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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, Welcome to The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast,
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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 them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: is Jonathan Konami. Code strict one up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right,
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Speaker 1: be a select start. Oh you unlocked a question I did.
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Speaker 1: I got a question for you, all right, Ariel. I mean,
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Speaker 1: first of all, listeners might not know this, but you
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Speaker 1: are in a band. But let's say that you you're
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Speaker 1: in a band that plays all sorts of different kinds
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Speaker 1: of music. Can you name a song that you would
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Speaker 1: love to cover? A song that I would love to cover? Um, Honestly,
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Speaker 1: right now I'm trying to get my band to cover
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Speaker 1: Build a Wall from the video game Bastion. Um. That
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Speaker 1: video game has just a beautiful soundtrack and that song.
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Speaker 1: I know it sounds controversial. It's not, but it sounds controversial,
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Speaker 1: therefore playing it. But one, walls have had a stigma
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Speaker 1: in the past few years, and then two or building
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Speaker 1: walls has and to like, I just need to get
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Speaker 1: off my button do it? But yeah, I want to
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Speaker 1: do that or um the Knickerbocker from No More Kings,
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Speaker 1: Um the knicker Pocker or something something from No More Kings.
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Speaker 1: I like the song. I don't remember the title. Yes, yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: so so my band for those who don't know, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm in a band. We used to play Renaissance Festival
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Speaker 1: in the Georgia Independence Day Festival and various other little things.
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Speaker 1: We play LARPs um, and we used to do a
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Speaker 1: bunch of medieval stuff and now we do pirate and
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Speaker 1: kind of bluegrass. But I always try to like virus
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Speaker 1: into like swing or other. They're sort of genres. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: you get you work in like you'll be playing one
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Speaker 1: song that will be in one genre and you'll segue
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Speaker 1: into like a pop song or a country song, and
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Speaker 1: then make your way back over into the more traditional song.
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Speaker 1: We love mashups. And I will say, though very few
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Speaker 1: people have heard it, our heavy metal version of Adelweiss
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Speaker 1: is pretty baller. What about you, Jonathan, What? Because I
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Speaker 1: know that you play guitar and ukulele and all that,
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Speaker 1: what song do you really desperately want to learn? I mean, like,
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Speaker 1: besides everything that they might be Giants? Has ever done? Uh?
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Speaker 1: I mean they might be Giants is probably the right answer,
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Speaker 1: is just like saying something like that. But the other
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Speaker 1: one would be a Jonathan Colton song. Actually, I feel
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Speaker 1: fantastic stick. It's so fast and it's just it's just
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Speaker 1: a fun, clever song. And ah, the older I get,
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Speaker 1: the more medicated I feel I need to be, so
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Speaker 1: it starts to speak to me more directly. I feel fantastic.
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Speaker 1: For those who don't know, is a song and the
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Speaker 1: point of view of the singer is about all the
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Speaker 1: different medications he takes in order for him to function. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And it is pretty clear as the song goes on
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Speaker 1: that he is overly dependent upon medication in order to function.
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Speaker 1: It's a it's a kind of a depressing song if
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Speaker 1: you listen to the lyrics, but it's very peppy and poppy,
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Speaker 1: kind of like hang up the Holly from White Christmas.
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Speaker 1: We'll see that's that's Here's the thing is that, like
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Speaker 1: that's something that's in common with both They Might Be
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Speaker 1: Giants and Jonathan Colton, right, is that both tend to
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Speaker 1: write these these tunes and the music is really upbeat
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Speaker 1: and poppy. But if you pay attention to lyrics, there's
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Speaker 1: often a darker subtext or sometimes just playin old text
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Speaker 1: to the lyrics. Uh, there's a great they might be
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Speaker 1: Giants song called um uh was it is a destination
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Speaker 1: moon and and that song, Uh, it becomes clear that
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Speaker 1: the person singing it's actually pretty clear right away if
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Speaker 1: you really pay attention to the lyrics, but the person
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Speaker 1: singing it's from the point of view of someone who
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Speaker 1: is convalescing in a hospital and is not expected to
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Speaker 1: get better. And yet again the tune is really upbeat.
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Speaker 1: Like if you're just listening to the music and you're
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Speaker 1: not really processing the lyrics, you're like, Wow, this is
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Speaker 1: just a catchy song. And then you pay attention to
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Speaker 1: the lyrics, you're like, whoa, that's heavy. Yeah, I didn't
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Speaker 1: realize I was singing about that. Yeah, speaking of things
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Speaker 1: that are a little bit heavier once you reflect upon them.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this new Rats of NYM show. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so Rats and Nim is from It's actually a series
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Speaker 1: of books that were written starting in the nineteen seventies,
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Speaker 1: and there was previously a Dawn Bluth animated adaptation of
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Speaker 1: effectively the first novel in the series, Mrs Frisbie and
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Speaker 1: the Rats and Them, which they just shortened to The
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Speaker 1: Rats of Nim for the movie. Very creepy film. For
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Speaker 1: those who have not seen it, Secret the Secretive. You're right,
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Speaker 1: the Secret of Nim. You are correct, it's not the
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Speaker 1: Rats ym is the Secret of Them? Thank you very Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's very creepy movie. I saw it when it first
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Speaker 1: came out. I saw it in the theater as a kid. Um.
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Speaker 1: I remember the owl really freaking me out in that movie.
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Speaker 1: But it's now there's going to be or at least
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Speaker 1: there's in development a a an event series, animated series
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Speaker 1: of adaptations of at least I assumed the first book,
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Speaker 1: if not multiple books. So I'm very curious to see
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Speaker 1: how that goes. Yeah. So I saw Rats of Nim
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Speaker 1: as a child as well, though not when it came out,
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Speaker 1: because you're too young for that, I think, I think, Um,
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Speaker 1: but like I remembering to understand beautiful animation. But they're
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Speaker 1: saying that this one, other than being like a complete reboot,
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Speaker 1: it's separate from the previous film story um, which is nice.
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Speaker 1: Um that it's going to be darker and more adult,
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Speaker 1: have a more adult tone to it, Like I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine the Secrets of Nim or the rest of Nims
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Speaker 1: being darker, or maybe it's just maybe I only remember
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Speaker 1: the dark parts and it wasn't as dark as I'm
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Speaker 1: remembering it was. It was fairly dark, but probably not
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Speaker 1: as dark as the book was, is what I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing now. I have not read the books, so I
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Speaker 1: can't say that for certain. The cartoon definitely was. It
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Speaker 1: was not like a happy go lucky Disney film. It
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Speaker 1: was pretty you know, it had some pretty grim stuff
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Speaker 1: in it. But I have a feeling that this series
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Speaker 1: is going to be more so. Also, this is in
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Speaker 1: development for Fox, which of course is just really a
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Speaker 1: subsidy of subsidiary of Disney. But so technically we're gonna
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Speaker 1: get get a Disney version of The Rats of Nim,
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Speaker 1: but it will be through through the Fox department, not
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Speaker 1: through Disney Animation. I definitely think it'll be interesting. I agree.
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Speaker 1: I actually I'll probably want to check it out. I
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Speaker 1: like the idea of getting more animation, including animation that's
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Speaker 1: for you know, adult audiences, uh, and and having just
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Speaker 1: like more animation besides the stuff that's coming out of
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Speaker 1: either Pixar or Disney Animation. Studios. Not that I don't
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Speaker 1: like those as well, but it's good to get a
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Speaker 1: variety of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, apparently there were a little
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Speaker 1: Golden books, uh about the Nim universe, and there was
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Speaker 1: a sequel, The Secret of Nim too, all things I
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Speaker 1: didn't know, Thanks Google. Um. I used to think that
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Speaker 1: the Secret of Nim and Fifel were the same. Fivel
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Speaker 1: goes west to Nim. Yes, oh good mash up for
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Speaker 1: the future. Maybe too similar. Anyhow, let's move on away
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Speaker 1: from my ignorance into something else. I'm ignorant about the
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Speaker 1: God of War series. Yeah so uh. We recently got
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Speaker 1: a look at Santa Monica Studios God of War Ragnarok,
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Speaker 1: the sequel to the effectively the reboot of the God
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Speaker 1: of War series where Dat of War Dat of War,
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Speaker 1: where cratos is Uh finds himself in opposition with Nordic gods,
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Speaker 1: and the preview is pretty good. We get a little
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Speaker 1: hint of Thor in the in the trailer. Have you
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Speaker 1: seen the actual illustration of Thor for this version of
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Speaker 1: God of War? But I have not. I just saw
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Speaker 1: the tiny glimpse of him in the trailer. All right,
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Speaker 1: ariel A, you're gonna need to do a search search
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Speaker 1: God of War Thor and look at images so that
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Speaker 1: you can see how they've made Thor. Look for this,
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Speaker 1: because you only get to see his hip sexy. He's
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Speaker 1: a he's a big boy. He is he is. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I kind of like that design. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: I do too. I think. So he's not like he's
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Speaker 1: not like giant and muscular. He's not like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Speaker 1: He's more like a World's Strongest Man competitor, where you know,
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Speaker 1: those guys are stout right, and so is he. So
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Speaker 1: that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, No, it's a cool design. So
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Speaker 1: I say I'm ignorant of God of War. I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: not entirely. My husband played through the last game, um,
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Speaker 1: and what I saw was cool. It was a fun story.
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Speaker 1: You know, this new trailer looks great. Prior to that,
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Speaker 1: I had only seen like the quick button mash Yeah,
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Speaker 1: of the old ones, um, which were less than appealing.
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Speaker 1: But um, it looks from what I understand, the reboot
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Speaker 1: has a really intriguing story and from the trailer it
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Speaker 1: looks like the second one War as well. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: and what's interesting is that the new version, I would
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Speaker 1: say the approach to storytelling matured quite a bit in
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Speaker 1: that if you played the original Gun of War games,
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of male power, fantasy and hyper
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Speaker 1: sexuality of certain characters that was played around with there,
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Speaker 1: Like it definitely feels like it would be out of
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Speaker 1: touch with the sensibilities of today. So I think that
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Speaker 1: the reboot did a good job at kind of reimagining
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Speaker 1: the role of Kratos and the world that he inhabits
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Speaker 1: and made it a little less uh fraternity kind of mentality,
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Speaker 1: like look, fewer, fewer like gratuitous boob shots, I guess
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Speaker 1: is what I'm really getting at. I appreciate that although
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Speaker 1: you give it some some mighty thor boob that's true.
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Speaker 1: He's he's packing that is owner. Yeah, yeah, mi owner?
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Speaker 1: Who who? It looks dwarfed compared to thor U in
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Speaker 1: the trailer at least. Um. But that's not the only
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Speaker 1: video game reboot we're getting. Um. We're also getting Star
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Speaker 1: Wars Nights of the Old Republic. Yeah, we're getting a
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Speaker 1: remaster of that and uh Cotre as the kids all say,
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Speaker 1: is one of those games from way back when where
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Speaker 1: you would create a character, so you you would create
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Speaker 1: your own character in this game, and you would play
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Speaker 1: through it had semi turn based combat. It was really
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Speaker 1: turn based, but it had a little bit of action
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Speaker 1: kind of built into it too, so it didn't feel
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Speaker 1: just like you know, press attack and wait thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: to find out whether or not you hit um and
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Speaker 1: the story change depending on the choices you made. So
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Speaker 1: if you were a goody two shoes and you walked
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Speaker 1: the light side of the Force, you would and you
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Speaker 1: were really, really good, you would eventually start glowing with
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Speaker 1: this kind of bluish light. And if you were wicked,
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Speaker 1: if you went to the dark side, you would have
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Speaker 1: like these nasty looking veins and showing up against your skin,
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Speaker 1: and you would have the sort of red glow around you,
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Speaker 1: and the story changed based on that. The them their
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Speaker 1: m m O RPG they came out with later, which
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Speaker 1: I think was just The Old Republic had a similar
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Speaker 1: mechanic mm hmm. And this is this is one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite games, and that's The Old Republic is one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite like role playing games. It was also
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Speaker 1: nice because they set the story four thousand years before
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Speaker 1: the events of the Star Wars movies, so you're far
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Speaker 1: enough apart that you know pretty much anything can happen
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Speaker 1: and it's not gonna affect Like you feel like anything
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Speaker 1: can happen in that game, and you're fine. You've got
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Speaker 1: enough distance in time in the events from the series
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Speaker 1: where none of that is going to play a part
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Speaker 1: in what you're doing. It also means you don't have
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Speaker 1: to worry about the weird sensation of, well, the galaxy
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Speaker 1: is big, but I keep running into Han Solo and
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Speaker 1: Chewy or see three D O and R two D two.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about that. Yeah, it seems
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Speaker 1: like most people are excited about this. The only thing
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Speaker 1: that it seems that people are not excited about is
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Speaker 1: the fact that it's coming out for PlayStation exclusively, at
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Speaker 1: least at this start. Yeah, I hope it comes to
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Speaker 1: PC because I don't. I'm mean, I've got a PS four,
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Speaker 1: but I definitely don't have a PS five because where
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Speaker 1: do you find one? Uh, you asked Santa for one,
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Speaker 1: and you hope really hard. Yeah, I don't know that
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Speaker 1: I've been a good enough boy together five. I think
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Speaker 1: I've pretty much. Yeah, I think you've gotta save like
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Speaker 1: an orphanage or something in order to be that good. Um,
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Speaker 1: and I have not done that. I've let so many
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Speaker 1: orphanages just you know, languish. Yeah, yeah, talk to you
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Speaker 1: about that. That's I go out of my way to
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Speaker 1: be bad to orphans. Oh man, I don't like this
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Speaker 1: imagined universe we've just created. No, but but I am.
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Speaker 1: I am excited to see more about this because, like
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Speaker 1: I said, Cotre was one of those games I really loved,
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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't mind a chance to play it again
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Speaker 1: with updated graphics. It's you know, I mean obviously, I
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Speaker 1: ideally I would get a new game in the same
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Speaker 1: vein as Cotour, but not the exact same thing over again,
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Speaker 1: and be able to explore some other characters in another timeline.
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Speaker 1: Cod Tour two was also a good game. It's a
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Speaker 1: little weird because you were wondering what the heck happened
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Speaker 1: to your character from cod Tour one. You know, obviously,
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Speaker 1: whenever there's a game built on top of a previous one,
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Speaker 1: they have to make decisions about what the primary character
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Speaker 1: actually did, which might contradict what you did in your
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Speaker 1: play through. And there's that disconnect, and that happened for
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Speaker 1: me in Cotar two, where I was like, I never
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Speaker 1: would have made that choice, what why did my character
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Speaker 1: turned into such a jerk? Well, I'm sorry that happened
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Speaker 1: to you. Uh, speaking of things that are incongruous for
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Speaker 1: side characters. Um, we're going to talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: about One Division, but first we're going to take a
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Speaker 1: quick break. Okay, Ariel, I'm still I'm still trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out your segue into the break. But in the meantime,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about One Division and the Emmy's. So in
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Speaker 1: a previous episode, we talked about how One Division got
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Speaker 1: I think the correct term is a metric buttload of
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Speaker 1: Emmy nominations. That is a scientific term. And while while
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Speaker 1: the you know, the televised Emmy Awards won't happen until
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Speaker 1: the nineteenth, so they're they're still coming up, they've already
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Speaker 1: awarded some of the more like technical and Art Direction
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Speaker 1: Style awards, and One Division has won some of those. Yes,
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Speaker 1: original music and Lyrics for Agatha all Along, which yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you, that's that was well deserved. Yes, um, And
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Speaker 1: then they also won for Narrative half hour Production Design
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Speaker 1: and for Fantasy sci Fi Costumes. The costumes and One
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Speaker 1: Division are superb. Well yeah, I mean, like the beauty
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Speaker 1: of One Division was that because they did that sitcom
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Speaker 1: uh you know, motif for the first few episodes, they
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Speaker 1: got to really explore a lot of different looks because
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Speaker 1: each each episode, at least in the beginning, was set
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Speaker 1: in a different era, so they got to and it
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Speaker 1: was like a TV era, so it was the idealized
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Speaker 1: version of an era. So there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: really fun looks throughout that series. And that's before you
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Speaker 1: get to any of the superhero stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: suspect that they will come away with a few more
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Speaker 1: Emmy's by the end of it all, um, which is
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Speaker 1: pretty great for Marvel. I think the only other thing
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Speaker 1: that they've won an Emmy four is Jessica Jones, which
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Speaker 1: was technically Netflix correct. Yeah, this is the first time
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Speaker 1: that they've won anything for their Disney Plus uh streaming service,
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Speaker 1: like any any content that they've made for that And
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Speaker 1: some of the big awards that are the remain are
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Speaker 1: Leading Actress Elizabeth Olsen is up for that. Leading actor
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Speaker 1: Paul Bettany is up for that. Supporting Actress Katherine Hahn
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Speaker 1: had better be a lock in for that because Agnes
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Speaker 1: slash Agatha has become one of my favorite characters so
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Speaker 1: much so that I am hoping to see a lot
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Speaker 1: more of her in future Marvel projects. Um, I'm certainly will.
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Speaker 1: I sure hope. So uh if she does not show
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Speaker 1: up in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, I'll
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Speaker 1: be very sad. But yeah, it'll be great to see
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Speaker 1: if that, if that pays off, you know. And also
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Speaker 1: Falcon and Winter Soldier up for a few emmans themselves.
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Speaker 1: My dog is also up for me. Oh tible, good job.
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Speaker 1: So something we don't know if it will be award
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Speaker 1: worthy that's coming out a man. This is my second
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Speaker 1: week of just nailing these segues. Yes, Batman, the Batman,
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Speaker 1: the upcoming ban So The Batman obviously hasn't come out yet,
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Speaker 1: but we already know that there's a spinoff plan for it,
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Speaker 1: which is crazy, right, Like we don't we haven't even
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Speaker 1: gotten the movie yet and there's already a spinoff in development. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: apparently HBO is looking at doing a Hingwin centric show, right,
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Speaker 1: and they're in talks with Colin Ferrell to play the
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Speaker 1: part because that's who he plays in The Batman. Yes,
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Speaker 1: but there's there's no deal in place, so that's all
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Speaker 1: very tentative. Still, um, it's it is interesting to me that, um,
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Speaker 1: the it the Lauren le Frank, who le Frank who
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Speaker 1: wrote Agents of Shield, will be working on the script
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Speaker 1: for it. Um because it's kind of got that DC
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Speaker 1: Marvel crossover thing going there. Um. Also, you know, I
20:18
Speaker 1: wasn't a huge fan of Agents of Shield personally, so
20:21
Speaker 1: I liked I liked some of it, but I did
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Speaker 1: fall off of it, Like I really like the characters.
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Speaker 1: I got a little tired of the fact that a
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Speaker 1: lot of the episodes were kind of falling into the
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Speaker 1: freak of the week trope, the whole like thing that
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Speaker 1: Buffy did and uh, Supernatural was like the worst about it,
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Speaker 1: and Supernatural that was Supernatural was freak of the Week
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Speaker 1: for their episodes. Um. But you know, I I I'm
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Speaker 1: curious about this. Honestly, I was thinking that if they
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Speaker 1: were going to do a spinoff series, I thought it
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Speaker 1: was going to be The Riddler, because the trailers we've
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Speaker 1: seen for The Batman make the Riddler look absolutely terrifying. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't we already have Dexter. I don't feel like
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Speaker 1: I need the Riddler. Yeah, but Dexter is kind of
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Speaker 1: an anti hero protagonist, like, like the Riddler just comes
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Speaker 1: out across to me is like this person has been
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Speaker 1: twisted to the point where they're just a psychopath. Um.
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Speaker 1: And like what's interesting is that, at least the way
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Speaker 1: the trailer presents the Riddler, it's in such an evocative
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Speaker 1: way that for the first time, I found the Riddler
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Speaker 1: to be potentially as terrifying as the Joker can be. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he does look really really scary. Um. Now, there were
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Speaker 1: a couple of Batman games Batman Origin type games that
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Speaker 1: made the Riddler really scary as well video games. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just and the Penguin can be
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Speaker 1: scary too, But I don't think I want to watch
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Speaker 1: something an entire series about someone that upsetting. That's fair. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and it is. It really does make you wonder what
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Speaker 1: the thrust is gonna be, Like what do you I mean,
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Speaker 1: if they're making the Penguin as sort of a crime
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Speaker 1: boss character, then it could clearly be something like the Sopranos, right,
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Speaker 1: it could be something along those lines or uh so
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Speaker 1: maybe that's what we'll get. We don't really have any
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Speaker 1: details on that. It's just kind of an interesting note, uh,
22:22
Speaker 1: something that we do have a little bit more details about,
22:25
Speaker 1: but I don't know that it's interesting. Is the HBO
22:29
Speaker 1: uh animated Aquaman series? We got a trailer for it,
22:34
Speaker 1: And why do you think about the trailer? Ariel? Well,
22:38
Speaker 1: first of all, if I had known that this was
22:41
Speaker 1: a thing, I had already forgotten, so uh yeah for
22:46
Speaker 1: rediscovered craziness. The trailer is very goofy, which is, you know,
22:54
Speaker 1: traditionally how a lot of people view Aquaman. It's I
23:00
Speaker 1: think it's the same artistic team behind Thundercat's Roar, and
23:05
Speaker 1: I don't particularly care for that animation style, but it's
23:10
Speaker 1: very jokey, laughy ha ha, so maybe it will be
23:14
Speaker 1: awkwardly a fun Yeah. It looks like an even more
23:18
Speaker 1: primitive art style than say, um Adventure Time. Um, you
23:23
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's very cartoony, but pretty primitive cartoony.
23:30
Speaker 1: I can't say that the trailer did anything for me,
23:35
Speaker 1: Like I like absurdity and I like silliness. I mean,
23:39
Speaker 1: that's clear if you've listened to the show for heallength
23:41
Speaker 1: of time. But this one just didn't quite land for me,
23:45
Speaker 1: Like nothing was like everything was like, well, that's supposed
23:49
Speaker 1: to be funny, but it doesn't actually come across as
23:52
Speaker 1: funny to me. Yeah, yeah, like a little bit forced maybe. Yeah,
23:57
Speaker 1: we're just like that has the pace of a joke,
24:02
Speaker 1: but not the payoff of a joke. It's like like,
24:04
Speaker 1: have you ever heard when a little kid tries to
24:06
Speaker 1: tell a joke. They understand that there's a setup, and
24:09
Speaker 1: they understand that there's a punchline, but they don't understand
24:12
Speaker 1: how to link the two and to make the punchline. Like,
24:16
Speaker 1: those jokes can be funny, but they're funny for the
24:18
Speaker 1: wrong reason, right, They're funny because they're so just weird. Um.
24:22
Speaker 1: But that's kind of how this felt to me, was
24:23
Speaker 1: that it was like the setup and the payoffs weren't
24:27
Speaker 1: tied there. There wasn't enough of a payoff for the
24:30
Speaker 1: setup to work, so it didn't land for me. That
24:34
Speaker 1: is interesting because James One, who made the Aquaman movie
24:37
Speaker 1: and is working on the second one, also had a
24:39
Speaker 1: hand in this cartoon. Jeemes One has had a hand
24:42
Speaker 1: in about nine of everything that's gone on in Hollywood
24:46
Speaker 1: over the last two years. He's got a hand and
24:49
Speaker 1: stuff we're about to talk about in a second too.
24:52
Speaker 1: So um yeah, he's like a busy dude. I tell
24:56
Speaker 1: you you do, you'll launch one franchise with The Conjuring
25:00
Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, you're just constantly working good
25:04
Speaker 1: for him, You're conjuring up more work, you sure are.
25:10
Speaker 1: Uh so. Yeah, So James One also is working on
25:15
Speaker 1: Salem's Lot. Yes, he's a producer on Salem's Lot. The
25:20
Speaker 1: guy who's directing it as Gary Doberman, who directed Annabelle
25:24
Speaker 1: Comes Home, part of the Conjuring universe, which James One
25:28
Speaker 1: launched with The Conjuring. So it's very much in the
25:31
Speaker 1: family here. Um. And of course Salem's Lot is a
25:34
Speaker 1: Stephen King novel from the nineteen seventies. It was previously
25:38
Speaker 1: adapted into a couple of different TV movies, including one
25:41
Speaker 1: that I thought was really effective, the first of the
25:45
Speaker 1: TV movie adaptations. It's very low budget, but I had
25:49
Speaker 1: some truly disturbing like imagery and I just remember a
25:53
Speaker 1: little kid floating outside a window that's on the second
25:57
Speaker 1: story of a house and just scratching at the ass
26:00
Speaker 1: over and over. Very creepy. Um. And we know that,
26:05
Speaker 1: uh that like a Alfre Woodard is playing the role
26:09
Speaker 1: of Dr Jimmy Cody. But the thing that really has
26:13
Speaker 1: me excited that William Sadler is in it. I love
26:16
Speaker 1: that the article we have talks about William Sadler the
26:19
Speaker 1: Shawshank Redemption, not William sadler death. In Bill and Ted,
26:26
Speaker 1: he was so William Sadler's well those actors who like
26:31
Speaker 1: he's amazing, He's he's not like super famous, but he's
26:36
Speaker 1: been in tons of stuff. He was in die Hard too,
26:38
Speaker 1: he was in the Shawshank Redemption, he's in the Bill
26:40
Speaker 1: and Ted movies, and he's just he's an incredible actor
26:44
Speaker 1: who can really inhabit characters and really inhabit menacing characters
26:50
Speaker 1: in a really cool way. So I'm hoping that he's
26:52
Speaker 1: Kurt Barlow, who is the big bad in Salem's Lot,
26:56
Speaker 1: But we'll have to see because they have not revealed
26:59
Speaker 1: what character he's actually play, which means that's probably who
27:02
Speaker 1: he's playing. Uh, we're gonna find out on or around
27:07
Speaker 1: September nine two because that's when it comes out. Um.
27:12
Speaker 1: We also got news that Furiosa got pushed back from
27:18
Speaker 1: the new launch day for that is MA four. So
27:23
Speaker 1: we've been waiting for this for a while obviously, ever
27:25
Speaker 1: since you know, we first heard that there were thoughts
27:27
Speaker 1: of doing a spinoff after Mad Max Fury Road which
27:30
Speaker 1: is remains like one of the best action movies I've
27:33
Speaker 1: ever seen um and I will be happy to see
27:37
Speaker 1: this even though it has the most irritatingly talented actress
27:42
Speaker 1: in the movie. I mean, she is really good, and
27:47
Speaker 1: Anya Taylor joy Is is a very good actress. I
27:50
Speaker 1: think she'll play Furio so well. I'm looking forward to it.
27:53
Speaker 1: I'm sure she'll play Furio so well. And I'm sure
27:55
Speaker 1: I'm going to be even more jealous of her incredible
27:57
Speaker 1: talent because she's a She's just really good and it
28:02
Speaker 1: makes me sick that someone that young can be that good.
28:07
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Well, that's sort of the roundup of news.
28:10
Speaker 1: We have actually a few other items as well, but obviously,
28:13
Speaker 1: like we can't cover everything or else, this show would
28:16
Speaker 1: be an hour and a half long, and we still
28:18
Speaker 1: have our mashups to get to and those tie into
28:21
Speaker 1: a couple of other news items. So we actually managed
28:23
Speaker 1: to sneak in two more, but you'll have to wait
28:25
Speaker 1: till after the break to find out what they are. Okay,
28:44
Speaker 1: welcome back to our mashup. Items are Hawkeye and Laura Croft,
28:49
Speaker 1: your raider. I didn't want to make you eat any longer, right,
28:51
Speaker 1: But the reason why we picked those is because we
28:54
Speaker 1: have a couple of news stories that relate to both
28:57
Speaker 1: of those properties. Hawkeye in this case, we're talking about
29:00
Speaker 1: the Marvel Cinematic Universe character who has his own Disney
29:05
Speaker 1: Plus uh streaming series coming out in November, and we
29:10
Speaker 1: got a trailer for it. And the trailer I loved it.
29:13
Speaker 1: What did you think? Yeah? I did too. It felt
29:16
Speaker 1: it felt like Home Alone meets die Hard or maybe
29:19
Speaker 1: Lethal Weapon to me, Yeah, I get that, Like you're
29:23
Speaker 1: the second person I've heard compare it kind of to
29:26
Speaker 1: die Hard with that that action, fast pace and then
29:29
Speaker 1: that you still have a little bit of comedy thrown
29:31
Speaker 1: in their two. Yeah it's a Christmas movie. Um, okay,
29:36
Speaker 1: but Diehards. We've established the Diehard is not a Christmas movie. Okay,
29:41
Speaker 1: We're not going back down that path again because I've
29:44
Speaker 1: already I've already made that that defense once. But yeah,
29:50
Speaker 1: so this the trailer looks great, And of course it
29:53
Speaker 1: also introduces Kate Bishop, a character from the Marvel Comics
29:58
Speaker 1: universe who is now going to be in the See
30:00
Speaker 1: You and We'll be teaming up with Hawkeye. She actually
30:03
Speaker 1: calls him Hawkeye. Did anyone ever else call Clint Hawkeye.
30:08
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I feel like they did. I don't
30:11
Speaker 1: know if anybody ever called him Ronan because before and
30:14
Speaker 1: game he was rown in, so after I'll try. Yeah,
30:18
Speaker 1: that's that's when he's the the the the vigilante who
30:23
Speaker 1: is much much more deadly. And in the little trailer
30:29
Speaker 1: for the series, we see that Kate Bishop is posing
30:33
Speaker 1: as Ronan and thus getting a lot of attention from
30:38
Speaker 1: a lot of organized crime, and so Clint is off
30:42
Speaker 1: to find out who the heck is posing as his
30:44
Speaker 1: former alter ego, partly because he's concerned about their well being. Yeah,
30:51
Speaker 1: and this is why it reminds me of lethal Weapon,
30:53
Speaker 1: because he's the mertile. I'm too old for this stuff, dude. Um.
30:58
Speaker 1: But also, many of my friends have been more excited
31:02
Speaker 1: for a brief brief I don't know, maybe it's not
31:05
Speaker 1: brief for a gag that's in the trailer than they
31:07
Speaker 1: are for the actual full trailer, which is Rogers the Musical.
31:11
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you see. Well you see that Clinton
31:15
Speaker 1: his family have gone to attend a performance of Rogers
31:20
Speaker 1: the Musical, referencing Steve Rogers Captain America. M I hope
31:25
Speaker 1: that's an entire musical episode. Personally, I have a feeling
31:29
Speaker 1: it won't be. But I do also have a feeling
31:32
Speaker 1: that it's one of those things that if there's enough
31:34
Speaker 1: demand for it, Disney will totally capitalize and make a
31:38
Speaker 1: Rogers the Musical. Uh. I mean, you obviously know what
31:41
Speaker 1: the title of the main song has to be, right,
31:46
Speaker 1: I can do this all day? You have you have
31:50
Speaker 1: it at the beginning of the show, and then you've
31:52
Speaker 1: got a represe of I can do this all day
31:54
Speaker 1: at the end of the show, and Rogers is facing
31:57
Speaker 1: off against whoever the big bad is in that in
32:00
Speaker 1: that show, it rights itself. You've got the big hero
32:03
Speaker 1: song at the beginning, and then you've got the red
32:05
Speaker 1: preees at the end. I like that. I like that.
32:09
Speaker 1: The other news item we have is that it's kind
32:12
Speaker 1: of Marvelie Hall. Haley Atwell has been cast as the
32:16
Speaker 1: voice of Laura Croft in a New tomb Reader anime. Yeah,
32:21
Speaker 1: she obviously played Peggy Carter in the m c U.
32:24
Speaker 1: That's the connection we're talking about. She's also an insanely
32:28
Speaker 1: talented actor. Also, if I if I may, she's dreamy.
32:36
Speaker 1: M hm, Yeah, she's dreaming. She is. She makes an
32:45
Speaker 1: awesome Captain America too, even though that was animated, Yes,
32:48
Speaker 1: that was. It was one of the what If episodes,
32:51
Speaker 1: probably my favorite of the wide If episodes. I've watched
32:54
Speaker 1: them all up to the well, by the time this
32:57
Speaker 1: podcast comes out, there will be another one that I
33:00
Speaker 1: have not yet seen, but all the other ones I've seen,
33:03
Speaker 1: and I think that one might be my favorite. I
33:06
Speaker 1: do like that one as well quite a lot. A
33:08
Speaker 1: lot of times for me, film actors don't always translate
33:13
Speaker 1: to voice actor as well, but she did quite a
33:15
Speaker 1: good job. Yeah, yeah, no, I felt like she really
33:17
Speaker 1: captured the the character again. And yeah, to your point,
33:22
Speaker 1: when actors are no longer like embodying a role like
33:28
Speaker 1: you'll see during voiceover recording sessions, a lot of actors
33:32
Speaker 1: still get really physical when they're doing their parts because
33:35
Speaker 1: if they don't, it feels like there's a lack in
33:38
Speaker 1: their performance. Um. I have no idea if she was
33:41
Speaker 1: like that, like if she was doing the noises for
33:45
Speaker 1: like dodging punches and stuff. But yeah, she definitely captured
33:50
Speaker 1: the spirit of Peggy Carter in the What If, so
33:52
Speaker 1: I feel that she's going to do just fine job
33:55
Speaker 1: for Laura Croft. This is going to be on Netflix,
33:59
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing more of this. Yeah. So,
34:07
Speaker 1: so if you are not familiar with Hawkeye, for Laura
34:10
Speaker 1: Croft and what we just told you or tomb Rater
34:12
Speaker 1: and what we just told you doesn't ring a bell.
34:15
Speaker 1: Hawkeye is a Marvel Avenger who shoots arrows. He doesn't
34:18
Speaker 1: have superpowers, he just shoots arrows. Some of the arrows
34:20
Speaker 1: are pretty cool. He's pretty badass, but you know, he's not.
34:24
Speaker 1: He doesn't turn into the Hulk, he's not a god,
34:27
Speaker 1: none of that stuff. And tomb Rater is about basically
34:31
Speaker 1: a female Indiana Jones. I mean that's good, or you know,
34:35
Speaker 1: if you want to think of it this way, if
34:37
Speaker 1: you play the Uncharted games, Nathan Drake is a male
34:39
Speaker 1: version of Laura Croft. There you because she was she
34:44
Speaker 1: she was first tomb Writer came out before Uncharted did so,
34:49
Speaker 1: so Nathan Drake is a copy of Laura Croft, who
34:51
Speaker 1: herself is sort of a copy of Indiana Jones. And
34:55
Speaker 1: I have watched through the two thousand thirteen tomb Rater
34:58
Speaker 1: game and never watched Angelina Jolie movies nor the recent
35:02
Speaker 1: reboot of it. I think in two thousand eighteen. Um. Yeah,
35:06
Speaker 1: I just watched through the game. I haven't seen the films,
35:08
Speaker 1: but I did play the first of the tomb Rater
35:13
Speaker 1: reboot games, which, uh, a well designed game, except that
35:18
Speaker 1: you could have subtitled that tomb Rader Laura Croft falls
35:23
Speaker 1: down a lot because like every other sequence, she was
35:26
Speaker 1: falling down a mountain, like every bone in her body
35:28
Speaker 1: should have been busted by the end of that game. Yeah. Yeah,
35:32
Speaker 1: like Laura Croft Colin slinky right, Yes, she goes downstairs
35:40
Speaker 1: alone or in pairs, yes, or or Laura Croft. She h.
35:46
Speaker 1: We will wobbles fall down wobble, but they don't fall down. Uh.
35:51
Speaker 1: That's a really old reference nobody will get, especially since
35:54
Speaker 1: I said it so poorly. But Okay, we're gonna go
35:56
Speaker 1: into our mashups, and I'm going to go first. This
35:59
Speaker 1: is an Croft and the Solari citari Um Solari were
36:05
Speaker 1: villains in the two tomb Raader game villains, kind of antagonists,
36:10
Speaker 1: all right. Clinton Barton a k a. Hawkeye wasn't a
36:13
Speaker 1: superhero in the superpowered sense, but he was super good
36:17
Speaker 1: at what he did, which is why he kept getting
36:19
Speaker 1: pulled into Avenger hygiens. A few people knew however, that
36:23
Speaker 1: he had an arch nemesis, one archaeologist named Laura Croft.
36:27
Speaker 1: You see, for every Shield operation that Barton was a
36:29
Speaker 1: part of, there was Laura a k a. The tomb Raader,
36:32
Speaker 1: trying to steal whatever artifact was at the center of it,
36:35
Speaker 1: like with the Tests Are Act. While Hawkeye was trying
36:37
Speaker 1: to keep that glowing cube away from Loki, he was
36:40
Speaker 1: also fending off Laura, which is why he failed at
36:43
Speaker 1: not being mind controlled by Loki. And then there was Altron,
36:47
Speaker 1: where Laura Croft also was guns a blazing trying to
36:50
Speaker 1: get the Mindstone. And we won't even get into the
36:52
Speaker 1: time highest because that's too sad. But basically, every time
36:56
Speaker 1: that Hawkeye went into retirement, it wasn't due to not
36:59
Speaker 1: wanting to be an event. It was due to being
37:01
Speaker 1: tired of playing the game of rock, paper scissors arrow
37:04
Speaker 1: gun against Laura. I mean, do you know how hard
37:07
Speaker 1: it is to win with arrows when you're up against guns?
37:10
Speaker 1: And failure and Shield and the Avengers led to catastrophe,
37:13
Speaker 1: and that weighs on a man's psyche. So Hawkeye was
37:17
Speaker 1: exceptionally confused when, while in retirement, Laura showed up on
37:21
Speaker 1: his doorstop asking for his help. After begrudgingly inviting her
37:25
Speaker 1: in to sit down and need a family meal with him,
37:27
Speaker 1: because that always seems to be when he's interrupted, is
37:30
Speaker 1: when he's about to sit down to a meal with
37:32
Speaker 1: his family, Laura told him what was up. She had
37:35
Speaker 1: been exploring the island of Yamatai when she came across
37:39
Speaker 1: a cult that called themselves the Solari. But when she
37:41
Speaker 1: encountered them, she realized they were not just a cult
37:44
Speaker 1: of sun worshippers. They were a group of Chitari that
37:47
Speaker 1: had escaped New York and we're working with their long
37:49
Speaker 1: lost leader, Harry Lyser, who had disappeared after World War
37:52
Speaker 1: Two on a secret island in an effort to someone
37:55
Speaker 1: being called Galactus to eat and destroy not only the
37:57
Speaker 1: Earth but the whole Solar system. They had captured her
38:02
Speaker 1: and we're going to use her to house the beacon
38:04
Speaker 1: to someon Galactus. But she escaped, and as a part
38:06
Speaker 1: of her escape, Laura had managed to blow up their
38:08
Speaker 1: base on Yamatai, and now they were chasing her to
38:10
Speaker 1: capture her and finish their nefarious plan. Hawkeye's first response
38:14
Speaker 1: was to yell at her for coming to his home
38:16
Speaker 1: and putting his family in danger, but then he decided
38:18
Speaker 1: to be the bigger man and help her. So once
38:21
Speaker 1: they moved to Shield headquarters instead of his house, they
38:25
Speaker 1: assembled a tactical team and waited when the Chittari ship
38:28
Speaker 1: appeared in the sky. Because of course the Chatari had
38:31
Speaker 1: a spaceship. Still, Lauren Hawkeye took aim and prepared for
38:34
Speaker 1: the fight that just might kill them. But before they
38:37
Speaker 1: could fire on the incoming invasion, Shield took out the
38:40
Speaker 1: Tatari vessel with a nitro mean device. I mean, come on,
38:44
Speaker 1: Laura and Hawkeye were good, but the last time the
38:46
Speaker 1: Chittari invaded, it took a superhuman strength, a hulk, and
38:49
Speaker 1: a god to help defeat them. Apparently, Shield had been
38:52
Speaker 1: tracking this Chitari sell for a while and when they
38:55
Speaker 1: saw Laura going to the island, they knew she would
38:57
Speaker 1: be the perfect Patsy to be their beacon. Now, with
38:59
Speaker 1: all the Chittari destroyed, Shield no longer needed to let
39:02
Speaker 1: Laura run free, so they arrested her and allowed Clint
39:05
Speaker 1: to go back to the retirement and they all lived
39:07
Speaker 1: happily ever after, except for the tomb Raider. The end,
39:12
Speaker 1: I like how the threat in your Hawkeye and Laura
39:18
Speaker 1: Croft mashup is Galactus, the Devourer of worlds, a a
39:26
Speaker 1: an entity so enormous that he literally devours worlds. And
39:32
Speaker 1: you put him up against the dude who shoots arrows
39:35
Speaker 1: and the grave robber with a couple of guns. And
39:39
Speaker 1: that's why Shield had to use their nature nitromene device.
39:41
Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce it, but I know
39:43
Speaker 1: it's a like a bomb type devices. The bomb. Also
39:51
Speaker 1: har Clyser is for real a leader of the Citari
39:54
Speaker 1: who is a shape shifter in World War two. Uh
39:57
Speaker 1: so fun little who was trying to destroy the world. Yeah,
40:04
Speaker 1: maybe not with Galactus, but they were trying to destroy
40:06
Speaker 1: the Solar system. Okay, well that's the steaks and yours
40:10
Speaker 1: were slightly higher than the stakes in mine. But before
40:14
Speaker 1: we get to that, let's take another break so I
40:17
Speaker 1: can steal myself for this. Okay, Ariel, Now it's time
40:31
Speaker 1: for my mashup of Hawkeye and tune Rad. I'm gonna
40:35
Speaker 1: call this one put a bow on it, so that's
40:40
Speaker 1: that's the name of it. Not like it doesn't fit
40:42
Speaker 1: in any capacity for the rest of this. Yeah, I
40:47
Speaker 1: just had to come up with a penny title. All
40:49
Speaker 1: right sore we go. Clint Barton has a problem. He's
40:53
Speaker 1: on assignment for Shield because like this happens way before
40:56
Speaker 1: all the Avengers stuff, and he's hunting down a few
41:00
Speaker 1: Jittive wanted for theft. The suspect is thought to be
41:03
Speaker 1: responsible for stealing an ancient piece of artwork with great
41:07
Speaker 1: significance to Peruvian culture, with no apparent regard for that
41:10
Speaker 1: pieces significance in that culture. Also no surprise here, she's English.
41:16
Speaker 1: Her name Laura Croft. The artifact is a special golden
41:20
Speaker 1: disc that was buried within an Incan pyramid in Peru,
41:24
Speaker 1: and it has Shield concerned. The disc, Barton learns, is
41:28
Speaker 1: one of three artifacts that collectively are said to have
41:32
Speaker 1: mystical power, and this craft person just got hold of
41:36
Speaker 1: one of them. So Clint is on her trail on
41:39
Speaker 1: his way to get to the great Stone city of
41:42
Speaker 1: Machu Picchu. We see Hawkeye hiking the Incan trail up
41:47
Speaker 1: to the city. He's a little short of breath, both
41:50
Speaker 1: from the exertion of hiking and also the higher elevation.
41:53
Speaker 1: And he gets to the outskirts of the city and
41:56
Speaker 1: he pulls up a three D projection map on a
41:58
Speaker 1: tablet thing you know, something that isn't actually possible for
42:01
Speaker 1: us to do in the real world, but in the
42:03
Speaker 1: m c U it's like as common as an iPhone
42:05
Speaker 1: is here anyway, He turns and twists the three D
42:08
Speaker 1: map until he sees something a narrow cave like entrance
42:12
Speaker 1: towards the side of the city, and he heads there.
42:16
Speaker 1: Just as he gets there, we see some hands scrambling
42:19
Speaker 1: from inside the cave trying to get out, gaining purchase
42:23
Speaker 1: on the ground and scrabbling out of the cave is
42:25
Speaker 1: a young woman, brown hair, tank top shorts that are
42:29
Speaker 1: probably way too short for what she's doing. She's got
42:31
Speaker 1: a pair of handguns and shoulder holsters, and she's got
42:34
Speaker 1: a pack that is clearly filled with something. And she
42:38
Speaker 1: hasn't seen Clint, so she continues to kind of crawl
42:40
Speaker 1: out of this cave, and we see her hand make
42:42
Speaker 1: contact with Clint's boot, and that's when she looks up
42:46
Speaker 1: right at the end of a very sharp, fully drawn arrow. Hello, there,
42:52
Speaker 1: says Clint. Laura Croft's eyes narrow, and she grabs hold
42:57
Speaker 1: of Clint's boot and pulls hard, putting him off balance,
43:00
Speaker 1: and she scrambles out and she goes for her guns,
43:02
Speaker 1: drawing them, but Clint has the draw on her again.
43:06
Speaker 1: Might not want to shoot, says Clint. Don't think i'd
43:09
Speaker 1: hold onto this arrow if you did. Who are you,
43:12
Speaker 1: asked Laura. I'm the guy who is supposed to take
43:15
Speaker 1: you in. You have a lot of folks wanting to
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Speaker 1: chat with you about your archaeological exploits, says Clint, and
43:23
Speaker 1: Laura snorts. And don't doubt it. Listen, I want to
43:27
Speaker 1: make a deal. I'm not really the deal making type,
43:30
Speaker 1: says Clint. Well, that may be so, but do you
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Speaker 1: know what I have, asked Laura, I'm glad to understand.
43:36
Speaker 1: What you have is a bowl made of gold, a
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Speaker 1: matching piece to a disc that you've previously lifted from
43:42
Speaker 1: another location, says Clint. It's the second piece of a set,
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Speaker 1: a set dedicated to Patcha Mac says Laura. Never met him,
43:52
Speaker 1: says Clint. He was the inca god of earthquakes and creation,
43:55
Speaker 1: A very demanding and often cruel god, says Laura. But
43:58
Speaker 1: more importantly, the set of artifacts dedicated to him is
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Speaker 1: said to have incredible power, and you want that power
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Speaker 1: for yourself, says Clint. No, says Laura. I want it
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Speaker 1: to get I want to get it before Hydra does,
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Speaker 1: and that gives Clint pause. Hydra as in the Nazi
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Speaker 1: cult from World War Two. They're still active, says Laura,
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Speaker 1: and thereafter this set of artifacts, it appears they believe
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Speaker 1: it will power some sort of massive weapon, even if
44:28
Speaker 1: it doesn't. The theft of these artifacts is a crime
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Speaker 1: and of itself. Now, I assure you the irony is
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Speaker 1: not lost upon me. But my intent is to keep
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Speaker 1: these away from Hydra until I can return them safely.
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Speaker 1: Do you have proof that there is this plan? Asks Clint,
44:46
Speaker 1: and Laura nods and gestures to her bag, and she
44:48
Speaker 1: holsters her guns and Clint gives a very slow nod.
44:52
Speaker 1: So she pulls out a folded piece of paper, unfolds it,
44:55
Speaker 1: takes a step forward, and Clint says, stay where you are.
44:57
Speaker 1: Just show it to me. I got good eye. So
45:01
Speaker 1: she holds the paper up and Clint scans the letter
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Speaker 1: and apparently as a set of orders from a Hydra
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Speaker 1: leader to a field operative, so he lowers his bows slowly. Well,
45:11
Speaker 1: if you're making the story up, you put in a
45:13
Speaker 1: lot of prep work. Let me call this in okay,
45:17
Speaker 1: but could you at least tell me who you are, asked, Laura,
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Speaker 1: you can call me Clint. Clint Barton, he says. Then
45:23
Speaker 1: we cut two later in the film, because you know,
45:25
Speaker 1: a lot of boring stuff happens in these movies, we
45:28
Speaker 1: can just skip to the good parts. So then we
45:30
Speaker 1: get to a point where Clint and Laura are making
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Speaker 1: their way through a thick jungle as quietly as they can,
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Speaker 1: and we can hear the sounds of a party in
45:37
Speaker 1: pursuit in the background, so clearly someone's after them. And
45:41
Speaker 1: Clint and Laura mostly communicate largely through hand signals as
45:44
Speaker 1: they move through the landscape. They are in sync, they
45:47
Speaker 1: are working well together. They clearly both know what they're doing.
45:51
Speaker 1: And they're closing in on a lake, and in the
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Speaker 1: center of the lake is a small island with an
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Speaker 1: unassuming stack of stone blocks on it the remains of
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Speaker 1: some ruins, and it's apparently what they're aiming for. Without
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Speaker 1: a sound, the two look at the water and they
46:07
Speaker 1: see that there are red bellied piranha in it, even
46:10
Speaker 1: though okay, I know that barn our river fish, they're
46:13
Speaker 1: not lake fish. But you know, we have to have
46:14
Speaker 1: threats in this movie. And the two stopped themselves from
46:18
Speaker 1: plunging into the lake and they start looking around for
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Speaker 1: a solution when the hydro soldiers who were in pursuit
46:24
Speaker 1: catch up to them, and then we get a big
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Speaker 1: old shootout fight in which Clint hides up in a
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Speaker 1: tree and uses bow to pick off soldiers while Laura
46:30
Speaker 1: uses some wicked gun handling skills along with some hand
46:33
Speaker 1: to hand combat to dispatch foes, and of course one
46:36
Speaker 1: of them ends up falling in the lake, which goes
46:37
Speaker 1: all foamy and that person's eaten. Okay, so we flash
46:41
Speaker 1: forward again because now they're on the island because I
46:43
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they made a canoe or something. Anyway,
46:46
Speaker 1: we get to them finding a secret entrance uh in
46:49
Speaker 1: the rubble to a tomb. And the tomb was once waterproof,
46:52
Speaker 1: many many hundreds of years ago. It was made with
46:55
Speaker 1: incredible precision, but over the centuries the structure has become
46:58
Speaker 1: less secure. Now it's flooded. So we get Laura and
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Speaker 1: Clint having to swim in darkness to find a golden rod,
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Speaker 1: which is the third of the three artifacts. Now, when
47:06
Speaker 1: they come out, they see that they are surrounded by
47:09
Speaker 1: boats that are filled with hydro soldiers. They're at least
47:12
Speaker 1: forty of them, and so the two of them are
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Speaker 1: taking captive and we flash forward and Clinton Laura are
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Speaker 1: tied up inside a tent and the Hydra officer in
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Speaker 1: charge of the field operation is gloating and he's taking
47:24
Speaker 1: the disc and the bowl and the rod with him
47:27
Speaker 1: and leaving the heroes behind. But Clinton Laura use their
47:30
Speaker 1: training to work their way free of their bonds, and
47:32
Speaker 1: then they quietly and with ruthless efficiency, dispatched the guards
47:36
Speaker 1: that are assigned to guard the tent. They retrieve their weapons,
47:40
Speaker 1: they disguised themselves as Hydra soldiers, and they tracked down
47:43
Speaker 1: the officer who is putting the three artifacts into a
47:45
Speaker 1: giant device, and then we get an even bigger shootout
47:48
Speaker 1: fight and Clint uses some of his specialty arrows that
47:51
Speaker 1: he's retrieved, and then he tosses his boat to Laura.
47:54
Speaker 1: She proves that she's really good with a bow herself.
47:56
Speaker 1: It's really exciting, it's really cool. There's probably way too
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Speaker 1: much c g I because this is a Marvel project.
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Speaker 1: But then the officer manages to throw the switch on
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Speaker 1: the machine anyway, and at first nothing happens, but then
48:09
Speaker 1: things start to shake, but it's not an earthquake. The
48:12
Speaker 1: machine malfunctions and the officer is then killed in a
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Speaker 1: small explosion, and Clint looks to Laura and she says, well,
48:18
Speaker 1: I switched the disk in the bowl for fakes, so
48:21
Speaker 1: two of those three artifacts weren't real, and Clint gives
48:24
Speaker 1: a grin, and then they fight their way out of
48:25
Speaker 1: the situation, and afterward, on parting, Laura is thinking Clint
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Speaker 1: for his help and asks him to help her return
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Speaker 1: the artifacts, whereupon she will then surrender herself to custody
48:36
Speaker 1: and Clint says, you're half right, and he does help
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Speaker 1: her return the artifacts, but then he refuses to take
48:42
Speaker 1: her in. And you really are something, says Laura. You know,
48:46
Speaker 1: the Peruvians held the Condor in high esteem, believing it
48:50
Speaker 1: to be a connection between Earth and Heaven. It's a
48:53
Speaker 1: good symbol. The Condor might be a bit grandiose for me,
48:58
Speaker 1: says Clint. I don't think I quite measure up to
49:00
Speaker 1: Condor status. I'm more of a hawk guy. That's it,
49:04
Speaker 1: says Laura. That's what I'm calling you from that on
49:07
Speaker 1: so long hot guy, and that's how Hawkeye got his name.
49:10
Speaker 1: We're all just saying it wrong. The end I love
49:15
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49:19
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49:29
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49:31
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49:36
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49:39
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49:43
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