This week on Right Place Right Time, it’s just Mike and Lance in the pod, but there’s no shortage of hot takes and deep dives. Mike’s been on a classic crime movie binge, breaking down how these straightforward films shaped a generation of filmmakers. Meanwhile, Lance is here with a review of Joker: Folie à Deux and what's so frustrating about modern fanbases. Oh, and don't sleep on this: Lance's one-man show Nightingale makes its world debut on November 8th at Atwater Village Theatre. Get your tickets and witness the magic firsthand!

Another whisper ripples through the collective consciousness. This week's transmission of Right Place Right Time is a dense nexus of creative minds converging upon a tale born in shadow: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of the Zone. Mike and Lance commune with the architects of this vision—writers, co-directors, and the shadowed figure of the producer, each a node in the web of this adaptation.

Fragments of their words echo through the ether. The writers, Evan Muir and Isaiah Nichols, weavers of dark, twisted fates, speak of a world both familiar and fractured—like a memory half-erased but still lingers.
The co-directors…Stephen Hancock and Evan Muir, their minds pulse in synchrony. They share visions, build upon each other’s thoughts. There is talk of atmosphere—of cold, mist-laden winds and the quiet dread that suffocates even the most brazen souls. Each shot, each frame, crafted to ensnare, to unnerve. And the producer Joshua Gray—calculated, ever-conscious of the flow of resources—lays bare the labyrinth of logistics, the careful dance of creation amidst chaos.

Listeners, beware. To step into the Zone, even through the medium of film, is to surrender a part of yourself. As this episode of Right Place Right Time fades, it leaves us with a warning, one not spoken but felt—a deep, unsettling truth. The Zone watches. It waits.