In this mini-episode, Rae and Jenna are sharing what's been on their screens and in their ears lately. From hunting demons in K-Pop to slaying demons in the Infinity Castle, they're diving deep into their current media obsessions (we promise there's more than just demons). Plus, find out which Star Wars audiobooks are in Rae's library and what comfort shows are getting them through the week. Tune in for some new recommendations and a peek into what your hosts are consuming (in a girl dinner way)!
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I thought that you have like some video.
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Like stuff going on like my brain so like stuck in like
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everything else. It's just in a like a constant
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loop of re consuming everything that I've already consumed.
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And like anything new is just like constant on like on and off
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pause Well. To be fair, the like visual
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media, like TV or whatever that I'm consuming is all things I've
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already watched. I'm not.
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I don't think I've, I don't think I've watched, I watched
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anything new recently. It do be like that.
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Like I still need to watch Eyes of Wakanda.
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I still haven't watched that. Yeah.
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No, I haven't. Either, and I know that like now
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Disney is constantly advertising that pre-orders for Fantastic
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Four first steps is coming up. If you haven't listened to that
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first episode, you should go watch our first episode of this
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podcast. Thanks, but then I was like oh
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wow, I can't wait to watch all of those bloopers of this movie
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that I already watched instead of watching.
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Something new. Well, in case in case you
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listeners out there were wondering that that's our intro
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to today's mini episode where Ray and I will be discussing
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what sort of media we are consuming.
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If you didn't get it from that like non intro intro.
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It's true from splaining fashion it it happens there.
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There is no intro. It's just you walked in on our
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conversation. Hi.
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Yeah, welcome. Yeah, like you.
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Just sat down at our table and we're in the middle of talking
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about something absolutely unhinged and.
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Here we are, Oscar Isaac and Padra Pascal kissing.
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Look at that, I did it again. You did it.
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You did it in a minute, one minute and 51 seconds into
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recording. New record new.
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Record one day we'll do a whole episode about about them
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kissing. That's that's going to be like
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our season 1 like clip show is like every instance that
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mentioned them kissing. It's every episode so far since
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the show has started, since we started it.
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Honestly, that is the goal for me.
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I think that that that's a really good long winded bit.
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It's so good. It's it's it's good pie, like we
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said in episode 1. And again, like Ray said, if you
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haven't watched it, go back to episode one.
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It was really good. Yay, yay.
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But yeah, I think I'm trying to think if I've watched anything
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actually new. I'm also super behind on like
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the Disney Plus stuff. I haven't watched Eyes of
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Wakanda. And I know now they're like
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heavily promoting the Marvel Zombies.
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I don't know. I don't know if I'm into that.
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I'm not quite sure how I feel about Marvel Zombies.
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I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued just because like
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I enjoy horror content and I think like the idea of
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superheroes in the zombie like apocalypse is like a really
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interesting white concept. And I also just really like the
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what if style of like animation and how it looks because it like
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vaguely reminds me of like Telltale Games and stuff like
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that. So I'm just like, I, I'm
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excited. I'm I'm optimistic.
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I'm optimistic. Yeah, I, I typically don't like
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anything that's horror, but I mean, it's Marvel and Disney.
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So I'm not like super concerned on that, on that.
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And like Marvel, Zombies are not something that I would shy away
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from. Captain America's there.
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Yeah, he's there. He's a zombie.
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That's that's probably how he'll come back in Doomsday as well.
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Just kidding. Maybe.
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I don't know. It's possible.
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So so do we think, OK, so now we're we're tangenting what once
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again, we're tangenting. So do we think that Chris Evans
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is going to be Steve in doomsday with considering like his his
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like physical condition right now?
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Like do we think that he's going to be Steve?
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OK, I. Think, well, he'll be back.
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Whether or not he's Steve is going to be the question.
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You know, he's, he's in Steve physique right now.
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He is in Steve physique. But I don't know if he will
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actually be in the movie as Steve Rogers.
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I mean I know I heard the rumor was that like the plot was going
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to revolve around Doom. Like going after Steve who
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created that alternate branch on the timeline when he went back
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and stayed with Peggy. Which I would support Doom for
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because I freaking hated that choice.
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She had a whole life, Steve, She had a whole life.
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It ruined the end and end game for me and it also was a real
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crappy choice for Captain America.
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He would never do something selfish like like don't even.
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Don't even. Bucky like that?
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Like no. And then like he's going to go
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back to the 40s and he knows Bucky's alive somewhere being
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tortured and brainwashed and he's just going to dance in his
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in his little stupid house with no, no going to let Hydra
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infiltrate SHIELD. Please.
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I have thoughts on this. This heteronormative propaganda.
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Yeah, I'm not for it. I'm a Stuckey shipper for life,
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baby. No, that no, that's valid.
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I I enjoy the argument of like people being like, oh, if
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Natasha hadn't died, he would have stayed.
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And I'm just like, don't say that to me like I will combust
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you. Know, I don't know, like if he
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did, if they were gonna, if they made that choice that he was
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gonna go, I think the one person that he would have stayed for
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would have been Bucky. It should have like literally.
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It should have been Bucky. It literally should have been
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Bucky. All three of the Captain America
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movies have revolved around him trying to save or reacting to
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something that Bucky's done or trying to save him.
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It's all always revolving around Bucky.
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So like I I don't know. James Barn problematic fucking
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diva. He just wanted like literally
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he's like, can I just rest? And you're like, no, here's an
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arm, go fight. It's like, damn it, he doesn't
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mean to be problematic. He's like.
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Problematic. He's just like, he's like, good.
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Probably. He's like, he's like chaotic.
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Neutral. I like to think that he's more
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tired neutral at this point. Yeah, he's so tired he doesn't
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want to. And then he's like, now I gotta
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be on The Avengers. Again, I had to do with this
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shit again and. Now I'm in a legal battle with
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my my friend who's like it's. Like again.
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Again, God damn it. Oh God.
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Oh I have consumed new content I just remembered I watched over
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the weekend. I finally like a month or so
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behind the trend. Watch K pop Demon Hunters.
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I still haven't watched it, sorry guys.
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Oh my God, you have to watch it. You're gonna love it.
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I I, I've been told I have to watch.
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I think like my thing is just like I hate how overplayed the
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music is and I'm just like cool. See that?
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See I think that I was saved from that because I forget
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TikTok exists and I won't. Go.
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I'm chronically online so unfortunately.
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Yeah, I won't go on TikTok for like 3 months at a time, 'cause
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I forget. I love that beauty.
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Yeah. So I completely, like avoided
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the music completely. I didn't know anything about it
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and I didn't know like really the concept.
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I thought it was about like a a demon, like I thought the demon
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boy band. I didn't realize it was about
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the girl band. Like it's, it's really good.
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It's. Just it.
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It literally says the plot in the title.
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I know, but I thought the boys were the lead and then it wasn't
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the boys. I'm like, why are there girls?
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I didn't thought it was AK pop boy band.
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Why are the girls here? But enough.
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It was it, I enjoyed it and it definitely had the spider,
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excuse me, into the spider verse vibe.
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Like I think like that was like kind of one of my thing too is
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just like I I I both like and don't like the animation style
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for that movie. Like for into the spider verse,
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like it made sense because it's supposed to be like very comic
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booky, but with like K pop demon hunters.
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It just like reads as unfinished, but maybe that's
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just. A mixture of it was there was
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something else that I was oh, it reminded me also of like it was
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a mixture between like spider verse and like like the newer
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Pixar movies, like Turning Red especially, or like with that
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kind of smile. Like it had like that those soft
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features to it too. I don't know.
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I really enjoyed it. My sister, my sister and I
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watched it together 'cause we had been like hearing about it
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and we're after every song. We're like, damn, that's a
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banger. Like every banger.
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That's real. So I.
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I did enjoy it. I recommend it.
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I think, you know, once you watch it, we got to get your,
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your take on it. That'll be another mini
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Minnesota like, don't worry guys.
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Yeah, don't worry. But we'll get to it if you're
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right. So what are you?
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You said you're rewatching things.
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What are you watching? I think like the last thing that
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I like finished was I watched season 3 of the Bear.
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Finally I can understand why people think that it's one of
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the weaker seasons. So I totally really really.
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Yeah, my brother loves it. My brother's like obsessed with
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it but I haven't watched it. I think it's fantastic.
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It's one of my like favorite shows like that's come out in
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recent years is because the writing is so strong and just
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like the way that the characters interact with each other and
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just like how alive everything feels.
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Also, I just am weirdly interested in the culinary
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world, but that that's one of my special interests just because
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like I spent so much time researching and like writing it
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personally. Like for like personal projects
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and stuff. But I, I, I went through that.
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I still haven't gotten started on season 2 of Peacemaker, even
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though I was like so hyped for it.
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I'm terrible. Like I have a terrible habit of
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doing that. Like I'll get like so excited
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for things and then it'll take me forever to watch them.
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Oh, I get that. I I totally get that.
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It's like the, the prospect of starting a task, it's, it's
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awful. It's like.
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For no good reason. I really want to watch this but
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there's like 20 episodes and I gotta like we have no attention
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span. I think like my thing is like
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it's a weekly release kind of show and like I think that
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that's awesome that we're kind of like going back true to form
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of everything. But I also know myself and if
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I'm going to watch Peacemaker, I'm going to be like, wow, I
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need more Adrian Chase. What do you mean?
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I have to wait another week in order to see him.
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I right? Not happening.
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I hate, I personally hate hate weekly releases.
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Like I want to watch something and I want to binge it.
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Like when Andor was coming out, I'm like, this is bullshit.
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It was so painful. It was so painful, especially
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when they released like the three episode arc of the Gorman
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massacre and then like left it on that third episode with the
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welcome to the Rebellion. That was not fair.
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That was like not OK. I want I needed to watch the
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whole thing. Yeah, brutal also.
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I realized thinking about Star Wars that that the new animated
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show, It's a Lego. It's like Star Wars, Lego
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Rebuild the Galaxy, It's an animated show is premiering I
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think on Friday and. We'll have to watch that.
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We definitely have to watch it, especially because like, when I
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talked to Ashley X9, she said it's the first time she's
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returning to voice Ahsoka in like, years.
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She hasn't voiced her in Yeah since I forgot exactly what it
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was that she hasn't. I forgot what she said it was
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but she hasn't voiced her in a long time so I'm excited.
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Not to Ahsoka for visions or. That was the last thing.
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Or Tales of the Jedi. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That was the last thing, was Tales of the Jedi.
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Yep. I was trying to remember.
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I'm like, well, I know it wasn't.
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It wasn't as far back as Rebels. I couldn't think of it, but it
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was, yeah, it was Tales of the Jedi.
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So she hasn't done it since then.
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So I'm excited to watch it and like, that'll be fun because
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it's like, it's just like a Lego cartoon.
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We could just pop it on and watch it and it'll be fun.
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It's so. Goofy, yeah.
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We could do a mini soda on that too.
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There we go. Also, I really like legos.
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I like Legos too unfortunately, like I have so many like sets
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that I haven't built yet. Like I have the Sanctum
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Sanctorum because unfortunately I am a Doctor Strange bitch
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that's just sitting in his box and I haven't started building
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it. I just did.
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I just built the 25th anniversary version of the
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Millennium Falcon. So it's like this.
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It's of obviously the small one. It's not.
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It's just a baby. Yeah, it's like the baby.
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And I know, like if I get a Lego and I open it and start it, I'm
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gonna just finish the whole thing.
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So I need to like set time aside when I have a set because I want
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to finish it in one fell swoop, which is not always easy.
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Yeah, I think like my thing has always been like space wise for
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things and also like the logistics of cleaning Legos just
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oh God like hell. Yeah, that's what I was actually
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thinking of buying, like one of the display cases for the
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Millennium Falcon thing, 'cause I'm like, I don't wanna clean
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it. Like I don't wanna clean the
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Lego itself. Like the box is one thing, but I
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don't wanna touch this thing if it falls apart.
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I'm gonna just, I'm gonna give up on everything if it falls
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apart. That's so valid.
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I've also been trying to like get back to my audible log
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getting back into that. I finish up.
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Well, I haven't finished it up. I think they have a couple
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chapters left of like Spider 2099 and arena.
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I'm actually really enjoying that.
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That one's really good. Alex Segura we we have his books
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and then so so here, here's the thing that everyone should know
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about my audible account. It is mainly Star Wars and like
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Marvel books because the what if novels are actually really good
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as well. Like the venom and Mark Spector
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1 is absolutely fantastic. The way that the writer has.
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I think it's Mike Chen, wrote the Mark Steven and fuck, what's
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his fucking name? What's the last one's name?
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Hold on. Where is waiting music while
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while Ray Ray's brain reboots? No, I'm trying to figure out
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like which the the third one was.
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Fuck, what's that bitch's name? The problem about it.
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Turn to the the Internet. The lying Internet?
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Hold on. The lying?
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Let me go ask Ultron. That should be the AI.
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Like why do we need ChatGPT or like Gemini when we could have
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Ultron? For real, Jake Lockley there he
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is there he is like the way that he wrote that like that system
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of the three characters. I actually really liked just the
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the like kind of like more brotherly like take of them is
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is it's very wholesome and nice, but it's it's Marvel and Star
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Wars books mainly, but it's also a lot of like book talk books
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because I like to. Hate like are you wait, please.
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Are you talking about the ones where like I fell in love with a
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pumpkin spice latte? Are you talking about this like
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like general like like cliche books, if you will?
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So, so it's, it's kind of like that, but it's also like kind of
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like the big like 1. So like I unfortunately am like
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too deep in ACOTAR to like kind of remove myself.
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Like it's gotten to the point where I'm just like,
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unfortunately I've invested so much time and even though I
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think that it's so fucking stupid and annoying, 'cause I
00:17:20
hate Faye books, I hate. So why did you pick it up in the
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first place? Because I had like an ex friend
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who was like really into it and she like was very like, you have
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to read this book. And I'm just like, I guess
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because I'm a nice friend and I will, I will do that.
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And then like I, I was unfortunately like exposed to
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like all the tropes that I fucking hate because it's a
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fucking Faye book. So like, I hate the mates trope.
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Not not to get it. Not confused with soul mates.
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Those those are different. Those are different.
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Or like Omega verse mates. Yeah, like I, I don't like
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anything that's like, Oh yeah. Like we, we have to like mate
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and like breed and stuff like that because like pheromones and
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like shit like that. And I'm just like, shut up.
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So so so it's like it's things like that, but it's also like
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then you get like the like dope, like dark romance, like kind of
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book. So like I've unfortunately
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consumed like haunting Adeline and all of those ones just
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because of how outland outlandish that they are.
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And I'm just like, what? What do you mean he fucks her
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with a gun? What do you mean with a loaded
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safety off gun or what? I've never heard of this and I
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don't want to ever hear about it again.
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It is a trip. It is a trip like one of these
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days, like honestly, we'll probably have to get like Willow
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on here and then oh gosh. And then like myself can like
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talk about like the crazy concepts of like some of these
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books. Oh my goodness.
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But right now I am after a long winded tangent.
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I'm sorry guys, I'm going through the Lights Out book just
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because the dialogue was just so funny to me.
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That I. Had to like pick it up.
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So that's one of the things that I'm indulging in.
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Yeah, I mean, like, you have to have those kind of like
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refresher books. I feel like especially if
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you're, if you're in the middle of reading this, like a long
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series or like, you know, Star Wars books that are forever,
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there's so many of them. There's so many of them.
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And you know, you need like in between if you need a break,
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like I like to throw in like I like like the really light like
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ROM coms, the ones that are super easy to read and they're
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just fun, like a fun. Yeah, like.
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You don't have to think too hard about it.
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It's just a cute little, you know, like something along those
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lines. Or I do like, I like.
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There's a author. She's Long Island based.
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And now I'm going to forget her name because I'm thinking about
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her. Sarah Sarah Durst.
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Sarah Sarah Durst is her name. And she write, she wrote, she
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wrote. This first book was called The
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Spell, The Spell Book. No, the spell.
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Shit. I am like, really, really.
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I'm sorry, Sarah. It was called the Spell shop.
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And the only reason I ever found out about it was because she's
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like from Long Island. And she was at the Barnes and
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Noble doing a signing when I was shopping one day.
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And I walked in and I like started talking to her.
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And then I was like, crap, now I have to buy it because like,
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well, that's how I felt. I felt like at that point I'm
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like, I have to buy it. And then I read it and I'm like,
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this book is so good. It's like caught cottage core
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fantasy, like like it's just really feel good.
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And then she wrote another one in the same universe that just
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came out recently called The Enchanted Greenhouse.
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And. I've been taking that one.
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Oh, it's so good. It's just like her stuff is so
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like light even when there's like darker aspects to it.
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Yeah. And it's just, it's just really
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like a cozy fantasy world. And I really, really like those
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two books. I have another one of hers that
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I haven't read yet, but at the moment I am.
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Oh. I've taken on the lofty task of
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reading the entire Star Wars High Republic era publishing
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initiative in chronological order because, like, they
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released it and, like, named it in, like, really weird.
00:21:36
Yeah. It's silly, yeah.
00:21:39
Like, like Phase 1 is like current day, Phase 2 is like 500
00:21:46
years before that or 300. And then like Phase 3 is back to
00:21:49
the main story. So I'm like, I can't do that.
00:21:52
I'm going to start with Phase two, which is technically the
00:21:56
beginning of the story. Yeah, chronological order, guys.
00:22:00
Yeah, so I, I'm like, I can't do the bouncing back and forth.
00:22:03
So I, I've actually been on the finally, I'm on the last book of
00:22:08
the first of the first time period.
00:22:12
So like chronologically I'm on. I just started the last book
00:22:17
finally and they have been. They're so good, the High
00:22:21
Republic stuff. Is so so so interesting.
00:22:26
It's so interesting the characters that like the the way
00:22:30
that they, that these writers have like interpreted the
00:22:34
different usage of the force and like how different Jedi see it,
00:22:40
see the force and use it. And then like these other
00:22:43
characters, like, you know, that are a member of like a cult.
00:22:47
And it's like so frustrating to read it because, you know, the
00:22:51
character like descends more and more and more into the buys more
00:22:53
and more into the cult and you're reading it.
00:22:55
You're like, what are you doing? Like it's so I really, really
00:23:00
love the higher public books. I can't.
00:23:04
I've read, like I said, almost all of them in the first
00:23:07
chronological part of it. And I have like loved them all.
00:23:12
And I have read Light of the Jedi, which is like the first
00:23:15
book that came out. Yeah.
00:23:17
And I am like I have been, I have been on a one woman crusade
00:23:24
with my articles. If you read through like any of
00:23:27
my stuff on comicbook.com, like if you go to my author's page
00:23:30
and like there's any Star Wars stuff, like I am almost always
00:23:35
going to mention Avar Chris, the Jedi from Light of the Jedi
00:23:39
because I am pushing the agenda that she is the best and needs
00:23:43
to be included in live action because she is amazing.
00:23:46
So that's my agenda now is give me, give me live action ever
00:23:51
Chris. She's fantastic.
00:23:55
I, I, I think that like the High Republic is such like a
00:23:59
interesting, like concept and everything, especially because
00:24:01
it's just so like much more interesting than the modern Jedi
00:24:04
that we have. Like it's, it's, it's so funny
00:24:07
how everything that's interesting about Star Wars is
00:24:11
not directly like associated with the modern Jedi because I'm
00:24:15
just like everything about Star Wars that's interesting is not
00:24:20
the Jedi I like, like and or like and, or is so interesting
00:24:24
and like everything that goes into like the espionage, like
00:24:27
aspects of the rebellion. And then you have the High
00:24:29
Republic that's like completely like disconnected from the
00:24:33
current like teachings of like the Jedi and how like the Jedi
00:24:36
like operate now. How many books are even in the
00:24:39
High Republic? Like, I don't even know.
00:24:41
There's so many. Plus then there's like I have, I
00:24:44
have the reading guide on my phone.
00:24:45
So every time I finish a book, I pull up the reading guide to see
00:24:47
what comes next in the chronological order.
00:24:49
But there's also comics and there's a set of manga as well.
00:24:55
And I haven't touched those. Like I'm just doing the novels
00:24:57
right now because yeah, that's just, that's just way too much
00:25:00
of A lofty task. But it's just, I really love it
00:25:04
and and I, it makes me think more and more like, makes me
00:25:07
question more and more why Star Wars decided to go with a brand
00:25:11
new idea with the Acolyte for their first High Republic like
00:25:15
project when they had source material already that Charles
00:25:19
Sowell had written. And it's fantastic.
00:25:21
Like why did you go? You had the light of the Jedi
00:25:24
was out there and existed and created by like the like King of
00:25:29
Star Wars writing and you went with the Acolyte.
00:25:31
Like what? I think that that's what like
00:25:35
kind of sucks about like alkali being like the first thing,
00:25:38
because I feel like it's like such an easy deterrent for some
00:25:41
people of getting into the high Republic.
00:25:45
Yeah, it was definitely like whether or not you like the show
00:25:49
itself or or have like opinions because it was a very dumb
00:25:53
divisive show like the I agree. Like the fact that it was the
00:25:58
first High Republic piece is was not the best choice.
00:26:06
Like regardless of the story, it just they could have done
00:26:10
something really cool if they started with maybe like based
00:26:13
off of the characters that were already established and in the
00:26:17
books. I mean, I don't know.
00:26:19
I don't know. I'm not the CEO of Lucasfilm
00:26:21
yet. It also just like, really like,
00:26:25
fascinates me that they've like put so much stock and time into
00:26:30
this High Republic series and yeah, it's just like, cool, you
00:26:33
guys like did all this stuff and you've like had like people
00:26:36
write all these books, but now you're just like, OK anyway.
00:26:39
And it's just like, OK, then what was the point?
00:26:41
What was the reason? What was the reason?
00:26:45
Right. Just to exit, like, I feel like
00:26:47
a lot of the Star Wars content that is books, comics, whatever,
00:26:52
eventually are gonna be at least partially adapted into some sort
00:26:57
of visual format. You know, like, like.
00:26:58
I hope so. But I agree, like it was years.
00:27:01
How many years did the the High, the High Republic Publishing
00:27:04
initiative go for? Like 10 years or something crazy
00:27:07
like that. Yeah, and they like were like
00:27:09
really like big like parts of like their presentation, like
00:27:12
during like Comic Con and stuff. So I'm just like brother.
00:27:17
I know, and it's I, I just don't, Oh, I also read this.
00:27:20
So I, I bounced around. I did bounce around originally
00:27:23
because I read light of the Jedi when it first came out because
00:27:25
it was the first book of the higher public.
00:27:27
So I read that. Then I didn't read anything ever
00:27:31
again because I just kind of like fell out of like reading
00:27:34
period. And that stuff was going on.
00:27:36
Then over the spring when they were ramping up promo for Trials
00:27:43
of the Jedi, which is the last book of the publishing
00:27:46
initiative, it was the IT was the end.
00:27:47
And it was also Charles Soul. Like he started the the higher
00:27:50
public and he ended it. I actually was sent a copy of
00:27:55
the book and I was, I was like, you know, I, I got to read it
00:27:58
because I was like slated to talk with him and I'm like, I
00:28:01
need to read. I want to make sure I know my
00:28:03
stuff. So I went and I read it and
00:28:05
without knowing any of the other characters or anything that has
00:28:08
happened at all, it like I didn't even remember the light
00:28:11
of the Jedi. I, I didn't even remember what
00:28:12
happened. That being said, it was pretty,
00:28:17
I find it pretty impressive that I was able to pick that book up
00:28:20
and enjoy it as much as I did without knowing any of the like
00:28:24
lore that came, you know, for 10 years before.
00:28:29
So it's really cool, really cool stuff.
00:28:31
If you're a Star Wars fan, I think the Higher Republic is
00:28:34
probably some of the best stuff they've done in a while.
00:28:36
I'm. Trying to think what else have
00:28:43
we been consuming? I've been rewatching.
00:28:49
I've been rewatching It's Always Sunny, which is hilarious.
00:28:52
That's my decompress and just laugh hysterically show it's
00:28:58
just never not insane. And also like, well, my sister
00:29:04
is rewatching Demon Slayer so like tangentially I'm usually
00:29:07
around. So I'm kind of rewatching Demon
00:29:09
Slayer and we just saw the movie The other day, the Infinity
00:29:15
Castle. Infinity Castle Part 1.
00:29:18
Right. And who?
00:29:19
No spoilers here, but if you're a Demon Slayer fan and you
00:29:23
haven't seen this yet and you're going to buckle the fuck up,
00:29:28
like strap in baby, because it's a ride and it's only the first
00:29:32
part. But Ray is not a Demon Slayer
00:29:36
girly. I gotta gotta get her on that.
00:29:38
I I haven't watched anime in years.
00:29:41
Like I'm trying to think like what?
00:29:42
Like the last anime was that I watched and I think like it was
00:29:46
like kind of like the first two seasons of of Tokyo Avengers.
00:29:54
And then I also watch the like 2 like companion anime movies.
00:29:59
I think it was like like God, what are they called?
00:30:06
Hold on, I need to console Ultron real quick.
00:30:10
Yeah, that's our new, our new thing.
00:30:12
We need to consult Ultron. I think you would very much
00:30:22
enjoy Demon Slayer for the characters themselves.
00:30:24
Like I in my head know who I think you will like and I'm
00:30:28
like, I think Ray needs. To watch this see, I've I've
00:30:33
heard like mixed things like I've been told like, Oh yeah,
00:30:36
like you, you would like it. But then I've also been told
00:30:38
like, oh, you won't really like it because like the characters
00:30:41
don't really develop all that much.
00:30:48
But I also like was never like a super like shonen person.
00:30:53
It's so I don't agree with the character development.
00:30:57
I actually think that the whole like series is following the
00:31:01
main trio is character development, but the art too is
00:31:08
like it's some of the most unbelievable animation I have
00:31:12
ever seen is on that show. It's gorgeous and on the on the
00:31:15
big screen was just like it's it's stunning.
00:31:20
Did Ultron give you your answer? Ultron did give me my answer and
00:31:25
it was the two of like companion movies to me, the one who loved
00:31:28
you and to every you I've loved before.
00:31:32
And it's like it. It's like a weird like timeline,
00:31:36
kind of like movie thing and stuff like that.
00:31:40
But then like my brain is just like, you should just watch
00:31:43
rewatch Hari Sousamia and you should just go back to that.
00:31:48
And just like, my brain just finds comfort in rewatching shit
00:31:51
that I already know that I enjoy because I hate how a lot of like
00:31:55
modern media, you spend so much time like investing into it and
00:31:59
then the payoff is absolute shit.
00:32:01
Yeah, I mean, I do this. I do the same thing.
00:32:03
I think like most people can relate to that where especially
00:32:07
in the burnout culture and like we are just constantly like
00:32:13
constantly tired from either, you know, the grind or just like
00:32:18
constant input, constant input, like flooding our brains that
00:32:21
sometimes like you just sometimes just throw on that
00:32:24
show that you don't have to like really pay any attention to to
00:32:29
and just like you just enjoy it. Like for me, it's usually Parks
00:32:32
and Rec that will be like my, I'm going to put it on and I'm
00:32:35
going to still laugh like I haven't seen it before.
00:32:37
And I also like, don't fully need to watch it, you know?
00:32:41
Yeah, I think like I, I do that as well, but like, I do that
00:32:45
with like a lot of like YouTube, like I've been my, my background
00:32:51
noise of choice is usually mythical kitchen because they do
00:32:56
like the series last meals, which I think is like really
00:33:01
interesting. And then just the recreation of
00:33:05
recipes. I watch a lot of cooking stuff
00:33:08
now that I yeah like I thoroughly enjoy the bear.
00:33:14
Like when when I first like watched the bear.
00:33:16
Like I rewatched it like easily like 3 times maybe.
00:33:21
I have to. Watch those first two seasons.
00:33:23
It's really good, Jenna. It's really.
00:33:25
Good I believe you. Like my brother like I said is a
00:33:29
huge fan and he like convinced. Well not convinced he forced my
00:33:32
parents to watch it because when he wants to watch something when
00:33:36
he gets like he gets hyper fixated on the like.
00:33:38
Everyone needs to. Watch a movie and he forces you
00:33:41
to watch it. And he had them watching person
00:33:45
he is, he had been watched the first season and they loved it
00:33:49
and they, I think they even watched the second season and
00:33:51
they were, they everyone loved it.
00:33:53
So like everyone in my family who watched it loved it.
00:33:55
So I'm like, I gotta, I gotta give this a go.
00:34:00
Yeah. Plus, you know, Jabba the Hutt's
00:34:02
son or isn't it Jeremy Allen White, AKA his son?
00:34:07
Is that is that what he is? I forgot, is it the son or the
00:34:09
nephew or something? Something like that, yeah.
00:34:14
I, I, I know we talked about this in a in a yet to be
00:34:18
released episode, we talked a bit about Jeremy Allen White
00:34:22
being cast as. I genuinely thought it was
00:34:25
clickbait. I genuinely.
00:34:29
Thought it was clickbait that is like that is what I imagine like
00:34:35
clickbait should be. It's like Bear * Bear star to
00:34:39
appear as Jabba the Hutt Sun like I I don't know that's.
00:34:47
Oh my God. I mean, it's probably super cool
00:34:50
for him because he's probably like a big Star Wars fan.
00:34:54
And I also think it's pretty cool that we got the more of the
00:34:58
cast for Starfighter that we like.
00:35:00
It's Amy Adams, right? Amy Adams is going to be in it
00:35:03
and. What in the Doctor Who episode
00:35:06
is this? What, talking about the Matt
00:35:11
Smith and Ryan Gosling Star Wars movie that's not out yet?
00:35:17
You haven't. Wait, come, hold on.
00:35:19
You haven't heard a starfighter? Ray.
00:35:25
It's Ryan Gosling in space, although he does have that movie
00:35:31
coming out in a few months called Project Hail Mary.
00:35:33
That's also Ryan Gosling in space, so.
00:35:38
Just let him go to space. Just let Ryan Gosling go to
00:35:40
space and just be Ken Cannon. Space Cannon.
00:35:46
Space. His job is space.
00:35:48
His job is space, wasn't he? I feel like he was in another
00:35:53
space movie like. A Blade Runner.
00:35:57
Fucking Blade Runner. Yeah, he was in that too.
00:36:00
He was so good in that. He's so good.
00:36:02
I love Ryan Gosling. I'm I'm a big I'm a big Baby
00:36:06
Goose fan. Baby goose.
00:36:08
He's. A baby goose.
00:36:09
I love him. But yeah, I think that the
00:36:13
newest thing I'll probably watch, like I said, will be the
00:36:17
Star Wars Lego. That was pretty easy.
00:36:20
Oh, I did watch Visions. Star Wars Visions the first two
00:36:23
seasons because the third. Season.
00:36:25
Oh yeah, you did finally watch that.
00:36:26
I finally watched it and I had a hot take on it.
00:36:29
And I as much as I love Star Wars, I didn't super love it.
00:36:38
Like, I loved the animation style of every episode.
00:36:41
Like I will say it was Everyone was beautifully animated and so
00:36:47
done with such care and detail. But like, some of the stories, I
00:36:50
was like, I just didn't care. Like some were so, so good that
00:36:56
they should be like their own series.
00:36:57
And then the next one would be like, yeah.
00:37:01
I think like the issue that I have with like a lot of like
00:37:04
modern Star Wars is that we are so afraid of being creative.
00:37:09
Like we're, we're so afraid of playing in the sandbox and like
00:37:13
bringing our own toys to the sandbox.
00:37:17
I agree with that. Because I'm just like y'all like
00:37:21
George Lucas's like first like drafts of Star Wars were fucking
00:37:24
shit. So you it can be bad, right?
00:37:29
Yes, I being in in media writing about Star Wars a lot has I have
00:37:36
extensively dug into George Lucas's original plan 6th and
00:37:41
they were they're kind of wild. And his plans and his plans for
00:37:48
the prequels were just like off the wall like it was, it was
00:37:52
like super dark for Anakin. And that's saying something
00:37:56
because he it's super dark in the in.
00:38:00
Repent of the city. Yeah, I mean, it's it was worse
00:38:03
in like George Lucas's original ideas, but yeah, I don't know.
00:38:09
Visions was like there were like two or three episodes that I was
00:38:13
completely stunned and like loved, loved, loved.
00:38:16
And then the rest were kind of like to me story.
00:38:20
Like that's kind of why I wish that like we could get like a
00:38:25
Star Wars like what if kind of series where we just get those
00:38:30
what if situations with the characters that we love and just
00:38:33
like, wow, what if like Anakin and Padme got to be happy and
00:38:35
raise their kids on a Boo. Oh my God.
00:38:38
That's like literally we all, we all want it.
00:38:40
I again have written multiple articles about I'm I'm I'm
00:38:44
pushing the Star Wars needs to do a what if that's my other my
00:38:49
other agenda besides live action ever Chris.
00:38:53
And they did it, you know, in legends, they had the they
00:38:55
reimagined the original 3 movies right in in the in novel,
00:39:03
believe it was novel format, but they just like did a use of the
00:39:07
of the first 3 movies that are completely unrelated.
00:39:10
Like they're not a series, you know, they're each like a
00:39:13
contained story AU of like a New Hope empire and, you know,
00:39:17
return of the Jedi. So like, why are we not doing
00:39:20
something like that? Like.
00:39:22
The girlies crave the AU fix. Yeah, I mean hating Christensen
00:39:27
is keeps begging to be back. Like put at least Lake, throw
00:39:32
him in a what if please. Let him play with with
00:39:36
lightsabers please. Thanks.
00:39:37
Yeah. What I want What if?
00:39:39
What if Isoka never left the Jedi Order and stayed with him?
00:39:43
Would he have gone to the dark side?
00:39:44
I say no, he would not. I agree.
00:39:48
Thank you. I agree.
00:39:50
Are there people that don't agree with that?
00:39:51
Like do they think that like, Ahsoka wouldn't have been enough
00:39:54
to like save Anakin? I think so.
00:39:56
I'm going to do some some deep diving on this because I think
00:40:00
this is potential Epicytic. Yeah, I think.
00:40:04
This is aotic. I'm going to do some digging,
00:40:06
but I'm pretty sure there is a lot of people who like they're
00:40:10
like, oh, whatever. She was just like his Padawan.
00:40:13
It's like no, she was like his, his family, his sister, like she
00:40:17
was his and without her she would have been enough.
00:40:23
She would have been smarter than Obi Wan number one.
00:40:25
She would have been like not smarter than him and I don't
00:40:29
think he could have betrayed her.
00:40:32
Yeah, I think like, like, again, like I know that this is like
00:40:35
easily just like episode fodder and we can like retouch on this
00:40:38
like later. But I do think that, like,
00:40:41
Ahsoka probably would have been the move because like she isn't
00:40:44
so deeply like attached to the teaching as the Jedi's as Obion
00:40:48
was. So like Obi Wan was like having
00:40:50
to like sit there and be conflicted with his own, like
00:40:53
relationship with the Jedi and all of that and couldn't like,
00:40:58
like let go of that in order to kind of be there for Anakin the
00:41:01
way that he needed to. Where is like Ahsoka probably
00:41:04
would have just been like ready and willing of just like, you
00:41:06
know what, like, fuck this. Like you should be with your
00:41:08
wife and your kids and like we don't have to be here.
00:41:12
Right, you don't need to be a Jedi bro like it's.
00:41:14
Yeah, you don't need to. You don't know how to do this.
00:41:18
Yeah, I, I, I think that's, that's one of like the one of
00:41:23
the greatest additions to Canon was in the Clone Wars when they
00:41:26
did that whole arc with her being framed, Ahsoka being
00:41:31
framed and then leaving the Jedi.
00:41:32
I think that was one of probably the most important arcs because
00:41:35
it's set up Ahsoka's whole trajectory.
00:41:38
But yeah, when you did just like kind of like.
00:41:40
Adds this like layer to the Jedi as well where it's just like it
00:41:46
really shows like how grey and bad like the Jedi order like
00:41:51
actually is even to its like own people who've like basically
00:41:54
like dedicated their whole lives to this and how easy it is for
00:41:58
them to like turn away from them and it's like yo.
00:42:03
Yeah, and she was like the only one who was smart enough.
00:42:06
And I think it's kind of funny that they just let her go and
00:42:08
like keep her lightsabers and do whatever she wanted because
00:42:11
like, I mean, I know obviously like there's just so much Star
00:42:15
Wars media that and all of it can't connect.
00:42:17
But again, going back to Charles Sowell, he wrote a miniseries
00:42:23
and Anakin and Obi Wan miniseries.
00:42:25
That's like 5 issues comic. It's so, so good.
00:42:30
And at one point in in the in the story, Obi Wan's talking to
00:42:34
Yoda and he's like, hey, if Anakin chooses to leave the
00:42:38
order, I'm I'm going with him. I'm going to leave.
00:42:40
Like I made a promise to Qui Gon and I'm not going to, you know,
00:42:44
I'm not going to go back on it and I'm going to train him.
00:42:46
And Yoda's like, bro, you can't, you can't do that.
00:42:49
You can't just go train a Jedi like outside of the Jedi Order.
00:42:52
And he was like, well, I'm gonna like.
00:42:56
And they just like, but they didn't have a soca.
00:42:58
And she just leaves and just keeps doing Jedi things.
00:43:02
They're like, OK, it's, I don't know, Jedi.
00:43:10
The High Republic Jedi had their shit together way more than.
00:43:14
They were more fluid and less rigid, and I think that that was
00:43:18
like the downfall of modern Jedi.
00:43:21
Yeah, they were. We'd be.
00:43:22
Dealing in too many absolutes here.
00:43:27
Yeah, they were also banging. They didn't care.
00:43:29
They were like, no one cared like that.
00:43:32
The two biggest Jedi in the Order were like a couple.
00:43:36
It was just like whatever you do you.
00:43:42
But yeah, I think that that touches everything.
00:43:45
I'm I'm reading. I'm hoping to to get through I'm
00:43:50
reading.