Episode 6.35 — Level 99

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You're late, Edwin?
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I'm actually right on time, Greg, because I didn't actually come to work.
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I came to tell you that the way you're treating folk is wrong.
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All these people right here can't say this to you because they have no other way to make money.
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So you know what?
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I will say it for them.
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You greg.
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Rum and nerdy podcast is ready to go.
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Hey everybody, welcome to Rum and Nerdy.
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I am Greg.
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Fuck you, Greg.
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And I'm Garrick.
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Fuck you, Garrett.
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I'm not going to be able to find that audio clip.
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What uh what what movie was that from?
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That movie is called uh I think Unprisoned.
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Unprisoned?
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Unprisoned.
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That's the the guy from um Gone Sixty Seconds.
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The cop.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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What's his name?
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Um Deland, something or other.
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So uh why why did you feel like bestowing that upon us?
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I saw it.
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I was watching a clip and I'm like, hey, that's my name.
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That's my name.
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I'm Greg.
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I can do that.
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Fuck you, Greg.
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I thought it'd be just a hilarious uh different change of pace for how we start the episode.
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Mixing it up, okay.
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I see what you did there.
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Okay.
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I don't know.
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Very cool.
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The Greg in this movie is a dick.
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He's not like us cool Greggs.
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I would not let him into a Greg's club.
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Yeah.
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Well, if I ever meet another Garrick, I'll let you know how it goes.
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True.
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It makes me want to go on a journey to find a second Garrick.
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And then throw him into a volcano.
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No.
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Throw you into a volcano.
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Keep the new one.
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Yeah.
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So what are you talking about today, Greg?
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Well, you wanted to talk about this TEA event last week, level 99.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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That was fantastic.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that was fantastic.
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And and you had never been to a uh level 99 before?
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No.
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I had gone actually like two weeks ago.
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Okay.
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When I was up in Virginia uh for a meeting, uh the place I was in, there was a venue there.
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We went to dinner and then hung out.
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Tyson's Virginia?
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Tyson's Corner, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So there's one there.
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Providence, Rhode Island, um uh Massachusetts.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Disney Springs, Florida.
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So woo-hoo.
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We have one right here.
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Yeah.
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That's the convenient one to go to because it's where we live.
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I don't want to go to Rhode Island.
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It's all the way over there.
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Yeah.
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Providence.
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Which always, every time Providence comes up, reminds me of that that movie Outside Providence that sometimes I quote that nobody remembers the quotes from.
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That's the one that has um uh Alec Baldwin and he plays the dad and that the son's going out on his like his first date, and is like, son, always remember that sex is like Chinese dinner.
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It's not over until everyone gets a cookie.
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Your mom would your mom would have wanted me to make sure that you learned that.
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Or something to that effect, which is fucking hilarious.
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And you know what it is?
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It is like a you know, when done right, everybody gets a Chinese cookie with a fortune.
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Well and then you add in bed at the end of the fortune, because you know about that, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I feel like that's a bit we did on here once.
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Yeah, maybe.
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But moral of the story is level 99 fucking awesome tangent, us never nah, no, not at all.
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It uh it's it's sort of a an an indoor um challenge room adult experience, micro escape room social competition.
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Level ninety-nine is a sprawling playground for adults with fifty plus life-size mini games and real world challenges.
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Yeah, there were like a hundred and sixty-six challenges or something like that at uh at the one of Disney Springs.
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I thought you just said it was fifty.
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Well, no, I was I just read that off the website.
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But if so when you're when you're playing these the challenges, it's uh you know, think about it like these little like mini escape room style things, but you can they're all two minutes, you know, two two to three minutes each, so you kind of rapid fire your way through them.
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And um when you're waiting, you know, for the rooms, which there's never a long wait, because there's a lot of them, um, you can kind of scroll through your account and see like what your stats are.
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Because you can build rewards to like win, you know, bottles of water or uh you know, free pretzel, you know, free play, stuff like that.
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Yeah.
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And uh redemption.
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Yeah, I think they call it redemption.
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Yeah, yeah, little redemption codes.
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But some of the um of the things that or excuse me, some of the uh the stats about like how many times you've done this game or what what's your percent complete for the entirety of the uh of the venue.
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Some of some of them are kind of ridiculous.
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Uh let's see, what is this?
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Rooms.
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So uh at the time I took this, yeah, the time I last reviewed my stats, I had done eight of one hundred and sixty-eight rooms.
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You only did eight.
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Oh, that's funny.
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Well then up at the level 90 around, I think we did 15 of them.
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I'm wondering if that's all inclusive of all venues, though.
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Because that's a lot of freaking rooms.
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Eight?
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Um, they have like scavenger hunt things.
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Yeah.
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So there's like 55 different scavenger hunts, there's duels you can play.
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And it's all like, you know, solve this puzzle, whatever, but everything happens in like three minutes.
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Some of them are physical challenges that are quite elaborate.
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And it's and it's interesting because there's, you know, they have a little description at the door, like, hey, this one is you know fully accessible, you know, you have to, you know, you know choose the correct this or solve, you know, solve the puzzle almost more like an escape room.
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And some of them are, hey, there's a rope that goes from one side of the room to the other, and you have to crawl across the rope and hit a button on the ceiling.
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Right.
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Uh, and then like right out there in the open, they've got the whole like guillotine axes swinging that you you know, you have to try and make it down the balance beam and blah blah blah.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah, and those are just some fun, like kind of you know, get in the mood game games.
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They have uh they have a you know a full a full bar.
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Yeah, and honestly, um that's was my stick.
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I had a couple meetings to have there, so you know brought on the martini at some meetings.
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Yeah, it's kind of good.
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Uh you know, and and as um as people who kind of work in that industry and design things and and and talk about operations and success, here's what I love about it.
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One, it's scalable and repeatable.
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You know, the competitive socializing, it's one of those things where there's so many different things that you know you just go around and you explore and you do this, that, and the other.
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But what's really, really great about it is, you know, if something's not working, just replace that one.
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You know, or you know, you've got some that work but are a little bit more complex, you you know, you you can box it up and ship it to another one.
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You know, you can make some of these rooms, you know, kind of a touring kind of room.
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There's there's a really good, um, I'm kind of cruising through their website right now, and under the visit tab, they have pictures of each one of the rooms, and it it has descriptions of what they are.
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And some of the rooms, you know, were challenging, you know, our our group tried them, didn't enjoy them, didn't go back.
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Some of them were like, oh, that was awesome, but we didn't do good.
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Let's try to do better, and then you you just turn right around and go do it again.
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You know, they have uh like one of them, um you have uh like monkey bars that go around the the outside of the room, and they have kind of a climbing wall on either side, and without touching the floor, you have to go all around the room and they just will randomly illuminate buttons on the walls, so you have to climb back and forth and you know tag them as you're doing them.
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And uh, you know, they they have one where there's like a jail cell that goes down or like a it goes down the middle of the room and there's a window in it, and you have to get through the window without without touching the perimeter.
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That sounds hard.
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Yeah, I mean some of some of them are some of them are pretty nuts.
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Um but I like it.
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I mean because it's it's something for everybody.
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And I remember like, and again, though I was more engaged just because the the setting and everything else, this was a TEA function, and and really I was kind of there to do some networking and meetings, but the one that I did go up in uh Tyson's Corner, the um there were some that were like legitimate, like challenge each other.
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Some of them you did together, but you know, there was a couple that like really, really had to try and uh you know it was very competitive.
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And it it let and it let you know every time you you would leave the room, it let you know how you did, um, you know, how many points you earned, uh, you know, how many credits you got towards, whatever it is you were doing.
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So Yeah, it was just it was it was shockingly good.
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I say shockingly good.
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It they won a Thea Award.
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Yeah, what year was that?
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2002.
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Um Yeah, with their their original original uh flagship attraction at Massachusetts.
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Yeah, yeah, spanning 48,000 square feet with more than 40 theme challenge rooms, arenas, duels, and scavenger hunts.
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That's a lot.
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Yeah, but it was I I was blown away by how much fun I had.
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And it and it's in a it's in a place where it's on the old Disney Quest site.
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And I think all things considered.
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It it it's a great site, right across from a house of blues, um, kind of at the end of uh uh Disney Springs there.
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Um I think not to go off on a huge tangent, I think Disney Springs might have been a little ahead of its time.
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I think I think if you were to take just an exact duplicate of what Disney Springs was and just plop it right down the same place, I think it would be radically successful now.
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Maybe maybe give it a better bar, but I think you would need to do a lot of updating.
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I don't know that Well, I mean make the screens a little better, you know, make some of the attractions a little better.
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I I think the today's um today's visitors would be a little bit more sophisticated.
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I mean the concept I think in general, but I think engagement.
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I think the concept was ahead of its time, and I think it it closed before that type of competitive socializing gamification really took off.
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Um it was replaced by NBA not NBA City, the NBA Experience, which uh full disclosure, I feel was a bad idea from the beginning.
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Like as they were building the NBA experience, NBA City closed at Universal City Walk.
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Yeah.
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And they're like, oh yeah, no, we think there's a big demand for NBA themed stuff.
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I'm like, really?
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Because they just closed one at Universal.
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Like, why are you Well, I think that all ties to the fact that that was that was in around the time, I think, that um or not around the time, but a follow-up to the time when Disney acquired ESPN uh as part of those network buys and everything else.
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So I just feel like that, you know, like they felt like they needed to have it.
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I don't I don't think the I don't think the concept was I don't think the concept was fully cooked.
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I don't disagree with you.
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I think that's why they pushed it.
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Yeah.
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This one, level 99, oh my gosh, was it good?
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It was good, it's in a great location, it's such a fantastic experience.
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I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.
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Like I kind of, you know, I saw the I sat through the Theo Ward presentation, so I had an idea of what it was going into it, but um, I was not prepared to have as much fun as as I did.
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And you really you have to go with friends, you know, get uh you know, three or four friends together, go through it room by room, and it is oof an awful lot of fun.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I had a lot of fun.
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Um was there and and again, you might have kind of because you you talked about a couple of them, which one was your absolute like which was the one you really want to go back and do again?
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Uh there's one called wavelength.
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Um hang, you know, this was a longer room, almost, you know, more of a hallway.
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Yeah.
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Uh probably eight feet wide, we'll call it.
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Like it's just wide enough that like I couldn't touch either side of the I couldn't touch either side of the room.
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And what it would and what the the challenge is is they would have like light touch panels.
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You know, so it's you know kind of the touch-sensitive panels, but they would illuminate different colors, and they would be on different sides of the room, and you had to connect them with a human chain.
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So, you know, one person touches one button, and then you know, you'd hold hands, the other person would touch the other one, it would connect them, you know, through your you know, electrical connection through your body, like you'd do with the uh um was it a Vandergraaff machine?
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The thing with the sparks and the stuff.
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Uh yeah, I think that's are the Vandergraph Vandergraph machine.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um anyway, so so that's that's the core of the room.
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Except you can't touch the floor because it's it's touch sensitive, and they have these narrow bars suspended by ropes that swing back and forth, so you have to kind of climb bar to bar across you know across the room to span, and you know, you need a little more people going into that that experience.
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I guess that's like a kind of a I think a minimum of like four people you needed to need to do it.
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Yeah, but you're balancing on these rope things, swinging back and forth, trying to trying to go hand to hand to connect the two illuminated touch panels on opposite walls, and it's that one was kind of fun.
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Yeah.
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Um that that does sound fun.
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There's there's one that I wanted to kind of redo when we were up there, and um it had all the like you know the wooden blocks where it's like the arch and the triangles and the wedges and all that stuff.
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Oh yeah, and you had to stack as high as you could, and there's a sensor that knew how high, and like for you to get the maximum score, it had to get to so high.
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You you you you built them in the yeah, in the middle of the room.
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Yeah, what was that one called?
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And there's like a camera, whatever.
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So uh doing that one was fun, but we did it wrong because we didn't realize there was a whole thing where like once you hit the button, it validates it for like five seconds or whatever.
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Well, what you okay, so it's called construct, and it's about trying it's trying to build the tallest structure on a table in the middle of the room.
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And there's like a there's a like a laser beam that shines down from the top, so you build it under the laser, so it always knows how tall your building is.
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But then when it's time for judging, it illuminates different um pressure mats at the perimeter perimeter of the room.
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Yeah.
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So everyone has to go back and get on one of the predetermined illuminated pressure mats for the for the judging, so they know that you're not holding it up or you're you're not holding your hand over it.
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We screwed that one up too.
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Like we we we all jumped back and went to the pressure mats, but not the ones they had illuminated.
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I blame the illumination.
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I feel like the illumination could could have been better, but we did really get illumined too.
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Or we would have if we had been judged properly.
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That was I think that was one of those ones where like you figure it out and then you want to do it, but some people in your group are kind of like at that point are over it.
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So well, yeah, so but we were like, you know what, we can do better, we're gonna go back and do it again.
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But we didn't knock our tower down at the end of it.
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We're like, hey, the tower's still there, let's just run around and like we can we can continue with our existing tower.
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Fun fact when the room resets itself, the table like jumps and it knocked all of the blocks off.
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Like, damn it, they thought of everything.
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And it's funny.
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Yeah.
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Now I know um I'd I'd met him briefly at the bar when I was talking to Melissa and and he came by to talk about the event and was super happy with you know how it yeah, it turned out.
00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:17.200
But um and I remember he was saying that um the like and and I would love to have him on the show.
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Uh you'd mention that, I think, but uh he was saying that it in general Oh uh Matt, yeah.
00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:22.640
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:28.720
It's um that I you know what I'm I I don't know if it's if it's fair to share this.
00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:39.839
So he had said he was talking about the success and how happy Disney was, and I'll just leave it that, you know, as a tenant Disney's been very happy with them and things had gone really well, but I don't want to share too much because it's not really my story to tell.
00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:40.559
No, absolutely.
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Sec second uh second guessing that absolutely fair.
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Yeah.
00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:48.400
Anyway, yeah, it was it was it was a fun event.
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It was a fun event.
00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.599
That was uh the oh was it the 15th of last month?
00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.000
Or last week, fifteenth, Tuesday.
00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:02.960
That feels right, yeah, because we got back from Virginia and then It was just a couple days.
00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.000
Yeah, a couple days, and then we're at that event, and yeah.
00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:06.960
It's crazy.
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Um because Sates in just a couple weeks.
00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:19.519
Sate's in a couple weeks, and then there I think there's a a thing going on in Dallas, and then then it's um Ayappa Ayapa's coming up.
00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:21.680
I got my first Ayapa party invite today.
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Me too, yeah.
00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:24.079
Yeah, same one, I think.
00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:24.960
Yeah, same one.
00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:32.640
Um last week uh or last weekend was in Seabring for like the second car race of the year.
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Dude, I I know you wanted to go down and record there.
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I was so hurting.
00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:39.519
Yeah, I heard you like threw your back out or something.
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I I I don't know, like like really, you know, what's the definition?
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Like, what's really throwing your back out?
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What does that mean?
00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:58.000
I've had ongoing issues and they've been progressively getting worse, which is why I've I've um been going to uh a back pain doctor because I hate I hate pain meds.
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I don't like the way they make me feel.
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I don't take them, I just end up kind of suffering through it.
00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:02.480
Same.
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But it's it's gotten to the point where I like I just I have to deal with it.
00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:19.279
So they did this um I'm gonna just tell you what it's called because I don't want to booger this up because somebody will be like that's not what that's called like marzipan or something?
00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.240
No, not that it's not a drug, it's the treatment.
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Oh the treatment is called a medial branch block, right?
00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:35.519
So they go in with these uh needly kind of things and um needly it well, they're they're really long.
00:19:35.680 --> 00:20:03.519
So apparently there's a special sonogram kind of thing where they're like seeing where the nerves are, and then they put these these pins in, these needles like they're kind of like uh acupuncture needles, and they put in to where the nerve is, and once they've like, okay, this is where that nerve is, this is where that nerve is, and whatever, then they're numbers scoping you out, kinda, and uh then it's like cool, now we're gonna numb those particular nerve things.
00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:09.599
Uh so uh just to make sure that it's working and they identify it, they're not I you know doing something wrong.
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Uh, you've got to do that process twice.
00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:13.359
And you were around me.
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It's like, you know, like it was crazy how uh I I had the doctor check up yesterday and and he's like, so you know, walk me through, like how did it feel?
00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:30.160
It's like it was the weirdest thing because it's like the pain becomes somebody you know, it's this friend, you know, it's just always there kind of thing.
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And it was just this thing that I was so familiar with being gone for my life.
00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.119
Or being being with your life for for two days.
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No, it was gone for your life.
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Oh, gone for your life.
00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:41.039
Oh, yeah.
00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:48.160
It was just gone out of my life, and it was because it you you start to realize it's like oh, human beings aren't supposed to be.
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It's just you're always in pain, but even when it's not bad, you know, like it not hurting that bad becomes uh oh, it's fine today.
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And then when you actually don't have the pain, it's like I forgot what this was like.
00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.839
And um, you know, it's the incredible Hulk.
00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:07.599
My secret is I'm always hurting.
00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:18.319
Um, but then I go out and it's like we have like um Sandy wanted to clean out the the kitty layer boxes because apparently Podcat needs a clean toilet every once in a while.
00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.480
And uh so I'm like, okay, oh we've got this little electric pressure washer.
00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.119
It's really great, it's about the size of a vacuum, works pretty well.
00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:29.359
I mean, you're not gonna strip paint with it, but it's good for you know cleaning the vinyl fans.
00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:31.680
It's it's enough to get cat poop off of a tile.
00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:32.079
Right.
00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:45.119
Uh uh not a tile, it's uh it's a stainless or it's uh one of those uh stainless steel tubs, like um like a big catering um like those cooking pans or the like a buffet table.
00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:46.559
Cooking sheet or something.
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Yeah.
00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.680
So um so it's yeah, sprays off of that really easy, whatever.
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But I did that and I'm like, you know what?
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I'm out.
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There's some spots on the fence that are mildewy, and I just pressure wash that off real fast.
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Didn't take very long.
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Uh but an hour afterwards I couldn't move and And it was awesome.
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I'm going to sit on the couch for two and a half days.
00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:10.960
Uh and really it was like it was Tuesday night before it really started to lighten up.
00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:11.519
Wow.
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It was a bad few days.
00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:15.359
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:16.160
Well, it's okay.
00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:20.400
Because, you know, like I said, um week after next, uh You're getting your back laser.
00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.440
Well, no, the the the laser is later.
00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:30.480
Um after they do the second test, then they go in and do the original or the the permanent one, which apparently This sounds complicated.
00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:43.680
It's it's permanent because they go in with um there's a couple there's an electrical one and then there's a cryo one that they they basically and I jokingly say yeah, it's a briss, just take the you know, nip it's a nerd bris, uh, because they just nip the tip.
00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:53.039
But um they go in and it's again it's either like electro one or a high uh uh a cryo one, but they they basically burn they they deaden the end of the nerve.
00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:58.319
And um, which is the same thing the shot does, it just does it chemically and it wears off.
00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:04.960
But uh Sandy was reading about it, and it's like it it could be something that I have to go back and redo about every five years or so.
00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.559
But I mean that's not a bad price to pay.
00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:09.200
No.
00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:20.720
Um I mean at the same time, if you saw you saw how much I've spent on the first treatment and I've got to do that and then every five years?
00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:21.599
Yeah.
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Because apparently the the two rounds of testing you have to do that every time.
00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:28.240
Oh, really?
00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:28.799
Yeah.
00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:33.359
So insurance requires it.
00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:38.799
Because they don't want to do something that you know, spend the money to do a procedure that doesn't work or something.
00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:42.640
Well, it's not like insurance companies to not want to pay.
00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:43.279
Yeah.
00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.319
Speaking of things that don't make any sense.
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We did want to have a conversation about Star Trek Strange New World season four or five, what are we in?
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Four?
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Whatever the the latest one.
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The latest.
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The one with the recent I I'm not completely caught up on it, full disclosure.
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Um was it come out on um on Sundays?
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Uh feels right.
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I mean, is it done?
00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:19.519
I still do we still have an episode to go.
00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:21.119
Yeah, we're in season four.
00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:28.640
Um so the season ends in ten, which is a quality a quality of mercy.
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Um that one doesn't look familiar.
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Uh it oh, that's not right.
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That's season one.
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Season four.
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Um September 10th.
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That's been out.
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.599
So September 24th is 10, which is uh, well, it's Thursday.
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It's the day we're recording, the day before the release.
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So that's tonight.
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Tomorrow's Enterprise.
00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:01.680
Um the September 17th was Once La An a Time.
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Um La An enters a genuine fantasy world where the fairy tales become personal tests of courage and control.
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I haven't seen that one.
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Number eight was orders of magnitude.
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Starfleet commands commanders, the uh the enterprise for an alien pursuit that grows far beyond its original order, and then before that, a temporal anomal anomaly traps the crew inside a soap operaity.
00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:28.480
That might be the last one you've seen.
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That's the last one I saw.
00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:30.640
That's seven.
00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.799
So you are like, including today's episode, there are three you're missing.
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:46.000
Uh, and there are there's only two that I'm missing, because I've seen the um the alien pursuit one, which is like that's more like standard ones.
00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:54.319
Um this one, once on a time, a fantasy world where fairy tales become a personal test of courage and control.
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:57.200
Yeah, that it just I'm not looking forward to that one.
00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:59.039
I think I might have seen this one.
00:25:59.279 --> 00:25:59.599
Yes.
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Is this one?
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:03.359
You're like, I have feelings.
00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:05.119
Yes, that's this one.
00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:07.440
I did see this one, that was last week.
00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:10.000
And and what what were your thoughts?
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:13.440
Uh I so not selling it.
00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:15.359
Idiot Buddy Nick said it best.
00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:23.119
Idiot Buddy Nick He says a lot of crazy shit, and the tragedy of it is that he's usually right.
00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:25.519
Yeah, he's he's accurate, you know.
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:27.839
This the uh percentage of time.
00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:33.839
He described this entire series as all dessert, no dinner.
00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:35.279
Yeah.
00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:37.200
And I'll say this.
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:39.920
Some of I mean there might be like there's a couple of them.
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One in my mind that's like jello.
00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:44.880
It's like jello dessert.
00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.319
And there's another one that's like a really good tear, Massue.
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.920
Um which is okay, so which is so far, what has been your favorite episode?
00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:55.119
Uh, this season?
00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:55.519
Yeah.
00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:57.119
Oh, let me go back and look at it.
00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:06.799
Uh so um uh Pike leads the crew into an interstellar storm, sending the Enterprise back 65 million years.
00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:09.279
Oh, the the one with dinosaurs, yeah.
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:10.000
Yeah.
00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:11.680
Um that wasn't that.
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:18.079
Uh Spock, uh Laan and Kirk board a lost federation ship where an old mystery becomes survival crisis.
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:19.680
That's the um the horror one.
00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:20.480
The horror one.
00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:21.680
I love that I love that one.
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:22.799
That one was really good.
00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:31.839
Um, human best friend, short leave on a pleasure planet turns into a dangerous when the crew promises escape stops behaving like fun.
00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:36.079
Um that one was just kind of generic.
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:44.079
A case of whatever uh is mistaken for a resistance leader and drawn into a struggle against a Klingon occupation.
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:45.920
That one was pretty standard.
00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:49.599
Um level five transporters that was the black and white, the noir one.
00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:50.000
Yeah.
00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.960
I I really enjoyed the noir one as well.
00:27:53.200 --> 00:28:02.000
That one like it felt that it's like original series, because the original series went like off the deep end semi-regularly itself, too.
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:07.839
We're like, hey, we have the ability to film in a western town, so write one where they go to a western town.
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:12.319
And I think that was you know, as much of anything else, writing of convenience.
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:18.880
Um writing of well, I think it was just their terrible production value because well, it's like, yeah, well, shit.
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:24.000
We're going to a western town because we only have three sets on the back lot and one of them's a western.
00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:26.880
Yeah, we because we didn't have to pay for sets.
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:31.599
Yeah, it's you know, budget you know, budget uh solutions.
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:38.400
But uh off hour episode six, uh the enterprise falls into a slipstream that pushes them into a catastrophic warp threshold.
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:40.799
That one like that one's a good one.
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:41.839
Yeah, I enjoyed that one.
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:42.079
Yeah.
00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:48.240
Um and then uh like uh like uh chronotones through the hogerglass.
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:56.079
That's the that's the the the one where it's in a soap opera, but which which I I did not enjoy.
00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:07.839
I didn't enjoy it either, but I will say it you know, if you remember back the original series, there was an episode where they met uh this all-controlling, omnipotent being, very much like a Q.
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:21.039
And at the end of the episode, you realize that the interactive you you've been dealing with this petulant god child, and the parents come in and we're like, sorry, he's not allowed to play with like strangers.
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:22.640
Um, we're gonna send you home.
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.680
We really apologize.
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:25.359
Don't worry, we'll ground him.
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:30.400
Mom, that's not fair, you know, as these omnipotent echoing voices.
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:40.400
And um, so it happened, and it kind of I think that that pays homage to that kind of trope from the original series that you know did happen.
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:45.599
Um and I can't speak for the the uh the the last three.
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:49.839
Well no, well I take it back.
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:53.039
Eight orders of magnitude, that was a pretty good one.
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:54.559
I think you'll like that one, the next one.
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.200
Okay.
00:29:55.759 --> 00:30:03.680
Um you know, it's uh heavily focuses on um Kirk as a guest.
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:06.880
Oh, nice, which they they're very, very much doing more and more and more.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:08.720
So I I which I kind of dig.
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:19.519
Uh I think we said a few episodes ago we talked about how they're starting to swap out characters or they're introducing the characters that will eventually be the characters from the original series.
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:21.200
Scotty has come on.
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:23.519
Uh you start seeing Kirk more.
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:27.759
Um obviously Spock's been there and Ohhura.
00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:31.839
Um, but you're kind of starting to see that transition, which I think is great.
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:32.720
Yeah.
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:35.839
No, it uh it's gonna be fun.
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:37.039
For sure.
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:38.240
For sure.
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:41.839
But I I've been you know, we've been finishing up a lot of a lot of shows.
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:47.519
Um uh Reacher, the recent Reacher, that was a really, really good season.
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:53.519
Uh I think I've got one more to finish up for Lioness, which this season is intense on Lioness.
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:59.680
I know that's not a show that you watch, so um not a real meaningful conversation there, but um that's really good.
00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:01.279
But uh, you know, it's it's really funny.
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:07.359
Um I was I I didn't get a chance to watch the Emmys this year because it happened at the same time as a Kansas City Chiefs football game.
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.119
That's as good a reason as any to not watch the Emmys.
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:11.599
Right.
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:18.079
So um the it it's um it's it's it's uh kind of funny.
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.400
I was watching, you know, because I I do care about the Emmys.
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:22.720
I was watching the the recap from it.
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:23.680
You do care?
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:26.880
I like how you you you had to you felt like you had to justify yourself.
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:27.599
No, no, no.
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:28.640
I really do care.
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:34.960
No, it was more like a uh had it not be a Chiefs game, I absolutely would have I absolutely would have watched the Emmys.
00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:37.599
But um I think her name's Gene Smart.
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:51.200
She was on Designing Women, she was one of the ones in Designing Women, but um she uh apparently like for the fifth year in a row has been nominated for an Emmy and then won for this show called Hacks.
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:59.119
Uh and she is an um an older female stand-up comedian, long, long career.
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:12.240
Uh and the general gist is she's got a residency at a casino in Las Vegas, and um the casino is basically like, hey, we're gonna start replacing with this DJ, so we're gonna cut down your nights, and she gets pissed.
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:38.000
Her agent has another one of her agent has another client who is uh a young female writer, comic comedy writer, and he pairs them together, and it's got a lot of really funny moments, but you know, it's one it I I'll say this it is per is a perfect balance of funny, where you know, like every once in a while it's like, oh my god, the heart.
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:43.359
It just really puts the right amount of heart in at the right time.
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:52.799
Uh and it's you know, it's these bitchy, sometimes terrible characters that you just adore.
00:32:54.400 --> 00:33:01.920
You know, um they're just they're so well written, so well performed, um you know, ten out of ten.
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:03.839
I I recommend it.
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:05.119
Oh, that's cool.
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:05.920
Yeah.
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:08.480
Maybe I will have to watch it.
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.319
Yeah, it's one of those surprising new shows.
00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.119
Cool.
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.839
Yeah, and Sandy's gone back and started re-watching Mad Men, which I do want to do.
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:19.920
Did you ever finish that series?
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:21.279
Oh, really?
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:37.920
No, I got about the time where Don had run off, and there was a woman he a woman he liked that like was living in Palm Springs or at this house in the desert with a pool, and he was off like and he just like disappeared and goes out there for a little bit, and that's about the time I stopped watching.
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.200
I'm gonna say it's like mid to late season three.
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:44.960
Yeah, it sounds like you're getting close.
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.279
Yeah, because it went five or six seasons, didn't it?
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:50.160
Yeah.
00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:57.519
And then there's a whole um say any wants to go back and rewatch Grey's Anatomy.
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.119
But dude, that's like twenty-seven seasons or something now.
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:02.960
Isn't that show still going on?
00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:03.440
Yeah.
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:05.119
And that that's the problem.
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:13.599
It's like but it's it's they're not these like ten episode short seasons, they're not um you know, half-hour episodes.
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.320
Uh yeah, I don't know if I can do that.
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:19.519
Yeah.
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:21.440
Uh starting in 2005.
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:22.079
What?
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:23.760
This is insane, right?
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:24.320
Okay.
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:34.400
Uh season six, thirteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-two seasons.
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.840
Twenty two fricking seasons.
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:43.280
You go to that's like that's like some Doctor Who level shit.
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:44.079
Right?
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.119
Um I mean it's not quite Simpsons, but you know.
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:52.719
You know, you go um Ellen Popeo, it's like Meredith Gray.
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.679
Ellen, the actress who plays Meredith Gray.
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:59.599
Four hundred and sixty-seven episodes.
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:07.119
That's that's four hundred and sixty-seven hours.
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:12.159
If if this was your full-time job, this is this is like that's a lot of billionable.
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:18.880
25% of your year of your of of a whole year's worth of working hours.
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:21.920
Yeah, I gotta be honest with you.
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:23.519
I don't know if you could pay me to do that.
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:24.320
Yeah.
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.840
It's like okay.
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:32.239
Like realistically, it's if you watched 40 episodes a week, that's 12 weeks.
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.320
12 weeks to watch that show if you watched it for 40 hours a week.
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.039
And Sandy wants to binge it.
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:42.800
Like, I don't I don't know.
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.000
I'm scared.
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:45.039
I'm scared.
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:47.519
I'm in danger.
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:50.159
Fuck you, Greg.
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:54.639
I don't know.
00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:56.159
But been watching that.
00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:57.119
That's been good.
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:02.960
Um God, just finishing up a lot of shows, and there's some stuff there's no more stuff coming.
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:06.800
What's the what's the number one thing you're looking forward to?
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:10.079
Show wise or movie?
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:13.440
Oh, what why not both?
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:15.840
Uh I haven't really thought about movies.
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.199
I know it's it's kind of fun.
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:28.000
There's some crazy shit coming out, but um in regards to like shows, uh, things I okay, so I just finished Monarch, uh, season two.
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:29.199
I don't know if you watched that.
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.400
It's um it's it's that's uh that's on Apple TV, right?
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:44.639
Yeah, and it it's ties into the this group that basically discovered and then been following uh Godzilla and all of the the the um the titans.
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:48.400
Um they call they don't call them titan, but they call them uh kaiju?
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.440
Kaiju, yeah.
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.239
Um but uh that Reacher just finished, that was good.
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.280
Um season three, Daryl Dixon, that was good.
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:56.400
I just finished that.
00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:58.880
Uh is that one of the Walking Dead ones?
00:36:59.119 --> 00:36:59.519
Yeah.
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:02.800
Uh but we talked, we I think we did have a conversation about that.
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:05.440
Looking forward to Foundation season four.
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.199
That show's really, really good.
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:11.199
Um really hard to explain like you didn't watch that one, right?
00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:12.800
Um it's funny.
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.840
You watch a lot of different things than me, and every once in a while we kind of converge.
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:18.880
But look, you know, and I am looking forward to Alien Earth season two.
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:20.960
Oh, yeah, I'm really looking forward to that one.
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:28.639
Um I am looking forward to uh I think they're doing one more season of the Lincoln Lawyer that comes out, season five, I think that comes out pretty soon.
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:35.280
Have you seen um Alien Earth, the uh the sheep with that alien eyeball thing in it?
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:35.840
Yeah.
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.840
Have you seen the stuffed animal for that?
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:38.159
Yeah.
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.039
Oh god, I didn't know.
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:40.079
I think you sent me a picture of it.
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:41.679
Oh my god, it's it's so cute.
00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:43.920
Oh, Gentleman season two just came out.
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:44.880
That's one I want to watch.
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:46.000
That's a really, really good one.
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:47.599
Gentleman Season 2.
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:50.079
Yeah um watching Legion.
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:51.599
I think I mentioned that a couple weeks ago.
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:52.800
Legion, it's weird.
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.280
It's like the one I've been watching on a plane.
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:57.760
Uh let's see.
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:06.480
I need to go back and finish Silo, and then the things that are are like kind of um I haven't watched yet but are out.
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:09.440
I would need to finish Goliath, Old Man Season Two.
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:10.800
That one was really good.
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:13.679
Um I didn't realize season two of that came out.
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:14.480
Yeah.
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.400
I enjoyed the first one.
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:19.119
Uh Generation V season two never went back to that.
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:21.119
I'm looking forward to Ahsoka season two.
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.800
Um, Linus, I'm watching.
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:31.679
Oh, I haven't started Green Lantern yet, and I've had a couple people like really, really um really push it.
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.599
Yeah, they're like, you gotta start watching that.
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:40.559
I kind of wanted to get to a critical mask because it's it is they're releasing it weekly, and I kind of want to like, hey, when can I start binging it?
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:41.679
Oh, you're yeah.
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:44.719
You you you would opt to binge it versus Yeah.
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.039
And I don't have to like wait till the season's out.
00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:48.559
I just want to get like three.
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:49.760
You you want to get hooked.
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:50.159
Yeah.
00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:53.119
You need, yeah, like you said, critical mass.
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:56.239
You need enough there that you can get hooked, otherwise you're like, eh.
00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:57.920
Yeah.
00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:59.840
I'm not gonna follow through with this one.
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:05.280
And uh other than that, the last one that's on my personal Just Me list is uh new show called Negly.
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:11.039
Nigley, N-E-A-G-L-E-Y, and it's a spin-off from Reacher.
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:13.360
One of the characters in Reacher has her own show.
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:19.360
Uh, and it's uh I've I've seen um two and a half episodes of that, two, maybe three, close to three.
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:21.920
Um but that's been really good.
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:26.239
And then uh other than that, Sandy and I just finished Ride Ride or Die, Ride and Die.
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:27.119
Ride and die.
00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:41.360
Ride and Die, um, which is um I forgot the actress's name, but it's the it's the the uh the wealthy uh the the the team owner from from um Ted Lasso.
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:42.000
Okay.
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:43.760
You know what I'm talking about?
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:44.480
Yes.
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:46.320
What's that what's her name?
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:48.639
No idea, but I know who you're talking about.
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:49.440
Great.
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:54.159
Um I've seen just enough Ted Lasso to know exactly who you're talking about.
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:54.880
Yeah.
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.599
Um her name is Hannah Waddingham.
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:04.719
She plays Judith on that show, but it's um she plays opposite Octavia Spencer.
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:06.880
Uh and it's great.
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:08.400
Sandy and I watched it together.
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:09.760
It was a great show to watch together.
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:22.239
Um, and it's basically um the Judith Carrie, Hannah Hannah Waddington um plays uh uh uh an assassin, like a government agency assassin.
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:41.920
Okay, and um and and they kind of do a lot of bouncing back uh like um backstory with their or flashbacks rather, and and um they the moment like she was basically like you know found as a in an orphanage and then rescued and entrained, and you get the whole backstory.
00:40:42.079 --> 00:41:01.119
But at somewhere along the way, she happened to meet Octavia Spencer's character and uh needed a cover for like an hour and was like, Oh, yeah, let's get to know each other, and then realized that this was a really nice person, and then secretly maintained a friendship for like 20 years.
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:04.880
And the entire time Octavia Spencer had no idea what she really did.
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:10.480
She she was told, I'm a forensics auditor, uh uh, you know, an accountant auditor, whatever.
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:16.719
And um, she thought she just had this boring job, and that when she traveled, she just had to go to clients and check out their books and stuff.
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.800
But she was going and being an assassin.
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:27.920
Well, that's cool, and uh and then something happens, and she finds out all in this one night of all this stuff happening, and then they've got to go on the run.
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:35.920
And Interpulse chasing them, and this other character is trying to chase them, and it is uh it's really funny.
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:36.639
Huh.
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:37.679
It's really, really funny.
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.159
Octavia Spencer, by the way, is fucking a badass.
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:42.159
That actually sounds like a really good show.
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:43.280
That one was really, really good.
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:47.760
I mean, most of the other ones you talked about just sound like crap, but that one, that one sounded really good.
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:49.760
Uh Plutonic is really good.
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:51.760
I think we talked about that before.
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.599
Um Seth Rogan and his best friend, whatever.
00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:01.840
But um there is so much content out there.
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.239
I know.
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:04.880
Landman is coming out soon.
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:08.639
Um shrinking season four, the pit season three.
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:13.280
Uh trying to think.
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.920
Dexter Resurrection season two.
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:17.760
Uh looking forward to that.
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:19.119
Pleuribus season two.
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:20.800
Oh, yeah, Pluribus.
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:25.119
Um Three Body Problem season two.
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:25.760
Yeah.
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:26.559
That was a good one.
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:27.599
Yeah, that's good.
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:31.679
Um, we're getting ready to get the rookie season nine, which is kind of a guilty pleasure.
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:33.599
It's dumb, it's campy, but I love it.
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:35.440
That's the Nathan Fillion one?
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:35.679
Yeah.
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:39.920
Severance season three is supposed to be coming out fairly soon.
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:42.639
I need to get caught up on season two.
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:47.280
I kind of fell off the the severance wagon around season two, I think.
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:47.519
Yeah.
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:48.159
I think.
00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:48.880
Yeah.
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:50.159
That's really good.
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.559
Um yeah, and a few others.
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:56.159
But that that's oh, and and Stuart fails to save the universe.
00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:05.599
Oh that one is like I'm I'm almost because that show is releasing uh weekly, so I'm I'm almost caught up with it.
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.559
Are you paying attention to the opening credits?
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:13.679
It's so funny.
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:17.280
Like, like we're like, we'll watch it and then pause it and then Google.
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.719
Like, what does this mean?
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:20.480
Oh, that's this kind of code.
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.719
Like, there's one where there's a floor mat and it's just like dots and dashes, like, what is this?
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:33.039
And I took a picture and looked it up, and it's like, oh, that is some sort of programming code, and it means this.
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:36.239
And it was like, oh, but it was more like made you look.
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.800
It was like one of those things where it's like it does it doesn't tell you anything.
00:43:41.119 --> 00:43:43.840
No, it it it I think it says made you look.
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:44.320
Yeah.
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:53.280
Like it's like, you know, it's not like spoilering the You knew that it was something to decipher, and the decipher was like, Fuck you.
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:56.000
So that perfect show.
00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:56.880
That's awesome.
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:09.679
But that's kind of like what I've been watching what we've We finish watching um and then of course, you know, we're getting ready to go into network season here in the next like two or three weeks.
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:12.719
So like Matt Lock and some of the oh, you know what?
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:14.800
They're doing a reboot of suits.
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:16.719
Uh I think I saw that.
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.599
And it's a because they they did suits LA, which it didn't hit the same way.
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:32.320
But they're bringing back suits, and it's it's like the same characters are coming back, and um it's not a a reboot, they're just continuing it a couple years later.
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.119
But it's like from what I understand, all the major cast is coming back for that.
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:37.599
That's interesting.
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.480
Yeah.
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:45.840
Which is one of our favorite uh kind of uh lawyer shows that we did.
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:52.960
I I don't remember where that show jumped the shark, but it jumped the shark somewhere.
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:54.400
I remember it happening.
00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:01.119
I don't know that it jumped the shark, but I do know I get what you're talking about.
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:03.119
It flirted with a shark.
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:08.719
It It was more like it went fishing and um it caught a dolphin.
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:11.599
I don't know, that's not that's a terrible analogy.
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:12.639
I should be ashamed.
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:13.840
You should be.
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.840
That was could do so much better.
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:17.519
Oh well.
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:20.239
I'm sorry-ish.
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:22.079
Sorry-ish.
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:22.559
Yeah.
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:26.480
Anyway, you know what I suck at apologies, so unfuck yourself or whatever.
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:27.840
Yeah, unfuck yourself.
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:36.719
Uh one thing I do want to say, and because we are getting late in the episode, I do want to say um uh I hope all of our friends across the pond have had a great week.
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:42.159
This ha this week has been uh IAPA Europe uh in London.
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:47.440
Uh it is a lot of fun seeing all of the uh photos coming out of that.
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:49.119
Oh yeah, it's been really great.
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:53.599
And um I I had it's funny, I had so many people.
00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:54.559
Are you at this party?
00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:56.880
I'm like, I'm I'm at home.
00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.079
You didn't come?
00:45:58.239 --> 00:45:58.960
Why didn't you make it?
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:04.320
I'm just like, because um this year I was like my the Tuesday was Sandy's my tenth anniversary.
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:05.519
Congratulations.
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:06.480
Thank you very much.
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:16.480
And um it's funny, so uh the Sate uh Asia Pacific happened a few weeks ago on the weekend that was Sandy's birthday.
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:23.679
And um I yeah, but Asia happened on the weekend on the during the week that is uh was our tenth anniversary.
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:31.119
And because they were both milestone celebrations, uh Sandy asked of me uh a year ago.
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:34.079
She's like, next year, can I please just win?
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:35.360
And you know, she doesn't care.
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:37.039
She's like you go to a conference, I don't care.
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:43.119
But it you know, it was it was milestones, and so she she really wanted me to pick her.
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:49.760
Uh and after years and years of her really high support, it was an easy choice.
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:50.320
Yeah.
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:51.440
Oh, that sounds good.
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:52.079
Yeah.
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:53.840
And she's a good kid.
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:56.559
She's a good kid.
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:57.039
Yeah.
00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.119
No regirds.
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:03.599
Not a single letter of regrets.
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:04.480
Anyway, yeah.
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:06.719
That's all I that's really got.
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:08.480
That's uh that's a fun update.
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:09.199
Yeah.
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.480
It's gonna be a busy busy fall.
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:13.440
We're getting in it.
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:19.360
We gotta start figuring out booking our um our booths for IAPA, where are we gonna record?
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:20.480
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:23.840
Do we want to do five days again or are we just gonna go back to the four?
00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:27.840
Um I mean last year it was five because it was season five.
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:34.960
Yeah, I don't I don't I mean, unless unless uh unless it falls in our lap, I don't feel compelled to do that.
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.920
Do we Do we still need to do the daily episodes?
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:43.119
Because really, you know, they're the floor's not open on Monday.
00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:48.159
We usually do four, but we could do just you know, like the floor days Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:54.800
Because Friday we we're in there, we do the last couple meetings, then we head head out to uh the final event.
00:47:55.119 --> 00:48:00.880
I also don't hate I also do not hate uh Monday because it's an easy day.
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Like I'd rather I'd almost rather do Monday than than than Friday.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Kind of by Friday, I'm I'm kinda over it.
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Yeah, yeah, I don't think we need it this year.
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For sure.
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Cool.
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Well there you go.
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Anyway, all that said, um one of the things I am really looking forward to is the next time you get to see Dave Martin.
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Demo DavePro.com.
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We did get to see Shannon and Dave for that birthday weekend, and that was just so lovely.
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We as you and Sandy.
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Um but Shannon um uh Shannon's gonna come and stay um for the barbecue.
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So I think she's gonna come and stay here.
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Oh, cool.
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So we'll we'll have to do a recording with that'll be fun.
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Because I don't know that like like Dave um they did a lot of trips that I think used up some of his vacation.
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.199
So he doesn't he you know he can't come to everything.
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But yeah.
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Um he has kind of a working stuff.
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Yeah.
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Poor fella.
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Anyway, um, but we'll see them.
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But uh Dave, we love you.
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Um and I know he's like he's like walking the dog right now, walk w walking chimmy, because that's what he does.
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Walks the dog and listens to the show.
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But we love you, Dave.
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Uh, but uh all that.
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Uh don't forget to check us on the website, rumandnerdy.com, that's rum and dnerdy.com.
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Uh socials at rum and nerdy, also and d most platforms.
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You can email us at show at rum and nerdy.com.
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That's show at rum and dnerdy.com.
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Do you have anything else you want to plug?
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I have uh I have my new book out.
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Yeah.
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Um, no.
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Sweet.
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No, I haven't I have absolutely nothing I want to plug.
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I don't blame you.
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Okay.
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It's been a been a long ass week.
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I really want to go home and go sleep.
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Give me my logo and let's do it.
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Stay nerdy, my friends.
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That's in a ish, I lit footage for nine and nine balloons.
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I'm in flash.
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I lit footage nine balloons.
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How's it going, Mr.
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Hitler?
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It's a doggy dog runic, and I'm wearing bacon plants.
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It's coming, it's coming.
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There are some problems.
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We're having much better luck developing this impressive collection of 100 loop balloons.
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Oh, damn.