2025 Is Looking Pretty Scary

We've got a lot of geeky news this week, with a healthy chunk from the horror genre. From deranged robots to a killer with Heart Eyes, we chat about the latest and scariest in geek news.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Drunk Collider podcast, the
podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
world around us and how very excited we are about them.
I'm aerial cast In and mcne, as always, is the
delightfully wonderful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's a snow day.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's technically the day after a snow day, but there's
still snow. Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We couldn't record on the actual snow day because Ariel
Doune lost power, and it turns out that's one of
the things that you need in order to record a
podcast over your computer.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, well I lost power and then it came back,
but then everything was behind because of course, you know,
I couldn't do anything. So we're recording a daylight and
that's fine. And I had prepared for losing power because
I live in a place with a lot of big
trees and they haven't buried our power lines, so that
just happens.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, I lucked out. We didn't lose power, so we
I was just I was just working, working like crazy.
But now we're ready to record, and first up, we
usually talk about what we watched. That's the last time
we recorded. I can't help but notice in our lineup

(01:22):
the aerial you don't you didn't write anything down.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, I was going to put that in yesterday, and
then this morning I've been waiting for a repair person
who still hasn't shown up. So no, it's not there.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So it's a surprise. What have you been watching?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I watched all of Creature Commandos. Uh huh. I started
watching Dungeons and Drag Queens season two. I've only gotten
like twenty minutes through the first episode. Only the first
episode is out, but I've only gotten like twenty minutes
through it. It's a bit more like background music music,
background noise. And then today, this morning, I did watch

(02:04):
the first episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Pop Culture Jeopardy.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes you should know about this because I sent it
to you and they were casting. They were looking for
teams of three. You didn't seem to want to bite,
and neither did our mutual friend Jen. Unfortunately, it's hosted
by Colin Jost and you have three teams of three
with like a fun team name. So like episode two,

(02:36):
the one of the teams, it just stuck in my
mind because I think it's a clever name. They're Tinker
Taylor quiz show guys nice and you answer questions about
pop culture, and there's like eighties bands, there's sports, there's
current stuff, there's social media stuff, Like they asked about

(02:57):
the kid who got auto tuned who loved Coorn and
it's cute and it's fun, and I would have said
I would have done. I knew about fifty percent of questions,
which is pretty good for Jeopardy quite honestly. Yeah, so
like there's a lot of modern stuff, and there's a
lot of but they don't just do modern like they
asked about eighties bands and things like that too.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
So yeah, I like to think that I would be
sporadically okay at that game. Like I don't think i'd
be strong enough to be one third of a team
and be really reliable. Like there's certain things where I
feel like I've got a pretty darn good handle. But
first of all, Ariel, you know about my tendency to

(03:42):
use the wrong name for people, because I'll, yeah, if
two people have similar names, I'm always gonna end up
picking the wrong name to mention. So that would be
a big hurdle to overcome in our team. But like,
also like I love I love music, but I'm not
like I love music. I love listening to music, but

(04:03):
I don't dive into things like bands. So there can
be a band and I can even own like multiple
albums by that band, but I could also be you
could ask like who's in that band, and I wouldn't
be able to tell you because I like, I'm more
focused on the listening experience and not so much learning

(04:24):
everything I can about the people who make the music.
So yeah, I think I would only be semi useful
in those kind of situations. Also, I personally find game shows,
like like participating in game shows to be super stressful,
unless it's like a jackbox kind of thing, in which
case that's just fun.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I mean, it is a lot easier to answer questions
from your couch than behind a podium, for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I would freeze up. So yeah, people are like,
why didn't we even bring this guy?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
But like some of the questions, I was just like, yes,
I just know this answer, Like what cartoon character has
football shaped head? It's hey, Arnold, you know stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
So yeah, yeah, I mean I guess I could get
who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, do you do you know who Angelica Pickles is
related to who she calls all dumb babies. It's a
it's a cartoon from No.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Regrets. I know of Rugrats, but I never watched it,
So all right, Well, so Creature Commandos, the first twenty
minutes of the the Drag D and D Show, drop Out, Yeah,
from Dropout and and a little bit of pop culture Jeopardy.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I guess also after midnight, but that doesn't count. That's
what we put on when we don't know what else
we want to watch.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Gotcha for me? I finished Squid Game season two. I
had watched I think the first four episodes when we
recorded last time, so there were only like a cup
three left. So I finished that wolf really curious about
season three now, really wondering where it's gonna go. Uh I.

(06:06):
I also watched Creature Commandos all the way through. I
saw the the whole series. It's it's short enough, harrowing,
but short also weird because there's a lot of humor
in it. But uh it's even more grim than James
Gunn's Suicide Squad movie where he like he very freely

(06:29):
starts killing off members.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, it to me, it's and it's also much more
gory because it's cartoons, they can amp that way up, right. Yeah,
So for me, it falls somewhere in between Invincible and
The Boys.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Quite honestly, Yeah, I can see that. It's it's a
it's a challenging watch at times. I don't think it's bad.
I think it's a good, good show. Uh. It's one
of those where if I had seen that before I
had seen anything for the next Superman movie, I definite
would start be getting nervous about the Superman film because

(07:03):
it is so dark that I would worry that that's
kind of the direction that Superman would go in, like that,
like that would be the general direction for DC. Because
if you think about the James Gunn DC entries so far,
you've got the second Suicide Squad movie, You've got Peacemaker,
and you've got Creature Commandos, and all of them are

(07:26):
about anti heroes and they're all pretty grim sou If
you just thought that that's how the DC universe was
gonna go, then you might be really worried about Superman.
But based on the stuff we have seen from the
Superman teaser, I am still optimistic that that's going to

(07:46):
be something I want to I want to watch me too,
Me too. I also watched the first episode of Superman
and Lewis. I totally missed that series.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
When it was on cartoon.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
No, no, this is the live action one, the air
over kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, what did you think of the first episode?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I thought it was okay. Like, I thought it was interesting,
like the whole idea of Superman. You know, this is
kind of late in the Superman career in the sense
that he has married Lewis Lane and they have twin boys,
they're both fourteen years old, Jordan and Jonathan. And I

(08:27):
thought it was okay, Like I liked. I liked the
take on Superman. I liked how the challenge for the
character was more about how does he balance being a
father and an active member of a family when he
also has to be like Earth's guardian. So it's interesting

(08:49):
I could see where if it was if it's not
handled well, I could find it tiresome after a while,
like if that just becomes like the ongoing Oh well,
but I need my family needs me too. Part of
that being that at the beginning of the first episode,
he has not revealed to his sons who he is

(09:11):
so they don't know that he's Superman and that that's
not really a spoiler. He does reveal it like in
that first episode. So but like that was the genesis
for some of the drama. His kids are like, you
lied to us for fourteen years, and you know, I'm

(09:32):
glad that they did have that revelation happen in the
first episode because if that had been like an ongoing
thing in season one, I think that would have been
really tiresome. So I thought it was okay, I don't
I'm probably will stick with it. I've heard a lot
of good things about the series in general, and it
just it popped up as on one of the streaming

(09:53):
services I saw that it was available for me to watch.
I was like, you know what, I never gave this
a chance. I should go ahead and do it. So, yeah,
that's what I've seen.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Nice. I also watched like the first couple of episodes
of Superman and Lewis. It never really grabbed me. But
maybe I just didn't give it long enough. Maybe I
didn't give it the ten episodes that I gave lost.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, it's I think I feel like it's one that
I could be on the cusp either way right, Like,
it's not one where I'm like, oh, I have to
see what happens in episode two. It's like, well, if
I watch episode two, I'm sure I'll think it's fine,
and maybe I'll stick around for episode three. But yeah,
it's not one where I'm like, oh, gosh, I gotta

(10:35):
find out what happens next. It's not not that kind
of series.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, but I liked a lot, so I think
it grabbed me the least of all of the Airoverse
series beginnings, maybe tied with Supergirl, but I ended up
getting into Supergirl, So yeah, it's fine. I've liked a
lot of the aeroverse. I fell off of all of
the shows before they ended, but gotcha.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, I know watched really any of the aero Verse stuff.
So I'll occasionally see clips on like YouTube or Facebook
or something which is clearly from one of those, but
I couldn't tell you which show because they never have
the attribution on the video.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
The musical crossover between Flash and Supergirl was a lot
of fun.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's what I hear, because I was like people who
had background in musical theater also being in these shows,
and so yeah, I wish I had kind of gotten
into it, But at the same time, I remember feeling
frustrated because that was the DC era where they've very
much made the decision to separate the TV universe out

(11:46):
from their cinematic stuff, and they were doing such a
in my opinion, such a slapshot kind of approach to
their cinematic universe that I was like, well, why did
you choose this? If you had gone with a more
integrated approach, you might have, Yeah, you would arguably not

(12:09):
have the bankable stars who are you're leaning on to
be the anchor points for your movies. But your movies
aren't good and no one's going to see them more
than once anyway, So why not just go ahead and
take a risk on these people who have a proven
following on TV and use them in the movies too. Well,

(12:31):
we have a lot to talk about in today's episode,
partly because we did push it back one day and
the news just keeps on a coming so.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
And we don't have a whole lot of time.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, so let's let's just barrel on over to thirty
seconds or less and I am up first. Avengers Doomsday
is moving into production soon, and we've got rumors of
some of the folks who will be in it. Reportedly,
there will be around sixty characters appearing in the film.
They might include Charlie Cox's Daredevil, Chris Evans potentially as Nomad,

(13:05):
the return of Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet which the
Thunderbolts or whichever ones of the Thunderbolts that survived, and
possibly a new Tachala black Panther thanks to the Multiverse.
More on that at the end of thirty Seconds or Less.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
We talked about earlier in an earlier episode how Edgar
Wright is redoing The Running Man, and we knew that
he casts Glenn Powell as the main character. Well, now
we know who he's casting as the host. It is
Coleman Domingo, who you might know from rustin which I've
never even heard of, or if I have, I've forgotten.
Who was also in was is in Euphoria, And I

(13:45):
think the thing most cooled me is he was in
Sing Sing, which is in a movie that I've heard
wonderful things about that I still need to watch.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Cool Do you remember the TV series Grim, which ran
for six seasons and ended in twenty seventeen. It combined
dark fairy tales and police procedurals into a series in
which the lead protagonist finds out that he's a grim
or a guardian destined to hold back dark mythical creatures.
After lying dormant for many years, Josh Berman is reportedly

(14:16):
writing a feature of film set in the Grim Verse
for Peacock. It's meant to appeal both to fans of
the show and people who haven't seen the series.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
I tried to get through an episode of that and
couldn't quite. Maybe I'll get through this. Holes is a
movie from two thousand and three that Disney did based
on a nineteen ninety eight novel by Lussacker. It's about
a kid who gets sent to a detention camp and
has to dig a bunch of holes. A bunch of
millennial younger millennials think it's like the greatest movie of

(14:49):
all time. It eludes me a little bit, however, it
is getting a has been It has gotten a show
order for Disney, plus this time with a female lead
instead of which is good because he's way too old
for the role now. Anyhow So, if you were a fan,
that's something to look forward to.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Charloa buff Ah, you've a bowl. What a great Okay,
if you are not familiar with the Shilah buff music video,
you have to go watch it. You probably are because
it's like a famous meme. Anyway, you've a bowl. His
name is synonymous with cinematic garbage, and Armie Hammer, whose
name is well, this is a family show anyway. News

(15:31):
broke this week that Armie Hammer has a role he
can really sink his teeth into. I don't know if
you saw what I did there. Anyway, it's called it's
called the Dark Knight, but it's not that Dark Knight.
Just you know, it's spelled the same way as you
know the other Dark Knight. It kind of sounds like
an asylum level Batman ripoff. I guess there really will

(15:52):
be more horror films made this year.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I'm so torn about that. We'll talk about that later. Uh.
Separ Season two is coming out soon, but unfortunately their
Red Carpet from Meire has been canceled. It was supposed
to happen on January thirteenth, and because of all the wildfires,
which we will also talk about happening in Los Angeles,
they have decided to make safety their first priority, and
that's wonderful. Apple is also donating to the relief efforts

(16:20):
on the ground in La for in Pasadena and all
those places where the wildfires are happening, which is really
good of them because they need to get them under control.
There's a lot of damage happening. If you haven't seen
that in the news yet, it's really sad.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, it's sobering the amount of damage that's happened. Well,
what's your favorite scary movie? Is it one of the
Scream films? Because there's gonna be another one Scream seven.
We'll see the return of nev Campbell after she sat
out of recent entries due to pay negotiations breaking down.

(16:55):
But now the series is without two of the actors
who are meant to be the bridge to the next era,
those being Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera. Radio Silence will
be e being the movie but not directing it.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Very interesting. Caitlin Hill and Angelo massagly I did not
look up how to pronounce his last name before recording
Like a dorc two actors from School of Rock are
now getting married, and it's super cute because it ended
up being kind of a cast reunion of their wedding

(17:31):
ended up being like a cast reunion, which is lovely.
I haven't seen School of Rock, but I know I
need to.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, it's cute. These were two of the kids who
were in the band in School of Rock, and they
grew up fell in love and it's like marrying your
childhood sweetheart, but it's your childhood sweetheart. Have you met
on a Jack Black movie?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, and they did, like they lost touch and then
they reconnected, So they didn't date from the time they
were on the movie together.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
That would have been weird anyway, they were just little kids. Well,
do you remember earlier when I casually mentioned that T'Challa
slash Black Panther might show up in Avengers Doomsday. Well,
when Jadwick Boseman passed away, Disney Slash Marble said they
had no intention of recasting the part, but it seems
like they might have changed their mind at this point,
and rumors are swirling that the company is actively looking

(18:21):
for a new Black Panther, perhaps using the old multiverse
to explain how that will come about. And I guess
they don't see Shurry as being an anchor being, which
only makes sense if you've seen Daredevil and Wolverine.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, I don't know how to feel about that.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
I have feelings I do too, but thirty seconds or less,
I'll save it.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, okay, do you want to be a part of
an arctic exhibition in Georgia? Well, Mota, not MoMA, the Metro,
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but MODA,
the Museum of Design in Atlanta is doing a fiber
art installation by Adrian Baker. It's called Threads of Change.

(19:10):
It's inspired by the Micorsy old fung guy that sustained forests,
and you can participate if you do fiber arts. You
can make fiber art strand one to six inches wide
and up to fourteen feet long out of any fiber, yarn,
or fabric or whatever and send it to be a
part of this big fiber micosial network that they're building.

(19:33):
It's kind of cool. We'll put the link to all
of the details if that's the thing that you do
in our show notes.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah. I was actually curious about participating in this, but
I wasn't sure if there was mushroom for my work.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Ha ha, I didn't know you did. I was going
to say I didn't know you did fiber arts, but
then you punned, and so I'm guessing you don't.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
I mean it felt right.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
You could just I guess not a bunch of felt together.
Just buy some like craft felt like Michaels and just
together for.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah. And then everyone's like, wow, Jonathan, this is the
worst art I've ever seen. I'm like, well, it's made
you talk so mission accomplished. As Ariel mentioned, one of
the well really our top story that we have in
our lineup is that the fires out in California are
affecting hundreds of thousands of people. There have been we

(20:30):
have tragically lost several people in those fires. Already, lots
of homes have been destroyed or at least severely damaged.
There are so many fire fighters who have tirelessly been
working to get them under control. Massive, powerful winds have
been making it really challenging to control these fires because

(20:52):
they just keep blowing embers around and spreading it further,
and California has been rather dry over the last years.
It's it was a kind of a perfect storm set
of conditions for this kind of thing to happen, and
obviously it's affecting, you know, lots of people in all

(21:12):
walks of life out in California, not just the entertainment industry,
but the entertainment industry as well has also been affected
from the you know, obviously productions having to hold off
on getting started, to people in the industry losing their homes.
One of my co workers lost his home out there. Yeah,

(21:37):
so it's it's a big deal and it is making
a huge impact, is it is?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
It has been like whiplash seeing any kind of social
media on this. I know you don't stay on the
socials as much as I do, Jonathan. There are some
people who are very supportive and kind and loving, and
then there are some idiots out there who are like, well,
I don't care if this big rich person lost their home,
and it's like, you know what, yes, maybe they can
financially weather it a little bit better, but it's still
their home. It's still their life. They're still losing things

(22:08):
that they can't replace. Like, be nice. A fire is
not somebody being a jerk to other people. A fire
is devastating and horrible for everybody who gets affected by it.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Like yeah, yeah, And if it were something where it
was like it's a magic fire and it only affects
the really bad people, then sure, whatever, we'd be like well,
this appears to be some proof that there is a
higher power that is looking out for the rest of us.
But that's not what we're seeing. We're seeing a fire
that's obviously affecting people, whether they are multi millionaires living

(22:42):
up in the hills or someone who's living in an
apartment complex with like, you know, hundreds of other folks
and they're all evacuated because the fires are spreading out
of control. It's or like things like the Getty Museum,
which houses tons of irreplaceable art and having it, you know,
potentially threatened by by fires as well. This is like

(23:06):
serious stuff, and you know, it's it's it's weird to
talk about it in the context of how it affects
pop culture, because it's obviously so much bigger than that.
But it is one of those things that also is
going to impact, you know, how stuff rolls out, Like
there's probably gonna be some delays and productions. I wouldn't
be shocked after this, because Hollywood just loves itself so much.

(23:31):
I wouldn't be surprised if we get a couple of
years down the road a whole slew of action movie
set around fires.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
I mean, we already get a whole bunch of movies
where Hollywood gets destroyed.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
So yeah, I mean that is like a it's a
standby between movies where Hollywood gets destroyed or movies that
are about making movies right like, or just about the
industry in general.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, you know, if I don't know, I was gonna say,
if something good can come from this, Sure, I don't.
I don't know if all those movies said to be good.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, yeah, I think mostly we just want you know,
we're we're sending out our best wishes for everyone out
there and hope that everyone is able to stay safe
and that the fires are under control very soon, and
that you know, we're thinking of them.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, for sure. Something I didn't think about until you
posted it was the gold Golden Globe winners. Although you know,
like there are people who attended Golden Globes and then
right after lost their homes. So that's that sounds sad hearted.
I was trying to remember the name of the actor

(24:47):
who did. But there's an actor who want a Golden
Globe and then his house burned down, and I'm like, geez.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, yeah no, that's really really tough. Like show like
the Hya's and lows. Uh in one in One fell swoop. Yeah,
there were quite a few geeky properties that were among
the nominees, and some of them actually ended up taking
home trophies. For example, hiro Yuki Sanada, who was in Showgun,

(25:20):
took home the Best Performance by an Actor in a
Television Series Drama. So like, that's kind of a geeky thing, uh,
And he wasn't the only one. A supporting actor also
went to Showgun. That that would be a Tadanobu Asano
and uh, there were a few others that were, you know,
I think in the the geeky sphere, Like like Colin

(25:44):
Ferrell won for his portrayal of Oz Cobble in The Penguin.
He had a great speech where he he thanked the
woman in charge of craft services on their project and
said that she literally was what kept the show going
because she made sure that everybody had what they needed.

(26:06):
And he says, we'd be filming on freezing cold nights
and I would be the only one overheating because I'm
wearing this huge costume, and she would be there to
make sure I had a coconut water like every thirty
minutes to stay hydrated. So I was like, it's cool
that he specifically called her out, and it got a
really like people responded to that on social.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, yeah, that is really cool. It also looks Jodie
Foster won for True Detective Night Country, which I'd say
is geek adjacent.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, we talked about it a bit on this show
and it certainly. Yeah, that was that one was one
where I was really curious about the mystery, and then
by the time the mystery was solved, I was like, Oh.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Wicked one box office achievement, and that's kind of geeky.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, also weird that that's a category, right.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, Yeah, Amelia Perez beat Wicked out for a lot
of stuff. And one and I didn't. This movie did
not even hit my radar. And then two, the one
clip I've seen from it must be the most unfortunate
clip because the song is out of context, is not
at all good.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, I haven't seen it, so I can't really comment
on that. I know that to me. More one for
the substance, which also we chatted about in a previous
episode back when the trailers were first coming out, which is,
you know, kind of a body horror slash commentary on
the plight of women when they are, especially within the

(27:37):
entertainment industry, and they're aging. So it's kind of a satire.
And I still haven't seen it. It's on my list
of things to see. I've heard it listed as sort
of like an entry point to body horror, which I
think is kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, that is interesting. I've seen good things about it.
I do not think that, I like, I want to
watch it, and I don't think I can.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, well, body horror. I'm not a huge fan of
body horror as a genre. Like it's the type of
horror I like least. I don't mind. Like if someone's
doing body horror in a movie and they're telling a
really compelling story and they've got really interesting characters and
all that kind of stuff, I can weather it. But
it is the type of horror I personally find the

(28:26):
most difficult to watch. So but that hasn't stopped me
from watching some films that are in the body horror genre,
like everything Cronenberg's ever done. But I still haven't seen
the substance. It is on my list of things to watch.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, well, from body horror to comedy horror. We got
a trailer for Beyond Saturday Night. Now, it's not horror
at all. It's just a documentary about Saturday Night Live.
It actually looks kind of endearing.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, it's interesting because, of course we just got the
film Saturday Night which was kind of a fictional biopic
sort of approach to telling the story of the birth
of Saturday Night Live, like the first how the first
season came about, And this is more about the experience

(29:23):
of working on the show and like what it was
like being a writer, for example, on Saturday Night Live,
and how competitive that environment was and that it was
on purpose, like it was competitive by design, which which
arguably was meant to create the best selection of sketches

(29:45):
for the show, but could be pretty brutal. And they
also don't apparently pussyfoot around the years where Saturday Night
Live was considered to be unsalvageable.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think it's important if you're
going to tell the history of something, I think it's
important to cover all of that stuff. You know. I'm
just sad that we didn't cover it on Business on
the Brink, But yeah, that would.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Have been a really cool episode, I mean, because it
would have been that I think it's nineteen eighty five,
I think is the season that everyone points to as
being like the nadeer of Saturday Night Live, where it
was at its lowest point. It's certainly like once the
original not ready for Primetime players group kind of left

(30:35):
the show and then the folks who came in in
the early eighties took over. Even though there's some big
names among those those folks, it just it didn't work
very well for a few years. Like there were standouts
like Eddie Murphy was a true standout, like he was
it was obvious he was star power, but like folks

(30:57):
like Billy Crystal, he did not excel at that. And
there's so many other names like throughout the years of
people who have been part of that show who just
it just wasn't a good fit, like Julia Louis Dreyvis or.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Janine Garofalo and other all super talented people. Yeah, yeah,
it is. It is super interesting because they do go
to modern day, so they talked to like Keenan Thompson
and Pete Davidson and Amy Poehler. You know, it's not
just SNL history. It goes through the current day. I

(31:31):
am so I didn't grow up with it. I think
I've talked about this before, so once spent a lot
of time. I didn't grow up watching SNL. I'd see
occasional little clips, but it just wasn't like my family's
kind of thing. And Tony liked some of the older
stuff and then he fell off a lot of the
recent stuff I've been liking. I definitely like Michael Chay

(31:53):
and Colin Jos as the news reporters. I think they've
gotten great chemistry.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
And particularly in the white where they have to write
the jokes that the other one has to read that.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Makes me so uncomfortable. But yes, but especially since they
bring in Colin Just' wife, Scarlet Johansen in on a
lot of it's it is pretty funny. But like a
lot of their sketches lately have been cute to me.
So I'm kind of getting back on the Saturday night
Live band.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Cool a little bit, a little bit, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I hear you. I would love to watch this. I
love watching documentaries about things and learning about how they work,
like from the background, because like you're used to seeing
it from one angle. Unless you've worked on the show,
you've only seen it as an audience member, and to

(32:46):
get that insight into what it's like and to even
ask yourself the question of would I have done well
in that particular environment, or would I have found it
to be so competitive to be unwell coming, Like I'm
pretty sure that's how I would have felt like it.
I would have felt like, you know, I can't hang
with these folks, especially since I don't do cocaine. And

(33:08):
I suspect that most of those people have. Look.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I I worked at a former job and I won't
say which one. And I had a coworker and I
won't say which one who was like, yeah, it was
the seventies. At some point, everybody did cocaine. I'm like,
I don't think that's true.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
I can say I didn't do cocaine in the seventies,
but then I was also I was also like five, so.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Thank ye, yes you did not.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah. No, By that time, we had stopped prescribing cocaine
to children, so I was no longer I was no
longer at risk for that. Next up, we got ourselves
a trailer for I called it Man Meat Mountain.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Which I thought was like a new food show. Yeah,
like ma Guerrillas kind of a thing.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's just my pet name for Reacher because we got
a trailer Reacher season three. I watched season one kind
of by scrubbing through it. I actually watched season two
and questioned myself, like why am I doing this? And
then I saw the trailer for season three and I'm like, oh,

(34:19):
big big man meat Mountain punches stuff more and then
runs into it even bigger man Mountain.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah like that. That honestly looks kind of fun. I
do have some friends who enjoy the show. I haven't
watched it personally, but yeah, one, watching Reacher get beat
up by a bigger batter Reacher is funny. And then
two in the trailer, at least they use carry on
My Wayward Sun, which I know does not belong to Supernatural,

(34:49):
but Supernatural used it so much that I was like,
if there are not ghosts or were wolves or vampires
or in season three of Reacher, I'm gonna be disappointed.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
You don't see Winchester brothers casually getting killed off in
the background.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, as they always don't.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
They would always play that in their season finale, and
so like if you because it wasn't like at the
beginning of every episode you would hear the like I
think they might have done it a couple of different episodes,
but season finale was typically where you would hear it,
so through the Pavlovian response, you would just associate that
song with at least one of the Winchester's dying.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, yeah, so uh they they better, they better show up.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
That's all that would be. That'd be funny. I I
don't know if I'm gonna watch it. I included this
because I mean it is I would argue this, this
bear doesn't really fit into the geeky sphere. It's in
action land. Also, it's in male juvenile power fantasy land.
Like Reacher kind of represents the guy that a certain

(35:57):
type of guy wants to be. They want to be
the completely self sufficient, free from any obligations, bad ass
who can take on any fight and come out winning
at the end. Like that, It's just a male power
fantasy the series. That being said, at least the performances

(36:20):
typically involve some charming actors, so that helps. But yeah,
I don't know that I'll put myself through season three
after having sat through season two. Who will see?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I understand the desire to be self sufficient and to
be able to win every battle, you know, especially if
you grow up being like the underdog. I get it.
It is unfortunate that that has been a predominant sort
of fantasy, and that a lot of not great people
have wanted it or tried to attain it through bad means,
because I don't think at its very base level, the

(36:56):
desire to be that competent is necessary.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Horrible, Maybe not, but it's just I don't know. I
worry that it plays into the the philosophies and worldview
of certain people who I don't I don't want them
walking around thinking that, you know, they get to make
up the rules and that rules don't apply to them.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah, I fully agree. Yeah, I guess. I guess that
side of it is not really good. Rules. Rules are
there for a.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Reason, Yeah, at least to now. Granted, Reacher is supposedly
like this guy who protects people who otherwise cannot protect themselves, Right,
that's kind of kind of his thing. But I always
worry that the folks, instead of thinking, oh, we need
to look out for each other, they're thinking, oh, I
want to be able to slam some guy's face through

(37:46):
the back of their head. Like That's That's what I
always am concerned about. But you know it's I'm sure
it'll be a well made man Meat Mountain series.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, you know that is interesting. I'm not going to
believe the point, but it is really interesting how two
people can watch the same thing and get completely different
stuff out of it.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I have this in auditions too, where I'll be like, Oh,
I was feeling this and I was trying to trying
to achieve this or relay this in a scene, and
someone's like, oh, I totally got this. I loved it,
but it was completely different from my intent, just because
everybody watches through their own perspective. It's just it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah. I think it's also interesting how two people could
see the preview for in the Lost Lands, and one
person could see it as, oh, this is a story
that's based off of George R. R. Martin's work, and
someone else could say, oh, this is me le Jehoviovic's
husband giving her more work as a protagonist.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
I saw it and I was like, oh, George R. R.
Martin is gun in for a Mad.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Max slash Dark Tower.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Got that Shark Tower.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, it was a dark energy.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
It was what I say, it was Mad Max meets
I had something else there and I don't remember what,
but I was kind of amazed at George R. R.
Martin's penchant of putting extreme weather zombies and everything.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, yeah, there do appear to be like crazy zombies
in this. It has a Western sort of esthetic. There's
some like fantasy elements in it too, although it looks
like it's more Western sci fi than fantasy. Was like
with a dusting of fantasy. Perhaps Batista's also in it,
Dave Batista. He's acting across from Meela Jehovivic. And if

(39:42):
you're wondering what I'm talking about, like, she was cast
in a whole bunch of movies and her husband was
the one directing and producing those films, And this looks
like it's perhaps maybe maybe just a hair higher production
value than some of the ones she did in the past,
like the Underworld movies or whatever. A Resident Evil series.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Kate Becka, that's right.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Kate Beckinsale did Underworld. Yes, thank you.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
I know.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
I was like, I was like, it's one of those.
It's one that I tried watching each of those once,
could not get to the thirty minute mark. I had
to turn them off.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Mila Jdjojovic, I think was also in the Monster Hunter
based off the video game movie, and she was also
the one of the main villains in the David Harbor
hell Boy.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
She was also obviously in the Fifth Element as.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Sixth Element, which which is my brain did my brain
went on a buddy trail. But Fifth Element. She's phenomenal,
She's good. I love her in that she can act,
and she can.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
She doesn't always, but she can.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah, that's that's what I was gonna say. She doesn't always,
so it's a little bit disappointing when she doesn't, because
I know she can. But in this case, in this trailer,
it does hit me as closer to like one of
those less acclaimed movies that she's done. And I don't
know if it's her acting ability, if she's just feeling
a little presentational, which I only say because I struggle

(41:15):
with that in my own acting. So it's it's not
super judgmental, it's just game recognized game. But also it
could just be the dialogue that they picked out for
this trailer. It just seems so melodramatic.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah, which I mean that might be lifted straight from
the story. I don't know. I have not read the
story that this is based off of So I don't
know anything more about that. I mean, I'm sure it'll
be schlocky and entertaining to an extent. At least it
does kind of strike me as borderline asylum level, Like

(41:55):
it's better than asylum clearly, but maybe not by a
whole lot.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah. Yeah, I have no segue between In the Lost
Lands to Mythic Quest, so we're just gonna jump. Yes,
we got a trailer for season four Mythic Quest. It's
it feels like it should be season three, but I
haven't watched any Mythic Quest, so maybe that's why.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
They Also, they, if I recall correctly, they ended up
having to take like a full year off because of
the pandemic. So so Mythic Quest is one of those
things that has not been regularly airing episodes or seasons. Uh,
it's it follows a company that makes video games. Yeah,

(42:42):
but it's a comedy. It's a comedy that does this,
and it's kind of Silicon Valley ish. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Rob mcklhenny is the kind of the main character, one
of the main characters. Yeah, it looks it's it's like
Silicon Valley ish, but with comedy chops. Of community, is
what i'd say from the trailer.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Yeah, yeah, I would say that definitely kind of leans
a little more on the community side. Yeah, I think
it is kind of a merger of those kinds of sensibilities.
And I have to say it looks like because I
have not watched this series yet, but it is one
of those things like, in fact, if I'm being honest,
I didn't remember that there was a series until you

(43:26):
had this trailer on here, and then I watched just like,
oh yeah, that's one of those things that I meant
to watch and I just haven't gotten around to doing yet.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Same same here, And I'm like, I'm trying to get
my partner, my husband, interested in watching it because I
think he would enjoy it, but he hasn't been yet.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah. I will probably give this one a shot someday.
When I finished New Girl, I guess there was.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Something finished New Girl. If you aren't enjoying it at all,
there was.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
You'll never stop asking me about it.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
You've watched some episodes, so I can say I watch like,
I watched like about eight I think episodes.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Uh, there was something else that I was supposed to
watch too, and I can't remember what because, like we
talk about this every week, I need to start making
an actual list, Like I say it's on my list,
but I never actually write anything down, and I need
to start doing it.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
I told you to like mainline, oh what if? Ketch
up on what if?

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Oh yes, I do need to do that well, and
and maybe I'll do that this afternoon because it's not
like I'm going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you could, but why bother.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
I don't know that I could get out of our
driveway if I'm being totally honest, like that's that's ice over.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Let me shovel my way because I do have ice
behind my car, But let me just shovel my way out,
and then I can get to you and bring my
snowshovel and then shovel your ice. I have a feeling, carefully.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
I have a feeling having you drive all the way
across the city of Atlanta is probably not the safest
thing for you either, because even if you are driving
perfectly safe on the road, that doesn't guarantee that everybody
else is due.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I feel like most of the main roads, because they
also pre treated, are probably in a pretty good shape.
Right now. We've been above freezing for a couple hours
now at least, well, at least in Rosswell, I guess
you guys got a little bit more snow than we did,
which is unusual. Usually the further north you go, you
get more snow.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
But yeah, we were in a band where it was
heavy snow. So yeah, it was a few inches actually
of snow here, So it's unusual for Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I mean, we got like two to two and a
half here.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
But yeah, okay, well we got one more story before
we take a dark turn.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah, and this one I almost added to our lineup
and then I didn't, but you did, so I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah. It's an animated series on Netflix that starts airing
on January eleventh, which is the day we're recording this.
So it's out now called Sokka Moto Days.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah. It's based off of manga so I said that, right. Yep,
it's based on I know I said that, right. I
don't even know why I asked, like you second guess yourself.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
You know I've been there.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Uh You're like, I know this is right, but now
I don't know if I know that it's right because
I've thought about it. I thought about the game, and
now I've lost the game. Sorry everybody, Uh sucker.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Just lost the game.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Uh. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
It's based off of manga. It's about someone who is
like a hit man. It's kind of like John Wick.
If John Wick retired to have a decent sized family
and like.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
A bodega, yeah, like you, or he's running some sort
of like pizza restaurant or something.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Yeah, and gained a little bit of weight.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
You mean a significant amount.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Of weight, and and like things don't go horrible. I
mean in the trailer, Sakamoto, mister Sakamoto has h retired
from hit manning and then people are coming after him.
But it looks a lot more lighthearted than John Wick.
They don't like kill his family and his dog as
far as I know.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Yeah, and he has like, uh ridiculous reflexes, like he's
able to catch bullets that have been fired at him
with chopsticks. And so it's very over the top anime
action and it looks really entertaining.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah, it kind of feels like cozy assassin action.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Cozy who knew that that was going to be a subgenre?
Not me? Yeah, yeah, it looks cute. So yeah, that's
out today. January eleventh, the series just hit Netflix. I
have not watched any of it beyond the trailer yet.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Same, same, but I'm adding it to my list.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Okay, now can Yeah, it's because this is this is
Ariel's prediction come true.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
I didn't mean. I didn't mean. It wasn't my prediction.
It was j Peterson's prediction. But I'll let you do
your intro because I stepped on your toes.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Oh no, it's fine. I was just saying. Last week,
we were talking about howrror movies we're likely to have
kind of a big year because they are they typically
our lower budget, they have a high return. Typically they
get more audiences into theaters. We saw last year that

(48:15):
really where the money is is in the family friendly stuff,
the stuff that's made for people with kids. That's the
stuff that really drives box office return. But if you're
looking to make a profit, then making horror movies is
a way to go because they typically don't have that
large of an investment. They usually do pretty well in

(48:36):
the theater, assuming you didn't, you know, make an absolute
mess of your movie, and you can turn them out
pretty fast. And while we're you know, it's too early
for us to say whether or not that's taking effect.
But we are seeing trailers for a whole bunch of
horror and horror adjacent movies and series coming out, and
so the next let's say, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

(48:59):
eight trailers on our list all fall within the horror
family of genres.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
So here's the thing. I can like a scary movie
or show, especially if it's clever and that's not all
that it's got going for it. But I do feel
like a lot of horror is not clever and just
dips into dark and mean subject matter without anything redeeming.
And I feel like there's enough of that in the

(49:27):
world right now that I'm kind of I understand it,
and I have even seen and read some really amazing
horror in the past couple of years. But I'm kind
of I want to I feel like we're at a
point in time where we should focus on more good things.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I understand what you're saying. I think that horror can,
when done well, explore ideas and topics that can teach
us important lessons, right, I mean the heck you go
back to the Grim's fairy tales, and ultimately many of
those were about mind dear parents, don't go wandering off

(50:07):
in the woods, like basic things that are important for survival.
I think horror still can fall into those sort of
categories to this day if it's done well. But to
your point, Ariel One, it's not always done well. So
sometimes it's just like we just came up with an
idea of how to depict people being attacked by something

(50:31):
and they're powerless to stop it, and isn't that entertaining?
Or it'll be like, hey, we told all those stories
like four years ago, yeah, and now we're going to
be telling them all over again.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Yeah. And the first the first one we're going to
talk about is the Last of Us season two teaser.
But here's the thing. I'm going to be completely honest.
I watched everything, all of the horror trailers that you
put up, exception of the two that you highlighted to
warn me, Hey, maybe don't. But I didn't watch the
Last of Us season two trailer because I was like, oh,
I already watched that, but no, I watched last week's

(51:09):
Last of US season two trailer and not this week's.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Yeah, I'm sorry, it's fine. It's just a it's a
very short teaser. And it just it has a little
bit more of a like, it feels a little more
narrative in nature, like the last one was a lot
of disjointed shots where you couldn't really tie what's happening right,
Like you didn't know is this even in chronological order?

(51:35):
Are we seeing this from all different parts of the series.
This one looked a little bit more like it was
setting up one of the antagonists. And I'm not going
to spoil anything because I think people need to watch
it if they're going to watch it. I don't. I
still am not sure if I'm going to watch it,
But yeah, it looked it made it look very tense

(51:55):
and dramatic, focusing mostly on the human stuff. But then
that's what the first season too, and honestly, it's I
think the more interesting thing, Like, yeah, you know, the
monsters are there to provide tension and pressure, but they're
not really what the story's about.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Humans doing horrible things is way scarier than monsters doing
horrible things.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Yeah, because because we're not likely to run into a
mushroom powered monster out there, but we definitely can run
into people who have bad intentions.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yeah, yeah, I will probably watch the last of US
season two, unless there are episodes that I just need
to completely nope out of and I'll let you know.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yeah, maybe the episode where they have finger sandwiches. You
might want to know.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, I will let me know where that is in
the game.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
I'm making it up, so I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Okay. The next thing, I almost added this to our
our lineup, and then I noticed you did because Jonathan
was way ahead of me, and everything I found to
talk about this week he had already found. So the
next is a trailer for a horror comedy site called
new Topia.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yeah, it's coming out on February seventh, and it is.
It's it's like a kind of a sort of a
romance story, or like a this couple or would be
couple wanting to find each other in the midst of

(53:24):
a zombie outbreak.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I don't remember. I thought at the beginning of the trailer,
like they broke up and then the zombie outbreak happened,
and they're like, maybe we should reconnect.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Yeah, I think I think you're right. I think that
is it.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
So who else are we going to reconnect with?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yeah, it turns out all my other options are currently
trying to chew my brains out.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Yeah, it does look very funny, kind of like Daybreak
was the one where like all the high school kids
were just living in a zombie apocalypse and that was
just it. I don't know, it looks funny. It looks funny.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
What was the one with the Christmas music where it
was the that's.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
The Return of the Living Dead and it doesn't come
out till next year.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
No, no, no, no, no, no no no, it's one
that's already been out. It was a musical. It was
a zombie musical. I don't musical. It was a musical,
not a sousical. A musical. What do you talk? Why
do you talk?

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Zombie Christmas musical? I can't spell zombie Christmas? Anna and
the Apocalypse.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
That's it. That's the one I was thinking of. I've
only seen it the one time. I was like, maybe
it's like that. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing more
about that. It looked it looked entertaining. Then we get
into a whole bunch of I guess it's understandable because
AI has constantly been kind of a source for sci

(54:53):
fi horror, Like we've had that, that's been a thing forever.
But I expect We're going to see a lot more
of that in the wake of things like Chad GPT
and all that stuff. And so for the next three movies,
we've kind of got technology and horror combos. So first
up is a film called Cassandra, which comes out February sixth,

(55:14):
and this is go ahead.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
This is kind of like Megan, but if Megan was
on a more rudimentary body and the face was on
a TV screen.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Yeah. Yeah, so kind of like some of the robots
in Fallout New Vegas. But uh yeah. I felt like
as I was watching this, I was like, isn't there
a movie that's almost exactly this same premise except it's
a more humanoid looking robot and it came out like

(55:44):
last year in twenty twenty four, And I'm almost certain
there is like it was like a nanny robot or
something and very similar in many ways to Megan, And yeah,
this feels like it's another version of that. There is
like a conspiracy element to this about the company that

(56:05):
makes the robot and the persona that's been embedded in
the robot having like a history with the family.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
That's yeah, it seems like they based her off a
real person. I think the movie you're thinking of is
called Subservience with Megan Fox.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Yeah, I think that is that. Yeah. So, like I said,
there's been so many of these, well and then and
then that's also similar to the next one, which is Companion,
another robot movie that comes out January thirty.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
First, Yeah, when the teaser for this came out, I
didn't know it was about a robot, and I almost
added it to our lineup, and then I didn't because
it was just it seemed like a.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Torture porn movie, like a psycho sexual thriller kind of movie.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Yeah, like Misery but sexy.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Yeah, but it's Companion. The female character lead is a robot,
apparently a companion robot. You can draw your conclusions as
to what that means, and that things go wrong fatal
attraction style but with robots. So yeah, it's fatal attraction,

(57:16):
but a robot. Glenn Close is a robot.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
And it's got Jack Quid being creepy jack.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Quaids So yeah, it also made me think man jack
Quaid has been busy.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Yeah, but like with a broad spectrum of roles, which
is great, you.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Know, yeah, yeah, no, good for him. I'm just like
surprised to see him, and so like, my boy is
starting to turn into my girl Anya Taylor Joy being
in every single thing that's ever been made. Yea, which
is fine. I like Jack Quaid a lot too. So yeah,
I thought I thought Companion looked interesting. I actually thought
Companion looked more interesting to me than Cassandra does.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
I agree. I agree. It feels like it gives the
characters more agency. Plus it's got it's got Harvey Gulian
in it. But I was going to say Bowen Yang,
and I knew that that was not right. Bow and
Yang was in Wicked Harvey Gulian. They are nothing like
each other. No, it's got Harvey Goulian in it.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Yeah, what we do in the shadows kind of action
going on. One of the trailers that I highlighted saying
that Ariel didn't need to watch it if she didn't
want to, this one you could have watched, like it's
not it doesn't have anything in it that would squik
you out, Like this is not one that you would
find too gory or too like gruesome or anything. It

(58:36):
was more that for the purposes of time, I didn't
want you to have to worry about it. But it's
a movie that was actually made a couple of years ago.
I think it was twenty twenty three. It's called creep Box,
but it's getting its release on January twenty fourth, and
the premises there's a essentially like a computer scientist type

(58:57):
guy and he tragically he's lost his wife. His wife
has passed away, and he has constructed a technological device
that he hopes will be able to detect and prove
that there's an afterlife because he has this deep need
to reconnect with his wife and is become really obsessed

(59:21):
with it, and his colleagues are concerned for him because
they worry that he is kind of losing his grip
on sanity in this pursuit of this goal. And it
looks like it's it's very low budget kind of approach
to it, but it's the kind of science fiction thriller
horror stuff that I find particularly compelling. Like if I

(59:44):
were to compare it to another kind of low budget
sci fi movie, I would say something like Primer, okay,
where it's just like it's a very thoughtful movie and
so it's not about spectacle, but it is about like
exploring certain ideas and philosophies and using technology as sort
of the method to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Gotcha, Well, if I could have watched Creepbox, did you
mean to accidentally highlight dark Match instead?

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
No? No, dark Match had been on there already, So
that one. I was like, you probably have already seen
it because that's been on there all week.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Okay, because it does sound like I could have watched,
I would be interested in watching the I will go
back and but hey, I'll finish a sentence.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I got it. So like Creepbox might be up your street.
But Dark Match, which was is a really gruesome horror
movie set on the backdrop of a pro wrestling kind
of situation, isn't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
That's yeah, so Dark Matches is about uh, I think
the lead character is a female wrestler who gets involved
in this underground wrestling match where they delight in like torturing, hurting, naming,
and killing each other. And so yes, that's that goes
into like the horror torture horror kind of thing that

(01:01:03):
is not my jam. It just feels like it delights
in gruesomeness and meanness.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Well, I think the premise and yeah, I don't think
there's any bigger story being told here. It's more like
this is a high concept that has been turned into
a movie, right, And the chi concept in this case
is what if there's this satanic cult led by actual
professional wrestler Chris Jericho, but the satanic cult that lures

(01:01:33):
up and comer or want to be pro wrestlers to
come out and put on a show, but then forces
them to wrestle for Realsi's to the death as kind
of a sacrifice to their dark god. I think that's
kind of the vibe I'm getting from this trailer. And
to me, it was like, oh, it's combining two things
I enjoy wrestling and horror movies, but in a way

(01:01:56):
that I probably won't like. So it'll be like a
really bad recess Peanut butter Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Yeah, I'll just I'll stick to Queen of the Ring,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
I'll probably still try and watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Yeah, the next one, I am torn on this. So
the next trailer we talked about a teaser for, but
now we've got a full trailer. It's for Heart Eyes,
which has a very like scream esque vibe. The full
tra it's it's about a serial killer who kills couples
on Valentine's Day, but kind of kind of tongue in cheek.

(01:02:34):
I'm torn because on the one hand, it looks incredibly
gruesome and like a thing that would just upset me
and I'd have to constantly keep my eyes closed. And
on the other hand, one, I really like the idea
of a healthy couple being like the main protagonists and
maybe getting through it together. Like I like that. You
don't really see.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
That, right, No, Yeah, Usually in horror movies it ends
up being two people who are maybe in a couple
but not together, but they hook up and that's what
that's what marks them for death because they have they
have broken a rule and the killer will will see
to them shortly.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Yeah, yeah, and like it's it's crazy. Rich Asians is
not a horror movie, but I really loved that movie
because the main couple and that was also a healthy couple. Again,
you just don't see that that much. And then two,
the other reason I want to watch it is because
it's directed by Josh Ruben, who I think is a
very funny person. He's on Dropout TV a lot, and

(01:03:38):
I always think he's delightful. He's an incredible actor. I
haven't watched the other stuff he's directed, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
But oh, you haven't seen were Wolves then.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
No, I haven't seen. I should see Where Wolves Within?
Also with Harvey Gulian and then.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Squirrel Girl. Oh, I know, I know who you're talking about,
but I never remember her name. She was also I
think the Best Buy, Like she was the AT and
t oh at and T. It was AT and T. Yeah,
she was, she was in lots of Yeah. Uh she is,
she is. She is the best component of Where Wolves

(01:04:19):
Within by far. Uh. Where Wolves Within is not a
terrible movie, but she is, uh, the best element in
that that movie. It's not it's not great, but it's
not bad.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
She she is a very funny person. She she is often.
She's been on after MINNTE a few times, and I
think she's also been on Dropout TV, and I think
she's incredibly funny. I'm really sad we never got to
see her Squirrel Girl series. Uh, but I mean this
looks like a clever horror movie. I'm just afraid it's
going to be a little too gruesome for me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Yeah, I thought when I first saw it, I was like, oh,
this looks this reminds me of Thanksgiving. The eli Roth movie,
but not as over the top as far as both
the comedy and the horror comedy elements like it. It
looks almost more like a like it's leaning harder on
the horror side than the comedy side, at least in

(01:05:17):
the trailer, as I recall, but I have to watch
the trailer again. Maybe I'm just forgetting the comedic bits.
I just in my mind the way I remember it, it
came across more like a very stylized serial killer kind
of movie.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
And then the last film we have is another one
I highlighted, so Ariel, you have not watched this one?

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
This is for a horror movie called free Lance, and
the story is about a young woman who is a
video editor, and she's a freelance video editor. So she's
always hustling looking for her next gig, because it says
in the trailer like sometimes the jobs are in and
sometimes they're not, and so you can have times where

(01:06:01):
you are struggling to make ends meet because you're not
finding work, which is very much in the freelance life.
And she gets this opportunity to work on a video project,
and she's like working from home and everything that will
pay her a hefty amount of money for the amount
of work she would have to do, so she agrees,

(01:06:21):
and then she gets the tape sent to her, and
she discovers that something really horrifying is captured on tape,
and the implication is that it's like a snuff film,
like it's like actual people being killed on tape, and
she's being told to edit the video, and then she
starts to experience really creepy stuff and you can't be

(01:06:47):
sure if it's in her head where maybe she's imagining
it because of the stuff she's had to watch, or
if it's actually happening because she has not turned in
the edit on time, and that maybe whatever group or
person made the video as coming after her, you don't
really know. Looks extremely creepy and disturbing, which is why

(01:07:11):
one of the reasons why I highlighted it because I
was like, hell, Ariel does not need to see this,
but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
I've done video editing. That's you describing it was almost
too much for me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Well, and like it makes me think of the people
who used to do like content moderation first sites like
Facebook right where, and it's almost always outsourced to countries
like in Asia or Africa, where people are having to
go through enormous amounts of material and look for signs

(01:07:43):
of stuff that that violates platform policies. And the stories
out of those places are heartbreaking because you hear about
people who have essentially the equivalent of PTSD just doing
their job because they've seen so much terrible stuff. And
this kind of reminded me of that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Yeah, yes, for sure, I have watched Freelance, but it
was the John Cena Allison Brie action movie I'll oh
Romancing the Stone, and I've only seen the first three
quarters of it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
I forgot that that was even a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Maybe the first two thirds. I was watching it on
a plane and I didn't get to finish it. I
liked what I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Yeah, maybe I'll watch that while I'm flying to Katar.
I'm not looking.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
That's an interesting choice.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Yeah, yeah, well, well who knows what will be on
the entertainment system. I'll have plenty of time to watch
lots of stuff. I understand it's a fourteen hour flight,
so whoof I hope you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Get a comfortable seat. My friend me too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
But that's it. Those are all the stories and trailers
and stuff that we rounded up for this week. I'm
sure we miss something because inevitably we'll stop recording and
then like forty five minutes later, Ariel will send me
a message saying, hey, look at this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
God no, this time it'll be like an hour and
a half later because I do have to jump into
an audition when we're done with this. But yes, uh yeah,
thank you all for listening with us and joining us
in the new year. You know, the new year is
a time for picking up good habits that you've dropped
through the last year. So if you have enjoyed what

(01:09:21):
you've listened to, please tell your friends and family and
you know, let us know, and Jonathan if they want
to let you know about how they've enjoyed the show
or things they enjoyed to see, how do they reach you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Well, you're going to need to take a long weekend
and you're going to have to rent a cabin on
man Meat Mountain, and you're going to go up to
man Meat Mountain where just like six foot four inch
tall muscular dudes are just wandering around punching stuff. Like

(01:09:55):
you go to get a subway sandwich, they punch all
the ingredients and then hand it to you saying there's
your sandwich, and you just say, yes, this is exactly
how I wanted it, because you don't want to end
up like the sandwich. Or they're out fishing, but they're
not using fishing rods and nets and stuff. Now they're
just wading into the water and punching at it. Or

(01:10:15):
maybe you need to catch an uber or a lift. Well,
I'm sorry to say, instead of a car pulling up,
it's going to be a six foot four inch tall dude.
He's just going to punch you till you get to
your destination. It's going to be a rough weekend, is
what I'm saying. But the nice thing is you're going
to get through it. And at ten am, at the
end of that long weekend, you're getting ready to check

(01:10:37):
out of your cabin. You'll see that there's a little
cleaning crew that's pulled up so that they can come
in and turn the place around for the next folks
to visit. Man Meet Mountain, and you'll notice that I'm
getting out of the car because now that I'm no
longer hosting tech stuff, I got to pay the bills.
And you'll see me in my little vacuum cleaner carrying
it up to the front door and you can ask

(01:10:58):
me your question then yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
And if you're just too amused by people punching water
and punching things like look, I love watching the slaps
giving episodes of How I Met Your Mother. So if
you're too distracted and entertained to ask Jonathan a question,
you can also reach out to us on social media
on Facebook and Instagram and threads. We are a large
neurduring Collider. That's also our handle on Discord. Maybe Blue

(01:11:26):
Guy's getting more active, so maybe I will start posting
there as well. I don't remember what our handle is there,
but I'll tell you next week if you want to.
If you want to read anything more about any things
we talked about, or watch any the trailers and you
could YouTube them YouTube them, or you could go to
our website www dot large nerd n collider dot com.

(01:11:47):
Uh it is up to date through the last episode,
including the lost episode that we released after Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Yeah, the one that we recorded and halfway public before Christmas.
But I forgot one key button.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Yeah, uh so there's that. Or you could email us.
Our email is large nerdron Pod at gmail dot com.
We do hope to bring back things like mashups in
this new year at some point. But if there's anything
else you'd like to see back or whatever, let us know.
We appreciate you listening, and we want to give you

(01:12:25):
content that you want to listen to. And until next time,
I am Ariel g. I guess my New year's resolution
wasn't to make the ending of this show more succinct.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
Caston and I have been Jonathan. You can find me
on Man Meet Mountain. 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

(01:12:58):
McLeod of Enco Comptech dot com m