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The Shaw Report - Hundreds Of Disappointed Comic-Con Fans Dressed Blue and Red Lycra · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Poor Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 2: After all that Macklemore drama, which saw all his opening
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  Speaker 2: acts quit his tour when Macklemore was let go over
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  Speaker 2: his Free Palestine comments, Ed has secured some new opening acts.
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  Speaker 2: One of them's an American Idol contestant from the latest season.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this could be the big break. Brooks Rosser.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure he's probably perfectly capable, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: exactly setting the concert poster alight, is it?
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  Speaker 1: But see, then you turn it around and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you acts a big break. Yeah. The other
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  Speaker 1: opener is a bit more promising.
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  Speaker 2: Isaac Slade, former lead singer of The Fray, who's been
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  Speaker 2: out of The Fray for a while. Channing Tatum's all-new
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  Speaker 2: international touring production of Magic Mike Live is going to
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  Speaker 2: have its Australian premiere next February right here in Perth
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  Speaker 2: at the Crown Theatre. Created and co-directed by Channing Tatum,
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  Speaker 2: Magic Mike Live features an extraordinary cast of professional dancers
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  Speaker 2: and performers from.
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  Speaker 1: Around the world.
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  Speaker 2: Tickets for The Run at Crown Gone sale 9.30 this
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday at Ticketmaster.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure what the plot of the show is.
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  Speaker 2: Safe to say no dad bods will be on stage?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I don't know. How are we
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  Speaker 1: doing it these days, Arch? You tell me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know because we're very inclusive, you know.
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  Speaker 2: HBO has greenlit a new small screen series version of
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  Speaker 2: Crazy Rich Asians. Based on the book written by Kevin Kwan,
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  Speaker 2: the series will pick up after the events of the
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  Speaker 2: blockbuster film. Adele Lim, who co-wrote the film, will executive
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  Speaker 2: produce the series alongside Kwan and the film's director, John M.
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  Speaker 1: Chu. And original cast.
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  Speaker 2: Members, including Constance Wu and Ronnie Chang, are back on board.
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  Speaker 2: Even Michelle Yeoh is going to make an appearance in
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  Speaker 2: a recurring role. And another new week, another new record attempt.
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  Speaker 2: This time, a sea of Spider-Men and Spider-Women and probably
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  Speaker 2: some Spider-Them, just keeping it all inclusive.
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  Speaker 1: Spider-They. Spider-They.
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  Speaker 2: Hundreds of Marvel fans donned Spider-Man costumes at New York
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  Speaker 2: Comic Con on the weekend in an attempt to break
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  Speaker 2: the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people
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  Speaker 2: dressed as Spider-Man.
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  Speaker 1: Sadly, I must report they fell short.
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  Speaker 2: Organisers have yet to release an official count, but confirmed
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  Speaker 2: the final tally was just short of the current record
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  Speaker 2: of 685 spider persons. That record was set in Malaysia
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  Speaker 2: in 2023. Now, there is nothing as sad as hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of disappointed Comic-Con fans squeezed head to toe into blue
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  Speaker 2: and red lycra.
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  Speaker 1: But they'll be back bigger and better. Who has to
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  Speaker 1: clean up all the spider web afterwards?
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  Speaker 2: What a hell of a job that'd be.