LNC Goes on a Pony Ride

We talk about the first look at Universal's Epic Universe amusement park, set to open in 2025. We have a chat about some interesting, British-themed tabletop roleplaying games that are in the crowdfunding phase. And somehow ponies make their way into the conversation too!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large ur Droun Collider podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always
is the lovely, wonderful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Break me off a piece of that kit cat bar.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Okay, it's gonna be hard to fit through the webcam.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's okay, I can't eat it anyway.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, listeners, thank you for joining us today. We've already
had all of our geeky conversation before we hit record,
But know you.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Missed us talking about geeky cruises and geeky trips to
geeky other countries to watch geeky plays featuring geeky actors
and a geeky show. Yeah, we went all about that stuff,
and now we're just gonna talk about the stuff what
we wrote down.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah. Yeah, I guess we should start like last week.
I remember, he with if we've watched or done anything
geeky this week?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, So for me, I mean, it's not that geeky,
but I did try and I caught up on night
Court and one of the more recent episodes of night
Court has a wonderful little nod to the fact that
John Larrachet played a Klingon in Star Trek three The
Search for Spock. If you recall, in Star Trek three,

(01:40):
Christopher Lloyd aka Doc Brown and Back to the Future
played the leader of a crew of Klingons, and John
Larrachet was one of that crew, And there's a I
don't want to spoil it, but there's a very cute
reference to that in that episode of night Court. I
will say this, I keep watching Night Court. I keep

(02:05):
feeling like it's a show out of time, because it
really does feel like it belongs back in the eighties
and nineties with their very corny humor and over the
top laugh track, Like it just doesn't feel modern at
all when we got used to like all those shows
like The Office and Parks and rec and stuff where
you had the more almost documentarian style of comedy. It

(02:28):
really feels like a weird throwback. But I still enjoy
the performances, and I still enjoy some of the gags.
I just don't feel like I don't feel like I
could say it's a good show.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I agree with you, and I'm gonna say, you know,
I was like, oh, you told us about the Christmas special,
and so wondering what to watch, I was like, oh,
I should watch a Christmas special and start catching up
now that Night Court's coming back out. And then I
realized that I had stopped at the wedding episode in
season one where she was on the rooftop with her
dress and they're like, hey, let's use the courthouse for
a wedding, and I thought that was the season finale,

(03:05):
but there's like six episodes after that, five or six
episodes after that, so I'm actually so I watched a
Christmas episode and then I had to go back and
start watching last season. But I do want to catch
up on klingon Night Court. And then I think this
week Raj from Big Big Theory will be on there.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Cool, And that's that's pretty much it for me. I
don't I can't think of anything else I've done that's
particularly geeky. I've been really kind of trying to get
back into the swing of things with work and stuff. Obviously,
when you when you have a bunch of medical stuff,
it can waylay you and then like you're just trying
to get back into like the pace of things. That's

(03:49):
kind of where I'm at now. But Ariel, what about you?
What sort of geeky things have you enjoyed recently?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So much? I haven't watched more Fargo, but that's okay.
I feel like that's only tangentially geek.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's like, Yeah, it's kind of like. I still haven't
caught up on True Detective and I keep meaning to.
I keep thinking I need to watch it, and I haven't.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, but I'm almost caught up on Percy Jackson. I'm
kind of delaying this last one because Lance Reddick plays
Zeus and that's still a little sad he passed away. Recently,
I've started Fantasy High Junior year on Dropout, which is
so weird and I have so many theories and I
don't want to ruin it for anybody if anybody here
also watches it, but it's been interesting. And then I

(04:33):
watched the second season of He Man so he Man
Revelation I think is the second season, but it's interesting
because it's not counting it as a season. It's counting
as it is its own show on Netflix, so there's
only five episodes, even though it is a continuation of
what happened in the previous five episodes by the same
voice actors and Kevin Smith and all of them.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
So gotcha. Okay, Yeah, it's I mean, just like.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
The first season or the first series. At times it
was a little heavy handed in the message, but it's
he man, and I thought it quite enjoyable.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Never known to be subtle, mister he Man.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, so that's that's it for me. I think.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I plan on indulging in a lot more stuff
in the near future. I've got some books and stuff
I want to jump into and you know that kind
of thing. So maybe maybe by the next time we record,
I'll have some more geeky stuff to talk about from
my own personal life. But for now, I suppose we
should just get into the swing of thirty seconds or

(05:40):
less because we got a whole bunch of them. Yes, okay, well,
and I believe I start, do I not? You do? Okay?
All right, all right, here we go. Warner Brothers Discovery
has their new Kara Zora l aka Supergirl, and it's
not Sasha that's the actress who played the character in

(06:02):
last year's The Flash. Instead Millie Alcock, who played young
Princess Raniera Targarian in the pert season of the House
of the Dragon will be donning the cape and tights.
This version is said to be more emotionally damaged than others,
so that should be fun.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I am still excited to see what James Gunn does
with the universe. I like, oh, sorry, okay, this is
three seconds of us anyhow. Next, also speaking of fun
and not dark psych haging myself, Haley Atwell is now
going to be a part has been announced as a
part of the voice cast for Rogue Trooper, which I

(06:42):
believe is one of the stories in the two thousand
a D kind of anthology comic. I'm not super familiar
with two thousand a D, but I do know that
other things that have come out of that have been
like Judge Dread and the writer is Jerry finley Day
who wrote Watchmen or was oh no, sorry huh. It's

(07:05):
written by Jerry Finley Day, and Dave Gibbons, who is
the artist for Watchman, is involved. This tells you how
much I know about all of this specifically, but it
should be interesting. Other voice actors in it include Jamaine
Clement from Plat of the Concords and Matt Barry from
what we do in the shadows, and I think that's exciting.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah. I like all those actors, and Hayley Atwell is dreamy.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
And they also they also break down kind of what
the story is about in the article that we'll post
on our website.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Excellent. Okay. Back to Warner Brothers, Discovery and the DCU.
So James Gunn says that Peacemaker season two is his
next project once he wraps up Superman Legacy. This is
another one of those pesky points of connective tissue between
the just concluded DCE EU and the upcoming not really
a fresh slate d CU. I'm not complaining as a

(08:00):
look forward to the second season, but the DC situation
remains pretty messy in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Continuing on the messy DC train, Sue Squad Killed the
Justice League video game got released to some people for
early access with a huge bug recently where when they
started the game, they finished the game with everything unlocked
and spoilers. The game was like pretty much immediately taken down,

(08:29):
and they started looking for the bug for that to
fix it, because nobody wants the complete game unlocked as
soon as you start it, well not nobody, probably most
people Rock said. He says that they've now identified the
bug and it's the fix has been rolled out. It
has been up and down for maintenance since then. But

(08:49):
you can play the game now because it's out today
for everybody, the February second, as we're recording.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
This, Yes, all right. Also this week, Sony held its
PlayStation in State of Play event and showed off trailers
for a whole bunch of upcoming games, including, but not
not exhaustively, there's a new Sonic game called Sonic x
Shadow Generations. There's a free to play Silent Hill game
called The Short Message that's available right now. There's a

(09:17):
remake of Silent Hill too on the way there. And
we got some peaks in some games like Judas, which
was from the creator of BioShock, as well as a
sequel to the fantasy game Dragon's Dogma. And finally Death
Stranding two. You get the pee a lot more. That
was a thing in Death Stranding. I don't know, let
me tell you.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I haven't. I haven't played it. I've heard it's interesting,
but it also doesn't sound like it's super for me.
Speaking of interesting and not super for me, But I'm
willing to give it a try. Henry Cavill's Warhammer forty
thousand is still in the works. He couldn't really talk
about what's going on, but he says big things are
happening and they are very excited. I make because he's excited,

(10:02):
and when I like Henry Cavill, I'm excited about the
things he gets to do where he gets to be
a bit more of a goofball like Argyle one of
the trailers we're going to talk about later in the episode,
and then just his geekiness about Warhammer. I hope that
translates into a great story.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
So I don't know. I've heard it's just gonna be
seventy two hours of him painting miniatures.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
So I mean some people, some people would fall asleep
to that, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's true. It is like ASMR Okay, Yes, were you
a fan of the not really a zombie Zombie movie?
Twenty eight days later? And it's sequeled twenty eight weeks later. Well,
get ready because Sony has picked up the next sequel
twenty eight years later. Alex Garland, who wrote twenty eight
Days Later, and Denny Boyle, who directed it, are behind

(10:54):
the sequel. Killian Murphy, who starred in the original movie,
is an executive producer of the new film, and he
may even act in it, though that hasn't yet been confirmed. Rage.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
I actually liked those scary movies.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I did like I had not seen. I haven't seen
twenty eight Weeks Later, but twenty eight Days Later is
one of my favorite horror films.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's really well done. It's really well done. The story
was great, so I liked it a lot, and not
just because David Lecleston Wasn't it Dennis Villeneuve. I probably
mispronounced that. I actually looked up how to pronounce his
last name because I'm sure it's not Villanovo, which is

(11:38):
what I keep saying in my personal life. When I
read it said that after Done three, he is done
making Dune movies. So Dune three will be Messiah. It's
probably gonna take a while after this second one comes out,
because it took six years to make the first two.
I personally think that that's a great choice, because I

(11:59):
think the further you get into the Dune books, the
weirder it gets.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah. Yeah. Sidney Sweeney takes a break from being euphoric
to star in a religious themed horror film titled immaculate.
Sweeney plays a young nun who finds herself in the
family way despite you know, not having had sex, but
she worries that the father of her unborn child is
not of divine origins. The trailer includes some very disturbing

(12:28):
imagery and looks like a harrowing supernatural thriller. It is
not aerieal related, so I didn't make her watch it.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Thank you. You're the best. One of the many, many
reasons we're friends. Less scary is it? Cake has been
renewed for a third season. That's the show on Netflix
where they try to make cake look like unedible objects.
Usually sometimes it's other edible objects.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Judges have to decide whether it's cake or the real object.
It's the schlocky and it's fun, but it's also super creative,
or it's yeah, whatever, it's schlocky and it's fun and
it's super creative.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
There we go. Finally, Blumhouse has a cool collaboration coming
up with the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. The Stanley Hotel
served as the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen
King's novel The Shining Now the hotel has ten thousand
square foot events space, and Blumhouse intends to use that
as a sort of horror film museum, showcasing props and

(13:33):
costumes from Blumhouse's own rather impressive catalog of horror films,
TV series, and games. Now, keep in mind, this is
not the same hotel that shows up in the film
version of The Shining. That was a hotel that was
in Oregon, not in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Interesting. That does sound fun, though I need to still
watch The Shining.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
It's a classic.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I'm told that maybe that's not actually a good decision,
but I feel like that's one that if I don't watch,
I am missing out. I do feel like this so
our meat of our episode. I also feel like could
have just been a very extended long thirty seconds or less,
but we'll probably talk about a lot of it. So

(14:16):
our that's our thirty seconds or less. I failed this
week at keeping it at thirty seconds. I apologize. I
owe you.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I don't know a coke. I script mine out now
to try and avoid going too long, because if I
extemporize it will go forever. But we have lots of
stories that we want to chat about in our regular lineup.
First up, we have a sad bit of news that
we lost a legend, a Broadway legend this week, Cheeta Rivera,

(14:54):
and she starred in numerous very famous musicals including Bye
Bye Birdie. She was Rosalita, and my favorite Rosalita of
all the Rosalitas. So we just wanted to say, like,
we salute Cheita Rivera and her incredible contributions to art.

(15:17):
She was a phenomenal, vibrant actress for many years.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yes, and it's very sad to take a complete one
eighty on what we're talking about. Quantum Leafs getting a
second season, which is cool. Collider shared a clip from
season two, And this was a show that I wanted
to watch and then completely fell off my radar and
I forgot it existed. But I went and I watched

(15:45):
the clip for season two and it actually looks really
cute and the characters look likable, and so now I
want to go back and watch it again.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, I thought the clip looked good. I thought it
looked like it felt like it had a little bit
of that same energy of the original Quantum Leap series
and yet updated right, like it didn't feel like it
was stuck in that same era, but it felt like
it was like in spirit. It was a spiritual successor,

(16:12):
so I think it looks like it's pretty high quality.
I too, did not watch the first season. I had
probably some preconceived ideas about what was going on. What
I thought was interesting is that between seasons one and
season two there's been a three year jump in time,

(16:33):
so that we've seen a few shows do that, Like Ariel,
you mentioned the last time we recorded that you finished Barry,
So I wonder how you felt about that particular time jump,
because that threw me off the first time I saw it.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
It was easier because I was binging it, I will say,
because ideal in the absurd. Sometimes it was it was
a little bit like is this is this real?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah? No, I spent like the whole time going like,
is this going to turn out to just be a fantasy?
And it's I'm going to be spending this whole half
hour waiting to find out that it's a dream. But no,
But yeah, I think it looks like a a like
a well made show. I don't know if I'm gonna
watch it, Like I might try it out and see,
because it at least looks like it could be pretty

(17:18):
entertaining and goodness knows I could use something that's not yeah,
as dark and gritty as a lot of the other
stuff I've been watching recently.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's that's the problem I've been had, and it's been
having and it sounds like there's some dark stuff and
I'm actually going to I'm horrible and my reading comprehension
is bad. It's the remaining episodes of season two, So
some of the episodes have already been out, but it's
been over a month and they took like a mid season.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Break, so gotcha, So they've been on hiatus.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, so that's that's what's going on. But yeah, if
you watch Condom Leap, you can now catch up, and
I'm gonna try to catch I think I'm gonna catch
up from the beginning because I do think even if
there's some darker moments, it'll be lighter than things like
Squid Game and Barry and Fargo.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Fargo.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, I'm like, I want to watch something light. What
can I do? Okay, So now we're watching Hell's Kitchen.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Because I know, right when that's it's kind of depressing
when you're looking around for something lighthearted and the only
things that are available are in sort of the reality
television genre, because even in reality television, you know, there's
some stuff that's just fun and lighthearted and enjoyable, but

(18:29):
there's other stuff where it just feels trashy, and you're like, like,
can I please get maybe some fictional like narrative stuff
that is more lighthearted, perhaps something perhaps something that's maybe
a little more sophisticated than Night Court. And so far
the answer has been no for me.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean, so like, there are lots of sitcoms out there,
and I tend to I tend to get get into
sitcoms later, like it took me. I watched a little
bit of New Girl and then I had to come
back to it, like a year or two later. I
didn't catch up till after it had ended. Same thing
with Blackish, I did. I was watching Blackish when they

(19:08):
had the final season, but I wasn't caught up. I
started watching that late gosh all sorts of stuff. Parks
and rec Office I both started late Abbot Elementary. I
started on Time, but I've fallen behind on I feel
like that's it's half ninety sitcom and half modern sitcom,
but it's also very true to the educational system. So

(19:30):
maybe that's a good one if you haven't tried it.
I do know that this new season is going to
have some like drop out people on it. A couple
of people who cycle through their cast are going to
be on season three of Abbot Elementary.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
So from Dropout TV.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
You mean from yeah, from drop out TV, so check me,
and I can't remember the other person.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well that's cool. Well, speaking speaking of season two's, our
next story is about the trailer we got for Halo
season two. I will admit I did not watch Halo's
season one. I watched this trailer and it's clear that
it's covering some of the same material as the Reach

(20:11):
game in Halo, which I know how that story ends,
so I'm not sure that I'm going to tune into this.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I don't know how that story ends. I watched like
the first episode and a half, maybe two episodes of Halo.
It wasn't bad, but it was one of those ones
that like it might have moved too slow to keep
keep my attention from the time of stopping it to
starting it again, right.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I mean, if you don't really connect with a character
to the point where that can pull you through, that
can be a real problem. And I wasn't getting a
whole lot of personality in this trailer, But again, it's
a short, little trailer, so it may very well be
that I just haven't seen. Like the only personality I
was getting was from a character who clearly is meant
to be something of an antagonist. And I'm like, well,

(21:01):
your most interesting character, as far as I can tell,
is the bad guy. And that's a problem. But I
don't know. Maybe that was just because the way the
trailer was constructed.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
It might be I know, Master Chief is kind of
he's a straight man, right.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, he's he's like the He's like Jack Reacher, right,
You're like, he's an enormous mountain of muscle with a
limited personality and just a determination to see his duty through.
And that's about it.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I love Pablo Schreiber. He played he played the
the Leprechaun in American Gods, so I know that he
can He can be effervescent and a ton of fun
to watch. So it might it might be the scripting,
it might be the character. It might be I didn't
give enough of a chance.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, uh, not to spoil it or anything, but if
you want to know a little bit about the reach story.
All I can say is rocks fall, everybody dies.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Okay, that's actually helpful because I'm the kind of person
who tries to remember to visit does the dog die
before I watch anything?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah? Yeah, Well, and that's that's assuming that they're going
by the same story that the games did. But here's
the other thing. I have. The other obstacle I face
when it comes to really any video game, like an
adaptation of a video game into some other form of media,

(22:28):
it's that the thing that made the video game interesting
to me was the fact that I was in control
and that I was the one experiencing these things, even
if it's vicariously through the avatar of a video game character.
I'm the one who's dictating all that stuff, and that's
where it's interesting. Making that interesting for me to watch
is a lot harder.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, not everything can be last of us.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Very true.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I still have friends who are like, I lived through
the video game and I got to control it. I
don't need to watch the TV show And I'm like,
you do, but you do. I mean, I haven't played
the video game.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
But you do. Yeah. The last of us is I
would agree with you. Is an exception to the rule.
They did a great job in adapting the story and
making it something compelling to watch, not just play.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, something that I don't know, I'm curious to find
if you found it compelling to watch is the trailer
for the Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, which is
going to be an Amazon cartoon. It feels kind of
in the in the vibe of Lower Decks or the

(23:39):
episode of Invincible where they're on the space station with
not Invincible but all the aliens.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
The vibe I got was like a less vulgar Rick
and Morty without it being as without it being funny. Okay, yeah,
I watched the trailer and I'm like, none of this
is even remotely funny to me. And these are like
talented actors who are voicing the characters. It's not the

(24:08):
performances that are falling flat. I'm just like watching the
setups and jokes, because that's what they are. They are
set ups and jokes. It's not like it's meant to
be a drama. If it were a dramatic animated series,
then obviously saying it's not funny would not be a criticism.
But Ariel, I didn't. I didn't find anything in that

(24:29):
trailer to be even remotely amusing. At the end of it,
I thought Amazon famously has cut way back on not
as much as Netflix did, but cut way back on
things like animated series. How did this get by and
other stuff get the chopping block? I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, yeah, okay. I thought it was just me because
I watched it and I'm like, do I even put
this in? But it is a you know, it's a
it's a sci fi cartoon, so I did. But yeah,
it also wasn't funny to me. And I know, like
if I talked with my friends about it, they'd be like,
why is Boxmakna only getting a season three?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
But this is coming out you know?

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah? No to me, Like that's a legit criticism. I'm
as I said, like, when you know that stuff is
getting cut, like it's not going to make it to production,
and then you see something like this, You're like, who
is the one calling the shots? And is it dude?
Are they like married to someone who made the show?

(25:33):
I mean it just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I mean, different people like different things. I don't like
has I should, but I don't like Hasban Hotel. I'm
glad other people do because I want every musical television
show to be popular so that we get more musical
television shows. But like, some people find it hilarious and
I found it not funny.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
So well, I agree with you that this was not
a very funny trailer. Maybe other people do find it
really funny. I shouldn't say it's bad, I know, I
should avoid that. I should say it did not at
all resonate with me. And you know, maybe it was
just a really bad trailer. Maybe it turns out that
if I were to watch the show, I would get

(26:16):
a lot of enjoyment out of it, So I'll try
to keep an open mind. But it was not a
good first impression.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, kind of like Dungeons and Dragons Honor among Thieves
did not have good trailers.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah. Yeah, that also didn't give a good first impression.
When I finally saw that, I thought it was entertaining.
I still didn't think it was great, but I will
say the malfunctioning illusion of the Bard made me snort coffee.
I was laughing so hard.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yes, very good, so funny. Maybe it's ghosts. Maybe ghosts
are in charge of the new Amazon lineup and they're
just out of touch with what live people want.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, then we need to bust them. Oh that's.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, you're right. If they're not giving us good television,
then we need to bust them. Uh that's our very
smooth segue into the new Ghostbusters Frozen Empire trailer.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, which shows us a lot more of Ray. You know,
we give a lot more of the old Ghostbusters in
this one, and it's cute. Like, I thought this trailer
looked pretty entertaining. I thought it looked like so when
I remember when I still haven't seen Ghostbusters after Life,

(27:37):
and I know, I know I am way behind on this,
but those trailers were after Life made me feel like, oh,
they're reveling in the nostalgia of the first movie, but
they're not making it like as funny of a comedy
like they're they're they're making reverence of all this stuff,

(27:58):
but it's not like the whole point of Ghostbusters is
that it's a goofy comedy about pest control. But this
is more like, oh, let's hold up all these things
as iconic imagery and make it less about it being
a really kind of dry, funny, witty comedy. And so

(28:18):
it kind of lost me. This one. Feels like it's
recapturing some of that comedic ground, thanks in large part
to Bill Murray, and I'm hopeful that it will be
something that resonates more with me.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
So I will say the main characters of Ghostbusters Afterlife
are kids. So that's something like if that just turns
you off, you're not going to enjoy it. And I'm
not saying that it does. What I will say is, yes,
Ghostbusters Afterlife is a love letter to the first two
Ghostbusters really the first one, but the first two Ghostbuster movies.

(28:54):
And it is funny and the characters are charming. It's
got Paul Rudd, you know, he's Jen You're generally funny. Yeah,
But but the kids do a great job too, at
least the main.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Girl in it does.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
I found I found the bits that were not the
love letter to Ghostbusters more funny and more charming and
more endearing and more engaging than all of the self
referential stuff it did in Afterlife, because that was that
it felt very Shrek asking, like see what we did,
We're referencing something.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
You love, you know, and some of it kind of
like how when Futurama came back, futuraa like that first
episode when Futurama came back the first time, it was
so self referential that I'm like, please get over yourself
and just make a funny show again.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah. Yeah, So, like I love dan Aykroyd and I
love the bit if someone says you're a godray you
say yes or whatever the line is, uh, but being
like it, you could see it coming up from a
thousand miles away. And after Life when they reference that
line and then I was like, Okay, you're just you're
referencing this line because everybody loves this line, so you
wanted to put it in. I agree with you. This

(30:10):
one feels more like it has more of the charm
of the original Ghostbusters to me. My husband would disagree.
He still doesn't know what to feel about it. But
I think that's because they're including the characters, but they
aren't leaning so heavily on their previous success.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah. Again, it feels more like an extension of the
Ghostbusters film as opposed to a let's pay reverence to
this very funny comedy from the nineteen eighties. So I
think it's a better step. And again, maybe if I
watch Ghostbusters Afterlife, I'll come away with a different opinion.

(30:46):
It's just those trailers kind of turned me off on
it because it felt it felt like it was leaning
too hard on the let's find another way to reference
an iconic moment from those first two films. There's some
cute stuff that happens in this trailer, so I definitely
feel like this is something I'll enjoy more. I'm hopeful

(31:10):
once it comes out, I do look forward to seeing it.
By the way, side note has nothing to do with
the movie, but there was a Fenn Wolfhart sighting among
our friend group this past week. Oh really Yeah, because
I was out walking along the Chattahuci and got a

(31:31):
text message from our friend Mandy and she said that
Finn Wolfhart was in the bar that she works at
and she was trying very hard not to fan girl out.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
That's adorable, I am. I know I've had to fight
fangirling before, but it's it's not something I do super
super often because I'm just very like one. I'm a
little bit of an introvert and a little socially awkward,
but I'm acutely aware that this other person probably gets

(32:04):
bothered all the time and may not want it. Now,
that's not true for all all celebrities. Some people love
hearing you know, just a nice I really enjoy your work,
thank you. Everybody enjoys that, right, But yeah, I'm always
I'm always hesitant to ever be like, oh my god,
this person, I love you.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
So yeah, no, I feel the same way, like I
always I try to take those moments like only when
I feel that pretty certain that I'm not going to
bother them, like they're not in the middle of something else,
Like I would never ever walk up to anyone while
they're eating, for example, ever, Like that's never gonna happen.

(32:41):
In fact, I had the opportunity to say hi to
Tim Curry while he was eating and I did not
take it, and that nearly killed me, but I did it.
But yeah, I feel the same way, Like it's it's
a concern because I get it. For you as a fan,
it's an incredibly special like once in a while lifetime moment.

(33:01):
But for them it's like the fiftieth time that day
they've met with someone where they were having that special
once in a lifetime moment. So it's a very different
experience on the other side. So I agree with you.
I try to I try to rein it into and
I'm sure that our friend Nandy kept it professional and
just restricted her fangirl moments to text messages to friends.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
And that being said, outside of like dragon con or
like sets and whatever, I rarely see celebrities. I know
they're all over Atlanta, and either I just don't notice
them or I'm never in the right place at the
right time. And that's fine. Yeah, I will say, like,
if I were in an elevator with a celebrity and
I happen to make eye contact with them, because you know,
sometimes you can't avoid it, I would be like, hey,

(33:48):
by the way, you're awesome. I like your work, and
then stare straight at the doors until I got out.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah. I lack observational skills, so I have a feeling
that they're our celebrities around me more frequently than I
I realize, and it's just the fact that I am
so unobservant I just don't notice.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
But also, you're a celebrity yourself.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh shush, shush, No, I'm not really. I'm Internet famous
at most so.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Nowadays, or if you're.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Buying a Toyota, you might see me on the Toyota TV.
But that's about it, all right, so let's let's move
on and talk about our next trailer, which is, for
a u a fictional retelling of something that happened in reality,
which is that the story is about a group of

(34:40):
World War Two commandos who took on some pretty seriously
dangerous missions to help the UK's cause during World War Two.
But as serious as that sounds, the trailer for the
film version makes it look like a fun series of

(35:01):
crazy hijinks a la The Suicide Squad, the James Gunn version.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah. I thought it was maybe another movie by the
Argyle people, but it's by It's it's being directed by
Guy Ritchie.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Uh yeah, it's we should probably say the title yeah, oh.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Sorry, Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is, you know, a
group that Winston Churchill put together, which when I watched
the trailer, I did not know that it was a
real thing. I was like, this is just fun. But
it does look fun, largely because they're letting Henry Cavill
be a goofball.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, and Carrie Elwys is in it, and the guy
who's playing Reacher in the Amazon series Reacher, he's in it,
which I hear good.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Things about, but I haven't watched yet.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
I've watched it. The second season's not good. I did
not like it, but I the first season was fairly entertaining,
but the second season I had real problems with. But
but he's he's fine. He's a good, good enough actor,
and he's enormous. I mean, he is a huge dude.
So it'll be The action looks great. I mean it's

(36:13):
a Guy Richie film, so of course it looks great.
Guy Ritchie is great at directing action sequences. Henry Cavill
does look like he's an unhinged maniac in it. I
think it looks like it'd be a really entertaining film.
It will be, by the way, absolutely one not accurate

(36:34):
to how things really unfolded in history. It's just inspired
by a true story. Because I'm pretty sure that the
person that the Alan, I think it's Alan Richardson, but
it's the guy who played Reacher. I'm pretty sure that
guy and the guy that Henry Cavill is playing never
really worked together. They were both commandos during World War Two,

(36:57):
but I don't think that they were working with each other,
and so I think it's like a lot of liberties
are taken with the historical facts. But that's that's in
order to make an entertaining action film, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Fine with that. I you know, I should I should
read a book or watch a documentary if I want
the actual history. That's not what I go to. That's
not what I look to for entertainment personally.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, this is not This is not Oppenheimer is what
we're saying.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Which I still have yet to see, but I guess
I should watch it.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Wow, it's just so long. It's heavy too. It's a
heavy film.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
One of our mutual friends is like, there are funny
moments in it.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
And I'm like, well, there are. There are funny moments
in it. I mean some of some of them are
kind of funny in that ry, sort of sarcastic way.
But yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Stopped at the barbiehalf of the Barbieheimer.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Something else that I haven't watched are any of the
Redespicable Me movies that have.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Come out, which means you're gonna be really behind when
Despicable Me four comes out.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yes, which the trailer looks cute. Agreed, it feels more
like a sequel to The Incredibles than to Despicable Me.
From what I know about Despicable Me.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Agreed. I've seen the first Despicable Me. I remember very
little about it, other than, of course, the fact that
the minions are little agents of chaos and are appear
to have been specifically designed to move merchandise, and.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
They like bananas.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
They like bananas, and they like physical humor. It's yeah,
I agree, like this, this looks like it's fine. I
don't actually considering some of the previews we saw, like
compared it to the second best hospital in the galaxy,
it looks far more entertaining to me, Like, yes, you know,

(38:59):
it just it looks it doesn't look like it's necessarily
for me, But it does look like it's a really
well made, entertaining film. So it's nice because I don't
look at it and think, oh, well this is they're
just walking through the paces and they're just you know,
milking this franchise to get as much money as possible.
It looks like they actually put a put real work

(39:21):
into making it and entertaining silly movie.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
I agree. In fact, it might be the most appealing
Despicable Meat trailer I've seen to date.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, you know what, I think I agree with you
on that. You know.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
So if I had kids that dragged me out to
go see it, I think I would enjoy it and
I would be okay.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, And I can't imagine any other scenario where I
go see this movie if you got paid, sure, yeah,
if people want to start paying me to see movies,
then yes, I think that would be lovely.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah. Anyhow, the next thing we've want to talk about
is we've got first looks at Universal Epic Universe in Orlando.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I believe, yes, this is the third of the Universal Parks.
It's scheduled to open in twenty twenty five, and so
we got some treatments of artists renditions of what the
park is supposed to look like once it's finished. There
will be five lands in the park. First thing I

(40:29):
want to say before we really get into the lands
is that they talked about putting the park back into
amusement park and that this is going to have a
lot of landscaping, lots of trees and flower beds and
water features and stuff. The artist rendition is phenomenal. It
looks so inviting. It really makes me wish that Disney

(40:52):
in particular had paid that kind of attention to landscaping
for their like Magic Kingdom is nigh once you by
the time you get up to the Magic, you know,
to Cinderella's Castle. But like I think of like until
Epcot's Journey of Water that was kind of like a
concrete just wasteland. Yeah, and Hollywood Studios feels that way too.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
So yeah, even in the new Lands, which are very
like evocative of the ip that they're built around and immersive,
but there's no like Toy story Land, there's no shape.
If you're there in the middle of the day, you're
going to die.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yes, Toy story Land is designed to make you think, Man,
I wish I were on that planet. The dune is
set on because I bet it's cool and breezy compared
to where I am right now.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yes, and parts of parts of Galaxy's Edge too. Yeah,
I forgive it a little bit more there because there's
more things for me to pop into to hide.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah. The Epic Universe design just looks very lush. Again,
it's an artist rendition. It's not like they have finished
building it. So hopefully the finished product does look like
the artists rendering, because it was very pretty.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
But Okay, so I haven't been to Universal in a
long time. I think the last time I went was
shortly after they added the Mummy roller coaster, So a
lot of the new stuff I haven't seen, yeah, including
like Harry potter Land or whatever.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, but when I went.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
The kind of the Atlantis area and also the Jurassic
Park area, I thought, we're already pretty lush comparatively to Disney,
because I had been to Disney a whole bunch.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah. Yeah, those those well, specifically the Jurassic Park. Now
Jurassic World area is pretty lush and jungle like. The
Atlantis area had lots of water features, but otherwise was
like lots of lots of buildings. This to me looks

(42:58):
like it really does look like it's a next generation park.
From the sketches we saw. The five lands include Nintendo World,
so you get your your Marios and potentially your Zelda's,
although they did not they did not actually tip their
hand as to whether or not Zelda will be part
of it. There's a how to Train maybe there's a

(43:20):
how to Train your Dragon World, which they said, you know,
there'll be attractions where, you know, maybe you'll be flying
on the back of a dragon who knows. There's like
a a requisite Harry Potter Ministry and Magic World, which
is the one reason why I'm probably never going to
this park, because I'm not telling anyone how to spend

(43:42):
their money or how to feel about things, but I
have I have deep personal objections to JK Rallying, and
I cannot justify any of my money going toward her
if I can help it. That's a real bummer for me.
Because the other stuff at the park looks amazing, the
Dark Universe stuff, which is like all the classic Universal
horror monsters and attractions built around them. I really would

(44:05):
be interested to see what they do with that. So
there's a lot of like really cool ideas that are
on display in these first looks, and and I don't know,
I mean, I was really impressed.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Me too. So I've been trying to get Tony to
Universal because I feel like the rides are better there
than it, Like as far as like just straight out
thrill of a ride, I feel like Universal does that better.
I think YEA disease like Rise of the Resistance is brilliant.

(44:45):
It's brilliant, but it's an experience.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Well, I would say things like like the Tron ride
is a great thrill ride, but it lasts like a
minute and a half. Slinky Dog Dash is a great
little coast Like it's not super intense, but it's you know,
I think I think it's like at least on the
level of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Yeah, and you know,

(45:09):
but yeah Disney. Disney doesn't really do the crazy thrill
rides because they they err in favor of family friendly
attractions that are good for the whole family. And then
Universal's like, well, hold my beer, We're going to build
a seals to the roller coasters. It's going to shoot
you out at eighty miles per hour and then turn
you upside down.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, but I mean up up until batu. Really, I
felt like Universal was better at making their parks. I
mean more so with Islands of Adventure than with Universal Studios.
So Universal Studios is great too, because it feels like
a backlot.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
More.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Inviting, more themed. Yeah, you really feel like even in
like the area with like Dudley Do Right and Popeye,
which are both pretty old. You know. I don't know
how many of like gen Z or Jen Alpha know
who they are, but like even those areas felt way
more like I felt way more I was stepping into
that world.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, you could tell that a lot of former imagineers
from Disney had done a lot of work with Universal likes.
As much as I don't like the Rallying and her
effects in the world, there's no denying that the Harry
Potter lands that are in both Universal Studios and Islands
of Adventure are some of the best themed amusement park

(46:28):
lands I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, but I've wanted to get Tony to Universal to
see if he'd like it better than Disney, and we
haven't gone yet. And this Mario World great opportunity because
I think he would really enjoy that, and that would
be a draw for him if we go to Japan.
We'd go to it in Japan. But I don't know
how soon we'll be doing that.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
It's a long plane ride.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
It is a long plane ride. I got to get
my back in better shape, but which I'm working on.
But you know, I wish I could buy like fractional
pass and just skip that one land.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, yeah, me too. Yeah, I wish there's like here's
the past you can buy where none of the money
goes to JK. Rowling. I'm like, okay, I'll take that one. Yeah.
The Harry Potter Land. The Ministry of Magic Land, in
case you are curious, is supposed to evoke both the
Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter series as well

(47:26):
as nineteen twenties era Fantastic Beasts stuff. And I'm like,
did are people still? Do people still care about Fantastic Beasts?
Because when I watched that first movie, I was like,
this is pretty terrible, So I.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Didn't I also agree with you, I was not a
fan of the and if you like the Fantastic Beast movie,
you know we've got a lot of media for a
lot of people. Sure, yes, but I wasn't a huge
fan of it. However, stepping into nineteen twenties London streets
does sound fun to me. In nineteen twenties like speak
easy Prohibition era, Like that's that's a fun a fun

(48:06):
jet era to dabble.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Your toes in. Yeah, I just don't need the Harry
Potter stuff to make that fun, Like it could just
it could just be a period appropriate like part of
the amusement park. Yeah. But anyway, it does look like
it's going to be really impressive. And also, I mean
it's obviously a shot across the bow of Disney because
for the longest time, the story was if you go

(48:31):
down to Orlando, you book a week's worth of vacation,
you spend almost all of that week at Disney. Maybe
you have a day where you go to the Universal
Park or both parks. Now, what Universal is saying is
that by building out this third park, they're creating a
week's worth of activities in one spot, so that people
will be going down to Orlando not to go to Disney,

(48:52):
but to spend a week at Universal.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
See. That's what I liked about Islands of Adventure and Universal.
If you went at the right time, you could go
through each park twice like. And it wasn't that there
was a lot of stuff. It was just it was
very well planned out and the queues were good if
you don't get stuck in the Dudlely Do Write Falls
queue Forever.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yeah, I've never ridden that ride because the I'm not
big on water rides.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Oh to see, Universal has the best, like the best
water rides I've been on. Doudley Do Right Falls is
a lot of fun. The Popeye raft ride is brilliant.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
I love it. I think I just don't like walking
around in web jeans yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
I get it. You know, I'm past the age where
like I could go to a theme park and put
my shorts in a in a locker and just walk
around in my bathing suit all day. But I'm past
that age.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Here's the funny thing, is that being a guy, I
actually have probably about to hit that age where you know,
we just stop carrying.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
I mean, you know, it would be great if I
could stop caring. It's something I'm working on to my therapist. Well,
but I mean I also know Harry Potter is still
important to a lot of people who are maybe not
who are who are being targeted by the bad stuff
as well.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
So yeah, it's complicated, right, I think that's something It's
a decision each person has to make, and you shouldn't
have me influence your decision one way or the other.
Like this is a personal decision for me. I'm not
advocating for anyone else to feel the same way or
to perform the same way. But it's I can't I
can't justify it for myself.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, I just wanted to put that out there because
I know we have listeners who have liked Harry Potter
in the past and you know, if if it's important
to your journey, I understand.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
I'm not going to judge. I'm not judging anyone for
their fandom. Yeah. Absolutely, it's that's a good point to make, Ariel.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Yeah, unless you want to play the Downton abby esque
relationships in RPG, in.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Which case, screw Harry Potter. No, that's just I'm just kidding. Yeah,
when you put this in. When you put this in, Ariel,
I was like, what, And after I read it, I thought, oh, okay,
so it's not it's not literally a Downton abby RPG.

(51:13):
I see what you mean by Downton abby esque in
that it's an RPG that deals with class structure, but
it also puts it in the framework of the world
is going to end.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Yes, it's so bizarre.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
So you have to.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Investigate and abandoned and in who Lord and abandoned Mansion,
you have to attend high society balls and then also
like fight monsters, but also develop relationships in romance.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, it's supposed to. It's supposed to really evoke sort
of these class distinctions and divisions in society while also
telling the story of impending world doom. And as I
was reading this I was. I was like, it's hard
for me to feel this isn't a hat on a
hat situation where you like, you have a good idea,

(52:11):
but then you over complicate that good idea by putting
a different good idea on top of your good idea.
But I don't know, Maybe maybe if I were to
play through it, I would say, oh, I get it now. Maybe,
like I can't judge it just based upon a description
of the thing. I kind of need to experience the thing.
I will say it sounds very imaginative.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Yes, yeah, like when I when I first heard about it,
when I was when I was reading through the news
and I was like, what what in the world? Like,
I like, down, Abbey, I know that's that's a giant
geek fandom, right, I was, like a relationship video game.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yeah, I will say, we haven't named the game yet.
It's called Our Brilliant Ruin. That's we're getting real bad
at that because we just jump into the description. But yeah,
Our Brilliant Ruin is the name of the game, and
they've got a They're they're launching a Kickstarter to back
this h And while I have my misgivings just because

(53:14):
it feels like it's like almost like an overcomplication. I
am intrigued.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yeah, and I'm sorry for not naming things. I just
assume you guys are all in my brain.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
If there's same here.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Yeah, if we ever put out an episode where we
don't name any of the things that we're actually talking about,
you can match them up with our show notes and
then win a sticker. I will send you a sticker
in the mail, no telling what it'll be.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
It could be, you know, it could be a sticker
from he Man or Gim in the Holograms, or maybe
it's an eye voted in Georgia.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
It's gonna be a holographic alien sticker that I got
out of a quarterslought machine like fifteen years ago and
then lost in a drawer somewhere and only recently found.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Don't make that's it work like a rose. Don't.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Maybe it'll be it could also be a temporary tattoo.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Of the same. I'm just saying, don't make promises, because
if you actually have to deliver, you're gonna have to
track something like that down.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Well, we just have to remember to name the properties
we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Okay, Well, then let's I actually did.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Find a bunch of that in a drawer recently, so
I have it to give.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Well. I actually have a similar story to chat about,
which is Punk Is Dead, which is another tabletop RPG
that's looking for backers, this one on backer Kit, not Kickstarter,
but this one is part of the New York Borg
Universe of game rules, and it's set in a post

(54:45):
apocalyptic United Kingdom. It's after nuclear bombs have been dropped
to the point where they ran out of nuclear bombs
to drop, and the people who have survived are struggling
in a world where weird monsters are crossing over like
through a rip in reality. And you play as a

(55:08):
member of a punk rock game, and part of the
game mechanics involved the players writing punk rock songs. And
I said, heck yes and back diad immediately.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
It does sound good, honestly the I didn't get to
watch much of it because you added it late and
I was driving back home.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Listening to the very beginning of the video on the
on the fundraiser site sounded like rock band or not
rock band guitar hero and I was super into.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Yeah, it's a it's it's such a weird idea. That
you're like, you know, like this adventuring punk rock band
and part of your the way you survive is through
composing punk rock songs. Uh, it just was very creative. Again, Like,
it's interesting because both our brilliant Ruin and Punk Is

(56:06):
Dead are set in these in one case soon to
be apocalyptic world, in the other case a post apocalyptic world.
They're taking these very both cases, very English kinds of
concepts because we're talking about the English version of punk rock,
like you're talking about like sex pistols kind of punk rock,

(56:27):
as opposed to the New York style like Ramones and such.
So it's they to me, like they go hand in hand.
It's so interesting that both of these are are launching
for for for crowdfunding at the same time.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
My my off the wall fan theory, they are the
same world, just one pre pop pre pop apocalypse in
one post podcast.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I agree. I think that that's the case.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Yes, all right, we have two stories left.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yeah, as is tradition, although who knows this. After a
heart to heart talk with Ariel before the show, it
may not be in traditioned much longer because we might
I might show mercy to her because I don't want
to emotionally scar my co host and dear friend, We've
got a couple of trailers for some horror movies that

(57:26):
are coming up in the first up is a trailer
for a film called Taro. And the immediate reaction I
had from watching this concept as a bunch of teenagers
find this cursed deck of Tarot cards and they do
a Tarot card reading and then they are all slowly
being hunted down by various malevolent forces. My first reaction was,

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this feels so similar to me to the premise of
Talk to Me, which was that movie with the the
dismembered hand, and you would hold the hand and you
would say a little chant. You would have like spirits
take you over briefly, because again that was like done
as the style of a bunch of kids playing a game.

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This feels very much the same, but it didn't look
as well made or creative to me. Based upon the trailer.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
I would have to agree there it gave me the
vibe of a not fun evil power arrangers, like all
of the card people are evil power rangers or something
to that effect.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Yeah, yeah, I wanted to like it more, but instead
what I did was I sent it to friend of
the show, Shay, because she used to read tarot cards
all the time for her friends, and I thought her
reaction was going to be that she would be rolling
her eyes at how they depicted it and just be like,
this is so so Hollywood for them to interpret tarot

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cards this way. Instead, her response was I want to
see it.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Of course, of course it could. So when I said
Power Rangers, it doesn't look that fun, maybe like a
super dark episode of Supernatural as well.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
I felt like there was a little bit of oh,
I don't know. I was going to say final Destination,
but not really. I guess the talk to me is
probably the closest analog I can give.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Yeah. And then our last trailer is for Lovely, Dark
and Deep, and I started watching it and then I
stopped because I wimped out.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
So Aerel explained to me she enjoys camping because she
has something broken in her brain and likes to forego
the comforts of a civilized home in the city.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
And so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I say this as as someone who grew up in
rural Georgia. But no, it's a story where there's a
woman who takes a job as a park ranger. She
is stationed at this one particular park where there have
been some disappearances in the past, and then there are
all these indications that's something supernatural and creepy is going on.

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The trailer also describes it as being an intrigue that's
in the cosmic horror genre, although I honestly, Ariel, you
know I mentioned that before the podcast, that it does
say it's cosmic horror, and that's kind of your jam.
You love cosmic horror, But I'm I don't know that
the trailer really depicts it in a way where the

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cosmic horror element seems evident to me. So it may
still not be your thing, right, It may just be
that someone described it that way, But I thought it
looked intriguing because it does give like this sort of
the mystery of what actually is going on, what sort
of elements are at play. Is there really supernatural stuff happening,

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or is this stuff that's just happening in the main
character's mind. Do we have an unreliable narrator situation going on?
I don't know the answer, but I thought the cinematography
looked good and it has me interested, So I will
probably see.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
This great I will give the trailer another shot. And
then if you see it and you're like, this is
totally your jam Aeriel, yes, I will go see it, right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
And if I see it and I say don't because
you want to continue to enjoy camping, then you won't
go see it. Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
And you know what Johnathan said, this tradition may end
and let us know. I just want to like end
on a happy story every once in a while. But
if you guys really like ending with my discomfort, I'm like,
that's more important to me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
So just let us know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
And Jonathan, how can they let us know?

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Well, the way you'll let us know is that you're
going to go out into the woods and walk out
until you find an old, abandoned shed where the door
is just barely hanging on by a hinge. You're going
to open the door of that shed and walk in,
and you're just going to barely be able to see
as little rays of light, shafts of light are shining

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through the gaps in the wooden boards, barely illuminating the
interior of that shed. And there you will see a
collection of mannequins, all of which are missing various limbs,
and they all have faces drawn on their heads, but
there's something wrong with the faces. They're halfway sliding off.

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It's almost as if the skin that would be there
was just slothing from their skulls. And as you stand there,
they all just slowly turned towards you, and as one,
the remaining arms slowly reach out and then hand you
a birthday cake because it's your birthday and they want

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to celebrate, and they sing a happy song and they
give you presents and then they say that you are
the best. And then at the end, I'm gonna come
out and I got a little pony for you, just
like you always wanted. And then I say, what's your question?
And that's the happy note I'm ending on.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Thank you. That's delightful. I'm fine with that too. I
like little ponies, well little Sebastians as it were. And
if I don't know, if you're allergic to ponies. You
can reach out to us on social media on Twitter,
slash x where llenc Underscore podcast, on Facebook, Instagram, threads,

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and discord. We are a large enur drunk collider. I'm
just trying to remember them all. We're technically on Blue Sky,
but that's different and I don't remember offhand, and I
don't I haven't. I will eventually start using that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
He doesn't remember how the log in anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
I mean, you're not entirely wrong and you have to
figure it out every time. It's just the handles for
that are so long. I kind of like this ending.
You can also reach out to us if you need
a discord invite. It is on our website www dot
larchen drunk Ladder dot com. Or you can email us
to you know, just say hi, or to ask for

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invite or anything else. Our email is largener drum Pod
at gmail dot com. I think that's all the ways
you can reach us until next time. I have been aerial,
scaredy pants casting, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
I have been Jonathan genu Wine Stricklet right at my Pony.
The Large Nordron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,

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published again, cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
McLeod of encomptech dot com