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Episode 060 Part 09 - Wrap-up
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I'm joined by Ed from the Scruffies where we discuss some of this years Oscar Best Picture films. Instead of a single episode, the discussions have been broken up into individual episodes to make them easier to consume without spoiling movies you want to watch.
We look forward to hearing what you think about these movies so make sure to send your feedback to feedback@justshillin.com
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It's like, I, that's what I'm always
Marvel's Wonder Man Series: Entertaining but Low Stakes
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fascinated by. And I think, i don't know if you've watched wonder man on Marvel, but i think it's really, I think it's really good. is it good? i haven't, I will. I, I binged it in like two days. It's not, it's not a lot of episodes.
00:00:15
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It's not like game changing. Like, Oh my God, we're going to get spoilers for doomsday. But I just thought it was, i thought it was good. Like it's kind of encapsulated. It's a series.
00:00:26
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it is It's a series. it It's like eight, eight episodes. I think. Okay. it's like It's low stakes, but it's it's interesting. it's like It's not a big like superhero... like It's not superhero forward. like It's not like, what are my powers? going to go... It's more about like acting the struggles of an individual. like It's very much ah an ode and like ah ah a lot a passionate about acting. like the The Mandarin Trevor Slattery is like heavily in it.
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And it's very good. I think it's very good. I'm sure there's people out there who are like, where's the pew pew? The pew pew whoosh whoosh whoosh. Where's the super strength and shit? Yeah.
00:01:12
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It doesn't match the comics. It's like. What's a comic?
00:01:20
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How do i watch that? Are you talking about books?
Star Wars and Graphic Novels: The High Republic & Edge of Balance
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Ugh.
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It's a now my girls i mean Speaking of comics, my girls are super into Star Wars illustrated book series.
00:01:39
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um A comic or an illustrated book? What the hell is an illustrated book series? What is that? It's a comic pretty much. um Like a graphic novel or like a manga? or What is it?
00:01:52
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Yeah, a graphic novel graphic novel um It's a High Republic series. o and
00:02:03
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The Edge of... Edge of Balance. Edge of Balance? um but two Yeah, Edge of Balance. So they're in book two out of I don't know how many there are, but they like it.
00:02:15
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so I would say they should read the Lost Stars manga, but the book ah to me, the book is so much better.
New Hunger Games Book: Hamish's Story and Movie Speculation
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the book is i love the book, yeah.
00:02:27
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but it's so good Like, it's so... Emotional. Cheesy, emotional, teenage reading level. But man, I'm here for it. Like, I'm reading i'm reading like another Hunger Games prequel. It's like, I like the i like this. This is This is my my wavelength right here.
00:02:48
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Whatever that age range is. they coming out with another Hunger Games? I feel like they are. i think they' I don't know if they've working on the movie yet, but I know... So they did the the four movies and they did the prequel with Rachel Zegler about Snow's Hunger Games. Whatever. But now, this book that I'm reading now is about Hamish's Hunger Games. His his whatever.
00:03:16
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His quell. Quarter quell. Whatever it is called. but but i think they're making that as a movie. Jennifer Lawrence was coming back or something. ah she could be i thought um I'm here for it. I i like Jennifer Lawrence.
00:03:31
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Did you ever watch Mother? ty rob Nope. with her in it Add that to your list. of no don't like Don't look it up ahead of time. Okay, I won't look at it up.
00:03:47
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yeah I'll just watch it without knowing anything. sure Just go i like doing this going blind. Just... oh completely blind gist and Let me know. Just send me a text. I'll know. I'll know when you text me. Just send me a text message when you're done and be like, i watched it. like And what did you think? So three weeks ago, Jennifer Lawrence teases and basically confirms Return to Hunger Games franchise in Sunrise on the Reaping.
00:04:14
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Yeah, that's the book I'm reading. somera Interesting. I mean, she's not in it yet, so... am not going to get my hopes up. ah Spoiler.
00:04:27
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I mean, it's it's when her her mentor ah ah Eat the Booty like Groceries. ah What's his name? ah Woody Harrelson.
00:04:39
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he That's when he was young. yeah He went through the... that's not No spoilers. Is Jennifer Lawrence character in the book? much Not yet. I'm only in chapter 8. like,
00:04:52
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president I'm reading it. not it's not so it's not i du It's hard. It's such a struggle. I'm like, this is so stupid. Why am I doing this? There's so many books to read.
00:05:04
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No, I found, I do this thing. Of all the books, Hunger Games. There's something about those Hunger Games books that like I can get through them. I'm like, I'm in it. I'm in it to win it. um Nice.
Audiobook and Ebook Combo Reading Method
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I like to do this thing called immersive reading, where it's where you listen to the audio book and read at the same time. It's really good for ADHD. It's like, I can read a book that can look away, and there I keep reading because it's still in my ears. And I'm like, oh shit.
00:05:28
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And I look back at the book and I fit keep going. Yeah. I used to do it all the time when I lived up in the Bay Area, and I'd ride trains a lot because it's like, ooh, squirrel. and But I don't like lose my place on the page all the time, so like I actually got books read. um That's a good idea. So no i have there were so now I have an i have an app or a service running that will take the audiobook and the e-book and put them together so I can do it from one and just work.
00:05:56
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It's sick. That's awesome. It's called Storyteller, if anybody cares. but Yeah. My wife just finished reading um that weird book.
00:06:10
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Oh, it's all my that's the next on my list. I just combined that yesterday. Project Hail Mary.
Project Hail Mary: Finish the Book or Wait for the Movie?
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Project Hail Mary, yes. I've read a third of it, maybe even half of it, and I don't want to finish it because I kind of want to just watch the movie.
00:06:26
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Is that weird? I thought that I thought that i I know it's not weird. I would I would agree with that until I watched the Martian and like the ending was so different. And I was like, oh, the fuck did they do that for? Like, why? Why did they do this weird ending when they could have done like the book ending? At least that's how i remember. I could be wrong, but I feel like when I watched it, I was like, I'm not a person who's like the books were better. It's like, yeah, there's a different medium. It's.
00:06:51
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Obviously different But like this was like why did they do that Like that's Like it's they didn't need to but they just like We ran out of time so we did a short version So I'm I want to read the book and interesting I want to do um I want to read a lot of things Clearly I'm not i yeah no i i don't know i got I got to a point in the book where I'm like, okay, I got a really good premise of what the movie is going to be about. and i I see some things now. like like I got a good portion of the plot. but so i think if you're I'm here for that. you know one I want to finish the story with my eyes. you i think it's I like that. i
00:07:32
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I wasn't into it at first, but now I'm like now i'm thinking about i'm like node i kind of I'm kind of here for that. it's like You're just building tension. For longer. Like you're making the story better. yeah like it's not it's It's not a cliffhanger. It's not like on next season of Lost, we don't answer any questions and now you just have to wait a year. It's like, no, I got the premise and like now I'm invested. I'm going to see the movie and I'm excited.
Star Wars Book Releases: Early Chapter Reflections
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It's kind of like when they release ah Star Wars used to do this all the time where they would like release like the the first couple chapters of a book like a couple months in advance and for some stupid reason I would always read it.
00:08:08
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And then just like forget that I did. And I get the book and I start reading. But why do excuse me? Why do know this? Like, and I'd have this like more like this dilemma of like, how have I read this book that's already come out? Am I deja vu? Am I a savant? Like what is happening? And then I'd remember it's like, no, I just read like the the early version of it where it gave me the four chapters.
00:08:31
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And so then I'd stop reading. rogue I've already read a prequel. Did you read the rogue one prequel book, the Tarkin book or the, or the no other, Oh, what was it called?
00:08:43
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I don't know if even know what it's called. But I remember that scene in the movie where they're having like wine part of the flashback. yeahs yeah Yeah. I did read that. that was was the book That was when I was still reading like crazy. I read everything. I consumed everything Star Wars. that i'm moving to what Then I stopped taking the train for like two hours a day and it's like, mu books, what are those? I don't have time for that.
00:09:12
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Fuck that. And if I did, I'm just going to spend it playing a video game or crafting or something. No, I'm going to spend it doing nothing. I'm going to pretend like I don't have the time. But then I'm going to spend half my time going, there's nothing to do.
00:09:25
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I have to make a decision. No, thank you. I could record a podcast or... I could sit on the couch and watch my cat sit way too close to the heat, the radiating heat dish and go, it's too close.
00:09:40
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It's too close. Does fur melt? I don't know. Maybe. Who knows? It smells. Anyway. yeah Anyways, we can cut this off. We've been chatting for four freaking hours now. Not that I don't enjoy talking to you, but but I should probably go eat some dinner and you should probably go to bed and or pay some masks. That's what you do.
00:09:58
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um I want to thank you again, Ed, for doing this. Thank you for smashing out so many of these movies. ah I'm sorry you didn't like Sinners at all. and We disagree on that heavily. No, just kidding. No, we didn't create it. We didn't create it, right? Oh,
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Yeah, I highly recommend it And it's a 10 for me. Until I watch it again. Holy shit. You really liked it, huh? I really thoroughly enjoyed it.
00:10:27
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i will say, like, a part of me is surprised i don't like it as much as I should. Because I normally like that kind of movie.
00:10:38
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We also didn't like The Force Awakens, so I don't know what to tell you.
00:10:45
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um No, I'm giving it... I'm still giving it like seven and a half, eight, something like that. yeah so No, i get it. that's That's fair. I think it's still worth a watch.
00:10:58
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But if you're looking for an in-depth like you know culture, art, music feel, it stops a little short. Yeah. yeah
00:11:11
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My lights are turning off on me. that's i think it's a It's like I just got our sign. was was's time to go. All right. Well, you gave it. What'd you say? An eight or a seven, seven and a half, eight.
00:11:26
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Yeah. Give it a seven and a half. Seven and a half. All right. One last question before we go. Who?
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Two questions. Who do you want to win? Who do you think will win out of the ones we've seen?
00:11:45
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There's zero stakes. we can We can be wrong and nothing will nothing will change. Best picture. best picture Best picture? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. I gotta i gotta look at the list here.
00:12:02
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Or if you don't like that, you want a begonia win? I think that would be the trippiest one. That'd be the one that would be like, hell yeah. Want to win? As far as what'll actually win, I think it might still be... Bugonia.
00:12:21
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ah feel like one battle after another might get there, but it stops short maybe because it's a little like silly-ish. I don't know.
00:12:33
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i typically don't agree with who they pick, so I just look like, okay which one do I want to win? Because it's definitely not going to be that because they never pick who I want. Like, yeah I can tell you right now I'll be mad if, like, F1 wins.
00:12:45
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Like, I get that it's in there, but, like, don't be too need to be winning. Like, I could see one battle after another winning. I could also see Hamnet winning. Like, I would be happy if that won, but, like, it's... No...
00:12:59
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yeah I mean, it it could win, but I think you're going to get like best acting stuff out of Hamden. And I think begonia is going to win. This is my opinion. Obviously. happy so because I'd be fair. I'd be very happy with that. That'd be cool.
00:13:14
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And then Frankenstein is going to win like best visual effects or some shit. Best, best cinematography or something. Probably. it could get like probably go between that and centers for me. Uh,
00:13:27
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next year Next year, we'll have to do we'll have to do like ah best short films. i don't know I don't even know how to access those, so we can't do that. Yeah.
00:13:37
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like, okay, let's do it. We're going watch 13 two-minute long videos and have nothing to say about them. um Yeah, all right. So be interesting. So I think the Oscars are like and sometime in March. don't know.
00:13:51
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We'll follow up with them. and maybe Maybe we'll have a supplemental... We'll supplemental episode when we watch some of the others and maybe we'll, if we have anything to say about it, otherwise there's zeros.
00:14:03
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I think Marty Supreme is going to be good. I've, that one's been in theaters for a while. I'm ready for that. That's a good point. I haven't seen it. So yeah. And I don't know anything about it. so be neither we'll see.
00:14:15
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But, where can the pet Where can the good people who already know where to find you, where can they find you, Ed? where do they what are they Are you quizzing me on the website? No, you don't have to do the website. you just say the name of the podcast. I mean, they already know. They already know the name of the web podcast. but just tell how many i look in Scruffy looking podcasters.
00:14:32
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We talk... We started out talking Star Wars. Now we're just kind of like our lives and Star Wars-ish. And it's nerdiness. It's a little bit of food. It's a little bit of toy shops. It's a little bit of concerts.
00:14:48
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It's a little bit of silly anecdotes. It's a little bit of... Yeah. hang Not a lot of Star Wars. Yeah, a lot of hanging out. A lot of good good times, good talking, good conversation. lot of laughs. The last 15 minutes is Star Wars.
00:15:00
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fifteen minutes of star wars
00:15:06
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15 minutes. I didn't watch that. you watch What's Jimmy always say? It's like, if you're hearing it here first, then you're hearing last. I don't want to butcher it, but it's a good show. You should check it out.
00:15:20
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um and it could do you are Are you on any of the socials? Can they check you out anywhere else or just scruffypod.com? Yeah, no, i don't I don't post on anything. so that's Maybe we'll do a JustCrafting soon. Maybe people will get to hear your your voice. Yeah, so we we do a podcast. Me, Sean, and Chris
Crafting Podcast: Models, Miniatures, and Techniques
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Hall.
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We talk about crafting. AKA models, miniatures, painting, kit bashing, 3d printing, weathering, stacking up boxes of, stacking up boxes and unbuilt models.
00:16:02
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The shame like that accompanies that. And the lack of motivation until you have been doing a lot lately. Lately. had a high age of like a year.
00:16:16
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Same. that Same. i'm I'm actually like building stuff and like customizing it. So I think we're and I think Chris got an airbrush. so we're going to have to talk about that, too.
00:16:27
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Yes. He's come over to our side. Yes. Yes. Spend all your time planning and cleaning. but That's per true. I love it. I love it But it looks so good.
00:16:42
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But all right. I'll stop dragging this out.
Podcast Merchandise Store Launch
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Thank you, Ed. If you want more information about Ed and all the things he does, go to scruffypod.com. um If you want more stuff on this podcast, just chilling, go to just chilling.com. We actually have but a a new shop, a store, a merch show store that is now live um with some cool stuff in it.
00:17:06
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um I think Ed should be getting his thing soon. It's got muds, shirts.
00:17:14
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i I love that mug. I think it's so stupid, but I think it's awesome. I made a Just Sippin' mug, um and it's got a Fresh Calf Daily logo on there.
00:17:25
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You can buy a huge one. You can buy a normal-sized one. um All the proceeds are going to go to server costs and hosting fees, which is like the $2 I make from that. Coffee. But i i mostly i mostly a guy i mostly I mostly like it because I can just sit there and make keep making silly designs.
00:17:47
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Like I have – there's so many designs on there right now. I've got shirts, patches, and it's through Fourth Wall, so it's really cool because say it's not just like TeePublic where they print. Like they do embroidery. They do like – I don't think I'd seen this. Have you seen my cool could you seen my hat? i got ah I got a yellow beanie.
00:18:02
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o Just shilling beanie. Very nice. with him It's embroidered. i got i got sticker they make They make sticker sheets. I got Andy head, me head, just shilling stickers. I got all sorts of stuff on there. but i'll stop I'll stop shilling for my own stuff. Shop.justshilling.com I don't know record again, but we got some cus stuff coming up. I know I'm i'm starting...
00:18:26
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I'm in the process of kind of a researching and collecting and watching my start to my Sean doesn't know anything about anime series. Thanks to the help of some friends who've done some recommendations. So that's going to be ah an interesting.
00:18:40
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and i will say that intrigues me because I don't know anything about anime. And I was talking to a friend recently about what to watch as well. So I'm i'm interested in this series. I like it. ah The title just keeps getting longer. It's like Sean doesn't know anything parentheses and is kind of apprehensive about in parentheses.
00:18:56
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about anime like it just kind of like it just can get progressively longer and longer and then i keep getting recommended shows it's like that show's got how many episodes like i need like oh yeah no we have any one do we have anything sub 1000 um but um i'm but i'm giving it the old college try we're gonna get there we're gonna and it's gonna become something um Then again, let me know your journey because I'll let you know my journey because I'm going to start one as well for anime. Oh, shit. All right. We're going to have to sync back and we'll share notes and see who's watching what and we'll do another four-hour podcast. Thanks for having me. It was a pleasure.
00:19:37
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yeah man. Really fun. I look forward to chatting with you again Tell the kiddos that said, hey, I look forward to hearing there their next duet song that always brings a smile to my face. Yeah.
00:19:50
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Thanks again, Ed. Thank you to everybody who listened for this long and go out watch the movies in ah and and send us some emails or something. But until next time. Bye. Bye.