Going to the Tonys with The Boys

Ariel and Jonathan talk (a lot) about what they've watched this week, plus it turns out all the trailers are for horror movies or horror-adjacent movies. Whoops!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider podcast, the
podcast that's all about kiheeky things happening in the world
around us and how very excited we are about them.
I'm Ariel Castin, and with me, as always is the
ageless and timeless every young Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I do it by having an Okarina of time nice.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I just have the regular world boring okarinas Karna.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okarina Karina Akarina, I think is actually more accurate. But
I use that because we have a story today about
Legend of Zelda, So that's for my fellow Legend of
Zelda fans. But We've got a lot more to get
through before we get to that story. And part of
it is that we chat about stuff, what we have

(01:01):
seen or done that's in the geek realm since the
last time we recorded.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, and I have no idea how I watched as
much as I've watched between last week and this week.
I really don't because I'm forever busy. But apparently I
finished The Brother's Son, which was delightful. I feel like
the series got better as it went on, and I'm

(01:27):
really sad that it didn't get picked up for a
second season. I know a whole bunch of people who
are watching it now, so I hope it might get
a resurgence sometime in the future. It's about one one
brother who's in the mafia and one who wants to
do improv in America, and Michelle Yo is their mom

(01:49):
and she's also in the mafia. And it's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
And a lot of a lot of yes, and I'm guessing.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, And it was delightful. It was funny, it was heartwarming.
There was a lot of really cool fight choreography, some
kind of violence, but overall very good. I also watched
American Fiction, which is a movie with Jeffrey Wright, Yes,

(02:19):
who is an author who writes these really good novels
but they aren't selling, maybe because they're too cerebral, and
so he gets convinced to write a novel from the
black perspective. But it's not his black perspective. It's kind

(02:39):
of like the a Bonyx Street Gang kind of perspective.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's Yeah. When I saw the previews, it made me
think that they were kind of sending up the sort
of entertainment that frequently gets associated with Tyler Perry.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, but it was a very good movie. It was
most of the movie was actually about his relationship with
his family. It was almost like the story the story
was a like a second a plot. It was more
important than a B plot. But it maybe wasn't the
thing that we spent the most time on. But I
really enjoyed it. It It was more drama than comedy,

(03:21):
but the comedic moments were beautiful. Yeah, it was a
really good movie.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, and I had heard that, but it was it
was like I'd almost put it into like the like
cider House Rules kind of feel of a movie, like
like almost that more like its slice of life is

(03:48):
wrong because who lives with these Not the average Joe
lives with these circumstances. But that kind of more drama,
low paced sort of a movie, which is great because
I remember and Matt Damon was on Hot Ones. He said,
you can't really make those movies and be successful anymore,
and this one was so great. I also have started
the final season of Star Trek Discovery and the second

(04:10):
episode really brought me in and I'm super into it
and I'm all on board. I finished the second half
of Bridgerton, which was okay.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I knew the enthusiasm had to wear out at some point.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, it just I think Queen Charlotte and I'm not
going to spend long on this because I know I've
already talked about it on the show. Queen Charlotte did
such a good job of building relationship and compassion and
still having some steamy stuff in there that I feel
like this latest season and it's like everybody's not Everybody's
many people's favorite story is the Penelope Featherington Colin Bridgerton romance,

(04:52):
and they changed some things, and I just it didn't
play as well as I wanted it to. So, and
then I watched Tony's not as they aired but later.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay, and they were they were interesting. Any favorite moments
in the Tonies that stood out?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, the opening number didn't hit me as much as
I wanted it to. Although I loved the diversity in
dancing dancers that they used. It was lovely, and the
dance numbers were great, that it just wasn't like that
comedic kind of Tony's intro that I usually love. I
really liked the Outsider's performance, which surprised me. I've never

(05:35):
seen the movie, but I'm familiar. I just feel like
the montage of songs they did had some really cool
technical moments that were seamless, and I'm like, oh crap,
when did they have time to do that? Because they
transitioned from like a greaser song to the brawl infamous brawl,

(05:56):
I guess, and these actors getting pulled back and like
it was tussle and there was a lot of movement
and it wasn't like a wall of actors hiding an actor,
but as soon as the person popped out of the
fray of fight, they were covered in blood in strategic places.
I'm like, I don't know how they found time to
do that and so accurately, and then it rained on

(06:18):
stage and so part of it was like a rain,
like a splashy water dance wow fight fight. So that
was cool. Suffs, which is a musical about the women's
suffragette movement. This is that's kind of still a thing,

(06:39):
but it's about women's suffragettes. The song actually really moved me,
and I again didn't expect to be like, oh, this
is the musical I want to see Tommy's the who.
I think it suffered from being on the Tony stage
as opposed to its normal stage with its normal sound

(07:01):
people because the sound mixing was bad. There was a
moment from Gutenberg that was kind of funny, even though
it's not a musical and.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Gutsburg is a musical, is it, Yeah, it's Gutenberg the
music the musical.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Okay, well they didn't sing, they just kind of presented,
but it was funny. I've not seen Gutenberg either when
it was in Atlanta or in Broadway. Broadway it's crazy expensive.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well yeah, I wanted to go, but having had
seen it in Atlanta, I could not justify spending the
amount of money for the Broadway tickets to see a show,
like I already knew what the show was. I've already
seen the show. It was not with Broadway actors as
local Atlanta actors, but and I very much enjoyed it,

(07:57):
but I knew, Like I'm like, there's no spectacle to
this show. The spectacle is all dependent upon the performance
of the two leads. Like that is ninety nine percent
of the show falls on those two leads and then
the rest of it falls on the technical and music staff.
And I'm like, well, I can't justify spending three hundred

(08:18):
bucks a seat for a show. There's no like crazy
sets or costumes or anything. I mean, I love the show,
but I just couldn't do it. But yeah, it's a
I wish you could have seen it when it was
in Atlanta because you would have been laughing your butt
off the entire time. I bet.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I'm sad I didn't get to see it either place,
but I'm sure it'll make a resurgence somewhere. I watched.
Cabaret was the other I guess there were more. There
was like Hell's Kitchen and things like that, which was okay.
It was like an Ilisha Key's Jukebox Musical, which I
like her, and she made a guess parents, so that

(09:00):
was cool. Eddie Redmains performance is the MC. When I
first watched it, I'm like, what in the world is
he doing. He's got all these like weird ticks and
affectations to the way he's speaking. And then i watched
this whole TikTok movement on the MC and Cabaret and
kind of that character's journey, and I'm like, Okay, I'm

(09:21):
fine with him being in humans. So the more I
watch it, the more I'm like, Okay, this is a
little less weird, and it flows a little bit better,
but it's still very weird.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
And Joel Gray, Joel Gray and Alan Cumming have very
different like their their individual takes on the MC are
very very different from each other, and I love both
of those. But I've never seen any of Eddie remnaines
it is.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
You can catch his performance on YouTube. I would really
enjoy hearing your perspective on it. To me, it comes
across as like possessed Marionette.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, and I mean like when you look at the
al Andcomming one, the way his suspenders work is a
little unconventional. Let's say it made me think a little
bit of clockwork orange and anyway, it's like I get it,

(10:16):
like it's supposed to be. Well, especially once Alan Cummings
version came up ended up being far more sexualized and
sort of this CD and creepy kind of vibe going on,
whereas the original one. I mean, it's CD and creepy,
but it's not as overtly sexual. It's more I think

(10:38):
in every single version the MC is a little odd,
like at least odd, if not a little inhuman.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
And if you listen to Joel Gray's interview about developing
that character, he like he talks about the realization that
as the pl goes on, the MC is becoming a
Nazi basically.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, and the Alan Cumming version has a very poignant
part about that, because of course the Nazis they didn't
just round up Jewish people, they also round up homosexuals
and and others, and so that ends up playing a
big part in the end of No spoilers, I guess,

(11:28):
but I.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Guess that's that's the that's the that's the musical, right.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, And here's the thing is that you know, here
in Atlanta there's just about to be a new mounting
of Cabaret at Actors Express, which I plan. I plan
to go see. It mounts in late July and runs
through early September.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Let me know when you do, because.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
You want to go to the kit Cat Club with me.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I would like to go to the kit Cat Club.
I've never seen a live performance of it.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
It is. It is a very I mean, it's a
rough show. It's a good show. I love Cabaret, but
it is it is an emotionally draining show. It's also
an odd one because you know, Sally Bowles, one of
the characters, one of the primary characters of the show, Like,

(12:17):
she's not supposed to be phenomenal, Like she's supposed to
be a good cabaret performer. But the whole idea is
she's not supposed to be like some sort of amazing star, right,
so playing her like actors are supposed to be well, Ideally,
in my mind, actors are supposed to play her as

(12:37):
good but not great, which is a tricky line to
walk as an actor. But luckily, like I've seen it
with actresses who were in that realm, and I think
partly one of the reasons was I saw I can't
remember which actress it was. She was. She was on
Broadway during Alan Cummings more recent as the MC, and

(13:01):
she was like the replacement. She was the person who
was coming in after the original actor had left. But
she was really nervous the night I saw her, and
it came and it came through in her performance. But
I was like, but that works for this character.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah. Yeah, And like Cabre is one of those shows that,
like the very front facing story of it is not
something that always appeals to me. Yeah, but knowing that
there is a deeper, more emotional story that does appeal
to me.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, Yeah, there's multiple things going on. You have like
this doomed romance that's playing out in front of you,
but you also have the encroaching threat of Nazi Germany
being like an overall thing that is having a greater
effect as the show goes on.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I feel like I have nothing more to say
on Cabaret, but I do have one more thing to
say on the Tonys Sure, which is uh. I heard
there's a play called Stereophonic that's been on Broadway about
like the making of a band or the lives of
being in a band or something like that. I think

(14:19):
it is a play, but there is music in it.
The actors sing and play instruments. It wasn't supposed to
perform at the Broadways, and I this is what I've heard,
but so many people kind of raised heck about it,
saying they wanted Stereophonic to be one of the performers
at the broad at the Broadway at the Tony Awards

(14:39):
that they put them in.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh that's kind of interesting. Thereby by audience demand, popular demand, Yeah, yeah,
well that's cool. I mean that's a that's a good
selection of things what you have seen. I actually watched
stuff this week. It's unusual, like for some reason, I've
gotten into watching things again. So I watched the horror

(15:04):
movie Stop Motion, which we we talked about the trailer
for Stop Motion on this show Once upon a Time.
The premise of the of the film is that there's
this young woman who is essentially acting as the hands
for her mother, who is a stop motion artist, like

(15:25):
you know, stop motion photography to create stop motion animated films,
and her mother is working on this story that's very
important to her. But her mother has developed severe arthritis
in her hands and can't manipulate the puppets anymore. So
her daughter is doing it. Her adult daughter is doing
it for her, and the mother's very demanding. The mother

(15:51):
has a medical an incident, we'll say, and the young
woman and encounters a girl and is telling the girl
about the story that they're doing, and the girl's like,
that's boring. You should do a story about a girl
who's lost in the woods. And it becomes clear that

(16:13):
the young girl is a negative influence, we'll say, And
it gets increasingly surreal and dark as it goes on.
Now I felt that the movie was trying to be
something like hereditary. There goes Tible disagrees with me, but

(16:33):
I thought it was like Hereditary and that ultimately I
was I was not super entertained or interested by the
end of the movie. Like it was fine. It was
well done and well shot and well acted, but it
just didn't work for me as far as like a
horror movie that sticks with you, right, So that one

(16:56):
was a little bit of a disappointment for me, and
not saying it's a bad movie, it just didn't work
for me. Then I saw on Monday, I finally went
and saw Furiosa in the theater.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
And.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I enjoyed the movie. It is a very different movie
from Fury Road. It's it's a movie that's divided into chapters,
and the chapters actually have title cards that come up
and sack Snyder. Yeah, not something you would expect from
George Miller, but yeah it You know, you get to
see a lot more world building, like they did a

(17:31):
lot of world building in Fury Road, and you see
more of that in this right, Like you get more
background on things like gas Town and Bullet Town. There
are a lot of characters who show up in Fury
Road who appear in Furiosa, many of whom are played
by different actors because some of those actors aren't with
us anymore. Between the ten years of when the movie.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Came out, it's been ten years.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, cheesy, Yeah, it was ten years decade
decade between Fury Road and Furiosa.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Shut your face full, sorry because that would make for
bad podcasting.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
But yeah, uh I thought I thought it was good.
I was entertained. I thought Anya Taylor Joy was was
good in it. I thought the young girl who played
young Furiosa was really good as well.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
I liked Chris Himsworth enough in it. But Becca, she
said that his performance took her out of the movie
because he wasn't well, because he was so he was
like a little too cartoony in her mind, like obviously,
characters in the Mad Max universe are outlandish, that's just

(18:48):
that's a that's a staple. But she felt that he
was sort of cartoon villainy and that it didn't come
across as the same sort of extreme villain that you
see in other or Mad Max movies. So so she
was not as as entertained as I was. But we

(19:10):
both we both liked the movie. I don't think either
of us loved it I think I think Fear he
wrote is a more entertaining film for me, But I
did still think it was a pretty interesting movie.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Did it Did it feel really really long? Because that's
some of the criticism I've heard about it.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I didn't think it felt really long. Uh, I mean,
like the beginning. The beginning maybe felt a little long
for me, but that was largely because I was like,
when is she going to end up with a Morton
Joe and becomes a driver? Like, how is that gonna happen?
Because there's certain things that happened in the movie where

(19:49):
you're like, well, wait a minute, if this happened, how
does she ever get to the point where she can
become a driver? Because it seems like this thing that's
happening right now would prevent that from ever being a possibility,
And the movie sort of answers that. I'm not fully
satisfied with the answers, but I thought that it was fine.

(20:15):
I didn't feel like it was too long.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Gotcha. I have another question about it. Yeah, I know
that they did some weird face merging with the child
actor and Anya Taylor Joy. Did that come across Uncanny Valley?

Speaker 2 (20:31):
No, it didn't. It didn't come across Uncanny Valley in
the slightest like. Actually, Becca told me later, she's like, wow,
I just can't believe they got a child actor who
looks so much like Anya Taylor Joy. I'm like, well, interesting,
you should say that. And I told her and she's like, wow,
I had no idea, And yeah, it's it's pretty like

(20:51):
it's not like you're in a character creator in a
video game and you're suddenly moving the slider left and
right super hard, right, Like, it's not that sudden. They did.
They did a good job of making the changes be
gradual and subtle. Uh so, yeah, it uh it worked.
I never I didn't really knowing that it had happened.

(21:12):
It it wasn't It didn't stand out to me awesome.
And then finally I have watched, uh the as of
now four episodes of season four of The Boys. I
actually watched all four this week.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, yeah, I you know, we we actually talked last
night because Jonathan was helping me with an audition and
he gave me just a tiny sneak peek.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Of the four episodes. I was like, that's a lot
for an entire season.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, and that's we're not we're not We're not through
a season yet. Yeah, there's a lot going on. I mean,
part of it is a little frustrating because you know,
they've already announced that season five is going to be
the final season of The Boys, which I think is
I think that's fine. I think knowing when to end
is really important. Like, you don't want to just, you know,

(22:08):
spin the wheels just because it's something that people like,
and then gradually people like it less and less until
finally it's just it just sputters out. You don't want that.
You want to be able to tell a story. I'm
concerned because I feel like they could have concluded the
story this season. Honestly, I feel like I feel like
they probably could have done it in three seasons, but

(22:28):
like I feel like, definitely they could conclude it this season.
I already feel like this season has got some water
treading stuff going on, where it's like it's not that
the things that are happening aren't interesting, but a lot
of it feels like it's the same stuff happening over

(22:49):
and over, and I don't it's it's edging way too
close to misery porn for me. Like the reason why
I had to get out of watching Game of Thrones,
the reason why I never really got into Walking Dead.
There are a lot of the same things playing out
with the Boys. Ironically, there's a scene where Hughey talks

(23:09):
about how Starlight or how Annie, because she no longer
goes by Starlight, how she needs to go back to
being Starlight so that she can be a beacon of
hope because people really need hope. And I'm like, take
some notes the Boys, because you don't have any of
this in your show.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's interesting because I was about to say that it's
getting to if it's getting towards Game of Throne and
Walking Dead territory. Yeah, yeah, I feel like I got
further along and Walking Dead or Game of Thrones, but
that's not actually true. I do think I quit after
two or three seasons of Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.

(23:56):
I watched the first couple of seasons and then I
watched like the last couple of seas since so I
took a big multi season break. But yeah, season three
of the Boys, I had to nope out. I like
the characters, and I like the story and the satire
and the commentary, but yeah, it's the misery porn shock

(24:17):
value stuff that they do detracts.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
From it with Yeah, there's some definite shock value moments
where you're like, the only reason this is in the
show is because it's so shocking and it's going to
get people like talking about it or whatever. But it
doesn't add anything to the story, the narrative or the characters. Right, Like,

(24:41):
there's one scene in particular, I'll never ever be able
to unsee that again, has nothing to do with anything
of importance. It's just there and it lingers way too
long on it and I'm not going to say anything
because it's a family friendly podcast, but it was it's like, really,

(25:01):
do we I mean, you're not shocking me, You're just
disappointing me, is really what I came down to, because
I felt like it was a serious crutch.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, I I think it's really sad, I because I
like the actors too well.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
The other thing that's kind of rough and I was
just for anyone who's thinking about watching it is one
of the things that's kind of being on Rinse and
Repeat this season is we're finding out about the past
of some of the heroes, like some of the actual
like the boys, some of the members of the Boys,

(25:40):
you're finding about some of their pasts that is showing
them to have been, at least at some point, really
not good people. And I'm like, I mean, I get
that they're trying to ground this and say, oh, well,
no one's going to be like a pal right, no

(26:01):
one's gonna be perfect and a shining beacon of goodness.
But do we really need to have scenes where the
message appears to be that the heroes of the Boys
are only maybe a half step away from how horrible
the Seven are? Because if so, this is Game of
Thrones where it's just let's put a bunch of really

(26:23):
terrible people in a jar, close the lid, and then
shake the jar so we can make them fight. Right, Like,
I'm like, I don't need that. That's not I need.
I need hope bring starlight in.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, it is interesting because it's it's definitely a storytelling problem,
not necessarily a subject matter problem.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, because like.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
If you look at if you I think you could
get the same points across and like you said, give
someone hope. If you look at the difference between Walking
Dead the later seasons especially, and Left for Dead not left.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
For Dead fear the walking Dead, No, is it.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Left for Dead? The one with the zombie mushroom people.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh, that's Last of Us?

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Last of Us? Similar type shows, similar type story, and
Last of Us is also a very depressing, sad story.
But it leaves me. I don't feel gross leaving an episode. Yeah,
every once in a while I feel incredibly sad. There
was one episode that like I noped out of the

(27:32):
most of for Last of Us.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Was the one where if I use the phrase what's
eating you that applies.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
To the Yes, yeah, because it just had subject matter
that I knew would make me feel gross. But the
beginning and the end of it, we're still quite good. Yeah,
because I just watched the beginning and the end. But yeah,
it's that's a horribly depressing story. I know it's only
going to get worse, and yet I feel okay coming
out of it. Same with Fallout, which has the all

(28:00):
these people are saying they're doing things for good, but
they're really just all the same people doing the same
problems that they're saying are wrong with the world. But
I walk out of it feeling like there's some hope,
feeling like.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, I think change could happen if I were to
compare The Boys to anything and say, I tend to
prefer the other version more. It would be Invincible, right
I Invincible still like crazy over the top violence to
the point where they really are indulging in shock value,
especially the end of the episode one of Invincible, Like

(28:37):
that is some of the most grotesque violence I've ever seen,
and that's definitely a part of it. But I feel
that the character, Like, there are enough characters who are
genuinely trying to do the right thing, and maybe sometimes
they do the wrong thing, but it's because they weren't

(28:57):
aware at the time that it was the wrong thing, right,
they were trying to do something good, Whereas in The Boys,
you almost feel like if anyone does the right thing,
it was purely by accident. It didn't matter.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Like, yeah, yeah, I agree with that. It is interesting because, yeah,
Invincible has some really rough moments, but I still find
it enjoyable.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, And I mean, like, I think the season of
the Boys is going pretty well. I'm not saying it's perfect.
There's some characters, new characters that I think are really
intriguing and I'm curious to see where they go from here.
There's some characters I wish they would just kill off already,
but I know they won't because for whatever reason, they
resonate with the rest of the audience. But I'm just like,

(29:42):
for goodness sakes, just kill the Deep. Just kill the
Deep already, Please kill the Deep.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
He upsets me on so many I felt bad for
him once twice in season one, maybe once in season two,
and the rest of the time I just despised him.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, I grossed me out. I know that he ends
up being like the comedy relief for a lot of episodes,
like the idea of being kind of this just total idiot.
I get it, but it does not mean that I
find him at all entertaining. I will say, however, if
the Deep had been killed before season four, we would

(30:21):
have missed out on Untilda Swinton's amazing performance in season four.
She's the octopus. No, yeah, no, yeah, I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
I don't want to. She's the octopus Deep, the octopus.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
She talks, I don't. She's got a lot to say.
She has complaints about their lack of intimacy.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I need to not know about this.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
It happens in multiple episodes. I can't wait for you
to see it.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'm not going to. I get like, I've given my
husband permission to watch season in three and four without me,
and he watched part of season three and hasn't gone
back to it as far as I know. He's playing
Slave Atpire on Xbox right now. That's taking most of
his free time. But talking about the deep did remind
me of something else that I'm watching right now, Nautilus Live.

(31:10):
This is like my version of Jonathan's Stardew Valley.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, you sent me the link to this, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
So it's There are a few organizations that do this,
but Nautilus Live is an organization of marine biologists basically
that do deep sea exploration and science stuff and mapping
and uh. They do like basically spring to late fall
dives sometimes a little later, you know, depends on what

(31:40):
they're doing and I guess the weather of wherever they're
going and then they live stream it. So like today
because I put it on in the background because the
marine biologists talk. You can go on their website nautilists
Live dot com dot org, tryump see which one works,
and actually ask the marine by it'll tell you if

(32:01):
the marine biologists are active, and you can type out
questions to them and they'll answer them on the live feed,
which is really cool, so you can ask them about
what they're seeing or what they're doing. Today. They were
doing like the Mathra deep sea event.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Chimney thing wow, named after the Godzilla character they were.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I think they were at the Godzilla event yesterday or
the day before. It was another like Kaiju character, and
then doing like some maintenance on some under underwater stuff,
but like watching it. Sometimes they run across really cool species.
They ran across a whale that was playing for the
camera one time, just circling and like exploring and being

(32:50):
very curious about the the r o V that they
were dropping into the water. They came across a whale
graveyard that was covered in octopuses once and after watching
last night's Smarty Pants on dropout. I know that some
people don't like this kind of entertainment, but for me,
I find it incredibly relaxing. The sea mapping is less,

(33:10):
so then you're just kind of seeing a diagram of
what they're of them mapping out the seafloor. Yeah, and
it's usually too deep for people to dive.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
They talked about yesterday.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
There are a couple of sites where people can like
they are shallow enough that divers can go and work
maintenance this stuff, but it's usually these vehicles. But it's
just especially when they're exploring, it's just so wonderful. It's
so relaxing, it's so cool. It makes me feel like
a mermaid.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, the only other thing that's geeky that I do
I do want to mention is I was playing Wizardry,
which is so way back in the early eighties, there
was this dungeon crawler CRPG game called Wizardry that came
out for the Apple too, primarily, but it was available

(33:59):
on other platforms. And it's very simple, like you make
a team of up to six characters. The three in
the front are your typically your warriors, and your and
your damage sponges, and then you can have like a
thief and some magic users and stuff like clerics and
magic users that kind of thing. And it's just it's

(34:21):
a progenitor of a lot of other computer RPGs that
would follow it. Is they did a remake of Wizardry
not too long ago, Like it's a faithful recreation of
the original Wizardry. They did not there's a few little
tiny quality of life improvements that they've thrown in, but
for the most part, it's just an accurate the recreation

(34:44):
of the Apple two game. So I've been playing it
and cursing a lot because it is unforgiving. Your characters
will die multiple times, Like sometimes you'll be able to
get out with at least some of your party a lot,
and if you are, then you can potentially pay to
have characters resurrected if you happen to have enough gold,

(35:07):
or you have to recruit new characters. And then sometimes
it's a total party kill and you lose everybody and
you have to start with new characters.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
I feel like you play the two extremes of video games.
You play these horribly like stressful games, and then you
play Stardew Valley.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, I need to get back into Starduw Valley like
I had reached. I had reached a point in my
last playthrough where I was kind of in the long
tail of the end game where I had done all
the major things that you need to do, Like I
had achieved all the major achievements throughout the game and

(35:44):
now you're just playing, but I had not done all
the things you need to do to hit one hundred
percent completion. I have never hit one hundred percent completion
in Stardoo ever, because it requires a ton of work,
and if you have like a list next to you
or whatever, you could presumably get it done in decent order,

(36:05):
it would still take you a few years of game
time to be able to do it. I think I'm
like five or six years into my game time and
I'm maybe halfway. And so like when you're at that point,
playing through a day of Stardo, feels like you accomplish
nothing because you got you gotten marginally closer to this

(36:26):
goal of one completion, and that can get frustrating to
the point where I'll put it down and won't go
back to it for ages.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, well that's why you have more time to watch things.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
That's true. Actually, you're probably right. Like I haven't seen
any other games that have caught my attention where I
thought I need to dedicate time to this. And not
to say that there haven't been great games, because I mean,
like I played Hades too when it came out, and
that's still an early access, but like I'm not playing

(36:59):
anything that is pulling me hard to play it, like
when I was in Yakuza, like a dragon. Oh my gosh.
I was like, well, here's where my life has gone.
But I haven't done that for the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, yeah, I played Beat Saber. We finally got our
Xbox One working again. I think the kitten had just
gone back there and messed some stuff up or just
like everything else in my house, sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesn't, and you never know why it fixes itself,
but it does, so that's cool. Yeah, But so I

(37:37):
want to finish my run through of Andromeda, you know,
before Mass Effect five comes out in twenty years. But
I've only really been playing Beat Saber as far as
video game and like phone games. One of our mutual
friends just pulled me back into like a Telestra Telestrations

(37:59):
gate phone. Yeah, that's fun. So it takes a very little.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Time because that one of those ones where it's like
someone gets a prompt they have to draw something. The
next person has to guess what that what the drawing is,
Then the next person has to draw based on that.
Got it? Yep? I love it. I love those. I
love those, and I haven't played one in years, but man,
those can be a lot of fun as long as

(38:25):
you don't have someone who's purposefully trying to mess things up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
So it is a little hard because it's on your phone,
and unless you buy other color packs or pen sizes,
you know, you're limited to.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah, and if you if you've got fat fingers, you
might end up having a less than a stellar image.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah. But for somethings like Jack Box, it's funnier when
you do it that way.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, Yeah, that's true. Well, we've got lots of stories
to actually get through. When we really chatted a lot
at the front of the end of the show, it's
forty minutes almost. Let's get let's get to some thirty
seconds or less, shall we? Sure?

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Okay, well then I think I get started. And so,
according to Hollywood reporter Mike Flanagan's the Exorcist film is
not part of a trilogy of films that Blumhouse and
Morgan Creek had counted on. That trilogy started with The
Exorcist Believer. But to say folks were not spinning their
heads in glee about that movie is putting it lightly.

(39:23):
It was a total bomb. So Flannagan's Exorcist picture is
independent of that entry and quote unquote charts a new
course for the series. It's due out on March thirteenth,
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Something else that's coming out but much sooner, is the
first trailer for Nosparatu, which we talked about a little
earlier in the show this year. How at Sinemacon they
showed the trailer and we haven't seen it yet. However,
now you can if you want to go see Bike Riders,
which is an Austin Butler movie about motorcycle gangs, that

(39:57):
will be where you can see this first trailer for now.
I hope it drops too. I'm really glad it's not
before Inside Out too, because it's not that kind of movie.
But hopefully it'll drop to TV and YouTube soon.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Okay, Well, we love mashups here on LLENC. So what
would happen if you mashed up the erotic thriller Fatal
Attraction with the Terminator, Well you might end up with Soulmate,
a movie that is set in the same universe as Megan.
In Soulmate, a man grieving the loss of his wife
turns to the cold embrace of a love bought imbued

(40:30):
with artificial intelligence, and then terrifying Hyjenks and Sue. Here's
hoping we at least get a viral TikTok dance out
of it.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
That might make you feel happy or mad or sad.
But don't worry if you can't suss through those emotions
watching Inside Out or Inside Out too, you be able
to on the series that is coming to Disney Plus
in twenty twenty five. Apparently there's an Inside Out television

(41:00):
show that's going to start with Riley's weird dreams.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm now wondering if Ariel will be able to work
inside Out into all of her thirty seconds or less
stories this week. I don't know. Well. Warner Brothers Animation
is reportedly developing an animated series about the DC hero
Blue Beetle. That's the character who was featured in the
film Blue Beetle, you know, the one that nobody went
to see. So I guess Warner Brothers is striking while

(41:25):
the Iron is lukewarm and developing an animated series now.
To be fair, I think the character might do better
in an animated show than by anchoring his own live
action film. But I always thought he was more of
an ensemble superhero.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, very very sharp dressed. So those inside Out kids
sometimes say gets sick, which is not an emotion. I
have been told feeling sick or hungry or tired, according
to my acting coaches, is not an emotion. However, recently,

(42:01):
a bunch of players of Hell Divers Too were given
the option of either saving a bunch of sick kids
from a hospital in the game from a killer robots,
or earning a cool anti tank mine that they have
been asking for repeatedly and en mass. The players all
chose to well, I can't say all. The majority of

(42:22):
players chose to save the sick kids. And because of that,
the chief creative officer of the company that makes Hell
Divers has made a donation to save the children to
commemorate the in game generosity of the players, which is
really awesome.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Yeah, it makes you wonder if they had chosen the minds,
would that same developer had gone out and put minds
all over the place, because that's just evil.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
I don't I hope not.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Well, here's my last one. Adult Swim has optioned the
late Anthony Bourdain's graphic novel series called Get Jiro Bordained,
best known as a chef as well as a travel
and food TV personality, created the graphic novels with Joel
Rose and artists Langdon Boss and Ale Garza. The series
features a combat ready sushi chef who lives in a

(43:12):
world where people will absolutely kill to get a table
at that new chic restaurant that just opened up. I'm intrigued.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, that seems up my alley too.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, it's kind of like, uh like John Wick meets
the Menu.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah, I you know, Delicious in Dungeon is one of
those shows that I need to watch soon.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
I yeah, I keep hearing about that and I never
did check it out, so I should do that too.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I don't know if it's going to creep me out
too much. I play D and D and a lot
of them. We all play monstrous races in my game almost.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
So oh weird.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
So it's well, well, not accepted. So we have a
warfwged to Changeling. Uh Dragonborn. Uh well, Dragonborn's accepted a tiefling.
They are more nowadays, but you're kind of like but
they're they're more like the.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah, well yeah, I thought you meant like every single
person was playing uh Cobald or right, Yeah, like a
monster that that typically you know, like it's only in
homebrew games where you would typically see this as a
player character.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
I mean, our game is very homebrew. The most normal
player we have is is a Callishtar.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
I saw a YouTube video of a group doing like
a one shot for a live audience. It was a
you know, it's a group that actually mostly they do
Xbox games, but they also do D and D and
they did a performance in front of an audience that
was one shot where it was called oops, all cobolds

(44:44):
and so yeah, they were each person was playing a
cobold character. And I was like, oh, that's that's cute,
that's clever, but but famous, famous Jonathan Choice. I started
the video, watched a little bit, and turned it off
before any actual play had begun.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
You need to skip past that part and directly to
the game.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, or I need to just wait until someone has
made like a best of clips kind of thing and
then I can just watch that. Well, speaking of best
of clips, so we had, you know, obviously, we had
like the Summer Games Fest, we had the PC Games Fest,
We had Ubisoft showing off stuff. Recently, now Nintendo has
had their Nintendo Direct like that was that happened this

(45:29):
past week, and there was a lot of stuff shown
off and one thing we knew was not going to happen,
and sure enough it did not happen. But it's okay
because we knew it wasn't going to happen. They did
not announce the next console, so they've said that is
in development, but they had already said they would not
be announcing it at this particular event. They stay true

(45:52):
to their word. But we did get to see some
stuff like Metroid Prime for Beyond. From what I understand,
a lot of fans just felt like that was just
it was more Metroid Prime, which they're happy about, but
it wasn't like transformative and give.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Me slight like Mass Effect vibes slight.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
We also got a Mario and Luigi Brothership game that
was shown off that looks very cute. There was, you know,
several games like a Donkey Kong Country Returns was was
shown off. But I think the thing that most people
were actually excited about was the Legend of Zelda game. See.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
I was wondering if you'd be most excited about that
or most excited about the Cozy Hobbit game.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I mean, the Cozy Hobbit game does probably have like
some Starduo Valley energy running through it too, right, like or.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
The cozy Hello Kitty game.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
I mean, I'm not going to turn my nose up
at Hello Kitty. But but no, I think, well, if
I'm being brutally honest, none of these really caught me.
But I'm I haven't been like a Nintendo console fan
for a few generations now, right like the last generation.
I personally, well, no, I do have a switch, but

(47:15):
I've never played it. I've opened it, but I've literally
never played my switch. I do have one, but the
last console Nintendo console I actually played was an old
game cube, and before that would be the N sixty four,
and those were like my Nintendo consoles, those two because
I was never an NES or S and S owner.

(47:37):
So the N sixty four in the in the game
cube where the two I played the most, and honestly,
the one I played the most was in sixty four.
So none of these really grabbed me. But that's that's
not because the games don't look good. It's because I
just they just Nintendo games don't really appeal to me
very much.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, I there are games that I have wanted to
play on the switch, like I guess I've played Cuphead
and Paper Mario, but I think either on somebody else's
console or on a different platform if they were available.
But like the Zelda games I wish I could have played,

(48:18):
and maybe, like Smash or Mario.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Kart, Mario Party can be fun. Although if you're like me,
Mario Party was designed to drive you to the brink
of homicide because it's one of those games where you
can be like on top of your game and playing
the best you've ever played, and then the random generation
stuff at the end will totally screw you over.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
I mean that's like half of the board games that
I played too, So.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, that's if you were if you're hardwired to believe
in meritocracy, and then and then random events screw you
over and it drives you insane that Mario Party is
not the game for you. But yeah, the legend of
Zelda Echoes of Wisdom is interesting because it does something
that people have at least some Zelda fans have been

(49:10):
asking for for a long time. You do not play
as Link, No, you play as Zelda. Yeah, you have
to rescue Link, which you.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Know, if you're not a video game person, you might
go many years of your life thinking Zelda is the main.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Character of Legend of Zelda, because they're all called Legend
of Zelda.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Yeah. Yeah, but Zelda is the Princess Peach but more badass.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yeah. Often she is a figure that you're supposed to rescue.
Not always. Sometimes she's like the benevolent ruler who is
on your side. But often she's the mcguffin. She's the
thing you're after to rescue from the villain. But this
case she's the hero, which I think is kind of cool.

(49:56):
The art style is extremely cutesy.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah. Yeah, I I feel like everything in Nintendo's cutesy
right now, except for metroids. So I don't I don't.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Know there's it looks like I can't remember what I
don't remember what they're for. You might remember Ariel because
you worked in like young child education and childcare areas.
Do you remember those toys? It's like pre Lego, but
they're the little like the Fisher Price characters, the really
simple well is it duple? I'm just thinking about the

(50:38):
actual little figures that they look like. You know, they
don't have any arms or legs or anything. They're just
kind of sort of cylindrical in shape, but they're like
little Fisher Price characters. That's what the art styles making
me think of. Are those little wooden Fisher Price toys?

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, yeah, Now I'm trying to figure out what they're called.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Fisher Price little people, little people, Yeah, Fisher Price little people.
If you do a Google search for that, it'll pull
them right up and you'll see what I mean, and
it'll be kind of insulting. But that's sort of how
I feel the legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom looks
like to me.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Yeah, And it's also interesting because you in past games
you can have played as Zelda, but as her alter
ego hic correct.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yes, where she's like the I don't know if you
could play as maybe in one of the like Smash
Brothers games or whatever, but yeah, there might be a
game where you act as that character. But yeah, it's
kind of like her cloaked mysterious figure, kind of like
how Aragorn is Strider at the beginning of Lord of
the Rings.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, but they do have some cool mechanics.
Like you, it's Echoes of Wisdom, so you pick up
echoes of different things and you can use them later
without having to carry the things. So it says every
encumbrance system.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Of Yeah, apparently the deal is that if you encounter
an object in the world, then you can have the
ability to duplicate or replicate rather that object later on.
And so I've heard some discussion about how is this
game even going to have any game to it? Or
are you going to be able to break everything just
by replicating beds so that you can like cross a

(52:24):
river of lava or whatever.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
I wonder if it really is everything in the game,
because I can't imagine that selection menu.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Yeah, yeah, how do you navigate that? That would be ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yeah, I'm curious to hear more about it. I probably,
like I said, I haven't I mean, I haven't turned
my switch on yet, so I don't know this is
going to be the one that changes it. But yeah,
so I think Nintendo fans were largely I think pleased,
but not delighted. But then again, I don't think it

(52:59):
was a surprise either, because everyone is aware that the
switch is at the toward the end of its lifespan.
Like Nintendo always sell supports its platforms beyond when they
introduce new ones, so usually there's overlap, but you don't
expect to see a bunch of really groundbreaking games coming

(53:21):
out because you figured Nintendo's kind of holding those back
for the next system.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Yeah, I feel like again we buy systems because it's
it's like you said, what games do you have that
I have to play? And that's been a very long
time since Nintendo has had it.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Yeah. Well, moving on to our news in the film
world and beyond. One thing that Ariel saw that was
interesting is the news about a sequel to a beloved
mel Brooks comedy.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Yeah, comedy that I have never seen. What I've foreseen
it Holy.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
That blows my mind that you've never seen Spaceballs.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
I've seen like five minutes of it and I was like,
this is annoying, and I turned it off. But I
was younger.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
I think I think you would find a lot of
stuff pretty funny. I mean, it's definitely aimed more at
people who are like Star Wars fans, because that's the
that's the specific property they're making fun of the most.
There's a little bit of Star Trek in there too,
and there's other stuff as well, but Star Wars is

(54:32):
primarily the property that they're they're spoofing, and I think Spaceballs,
if you take two films that were made relatively close
to one another in the mel Brooks canon Spaceballs and
Robin hood Men and Tights. I argue that Spaceballs is
hands down the superior film and that it's after robinhood

(54:56):
Men and Tights where I started to lose interest in
mel Brooks movies because I didn't find them as entertaining.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Yeah, except I really liked the musical The Producers with
Uma Thurman and Matthew Broderck. I think that was post.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
That was post. But I have such deep love for
the original Producers film with Gene Wilder and Zero Mustelle
that the musical I thought is fine, but it doesn't
touch the original for me. But I think part of
that is dependent upon which one you see first.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
That probably is true. So I think the problem for
me was Spaceballs. And it's kind of unfair because it's
not solely something that is in Spaceball's but through all
of mel Brooks's comedy is the like the infant, the
juvenile humor, I mean blue humor, the movie.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
It is the heart of all mel Brooks movie.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Yes, but the name of this movie is called space Balls,
and I think probably the five minutes that I turned
on were some juvenile blue joke. And I guess that's
why it didn't hit me, because at least with like
Young Frankenstein, it lured me in with like class.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
I mean, there's definitely there's definitely a lot of like
what knockers. What Knockers is one of the earliest jokes
in Young Frankenstein. But yeah, I get what you're saying.
I also think like those jokes, like it depends on
like I think he was being a little more winky
naughty kind of with his humor.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
In naughty or naughty.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Naughty, like as in be like like like little Wicked
being a little wicked with his humor. When you look
at things like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and the Producers, Like,
there's definitely elements of that in those those films. Then
when you get to things a little bit later like

(57:05):
Spaceballs and Robin Hoodmin in Tights, he doesn't bother with
the winky naughty kind of approach. It's a little more
like right out there overt and I think it does
lose a little something of the the entertainment touch for me,
Like I prefer that kind of I prefer it where

(57:28):
it feels like you're in on the joke, but it's
not like a joke that's just overt and right out
there in the spotlight. So it's one of the reasons
why I do not like the Young Frankenstein Stage musical,
because I feel like all the things that worked in
the movie have been cranked up and turned into overt

(57:49):
dirty jokes in the play, and it just didn't sit
right with me. It's not that I don't appreciate a
good dirty joke. I love dirty jokes, but I was like,
it was so much more artful in the film.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I haven't watched or heard. I've heard one
song from Young Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
He vas my boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I don't think that was the one. I was doing
it in some dance.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Class Transylvania Mania. Maybe maybe.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
But Tony told me that I have to watch the
first Baseballs because Josh gadd is working with mel Brooks
on the second one, and of course I want to
watch that. And I told Tony I already have. I've
watched Avenue five.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
I mean Spaceball's. I think it's worth watching. There are
some great jokes in that, there's some there's some great
growner lines in it. There's some very weird, absurd humor.
Like it's one of those movies. It's kind of like
I would argue, like Monty Python, The Holy Grail. It's
one of those movies that becomes incredibly quotable. So it's

(58:59):
also one of those movies you want your first experience
watching it to not be in a big group of
fans who have seen it a billion times, because they
will ruin the experience for you.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Gotcha, gotcha? Well maybe I will watch it, I do.
I have heard that. Originally, Melbrook said that he wasn't
going to do a sequel unless Rick Mick Romantics came
out of retirement, which is very unlikely.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah, he played Darth Helmet in the original.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Amazing actor who chose to do more important things with
his life and his family. So you know, if he
came out, that would be amazing. I'm not like betting
my hat on it.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (59:46):
How that phrase?

Speaker 2 (59:47):
God? Why not? Probably?

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Not sure, but you know, maybe maybe I'll watch it.
It is one of those blind spots in geek culture
that I have. Yeah, I think it's I did like
the barfie at Dragon Con Lash.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I think it's I think it's worth watching, Like you've
seen Robin hood min and Tights though, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Yes, And I loved it mainly because I loved Princess
Bride growing up, and I watched it again recently and
I'm like, this is not this is cringey.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Yeah, like I said, Spaceball's to me was the last. Like,
I don't even think of Spaceballs as a really good
mel Brooks movie because it's late period Meil Brooks. To me,
the really good ones are really the producers, Young Frankenstein
and Blazing Saddles are like the three best. High Anxiety
is also way up there. Silent movie is very silly.

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It is also very juvenile, but it's fun. And then
when you get to things like Spaceballs, I'm like, Okay,
I still enjoy this. I'm enjoying the spoof, but it
is I feel like some of the magic is going away.
And then it just went downhill from there, although nothing
was quite as a big kick in the teeth as

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life stinks. I don't think I'll ever watch that movie again.
But I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I didn't watch that one, but I did watch the
recent History of the World series.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Yeah, I still haven't seen that. I have. I forgot
about the History of the World Part one that is
also a pretty I mean, it's funny it is. That
one's probably the most juvenile of the early Milbrooks movies.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Yeah, it's one of those ones that I don't think
I've ever watched all the way through, but I have
watched all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
I mean, like that makes sense. It was. It was
one of the things that inspired my original Renaissance Festival character,
because when we created characters for the George Renaissance Festival,
one of the things we were supposed to do is
create a motto that kind of encapsulated our character's motivation

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and sort of sort of like their central reason for being, like,
every day and every way I will show people blah
blah blah. And since I was the mayor of the village,
I was like, why it's good to be the mayor
because it was a play on it's good to be
the king.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Yeah. I In History of the World Part two, there
were some skits that were very funny, and then there
was a lot that I was like, what did I
just watch that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
I also like, I have this friend who I used
to lark with who's done a bunch of improv. He's
actually back into it now. He's very clever, and he
once said, you can have a joke about a urinal,
but it's only going to be funny if you can
make it clever.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Yeah. Yeah, it's why like a lot of the improv
groups I have worked with kind of had either a
spoken or unspoken rule of avoid the blue humor because
it's it's an easy, cheap laugh, but it's the kind
of laugh that no one's ever going to remember. Whereas
if you come up with a very clever character or

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a really really fun any joke in the middle of
a scene, that's the kind of thing people will talk
about when the show's over. But if it's you being blue,
then yeah, people might laugh, you might get a response,
but it's no one thinks about it a moment afterwards.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
So yeah, which is hard because you also, an improv
have to play off of what your audience is responding to,
and if they're responding off of juvenile blue jokes, then
you're kind of in a rock and.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
A hard tame. Yeah, but I have walked out of
shows like that, So yes, it's true.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Yeah, Okay, so maybe I'll watch Spaceballs, but I won't
watch it on Netflix. That's not where I can watch it,
which means I also won't be able to do a
Spaceball's experience at one of Netflix's new two new major
entertainment complexes that they're creating.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Yeah, so they're building, well, not building, they're converting old
department stores into these experience centers. One in Dallas, Texas.
Someone in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. I've actually been King
of Prussia.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
I didn't know that was a place.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Yeah, King of Prussia. Yes, I have been there. I've
been to the King of Prussia Mall, which is ginormous.
It is a huge mall. And they've taken these spaces.
They're converting them over into these experiences that are inspired
by Netflix originals, whether that's movies or series. And they'll
also have like thematically relevant food and drink at these places.

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That's about all we know as far as what's going in, Like,
we don't know what specific titles are going to be used,
Like I would be shocked if there's not a Stranger
Things themed experience, but we don't know that for sure.
We know that it's supposed to open in twenty twenty five,
and that's about it. I don't know whether to get

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excited about this or not, because part of me wonders like,
is this going to be more like a meal Wolf
installation or is it going to be more like one
of those pop up in to Graham experience places.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
I think it's going to be kind of in between,
because you know, Netflix has done a lot of pop
up experiences. Yeah, they want this one to be more
long standing. But they talk about in the article on
Variety about how like you can dance to a Taylor
Swift song i'la Bridgerton in a ballroom and then walk
into the next area of this mall and basically be
on the glass bridge from Squid Games, and then you

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can go to the food court and eat some food
inspired by the TV shows on Netflix. So my guess
is that those things will and then also have like
retail therapy there, so partial mall, partial uh changing experiences
based on I guess whatever is popular. Yeah, but it's
hard because there are things on Netflix like that'll be

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popular for a season or two and then not be
And how much money do you put into each thing
that you put into a mall?

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
I mean, if you're using it as partly a marketing
tool in order to promote a sh show or film.
I could see that because I've also been to a
few Netflix installations that were part of South By Southwest,
for example, and those were those were only existing for

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like half a week before being taken down. But it
was all in an effort to promote some new thing,
which in turn helps drive subscribers to join the service,
And like, I can see how this fits into their
overall marketing strategy. It is interesting that they're choosing to
go with permanent locations. I'm wondering how long this will last, Like,

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is this going to be something that Netflix will be
operating for a while, or is this going to be
something where after a quarter or two they just quietly
shut it down because of the expense of running marketing
this way.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. And it's so
one of those things that for me, it's got to
be more than just an Instagram dive. Yeah, for me
to be engaged or ever want to go back again.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Totally. Yeah, I feel the same way, and that's why
I'm like, I hope it's more mele Wolf and less
Balloon Museum. Although I did like the balloon Museum. It
was fun to walk through, but I guess balloon museum
is slightly higher on the list than say whatever that
candy or ice cream one, Like there was an ice.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Candy, there's an ice cream museum, there's candy tope.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Yeah there which those I felt like they didn't have
any real the slime Museum, I just felt like some
of those didn't have any real value outside of this
is a place for you to take a selfie, right,
like you're not going to get anything else out of it,
and hopefully this will be at a slightly higher standard.

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Here's hoping.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Yeah, the biggest Instagram things that I see as value
is like there's a place near me that's like come
here and you can do your content creation if you
don't have a space in your home. We have like
lights and backdrops and things like that. So m but
that's not quite it's called like an Instagram experience, but it's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
More of like a tool, Like it's almost like almost
like a content creator house or something.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Yeah. Yeah, on to completely random other news.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Yeah, I was surprised that you put this in. Well,
we can not talk about that, we can.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
I was just I was amused that John Hamm is
aspiring to be Jeff Goldbloom in his career, Like, that's
the career trajectory he wants to take.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
By that, he means that Jeff Goldbloom can end up
getting a role in something like thor Ragnarok, steal every
scene he's in, and then wander off and just be
weird and and enjoy his life. And that's kind of
what John Hamm wants his career to He wants his
career arc to mirror that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
Well, he's they've both done their leading man phase and
albeit I think John Hamm could still be a leading man, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
Yeah, the dude is the dude is like critically handsome,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Yeah, yeah. But also part of that is he has
made bids. Bids is the wrong word. He has pitched
himself to be a steam ceiling character in Marvel. He
is a superhero comic book fan apparently, and has ideas
of characters he'd like to play, but has also turned
down characters like Green Lantern.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Yeah, he apparently has a specific character in Marvel in
mind that he wants to play. He's talked to people
at Marvel who have confirmed that there are plans of
bringing this character to life at some point, and so
he's he remains hopeful that he will be able to
play this character. We do not know who this character is.

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None of the articles suggested.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
That, I I'm gonna guess. Man A, Okay, it's the
only funny one I can think of that hasn't been done.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
I mean, the history of Marvel, there's no shortage of
weird characters, some of which only existed for like an
issue of a comic. But but yeah, I have no
way of knowing, and I don't know. I mean, I
hope he gets what he wants. I also hope that

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Marvel figures their crap out like we've In our last episode,
we talked about how you know the production for Blade
is thrown into disarray yet again because they lost to
another director and they've been through like two directors and
five writers or something, and that you know, it's becoming
something of a joke. In fact, it has been a meme.
Like I've seen Ali, the actor who's supposed to play Blade.

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I've seen memes of him being a photoshopped as an
old man saying he's at the premiere for Blade.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Yeah, yeah, not as poor as the creator who filmed
the last Screenwriter movie.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
I guess you're saying that because they were denied the
experience to do a public screening of the last screenwriter
in London.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Yeah, they were planning to and got enough complaints that
it got canceled. They're still doing a screener for the
cast and crew. The reason that they got so many
complaints is because the script was completely written by I
guess chat GPT.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Yeah, that's what they said. That's that's who they credit
or what they credit with the screenwriter credit in the
film is chat GPT. Whether that's true or that chat
GPT just played a part in it, or that someone
just wrote it and decided to seed all credit to
chat GPT, I don't know. The film itself deals with

(01:12:02):
the idea of a human screenwriter who has been displaced
by AI generative AI. But yeah, I could see why
people why this would be controversial, Like if in fact
the screenplay was written by chat GBT, then but the.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Creator, Yeah, but the director does say that, like, if
you watch this movie, you might understand more.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Yeah, but if you do that, then what you're doing
is rewarding the people who are doing the very thing
that all those writers were protesting in the first place.
And like whether or not it makes the writer's point
that's kind of beside the point, Like this is like
someone arguing they should be able to have their cake
and eat it too, right, Like I'm making a stake.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
I hate but I don't like that term because when
I buy a cake, I don't just let it sit
on the counter. I do eat it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
But well, yeah, you can have your cake, or you
can eat your cake, but you can't have your cake
and eat your cake.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
You know, today I learned something that I should have
learned in second grade.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Because that's the thing that when you eat it, you
no longer have your cake. You can have your cakeless,
not the way I do it. You put a cake
in front of me. There's soon going to be an
absence of cake.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Fair enough, Well, soon there's going to be an absence
of time for us.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
So we should get through all the trailers.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
Get through all the trails.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Okay, we've got trailers to talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
It makes me feel like I'm in Halloween times.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Yeah, I didn't listen. I did not intend for that.
That was not my goal. But it just turned out
that a lot of the trailers that came out this week.
I guess it's because studios are starting to promote well,
you know, actually only I think only one of these
is coming out in Halloween season, But studios are starting
to promote stuff that is more for the spool seasons.

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But yeah, we got a bunch of movies that are
in the horror or thriller genres. And first up is
a trailer for a film called The Beast Within that's
scheduled to come out on July twenty sixth. This one's starring,
isn't it Kit Harrington? Who's in this one?

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Yeah, it's kid Herring.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
It's a were wolf movie, it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Is, And it's about a were wolf who has a
family and his wife is trying to keep the family
safe and him safe through all of his changes. And
it's really rough, and people worry for his daughter's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Safety, including his daughter Traylor looks.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Including his daughter, but also it looks like from the
trailer that eventually that might not be a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
What was interesting to me is that from the trailer
I was getting the feeling that maybe this was going
to be something like, is this going to be one
of those horror movies where a person believes themselves to
be a monster? And as the movie goes on you
find out whether or not they actually are a monster
or if this is just like some sort of delusion
they have. Except the trailer gives it away that no,

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there's a monster, like there's transformation scenes, and I'm thinking,
was that the antenta of the filmmaker. I mean, it's
entirely possible. It was like, not all werewolf movies are
meant to be a mystery about it, Like American Werewolf
in London was absolutely about a were wolf and there
was no doubt about it when you went to it.
But this one I couldn't tell, like because the way

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it was structured. It made me think like, oh, this
is a movie about a man who has he struggles
with controlling his own emotions, and perhaps people are thinking
of him in the sense of someone who's afflicted with licanthropy.

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But as the film goes on, or as the trailer
goes I'm like, no, this is a were wolf movie.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Yeah. Yeah, it is interesting because you know that is
the parallel to real life for were wolves. Yeah. I
did a student film once that was kind of about that.
It was about a woman whose husband was a were
wolf and they'd taken another person who's a were wolf
but they had learned how to live with it in

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a way that kept everybody safe, and it was just
kind of like a crappy time each month when because
you know, it was a painful experience to go through
and not RESTful for the people who change, but it
was slice of life and uplifting. So I kind of
was super into the trailer at first because of that,

(01:16:34):
because I absolutely loved that little short film and the
story behind it. But yeah, this feels a little bit
less hopeful than that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Well, if you want to have a lot of hope,
how about we lock you in a room that has
no visible windows or doors in it and see how
you do from there, because that's kind of the premise
for the next film trailer we saw, which for a
movie called The Abandoned.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
I So I was fine with it other than the
fact that like, this dude's gonna have to use the
restroom and this this room flips around and you don't see, thankfully,
at least in the trailer, any of that stuff also
flipping around on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Now it's all over the place.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
But you find out in the trailer that this guy
who gets subducted by this bright light and put in
this room eventually gets to talk to somebody else who's supposedly.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
In another room an adjacent cub.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Yeah, and then like things are getting worse and there's
clues being dropped and you don't know why. And but
I from the trailer, I had no idea what to
make of the other person because sometimes it seems like
they were also trapped in a cube, and sometimes it
seemed like they didn't trust the guy, but the like
the the log line for the movie says that they

(01:17:56):
should need to work together to survive.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
It's weird. Yeah, it made me think of the movie Cube,
the science fiction horror film. But yeah, it's it's it.
It's in that weird subgenre of sci fi horror of
person finds himself in an isolated area that's extremely confined

(01:18:18):
and then has to try and figure out a way
to get out. Yeah. When I looked into this, it
sounded to me like this movie has been done for
a couple of years, but it's just been sitting on
the shelf, So that doesn't frequently raise confidence that it's
gonna be a banger of a film. But who knows,

(01:18:39):
this could be one of those low budget sci fi
horror movies that ultimately ends up becoming a cult classic.
The trailer did not really work for me, That doesn't
necessarily mean the movie itself wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Yeah, this next movie, I don't under I didn't understand
the trailer, but I do understand why it's geeky, but
because it has Doctor Who and an elf in it,
which is the trailer for Starve Acre.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Yeah, this is like a folk horror movie. So this
this definitely feels more like something like The Witch, right,
like it has that kind of there's this creepy I.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
Say, I've not watched it, so I mean, you need.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
To see The Witch. It's so good, but it's so
so good. It is scary, but it's so good. It's
the movie that introduced me to Anya Taylor Joy, and
I was like, who is this child actor? She's amazing.
And then the more I learned about the more I
was like, it's not fair that she's this good. She
didn't even friaking go to school for it anyway. Starve Acre, Yeah,

(01:19:44):
it looks like there's folk tale horror elements, including things
like what is the husband actually working on? He seems
to be so secretive and jealously guards the things he
works on, and could it be that this is for
dark purposes and who knows? Or is that a red herring?

(01:20:05):
And so I watched the trailer and I thought, this
feels like it's missing maybe two ingredients and I can't
necessarily name them, but like two little things that would
make me go, I need to see this so far
hook Yeah it doesn't hook me, but it but it
looks like it's incredibly well made.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Yeah yeah, I agree. Something else that looks well made,
but it doesn't hook it that in part.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
That no type, That's fine?

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
Do you want to spend more time on startmaker? I
really did not understand that we can.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Just move on. I just I love that that was
your that was your input into it, because I can't
blame you, because there isn't enough from that trailer to
really have like an informed opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
It looked like sad, creepy all of a sudden, his
name is escaping me. Holy moly, Matt Smith. I have
a friend named Matt Smith. Why did I forget that?
But yeah, a creepy Matt Smith and glad real from
the Rings of Power. That's what it looks like to me.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
Well, what did the Penguin trailer look.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
Like to you, it looked like they took a geeky
property and took everything geeky out of it and gave
me a cookie cutter Mafia stuite.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Yeah. We chatted about this offline earlier this week, and
I had complained that it looked like every Mafia series
or film that I've seen in ages, which is typically
about criminals doing crime to other criminals. Right, Like it's
it's all about the crime world and it's very insular.

(01:21:49):
Like it made me think of the Sopranos. Really, it
was Sopranos Gotham City.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
And not just because Kristin Miliotti is playing the daughter
of Falcone in it. Yeah, I'm guessing the daughter of Falcone.
She's not old enough to be his wife.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Yeah, I saw that. I thought everyone did a good job.
But again, like I liked elements of The Batman. Ultimately,
I don't think I liked the movie, but I liked
elements of The Batman, and I liked kind of the
gritty noir sort of look to things. I felt that
Batman himself came across as an idiot as opposed to

(01:22:30):
a detective. The World's Greatest detective, like like when your
butler is solving the riddles before you do. That's not
the world's greatest detective. But I kind of liked the aesthetic.
This All it has is that aesthetic like that seems
to be the only thing that's held over it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
It does have a freaking phenomenal cast. Other than Kristin Miliatti,
It's got Clancy Brown, Mark Strong, Michael Kelly, Theo Rossi
Shoa a good douche Dosh Lou.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
I don't I don't know how to pronounce her name.
Colin Dear, Dr Colin Ferrell, obviously Colin.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
Farrell, Scott Cohen, who I love from The Tenth Kingdom.
He was also on Gilmore Girls, and a bunch of
other stuff. Francis Francoischau. Like just a huge cast of
all these actors that I love. And I wish I
loved the Trailer more. I wish I loved The Batman more.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Yeah, I know, I remember you had issues with The
Batman too. Well, for one thing, you didn't like the
version of the Reddler. The Riddler was the one thing
in The Batman I really liked, But.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
I liked Falcone.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
Falcone was good too, but yeah, uh, yeah, I I
I hope that the Penguin does well. I hope that
it's a success, but yeah, it just there's nothing in
it that doesn't feel like, you know, stereotypical generic mafia series.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Like yeah, I guess. I also liked Jeffrey Wright in
The Batman. He made a good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Well. We also have a trailer for the sequel to
the horror movie Smile. This one's called Smile Too. Very
creative trailer. I like the fact that they use the number.
I'm so tired of these movies that aren't using numbers.
And I don't know which movie is the first one,
Like Planet of the Apes. I'm looking at you because

(01:24:22):
if you call one Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,
so the other one rises the Planet of the Apes.
Let me tell you which one should be the first one.
But anyway, yes, Dawn should be the first one. It's
not and that's confusing. So first, Smile Too, you're doing
that correct? But yeah, I wrote in our show notes
like what if Smile but with Lady Gaga because this

(01:24:47):
story follows a young woman who is a pop star
and she encounters the Smile demon. Uh, And I don't know,
I watched this trailer, and I didn't feel that any
of the moments of people looking into her face and
then doing the creepy smile were nearly as effective as

(01:25:10):
what happened in the first film. Like, I felt that
the smiles in the first film all looked more extreme
and scary.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Do you want to know something? Do you want a
secret that's going to blow your mind? I'm not seeing
the first smile. I could barely google it because every
time I googled smile movie came up with smile too.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
Yeah, the first the first movies like it's it's creepy.
It's a creepy like It's essentially a creepy demon slash
ghost movie is what it comes down to. And the
entity that is stalking the main character does so by
inhabiting the bodies of people around her and making them
do this like over exaggerated creepy smile like smiles to

(01:25:55):
the point where you're like, that doesn't even look human.
That smile is so big and and at least a
couple of scenes, it's really really, really effective. This one.
It just I don't know, maybe they got people who
weren't quite as expressive, or maybe they didn't use any
like CGI to jusge things up, but it didn't hit

(01:26:15):
me the same way.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
The only thing I know is that the first guy
they show smiling is the guy who played the King
of Cats.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Yes, yeah, no, I saw that, and I was like, Oh,
is he about to take his shirt off and get
all hot and heavy on the nearest guy? Like, is
that what's going to happen?

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
He's about to turn into cat? Yeah? That I I
look forward to hearing your review of Smiling.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
Yeah, this is clearly like that's the problem with all
the horror movie trailers, right, none of these are aerials
cup of tea.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
Well, and sometimes I have things to say about them,
but this time they just didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
I think it's fair. I like, like I almost debated on
not putting them in here, because like, it's only there
are certain types of horror movies that I feel like, Oh,
this definitely needs to go into the conversation because this
is going to resonate with the geek population. There are
other ones where you're like, oh, Blumhouse had a quota

(01:27:14):
to meet and so they churned out eight movies and
these are none of them really matter to anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
Yeah, well we have one last movie that might be good,
it might be horror, but Jonathan put it in here
as a gritty western called Place.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Of Bones, Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
Which is about it's first of all, I thought I
had Gary Oldman in it, but it doesn't. But it
does have a person in it whose name is Cowboy,
which is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
Also has Heather Graham in it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
It has Heather Graham is one of the main characters.
And from what I can get from the trailer, it's
about a woman who is so protective of her family
in the Frontier that she's just straight up willing to
kill people. Yeah, like that get on her.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Nerves or who are perceived throughout right, Like if she
perceives a threat to her family, she does not hesitate
to act, which, you know, I actually kind of dig
that because there's so many westerns, in particular, like dark,
gritty westerns where the you know, you have like a

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female protagonist type character who learns the hard way that
she shouldn't have trusted that low down, no good so
and so. But it's only after she's suffered like untold
torture at the hands of this person. And this is
like a character who's like screw that I shoot first

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and then if they're alive, maybe I ask questions later.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Yeah, so it might be over correcting a little too far,
but it is a nice change of things. Of all
of the movies, of all this scaryish movies, I think
this one appeals to me the second most after Beast
with It.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
Okay, yeah, this one, I thought like it to me,
it fit kind of in that same realm as movies
like Unforgiven, where it's in that kind of of gritty,
realistic western where they strip away the any sort of
romance from you know, perceptions of that era, and I

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was like, I'm into that, Like I think, I think
this looks like it's going to be effective. It's coming
out August twenty third and limited release. I don't know,
don't know if it's going to get a wide release
after that, so I don't know if they'll I mean,
the Plaza will probably show it here in Atlanta, because
the Plaza gets stuff like that all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:29:42):
I might watch it. It's definitely one of those ones
that certainly hasn't gotten a lot of advertising.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Yes, this was the first I had heard of it
when I saw this trailer, and I was impressed. With
what I saw, I mean it looks like I mean,
it does look like there's going to be some body
horror stuff in there, not necessarily played up for body horror,
but someone does get a limb amputated so that the beast.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
Within both have some horror. What was a body humor
body horror that I don't appreciate?

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
Well, yeah, Werewolf movies, I mean, especially anything after American
Werewolf in London like that. I think that set the
bar for body horror in were wolf movies.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
I don't mind. Like the transformation cracky bone thing, it's
like watching fingernails get pulled off.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Oh yeah, yeah that was That was a moment in
that Beast Within trailer that gave me like it squiaked
me out. The fingernail Yeah, that definitely squaked me out.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
Yeah, so stuff like that really bothers me, but not
as much as cannibalism.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Yeah, we all know what he eats areal So yeah, that's
all of our news stories. Like once again, we were
certain this was going to be a short episode, but
for one thing, we spent like forty minutes just talking
about the stuff we had done the previous week. So yes,
what you get you get hour and a half long episodes. Now,
I guess I hope you're I hope you're having.

Speaker 1 (01:31:02):
Till we stop watching, until we stop watching.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
Stuff, yeah, or until until we get like a week
where absolutely nothing happens. We do not, by the way,
I should say, I do not know yet if we
will have an episode next week, because I'll be celebrating
my birthday and I'll be heading out of town, and
so I don't know if I'll have the chance to
record and edit a show before that happens.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
I'm gonna guess Noah, probably, so plan you know, because
I know you plan your lives around us releasing these episodes.
Plan for no. But then it'll be a happy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Surprise if it is. If it does go out, it
will need to be a shorter one, like I get,
because editing these things takes time. So uh, that will
not it will not be another hour and a half
long gab fest.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
Yeah, Well, that will give people plenty of time to
think about things that what they want to ask us, Jonathan.
And if they have things what they want to ask us,
how would they want to ask us?

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Well, you're gonna have to journey out into the western
frontier and establish yourself a homestead. You're gonna build yourself
a home with your own two hands, building that thing
from the ground up. You're gonna end up creating a
modest little plot of land that you can farm on.
Maybe get yourself a couple animals to help provide things

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like milk or eggs, and probably not the same animals
doing that, because that'd be a weird hybrid. If you
do figure that out, I want to hear about it.
But we haven't gotten that part yet. You're gonna nourish
this homestead. You're gonna raise yourself family. You're gonna be
mighty proud of them, and you're gonna instill in them

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the desire for survival and the things in life that
you find most deer. And then as soon as anyone
even looks at you, you're gonna put forty seven bullets
into them with your magic revolver that never any to
be reloaded. And when you're done with that, I'm going

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to step up behind you and say, they were just
delivering your mail. What was your question? And you can
ask me. It's probably not going to go well for you,
but you can ask me.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
Then yeah, And if that's just seems like so much
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rock and until next time. I am Ariel, I really
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in and.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
I am Jonathan. I can't wait till we have even
more horror movie trailers. Strickland The Large Nerdron Collider was
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