Mini-Water Cooler: Oscar Wars, The Wager, Malum, Star Trek: Resurgence, and More
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On the May 23, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Opening Banter:
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Jacob sorted his Star Trek books and is building a podcasting closet.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Jacob read Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman, Ringmaster by Abraham Reisman, The Wager by David Grann, Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, and started American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben caught up on Succession and What We Do in the Shadows, and watched Roadblock.
- Jacob watched Jeopardy! Masters, Malum, Fast X, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- What we’ve been Eating:
- What we’ve been Playing:
- Ben played Star Trek: Resurgence.
- Jacob is playing Resident Evil 4.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Tuesday, May 23, |
| 0:04.0 | on today's episode of the show we are going to gather around the virtual water cooler |
| 0:07.5 | and talk about what we've been up to. My name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slash film |
| 0:11.2 | com and I'm joined on today's episode by |
| 0:13.0 | slash film editor Jacob Hall. Hello hello. All right Jacob what have you been |
| 0:16.7 | doing recently? I've been working a tedious project. I'm sort of middle of my |
| 0:22.1 | house move like we've been living here |
| 0:24.3 | a few months now, but not even close to being a house yet in terms of everything being |
| 0:29.4 | where it needs to be. Like I have lots of books and closets because I'm trying to save money to have like built |
| 0:36.0 | in bookshelves and have my office turn to a library space. |
| 0:39.8 | But I did have enough things roughly sorted that I did a project that I want to do for a long time which is sort my Star Trek books been |
| 0:48.0 | I have a very bad habit whenever I'm in a used bookstore I go to the clearance section where I buy whatever Star Trek novels they have like a dollar each and I just put them in a big box and I never look at them |
| 1:00.1 | Because I was basically I didn't until now. |
| 1:03.6 | And I thought, I'm going to go through them. |
| 1:05.2 | You know, sort what I have, see even have any doubles. |
| 1:08.8 | It turns out that 10 years of buying Dollar Star Trek novels |
| 1:12.4 | means you get lots of doubles, lots of quadruples, |
| 1:15.4 | one quintipel, a quintuple of decades old Star Trek books. |
| 1:21.7 | So that was my weekend |
| 1:23.0 | Broger was going through that at one point I had so many |
| 1:25.0 | Star Trek books drawn to me I said man I wonder how close I am to like |
| 1:27.5 | having all Star Trek books and the answer is I there are about |
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