LNC on Making Memories at Dragon Con

Ariel and Jonathan think back on some of their favorite memories from Dragon Con, talk about the latest in geek news, and Jonathan gets excited about a very strange horror movie concept.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Ner Drunk Collider podcast,
the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about them. I'm Ariel Castin, and with me, as always,
is the delightful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, I'm going down to the Grundy County Auction.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't know the rest of the words, even though
right before we hit record you spouted so many of them.
Me like, I've heard the song. I can't.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it's podcast seption because I was reminded of an
old My Brother, My Brother and Me episode where two
thirds of the brothers were really getting into singing the
Grundy County Auction and the other one third, the third
that edited the show at the time, was rousig about

(01:00):
how much of a pain in the butt it was
to have. You know, because there's because they record like
we do, we record over the Internet. Sometimes there are
little bits of lag or latency or whatever that obviously
impacts the way things sound before you get into the edit,
and if you're lucky, you can edit it so that
those things are never noticeable to the audience. That doesn't

(01:23):
work out all the time or even most of the time,
but it can happen, and Griffin is just there going like,
y'all are mate, this is this is hell? You have
put me into hell?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah? Uh, you know what it's It's funny because they
also on saw Bones, which is a sister show to
My Brother, My brother and Me, they also had kind
of podcast perception where they were on or watched another
podcast and then they brought it into their pod. It
must be the season.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, well they also did that on that episode of
My Bim Bam. I know you didn't get a chance
the recent one because they were talking about the Kelsey
Brothers and they're having a Taylor Swift onto announce her album.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's what it is. So the thing is, I did
listen to the latest episode of My Big Ma'am. I
had it on in the car, and I had it
on at home, but I was doing other things. So
while it was playing at my ears and my ears
were open, none of it got into my brain.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Right, You heard it, but you didn't listen to it. Yes, yeah,
I listen.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Story of my life.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
There are times when I'm walking tibble I have to
have something playing. Occasionally I will go outside without earbuds
or headphones on, very very rarely when I'm walking tibbled
because he usually wants to go on a long walk.
And I think, as I'm getting older, I'm getting that
sensory issues which I never really had when I was younger.
I think the pandemic did a large part of this too,

(02:50):
So I feel like compelled to have something playing in
my ears to drown out just the ambient noise around
me when I'm on my walk. So sometimes that's the
same thing with me. I'll notice that I've been walking
my dog for like five minutes, and I have no
idea what anyone's talking about at this point because I
haven't really been listening. But yeah, they were going on
and on about how they were not aware that a

(03:13):
podcast hosted by brothers could land something as big as
Taylor Swift's next album announcement, and then they got real
salty about it.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so it's interesting you say that, like the pandemic
has given you sensory issues. I was chatting, this is
completely a side tangent, and you can decide if you
want to keep it in or not. I was talking
to my therapist the other day about how like I
also have. And part of this is social media, where

(03:44):
everybody's like, you might have adhd IF right, Yeah, it
kind of it's like googling your symptoms. But she did
say that things like trauma, of which you know, the
pandemic certainly was traumatic for many many people and kind
of rewire your brain to have those neurospicy tendencies because

(04:08):
it's a way of coping and surviving and adapting.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah. Yeah, I am under constant reflection that I need
to go and start talking to a therapist just to
be able to manage my anxiety and get a better
understanding of what triggers it and how best to navigate
that into all that sort of stuff. But and we've

(04:33):
talked about this before, I'm also of the generation where
the concept of therapy was thought of as something you
did because you were a failure and that and that
to go seek therapy is to admit that you're a failure,
which is not true. It is not the right way
to look at things, but it's so ingrained in me

(04:54):
that even rationally I know it to be not true.
I feel that bearinger to actually seeking out help.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
And it's hard because you want to find somebody who
has similar enough ideals to you that they're going to
understand where you're coming from, but not necessarily just be
an echo chamber, right if you're actually trying to get
help with things and improve. For me, part of the
reason I did therapy was because I had I've had
a couple acting coaches who have recommended it as just

(05:25):
a place to like get a better understanding and grasp
and access to your emotions, you know, based on past experiences,
because you spend your entire life being told especially well,
not especially, but it feels like oftentimes, especially if you're
a woman, to not have emotions, to not be emotional right, right,

(05:47):
and like in a workplace, you have to like tamp
it down.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Right. If you are emotional, you are unreasonable and irrational.
Like the big one being that men are allowed to
get angry and that's like that's like showing assertiveness and
you know, like you're taking initiative. But if a woman
is angry, she's irrational and like a hearpyt Like it's

(06:10):
again one of those social concepts, misogynistic social concepts that
have just been like codified.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, and so it's it's just trying to work. It's
trying to work past that, right, because like, I'm very great,
I'm very lucky that my parents have always been supportive.
They've never told me, don't be an actor, don't get
into entertainment. They've always supported me in my dreams, and
they've always been very understanding and kind to me through
my life. But you know, work, you have to put

(06:39):
on a face at work, and like you get into
these habits, and so I started it for that, but
it is very helpful because I do have anxiety, and
I think I've had it my entire life. Oh yeah,
I'm a I'm a bleeding heart, and my neural pathways
are really really apparently very strong in certain directions and

(07:02):
it takes a lot of work to rewire those. So
even if you do go get therapy, it's not going
to be like, oh yeah, that's it, because I have
the same issue. I'm like, logically, I know this is
a thing, but emotionally, I'm not getting there. And it's
very frustrating because I know where I want to be
and I know what is correct, and I know this
isn't a harmful situation or whatever, but like just getting

(07:22):
your body to accept that it takes. It's hard. It's
a lot of work, but it's worth it. Hey, really
deep episode.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Of yeah yeah, yeah, no, I think I think that's
always good though, right, Like it's it's good to give
folks a glimpse. Let everyone know that. You know, like
the folks you listen to, they have their own challenges
and struggles and it's okay. And you know, we don't
we don't ever want to fall into the trap, like
that whole social media trap of presenting ourselves as being

(07:53):
like like like without a care and having phenomenal glamorous
lives when you know, I spent a good portion of
this morning walking behind a dog and picking up his poop,
so like, it's not all glamour.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's it's not all glamor. You know, I do have
a very fortunate life, but it is not all glamour.
But you got to find the things that are good
and happy and lucky.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well that's that's a great way to segue into our
question for this week.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I totally did it on purpose.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
So I've shared this with Ariel ahead of time. But
we're not going to be recording an episode next week
because we're busy, you know, we're busy. I mentioned this
in the little solo episode I did last week, but
Ariel's got some obligations at dragon Con, and then following that,
I've got a vacation coming up, so two weeks are

(08:51):
going to go by without an episode. We apologize for that.
But because dragon Con is such a big event in
the geek sphere, particularly here in the Southeast, specifically here
in Atlanta, and Ariel and I both have a long
history with dragon Con, my question is, what is a
great memory you have from dragon Con. Doesn't have to

(09:13):
be the best, but just one that you think is
particularly it's nice to think back on.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
So there is one moment that just brought me such
joy and it feels like a bragging moment, but it's
not really. So I used to work dragon Con. I've
had a whole bunch of really cool experiences through working
dragon Con. Some of them don't hold up as well
as others because there are like really positive experiences with
a guest who just acted very kindly. Some of those

(09:41):
guests don't act very kindly anymore. But once I stopped
working dragon Con, I started performing with Artsy at dragon
Con again, and one of the years shortly after I
stopped working, I went to Dragon Con for the Artsy Performance,
and it turned out that our panel, I think it
was right before a panel that had Hal Lublin and

(10:06):
Mark Gagliardi on it. It was either right before or
right after their panel. Those are two voice actors who
I love from The Thrilling Adventure Hour. They also do
like film stuff and cartoon their voice actors. I love them.
They're fantastic. They bring me so much joy when I
listen to them do their work. But they were in
the room and I was playing a monkey who had

(10:31):
been unfrozen from cryogenic sleep, basically that loses their temper
and goes crazy, and they were busting a gut. Now
it's possible they weren't busting a gut at me, but
it sure seemed like it because the rest of the
room was also laughing and having that opportunity to entertain

(10:51):
somebody who has brought me so much entertainment to kind
of like pay it back one you know, it was affirming, like,
oh my gosh, I made these people I respect, but
too just like I was able to give back some
enjoyment to somebody. So that will always be a highlight
of my many many years at Dragon Con. That was
also the year that, like normally when I go, unless
Jonathan's there, I don't hang out with many people. I

(11:14):
just kind of wander aimlessly. But that year I ran
into so many friends who all like brought me in
and I got to hang out with them. A lot
of times I'll see friends and they're off doing their
own thing, or I have friends who are there who
I loved yearly but have like their own other groups
that I'm not a part of doing their own thing
that I don't like want interjecting into. So that year
was just a really good year. What about you?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Nice for me? I mean, I have a lot of
good memories from dragon Con. Like I've taken many many
years off. I haven't been to a dragon Con since
since the pandemic, so it's been many years since i've
blast gone. But I was at the very first one
because my dad was the toastmaster. My dad's a science
fiction author and has been a guest. I you mentioned

(11:59):
lots of conven in the Southeast, and so my experience
has been a little odd because for a long time
I was a guest due to my dad. Then for
a while I was a performer with the Atlanta Radio
Theater Company and the Mighty Rassalon Art Players or RAP
and then and then like getting into podcasting, I became

(12:20):
a guest again, but this time on my own merit
being a podcaster, a professional podcaster. So but the memory
I have specifically is from Rap from two thousand and
four because that's when we performed a show that I
wrote and directed called The Return of the King and I,
which obviously was a parody of both The Return of

(12:43):
the King and of musicals like The King and I,
And it was just fun. It was fun to have
something that I wrote and directed be performed in front
of a very appreciative and kind audience. Like the audience
is a dragon. Con tend to be like there already invested.
They tend to be cheerleaders for the things that you're

(13:04):
working on. They want you to do well, and that's
a great audience to have. They're engaged, their reactive. So
it was a really fun time, despite the fact that
that was a year when a massive hurricane was moving
into Florida on that and we were performing on Monday,
the last day of the con, so we were concerned

(13:26):
we wouldn't have any audience at all. Because everyone was
gonna have to get out early in order to try
and beat the weather to get home wherever they might be,
you know, coming from if they were going to fly
out or whatever. They didn't know if the flights were
going to be better later in the day, that kind
of thing. But we still had a really big crowd,
like it pretty much filled up the room, and they
were really appreciative. So that was a lot of fun. No, no,

(13:51):
I was just gonna say, like, it was also fun
writing song parodies of some of my favorite songs for
musicals and making them all about elves and dwarfs and
orcs and stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it was really cool for me, who had
like vaguely worked with you at the Renaissance Festival that
to then see you do artsy and get to be
a part of that as well. You know, we wouldn't
be great friends if it weren't for all of that,
so I'm very grateful. I also have two other really
good CON memories that your CON memory reminded me of,

(14:21):
and one is when we did the two person science fiction.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Writer show Creation is a Circle.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Creation Is a Circle, because that was such a fun
show to do and it was just well it was
a three person show, but that was really cool.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Primarily it was me and you and Trudy was sort
of voiceover narrator type. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, so that was really amazing. I'm glad I've gotten
to perform with you all the times I've gotten to
perform with you, but that was really amazing. And then
the year that you brought me in to help you
present an award at the podcast in the podcast panel.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, so many great people. I
want to say that. Oh, Chris Hardwick was there, I think,
and he was there incognito because his his date was
either presenting or receiving an award. And I thought that
was kind of cool just seeing Chris Hardwick there because
I was like, oh, I've seen you on the TV. Yeah,

(15:23):
that was that was fun. So Dragon Con lots of
great memories, and there are tons of great memories I
have of just interacting with other just people at the con,
like not performing, or being on a panel or or
going to a panel, just like the interactions you have
with other attendees, they can be a lot of fun.
One last one before before we transition, because it's just

(15:47):
such a perfect stupid memory where I was at the Marriott,
and dragon Con takes place across like five different hotels
in downtown Atlanta, and then Mary kind of becomes by
default this common area, particularly for cosplayers, Like that's like
where the cosplayers congregate throughout the convention. And there was

(16:13):
a guy who was dressed up as Iron Man and
he had like the pseudo armor that included the face
plate that could that could slide up like it had
a mechanical apparatus that he could hit a switch and
it would do it on its own. Super cool. And
a guy dressed up as Deadpool. Actually a group of

(16:34):
people dressed up as Deadpool came up right behind him.
So there's like maybe six or seven Deadpools standing behind
this guy in armor who has like limited mobility because
of the armor suit, and they just start saying Tony, Tony, Hey, Tony, Tony, Tony,
and like the guy's like taking pictures with people, and
he's just like, hang on a second, hang on secde.

(16:54):
He doesn't know who's saying it. Finally he turns around
and goes, ah, you guys, And I thought this this
is a comic accurate moment.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yes, I you know, dragon Con has gotten so big
that it is stressful, especially if you're not into crowds.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right, Yeah, which is the main reason why I don't
go anymore.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, And like you have to plan, Like you know,
you can set your schedule to do something every panel
slot because usually there's like thirty minutes between panels. But
if you're doing anything bigger, you've got to like budget
extra time to get in mine and wait and hope
you get in and stuff like that. It's still a
great time. I mean, it's a great time if you
don't do panels because there are so many people like that.

(17:36):
You know, there are a few bad actors at any place,
and I've run into a couple of dragon combat. For
the most part, everybody's super kind. Everybody's supportive because you're
all there for the common joy of geekdom and and
you know, fellowships, so it can be overall a very

(17:56):
a very positive thing. And I love stuff like that.
I just love people so excited to do silly things.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, and that those moments are the ones that I
choose to remember. There are a few that occasionally slip
into my head where most of the time it's where
I witnessed something not good happening, like I didn't have
a whole lot of those experiences directly impact me personally,
but I have been present when things have happened where

(18:22):
I'm like, that was awful, and I feel badly for
the person that that happened too. But fortunately are those
are in the minority. It still does happen, and it's unfortunate.
I mean, it's gonna happen whenever you get any big
group of people. Some of the things that happened weren't
even caused by another person, but just through the fact

(18:43):
that you have a lot of very warm bodies stuffed
into a room. I remember a day when a ceiling
tile collapsed in on a panel because the condensation from
an overworked air conditioner had been dripping onto the ceiling
tile for three days straight, and the ceiling toil finally
gave way and dumped ceiling tile and water directly on

(19:07):
a fan who was sitting there in the panel. And
I was doing the panel, so I got front row
seat to see that, and it was awful. But that
was a case where it was no one's real fault.
It was the fact that we're in Georgia, it's the
end of summer. It's hot as get out outside, and

(19:28):
so the air conditioner has to work super hard to
try and keep a room full of costumed yahoos comfortable.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah yeah, and sometimes it's impossible to stay cool at
Dragon Con.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah yeah, yes, it is very true. Well, let us
segue from that and talk about stuff we've watched since
our last recording. Now, for you, Ariel, that's two weeks,
so surely you've seen a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, let's see here. So last week I was out
mainly because I went to up to upstate Michigan to
visit my grandma and my family, which is a lovely
opportunity to see my family. We did what we did,
introduced my mom and my dad and my aunt to
murder Bot, So that was fun. But other than that,

(20:21):
I've just been trying to catch up. So it's been
I've watched some drop out. I watched the season finale
of Game Changer, which was a doozy. The new season
of Gastronauts just dropped, and that's a lot of fun.
That's where three really good chefs are given really ridiculous challenges,
like Brendan Lee Mulligan wants. His challenge in the first

(20:44):
season was make the heaviest food because to him, nutrition
balanced out with weight and heft. This season, the first episode,
Katie Maravich was one of the panelists in the first episode,
and her challenge was to make the blandest food aka

(21:05):
the whitest food, which is pretty funny. Yikes, but they
made great food. There's always one chef that at least
at least that I'm like, I have to try their
food someday. So that was good. I've been watching a
lot of Task Master because it's just something I can
put on. I guess there's more than I thought about.
But I also finished season four of Love, Death and Robots.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Okay, well, for me, the only thing I really think
that Merritt's discussion is I did watch episode one of
season two of Peacemaker, so I watched it. It is okay,
It's very good. It's very adult. In that one first

(21:50):
episode on season two, you have instances of violence, lots
of foul language, drug use, and who pus news.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
That's good to know because I think season one was
also very adult, but I don't know if that was
all of that in one episode.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah. I'll also say like, so there's been some some
questioning about how does this how does this intersect with
the DC Cinematic universe that's now being established by Superman
and other properties. They get to that in the opening

(22:34):
of the first episode, like they do not waste time
about introducing the concept of portals, And honestly, it taps
into something from season one that just didn't occur to
me because there's so much that happens in season one
that I didn't even really think of this one thing
and like, oh, well, of course that makes sense. So yeah,

(22:59):
I was impressed by that. I'm looking forward to seeing
where this goes. The episode ends in a pretty jaw
dropping way, so I'm invested. But I'm telling you it
is not for kids. This thing is like mature is
I mean mature in the sense of mature material. It

(23:22):
is not at all mature in tone.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, you know, I was kind of hoping, based on
the trailer that it would pull back on some of
that from the first season. Also from where like I
know Peacemaker, the character of Peacemaker started to where he
ended in season one. I was kind of hoping that
they could write a little bit more on the story
and less on that other stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, it's it's essentially that he's he's struggling because he
was hopeful that after the events of the first season,
people would start to view him as being heroic, but
that has not yet happened. Andy, he is discouraged that
his life hasn't really changed other than all the bad

(24:04):
stuff that happened in season one, right, like that's still
a thing. So he's it's kind of like him falling
off the wagon, like he's seeking he's seeking comfort in
the form of illicit substances. And let's just call it
a naked party.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Gotcha. Good to know that I should have something else
to keep my attention during the naked party.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, and that takes up a good chunk.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh gosh, oh lord, Okay, maybe I'll just read the
synopsis of the first episode.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
It gave it gave me. I don't know how much
of The Boys you watched, but it gave me kind
of like, oh, yeah, this is kind of like that
one episode of The Boys.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I watched that. So I've watched the first two seasons.
There was an episode like that, but it was briefer,
and I think the first season has started off with that.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
I did not watch the season three though, with the
really bad dot.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
So well, I will say I think it's great. I
do think it's like it's excessive to the point where
So I was watching it this morning before work in
my in my office, my home office, not my office office.
I was watching it and I was sitting there thinking, Gosh,

(25:22):
if my wife walks in at this moment right here,
I'm gonna have to explain that I'm not watching an
adult movie. I'm watching Peacemaker.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
You know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna. So there was
a little bit of nudity in the first season of Peacemaker,
but outside of the first episode, it wasn't a whole lot.
I I find that a little disappointing.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Well you might if you're a fan of full frontal
of both genders. Get ready, because there's gonna be plenty
of it.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay, all right, for the warning.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's that's what I watched. Now it's time to move
on to talk about our shows for thirty seconds or less,
and I think or our news items, and I think
I'm first. Is that correct? Okay? Here we go. This week,
we found out that Kristin Wigg, whom I know best
from her years on Saturday Night Live, will be playing

(26:19):
a character in the upcoming he Man movie. And you
might be thinking, wait, isn't that movie in post production,
And yes it is. Wig is actually providing the voice
for a character called Roboto, which in the original toy
line and cartoon was a robot with a transparent torso
so you can see all the gears moving. I'm still
processing this information.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Well, I guess you're not as advanced as Roboto, then processing. Okay, Highlander,
We've got some Highlander remake cast announcements. We've got one actually,
and it's that Karen Gillen will be playing the highlanders
mortal wife. Heather is a Highlander being played by Henry Capell.

(27:04):
So you know, I like her work. I like her
as Nebula it guards to the Galaxy, and I like
her Namungie, and I like her Doctor Who, So I'm
looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Brian Bertino wrote and directed his first film, a horror
film titled Vicious that stars Dakota Fanning, and originally this
movie was supposed to come out this month in theaters,
but last year the studio moved the debut to February
twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. It didn't come out then
the studio actually took the film off the calendar entirely

(27:35):
in an effort to try and find a better release window,
but that unfortunately never happened. So now the movie will
be coming to aaramount plus on October tenth and not
get a theatrical release at all, which is a pretty
tough break.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Interesting. Apple TV has announced that they are upping their
monthly feet It's going from nine ninety nine to twelve
ninety nine. To some people that's not much, and to
some people that's a whole lot, So just be aware.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, well they better make three dollars more per month
of severance, is all I'm saying. The Mission Impossible account
on x declared that quote the mission was compromised and quote,
and that they decided to release everything. So the new
Mission Impossible movie became available in full on YouTube. But
if you go to that link, you'll discover that the

(28:26):
script is in fact on YouTube. It's just been encoded
into Morse code. I checked it out. There is a
lot of cursing in that movie, because all I could
hear were beeps.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Very funny and also kind of cool. Well, Vicious may
not be getting a theatrical release, but guiermel de Toro's
to watch me stumble through that name every time. His
new movie, his new retelling of Frankenstein, will be getting
a theatrical release after all. I guess they aren't waiting
to see how lining the Witch and the Wardrobe will do,

(29:01):
or it's not even that how the Chronicles of Narnia
movie that Gretiger Worg's working on will turn out. But
if you want to watch Frankenstein in theaters, you can
do so October seventeenth. If you want to wait till Netflix,
you'll have to wait till November seven.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Finally, the Once the Naked Gun got a reboot, I
figure it was just a matter of time for other
screwball comedies to follow suit. So now we can expect
a reboot of the scary movie franchise. The Wayans Brothers
have written a new script, Michael Tibbas is going to direct,
and both Anna Faris and Regina Hall will return to
uppear as their characters in the movie. If I had

(29:39):
to guess, I'd say there's gotta be a weapons reference
in that when it finally comes out. We'll see when
it comes out next year.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, yeah, here's the thing, though, I thought I never
I just assumed that Scary movie was still making movies,
like they never stopped.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, I honestly, I stopped paying attention after the second one.
I think I may have seen the third one, or
at least bits of the third one, but I don't remember.
I remember the first one was raunchier than I would prefer. First, Like,
I like a screwball comedy, but I don't need it
to be a sex comedy, right like like to me,

(30:19):
those are two different things.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
I mean, like the first episode of Peacemaker.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I did, but that's not a screwball comedy. That's that's
a superhero saying it's not screwball. It's not screwball comedy.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Now, I'm just kidding. I'm just being silly.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
I gotta watch Naked Gun or Airplane or something like
that anyway. Uh. And I remember that Scary Movie too
had moments in it that I thought were really funny.
They're incredibly offensive, but I also thought they were funny. Uh.
And then I kind of fell off. And I want
to say they did like maybe as many as six
scary movies, but I didn't pay attention after the second one,

(30:57):
so I was kind of like you a reel. I
was like a reboot. Did they stop or I just thought,
like every couple of years we got one, Yeah, because.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Also we had like Date Movie and things like.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
That epic movie. And yeah, I joked once upon a time,
this was years and years ago, that they should stop
trying to call these things like Date Movie to be
a parody of all the teenage romance comedy films out there,
that kind of thing. First of all, parodying a comedy
is stupid because it's already a comedy. You're supposed to
parody something that takes itself very seriously. Anyway, I said

(31:32):
they should just start making it generic parody movie and
then put the year and then just release a new
one every year that just has references to movies that
came out, you know, previously, in a window that is
sliding year to year, and just do that because a

(31:53):
lot of those movies didn't have jokes in them. They
were just like references, kind of like a really bad
episode of Family Guy.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
So you want them to make annual pop encyclopedia in
a movie format, might.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
As well, because that's essentially all those movies ended up being.
It's like, again, like I tried watching I think it
was epic movie. I tried watching it. I think that
was the one that had Alison Hannigan in it, and
I love Alison Hannigan. So I tried watching it, and
I'm like, this is unwatchable. That's how bad this movie is.
And normally I try and avoid saying that a film

(32:29):
is bad, and I just say like, I didn't enjoy it.
I feel confident in saying that movie was bad.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I did not watch it. I've not made it through
any of those movies. I've probably seen a full one,
but never like straight through, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well like they none of them,
in my opinion, reached the level of quality that you
would get from like an Airplane, even an Airplane two,
or the Naked Gun movie, or even something like Top
Secret or hot Shots hot Shots. By the time you

(33:07):
get the hot Shots, the quality has already dipped pretty low,
but it still had bits of brilliance in it. Yeah.
All right, Well, let's let's talk about stuff that's not
actually a fit for our show, because I think that
might be our longest segment for this episode.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, sorry that we're leaving you on a shorter geeky
week for for uh before our tiny hiatus.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Well yeah, but that's that's kind of like the industry
in general tends to go on vacation August through September.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
My auditions have been slow, but that's the industry is
slower than people expected. But also that's also normal, so
like it's hard to tell.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Same in the publishing industry. It's like, I think it's
because a lot of entertainment is based out of New York,
and New York is just miserable in August, so everyone
just wants to not be there.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I know several people who just are like, nope, I'm
out until school starts. Okay. So the first thing that
we have that doesn't fit is a movie called Swiped,
and like this one could tangentially fit. It's about make
it's about the making of Tender and Bumble. But you
know that's tech.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, yeah, so's it's tech related. It's it's really following
the story of Whitney Wolf heard, a real woman who
was one of the co founders of Tender. She ultimately
would sue Tender for sexual harassment. Uh, and then a
bit later, I think in the movie it feels like
she leaves Tender specifically to go and found Bumble, a

(34:40):
rival internet like dating app, but that's not actually how
it all happened. She left and then she had to
be convinced a bit later to kind of get back
into working on an app in the dating scene, but
she eventually did. She would become the youngest female billionaire
by doing that, so like it worked. I don't know

(35:00):
how realistic or accurate this film is going to be.
It looks super slick, yeah, and it definitely looks like
it's documenting the excess of tech bros and startup culture.
Comes out September ninth. What did you think? Did you
think did this trailer appeal to you at all? Or
is it one of those where you're just like, eh, okay.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
It looks well done. And I like Lily James because
she's the main character.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Not correct, yep.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
I think she's a great actress, so I know that
it will be acted well. I've never used Bumble or Tinder.
I got out of the dating game before most of
the current generation dating apps were really our last generation
dating apps were a thing. I mean there was online
dating at that point. I just never did it. But

(35:56):
the story doesn't interest me. It does look like it's
well done. It was more interesting than I anticipated when
I clicked on the link, but the story doesn't interest me.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
That's fair. I got married in the last century, so
it was the twentieth century when I got married, not
the twenty first century. So I was not like there
were no dating apps, Like there were no apps because
they were no smartphones, so like this was a world.

(36:27):
Even when I had to write about it, it was like, Okay,
I'm writing about this clearly as an outsider because my
wife really discouraged me from dating after we got married,
so I really never got a chance to use them,
and that's just me being silly. But yeah, so I
never same sort of thing, Like I don't have any
personal attachment to Tender or Bumble because I never used

(36:50):
them and never made a profile for them. But I
think it looks like it's an interesting story. I think
it's probably going to fall into the same traps. There's
a lot of biopic type stuff, which is that they're
going to for the purposes of telling a story, they're
going to have to simplify things and fudge a bit
on details. That doesn't necessarily matter if the story itself

(37:12):
is really interesting, and I think this potentially has that,
but yeah, it's not. I don't think this is one
I'm going to make time to go see. If I
catch it, it'll be because it's streaming.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah. The next thing we're going to talk about is
a movie coming out called The Ballad of a Small Player, which,
if you read the synopsis for this movie doesn't feel fantastical.
It's about a guy who's kind of hiding out and
gambling and losing. Like he's in a lot of debt

(37:45):
and he's hiding out is given a second chance by
some I can't even really explain it in a way
that I find super interesting, But the trailer is so colorful.
It feels like if Anderson and Sofia Coppola decided to make.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
A noir said in China in Casinos in China. Yeah. Yeah.
So the it's based off a novel, and the story
is that there's this guy who is posing as an
English lord who is just gambling in China. It turns
out he's not an English lord. That's a lie, and

(38:24):
that I think he's I think he's got like a
like a massive guilt complex, and so he's actually seeking
out losing, Like it's not that he necessarily wants to lose,
but that he's almost compelled to gamble until he loses,
Like it's almost like it's a punishment for himself. Some
of the synopsies mentioned things like hauntings and ghosts, but

(38:47):
I don't know if that's just supposed to be metaphorical,
Like it's not that he's literally being haunted, but that
he's haunted by his past. Right, I don't know. It's
hard for me to say. The trailer does not give
any indication of like supernatural stuff at all, so I
don't know. It comes to theaters on October fifteenth, and

(39:07):
it comes to Netflix October twenty ninth, so this is
another one of those that has, you know, a very
limited release and then goes straight to streaming. Colin Ferrell
is playing the main character, and he looks like he's
acting as socks off, so it looks like it looks
well made.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
It looks well made. I like watching it. I'm interested
until this. Swinton plays a private investigator, so I will
probably watch this one. If you had just told me
about the movie, I would be like.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yeah, But the trailer does look really compelling, so I agree. Like,
if I had just heard the log line of this,
I'd probably be like, oh, it's another drama, But this
looks really like the filmmaking looks like it's really energetic
and not in a way that I find jarring. Like
sometimes when I say energetic filmmaking, I mean shaky cam.

(39:59):
It's not that.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, yeah, it looks interesting to me. We also had
a trailer for is it a show?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
It's a six part like, it's a six part series.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
So yeah, called Riot Women.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah. I loved this trailer. It's a story about five
middle aged women who are all slightly unhappy for different reasons,
Like they each have their own reasons for why they're
kind of disenchanted, and they kind of find each other
to create a rock slash punk rock band. I think

(40:34):
initially they do it so that they can enter a
talent competition, but then they realize they actually like being
in a band together, and so they name their band
Riot Women instead of Riot Girl, which is fantastic for
people of my age, where the whole Riot Girl movement
is something that I remember, you know, really well. This

(40:57):
is fantastic. Also, one of the actresses in it is
Tamson Gregg and I always think of yeah, and I
always think of her as Fran from Black Books, and
I always love her performances. So this comes out on
BBC in October, and yeah, I really dug this trailer.

(41:17):
What did you think?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
I also liked it? I don't. In my head canon,
it's like the Dairy Girls.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Grew up now, Yeah, I think also that wasn't there
another BBC It was like a I want to say,
there was a BBC series where it was like a
group of young women from a Muslim community who had
created a punk rock band, and I was I started
watching that series and I really liked it. I fell

(41:45):
off not because of the series but because of life events,
but I really enjoyed that too. So I'm I'm a
sucker for punk rock. So yeah, they already had me
just from the music genre that they picked. But then
like I look at the story and I'm like, oh,
this looks great.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, I think it looks really good. I'm very much
excited to watch it. Something I'm less excited to watch
is a movie called Runt. And there's nothing wrong with
it if it's a story about a little a little
runty dog who gets rescued and does great things. Alla
Charlotte's Web or Babe Pig in the City, or you

(42:23):
know something like that.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
You name two pig movies.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
But it's a bubby I is there. A Beethoven doesn't
feel as mad cap as Beethoven, Petty long Stockings esque,
like it harkens back to a simpler time of happy
adventure movie. I just don't like animal movies.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
This one, the animal is not gonna be put into danger,
so you should be able to watch it.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
I still don't like animals, but it's fine, you're.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Gonna you're gonna you're gonna really love one of the
horror Hutch movies that I'll be talking about later.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I didn't watch that one.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah. Uh So. The basic premise here is that there's
this family in Australia. They're a farmer family, and they're
on hard times, like there's been a drought. They are
in debt, and meanwhile their daughter loves to try and
fix things. She says that brings her happiness when she

(43:19):
tries to fix things. And she encounters this little dog
and adopts it, and then they discover that there's this competition,
this dog training competition. So she wants to enter it,
and I think it takes place in England, so it's
on the other side of the world, and she's entering
her mutt dog runt into this prestigious trained dog competition

(43:46):
and the implication is that by winning, they'll get enough
money to get out from under the problems that they
are in. So it looks very cute and father is
played by Ji Courtney aka Captain Boomerang from the Suicide Squad.

(44:06):
So this movie actually came out last year in Australia.
I'm not sure when it's coming out here. It's one
of those where like the trailer for American theaters just
just popped up this week, but I don't know when
the actual release date is.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Yeah, but if you're looking for something cute and happy
and wholesome, keep an eye out. Which is a juxtaposition
from the Last not Fit Thing that We've Got, which
is a series series.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yeah, it's another limited series. Yeah. So Black Rabbit follows
two brothers played by Jude Laws, who's like the responsible
brother who owns like a nightclub in New York City
and Jason Bateman plays the screw up brother who is
deep in debt. Another gambling debt type thing where he's

(44:54):
got a debt from a loan shark who wants to
call in that debt has pulled in Jude Law's character
as a result, because Bateman turns to Law for help,
and apparently Jude Law is not smart enough to recognize
that this is probably a bad thing for him, I

(45:15):
mean it is family. So he agrees, and then some
dramatic shenanigans ensue. I say dramatic because this is not
it's not framed like a comedy. It's framed like a
thriller drama type thing. And this comes out September eighteenth.

(45:36):
It's on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah, it looks it looks fine. Well, the story of
Black Rabbit seems like kind of a darker one, So
let's go even a little bit darker and venture into
John Boy's horror Hutch. I watched two of the trailers
this week.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
By the way, Ah, I'm guessing it was Keeper and
Beast of Warror.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yes, because there is one that he said definitely don't
watch it, So I definitely did not watch it.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Because we've talked about your animal thing already, all right,
So Keeper a really interesting trailer. It follows a couple.
The couple's name, there's Liz and there's Malcolm, and the
trailer has each of them deliver the same monologue, So
for the first half of the trailer you get Liz's

(46:21):
perspective and the second half is Malcolm's, but it's the
same speech. It begins with, why does it always have
to end? Is there any way to keep love alive?
So the characters then question if they even really know
their partner, and the trailer has lots of creepy images
suggesting that there's either supernatural or psychological horror elements coming

(46:44):
to play. It's hard to say because it's not a
very straightforward trailer. It's really conceptual and a little bit surreal.
It's difficult to classify. I find it really intriguing. It's
directed by Ozgood Perkins, and Osgood Perkins has directed some
of some movies that I think are truly phenomenal, like
The Black Coat's Daughter. If you if you like creepy

(47:07):
movies and you haven't seen The Black Coat's Daughter, see it.
Don't read anything about it, just find The Black Coat's
Daughter and watch it. It is slow, so I'm gonna
warn you that right up front. It is It is
a slowly paced movie, but I think it's brilliant. He
also directed The Monkey, which I have yet to see,

(47:27):
but that's still on my list. But this movie comes
out in November fourteenth, and I will definitely be trying
to see this in theaters.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Do you want to know what my impression of it was?

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (47:39):
One, I have no idea who's the villain or where
the villain is. It feels like they're set up for
one of the couples to be It felt like if
they did misery in the style of the last five years.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Okay, I yeah, except that, like, I don't know if
misery is.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
The right the right Like at the very beginning, when
Liz was standing over Malcolm starting the monologue, it felt.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
That way, gotcha, Yeah, But then you get the monologue
from Malcolm's perspective and it's the exact same it's the
exact same words.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Definitely an interesting concept.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Yeah, And again I don't know if that is going
to like it. That could be completely separate from whatever's
in the movie, right, Like that monologue may not appear
in any way, shape or form in the actual film itself.
Maybe it's just there to give you a feel like
a feeling, which I'm totally cool with too. Like, if

(48:38):
it appears the movie, that's great. If it doesn't, I
think that's great too. I'm sold. Next up is the
trailer that Ariel did not watch and is the horror
movie equivalent of Runt is a movie called good Boy,
and good Boy has a super cute dog as the
protagonist of the movie, but it is a horror movie.

(49:01):
It is a supernatural, haunted house horror film from the
perspective of a dog. And the dog's name is Indy.
And that's, by the way, that was the name of
my very first dog, was Indy. In fact, my dog's
my first dog's name was Indiana Bones, but he just
called him Indy. Uh. And then that was before we

(49:22):
found out that Indiana Jones was named after the dog,
Like this was before Indiana Jones. Uh. And you know
the whatever the grail one was called, I can't remember now.
But anyone who has had a dog has probably had
the experience where a dog just stares at like a corner.

(49:43):
Timblet will stare at a corner of the ceiling in
our house and we joke that it's him looking at ghosts. Well,
in this movie. The premise is that the dog is
able to see ghosts that humans can't perceive, and it's
a story about the dog and the dog's devotion to
his owner and his desire to protect his owner from

(50:03):
a threat that his owner cannot see. It's just seventy
two minutes long, so it's a short horror movie. It
debuted it south by Southwest this year. It gets a
release on October third. I will definitely have to see
this movie, but I have a feeling that I'm going
to be by myself because I can't think of any
of my friends, with the possible exception of Crispy, who

(50:24):
would go and see this movie because they'd be scared
for the dog.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Yeah, yeah, I can't. The dog is very cute, though,
from which First of all, I looked up Good Boy
just so I could see some screenshots of it, but
it brought me to a twenty twenty two movie that's
a psychological horror about a man who keeps another man
in a dog body. It was really disturbing looking, so

(50:51):
I regret.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
That as you should. Indie, by the way, is the
filmmaker's dog, also named Indie, which makes sense because that
way this dog would you know behave properly? Apparently, like
all the reviews out of south By Southwest were raving
about how expressive this dog was and that the dog

(51:15):
did a phenomenal job, and I'm like, well, great, he
even won an award.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Nice. I was curious because I've talked about it on
the show My Mom's acquaintances with some of the people
who have dogs who perform in movies and commercials and
TV shows that we've seen. Yeah, so I was curious
where the dog came from.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Me. Well, yeah, it looks super interesting, like it's a
new take on horror movies. It kind of makes me
think of like how the Blair Witch Projects sort of
ushered it. Not that it was the first found footage movie,
but I think it was the first, like mainstream successful
found footage movie. Like it makes me wonder if we're
going to get a bunch of like copycats or copy dogs.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Well, so I have a question about the next trailer.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Okay, Beasts of War or Beast of War?

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Beast of War? Is this the same story that Quinn
tells in Jaws.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
It's so funny because I actually wrote in my notes
that this feels it feels like it is the telling
of the USS Indianapolis. It is not, or at least
not literally, because it's about an Australian ship in World
War Two, so it's the Australian Navy that's involved in this,

(52:30):
not US, because of the USS Indianapolis was a US ship.
It's true story. They were delivering the bomb to you know,
one of the atomic bombs that dropped on Japan, and
then subsequently they were attacked and the ship sank. This movie,
the trailer makes it look like it is that specific incident,

(52:52):
but clearly it's not because it's an Australian ship. But
it's much the same, like it's a ship in World
War Two gets attacked by the enemy, sinks. Sailors are
left floating in the ocean. They're adrift. The currents are
pulling them further away, so it makes it harder for
rescue missions to find them, and in the meantime they're

(53:15):
being stalked and attacked by at least one shark. In
the Indianapolis story, it's it's hundreds of sharks, but in
this it looks like it's one really hungry graat white
but there are there's imagery in this trailer where it
looks like, wow, this is that specific moment that Quin

(53:36):
talks about in his speech about what happened to him
and his fellow sailors when they were when their ship
was sunk. So I, even though it's not literally a
retelling of the Indianapolis, it feels like it in this trailer.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
For sure. For sure, I will skip it.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
This one appear only came out already, like apparently it
came out August eighth, but I put it in here
because the trailer I found came out this week, so
it may be that it had just a very limited release.
I will see this because Jaws is my favorite film
of all time and that speech is a big part
of what makes it one of my favorite films. In speech,

(54:22):
it is a great speech. Yeah, and apparently it was.
It was largely written by Slash improvised by Shaw himself,
so that's incredible. But but yeah, I will definitely make
an effort to try and see this. But it does
look like it is an animal attack horror story version
of an almost identical scenario as was you know, mentioned

(54:46):
in Jaws.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Side note, I feel like YouTube is often punking me because,
like I tried to put in a trailer this week
for something you talked about last week, but they were like,
trailer came out eight hours ago. And there's so many
things where they're like, oh, here's the teaser for this
thing that you got the teaser for two months ago,
and here's the actual trailer when you just got the
actual trailer last week, and I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Part part of the problem is that there are so
many channels out there that are just reposting trailers, like
because you know, people search for movie trailers a lot,
We do it every single week, and there are channels
out there that only exist to repost someone else's stuff.
They're not making anything original, uh, and they're they're getting clicks.

(55:33):
It works like they get they get money for it
as long as their stuff isn't you know, taken down
and if it's marketing. A lot of times studios won't
take down stuff because like the wider the reach, the
more tickets they sell. So but yeah, you were talking
about Dead of Winter. I think, right, the Emma Thompson thriller. Yeah, uh,

(55:55):
that it looks good. I mean I think that looks
like a really intense movie. And I've never seen Emma
Thompson act in a movie quite like that. There was
one she did with Kenneth Brannaw way back in the day,
but that was like a melodramatic thriller that is goes
off the rails. Yeah, yeah, all right, well that's the

(56:17):
horror hutch. So let's go into our lineup. Oh there
was one other thing that I think you added, or
maybe I did, where it was the trailer for the
video game adaptation of Halloween. Yeah, so Games Colm was
this week. I originally had a thing in here about
news that came out of Games Colm, but frankly, there
was so much that we just there's no way for

(56:42):
us to go into it. There's just way too many
projects were announced. But one of them was an adaptation
of Halloween that looks like it's a a like a
asynchronous competitive game where you have a one kind of
like Dead by Daylight, where you have people playing victim
slash survivors and then another person playing the killer in

(57:04):
this case Michael Myers. It looked okay. I actually didn't
really like the character models very much. They looked they
looked like they were about five years out of date
to me. But when the music started I loved it.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Is is it a big studio that's doing the Halloween
game or a little one?

Speaker 2 (57:23):
I honestly don't know. I like it's it's hard to
think that it would be teeny tiny simply because you know,
you have to pay for that license, right, Like, yeah,
you can't just you can't just make a Halloween games because.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I know, sometimes smaller, smaller studios need to release a
game while it's in production, and that between the time
when they first start marketing it and trying to get
buy in and the time that it actually comes out,
those those character models can change.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Yeah. I also I don't have a problem with games
that are purposefully low fi, right like games that are
evoking an earlier era in games. But it has to
feel like that was a deliberate design decision and not
something that was just done because of you know, lack
of resources or time or whatever it may be. And

(58:12):
this just felt like it wasn't a deliberate choice. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
Yeah, fun fact the video game, so the actual play
that I talked about that I'm doing, the Shadow City
Mysteries is a companion piece to a video game, and
that so that was a games con That's cool.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Well, let's let's talk about some stuff that's in our lineup.
And first up, we got a trailer for a new
animated comedy series called Haunted Hotel.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Yeah, it's about a family that moves into a hotel
where the clientele are like ghosts, and it looks pretty raunchy.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Well it's from the same people who made Rick and Morty.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
I mean, I haven't watched Rick and Morty, so.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Well you should probably at least be aware of the
reputation of fricking Marty.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
I've seem like you have an episode.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Yeah. Yeah, So it's like a single mother of two
who moves, who takes over this hotel that happens to
be haunted, and apparently her brother, who is now a ghost,
is one of the ghosts at this hotel. That's the
one who's voiced by what's his face? Who I think
from Saturday Night Live? Oh, what's his name? I can't remember.

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Not Bill Hayter anyway.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
I was about to say Bill Hater.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Dated It's not Bill Hayter, but anyway.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
It's It looks Will Forte.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Will Forte. Yes, it looks very silly. The log line
actually is a single mother of two struggles to run
a haunted hotel with the help of her estranged brother,
who is now one of the ghosts haunting the hotel
and thinks the other ghosts have some pretty good ideas.
It comes out September nineteenth.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
I So here's the I love the voice cast. It's
got Skyler Gizondo, who was Jimmy Olsen in Superman, Well forte,
Jimmy Simpson who has played many great characters, but I
really liked him in psych And Eliza Coop who who
was a character in Future Man and also the Resident,
and I like her acting a lot as well. When

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I first saw this trailer, I'm like, did they just
make the TV show Ghosts into a cartoon?

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Yeah? No, I had a very similar reaction. I was like, Wow,
this feels very similar to the basic concept behind Ghosts.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Ghosts is not quite as Rauchie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
I would say, no, not at all. It's not even close.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
No. But then the other thing it reminded the other thing.
The second thought I had was a little while ago
we had talked about I think it was a TV
show that Max is coming out with called The Parenting
that had Lisa Kudrou and Edie Falco and Brian Cox.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
I think it's a live action Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Yeah, And I was like, did they just decide that
they needed to turn this into a into a cartoon,
because that's a family that moves into a house and
discovers that it's inhabited by a four hundred year old boltigeist.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Yeah. So a lot of similar ideas, I guess are
circulating and all getting produced. But this, I mean, I'll
probably check out an episode just to see if it
appeals to me. Like the trailer honestly didn't do a
whole lot. I didn't laugh at all in this trailer.
I thought I could see where the humor was. It

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just didn't. It didn't provoke laughter from me. So but
I will probably give the episode a shot just to,
you know, see if if I'm vibing with the characters
and the writing and all that. Because like I I've
watched Rick and Morty, although I'm not caught up on it,
but I have watched it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
My new group watch now that we're done with Love,
Death and Robots might be Venture Brothers.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
That's a fun series.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
I don't think I ever finished it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I did not finish it either. There's at least a
season that I have never seen. And then they did
the movie that kind of wrapped things up, and I
haven't seen that either. But next up, we have a trailer.
This actually came out of Games Calm, a trailer for
Fallout season two. And did you watch the Fallout series?

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Oh yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
I really enjoyed it too. So Fallout Season two it
is clearly going to take place in large part in
New Vegas, which was the setting for Fallout New Vegas.
That was the entry that was actually made by a
different game studio, but you know, fully licensed in everything,
but New Vegas is one of those games. Like if

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you ask fans of the Fallout franchise which game is
their favorite, not everybody, but a lot of people will
say New Vegas. And this is not a retelling of
the story that plays out in New Vegas, but it
does look like it's going to touch on a lot
of the things that were featured in that game, like

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like the lore and characters and stuff. Based upon what
we see, I'm thinking that it has to happen before
the events of Fallout New Vegas for reasons I'm not
gonna go into.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Yeah, I've not I've not played the Fallout games past
the maybe it was the first one of the second
one where I couldn't get out of the vault and
I was getting attacked by roaches. We all know that
I've harped on about that forever. So I won't know
if it follows the the like how well it connects
to the game, and that's probably going to be a
good thing, honestly, Like I won't get some of the

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Easter eggs, but I also won't be like, oh man,
I wish they had done this. I think the second
season looks really good. When Fall one happened, I was like,
why can't more Amazon shows be like this? The writing's good,
the production's good, the acting's good, like all around solid story.
Season two looks that way as well. I'm super excited

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from the clips that they showed of Maximus because his
character arc was one that I thought was super interesting
and I look forward to seeing where he goes next.
And honestly, like, I feel like this is the most
subdued performance of Walton Goggins I've seen in a while.
Like it's very grounded, which is a weird thing to
say when he's playing a radioactive apocalypse school.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. I thought that the
bits I saw were all like, they all fell in
line with what I loved in the first season. You know. Also,
I love the fact that you get a little glad
death claw, which are monsters that are really hard to take.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Down, and those areaches.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
What's that? No death claw? No? Right, no, the death claw.
The death claw looks like a bourog. The death claw
looks Yeah, death claws are these huge like reptilian things
that are really hard to take down. In the Fallout games,
the roaches also for Aerial are very hard to take

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down because she doesn't use her VAT system properly. Uh, but.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Yeah, I might be better at it now. To be fair,
I played that before. I was playing many video games
like Skyrim was the other thing that I played, And
you don't ever have to shoot anything with an arrow.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
So yeah, well, well that makes things way easier because
it's it's where it essentially it stops time and you
can choose the body part you want to shoot, and
well it makes I don't know, you've got some real
bad random number generation or something, but yeah, this looks

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it looks really fun. There's actually a moment in the
trailer where I'm like is this kind of like a
sly nod to the VATS system. It's not actually VATS,
but it like is kind of evoking that I already
knew I was gonna be watching this because I love
the first season so much. It comes out December seventeenth.

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I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
I can't either. It's almost happy birthday to me.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Yeah, a little late for your birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Apparently is my catchphrase for anything coming out in December.
We also got a trailer for Seca Row No Defeat.
It looks really pretty as an anime. But Jonathan, I'm
gonna be real honest, I don't know much about this story.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
So this is based off a video game. This is
another one that the trailer came out during Games Calm,
So Securo is a brutally hard game. It's kind of
similar to things like Dark Souls, like that style where

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you have to learn and enemy's patterns to be able
to do things like dodge or perry and know when
to attack and when not to attack. So this is
essentially a retelling of the story that is in that
first in that well, there's only one second Row game
so far, but in the second Row game, I made

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a joke in my notes it said, I imagine it's
not going to require you to rewatch episodes dozens of
times before you can get good enough to move on
to the next episode, which means already the show's not
accurate to the game. Because that's the big joke, is
that you would fight a boss like two dozen times
just to try and learn how to avoid the boss's

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attacks so that you had a chance of taking the
boss down, because again, brutally hard. This is a series
that's coming to crunchy roll next year, so in twenty
twenty six. I agree. The animation looks great. I think
if you are big into Sekero and you want to
see kind of a straightforward narrative take on that story,

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this is the one to go with.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
For sure. If you want to watch more Colin Farrell,
you're in luck. We've got another trailer with him.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Yeah, and he's not he's not a gambler in China
in this one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I mean he might be a gambler. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Oh, he's not in China.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Might go to China.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
That's also true. Okay, what is it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
It's a big, bold, beautiful journey and it's Colin Farrell
and Margot Roby kind of meet up I get. I
don't know if it's on a first date or anyhow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Yeah, some somehow they get to talking in a diner
and we don't know if that's their first encounter or
how it got started, but that's the what we see
in the trade.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Yeah, and then as they travel together, they come across
these doors that open up to like moments from their
past that they can then share with each other.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Yeah, so it's like they're reliving like key memories and
the other person gets to be there and witness it.
There's a great one from Colin's school days where there's
just a fantastic joke about Margo Robbie's age that made
me laugh so hard when I watch this trailer.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's Colin ferrell is walking through. They go
into his the doors that lead to his high school,
which he sasn't about because high school, and one of
the teachers is interacting with him, and I guess because
it's from his past, the teacher views him as his
past self. So a teenager, he's like, how old am I?
I'm like thirteen. Margot Robby asked how old am I?
And he's like forty something. I don't think Margot Roby's

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forty in real life.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
No, but she She's like, I will kill you. It's
very funny. But I wrote, they learn about themselves and
each other along the way? Will they learn to open
up and trust maybe even love? I don't know, I'm
being flippant, but this actually looks like it's a pretty
interesting movie. However, I did write to Ariel when I

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discovered this trailer. I sent her the trailer and I said,
if it weren't for the fact that there is a
voiceover at the end that reads out the name of
the movie and then says coming to theaters on September nineteenth,
I thought I would have thought it was a really
strong trailer. But I hated the voiceover so much. It

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felt so cheesy to me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
Yeah, yeah, Like I guess if they I wonder if
they had had like a previous concept of giving the
trailer like a in a world kind of a thing. Yeah,
did you ever praped it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Did you ever see those those recut trailers where people
would take a it wasn't even a trailer. They would
they would take a movie and cut it to make
it a trailer. But in a totally different style of movie.
So there's one that's called Shining that is reimagining the
Shining as if it's a like father son dramedy. Yeah,

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and like they put in like like Peter Gabriel music
in the background and everything, and this is what that
felt like when I heard that voice come on and
I'm like, oh, shut up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Yeah. But overall, I think the movie looks cute.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
I will.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
It's one of those ones where I'm like, I'm gonna
say I will watch it because I'm interested, But it
depends on when it comes out and where I am
in life, because it's not one of those ones where
I'm like, I have to run to see.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
It comes out September nineteenth, I don't have to.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Run to see September might be busy for me, I don't, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
I I this is when I feel like I could
watch streaming. I don't feel like I need to go
to the Like maybe if I were early into a relationship,
like this feels like it could be a date movie
kind of thing, but but my relationship is very well established.
I don't need to take my wife to a movie. O.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
How sad.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
If she wants to see it, then we'll go see it.
I'm just saying like, like it's I don't I don't
feel like this is something I need to watch in
order to try and make a stronger connection with my partner,
because our connection is like solid.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah no, But I mean to be fair,
like I still want to see sketch and I haven't
gone to the I want to see it in the theaters.
I haven't gone yet, just because.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
I haven't been traveling and working.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Traveling and working, and then like the people who really
want to see it haven't been available when I've been available.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
So well, last we have a trailer for Futurama season thirteen,
which I wrote said my notes was looks like more Futurama. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
I had the same feeling. And I don't know why
I get salty about it, because we've had myriad seasons
of The Simpsons, and I don't get salty the same
way about the Simpsons that I do about Futuramama. I
think it's just because Futurama starts and ends so much,
and so it feels like they're trying to be a
thing when I'm just like, Okay, more Futurama.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Well, it's kind of wild because like I remember the
first revival, right, like I remember when it ended on
Fox and it got revived on Comedy Central. I remember
that because I watched then, and I remember getting irritated
because there were so many especially in that first episode back,
there were so many jokes about Fox being a crappy

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company because they canceled them the first time, And I
was like, Okay, I get it, you're working at your frustrations,
but I would really like you to write funny stories
about these characters now, please, and stop just using this
as a platform to grouse about how poorly you were
treated at your previous platform. So I wasn't a huge
fan of the revival episodes of Futurama. I love the

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very first run. I thought it was brilliant. I thought
the revival kind a bit fan servicey and meta that
in ways that I just found irridating. Like I was like,
this feels like you're writing it for yourself and not
for your audience, and I, honestly I didn't. I lost
track of it. So I didn't even know about the

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second revival, or if I had heard about it, I
hadn't really paid attention to it, like it was off
the air for ten years before it was revived again,
this time by Hulu. So I haven't watched any of
the Hulu episodes, though I might change that because now
I have Hulu, so I might actually start watching Futurama again.

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I don't think it's a bad thing that it's more Futurama.
It feels very similar to the tone of Futurama from
when I watched it the first time around. It comes
out on September fifteenth on Hulu, so I'll probably watch this,
but I'll have to do a lot of catching up
because I don't think I watched all of the Comedy

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Central years.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
But is it one of those shows that you have
to catch up or can you just jump back in?

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
I think it could just jump back in. But I
do know that there are characters who have like established
relationships now that when I was watching it they didn't.
Like Fry and Leela are clearly in a relationship, and
I'm like, I seem to recall that I might have
seen the final episode that aired on Comedy Central, the

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one before it was on like a ten year hiatus,
and I seem to recall that they ended up together
in that episode. But it's been you know, it's been
more than ten years since I've seen it, so I
don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about that, so I will.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
I will say there was one moment in the trailer
that did make me laugh, okay, is when they said
USB what's that? Oh, I think it's what happened after
the USA failed?

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Yeah, right, that was a little bit. It's a great
as a Professor Farnsworth joke. Farnsworth, without a doubt, has
the best jokes in the series, like his his character
is crazed scientist senile old Man character is probably my favorite,

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followed closely by Zoidberg.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Yeah, yeah, so I do like Futurama.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
It's also had I'm expecting too much.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
It's also hard to have a trailer for an animated
series that each episode is episodic right there. It's not
a serialized story, so like what clips do you show
from which episodes? You know, it's it's a weird thing
to show a trailer for. So that's part of the

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issue I have. At least by Yeah, I'll probably check
it out because again, I have a lot of catching
up to do, and I genuinely do enjoy Futurama. I
think it was especially that first run. Those first cup
few seasons when it was still on Fox were really strong.
There's still jokes that were made from that first run

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that my wife and I will reference. Yeah, the big
one being like I'm gonna build my own amusement park
and I will not finish that quote because this is
a family show.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Thank you. But we are finished with our lineup.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Yeah, we are. That's it. We are done, and we
will be done for the next two weeks. But currently
we do plan on having another episode come out September twelfth. However,
I'll be coming back into the country on September tenth,
so Ariel is gonna be doing a lot of the
prep work on that one. So my apostle, So, okay, you've.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Been doing so much of the prep work, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
I look forward to you picking out the horror movies
that are gonna go into John Boys Horror Hatch.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Look, it's gonna be like Jurassic Park and Jellatubbies and
Teletubbies and Killer Clowns from outer Space. Those are all
very frightening movies.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Killer Clowns from Outer Space is not a frightening movie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
It was so scary to me as a kid, and
it still gives me nightmares.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
It's a comedy and it has a great soundtrack by
a punk rock band called the Dickies.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Okay, well we're really do mean it? That is it
for today, Jonathan. If people want to reach out to
us to affirm that they also agree that Killer Clowns
from out of Space is a comedy and not a horror,
how do they do?

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
So, what you're gonna have to do is you're gonna
have to go on a road trip. I know a
lot of these end up having you go on a
road trip. My apologies. That's just how you have to
get in touch with me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Are you just telling people to touch grass?

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
That is also important. But what you're gonna do is
you're gonna you're gonna have to find like some nice
isolated country roads through like rolling meadows, nothing, nothing you know, uh,
malicious or scary. I'm talking like picturesque, like like the

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scenic route, and you're gonna be driving through that until
you spot in the middle of a field free standing
a doorway. It's just gonna be a little round, green
door with a brass knob right in the middle, just
free standing now no building around it. So you're gonna
have to pull off to the side of the road
and walk out into the middle of that meadow and

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open up that door and step through. You will find
yourself in the Hobbit. Like the film The Hobbit, you
have just walked through bag ends front door and now
you're in the Hobbit. And your job is to make
that movie worth watching. And once you do, I will
show up and thank you, and then you can ask

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me whatever you like, but I'll warn you you have
your work cut out for you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Yes, And if you do not feel that you're up
to the task, you can just reach out to us
on social media on Facebook and Instagram and threads. We
are Larger Drunk Collider. That is also our handle on discord.
You can find an invite to our discord on our
website www dot Larger Drunk Collider dot com, but you
can also find our show notes. You can also reach out.

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We're also Larger Drunk Collider on Blue Sky, but I'm
never on there. Actually we're not. It's slightly different anyhow,
forget that one. You can also send us an email.
We're Largener Drunk Pod at gmail dot com. We really
do love hearing from you, hearing about your geeky experiences,
your thoughts, your excitements. So thank you for being a
part of our geeky family. And until next time, I

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am Aeriel, big and bold and beautiful cast and.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
I am Jonathan there and back again. The Large Nerdron
Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin

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McLeod of incomptech dot com