LNC Gets Into Kpop and Demon Hunting

An upcoming animated feature on Netflix has our attention. Plus, we talk about the Georgia Renaissance Festival (again), the magic talismans that we find in our couch cushions, and lots of geek news.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider podcast,
the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about them. I am arieal Casting and with me is
always is the delightful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Ope wide the.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Gates, Oh Gates is better. I thought you're gonna be like,
ope wide your mouth and breathe aerial.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well that too, uh, but you're supposed to You're supposed
to say and let the.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
The festival begin. Look, I I'm not a practice.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So uh, welcome to Large Drunk Collider. We're sorry that
we didn't record last week. I had a a I
had to take a mental health day and it happens. Yeah,
but I'm just being transparent about it, right, Like I
was just having I was having some issues with anxiety.
You know, I'm not I'm not immune to that kind

(00:59):
of stuff. And then yeah, and so I got through it.
Lots of people very near and dear to my heart,
like Ariel and Becca, my partner and friend of the show, Shay,
reached out and they were all very helpful. But yeah,
it was a rough time. But now we're back and
The reason I said oplied the gates was because this

(01:22):
weekend that we're coming up to the last weekend of May,
it's also in the beginning of June, is also the
last weekend for the Georgia Renaissance Festival. And I actually
went and visited it on Memorial Day.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So yeah, it was their fortieth anniversary, and they very
graciously invited anybody who had been there, who had performed
there in any capacity in the past, to come out
and celebrate the day, which is you know, it's delightful.
I know Jonathan and I have talked about our qualms
with the direction that the fair has gone in over
the years, but I think that that was a very

(02:00):
kind and wonderful thing to do, So.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, and it was nice. I went. I had debated
on it. I decided not to dress up, so I
was just there in like shorts and a regular T
shirt and I was wearing the cavalier hat I wore
as the French villain Robert come on there, Marquis Robert,
Marquis de kemembert. I wore that, and I thought a

(02:28):
lot of other people were also not going to dress
up at all. I was wrong. A lot of people
almost everybody else did dress up. There were a few
others like me who slacked off. But I also explained
that I had gained so much weight that had I
tried to dress up, nothing that I own would really
fit me anymore, and I'd be one of those people
wearing an open doublet as a vest because what once

(02:50):
joined in the middle would now be rent asunder by
about four inches of stomach.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I feel you, I have also gained weight. There's there's
a possible I might have fit into one of my costumes.
But let me tell you, guys, I still have all
of my old Renfair costumes. Some are better than others.
The ones that I would have wanted to wear, either
I would not fit into or they have seen some love.

(03:16):
Because even in a court dress, I they went through
the ringer. You know. I wasn't just all prim and
proper all day, because that's no fun or very entertaining.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So yeah, and ultimately my other line was, if they're
not paying me, I'm not dressing up like I might
be going. I might be getting in for free, but
I'm not if they want. If they want the full admiral,
they got a cough up, which is really just because
you know, it's it. I mean, it's it's Georgia in

(03:48):
late spring.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
This year has not been so bad so far, knock.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
On wood, No, but it was extremely humid because it
had rained heavily that morning. By the time the festival opened,
it wasn't really raining anymore. It was still a little
overcast for the first hour or so, but it was
one of those days you remember, like it just gets swampy. Yeah.
So yeah, but it was nice seeing a lot of

(04:12):
old timers there, people who the fact that I saw
people who were working at the festival when I started
back in nineteen ninety nine was pretty incredible. It was
it was nice, and so I'm glad I did it.
There is part of me that regrets the fact that
I didn't dress up, because I did end up performing

(04:34):
by I did one of my stories, the story, the
one I'm famous for, so because one of our former
kings was there and he asked if I would do it,
So I did.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I didn't go at all, and I definitely have some fomo,
but I didn't have costumes. I didn't want to go
not dressed up. Honestly, I don't know my work ethic
is such as like if I'm getting a ticket as
a guest performer, I feel like I need to perform.
But it's okay, you know, we'll see what happens to
the fair moving forward.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yes, because there's a new owner. Lancelot Entertainment LLC acquired
Georgia Renaissance Festival earlier this year. In fact, before the
before the season even began, there was a new owner.
And there's going to be some changes in management too.
I don't know. I'm not going to go into detail
about that because honestly, there's no reason to.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
But I would make your cut it.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
You ed. I'm the one who edits, and I'm the
one who publishes it.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I would I would bother you in.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
The other day last week, I was going to be like, well,
I could do some quick stories like Jonathan Dutt did
the last time I was out, But then he was like,
I could maybe edit it, but he'd still have to
publish it. I really need to figure out how to
do that on the days you can't just to lighten
the loads.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, but anyway, the uh, yeah, there's gonna be some
other changes. So we're curious to see how that how
that unfolds in the future. We don't know. It could
be it could be a great thing, or it might
be that there's no change. I don't know that it
could get much worse.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
I mean, you're right, I hope it gets better. I
really truly do. I'm I'm excited for what the future
holds based off of the other fairs this management company
owns I, you know, as much as I have fomo
I and I am so thankful for all of the good.
There was some bad too, but all of the good

(06:27):
that the Renaissance Festival did. Street performing is really such
a special art form. It is a very special kind
of performance in acting, and it's an outdoor theater is
also very special, and I think it's such a powerful
tool to have as any kind of creative or actor
or performer. So I'm truly grateful for that. I do think,

(06:48):
like I'm past I would. I don't think I could
ever do a full season again as a street character.
I think I've moved on from that. But you know,
guest performing or you know, playing one or two sets
is my band is still pretty tempting now.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
And then yeah, I think at best I could do
guest performing. Like I sat there and really thought about well.
For one thing, I was hospitalized not too long ago
because of my stress levels. Yeah, I've mentioned it once
or twice.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Sorry, it's part of.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
My identity now, but like stress was part of the
reason why I ended up having to be hospitalized, and
so the thought of working eight weeks straight with no
days off is not that appealing to me from a
health perspective. So I would also like I would either
do the thing that some of our other performers have

(07:41):
done where they agree to a certain number of days,
sometimes just one day per weekend, or the dream is
to do what gosh, who was it was it, Tony?
I can't remember. Someone in one of my first seasons,
I want to say it was my second or third season,
had it written into their contract where they were killed

(08:01):
off in the in the middle joust, so that then
they could go. Maybe it was it might have been
strict Yeah is Rick, Yeah, Rick Rick had it built in.
He was the he was the comedic admiral I want
to say, or something like that.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
He was he was some final year.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, so he had it written into his contract where
he's killed. He was killed essentially before the parade.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
The p You know, I liked the parade. A lot
of people didn't because you're just walking from what you
walked to one end of the fair, to walk to
the other end of the fair, to walk back to
that first side of that. It's it was a lot,
but I liked it.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I did too, and I like, I know a lot
of patrons actually missed it because they would ask about
even years after we had stopped doing it, they would ask,
when's the parade? And I kind of missed it too.
I did understand like the issues with the parade, which
is that it sucked up all the characters from the village,
put them into a line, and then it would take
another hour to disperse them throughout the village because everyone

(09:01):
would get backstage behind the joust, and like first they
would rest a bit, yeah, and then they were like,
all right, well where are we going to go? And
then so they would just kind of slowly bleed out.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
And then eventually there just weren't enough people to do
a parade.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's also true, like at this point you do a
parade and it's like here's the beginning of the parade,
and there's the end of the parade, and there was
one person in the middle.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
But again, it's part of you know, if if you
weren't the kind of if you liked seeing the characters
and you liked feeling like you're in a Renaissance village
as opposed to a Renaissance shopping mall, but you didn't
like interacting. The parade was a great way to do that.
You could see everybody that you had missed. Sometimes you
could have fun little interactions that were so noncommittal that
even if you were like socially anxious, it's like it's

(09:44):
there and it's gone, and now you have this bright
little moment that cost you no energy at all for
a patient.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I got a lot of hugs that way.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, you know, I gave out, Like we didn't throw
beads or anything, but I did give out like little
things here and there.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
And yeah I did too. I gave out hugs.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean, I gave out like little gems and stuff.
But yeah, fun times. I'm glad you had fun, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I am too. And unrelated to that, I have a
question for you.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, thank you to Pa Presence for suggesting it over
on Discord. We love the feedback to.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Bring the old question for Ariel back. And so your
question and just so y'all know, I shared this with
her ahead of time, and I did that because I
think it's way more interesting if she has a chance
to think about it, as opposed to putting her on
the spot and then she just says whatever comes to me.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I totally thought about it today.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
So so you're you're cleaning your house, Ariel, and as
you're cleaning your house, you come across a talisman? What
is it? And what does it?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Doue oh, I know what it does that I like
took it was no brainer. The talisman would be Its
power would be to stop, so I could nap without
cutting into the time I need for everything else to
do in the day, Like just like its own little
pocket dimension of napdom and come back to the same time.

(11:10):
So like I need at two fifteen, I take a nap,
and then I come back at two fifteen, And that
way I still have time for everything else I need today,
because Lord knows, I don't get enough sleep. I'm trying.
I especially need to for next week. I have an
overnight shoot.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
But yeah, but I think that's a good answer. I
like that your your use of time stoppage is to
take a nap and not to I don't know rob
a bank or I.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Mean, look, I'm a klutz and I'm also a pretty
honest person, So I just think i'd fail really hard
at robbing a bank.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I mean, if time has stopped, you pretty much have
all the time of the world to get.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
It, don't But I would totally end up leaving some
sort of evidence that I would get tracked back to me.
I can't even pickpocket. Pickpocket successfully involved skate three.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, all right, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think the talisman probably would be like like a nekakola.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, so, yeah, you found the neck pillow of napping,
which allows you to nap without the time passing, so
that you still have all those hours left in your
day to do whatever you need to do.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
It's the dream, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
All right, that's a good answer.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh well, now we're asking me.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, sometimes I'm going to ask you questions. Seat then hey, also, listeners,
if you have a question you want us to ask
each other during this section, put it in the discorder,
email us or message us or whatever.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, well, talk more about how you can do that
at the end of the show. But okay, so for me,
I decided it would be a magic dry erase marker,
and anything I write on an erase board becomes true
until it's erased. Nice, So if I write, if I
want to keep it true forever, I got to keep it.
I can't erase it, and that means it just sits there.

(12:59):
And I think it has to be limited to a
single or maybe it's a combo. It's a single dry
erase board and a marker, and it only works so
that way. Like I can't just grab an endless number
of erase boards and manipulate reality. I can only do
like one reality changing thing at a time because I
want there to be limitations on my godlike powers.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, you can't. You can't be cosmically unstoppable. I appreciate
your constraint, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, I don't want to be the beyonder from Marvel. Yeah,
I think. I think that's the only fair thing. And
then that could get you into all sorts of hijinks,
like I'm pretty sure I've seen both comedies and horror
movies with similar premises.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. That that was fun.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, then, now, now let's talk about since we have
so many segments of the show.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Now we do. I'm gonna have to rush through some
of them because we ended up talking about Phara a
whole lot before we hit record.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, we gotta, we got to. We've got a bun
just stuff to talk about today. Well, let's let's start
by talking about what we've seen since the last time
we recorded. It's been two weeks.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
It has, and in that time, we have reorganized our
spreadsheet to be the order we're supposed to do it in.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah. So yeah, it's actually in the correct order now.
So I got to see Sinners. I actually saw that
before our last recording, but I didn't get to talk
about it. I really really enjoyed it. I have I
have bones to pick with certain parts of the movie,

(14:32):
but that's like, that's just my nitpicky brain overall. I
first of all, the use of music in that movie
spoke to me on a level that felt very personal.
Like the idea of music having this supernatural power really
appeals to me, as does like all the different mythologies

(14:53):
and legends and folklore that relate to music and the supernatural.
So I really love that.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Same. They even teased with like doing like like a
baby driver kite kind of thing where like actions were
hitting to the music, but they didn't really commit to that.
That's one of my bones. I also very much loved
this movie, but I went in super critical because it
had been lauded so much before I saw it that,
you know, maybe I was just being overly critical. But yeah,
I love the use of music as well.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I will say that I have I can understand the folks.
I think you said that your partner felt this way,
but that I can understand the folks who felt that
the stuff before the I mean, everyone knows it's vampires, right,
I mean, it's been out forever now, but the stuff
before the vampires was the most interesting for some people.
It's the opposite. I like the vampires stuff, but I

(15:41):
also felt that, I don't know, it felt like it
was two different movies. To me. It didn't feel like
it didn't feel like one was better than the other.
They just felt like they were two different movies that
got smashed together, kind of like what I don't know
a large nerdron Collider might do if we still had
time to do those nationals.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Likes Donna the Dead meets Oh Brother, We're o.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Art thou That's good? Yeah, or or like Lost Boys Beats,
Oh brother, we at thal Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, totally yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I loved it. Also in the music. I don't know
if I said this when I watched it, because we
talked about it a little bit when I watched it
before you had that, you know, the the initial three
vampires are some dorky white people who sing Celtic music.
And at one point during one of their songs that
I knew and had to stop myself from singing in

(16:30):
the theater, I then had to make sure that I
was not, in fact a vampire. I had to check
with my husband.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Was it was it? Was it all around the heather
or was it the h.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
It was wild mountain time. But also I know I
also knew Rocky Road to Doublin. The Only one I
wasn't familiar with that the vampires sing, because the vampire sing, sorry,
that isn't yeah, I don't I don't know. That's probably
a real song. I just wasn't familiar.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
I wasn't familiar with that one. That sounded more like
a Southern one than an Irish ballad to me. But yeah,
so enjoyed it, and then I've also watched I have
not seen the most recent episode. But I've watched I
think three or four episodes of maybe even five of
poker Face season two. I lost track of the fact

(17:20):
that it was on again. Uh, And so then I
caught up last week. I started watching the most recent episode,
and I had to nope out and read a bit
of a little bit more information about it to find
out what was going on, because I was worried that
it was going to involve child death, and I was like,

(17:41):
that's gonna be way too fricking grim for this show
that treats death so cavalierly. Like I like poker Face,
but poker Face season two feels like it's way more
casual with the killing than season one was, so like
like they're treating the killing almost like it's a joke
in some of the episodes, and I don't feel comfortable

(18:05):
with it. I feel like it was treated a little
more seriously in the first season. Now that might just
be my perception, but it is like everything else is fine,
although it is wild that I feel they're taking even
longer to bring Charlie into the stories now, Like the

(18:25):
setup is so long it's easily half an episode, if
not more. For some of these episodes and then Charlie
finally gets brought in, so she's not even there for
that long to do anything anyway. It's also weird because
sometimes it seems like characters are picking up on the
fact that she's able to detect lies.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
I haven't watched it, but isn't she also like just
very open about.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
That she is. But there are times where characters haven't
had that conversation with her but appear to already understand
what she's capable of, so that they are carefully speaking
around a lie so that they're not actually lying. And
I'm like, that makes sense if you know what she's

(19:11):
capable of, right.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Maybe her reputation precedes her.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
No one knows who this chick is. No one knows.
That's the whole point. She's supposed to be a nobody,
So I don't know. There are things about the season
that I think are just not being handled as well
as season one. It's still natash Leone is still amazing,
she's still phenomenal in the role. The actors and the
guest stars, they're getting our fund Cynthia Rivo clearly had

(19:35):
a great time playing like five different characters in the
first episode. But I don't think it's as well done
as the first season.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Personally, gotcha. I I haven't watched Today's murder Bot. I
technically was awake when it came out last night, but
I was like, I want to be fully conscious when
I watch it. Really loving that show. I was mad
last week because they ended the episode at a point
where I thought it was horrible to end. Because they're

(20:05):
thirty minute episodes and it's so good. I wish they
were longer, and they're also only releasing one episode a week.
I've also started Ted Lasso. I'm almost through the first season.
I hate to say I like it because I was like,
I don't really like soccer. I don't want to watch
Ted last It is very good. Everybody was right. It's
very fun. It's you know, it's it's like Welcome to Wrexham,
but like cheeky comedy and also mostly uplifting.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, fairly wholesome, even with all the like the hooligans.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
I mean, it's it's tv Ama, but mostly for language.
There's there's definitely some adult content in there, but it's
still pretty wholesome. I finished my first play through a
Bolder Skate three last night. Congratulations, thank you, everybody had
a happy ending and no and no allies died during

(20:55):
the final fight. Now mind you. I had started the
game on normal mode Explore mode, and I I went
or balance mode and like, as soon as I hit
the under dark, I moved it over to Explore mode,
which is the easy I just want to play this
fun story and not pull out my hair in these
fights mode, which I needed because still several of the

(21:17):
fights I had to go through two or three times
to figure out how to win them. My only complaint
with the game is that it doesn't save often enough
for me, so I ended up quick saving an awful lot,
which meant that I kept running out of space. And
now i've I didn't label because I was quick saving,
I didn't label my saves, so now I just got

(21:38):
to get rid of the game to play my next
play through. I am debating between playing like a Charisma
character and romancing Gale, the other character I said I
would never romance because it seems like a fun story,
or playing a Dark Urge and doing the Dark Urge storyline.
I don't know which I want to do first. I'm
gonna do both.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I find playing a bar is fun because you can
make people do really dumb things. But it's also very
challenging because a bart is not a heavy hitter when
it comes to combat.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah yeah, I so like I could play a Bart,
or I could play like a warlock for my Gail,
play my Gail play through. I'm not playing it to
romance Gale. I just think that's that's the character whose
story I want to see play out next.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Did your romance anyone in this one?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I did. I. So here's the thing. I went into
the game being like, everybody stands Astorian and I'm not
gonna do that because I'm not that basic and whatever.
I thought I was gonna romance will. But yeah, but
especially like, I was surprised how First of all, I

(22:45):
was surprised kind of what Astarian storyline actually is. It
has to deal with, you know, abuse and mistreatment and
things like that, and he did it in such an honest, real, thoughtful,
caring way because the voice actor Neil Nubahan, worked with
the directors on it, and if you listen to any interviews,
put so much care and thought into the development of
the character and the story being told that it's just

(23:07):
it's it's very honest and it's very beautiful. Beautiful is
the wrong word. It's just very honest. And I it
took me in a way that I did not expect.
It touched me in a way I didn't expect it to,
and I'm actually really glad that I did that. I
wish I had done that as the dark Urge because
apparently there's like a whole nother storyline you get with

(23:28):
a Starian if you're a dark Urge, because they have
similar situations that they're trying to get out of, and
that kind of helping each other through a bad time
thing is something that really resonates with me. So maybe
I'll romance a Storian again for that, I just know
I'm probably not. Maybe I will do twenty playthroughs in
every iteration I can possibly do. But yeah, well ended up.

(23:52):
I don't know. I thought I was going to romance.
Well I ended up romancing Historian. And it was a
good story. But everybody had a happy ending. I was
so surprised. Like the worst ending was honestly not having
a weighted cure because I kept a Storry in a
spawn instead of ascending, and so he's still a vampire

(24:13):
and can't go out in the Sun.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Sorry spoilers, Jonathan, Yeah, I mean I knew he was
a vampire, okay.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
And then uh, but that's all I knew. Yeah, and
then well, I don't want to spoil anything else. Anyhow,
everybody had a pretty happy ending. It was very good
and I totally didn't cry the last time I patted
the dog or the owl bear before ending my game,
I totally didn't. I totally didn't cry. I don't know why.
I was like, I'm leaving these pets that I had,
and you don't even have that many interactions with them.

(24:42):
They're just kind of around your camp.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
But I don't know, well, I mean, they make the
dog and the olbear like so like loyal and friendly
to your character if you're if you're playing it, like
if you're playing it compassionately, that you know. I remember
watching a video where they talked about how characters in

(25:04):
your camp will be sad if the dog dies. Yeah,
and then I'm like that that is something I will
not let happen.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, which it's like you have to make specific choices
for Scratch the dog Scratch to die in your camp
because outside of the camp, you can summon him as
a familiar and if he gets killed in a battle,
he just goes back to camp. Yeah, so it has
to be a decision you make in camp, which is
a decision you make because there are a few opportunities

(25:36):
to fight for fights to start in camp, especially if
you're playing a dark urge. But for the most part,
those are just exposition right enrolled.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, yeah, fighting out character backgrounds and motivations and that
kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
I did learn. I did not long rest nearly enough
in Act one, but it was a lot of fun,
and I also did I it apparently did a bunch
of quests out of order, although I think I got
to pretty much everything. There was one quest I couldn't
do an Act three, but because I used a mod,
I already had the thing I would get from that quest,
so it wasn't a big deal. Well, oh wait, one

(26:12):
more thing I'm catching. I've caught up on Doctor Who,
but balder Skate has been I like this season, but
balder Skate has been more interesting.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, well, then let us now turn to thirty seconds
or less. We've got a whole bunch because obviously we
skipped last week, so we kept a lot of the
stories that are on there. So while some of these
are perhaps a little on the stale side, we still
felt that they were relevant enough for us to mention.
So with that, I guess we'll get started. So here

(26:42):
we go. Disney Slash Marvel announced that the two upcoming
Avengers films, currently subtitled Doomsday and Secret Wars, will come
out a little later than previously planned. Doomsday was to
come out on May first, twenty twenty six, but now
it's been pushed back to December eighteenth of twenty twenty six.
Secret Wars was supposed to come out May seventh, twenty

(27:02):
twenty seven. Now we'll come out December seventeenth, twenty twenty seven.
So what is taking the place of Avengers Doomsday. That
would be the Devilwaars Prada too. I am not kidding.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm not as interested in the Devil Wars product, But
take your time on these movies. Make them good. Other
things that have been pushed back are in the animation world.
So Teenage Mutant Ninja, Turtles, Mutant Mayhem too, well, that's
a mouthful has been pushed from September has been pushed
from October twenty twenty six to September seventeenth, twenty twenty seven,

(27:35):
and also apparently the legend of Aang Last Airbender has
been pushed back as well from January to October of
twenty twenty six. But Paw Patrol has been bumped up.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
So yes, so blue Skies are here again after a
closed beta period. Computer animation film Cartwheel is in business.
So what's Cartwheel's bag? AI? Maybe? Yep? Cartwheel uses AI
to assist in and speed up the process of three
D computer animation. According to Deadline, Cartwheel says it can

(28:10):
take video or even text and turn it into three
D animations that can be edited and inserted into projects.
Will this tech help reduce crunch time for overworked animators
or will it put them out of work entirely? Hmmm?

Speaker 1 (28:24):
AI is being used elsewhere in Fortnite Apparently James Earl
Jones voice will be used along with a Darth Vader skin.
They have been working very closely with James Earl Jones's
state on this, so they have permission to do it.
I think you also have to be like eight, You
have to be over a certain age to use that skin.
I guess Darth Vader is just a little mean for something.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Okay, Well, if you're like me. You've often found yourself
at a Chuck Entertainment cheese establishment, mallet in hand, prepared
to smash a critter back into a hole, and then
you think, I wonder what that little guy my story is. Well,
worry no longer, because Tri Star Pictures and Mattel announced
a live action, animated hybrid film about Whack a Mole.

(29:09):
And while I'm kind of throwing shade right now, I
don't know, Maybe it'll turn out to be good.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
From Whack a Mole to leap Frog, uh kind of.
Conan O'Brien is voicing a character in Toy Story five.
The character's name is Smarty Pants, apparently dealing with like
all of the digital toys that kids have nowadays. So
I'm guessing he's going to be some sort of leap
Frog sort of character. We don't know much more about
the story or exactly what it is, but it's coming.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Here are some updates on the Hunger Games Sunrise. On
the Reaping casting, Elle Fanning will play Fie. That's the
character Elizabeth Banks played in the original film series. Ray
Fines is playing President Snow. Molly McCann and Iona Bell
will play Luella and Lulu. Other actors include Jesse Plemons,
Maya Hawk, Whitney Peeke McKenna, Grace and many, many many more.

(29:57):
In fact, soon I expect we'll see some stories about
the few people in Hollywood who haven't been cast in it.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Street Fighter is also doing some casting. They're looking at
Jason Momoa, Andrew Kogi, and Noah Centino for they're in talks.
But apparently those talks are happening. Kityle Sakurai, I'm sorry
I should have looked out to pronounce it before this
moment in time. Who has done writing, directing and producing

(30:27):
on The Eric Andre Show is directing it. I the
first Street Fighter movie was so bad, but rale Julia
was so good eating the scenery as m Bison. I
I honestly don't know if they can capture the same magic.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
For me. It was a Tuesday. Have you ever watched
Hitchcock's classic film Psycho and thought, I wonder what this
would be like if I were set in England in
the eighteen fifties. Well, maybe the upcoming Victorian Psycho will
answer that question. Okay, so it's not a reimagining of
Robert Block's story about a motel owner with mommy issues.
This one follows a psychotic governess as she kills her

(31:08):
way through the staff of a large manor house. Mica
Monroe will star as the titular psycho. I thought it
was just.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Gonna be Jack the Ripper. Okay, Sesame Street. Sesame Street
lost its contract or ended its contract with HBO at
the end of twenty twenty four, but do not worry.
It is now coming to Netflix. It be available on
PBS as well. They're also updating the format. Some they're
gonna have, like many novella stories to like ten to

(31:38):
fifteen minute episodes about specific characters which you know will
be interesting to see. I'm not again it.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. The live action
Lelo and Stitch movie broke quote all the box office
records end quote. According to Deadline, it racked up the
largest Memorial Day weekend box office at one hundred and
eighty two point six million bucks. It's the largest opening
for a PG movie in May that had the biggest
Tuesday box office in May, beating out Shrek the Third

(32:09):
and lots of other records to boot. Deadline also reports
the movie is projected to rake in settle yourself four
point two billion dollars in the United States and Canada alone.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Family and Horror. That's this year ninety three percent fresh audience.
Right now, I think this is the last one. Yes,
this is the last one for everybody who's waiting for
the third season of Severance, which they are working on,
and they do say that they aim to get it
out sooner than the second season. More good news, Ben

(32:41):
Stiller has ideas for at least two spinoffs in the
Severance world. That's all they are right now. But for
those who are like, surely they can't go on forever
in this first story, don't worry. There might be more.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
I sure hope one of those is Who's that Goat?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
If the goats are just what they showed at the
end of season two, I will be very sad.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, all right, well, let's talk about some stuff that
doesn't actually fit our lineup. But we've got a couple
of things to say about them. I put in a
trailer for season four of The Bear. I know that
Ariel watches The Bear. I do not, so I don't
have a lot to say about this one, because like

(33:28):
I didn't, I mean, all I could tell is that
people are talking about fine dining.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, so once again I like the bear. People didn't
like season three as much as some of the other seasons,
but I give it a lot of grace. It had
some very good moments, and also they were dealing with
it in the middle of all of the strikes, so
that's hard. But it looks like they are all going
to try to get along a little better this season. Honestly,

(33:55):
it looks like the same problems. They're running out of money,
they keep having fighting and it causes inconsistency and they
need to get past that or the restaurant's going to close.
Maybe this season they'll actually do that. I realize they'll
have to find it a new stick for season five.
If that's the case. I do like the show, but yeah,
it looks a little bit like more of the same.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
We also saw a trailer for a film called Caught Stealing.
This one stars Austin Butler as like a bartender guy
who has he's friends with a mohawked Matt Smith.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Matt Smith, not our friend from the Renaissance Festival, but
the doctor who Matt Smith.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah, doctor who Matt Smith. So he's got a spikey
mohawk and he's a he's sort of a punk rocker type.
And the plot, from what I can gather is that
Matt Smith's character is asking Austin Butler's character to look
after his place while he goes out of town. And
then it turns out that Matt Smith's character has run

(34:56):
a foul of multiple branches of organized crime, possibly stealing
from all of them, and now they all want to
call what's theirs due. I wrote that it looks like
if Guy Ritchie had directed The Big Lebowski.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, it actually looks kind of fun there. There's a
lot of cute bits in the trailer. It also has
vaguely Keanu vibes because Austin Butler is watching Matt Smith's cat. Next,
we have a movie called Chief of War, which honestly
I confused with like an Amazon Prime show that came
out while.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Again it is a series though kind of movie.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Okay, Well, it's a trailer for a series called Chief
of War, which has to do with kind of the
Hawaiian history of colonization.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, unification and colonization. So it's set at the turn
of the eighteenth century. There's it's got a predominantly Polynesian cast,
which is great, and the lead is one of the
superstars of the silver screen, Bobafet Jason Momoa, I mean

(36:08):
Boba FET's also in it, yeah, but Jason Momoa is
obviously like the lead in it. So it comes out
on August first, twenty twenty five. We also have a
horror movie trailer that we got for Bark. Now, I
should say Bark actually came out way back in twenty
twenty three, but it had a very limited release. It's

(36:31):
now going to come out on digital video on demand
starting June thirteenth. The plot of Bark is that a
guy wakes up with his arms tied behind him around
a tree in the middle of the woods, and he
seems to be taunted by a mysterious figure. And the
guy doesn't have like he only has flashes of memory,

(36:52):
so he isn't even really sure why he's being treated
this way, and that's kind of how the film unravels.
So it looks like a like a very low budget
horror movie, but hopefully one that's very thoughtful.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
I'm glad it wasn't about it wasn't just about dogs. Next,
we have Killing Mary Sue, which I honestly thought was
a Jay and Silent Bob movie at first, but it's not,
okay because Jay is in it. He plays mary Sue's dad.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yes, So it's about a young woman who when she
was a kid, her dad I think, gets killed in
a robbery attempt, like he's actually trying to rob a
place and gets killed in the process. Her mom remarries,
and the person she remarries ends up being a politician.
At this point, he's a politician who's up for reelection.

(37:46):
This young girl has grown up to be a young woman.
She's rebellious, very punk rocker. Ish punk is having a comeback,
I guess, which is fine.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
I'm not against it.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Neither of my I love punk rock. I just it's
just kind of funny to I'm like, we were flashing
back to like the nineties and getting into the two thousands,
but now we're going back to the seventies, okay anyway,
and eighties, seventies and eighties. So she she is kind
of like a rebellious punk type and her dad arranges

(38:16):
to have a hit step dad out on her stepdad.
Her stepdad arranges to have a hit put out on
her so that he can get the sympathy vote, and
also she's just kind of a pain in his butt.
And then she proves herself to be quite adept at
surviving attacks from hired killers, which maybe that makes sense
because I mean, she is Mary Sue after all.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, it's got a kind of a kind of geeky cast.
Martin Cove plays one of the bad guys who was
also Increase in Karate Kid, and French Stuart from Third
Rock from the Sun is in it, and then Sean
Patrick Flannery, which I swear he's done some geeky things. Oh,
he was in So three D.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
So this one. This one comes out June thirteenth on
digital platforms. It looks like it could be entertaining. I'm
sure it's the sort of thing, like it turns out
that she's really good at shooting people because she's good
at video games. But you're like, it's a movie called
Killing Mary Sue. Like, I think they're aware of what
they're doing.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Maybe it's yeah, the concept of what you're saying is like,
it's the killing the concept of the Mary Sue.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Well, I think what they're doing is they're lampshading, right,
They're saying, yeah, she's a Mary Sue. It's in the title,
Like if you come out saying it at the beginning,
then it takes away a lot of the power of
people who would use that as a criticism of the film,
like she's a Mary Sue. Like, yes, that's why her
name is Mary Sue. So you know, it's kind of

(39:41):
like that character is almost impossible to kill. Yes, that's
why we called him Superman. Anyway, our last one in
the doesn't actually fit. This one is the closest one
to fitting. I would think, well, because it's a horror
movie that has like some elements that could be natural,
you don't know if it's supernatural. I think it's actually

(40:03):
probably more psychological horror.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
I watched like a third two and a half of
this and then got too scared. But I put it
in for you.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Oh gosh, I didn't think it was I think. I mean,
I think I'm interesting. So the movie is called The Home.
It has Pete Davison in it, who's playing a character
who's been sentenced to doing community service in our retirement home.
It's a retirement home with a difference because this retirement
home has old people in it, and they, as you know,

(40:32):
are evil.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Some of them, not all of them.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
All of them are evil. All old people are evil.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Good thing you and I aren't old.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah, just wait, just wait for my birthday trip, because
once I turned fifty.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
That's not old. Sixty is the new forty. So you
still got at least ten more years. But it is
still a great milestone to celebrate. I am excited to
see Pete Davidson coming into his own I hope it
does really well. You watched one other giky thing this weekend.
I just or this week I just remembered what was
that Hard Eyes?

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Oh? I did watch Hard Eyes? Yeah, yeah, I did.
I watched that last night. I forgot about that. I
don't know why that reminded you. I guess because it's
also a horror movie, but with comedians. Well, first, let
me say that that The Home comes out July twenty fifth.
It is from the creator of The Purge, which.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Depending on how immediately scared.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Me, oh see, to me, I was like, I immediately
maybe go like, okay, well my expectations are lowered, but
that's because I did. I did not like The Purge
very much, but I know that it has a huge following.
So if you did like The Purge and no shade
on you. If you did, people like different things. If
you liked it, you might really like the home.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
I just it's the concept is too close to something
that could actually happen to make to make it be
anything that I could endure.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
No, I can't ever imagine Pete Davison actually working in
a retirement home.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I meant The Purge. But anyhow, back to Hard Eyes.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Oh, Hard Eyes. I thought it was okay. I you know,
Hard Eyes was an issue. I had like issues with
Hard Eyes, Like it was one of those hard It
was a horror movie that telegraphed one thing right away
to the point where I'm like, if this doesn't happen,
it's a violation of Chekhov's gun because they call it

(42:27):
out twice before it actually becomes maybe even three times
before it becomes a thing, which is not to give
any spoilers, but essentially it's a non weapon thing that
a character ultimately ends up using as a weapon to
rescue themselves at a pivotal moment in the movie, and
I'm like, that's gonna be the thing that kills the killer.

(42:50):
I was mostly right. I was wrong about who I
thought the killer was going to be. I had a
guess that ended up not being effective anyway, But it
was a very clever approach to figuring out, you know,
to to designating a killer. I thought it was fairly entertaining.

(43:12):
I the trappings of the film itself are such that
it kind of doesn't work for me, because it's it's
that super collapsed timeline where you have two characters meet,
have differences but ultimately fall for each other.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
It's making fun of a Hallmark movie.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
For certain it is, but it's you know, it's trying
to be a romantic comedy and a slasher movie at
the same time, and it is dealing in the tropes
of both of those things. I thought it did the
horror movie part better, Like I mean, it was it
was making if you want to say it was making
fun of romantic comedies, then sure, yes it absolutely does.

(43:53):
But if you were if you wanted to say it
was making fun of romantic comedies by also being you know,
h logically consistent, that's where I think it fell apart
from me. But I did still enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Sorry, I mean, I think it just was a Hallmark
movie that was also a slasher I think. But I
was also glad to I saw it when it was
in theaters. I was glad too because Josh Ruben, who
I think is a funny guy, directed it, and I
know that he had been impacted by the wildfires.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
So he also he also has a line in it. Yes,
he like he stands up at one moment and yells,
somebody called nine what what? And I'm like, oh, that
just took me out.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
I mean, you also had forgotten he directed it at
that I did.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
I did.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
I was so aware that I was like, of course
he's here.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
I remember, well, like he did. I don't remember him
showing up in the Werewolf one that he also directed.
Maybe he did, I can't. I've only it's been a
while since I watched that one.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
He played such a non character that it's no problem
him doing that.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
No, it just it was just one of those things
where he stood up. I like, hey, wait, is that
Josh Rubin. I'm like, oh, yeah, wait, dumb me. He
the one who directed this one. All right, well, let's
talk about some stuff that actually is on our lineup.
We've got quite a few things to talk about here.
The first of which is we got a trailer for
the prequel to it called it Welcome to Dairy.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, it's a prequel to it, but it just feels
like more it, I agreed, I guess unlike So like,
I did watch the first season of Castle Rock and
half of the second season, and the thing I liked
about it was that it took place in Castle Rock,
which is a place that shows up in a lot

(45:38):
of Stephen King stories. So all of those stories took
place in that town and had bits in there. But
it felt new, and it felt like a new exploration
and maybe some flushing out of other stuff and tying
it together. And I thought it was cool. I thought
it was well done this. I mean, the actors look good,

(45:59):
the special effects look good. It looks like it will
be scary to me, which is not saying much, but yeah,
it just it doesn't Maybe they will subvert my expectations,
but the trailer did not give me anything new to
look forward to.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Here's the thing that kind of blows my mind. So like,
in it, you find out that penny Wise essentially is
working on roughly thirty year cycles where penny Wise wakes
up feeds for some amount of time and then goes
into hibernation for like thirty years and then comes back. Thus,
in the two chapters of it that we got most recently,

(46:38):
you have the kids in the nineteen eighties and the
adults in present day, the same characters where thirty years
have passed. Essentially, this one looks like it's supposed to
be thirty years before that. So it's like in the fifties.
This is getting into the territory of when the original
novel version of it, when the kids would be acting, right,

(47:00):
because in the novel it was set in the nineteen
eighties and the backstory stuff was in the fifties with
the kids. So this just I agree with you. It
feels like more it. It feels like this is the
stuff that we would have gotten had the two chapters
of it been set in the eighties and fifties, as
the original novel had been. So it doesn't look bad,

(47:23):
don't get me wrong, but I do agree it looks
like more it. And also, I mean, since this does
appear to be a prequel to the movie version, we
already know penny Wise doesn't get killed at the end
because he's back in it chapters one and two, So
you know this is not going to end well for

(47:43):
any of those characters.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
I mean, maybe they'll all just get out.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
But it comes out this fall. That's the that's the
timeline we were given on HBO Max, you know, the
thing that used to be HBO Max but then it
became Max and now it's HBO Max again.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
It hasn't updated in my on my roku yet. But yeah,
also we got a foot We talked about the teaser
a little bit, but we got a full trailer for
Predator Killer of Killers, which is the animated predator kind
of anthology. It feels like they might be tying the

(48:21):
stories together.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's hard to say. I like, it's hard
to imagine how the stories get tied together because they
are set in distinct time periods and locations and locations. Yes,
so one of them is like looks to be like
in feudal Japan. One is like the Viking era. I've
got a story about Vikings by the way today Okay,

(48:44):
all right, fine, not today, Satan and then, but it's
fair enough. And one of them looks like it's taking
place in World War two, I would imagine, so they
the animation styles are different for each of those entries
as well, So if there is like crossover. That'll be

(49:05):
really interesting because it's not a unified animation style across
the different entries. From what I can tell.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Two things. One, I love your story about Vikings. We're
just running late.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
And then and it does take a very long time.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
It does. And then two, I think I'm more interested
in this Predator Killer of Killers than I am in
Predator bad Lands.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Me too, Me too. This comes out June sixth, then
it'll be available on Hulu, so I'll actually be able
to watch it.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, I mean, I like that they're taking it in
a new direction. I hope it's good. He also got
trailer for season two of Fu Bar, which I forgot
was a thing until we got and I watched the
first season.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Oh my gosh. I was going to say nearly the
same thing, except I have not watched fu Bar, so
when this started, I thought it was a whole new thing.
Like I had forgotten that food Bar existed. I know
we've talked about it. I know we talked about but
I had no memory of it. I'm just like, oh,
this is like Red, you know, like you know the
movie Read with Bruce Willis, where he's not as good.

(50:09):
It's not as good, but it's it's a similar idea.
Like I think the first season was that Arnold Schwarzenegger
plays a CIA operative whose daughter is also a CIA operative,
but they haven't told each other that they are operatives.
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah, he really hasn't told his family and it weighs
on the family. But then she finds out and he
finds out. They both have they judge each other even
though they have similar relationship issues. Like conceptually, it's good
there there are there's some very dark stuff in there.

(50:47):
I didn't finish the's in one, but it had a
hard time finding a balance between the comedy and the action.
I feel like, yeah, like a slightly subpart nineties early
two thousand's sort of a thing. Part of it is
like fortune fimester Fimemster wasn't it and he her comedy

(51:12):
style just didn't fit with me like it was. It
was like, okay, now I'm going to drop a joke.
As opposed to feeling.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Well this season, it looks like I'll give you what
my impression is and you can tell me if I'm
just way off. It looks like it looks like Arnold
Schwarzenegger is living in a house filled with various like
secret operative agents who are all on essentially witness protection,
so they're not supposed to be known as secret. So

(51:43):
it's like it's like The Red but it's a retirement
home and everybody's a secret agent. And he he re
encounters a former spy for the East Germany played by
Carrie Ann Moss, and then the series looks like this
season looks like it plays out as sort of a

(52:05):
a frenemy situation between him and Carrie Anne Moss where
she's trying to destroy the world and he's trying to
stop her from destroying the world and they're both trying
to kind of get the get bizet with the other one.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, I honestly this is This is not to say
that Carrie N. Moss looks the same age as Angelica Houston,
but she was giving me a very Angelica Houston vibe.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Yeah. Trailer, Yeah, she looks great in the trailer, I'll
say it, she looks great. This comes out June twelfth
on Netflix, so you know, I'm probably not gonna watch
it because I haven't seen the first season and I
don't feel motivated to.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
I mean, but it was cute.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
It just wasn't great, gotcha? Okay. We also got a teaser,
a very short teaser for Zootopia too, which really a snake. Yeah.
It really just shows Judy Hops and Nick Wilde running
around with a snake and they're being chased by the cops.
So if I had to guess, I would say that
the snake is some sort of fugitive who has been

(53:12):
wrongly accused, and so Judy and Nick are trying to, yeah,
help him. Is the character? By the way, do you
know the character's name, the snake's name.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
I don't know the snake's name.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
It's Gary the Snake, Gary the Snake, Gary the Snake.
That's clever.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Ye, no, it's not. No, I had to say. I
had the same feeling of like they're they're protecting this
this snake.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
For some reason.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Yeah, so he lost his grass. He's not a snake
in the grass.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Also, well, he's also the first reptile we've seen in Zootopia.
Like Zutopia is all mammals, Yeah, there's no non mammals
in Zootopia.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
It's been a while since I've watched it. I couldn't.
So you remember sloths reptiles?

Speaker 2 (53:54):
No, they are not sloths or mammals. Uh. But but
snakes don't have arms or left egs either, so it's
very weird to see a character with no arms or
legs in Zootopia because all the other animals obviously are anthropomorphic, right, So.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Which which I will share some additional thoughts.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Well, well, only two other little things. One is that
there's like a quick flash of different characters shown up
on screen for like a frame or two, and one
of them I noticed was Bell Weather, which was the
that's the secret villain from the first first film. So
she she she's shown in it, so she shows up again.

(54:36):
I'm great, that's great, and it comes out in November.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Yeah. We we also got a trailer for K Pop
Demon Hunters.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you put this trailer
in here. I didn't know what to think when I
saw the title get K Pop Demon Hunters, and I'm like, oh, man,
she's gonna make me watch this, And then as soon
as it starts that was like, oh, I am one
thousand percent on board.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Yeah, So it's it's vaguely like honestly, i'd compare it
to like Gem and the Holograms a little bit.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
I wrote down the same thing.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Where where it's it's a girl band and they fight,
I mean it's in the title they fight demons. The
fun bit is that the demons are the boy band.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
They form a boy band and are attempting to steal
the fans of the girl band so that they can
drink the souls of the fans. And yeah, I thought,
I thought it looked like Gem and the Holograms if
Gem and the Holograms was a K pop band, and
I am here for it. It's done by the same
people who did the across the Spider Verse films and you.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Can tell, yes, which are all phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Yeah, so both from an animation standpoint and the humor standpoint,
you can tell it's the same team.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
That's what I was going to say, is like the
humor is it could be it could take itself too seriously,
It could fall too much into the tropes of of
like that sort of a storyline, But it feels the
trailer at least balances it very well.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
There are a couple of moments that were giving me
serious like turning red vibes. Yes, yes, especially when like
fans are reacting to the pop stars. I can't wait
to show Beca this trailer. She's currently out of town,
so I have to wait till she gets back. I

(56:26):
am so excited to show it to her because I
know that come June twentieth, when it comes out, this
is what we are going to see.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Yeah, we also got a second trailer for Jurassic Park.
It does show us a little.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Bit ah Jurassic World.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Sorry, it's a Jurassic World.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Jurassic World Rebirth. I thought it was a Jurassic Park film. Like,
I didn't think it was Jurassic World. I thought it
was another Jurassic Park movie.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Me too.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
It is Jurassic World Rebirth. And as soon as I
read the title and I was like, I was having
that Mandela effect where I was like, no, I'm sure
this was a Jurassic Park movie. It says Jurassic World.
My expectation sank so far when I realized it was
Jurassic World.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
I think the reason why our brains did that, like
were I to posit A guess is that I'm using
all these big words today and I'm tired, so they
may not make any sense. Please forgive me if that's
the case. To make it where I to make a
guess I would say that though it is a Jurassic
World movie, we think it's a Jurassic Park movie because
they keep advertising that they're going back to the original,

(57:33):
like they're really trying to get that same feel across.
But I have here's my thoughts on this. Yea, whatever
the new content they show us, they have already missed
the mark. Maybe I am certainly acting will be great,
maybe the story will even be good. But part of
the brilliance of the original Jurassic Park. We've talked about

(57:55):
this before was the blend of practical effects with CGI,
so that even to this day it is it is
hard to tell where that line is. But in this
trailer for Jurassic World Rebooth Boot Rebooth Rebirth, Rebirth Trailer two,
they are all very at least most of them are

(58:16):
very apparently CGI. So they've already missed.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
The mark visually. Beyond beyond that, I'm sorry, Hollywood. I'm
sorry that dinosaurs aren't cool enough for you to just
represent dinosaurs and have that be awesome. I'm sorry that
somehow the wonder and awe of the thought of encountering

(58:39):
a real world dinosaur is not enough, so you have
to go and make mutant, weird dinosaurs, including the Big
Bad which is called distort Us rex and looks like
a It looks like t Rex and xenomorph got got
into it and had babies.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
That is true. Like I couldn't tell it was a
dinosaur at first. I was like, what the crap is
this thing? But that's the thing. Is like, Okay, you're
going back to the original where dinosaurs were cool enough
and you used practical effects, except for you're not using
You're using CGI dinosaurs. And every subsequent movie that has

(59:21):
had the Big Bad beat a new kind of mutated
dinosaur has not done well. So you did not learn
your lesson.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah, well, but I could be wrong.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
I hope I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
I listen I knowing that this is a sequel to
the Jurassic World franchise, which I have no interest in.
I don't. I never bothered watching the Jurassic World movies
because frankly, they just looked like they did not appeal
to me. I'm not going to go out and say
they're bad movies. I'm saying I would not have found
them entertaining, so I didn't watch them, and now I

(59:55):
don't want to watch this one because I know it's
a continuation of that storyline, which frankly I found stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
So I enjoyed the first Jurassic World movie. It was fine.
It wasn't Jurassic Park, but it was fine. I was
as close to Jurassic Park, I think as they have gotten.
So I did enjoy Jurassic World. I didn't enjoy the
subsequent Jurassic World. And I never watched Domination because they
did not give t Rex a top hat and monocle.
But the one thing about this trailer that I was curious,
and I probably could have looked it up to know,

(01:00:22):
but I was honestly too lazy and busy, was that
they show a bunch of kids that they encounter in
the park. So are they tying in the cartoon?

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
It's it's a family that has shipwrecked on the outskirts
of the island. Because I looked, I looked up a
synopsis for like just a description of the movie, right
because obviously the film hasn't come out yet, so there's
not like a full synopsis, but there was just like
a kind of log line sort of thing. A couple
of other things I want to point out. So this
also goes back to Hard Eyes, believe it or not.

(01:00:54):
One thing I found amusing in Hard Eyes is that
they have two cops in the film, one called Hobbes
and the other one called Shaw, and they do make
a Hobbs and Shaw joke like, oh, you mean like
the movie, and the two cops look at each other
as if to say, like, there's a movie. Well. It's
also funny because one of the actors, the actress who

(01:01:15):
played Shaw, was in the Fast and Furious series. But anyway,
in this one, in Jurassic World Rebirth, there's a character
named Henry Loomis, and I'm wondering if that Loomis name
is supposed to be a reference to the Loomis character
from Halloween that's Donald Pleasant's character, although that character's Samuel

(01:01:38):
Loomis different first name, but like doctor Loomis is like
a central character in the early Halloween films. And meanwhile,
there's another character named Duncan Kincaid, and I'm wondering if
that is a reference to Detective Mark Kincaid, a character
from the Scream franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Not Thomas Kinkaid who put light into it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
I mean, you could it could be Thomas Kincaid as well.
But I was just thinking, like, if you're already referencing potentially,
if you're already potentially referencing one slasher film, maybe you're
also referencing another slasher film.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Maybe The next thing that we got was, and I
put this in quote, a teaser.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Yeah, that's being super man super generous. With teaser.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
We saw a screen shot with.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Some noise, a panning screenshot of a church with like
bells chiming, with the final bell being extended and distorted
over time, and also a quote which was the wicked
desire the stronghold of evil doers, but the root of
the righteous endoors. So there you go, comes out this fall.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
That's it. I mean, I do like both knives Out
and glass Onion, so I am looking forward to this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
But I like knives Out more than glass. Like Glass Onion,
I enjoyed while I was watching it. The more I
thought about it, the more I was like, well, that's
just dumb.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
But that's how I felt when I watched Titanic as
a teenager.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
I mean, except, yeah, okay, that's fair. Just wait for
Titanic too. So I won't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
I will not.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
You can't make me there's a little little side trail
which will be super short here. Red Letter Media just
put up a video recently about the use of AI,
and in particular using AI to generate trailers, either trailers
for movies that don't exist or fake trailers for upcoming
movies that haven't released a trailer yet, which obviously we've

(01:03:33):
run into in the show, and one of the things
I talked about is, like the glut of fake trailers,
there are for a sequel to Titanic in which Leoonardo
DiCaprio's character somehow survives.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
I enjoyed Titanic the first time I watched it. I
went back to watch it a second time in the
theater and left going, this is such a stupid story.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I nearly walked out on it, and I was in
a plane when I saw it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
I'm glad you you were able.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
To to resist the urge to resist.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Yes, the next thing we got maybe this one. I
don't know. I feel like this fits.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Yeah, No, this totally fits.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Okay, it fits so much.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Ariel that I also added it to the timeline at
the end, but then realized after I was going back
through the timeline you had already put it in there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Okay, Yeah, it's a trailer for a movie called Good Fortune,
which is about Keanu Reeves is kind of a bumbling
angel who's looking for purpose in life and ends up
trying to help Aziz and Sorry and Seth Rogen as characters,
not as themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Yeah, the idea being that that up to this point,
Keanu Reeves's angel is he Gabriel I can't remember, but anyway,
his angel character has been getting pretty lame assignments of
like preventing people from texting, while that's been his big thing,
and he wants to actually help a lost soul find

(01:05:05):
its way to heaven and he thinks he's found one
in as He's and Sorry's character, and Seth Rogan is
also aware that Kila Reeves's character is an angel. It's
got Kicky Palmer in it as well. It comes out
this fall, and I will say the end gag which
is pretty filthy, but the endgag of this trailer made

(01:05:28):
me laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Was it with Keanu Reeves and a woman actress?

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
It was with Seth Rogan and a woman actress?

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Oh, Seth. The woman actress I believe is Sherry Cola,
who is a hilarious comedian. She's a friend of Taylor Tomlinson.
So she shows up on After Midnight here and then
here and now and then and all that good stuff.
She's very funny and like, I will watch it for
her alone.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
So yeah, this looks this looks pretty funny. I'm glad
that we added it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
It looks like as if. Now I didn't watch either
of these movies, but like, Keanu Reeves played Constantine in a.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Movie, right yep, which is a great movie, by the way.
I mean it's not great. Great is too strong a word.
I really like Constantine. There are some very uh there's
some very big choices being made in that movie, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
Gotcha. Well I haven't seen it, but to me, it's like, okay,
well they took because he's played an angel before, so
they just took Constantine and they gave it the bill
and ted treatment.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Well, Constantine's not an angel though.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Now he's he's the guy from the comics.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Right, Yeah, he's he's a he's a he's a character
who gets caught up in angels and demons and stuff.
But he himself, he himself is not an angel. Oh No,
he's no angel.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
He's no angel.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
You should you should take time to watch Constantine, because
I think there's certainly likes. Is it Scarsguard? Who's in that?
There's no, No, it's not Scars Guard. I can't remember
the act one. It's not it doesn't matter, it's none
of them. Uh, it's it's a different it's a different actor.
I can't remember his name, but he plays the devil.
He's so good in it. Till the Swinton is in it.

(01:07:14):
She's fantastic in it. Like there's some great performances, and
they are. They are making big, big, bold choices and
that's story, Peter storm Mayer, that's it, thank you. They're
making huge, bold choices, and that's what I love about it.
It's like these are not they're not playing it subtle.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
So I feel like this was on in the background
and I was in the room for it, but I
didn't pay attention to it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
You should. You should watch it. I really think it's not.
I mean, it gets a little gouey at times, you know,
like it's a little it's a little demony and gooey
and sometimes a little gory, but it's not. I don't
think it's beyond your threshold necessarily, and don't don't go
in expecting like a fantastic, brilliant movie. It's just I

(01:08:01):
think it's really entertaining.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
I liked the Constantine TV show. I like Constantine as
a character in the DC universe. But okay, I will
give it another shot. But not everything is getting another shot.
So before we get to our last trailer, it was
recently announced that Wheel of Time has been canceled after

(01:08:24):
its season three, which many people think is the best season,
and Collider came out with an article saying that it
looks like it's the end for a high budget fantasy
TV shows because exception of I guess Rings of Power,
a lot of these fantasy TV shows have been canceled.
I I watched the first two seasons of Wheel of Time,

(01:08:49):
and it was convoluted and unless you're a fan of
the books, and even sometimes then even if you are,
it's too much to follow. Like my watch group consider
watching season three, and so many of us are like, well,
we couldn't tell you what happened in the first two
seasons because there's too many characters, there's too much going on.
I feel like it's less like the problem is these

(01:09:10):
high fantasy, high budget shows that are getting canceled, aren't
that great?

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Well? I also think it's unrealistic to say that because like,
isn't House of the Dragon still going?

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
So, I mean, like that's that's high fantasy, that's Game
of Thrones, Like you've got that, You've got the Harry
Potter series that hasn't even come out yet. Uh, that's
gonna be on on masks, like gonna be high budget, right, Like,
like I think I think this is I think it's
I think making that conclusion is wrong. I don't think
this is the end for big budget fantasy series. I

(01:09:43):
think like we do have some that are coming to
a close. Like The Sandman obviously is not coming back
because of issues with Neil Gaman, so after season two
that's done.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
And they also talk about talk about like The Witcher
being canceled, and part of that is because what's his
face left, Henry Cavill.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Henry Cavill. But I think it was my understanding that
that was always planned to be like three seasons or
something like. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm misremembering, but it's
like some of these I don't think are being canceled
so much as they are hitting the end of their
stories and others I think are I just think it's
premature to say, oh, whell of Times, because I don't

(01:10:26):
think wal of Time was like a tent pole fantasy
series like I would. I would put that on Game
of Thrones or Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
And it also like so the production value was very high,
great special effects, beautiful costuming. It it gave me sci
fi vibes, like yeah, because the story was again do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
You mean sci fi is in science fiction? Or sci
fi channel?

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Siphy ciffy the channel. Because the story was just okay,
it was kind of hard to follow, and a lot
of the actors they had not just iPhone face, but
iPhone personality. Are you familiar with that? No, it's a
phrase that kind of briefly made the circuit where it's like,

(01:11:17):
you don't look like you can belong in any era
except for the current one. Like me, I don't have
an iPhone face. I look like I belong in a
different time period. Half the time. I am a great
period actor because you look at me and you go, oh, yeah,
I could see them in medieval times, I could see
them in a fantasy world. I could see them in

(01:11:37):
the fifties because I just have this that look. There
are some people who look so modern, like current cheerleader
kind of and that's not a bad look, but that look,
in that kind of personality, if you put it into
a fantasy or a sci fi show, takes me right out.
It's the same issue I had with a lot of Stargate.
I enjoyed the mood, I love the Stargate movie. I

(01:11:58):
enjoyed the show, but a lot of like the alien
actors were so Hollywood and so modern that it just
I didn't feel like they fit.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Yeah, I think, yeah, I think that the conclusion is faulty,
but it is. You know, we never like to see
shows get canceled or fail to renew or whatever, even
if we're not really into them, unless it's a show
that's like promoting something that is just you know, outright
harmful or whatever. So if you were a big Wheel

(01:12:27):
of Time fan, our condolences to you and your time
of loss. Some other shows that also have either concluded
or are being canceled after the season, that include A
Night Court had three seasons and now it's it's canceled.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
So it's it's not just it's not just fantasy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
That's rough for me because I was actually toward like seasons.
I was sad to see the prosecutor go because I
thought she was great, even even though like a lot
of the material they gave her wasn't that good. I
thought she was very funny, and so I was sad
to see her go. But uh, you know the folks

(01:13:08):
that came in were great too, h I was enjoying it.
Enjoying it is such a strong word actually, which is
pathetic to say that, but but I was. I I could,
I could justify its existence like like it wasn't just like, well,
there's half an hour of my life I'll never get back.
Like there'd usually be a gag or two where I
was like, Okay, that was pretty clever. There's way too

(01:13:30):
much laugh track in that show to make it really work.
But Sandman, like I mentioned, Frasier is not getting renewed. Uh,
Stranger Things is concluding Squid Game, Cobra Kai obviously, Handmaid's Tail,
and Door. They're all wrapping up. So nice he got me. Uh,

(01:13:51):
usually I'm the one who does that to you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
I did that joke two weeks ago, but we'll pretend
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
So uh so, yeah, I think, uh, you know, it's
just the at least for those last ones I mentioned,
it's that the stories were concluding. It wasn't that, you know,
for whatever reason, they get Copper.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
Kai had the kids were growing up. I think you
did the joke to me two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
I did well, I said, I said, I'm sorry, what
was that Star Wars one? And you said and or?
But then if why?

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
How? Yeah? So sorry, it's going to get old eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Uh. Maybe what I'm more awake last up, we I
keep saying that I'm going to avoid inserting trailers where
it's just another trailer for something we've already talked about.
We've already talked about a trailer. But we got a
final trailer for eloh uh, and I think it's like
the one that gives us the biggest look at what

(01:14:43):
the narrative is. And it just it's very cute.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
It is it looks like he's being this. I didn't
know from the first time. Maybe I wasn't paying attention,
but from the first two trailers I didn't realize he
was being sending sent to like a boarding or a military.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
School or I think it's a summer camp.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Okay, he's one of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
He's being sent. It's not like a military school or
boarding school. I think what it is is that Ilio
is kind of like an outcast, outsider type, and so
he is being sent to summer camp in an attempt
to have him make friends with other kids his age. Yeah,

(01:15:21):
and he just wants to be abducted by aliens, which
then he is, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
As a geek, well as a kid. First of all,
I grew up in the era where like alien alien
stuff was super popular. Like if you look at nineties
and early two thousands, a lot of people were in
little Green alien heads and it wasn't necessarily stoner culture
at that time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
You mean the the Futurama brain slugs.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Kind of no, like the actual little Green.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Oh, the Daly Bumpers.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Yeah, but like my friends and I always joked that
we were really aliens because as a kid, you feel
so out of place. But most kids do not, not all,
some kids are very popular and feel like they fit in,
but I bet deep down they also feel out of place.
So like, it's such a relatable feeling to be like,
I'd rather be abducted by aliens because I want to

(01:16:12):
be run a bunch of weirdos, and then beyond that,
we're geeks. We are the weirdos, or.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
We were we were, Yeah, and now everyone's a geek
and now we're all talk about that. Yeah. I was
about to say, like, I guess, I guess it's kind
of like The Incredibles. Once everyone becomes weird, nobody is Yeah. Yeah,
I uh, I think this. The trailer looks cute, Like
there's more cute moments between him and the alien who

(01:16:36):
uh is the offspring of the antagonist character, who is
just very silly, uh, very Pixar, Like, it's very Pixar
if you watch this, But that's not a bad thing.
It looks like it's a fun Pixar one. Like I'll
say this, this trailer worked for me way better than

(01:16:56):
the trailers for say, Elemental did or even even an
Inside Out too.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
I Yeah, I feel like I know what the story is,
and I feel like it's not a story that's necessarily
been rehashed fifty times.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Yeah, I mean, it's one that I feel like I
can already tell where it's gonna go from the beginning,
but it looks like it'll be an entertaining ride to
get there, so Yeah, I enjoyed it. It comes out
June twentieth, and yeah, that's it. That's our last that's
our last one. Even with all that, our lineup was
so long, y'all. I thought this was gonna be an
hour and forty five minute long episode.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Goodness, it's not because I made us start late.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
Yeah, so we we're going to wrap this up.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Yeah, So my question for you, Jonathan, Yeah, if you
could be no, how do people how do people attempt
to contact you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Well, you're gonna have to go to summer camp. Now,
when you get to summer camp, you're gonna be chased
around by a maniac wearing a mask with hearts for eyes,
and you're gonna have to run from this maniac. And
eventually you're gonna come across a camp counselor and you're

(01:18:06):
asleep right there in the camp, and you're gonna have
to try and wake up this camp counselor. This camp
counselor is gonna seem like, you know, all life has
left them already, but it hasn't. They're alive, they're just
really asleep. You just gon have to be like, wake up,
dead man, wake up. And once the counselor is awake.
They're gonna explain that they can't actually help you. You're

(01:18:28):
gonna have to try and help yourself. So you're gonna
be on the run and you're gonna be like, you
can't help me at all, and like, yeah, I know,
I'm sorry. It's fubar, and you're just gonna make a
dash as fast as you can toward the other end
of the camp that's gonna take you right through the
petting zoo, which, for reasons I don't understand, in this

(01:18:50):
particular camp, it's all animals that walk around on hind
legs and talk to each other and give each other
a hard time. You're gonna have to make your way
through them. And it's weird because the last couple of
animals you're gonna squeeze past are our cows that are
guarding a building, you know, the dairy. But then they'll
eventually say welcome to the dairy, and you'll be able

(01:19:11):
to go into the dairy. There you're gonna see someone
setting up a television and a shelf. They're really just there.
They're making this their their place of residence. You know.
It's it's it's just it's Pete Davison, You're just like,
just make yourself at home, and he's like, dude, I
am already there. You're gonna try to get through the

(01:19:33):
door and you just can't because it's locked. You're gonna turn,
You're gonna see a key sitting on a side table.
You're gonna grab it. Pete Davison saying, hey, you've been
caught stealing, but you don't care. You just grab that key,
you unlock it, open the door, rush out. That's when
you're grabbed by the tractor beam and beamed up into
the alien vessel, whereupon you are jetted off to a

(01:19:55):
galaxy far far away. And when you get there, you'll
see that I'm also there. I'm in a cage. I'm
not having a good time. But you can ask me
your question, and I mean, what else am I gonna do?
I'll answer it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Uh, that's delightful. If if that's just delightful, I was,
I was, I was. You had me. You have to
go to summer camp. I've never been to one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Oh I have.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
But if being chased by a psycho is Victorian or
otherwise is not for you, you can reach out to us
on social media on Facebook and Instagram and threads were
large and or drunk Collider. We're also a blue Sky
and did not look up what our name was again,
but I think it's LLENC dot podcast or llenc Underscore podcast.
You can find us.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
Considering how frequently Ariel obviously checks this, I don't know
that it really means anything. If you do find us.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
On there, I would get a I would get a message.
I am trying to be better about social media. I
just haven't. It's been it's been a couple of months, y'all.
But you can also check out our website www dot
large arm or lighter. You can find us on discord,
which is you know. We have wonderful listeners who post memes,

(01:21:09):
who who talk about things that they've seen. Give us suggestions.
You can also email us at large nerdron pod at
gmail dot com. We love to hear from you. Yeah,
if you've got ideas for questions you'd like us to
ask each other. If you have an idea on which
boulders Gate three character I should play next, reach out.

(01:21:30):
Let us know. We love hearing from you, we love
geeking out with you. And until next time, I am Ariel.
I'm gonna go cook some food like a chef.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Caston and I am Jonathan Whack a Mole Strickland. The
Large Nerdron Collider was created by Aeriel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin

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McLeod of incomptech dot com