I Want a Bigger Butt for Christmas

We lament the fact that we are not at Comic Con. Ariel talks about an Actual Play she's cast in. Jonathan complains about butts. It's Christmas in July. And Jonathan is out of his ding dang durn mind writing descriptions in an office that doesn't have air conditioning. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger or John 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 Ariel Caston, and with me, as always
is the wonderful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're gonna need a bigger butt, a bigger.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
But yeah, did you write it Finding Nemo Jaws mash up?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It didn't tell me I should have, but I didn't. Yeah.
After I said it, I was like, oh, but I mean,
let's be fair. Finding Nemo already has a Jaws reference
in it because the Great White's name is Bruce, and
as we know, Bruce was the name of the mechanical
shark in Jaws. Spielberg named it after his lawyer, I believe.

(00:56):
And yeah, we we'll have some Jaws stuff to talk
about a little bit in this episode. But more importantly,
welcome to Large nar Drunk Collider. As Ariel said, we're
so glad to get our streak of two episodes in
a row without a break, really going strong.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, although fair warning, you may all be witnessed to
my descent into madness today. Uh, your girls running on
four hours.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sleep yeah, and and your boys in a in a
boiler room.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
So, uh, this is fun. Also, I feels like a
new Saw movie.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, I feel like I've been put through a Saw
movie this week, Ariel. It has been a tough week
on me.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Sorry, but I'm glad you're here.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm glad I'm here too. Uh like that. I don't
wanna I don't want to downplay it. This is one
of the highlights of my week is being able to
spend some time with my dear friend Ariel where we
get to cavetch about the and celebrate things and and
catch up with each other because we don't get to
hang out as often as I would like. So this

(02:08):
is always a bright spot in my week. This week
was in dire need of a bright spot. So that's
that's where I'm coming from, and not the surface of
the sun, that is the outside. Oh no, yeah, it's
actually I should say, like as hot as it's been
here in the Southeast, I know, there have been like

(02:28):
areas of the United States that have been hit way
worse this summer. Like, I mean, seriously, if you look
at our weather this summer, it hasn't been as hot
as some previous years. Like I remember years where we
would hit over one hundred degrees and we haven't really
done that. I think there was like one point in

(02:49):
June where we were kind of flirting with it, but
July has largely been low to mid nineties. Which don't
get me wrong, it's still hot, but it's not as
bad as it could be.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, it's the humidity.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Really, Oh my gosh, it sure it surely is. If
I don't get tippled outside before nine am, it's like
I was in a swimming pool by the time I
get back to the house.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I went. I went to a larp. I think I
told you this.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I went to a larp last weekend and there wasn't
a c It was at de lightful time. My bandmate
was there and she gave me one of her paper
fans to borrow, and not three minutes into using it,
I could no longer fold it up because it was
so damp. But it hadn't touched water, it had just
been waved.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Through the air.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty rough. So y'all, if you're
in a place that's that's particularly hot, whether it's humid
or dry, heat or whatever. Stick, keep yourself hydrated, take
care of yourselves. And that's gonna segue us nicely into
our question of the week, because someone who would not
give you such nice and helpful advice would be a villain. So, Ariel,

(04:08):
who is your favorite villain in fiction? You know you
gave me this question. I haven't come up with an answer.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I gave it to you, yes, like and both times
my brain went to the same place. But I don't
think it's my favorite villain. So my favorite villain type
is one that really believes in what they're doing right.
They've got, whether it's good or bad, it's great conviction,
and they they genuinely think like they're like for instance,

(04:44):
I saw Superman this weekend. I'll talk about a little
bit more, but Lex Luthor's conviction in that was amazing,
and then he is convicted at the end spoiler. He
made me, he made me feel for him, and I
was mad about it. So but I think, like when
you ask me that, my gut reaction is Captain Hook,

(05:05):
because I like Peter Pan and there have been so
many great versions, not the Disney Captain Hook, but there
have been so many other great versions of Captain Hook
and then honestly kind of I love Gary Oldman in
the fifth element.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
He is that is a fun he's just fullen.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know if he's got conviction, but he's delightful.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
He It's fifth Elma is such a weird movie because
he doesn't the villain, doesn't have that much screen time,
and also is eliminated with quite a bit of the
movie left to go, and so it's it's an odd
like it's not designed like your typical Western narrative is.

(05:51):
But uh, but yeah, he seems to have a lot
of fun chewing the scenery. And I've seen interviews with
Oldman who was like, uh, for the longest time, he
wasn't too happy with his performance in that movie, just
because it was so over the top and weird. But
then he says, I have since come to appreciate its

(06:11):
place in film and in fandom. But it took my
family showing me the film in that light for me
to get it, because he was just thinking of it
purely from like it's just this truly ludicrous project and he's,
you know, being so hammy in it. But it's exactly

(06:36):
fitting for the type of movie that Fi film is.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, So I'm sure there are other I know there
have been other villains that I've watched where I'm like, man,
their performance was so good, like you relate to them
and you feel for them even though they're doing something horrible.
None of those are coming to mind right now. So
that's the answer you get. What about you? I think
you know your answer.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I tend to like really theatrical villains, like truly theatrical ones.
But what well, first of all, what do you think
my answer is Captain Hook? Oh okay, all right, well
you got me. That's one of the ones I wrote down.
I wrote down. I wrote down like three technically, but
I could have written down four. So when I said,

(07:19):
was Hook, And like you said, I like a lot
of different portrayals of Hook. I actually do like the
Disney version Hans Conried. I like his versional lot, but
I also love Dustin Hoffman as Hook and Jason Isaacs's Hook.
Jason Isaacs has like the most evil delivery of a
hook I've ever seen, which I love, which is just

(07:42):
him very casually killing a fairy like he's not even
he's not even looking. Pan I think is the name
of the movie. I think I liked that one. Yeah,
he's he's looking over a log and he's spying on
Peter and meanwhile there's a fairy like right next to him.

(08:02):
Without even looking, he just very casually says, I don't
believe in fairies and kills the fairy, and I just thought,
what a gloriously evil act. And yeah, I really liked
his version of Hook.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's my favorite live action version of Peter Pan straight.
And yes, he's my favorite Hook.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah. I think Dustin Hoffman is my favorite Hook because
he's just so silly as well as theatrical and and
something about that just really sings in me. Even though,
as we've said in this very podcast, I don't like
that movie as a whole. I like his performance a lot.

(08:42):
Darth Vader is another one. Like in the original trilogy,
I loved Darth Vader in episodes four, five, and six,
And in novels, I have to do a shout out
to Stephen King. I like a lot of Stephen King villains,
like Randall Flag from the Stand is pretty nasty, but

(09:04):
my favorite is Leland Gaunt from the novel Needful Things.
He's kind of a snake oil salesman who has in
the modern day. He comes in and takes over an
antiques or a curiosity shop, and the things he sells
to people ends up like feeding on and amplifying their

(09:27):
darkest desires and thoughts. So if someone is kind of
greedy this like cranks it to eleven, you might say,
that's another that's more foreshadowing for a different thing we'll
be talking about later. So yeah, those are those are
my favorite villains in fiction generally speaking.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I feel like it's gonna drive me crazy. You know
this happens every time you get asked a question and
you no longer remember anything.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Ever, this is why I'm trying to give them to
you ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now, I know, I know there was a villain I
saw recently, and it wasn't in Spooper Man. It wasn't
in Spooperman. Gosh, eh, I'll remember later.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I think i'd probably put doctor Frankenferger up there too,
from Rocky Horror. Are they really a villain? I mean,
Frankenfurter turns everybody into stone at one point. Okay, okay,
uh so it's hard to say, like, but Frankenfurter is

(10:39):
certainly self obsessed. If nothing else and very theatrical. Uh,
understandable since it was originally a stage show. But yeah,
that that's a Those are good answers, though, I'm curious
what our listeners think, like, who are some of their
favorite villains in fiction, whether it's in literature or televison

(11:00):
or movies or whatever. I would love to hear, you know,
some thoughts, because there, I'm sure I could come up
with a very long list. Ursula would have been another
one I could have easily added. She's again, a very
theatrical villain from Disney, So.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
For sure, I am trying to think if there's anybody
theatrical like any books, sorry, any book villains that I
truly love got off hand.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, it's it could be. I mean, don't put you
on the spot or anything. We'll circle back to it
at some point, I'm sure, because I always end up
recycling questions I've asked before, because we change as people,
so sometimes our answers change. Yep. Then let us move
on and let's talk about stuff we've watched. It's the
last time we recorded. I can easily go first because

(11:49):
I haven't watched a ding dang darn thing. I haven't
I haven't watched any films or series that I can
think of anyway since the last time we recorded. I
am keeping an eye out for Comic Con News because
that's going on the weekend that we're recording this.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, which, let me just say, I feel like there's
so many trailers that are being dropped right now, like
the official teaser trailer for it, or the Stranger Things
Broadway trailer that are being released today, yesterday, whatever that
we've seen before.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
I can swear that we've seen.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
It before, but some of them are are new trailers,
but they'refore things that have been out, like the Stranger
Things Broadway trailer. We did have in our lineup for
a bit. And then I thought, I have sworn the
show was already up and I looked as like it
started in March. So this, I guess it's Netflix's op

(12:46):
chance to try and promote the show further and try
and get more tickets sold. But that show's been up
for months, I think.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
So I think it opened in the West End and
this might be the Broadway.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well Broadway open in March, Okay, West End had opened
up earlier too.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, but like last minute, I almost added a trailer
for It or Welcome to It, Welcome to Day, and
it was the official teaser. We already got a teaser,
and when I watched it, it looked exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
So yeah, because I remember we talked about Welcome to Day,
about how like if you were if you had read
the novel, it was like the children from the novel version,
because in the novel the kids are kids in the
nineteen fifties or early nineteen sixties, and then they're adults
in the nineteen eighties, and then of course the film

(13:37):
adaptation pushes that forward where it's the adults are modern
day and they were kids in the eighties. So the
Welcome to Dairy I was watching, I was like, oh,
this is like, this is like watching an adaptation of
the children's sections of the original. It set in the
appropriate timeframe.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah. Well, I get a question for you. Are you
gonna go see Fantastic Four this weekend?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I haven't bought tickets yet, I'm I might. I've already
seen some reviews that are tepid, right, Like they're not
they're not awful, No one's slagging off the movie, but
they seem like like, yeah, well, yeah, it just it

(14:26):
seems like they're more in line with some of the
other more recent Marvel movies, where it's just like, eh,
you know, it could have been good, and that the
performances apparently are quite good, but that the story is
where it kind of falls flat a little bit. Based
upon what I have seen, I haven't read any review
in full detail because I don't want spoilers. I did

(14:47):
get a spoiler today while reading a different article about
some cameos that are in it.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
That's that's, that's the one that I I was afraid
I had.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Spoiled for you the other day, Oh, because you saw
it on IMDb.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, because well I watched a thing and then
I went on a deep dive.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I don't think I would have. I don't think I
would have picked up on the cameos, right, because, like,
the cameos are of actors who are in a pretty
obscure only I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Only one of them I've seen in other things.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, it's it's in an obscure piece of cinema that
technically you should not be able to see. I have
seen it because I have a bootleg copy. But yeah,
I don't think I would have picked up on it.
I think later on I've been like, oh, I didn't
know that was that person.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'm delighted that it happens. We'll leave it there because
I don't want to spoke. I will say that it
is eighty nine percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes critically, and
then ninety two percent fresh audience.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
The people that I know that have seen it have
really enjoyed it. They felt like it was a love
letter to Kirby and hit all the spots the previous
movies kind of failed.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well it's good to hear.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah. Yeah, like not everything landed, but enough did.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah. I'll have to check with Becca to see what
she thinks and whether or not, you know, she wants
to go and see it this weekend because we just
haven't made any plans. But uh, I mean I wouldn't
object to it. I would like and I would like
to see it before everything is spoiled for me.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, it's all it's all Red Ghost, all of it.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah. They said that they cut John Malkovich. They lied.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's it's John Malkovich plays every role.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's ninety six minutes of Yeah, it's being John Malkovich
two Fantastic four. Yes, I really want to see that now, Yeah,
all right, well you said you saw super Duperman. What
did you think of it?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
I was delighted.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
My husband felt like Superman didn't do much and didn't
really have a good super arc, and we we kind
of disagree on that. Like we came in and without
giving too much spoilers for the movie, because I'm sure
there are people who listen who still haven't had a
chance to see it, you kind of come in on
the middle of Superman's arc, which I like, and it's

(17:12):
it's a story of perseverance to me, so I quite
enjoyed it. I thought Frickin' Nicholas Holt was amazing as
Lex Luthor like to make me even briefly care for
such a horrible creature as he was was amazing. Jimmy
Olsen spot on, I I loved.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I loved all the casting for it.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I even loved mister mister Terrific, even though like Echo
Kellam is like my favorite mister Terrific.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
This guy won my heart over.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
But I didn't feel they put Kat Grant in the
Daily Planet staff, which she she's a part of it.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
She's, you know, a cool character.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I felt like she was underutilized or I didn't like
the way she was utilized.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I mean she was, she wasn't. She was barely used
at all in the movie. Like I know, the actress
has also been in other James Gunn projects, so this
is someone that he's worked with before. So I think
that that's part of it, is that he brought on
people he likes to be able to be in the movie.
But I agree that she didn't get a whole lot

(18:26):
to do.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, and I think she's a good actress. I just
for that character, it felt weird to me, but everything
else landed.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I was worried.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
You know, I don't like stories with animals, and there's
some animals in the story, and I was able to
I liked it.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
So that's good.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You don't like stories with animals because you're worried about
the animal getting hurt. Let's be clear, yes, because otherwise
it just sounds like you hate animals.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm worried about them getting hurt. There were several animals
in Superman without going into detail, and I came out of.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
It, okay. I mean he saves a squirrel that's been
talked about. It's been talked about a lot.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
I love it. It made me so happy. But I
thought it was very good. I thought it was a
lot of fun. I loved Crypto. I have a hard
time saying that because it sounds like cryptocurrency.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, we're gonna clip that and we're gonna put Ariel
in front of a bitcoin symbol. I love Crypto, don't.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
But no, I liked Crypto, the Cryptonite dog, Kryptonian dog.
I really enjoyed it. I actually, I very much really
enjoyed it. It was great to see names of people
that I know who worked on it. Yeah, I've also.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Watched what Oh, what did you think of Guy Gardner?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
He he was good. I agree that, you know, he.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Like he was older than I'd expect Guy Gardner to be,
but it was also totally fine.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
There's no reason he can't be that age.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah. I love Nathan Fillion's performance as Guy Gardner. I'm
looking forward to a Peacemaker to see a little bit
more of him, and I'm hopeful that, you know, we'll
get to see even more in Lanterns.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yes, yes, I'm it makes Here's the thing being able
to make such a hopeful movie, because the Superman movie
is is rather hopeful. Really, gives me, really gives me
hope for the DC franchise moving forward. Like, and I
know that not every movie is going to be that way,
They're all going to have different tones, but I think

(20:45):
that's such a I talked about this last week. I
think that's such a good choice and a good decision
I am. I am hopeful for what comes next. I'm
on I'm working backwards through task Master. So I'm on
series seventeen now.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Is that the one? The one before? The most recent
two before?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, yeah, so Jason Manzukis is in the most recent one,
which is nineteen eighteen.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Was Great.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Seventeen has Nick Muhammad who is in ted Lasso, and
it's it's delightful.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's just delightful.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
I will watch through as many seasons as I can.
It's free on YouTube right now, so watch it while
you can. And then I'm still going through Love, Death
and Robots. And at this point, like, I appreciate the
creativity and I appreciate the artisticness and the performances.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
It is.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's a lot in many different ways, and at this point,
I think I'm watching it just to snark on it
with my friends. There's a lot of episodes of Jenna Taylor.
So we've got a Genitalia account going on, which helps
me get through it because we all know me and
I like implied better than explicit. So but that's what

(22:16):
I've watched this week. I also did a lot. I
would have done more, but I was actually prepping for
the actual play that I'm about to be doing.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
We just had our first meeting on that.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, I don't think you mentioned that you got cast
in that.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
So a while ago I talked about a video game
that's coming out that some of my very good friends
are working on called Shadow City Mysteries, a clockwork noir,
and they have written a five Y companion piece to it,
and we're starting an actual play. I believe it goes
up in October, but we're starting our pre production now.

(22:52):
It's an amazing cast. It's so many great people, and
the character concepts are really wonderful. I'm very much looking
forward to it. Uh, you know, it took it took
some It took some reading because it is like a
new world and there are some new rules and some
fun cool things in it that are not regular five E.

(23:13):
So I had to familiarize myself with all of that
Shadow City mysteries, a clockwork noir is a steampunk noir
kind of a story, all of that sort of intrigue,
all of the color has been sucked from the world
and different you know, powers within the world and people
within the world have different conspiracies about how that happened

(23:33):
and why it happened. There are still a few things
with color, but it's far and few between, mainly some
technology and some magic. It's going to be a lot,
a lot of fun. Yeah, you'll have to keep us
informed when that is starting to come out. I'm sure,
Like if there's like a trailer or anything, we'll talk
about that too.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, so I'm gonna to hear more.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
We're going to be We're going to be streaming on Twitch.
So if you want to follow, follow the follow it
to see when we come up. You can you know,
subbed to play on words Studios, either on Twitch or
Instagram or any of the other platforms because it will
be posted there.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Sounds great, all right, Well, I guess that brings us
to our our truncated section and what we try to
keep truncated, our thirty seconds or less an ariel I
believe I gave you the first one.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
This time you did Spider Man Beyond the Spider Verse,
which is the third Spider Man Spider Verse movie, is
moving back, but only three weeks now. Instead of coming
out on June fourth, it will come out June twenty fifth.
Twenty twenty seven was always going to come out twenty
twenty seven. These movies take a lot of time to
get right, and they get them right, so I'm happy
to wait for it. They're really doing this so that

(24:49):
more kids will be out of school and able to
enjoy the movie. That's the primary reason. Also, internationally, it's
a better date. I'm fine with it.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah. Wow, Well, I got so spoiled with projects being
filmed back to back so that you only had to
wait like six months to a year for the next one.
But as you say, it takes a lot of time
to get that level of detail and artistry just right.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Well.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Kevin Figey sat down with some journalists and talked about
how several recent films and series in the Marvel Cinemac
universe have underperformed with both critics and the box office.
He acknowledged that too many recent Marvel projects have given
audiences the sense that they need to do homework before
they can watch the stuff, because otherwise they won't know

(25:37):
who is who or what's going on. He also admitted
that Marvel put out way too much stuff in way
too short a time. Hopefully this means the MCU will
soon alter.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Course, we will see. This is an old news item
that kind of resurfaced. I had missed it before, so
now you all get to hear about it.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Whether you knew that or not. Mass Effect is doing
a show.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Following on the success of the Fallout TV series, and
some of the same crew will be working on it,
so that makes it all very hopeful.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah. I hope that they're able to shepherd in a
great series. Whacky schmack I do right. We have mentioned
before that it is the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws. Gosh,
that movie is old. I mean, that's an old old movie.
Fifty years That is old, people, ancient. Fifty years is

(26:35):
so old anyway. Universal Pictures is re releasing the film
for a limited engagement on August twenty eight that select
theaters and will include formats like IMAX three D and
forty X. So get ready to be splashed in the
face and splattered with blood as your seat goes buck wild.
The date to remember is August twenty ninth. I think
I said twenty eighth earlier, I'll see you at the movies.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
On day or the other.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Leelo and Stitch two, we know what's happening, but now
we know that Chris Sanders is writing the script. That's
exciting news because Chris Sanders wrote the twenty twenty two
Best Way to Say That date two thousand and two
original Leelo and Stitch script, which was brilliant, and also
worked on the recent the recent Wild Robot film, which

(27:22):
I haven't seen, per my previous comment about watching movies
about animals in danger, but all of my friends say
is phenomenal. This makes me more excited for Lelo and
Stitch two than Leelo and Stitch one.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
The Redo that's a great subtitle. The Buffy reboot is
in pre production and the cast is shaping up. We
already knew Sarah Michelle Geller was going to return in
some capacity as a support character as Buffy herself, but
there will be a new Slayer named Nova, played by
Ryan Kira Armstrong. But other cast members include Folly Raca

(27:58):
to Havana Ava Jane Sarah Bach, Daniel Di Tamaso, and
Jack cut More Scott. I don't recognize any of those names,
which actually makes me more excited for this series. Here's
hoping that some of the original series regulars occasionally make
some guest appearances for sure.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Jamie Lee Curtis announced this week as a part of
Comic Con. I believe that she will be in a
murder she wrote reboot.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
She mentioned it on the carpet of Freakinger Friday.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
If I had read the news about it more, I
would have remembered that.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Anyhow.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's about an older woman named Jessica Fletcher who solves crime.
It was originally played by Angela Lansberry.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
May she rest in peace.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I don't know how I feel about this being redone,
but if anybody can do it, Jamie Lee Curtis can.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Netflix has a pre season two gift for the series Wednesday.
The Jenna Ortega series has already received a season three renewal,
Plus there's word that there's going to be a spinoff
series to follow. No details are available yet for that spinoff,
but nerdics Ty Goodin speculates that it could be an

(29:12):
Uncle Fester series, but it's more likely to be something
new that just hasn't leaked yet. That's something to snap
about critical Role.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
We're going to talk about them a lot this episode.
But one of the cool things that has come out
is that they are working on a video game with
the studio.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
I believe it's.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Ad Hoc that did the Dispatch game, which looks really good.
I haven't played it yet. It will be a new adventure.
It will not be Vox Makina or Mighty nine.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Or bells Hell's. It'll be a brand new, fun adventure.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
After four seasons, Resident Alien is getting deported to cancelation territory. Yep.
The series will not be renewed once it reaches the
end of its current season, and that season is nearly
over already. Showrunner Chris Sheridan said he suspected this would
be the final season, particularly after sci Fi or Ciphy
shifted the series over to the USA Network after season

(30:17):
three finished. I hope this means that the season finale
will be a satisfying conclusion. Here's hoping, all right, Well,
now that we're done with thirty seconds or less, let's
talk about the one and only thing we put into
our doesn't really fit the show format section, and I
think this will be right in my I mean it's

(30:40):
hard because I'm like, if it's a horror movie but
it's a horror movie that is not supernatural oriented, then
I typically shy away from it being in the main
lineup because I don't know, there's this weird line in
my head where supernatural horror belongs in the lineup up

(31:00):
and non supernatural horror, so like your home invasion style
stuff belongs in. Not really a fit. I mean, you
could easily argue that the horror genre as a whole
is a fit, but I don't know. It's just how
my brain works. Anyway. This is for a We got
a trailer for a movie called The Rose Rows and

(31:22):
it's coming sometime this year. It is it's like a
home invasion movie but for corn, because corn, you know,
notorious home owners. Yeah, it's the corn is not the
ones being tortured. It's just it's The trailer takes place
in a big corn field where a young girl is

(31:45):
running around and encounter strangers who are wearing burlapsed sacks
as masks, and they clearly are menacing and out for blood.
Why we don't know the trailer does not give us
in from to that regard. It was kind of giving
me vibes of things like The Strangers or funny games.

(32:08):
But there could also be a racial component to this
because the bags over the head kind of obviously reminiscent
of the KKK.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
So yeah, but then there's like a robot.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
There's a robot. I don't remember the robot obviously. Oh yeah. Yeah.
I honestly like, I watched this trailer and I was
not I was not really moved by it in any way.
Like I didn't feel I felt like this was a

(32:41):
low budget attempt to take a basic premise and stretch
it into a film. Now, maybe that's unfair, maybe that's
not what this feature is. But I've seen so many
like I think we talked about last week. I've seen
so many projects where they took like a very basic
and then try to blow that into a full movie

(33:03):
when really the premise just supports like a very short film. Right. Like,
as a short film, it works great because you don't
need to establish things like character and motivation and backstory
or any of that. You can just have it be
effective and that's it. But then when you try to
expand that to be a full movie. Often it starts

(33:24):
to show as being a little threadbare. I'm getting that
sense from this trailer, but I also admit that could
just be my bias.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not. You know, it's not my
kind of movie anyhow.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, No, I figured you wouldn't be like, like, Jonathan,
you are full of crap. I will be there day one.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes, yes, Jonathan, how dare you put this amazing movie
into our lineup and then disparage it greatly?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
It was one of those where we've talked about this
in previous episodes too, But like when we're filling out
the lineup, we're doing it throughout the week, and early
in the week it often looks like there's going to
be nothing right, Like it'll be like Tuesday or Wednesday,
and they'll be hardly anything on the lineup. So then
stuff will slip in that normally we probably wouldn't include

(34:22):
because you know, it just wouldn't merit attention. And this
was one of those cases where it just it slipped
in and stayed in. But yeah, I don't know. It's
I love horror, but this particular subgenre of horror, that
kind of invasion style stuff. It needs to be really

(34:44):
well done for me to even be curious about it,
because there have been so many of them, and a
few of them have been spectacular, and a lot of
the others feel like a copy of a copy of
a copy.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, I know, we said, like, there's nothing in the
earlier week we knew comic Con was happening.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, but like the stuff about the comic Con hasn't
really really started to happen until today. Yeah, so's it's
it's very hard for us to include comic Con stuff
unless we were to delay recording until either late tonight
or tomorrow, because Friday, Friday, and Saturday are the big
days for comic Con. And sure some stuff happened on Thursday,

(35:26):
but not a lot.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Well, we'll get off of this and we'll be like, no,
this just came out. We wanted to talk about it
next week. Next week, So let's move on to the
things that we do.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Have to talk about.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Sounds good to me, Ariel. And the first thing is
another horror movie.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
You but you bear so you told me you added this,
and I know your thoughts on this, and you think
it's barely horrrific, very horrorrific.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's five Nights at Freddy's too, So that is a
pun that Ariel's making because of Freddy Fast Bear. Yeah,
five Nights of Freddy to Freddy's two got a trailer release,
and it looks like the basic premise is, for some reason,
our protagonist is going to the original Freddy's location and

(36:17):
there's more like animatronic critters running a muck. And my
comment to Ariel was that at least in the trailer,
the trailer is one where it is accompanied by extremely
loud horror stings to signify something scary is happening, you know,

(36:42):
like that that weird, like almost scream type sound just
suddenly bursts into the audio. And my conviction is that
if you strip the audio out, like if you watch
this on silent, nothing would have even remotely looked scary
to you. It's that the soundtrack is signaling, Hey, you're

(37:04):
supposed to be scared now.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah? Did you? Did you ever end up watching the
first one? No?

Speaker 2 (37:11):
I I like the games, but again it's it's another
one of those things where I'm like, to me, the
premise supports exactly as much as the game and no more.
And then when you try to adapt that into a
different form of narrative. It kind of doesn't work, And
that's my suspicion. I haven't seen the first one, so

(37:32):
I can't say if it's confirmed or not. But I
didn't have any desire to watch the first movie, and
this one I feel even less desire.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
I mean, Sames's I. The only thing that even vaguely
interested me in watching it was that it was Jim Henson's,
you know, creature Creature workshop working on the animatronics, and
that's fantastic. But in this trailer, it's Josh Hutcherson and
his not daughter niece, the little girl that he watches

(38:08):
after the events of the first one, and she's sad
because she misses her animatronic friends, and I'm like, did she?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Is it? Cannon? In the stories that a little kid
befriends these killer.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
I think there's supposed to be one that is benign.
Like the lore of Five Nights at Freddie's is really
complicated and contradictory, but in at least some variations, I
think at the idea is that there are spirits of
children inhabiting some of these animatronic figures, and one of

(38:41):
them is more benign than others. But honestly, I've never
anytime anyone tries to go on about the law of
five nights at Freddie's. It's only it's only slightly more
tolerable than someone trying to explain Kingdom Hearts to me.
Oh goodness, Yeah, that's how that's how convoluted it gets.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
See, I'm also but I'm also surprised that you put
five nights in freddy at Freddy's above Kingdom Hearts.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Well, no, if you've ever tried to watch anyone try
and describe what the heck is going on at Kingdom Hearts,
like within within five minutes, you're gonna think, well, this
makes no sense. Then you'll scroll down and like, and
there's an hour and thirty five more minutes of this.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
It's look, it is.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Just Disney meets Disney Fights Final Fantasy.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
That yes, and Final Fantasy makes no gosh darn sense,
is what I'm saying. That's that's the problem.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
That's I guess. I guess that's true.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Well, so we know you're not excited about five nights
at Freddy's two, but if.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
You are excited, I should mention it comes out December fifth.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Go ahappy birthday to me.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, I know what we're doing for various birthday.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Nope. You said you don't like going to movies for birthdays,
so nope.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Are you excited, however, or mores or any more or
less excited for Predator bad Lamps.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I haven't been invested in the Predator franchise in a
long time. In fact, I don't think I've seen anything
past Predator two. I've only seen the first two Predator
movies and I never watched any of the rest of it,
So no is the answer. But I will say that
the trailer itself looks interesting, like it's like a buddy
cop movie, but one cop is a predator who's going

(40:38):
on his first hunt and the other cop is half
of a synthetic from Alien.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yes, which that half is what makes me interested in
watching it. It's el Fanning, Ellie el Fanning, I believe
and just heard thirty seconds sort of performance in the
trailer is phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yeah, the fact that he ends up wearing her like
a backpack while going on this hot like the premise
appears to be that this this it's sort of a
coming of age thing, like it's It's similar to a
lot of tales of like Native Americans that once they
reach a certain age, they have to pass a kind
of trial in order to be considered an adult. It

(41:25):
seems to be similar to that. So this particular Predator
doesn't have a helmet or anything yet. I'm guessing this
is how he would earn that stuff, and has apparently
chosen a particularly dangerous world upon which he will do
his hunt. And this half of an android is also,

(41:45):
I guess, in the same general location. He comes across
and then is able to reboot her and she ends
up sort of assisting him. It's an interesting concept, like
I can see where it's a pea, But because I
have not been invested in the Predator series at all
for so long, I don't know that this is the

(42:07):
one that's going to pull me in.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Pray would have been the one to pull me in,
and I've heard good things about it, but I haven't
watched it yet.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Same, Yeah, I agree. I think Pray is the one
that would have been more likely to get me to
watch it, and I've heard good things, like reviewers I
respect gave it, you know, not like super high praise,
but they said it was an enjoyable and entertaining film,
and this also looks like it could be. I don't know.
Maybe it's partly because it's not really focusing on human characters,

(42:41):
and that's what I find more interesting about the first
two Predator movies. It's humans who are on the receiving
end of one of these, like you know, seemingly unstoppable killers,
and that is more interesting to me than a story
where an alien you know, killer is facing off against

(43:02):
other alien monsters. Like, wow, that's getting closer to a
kid in a sandbox playing with toys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah, I'll tell you what though, Well, do you want
to say when it comes out?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Before I say my November November seventh.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, I am more interested in Predator bad Lands than
I am for the new War of the World's, which
I missed was even even happening.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
I'm sane. I thought it was a fake trailer at
first when I saw the thing, and I was like, wait,
is this a real thing? And I had to do
some searching because I was like, I had not heard
of anyone doing another adaptation of War of the World's,
like you know, it was two thousand and five. I
think when Tom Cruise's version came out so twenty years ago,

(43:48):
which seems crazy to me, Like it seems like it
was way sooner than that. But and maybe I'm wrong,
maybe I've got the year wrong. But this adaptation, it
feels like it's a new take on you know, how
would we tell War of the World's today? Because the
original was a radio drama, right, and this one is

(44:11):
told almost like found footage, because it's not really found footage,
just like streaming footage. Right. Everybody, all these different characters
have access to a camera. Maybe it's their cell phone
or maybe it's something else. And ice Cube plays a
character who's kind of he's kind of like the man
in the chair, who's who's watching all these different feeds.

(44:34):
From what we can tell, there are other people like
Evil and Gooria is in it. Clark Gregg is in it,
so it's kind of got a gorilla style to a
lot of the footage.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
I looked it up on the IMDb list.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Well, according to according to the search I did, he's
in it. Maybe maybe the search was wrong. Maybe it
was one of those where it was like the AI
put it together, it was just fan casting the film.
This one's coming out on Amazon Prime Video on July thirtieth.
I did not like this trailer.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
I didn't either.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
I will give them props for trying to figure out
a way to make the story new and cool.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
It just kind of fell flat for me.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Yeah. Yeah, Like I was curious because again, it seemed
like it came out of nowhere, like neither of us
had heard about this project at all. But yeah, it
was just a miss. Like again, it could just be
the trailer. Like, I never want to suggest that the
actual finished project isn't worth watching. It may be that

(45:49):
the people who cut together the trailer just did in
a way that doesn't appeal to me. And maybe if
I watched the movie I'll feel differently. But I don't
feel a strong pull will watch this one.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
I've seen it enough, I've listened to it enough.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
It comes out, like I said, July thirtieth, on Amazon
Prime Video. So it's just a couple of days away
when it'll be available. Let's let's talk instead about an
R rated animated feature that is like an else World's
take on Batman.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
So the latest Batman animated feature I believe got uh
announced at Comic Con is as tech Batman.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Yeah, very weird. So this young as tech is behind
a movie theater in an alleyway when his parents are murdered,
and no, and pearls go, no, I didn't watch that.
I didn't watch the trailer, so oh you didn't. No
I did, I did. I have a lot of I
have a lot of thoughts about that trailer.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
So is one of them that the art style Vay
Glee reminded you of Venture Brothers.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
I didn't write that down, but now that you say it,
I could totally see it. I wrote, I wrote as
a joke. I wrote down A young Aztec sees his
parents murdered by a conquista door in the alley behind
a movie theater. He sees a conky star kill his father,
but he then decides to take on the guys of
the scariest thing he can think of, bats because he

(47:25):
hasn't encountered smallpox yet. And uh and then I said,
also a young woman in a puma costume, a la catwoman,
and a joker conky star character. Also the conky stoor
who killed his dad, I think turns into a two face.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yes, because because Jaguar woman slashes him in the face.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, and also there's a poison ivy like Aztec goddess character.
I said, it looks kind of silly, but I'm also
kind of here for it. I mean, I don't object
to it. I don't object to it. I actually like
the reimaginations of Batman and putting them in different time
periods and different contexts, and maybe this would be the

(48:12):
one that I'd watched and I'd go, wow, they were
really imaginative fitting this into like an Aztec storyline that's
kind of neat, you know, the conquistad or colonial era.
That's kind of cool. Yeah, but there are a lot
of other timelines and places that I think would have

(48:32):
gotten my attention more effectively.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
They've done so many of them, and I've watched so
many weird Batman cartoons because of my friends. This one
feels like it would at least fall in the middle
of the pack. I think the thing that reminds me
of Venture brothers with it, And I don't know why,
I could just be completely off base.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
The trailer is cut in a way so that.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
The beats feel like they should be comedic, even though
they aren't really that funny.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. I mean, I
think it's like they are paying homage to the material
that Venture Brothers was spoofing, right, because Venture Brothers was
spoofing stuff like Johnny Quest, right, And this feels like
it's kind of along the same lines as Johnny Quest,
only way more violent. Like I said, this is R rated,

(49:23):
it's not. It's not like a Johnny Quest adventure series.
It's darker and more violent than that. It comes out
September eighteenth, and according to the trailer, it's coming out
on quote digital end quote. What that means who's to get? Say,
maybe just video on demand.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
So the next trailer I was super excited to watch
and then guess what what, I completely forgot to watch it.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
You didn't watch the trailer for good fortune?

Speaker 3 (49:53):
No, I saw the teaser when we talked about the.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Tea, okay, But the trailer actually gives a piece of
inf that is not in the teaser at all, okay,
and is fundamental to the story of the movie, which.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Is that Canna Reeves is actually Bill from Bill and Ted.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
No, or Ted for Bill and Ted. No, he's not
Ted Theodore Logan. So he's an angel, He's Gabriel And
like this is the one we talked about a couple
of weeks ago, where's he's like a low level angel
who's typically in charge of making sure people don't die
while they're texting as they drive, you know, he reaches

(50:34):
over and touches their shoulders so that they look up
and avoid getting into a head on collision, that kind
of thing. But then he decides he wants to do
bigger and more important things, and he comes across as
he's in Sorry's character who is a down on his
luck guy living out of his car, you know, working

(50:57):
in the gig economy, and he's really upset because in
his mind, he did all the things he was supposed
to do, but he cannot succeed. And meanwhile, his character
is envious of Seth Rogan's character, a character named Jeff
maybe supposed to be like Jeff Bezos because he has

(51:18):
a tech bro this tech bro guy who lives in
a huge mansion. It's just incredibly wealthy. And so Keanu
Reeves is like, well, maybe I can teach you that
Jeff's life is not the amazing experience you think it is,
and so he does a swap. He swaps it so

(51:39):
as he's in Sorry now has Seth Rogan's life and
vice versa, and then his superior comes to him and
is like, why did you do that? It's like, well,
it's because he believed that money could fix all his
problems and why do you find out that money fixed
most of his problems? And so like the rest of

(52:01):
the movie appears to be that he has to try
and convinces he's and sorry to give up this, you know,
life of wealth and privilege and to swap back. And
he's like he could not care less about how tough
Seth Rogan's life is right now. He's like, I know

(52:22):
how tough it is. I lived it. I am not
going back. And there's a moment in the trailer of
Keanu reeves it's now working like as a line cook
or maybe like a dishwasher at a dirty, old, grimy diner,
and Seth Rogan's like begging to be returned to his

(52:43):
normal life. And that element Like I didn't expect the
life swap element because none of that was in the
original teaser. And when I saw this, I was like,
I was already intrigued by this movie, but this just
makes it look even funnier to me, for.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Sure, For sure, also swapping seth rogen as he's sorry,
it feels like a good match.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Yeah, I think I think you should. Definitely when you
get a chance, watch the trailer.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
I plan on watching it tonight.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
I meant to watch it before the lineup, but for
some reason, I went, oh, I've watched az Tech Batman,
I've watched spinal Tap two.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
No, No, it's okay, because I didn't watch three in
a row. So uh but but the next one, I
the next one I did watch, okay, because because you
you sent me the link I did.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
We finally got a trailer for spinal Tap two, which
is not its official name. But I didn't write that down.
I bet Jonathan did.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Did.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Oh but it, you know, not the re release of
the original one, but spinal Tap two.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
The end continues.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
It's a great name.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, yeah it man, they look old.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I mean it's forty one years later. Yeah, and they weren't.
They weren't Spring Chickens when they made the first one.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Yeah. No, but here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
It's still like it looks like more of the same,
but it absolutely looks hilarious.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Yeah, they're being reunited because like we see them in
different lives like Nigel is now. I think it was Nigel,
who's part of a mariachi band, and one of them
is now like chilling cryptocurrency, and another one is working
in a cheese shop, and.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
It gives us the impression that they've gotten together and
broken up a whole bunch of times. There is a
moment where they're looking for a new drummer and they
ask Questlove and he's like, I don't want to die,
and it made me laugh so hard.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
It was great. It was very self aware. It's yeah,
it's like literally every single one of your drummers dies, uh,
which is a gag established by the first film. The
It's great. My favorite moment was the reveal that Elton
John is in the movie and is covering Stone Hinge,

(55:19):
similar to how Like. It makes me think about earlier,
much much much earlier in Elton John's career, he covered
songs by The Who, which also included him doing Pinball
Wizard for the film version of Tommy and I just
love that. That was I totally did not expect it,

(55:40):
so when it happened, it delighted me. Uh. The teaser
only gives a very small amount of footage from the
new film, Like the first half of the teaser is
stuff from the original This is Spinal Tap. So yeah,
it's just the tiniest glimpse. But uh, I mean, I
was already on board before there was a teaser. I

(56:01):
love the movie. This is Spinal Tap. It's one of
my favorite comedies. So this comes out September twelfth, and
I'm sure there'll be other trailers and stuff, but I
don't need to see on my I'll be there.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Yeah, yeah, uh next. This is something that I have
been excited about for a while. So a while ago
they announced that the second campaign of Critical Role, The
Mighty nine, would be getting a cartoon like Fox Makaa,
and they released I'm.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Sorry, wait, wait is it mighty nine or is the
Sensual seven?

Speaker 3 (56:33):
I thought you said you didn't watch this?

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Okay, I lied, I'll watched this one.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
It's it's the Mighty nine is the name of the campaign,
and that's the name of the cartoon. But in the
trailer they call themselves the Centual seven or Ester does
Jester does this?

Speaker 3 (56:51):
So I I came to.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Critical Role kind of kind of later, just because I
didn't have the time to sit through the campaigns for
a while, and I've listened to Oox Macna and I'm
most of the way through Bell's Hells and mighty nine,
and I think mighty nine is my favorite.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
It's a group of people who.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
You know, group of adventures, but it's a very fun
party and it's that I don't even know how to
describe it.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
But the little the little teaser for it.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Was very funny and also probably not kids safe at all.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Yeah, what I took away from the trailer keeping in mind,
I haven't seen nearly as much critical role. Uh, and
I haven't I'm not as familiar with the material. I
do know bits and pieces, could have seen little clips.
That's how I tend to consume their stuff, is that
I watch clips out of context and like, uh, I

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don't know what's happening, but this is a cute little moment.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
The thing that I that surprised me was is it Mauritia?
Is that her name? She she has a monk character? Yes.
The thing the thing that surprised me is that I,
for the longest time I would see clips of her
where she the performer would wear shirts where the sleeves
had been cut off or ripped off, and like she

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had this whole thing about not wearing sleeves, and her
character design has sleeves, but they're not attached to like
a shirt. They're just like sleeves that are on, like
free floating sleeves on her arms, and I thought, well,
that's funny.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. Maricia Mursia also did was
it mma?

Speaker 2 (58:36):
She she was in the YouTube Clash of the Creators. Yeah,
it was.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Boxing boxing, So I love I love kind of the
parallel during that time of those two things.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Yeah. I watched that one because again I knew some
of the characters. The character designs kind of threw me
off because that wasn't the same as how I envisioned them.
But it looks like it'll be a pretty entertaining series.
We also got an early look at the next season
of Vox Makana. This one, I will be straight. I

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did not watch this trailer.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
That's fine, honestly, if have you watched the cartoon.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
At all, no, I think I saw the very first
episode and I did not stick with it, not because
I didn't think it was good. It just was one
of those where there was so much other stuff going
on that I let it slip.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Well, and honestly, I'll say the first episode of season
one of Vox Macana is not my favorite. It's kind
of like a standalone and it does set stuff up,
but it also feels a bit dis like, incongruous, and
then the rest of the season is phenomenally better this though,
if you what I will say is, if you have

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watched the cartoon of Vox Macana, but you have you're
not familiar with the actual campaign arc, you may want
to skip the sneak peek at the new season because
it will give you some spoilers about things that happened
at the end of season three.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
We did.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
It's it's funny though it's it's a very heist kind
of a sneak peek, which is delightful.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
And also we got news that we will be.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Getting a season five of Vox Machina after season four
comes out, and that it will be the final season.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Wow. Well, I'm glad they were able to get like
the whole story plotted out so that they could tell
the arc as the way they wanted to tell it
and not just have it be oh well, we got
about you know, two thirds of the way they are,
So I'm happy to hear that they were able to
get closure.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah. We also got a teaser for the new season
of Percy Jackson on Disney Plus. I watched season one.
It's a it's you know, it's a Percy Jackson in
the Olympians. It's based off of a book series. I'm
guessing this is one of the ones that Jonathan did
not watch.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
That's one of the ones I did not want. I
also just want to point out, just to tease Aeriel
a little bit, that originally in our lineup, it was
written as Percy Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
I don't know what's wrong. I got four hours sleep, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Yeah, I was just thinking it must be Indiana's nephew.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Well, look, originally when I was talking about Superman, I'm
like Kat Dennings, it's Kat Grant. Kat Dennings is an
awesome actress.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
So it's been a it's been a couple of weeks
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
But yeah, so Percy Jackson, it's it's about a kid
whose father is an Olympian and then he goes and
discovers intriguing in his inheritance and all that kind of stuff.
Season one, for being a kid's show, was pretty entertaining.
I really enjoyed the casting in it. Season two also

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looks very good. There's going to be some Sei ad adventures.
Jason Mansukis is in it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
I'm very much.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Looking forward to it. I don't really have much more
to say. It's a fun trailer. If you liked season
one or we're baguely intrigued, you should.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Check them out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Cool. We also got a quick trailer for a new
batch of episodes in the series Pokemon Concierge. So this
series has been out for a bit, but it was
just episodes one through four, So now where you've got
a trailer for episodes five through eight. General plot here
is that you've got these humans who are running kind
of a resort for Pokemon, and they're trying their best

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to accommodate different types of Pokemon to give them a
relaxing vacation. It's a pretty sweet story for a world
that's ultimately all about subjugating animals and forcing them to
fight each other. And this one is done in a
style that is reminiscent of stop motion animation. I don't

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think it actually is. It looks to me like it's
computer generated, but it's done in the style to make
it look like stop motion and it comes out September
fourth on Netflix. So it's cute if you have youngins
or interested in Pokemon. I think that's who the audience
is for this. It doesn't look to me like it's
going to be particularly well suited for older viewers. I mean,

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they'll be like little bits and pieces there, but it
came across as skewing much younger to me. What did
you think?

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
I agree, Unless you like super cozy stuff, then it
might also appeal to you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
That's true. Yeah, if you need something where you're like
I just need to watch cute characters do cute things
and be silly, then by all means, this looks like
this is going to deliver that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Yeah. Speaking of speaking of stop.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Motion animation, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
We got the most bizarre game tiler this week.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
YEP.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
I won't say most bizarre like the.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Trailer the zombie game trailer that had the beaver mascot was,
I would say arguably weirder.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Yeah, so Dying Light I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
But we got a trailer for a video game based
off of the nineteen sixty four stop animation Rudolph the
Red Nose Reindeer movie.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Yeah. The rankin Bass film, which I have. You know,
I have a lot of connection to personally because my
sister has performed in a puppet theater version of that
rankin Bass, like an actually licensed version of the rankin
Bass Rudolph Thereatnos Reindeer for several years now. It ends

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up being something that she both enjoys and also is
incredibly hard on her physically because they typically do lots
of performances and the puppets are incredibly impressive, but they're
really heavy. But all's that to say is I've had
a lot of Rudolph in my life. My sisters had
even more Rudolph in her life, and not once did

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I think, gosh, I sure wish there was a video
game where I could play as these characters.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Yeah, and the video game feels I mean, they look
like the characters, but it also feels like something that
would have come out like ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I agree. Like the character designs. They're obviously modeled after
the Rank and Bass characters little figures that they made,
but it's not stop motion. It's it's computer animation to
make it look like the characters, so the way they
move is not quite the same as what you would
see in the cartoon, which takes some of the charm

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out of it for me. Also, the gameplay looks really
really simplistic, which again it could be that this is
meant for younger players. There's nothing wrong with it, but
it doesn't look interesting to me. Like it looks like
a very basic three D platformer. It's just that you
get to play as Rudolph Clarice Hermie.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I mean, I guess if you always wanted to.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
RBG in that world, I maybe there's no art doesn't
only there's a very much RPG element to it, though
it's just like a little avatar, right, Like, none of
this really struck me as appealing. It is coming out
for pretty much all platforms like PS four, PS five,

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Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam. So
if you are like a Rudolph completionist, or you've got
a little one who loves Rudolph and would like to
play a game in that world, like by little one,
I mean maybe around eight or nine, because I think
younger than that platforming would be frustrating, and older than

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that it wouldn't be very interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Well, Happy Christmas in July. Hey, yeah, it actually.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Is yeah, I wouldn't mind it, because then I wouldn't
be turning into Shrek in my office.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Yeah, I mentioned I said it was as a joke,
but it is actually July twenty fifth, so yeah, I
guess thematically appropriate. That is all we have to talk about. So, Jonathan,
if people want to reach us, how.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
Do they do?

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
So I'm hiding in a cornfield. You need to come
find me cool if you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
Want to, if you're allergic to corn you can reach
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You can find all of our show notes on our
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be a week behind, but I'll get that updated this weekend.

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I'll also have a link to the actual play that
I'm doing if you want to follow that. And yeah,
if you want to email us, our email is large
Neurdrum Pod at gmail dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
We love you listening.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Thank you for being a part of our geeky family.
Until next time, I am Ariel. I hope Jonathan doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Melt caston and I'm Jonathan. I'm lost in Amazemaze Strickland
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