LNC Gets Some Work Done

While construction work goes on outside both Ariel's house AND Jonathan's house, our two intrepid hosts talk about the geek news of the week and how surprised they are that they're recording at all.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider podcast, a
podcast that's all about the geek 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 looks
super cool Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am full of breakfast tacos.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am becoming full of gushers and coffee. It feels
like a real Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, gushers and coffee the go to snack of psychotics
like Ariel I have.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm gonna have a real meal after this.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Uh huh, all right, well, yeah, I'm glad. You know,
maybe you throw some flaming hot Cheetos in the mix
or something you want.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
To kill me.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm just saying like you're already picking such terrible foods.
Uh No, I had. I had tacos from Torchies this morning.
Breakfast tacos from Torchies. I am still riding high that
Atlanta finally has a torcheese location, because I got hooked
on that back in Austin, Texas whenever I would visit. Granted,

(01:16):
the torcheese of today is not the same as what
it was the first time I went and I understand
there were some folks in Austin who used to be
big fans of Torchies who have since turned on it
because it has changed so much. I maintain it's still
pretty good at the breakfast tacos. Like, you don't get

(01:37):
a lot of breakfast tacos in Atlanta. There are a
couple places that do them, but not many. So yeah,
I was happy to get breakfast tacos again.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I wonder if I could get them delivered here. They're
a bit far for a morning breakfast drive for me
unless I don't have work afterwards. But what you would
sound good?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
You would think that they wouldn't come all the way
down here, Like I was surprised that the it's like
a half hour, well maybe more like twenty minute drive
from where I live to where the Torches is because
I don't I live in the city of Atlanta. We
don't get a lot of chains like here. Like it's
it's even rare to find fast food. There are some

(02:17):
in little pockets, but you're more likely to find, you know,
independently owned restaurants, which is awesome. I love that, but
it does mean that if you do happen to get
addicted to say Torchies Tacos or Nando's Peri Pierrie Chicken,
that when a location finally does move into the metro

(02:37):
Atlanta area, you can almost guarantee it's going to be
at least a half hour drive to get there.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Hey, at least if you come to the Perimeter Nandos
you're near me, you all could be like hey, and
I could be like, I can also sit there while
you eat chicken that I cannot eat, but you could.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
You could get the You could get the so called
plane chicken which is still marinated and stuff, though I
would probably still make you sick.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I've had Perry Perry chicken before.
We used to have like a bone Heads or something
like that that was pretty good nearby, and I'd get
the mild. But I have become more sensitive to Pepper's
in general, so I'd have to be careful.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Maybe what we do is we order like a plane
one and then you just try a little piece and
see if it's something that agrees with you, and otherwise
we load you up on sides that aren't going to
affect your various allergies and sensitivities and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
That works Also, I know we said that we likely
weren't recording this week. Everybody I had travel plans. They
have been postponed, so who knows when that's going to happen.
A totally reasonable post moment. I'm happy to be recording today,
but in our in our long standing history of comedy
of errors recording, I do instead have housework being done

(03:58):
in my house today, So if you hear background noise,
we tried our best.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Which may or may not come from aerial side because
I live in a townhouse, so one of my neighbors
is having their roof done so today, so we have
construction going on both ends of the podcast. We will
see if that impacts us at all. Maybe we'll be lucky.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
If we had been like I can hear them right now,
If we had planned better and known that this was
happening and not last minute decided to record today, we
could have talked about nineties nostalgia and called it the
Home improvement episode.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Or we could have actually made attempts to meet in
person somewhere and record in the same space for the
first time in years.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
It's gonna happen. We just need to remember to like
talk about it. Offline.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, so we're doing an episode. It's funny because I
was putting together stuff for next week's episode what would
be next week's episode, because I had assumed we weren't
going to record this week, so I was like just
putting stuff in as almost like a placeholder, because by
the time another week goes by, stuff that was relevant

(05:10):
often is like old news. That's how fast the world moves.
So I was just doing it so that if there
were anything that happened this week, we would have a
chance to talk about it. Turns out like every week
more stuff popped up than I had anticipated, so we've
got quite a few things to talk about before that. However,
we typically talk about stuff that we have watched or

(05:35):
read or listened to or whatever that we want to
share when we get together. So Ariel, was there anything
that you saw that you want to talk about?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I After Midnight is back. Zach O Yama from Dropout
was on it. Sadly like Zacho Yama, I think is
one of the funniest comedians on Dimension twenty and oftentimes
drop Out. He's got really good comedic timing and sense

(06:11):
of what is funny to say in which situations However,
on After Midnight, I felt like the games weren't that strong,
so he didn't really get to shine, but it was
still really cool seeing him on there. Because of course
Dimension twenty and Critical Role both got featured in The
Times recently, the Times magazine on a piece about dungeons

(06:34):
and Dragons, which is really really cool. So I watched that,
and then I'm still working through Kevin kin f Himself,
which is still remaining to be very good and it's
interesting watching people grow and how they move through the
story differently. And this weekend I'm going to try to
watch Agatha all along.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm also going to try and watch that. This weekend.
I did watch the first episode of The Penguin, which
of course is the spinoff series from The Batman.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Not Gotham and not Pennywise.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Just to be clear, right, not that not those variations
on the DC universe. We're talking about the Robert Pattinson
Batman version of the character and the Colin Ferrell version
of the Penguin. Uh. I will say this, I think
the show is well done. Like you, you know, you

(07:32):
had real issues with the Riddler, the variation of the
Riddler in The Batman. I have real. I like the
Riddler in The Batman thought I thought that was an
intriguing version of that character.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
I know you called Dano a lot.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I just yeah, no, I get it. But like I
liked the Zodiac style dark, super dark version of the Riddler,
I thought that was interesting. I do not like this
version of the Penguins simply because he doesn't seem that
different from any standard gangster. Like there's nothing that sets

(08:08):
him apart other than he has a weird walk because
he's got a gammy leg and he's got a scarred
face that makes him a little disfigured. But he's not,
like you know, he's not particularly intelligent. He's very cunning,
he's incredibly cunning, but he's not super smart. He makes

(08:33):
really bad decisions, like playing different sides against each other,
And like anyone looking at this, if you were privy
to it, if you were there in the room when
he makes these decisions, you'd say, this is ultimately going
to hurt you. This is unsustainable, and when the cards
fall down, you're gonna be stuck and there is no

(08:55):
good outcome to what you are doing right now. Like
I think it's pretty clear, and so it's weird watching
a show where your protagonist is so deeply flawed that
you're really just waiting to see a Like does he
succeed despite himself? That might be how this ends, like
if he's actually going to become a power figure. The

(09:17):
one interesting thing is that he does romanticize mobsters, and
he thinks of them as potentially like a pillar of
the community, like a savior almost so in the very beginning,
he's looking out over Gotham while the seawall is collapsing,
because that happens in the Batman, and like he's he's

(09:45):
deeply moved by this, Like he wants to help people,
but to do so outside the realm of law and
in ways that cement his standing in the community. Like
you get a feeling like a big part of his
motivation that he desires to be loved and revered.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
So like I've never viewed the penguin as a particularly
successful villain. I like him. I feel like the most
successful he has ever been, or I should say the
most successful the penguin has ever been was in the
old Adam West Batman and then in the new Amazon
Prime Batman Caped Crusader cartoon where the penguin is a woman,

(10:29):
and I feel like those are the two most successful
versions of the penguin. I've always considered the penguin. I
don't I don't know why. It's kind of not the
bane of the villain group, but like closer to Baane
than let's say, uh, Lex Luthor or the Joker.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, Baane is the bane of the villain group.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, but you know what I mean, like kind of
on the lower regarded side.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I think it depends. I think it depends on the era, right,
because like in some versions Penguin, like when it was
in the really campy phase, when Batman was like in
the super campy phase like the sixties and early seventies,
then all the Batman villains were cartoon versions of bad guys, right,
So like.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, but he was still successful there.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Right, right. But what I'm saying is that Penguin in
that case was a joke because like all of his
crimes involved trying to steal artwork that related to birds, right,
like the jeweled statue of an eagle or something. That
was always the gag. But there are other eras of
Batman where the penguin is essentially a crime boss, which

(11:39):
is kind of the story they're trying to tell in
the Penguin, except he's not there at crime boss levels.
He's like foot soldier, or maybe actually a higher than
foot soldier. He's a kind of like middle management in
the crime organization. I think it's well done. I think

(12:03):
Colin Farrell is doing a really good job in the
in the performance, I think his performance is great. I'm
not crazy about the character, but it's not because of
his performance. That's just because the way they've decided to
frame this character in this version of Batman. And you know,
we had talked back when we were watching the previews

(12:26):
for this that it kind of looked like Sopranos but
in Gotham, and I don't think it's quite that level.
It's it's not as nuanced as Sopranos, but it's entertaining.
So I think it's well done. I just I'm just
not crazy about this version of the character.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, I I also don't like I think Colin Ferrell
does an amazing job as the Penguin, just because he's unrecognizable.
Part of that is because they've put him in a
fat suit. And I also am just not a fan
of that so much. Like Diego in Umbrella Academy season three,

(13:07):
and this isn't a spoiler, Jonathan don't worry had a
period of the show where they wanted him to be
a little overweight, and they gave him the option of
wearing a fat suit or trying on trying to put
some weight on, and since it wasn't for the entire season,
you know, he opted for Spatsude. I think stuff like
that is okay. I know sometimes gaining oftentimes gaining a

(13:31):
lot of weight or losing a lot of weight for
a role can be detrimental to your body. And I
wish that people had to lose weight less for their roles,
and the only reason that they would lose weight is
for their mental and physical well being if they need it.
But I say this as a plus sized woman, But

(13:51):
also there are people the penguin is not even like
that that heavy. You know, they could have found an
actor who more embodies that physical attribute.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
So yeah, I can definitely see the argument there. I mean,
it's it's tough because there's also the argument that the
star power is one of the selling points for the series, right, Like,
it's not just it's a good actor playing the penguin,
it's this specific actor, yeah, but you.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Can't even tell it's that specific actor. And they have
a lot of other star power like Clancy Brown and
Mark Strong and Kristin Melodi.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Right, but they're not playing the penguin.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Although I did have a theory that Kristin Malodi was
actually going to be the big powerhouse in this series.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
She's yeah, she's It's interesting because I think they have
combined Sophia Falcone with Albert Falcone from the comics, because
in the comics, Albert Falcone is not just a potential
heir to the Falcone Dinah, he's also like a homicidal murderer,

(15:03):
and that doesn't seem to be the case in this version.
But Sophia Falcone when she shows up, reveals that she
had been an Arkham and that she's been released from Arkham,
But they haven't said why she was sent to Arkham,
Like that hasn't been revealed yet, And I'm like, is
it going to turn out that she she's the homicidal killer?

(15:25):
But then why would she get released? Like you would
figure that if you're a homicideal killer, you're probably not
going to be released even on good behavior.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, Yeah. Also, I'm seeing in like on the IMDb
page versus the movie page for The Batman, that there
is a character in both of the both of them
that has been recast, Carmine Falcone.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah. Well Carmine's dead, so dead. Yeah, so that's why
they don't. They didn't bring the actor back to play
a dead version of Carmine. They might be that they're showing,
like in flashbacks, a younger Carmine. Gotcha, that might that
might happen because I could see that because he's he
dies in The Batman, so you don't we don't get him,

(16:07):
at least not the same version in the Penguin. He
doesn't show up in that first episode as far as
I could recall anyway, Gotcha. There are some things in
that first episode that are that made me shake my
head a little bit, But overall I enjoyed it, So
I don't think it's the best thing ever, but it's

(16:28):
enough for me to watch the next episode.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's good. That's positive to hear. Because Gotham was a slog.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, oh yeah, I could. I tried watching Gotham in
about halfway through the first season. I was like, this
is so ridiculous, Like so over the top ridiculous. It's
lost me because I think it was specifically Fish Mooney.
Fish Mooney's character was just so like chew the scenery ridiculous.
I could not stick with it.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, we just had some I agree with. We've talked
about it before. There were just some tonal like if
everybody was a campy, if it was very Adam West,
it would have been fine. But there were also people
who were very very mainstream. Interesting thing. The guy who
played the penguin on Gotham, yeah, I thought was a
perfectly fine actor, plays a supporting character. And Kevin kinef

(17:19):
himself and it took me a while to recognize him.
But he's fantastic in.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
It, I know, I know. I also saw that he's
doing a voice in something. I can't remember now what
it was, but I do remember, like when I heard
about that, I was like, oh, it's that guy I
didn't know. And then the next time I saw a
clip from whatever it was I listened for, I'm like, oh, yeah,
now I can hear it. Yeah, but it was one
of those his voice isn't quite distinctive enough to me

(17:43):
yet for me to just be able to pick it
out so but yeah, that was I'd say, if you
have Max, go ahead and watch the first episode of
the Penguin, you'll know whether or not this is something
that you want to stick with, or if you are,
you're like, no, I've seen enough, and I don't think
there's a right or wrong call on that. It's up

(18:03):
to personal preference. The one other thing I did listen
to this week that is geeky as I listened to
the episode zero of the new Adventure Zone series, which
is their Abnables series. So, so the idea is that
all the characters are anthropomorphic animal people, kind of like

(18:27):
you know, teenage mutant Ninja turtles are like that, or
the Cowboys of Moo Mesa or so it's like mostly
it's like Saturday Morning cartoon characters. Well, these are all
animals that are humanoid and they don't transform, no, like

(18:47):
teenage mutant ninja turtles or the Cowboys of movies Battle
Toad or Yeah. So I listened to the episode zero
of that, and it was cute like Travis McElroy is
running the game and Griffin Justin and Clint McElroy are

(19:09):
the players, and so episode zero introduced all the characters
and sort of the game world, and I enjoyed what
I heard. I don't know, I have never stuck. The
only season of Adventure Zone I've ever stuck with all
the way through was the first one I have not

(19:30):
listened to one all the way through.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Since I really enjoyed the problem is that Griffin is
just such an amazing DM, and the characters that they
accidentally created for the Adventure Zone ended up being so
robust that it's hard to recreate that initial magic. Right.
But the second one that Griffin did, the one that

(19:54):
was Monsters of the Week and very like Cryptid based,
was also quite good. I thought. I enjoyed I think
both seasons of that.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
He also recently did the Adventure Zone Kills Dracula like
he was the game master for that one, and I
listened to the first few episodes, but I think the
game mechanics actually eventually got so bogged down that I
didn't care to listen to anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Gotcha, I will listen to this one. I think that
Travis becomes a stronger DM with each game that he dms,
which is you know the case for most people, right.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Sure, Yeah, yeah, you learn what you learn by doing
Yeah that his first one. His first one was a
little rough, but at the same time, anyone's first go
at being game master typically is a little rough. It's
a it's a it is a learning experience.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, so I listen to that. Did you know
that the Macroroi brothers are actually doing the Boombamon Adventure
Zone this weekend in Atlanta?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, and I don't like going to the live recordings
that much because of the possibility for awkward interactions that
I find really hard to endure. Like if someone gets
up and like the question thing just isn't going well,
I just get so uncomfortable that I'm like, I won't

(21:18):
I want to be anywhere other than right here, right now,
So I don't like going. It's the same reason why
I don't like going to see stand up comedy. Like
I've got friends who are who have done stand up
and I support them one, but I have never gone
to see their shows because the possibility of Heckler's is
enough to make me want to not go. Same with like,

(21:42):
same with even my favorite improv theater. There are times
where I have to talk myself into going because I
don't know what kind of crowd I'm going to be.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
In Yeah, and I know you've had bad crowd experiences
even with great shows.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh sure, yeah, so have I.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
And that makes sense. You're a very sympathetic, empathetic person.
I can relate to that. I have a hard time
watching people be uncomfortable or yeah, or feeling embarrassed for
other people. So yeah, the other cool thing along with
the macroy brothers, I'm so happy. I was like, gosh,

(22:22):
we need to get all these cool people in Atlanta
to do shows. They're doing them elsewhere. And now some
of the Dimension twenty people and some of the Critical
Role people are in fact doing a live D and
D in Atlanta in October. I don't think I'll be
able to go, but it is really cool.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, no, that was neat. You sent me the link
to that and I saw it and I was like, oh,
that's going to be really cool. I hope the people
who go have a great time. It kind of makes
me think of you know, we've been lucky to get
Mark Mehir down here a few times for improvised D
and D, and he's also run some D and D games,
not in Atlanta, but he's done some of the ones
that are like hosted in a castle.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, I've had. I have a friend who's done those.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
With him, so that's really cool. I mean those are
super expensive. I've never done one. I like the idea
of it, I just have never gotten to the point
where I'm like, let me actually plan the logistics.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah. Well, she's she's a I mean, that's what she does,
Goblin Katie. She she does a lot of D and
D streams and actual plays as a character and sometimes
a DM, but usually a character. So yeah, that's that's
what she does.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
So clearly, when I finally get my D and D
campaign going, we should make that a real play video
series so that we can start doing that stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
I would be for it.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I would be for it, baby Steps. We haven't even
rolled up characters for that campaign yet anyhow.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, cool stuff. I love that the intersection of geekdom
is growing more into Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, and not just once a year when in town.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah. Yeah, So I hope I hope that we get
an actual another like Dimension twenty or Critical Role actual
play in Atlanta because I am more likely to shell
out a chunk, a good chunk of money to go
see a show like that if I also don't have
to pay for travel and hotel. Absolutely, yes, yeah, but

(24:21):
uh there it's it's Brendan Lee Mulligan is running a
game with Zach Oyama and some other people.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I think, yeah, and uh at dream hack and I
have been to a dream Was it a dream hack?

Speaker 1 (24:39):
It was something where they were playing StarCraft. Maybe maybe
that was a dream hack, but it was way before
the pandemic. And it was a lot of fun getting
to watch some of the live streamers that I enjoyed
the comedy and commentary of and and watching people play
this game. You know, I don't play StarCraft. I'm really

(25:00):
bad at the clicks per minute kind of games. But
it was a lot of fun. I imagine this will
be It's it looks like it's changed a lot, but
it looks like it's still going to be a great
time if you are fee that weekend in local I
want to go.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah. It's also just a good reminder of wherever you live,
you know, keep an eye out to see what sort
of events might be comeing to your neck of the woods.
You never know when you're going to find, like something
that's really special, maybe even find yourself a community to
belong to, like that kind of stuff. It's it's special stuff.
It takes a lot for me to get out of
the house these days. I'm always thankful when I do it.

(25:37):
But there's it's so hard to get past that initial barrier.
And when you start seeing stuff like this pop up,
it makes it actually a little less hard, which is nice.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, Yeah, for sure. And in the future, you and
I will have to plan to go to something together.
We can be each other's moral support.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
That sounds great, yeah, because then we're like, hey, Ariel,
I need us to find a corner somewhere where it's
quiet and we could just sit down for a little bit.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's you know, I appreciate that as well. I like,
I can do big crowds for long periods of time.
But yeah, but even if you have a good social battery,
it does wear out.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
So yeah, and for me, it's like just the anxiety
of crowds, right Like, especially if I'm in a place
where I'm not close to an exit and there's no
easy way for me to get there. I don't have
to necessarily take the exit. I just need to know
it's available and I could get there if I needed to.
And in cases where like at Dragon cons sometimes things
just get so crowded, like your shoulder to shoulder, and

(26:36):
there's just there's an equal number of people who are
trying to go the opposite direction of where you and
everybody else is trying to go, and no one's moving.
Those are the situations where my anxiety starts to ratchet
out of control.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
That makes sense, I have. I have that anxiety more
now than I used to pre pandemic. But yeah, that
makes total sense.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Mine's gotten worse since the pandemic too. But you know
what hasn't gotten worse.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
The sounds outside my house, which is a total lie.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
No, I was gonna say, the time limit of thirty seconds.
It has remained constant and hasn't gotten it. It hasn't
gotten better, but it hasn't gotten worse.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I will say it has gotten better. We used to
go for like two minutes on each item.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Well, sure, but the actual time unit thirty seconds, hasn't changed.
And that means it's time for us to talk about
stories what fit in thirty seconds or less?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
All right, and I get to go first, And the
first thing we're going to talk about is Galaxy Quest,
which is an awesome spoof on Star Trek. If you
haven't watched it do it's so good. But it's hitting
its twenty fifth anniversary and to celebrate, they're getting a
four K restoration of the movie edition with like you
you can get like a steelbox cover art version. It's

(27:50):
gonna have Dolby Vision, HD bar and audio and then
like something from the director on there and I Gaescy
special features and I hope that it has some outtakes
that we've never seen before, because that would be amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I hope it comes by grab Thar's Hammer. It appears
that Pure Evil has won out over the Time Bandits
because the Apple TV Plus series based off the Terry
Gilliam film of the same name, will not be returning
for a second season. Well, I preferred the original film's
style and sense of humor to the series. I thought

(28:28):
that the kid playing the main character was absolutely fantastic,
The settings were really neat, and Jamaine Clement's version of
the character Evil was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sorry to see it go, yeah, for sure. Next. We
had talked a while ago about Clue possibly getting a reboot.
At the time, I think it was Ryan Reynolds was
looking at it or something. Well, now there is a
rumor big R that maybe Zach Kreeger is in talks
to direct a Clue reboot film and along with Shae

(29:03):
Hatten to write the script. Shee Hatton worked on things
like John Wick Chapter three and Rebel Moon An Army
of the Dead. Zach Kreeger, Yeah, Zach Creeker has lately well.
I originally was introduced to him in a sketch comedy show,
The Whitest Kids you know, which if you're you have

(29:25):
sensitive sensibilities, you do not want to watch it. He
has lately been into horror movies such as Barbarian and
the upcoming Weapons, So it makes me really interested to
see what kind of Clue movie he would make. Also,
whether it's a horror or a comedy, I should totally
get a chance to audition. I would kill a Clue character,

(29:45):
not literally, figuratively.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
No, you just spoiled the whole movie.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
And or maybe literally.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Guriel did it in pre development with the critical commentary.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Sorry that was longer than thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, that's okay, what a weird I can't even imagine
what kind of Clue movie would come out of that.
All right, if you've been waiting for a John Cena
Helm to action movie based off the classic Matchbox toy
cars line that belongs to matel these days, while I
got some promising news for you, because it looks like
such a project as actually in development, I'm tempted to

(30:19):
just write this off entirely. But then we did get
a pretty darn good Barbie movie not too long ago,
so maybe I shouldn't be so hasty. And Matchbox cars
are awesome. Those things can survive a nuclear blast, can
I really well, I don't know about that, but they're
like those die cast toy cars. They're just so tough.

(30:42):
Like I used to play with those, where I did
the thing that all kids would do, especially in the eighties,
where you would build like a homemade track that was
designed to make the car go to approximately warp five
and smash into like a brick wall and they'd be fine,
just keep playing with it.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Next story is that we're gonna talk more about Geek
Dweek from Netflix later in the show. But one of
the things that was announced was on Twitter was a
bunch of people who are going to be in season
seven of Black Mirror. That includes Peter Capaldi, who's one
of the doctors and doctor who Emma Corn who was
the Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine, and also Paul Giamatti,

(31:24):
who has done geee stuff as well. It's it. But
the thing is you have to like keep pausing the
tweet because it goes by so quick. Is the Ray
is also going to be in it, and a bunch
of other people, and I just I didn't have enough
time to watch it, enough time to pull all the
cool names out of it.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, it's It makes me think of those mean things
where it's like pause the image to find out which
blah blah blah character you are, and it's just just
rapidly cycling through all the different images and then you
click the pause and you're like, pinky pie or whatever,
Well here's my last one. Amazon MGM has picked up

(32:02):
the rights to a film based off the video game
series The Sims. Kate Heron, who directed the Disney Plus
series Loki, is helming the project and is co writing
the script with Brianny Redman. I don't know how much
writing is actually involved, because I expect all the dialogue
will sound like brebopscre La La Marshall, Rushtick Shawshaw, et cetera.

(32:22):
Here's hoping it's not a horror movie in which people
get stuck in a swimming pool and then all the
latters mysteriously disappear.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
For those words, did you do as Similish to English
or vice versa translation.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
No, I did not. I just literally was like what
kind of sounds are in the SIMS games without actually
looking any of it up.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
I expect a SIMS movie to be similar to like
Free Guy, where bad stuff and hilarious stuff befalls all
the characters.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, suddenly you can't find a toilet and you have
to mess yourself. That'll be great that I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Watch that, but I would not put it past a
movie nowadays. The last last story in thirty seconds or
last is if you like Mass Effect and you can't
get enough Mass Effect and you can't wait for the
new Mass Effect to eventually come out, well, there is
an official cocktail cookbook coming out that has seventy recipes
inspired by events and locations from Mass Effect the game.

(33:17):
It's twenty eight bucks and they The cool thing is
they have substitutions and alternative suggestions in it, so you
can make non alcoholic versions of the drink. So you
can enjoy the recipes regardless of age.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Nice. Cool. So that's thirty seconds or less. And now
it's time for us to go through a whole bunch
of trailers, not all of which are for scary stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
No, and I had no, no, no clue on which
were horrors, horry, horrors.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, the title I try to.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Say horror and scary at the same time. It does
not work.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Horries, Yeah, I know that. Anyway. The titles run the
entire gamut, and some of the titles don't sound scary
but are and some do sound scary but aren't.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah. Yeah, but it's okay. I was able to watch
all of the trailers, only a couple of them. I
didn't understand.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Our first one, though, is for an actual documentary, and
it's a very It's a sad story, sad and inspiring
at the same time. It's titled The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,
and it's you. If you have followed World of Warcraft,
you may have heard about this story. It's about a

(34:37):
young man who had a degenerative muscular condition that had
him confined to a wheelchair, and his family had sort
of resigned themselves to this idea that he was just
never going to have an opportunity to really make an impact,
Like it was just a really tragic life. What they
didn't know, Like they knew he was fond of computer game,

(35:00):
but they didn't know that he was finding friendships online
through the game World of Warcraft. And it's a really
sad story because obviously the young man passed away in
twenty fourteen, this was quite some time ago, but his
passing made a huge emotional impact on the people who

(35:20):
knew him in game, many of whom made the trip
to Norway to attend his funeral at his passing. And
so this is a documentary that tells that story. And
the trailer alone, if you're an emotional person like I am,
is going to get you like at least misty eyed.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, but it is it is
wonderful to see that you know, this person made an impact,
and you know, we're on a podcast. So I hate
to say that social media breeds a lot of bad things,
but social media does breed a lot of a lot
of bad, hard things. But it also has brought to

(36:02):
like it has given a platform to people who who
may have been considered less than or had families resigned
about their life.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Prior isolated for some reason.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, the opportunity to be like, hey, I'm a cool
person and I want to connect and give them the
opportunity to connect and touch other people's lives and help
maybe other people going through the same situations. So I
am so glad that they're doing this story.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah. I just recently did an episode of tech Stuff
about mental health and social network sites, because there's a
lot of there's a lot of common sense type stuff
that suggests that overuse of social network sites leads to
a bad impact on mental health. But the point I

(36:52):
was making is that while that is very probably true,
we don't exactly have definitive studies making that link right, So,
like it seems to make sense, but you can't just
assume that that's true. You need to be able to
look at evidence and make sure that what you think
is true really is true. And that we shouldn't forget

(37:14):
that while social networking sites can have a negative impact,
they can also have a very positive one, and that
it gets very easy for us to focus just on
the negative aspects and to forget about how they have
the potential to do things like connect people together who
otherwise never would have met and never would have had

(37:38):
a chance to be part of each other's lives. So
this trailer is, i think, again, very sad, but very inspirational.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know how much of How
I Met Your Mother used to watch, but there is
an entire episode where the main character Ted Mosby, one
of mecharacters, met someone he was dating through World of
Warcraft and it was a huge joke. But like I
use my my family is currently playing World of Warcraft

(38:12):
Ascension classless, uh you know, and it's been a way
for me to hang out with my family and connect
with them.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
So well, don't let World of Warcraft dictate that. I
think your your family has plenty of class I I mean, I.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Think so too. It it's but since I've started playing
with them, and I've only played once because time zones,
but but I plan on playing more with them, I
have been getting hit at nauseum with World of Warcraft ads.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, I met my my partner
through the internet, so like, I mean, granted that was
thirty years ago, but it's still like that was that
was how I met her, and so like, I also
maintain that belief that you can obviously create and maintain

(39:03):
meaningful relationships online. Honestly, the thing I think that stands
the way more than anything else are the platforms themselves
and things like recommendation algorithms, Because when you get down
to it, the platforms are not designed to facilitate communication.
They're designed to try and keep you there as long
as possible, to sell as many ads as they can.

(39:25):
So when you get that in your mind and you're like, okay,
well that's why the platforms exist, like that's their money
making strategy, then you get a better appreciation for what
is and isn't typical on those sites.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah. I've become very diligent about like is this a
friend post popping up? No, this is a random thing,
and list really hits me. I'm like, no more of these,
thank you?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah? Yeah, well, speaking of no more of these, I
don't know that's kind of.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Makes You're going to talk about a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
No, it's it's this is a kid's movie.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Are you sure it's pretty scary.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
I don't know that it's scary, but it definitely as
a extreme opening premise. We're talking about dog Man, a film,
a film in which the protagonist is part dog, part man.
Dog's head on a man's body.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, not through natural ways. It's not like Sweet Tooth
where this character was just born like this. No, there's
a horrible accident and they pull some gosh darn Mars
attacks level surgery because putting a dog head on a
man's body is a way to preserve both both people.
I guess.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah, so yeah, it's a dog's head on a CoP's body,
and so now you've got a cop that has a
dog head for a head.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Also, wasn't it like wasn't it like the dog's owner
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Maybe I don't want to think about that too much,
but it is a cartoon, and it is like it's
using humor to kind of go through all the tropes
of like your typical cop action film, except that your
protagonist is a cop who has a doghead, and it's

(41:18):
done in a very cartoonish style. It's not at all realistic,
but it does look the humor does look bizarre for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
For sure that I have nothing to add the premise
kind of creeps me out a little bit immediately.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
When on Ariel's top five films that she's anticipating.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
List, yes, exactly. Actually, something that did surprisingly go on
my I'm anticipating it list is this movie Brothers that
is next in our list to talk about.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, so Brothers. It was kind of given me Cohen
Brothers vibes, like it kind of felt like a Coen
Brothers movie, but a little too comedic, like.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Like Logan Lucky.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I was thinking, well, I haven't seen Logan Lucky, so
you need to fix that. I know, I know, but
unfortunately you have me on this New Girl assignment that
I'm going to have to get to, so it's just
gonna have to wait.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Do do Logan Lucky is one movie? You can do
that first and then do New Girl.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
You can't keep moving assignments around. It is going to
give me executive dysfunction.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Okay, okay, fine, keep New Girl and then do Logan Lucky.
Just added to the bottom of the list, all right. Well.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
The Brothers is a film in which uh, Peter Dinglish
and Josh Brolin play twin brothers. Peter Dinglich's character is
a criminal who talks his brother into participating in various crimes.
Like you get the feeling that Josh Brolin's character would
rather not be a criminal. But he keeps getting talked

(43:01):
into it. Marissa Tomae is in this, Glenn Close is
in this. Like the list of the list of high
end actors is incredible. Brendan Fraser plays like a corrupt
cop in it. And the trailer, like I said, it
was giving me Coen Brothers vibes, like I was thinking
about something like Big Lebowski excepted again, this is more

(43:23):
overtly comedic, Like there's more zany comedy stuff than the
surreal absurd comedy you typically end up with a Cohen
Brothers film.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
But yeah, and then there's this surrealness of the like
they know the trailer for it knows because they're like
Academy or Award winner, this person, award nominee, this person,
Award winner, this person, so they know it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah, but the trailer looked looked funny. I could probably
do without the orangutan subplot.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Probably.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
I feel like that's gonna just be one of those
things where I'm like, this feels like a Fairly Brothers
as opposed to a Cohen Brothers thing.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah, yeah, I agree, I could. I could do without
that subplot. Did you ever watch Palm Springs?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
I have not seen it.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
No, okay, it was. It was the one that had
I think. It was Andy Samberg and Kristen Melody as
people who meet at a wedding and both are really
like unenthused with life and then they go through like
a groundhog type Groundhog's Day type situation.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
That old chestnut, that old chestnut.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
It was. It was a fun movie. This is done
by the same people, so that automatically made me a
little bit excited about it. Not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah, I like the trailer. I thought I thought it
was funny. No, it struck me as fairly entertaining. I
love Peter Dinkli's work. I think that he's he's really
fun actor to watch. So, uh, I'm definitely curious about this.
I might wait to read some reviews before I decide

(45:05):
to go see it, because if it does turn out
that it's going to be more like if it ends
up on the spectrum of Cohen to Fairly Brothers, if
it's more Fairly and less Cohen, I probably am not
going to go see it. But uh, if it's the
other way, then I'm more interested.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, I yeah, I look. I look forward to it.
I hope it hits the Palm Springs vibe, which I know,
you know, don't know what that is, but it is.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
It is.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Palm Springs and Logan Lucky are kind of in between
Farley and and Coen Brothers, so.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Well, going from fun to harrowing. The next trailer that
we watched for our our show is for a psychological
thriller film called.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
B B B I B I yeah and I I
I'm gonna be real hones. They were taping up my
windows to paint my house when this happened, so it
was very, very loud, and it was really hard to
pay attention to this trailer. And I even read like
the wiki summary on what the story is, and I

(46:14):
know it's this woman who is dealing with trauma and
then takes medicine to deal with trauma and so she
can't tell what's real and not. And that's all I
got from the trailer. I don't actually know what's happening
with the carousel you see within the trailer, or the
cowboy guy from Dark Tower or the Little Kids or anything.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, so generally speaking, like, yeah, there's this issue of
kind of the unreliable narrator element where because of her
mental condition and the medication she's taking. You don't know
how much of her perception to trust. But there's also

(46:58):
kind of a stalker element to the storyline, and again
you don't know, like, is she being stalked. Is the
thing that's stalking her just a regular person. Is it
some sort of like supernatural entity because that's how she
perceives it. How much of that can you trust? What's

(47:18):
actually going on? Yeah? Is it her grief? I think
all of those are intentional, not just in the trailer,
but I'm assuming in the film itself. I mean, it's
always hard to tell because you have to keep in
mind the people who are responsible for creating trailers, they're
usually not the same people who are responsible for making
the movie. And sometimes the people making the trailers are like,

(47:41):
I don't know how to sell this film, so I'm
just going to cut a trailer that makes it look
like a totally different kind of story. And that's when
you get trailers that don't represent the movie properly. I'm
not saying that's the case here, I'm just saying that's
always a possibility. I thought this looked intriguing, but it
was not the kind of trailer that that automatically gets say, oh,

(48:06):
I have to go see that response from me for sure?

Speaker 1 (48:09):
For sure, I agree. It's no Waves of Madness?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
What is, in fact, what is the waves of Madness?
Can you seriously tell me what Waves of Madness is?

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yes, it is the next masterpiece in the catalog of
Jason Trost and Trust Brother movies apparently, which if you
don't know them, they did All Superheroes Must Die and
many FP movies, including ones that go to space with
space ducks. Not even kidding, I can't.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Even process what you're saying right now.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
But this is a This is like a B level
movie about a guy who is played by Jason Trost
who goes onto a sh to rescue people and is
being attacked by Cathulian horrors. It looks like and you
can't tell if also it's in his mind or if

(49:10):
it's real. But the thing that they're using to advertise
it is that it's a side scrolling horror film, which
is interesting. I couldn't really get that from the trailer.
It didn't feel like a side scroller to me.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Yeah, there were moments in the trailer where clearly it's
like going into the background or coming from the background
into the foreground, which in a side scroller you wouldn't
do right, you would stay essentially on the same plane,
like I think of things like double Dragon, where yeah,
technically you could go quote unquote back, but back is

(49:44):
like a quarter inch higher than front. Yeah, so I agree.
I almost got the feeling like the side scrolling thing
ended up becoming more evident during the editing process and
wasn't necessarily intentional from the beginning. But I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Yeah, it's also in black and white, so it gives
it that very like Sin City, Sin City or Miskatonic feel.
I think, have you never?

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (50:18):
We've talked about this and I just can't remember. I
have too much construction noise in my brain. Have you
watched The FP or All Superheroes? Must I? Or any
of those?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Is the f FP the one where it's set in
a post apocalypse where major disagreements are are solved by
a duel with dance Dance Revolution. Yes, never heard of it? No, Yes,
I have seen that one.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Yes, Okay, it's dumb. It's really dumb. But I enjoyed it,
and I especially love it because the main characters are
j Trow Because the actor's name is Jason Trost and
l E because the actress name is Lee, but they do.
And the Jason Trost and his brother whose name I

(51:06):
can't remember at the moment work on a lot of
like really legit movies too, but their passion is making
these original movies. Also, Behers Must Die is actually a
really fun movie.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
It just the the FP reminded that one came out
early in a phase where we started getting the nostalgia
heads right, like, we started to get films and projects
that were overtly tapping into nostalgia. The FP was on

(51:40):
the front end of that trend, like they were, because
it felt kind of like a Mad Max style movie,
except that dance dance revolution is the way to settle
all disputes and to determine who's like the leader or whatever,
and so it's an absurd premise. But then we got
like that BMX by Bike post apocalyptic movie, I can't

(52:05):
remember what the Turbokid we got, Turbo Kid we got.
Then we got Kung Fury, which was taking an Internet
short and turning it into a longer format, nostalgic Kung
Fu like eighties style movie, which, by the way, worked
way better as a short film online than it did
as a full project. Unfortunately, then later on we got

(52:29):
things like Stranger Things where you started to get larger
studios tapping into that same trend. But I would argue
the FP was kind of like the tip of the
spear when it came to that kind of esthetic and
that kind of approach. So the FP is the only
one I've seen. I haven't seen the Superheroes Must Die one,

(52:51):
but the FP was. I was impressed by the imagination
of the FP like that. The whole premise tickled me,
So that might be enough for me to give the
Waves of Madness a try, whereas the trailer didn't really
impress me much. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Jason Trost, the brother Brandon Trust, is a cinematographer and
director who has worked on things like American Pickle and Night,
Bitch and Knuckles and Dear Evan Henson and Sonic the Hedgehog.
So like bog Yeah, these people do Future Man one
episode Bury one episode, very very is amazing. All Superheroes

(53:35):
must Die. It's the story is for young superheroes. I'm
reading this find themselves stripped of their powers by their
arch enemy. They thought they had defeated years earlier, and
they have to go through a number of challenges by
the villain in order to save an abandoned townful innocent
citizens without their powers. But the interesting thing is it
had Lucas Tillinett who later became an ex man, and

(53:58):
also Sean Whalen.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
So nice. Yeah, so uh yeah. I don't know if
that's gonna if any of that applies to the Waves
of Madness.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
But I am gonna watch it.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
I might wait for Aeriel's review before I decide whether
or not I'm gonna pour time in it or if
it's just gonna go behind what is it? It's new Girl?
And then logan Lucky, Logan Lucky, He's so good. Okay.
Next up, we got a trailer for kind of a
sci fi comedy slash action slash horror movie in a

(54:33):
way I think, more less horror than the others. But
it's called Mickey seventeen. And as I was watching this,
I was like, I feel like this was heavily influenced
by certain types of video games, Like I'm specifically thinking
of things like border Lands, not for the aesthetic, but
in Borderlands, the way that game handles character death, Like

(54:57):
when you're When your character at that you are playing
ass dies, it regenerates you at the closest regeneration point,
and you lose some money in the process. It's deducted
that the cost of your resurrection is deducted from your money,
and then you're allowed to continue. This is kind of

(55:18):
similar in that Mickey seventeen is a story in which
a character, desperate to escape his situation, signs on to
work for a company, and the gimmick is the work
he does is incredibly dangerous, and if he dies in
the process of work, the company regenerates him and his

(55:41):
clone continues to work the job. And in this story
the seventeenth clone, so he's died sixteen times already. The
seventeenth clone avoids death and then encounters the eighteenth version
of his clone. But two versions of the same clone

(56:03):
are not supposed to exist at the same time, and
that's where the real conflict of the film kicks in.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yeah. Yeah, definitely a dark comedy. It gave me like
very like Avenue five vibes.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
It is.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
It is done by h Bong Juno, who has also
done Snow Piercer and Parasite, which I would argue are
two movies very much on the opposite side of the
spectrum from each other.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Well, except that they're both like deeply, deeply satirical, and
they're deeply they're both commenting on society, just they're doing
it in wildly different ways.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's a different reception. I feel like as well.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Well. I think both films are fantastic. I think Parasite
is a masterpiece.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
A bunch of awards, didn't it.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Yeah, it won, It won the Academy Award, and upset
a bunch of ignoranemuses.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
But I have a bunch of friends who do not
like Snow Piercer at all. I have not watched it.
I've only seen the sushi scene.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Oh. I love snow Piercer. I love that movie. I
haven't watched the series, but I have. I've watched the movie,
and I love the movie. I don't think it's a
perfect film, and I think the social commentary of Snow
Piercer kind of falls apart in the third act, but
I loved it. Tilda Swinton is as always perfect ed,

(57:29):
Harris is amazing. Chris Evans does really well on it too.
I really enjoy snow Piercer. I think it's I think
it's worth a watch.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
I will add it to the bottom of my list. Yeah,
but Mickey seventeen. Honestly, when I saw the this is
one of the things I confused it with a documentary
that Disney was doing.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
I thought it was going to be about Mickey Mouse.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Well, no, because they've they've got some they've got like
some space documentary that they've been working on or came
out recently years coming out soon and between the space
picture of that. Because the image on the trailer is
just Robert Pattinson's space in a space helmet, you can't
really tell what the movie is about. And the name Mickey,
I was like, yeah, this is that Disney documentary thing.

(58:15):
I'm so glad that you put it on our list
so I could realize that it was not that.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Yeah, I didn't know what to expect. I saw just
that the trailer popped up in YouTube, and I thought,
I'm going to watch this and see what this is about.
And this is one where I want to see this
movie because it looks entertaining, yeah and potentially thought provoking.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
Yeah, yeah, I'm I want to see it. I am
a little worried that it's going to creep me out
a bit, because you know, getting burned alive is even
if it's for comedy, which is one of the moments
in the trailer, creeps me out.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Well in that regard. It's kind of given me happy
death Day vibes, like and Happy Death Day. I mean
that's more of a Groundhog Day thing, not a clone thing.
But because time does continue to pass in Mickey seventeen
as far as we can tell, like, it's not like
the day gets reset or something. So it's not like that,
or what's the tom Cruise one that has two titles Edge.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Of Tomorrow slash Die diarnse repeat, Live Die Repeat, Live direpeat.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are It's not like that where
you're reliving the same time. Time does continue, But it
does make me think. In Happy Death Day, there is
a disturbingly hilarious sequence of the protagonist ending her own
life over and over and over again in order to
get to the next the next reset faster, and it

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would be really disturbing if it were for the fact
that the actress just sells it as comedy in a
really brilliant way, Like to this day, I'm a a
maze that that movie works as well as it does.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
I haven't watched it yet. I probably will watch it
on TV at some point, maybe this this Halloween.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
It's it's worth a Halloween watch. I think if you like,
I mean, it is a darker horror comedy, but I
think if you dig horror comedy, Happy Death Day and
Happy Death Day to You the sequel that one manages
to inject some interesting changes that I think upset some
people who just wanted more of the same. But I

(01:00:30):
really I think of Happy Death Day and Happy Death
Day to You being similar to Bill and Ted's excellent
adventure in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Okay, so happy so Happy Death Day to You three
is going to be uh Alex White and Keanu Reeves
in Waiting for goodo.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Or there was a third Bill and Ted movie, so I.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Know, I watched it. It was fine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
It was fine. Yeah, it was fine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
It was fine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
They looked like they were having a good time. That's
that's all that really. Yeah, someone that wasn't having a
good time was Jonathan when he was watching the next
two trailers we're going to talk about, because they fall
into the super cheap movie category. Really yeah, No, these
Both of these next two films looked like they were

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really super low budget to me, like because the first one,
which is Amityville Where the Echo Lives, I was getting
the feel of something shot on digital video, and it
was like the quality of digital video from like five
years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I didn't get that feel. But I I'm not gonna lie.
I saw the title Amitityville, and I did my coping
mechanism for watching a horror.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Trailer on fast speed. You need to just watch this one.
You can take it because it's not true.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
I think you could. I just I forgot to go
back and watch it at full speed. But I've never watched.
I'm not even familiar with what Amityville is, so okay,
so I've heard of it, but I don't know the story.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
So first of all, the title Amityville shouldn't matter at
all period, and the reason why is because Amityville isn't
like a trademark or anything. So tons of low budget
horror movies have appropriated the name Amityville because it has
a built in recognizable factor in the horror crowd. The

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original Amityville, the horror film, was about a supposedly haunted house.
It's related to the Warrens, which are these I mean,
I think of them as con artists, but even if
they're sincere, they're wrong. But they're ghost hunters. They're also
the ones who are They are the inspiration. I mean,

(01:02:43):
their characters are the inspiration for the characters in the
Conjuring series. It's the same people, the Warrens. So the
first original Amityville was about a haunted house in Amityville.
Since then, the name Eville has been attached to all
these different movies that have little to sometimes absolutely no

(01:03:06):
connection to that original film. I get the feeling this
is one of those where there's really no connection whatsoever
to the actual Amityville series. But it is like a
ghost movie. It's a horror movie shot on real, cheap video,
and it didn't look at all scary to me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Yeah, it didn't look that scary to me either, No more,
no more scary than I thought. The lead actress in
it seemed perfectly charismatic.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Oh sure, yeah, I don't. This is I don't want
to heap aspersions on the people who appear in the film.
I'm saying, like the film itself doesn't look like it
works for me. Not that the actors are bad. Like,
I think the actors are doing a great job, or
as good a job as they can with the material
they're given, probably better than what a lot of actors
could do, but that doesn't change the fact that I

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find the material to be pretty lackluster.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Yeah, I'm I'm I do find the next trailer that
you lumped into this also, it kind of was lackluster
to me, but it didn't feel low budget to me.
And that's for kill them All two the end, Like
narrator bit did feel low budget, but it's John Claude
van dam does family John Wick.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Yeah, so that's the other note. I'm glad you brought
up the narrator thing because I forgot, like there's a
narrator in the Amityville trailer too, right, like and we're
talking like old school narrator, like in a world like
that kind of narrator, And that's something I meant to
bring up because I was like, I don't remember the

(01:04:47):
last time I saw a single trailer, let alone two
in one week for two different movies that use the
old narrator approach, Like that's so out of style that
it stuck out to me. For both of these movies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like I have seen it in something,
but it might have been. Like I hate that, I'm
about to say this a period piece for an eighties
or nineties theme kind of movie. I mean, I hate
to call an eighties or nineties movie a period piece.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Yeah, well we're old.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Shut up when I am not old.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
When they're playing music by like the Cure on the
oldiest station, I'm just oh gosh. Anyway, Yeah, so, like
I could see it being done as a almost like
a gag, like it's meant to be either a joke
or it's meant to evoke, like, yeah, this is like

(01:05:44):
an eighties retro nostalgia piece. But neither of these films
fall into that category. They're not they aren't set in that,
and they're not trying to evoke it, and yet they
have the the stereotypical narrative movie narrator voice type thing
going on. I thought this trailer looked pretty lackluster too.
Like I've said before, I need my action movies to

(01:06:08):
have more going for them than just kick, punch, explosion,
and that's all this film seems to have. Along with
along with Jean Claude van Dam who looks like he's
been down way too many rough miles.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
Yeah, that's the thing. He wasn't selling me on it.
So if he does, if I don't feel like he
believes it, then I don't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Yeah. Well, and he's never been a great actor. He's
an incredibly gifted action movie performer, you know, but I've
never thought of him as a good actor. I've certainly
seen him in some He was in a movie that

(01:06:54):
was so bad that I almost wanted to go out
and ask for my money back. And I got to
see the movie for free. Wow, Like I didn't pay
anything for the ticket, and I was like, I kind
of would ask for my money back, except that I
got in for free, so wow. Wow. I can't even
remember what the title of that movie was. I just

(01:07:14):
remember it was yet another variation on Kung Fu Tournament,
like it was one of those type films.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Yeah, that's that's sad. It's sad for him too. I want,
you know, people, even if they don't put out great work,
put a lot of heart and soul into their movies usually,
and I want people to enjoy that. I'm sure there
are people who do. We have a few more things
to talk about. I Am going to be real honest.
I hear people on my roof now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Yeah, But if we can't hear it in the podcast,
it doesn't matter. And if we do hear it, it
still doesn't matter because we explained it at the beginning.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Sure, Okay, So the next trailer we have, I just
I'm worried it's going to get real out, but if
it does, we'll leave the rest of the stories for
next episode. But in the meantime, the next trailer is
for something called time Stalker, which is a reincarnation bad
with romance, revenge.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Movie, comedy, film comedy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Film, high high concept comedy. Is what you call it?

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Yeah, I said. It's a high concept, raunchy, high concept
comedy where this woman is unlucky in love and has
developed an infatuation for a certain fellow who does not
return her attention and looks like he doesn't even recognize

(01:08:39):
that she exists. And the gimmick in the trailer is
that apparently she keeps essentially throwing herself in the way
of danger so that he doesn't get hurt. She dies,
but then is reincarnated as another variation like a century

(01:08:59):
l and keeps on encountering the reincarnated same guy over
and over again, and that she's kind of repeating the
same mistakes while slowly growing more aware of what is happening,
which is again very high concept, hard to explain. Like
I don't know how you what the elevator pitch is

(01:09:20):
for this movie, Like how do you sum up what
this movie's about in just like a sentence or two?
But I will say I thought the trailer looked real funny.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
It did, and honestly, outside of one bit, didn't look
super raunchy to me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Yeah, but that one bit was like at the beginning
and I was like, oh my gosh, is this just
gonna be like there's something about Mary but in period costume.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Thankfully, it didn't look It didn't even look quite as
raunchy as The De Cameron, which was something we talked
about recently on Netflix, which one of the actresses from
that is in this movie, Tanya Reynolds. But yeah, it
looks pretty funny, it's got a good cast, it's got
Nick Frost in it, so yeah, I love Nick.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Now, between this and Crazy House, I'm way more likely
to see Tom's Time Stalker than Crazy House. Ye. Crazy House,
which is another Nick Frost movie. I just watched the
more recent trailer for that. Did not add it on
to our lineup because it was like, I do not
want to talk about this.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
No, I appreciate it. The first trailer I was kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Like, h it's worse. Second trailer is worse.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
Good to know I appreciate. I appreciate you looking out
for me and maybe our listeners.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
The next thing, I almost got mad at you. For
the next trailer we're gonna I do. I think I'm
going to watch Timestalker. I'm excited for it. The next
thing I was almost mad. I was like, Jonathan, why
didn't you give me a content warning for this next trailer?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Because no animals get hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
No animals get hurt, no animals are endangered in it.
But I was real worried at the beginning. It's for
a movie called Runt, about a scrappy little puppy who
joins agility contests. I immediately sent the trailer to my
mom and my aunt. My aunt is a photographer for
agility contest. She was like, I have to see this,
but you're right. The dog doesn't get hurt or injured

(01:11:15):
or put in peril in this trailer. It just looks
really cute and sweet, like like Anne of Green Gables
or Pippy long Stalking had a family and a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Yeah, it definitely is giving me. This also has given
me vibes of like stuff I would find in the
eighties where it's kid comes across animal in need, takes
on the animal, and they develop a magical friendship, like
that's the that's the basis the foundation. And in this case,

(01:11:45):
it is a mut a little puppy mutt that the
kid begins to enter into an agility contest because the
top prize is like a quarter of a million dollars,
and the kid's family are in danger of becoming homeless
because they're farm like they can't afford the mortgage on

(01:12:09):
their land. And so there's a little bit of weve
got to save the rec center energy going on here too,
Like there's or Goonies. Like a lot of people forget
that the underlying story in Gooni's is that the kids
all belong to families that are going to get displaced
unless the neighborhood is able to raise a lot of money.

(01:12:31):
Same sort of energy going into this. It looks adorable, Yeah,
it really does.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
It looks really cute. Next, we've talked a little bit
about geeked week stuff already, Black Mirror, The Remarkable Life
of Iblin. We're going to talk about another scary movie.
But yet. Netflix this week released all of the stuff
that they consider geeky that's coming out, kind of like

(01:12:59):
a mini to Doom, but more targeted, I feel like,
and theme. The theme of it, to me seems to
be not everything because there's a lot like there's a
preview for Squid Games two and Wednesday to second season,
and Avatar The lest Airbender second season and stuff like that.

(01:13:20):
But it felt very much like, Hey, we're really getting
into anime, action action and anime.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Yeah, there's a lot of that. There's a Devil May
Cry was getting an anime adaptation, and we got information
about that it's gonna be airing starting in April twenty
twenty five, so we got a bit of a wait
before that series comes to Netflix. But that's one example.

(01:13:52):
You know, There's there's some others as well, a splinter
Cell death Watch, like a lot of video game animated adaptation, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
Right, yeah, Cyberpunkchlora Croft, Castlevania Magic The Gathering is not
a video game, but I feel like it still falls
into that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
Yeah, is that one going to be animated? I guess
so it looks like it is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
Yeah, Rebel Moon's getting a video game that's animated, which.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Oh I can't I can't wait for people to talk
about how derivative that video game is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
True. There is an anime that I'm kind of looking
forward to called Soakamoto Days, which looks like it looks
like if if John Wick were a happy grandpa.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Yeah, Wilford Bremley as John Wick.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Yeah. Yeah. And then there's a kind of it's got
like ourcane style animation vibes. A Wolf King series.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Based off ware World books, yeah, by Curtis Jobbling. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
I haven't read at all.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
I've heard about them, but I also have not read them,
so I don't really have an insight into that one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Yeah. But there are two things I hadn't heard about
that are not anime cartoons that both look kind of
interesting to me. And one is it's a tie series
called Tomorrow and I, which has like a very do
Electric Sheep Dream sort of a vibe to it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Yeah? Yeah. The TV show had a slightly different name
I couldn't remember. And then the Platform two, which is
a Spanish Spanish sci fi thriller that apparently had a
first one. Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I don't think i've heard about the Platform. I may
have to check that out, because, yeah, I like a
good sci fi thriller, but I had not heard about
the Platform, and I'm curious about it now.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
So it's like a dystopian class based structure that people
live in where the very rich start at the top,
and once a day food is put on a platform
and the very rich get to eat as much as
they want, and the platform stops on each level of
the structure that people live in.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Got it, So the people at the bottom just get
whatever scraps may be left over. So essentially, it's snow Piercer,
but instead of a train, it's a platform kind of Yeah, yeah,
spoiler for snow Piercer. But if you're in the back
of the train, you got it rough.

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
Yeah, I've only seen the sushi scene.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
It is worth watching. I like Snow Piercer a lot.
I mean I've already said that, I don't need to
say it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Again, gotcha. And then another thing that they announced on
geeked week was a movie being produced by Sam Raimi
called Don't Move, which Jonathan says is terrifying, and I agree.
The trailer looks absolutely terrifying.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Yeah, this falls into that categorory of woman being preyed
upon by predatory man, and in this case, the woman
in question is injected with a substance that is slowly
paralyzing her and that within twenty minutes she will lose

(01:17:19):
the ability to move. And it looks like it's almost done,
like the most dangerous game kind of thing, Like he's
injecting her and then giving her a head start to
try and get away and hide, knowing that as time
goes on, it's gonna be harder and harder for her
to do that, to the point where she's just barely
able to crawl. And then the trailer includes sequences where

(01:17:44):
she's laying motionless in different locations. There's no indication of
how she got there necessarily, but rest assured every situation
she's in is presented in a way where it looks
super dangerous for her. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Yeah, she runs across a couple of people and so
not sure why they aren't helping her if that's part
of the commentary of the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Yeah, or if they're just like just as predatory but
in a different way or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Yeah, I will say this set off in me a
discomfort based on my sleep paralysis, because when I have
an episode of sleep paralysis, I can't move, and this
set that off in me. And like, it's not that
I couldn't move, but I had that same like anxiety
watching it, which I guess is really great. It's evocative

(01:18:35):
of what they're trying to make the danger feel like,
so good job. It looks very well produced. Yep, I
think it'll be too scary for me.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Yeah. The problem I see as far as me going
to see this film is that I could go by
myself because I know Becca will absolutely not want to
watch it, Like this is not her thing. She would
not want to see it. And the nature of the
horror is such that I don't really feel comfortable asking
any of my close friends, who are all women, if

(01:19:08):
any of them would want to go see the movie
with me, because it just feels insensitive, right, Like, Hey,
you're a woman who has to deal with the harsh
reality that is sometimes you're in situations with a man
you may or may not know that can be really

(01:19:28):
anxiety inducing and that's just your life. Want to go
see a movie where that's turned up to eleven?

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
Well, don't worry. You don't necessarily have to ask anybody
to go with you because it's coming out on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
Oh that's fine. I can watch it then by myself on.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
October twenty fifth. I don't you. So that doesn't necessarily
mean that it won't also.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Get a.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
Theatrical release. Some things do. I don't know if this
one is, because again, it was a part of Geeked Week.
So yeah, the next thing surprises me that it's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Yeah, we're getting an Australian version, like an Australian take
on a comedy series that has enjoyed great success in
two other versions, one for the UK and one for America.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
And it is The Office, which you know, the whole
point of it is is how inappropriate the boss is.
But this time the boss is a woman and Dwhite
is a woman.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
And I fully support both decisions because this trailer I
thought was very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
I thought the trailer was funny too. I was kind
of surprised because I feel like media has been moving
past that kind of humor. Into more situational humor lately
in the past five years, and The Office is not
situational humor. The Office I wouldn't even say it's punching
down humor because again it's the commentary on how wrong

(01:21:06):
some of this stuff is. It just yeah, it's it's
not what I expected to be coming out right now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Yeah, but I mean it's also Australia, and as we
all know, Australia is about fifteen years behind the rest
of the world, so it makes sense that grows.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
Is that because they go backwards in time?

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
Yeah, it's because the toilets flushed the wrong way, which
is not true. But I thought it was funny to say, yeah,
I like this. I wasn't sure what to expect because,
like the first season of the American version of The Office,
really the first few episodes, not the full first season,
but the first few episodes of the American Office are
pretty bad because they were trying so hard to essentially

(01:21:54):
copy the UK version of the Office, and once they
got confident enough to sort of go their own way
with the concept while still like still maintaining the core
idea of this this boss who is completely clueless wants

(01:22:15):
to be loved wants people to want to go to
wherek and have work be the place where everybody wants
to be for eight hours out of a day, but
is incapable of seeing how inappropriate he is. That was
still the core of the office, but everything else kind
of developed its own personality, and that's where the US
one thrived. It looks to me, based upon the little

(01:22:37):
bit we got to see in this trailer, that the
Australian version isn't falling into that same trap like they
already they understand the assignment already.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Yeah, yeah, I So it's been so long since I've
seen the British version and I don't think I ever
watched it like straight through like I did with the
US Office. I think just because of availability right when
it was around. I know that part of the joy
in the original Office was watching Michael the Boss struggle

(01:23:10):
to become a better person.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Yeah, that is another thing in the UK one. Okay,
I don't he doesn't even try. He's unaware, He's unaware
that he's not a good person, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
I feel like there are times when Michael and the
US version did was aware and tried to do better,
and I thought it made him redeemable.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
There are definitely episodes where he is like the worst
human being in the world. I'm thinking about one where
he has to go to a school. That is was
one of the hardest half hours of comedy to ever
I ever watched.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
I agree, I agree it was hard. I liked the
way that episode ended kind of but but yeah, that
was really hard. I wonder, I wonder if the characters
of the Australian version will be at all redeemable.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
I know that one of the acts was then the
film version of What We Do in the Shadows. Yeah, yeah,
so I was pleased to see him in it. Yeah,
I think it looks funny. I don't know if we
will have access to watch this series because it was
being it was posted by the Australian slash New Zealand

(01:24:22):
version of Netflix, and not everything gets ported over to
the United States, so I didn't look into that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
Yeah, I hope, I hope it does get ported over,
though I would watch it. I've been I've been wanting, Oh,
it might come to It's not Netflix, It's Prime.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Oh, Prime, You're right, I'm sorry. I apologize.

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
Yes, Amazon Prime, the same thing applies. We may not
get it because right now it looks like it's releasing
everywhere except the US on October eighteenth, according to the
Hollywood Reporter. But hopefully we'll get it eventually. I can't
go back to my tap. Okay. The last thing we're

(01:25:06):
going to talk about is a movie called Sweet Pee Series.
Oh it's a series. Yeah, Oh I missed that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Yeah. Uh. It's a series called Sweet Pee and it
is starring Ella Pernell, who most recently was in the
Fallout series.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
She played the main character Lucy.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Yeah she is. She's rapidly becoming my next crush, Like
not surprised, you know, Anya Taylor Joy. I think it's
I think it's these actors with like big eyes, big
expressive eyes. Like that just gets me because Anya Taylor
Joy was she. I mean, I still love her. Anya,

(01:25:50):
if you're listening, I still love you. This is not me,
This is not me. Moving on. I think of myself
as a very large tent. There's room for everybody. So Ella,
come on in. But no, she's playing she's playing a
character who, like, I identify with her so much, just

(01:26:11):
from this trailer, which is like, have you ever been
in this situation where internally all you wanted to do
was strike out at somebody because they have just ticked
you off to the point where you, you know, you're
just like I wish I could just kick your butt
right now, or worse, like I wish I could just
wipe you off the face of the earth. I wish

(01:26:32):
I could just kill you leaders making me so mad.
That's kind of the premise here, except that she appears
to give in to that impulse and actually does start
doing it, Like she starts to let herself kill people
who have pushed her to the point where she just
doesn't want to take it anymore. And it's presented in
a dark comedy kind of way. It's not done purely

(01:26:54):
as like horror or thriller or anything like that. And
as I was watching the trailer, I'm like, man, I
don't know that I've felt this sympathetic toward a character
who is clearly a killer since maybe Barry. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
It is interesting because I mean, I can't say we all,
but I feel like most of us, especially if you're
listening to this podcast, have probably been made to feel
less than by others. You know, I've never wanted to
kill anybody. I certainly have wanted to, like squeeze somebody's
face and she'd be like Ahi, but not to the
point of injury, just like, ah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
You're a better person than I am. I have I
have had. I have had those homicidal flights of fantasy,
which I never would act on. I'm a very non
violent person. I haven't even been in a fight, let
alone anything more serious than that. But like those little
moments of just like a psychotic day dream that was
sparked by some sort of negative interaction, I've definitely had those.

Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
I am I hate bugs. They gross me out. I
looked at a couple of them too closely, and now
I can't. I can't plus ladybugs bite me. But I
still feel bad if I go to squish a bug
and I don't kill it on the first try. So, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
Like.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
I like fighting, like I love stage combat. I love
playing barbarians and aggression. But I don't like I don't. Yeah,
I don't have killer tendencies.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Yeah. I think this is also why I like playing
bad guys, because in real life, I am not a
bad guy.

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
I don't not you're a very good guy.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
I don't. I don't seek out harming other people or
or even trying to benefit at the expense of someone else.
I try very hard not to do those kinds of things,
so it but it is fun in a pretend kind
of way to engage in that. So when I saw this,
I was just like, oh, I can't wait to watch this.

(01:28:56):
It looks it looks like it's going to be darkly hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
Yeah, you know what I think it might be for
Anya Taylor Joy and also Ella Purnell. What what appeals
to me, and not not in a crush way, but
just in a like you seem really cool, is that
they are both very attractive people, uniquely attractive people who

(01:29:25):
that's not their stick like they they're happy to be
quirky or weird or.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
You know, yeah, they're not. They're not. They're not demanding
that every project they work on makes them look like
gorgeous and glamorous and you know, uh, you know, like
untouchable or anything like that. They end up taking on
these very unusual roles that end up suiting them incredibly well. Yeah,

(01:29:58):
I always get the feeling. Well, if you ever watch
behind the scenes footage of Parnell, she just comes across
as a huge dufus And I mean that in the
nicest way. I think Florence Peugh sometimes comes across this
way too, Like, these are people who have impeccable style.
When you see them dressed up for stuff, it's insane,

(01:30:20):
like a level of style I can't even begin to comprehend.
But then you watch behind the scenes stuff and they're
just goofballs, and I'm like, I love that they don't
take themselves that seriously all the time, and that they
can cut loose and be goofy and have fun, and
that just really appeals to me.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
Yeah, I think it is so important, And I don't
know if this is the case with them, but I
think it is so important that if you are in Hollywood,
that you don't let that become your whole personality.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean, I guess it works
like for some people who still like there's only arguably
there's only a couple of people out there now who
still kind of fit the bill of movie star in
the classic sense, if you could argue Tom Cruise is
still that. But I'm cool with that. I actually kind
of prefer having real people who are also just damn

(01:31:14):
good at acting like that really is. I prefer that
to iconic persona who just plays themselves in everything they're in.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Yeah, for sure, for sure. Like Jason Momoa pouring drinks
in Atlanta last weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Yeah no, you sent me that and I was like what, Yeah,
apparently that's like a whole thing. It's one of those things,
kind of like how Ryan Reynolds bought a gen company. Yeah,
you know, you have like this thing where you've got
actors who have bought into various companies. And as part
of promotion, Jason Momoa is in town mixing cocktails for

(01:31:55):
this one group of fans, which cool.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
I can't drink, so I guess I wouldn't get to go.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
Maybe you could get a non non vodka.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Mixing Hi, mister Jason Momoa, I can't drink alcohol. Could
you make me a mocktail and maybe a huge.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
I bet you could have asked that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
Yeah, so that's and he would have called you sweet pea.
There we go full circle.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Awesome, Yeah, great, great way to put a button on
the episode.

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
Yeah, that's all we've got to talk about. And I
am pressing my luck before there are people staring in
my windows at me while I talk on this microphone.
So Jonathan, if people want to reach out to us
about any of the things we've talked about, or what
in geek Week they're excited about, or anything else like that.
How do they do that?

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
So you're gonna have to develop a high concept pitch
for a movie about the class system and how the
people in upper classes are able to enjoy a life
that people in lower classes have no access to, and
how inherently unfair that is, and that this isn't like
a meritocracy. It's not that the people who are enjoying

(01:33:15):
life deserve it because they've earned it. It's just, you know,
the luck of the draw, essentially. And you want to
find a really good metaphor to tell this story. But
you know, snow Piercer already dead, the train and the
platform already did like a structure that has multiple levels,
the top of which is the most desirable place. So

(01:33:36):
your big idea is you're going to use a carousel
to tell your story. Here's the tricky part. Carousels don't
have a beginning and an end. They're a circle. So
you're going to really have to crack the nut on
this so that you can figure out who is it
that enjoys the greatest amount of privilege. Is it that
the people who are on the outside of the carousel,

(01:33:58):
because they have access to the outside world, are actually
the highest privilege. The ones on the inside aren't. And
also the ones on the outside. If it's one of
those old style carousels, they can reach up and grab
the brass ring. If you ever heard about grabbing the
brass ring that comes from carousels, Like some of these
carousels they have a little dispenser and little plastic rings
would be in there, and occasionally not a plastic ring

(01:34:19):
would come out, but a brass ring would come out,
and as you go around, you try to reach up
and you grab it. When you pull it out, you
see if you got a brass one or a plastic one, Well,
the people on the inside don't even get that chance.
They can't even grab the ring. So maybe that's the
way you go, or maybe you're like, no, no, no,
it's the ones who are on the bigger horses, which
isn't so much on the outside. Sometimes those might be
on the inside, but if it's a bigger horse, they're

(01:34:41):
the privileged class. And if you're the one who's just
on the turtle and it doesn't even go up and down.
You're like the lowest of the low. Nobody wants the turtle,
he's stupid. Whatever it is, you gotta crack that code.
Once you get there, you're gonna take your pitch. You're
gonna schlep over to all the different movie studios. Now listen,

(01:35:01):
it's gonna be rough because you're gonna be facing a
lot of rejection that's gonna make you feel like you
want to kill somebody. And ultimately you're gonna go into
one studio and you're gonna sit there and the guy's
gonna laugh you out of the room, just talking about
how derivative and simplistic your ideas. That's when you're gonna snap.

(01:35:22):
You're gonna take the Replica Academy award that's on this
guy's desk. Turns out he'd never even want it, and
you just whack him right upside the head until his
skull cracks. And then you're gonna hear the door open
and you're gonna think, oh, no, what have I done.
I've been caught. But you're gonna say it's me and
you're gonna be like, Jonathan, I have two questions for you. One,

(01:35:43):
can you help me move this body. And two it
can be whatever it is from LLENC and I'll answer.

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
But he won't help you move the body.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Uh oh, I got a bad back.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Yeah. And if you're like Jonathan, you already answered the
question the highest privileges that horses that go with the
highest on the outside. Or if you're favorite carousel character
is the turtle because you can just curl up on
it and take a nap. Then you can reach out
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on Facebook, Instagram threads where Large nerdron Collider that is

(01:36:14):
also our discord channel Large Nerdron Collider. You can get
an invite to that on our web page www dot
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chat about that doesn't fit the social media vibe at
large nerdrum Pop. Try that again at large nerdron Pod

(01:36:35):
at gmail dot com. Whoa and until next time, I
am Ariel. I need to get more gushers.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
Casting I am Jonathan. I'm a turtle Strickland.

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
I like turtles, stupid, stupid, They're awesome and they eat pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
The large nerdron Collider was created by Aeriel Caston and used, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
McLeod of encomptech dot com