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The Colon Matters

30 August 2024 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

NEWS CRUISE: Our hosts recap a lot of the nerdy and geeky news of the last week or so, including Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, new Dungeons & Dragons, DLC crossovers, and a Doctor Who spinoff?!?

TOPICS:
(00:00) Intro – Both hosts are to blame
(02:22) Star Trek news
(08:50) Dungeons & Dragons news
(16:41) Crossover DLC announcements from Dave the Diver, Balatro, and Dead By Daylight
(26:38) Doctor Who spinoff mini-series, The War Between the Land and the Sea, starts production
(35:09) Outro – Andrew’s Gravity Falls update
(38:53) Outtakes

RELEVANT LINKS:

Bryant, Jacob. “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starts Filming as Full Cast Revealed.” The Wrap, 26 August 2024.
“Dave the Diver – Balatro, Potion Craft & Mxmtoon Collaboration Announcement Trailer | GamesCom 2024.” uploaded by IGN, 20 August 2024.

Nelson, Will. “Free Balatro Update Crosses Over with Four Games at Once, Right Now.” PC Games N, Network-N, 27 August 2024.
“Production Begins on The War Between the Land and the Sea.” Doctor Who News, News in Time and Space, 23 August 2024.
“Deborah Ann Woll Teaches Jon Bernthal Dungeons & Dragons.” REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal, YouTube, 13 August 2024.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Chasing Chickens” (17 July 2020): Where D. shares his adventures into Gravity Falls.
“Day of the Diver” (05 January 2024): Where our hosts have a conversation about Dave the Diver.
“The 2-Body Solution” (29 March 2024): Where D. Bethel obsesses over Balatro.
“Nerd Intervention” (28 June 2024): Where the hosts discuss the finale to the most recent season/series of Doctor Who.
“Blanketcast” (09 August 2024): Where Andrew begins his adventure into Gravity Falls.

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“Del Rio Bravo” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Mama Knight

21 July 2023 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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ON STRIKE: Despite the heat, our hosts discuss all the striking that’s hitting Hollywood (and more!) quite hard right now. From the WGA to SAG-AFTRA (to UPS?!), it seems that the folks who are just trying to do their job and earn an honest living can’t get an inch from the studio heads, so far.

RELEVANT LINKS:

John Rogers’ Twitter thread about the UPS/Teamster union rally:

1) A moment at the Teamsters/UPS rally this morning clarified our current struggle with the studio CEO's (among other bosses). Teamsters got a lot of wins, but one of the main sticking points is the pay for the 65% of local UPS workers who are part-time …
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) July 19, 2023

Tyler Evans’ devastating tweet that D. Bethel references in the episode:

Hollywood writers, on average, are paid $69,510 a year.

Bob Iger is paid $74,175 a DAY.

That is "very disturbing" to me, Bob. https://t.co/ISS8pqSBdt
— Tyler Evans (@tylerevansokay) July 13, 2023

Fran Drescher’s, president of SAG-AFTRA, powerful speech at a recent rally:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Space Man From Pluto” (30 June 2023): Where our hosts worried about how entertainment executives would find AI-created work enticing (and cheap) alternatives to hiring actual creative people.
“Don’t Pull Out Your Deck” (14 July 2023): Where our hosts discuss the rising costs (and continuing failures) of movies.

INFO:

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/