Hot Lore Summer - 2024 Coverage Plans

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[00:01:15] Well, I guess that's a good opener for our triarchy meeting to officially declare the hot lore summer in effect.

[00:01:31] It is so. I hear it is so.

[00:01:34] I hear a gavel sound.

[00:01:35] It's hot lore summer.

[00:01:39] I'm trying to understand what's happening.

[00:01:41] It's a vocoder.

[00:01:43] Okay.

[00:01:44] We're having a great time, everyone.

[00:01:47] You're having some fun.

[00:01:48] It's early in the morning.

[00:01:50] We've got a lot to talk about.

[00:01:51] So we were talking about branding the other day and we were saying let's make a name for the fact that we're going to be covering three shows at a time.

[00:02:00] Four shows if you count Doctor Who.

[00:02:04] And let's just not even do that.

[00:02:07] I mean, what about The Bear?

[00:02:10] Well, I'm talking about full coverage.

[00:02:12] The Bear is definitely a one shot at this point because I don't think we can handle anything more than that.

[00:02:17] No, and a binge draft kind of.

[00:02:18] Yeah.

[00:02:19] But why don't we say who's here first before we go into more details?

[00:02:26] The triarchy is here, but also, Aaron, would you like to introduce yourself?

[00:02:31] Yeah.

[00:02:31] So thank you guys for having me and for letting me intrude on this little triarchy meeting.

[00:02:36] I am the host of Radioactive Ramblings and I'm going to be covering The Boys with my co-hosts, Chase and Richard.

[00:02:45] So thank you guys for having me on to talk about that.

[00:02:49] Cool.

[00:02:50] Thanks for being here.

[00:02:50] And thank you for taking The Boys off our plate because I don't think we would have been able to do anything about it.

[00:02:56] I love that show.

[00:02:56] So I'm excited for it.

[00:02:58] That's great.

[00:02:59] So if you're not familiar with us and this weird intro is the first thing that you've ever heard from us, sorry.

[00:03:05] But in general, we do some deep conversations about some nerdy TV shows.

[00:03:13] We go deep into the lore.

[00:03:14] We go deep into the history of things and the production.

[00:03:17] And we are covering three big shows this summer.

[00:03:21] Those are The Acolyte, The Boys season four, and House of the Dragon season two.

[00:03:28] Later in the summer, it'll be Rings of Power season two.

[00:03:30] But I'm going to consider those first three the big main ones.

[00:03:35] So let's go through the three and see what's going on.

[00:03:39] I think, Alicia, you are the Star Wars liaison at this point.

[00:03:44] So why don't you tell us what The Acolyte is supposed to be about?

[00:03:48] Yeah.

[00:03:49] So The Acolyte, if you see people who are particularly excited about this in the land of Star Wars, it's because it's the first thing that really takes place outside.

[00:03:59] The first major thing that really takes place outside the Skywalker saga.

[00:04:05] So we're now set.

[00:04:07] This is 100 years before the prequel trilogy.

[00:04:10] This is the end of the High Republic era.

[00:04:13] And so if you don't know what the High Republic era is, then I have an episode on a podcast of

[00:04:18] the Star Wars canon timeline for you.

[00:04:21] But yes, this is and it's the reviews are good.

[00:04:25] It's supposed to be a compelling mystery, murder mystery of sorts about who's killing the Jedi.

[00:04:31] And just for anyone who doesn't know, an Acolyte is a young Sith trainee, basically.

[00:04:37] The end of course has science fiction royalty, Carrie Ann Moss.

[00:04:42] Right.

[00:04:42] Of course, the cast is great overall.

[00:04:46] Big cast.

[00:04:47] I'm excited for it.

[00:04:50] You and I are going to be covering that in full and that'll be a lot of fun.

[00:04:53] That'll be on this feed and the Star Wars canon timeline feed where you're breaking down

[00:04:57] from the beginning of time.

[00:04:59] Of Star Wars history, yeah.

[00:05:02] You're breaking down everything by dividing it by eras.

[00:05:07] And yeah, it feels like it's a trap because it's a lot of content.

[00:05:14] Somebody stop you.

[00:05:15] Luckily, Acolyte's near the beginning of it.

[00:05:17] So we are setting up the history leading into the Acolyte in 132 before the Battle of Yavin,

[00:05:24] before the original movie.

[00:05:26] Very cool.

[00:05:26] And that's going to be on Disney Plus and that drops June 4th and it's going to run through

[00:05:32] July 16th and it has an eight episode run and they're dropping two if I'm correct on that?

[00:05:39] Great.

[00:05:39] That's correct.

[00:05:40] And then John, are we...

[00:05:41] And that's going to be on the canon feed, our Star Wars feed and-

[00:05:46] The general Lore Hounds feed.

[00:05:47] And the mean, okay.

[00:05:48] And the Lore Hounds feed, great.

[00:05:51] Plenty of stuff coming.

[00:05:53] Aaron, you've got The Boys coming.

[00:05:55] Homelander's coming back to be more in scene this season.

[00:05:59] Can you tell us a little bit about what The Boys is about if people haven't watched it before?

[00:06:04] Absolutely.

[00:06:05] So if you haven't watched The Boys before, get on it.

[00:06:08] It's fantastic.

[00:06:10] It's basically what superheroes would be like in real life, just very megalomaniac.

[00:06:17] Is that the-

[00:06:18] Megalomaniacal?

[00:06:20] Yeah.

[00:06:20] Yes.

[00:06:20] We're going to go with that.

[00:06:21] And they are just horrible, horrible people and it's so fun to watch.

[00:06:27] It's sort of similar to Succession in that way where

[00:06:30] you want to watch horrible people doing horrible things.

[00:06:32] It's a good description.

[00:06:34] Yeah.

[00:06:35] And it's very gory and it's all satire of the superhero genre.

[00:06:41] It does a fantastic job of what it needs to do.

[00:06:45] This season-

[00:06:46] Spikes the tequila scale.

[00:06:48] Oh, it blows the tequila scale out of the water.

[00:06:51] I don't even know if there's a number you could assign to it.

[00:06:54] It goes crazy.

[00:06:56] I'll add though, if the sight of cartoonish violence does not bother you that much,

[00:07:01] it's not often serious.

[00:07:05] It is used in a humorous way most of the time.

[00:07:08] There are points where it gets a little dramatic, but most of the time,

[00:07:12] it's really just one big joke.

[00:07:15] But also be prepared for exploding body parts, like all body parts.

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:23] It's very gory, but it does feel very much like a comic book.

[00:07:26] Yeah.

[00:07:27] Absolutely.

[00:07:27] The only thing missing are the little cartoon text boxes that say pow and wham on them from

[00:07:35] the show.

[00:07:35] And I don't think it's-

[00:07:37] To me, I'm more disturbed about violent scenes in House of the Dragon and in Shogun,

[00:07:41] things like that, than I am by anything in The Boys because of the framing of it.

[00:07:46] And because it's supposed to be silly and satire.

[00:07:49] I'm not supposed to feel badly for these people.

[00:07:52] You know?

[00:07:53] It's all-

[00:07:54] Almost everyone in The Boys is just a bad person.

[00:07:57] And that's kind of what makes you able to let go.

[00:08:00] Yeah.

[00:08:00] Even the people that you're following and, I guess, rooting for a little bit,

[00:08:04] they're not the greatest people either.

[00:08:06] You've got Billy Butcher, played by Carl Urban, and he's definitely not a good guy.

[00:08:13] Right.

[00:08:13] Yeah.

[00:08:14] Exactly.

[00:08:16] All right.

[00:08:16] So a quick synopsis of this season.

[00:08:18] We're coming off the back of the Gen V series, which was a spin-off.

[00:08:23] And there we got to see characters like Victoria Newman, closer than ever to the Oval Office,

[00:08:28] and under the thumb of Homelander, who's consolidating all of his power.

[00:08:33] Butcher only has a few months to live.

[00:08:36] And Ryan Becka's and Homelander's son is lost and with Homelander.

[00:08:45] And now the Boys' leader, Butcher, is seeking out help from characters like

[00:08:51] this new one played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

[00:08:53] And the rest of the team are fed up with all of his lies.

[00:08:57] Excuse me.

[00:08:57] And snaking around.

[00:08:59] So with the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save

[00:09:03] the world before it's too late.

[00:09:07] Very exciting.

[00:09:07] And this is going to be on Amazon Prime if you haven't seen the other seasons.

[00:09:12] Let me ask you though, Aaron, do you need to watch Gen V to fully enjoy this season?

[00:09:19] So from what they've said, it doesn't seem like you absolutely have to.

[00:09:23] But it would be very helpful, especially with the Victoria Newman stuff.

[00:09:27] There's a lot of details that are added with that series that I think are pretty important.

[00:09:33] But at the end of the day, I don't think that you have to.

[00:09:37] I just started watching Gen V finally.

[00:09:40] And I mean, it's imperfect.

[00:09:44] Sometimes it's a little on the nose and, you know, definite content warnings for self harm

[00:09:50] and eating disorders and all the things.

[00:09:54] But I also couldn't stop binging it.

[00:09:57] So I'm already on episode five.

[00:10:00] Yeah, it's one of those shows that's hard to put down once you pick it up.

[00:10:04] One of my co-hosts, Richard, he waited months and months to watch that.

[00:10:09] And once he started, he just binged the whole thing.

[00:10:13] So that seems to be the effect that it has on people where it's a spin off.

[00:10:17] People aren't super interested.

[00:10:19] And then once they start, they don't want to stop.

[00:10:22] Cool.

[00:10:23] That's going to start June 13th and run through July 18th.

[00:10:28] I believe it has eight episodes and they're dropping three to start with.

[00:10:32] It's too many.

[00:10:34] Jeff, you got to relax.

[00:10:36] It seems to me the trend with shows this summer is starting with two or three episodes at once.

[00:10:41] Right.

[00:10:41] I think they're shortening their runtime so that they're keeping it within the hot

[00:10:45] lore summer confines.

[00:10:47] Yeah.

[00:10:49] Well, I think they think it hooks people, but also the faster they can get people to

[00:10:53] finish watching, the less they have to pay later because they only have to...

[00:11:01] I don't know.

[00:11:01] There's like a window.

[00:11:02] Oh, it's for the economics, the studio economics.

[00:11:05] Got it.

[00:11:06] Got it.

[00:11:06] And Aaron, that's going to be on your feed, Radioactive Ramblings.

[00:11:12] So you won't find that on the Lorehounds main feed.

[00:11:16] You've got to go to Radioactive Ramblings.

[00:11:18] And if you go to the show notes for this episode, there'll be a link tree and that has a link

[00:11:24] to all of our affiliates.

[00:11:25] Or you can hop onto our Discord and give a shout out for help or just seriously, just

[00:11:29] search in your podcast application, just Radioactive Ramblings and that will come up.

[00:11:35] So subscribe there and subscribe now because you've got stuff already in your feed, right?

[00:11:39] From Invincible, from Fallout.

[00:11:44] We're doing Fallout lore and we just finished Invincible, which probably is especially enticing

[00:11:51] to the folks who are going to be watching the boys.

[00:11:52] Perfect.

[00:11:53] Right.

[00:11:53] That's great.

[00:11:54] Very cool.

[00:11:55] David, I'm going to put you in charge of House of the Dragons.

[00:11:58] Oh no.

[00:11:58] Sell it to me.

[00:11:59] Oh no.

[00:12:00] Sell it to me.

[00:12:01] All right.

[00:12:01] Well, this is going to start June 16th.

[00:12:04] So what do we have here?

[00:12:05] We have June 4th, June 13th, and June 16th, three major shows.

[00:12:10] Triple blessings to you all.

[00:12:12] House of the Dragons Season 2.

[00:12:14] John, you and I have just been wrapping up our Season 1 recap.

[00:12:17] We're about to record our episodes for 9 and 10, which I watched last night back to back.

[00:12:24] Nice.

[00:12:24] And basically the death of King Viserys has triggered a succession crisis.

[00:12:31] So his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra, and his queen, his widowed queen, Alicent,

[00:12:40] are fighting over succession because they've put Aegon II on the throne,

[00:12:45] rather than when it should have gone to Rhaenyra.

[00:12:48] I believe they've got something like a 13 to 4 advantage in dragons.

[00:12:52] Was that the right number?

[00:12:54] Yeah, but Vhagar counts for like 10.

[00:12:56] Right.

[00:12:56] Exactly.

[00:12:57] It's the same thing, basically.

[00:12:59] So last season was a lot of table setting.

[00:13:02] It was like a giant table setting season.

[00:13:05] And as I understand it, this is going to be the actual conflict,

[00:13:11] the actual war of House of the Dragons, where we have these two houses and their allies

[00:13:20] fighting over control over the Seven Kingdoms.

[00:13:25] I think it's going to be pretty exciting.

[00:13:27] And there's supposed to be a couple of good battle episodes, I believe?

[00:13:31] Oh yeah, there's going to be good battle episodes.

[00:13:33] There's going to be good...

[00:13:35] I think Game of Thrones is really good at playing with how much you like a certain character.

[00:13:41] Yes.

[00:13:42] At certain points, and knowing what's coming, I think that's going to be a big thing.

[00:13:47] I think there's going to be a big pendulum going back and forth of who you hate more.

[00:13:52] I think we should tell people to brace themselves for episode one, it looks like.

[00:13:56] Absolutely.

[00:13:56] Absolutely.

[00:13:57] Like red level, level, brace yourselves.

[00:14:00] Okay.

[00:14:00] Red writing level.

[00:14:01] Yeah.

[00:14:02] They're coming in hot.

[00:14:04] But you got two good teams, right?

[00:14:06] You got Rhaenyra, who's all like, you know, kind of a flawed character, but really means well.

[00:14:12] And then you have Aegon, who's basically Anakin.

[00:14:15] It's unfair.

[00:14:16] It's unfair.

[00:14:17] And it's great.

[00:14:19] It's great.

[00:14:19] I'm loving it.

[00:14:21] So that's going to be starting June 16th, running through August 4th.

[00:14:25] It's going to have eight episodes this year.

[00:14:27] They're just going to do a normal run, right?

[00:14:29] They're only going to drop one to start with.

[00:14:31] And then, John, you and I are going to be doing full coverage of that on our Lorhounds

[00:14:37] main feed.

[00:14:37] And then we set up a separate feed just for House of the Dragon content to, you know,

[00:14:43] try to, you know, for a little search engine optimization, I guess you could say.

[00:14:46] Yep.

[00:14:47] But also the season pass.

[00:14:48] If you just want.

[00:14:49] Oh, yes.

[00:14:49] Thank you.

[00:14:50] If you just want Hot D premium content like ad free episodes, early access and the show guide,

[00:14:56] you can just give us 10 bucks and we'll give you permanent access to all that stuff.

[00:15:00] So that is something that we're offering for the first time for House of the Dragon.

[00:15:04] Right.

[00:15:05] And that's for folks, if you don't want to bother with the Patreon or Supercast subscription

[00:15:10] and have that recurring stuff, just it's a very simple thing.

[00:15:13] And then, of course, we should also mention the show guide, which you and Aaron and Brian

[00:15:19] 8063 on our discord put together, which is an amazing resource.

[00:15:24] We use a platform called Notion.

[00:15:26] It's kind of like this souped up database thing.

[00:15:28] Anyway, we can make pages live really quick.

[00:15:31] So, John, you limited the content to season one, which is really great because if you go

[00:15:37] out on the internet and you try to find out what dragon is this or who's that servant of so and so

[00:15:43] you end up getting spoiled because there's just so much information already out there,

[00:15:46] especially because this is pre-published information from the book.

[00:15:51] And so the season one show guide, it's limited to the show and you'll keep it up as the episodes

[00:15:57] go on.

[00:15:57] And it's a really great second screen experience.

[00:15:59] So if you're trying to find out who this dragon is or who the writer is or what have you,

[00:16:03] it's an awesome resource.

[00:16:04] It looks great and you guys did a fun job.

[00:16:07] And so, yeah, normal subscribers get that and season pass subscribers will get that as well.

[00:16:11] Yep.

[00:16:11] We're not doing anything exclusive to the season pass.

[00:16:14] It's just an option if you just want House of the Dragon stuff and you don't want a recurring

[00:16:18] subscription.

[00:16:19] Yep.

[00:16:20] Anyway, we've got more coming.

[00:16:22] We've got to go back to...

[00:16:23] Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos.

[00:16:28] Somebody stop him.

[00:16:29] He's got Rings of Power season two coming for us at the end of August, August 29th to October

[00:16:35] 3rd.

[00:16:36] It looks like they're starting with three episodes, which feels insane to me.

[00:16:40] It seems like an Amazon thing to do, right?

[00:16:42] Yeah, Amazon seems to be doing that a lot.

[00:16:44] I think three is just too much.

[00:16:46] Two, it makes sense.

[00:16:47] Two, I'm down with.

[00:16:48] Three is a lot of pressure on the viewer and it goes by too quickly.

[00:16:53] Then you're almost halfway through their eight episode seasons.

[00:16:57] Will none of these studios take into account the plight of the poor podcaster?

[00:17:02] The work and the toil and the difficulty that you place this in by front loading this content so

[00:17:08] much?

[00:17:08] Cry for us.

[00:17:09] It's unfair.

[00:17:11] Anakin's with us, don't worry.

[00:17:13] Yeah.

[00:17:14] He gets me.

[00:17:15] Well, if you didn't watch season one of Rings of Power, essentially, they set up the whole

[00:17:19] thing with the Second Age.

[00:17:21] We went through Galadriel's journey to discover what's going on with Sauron.

[00:17:27] Sauron, of course, reveals himself as the big villain at the end of season one.

[00:17:31] And now we're going to see what mischief he's up to in season two.

[00:17:34] The Elven rings are already forged.

[00:17:36] Looks like from the trailers, we're going to get some Dwarven rings at least this season.

[00:17:40] And it looks like it looks really good.

[00:17:43] You can listen to our whole hour and a half breakdown of the of the trailer.

[00:17:47] Yeah, what was it like a two minute trailer?

[00:17:49] And we spent an hour and a half taking it apart.

[00:17:52] And there's a visual guide to the trailer, too.

[00:17:54] That's open to anybody.

[00:17:55] It's made with notion just like we do for the premium stuff.

[00:17:57] But we put this one out for everybody.

[00:18:00] It's it's looks like it's going to be great.

[00:18:02] I mean, I think we're going to get our hearts broken several times, but I think that it's

[00:18:08] going to be a lot of fun.

[00:18:09] And that's going to be on our main feed and the Tolkien feed.

[00:18:14] And it's going to be you, me and Marilyn covering that week to week starting August

[00:18:18] 29th, running through October 3rd.

[00:18:21] Yes, our favorite Tolkien scholar.

[00:18:23] Of course.

[00:18:24] Yes, of course.

[00:18:26] Now we've got more to get through.

[00:18:30] We've got the end of Hot Lore Summer to talk about with with more one shots and other shows

[00:18:40] we're going to be doing light coverage on.

[00:18:42] So the bear, I know I think David is the biggest bear fan I know.

[00:18:46] So I'm going to pass it on for a minute.

[00:18:49] Right.

[00:18:49] So that's going to drop June 27th, 10 episode binge on FX on Hulu.

[00:18:57] And it's going to season three is going to be following Carmi, Sidney and Richie as they

[00:19:03] are trying to keep the their new restaurant, the bear running and elevate it to sort of

[00:19:09] this fine dining establishment from its lowly beginnings as a beef sandwich stand.

[00:19:15] And it seems to be a dramatic it's going to be another drama filled season.

[00:19:21] I think we ended the well, I won't say anything about the ending of the first or the second

[00:19:25] season, but definitely go back and watch it.

[00:19:26] It's some of the there are a couple of episodes in season two that were some of the best episodes

[00:19:34] of tell like for me, they just have to rank in a top 10 of all episodes ever.

[00:19:39] Just incredible.

[00:19:40] It's fantastic stuff.

[00:19:42] Aaron, are you a boys fan?

[00:19:44] Bears fan.

[00:19:46] I think shows there's too many shows.

[00:19:49] It's unfair.

[00:19:50] It's unfair bear.

[00:19:53] I've seen the bear, I think two or three times now watching it with different people.

[00:19:57] So I'm definitely a fan.

[00:19:59] This is one that I'm really excited for maybe even more so than the acolyte, which is saying

[00:20:04] something because I'm a big Star Wars fan.

[00:20:07] Yeah.

[00:20:08] So I'm really hyped for this one.

[00:20:10] The acting is just always incredible in every single episode.

[00:20:14] We're going to definitely do a one shot for it because it's a binge, but I'm going to scheme

[00:20:19] a little bit to see if we can maybe on the side do some a bit more in-depth episode coverage.

[00:20:26] I hope you have a great time with that, David, because right now I feel like this has just

[00:20:31] been said to me.

[00:20:33] So you have chosen death.

[00:20:36] As far as the amount of coverage I've signed on for this season.

[00:20:41] I have no idea when it's going to be out in Europe.

[00:20:43] I hope that with Shogun that now FX is like, oh, hey, maybe we should release these major

[00:20:49] shows in all markets at the same time.

[00:20:51] But previously the last two seasons, we got it months later.

[00:20:55] It's nuts because you could spark a global conversation about a show and really promote

[00:21:02] your brand.

[00:21:02] It's craziness.

[00:21:04] Yeah, really missing out on the opportunity to have people hyping it up.

[00:21:08] Yeah.

[00:21:09] And then if people watch it other ways and they're not watching it through their streamer

[00:21:14] when it gets there.

[00:21:15] So yeah, you're just diminishing your streamer's value.

[00:21:18] Well, anyway, keep your ears open.

[00:21:21] It'll be a little bit delayed from the air date because it'll take us time to be able

[00:21:25] to watch everything and then get something together.

[00:21:27] But we will definitely be discussing it on the main LoreHound feed.

[00:21:33] Cool.

[00:21:33] Alicia, you've got some vampiric doing.

[00:21:36] So why don't you tell us about that?

[00:21:38] Yes, I have an interview with the Vampire Agenda.

[00:21:41] Thank you for giving me the floor.

[00:21:44] I mean, from my perspective, it is one of the best shows on television or streaming,

[00:21:50] whatever, right now.

[00:21:53] It's on season two.

[00:21:54] The writing remains at the level of Andor level writing.

[00:21:58] It's sort of a Rashomon style storytelling where you're seeing the story from different

[00:22:04] characters' perspectives.

[00:22:07] And out of it, it's a romantic tragedy, but you don't really know whose perspective to

[00:22:12] trust.

[00:22:13] And there's enough happy moments to keep you yearning for those when the tragic goes.

[00:22:23] And there's so much lore.

[00:22:24] The Twitter community is very active, loves to analyze it.

[00:22:27] So it's a very fun show to watch.

[00:22:30] It's being released weekly.

[00:22:32] The first three episodes are out of eight in total.

[00:22:37] So it'll end at the end of June.

[00:22:40] Versus the book, they shifted the time period more modern so that they could have the modern

[00:22:47] time take place today in 2022 is when the first season was set.

[00:22:51] But that means that they've been able to do a completely fresh take with...

[00:22:56] So the first season's mostly set in Storyville, a neighborhood of New Orleans in 1910s.

[00:23:03] And it's like when we watched The Watchmen and learned about the Tulsa Massacres.

[00:23:13] It just opened another window in the world that I didn't know about, even though I love

[00:23:17] New Orleans history.

[00:23:19] And then also now the new season is set in post-World War II Eastern Europe and Paris.

[00:23:24] So just a really fascinating watch.

[00:23:28] Three episodes in, they're laying the groundwork for very emotionally compelling season.

[00:23:33] Book readers know this is going to be an explosive finale.

[00:23:35] And just a rec for anyone who hasn't read the books and wants to catch up on the book

[00:23:42] story, the naughty librarian on YouTube, she gives great summaries of all the books in

[00:23:47] the series.

[00:23:48] So yeah, that's on AMC Plus in the US and elsewhere outside the US.

[00:23:53] And we're going to be doing a one-shot with a special guest, Christina from Vampire Insider.

[00:23:58] And they're doing weekly breakdowns of the show.

[00:24:01] So if you want weekly breakdowns, I recommend them.

[00:24:04] And that'll be on the main feed.

[00:24:05] Great.

[00:24:06] And that's at what, the end of June sometime?

[00:24:09] Well, yeah.

[00:24:09] So it ends at the end of June.

[00:24:10] Yeah.

[00:24:11] So at the start of July, we'll do it.

[00:24:13] Perfect.

[00:24:14] You know, I gotta say, if you're a network right now and you're considering adding plus

[00:24:19] to your name, creating a streaming service, just stop.

[00:24:24] Just stop.

[00:24:25] But AMC is, yeah, AMC is like, they have a lot going on.

[00:24:30] Like they had that new Walking Dead show.

[00:24:32] They have that whole Walking Dead series.

[00:24:34] There's a new take on Orphan Black, which was a favorite of mine coming out.

[00:24:39] Well, I just think some of them are just going to have to suck it up and bow down to it.

[00:24:47] I think you can get it through Amazon also.

[00:24:52] All right.

[00:24:53] So who wants to break the fourth wall and talk about Deadpool and Wolverine?

[00:24:56] Which I think might be a hop on for me, for the MCU.

[00:25:00] All right.

[00:25:00] I might jump in for that one.

[00:25:02] So that's going to be in theaters on July 26th.

[00:25:05] We're definitely going to do a one-shot for that on the Lorehounds meme.

[00:25:09] But Alicia, we haven't talked about coverage plans specifically.

[00:25:12] I mean, obviously.

[00:25:14] Obviously, our MCUniverse crew should assemble to cover this

[00:25:20] with maybe a special guest appearance.

[00:25:23] Can I just tell the story of when I went to go see Deadpool 1?

[00:25:27] I think you are.

[00:25:28] I don't think you can.

[00:25:29] I'm just going to do it.

[00:25:30] You're just going to do it.

[00:25:31] It's my podcast.

[00:25:32] I'm doing it.

[00:25:34] So I went to the theater with my wife.

[00:25:37] She was my girlfriend at the time because it was a long time ago.

[00:25:40] And we get there.

[00:25:42] And in front of us is this mother with her seven, eight-year-old boy.

[00:25:46] And she says, can I get a ticket to Deadpool?

[00:25:49] And the guy at the counter goes, hey, just so you know, it's rated R for extreme violence

[00:25:53] and sexual content.

[00:25:55] And she goes, oh, he'll be fine.

[00:25:58] So we get into the theater.

[00:26:00] She was like, all right, whatever.

[00:26:02] We get into the theater.

[00:26:03] Like two minutes into the movie, she's walking out with him because there's already insane

[00:26:08] stuff going on.

[00:26:09] I'm like, she, he, the guy told you.

[00:26:13] But yeah, I can't believe Disney is letting Ryan Reynolds go forward with his usual nonsense.

[00:26:19] But it seems like that's what's happening.

[00:26:21] And it's going to be cameo central.

[00:26:23] Like even just if we only get the cameos that are confirmed and not the ones rumored, it's

[00:26:28] going to be insane.

[00:26:29] And this has long been predicted to probably be the biggest box office hit this year.

[00:26:34] And I think it's putting a lot of weight on the MCU because we only have, the only other

[00:26:39] thing that we've got MCU out is Agatha all along.

[00:26:44] Is that right, Alicia?

[00:26:46] I mean, for this year, yeah.

[00:26:47] Yeah.

[00:26:49] Does X-Men 97 mean nothing to you?

[00:26:52] I mean, coming up, coming up.

[00:26:54] But also we do actually have probably more animated shows coming out this year.

[00:26:58] Right.

[00:26:59] So last year, obviously we had a kind of a high watermark and then Disney is recalibrating.

[00:27:04] And so there's a lot of expectation around this film.

[00:27:06] And I know that the last couple of Deadpool movies do have a lot of favor in the fandom.

[00:27:13] Yeah.

[00:27:14] Aaron, are you a Deadpool fan?

[00:27:16] I am actually.

[00:27:17] When I went to the theater yesterday, I had a pretty funny experience because the silence

[00:27:23] your cell phone message at the AMC that I went to was Deadpool and Wolverine.

[00:27:27] Oh, fun.

[00:27:29] So the marketing team is having some fun with this one.

[00:27:31] Oh yeah, absolutely.

[00:27:32] Just let Ryan Reynolds loose.

[00:27:34] You were at the theater seeing Furiosa the other day.

[00:27:37] I was.

[00:27:38] I went yesterday morning.

[00:27:39] That was a fun film to see.

[00:27:42] Very cool.

[00:27:42] I know and Alicia and Aaron and myself are going to be doing a one shot on Furiosa this

[00:27:48] weekend, which does it officially a fall within the hot lore summer time frame?

[00:27:53] Yeah.

[00:27:54] We're releasing it in June.

[00:27:57] That's the theme.

[00:28:01] It is loving the soundboard today.

[00:28:05] It's it's hot lore summer, so we can we can use as many sounds as we want on this silly

[00:28:09] podcast.

[00:28:11] We don't usually do this.

[00:28:12] Listen, everyone, if you're not here, usually, usually the tone of this podcast, we're just

[00:28:17] being silly today.

[00:28:18] Oh yeah, we usually go much deeper into things too.

[00:28:20] But this is just a sampler platter.

[00:28:22] Right, right.

[00:28:23] OK, David, you are Captain Alien.

[00:28:28] You've been championing classic horror.

[00:28:31] My question is, what other stories are there to tell in this universe about things popping

[00:28:35] out of people's bellies?

[00:28:37] Apparently a lot because we're going to get Alien Romulus is in theaters on August 16th.

[00:28:44] And we also have a I believe coming out next year, we're going to have an alien television

[00:28:50] series.

[00:28:51] So hold on to your hats for that.

[00:28:54] But this one is apparently about a group of young space colonizers.

[00:28:58] I don't know if colonizers is the right word that the marketing team wants to be using

[00:29:01] in this day and age.

[00:29:02] Anyway, a bunch of folks are out in deep space when they come across the xenomorph.

[00:29:07] Apparently, this is going to be a standalone installment of the franchise, and it's going

[00:29:12] to fall between on the timeline.

[00:29:14] It's going to fall between the first movie Alien and the second movie Aliens in the story

[00:29:19] timeline.

[00:29:20] And I am definitely interested on a one shot.

[00:29:23] I have yet to turn on the lore hounds signal.

[00:29:27] I want to say bat signal, but you know what I mean?

[00:29:30] So we don't know yet who's going to sign on with me for coverage, but I'm definitely

[00:29:35] interested in it.

[00:29:36] This is the 45th anniversary of the first movie Alien, and I'm working on a one shot

[00:29:43] with Ron on that.

[00:29:44] And then I think we're going to have some bonus podcast material with that.

[00:29:47] I'm going to talk to a couple of other academics and then maybe get a little lore hounds round

[00:29:52] table together.

[00:29:53] So I've got some alien plans in the works.

[00:29:55] Things are gestating, as we can say.

[00:29:59] I don't like that in the Alien universe.

[00:30:00] I don't like gestation in that.

[00:30:02] So we should all aim to get a one shot out about a week after it drops in the theaters.

[00:30:09] Cool.

[00:30:11] Well, I think that's about it for Hot Lore Summer.

[00:30:14] And I think this was basically sufficient show notes for at least the lore hounds feed.

[00:30:20] This whole episode was show notes, but we're going to go into show notes for the rest of

[00:30:25] everybody quickly.

[00:30:26] Aaron, can you tell us about Radioactive Ramblings?

[00:30:29] Absolutely.

[00:30:30] So Radioactive Ramblings right now, me and one of my co-hosts, Richard, we're doing a

[00:30:36] whole Fallout lore series where we're going to be going into the origins of the different

[00:30:40] factions.

[00:30:41] We already have two episodes out, third one coming out soon.

[00:30:46] Those are going to be dropping bar illness, which is why one didn't come out this week,

[00:30:51] dropping on Mondays.

[00:30:52] And we're hoping to just give people a little bit of a background look into the Fallout

[00:30:57] universe and sort of like the second age podcast that you guys do.

[00:31:04] Other than that, right now, there's no definitive series we have until the boys come out.

[00:31:09] Once the boys comes out, it'll be me and my co-hosts.

[00:31:13] And I know that you guys had expressed some interest in hopping on and doing a little

[00:31:18] bit of boys coverage as well.

[00:31:21] I do like the boys.

[00:31:22] We just got to make sure it works because it is Hot Lore Summer and it is a trap.

[00:31:28] I'm not going to get the sound bite, but yeah.

[00:31:32] Well, you know that you guys are always welcome on.

[00:31:34] And if you can't make it, that's totally fine.

[00:31:37] But we would love to have you for a few episodes.

[00:31:40] Cool.

[00:31:41] Thanks.

[00:31:41] Thanks for the invitation.

[00:31:43] Yeah.

[00:31:44] So, Alicia, you've got a lot of projects.

[00:31:47] Tell us about them.

[00:31:49] So on Woolshief Dust, we are wrapping up season two of Beacon 22, at least the coverage of

[00:31:55] the actual episodes this week.

[00:31:57] So last two episodes, seven and eight.

[00:32:00] And on the book club, I'm releasing part one of the shift book breakdown.

[00:32:07] So first shift, which Abby and I had a long two hour conversation about just that part

[00:32:12] of the book.

[00:32:15] And then on the Star Wars Canon timeline podcast, there's going to be two episodes this week

[00:32:20] wrapping up the Blitz of pre-Acolyte coverage with a breakdown of season one of Young Jedi

[00:32:26] Adventures.

[00:32:27] So we'll tell you what you need to know about the preschool show so you don't have to watch

[00:32:30] it yourself if you don't want to.

[00:32:32] And then there's going to be an Acolyte preview, final Acolyte episode where Bob and I are

[00:32:39] going to talk about the characters in the show and who might show up and what we know

[00:32:44] and what we expect before John and I start our weekly breakdowns.

[00:32:48] Cool.

[00:32:51] So now we just want to mention not radioactive ramblings.

[00:32:55] You're already here.

[00:32:56] Rings and Rituals.

[00:32:58] They are doing their rewatch of season one of the Rings of Power going through it through

[00:33:02] the lens of ritual.

[00:33:03] Please listen tomorrow.

[00:33:06] I think I'm going to put this out today.

[00:33:07] So tomorrow we are going to get an episode on Udun, episode six, which I know is a fan

[00:33:13] favorite.

[00:33:13] I think that was our top downloaded episode ever of this podcast was our coverage of that.

[00:33:18] So that's pretty fun.

[00:33:19] And probably Howard Movie Review is just finishing up their season this week.

[00:33:25] No, they're actually they got an extra one out.

[00:33:27] Oh, they do?

[00:33:28] Yeah, they were off by a week.

[00:33:30] They yeah, they were off by a week.

[00:33:32] Okay, well, then are they doing Rocky this week, then?

[00:33:35] No, I believe it'll be next week.

[00:33:36] Oh, well, then our podcast schedules wrong on the discord.

[00:33:39] So I got to fix that.

[00:33:40] Yeah, there if you they just it just dropped yesterday.

[00:33:45] I'll check it out.

[00:33:47] It's a hold on.

[00:33:48] It's here.

[00:33:49] True Romance just dropped yesterday.

[00:33:51] Okay, well, I'll check that out.

[00:33:53] And I'll make sure that I update our podcast schedule, which you can always get on our

[00:33:57] discord server, which is linked in the show notes in that link tree.

[00:34:02] David, thank our discord server boosters and lore masters.

[00:34:06] Gnarls, Aaron K.

[00:34:08] To the thriller, Dork of the Ninjas, Doof71 and Captain Jinji 56.

[00:34:12] Aaron, that's one of your co host.

[00:34:14] Is that is that the correct?

[00:34:15] Is that Richard?

[00:34:18] That is Richard.

[00:34:19] Yeah.

[00:34:19] Okay, so we keep calling him Captain Jinji 56 or?

[00:34:23] Yeah, Captain.

[00:34:27] I don't know.

[00:34:28] Moving on.

[00:34:28] Read that ridiculous name.

[00:34:29] Yeah.

[00:34:30] Got it.

[00:34:30] All right.

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