WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 Welcome back to Project Geekology. 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:04.400 This is episode 134. 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.000 It's a continuation of our Alien Marathon. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.400 And we are a week late. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:14.880 We took a little bit of time off, and for once, it's not my fault. 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:17.120 And I'm proud about that. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.120 But we'll talk more about that in a bit. 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:25.679 We're covering the fourth film in the alien franchise in release order, not chronological order. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:31.679 And because if we did cover this chronologically, this would be the very last of all the things that we cover. 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.520 And I don't think this is a good thing to end our alien discussion on. 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:37.439 But we'll talk more about that as we go. 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.280 But Alien Resurrection is the topic of today's podcast. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:50.399 Yeah, I don't know about you guys, but if you, the listener, have not seen Alien Resurrection, I would not pause this to go and watch it. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.640 Or at least I wouldn't rush to pause it and watch it. 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.159 You can watch it after the podcast. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.719 But it's one of those where like it's a movie, you know, we're and we're gonna cover it. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.399 I am one-third of your hosts. 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:01.359 My name is Dakota. 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:08.000 I am joined as always with Anthony, and the late episode is actually my fault this time. 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:16.400 I was sick last week, and I just would not have been able to go over a podcast without sounding like the Walking Dead. 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:21.840 And joining us as always is No, it's uh Rich. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.920 Sorry, you said Walking Dead and you triggered me. 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:27.439 I'm very, very excited to be back with you guys, Anthony. 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:34.640 Glad you're back to uh podcasting health, so we can talk about the fourth film of the series, which is I'm not sure if you guys mentioned this. 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.560 It's subtitled Believe It or Not Ripley's Back. 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:43.200 And this continues from our last episode, dear listener. 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:59.840 I'm not sure if you remember, where I was convinced by my fellow podcasters here that, in fact, Sigordney Weaver, aka Ripley, aka as I like to call her Riley, because I can't remember her name, it does come back. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.799 And actually, it's called Resurrection, I'm pretty sure because she's back. 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.800 So, Anthony Dakota, answer for yourselves. 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.039 I feel like you guys knew you knew this was coming. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:13.120 They could have resurrected new. 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.159 Honestly, it's been a very long time since I've seen this movie. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.960 And you know, going back to it now, it's it was for a good reason that it's been so long. 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.439 But yeah, I have absolved myself of any wrongdoing here. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:35.120 I don't know about Anthony, but look, if if it's a if it's a way to get you to watch these with fresh eyes, with open ears, I'm willing to lie just a little bit. 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:42.080 Well, you know, the funny thing is, I'm realizing by uh the release, I've seen this movie. 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.800 I don't know I don't know why. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:48.479 And everything started clicking for me. 00:02:48.719 --> 00:03:00.879 I can't remember the character's name, but the guy with the dreadlocks, i his action sequences stuck out in my brain, and then when Ripley does the basketball behind Ron Perlman's head, right? 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:06.639 Unless that is from unless that's from something else, then I have seen that. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:13.439 Like I I was it everything kind of flooded back into my head, but I don't know this must have been a random one-off. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:24.479 Like my friends were like, hey, let's go to the movies because we have nothing to do on a Friday, and we saw whatever was playing, because there's no other reason why I didn't see any other one in the franchise. 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:28.240 Like I just showed up and said, Let's go see four. 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:28.879 Love it. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.479 And and and you ended up like saying the worst one. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:37.439 I I mean it's safe to say that this is the worst one. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:39.840 There is some stuff here. 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:41.280 There is some stuff. 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:44.159 I mean, that lab is interesting. 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:45.680 It's like an island of Dr. 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:46.240 Moreau. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:53.199 Uh, this one seems like it I'm surprised Sigordney Weaver decided to do this. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.120 Yeah, we'll get to all that. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:59.039 Yeah, we'll definitely get to our our discussion of alien resurrection. 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:00.000 We have a lot to say. 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.560 I'm sure some of us have positive things to say. 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:08.000 I'm I'm looking at my co-hosts, hoping for some positivity here uh in these dark times. 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:09.759 Anthony's giving me the thumbs down. 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.680 We're gonna jump right into you know everybody's favorite segments. 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.160 What the hell have we been up to these past couple of weeks? 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.519 Uh Anthony, we'll start with you. 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:28.639 Future Anthony here, and if you would like to skip the segment of what we have been up to, head on over to 23 minutes, and that is when the main discussion begins. 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:29.920 See y'all. 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:40.240 I so the week before the the week that I got sick, I actually went to go see uh Kometsu no Yaiba in theaters. 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.399 It was uh really good, man. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:47.360 You're gonna have to speak a little bit of English because my uh my ears are bleeding. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.120 The Demon Slayer movie. 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:50.160 No, I know, I know. 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:50.639 Yeah, man. 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:52.079 Yeah, it was good. 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:52.720 It was good. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:05:05.920 I I will say that I feel like they could have benefited from maybe another season because man, they had a lot of backstory going on, a little bit too much for a movie, but it was still pretty good. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:06.560 I liked it. 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:07.680 Alright, I have a question. 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:13.920 I know both of you went to go see this movie, but I know only one of you actually like watched it. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.800 Anthony as a Demon Slayer fan, how many seasons are there? 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:25.600 Why did they decide to break up the finale into movies? 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:30.319 So there's only four actual seasons. 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.079 It's a short manga series. 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.560 I think there's like 24 volumes. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:39.920 And so, like, I mean, like in in terms of like manga, that's pretty short, right? 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.279 That's a pretty short run. 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:47.040 I'm not entirely sure why they decided to go the movie route for the last bit. 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.920 I I'm not opposed to it. 00:05:50.079 --> 00:06:06.560 If they did one more season, like a 13-episode run that covered the rest of these fights, and then maybe the last bit of it would be a movie where they fight the the like last upper moon and then moves on, then then that would have been cool. 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:20.160 But like I mean they they really had there was a lot of like backstory, especially for the upper three, like his past, and man, that that they literally went through like his whole backstory, so that thing was long, dude. 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:22.639 But other than that, it was a pretty good movie. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.199 It it felt like an uncut season. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:39.759 Like they ran each episode out, and they took the intro and outro out, and it was just like one continuous episode, or like one continuous season with um the episodes like together. 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:44.240 Well, uh, for whatever reason, they decided to go this route. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:49.519 It did pay off because it was a massive, massive success worldwide. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:58.160 I think it's up there in the top ten highest-grossing films for the year right now, and that's incredible for an anime spin-off. 00:06:58.560 --> 00:06:59.040 Absolutely. 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:08.000 I mean, I've gone to the theater to see anime movies, but I've never seen it a theater packed out the way that this one was. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:28.800 Like, I mean, it was packed out, and you you know you can expect the same for the next two movies, which I think they announced that yes, the next part's gonna be next year, and then I'm I'm assuming that they'll cap it off in 2026 or 2027, so and then yeah, that'll be it. 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.800 But yeah, no, it was a really good movie. 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:38.560 I mean, those of our listeners that have seen it, I mean, we have a lot of listeners that listen to that Demon Slayer episode. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:40.399 Dude, every day, every day there's downloads. 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:41.680 Yeah, yeah, every day. 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:54.959 So we do have a lot of fans, and trust me, there will be a second part to that episode, especially to kind of cap off the last season, which there's not much to talk about, and then the movies that follow it. 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:08.879 So I'm really just waiting for those to finish up, and then I'll do a part two to that Demon Slayer episode, and hopefully that one gets an equal amount of downloads because it's like our best episode. 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:10.959 Day in, day out, yeah, for sure. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.120 But yeah, Rich, how how did you like it? 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.040 Guys, I tried. 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:15.600 All right. 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.199 I had one of my first track meets that morning. 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:22.079 I think I woke up at like 5 30 to go. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:32.000 Then I left the track meet, came home, unpacked my car, went to City Field, and uh Oh yeah, we we I I saw you at City Field that day. 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.759 You showed up, and then you were like, we've got to leave early because we have a movie to catch. 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:38.960 Turns out the movie was Demon Slayer. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.399 So I get to Demon Slayer at about 8 p.m. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.399 and I the feature I love most about this theater is the it's right about baseball. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.559 Oh, City Fields, Anthony, is the Mets stadium. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:50.799 Yeah. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:52.799 So he went to a baseball game before going to see this. 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:54.720 So what were you doing over there, Dakota? 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:56.320 I was eating hot dogs. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:04.480 So I I go to the theater and my my it's it's it's real local, it's five minutes away. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:08.879 I'm very excited. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.919 I mean the Mets have lost, so I'm in a pretty sour mood. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:22.720 But we get to the theater and I settle in, and the person in front of me, they're the only two people in the entire theater who did not recline their chairs. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.559 And it happened to be the two people that were sitting in front of me and to my right. 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.320 So what this created was a real problem. 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:40.799 I had to decide because them not being reclined blocked the subtitles, and my son insisted on seeing it in Japanese with subtitles. 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.960 So I was watching the first 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and I was a little mad respect for your son, by the way. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:47.679 Just just throwing it. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:48.559 Oh, he always does this. 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.720 Yeah, he uh shout out to Charlie. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.799 I mean, he really does keep it real. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:53.759 Charlie's a real one. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:10:03.200 He wants to be a mangaka and he's doing the Duolingo and trying to he wants to he doesn't want to just write, you know, create you know, manga in the United States. 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.919 He wants to be somebody who learns how to do it in Japan. 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:07.120 So that's awesome. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:07.919 Kudos to him. 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:16.159 That's a cool yeah, it's a cool uh but not cool, not so cool when your father is old and he can't see the subtitles if he reclines in his chair. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.440 Because after 20 minutes, I was a little overwhelmed. 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:21.039 I didn't know really what was going on. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.279 I've not seen one thing about Demon Slayer. 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:24.720 This was all for him. 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.480 And once I reclined, all I heard was Japanese guys, and I'm sorry. 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.320 I think I dealt with eight minutes. 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:39.279 Apparently, I snored so loudly that my wife had to wake me up because I startled two teenage boys that were sitting to the left of me. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:50.000 I remember waking up thinking that they were rude because they were talking and looking at me, but now I pieced everything together, and it was that I was an old man snoring in the middle of the theater. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.519 So that is that is a fantastic show. 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:55.200 I have I have no review of the movie. 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:56.799 I'm gonna have to go back and watch it. 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:57.679 I'm gonna watch it. 00:10:58.559 --> 00:10:59.200 Yeah, eventually. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.759 You gotta watch a couple seasons of that show first. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:11.600 It would probably make more sense, but uh I I guess tangentially related to that, I will mention that the family has solidified their costumes for Comic-Con this year. 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.159 I am going as Vegeta. 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:18.080 My son is going as help me out, Dakota. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:18.799 Trunks. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:19.440 Trunks. 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:20.639 Chunks. 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:21.919 And trunks, yeah. 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:24.799 Trunks, and my wife is going as Boma. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:26.480 Is that correct? 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:33.759 Yeah, so uh listeners, in the past couple weeks we we uh tricked Rich into believing that he was gonna be Boma. 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:35.519 I'm very confused. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:40.080 Uh yeah, we were just like, oh, so that that naturally means you're gonna be Boma, right? 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:44.799 And that I brought that back up to you in at City Fields, and your your son left. 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:46.559 They kept trying to it was fun. 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:47.919 They kept doing no jokes on me. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:49.440 They were like, oh, you're gonna be Reiki. 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.320 And I'm like, who's I'm like, okay, I'll be whatever. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.879 You know, like I'm not I'm not trying to be a problem here. 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:56.720 I I don't know Well who are you gonna be? 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:58.639 So I'm gonna be Vegeta. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:11:59.679 Oh, okay. 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:01.440 Although I have no I'm very upset. 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:03.679 I thought you were saying you're gonna be Roshi. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:04.960 No, no, no. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.919 Oh, they thought about it, apparently. 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:09.679 Yeah, that was one of the options. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.200 Not Master Roshi. 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.000 Anthony, um sorry, we cut you off. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:15.919 Is that all you've been up to the past couple weeks? 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:16.960 Yeah, man. 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:25.120 Because last week I I was recovering from sickness, so no gym, just straight resting. 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.159 So you gotta rest occasionally. 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:33.360 And then, you know, Rich has been prepping for his uh, you know, Boma cosplay. 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.840 Uh Rich, what what have you been up to other than that? 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.279 Uh just uh I mean work's picking up a lot. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.480 I'm uh coaching, so that's just taking up a lot of my time. 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:50.399 I'm uh ordering weird patches to make my own merch because I'm too cheap to buy the school's merch. 00:12:50.559 --> 00:13:05.440 So I just actually got a very sweet Dia de los Muertos Calavera, but it's Rams themed with Ram logos in its eyes and blue and gold accents all over. 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:23.039 I've already affixed it to one of my low-cost Amazon sleeveless hoodies that I wear for coaching, so I have a very uniquely themed Hispanic Heritage Month Rams coach gear that I'm very excited to unveil this Saturday. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:34.399 I'm also excited because I ordered Mario Odyssey after weeks and weeks of back and forth and debate with my son and myself, even though Mario Wonder is newer. 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:45.440 I think my favorite Mario, despite playing all of them, like you know, in six whatever, like as they came out, my favorite Mario Brothers game had to be Mario 64. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:47.039 It just changed the game. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:53.279 Really quick, I'm gonna throw it over to Anthony, because how would you pronounce that game franchise? 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:54.480 Oh boy. 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.919 No, I'm just I'm just curious, like you know, it's funny. 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:07.840 It's funny that you said that because literally I was thinking in my mind, like, oh, that's an interesting way of uh pronouncing Mario. 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.919 Everybody in New York does this, everybody says Mario in New York Blue. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.200 They say Mario. 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:17.679 Did you see did you see the Super Mario Brothers movie? 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.600 Did you hear John Liguzamo? 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.120 Um I saw the Super Mario Brothers movie. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:23.679 Really? 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.200 Go listen to Dennis Haskins and listen to John Liguzamo. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.320 And I'm fairly considered. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.240 Listen, I don't trust I don't trust movies. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.679 Ever since the last airbender came out and they called him Ung. 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:40.399 Yeah. 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:44.000 No, I don't trust the pronunciations of any movie. 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.440 Oh, snap. 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:49.039 Alright, I'm starting some beef between Miami and New York right now. 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:50.879 Uh listen to it. 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:52.240 Hey, am I wrong, Dakota? 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.799 Like when as soon as I heard the words Ung uttered, I was just like Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.440 I mean, it's it they they messed it up. 00:14:59.519 --> 00:14:59.919 Yeah. 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.480 I too have always said Mario. 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:07.679 I had never actually met a Mario until I moved to New York. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:13.120 Uh like I actually met like a like people named Mario, but like in Florida, everyone would call them Mario. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.240 It's really it's interesting. 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:18.480 Yeah, yeah, like we like we have a restaurant down here, it's Mario's. 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.360 But like See, like uh that's what we said. 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.399 My wife is married. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:23.919 Let's wheel it back in. 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.360 Like his my son's godfather is Mario. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:28.240 Okay. 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.039 Yeah, so it's just it's just a cultural difference, really. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:31.919 Like it's it's literally. 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.720 So I'm pretty sure that's like the official pronunciation. 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.279 Isn't that just South New York? 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.600 I will say, here's the thing. 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:56.240 There's a lot of Italian-American pronunciations that are just blatantly wrong, like Muzzarel and Proschute, and all of those, like all of those pronunciation are wrong. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:02.720 Like you go to Italy or you you speak Italian, that's not actually how you would pronounce those things. 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:10.320 So I do think that American like Italian-American accents change the way that certain things are pronounced. 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:12.159 Are you saying that you don't like gabagul? 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:13.600 I love gabagul. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:20.879 I love the taste of it, I love the idea of it, I love the meme of it, but um I don't think that that is the correct pronunciation of Capacola. 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:26.080 Rich, who is uh Ezio's uncle in uh Assassin's Creed? 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:28.720 Oh, oh god. 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:37.759 I love and it was a blatant, like, just super super Mario Brothers ripoff where he's like, it's a me, Mario. 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:39.519 Don't even recall that. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.320 Yes, that was my favorite one. 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:44.480 That's my favorite Assassin's Creed game. 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:45.519 It's just fantastic. 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:47.039 Yeah, I don't know, that was solid. 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.440 But yeah, Dakota, I don't know if uh Rich has anything else left. 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.080 But uh we gotta hear what Dakota's up to. 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:57.120 Dakota dropped uh a video, Alien Video. 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.440 Yeah, actually, I was about to forget about that. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:01.919 Yeah, I totally I I dropped a video yesterday. 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:09.039 It's hopefully the first in a series of alien timeline slash lore breakdown videos. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.319 So far the first one has been decently well received. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:38.960 It didn't get a whole bunch of views or anything, but I'm hoping that over time, if I continue this project, it'll become kind of like a time capsule of what each film brought to the table, which is kind of it's been inspired, or that video was inspired by this podcast, because that's what we're doing right now, where we're kind of going film by film and reviewing it, but we're not necessarily talking about the nitty-gritty of like uh the minutiae of the lore and everything. 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:42.720 So I I wanted to do something a little bit extra on my channel. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:49.519 Near the end of the video, I actually do give a pretty big shout out to Project Ecology, and yeah, I'm gonna keep doing that. 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.880 Hopefully, it brings a couple more people to the pub. 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.240 Sweet. 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.119 Yeah, I mean, we've we've been Oh, sorry, go ahead. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:02.160 I would say our our our daily our our daily uptick has been pretty decent. 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:10.880 We're like on track to have over to like our monthly downloads have been like steadily going up, so thank you all. 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:12.240 Yeah, thank you. 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:26.480 And you know, while we're talking about like the meta aspect of our podcast, I think it's a good time to ask for a review if you haven't already reviewed this podcast and you enjoy the content that we produce. 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.119 Please be sure to give it a what do you call it? 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.200 Five star, but like there's a word that we use well, Anthony, do you remember? 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:38.319 Yeah, you know, and I'm always reminded of the word when I watch aliens. 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:46.880 You know, like whenever I see a xenomorph, I'm like, man, that is the kind of juicy review that I want on this podcast. 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:54.640 There are literal aliens swimming around in water, but they're somehow even more wet when they're out of water. 00:18:54.799 --> 00:19:06.319 They are juiced up, oozed up, and yeah, that's how we need your review to land on whatever podcast application you're listening to this to, uh, because that helps bring more viewers to whatever it is we're babbling about. 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:12.640 Before we jump into Alien Resurrection, I did start replaying Kingdom Hearts 2. 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.240 So, Kingdom Hearts has always been my favorite game. 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.160 Pretty much ever since I was a kid. 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.519 It has just been like the bee's knees for me. 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:23.119 It blew me away as a kid. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:41.279 And when I think of nostalgia, that is the thing that because it's a game built on nostalgia, you know, like it's a game built into worlds that have existed within the Disney canon for 50 plus years, some of them, at the time of those games coming out. 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:53.200 So going back to those, it's like I'm nostalgic for the nostalgia, and it's it's a bizarre cyclical thing, but it's it's something that's spoken to me and plenty of other millennials throughout the years. 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:59.200 And yeah, so I'm but what I always end up doing is restarting Kingdom Hearts 1. 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.720 So I've played Kingdom Hearts 1 probably about a hundred times. 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:06.480 Not through completely, but I've at least started it a hundred times. 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:08.160 I'm positive I've hit that mark. 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:11.440 But I never really get to Kingdom Hearts 2. 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:17.039 So that's the game that I've played much less, and I probably haven't played it in over 15 years. 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:24.240 So I'm really excited to just, you know, I just skipped Kingdom Hearts 1 because I know it so well, and I just went straight into Kingdom Hearts 2. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:30.400 And I started this because uh Kingdom Hearts 1 hit an anniversary recently, I think it was last week. 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:36.319 It was it hit 23 years since it's been released, so I decided, why not? 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:41.200 You know, and it's it's kind of like all over my social media right now, so I'm just I'm diving back in. 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:42.240 So I'm excited about it. 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.920 I literally just started today, so I'm still in Twilight Town. 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:51.200 Yeah, so Actually, that's crazy because I started playing Birth by Sleep. 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:52.160 Again? 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.599 Or just for the first time? 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:54.720 No, no, no, no. 00:20:54.880 --> 00:21:00.079 Like I I've played Birth by Sleep before too, but it's been a very, very long time. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:01.599 How are you playing it? 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:07.279 Do you have the physical copy of the game or do you have like the 1.5, 2.5 collection? 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:09.680 So I actually have both. 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:12.319 But I'm playing it on PSP. 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:13.119 Old school. 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:14.400 Old school, yeah. 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:15.359 I like it. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:15.680 Yeah. 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:17.279 Retro gaming. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:23.200 Is rich is uh Winnie the Pooh, that franchise is owned by Disney, correct? 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:25.920 Well, I mean it's no, sorry. 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:34.400 Winnie the Pooh is a character that's in the public domain, but that version of the character that you see in the movies is owned by Disney. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:58.559 So theoretically, when Disney releases the baseball cards, the collaboration uh with MLB, where Disney characters will be wearing MLB uniforms, is it most probable that the Mets will be represented by Eeyore because we are just long-suffering and depressed fans? 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.440 I have no idea. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:06.240 So, for those of you listening that don't know, uh it was just announced today as I'm recording this. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:25.519 And today is the 24th of September, uh, Wednesday, that Disney was teaming up with Topps and MLB to create a line of trading cards that are like baseball inspired, but with Disney characters in some of the baseball outfits that MLB players play with. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:33.759 So I think we only saw some of the normal characters, the Nikki's, the Minis, the Goofies, in that little teaser that they relayed. 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.839 So I don't know, I don't know exactly what is the scope of that. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:43.920 I don't know if it's gonna be like Lorcana, where they have like all of the Disney films doing stuff like that. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:48.079 But I have to believe that this is inspired by the success of Lorcana. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.079 Like that that game blew up. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:57.599 I would if I were you, I would I would I would put aside all the money you can right now, Dakota, and save up to buy all of this stuff. 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.720 I think this should be your next endeavor, really. 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:02.160 Like Lorcana. 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:14.000 You should just pull out all of your money and savings and credit and crypto, whatever you got, pull out all your stocks, put it into MLB trading cards that are paired up with Disney. 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:17.359 Guys, let's jump into Alien Resurrection. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.160 I have a couple things to say starting this episode off. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:21.279 Is it an apology? 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:23.039 Because I mentioned Is it an apology? 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:24.240 It is an apology. 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:27.279 Yeah, actually, no, I do actually have to apologize. 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:33.759 Because last week I said that this film was directed by who did I say it was directed by? 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:34.480 I can't remember. 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:36.079 I don't I always forget this guy's name. 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.119 Joss Whedon. 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:38.640 Very oh, really? 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:44.720 So I claim that this movie last week was directed by Joss Whedon. 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:45.759 That's wrong. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:53.839 He is attached to this movie, but he is not the director, and that's a mistake that I've somehow lived with in my mind for a very long time. 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:58.240 So the actual director is Jean-Pierre Genet. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:04.880 And the connection with Joss Whedon is that he wrote it. 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:18.400 And I do think that his filmmaking style and writing style, even though this isn't a good movie, does feel very Joss Whedon at times. 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:31.279 And if anyone has watched Firefly, you will definitely feel strong Firefly vibes by some of the characters in this particular movie. 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:38.400 He even writes Ripley kind of like he writes the character of River in Firefly. 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:44.640 You know, early, early Ripley in this movie where she is almost like non-verbal and kind of just like really weird. 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:45.680 Yeah, he's very strong. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:50.319 You don't even think about that, dude, now that you point it out, like I see it. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:51.519 That's wild. 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:56.319 So I apologize for leading anyone on last episode. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:58.079 It's not a John Sweden film. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.519 It's a Junet film. 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:04.000 So yeah, I don't know if that's the apology you were looking for, Rich, but I sorry. 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:11.759 I think the apology would probably be that both of you made me think that Riley was gone. 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:14.160 Uh Ripley, Ripley, why can't I get that? 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:15.920 Ripley was gone forever. 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:20.000 I was so and I'm not gonna lie, I did not cheat. 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:24.319 I legitimately thought, I was like, this can't be it, right? 00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:29.519 And the minute the podcast ends, like I this is just some behind the scenes for you listeners. 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:39.119 The podcast ends, and often if my wife is busy doing something, I will almost immediately start watching the next assignment. 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:41.519 Even if it's just to get a taste of it, right? 00:25:41.759 --> 00:26:22.880 So I go to my Hulu, and of course the next movie is recommended on the banner, and I see Sigordney Weaver's face, and I'm like, these liars! So uh yeah, and and then you know, I as as I mentioned earlier, it just was weird when I started to realize that I I had seen it before, and it it was kind of a weird experience because I had no recollection of seeing them of seeing this movie, and I don't know why I would have seen the fourth in the series, but it it was a movie, it had um a plot, i you know. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:24.400 There were some scenes in it. 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:29.440 Yeah, there were some cool scenes, there was a lot of juice from the aliens. 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:31.759 I I will admit that. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:32.880 The Island of Dr. 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:36.160 Moreau lab scenes was memorable, I suppose. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:49.200 The you guys don't have the background of Ripley's baby alien being sucked outside into space, which was a fairly haunting image. 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.279 Uh I don't know what happened here. 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:56.319 They took a turn, and it is not a surprise that there's a bit of a a break after this movie. 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:56.960 Yeah. 00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.920 There there is definitely a break after this movie. 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:05.920 The next one doesn't come out until 2012, but at least Ripley's back. 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:11.519 You know, like she's back in the franchise, so going forward you have a little bit more Ripley to look forward to. 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:13.440 I I think that's a lie. 00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:26.079 I'm I don't think that I don't think that's I think Sigurdney Weaver is all doing Freaky Friday, and I don't think we're gonna see her again in the franchise, but it's I don't think that's that's definitely not Sigourney Weaver. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.720 Um I think I think you're confusing actresses here now. 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:32.160 Oh, it's Jimmy Lee Curtis. 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.000 Whatever, whatever, whatever. 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:34.799 Yeah, man. 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.559 This is one of those movies that it's very easy to check out of. 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:43.440 Yeah, it's easy to start like scrolling on your phone and like what else is there to do. 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:46.559 And then I'm like, oh wait, I'm watching this for a podcast. 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:47.759 Yeah, yeah. 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:54.079 And then your mind starts to wonder, like, you know, hey, did I did I do that one thing that I was supposed to do? 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.240 Oh crap, wait, I'm watching a movie. 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:01.680 There there's some I think there are some interesting concepts in this movie. 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.480 And I don't want to like write it off entirely. 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.319 But there's a lot that I don't like. 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:17.440 First and foremost, I don't like that they've kind of like written off Wayland Utani as like the big bad threat in the galaxy. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:26.240 Even though it's never really been the big bad threat, I do think Wayland Utani is the source of all of Ripley's trauma. 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:32.880 You know, like they were the ones who pulled her out of hypersleep to go check on that derelict alien spacecraft in the first movie. 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:46.400 They were the ones who sent her back to that planet in aliens, they were the ones who, you know, tried to get the the anyway, i Whaley Newtani's been like this threat in the background for such a long time. 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:55.359 And now they have basically gone defunct in the past 200 plus years that Ripley has been dead. 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:56.960 We don't know anything about it. 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:17.440 I don't think there's much in terms of you know, tie-in comics or novelizations or novels rather, that you know, expand on like what happened to potentially the the m biggest corporation it that's ever been, but uh apparently it no longer exists 200 years after Alien 3. 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.599 Or Alien Cubed, as Anthony is about to tell me. 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:33.200 So that that's like for me I know there's much worse things, you know, like creatively that happens in this movie, but that that kind of bothers me a little bit. 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:49.440 But I don't hate the idea of them trying to resurrect Ripley through, you know, just trying to find DNA fragments uh hidden in like the molten ore uh from that planet. 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:53.519 I don't I strongly disagree. 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:59.920 Look, I've watched Jurassic Park, I've watched a lot of movies where things are recognized. 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:01.119 Created from DNA. 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:18.160 How do you recreate Riley and the xenomorph as two separate but the same like you can't if you cloned a woman who was pregnant, you wouldn't get a woman who was pregnant, you would get that woman, right? 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.559 You wouldn't get the small child inside gestating. 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:31.039 Unless they also have DNA of the baby mixed in with the molten lava, which they technically do. 00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:35.519 So like you're saying that they cloned them separately and then implanted the alien. 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:40.720 I think they cloned them together, which is why there were so many failed attempts prior to it. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:46.880 That's how I understood the like the genetic tampering that led to the first seven mishaps. 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:50.640 Um I don't even know how it's possible that you could uh it could be successful. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:58.799 It doesn't even make like if it's not separate, I'm sorry, I don't know why Margaret and Science of such a honestly just mess of a movie. 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:18.400 But I don't know why this point bothered me so much, but it's the one thing that I was like, I don't and then like the DNA's not separate, like now it's in Riley's human half as well, like that uh right because then later Riley consents Anthony. 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:19.359