Water Cooler: The Red Shoes, LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Crown, Run, The Orange Years, The Way I See It, and More

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On the November 18, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Hoai-Tran is totally not spying on her neighbors with the His Dark Materials telescope she got from HBO, is trying to work out again to counterbalance her new roomie’s baking hobby. What we’ve been Reading:Hoai-Tran is reading The Farthest Shore from Ursula K LeGuin’s Earthsea collection. Ben read A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. Brad read The Art of The Mandalorian: Season 1 What we’ve been Watching:Ben and Chris watched Run. Jacob watched Bill and Ted Face the Music and is slowly making his way through The Crown season 4. Hoai-Tran watched The Red Shoes and The Maltese Falcon. Chris watched The New Mutants and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Brad watched The Orange Years, the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, and some episodes of the new Animaniacs. Ben watched A Room With a View, Da 5 Bloods, and The Way I See It. What we’ve been Eating:Brad tried Croissant Bread from Aldi’s and Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cinnadust. What we’ve been Playing:Jacob bought a PlayStation 5 and has been playing Demon’s Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Astro’s Playroom. Brad received an Oculus Quest 2 headset and has been messing around with that. All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Wednesday, November 18th
0:05.0	2020 on today's episode we are going to be gathering at the virtual water cooler
0:09.0	to talk about what we've been up to. My name is Ben Pearson. I am the senior writer at slash film
0:13.4	dot com and I am joined on today's episode by slash film managing editor
0:17.2	Jacob Hall. Hello hello. Weekend editor Brat Omen. Hey that's me.
0:21.5	And writers, whyightran Bowie.
0:24.0	Hey everyone.
0:25.0	And Chris Evangelista.
0:26.0	Hi.
0:27.0	So Peter is not here today, but we're pressing on guys.
0:30.0	Let's jump into what we've been doing.
0:32.0	H.T. I think you're the only one who's been doing anything of note.
0:35.0	What have you been up to recently?
0:36.2	It's not really anything that exciting, but I'm going to try to pad this out for, you know,
0:41.0	a fun look into my life one of which is I got one of those you know
0:46.9	press swag boxes from HBO in promotion of his dark materials and it actually contained like one of the cooler things I
0:54.8	received which is a telescope. It's not like a fancy telescope it's essentially made a plastic but I am really
1:01.6	excited to not spy on my neighbors with this new telescope that I got from HBO.
1:07.0	Is that code, H.T. Are you actually spying on your neighbors?
1:10.0	No.
1:12.0	All right, all right then. No. theory but kind of crappy in practice what is the quality like of this telescope?
1:25.2	I think it works. I put it together and I'm not a telescope expert so I'm not sure if I put it together
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