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Speaker 2: On today's episode, there will be spoilers for Frankenstein, which

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Speaker 2: is over a century old, So if you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: Might as well be here and Predator bad Lands. Hello,

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Speaker 1: idam is.

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Speaker 2: Jasconcepcion and I'm Rosey Night and welcome to XRG, our

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Speaker 2: weekly group chat roundtable with producers and special guests to

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Speaker 2: talk about all the things we're excited about our movies, TV's, comics,

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Speaker 1: In today's episode, we are bringing in the Scream Queens

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Speaker 1: Fagiamo del Toro's Frankenstein. It's a big combo guys. Me

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Speaker 1: and Jason loved it. I'm excited to dig in. In

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Speaker 1: segment two, I'm bringing in Aaron and Ian super producer

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Speaker 1: chatter about Predator bad Lands and guess what, somebody's got

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Speaker 1: a spicy take. Segment three, it's me and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be interviewing the star of Predator bad Lands, Demetrius Schusta Kolamatangi,

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Speaker 1: who is definitely after this movie want to watch? Then,

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Speaker 1: of course we'll be ending it as always with thank Galactus.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday and we're all gonna share are things that

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Speaker 1: we can't wait to do this weekend. But first, Frankenstein,

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Speaker 1: let's bring in Carmen and Joel's.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 3: How are you, ladies?

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Speaker 2: Let us quickly. I'll quickly recap the plot, which is that,

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Speaker 2: you know, Victor Frankenstein uh is going to the Arctic

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Speaker 2: and while he's grievously wounded, he then tells in flashback

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Speaker 1: I got a long ass story.

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Speaker 2: He tells him the whole thing, and it involves his

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Speaker 2: What'd you think of of Frankenstein.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's no secret that Gearmel del Toro is my

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Speaker 4: favorite director of all time. When I saw Pans Labyrinth

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Speaker 3: Movie should be done. And I don't mean that this

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Speaker 4: Watching something that is so like intentionally made to be

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Speaker 4: So I really enjoy here that we're it's almost like

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Speaker 4: understand the Otherkenstein movies, but this one was not sympathetic

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Speaker 4: to Victor, and I thought that that was finally great. Yes,

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Speaker 4: it was not sympathetic to Victor. It was like, you're

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Speaker 3: It looked fantastic. My eyes were feasting. My only critique

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Speaker 4: Movie was that I wish that the cg I didn't

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Speaker 5: Front, Uh, While hot Monsters are back, We're gonna talk

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Speaker 5: Predator after this. And I'm happy for our our six

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Speaker 5: I really appreciate that. Thank you Deltauro for never letting

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Speaker 5: But what they did here, and if you've seen the movie,

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Speaker 5: The storytelling that you're getting out of these clothes, out

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Speaker 5: I will also say, guys, the queer subtext is queer subtexting.

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Speaker 6: It's everywhere. It's good, and it's.

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Speaker 5: It's it's almost evil mustache tourly gay, which is really

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Speaker 5: It got me on the Jacob Alardie train I was

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Speaker 2: Rosie and he thought my thoughts are very similar. So

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Speaker 1: So I went into this with like, no, no, no, no, Pinocchio.

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Speaker 1: It's animated. I love that movie. It's amazing. I did

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Speaker 1: read Mary Shelley's iconic Frankenstein, who were like, oh wait,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I agree with everything that it, everything that

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Speaker 2: in a place where you're like, the monster's a delightful

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Speaker 6: Where do we think this ranks among del Toro's films?

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of folks that I've seen JACOBLORDI go, like,

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 10: I agreed, but but I don't know if a Netflix

439
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Speaker 10: exact would necessarily go yes, his eyes are so soft

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Speaker 10: and beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Why are we covering the hunkiest guy on TV that

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Speaker 1: kids love all in makeup? You know? Like, I bet

443
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of conversations to be had, but

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Speaker 1: generally I loved it. I'm very happy for all the

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Speaker 1: girls who wanted to fuck ugly big Scar Bill Scar's

446
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Speaker 1: Gary too, because I feel like, now you guys have

447
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Speaker 1: a sexy monster to fuck like. You can get deranged,

448
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: unhinged monster fucking out in a way that's more romantic,

449
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Speaker 1: more sexual, more loving. You don't have to die at

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Speaker 1: the end.

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Speaker 2: Up next a discussion of Predator band lance and an

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Speaker 2: interview with the Predator himself.

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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and we are back. I am bringing in

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Speaker 1: super producers Ian and Aaron to join me on the

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Speaker 1: planet of Genna, known as the Death Planet for their

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Speaker 1: thoughts on Predator bad Lands.

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Speaker 2: What up?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing?

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Speaker 8: Guys?

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Speaker 11: Pretty good? Pretty good? I enjoyed the movie, you know,

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Speaker 11: I thought it was pretty pretty fun. It was a

462
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Speaker 11: great It was a great like action pack pop corn film?

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Speaker 11: Did it like blow Me Away? Is it the best

464
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Speaker 11: movie I've ever seen? That's going a bit far. But

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Speaker 11: I really enjoyed it, and I think it did what

466
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Speaker 11: it needed to do for the franchise, in for Dan Trackenberg,

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Speaker 11: I think. But Aaron, what are your thoughts?

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Speaker 1: I'm curious, Aaron. I'm also interested because I would say

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Speaker 1: I bought my friend to this, who's not usually a

470
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Speaker 1: horror person, because it was PG thirteen, So I'm interested

471
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Speaker 1: in your non horror take on this.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I don't think this was a horror movie.

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Speaker 12: And I actually rewatched Predator one recently and much scarier.

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Speaker 12: That is, like the tension in that is so good

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Speaker 12: and so yeah, and look this story. I loved it

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Speaker 12: when it was called Mandalorian season one and when it

477
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Speaker 12: was recashed here it was like, Okay, yeah, it kind

478
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Speaker 12: of works.

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Speaker 8: Still, I thought the movie was fun.

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Speaker 12: My biggest issue with it was like, look, I think

481
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Speaker 12: the greatest villain in movie history maybe is the Raptors

482
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Speaker 12: in Jurassic Park and the t Rex and Jurassic Park.

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Speaker 12: I don't want to know anything about the t Rex

484
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Speaker 12: of the Raptors like that makes making them sympathetic. That

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Speaker 12: doesn't do it for me. That ruin not a Jurassic

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Speaker 12: World fani correct.

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Speaker 8: I don't wanteah blue.

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Speaker 1: I will say I think that's a bad point, but

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Speaker 1: I will also say something that I think that's a

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Speaker 1: true critique that I think people will have. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I humanized honest about saying they always said from

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Speaker 1: the beginning, this is going to be about a young

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Speaker 1: predator called Deck played by Demetrius Schusta Columa TANGI who

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing they did not say that about the beginning,

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Speaker 1: but he was eventually cast trying to basically like prove

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Speaker 1: his worth. It's a protagonist predator, which we've never had before.

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Speaker 1: So for me, I was well set up for the

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Speaker 1: kind of choices the movie made. I will also say, well,

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Speaker 1: I really loved about it. Aside from the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's super colorful, super crazy. I really like that it's

501
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Speaker 1: very YA coded, and I know that's not necessarily gonna

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Speaker 1: be like a big draw for people, but I do

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Speaker 1: think it's very interesting that a movie like this, in

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Speaker 1: a franchise like this is taking. You couldn't say this

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Speaker 1: is a YA film. It doesn't fit into a lot

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Speaker 1: of the things it doesn't have, like a romance is

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Speaker 1: a central plot point, but there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: tropes and setups that they use that feel incredibly YA.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's also because both the el Fanning

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Speaker 1: character of thea who is this kind of idealistic but

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Speaker 1: broken wail on your tani bot, and then this young

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Speaker 1: predator named Deck who is the runt who is essentially

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Speaker 1: on this planet to prove that he's good enough to

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Speaker 1: be part of his clan. They are obviously on a

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Speaker 1: coming of age for sure, So that aspect worked really

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Speaker 1: well for me. Ian, what was the reaction, like what

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Speaker 1: cinema did you see it? And did you see in

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Speaker 1: Burbank or the Grove? I was surprised.

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Speaker 11: I didn't get a chance to so I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't see you.

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Speaker 8: I was Ian was cloaked when you came Ian was like.

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Speaker 1: Cloaked through the predating. Our audience was full of people laughing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a funny movie, a secretly funny.

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of.

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Speaker 11: Good funny moments, and you know, like, I think it's

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Speaker 11: a testament to to el Fanning in particular because you know,

527
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Speaker 11: obviously the Predator speaking in Yaucha the whole time, El

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Speaker 11: Fanning is speaking in English. But there were some good moments,

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Speaker 11: like at one point, even though the Predator does crack

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Speaker 11: a joke and el Fanning was like, wait, was that

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Speaker 11: like an attempt at humor? I didn't know you guys

532
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Speaker 11: had that in your culture, you know. So there are

533
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Speaker 11: way more funny moments than I was expecting. But I

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Speaker 11: think that goes to the bigger point that you made

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Speaker 11: about how it is very wyat coded. It's like this

536
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Speaker 11: coming of age story, and they really do a strong

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Speaker 11: job of humanizing the Predator, which is can be kind

538
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Speaker 11: of awkward at times because we're used to having them

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Speaker 11: be this you know, stalker, hunter killer, like and then

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Speaker 11: now all of a sudden they're cracking jokes and we're like, work.

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Speaker 8: When is it not awkward?

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Speaker 11: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: Like, because I personally I don't need predator making dras jokes,

544
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Speaker 12: you know, like.

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Speaker 1: Guess what I got news for you? As the cannon

546
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Speaker 1: head here in the room. Predator has often sided with

547
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Speaker 1: humans throughout. That's human AVP. I get it. You didn't

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Speaker 1: need like the comedy like version.

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Speaker 12: Of I don't want a predator to grieve, Like I

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Speaker 12: want the predator to be this scary, invisible thing that

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Speaker 12: is hunting you, and instead we get like, oh my

552
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Speaker 12: brother was cool, but like my dad's and you know, yeah,

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Speaker 12: but can I.

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Speaker 1: Just say something? You say, that's what you want.

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Speaker 10: But how many Predator movies have you watched where it's

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Speaker 10: exactly like that?

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Speaker 8: How many? I mean, so Predator one two?

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Speaker 1: Have you watched Predator two with? Get?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: I mean, like I think the the part that well,

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Speaker 12: I mean even if you just go back to Dan's

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Speaker 12: previous two Prey and Killer of Killers, both of which

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Speaker 12: I thought were incredible pieces of work. Yes, they have

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Speaker 12: the Predator as this silent killer thing where we're focused

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Speaker 12: on other characters we care a lot about, which I

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Speaker 12: think they do a great job with it, Like I

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Speaker 12: would have loved this movie if but we're about something

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Speaker 12: other than a predator.

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Speaker 1: That's not the movie.

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Speaker 10: They literally were honest about, well, this movie was about

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Speaker 10: the entire time.

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Speaker 8: That's totally fine.

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Speaker 12: Like just because like I still saw it, that doesn't

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Speaker 12: mean I can't dislike it. I mean I still gave it,

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Speaker 12: Like you know, it's still like three out of five stars,

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Speaker 12: two and a half out of five. It's like it's

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Speaker 12: an enjoyable Yeah, it's an enjoyable, fun movie. I just

578
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Speaker 12: think like this hurt the lore in my mind more

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Speaker 12: than it helped.

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Speaker 11: Interesting.

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Speaker 8: It expanded on it in a way that I didn't enjoy.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, ian expand because there is a

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Speaker 1: little better mansion here, which is why I think for

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Speaker 1: Predator fans, I actually think this may end up hitting

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Speaker 1: a sweet spot they want exactly. So.

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Speaker 11: I've rewatched both Predator and Predator two over the weekend

587
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Speaker 11: before I saw this movie, and I think it's pretty

588
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Speaker 11: clear that Dan Trachtenberg was heavily influenced by Predator two.

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Speaker 11: In particular, Predator two establishes the premise that, oh, the

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Speaker 11: Predators have been going to other planets for centuries, going

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Speaker 11: on these hunts. That we see the trophy room for

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Speaker 11: the first time in Predator two on the ship where

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Speaker 11: there's all these different skulls that comes back. That's a

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Speaker 11: very direct link in this movie. There's another trophy room,

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Speaker 11: the t Rex skull with the t Rex skull, you know,

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Speaker 11: there's a Xenomorph skull and Predator two. So they established

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Speaker 11: that link between the franchises very early on a little

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Speaker 11: wink in a nod, and then there's other nods to

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Speaker 11: the alien franchise as well. Here. Obviously Whalen Utani is

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Speaker 11: the biggest one, the censor from Whale and Utani, but

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Speaker 11: I love that it also just reinforces that Lauren legacy

602
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Speaker 11: of Whale Utah going tough these other alien planets to

603
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Speaker 11: try to collect life forms to use his weapons.

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Speaker 1: To exploit, exploit exactly.

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Speaker 11: But then even like the loader fight at the end

606
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Speaker 11: was like a very clear nod to aliens. So it's

607
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Speaker 11: like a lot of fun little references in moments. But

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Speaker 11: I also like that it is a self contained story.

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Speaker 11: You don't need to have seen any of the other

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Speaker 11: movies to understand it. But yeah, definitely no, Yeah, there's

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Speaker 11: no homework involved. But I do like that we see

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Speaker 11: you know, more Yaucha Prime, the Home World, which we

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Speaker 11: saw a little bit of and Killer of Killers, so

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Speaker 11: you can tell, like Dan Trackenberg really wants to expand

615
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Speaker 11: that out, like what's the Yaucha culture? And you know,

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Speaker 11: we see this dynamic between the father and the son

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Speaker 11: and the brothers.

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Speaker 8: Don't expand that.

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Speaker 11: I mean, that's that's that's that's fair. I guess you

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Speaker 11: could say if you don't want to know more about

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Speaker 11: the culture and the history of this alien species. But

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Speaker 11: I mean, to your point, Aaron, I do agree, like,

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Speaker 11: especially after watching Predator and Predator two. For Predator especially,

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Speaker 11: I think the the vouch is only on screen for

625
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Speaker 11: like ten and it's total of that whole movie.

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Speaker 8: If that, Yeah, you know, the.

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Speaker 11: Majority of the tension and the horror comes from this unknown, unseen,

628
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Speaker 11: invisible stalker killing people one by one. And so obviously

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Speaker 11: you don't get any of that in this movie because

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Speaker 11: it's from the Predator's perspective. But you know, it's a

631
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Speaker 11: different movie, trying to tell a different kind of story,

632
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Speaker 11: but expanding the lore and the backstory of the after

633
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Speaker 11: because in Predator, you know, we don't know where the

634
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Speaker 11: hell this thing came from or why it's here. We

635
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Speaker 11: just know it's hunting these marines.

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Speaker 1: And also, like the original Predator is like a Vietnam analogue, right,

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's kind of always about how these

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Speaker 1: movies expand. I think, you know, forty years into this franchise,

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Speaker 1: I think this is a pretty great big swing movie

640
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Speaker 1: that for me, like I love Found Family, Aaron, it

641
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Speaker 1: definitely does have Mandalorian coding, but I think in a

642
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Speaker 1: way that is very positive. Like Mandalorian was just lone

643
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Speaker 1: wolphon Cob in space. You know, this is is what

644
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Speaker 1: if the Mandalorian wasn't just you know, a simple uh

645
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Speaker 1: you know, killer for hire who, By the way, can

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Speaker 1: I say as well, many people did not want to

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Speaker 1: know more sure Mandalorian.

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Speaker 12: For sure, you have a villain as iconic as Boba

649
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Speaker 12: Fette that's so mysterious.

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Speaker 8: People were very nervous to learn more about him. Exactly.

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Speaker 12: I think it's like that's the same kind of vibe

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Speaker 12: I'm getting here, whereas I loved Mandalorian, Like.

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Speaker 8: For me, it works.

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Speaker 1: You know, I love Mandalorian too, But I would also say,

655
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Speaker 1: like for me, when this is kind of what we

656
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: talk about with Marvel stuff. But there's so many different

657
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: Predator movies, including you know, Predators and The Predator. I'm

658
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: a I'm a the predator. I'm a predators guy and

659
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Speaker 1: the predator, Hey, I think yes, like stylingator. Yes, yeah,

660
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: actually that one and and also very scary. So I think,

661
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: like Joelle put in the group chat, you know, this

662
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: is like a very different version of the Yaucher. So

663
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Speaker 1: I think it's actually an interesting way to expand the

664
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Speaker 1: law while not impacting the fact that all the other

665
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: predators are like the Wendy Williams style, the killer that

666
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: just like shows up and just kills you at any chance. Like,

667
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: I think this teaches us more about For example, something

668
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: I speak to Demetrius about in our interview is the language.

669
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Speaker 1: This is a Yaucher language. We've never heard it before.

670
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: In this way, they actually worked with the guy who

671
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: was I think the MENTI and kind of next in

672
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Speaker 1: line of the guy who created the Navy language. Which

673
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: is funny because I kind of think this has a

674
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: lot of Avatar coding, but is better. It's a very

675
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: Disney movie than James Cameron Disney Avatar. It's very it's

676
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: very Fox and you know what, I think it's pretty

677
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: incredible that Tracktenberg was able to make a movie as

678
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Speaker 1: unique as Prey and then follow it up with the

679
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: secret animated movie nobody knows and then go oh hey,

680
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: and here's the might make fifty million on opening weekend,

681
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: like everyone can see it PG thirteen version. But what

682
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: I is really cool is they don't get to a

683
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: PG thirteen version by not having action, not having killing.

684
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Speaker 1: They just set it on a planet that is so

685
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Speaker 1: alien that all the blood is neon the all the

686
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Speaker 1: animals you're killing and creatures you're killing are crazy. Now,

687
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Speaker 1: I will say I do think as well, guys, if

688
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: people liked all the creatures in Alien enough, this is

689
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Speaker 1: very that coded, it's very monster verse as well.

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Speaker 12: Yeah that was I was. I was a little down

691
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Speaker 12: on some of the creature usage too. That was one

692
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Speaker 12: of the things that in a way, the third act

693
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 12: I think is the weakest. Like I don't love that's fair.

694
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Speaker 12: I don't love the Predator going back to the ravine

695
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 12: and pulling out one berry and then suddenly snake worm

696
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 12: guy is his shoulder cannon and sacrifices himself like that.

697
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Speaker 12: Just some of that felt really rushed to me, and

698
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Speaker 12: I thought, yeah, his mask looks like Mankind the wrestler.

699
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Speaker 8: I was like, get that ship out of here.

700
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Speaker 1: Cool was cool, and I can't I believe you're such

701
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Speaker 1: a hate.

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Speaker 11: I do like that. You know, obviously they established this

703
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 11: is like the death Planet. There's all these different plants

704
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 11: and animals and creatures that will kill you at any chance.

705
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Speaker 11: He loses all his gear, and it is very on

706
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 11: the nose that he's like, oh, all these things that

707
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 11: I saw thirty minutes ago, I can use those as

708
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 11: my new weapons. So like it was a little on

709
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 11: the nose, but for the story, it makes sense.

710
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Speaker 8: Like, okay, a video game.

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Speaker 1: Are you on a video game? Because I will say both.

712
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: My friend who watched it, she's a harsh crik. She

713
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: did give it three out of five, which I thought

714
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: was pretty good, but she definitely said like it was

715
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: so video game coded. The points she wanted to play.

716
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: She was like, I want to play, I want to

717
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: see this kind of happen. I want to be involved

718
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Speaker 1: in it. And I actually wonder a little bit if

719
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: that might take people out of it because it is

720
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: very I think we've talked about this game before. I

721
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Speaker 1: don't know Ian if you've played it. I think Aaron,

722
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: you did play it, but has Horizon this Aro don

723
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: Zero Down or whatever. I played that game like non

724
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: stop when I got my PS five and this movie

725
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 1: is very coded to that. I yeah, I'm gonna I'm

726
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna finish off.

727
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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me, Aaron, thanks for having a

729
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Speaker 1: hot Tays.

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Speaker 11: I have one more point than please.

731
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Speaker 1: I was gonna actually say, let's let's finish up with

732
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Speaker 1: like our final point on the movie and go for it.

733
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Speaker 11: My last thing is just in terms of the actual

734
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Speaker 11: like asthetics and the way the Predator looked, I think,

735
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Speaker 11: especially coming right off of watching Predator and Predator two,

736
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Speaker 11: where it was all practical with the animatronic mask and everything. Obviously,

737
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 11: I'm sure some of the yaucha faces were practical, and

738
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Speaker 11: then they put CGI on top of it. In my opinion,

739
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 11: I think they went a little too far with the CGI.

740
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Speaker 11: It was like a little uncanny Valley, Like the Predators

741
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 11: were like too smooth and like polished looking. It didn't

742
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Speaker 11: have that same like grimy animatronic feel that especially in

743
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Speaker 11: Predator and Predator and Predator two had, So that was

744
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 11: like kind of my biggest complaint about the film. The

745
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 11: Predators like look too good and like too smooth. But

746
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Speaker 11: I will say a lot of emotion was carried through

747
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 11: the eyes, which was important, but yeah, the mouth and

748
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 11: the manibles and stuff, it just looked like too fake

749
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 11: to me.

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Speaker 12: Which kind of you have to do when you're when

751
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 12: this character goes from being on screen, like you said,

752
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 12: for ten minutes partially invisible and cloaked being the main character.

753
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I actually kind of thought I was really pessimistic about

755
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 12: the look I thought from the trailers, and I thought

756
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 12: I enjoyed it, like the cig of the faces because

757
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 12: I felt like each of them looked unique at least,

758
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 12: which I really appreciate, Like he and his brother had

759
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 12: very different faces, which.

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Speaker 8: I was cool they did do that part work, Yeah, yeah, yes.

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Speaker 1: And I think as well, like so the actor played Deck,

762
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: he actually did bring he when they were recording it.

763
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Speaker 1: It was like all prostags and then his face and

764
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 1: they they mow capped his face and that's kind of

765
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Speaker 1: how you get more of the emotion and the expressory. Yeah,

766
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: because we often also don't see the face of the

767
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: predator until the end because their mask is so iconic, right,

768
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Speaker 1: So I do think there was a lot of things

769
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: hear that they attempted and tried differently, and for me,

770
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Speaker 1: the big swings like really work. So I'm really excited

771
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Speaker 1: to see how audiences react to it, and because the

772
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Speaker 1: critical response has actually been Pray good, which I wasn't

773
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure on because it is really different.

774
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Speaker 1: But yeah, just really excited for people to see this.

775
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Speaker 12: You did this for the Guermo section before with Franken Sein.

776
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Speaker 12: Where does this ring for you? Between Pray and Killer

777
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Speaker 12: of Killers?

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Speaker 1: I think it's Prey, then This, then Killer of Killers.

779
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Speaker 1: I love Killer of Killers, but I love I really

780
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: thought it was just I think that this and Pray

781
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: are so good to showcase the differences between what you

782
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: can do in a shared universe rather than the Marvel

783
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: where everything feels the same and interchangeable. This is a

784
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Speaker 1: world where the predator of prey exists and the predator

785
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: of bad Lands exists, and it feels to me like

786
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Speaker 1: in a world where they're going to all these different

787
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Speaker 1: planets and dealing with all these different prey, there would

788
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: be different worlds, you know. But Pray so one of

789
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: the coolest movies ever made, so still up there for me.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, of those three, I would put Prey at the top.

791
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 11: I really enjoyed Killer of Killers and that like anthology

792
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 11: way they did it, but it still ties into the

793
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 11: larger lore and it connects to some of the older films.

794
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Speaker 11: So I think I'll put that second. I'll put this

795
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Speaker 11: one third, not to say that it's a bad movie,

796
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 11: just compared to those other those other two are.

797
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 7: Just so good.

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00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 11: Yeah, So I would put it at third out of

799
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Speaker 11: those three.

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00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 12: Yeah, And I would say as oh yeah, er, I

801
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 12: mean same ranking as Ian Pray Pray is so good

802
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 12: and I love that so much, and it was so

803
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 12: scary and like so much tension in it, and so

804
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 12: that is one hundred percent the best way.

805
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Speaker 1: I believe that there are going to be Prey and

806
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: bad Lands double bills in the movie theater, So if

807
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: you did not get to see Prey in the movie thea.

808
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 12: Speaking of seeing it in the theater, what do you

809
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 12: think the box office takeaway from week one will be

810
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 12: for this?

811
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: My hopeful feeling is that it weigh over, proper forms

812
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: and makes like fifty mil. Because honestly, there has there

813
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: wasn't a big movie for Halloween. This is kind of

814
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: a good in between. It's kind of spooky, but it's

815
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: an action movie. Plus it's PG thirteen so everyone can

816
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: go and see it. And the Predator is known so

817
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go forty five to fifty hopeful Ian, how

818
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: about you?

819
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think if it clears like forty, I think

820
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 11: that'll be a solid opening weekend. You know, it's you're

821
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 11: hard pressed to find a movie to crack that on

822
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 11: a consistent basis these days. But I think I think,

823
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 11: like a hmm, especially coming off of the success of

824
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Speaker 11: Prey and Killer of Killers, Dan Trackenberg is like kind

825
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,479
Speaker 11: of on a heater right now, So I think people

826
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 11: will be excited to see this. So yeah, I think

827
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Speaker 11: I think forty is like kind of a realistic, you know,

828
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 11: high end number.

829
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Speaker 8: It could it could hit.

830
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Speaker 12: I think it's going to be twenty million if that,

831
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Speaker 12: I think you think sixty. Mad Max Firiosa couldn't even

832
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 12: barely got twenty five million.

833
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 11: I nobody wanted to see that movie.

834
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, but you had two stars that you're like visibly seeing.

835
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Speaker 1: So Mad Max Furiosa is, by the way, great movie,

836
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 1: insane movie, but super inaccessible. Like five minutes into that movie,

837
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: you know whether or not you're gonna like it. Five

838
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: minutes into this movie, audiences are given an emotional reason

839
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Speaker 1: to connect and an emotional storyline to follow. That is

840
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: simple and understandable, and that I think is the difference.

841
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 8: Now will they get will they get into the theater

842
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 8: to get that?

843
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: That's the question. Well, what I love about this? And

844
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: let's end on this because this is gonna be really

845
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: fun to follow up on. Variety played it safe, predicting

846
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: twenty five mil and Deadline predicted sixty. So I just

847
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: feel like this is like nobody knows and that's very

848
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: exciting to me.

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00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 11: Yeah, we shall see. But overall, if you're a fan

850
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 11: of the Predator franchise in general, or you just like

851
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,919
Speaker 11: a good popcorn action movie, you will enjoy this, So

852
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 11: go give it a chance. Go check it out.

853
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: Also, so you guys, you love in the discord Aaron's take,

854
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: So I want to hear your take on Aaron's take

855
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: in that discord. Go see it.

856
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 8: Do you agree with him?

857
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 13: Is he right?

858
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: Is he wrong? I think he's talking to a point

859
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: that a law of Predator fans are gonna feel. But

860
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: my feeling is the movie overcomes it with its own

861
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: quality and kind of heart. So yeah, and afterwards, I

862
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: will be back with an interview with the star of

863
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: the movie, Dimitrius Schusta Kola Matangi, who is an incredible

864
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: young performer and one of the loveliest interviews we've had

865
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: in a while. So yeah, come back to that in

866
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Speaker 1: a minute.

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Speaker 13: Guys, Hey, how's it going.

868
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 7: It's going well today, fantastic.

869
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm doing good too. I'm excited to talk to you.

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Speaker 13: It's nice.

871
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 7: I'm excited to talk to you.

872
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: We love to talk about the people who actually make

873
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: movies happen, so it's like a really exciting thing to

874
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: get to talk to someone who's not only the lead

875
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: but also a creature actor. So I would love to

876
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: start just by asking you, what's like your acting origin story?

877
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 13: Where did you.

878
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 7: Begin acting origin story?

879
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 14: I feel like I've always been a little bit of

880
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 14: an actor, you know, as a kid, just growing up.

881
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,720
Speaker 14: I just love entertaining people, you know, making people smile,

882
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 14: making people laugh, you know, whatever I can to just

883
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 14: brighten up someone's day.

884
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 7: I was always trying to do.

885
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 14: But in terms of my professional acting career, I started

886
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 14: My first job was in twenty nineteen where I filmed

887
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 14: a little thing back in New Zealand. It was two

888
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 14: part series and I had like three scenes in it,

889
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 14: and I like died, But yeah, it was kind of

890
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 14: my introduction to the world of acting, you know, and

891
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 14: being on set, and from there it was just kind

892
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 14: of investing in myself, putting myself through you know, acting

893
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 14: courses here and there, trying to soak up as much

894
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 14: game as I could about the industry, and yeah, I

895
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 14: just kind of started climbing.

896
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: And how does it feel then, like six years later,

897
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: to be, you know, the lead in this kind of franchise.

898
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 7: It's surreal.

899
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 14: If I'm honest, it's hasn't really sunk in fully. I

900
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 14: think everything's just been go, go go, so haven't had

901
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 14: time to just you know, stand back and smell the flowers.

902
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 14: But it's been honestly an amazing journey, you know, to

903
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 14: get here. It's hard at times trying to just hustle

904
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 14: as an actor, but yeah, it's very rewarding and you

905
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 14: learn a lot about yourself because.

906
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: You're also constantly just thinking about people, like all different

907
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: kinds of people, different kinds of humans. So then in

908
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: your head you're like, okay, so what am I?

909
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 14: But yeah, but that's such a fair point. I think

910
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 14: that's something that I really love about acting, is that

911
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 14: like learning the psychology of people, you know, and their behaviors,

912
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 14: what drives somebody to do what they do, why are

913
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 14: they the way they are?

914
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 7: And honing in on the why of everything?

915
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 14: That was something that I kind of just take away now,

916
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 14: you know, in my life it's just you know, there's

917
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 14: always a reason behind something, There's a why to literally everything.

918
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 7: So you just got to navigate that. And yeah, I

919
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 7: didn't find out what's going on exactly.

920
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: But like, how so something like the panthers, you're drawing

921
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: from like real history, right about Polynesian panthers, and so

922
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: like something like that you can research, you can learn

923
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: when you're approaching something like that, who isn't necessarily human?

924
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: And the whole notion of this movie is like there's

925
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: no humans, it's all alien. Yeah, how do you find

926
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: that character? What was that like for you?

927
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 14: A fantastic question and it was a very new process,

928
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 14: I guess for myself, not new in terms of I

929
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 14: guess how I was approaching character.

930
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 7: I feel like every story.

931
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 14: Is a story, you know, so as an actor, you

932
00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 14: kind of see it from whatever perspective you're a you know,

933
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 14: whatever perspective of your characters, and that's how you try

934
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 14: and view the story. But yeah, getting into the psychology

935
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 14: of Yaucher you know, it was just literally learning the

936
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 14: Yaucher culture, you know, immersing myself and all of the

937
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 14: previous Predator installments, getting myself all these comics, just trying

938
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 14: to understand the deeper reason of you know, why do

939
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 14: they go on hunts? Why is hunting so big for them?

940
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 14: Is this like a I think they just love violence

941
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 14: or is it something you know what I mean? So

942
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 14: it was, yeah, just a lot of a lot of

943
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 14: time spent on just understanding what makes these creatures them

944
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 14: and then from there I was able to it was

945
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 14: able to inform everything else.

946
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: You know.

947
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 14: It was yeah, knowing that they're they're worried spirits. You know,

948
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 14: they're from a long lineage and ancestry of hunters who

949
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 14: hunt for status. You know, this is how this is

950
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 14: their this is their money to them. You know, they're

951
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 14: able to acquire so much prestige you know, on their hunts.

952
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 14: Suit with that, you know, you carry yourself differently, you

953
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 14: speak differently, your energy is different.

954
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 7: It's it's a whole process, you know, and.

955
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 14: It's a it's a little yeah, I love any I'm

956
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 14: sorry I could speak on little no.

957
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 13: I love it.

958
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 7: Well.

959
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: We're very lucky because a lot of as our listeners

960
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: will know, like a lot of junket interviews are four

961
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: minutes and we get twenty. So I'm not in life.

962
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 13: So I'm like you were talking, we got time exactly.

963
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 13: So I love.

964
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: That you went back and looked at kind of the

965
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: classics stuff because for so many people that's what you know,

966
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: they grew up on and we're all but with Dan,

967
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: he has done a great job of kind of reimagining

968
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: it with Prey and now if this kind of expanding

969
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: the law. When you were looking back at those comics

970
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: or the movies, was there something that surprised you or

971
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: like struck you about the predator kind of law or

972
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 1: the space that you were stepping into.

973
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 14: I think one aspect of the predator law that I

974
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 14: was intrigued by was the fact that so the reason

975
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 14: they take trophies they used to be enslaved, like yeah,

976
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 14: like years and years and years ago, so they were

977
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 14: able to overthrow their presses by you know, hunting them down,

978
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 14: and the first trophy they took was off of their

979
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 14: masters that were enslaving them. So I was like, man, yeah,

980
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 14: it's a deep like thing that they still carry on,

981
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 14: you know, to this day. It's something that pays homage

982
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 14: to those who went before them. So I was like,

983
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 14: I'm even getting goosebumps thinking about it right now.

984
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 2: You know.

985
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 14: It's such a powerful aspect to their to their characters,

986
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 14: and yeah, it was. That was a cool thing that

987
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 14: I learned about them. So yeah, just finding all those

988
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 14: kind of little nuggets and also understanding that, like you said,

989
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 14: Dan is taking the franchise into a whole new realm.

990
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 14: You know, He's breathing a whole new life into these characters.

991
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 14: So I didn't I didn't want to just copy and

992
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 14: paste you know what has been done. You know, I

993
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 14: had to do my research in terms of understanding what

994
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 14: made these characters iconic in the first place, Why did

995
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 14: people fall in love with these characters and use those

996
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 14: elements while also injecting my own unique energy and my

997
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:22,439
Speaker 14: own unique storytelling abilities into these characters, because yeah, it's

998
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 14: Dick's character himself was unique.

999
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: You know, what I was gonna say is a totally

1000
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: different version. Like we often see the predator, who is

1001
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: the titular predator, right, but the whole pitch with this

1002
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: that Dan's always been getting people excited with this, Well,

1003
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: now the Predator is hunted, right, So what does that

1004
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: look like and what does it mean to get to

1005
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: be you know, rooting for the predator. Though throughout the

1006
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: movies that does happen, especially in like AVP and stuff

1007
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: like that. You know, like we do occasionally root for

1008
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: the predator. But what was that like? Like having to

1009
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: find this kind of heart and journey because this is

1010
00:51:55,840 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: not a Deck is not somebody who is respected as

1011
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: a hunter or recognized as a hunter, and he has

1012
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: to really go on a journey of earning that in

1013
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: a way we haven't seen other predators kind of do. Yeah,

1014
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: could you talk a little bit about building that?

1015
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 14: Yeah, So that was even cool to explore because all

1016
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 14: of the previous predator films we've seen these like these

1017
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 14: predators are already blooded, so bloods. You know, they've already

1018
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 14: left their yaut Prime. They've already gone and you know, hunted,

1019
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 14: and they've they've already established themselves within their own clans.

1020
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 14: Deck has never left Yauch Prime. He has you know,

1021
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 14: never even seen the outside of his home. So with that,

1022
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 14: he's already not like he has that naivety about him,

1023
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 14: you know, he he he thinks he knows like everything,

1024
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 14: he thinks he is the best hunter, and as you should,

1025
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:52,760
Speaker 14: you should always believe that you're the best. But without

1026
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 14: the experience, you know, there's always that undertone of man,

1027
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 14: can I really do? And with Dick being the underdog

1028
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 14: and being the runt of his family, it just adds

1029
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 14: more motivation, you know, it pushes him into a whole

1030
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 14: different realm where he not coming across defensively, but yeah,

1031
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 14: he has something to prove, he has a point to prove.

1032
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 14: All these other predators we've seen, you know, they've they've

1033
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 14: already proven, you know, so they they walk in a

1034
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 14: different kind of like their energy is different, whereas when

1035
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 14: you're trying.

1036
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 7: To prove yourself, you're you're up.

1037
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 14: You know you You're That's all you can think about,

1038
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 14: That's all that's on your mind. Then embodying that was

1039
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 14: intense at times. It's emotionally draining.

1040
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 7: A little bit. But yeah, we had ways to, Yeah, just.

1041
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 14: Make him as authentic as we could, you know, and

1042
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 14: have people relate to the themes of what he's he's

1043
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 14: going through.

1044
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say, like you talked a

1045
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: lot about finding your own in you are also coming

1046
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: from a place where you've only been acting for like

1047
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: six years, which is a long time, right, It is

1048
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: a long time, and it's like but in that way,

1049
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: you're kind of like Deck because then you're coming into

1050
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: this and you have to prove yourself as well as

1051
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: like a leading man as a creature actor, which was like,

1052
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: is that something you ever expected?

1053
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 14: This is the first Yeah, never done creature acting or

1054
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 14: acting as a non human.

1055
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, were you able to bring like your own experience

1056
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: of moving up into this new kind of Hollywood space

1057
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: and bringing your drive and showing people what you could

1058
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: do two Deck's character?

1059
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, of course.

1060
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 14: I think as an actor, you have to use your

1061
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 14: own experiences, you know, to inform your characters and find

1062
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 14: ways that you can make.

1063
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 7: It real for yourself so that.

1064
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 14: Others can, you know, find that realness you know within

1065
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 14: it as well. So you know, like you said, I've

1066
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 14: always just felt like an underdog in general growing up.

1067
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 14: I've never been like instantly good at anything, Like I've

1068
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 14: had to work, you know, to make sure that I'm

1069
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 14: at least operating at the same level or above, you know,

1070
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 14: as the people around me. So that was something that's

1071
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 14: just natural for me to try and outwork you know,

1072
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 14: everyone around me. Because I have to work a little

1073
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 14: bit harder to even you know, be on the same

1074
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 14: level as some people. So I think using those kind

1075
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 14: of experiences. I'm also Polynesian, and you know, we come

1076
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 14: from a lineage of warriors. You know, we embody the

1077
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 14: spirit of warriors. So even using those aspects that I've

1078
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 14: always had growing up and filtering that into Dick in

1079
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 14: a way that is still coming across as like Yaucher,

1080
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 14: you know, but it comes from a place of truth.

1081
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 14: I think it's it's very important, and it makes it

1082
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 14: feel authentic and people can appreciate the realness of that.

1083
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 14: You know, it just adds texture to your character, and yeah,

1084
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 14: I feel like you can really see that.

1085
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: Absolutely and you get to kind of have this this

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Speaker 1: kind of double act with you know, al and having

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Speaker 1: I believe on the back you were actually carrying her.

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Speaker 1: Could you talk a little bit about the physicality of

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Speaker 1: this performance too, because obviously there's a lot emotionally that

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Speaker 1: you were able to connect to and bring and bring

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Speaker 1: that kind of underdog spirit. But with out what was

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Speaker 1: that like, because that again is a completely different way

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Speaker 1: of acting.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a lot. I think honestly, it was

1095
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 7: just understanding each scene for what it was.

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Speaker 14: And why we are doing each you know, why we're

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Speaker 14: doing what we're doing.

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Speaker 7: And then yeah, it was really like new.

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Speaker 14: To me acting with someone but not seeing them or

1100
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Speaker 14: like fate, like we're talking away from each other, you know,

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Speaker 14: so you're not actually like connecting here. So even that

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Speaker 14: element of it was quite interesting what we were able

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Speaker 14: to kind of do with that because she's in her

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Speaker 14: own world, you know, thinking about what he is thinking about,

1105
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 14: and then I'm in my world with my mission, and

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00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 14: it's kind of it felt honestly like you know how

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00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 14: you have those the demon and the angel on your shoulders,

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Speaker 14: That's what it felt like. She was like that voice

1109
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 14: in the back of my ear.

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Speaker 7: She was my.

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Speaker 14: Conscience selling me I don't think you should go there,

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Speaker 14: or like, you know, doing all that little stuff.

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Speaker 7: And Dick's just on his own kind of path.

1114
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 14: But yeah, it was it was a cool, like challenge,

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00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 14: you know, to to do that, because.

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Speaker 7: I feel like there was a lot of things that

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00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 7: were quite challenging.

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Speaker 1: I bet it sounds like it was a really challenging

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Speaker 1: big project.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, a little, But like like I said, all of

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Speaker 14: those challenges, I guess I was just using to inform

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00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 14: you know, more of my character. You know, it would

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Speaker 14: be hot in the suit and uncomfortable. You can't really

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Speaker 14: move properly, so you had to really fight to you know,

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Speaker 14: stay in the scene, stay performing, you know. And it

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Speaker 14: was Yeah, it literally just worked with how Dick is

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00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 14: so it made sense exactly. So I was just trying

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Speaker 14: to use as much as I could and not see

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Speaker 14: it as a distraction or see it as hard, you know,

1130
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 14: but see it as this is how it is, let's

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Speaker 14: roll with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So you you mentioned this your first time doing

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Speaker 1: non human acting. Did you find like, is that something

1134
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: you're excited to pursue? Like do you now have dreams

1135
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: of playing like Frankenstein's monstyle creature from the back lagoon? Like?

1136
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: Did it allow something a different side of your acting

1137
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: to come out?

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Speaker 14: I'll be honest, I think it expanded my skill set

1139
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 14: in terms of an actor, and it gave me a

1140
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 14: lot of confidence in terms of knowing that, yeah, like

1141
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 14: it will take a lot to pull me out of

1142
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 14: a scene, you know, it will take a lot to

1143
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 14: kind of get me to a place where I'm like, nah,

1144
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 14: I can't do this, Like that was something I really

1145
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 14: valued from getting out of this. But yeah, in terms

1146
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 14: of playing other, I honestly just love story. I love

1147
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 14: stories and I love characters. Even being Polynesian, you know,

1148
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 14: we ire storytelling. We were from a generation of orators, So.

1149
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 7: I just I'm invested in whatever the story is.

1150
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 14: So yeah, if there's a character where the story is

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00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 14: written and you know, yeah, and the characters as layered

1152
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 14: and has a bit of new once to them, you know,

1153
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 14: it's exciting. You know, it's a story that should be

1154
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 14: told with you know, messages that people can relate to.

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00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 14: You know, people can watch and just forget about their

1156
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 14: lives for now and a half or two hours, you know,

1157
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 14: and just fully be prison You know, those are things

1158
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 14: that I want to I want to work on it

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00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 14: and be a part of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the best the stuff.

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Speaker 13: We all need an escape exactly.

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Speaker 7: It's a crazy time in this world. So it's it's

1163
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Speaker 7: always good.

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Speaker 1: It definitely is okay. So is there a moment that

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00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: you're most now you know people are seeing it and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Is there a moment you're most excited for people to

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00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: see on screen?

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00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 7: Oh, like a particular scene.

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00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: Or it can be like a character, be a scene,

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00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: a stunt you really work hard on like whatever, feeling

1171
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: like they you can't wait for people to see on

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Speaker 1: that big screen.

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Speaker 14: I think the first act is like something that I'm

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01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 14: really proud of as an actor, but also in terms

1175
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 14: of this story. It informs literally everything that you know

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Speaker 14: about the.

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Speaker 1: Most we've ever seen of the Predator like space and

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01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: yeah and world, so it's totally unique in that way.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so I'm excited for I guess the Uji Predator fans,

1180
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 14: you know, you've been like craving a story like this

1181
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 14: where they get to see, you know, the like multiple

1182
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 14: predators on their planet, hear the language.

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Speaker 1: People are so excited about that. Like Reddit people are

1184
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: just like I've been writing fan canons of Future Bride

1185
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Speaker 1: my whole.

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Speaker 13: Life, you know, So I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think people are gonna love that.

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Speaker 14: It's so funny because just from the trailers, I've had

1189
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Speaker 14: people messaging me like trying to translate the language already

1190
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 14: and asking me like like writing out a sentence. There

1191
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 14: was literally a message I got the other day were

1192
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 14: like he wrote a Yaucher sentence and it was pretty

1193
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 14: much perfect, And I was looking at it like maybe

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Speaker 14: it hasn't even come out, you bro, how are you

1195
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 14: even speaking the language?

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Speaker 7: Like, what the heck?

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Speaker 14: So it's it's so cool to see like people so

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Speaker 14: invested and like loving, you know, the character and the

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Speaker 14: whole franchise.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm excited for them too.

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Speaker 13: Amazing, and I'm excited for you. Congratulations, this is.

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Speaker 7: Gonna be Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Just start really exciting stuff.

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Speaker 13: I think it's a really special memorod.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate that so much.

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Speaker 2: And we're back. Let's wrap up by sharing one thing

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Speaker 2: we're all excited to read, play, watch, or listen to

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01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 2: this weekend. Let's start with Carmen.

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Speaker 4: Carmen, Well, I I'm the last person on the XRV

1210
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 4: crew that has yet to see Pretator bad Land. Well,

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Speaker 4: actually that's not true. Jason hasn't seen it. So I'm

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Speaker 4: going to see it this weekend. Yes, I'm very pumped

1213
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 4: seeing it tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Joelle, I've been working on growing my vinyl collections,

1215
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 5: so do Wism just came in, So I think I'm

1216
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 5: going to be listening to this front to back a

1217
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:27,439
Speaker 5: fantastic life changing album. Oh yeah, Ericado by Doism isn't

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Speaker 5: titled Yeah, classic classic Ian.

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Speaker 11: I've been on a big cyberpunk twenty seventy seven Kick

1220
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 11: Lately and never beat the game when it originally came out,

1221
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 11: and so I've been playing a lot of it in

1222
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 11: the past few weeks. I'm playing on PC, so I

1223
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,959
Speaker 11: just got deep into modding. It's like a completely different game.

1224
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Speaker 11: So I'm I'm super into it, and uh, I'm probably

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Speaker 11: gonna play a lot of that this weekend. Yes, Jason,

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Speaker 11: we can make the titdy jiggle physics jokes like whatever.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's not those kind of mins.

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Speaker 1: We got to see them on, so I want to

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Speaker 1: see them on.

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Speaker 2: Aaron.

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Speaker 12: I have been playing ad Hoc's new game, Dispatch, which

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Speaker 12: is a like storytelling game by ad Hoc came from

1233
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 12: basically the bones of Telltale, and uh, this game is incredible.

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01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 12: You play a superhero dispatcher and you have a number

1235
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 12: of heroes on your roster. You make decisions, you lose

1236
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 12: some heroes, you gain some heroes that the voice cast

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Speaker 12: is incredible. It is Aaron Paul is the main character.

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01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 12: Jeffrey Wright is your like former Wow hero friend. You

1239
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 12: have Laura Bailey Recession Indicator from Critical Role, and then

1240
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Speaker 12: the voice cast that he also has some of my

1241
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 12: favorite like content creators like Joel Haver, who's my favorite

1242
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Speaker 12: YouTube creator, is one of the characters, which is great.

1243
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Speaker 12: And episodes five and six came out Wednesday, the fifth

1244
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,919
Speaker 12: and episode seven and eight Final Things come out next week.

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Speaker 8: The game is incredible.

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Speaker 12: I highly recommend anyone who is interested in like not

1247
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 12: an action packed game, but a storytelling game.

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Speaker 8: It is so good. I love it.

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Speaker 5: I've been watching some of the contints on social It's

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01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 5: so good. It's really funny, filthier than I thought it

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Speaker 5: would be.

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Speaker 12: Yes, it is, it is. It is funny and it

1253
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 12: is uh there. You can choose to censor things and

1254
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 12: like very famously. The first episode opens with you fighting

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Speaker 12: a super villain and uh just he just hangs dong

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Speaker 12: like real early on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Aaron, I love he's hanging. I will be I

1258
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: will be comboing. Oh wow, the jiggle.

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Speaker 3: What are the physics like on that hand?

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Speaker 1: Jiggle physics? Don't, Aaron, that's good idea boo. I'm in

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Speaker 1: do it's retracing on the dog. I will be watching

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Speaker 1: probably a lot of anime I'm doing. I'm putting together

1263
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: a couple of different big lists for IGN as we

1264
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Speaker 1: head to the end of the year, so I'm going

1265
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: to be watching a lot of anime from this year

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01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 1: again and a lot of anime that's coming out next year,

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Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about that.

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Speaker 8: Are looking forward to next.

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Speaker 1: I will I'm probably most looking forward to like returning series,

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Speaker 1: so we will get a new series of Apocryphy Diaries,

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01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: which I love. We are going to have a new

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Speaker 1: Ghost in the Shell made by Science Saru, who are

1273
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Speaker 1: just coming off Standard AD, so I'm really excited about that.

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Speaker 1: We are also going to have like Oscehi Noco, and

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Speaker 1: some of the bigger breakouts are coming back with sequel

1276
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: seasons this next year. So it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: really good year for anime and I will be at

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Speaker 1: ign with the best of this year anna working on

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01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: the most anticipated for next year, So watching lots of

1280
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Speaker 1: anime and reformatting my screenplay because guys, guess what. I

1281
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:07,919
Speaker 1: bought Final draft pro for my stream writing.

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Speaker 8: I did it.

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01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: I did it. I'm very proud, and I formatted my

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01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 1: whole script. I did. I wrote the script and then

1285
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: I got a message back from my screenwriting teacher today

1286
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: and she was like, congratulations on having a script that

1287
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: has never been formatted like this by anyone before, and

1288
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: I was like, what, how did this happen? So I

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01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: will be re I will be trying again on final car.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of a learning curve, guys, but get it.

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01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,479
Speaker 1: It is if you want it. It was on sale.

1292
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 1: I got it like one hundred and twenty to have it.

1293
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: You gotta have it.

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Speaker 2: You gotta say like I've There are other you'll often

1295
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 2: see these other like free or browser based ones. Sadly,

1296
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 2: it's so hard to format in the way people want

1297
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 2: the format without final draft, you're just gonna need it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Also, I was using I was using the mac jupe

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Speaker 1: called Highland two and they update and lost like three

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Speaker 1: of my finished scripts, so it was, yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: it was time to go. Luckily they were just made

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Speaker 1: for TV movie scripts that I have done a lot

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Speaker 1: of work on, so it should be easy to rewrite.

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Speaker 1: But yes, guys, I will be doing that too, so

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Speaker 1: fun homework. And also you know, watching a lot of anime,

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Speaker 1: so can't really complain. It's gonna be a good weekend.

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Speaker 6: Well, I have to.

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Speaker 2: I have to deliver a draft of my book December first,

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Speaker 2: a revised draft that I'm working on now. So since

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Speaker 2: we're talking about apps. Let's talk about the Ulysses app,

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Speaker 2: which is what I write in across all my Apple platforms,

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Speaker 2: and it's great. I write my podcast scripts in there,

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Speaker 2: I write my podcast outlines in there. You can you know,

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Speaker 2: organize everything by different folders, which I do. You can

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Speaker 2: set like a word count, a daily word count goal,

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Speaker 2: which was very helpful to me earlier on in the

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Speaker 2: book writing process, Like I would set it for like

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Speaker 2: three pages of like anything, and as long as I

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Speaker 2: hit that, like, I felt good. I think it's a

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Speaker 2: great app. It's I was previously using I a Writer

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Speaker 2: until it nuked all of my work somehow, and Ulysses

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Speaker 2: has not done that. Kno cost scares, although that was

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Speaker 2: my own thing. So I'm just gonna be writing in

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Speaker 2: the Ulysses app.

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Speaker 3: This this these apps have. Do they not have Cloud backup? Story?

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Speaker 2: They do, but it's often an issue.

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Speaker 1: It's often impacted when they lose it. It's like they like.

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Speaker 2: If you so like if you update iOS or a

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Speaker 2: new version of Apple comes out right and then there's

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Speaker 2: some sort of lag in the updating to cloud and

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Speaker 2: then now the versions are different, and if you open

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Speaker 2: your Ulysses on your desktop, that isn't on the updated

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Speaker 2: like operating system, and then you open it on your

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Speaker 2: laptop and now there's an issue between the two and

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Speaker 2: that's how it can happen. Off that said, despite the scares,

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Speaker 2: Ulysses has not ever fully shit the bed on me

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Speaker 2: in a way that was not recoverable, So I appreciate.

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Speaker 1: That also, guys, seeing as Jason is working on a

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Speaker 1: book that you can actually pre order, which my book

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Speaker 1: has not been announced yet. It is in the Monster

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Speaker 1: Kaiju space, so that's great. But Jason's book that he

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Speaker 1: is working on right now is called Sad Androids and

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Speaker 1: you can pre order it. And I have read some

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Speaker 1: of it and it's so good, So pre order that book.

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Speaker 8: Pre order that book.

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Speaker 2: That's it for this episode. Thanks for listening to this

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Speaker 2: episode of XRGC. We've Got Tomorrow with the Biggest News

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Speaker 2: of the Week by x ray Vision is hosted by Jason

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Speaker 2: Cepcion and Rosie Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Joel Monique and Aaron Kaufman.

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Speaker 2: Our supervising producer is Abu Safar.

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Speaker 1: Our producers are Common Laurent Dean Jonathan.

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Speaker 2: And Fay Wag A theme song is by Brian Vasquez,

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Speaker 2: with alternate theme songs by Aaron Kaufman.

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Speaker 1: Special thanks to Soul Ruba, Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman, and

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