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129. Jon “Cured” Hamm
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Adrian & Simon assess the potential folly of creating an HBO TV series based upon the very open-ended Baldur’s Gate 3 video game. They also review the Jon Hamm starring Apple TV series, Your Friend’s & Neighbours Season 1, director Edgar Wright’s Glen Powell starring action film The Running Man, and the early episodes of director Destin Daniel Cretton’s Wonder Man Disney+ series. Additionally, the two bros take a closer look at Apple and HBO’s release schedules; while also speculating on the potential existence of an Avengers Doomsday/Secret Wars movie trilogy (as opposed to the previously announced duology).
This episode was recorded in Canada on February 8th 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on February 24th for Episode 130.
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Introduction and Upcoming TV Projects
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This episode, we take a hard look at the work cut for Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin's Baldur's Gate 3 HBO TV series and HBO's The Last of Us season three. We examine Apple and HBO's upcoming release schedule for the year of our Lord 2026. we review the first season of The John Cured Ham starring your friends and neighbors and director Edgar Wright's Glenn Powell.
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oh starring action film The Running Man.
Episode Introduction
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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 Pinter.
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Welcome to episode 129.
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Adrian, hello there.
Tribute to Catherine O'Hara and Other Influential Actors
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How are you? It's been some time. We haven't seen each other in the movies, at the movie theaters. we haven't We haven't spoken very much in the last couple of weeks. It's true. just So it's just a blanket. How is it going? Pretty all right, man. You know, life is life, dude.
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Oh. You know? Is that good or bad? There's ups and downs. Oh. There's ups and downs, you know? Yeah. Yeah. People can um and um unfortunately pass away, which is always sad. Yeah. And that's life, baby. That's life. But yeah, man. No, it's it's it's okay. You know, I can't complain too much.
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But I'm here with you, and that's all that matters. Me and you together again. Simon and Adrian, match made in heaven. How are you, man? I'm ah i fine. Wait, did someone pass away? Yeah, yeah. Just like a family um oh member passed away. so I'm sorry. It's life, dude. Again, it's okay. Hey, you know, sad, but life goes on for the rest of us, which is, yeah, it's just life, baby. I don't know. Again, not to start this off super down or or nothing.
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But I guess you asked. Well, so I thought I would reveal some things. we're already in the mode. I mean, Catherine O'Hara passed away. So that's pretty sad. Not recent now. That's very sad. a week approximately, I think, since it happened. But so as ah as of the time of our recording of this anyways. But yeah.
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Yeah, that was really sad. And it's funny, there's there's there's times where certain celebrities pass away, like certain actors, that ah really hit me hard. i don't know like i mean I don't know why, Catherine O'Hara specifically. I think it's maybe because, i think this hit me hard because of the all the projects he's been in recently. Like, she's kind of had a career resurgence.
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I think with, from, basically starting from Schitt's Creek and, you know, going into the studio in The Last of Us. I think we've just seen, we've had a lot of exposure to Catherine O'Hara over the last little bit. And I think that's maybe why it it hurts them so much. And I think also because he's kind of a scene stealer. Very much so. It's like not a negative way. Like, she...
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She compliments the other actors really well as well, but she kind of whatever project she seems to be in or she seemed to be in, she was she kind of just made it better no matter what it was. So I think that's probably what it was. i was thinking about when la Lance Reddick passed away.
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Yeah. I was like, he's such just he's like he's in he's in a lot of small smaller parts. like He's not the... He's not in the biggest of parts, but the parts he is in, he really shines and he really, I think, makes the project excel even further. Thinking of like John Wick or Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West or yep even Lost.
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So it's kind of... There's just these kind of sad sad moments. But yeah, anyway. Yeah, man. it It is a shame. i mean, yeah. The the same same thing with Catherine O'Hara. I feel like it did kind of hit me hard as well. just because...
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You know, there are those actors that kind of stick with you and you have like a lot of really nice memories and nostalgia about them as well. Like, you know, me being a kid watching like Home Alone and her, you know, again, obviously being such a huge part of Home Alone 1 and 2 and Again, I grew up watching those movies along with, you know, she's, she's Sally in, in the nightmare before Christmas, you know, all like little things, right? So she had such a prominent role in multiple stages of my life.
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Even, you know, again, coming up to recently with the studio with the last of us, um, and Schitt's Creek, which I watched relatively recently as well. And yeah. it's It's heartbreaking, man. It's always a shame. there There's, there's only like a handful of actors that like, you know, have passed away that have actually like hit me quite, quite, quite hard. And yeah again, Lance Reddick was one of them. I think Robin Williams is a given. Cause like, again, Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Doubtfire was such a huge part of my childhood as well. And,
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mean, Aladdin and everything like that. So yeah, man, it's, it's sad people die and um you got to just keep living with it, you know? And ah yeah, it's, it's a shame. It's a shame, but Hey man, she left behind an amazing legacy.
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She's a Canadian treasure. kind of share with the States that she is Canadian as well. yeah And, um you know, yeah, she's just been remarkable.
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And again, yeah, like it's, it is so sad because again, the studio was so recent and I think they were just about to start filming the second season, which she was obviously going to continue to be a big part of. And yeah, I'm sure she would have been in the last of us, you know, season three, you'd you'd assume.
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yeah, It's too bad. It is too bad.
Transition to Lighter Topics
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But what can we do, man? Yeah. That's it. Okay. Well, on that note, let's try to move up from the bottom, you know, in terms mood. Yeah. We're starting off strong here.
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Let's shift up to some... I guess we'll just get get right into it and we'll just jump into what we've been watching this week, if you if you're good with that. And I'll throw it to you as is customary. Maybe we can go back and forth or you can just say everything you watched. I don't know what you've watched because, again, as we started with on the top of this episode, we haven't really talked as much this last couple weeks. We sent a few messages about gaming here and here and there.
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yeah Projects we're excited for. but other than that, it's been kind of... Actually, before we do that, I have one more banter topic I want to throw yeah this one through out out to you just real quick.
Anticipated Video Games of 2026
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What's your most anticipated game of 2026 in terms of video games? I know it's not a a movie or TV series question, but I mean, we're going to get into that in full in a second. So I'm just kind of curious because I know you're a huge video game fan. You're big PlayStation gamer.
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What is the game that... We did like a few weeks ago, we did like most anticipated movies and TV shows of 2026. What's your most anticipated game or three games if you really want to jump in with quick? Yeah, it's tough because i don't know if some of these games are even coming out this year. Like they don't have a concrete release date.
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So, oh yeah, sure. Just say it anyway. Assuming Judas coming out. Like, let's say if Judas comes out this year, that's by, um, you know the, um, oh my God, why am I forgetting Kevin?
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okay Ken, sorry, Ken, Ken Levine, yeah Kevin Levigna. Um, yeah, Ken Levine, ah you know, did Bioshock and Bioshock infinite love those games. I'm so curious what this game is going to be about.
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um I mean, this was announced years ago and then we got the first trailer, I think like early last year or the year before, And i just, I want to see this man. i just, i want to see what this game is. I'm very excited about that. That's probably like ah assuming it comes out this year, which I hope I do. Cause I drafted it in our like video game draft that we do every year. Right. That's probably number one.
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um yeah Yeah. I would say that's probably my biggest one. What about you, man? mean, I got a few others that I'm excited for, but I'm curious what what you have to say. Maybe I'm forgetting some things. I'm very excited about a lot of games coming out this year. And you're right. Some of them don't have concrete dates. I think Judas is likely to come out this year, but it's tough because it's take two interactive and they're obviously publishing, creating rock stars, like big Grand Theft Auto six. I'm very excited for Grand Theft Auto six just because it's rock star and the amount of attention to detail that
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Their production per square inch is crazy. $2 billion dollars or more. I don't know what it'll end up being in terms of the budget by the time it's done. That's kind of, I feel like a given, but it's November 19th and I have my doubts that that's coming out more so than any other game that has a date this year, i think. So I think, I actually, i think it might be Dawn of Bloodwalker.
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Sorry, Blood of Dawnwalker. don't know why get this confused. Blood of Dawnwalker, which is like ah Rebel Wolves, the CDX CD Projekt Red dev devs coming together to make a vampire big vampire RPG. It looks very much like The Witcher 3 in the way it's built. And I'm i'm kind of a big RPG fan. so yeah Especially Western RPGs specifically. So i'm I'm very excited for this, but we'll see. It's got a 2026...
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like concrete, not concrete, sorry, very flimsy, like we're coming out in 2026 type of date. It seems like it will happen, but we'll see that double the 007 James Bond first light game looks awesome.
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This idea of an origin story in the James Bond universe as a video game is kind of cool. I don't think I don't know of any other game that doesn't origin story for James Bond, which is strange because in every other thing, like think about movies and TV shows and even James Bond, like you just mo well no Well, I guess Daniel Craig, yeah, it was kind of an origin story. that Daniel Craig's James Bond. But it's it's kind of very common for a lot of movies and TV shows ah to kind go into the origin story first. I think games don't do it as much. It seems like they don't do it as much in general, but it's kind of cool to see an origin story for James Bond because it's just not something we see that often.
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You kind of just have multiple actors take on the mantle and it's just a continuation of the story in an interesting way. Daniel Craig kind of did an origin story, but that now was the early 2000s. So it's so long ago for the for the film side. So it'll be cool to see what they do with the like the James Bond universe inside a video game format where it's not late like let off from a...
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from a movie or a tv show it's designed as a kind of a its own thing standalone property it's a new james bond in and then kind of a new james bond universe anyway that's young dexter The guy that plays Dexter. Yeah. depere yeah Yeah. read the actor's name.
00:10:42
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got to look it up Yeah. of That's cool. And then there's Wolverine. Yeah. Like that's really exciting. Yeah. That's interesting. I mean, like an an obvious one. i mean, it's coming out this month. I'm stoked for it. Resident Evil Requiem. Resident Evil 9. That's like right around the corner. I'm very excited about that.
00:10:59
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I might replay 7 and 8 leading up to it. I don't know. We'll see. but i'm I'm super stoked about that game and Sauros as well. yeah I'm very excited about that. Returnal is one of my favorite PS5 games, PS5 exclusive games. That game is so fun. It's tight. It's just like gameplay, just top tier, so kinetic and fast. and I feel like you know let's take what they learned there and bring it to this new Release. i'm I'm very excited about that. Housemarque, man. um I love it. I love it. I'm loving the comeback stronger tagline. That's what really draws me in because Returnal, I just wasn't good enough and I wasn't willing to get good enough to kind of replay the game as as it requires because it's a roguelike type of type experience and I feel like this is going to be more
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flimsy on the roguelike aspect and try to level you up as you go and it will make it easier and i also love the idea of them doubling down on the motion capture and and all of that aspect of the story being a bigger part of this versus returnal i love returnal 2 but i played it for 30 hours and i just couldn't i couldn't get good enough that i thought it was ah like worth my time to keep going at at that like for what it required of me i was like i got too many games going on i'm just gonna fair enough but Yeah, I really enjoyed Return. I played the shit out of that, man.
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Yeah, it was missing. Like, that is very much a roguelike, whereas Sauros is like, I think they call it like roguelites, where you actually do gain with every run, like some ah substantial improvements. So yeah I'm excited about that. I don't know. I love I love like games with ah just like like an addictive loop, you know, so I'm going to play the shit out of that. No doubt, dude. No doubt I'm going to play the shit out of that.
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But yeah, man, again, there's so many games coming out. It's like relentless. I'm playing like older games as well. Just trying to keep up. Nice. Pragmata looks really cool. The demo's out. I downloaded it. And then I was like, ah, this game comes out in April. I should just wait to play the demo.
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but But I kind want to just like jump in and play the demo now just to get the feel for it. Yeah, that's fair. Pretty curious about that. Batman, a lot of stuff. Marathon honestly looks pretty cool.
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Yeah, coming out soon. Yeah. think I'm like excited about that, but like I'm definitely down to play with you. yeah Assuming you pick it up and want to play it. That is something I'm going to do. i think I'm going to do it for like a probably a month straight. Just like it's going to be one. I try to play three games at once. So I throw in one game. I'll have one kind of multiplayer game in there. and this game In this case, in this case, it's going to be marathon. I'm just going to play the heck out of it for for like 30 days and then move on to something else. Because I feel like I'm not going to be good enough at that either. It's an extraction shooter and it's going to require, I think, a lot of my attention to get good enough. But I think I'm just going to kind of go in with the idea that I'm going to die a lot.
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and yeah you know You land on Tau Ceti, you get killed, you lose all your stuff, and then you go. It's very cool, though. The science fiction, like the art style beautiful. The ah science fiction kind of lore I'm hearing a lot about um from people who have played it, from people who played like the the kind of the open, not open, but closed beta tests and stuff like that. It sounds really cool. like These big corporations are like fighting fighting each other internally. i'm like I didn't see that a lot of this in like their vi vidoc like their video documentary for specifically.
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uh bungees this is bungees next game bungee mates halo for those who don't know out there because this is film and tv podcast you may not care but the idea is like they they made halo in the past and they make destiny and so now they're making marathon extraction shooter which pvp ve in some way pvp really but then with an e meaning you fight the environment and the various ai as well fighting on this planet to extract your goods the gear and stuff you you get on the planet and get off the planet but if before you die if you die it's it's over you lose everything you have and you die in the game you die in real life and you die in real life as well someone comes to your house uh squid game style and they shoot you in the face okay well that's it i think that's enough video game talk you're welcome ken yeah not levine sadelbauer but yeah the stadster that's what i call him
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Yeah, this dadster. don't know if he's still listening because I don't get any write-ins from him. But in case he is, you know. Love you, Kenneth.
Film and TV Reviews
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Long-time listener, Kenneth Settelbauer. All right. yeah Well, let's move on now to what we've been watching, Adrian. I'll throw it to you.
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Yeah, man, i I watched a few things, actually. So I finished season two of Slow Horses, my friend. Oh, and man, what a good show. Again, I talked very highly of it last episode, so i won't spend too much time on this. But damn, what a good show.
00:15:41
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Also, their willingness to kill off characters or at the very least, like injure them in dramatic ways. Shocking, shocking. Yeah. And somehow, even though that it's very like,
00:15:54
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there's a high stakes and there is this tension. It's never like too anxiety inducing to watch. um I don't know how they, how they're able to balance that so well, but I think that's what the show does immaculately. It just, it knows what it is. There, there is like enough levity in it, but again, there is still like high stakes in these very intense moments. And for whatever reason, you're not like sick to your stomach. You're just like, Oh,
00:16:18
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um And again, like they'll kill off a character. They're not afraid to do it. They're not afraid to do it. And it's surprising. And yeah, really good. Really fun. yeah just i just watched an episode of season five and something really, really goofy happened yeah in the kind of the middle of the season. And I'm just like, huh, I'm not sure if I like this plot point, but I got to see where they go with it. They kind of just ended an episode and and on this like moment that you're like, oh my God, wow, they really...
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I'm not sure. i'm not sure i like this. We'll see. It's cool. Like between seasons, the characters kind of change a little bit too. They, the way that they, cause it's like time has passed. So like you're kind of watching people kind of, there's character development in between seasons in some way too, which I find is interesting.
00:17:05
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um Like six episodes per season. They don't, they don't like, they're not following these people's lives the entire time. They're, showing how the team changes too. And like, that's, I don't know if you started season three, but moving between season one and season two, the, the components of slough house, like the various agents inside slough house, they are different each yeah season. They kind of changed them up a little bit. And you're not, you know, sometimes why they're changed because of what you just said.
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Sometimes characters die or they move on or they get fired or something like that. But sometimes you don't even know why there's characters missing. It's just like there's and then they talk about why they're gone in the in the season. It's kind of a cool like little thing with the tiny time jumps between seasons and these big cases that they have going on. Anyway, it's awesome.
00:17:50
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Yeah, it's really great. i'm I'm excited to hop into season three. We haven't yet, but. Definitely will. And I mean, on the topic of Apple TV, man, Shrinking is back. Shrinking season three has come out.
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First two episodes have released thus far. And man, I love Shrinking. I love it. You're just rolling away in your chair about to drink water. I'm narrating as we're not on video. Yeah, it's very noisy water bottle. You may have been able to hear it on the mic. I was trying to move it away from the microphone out of respect. I can still hear you.
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Yeah, because you got the MacBook camera. So as you're like going, you know, further back, the cameras actually zoom in in on you while you're drinking. It's very cinematic. You got cinema mode going on the on the webcam there.
00:18:36
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Yeah. Um, good stuff. But yeah, shrinking season three, really good so far. The shrinking is such a, so the, the setup of, of at least the first season is, you know, you're following, um, Jason Siegel's like character.
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he you know, lost his wife in a drunk driving accident. Um, like she got hit by a drunk driver and he's kind of like in the dumps and it's about him kind of getting out of this rut. Uh, and during this entire time, he's actually a therapist and decides,
00:19:05
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know, the people that he's doing therapy for to be just – totally straight up and tell them what to do instead of kind of beating around the bush. And that's kind of really the setup of the show.
00:19:17
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But what makes this show so good is not only the cast of characters, but the way it balances these like super heartfelt, like sad, emotional beats with some amazing comedy.
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um And, you know, there are these moments where you can be laughing one second and all of a sudden you get the you know rug pulled out from under you and then you start tearing up. Or the exact opposite where you're kind of tearing up and then there's like a moment where you're like oh, wow, that was like powerful stuff. And you you start laughing because like a joke, you know, goes. um And yeah, I think this show is just it's so good. And I missed it. I missed it a lot. I really, really love this. It's it's super positive and heartfelt and it just makes you feel good inside, even when there are these sad moments happening.
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The one thing I will say about this season, however, and I don't know, maybe I'm just misremembering the old seasons older seasons because it's been a little over a year since I watched season one and two.
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i feel like this season is, don't want to say rushed because it's not, but I feel like plot points are moving a lot quicker than expected. i think the first episode, it's actually an over an hour long and it feels like the first episode should have been like a multi-episode arc.
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just kind of crammed into one. And I don't know, it kind of it caught me off guard a little bit. Not that it's bad by any means, but I'm like, oh, like I'm i'm because they the setup is like right off the bat, like two characters are, hey, we're going to get like we're going to do a little wedding.
00:20:49
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I'm like, oh, OK, that's the setup for the season. They're going to be like planning this wedding. And by the end of the first episode, the wedding happens. I'm like, oh, damn, that was like very quick. So caught me a little off guard. Again, not bad. It's just. um I don't remember the seasons one and two being this quick. I feel like I remember it taking its time a little bit more.
00:21:08
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um But again, awesome show. i i love it. It just makes you feel good. It makes you feel nice. did Did you start watching season three yet or are you just going to wait for it to finish? Yeah, I don't like week to week. I just don't like it.
00:21:22
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It's kind of sucks. So i just don't do it when I can avoid it. I do it when i think it makes sense because it's a big zeitgeisty moment. We're going to watch it together like The Last of Us or something like that.
00:21:35
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I'll make exceptions, but I feel like just largely I just don't like it. i didn't like it with The Last of Us either. to be honest, I just did it because I thought it would be fun for another element. So it'll just kind of weigh the pros and cons. But yeah, I'm interested. I'm really keen on on jumping in. you know, Michael o J. Fox is in it.
00:21:50
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Yeah. And some kind of a role, which is pretty exciting too. So yeah, i'm I'm hyped about it. I just kind of, I'm okay to wait. I'm okay. There's lots of great shows to watch. So I, and I've, I'm watching another thing on Apple TV actually right now. And so, or just finished one.
00:22:05
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So, Oh, what do you watch? Go ahead. I'll throw it back to you. I got a few more things to talk about, but I'm curious. So I watched Your Friends and Neighbors for for its entirety. I was kind of watching it before for the episode 128, but I just only had seen one episode.
00:22:21
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And this is ah Craig Gillespie's series. um Craig Gillespie. supergirl right and like i tanya okay yeah we talked about that um last time because we talked about supergirl i threw some some shade on supergirl just by not mentioning or was it time before i said i wasn't that excited about supergirl you're like why don't you why aren't you excited are you sexist or some some quip you make that you made yeah and my answer was is like well i didn't don't really it's the creator is all that matters then i looked it up and it was craig gillespie i didn't know that so i was like oh well actually i'm way more interested in supergirl now
00:22:53
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uh that i had been but anyway yeah friend your friends and neighbors is kind of like breaking bad but with rich people in a rich neighborhood in a way and with john ham a star who kind of uh rose to fame at the same time breaking bad was rising to fame when john ham was in madmen breaking bad and madmen were kind of running against each other that was like the beginning i think we're like this I guess the start of the golden age of TV was lost, but then when they when it hit its stride was when Breaking Bad and Mad Men, and in in some aspect, The Walking Dead came out at the same time. It's funny because they're all in the same network. AMC had its stride. It really did. And it's crazy because there's not really any show on there that I can even tell you right now that's really this gangbusters. The Walking Dead, the Daryl one.
00:23:44
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Yeah, yeah. Is that? Yeah, I guess so. It's funny. You know, I finished The Walking Dead. I said that a few weeks back. But that that the new Rick Grimes show, that's the one that's rated the highest out of all the spinoffs by far. It's like an 80 something. It's like really high 80s. I think it was like a 90 when I looked at it.
Discussion on AMC Series and Jon Hamm's Performance
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I was like, oh, wow, I might jump into that because that actually is interesting. So that is probably their best show. But they didn't make a second season.
00:24:07
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And it was made like a couple of years ago. so I was like, oh, okay. I guess the best one you don't want to do. Maybe it's Andrew Lincoln's contract. They can't nail down. Who knows? Yeah. Or Danai Gurira. That's her name, right?
00:24:21
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the Yep. Michonne? Yep. Because she's in Marvel now. She's ah she's an Avenger, sort of. So anyway. Did lose you? Your friends and neighbors. Uh, pretty great. John Hamm basically plays a character who loses his, ah his job.
00:24:35
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I lost you briefly. You like disappeared. i was like, I don't know if it's mine or none of you. I apologize. That's all good. Either way. We're here. So your friends and neighbors, I heard he loses his job. Yeah. You heard everything.
00:24:47
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Okay. Okay. Fantastic. Okay. Uh, yeah. So John Hamm's character loses his job. His wife, uh, asks him for a divorce by cheating on him.
00:24:59
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um And so he's losing his family and basically he's losing his family and he loses his job simultaneously. But he's got to keep up the bills because he's living in this like really high end neighborhood in in the United States. So Jon Hamm's character decides to resort to crime and he starts to rob as his his neighbor's home. You can see all of this in the trailer very clearly. um And it It's ah it's really great. It's really cool because Jon Hamm also narrates it and he narrates it in there's like moments of levity in his narration, which is really cool.
00:25:33
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But it's kind of funny in in various aspects. Ultimately, it's a drama, but it does kind of feel like Breaking Bad in some way. like This guy who's making like six figures as like a stock market dude, stock market bro. He's a banker. Essentially, he's ah he's not a banker. I guess he's a a hedge fund manager. um And so he's like making lots of money and he's amazing at his job. And he gets really, he gets ousted from his job, not because he's bad, but because they wanted, it was basically a power move. And so he's like, and then he's struggling to to find a job because of the circumstances of why I got, how he got let go and the way that they did it. And then he's just basically trying to land on his feet.
00:26:11
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And there's that meme. i don't know if you've seen that meme from your friends and neighbors where he's in the freaking club. It's very like, you've seen it. Yeah. He's like dancing in the club. Yeah. So that's the reason why I think my wife wanted to watch it because of that meme, which is funny. But I really recommend it. this This show is great. It's really, really cool. And it really like it's it takes a It's very detail oriented and very heartfelt at times. It's funny at times. And it's a it's the the crime drama aspect of it keeps it exciting the whole way through. It never feels boring. It's constantly the plot constantly feels like it's moving.
00:26:50
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i Yeah, I'm I'm a fan. I think it's great. And I think that I recommend it to most people. I'm not going to say it to you because I'll hold, you know, keep my powder dry on that. But I think it's awesome.
00:27:03
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The The other thing to mention is ah it it stars another Apple TV actor. Jon Hamm is one of those two because he's in The Morning Show. You remember that ad that was like everything? i was just going to bring that up.
00:27:16
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. I love that. But then right I think they knew he was cast in various things because he was in The Morning Show like right after that. He was like a main player in that.
00:27:26
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um But they were like, they're going to take advantage of this. Yeah. Apple TV's just got crazy budgets. Oh, this is great. Crazy budget to the intro of this show is really good. The music's really good because it leads off. I love when shows use the intro music as like the music inside the show in some way or like the beats of how the intro music works is kind of inside the the show's score. i don't know There's something about that I really appreciate.
00:27:48
Speaker
But sorry, the actor I was going to mention is Oliver, like Olofsson, like the the du dude from severin Severance is in this too in ah in ah in a smaller role. But he's he's pretty good in everything I've seen him in. I've only started to see him since Severance, I think. I don't know if I ever see saw him in anything else.
00:28:09
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But I recommend this. It's good. It's great. And I finished the first season and the next season is coming out this year. So they actually got the, they got in within a year. They're already nailing down the second season.
00:28:20
Speaker
That's awesome. It's pretty cool. But I, that's refreshing. Yeah, I know. Especially because of ah Pluribus. i don't know if you saw that, but I don't have that in the news here. But Vince Gilligan was saying like, our our writers are working on it, but we're we're nowhere close to the second season. And it's like, we're not, what do they say? They say, we're not the pit.
00:28:41
Speaker
I'm like, What do you mean you're not the pit? TV has always done this. Breaking Bad did not come out two years after the the last season. You're not Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan? yeah what do you mean you're not the pit? i don't know what that means. yeah i right That's some some some nonsense. that they forget Did they get all hit on the head after COVID? They're like, I don't know how TV works anymore. It's very strange. Breaking Bad's pretty high production value and it did it all within a year of each other. Each season was after year after. Better Call Saul was pretty similar, maybe a year and a half at most. And it was the same production team as Breaking Bad. So Pluribus is a bigger production. I will say that. It seems like like they have like helicopters that they've rented out and various like big set pieces that don't make any sense at some time some moments. Like entire city is emptied.
00:29:30
Speaker
in some some moments the strains like how did you do that is that cd like would you do a a combination of practical effects so fair enough but anyway refreshing the friends and your friends and neighbors is coming out this year i think it's april this is this one that's stated for yeah it's great anyway what else did you watch that's awesome dude yeah your friends and neighbors is definitely on my list as well like ah i'm i'm intrigued it seems like a fun time um so yeah i don't know maybe i'll hop into that at some point i'm just on like an apple tv like kick don't i don't plan on canceling it anytime soon just because monarch is coming out um end of the month as well which i'm very excited about shortly yeah so i'm i'm pretty stoked about monarchs i'm gonna at the very least keep it for that long um while that's airing so who knows well you're watching shrinking so you're you're tied in now
00:30:20
Speaker
Well, yeah yeah, that's what I mean. But like Monarch's going end after Shrinking Ends. So I'm going to be tied in until at the very least after Monarch. Yeah, that's my point. Yeah. So, yeah, i'm I'm invested in, yeah, just again, watching some things on there, like ah like Slow Horses, as I mentioned. and I mean, you brought up The Pit. I finished season one of The Pit.
00:30:39
Speaker
I watched the first episode of season two of The Pit. my My thoughts, again, I talked about it in depth last last episode, and my thoughts haven't changed. Like, it is just absurd how much happens and in in, like, these hours. And honestly, man, the last, like, few episodes, the amount of shit that goes down is fucking nuts. It's it's crazy. There's so much drama.
00:31:01
Speaker
It's nuts. But I am going to say this, Simon. I do love this show. i think it's I think it's fun. I think it's fun. I don't think it's good. I'm confused as to why it's like you know winning Emmys and stuff, but I do think it is like entertainment.
00:31:14
Speaker
It's on like... right like i can I don't know. This this is going to sound like blasphemous, um but i I put it on the same level of... Like Resident Evil, Welcome to Raccoon City. I know that's not... I know it's a bit. i know I know I do a bit and I'm saying like, this is a great movie. I think it's a good movie. I think it's fun.
00:31:33
Speaker
But like, it's it's i just it's entertainment. It's like just a fun time. And that's what I feel like the pit is. Again, very different material, but that's that's the way I feel about it. And again, it's just...
00:31:44
Speaker
I am watching the pit as a comedy. Like I genuinely, because it's like, Oh my God, how much can happen in this hour? The first episode of season two, so much stuff happens. I'm like, dude, we're an hour in what is that? Like, how can this all be happening within one hour? It's so crazy, but um it's fun. It is just very, it's just, ah it's enjoyable and it's entertainment.
00:32:08
Speaker
Like that, that's literally what it is. yeah, Again, I am very confused, though, how it's like sweeping up the Emmys and everything like that. I kind of feel the same. Well, not the exact same way, but like Hacks as well. Like I i think Hacks is really good, but I think it's like grossly overrated. Like it won like that wins Emmys every single year. And I just I think there are much better comedies than than Hacks um personally that I myself have watched.
00:32:33
Speaker
And just like better yeah TV shows. I think Hex is great though. Like again, um ah it's an awesome show. Very high quality, very high budget, amazing acting, everything. I just don't think it's As good as everyone makes it out to me.
00:32:46
Speaker
And again, i feel like that about Pitt. Was it Matt Damon that said recently, like he doesn't understand. Did we talk about this last time, last episode, where he doesn't understand campaigning for award shows in Hollywood? Because it just seems like it doesn't make sense. I just wonder, like some of these shows, they win repeatedly. It's like, okay, we get it. Like you love this show. What is up with that? Like give something else some love. Is it really? And then sometimes you see...
00:33:09
Speaker
a show win one time and you're like why did it win for this season and it just didn't win for the others or it'll get nominated for one season it didn't win for the others i like better call saw won't get barely any wins it never got never won any did it even win a single award the entire time like i don't know maybe It's bizarre. Like Bob Odenkirk was given no love at all. It's so weird. It's like, okay, it's it's just more Breaking Bad, but kind of more refined because they were were able to refine their thoughts in a different way for Better Call Saul became more of a comedy. It should have been the comedy category. Maybe that would have done it, but it was an hour. Yeah. couldn't it
00:33:45
Speaker
yeah So it wasn't allowed. It wasn't a 30 minute. It's true. But yeah, it's like, I feel like, I don't know. This just feels like a campaigning. like so Like the pit must have been like, HBO is like really campaigning. HBO shows are also predominantly in there.
00:33:57
Speaker
Like they're really like represented really well. Like if there's an HBO show, like Hacks or The Last of Us or... whatever it may be, that they're nominated more often. Is that true? Like, is is it is it possible that it's little bit more biased? It's funny, though, that at the pit, you're describing it as like a popcorn show. Those don't usually win the drama category. That's not usually what I would say would win that category. So it's fascinating that it won. Imagine it won season two as well.
00:34:23
Speaker
yeah I mean, it might. Who knows? and You think it deserved it over like severance? No. like You know what I mean? Like, it's kind of wild. I don't believe it deserves to be like on that list. Like, again, it is on that list. I'm trying to remember severance um and or.
00:34:37
Speaker
Oh, and or what the hell on that? It deserves some love. It deserves some love. Just like in order the greatest piece of television ever, arguably. No, let's not go that far. But I don't know. i make an argument. You could make an argument for that, Simon. You could. Okay. And or got more loved and better called Saul, though, in some way. Yeah. Isn't that kind of crazy, too? And so in some way, that's nuts. But i I just think that, I don't know. I i find that there's just it. i I want to watch the pit just to know that I'm right, that Severance should have won it or that.
00:35:09
Speaker
And or what was the third? What was the other? There was. I sure i don't know. i have to look it up. But anyway, what else did you watch? Pluribus was on there as well. pluribus was nominated was it because ray sehorn won um for best actress that was golden globes oh you're right you're right i don't think pluribus qualified because it came out in the fall so it was after yeah you're i think that means a weird cutoff where it's like cut off in the spring or something yeah it's a strange uh cutoff i watch all so it's qualified for the the year after yeah
00:35:42
Speaker
It's hard to keep track. That's okay. going to look it up while you if you have anything else you watched. Yeah. i Talking about that. So I don't think I brought this up last week, but I've been watching it week to week as it's been released. in The new Game of Thrones show, Night of the Seven Kingdoms. I don't think I brought that up.
00:35:58
Speaker
I have been watching it. and Well, you would have only had watched one episode, I think, by the time we recorded. Yeah. You're right. You're right. You're right. So it's this the show's cool. it's like very It's very high budget. It looks...
00:36:12
Speaker
Very Game of Thrones. However, tonally and music wise, it's very different. I think the music has a lot to do with it. But this show is almost slapstick, weirdly enough. like Almost like a slapstick comedy. Not exactly. you know It's not like freaking Monty Python levels or you know Austin Powers' Naked Gun levels. But it is like there are these...
00:36:36
Speaker
like brief cuts to like absurd stuff, almost like even like family guy style flashbacks. Like there'll be like, Oh yeah, it's like that time that this person did this. And then it just cuts and it shows like a flashback of this like absurd situation happening. So it's a little weird. Like, and when I watched the first episode, I was like, I i like this, but I don't know. It just, it's, it's odd to understand that this ist the same universe as house of the dragon and game of Thrones. And again, it's very different.
00:37:04
Speaker
But as this show has gone on, I think we're four episodes in now, or maybe five. And and like you just kind of grow to love the characters that you're following. So the setup of this, there's a guy, his name's Sir Duncan, the tall, and the show starts off with him burying his, his night that he's, you know, squired for that's literally like the first scene he's, and he's like, ah man, i'm I'm sad that you're dead. Like I wish you were around. And he decides that he's going to now be a night like, like who he squired for and is going to this big night tournament that's being held.
00:37:42
Speaker
So he's like kind of traveling and on his journey to this big tournament that he's going to, he like stops by this like in and meets this like little bald kid um named Egg. So he goes by Dunk and then it's Dunk and Egg, like essentially the adventures. So it's like this little like buddy comedy and the kid is like, I'm going to be your squire. And he's like no, like you can't yada, yada, yada. And then Long story short, the kid ends up being a squire and they're at this tournament. And it's very small scale because this entire season, at least from what I can tell, is all taking place at this tournament that is being held. Oh, yeah.
00:38:18
Speaker
Yeah. So, so it's, it's very kind of slow paced. We're just essentially watching like day by day going on. You ha you see a lot of like characters that you don't recognize, obviously, cause this is set a hundred years after house of the dragon and a hundred years before game of Thrones and like kind of a sweet spot, but you do see like Targaryens, you see Baratheons, you, you see Lannisters. So a lot of those houses that have you know survived for generations are still around. So you do run into those characters. Yeah.
00:38:46
Speaker
One of the Baratheons is kind of a a major player in in this game that, you know Dunk is like kind of buddies with and meets. And it is just like a very interesting tone in this Game of Thrones universe. Another thing that kind of sets it apart, which I mentioned briefly, is the music.
00:39:04
Speaker
It isn't like that fantastical, like the... noon du do the d or it's It's like a really... and It sounds more modern, which it seems a little out of place originally. But again, it fits with this more comedic tone that they're going for, um which I found super interesting. And the episodes are also quite short. Like they're the first episode, I think, is just over 40 minutes.
00:39:27
Speaker
And then each episode since is like between 30 minutes. to like 30, you know, 32 to 38 minutes, like we're in that sweet spot, give or take a bit. So they are very short, sweet, like brisk episodes, which makes sense because it's a comedy and comedies can't be an hour long as as we've discussed in the past. Uh, so, and I think there's only six episodes for this first season too. So like it's going at a relatively brisk pace, but again, there's not much happening because it is very focused on Sir Duncan who wants to be a knight and he's in this tournament.
00:39:58
Speaker
Um, But the last episode, I think they actually released this week's episode, which typically airs on Sundays on Friday because the Super Bowl is today. Right. um Which me and my my wife haven't watched. but I'll probably watch it after this episode. But the the episode just before this one, there's some pretty big revelations that happen. And I was like, oh, damn.
00:40:19
Speaker
And there is like a scene at the end of, again, I think episode three or four, can't remember, where I'm like, okay, actually, this is still Game of Thrones. You know, like this is still like they're willing to you know get to that level at a certain point, despite it being kind of a comedy, um which I found really interesting. And again, I've never read the books. I don't really know much about this, but it is interesting because in Game of Thrones, they reference these characters actually, or at least one of the characters in it.
00:40:48
Speaker
And it's like, oh, man, I kind of wish I didn't remember this because now I know where one of the characters ends up like way down the line. Yeah. um They do a similar thing about House of the Dragon where, again, I think it's Joffrey actually both times. Like he talks about... um like Sir Duncan. um He like reads a book about Sir Duncan and like briefly mentions what, what happens. And then also he talks about Rhaenyra at a certain point, which is the main character of house of the dragon. So yeah, it is. um It's interesting. Cause again, it is all like, it all fits together in this one universe, but these, ah these shows are centuries apart.
00:41:23
Speaker
So. Which is really subtle. I appreciate that in comparison to like the walking dead spinoffs, which are incredibly heavy handed. Here are these characters. Here is this finale in which we just purely set up the next spinoff shows that we're making. It's like, okay, relax. The next three spinoff shows. Relax.
00:41:44
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Whereas this is kind of like hundreds of years difference and it's kind of like, oh, did you did you mention did you hear this little mention, this little Easter egg that we just threw in there? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's cool too, because you, you can assume at the time of them doing game of Thrones in those earlier seasons, like season two and three and whatever, they probably didn't think that they would do like a house of the dragon show or a, a night of a so night of the seven kingdom show. Maybe they were workshopping it, but like, again, like it's cool.
00:42:14
Speaker
That's something that, you know, came out over a decade ago or those seasons that came out pretty much a decade ago. Reference the shows that are now coming out. I think it's kind of new and very subtle. And um I'm curious, you know, like what other spinoffs they might even do in the future or what else there is. But it is really enjoyable, man. I think I think this is like kind of nice because it is like this the levity the it It reminds me of, you know, season one, like Tyrion and Bronn, you know, that sort of buddy storyline where they're just kind of going on an adventure together.
00:42:47
Speaker
These two guys. And it's like, it's comedy a lot of the time. That's what it feels like more than anything. But again, a little bit more like slapstick and comedy forward. So. Sweet. Yeah, really enjoyable.
00:42:58
Speaker
Really enjoyable. I like it quite a bit. Yeah, the ah the composer is Dan Romer, who I hadn't really seen in anything previously, where I already noticed, I guess, but I've definitely heard his music because he's the composer for Lilo and Stitch, Luca from Pixar.
00:43:15
Speaker
um which is interesting uh and like um superman and lois which i didn't watch the good doctor before that so it's kind of interesting it seems like he's kind of an up-and-comer in terms of like he's getting bigger and bigger properties this being an hbo show yeah although honestly the disney movie is pretty pretty up there so good for him i guess for leela and stitch and luca did you do the live action leela and stitch i'm assuming Yeah, specifically the live action. Okay, cool. in a stitch Sorry, the 2025 Leland Stitch. I should have specified that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Luca from 2021, but that's... Aren't they making a live action Luca or am I misremembering? Either way, it's the Luca Pixar film, the the actual animated movie. Oh, and Death of a Unicorn, which I don't remember the music for, it to be honest. Me neither. I also don't like that movie.
00:44:06
Speaker
It's okay. Really? It's fine. It's average. It's fine. It's it's fine. It's fine. yeah Yeah. It felt disappointing by the end. but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But Hey, that's showbiz big. cool Um, anything else you've watched, sir? One final thing. I've actually watched a couple other things, but I won't bore you on the reality TV shows that I've been watching, Simon. So don't worry about it.
00:44:28
Speaker
Um, I watched one movie. So I, um, I got Paramount plus one of my buddies. He has Paramount plus. He got it for the reality show, uh, Canada shore.
00:44:40
Speaker
Okay. So this is not all right. And, um, So my wife, she like started watching it. We watched the first episode together. I fucking hate these people. i don't want to watch it. So I literally was like, I'm not watching this. Like I like drew the line. i'm like, you watch it on your own. That's okay.
00:44:55
Speaker
It's a Jersey shore spinoff, obviously. Yeah. That's what that is. Yeah. But it's like Canadians, like 20 something year old Canadians in Kelowna partying. And it's like, you all suck. I don't like any of you. I don't. Why am i watching this?
00:45:07
Speaker
Yeah, but they're spread out from across Canada. There's like three people from Toronto. Anyways, I told you I'm not going to talk about reality TV. Why are you asking questions about this, Simon? Why do you want me to talk about this, Simon? Huh? I don't know. I'm going to talk about a reality show. It's a podcast. It's going to be Traders season four, okay? Traders season four, really good.
00:45:24
Speaker
Actually, I love Traders. Secret Hitler in a house, essentially. Yeah. Secret so Hitler. I love it with Secret Hitler is the reference. Yeah, I guess um there's a bunch of werewolves within in a house. think Mafia is the most well-known one, no? Or a Secret Hitler?
00:45:42
Speaker
I know it Secret Hitler, but it's because like that's the one my my friend had, and that's the one we play. Well, we played Resistance. Oh yeah, we did play resistance that one time. Pretty heavily to the point where we caused a huge rift within our friend group at one point that was like so devastating because we were at a cottage that we like, yeah we kind of drove home in silence in some way.
00:46:04
Speaker
that That was ridiculous, man. Honestly, thinking back to that, I'm like, why Why did that happen? People can just get offended. It's like they're, it's like you're attacking their character. And I'm like, this is a fucking board game. Yeah, it's a game. We're bluffing in this game.
00:46:18
Speaker
Yeah, that was yeah fuck fun. They're fun games. Yeah. Fun to play. And that's what like the traders is. It's it's funny. Like the the one guy that is a trader, he's like, i don't know. I won't spoil it. But again, like one of the people were like talking to him and he literally looks, I was like, I feel like you're getting a little bit too upset right now. And like, she's like, no, I'm not.
00:46:38
Speaker
And he's like, he's like, but what you did was awful. And he's like, you do realize this game is called traders, right? Right. Yeah, yeah it's it's really good. Honestly, i love the Traders. It's a fun like competition reality show. But anyways, what I watched on Paramount Plus, Simon, is Edgar Wright's most recent movie starring my boy, Glenn Powell, The Running Man. Oh, you went for The Running Man.
00:47:03
Speaker
Yeah. So I decided to watch that. And I have few thoughts on this. I like it enough. Okay. Is it because I'm biased and I love Glenn Powell?
00:47:17
Speaker
Potentially. Potentially. Okay. I love him. He's on screen. He's a charismatic person. Like I, I, I think he, he is a, a scene stealer. And if, if the entire scene is mostly him running and doing stuff, it's great.
00:47:32
Speaker
I just think where this movie falters is in its writing, which is kind of a shame because And it's very inconsistent in a lot of ways, not only with, again, the writing, but like kind of character, how characters act, weirdly enough.
00:47:51
Speaker
And it is a fairly long movie. It's about two hours and 11 minutes, I think, is the runtime. But somehow it feels too short and rushed. And it's just kind of this, it's kind of a messy movie, despite it, again, having a really great cast with Glenn Powell. It has um ah Michael Cera in it. It has... um Josh Brolin, you know, like it's it's a great cast of characters. ah Coleman Domingo, who's awesome. Again, I love Coleman Domingo as well. I think he is such gravitas on screen.
00:48:24
Speaker
But the movie, its execution is just kind of weak. I never watched the original Running Man movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. um I think this is technically a...
00:48:36
Speaker
like it's a remake, but also I think set in the same universe later, I could be wrong because there are like nods to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie. Like there's like a dollar bill and it has them on the, on the dollar bill.
00:48:48
Speaker
So again, I don't know how that ah other movie ended or whatever, but my biggest issue with this movie is there are these moments where I'm like, this feels like, hey do a remake of the, then they just kind of do it.
00:49:00
Speaker
Like another adaptation of the book or they tried to make it related to the, i don't know i think they're they're doing another adaptation of the book yeah yeah yeah do they like i feel like they're not redoing the movie i guess yeah unless you're simply you are you are saying that they are relating to it because they talk yeah yeah because again there's like a dollar bill with arnold schwarzenegger on the on the bill itself yeah i just when you said that i was like wait wasn't this a book now i was confused it is yeah it was a stephen king yeah yeah yeah okay good
00:49:31
Speaker
And um yeah, just again, there's like a lot of inconsistencies in this movie. ah William H. Macy is also in this movie. Again, fantastic. And I think one of the big issues with this movie is that there are a lot of these characters, a lot of these big actors. But I would say almost all of them are severely underutilized.
00:49:55
Speaker
Right. All of them. And I think that's, again, it's weird because, again, the movie is two hours and 11 minutes. it feel like It's technically a longer than average movie in a lot of ways, but it just feels rushed.
00:50:06
Speaker
And, like, it feels like it takes its time on the wrong things as opposed to, like, you know, more character development with these additional characters. And the setup is quite simple. You know, it's like this dystopian future, um you know, super like the the government is, ah you know, run like the United States right now um with just.
00:50:32
Speaker
Oh, I don't know about that. Yeah, it's obviously way more intense. But again, there there is some similarities. um But yeah, like with these like agents that essentially, you know, beat down the poor and there's, you know, like the top 1%, they run and control everything. And then there's like these, um you know, game shows that people can sign up for and, you know, make a bunch of money and essentially live, you know, live their life in luxury if they win the money. But again, all these game shows, there's a risk of death a lot of the time. And um it's meant for entertainment purposes for, again, you know, the the rich people.
00:51:10
Speaker
The line isn't really drawn though, and it's a little confusing because again, it's like Glenn Powell. He's like this angry individual, you know has a wife, has a kid, his kid's sick. And that's kind of one of the main reasons he wants to make money on one of these game shows. But then they sign him up for The Running Man, which is – you You got to survive 30 days without, you know, running from agents and and civilians can report you and kill you or whatever. um And if you survive 30 days, you you make like a billion dollars, a more than a billion. I forget what it was. It's extraction shooter.
00:51:44
Speaker
It's an extraction shooter in a way. Yeah, kind of. um And, you know, it's him kind of just going on the journey. He he reluctant and he reluctantly signs up for this.
00:51:55
Speaker
And that's kind of set up. And yeah he now has to survive 30 days. But I think of like a show that we watched. What was that show on Quibi with Liam Hemsworth and um most dangerous game?
00:52:07
Speaker
Yeah, most dangerous game. And like that show is essentially this exact same premise. But weirdly enough, I feel like that show was better this know what's interesting? I was just thinking about this as you say this.
00:52:20
Speaker
i I feel like it's better because it was split into such tiny bite-sized quick bite episodes that they were they were very well thought out for every episode. So like every character had to really shine in the moments that they were showing them because otherwise you lose the plot.
00:52:36
Speaker
I think that might be why, whereas this is obviously a movie and it feels like all the the side players were like thrown to the wayside, but it's like almost like they had too big of a project and then they kind of didn't focus on the right details. Whereas in a show like that, where you have like, whether they were like 10 minute episodes, weren't they? Like a most like 15 minutes. Yeah.
00:52:55
Speaker
so So they have to kind of like really focus, like the detail has to be right in every single scene, every moment, because you only have these like tiny, you have this basically these tiny runtimes to make an impact. I feel like that might be why I was just thinking about how I feel like a point every character in that felt impactful, even though they're like in it for five minutes, barely in the show, you know? Yeah.
00:53:16
Speaker
Yeah. And it's, um, yeah, i just feel like, um, in, in this movie, like they try to do almost too much. And again, they have these characters, but again, all of them are kind of underserved and underutilized. And it's just a little bit too quick where again, they're taking time on the wrong things,
00:53:32
Speaker
And there's inconsistencies in not only, again, like how it's – how the movie plays out, but like in the characters. Like because Glenn Powell's character is just like this a raging guy. He's just a mad, you know, and he wants to take care of his family or whatever. But once the game starts, it's like that anger and – rage is non-existent. It kind of just fades away a little bit and then it gets brought back at these random moments. But I'm like the entire like first 15 minutes is him just being pissed off and mad. And they're like, you're like the angriest person we've ever met. And then it's like the game show starts like, okay, he's just kind of running for his life and he's not that mad anymore.
00:54:10
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And it was, it was a little bit weird like that. um And the characters that are introduced again are underutilized, but also, they have these weird like switches it like how they act specifically in the last act of the movie. He like gets into a car with this, like,
00:54:32
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you know, one of the, like a rich woman or whatever. And like, okay, you got to drive. And she's like, oh, you guys are disgusting. Like you people are are monsters the way you do it. You know, like everything that you guys do in like the poor place is is awful or whatever. And then by the end, she's kind of you know, like just has like a total personality switch, which i don't know when that happened.
00:54:55
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Cause it's quick. Like she, again, doesn't have much screen time. And then all of a sudden she's just like a different, yeah her Her opinions are different. And I'm like, ah, that's kind of, I don't know. It just doesn't work for me. There's also this weird part in the movie where like Glenn Powell has like this dream, essentially this dream sequence that happens.
00:55:14
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And then it's like okay, actually that was just a dream. But then he references it like it actually happened in the third act. to like the people that are chasing him. And I'm like, wait, did this happen or not? I'm confused because it's, it seemed like you showed it that you dreamt this happening, not that it actually happened. So I don't know. and There's like, there's weird inconsistencies like all throughout this movie, even the way it's shot. I feel like Edgar Wright has such style.
00:55:39
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And I feel like there are these moments, like there are these like commercials that play on the big so ah TV screens that feel very Edgar Wright. But when the movie's playing out, you know, throughout the movie, like throughout,
00:55:50
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the the two hour runtime where it's not these commercials, it doesn't necessarily feel like his kind of style. Like I always think of baby driver, those zoom ins, like the quick cuts and everything like that.
00:56:01
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And it just, there are moments where it is like that. And then moments where it's like, not at all. And it just feels like some random guys, you know, directing this and it didn't feel like his style. I don't know. I can't really put my finger on exactly what it is, but like, you know, an Edgar Wright movie when you see him or see it, you know, like I think of the Cornetto trilogy as well, baby driver, even last night in Soho, even though that was a very different tone, like it was shot like one of his movies. And I feel like the running man is at some points. And then other times it just seems like ah very generic and simple. And then the action scenes are,
00:56:38
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weirdly cut as well and feel clunky. And again, there was just like a lot that I didn't love about this movie. So like when it all wrapped up and, you know, the conclusion of the film happens, which I felt was kind of unsatisfying in a lot of ways because it felt undeserved the way the movie movie ended. It just, it just kind of fizzled out and I was pretty bummed about it.
00:57:02
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So again, I still liked it. I i still found it. you know, like a, like a good enough time. I don't regret watching it again. I'll keep my eyes on Glenn powerful at pal for, you know, two hours. Why the heck not? Man, he's awesome.
00:57:15
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Again, charismatic, love the guy, but yeah, just as a whole, I think this movie was, uh, was a miss, unfortunately. So, know, I do regret not watching it in theaters because I obviously, you know, I want to support the theater industry and again, support Glenn. Um, but yeah, I just,
00:57:37
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yeah i just I just think it was a miss. So kind of a shame. Kind of a shame. Because i i didn't i haven't liked – Because The Last Night in Soho, i didn't really particularly love all that much either. So it's kind of a bummer. I feel like Edgar Wright's last two movies have just not been for me.
00:57:55
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Whereas before, I feel like if – I was excited to see one of his movies. like Again, i remember us going to the theater to watch Baby Driver and being like, wow. like That's a fucking banger, man.
00:58:06
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What a great movie. I love the Cornetto trilogy of movies as well. Those are great. And I just, I don't know. Maybe maybe he's he's kind of lost it. So it's too bad. It's weird because The Running Man, just based on the trailers, it feels like it could have had the same quirkiness of like a baby driver.
00:58:23
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Yeah. like the action, calm almost comeic comedic tone in some aspects. It's too bad he didn't nail it. I wonder if there's maybe studio meddling or... Some kind of meddling or some kind of issue, time constraints. Who knows? i don't know. It's strange.
00:58:39
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It's too bad. Because it didn't get reviewed particularly well, like to your point, like to your points, to your credit critique. like it It was like 60 or something like that. on Yeah, something like that. recall correctly.
00:58:50
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It's not reviewed particularly amazingly. um Or is it 50 now? No, it's 62% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's disappointing. I don't know. The CG in this is also like quite...
00:59:03
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you know, inconsistent. Sometimes it looks good. Sometimes it's like, this looks rough and like very evident. I don't know. It's not really in 2020. The 2020s has been weird. Hey, yeah, it's been strange. It's all weird. Like sometimes it can be pretty great. And then sometimes you're like, what?
00:59:19
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How is this? How is this it? Like squid game? pst dog Like what? The squid game PlayStation two, like dog Is it a dog?
00:59:32
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I don't know the dog being PS2. Yeah, it's the dog. like the The guy like breaks into the house and then there's the dog that it like attacks him Oh, I didn't even notice that that was CG.
00:59:43
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Yeah, it's it looks rough. And if you look at it again, it looks like it looks like a PSD. And there's also that I was thinking that the child. Yeah, the child. That one was obvious because the light is full on that. The dog at least is in a dark environment. So kind yeah I feel like that's maybe why it fooled me. But why does the baby in Death Stranding 2 look?
01:00:05
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Better. the better yeah they go like you Decima versus potentially Unreal Engine 5. That was what Gore Verbinski said, right? We talked about that. I don't know if it was last episode or what the one before, but how he was saying that people are using Unreal Engine 5 because it's way way easier to use as a tool, but the problem is it's just not there yet in terms of achieving, but like the getting out of the uncanny valley kind of situation. So they you just kind of have an unrealistic looking...
01:00:34
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situation i mean the baby in that stranding too is not that realistic but it's crazy you can play that in a game like how it's very realistic in comparison you can see it's like little veins on its head in like the just in the game you're like zoom in it's crazy um but anyway yeah okay cool good to know good to know about the running man yeah but uh that's that's all i watched this week man that's all i watched this week All right.
01:01:02
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What did you watch? What else did you watch? So your friends and neighbors. Excellent. Apple TV just keeps knocking out of the park, especially in production value. Jon Hamm, such a charismatic dude, dude.
01:01:13
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Such a great, such a great show. I love it. yeah um His middle name is Cured. Do you know that? No, it is not. It's Jon Cured Hamm. Yeah.
01:01:24
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Jon Cured Hamm. Yeah, sure. Alrighty. ah John cured ham. I'm going write that one down. So stupid, man. It's pretty darn dumb. All right. you i appreciate it I appreciate it, dude. I appreciate wrote it down. So, so, okay. Well, uh, the other two things I watched, I watched a little bit of fallout season two. I just watched the first or second episode up to, well, I watched two, I watched both episodes. I didn't watch one or the other. Yeah.
01:01:54
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I think I just got up to episode two and i like this show. I do like it. I still enjoy it. I'm going to get further into it and then talk about it eventually. But the show that I want to talk about right now, and I haven't gotten through that many episodes of this either, but I got through enough like three or four episodes of it that it's worth talking about is Wonder Man. And I think Wonder Man is amazing. I think it's legitimately really, really great. And the fact that it's directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who is directing Wonder Spider-Man brand new day and directed Shang-Chi and the, and the legend of the 10 rings. There's an element of,
01:02:28
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I'm way more excited for Spider-Man now. I'm way more excited. I'm actually because Shang-Chi is the is not really I can't really determine what Daniel the destiny of Cretton will do.
01:02:40
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I don't know what he will do because Shang-Chi as much as it's great is kind of just the Marvel formula but in a different way and it really fun way. It's like Ant-Man you know. Yeah. By what's his name? Scott Derrickson. So like I'm like, okay, it's fine. Like, sorry, did I say Ant-Man? Sorry. I meant, I in i thought Doctor Strange and thought Ant-Man because there's so many of these Marvel formula movies.
01:03:02
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But Peyton Reed's Ant-Man is the same way too. It's a good example too because it's, again, it's jazzed up in a different way. It's different, but you can see where the Marvel formula lives on within it. And that's the same with Shang-Chi.
01:03:14
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Wonder Man is legitimately different. It is the most different Marvel show that they have. it is there is like powers are not really the focus. It's a love letter to Hollywood in a weird way, a love letter to making it in the business of actors trying to get it get jobs in ah in a very, very, very competitive business where people don't pay attention to you necessarily. i Way back when I was a child, I auditioned for many different roles from very different companies.
01:03:45
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situations, commercials, and I was in modeling catalogs, et cetera, whatever. And it brought back brought back memories of the the callback process and all that. And that's in Toronto, not in Hollywood, where it really is competitive. And so I was like...
01:04:00
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I was watching this. i was like, this is spot on in a lot of ways from my perspective, but also Destin Daniel Cretton knows and and Andrew Guest, who's the writer of this, know this industry because they work in it legitimately, whereas I'm just a hack. So it's really cool to watch this and the way it's acted and the way that they do this kind of inside baseball of that industry is amazing. And then Marvel show. It's awesome. I love it. It reminds me of the studio in some way too, and that element, except this just comes to the flip side of, as opposed to the studio business is more focused on not the business aspect of Hollywood, but the, the kind of the, the little people that the actors who was really, they all go to Hollywood to try to make it and they don't,
01:04:40
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all make it largely they none of them do if you look at a percentage i'm sure but uh yeah yeah i'm a teen the second is great in it ben kingsley i still can't believe they got ben kingsley to be in the marvel cinematic universe in this capacity i just think that his role as trevor slattery is like just hilarious and funny and it hilarious and funny it's the same thing yeah it's hilarious and really well thought out and it's he's just I don't know. He's got a, he's got a, his mannerisms are great. Like I just, I've been just saying over the last couple of days, like I've got an addition for wonder man.
01:05:14
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This guy, this is what he sounds like. He's just awesome. He's a really cool guy. He's great. And he's like 82 and he doesn't not, not look at Ben Kingsley. He looks like he's like 65. I don't know.
Marvel's New Direction with Wonder Man
01:05:26
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He's got for a good skincare routine. I'm sure. But anyway, yeah, Uh, he's killing it. And I, yeah, it's barely a superhero show at at all. And I've watched at least three episodes. I think I might be on episode four. I've watched episode four, but regardless of that, I, I'm really impressed. And it's a well-deserved 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. I recommend it heavily because this is the type of thing that I want to see Marvel do in terms of taking risks. Cause they give, they clearly gave Dustin Daniel Cretton and Andrew guest the leeway to make this type of show. The way it's shot as well is so artful. in cinematic and it's like they take risks that remind me of almost not really, but like a breaking bad ask, like taking risks with the way you're shooting a TV show. You see that more in film than you do and in most TV shows. But I feel like they they took they took risks that running man maybe didn't for Edgar Wright. You know, like it's just it's cool the way it's it's done the way they do their title sequences. it's just I don't know. I feel like there's just ah a lot of leeway and a lot of artistic license and creativity. And I'm really impressed.
01:06:29
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And I hope that this show somehow continues or that people at least watch it so that Marvel can get like the right idea. I just want people to watch the things that are really good and not be like, it's like how rise of Skywalker has like that crazy audience score on rotten tomatoes. And that just sends the wrong message because it's a piece of shit. And so I want wonder man to be regarded as, as great because it's voting with your wallet really that matters and how much money it breaks in, how many people come to Disney plus. I literally subscribed to Disney plus and started watching it almost immediately. So I feel like I am the, I sent them a message like I'm buying Disney plus for this show and it was definitely worth it. I recommend it i a lot. This is maybe their best show. I don't know yet. Cause again, I haven't gotten to the end of the eight episodes and I love Loki season two in particular.
01:07:20
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You also haven't seen iron heart. I don't think it's pretty okay. It's pretty okay. Yeah. I'm okay with, I'm going to watch that one eventually, but I think that this one, this one's super unique. It's crazy. Again, I'm so excited for brand new day now. Cause I, now I know what Dustin Daniel Cretton can do.
01:07:36
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I don't, I knew what he could do with Shang-Chi, but there's too many chefs in the kitchen. I feel like this is so small scale. And so i imagine the budget's not huge on this too. It's almost strange that they waited because I guess they really wanted to have, wanted it to have a better pop.
01:07:51
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They wanted to kind of pop in ah in a zone where there weren't a lot of TV shows or or movies being released at the at the time. But it's just strange because I think they held on to this project for like two years. I thought it was because it might not be that good.
01:08:04
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but And I can get why it's not that good in terms of fans like who love the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They might not think it's like this poppy thing. It's not going for the spectacle at all so far. It's just going for telling a compelling emotional storyline.
01:08:19
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It's crazy. It's so purely only on that, that I'm like, wow, they're really not worried about the action sequences. They don't care about any of that. They're just worried about telling a compelling story. It reminds me of like beef in some ways or like, cause that takes place. that I think in around LA as well, like, uh, or, or reminds me of the studio actually in, in the way that it's shot. it, those two shows kind of, it's a comedy largely as well. It's, it's 30 minutes. It's, I try to watch a comedy in a in a Drama. Drama kind of simultaneously. And the drama I'm watching now, i guess, kind of also a comedy, but Fallout. And then I'm watching.
01:08:55
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Yeah. ah The Wonder Man. But anyway, yeah, it's great. So I have a question. i' i'm curious because I really like Shang-Chi. I think what Shang-Chi does best is like the, the fight choreography.
01:09:11
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I think the fight choreography in Shang-Chi is like top tier in the MCU. It looks awesome. There's some wonderful action scenes. And the other thing that Shang-Chi I think does um like incredibly well is there are these emotional beats, but it has such a compelling villain.
01:09:25
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So, my My question to you with, with wonder man is like, is there a villain? Is there action scenes and and choreography? Cause it sounds like this is a very different product than, than what, you know, Daniel, that's in Cretton did with Shang-Chi. So like, if you're saying, cause again, I like Shang-Chi, I'm going to assume i would like wonder man based on how you're explaining it. I'll probably watch it in March when I get Disney plus for secret lives of Mormon wives season four.
01:09:54
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um So like, yeah, I guess that's my question. Is there action scenes? Is there like a villain that we're, you know, rooting against? Like, is it hitting those notes? It's nothing like Shang-Chi at all.
01:10:10
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It's It's like nothing like the Marvel Cinematic Universe formula. It is nothing like Marvel's ever done. I don't want to spoil anything because I've only watched three episodes. And so if I give you a definitive answer one way or another, I could kind of spoil what's what's there. But like, the I feel like in some way, kind of a good show, like a really just a really complex show, a very nuanced TV show doesn't really have the idea of a villain theoretically. You know what i mean? Like, it's not really a superhero show. It's just not, that's not what it is. It's just telling a story within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like people, it's almost like a slice of life you movie right now. It's slice of life situation. Villains and heroes is not really the the focus. And I think
01:10:53
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if you're When you're telling something more down to earth, it's like if you're watching Hamnet, you're not looking for the villain, you know? You know, it's like, yeah. fill and shay say That's kind of what it's like. It's like at a kind of an emotional story or the studio, there's villains, but they're not really there. Everyone's just complicated people, even breaking bad. They're all complicated individuals. It's it's not quite as good as breaking bad mind you, in terms of comparing it to a TV series. But I just think like, I'm really impressed. Cause they just, again, they take risks that I would not have thought they would even allow this. Cause they were having struggles in the,
01:11:27
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But it's a good I feel like this is good because they don't spend as much money on this because it's just not there's not the crazy CG so far. It's not this crazy spectacle. They don't have to worry about. It's just like they don't use them even that many actors.
01:11:39
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um But I just like the like the the look into the industry, like how at how hard it is to make it in that industry. didn't really explain the storyline. I should probably just done that to start with. But Simon Williams is basically he's ah not a working actor. He's getting the odd project, but he he hasn't he's never made it big, and he's trying to make it. And then he discovers from Ben Kingsley's character, Trevor Slattery, that there's role for Wonder Man.
01:12:07
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that he could audition for. and he basically jumps at it because he's just he's really trying to get there. So he's a struggling actor. He's trying to make it. And and so Trevor Slattery was the was literally a terrorist.
01:12:20
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Well, he played a terrorist. Yeah, I don't know if there's a distinction. He acted as though he was a terrorist and he played I mean, if you're an accountant for a terrorist, aren't you the terrorist as well? I don't know. don't think so. I don't think so. You're a lawyer for a terrorist. At what level?
01:12:36
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You know? Yeah. I don't know. It doesn't mean that you're not like... you know, complacent. it Oh, complicit. Complicit. Sorry. Yeah. yeah yeah Yeah. ah yeah Yeah. You're right. No, it's funny though. He's a funny character is really, it's interesting. Yeah. So yeah, the answer to your question is there's not, it's nothing like, i just want to say that because I don't want to spoil what's in it. because theres There is some little bit of action and a little bit of villain-esque stuff, but it's not, there's nothing very opaque. Like it's very so it' subtle stuff. Like it's all like, it's all mixed in. You're like not sure what what what you're going get in the next episode. I'm not sure how it's going end. I have no have no idea. It's kind of cool. That's a cool thing. I feel like if you're watching Shang-Chi, like I think Shang-Chi is going to win and that he's going to maybe have the 10 rings.
01:13:27
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He might. You know? He's going to maybe go on a journey and he's going to, he's going to probably, he's going to probably doubt himself. And then he's going to probably fight someone who's very similar, very similar to himself. And, you know, but then, but to be fair, the ending of Shang-Chi does not go the way I i expected it.
01:13:44
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Yeah. Sure. With, with the big fight scene. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. But it did end in you know, it has lots of fight scenes. It's it's a Marvel movie. Yeah, it is a Marvel movie.
01:13:55
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This isn't like at all related to Shang-Chi. It's just Destin Daniel Crutton wanted to do something else. I don't think he, yeah he I don't think he, there's a no, i don't, that's what's so funny is that that's why brand new day is so interesting. Cause now I'm like, well, they're not going to just do the same thing. I wasn't really that excited for the next Spider-Man because I think John Watts is really great.
01:14:14
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Like I think that that trilogy is maybe the best trilogy in the MCU as a whole. Ah, gardens of the galaxy is awesome. So maybe not actually maybe gardens of galaxy. I'll give it to James Gunn and then, yeah. And then I give it to John Watts, but like the, the Spider-Man movies are very strong. All three of them are really, really great in that, in the MCU.
01:14:31
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And so to lose John Watts, to not doing Marvel anymore, not lose him because he should do something else if he wants to, and then kind of replace him with a different director. I was kind of like, I don't know how this is going to go.
01:14:44
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I have no idea because I've never seen anything else that Destin Annual Cretton has really done and nothing on this scale like a blockbuster of a Spider-Man blockbuster. this is going to be way bigger than Shang-Chi at the box office. It's probably going to double or triple the amount that they made on Shang-Chi.
01:14:59
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So that's where I'm really i'm like, wow, this you bring the art and if they the the creativity, if you if you if Kevin Feige gives him the the rope. to just make whatever he wants um with the, obviously the big, the larger team compared to a wonder man. I keep trying to say Marvel man, you know the bigger team that wonder man doesn't have in terms of the CG production, the, this you know, the set designers and the, the like hundreds of extras, it's just going to be a much bigger project overall.
01:15:34
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Yeah. So, and like big stars, the Tom Hollands and the Zendaya's. in that whole universe. He's basically, he's tapped as a steward to something huge. Yeah.
01:15:47
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So let me tell you something. yeah
Pop Culture Highlights and News
01:15:50
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What? Let me tell you something. What? That's my, that's my John Bernthal impression. Oh, John Bernthal's in it. Oh, right. Sorry. You said John Bernthal. You know what I just thought of as well? That's two movies that John Bernthal and, um, Spider-Man, Tom Holland are in together this summer because they're both in the Odyssey as well.
01:16:12
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Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Hmm. It's cool. You think they're friends? Maybe they never see each other, though. I don't know what the in the Odyssey. Yeah. They'll certainly see each other in Spider-Man. brand new day You'd hope so. At least. Yeah.
01:16:26
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Yeah. The entire movie is them. It's it's like a Scooby Doo thing where it's like Tom Holland goes into like an area and then the Punisher walks out. and It's like, where is he? And you keep on going in different rooms.
01:16:37
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Yeah. oh Exactly. All right. Adrian. I saw Simple Plan yeah live actually um at um the Kitchener,
01:16:50
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the Oktoberfest. And they did the Scooby-Doo. You saw John Bernthal play live? No, I saw Simple Plan play live. Oh, Simple Plan. And they played the they played the Scooby-Doo theme song.
01:17:03
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ah They did the Scooby-Doo theme song. The What's Needs Scooby-Doo. Oh, did they? Yeah. What's this Scooby-Doo coming in here? We're going to solve that mystery. I'm going to stop because I don't want us to get copyright struck because I nailed it. Right.
01:17:18
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But yeah. Wow. Okay. That's cool. They played it lot. And then people with Scooby-Doo outfits jumped out onto the stage and danced. Wow. Really? that's not That's not a joke. I'm being 100% serious. In Kitchener.
01:17:32
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In Kitchener. Yeah. Wow. Okay. That's cool, man. Big Simple Plan fan here? because I loved Simple Plan when I was a kid. No, but like it not anymore, but like I listened to Simple Plan. I feel like Simple Plan was one of those like first bands that i really loved as a kid.
01:17:48
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Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park. Sure. I still listen to Linkin Park, though. Out of those bands, Linkin Park, I still listen to. Rest in peace, Chester. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doing a quick prayer for the guy. Yeah. Oh, sorry. yeah Good. You have to describe it to the the audience. Yeah. Because this is an audio form of me. and audio Audio medium.
01:18:07
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All right. An audio medium. They see ghosts, but Justin, but they can just hear them. Are you trying to delay me from going on to the montage? I think you are. So now we're going to move on. Adrian, I'm just trying to rip a sequence. I'm just trying to rip a bit.
01:18:21
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Of our show. I feel like we haven't riffed enough this episode. I know. You can't force it. You can't force it. That's all I'm saying. Hey, we can force it if you play up if you play along, you know? We can force it if you play along.
01:18:33
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You know, we started this this podcast about on death. This is the largest montage that we've done in like ever three years. So I'm trying to I want to, I'm worried about it. I want to get through it. I want to be able to make it. get Fine. Get through it, man. All right. Now onto the montage, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-weeks smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict.
01:18:56
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Number one, according to publication deadline, the Jason Statham starring sequel, The Beekeeper 2, has been greenlit and scheduled for release on January 15th, 2027.
01:19:09
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I'm trying to think of something about honey to riff about here, but I can't. So, okay. Number two, Apple renewed their Harrison Ford starring comedy shrinking for a fourth season prior to the recent premiere of season three on Apple TV. I watched, I'm watching season three.
01:19:26
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I don't remember if you, I talked about it earlier. You don't remember if you talked about it earlier is what you just said. Did you hit your head? What I meant is like, I don't know if you remember that I talked about it earlier, but then i I kind of, I didn't say it all. I know. I know.
01:19:40
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I got it. Cool. I remember. Number three, according to Deadline, one battle after another actor, Regina Hall has been cast opposite Marriage Story actor Adam Driver. Why did say it like that? Adam Driver in the hostage thriller TV series, Rabbit, Rabbit from Adolescence director Philip Berantini. Oh, okay. I'm in this. I like Adolescence. I like Regina Hall. I like Adam Driver. I love rabbits as an animal.
01:20:07
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And there's two of them in this one. So, mm-hmm. Wow. Number four, Watchmen showrunner Damon Lindelof is showrunning a limited series adaptation of author Adrian McKinney's kidnap thriller novel, The Chain, for HBO. Oh, I'll watch anything Damon Lindelof does. so Although I didn't watch his Mrs. Davies show. Yeah. Did you watch that show? Mrs. Davis? Yeah. did I say Davies? Yeah. I thought it was Mrs. Davies, but it must be Davis. It's Davis. Because you're usually right. no Not always, but yeah, it is Davis. In this case, I'm right. We're doing like a little bit of a switch. We're doing a little bit of of a switch this week. I don't know words this week, and you're fixing all the words I'd be saying. Well, it is what it is. But Mrs. Davis, I didn't watch it either because on Peacock, I believe. And that's kind of why I didn't. It's on Crave here. Oh, good. Oh, I should jump in then. Yeah. Okay. I don't think it was initially when it aired.
01:20:57
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That's a one and done, right? I thought there was a second season. You look that up while give you number five, Adrian. one and done. It was a one and none. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, based on a true story actor, Chris Messina and Fight Club actor Helena Bonham Carter have both been cast in the upcoming France-bound season of creator Mike White's HBO vacation satire anthology series, The White Lotus. Crazy. Awesome.
01:21:22
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I got watch seasons two and three of White Lotus. Number six. CISU director... Jalmari Hellander is directing a Rambo reboot film starring Street Fighter actor Noah Centineo in the titular role.
01:21:34
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And the film has officially begun production as of last week. Crazy. OK, cool. I never was a Rambo guy. I never watched them. Number seven. The Melania movie has beaten expectations with an over seven million dollar box office opening day. This is a particularly solid debut for a documentary. 99% on Rotten Tomatoes audience score. So it must be good. Yeah.
01:21:54
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What's the Rotten Tomatoes? What's the actual Tomatoes score? The critics score there, buddy. Hey, that doesn't matter. Okay. That doesn't matter. Just because it's 8% with 50 reviews, that doesn't matter. Right. Because indeed when when people that go out pay their own money to watch this masterpiece, which is, it's crazy that so many of these these people, they're they're they're loving this. but It's woke, dude. It's a woke movie. Immigrant story coming in to the United States of America, ending up the First Lady. That's powerful stuff. Good for Melania. Shout out, honestly. 99%. Wow. good for her. Great. All right.
01:22:30
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Number eight. Also directed by Brett Ratner, dude. Yeah. The guy that has literally no controversy behind him. No. Fantastic dude, probably. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Number eight, Disney Parks executive Josh DeMauro has been officially named as CEO Bob Iger's successor of the Walt Disney Company.
01:22:48
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DeMauro will become chief executive officer of Disney as of March 18th, 2026, while longtime content head Dana Walden has been named as president and chief creative officer. Okay.
01:23:01
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Okay. thought No thoughts on that? I don't i don't know Josh. I don't know Josh or Dana. I never met them. We'll see what they can do. We'll see what happens. Yeah, we will. Number nine. As reported by Deadline, Bumblebee actor Jorge Lendeborg Jr. has been cast as Danny Ramirez in the upcoming season three of The Last of Us, while Veep actor Clea Duvall has been cast as a significant character from the religious Seraphite faction. Okay, cool.
01:23:27
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Cool. Number 10. The Ted Danson starring Netflix comedy series A Man on the Inside has been renewed for season three. Awesome. I'm glad. I'm glad about this. I actually really like season two much more than than the first season. So cheers for this will go. Number 11.
01:23:42
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According to publication Deadline, Homeland actor Mandy Patinkin has been cast as the All-Father Odin, and Severance actor Olafur Dari Olufsen has been cast as his son Thor in creator Ronald D. Moore's upcoming God of War TV series adaptation.
01:23:57
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Additionally, actor Alistair Duncan will reprise his role as Mimir from the video games, while Seinfeld actor Danny Woodburn and The X-Files actor Jeff Golka are set to play dwarves Grok and Sindri. Oh, I missed the last three castings there. That's awesome. I think this is actually really good casting.
01:24:15
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Mandy Patinkin kind of does look like Odin. Like, you know, I can see him as it. know, just the facial hair. He just kind of looks like a guy that could be Odin. Okay. Like a guy who could be him.
01:24:25
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Yeah. Yeah. Not like the guy who played. Because Richard Schiff, he's literally motion captured in the game. Yeah. yeah But you know what I mean. and there's also, we've seen Anthony Hopkins do Odin as well in and Thor, the Thor movies. Yeah. But I can see it too. I don't know why. You ja make a point. Yeah. That I don't know why i see it though. Like, what is it about him that makes him Odin-like, I guess. But I love Mandy Patinkin. think he's great. Yeah. I haven't seen him in a crazy amount, but ah Criminal Minds. He's amazing in Homeland. Yeah. I watched the first two seasons of Homeland, I think.
01:24:57
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And then I watched Some Criminal Minds. Number 12. According to Deadline, Chernobyl and The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin is developing a Baldur's Gate 3 sequel TV series at HBO.
01:25:09
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The narrative of the series is meant to take place after the events of the ever-popular Dungeons & Dragons-based award-winning Baldur's Gate 3 video game. This is interesting. I thought that you were going actually make this a main story because I got a decent chunk to say about
Challenges in Adapting Baldur's Gate 3
01:25:21
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this, but... We can jump in after. Yeah, we'll yeah well we'll hop back to this.
01:25:24
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Number 13. Trap director M. Night Shyamalan's next film, ro Remain, is set for a February 5th, 2027 release date. The movie is inspired by the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name and will star Nightcrawler actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Cool. I like M. Night Shyamalan movies. They're not great, all of them, but some of them are good. And that concludes The Montage.
01:25:46
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Nice. Wow, wow, wow. To to hop back into Craig Mazin, you know, developing a Baldur's Gate 3 show, like a sequel to Baldur's Gate 3 for HBO. I got quite a few thoughts. I think everything has the potential to be good. Everything.
01:26:03
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You know, like if if there are good creators attached. And I think Craig Mazin, as much as I dislike a lot of season two of The Last of Us, I'd be silly to say that he's not, you know, a prolific, you know showrunner. Again, Chernobyl by all accounts is fantastic. And I think the first season of The Last of Us is really, really great too.
01:26:22
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But the idea of creating a sequel TV series to a game that is so focused on choice and having countless permutations of how this story can unfold, going as far as pretty much every single main cast member in the game can die in at any point or at at multiple points in the story, or you can simply just skip recruiting them is really weird.
01:26:55
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I think because now you're making a canonical ending to this game, which again has a countless choices, even the first choice that you, when you start the game, your first choice is either creating a character or playing one of those characters.
01:27:12
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So even just that alone, I created a character. I created. Yeah. I don't know. I think that maybe hurt my experience with it. Interestingly, creating a character. Yeah. I thought about that recently because it's like, there's no, he didn't say anything. Yeah. You know, or your character does, but it's the, wait, is your character voice acted? No, I can't remember now. No, they're not voice. That's right.
01:27:38
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That's the problem. Like it's written out what you say. So it is it's not the voice. It doesn't work for me as much. Anyway. So did at least, I at least give you a little bit of perspective, Simon. Like when you play one of the main cast members, they don't voice every line of dialogue either.
01:27:53
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Like they still have their voice lines, but like when you are selecting, they don't say stuff. So I don't know if that would necessarily fit. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. I, you know, I thought this was bizarre and I read this. I was like, what are you talking about? And I, read into it and the sequel part is the, well, it doesn't matter. Well, yeah, no, it makes no sense. Why would it be sequel? Like you should have done,
01:28:15
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Just Baldur's Gate 3 in a different, like ah the way you wanted to play it in a weird way. But then why would you even do that? It just doesn't make any sense. The thing you said, though, that I don't necessarily care for, don't mind, is that you're like, you cannot see the characters on your journey. It's like, well, no, the assumption would be that they've seen all the characters.
01:28:32
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that that would be That's just like saying, like I played Final Fantasy VII and I didn't, you know the like the original Final Fantasy VII, and I never found Yuffie. It's like, well, I think the assumption is that she's in the story. because ah like You know what I mean? like You can kind of think that that's just me being lazy, but you know i didn I didn't see Yuffie for that reason. But as a result, though that's fair. i just don't know...
01:28:56
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This is such an open-ended game. That's what I like about it the most. Of all the things that Baldur's Gate 3 is, in my opinion, it is best because of the open-ended aspects of the storyline and how you can shape it yourself as a player of the game.
01:29:11
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So even, ah not even just, just forget about the canon aspect of it. Like, you know, you're going to maybe just create a canon that then the sequel will be based on, which is kind of stupid on its own. what Like,
01:29:25
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Just thinking about what like there is no point in doing this because the the idea of the game and is how interactive it is because literally everything changes. The Last of Us is the opposite of that. The opposite.
01:29:37
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it's It's good because of the choices you make as a player in the gameplay aspects, but there's no story beat you can control at all in The Last of Us. Really nothing. like You don't control any of it. You could skip things like you could not read a note on a on a desk.
01:29:52
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And then you're like, oh, I didn't get that part of the story. But you that's just you forgot to look at the desk. Like, that's not really it existed. You just didn't pay attention to it. Whereas this is like these things either happen or don't happen.
01:30:06
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Because you made a choice. like it's I don't I don't understand why you would make this. I don't know, Craig. What do you doing, bro? I don't i like I'm shocked that that he wants to do this. It didn't make any sense. When I saw this, I was like, what?
01:30:21
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You sure? I agree. i just feel like he he's going to have a very hard time like impressing anyone. I think it's just like you you are you're taking on like a losing battle, essentially. Like people yeah i mean people are incredibly vocal online. And there's even like the fact, which I don't think is necessarily important, but um like he like there's no one from Larry in the studio that created Baldur's Gate 3 that is attached to this product like project at all.
01:30:49
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So he's not working with the people that created these characters and everything like that. And again, they are because they're working with the people from Wizards of the Coast. Yeah, fair enough. But not the studio that that that created it. It's Baldur's Gate 3 specifically, which is based on like do a Baldur's Gate movie or TV show.
01:31:08
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That's my point. And then make it Baldur's Gate 3. Like, why do you have? You can even make characters that are have maybe bring characters from Baldur's Gate 3. That would be cool if you just made your own Baldur's Gate. thing but then brought in a character like the the most popular character who who won the award uh the the the asterian guy asterian dude yeah like bring bring over asterian as a character perfect just one just one character that's it i don't know and you don't even don't acknowledge it because it's a different universe so you're not you're not pretending it's a sequel it's fine at that point because you all you do is you bring in popular characters and then you do them justice by giving that actual like
01:31:45
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and actually Yeah. Even that, i just i like I don't know. Even that, I don't necessarily agree with. Because again, it's like you're doing ah This is like a universe. like You're setting it in Baldur's Gate, which is just Dungeons & Dragons. like There's so much that you can already pull from and do. like It's just, why make it a s sequel and use those characters? When again, the...
01:32:06
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All those characters can die points. it's not a sequel. That was my argument. You just use a character. You could make, it would be Baldur's Gate. It's just you have Asterion in it. it It's a different universe. It's not related.
01:32:17
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Because they like the character, so you really want to bank on it? Bank on it, sure. Pull over one character. I just don't know what the point of doing this at all is because I've said this many times. Bald is gate three is the worst.
01:32:28
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It has no, on a creative perspective, it's rooted in something that's not original. It is not original. D and D is not, none of, no D and D campaign can ever be original. It's not possible. It's so ingrained in it. Elves, dwarves, orcs. There was fricking mind flayers, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't care. It's boring. It's so boring to me. That's why I stopped playing bald is gate three.
01:32:49
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Because it just doesn't, you have to pull me in so hard in the beginning of that story. And that story to me didn't do that. And I get it, the choices further on and they're very impactful and things change based on what you decide. That's cool. But I just don't, what's the point of making this at all? It's pointless. if This is so pointless to me. I couldn't even imagine because the whole point of playing the game is the interactive medium of you make choices and it changes the course of history. This is the most boring base to start off of, in my opinion.
01:33:18
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It's like, what's what is the point? You're right. like They made a D&D movie. yeah i don't I just don't think you make both game at all. You just don't make it into a movie because it's not interesting. That's what I think.
01:33:29
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A TV show, sorry. It's on HBO. yeah HBO, look at the budget. Yeah, I don't necessarily agree with you on that personally. I think Baldur's Gate 3 is fantastic. I really enjoyed it. like It is unoriginal, but I think the writing is just, I mean, it's superb. like ah the But you can do that in any medium.
01:33:45
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I know you can. Yeah. I know you can. but The idea and the start, the the the inkling of the idea, the starting, the inception, the whole point of it is the very beginning. That's the that's the part that's flawed. Do you think that's original?
01:34:00
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That's what you disagree with me on? No, no, I literally said, like, it is unoriginal. I just think it's great still, just because it is unoriginal. What do you disagree about in what I said? Well, I'm just saying that just because it's unorig or unoriginal doesn't mean that you can't make it interesting.
01:34:15
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I think you can still make a really good show. You can. Yeah. But what's the point, though? I don't know. Maybe he has an idea. Again, like, I think everything has the potential to be good. I just...
01:34:28
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I'm not fully confident in it. Cause again, like, especially me, I'm not a huge Craig Mason fan after last of us season two. ah thing is you can make anything interesting. It's like, you know, you had the argument that and, or wasn't going to be good. Cause it was a, it was, it was, it's the same idea. Like it, because it was, it's a prequel to something. Yeah. Like I already know the end of this character and whatever it may be, but you also know this character and you want them to move past this idea. Yeah.
01:34:54
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It's like, but that's, you can make everything interesting. Potentially. The issue is like, why would you start here when you made your own run in bold is gate three, you played the game yourself. And I guess you're going to make it that that's the cannon because you played it that way.
01:35:07
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You didn't include the interesting thing is like, i think in the, when he was talking about this is that he like played this game for like thousands of hours or like over a thousand hours. So he obviously played this game multiple times and probably played,
01:35:21
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you know, a bunch of different permutations. So that is, again, it's like you yourself as the creator have seen all of the different outcomes and have what, you know, I've seen how how different each, you know, run can be. And now you're just choosing,
01:35:37
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to make a sequel to something that is, again, just so vastly different every time, unless it isn't vastly different. I've only beaten this game once. Maybe the ending is always the same and maybe, but like, again, I know for a fact that all those characters, which he said that a lot of the, there's going to be a lot of returning and new like original characters in this series. It's like a lot, they can die, dude. They can die brutally.
01:36:00
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And just at like a moment's notice. So again, I just, i don't know. It is, I think this is, It's huge undertaking. and I'm not confident in it. I'm not like one of the guys online saying like, this is going to be terrible. This sucks. Like, fuck him. Oh, yeah. We don't know.
01:36:15
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I just, I just, I'm not fully confident in it. And again, it's a lot of that has to do with like my dislike of season two, The Last of Us in a lot of ways. Oh, okay. I'm not confident because I think anyone can can't do this justice for everyone. It's not possible.
01:36:31
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You can't, you can't, it's impossible. You played the game once, right? You finished it For like 130 hours, 100 whatever hours. You got to the end and you saw the things and like, wow, that was amazing. That was really impactful. It's like, but those characters are in your mind. You're going to watch the show and you're be like, wait, what?
01:36:49
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It doesn't make sense as a sequel. yeah I'm like, so you're making a sequel. So who is it for the people who haven't played the game? Like, well then they don't know it's, it's a sequel. They wouldn't understand the the plot in the beginning. You're going have to, that's actually a really good point.
01:37:03
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That's actually a really good point. Yeah. That is actually a really, really good point that you're making there because yeah. Who is this for? Cause again, you're obviously making it for fans of the series because you're fans of the game, because again, it's meant to be a sequel, but again,
01:37:19
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what you assume to be canon is likely not going to be canon for the vast majority of people that played this game. So yeah, who is it for? Yeah, it's it's confusing, man.
01:37:30
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i I find this very hard. I guess when you're making a video game adaptation, there's two types of video game adaptations that I think work really well as an inherent idea. I'm not, again, I'm not saying this will be bad. I'm just saying you have you already have your cut your work cut out for you right out of the gate. So that's the problem. like I think Baldur's Gate 3 always, or Baldur's Gate sequels always work as a video game because you can always kind of riff on this idea. And people love the lore of D&D. So for me, i don't love the lore of D&D. I think that it's very derivative of Lord of the Rings. And for me, it's just automatically unoriginal. And even so, Baldur's Gate 3, Baldur's Gate 4, 5, 6, 7 is all derivative of D&D, which is like already derivative. So for me, that's where it's not interesting.
01:38:10
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I just don't understand what are you going to do in a show that would make it better than you're not going to do anything better. Anyway, the point is, what I was making is is this.
01:38:21
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You have two types of shows that would work as an an adaptation from a game. One, you have an open-ended type of plot in a video game or like an idea of a thing. that you can then adapt and make it into something very complex in a storyline that's original because it maybe takes in a different place in a different setting or a different area. Great example of this, Fallout.
01:38:41
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That's awesome. Or the other option is you can follow the plot line and then kind of expand on it in various ways in a for a linear video game, not an open-ended game like Fallout, in a game like The Last of Us. So those two are arguably the most...
01:38:56
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they are very close to the most successful video game adaptations that have ever existed. Sonic is another one, I think, because Sonic doesn't have enough story. So it's like Fallout. You just can take it and make it almost the Sonic movies have more story than the games in some ways that they're not really that. They're not that specific. The Last of Us is incredibly specific. So if you decide, well, i'm go to make The Last of Us, but I'm going to kind of do it differently. It's like that doesn't really work because it's it's a very distinct narrative. You kind of have to follow it all the way through. and So I think the most successful video game adaptations that we've seen or have done either of those things. They've either take the loose ideas of it and nailed the loose, the tone, the the feeling of it, like the the design language, like fall, it's perfect in that way. Or they take a story that's very linear and they just adapt it in the best way possible. Or they fail, which has happened many times in video game adaptation history. And this one is like an open-ended storyline that...
01:39:53
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Like, what are you going to do with that? Like, how are you going to like if you look at The Witcher, The Witcher is not an adaptation of the video game. It's an adaptation of the like, that's not an open that's an open ended story, too. But you took an adaptation of the book.
01:40:05
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And I think there's also a lot of people are upset about it because potentially they didn't play the game the way that the the book is, but they also didn't find the follow the book perfectly either. so that show is kind of was kind of doomed based on the fact that they just didn't care about following the plot line of the book. yeah but Anyway, those are those are the ones i types of that I succeed. And if you try to do something in between that, You can succeed. Don't get me wrong. I think you can. I'm just trying to say you really have your work cut out for you. You have to be very confident. Like how cocky are you? Because season two is not perfect. It took things that the season that The Last of Us Part II, the video game does and it
01:40:44
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it it It made them simplified and made them easier to to maybe digest. But it also took some of the magic of the creativity of that narrative and kind of kind of like put it to the wayside for a different kind of spin that didn't necessarily work for everyone.
01:41:00
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And it's like, that's a linear story. you You're just following a blueprint. And this, you'd have no blueprint. It's like how you played the game and you, I don't know. That's just crazy. both It's interesting. crazy Like, because yeah, again, like you're, again, the the key thing is that you're making a sequel to, to like a beloved property. And then I think of something like Damon Lindelof. I mean, we brought it up earlier. He made the Watchmen TV series, which is a sequel to the Watchmen graphic novel.
01:41:25
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And I think that shows phenomenal. The difference is it's not open-ended. There's a set end and you're you're going off that point. so Great idea to do a sequel, by the way. like It's cool. and People still confuse that all the all the time. they They don't understand that the HBO show is a sequel, actually. You ever find that? and You talk to people about how good that show is and they're like, well, I never read the graphic novel. Well, actually, that is actually the the issue that would arise if we said it was a sequel. yeah um But I feel like it also works on its own. You don't need to read the graphic novel too. But I think a lot of people that I've talked to have thought that it's just a direct adaptation of the graphic novel, yeah which is not because it's sequel of it. But anyway.
01:42:04
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They should have called it Watchmen 2. Yeah. Yeah. that People understand. Yeah. That would have really helped. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ah ah but i yeah I guess we'll see. point I guess we'll see.
01:42:19
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I think we generally honestly agree on this. We just don't agree on the fact that I think Bulls get three as a starting spot. I'd have to go back to it. I'm going to go back to it eventually. I feel like there's no way this game, which is beloved by everyone, whoever I talked to, they just played it.
01:42:35
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is not great. I just, I, there's the issue with the controls, but then there's the issue of, I need to get wrapped my head around the unoriginally as this unoriginality of the starting of it. Cause the writing of the game is really the dialogue between the characters and they're taking this party on this long journey. You grow accustomed to growing with these people and you learn to love them as you, as you, as you kind of do this journey.
01:42:57
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it's just it the ten first 10 hours threw me off because of various gameplay quirks that just like made me really mad as i've told you in person um that like for instance people everyone says oh you can do whatever you want and you literally cannot do a stealth move because of either a bug or some other like i tried to do something stealthy and it didn't let me do it even though it clearly said it tells you you succeeded you roll dice in the game and it says you succeeded and it succeeds succeed succeed and then fails like what how How did I fail? No one's explaining this to me. And the complexity of the way that the game is run, I think, is the problem.
01:43:29
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But I think, yeah, ah that was for my issue. But we disagree on how the game potentially runs. But I think we we agree on that this is not going to work seamlessly at the very least. And if it does, Craig Mason the greatest creator. If Vince Gilligan was trying to do this, I'd be like, dude, I don't think you can do this. I don't care who it is. Damon Lindelof trying to adapt this. I don't think Damon Lindelof would try to adapt this because I think this is a foolhardy pursuit.
01:43:54
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A lot of. Yeah, I don't know. It's it's it's crazy. So we'll see. Yeah, man. Good luck. Good luck to Craig. I hope I wish him well.
01:44:05
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what Craig. right. Classic Craig. All right. Let's dive now, Adrian, into a trilogy of news, a component of our show where where we discuss at least three film and – oh my God, my my I'm flubbing my reading today. I'm just destroying this. I don't know words today. Where we discuss at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks. The first one being – there was basically this big interview between Deadline and chairman of HBO,
HBO and Apple TV's Future Projects
01:44:36
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Casey Bloys. don't know if you saw this.
01:44:38
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But this is a kind of a really good stepping off point because we can kind kind of talk about everything that HBO has got cooking. Casey boys has said that the upcoming premiere season of the HBO TV series. Oh, I didn't write it down here today.
01:44:54
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I didn't write the actual TV. I wrote this so badly. They said that the upcoming premiered season of. Which HBO TV series? what ah What did I not proofread this?
01:45:06
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House of the Dragon. No, I guess it must be that. I must be. I said that the upcoming premiere season of the HBO TV series is targeting an early 2027 release date. House of the Dragon season four will be its final season. Wait, no, no, that doesn't make any sense. I don't know why it says I have no idea. I'm not sure. Oh, is this Lanterns?
01:45:23
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No, no. Lanterns is this year. No, no, I know. I was definitely about House Dragon. Anyway, the next House of the Dragon season is season three. once said yeah Once that happens, then the final season is season four. That's basically what he was saying.
01:45:38
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And it's targeting an early 2027 release?
01:45:42
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So less than a year? What the hell did I write? I don't understand how I wrote this. No idea. It's okay, man. No idea what that's supposed to be. I missed the actual name of the series. I don't know. House of the Dragon season four will be its final season for sure. Let's forget up about the date. I'll look at that while we talk about it. And The Last of Us season three will be last potentially because he was saying when he was talking about Hacks season five and The Last of Us season three, ah he said it certainly seems that way when he was asked whether those were going to be the last seasons of those respective shows.
01:46:14
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yeah That's what happened with those. So that's an interesting thing because yeah they've got a lot to cover in one season of The Last of Us. So good luck to Craig Mazin again.
01:46:24
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yeah Good luck, Craig. Good luck, Craig. Maybe that's the name of the episode. i don't know. i guess we'll see which one wins. John Curdham or good luck, Craig. I don't know. um But yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I'm going to look this up. But what do you think about this idea that the House of the Dragon season four is the final season, first of all?
01:46:42
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I think that was always the plan. I think they always talked about, you know, four seasons, 10 episodes each season, and it was going to be okay. But the the weird part is that season two is only eight episodes. So people, I think, got...
01:46:53
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a little worried right off the bat. I think that's fair. Again, I don't really know how this story ends. um So if if they have, you know, a four season arc they want to cover, cool. I'm more than happy about that. I like House of the Dragon quite a bit. I think season two meanders a bit, you know, it it doesn't.
01:47:09
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It doesn't move the plot forward as much. And a lot of people talk about how like season three, it's going to start off with a bang and this is when shit gets really crazy. And so I'm i'm quite excited for this.
01:47:20
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And again, if if they want to end the season series at season four and not kind of drag it out and they have nothing left to say, cool, man. Ended at season four. I'm i'm more than okay with that. You touched on The Last of Us, you know season three would be the final season. 100%, man, you're right.
01:47:35
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They need to cover a lot. in one season. I mean, we're technically not even at the halfway point in the game, like where this this starts off. It's like just before the halfway point, because there is like, you know, and like an ending to it, which I feel like could, you could arguably drag it out to like almost like a full season if you wanted to, or at least a few episodes.
01:47:58
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So i don't know, I find this a really weird choice And it makes me a little bit more worried about season three, because again, I love this part of the video. I mean, I love the entire video game, to be fair. But like this part of the video game is I think you need to spend more time with it because you got to make the audience like this character.
01:48:22
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And, you know, if you're going to rush things a little bit more, I just, I don't know, man, I'm not fully confident in this personally. Again, we've talked about my opinion of season two quite ah in quite a bit of detail.
01:48:34
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um And I think season two is still a good season of television in a lot of ways. I just really, as a, as a lover of last of us part two, the game, I just, it didn't do it for me except for really again, one episode, which I think was phenomenal.
01:48:47
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Yeah. umm So I just, I'm very curious of, about how are you going to do that? How, like, what are you doing, man? Like, what are you doing?
01:48:58
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I don't know. Good luck, Craig. Good luck. good luck Good luck. Seriously. i don't know what's going on with this man, but yeah, we'll, we'll see what happens. but It could be good. I don't know. Maybe, maybe that's not true. Maybe it will. You said it certainly seems that way. Maybe they're worried about the numbers for the last of us.
01:49:15
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Season two in terms of maybe it was a drop off. Viewership. Ratings. I don't know. ah the The show i I didn't write in here is Harry Potter, dude. It's 2027 Harry Potter. I'm sorry. That makes sense.
01:49:26
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It's okay. I don't know how I missed that. But anyway. Hey. Yeah. Anyway, so it's targeting a 20. That was the first part of that press release, I guess. It was a big deadline interview with Casey Boyes. And he mentioned many things. And one of them was the HBO Harry Potter TV series is targeting an early 2027 release date.
01:49:43
Speaker
Which I am shocked about, honestly. But I think if they're getting the ball rolling rolling for 2027, every year after that, there will have to be a season release. So I'm wondering if they're maybe filming a lot of it, like kind of back to back to back. Maybe they're doing like, because they need to get these shows.
01:49:59
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They need to get these episodes filmed. Like quickly, they cannot be doing the classic house of the dragon gaps of two, three years per season. It can't be that way. It's not possible because these children are growing up that and not because I want more Harry Potter quickly. i just know that it will look dumb. This is running for eight years. Like it's going to be 15 years and these children are going be 20 and we're not going to believe that they're, they're children or or teenagers leaving
01:50:31
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high basically high school because that's when hogwarts uh like that's when hogwarts seventh year is is like you're 18 or something you yeah you're done the 17th year of your life but yeah so yeah should be interesting i i i hope this is good i'm i'm i'm honestly pretty excited about this I know a lot of people are are talking, talking shit. I'm honestly so curious again, Snape being a black guy. And then we're going to see the, all these flashbacks with Harry's dad, just blame him.
01:51:00
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And like, uh, yeah, you know, but morning dude it matter though. Cause like, who do they cast as Lupin? Like we we talked about that, but we we don't have the perspective, right? They they could be also different races for for like those three guys. It's Lupin, Pettigrew, and sorry, I'm missing three, not three, four guys. Sirius Black, Pettigrew, Lupin, and whatever, John Potter. What's his his first name?
01:51:27
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Charles? Potter. I don't know. I forget his name. His father's first name. But anyway, yeah, no, that it may not matter because it that's ah like when you have a full cast of like a mix of different races, it literally won't matter at all. You know what i mean? yeah I got that. I was thought about that. I car thoughts while I was driving to work the other day. I was like, wait, I don't know if it won't really matter at all that Snape's getting bullied. He's a black man because it's like they're probably also going to be like, obviously Harry Potter's father's not going to be black, but.
01:51:57
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Yeah, they'll mix it up. They'll they'll cast ah yeah maybe, well, Sirius Black, I mean, they're cousins. I mean, I guess you could you could have like a like a black cousin depending on who they marry and the child and everything. I'm excited.
01:52:10
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But. And I think it's going to be really cool. It's been a while since we got a Harry Potter film or TV tv show. I love that it's a TV show. I love it's a different medium. Like, and supposed to just telling a movie again, that would have been a bad choice, and I think. Because those movies are, so they stand up so well. Like, think you got to really expand on the universe and try to move, like, take what the books,
01:52:33
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have in terms of the level of detail and try to translate that into a TV show. And so if you can make it a 10 episode series, I think it'd probably be eight, but if you can try to 10 episodes per season and really put the detail in there that the books have. I think you can really have a recipe for success. It would be also cool to kind of like expand on things that JK Rowling didn't write about, like she kind of hinted at, but then like take those kind of like the last of us. Like the last of a TV show, especially in season one, they took that whole episode three of season one is just like a complete expansion and change in some way from what it was in the kind of hinted at in the, in the game. So I think that would be really cool and we'll see what they do, but it's really going to be to be dependent on the, the, I feel like the first season will set the tone. It's crazy. Cause imagine the, the, the writers did a bad job in the first season and they're like kind of committed to this. They want to, they, they gave fricking,
01:53:24
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ah John Lithgow has like an eight year contract. He's been contracted for eight years. i like They planned to make this. like This was not planned to be a failure, obviously. Yeah. How could it be? But usually when you make a tv any TV show, you're not like you're never promising that many seasons. This is kind of an anomaly because you're kind of promising that you're going to make this show for more than a billion dollars.
01:53:45
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You know, like we're promising you right away. You got a seven-year commitment, essentially, for sure. Like, seven seasons. Unless, again, it's bad and people don't watch it and they just, like, end it at some point prior to actually completing That would be so shitty.
01:53:59
Speaker
How disappointing would that be? But it's HBO. Yeah. But, again, at the same time, man, like, I mean, like like we were talking about, everything has the potential to be good. Everything has the potential to be bad. Like, maybe they just drop the ball and this show fucking sucks. You know, there's a – Yeah. Like, there's not a 0% chance that that's the case. I really hope that's not. Yeah, sure.
01:54:18
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but yeah I'm, I think there's more of a chance that the Baldur's Gate three show on HBO is going to be bad. Yeah. A hundred percent. a Much better chance. Yeah. Cause people yeah like the Harry Potter source material is beloved.
01:54:29
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So, yeah. Yeah. Um, so I don't know. We'll see. And then hack season five. Yeah. I think that's, yeah. Again, considering where season four left off and everything, I feel like it should probably end with season five.
01:54:42
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Cool. I think you could, wrap it up honestly you know binge watch like the four seasons and by the end i was like i'm kind of over this a little bit you know yeah yeah like give me one more good season i'll watch it and once it's done it's done cool yeah and i can stop winning awards every year god damn it honestly shrinking give give shrinking some love you know give shrinking some love give shrinking some love give give um
01:55:12
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What do you think? Adults. Give adults some love. That show was awesome. I love that show. That's a good comment. That one was middling reviewed, right? That was of. It was like 70s. Like a 70 or something? Yeah.
01:55:23
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Adults. Oh, no. It's not showing up for some reason. It's just called adults, right? Oh, I put an ad and it didn't actually type out the rest of adults. Adults FX. Adults FX.
01:55:35
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Adults. Yeah, 74. Yeah, it's not that super, super beloved. But anyway, okay. The other bit of news that we're going to talk about here. And this is an interesting one because it's not really news as much as it is speculation. ah There's rumors swirling about the potential for Avengers Secret Wars being split into two parts. industry Three industry tipsters kind of talked about this. John Rocca, Jeff Snyder, and Daniel Richtman.
01:56:00
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ah Separately, John Rocca and Jeff Snyder do a podcast together called the Hot Mic Podcast, and they talked about how some of their sources have been claiming that Marvel's considering this. They they haven't decided. They're considering splitting up Avengers Secret Wars specifically into two movies. So it'd be Avengers Doomsday at the end of this year, and then Secret Wars would be split into two movies instead of being just in one.
01:56:22
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Daniel Richtman believes that this is possible, but again this is again, it's going to depend on the Doomsday success. so If Avengers Doomsday doesn't do well at the end of this year, they're going to just make it one movie again.
01:56:35
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because they're Tentatively, I think there're they're doing tentative like work. They're doing work on Avengers Secret Wars right now, but they're not... like 100% sure whether they're going to try to yeah expand upon it and make it two movies or make it one. So I don't know what you, did you see this news? and I did. or Yeah. I did see this news. and And like, I'm very, like what stuck out to me the most is that they're going to wait until they see Doomsday success. And I don't know, maybe maybe it's my misunderstanding of the movie industry and how things work, but like, isn't that kind of a little late to make that decision? Yeah.
01:57:07
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You know, like when Secret War slated here, when was this a year later? It's December of twenty seven. You know what it is, though? I think what they're doing is they're going to film a lot of the scenes now and then just expand upon it because they were always do everything late. They don't have it. They didn't have a script, I think, when they started Doomsday.
01:57:24
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Yeah, that's true. Crazy. amazing You know what I mean? This particular in the industry in general, I feel like they don't do that. Like James Gunn doesn't like doing that. He likes having like completely completed scripts, I think, before he starts doing any projects. It's very important to him. But I feel like that's not necessarily the case in the MCU. Like they like they have everything close to the vest. They're changing things as they go.
01:57:47
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So there's that. But yeah, I, am I kind of like this because of the way the plot might go. So like doomsday, there's a, there's a rumor that the second film of this trilogy, I guess, of Avengers movies would be battle world.
01:58:04
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So it would be Avengers Doomsday, Avengers Battleworld, and Avengers Secret Wars. So the idea is like battle Doomsday, they lose to Dr. Doom, I assume. And Battleworld is like they're in this weird like multiverse like...
01:58:20
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kind of amalgamation situation where they're they're basically forced to fight each other. Because I think that was a part of Secret Wars, wasn't it? Where they like the heroes and villains are forced to fight. They're all fighting each other on this weird, like, Colosseum battle situation, like gladiators. And the Secret Wars are basically going to win again.
01:58:38
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they're gonna They're going to kind of make their way out. It would be cool to see this because... The idea of Doomsday and then Secret Wars is kind of already been done in Infinity War and Endgame. They lose in Infinity War kind of thing and then they come, the next movie is in in in Endgame, they're going to basically try to win. And so they've done it already.
01:58:57
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So it would be nice to kind of have it where they lose and then there's a middle part where they can kind of do some interesting things and then bring it all home in the last one. kind of a do a trilogy. I think it would be popular, but I think it only would be popular if it is reviewed well.
01:59:12
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To be honest, I think I i do have this feeling like there's an appetite for MCU movies, but it's the when people see how crazy it is, there's like a perfect storm. When they see how crazy it is, the reveals are amazing, the cutscenes, the action sequences, the set pieces are incredible, and then the story is really good, which appeals to critics, and you have that full perfect storm of like 80% to 90% of Rotten Tomatoes, and then...
01:59:37
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ah like And then then you kind of you can kind of make another one and you you would make it popular at that point. That's when it would succeed. I think it's it's you're kind of's a fool's it's a foolhardy mission if they made it, if they kind of just are going to cop out for the for Doomsday because they're just not going to make it. I feel like they just wouldn't be able to sustain a third film that's my thought anyway i don't know if i yeah came across i feel like i lost my i think that makes sense i think that makes sense okay yeah i don't know yeah i'm i'm kind of curious about this i just ah i mean i hope it turns out well
02:00:09
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But i don't know. Do we need three? I guess we could. Again, I just i just find it. yeah Don't do it if you don't need it. You got to do it because you you have the extra extra ideas. Don't do it for the business decision. And if it is for the business decision, please don't do it. Because it that felt like The Hobbit.
02:00:26
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The Hobbit should not have been split into three. It was bad, in my opinion. it was just It was very self-indulgent. I didn't like it at all, The Hobbit. does I never finished that. I watched the first two movies. i never watched the last The third one, I didn't like. They just expand expanded upon the battle for like an hour and a half or something. It felt... Big dragon. didn't feel good. the battle was like No, not that. That was even fell to the wayside. It wasn't even... That was the important part. This is big battle. Like the Battle of Five Armies in the book. um so on Never read the book.
02:00:57
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Never read the book. I just know the the second movie ended and he's like, I'm a big dragon. I'm leaving. and i was like, oh, cool. And then I just never watched it. so Gotcha. Anyway. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I just find this odd. Again, I think it's just like if you're actually going to make the decision once Doomsday is released and then based on that success, you have less than a year to cut together a whole movie technically.
02:01:21
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And yeah. And then again, I know you kind of made the argument there, like maybe they're filming these scenes and then We'll be able to make the movie out of the scenes they filmed, but then it kind of goes the opposite direction of, well, maybe doomsday is not as successful. So they're only going to do the next movie like a secret wars.
02:01:36
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And now you have like these extended scenes that you now have to chop up and remove a lot of context for. And I just, I feel like this is kind of a recipe for disaster personally. I think if you strategize beforehand, you can film both movies sort of. You're really just filming what you want in the full prop the full ending. that you' You've already theoretically written the the skeleton, the the bones for so for Secret Wars, and assuming it's one movie.
02:02:03
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You've built it completely. You film it completely, and then it's done. And then at the end- You're like, like when when you decide, when you see Doomsday, then you bring people back for reshoots and you go and you go hard on the last bit because you don't have the last movie. You don't have enough enough content for the last movie.
02:02:21
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But if you didn't know beforehand, like you're like, Doomsday comes out and you're like, wow, this was really successful. Now we're going to make it into two. Then you, I think you fail. But if you're deciding now at the beginning of this year, Doomsday is not coming out for another nine months, like 11 months.
02:02:36
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So I think now is a good time to plan it. Because you can then shoot a bunch of extra scenes now just to plan a little bit ahead. And then the the the really the main thing is the reshoots for the second movie afterwards.
02:02:49
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Because then you'd be adding a lot of things to expand. But I think you have to really write two scripts and really understand where that is like right now to figure it out. I think you could do it. realistically But if you plan, again, if you get to Doomsday and you're like, oh, now we should do two movies, then you've freaking failed. Like you have to basically be planning right now that you're doing two movies in some various specific strategic aspects and then you can do it. That's my theory.
02:03:13
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I don't work in this industry. That's what I think though you could succeed, especially because they seem to... be everything they make is like building the plane while it's flying through the air for some reason. They they they don't seem to, you know what i mean? Like everything they seem to be writing the scripts while they're making the movie for all of the MCU movies for some reason.
02:03:31
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It's a very strange thing that James Gunn was kind of calling out that he doesn't like, I think, but he was doing it like a subtle way. He's like, I won't, we're going always have a script finished. Is what he said for the DC universe before we start. It's like, yeah, okay. Why are you saying that out loud? Isn't that how it works? It was my thought. I'm like, and then Kevin Feige was kind of saying on the on the flip side, like months later and months before he was like, well, well, we kind of just like, what did he say? We plus it.
02:03:56
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Isn't that what he said? It's plussing. we we we we write we re we we re we We rewrite things. We get actors to write lines in. Robert Downey Jr. says a riff. we Oh, wow. We can just write a scene from that. It's like, ah what?
02:04:09
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I don't know. That's kind of insane. But it works. Or it had worked in the past. It was very successful previously. Anyway. So yeah, um' I just thought I'd throw this new story in there because it's it's interesting speculation.
02:04:22
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but as We'll see. Would you want that, though? I think that's the question. Do you want? i don't know. It's kind of hard to say. Like, I mean, sure. like I'm not against more Marvel content. I still like the MCU. I still watch all the movies. Like, I'm not against it.
02:04:38
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But again, if it's ah if it's detrimental to the story, ah then then no, I don't. Again, i i won't know if I wanted it or not until happens. There you see it. Yeah, I want it if it's planned. I want it if you know what you're doing and you're not doing it for business and you're doing for creative. That's yeah that's full stop.
02:04:56
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if you If you take a swing and you think it's going to work, do it. But otherwise, no. i just I just feel like based on this reasoning, you know it's for business. Like just based on the reasoning, if they're going to make the decision based on doomsday success, I feel like then you know they're not doing it for the creativity aspect. They're doing it because why make one $2 billion when we can – or two $2 billion when we can make three $2 billion?
02:05:23
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You know, assuming this this is so like so much speculation on speculation. So we could never know. But I disagree with you because I my interpretation was they they basically the Russo brothers were like and the probably the writers were like, hmm.
02:05:40
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We can make this into three films and it would be epic. It would be so badass. It'd be like the Lord of the Rings and the Avengers universe. Like the multiverse saga, we haven't really dove into the multiverse aspects of it like we could do in this film with the budgets we're able to get.
02:05:55
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Can we do three films, Kevin Feige? And Kevin Feige's like, I don't think are the Disney executives are going to approve this. But this is a great idea. And then basically that takes that idea and they have this idea that they're going to do it for the creative reasons. And then they have to take it up to Disney bras top brass and top brass says, well, we won't approve it until doomsday as well. Cause we couldn't approve another, like and there's going to be another billion dollars we're going to spend on this. This is absurd.
02:06:23
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or not maybe a billion, but another 500 million overall. And so we're not going to approve it until Doomsday as well. Well, and then they're in a spot. they're like, okay, well, do we just decide not to do it at all? Or do we, like, that's my thought process is I'm thinking from a positive, like glasses half full, you know? Yeah. You're right though. You could be completely right. That's why I'm saying like, this is speculation with speculation. Like you're right. It could just be that.
02:06:45
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And that's that's kind of the cynic in me, I guess, thinks that you're right. Like you're probably, you know, they're just doing this for business. But I think if they're you have creatives who really want to make something epic, what would they do? Because they've made something epic. It's the writers from, it's Stephen McFeely and the guys making Doomsday.
02:07:02
Speaker
The same writers from Infinity War and, am I wrong about that? I have no idea. or Or did they split up? it was is Stephen McFeely. Stephen McFeely. Oh, Stephen McFeely is on the writer's thing, but it doesn't say the other dude, which is funny because it's the only other guy. don't recommend Oh, Michael Waldron.
02:07:19
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Oh, so it's like the Loki guy. So Loki, the Loki screenwriter is the other writer. And Stephen McFeely wrote Endgame and Infinity War. I think those guys care about their jobs. Like if you watch Loki season two, you're like, okay, yeah.
02:07:33
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I can see it could be could be seen as it's in good hands because of that. But yeah who knows though? Because again, your respect with I just put this in because it was fun. I put this in here because this could definitely not happen. Okay, third one.
02:07:48
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Apple's 2026 Apple TV slate was announced. Apple has renewed the John Hamm starring Apple TV crime drama, your friends and neighbors for a third season. i'm and John cured ham. Yeah. john John, John cured ham. The season two of this show is coming out on April 3rd. So, so soon, which I was so happy about because I think the last, the first season came out in April as well.
02:08:07
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the vlass Okay. Okay. Okay. Ted Lasso season four is planned for a summer 2026 release date on Apple TV, according to Apple. And then I've got a whole slew of other things written here because I've got the the giant list of stuff.
02:08:23
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So Monarch Legacy of Monsters just showed a trailer. We can talk about that in a second. February 27th is release date for that. ah There's a show called Imperfect Woman.
Apple TV's Upcoming Content
02:08:33
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uh starring elizabeth moss and carrie washington coming out march 18th uh there's outcome a dark comedy that's a film directed by jonah hill and starring i don't know if you saw the screenshots for this or like the ah some of the press for it for it's keanu reeves starring in it i saw this cool i did indeed actually yeah uh there's a trailer for margo's got money problems that one seems cool that's l fanning yeah she's pregnant 15 and broke this one seems kind of like a good i think it's based on a book if i if i yeah that's right correct yeah there's widow's bay uh comedy horror series starring matthew reese uh and steven root there's comedy and horror pleasure go so well together comedy and horror go so well together genuinely
02:09:22
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You're saying genuine I can't see your face. like genuinely. Yeah. I think that's why I like Scream is one of my favorite yeah horror franchises because it's like it's just as funny as it is like. wow Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. It's a comedy thriller starring Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson.
02:09:41
Speaker
This one, i think I'm confusing for a different one, but I'm going to look this up in a second. I don't know if you saw this one. I did. i did see this one. Oh, May 20th. Tell me what it is then because I can't i don't i can't place that. i thought I thought Jake Johnson's a tennis star. is that Isn't that the one?
02:09:57
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Is it different? it's like they're like divorced or whatever. Oh, yeah. I thought it was about divorce. Did you see the one where Johnson's – got to look at the stuff after because I thought there was one where he – Oh, yeah. Divorced mom gets caught up in a perilous web of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer.
02:10:20
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Yeah. Oh, okay. Cool. ah There's that one. And then we've got lucky. don't know if you saw this. No. Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Timothy Oliphant.
02:10:34
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It's a, this one's actually not described here, but did you see this Anya Taylor-Joy? Is there a trailer? Series. This one I don't think i had a trailer. There's just a bunch of screen grabs of the actual trailer.
02:10:49
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yeah oppressor Because this was basically Apple's press day. The studio didn't show up because of Catherine O'Hara. They were supposed to be there too. um Lucky on your Taylor Joy.
02:11:01
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me pull that up real quick. Yeah, I got it here. It's ah when a multi-million dollar heist goes sideways. Con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss. Lucky must fight for her life and a way out.
02:11:18
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Oh, wow. Yeah. there's ah There's a, there's 52nd trailer here. If you want to check her out. water right now Oh, this is the other one I was talking about. I'm so sorry.
02:11:30
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I can't, it's funny. I can hear it. like i oh cause you're watching on your phone. Yeah. Uh, there's also the dink. This is what I was talking about. Sorry. I got the two confused, uh, between uh,
02:11:42
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the thriller series and, and this, so between maximum pleasure guaranteed and this, the dink is a new sports comedy film starring Jake Johnson, Ben Stiller, Mary Steenberger, Bergen, uh, and, and Ed Harris.
02:11:57
Speaker
This is a July 24th film on Apple TV. But this is a, believe it's ah like a washed up tennis star played by Jake Johnson. and Okay. It's a comedy. Anyway. Cool. So there's that. And then there's Mayday, an action action comedy film with Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, and Maria Bakalova.
02:12:17
Speaker
So there's that. And then there's Matchbox, another movie. oh Wait, Matchbox the movie. It's literally called that because I think it's a Hasbro property, right? Matchbox. An action-adventure comedy film starring John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, and Tayana Paris.
02:12:34
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And lastly, Way of the Warrior, November 20th, a drama film starring Chris Pratt, Jude Hill, Linda Cardellini.
02:12:43
Speaker
Yeah. And Levi McConaughey? I feel like that's related to, that's got to be Matthew's son or something. Right. All right. That's a lot. That's a lot all at once. I'm not sure it was useful to actually announce all of it at the same time. Cause I hadn't not, maybe I'm wrong, but I hadn't heard of these. Would they announce before?
02:13:03
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i don't know. No, no, I don't think so. I don't think so. Maybe, maybe some of them were, but I don't know which ones would have been. but Oh yeah. I remember this way of the warrior thing. Yeah. Anything stand out to you? Anything you're interested in?
02:13:17
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um i mean monarch legacy of monsters of course ted lasso season four of course i'm very curious how season four is gonna be i'm quite excited um and um i think that margo one i'm i'm intrigued the margo one like that trailer looks really cool ni ah it was a cool trailer seems like a good vibe great like yeah Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I'm ah i'm a big fan of Elle Fanning. i feel like she, you know, kind of is having like this resurgence, weirdly enough. Like she was pretty relatively prominent as a kid actor.
02:13:52
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And then now she's like kind of blowing up even more with not only Death Stranding, but Predator Badlands. I know she was in like a few like TV series on Amazon, which I never watched.
02:14:03
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Like more period piece stuff, but yeah. Yeah, i feel like she's um she's rising. She's a rising star. Yeah, she's also in that Stellan Skarsgård movie that got nominated big time for yeah this year. It's called, I'm trying to bring it up here quickly, Sentimental Value.
02:14:20
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So she's a big player in that too. Oh, and she was in A ah Complete Unknown. completely forgot about that. Oh, yeah. um Last year with Timothy. Good old Timmy.
02:14:33
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Timmy Chalamet. You and him on a first name basis? That's awesome, dude. Timothee Chalamet. So yeah, anyway. Modded Xbox controller 360 or whatever.
02:14:43
Speaker
Yeah, right. Modded controller 360, whatever his YouTube thing was from back in the day From my perspective on this list, it seems stacked. That's what I was kind of, that's the that's to what I came ah to as a conclusion.
02:14:57
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there's all these are all This list I gave you was all new stuff. Oh, i man I forgot to mention this one. Cape Fear, a TV series adaptation of, I think, the film of the same name.
02:15:11
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Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, Javier Bardem. Did you see this? No. Produced by Martin Scorsese. Oh, okay. Who directed the Robert De Niro movie. movie um Yeah.
02:15:25
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So Cape Fear is another one. That's pretty cool. Yeah, the thing i things I saw the most for was definitely Monarch Legacy of Monsters. ah Margo's Got Money Troubles and Cape Fear, I think. because ah was And and and um the um the outcome film, April 10th by Jonah Hill.
02:15:47
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Monarch Legacy of Monsters, did you watch the trailer? I did. Was that not a badass trailer? That's a fantastic trailer, dude. That's a fantastic trailer. yeah That, to me, when I saw that, I was like,
02:16:03
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This is so much better than the movies. Yeah, I know. It's like Kong Skull Island. You know I mean? Like the quality of Kong Skull Island or even the first Godzilla movie I feel like was pretty good. They kind of went downhill a little bit. and they like They went to a different like campy super camp. Like I'm not, i don't want to watch the Meg. Okay. I don't need power Project Power Glove. I'm good. du I do need Project Power Glove.
02:16:26
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yeah Even like this idea of having a father and son play each other. who You know what i mean? With Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell.
02:16:37
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I just think it's just like, they look very similar to each other. Like I believe it, that they're the same person and in this. And I know who, and I watched them in different things. Obviously, obviously they can't be, it's impossible.
02:16:48
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It ain't, it ain't CG. i mean, so like, it's really i impressive. dont Like it's really, yeah, maybe. Yeah. yeah I just think it's super impressive. I like that. Also, the amount of CG in this, the crazy, the monsters are almost, it's almost bigger than anything else they've ever done. I'm like, i e can you afford this legendary and Apple? I don't know how you're doing this. What are you doing?
02:17:07
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I guess can't. And the CG looks phenomenal too. Maybe they're just picking the best parts in the trailer. But I'm like, I was watching, I'm like, damn, this looks so good. Like, just the freaking octopus looking tendrils going in, grabbing the ship and crushing it down. I was like, whoa, this looks good, dude. I was like, this looks really good. makes no sense.
02:17:26
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yeah It seems like the biggest thing the biggest threat they've ever faced though. And you got like Kong in it and Godzilla. I just don't understand. like This is exactly what I wanted in like a co Godzilla x- Kong. you know like the The crossover.
02:17:41
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yeah I feel like this is what I preferred is that this like you're actually telling a story yeah instead of just doing this nonsense. Like it's fun to have action and big monsters fight each other. That's cool. I like it. yeah It's good enough. But I personally always think plot is king inside that universe. That's why con Kong Skull Island is awesome.
02:18:02
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It's fantastic. It's our good of the best. and Yeah. but Like I always think back on that Kong Skull Island thing where the fricking lizard guy like knocks the, knocks the dude into the mountain. Yeah. it's so grenavious Yeah. yeah Fricking amazing.
02:18:17
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And that's, that cast is so stacked and they all bring their a game. I just, i think that's just a great movie. I just, well written anyway. So I'm excited for Monarch more than I need to thought I would ever be. Cause I liked the first season.
02:18:31
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But I liked the first season a lot. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was really good and entertaining. yeah And again, like the different time periods and like how the mystery is unfolding throughout it and how it ties into the larger universe is just like, it's, it's, it's, I think really well done.
02:18:47
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My only, I guess, gripe of the first season, not really a gripe is like, I didn't know exactly when it took place like timeline wise. Cause they referenced like the Godzilla 2017 Yeah.
02:18:59
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And then yeah know there's like, I guess, brief references to what occurred, but they don't really touch on it exactly. Like they don't touch on those other movies um fully. And this one, the assumption is is this is taking place after Project Power Glove movie.
02:19:15
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So yeah, I'm curious about this. um I'm very curious about this. And yeah, like, yeah I mean, I assume they're working on another Godzilla X-Kong movie as well.
02:19:26
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So, yeah, yeah, I'm curious. It's so exhausting. I did i like it, man. There's so much money on it and it just doesn't, to me, it's just not panning out. I don' i don't think they're but getting as much out of it as they are in the Monarch TV show.
02:19:41
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Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. But yeah I'm excited about this. i'm I'm very, I'm very much looking forward to it. What Monarch does well, and they can learn over on the movie side, is like it does this thing where it the characters have emotions.
02:19:56
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yeah You know, they have relationships and they have development. I don't know if they've ever heard of that over there, but no, they like there's no, there's like, they, they, the things that happen in those movies now, they're just the previous like iterations of the care, the same characters kind of go out the window.
02:20:15
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They just like forget who they are. And then they kind of threw a lot of those characters out the window and they just made, well that's the thing, right? It's like this franchise like, yeah, they're I mean, they're sequel movies, but it's not like, again, like a lot of the main cast doesn't stick around for these movies. like They did, though, in the like the first few. Godzilla.
02:20:37
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No, like Godzilla. to Well, Kong Skull Island's a prequel, but then the sequel, the gods the then the Godzilla. King the Monsters had a lot of the cast.
02:20:49
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From the first one? Yeah, the mean guy and then they the main guy. Aaron Taylor Johnson? What? No, the main guy's not a Aaron Taylor don Johnson.
02:21:02
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It is in the 2017 Godzilla movie. Am I crazy? Hold Am I crazy? the monsters the the The main people who actually matter. Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown.
02:21:17
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I'll maybe watch Bobby Brown's in it. forgot about that. Yeah. That's crazy. That wasn't before. 2014. Sorry, said 2017. It's 2014. Ken Watanabe. There you go. Okay, yeah. I guess Sally Hawkins as well. The most important character of the entire universe.
02:21:31
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Sally Hawkins is also in the both movies, but I think that's it. Yeah, yeah. But that's what you need, though. That's what you need. You're building development. You're you're building characters that are going to grow in a series. It's not about making the monkey grow. The monkey doesn't grow. He's frigging. The monkey grows.
02:21:50
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He literally grows. He literally grows. But I'm saying you don't want to make, you don't to talk about about his character. is It's not a real thing. one cares. But don't know. Yeah. Because, yeah, like then, yeah, Godzilla versus Kong, Millie Bobby Brown comes back for that.
02:22:05
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And that's when they introduce Brian Tyree Henry. Right. And Rebecca Hall's character. True. And then it's Godzilla X-Kong. Millie Bobby Brown ain't in it anymore. But they bring back Rebecca Hall.
02:22:17
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Oh, Rebecca Hall. Yeah, Rebecca Hall comes back and then Brian Tyree Henry shows up. And we got Dan Stevens, who's just like, Wow, I'm Dan Stevens. I'm crazy. yeah Project Power Glove.
02:22:31
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Oh my God. I'm doing dentistry. I'm a dentist. Yeah, what the fuck? yeah what it That guy was crazy, man. What a great character. I love the cam. I love the cam. It's not good. You gotta you gotta put it in dosages that make sense.
02:22:47
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I think it makes sense. Alright.
Film Previews and Industry Insights
02:22:50
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ah Good for you. I think it makes sense. I'm good for you. That's it. Anything else about Apple? Apple. No. Slate.
02:22:58
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OK, cool. No. All right, then they're killing it, though. The question the game. Yeah, they are. Now into a segment of our show that I like to call a look to the future.
02:23:11
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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 the dates of february 11th and february 23rd 2026 yes adrian as his customer you go first what i will go first simon i will go first and i'm going to talk about the hit movie that is coming out called the weathering heights with quote quote quotation marks it before and after it. Starring Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi. I know nothing about this like, you know, tale. I don't really know it, but I do know that Emerald Fennell made Promising Young Woman and I really like that movie.
02:23:49
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So, ye I'm intrigued. Will I watch this in theaters? I don't know for sure, but I might. Yeah. I might. She also made that Barry Geegan movie. What was that called again? i was Yeah, Jacob Elordi was also in that one.
02:24:04
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That was that it was it's on Amazon. ah forget. I don't remember it. I watched it. I don't know. I liked it. It's good. I didn't watch it. I go. Yeah. yeah Barry Keegan. I've typed in. Yeah.
02:24:15
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And I've received the answer. Salt burn. Salt burn. Yes. Yes. Good. And anyways, this movie is coming out February 13th. Indeed. indeed All right. ah My pick is Goat, Adrian, an animated film where goats play basketball. Comes out February 13th. That's cool. Goat in capitals. G-O-A-T. Yeah. Is this DreamWorks or who is this?
02:24:41
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Is this Sony? Oh, good question. Goat. They have a good animation team, though. They have a pretty good track record lately. K-pop Demon Hunters, dude.
02:24:53
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Come on. on Come on. was also just thinking about that movie. Spider-Man. Well, the Spider-Man was amazing. Mitchell's Riches and Machines. That's a pretty movie too. Yeah, it is It is Sony Pictures. Yeah.
02:25:05
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It's exciting. Come on. Yeah. They're doing good. I don't really know much about basketball. yet I'm not a sports guy, but hey, they're doing something. Yeah. We're recording this on the day and time of the Super Bowl, basically, and the and the Olympics.
02:25:22
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Yeah. Yeah. Who do you got winning the Super Bowl, Simon? Seahawks or the the the Patriots? Huh? I don't have anything. I don't have any skin in the game here. Do you put to a bet for it somewhere? No, i'm not I'm not a gambler, man. I also don't watch football. i just All my coworkers talk about football, so like I can like kind of talk about football.
02:25:45
Speaker
Oh, okay. But I don't watch it, nor do I know what's happening. Okay. Fully. Cool. But, hey, man, so people like it. Who do you think is winning, then, this Super Bowl? I think the Seahawks are are, you know, kind of favored to win, personally. Okay.
02:26:01
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um This is instantly dated, this this conversation, because they would have already won or lost based on the fact that this launches on Tuesday. Yeah. Tuesday, the... Yeah.
02:26:13
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I've heard some football talk, you know? Some football time. yeah But anyways, my next movie on my list, Simon, is actually coming out on February twentieth And this one I'm very excited about because it has two of my celebrity crushes. It's called How to Make a Killing starring Glenn Powell and Margaret Quayley, which is, again, this movie is made for me.
02:26:35
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um' It's pretty interesting. It's like Glenn Powell. He has like a $28 billion dollars inheritance. um And like he, you know, his dad is like supposed to give it to him. And then I think, you know, when his dad dies, he has like, you know, seven additional like family members that are like, no, we're taking this money. You're not getting anything.
02:26:52
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or whatever. Yes. um So he's like, i'm going to kill my family to get this this money.
02:26:59
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Interesting. Okay. Yeah. Looks good. My next pick also comes out on February 13th as kind of referenced before because obviously how to make a killing was February 20th. But February 13th, a movie called Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die comes out. The Gore Verbinski film with so Sam Rockwell traveling through time to warn people Of impending doom.
02:27:23
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Yeah. This movie looks fun. I'm definitely intrigued about this. It it does look fun. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of movies coming out and I do want to watch a lot of these movies.
02:27:35
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Yeah. But anyways. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My next movie is also coming out on February 13th and it is a movie called Cold Storage. This one looks really fun. Stars Joe Curie, Liam Neeson and Georgina Campbell.
02:27:51
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Yes. And it's essentially like these two people, they they they're working at like a storage facility. And while they're working there, this like zombie outbreak occurs outside and they don't realize what's happening. And then they're kind of like, oh, my God, we're just in this storage facility.
02:28:08
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Like, you know, like what the fuck's going on out there? And Liam Neeson shows up and it's supposed to be i it. At least in the trailers, it seems like a comedy, like a horror comedy. But um yeah, I'm i'm very.
02:28:22
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intrigued about this. It looks quite great.
02:28:27
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Yes. Yeah. It does look cool. My last pick here is the sheep detective. Oh, is that sheep detectives? Oh, plural. February 20th, Hugh Jackman investigates. Actually, that's not happened. That doesn't have the sheeps that investigate because they're sheep detectives. Hugh Jackman's in it though.
02:28:49
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but he's dead. He gets moidied and he reads, he reads to his sheep. He reads murder mysteries to his sheep. And then they're like, we got to solve the, the murder of, of our, of our shepherd.
02:29:00
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Yeah. Right. Yeah. Logical. That's how it would work. Sheep. Very smart. Notoriously smart animals. They are. They are. I didn't know that was coming out so soon. I don't why. I didn't have that on my list.
02:29:12
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February 20th, if I didn't say the date. But yeah, you did i that's all I got here. Do you have anything else you want to call out? I didn't see any TV shows, but I feel like we keep missing TV shows.
02:29:23
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um I don't know if you have anything that you want I got nothing the TV front. I got nothing on the TV front. But there are a couple more movies coming out. These ones I'm not particularly excited for. actually don't know too much about them. I've just seen like the trailers once. So there's the Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, like crime movie called Crime 101 coming out. That's February 13th.
02:29:49
Speaker
Yeah. ah Barry Keegan's also in that since we were talking about him earlier. And then there is Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. which is like a comedy movie and it's about these like two guys that go back in time to like i don't know like the
Cooking Turkey Tips and Anecdotes
02:30:05
Speaker
2010s at some point and or the early you know the mid-aughts or whatever and again i don't know anything about this i watched the trailer and i'm confused like it looks it seems funny it looks good but i don't understand what the name is and like what that is like what is nirvana the band the
02:30:23
Speaker
The show, the movie is, are these guys existing and creating content for something? I actually didn't look into this. Did you hear about this movie? I didn't know. You just told me about it for the first time. Okay.
02:30:34
Speaker
Okay. So Nirvana, the band, the show is a Canadian mockumentary sitcom television series, which I've never even heard of. Oh,
02:30:48
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Oh, okay. Interesting. Yeah, this this was this is an old movie, man. This is like, um sorry, the show came out between 2007 to 2009. It was just released online by these two guys. So I guess they're coming back.
02:31:01
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Oh, and making it wait. Actually, no. But then it says that it premiered 2017 and 2018 on Viceland. Oh, anyways. Well, on viceland ah anyways okay cool That's it. That's all.
02:31:19
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Yeah, that may be 100% on Rotten Tomatoes right now. And it's 35 reviews. Wow. So. that's That's intense. That's good. Especially for a comedy.
02:31:30
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Well, comedies get reviewed well. They just don't get, well. but Not always, dude. Step Brothers is like fucking 50 something. right that That's arguably one of the greats.
02:31:42
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Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Because an acquired taste aspect of it. Yeah, I feel like comedies more than anything are are very um subjective. They're reviewed well on TV shows more so.
02:31:54
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Yeah, but the movie is is rated 100%. Yeah. With 35 reviews.
02:32:01
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Yeah, okay, cool. We're on the same page. Yeah, yeah, versus the other Nirvana, the show. Yeah, yeah. Right. not That's very confusing marketing. Very confusing. Nirvana, the band, the show.
02:32:12
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And this is Nirvana, the band, the show. Right. Cool. Gotcha. So would be Nirvana, the band, the show is the show. And then Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie is the movie. Correct. Yeah.
02:32:23
Speaker
Great marketing. Amazing. Hopefully it does well for them. Hopefully. so and Hopefully. Yeah. I still want to watch Send Help, though, quite quite badly. And we also talked about Marty Supreme fries, Marty Supreme fries, the movie.
02:32:39
Speaker
I'm getting hungry now. Thanks a lot. What are you going to eat for dinner? ah we we made I made a beef roast yesterday, so we're just going eat the leftovers for the beef roast. you made a beef roast?
02:32:50
Speaker
Beef roast with some potatoes. How'd you do it? Walk me through it. What are you cooking to? roast it in a pan, roasting pan. Seasoned it. putting a Medium rare? In the oven.
02:33:01
Speaker
No, I failed. I accidentally, my oven's weird. So I didn't, I way too done for what it should be. I was trying to go for medium, but I failed. Oh, so next time. Amen. Yeah. For sure.
02:33:14
Speaker
amen so yeah that for sure Yeah, because we we i I thought I put it, I was roasting at it at like 300 degrees, but it's somehow like and way, way, way, way less time than it should have been. It was done in like 45 minutes.
02:33:29
Speaker
And was like, that's impossible. It two and a half pound roast. It's like, what kind of oven is this? It's like the the temperature is, the thermometer is broken in the oven. I don't know what's going on. I have to, next time we do it, i going to i'm going to take it out early and then test the temperature earlier. Yeah. You should get like those, like I have like a thermometer that you you can like have in your oven. That's useful whenever I do roasts.
02:33:52
Speaker
It's not the end of the world though. Yeah. I don't find that. That's it. Yeah. But yeah, it's a good idea. Those are expensive. Yeah. No, they're not too expensive. You can get them for probably like 40 bucks, 30, 40 bucks. Yeah, my brother got one for when he was making, he did had his over for Christmas. So he did that for Christmas. He had it in the turkey. Because turkey's a turkey or two because they take so long. And yeah and also that oven, the like the way you're here where he's living is crazy. That one is insane. The turkey was done in like two hours.
02:34:20
Speaker
That's crazy. It's a turkey. It's like, what? Never even heard of It was from frozen. It makes no sense. Is he fucking blasting it? Like, what is he cooking at? This turkey? Did it go into the alternate universe and like spend time there? Makes no sense. It was time dilation.
02:34:35
Speaker
Yeah. Something's a mess. He was trying to tell me that that was the time. I'm like, I don't believe you at all. And like ah you like I feel like he understated the time because he put multiple timers on over time. So I'm not sure.
02:34:46
Speaker
Like he ended one time or started another. don't know. I'm telling you right now, Simon. I'm telling you right now. There's no way that he cooked a turkey from frozen in two hours. I know. Unless this turkey was a fucking chicken, okay? Unless it was a little baby chicken. It was big guy.
02:35:01
Speaker
Yeah, then no. I'm telling you right now, Simon. unless Again, unless he's cooking it at like 550 degrees Fahrenheit, 600 degrees Fahrenheit. It was very moist, dude. It was really good. It was one of the better turkeys. Did he brine it? No.
02:35:14
Speaker
ah He put like underneath the skin, he buttered the butter, the the butter. Yeah. The butter method. Yeah. and I've done that like but a few times. It's good. Turkey's tough, man. It's really good. Yeah. Turkey's tough. Like I like a good Turkey, but within like the last few years, like my family, we don't really do a full roast Turkey for one. My sister's vegetarian.
02:35:35
Speaker
right My mom doesn't like turkey. like She just doesn't like the flavor. so And like you know my wife, like she likes turkey enough, but like it's really just me and my dad eating it. And then you know if we're having like a big meal and like family friends are coming over, you the turkey's an option.
02:35:51
Speaker
But there was there's always leftover turkey and it's like, I don't mind that because then you can, you know, you make like turkey sandwiches and everything. But like over the past like couple of years, what we've done is like instead of just buying a turkey, we just buy like a bunch of turkey wings.
02:36:03
Speaker
It's dark meat. Oh, everyone likes the turkey wings anyways. Yeah, we're going to eat it. And um yeah, you just cook the turkey wings and it's way easier. It's less it's less maintenance. The oven's not fucking full of a turkey for four hours.
02:36:17
Speaker
Yeah. You just kind of bypass all that. They're not the best meat. It's efficiency, right? They're the biggest bird. It's easier to make them for a big meal like that with multiple people. So it's efficiency. Who likes turkey more than other, you know, like it is is turkey. Anyone's favorite meat product. You know what I mean I don't know. Maybe you might have like some fucking weirdo.
02:36:38
Speaker
but Because people say, well, why do you do Turkey? It's like we do Turkey because there's like a family of 10. That's why it's efficiency. um So if you have a smaller gathering, then you don't have to worry about that as much. But if you have a big gathering, I mean, you can buy wings for like 12 people, but it's like, i don't know if that may be as efficient as it could be, you know?
02:36:59
Speaker
Yeah, I mean. You know what I'm saying? So that's what it is. It's a bit of efficiency. And it can be good if you do it well, but I don't think it can ever be as like a duck. Ducks are so good. Mm-hmm. Even like a roast chicken, dude.
02:37:12
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Right, because it's just there's more fat. and There's just more overall per per square inch, I guess. you need I feel like like to really have like a good turkey, you need a good gravy to go with it. And obviously, you're going to use the drippings of of the turkey and then make ah you know like a turkey gravy out of it.
02:37:28
Speaker
My brother also killed it with that too. He did a really good gravy for this. He did a good job overall. He did a good job. This maybe his best year. He's done this for three years. He's gotten better each time.
02:37:39
Speaker
I feel like the turkey though. Turkey last year was good too though. He killed the last year. It was just weird though because we were looking at the thermometer and we're like, is this wrong? How can it be done? And we kept putting it back in other parts of the bird. We're like, no, let's put it in. Let's put it somewhere else because we just don't trust it.
Podcast Conclusion and Future Plans
02:37:55
Speaker
We were there helping him do that part because we're like he's like he's like, no, it can't be done. I'm like, but it is done according to the thermometer. So we're going to take it out. think We're not going leave it more. And then we took it out at the right time because it good But anyway.
02:38:08
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That's good. Okay. I think that's it, my friend. do you have anything else to say to the audience or myself before we wrap this fella up? No. No. I'm good, man.
02:38:19
Speaker
This was nice. I enjoy hanging out with you in chat and chatting. We should go watch some movies this week. Same here. Same here. Indeed. We should go watch some movies this week. What's the priority? ah send help for me I don't know if Marty Supreme fries is still in theaters it is yeah I don't know about that is it it is in our theaters wow yeah well yeah and Cineplex water that's impressive good for them kept it's in for the rest of the week so we could do what do that because I know you do want to watch that yeah yeah think it's i'm confident it's good I'm confident it's good like I know I'm gonna like it so I'm down to watch that but I do really want to watch send and help looks like a fun time
02:38:56
Speaker
It does look like a fun time. Also, actually, ah pardon me? We'll see based on who might be coming to it. i feel like my wife would more likely want to see Send Help than Marty Supreme, as an example. Yeah. So, like, if she wants to come to the movies, then maybe we do Send Help.
02:39:13
Speaker
But if she doesn't, then Marty Supreme. It's kind of my reasoning, my strategy. I'm cool with that, yeah. I also want to watch The Moment. like I know my my wife wants to watch that, so like i' I'll probably go watch that with her. Oh, that one I don't care for. I don't mind seeing that, but it didn't get reviewed as well as I was hoping for it to be for me to go see it in theaters. So I'll probably pass on that one. That one you can can ditch me for.
02:39:36
Speaker
You know what? I will. Unless there's a good moment where we go. Like a specific moment. Dude, you crazy cat. You crazy cat. On that note, thank you for listening to episode 129 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my delightful co-host, Adrian Pinter. Please join us on February 24th for episode 130.
02:39:58
Speaker
Good evening to you, and good luck. Take care, everybody. Goodbye.