great Carpenter
film is still better than a lot of other movies
in my opinion. So I say the fog.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, by your reasoning, I have to take out Jimunji.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Look, just because there's weather in the movie doesn't mean
it's a weather movie.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Poseidon adventure.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, there are a lot of a lot of weather. Like,
if you're thinking weather movie, it tends to end up
being like natural disaster, doesn't it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, so I have two One is a cheat and
one is real. Twister is my probably my favorite.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And that is because it's a fun movie.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
I never watched Twisters. But when I saw Twister, it
was at a double feature at the Starlight Drive in
in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's the perfect place to see it.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yes, with Jimungie and I was in a convertible and
there was a thunderstorm in the background.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, perfect, perfect time and place to see it.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Like if I had just watched it on my TV,
it would not have been my favorite movie. And also
as young, so like I was scary, not being too scary.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I still think Twister is a perfectly legitimate, entertaining film.
There's some great performances, there's people in there, like you're
you're thinking, that's a schlocky like disaster action movie. But
there's so many actors in there who have been in
like critical Darling films. Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think, isn't

(09:21):
it carry Elle, wasn't it? I mean, it's a it's
it's a good movie. Yeah, yeah, it's it's silly, but
it's good.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's fun, and honestly, I think it inspired one of
my nieces or nephews to be a weather chaser.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a it's a dangerous but
needed job. But the other one, it's it's kind of
a cheat because it really doesn't have to do with weather,
but with anything but the title.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
But singing in the Rain we yeah, it's yeah, I agree,
it doesn't have anything to do about the title, but
Singing in the Rain is a masterpiece. I still find it.
Understand why it's there, but I still find the ballet
segment in the middle of it, the one that goes
to beautiful girls and all that stuff, that to me

(10:10):
is like, well, I'm going to get up and make
some more popcorn. I'll be back in ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
For sure that that could have used some judicious editing,
but I get why it didn't because those movies had
all had spectacle, and then.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
That was part of it. Yeah, And I mean it's
it's a first and foremost it is a musical, and
it features a world famous dancer, so clearly there's going
to be some big dance numbers in there, even if
they don't necessarily tie into the rest of the movie.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah. But I mean I really watch it for two characters.
I don't even really care about the plot. But I
love Lena Lamont I can't stand it.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, she's great, She's so good.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
And I used to have a crush on Cosmo, so like, yeah,
not real time because obviously there is a huge age gap,
but like he was acuity in a goofball and that's like.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, and like make him laugh and Moses supposes hisses
or roses are both like such great comedy numbers. Yeah. Yeah,
And and good Morning is just a feel good musical number.
It's if you have not seen Singing in the Rain
and you like musicals. I mean, I get that some

(11:25):
people just detest musicals, and you know your opinions are valid,
you know, you do you, But if you like musicals
and you haven't seen Singing in the rain. It's gonna
feel a bit different from modern films. It's not paced
the same way or anything. But it is so charming.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah yeah, but yeah, but that that's why I like it.
The story's fun, it is charming, it's very cute. So
that's my answer.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Great answers, Yeah you too, thank you. All right, Well
let's talk about stuff what we've watched since the last time.
First of all, I I acknowledge our last episode went
out super late, and that's entirely my fault. I had
a lot of hectic Yeah, I had some very hectic
travel over the weekend and it almost didn't happen because

(12:11):
of weather conditions and stuff here in Atlanta. But it
was a big deal. It was a trip to celebrate
my mother in law's eightieth birthday, so luckily I eventually
made it. Everything went well, the party was great, she
was thrilled, and then I got back. But yeah, it
just meant that everything got kind of delayed because of that.

(12:33):
So I apologize for the episode going up so late.
Hopefully this one I can turn around much faster. But
since then, the only thing that I can remember watching
almost I tried to watch The Running Man on the flight,
but that didn't work out for me, so instead, the
only thing I watched was the first episode of The Urbs.

(12:55):
You know, I mentioned last time that I had started
it but hadn't really gotten very far. I watched all
of the first episode and I really am digging it.
I haven't gone any further after the first episode, but
I like what I've seen. Kiki Palmer is battling to
become another girlfriend, but I realize my chances with her

(13:19):
are really low because she likes guys with hair and
she kind of flirted with Sean Evans of Hot Ones,
so I think she's allowed her one bald guy and
now it's over. But she is brilliant and everyone's good.
Everyone is good in that show. But you know, the

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show mostly rests on her shoulders, and she is so good,
she's so entertaining. And there also is a very fun reference.
I won't call it an easter egg because it's way
too front and center, but there's a fun reference, a
wink and a nod to the film The Birds.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I should watch the film then first.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well you would know because you would see this moment
in the first episode and go why is that there?
And then you think, oh, because it's referencing the fact
that there was a movie called The Urbs.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Okay, I do suggest watching The Running Man the new
one with Yeah at some point, because it is very good.
It's so well done.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah. I didn't realize that it was on the flight
on my way up until we were landing, so I
didn't get a chance to watch it on the way up,
and I thought i'll watch it on the way down.
I flew standby and the seat that they were able
to put me in didn't have a scream Oh no,
So I couldn't watch anything on the way back, but
I got back, which is the important part.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I think I think it might turn you around
on Glen Powell. I know you're you're starting to come
around to him, but maybe maybe it's someone else. I
know he does super well.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's gotta be someone else because I still find him like, like, uh,
I guess you wanted a younger Bradley Cooper, like I like.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Him better than Bradley Cooper. Don't don't tell Bradley Cooper.
Bradley Cooper's fine, but.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I won't tell him. But I have talked to him.
I know.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Jonathan occasionally gets to talk to cool people.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's because cool people came into my office. Well the
office I work at, not my office. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I have worked with cool people, you know, on sets
and at dragon Con, but like I don't. We live
in Atlanta. There are tons of cool people who just
live here. I never see anybody. Despite everything that films
here and has filmed here, I never see anybody.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah. If I if I ever do see someone, I
don't realize it. Yeah, Like there I have been at
places where people said did you see so and so
was there? And I'm like, I just walked through there
and had no mostly because I'm not paying tension, but
also I'm not good at recognizing people outside of you know,

(16:05):
where I expect to see them, like if if it's
if it's someone that I've only seen on screen, I
will not expect to see them in meat space.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
So yeah, and then usually I'm like, you're going about
your business. I'll leave you be unless there's a reason,
like and it is some some cool people. Like when
people come up and like, hey, I think you're really cool,
have a great day.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I just yeah, yeah, struggle. It's it is tough because
you know, you know that for you this is a
unique experience, and you know, for them, it's something that
happens literally every day of their lives. So yeah, I
get it. It's why when I heard What's Who's the
singer she did the voice for Rapunzel Entangled? Oh, Mandy Moore,

(16:55):
Mandy Moore. Uh So, my office used to be in
a place called Pont City Market here in Atlanta, which
was this big abandoned building for years and years and
years got turned into mixed use, so there was like
restaurants and shops and then offices and then loft space
expensive she she loft space, and it's where they would

(17:18):
put up a lot of actors when actors were in
town to shoot different projects, right, And occasionally I would
see them, like when I was going to the gym,
I saw Hugh Jackman at the gym. Dude looked like
he could pick up the whole damn machine. And I
saw Hanka's area at the.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Gym, he could pick up the whole machine.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
He I mean, he had some serious guns. He was
doing curls right next to me, and I'm like, I'm
not going to bother him, Like it's gym etiquette. Don't
bother people at the gym. So I was like, if
he asked me to spot him, I'll do it. Won't
comment on it, that's it. He did not, But I
was in I was up in our office and I

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saw a tweet from someone I knew who worked at
a shop down on the street level of pot Cita Market,
who said that Mandy Moore had just walked through the shop,
And so then I tweeted out. I was like, I
just heard that Mandy Moore was going through a shop
near my office, and I'm kicking myself that I didn't

(18:23):
immediately run down there to try and convince her to
sing at last I see the light from Tangled. So
it was just me being silly tweeting that out, and
she liked my tweet, and I was like, oh, it's
almost like we did. That was back when I was
still on Twitter those years and years and years ago.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, yeah, years ago, when the birds still saying in
the sky.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, well they do.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I have a little cardinal.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Oh that's nice. I have a cardinal too. I think
he's trying to become the next Pope.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
He's got a ways to wait, hopefully.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah. Yeah, we don't want to be like going through
them like tissue all right, well we have answered the
question of the week. We have talked about Oh wait,
you haven't talked about the stuff you watched. I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's totally fine. We don't even need to.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
We do need to. This doesn't it's already I had
talked so much. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Okay, well, I'll go through it pretty quickly. I have
caught up on Shrinking, so it's still going on. They're
releasing new episodes, but just much like The Pit, I'm
stuck to once a week, So watching Shrinking once a
week and The Pit once a week. Still loving both.
They both make me laugh, they both make me cry.
They're both very well written and entertaining and incredibly well acted.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Love them.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I highly recommend. I watched all of Bridgeton's.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Season four, the Cinderella season, the straight.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Up Cinderella season, Like, how do you? How do you? Just?
I guess there are plenty of authors who just write
books that are simply skins of Cinderella.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, there's so many different retellings of fairy tales.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's not yeah, but it's fully Cinderella with dad dies
leaving daughter to the step mom with her two daughters
who turns her into a maid, and then classist stuff.
What I will say is the acting was very good Benedet.

(20:25):
It focuses on the son Benedict and Sophie Peck, who
is his love interest, and that Benedict has never been
my favorite character. His acting was superb and there was
some really amazing acting throughout the whole season. So even
though I find it often a little cheesy or silly,

(20:47):
I thought it was very well acted. So that was
really cool. Yeah, so enjoyable, even if a bit predictable.
Incredibly predictable. I also once finished that started one.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Piece, Okay, cool, what are you thinking?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
The fight scenes are better than I anticipated. This is
the live action, live action one Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so the fight scenes are better than I anticipated. So
I had started watching it a while ago and it
just gotten through like the first third of the first episode.
I think it was really tired and I just couldn't
So I'm revisiting it now, and uh, the fight scenes

(21:28):
are better than I anticipated. Now I'm one and a
half episodes in. Uh, the acting is pretty good. The
main character, it's it's a little weird to get used
to because he's playing such a I think, like a
goofy character with a dark underside that it feels a

(21:51):
little wobbly at times, but that's probably on purpose.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Kind of like a little odd tonally wise.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, yeah, Like he's very go lucky in Goofy and well,
you can do anything you want and that's totally fine.
I like, there is backstory there. I don't know it
because I haven't read the the manga or.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Watched the billion billion episodes.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah yeah, the twelve thousand episodes or whatever it is.
But but the acting is very good. The writing is
not great. But part of that is just just the
fact that when you translate manga into English, it it
sometimes feels a little stilted and cheesy.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah. Yeah, I imagine that translation process must be tricky
because you can't just go literally because there's gonna be
there's gonna be references or idioms or whatever that are
unique to the culture. So then you have to figure out, all, right, well,
how do we interpret this so that we get that
same meaning across to say, an English speaking culture. And

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I imagine that's where a lot of that kind of
comes out as well. This is the best we can
do without like taking a larger interpretation, which might take
us further away from the intent.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah yeah, but you know, you watch it for the bizarreness,
and I think that's really good, so I'm going to
keep with it. And then my husband and I started
Ponies PO and I Persons of No Interests with Amelia
Clark and the girl from Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't

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Die and who is the other main character. I can't
remember her name at the moment, and Vic michaelis.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Right, yeah, this is the one that's set in the
then Soviet Union, right, where it's the wives of people
working for the US government and the two husbands die mysteriously. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah. They are full our length episodes pretty much, so
it's not it's not like a quick watch. So I'm
watching through it slowly. I'm like shrinking, which I can
watch five episodes in a day. But it is good,
it's it's not It deals with a lot of serious
stuff and serious moments, but it's not as serious as

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something like Breaking Bad. There are also comedic moments, but
they aren't it's not a comedy, so there's not a
lot of them.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
So there's there's humor, but not like comedy.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah. Yeah, so it's not just a slog. It is
very interesting. I have no idea what's going on. It is.
It is almost jarring at times because Vic Michaelis plays
a secretary and they are just fully being themselves as
a secretary or at least any the which is what

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you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be yourself an
imaginary circumstances as an actor. But it is, it works,
and it's they're doing an amazing job. But it is
interesting to see, like, oh, this is how they're playing
the character as opposed to like putting on a skin
like Gary Oldman does.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah. Yeah, it's whereas like I mean, it's it's cool
that you get to see them in a slightly different,
well very different context than say drop Out TV. But
I don't know if you know this. Did you hear
the Dropout TV is doing a tour.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
They are They're coming to Atlanta in April, and I've
got tickets to it.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's amazing. I'm so happy for my friend Dariel because
I know she's going to have the best time.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. I
my husband called it the B Team, but I really
like all of it. I think I'm guessing that the
cast's probably changed based on who's available and who's off
filming something like apparently Vic Michaeli's Four Ponies auditioned like
five times in one week and was touring the coast

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and she had to jump on a plane to go
start filming and didn't get the full script till she
was on the till they were on the plane, and
like had to just bring the backpack worth of like
two weeks of clothes that they had and then like
buy clothes there.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
So I know that they also, so I know there's
a film. It's a it's a queer identity film, and
Vic was in a short film version of the story
that's now being turned into a feature length film. I
wish I could give you the title. I don't have
it on me. I just remember seeing this earlier this week.

(26:34):
And I imagine that that's also a bit assuming that
Vic is involved in the feature length version of this movie,
I'm sure that's also a big demand on their time.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, so like they aren't listed, so but I'm sure
even with like because it's like Kimia before Jeremy Coolhayne
who does SNL, and Jacob Woizaki and kurk w anyhow,
they're the ones listed and then other people, so I'm
sure it the casts will change out based on who
is available for each city date. But they are all
amazing and do wonderful improv, so I'm excited for it.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah. I get it when people might associate very specific
personalities who tend to be big, big personalities on dropout
and say like, oh, but they're not like brettan Lee
Mulligan or Vic or you know a few others who
are zach Oyama who are just kind of deeply associated

(27:29):
with that. I can understand seeing those names and thinking, oh,
this is but every single one of those people are hilarious.
They're they're insanely talented, and they have great chemistry together.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, I need to see more improv
in general, but it is it is fun watching groups
who have worked together for so long because there's just
a flow there.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I have seen so much improv and I can't tell you.
I mean, all right, I will say when improv is
like truly spectacular, there's nothing like it. But even when
improv bombs beyond comprehension, it's interesting. Yes, it might not
be it might be more entertaining in the retelling than

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it was in living it out in the first place.
But that's one of the things I love about improv
is that even the failures can be really interesting.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah. Yeah, it's harder when you're on the failing side
unless you just embrace.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
It, which it is. Oh, it's it hurts so bad.
I have, Oh I have. If you ever have one
of those moments late at night before you go to sleep,
where suddenly your brain is like, oh, I see you're relaxing.
How about I pull up this memory so that you
can obsess over it for the next half hour. Some
of my improv bombs come right up to the top.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, but when when you embrace it? And I say
this for like dramatic improv as well. Right, So, if
you're in a script or like my actual play, not
last game, but the game before, I kept making perception
roles and they were so bad that my character ended
up not knowing how houses work. That's a door, it opens,

(29:19):
That's what you get, and if you embrace it, it's
so much more fun.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
That's true. Well, something else that we must embrace are
a bunch of brief observations about the News of the
Week and Ariel gets to go first this week.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I do so Doctor Who fans rejoice. BBC unearthed a
couple and restored a couple episodes of Doctor Who that
had been missing, Nightmare Begins and Devil's Planet, and they
will be releasing them, so that is awesome. They're a
part of the third series of the I'm reading a

(29:55):
sci fi epic entitled The Dalek's master Plan.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, for those who do I don't know. The BBC's
normal operations were. Once they were done airing shows, they
would tape over old shows. They would just use the
same tapes over and over again. And it's one of
the few reasons why we still have money Python is
that Eric Idol demanded that he get possession of the
tapes so that they wouldn't do that. Okay, Well, Elijah

(30:21):
Wood recently hinted that we might see him back as
Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings prequel film,
The Hunt for Gollumn, which will both be directed by
and star Andy Serkis. While Wood would not confirm it,
he teased sir Ian McKellen for letting quote the cat
out of the bag end quote at a convention last summer,
and that he'd rather no one else play Frod as

(30:44):
long as he is still breathing and able to do it.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't blame him. More on the Circus Circus, Kate
Winslet will be playing a role in Lord of the
Rings Hunt for the Red Gollumn. Now for Gallum. We
don't know as who maybe as Gallomet, I don't know,

(31:09):
but yep, she'll be in Met.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
The last time we saw Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan it
was in the nineteen eighty four film Conan the Destroyer.
Now forty two years later, he's boised to return as
King Conan. Christopher mcquarie, who directed the foremost recent Mission
Impossible Movies, is attached to write and direct the fantasy film.
Arnie also recently hinted as returning to the Predator franchise,

(31:36):
as well as a sequel to the eighties action film Commando.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Interesting. Speaking of Predator, I need to watch Predator bad Lance.
It's available at stream ACWM. You say Conan, I say Conan.
I'm probably wrong. In Mario news, Donald Glover has been
announced as the voice of Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy.
Move be super Mario Galaxy movie. Watching the most recent trailer,

(32:04):
I don't even know that Yoshi speaks. He just makes
little Yoshi noises, so it feels weird.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah. Well, after creating several projects for Netflix, director and
Stephen King officionado Mike Flanagan has signed a TV deal
with Amazon MGM Studios. The deal means flan again will
develop and produce original TV series for the studio, while
his film work is not covered under this agreement. This
may mean we'll get more creepy, atmospheric horror series on Amazon,

(32:31):
and that ain't a bad thing, and I wonder.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Where that puts.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Dark Tower.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Saturday Night Live UK is launching. I think we talked
about this a long time ago and I completely forgot
it was going to be a thing. They've announced their
cast and now they've announced that on which that on
March twenty. First episodes will be available on Peacock the
day after they air in the UK. I am super

(32:57):
interested in this. I do like British humor. I wonder
how much I'll get since it's all like based on
at least in the US, it's based on current events,
but I'm interested to try.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
In a recent episode, I talked about how Screen franchise
creator Kevin Williamson sat down with Nev Campbell to talk
ideas about a potential eighth film in the franchise before
Scream seven even hit theaters. Well. In an interview with
Scream website, Hello, Sidney, Williamson indicates he will step back
from writing and directing the next entry if there is

(33:29):
to be one. So mixed messages, I guess.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Maybe what is not a mixed message is that Seth
McFarlane is King Midas when it comes to making cartoon
shows that get picked up. Because we're getting a two
seasons so far spin off of Family Guy called Stewie
about the baby. I don't like Stewie, so I'm not excited.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
About Stewe's my favorite character, and I'm also not excited
about this. Last year, it was announced that Jenna Ortega
and Taylor Russell will star in a remake of the
nineteen ninety two thrower Single White Female, itself an adaptation
of the novel SWF Seeks Same. It's now going to
be called Single Female, and we know that Sarah D. Lapp,

(34:18):
who wrote Bodies, Bodies Bodies, will write the script. And
it's about a landlady who becomes increasingly stressed as her
tenant starts to copy everything about her while being super
duper sus fun.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Also in fun news, Netflix has finally closed the deal
for directors Maggie King and Chris Apple Hans to come
back for K Pop Demon Hunter's art due they haven't
started work on it. They'ren to wait till after the
Oscars because they might win some Oscars, And right now
we don't have a release date, but it might be

(34:51):
twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yikes. Also, I think the Oscars are this weekend. So
among those who are wary of the paramount Warner Brothers
Discovery merger are the Teamsters. That's a labor union that
represents a wide range of workers. Deadline reports that the
Teamsters have called on the US Department of Justice to
block the deal unless quote substantial and enforceable safeguards are

(35:14):
put in place to increase domestic production and protect jobs
end quote, which sounds reasonable to me.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
It sounds reasonable to me too. Last week we talked
about the fact that Quentin Tarantino was putting a pause
on a film to do a stage play, and now
we have a little bit more news about that. So
the play is going to be called The Popinjay Cavalier.
It will debut in the West End in twenty twenty seven.
It's a swashbuckling comedy set in eighteen thirties Europe. I

(35:44):
kind of hope that this is lighthearted and fun all
alike Pirates of Penzance and not like a Quentin Tarantino.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, apparently he's adapted his very first screenplay to be
like Apparently his first screenplay was the Story. But interesting,
I had never heard that before until I saw that
same article. David Ellison, one of the billionaires behind the
aforementioned Paramount acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery, indicated that once

(36:13):
this deal does go through, the plan is to bring
together the streaming services HBO Max and Paramount Plus, though
it remains to be seen how that would actually work.
As the Hollywood Reporter points out, HBO Max has more subscribers,
but Paramount Plus has a larger library. Either way, MY
response is.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Ick, yeah, well that is not a high note. No,
I'm kidding, that's our thirty seconds or less. We mostly
kept to it mostly.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, we had a little bit of commentary to add
here and there, but I think I think we did
a decent job. In general, we've been keeping to that
thirty seconds or less. Aerials thirty seconds or less sometimes
come in at fifteen second because I don't have much
to say, which is fine, that's fine. I don't. I

(37:05):
would rather you. I would rather you keep it short
and sweet than pad it out. Yeah, you don't. You
don't need to do Jester's thing of I got to
fill out all the available space.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Now I'm gonna Now, I'm gonna hit a timer and
I am going to do that. So you should call
it net media in thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, I think. I think the way you do it
is just fine.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Uh, this is a thing I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Dode here, here's the Yeah, I mean that's legit. Like
sometimes sometimes we like our our lineups are usually a
commodation of both of us doing independent research. Uh. Some
weeks it's more one person than the other, but it's
always a combination. But that sometimes means that the stories
in thirty seconds are less Like this week, I think

(37:51):
I put in more stories than you did. But we
like to go back and forth, so it means I
have to assign aerial stories that I found and she
didn't find. Which one means she may not have had
the time to read into it as much as I did,
and too she might not care because she didn't add
it to the lineup.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I've done that to you before too, I have in
the past, and I promise to get back to it.
Sometimes aligned our lineup, that's the word I need to burp,
and I'm trying not to. So sometimes I do work
on the lineup and I have assigned you stories and
I know sometimes you haven't cared about them either, or.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, I mean, it's just the way that it's just
the way the format works. So this week we so
we don't have as many things in our lineup, but
we do have quite a few and stuff that doesn't
quite fit. Or maybe it's about an equal numbers. It's
one of those weeks where we didn't have as much
geek news as I would prefer. But there are quite

(38:52):
a few things in the stuff that doesn't fit, some
of which are kind of border cases where you could
make an argument.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
First up, you're calling her segment welcome to the Borderlands.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, yeah, uh yeah, this is this is gonna be
Jack Black as a robot is going to walk us
through all these so First up, we have a Guy
Ritchie movie called In the Gray. We got a trailer
for this. I felt like this feels remarkably similar to

(39:28):
the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, partly because Henry cavill is
in this and was also in that movie.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, I agree. I haven't watched that movie, but the
vibes I'm getting from both trailers are the same. It
stars Henry cavill as Jonathan Said and Jake Gillenhall. I
love that. The very basic, like when you google search
it synopsis is two agents and a woman team up
to get ahold of millions of dollars in stolen money.
Two agents and a woman.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I know, right. Eliza Gonzalez plays the wonder woman, who
is also, by the way, the one who's charge of
the two dudes. But she's just the woman. Yeah no,
they won't even get me started. Yeah, she's like the
one who's the face of the group, right, Like the
other two are being treated like the menacing muscle slash guns.

(40:20):
The trailer very high energy. What did you what did
you think? Did you? I mean, I thought it looked
like a Guy Ritchie movie.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's spies, but the cheeky ones. Yeah,
it looked enjoyable enough. Like I remember having more thoughts
on it when I watched it, but they didn't stick,
So that should tell you something.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah. No, I rewatched it before we started recording, and
I was like, yeah, this it feels like I said,
it really does feel like the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare,
which simultaneously feels like a very guy Ritchie movie but
also feels like it's a guy Ritchie movie that's missing
something because like, if you look at early Guy Richie movies,
they have so much attitude. There's so much vibe going on.

(41:03):
I'm not saying that they're deep films, but they're memorable.
These are like they're action films. There's nothing wrong with it,
it's just there's nothing that I can sink my teeth into. Really,
I would say.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Maybe like a step above generic action.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Like sure, well they're not bad action. They look like
they're well made action movies, but they don't look like
they're It doesn't look like there's anything really of significance
there other than they could be very entertaining to watch.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah, some a little bit of good comedy and some
good chemistry between the actors.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, those talented people attached to it. So it comes
out May fifteenth. Next up, we have power ballad. Do
you want to take a shot.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
At explain what this is again? I can tell you
what the Google synopsis is, because this one explained less
to me I feel like than the previous one.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
I can take a shot if you prefer.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
No, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
You know you're going to lunch into it. Please.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
It is a songwriter and a wedding singer who tried
to write a song and it doesn't play super well.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Yeah, kind of kind of. So Paul Rudd plays this guy.
This is not done as a comedy, by the way.
This is a drama. Paul Rudd is a kind of
a never was, right, not a has been but it
never was, who is working as a wedding singer and

(42:35):
he meets a guy played by Nick Jonas who is
fittingly enough, a former boy band member who's kind of,
you know, wallowing in the troughs of celebrity, where like
his famous days are behind him because he's no longer
part of this boy band group. And while they're bonding,

(42:58):
Paul Rudd's character share with Nick Jonas's character this song idea,
like he starts playing this piece they never really finished.
Nick Jonas's character then goes on to finish that piece
and it becomes like the centerpiece of his comeback. So
he ends up having huge success largely on the back

(43:19):
of this song that he did not initially create. And
Paul Rudd's character wants credit. He feels like that song's
been stolen from him, that it was unfair for this
guy to take that without his permission and to make
that like the cornerstone of his successful comeback. So I
wrote that Essentially this is the same story as Headwig

(43:44):
and The Angry Inch, except there's no botched sex job
or sex change operation. There's no romance between the two characters.
But otherwise that's the plot of Headwig.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Yeah. Yeah, honestly, like, I like both Joe Jonas and
Paul Rudd as actors. I think they're both very talented.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
What about Nick Jonas that one, because because he's the
one who's in it, I mean, Joe Jonahs, sure, that's great.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
But yeah, make sure think of the right one. Yes,
I like Nick Jonas as an actor as well. Okay,
I think, okay, I think they're both very he was
I think in Jimunji. Yes, I think he's a very
good actor. I get their names confused because I was

(44:31):
never a Jonas Brothers fan. There were slightly after me.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
You're talking to the guy who changes names all the time,
so I have no room to criticize.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Anyhow, Nick Joe Jonas Nick was a really good actor,
and so is Paul Rudd. But it just I don't know.
It feels like a.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, it comes out June fifth, but yeah, I couldn't
shake the fact that this was the basic story of
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but done without all the
headwig stuff. But that doesn't mean it's going to be
poorly done.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
That is true. Next, we've got a trailer for a
TV series called Bait about an actor who auditions for
like his dream role and then spirals out of control.
And it looks very good, but it also hits really
close to home because when you get a big role
that you audition for and you really want it, who
it's rough after it's rough to let it go.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Riz Ahmed plays the lead character. He's also the showrunner.
I think on this show. It's for Amazon Prime Video,
and what seems to happen is that he's rumored. Whether
or not this has any basis in fact in the series,
I don't know, but he's rumored to be considered for
the role of James Bond, and that just kind of
spirals his life out of control once those rumors start

(45:47):
to circulate. And meanwhile, like he's a struggling actor. It's
not like he's someone who's been successful and then is
being considered. In fact, we don't know if he's actually
being considered for the role of James Bond, but that
starts to circulate and it really impacts his life. It
looks very funny, and for someone who is not a

(46:09):
professional actor, I didn't have any any emotional or psychological
hangouts from watching this. Uh. It comes out March twenty fifth,
and I might check this out because, like the trailer's
very charming and over the top.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah he is sorry. Rizamett is also the person who's
playing Hamlet in the New Hamlet. Jonathan and I are
both excited about.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Yeah, and there I want to say, there's things like
the reactions to him playing Hamlet are also informing some
of the comedy in this because you can tell like
there's like this whole like reaction of wait, James Bond
supposed to be a white guy like, which is exactly

(46:54):
the reactions we saw with initial release of Hamlet trailers, right,
So I feel like he's taking some of that experience
from the reactions people had when they found out he
was playing Hamlet and used that to help inform and
present it in a comedy. But still it's like it's
commenting on that reaction, and I'm like, how brilliant because

(47:17):
the way to do that through comedy it pokes at
the inherent absurdity of racist reactions.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yes, it also has a couple other geeky fun actors,
Guz Khan who was in Task Master the UK version,
and Redo Ariya who was in Triangle Agency. So it
just looks like fun. It looks like fun and maybe
for me anxiety inducing, but mostly fun.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Yeah. I look forward to checking this out because when
I saw the trailer, I found it very engaging, So
I'm looking forward to that. There's a trailer now that
was just added immediately before we started recording this, and
there's one other at the end which was even even
after that. This one is a trailer for a mini

(48:06):
series on Netflix called Something Very Bad Is going to happen,
which spoiler.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah. It honestly, it kind of feels like ready or not.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Maybe. Yeah, there's definitely some ready or not vibes going
in because it's about it's about a couple that gets
engaged and it is about to get married like super fast,
and there's a whole segment with like I am assuming
the male fiance's family that is very unsettling and off putting.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Yeah, it's kind of ready or not get outish, but
it's done by the creative team behind Stranger Things some
of them.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Yeah, some of them, so not all of them. Yeah,
I love that. I read the logline for this. It
talks about how it's a couple whose wedding is derailed
by something very bad, and like, well, I mean in
the title there's like that. The trailer looks very atmospheric
and like the trailer's cut in a fast paced way.

(49:09):
I have no idea if that's what the actual series
is going to feel like, but it comes out March
twenty sixth, So you can watch the first episode of
Bait on the twenty fifth, and then something very bad
is going to happen on the twenty sixth.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yeah, the next trailer is for Big Mistakes, which is
by the Shit's Creek Team. It's about a brother and
a sister who get caught up in crimes.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah, Dan Lee Levy and Taylor or Tega play the siblings.
By the way, did this at all make you think
of Sunny Nights, which was the that's the Will Forte
Darcy Cardon series that whether it's the brother sister who
get caught up in crime in Australia.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
It didn't. But now that you've said it, I can
totally see it.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Yeah, I'm just like, Okay, it's two different series about
sibling who have a rough relationship with each other, both
getting caught up in organized crime. And I'm like, is
this just one of those weird things where you get
deep impact in Armageddon at the same time?

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Maybe maybe or or The Illusionist and the oh, the Prestige,
the Prestige, I would say, the Magician, that's not right.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, the Prestige, it's the Turn And so yeah, Levy
plays a priest in this who's an unconventional priest, I
would say, And I mean it looks funny, it looks compelling,
but yeah, the fact that it's another show about siblings

(50:44):
getting caught up in organized crime just struck me as funny.
This one comes to Netflix on April ninth. Next up,
we got a trailer for Everyone Is Lying to You
for Money. This is a film slash kind of documentary
about cryptocurrency and how, within the opinion of the filmmaker,

(51:04):
cryptocurrency is mostly smoke and mirrors that's perpetuated like a
giant pyramid scheme where early adopters and influencers get rich
at the expense of everybody else. And all I can
say is personally, I agree with that, Like, I feel
like that's pretty accurate in many cases, maybe not all,

(51:24):
but enough for it to be relevant. What I think
is interesting is this film was made by Ben McKenzie. Now,
if that name doesn't sound familiar to you, if you
watched the show Gotham, he played Commissioner Gordon, So he's
actually the guy who's making this He's not just appearing
in it. He's making this movie. He's a cryptoskeptic. He

(51:46):
also wrote a book, and this movie's partly based off
that book. The book is titled Easy Money, Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism,
and the Golden Age of Fraud. So a celebrity who
was one of the few who did not end up
endorsing some sort of cryptocurrency. So I just thought that
was interesting. It comes out April seventeenth, so it does

(52:06):
have a geek connection, both in the form of cryptocurrency,
which I think is pretty geeky, and it was made
by a guy who was the central character in a
geek series. But that's not the only documentary we have
on our list this week. We also have another one.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
It's called It's Dorothy, about the Wizard of Oz and
the cultural phenomena of getting to play Dorothy Gale in
The Wizard of Oz, told from the perspective of a
bunch of different actors from a bunch of different backgrounds
who have all gotten to play her in kind of
like the cultural aspect, the social aspect, the as racism

(52:47):
aspect that some of them have encountered.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Yeah, the personal impact on their own lives. Yeah, there's
one version of Wizard of Oz that I despise and
is not the fault of the actor playing Dorothy. But boy, howdy,
are you sure.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
It's not because you also haven't liked that actor in
the past.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I'm talking about the Muppets.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Oh, I thought you were talking about ten Man.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
No, I'm talking, well, okay, did they Is Zoe in
this one too? Is Zoe in this documentary? No? In
the documentary, I didn't see her name listed. So that's
why I wasn't worried about that, like, because I don't
think they're gonna talk about ten Man much. I do
hate that very much. And Zoe Deschanel played Dorothy or

(53:34):
I think DG is what they called her in the
mini series. But I do hate that mini series because
I felt like it was a total missed opportunity. But no,
I was talking about the Muppets version of Wizard of
Oz because that was in like a low point in
my opinion for Muppets output. That and Muppets from Space
were like two projects that just to me were total misses.

(53:57):
I also admit, like I am a classic Muppets kind
of guy, and so that's probably part of what informs that.
But uh, again, I don't want to blame the actor
who played Dorothy in that. It's just not a good move.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Yeah, it's it's not one of the stronger Muppet movies.
It's I didn't hate Muppets from Space, but I did
see it with a bunch of kids, so their enjoyment
colored my experience because I took my summer camp to
see it when I was teaching to hear. But also
I watched the recent like It's a Wonderful Life Muppet

(54:37):
Christmas movie, and that was so weird. Everything seems good comparatively.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Yeah, yeah, like the high heights of Muppets are amazing.
The low lows of Muppets are also amazing, but not
in a good way.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
No, no, but it does look like an interesting and
interesting documentary.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Yeah, comes out June seventh.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Yeah, and last, I added this very last minute because
we have talked about it before. I just need to
say one thing. We got another trailer from Malcolm in
the Middle. Life is still unfair. It looks funny, but
I am amazed how much the new Dewey actor looks
like the old Dewey actor. Like I had to go
on a deep dive to determine if it was in

(55:24):
fact the same person.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
I get that, Like, when I saw it, I was like, oh,
this guy. I mean, because it was one of those
where I started questioning it where I was like, maybe
I'm thinking of a different project where when the actress
wasn't middle or something. Yeah, that would have been the
one that I would have guessed, because, like I was
glad to see a lot more of Brian Cranston in
this one.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
A lot more.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Yeah, now you see a lot more of Brian Kranston.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Like in the original series he was kind of noted
for walking around in his tidy whiteies. This was Yeah,
I guess they had bit the bull because they weren't there.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yeah, no, there's I mean, it's some gross out humor too.
If you if you have issues with Harry Dude's getting deherrified, Yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
You don't see anything untoward.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
No, but it's like it's so it's not just implied.
I mean it's overt. It's just that you can't see.
It's like it makes me think of like the Austin
Powers movies where they would have the series of jokes
where something is just conveniently blocking what would be nudity.
It's like that.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Yeah, but it does give you a good reason to
be like, oh, I see why Malcolm doesn't want anybody
to know about his family. I get it.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Yeah, but then his girlfriend is like so deeply upset
that he has not told her that he had brothers.
Like that's a great moment. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like
it's going to be a fun revisiting of that series
and like being very true to the spirit of the

(57:03):
original series, which is cool.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Yeah, there's a few things coming out on Hulu that
I'm super excited for.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
So yeah, yeah, all right, well you know what time
it is. It's time for us to turn down this
dark and dusty hallway to go to John Boy's horror Hutch,
which I'm told this time is filled with spider man.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Oh well, I can deal with that.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Okay, yeah, because they're all man sized spiders.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
All right, No, no, as long, No.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
That's I don't know what else you I don't know
what else you were thinking.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
I mean, like Andrew Garfield, and.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
One of them is named Andrew Garfield, like a person
in Oh no, he's not a person. No, I mean.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Hopefully has left all of their web shooting outside, because
you still don't want to walk through their webs either.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Last time I saw him, he was eating chicken with
all eight arms and on a date with this very
charming comedian from England. But anyway, all right, here we
go into john Boys horror Hutch, and first up, first
of all I have to ask Ariel, did you watch
any of these trailers? I tried, Yeah, these are these
are a lot. Okay.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
So the first one I made it halfway through and
then I was like, I gotta step away.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Okay. So the first one is for a movie called
Broken Bird, which is actually based off a short horror
film it's like thirteen minutes long titled Sibyl, came out
a few years It's actually available on YouTube. But be
warned if if you seek out the short horror film
sybyl on YouTube in case this sort of thing squeaks

(58:41):
you out or it's just a thing that you don't
want to. There is full frontal nudity in that in
that horror short, and it's a it's a dead dude,
so just let you know. But it follows this character
named Sybil who as a child lost her family in

(59:03):
a car accident. She was the only survivor in a
car accident. As an adult, she works in a mortuary
and finds that she is able to connect better with
people after they have passed than living people. But it
goes further than that, as she develops kind of a
fixation upon the corpse of a young man she kind

(59:27):
of becomes enamored of this dead guy, so kind of
has like a necrophilia thread running through it, which I
find dead boring.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
I just I find it squiky.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Yeah, I figure that this would be bordering on the
cannibalism thing for you, bordering.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
On cannibalism, but also like it's there's no consent there.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Yeah, it's true. Yeah, so guy's dead tired.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Because she wants to start a family with him.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Yeah. I it it's, you know, a psychological horror film
where it's she is, she is not mentally well. It
has a kind of art house sort of appearance to it,
like very independent horror film kind of look to it,
but high budget, like not not like Scrabbling or anything.

(01:00:20):
Comes out April twenty fourth. I don't know that. I
mean it looks interesting. Maybe i'll see it. I did
watch the short horror film, so maybe I'll watch this too,
because the short horror film is I mean, it gets
its point across, but it's but it's short. It's thirteen minutes,
and I'm curious what this full length feature does and
how much of a departure it is from the material

(01:00:44):
that was the the you know, the core of the idea.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
It sounds like you have more hope for it than
you did for Night Swim, So that's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Yes, yes, this is well. It's also like it's also
a short horror film that I feel is way more
disturbing the Night Swim was. Next up, we got a
full trailer for Obsession, which we talked about the teaser
a while back, where it was a guy sitting in
his car on the phone with tech support for this

(01:01:13):
wish making novelty he had purchased. So this is the
story of a guy who is shy. He's developed a
very strong crush on a young woman, but he cannot
muster up the courage to just talk to her and
to see if maybe there's a way of like seeing
asking her out, like he just doesn't have the guts

(01:01:39):
to do it. So he ends up buying this little
novelty wish thing that turns out it actually works, and
he makes a wish that she loves him more than
anyone else on the planet. And yeah, which is why
it's called obsession, right, Like, at first, it seems like
it's the perfect world, like this young woman now loves
him wholehearted, but it starts to come out in psychotic ways,

(01:02:04):
so the unintended consequences. You know, to be careful what
you wish for a story. It looks like it's really
well made and really dark, and I am here for it.
It comes out May fifteenth. It's my kind of movie.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
It does feel a little cheekier. I think of the
horror trailers this week, that is the one that shows
the most promise to me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
It definitely has elements of humor to it, whereas the
other ones don't. Really. Yeah, so this is my kind
of horror movie, but the next one is really my
kind of hardes movie.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Say this next one's gonna be your faves and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Very much not Ariels, not anyone. Maybe I can get
friend of the show shay Lee to go see it
with me. Actually I did tell her. We went on
a walk with my dog earlier this week, and I
was like, promise me that you won't go see Hokum
without me because I need someone to see it. So
we are talking Hocum. We talk about a teaser trailer

(01:03:01):
about this earlier. This is the movie in which Adam
Scott plays a man who travels to Ireland in order
to scatter his parents' ashes. His parents always wanted to
visit Ireland that they passed away. He's going to scatter
their ashes there, and he books a room in a
place that very well may be haunted. Also, the people

(01:03:22):
are really weird, in that classic horror way where you
go to a small town and everyone seems a bit
off and suspicious. It's got lots of scary and creepy
imagery in it. I held out hope that this movie
is going to have a lot of Irish folklore elements
to it, but I'm starting to get the feeling that

(01:03:43):
if there is any, it's going to be a light dusting,
which is kind of disappointing to me. Maybe I'm wrong,
Maybe there's way deeper Irish folklore elements woven into this
than I suspect.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
I mean, it is called Hocum, so it might just
be a giant con.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Yeah, it could be very well could be. That would
be The M also kind of makes it look like
it's I mean, you know m's and upside w's are
the same thing, but it looks like it might be
an upside W on purpose, like it could be like
to stand for a vivich or something. But I don't
know if there's gonna be that much Irish folklore in it,

(01:04:22):
but I kind of hope there is. It comes out
May first what maybe it is a giant con but
this trailer.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Sold me are Puka's Irish folklore.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Okay, that's why I was thinking that it's a possibility,
because there is a rabbit headed.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Visions terrifying. Yeah, it's it's worse than Donnie Darko. It's terrifying.
It should be, but it is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I'm I am on board. It looks atmospheric, af and
that is my That really is my kind of horror movie.
And then finally not my kind of horror movie, and
we're just gonna take a moment to talk about it
is thrash, which I think that the name of this
film changed like twice before it got to the stage.

(01:05:05):
But basic plot is a hurricane hits a coastal city,
the city gets flooded, sharks starts swimming through the streets.
The protagonist is a young woman who's pregnant and she's
determined to keep her unborn baby safe. And also I
think maybe goes from unborn to being born. If the
trailer is anything to rely upon, that happens in the

(01:05:26):
course of the film, and it looks kind of like
Shark Nato, but without the Nato. You know, this seems
to be based upon a bunch like after every massive
storm that hits a coastal city, you tend to see
these images of what appeared to be sharks swimming through
the streets. But in every case besides one, it's been

(01:05:49):
proven to just be photoshopped hoaxes. And in that one
other case, it was never positively identified to be a shark.
It could have been a large fish, but there was
a fish that had been swinging around someone's backyard. So
you know, it's interesting that it's taking this idea that
has never been proven actually happened and turned that into

(01:06:13):
an animal attack. Movie comes out on Netflix on April tenth.
I will probably not watch it because I had to
watch Shark Nato and I'm still recovering from that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
This feels closer to like meth Gator is what it's.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Called, which I guess was was like Cocaine Bear that
was coming.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
In before and a little more serious. Meth Gator wasn't
funny at all. It was just about flooding that happened
in all the Gator in Louisiana, and all the gators
came and attacked and got on meth I am interested.
I'm not interested in watching thrash, but I am fascinated
that they got a couple of big name actors. Phoebe Denver,

(01:06:52):
who was the star of the first season of Bridgerden
and then I think you pronounce his name, Jaimen Hansu,
who has done all kinds of stuff including like Guardians
of the Galaxy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Are both yeah, yeah, I and hey, if this is
your thing, embrace it. It's just not my thing. I
watched this trailer and I was like, Okay, it's like
a serious Shark Nado. It's like it's not done. It
doesn't look like it's a movie made by committee the
way Shark Nato clearly was. Yeah, but that doesn't mean

(01:07:28):
that it that it appeals to me. It just means
I don't resent it the way I resent Shark Nado.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Yeah for sure. Well I don't want to resent any
of your lovely spider tenants. So I think maybe I
need to leave your.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Okay, Yeah, well you can. Hey, hey, Andrew, can you
get the door for us? Thanks, Bud? Okay, all right,
well now we're out. Well we can talk about the
stuff that's just on our lineup.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Yes, And the first thing we've got is a trailer
for a I honestly don't remember if it's a movie
or a series, because I'm very bad at that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
It's a movie. It's a movie that's an adaptation of
a book, which is what if.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
A Nola Holmes was too grown up for you?

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Yeah, like I wanted to enjoy a Nola Holmes, but
I was really hoping that Nola would be like ten ten.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Yeah. It's called Flavia, and it's about a girl whose
dad gets whose dad is Martin Freeman played by Sorry
played by Martin Freeman, and guess framed for murder, and
then she gets to solve it, which is something she's
keen to do.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Yeah. She's a precocious young lady who loves chemistry and
mood or more precisely, solving murder. She's a child detective.
And other people who are in this besides Martin Freeman
are Jonathan Price and Toby Jones, and I love all
three of those actors.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
Yeah, it looks cute.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Yeah. The book series is by an author named Alan Bradley.
Uh and it comes to Sky Cinema and now in
the UK on April fourth. Not sure when we in
the US will get our dirt, dirty, little grubby hands
on it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
I hope, I hope we will get a chance to.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Yeah, it looks it looks like a cute family film,
Like it's the kind of family film that comes out
of a place like the UK because it's centered around
the premise of solving a murder, something that family films
in America typically would avoid. Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
Yeah, The next trailer we got is for a film
called right Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Yeah. Also also an adaptation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah. And it is about uh, I think she's a
janitor at an.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Aquarium, Yeah, a grieving widow too.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Yeah, whose son has gone missing, like for a long time,
and the giant Pacific octopus that helps her solve that mystery,
named Marcellus, Marcellus, not Marcella Shell.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
No, not to Marcellus. Yeah. And it's the gag in
the trailer is it's Marcellus thinking that some human beings
can be remarkably bright creatures, not that the octopus is
a remarkably bright creature, but that that most humans are dumb,
but a few are remarkably bright. This is based off

(01:10:31):
of Shelby Van Pelt's novel comes out on Netflix on
May eighth. The trailer is really more of a teaser,
but it is cute.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
It also stars Sally Field in Colmini.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Yes, yeah, Sally Field plays plays Tova, the main character
or the main the human main character.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Yeah, just just a whole bunch of of good actors.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Who is it that's the voice of Marcellus. I remember
it's an actor of renown, and I don't remember who
it is.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
I don't it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
I remember looking it up and I forgot to write
it down.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
I don't remember, because like Cole Meeni is in it,
Lewis Pullman's in it, Dan Payne is in it, but
none of them are credited as Marcellus.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Oh, Alfred Molina. Oh yeah, so an actor of some renown.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Yes, I mean those other ones I mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Are two, Yes, they are. I was just saying specifically.
The actor was as Marcella's is someone I had heard of.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
But I mean it looks cute. I know. I tend
to stay away from animal movies and OCTOPI this is
an elderly octopus. By the way, they don't live very long,
so it does make me worried that he's going to
die before he can see the resolution. I don't know,
I've not read the book.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
I just I fear Yeah, because their life spent tends
to be like two to three years something like that,
and they are remarkably bright creatures. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
I always think this one has lived far longer than that,
so it's not entirely based in reality.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yeah, but I love the videos of people who like
divers who have encounters with an octopus and then on
subsequent dives, the same octopus will come up to them
again and again. I'm just like, that's just cute. I
don't know what's actually going on here. It may not
be as benign as it appears, but our perception is

(01:12:28):
that there's a bond forming I have all.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
I mean, they're incredibly bright creatures. There's tons of like
if you were going to say that there was an
alien living on Earth that those in dolphins.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Right, there's a reason that Cthulhu looks the way Cthulhu does. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Yeah, but I have a lot of friends who like,
won't eat They'll eat klamary because it's good, they won't
eat octopus because they're too smart.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Yeah, I won't eat octopus because I'm like, I might die.
But also I think I've only ever had it once
and that was before or my allergy had developed it,
before it had evolved into its final form.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Yeah, it would be like you getting Caught in that
Town and the TV show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
From Yeah, that's about all I know about from is
that it's a series. That's the premise is that there's
this mysterious town and once you go into it, you
can't get out, Like if you try to leave, you
find yourself looped back to where you start from. And
also at night, dangers emerge from the woods and will

(01:13:31):
kill you if they catch you out. That's all I
know about this series, but it's coming up for season four.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
That's a lot of the series. I watch season one
because it was free or I watched like the first
four episodes of season one. It is very good. I
think you would very much enjoy it. I didn't continue
watching it because it was on Stars and I didn't
have a way to watch that at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Yeah, and well now it's on MGM Plus, which it's
one of the many services I don't subscribe to. But
I agree with you, like based on the trailer and
the premise. It is incredibly intriguing to me. It's just
frustrating that I don't subscribe to that service. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
And so it stars Michael from Lost, and it's also
done by some of the creative team behind Lost. The
first The first at least the first half of the
first season deals with like people accidentally wander into this
town and then they can't get out. It's there's not
like really warning signs because there's something supernatural going on.

(01:14:26):
The creatures that come out at night. This is it's
not a spoiler because one season four and it's it's
very really revealed very early on. They take the form
of people that you know to try to lure you out,
and the town has a curfew on it because you know,
like if you aren't home and you leave your kids

(01:14:47):
in a house that's unlocked, it's likely they're going to
be got. The murders are gruesome. It's not so gory
that I can't handle it, but they are. It's not
it's not like somebody secks your soul and you die
peacefully in your sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Right, It's it's gotcha. Yeah, there's violence.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
There's violence, there's creepy, there's intrigue, and then there's also
the like it's one of those shows that makes you
talk because like it starts with a family getting stuck
in this town and trying to get out, and now
they have to be placed, and like obviously, even though
everybody in this town is stuck in a similar situation,

(01:15:23):
whether they want to be or not, Like, there's politics
going on, so how do you keep the peace? And
then there's a dad who like is really struggling with
everything and gets drunk and missus curfew and because he's
not home, his wife and his kid die and then
they he can't leave town. They can't throw him out

(01:15:46):
of town and he's a danger, So what do you do? Right,
and a whole bunch of like moral quandary.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Yeah, like a like a little mini society has to form,
and then they have to figure out what their rules are.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Yeah, but I mean it's harder because like you could say,
you're a danger to this town and we've asked you
to clean up your act. You need to leave, but
they can't. So in jail forever, do you I won't
spoil what they do in case you do watch.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
It, do you lash them to a tree and let
whatever comes out? At night get him or yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
I mean he was the cause for two people to die,
one of them being a kid. It's very interesting. I
think it's very well done. We definitely had interest in it,
and I might eventually, when I decided to switch over
streaming services watch it again because I do very much
like it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
I figure I'll just wait around long enough for all
media companies to eventually be one media company, and then
it'll be on whatever streaming service is available. I say
that only partially facetiously. I mean I would totally check
this out if I had him GM plus, I just don't,
and if I ever decide, I'll probably make it like
an add on to an existing because I think it's

(01:16:57):
one of those where you can add it on to
Amazon if you wanted to. I do that. I think
the only thing I used to do that was Shutter,
but I finally stopped because I just hadn't watched a
horror movie in so long. Uh. I do that with
a Broadway and British shows. I have those as add
ons to my Amazon. But it's one of those again

(01:17:19):
where you're like, how many of these am I going
to add on? Until I'm like, I can't financially justify
having this many streaming services.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Right now, I have Peacock because we got it for
Super we got sorry, the Big Game, the Big Game,
not not not the basketball game that we also can't say.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Yes, okay, Jonathan, future Jonathan, Now you have to beep
her twice.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Yes, I'm sorry, but we kept it for Ponies and
the Burbs. But like we are, we are bouncing around
more so we've got to get Hulu.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
And have you watched The Burbs yet?

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Okay, well I think Ponies first. I think you're gonna
dig it. Well, I really like the first episode. I'll
be curious to hear what you think. If you don't
like it, you don't like it, that's fine. But like
I'm like excited by what I saw.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
But an Apple is an add on on Amazon for me,
because that's just how we got it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
I have that as a standalone.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
But yeah, I don't have any Apple products.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
So neither do I. But I want ahead and do
it anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
But I love their TV. I really like their TV.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
The things that I've watched as far, I've very much enjoyed.
They make good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
Yeah, but I want to get but I'm two things
I want to get National Theater because the things that
I want to watch there I can't figure out how
to rent individually. Because I want to watch the The
Sleeping Beauty Opera next. I think it's called Text and

(01:18:51):
then from is a series that I liked enough that
I might just buy that series.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Next, that's gonna be the one that's like a high
Hello High yes song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that
song so much. I saw a very critical review about
that musical, but that doesn't necessarily mean you wouldn't enjoy it.
It just means the person Mickey Joe Theater did not
like it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Well, I will look up his review to help inform
on whether I should go down that route. I mean,
National Theater does a lot of stuff that I find
interesting in clips at least.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Yeah. Well, there's a whole nepotism angle to it too
that you'll need to like. Maybe they wouldn't have done
that show if it weren't for the fact of who
was running the theater at the time kind of thing. Okay, cool,
but still it's still interesting to look into. You should
do a deep dive in Mickey Joe Theater anyway, because
he's entertaining I'll.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
Give myself some full disclosure before I dive in.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Yeah, it's also good to it's good to be informed
before you make another streaming purchase. Right But Yeah, from
Season four comes out April nineteenth on MGM Plus. And
now we'll talk briefly about we got another full trailer
for Disclosure Day. The only reason I included this, because
we have talked about Disclosure Day a couple times before,

(01:20:10):
is that I feel like this trailer finally gave us
the basic premise for the film, which is that you
have this man who comes into possession of information that
shows the US government is aware of the existence of aliens,
and he decides that this information needs to be disseminated

(01:20:33):
around the world, whereas the US government and the aliens disagree.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Yeah, that's about it. It still looks interesting to me.
I'm still looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Yeah, I like this trailer the most out of the
three that we've seen, Like one was a teaser and
then we had a different full trailer. But this one
I felt sold me better on the film than the
other two did.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
It gives you a little more idea, but it still
doesn't tell you, like you can't piece it together.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Yeah, I don't want any more than what I've got.
I'm just saying like, this is the one that made
me feel like, Okay, I do want to make sure
I check this out. And it feels like a spectacle
movie in some regards, so I feel like seeing it
on the big screen would be better than watching it
at home. It comes out June twelfth.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Yeah, Okay. Now we get two trailers that gave me
very much like Charlton hestoncore.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Yeah, the historical epic saga type films, right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
So like Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Her kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Yeah, Yeah, totally. First one is a movie called Desert Warrior.
This movie, by the way, they've finished shooting this movie
in twenty twenty two. Yeah, had a very very long
post production process, and then it took a while to
get a distributor, and it's all start.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Coming out at a very interesting time for the story.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Yeah. It stars Anthony Mackie as a warrior slash kind
of bandit kind of character named Hanzala, and the premise
is it's taking place in seventh century Arabia and an
emperor has taken notice of a princess and decides he

(01:22:17):
wants that princess to be his concubine, which would be
all prickly. No way, that's porcupine. Yeah, that's a that's
a Blackadder joke, a prickly pair. I stole it from Blackadder. Okay,
so don't don't at me. I know I stole that
joke anyway. Anyway, this emperor wants this princess. The princess

(01:22:38):
objects to the concept of being a concubine, and Anthony
Mackie's character comes to her, aid, looks like there's a
lot of epic fight sequences and like battle sequences and stuff.
Comes out April twenty fourth, What did you did you
like this trailer at all? Or did you leave you cold?

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
I did like it, Like I said, it gave me
very ben like Ben her Lawrence of Arabia kind of
feels say that I've only watched bits of Lawrence of Arabia.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
But it is it's a you gotta dedicate a lot
of time.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Yeah, and and I do like that. It's it's interesting
that we're kind of going back to that. I mean,
we've always had some historical dramas and action movies, but no,
I did. I did like it. It is interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Yeah, and it doves dovetails pretty nicely with the next
one on our list, right, Like, it's two movies that
feel like they are tonally and somewhat thematically linked.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
Yeah, I would probably watch both Desert Warrior and Rise
of the Conqueror. Not conan, but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
So Rise of the Conqueror is the other film that
we wanted to chat about. Another epic historical saga based
on history, actual history based off the life of Amir
Timur also known as Tamilin, who became an emperor had
an entire empire named after him in the fourteenth century.

(01:24:15):
Timor was of Turkish and Mongol heritage, and he considered
himself to be the appropriate successor to ginghis Khan. Khan,
of course, was emperor in late twelfth early thirteenth century,
so this is happening several centuries after the story in

(01:24:37):
Desert Warrior, but also has like big epic battle sequences
and Timor Not to give any spoilers, but historically one
of his great achievements was that he never lost a conflict. Ever,
he was known as a brilliant military strategist. However, his

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empire also collapsed essentially after his death. He didn't have
a successor who could keep it together the way he did.
But yeah, this is a story about his rise to power.
Comes out on April fourteenth on all digital platforms, So
historically the events happen after what we see in Desert Warrior,

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but by release date, it comes out a week and
a half ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Yeah. I think I'll probably check out both of these
at some point if I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
That's so important. The trailers look, I mean, especially if
you are into that kind of epic storytelling. These both
look like they are well made movies.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
Yeah they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
They feature, Yeah, and they feature. They feature stories about
people that, at least in Western cultures, we don't see
represented that frequently.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
So yeah, very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Did you watch the trailer for the last.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
Thing I did? Pizza movie? I started watching it and
I was like, why did you put? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
It gets real weird. So it stars getting Mattazaro. It's
just butchered his name, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Known from Stranger Things.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Yeah he's Dustin.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
It's awesome. Who did he play? Oh he was in
a production of Sweeney Todd as well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
Yeah, he's and I think Limz and a bunch of
other stuff. He's done a lot of Broadway and Sean Giambroni,
I'm not as familiar with him. As college roommates who
take a they're called mints, but they're a drug of
some sort. Yeah, and they have a wild, trippy adventure

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and then they learned that the only way to avoid
that is to get pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
And then they go on like you're supposed to You're
supposed to eat pizza if you take the men's otherwise
you will have a terrible trip according to a video.
So they had only watched the beginning of the video
apparently before they ate their mints.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
And so then they have to go on this wild
like dude, where's my car? Harold and Kumar go to
White Castle level adventure.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Yeah, which apparently is being delivered to their dorm. So
literally all they have to do is walk down two
flights of stairs. But because of the crazy experiences they're having,
that might as well be in Mordor.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
Yeah. It also has Sarah Sherman in it and then freakin'.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Daniel Radcliffe as the butterfly. Butterfly, we don't even know
if Daniel Radcliffe has lines. We don't know if the
Butterfly actually speaks, which, by the way, totally totally in
line with Daniel Radcliff's choices, and I am here for it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Yeah, I'm not normally one for Stone. I mean I've
said this on the show before, for Stone humor. This
looks goofy and kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Yeah, it's I Also, I also tend to never even
bother watching. There's so many movies that, like we're part
of the zeitgeist that I just never saw because I
didn't have any interest in it. I'm not a stoner
movie kind of guy, so like I've never seen Dazed
and Confused or Pineapple Express or any of those movies
like this just doesn't interest me. This one, though, looks

(01:28:28):
so bunkers that that it caught my attention. Comes out
April third on Hulu, so I will be able to
watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna seek it out,
but definitely if it runs across my feed, I'll be like, oh, yeah,
let's give that a shot.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
I think I've got to watch it. It just looks
so crazy, like I at least like that they're taking
a big shot, a big swing, right, Like whether or
not the movie works, I can't say, but the sway
is impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
Yeah. Yeah, and I encourage, you know, big swings because
that's how you get new fun stuff as opposed to
remakes and sequels.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Yeah, remakes, reboots, new adaptations like this is. Yeah. I mean,
if you are someone who wants more original material out there,
then you you definitely hope for big swings and hopefully
those swings work. Like I get it, like I don't
want to support half assed entertainment, even if it is
like a totally original idea. I want it to be

(01:29:33):
an original idea, but I also wanted to be entertaining
and good, and hopefully this falls into that category.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Yeah. I mean, I think we've been seeing more trailers
for smaller, more original stuff, so I hope that trend continues.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
I mean yeah, like be good, have fun, don't die
like good luck, good luck, have fun, don't die like that.
I always mess up that title, like who would have
predicted that, you know, three or four years ago and
it got made.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
The only thing I just like about that movie is
I used to say good luck, have fun, don't die
as like a farewell nothing to do with the rise
of virtual reality or AI, And now I feel like,
I can't say it without being a part of the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
That's fair. I don't, but I don't think that many
people saw the movie, so you're still okay.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
That's sad. It's a very fun movie. I highly recommend it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
I still want to see it. I just haven't. Yeah,
found the time.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
Highly recommend. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
I need to have that time travel device that Sam
Rockwell has so that I can go back in time
and watch the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
I mean, I don't. I don't think you want to
live in the world that he is in to have
that time travel device.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
I got some bad news for you, Ariel. We're already theresh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
Well on that very depressing note. Oh yeah, it's not all.
It's it's very interesting. That is the end of our lineup. Wow,
I need to go have some introspection about my week now.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
I need to have lunch.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
I also need to do that. So, Jonathan, if folks
want to reach out to us, how do they do that?

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Well, what you're going to have to do is you're
going to have to take on all the tech bros
And all the AI companies out there, and you need
to take them down because, like if science fiction has
taught us nothing. It has taught us over and over
and over again. Then over reliance upon technology in general

(01:31:39):
and AI in particular leads to our downfall. No matter
what the intent was of the creators, and I got
news for you, The intent of the creators for this
generation of AI is to make as much money as
fast as possible. It is not better mankind. So take
it down. Once you do that, then I'll make time
for you and we'll have a chat.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
If you already are stuck in a time loop trying
to do that and failing, you can reach out to
us another means on social media. We are Large Neurdron Collider.
That's on Facebook and Instagram and threads. That's also our
discord handle. You can find all of our show notes
at large neurdron collider dot com. You can also write
to us at our email Large Neurdrounpod at gmail dot com.

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We love hearing from you. Thanks to our friends who
have recently reached out and given us a show and
movie recommendations and thoughts on things that they've seen or watched,
or whether they think that the media properties we talked
about this week week are a clap or a trap.
We love hearing from you and having you be a
part of our geeky family. Tell your friends so we

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can have more geeks to geek out with. And until
next time. I am Aeriel, I don't have anything this
week casting.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
And I am Jonathan. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Strickland 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 dot

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