October 10, 2025 • 52 mins
This week's episode features an engaging conversation where Joe opens up to Cody about his recent decision to finally cancel his Xbox GamePass subscription. After months of contemplating its value versus the time he actually spent gaming, Joe felt it was the right move to make. This cancellation prompts a deeper discussion about gaming habits and how they can shift over time, especially as other interests begin to take precedence. Following this, Joe shares his experience with the ReMarkable 2 tablet, which his brother recently purchased. He describes the unique features of the device, particularly its paper-like feel and the ease with which he can take notes and sketch ideas. Joe delves into how this tablet has influenced his productivity and creativity, making it an appealing option for anyone looking to enhance their digital note-taking experience.As the conversation progresses, Joe reveals that he has been contemplating a return to the world of comic books, but this time through digital formats. He reflects on his childhood nostalgia for flipping through the pages of comic books and how the digital landscape has evolved to offer a plethora of options for readers today. Joe mentions various platforms and apps that cater to comic book enthusiasts, making it easier than ever to access a vast array of titles and genres. This leads to an intriguing discussion about the differences between physical and digital comics, including the advantages of portability and searchability that digital versions provide.Transitioning from comics, Joe brings up some recent news regarding The Witcher series of books. He discusses how CD Projekt Red, the developers behind the popular Witcher video games, have taken creative liberties in expanding on storylines and characters that were not originally present in Andrzej Sapkowski's written works. This opens a dialogue about the balance between staying true to source material and the necessity of adapting narratives for different media. Joe shares specific examples of characters and plotlines that were fleshed out in the games, sparking a debate on whether these additions enhance or detract from the original story. Furthermore, Joe excitedly mentions a new addition to The Witcher universe: a prequel book by Andrzej Sapkowski that promises to explore untold tales and deepen the lore of the series.In response, Cody shares his thoughts on a book he has been immersed in lately, titled The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. He expresses his admiration for the way the anthology captures the essence of King's storytelling while introducing new perspectives and narratives within the established universe. Cody reflects on how the collection not only pays homage to the original work but also expands on the themes of survival and human resilience in the face of apocalypse, making it a compelling read for both long-time fans and newcomers alike.As the episode draws to a close, the duo shifts gears to discuss the much-anticipated return of Reading Rainbow. Both Joe and Cody reminisce about how the show impacted their childhoods and instilled a love for reading. They explore the significance of such educational programs in today’s digital age and the importance of fostering literacy among younger generations. Their conversation highlights the ways in which Reading Rainbow has evolved and adapted to modern platforms, ensuring that its mission to promote reading and learning continues to resonate with audiences today. This nostalgic yet forward-thinking discussion wraps up an episode filled with reflections on gaming, literature, and the enduring power of storytelling.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bee in a second. Okay, I uh timed you're ready
with the incoming call, but I hit the call button
before they hit sent the text message. So okay, so
I'll probably get a text message in a second if
(00:20):
you haven't got it ready, haven't.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Gotten it yet. I must have got on my phone
or anything. Mm hmmpe it's all right, and my computers
still catching up with everything.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, it's all those notifications you're bogged down with.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Seriously, what's up body?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Not the watch? What's up to you?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Not a whole lot, Not a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right, This week was just kind of a week.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Was a week?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Was a week just meaning like nothing really happened. That's it,
nothing new, just was a week.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It did?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It did seem like there wasn't a whole lot going on.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, I mean, besides the whole Microsoft stuff, which I
mentioned to you earlier that I canceled my Xbox Live
subscription because I'm not paying.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Thirty bucks a month for something that quite.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Honestly, I had been paying for and not really using
too much of.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I mean the last couple of months. Sure, they had the.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Indiana Jones game, and I've been I tried playing Doom
three Doom with a Vengeance or whatever it is, but that,
like the Inage Jones game was great, and I and
bought the DLC and played through that. I finished that
last week, which was great as well. But there's just
(02:07):
nothing there for me anymore. And the fact that you're
gonna raise it up ten bucks a month for games
that I don't play, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm not doing that. I'm done. So I canceled.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
What was funny though, is I canceled and then literally
the next day I get an email saying, hey, just
to let you know, November one, we're gonna increase your
subscription from twenty dollars a month to thirty dollars a month.
And I was like, ha ha, already canceled that yesterday, bitch,
why are you emailing me?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Should be done by now.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
So this is the fact that I haven't really touched
my console a year, maybe more like it's just.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Gathering dust there now. Yeah, technically I could have swapped
to their PC version of Game Pass, but it's like, nah,
I'm done. I'll go buy all my games from here
on out off of Steam or something.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And it's not like you play online games or anything,
so it's like you're using the online portion of it
right exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You know, I'm not sitting here playing Call of Duty
or anything. Yeah, so cancel that subscription. And honestly, it's
not too bad. It's it's pretty nice freeze up, you know,
twenty bucks a month to do other stuff with, which
actually led into another thing that i'd I'd been talking
(03:29):
with my brother about.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
He ended up buying remarkable too. It's pretty device. It's
pretty cool device.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So basically, you know, inc display note taking you know,
generally geared at like businesses and whatnot. But he's also
showing that he was able to it's kind of weird,
like they have the ability to enter into developer mode
(03:56):
because it's based off of Linux, even though it the
way it runs that feels very chrome lank, which is gross.
But once you entered into developer mode, you can obviously site,
you can sideload like apps and stuff. So there are
apps that people have built for it that you can
(04:19):
read comic books and do other stuff with. And so
he was showing me the showing me that and how
you know, the comic looked pretty good in color, and
so I was like, man, you know I have now
twenty bucks a month freed up, and I haven't read
comic in a long time. Let me start looking into that.
So I looked into Saga. Of course i've kind of
(04:42):
I kind of fell off that, and I went and
bought the volume. I can't remember what volume it is,
but it's the the beginning of the new story arc
that actually just ended not too long ago where I
had left off before. And I was like, you know that,
this is pretty nice just sitting here reading through comics.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a good way to spend your time, Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's also not on social media, which I mean, I
don't really do too much social media anyway besides like Reddit,
but it's like.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Gets away from doing that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But all this actually started too now that I really
think about it, is because Amazon announced a bunch of
new products this week, most of it I don't really
care about. But one of them was a color Scribe,
which is Amazon's like eleven inch e ink reader, but
(05:38):
it's actually also a note taker and whatnot. Kind of
geared toward a lot towards the business, which.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Was kind of the weird thing.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I suppose not weird thing, because I'm sure that the
other original scribe was also geared towards more professional business
people blah blah blah, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Never really looked at it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
My brother had one because he does like taking notes
on on yek stuff, and again that's why when they
announced this, he almost wanted to buy that, but then
started looking at the Remarkable too, and then went down
that route there. But from my point, it was like, man,
this would actually be kind of a cool e reader
(06:22):
or a comic book reader.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
At that point of course, it's like six hundred and
something dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, it makes it a bit rough.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Makes a little bit rough, And I went and looked
at the cases for it as well. The case is
like a nice first party leather Amazon case was one
hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think. Yeah, So definitely not.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Like buying one of those anytime soon, unless for some
reason we would get an accommodation for one, which I
know we do every once in a while. That best
buy get those accommodations from Amazon for kindle products, So
maybe someday do something like that. But an eleven I
know the described as an eleven inch I think eleven
inch screen, and so is the Remarkable moracaals like the
(07:07):
size of a piece of paper, so it's a little bit, a.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Little bit bit bigger than eleven inches.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
But man, that would be nice to sit there and
read it a comic before bed and then just like
switch over to a book to finish off the night
and read. So that's kind of my goal for the
rest of the year, see, is if I can like
read more comics instead of doing social media stuff and
(07:33):
then read more books as well.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, it's a good it's a good goal, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Right, rather than just sit there and scroll through Reddit.
Really not just aimlessly doing stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yes, yeah, aimlessly doing stuff is the penultimate downfall for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Speaking of aimlessly doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yes, there is actually a couple of articles that I've
read across it or not today but this past week.
I'm trying to remember this, trying to remember this first
one off the top of my head, and I read
it earlier the week and I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But the title is from PC gamer.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
The Witcher author Andre Subkowski says one of CD project reads,
Big story Points, is actually based on a mistake, but
video game people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity. Basically,
the idea is that let me see if I can
find it in this article exactly where he said it was. Okay,
so there's a single reference or a single sentence about
(08:47):
some school of the Wolf mysteriously made its way into
the Last Wish subscopsy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Tabakowski explained, I later deemed.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
It unworthy of developed, meant it narratively and correct even
detrimental to the plot. Therefore I later never included or
referenced any Witcher, Gryffindors or Slytherin's. Again, basically he's saying,
and I thought that was going to lead into the
exact quote. But in that book he makes mention of like,
maybe there might be other schools of the Witchers in
(09:21):
the realm, But if you've ever actually read the Witcher series,
there's never really any mention of, actually, you know a
school of the was the school of the Bear, school
of the thought Fox, a school of the Cat, and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
There aren't any. But when it came to at least
the Witcher three.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I don't know about the one in two games, I
haven't actually ever played them, it just expands on it completely.
It's like, oh, there's you know, all this other Witcher armor.
In fact, you meet another Witcher along the way, if
I recall, right, he was from a different school maybe.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I think so, yeah, yeah, But it's this whole narrative
plot point that that that was picked up by the
people that made the game CD project read and ran
with it.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And then you have all of the fans of the
You have a lot of fans that are just like, oh,
the school of this is school of that, and the
original writers just like man I that was a mistake
in the book that if we're meant to actually do
and people just ran with it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I mean, they did kind of take some liberties with
some of the stuff the way they they do things,
and obviously the action is a lot more robust in
the in the games than it is in the book books.
But I mean that's I mean, if you made if
(10:52):
you made the games like the books, I don't think
they'd be as popular.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well definitely not considering that.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
If I call right, the story for the Witcher kind
of ended with the Witcher two in the games, I think, yeah,
and then the Witcher three, while it does still kind
of follow the idea of some of the Witcher stuff,
(11:23):
is like completely its own, its own thing, because obviously
reading the books you know.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
The whole thing is about like.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Siri herself trying not to be married off to the
nailf guard prints in order to you know, do royal
stuff blah blah blah blah blah, and garyl trying to find.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
No. I got to remember, can't say that word.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You can't say Siri, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Exactly, otherwise I trigger other things and house. But there
is no wild Hunt like I believe they're They're like
in passing mentioned in one of the books. But there
is no wild Hunt in the books. It's a completely
made up thing for the third video game.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Another thing he grasped onto and said, hmm, I wonder
what this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Could be exactly. And they made it into a great story.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Don't get me wrong, It is really good, and I'm
excited to see what they'll do with the next story.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Just focusing on she who now shall not be named.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Series like voldemorton Joe's house pretty much, you say, you
say that name, and it's gonna activate and you're gonna
have Siri everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, see your house too.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I thought that was an interesting thing that I never
thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Another thing that I didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Realize is that he wrote a uh and it actually
just got released a couple of days ago do or
last week or something like that. He wrote a prequel
to the Witcher series.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I saw some about that. Is it written by him?
Or is it? Is it co written with somebody else?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
From what I understand it, it is written by him.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I can pull up the old Amazons.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Amazon dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Sounds outs watch your books.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Where is.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, Crossroads of Ravens. It only lists him as the author,
all right, Yeah, before he was the White Wolf or
the Butcher of Lavican garalt of Rivia is simply a
(14:10):
fresh graduate of care More and stepping into a world
that neither understands or welcomes his kind. And when an
act of naive heroism goes gravely wrong, Gerald is only
saved from the news by Preston Holt, a grizzled richard
who with a buried past and an agenda of his own. Yeah,
(14:35):
so maybe I'll buy that and read it. I'm looking
for a new book to listen to. I'm still reading
through King Solomon's Minds and like more than halfway through it,
but I'm looking for a book to.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Listen to.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well have some option. The new Joe Hill book comes
out Seeing Too uh, And I.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Also realized so does A doesn't it's already.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Out especially maybe that'll be the one I grab.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, I probably grab that one as a Whisper Sink
and a as a Whisper Sink. Yet you book book
and audiobooks, so when I do finish The King Salomon's Minds,
I can just jump into that one, because I don't
know if this one is is this one? Oh no,
it does say I add audiobook for sixteen seventy nine,
(15:34):
so this one does support Whisper Sink as well. But
as much as I like the Wacher, I don't know
if I really care for like a prequel Witcher.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'll still read it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm just saying like it's not something that I'm like,
really you know, chomping out the bit to uh to
go read.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I already know where he his story takes us.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yep, I don't know where damn brew own story takes us.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Probably several places on one trip.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh several places on one trip.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
There will be mystery, intrigue, a lady friend, you know,
action adventure that's.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know, that's my jam a lady friend, he says,
A lady friend.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Uh, what else would you call him?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Why don't Why don't I see an option for audible
on what?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
On?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Secret of Secrets? I don't know, Usually a little check
box to add.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Let me see, let me see. It's weird. I search
it up and it shows me the Audible book first.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh you know why? Hold on?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
No, I see it there nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yep, I realized because I had clicked on a link
to open the app and not the website, and you
can't do digital purchases through the app. Yeah, so that's
why so.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I found it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I seen it. Yeah, it's that's on my wish list,
Uh to get? I think The next one I think
I have already purchased is the Joe Hill Book. Whenever
it finally drops, which is the end of this month,
I believe I'll probably.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Buy it this as soon as we're done here the Secrets?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do it, Joe, do it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Get everything?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Don't be a little.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Bitch preloaded so I can listen to stuff on my
way to work.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That long drive you have, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I know, all of twenty something minutes. That's if traffic
is bad, and traffic is you know, not great because
we're starting to get into cooler seasons and starting to
get the freaking snowbirds come in.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, m hm, king sorrow. The new Joe Hill book
comes out on the twenty first.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Mm hmm, okay, that's at the end of this month.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Oh, my wishless is super long.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Your wishless is always super long?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Keep adding ship mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You guys stop doing that, do no?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What do I though?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Anyway, we'll tackle that later.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
AnyWho.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's all I gotta say about that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's all he's gotta say about that. Yeah, I'm actually
making my way through the end of the world as
we know it, which is the stories from the stand
Oh okay, it's all right. So the problem with it
is I realize a few stories in none of this
matters because none of these characters go forward like they're not.
(19:12):
Like so far, okay, I'll say this. The first part
of the book is all happens during the outbreak. Then
the second part of the book has to do with
people traveling to their destination, so either Vegas or Colorado. Well,
(19:36):
first off Nebraska and then Colorado. But but you realize that, like,
none of these characters matter because they're not in the story. Yeah. Now,
the one thing though it could happen is this third
part of the book could be people during during the
(20:02):
con the conflict, Like you know when when Stu and
them go off to Vegas to well, I guess Stu's
the second group he goes off to Vegas, right, because
the first group.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, did they get killed? They never came back.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, and they're the ones that set the nuke off,
right I think so was the one that set there? Yeah, well,
they they're the ones that set like that got it going.
And then Stu when they witnessed them being because that
was wasn't that Larry Underwood and.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I mean technically they didn't set well because it was
it was Ratman or whatever it is was messing around
with It's a very.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Long time, Yeah, but it was like Larry Underwood and
them are the ones that are captured, that are captured
and killed and then uh So, like what I was
saying is maybe the third section of the book is
going to be like about them at like both in
Vegas and in Colorado and then maybe leading into stuff
that happens after the fact. I don't know yet. I
(21:02):
will be finishing it, just not sure when and where
that's gonna go. But the it's some of the stories
are good, some of them are not. There's one I
want to say it was the one written by Richard Chismar.
(21:24):
I think actually mentions not by name but by description
Larry Underwood, because if you remember in the story, I
think it's Larry Underwood. I have to I'd have to.
I have to go back because its been a while
since I read The Stand. But there's a part in
in the Stand where Larry and is traveling with that
one rich lady and she ends up overdosing, not not accidentally,
(21:49):
she intentionally overdoses on on drugs, on pills, and he
finds her dead. I believe Richard Chismar added a witness
of seeing that happen in his book from the point
of view of the character he's writing about. I think
that's who it was that it was happening to you. Anyways,
that was an interesting one. But there's like there's some
(22:10):
cool ones, but like a lot of them are just
like especially like the first like section of the book
where it's all about during during the actual outbreak of
the super flu there's like this no nobody survives, like
everyone's ended up dying or like whatever. So like the book,
the story ends with them being isolated or like whatever,
(22:34):
and you're like, well, this depressing and it's some weirdly
like over sexualized stuff in some of the stories I
thought was very odd, like this one where a dude
was like psychically connecting with this fish and they were
(22:56):
having like sex. It was very bizarre.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It was.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Uh, it was just very very strange. And I was like,
I don't know if this story needs to be in here.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What's this to do with the stand.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
This guy is finger fucking a fish? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
So it was very strange. I was like, well, that's odd.
I hope that guy dies. Not the writer the.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Character.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, I don't really want him to be. And that's
the cool thing. One of the cool things about the
story is like the people are like reluctant to like say,
they're having these prophetic dreams about this old black lady
or you know, the man in black. And some of
them are the ones that are like clearly going to Vegas. Uh.
(23:48):
They're they're so happy to tell people about Randall Flag.
They're like, yeah, random Flagg, this cool guy came to me,
said we're gonna like live it up in Vegas. I'm like, well,
clearly you we know which camp you're going to. And
the other ones are like the ones that are like
visiting being visited by Mother Abigail are like super like,
(24:09):
I don't know if I should tell anybody that I've
been dreaming about some old black lady telling me to
come to Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, right, a little suspiciously, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And then there was one where it was cool because
like the the one character was actually getting visions from
or dreams from both, but they were. It made it
feel to me, maybe I'm extrapolating more out of it,
but it made me feel like Randall was trying to
(24:39):
because it felt like they were starting with Mother Abigail,
but it was like Mother Abigail hadn't shown up yet.
It was a cornfield or a house surrounded by cornfield,
and the person said they could see crows watching him
through the corn and then eventually like a figure walking
around to the corn and then Mother Abigail came to
(25:01):
her like in the vision in the dream, and I
was like, oh, I wonder if she was teetering like
in her like and like she could be going to Vegas.
She'd be bad, but mother Abigail sees better in her.
And then as I was like, that's kind of cool.
I'm trying to remember the name of the one that
(25:22):
I really liked because it it was a it was
a fun one. Basically, these two brothers, I think they're brothers.
I can't remember if their brothers just friends. It's it blurred.
But they they're in this small town in Texas and like, uh,
the town like only has like fifteen hundred people or whatever, right,
and so like, uh, they start noticing people are dying
and so being good you know Christian boys, they start
(25:46):
going and bearing people, right because there's no one else
to do it. So they're gonna do it. And there's
nothing else for them to do because the farm they
work on, like because they're ranch hands, like nothing's happening
because everybody's dying. So they just start going through and
they're like they're like they basically they're kind of like
they're slow. I would say, like like they're not socially active,
(26:10):
you know what I mean, They're not like you know,
you know, it's not you know, hey, perfect spelled moo n.
They're not that kind of slow. But like they're definitely
not like you know, brain trusts, but they're really into
movies and stuff. So they basically spend their time during
the day going through bearing people, going to the houses,
pulling them out, bearing them, you know, paying their respects.
(26:32):
And then they at night they go to the liquor store,
get beer, go to the rental the movie rental place,
get movies, and they do theme movie nights, so they
do like a lot of horror stuff. Well, then they
stumble upon this one guy and they're like, well, let's
go check on them, and as they get closer to
the house, the door opens, the dude greets them with
a shotgun and they're like whoa, whoa, hey, hey, we're
(26:55):
just going through bearing the dead and we're just checking
you and the girls. And the guy like kind of
like hints over by this tree and there's three freshly
dug graves and he's like, yeah, the girls didn't make it,
and they're like, oh shit. They're like, well, hey, if
you want just saying every night we meet at the
(27:17):
rental place to get a movie and then back at
our house by seven or back by to the ranch
house by seven to watch movies. If you want to
join us one time. There's cold beer and movies, so
they they one night he shows up and it's basically
starts his friendship, where like he's watching the movies with him.
Eventually he like warms up to him and he starts
meeting him at the movie, the movie rental place and
(27:39):
all this fun stuff. And then eventually like he starts
like recommending stuff and they find out that he's never
seen the classics like Texas chainsaw mask and all this stuff. Right,
so they start showing him those and he's like, why
do you guys like idolize these killers? And they're like, well,
it's not really the killers we idolize. It's like, you know,
it's the it's the thought of you know, the the
(27:59):
the the social justice or whatever. You know, like the
bad people are getting theirs. And because obvious, not always
the bad people, but you know, it's like a lot
of times the theme is like they're sinners and they're
getting what they deserve. Blah blah blah. Right, So anyways,
the story goes on. This happens for quite a while,
a few days in a row, then a couple, you know,
a week or so whatever, and then so one time
(28:22):
the boys are headed to the liquor store and they
notice the door is the glass door is shattered in.
So they go in and there's these two girls and
they're like, they're like, hey, like, you know, we noticed
that you broke our door, Like, oh my god, this
is your liquor store. Oh no, we meant like this
is where we come all the time, you know. And then,
cause they're kind of naive, the boys and they're like, oh,
(28:45):
they're like, yeah, we ran out of gas, blah blah blah,
we can't get the pumps to work. And one guy's
kind of flirting with him, goes, well, I came in
the guy's name. The other guy, he's like, he used
to work at the gas, but we can probably get
him working for you if you want your you know,
to get some gas. They're like, oh my god. And
then these two guys come out and they assault him,
like they hit him and they start beating them up.
And then the girls are like, oh, do we have
(29:05):
to kill these two? And I was like, well, clearly
these four are going to Vegas and so they're like, yeah,
you know, there's no reason blah blah blah. And then
all of a sudden this dude comes around from around
the back of the liquor store and he's holding his
guts in and he's stumbled, and he goes they have
a friend, and he falls dead on his face and
out comes the dude that they've been watching movies with
(29:26):
with a fucking chainsaw, damn, and he starts fucking rocking
shot through these fucking people.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Dude, damn.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
And that's like literally the end of the story. Oh okay,
it's like it's it's The thing is, like, none of
the stories really have like an ending because so far
it's it's obviously not the end of the stand so like,
and not all of them are happy and things, some
of them are fucking.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Get it, but at least you could maybe have like
some sort of closure on things instead of just like anyway,
here's the chainsaw room and then scene.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Ends and you're like wait what, Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Story or like, I get it.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
You probably chopped up those people, but like, where's the
consequences and the moral dilemma that's that's gonna be talked
about afterwards?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Like okay, yeah, so it was just you know, the
thing is that but yeah, it's it's not a bad
but it's it's it's like there's no like I just
realized that there's like no going anywhere with it, Like
oh yeah, cool, they're in the world of the Stand.
But it's like, bro, none of it has consequences at
(30:28):
this point, like nothing, nothing matters because we're not really
like dealing even.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Running into the same problem that I would have if
I read the New Witcher book. It's like I already
know where everything goes, you know, so yeah, it's gonna
be an interesting story to see where you get.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
From point A to point B. But it's like all right, but.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
In your case too, it sounds even a little bit
worse because it sounds like some of the stuff doesn't
even have like its own small conclusions, like you know
that there's not going to be a happy ending to
the Stand, but at least you can get some were
of like and they went, you know, they got beers,
they said ha ha and buried the people and then
went back to watch more.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Slasher movies or something. I don't know. Yeah, they just
and literally right the middle of just like oh okay, what.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, it's I don't know, it's very it was just
very strange, but like I'm still I'm obviously gonna finish it,
but I'm definitely not in a rush to finish it.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Usually when you just finish a story and you're like, oh, okay,
that I started to getting invested into stuff. This was
getting good, and then suddenly it's over and you're like,
all right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, I guess. And I don't know if I thought
maybe like these would be like stories involving some of
the characters from the Stand, but they realized, like, as
I'm listening to it, I'm like, oh, you know what,
they're not, because any of the characters we got invested
with in the Stand had their story told in the Stand.
You met him, yeah, you met him at the beginning,
(31:57):
you met him during in the middle, and then you
you you got there the most conclusion you can get
for the Stand. You know, obviously, after the the conflict
was over and the world basically has to rebuild itself.
So it's like, oh, okay, I kind of think I'm
not gonna care too much about any of this that's happening,
because like none of it matters. Because like even if
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you introduce a character that interacts with a Stu Redman
or a Larry Underwood or right or like a Franny
Goldsmith or whatever. Right, it doesn't matter because their story
isn't told in the stand. So unless you tell me
a story going forward, like oh they because again you
can't interact with whatever it is. You can't give me
(32:42):
a story of someone going to find root Stu when
they were on their way back and he had broken
his foot or whatever. Right, that doesn't matter because that
didn't happen in the stand. So like, unless that person
goes out and they end up getting lost in fucking
you know, have some kind of venture, cool, but it
doesn't really matter. You're not gonna have enough time invested
(33:06):
to tell me is their their origin of during the
super flu, the their their move to uh either one
Vegas or Colorado, and then the aftermath. It's a they're
all short stories. You're not gonna give me that unless
you give me bullet points in the short story. And
I'm like, I can't find myself invested in any of
(33:27):
these characters, which sucks, but you know, because it's that
you're not rewriting any of the rules. You're staying within
the rules, which I'm thankful you are well other than
the whole fish fuckery thing, right, But it's like like
in the the one of the ones I just finished
(33:47):
was one of the better ones, and it took place
in England, which obviously in the Stand you never really
get a viewpoint of anybody outside the States because it's
so focused on you know, the the like if he
drifts off too far to one side, then you'd have
to tell a story of how that person got there,
blah blah blah, right, which you could do, but the
(34:08):
stands long enough. But you know, for the most part,
you stick with those you know, eight to ten characters
that you made the beginning, get to see their middle
and then get to see their end, be it a
bloody bad ending or a remotely better ending, you know,
not being nuked, or you know, you know, living. But
(34:33):
it's it was cool just because like obviously, like I
didn't know if they were going to try to like
make hey, there's another conflict happening in this part of
the world with good and evil, but it's like, no,
they're all focused on which is very American centric, right,
like you know, but that's he writes about what he knows,
(34:54):
so might as well have it here. But also like
he can control the narrative and the culture versus having
to like you know, figure out what it'd be there.
Plus we have a place here called sin City, Like right,
there's no reason not to have uh that be the
focal point anyway. So it was cool because like they
(35:16):
were both very bad people, but like it was weird
because the one guy, uh was like at first I
thought he was gonna like switch like they he's gonna
go like, but he was obsessed with meeting Randall Flag,
like she was obsessed with like wanting to be with
Randall Flag much like I can't think of her name
(35:37):
from the actual stand uh like assumed like she gets senator,
considered herself it assumed to be bride or whatever. Right,
this chick was the same way, Like she wanted nothing
but to be with Randall and like b Randall's and
this this naive like eighteen year old nine year old
kid or whatever she she meets up with, she like
(35:57):
wants nothing but to dominate the shit out of him,
and she eventually just she essentially fucking like date rapes him.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And uh so then he like he's like no, like
blah blah blah, and like he's like he is like
fucking stabbing her. Uh, and then like saying he's gonna
deliver her to Randall himself and she's gonna face justice
to his hand. And I was like, I don't think so.
And then he drives a bus into the water and
they both die and drowned. So that was a very
(36:29):
weird one as well. Yeah, it was very like there's
a lot of these weird delusions that people have, Like
Randall obviously is not a good, good person, and like
he like tells people things and a lot of times
the way, like again extrapolating from things, I looked at
it as some of these people might be on the
fence of going either way, but Randall like might be
(36:50):
able to see that they if they go to Mother Abigail,
they'll be more of a problem than if he were
to bring him in his side or get them killed,
you know, because he is obviously the devil in this story.
So like I felt like some of it, like he
used that guy to basically eliminate both of them, because
(37:11):
like she used a psychopath who probably might be power
hungry and kind of crazy, which he's okay with, but
like maybe not, like she seems like a handful.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Then this other guy was and He's like, well, I
could use this naive as kid to eliminate him both
and not worry about it. But you know, who knows. Again, No,
no concrete finishes to a lot of these and what's
going on is more of just like alluding to things.
But you know, it's still fun, but like it's not
(37:43):
not even I hope it would be. Yeah, I was. Again,
I don't know what I was expecting it to be,
because it's not like it's it's not like it's a
sequel or whatever, right, Like.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
It's just stories within Yeah, so things that happened around
and I can definitely see it going into something like
that and being like, oh, maybe this will expand upon
some things that weren't touched upon in in the major
st you.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Know, in the actual book, yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Or ancillary characters that you've kind of forgot about, because
I know we're talking, you're talked about and I'm like,
wasn't there a character that Sue meets long something along
that he was a professor or something like that, or
remember something about a shotgun. Stu stays with him for
like a week or so, and then he leaves, and
it's like, what happened to that character, I don't remember,
Like he could have died, honestly, but you know, maybe
(38:37):
one of the stories could have been like what happened
to him?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, so, And I think a lot of it has
to do with like the fact that like they didn't
want to encroach on anything that Steven did with it, right,
But like also, like again, it's one of those things
where like, also none of this matters because like none
of these characters are of any substance to the actual story.
(39:03):
So unless the back end of this collection is dealing
with like what happened to like a bold thing would
be like what happened to stew in the fraany after
they went back? Because didn't they at the end of
the stand, didn't they go back to Rhode Island? I
don't remember, I want to say, or Connecticut way because
she gave birth while he was gone. He gets because
(39:26):
he on his trip back he ended up stumbling and
breaking his legs. So they ended up staying in that
like Mountain Town area where they fixed up the projector
and watched movies while he was healing, because he obviously
couldn't walk on a busted ass leg but he tried
and it just got worse because I think he got
to end up getting a fever because of it, and
like they went there and like he had to work,
he had to work with Uh is it Tom m O?
(39:47):
And Tom Right? I think is his name again? I'd
have to go back and reread it or cliff notes it,
but I know they eventually made their way back, and
then eventually I think they went on their way and
they packed up, took the baby, and I think they
went back to Connecticut, Rhode Island, or wherever it was
that it might have been Maine because it's Stephen King
(40:09):
wherever she was from. I want to say that's what happened,
but you know, other things like obviously we're not gonna
get a tale of what happened to Larry Enderwood because
he got well murdered in a cage and then blown up,
so we know his ending. But yeah, so it's it'll
be interesting to see where it goes. But for the
most part, it's like they are just throwaway stories. Some
(40:30):
of them are cool, other ones are like mmm, like
one of the best ones is like one of the
shortest ones, and it was like a savage story of
like these two brother and sister who are immune, which
obviously is very uncommon. Their mothers got it, got it
pretty bad. Then she starts having delusions of seeing and
(40:51):
talking to Randall, and he tells her like she needs
to kill her kids. So she chases them upstairs, and
like they're hiding in his sister's room, and they fucking
end up like killing their mom because she busts in
the door. And then as they're they basically, we got
to get out of here. We gotta go to Colorado,
and they're going, and all of a sudden, like his
(41:12):
sister starts like talking weird, and he turns around and
she's like starting to like sweat and like like have
a hard time breathing. And he realized and she's like, nah,
mister Flag, I'll take care of him right here. And
I was like, holy fuck, dude. And then his ends
like this is savage as fuck, dude. But it takes
place in I want to say it was in New
York is where it took place. And like he literally
(41:33):
like from his bedroom window of their apartment complex or
apartment building, he like witnesses like a bunch of people
murdering different people in the streets and stuff. Yeah, it's
pretty fucking wild. I was like, yeah, this is crazy,
but that was one of the better ones for sure.
It was very short. But again that's like at that
(41:56):
point I was like, Oh, none of this is gonna matter,
because all these people are either gonna die or just
like head off into the fucking sunset and probably die
before they get to Colorado, or could be one of
the mainly the nameless few that are there in both
Vegas and in Colorado that you never really interact with.
They're just you know, survivors. They could be those people, you.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
And again I don't remember all the details of who
shows up and win, because like there's this one guy
who like he like or as one girl has a
horse that she like, uh has, and I'm like, she
could be somebody who met up and they're like they
could be like, you know, all this one lady showed
up with a horse. I'll write a story about how
she got there. Cool, you know, Yeah, But it's like
(42:40):
at that point, it's like, yeah, she's in Colorado and
she has a horse, because you're.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Right, I do remember that.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
At one point in the main story, they're talking about Hey,
like a group of people just showed up, you know,
bring out the welcome wagon, this and that. You could
have literally made up a name there, just been like, yeah,
this is a survivor that it ends up here.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, so little things like that, and some are like
I said, some are really good, Some are very fucking weird.
Some seem drastically dark, which is hard to weird to
say about The Stand because like it's the fucking Stand.
Like it's about a plague that wipes out ninety nine
point nine percent of all humanity. So yeah, it's interesting
(43:26):
for sure, But I mean, don't do me wrong. I'm
not saying don't read it, but just know that you're
not gonna get any real satisfaction and clovery. It's just
it's just dark and kind of depressing.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yeah, sounds like it.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Speaking of books, Yeah, the.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Last story that I ran across this weekend that was
kind of interesting is apparently reading Rainbow is coming back.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Hell yeah, dude, yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Uh, it's not gonna be coming back with LeVar Burton.
It's gonna be a guy name and I'm probably gonna
butcher this Michael Threetz.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah, apparently he is.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
The little blurb here from Huffington Post says that little
less than a year, Michael three, It's a supervising librarian
at the Salon County Library in California, has earned a
handful of monikers. He's Human Sunshine, a modern day Mister
Rogers meets LeVar Burton, America's favorite librarian. So he's going
(44:29):
to be the one who will be heading up the show.
Apparently there's already a trailer that has dropped for the
series as well. If I recall right, this article mentions
that it suspiciously doesn't have the Reading Rainbow song in
it for.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I recall right, really.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
Yeah, alluding to the series classic theme song, which is
curiously absent from the new show's trailer. He added, We're
flying twice as high Butterflies in the sky stay tuned.
So it just probably means that they're probably going to
be maybe just touching it up and remaking it. I
can't imagine that they're going to completely change a very
(45:16):
classic song that I've literally heard an audience sing to
LeVar Burton at many a comic con that.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
We've been to that he's been there. Yep. According to
this as well, let's see where is it?
Speaker 4 (45:32):
Legions fans Michael so a feature and feature a roster
of starry narrators including Adam Davin, John Legend, Chrissy Tiegan,
and Gabriel Union. Apparently will be like guest stars for
doing for what I understand reading stories O. Guest stars
will included Riley Arnold, Ezras Sosa of Dancing with the
(45:55):
Stars and the Fantastic four Ft Steps and the Bear
star Evan Evan Moss.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Record record.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Back Ratch whatever. So yeah, premiering apparently in the episode
Sunday at ten Eastern starting October fourth, so yesterday apparently
as a recording. I think it's pretty cool. I mean,
it's something that we haven't seen in a while. What
(46:29):
channel did say that it was airing on? Because I
know PBS has been kind of having.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Issues lately, don't recall, I mean I would, Well, I can't.
PBS doesn't own Reading Rainbow.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Right, No, I don't think they do.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Because as they get I mean, it's public public access,
so like, yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
Thing I now I don't remember reading about where it's
being released.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Obviously they have a YouTube, I would say if they're
smart to be on YouTube, but yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
What I would say. As well, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Let's see what the you'll Internet says. Here. Take a look,
it's in a book. We're reading Rainbows back.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
The new Reading Rainbow is set to premiere Saturday, October
fourth and be presented as a digital series.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Oh digital series. There.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
It is both on its official site and kids Zuko,
which is a children's YouTube channel. Okay, so yeah, it's
not a PBS thing. It won't be airing on TV.
You can just get it on basically YouTube and their
official website, which is probably a great way to go
because then you're not tied to, you know, a thing
(48:00):
that is being slowly killed off, and more than likely
a lot of people will have access to it. Yeah,
but that's basically I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Now they're bringing it back.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah, I saw something about it the other day. I
was like, I don't know who this guy is, but
I'm down.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yeah. You know, it's something I remember watching as a
kid and really enjoying.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, Buffalo Toronto books and reading today. I was raised
by on Reading Rainbow. LaVar Burton is my hero. I
am a reader. I am a librarian because LeVar Burton
and Reading Rainbow so powerfully made us believe we belong
(48:48):
in books, we belong everywhere. It's a quote from threets. Yeah,
trying to see if there's anthing else on here. Buffalo
Toronto Public Met, which co created the original series in
nineteen eighty three, co produced the new season, which will
run for four episodes and a bit uh and a
(49:11):
bid to appeal to a media consumption habits of today's kids.
The show will be available via YouTube. The first episode
of the season will drop on this Saturday on kid Zuko,
a YouTube channel owned by Sony Pictures. There we go
a second season series pictures here.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Wow, Okay, that's a bit of a juggernaut behind a
that's a pretty independent something something kickstarted or whatever.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah right, that's cool. I used to have, like, you know,
someone actually backing him.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
That's why I was reading us to see if there's
anthing about like PBS partnering with them, because PBS has
been putting a lot of stuff like up on social
media for obviously to stay alive because well, you know,
current events. A second season this ship of the series
has not yet been confirmed, but a representative from Buffalo
(50:12):
Toronto Public Media says they have high hopes former host
Burton has tried to reboot Reading Rainbow himself in the past,
but became ensnared in legal challenges with local PBS stations
within Buffalo Toronto public media. Interesting, weird, Okay, I don't know. Yeah,
(50:40):
I remember seeing some about it. I didn't read about
what it was, but that's cool.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
I wonder if input in this at all. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
The TikTok famous new host. Apparently, so this Michael three
guy was popular in social media, hence the reason he's
probably hosting it. And he's a librarian, so like that
helps as well, right.
Speaker 4 (51:07):
Which is good. Then that means it already has an
install base that they could pull in. Yeah, because that
was actually a question of mine that when I read
through the article, it's like, Okay, where did they find him?
Like I get that he's known as these things in
for more likely the local is what I was taking
it as local.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Library and over there.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
But then I guess it's just because he has a
TikTok presence, So okay, So yeah, you have an install base,
and hopefully that install base just goes over there and.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Watches and makes it all popular.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
It makes it all popular anyway.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
I thought that was a cool little thing, a nice
little nugget of joy in this world.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
Yep, I'm okay with nuggets and joy, right, all right, Well,
I got nothing else. I thought I had some stuff,
but I can't find more details about the Bill Nye
thing that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
Oh. I did vaguely hear something about him doing something.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, he's doing a four part series about I guess
it's a family illness that his family has dealt with
for over the years, something about mobility and muscle something
or other. I was trying to find more information, but
there's not a whole lot. But he's doing like a
four episode special or something something like that that's supposed
to come out soonish or whatever. So but yeah, anyways,
(52:32):
that's it for this week's episode of Comes Naturally. We
have been I've been Cody, and as usual, you fuckers
just came naturally.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Bye.
Bee in a second. Okay, I uh timed you're ready
with the incoming call, but I hit the call button
before they hit sent the text message. So okay, so
I'll probably get a text message in a second if
(00:20):
you haven't got it ready, haven't.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Gotten it yet. I must have got on my phone
or anything. Mm hmmpe it's all right, and my computers
still catching up with everything.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, it's all those notifications you're bogged down with.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Seriously, what's up body?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Not the watch? What's up to you?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Not a whole lot, Not a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right, This week was just kind of a week.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Was a week?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Was a week just meaning like nothing really happened. That's it,
nothing new, just was a week.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It did?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It did seem like there wasn't a whole lot going on.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, I mean, besides the whole Microsoft stuff, which I
mentioned to you earlier that I canceled my Xbox Live
subscription because I'm not paying.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Thirty bucks a month for something that quite.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Honestly, I had been paying for and not really using
too much of.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I mean the last couple of months. Sure, they had the.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Indiana Jones game, and I've been I tried playing Doom
three Doom with a Vengeance or whatever it is, but that,
like the Inage Jones game was great, and I and
bought the DLC and played through that. I finished that
last week, which was great as well. But there's just
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nothing there for me anymore. And the fact that you're
gonna raise it up ten bucks a month for games
that I don't play, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm not doing that. I'm done. So I canceled.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
What was funny though, is I canceled and then literally
the next day I get an email saying, hey, just
to let you know, November one, we're gonna increase your
subscription from twenty dollars a month to thirty dollars a month.
And I was like, ha ha, already canceled that yesterday, bitch,
why are you emailing me?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Should be done by now.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
So this is the fact that I haven't really touched
my console a year, maybe more like it's just.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Gathering dust there now. Yeah, technically I could have swapped
to their PC version of Game Pass, but it's like, nah,
I'm done. I'll go buy all my games from here
on out off of Steam or something.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And it's not like you play online games or anything,
so it's like you're using the online portion of it
right exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You know, I'm not sitting here playing Call of Duty
or anything. Yeah, so cancel that subscription. And honestly, it's
not too bad. It's it's pretty nice freeze up, you know,
twenty bucks a month to do other stuff with, which
actually led into another thing that i'd I'd been talking
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with my brother about.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
He ended up buying remarkable too. It's pretty device. It's
pretty cool device.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So basically, you know, inc display note taking you know,
generally geared at like businesses and whatnot. But he's also
showing that he was able to it's kind of weird,
like they have the ability to enter into developer mode
(03:56):
because it's based off of Linux, even though it the
way it runs that feels very chrome lank, which is gross.
But once you entered into developer mode, you can obviously site,
you can sideload like apps and stuff. So there are
apps that people have built for it that you can
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read comic books and do other stuff with. And so
he was showing me the showing me that and how
you know, the comic looked pretty good in color, and
so I was like, man, you know I have now
twenty bucks a month freed up, and I haven't read
comic in a long time. Let me start looking into that.
So I looked into Saga. Of course i've kind of
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I kind of fell off that, and I went and
bought the volume. I can't remember what volume it is,
but it's the the beginning of the new story arc
that actually just ended not too long ago where I
had left off before. And I was like, you know that,
this is pretty nice just sitting here reading through comics.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a good way to spend your time, Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's also not on social media, which I mean, I
don't really do too much social media anyway besides like Reddit,
but it's like.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Gets away from doing that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But all this actually started too now that I really
think about it, is because Amazon announced a bunch of
new products this week, most of it I don't really
care about. But one of them was a color Scribe,
which is Amazon's like eleven inch e ink reader, but
(05:38):
it's actually also a note taker and whatnot. Kind of
geared toward a lot towards the business, which.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Was kind of the weird thing.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I suppose not weird thing, because I'm sure that the
other original scribe was also geared towards more professional business
people blah blah blah, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Never really looked at it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
My brother had one because he does like taking notes
on on yek stuff, and again that's why when they
announced this, he almost wanted to buy that, but then
started looking at the Remarkable too, and then went down
that route there. But from my point, it was like, man,
this would actually be kind of a cool e reader
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or a comic book reader.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
At that point of course, it's like six hundred and
something dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, it makes it a bit rough.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Makes a little bit rough, And I went and looked
at the cases for it as well. The case is
like a nice first party leather Amazon case was one
hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think. Yeah, So definitely not.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Like buying one of those anytime soon, unless for some
reason we would get an accommodation for one, which I
know we do every once in a while. That best
buy get those accommodations from Amazon for kindle products, So
maybe someday do something like that. But an eleven I
know the described as an eleven inch I think eleven
inch screen, and so is the Remarkable moracaals like the
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size of a piece of paper, so it's a little bit, a.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Little bit bit bigger than eleven inches.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
But man, that would be nice to sit there and
read it a comic before bed and then just like
switch over to a book to finish off the night
and read. So that's kind of my goal for the
rest of the year, see, is if I can like
read more comics instead of doing social media stuff and
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then read more books as well.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, it's a good it's a good goal, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Right, rather than just sit there and scroll through Reddit.
Really not just aimlessly doing stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yes, yeah, aimlessly doing stuff is the penultimate downfall for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Speaking of aimlessly doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yes, there is actually a couple of articles that I've
read across it or not today but this past week.
I'm trying to remember this, trying to remember this first
one off the top of my head, and I read
it earlier the week and I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But the title is from PC gamer.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
The Witcher author Andre Subkowski says one of CD project reads,
Big story Points, is actually based on a mistake, but
video game people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity. Basically,
the idea is that let me see if I can
find it in this article exactly where he said it was. Okay,
so there's a single reference or a single sentence about
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some school of the Wolf mysteriously made its way into
the Last Wish subscopsy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Tabakowski explained, I later deemed.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
It unworthy of developed, meant it narratively and correct even
detrimental to the plot. Therefore I later never included or
referenced any Witcher, Gryffindors or Slytherin's. Again, basically he's saying,
and I thought that was going to lead into the
exact quote. But in that book he makes mention of like,
maybe there might be other schools of the Witchers in
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the realm, But if you've ever actually read the Witcher series,
there's never really any mention of, actually, you know a
school of the was the school of the Bear, school
of the thought Fox, a school of the Cat, and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
There aren't any. But when it came to at least
the Witcher three.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I don't know about the one in two games, I
haven't actually ever played them, it just expands on it completely.
It's like, oh, there's you know, all this other Witcher armor.
In fact, you meet another Witcher along the way, if
I recall, right, he was from a different school maybe.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I think so, yeah, yeah, But it's this whole narrative
plot point that that that was picked up by the
people that made the game CD project read and ran
with it.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And then you have all of the fans of the
You have a lot of fans that are just like, oh,
the school of this is school of that, and the
original writers just like man I that was a mistake
in the book that if we're meant to actually do
and people just ran with it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I mean, they did kind of take some liberties with
some of the stuff the way they they do things,
and obviously the action is a lot more robust in
the in the games than it is in the book books.
But I mean that's I mean, if you made if
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you made the games like the books, I don't think
they'd be as popular.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well definitely not considering that.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
If I call right, the story for the Witcher kind
of ended with the Witcher two in the games, I think, yeah,
and then the Witcher three, while it does still kind
of follow the idea of some of the Witcher stuff,
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is like completely its own, its own thing, because obviously
reading the books you know.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
The whole thing is about like.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Siri herself trying not to be married off to the
nailf guard prints in order to you know, do royal
stuff blah blah blah blah blah, and garyl trying to find.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
No. I got to remember, can't say that word.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You can't say Siri, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Exactly, otherwise I trigger other things and house. But there
is no wild Hunt like I believe they're They're like
in passing mentioned in one of the books. But there
is no wild Hunt in the books. It's a completely
made up thing for the third video game.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Another thing he grasped onto and said, hmm, I wonder
what this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Could be exactly. And they made it into a great story.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Don't get me wrong, It is really good, and I'm
excited to see what they'll do with the next story.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Just focusing on she who now shall not be named.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Series like voldemorton Joe's house pretty much, you say, you
say that name, and it's gonna activate and you're gonna
have Siri everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, see your house too.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I thought that was an interesting thing that I never
thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Another thing that I didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Realize is that he wrote a uh and it actually
just got released a couple of days ago do or
last week or something like that. He wrote a prequel
to the Witcher series.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I saw some about that. Is it written by him?
Or is it? Is it co written with somebody else?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
From what I understand it, it is written by him.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I can pull up the old Amazons.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Amazon dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Sounds outs watch your books.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Where is.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, Crossroads of Ravens. It only lists him as the author,
all right, Yeah, before he was the White Wolf or
the Butcher of Lavican garalt of Rivia is simply a
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fresh graduate of care More and stepping into a world
that neither understands or welcomes his kind. And when an
act of naive heroism goes gravely wrong, Gerald is only
saved from the news by Preston Holt, a grizzled richard
who with a buried past and an agenda of his own. Yeah,
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so maybe I'll buy that and read it. I'm looking
for a new book to listen to. I'm still reading
through King Solomon's Minds and like more than halfway through it,
but I'm looking for a book to.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Listen to.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well have some option. The new Joe Hill book comes
out Seeing Too uh, And I.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Also realized so does A doesn't it's already.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Out especially maybe that'll be the one I grab.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, I probably grab that one as a Whisper Sink
and a as a Whisper Sink. Yet you book book
and audiobooks, so when I do finish The King Salomon's Minds,
I can just jump into that one, because I don't
know if this one is is this one? Oh no,
it does say I add audiobook for sixteen seventy nine,
(15:34):
so this one does support Whisper Sink as well. But
as much as I like the Wacher, I don't know
if I really care for like a prequel Witcher.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'll still read it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm just saying like it's not something that I'm like,
really you know, chomping out the bit to uh to
go read.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I already know where he his story takes us.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yep, I don't know where damn brew own story takes us.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Probably several places on one trip.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh several places on one trip.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
There will be mystery, intrigue, a lady friend, you know,
action adventure that's.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know, that's my jam a lady friend, he says,
A lady friend.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Uh, what else would you call him?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Why don't Why don't I see an option for audible
on what?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
On?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Secret of Secrets? I don't know, Usually a little check
box to add.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Let me see, let me see. It's weird. I search
it up and it shows me the Audible book first.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh you know why? Hold on?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
No, I see it there nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yep, I realized because I had clicked on a link
to open the app and not the website, and you
can't do digital purchases through the app. Yeah, so that's
why so.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I found it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I seen it. Yeah, it's that's on my wish list,
Uh to get? I think The next one I think
I have already purchased is the Joe Hill Book. Whenever
it finally drops, which is the end of this month,
I believe I'll probably.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Buy it this as soon as we're done here the Secrets?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do it, Joe, do it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Get everything?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Don't be a little.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Bitch preloaded so I can listen to stuff on my
way to work.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That long drive you have, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I know, all of twenty something minutes. That's if traffic
is bad, and traffic is you know, not great because
we're starting to get into cooler seasons and starting to
get the freaking snowbirds come in.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, m hm, king sorrow. The new Joe Hill book
comes out on the twenty first.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Mm hmm, okay, that's at the end of this month.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Oh, my wishless is super long.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Your wishless is always super long?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Keep adding ship mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You guys stop doing that, do no?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What do I though?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Anyway, we'll tackle that later.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
AnyWho.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's all I gotta say about that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's all he's gotta say about that. Yeah, I'm actually
making my way through the end of the world as
we know it, which is the stories from the stand
Oh okay, it's all right. So the problem with it
is I realize a few stories in none of this
matters because none of these characters go forward like they're not.
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Like so far, okay, I'll say this. The first part
of the book is all happens during the outbreak. Then
the second part of the book has to do with
people traveling to their destination, so either Vegas or Colorado. Well,
(19:36):
first off Nebraska and then Colorado. But but you realize that, like,
none of these characters matter because they're not in the story. Yeah. Now,
the one thing though it could happen is this third
part of the book could be people during during the
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con the conflict, Like you know when when Stu and
them go off to Vegas to well, I guess Stu's
the second group he goes off to Vegas, right, because
the first group.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, did they get killed? They never came back.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, and they're the ones that set the nuke off,
right I think so was the one that set there? Yeah, well,
they they're the ones that set like that got it going.
And then Stu when they witnessed them being because that
was wasn't that Larry Underwood and.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I mean technically they didn't set well because it was
it was Ratman or whatever it is was messing around
with It's a very.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Long time, Yeah, but it was like Larry Underwood and
them are the ones that are captured, that are captured
and killed and then uh So, like what I was
saying is maybe the third section of the book is
going to be like about them at like both in
Vegas and in Colorado and then maybe leading into stuff
that happens after the fact. I don't know yet. I
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will be finishing it, just not sure when and where
that's gonna go. But the it's some of the stories
are good, some of them are not. There's one I
want to say it was the one written by Richard Chismar.
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I think actually mentions not by name but by description
Larry Underwood, because if you remember in the story, I
think it's Larry Underwood. I have to I'd have to.
I have to go back because its been a while
since I read The Stand. But there's a part in
in the Stand where Larry and is traveling with that
one rich lady and she ends up overdosing, not not accidentally,
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she intentionally overdoses on on drugs, on pills, and he
finds her dead. I believe Richard Chismar added a witness
of seeing that happen in his book from the point
of view of the character he's writing about. I think
that's who it was that it was happening to you. Anyways,
that was an interesting one. But there's like there's some
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cool ones, but like a lot of them are just
like especially like the first like section of the book
where it's all about during during the actual outbreak of
the super flu there's like this no nobody survives, like
everyone's ended up dying or like whatever. So like the book,
the story ends with them being isolated or like whatever,
(22:34):
and you're like, well, this depressing and it's some weirdly
like over sexualized stuff in some of the stories I
thought was very odd, like this one where a dude
was like psychically connecting with this fish and they were
(22:56):
having like sex. It was very bizarre.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It was.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Uh, it was just very very strange. And I was like,
I don't know if this story needs to be in here.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What's this to do with the stand.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
This guy is finger fucking a fish? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
So it was very strange. I was like, well, that's odd.
I hope that guy dies. Not the writer the.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Character.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, I don't really want him to be. And that's
the cool thing. One of the cool things about the
story is like the people are like reluctant to like say,
they're having these prophetic dreams about this old black lady
or you know, the man in black. And some of
them are the ones that are like clearly going to Vegas. Uh.
(23:48):
They're they're so happy to tell people about Randall Flag.
They're like, yeah, random Flagg, this cool guy came to me,
said we're gonna like live it up in Vegas. I'm like, well,
clearly you we know which camp you're going to. And
the other ones are like the ones that are like
visiting being visited by Mother Abigail are like super like,
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I don't know if I should tell anybody that I've
been dreaming about some old black lady telling me to
come to Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, right, a little suspiciously, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And then there was one where it was cool because
like the the one character was actually getting visions from
or dreams from both, but they were. It made it
feel to me, maybe I'm extrapolating more out of it,
but it made me feel like Randall was trying to
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because it felt like they were starting with Mother Abigail,
but it was like Mother Abigail hadn't shown up yet.
It was a cornfield or a house surrounded by cornfield,
and the person said they could see crows watching him
through the corn and then eventually like a figure walking
around to the corn and then Mother Abigail came to
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her like in the vision in the dream, and I
was like, oh, I wonder if she was teetering like
in her like and like she could be going to Vegas.
She'd be bad, but mother Abigail sees better in her.
And then as I was like, that's kind of cool.
I'm trying to remember the name of the one that
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I really liked because it it was a it was
a fun one. Basically, these two brothers, I think they're brothers.
I can't remember if their brothers just friends. It's it blurred.
But they they're in this small town in Texas and like, uh,
the town like only has like fifteen hundred people or whatever, right,
and so like, uh, they start noticing people are dying
and so being good you know Christian boys, they start
(25:46):
going and bearing people, right because there's no one else
to do it. So they're gonna do it. And there's
nothing else for them to do because the farm they
work on, like because they're ranch hands, like nothing's happening
because everybody's dying. So they just start going through and
they're like they're like they basically they're kind of like
they're slow. I would say, like like they're not socially active,
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you know what I mean, They're not like you know,
you know, it's not you know, hey, perfect spelled moo n.
They're not that kind of slow. But like they're definitely
not like you know, brain trusts, but they're really into
movies and stuff. So they basically spend their time during
the day going through bearing people, going to the houses,
pulling them out, bearing them, you know, paying their respects.
(26:32):
And then they at night they go to the liquor store,
get beer, go to the rental the movie rental place,
get movies, and they do theme movie nights, so they
do like a lot of horror stuff. Well, then they
stumble upon this one guy and they're like, well, let's
go check on them, and as they get closer to
the house, the door opens, the dude greets them with
a shotgun and they're like whoa, whoa, hey, hey, we're
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just going through bearing the dead and we're just checking
you and the girls. And the guy like kind of
like hints over by this tree and there's three freshly
dug graves and he's like, yeah, the girls didn't make it,
and they're like, oh shit. They're like, well, hey, if
you want just saying every night we meet at the
(27:17):
rental place to get a movie and then back at
our house by seven or back by to the ranch
house by seven to watch movies. If you want to
join us one time. There's cold beer and movies, so
they they one night he shows up and it's basically
starts his friendship, where like he's watching the movies with him.
Eventually he like warms up to him and he starts
meeting him at the movie, the movie rental place and
(27:39):
all this fun stuff. And then eventually like he starts
like recommending stuff and they find out that he's never
seen the classics like Texas chainsaw mask and all this stuff. Right,
so they start showing him those and he's like, why
do you guys like idolize these killers? And they're like, well,
it's not really the killers we idolize. It's like, you know,
it's the it's the thought of you know, the the
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the the social justice or whatever. You know, like the
bad people are getting theirs. And because obvious, not always
the bad people, but you know, it's like a lot
of times the theme is like they're sinners and they're
getting what they deserve. Blah blah blah. Right, So anyways,
the story goes on. This happens for quite a while,
a few days in a row, then a couple, you know,
a week or so whatever, and then so one time
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the boys are headed to the liquor store and they
notice the door is the glass door is shattered in.
So they go in and there's these two girls and
they're like, they're like, hey, like, you know, we noticed
that you broke our door, Like, oh my god, this
is your liquor store. Oh no, we meant like this
is where we come all the time, you know. And then,
cause they're kind of naive, the boys and they're like, oh,
(28:45):
they're like, yeah, we ran out of gas, blah blah blah,
we can't get the pumps to work. And one guy's
kind of flirting with him, goes, well, I came in
the guy's name. The other guy, he's like, he used
to work at the gas, but we can probably get
him working for you if you want your you know,
to get some gas. They're like, oh my god. And
then these two guys come out and they assault him,
like they hit him and they start beating them up.
And then the girls are like, oh, do we have
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to kill these two? And I was like, well, clearly
these four are going to Vegas and so they're like, yeah,
you know, there's no reason blah blah blah. And then
all of a sudden this dude comes around from around
the back of the liquor store and he's holding his
guts in and he's stumbled, and he goes they have
a friend, and he falls dead on his face and
out comes the dude that they've been watching movies with
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with a fucking chainsaw, damn, and he starts fucking rocking
shot through these fucking people.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Dude, damn.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
And that's like literally the end of the story. Oh okay,
it's like it's it's The thing is, like, none of
the stories really have like an ending because so far
it's it's obviously not the end of the stand so like,
and not all of them are happy and things, some
of them are fucking.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Get it, but at least you could maybe have like
some sort of closure on things instead of just like anyway,
here's the chainsaw room and then scene.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Ends and you're like wait what, Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Story or like, I get it.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
You probably chopped up those people, but like, where's the
consequences and the moral dilemma that's that's gonna be talked
about afterwards?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Like okay, yeah, so it was just you know, the
thing is that but yeah, it's it's not a bad
but it's it's it's like there's no like I just
realized that there's like no going anywhere with it, Like
oh yeah, cool, they're in the world of the Stand.
But it's like, bro, none of it has consequences at
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this point, like nothing, nothing matters because we're not really
like dealing even.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Running into the same problem that I would have if
I read the New Witcher book. It's like I already
know where everything goes, you know, so yeah, it's gonna
be an interesting story to see where you get.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
From point A to point B. But it's like all right, but.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
In your case too, it sounds even a little bit
worse because it sounds like some of the stuff doesn't
even have like its own small conclusions, like you know
that there's not going to be a happy ending to
the Stand, but at least you can get some were
of like and they went, you know, they got beers,
they said ha ha and buried the people and then
went back to watch more.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Slasher movies or something. I don't know. Yeah, they just
and literally right the middle of just like oh okay, what.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, it's I don't know, it's very it was just
very strange, but like I'm still I'm obviously gonna finish it,
but I'm definitely not in a rush to finish it.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Usually when you just finish a story and you're like, oh, okay,
that I started to getting invested into stuff. This was
getting good, and then suddenly it's over and you're like,
all right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, I guess. And I don't know if I thought
maybe like these would be like stories involving some of
the characters from the Stand, but they realized, like, as
I'm listening to it, I'm like, oh, you know what,
they're not, because any of the characters we got invested
with in the Stand had their story told in the Stand.
You met him, yeah, you met him at the beginning,
(31:57):
you met him during in the middle, and then you
you you got there the most conclusion you can get
for the Stand. You know, obviously, after the the conflict
was over and the world basically has to rebuild itself.
So it's like, oh, okay, I kind of think I'm
not gonna care too much about any of this that's happening,
because like none of it matters. Because like even if
(32:21):
you introduce a character that interacts with a Stu Redman
or a Larry Underwood or right or like a Franny
Goldsmith or whatever. Right, it doesn't matter because their story
isn't told in the stand. So unless you tell me
a story going forward, like oh they because again you
can't interact with whatever it is. You can't give me
(32:42):
a story of someone going to find root Stu when
they were on their way back and he had broken
his foot or whatever. Right, that doesn't matter because that
didn't happen in the stand. So like, unless that person
goes out and they end up getting lost in fucking
you know, have some kind of venture, cool, but it
doesn't really matter. You're not gonna have enough time invested
(33:06):
to tell me is their their origin of during the
super flu, the their their move to uh either one
Vegas or Colorado, and then the aftermath. It's a they're
all short stories. You're not gonna give me that unless
you give me bullet points in the short story. And
I'm like, I can't find myself invested in any of
(33:27):
these characters, which sucks, but you know, because it's that
you're not rewriting any of the rules. You're staying within
the rules, which I'm thankful you are well other than
the whole fish fuckery thing, right, But it's like like
in the the one of the ones I just finished
(33:47):
was one of the better ones, and it took place
in England, which obviously in the Stand you never really
get a viewpoint of anybody outside the States because it's
so focused on you know, the the like if he
drifts off too far to one side, then you'd have
to tell a story of how that person got there,
blah blah blah, right, which you could do, but the
(34:08):
stands long enough. But you know, for the most part,
you stick with those you know, eight to ten characters
that you made the beginning, get to see their middle
and then get to see their end, be it a
bloody bad ending or a remotely better ending, you know,
not being nuked, or you know, you know, living. But
(34:33):
it's it was cool just because like obviously, like I
didn't know if they were going to try to like
make hey, there's another conflict happening in this part of
the world with good and evil, but it's like, no,
they're all focused on which is very American centric, right,
like you know, but that's he writes about what he knows,
(34:54):
so might as well have it here. But also like
he can control the narrative and the culture versus having
to like you know, figure out what it'd be there.
Plus we have a place here called sin City, Like right,
there's no reason not to have uh that be the
focal point anyway. So it was cool because like they
(35:16):
were both very bad people, but like it was weird
because the one guy, uh was like at first I
thought he was gonna like switch like they he's gonna
go like, but he was obsessed with meeting Randall Flag,
like she was obsessed with like wanting to be with
Randall Flag much like I can't think of her name
(35:37):
from the actual stand uh like assumed like she gets senator,
considered herself it assumed to be bride or whatever. Right,
this chick was the same way, Like she wanted nothing
but to be with Randall and like b Randall's and
this this naive like eighteen year old nine year old
kid or whatever she she meets up with, she like
(35:57):
wants nothing but to dominate the shit out of him,
and she eventually just she essentially fucking like date rapes him.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And uh so then he like he's like no, like
blah blah blah, and like he's like he is like
fucking stabbing her. Uh, and then like saying he's gonna
deliver her to Randall himself and she's gonna face justice
to his hand. And I was like, I don't think so.
And then he drives a bus into the water and
they both die and drowned. So that was a very
(36:29):
weird one as well. Yeah, it was very like there's
a lot of these weird delusions that people have, Like
Randall obviously is not a good, good person, and like
he like tells people things and a lot of times
the way, like again extrapolating from things, I looked at
it as some of these people might be on the
fence of going either way, but Randall like might be
(36:50):
able to see that they if they go to Mother Abigail,
they'll be more of a problem than if he were
to bring him in his side or get them killed,
you know, because he is obviously the devil in this story.
So like I felt like some of it, like he
used that guy to basically eliminate both of them, because
(37:11):
like she used a psychopath who probably might be power
hungry and kind of crazy, which he's okay with, but
like maybe not, like she seems like a handful.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Then this other guy was and He's like, well, I
could use this naive as kid to eliminate him both
and not worry about it. But you know, who knows. Again, No,
no concrete finishes to a lot of these and what's
going on is more of just like alluding to things.
But you know, it's still fun, but like it's not
(37:43):
not even I hope it would be. Yeah, I was. Again,
I don't know what I was expecting it to be,
because it's not like it's it's not like it's a
sequel or whatever, right, Like.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
It's just stories within Yeah, so things that happened around
and I can definitely see it going into something like
that and being like, oh, maybe this will expand upon
some things that weren't touched upon in in the major
st you.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Know, in the actual book, yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Or ancillary characters that you've kind of forgot about, because
I know we're talking, you're talked about and I'm like,
wasn't there a character that Sue meets long something along
that he was a professor or something like that, or
remember something about a shotgun. Stu stays with him for
like a week or so, and then he leaves, and
it's like, what happened to that character, I don't remember,
Like he could have died, honestly, but you know, maybe
(38:37):
one of the stories could have been like what happened
to him?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, so, And I think a lot of it has
to do with like the fact that like they didn't
want to encroach on anything that Steven did with it, right,
But like also, like again, it's one of those things
where like, also none of this matters because like none
of these characters are of any substance to the actual story.
(39:03):
So unless the back end of this collection is dealing
with like what happened to like a bold thing would
be like what happened to stew in the fraany after
they went back? Because didn't they at the end of
the stand, didn't they go back to Rhode Island? I
don't remember, I want to say, or Connecticut way because
she gave birth while he was gone. He gets because
(39:26):
he on his trip back he ended up stumbling and
breaking his legs. So they ended up staying in that
like Mountain Town area where they fixed up the projector
and watched movies while he was healing, because he obviously
couldn't walk on a busted ass leg but he tried
and it just got worse because I think he got
to end up getting a fever because of it, and
like they went there and like he had to work,
he had to work with Uh is it Tom m O?
(39:47):
And Tom Right? I think is his name again? I'd
have to go back and reread it or cliff notes it,
but I know they eventually made their way back, and
then eventually I think they went on their way and
they packed up, took the baby, and I think they
went back to Connecticut, Rhode Island, or wherever it was
that it might have been Maine because it's Stephen King
(40:09):
wherever she was from. I want to say that's what happened,
but you know, other things like obviously we're not gonna
get a tale of what happened to Larry Enderwood because
he got well murdered in a cage and then blown up,
so we know his ending. But yeah, so it's it'll
be interesting to see where it goes. But for the
most part, it's like they are just throwaway stories. Some
(40:30):
of them are cool, other ones are like mmm, like
one of the best ones is like one of the
shortest ones, and it was like a savage story of
like these two brother and sister who are immune, which
obviously is very uncommon. Their mothers got it, got it
pretty bad. Then she starts having delusions of seeing and
(40:51):
talking to Randall, and he tells her like she needs
to kill her kids. So she chases them upstairs, and
like they're hiding in his sister's room, and they fucking
end up like killing their mom because she busts in
the door. And then as they're they basically, we got
to get out of here. We gotta go to Colorado,
and they're going, and all of a sudden, like his
(41:12):
sister starts like talking weird, and he turns around and
she's like starting to like sweat and like like have
a hard time breathing. And he realized and she's like, nah,
mister Flag, I'll take care of him right here. And
I was like, holy fuck, dude. And then his ends
like this is savage as fuck, dude. But it takes
place in I want to say it was in New
York is where it took place. And like he literally
(41:33):
like from his bedroom window of their apartment complex or
apartment building, he like witnesses like a bunch of people
murdering different people in the streets and stuff. Yeah, it's
pretty fucking wild. I was like, yeah, this is crazy,
but that was one of the better ones for sure.
It was very short. But again that's like at that
(41:56):
point I was like, Oh, none of this is gonna matter,
because all these people are either gonna die or just
like head off into the fucking sunset and probably die
before they get to Colorado, or could be one of
the mainly the nameless few that are there in both
Vegas and in Colorado that you never really interact with.
They're just you know, survivors. They could be those people, you.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
And again I don't remember all the details of who
shows up and win, because like there's this one guy
who like he like or as one girl has a
horse that she like, uh has, and I'm like, she
could be somebody who met up and they're like they
could be like, you know, all this one lady showed
up with a horse. I'll write a story about how
she got there. Cool, you know, Yeah, But it's like
(42:40):
at that point, it's like, yeah, she's in Colorado and
she has a horse, because you're.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Right, I do remember that.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
At one point in the main story, they're talking about Hey,
like a group of people just showed up, you know,
bring out the welcome wagon, this and that. You could
have literally made up a name there, just been like, yeah,
this is a survivor that it ends up here.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, so little things like that, and some are like
I said, some are really good, Some are very fucking weird.
Some seem drastically dark, which is hard to weird to
say about The Stand because like it's the fucking Stand.
Like it's about a plague that wipes out ninety nine
point nine percent of all humanity. So yeah, it's interesting
(43:26):
for sure, But I mean, don't do me wrong. I'm
not saying don't read it, but just know that you're
not gonna get any real satisfaction and clovery. It's just
it's just dark and kind of depressing.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yeah, sounds like it.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Speaking of books, Yeah, the.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Last story that I ran across this weekend that was
kind of interesting is apparently reading Rainbow is coming back.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Hell yeah, dude, yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Uh, it's not gonna be coming back with LeVar Burton.
It's gonna be a guy name and I'm probably gonna
butcher this Michael Threetz.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah, apparently he is.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
The little blurb here from Huffington Post says that little
less than a year, Michael three, It's a supervising librarian
at the Salon County Library in California, has earned a
handful of monikers. He's Human Sunshine, a modern day Mister
Rogers meets LeVar Burton, America's favorite librarian. So he's going
(44:29):
to be the one who will be heading up the show.
Apparently there's already a trailer that has dropped for the
series as well. If I recall right, this article mentions
that it suspiciously doesn't have the Reading Rainbow song in
it for.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I recall right, really.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
Yeah, alluding to the series classic theme song, which is
curiously absent from the new show's trailer. He added, We're
flying twice as high Butterflies in the sky stay tuned.
So it just probably means that they're probably going to
be maybe just touching it up and remaking it. I
can't imagine that they're going to completely change a very
(45:16):
classic song that I've literally heard an audience sing to
LeVar Burton at many a comic con that.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
We've been to that he's been there. Yep. According to
this as well, let's see where is it?
Speaker 4 (45:32):
Legions fans Michael so a feature and feature a roster
of starry narrators including Adam Davin, John Legend, Chrissy Tiegan,
and Gabriel Union. Apparently will be like guest stars for
doing for what I understand reading stories O. Guest stars
will included Riley Arnold, Ezras Sosa of Dancing with the
(45:55):
Stars and the Fantastic four Ft Steps and the Bear
star Evan Evan Moss.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Record record.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Back Ratch whatever. So yeah, premiering apparently in the episode
Sunday at ten Eastern starting October fourth, so yesterday apparently
as a recording. I think it's pretty cool. I mean,
it's something that we haven't seen in a while. What
(46:29):
channel did say that it was airing on? Because I
know PBS has been kind of having.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Issues lately, don't recall, I mean I would, Well, I can't.
PBS doesn't own Reading Rainbow.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Right, No, I don't think they do.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Because as they get I mean, it's public public access,
so like, yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
Thing I now I don't remember reading about where it's
being released.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Obviously they have a YouTube, I would say if they're
smart to be on YouTube, but yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
What I would say. As well, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Let's see what the you'll Internet says. Here. Take a look,
it's in a book. We're reading Rainbows back.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
The new Reading Rainbow is set to premiere Saturday, October
fourth and be presented as a digital series.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Oh digital series. There.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
It is both on its official site and kids Zuko,
which is a children's YouTube channel. Okay, so yeah, it's
not a PBS thing. It won't be airing on TV.
You can just get it on basically YouTube and their
official website, which is probably a great way to go
because then you're not tied to, you know, a thing
(48:00):
that is being slowly killed off, and more than likely
a lot of people will have access to it. Yeah,
but that's basically I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Now they're bringing it back.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah, I saw something about it the other day. I
was like, I don't know who this guy is, but
I'm down.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yeah. You know, it's something I remember watching as a
kid and really enjoying.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, Buffalo Toronto books and reading today. I was raised
by on Reading Rainbow. LaVar Burton is my hero. I
am a reader. I am a librarian because LeVar Burton
and Reading Rainbow so powerfully made us believe we belong
(48:48):
in books, we belong everywhere. It's a quote from threets. Yeah,
trying to see if there's anthing else on here. Buffalo
Toronto Public Met, which co created the original series in
nineteen eighty three, co produced the new season, which will
run for four episodes and a bit uh and a
(49:11):
bid to appeal to a media consumption habits of today's kids.
The show will be available via YouTube. The first episode
of the season will drop on this Saturday on kid Zuko,
a YouTube channel owned by Sony Pictures. There we go
a second season series pictures here.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Wow, Okay, that's a bit of a juggernaut behind a
that's a pretty independent something something kickstarted or whatever.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah right, that's cool. I used to have, like, you know,
someone actually backing him.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
That's why I was reading us to see if there's
anthing about like PBS partnering with them, because PBS has
been putting a lot of stuff like up on social
media for obviously to stay alive because well, you know,
current events. A second season this ship of the series
has not yet been confirmed, but a representative from Buffalo
(50:12):
Toronto Public Media says they have high hopes former host
Burton has tried to reboot Reading Rainbow himself in the past,
but became ensnared in legal challenges with local PBS stations
within Buffalo Toronto public media. Interesting, weird, Okay, I don't know. Yeah,
(50:40):
I remember seeing some about it. I didn't read about
what it was, but that's cool.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
I wonder if input in this at all. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
The TikTok famous new host. Apparently, so this Michael three
guy was popular in social media, hence the reason he's
probably hosting it. And he's a librarian, so like that
helps as well, right.
Speaker 4 (51:07):
Which is good. Then that means it already has an
install base that they could pull in. Yeah, because that
was actually a question of mine that when I read
through the article, it's like, Okay, where did they find him?
Like I get that he's known as these things in
for more likely the local is what I was taking
it as local.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Library and over there.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
But then I guess it's just because he has a
TikTok presence, So okay, So yeah, you have an install base,
and hopefully that install base just goes over there and.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Watches and makes it all popular.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
It makes it all popular anyway.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
I thought that was a cool little thing, a nice
little nugget of joy in this world.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
Yep, I'm okay with nuggets and joy, right, all right, Well,
I got nothing else. I thought I had some stuff,
but I can't find more details about the Bill Nye
thing that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
Oh. I did vaguely hear something about him doing something.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, he's doing a four part series about I guess
it's a family illness that his family has dealt with
for over the years, something about mobility and muscle something
or other. I was trying to find more information, but
there's not a whole lot. But he's doing like a
four episode special or something something like that that's supposed
to come out soonish or whatever. So but yeah, anyways,
(52:32):
that's it for this week's episode of Comes Naturally. We
have been I've been Cody, and as usual, you fuckers
just came naturally.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Bye.
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