Hormones That Go Everywhere

Ariel and Jonathan talk about Bigfoot, Evan Peters joining Tron 3, and whether the Five Nights at Freddy's film will be scary. Opinions are expressed and we all learn a valuable lesson along the way.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerdoun 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 casting and with me as always is the
forever Young Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have a feeling I'm sure you did forever Young
in a recent episode, because like maybe the last one
may I think. So, I just have a recollection of
you trying to say it was Neil Diamond who sang that,
and it wasn't. Oh yeah, anyway, Hi, everybody, I had
a birthday this week and I'm still recording today.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm you know, I'm just trying to reinforce that birthdays
are meaningless and that you are just as awesome as
I am.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Certainly young at heart, I will put I'll agree to
that because another way of putting that is I am
juvenile and sophomooric.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
So I just want to pass along to you, Jonathan,
that we had some people on discord ask how they
could sing Happy Birthday to you, and I said they
could send recordings to us and I would compile them,
but nobody wanted to sing it all by them. By themselves.
But just so you are aware, if you haven't popped
on recently, that our listeners also wash you a happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, if they had gone to that Shonies like I
told them to last week, they would have been with
a big old group of people singing me happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I think someone tried. Uh they said the shones was closed.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
They went to the wrong it's the other abandoned shones. Y'all.
Come on, I can't spell everything out at the end
of the episode.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, you do a pretty good job.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I will say, yeah, Well, well, we've got some stuff
to talk about. It's actually a slightly lighter week than usual.
Course that you know, the writer's strike is continuing to
have an impact on that. But we do have a
selection of stories and a few trailers to chat about,
and of course we're going to start it all off
with thirty seconds or less.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Our first item we want to talk about is that
Chadwick Boseman, aka the original Black Panther of the MCU,
will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame next year twenty twenty four. You know, everybody knows
he passed away in twenty twenty and I think it's
really cool. I think he definitely deserved it from everything

(02:41):
that people say about him. He was a super awesome
guy and also just a really phenomenal actor. So I
am glad to hear.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That me too. And in a related note, in an
interview with Verse, Anthony Mackie plays Sam Wilson aka the
new captin America in the MCU, revealed that he had
been petitioning Marvel to be part of the MCU as
early as twenty ten, only he wasn't aiming for the Falcon.
Mackie's target was the Black Panther, whom he said he
loved since he was a kid. When he finally got

(03:12):
a call to come on into the MCU, he was
offered a role, but he wasn't told what it was,
so he took a chance and said yes. So thanks cap.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Next, we're going to just talk briefly about Doctor Who,
and if jonathann't like Doctor Who, this would be a
bigger conversation. But Kataku recently posted an article after Doctor
Who official started releasing images of the upcoming doctor and
their adventures that Doctor Who is finally getting sexy again
because well, the costumes are pretty dang awesome. And a

(03:44):
little bit sexy. My question is, and I actually want
you guys to like weigh in if you like Doctor Who,
does Doctor Who need to be sexy? I always preferred
like grumpy uncle Doctor Who, though I did have a
big crush on Christopher Eckleston.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
And she would not shut up about it. Okay, forget
Hot Girl summer this year, it's hot game in summer.
Not only does Neil Gaman have the second season of
Good Omens coming out, but on August fourteenth and fifteenth,
the film adaptation of his novel Cora Lion returns to theaters.
Not only that, but this limited release features never before

(04:19):
seen footage. The fantastical, spooky and heartwarming story is a
mussy and I would be totally sold if they also
said there was another they might be Giants song in it.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Did you watch this first one?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh? Yes, I really liked Coralon quite a bit. I
thought it was a very good adaptation and a great
kind of I think of it as one of those
sort of edgy children's stories, kind of on the level
of like a Willy Wonka, you know, the road doll
kind of stuff. It had a lot of those same
sort of features. To me.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Interesting. Yeah, I haven't watched it yet, but I keep
being called I should.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh, it's good, It's good. You definitely should. That is
one of those that you do need to watch. I mean,
there's we've talked about this before. Ariel has some notable
blind spots in her in her geek them past, She's
not seen some very important geeky movies.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Up is not a very important geeky movie, okay, And
everybody has gaps, okay. Next story among Us, which is
a video game where everybody is in a spaceship and
somebody is the impostor, and it's basically where Wolf video
game form. Somebody sabotages their teammates and everybody has to

(05:35):
guess who it is and stop them. Is turning into
an animated series in development by CBS Studios. It's being
worked on by the people who did The Regular Show
and Infinity Train and Big Mouth and Star Trek Lower Decks,
which one of those is kind of a children's show,
Infinity Train before it disappeared. The rest are pretty adult.

(06:00):
So if you like among Us, you might get to
watch it, but you know, maybe don't show it to
your kids until you've checked it out.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
First, I was doing wires. You was doing wires, and
among us I was doing wires. I was doing wires,
So I'm not the I'm not the the trader. I
was doing wires.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I played it for like my friends played it for
one week during the pandemic, and then everybody kind of
fell off because.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's kind of like jack Box. I think I had
one big jack Box game with a bunch of folks
and then we never played it again. Okay, shame.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I own every jack Box, and I should invite you
to play some of them.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
You should. I don't know why you don't. I'm delightful,
all right, you are. Someone has found the unique the
One Ring card in Magic the Gathering, but they aren't
coming forward to identify themselves, though you'll be glad to know.
They're a regular customer of comics shops, so this isn't
one of those Willy Wonka situations where some random got
hold of it. They also had the card authenticated by

(06:58):
a collectible grading company called PSA, which said, yep, this
here is the one Ring by golly, and already people
are offering up to two million bucks for that thing.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Wow, that's that's a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
For a card.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yes, I mean, if it's what you like, is what
you like. I'm not I'm not going to diss your geekdom.
If you have that kind of expendable money, you know,
and you.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Can also maybe maybe you should think about if you
do have that kind of money, maybe you should think
about adopting a podcast.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just just just saying, okay, So I
don't know if you can all hear the thunder that's
going on in the background of recording today because it's
storming out. But apparently the sky gods are angry at
Paramount Plus because they are taking down a bunch of shows,
just like HBO Max did, or Warner Brothers, Discovery and

(07:51):
Disney did. The things that are coming off of Paramount
Plus are Grease, Rise of the Pink Ladies, which I'm
sad because I was going to watch it, along with
the second season of Strange New Worlds. Maybe y'll still
get to before they take it down, Star Trek, Prodigy,
Queen of the Universe, and The Game. It's everybody trying
to gain tax right offs to get some money back because,

(08:14):
as we've talked about before, a lot of the streaming
services are struggling to make a profit. Right now, that's
a huge, big mess.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, let me tell you something that's been a mess
for years and at least another year will continue to be.
Joel McHale has an update on that community movie we've
all been waiting for, and he says it will be
shooting quote unquote next summer. It was supposed to shoot
this summer, but then we got a writer strike and
the actors may still follow suit. McHale mentioned that Donald

(08:44):
Glover is confirmed to return. Glover himself acknowledged that in
an interview earlier this year, and that maybe they would
even get Pedro Pascal Saddy Like.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Okay, so I know that I am the person who
has continued to take thirty seconds or less off the
rain this week. Has Petro Pascal been in community?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
He was in a table read during the pandemic when
they did one of those zoom table reads. He stepped
in and joined the cast. And so they're just talking
about bringing him back, and I'm like bringing him back.
He was never He was never formally on the show.
He was in a state. Although I mean, I would
love to see Pedro Pascal in a community like his

(09:27):
appearance in Saturday Night Live is one of my favorites. Like,
I'm not a huge SNL fan because a lot of
their sketches I just feel are floundering around in search
of a hook, and rather than being, you know, just
a really funny joke, they or maybe they have a
really funny joke, but it's patted out with like seven

(09:49):
minutes of other fluff. But the Pedro Pascal one had
some genuinely ridiculous, absurd sketches that I really liked, and
mostly it was because you could see how much Pascal
was having on the show. So I'm all for more
Pedro me too.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I mean, if you watch any of his interviews outside
of the Hot Ones interview, he seems like a really
fun guy. So his Hot Ones interview wasn't bad. He
just I mean, it's definitely one of those interview shows
where it takes you off guard, and he definitely seemed
more subdued than he shows up in a lot of
his interviews. But we all know that actors have a

(10:27):
public face and you know, a private face, and everybody
has comfort levels, right, so you can't judge people off
of one interview. I might ask you to erase all.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
This well I don't. I mean, you can ask.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Will you do it?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Who knows?

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I love Pedro Pascal if in case it stays in,
I love Pedro Pascal. He's a great actor. He seems
like a really fun guy. He seems like he'd be
a super cool hang.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
So yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, Well, you've obviously spent most of
this week digging that hole you got yourself into. Did
you watch anything on top of that?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I did. I've watched a bunch of Gigee stuff this
past week. First of all, the dubbed version of New
Trygun Stampede has come out, and so I watched the
first episode of that. I really enjoyed watching Trygun for
the first time in my twenties, and then the movie
when it came out. I couldn't tell you a huge

(11:30):
amount about the story because it's been since since I
watched it. This new series has made a lot of changes,
partially to just the structure and the order in which
they tell the story, and also they've replaced some characters,
which is very sad for me. But overall, I very
much enjoyed it. I love the art style of the
new series. I watched most of Peter and Wendy on

(11:54):
Disney Plus, which is a movie, not a TV show.
So so many things I'm thinking our TV shows lately
that are not.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
But you didn't you watch all of it.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I didn't get a chance to finish it, okay, Like
I had to leave out before I could finish it,
because I thought it was a TV show, like I'll
turn on for forty minutes now and then I'll watch
it for forty minutes later. But no, it's like a
two hour movie and I just haven't had a chance
to go back yet. I think it's really cute. I
think that, like in the first seven minutes. I don't
know if you saw the message I sent you, Jonathan,

(12:27):
but I'm like, I really like the way they've updated
the intro to this story because they made the parents
actual people in characters, and I liked it, and they
made it like a little bit more realistic to the
struggles of growing up and what all that means. There
was some more heartfelt conversations, and like even the dad's
interjections were a little bit more toned and I not

(12:51):
so blustery and reasonable. You might still think they're unreasonable,
but they were more believable and came from a place
of love. It felt like the only thing I'll say, like,
I mean, it's still Peter Pan. You know, it's still Disney,
so it's not hugely like Edgy. The only thing I'll
say is that they made tinker Bell like nice and

(13:11):
likable and kind and understanding. And while that's delightful, like
she's supposed to the fairy is supposed to be kind
of a creature of emotion. She can only hold one
emotion at a time, and like the book, and I
feel like she loses something by being a little less
bratty within the context of Peter Pan. I know tinker
Bell has plenty of other movies where she's delightful. I

(13:33):
know that at her appearance at the park, she's delightful.
But I feel within the context of Peter Pan, you
lose something when you get rid of that edge to her.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean that's uh. The feeling I always got
was that she's supposed to be sort of the personification
of mischieff, so you do kind of miss out on
something when she's not a little bratty. But Neil I
I I go back and forth, right like, I'm like,

(14:03):
I like different interpretations and stuff, So I don't necessarily
get all been out of shape over these sort of things.
But I also there are times where if you make
a departure big enough, then you're left asking the question, Okay,
why did you make that choice? I get that you
made a choice, and there's nothing wrong with making a choice,
but you should also be able to articulate why you

(14:24):
made that decision. And I'm not sure that there's, like,
you know, a compelling reason for that. But then again,
I didn't. I wasn't involved in making it. They got
my emails, but they never responded, so.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, so like, I mean, I'm sure they have reasons.
But the thing is like Neverland is supposed to be
delightful at first, but flawed, right, Like that's the whole point.
Peter Pan is supposed to be flawed, and Neverland is
supposed to be flawed. And I think Tinkermell is supposed
to be like the embody. Likely she's the embodiment of emotion,
like you know, those hormones basically that go everywhere. So yeah,

(15:06):
I don't, I don't know. I just I feel like
it took away some of that flaw. Again, It's fine,
they did a lot of like backstory into like why
Captain Hook is, why Captain Hook, Why Captain Hook is
the way he is, which I think is in.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
The original story.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I mean, he's still a villain, but I think in
the original story he's literally just a pirate who had
in a previous in a previous encounter with Pan had
his hand cut off and that, uh. Like, I think
a lot of the Captain Hook backstory is stuff that's
been fleshed out over the years by other authors who

(15:46):
were who just wanted to give him more, like they
liked the character and they wanted to have more of him.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, Well in this one they do give
him a bit of a backstory beyond being just a pirate.
I thought it was kind of cool. Maybe it makes
him more sympathetic than he needs to be, but I
thought it was cool. And I also started watching Arcane,
which is the League of Legends cartoon that came out.
That's the latest thing on my friend group group watch,

(16:14):
which is interesting. It's interesting. I really like the bad
Guy's lair. It's like underwater and there's all these prehistoric
like sea creatures that are giant and monstrous outside that
I'm like, this this looks delightful to me. I'd love
to live down here.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
And then uh wait, wait, wait, fun you want to
live under.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
The sea under the sea. Yes, John, you know that
this is not a surprise to you.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
I mean, I'm just I'm just continuing to flesh out
the lore.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Mm hmm. But anyhow, it's it's a cute story. It's
a little slow. You don't need to know the characters
from League of Legends to enjoy the cartoon. That I'll
say for that. It's good. The voice acting is good,
the art style is really cool and unique, so I'm
enjoying it. I haven't watched Secret Invasion, and I haven't
watched Good Omens yet. I don't think Good Omens is

(17:05):
quite out yet, but I haven't watched Secret Invasion yet.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
I haven't watched either. So I've been on vacation, and
for the first several days of my vacation, I was
in a cabin up in Blue Ridge, Georgia, and oddly enough,
they actually had a better internet connection there than I
have at my home, which is weird because you're up
a mountain and you're enough fairly like you're up a

(17:30):
mountain where you had to go up a narrow gravel
road that was only wide enough for like one and
maybe a half cars. So it's kind of wild to
be up in a place like that and still have
better Internet than in the city of Atlanta. But anyway,
I didn't actually watch anything new. We were watching a

(17:51):
bunch of stuff that we had already seen and just
kind of hanging out and relaxing. So I am well
behind at this point. I haven't watched any Secret Invasion either.
Well that's not true. I watched the first like five
minutes of the first episode because I wanted to watch
the the credits that everyone was talking about. I didn't
even get to the credits, but I will say those
first five minutes I really liked. But the only thing

(18:16):
I did do that was super duper geeky over my
little vacation was up in the Blue Ridge area. There's
a tourist trap like place Expedition Bigfoot, and it's a
Bigfoot museum. And I do not know if the proprietors
of said museum are true believers, but holy cats, it

(18:38):
is presented that way. It is not. You don't go
in there like it's kitchy and silly and stuff like this.
This is like, no, this is this is meant for
people who are like true believer Bigfoot officionados. So I
walked in. I was very polite because just for y'all,
since you know we're chatting about this. I do not

(19:00):
believe in Bigfoot. I do not believe in the cryptids
generally speaking, because I just find it unrealistic and stretching
credulity to think that such things would have existed for
so long without definitive proof as opposed to the stuff
that passes for proof. Also, there's a giant map of

(19:21):
Georgia Aeriel where they had put pushpins in to show
where there were sightings of bigfoot, and they had three
different colors of pushpin. There was red, which was it
was a sighting that was in really bad conditions and
it's impossible to say whether or not it was, you know,
a bear or a deer or whatever. Then there's yellow,

(19:43):
where it was okay conditions but it's still some level
of uncertainty, and then green, where it was like the
best viewing conditions and that people felt that they were
certain that it wasn't like a bear or deer or
something like that. And one of the green pushpins was
in Decatur.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Interesting, So for those.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Of y'all who are not in Sack Squatch, Yeah, for
those of you all not in Georgia, Decatur is inside
the perimeter, the two eighty five perimeter of Metro Atlanta. Like,
if you were outside of the perimeter, you would say
Decatur is Atlanta, right, you would just say, oh, that's Atlanta.
So it's a little township that's that's bordering Atlanta and

(20:28):
inside the perimeter to eighty five. And my joke was that, well,
of course, I mean, there's so many good restaurants there,
so clearly that's the place to be seen. But yeah,
I just I found it amusing and entertaining. I would
not say informative, but it did get me and Becca

(20:49):
thinking about something that we would like to do in
the future, possibly as like a this is how we're
going to retire kind of thing. I'll tell you about
it after, because I don't want anyone to steal my idea.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Sure, I'm excited to hear about it. And I can
understand you being skeptical about cryptids because you know, unlike
aliens or something, they're localized, right, Cryptids are all localized
to a certain area and you would think that you
would get, like you said, definitive proof. I don't know
if you believe in aliens or not. I'm not saying
whether I do or not, but it's.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Just like I so I don't believe, okay, aliens. That's
a weird thing because I'm like, I don't so much
believe that. I do not believe aliens have visited Earth
because the physics involved are so unrealistic that it is
very difficult to imagine any way aliens could have visited
us unless they were relying on some form of technology

(21:40):
that is unimaginable to us, right, because the distance is
involved between us and other habitable planets is so great
that it would take way too long to get here,
and they wouldn't even know about us yet because we
haven't even been doing stuff like sending out radio broadcasts
for only like a century or so, so yeah, you know,

(22:00):
anywhere that's beyond a hundred light years, they would have
no way of even knowing we were here necessarily. So
it's just very unlikely. Now that being said, the universe
is being so big and the possibility, you know, the
fact that we only know about our planet having life.
I think it's likely that there's life on other planets somewhere,

(22:20):
maybe even intelligent life. But I think it's uh, well
outside the realm of possibility that that intelligent life has
visited Earth. Sometimes I think it's outside the possibility that
intelligent life is.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Here on Earth. Yeah, now I get that. I totally
I could. I totally grock that.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, you watch watch a little reality TV and you'll
start to doubt intelligence too.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't. Apparently I don't watch near enough reality TV
because I knew absolutely no answers to them. Actually this past.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Week, Oh it was in a reality television episode.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
It was, And my h's been so delightfully pointed out
as we started watching, Hey maybe they'll talk about your
episode of What Not to Wear. That's not the kind
of reality TV show they talk about, but about it
stuff be upset.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Stuff like Love Island and.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Love Island, The Circle, Big the Bachelor. They actually didn't
talk a whole lot about The Bachelor, survivor Big Brother,
a lot of like Real housewives kind of stuff. They
did have one really fun section that was guess whether
this is a real reality TV show or not?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh wow, that that's wild because there have been some
crazy reality TV shows.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Again, I'll if you have drop out, if you're a
fan of that kind of entertainment, you should at least
watch that shiny question. Jonathan will talk about it later
because I don't want to spoil it for anybody.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Who doesn't want to watch. I want to get a
chance to see it too. Well, we got some news
that we want to chat about, and I didn't actually
really rearrange the lineup that much other than other than
to put you know, the horror movie trailer's last, because
you know tradition. But first up, we now know the

(24:13):
actors who are going to play Superman and Lois Lane
in the new incarnation of the d C Cinematic Universe. Obviously,
Henry Cavill was let go. He's no longer going to
be the Man of Steel, which is very sad, especially
since you know that was one of the rumored reasons
he had left The Witcher Instead. David Corn sweat. He's

(24:39):
corn sweat, corn corn sweat. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, anyway, David's going to bet.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
He's gonna be He's gonna be super dude. Uh. And
Rachel Brosnahan will be Lewis Lane. She was the marvelous
missus Maisel.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, so David has done some things, but this is
kind of like his Yeah, obviously his first big DC thing,
and he'll be in Twisters. He was in Pearl Lady
in the Lake, a bunch of Hollywood and the Politician
bunch of stuff. I haven't watched, honestly, but knowing the
other people they were looking at, including Nicholas Holt, who
I love, and Tom Brittany, I will say that David

(25:22):
has the most like corn fed country boy look of
all of them.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Like he looks like a he looks like a young
Henry Cavell, Like, he looks like, yeah, he looks like
Henry Cavell from maybe like ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, well, yeah, he's so I get that. But and
I think Rachel Brosn will make a great lowest line.
But I think they made the right choice. Just looks wise.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, well, he's also I love. He's also American, which
you know isn't really that important, but it always has
been kind of one of those things that tickled me
that that the most recent actor to play Superman on
the big screen is an English actor playing an American
iconic superhero.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, I guess. I guess you're right. I guess the
other two actors are both British and David's from Pennsylvania. Anyhow,
I like the casting. I'm excited to see what comes
from it.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I am. The longer we go on with the dying
throws of the Snyder era of the DC universe, the
more concerned I am of what comes next, just because
there's so much baggage at this point that I really wonder, like,
how are they going to create a new approach where,

(26:46):
you know, they can shed all that baggage and create
the stories they want to tell? And from what I understand, like, uh,
it sounds to me like like most people are on
the same page that they want Superman to be a
more optimistic and hopeful and heroic kind of story, which
would go a long long way to creating a new tone.

(27:10):
But yeah, like it's just it's kind of crazy when
you look at at like how many different versions of
these characters there have been over the last couple of decades,
and how do you how do you kind of wipe
the slate clean, especially when we still have these Elseworld
titles that are still in production even after everything else

(27:31):
is kind of wrapped down.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
You know. It is interesting though, because looking at the
the article from Hollywood Reporter, they mentioned only like three
other people have played Superman on the big screen in
like relatively recent years, and that's Christopher Reeves and Brian

(27:54):
and Rufe and then Henry Cavell. I think, I think
making Superman optimistic and uplifting and like the ideal of
what we want society to be is the right choice.
And we've heard that James Gunn is going to make
the world around him cynical, and I only think it'll work.
I only think it'll be new and refreshing if Superman

(28:16):
actually has a positive influence on that cynicism around him. Yeah,
I have a joke that might not fit in, but
I had to say it.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
No, I agree, I have a joke to make, but
it also contains, within the joke a kind of spoiler
for the Flash. So for those of you who don't
want to be spoiled about the Flash, skip ahead like
thirty seconds, and my joke is that's the same number
of actors who played Batman in the Flash.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I was going to say, I was going to say, well, well, now,
I wonder if there's a fourth actor who's played Superman
on the big screen.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, like George Reeves was Batman and the TV series.
And I could have sworn that they had serials that
that shot that were screened in movie theaters. But I
guess that doesn't count like a movie. It's just it
was a serialized short films. That was George Reeves, he
was Superman.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Okay, Uh? What what about? Also? Maybe a Flash spoiler?
I don't know. I haven't watched a Flash yet. Did
you watch the Flash?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
No? But I read that. I read all about it.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Okay, wasn't spoiler if you haven't read anything about it.
Wasn't Nicholas Cage Superman in the Flash movie.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
I don't think he shows up. I don't think super
Superman's in it at all. No. But uh, but you
get Michael he had.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Read somewhere that he showed up, but that's probably wrong.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
You get Michael Keaton, you get Ben Affleck, and you
get George Clinney as Batman in the Flash.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah. Yeah, so you know. I I we talked about this.
I think again last week we're causing our own flashpoint here.
When I was like, yeah, beyond Desert Miller, I think
people are just like, why get invested in the Snyder
Verse or anything cool they do in it, or the
quality of the movies. If you like the Snyder Verse,

(30:15):
if you know it's just going to be over once
Aquaman comes out. I do hope Blue Beetle gets pulled
into the new DC Universe and the gun Averse and
not stuck in the Snyder Verse. I hope it has
nothing to do with the Snyder Verse and that it
does really well, because I'm excited about it.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Very well. I just yeah, I mean, I'm hopeful that
it'll be something really like a nice alternative to Marvel.
I'm wondering if they will try to keep things from
being so deeply interconnected, because I think Marvel has started
to encounter, not started, Marvel has encountered some stumbling locks

(31:00):
due to all that interconnectiveness. Right. I think that some
of Marvel's problems within the world of story and narrative
come from the fact that you have this ever growing
massive amount of content that's interlaced. And while at first

(31:21):
that was amazing and I loved it, the longer it
goes on, the more cumbersome it becomes, and I'm worried
that it's going to collapse under its own weight if
they don't, like, figure out some better ways to approach it.
And part of that, I think is just what they
have been doing, which is easing off on the incredibly

(31:44):
aggressive release plan that they've had for content, where they
were just fire hosing us all with all this Marvel stuff,
and not all of it was very good. In fact,
a lot of it was just okay, and some of
it was not even up to the level of okay.
But even if it was all good, it would still
be too much. So hopefully d C takes a different approach.

(32:08):
I don't mind the idea of becoming a big DC
fan after being a Marvel fan for so long. As
long as the stories are good and the performances are,
you know, they're they're worthy.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I was a DC fan before I was a Marvel
fan because of things like Batman, the animated series, Batman Beyond,
Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. Like that's what I
grew up with. Yeah, I mean saying here, like tro
Into comics, I.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Think i think I've read way more d C comics
than I've read Marvel comics, so I'm come from the
same place. And of course, like I'm of the age
where you know, My first superhero movie was the you know,
nineteen seventy eight Superman, and that's still one of my
favorite superhero movies. It's very corny, it's very earnest, it's

(32:57):
very goofy's. It's a cartoonish h take on superheroes. It
would not fit intoday's you know esthetic, But I absolutely
loved it for what it was and still do. And
so yeah, I started off as a DC fan, but
like the Snyder stuff just wasn't for me. It's not

(33:18):
to say that it was bad, it just I never
connected with it. And it's again the folks who are
like big fans of that, I'm so happy for them.
I'm glad they've got something that they really love. It
just never it never was my bag. So I was
more of a Marvel fan than a DC fan over
the last gosh fifteen years. At this point, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I get it. Snyder has
some very pretty visuals, he has some fun ideas. He just,
in my opinion, really really needs an editor. I say
this as a person who has a very hard time
editing down because I can't decide between which of my
ideas I like the best or hate the least, as
often is the case. Yeah, Like I get it, but hey,

(34:03):
at least, you know, Marvel in DC occasionally permanently kill
off characters and they don't come back, unlike you know, Futurama,
which keeps coming back. No events to people who like
future Futurama, I have enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah, we got a trailer for the Yeah, we got
a trailer for the Hulu era of Futurama. Futurama has
been on so many different platforms over the years, when
Fox too, you know, uh, to the Cartoon Network, you know,
the now Hulu and all this kind of stuff, and

(34:38):
they're back again. And the trailer shows a lot of
a lot of shenanigans that are inspired by both real
world events and big science fiction blockbuster stuff. So like
there's an extremely dated already series of jokes about about

(34:59):
a pandemic and testing for the pandemic, and I'm like, wow,
these jokes would have hit better two years ago. Yeah,
and then there's also there's also like a joke that's
very clearly an homage to Dune and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, and then there's like a Wild West crypto.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Joke yeah, I think that was like that was a
combined combination of cryptocurrency and Westworld.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, yeah, which makes sense. You know, some of those
shows might be funny now I've seen them because I've
watched the trailer. Also really long trailer.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, it was a long trailer. I I you know,
it looks to me like like you trauma, like it
looks like the the kind of stuff that you would
be used to if you watched Futurama. And it's just
to me, it's interesting that this is a show that
has had multiple eras where it's been on, then it
was gone, then it came back, then it was gone again.

(35:56):
It says a lot about a show when it's able
to return so many times. Like most shows, if they
are gone, that's it, they're done. Then you have some
like Community, which got one last season on a totally
different platform than nobody used and so no one saw
it until after it became a streaming thing. But yeah,

(36:19):
most of the time, you don't get that if Futurama's
gotten that second chance at least twice.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, even my fellow Futurama fans, though I'm not a
huge I watch Futurama. I laugh. A Futurama. The people
who I know who really love Futurama are even like
even they are like, huh, we're getting another one.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, part of it, for me, at least was that
when Futurama came back after Fox canceled them, I got
a little tired of the first episode back them just
essentially having a never ending series of jokes about how
lame it was to be canceled. And while I was like, yeah,
I agree it was lame, but you didn't need to

(36:59):
make that like a story that could have been a
joke and you moved on. Uh So, it just it
got it felt a little too self referential, like a
little too like like, you know, boy, it was a
huge mistake to get rid of us before our time
kind of thing, and like just tell the stories, y'all.
That's that. We don't need you to to revel in this.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah. Yeah. Something else I'm not going to revel in
is the fact that the podcast podcatching app that I
use the most is shutting down. And like Jonathan said,
he hasn't rearranged these stories. I literally put them in
as they showed up in my feed or or or
came across my attention. I'm gonna be real honest. A

(37:41):
lot of the stories this week were about like anticipating
when next seasons of things will come out because it's
slow right now because of the writer's strike and negotiations elsewhere.
So yeah, and also it's the summer that is that
is also true. It's also the summer. It's so hot
in Georgia nobody wants to even move sure, but yeah,

(38:03):
so Stitcher is not advertising here. I used Stitcher, It's
just it happened to be the podcasting app app that
I fell into. It was easy to use, and they
had like the cool Marvel stuff on there, so like
the Wolverine podcasting series that I really enjoyed. They're shutting down.

(38:24):
Serious XM is doing that. Serious XM acquired them and
is doing that in an approach to getting people to
use their over more over arcing app that they're making.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
That's kind of consolidation.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah. The thing I didn't I forgot because I read it,
but then I forgot are you going to be able
to access it for free on their new app? Because
Serious XM is a very much a subscription service.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
You know. It's a good question, and I don't know
the answer to that aerial because I don't use Stitcher.
I actually use the Google podcast app, which is not great,
but especially since Google essentially cut off its support of it,
but I have not switched over to Stitcher. It is
a shame to see this. I know that some the
productions are off it are going to continue, but the

(39:15):
actual app is shutting down, which probably means that there
are a lot of developers who are affected by this.
Hopefully they were given positions elsewhere within the company and
not just let go. I hate seeing this, Like full disclosure,
I work for iHeartMedia, so Stitcher was like a competitor, right,
so is Serious XM for that matter. But I always

(39:39):
hate seeing these things happen. I would rather there be
lots of really good podcatching apps out there, because I
think that that competition drives innovation and making decisions that
ultimately end up creating great change for consumers. And and

(40:00):
you get viewer and fewer, there's less incentive to innovate.
You just kind of you kind of hunkered down and
you're happy with what you've got, and that ends up
being not so great to the end user. Like innovation
is what gives you new features and new abilities to
access and interact with the stuff you love. So I

(40:22):
was sad to hear about this news.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, you know, I also use the iHeart app. I'm
gonna be completely honest, not not to to do to
play favorites anything. I also use that app.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
So but I do too. But like like I said,
I use the Google podcast app for my podcast, but
I do use the iHeart app to listen to iHeart
on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah. So looking back at the Engadget article, because I
should have reminded myself directly before this. It's been a
long week. They are saying that, you know, to find
out what's going to happen to your favorite podcasts, follow
their individual social media's but Stitch, your studios in your
Wolf Comedy network will continue to make podcasts. Stitcher's premium

(41:11):
content may continue elsewhere, and that hosts and creators will
determine the availability and accessibility of their shows. Also, if
you are a Stitcher subscriber, if that is one of
the podcasting apps you use and you do subscribe to it,
they've canceled monthly subscriptions, and if you've got an annual
they will actually pro rate some of that back to you.
So if this applies to you, don't worry. I actually

(41:31):
found out about this, not because of Engadget, but because
I got an email so.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Fun times well on our somewhat related notes, not on
our show notes, but I received a message. And I
don't know yet if this is one accurate, but I'm
just going to go ahead and mention it. Apparently my
old employer how stuff works. It sounds like they may

(41:58):
have cleared house and gotten rid of all the writers
and they're going to a more AI driven approach for
their articles, which if true, is very very sad. Don't
know if it's true or not, So it may turn
out that this was a misunderstanding or something, but golly
if that's the case, Like I wouldn't have the gig

(42:19):
I have today if it weren't for heal stuff works,
like that's how I got tech stuff. That's that's where
the stuff in the name of tech stuff comes from.
So yeah, it's kind of like it's just crazy to
see these these outlets that are now part of bigger
companies have these kind of massive changes, and it hurts

(42:42):
because you know, you know, there were real people who
built that service up right, There are real people who
built stitcher into a thing. There are real people who
built how stuff works into a thing, and to see
that kind of get wiped away, you're like, you wouldn't
even have this thing if it weren't for those people.
So I just, I don't know, I get upset about it.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
No, I agree. I also just you know, I use
some AI apps because people are going to have to
adopt uses of AI if they want to stay current,
and you just have to figure out how to work
with it. But that being said, I don't like it
replacing people. It misses a certain human touch, human touch,

(43:26):
like a certain emotional connection to things, and also just
misses context a lot of times. If you, if you like,
you use an AI transcription service, they do not get
some stuff right, Like it's not anyhow, And that's a
whole part of like the whole writer struggling. Don't anyhow,
We've been down that path. I don't wanna.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, we might do, we might do a full episode
to really dive into it more deeply. But let's let's
go through and talk about some of the other news
because the next one, next news item is one that
really delights me. I don't you know, I'm of again,
I grew up in the seventies and eighties. I remember
when Clue the film came out, and when it originally

(44:09):
came out, if you went to see Clue in a
movie theater, you would get one ending. Now, if you've
ever watched Clue on cable, or if you've watched on
like a DVD or streaming or whatever, you know there
are three endings to Clue, and you typically get them
one after the other. But in the theater on the
initial release, you got one ending. However, if you went

(44:30):
to a different theater, you might end up seeing a
cut of the film that had a different ending. So
it was kind of a gimmick to try and get
people to go to the movie multiple times. It ended
up not working. Clue was a movie that did not
do well at the box office, but did really well
in home video.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
I was to say, it's a shame it didn't do
well in the box office.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, no, it's a brilliant film, but it just was
one of those that it just didn't find its audience.
It's kind of like Office Space, right, It's one of
those movies that did not find its audience until it
went to home theater. But it turns out well that
that kind of idea of having different versions of the
same movie out in theaters simultaneously is happening right now,

(45:10):
and people are just now noticing that across the Spider
Verse has different cuts of the film playing in different theaters. Now,
they're not nearly as dramatically different as a fully different
ending like in Clue, but there's still like some some
noticeable differences, to the point where if you did see

(45:30):
this film twice in two different theaters, and you saw
two different cuts, you might be like, huh, that's not
how I remember it being in the last time I
saw it, Like you might feel like the movie's gaslighting you.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's they're doing it so that
it feels like a multiverse. Like you said, I think
it's really cool. The article on Collider talks about some
of the differences you'll see, and yeah, they're all super minor,
so you're not going to miss any plot I and
I think I think from a business standpoint, it's a

(46:04):
really good decision because then you're gonna go see the
movie a bunch of times to try to catch what's different.
And in a time where movies are trying to get
bigger box office draws. Like I feel like this is
a great, a great I can't think of the word gimmick, strategy, strategy.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I think. I think I think it would be a
great strategy or a great gimmick if people knew about
it before just discovering it, you know, a few weeks
after the release, Like then I would say it was
a strategy because you would have people from the get
go saying, oh, I need to go see it again
because it might be different. But if they don't know that,

(46:47):
then there's no pole necessarily to get them to go back.
It's only the folks who did go back and see
it another time and noticed the differences that we even
know about this. I think it's just a really fun
odd like to that whole concept of variance, and maybe
they'll sell a few more tickets because of that, which

(47:08):
is great. I'm curious how this is going to play
out when it comes to home video, because are we
going to get like a version where you can, you know,
have different versions of a scene play I don't know, like,
or they're just going to settle on one and say
this is the canonical version of the story, or are

(47:30):
they going to sell fifty different DVDs across the Spider Verse,
and I'm gonna have to go bankrupt buying them all.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Yeah, well, you'll be able to go on YouTube and
check check out the different versions. I'm sure. Yeah, that's
that's a really interesting question. I look forward to seeing
how it happens. I still need to go see that
movie like I want. I will go to the theater
for that movie. I just haven't yet. I know that.
We've had some friends talking about the fact that they're
saying the next movie is going to come out soon,

(47:59):
but various people are rumoring that maybe they haven't started
on the art and the artist. What took so long
for this one to come out? And you know, if
they have a bazillion versions of the movie, I can
understand it taking so long. So you know, we'll see
what happens whiplashing to our next subject. And if I'm

(48:23):
running out of steam, it's because I had to turn
off my AC to record this as getting hot in here, y'all.
Even with the storm. Minecraft has a subreddit, yes, and
they are saying that while people in the community can
still use that subreddit to chat with each other, Minecraft
is officially not using it because of all of the

(48:45):
craziness that's been happening with Reddit overall.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, so if you are not familiar with that story
about what's happening with Reddit, the company changed its Application
Programming Interface policy. That's its API. This is something that developers.
App developers use in order to tap into another platform.
So you might want to download a third party Reddit

(49:12):
app so that you can read up on the subreds
you're subscribed to, and it is organized in a specific way,
and app developers have been doing that for ages. There
are some really really popular third party Reddit apps that
came out. But then when Reddit made this policy change,
they essentially started to charge money to the developers for

(49:34):
however many times the app was referencing Reddit, so every
time the app would reach out to essentially tap into
a Reddit server and pull information or post information that
would be counted as a reference. And a lot of
app developers had to shut down because the fees were astronomical.

(49:55):
One of them are the really popular Reddit apps, shut
down because the creator said it would have been the
equivalent of spending like seven million dollars a year to
pay for these these fees that Reddit had put in
and as a result, because these reddit apps are so
popular and people hate the official Reddit app for I

(50:17):
would say good reasons. A lot of subredits have been
protesting this in various ways. One was to post a
whole bunch of memes with John Oliver. One was to
switch subreddits to not Safe for work category because Reddit
doesn't allow advertising on those types of subreddits, which means

(50:39):
it would cut out their advertising revenue. And here we
have Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, saying that they believe
in the developer's cause as well and they don't want
to support reddits, so they are no longer going to
be an active participant in the Minecraft subredit and have
told people if you have things you want to tell us,

(51:00):
like bugs to report all that kind of stuff, contact
us on our website. We're not going to use this.
And that's a huge blow to Reddit because the Minecraft
subredit is one of the largest and most active subreddits
on the platform.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Yeah yeah, but you know what, I support it. Maybe
you should just email them, if they're official emails to
tell them that you think it's a cool move.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
If you do, yeah, yeah, same, same.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Okay, maybe this reddit blackout and craziness will get written
into Tron three, much the way that cryptocurrency and COVID
got written into Futurama.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Yeah, maybe so. So we had a little bits and
pieces of what Tron three is supposed to be. The
big news for the longest time was that Jared Lado
is going to be in it and is playing a
character named Ares. Yeah. No, I'm not a big fan
of him either, but he's playing it a character called Aries,
who is an AI character who finds a way to

(52:02):
manifest in the real world. Because if you're familiar with Tron,
it usually goes the other way. People from the real
world get digitized and inserted into the computer world of Tron.
Areas does this the opposite way. But now we also
know about another actor who has been attached to Tron three,
and that is Evan Peters, whom I know as one

(52:25):
of the Quicksilvers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah, he was in both X Man and then X Men,
one of the X Men's and then also was in WandaVision.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Yeah. When the article on Hollywood Reporter said you know
him from Dahmer.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
I was like, no, no, no, I don't know him
from Dahmer.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
I barely know him from American horror story. I watched
like maybe two episodes of the Carnival one that he
was in quickly stopped watching it. But yeah, no, I
am not at all excited about Jared Leto. I'm kind
of excited about Evan Peters, and I'm fairly middle of
the road about Tron three. I watch. I like the

(53:13):
first Tron. The second Tron was fine. I watched it
before Joco Cruise, so maybe I enjoyed it more because
I was already excited for the week I was about
to have, So you know, maybe the third one will
be fine too. Speaking of cool special effects, I guess
is my quick to this next thing. We got a

(53:36):
second trailer for the second Dune movie and it looks
dooty pretty Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
This one's called Dune Harder, and in it, John McClain
ends up being stuck in an airport at Christmas and
sand worms are running rampant, and he's like, how can
the same thing happen to the same guy twice?

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Yep, that's exactly it. That's all we got to say.
Let's move on.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
As with Christopher Walken, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
That is true? That is true? I mean it looks
honestly it looks more fun than the first part. I
enjoyed the first part. I just felt like it ended
at a really bad place for anybody who's not already
a Dune fan. I've said that a thousand times. I'm sorry,
you guys got to hear it again. Maybe the second
one will end in a better place. Because they're talking
about a.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Third well, I mean, there's several books in the series,
and this these these first two movies are just the
first book. So I think if they if this one
does really well, like the first one did surprisingly well
and got some good critical response too, So if this
one follows suit, then I think they're looking at this

(54:45):
as being another like, you know, franchise where they're going
to try and write it out. I mean, this Dune
is a series that stretches across literally thousands of years
in the series of books, so I'm curious if it
can be adapted in a series of films that an

(55:06):
audience will stick around for without making massive massive changes
to the story, because otherwise you're like, well, how, hey,
you know all those characters you loved in our last movie, Yeah,
they're all dead. Now this is this is a new
This is a new cast of characters and it's like
a thousand years later and oh did I say they're

(55:26):
all dead? Well, one of them has sort of turned
into a god, so he's still around, but everyone else
is dead. So and and yeah, I the biggest surprise
to me was I didn't realize Christopher Walkin was going
to play the Emperor. I don't know how I missed that.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
I do you like that casting choice? Like, I don't.
I know you haven't watched it yet.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Yeah, I don't know, because like I like Christopher walking
a lot, but I like him like he's such a
distinctive actor that it's I'm sure he'll do an amazing job.
The problem is that I always think of like the
arc typical Christopher walk In performance, you know, a little

(56:11):
bit quirky. It's kind of like Nicholas Cage, right, Like
it's one of those actors where you look at him
and you're like, and you you imagine the performance being
a specific way, even though that's probably not what you're
going to get. You're not going to get the cow
bell guy from that Saturday Night Live sketch, right Like,
they're not going to get him. But it's hard to
divorce that from your mind when that's such a that

(56:36):
or like the fat Boy slim Tray music video the
dancing Guy for a weapon of choice, like you have
to divorce all that from your brain when you're looking
at this and just and just say. I'm eager to
see his take on it. So I don't know how
I feel about it right now, but maybe when I
see it, I'll just say, like, oh, he did a

(56:56):
good job.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
You're gonna be real upset at my favorite Chris walk
In performance.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (57:03):
My favorite Christopher walk In performance is as the dad
in Hairspray because he was so delightful and sweet and
I just it was nice to see him play like
a happy, nice Christopher walk In.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
I'm not upset about it. But then I've never watched
that version of Hairspray. I've seen the original Hairspray. I
haven't watched the movie adaptation of the stage musical.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Yeah, anyhow, I really liked it. I like a lot
of his other performances too, but I think that one
was just the most relatable.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
So well, I am curiously I liked the first Dune
when I finally watched it, I should I feel like
that's a movie that I probably should have seen in
the theater, but when that came out, I was still
very very very concerned about COVID, so I did not
go to the theater back then. But it's definitely the

(57:57):
kind of spectacle film that I think benefits from a
big screen and a big sound system and all that
kind of stuff. Because when I watched it at home,
I was like, this is good, but I can tell
I'm missing the scale.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I liked it. I'm a fan
of Dune. It definitely benefited from being in the movie theater.
Watching it at home was subpar. Of course, again, I
feel like they could have sped things up a little
bit and then stopped at a better point in time.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah, it did feel like it felt like kind of
like Ralph Bokshi's version of The Two Towers because or
rather of Lord of the Rings, because Ralph Bokxhi wanted
to make a two part film adaptation of Lord of
the Rings and only got to do the first part,
which meant that they ended halfway through The Two Towers,
which is literally when Gandalf is writing to the rescue

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at Helm's Deep, and that's where the movie ends, and
you're like, yeah, there's a whole lot of like we
didn't even get the end of that battle in that movie.
But yeah, the First Dune kind of in a way
where it felt similar to that, Like, oh, I just
I felt like the story was just starting to finally
kind of head somewhere, and now the movie's over.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, now we get to the scary trailers.
Kind of the first one's only kind of scary.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
It's more of an action movie.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Yeah, did you put in this story too, or did
I just put it in twice? What which story? The
trailer for Retribution?

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I only see it on there once in our lineup.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
It was in there twice. I had it in thirty
seconds or less. And then it's also Geek News.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
I put it. I put it in the Geek News
because that's typically where we put trailers.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Okay, I had put it in thirty seconds or less,
and I had also written, hey, they mashed up speed
and taken.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
For us, so we both made the same joke. Yeah,
Liam Neeson, it's an action movie with action movie with
Liam Neeson who's playing a guy who apparently is like
some sort of investment executive. This this you is revealed
as the trailer goes on. He's got a couple of kids,

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and he's driving a car and he gets a call
and he's told that under his seat is a bomb
and that it has a pressure trigger on there so
he can't get out of the car, and that he
needs to keep driving to go to a specific location.
And it's essentially one of those where someone from his
past wants retribution on him for something and is forcing

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him to go and do all these other things, or
at least try to force him to go and do
all these other things, like including like killing other people,
and he's he's balancing out. Does he do these terrible acts?
Does he try to resist knowing that, you know, both
of his kids are in the car with him, And
toward the end of the trailer, it's clear that he's

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like the tables have turned, I'm coming for you now,
kind of like he's switched into taken version of Liam Neeson.
And I looked at it and I thought, man, I
probably would have been really into this trailer if it
had come out in the nineteen nineties when this kind
of movie was really a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Yes, I agree, Honestly, I was like, it's another Liam
Neisan movie. And I'm not saying that Liam Neeson action
movies are not their own geeky genre, because I believe
that they are. But I was like, Eh, it's just
another wrote Liam Neison movie. I'm not gonna put it in.
And then I watched a trailer and I'm like, Okay,
because we have personally mashed up speed with other stuff,

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we have to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Well, yeah, and it really does like it really feels
like it's a throwback to those nineteen nineties action movies, right,
Like that's yeah, that's exactly what it f I'm like,
I wonder is this gonna work like I have. I
don't have my finger on the pulse of what works
and what doesn't work today. I am old and I
am out of touch, and I fully admit to both
of those things.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
But everything old is new again and you're forever young, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
That's true. You told me at I'm sorry, I forgot
dude's anility. Uh I mean, oh, I mean I guess
nineties fashion has come back, so why shouldn't nineties action movies.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Yeah, foo Bar is a thing which I still have
like one more episode of that. But I'm enjoying it.
It's schlocky, but I enjoy it. By the way, if
you're newer to the show and you haven't checked out
our old video mashups uh we mash up speed with
Snakes on a Plane. You can find it on YouTube
under larger drunk Collider. It's one of those. Like my
third favorite episode that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Was a that was a really tricky one because we
shot that one on location.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Yeah yeah, wait, what.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
As when we weren't We weren't in my office, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Yeah, well, well listen, half of the ones in your office.
We still like had to step out into the actual
world to tape bits. If you look at being human
and almost human for instance.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Those we were all on the side walk out in
front of my place, it was we didn't go far.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Well, snakes on a plane, we were at my house
and my sidewalk. It's also location is location all the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Way across town from our our home studio, is all
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Oh well, I guess it depends on what you consider
a home studio, whether it's where we filmed more episodes
or where we filmed the first episodes. That's not even
an argument we need to have. They were both wonderful
filming locations. Yeah, next we're going to talk about we
only have two more things. I thought this was going
to be a short episode, but then we talked about

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aliens and Bigfoot and all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
And we also have to cut out like like two
or three minutes of Aeriel having to leave her computer
to go check on a car alarm.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Yeah, I didn't want to leave my car bleep in
if it was my car because of thunder. It wasn't
my car, Okay. Next we got a trailer for third
Times at chart Charm bird Box, Barcela. Try saying that
five times fast if.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
You want to, If you want to say it the
way they do, it would be bird Box Barthlona, because
you got that. It's that's all you say, Barcelona a
Barcelona Barthola. Yeah. This is a sequel to the film
bird Box, which you may remember. It features characters who
have to uh cover their eyes wear blindfolds because there

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are these creatures that if you were to see them,
they would drive you crazy and you might do like
something seriously self harmful or turn psychotic or otherwise become
a danger to people. And so you have a population
of folks who are going through the world blind and

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they only take the blindfolds off if they're in an unknown,
safe location. And then occasionally you have pockets of people
who have done gone crazy because they laid eyes upon
whatever these critters are. And uh, yeah, this one set
in Spain and it's on coming out on Netflix and
the trailer is creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Yeah, I mean I didn't. I had a real hard
time following the first one because of course I was
just listening to the audio. I had my blind fold on,
So yeah, that's a lie. I didn't watch the first
one because I thought it would be too scary. It
is weird because, like I watched A Quiet Place, which
I feel like is the hear no Evil version of

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bird Box. Like bird Boxes see no evil, quiet places here,
no evil speak no evil. I don't know. Maybe yeah,
so there you go. No, I didn't, but I haven't
watched bird Box. I do like the concept of this
new one of the people saying nope, we're gonna we're
gonna face this fear. We're not gonna be blind to

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the things out there. What can harm us?

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
I think those are bad guys.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Though, Oh well, I take it back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I think. I think what happens is that they they
have they have retained some higher level thinking, but they
are essentially subjects of the critters want drive everyone else insane.
That's my That was my take based on the trailer.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
That's less cool then I'm gonna be honest. I watched
the trailer at two time speed, which I do with
some of the scary ones.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
You gotta stop doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
It makes the scary ones more fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
I need you to I need you to really sit
in the scare.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Okay, well I did with our next trailer. If that helps.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
The next trailer is not scary, that doesn't count.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
There's some face saws. It is totally.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Scary, Okay, we're talking about Five Nights at Freddy's. We
got a full trailer, and my take is that this
movie looks like it has zero scares in it. Nothing
in it made me feel at all creepy or scary.
Part of the problem, I feel is that this gimmick
has been done to death already by both the games

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and by other films that were obviously inspired by the games,
and that there just isn't enough there for me to care.
And so I watched this trailer thinking I felt nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
I watched the trailer, and first of all, we had
talked about it previously when the teaser came out and
was like, how much of is Josh Hutcherson going to
be in this full movie? Or is he going to
be in it like Drew Barrymore was in Scream like
the first five ten minutes spoilers if you haven't watched
the original Scream. I only watched it two years ago
or somewhere around there. And he's going to be in
a lot of it. It looks like it is weird

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to me that he is maybe playing a dad because
in my head he's still eighteen in the Hunger Games.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
I know that's not fact, but it's It's also frustrating
that they're doing the old horror movie trope of give
character a kid in order to have someone to put
into danger, you know, and have someone for the character
to try and defend.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Yeah. I will say most of the trailer didn't look
super scary to me. It maybe had some jump scares,
like some suspense. I'm okay with that. Sometimes sometimes I
hate it. There were two moments at the end of
the trailer, one with the face head saws whatever, they
were that, I like, my brain just went off into
imagination land of if those made contact with a person,
what they would do, and that super creeped me out.

(01:08:30):
And then like the final beat of the trailer, which
I don't want to ruin for anybody watching. The trailer
was supposed to be funny, but I was talking about
it with one of my other friends and they had
mentioned a way in which that could be super creepy
and horrifying, which is if one of the two people

(01:08:52):
I don't know how okay, you know, I'm just gonna
say it, if you haven't watched a trailer and you
don't want to be spoiled the two. There's an uber
ride at the end of the trailer. The little girl
from the trailer is in the uber along with Freddy fasbear.
One of my friends was like, what if that is
Josh Hutcherson and he's been turned And I'm like, that
is super creepy and I hate it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Thank you so Or maybe it's just like one of
the kids and that's the one good one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
I mean Freddy. Freddy does become a good guy in
a later Five Nights at Freddy's movie, I believe or
video game, I believe.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
I was really confused because I thought at first he
was Freddie Fastbender and I was like, that doesn't look
like Magneto.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
It's no anyhow. That's what we got to talk about.
If you want to tell us what you think about
bird Box or my lack of understanding of it, or
five nights at Freddy's, or you know, whether you believe
in aliens or Bigfoot, and you want to tell Jonathan
about your definitive proof of cryptids, you can write us
and tell us how should they do that, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Well, you're gonna go deep into the woods in northern Georgia,
up in the mountains. You're gonna try back this critter.
It's moving around. You see these normous tracks on the ground,
and occasually on a bush you pass, you'll see a
little tough to fur and once in a blue moon
you're gonna find yourself some feces and uh yeah, just

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just try and pass those by as as you can.
We all know it's unpleasant. You're gonna track that thing
for three days. Every night you're gonna hear the chatterer
and whales of the critter you've been on the track
of for that whole time and getting closer and closer,
and by that third day, just as the sun is
getting ready to set, you're going into dusk. You're gonna

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see off in the distance in that weird crouching half
walk with arms swinging wildly. It'll be me, and I'll say,
dang it, you found me. What you want to know?

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
If we had only known that Jonathan was it was
Jonathan all along.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
Yeah, which is weird because my feet aren't even that big.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
No, no, I mean at least they've never struck me
as such. I will admit I have not spent a
lot of time looking at your feet. If if you
don't like the outdoors and you want to write us,
you can do so via social media on Twitter where
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our latest posts on our website Larger drug Collider dot com.
Or if you want to send us an email, you
can do that too. We're large nerdrum pod at gmail
dot com. And until next time, I have been Ariel.
I never want to grow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Up caston and I've been Jonathan Sassy Squatch Strickland. The
large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
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