January 3, 2026 • 30 mins
Ariel and Jonathan wanted to announce that there was no show this week, so they spend 30 minutes not doing a show. Even our no-show announcements ramble!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large Ner Junk Collider podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky news happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about it. I'm Ariel cast and with me is always
is the brilliant Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Happy New Year, half beebirs date yep, just Frosty this
new man. So, Ariel, how long is today's episode going
to be?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Very very short? Yes, I say that we might end
up talking for four hours, but.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, but it would just literally be us chatting because
we both did some digging during the week between Christmas
and New Year's Day. It turns out that Hollywood's pretty
quiet at that time. There was really not that much
more to bring up. I had like a horror movie trailer. Uh,
there's like a movie called Apex that looks like yet
(01:03):
another take on the most dangerous game, you know, hunting
humans kind of thing, but not a whole lot. There's
like the Avengers doomsday stuff, but that's been leaking like crazy,
right with the Captain America and Thor and next I
think is x Men.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So there was a bridget a bridger O Lord Almighty,
there was a Bridgerton trailer and a wonder Man trailer
and a Moumpet Show trailer, but not much.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, the Bridgerton trailer, by the way, In case you're
wondering what this this season storyline is, it's Cinderella. Yeah,
it's just Cinderella like literally instead of a instead of
a slipper, it's a glove. But it is Cinderella. Yeah.
So we we didn't really put together a show because
there just wasn't enough to stitch together. But we did
(01:51):
want to say happy New Year to all of you
and to say that we will be back next week
with an actual show. Uh, just for have you seen
anything cool since the last time we recorded?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This has been my RESTful holiday. So I have watched
so much. I am caught up on Fallout.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm an episode behind, so I need to watch episode three.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, I've finished season one of Pluribis.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So did I great? Loved it? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I love the direction the last couple of episodes took
and the journey they took us on as viewers because
it made us question what was okay, what wasn't? Who
was okay who wasn't? And I thought it was all
handled incredibly. Well, it's one of those shows that make
you think and talk.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, I also I love that it's interesting to me.
Not to give too much away, but we now have
two protagonists, neither of whom are particularly likable, but you
understand where they're coming from.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The second can protagony. Yes, that's the thing. The second protagonist,
I couldn't tell. There were moments I hated him. At
moments I'm like, well that was really decent.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So yeah, yeah, it's interesting, like just like just like Carol,
he has his own he has his own voibles and quirks. Yeah. Also,
you learned that he can fit handily into the trunk
of a car.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You know, Hollywood puts a lot of people in car trunks.
It is hard for me to do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I've been I've been in one before because you know,
scamming drive in theater used to be a thing.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So yeah, I've watched all of Task Master New Zealand
that is available to watch. There's technically a sixth season,
but that's not on YouTube, so I couldn't watch it.
I tried real hard to find it, and I've started
Task Master Australia. Australia. That was so bad I watched
a Bit Christmas for the first time this year. That
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was really cute, like a kinder Christmas story.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, that's the one with Neil Patrick Harris where he's
talking to his daughter about when he was a kid
and he really wanted a Nintendo for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh, I remember, I remember vaguely seeing the trailer for that.
I think we even talked about it years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, I mean it was just cute. The kid actors
were really good, the adults were great. You know, is
an amazing movie. No, but it was a delightful movie
For Christmas Day, I watched both seasons of Smiga Dune
and I started the first episode of Death by Lightning,
which is that one about Charles Gatto.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, and Garfield James Garfield. Yeah, not the cat the President. Yeah. Wow,
you watched way more than I did. I watched, Like
I said, blur of Us, I'm an episode behind on Fallout.
I did get my wife hooked on Superstore.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh good.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So we watched season one on New Year's Eve. We
watched because there's only eleven episodes, but still, like that's
a lot, right, But we started watching at around six
or seven pm, so we were able to watch it
all the way up to the point where you know
the ball drops or whatever. Here in Georgia it used
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to be the peach drop, but they got rid of
it this year. And then we wished each other happy
to Year, and then went to bed, and then we
since we both had the day off yesterday, we're recording
this on the second of January. We watched all of
season two. We binged a twenty two episode season in
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one day.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Episodes like ten minutes, right, so.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Half an hour. But still she likes it, but finds
it the cringe humor hard to endure. And it's not
like all the humor is cringe, but a lot of
it is. And I told her the character I thought
was the cringiest, and I had forgotten in the first
season there are other characters who are far more cringy.
(06:03):
So she thought it was crazy. But then in season two,
my pick really stepped up to the plate, and she's like, Okay,
I see what you were saying. I'm like, yeah, you
gotta remember I was up to season five when we
started back on this, so but uh, but yeah, anyway,
that's not very geeky, but it is. I enjoy it
because Mark McKinney, isn't it And he was a member
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of Kids in the Hall and I was a huge
Kids in the Hall fan. And occasionally some geeky actors
very occasionally will show up and at Sean Gunn has
a cameo in one episode, like he plays a customer
for one scene in one episode. So, and there's an
Olympics episode that has a bunch of Olympic athletes as
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just little visual cameos, including oh, what's her name? The gymnast?
Do you remember the gymnasts who did the smirk where
she had like her lips all screwed up to one
side of her face, like she's doing this little pose
where she's got you know, this little little if you
do Olympic smirk. Hers is the first picture that comes up.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was not a huge Mikayla Maron fan.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, but you know who I'm talking about. She has
a cameo in it where she's trying on an outfit
and looking at herself in the mirror, and of course
she does the smirk. So cute little moments like that.
There's a bit where Terry Lipenski is walking down the
down the aisle and they have a slippery floor sign
out and she slips and then does a full pirouette
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and then keeps going. Just cute, little little gags like
that that I thought were cute. Anyway, that's really all
I've seen, Like I haven't. There's a lot of stuff
that's on my list of things that I want to
check out, but I just haven't yet. So and any
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do you have any New Year's resolutions at all, or
any particular geeky ones.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, just the same stuff that I try to
do every year. Try to make sure that I'm getting
my workouts in, especially since I'm on a GLP one now.
Not necessarily to lose weight, but it does help. And
I need to lose weight because I have a back injury.
But you know, it's important if you're on one of
those to make sure you're getting a lot of protein
and eating healthy and getting all your nutrients and working
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out because it can make you lose muscle mass. And
as a woman that's especially important not to do so
work out more. I am working on mindfulness. So I'm
a notory you know this, Jonathan. I am a notorious overthinker,
and I don't want to do that anymore. So that's
(08:40):
this is my year to break that habit.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, I think if I had any gentle advice for you,
it would be to say no to more things. Ariels
has a tendency to say yes to every opportunity, which
I understand to an extent because you never know which
opportunity is going to be the big one, or maybe
you'll meet somebody that would be really useful for you
to know, or even just you know, making friends and
(09:06):
all that kind of stuff. But it also means that
I worry about Ariel becoming like Bilbo Baggins and being
butter stretched over, spread over too much bread, like spread
yourself too thin.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Listen, I don't know how not to hustle, but yes,
I am working on that, like I want to. So
I love doing so many different things, so many hobbies,
and I want to make sure that I have time
for that and also time to like work on my house.
It's sadly I don't have any super geeky, super geeky resolutions,
but they will all enable me to do more geeky things,
(09:43):
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I get that. Yeah, I don't have a whole
lot of geeky resolutions other than I do want to
try to get to the theater to see more films
this year if I can. I saw a few last year,
and overall, I enjoyed my experiences. I didn't have any
(10:05):
like terrible movie going experiences, like one of those where
you know people are not paying attention or talking through
the whole thing or whatever. I didn't have any of those,
which I'm thankful for. But I also feel like there
were some movies that I could have seen that that
I wanted to see, and I just let come and
go and now I'm just waiting for them to Like
(10:26):
The Long Walk is a great example, though I don't
know who would go to see that with me. I
probably have to go by myself on that one. But yeah,
Shay wouldn't do it either. Becca wouldn't do it either.
So it starts to my list of people that I'm
willing to hang out with starts getting real small once
you knock those names off of it. But yeah, I
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do want to try and get to the theater to
see more movies this year if possible, especially since with
the fate of Warner Brothers Discovery still not fully decided
that could potentially have a huge impact on the theater
industry in general, no matter who gets it, whether it's
(11:07):
Paramount or Netflix, right, So I definitely want to have
that experience when it's warranted. Not every movie I think
merits a trip to the theater, but for the ones
that do, I want to make more of an effort.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, for sure. And I tried to see The Stranger
Things Finale in the movie theater. Originally I was like,
I have to. I know, when we first talked about
it coming out on Thanksgiving than Christmas the New Year's
I was like, well, that's horrible. I hate that because
I'll be busy, but it was really nice to have
something to sit and do that was new. I was
just like, oh, yes, we're going to do that now
(11:44):
after Thanksgiving and after Christmas and on New Year's Eve
while waiting either for New Year's Eve to happen or
you know, needing some downtime after the holidays. So it
actually ended up being very nice to have that available
and new to watch. I try to see it in
the theater on New Year's even everywhere was sold out.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah. And then I was like, well we could see
it New Year's Day because it was in theaters on
New Year's day as well, but we wanted to go
ahead and watch it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So you watched, So you watched the conclusion, yep, well
was okay. Now keep in mind I've only ever seen
season one, But did you feel it was a suitable
conclusion for the series as a whole or did you
have any issues with it?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I know some people had some issues. They didn't really
hit me there. The biggest issue I had and some
other people have had this too, and I don't think
it deterred from the overall enjoyment of the final season
is there are some very emotional moments during very tense,
like time sensitive portions of stuff that was happening that
(12:53):
felt like they took forever to get through. And I'm like,
I know that you're having this emotional heart to heart,
but you're about to die. Yeah, abbreviate it right.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It would be like if the if the brother and
sister in Jurassic Park decided to have a deep like
reconciliation while the Velociraptor is figuring out how to open
the freezer door.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah yeah, and I know that, you know movie magic,
It kind the action kind of pauses so you can
have that heart to heart, but there was a lot
of that. One of the honest trailers for the final
season of Stranger Things was like, everything is exposition and
explaining the plot because it's confusing. I didn't find that
an issue at all, you know, but I felt like
there was enough show and tell. But yeah, there were
(13:40):
just a couple of moments where I'm like, Okay, this
heartfelt has gone on long enough. Let's but you know,
they wanted they wanted everybody to to have their chance.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah. Yeah, And by then you're talking about an ensemble
that's much much larger than what was in season one.
So if you are determined to have every character have
that kind of moment, then clearly that's why the run
time for these episodes is pretty darn long, Like each
one is about the length of a movie, and then
(14:12):
you've got a full season of them. I understand that.
I did find it heartwarming that eleven finally turned twelve.
That's good. I'm glad that happened.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
All of the epilogue stuff was nice. You know, the
characters were really crying, and you know, I got misty
eyed too, and I'm sure that plenty of other people did,
partially because you've just been on this journey with these
characters for so long, and so we were like ten
years for five season. That's so much, And I'm like,
it's really not that long.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
No, I mean you look at things, like, you know,
there are shows out there that would take a year
or longer between season seven, and so I'm looking at you,
and you know, you just realize, like that's kind of
the trade off you get with TV these days, Like
we're getting these these stige shows that are shorter seasons.
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They're longer than a movie, so they can take their
time and tell a story that you really couldn't tell
in a movie. They're shorter than the traditional United States
version of a television season, where you'd have anywhere between
twenty and twenty six episodes in the season, because if
you did do that, if you forced it into that,
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you would have just a huge amount of space that
you'd be treading water rather than developing characters or story
or whatever. And because of the production values, you can't
just churn out season after season, so there's these long
delays between them. In the meantime, you can have all
sorts of different stuff, like I don't know, a pandemic
(15:46):
or union strikes that really impact production. So it's a
different world than the one that we grew up in,
where you just knew, like every September you would get
a new slate of shows and new seasons and they
would last you until early June.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah. Yeah, But there were several moments in the epilogue
where characters were crying because of course they're all finally
able to move on in life, right whichever one survived.
I don't want to ruin that for anybody, but you know,
I was like, I bet those I don't know for certain,
I haven't looked into it, but I bet those are
the last scenes that were filmed, because that's how I
would cry if I knew my ten year project was
(16:30):
ending and I wouldn't get to do it anymore, that
is how I would cry. So I was projecting a bit.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's kind of like when you see the behind the
scenes footage from the Lord of the Rings movies, where
they had been working together for months and months and
months shooting three films all together at the same time,
and like when it finally would get to be a
rap day for a particular cast member, it was always
a huge emotional release.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting cheery about it, but also you know,
it's it's Georgia. It was filmed in Georgia, where you
and I are located, and it's it is lovely to
have projects that are so successful and bring people so
much joy filmed in the state. I mean, as an actor,
I love it because I want there to be more
stuff filmed in the state. You know. And I have
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friends who who were in it. A Renny. I don't
know if you ever knew this or any but there
was a Reny who had a featured extra role in it.
There were a couple of people I've acted with on
stage shows that have been in it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And I knew the the science teacher Randy Haydens. I've
known him for I've known him for years.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He kicked butt in the final season.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh he was still around. So that's the thing is
I have lost touch with Randy, so I didn't. I
was like, gosh, I sure, hope he's still in it.
I don't know if he is.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, he was delightful, so you know it. I have
other friends who auditioned it never got in it. But
you know, there's that always that hope of like next season, right,
they like me season role for me, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Like it's it's always fun to watch projects where if
I pay really close attention, usually it's the background, but
I might see people that I know personally, Like several
of the Marvel shows were like that, or where if
you paid really close attention and looked in the background.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Like there were a couple that were shot on location
at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, which often would would lease
itself out as a shooting location in the off season,
and occasionally I would say, like, oh, there's people I know,
and I know those places I remember. I think it
was low key where I got real. I got real
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personickety because they put shop signs on different shops than
where they normally would be, and I'm like, that's not
where that shop is.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I got real personicity because and I realized that they
weren't at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. But the sensibilities that
I know that happened at a Renaissance festival were not
what they portrayed in that show, and it bothered me.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, to be fair, I think it was supposed to
be a Renaissance festival in like Michigan or something, so
maybe they just do it differently there anyway. Yeah, it's
not really any other resolutions I can think of or
anything that are in the geek sphere. But you know,
we are looking forward to seeing what comes our way
(19:27):
this year. I mean, there's lots of stuff I'm anticipating.
I wish I could say I'm anticipating Avengers doomsday, but
I feel like this whole, like last couple of phases
just haven't really resonated with me in the same way
that the first three did.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So, yeah, we got a trailer for now we're kind
of vaguely talking about our show notes the view we had.
We got a trailer for wonder Man, which directly addresses that,
and yet at the same time, I still have no
idea what the show is.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I haven't I haven't seen that trailer yet because I
knew we weren't going to be doing a full episode,
so I couldn't bother watching all this.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It talks about superhero fatigue and trying to launch a
superhero show during superhero fatigue. That's legitimately the beginning of
the second trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, you know, I'm not convinced that it's really superhero
fatigue though, you know, because I was still excited about
Superman coming out, you know, and I'm still excited about
Supergirl coming out. So it's I think it's more that
I just feel personally for me, that Marvel made some
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major missteps post End Game, and some of those were
unavoidable because of you know, things were happening outside the
film universe, specifically Jonathan Majors, but other things. I just
felt like they were making bad decisions, and they would
make other bad decisions to try and correct for earlier
(20:56):
bad decisions. It just never worked.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah. Yeah, And they had a formula too that they
tended to follow. They'd try to address it up different ways,
but it was always kind of Act one, Act two, decent,
Act three fighted giant cgi monster and.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Win right or or Act three Act three hero faces
off against villain version of the hero, right Yeah, yeah, yeah,
like that was but that was really that's what they
established from Iron Man on, Like every single time, it's like,
all right, and now our hero will face essentially a
bad guy version of what the hero is.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah yeah, and so like I mean, but they've addressed that,
they know that that's an issue, they know that they've
taken the steps, which is why we're getting less stuff
from Marvel right now. I wish they were filming it
in Georgia not the UK, but you know whatever. But like,
I don't know, the thing that has made me least
excited is your fan theory about Doomsday, especially after seeing
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the Thor snippet.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh yeah, stealing all the babies.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Stealing all the babies because Thor is talking about having
a daughter and how that's so important to him. And
I'm like, oh no, John, that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
This is all about this is all about doom making
a super baby super villain.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Group super Baby.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, they're going to conquer the world. Uh yeah. I
I maybe I'm wrong. I mean, I would love to
be wrong. I think it's such a dumb idea that
if if I am right, I'm gonna be like, oh no.
But but anyway, it's uh, I'm looking I'm looking forward
to a lot of other stuff, you know. I think
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we're going to get, you know, some more great work
from Mike Flanagan. So I'm gonna get my horror fix in.
You know, we got carried to look forward to. Uh,
We've got stuff from Zach Craigor who did the weapons,
and it is working on I think it's Resident Evil
that he's working on. It's either Resident Evil or Silent Hill.
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It's one of the two.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Maybe it's Silent There is a Silent Hill movie coming out,
visually stunning.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, that's yeah, I think he's working on Resident Evil, though.
I think he's working on a Resident Evil one if
I'm not mistaken. And I remember seeing the Silent Hill
trailer because there was a lot of cgi that was
a little iffy, but it was an early trailer as well.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, it's you're right, it's Resident Evil.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the Muppet Show. I'm looking
forward to that for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary.
Oh god, I'm old. Yeah, there's stuff like that that
I'm really looking forward to. And obviously we're going to
be surprised throughout the year. There's going to be stuff
that we weren't anticipating that's going to really delight us.
So I'm looking forward to all of that.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, me too, Me too. Something I am doing this
is not geeky, but I'm going to add this because
I find it very helpful this year. This past year
just flew by, and I did a lot of geeky stuff,
and it's hard for me to remember all of it.
So I'm journaling every day.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I did it in twenty twenty four, Like, even if
it's just a voice note in a little app on
my phone, I did it in twenty twenty four, and
I enjoyed every like that day didn't speed by? I
didn't go. Where did the time? That year? Sorry didn't
speed by? I didn't go Where did the time go?
And I remembered a lot more of the things that
I did. So that's something I'm doing. I encourage everybody
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to do it, even if it's just like today, I
had a really good lunch, you know, just something to
make sure that you're being present because you want to
enjoy the good moments.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, certainly. I have found that as I get older
and have medical whipses, my memory is not what it
used to be, So that advice would be I should
take it. I should do the same thing. On a
related note, I think you and I should set aside
a day this coming festival season to visit the Georgia
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Renfair as patrons, not even dressing up necessarily, just like
patrons walk around, see what has what's different, because this
will be the second year of it under new ownership,
and I would argue the first full year of it
kind of embracing its new identity. Like they had a
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spring season, but that was kind of already set in
motion before the change in ownership happened, and they had
a limited fall season which I did not go to.
And this coming spring will be their first brand new
season with everybody like like who is new, being fully
in place for the whole process. So I'm curious to
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see how that pans out. I've heard good things from
friends of people who are working there. I have not
heard anything from people working there directly, but that's because
I'm not on social media.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, I've talked with one person who was working there
directly who is enjoying it. But I would I would
very much like to do that, and then we can
talk about it and hopefully have some like positive infest news.
We can talk about christ show.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah maybe maybe if I'm feeling super duper like ambitious,
I'll bring my portable recorder and we'll do a field recording.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh that would be delightful.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't know that I'll actually do that.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But well, along those lines, I would love to, so
you know, we did that that video series a while ago. Yeah,
every time I go back and watch it, I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It was cheesy, yes, but yes, very dorky and corny,
but that's my sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I really enjoyed doing it, and I'm really proud of
what we made, and I would love to do more
of that. And this is a stretch goal because I
know I need to say no to more things, and
I don't currently have a computer that I can edit
insanely edit videos on, but I would like to get
some sort of video content going again.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah for Llenc, well, yeah, we can totally. And you know,
one other thing we can even explore doing now we're
just now we're just having a meeting about her show
on the show it hey, but yeah, we one thing
we could consider doing is we can create YouTube versions
of these these podcasts. Not necessarily if we wanted to
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keep the video, we could, but because we are using riverside,
so we can technically record video and make it a
video podcast. Uh, but then we have to worry about
what we look like when we're recording, which.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right now I look real good because Jonathan just helped
me with an audition.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, aerial looks like a million bucks, and I look
like I look like nine miles of bad road.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
But that's not normally the case. Normally I look pretty rough.
I've rolled out of bed.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But what we what we can do is we can
we can have the audio against like a static image
like the logo, right, and just have it up on YouTube,
just so it's another point where people can listen. It's
not like we're monetizing this show anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
So no, but I mean I would I would like
to get some video content of us doing so. I
would like to make more creative stuff with you, Johannah.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, those sketches were a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, if we ever have the time and energy or
even just get together and put on a camcorder and
record in or.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Room together, yeah, no, we definitely. That's another resolution I'm
making right here and now, is you and I record
at least one episode this year in person, in the
same room, so that we can really react off each
other and not worry about times when I accidentally jiggled
the cable to my microphone, dropping our connection, which has
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happened twice since we started recording this for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So all that to be said, we haven't discussed it before,
but you know that means us getting together in the
same place to record. And if that's a move that
we make, we might be adjusting our release schedule a
tiny bit.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah. Yeah, because this is also the year when I
have to go back into the office, So we'll see
how that affects me too. I might be like, screw it,
I'm not leaving for anything else, but yeah, we're going to.
We're going to. I think leave it there for now.
We wish you all the happiest of New years. We
hope that twenty twenty six is a great year for
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all of you out there. And remember, like, celebrating the
stuff you love is a beautiful thing. Inviting other people
to love the things they love is a beautiful thing
as long as it's not hurt anybody, that is. And
then and you know, be part of the community, be
supportive of one another, love each other, and you know,
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like and subscribe, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Would be good. And tell tell you yeah, tell your friends.
Like Jonathan said, if you want to reach out to
us to share your geeky New Year's resolutions or things
you're excited about for twenty twenty six, please do. And
I'm just kind of stepping over Jonathan here, but on
social media, you can reach out to us on Facebook, Instagram, threads,
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or discord. We are Larger drawn Collider. You can also
drop us a longer e mail at large Nurdron Pod
at gmail dot com. We really do love hearing from you,
and until next time, I am Aeriel Uh. Today I'm
going to party like it's twenty twenty six Caston.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And I am Jonathan insert joke here. Strickland The Large
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Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large Ner Junk Collider podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky news happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about it. I'm Ariel cast and with me is always
is the brilliant Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Happy New Year, half beebirs date yep, just Frosty this
new man. So, Ariel, how long is today's episode going
to be?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Very very short? Yes, I say that we might end
up talking for four hours, but.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, but it would just literally be us chatting because
we both did some digging during the week between Christmas
and New Year's Day. It turns out that Hollywood's pretty
quiet at that time. There was really not that much
more to bring up. I had like a horror movie trailer. Uh,
there's like a movie called Apex that looks like yet
(01:03):
another take on the most dangerous game, you know, hunting
humans kind of thing, but not a whole lot. There's
like the Avengers doomsday stuff, but that's been leaking like crazy,
right with the Captain America and Thor and next I
think is x Men.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So there was a bridget a bridger O Lord Almighty,
there was a Bridgerton trailer and a wonder Man trailer
and a Moumpet Show trailer, but not much.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, the Bridgerton trailer, by the way, In case you're
wondering what this this season storyline is, it's Cinderella. Yeah,
it's just Cinderella like literally instead of a instead of
a slipper, it's a glove. But it is Cinderella. Yeah.
So we we didn't really put together a show because
there just wasn't enough to stitch together. But we did
(01:51):
want to say happy New Year to all of you
and to say that we will be back next week
with an actual show. Uh, just for have you seen
anything cool since the last time we recorded?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This has been my RESTful holiday. So I have watched
so much. I am caught up on Fallout.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm an episode behind, so I need to watch episode three.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, I've finished season one of Pluribis.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So did I great? Loved it? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I love the direction the last couple of episodes took
and the journey they took us on as viewers because
it made us question what was okay, what wasn't? Who
was okay who wasn't? And I thought it was all
handled incredibly. Well, it's one of those shows that make
you think and talk.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, I also I love that it's interesting to me.
Not to give too much away, but we now have
two protagonists, neither of whom are particularly likable, but you
understand where they're coming from.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The second can protagony. Yes, that's the thing. The second protagonist,
I couldn't tell. There were moments I hated him. At
moments I'm like, well that was really decent.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So yeah, yeah, it's interesting, like just like just like Carol,
he has his own he has his own voibles and quirks. Yeah. Also,
you learned that he can fit handily into the trunk
of a car.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You know, Hollywood puts a lot of people in car trunks.
It is hard for me to do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I've been I've been in one before because you know,
scamming drive in theater used to be a thing.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So yeah, I've watched all of Task Master New Zealand
that is available to watch. There's technically a sixth season,
but that's not on YouTube, so I couldn't watch it.
I tried real hard to find it, and I've started
Task Master Australia. Australia. That was so bad I watched
a Bit Christmas for the first time this year. That
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was really cute, like a kinder Christmas story.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, that's the one with Neil Patrick Harris where he's
talking to his daughter about when he was a kid
and he really wanted a Nintendo for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh, I remember, I remember vaguely seeing the trailer for that.
I think we even talked about it years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, I mean it was just cute. The kid actors
were really good, the adults were great. You know, is
an amazing movie. No, but it was a delightful movie
For Christmas Day, I watched both seasons of Smiga Dune
and I started the first episode of Death by Lightning,
which is that one about Charles Gatto.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, and Garfield James Garfield. Yeah, not the cat the President. Yeah. Wow,
you watched way more than I did. I watched, Like
I said, blur of Us, I'm an episode behind on Fallout.
I did get my wife hooked on Superstore.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh good.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So we watched season one on New Year's Eve. We
watched because there's only eleven episodes, but still, like that's
a lot, right, But we started watching at around six
or seven pm, so we were able to watch it
all the way up to the point where you know
the ball drops or whatever. Here in Georgia it used
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to be the peach drop, but they got rid of
it this year. And then we wished each other happy
to Year, and then went to bed, and then we
since we both had the day off yesterday, we're recording
this on the second of January. We watched all of
season two. We binged a twenty two episode season in
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one day.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Episodes like ten minutes, right, so.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Half an hour. But still she likes it, but finds
it the cringe humor hard to endure. And it's not
like all the humor is cringe, but a lot of
it is. And I told her the character I thought
was the cringiest, and I had forgotten in the first
season there are other characters who are far more cringy.
(06:03):
So she thought it was crazy. But then in season two,
my pick really stepped up to the plate, and she's like, Okay,
I see what you were saying. I'm like, yeah, you
gotta remember I was up to season five when we
started back on this, so but uh, but yeah, anyway,
that's not very geeky, but it is. I enjoy it
because Mark McKinney, isn't it And he was a member
(06:24):
of Kids in the Hall and I was a huge
Kids in the Hall fan. And occasionally some geeky actors
very occasionally will show up and at Sean Gunn has
a cameo in one episode, like he plays a customer
for one scene in one episode. So, and there's an
Olympics episode that has a bunch of Olympic athletes as
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just little visual cameos, including oh, what's her name? The gymnast?
Do you remember the gymnasts who did the smirk where
she had like her lips all screwed up to one
side of her face, like she's doing this little pose
where she's got you know, this little little if you
do Olympic smirk. Hers is the first picture that comes up.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was not a huge Mikayla Maron fan.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, but you know who I'm talking about. She has
a cameo in it where she's trying on an outfit
and looking at herself in the mirror, and of course
she does the smirk. So cute little moments like that.
There's a bit where Terry Lipenski is walking down the
down the aisle and they have a slippery floor sign
out and she slips and then does a full pirouette
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and then keeps going. Just cute, little little gags like
that that I thought were cute. Anyway, that's really all
I've seen, Like I haven't. There's a lot of stuff
that's on my list of things that I want to
check out, but I just haven't yet. So and any
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do you have any New Year's resolutions at all, or
any particular geeky ones.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, just the same stuff that I try to
do every year. Try to make sure that I'm getting
my workouts in, especially since I'm on a GLP one now.
Not necessarily to lose weight, but it does help. And
I need to lose weight because I have a back injury.
But you know, it's important if you're on one of
those to make sure you're getting a lot of protein
and eating healthy and getting all your nutrients and working
(08:18):
out because it can make you lose muscle mass. And
as a woman that's especially important not to do so
work out more. I am working on mindfulness. So I'm
a notory you know this, Jonathan. I am a notorious overthinker,
and I don't want to do that anymore. So that's
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this is my year to break that habit.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, I think if I had any gentle advice for you,
it would be to say no to more things. Ariels
has a tendency to say yes to every opportunity, which
I understand to an extent because you never know which
opportunity is going to be the big one, or maybe
you'll meet somebody that would be really useful for you
to know, or even just you know, making friends and
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all that kind of stuff. But it also means that
I worry about Ariel becoming like Bilbo Baggins and being
butter stretched over, spread over too much bread, like spread
yourself too thin.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Listen, I don't know how not to hustle, but yes,
I am working on that, like I want to. So
I love doing so many different things, so many hobbies,
and I want to make sure that I have time
for that and also time to like work on my house.
It's sadly I don't have any super geeky, super geeky resolutions,
but they will all enable me to do more geeky things,
(09:43):
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I get that. Yeah, I don't have a whole
lot of geeky resolutions other than I do want to
try to get to the theater to see more films
this year if I can. I saw a few last year,
and overall, I enjoyed my experiences. I didn't have any
(10:05):
like terrible movie going experiences, like one of those where
you know people are not paying attention or talking through
the whole thing or whatever. I didn't have any of those,
which I'm thankful for. But I also feel like there
were some movies that I could have seen that that
I wanted to see, and I just let come and
go and now I'm just waiting for them to Like
(10:26):
The Long Walk is a great example, though I don't
know who would go to see that with me. I
probably have to go by myself on that one. But yeah,
Shay wouldn't do it either. Becca wouldn't do it either.
So it starts to my list of people that I'm
willing to hang out with starts getting real small once
you knock those names off of it. But yeah, I
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do want to try and get to the theater to
see more movies this year if possible, especially since with
the fate of Warner Brothers Discovery still not fully decided
that could potentially have a huge impact on the theater
industry in general, no matter who gets it, whether it's
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Paramount or Netflix, right, So I definitely want to have
that experience when it's warranted. Not every movie I think
merits a trip to the theater, but for the ones
that do, I want to make more of an effort.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, for sure. And I tried to see The Stranger
Things Finale in the movie theater. Originally I was like,
I have to. I know, when we first talked about
it coming out on Thanksgiving than Christmas the New Year's
I was like, well, that's horrible. I hate that because
I'll be busy, but it was really nice to have
something to sit and do that was new. I was
just like, oh, yes, we're going to do that now
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after Thanksgiving and after Christmas and on New Year's Eve
while waiting either for New Year's Eve to happen or
you know, needing some downtime after the holidays. So it
actually ended up being very nice to have that available
and new to watch. I try to see it in
the theater on New Year's even everywhere was sold out.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah. And then I was like, well we could see
it New Year's Day because it was in theaters on
New Year's day as well, but we wanted to go
ahead and watch it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So you watched, So you watched the conclusion, yep, well
was okay. Now keep in mind I've only ever seen
season one, But did you feel it was a suitable
conclusion for the series as a whole or did you
have any issues with it?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I know some people had some issues. They didn't really
hit me there. The biggest issue I had and some
other people have had this too, and I don't think
it deterred from the overall enjoyment of the final season
is there are some very emotional moments during very tense,
like time sensitive portions of stuff that was happening that
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felt like they took forever to get through. And I'm like,
I know that you're having this emotional heart to heart,
but you're about to die. Yeah, abbreviate it right.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It would be like if the if the brother and
sister in Jurassic Park decided to have a deep like
reconciliation while the Velociraptor is figuring out how to open
the freezer door.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah yeah, and I know that, you know movie magic,
It kind the action kind of pauses so you can
have that heart to heart, but there was a lot
of that. One of the honest trailers for the final
season of Stranger Things was like, everything is exposition and
explaining the plot because it's confusing. I didn't find that
an issue at all, you know, but I felt like
there was enough show and tell. But yeah, there were
(13:40):
just a couple of moments where I'm like, Okay, this
heartfelt has gone on long enough. Let's but you know,
they wanted they wanted everybody to to have their chance.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah. Yeah, And by then you're talking about an ensemble
that's much much larger than what was in season one.
So if you are determined to have every character have
that kind of moment, then clearly that's why the run
time for these episodes is pretty darn long, Like each
one is about the length of a movie, and then
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you've got a full season of them. I understand that.
I did find it heartwarming that eleven finally turned twelve.
That's good. I'm glad that happened.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
All of the epilogue stuff was nice. You know, the
characters were really crying, and you know, I got misty
eyed too, and I'm sure that plenty of other people did,
partially because you've just been on this journey with these
characters for so long, and so we were like ten
years for five season. That's so much, And I'm like,
it's really not that long.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
No, I mean you look at things, like, you know,
there are shows out there that would take a year
or longer between season seven, and so I'm looking at you,
and you know, you just realize, like that's kind of
the trade off you get with TV these days, Like
we're getting these these stige shows that are shorter seasons.
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They're longer than a movie, so they can take their
time and tell a story that you really couldn't tell
in a movie. They're shorter than the traditional United States
version of a television season, where you'd have anywhere between
twenty and twenty six episodes in the season, because if
you did do that, if you forced it into that,
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you would have just a huge amount of space that
you'd be treading water rather than developing characters or story
or whatever. And because of the production values, you can't
just churn out season after season, so there's these long
delays between them. In the meantime, you can have all
sorts of different stuff, like I don't know, a pandemic
(15:46):
or union strikes that really impact production. So it's a
different world than the one that we grew up in,
where you just knew, like every September you would get
a new slate of shows and new seasons and they
would last you until early June.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah. Yeah, But there were several moments in the epilogue
where characters were crying because of course they're all finally
able to move on in life, right whichever one survived.
I don't want to ruin that for anybody, but you know,
I was like, I bet those I don't know for certain,
I haven't looked into it, but I bet those are
the last scenes that were filmed, because that's how I
would cry if I knew my ten year project was
(16:30):
ending and I wouldn't get to do it anymore, that
is how I would cry. So I was projecting a bit.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's kind of like when you see the behind the
scenes footage from the Lord of the Rings movies, where
they had been working together for months and months and
months shooting three films all together at the same time,
and like when it finally would get to be a
rap day for a particular cast member, it was always
a huge emotional release.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting cheery about it, but also you know,
it's it's Georgia. It was filmed in Georgia, where you
and I are located, and it's it is lovely to
have projects that are so successful and bring people so
much joy filmed in the state. I mean, as an actor,
I love it because I want there to be more
stuff filmed in the state. You know. And I have
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friends who who were in it. A Renny. I don't
know if you ever knew this or any but there
was a Reny who had a featured extra role in it.
There were a couple of people I've acted with on
stage shows that have been in it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And I knew the the science teacher Randy Haydens. I've
known him for I've known him for years.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He kicked butt in the final season.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh he was still around. So that's the thing is
I have lost touch with Randy, so I didn't. I
was like, gosh, I sure, hope he's still in it.
I don't know if he is.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, he was delightful, so you know it. I have
other friends who auditioned it never got in it. But
you know, there's that always that hope of like next season, right,
they like me season role for me, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Like it's it's always fun to watch projects where if
I pay really close attention, usually it's the background, but
I might see people that I know personally, Like several
of the Marvel shows were like that, or where if
you paid really close attention and looked in the background.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Like there were a couple that were shot on location
at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, which often would would lease
itself out as a shooting location in the off season,
and occasionally I would say, like, oh, there's people I know,
and I know those places I remember. I think it
was low key where I got real. I got real
(18:41):
personickety because they put shop signs on different shops than
where they normally would be, and I'm like, that's not
where that shop is.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I got real personicity because and I realized that they
weren't at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. But the sensibilities that
I know that happened at a Renaissance festival were not
what they portrayed in that show, and it bothered me.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, to be fair, I think it was supposed to
be a Renaissance festival in like Michigan or something, so
maybe they just do it differently there anyway. Yeah, it's
not really any other resolutions I can think of or
anything that are in the geek sphere. But you know,
we are looking forward to seeing what comes our way
(19:27):
this year. I mean, there's lots of stuff I'm anticipating.
I wish I could say I'm anticipating Avengers doomsday, but
I feel like this whole, like last couple of phases
just haven't really resonated with me in the same way
that the first three did.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So, yeah, we got a trailer for now we're kind
of vaguely talking about our show notes the view we had.
We got a trailer for wonder Man, which directly addresses that,
and yet at the same time, I still have no
idea what the show is.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I haven't I haven't seen that trailer yet because I
knew we weren't going to be doing a full episode,
so I couldn't bother watching all this.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It talks about superhero fatigue and trying to launch a
superhero show during superhero fatigue. That's legitimately the beginning of
the second trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, you know, I'm not convinced that it's really superhero
fatigue though, you know, because I was still excited about
Superman coming out, you know, and I'm still excited about
Supergirl coming out. So it's I think it's more that
I just feel personally for me, that Marvel made some
(20:34):
major missteps post End Game, and some of those were
unavoidable because of you know, things were happening outside the
film universe, specifically Jonathan Majors, but other things. I just
felt like they were making bad decisions, and they would
make other bad decisions to try and correct for earlier
(20:56):
bad decisions. It just never worked.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah. Yeah, And they had a formula too that they
tended to follow. They'd try to address it up different ways,
but it was always kind of Act one, Act two, decent,
Act three fighted giant cgi monster and.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Win right or or Act three Act three hero faces
off against villain version of the hero, right Yeah, yeah, yeah,
like that was but that was really that's what they
established from Iron Man on, Like every single time, it's like,
all right, and now our hero will face essentially a
bad guy version of what the hero is.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah yeah, and so like I mean, but they've addressed that,
they know that that's an issue, they know that they've
taken the steps, which is why we're getting less stuff
from Marvel right now. I wish they were filming it
in Georgia not the UK, but you know whatever. But like,
I don't know, the thing that has made me least
excited is your fan theory about Doomsday, especially after seeing
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the Thor snippet.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh yeah, stealing all the babies.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Stealing all the babies because Thor is talking about having
a daughter and how that's so important to him. And
I'm like, oh no, John, that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
This is all about this is all about doom making
a super baby super villain.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Group super Baby.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, they're going to conquer the world. Uh yeah. I
I maybe I'm wrong. I mean, I would love to
be wrong. I think it's such a dumb idea that
if if I am right, I'm gonna be like, oh no.
But but anyway, it's uh, I'm looking I'm looking forward
to a lot of other stuff, you know. I think
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we're going to get, you know, some more great work
from Mike Flanagan. So I'm gonna get my horror fix in.
You know, we got carried to look forward to. Uh,
We've got stuff from Zach Craigor who did the weapons,
and it is working on I think it's Resident Evil
that he's working on. It's either Resident Evil or Silent Hill.
(22:54):
It's one of the two.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Maybe it's Silent There is a Silent Hill movie coming out,
visually stunning.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, that's yeah, I think he's working on Resident Evil, though.
I think he's working on a Resident Evil one if
I'm not mistaken. And I remember seeing the Silent Hill
trailer because there was a lot of cgi that was
a little iffy, but it was an early trailer as well.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, it's you're right, it's Resident Evil.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the Muppet Show. I'm looking
forward to that for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary.
Oh god, I'm old. Yeah, there's stuff like that that
I'm really looking forward to. And obviously we're going to
be surprised throughout the year. There's going to be stuff
that we weren't anticipating that's going to really delight us.
So I'm looking forward to all of that.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, me too, Me too. Something I am doing this
is not geeky, but I'm going to add this because
I find it very helpful this year. This past year
just flew by, and I did a lot of geeky stuff,
and it's hard for me to remember all of it.
So I'm journaling every day.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I did it in twenty twenty four, Like, even if
it's just a voice note in a little app on
my phone, I did it in twenty twenty four, and
I enjoyed every like that day didn't speed by? I
didn't go. Where did the time? That year? Sorry didn't
speed by? I didn't go Where did the time go?
And I remembered a lot more of the things that
I did. So that's something I'm doing. I encourage everybody
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to do it, even if it's just like today, I
had a really good lunch, you know, just something to
make sure that you're being present because you want to
enjoy the good moments.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, certainly. I have found that as I get older
and have medical whipses, my memory is not what it
used to be, So that advice would be I should
take it. I should do the same thing. On a
related note, I think you and I should set aside
a day this coming festival season to visit the Georgia
(24:49):
Renfair as patrons, not even dressing up necessarily, just like
patrons walk around, see what has what's different, because this
will be the second year of it under new ownership,
and I would argue the first full year of it
kind of embracing its new identity. Like they had a
(25:09):
spring season, but that was kind of already set in
motion before the change in ownership happened, and they had
a limited fall season which I did not go to.
And this coming spring will be their first brand new
season with everybody like like who is new, being fully
in place for the whole process. So I'm curious to
(25:30):
see how that pans out. I've heard good things from
friends of people who are working there. I have not
heard anything from people working there directly, but that's because
I'm not on social media.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, I've talked with one person who was working there
directly who is enjoying it. But I would I would
very much like to do that, and then we can
talk about it and hopefully have some like positive infest news.
We can talk about christ show.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah maybe maybe if I'm feeling super duper like ambitious,
I'll bring my portable recorder and we'll do a field recording.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh that would be delightful.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't know that I'll actually do that.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But well, along those lines, I would love to, so
you know, we did that that video series a while ago. Yeah,
every time I go back and watch it, I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It was cheesy, yes, but yes, very dorky and corny,
but that's my sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I really enjoyed doing it, and I'm really proud of
what we made, and I would love to do more
of that. And this is a stretch goal because I
know I need to say no to more things, and
I don't currently have a computer that I can edit
insanely edit videos on, but I would like to get
some sort of video content going again.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah for Llenc, well, yeah, we can totally. And you know,
one other thing we can even explore doing now we're
just now we're just having a meeting about her show
on the show it hey, but yeah, we one thing
we could consider doing is we can create YouTube versions
of these these podcasts. Not necessarily if we wanted to
(27:12):
keep the video, we could, but because we are using riverside,
so we can technically record video and make it a
video podcast. Uh, but then we have to worry about
what we look like when we're recording, which.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right now I look real good because Jonathan just helped
me with an audition.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, aerial looks like a million bucks, and I look
like I look like nine miles of bad road.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
But that's not normally the case. Normally I look pretty rough.
I've rolled out of bed.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But what we what we can do is we can
we can have the audio against like a static image
like the logo, right, and just have it up on YouTube,
just so it's another point where people can listen. It's
not like we're monetizing this show anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
So no, but I mean I would I would like
to get some video content of us doing so. I
would like to make more creative stuff with you, Johannah.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, those sketches were a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, if we ever have the time and energy or
even just get together and put on a camcorder and
record in or.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Room together, yeah, no, we definitely. That's another resolution I'm
making right here and now, is you and I record
at least one episode this year in person, in the
same room, so that we can really react off each
other and not worry about times when I accidentally jiggled
the cable to my microphone, dropping our connection, which has
(28:34):
happened twice since we started recording this for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So all that to be said, we haven't discussed it before,
but you know that means us getting together in the
same place to record. And if that's a move that
we make, we might be adjusting our release schedule a
tiny bit.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah. Yeah, because this is also the year when I
have to go back into the office, So we'll see
how that affects me too. I might be like, screw it,
I'm not leaving for anything else, but yeah, we're going to.
We're going to. I think leave it there for now.
We wish you all the happiest of New years. We
hope that twenty twenty six is a great year for
(29:12):
all of you out there. And remember, like, celebrating the
stuff you love is a beautiful thing. Inviting other people
to love the things they love is a beautiful thing
as long as it's not hurt anybody, that is. And
then and you know, be part of the community, be
supportive of one another, love each other, and you know,
(29:33):
like and subscribe, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Would be good. And tell tell you yeah, tell your friends.
Like Jonathan said, if you want to reach out to
us to share your geeky New Year's resolutions or things
you're excited about for twenty twenty six, please do. And
I'm just kind of stepping over Jonathan here, but on
social media, you can reach out to us on Facebook, Instagram, threads,
(29:56):
or discord. We are Larger drawn Collider. You can also
drop us a longer e mail at large Nurdron Pod
at gmail dot com. We really do love hearing from you,
and until next time, I am Aeriel Uh. Today I'm
going to party like it's twenty twenty six Caston.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And I am Jonathan insert joke here. Strickland The Large
Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
(30:38):
McLeod of incomptech dot com
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