Peter
00:00
I could not be less interested. Welcome back to Generations. I am one of your co-hosts, Peter.

Aubrey
00:17
And I am your other co-host, Aubrey.

Peter
00:19
Aubrey, how are you? We saw you just yesterday and now you're back in Madison.

Aubrey
00:24
Yes, indeed I am. I'm pretty good. Um the traveling so quick is always an adventure, but it was good to it was good to be there with you guys and Yeah, it was a good time. But traveling just is never super fun, so I'm a little tired from that, but that's okay.

Peter
00:41
Yeah, it'll always do that, but but it was good. It was nice to have people here. Your your brother got married on Friday and uh was good to was good to have that time together and to see him so happy.

Aubrey
00:56
Yes, it was. It was very sweet.

Peter
00:58
It was.

Aubrey
00:59
So yeah, it was good. It was good to be there and I was g I was glad anyways because I had winter break off from work. So when we came back from the holidays I still had like another week where I wasn't working and then this week I worked for only three days 'cause then I l I l took Thursday and Friday off so I could come out for the wedding so I could ease back into work rather than going from nothing to then a five day. work week, which was nice.

Peter
01:24
So that just we do, we like that. We like that.

Aubrey
01:28
Yeah. So but anyway, how are you?

Peter
01:30
I'm hanging in there. I am trying not to think about the fact that I go back to work tomorrow and then because of call and my partner being out, I will not actually have a day off again until the 31st of January.

Aubrey
01:48
Oh, that's lovely.

Peter
01:50
That's awesome. Yeah, it's great. It's super cool. But you know, whatever.

Aubrey
01:58
Whatever.

Peter
02:00
So this week, you know, our our topic last week was, I wouldn't say heavy, but it was definitely a little bit more thoughtful. And so we thought this week we'd go something just a little bit more fun and maybe talk about things that we're looking forward to in 2026. Now it could be if we have something big plan that's exciting, or you know, when I first started thinking about it, I was thinking, are there movies, books, anything like that that we're either looking forward to that is coming out, or Looking forward to actually checking out if it's something that's been on our horizon to check out, but you know, it already came out, but we haven't had a chance to uh to to get into it yet.

Aubrey
02:44
So Yeah.

Peter
02:45
So what about you? What have you got? You got anything you want to start off with?

Aubrey
02:49
Yeah, I made a list actually. Um there's there's a couple movies I'm actually really excited for this year. There's a few I'm like tentatively excited for and then some that I'm just straight up excited for. The first one I will say is I'm super excited for the Project Hail Mary movie. Yep. Um which is coming out in March I think. Um, I'm super, super excited for that because I know I talked about when we were talking about the books we read last year in 2025. Um I talked about how Project Hail Mary is probably my favorite like one-off book I've ever read in my life. Um, so I'm super hyped. Super super hyped for the movie. I've seen the trailers and they look it looks great. So I'm super hyped for that. I'm I have high hopes.

Peter
03:34
Very good. Very good.

Aubrey
03:36
So yeah. What about you? Do you have another one?

Peter
03:38
Um, you know, movies there are a few that I'm interested in. I am interested in uh Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Um I think that I I like what Christopher Nolan does, even if I don't always like all of his movies. I think that they're at least interesting and he's doing things that uh I don't know, that that other people aren't. He's just, you know, he kind of goes for it. That's the thing I like about him is he says, I'm gonna do this thing, and then he just just doesn't hold back. He just goes for it. Yep. So definitely interested in that one. What about you? What other movies?

Aubrey
04:19
Um, I'm excited for Sunrise on the Reaping, the new Hunger Games movie, because I also talked about how I read that book. in twenty twenty five as well. And I think it will be like a hard watch in the way that the Hunger Games movies are just hard watches because it's a hard story. And it just You know, it's not like a fun, fun like fun fun and funky one. It's a right. It's a, you know. But I'm excited for that. Um I'm also excited tentatively. I put question marks on this one on my list because I don't know if I'm I'm kind of excited, but I'm also a little scared. is uh the Devil Wears Prada 2.

Peter
04:59
Okay.

Aubrey
05:00
I don't know if you saw that as it's coming out.

Peter
05:02
I I remember hearing that it was coming out. I didn't know when it was. Um Yeah

Aubrey
05:07
Yeah, I I'm I'm not sure because the first one came out so long ago and it's still with the same like actresses. Like it's still with Meryl Streep and Ann Hathaway and it's still now it's just that um Anne Hathaway's character is now like a rival, like is now has her own fashion company magazine thing and is now rivaling of li whatever Meryl Streep's character's business because like her character is supposed to be like almost retiring or something. So I'm a little scared because Not because like they're old, but just because it just was so long ago that I'm like I don't know, maybe the joy of it was that like time Period, I guess. So I don't know. We'll see. But yeah, I love the actresses and the first one is fun.

Peter
05:59
So I think the first one is a good movie too. So yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. What else? Any other movies? Yeah, so supposed to be December. I don't know. Okay. So what I had heard is that we do have December 18th. of 26 as the release date for Avengers Doomsday.

Aubrey
06:22
Okay.

Peter
06:23
And I recently read something that was saying that. Denny Villeneuve was like, no, we're gonna Dune's coming out that same day. That's when it's supposed to come out. So there was some conversation that he was gonna That maybe the studio or somebody was gonna move it so that it wasn't even it wasn't opening the exact same day. But yeah, the rumor I read was that yeah, it is gonna open the same day. So Both of those in December, honestly, I'm more excited about Dune Messiah than I am Avengers Doom Day Doomsday. Yep. Just because Well, because first of all, we know that I think this is really supposed to be the last Dune movie, because I certainly hope it is. Dune Messiah, I think Is a good follow-up to the first. I really like the book Children of Dune, but it starts to go to some really weird places. And then the next three d main Dune books written by Frank Herbert from there, they just go off the rails. I mean, that train is just choo-choo and it's just Down the hill steamrolling through the forest because they're nuts. They get real weird real fast. Oh dear. But you know, here's the thing. Avengers The Marvel stuff, I mean, we've talked about our love for them in the past. Right. And in the last few years, I have been less in love with them. Right. And, you know, They've they're coming off two good ones. Fantastic Four was really good. Thunderbolts was fantastic, was really great.

Aubrey
07:57
Yep.

Peter
07:59
But I just With this being such a big change, because this was supposed to be Avengers, the King Dynasty.

Aubrey
08:08
Right, which I didn't know until like

Peter
08:13
So this isn't even supposed to be Avengers Doomsday. That was basically when they decided nope, we're not continuing with the Kang storyline. This was their kind of, oh, let's change things, which kind of makes sense to actually have in to be introducing Doctor Doom before they go into secret wars because Yeah. My understanding in the comics is that Secret Wars was kind of orchestrated by Doom.

Aubrey
08:39
Okay.

Peter
08:39
So in some ways it actually makes more sense for this. But I'm a little nervous and with the idea with Robert Downey Jr. coming back as Doom. Yeah. There's a lot of things about it that make me go, oh, and I just don't have those same complicated feelings about Doom Messiah, so.

Aubrey
08:58
Yeah, how do you feel about having RDJ come back?

Peter
09:02
You know, I think it's fine, I guess. Yeah. Um the only thing and this is gonna sound real dumb because it's easy for them to do something, but growing up, I never so I never really got into Doctor Doom in the comics other than I was familiar with him. And as a kid, I thought he looked cool. But Dr. Doom's always like this big hulking, you know, and again, he's in his like metal suit, but he all looks muscly and everything. And we've got Robert Downey Jr. at this point, I don't know how old he is, but he's gotta be at least in his late fifties, if not early sixties.

Aubrey
09:38
Right.

Peter
09:39
And, you know. I I don't know. I just don't know how well he fits my idea of Doom, but the good news is I don't have a real big idea of Doom. Yeah. It's complicated. Again, I'll put it so it's part of it's one of the many things that makes me go, I don't know. But yeah, Doom Messiah, I'm I'm Pumped for Dune Masiah.

Aubrey
09:56
Yeah, yeah. I I wanna say this one funny thing about RDJ. I think when it was when they were doing like press tour for I wanna say like low-key Avengers like Ultron or so one of the like like a long time ago. They were doing this like this interview where the interviewer would show I don't know if you've seen this, they would show pictures of one of the cast members' biceps and they had to guess which cast member it was.

Peter
10:22
Okay.

Aubrey
10:23
And so the interviewer like shows a picture of a bicep that's like low-key jacked, like a big bicep. Chris Hemsworth goes Me. Is that me? And Chris Evans goes, Chris Evans goes, yeah, that's me when I just woke up. Like they're like making these jokes about how it's them. And then someone's like, one of the other cast members is like, that's RDJ. And they go, that's RDJ? And Chris Hemsworth goes, since uh when? It is such an iconic like it's like made into like a gif gif whatever you want to call it he's like since uh when that's funny which again that was like That was like a long time ago, so I'm sure like he's RDJ's getting a little old, and that's okay.

Peter
11:09
He is. No, getting old's totally okay. It's just I don't know. It'll be interesting. What else? Any other movies that you're interested in? Here's a question for you. Yeah. What about Spider-Man brand new day?

Aubrey
11:20
Yes. Okay. I'm excited, but also s again, nervous because of how the Marvel m stuff has been. But the last one ended on such a what's happening? Oh no, this is horrible sort of way that I want it to be rectified so badly.

Peter
11:41
See, I think I'm actually less anxious about Spider-Man brand new day than I am about Avengers Doomsday.

Aubrey
11:52
Yeah. Yeah.

Peter
11:53
Because I I feel like the Spider-Man, the three Spider-Man movies have all been really pretty consistent. Like, you know, I think my favorite is the last one, No Way Home. Just so like iconic in so many ways. But at the same time Even Far From Home, which I think is the weakest of the three, is still a really good Spider-Man movie.

Aubrey
12:18
Yeah, I agree. So I agree. Yeah, those and I've consist again, I I agree. I've consistently really liked the Spider-Man movies. So I I have a little bit higher hopes, but I am a little nervous.

Peter
12:30
The other thing is So John Watts, who directed the first three, isn't directing this one. Okay. But it is being directed by Destin Daniel Creton, who directed Shang-Chi. Which I really liked and I think doesn't get nearly as much recognition as it should in and that's been one of the problems of the Marvel movies since Endgame is We've had some interesting things and interesting characters and then they've just kind of not shown back up again. So yeah. So I'm excited to see him. I think again. I knew it wasn't John Watts, and so I was a little nervous about that, but when they announced that it was Destin Daniel Crenton, I was like, okay, I'm on board again.

Aubrey
13:16
Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm tentatively excited.

Peter
13:20
Can I tell you what movie I'm not even remotely interested about? Yes. The Mandalorian and Grogu. Like I know it's the first Star Wars movie in theaters since I think like I don't remember when Rise of Skywalker came out. Was that before the pandemic?

Aubrey
13:40
Had to be.

Peter
13:41
Yeah. So I mean we're talking like six, seven years since a Star Wars movie in the theaters. Right. I could not be less interested.

Aubrey
13:50
Yeah, I never even watched The Mandalorian.

Peter
13:53
I remember watching the first season and liking it, but I've had such negative feelings about Star Wars since the one-two punch of the prequels. which was like the warming me up and then the haymaker knockout of garbage that was the sequels.

Aubrey
14:08
Right.

Peter
14:09
That I just can't really get excited. So I watched The Mandalorian and I like, oh I like this. And then when season two came out, I thought, boy, I don't want to watch any more Star Wars. I watched the first three s episodes of Andor with E uh with Gareth for the podcast with Eden. The podcast, yeah. And they were really good. But I still haven't gone back to watch Andor, even though everybody's like, oh, Andor season one and season two are like two of the best TV shows that have been made in the last thirty years or something.

Aubrey
14:39
I wow, I didn't know that People were saying that. I tried to watch the first episode with Hayden and I was like I'm not so sure about this actually. It was really hard to get my attention.

Peter
14:49
Yeah, no, like and it gets much more interesting and it gets better. Pe The key with those is you really do have to kind of commit and say, okay, I'm gonna watch these three episodes. Yeah. Because it's basically written in like three episode arcs where the first three episodes are kind of like a movie that's just been split into thirds. Okay. And then again the next three and the next three. So at least that's what I've heard. The first three, definitely. It's you kind of really did have to watch those three together. But yeah, I just am not even remotely interested in the Mandalorian and Grogu.

Aubrey
15:23
Yeah, yeah that's fair. I'm not either. Yeah, we'll see.

Peter
15:27
Uh what else are you looking forward to?

Aubrey
15:31
Um, I have a well, only one book that I know of that is coming out that I'm excited for, which is the Fifth or sixth? Which one? Eighth. Oh. Eighth. Dungeon Crawler Carl book.

Peter
15:48
Okay.

Aubrey
15:48
I don't know if you've ever heard of that series.

Peter
15:50
So one of the things I was gonna bring up is I'm excited. to getting in to get into Dungeon Crawler Carl. I actually think I have all of the audible books that have been released. Okay. I just haven't gotten around to them because it was you know, it's getting through the Sanderson saga and now I'm doing the three-body problem and I feel like Dungeon Crawler Carl is going to be the perfect palate cleanser after the hard sci-fi that is three-body problem?

Aubrey
16:18
Absolutely. Yeah. I just finished the first book on the airplane on Thursday. So I'm like chapter, I don't know, thirteen or something of the second book. And I I was skeptical at first because it's different than most of the books I tend to read, which is like fantasy, like strictly fantasy usually. Um but Hayden was like, no, I think you will really like it. Like it's funny, it's a little different, but like It is it is fun. It is fun and funny. And but also has like the serious moments and the serious like thing themes that make it like an in-depth book sort of thing. But That it is just very enjoyable and I was like, okay, I'll do it. And the narrator does all of like the voices for all the characters, but you would never know if you didn't know that. He is crazy good. Like, I think Hayden said he's supposed to be it's supposed to be like one of the best narrated books out there just because of how well he does with the different voices. Like he does like an old lady voice. that is just so funny. And then he does like the the talking cat voice. And then like the gruff like main character voice. It's just it is so good. It is so good. There is this I won't say specifically what happens Obviously 'cause I don't want to spoil it, but and you can bleep this out too. But my favorite part is when this cat has like a thing where she's supposed to be like kind of like buzz, like kind of tipsy And she's like fighting a monster and she just goes, DIE MO DIE! It is so funny. It is so funny. The voice just kills me. Like I got that part on the plane. I starts cackling out loud. It was yeah, it is such an enjoyable book. So I'm very excited. I I will certainly get through, even though it's at that the eighth one's supposed to come out in May. um, I believe. I should get through all of them before then, so I'm excited. That's the only book though that I know of. that's coming out. There's no Sanderson.

Peter
18:24
No, there's no Sanderson that we know of. The only book that I know of that I'm really, really hoping does come out is Twelve Months, which is The next book in the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I think it's book thir no, is it book 17? Seventeen or eighteen.

18:43
Wow. I think it's crazy.

Peter
18:49
It's been a long time since the last two came out. So the last two, I think it was, was it peace talks and then like battlegrounds or something like that? We're kind of a two-parter. Um and so it's been a quite a few years since the last one. And it left things in Again, kind of like Spider-Man No Way Home, it left things in a very, oh, what are you gonna do now, Harry Dresden? So are you familiar at all with the Dresden files? Nope. So I like them a lot. I do recognize that I I don't think that it's intentional and I could be wrong, but I wouldn't say they're misogynistic, but they're definitely written. There are some things that it's kind of like, okay, you don't have to like again, not real bad. So that's the thing, is it's real mild where it's just a little bit of Again, I feel like I'm making an excuse, and I probably am, but I don't mean to. Just it's like mild chauvinism. And and and the good new, I think that as The books have gone on. I feel like Jim Butcher is at least somewhat aware of that because Okay. Because Harry Dresden started out and at the beginning, you know, he's very much so the idea is Harry Dresden is a wizard for hire in modern day Chicago.

Aubrey
20:10
Okay.

Peter
20:10
And it starts out in the first few books kind of feel like they're the case of the week sort of thing on a procedural where You know, okay, here's a supernatural case that gets brought to him. And then the next book, here's another one, and then the third book. And then it's like, okay, but now we're starting to get things crossing over, and it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And the problem is is that, you know, and and Harry Dresden is always like, No, I can't let that happen to a woman. No, I need to be, you know, I need to be he's in his head trying to be like chivalrous. And the reason I say I I I I think slash hope that the author is kind of aware of this, because the more chivalrous Harry Dresden tries to be, the more deep shit he gets himself into.

Aubrey
20:56
Oh, I see.

Peter
20:58
So he just like keeps putting himself in worse and worse situations because of his like need to to be like that.

Aubrey
21:05
Yeah, protect. Yeah.

Peter
21:06
So that that's where I'm trying to give him. Anyway. I do really, really enjoy them and they're I've I've listened to them. These are ones that too, kind of like the dungeon craw crawler Carl. You you want to listen. I mean, they're fun to read, but they're better to listen to. Uh James Marsters, who narrates them. Did you ever watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Aubrey
21:28
No, I've seen like snippets because it was on in like a house or something, but not really.

Peter
21:34
I only say that because the guy who does the audible narration is Spike. in and he's just become so he had other obligations when I think it was book eleven Ghost Story was being recorded and released. And so they got a guy that kind of sounds like him, but not enough. So Audible actually went back and they had to re-record book 11. Like years down the road because people were still like people would get to Book Eleven and they're like, what is this garbage? Where's James Marsters? So they're really good to listen to, and I really hope that we get this next book because again, let's just say without going into too many details, this wizard who was trying to be a good wizard and on like the the the wizard council and all this stuff has now basically been kicked off the wizard council. He's the knight of the the winter Fay, he's supposed now betrothed to like the queen of the white court of vampires and

22:41
Wow. Wow.

Peter
22:42
Yeah, so it's in a it's in a very interesting place. So that's probably the one book that I know of that I'm really looking forward to.

Aubrey
22:51
Yeah. Yeah, same. That's the only book.

Peter
22:54
Well what else? Any TV shows? I don't watch very much TV. Here, I'm gonna give you my real quick. Here's the thing. Many of the TV shows that I look at and go, yeah, it looks interesting They're sequels to TV shows that I still haven't watched. For example, like I still haven't watched Daredevil Born Again. Season two supposed to be coming out. I think that Monarch Legacy of Monsters on Apple TV looks cool. Season two is coming up, but I still have never watched the first one. Uh Wonder Man is coming out like this month on Oh wow. Um, you know, that's Um on Disney Plus on a Marvel one. And that one, I don't know really much anything about Wonder Man.

Aubrey
23:34
Yeah.

Peter
23:34
I'm interested. We'll see. Um but again it's like let's see what else. I mean there's a bunch of animated like the X-Men 97 season two. I never watched the first one. Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power season three is supposed to come out. I liked season.

Aubrey
23:51
I've never heard of what is that?

Peter
23:53
Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power?

Aubrey
23:55
I've never heard of the ring.

Peter
23:56
Oh yeah, no. Like I liked season one. There were issues with it, but it's beautiful. I mean, I don't know if you'll ever see a fantasy TV show that just looks more jaw-droppingly gorgeous than this.

Aubrey
24:06
You said it was animated?

Peter
24:08
No, no, it's live action. It's on Amazon. Oh wow. Um, but I never went back and watched season two and season three is coming out, and okay. So I'm like, well, I still need to go back and see that. Vision Quest is maybe coming out this year finally after after WandaVision, which Uh I'm interested. I never did see the Agatha show that was again kind of in the same world. Uh Silo season three. I really like the silo books. I've heard nothing but good things about silo. I think one of the places where Apple TV is killing it is um i i is in their kind of highbrow sci-fi stuff, but I still haven't watched it. Doom Prophecy season two is supposed to come out. I didn't ever watch the first season, even though I love Doom.

Aubrey
24:54
So Yeah. Oh, I think the the one TV show I I th I think is confirmed to come out this year is House of Dragons season three.

Peter
25:05
Yes, it's supposed to come out.

Aubrey
25:08
Yeah. I um watched it well, I haven't even finished I haven't finished Game of Thrones because I was supposed to be watching it with Liv, but we don't Like now we don't live in the same place and we don't watch like it virtually very often, so I think I might uh we might have to watch it separately. But I started watching House of Dragon. Um I can't really watch it by myself. So I needed to s like I stopped watching it 'cause I watched the first three episodes and I was like, I don't really want to do this by myself. I'm a little scared. Um so I watched it with Hayden. Sure. And then we We finished season one and season we finished season two not that long ago. And it's I I like it because it's I mean it's obviously still really violent and like graphic and there are a lot of horrible things that happen, but there are less horrible things that happen than the Game of Thrame of Thrones. Yeah. Like there's it's a little less just horrifically uh all the time than Game of Thrones in my opinion.

Peter
26:08
I never watched it. I read the first book, A Game of Thrones. Oh yeah. And I disliked the characters who were left alive at the end of it so much that I was like, screw this.

Aubrey
26:19
Yeah, it's it's like complicated where I'm like, I don't want to say it's so good everyone should watch it. But I am interested. Like I want to know what happens. Especially because the end of season two ends in such like a Oh, what are you doing now? Again, same thing. Like what's gonna happen now, sort of thing.

Peter
26:39
So My other problem with Game of Thrones is that I heard such bad stuff about ser season eight of the original. Yes. That I'm like, well, I don't even want to like I don't want to invest seven seasons in to only be disappointed and then have a source. So it's a Kind of a dumb way to think about it, but that's the way I'm thinking about it.

Aubrey
27:01
No, I kind of agree. I also have heard so many horrible things where people like genuinely act like that season like is not canon, like that it just doesn't happen because it's so horrible.

Peter
27:11
Well, I mean, here's the problem is that George R. R. Martin hasn't finished it, hasn't written any more books in over a decade. Right. So they were they got to a point where there was like we just gotta make something up from here.

Aubrey
27:25
Right. Yeah, so we'll see we'll see how that goes. Again, it's kind of like The show's kind of a a hard enough watch just because of how like graphic and horrible things can get.

Peter
27:38
Yeah.

Aubrey
27:38
That I kind of just have to have to watch it with someone. I can't really watch it alone.

Peter
27:42
Yeah.

Aubrey
27:44
But yeah, other than that, I don't really know whether any other TV shows that are coming out that I'm like gonna certainly watch. Because again, I don't watch TV shows super often.

Peter
27:52
I don't either. I don't either.

Aubrey
27:54
Yeah. I am excited though for um there's supposed to be an expansion for the Cult of the Lamb video game. Comes out January twenty second, so like in like two weeks. Right now. I am super hyped because it's supposed to like double the content of the game apparently. Okay. Um and I finished the game already, which is funny 'cause it was originally bought for Hayden for Christmas last year. Um and then I finished it before he did on my own safe file.

Peter
28:22
I keep meaning to play it.

Aubrey
28:24
I still haven't gotten into it, but it's it's fun, but I will say It is quite sacrilegious.

Peter
28:33
Oh yeah, totally.

Aubrey
28:34
It is so like there are some things that I was like, Oh, that's crazy. I'm just gonna skim past this cause it's like looks like a cute animated little sheep but it's doing horrible things. So you're just like, it's just a game, it's just a game. But it's fun. I'm I'm really excited for I'm really excited for that. Other than that though, I'm not sure about video games because again, I'm not a super gamey guy, but Is there any that you're excited for?

Peter
29:02
There are some th I I will be curious to see what ends up happening with Grand Theft Auto 6. I pay attention to Grand Theft Auto not because I've ever actually played any of them. The memes are funny though. Yeah, well, and it's just it they are it is such a juggernaut that I'll be interested. I will of course probably buy it with plans to play it and then just like GTA 5, still never played it. So I don't know. Um another one that I'm interested is uh there is a Marvel's Wolverine that's supposed to come out on PlayStation. uh towards the end of the year. It looks cool. Insomniac makes really good games. They're the ones who made the Spider-Man games for Marvel Spider-Man. Which are awesome. So I'm excited about that one. And then there's gonna be a reboot. There's supposed to be a reboot of Fable. I loved the original Fable game and Fable 2, Fable III. had some issues with it, but it wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good. But I'd be interested for a kind of a a return to that world. Um but those are really kind of the only big ones. I have so many video games in my backlog that I just almost can't even think about.

Aubrey
30:11
Yeah.

Peter
30:12
But well what else? Any music or anything like that? Because I got a bunch of quick albums I can run down music-wise.

Aubrey
30:19
Yeah. In terms of music for me, that's not a ton. Sizza did say she's working on a new album, but I don't know. My artists that I've been like listening to, they don't announce release dates till pretty soon. Sure. Like before like like a month before or something. And Kendrick with his last album, he told nobody and just dropped it on a on a day. And I had to be Gareth that texted me and was like, dude Kendrick just dropped and I literally dropped everything and I was like, what? And I went and listened to the whole thing immediately. So I mean I would I would die if Kendrick could drop something. thing but I don't know if he will. I don't know if he will. I so Sism Siss's album might come out this year. If it does I'll be super super excited for that. Yeah. Other than that though, I don't really have anyone who's releasing anyone or anything.

Peter
31:09
So I've got a few. Um honestly I think it's just next week. The newest album from Sewin comes out. I really like Half of So One's albums. Every album of theirs, it's like there's gonna be some really, really good songs, and then there's gonna be a bunch of skippers. So we'll see if this holds true with that. I'm gonna say it not because I'm excited, but because it's like, oh, thank goodness. Maybe some other bands should pay attention. Uh Megadeth's final album comes out later this month. Yep, they've said this is the last album. That's probably good. There are other bands that should follow uh suit. I see. I am looking forward to in February Silosis. They're kind of a modern Okay. Thrash mixed with some death metal elements from UK. They're really, really good. Um the singles they've released since their last album have been bangers, so I'm looking forward to that one. Uh Garea is a black metal band from Portugal. Oh their last, I mean they're they've got four albums, I think. Every single one of them somehow has managed to be better than the one before it.

Peter
32:15
Oh wow. And so yeah, their album that's supposed to come out in March, I'm really excited about. Uh April 10th, we have ArtSpire's newest album, Too Fast to Die. The one that they kick-started uh that's supposed to come out. Super excited about that one. And then there's some bands that I really like that have that may have something come out. So Anthrax hasn't had an album come out in years, like a new anthrax album. Mastodon is supposed to be recording and hopefully maybe something later in 2026. Uh and Bellicor uh from Australia, this Australian melodic death metal band. We're really hoping to hear something new from them uh at the end of the year, which I really like. Yeah. But uh yeah, I think those are kind of the big things. Here's the one thing I will say that I'm disappointed in. I was really excited to maybe go see Rush again this year. Oh yeah. They announced like a 50th anniversary thing. They got this drummer from, I think she's German maybe to because Neil Pehrt died a number of years ago. And sh I watched some videos once they announced it and I was like, okay, I can totally see why they went with her. Yeah. You know So here was my thought. My thought was, oh, Chicago is one of the cities that they have announced shows at. Uh-huh. So we'll fly out to Chicago. Your mom and I will go to fly out to Chicago, see Rush, and then we'll come spend a little bit with you.

Aubrey
33:42
Yeah.

Peter
33:43
Nosebleed tickets, three to four hundred dollars. No way. And and like sold out instantly. Like they announced only like 16 shows as this 50th anniversary thing. And like a week later they were like, okay, now we'll do 24 shows because so they basically added an additional date at all these places. And then it was like, we're gonna add another. And then it got up to like 30-something shows. And they just kept selling out, which is cool. And I love that for Rush because they were always my favorite band growing up. But yeah. Back in the eighties and nineties, if you liked Rush, you were a nerd. And it's so it's been fun to watch like Rush, especially in the era of YouTube. Yeah. Rush become like a cool album that people who have reaction channels, somebody will be like, oh, you should react to Rush, and then they'll watch this old Rush move video and they're just like their minds are blown. by the talent of this band.

Aubrey
34:39
Right.

Peter
34:39
But I just was like, I d I can't, I cannot justify like a thousand dollars for your mom and I to get tickets to go see Rush from real crappy seats.

Aubrey
34:51
Right.

Peter
34:51
Right. And flying all the way out there like that's I was excited and then when I saw how crazy everything was going, I thought, oh, I'm not as excited anymore. So

Aubrey
35:02
Yeah, Ariana Grande is supposed to go on tour, is going on tour um this year. And I was like, just for fun, let's see how much tickets would be. By any chance. And I almost vomited. Now I said, never mind, never mind. Nope. Nope. No nope. Nope. It's like, yeah, 400 bucks for a nosebleed. 500, 600 bucks. You know, like how and why.

Peter
35:30
Why and how. I love live music, and there is no better way to experience a band you really like than to see them live. Yep. At the same time, it's gotten to a point where it's just not realistic and it's kind of not fun anymore. So Yeah, I I realized, I mean, the last big concert that I went to, I went to Megadeth here with your brother because I got the tickets for the box free, because the hospital has a box there. And um I was like I'm it was fun to go, but I was really glad that I hadn't paid for it.

Aubrey
36:08
Yeah.

Peter
36:09
And the last other big concert I went to, I mean, I guess the Slayer Farewell tour over in Boise. But it was an outside venue and there was still like that was fun, but like to a stadium, which is what Russia's playing where you're gonna be in seats and there's gonna be, you know, fifteen plus thousand people in there. Yeah. I did that to see Iron Maiden years ago down in Utah, and it was the most disappointing concert I've been to in like years. Oof. So I think I'm just gonna stick to the smaller shows where it's like, okay, at most you know, four or five thousand people, there are no seats unless you're in one of the like five tables over on the side. You're just standing there the whole time and you're just

Aubrey
36:52
Right.

Peter
36:53
Like Spare Box.

Aubrey
36:54
That was great.

Peter
36:55
Exactly. I mean, that was like the biggest show. That's the size that I'm gonna say. That's the biggest show I'm gonna go to anymore.

Aubrey
37:01
Yep, that's super, super free.

Peter
37:03
And the other thing too is is I mean even like Spare Box, SpareBox tickets were like fifty-three dollars a piece Yeah. Whereas most of these other shows that I want to go to, they're like 20, 20 to 30. Yeah. Yeah. And and that's a lot better. That's a lot more fun.

Aubrey
37:18
Right. Yeah. And like I went to Kendrick and Sizzle last year and yeah, we were basically in the nosebleeds. Yeah. And it was a huge, huge, huge concert. Just so many people. And like It was worth it because I love them so much and they put on such a good show, but like, especially in Chicago, we I like took an Uber from our hotel to the venue because we were like, I'm not gonna try and find parking.

Peter
37:48
Oh that's it.

Aubrey
37:49
That's gonna be horrible And the traffic was so bad. We thought we were gonna get there before the opener with plenty of time. We got there right as Kendrick was starting the very first song. I had to like sprint in because I like he starts playing the very first song and I was like, we gotta go. I'm like sprinting with Hayden to like run to our seats. It took us what should have been a 25 minute drive was genuinely, I think, three hours. Jeez. In Chicago. And the Uber driver was like, the traffic wasn't this bad for Beyonce. like the traffic wasn't this bad for Beyonce. I was like, I don't know if I can do this anymore It obviously it was still so worth it and I won't take anything I wouldn't like I don't regret anything, especially 'cause you got me my ticket for my Christmas present. Um, and so it was like so fun. They're literally my favorite artists ever, but I was like, wow, this is insane.

Peter
38:48
Yeah. For me, I think at that point it's just like, I don't know how much more I'm actually getting from it than if I was listening to it on really nice speakers or headphones at home. Whereas when it's in a situation where I can be down there and we're all crammed in with each other and people start dancing and moshing and you can get into it, then it feels more like a communal thing. But I don't know, when you're just sitting in a chair stuck and you're like, if I squint I can tell who that is, you know?

Aubrey
39:23
Yeah, right.

Peter
39:24
I don't know. Like it's sad because I love live music, but I feel like it has become And I don't, I think part of the issue is, well, there's so many different problems. Certainly things like Ticketmaster. All of the middlemen who jack up the prices, that makes it worse for concertgoers. But then the fact that artists don't make music from their music anymore.

Aubrey
39:52
Right.

Peter
39:52
You know, it's like back in the day, artists went on tour to promote the album in hopes that more people would buy the album. And now it's artists release albums so they have a reason and they can justify going on tour.

Aubrey
40:09
Tor, yeah.

Peter
40:10
And I love streaming music. I love the fact that I have near in I there's more music available to me than I could actually listen to.

Aubrey
40:22
Yeah.

Peter
40:22
And I like being able to check something out and go, yeah, this isn't for me, or to find something that I really like. But because of that, and and because of where I'm at in life, that's why If I find something that I really like on streaming, I'm gonna then go and see, do they have a Bandcamp page? And can I buy this digitally from them on Bandcamp? Right. And then I can do the nerdy thing of put it on my Synology NAS and I've got rune running. I'm actually have ordered a rune nucleus one, which is Like it's a basically a little computer that's only runs Rune, so I can build my own version of Spotify slash Apple Music and have access to the But what it means is it means that I'm paying ten to fifteen bucks to buy albums from these bands just to try and help support 'em somehow because Right. Cause I'm probably not gonna either they're small enough that they're never gonna tour close enough that I'm gonna be able to see them. Right. Or the other end, they're big enough that I'm just like, no, I'm not gonna go and put up that fight to see you. But

Aubrey
41:26
Right. Right. Definitely.

Peter
41:29
Well anything else you wanna mention? I think I've made it through all my stuff.

Aubrey
41:33
Yeah, I mean there was something happening space-wise this year. Supposed to be no later than April, the Artemis II moon mission is supposed to go. There's g it's gonna be a ten day Ten-day Mish. They're trying to go like loop around the far side of the moon. They're not gonna land. They're trying to land next year, like actually set foot on the moon.

Peter
41:58
Okay.

Aubrey
41:58
Um next year, but they're gonna do a ten day trip, just go to the far side of the moon, which I don't believe has ha has happened since like nineteen seventy two.

Peter
42:13
Wow.

Aubrey
42:13
So that's exciting.

Peter
42:15
That is exciting. That's exciting.

Aubrey
42:17
Um there's also supposed to be on March like uh second and th slash third um is a total lunar eclipse, which the totality is gonna be Like in the like all over, like North America and everything. So that will be c kinda cool as well. That another total lunar eclipse won't happen until the end of 2028 like after this one. So that's cool.

Peter
42:42
That is cool.

Aubrey
42:42
Um and I mean there's always a million there's always a million other space things that will happen. There's um Hayden and I made like our twenty twenty six bingo cards. Um, and one of the things I put on mine was that um some big tech company was gonna fake not fake, but think that they discovered a new quantum particle like Microsoft did with the Major Ronal Particle.

Peter
43:09
Yeah, we'll see if that So we'll see if that happens

Aubrey
43:12
'Cause it feels like every tech company is just thinking they discovered something quantum wise. And I'm like, did you actually I don't think you did. I think you're being weird. So we'll see. But yeah.

Peter
43:25
Cool. Well anything else?

Aubrey
43:27
I don't think anything else, because I mean last year I sped I speed ran life. So now I feel like I can actually slow down.

Peter
43:36
And breathe a little bit.

Aubrey
43:37
And breathe. Yeah, 'cause last year, you know, graduated, moved cross country and got married. So now I can just uh forbid. So I'm excited to have nothing actually big happening.

Peter
43:48
No, I'm kinda feeling the same because, you know. Yeah. It was you graduated and then obviously, you know, you moved out there and then your brother came home and you got married and then he got married. Then he got married and so I'm feeling the same.

Aubrey
44:02
Yep. Ready to have a slower, slower year.

Peter
44:06
Excellent. Well, we'll be back in another couple of weeks, and this gives us some stuff to uh look forward to and maybe Talk about again that points later on during the year and we'll see if some of these things turned out better, worse, or uh if they met, exceeded, or did not meet expectations. How's that?

Aubrey
44:24
Yep, yep, I'm excited.

Peter
44:26
Okay, talk to you later.

Aubrey
44:28
Gabe, see ya.