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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And hey, everybody, welcome to the Larger 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 cast In, and with me, as always,
is the delightful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Happy Pie Day.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh it's pie day. H I didn't make any pie plans.
Holy moly, ha, thank you for letting me know, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, you know it's the geometrically minded among us are
on top of our games. But you know, I'm.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Gonna need to have pizza tonight, and then I'm gonna
have to go to Doodle Pies and get their their
monthly pie. Their pie this month is a lemon pie,
so huh. And they also have Girl Scout cheesecakes, so
I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to pie it up.
A cheesecake is technically a pie.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm glad that I caught you before you you missed
the chance to observe. Yes, yeah, probably won't be having
any pie because I'm not allowed. But that's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I've got to figure out a way to make you
like a pie that is acceptable to your dietary needs
like a.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Pot pie or I can have pie. It's just that
I I know me and my lack of self restraint.
If you give me, like, for example, if you were
to gift me a standard issue regular sized key lime pie,
I'd eat that mfor in one sitting. I would. They

(01:33):
would not be a have a slice of pie. It
would be a have a pie. And that's how that
would go.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, let me tell you this little shop. It's up
in Roswell.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
So if you're ever up in this air, okay, I
won't be going there because if you're.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Ever will I will, I will get you a pie
the next time we're going to see each other. They
they're they're like personal so they're like little little pies.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, Ariel, I love that you're gesturing for an audio podcast.
I know you're doing it for my benefits.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, well listen, eventually we're gonna go to video and
we're gonna have video too, and then I'll edit that
part of it or not edit it, and everybody will
just have to watch all our mistakes. But yeah, it's
like a little three inch personal pie. And you can
get like hot pies, like a cherry pie or a
brownie pie or an apple pie or a peach pie
or whatever and put all your mixings in and then
they bake it right there for you.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh I've heard of this place.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, it's really good. You can also get savory
pies like a meatball or a brisket or a chicken
pot or pot pie or whatever. So and their keishas
are really good too. But they have a pie like
it's always there. It's a passion fruit pie. So it's
like a key line pie but with passion fruit instead,

(02:46):
and it's maybe the best pie I've ever had in
my life.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Sounds great, so good. I think I learned about that
place through like either Facebook or Instagram. One of the
reels that plays because for a while, like local food
places were often in my algorithm that were being served
up to me. But of course now I don't have
Instagram or Facebook, so I have to rely upon random

(03:12):
people saying, hey, have you eaten at this pie place?
And I'm like no, but please tell me more.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's nice because they are not a chain at all,
They're just the owners work. Yeah, the owners work there daily.
I get a lot of reels like that too. I
love them. There's so many dessert places I need to
visit in the metro Atlanta area. It's even funny for me.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I wish I could just do a global food tour
up and down Buford Highway because there's just so many
different like, yeah, like Vietnamese places, Mexican, you know, Central American.
There's so many international places, often with restaurants where if
you don't speak whatever language is presented by the cuisine,

(04:01):
you're not going to be able to read the menu.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, listen, I still think about that Stone Bowl restaurant.
We went to that one.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Time, Oh yeah, where they have the super hot stone
ball and then they would serve you the stuff where
Oh yeah, that was a Beaver Highway that was It
was really good.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
We went prior to like a karaoke night or something.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, that was really good.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, I think about it to this day.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Clearly we talk about this because we record right around lunchtime.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yes, my lunch is coffee and a slice of sharp
cheddar cheese.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Mine was some pasta and a little bit of rotisserie
chicken thrown in. Yeah, so it was good. But now
let's talk about a feast for our other senses. As
we chat about the stuff what we've watched since the
last time we recorded.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yes, and just a real quick disclaimer, I meant to
put it at the beginning Jonathan's little Sniffley And I've got
a bit of a tickle in my throat because not
only is it PI Day, it's March in Georgia. And
even if you don't have allergy, when you move to Georgia,
you will have them. You will have them.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they Actually it's part of your arrival gift, like
you get a little basket. There's some peach jam, some pecans,
and a whole bunch of allergies, seasonal allergies.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
But the weather is beautiful and the flowers are blooming,
so I guess it's a trade off. Yeah. So what
we watched? You beat me this week, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Hey, let's be careful how we say that.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
You watched more than me this week?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah? Yeah, Okay, So I watched Severance. I am actually
an episode ahead of Ariel because I discovered last night
that the Friday episodes actually go up nine pm Eastern
Thursday night, and I happened to be looking on Apple
TV when it happened, and I was like, oh, I

(05:53):
will watch this. Then I have promised not to say
anything about it because Ariel hasn't seen it and I
don't want to spoil anything because there were some fun
elements to the most recent episode. The episode that came
before that, the one that Ariel has seen, was probably
my least favorite of the season so far. I mean,

(06:14):
it gives you some insight into some motivations and backstory
of a character, but I found it to be a
little gratuitous, Like I don't think we needed a full
episode to explore that.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think they could have done it in a half
episode for sure, but it did. Also, it's the term
flesh out or flesh out, flesh flush, flesh, That's what
I thought, Yeah, it did maybe both. I did flesh
out some weird bits of like world building trivia that
they dropped in previous episodes two, just like, oh, this

(06:51):
is a place that exists in this version of our reality,
and then you get to see it and learn a
little bit more about it.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
So but I agree, it expands the mythology of Kre,
the founder of Lumen, and that to me is interesting
because I'm like, it's hard for me to get a
grip on how important here is. Clearly here is centrally
important for Lumine itself, right, Like it's essentially a religion.

(07:22):
Is this the founder is essentially treated like a messiah
in the world of Lumen. Yeah, but then you whenever
the Mark has interacted with when Audi Mark has interacted
with characters on the outside, you don't, or at least
I didn't, get the feeling that Kre is considered to

(07:42):
be some sort of you know, incredible like central leader
and philosopher, like all the stuff he is treated as
in Lumen doesn't seem to hold sway in the outside world. Now,
granted we only have limited vision into the outside world.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's interesting. I haven't looked into this, so this is
purely speculation on my part. But Tony was talking with
some of our friends because we're watching where we watch
we just fit reugh. We finished rewatching season one with
our friends who don't have Apple TV, and we're going
to start season two on Sunday with them while watching

(08:21):
the new episodes by ourselves. But apparently Ben Stiller and
Tom Cruiser friends and so it's it does feel very
like scientology, right, Oh yeah, absolutely, we're like on the outside,
you don't know, but on the inside it's weird as all.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Heck.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I mean, we do know now, but for a long
time we didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah. So I don't want to say any more about
Severance because I don't want to accidentally leak something that's
gonna spoil Aerial's enjoyment when she gets a chance to
watch it. I do want to talk to you about
it after you watch it, and I will say this
is not really a spoiler because people noticed it before
the episode went love. There is a connection to a

(09:03):
classic episode of the Twilight Zone in the most recent
episode of Severance. Whether that has any significance or not,
I don't know, but the references are pretty cool, and honestly,
I would not have picked up on it because I
don't remember having watched that particular episode of Twilight Zone before.

(09:25):
I may have, but I had totally forgotten it. I
did watch it again last night, and I don't know
if there's supposed to be anything else you draw from it,
but it's cool that it happened.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, that is really cool, and I apologize if I
was cranky about it last night. Part of the problem
is I stumbled across There's a fine line on social
media between Severance fan base videos like watching interviews and
stuff like that and fan theories that possibly leak ruined
stuff for you, and they're all speculations and so it

(10:00):
doesn't really ruin. But somebody made a connection that I
was like, Oh, I wish I hadn't seen that. Of course,
I've already seen the two episodes that relate to that connection,
and I missed it, but I still didn't want to
see it for some reason.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
So yeah, I get it. I mean, like, I certainly
there is a balance to me between fandom and potentially
spoiling something for yourself or ruining it for yourself or
for other people. And like getting together with people and
talking about your thoughts and your perspectives and stuff is fun,

(10:34):
but it can also become kind of a joykill depending
on where it goes, and it can be really like
I think honestly that content creators, the people who are
making these shows, would serve themselves best if they ignore
all that as much as they can so that they
can focus on the story they want to tell, as

(10:54):
opposed to feeling obligated to switch gears. If people actually
catch on what's happening, like we've seen time and again,
where a story goes Haywire because the creator was like,
oh crap, they know where I'm going. I still want
to surprise them. Well, I think the surprise is less

(11:15):
important than telling a good story.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I agree. I agree, Ben Stiller. If you're listening to this,
if I tag you on this and you actually listen
to this episode, you're telling a great story. Don't let
anybody change that.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah. No, I mean like, I'm going to be satisfied.
I don't care how many people guess or don't guess
where things are going. I'm in, So don't feel like
the need to switch gears just because someone might be
honing in. Beyond that, I watched a few episodes of

(11:48):
Invincible season three. I'm about I'm about halfway through the
number of episodes that are published already. I still have
a few more to go. And it's good. It remains good,
remains incredibly violent. And I was talking to a mutual
friend of ours earlier, not shay Lee, friend of the show.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
We have many mutual friends. You may not believe it,
but it is true.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
But me talking to people, that's the surprising part, right
like that, just because I have so few people I'm
in touch with. No our friend Rachel. I was talking
to her and saying talking about how I am growing
tired of the superhero is secretly a total jerk kind

(12:34):
of stories. Right, So The Boys, Invincible, all the Snyder
hero films like those bother me. I want to see
heroes being heroic, and I realized that that could be
naive and optimistic and all that kind of stuff, but
I kind of need it. However, that being said, Invincible

(12:54):
still walks a line where the protagonist wants to be
that kind of person. Is just they're just finding it
very difficult to be that person in the world they
live in. So I find that one easier to watch
than say, The Boys for sure. For sure same uh.
And then I watched I'm all cut up on Reacher.

(13:18):
Man Meat Mountain showdown has not yet happened, but it's
coming soon.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Listen. I know you said man meat and that's less appetizing,
but it made me think of barbecue and I'm already hungry.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah yeah, but you're you're so against cannibalism. I figured
that would help counteract.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's fair.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah. So, so Reacher has not yet thrown down with
the super giant human being that that is a heavy
on the this particular season, it is gonna happen. He
did punch him once in the midsection to no effects,
so maybe we'll get more about that later. I have
watched a little bit more of Mythic Quest. I'm almost maybe,

(14:01):
I am maybe. I did finish second season. I got
to be close to the end of season two, and
I also watched all of season one, season two of
the Harley Quinn animated series, and have just started season three.
And that is all the stuff I've watched since the

(14:22):
last episode.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Great. I watched the there's not a good word for it,
there probably is, and then my brain is nothing even
the not penultimate episode of Severns but the one before, Yeah, penultimate,
but one penultimate but one try ultimate tread ultimate, try

(14:45):
no mil look. I couldn't even say Podiatris yesterday, so
I'm doing pretty good. Today. I watched I caught up
on White Lotus season three. So far they have not
pulled the ick trigger that would make me no out
of it. I'm really interested in some of the characters storylines,

(15:08):
so I think this might be my favorite season so far,
with Walton Goggins and and such.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Walton Goggins, who has has managed to be in everything.
He's Anya Taylor joying it.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I was about to say, he's he's your he's your
male equivalent equivalent of Anya.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Taylor Joy and Florence Pugh and Florence Peele. Let's not.
Let's not forget flow Pew.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
We're I think media in trying to get back to
good numbers post COVID is using a lot of a
lot of like very popular people right now. We'll talk
about that a little bit later in this episode when
we go into our trailers. But yeah, it's he's doing great.
There is a British Amy lou Wood is in it.

(15:54):
She plays uh the sh of Walton Gongan's character. She
is just maybe the best written character I've ever seen
on the show. She's genuinely nice and genuinely cares about
other people and has a level head on her. And
beyond that, the actress, she's British, She's done a lot

(16:16):
of like British stage and stuff like that. She's got
really bucked teeth and she said she's never seen anybody
like her on TV before, and so that's really cool.
I love when you get a broader range of can
what should be considered attractive in the public eye because

(16:36):
it's such a wide spectrum of amazing people with unique features.
So I'm enjoying that. Although the character that I'm worried
about the ick with, I hate him more than any
other character on White Lotus. I feel really bad. It's
the actor is Arnold Schwartzenegger's son. I'm sure he's not
a creeper in real life. But yeah, I'm up on Daredevil.

(17:01):
I'm still enjoying it. I still will never forgive it,
but it's good.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I now know what you won't forgive it for, even
though I haven't watched the episode yet, because even in
my sequestered, insulated state, spoilers still find a way to
get to me.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm sorry, did I ruin something?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
No? Not you, okay, not you, No, it was it
was one of the headline things on my phone. Okay,
Like it just had a headline where it just told
me what happened.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
And I'm like, wait, really, I turned off headlines on
my phone, and let me tell you. I have been
much happier since then. Even my therapist was like, hey,
you seem less stressed, and I'm like, this is why good.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Advice going through life uninformed is really helpful.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, choosing choosing when you're informed. Yes, you know, like
AOC said something on social media that I came across,
which is a lot of because a lot of people
are stressed about current and everything everything, and most people

(18:12):
can't do a whole lot about it. There's always stuff
you can do about stuff. But what she said, and
I also think it's great advice that mirrors what my
therapist said, is most people don't need to check news
more than once or twice a day, and you should
choose when that is when is best for you. So

(18:32):
it's not that I'm uninformed, it's that it's not berating
me constantly all day.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, and I can. I can choose to catch up
when I'm in a good headspace to handle it. I've
also caught up or not caught up something to say.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
It's the first show that hasn't been producing in tech decades.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm watching BSG. I tried to watch it. I failed
because I liked the original, went back and I watched
it and now watching it the third time. I remember
very little about the second time, but that's fine. He
it's a dark show, but we're having fun with it.
I watched Mickey seventeen over the weekend, which is the

(19:15):
Robert Pattinson movie where he signs up to go into
space to be inexpendable, where they put him in dangerous
situations and when he dies, they just print out a
new one of him with all of his memories. I've
never seen anything else by that director. They also did
snow Piercer and Parasite and some other oak Jah and
some other things. Yeah, so I had no idea what

(19:38):
I was stepping into. I expected a different movie. It's
not that I didn't like it. It was more disjointed
than I anticipated, which probably if I hadn't seen other
stuff by this director, I would have anticipated it. But
I loved the end so well.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I love Parasite, and I enjoyed snow Piercer, So I'm
looking forward to finally seeing this. I have not seen
it yet.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah. Uh, And then I started playing Balderskate three.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
You just started it? You decided to join twenty twenty one?
Is that?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well so, actually I don't know. It may have come
out in twenty twenty. I don't remember when Balder's Gate.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Came out, not that long ago.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's been a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
It has been. But here's the thing. We have been
busy in my house. Yeah, and so twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Okay, it's been like two years. Okay, but we've been.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Busy in my house. And so we have a backlog
of games on our Xbox one or Xbox three, sixty
our PS four, and so like, the the urge to
get a new gaming system when we have so many
games we already want to play was pretty low, Like
I want to play Boulders K three, and also like
my desktop for gaming is really old, but I've been

(20:57):
too busy so I haven't bothered to replace it. And
my lap my work laptop, which is also like my
casual laptop is not powerful enough, is not powerful enough,
and that's fine. I wanted something that would work for
work or watching videos. Sure I didn't need more. So
uh so, yeah, so I've started playing. I'm playing a

(21:18):
bard Barian because of.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Course I am. I was about to ask what you're okay,
what's your species? And we know so you're multi classing
as bard and Barbarian.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
I'm not multi classing yet, I am so okay, So
I am a half elf Barbarian with the background of Entertainer,
I will multi class into Bard.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Probably Bard is fun because Bard gets a lot. I mean,
I'm sure all this is true for all the different classes,
but Barred in particular, it gets unique interaction capabilities that
just don't don't they don't show up for other classes,
and some of them are really funny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, none of my characters, none of my party can
speak to animals yet.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Unfortunately, that also gets really funny when when you do
unlock that. I will say that, like my first playthrough,
or my first attempt at a playthrough, I played a Bard,
but I hit a wall at one point, you know,
figuratively speaking, I hit a wall where I just could
not survive. And it was because I didn't have enough.

(22:25):
I didn't have enough firepower on my side to be
able to get through some of the trickier fights. And
part of it was just because I don't do well
in positioning my characters to make effective use of terrain,
and I just don't have that like strategic ability. I'm
very bad. I would watch videos online. I'm like, yeah,

(22:47):
this fight is super easy. As long as you can
get this exploding barrel in this one spot, you can
knock everybody off the bridge and you know, oh.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
So frustrating. So I'm I'm still in the beginner area
where you meet up with all of your initial party,
you know, right with Sally Gale and Asterian and shadow
Heart and all that. I've finally gotten them all. I
went into the ruined Chapel yep, yep, and died in
there about ten times. And I tried switching out party.

(23:16):
I'm like, okay, I'll bring Hysterian because he can sneak
and maybe he can get around them. Absolutely not. They
block the door before we can, so he just dies
in one shot. I had to go back and get
Lazelle to do it. And still I'm like, okay, I'm
just gonna be okay with people dying and then get finally,

(23:37):
I finally just beat everybody in the first first room,
and now I have to go through the rest. But
I was just like, I didn't expect it to be
so hard.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
There's quick There's a couple of different ways into that room,
and depending on which way you've gone in, it can
be slightly easier than so the other one.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
There's a hole that you can jump down and the
top I did not. I couldn't get into the top.
Oh okay, I opened up the hole and then I
couldn't get in. And I'm playing on my PS five.
I don't know what you were playing on. But I tried.
I tried jumping, I tried walking, I tried using a rope,
and it just wouldn't let me in. I tried going

(24:19):
down around to the bottom near the near the water
and picking the door, and that didn't work. I used
every single lock pick, every single one of my characters had,
and we all failed the.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Twenty Wow, you had real bad luck.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I have. Maybe it's because I picked a barbarian, but
it's okay. I was able to revive Gale and shadow
Heart and it's all fine.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, yeah, Well Gail's got some issues, let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
But anyway, and they all seem to have some issues.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Gale's issues are particularly challenging as this as the story
goes on, I mean, they all are to something. And
I say this as someone who never finished the game,
like I got pretty far into Act two. Uh, but
I never I actually never made it to Bulder's Gate.
It was it is a huge I'm also one of

(25:17):
those people. I have that terminal condition where I have
to do every side quest before I move on, because
what if I miss something and it meant there's so
many in Balder's Gate that if you're determined to do
that one, you might come across something and realize, Oh,

(25:38):
I closed this off from an earlier decision I made.
I'm going to go back to with save I made
three days ago and just replay all that stuff so
I can get this one side mission. It's it's terrible
for a person like me.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I don't need to do everything I do try, but
as I'm more worried about, like doing the Sky. The
first time I played through Skyrim, I just wandered and
I ended up in a level that was far too
high for me, and then everything else was closed off,
And so I'm worried about doing that. So I just
have to make sure as long as I'm following the

(26:13):
main plot line, I'll be okay and everything else is gravy.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah. Are you? Are you playing as heroic or evil
or somewhere in between?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I'm I'm I mean I guess it would be. I'm
playing true to the character class and background.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
So alignment do you have? Then?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Oh, it didn't make me pick?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, Well, if you had to give your character in Alignment,
what would be chaotic?

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Good? Okay, yeah, because like I'm generally nice to people,
but I will pick the barbarian answer as well. Gotcha,
Like hey, let me punch face and see who goes harder.
But also like like when you askew Gale at the
beginning and his hand is sticking out the rock, right,

(27:02):
I slapped it first. I gave him a high five first,
because barbarian. Also, I did go back and do similar.
I was like, oh no, I read that you can
get the sword off of the Notdylloid at the very beginning,
so I went back twice before I realized none of
my characters had command to get the sword off of
the bad guy before escaping the Notdylloid. So that was

(27:23):
like two hours wasted. Yeah, and the first time, but
that's okay because the first time I took all of
my like out of play knowledge of Hysterian and was
really crappy to him the first time through, which is fine,
but I was like, yeah, no, I'll play it. I'll
let his character develop and make me hate him within
the game, as opposed to just shutting that off the

(27:47):
first time through.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I want to say, like the first time I tried playing,
I think I created a paladin and almost immediately abandoned
that went with Bard. Stuck with Bard for quite some time,
but like I said, started hanging wall. And then my
third character, which was the one I got the furthest with,
was a Ranger, which works great for that first section

(28:10):
of the game that you're in. The part that you
are in, it works great, Ranger's fantastic. Get a little
further in and Ranger suddenly becomes way less effective.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, not ineffective totally, but like a lot of the
abilities just aren't accessible at that point, and that got
really frustrating.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, I might have to turn on karmic dice because
I've just had really bad roles, like even all of
because I have reckless attack as a barbarian and it
just fails.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
You're just flailing wildly at someone and not connecting.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yep, just wasting turns, and it's like they're not even
like higher level. We're all level two. So that's how
early in the game I am. So yeah, I'm enjoying it.
I know I will continue to enjoy it, but it's
been a challenge.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, I can see that. Well, I'm curious to hear
your thoughts as you get further in the game, because
you will get to a point where will get past
where I was, and then I'll be like, and then
what happened.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Thirty minutes at a time, It'll be ten years from now, I.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Mean faster than when I'll do it. Like, I don't
think I have a computer that can run my copy
of it, because I got it on PC, and my
gaming PC, which was also the PC I used to
edit podcasts on, died, so I have another PC fortunately
that is good enough to edit podcasts on, not good

(29:40):
enough to run Balder's Gate three.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
So I feel that.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, but let's now that we have thoroughly talked about
what we have been watching and playing.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
We're done with the episode, right, No.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
No, now we have the actual episode to go, So
we start off with thirty seconds or less and I
actually begin time. So here we go. So he's been
a comic book character since nineteen thirty nine. He's been
a character in a racy and sometimes nonsensical television series,
and in twenty fourteen he even got fatally shot. But

(30:14):
now the iconic Archie is getting ready for a hazy
crossover as he will meet Jay and Silent Bob from
Kevin Smith's Ask Universe. The story takes place after the
events of Clerk's three. The comic debuts on July ninth
and is a double sized crossover.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Wow, I didn't read any of your stories, so that's interesting.
We got news that john Wick five is officially in
the works. We don't know if Keanu Reeves is coming back.
They're also looking at more spinoffs, like a TV series
in a video game. Have we not already gotten a
john Wick video game? I don't know anyhow, Keanu Reeves

(30:58):
is not like excited to go back, so we'll see.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
I think a john Wick video game would just be
Hitman but with hair.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yes, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
The independent horror slash comedy slash romance film Dead Lover
has landed a distributor while screening at south By Southwest.
Writer director actor Grace Glowicki is behind the movie, which
plays with the themes of Frankenstein. To paraphrase doctor Duffen Schwertz,
if I had a nickel for every Frankenstein horror romance

(31:31):
comedy I know of, I would have two Nichols, which
isn't a lot, but it's weird. That it's happened twice.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
No good segue for me. Ryan Kugler's latest movie, Sinners,
is getting a rated R rating, which is not really
surprised if people watch the trailer, which we have. We've
talked about it on the show. It's going to be
his first one in thirteen years. The last rated AR
movie he did was Fruitvale Stage, which I'm not familiar with,

(32:02):
but create in Black Panther and Black Panther will kind
of work forever, we're not righted R. Also, he's working
on a couple of new Black Panther states.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
John Butler Jack spent a few years following the late
great stan Lee capturing candid moments on camera, including some
allegedly bad behavior among those in Lee's circle. Now, Butlerjack
wants to turn this footage into a documentary titled stan
Lee The Final Chapter. He has launched a Kickstarter campaign
to help crowdfund the project, though at the time of recording,

(32:34):
he's not even a third of the way there to
funding it.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
That's interesting. Nintendo is opening its second brick and mortar
in the United States. The first one is in New
York City at Rockefeller at Plaza. It is really cool
They have a bunch of like big characters that you
can interact with and a bunch of like memorabilia, memorabilia
of old games. I went there when I wanted to
see Beetlejuice. The new one will be in San friand Cisco.

(33:02):
It opens on May fifteenth, and they are doing a
sweepstakes for people who want to attend the store's grand opening.
You could win a four day trip for two to
San Francisco with a tour of the store, tour of
the store, tour of the store. There's a link to
the sweepstakes on in gadget dot com. We will share

(33:22):
that in our show notes.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Sadie Sink of Stranger Things Fame. Oh, now I'm doing it.
Sadie's Sink of Strangers Things Fame will be joining our
friendly neighborhood spider Man in the next spider Man film.
Whom she will play is unrevealed as of yet. It
could be a new character or perhaps someone from Spidey's
rich comic book history when Stacy Black Cat Kitty Pride.

(33:47):
No clue, but I'm glad that progress is being made
on the project.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Me too. And that is it. For thirty seconds or.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Less, Yayu, and we have a couple of things we
want to chat about before we get into all the
trailers we saw. So Ariel and I both came across
trailers for movies that we don't really think fall into
the genre fields, but they still look kind of interesting.
So we wanted to give a quick shout out to

(34:15):
some of those that we saw. And you know, I'm
trying to be a little more discerning when I'm going
through trailers, Like sometimes I'm like, oh, this is a
light science fiction touch on an otherwise dramatic story. Now
I'm like, is it science fiction enough? Though, Well, in
this case, these are not really science fiction or fantasy

(34:37):
or horror or any of that, but they still look interesting.
And first up, we saw a trailer for a Is
it a film or a series?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Anyway, it's it's a TV series. It's a Canadian comedy
television series that will be showing on Netflix or actually
what you know what? I just got the trailer for
it the other day, but it says it came out
in January, oh, in Canada, so now it's coming to
the US.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
It's about an Inuit woman who's a mother and a
wife who decides to reinvent herself.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, her husband, her husband's kind of like an influencer type,
and everyone seems to define her just as being her
husband's wife.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yes, and I'm sorry it's in in Ook. I did
not I said Inuit, and that is wrong. Anyhow, she
her marriage ends and she decides to reinvent herself. It
looks very very touching. It's got a great look on
that sort of I've lost words now. I went from mispronouncing.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Them to losing on the technical side.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Not on the technical side, just like it's a great
view of like the culture of that area.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
The costuming looks amazing.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, it looks It looks delightful, it looks fun. I'm
sure there are going to be very heartfelt moments, but
it also looks pretty fun and uplifting.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
We also saw a trailer for a film called Psychotherapy
that has Steve Bussemi in it. The general premise is
there's an author and he wants to write a book
that involves a serial killer, and Steve Bussimi offers to
be a counselor on the book because, as he puts it,
he's a retired serial killer. Meanwhile, the author is also

(36:33):
going through a rocky period in his marriage and his
wife mistakes the serial killer for being a marriage counselor,
so then the serial killer is filling in as a
marriage counselor. It looks like it's funny and also has
elements of like an actual thriller, like a psychological thriller

(36:53):
type thing. So they hint at some murderous intent in
the trailer, but they also have a lot of comedy
in it, So I honestly don't know where it comes
out at the end, but I am intrigued.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, we also saw me too. We also saw a
trailer for The Luckiest Man Alive, which stars Paul.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Wal Luckiest Man in America.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Luckiest Man in America. I'm sorry, I'm even looking at
the IMDb. It stars Paul Walterhauser and Walton Goggins. It's
about and Johnny Knoxville. Those are the names I recognize
the most. It's about a guy who figured out a.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Way to win shoot, press your luck.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Press your luck, and then he just keeps winning and
they're like, we have to stop him, we being the
TV execs. So based on a true story.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, it's a real thing that happened, a real thing
that happens is an ice cream truck driver who videotaped
episodes of Press Your Luck and watched them until he
realized that the lights on Press your Luck. So it's
one of those games where you press a buzzer and
you stop lights at a particular spot on a board
and then you either get you know, money, or you

(38:05):
get to spin again, or you hit a whammy. You
hit three whammies, you're out.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
It's where the term no whammys came from.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Right, And he figured out that there were five different
sets of patterns, and as soon as you recognize which
pattern said it as you could time it to hit
the square you wanted to hit, you know, pretty regularly,
and he ended up auditioning for the show and got on,
and he ended up winning more money. At that time,

(38:33):
he won the most money anyone had ever won on
a game show in a single appearance. And his story
sadly gets really fishy and tragic. After his winnings, he
became like a kind of a con artist, got into
a lot of multi level marketing scams, and then ultimately
passed away at the age of forty nine in Florida.

(38:53):
But this is clearly a dramatization of that Press your
lux which really was pretty wack a doodle crazy.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, yeah, less wacka doodle and less crazy. We also
saw a trailer for The Uninvited, which premiered in twenty
twenty four. It's south by Southwest. It's about a couple
who kind of have a tense relationship and then this
old woman shows up saying that she lives in their house.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Yeah, and they're like in the entertainment industry, right, They're
in Hollywood entertainment industry, and there's this big party that's
going on, and this woman just shows up insisting that
she lives in the house, and so it's kind of like,

(39:45):
what do we do about this person? You know? The
husband wants to just get rid of her so that
he can focus on the party, and he wants his
wife to go to the party too, to have a
show of solidarity. Meanwhile, the wife is like one kind
of fed up with the husband's bs and two concerned
about this woman. So yeah, the trailer looked really interesting,
but again not really in the genre field. Yeah. Well,

(40:06):
the last aerial suspects the woman is actually an alien.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
I did you said alien? I think she's the wife
from the future, So she did actually live in the house.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
You're right, far more grounded than what I was suggesting.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, yes, much more grounded. Look, we're going about to
talk to talk about a whole bunch of trailers in
more depth that I swear we've seen before.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
So well, some of them we've seen teasers for certainly.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, so I feel like I'm living in the matrix today.
For sure. I'm not going to look deeper into it
because I don't want to creep myself out. The last
trailer we got for UH that we looked at that
didn't quite fit our m O was uh. Yeah, Emma
was a dad quest.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, this is uh? Was it Spanish? I can't remember.
It's a it's a foreign language film. As I recall
where the uh you kind of had the story about
a guy who encounters a young girl who could be
his daughter and the mother unfortunately passes away, and so

(41:11):
then he is taking care of her. He then finds
out that she is not his daughter, and so he
is trying to help her find her biological father. Meanwhile,
the two are bonding as they are going through this experience,
and it feels like it's one of those really heartwarming
films where someone who was not anticipating having this role

(41:34):
in life and was initially resistant to it turns out
to embrace the role of being effectively the girl's father,
if not her biological dad.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, similar to we talked about a movie about it
and I can't remember the name of it. All of
a sudden, it's like, this is a second movie with
that kind of or thing piece of media with that
kind of a story lately, so kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah. Yeah, but those are the ones that did not
make our list. Let's talk about the stuff that did
make our list. Starting off with a trailer that was
never meant for us to see.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, and one that I'm gonna say I am ashamed
to say actually looked pretty good.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah. You know what, I didn't hate this either, but
it is getting so much hate.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
I don't understand that. So it's the trailer for the
Powerpuff Girls Live action series. If you recall, from way
back in the day, they were supposed to have had
like a tragedy and now their lives are kind of
because of it.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, they've grown up.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yeah, they've grown up dealing with that trauma and then
they come back home. But it looks fun. It's got
Dove Cameron and Donald Fason in it, and I like
both of them a lot.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
And Chloe Bennett from Agents of Shield Kloe Bennett.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
So maybe maybe I am biased because I like those actors,
but it looks cute and it looks fun despite the
characters having unexpected trauma.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah. I was initially very negative about this because I
didn't like the idea of the Powerpuff Girls being treated
again like that cynical side of superhero storytelling, right, same
thing with like The Boys or Invincible, where you have
these characters who were presented as being very positive and

(43:24):
heroic with occasional little quirks and stumbles along the way
because they're young girls being turned into a much more
cynical kind of young adult character of all of whom
each of the girls have their own issues, like one
of them is just angry all the time, one of
them is like an alcoholic, like that kind of thing.

(43:47):
I as I watched the trailer, I thought, this is
not as bad as I was expecting, and in fact,
it looks like it could have been okay. And then
I look at all the reaction on Laine, and it's
a lot of what you would expect of people saying
this was the worst thing ever, the worst thing that's
ever been made, ever, ever, ever, And I'm like, no,

(44:11):
it's not. You're just trying to get clicks your thumbnail. Goblin.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
But no, Goblin, I love that.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
But yeah, I don't know. I don't think it would
have been a very good series ultimately. I think there
were incredibly talented people working on it and that they
would have done their best. But I think ultimately it
probably would not have succeeded had it actually gone into
full production. But it was nowhere close to what I

(44:38):
was expecting based upon the synopsis that we had seen
in the past years.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, it would. It didn't look it doesn't look dark
and dreary and miserable. It looks like it's fun. Like
they had fun with it. I could see it worst.
Maybe there isn't enough meat there to make it a
a full series, right, Like we got a three minute
clip of the best moments.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
That they feeld so, and they also make some choices
that are going to upset people who are like, no,
I want Mojo Jojo to be a super intelligent monkey
running around.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Yeah, yeah, you know me. Maybe it will get enough
I was gonna say before because I didn't look at
the comments. I'm surprised you did, but good good reporting.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I actually did not look at the comments. What I
did was I looked for the trailer because what I
saw was I saw reactions to the trailer and I
just wanted to see the trailer itself because all the
reactions where you're predictable, this looks like the worst thing ever. Like,
let's be let's face it. Most of them white guys
just acting like like it's Star Wars fans is what

(45:50):
they are. The Star Wars fan the toxic Star Wars
fans community turned out big time to do reaction videos
to the Powerpuff Girls trailer. Uh, and they it's just
as toxic as you can imagine. Now, I'm not saying
that if you go and watch the trailer you're gonna
have a life changing experience. It's gonna be amazing. You're
gonna be sad that it never came out. You might
hate it too, which is fine. This just felt like

(46:14):
manufactured outrage and which is totally ridiculous because it's not
even happening.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I was originally gonna say, maybe
it we'll get enough like cult following that it will happen.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
But maybe it'll get enough cult following where one day
the pilot episode will leak. I think that's the boat
most you can Yeah, you would expect. But so we
got a trailer for something that didn't happen. We also
got stuff for things that are happening. Like we got
an actual trailer, not just a teaser for the live

(46:48):
action And I use those words loosely Lelo and Stitch remake.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
I would say two thirds of the cast or live action.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yeah, I'm just saying Stitch isn't go out and find
an alien.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
But what I wish they did. I actually I don't know.
Because I don't know aliens. I make a bunch of
assumptions about aliens.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Could have gotten that little old lady from the Uninvited.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Not an alien, a time traveler. They're different unless you're Doctor.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Who, in which case you're both.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
You're both. You know what I'll say. And I said
this with the teaser, and it holds true in the trailer.
I was worried during the Super Bowl. Like teasers, the
CGI looks really good. I think maybe the best that
Disney has done so far on these live action not
live action movies again, because Stitch and the other aliens

(47:41):
don't need to look photo realistic.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I also think that it looks like they did not
commit the sin that I find really annoying with these
live action remakes in that it doesn't look like it's
a shot for shot, angle for angle remake. Like there's
stuff where you're like, oh, yeah, I know this part
of the animated movie, but it's it doesn't look like
they just tried to recreate the animated film but in

(48:08):
real life. And I appreciate that. I think the young
girl who's playing leelo Is seems great, like I totally
get like she's got she's got screen appeal. And yeah,
I still feel like it's an unnecessary movie because you know,

(48:31):
we have the animated film and it's really good. But
this doesn't look bad to me, not the way like
some of the other live action remixed it. Like as
I don't I don't want to pile on hate for
snow White because I think most of that hate is
really misplaced. A lot of it is racist and misogynistic.
I don't want to add to that because I don't

(48:52):
think any of those comments have any merit. But I
will say I don't think it looks good.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
No, those dwarfs hunt my mas. I. You know, here's
the thing. I think the two thousand and two Leelo
and Stitch cartoon was near perfect. It's such a good
Disney movie, right, such a good original, like actually original
Disney movie.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I think, right, right sequel not a remake that.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Yes, I don't think you could improve upon perfection, but
there probably is. And I'm not as in tune with
Jen Alfha. There's probably a whole bunch of kids that
may not sit down for a two D cartoon, that
would watch this and get to enjoy the things that
we also loved back in the day.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, if it's an accessibility thing, then absolutely, And again
like it looks to me, at least based on the trailer,
everyone involved is doing their best, so it doesn't feel
like anyone's sleepwalking their way through it, which again, some
of the live action stuff, I'm just like, I don't
know if this person was just kind of dragging their

(49:59):
heels or if it's just they're just not the right
person for this part. But it hasn't always been the case,
but in this one, everyone looks like they're being really
sincere in their efforts.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Yeah, and I need to clarify, I'm not dissing on
two D animation. I absolutely love it. I prefer it
to three D animation usually. I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Sure, yeah, just that, you know, cultural tastes change, and
I mean, like, I know for a fact, there are
movies that I loved as a kid that my nieces
can't sit through, right, like the original Pete's Dragon. I
love that movie and my nieces think it's boring, and
I get it, like it's it's a different pace, it's

(50:41):
a different style. It doesn't appeal to them, and that's fine.
They're just wrong and will always be wrong.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
There is, of course, people who are unhappy with the
fact that the Lelo and Stitch trailer is not a
shot for shot.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Of course there are You're never gonna make everyone happy, right,
because if you do it shot for shot, then the
question is why did you bother? We already have the
animated film that looks exactly the same. If you don't
do it shot for shot, then you have the people like, well,
this is too different from the cartoon I love. Well,
just watch the cartoon you love your jerk face.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Yeah, yeah, they're entitled to their opinion, and I hope it.
But yes, I hope that they are prove themselves wrong
and enjoy something despite their best efforts.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yes, now, I don't know if all that being said,
if it's going to turn out where I'll watch this
live action Lee Low and Stitch and walk out in
the theater saying, boy, I'm glad I saw that. I
might not, but the trailer at least made me feel
less grouchy about it.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Yeah, I did walk out of The Little Mermaid saying
I'm glad I watched this. It did not improve on
all parts of the movie, for sure, but at least
put a little teaser on the end that I felt
was needed to the story, which is.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Saying a lot because Ariel for a while did not
like The Little Mermaid simply on principle.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I mean, when you're seven or eight.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
And your name is Ariel and you have.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
A friend whose name is Eric that you hang out
with all the time.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
You could see where it could get irritating. Yes, I
get it.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Yeah, you know it's now now I'm embracing it. Now,
I'm embracing it, which is fine. I like I like
being like hey, other mermaids out there, because I do
love water, like that's that's the ridiculous thing. I could
be a mermaid. If I could breathe underwater, I'd be underwater.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
All the time. Yeah, well, which.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Makes for really bad audio quality.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
But still it would be a little more gurgly and
we'd be going through a lot more microphones. We also
got a trailer for the Netflix animated adaptation of Devil
may Cry. Devil May Cry is a video game series
if you're not familiar with it, and there's now an
animated version that is coming to Netflix, and uh, I'm

(52:55):
happy to say that it unapologetically says this is taking
the Devil may Cry characters and world and telling an
original story. It's not retelling the video games. It's going
in a different direction, which I think helps avoid those

(53:16):
issues of well that's not how it was in the game.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah. Yeah, I've never played the game. The cartoon looks good.
It kind of looks like you took Percy from Vox
Makna and threw him into a modern Alice in Wonderley.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
I have.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
There's far more white rabbits than I anticipated.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah. The main villain is a demon that looks like
an anthropomorphic white rabbit, which does take some getting used
to because like it, I could not take it seriously.
Upon the initial appearance of the white rabbit, I'm like, oh,
this is your big bad But I think it looks

(53:59):
in interesting for people who are into that kind of animation.
It's not something that I would typically seek out, but
I'm hoping that for folks who enjoy that kind of
animation and who enjoy those sorts of stories, that they
dig it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Yeah, speaking of digging things, we both dig to season
one of Last of Us, and then for season two,
we got like a pre trailer and then we got
a teaser which I could have sworn was the official trailer.
But now we've got the official official trailer. And how
do you feel about that, Jonathan? I know you've been

(54:35):
concerned you won't be able to watch season two.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
I have a feeling I know how season two is
going to end.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Me too. I mean, I feel like most people who
are familiar with the property do.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, I don't know. I might. I might call it
season one and call it a day. Not to say
that season two is going to be bad. I don't
think it's going to be bad at all. I think
it's going to be compelling television, but knowing where things
go in the games, I don't know if I have
it in me to watch it. Still, it looks incredible, though,

(55:08):
Like the trailer looks great.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Yeah, is there the thing that you're afraid of?

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Is there a lot of story after that happens in
the video game? Oh? Yes, Okay, so that's how they
can break it into part one.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Huh yeah, okay, just.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Making sure because I haven't played the video game, I
think it's a I am not going to force you
or peer pressure you into watching season two. I do
think it'll be interesting to see how my reactions as
somebody who's only familiar with the story but hasn't played
it will be compared to people who have played the game.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yeah, and I hate, you know, pussy futting around all
this and everything, but I want to make sure I
don't spoil anything for anyone. Essentially, the big event that
I anticipate will end the first half of season two,
because the season two really I think it's season two
and season three right like they're dividing part two of

(56:02):
the game into two seasons. I think the thing that
will end this season the next season is essentially going
to be the consequences of that action, because that's what
Part two is all about. Consequences and cycles and how
to break out of a cycle once you find yourself

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in one. That's really what Part two is all about,
in a very high level sense. I don't want to
get more into it, because to do so would be
spoiling the very nature of the story. We could have
a whole conversation about that, and about how I feel
that the video game studio is trying to have its

(56:45):
cake and eat it too, because they essentially they force
you down, like there's no way to avoid certain aspects
of the narrative, and they're trying to teach you a lesson,
but if that lesson is dependent upon free will, they've
removed the free will part because you have to go
down that one bath and you're like, well, yeah, I

(57:06):
know this is bad. I would not have done that,
but you made me do it because that's the way
the game works.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Yeah. Yeah. People felt the same way similarly about like
the end of Mass Effect, yes, or Tony even felt
this way. He was playing Fallout two or three. It's
a really old Fallout game where he had to like
he was helping the goals. He could either help the

(57:34):
goals or hurt the goals, but either way it was
a decision that he felt like a bad or an
evil decision to him, Like there wasn't a good option,
and he just stopped playing because he was playing like
a paladin upstanding kind of character.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Yeah, well, he's like, I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
They're forcing me to do this.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
I can appreciate a game that gives you a choice
where it's not clear if what you're doing is good
or bad, and then you only find out after the fact,
because that's realistic, right. You can go in with the
best of intentions and do what you think is right,
only for that to turn out to have been the
bad option. But you didn't there was no way to

(58:13):
know that until after it happened. That I can deal with.
What I can't deal with is you don't really have
a choice. You have to do this thing, and now
we're going to lecture you about how that was the
wrong thing to do. I'm like, but I didn't get
to choose that. You made me do it.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, it's like just Star Trek Discovery, where they don't
let you come to the decision on your own. They
have to really pound it into you, which I know
you don't understand, but I've had several people say that
that's how they feel that show goes, even.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Though I enjoyed it well. Moving on, we also got
a teaser for a series that I've been anticipating for
a while, the second season of poker Face. I really
enjoyed the first season, with some caveats, like I had
grouchy old man complaints about certain episodes, and I do
make the joke that if Charlie shows up in town,

(59:03):
don't become her friend, because you're guaranteed to die. But
the thing that I like about this teaser, it's very short.
You don't get a whole lot of content, but you
do get a long list of actors who are gonna
be in it, and it is impressive.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Yeah, remember when I said earlier, it seems like to
get people reinvested in in entertainment media, they're they're bringing
in a bunch of actors people like this is the
first of those.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah, yeah, Cynthia Rivo is one of them. You got, like,
it's such a huge list. I'm going to see if
I can find I'm actually scrubbing through the trailer right now,
while John Mulaney, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Aquafina, a method man,

(59:53):
Justin Threau, kumeil Nan, Johnny Like. There's just a crazy
list of of actors who are appearing as guest stars
in this which is similar to what happened in season one.
You had some great actors who were in season one
as well, including ones that I wish were still in

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poker Face, but gosh darn it, Charlie went and made
friends with them, and so they're dead now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Charlie being the main character played by natash Leone. Yeah,
and don't confuse Justin th Row with Justin Trudeau, like
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
You love the Canadian Prime Minister with.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
In former Canadian Prime Minister? Yes, yes, No, it looks cute,
it looks fun. I don't have Peacock, so I didn't
watch season one, but.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
It looks good. It's good. Yeah, if you ever do
get Peacock, it's worth watching, I think of it. It's
really similar to something like Colombo, or like any of
those procedurals where you have the preternaturally brilliant detective. In
this case, though she's not brilliant. She just knows automatically

(01:01:02):
if someone's lying, Like she just knows, and they kind
of half wave it away in the very first episode
where they're just like, yeah, she just can. Like there's
no there's no logical reason why she's able to.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
There's no like monk observing behaviors. There's no like Daredevil,
I can hear their heart speed up.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
No, it's literally like if someone lies and she doesn't
even have to be looking at them, she just has
to be able to hear it. She knows immediately if
it's a lie. She doesn't know what the truth is,
she just knows that they are lying.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
I think it should be a scent based power.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
You stink of lies, You stink of lies. Yeah, that'd
be a great line.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
It would be. You should get on the writing cast
for that show.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Well, i'll apply after we're done with this episode.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Speaking of things I haven't watched, we also got a
trailer for Black and Mirror season seven. It looks really good.
I might actually watch this season. It doesn't look quite
as depressing as the previous season trailers have.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
To me. Yeah, it gave me a real Twilight Zone
kind of feel to it, like that weird fiction version
of Twilight Zone, not the super super dark episodes like
of Twilight Zone, but more of the Well, wasn't that
a strange story that we just told you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Yeah, for sure, And like there is some blood and
violence in the trailer for season seven, so we know
there's going to be dark stuff. But if it's a
little bit lighter than the previous seasons, the storylines look cool,
so I'd be in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Yeah, there's stuff in there that touches on things like
virtual reality and artificial intelligence and do AI. Characters within
virtual worlds have their own feelings and if you aren't careful,
you will hurt their feelings. That kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Yeah, which is interesting and mine it hurts. It hurts
your head.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
As much as our next trailer does, though, because I
know what that story is.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Oh no, I I just put it in because it
was Stephen King.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Huh so Stephen King, Okay, So it's not bad. It's
not horror. In fact, that's kind of the problem. So
Stephen King has some of his most successful novel to
screen adaptations have been outside the realm of horror. Because
only a few of his horror movies have been held

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up to acclaim and some of them after he had
denounced them because filmmakers had made massive changes to his work,
like Stanley Kubrick with The Shining But you know, things
like The Green Mile or Shawshank Redemption or stand By Me.
These are more about works he's written that aren't outright

(01:03:55):
horror stories. Same is true for the Life of Chuck,
which is a novella that appeared in one of his collections,
and it's not that old. I can't remember the name
of the clue. It's they bleed something like that, Yeah,
something it bleeds. Yeah. Life of Chuck is a story
that's told in three acts, and at least in the novella.

(01:04:18):
This might be a spoiler, so I apologize, But in
the novella it's told in three chunks in reverse chronological order.
So the first chunk you get is the end of
Chuck's life, the middle chunk is the middle of his life,
and the first chunk is his early life. So presumably
that's the way the movie will do it too, where

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you're gonna get to see how Chuck, how Chuck's life
ends at the beginning of the film, and then it
will work, you know, in a backwards chunk for the
next one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
So it's like merrily we roll along over the last
seven years or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Last five years where last five years is interesting because
one half of the story is told chronologically and the
other half it's told reverse chronologically and you alter scenes. No,
the uh, I don't know what to say about the
life of Chuck. I don't like this novella personally. That
the act too is like a fifty page long section

(01:05:19):
about him dancing, So get ready for a lot of
Tom Hidleston dancing. I guess I'm I.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Mean, I'm down for that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
That That to me is more entertaining than reading page
after page about it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
The book of short stories is if it bleeds?

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Got it? So, yeah, this is not a horror I
almost thought about taking this out and putting it down
with the other like non genre stuff, because this is
not one of Stephen King's horror stories. Okay, there is.
There is some sort of like horror slash science fiction
slash maybe not so much stuff going on, but it
depends upon your interpretation of the story.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
That's okay. I put it in because it's seemed sci
fi ish, if like he's he's living his life out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Of order, like it's literally, that is that the story
is being told out of work life chronologically.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Well, that's that's misleading, and that makes me sad. And
I am posthumously removing it from.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
A storyline that's dead.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I am retroactively removing it from our storyline. We can
leave this into the episode, but now I'm mad.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Well, then we'll move on to a post apocalyptic musical
because that's definitely in the genre category.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
It is. It's called The End. We talked about it
before when the teaser came out. Uh, and actually the
full trailer for it came out like nine days ago,
so it's a little bit of an older story.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Yeah, and this is this is a movie that's also
played the festival circuit, so some people out there may
have already seen it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Yeah, it's it. It's about a family who lives underground
after an apose glips and they think everybody else is dead.
It's kind of fallouty. And then a person shows up
and like a love interest shows up for the young
boy protagonist or the child protagonist teenager, young adult anyhow.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
He's just referred to as Son in the middle Son.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
Yeah, and then it's a whole about a whole bunch
about like, well do they accept her? Where is she from?
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Mostly done through song?

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Mostly done through songs that put me to sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Well, yeah, so I can give a little more context
about this. So sure, it's a it's an environmental disaster
that has led to the above ground world being uninhabitable.
And the father in the father mother son triptych was

(01:07:53):
an oil executive and the father and mother are trying.
The son was born underground. He's never been to the surface,
and he's a young adult now, he's actually you know,
like an older teenager, but he's he's been sheltered literally
and figuratively and taught a very whitewashed kind of history.

(01:08:18):
And this young woman who shows up after they've been
sequestered for so long. There's a few other characters also
who live underground with them. It's not just the family,
but this woman who shows up, and it's the first
outsider to have shown up in years. She's there and

(01:08:38):
she starts to challenge some of the things that the
son has learned that turn out to not be, you know,
one hundred percent accurate, and the two of them start
to kind of fall in love with one another and
that's kind of the the anchor for the story that unfolds.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
That's a much better telling than what I said.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
It's not well, I I looked into it, so okay,
it's not meant to be realistic, Like that's not the point,
which is why it's a musical too. Right. So I
agree with you, though, Ariel. The music that I've heard
did not blow me away. It didn't throw me into
a song coma. But I wasn't like ready to tap

(01:09:22):
my toes and start humming along.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Yeah, it was like for me, who did the like
the Royal Tenant bombs.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Oh it's a Wes Anderson.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Yeah, it was like Wes Anderson took some melotonein and
wrote a bunch of music. The story looks good to me.
That's the thing is, the story seems really interesting. It's
like I said, got a very fallout vibe to it
followed season one of the Amazon show vibe to it
at least. But yeah, I don't I don't know if

(01:09:53):
I can sit through that music.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Yeah, I know how the whole story goes u because
I read it, But yeah, I don't know that. I mean,
maybe the telling of it is better than just the
synopsis that I read, but I'm not. I am impressed

(01:10:17):
with the ambition of the project. From what I understand
about half the people who see who have seen it,
felt that it was a worthy endeavor and the other
half feel like swinging a miss.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
Yeah, so Jonathan is saying, watch it your own risk,
but it's not as risky as like watching Metropolist whatever
that one is. Patietry.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Now, I could have been Muppetopolis. I would have been
there day one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
There should be Well, no, I was gonna say there
should be a muppet Opolis version of Megopolypse, but I
don't believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
No. No, there's that one scene where the guy's in
the bed. You would not want to hear any of
it say the things he says. No, absolutely not. We
also got a trailer for a Viga game for Silent
Hill F. If you're not familiar with the Silent Hill series,
it's one of the series that defined the survival horror

(01:11:17):
genre of games. Typically, in those games, you play as
a person who has few abilities to fight back. You
are typically encouraged to run and hide more than you
are to get into combat situations. Things like weapons, ammunition,

(01:11:37):
and health are an extremely short supply so that you
have to be very careful with the way you play,
and it's to crank up the tension. So Resident Evil
kind of falls into this category as well as Silent Hill,
and between the two, I think Silent Hill has been
more consistently adhering to that formula. Resident Evil some of

(01:11:59):
its entries get in to a more like action horror
game than Silent Hill does. This one Silent Hill f
looks like it's like, yeah, we're wholeheartedly going into the
spirit of survival horror, and you will not be the
same person at the end of this game as you
were when you started it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
It is really interesting. We actually got to see a
first look at this game. We talked about it on
the show I think in twenty twenty two or twenty
twenty three, back when Kanami said, hey, we're doing all
of these Silent Hill projects, right. I think it looks
prettier than any other Silent Hill. I've never played Silent Hill.

(01:12:40):
Prettier than any other Silent Hill footage I've ever seen.
It's beautiful. I mean, yeah, terrifying, but beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Yeah. It's hard. It's hard to follow, like I you know,
you can so if you watch the video that we have, Like,
if you don't have close captions turned on and you
don't speak Japanese, you're probably not gonna get a lot
out of it. But if you turned close captions on,
it does have the English captions on there. Because I
watched it the first time and it did not, and

(01:13:08):
I was like, whoa.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
It did immediately for me. Maybe that's just a default
setting I have on my YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Yeah, maybe my default setting has it turned off. And
that was my problem. Whatever. I did not have any
captions when I first started watching it, and I was like,
how am I supposed to get anything out of this?
I Am not smart enough to know another language. I'm
American and dumb. But yeah, once it turned on the captions,
it didn't help that much because Japanese storytelling is very

(01:13:34):
different from Western storytelling. Also a lot of translations, right
that can be really literal, and you can miss some
of the nuance that was in the original language, So
that could be part of it too. But yeah, as
I was reading along, I'm like, I'm not entirely sure
what's going on here, but the trailer is very evocative

(01:13:56):
and compelling.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Yeah, like a basic Wikipedia rundown is that you play
a high school student named Tanako Shimizu who tries to
survive after her town is consumed in a fog that
results in monster showing up. There's a whole bunch of
like viscera that looks like flowers. There's like a whole
like cult school thing going on. You can't tell if

(01:14:20):
she's jumping through time herself. Apparently that's the theme of
this week. You don't know if it's time jumps or not.
But it's just remarkably pretty and I remember the the
little teaser peak we got at It also gave me
that vibe. Maybe it's just because there's a red color

(01:14:41):
palette as opposed to just the dark brown and black
color palette of most Silent Hill games. Yeah, it also
gave me really like Uzumaki, which is another story that
we talked about on the show. Like in Uzumaki, the
town that has like all the spirals and a evil
curse about spirals right right vibe to it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
So, which I still haven't watched, and I need to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
I haven't watched I So it's the the anime that
came out I think on Adult Swim is not the
first telling like visual telling of that story outside of
like the anime that it was based, anime manga it
was based on. Yeh, there was like a Uzumaki movie
that was live action that was weird, and I haven't

(01:15:27):
watched it, but I've seen clips from it because it's
it's bizarre. I think I think both Uzumaki and this
will be actually like doo frightening for me in the
long run, but I appreciate the little glimpses into it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Yeah, I uh, I think this will be one that
I'll watch someone do a playthrough of. I don't tend
to play these games very much. I play the Resident
Evil games more than I play the Silent Hill games.
I think I played started to play one Silent Hill
game early on, and I found because it was a

(01:16:07):
very early one and it was for like one of
the older consoles, I found the control scheme to be
a little too clunky and the camera to be too clunky,
and I didn't have fun, so I didn't really get
into it. But I appreciate the artistry that goes into it.
And you know, there are certainly hardcore fans of the series,

(01:16:29):
so I'll be interested to see what their take on
it is. It's also interesting to me because it feels
like it's one of those series where and resident evils
the same way, where there might be some connective tissue
between different entries, but it's really more about an aesthetic
and a tone than it is the continuation of a story.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
That is interesting, and I also think oftentimes a good
choice because how many times do we look at sequels
and go that just wasn't as good as the original.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Or it was just the same movie but less good.
See also Anchorman two or any of the Austin Power sequels.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
I have not seen Anchorman two and I've only seen
an Austin Power sequel, so well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
If you the problem with the Austin Power sequels is
that Mike Myers will repeat the same jokes from one
from one to another to the point where you're like, oh,
this is the part of the movie where he does
the the shadow silhouette joke, or this is the part
of the movie where he does X Y or Z.

(01:17:34):
Anchorman is literally the same movie again, cha, except that
it has.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Karl in it, Anchorman two, Carl as in Betina and
Carl oh and also has an actor friend of mine
in it as well. Yeah, so that's awesome, which I
thought originally this actor friend of mine, Dave, was in
Anchorman one, so I watched Anchorman one on a plane

(01:18:00):
looking for him the entire time, and it turns out
he was an Anchorman too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Wop wop wop wop.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Uh. Well, let's hope that the final story in our
lineup today does not fall into the same trap of
what we just talked about, of just repeating all the
same jokes.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Yeah, the teaser has a joke that was made in
the first movie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
It does, so I don't know how hopeful we can be.
We're talking about Spinal Tap too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Yeah. So, if you're not familiar with this is Spinal Tap.
It's a mockumentary, one of the earliest mockumentaries where it's
done in documentary style, and it has a fictional documentarian
named Marty de Burgee following a fictional heavy metal band
called Spinal Tap while they are on tour. And it's

(01:18:56):
an absolute send up of heavy metal met ya, of
rock and roll, of documentaries. It's hilarious. It is incredibly quotable.
If you've ever heard this, one goes to eleven that
comes from Spinal Tap, and in fact, that's the joke
that they reference in this teaser. You see a close

(01:19:17):
up of an amp that has all these different controls
and each of them until the last one goes up
to eleven instead of ten because eleven is one louder.
The one that they change is master volume at the
very end goes up to the infinity symbol.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
Yes, yeah, I'm still excited to give it a chance.
Some of their other things, they've done, other monumentaries, Waiting
for Guffman, Best in Show, things like.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
That, the A Mighty Wind, which was the that was
the folk music one. Yeah, Harry Sheer, Mike Michael McKeon,
and oh why can't why is his name escape me?
The one who's really the mastermind behind it all?

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
Oh my gosh, ah, it's not It's not Cross.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
That's he was for Guest, Christopher Guest, I was gonna
say it was Count Rugen in Princess Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
I was like David Cross and like, no, he's from
Arrested Development.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Uh yeah, he Christopher Guest. They're they're brilliant. They do
a great job. Very This is smile Tap is funny.
The DVD. By the way, if you get the special
edition DVD, or some variation on it. Just the menus
as the DVD boots up, are hilarious because the band
does commentary over the menus. It's great, and they the

(01:20:44):
actors all as the band members do commentary for the film,
so they're in character doing commentary and it's fantastic. There's
also outtakes that are almost as long as the movie is,
where they could have put together a second movie just
from the outtakes that they didn't use for the first film.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
Maybe that's what this is could be.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Yeah, it would certainly save them a lot of trouble.
I know that this is spinal tap. The original movie
is supposed to be rereleased to theaters this summer in
advance of the sequel coming out later on in I
think September, so I'm very much looking forward to that.
I plan on going to the theater and seeing this.
I want to bring friend of the show Shaye Lee

(01:21:26):
to one, as long as I'm reasonably certain that the
audience is just going to enjoy the movie and not
quote along with it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Yeah. Yeah, I was worried about that with Wicked, and
thankfully my audience was pretty chill. I would like to
do the same. You know what. I had completely forgotten
that Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis were married.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's like such.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
A great comedic pairing of people.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Absolutely, Yeah, Christopher Guest is brilliant. Michael b Kean and
Harry Shearer are too, Like they make a great comedic trio.
And they also play like so in a Mighty Wind,
they're the Folksmen, so they play the band the Folksmen.
So the same three people who play Spinal Tap are

(01:22:12):
playing folks singers in a Mighty Wind, which is just
a lot of fun. And yeah, I highly recommend if
you have not seen this as spinal Tap checking it out.
You also see lots of fun cameos like Billy Crystal
and Fran Dresher and Dana Carvey and Jelica Houston. Like

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there's a bunch of people who are just like in
it for just a moment, but it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
You're going through all those people. I'm like, I don't
remember all that, but that is very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
Yeah, well, some of them were dressed up as mimes,
so they're harder to recognize that Billy Crystal and Dana
Carvey in particular Star.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Wars, Star Wars level of guest appearance, which so speaking
of Dana carve as watching After Midnight last night, that
that's the last story. We're gonna wrap up in a second.
But I was watching After Midnight last night. It was
an episode from a couple of days ago, and they
played to Chi or not to Chi, where they would

(01:23:08):
quickly bleep up flip up a picture and you had
to guess whether it was Stanley Tucci or not, and
one of them was Danny Carvey from Master of Disguise.
Of course, great story, got I only got one wrong
because it was Stanley Tucci and I thought it was
John Locke from Lost. Even when they showed the full picture,

(01:23:29):
I still wasn't certain.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
So well, that wraps it up for this episode. We
ended a little early. We instead of it being an
hour and a half, for like an hour and twenty
four minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Jeez, Louise, you know what, because you said it was
going to be a short episode, so then of course
we had to talk forever.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Well it was, and then you started adding in all
these non genre.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
Well we don't have to keep doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
No, no, no, I like it. I like that we're
able to chat about them and we talked about them,
you know, a tidy bit probably abow as much as
we would have if we had just kept them in
the lineup. We just we we recognize that doesn't fit
the same way that stuff from sci fi and horror
and fantasy would.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
Maybe in the future, we'll just go here's the title,
here's like the sentence synopsis.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Yeah, here's the log line for the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Here's when it comes out. Check it out if it
sounds good to you. Yeah, So that's it, Jonathan. If
people want to write us and talk to us about
the things we've talked about, how do they do that,
or if they want to contact you about it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
Rather, you're gonna have to go and get yourself a
VR headset. So if you don't have one already, you're
gonna need to do that. Once you get the VR headset,
you're gonna put that on, you're going to connect that
to your computer, and you're going to start to watch
Black Mirror season eight, which is crazy because season seven
is the one that's coming out. But you're gonna find

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a secret menu in your headset. It's gonna let you
watch season eight that's going to plunge you into a
virtual environment. Where the people you talk to seem really real.
Then it turns out those really real simulations of people
they're having rich, varied lives even when you're not around.
So if you leave and you come back, things have

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continued to progress in their lives, and you realize that
these folks have just as much of a valid life
as the people you know outside of the game. You're
going to continue to explore this world. You're going to
actually land a job in that virtual world. You're going
to end up meeting someone, and the two of you
are going to really hit it off, and after just

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hanging out for a few times, you're going to realize
you're actually having feelings for this artificial person. The two
of you are going to develop a relationship that starts
to have its own, deep and rewarding elements to it. Meanwhile,
your job is progressing and you're getting more and more
involved in it. You're rising up the ladder at your

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virtual office. But this is taking you away from the
time that you would be able to spend with your
virtual partner, and that relationship is going to suffer as
a result. It's actually going to start getting more difficult
for you to balance those elements of your virtual life.
You've got to find yourself really stressed out when you're
back over at your virtual job. But you need to

(01:26:22):
put the effort in, because that's what this is all about, right,
It's about number go up. And that number doesn't go
up unless you're actually working your butt off, so you
keep doing that. Meanwhile, you start to realize that the
person you're coming home to doesn't even really recognize you anymore.
You're a different person than when you started off, and
things are drifting and lifeless, and you don't want it

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to be, but you know you can't just fix it.
You still have everything back at your office to worry about,
and eventually this is going to come to a head,
to the point where your virtual partner leaves you one
day and it's incredibly painful, and you go into the
office and it turns out they've outsourced all of it
to real intelligence, and all the AI has been fired

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and there's no job to go to anymore. And you'll
take off your headset and turn to your left and
you'll see me there, and I'll be like, told you,
AI is terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
What's your question that's horrible? If it is just apparent
that people within the matrix should not be making a
matrix of their own. Okay, so instead just reach out
to us on social media on Facebook and Instagram and threads.
We are Larger Nurturing Collider. We're also a large ner
Droun Collider on discord. You can get the invite to

(01:27:33):
join our discord on our website www dot large neurdron
Collider dot com. Surprise, surprise, all of the show notes
will be there eventually. I need to take sometime this
weekend and update the site, but I will do that
for you all because we love you. On Blue skyware
LLNC Underscore podcast not on there much right now. Life

(01:27:54):
has been crazy for the past couple of months, but yeah,
reach out. You can also email us at large Nerdroun
Pott dot com. We love hearing from you, We love
geeking out with you. And that's it. Yeah, if you
love the show, tell other people who you think might
love the show. And until next time. I am Ariel,
I saw that black Cat twice.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Cast in and I am Jonathan. I'm artificially intelligent too, Strickland.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
You're genuinely intelligent, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Thank that that that that that that that thank you
The large nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin

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McLeod of incomptech dot com