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124. A Cover-Up by Big Cabbage
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Adrian & Simon get excited about Netflix’s Stranger Things Season 5! They also discuss the latest seasons of Pluribus, Hacks, Shōgun, The Chair Company, and Only Murders in the Building. In addition, they speculate as to what the upcoming TV & film adaptations for Far Cry and The Legend of Zelda might look like; while also examining the crazy box office success of Disney’s animated film Zootopia 2. Adrian and Simon also talk about their respective wedding plans; while Adrian insults Simon incessantly by making fun of his ears and by poking fun at his vegetable-like figure.
This episode was recorded in Canada on December 2nd 2025. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on December 16th for Episode 125.
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TV Show Discussions
00:00:00
Speaker
This episode, we talk Stranger Things Season 5, Vince Gilligan's Apple TV series Pluribus, and Hulu's Epic series Shogun. To be fair, we actually didn't talk much about Pluribus.
00:00:12
Speaker
Yeah, I mean a little bit. We talked about it a little bit. Okay. Yeah, fair enough. I talked about like hacks and other things. Anyways, doesn't matter. Continue. Yeah, I guess we could have put hacks. Sorry. Anyway, hacks. HBO's hacks. Okay.
Box Office Success: Zootopia 2
00:00:23
Speaker
We discussed the box office success for Disney's Zootopia or Zootropolis 2.
Video Game Adaptations
00:00:29
Speaker
Whoa. And we take a look at the upcoming video game adaptations for Far Cry and The Legend of Zelda. With new episodes airing every two weeks on Tuesdays, this is Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. I'm Simon Eadie. And I'm Adrian Binter. Welcome to episode 124.
00:00:47
Speaker
Welcome to episode 124.
Wedding Excitement and Preparations
00:01:14
Speaker
Do I have a story? um I mean, I'm getting married this week. That's exciting. I know. It's crazy. Saturday, man. It's um less than a week away, dude. It's crazy. It's it's really weird.
00:01:27
Speaker
I'm excited, though. Yeah. I mean, I guess just a ceremony and stuff. I mean, me and my fiance, we own a house together. We've been living together for almost a year now. Life's good.
00:01:38
Speaker
you know so it's nothing too crazy. But it is still just like going have to wear a ring all the time. I'm not used to wearing like jewelry. So it's going to kind of weird me out a bit.
00:01:48
Speaker
But i don't know. We'll see how that goes. But then I'll be a husband. Didn't you have an Apple Watch for a while? You did, right? Yeah, but that's a wrist. I don't put a ring on my wrist, Simon. I just wear it on my wrist like a watch would. You said jewelry.
00:02:00
Speaker
That's your own bad, not mine. Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. Touche. You know what? I'll let you have that one. I'll let you have that one, buddy. I'm on top of things. I've been you know working this morning. ah you know I got went took my car into the ah to the to the shop.
Balancing Work and Personal Life
00:02:14
Speaker
How'd you find your way there? i'm im I'm on top of it. That's good, man. Just cut to cut to five minutes from now where I say i have I have brain farts or whatever I said last week. Brain farts. Yeah. yeah That was embarrassing. So embarrassing. Okay. That was very embarrassing of you.
00:02:30
Speaker
i just kidding. But yeah, man. So it's it's pretty exciting. Again, finalizing the last couple of things were pretty much good. You know, family is good. My grandma's here. My uncle's here from from Serbia. In your house? Not in my house. My parents' house. Oh, just in town. so But I picked them up from the airport. Yeah. So that's cool that they flew down for it. but Yeah, man. I mean, it's busy, dude. There's a lot of, a lot of shit to finalize. Um, and then we're doing like a rehearsal dinner on the, on the Friday. Yeah. I'm, I'm only working today and tomorrow. Oh to yeah. And then I'm off the rest of the week and then I'm off next Monday and then back at it. But yeah, you're working today.
00:03:09
Speaker
Yep. I am. I am working technically right now, but Hey man, I did all my demos at 5 PM on Monday. Yeah. You know, yeah that's right that's the time we're recording this exactly dude this is a late record do we we usually record way in advance of the episode releases obviously really release episodes every tuesday or not every tuesday sorry that was a terrible mishap every be every second tuesdays every every second tuesday every two weeks on tuesdays yeah we're doing this so close to the launch it's the you know the first time we've done that the in the new new new run 24 episodes new run Yeah, i wanted to be respectful of your time and and try to do it as early as possible. That's why I did it right at 5 p.m. as soon as I got off work.
00:03:50
Speaker
I know. You're so respectful. I really appreciate you, man. You're you're such a good guy. Thanks, dude. Thanks. I try. Good stuff. So yeah, are you nervous?
Wedding Mishaps and Humor
00:03:59
Speaker
Are you a little nervous? Are you getting a little bit jitterous about this situation? Everything's going to go right, perhaps? Like, you know, like the, oh, no, what if something goes wrong? what if What if a bird flies in through the church window when you're when you're saying, I do, you know?
00:04:13
Speaker
That's fine. and that Then does that mean I marry the bird? It's possible. don't know. don't know how it works in the Catholic Church. Yeah, you both of you marry the bird. You both marry the bird as well. it's a throuple. Yeah.
00:04:26
Speaker
It's a throuple. That's the only time there's a throuple allowed in the Christian church. Yeah. In the Catholic church, yeah. um Yeah, no I'm not really... I'm not nervous, man. I'm excited more than anything. Obviously, like, there there are plenty of factors that, like...
00:04:42
Speaker
You know, you could think like, oh, this might mess up the day, yada, yada, yada. But I i don't know, man, just take it with stride. It's ultimately, it is my wedding day. It is an important day, of course.
00:04:52
Speaker
But ultimately, it is just a day. and And, you know, like, I want it to be a good one. Yeah. You know, I want things to go well, but I'm not going to like panic or ruin the day if if things go slightly awry, you know?
00:05:05
Speaker
You know, we'll see what happens, dude. We'll see what happens. That's the most extreme. The last bit you said was like the most extreme reaction. It's over. This wedding is over. Get out of my church. is Is that what you're saying? i No, no. I was just saying like if the weather is crappy so the photos can't be as nice or um yeah I don't know other miscellaneous things. If if the food isn't good, food's going to be good. I'm pretty excited about the food. i don't know, man. so i'm just I'm just trying to
00:05:38
Speaker
Trying to be as they pause calm and chill about it, you know, as possible. positive Enjoy it. It's good. I got one of my best pal, Peter. he's He's flying in, coming to to the event.
00:05:52
Speaker
So he's he's coming in on Friday morning. Nice. So he's going to be, you know, with us, which is nice. ah He's not staying the night on the wedding night, but he's staying the night the night before. So it's kind of nice because it's like on the Friday night, obviously do the rehearsal, have dinner. And then me and him are just coming back to my house. And then we're just going to hang out like when we were younger and just play video games for the night and, you know, go to bed and then.
00:06:18
Speaker
The next morning, I think I'm going to go to Denny's or something like that while my fiance and the gang is getting ready over here. you know Do a couple minor things. Pick up some i bread products like Keeflee. You know Keeflee. You know Pogaccia.
00:06:33
Speaker
You've had it at my house before. Like the Hungarian baked goods. um yeah So we I bought some, ordered some from this Hungarian lady that lives in Guelph. So going to pick it up, drop it off. And she's making it her house. She's just just built. She's baking it at home. Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:51
Speaker
Wow. That's pretty great. How did you find this person? my my I mean, it's hung she's a Hungarian person. My family knows all the Hungarian people. Hungarians just are connected in Guelph, Ontario, dude. Right. So she just knows her and then. Telepathic connections.
00:07:05
Speaker
Exactly. um And so we, like my family has ordered from her um ah multiple times in the past. So it's really good. i
Wedding Logistics and Choices
00:07:16
Speaker
i like it, you know? So it's just like, I and i want to at least a little bit.
00:07:19
Speaker
at the venue and um everything else is taken care of, man. got my shoes. I got my suit. I got my tie. I got other miscellaneous products that I need. Things things are going to go well. Limo.
00:07:32
Speaker
Limo is going to pick me up. Wow. Nice. Yeah. It's great, man. It's great. I'm excited, man. Good hear. I mean, your day's coming up. i Actually, i don't even think you mentioned your exact wedding day.
00:07:44
Speaker
You just said that it's close to mine. So don't even know. very close to yours. It's December 14th. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. That is super very close to me. Yeah. That's like one week. And are we going to celebrate our anniversaries together?
00:08:00
Speaker
Is that what you want? We could. is that At least one year. is Is that what your fiance wants? That's the question. Probably not. Probably not. But we could do it at least one year. Yeah, one year. yeah Yeah. What could could like mine that's right one i can celebrate my anniversary on the 6th.
00:08:20
Speaker
Then an in between mine and your anniversary, we celebrate together. And then on your anniversary, you guys celebrate your anniversary. That's a lot of celebrating. Why did you decide on December? Did you tell me why?
00:08:30
Speaker
because I don't remember why. we wanted ah you not in the summer. We wanted not in the like late spring. Oh, fall was like the ideal choice because I love fall colors. And then winter was kind of a second choice. To be totally honest with you, Simon, when we talked to the church, that was the earliest day.
00:08:52
Speaker
Oh, that's why. Okay. Yeah. So and we were like, we don't really want to wait until 2026. So, you know, like 12-6-2025 goes well. You know, December 6th, 2025, not bad. 6th of December, 2025. Right.
00:09:06
Speaker
right You know, it's, ah I don't know. It's a good day, man. I'm excited. Yeah. what Why did you decide on your 14th of December? Did you tell me? Oh, that's your like proper anniversary.
00:09:19
Speaker
Yeah. That's poetic. That's cool, man. Yeah. that's cool That's cool. That's wholesome. Yeah. Our anniversary is not that day. Okay. I thought it maybe was, and that's why December, because December weddings are kind of rare.
00:09:32
Speaker
They're not very common, I find. It could be. Especially in Canada. up But I'm pretty sure spring and – no, I know. No. ah Yeah. Winter and – yeah. For other other places. I'm sure in Florida, it doesn't matter.
00:09:42
Speaker
But actually, it might be preferred in some way in very hot places. Yeah. But yeah, no, that's why we picked it for that reason. We weren't planning to do anything outside anyway.
00:09:53
Speaker
And so it didn't didn't matter because our wedding's tiny in comparison to yours. So it wasn't really a factor for us. I don't know if it was ever a factor for you to do anything outside, but not at any point during the process, but not for us. We didn't care. No, like I obviously want some photos outside and I hope like, cause it snowed.
00:10:13
Speaker
And apparently it's going to stay cold. So I don't think the snow is going to go away. so I'm kind of happy about this level of snow. I don't know if it's going to snow much more this week. Apparently it's snowing tomorrow. We'll see. It's lot of snow, dude.
00:10:25
Speaker
What the heck is happening? it it is It wasn't even like before. I mean, it's not snowing today. Today's December 1st. We're recording this. But it snowed more than I can remember in November for the like distant past. I don't agree distinctly remember the last time this happened in November. Yeah. um yeah make it but It snowed on November ninth Yeah, no, it was weird. It was really early.
00:10:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man. And then it just kept snowing consistently since November 9th. It's pretty bizarre. I don't know. but But yeah, I like this level of snow and I want some like aesthetic shots with the snow in the background. So I'm i'm excited about that, man.
00:11:06
Speaker
That's good. Okay. Yeah. Sweet, man. All right. we Shall we move into the film and TV talk at this time? Yeah. We can't. Oh, you actually, before we do that, you want to hear something spooky?
PlayStation Panic and The Legend of Zelda Movie
00:11:18
Speaker
I literally... yeah I was logging into my PlayStation app today randomly. Yes. And it's literally said that your your account has been locked. I was like, oh no, like immediate panic. And I just, I quickly did the recovery. It fixed itself in like a matter of like two minutes. But i was like, what the fuck?
00:11:35
Speaker
That's what I don't know. It didn't give you a reason. It just says that it did. and I'm like, is it because, because like PlayStation is doing on the Canada Instagram, like this like ticket thing. And it kept on logging me out. So I had to re-log in. So is it like just because I had to log in like 10 times in a matter of like 30 minutes that it like flagged it?
00:11:54
Speaker
Oh, because of the advent calendar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah Interesting. That advent calendar thing for PlayStation is doesn't, i don't know. It's not running very well for me. God, no. I'm not sure what's going on there. Yeah, it's not good.
00:12:07
Speaker
But it's cool though. That's really great on a consumer perspective. I mean, it's just giving away free things. So it's kind of cool there. it's It's fun. It's fun times. Yeah. Okay. um Let's do it. Let's move in now, Adrian, to some quick bites of news. yum, yum. The first one, well, actually, I guess i'll I'll say my preamble. Let's dive into some quick bites of news, Adrian, a component of our show where we discuss a few film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks. The first one, Adrian, is pretty small. It's the Legend of Zelda shots, the the production shots that we've been seeing
00:12:43
Speaker
for the Legend of Zelda movie that is Nintendo's Legend of Zelda produced by Sony, which has begun filming. The set photos have been released. Any thoughts on it ah in terms of just any brief thoughts on what you think of what it looks like and whether it seems to be tracking on the right track? You've played many Legends of the Zelda games like Breath of the Wild, etc. i'm'm I'm assuming you've played others over the years. um Not a crazy amount. Like I played Majora's Mask when I was a kid, like on N64.
00:13:11
Speaker
And then I don't know, I've kind of like popped in here and there into Zelda, nothing too crazy. But yeah, I did play a shit ton of Breath of the Wild. And um it seems like that's the route they're going with, like in terms of the the outfits, at least aesthetic, um specifically with the actress. um What's her name? Bo something.
00:13:30
Speaker
but Bo Bragg, Bragg, Bragg, Bragg. Yeah. ah Who's playing Zelda like she has this like blue tunic on. Um, yeah and then, yeah, the, the guy that's playing, like, I think the casting honestly looks really good in this. Yeah. It works. That's what strikes me. For sure. And it is also nice that I'm sure these kids are going to make it big, assuming this movie does well, uh, which I'm sure it will financially.
00:13:54
Speaker
Um, But they're they're kind of lesser known actors. I've never seen either of these two people before. So it's kind of cool to see where they're going to go with this. Obviously, you know, I ain't holding my breath.
00:14:05
Speaker
But Wes Ball, he's the guy that did um the most recent Planet of the Apes movie. Which one was that? Kingdom. Kingdom. Okay, that's what I wanted to say, which I really liked. So um he obviously knows how to do some pretty good work. Obviously knows how to direct movies with a lot of CGI.
00:14:22
Speaker
i know you didn't love that I really liked it. I thought it was great. um And, you know, I'm sure this movie is going to be very CGI heavy with all the bokoblins and ah other things.
00:14:33
Speaker
um So, yeah, I don't know. i'm I'm being cautiously optimistic. Again, I'm not a huge Zelda fan, though. Like, I don't know the the plot or anything. I did enjoy Breath of the Wild, but I'm not like a diehard fan of. Right. Honestly, I need Nintendo franchise. What did you think of this, though, man? ah Do you like what you're seeing?
00:14:52
Speaker
I just like the casting. I think the casting nails it. I think that the first screenshots kind of, oh it really captures Legends of Zelda. I feel like if I saw the screenshot, of like I might have, without like a title or a subtitle, I would have been like, oh, is that a Legend of Zelda movie without knowing that they were making a movie? So I think i think that they've done a good job so far. It seems cool. But I mean, this really going to be about the plot, isn't it?
00:15:14
Speaker
That's that's all all that it matters. that all That's all that it comes down to for me, at least for any movie. um Even if it's, again, even if it's Power Glove, ah Gorilla, you know, ah Big Gorilla fighting ah giant monsters. You know what I'm saying? Project Power Glove or whatever they said. Project Power Glove, the King Kong movie with Godzilla. Yeah.
00:15:35
Speaker
that That film, I feel like I like it because they nailed the tone and they understand what they're making. And I still like it. I don't love it. It's fine. But I think it's good enough. It's fun. Based on they understand the what their universe is. It's crazy. For some reason, they've they've changed the Monarch franchise into something strange. And then they went back to realism in the Monarch Legacy of Monsters show. I don't understand that part.
00:16:00
Speaker
Monarch Legacy of Monsters is way better than... Most of the movies, except for Kong Skull Island, in my opinion, and Kong Skull Island is the best. Actually, Kong Skull Island on a tone perspective is also interesting because it's very funny, but it's also very serious. Like it nails exactly the the tone they're going for.
00:16:17
Speaker
But Project Power Glove, what is that? is it That's the Godzilla X Kong, right? Yeah, Godzilla X-Kong, New Empire, some shit like that. In some way, that plot is the most idiotic, but it works within the tone because they understand what their tone is. um but It's so crazy. I don't know. I feel like it would have been nice if they just kind of kept the same tone or or like tried to keep it similar to the Godzilla 2014 and...
00:16:42
Speaker
Kong Skull Island. I think I would have liked the overall series more. I would have been more invested personally. But anyway, I got sidetracked. This looks good. And it's interesting that Sony's making it because obviously they make PlayStation. They do. And they do Legend of Zelda is not on PlayStation.
00:16:56
Speaker
So I just think that's fun. That's a fun thing. Yeah. last time i checked right right because all the exclusives are going to playstation yeah not from not from nintendo though nothing nothing yet i don't think that's going to happen in our lifetime no i don't know maybe not in the the next 10 years i feel like that's my prediction i think it's unlikely not in the next 10 years definitely yeah not i would bet seven thousand dollars on that confident whoa that's a lot of money to me
00:17:25
Speaker
To you? Do I get the money? No. If it happens? Oh, okay. I mean, yeah. Just in general. I mean, sure. If it happens, then you get $7,000. But if it doesn't happen, then you give me $7,000, Simon.
00:17:37
Speaker
No, I know it's not happening. That's not the best. So why would I give you money? I'm just a bank. I'm just a bank. I'll hold to it for the bank of Simon. Yeah, that's all. That's all I'm saying. BOS. Okay, well, let's move on.
Far Cry Series Adaptation
00:17:50
Speaker
ah Let's move on now to an FX situation here. Network FX has officially given a series order for an adaptation of action anthology video game series Far Cry, which will be led by Mythic Quest creator Rob Mack and Fargo showrunner, who just re-upped his contract with FX and Disney, Noah Hawley.
00:18:11
Speaker
fix what do you think about this two video game stories in a row cool cool so super cool we knew about this to be fair we talked about the far cry series before but it hadn't been greenlit it is yeah yeah yeah Wonderful. Sorry. I had a brain fart. I'm like, Noah Hawley didn't do two video game series in a row. What are you talking about?
00:18:31
Speaker
I was like, oh, wait, Rob Mack did because he did Mythic Quest and then this. And then I realized it's stories, two stories. Yes. News stories. I got there. I got there. News stories. Quick bites of news, Adrian. That's why I gave you the preamble, but you didn't, I guess, like that. I did the preamble just for you josh and the audience.
00:18:49
Speaker
Oh, my gosh, Simon. You're a busy man. Your wedding's coming up. It's scary. You're scared. I'm terrified, dude. I'm terrified. The bird could come through the window and attack. The bird will come through window. You be relationship with a bird?
00:19:00
Speaker
I don't necessarily. No, birds are kind of frightening, man. They got talons. They got beaks, some of them. Not all of them. I think most of them, though. The vast majority them.
00:19:12
Speaker
Wait, which bird doesn't have a beak? i don't know. There's definitely a beakless bird, though, Simon. Let me find this. You mean like and got it got its beak knocked off or something like that? I don't think that's… Beakless bird. Is that true? Are there birds without beaks?
00:19:26
Speaker
I don't think so. And even though they all have a beak. Oh, what? That's the one characteristic you couldn't use. I know I could have done so many other things and it's like, no, fuck you. You're wrong. Yeah. When I type in beakless bird, the first recommended search result next to it is star Wars.
00:19:48
Speaker
Star Wars, then toucan, Canada goose, broken beak, parrot. What is the Star Wars? Is it the weird yeah the weird little guys on ah on that planet with Luke Skywalker?
00:19:58
Speaker
The Porgs. Yeah. Yeah. Beakless bird. Aha, the porgs. That's what it is. That's great. Yeah. Cool. All right. Well, any thoughts on this? you don't You're not a big Far Cry guy. What do you think about this situation? i am ah i am a big guy, Simon.
00:20:15
Speaker
So um what I think about this is this actually seems promising just because Noah Hawley obviously being attached. And it's evident that Rob Mack, it's weird that he changed his name.
00:20:27
Speaker
to Rob Mac. they I don't they say it's because he can't. Well, he, I guess he said that is because people can't pronounce McElhenney. Who cares? Yeah, it's stupid. That's your name.
00:20:37
Speaker
That was your name for him. Rob Mac anyway. Oh, I guess his is like insider group. Like the people he talks to personally, apparently the name is rob Mac. I believe in, in, in it's always sunny.
00:20:51
Speaker
Hence that. Yeah, and there you go. That's the connection. I guess. Crazy. Everything's connected. But no, I think, you know, with these two guys attached, I'm sure this is probably going to be nothing less than good, if not even great. um Because, yeah, it's it's very evident that Rob Mac likes video games. I don't know how Noah Hawley feels about video games, but he's ah he's he's amazing at adapting existing franchises into something that is in some ways even better than than the original. um Yeah.
00:21:22
Speaker
And I think Far Cry, although again, I'm not a big Far Cry guy, specifically just because I don't care for that gameplay. i think they've had a lot of really cool stories and story ideas. And i'm but as you mentioned, this is going to be an anthology. I think there's a lot that you can kind of pick and choose from. Because at the end of the day, all Far Cry is, is typically – you know, a person is in a unfamiliar territory where shit has gone awry because there's some, you know, um,
00:21:53
Speaker
bad guy running shit to the ground and, and, you know, there's rebels or whatnot. You know, it's a fairly, did a bad job kind of explaining that, but you know what I'm kind of trying to say. It's a survival story.
00:22:05
Speaker
It's a survival story. Yeah. i It's a, it's about the human, like can a human survive in a situation that's incredibly devastating? Like the, they basically, you're just getting destroyed and you're in a, yeah, you are in ah a weird territory. You land in like a foreign country that has a, a dictator who's,
00:22:23
Speaker
full of shit but it's basically that are you thinking of far cry 4 when you said that there's rebel oh i guess there's always rebels most of the time in the far series isn't there yeah because even in far cry 5 that was the same way in far cry even in far cry 3 yeah yeah yeah far cry 3 i wonder if they're gonna cast what's his name the dude from uh better call saul and the spider-man spider-man film what's his name the dude you know what talking about nacho Yeah, the guy who plays Nacho. Because he's in Far Cry 3 in a pretty prominent role. But yeah, it's about like whether a a human can survive, like the willpower to survive in these situations where they're in like ah a spot where they're kind of...
00:23:01
Speaker
like
00:23:04
Speaker
theyre they're basically, is it is it's upstream without a paddle. No, downstream without a paddle, yeah where they're completely like in a in a bad way, but can they survive? And then what what what will you do for to to survive is kind of the question that you're asked. like Will you kill people if you had to? What would happen if you were put in a position where you were completely you're completely, you're a moral person, but you're thrown into a position that's not not governed by society. You're in a spot where it's a completely...
00:23:31
Speaker
a shit show. And that's, that's kind of the question I feel like it asks. It's, it's so it's, I feel like it's a very, it could be anything. I think it could be like, I feel like Far Cry could be set in space. It doesn't really matter what it is, but the idea is like you're putting somebody, a human being on the brink of, of their morals. Like what, what will they do in these like terrible situations? And that's kind of the, I feel like the main goal and with Noah Hawley doing it, who's really good at,
00:23:58
Speaker
uh, at these kinds of adaptations, any kind of adaptations, whether you ah did like X-Men or Fargo or more recently alien with alien earth. Uh, I mean, certainly this show is going to be a far cry from Fargo, but, uh, you know, it's, uh, yeah. but That's good, dude. That was a good line there. I understood that. You were like doing like a pun, kind of. I like it. By the way, it's Michael Mando.
00:24:25
Speaker
hes He's the guy in Far Cry 3 who's also Nacho. And Spider-Man Homecoming. Yeah. yeah And Morbius. Was he in Morbius? Wasn't it? He was in one of them. Wasn't he in one of the... he wasnt he and I can't remember which one he was in He was in one of the movies as ah as a like ah in the...
00:24:46
Speaker
At the end of the end credit scene. Was it Morbius? No, I think you're thinking of Michael Keaton. No, Michael Keaton was with Morbius and Michael Keaton. But wasn't Michael Mando also at the end of, oh, maybe it was Homecoming again. Yeah, you're thinking of Homecoming where he's talking to Michael Keaton's character and he's like, yeah you know who Spider-Man is. Who the fuck is going kill him.
00:25:08
Speaker
I'm Scorpion. Right, right, right. That's it. But I'm not Scorpion yet. I just have a Scorpion tattoo on my neck. My thing with this is what I don't want them to do is to do a rehash of any of the games. I want them to do something pretty unique.
00:25:20
Speaker
If you use Michael Mando, you can use him in that character as a concept, but I feel like just don't follow the rest of the plot exactly. Like do something different and show set the tone early that you're not just following the plot of the games because there's no point. The games are an anthology series. This should be an anthology series, which I think it was called that in the press release as well.
00:25:38
Speaker
So that's exciting. I am excited about this because I think it will be it will be very good because of the showrunners running it. I think anything Noah Hawley's attached to is likely going to be good as a TV series that he's adapting. I i just... i wish...
00:25:52
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I think Noah Hawley is a very creative dude. I would hope that one day he makes something on his own though. And that it's shown to be excellent because that ah Lucy in the sky wasn't great. Apparently. was just going to say, yeah. I'm just kind of like, I'm kind of feel bad about that. Cause like, he's one attempt easy. And they're like, no, you suck. And then he's like, he went back to what he does really well. And then he just kept doing it really well some more, but it's like, that's kind of,
00:26:18
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unfortunate because I feel like Lucy in the Sky was just one failure and I bet you can make something pretty great because even like Alien Earth is pretty far from alien in some aspect like that subject matter in some way is not really that alien it is alien and that that some of the tone is there and like definitely all the technology he always nails exactly like the The set pieces and all that aspect, the look and feel, which is awesome. But he does. like That's a very unique story in the alien universe. So it's like, I feel like he could definitely do something unique and make it shine. That's the only thing that makes me kind of sad is that he's, I ah hope he, well, to be honest, it's all up to him. If he finds that that's where he gets his kind of his creative juices, which I imagine he is very passionate about his projects because they're very good. I feel like if they weren't very good, um we can maybe judge his passion, but I feel like, Yeah, as long as he's happy he's a happy camper making the same stuff, you know, the the rehashing of of various franchises, um then then I'm happy too. But it would be cool to see if he if he was interested in making something unique in a different space ah that he could do that if it was something he was interested in. But anyway, yeah.
00:27:26
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I rambled for a bit. Do you anything else you want to say about this? um i think I think you make a good point about it being different as opposed to a rehash of the of the game's story. And I think...
00:27:37
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He probably will do something different. Because again, if we if we look at Fargo, if we look at Alien, we look at Legion, it's all kind of his own ideas baked into an existing property.
00:27:49
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And I don't think it follows like a specific story by any means. um So I imagine that's going to be the same thing with this Far Cry series. Because the end of the day, there's so much that you can do. you know like Maybe you can kind of follow a similar setup or premise. Like the first season of Fargo is is very familiar to to the movie of Fargo. There's a lot of parallels, but it's not the same.
00:28:09
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I think you could do something like you know the Far Cry 3 friends hanging out, they crash land on an island and shit goes a awry. while still making something wholly unique and different from the the game itself.
00:28:22
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Yeah. For a first season, I think that for a first season outing, it would be good to keep threads that are narratively similar to the game games in some way, and then completely diverge in the second season. Like with...
00:28:35
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The strange alien references in season two of Fargo is an example. I was like, what? And then the, yeah, every season. To be fair, even in the first season of Fargo, they referenced the strange alien stuff briefly.
00:28:49
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Like it's very, very brief. It's a line of dialogue, but, um you know, they do reference it. So. Yeah, but it's not really that important the rest of the show.
00:28:59
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But the rest is like even like season three and four. It's not really. I don't think they mentioned it four. I just watched it. Three they do in some way. Not necessarily an alien thing, but there is still like these almost like pseudo supernatural elements kind of going on.
00:29:15
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Oh, they're supernatural, but not alien. Yeah. That's the point I'm making. He changes it every season. They're not really similar. So the alien thing is, is one season. And then the next season there's other supernatural elements. And then the, even the first season, there's supernatural elements in some aspect, because there's this element of like Lauren Malvo being some strange, like thing. We're not quite sure who he is like Billy Bob Thornton's character. And then the fourth season,
00:29:39
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The fourth season, there's some interesting stuff too. Yeah, there's there's lots of cool... like there's like He just plays around with it, but he doesn't he never like makes it like quite exactly like that. So it's not like, are you sure it's aliens? Is kind of the question that you're asking in the in the second season. You're like, it maybe. be Maybe this is a thing. Actually, it's kind of like the... I feel like Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yote, like the video games, they kind of do that a little bit. They're like, is this a supernatural thing or is it just is it just the character kind of...
00:30:07
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Making that up a little bit. Yeah. Like you're not. I mean, when it goes to Yote, it, yeah, like it's, it's the first big scene you like walk out and then she dies quote unquote and then comes back alive and everyone around is like, oh my God, she just died. Like, how'd she get back up? So like, yeah, you make a good point. Cause I thought about that too.
00:30:27
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It's like, but but they never really confirm any of it though. That's what, that's the beauty of it. It's kind of like, Oh, we don't, we're not sure. is it just a story or is it yeah actually what happened? Yeah.
00:30:38
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Right. Yeah. Okay.
Zootropolis 2 Box Office Speculation
00:30:41
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The, the next quick bite news story, Adrian is a about Zootropolis too. Zootropolis 2 is officially mustered the fourth largest global box office opening for a film in history with a whopping 556 million opening weekend box office worldwide. Only Avengers Endgame, Avengers Infinity War, and Spider-Man No Way Home have had larger opening weekends, Adrian. Isn't that crazy? crazy.
00:31:09
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That's really crazy. I did not see that coming. Me neither. No, I really like Zootopia. I just didn't realize it was this popular. That's that's kind of nuts. The furries.
00:31:21
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It's the furries. That's my assumption. There's so many furries then. there are There's probably more furries than you'd ever think. yeah yeah maybe Maybe someone next door is a furry. You never know. so That's my assumption. but yeah This is bananas, dude. I never would have guessed that this would be I guess probably going to be the biggest movie of the year, assuming it's that this momentum continues because that's Avengers coming. Sorry, no Avengers. That avatar is coming out though.
00:31:53
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Yeah, that's actually a good point. again So this is only the opening weekend, right? So where we'll end up and is the question. Endgame, Infinity War, and No Way Home. Biggest opening.
00:32:06
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Avatar, though, somehow is the top grossing film. And the second one is the second top grossing film, right? Am I wrong about that? Avatar The Way of Water. have no idea. Yeah.
00:32:20
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top I'm just going type in top grossing box office here and see what we get. but yeah Were you confused about Zootropolis or no? i'm Very. Why are you saying Zootropolis? Is that like the Australian name for it or some shit?
00:32:32
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So there's actually, i think it's a europe in Europe and like a lot of other places, it's Dutropolis. I kind of like the name better, actually. I call it Dutropolis as a joke, but I saw Jason Bateman literally talking to a fan in like the UK and he said Dutropolis. It's like, oh, this is a Dutropolis. I'm like, did he get the name of his movie wrong?
00:32:52
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And um I looked it up and I was like, no, it's called Dutropolis elsewhere. was like, I feel like you just picked the name that works everywhere. Like, is there a is there an issue with Zootropolis in the United States? Like, just call it Zootropolis.
00:33:05
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I don't know. That seems weird to me. But anyway, whatever. So, yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. So, this is a total aside. But we're talking about Avatar. But going to bring up a different Avatar. You know Avatar The Last Airbender?
00:33:20
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Yeah. In different parts, I think in the UK specifically, it's called Avatar The Legend of Aang. Okay. Because Bender has like a different meaning in in the UK. And it's like almost like ah like ah like a swear word.
00:33:35
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Oh. So they have to change the name when they release it to kids in the UK. So it's called Avatar The Legend of Aang as opposed to Avatar the Last Airbender. Interesting. yeah Yeah. Again, just pick the one that works everywhere if you can, you know, and those big markets, those are going to, and this is a small market. Don't worry about it. But like, if it's obviously then just change the name in those markets. But yeah, Avatar the Way Water is, is, ah is three actually.
00:34:01
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So it's not even, does Avatar game, Endgame, The Way of Water, Titanic, Niza 2 from this year. That's crazy. Which is crazy. But it didn't have a big enough opening, I guess, because it still didn't. Unless this is a mistake, maybe maybe maybe maybe the article I saw didn't consider Niza 2 as the...
00:34:25
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Because how does Zootropolis – well, no, it's just opening weekend, though. Yeah, I must be correct. That just seems insane to me. I guess it's the Thanksgiving weekend as well. That's probably where a lot of the box office comes from. is like It's ah like a weekend where people are off for a lot of days.
00:34:39
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Yeah, that's true. Part of it. Oh, in China, Pam. Oh, yeah. way it's Actually, no, China was the reason why, apparently. In China, it completely bolstered the box office completely because it's a worldwide – $556 million.
00:34:55
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I'm curious. I'm curious to see what this is. It's funny because there was a prediction with Disney like they're going to hit the $4 billion dollars mark at the box office this year when they because of This movie, but then they hit it first because of a predator Badlands.
00:35:11
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And then this came out and it's like so crazy. Like, I don't think they even anticipated this. I don't think, I don't know. That cast is really interesting too, because the cast is very diverse. there's a lot of big stars in there. And there's also a lot of stars that I haven't seen in a while.
00:35:24
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Like, i don't know if you looked at the cast for that, for this film. But like the first movie was that way too. But there was a lot of, there was a lot of stars in that first, uh, Jutropolis film that were like, like there's, I think two of them are from once upon a time, which was huge at the time.
00:35:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Jennifer Goodwin and, um, who's the other person? Josh Dallas. Yeah. Who was in like Marvel, uh, like briefly as well. Oh, I don't know.
00:35:51
Speaker
He was like, yeah, look at the cast. Damn, this is good. So obviously we got Shakira. She's back. Hell yeah. Yeah. um ah i don low when a found of him Pretty good, eh?
00:36:03
Speaker
That was incredible. Yeah, you should have just asked me to guess who it was before you said it. I would have guessed it because it was very good. thanks very good Thanks. Much better than seagull noises.
00:36:14
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Don't you dare. We're not going down this path. Oh, Kee Hoi Kwan is in it. Yeah. Of course I knew that. That was another interview with Jason Bateman where they were talking about how Kee Hoi Kwan apparently won for everything. Every world wants like over 40 awards or something. Do you know about this?
00:36:29
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No. got to look that up. I was like, That's crazy, dude. They're talking about that. just Good for him. Kee Hoi Kwan.
00:36:40
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Yeah, I'm curious. like Is he going to be in more films? It seems as such. like He's doing well. but yeah's Yeah, this is a pretty stellar cast. Quinta Bronson's in it. um We got Idris Elba in this.
00:36:53
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I guess he was in the first one, wasn't he? um Brenda Song. I don't remember being in it.
00:37:00
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Yeah, good cast, man. Good cast. Danny Trejo.
00:37:05
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Dwayne The Rock Johnson's. Ed Sheeran is Ed Sheeran. That's amazing, dude. That's amazing. Yeah, I'm definitely curious about this. I do want to watch the Zootopia, the second Zootopia, but I don't know what I'm going to get around to it.
00:37:18
Speaker
That's fair. Maybe not in theaters, most likely. That's you're saying Probably not. Probably not, but we'll see. We'll see. ah still got to watch Inside Out too, man. But I don't know. This is ah this is an impressive feat.
00:37:29
Speaker
It's nice to see these big movies making money. Giving money Disney. Yeah, they worried because the box office was failing a little bit. Like in the fall, like people were like panicking. Did you see that?
00:37:39
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There's a lot of articles I was reading. because I looked through the the all the the trades articles about like, oh, this this person's casted in this and whatever. So the Hollywood Reporter a deadline in Variety. And some of them were like panicking. They were like, oh my God, this is this has been an abysmal time. What's crazy is, you remember there was that article we talked about before where, or not article, but the thing that happened where they moved, not Mortal Kombat. Well, no, was. It was Mortal Kombat. It was Mortal Kombat. Yeah, they moved it to next year. And then right after that, Street Fighter said they're going to go, is the Street Fighter movie is going to literally go in the fall of next year? Yeah. they moved Mortal Kombat to the spring of next year because they were worried about this the fall. And then the fall ended up being terrible. So it actually worked out for them, I think. um
00:38:28
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did I lose you no I'm just looking at this oh you like stock he who won things with 70 awards that he won
00:38:39
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he won seventy four awards That's crazy. Everything, everywhere, all at once. How is that possible? Sorry, I was watching the interview. Just like on the background in tech talk here. Anyway, i don't have tech talk. I was just using on the ting talks.
00:38:55
Speaker
Ting tongs. Anyway, isn't that crazy? That is pretty impressive. That's a lot of awards. Honestly, he was amazing in that, though. I love i love this guy. He's great. And honestly, when when I see him in an interview, he just seems so joyous. He's this a joyous guy. He's great in Loki, by the way.
00:39:07
Speaker
Loki season two. I deeply recommend it. I know you haven't seen it. I don't recommend it to you, though. I just recommend it to everyone. Because i got to keep my ah my thing alive. Yeah. lot and With the recommendations. What did i recommend to you? The one thing I recommended. one the You said Inglourious Bastards. But I feel like oh yeah you told me it was something else. No, it is that one. That's the one. Yeah.
00:39:28
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Beforehand. yes Sorry. one One minute. Where are you going? Work call. Oh, okay. Okay, bye. I'm to mark this down. Adrian's playing hooky right now, you see. It's very exciting.
00:39:40
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I mean, at 5 p.m. He's taking a work call at 5 p.m., of course. That's what he's doing. Oh, he's he's actually on the phone. Look at him. Look at him go. You can't see him because I'm on a podcast here. So obviously this is audio only, but he's talking.
00:39:52
Speaker
He's talking. He looks so businesslike. It's a real businessman, this man. Look at him go. Look at him go. Just working.
00:40:07
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All right. Sorry about that. Hello. You're back. I am. yeah It's one of my clients. They were calling me. Oh, wow. You're so professional. I know. After 5 p.m., of course. Yeah, exactly. i still try to you know answer phone calls even after hours like it is now. so Right, and of course.
00:40:28
Speaker
Of course. I talked about that um to the audience while you were gone for a brief moment. Oh, thought maybe i could I could sustain the entire time, but I feel like I'm like, this is really boring now. So I'm going to stop.
00:40:39
Speaker
I went for about two minutes there, or two and a half minutes. Yes, indeed. Well, now, Adrian, it is time for the trailer roundup, I believe. It's time to look at the trailers that have have aired this week and and which ones stood out to you. I have a couple listed here. Ones like Moana, the live-action Moana movie, Sunrise on the Reaping, the new Hunger Games film, The Moment, which I honestly can't remember what it is anymore. I have no idea what that is. I don't remember. And Dead Man's Wire.
00:41:10
Speaker
which is that movie with Bill Skarsgård that looks pretty cool, actually. Actually, that one looks pretty neat. I'm interested in that one a little bit. ah Yeah, okay. I definitely watched that one. I definitely watched that one as well. You're also missing one of the big ones as well, Simon, that I don't have here called How to Make a Killing.
00:41:28
Speaker
Do you watch the How to Make a Killing trailer? How to Make a Killing. Let's look it up. So it's an A24 trailer. It stars literally two of my celebrity crushes. Oh, I did see Glenn Powell and Margaret Qualley or quality. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:43
Speaker
Okay. It's literally like a movie made for me. I'm stoked. My fiance is stoked. I can't wait. This looks really leads. Hmm. yeah Because you're attracted to the leads. that That's it. That's a requirement. I like them both as actors.
00:42:02
Speaker
I like them both as actors um very much so. And I am attracted to both those leads most definitely. But also it just seems like a cool premise. So it's Glenn Powell playing ah a sexy man that – Oh my God. This is getting – ah A super hot ah dude where he essentially is told ah by his father that he'll have like the company's inheritance um when he passes away. And then I guess his father dies. And instead of going to him, his inheritance goes to, I think six or seven of these people that are like family members instead of how it should have gone. So he decides not to him at all. So he decides to assassinate.
00:42:47
Speaker
the six family members to get his inheritance. Jesus Christ. I'm like, that's a fucking cool idea. And it seems really fun. would that work though? That would be, there would be like, don't know. They'd be definitely looking into you.
00:42:58
Speaker
the I think they are. The money goes trail after. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They are looking into the trailer, but it looks really fun. I'm very excited about that movie. um And yeah, i did watch the Moana one.
00:43:12
Speaker
It's, um, This one's weird. I don't know. it's It's kind of unsettling. There's this like uncanny valley level to it. Oh. With, I don't know if you found that. It's just like, again, the CG of everything. Because it's, this is an animated movie with live action people.
00:43:29
Speaker
um And it just, I don't know, it just seemed a little odd. I don't know how I how i feel about it. I really like Moana, like the the movie. I never watched Moana, the second Moana. But I like the first Moana. So, I don't know. I'm curious about this. I don't know if i'm going to rush out to the theater to see it, though.
00:43:45
Speaker
Interesting. don't know how you The chicken looks weird. Like, it looks like it's not a real chicken. you find that? That's what yeah threw me off. He doesn't look fucking retarded enough, dude. It's a retarded chicken in that movie. Like, genuinely mentally retarded. and I'm not using it as, like, a disrespectful term.
00:44:02
Speaker
I guess that is disrespectful. It's a chicken. mentally dissonant. I have made this argument many times. it's that Chickens aren't smart, dude. <unk>re That's the smartest chicken I've ever seen in my life. what are you That's not a retarded chicken. That's a genius chicken. That's an Einstein-level chicken.
00:44:17
Speaker
Literally. That chicken is their friend. Chickens aren't smart. Look it up. Chickens are not smart. They're not a pig, okay? Jesus Christ. I made this argument 50 times. You're like, oh, it's a retarded chicken. No, it isn't.
00:44:29
Speaker
It's a genius chicken. It's a genius chicken. Okay, okay. Jeez Louise, man. It's mentally challenged if it was literally dealing with, if it's like Mickey Mouse's friend neighbor, you know? If it's Goofy's second cousin, then yes, it's a mentally challenged chicken, but it isn't mentally challenged because...
00:44:51
Speaker
but You compare it to the pig. It's on a boat with them. Why is it hanging out with them? it doesn't even make any sense. the pig so much smarter? Why are pigs so much smarter? That pig was incredibly intelligent in comparison to that chicken. Pigs are literally one of the smartest animals.
00:45:05
Speaker
Mm-hmm. You do know that, right? Mm-hmm. It's kind of a sad thing about eating pigs. they're like Pigs are like smarter than horses, think. Why is pork so cheap? Why is that the cheapest kind meat? Yeah, don't know. yeah i guess it's easier to farm.
00:45:18
Speaker
Beef is so expensive these days. Beef has gone up incredibly in price. I used to be able to go to Costco, buy a couple like big chuck roasts for like $30. And like that's like, you know, i would I would cut it up and freeze it, you know, maybe make a stew, maybe make some like Italian sort of beef sandwiches.
00:45:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's like $60 now. It's like 100% over the last year. It's like, what? Dude, what? Anyways. Not sure. Anyways. But I do feel bad about eating meat. In general, I'm not trying to make you feel bad about eating meat. but Well, you made me feel bad. Now I'm thinking about it. Now I'm vegetarian just before my wedding. Look what you did.
00:45:52
Speaker
Look what you did. Imagine. It's like ah the menu is over. but We're going to have to call them up. and Excuse me, actually. i have to make another call. Just make it all cabbage. The moment I found out. Sorry?
00:46:03
Speaker
Just make it all cabbage. Everything's cabbage at this venue. Everything's cabbage. Dude, it would it would explode. What would explode? Everyone's intestines.
00:46:14
Speaker
Why? Cabbage is not good? Cabbage makes you fart. Oh, I see. But you would just fart. You wouldn't explode. You would explode. I think someone would eventually explode. Explode out of the anus. You mean like would explode? No. I think out of the 50 some odd people, at least one of them would explode from eating cabbage.
00:46:30
Speaker
I think that's a pretty high possibility. That's an incredibly low possibility. I've never heard of any news story in which somebody has exploded because they ate cabbage. It's because it's a cover up by Big Cabbage, dude. i Just get your fucking head out of the cutter. A cover up by Big Cabbage. That's right.
00:46:50
Speaker
That's right. All right. Yeah. Well, i I know what the moment is now. I looked it up briefly. It's the Charlie XCX movie where she's playing herself but not playing herself.
00:47:01
Speaker
You see that? Yeah. So I looked into this because I was so curious about this. I'm like, this seems cool because it almost looks like a documentary. Apparently, it's a movie yeah kind of like a mockumentary like Spice World from back in the day.
00:47:13
Speaker
Yeah. So it doesn't happen very much anymore. It's pretty rare. Yeah, no. And I don't know. I like Charlie XCX's music. um yeah I had a brat summer, not this past summer, but the summer prior.
00:47:27
Speaker
i had a brat summer. Did you have a brat summer, Simon? Sorry, just maybe i don't know what it means that if you're saying it was the last summer, of a not this summer. What is a brat summer if if you didn't have it this summer?
00:47:38
Speaker
So brat summer was the, ah ah was not this past summer, the summer of 2024 where album brat came out and everyone was like, it's a brat summer. Oh, I see what you mean.
00:47:49
Speaker
and So you can't have a brat summer unless the album it was out that year? Is that the rule? Yeah. I don't think that's what it means, though, is it? I don't know, man. I didn't Google it. Okay. I'm going off my memory. But this movie does actually look really fun and cool. And again, Rachel Sennett's in it, who I'm a big fan of.
00:48:08
Speaker
um I think and there's a potential to be a good one. Sure. Yeah, it's Alexander Skarsgård, who's great. Like the whole Skarsgård family, they're just killing it right now. yeah just They're having a moment.
00:48:19
Speaker
They're having a moment right now for the Skarsgårds, you know? Whoa, dude. This is the second time I've done that. Yeah, this is really good. This is a punny episode, dude. I'm not even being i honestly sarcastic. I'm Wow, this is good. Wow.
00:48:35
Speaker
Wow, she's really good. Yeah. ah um All right. But yeah. And oh yeah, Sunrise ah on the on the reaping. Yeah. That's what it's called. Sunrise on the Reaping. Yeah. Did you watch the... Wait, I don't know if I've even watched all of the the the trilogy and it being a quadrilogy, right?
00:48:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if I've watched the last Hunger Games movie anyway. You like the Hunger Games movies though, right? Didn't you go see the one with... Ryan? ah Yes, that story.
00:49:07
Speaker
Rachel Ziegler. Ziegler. Oh. No, I watched that at home. With my fiance. Oh, you did see it though? You saw it? Yeah, I did. Yeah. Cool. Did you like it? I don't like it that much.
00:49:17
Speaker
I felt like it was little- Is this sequel to that? um No. These are just like prequels. So this- okay. That last one was the Tigress guy when he was like very young. And it was one of the earlier Hunger Gameses. This movie, this new one, I think takes place like 30 years later.
00:49:41
Speaker
Right. But also like 20 years before the original trailer. don't know, something like that. see. And this one follows Hamich, which is um the the guy that is like helping them.
00:49:51
Speaker
He's like, I'm Hamich. I fell in love in my Hunger Games. Now I train you Hunger Gamesers to be the best at Hunger Games. um and that But there is a lot of like characters in it as well.
00:50:04
Speaker
Hmm. So, but yeah, I don't know. I'm intrigued. I didn't love again, this last one. I thought it was, um, I don't know. It just felt weird, like kind of disjointed. It was like three distinct like setups.
00:50:17
Speaker
Um, if it almost felt like three short stories put together, um which i wasn't necessarily, i don't know. It just, it made the pacing feel a little off. And I think the biggest issue is the um like chemistry between the two main actors was non-existent and it's a love story.
00:50:36
Speaker
So like when you can't buy into the love story aspect, when that's really kind of almost the main focus point, it just didn't click for me. um I don't hate it, but I just, I did. I think it's the worst hunger games movie.
00:50:49
Speaker
So know. I am curious about this one though. This one seems fun. This one seems like it's to be a little bit more like, Hey, it's the Hunger Games. They're going to freaking kill people. And that's kind of what I want. Yeah. Cool. All right.
00:51:01
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guess we'll see. guess we'll see. will. At least me. don't know about you because you didn't even watch this last one. don't know about me either. I we'll see. maybe i'll Maybe I'll wait for your assessment and then watch it because it is a prequel. So i guess I don't need any prior reading for that course. But anyway. No. Now, Adrian, we're going move on to the montage, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-week smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict.
Trailer Reviews and HBO's Impact
00:51:27
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Number one, according to publication Deadline, Public Enemy star Christian Bale is in talks to star in director Michael Mann's Heat 2 alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:51:39
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That's crazy. It's getting hot in here. Am I right? ah Wow. Number two, as Deadline reports, Mrs. Davis actor Betty Gilpin has been cast in Ron Howard's next film, a military drama, with Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway also starring.
00:51:54
Speaker
Wow. Really good. That was a really good second read there, man. Second read on the second bullet point. The second read was actually worse than the first read. You just didn't respond, so I started it over again. Don't you dare put your mistakes on me. What do you think about this? It's not mistakes, you white bitch. interested in this, huh? Howard film?
00:52:11
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Military drama? Adam Driver? Anne Hathaway? Pretty cool. Mm-hmm. Okay. Number three, HBO has renewed its Game of Thrones TV series House of the Dragon and A Night of the Seven Kingdoms for new seasons. House of the Dragon has been renewed for a season four ahead of its season three release in summer of 2026, and A Night of the Seven Kingdoms has been renewed for season two ahead of its first season premiere on January 2026. That's really awesome that they're renewing them prior to them releasing, which means that they should start filming earlier. So it's not going to be a two year gap between seasons and only be a one season gap. Am I right, Simon?
00:52:52
Speaker
Is that what's going to happen here? Do you think that's going to happen? One can dream. you think that's going to be the case? I don't know. You're... You think that's going to the case or are we going to have to wait two freaking years? is that Is that the case, Simon? sound kind of angry. I'm not sure. I wish I could i wish i could let you know.
00:53:06
Speaker
Number four. HBO has renewed Rachel Sennett's comedy series, I Love L.A., the Mark Ruffalo starring cop drama, Task, and Tim Robinson's comedy, The Chair Company, for second seasons. Nice, dude. I've watched two of these three and I'm happy about two of these three things being renewed.
00:53:24
Speaker
Nice. Good for you. Number five, as Deadline reports, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan's new show Pluribus has become Apple TV's most watched TV series debut since the streaming service's inception. Gasp!
00:53:39
Speaker
That's amazing. I'm glad. That's a really good pilot episode as well. Indeed. Number six, as Deadline reports, Jurassic World Rebirth actor Scarlett Johansson has been cast in the next Exorcist film from Studio Blumhouse and Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan. Wonderful. I'll watch Mike Flanagan doing things with Scarlett Johansson in a movie based on the Exorcist universe. Cool. Yeah. Number seven.
00:54:04
Speaker
Creator Ryan Murphy's Kim Kardashian starring law drama All's Fair has been renewed for a second season by streamer Hulu. That's crazy. I thought this movie was incredibly poorly rated. Sorry, show has been... It's TV series.
00:54:16
Speaker
Yeah. I know I fixed it. i fixed it I fixed it before you corrected me. Yeah. So Well, it's fair. It's 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's 3%. 3% now? Yeah, 30 reviews. Audience score 65, though. Yeah, audiences like it. That's all that matters in the end, right? That's how you sell a show. Number eight.
00:54:33
Speaker
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Rush Hour 4 is apparently happening at Paramount after Donald Trump reportedly pressured CEO Larry Ellison to make it happen. Wait, Larry Ellison? It would be David Ellison, technically. Hmm. think I got that wrong.
00:54:48
Speaker
Whatever. Pressured CEO David Ellison to make it happen. Rush Hour stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are in talks to star while disgraced Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct. Crazy, man. That's that's so good.
00:55:02
Speaker
I'm so glad he's using his presidential powers for the for the good of the people, man. Bring him back Rush Hour for wonderful. Why is Brett Ratner coming back? but Didn't he? Yeah, he had sexual assault allegations. Okay, wonderful. We're living in a society.
00:55:17
Speaker
Yes. And that concludes the montage. um um bu bomb I clearly didn't edit this before. This one was ah not as good. I thought I did it. I was thinking about the wheat the two weeks before, obviously. Sorry about that.
00:55:33
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little bit shaky montage, but I appreciate you bearing with me, you know? Shaking like a baby, dude. What? don't think that's a phrase they say. i don't think that's a phrase that anyone says, really. but Great is great. Yeah.
00:55:47
Speaker
It's moving on time to what we've been watching this week, Adrian. What are you watching? What have you watched in the last two weeks? What would you like to talk about? Oh, good question, man. I've watched a a few things. So, finished...
00:56:03
Speaker
i finished The Chair Company. They just had the season finale yesterday. That's good. It's really good. This show's wacky as heck. And it's funny. We were talking about odd supernatural elements. um kind of reminis that This last episode kind of reminded me of Fargo, weirdly enough.
00:56:23
Speaker
ah of the season. There's like these weird moments in it that ah genuinely reminded me of Fargo, the the TV show. And I thought that was kind of neat. I think this show is genuinely something really special. It's for one, it's hilarious. You know, it has that like wacky Tim Robinson, Zach Kanan style of humor, but there's like a genuinely interesting mystery unfolding throughout the entire series.
00:56:48
Speaker
And I was very curious how this season would end because it felt like almost like this is going to be a miniseries in a way. But with the season finale coming around, it almost asked more questions than it answered.
00:57:04
Speaker
I feel like it definitely did. And i can definitely see this going longer. And I'm very curious as to see where it would go. However, I will say the like the end, the actual end, which I really liked. I found funny.
00:57:17
Speaker
My fiance was like, oh, what the hell? Like, this is bullshit. She got, like, kind of upset about how it ended. She's like, what the fuck? Like, it just, it it is very abrupt.
00:57:27
Speaker
And she wanted more answers. um But again, come on. She did ah she did agree that, you know, excited about... What show is she watching? yeah The Chair Company.
00:57:40
Speaker
But wait, even the show is not, like... it just don't I don't feel like it's like the show that you're going to look for for answers. it's It's not going to give you a straight answer ever. That's the show.
00:57:51
Speaker
We got some straight answers. We got some. That's the charm of it, though. It does this like thing where it tries to reel you in with like emotional storytelling. And like characters will say something a really profoundly like nice and like wholesome. and you're like, oh,
00:58:07
Speaker
Maybe they're not so bad. And then, and then later on, they're like doing some wacky bullshit, like driving through a red light and making someone almost crash their car. Like, it's like, we're not, we're not dealing with sane people here, you know, but that's like, that's like the ebb and flow of the show.
00:58:23
Speaker
yeah Yeah. It's, it's really good, man. It's really funny. And I, I really enjoyed it. Um, I'm, I highly recommend this. I think this is like a great opportunity. you know Maybe you tried showing your your your friend or your fiance, i think you should leave. And they're like, m not for me.
00:58:44
Speaker
And then you know maybe friendship comes around like this could be a good jumping off point. But again, it's long. It's uncomfortable. maybe Maybe don't show them this. The chair company, I think, is a good entry point into this style of humor because there's an ongoing mystery.
00:58:59
Speaker
move at least moving the plot forward. So there's there's, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a car driving you to these absurd moments where you can laugh while again, still being invested in a mystery that is to come.
00:59:15
Speaker
I could not disagree with you more. okay Well, that's that's that's a you opinion because it literally happened with my fiance. She does not like Tim Robinson. like didn't like she doesn't like it at the end. You just reel her in for the end where it's gonna you know it's going to happen like that because you've watched the – No, here's what – Just because she doesn't like the final scene doesn't mean that she doesn't like the show.
00:59:38
Speaker
She likes the show. That's the style of comedy. That's the reason they don't like the skits because the skits are short, dude. That's the way you reel someone in, not with a freaking eight episode TV series. What are you talking about? No. You know what? You need to watch a five hour episode.
00:59:57
Speaker
A five-hour movie from start to finish. And then maybe you'll like this style of comedy. We'll get you there. I think it's ah it's a good way to get into it. I think. Because we did watch, I think you should leave after I put on an episode. And she was watching it. She was into it. She was laughing.
01:00:13
Speaker
You got to break them in. You got break them in like a pair of dancing shoes. got to get their mind right. You got to get their mind right. You got to get their mind right. You got to get a fucking...
01:00:25
Speaker
Like a pair of dancing shoes. All right. All right. If you say so. Yeah, that's good. I do say so. All right. Cool. Yeah. Did you it really enjoy it as well as as I didn't finish it and I'm not going to finish until next February. So goodbye.
01:00:44
Speaker
Goodbye, HBO. What? Actually? Yeah. What do you mean? Your HBO subscription? and Yeah.
Crave Subscription and AI Discussion
01:00:53
Speaker
So Crave ended and ah and I decided that I'm not going to renew it because I don't have last week tonight and I'm going to have last week tonight for the rest of the year except for three months. So I'm just going to go back in in February.
01:01:06
Speaker
To watch the last episode. Well, no, I'm i'm short three Oh, okay. Fair enough. That's an choice. I watched the whole thing at that point because they're short episodes. Teach their own.
01:01:18
Speaker
I get Crave for free because of Bell. Yeah. i have Bell internet and Bell phone. I think I get it through my phone. It's Crave basic, but fun fact, Simon, I meant to bring this up.
01:01:29
Speaker
Crave basic. When you watch a show like an HBO max show that airs at the time, Yeah. So like the chair company, I watched the stream at like when it comes out. And I think even for days after it plays one ad right at the start, but you can watch the entire episode ad free.
01:01:50
Speaker
Same with I love LA. you're same Same with it. Welcome to dairy. Yeah. There's one ad at the beginning. It's unskippable, unskippable 15 to 30 seconds. And then you watch the entire episode with ads. Sorry. There's three tiers of crave, right?
01:02:04
Speaker
Yeah. I pay for the tier that has four k I think. So the highest tier. Because basic doesn't give it to you. No, no, not the highest tier. I have ads as well.
01:02:20
Speaker
Oh, no, there's no... Wait. That's not true. There's only two tiers. Okay. They removed Crave Basic. It's not called that anymore. It's Crave Standard with ads. So I was doing Crave Standard anyway.
01:02:33
Speaker
It's fine. I had already had it. Yeah. I guess kind of an aside news story that – because I think it was revealed this morning or late last night that Crave like launched an update.
01:02:44
Speaker
I don't know if you you heard. It's trying to be a little bit more of a personalized experience. So they added – I think they mentioned like 10,000 – I don't know if it was 10,000 hours, but like a bunch of additional free content onto Crave where you don't require subscription at all for. It's just free content that you can access now if you have a Crave account.
01:03:05
Speaker
So it's like CTV shows and stuff like that, which is really cool. And the the the Bell Media guy, he was talking about the use of in Crave. And was like, oh no. And as of now, they're focusing on it algorithmically.
01:03:24
Speaker
um to like, again, better cater to your viewing habits. so if you watch like a lot of like premium content, instead of showing you a bunch of free shit, it'll try to cater the content to be more premium based on your viewing habits and all that. Same thing. If you watch a lot of free content, it'll show you more free content and kind of work that way.
01:03:43
Speaker
And he did talk about using AI eventually for like the actual media And he was a little vague about it, which kind of, you know, makes me raise my eyebrows. But he talked about how there are interesting ways that some streaming services are using AI, essentially about like...
01:04:00
Speaker
AI created recaps of a previous episode and stuff like that, how he can see that being used or AI, you know, picking out clips of a show to use it as like almost like an advertisement. And he says like, that would be an interesting way to use AI in Crave as a, as a software, but he doesn't imagine that that's going to happen anytime soon. And right now the focus of using AI within Crave is specifically algorithmically to ensure that viewers get, you know, the type of content they actually want to see. Right.
01:04:28
Speaker
Which is cool, I guess. so Here's the thing. Yep. Why is that AI? Why are they calling that AI? I don't know. It's not. It's just an algorithm. so if So if that's the case, then AI has been on Apple phones for a decade because that's yeah AI, right? Machine learning is AI. I find it annoying. Artificial intelligence really doesn't exist. And the closest thing we've ever gotten AI, like actual artificial intelligence, is generative AI where it can learn and write a... you know, chat GPT, it's the closest thing it's ever been. Same with like Gemini and that stuff, but they were using, everyone's using AI now in a different way, like to like sell it. But it's like that counter sells it for me. So it's like kind of weird thing. It's like Apple music and Spotify use AI. That's what an algorithm is. Google uses AI to give you search results. I mean, it's all machine learning if you want to use that term of AI, but I just don't find that to be a good term for the word AI. i used to use the word AI in ah in a way I felt like was was closer to that versus an algorithm giving you the content that is curated for you. And I used to talk about it in video games a lot.
01:05:36
Speaker
So I used to talk about the NPC AI, which I think is closer to AI than anything else because they're literally in Red Dead Redemption 2, there's a guy in building a house for like, the entire game where the people going to work and then coming back home and you can literally follow NPCs, non-player characters around in the the old West in red Red Dead Redemption. And they have like a routine that they go through. That to me is what AI is closer than algorithms and machine learning. It's so interesting that like we've just muddled that term so badly that it's like Apple doesn't even use AI when they used to talk about machine learning. And they always talked about machine learning for the last like 10 years.
01:06:13
Speaker
you know, June WWDCs. But this, I mean, this last one, they didn't talk about Apple intelligence at all because they, they botched that so badly. But um yeah, I just find that so weird. They, they use that term. Did they use that term? Wait, wait, what do you mean? There's a bell guy. Who who is it? Did you get a presentation from this guy? it's a bell media guy where i read an article. It was on CNET, I think.
Crave's Content Strategy
01:06:36
Speaker
Oh, okay. But what do you mean the Bell Media guy? Like, there they did a presentation for CNET? Like, they did it at various... CNET? Wait, CNET's is not Canadian.
01:06:46
Speaker
Maybe it wasn't CNET. Does anyone care? feel like it'd be more like like Mobile Syrup or like a... Oh, maybe it was Mobile Syrup. Or like one of those kind of web... Or CTV or... mobile Well, CTV makes sense because CTV is owned by Bell too.
01:06:59
Speaker
But anyway, that's interesting though. Thank you for that update. I didn't see that. Crave gets tons of new content and is free Mobile Syrah.
01:07:09
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. um Yeah. This article was from five days ago. I swear right yesterday. Gerald Jimmerson, Bell Media Senior Vice President, Head of ah Product and Experience.
01:07:20
Speaker
Jimmerson. Good old guy. Gerald Jimmerson. Jimmerson. Sounds like a fake name. It sounds like a genuinely fake name. Sounds like you were like an opinion. You have to make up a name. just yeah My name is Gerald Jimmerson.
01:07:35
Speaker
Yeah. um And the interesting thing, it sounds like the Oscars are going to be on Crave. That would be so good, man. Oh my God. That's an actual selling feature. The problem is, yeah so the thing is, and the reason why I didn't do Crave Premium recently is because Crave standard with ads is 1080p and Crave Premium is 4K. I love 4K, but they barely have any 4K content.
01:07:57
Speaker
That's why I'm on, that's why I was on the ads version. Yeah, I follow you. I follow you. They're so backwards in time. but Yeah, so yeah the the cool thing about it, the Oscars, they're going to be free.
01:08:14
Speaker
As far as I'm understanding, you just need to crave a count.
01:08:19
Speaker
What? that's yeah That's like the opposite of their business model for years. So maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but essentially they they're like, first off, there's new new programming, yada, yada, yada.
01:08:30
Speaker
Yeah. It'll be directly on Crave. This is great.
Show Critiques: I Love LA, Welcome to Dairy, Hacks
01:08:35
Speaker
They're going in a positive direction for the first time. Yeah. And they're not adjusting the price i either, at least as of now, I'm sure. Now, as of now, dude, just you wait. But,
01:08:46
Speaker
But it is kind of And it money. Because here, let me read this. So content. First off, there's the new program. Historically, Bell has more clearly delineated between its TV channels and their corresponding websites and Crave. But the lines between all of that are now blurring.
01:09:01
Speaker
This means that a suite of content that was typically only on the likes of CTV or Bell's French language content site, Nouveau, will now be available directly on Crave. This includes ad-supported free catalog of movies and shows, including CTV movies and CTV throwback that were previously only available on CTV.ca.
01:09:17
Speaker
Live entertainment events like the Oscars, Emmys, and Gala Quebec Cinema. Oh my God. Live local and national news from both CTV News and Nouveau Info. And then select sports events like the CFL, PGA Tour, F1, and FIFA.
01:09:31
Speaker
so This is our dream. Our dream come true. How long I've waited for this. Although you have you have network TV in some way now, so it it hasn't been so bad for you because you can stream it. But dude, I've been waiting for this forever. It's like, take my money ah is what I've been saying for literally like 10 years. More than that, 15, 20 years just for whatever however long streaming services have existed and it was impossible to get the Oscars on in Canada specifically on any other way but linear TV.
01:09:57
Speaker
God, I hope that actually happens. so I'm not going to hold my breath for March, but... And I assume that's when the Oscars will be February, February. I think it usually. February or March. And yeah, again, they they're like focusing on reworking the user experience. They actually like in the article, in the interview, they talk about how um Crave crashed in the past when like people were trying to watch The Last of Us and House of the Dragon.
01:10:19
Speaker
And right like apparently they've they've done a lot of like foundational rebuilds. So it's pretty interesting. Yeah. Cool. They actually care. maybe yeah Maybe. Maybe when I try to watch the movie Heat, the Michael Mann film that we just kind of talked about the second film for there, I hopefully when I go through it, it's not going to just be in French.
01:10:36
Speaker
The French dub and they'll actually have the the English and French versions of various movies instead of just one of them for whatever reason. Why would you even do that? It's absurd. But alas, one can dream.
01:10:48
Speaker
One can dream. Okay. One can. Well, thanks for the update. I appreciate that. No worries. And another thing that I've been watching on Crave, actually two other things, Simon.
01:11:00
Speaker
Three other things, Simon. So I've been watching i Love LA, still week to week. Fantastic. I really love this show. It's fucking funny. um I think Rachel Sennett and Josh Hutcherson's...
01:11:13
Speaker
chemistry on screen is really good. And again, it's it's just like a funny show. Again, they're not all great people, ah but it it just goes really well. And I realized last episode, True Whitaker is one of the main characters who's Forrest Whitaker's daughter.
01:11:29
Speaker
Oh, cool. Yeah. She's in it. She's really funny in it. She's like just this very nice kind of ditzy woman, rich woman. um But yeah, it's it's it's a good show. I really like it.
01:11:39
Speaker
um It's not like critically, it's well doing well. Audience, not so much. It's like under 50% audience score, which is crazy me. But hey, that's showbiz baby. I'm also watching It Welcome to Dairy week to week.
01:11:54
Speaker
I don't love the show. There's some good highs in it, but again, I think a lot of what I mentioned in previous weeks still stand. There's a lot of exposition, a lot of things that are over explained and a lot of moments where I'm kind of bored and annoyed about what's being shown on screen. The show is by far at its best when it is children being terrified of a creepy movie.
01:12:24
Speaker
clown being slash monsters. Like it's by far at its best when that's happening. And I guess, you know, i think you may made this argument is like, how can you make a show just being about that? And it's like, yeah, it'd probably be fairly difficult, but I think there's just so much like bleh in it where um I find myself honestly frustrated. And again, it is – it leaves nothing up to interpretation. Like it seems like the answers are given to you and told to you on a silver platter. And it's like, is it just being said like this because –
01:12:56
Speaker
They're military people and they have all the answers and I get, and they're like debriefing people. So it like almost makes sense in the context of the world. Cause again, it's like military people being, this is the situation, blah blah blah blah blah, blah, blah. But again, it doesn't make for good TV in that case, in my personal opinion. Yeah.
01:13:11
Speaker
it's I think I'm in the minority though because it is very well reviewed. I think people are loving it. It's consistently like one of the watch most watched shows on Crave every single week um as as it shows up there.
01:13:24
Speaker
I'm going to continue watching it, but again, I'm not. I was really excited to like this show more than I am. So it's it's a bit of a shame. Okay.
01:13:35
Speaker
one other thing that I watched, Simon, that I now have finished completely. as of its release is hacks. I've watched all seasons, all four seasons of hacks. The fifth season, I think is coming out next Um,
01:13:51
Speaker
um And I think it is the final season, which is a good choice, I think, because it's becoming a little grating at times. I really like this show.
01:14:02
Speaker
I think it's really good. It's funny. There's a lot of really great heartfelt moments. um But there is a lot of almost like annoyance sprinkled in.
01:14:14
Speaker
And the characters...
01:14:21
Speaker
Specifically, Deborah, like who's played by Jean so Smart, her character is frustrating to watch a lot of the time because she is so egotistical and...
01:14:33
Speaker
Again, it it it just makes for a lot of these like frustrating situations. She's so self-absorbed. And I understand that's her character. But the issue is is, again, I've talked about this, is like you can have bad characters, but at least make them funny. And I don't think that she's that funny considering she is literally a comedian in the show. Like her scenes are arguably the least funny scenes a lot of the time. It's her surrounding cast.
01:14:56
Speaker
Ava, who is the main character as well, alongside Jean Smart, and it's ah essentially about their relationship. she's that The setup of the show is Jean Smart. She's a comedian that is kind of you know at the end of her career and needs to...
01:15:10
Speaker
you know wants to be center stage again. So they hire a new writer, Ava Daniels, who is going to um you know rewrite a lot of her work and try to make her a better comedian. And um you know their relationship progresses over the course of four seasons. And I actually grow to like Ava a lot, flaws and all. She can be kind of annoying and immature, but at the same time, like she seems like a genuinely good-hearted person. And is funny.
01:15:35
Speaker
um So I can kind of get behind her. Whereas with, yeah, again, like Jean Smart's character, Debra, she's more frustrating than anything. But it keeps the cogs moving. I think...
01:15:49
Speaker
the two best characters in the show are Jimmy and Kayla, which are essentially their agents. They're in it from the beginning. Um, Kayla is like a very wacky character that you kind of have to get used to, but like once you understand her comedy and how well she plays off with the Jimmy character, he's like Paul S downs. He's one of the creators of the show.
01:16:09
Speaker
It's just fantastic. Like I genuinely love every scene that they're in together. And there's like, ah again, a lot of really good moments. I really like the show. I think it is shockingly overrated though. Like genuinely, like it's like critically, it's ah almost a hundred percent every single season, which again, it could be a hundred percent of people being like, yeah, that's pretty good. And then, you know, it's a thumbs up because that's how Rotten Tomatoes works.
01:16:31
Speaker
But it could be a but just find a bunch of Emmys as well. I can see why Hannah e Einbinder won her Emmy for best um best leading actress in a comedy because she is genuinely phenomenal in season four.
01:16:46
Speaker
And the setup of season four is super interesting. But my issue with season four specifically is that it kind of draws out a little bit too much and brings a lot of the issues that I had with the first season into season four, um which was kind of a shame. But all in all really good show. Like I do recommend it and I'm, I'm excited for, for a fifth and final season. Um, I feel like it, it desperately needs to come to an end personally.
01:17:14
Speaker
Um,
TV Show Endings and Critiques
01:17:15
Speaker
but yeah, I really did enjoy it. I really did enjoy it. I, I feel like I'm being a little negative, but I really want to highlight this is a really great show. It's a great piece of comedic television. It's just overrated and that's okay.
01:17:29
Speaker
That's okay.
01:17:32
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Okay. What have you watched, man? I've just been rambling. i've been talking your bitch ass ear off. Bitch ass? Excuse me. so You're the one rambling and you're goingnna call my ears bitch ass? Yeah, dude. That's quite rude.
01:17:48
Speaker
yeah That's quite rude. What have I been watching? i don't know. I've been just kind of closing the door on some shows, you know, just closing some shows off, abandoning shows like The Chair Company, unfortunately. I didn't even realize my subscription was ending. You know what's crazy? My Crave subscription ended.
01:18:04
Speaker
i i And I i watched the last episode of Last Week Tonight. And then I'm like, oh, this subscription's ending. I forgot about that. i wonder how much time I have for the chair company. I look back and it expired five days before. i'm like, how did I just watch this show?
01:18:21
Speaker
It doesn't make any sense. It just let me watch it. Like it didn't check my account. I don't know why that happened. But anyway, so now I'm out of Crave for a while. and for Did you get an Netflix for another You're only watching Crave.
01:18:34
Speaker
No, watched the on Netflix. going to be watching Netflix. I'm going to add Netflix. Oh, but you haven't yet. No. Oh, okay. Because I did watch one more show. I was, I was, assume that you may have watched it already though. So I was waiting you to bring it. No, because I've I've been closing off shows on Disney. Okay. So I've been watching Disney plus.
01:18:52
Speaker
I watched only mergers in the building. This is the worst season of only mergers in the building. In my opinion, by by a margin, I think the writing is not as tight. Maybe I'm mistaken and I wasn't as critical of the other seasons. I didn't think about it with a critical lens as much. I just find that the writing is not tight. I feel like there's a lot of jumping the shark moments, and I'm just very disappointed that that these characters are just, they seem the stupidest they've ever been ah in season five. where We're in season five of this show, right? Only Murders in the Brain. don't know. I don't watch the first two. Am wrong?
01:19:23
Speaker
Only Murders. you Wait, you only watched the first two seasons? Yeah. That can't be right. we just We were just talking about it. Is that true? No, 100% fell off. Because Paul Rudd shows up in what, season three?
01:19:41
Speaker
No, I watched season four. This season four anyway. Okay. So yeah, I've only watched the first two seasons. 100%. Okay. All right. Okay. The season three is great.
01:19:52
Speaker
I will say that. It's very good. Yeah. Because they went a different direction method. But season four, they kind of went... It's season four. I'm pretty sure. I can't... Why is it so hard to find? oh my god There's five seasons.
01:20:05
Speaker
There's five? Yeah. Yeah.
01:20:09
Speaker
Oh, it is. Yeah, it is. It is season five. Yeah, we watched season five. Season six apparently is going to be the one that goes to London, England. OK, so England. Yeah, I only watched the first two seasons because season three is with Paul Rudd and I i didn't watch the season with him.
01:20:25
Speaker
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is okay. I just don't think that the writing is tight. I think that they, they go too far on the gags and they're just like, they break the universe. Again, this is my biggest criticism and everything I ever watch, I guess. It's just like, just like breaking their, their own like methodology of how the, anyone does anything. And like all three characters, like they just are not that smart. Steve, uh,
01:20:46
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Steve Martin, Martin Short, never been that smart, I guess. But like even Selena Gomez's character, she's just like shee's the she's just as dumb as them. I don't know. It's just not it's not good. i don't I don't know what the deal is. I'm still enjoying it, but like I'm watching it. this I'm like, why are these people so stupid? Am I crazy or are they the dumbest they've ever been? And my fiance kind of agrees. It's ah it's odd.
01:21:06
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It's an odd one. I wish it was better because it's disappointing. because I love things that take place in like a hotel-like setting or like this apartment building that Garajoni has very... hotel-like. They're all trapped in this space and they like all see their neighbors constantly and there's like the doorman. and like i don't know. There's something there's something i don't know cozy about it. I really like it. It's a murder mystery. and i I just kind of dig those kinds of shows in some way. They're It's funny.
01:21:28
Speaker
and I like those guys. Those guys play off really well of each other. I just find it like they're just they're just way too ridiculous this season. I just... too many moments where I'm like, what is going on there? This cast became really star studded after season two, like after season two, season three and on. Cause it's Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd to be fair. oh I mean, I would, I would have probably just said Meryl Streep.
01:21:48
Speaker
Paul Rudd. I didn't realize she was in the second third season. I thought she was in like the fourth or something. Yeah. didn't realize I love Paul Rudd, but Meryl Streep is overrated. Yeah. According to some, according to some, but anyway, yeah, the worst season of this show, but it's still good though. It's still enjoyable.
01:22:04
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I still like it. I just, I'm disappointed. I'm not, you know, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. The other show we're finishing up. We just finished up actually is Shogun. So long to finish this show. I talked about this like 24 episodes ago. I swear to God, 23 episodes ago. It's amazing. The ending is really, really amazing. I'm curious.
01:22:23
Speaker
I don't know if they need to do another season necessarily. I feel like the way it wraps up is quite interesting. I just find in time jump. Is it not? Are they doing like a 10, 20 year time jump or something like that? I remember show it's based on the book and you know, there was a series already for this and they're making it up. So you, I don't know what they're doing, but who knows?
01:22:41
Speaker
Oh, okay. Because they're making it up. So I guess we'll see. Because I'm fairly certain that the end of season one is literally, it was supposed to be a, first of all, limited series. It was supposed to just go to the end of the book and that was it. got nominated for best limited series.
01:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, that always happens. Yeah. That happens a lot. I mean, can yeah. yeah I think Fargo was nominated for limited series initially, wasn't it?
Shogun Analysis
01:23:07
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Maybe. Well, is it limited limited series or anthology though? Yeah. Yeah. So that one's okay. But your Penguin was too. Penguin was, and there's going to be a second season of that. You watch.
01:23:16
Speaker
Yeah. But Penguin was limited series. But anyway, that happens on occasion because they they kind of they are initially a limited series. And then Penguin will have to be a TV show after. But regardless, this show is really good. The acting is really amazing. And there's an element of like the unspoken words. i don't know if you know what this is about um necessarily. i don't know if you know at all.
01:23:36
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Do you know what about? ah Isn't it like something about some European goes into china Japan during um the time where there was no outside trade and Japan is very closed off? it's like port It's a Portuguese man, isn't it? Something like that? They only do some trading with Portugal? They are trading with the Portuguese.
01:23:54
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Because they have Christianity there, but it's ah it's an Englishman. An Englishman goes there and he's like on his like ship. and like He's there and it's played by Cosmo Jarvis who you dropped out of the role for the Odyssey, which I still can't believe. Why would you do that? I don't know what other role you had, man, but that I feel like you just don't drop out of a Christopher Nolan movie. so i'm not hopefully Hopefully his family's okay. good I don't know why else he did that. But anyway, Cosmo Jarvis is really good in this show. The whole cast is really amazing. Hiroyuki Sonata and NSNY are like, they're murder.
01:24:27
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Their acting is so good. But yeah, he's in this, he he goes there and then they capture him and then they try to befriend him. And he's got like he's got some training with like canon. So he's like teaching them the technology and stuff like that. But Hiroyuki Sonata's character is like, uh,
01:24:42
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He's is Yoshi Tarunaga. And Tarunaga is kind of in – he owns like land and whatever. He's the lord in this place. And he's trying to – he's kind of trying to avoid war, but he's the most clever son of a bitch you've ever met. But he's like this – he's really, really smart, but he's part of this council. And then the council kind of doesn't like this guy. And so this causes this huge problem because the shogun passes away and his son is too young to actually run anything. So the council takes over basically the land.
01:25:12
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japan And so Torunaga is like a powerful dude, but they don't, the other people in the council don't really like him. And so this causes these political like rifts and there's a lot of political conflict and they're upset with this guy. And then John Blackthorn, the dude from England is like being used as like this this pawn in this strange thing.
01:25:31
Speaker
It's almost like a Cold War because there's like they're they're not really wanting to fight, but they they can definitely there's there's fighting in it. I just feel like it's almost like Game of Thrones Season 1 in a large way because there's not they don't they almost don't have the budget. they're They're kind of like dancing that line where there's there is fighting. There's violence in it, and there's like well pretty good fight choreography and things like that, but it's not the focus. The focus is the political intrigue of Japan in the 1600s. I like that. It's very...
01:25:57
Speaker
Very good. Everyone knows it's good. It was nominated for almost every award during that Emmy Awards season, so I'm obviously late, but I also have been watching this since 2024. It's been a really delayed ah time to watch it, but like...
01:26:11
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ah It's a Tadonabo Tadonabo Asano one for best supporting actor. If I recall correctly, he is so amazing as well. And it's why I think one for best supporting actress as well. I believe if if for her role, she's so good as well.
01:26:24
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there' there The acting is so good. i don't know if I already alluded to this, but to say it specifically, they're, they're acting is in the, not in the words. The dialogue is not all of what it is cracked out up to be. It's in the eye, eye contact and the body language and how, their facial, like the how they animate their faces to in that kind of nonverbal acting, that's the most impressive.
01:26:45
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ah There's also this language aspect of it. it's It's in Japanese mostly, but of course you got ah an Englishman speaking in it as well. so And then there's the the Portuguese as well. So there's like there's many like kind of languages, but it's the the way that that you see the customs of Japan at that time and how they don't, there's a lot of unspoken language. like tension that's constantly throughout the series. That's the kind of the best part about it. I love it a lot. It was great. It's funny because at times it was kind of the slow. It's very, very slow. And I heard a lot about how people love it so much. Like people love this show and I'm like, wow, people really have the patience and it it is a very patient show. You have to be patient.
01:27:23
Speaker
I feel like to watch it because they take their time and they, they really, plotted out very carefully. never Nothing is rushed. Everything feels very careful. And it's cool that a show like this can be this popular that is this patient or asks you to be this patient in 2025 when TikTok is like a leading social media platform. And that's kind of impressive that you can see so many people talking about it, so many people watching it, and it wins so many awards in a time in 2025. So I didn't really even expect it to be this kind of
01:27:54
Speaker
It's like plotting, like it goes and it takes its time and it really tries to pull you in in a very deliberate way as opposed to like just trying to throw in fight scenes and choreography constantly. The music is so good too.
01:28:07
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It's the, like, it's Atticus Ross and Son. no No Trent Reznor in this one. i think we talked about this before. Yeah. um But it's like three composers and two of them are are the the Rosses. So I thought that was cool too. And like you can tell the flavorings of the Nine Inch Nails a little bit in this too. because you can like Especially in like the main title sequence, which is like really gorgeous. Really well well built. like it's It's great. Music's amazing. I just think, yeah again, it's it's cool. it's just It really just pulls you along. My fiance wasn't really into it that much. And then the ninth episode, I think it was...
01:28:40
Speaker
She was like, oh that was really the best episode of the series by a bit of a margin. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I would agree. I think the whole series is great. It's funny, though, how much time we spent watching this is like the most absurd amount of time for 10 episodes. Year gap, dude.
01:28:57
Speaker
um Wait, it's 12 episodes. Am I crazy? 11 episodes. I have no idea. I don't watch it. Wait, no, 12. No, 10. It's 10. Why am I thinking it's 11? I'm looking at IMDb. It's it's kind of showing 11th. I think it's probably because they're gearing up for the second season. I think it's 10 episodes, but it's brilliant.
01:29:13
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And I like the subtlety of it. It's really cool. like ah Yeah, I really like it. It's good. Awesome. yeah Yeah. I definitely want to watch this. I kind of feel like I missed the boat. I should have watched this when I was playing Ghost of Yote, but I just i didn't.
01:29:27
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um See, that's why I did this, actually, initially. I initially watched it when I started up Ghost of Tsushima again, although it's a different time period because Tsushima is in 1300s Japan. And then I knew Assassin's Creed Shadows was coming out, so then I was watching it while Assassin's Creed Shadows, which is the same time period in the 1600s. And then Ghost of Yote, and then I started watching it again with Ghost of Yote, so it kind of lined up with those those games. Just kind of like the cross-media synergy, you know?
01:29:58
Speaker
Yotei, though, is not very similar ah because Ezo Japan, like the way that that island was, it's not very – the culture seems different. At least, I mean, the thing about the Ghost series is it's very ah sensationalist in a way. like You know what I mean? It's almost surrealist. It's not exactly real real life.
01:30:20
Speaker
Assassin's Creed Shadows is actually more close to, I think, what it would have been in Japan, I think, in terms of the way the buildings look. And it's like, it looks like real life. Like, it looks like Japan. As opposed to, like, the the beautiful art style that is Ghost of Yote. It's gorgeous to, like, ride through Ezo. But I think that that that's not quite maybe where was. But also, that's just a small part of Japan as well. So it's different than what you see in Shogun, which is, ah again, more of the political intrigue, which is there's almost none in Ghost of Yote. That's just not the would say... go Yeah, like Ghost of Yote is way more in line with like Blue-Eyed Samurai on on say on Netflix, the animated series, um which is phenomenal. i I highly recommend that show.
01:30:58
Speaker
Not to you, just in general. um it's Because it is like this awesome revenge tale, um very akin to Ghost of Yote.
01:31:09
Speaker
I just think it's a much better story personally compared to Ghost of Yote. But again, and it does have that like sort of political intrigue. It has, um, you know, like the, like an Englishman actually in Japan as well. So I don't know what time period that takes place.
01:31:24
Speaker
Blue-eyed samurai, if it's very similar to the Shogun timeline, but you're you're, you're talking about some parallels at least, um, But yeah, it does seem that that is one thing I did hear is that Shogun is very Game of Thrones-esque. So that piques my interest, man. Maybe I'll hop into that at some point. I got i got no like solo shows on the go, so I need to do something for myself. Yeah, I think this one may have been better off as a solo show just because it's part of the reason why it took so long as well is because –
01:31:57
Speaker
again, the the fiance wasn't super into it. So i was like, I was like, dragon we always have three games. We're kind of ah three games. I'm doing three games as well. Three shows. shows We're kind of watching at the same time. And so as a result, like, I'm like, ah well, I don't want to like, you know, completely burn her out with Shogun. So we just kind of watch, I try to make, make it other things that she's more interested in. But I was like, I got asked her many times, like, are you sure you want to continue watching this? Cause maybe this isn't your speech. She's like, no, ah we'll we'll watch it.
01:32:25
Speaker
We'll do it. well why And then we just delayed it for for months. but But it was good. I think she liked it by the end. By the end, she was definitely a fan. I thought the only way it ended was quite beautiful. I was like, yeah wow.
01:32:36
Speaker
I didn't see this coming at all. I don't know. There's also an element of it with Torunaga that it kind of reminds me of like the Penguin. in the week I know that you're going to probably think, what? But I'm saying like, Torunaga and ah what do they call him? in He's not kabbleot Cobb, but whatever his name is.
01:32:56
Speaker
Oz Cobb. they Oz Cobb in in every freaking episode of that show, he's like trying to get it he has to get out of a sticky situation. you oh yeah You're like, how is he going to get out of this one? It's like every episode. That's part of the political aspect of this show is too. Torunaga I kind of rooting for him because he he's the kind of the character you're following. But you're like, how is he going to get out of this? You're constantly thinking like, is he clever enough to like figure this? And like and you're like, maybe he won't.
01:33:22
Speaker
Maybe he won't. And it's like, does he? It's kind of the question that the show asks you. yeahre You're trying to figure out like what's what's going to happen to this guy because they don't like him. Like right from the beginning, you're like, okay, this guy's doomed.
01:33:34
Speaker
And then you're like, is he doomed now? And then you're constantly is like, is he doomed in episode three? is because There's always a question. And then there's other characters. So maybe they'll follow them instead. Because he's not really the main character, but he's the character that you kind of follow. follow the most Almost through other characters in the weirdest way. He's the most important person in the room at any time. Anytime he's in a scene, he's so important. Herioku Sonata is just great. like if you You've seen him in many things. He was in Lost, I believe, as well.
01:34:02
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um and many other things. I think he was in Westworld as well. Am I wrong? may Maybe. That seems that seems right. Westworld's weird because it went to Japan for like a very short period of time.
01:34:17
Speaker
Yeah. You remember that? I do. That's season two, right? In the second season. Yeah. Am I wrong? Is he not Westworld? I have no idea. But anyway, he's Lost Samurai and looking through here. Yeah, he is in West West. Well, yeah, he's in four episodes.
01:34:35
Speaker
Anyway, yeah, it's great. It's amazing. I recommend it to all, but not you, but not you. Did you recommend something to me? I can't remember. I can't remember if you did. i think I remember last thing I recommended was Claire Obscure and you played it and did it. oh I bought it immediately. Yeah, I bought the next episode or something. Yeah, yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. Could win game of the year.
01:34:53
Speaker
Good winning game of the year. I think that's everything. do you Anything else you want to talk about? Yeah. I guess the final thing that I will talk about is Stranger Things 5. The first four episodes of Stranger Things. I'll keep this brief, man, because you haven't watched it yet. Yeah.
01:35:08
Speaker
So I won't talk spoilers. All I will say, it's very good. And it was cool because I watched the season four finale. Like... a few days prior, um like maybe like three days before it's like a two and a half hour long, like epic.
01:35:24
Speaker
um I really love season five so far. I'm very intrigued about where the story is going to go. There's some cool reveals, some very interesting plot points and they are swapping the horror story.
01:35:39
Speaker
from season four to almost just more violence, like intense, like oh violence, which is interesting.
Stranger Things Season 5 Preview
01:35:48
Speaker
There's still horror elements, but I think season four was like genuinely scary. Season five is like,
01:35:55
Speaker
almost I guess like almost kind of, I mean, there's still horror elements. It's just, it's way more violent, like shockingly um at times. And it's like, like when the show, when season five started, it literally says 14 I'm like, I can't remember if season four was also 14 may Might be, but it makes sense for what they're kind of doing with it. I think this wait, it sucks that we got to wait another month or just under a month for for the next few episodes and then the finale. But um i'm I'm very excited. I love this show. I think this show is fantastic. Season four, i in my opinion, is the best season of the show.
01:36:32
Speaker
It's masterpiece. couple of amazing moments, tear jerking moments. I can think of, you know, I think episode three or or four of season four and and the finale both made me like tear up.
01:36:44
Speaker
I haven't had a moment like that in season five yet, but I'm sure that'll come. um it's It's very good though. I love it. I'm very excited. Highly recommend it.
01:36:56
Speaker
Most people have probably watched it realistically. Just stay out on offline, man. Spoilers galore. You're on Instagram. Here's some fucking Stranger Things reels. I just like constantly ignore it. So it's frustrating. That's fair. Whatever. That's life. But you finished it already. So you're good. Yep.
01:37:11
Speaker
Yeah. I'm warning you. You're fast. Hey, damn. That's fast. Yeah. We binged it. We watched like one the first episode the night it came out. Two episodes the next night and then the final episode the following night. They're shorter episodes compared to season four.
01:37:26
Speaker
i think the the season or episode four, season five is the longest at an hour and 20. Right. So. Yeah, it's interesting.
01:37:36
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. i can i can't really place the the... I couldn't tell you which ones I think are the best seasons because I feel like the gap between watching them all for me personally was not was so large that I was like... I felt like season four was the best as well after watching it, but I was like, I can't remember.
01:37:55
Speaker
And that was a problem. um I'm really glad I rewatched it. I was listening to another podcast recently, one that you watch, and they keep mentioning that they don't like the mall season. I was like, what? I love the mall season.
01:38:08
Speaker
Am I crazy? love the mall season. Maybe they're getting them confused. Because they they also were like, the mall season. and like, season two. It's like, well, that's not season two, so... i guess I guess you don't know what you're talking about at all or that's not the same season. Season two is not the mall season. So don't know why you're saying that. Yeah, season three is definitely the wackiest.
01:38:30
Speaker
like went It's wacky, but it's great. I still like it. Oh, no, I'm not saying it's not. It just get it goes a little bit. comedic in a lot of ways. It's the comedy season. I would say there's a lot of really good moments, but it is like, it's very, I feel like it's the most campy.
01:38:47
Speaker
Um, not that I have an issue with that. I really, really love it. Um, but it is tonally, I think the most out of place,
01:38:57
Speaker
between all ah like the the five seasons. So is interesting. It's interesting because it's like almost like they found their way. They hit their complete stride. They're like, oh, we're going a little bit. course corrected too much to comedy. So ah we're going to go back. And the second season, like we kind of did the same thing we did in season one. Maybe we should do something really different. And they really course corrected in season three. And then in season four, they're like, you know what? We've got to hide a balance. And then they're like, they nailed the balance. That's what I found.
01:39:24
Speaker
Like the emotional storytelling, the character connections I found like were amazing in season four. like they They also introduced all these characters and now they really get to come together. In the Guardians of the Galaxy, you know part two and three, situationally volume two and three, like you can kind of now really get into the depth of these characters as opposed to the introduction of them. Kind of felt like that for me anyway, if I remember correctly. But yeah.
01:39:46
Speaker
I think you're right. And I think what what this what this show does so well is the unlikely pairings that they consistently do throughout all four, five seasons, where you've been following a lot of these characters throughout you know every season. Some are you know introduced a little later. And they're they're always like these teams of people kind of going off on their own. And occasionally these teams – Exactly. And occasionally these teams will kind of split off or eventually you know connect together.
01:40:14
Speaker
um But there's always like these like unlikely pairings where you're like when are these two characters going to interact more? It almost reminds me of like the later seasons of Game of Thrones when like characters that you've been following for like four seasons finally meet up for the first time. And you're like, yeah, this is awesome. I can't wait.
01:40:30
Speaker
I was just thinking like it's almost like incredibly well. It's almost like good MCU as well. Yeah. Like when the MCU is a hitting its stride in like Avengers Endgame, like you have characters that like you would never see together, like team up.
01:40:44
Speaker
Like when like Don Cheadle's character is like hanging out with like, um what's her name? The robot lady. You what talking about? Like randomly, it's like, oh, okay, sure.
01:40:54
Speaker
Like, uh, uh, Karen Gillan or whatever. Yeah. I know who you're talking about. But it's just kind of, there's an element of like, oh, you would never even expect them to hang out together at all. It doesn't make any logical sense, but it, it, it it works. Cause you're like, oh, we never see these, them hang out and you can kind of see chemistry work differently. It's, that's a really good, that I feel like that's, that's a sign of like,
01:41:16
Speaker
almost like you're you're willing to take risks, but it's a sign of well-written characters that you can kind of like, you understand these characters fundamentally, so you want to see how they play off of each other. Actually, yeah in a way, that's kind of almost like severance in Pluribus too, in that there's ah that experiment aspect. Like, we know our concept, we know our characters so well,
01:41:35
Speaker
Throw anything at them. Throw anything at this concept in Pluribus as an example of of what the show is about. And again, we won't spoil it here, but like how how interesting that concept is. We'll try to throw these wacky scenarios in here and see how the exact our framework of what the show is about, how it handles that thing. i think Severin says that amazingly talked about that last episode. I haven't caught up on Pluribus, by the way. That's another show that I've been watching. I saw season...
01:42:02
Speaker
Episode three, but it's it's very good. I've been skeleton's killing it. It's cool that he's done something in a different tone and like maybe not tone necessarily, but different style and genre. And ah and you kind of just like seems to have nailed it unless you're you're like, no, this episode five is bad.
01:42:19
Speaker
i know if you're. No, it's great, man. It's frustrating. The cliffhanger, though. ah Oh, yeah. Really annoying. Actually, I was like, oh, my God, you're kidding me. You got to take your time, bro.
01:42:30
Speaker
I'm not worried about that because when, yeah by the time I was i watched it yesterday, i watched it yesterday. It came out on Wednesday of last week. Episode five. Yeah. Because of Thanksgiving. So they released it on Wednesday instead of Friday.
01:42:43
Speaker
And I even waited until Sunday to watch it. And then there's a big cliffhanger. I'm like, God fucking damn.
Host Banter and Future Releases
01:42:49
Speaker
I'm sorry. They did that on purpose though. Cause they knew you had to wait longer. Yeah, I know. It's kind of the sick and twisted, but it's real good.
01:42:56
Speaker
It's really good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool. It's exciting. But yeah, anyway, yeah. Very excited for Stranger Things. That's the next subscription we're jumping into because I got Squid Game to watch. I got the last season of ah Arcane to watch.
01:43:13
Speaker
I got, freak I have so much to watch. Dude, I got to finish The Walking Dead still. I got like 50 things. I got 50 things to go. Walking Dead ended 30 years ago.
01:43:23
Speaker
It's crazy. yeah They're going to give you the year date because it would have, no matter what date you said, it would, it's going to be a long time. If it was the realistic date, it is also a long time. So anyway, but yeah, anything else you watched before we move on to the, the, the, the other segment, the, the look to the future, no they call it.
01:43:41
Speaker
I'm going to run to the bathroom quick though and get water. cause I'm parched. I drank all my water. I'm parched. it Bye. Bye. PP time.
01:43:58
Speaker
Oh, wait, I'm back. Sorry about that. feel so dehydrated. Hello, dear. Hello, dear, sir. are you today? I'm going to do the rest of the episode like this. Sure, man. I know you love it. That seems like a really good idea. Oh, it's so delightful. So delightful. Yes. Such a good idea. We're going to do it now. It's the greatest idea you've ever heard. Do it now.
01:44:17
Speaker
Now onto a segment of our show that I like to call A Look to the Future. a portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between December 2nd and December 2025.
01:44:36
Speaker
December 2nd being today for some, because this is the first day of the episode air date. It is the first day of the episode air Anyway, Adrian, I'm going to stop talking like this now and i'd be normal. We're going to talk about... i think you sound more fucked up right now than before.
01:44:52
Speaker
What? Gotcha. Wow. got shit That's kind of mean. As a customer, you go first. You're going to give me your first pick for this segment. The thing you're most excited for. Movie, TV show, go. Is that what we've been doing?
01:45:08
Speaker
oh Oh, yeah. you can do You can do the secret. If you want to make it a secret, you can do a little sneaky secret. I don't realize that that's what we were doing. that It was like the most thing we were most excited for, but...
01:45:20
Speaker
Very much I'm too excited about. There's a couple things that pique my interest. A portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us.
01:45:31
Speaker
that are That has been in the document since I think the very beginning for the last 24 episodes. Yes, I have not changed that. That part I didn't change. I don't think so. agree You can look back. We have a document. You think I went back and changed it? Yeah.
01:45:46
Speaker
Obviously, you're for twenty little episode you a little you you're a little butthead, dude. that's ah This is what you do. This is what you You've just been calling me names the whole episode. I think you called me Bitch Years at one point. You called me...
01:45:58
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I didn't call you bitch years. I said you got ass years. You said something about how I'm a big cabbage or some bullshit. You said like- you big cabbage? You're a cover girl cabbage. I think that's what you said. You're a damn cover girl cabbage. Patch kid. You said that my head is like a pair of dancing shoes at one point. I'm pretty sure you said that too. Anyway- That's in there. You definitely- I believe all of those things that you have said. It's likely. I know you do. um Camber scratch kids song. What are you thinking? What are you thinking? What's most interesting to you? so The idea with the most interesting to you, the whole point was that you didn't necessarily have to talk about them all. That was the point. So it was like hands off. You know, that was, it's like no pressure.
01:46:38
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Okay. that That was why it existed. Do you know this song? You didn't know that, even though i explained it to you in detail.
01:46:46
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You might get demonetized for this.
01:46:49
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What is this? It's the Cabbage Cat, Patch Kids song, They Think I'm Crazy?
01:47:01
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I don't know. love you like might get demonetized. We've never been monetized. Spoiler Hey, Norma! Billy! What are you doing? Just taking measurements. I'm sorry, I'm fast forwarding. It's taking too long. Where's the song? was the song? The song was just the... Oh, here it is.
01:47:17
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Okay. Okay.
01:47:23
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As a matter of fact, I usually find a little forward thinking saves a whole lot of time. No, I don't know the song.
01:47:35
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Sorry. That's yours. I'm going to start singing. Thank you for being a friend. It's going to get good. I don't know the song. No.
01:47:53
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It's a banger. No. Why are you bringing this up? I don't know. We talked about Cabbage. It was just like 40 years old. Am I 40 years old? No, this is 40. That's like a 30 year old song, isn't it? I'm i'm not asking for the date. I'm wondering why you're bringing it up now. I don't know what this has do with talked about Cabbage, Simon. We talked about Cabbage. We talked about Cabbage like an hour ago.
01:48:17
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We just brought it up though again. I thought about Cabbage Patch Kids. All right, man. All right. Well, what's your, come on, give it to me. So copyright is 1995 to 2012. So 30 years ago.
01:48:28
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Give or take.
01:48:32
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Cool, man. let's say What's your first picture? Sorry, were talking about? We're talking about look to the future where you give me a pick and if you want to do it where you give me a little hints and then I, you but whatever, you do a preamble so I can guess, you can do that. It's up to you. Okay. This is a sequel. This is a sequel about killer robots killing people.
01:48:51
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It's got Josh Hutcherson in it as well. well Five Nights at Freddy's 2 with Josh Hutcherson starring on December 5th of 2025. Yeah, dude. Yeah. FNAF 2. FNAF 2.
01:49:03
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Got any FNAF fans in the house? FNAF. In my house? FNAF. No. Yeah. Are you a fan? Have you ever played Five Nights at Freddy's? um I did. Obviously, this based on a video game, for those who don't know. Yeah, I did originally, like when it was like the big phenomenon on PC back in the day.
01:49:19
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you did? I've never really played it after. Did you like it? I thought it was interesting. It scared the shit out of me. That was before I really had a love for horror. Yeah. But it's cool. How old is this series? This video game series?
01:49:33
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Before you had a love horror. what was When did you start having a love for horror? Did I know you? Yeah. Before you had a love for horror, I knew you.
01:49:48
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No. Yeah. Yeah, I got into horror. It was only post our friendship that you... yeah you Yeah. Oh, okay.
01:49:59
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It was, you want to know the turning point? What? So Five Nights at Freddy's 2014. Yeah. yes The turning point of when I like realized I really like horror was yeah playing Resident Evil 7 in the PlayStation VR.
01:50:15
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Oh, wow. I put that headset on and I played it and I was so terrified. And I remember I had an Apple watch and I got like the notification that my heartbeat was going too fast. Like, Hey, your heartbeats regular playing. And I'm like, man, I love this feeling. This is like fun. And i watched some horror movies beforehand, but I never really loved them. Like I, you know, i I, think I watched like it follows maybe before and I liked it, but I remember specifically like watching it follows. Cause it was recommended to me. And like,
01:50:43
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there's a scene where this big guy goes under a door. He like grabs the door and then puts his head under. And I remember I paused the movie and I turned it off and I was like, I'm watching this in the morning. um And like, i liked zombie horror to be fair, but that's different. That's like, I feel like zombies like are kind of like a genre.
01:51:00
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Like, so I loved like 28 days later and stuff, even when I was a kid. But again, I feel like those those movies are, although horror, they're they're like zombie. It's a genre. I feel like zombies is a genre.
01:51:11
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So yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, um yeah, 2014 was ah when the first FNAF game came out, according to a quick Google search, which is kind of crazy. I feel like I remember being in high school, but maybe not.
01:51:26
Speaker
Hmm. Maybe not. Yeah. My only connection to Five Nights at Freddy's is Willy's Wonderland.
Movie Discussion: The Carpenter's Son and Cinephile Culture
01:51:32
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Oh, the other Five Nights at Freddy's movie with Nicolas Cage just grunting the entire time. I don't even think he has a single line of dialogue.
01:51:39
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I love that move. I love that because of him. He's just so ridiculous. He doesn't say no. He doesn't he have a line of dialogue right at the end or he never says anything until the end. I can't remember what it is, but it's so amazing because he doesn't say anything. And because he always takes lunch breaks or like the 15 minute like regular breaks like as dictated by the law.
01:51:59
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I just thought that was the most absurd thing ever. That movie is kind of great. I kind of like it a lot. Anyway. I enjoyed it. Okay. the the The movie that is coming out on December 5th that I'm going to describe here to today for you, it stars a character who stars in a movie called Happy Gilmore. Jake Elliott.
01:52:18
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That's a new Noah Baumbach movie coming out December 5th on Netflix. About an actor and his agent. George Clooney and Adam Sandler, right?
01:52:29
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Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. And it's, and no, it's directed by Noah Baumbach, which is cool. I'm actually very excited about this. It's also Nicholas Bertel doing the score. And I think Nicholas Bertel really great.
01:52:41
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It's the Andor. Oh, do tell about Bertel. <unk> It's the Andor dude. That's the, I feel like the Andor music is i'm an amazing. It's very good. I love Andor too much. Arguably some would say.
01:52:54
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ah Yeah, some some might say. Some would say. But yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah anytime ah Anytime I bring up Andor, my fiance literally looks at me he's like, okay. She's literally at that point. Oh, really? Yeah, she's like, okay.
01:53:10
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I'm like, we should just watch Andor so you understand how good it is. Because they're like, anyways, I'm not going dive into Andor because going to talk about it. For too long. I'll derail you to something else. so He's also the Succession composer as well. I knew that, but I forgot. yeah The Succession music is also amazing. Did you finish Succession?
01:53:30
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No, I only watched the first season. was really you up the heck, man? What the heck? And he's a Don't Look Up composer. but me That makes sense, actually, because Succession has a connection to, um what's his name?
01:53:41
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Adam McKay. So, anyway. I feel like in some way, Don't Look Up becomes more relevant every day.
01:53:53
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Unfortunately. ah Anyway. Cool. What's your next pick, man? Oh, that's on Netflix, by the way. I'm actually really excited for J. Kelly. That's another thing I'm going to watch. And I'm also going to watch the Frankenstein movie, which I have heard lots of good things about. Dude, Jacob Elordi is a freakishly tall dude,
01:54:10
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Every time I see him in photos next to Oscar Isaac, I'm like, wait, what? Is he wearing like tall shoes? You know, high heels, tall shoes. Anyway, what's your next pick?
01:54:23
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arm My next pick, Simon, is an anime event film. It's taken place after the Shibuya arc of season two of this show.
01:54:35
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It's a Japanese show. It's JJK. That's what people call it online. It's Jujutsu Kaisen Execution. It's the, I think the, like the start of season three, they just do like a movie event. Like a lot of these anime shows do. Yeah. Um,
01:54:57
Speaker
I watched all Jujutsu Kaisen. It's pretty okay. Okay. I don't love Are you okay? It's it's too anime tropey for my taste these days. There's like really, i feel like it's like 40 something episodes. I think I talked about this. I feel like it would be such a great show if it was a tight 12 episodes and they cut out all the fucking annoying bullshit. Yeah. um But there are some like high peak moments, which I really enjoy. That's good. um Yeah.
01:55:25
Speaker
Pretty ok okay. So that's coming out. Will I watch it in theaters? No, I missed the Chainsaw Man movie. That's what I'm going watch. I wonder if it's on Crunchyroll.
01:55:37
Speaker
Is it on Crunchyroll yet? the next ah The next thing I'm going to choose here, I'm goingnna i'm goingnna i'm going to tell you about... yeah It stars ah an actor who sometimes people think goes to the extremes. um there is ah it It takes place in very, very close to the beginning of AD.
01:55:59
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And there is ah there's basically a carpenter, and and he's ah he's kind of raising his son. And and and ah and he's anyway, ah it's ah it's like basically a Christmas movie, I guess, in some way, i think. Is there a movie about Jesus coming out and Jesus has a son or something?
01:56:18
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It's basically a Christmas movie where, you know, there's a guy named Joseph and he's a carpenter and he raises his son. What the are talking about? can't keep because you don't know what I'm talking about. Anyway, it comes out December 9th, Adrian, and it's a horror movie called The Carpenter's Son.
01:56:36
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Starring Nicolas Cage, which you've definitely seen the trailer for. What? think we saw it in theaters at the same time. I'm fairly It's about him. It's about Nicolas Cage's Joseph.
01:56:47
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Yeah, he plays Joseph, which it's not very apparent in the actual trailer, but I'm fairly certain that is definitely the case. And Nicholas Cage said something about a young actor he worked with on this film that she is, or is he, can't remember. One of them, somebody that was one of the best actors he's worked with, which was quite alarming. And it's like a young actor who's playing, I think, playing the devil or something.
01:57:12
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I was like, whoa, okay. But this movie, unfortunately, is not reviewed super well. It's supposed to come out on December Its reviews are 33% tomato meter. and I don't know how it's 45% popcorn meter because I don't think it came out yet. and This is just not a wide release.
01:57:27
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and People saw it in a... like smaller screenings. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's come out. I don't think so. It showed up on my list here, but anyway, maybe I'm wrong, but you know what i'm talking about, right? Looking at the trailer. Yeah. you doing yeah I'm looking it up. This is interesting.
01:57:44
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So yeah, it's essentially supposed to be like Jesus and and all that stuff, but it's a horror movie. This this seems like a really cool premise. Yeah, it reminds me a little bit, I know it's not that similar, but it kind of reminds me of that Superman movie where what like the kid is basically Superman. It's the James Gunn produced film. What was it called? Remember that movie? ah Brightburn.
01:58:05
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Yeah, yeah. Right, Brightburn. Yeah. It's kind of a similar idea in some way, I think, perhaps, but...
01:58:15
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There's an audience review here that says it was canceled and we did not get to see it. Like, what are you talking about? Oh, is that why it's reviewed badly? Because. This is blasphemy. What was Hollywood thinking about making a horror version of Jesus's life?
01:58:30
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That's why. That's why. I wish there was no star option for this trash. You you disre disrespected my Lord and savior with this flop of crap. I pray you repent in Jesus name. This is blasphemous.
01:58:42
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That's too bad because if the reviews for the critics reviews were higher, then they might have had a chance. But because of the fact that people are review bombing it, which I don't know how Rotten Tomatoes is allowing that. They should not even allow popcorn reader reviews. Like audience reviews shouldn't be allowed until a month after the movie's aired.
01:58:57
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Like honestly. And honestly, ah this is another point. I've tried to review things on Rotten Tomatoes before and it doesn't even let me do it. So i'm like, how is everyone getting in to review things? I can't even, i literally can't review a single movie.
01:59:10
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I've tried many times. Have you? It's very annoying because i try to skew it to a realistic way. and I've tried it and I'm like, I'm not going to do that. So I just use Letterboxd and don't bother with it. The popcorn meter is such a useless score. and you know And I can't tell you how many times people in my life say, oh, well, ah people love it. oh This movie is loved. It's 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. And I look at the actual movies like 30% and it's like the popcorn meter. And like, this is meaningless.
01:59:37
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There's a bunch of people on Reddit or like 4chan or some shit. Some worse forum kind of just review – positive review same is something that's their political agenda essentially.
01:59:52
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't know. i I think there is some value in the popcorn meter. Not always, but I think there are – Times where it comes in handy. or There's value in it.
02:00:03
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I'm saying it's the least valuable part of Rotten Tomatoes. Letterboxd, if you look at Letterboxd scores, it's way, way more valuable. that yeah That is fair. Yeah. Like why use that score when you can use Letterboxd? You know what mean?
02:00:17
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Yeah, because Letterboxd is like a social media site where yeah the problem with Rotten Tomatoes is that there's no names attached to the score. There's barely any names attached to the scores. what are you talking about? Isaac k What an awful movie. those are audience reviews. You can just review it without putting any – like you can just put a score in without putting a review in. I just find that in general, if you check someone's Letterboxd, you're to – people actually check it as a social media. Like, what's this guy think about – this movie and then you can kind of see their entire listing of like that a thousand movies they've watched and like i don't line up with this person at all whereas this is like it feels more anonymous in my opinion maybe you disagree i just feel like that's kind of the way i feel like it's more personal for letterbox whereas the the more anonymous the internet is the worse it is yeah yeah yeah i think anyway yeah i think letterbox is is an interesting
02:01:07
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platform because a lot of people that use it typically are big fans of movies or like watching movies and like well amazing like it's a little bit more of um i hate saying it like not i don't want to say like it's more of a cinephile platform but it is like i think it's a more serious platform where people are like i really love movies and i want to review them and just put my opinions on there as special rotten tomatoes You just don't like the file in the end or what? Yeah. yeah I don't know. i just don't really care for the word cinephile. Do you think it's pretentious? Yeah, it's just it's very pretentious. like I don't think we're cinephiles.
02:01:38
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We like movies. Yeah. Like going to the cinema. that I mean, love movies is kind of the root of cinephile. Yeah, I guess so. Fair enough. But you're right. I don't know. I get what you're saying. don't know.
02:01:51
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You know, like you could talk to someone and they'd be like, I'm a real cinephile. You haven't watched fucking yeah insert old ass movie here. it's guy with a twirly mustache and a monocle. Yeah. You don't think fucking Rosebud the movie's good movie? Like, no, actually.
02:02:07
Speaker
No, actually, I don't think that. It is good. Come on. It's a good for its time. It's good for its time. good in general. Does it hold off today? yes I don't think so. I was bored. All right. Good. All right. It's time. Are you watch movie? Are going watch The Carpenter's Son?
02:02:27
Speaker
Probably not. I do want to, though. It does intrigue me, but probably not. I'm going to be honest. It's probably me at home. Yeah. i want like I kind of want to know what you think of it because you like horror movies and this is just like a... And dude, I love Jesus. I'm getting married in the Catholic Church. I was just going to say you're being forced to to get married in the Catholic Church. So maybe afterwards you can watch this to like blow off some steam.
02:02:47
Speaker
I am being forced. Gunpoint. I guess you You poor soul. All right. Your choice next.
Christmas Horror Films and Humor
02:02:59
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My next choice is... ah Let's keep it on the topic of horror. Why the heck not? You know what I mean? It's about a big Santa Claus, and he's fucking killing people, man. This is a remake of a remake, I think.
02:03:15
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And it's Santa Claus, and but it's he's not really Santa Claus. He's just some guy. But when he puts on a Santa suit, he becomes an evil murderer person that loves killing people. I don't know this one.
02:03:26
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it's And he got to take off his Santa suit to disassociate with his murderous self. It's called Silent Night, Deadly Night. This looks fun. It looks campy. It's well-reviewed. But yeah, that's literally the premise. Some dude, he puts on a Santa costume and kills people.
02:03:40
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And then when he takes it off, he can kind of disassociate and be himself. Oh, it's like freaking like the the Green Goblin mask. like we'll Kind of, yeah. Does it talk to him? Yeah.
02:03:52
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I don't think so. The suit didn't talk to him in the trailer, at least. There's like a blazing Christmas fire in the fireplace underneath the stockings. And he's looking at it, and the Santa suit's just hanging there next to the stockings. And then he's sitting there trying to eat his dinner, and the Santa suit's just speaking to him. I don't know. That could have been good scene. Fucking put me on, bitch.
02:04:14
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Kill these motherfuckers. That's how it says. You got your bitch ears. yeah You big cabbage. You fucking cabbage loving bitch. Put this fucking suit on.
02:04:25
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Yeah. There's no elves that I could tell in the movie. There's no owls? Elves. Oh. Owls. I did say elves weird. I will admit. I'm not goingnna not going to deny that brent blunder. I'm like, maybe owls. I don't know. There might be owls, actually.
02:04:45
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I don't know. Maybe you're saying there's no owls. I don't know. It's not Harry Potter. I'm not sure why you would mention that. you know Or like the Owls of Ghoul.
02:04:57
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That book series? Did they make a movie out of that? Isn't that a Zack Snyder movie? The Legend of Ghoul. The Owls? i don't know. legends if There was that Owls movie, Artemis Fowls.
02:05:11
Speaker
Artemis Fowls isn't an owl movie at all. There's no owls in that movie. What? Artemis Fowl? Yeah, Artemis Fowl. A genius billionaire? Oh. They were talking about?
02:05:23
Speaker
I don't know. i didn't watch the movie. I read that. looks I read that book series. It was quite good. All 12 books? It looks like they butchered the... No, I read three of them. I don't know. It looks like they butchered the actual movie, though.
02:05:36
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I don't know about that, because it's an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 19% audience score.
Ratings Debate and Upcoming Series
02:05:40
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So I don't know for sure. it' much We're not sure. We said below 10%. We pretty much know. Isn't that the rule? If it's above 90%, we know it's going to be good. If it's below 10%, we know it's going to be bad. Another thing else is ah is a good guideline for maybe what we might like, but we're not sure. That's the rule for Rotten Tomatoes.
02:06:00
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Yeah. For us. I think there's five books, but I could be wrong. Okay, not 10 of them or whatever you said. Okay, is it my turn? Actually, eight books.
02:06:11
Speaker
Okay, this this ah this this film is a Netflix film, Adrian, that comes out on December 11th. And it's a sequel to ah ah a film in which man versus something else. In this case, he versus bees.
02:06:24
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what or Man versus bee is the name of it. This movie stars a little known actor. Yeah, you got it. Right? It's man versus baby. It stars Rowan Atkinson of Mr. Bean fame and various other things.
02:06:37
Speaker
Like Rat Race. So wait, there was a- And Lion King. Are you being for real? Like he, there this is a sequel and he was fighting bees in the previous one and now he's fighting a baby? Yeah.
02:06:48
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but No, no, no. Not bees. Bee. Just a singular I saw Wait, this is a series. I'm sorry. Isn't this a series?
02:07:00
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the The first one was a series. Man vs. Food. I know about Man vs. Food. Man vs. Baby. Man vs. B was a... Yeah, sorry. Man vs. Baby is a series. I'm sorry.
02:07:11
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I said it was a movie, I think. Yeah, Man vs. B we watched. It wasn't that good. It was okay though because I like Rowan Atkinson.
02:07:20
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Rowan Atkinson is great. That's why. It's good. Do you like Rowan Atkinson? um Yeah. I like him enough. I liked Mr. Bean when I was a child. Okay.
02:07:32
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Cool. I'm not like a Rowan Atkinson fan. Like I wouldn't. I was a fan of him in Rat Race. I thought he was really good. I think he's the best part of Rat Race. I love Rat Race. Isn't that crazy? That movie was like a phenomenon, I think. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we just coincidentally both watched it. I thought i just felt like I saw it it many times. and it's just great it's a Me too. My parents loved that movie.
02:07:55
Speaker
You know what? I bet i'm going to look it up on Rotten Tomatoes and it's going to be like a 30%. Ready? Yeah. to be like Jack Frost. Oh, 44%. That's not
02:08:06
Speaker
um but people audience score 64 yeah alright that's fair it was fun I like this time there's like that that scene where when they're like driving and like his daughter has to go to the bathroom so he just tells her to like stick her butt out the window and then she shits out of the car and it hits the cop car alright that's pretty dumb that's good that's comedy that's comedy right there man yeah that's right yeah Pace yourself. Pasta is good, Adrian.
02:08:38
Speaker
Pasta is good. Okay. It's time now for you to give me your pick. Let's just speed this along. It's getting along. Okay. I'll do one more. um Dust Bunny.
02:08:50
Speaker
It's the name of the movie. It's Mads Mikkelsen. The little girl goes to him and she's like, hey. ah there's ah Do you kill monsters? and he's like, I don't fucking know. I kill people, man. you want You want me to kill a monster for you? and she's like, yeah.
02:09:04
Speaker
Because a monster took my parents or killed my parents. We talked about the trailer a while ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Looks good. Looks good. It's well rated as well. I spoiled it. I didn't mean to. I was just reading it.
02:09:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. My mouse just started. It's good. yeah all good. the next ah The next thing is ah is a Kurt Sutter created series. It stars two pretty great actors in it. It's a Western film.
02:09:29
Speaker
It stars ah an actor from Game of Thrones, big character from Game of Thrones in in the actor li ah Lena Headey. And it also stars Gillian Anderson, who's also great. saw this. I saw this. I know what you're talking about. I don't have it on the list, though. It comes out on December 4th. It comes out to Netflix on December 4th. It's a film. It's called – no, sorry. It's not a film. It's ah it's a series. I keep doing that. It's a series, and it's called The Abandons, Adrian.
02:09:53
Speaker
whoa looks pretty interesting jillian anderson and lena hetty are going head to head head to head you know and they're just uh dude they'reing off you're so freaking punny this episode it's crazy is so good you're sarcastic sarcastic it up here anyway but anyway yeah they go head to head and it's in the old west and they look uh they look mad they look mad at each other um but yeah And Lenhetti's got like a very very Irish accent. She's got like this little, fit like it seems like a misfit family that they live together. And then Gillian Anderson's like the law The law. Which is like, oh, you have to leave this property. She's like, I'm the fucking law, bitch.
02:10:36
Speaker
I can't leave this property. That was not even Irish. Anyway. But you get it. No. No.
02:10:43
Speaker
no i can do an irish accent i feel like better than a scottish one and yet the scottish one just comes out first i need to practice it momentarily but i'm not gonna do that here so anyway it looks good it looks kind of cool it looks like it could be a good good time next one you got any more that's it you're done um this one i brought up last week but i'm gonna or last episode i'm gonna bring it up again because now it's coming out to netflix it's a sequel to a sequel but it's an anthology sequel yep there's there's cutlery involved they don't they don't They don't leave the cutlery in the drawer. They pull the...
02:11:21
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They pull the... They don't leave the cutlery in the drawer. They pull the...
02:11:30
Speaker
Dishwasher open? No. No, out of the cutlery drawer. They're taking it out of the cutlery drawer. They don't they don't leave it in the cutlery drawer... They pull the... Can you start it with a different hint? Because this one's not good.
02:11:46
Speaker
So there's... the I have cutlery in my drawer.
02:11:51
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And I'm going to take out a specific thing from that drawer. I'm going So there's cutlery in the drawer. I'm not leaving it in I'm pulling the... You're doing the same hint again. This is not a different hint.
02:12:06
Speaker
It's a movie of a colony? Was it an Ikea movie? Oh my God, dude. What kind of cutlery is in a drawer typically? Forks and knives? Forks, knives, spoons.
02:12:18
Speaker
yeah Okay. Second word that you listed. I'm not leaving it in the drawer. I'm pulling out. Oh, knives out. You messed it up. You made me mess it up. yeah Dead Man's, what is it called? devin Dead man Wake Up Dead Man.
02:12:35
Speaker
Wake Up them and like Dead Up Dead Man. Yeah, it comes out of Netflix. Oh, that's exciting too. Oh my God, I got so much to watch on Netflix. This is going to be just, all I'm going to only be watching Netflix for weeks. It's going to be good.
02:12:45
Speaker
It's so good. take get to Get some use out of it. That's good. You excited for a Wake Up Dead Man? ahh Yeah, dude. Yeah, man. I'll wake up for it. Oh, that's not quite as good as my puns, but I know, dude, I know. i know you've been leading the charge with these puns, man.
02:13:03
Speaker
I'll wake up for it. Anyway. Okay. I got another one here. it's ah it's a It's a show. It's a spinoff. And i my goodness, it doesn't look that good in my opinion. It's coming out to stars on December 5th. It that follows a character named Asher from a series before that was very popular this the that that takes place in ancient Rome. It looks like it's very gladiator combat focused. Oh, Spartacus? Spartacus?
02:13:31
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Yeah, Spartacus House of Asher. Maybe you will think better of the trailer. I wasn't that hyped about it, but I also didn't watch Spartacus and you did. So maybe you have a better perspective on what this show will be. But it follows the side character or some whatever character in that show. don't know.
02:13:50
Speaker
So anyway, he looks a bit obnoxious as a character. but oh he's very obnoxious. But yeah, anyway. So yeah, you tell me if you think, know if you're that or not, but I don't know.
Upcoming Releases and Personal Anecdotes
02:14:03
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Maybe on Crave. I'm not going to get stars for it. Well, stars will be on Crave.
02:14:06
Speaker
But you have to you have the plus subscription, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You would have to upgrade. Right. Can you upgrade with that plan from Bell or no? ah No, you got to pay the full amount. I'm not going to do that. That's bull crap. All right.
02:14:18
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That's bullshy. Well, fine. that's ah That's the other one. And I got one more here. I'm curious if you'll guess it because I feel like this has been advertised in various places. This is a movie in which a mom...
02:14:31
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gets pretty fed up. There is a crazy cast here. The cast is like stacked from my perspective. um Actually, one of the actors recently, somebody told me I look like this person. i just could not agree. You know what's funny?
02:14:44
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I find that people think I look like people all the time, but it's always someone different. Have you, you have that experience in your life or that happens to me constantly? Like someone like, you know who you look like? And then I'm like, I have no idea. Cause whatever you're going to say is a different person. And it always is.
02:15:00
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And this individual is Dennis Leary. I'm like, what? I was like very confused. I'm like, really? Dennis Leary. One time somebody told me that I look like the dude from ah ah Mighty Ducks.
02:15:11
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um Michael Sheen's, not Michael Sheen, Martin Sheen's son. What's his name? Estevez, Emilio Estevez. But then I took off my mask because it was COVID. And I took off my mask and and they're like, actually, no, you don't. It's just your top face. I'm like, okay.
02:15:26
Speaker
Anyway, Dennis Leary's in this I can see like i could see you aging into a Dennis Leary type. Okay, cool. But anyways, again, you can see all of them, I'm sure, because I've gotten, again, it's never been the same one twice, which is kind of cool, I guess. But anyway, this this cast is stacked. It stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman, which is pretty cool.
02:15:50
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ah it's ah it's it's it's It stars, ah who did I miss? who i miss Michelle Pfeiffer is probably the most significant actor here. And she's playing the mom who's fed up.
02:16:00
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ah Oh, Eva Longoria is in it as well as a pretty important character in the in the plot. Michael Showalter is the director. It's a Christmas movie. And it's on Amazon. And you have no idea what I'm talking about, so I'm just going tell you what it is. now And it's ah it's Oh, What Fun with periods in between.
02:16:17
Speaker
And yeah, it's a Christmas movie. Maybe it will become a Christmas classic. Who's to know? Who's to say? We're looking it up right now to see if it is actually already reviewed. But that comes out, Adrian, on December 3rd.
02:16:28
Speaker
I saved the best for last because the next episode of our show... Actually, it's before Christmas, so never mind. I was going to say it was after Christmas, but it's not. so That's the Christmas episode. Is the next episode of the Christmas episode?
02:16:40
Speaker
Yeah, the next episode is the Christmas episode. Maybe we should call it that. we won't remember that in two weeks, but it is what it is. No, dude, I fucking don't remember shit ever. Literally never. boy. Well, please remember your wedding is on December the 7th, okay? Because if you'll miss that. It's the you son of a gun. You're trying to fool me.
02:16:57
Speaker
You're trying to fool me, it you son of a gun. um You know what movie I thought you were going to say? no no. Because this movie is coming out. Because you're like, oh, i kind of someone told me I look like this person. There's a movie called Ella McKay coming out on on December 12th.
02:17:11
Speaker
Okay. And it has a pretty sad cast as well. It has yeah Jamie Lee Curtis, Ayo Adabiri, Woody Harrelson. Yeah. um But I was like, you know, like when you said like, oh, someone told me I kind of look like someone. Yeah, you kind of do look like Emma Mackey.
02:17:25
Speaker
You got some similar facial structure. You? You. oh Oh, somebody told me told you that about me? No, someone – because you said someone told you you look like an actor. And I was like, oh.
02:17:39
Speaker
And then I immediately thought, oh, yeah, that Ellen McKay movie is coming out. Yeah, you do look like Emma Mackey kind of. And then you told me a different movie. Yeah, you. I don't understand.
02:17:51
Speaker
why Why did you connect that though? I don't understand that. Can you explain that? Well, okay. How can I explain this simply? Okay. Someone said – well, you. You said that this movie is coming Someone? Why do you keep saying this the second time you started with someone? That's why it's confusing. Who is someone? I am the only one talking here. Is there someone in the background in your head? There's no one. I'm seeing you on camera. There's no one else around. So – Do have like a you ever like an invisible friend? ah No. Okay. You said that someone said you look like an actor in this movie that's coming out.
02:18:30
Speaker
That's what you said just now. They didn't say it's the movie that's coming out, but I was just referencing that the the actors in this movie by that. They didn't specifically. This was a year ago. They told me I look like Dennis Leary. Yeah. Okay. And then I was sitting there being like, oh, yeah, you do kind of look like Emma Mackey. This is probably the movie you're going to talk about.
02:18:49
Speaker
I like I look nothing like Emma Mackey, though. Well, hey, I think you do. Okay. Like, my nose is fundamentally different. No.
02:19:01
Speaker
Then you think so? I can't see anything. I got face blindness. That explains it. That's cool, though, that you if you think that I look like I'm a Mackie, again, you're you're solidifying the point I'm making that no one thinks I look like the same person twice. That was a random stranger, by the way, that took it upon herself to say in a random store, a retail store, she's just like, you know who you look like? She was like very adamant. You look like Dennis Leary. I'm like, ah do I? but Sure. Then you killed her. I just met you now.
02:19:30
Speaker
What? literally, you killed that woman for saying such thing. didn't. I didn't kill her. And also you weren't there. So how would you know? Because you didn't know the story until I just told it just now. No. Okay.
02:19:43
Speaker
That's like a nervous, like I got caught in a lie for some reason situation. but I was like, obviously you weren't there. You're like, no. No. like It was like, you reminded me of like the Walter White, like you got me, you know, that moment in the, in that dark room with, them with Hank.
02:20:00
Speaker
Yeah, I do. Yeah. I remember that scene actually. That's so that is a good scene. That is a great scene, dude. And you're like, well, yeah, that is crazy. He's like, oh what could it, what could it mean? WW Walter White is like its very, it's very good. And then later on that, that basically comes back to bite him. That's something Vince Gilligan does really well.
02:20:21
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Quite well.
Episode Wrap-Up and Celebrity Encounters
02:20:22
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Like he introduces something. It was like, he does a lot. I feel like in that show, like breaking bad, he was just introduced something and he like, Oh, here's this thing. And then they won't use it on that episode. And they'll be, they'll come back like way later.
02:20:36
Speaker
Yeah. It's cool, man. All right. Well, that's it. That's the end of our regular scheduled programming. Anything else you want to say to the audience before we wrap this guy up? No, I don't care about anyone except for you, Simon.
02:20:49
Speaker
I care about you. And presumably the person you're about to marry, I assume. Yeah, it's true. I very very much care about it. I care about a lot of people. Yeah, I know. I don't know why I'm lying. No, you're you're just a liar.
02:21:00
Speaker
you know Oh, you don't want you want to know something cool that I did? What? on on so On Friday, this past Friday, Simon. I met someone with my group of friends. My group of friends met someone in real life.
02:21:16
Speaker
h And that someone was Tom Schwartz of Vanderpump Rules. He had like a meet and greet thing at ah at a bar in Kitchener. And we went there at Canadian Brewhouse and we like spent the night there. We like had drinks and ate food and then got to meet him and take some pictures and everything. We invited him to the wedding. He can't make it, unfortunately.
02:21:37
Speaker
Did you actually invite him to the wedding? We did, yeah. Why? And then he gave us a cardboard cutout of his face that he signed. so Are you particularly like a starruk a starstruck individual? No. No, I feel like I was starstruck, I wouldn't have asked.
02:21:57
Speaker
If I was starstruck, I'd be like go But I was like oh, dude, nice to meet you. mean. Like you follow this man to Kitchener to go meet him. You know what I mean? I mean, it was close by. He actually followed me to Kitchener. Yeah, I'm sure he did.
02:22:12
Speaker
I'm sure he heard of you before. Yeah. I'm pretty sure he's going to be a main cast member on season three of The Valley, which makes me very excited. Okay. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah. So, yeah, pretty excited about that. um But yeah, it was cool. And we have a big cutout of his face.
02:22:28
Speaker
And it's signed that we might bring it. I apparently met some kind of Canadian celebrity yesterday, but I had no idea who they were. Who? I sold them a PlayStation 5 Pro and I don't know who it is.
02:22:39
Speaker
i don't even know email the name. But one of the best my people was like really enthusiastic that they were there and they took a photo with him. That's how much they cared about him. And then after I was like, who is that?
02:22:50
Speaker
And then they said that they're in in a show called The Next Step. I'm like, I've never watched that show or even heard of it. It's a Canadian. like It's apparently ran for 10 seasons, though. They were very nice people, though. I don't have any connection with their their their you know body of work. but Was it Trevor Torgeman?
02:23:08
Speaker
toman That's who I think it is because when I looked it up, that seems to be the person who would have to have been, but I don't know for sure. And I felt bad not knowing who it was, but I was, I spent a long time with them, like 30 minutes talking about the pros and cons of the PS5 units.
02:23:24
Speaker
And I ended up selling them the pro and they weren't even going to get the pro initially. it was just go and so it was kind of So that's why it took so long. was it do we and He's in the Disney Zombies franchise as well. is it Yeah, I know. I think it's him, but I'm not 100% sure. I watched videos about the Disney zombie movies, but I never watched those movies. It's absurd. Oh, really? You know what? Speaking of videos is about a movie that's not like not the movie...
02:23:47
Speaker
the look the ski the the The sketches are like the the small segments on last week tonight about the Air Bud movies are hilarious. it's ah It's worth watching for anyone out there who's interested. i don't know if you ever watched the Air Bud movies, but they're... You've never watched Air Bud at all?
02:24:04
Speaker
Maybe. As a kid? No, I don't think so. Okay, so that's not worth it then. but I watched Homeward Bound. you had watched the Air Bud, those segments are like only online segments. They're just on YouTube and they're just so ridiculous because it's like it's bracing basically if you add them up, it's like an hour of content about about the Air Bud movies.
02:24:24
Speaker
It's just makes no sense. It's crazy. But it's entertaining. Sometimes I like that, though. Sometimes I just want someone to tell me about a franchise. You might like it. John Oliver is a pretty funny dude. Then he's got ah like a team of pretty smart like smart writing, like smart writers. So it's it's worth it. But anyway, yes. Let's let's end this, Adrian. Unless you're yeah ready to talk about something else. that you Somebody else you met randomly. um No. ah you Season four of the Hacks is about late night TV, so I feel like you might like it. Possibly. Hacks is supposed to be brilliant, so maybe one day I'll watch it when I have HBO because the Crave is canceled.
02:24:59
Speaker
Bye-bye, Crave. Anyway, byee cle thank you for listening, our audience, to episode 124 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside...
02:25:14
Speaker
What are you doing your face? I'm massaging it. I've been having ah like a headache and I got indigestion. Okay. So I'm massaging my face. Alongside my headache-filled...
02:25:27
Speaker
Co-host, Adrian Fenters. I thought to say cunt. I literally thought you were like, headache-filled cunt. I was like, oh my god. No, that would be out of place. That would have been shocking. yeah Yeah, I don't think so.
02:25:38
Speaker
I don't and i'll have one of those either. So anyway, but please join us on December 16th for episode 125. Good evening to you and good luck.
02:25:52
Speaker
Is this the time? Take care, guys. I'm to drink a swig of water right before we exit. That's a dumb that's a dumb choice. Dude, I'm parched. I feel dehydrated. You know what? You're a big cabbage. all right. Goodbye, audience. Goodbye. That's actually. How dare you?
02:26:08
Speaker
I'll fucking kill you. I'll fucking kill you.