Snackin' on Gelatinous Cubes

From Pirates reboots to gummy dice, we cover some of the weird, geeky news of the past week!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large nor Drug Lighter 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 super duper John and In Streetland.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Up, Up and away in my beautiful balloon museum.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Balloon museum. Yeah, we're talking about balloon museums.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
And it's right. It's right across the street from the areel. Like,
there's a balloon museum across the street from I went
to it this week. I'll talk about it in a second.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I thought, so you think you could dances across the
street from you.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's also Listen, there's a lot that's across the street
from me. It's a big complex and one of the
things that's in there is a balloon museum.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I need to visit you or often apparently, which I mean, yes,
that's true. Maybe we do. We'll do. We have talked
about like once a month doing a in person video
recording of this podcast, so if we can figure out
those logistics, then that's likely to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, So welcome everyone to our podcast. We're going to
start as we always do, by talking about stuff what
we have seen and done since the last time we recorded,
And if you want, I'll just go ahead and go first,
since I talked about the Balloon Museum, So yeah, there's
a Balloon Museum exhibit. It's in the Pullman train Yard,

(01:37):
which is very close to where I live, like in
walking distance, and I went there this past week, partly
as a celebration for my wife's birthday, partly just to
see what was all about. And it kind of spans
the gap between a legitimate exhibition and one of those

(02:02):
Instagram pop up museum experiences. You know what I'm talking about, right,
areel like.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
The yeah, yeah, like the Candy Topia or the Slime
the really gross slime places.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah. I want to say there was like a doughnut
inspired one as well, besides the Candy Topia one. But yeah,
those things where you realize that it's only made for
you to go in and take selfies, where there's all
this stuff around you, and that there's nothing else to
the experience. This felt like it had a little more
substance than that, a little more not a lot, but

(02:39):
it involved a lot of artists who had created essentially
like inflatable sculptures of different types, like some of them
were very abstract, some of them were less. So my
favorite room was a corridor where they had smoke filled

(03:00):
soap bubbles flying through the air while they projected like
laser lights as well, so it had this really cool
lighting effect and the little smoke bubbles were neat when
they would pop right. That was really cool. They also
had a huge swimming pool like area filled with thousands

(03:20):
and thousands of black balls, so it was a ballpit essentially,
and people were given the opportunity to free fall, not
jump into, but freefall into the balls and then stay
inside the giant pool filled with balls to watch like

(03:41):
a little video component to this piece. I did not
get into the pool, but both of the people I
went with did.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Did they survive the ballpit?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
They did. Both of them lived, although friend of the
show Sheha bruised her petwo d oh yeah, like when
she did her fall back, like she her butt hit
the base of the pool because it's not that deep,
like there's no deep end. It was large but not
deep because you need to be able to get up
and walk around to get yourself to the edge and

(04:16):
pull yourself back out again. But yeah, she said that
when she fell backward, she hit her butt a little
too hard. As I said, I did not get in
and so I did not experience this myself. But yeah,
it was cute, like I don't know if it's worth
almost forty dollars a ticket cute, But well.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, ballpits are not balloons. I'm sorry. Like I
will call a pop tart a sandwich, but a ballpit
is not a balloon.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's first of all, pop tart a sandwich. Well
that's going to come back later in this episode. But yeah,
I agree, bubbles aren't balloons either are technic. But it
was still my favorite. Yeah, it was neat. I thought
it was a neat experience. Like, I didn't dislike it.

(05:08):
I definitely felt the price, as I said on a
social media post, was overinflated to use a balloon joke,
but still kind of a cool experience. Other than that,
I watched the most recent episode of Dick Turpin, which
is the second to last. It's the penultimate episode for
this season and ended in a bit of a cliffhanger,

(05:31):
which made me wish that I had just waited until
the end of this week to watch both parts back
to back, so now like what I have to look
forward to tonight is the conclusion of that story. I
also started playing starduw Valley for like the twentieth time
because Update one point six released this week, and so

(05:54):
it's crazy to me that the creator of that game
continues to push out updates to years after its initial
release and adding incredible value. Like he did some stuff
that was just like little quality of life improvements in
the game, but he also added like legit, like like

(06:15):
substantial content in there, and so I'm really enjoying it.
It actually has pulled me away from Like a Dragon.
I was about to go into the final chapter of
Like a Dragon, the most recent game in what used
to be called the Yakuza series. I was in chapter
thirteen and there are fourteen chapters, and I put it

(06:37):
down to switch to Stardu Valley, and I think that's
it for me. So what about you, Ariel. I've been
chatting for way.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Too long, so I've been adding stuff while you were chatting.
I've also been listening. I've never played Stardu Valley or
the Yakuza series, although the latter has interested me.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You gotta play Starduo Valley by the game play Stardo Valley.
It's one of those games where it's like Civilization, where
it has that one more turn kind of aspect to it.
You'll complete a day and your progress saves when you
get to the end of the day, and then the
next day starts, and the temptation to just go into

(07:20):
that next day and not walk away is incredible.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
I maybe I will do it when I've got someone
to hold me accountable, because I don't need a game
like that in my life. I have so much to do.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I understand this.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm trying to get my like I will play it
at some point. I will that, And as soon as
I get I figure out what machine I want to
play balder Skate three on and get that machine, I'll
play that too. I did last weekend after we recorded
Watch a Friend. No, it wasn't last week, it was
two weeks ago, but I didn't talk about it. I

(07:56):
watched a friend play Unicorn Overlord, which is an interesting
turn based game where you set up all of your
characters to do their stuff beforehand, and then you just
watch them fight. You don't make decisions in the middle
of the battle, but the weirdest thing about it was
a lot of like the character and costume design was

(08:19):
very incongruous to me. There was a noble who is
dressed like an exotic dancer. Not that that's a bad
way to dress like it would be a fun cause
play to do, but it kind of a lot of
the characters design didn't necessarily match with the kind of
character that they were sure, and it was a little
bit weird and funny, but it was interesting. But this

(08:41):
week I saw Ghostbusters The Frozen Empire.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Right as those Ghostbusters let it go.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
And you know, my husband said that he wasn't able
to turn off his brain enough to enjoy it. And
they're definitely things about it that could have been that
are done is the wrong word. I felt a couple
of pieces were not necessary, or some of the plot

(09:15):
was a little convoluted. But I enjoyed the journey. Interestingly enough,
I enjoyed the journey to get to the battle more
than I enjoyed the battle. By the time I got
to the battle, I was a little bit like, is
this movie over or is this like a midway through
the movie battle, But up to that point I enjoyed it.

(09:36):
The family dynamics were amazing. That was a lot of
fun to watch. The special people that they brought into
the Ghostbusters organization were a lot of fun. I felt
very much like they had pulled some inspiration from Dropout
or Dimension twenties on Sleeping City. But it was fun

(09:59):
I enjoyed. But the movie I thought was going to
someplace nostalgic that it didn't end up going to. And
afterwards my husband and I were talking about it and
he also thought the movie was going to go to
this specific place.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
It's a new enough movie. I'm worried about giving spoilers.
But it had to do with you know, past specters
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
So like a Vigo thing. You thought Vigo was going
to show up.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, no, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Wellow, so we're talking like maybe like a Gozer or
something in that case, Okay, got it.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Not Vigo, not Goes are more inconsequential ghosts. But I
did like a lot about the movie. I thought it
was a lot of fun. The jokes landed, the easter
eggs were more well incorporated. So Afterlife was very much
a love letter to the original Ghostbusters movie. We've said
this quite a few times on this podcast, but all
of like the Easter eggs and all of the callbacks
were very apparent and they were much more well integrated

(10:58):
into this movie where it felt like a story and
not just a bunch of callbacks.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
So that was great.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then the actor. There was an actor in the
mid credit end scene who is a regional actor and
he's a really great guy, and I was super excited
to get to see him be in it because he
had posted on social about his journey to get the role.
And it was a really interesting conversation because apparently when

(11:28):
he got the audition, he had no idea what it
was for. It was dummy sides like they do with
really big movies, but they needed a body scan and
this was right after like the strike, and he was like,
I don't know if I can do this. I really
need more information, and just his journey to make the
decision to audition for it anyhow and how well it
turned out. So I was glad to see it work
out for him. But that was good. Now I'm talking

(11:51):
way too long. In anticipation of watching the new Roadhouse movie,
my husband watched the original Roadhouse movie and I watched
the second half of the original Roadhouse movie.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, the question is in that second I don't remember
where it falls in the film. Did you get to
hear the immortal line pain don't hurt? I don't know
that was in the first half.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Then this this last week, I was also super super busy,
so I was exhausted by the time I got to Roadhouse.
But I will tell you the movie it's die like
it's ware shows right. It doesn't hold up incredibly well,
but it's immensely more fun if you imagine that every

(12:37):
other attractive guy in the film who plays like a
villain or adversary is someone else who auditioned for Patrick
Swayze's role and didn't get it.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Hmm, that just.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Makes it a lot more fun.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's roll insider baseball. The longer you're an actor, the
more I'm gonna have to deal with these kinds of things.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, I was just I was like, he kind of
looks like Patrick Swayzee. I wonder if he condition for
the main role and didn't get it, and now he's
the villain, and so it's kind of like a real
life fake adversarial thing. Just funny, funny brain miss Sure.
I've watched the first couple of episodes of X Men

(13:16):
ninety seven, which is the cartoon that's the continuation of
the old X Men cartoon. I'm really enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's good.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's yeah. I had to be reminded of a couple
of things from the original cartoon because it's been a
long time and I didn't go back and watch it.
But I'm really enjoying the story so far. It's given me,
like very much the feel of like the Wolverine podcasts
that came out a few years ago and all that.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
So it's great cool.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
And then yeah, and then three Body Problem is out
and I want to watch it, but my husband just
got the book for Christmas and doesn't want to watch
the show till he's read the book. So I guess
I'm holding off on that one.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
I mean, you could always try and watch it yourself
and just potentially deal with that being a strain on
your relationship, because that typically is what happens in my household,
is that one of the two of us will end
up jumping ahead and the other ones like you betrayed me.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I do that with like pitch meetings and ordinary sausage
videos and how it should have ended some things like
that TV shows we tend to wait for each other.
I did watch all of Last of Us without Tony
because he wants to play the video game first, and
he's not ready to play the video game yet. But
I was like, Hey, I'm gonna do this. I hope

(14:36):
you don't mind. He's like, nah, it's fine. So he'll
probably read Three Body Problem well before he plays Last
of Us though, so.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well. But before we go any further, it's time for
us to segue into our beloved famed segment thirty Seconds
or Less, where we guarantee, not a guarantee, that we
will cover the following stories each in thirty seconds or less.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
And this first one doesn't really belong in the thirty
seconds or less. It's that Lewis Gossitt Junior passed away
the day or it was announced the day of our
recording this. He's eighty seven years old. He's a very
prolific actor. He won like an Oscar and an Emmy
for being in Roots the original. He won an Academy Award,
I think for being in an officer and a gentleman.
But he's done a bunch of geeky stuff too. He

(15:27):
was in the new Watchman TV show for HBO. He
was in the nineties Punisher. He had a guest role
on psych and Stargate, and he was in Jaws three
D and Enemy Mine in a voice in the Batman cartoons.
So he did a lot of cool stuff and apparently
did a lot of good things too. So go out
and watch something that he's done in geeky remembrance.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yes, yeah, there's tons of options. He was a prolific actor,
so yes, okay. Moving on. In the Robots to Our
Jobs category, actor Sarah Poyser says that the BBC agreed
to replace her with an AI voiceover or an unnamed project.
She posted a screenshot of a message that said, quote,

(16:12):
sorry for the delay. We have had the approval from
BBC to use the AI generated voice, so we won't
need Sarah any more end quote. So you might remember
this issue was a cornerstone during the sag after strikes
here in the United States, and I have to say,
not a great move, BBC.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, they're they're realizing that it makes me mad. And also,
not everything was settled for voice actors. There's still a
lot of reasonable to do there. Yes, So are you
old enough to remember Sister Act or Sister Act two. Well,

(16:53):
apparently for like ten years now, they've been talking about
making a Sister Act three, maybe a direct to streaming
movie for Disney Plus. They talked about they started talking
about it in twenty fifteen. In twenty twenty they said
maybe a Disney Plus streaming thing. Apparently, according to Vie Goldberg,
it's still in the works. I liked Sister Act. If

(17:15):
they can give me a good story, I wouldn't mind
a third one. I don't know how much of an
audience it will have because I don't know how many,
like newer generations have watched it.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
I mean it depends. Did you know that there's a
Broadway musical Sister Act.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, but it's so very different and they don't use
any of the pop tunes like to me, sorry, we're
going off thirty seconds here. To me, Sister Act is
like the precursor to all of like the soundtracks to
things like The Suicide Squad or Guardians of the Galaxy
or whatnot, Like they did Jukebox musical, right, yeah, yeah,

(17:52):
the musical is not that.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
The reason why I asked is like, like there's some
people who might their familiarity with sister act might only
be the broad Way musical, which is weird to think about,
but anyway, Okay. Back in twenty twenty one, Netflix treated
viewers with a trilogy of Fear Street films adapted from R. L.
Stein novels. Those three stories were interconnected, and now we're
getting a fourth film titled Fear Street prom Queen. It's

(18:17):
set in nineteen eighty eight and it will feature a
cast including India Fowler, Susanna sun Nis Strasa, David Ayacono,
and Ella Rubin. And I don't recognize any of those names,
but I am old.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yes, I haven't watched Fear Street. Speaking of old, are
you old enough to remember American Gladiators? Uh? So, apparently
they're American Gladiators, which was kind of like, hey, fight
people with foam weapons like cool are being on TV

(18:55):
mixed with Ninja Warrior had spun off to the UK
and that has had a reboot. Gladiators in the BBC
was so big that its first episode, which recently launched
I think is the largest launch that the BBC has

(19:16):
had in nearly a decade. They've had ten million viewers
after twenty eight days. So they're getting a second season,
So yay hitting people with pham polls on balance beams.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's also where the joke in Dodgeball came from, where
he's introducing his team that includes a guy named Laser
and a guy named Blazer. Like it was clearly like
a joking reference to American Gladiators.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, I watched the Goodness out of American Gladiators when
I was little.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I enjoyed it as a kid too. I thought it
was great. It was a great like I always wanted
to be the guy firing tennis balls out of the
tennis ball cannon while people are running behind various like
cover and trying to fire back. I was like, this
is awesome. Well, remember that Hollywood auction that we mentioned
a couple of episodes ago. One item that commanded a

(20:10):
massive seven hundred and eighteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty
dollars bid was the door that killed Leonardo DiCaprio or
it saved Kate Winslet. It really just depends upon your
point of view. But I'm talking about the prop door
used at the end of Titanic. According to Hollywood Reporter,
it's made out of balsa wood, which even by home

(20:31):
depot standards is overpricing. Sorry, you can tell. You can
tell when Aerial gets distracted and starts typing things where
there's a long delay.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
No, I mean it was. It was funny. I liked it.
I liked the home Depoat dig I was. It was
just I was like, I wonder if it's still wet
like Colin Ferth's shirt was. I think it's a different Anyhow, Apparently,
did you ever want to own a cinema line, a
movie house franchise, because apparently Alamo Draft of House Cinema

(21:06):
is up for sale. We don't know the price, but
apparently their numbers have been doing better than the overall
domestic box office numbers. So if you've got millions or
billions of dollars to spend and you want to own
a movie theater line, now's your chance.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah. Alamo Draft House has a reputation for being like
a film goer's theater chain, where they have very strict
rules in place and if you if you break those rules,
you will be told to leave. And that includes things
like texting during a film that kind of stuff. But
the chain also has not been without its own list

(21:48):
of controversies, which we're not going to get into here.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'm sure that they're selling.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I'm sure that folks in Austin, Texas are a
bit nervous about who might take over that cinema because
it has a long and beloved history in that town.
But speaking of beloved, I love Florence Pugh. That could
be the end of this thirty seconds or less piece
right here. But one of the reasons I love her

(22:17):
is for the amount of f's she gives when it
comes to showing folks backstage looks at her work, which
is zero. She gives zero of them. So she recently
posted a short video on Instagram showing a quick glimpse
of goings on during Thunderbolts filming, which is happening right
here in Atlanta, Florence. If you are listening, let's go
grab tea. I know just the place.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Aw, that's sweet. Yeah, don't know which. I have a
guess which soundstage actually something at. But did you know
that there's also a bunch of soundstages up in Doraville?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Now I did not. I only know the ones that
are south of the city.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
You can see them from two eighty five.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's the perimeter. That's the perimeter that goes around the city.
For those of you not in the Atlanta area.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yes, and if you're inside the perimeter, you're itp.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Ha ha that's me. You're cool.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
And if you're if you're outside the perimeter.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Of your trash area and not cool.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
But also I live in Roswell, which is right on
the border of Sandy Springs, which to me is still
Metro Atlanta. So I'm insert raspberry here. I'm not going
to actually spit into my microphone. That's gross. Uh, last
thirty seconds or last story, not last fee oh shoot,
last story for me, this is what happens when I'm

(23:40):
looking at my tabs and not The lineup, uh, which
are four is in the works and there are over
four hundred people working on it. CDPR confirms that is
two thirds of their studio. It sounds like eventually they're
going to ramp up to that being their main focus.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
They've made a bunch of promises and also said they're
not going to have a bunch of releases. So oh,
it's weird what their production schedule is. But hopefully with
that many people, which are four, will be a good output.
I've never played a Witcher game. I've only watched the
TV shows.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
I started Witcher three, and it was a game that
was so deep and so broad that I fell off
of it relatively early on, just because I felt like,
kind of like in a game like Skyrim or the
Fallout series, where there's so much stuff you can do

(24:33):
that it distracts you from the stuff you're supposed to do.
And also it didn't help that I felt like I
was really bad at combat in the game, so like
it was a perfect convergence of things that made me
kind of fall off of it. That being said, the
scope of those games, it's so huge that I'm not

(24:55):
surprised that there are four hundred people working on it. Okay, Yeah,
We have the confirmation that the final season of the
long running series Red Versus Blue will publish this year
starting in May. Co creator Bernie Burns returned to write
the series and co creator Matt Hullum directed it. We
got a trailer that showed the stakes are really high

(25:16):
for the former residents of Blood Gulch Canyon, and yet
the series still sports the goofy humor. It's known for
glad to see that the series will get a fitting end,
because that wasn't a guarantee since Rooster Teeth is getting
shut it down.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yes, and I put in my notes Red versus Blue
is taking the far Escape finale approach, which is by
ending with a movie, but for a film. But they
aren't having to wait years after being surprised canceled thinking
they're having a next season. So that's good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
So that was a long version of thirty seconds or
less where we didn't live up to our guarantee. Sorry,
you can get a refund for this episode at the end,
which will be zero dollars.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yes, So now onto our regular stories, which might be
more thirty sec or less than our thirty seconds or less.
I don't actually think so. We were kind of worried
this was going to be a short episode earlier this
week because news was a little bit slow. But it
doesn't actually look that way.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, Thursday morning it looked like we had a very
light episode, but then everything kind of started coming out
late yesterday and then today as we record this. One
thing that was on our lineup from the beginning because
Ariel put it there is the trailer that we got
for the Penguin series or Pinguin series of your Benedict Cumberbatch.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh, I thought you were telling me, I typoed No.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
No, that's how there was this whole joke about how
Benedict Cumberbatch narrated a documentary about animals, including penguins, but
could not say the word penguin.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yes, I mean, if you say it enough, it stops
being a real ward.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Fully acknowledged that penguin is penguin is one of those. Yeah,
so this trailer we know. I've said it recently. I
didn't care for the Robert Pattinson The Batman movie. I
felt like it was too long. I did feel like
several people gave very good performances. And despite the fact

(27:26):
that I think it's ridiculous to cast Colin Ferrell in
something where he has to be in a fat suit
and completely unrecognizable, I think his Penguin performance was really.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Good for what it was. Yeah, I mean, it's clearly
not It's not the classic depiction of the penguin, but
then again, neither was Danny DeVito's Penguin and the Tim
Burton film right like that was a big departure from
the classic version of the care and The Riddler was
a huge departure from the classic depiction of the Riddler. Yeah,

(27:55):
so the one criticism I saw from I want to
say it was one of our mutual friends, but I
can't remember who it was now, so I'm not gonna
I don't want to misattribute. But the complaint I saw
was that the Penguin in this series came across as
looking like no more than your typical gangster slash crime
lord type character. And I'm inclined to agree.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, I kind of feel like it gave me sopranos vibes.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
I mean, not that it was done poorly, but like,
you watch it and you're like, I don't even necessarily
understand why he gets the name penguin at all. You know,
it doesn't feel like that's an appropriate name for this character.
He definitely feels more like a a ruthless gangster type

(28:50):
and less of the more flamboyant Batman villain. Keeping in mind,
of course, that all the Batman characters have gone through
mats of tonal shifts throughout the history, because I mean
that comic book has been around for almost a century, right,
so clearly things change depending on what era you're reading.
But still, yeah, it felt a little weird to me.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
It felt weird to me too, But also seriously, call
it's Colin Ferrell, right, yeah, completely unrecognizable.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah yeah, like.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I stared him, like, there's nothing about this person that
looks like the person that's playing him.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
So unrecognizable that I would have I would have accidentally
called him Colin Firth. But that's also because my that's
also because my brain does that thing where if there
are two names that are similar, I will mix them up.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
They're they're both from Across the Pond and Colin, and.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
They both have a last name that starts with an F,
you know.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
And I'm sure they've both worn wet shirts on a
film at some point.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yes, I mean there are definitely moments where Pegwin looks
like he's been doused, so uh yeah, So it doesn't
look bad. It just doesn't make me think of the Penguin.
So I think it's still probably going to be a
compelling show to watch. I'm just not sure that at
the end of it, I'm going to think, well, yeah,
that makes a good entry into this Batman mythology, or

(30:16):
if I'm going to watch it and just say that
was a good gangster series. I wish that they hadn't
bothered to make it connected to Batman.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, So in my household, we watched Gotham for a
little bit and fell off quickly because it just was
tonally all over the place. Yeah, it was. It was hard.
We never tried Pennyworth. I did think. I think I
watched like one episode of it, or most of an episode,
and it just didn't grab me. And maybe that's because
I wasn't starting from the beginning, or maybe it's because

(30:46):
I didn't watch Gotham. This feels like it's probably separate
from that, because it's based off of The Batman, which
was separate from that. So maybe, I mean it's if
it's gangster related, we'll probably watch it.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, I hope it's good. Yeah, me too. I mean,
out of no other reason that I'm curious to see
what other, if any Batman references make their way into
the show, or if they don't, then that really does
raise the question of why did this need to be
a Batman spin off. Something else that you put into
our lineup early on, before we were thinking that we

(31:23):
weren't going to have much to talk about, was a
trailer for an animated anthology of Loose takes on grim
fairy tales called Grim Variations.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, it's anime. I don't know if there's going to
be a dubbed version. The trailer is subtitled I don't know.
Fairy Tales are one of the places where I can
get like a little bit dark in my subject matter
material and it looks really fun to me. It's basically
where like all of the fairy tale heroes that you

(31:58):
hear about are actually villains, which is not very unoriginal story.
There are lots of stories where like Cancel and Gretel
were actually the bad guys. So but it looks interesting
to me.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's, yeah, six different classic stories, including the the Bremen musicians,
Like that was an interesting one to be added in there.
Some of them I felt were like very much more
loosely based on the on the originals. Yeah. Yeah, Like

(32:28):
you watch it and you're like, okay, this is like
like leagues away from the original fairy tale to the
point where maybe it's just a little bit of esthetic
that made its way into the the finished product, But
that doesn't mean that the episodes themselves won't be entertaining
or interesting. The art style is very nice, so I

(32:52):
don't know that I'm going to watch this if I'm
going to be completely honest, but I do admire the
artistry that went into it.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I will probably watch it. I'll let you know how
it is. I've been kind of craving some more dark
fairy tale after never After from Dimension twenty.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
So well, something that doesn't look dark but does look
zany and like it's got a much larger budget than
it normally does. Is the trailer we got for the
next season of Doctor Who.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, it's such a different feel from like the past
couple of seasons. It's really intriguing, is what I'll say.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, I mean the money that Disney Plus has spent
on this series is on display on that screen though,
because when you look at your like, this looks like
the production value has jumped up by a large factor
compared to previous seasons of the show.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yes, yes, it's interesting because we were going back to
Russell T. Davies as the showrunner. Obviously, the holiday special
that was solely Chruty Gottla I had mixed opinions on
because it felt the first half of it felt a

(34:18):
little extra goofy, and then the second of the half
of it added like a level of ominousness. That's not
the right word, but basically like there were stakes added
that made me feel like the situation wasn't dire, but
it had stakes. I'm talking around in circles here. So

(34:40):
I felt like the episode, while it was fun and
I liked both halves, I felt it was a little incongruous.
And this series has both of those aspects, but or
this trailer has both these aspects but maybe makes me
feel like they're blended a little bit better together.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, I was left wondering if the added production value
is going to affect the charm of the series, because
arguably some of the charm, especially for the old episodes
of Doctor Who, is how janky things were, but they
were still telling these good stories. The stories were things

(35:19):
that people that really affected people. I mean, you have
lifelong Doctor Who fans out there, but you watch like
those early Doctor Who episodes and you're like, man, it
looks like they might have had a budget of about
seven dollars and thirty seven cents per episode, and some
episodes they had to say scrimpa bitten, go on coupon

(35:39):
day or something. So this is a huge change from that.
I also say, it's fun to see a doctor who's
got a kind of sassy attitude in this trailer, because
that definitely comes across. There's a lot of groove and
style in this trailer as well.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah yeah, and brilliant choice, like brilliant music choice. Yeah,
time won't change.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Me, changes from good old David Bowie.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah great, I mean brilliant music choice for the trailer.
It is interesting because I read an article a couple
of months ago, a month or two ago, saying that
the Ruby, the companion, is not actually sticking around. She
might be changing out mid season spoilers. I'm sorry if
you haven't read that article. So I wonder if they're

(36:36):
alluding to that in the trailer.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah, there's one point where he says that he promises
he'll keep her safe, and I'm like, all right, I
know you'd recently had your transformation, doctor, I know that
it hasn't been that log and therefore your memories are
probably still scrambled, but you don't have a great track
record of your companions being quote unquote safe. At best,

(37:01):
they're not killed, I mean.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
But he also has a new a new attitude, which
is everything is possible, which is not traditional classic Who.
Usually it's like everybody dies except for this one time
kind of an attitude.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
One thing that I think is a mainstay of the series,
and we saw that it in fact will be heavily
represented this year is the tendency to run away, like
running away from stuff, which is a thing in like
every incarnation of Doctor Who, and continues to be a

(37:40):
thing in this one. So good to see that some
traditions are maintained.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, you gotta you gotta get your like everybody who
gets done being on Doctor Who can then run marathons
no problem.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I will remember when we were in a Doctor Who
parody and we had to run and there was no
space to run in.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yes, that was very awkward, and also the floor was
very rickety because it was on like a temporary stage.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, it was a scary time. And not just because
Ariel had to stage kiss me like three times in
that show.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I mean we've had to stage kiss in so many shows.
It's whatever.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm sorry, Yeah, I mean yeah, it's all hat now.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
It's old hat now.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
It's also I giggle every time because the the now
I can't remember. Is it the shield tower? Is it
the Unit Tower?

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (38:33):
My gosh, I'm gonna lose my geek cred for this.
But the Government Tower in the Doctor Who series now
looks very much like the Avengers Tower.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, no coincidence there that Disney just happens to own Marvel.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
So yeah, it's the Unit tower.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
It should be. It should be that they actually go
ahead and make Doctor Who a crossover into the Marvel
universe and say it's the former Avengers Tower, because you
find out that that was being sold, like that's mentioned
in a previous Marvel movie, that they sold the Avengers Tower.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
I would die in a very good way.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I think it's I think it's supposed to be part
of the Fantastic Four if I'm being honest, But I
still think it would have been funny if that had
been sold to the Doctor Who universe.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I'm all for it. I'm all for that crossover. I'm Disney,
I'm all for that crossover.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Well, it sounds like you're interested in anticipating this next season,
which is good to know because between the two of us,
Ariel is more of the Doctor Who fan than I am.
I have watched a bit, but only like I saw
the entire Eccleston and David Tennant runs, and then I

(39:51):
started Matt Smith, but I never got all the way
through Matt Smith's run, so I am not like the
hardcore Doctor Who fan.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, and I know several of you listeners are too,
so I look forward to chatting with you on Discord
about it.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah honest. So next up, we have a trailer for
an animated film called Mars Express, which feels like it's
pulling together a whole bunch of ideas from other science
fiction stories like Isaac Asimov's I Robot and Blade Runner,

(40:25):
particularly Minority Report. Minority Report another one. Yeah. It features
a woman who's a detective in the police force. Her
partner is an android, and there are some cases in
which robots are acting out against humans, which is not

(40:47):
something they should be able to do, which again is
akin to like Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics. And I
watched this trailer and while I kept thinking, oh, this
is reminding me of X, Y and Z, I still
thought that it looks interesting and that this is one
I'm actually kind of looking forward to.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Same same. I was a little confused at the beginning
because the studio making it is g kids. Yeah, I
was like Is this a kid's Is this a kid's
It is not a kid's film.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
No, it's it's immediately a parent this is not meant
for children. But I had the same reaction. I was like, Oh,
this is going to be a show for children, and
then it starts like Nope, totally wrong about that.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, yeah, apparently this studio does make you know, adult,
not like adult adult, but like movies for grown ups
that are not for kids too. It's just an interesting,
confusing name. The art style for the trailer is simplistic

(41:53):
in a way that when I started watching the trailer
I didn't think it would work, but I actually really
liked by the end.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Same. Yeah, it's in an anime style, but it's in
an anime style that you might associate with much older
anime properties, stuff like some of the films that were
coming out in the late seventies early eighties, like that era,
as opposed to stuff that you would see today. And
I agree. I felt had the same initial reaction, but

(42:20):
by the end I was on board. Yeah, this is
one where again I don't know that they're going to
be saying anything new necessarily, but the combination of elements
like the fact that you've got some procedural in there.
There's some sort of noir detective work in there. A
llah Blade Runner, you've got the story again similar to
Blade Runner, where you've got rebelling robots. It's enough components

(42:46):
to make me want to check it out.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah. Same same Speaking of components, like the sandwich components
of a pop tart.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
I told you we were going to come back to that.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
What do you think about the trailer for Unfrosted?

Speaker 2 (43:01):
So, yeah, Unfrosted it is a Jerry Seinfeld directed it
and also accident. I think it's this directorial deboot.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
I believe.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, he's daybooting in this one, and uh uh yeah.
It looks very funny, like it's it's making me think
like it's a sillier, more exaggerated story than some of
the other like product based biopic style films we've gotten

(43:35):
in the past, Like we got the one that was
about flaming hot cheetos. I felt like that one was
less whimsical. This one whimsical is even the wrong word
less comedic. This one's clearly comedic. It's stocked with comedic
actors who are playing various roles from like supporting to
like Cameo. It looks very silly in a lot of ways,

(44:02):
and obviously is taking some serious liberties with the actual
history of the pop tart. But yeah, I was entertained
by the trailer. I would probably watch this.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yeah, I was, I'm gonna I was like, I'm gonna
click on this, and I'm going to decide not to
even add it to our lineup. But it was such
a farcical retelling of the colleg's history. I'll be interested
to know after watching it how much of that stuff
actually happened, if maybe not in the same exact way.
It just looks hilarious. Afterwards, I had some friends and

(44:35):
be like, man, I could I wish I could just
sit around and record having record having fun with my
friends and then make money off of it and call
it my job. I'm like, well, you could. You just
depend on if people liked it. But I expect people
will like Unfrosted.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
There's I mean, like, it's not like this is new territory.
Adam Sandler has made that his career for almost his
entire career is get your friends together some companies into
spending millions of dollars on you, and just goof off
for like three months and then put a movie out

(45:09):
at the end of it. Is the movie worth watching? It?
Absolutely not. But you got Pizza Hut to pay for it,
so it's okay.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
It's that middle part of getting Pizza Hut to pay
for it, that's the tricky.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, the first thing you need to do is get
on SNL and become a breakout star. But yeah, yeah,
it's It's something that has me interested, largely for the
same reason why I liked movies from like the Dodgeball
Anchorman era, where it's an ensemble that looks like they're

(45:42):
having fun while they're making something and that pulls through
on the screen. So yeah, something that almost pulled us
in through the screen was that Sony released a short,
the Spider within a Spider Story. So this is part
of like into the Spider Verse and everything like that.

(46:05):
And it's a six minute long animated short. Uh, and
it's got some heavy stuff in it, so much so
that I gave Ariel one trigger warning before she watched it,
but it was one trigger warning too few.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, So it deals with it deals with mental mental
struggles in young people and and helps to destigmatize talking
about it with someone because a lot of these a
lot of things that people struggle with. You feel alone,
but you aren't alone, and you should talk with somebody

(46:45):
about it, whether it's a friend or a family member
or a professional. So this this is working to destigmatize that,
showing that even superheroes do with that, and yeah, they
they really really do. But yes, at one point in
this movie, Miles Moreles gets sleep paralysis, and I thought
they did a really good job of relaying the feeling

(47:06):
of being in it and then kind of realizing that
you're in it and trying to fight your way out
of it, even though I don't necessarily see a big,
shadowy figure with glowing eyes most of the time. But
then but then it turns into a spider that turns
into a bazillion tiny spiders crawling all over him. And
that is why I'm afraid of spiders, is because I

(47:27):
squished his spider ag nest once and had tiny billions
of tiny spiders crawling all over me. It probably wasn't
actually billions, but it sure felt like it, and I
had the creepy crawlies for days, and I got bit
by the mom spider.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
I mean, he had one crawl out of his mouth.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Sorry, you had to listen to that noise.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
You left out the part where the one crawls out
of his mouth.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
I think my brain blocked that out of my memory
for my own health. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Yeah, you're welcome. There's also the ones that crawling near
his eyeballs and stuff. Yeah, no, it's it's a visceral moment.
Like as I was watching it him, I was like, Wow,
this is like serious horror level stuff. But again, it
comes back around to him to Miles reaching out to
his dad to talk about some of his struggles. Obviously

(48:14):
not to talk about him being Spider Man because that's
still a secret, but a way of him talking about,
you know, how he's challenged to live up to the
expectations that he's under Like it's tough because he obviously
can't talk about how he's exceeding expectations in one area
of his life, but that's affecting him in other areas.

(48:36):
It's something similar that Peter Parker stories have explored in
the past as well. And also the release is done
in connection with a nonprofit organization called the Kevin Love Fund,
which is all about destigmatizing these conversations about mental health
particularly among youth. So it's it's good to see that

(49:02):
one Sony is offering up this incredibly high platform for
storytellers to use to get these messages across, and two
that they are partnering with an organization specifically geared toward
addressing these issues.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Yeah, yeah, I check them out.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
It's also a good short.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's really good. It's it's beautiful, of course,
all this Spider Verse stuff is and it's it's yeah,
it's it's a really good short. I enjoyed it. Minus
the spiders.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think Becca is going
to be able to watch it. I don't think I
can show it to her.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
No, I like Spider Man. I'm almost I can almost
handle jumping spiders on a case to case basis if
it's just in a picture, because my friend owns like
a whole bunch of them. But uh yeah, uh something
that I can I don't think I can handle anymore
on a case to case basis. But I've been proven
wrong before and I might be proven wrong again. Is

(50:06):
that Pirates of the Caribbean are still planning on rebooting.
We had talked about this a long time ago, back
when Margot Roby said that she was trying to pitch
of Pirates of the Caribbean and it got turned down
and canceled. We even did like a little mashup about it,
but apparently that's not maybe exactly the case. And also
post strike, everything is still in the works.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, So this largely comes from movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer,
who has said that the current intent is to reboot
the series. Essentially, it seems like there's the implication that
it would not be practical to continue the series as is.

(50:50):
A lot of people have used that to draw the
conclusions that it's because of Johnny Depp's problems that he's
encountered over the last couple of years, and that it's
kind of an attempt to distance from the actor so
that they can continue to tell stories and rake in
huge amounts of money without having to deal with the
pr nightmare of having an actor on your cast who

(51:13):
has got some problematic issues going on in their personal lives.
So whether this actually manifests into a real project remains
to be seen. But I mean, it shouldn't come as
a surprise that there's still a move to try and
reboot the series because Pirates of the Caribbean did rake

(51:35):
in boat loads to use an appropriate term, boatloads of
cash for Disney, although it was diminishing returns film to film,
So like, the first two did really well, and then
after that they did less well. Still great like still
bring in lots of money, but not as much as

(51:58):
the earlier entries did.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
I think the first two were really fun movies. I
thought the third one was passable. But I think the
reason that they were so good at the start and
that they had diminishing returns is because it was new.
It was something in the like the Veins of Lord
of the Rings, but fun and piety, and we hadn't
had it before rebooting it. I don't think it's going
to do the same thing well.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
And it also was kind of a shock because here
was Disney making a film adaptation based off of a ride,
and I think the only other time they had done
that was Haunted Manchet. So no one had any expectation
that Parts of the Caribbean was even going to be
worth watching, and it turned out the first one was

(52:42):
a fun, if clunky adventure film. I still maintained the
first film's got some real issues with the plotting, and everything,
partly because they were still writing the screenplay when they
started filming it, so they were kind of like they're
kind of like laying the train tracks while the train
was barreling down. But but I still think out of

(53:06):
all the films that I have seen, which granted I
think is only the first three, it's the best of
the bunch, I think.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
I've seen four or five of them. Maybe there's only
four or five. I didn't see the last one.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
That's the fifth one, I think.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Okay, so I've seen four.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
So you've seen the one with Penelope Cruise, right, yes,
but not the one with Javier Bardem.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Not the one with Harvey. I've seen like ten minutes
of the one with Harvey. Javier Bardem, I've only I
don't remember.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
I've only seen the clips that were pretty much used
in the trailer where it's like Javier's gargling black mouth
wash while trying to talk. But that's all I remember.
Next stop, we got to look at some artish artist
not artish artist renditions of the Isle of burke Land

(54:03):
for the upcoming new Universal Studios park, and I was
really impressed with the plans, like whether or not that's
what it looks like when it finally is real is
another thing. But the artist renditions, I'm like, man, you're

(54:23):
gonna make me want to go to this place even
though you still have a Harry Potter Land attached to it.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yeah. I was saying the same thing for those who
don't know. Isle of Burke is How to Train Your Dragon,
which is a delightfully fun movie.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I've only seen the first one, but it's a lot
of fun. Yeah. The plans look great. It looks like
there's gonna be a good mix of like immersiveness and
theater and food and rides and interact The whole thing
about Epic Universal is that it's it's interactive, right, It's

(54:59):
getting you some augmented reality. So I'm really excited to
see these these attractions as more information comes out about
them as they get built, even though there's a Harry
Potter Land, because they also have Dark Universe, and they're
also going to have the Mario World, which they've got
one in Japan.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
And they have one in California too.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, this I feel the same way. I
want to go to there. I don't want to go
to the Harry Potter section of it. Yeah, but I
want to go to the rest of it. I wish
there was a way to like buy a three quarter.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Pack, yeah, where like, could you please make sure that JK.
Rowling doesn't get any of this money? Yeah. The Harry
Potter lands at the other Universal Studios parks, I think
are probably serving as a large amount of inspiration for
Epic Universe, because you had spaces there where if you

(55:53):
bought a special wand an interactive wand you could go
to specific locations within the park and wave the water
around and stuff would happen right like, you would essentially
get like an effect of some sort, something would light up,
you'd hear a sound cue, you might even get like
some animatronic action going on, that sort of thing. And

(56:17):
I think that that ends up being kind of the
starting point for the ideation behind Epic Universe. Not that
everything's going to be exactly like that when it comes out,
but that I think that was kind of they were like, well,
look at what we've already done, how can we do
that but bigger and throughout all of these different lands
in different ways. So that's why I think it's really

(56:38):
exciting personally of all, I don't know if you have
a favorite out of all the pictures that were uploaded,
and we'll have a link in our show notes to this,
But for me, my favorite was a Viking boat ride
that involves water cannons.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Yes, yes, Universal still whole as my favorite water rides
between Universal and Islands of Adventure. They have the best
water rides, yeah, of any theme park I've ever been to.
So I'm very excited for this water version of the
Men in Black ride where you shoot targets and each
other with water guns. Well to I no, no, I'm

(57:20):
also I'm also all of their depictions have dragons in
the sky, and if there are not dragons flying around
the Isle of Burke, I'd be highly disappointed.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Maybe they can go to the Balloon Museum to get
some ideas. Yeah, I was gonna say, like turning from
this amazing ideation to a sticky situation. There's a kickstary
campaign you wanted to talk about, which I am here
to tell you has definitely made its goal.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yes, so the kickstarter campaign. One of my friends, so
I have a D and D group, and our DM
of the D and D group, who is amazingly creative,
sent us sent our group this link and I just
thought it was too fun to to not share, which
is Gummy Quest Delicious Fantasy gummies there, they're not gummy

(58:15):
bears because they're shaped like dragons and slimes and.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Demons and dice demons and yeah, and they all have
in paladins and wizards and all kinds of spice worms
and things like that with fun, fun flavor names.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
They were looking to raise thirty five hundred bucks and
they're almost at two hundred thousand right now. But if
you want a pack of one hundred and fifty gummy
bear D and DS, that D and D minis that
you can stick on your board and eat later, including
like health potions. They also give you like little health
potions and dice and things like that. You can join

(58:54):
the kickstarter because that way you'll be one of the
first people to get it for one hundred. For one
hundred and fifty gummies, it's like forty two dollars. Yeah,
it's is still a lot of money, but it's a
lot of good.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
But it's eighteen dollars cheaper than what they're gonna sell
it for later because because they said that they're their
MSRP is sixty bucks for one hundred and fifty of
these things.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Yeah, what I will say is, at least the pictures
they have of it, these are very intricate candies for
being squishy candies.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Yeah, I think they look great. I would be tempted
to back this if they had plant based versions because
a lot of gummies, essentially most of them include gelatin
as an ingredient. Gelatin is derived from animal products, which

(59:48):
means that my wife and I we don't eat gelatin
based gummies. We did find a couple of companies that
make really good plant based gummies that we enjoy quite
a bit. But my I guess is that they went
with a mix that is best suited to hold these
intricate shapes, and that might not be the best use

(01:00:11):
of the plant based stuff. Like I don't know that
you could get this intricate with the detail. But while
I don't think I'll be ordering any because I don't
think I could eat them, they're really like. The designs
are really cool. I mean, I'm going through all of them,
and I love their names too. They're also punny, like

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you've got like the palm eye granite for the pomegranite,
which is a beholder.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Yeah, yeah, or that's really the best one. There's Owlberry,
which is also quite good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah, yeah, well, there's Subterranean Spice, which is like it's
like a giant It's essentially a sandworm from Dune, is
what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
But that's not And then there's just one called death Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
It's just death yep.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Or Healman aid. Anyhow, we will, like, like Jonathan said,
we'll link to it in our show notes. Our website
is up today and I will get these show notes
up this weekend. You know, maybe they'll make enough money
that they can also do not a plant based version
of this in the future. Really this it just hit
me at a time because I had just seen D

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and D had released a video on TikTok of Tristan
Falcone talking about how gelatinous cubes get their flavor, which
is they start off flavorless and they pick up their
flavor from all the things that they count. Yeah, it
was very funny.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
And then I got very cobold flavored latinous cube.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Yes, yes, so so that that so it was. It
hit me just at the right time to amuse me.
And yeah, I hope it amuses you too.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Cool. Well, I think that wraps up this episode, and
while it's not as epic as last week's, it definitely
ended up being longer than what we thought it was
gonna be yesterday morning.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Yes, so my dear friend, Yeah, I gotta ask, sure,
go ahead? How do people? How do people reach out
in contact?

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
So, what you're gonna have to do you is you're
gonna have to listen. I've been watching a lot of
food competition, like food eating challenges on YouTube recently, and
that's what inspired me. What you're gonna have to do
is you're gonna have to track down a gelatinous cube.
I'm talking a ten foot by ten foot by ten
foot cube of gelatinous material. There's gonna be stuff floating

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in it. Not all of it's gonna be edible, Like
there's gonna be armor and swords and maybe a halfling
foot or two in there. You're gonna have to eat
all of it. I mean, I need to see a
clean plate. You are not allowed to get up and
leave the table and go to the bathroom. That's a
cheater move. We all know you're going to go there
so that you can puke it up and come back

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out and finish off the cube. Note, you've got to
finish it in a single setting. The professional food competition
rules apply here. I will not give you a time
limit because that is a significant amount of food you're eating.
But once you finish it, you're gonna have a server
come over to say that the meal is comped because

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you finish the whole thing. That you do, get either
a T shirt or hat, your choice of I ate
the gelatinous cube. Your picture will go up on the
wall and then you'll see the manager come over and
what do you know? It's me, And then you can
ask your question.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Yeah, And if you're not into Survivor style food challenges,
you can reach out to us on social media or
you know, if you don't eat animals like Jonathan, you
can reach out to us on social media on Facebook
and Instagram and threads and discord where Large nur drawn
collect on Twitter, slash x for llenc Underscore podcast, and

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you can also email us at large nurdron pod at
gmail dot com. Our website is www dot large nerdron
collider dot com, where we have all of our show
notes and also an invite to the discord. I think
that about covers it, so until next time, I am
Ariel one of those gugbies better tastes like Mountain Dew Caaston.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I am Jonathan, I am so full. Strickland 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 sti