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Side by Side By Spiderman · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdroun Collider podcast is a production of My
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large nerdrun Collider,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about it. I am Ariel casting and with me as
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Speaker 1: always is holly jolly Jonathan Strickland Jaba ruled with fear.
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Speaker 1: I will rule with party favors. Habba Java. Maybe not
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Speaker 1: holly jolly, Habba Java, Jonathan Strickland. There, that's more my style.
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Speaker 1: I'm hobba job. I have a Hobba Joba Christmas. Hey, Ariel, Yes, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: I got a question for you. Okay, this one just
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Speaker 1: a simple choice Marvel or d C. We're not just
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Speaker 1: talking films here, we're talking in general Marvel or d C,
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Speaker 1: d C. Explain yourself and pray make it improbable. And
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Speaker 1: this is where I changed my mind. Um no it
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Speaker 1: do you see? Because growing up I always loved watching
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Speaker 1: like Batman. I mean, I watched like X Men, New
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Speaker 1: Class and things like that, but my favorite cartoons were Batman,
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Speaker 1: the animated series, Justice League, um, the second Justice League cartoon.
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Speaker 1: So that's kind of what I connected with first. I mean,
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Speaker 1: as I've grown up with the Marvel movies. Obviously I'm
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Speaker 1: m I'm leaning towards Marvel now, but I think DC
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Speaker 1: always has my first love because that's those that's what
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Speaker 1: I grew up on, and also like even coming into adulthood,
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Speaker 1: like the Teen Titans commercial was adorable and um things
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Speaker 1: things like that. There's a Young Justice cartoon out now
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Speaker 1: that I actually quite like. So um yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: it's mainly because of cartoons. As far as comics go,
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Speaker 1: I don't have a favorite comic verse, but like comic
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Speaker 1: book verse, but in the media that I consume, it's DC. Um,
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Speaker 1: I am guessing you are also DC image comics all
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Speaker 1: the way. I'm going the third choice. I didn't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Um. You know what, it is funny
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Speaker 1: because I presenting that sort of of choice. I do
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Speaker 1: feel like it's a false die comic economy because I
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Speaker 1: think most people probably probably have the stuff they like
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Speaker 1: on both right like they don't there I'm sure there
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Speaker 1: are hardcore fans who, just like any other fandom, they
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Speaker 1: love what they love and they hate everything else. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure there are those people. I think when it comes
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Speaker 1: to comics. I was a d C guy. I was
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Speaker 1: never really like I remember reading now Batman comics. I
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Speaker 1: remember reading the Death of Superman saga. I had all
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Speaker 1: those comics I had. I read through the Justice League International,
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Speaker 1: in Justice League Europe, UH comics that a friend of
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Speaker 1: mine had. I didn't have as many Marvel comics. Oddly enough,
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Speaker 1: the Marvel comics I had were like what if they
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Speaker 1: were all the you know, they weren't the main storyline comics. Um,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to movies, I mostly prefer Marvel. There
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Speaker 1: are a couple of DC films, like the Original, well
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Speaker 1: not Original. The nineteen eight Superman movie is still one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite super that it's one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: superhero movies of all time. Um, it's absolutely corny and ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: and it is so sincere that it almost hurts, but
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Speaker 1: I genuinely love it. So But you know, more modern movies,
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Speaker 1: it's mostly the Marvel stuff. So yeah, I kind of
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Speaker 1: feel the same way. I don't think, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you made me choose, I think I would probably choose Marvel,
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Speaker 1: just because I feel like recently I've much preferred the
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Speaker 1: stuff I've consumed from Marvel then from d C. Um, Like,
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Speaker 1: you know, we've talked at at length about how the
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Speaker 1: d C Cinematic universe is one that I do not
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Speaker 1: like very much. Um, do you have to go back
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Speaker 1: a few movies for me to get to some DC
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Speaker 1: movies that I actually really enjoyed. I liked wonder Woman, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Um it was okay, Yeah, I think Wonder Woman was
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Speaker 1: the best out of the films I've seen in the
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Speaker 1: d C uh universe. The the second bird uh not
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Speaker 1: Birds of Prey, the second Suicide Squad film had its moments,
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Speaker 1: but it seemed like such a zany one off that
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Speaker 1: it's hard to even group it with anything else. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of my answer to But um no, But
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. I've think you were not kidding with
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Speaker 1: Image Comics because that's Bone and we all know that's
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Speaker 1: your favorite list of all the favorites, I mean, there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of there are a lot of great
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Speaker 1: titles that came out of Image, but yeah, yeah, Bone
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Speaker 1: is is phenomenal. It's just a great fantasy story, let
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Speaker 1: alone a great comic. We've got some news. In fact,
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Speaker 1: we've got enough news for two full segments today before
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Speaker 1: we get to our mash up, and our first one
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Speaker 1: is to talk a little bit about trailer for the
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Speaker 1: Peanuts special Old lang Zine, which is the Apple TV
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Speaker 1: Peanuts special. Uh, you know, we we saw a little
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Speaker 1: teaser for it before where we you know, Charlie Brown
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Speaker 1: says that his goal is to finish at least one
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Speaker 1: of his New Year's resolutions before the year is over,
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Speaker 1: and that seemed like that was kind of the thrust
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Speaker 1: of the episode. But this trailer makes it sound like
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Speaker 1: it's that Charlie Brown is going to be kind of
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Speaker 1: a a supporting character. Yeah, this one, it looks like
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Speaker 1: it's featuring on Lucy. She's starting a big New Year's
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Speaker 1: Eve party, her grandma doesn't come and she thinks it
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Speaker 1: her fault. And so I don't know. Watching the trailer
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Speaker 1: for me, once I got past the fact that Charlie
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Speaker 1: Brown's voice didn't sound exactly like Charlie Brown in my head,
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Speaker 1: I realized that it's probably the same kid actor who
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Speaker 1: did him in the movie a few years back, So
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Speaker 1: it is the current Charlie Brown. Just I yeah, I've
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Speaker 1: got something stuck in my head. Um that it's like
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Speaker 1: a Lucy redemption story is kind of what it looked
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Speaker 1: like from the trailer to me. Yeah. Also, it was
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Speaker 1: interesting to see a a cartoon where Lucy is on
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Speaker 1: the receiving end of some of the abuse, because usually
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Speaker 1: it's Charlie Brown who gets almost all the abuse, with
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Speaker 1: some of the other characters getting a lighter load of it.
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Speaker 1: Lucy almost always comes out scott free, with the exception
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Speaker 1: of eventually getting kissed by Snoopy and saying that she's
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Speaker 1: got dog germs. But apart from that, you don't usually
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Speaker 1: see Lucy get, you know, any any kind of abuse
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Speaker 1: in this cartoon. Seems like that's gonna be a little different,
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Speaker 1: which is interesting. Um, I don't have any I don't
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Speaker 1: have any problem with it at all, and that I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's fun to explore new stuff. You don't
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Speaker 1: want to just make the same specials over and over
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the animation I thought look cute
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Speaker 1: and um yeah, I mean, if I had Apple TV,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure i'd watch it. It's got all of the
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Speaker 1: Snoopy siblings. I also do not have Apple TV, though
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Speaker 1: I'm probably going to get it so I can watch
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Speaker 1: like Schmigadoon and Foundation and Lasso. I do want to
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Speaker 1: see those two. Yeah, those are like, this is the
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Speaker 1: part of the streaming services that is the worst, right
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Speaker 1: where you you discover that there are some properties that
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Speaker 1: you probably would really enjoy, but the only way to
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Speaker 1: do it is to subscribe to yet another streaming service.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's fine if you are good at like
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Speaker 1: canceling one before buying the next one, and then canceling
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Speaker 1: that one before you buy the first one again, because
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Speaker 1: there's not like an up charge to cancel and read
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Speaker 1: subscribe at this point, I hope there never is, um
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Speaker 1: because that's the only way I can do it. Is Okay,
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Speaker 1: season two of picardis coming out, so now cancel Apple
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Speaker 1: TV and get Paramount back. Let's see. I yeah, Whereas
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Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't have the energy. I will
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Speaker 1: I will stick with what I have. In fact, I've
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Speaker 1: been thinking about, like I said, I keep saying it.
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Speaker 1: I think about canceling Netflix simply because i haven't watched
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Speaker 1: anything on it in a really long time, and I've
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Speaker 1: got stuff like Amazon Prime and HBO Max and Disney Plus,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, maybe I should just delete, you know,
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Speaker 1: cancel out of Netflix for a while and comes into
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Speaker 1: it when I want to. You should cancel for a while,
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Speaker 1: but come back because it does have some really good
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Speaker 1: It's got a lot a lot of stuff on it
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Speaker 1: that is not my cup of tea, but it does
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Speaker 1: have some good things. Lock and key. Um. I really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the first two episodes of Cowboy Bebop, even though,
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Speaker 1: like reviews are saying that it's a little bit uneven
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Speaker 1: in tone, it felt very Cowboy Bebop nor to me. So, Um,
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Speaker 1: there are good things if you find the time to
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Speaker 1: watch the Yeah, yeah, it's just that, it's just that
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Speaker 1: making the time right. Well, moving on one thing I
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Speaker 1: know I will make time for it, despite the fact
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Speaker 1: that I was so ready to just be done with
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Speaker 1: this character and yet they pull me back in is
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Speaker 1: the Book of Boba Fette. We got another It's called
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Speaker 1: a trailer, but I call it a teaser. Another teaser
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Speaker 1: for that it's not that much different from what we've
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Speaker 1: seen before. We do get some more looks at some
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Speaker 1: of the aliens, but the same message that I was
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Speaker 1: jokingly alluding to in the opening about Jaba ruled with fear.
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Speaker 1: I intend to rule with respect. But m and Party
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Speaker 1: favors it. Uh it looks good, Yeah, it does. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I like the actor who placed Boba Fette.
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Speaker 1: I like, um the tretiary squad that he's got as well. Um,
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Speaker 1: it looks good. Yeah the teaser, the teaser really didn't
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Speaker 1: show too much new. I'm kind of surprised it even
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Speaker 1: made any news at all. Um. But whereas like Breaking
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Speaker 1: that is showing as Mr Chips turns into scar Face,
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Speaker 1: this kind of feels like watching scar Face turned into
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Speaker 1: Mr Chips. I don't know. I mean, he's still going
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Speaker 1: to be a crime lord. It's just the question of
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Speaker 1: whether or not he'll be a kinder, gentler crime lord. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Our Our other story we want to
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Speaker 1: cover in this segment is that Mr Beast, the guy
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Speaker 1: that I mostly know as the dude who likes to
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Speaker 1: give away huge amounts of money and make videos about
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Speaker 1: it and runs phantom kitchen burger joints. And I think
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Speaker 1: I would like his videos more if he didn't seem
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Speaker 1: so um pleased with himself about giving money away, Like,
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Speaker 1: I want the focus to be more on the people
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Speaker 1: who receive the money and less on Look how awesome
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Speaker 1: I am for giving the money, but hey, you know
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Speaker 1: people are getting like nice donations and stuff. I shouldn't
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Speaker 1: really complain anyway. He's behind a real life version of
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Speaker 1: the Squid Game competition, So if you're not, if you
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Speaker 1: are one of the few people out there who have
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Speaker 1: not watched squid Game, the general premise is that people
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Speaker 1: who are really down on their luck end up being
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Speaker 1: contacted to participate in these games that are based off
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Speaker 1: of children's games things like Tug of War, except it
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Speaker 1: turns out there are lethal consequences if you lose said game,
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Speaker 1: and that each round it gets whittled down more and more,
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Speaker 1: sort of Battle Royal style. Well, this sounds like, um,
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Speaker 1: it's going to have uh fo six people competing for
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Speaker 1: cash and that they will similarly be playing these kinds
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Speaker 1: of games, but presumably the losers will not be killed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and so being killed they have like I guess,
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Speaker 1: fake blood paths that are actually kind of brown. It
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Speaker 1: just kind of looks like some muddy water exploded on
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Speaker 1: their chest that when they fail a challenge, it explodes,
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Speaker 1: And from watching the trailer, it looks like they're just
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Speaker 1: like the orange suit guys with the circle triangle square
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Speaker 1: faces might be the ones triggering triggering those packs. So
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Speaker 1: it like they walk up and if they saw you
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Speaker 1: move on red light, green light, they will point their
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Speaker 1: little control yeah and and set it off. So I
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Speaker 1: guess if you're real sneaky, it makes your heart poop.
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Speaker 1: It makes your heart poop. That's kind of what it
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Speaker 1: looks like. And also, you don't get forty five point
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Speaker 1: six billion Korean dollars. You get four hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars. But that's still nothing to turn your
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Speaker 1: nose on that. Yeah. No, if someone offered me, we
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Speaker 1: all just shy a half a million dollars, I'd be like,
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Speaker 1: I'm listening. Uh, I know. I wouldn't make it like
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Speaker 1: pass round one in any sort of game. I am
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Speaker 1: just not um. I love games, I am bad at them,
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Speaker 1: and I have accepted this. Upon hearing the premise, I
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Speaker 1: was like, this is horrible. There should not be a
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Speaker 1: show about this. I'm like, I'm if you've listened to
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Speaker 1: our show long enough, you know that I don't really
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Speaker 1: like life imitating art on things like the Purge or
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Speaker 1: an actual squod games. But watching the trailer for the
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Speaker 1: show or the clip from the show, it looks like
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Speaker 1: the contestants are just having a lot of fun, So
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Speaker 1: I'm okay. With it. It makes me think of like
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Speaker 1: other classic uh sort of the obstacle course style games
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Speaker 1: that were a big hit, the stuff that came originally
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Speaker 1: out of Japan and then made their way over So
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Speaker 1: everything from uh the Ninja games to wipe Out wipe Out,
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Speaker 1: which was another great example that you know, like that
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Speaker 1: that style of game just seems like, uh, something that
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Speaker 1: really connects with people. Like I always loved I really
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Speaker 1: loved watching people who are really good at those things.
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Speaker 1: I just like to I had fired that level of
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Speaker 1: skill and agility and strength and everything. Um And occasionally,
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Speaker 1: like you see ones that are goofy where people get
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Speaker 1: eliminated in spectacular fashion, but no one's like hurt or anything.
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Speaker 1: I love those two. And then every once in a
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Speaker 1: while you watch somebody white out and you're like, I
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Speaker 1: am certain that hurt. Yeah. The other times where you're like,
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Speaker 1: there's no way that didn't sting at least a little. Well,
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Speaker 1: something that's gonna sting us a little is that we
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Speaker 1: need to go to a break. But when we come back,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna cover a few more news stories and then
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Speaker 1: stick around. We got ourselves a heck of a mashup
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Speaker 1: coming up at the end of this episode. So I
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Speaker 1: really liked your segue into the break, Jonathan. Um, and
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Speaker 1: coming out of this segway, I've gotten nothing so clever
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Speaker 1: exception of another news story. And this new story is
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Speaker 1: that we're getting Gorillas movie on Netflix. Yeah, as in
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Speaker 1: the animated band, you know. And you know what, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: I gotta say, this news really makes me feel good.
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Speaker 1: Are you just warming up your chops for your mash
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Speaker 1: up later, Jonathan, Hey, no spoilers. Yeah, so so yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's Gorillas obviously, like great great songs like Clint Eastwood
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Speaker 1: and uh, and that's the one I always go for
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Speaker 1: because that's the one that that I think is like,
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Speaker 1: that's my go too, but feel good, uh you know,
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Speaker 1: um all the other ones. Well, it's funny because I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I have their albums, and for some reason,
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Speaker 1: none of their songs are jumping to my mind. They
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Speaker 1: are fantastic. I love Gorilla's right. I've never seen they've
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Speaker 1: they've come like they've performed in Atlanta. I've never gotten
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Speaker 1: tickets to see them, and I had pretty much written
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Speaker 1: off any ability to ever really watch it because you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's one of those interesting projects where it's kind
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Speaker 1: of a rotating list roster, if you will, of people
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Speaker 1: who have worked with the folks behind the characters of
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Speaker 1: the Gorillas, and so the band has never been like
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Speaker 1: a single line up for its throughout its history. It's
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Speaker 1: been lots of different people taking part in it. But
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Speaker 1: kind of yeah, or like a death clock from metal Ocalypse,
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Speaker 1: like they when they came out to play, they would
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Speaker 1: have the animated version of the characters playing on a
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Speaker 1: screen while real world musicians are playing on the stage. Um,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, we're getting an animated film. In fact, this
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Speaker 1: is not the first time this has been attempted. There
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Speaker 1: have been a couple of attempts to bring Guerrillas to
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Speaker 1: either the big or small screen, but those never panned out.
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Speaker 1: So this is this is a promising sign. They've they've
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Speaker 1: partnered with Netflix, and uh it seems like at least
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Speaker 1: the initial discussions have been going well yeah, well, I
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Speaker 1: mean previously, I feel like Netflix is the right choice because,
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Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Netflix does a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of various kinds of projects, and previously they had been
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Speaker 1: working with DreamWorks, and DreamWorks is like this is very
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Speaker 1: expensive and it's just too dark for us. So Netflix
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a problem going there, So it's I think
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Speaker 1: it's the right venue. Yeah, and also I mean, like
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Speaker 1: it's again a mark on how the entertainment industry has
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Speaker 1: truly transformed over the last decade. Right like ten years ago,
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't imagine that an internet streaming service would be
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Speaker 1: behind some of the most compelling TV and movies. But
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Speaker 1: now that's what I mean, that's what we were talking
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Speaker 1: about before the break too, is that that's the reality.
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Speaker 1: Now we've got streaming services that are you know, various
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Speaker 1: streaming services that have created incredibly compelling stuff from Lasso too,
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Speaker 1: you know the Wanda vision, like the Secession that's really HBO,
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Speaker 1: but it's on HBO Max. I mean that is a
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Speaker 1: streaming service now too. So yeah, So I mean we're
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Speaker 1: seeing that all across the board and it's um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I would say that HBO was kind of a groundbreaker
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Speaker 1: in that because it was a cable channel that was
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Speaker 1: doing that sort of stuff when really before it was
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Speaker 1: just these big established TV studios or movie studios and
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Speaker 1: Showtime and Stars where the first four like yeah, well
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Speaker 1: and Max was essentially a subsidy of HBO. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's been. Um, but it's been interesting to see that,
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Speaker 1: and I do think that this is the best chance
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Speaker 1: for us to get something that is true to whatever
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Speaker 1: the vision is for the creators of the band. I agree. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Something else I never would have expected ten years ago
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Speaker 1: would be that Prettily Scott would be a crazy old
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Speaker 1: man's grieving at the sky, as you so absolutely put
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Speaker 1: it earlier Jonathan Cloud. Yeah, yeah, because he's upset he
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Speaker 1: thinks that his movie, The Last Duel I didn't do
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Speaker 1: well because millennials are are two connected to their cell phones,
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Speaker 1: don't want to watch anything that they can't watch on
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Speaker 1: their cellphones, for instance, like his Blade Runner or Aliens
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Speaker 1: show that's going to be coming up on Hulu. Um.
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Speaker 1: But it's just it's I don't think that's the problem. No,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't ring true for me, because we've already seen
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Speaker 1: other movies perform well at the box office, and these
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Speaker 1: were movies that appealed to younger generations, including and you know,
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Speaker 1: I say younger generations with millennials. I mean millennials are
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Speaker 1: in their thirties and older. Now. Um, I'm just I
19:51
Speaker 1: just having to be gen X. So I'm I'm of
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Speaker 1: a generation from before that. But you know, the this
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Speaker 1: this argument that millennials are so connected to air smartphones
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Speaker 1: that that's the only way they want to consume media
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Speaker 1: just doesn't ring true because we've seen box office hits already.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're not nearly the levels that they were
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Speaker 1: pre pandemic, but we have seen movies succeed at the
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Speaker 1: box office, and clearly millennials were among the people who
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Speaker 1: are going to see them. So perhaps the more accurate
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Speaker 1: thing to say is that The Last Duel didn't strike
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Speaker 1: a chord with younger audiences and they just didn't turn
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Speaker 1: out to see the movie. For those who don't know,
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Speaker 1: The Last Duel is a movie that is about it's
20:35
Speaker 1: it's based off a real thing that happened in history,
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Speaker 1: about the last trial by combat that was allowed in
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Speaker 1: France in the medieval period. And the movie has um
20:46
Speaker 1: Adam Driver and then Matt Damon and Ben Afflack in mullets,
20:51
Speaker 1: which is what turned me off from the movie because
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Speaker 1: like content wise and actorwise, it should have been right
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Speaker 1: up my alley. Um, but I honestly I couldn't. I
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Speaker 1: just can't. Look. I'm not saying that Matt Damon is
21:02
Speaker 1: a bad actor, he's not. He's a great actor. I
21:06
Speaker 1: cannot envision Matt Damon as a medieval French knight. It
21:10
Speaker 1: just does not. It doesn't even come close. Adam Drivers stretch, yeah,
21:17
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck, but he's barely like he's playing a supporting character.
21:20
Speaker 1: So I mean, but Star Wars is space Shakespeare anyhow,
21:24
Speaker 1: So Adam Driver I can get behind. Um. I know
21:27
Speaker 1: I have some friends who are just tired of him,
21:28
Speaker 1: but I think he he fits into that weird medieval
21:33
Speaker 1: look for me. Um. It's really interesting because I know
21:36
Speaker 1: you watch Hot Ones and so do I. UM, and
21:39
Speaker 1: that did you watch the Matt Damon interview on Hot
21:41
Speaker 1: Ones where he talked about how, um, slice of life
21:46
Speaker 1: movies or situational movies are no longer what bring people
21:50
Speaker 1: to the box office. So it's it's a it's a
21:53
Speaker 1: content change. You want people want to go to the
21:56
Speaker 1: to the movie theater to watch something that's big and
21:58
Speaker 1: visually spectacular, um, but not necessarily something like cider House
22:04
Speaker 1: Rules or you know, people hunting anymore. The way I
22:08
Speaker 1: feel about is that there's still a place for those
22:10
Speaker 1: kinds of stories too, It's just there's no reason necessarily
22:15
Speaker 1: for them to go to the big screen, Like the
22:18
Speaker 1: big screen has more and more become that you need
22:22
Speaker 1: to see this here because it's a spectacle and you
22:24
Speaker 1: just won't be able to replicate that at home, whereas
22:27
Speaker 1: if it's a smaller, more intimate story, then you can
22:31
Speaker 1: presumably watch it at home and still get a lot
22:35
Speaker 1: out of it. Now, I get the directors have vision,
22:38
Speaker 1: and they don't want that vision to be compromised, and
22:40
Speaker 1: they don't want people to go and experience the film
22:44
Speaker 1: in a way that they look at as being inferior
22:46
Speaker 1: to what they intended. I totally understand that and respect that,
22:51
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter if that's not what the audience
22:53
Speaker 1: wants to do. Right, the directors can want it as
22:55
Speaker 1: hard as they wish. I wish for a gold Cadillac
22:58
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I got one. So I just got a deal.
23:01
Speaker 1: I don't know what you do with one anyhow, Jonathan,
23:04
Speaker 1: other than selling sell it. You know how much gold
23:06
Speaker 1: is worth. I mean, come on, a Cadillac of gold,
23:08
Speaker 1: that'd be like billions. But it also billions of bullions.
23:14
Speaker 1: I like that, I mean, but it also goes to
23:16
Speaker 1: like the budget. So like I'm sure the last duel
23:19
Speaker 1: was a super high budget movie. Um, and if you
23:23
Speaker 1: release that on Netflix, you know, like a marriage story
23:27
Speaker 1: or some of the other more more relatable stories that
23:30
Speaker 1: come out on streaming as opposed to in the theater, um,
23:34
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get the return on your investment. So
23:37
Speaker 1: it is a it is a hard dance that producers
23:41
Speaker 1: and investors and movie theaters are all having to play.
23:43
Speaker 1: I understand his frustration, but I agree with you. I
23:48
Speaker 1: don't feel I don't feel that it's streaming's fault necessarily.
23:53
Speaker 1: I don't feel that it's I I feel like, you know,
23:56
Speaker 1: maybe it would have done better on streaming. I feel
23:58
Speaker 1: like it's probably partially the pain endemic's fault because things
24:02
Speaker 1: are still all whack to do from that mm hmm.
24:05
Speaker 1: So well. And also like it's not like it was
24:08
Speaker 1: designed to be a big budget hack and slash film,
24:12
Speaker 1: which not that I'm saying it should have been. I
24:15
Speaker 1: don't think it should have been. I think that would
24:16
Speaker 1: have cheapened the whole purpose of trying to tell this
24:20
Speaker 1: true and compelling story if you turn it into you know,
24:25
Speaker 1: a big sword in uh, you know, not sword and sorcery,
24:29
Speaker 1: but you know, big sword fantasy battle type thing that
24:33
Speaker 1: would have been a betrayal of the source material. So
24:37
Speaker 1: it's not like I would want them to go that way.
24:39
Speaker 1: But that's really the only way I would see people
24:42
Speaker 1: looking at that and saying, oh, I need to go
24:43
Speaker 1: see that in the theater. I just think, you know,
24:46
Speaker 1: it's like people's tastes change, generational tastes change, and it
24:53
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with can I watch it
24:55
Speaker 1: on my smartphone? I just feel like that was the
24:57
Speaker 1: most off base comment. So yeah, So, I mean, I
25:00
Speaker 1: guess he could still be mad at millennials for not
25:02
Speaker 1: having interest in history. Um, come on, I think I
25:07
Speaker 1: think also I think a lot of millennials, and I
25:09
Speaker 1: think this is a totally valid point of view. Is there, Like, yeah,
25:13
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm kind of tired of watching stories
25:16
Speaker 1: about white guys disagreeing with each other. I don't really care,
25:21
Speaker 1: Like I get that too, man. Yeah yeah, um, I
25:27
Speaker 1: had a good segue, but we've since left it. So
25:29
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go into our next story, which
25:31
Speaker 1: is we might be getting his zero two point oh,
25:34
Speaker 1: which this this is killing me, but please please explain
25:39
Speaker 1: what zero two point oh is? Zero two point oh?
25:43
Speaker 1: Um is going to be a story where Zoro is
25:48
Speaker 1: a modern day hacker where he is actually an undocumented
25:52
Speaker 1: hacker known as Z zero r R zero. Everything you do,
26:00
Speaker 1: us said made me throw up in my mouth, like
26:04
Speaker 1: eight times. I'm not jan yet. Well. Fighting back against
26:07
Speaker 1: the secret government unit that attacked his mother, he discovers
26:10
Speaker 1: a high tech conspiracy that threatens not only his family
26:13
Speaker 1: but the world. So, um, does he leave just one
26:18
Speaker 1: single upper case Z on every system that he in trates?
26:23
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's he like actually physically hacks thinks he
26:27
Speaker 1: breaks into mainframes, slashes wires, and then timeformation. I mean
26:33
Speaker 1: I watched that, so I get I get the idea
26:37
Speaker 1: like that. The article that that Aeriel linked to talks
26:42
Speaker 1: about how, you know, movie studios have this tendency to
26:46
Speaker 1: latch onto known intellectual properties, particularly known i p s
26:50
Speaker 1: that are in the public domain so you don't have
26:51
Speaker 1: to pay anybody to use them, and it's why we
26:54
Speaker 1: occasionally get these resurgences of iconic characters like Robin Hood
27:01
Speaker 1: or King Arthur or Zoro in this case, and that,
27:05
Speaker 1: um that that's a large part of the reason why
27:09
Speaker 1: these things will happen, because you start to ask yourself, well,
27:12
Speaker 1: why would you even bother with the Zorrow, I p
27:15
Speaker 1: this has no real connection with Zoro the character, right,
27:20
Speaker 1: Like it's you could have just as easily, you could
27:23
Speaker 1: have just as easily made this Robin Hood two point
27:25
Speaker 1: out like there's no reason why it couldn't be. I mean,
27:28
Speaker 1: I think I think it does. Though. That's the thing
27:31
Speaker 1: is so Alex Rivera, who is the person who has
27:33
Speaker 1: been signed on to direct him, maybe right this um
27:36
Speaker 1: he's known for doing films about labor in immigration and politics,
27:39
Speaker 1: and when you go back and you look at Zoro,
27:42
Speaker 1: like even the Antonio Bandera's one, it deals with labor
27:46
Speaker 1: in immigration in politics more than labor in politics side
27:50
Speaker 1: of it, and the disparity between the uppercross and the
27:54
Speaker 1: every man. And so that's that's what Zero is about,
27:58
Speaker 1: and that's what this director does. And so I get
28:02
Speaker 1: doing an undocumented Oscar deliver I get that, And that
28:06
Speaker 1: sounds that that I can understand, except for the fact
28:10
Speaker 1: that the synopsis doesn't really seem to give any implication
28:15
Speaker 1: that that has anything to do with what the story
28:17
Speaker 1: actually is. And maybe it's just because it's a bad synopsis, right,
28:20
Speaker 1: Maybe the synopsis is not accurate in reflecting what the
28:23
Speaker 1: movie is but it feels to me like this is
28:26
Speaker 1: just generic little guy versus the machine, little guy versus
28:31
Speaker 1: the system. Right, it's the little guy who has some
28:34
Speaker 1: sort of hacking ability. V for Vendetta is the same story. Like,
28:39
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing that's that's hitting me. Robin Hood,
28:42
Speaker 1: you could argue, is very much similar in that because
28:44
Speaker 1: it's all about the class division between the rich and
28:47
Speaker 1: the poor. So again, like it could easily just as
28:50
Speaker 1: be like robin Hood two point oh to me. Now,
28:52
Speaker 1: if they do make this where it has closer ties
28:56
Speaker 1: with the spirit of Zoro, may be, But like it's
29:02
Speaker 1: hard for me to look at this as anything other
29:04
Speaker 1: from a meta standpoint, as a kind of cynical grab
29:08
Speaker 1: for a recognizable I p to exploit. I mean, I
29:12
Speaker 1: get that. I also understand why they want Zoro and
29:15
Speaker 1: so of robin Hood, because robin Hood probably would not
29:17
Speaker 1: have immigration issues. I don't know, did you see the
29:19
Speaker 1: Kevin Costner movie. I mean, there was like a lot
29:21
Speaker 1: of subtexts going on there. I mean, it's been so
29:26
Speaker 1: long and I've blocked most of it out. Um, But
29:29
Speaker 1: the thing is, I do agree. It feels it feels
29:32
Speaker 1: like they're trying to push too many things together. It
29:34
Speaker 1: feels very sucker punch in that arena where it's like, Okay, Zoro,
29:38
Speaker 1: You've got this this you know, political or socio message
29:41
Speaker 1: you want to give, which is fine. You've got this
29:44
Speaker 1: action adventure kind of fantasy piece that you want to give,
29:48
Speaker 1: which is fine. And then you're also trying to make
29:50
Speaker 1: it a sci fi and I feel like at least
29:52
Speaker 1: the two, like the fantasy in the sci fi genre,
29:55
Speaker 1: like the historical fantasy in the sci fi genres kind
29:57
Speaker 1: of that's where I get hung up. Yeah, well, you know,
30:03
Speaker 1: it's it's probably it's definitely unfair for me to judge
30:06
Speaker 1: this before there's anything to really judge, right, Like, it
30:10
Speaker 1: may turn out that when I see the first thanks till,
30:13
Speaker 1: it may turn out that when I see the see
30:15
Speaker 1: the first trailers for this, I end up saying, Wow,
30:18
Speaker 1: I was totally wrong. This looks awesome. So I will
30:22
Speaker 1: I will try and maintain a level of optimism and
30:27
Speaker 1: look forward to this. In the meantime, we need to
30:30
Speaker 1: look forward to our next segment, where we will talk
30:33
Speaker 1: about a couple of other news stories that inspired the
30:36
Speaker 1: mash up we're going to inflict, I mean, gift to
30:40
Speaker 1: you our audience. All right, so back and the couple
31:02
Speaker 1: other news abems we wanted to talk about, is I
31:05
Speaker 1: guess the first one is that Stephen Sondheim passed away
31:07
Speaker 1: this past week, but he at the ripe old age
31:11
Speaker 1: of ninety one. For those who are not big musical fans,
31:15
Speaker 1: Sondheim was one of the pivotal uh lyricists and composers
31:23
Speaker 1: in American musical theater over the last half century, having
31:28
Speaker 1: written stuff like he wrote content for another A funny
31:32
Speaker 1: thing happened on the way to the Forum West Side
31:35
Speaker 1: story Sweeney Todd Company into the woods. Um. You know,
31:42
Speaker 1: tons and tons of very very important and very beloved
31:47
Speaker 1: musical theater pieces, a lot of which end up kind
31:52
Speaker 1: of being a way of of looking at the human
31:56
Speaker 1: condition with a in a pretty stark light m hm um.
32:01
Speaker 1: And you know, he was ninety one. It's not that
32:03
Speaker 1: anyone anyone expected him to live forever, but you know
32:06
Speaker 1: it was still sad. Um. So everybody, not everybody, but
32:11
Speaker 1: many many people in New York. It like it almost
32:13
Speaker 1: it gave me anxiety with how many people gathered in
32:16
Speaker 1: Broadway to give him like an outdoor musical tribute. Goodbye. Um.
32:21
Speaker 1: Which is very touching and probably just the first of
32:26
Speaker 1: many that we will see dedicated to sand I mean,
32:30
Speaker 1: there were multiple massive specials that were thrown on Sundive's birthday,
32:34
Speaker 1: where like the Kreme Delector of Musical Theater would gather together,
32:38
Speaker 1: you would have multiple people who had played the same
32:41
Speaker 1: role join on stage to duet together, like it was
32:45
Speaker 1: a big, big deal. So I'm sure we're going to
32:47
Speaker 1: see a lot more tributes for Stephen Sondeims. So that's
32:50
Speaker 1: the sad side of our news that will inform our
32:55
Speaker 1: mash up. But there's another one that I mean, at
32:58
Speaker 1: least for me, was news. I mean it is happy,
33:02
Speaker 1: which is that Sony and Marvel are going to continue
33:04
Speaker 1: to play nice they had mentioned the other day, but
33:07
Speaker 1: specifically in continuing to have Tom Holland as Spider Man.
33:11
Speaker 1: I know Jonathan and I bol said we'd like Miles Morales,
33:14
Speaker 1: but Tom Holland makes a really good Spider Man, so
33:16
Speaker 1: I'm with multiverses. It doesn't have to be one or
33:19
Speaker 1: the other. I'm excited to continue to see him play
33:21
Speaker 1: the role. Yeah, and I think I think Tom Holland
33:25
Speaker 1: was kind of playing it down a little bit because
33:27
Speaker 1: there was the possibility that you know, No Way Home
33:30
Speaker 1: was going to be the final on screen appearance of
33:34
Speaker 1: that incarnation of Spider Man. But I also get the
33:38
Speaker 1: feeling that he genuinely loves playing that part. So I
33:44
Speaker 1: my hope is that he still very much loves it,
33:46
Speaker 1: that that's something he looks forward to, and that this
33:50
Speaker 1: isn't a oh, I need to take this opportunity while
33:52
Speaker 1: I'm still able to take it. I hope it's still
33:55
Speaker 1: a I gotta take this opportunity because I love doing
33:58
Speaker 1: it so much. That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah. As
34:00
Speaker 1: as far as other crossovers for Spider Man into other
34:04
Speaker 1: Sony films, UH, the only thing that the UH studio
34:09
Speaker 1: exact would say is we all want to keep moving
34:11
Speaker 1: making movies together. How's that for an answer? So not much,
34:15
Speaker 1: not it's not, but that means that those two those
34:20
Speaker 1: two things, those two news stories are what inspired Aerial
34:24
Speaker 1: to come up with what might be my favorite proposal
34:27
Speaker 1: for a mashup. I'm not saying it's my best one.
34:29
Speaker 1: I'm saying it might be my favorite suggestion for a
34:32
Speaker 1: mashup we've ever had. Certainly not my best one, but
34:35
Speaker 1: it's Spider Man meets Into the Woods. Into the Woods
34:38
Speaker 1: is a story about the baker and the baker's wife
34:40
Speaker 1: in a fairy tale world who want to have a
34:42
Speaker 1: baby in Cinderella, who wants to have all of these
34:45
Speaker 1: fairy tale characters who want to have happy endings in
34:47
Speaker 1: the which that kind of messes it up. And it's
34:50
Speaker 1: a it's kind of a a better sweet story about
34:53
Speaker 1: how sometimes the thing you think you want to get
34:54
Speaker 1: it's not the thing that's actually going to make you happy. Um,
34:57
Speaker 1: So be careful what you wish for, be careful what
34:59
Speaker 1: you're willing to give up. Yeah. So, like the first
35:02
Speaker 1: act is essentially a a fun send up of of
35:08
Speaker 1: fairy tales, and the second act is kind of a
35:11
Speaker 1: deconstruction that that that examination of Okay, you got what
35:15
Speaker 1: you wanted, now what and uh? And so you often
35:20
Speaker 1: see the first act performed as one act in high
35:23
Speaker 1: schools that don't want to tackle how dark the second
35:28
Speaker 1: act can get. But but it's a it's an interesting
35:31
Speaker 1: show and it's one of Sondheim's probably best known. I mean,
35:34
Speaker 1: the fact that Disney made an adaptation helped a lot
35:38
Speaker 1: as far as people recognizing the work. Um, though Disney
35:42
Speaker 1: also did kind of a butcher job on the on
35:45
Speaker 1: the musical in my opinion. But yeah, now we have
35:49
Speaker 1: our our spider man and Into the Woods mashups. And
35:53
Speaker 1: since mine is super long, I figure arial you should
35:56
Speaker 1: go first, and then we'll take another quick break and
35:58
Speaker 1: then uh, and then I will I'll warm up the
36:01
Speaker 1: pipes for mine. Sounds good, all right, So mine is
36:06
Speaker 1: called Spiders in the Sky, thank you. It's a spoofing
36:13
Speaker 1: Giants in the Sky for people who are not familiar
36:15
Speaker 1: with Into the Woods, all right. A baker and his
36:17
Speaker 1: wife ben in May lived in a fairytale land, but
36:20
Speaker 1: despite it being a fairytale land, none of its inhabitants
36:23
Speaker 1: were happy. And that was the same for the baker
36:25
Speaker 1: and his wife. You see, they wanted a child, but
36:28
Speaker 1: they had been plumb out of luck and getting their
36:30
Speaker 1: bun in the oven. A nosy witch overheard their distress
36:34
Speaker 1: and showed up, telling them it's her fault that they
36:36
Speaker 1: are cursed to not have a child, but that she
36:39
Speaker 1: can fix it if they can bring her a cow
36:41
Speaker 1: as white as milk, a cape as red as blood hair,
36:44
Speaker 1: uh hair as Zilla's corn is maybe that's it, yes,
36:48
Speaker 1: And a slipper as pure as gold, So the baker
36:52
Speaker 1: and his wife set off to do that. However, what
36:54
Speaker 1: they don't know is that upon getting all of these items,
36:56
Speaker 1: it would curse the giver because the witch was being
36:59
Speaker 1: a big old spiteful any head. So off they set
37:02
Speaker 1: with a spring in their step and a song on
37:03
Speaker 1: their tongue to get their baby making ingredients. First, the cow.
37:09
Speaker 1: They found a young dumb boy named Jack who had
37:11
Speaker 1: such a cow. Now, Jack didn't want to give up
37:13
Speaker 1: the cow, but they tricked him by trading some magic
37:17
Speaker 1: beans for it, and Jack begrudgingly parts with his bovine.
37:21
Speaker 1: But that night, when Jack plants the beans, and then
37:23
Speaker 1: the next morning when he wakes up and there's a
37:25
Speaker 1: giant bean stock, he decides to climate because he's a
37:27
Speaker 1: big dumb boy, and he turns into a big green
37:30
Speaker 1: giant who smashes everything. Jack is now cursed. Next, I
37:34
Speaker 1: find a young girl with a cape as red as blood.
37:36
Speaker 1: She's on the way to her grandma's house. They take
37:39
Speaker 1: her cape from her, which is all kind of mean
37:41
Speaker 1: and also difficult because the cape has his life of
37:44
Speaker 1: its own. But finally they subdue it and leave the
37:46
Speaker 1: little girl. Uh. Little Red gets so upset that her
37:50
Speaker 1: cry opens a portal till the multiverse and she falls through.
37:53
Speaker 1: Now a little Red is cursed and also stuck in
37:55
Speaker 1: the multiverse. Next, they find a slipper of pure gold
37:59
Speaker 1: on a palace. They didn't know it belonged to Cinderella,
38:03
Speaker 1: but hey, free slipper, so they take it. Unfortunately, since
38:06
Speaker 1: the slipper was key to Cinderella's transformation, without it, she
38:09
Speaker 1: turned into an iron woman, being locked into suit of armor,
38:12
Speaker 1: so the Prince would not be able to see her face.
38:14
Speaker 1: Now Cinderella is cursed. Uh. And lastly, so if you're following,
38:19
Speaker 1: that's the Hulk and Doctor Strange and Iron Man. Okay, Lastly,
38:26
Speaker 1: they find an ear of corn from a passing old man.
38:29
Speaker 1: They take it from him because they find out that
38:32
Speaker 1: hair is not actually hair. I'm skipping some bits of
38:35
Speaker 1: the into the Woods story, but that's fine. Anyhow, they
38:37
Speaker 1: trade the hair for corn, and they feed the corn
38:39
Speaker 1: and the slipper and the cloak all to this cow
38:42
Speaker 1: to get some magical milk or something to both give
38:46
Speaker 1: the baker's wife a child and also give the witch
38:48
Speaker 1: back her beauty and her youth. But little did they
38:51
Speaker 1: know there were some magical spiders on the corn because
38:54
Speaker 1: fairytale answer notorious for infestations. So when the baker's wife
38:58
Speaker 1: drank it and finally her baby, her baby had spider powers.
39:02
Speaker 1: So now the baker's wife was also cursed. And if
39:05
Speaker 1: you questioned that last one, don't because do you know
39:08
Speaker 1: how hard it is to raise a child with spider powers. Anyhow,
39:12
Speaker 1: they do it, and they name their child Peter. So
39:15
Speaker 1: the inhabitants are more sad than ever and begin missing
39:18
Speaker 1: their old lives, all except Peter, who loves the spider
39:20
Speaker 1: powers and uses them to stop ogres and giants and
39:22
Speaker 1: saber tooth tiger guys and stuff to be a friendly
39:26
Speaker 1: fairy tale spider hero. Then one day, when Peter is
39:29
Speaker 1: a teenage boy like Jack was once before, he got
39:32
Speaker 1: turned into a big, green, hulking thing. A girl, the
39:35
Speaker 1: girl who fell into the multiverse now not so little Red,
39:39
Speaker 1: pops up and says that she has seen how sad
39:41
Speaker 1: everyone is and how to fix it. To return them
39:43
Speaker 1: to their old lives, they must combine their cursed powers
39:46
Speaker 1: to defeat the witch, which will restore their timeline to
39:48
Speaker 1: what it once was, bringing them all back to the
39:50
Speaker 1: way they were before. So all the cursed inhabitants joined
39:54
Speaker 1: their cursed powers together to do just that, all except Peter,
39:57
Speaker 1: who doesn't want to change. So he slips through a
39:59
Speaker 1: little red portal and finds himself in a new land
40:01
Speaker 1: with giants in the sky skyscrapers, New York. He makes
40:06
Speaker 1: a life there for himself and finds that fighting normal
40:08
Speaker 1: crime over a magical fairy crime is so much easier,
40:11
Speaker 1: but high school high school is way harder. The end,
40:17
Speaker 1: well done, thank you. I like, I was like, wow,
40:23
Speaker 1: Jack's turned into the Jolly Green Giant, but no, it
40:26
Speaker 1: was the Hulk. It was a I mean also the
40:28
Speaker 1: Jolly Green Giant. Yeah, it's a fairy tale Hulk. Some
40:33
Speaker 1: pas in there too. Okay, Well, we're gonna take a
40:36
Speaker 1: break and when we come back, I will I will
40:39
Speaker 1: give you my mash up, and then I will spend
40:41
Speaker 1: the rest of the time apologizing. Okay, ariel Um. My
40:55
Speaker 1: mash up is long, and I apologize for that. I
40:59
Speaker 1: haven't actually tell it out yet, but I think it
41:01
Speaker 1: is the longest one I've ever written. That it's called
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Speaker 1: It's of course to be fair. Uh and spoiler alert,
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Speaker 1: there are lyrics in this one. Lyrics can make a
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Speaker 1: document much longer because you know his short lines and
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Speaker 1: I got like one and half spacing and stuff. This
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Speaker 1: is called Spider Man Turn Off the Woods. Peter Parker
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Speaker 1: has a problem. See everything gone done messed up because
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Speaker 1: Mysteria totally let the Spider cat out of the Spider
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Speaker 1: bag by revealing to the world that Peter Parker is
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Speaker 1: Spider Man. But beyond that, Parker is a world that's
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Speaker 1: kind of like his own, but also kind of different.
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Speaker 1: Things don't work quite the way he remembers them, Like
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Speaker 1: j Jonah Jameson is there, and he's total the same
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Speaker 1: dude as appeared in a totally different Spider Man movie, y'all.
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Speaker 1: So Parker, desperate to escape a world where everyone is
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Speaker 1: after him, either because they have a grudge against Spider
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Speaker 1: Man or they want to help him in some way,
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Speaker 1: rushes off to see Doctor Strange, and he convinces Strange
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Speaker 1: to use his mystical powers to reset the universe, you know,
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Speaker 1: give it a little reboot, so to speak, so that
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Speaker 1: Parker can maintain a secret identity and not bring danger
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Speaker 1: to himself and those he loves. Strange. Doctor Strange sympathetic
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Speaker 1: to Parker and also really familiar with him because they
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Speaker 1: always go on press tours together. Agrees, So Strange says
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Speaker 1: to Peter, I can open up a portal to the verse.
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Speaker 1: The verse, asked Peter, like poetry or something. Well, you're
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Speaker 1: not far off, says Strange, but no verse is short
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Speaker 1: for multiverse. Trust me, it's gonna be all the rage
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Speaker 1: in this phase. Peter nods like he understands what Strange
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Speaker 1: is saying. A warrent you, though, says Strange. We might
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Speaker 1: encounter some old foes as we do this. You have
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Speaker 1: to be prepared for anything when you go into the verse.
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Speaker 1: Strange then casts a spell and there's this weird humming noise,
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Speaker 1: and you get one of those cool portals with the
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Speaker 1: orange border on it, and they jump through. And when
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Speaker 1: they do, they appear in downtown New York, and the
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Speaker 1: weirdest thing happens. People all around them stop in their tracks,
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Speaker 1: and then music from nowhere and everywhere strikes up, and
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Speaker 1: then the people start singing. Into the verse. We gotta go.
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Speaker 1: We don't have Miles Morales though, into the verse. We
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Speaker 1: gotta go with Disney and with Sony into the verse.
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Speaker 1: Will make a change with our weird buddy, doctor Strange.
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Speaker 1: Into the verse and off the range into the verse
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Speaker 1: and without Wanda, into the verse with Sinators six, with
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Speaker 1: Uncle Ben, and with Jonah Jamison into the verse, into
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Speaker 1: the verse, into the verse, to the m c U
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Speaker 1: and there's no way home. So Peter looks at Dr
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Speaker 1: Strange and he says, this ever happened to you before?
43:54
Speaker 1: And Strange just kind of shrugs. He looks kind of baffled.
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Speaker 1: But before the two can even gather their thoughts, they
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Speaker 1: hear this huge explosion and they quickly run off to
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Speaker 1: find out what happened. And they turn a corner and
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Speaker 1: they see, emerging from a bank, a man with four
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Speaker 1: giant robotic arms extending out of his back, each holding
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Speaker 1: a massive bag of cash, and he grins as he
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Speaker 1: leaves and bounds off down the street. Overhead, uh cackling
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Speaker 1: reveals the presence of a man dressed in weird green
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Speaker 1: armor writing on what looks like a hovering platform of
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Speaker 1: some sort, and then lightning strikes, except it's not just lightning,
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Speaker 1: it's a person, and he's also coming out of the bank.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, Peter and Strange have stumbled upon members of
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Speaker 1: the Sinister Six and they are from other movie versions
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Speaker 1: of Spider Man two, and Strange looks at Peter, who
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Speaker 1: feels kind of weird, and soon Peter finds himself singing.
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Speaker 1: Now and then Uncle Ben said this same thing time
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Speaker 1: and again. He always had the same advice. And you'll
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Speaker 1: hear it now twice, cause with great power comes RESPONSI
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Speaker 1: bill Att like you've never had before. You can beat
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Speaker 1: bone Saw in the no holds barred match. You can
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Speaker 1: trounce duck Uck without getting one scratch. And you can
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Speaker 1: find out your best buddy is your enemy gnatch. And
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Speaker 1: I know things now, many valuable things that I hadn't
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Speaker 1: known before. When you cannot see, you must turn off
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Speaker 1: the dark. You must face the bad guys without Tony Stark,
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Speaker 1: but you'll get lots of new suits, each with its
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Speaker 1: own trademark. Now I know at this hour that though
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Speaker 1: I have this great power, that I must not be dull.
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Speaker 1: I must be responsive bowl Strange says, yeah, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is too weird even for me. I'm out call me
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Speaker 1: when you're out of the woods, Parker. And with that,
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Speaker 1: Strange opens up this portal thinking and he vanishes. So
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Speaker 1: Peter rushes off into an alley and he quickly changes
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Speaker 1: into his Spider man costume, you know, the one for
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Speaker 1: this movie, which is at least slightly different from the
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Speaker 1: ones from the other movies, so that we can sell
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Speaker 1: more toys. And then he tries to catch up with
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Speaker 1: the fleeing villains, and catch up he does. He takes
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Speaker 1: finds them taking up residents in a severely damaged skyscraper,
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Speaker 1: and Parker is amazed to see that is the former
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Speaker 1: Avengers and thus former Stark Tower. He quietly sneaks up
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Speaker 1: to see what is going on, and inside he sees
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Speaker 1: the Vulture and Mysterio and Sandman and dock Cock and
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Speaker 1: the Green Goblin and Electro and also the Lizard because
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Speaker 1: this is the Sinister Six but it has seven members
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Speaker 1: in it, and music swells and the Vulture sings, Here's
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Speaker 1: to the Sinister Six. Everybody quake hodgepodge of rogues and
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Speaker 1: total dicks who don't get a fair shake. Hey, shouts Electro.
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Speaker 1: That is from the wrong musical. Yeah, says Green Goblin.
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Speaker 1: We don't have the rights to that Sondheim show. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: says Vulture. I just figured I was in good a company,
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Speaker 1: and everyone everyone grows a vultures terrible terrible dad joke.
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Speaker 1: At least everyone who loves musical theater and gets the
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Speaker 1: reference groans. Suddenly, the lizard perks up, turns his head
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Speaker 1: and stares right at Spider Man, who's hiding off behind
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Speaker 1: a window. And he hisses. And now all the bad
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Speaker 1: guys see spider Man there. Well, well, well, Peter says, Doc,
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Speaker 1: glad you could show up. We've been waiting. She's been waiting,
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Speaker 1: she says Spider Man, And then he sees Sandman pulling
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Speaker 1: out a young woman from the shadows into the light,
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Speaker 1: a young woman Peter doesn't recognize at all. If you
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Speaker 1: even think about trying to stop us, I could promise
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Speaker 1: you your precious wind Stacy has seen the last of
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Speaker 1: her days, says dot Dock. Gwen, says Spider Man. Peter. Peter,
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Speaker 1: run for it, yells Gwyn. But here's the thing. See this,
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Speaker 1: Peter Parker doesn't know a Gwinn Stacy, But that's toe's
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Speaker 1: who this is. Anyway, there's this weird orange glitch moment
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Speaker 1: where Peter apparently gets like a hint of his alternate
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Speaker 1: universe self and realizes that another Peter Parker in another
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Speaker 1: universe actually loved this woman. And before he can say anything,
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Speaker 1: Saman says, I'm bored and shoves her out a window.
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Speaker 1: So Peter dives after her, falling from the top of
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Speaker 1: Stark Tower, and he uses his webbing to grab hold
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Speaker 1: of her, and then he grabs the side of the building,
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Speaker 1: but this stop makes Gwinn jerk in an unnatural way,
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Speaker 1: and horrified, Peter lowers himself to the ground with the
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Speaker 1: now limp young woman. Did I not catch her and
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Speaker 1: rescue the girl? Why does she lay so still? I
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Speaker 1: am the hero who swings and who whirl. She really
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Speaker 1: can't be so chill agony that I let Stacy slip
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Speaker 1: when I thought I could catch her as my wrist
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Speaker 1: webs went swip. Before he can continue, his spidy sense
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Speaker 1: tells him that the villains are descending upon him, and
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Speaker 1: then we get this massive fight between Spider Man and
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Speaker 1: the Sinister Six set to the music of You Two.
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Speaker 1: And then Toby McGuire's Spider Man shows up and he
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Speaker 1: starts to help out, and then Andrew Garfield's Spider Man
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Speaker 1: shows up and he starts to help out, and then
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Speaker 1: Spider Ham shows up and he starts to help out.
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Speaker 1: Soon it's like the entire multiverse of Spider Man is there.
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Speaker 1: And they're all working together to stop the sinister six
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Speaker 1: plus one, and the fight is pretty spectacular, but it's
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Speaker 1: also kind of messy and overdone, the way Marvel movies
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Speaker 1: typically end. And then there's this tender moment where Toby
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Speaker 1: McGuire or maybe it was Andrew Garfield, anyway, they mourned
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Speaker 1: the loss of Gwen Stacy. I can't remember which movie
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Speaker 1: she was in. But then Dr Strange shows up again. Hey, Peter,
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Speaker 1: I figured it out, like I totally turned my hand
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Speaker 1: countery clockwise when I should have done it clockwise. It
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Speaker 1: was my bad. Well, the various Peters all look at
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Speaker 1: Strange at the same time. Wow, it says Strange. That
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Speaker 1: is creepy. But then there's a flash of orange light
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Speaker 1: and Peter is back in Times Square and no one
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Speaker 1: is singing or dancing, and everyone's miserable. I think I
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Speaker 1: fixed it, says Strange. So Peter hugs Doctor Strange because
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Speaker 1: you know, Peter is a hugging kind of guy, and
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Speaker 1: far off in the distance he hears someone saying something
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Speaker 1: a little strange A Peter on the roof sounds crazy, no,
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Speaker 1: But here in a little village of Manhattan, you might say,
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Speaker 1: everyone of us is a Peter on the roof the end.
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Speaker 1: That was delightful, Ah, wonderful. Epic. Epic is the word
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Speaker 1: I would describe. I'm gonna keep looking, I'm gonna keep
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Speaker 1: the play bill um and frame it. I tried to
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Speaker 1: throw as many little Easter eggs for both musical lovers
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Speaker 1: and spiderman lovers in there as I could, and by
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Speaker 1: that you mean all of them. And it was brilliant,
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Speaker 1: well done, my friend. I mean I mean, like, you
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Speaker 1: give me a musical, and I'm gonna have to write
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Speaker 1: some parody songs. And the first, sadly, the first one
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Speaker 1: I thought of was the Ladies Who Lunch, which isn't
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Speaker 1: even from Into the Woods, It's from Company, but it's
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Speaker 1: the Sondheims song that immediately I was like, yours do
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Speaker 1: the Sinister six such a dumb was hilarious. I loved it,
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Speaker 1: And if you loved it as much as I did,
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Speaker 1: you should write us and tell us. And if you
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Speaker 1: didn't keep it to yourself, yes, or you can write
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Speaker 1: us and give us your own version of a Spider
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Speaker 1: Man Sondheim Into the Woods mash up um, or tell
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Speaker 1: us about any of the things that you'd like to
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Speaker 1: learn about a crazy Spider Man musical, you should definitely
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Speaker 1: research Spider Man Turn Off the Dark because the making
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Speaker 1: of that and the behind the scenes drama is itself
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Speaker 1: more epic than any musical you could ever produce on stage.
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Speaker 1: ones that we're going to be doing in upcoming episodes
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Speaker 1: that we have planned. But we love getting these and
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Speaker 1: remember picking stuff that's not inherently similar to each other,
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Speaker 1: that helps a lot. If it's two things that are
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Speaker 1: really kind of similar already, it's sort of hard to
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Speaker 1: make a funny mash up, or even a mashup. I'm
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Speaker 1: not even going to argue that all of mine are funny.
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Speaker 1: Some of them are really not. You know, it goes
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Speaker 1: you can't all be winners. They can't all be winners. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess that means it's time for us to wrap up.
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