The 2026 Fall Hype Meter Live from Oriole Park at Camden Yards

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yeah at oriole park at camden yards this is my church most important place in the world to me thank you for being here that's malia rubin that's joanna robinson looks like she was born to wear an oriole's jersey sports show it's an absolute crime that i have an oriole's jersey with my name on it but i'll take it thank you so much we have decided today oh yeah we haven't previously announced it it's a secret no just us uh to do a sacred cherished seasonal tradition live in person it's the fall hype meter let's go let's go just for you you won't get to know before anyone else what we're excited about you will uh and after the game of course we will see you all out at the pure wager pavilion our special section tbd if there's going to be a rain delay um so far no i heard there was a tornado warning welcome to baltimore me yeah any quick takes you want to share on the mid-atlantic humidity before we dive in are you ready to show your bug bites oh yeah check this out you guys see these yeah i grew up here but i guess my body has forgotten what the local venom is like so having an incredible allergic reaction to the local mosquitoes that's exciting uh let's refresh everybody on the rules here's how the height meter works if you don't know we count down 10 to 1 what we're most excited for for the you you know you're nodding you know we don't know the other person's list it's a surprise usually joanna can guess somewhere between 90 and 100 of my picks and she is a complicated mystery to me and i never know what she's gonna surprise me with uh if we have a shared pit we will wait till the higher of the two spots to hit it that might be a little tough live we'll feel it out in real time we'll see how it goes genre picks that means if it is a topic that could be covered on house of r if it makes sense in our universe in any way which increasingly like we're doing a live show at camping yards today we talked about survivor a few months ago we do whatever we want uh but we're going to try to adhere to the spirit of the exercise and to the rules did you not i will see a mystery you didn't look at the google doc i sent at 1 a.m no did you send a google doc no i did not i asked if you wanted to make a notes doc and you said no i did it anyway any type of media is eligible tv show film comic book novel uh video game do you have grand theft auto six and number one yeah of course as you know i don't spoil your list okay uh time frame all right we're doing something a little weird today we honestly just want to be able to talk about lanterns because it rules and so even though the summer hype meter ran through august and we both picked lanterns for the summer hype meter we are starting the fall hype meter on august 16th and running it through november 30th so that lanterns is eligible to be included again today what is time we have never once we've been doing the hype meters three to four times a year sometimes we skip a season we realize later we skip the season for half a decade now nearly half a decade never once matched the season with the actual calendar not once not once uh honorable mentions if we have time time permitting we're going to do some honorable mentions at the end we might have a special guest sharing yeah a couple hype picks we'll see again nobody knows when the game is going to start so i'm going to say right out rain delay permitting in real time any other rules that we need to refresh on so you can't have like slow horses for example on your hype meter today even though jackson lamb is a patron saint of this podcast even though even though jack lotto might be james bond pick it even though house of the dragon star olivia cook is returning for this season damn spoiler it's not a spoiler it's in the trailers all right should we get to the top 10 let's do it you want to start with your number 10 can you start are you still deciding on your list are you locking it in real time she saw me redoing it in real time just 20 minutes ago hype moves with the moment and that's another thing we should say the hype meter we always slightly disagree on this it's not about predicting what is going to be good it's about living in the moment of possibility until something is decidedly definitively bad and we can't pretend anymore that we're excited about it that's how the hype meter works i think i think i'm increasingly you're coming to your side of this fantastic all right i'll start my number 10 oh wait are there any kids here oh yeah no that's that will be yes something to ask but not until number nine uh and again at number five can you can you woo if you have a child you have children okay ed they're ready hello ed um okay family friendly event we'll we'll see how that part goes number 10 i have selected resident evil i also have resident evil number 10 at number 10 yeah amazing incredible we're so in sync it's almost like we spend 18 hours a week together it's a twofer for me okay what else do you have this is this is where my my stock in austin abrams is gonna pay off austin abrams who's the star of resident evil and also a film called whale fall hell yeah let's go yeah i texted my best friend this morning weird i don't recall getting a text from you about whale fall and resident evil that's odd because she read the book will fall and i said all right and i was like would we call that genre it's about a guy inside of a whale he's trying to get out of the whale and she said much like andy weir with project hail mary they tried to like make it scientifically plausible but it's still a guy surviving in a whale probably longer than someone would survive in a whale so i think that genre so um it's my austin abrams twofer at number 10 i love it um i thought you would be surprised that i selected this because this is an overt abject horror film and i can't handle horror i'm a coward and a baby but this movie that's my mom hi mom honestly took her longer than i thought to weigh in this movie resident evil comes out september 18th so this will be the first movie potentially that i see as a 40 year old and i've decided i can do it i can handle horror at that point in my life for the big four zero is when you get on board yeah with new horror i'm gonna pivot to horror and i just feel like i'm missing the zach crager moment because you haven't seen weapons not seen weapons okay and you haven't seen barbarians no i think you could handle weapons it's a lot of witch stuff it's really fun adam is giving me a barbarian absolutely not never not even in the brightest day no no um i'm not a fan of horror movies i'm not a fan of the resident evil games not that i dislike them just haven't played them don't really like the prior resident evil movies but i thought these trailers looked amazing wow shot fires and mila javovic 2026 apologies i'm so sorry okay number nine what do you have um okay this is where i'm putting godzilla minus zero november 6th fantastic i was counting on you to have this this was what resident evil knocked off my top 10 so it's my first honorable mention okay um this is most of the cast who here saw godzilla minus one I was late to this meeting. we talked about this at the beginning of the year with Rob and Sean. We were talking about the hype draft and I had yet to see Godzilla minus one, but I've since seen it. I've gone to church. It is incredible. I'm really excited for this movie. Mahoney took this in the fifth and final round of the house of our hype draft. I took Blade Runner 2099 right before that. Let's put a pin in that. We'll come back to that later. Discuss whether that was a wise decision. Okay, no children here. Like, are you sure? Also, do you have maybe a delicate disposition? They came to a house of our live show. They know what they're going to get. Shine on. You know it's a family-friendly event. We'll keep it in our pants. My number nine. Your entire family is here. They don't care. They're used to it. They're used to it. They were at the Rewatchables live show for the first time. They're good. It almost doesn't matter what movie you finished that sentence with. Could have been anything. Romanticism Muggle. It's a two for here. Someone say yum. Exciting. I just saw this Spike shirt and it's very important to me. A splintered harmony. Oh, Spike. Nice. Court of Splintered Harmony. Title, hot off the presses. This was just announced this week. This is the sixth. Akatar. Akatar. Always feels so weird to say that. And I'm pairing it with Threshing Day. The Rebecca Yarrow's 3.5 in the Empyrean series. Which, if you're a fan of the court books, you know that any kind of like, here's a novella to tide you over can go wrong, actually. Right? The fourth installment in the court books is not loved by all. But Threshing Day, here's the premise. This comes out September 29th. It is. Yeah, what's being Thresh? So, 13 stories about Threshing Day, about the Riders and their dragons. Great stuff. Will there be an opportunity to fill Threshing Day with sex scenes if it's about the Riders and their dragons? And how? I would say, before they get on the. After they get on the dragons. While they're on the dragons. Yeah. The dragons, of course, also share the mating bonds. While they're walking in the parapet. You know, like, any of those. I'm thrilled. The, on the court front, Splintered Harmony. So, the seventh book, which comes out just a few months after, in January. Court of Forgotten Melody. I love that. Interesting. I think it's a great title. These are part of a new trilogy inside of this universe called the Valkyrie Cycle. So, it's like, kind of a TBD reveal. How present will Reese and Farrah and our beloved faves be? I don't know. But I can't wait to find out. I miss those knee tats that Reese has. Always described in great detail in key moments. I just heard a sound I've never heard before from right around there. A sort of grunting acknowledgement of the tattoos. TBD if we cover those in real time this fall. But we will. We will, of course, check in during the V-Day Quickie next year. Yeah, absolutely. No matter what. But we have been trying to make some plans with perhaps another pick on your list. We sure have. We sure have. I'll just notice, unless you, do you have any, do you have a book pick coming up? Then I'll save this. Okay. What do you have as your number eight? It's Witch Stuff Go Time. Isn't it always? September 11th. Nothing else is going on on that day, I think. That's when Practical Magic 2 is coming out. Nice. Yeah. I mean, Nicole's here, Sandy's here, all of their plastic surgery decisions are here. You know, Maisie Williams is in this. So, yeah, it's a bunch of witch stuff and like, Lee Pace. I know. I should be more embarrassed by this than I am, but saw the trailer for this the other day in the theater, seeing Oak Street. And this very like female forward story about sisterhood. It's just about women and friendship. Yeah, and you were like. And empowerment. I was like, Lee Pace looks dynamite. You're like, what percentage of this movie is naked Lee Pace? The tattoos on the torso, just delightful. Great pick. So, you've been excited for this for some time. Yeah, I would say it has gone down my list based on some things I've heard, but it's still here. I'm still excited. They couldn't kick it out of the top ten. Nope. Still here. My number eight is season three of Percy Jackson. Similarly, they can't talk me out of being height. Not the level of conversation and buzz around season two that I'm going to try to do a better job of turning this way. Hello, everyone. Look at that. There we go. Bad babies. Oh, my God. Look at these custom shirts. Oh, my God. With Sweet Baby Grogu and the Anzellans. Incredible stuff. Wow. Amazing. On Orioles Orange. Wonderful stuff. We're so bad at making merch and our listeners are so good at it. I know, they're great. Yeah, exactly. You guys want merch? It's a summer. Yeah. November 20th, Percy season three. Season two just aired. Is that a good thing or a bad thing that these seasons come out mere months apart? Those children are growing. They're tall. They're so tall. We have a full Mike Wheeler, Stranger Things situation on our hands. Like, we're at stretch forward night. We saw Walker at D23. When he came out, Jomie, who wasn't even sitting next to me, he was like, he was like, Joanna, that's a grown man. That is a grown adult man. Playing a middle schooler. You know, season two did not generate the buzz maybe that season one did, but I had fun. And season three adapts Titan's Curse, which is my favorite Percy book. I think it's the best Percy book. So I'm very excited not only to see that tale adapted. Artemis is here. Kate McKinnon is here. It's Aphrodite. Incredible stuff. But most importantly of all, the D'Angelo's are here. Bianca's here. And Nico, my favorite Percy Jackson character, is here. So I just can't wait for that. I'm excited. Will we talk about it? Yeah, of course we will. I think it's our responsibility to talk about it, don't you think so? Fantastic. Okay. What is your number seven? I also have an adaptation of a later book in a beloved series. Intriguing. It's Sunrise on the Reaping. Oh, okay. Hunger Games. Nice. I actually really liked the last Hunger Games movies. I had a great time with it. I didn't see it. Yeah. And Francis Lawrence, who's the director, who also directed Long Walk. Did you guys see Long Walk? Incredible movie. And if you haven't seen it, you should know that they have, like, cast every single actor who was in that movie in, like, it's just this incredible farm team. Is that a thing we say? Not only is it a thing we say, it's a thing we say here. Great. At the ballpark. So I think. Paying attention to the young actors in Sunrise on the Reaping will do you good. November 20th. I mean, some people you've heard of. Elle Fanning, Maya Hawke, Kieran Culkin, Jesse Plemons, McKenna Grace. So this is the story of young Hamish Abernathy, Woody Harrelson's character. Wonderful. And I've heard that. I haven't read the book yet, but I've heard the book is really, really good. So I'm excited. I've heard that, too. I'm excited. I'll read the book. I'll catch up on the prior film. I love the Hunger Games. Yeah. I just haven't participated in this most recent. Wave of Hunger Games content. The prequels. Yeah. Maybe it's time. We don't have anything else going on. You love a prequel. I do. I'm a glutton. I don't love a prequel. I can't get enough. You might have my number seven higher on your list. Avatar? I don't. Sheesh. Well, Jomie, are you here? Are you excited? Seven Havens. No, I'm excited. I'm very excited. There's just certain things I knew were on your list that I left for you. You know me so well. October 9th. Paramount Plus. Look at that. This is apparently going to be a couple seasons, a couple books, 13 episodes each, and it's of course the newest show, the newest Avatar installment from the original creators, the OG squad, right? So that is very exciting. Looking forward to that. It's a sequel to both the original Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, which we love. Korra heads. It's Earthbender time. It is. It is. Avatar Pavi, who is a twin. So that's a great little concept. Like a non-Bender twin. Incredible stuff. I'm sure I'll have no issues with that. There's an apocalyptic event. Your twin brother is the Avatar. That has unfolded and the gang must save the Seven Havens. It's a great plot. More importantly, obviously, than the potential decimation of civilization, the new creatures. It's a cat monkey, and it appears to be big enough to ride. This is important. We, I think, consider Appa, Momo, Babu, you know, not only magical creatures and characters, but close personal friends, central figures in our lives. So I can't wait to meet the cat monkeys, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, icon legend. This is very exciting. The guy and the man. What more do you need? I hope the show's good. I think it's going to be a killer. I'm really excited for it. It seems like it. Speaking of killers. Number six. What do you got? This is where I have play phase. Do you have it higher? I do have it higher. Okay. I do. Because I'm all in on horror. - Yeah. i love this i'm gonna be so scared and i'm never gonna sleep because i don't really sleep anymore anyway no so you might as well fill your time the nightmares can't get you if you're already awake something to think about uh number six is where i have blade runner 2099 i feel sure this is not on your list it's not you were not similarly compelled by the sunshine noir description at the san diego comic-con panel that we attended baffled i'm intrigued by the term sunshine noir what a contradiction i can't wait to find out what it means um did the trailer for blade runner 2099 look good did the san diego comic-con panel convince us that the show will be good maybe maybe not that's up to each person to decide for themselves so high for that squeaky little maybe here's the thing you blade runner is a sacred text in my home it is the original blade runner film is my husband's favorite movie it is very tepid is that more about people not liking blade runner or not like adam what do we think that's about not a very loud applause for adam adam how excited are you for blade runner 2099 oh god she's standing up you okay not impressed world's biggest blade runner fan not impressed by the trailer when we watched blade runner together for the first time and i was telling my dad about adam and i was like yeah you know we watch blade runner and he's like honey a man doesn't show you blade runner unless he's interested it was right it was right which which cut which cut director's cut only right always director's cut yeah it is blade runner 2049 bill new five rise wonderful movie so i'm excited about the prospect of a blade runner live action television show and a prestige tv show now this is releasing as a binge drop on thanksgiving which i consider to be incredibly distressing news and obviously just an ill omen i don't think there's any other way to interpret it but i remain excited until i can't be anymore blade runner 2099 that's the uh the point of the exercise yeah we're heading into the top five yes here's a question for you tell me am i allowed to have something on my list that i've already seen oh so you know it's good yeah why not great spoil all of it for us tell us everything that happens um i watched this because i moderated the panel at san diego comic-con it is hope a south korean film uh it's bananas it is absolutely bonkers it was such a fun watch though and it was so fun to watch it and then talk about it like primarily to talk about it with people who've seen it it's very confusing um it's you're like joanna describe the plot really hard to honestly aliens are here at least two of them are played by michael fassbender and alicia vikander so uh two of the hottest people alive but they're cgi so you can't even tell it's them see that seems like a critical error uh but uh it's incredible action it's like a slow boy like i'm really excited for everyone to see it so south korean film alien invasion adventure fantastic i love it comedy action comedy yeah a genre mashup yeah a blend yeah brew something for horse girls something for everyone yeah you know how to sell it they should get you involved with the marketing number five this is where i have wicker are we sure there are no children in here who knows what wicker is about who knows the premise of wicker okay wicker is for anyone who is not aware olivia coleman's fisher woman who apparently smells like fish and also maybe doesn't believe in the institution of marriage okay asks Peter Dinklage's basket weaver to make her a husband. Fashion me a man. And he weaves her Alexander Skarsgård as a wicker fuckbuffet. That is the plot of Wicker. I'm surprised it's not number one. Olivia Colman fucks a basket is. Yes. We have a lot of questions about like friction and. We got a lot of emails from listener based on our Wicked Part 2 discussion of the burlap situation on Fiero. They were like, we need you to go back into the texture mines to explore the wicker dick, I guess. I didn't like saying it. You were so upset that you had to just say that. It's great. Should we put that on the birch? Wicker dick? Wicker dick? Working title? I just want to. Let me take you behind the curtain for a second. Mallory and I just had a big meeting planning like all the things we were going to cover for the rest of the year. Yes. Really excited. There's like a lot of cool plans coming. Raising. You just dedicated so much time to when and how are we covering wicker. Yes. It felt important. And she got so excited when she figured out that the ACOTAR book is coming out like a few days after wicker. So she's like, can we smash it together? Indeed. For the most inappropriate part. Yeah. Weave something. Yeah. Yeah. Like a basket. Indeed. Why does every movie come out on October 23rd? What's up with that? I don't know. Is anyone from Hollywood here? Clayface. Wicker. Wildwood. Wildwood. But depending on that, I expect for higher on your list, I believe Clara and the Sun comes out that weekend too. Let's spread some of this out. Wicker, we can't wait. Based on a short story. Should we read it? A little book club? Absolutely. Great. A little book talk? Yeah. Do you think they'll make, you know, like noises in the audio book? I mean, I hope so. If they're doing the appropriate job and committing to the craft. It's like creaking. It would be very creaky. By noises, you meant the creak of the wicker, not like sex moans. Yeah. No, the sex moans are a given. That's a given. But how creaky will it be? Here's a question for you. What will the Quinn follow up to wicker be? You think they're going to get Sarsgaard to do? I mean, yes, people would listen. But I think, I don't think it's like Sean Haddisey from The Pit to Sarsgaard. That's a leap. That's a leap for Quinn. Yeah, again, Jamie Campbell Bauer to Sarsgaard. I think that's, I think that's a gap. Okay. But swing, swing for the fences, as they say. Yeah. You're at the park. You're at Camden Yards. Sports show. Thank you. From the creators of Zootopia and Frozen comes Disney's Hexed. Welcome to Hex and enter the world of witches, where it was foretold that an ordinary girl would become an extraordinary witch and save the world of magic. Disney's Hexed arrives in theaters this Thanksgiving. The holidays are coming, but the Lincoln Wishlist sales event is already here. And with exceptional offers on select Lincoln vehicles, you might just cross the perfect gift off your own list. 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Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. But most importantly, September 15th, Deadbeat by Leigh Bardugo. and that was what i'm really excited about it's a third in a trilogy i've been long awaiting its arrival so that's that's my book smuggle fantastic stuff i'll just toss out also on the book smuggle front slantwise history's collected stories alexi harrow we love alex harrow's writing just the prose is gorgeous finally caught up on everlasting just as good as joe said it was wonderful and this short story collection is um both a printed home for some prior short stories that we've read and love and five i believe five new short stories so that's exciting four is where i have clay face you had this where lower lower clay face october 23rd another movie on october 23rd unbelievable this movie looks amazing because we thought okay maybe we would put akatar wicker together for like a horny thing or maybe wicker and clay face together for body horror or maybe all three of them together yeah you can do it all body horror man to see yeah i love it i'm in we love a smuggle we love a mashup yeah this is the third film in dcu's chapter one gods and monsters and look we're one for two so far superman ruled we you know we don't support stories of future women here on house of our so uh we did not podcast about supergirl um i think the clay face looks like it's going to be amazing this this movie looks great the tone and the vibe the trailer conveyed very specific very clear very assured can't wait for this your year of horror i love this mike flanagan this is my you you have long sung the praises of all mike flanagan creations wrote the script guess what i heard tell me rob mahoney was watching midnight mass on the plane ride to hawaii finally there you go number three we're in the top three yeah you know what i'm really excited about the fact that you haven't mentioned wildwood yet which means i've converted you or you don't have it on your list you don't on your list devastating moment i i don't i have it as my top honorable i said already something else was my top honorable mention i have it as my second or third honorable mention because as you so often say to me i knew you would have it on your list that back of my face you don't play by those rules i knew you would have it on your list so i didn't put it on mine the top three is to me unimpeachable means you don't have something on your list from my top three wow did i forget something sounds like me sounds like something i would do okay wildwood is my number three devastated to leave here it's not on your list at all i can't wait to share it with you october 23rd yeah again have you heard of it um a reason i'm quite excited is that this is a story based on a beautiful book uh by colmoy of the decembrists and i'm going to share it with you because i'm going to share it with you because uh not enough to be a great songwriter you have to write an incredible book okay cool um and this is from the animation studio laika who've done incredible work box trolls my personal favorite but kubo there's a million great like a stop motion films why are you looking at me like that you're gonna love this movie i can't wait but the premise is about a young girl whose brother gets kidnapped stop me if you've heard this story before she has to follow her brother's her kidnapped brother younger brother into a mysterious land and other worlds and and fight to get him back sensational it's the plot of labyrinth uh a movie you will be seeing for the first time on monday monday night monday night friends of the fest american cinema tech los felix three if you're in los angeles please come because that screening is at 10 o'clock which is at this point in my life past my bedtime so come hang and help me stay awake i can't wait to see this movie with you yeah i'm just gonna read out the cast you're so mad i'm so mad no i'm not i'm not carrie mulligan maher shawley okay jacob trombley aquafina angela bassett jake johnson charlie day amanda stenberg jermaine clement maya erskine tom waits and richard e grant incredible my dad loves tom waits how does your dad feel about you leaving a tom waits movie off your top 10 pretty disappointed i imagine just like you pretty disappointed we're good we're good what from my top three don't you have on your list what did i forget and number three i have vision quest yeah i had that you have it at two or at one i it's not up to me to tell you that right now i have a vision quest i have a vision quest i have a vision quest okay so we'll put a pin in that we'll go then to number two this is where i have lanterns oh oh okay i didn't put lanterns on my list that's right okay i knew you'd have you bet the rules of space time so we could put lanterns on the list and i felt like it didn't need our hype but i support you i ask you this what is more important what is more sacred what is more profound the calendar or kyle chandler in that jacket with that hair you've seen the first episode of lanterns we podcasted on the first episode of lanterns we love lanterns lanterns is a delight i loved the first episode i haven't seen more but i did love the first people seem excited about lanterns it's a great moment to be a fan of dc i want to hear from this room yeah woo if you liked lancer absolutely there we go we got a couple people seeing lanterns will you watch lanterns after this great oh you got a strong sunday night on hbo this is an hbo sunday night prestige treatment for a dc comics adaptation eight weeks we've podcasted on one episode it was wonderful excellent dynamic between hal jordan and john stewart it's set in rushville nebraska a lot of football humor for the friday night lights fans in the first episode some true detective vibes it's great remember how we were talking about when they were like there's hail in rushville and we're like yeah hail doesn't really sound like alien yeah we got about a million emails from people saying hail in is the joke alien this is why we need all of you never felt smarter any feedback in those same emails on the whaling the alien bailey the alien conversation that we have apparently whaling is a whaling yutani uh reference so that's great to know secondly we got 50 suggestions for other names that rhyme with alien yeah so we'll read them on the pod i can't wait uh so what do you have a number two moment of truth is it rings of power or vision quest what's your number one it's rings of power number two damn okay okay that's my number one so which order do you want to hit these we can go with rings of power or vision quest we can do vision quest first and then some rings of power why tell us why you're excited about vision quest okay i was already so excited for vision quest but then we went to d23 which was a hellacious journey for us we did not have fun i won't be back this trip to baltimore has been a delight but there have been a few setbacks including the mosquitoes that have attacked mallory we had to move hotel rooms for reasons we don't need to explain a lot of things have happened there's a potential tornado warning none of that compares to what it took to get us to anaheim we live in los angeles to be clear tell us something about the traffic yeah uh that was a tough journey the vision quest trailer was so good and as i mentioned in our check-in on on our trip to d23 um that i have since watched that trailer like 20 times i'm really really excited and i just feel like it's for me it's for all of us but it's also for me so i love wandavision i love agatha and this is sort of the third in that trilogy i love paul bedney i'm really really excited famously you love ai this movie does appear to be about a bunch of ai constructs meeting in a mind palace but you do love a mind palace you do actually love a mind palace maybe that cancels out the ai ai confronting you do love a mind palace you do actually love a mind palace maybe that cancels out the ai confronting you do actually love a mind palace you do actually love a mind palace maybe that cancels out the ai humanity we love that what does it mean to be human identity is that my son are you scrambling to claw back how much you should just try to ruin my number one pick for me no i have it in my top three i'm thrilled i agree i thought the trailer looked amazing genuinely looked very creative very specific and really fun joe and i got had the pleasure of potting about agatha together but wandavision this is how you know it was a long time ago it was before we were potting together it was the last thing that came out before we potted together half a decade ago wild yeah sheesh so we're excited to revisit that talk about it together that'll be great and then cover this wonderful new show together is it like the best moment for mcu tv no that's okay maybe this will be a wonderful celebration as we close a chapter on that and then you know when feige goes out into hall h at comic-con and is like we're not here to talk about tv we'll say okay instead of well why aren't you showing us a vision quest trailer which is what we said he said because you're gonna have to come to anaheim and then we did and we did And we sat in that room, and then they just put it on the internet anyway. Get to Gato. Did you guys watch the Vision Quest trailer? Are you hyped? Are you hyped for it? Fantastic. Okay. It's a little more muted than I would hope. I think you ruined it with that AI comment. More cheers for have you seen Kyle Chandler. But that's okay. We'll build the hype together. Okay. Number one for me. Number two for you. Put top of the list for both of us here. Rings of Power. One of our absolute favorite things to cover together. We love Lord of the Rings. We have some other fun Ring stuff that we'll be doing that we'll tell you about more soon. Stay tuned. I'm so excited to talk about it, but we can't talk about it yet because it's not finalized. But it is. I'm going to say this, and you can't stop me because you're all the way over there. It's the 25th anniversary of Little Boobie. Lord of the Rings. We plan to celebrate that in earnest. Robustly. When I was deciding how to order my list, I was on an airplane, had headphones on, had Shuffle on, and this wandering day popped on. I was like, that settles it. Pop. Give us a warble, Pop. Does it impact your hype to know that Poppy is not in this season? Not in this season. Yeah, it's tragic. But Hot Sauron is here. It's a very Hot Sauron who fucks central season, so that's really all we need. The aforementioned Vecna, Jamie Campbell Bower, is here as Celeborn. Delightful. A lot of yearning tendrils in the trailer. We were at the Comic-Con panel. We got to see the trailer. It looks great. Simon Pegg is voicing the Balrog? I don't know. Confused laughter ensues. Yeah, it's a puzzler, but also very exciting. The Felbeasts are here. It looks great. The trailer looks great. We love the show. It's been one of our favorite fictional universes to inhabit together. We got matching apple tattoos because, in part, of talking about apples originally on Rings of Power. That was where it started. I thought it was another mosquito bite. Yeah, they're very similar. Can you discern the difference? Probably not. Airing over three weeks. This is the one downer. This is a bummer. I know. Maybe we can still. Jeff Bezos, my good friend. My best friend, Jeff Bezos. Do you think I can convince him to make it a weekly? You're a powerful person with a giant platform. Make it happen. So the first four episodes drop in week one, and then it's two and two in the subsequent weeks. That's a bummer. Yeah. But we will celebrate it and cover it in full. My actual number one is the Orioles making a surprise run to the World Series. Nice. Who says no? Feel the magic. That was what I sang earlier for Soundcheck, and Adam texted me, don't quit your J-job, which I thought was really rude. Adam, duh. Really rude. Quick question. Yeah. Is Kevin Brown in the room? Possibly. Oh, he is. Come here, then. Kevin Brown, voice. Move your lids. of the. the Baltimore Orioles. Hello! Is this on? Is this on? It is. What's up, bad babies? I know! How we doing? Hey! Is this my seat? Yeah, it's a sit on the table. When I say, "House up," you say, "Arr!" House up! Arr! House up! Arr! When I say, "Let's go," you say, "O's!" Let's go! O's! Let's go! O's! When I say, "Mow," who's going to throw it first? First pitch. You say, "Strike." Mallory's going to throw first pitch. Strike! Mallory's going to throw first pitch. Strike! Thank you very much. I'm going to spike the ball. Let's get this out of the way now. Do you think we should have started with Kevin? What's up? What do you think? Hi, guys. You know how to work the room. I am going to spike the ball 10 feet in front of me to the left. It's happened every time I've tried the first throw. You give me 10 warm-ups, I can do it. The first one's a disaster every time. It's a lot. I'm sorry to say it's going to happen. Set your expectations, Courtney. Kevin, boys of the Baltimore Orioles, my fellow Syracuse graduate. Yes. Pride of Syracuse, they say. Hang on one second. Hold on. Hey, did my people not give you the introduction I asked for? Here's the introduction. Hold on. Hold on. I don't think you got it. Can you just-- can you just read this, and then we'll fix it in post, right? OK, so we'll pretend this is what you said when I came up the first time. This was always the plan to introduce Kevin as follows. You wrote this about yourself. This is demented. This is demented that you did this. Again, my people, who have very nice handwriting, wrote this. Is it two-sided? That's my top three. Yeah. Don't look at that. Please welcome to the stage where he has to sit on a little table here, because we decided today that he was going to join us. And Elizabeth, who's a legend, was like, I'm testing this. I'm testing this table, and it's going to work. Don't think all this was in the script. Pretty sure it was not. But go ahead. A genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. OK. Iron Man. He is inevitable. He is vengeance. We've been waiting a long time for the next version of that movie. He is the boy who lived. He was born amidst salt and smoke. It's too soon to take that back from Raniero, you know? This is how I know you're not current on House of the Dragon. Please use this opportunity to scream Lisa and Al-Ga'i as vociferously as possible. Madi. He didn't write Madi, I added that. The voice, not only of the Baltimore Orioles, but of a generation. And yes, he wrote that part too. Kevin Brown. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you so much. Unbelievably kind. Are you overwhelmed by those compliments? How great is she? So listen, when Kevin found out that he was not going to be invited to join his actual favorite ringer podcast, The Big Picture, he said, yeah, I'll show up for a few minutes of House of R. Sometimes it's good to get the silver medal, Mal. What is your top three for the fall hype meter? Give us the three properties you are most excited for this fall. I spent a lot of time on this. Podcasting is now a visual medium, so I can unfold this. At number 17, no. These are Yankee stats. I don't need those. My number three most anticipated thing of the fall is not having to hear the phrase or some version of the phrase, the Batman part two is delayed again. Yeah. Enough. Yeah. Just put out the movie. My God. You seen the Batman recently? Great movie. Excellent. Let's get the second one. out. My actual number three, this is a personal one. You guys seen the Odyssey? Nice. I am seeing next week, the Orioles are going to Sacramento, which for some reason is currently hosting a major league team. No disrespect to Sacramento, much disrespect to the people who ran the Oakland ace um yeah you're coming in hot wow joe is an ace fan yeah yeah and and you know what you got screwed those people bad people um sacramento has one of the 25 theaters in the country that show the odyssey in imax 70 millimeter so next friday 11 a.m before the orioles blast the sacramento athletics i'll be seeing the odyssey and imax 70 and i'm just personally very hyped about that did you have to get those tickets on the secondhand market i don't want to answer that question did you sell a kid yeah to get those tickets i also don't want to answer that question you won't just no actually the tickets have been extended so far in the future that uh like a couple of weeks ago they were announced through september 1st and i was able to get them easily Incredible. There you go. Shout out to Sacramento. We love Sacramento. Okay. Yeah, let's go to Sacramento. We're running a sag. Okay. We'll join you there. Yeah? Okay, great. Fantastic. What's your number two? What is my number two? You have another piece of paper you're going to dramatically crumple and throw across the room. Oh, hold on. I want to read something. So when Mallory texted me about joining the show, she said, here are the rules. This was after your text that said, I'm crashing the live show. Yeah, that was it. Sorry. I kind of did that. Anything that releases from August 16th to November 30th, any type of media, genre picks, something that could be covered on House of R, so like, sadly, not Slow Horses. Yeah. I'll be selecting Slow Horses. Yeah, great. I was hoping you would. Best show on TV. And the genre, the genre of Slow Horses is. It rules. Hell yeah, brother. Yeah. The genre is Jackson lamp slurping noodles and saying you can clean a coat It's the best. It's the best. I know it doesn't belong here, but I just wanted to give it a shout and My actual number two will be Godzilla - here And he was born in the middle of the desert. And he was born in the middle of the desert. so much and this is like blind type I don't want to watch a trailer oh the trailer's great I'm sure it is but I don't want to know anything filmed for IMAX so you can continue your IMAX Mal does Godzilla count as horror for you? monster movie I think no but adjacent as you know any monster movie or creature horror I haven't used your time but I think it's more like action it can be horror depends on the movie what's your number one? I just got to give a shout out to a film that was shot for IMAX featuring an incredibly charismatic leading man some thought impossible that this would happen nay unfilmable starts with a desert word in the title has a colon in there yeah I'm talking about Oasis colon don't look back in anger the concert experience we did it Oasis is back an incredible I'll be honest with you it was a better bit when five minutes ago I asked Elizabeth why haven't they picked Doom Part 3 and she said oh it's through November so I didn't actually read the first part of your text you know there's been a lot going on so I will select which would have been my actual number two Resident Evil a movie I have like you said no relationship to the game my relationship is to Zack Prager that beautiful man I am also not a horror person I watched some of weapons like this sorry it's a podcast that's with my hands over my eyes you're on camera that's right this video now baby red lights on I will follow Zack Prager into the dark and I have read that Resident Evil was described as a 90 minute Mad Max Fury Road style zombie movie to which I again say hell yeah brother incredible Kevin Brown thank you so much can I leave this table now up to you I'm just going to stick around for the end of the show you have a game to call any other honorable mentions before we wrap here that you want to toss out Joe that we haven't hit anything else you want to make sure people are aware of Coyote vs. Acme Yellow Jackets oh yeah we're going to at least cover it once get in the pit Mari we're going to cover Yellow Jackets it's coming out of a tough time but we'll figure it out you know what I mentioned Grand Theft Auto earlier Marvel's Wolverine GTA it is a big video game fall and so that's an exciting thing we won't be covering those but we're going to cover it but many of our colleagues will they're excited and your husband will be playing he will I will watch him play some of those video games for sure yeah what else is coming out Street Fighter you know what the vampire list out one night only live wait wait wait yes Street Fighter that trailer kind of rips in a way some good needle drops I had a really good time with it trailer looks fun we've got Lego Star Wars The Mandalorian probably better than The Mandalorian and Grogu Lego One Piece what else do we have Dog Stars technically eligible Fire in the Sun I want this to be high on my list but I love that book and yet it's not on your list and you're the only one who gets to decide what's on your list I know and here it is my top my third or fourth top honorable mention of today's podcast Under Wildwood Under Wildwood Godzilla can I ask a question yeah please Taika yeah what happened is that a Taika question or a Thor I'll tell you off mic under question or just a general question it's like a general Taika yeah I don't know I would say not would not have been my choice tonally for this adaptation got some questions about the tone of the trailer wonderful book though never let me go that book rules excellent book not my favorite adaptation either maybe Ishiguro is unadaptable Remains of the Day Remains of the Day rules but since then talk alright any other honorable mentions anyone in the audience astonished that we left something off shout it out nothing we did a perfect job no notes 10 out of 10 no notes fantastic well Will Fall Will Fall Will Fall Will Fall alright I love it I'm excited for Will Fall another Gato trailer get to Gato get to Gato I can't wait for Gato it looks wonderful okay well we have time for any of the okay wait can I make a House of the Dragon pitch to you because you're not when's the last House of the Dragon season you watched none season zero episode zero okay but I did watch thanks to my good friend Mally Rubin yeah A Night of the Seven Kingdoms loved it loved it so based on your your love of Oasis and your love of these brothers feuding and then reuniting I really feel like you will see that Oasis DNA in House of the Dragon which is about a family divided and then potentially reunited question what if music was dragons tonight's broadcast will be broadcast solely by Jim Palmer I am going home to watch House of the Dragon you you have sold me my friend wow great stuff we want to say thank you not only to all of you the bad babes for joining us today this is an incredible treat but also to everybody who helped us make this show happen thank you Kevin our wonderful squad thank you to Kevin for joining us thank you to Carlos Arjuna Jomie the house of our team as always our live events team Elizabeth and Tessa they are the absolute best legends geniuses literally nothing would happen without them we'd be lost Jordan our Spotify colleague Jordan is here thank you to everyone thank you to Jordan and then we have Ted, Matt, Jesse, Dylan, Alex and Brian helping us out today and we want to give a special thanks of course to the Baltimore Orioles my favorite team the most important team in my life for inviting us to host House of Our Night at Oriole Park at Camping in Our Hearts which is just nuts House of Our Night and Faith Night same night that's right that's right that's right exactly exactly Faith at the 7 for us you know exactly right old gods and the new can I just get the biggest round of applause hometown hero Mallory Rubin thank you oh ma'am buddy thanks for coming home with me I've been waiting for you to introduce me to your parents for years it's been a decade and a half since I introduced the love of my life to my family and now I get to do it again just want to say a special thank you to Patrick from the Orioles who had the idea for us to do this and made this happen and spoiled us with a bunch of swag before the game including these custom jerseys with our names on it which is sick that's amazing to Sarah who babysat us all day Sarah legend Kevin Eve all of our pals just the best this is just a dream alright enjoy some folks barbecue 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