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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider podcast is a production of iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to The Large Nerdron Collider, the podcast
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Speaker 1: that's all about the geeky stuff happening in the world
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Speaker 1: around us and how very excited we are about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting and with me, as always is the
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Speaker 1: phenomenal Jonathan Strickland. I had nothing thematic for you this week.
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Speaker 1: It's okay, It's okay, Ariel. All I was gonna say
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Speaker 1: is I'm a hungry, hungry hippo. Oh then, and with
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Speaker 1: me as always as hungry hungry hippo noobnom Jonathan Strickland. Hey, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: I got a question for you. So here's your question,
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Speaker 1: and it is thematic with my nickname for this week,
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Speaker 1: which is what is a because you? For those who
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Speaker 1: do not know, Ariel enjoys baking and has been known
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Speaker 1: to bake, uh, you know, stuff that overlaps with the
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Speaker 1: geek sphere. So can you tell us about something you've
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Speaker 1: either created or you've eaten that falls into the realm
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Speaker 1: of geek dumb doesn't have to be your favorite, just
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Speaker 1: you know a fun example. Well I did one recently
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Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving, but I don't remember the name of the actor.
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Speaker 1: I had to make in two and a half hours
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Speaker 1: a bunch of a bunch of maybe his Paul Gimdi
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Speaker 1: face cookies. I I think I didn't win the contest.
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Speaker 1: There were something that that were way better than mine,
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Speaker 1: but it was a fun exercise, I think for me.
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Speaker 1: There are there are two. One. I made a cookie
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Speaker 1: cake with the face of Wilford Brimley on it. If
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Speaker 1: you don't know who he is, uh, he's he's a
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Speaker 1: deep deep cut's Unfortunately, did he cause diabetes? Well it
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Speaker 1: was for my friend's cookie con birthday, so probably. But
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Speaker 1: someone said you can't make a cake with the face
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Speaker 1: of Wilford Brimley, and I said, watch me. So I
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Speaker 1: mixed up a bunch of frosting colors and it turned
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Speaker 1: out pretty great. I did not make the cookie cake, though,
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Speaker 1: I just decorated it. Uh. The other thing I did
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Speaker 1: was so I used to LARP, a game where I
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Speaker 1: played basically like a Barbarian, like a Scandinavian barbarian sort
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Speaker 1: of a character. And I teamed up with some vikings
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Speaker 1: essentially fantasy versions of both and not Barbarians already fantasy,
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Speaker 1: and I made a mint chocolate cake with out of
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Speaker 1: like one of those think geek cake molds that shaped
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Speaker 1: like a dragon, and I frosted it so it had
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Speaker 1: like all these different color eggs and different colors on
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Speaker 1: the wings and scales and played with like the cake texture.
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Speaker 1: And I'm because the vikings, like God in that game
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Speaker 1: was like a frost an ice dragon. So I made
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Speaker 1: that thematic cake for a in game party that was held,
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Speaker 1: and I was really really proud of it. I have
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Speaker 1: it on like my Facebook. Maybe I'll share it on
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Speaker 1: Insta if people are interested in seeing those. What about you, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: have you ever baked or cooked anything geeky? I'm you know,
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Speaker 1: so I'm I'm more of a cook than a baker.
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Speaker 1: Baking is a science, and I'd say cooking is an art,
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Speaker 1: and which is just a way of saying with cooking,
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Speaker 1: you've got a lot more wiggle room to mess around
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Speaker 1: with measurements and stuff before things go really south. And
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Speaker 1: with baking, if you do that, things go south fast.
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Speaker 1: So I but for me, like it was more about
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Speaker 1: things I've encountered, and I encountered geeky stuff early. My
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Speaker 1: parents are both science fiction and fantasy authors. They're both
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Speaker 1: geeks themselves, and when when my sister and I were
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Speaker 1: little kids, my mom would pull out all the stops
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Speaker 1: to make crazy birthday cakes, like crazy homemade, home decorated
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Speaker 1: birthday cakes. And you gotta keep in mind, both my
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Speaker 1: sister and myself, we are summer babies, Like we had
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Speaker 1: birthdays in the summer when it was hard to get
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Speaker 1: people to come to your birthday because you know, I
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Speaker 1: was outside the school year, so you never really saw anyone.
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Speaker 1: And I'm a December birthday so same. Yes, yeah, so
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Speaker 1: Ariel Ariel gets lumped in with the holidays and I
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Speaker 1: get forgotten, which is fine water under the bridge. But
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Speaker 1: mom made once made for me a Kermit the Frog
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Speaker 1: birthday cake, an amazing Kermit the Frog birthday cake that
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Speaker 1: is nice, so envious I've never had it. Sorry. I'm
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Speaker 1: also trying to take a screenshot so people can see
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Speaker 1: how goofy we look, but it's not worth so the
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Speaker 1: the the cool thing is that my mom would do
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Speaker 1: stuff like she'd make these crazy cakes, and she was
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Speaker 1: also big into creating costumes for my sister and myself.
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Speaker 1: So I grew up just totally immersed in in geekdom
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Speaker 1: from at a very early age, and yeah, I would
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Speaker 1: have loved I'm gonna have to look at a picture
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Speaker 1: of that dragon cake. You'll have to send it to me.
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Speaker 1: Since I'm not on Facebook anymore, I'm gonna put it
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Speaker 1: on Oh you're not on Instagram anymore. Not anymore? No, Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: you know I need to put more use to that
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Speaker 1: cake pan. So maybe when we finally play your your
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Speaker 1: D and D game, I will bring a dragon cake. Yes,
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Speaker 1: before we started recording, I was telling Ariel that I
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Speaker 1: had been working on the D and D the background
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Speaker 1: for the D and D campaign I'm going to be running, hopefully,
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Speaker 1: you know, within a few months, assuming that we get
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Speaker 1: to a stage where people are comfortable hanging out together again.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to do it over zoom if I
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Speaker 1: don't have to. Now, i've played some tabletops over zoom.
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Speaker 1: It's it's not bad, but it's not as good as
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Speaker 1: in person. And you know, I kind of did make
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Speaker 1: that your unwilling New Year's resolution for you, So you're welcome. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I like it. So we wanted to start off with
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Speaker 1: a shout out to a listener who sent in some
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Speaker 1: fun trivia that relates to the last episode we did yeah,
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Speaker 1: So if you listen to the last episode, you know
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Speaker 1: that we did Golden Girls as half of our mashup
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Speaker 1: to kind of honor I guess to acknowledge the passing
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Speaker 1: of Betty White, and one of our listeners, Andy Reid,
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Speaker 1: reached out to us and told us that there was
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Speaker 1: a little bit more meaning to the Saint Olaf trope
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Speaker 1: in the show where Rose is from. Then maybe the
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Speaker 1: general lay person would know, which is that a lot
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Speaker 1: of the writers of the show were from a college
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota Carlton Carlton, I'm not entirely sure c A
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Speaker 1: R L E. T O N. And that their rival,
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Speaker 1: our listeners alma mater is Saint Olaf, and so they
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Speaker 1: wrote in jokes about Saint Olaf being kind of silly
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Speaker 1: as as sort of like a little inside dig which
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Speaker 1: just makes it so much more fun, you know. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it makes me think, like I mean, I don't I
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Speaker 1: went to a college that had a rival school. I
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Speaker 1: went to University of Georgia. Their big rival is Georgia Tech.
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Speaker 1: And I know for a fact that Georgia Tech had
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Speaker 1: tons and tons of jokes that essentially said UGA students
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Speaker 1: are total idiots. I'm living proof so there you go,
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Speaker 1: are not a total idiot. Also, I will say, like
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Speaker 1: the Saint olof Fight song is pretty banging. So so
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Speaker 1: thanks Andy for listening and for writing in We love Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we really appreciate it. Yeah. So our next story is
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Speaker 1: that Disney has made the decision that Turning Red, the
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Speaker 1: next Pixar film, is not going to go to theaters.
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Speaker 1: It's it was scheduled to come out in theaters on
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Speaker 1: March eleventh, it will not be going to theaters and
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Speaker 1: will instead go straight to Disney Plus. And I think
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Speaker 1: that's an interesting choice because obviously they could do what
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Speaker 1: a lot of studios have done, which is hold off
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Speaker 1: and just push back the the theatrical debut and just
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Speaker 1: hold onto the film. But they decide not to do that,
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Speaker 1: or they could even do what they've done in the past,
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Speaker 1: like what they did with Black Widow, where they release
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Speaker 1: it simultaneously in theaters and on streaming. Didn't do that
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Speaker 1: with Incanto as well. Yes, uh no, Incanto Incanto. I
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Speaker 1: think they they held back and they launched it like
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Speaker 1: a month after it had already been in theaters. But
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Speaker 1: I say yes because I just watched Incanto and it's
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Speaker 1: all that I can think of because lin Manuel Miranda
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Speaker 1: writes songs that get genetically branded into my brain. But yeah, anyway,
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Speaker 1: The Turning Red, which is a movie about a young
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Speaker 1: young woman who are a girl really who when she
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Speaker 1: gets stressed out, turns into a giant red panda, And
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Speaker 1: that's all we really know about it because there was
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Speaker 1: a teaser that essentially that's what we saw, where her
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Speaker 1: mom stresses her out when she's at school and she
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Speaker 1: she goes through her transformation. Looks cute, but yeah, interesting choice.
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Speaker 1: Like I feel that not pushing people the theaters is
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Speaker 1: probably the most responsible thing to do. However, I also
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Speaker 1: completely understand the business side of things where if you
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Speaker 1: choose to go straight to the streaming model, it means
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Speaker 1: you are willingly sacrificing a large amount of revenue that
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Speaker 1: otherwise would have come to that film. I agree, it
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Speaker 1: is definitely a mixed bag. I hope. I am certain
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Speaker 1: after the whole upheaval in profit distribution that happened after
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Speaker 1: Black Widow, that Disney is keeping that in mind as
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Speaker 1: they release this to home video. Again, I think it's
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Speaker 1: socially responsible right now, but you know, I'm sure they're
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Speaker 1: going to keep that in mind when they look at
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Speaker 1: the success of this movie and the money that it
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Speaker 1: makes and how it's distributed to actors, because you can't.
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Speaker 1: You just it's not it's not apples to apples, you know, right,
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Speaker 1: And you know I have frequently said on this show
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Speaker 1: and elsewhere that I am of the opinion that's irresponsible
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Speaker 1: to go to a theater, at least for me. I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to project that onto anyone else, but that
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Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable doing that yet. However, at the
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Speaker 1: same time, I want to acknowledge that I do feel
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Speaker 1: that I'm missing out on a big part of the
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Speaker 1: experience of seeing some of these movies, like Incanto is
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Speaker 1: a great example. I watched Incanto at home, loved it,
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Speaker 1: or at least enjoyed it. We'll talk about that more
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Speaker 1: later possibly, but but I have a feeling that a
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Speaker 1: lot of that would have made a much more impact
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Speaker 1: on a big screen with like you know, ultra high
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Speaker 1: resolution projector and all that kind of stuff where the
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Speaker 1: colors really pop. Because I have a TV that's an
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Speaker 1: older TV. It's not like a four K or anything
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Speaker 1: like that. So I definitely feel like I missed out.
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Speaker 1: And there's some movies that I still haven't seen Spider
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Speaker 1: Man cough cough, because I haven't gone to the theaters.
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Speaker 1: And I also missed the crowd experience of where you're
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Speaker 1: in a crowd of people who are really into the
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Speaker 1: movie that's playing, like that's just not happening. I haven't
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Speaker 1: had that for two years now. Would you? So there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of elements that I miss Would you
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Speaker 1: go to a theater that was rented out with a
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Speaker 1: small group of people that you know at this point
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Speaker 1: in time, Probably not, simply because so many people I
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Speaker 1: know have caught I'm a COVID like, and these are
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Speaker 1: careful people. These are people who have been vaccinated and boosted,
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Speaker 1: and it just tells me that it's just tells me
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Speaker 1: that really the safest thing to do is to just
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Speaker 1: keep on staying home for now, to do my part
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Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm not contributing to the spread.
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Speaker 1: And there's no judgment on the folks who've caught it,
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Speaker 1: because again, these are people who are careful and in
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Speaker 1: many cases had no option but to go out like
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Speaker 1: that's what their job was. They had to or else
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Speaker 1: they weren't going to make any money, and you know,
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Speaker 1: everything falls apart, So no judgment there, but yeah, I
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Speaker 1: just particularly right now, as we're getting toward what we
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Speaker 1: hope will be the peak of Omicron and we don't
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Speaker 1: know what comes next, I would rather hold off. Same
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Speaker 1: reason why I won't be playing D and D next
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Speaker 1: weekend or anything. You know. I get that, I get
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Speaker 1: that you could, you could you know if tests are
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Speaker 1: alable to have people test and or isolate if they
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Speaker 1: can before playing, I realized not everybody has that option,
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Speaker 1: like you or I. I look forward to watching Turning Red.
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Speaker 1: Going back to our story, yes, and I also enjoyed Incanto.
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't have a four K TV, but
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Speaker 1: they are you know, they're nice TVs, but there is
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Speaker 1: definitely something lacking. Like, you know, if you go into
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Speaker 1: a theater and there's more music, like you've got that
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Speaker 1: swell of like the Dolby sound system than you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe then you would just like be vibrating lin Manuel
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Speaker 1: Miranda all the time. That that sounds wrong. So I'm
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Speaker 1: going to move on to our next story, Yes, which
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Speaker 1: is we got a trailer for Peacock's bel Air reboot
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Speaker 1: of The Fresh Prince of bel Air. Yeah, and uh,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's got a totally different tone as opposed
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Speaker 1: to the lighthearted sitcom of the Fresh Prince of bel Air.
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Speaker 1: This looks like it's going to be much more dramatic
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Speaker 1: and much more focused on things like figuring out who
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Speaker 1: you are, figuring out your identity within a community. The
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Speaker 1: it looks to me like there's going to be a
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Speaker 1: lot of black identity uh stories that play out things
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Speaker 1: like what is the black identity? And I see a
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Speaker 1: lot of potential for wrestling with that as you see
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Speaker 1: this character who's coming from from urban Philadelphia and moved
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Speaker 1: into this ultra rich household and the conflict that's there,
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Speaker 1: the inherent conflict that's there, and the identity crisis that
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Speaker 1: arises because of that, and all of this sounds like
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Speaker 1: way heavier than what you saw, at least on the
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Speaker 1: surface level of Fresh Prince of bel Air. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: about two years ago, we actually got a fan trailer
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Speaker 1: of a gritty reboot of Fresh Prince of bell Air
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Speaker 1: and it looked really really cool, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I would be in for that. So I'm definitely going
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Speaker 1: to watch this. That being said, having rewatched the original
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Speaker 1: Fresh Prince of bel Air more recently, because every once
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Speaker 1: in a while, I just do it. Just it. You know.
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Speaker 1: It's still dealt with some serious issues. But it was
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Speaker 1: it was a sitcom. It was a nineties nineties sitcom,
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Speaker 1: two sitcom, you know, so it definitely had had that
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Speaker 1: that vibe to it and that humor to it. I
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Speaker 1: hope that this show has some levity. You know, a
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Speaker 1: lot of the characters seem more from the brief, brief
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Speaker 1: introduction we get in them of them in the trailers
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Speaker 1: seem more like polished and serious. But you know, Jabari
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Speaker 1: Banks plays Will. He is from Philadelphia, which is cool,
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Speaker 1: and he seems to still have that you know, Will
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Speaker 1: vibe from the original show, like that I am who
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Speaker 1: I am sort of identity. So I'm excited about giving
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Speaker 1: it a chance. Yeah. I actually felt the trailer was
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Speaker 1: really intriguing. I actually I did what you're never supposed
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Speaker 1: to do. I read the comments under the trailer. I
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Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people, Yeah I know, but
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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people were unreasonably harsh
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Speaker 1: on it. And I actually think it looks intriguing and
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean, and it's interesting too because we're
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Speaker 1: getting these stories right, We're getting like the Wonder years reboot,
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Speaker 1: which is so good, and it's like we're getting these
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Speaker 1: stories where and you know before that we had like
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Glovers Atlanta, where we're getting these stories that wouldn't
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Speaker 1: really get a chance to be told just five to
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Speaker 1: ten years ago. Yeah, and you know, Ariel, originally we
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Speaker 1: had one more story in this segment. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: push it to the next segment right now because we're
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Speaker 1: running a little long and we're going to take a
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Speaker 1: quick break. All right, we're back. And when Jonathan said
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Speaker 1: he was pushing the next story to the next segment,
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Speaker 1: I closed my tab on it, but it is reopen.
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Speaker 1: So this is a timely announcement, both because of when
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Speaker 1: this show publishes versus when we record it, and also
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Speaker 1: because the timeframe for what we're about to tell you
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Speaker 1: is super super short. But last year, Marvel Comics let
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Speaker 1: readers vote on which character they would like to become
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Speaker 1: a member of the official X Men team, and they're
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Speaker 1: doing it again this year. And so from January tenth,
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Speaker 1: which is a day before we recorded this episode on
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Speaker 1: today January eleventh, until if you're listening to this the
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Speaker 1: day the episode comes out, till eleven fifty nine tonight
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Speaker 1: you can go and vote on which X man you
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Speaker 1: want to join their crew. You can go to marvel
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Speaker 1: dot com slash x Men vote to see the participants.
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Speaker 1: Is that the right way? The candidates? The candidates, and
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Speaker 1: a little bit about them, and then you can vote. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a little bit about them. I found not too helpful
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Speaker 1: in a few cases where I'm like, I don't even
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Speaker 1: know what this character's power is. Most of their powers
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Speaker 1: appear to be identical, which is, they're very strong and
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Speaker 1: they're hard to kill, and I'm like, well, I see
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Speaker 1: where that's handy, but they know a lot of them
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Speaker 1: seem to have a lot of overlap with their powers. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: and like one of my favorites, and it's just because
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Speaker 1: of the art style is Bling art style, and because
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Speaker 1: Bling has an exclamation point at the end of the name,
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Speaker 1: so the name is officially Bling exclamation Point. Which she
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Speaker 1: possesses a diamond hard body, which is kind of like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the White Queen. So it's not even super
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Speaker 1: super original, Yeah, Emma Frost, Yeah, that character. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of the a lot of the
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Speaker 1: mutants tend to have like overlap powers anyway, But out
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Speaker 1: of all the character designs. I thought the first one,
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Speaker 1: I forget her name, I thought she was Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: thought she was the most interesting in my opinion. But
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Speaker 1: then I'm also not fully invested in the X Men world.
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Speaker 1: So that's uh, you know, it's I'm leaving it for
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Speaker 1: other people to vote because I feel like, I just
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Speaker 1: I feel like I don't have enough knowledge about the
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Speaker 1: candidates to make an informed decision. I mean, it's not
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Speaker 1: a super I mean I would I would not say
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Speaker 1: it's a super important decision, so you could vote on
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Speaker 1: whatever metric appeals to you. I do really like real
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Speaker 1: this is this is gonna this is going to determine
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Speaker 1: the next year in the life of one of these
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Speaker 1: fictional characters. I mean, but I really like that choose
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Speaker 1: your own adventure style of character development, Like who we
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Speaker 1: have too many characters? Who are we going to focus on?
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Speaker 1: I really like that. I look forward to it. I
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Speaker 1: know what's really curious about who's going to vote for? What?
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Speaker 1: You know what? This reminds me of, though, right what
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Speaker 1: a long time ago, DC did this thing where they
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Speaker 1: let readers of Batman vote whether or not the Joker
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Speaker 1: would kill Robin. Famously, this is the Jason Todd version
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Speaker 1: of Robin and of course famously the readers voted for
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Speaker 1: Jason Todd to die, and so he was beaten to
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Speaker 1: death with a crowbar, which of course eventually got Rhett
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Speaker 1: cond because everything in comics does eventually. But for a
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Speaker 1: long time, that was like one of those benchmark moments
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Speaker 1: in comic books, and that happened many, many, many moons ago. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but this isn't. This isn't letting people choose between good
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Speaker 1: or evil. As far as I understand, all of these
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Speaker 1: characters are pretty at least chaotic neutral, if not good.
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Speaker 1: At least one of them was a former member of
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Speaker 1: the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. So well, but former Avalanche
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Speaker 1: Avalanche for well, no, it says long long standing. But
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Speaker 1: he killed the Red Oh he was killed, killed by
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Speaker 1: the Red Skull. See I told you nothing's permanent in comics.
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Speaker 1: So it doesn't really matter. Like they could have this
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Speaker 1: character voted into the X Men the next issue. They
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Speaker 1: could be killed often then they put in whoever they
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Speaker 1: really wanted. Not that I'm saying that your vote doesn't count.
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Speaker 1: Your vote totally counts. And you know what, Deadpool is
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Speaker 1: kind of a villain sometimes too, so he's an anti hero.
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Speaker 1: I would say Avalanche is probably an antihero. Okay, maybe, Well,
21:54
Speaker 1: someone who defending upon your point of view, I would argue,
21:57
Speaker 1: could also be an anti hero. Is Scott pill Oh yeah,
22:00
Speaker 1: definitely he's not. He's not the best person. He's dough.
22:04
Speaker 1: He is a bad person and he gets called out
22:07
Speaker 1: on it. But yeah, it's Scott Pilgrim, obviously. It's so.
22:11
Speaker 1: That was a graphic novel series more than a decade
22:15
Speaker 1: ago now that got very popular, popular enough so that
22:19
Speaker 1: Edgar Wright made a movie adaptation many years ago. I
22:23
Speaker 1: actually have a movie poster of it in my office.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's it's facing me right now. It's signed by Edgar Wright.
22:30
Speaker 1: You and I and our loved ones went to the
22:32
Speaker 1: premiere for that in The Q and A. Yeah, which
22:36
Speaker 1: was fun. It was so fun, was a lot of fun.
22:38
Speaker 1: That's where you learned that Jason Schwartzman, who played the
22:40
Speaker 1: villain War Ladies underwear as a part of his character development,
22:44
Speaker 1: he kept a se well, he tried. He revealed that.
22:48
Speaker 1: He revealed that in the Q and A. Or that
22:50
Speaker 1: was revealed in the Q and A. I should say, yeah, anyway,
22:55
Speaker 1: Netflix is now going to be bringing an anime series
22:59
Speaker 1: of Scott Pilgrim to the streaming service, which we'll be
23:03
Speaker 1: able to tell the story in a more complete way
23:06
Speaker 1: because obviously the movie, to our film, you're convincing a
23:10
Speaker 1: ton of stuff to get it all into a movie
23:12
Speaker 1: form factor. So I'm imagining that the anime series is
23:17
Speaker 1: going to let things play out a lot more than
23:19
Speaker 1: what we saw in the film, I would have to think.
23:22
Speaker 1: So I'm very curious about whether they're keeping the graphic
23:25
Speaker 1: novel style, which is kind of very cheepy ish. Yeah,
23:32
Speaker 1: because the artist Brian Lee O'Malley, the artist creator of
23:36
Speaker 1: Scott Pilgrim, is executive producing and writing it, and then
23:40
Speaker 1: the showrunner is Ben David Gribinsky who did the revival
23:44
Speaker 1: of Are You Fraid of the Dark. And then also
23:49
Speaker 1: the group behind the Umbrella Academy is working on it,
23:51
Speaker 1: which I think is perfect, Like Umbrella Academy is exactly
23:54
Speaker 1: the right kind of aesthetic and storytelling for Scott Pilgrim.
23:57
Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, so we'll be interesting to see,
24:02
Speaker 1: uh you know that play out. I definitely want to
24:04
Speaker 1: see it. Like I liked the movie, I only ever
24:07
Speaker 1: read some of the graphic novels. I actually I think
24:10
Speaker 1: I own one of them. But obviously it's not something
24:14
Speaker 1: that I got super invested in, not like Bone, so
24:17
Speaker 1: I didn't collect all the issues or anything. But yeah,
24:20
Speaker 1: I'm eager to see how that plays out. It's I
24:25
Speaker 1: still really like the movie, but I also feel like
24:28
Speaker 1: the movie can exist as its own thing. Oh right.
24:32
Speaker 1: I was not familiar with the comics until after the movie,
24:34
Speaker 1: and I quite enjoyed still enjoy the movie. I watched
24:37
Speaker 1: it over the Thanksgiving holiday with some friends. You know,
24:40
Speaker 1: I hope that Scott Pilgrim and Bone do better than
24:43
Speaker 1: Cowboy Bebop did on Netflix. Although apparently over one hundred
24:46
Speaker 1: thousand people have signed the petition to bring it back,
24:49
Speaker 1: so maybe we'll get it back. I enjoyed what I watched.
24:52
Speaker 1: I haven't finished it yet, Yeah, I mean fans have
24:54
Speaker 1: brought back series before. Well, I think it's time that
25:00
Speaker 1: we have a chat about a couple of movies that
25:03
Speaker 1: I finally watched, one of which was In Conto, which
25:06
Speaker 1: we referenced, which I also finally watched last night. Why
25:11
Speaker 1: do you think I really liked it? It? It kind
25:16
Speaker 1: of felt like the story was just a vehicle for
25:17
Speaker 1: the songs, but I also kind of liked so in conto,
25:22
Speaker 1: the songs all like change style with each singer. It
25:25
Speaker 1: almost feels like each family member, which makes it very
25:29
Speaker 1: rock opera et and I quite enjoyed that. And going
25:34
Speaker 1: through the movie, I was like, Okay, yeah, it's a
25:36
Speaker 1: it's a Pixar, it's a Pixar movie about family. And
25:40
Speaker 1: then at the end it kind of hit me with
25:41
Speaker 1: like just community upholding each other and and that you
25:48
Speaker 1: don't have to be perfect, and I was like, all
25:50
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm like, man, it's dusty and here,
25:53
Speaker 1: why is this hitting me so hard? This movie was
25:55
Speaker 1: just like okay, until I got to the end, I
25:59
Speaker 1: felt so I'm not going to give too many spoilers here.
26:02
Speaker 1: I felt like the I don't think so okay first
26:05
Speaker 1: of all, but I should met point out is a
26:07
Speaker 1: Disney film, not a Pixar film. But no, it's okay.
26:12
Speaker 1: It's just a technicality, which we all know technically correct
26:15
Speaker 1: is the best kind of correct. No. I The music
26:21
Speaker 1: was all variations on musical styles from Columbia, which I
26:24
Speaker 1: think was great. I think that was fantastic. Yes, there's
26:28
Speaker 1: so much I want to talk about, but first of all,
26:30
Speaker 1: we don't talk about Bruno, So we don't talk about Bruno.
26:34
Speaker 1: No no no, But I know, right, But I felt
26:41
Speaker 1: that the resolution of the movie came so quickly after
26:44
Speaker 1: the like big confrontation that prompts the resolution, that I
26:51
Speaker 1: felt like it was like it was a movie that
26:55
Speaker 1: was ninety five percent lead up and then just five
26:57
Speaker 1: percent payoff. And I would have liked that balanced to
27:00
Speaker 1: be a little closer to maybe eighty five fifteen, maybe
27:05
Speaker 1: because I just felt like I felt like, this is
27:08
Speaker 1: all leading somewhere, It's all leading somewhere. Then you have
27:11
Speaker 1: a big emotional scene immediately followed by resolution, and I
27:16
Speaker 1: just felt that it felt unbalanced. So I feel exactly
27:22
Speaker 1: the opposite way. And maybe it's because I watched too
27:25
Speaker 1: much TikTok about it, Like I had the song stuck
27:28
Speaker 1: in my head two weeks before I watched this Ding
27:30
Speaker 1: Dang movie, and I felt like five minutes into the movie,
27:36
Speaker 1: after the opening song, maybe even during the opening song,
27:39
Speaker 1: but definitely after the opening song, like I felt like,
27:43
Speaker 1: within like the first five ten minutes of the movie,
27:45
Speaker 1: we had the confrontation and the problem, and the entire
27:50
Speaker 1: rest of the movie resolution felt it felt very like
27:53
Speaker 1: chase scene to me like, see, whereas I felt like,
27:57
Speaker 1: so we can talk about this part because it's referenced
28:00
Speaker 1: in the previews for the movie, which is that I'm
28:04
Speaker 1: assuming you're saying that the problem is the fact that Mirabelle,
28:08
Speaker 1: the main character, does not have a magical gift, whereas
28:11
Speaker 1: the rest of her family does. I mean, that's not
28:14
Speaker 1: I knew that going in, And again maybe maybe it's
28:17
Speaker 1: because I was more familiar with the story and some
28:19
Speaker 1: of the hurdles that the characters face before going in
28:23
Speaker 1: because of everybody's dissection of it on TikTok, which I
28:27
Speaker 1: doom scroll late at night sometimes, but no, like from
28:35
Speaker 1: the moment everything starts going wrong, like the second second
28:39
Speaker 1: song in the movie, like is after I feel like
28:45
Speaker 1: the confrontation happens, like it's it's pretty early on at
28:48
Speaker 1: the family dinner. I feel like is when it happens. See,
28:51
Speaker 1: I feel like, so the confrontation I'm talking about is
28:55
Speaker 1: where our protagonist Mirabelle makes her thoughts clear to the
29:01
Speaker 1: person whom and again not doing spoilers, she makes her
29:06
Speaker 1: thoughts clear to the person whom she views as being
29:10
Speaker 1: the reason things are the way they are, which had
29:13
Speaker 1: not happened up to that point, right, like, well, it
29:16
Speaker 1: was more of solving a mystery to that, but it did.
29:19
Speaker 1: She confronted her at her youngest siblings essentially, bar mitzvah, No,
29:28
Speaker 1: she didn't confe I feel like they had confrontations at
29:32
Speaker 1: both of those times. I disagree. I felt like it
29:35
Speaker 1: wasn't a confrontation so much as Mirabelle was trying to
29:38
Speaker 1: be heard and she was getting shut down because she
29:41
Speaker 1: was being too passive for it to be a real
29:43
Speaker 1: confrontation anyway. I overall I enjoyed the movie. I just
29:51
Speaker 1: felt like that it had an unsatisfying resolution to me,
29:57
Speaker 1: simply because the way the moment into the film went.
30:01
Speaker 1: I thought all the music was great. I thought all
30:03
Speaker 1: the songs were great. Quick question to you before we
30:06
Speaker 1: wrap this up, which is who was your favorite character?
30:13
Speaker 1: Probably Bruno. I like Dolores. She's the one who can
30:18
Speaker 1: hear things it's hard. I also like Dolores. I also
30:20
Speaker 1: I like them all. I like them all. I like Camillo,
30:23
Speaker 1: I like them all. It's a yeah, I don't have
30:25
Speaker 1: a favorite, but you know, Bruno is just ridiculous because
30:29
Speaker 1: it's John Legazamo. So you're lucky that we're running along today, Jonathan,
30:34
Speaker 1: because we were going to talk about Matrix and how
30:37
Speaker 1: you actually ended up liking it, and you're going to
30:39
Speaker 1: have to eat just a little bit of like ret
30:41
Speaker 1: con crow to be fair. I want to, I want to,
30:45
Speaker 1: I want to clear. I want to clear my name
30:46
Speaker 1: here or as as my friend she would say, to
30:48
Speaker 1: be fair because she loves a letter, Kenny. The thing
30:54
Speaker 1: I liked about the Matrix Resurrections, which I did finally watch,
30:58
Speaker 1: was not the movie. The movie did not I didn't
31:01
Speaker 1: like the movie like it didn't like the story of
31:04
Speaker 1: the movie. I liked the meta level of dissection and
31:08
Speaker 1: commentary about the original Matrix films. That to me was fascinating,
31:14
Speaker 1: the fact that Matrix Resurrections has two different stories going on.
31:19
Speaker 1: You've got the surface level story of the movie and
31:22
Speaker 1: then you have not even I wouldn't even call it subtext,
31:24
Speaker 1: because they are they overtly talk about it. Yeah, but
31:28
Speaker 1: then you have like the more meta discussion about the
31:31
Speaker 1: original Matrix films, particularly the first one, and their impact
31:37
Speaker 1: on pop culture and filmmaking, Like all those things get
31:41
Speaker 1: played out within the context of the film, but that's
31:44
Speaker 1: a big part of the film. So to say that
31:47
Speaker 1: you like. That is to say that you like at
31:49
Speaker 1: least half the movie. Well, except that if you look
31:52
Speaker 1: at it as you want to tell what the story
31:54
Speaker 1: of Matrix Resurrections is like, you want to actually talk
31:57
Speaker 1: about what the characters do. It's a far simpler story
32:02
Speaker 1: that's boring as heck. It's just a boring story, but
32:08
Speaker 1: a bigger story. I think it works way better than
32:12
Speaker 1: the pseudo philosophical jibber jabber that the previous trilogy lumped in,
32:20
Speaker 1: like where everything was a thinly veiled philosophical discussion that
32:26
Speaker 1: I never thought really worked. I'm glad that's not what
32:30
Speaker 1: this latest movie was. This latest film is more of
32:33
Speaker 1: a weird dissection of what the original films did and
32:41
Speaker 1: how sad the Lanawachowski is for what happened. Like I
32:47
Speaker 1: get the feeling she looks at the film and says, man,
32:50
Speaker 1: I wish that hadn't happened, because I don't like how
32:52
Speaker 1: things have unfolded since then. There's there's like a lot
32:55
Speaker 1: of critique of not just the movies, but how people
33:00
Speaker 1: reacted to them. I thought that was super interesting. There
33:03
Speaker 1: were parts of the movie I really liked. There are
33:05
Speaker 1: some concepts they really had like programs being able to
33:07
Speaker 1: be outside the matrix. Spoiler Sorry people, but I should
33:12
Speaker 1: put that before I say the spoiler double Sorry people,
33:15
Speaker 1: but but it made it very confusing and hard to
33:19
Speaker 1: follow for a good portion of the beginning of the movie,
33:22
Speaker 1: and I found that distracting. I do think it's interesting
33:25
Speaker 1: that you enjoyed it more than you anticipated, and I
33:27
Speaker 1: enjoyed it less than I anticipated, because I feel like
33:29
Speaker 1: usually it's the other way around. Well again, I liked
33:34
Speaker 1: it more for what it was saying rather than what
33:36
Speaker 1: it was doing. There's no ship like it. If you're
33:40
Speaker 1: except I don't like the movie, Like I like what
33:44
Speaker 1: the movie was about, rather than liking the movie. It's
33:46
Speaker 1: such a weird thing, like to not like the movie,
33:49
Speaker 1: but to like what the movie was about. It is
33:52
Speaker 1: its concept. But not those who don't work. For those
33:55
Speaker 1: who don't work in files where you have to fill
33:58
Speaker 1: out meta information about the file so that you can
34:01
Speaker 1: classify it properly, this won't mean anything. But for anyone
34:05
Speaker 1: who's worked in any kind of metadata, it's like if
34:08
Speaker 1: you found the metadata about a file more interesting and
34:12
Speaker 1: important than the file itself. That's what it's like, and
34:16
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I look at Matrix Resurrections, where
34:18
Speaker 1: the meta is really interesting and the movie is just
34:22
Speaker 1: kind of there. Gotcha. Well, that was a fun conversation.
34:28
Speaker 1: It was more heated than normally we get and thank
34:31
Speaker 1: you for me only because I'm looking at the clock
34:34
Speaker 1: right now when I'm seeing how far over thirty minutes
34:36
Speaker 1: we are. Well, it's okay about how Tari's gonna get
34:39
Speaker 1: on us. My mashup's real short, so that'll make some
34:43
Speaker 1: of the time. And with that, we're going to go
34:46
Speaker 1: to a quick break. Okay, Ariel, Let's talk about the
35:06
Speaker 1: things that prompted this mashup, one of which, like last week,
35:10
Speaker 1: is a sad story. Obviously, last week we were talking
35:14
Speaker 1: about the passing of Betty White. We have another beloved
35:19
Speaker 1: figure in pop culture who passed away this week. Yes,
35:23
Speaker 1: and that is Bob Saggett, who I most famously knew
35:28
Speaker 1: as Danny Tanner on Full House. He was also the
35:31
Speaker 1: narrator on How I Met Your Mother. He also had
35:33
Speaker 1: a long standing stand up career which was very, very dirty, Like,
35:38
Speaker 1: if you like Full House doesn't mean you can listen
35:40
Speaker 1: to his stand up. Yeah, he infamously had one of
35:45
Speaker 1: the most filthy renditions of the classic joke, the Aristocrats.
35:50
Speaker 1: That's the punchline. By the way, the Aristocrats, the setup
35:54
Speaker 1: for that is always going to be horrifyingly filthy, and
36:00
Speaker 1: Bob Saggett had one of the most disturbing versions of
36:04
Speaker 1: it you've ever heard, I would agree. Anyhow, he passed
36:07
Speaker 1: away at sixty five. They we don't know the cause
36:11
Speaker 1: of death, but it doesn't seem like there were any
36:12
Speaker 1: drugs or foul play, which is sad, but I'm glad
36:17
Speaker 1: that it wasn't either of those things. At the same
36:20
Speaker 1: time he was it, he was in Florida, he was
36:23
Speaker 1: at the beginning of a stand up comedy tour, and
36:28
Speaker 1: in fact had performed the night before he passed away.
36:32
Speaker 1: So yeah, this was this was a shock. We're seeing
36:37
Speaker 1: lots of tributes pour in from comedians who all have
36:41
Speaker 1: the same thing to say, which is that he had
36:43
Speaker 1: a dark sense of humor, he had a filthy mouth,
36:46
Speaker 1: and he was the nicest person they knew. You know.
36:48
Speaker 1: That's I one hundred percent believe that I have read
36:53
Speaker 1: over the past few days that he did a lot
36:54
Speaker 1: of goodwill type stuff, and yeah, it was just a
36:56
Speaker 1: very generous, kind person. The other story that we or
37:00
Speaker 1: the other thing we're mashing up as ant Man, because
37:03
Speaker 1: in a recent interview, Bill Murray said that he was
37:06
Speaker 1: going to be in the new ant Man movie and
37:08
Speaker 1: that he was playing a villain. Now, the way that
37:10
Speaker 1: Marvel plays with their facts about their movies, I don't
37:12
Speaker 1: know if we can believe that, and the way that
37:14
Speaker 1: Bill Murray is very tongue in cheek about many things,
37:18
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can believe it. But it
37:21
Speaker 1: was to be specific, to be specific. He said he
37:25
Speaker 1: was at Well he was asked the question what's your superpower?
37:28
Speaker 1: And he says, I'm a bad guy. That's my superpower.
37:31
Speaker 1: So from that, it's even possible that he plays a
37:36
Speaker 1: completely normal person who's just an antagonist within the film. Right,
37:41
Speaker 1: he could be someone who's standing in the way of
37:45
Speaker 1: ant Man in the Wasp getting something done. He doesn't
37:47
Speaker 1: have to necessarily be a supervillain. Everyone is just assuming
37:51
Speaker 1: that's what's going to happen. I mean, could be, and
37:54
Speaker 1: it might. He could be just some random cameo guy
37:58
Speaker 1: who walks into a coffee shop that Paul Rudd is
38:00
Speaker 1: also at, orders a coffee drinks. It says his taste
38:03
Speaker 1: bad throws it in the bristol's face and we never
38:06
Speaker 1: see him again. Yeah, and that would be a bad guy. Yeah.
38:10
Speaker 1: So yeah, so let's let's all let's all take a
38:13
Speaker 1: grain assault here. But yes, we decided that we're going
38:16
Speaker 1: to mash up full House, the property for which Bob
38:21
Speaker 1: Sagett was perhaps most famously associated with, and an ant Man.
38:27
Speaker 1: So we both have have ant Man full House mash ups. Yes,
38:32
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go first. Go ahead, you want me
38:36
Speaker 1: to go first? No, I'm gonna go first. You're gonna
38:39
Speaker 1: go first. Oh okay, all right, well let me keep
38:41
Speaker 1: an eye on the time you go. Okay. So this
38:43
Speaker 1: is called dant Man and fun fact, apparently when I
38:47
Speaker 1: try to mix full House and aunt Man together, it
38:49
Speaker 1: equals honey, I shrunk the kids. Okay. So Danny Tanner
38:53
Speaker 1: was super excited he had booked the best guest for
38:56
Speaker 1: his show, Hank Pim of Pim Technologies, as a part
38:59
Speaker 1: of the cutting edge segment of his show Wake Up
39:02
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Get it because aunt Man and full House
39:05
Speaker 1: both take place in San Francisco, at least for a
39:08
Speaker 1: good part of it. Anyhow, Michelle, Danny's youngest daughter, had
39:11
Speaker 1: recently become super interested in science, and it was a
39:14
Speaker 1: way for him to look extra cool to her. At
39:17
Speaker 1: the time of the segment, Pim brought out his amazing
39:19
Speaker 1: portable shrink ray with the intention of shrinking Danny's coffee,
39:23
Speaker 1: but he tripped over mister Woodchuck, who Joey was supposed
39:25
Speaker 1: to have cleared from the set and didn't, and bumped
39:28
Speaker 1: the ray and it hit Danny and Danny Tanner went
39:30
Speaker 1: up in a puff of smoke. Hank Pim feared the worst.
39:34
Speaker 1: The ray hadn't ever worked on a live subject before,
39:36
Speaker 1: Danny wasn't wearing any PIM protection and smoke was not
39:40
Speaker 1: even a normal outcome of the shrinken thing. They called
39:43
Speaker 1: for Danny to see if he's alive, but could hear
39:45
Speaker 1: no answer. Pim took out a magnifying glass and searched,
39:48
Speaker 1: but no luck, so he packed up his particle Beam
39:50
Speaker 1: and headed to the Tanner household to deliver the bad news.
39:53
Speaker 1: When he got there, it was too late. The whole
39:55
Speaker 1: family had watched the segment and were devastated. They tried
39:58
Speaker 1: to adjust to the new life with their own dads
40:00
Speaker 1: instead of their real like dad dad, but it was rough.
40:03
Speaker 1: DJ kept staying out super late with her boyfriends, steph
40:06
Speaker 1: started stealing DJ's belongings, and Michelle wouldn't even clean her room,
40:10
Speaker 1: which if Danny were around, would be completely egregious to him.
40:14
Speaker 1: The funcle's fun uncles tried to get the girls to
40:17
Speaker 1: straighten up and fly right, but to no avail. But
40:19
Speaker 1: then something strange started happening about a month after Danny's
40:23
Speaker 1: untimely accident. You see, DJ would be on the doorstep
40:27
Speaker 1: making out with her boyfriend and bugs or what they
40:30
Speaker 1: assumed were bugs, would start attacking her boyfriend and biting
40:33
Speaker 1: him until he just ran off in pain. He couldn't
40:35
Speaker 1: see him, but he assumed they were bugs. And then
40:37
Speaker 1: item Stephanie was stealing from DJ would end up back
40:40
Speaker 1: in DJ's room without Stephanie returning them to her, which
40:42
Speaker 1: was really annoying to Stephanie because she wanted the attention.
40:46
Speaker 1: And then Michelle's room started getting cleaner and cleaner every day,
40:49
Speaker 1: but like only by tiny increments. But then it wasn't
40:54
Speaker 1: just Michelle's room, it was the whole house, and the
40:56
Speaker 1: family began to wonder if it was Danny's ghosts coming
40:59
Speaker 1: back to watch over them or bother them or clean
41:01
Speaker 1: up after them one of those until one day the
41:04
Speaker 1: family called a meeting to discuss the strange occurrences. As
41:08
Speaker 1: they tried to discuss what was going on, they got
41:10
Speaker 1: into a fight, and that's when a penny flew at
41:12
Speaker 1: Uncle Jesse's head. Have mercy, he cried, but the force
41:16
Speaker 1: didn't have mercy. Coins from the loose changed to our
41:19
Speaker 1: flew at all the family members until Michelle saw it,
41:22
Speaker 1: her dad super tiny waving for her attention. She pointed
41:25
Speaker 1: him out to the rest of the family and they rejoiced,
41:28
Speaker 1: calling Hank Pim to come to their house and help.
41:30
Speaker 1: Pim quickly sped over through his shrink gray in reverse
41:33
Speaker 1: and restored Danny Tanner to his full size. The family
41:36
Speaker 1: asked why Danny didn't get their attention sooner, and he
41:39
Speaker 1: regaled them of the tale of how long it takes
41:41
Speaker 1: a mini person to walk from the studio of Wake
41:44
Speaker 1: Up San Francisco to their house, all the dangers of
41:46
Speaker 1: being microscopic, and the challenges of getting a full sized
41:49
Speaker 1: person's attention. Besides, he said he has never been able
41:53
Speaker 1: to get into the baseboards so well to clean them,
41:56
Speaker 1: or even been small enough to give the loose change
41:58
Speaker 1: a deep clean. So that took a full week right there,
42:02
Speaker 1: and it was like a little mini holiday for Danny.
42:04
Speaker 1: The family shook their heads and left, and all was
42:06
Speaker 1: right in the Tanner household once more. The end nice,
42:11
Speaker 1: thank you, A very sweet story. Mine is Mine is different.
42:17
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna have to take another break
42:20
Speaker 1: before we get to Mine. But before we do that,
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Speaker 1: I am just gonna preface this all right by saying
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Speaker 1: I started off with a fun idea and then it
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Speaker 1: turned into more like a Twilight Zone episode. So just
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Speaker 1: a heads up for all you listeners out there. Things
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Speaker 1: are gonna get unsettlingly weird when we come back from
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Speaker 1: break and I do my version of this mashup. So
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Speaker 1: just thought i'd put that out there before we get
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Speaker 1: to it. All Right, we're back Jonathan Regalis with ready Weird,
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Speaker 1: I mean as ready as I'll ever be. Okay, Mine
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Speaker 1: is called ant House already creepy. Scott Lange has a problem.
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Speaker 1: He's had to jump on into the Quantum Realm again
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Speaker 1: because he totes lost his watch in there, and it
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Speaker 1: was a gift from his daughter, whom he's still trying
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Speaker 1: to reconnect with. After being apart from her for five years.
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Speaker 1: Footnote this is referencing the end of phase three of
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Speaker 1: the MCU. So if you don't know what's happening, you
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Speaker 1: need to go back and watch ant Man and the Wasp,
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Speaker 1: Infinity War and End Game and that'll explain it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: back to it. But the quantum Realm is a really
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Speaker 1: weird place, filled with unexpected dangers and crossroads. And while
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Speaker 1: Lang is heading to where he thinks he came into
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Speaker 1: the quantum Realm, he makes wrong turn and he emerges
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Speaker 1: into San Francisco, but not the San Francisco that was
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Speaker 1: his home. No, he's in a different house, in a
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Speaker 1: different version of San Francisco. He returns to his normal
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Speaker 1: size to see a whole bunch of people staring at
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Speaker 1: him as they sit at a dinner table. There's three
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Speaker 1: men and two young girls and a bebe in a
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Speaker 1: high chair, and they're all staring at him. But what
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Speaker 1: makes this even more unsettling is the laughter. Yes, laughter,
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Speaker 1: Scott hears laughter coming from everywhere and nowhere. Not from
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Speaker 1: the family who are staring at him, some with forks
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Speaker 1: halfway to their mouths. No, this laughter is coming from
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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Also, weirdly enough, the family is sitting around
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Speaker 1: the table in a way so that none of them
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Speaker 1: have their back to one specific wall. For some reason. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Scott says, WHOA sorry about that. Let me just get
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Speaker 1: out of your way, and the younger of the two
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Speaker 1: girls suddenly pipes up and says, are you the clown? Clown?
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Speaker 1: Asks Scott for the birthday party for Uncle Jesse? Says
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Speaker 1: the younger girl. Again, that unsettling laughter from everywhere and nowhere.
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Speaker 1: A clown for my birthday, asks a man with a mullet.
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Speaker 1: Have mercy. I'm glad we both got to have mercy.
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Speaker 1: Joke in there again, more laughter, and Scott's getting a
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Speaker 1: really bad feeling. Come on, guys, if Danny were to
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Speaker 1: hire a clown for Jesse, he would have to come
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Speaker 1: to me first, says another man in an outlandishly tacky shirt.
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Speaker 1: Cut it out. The man does this dumb thing with
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Speaker 1: his hand as he says each word, and again that laughter.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you could explain what you're doing in our house,
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Speaker 1: says the third man, a fellow with a perplexed look
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Speaker 1: on his face. He appears to be a typical American dad.
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Speaker 1: If you go by what passed for typical American dad
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Speaker 1: in the mid nineteen eighties on television, white affable, somewhat
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Speaker 1: over his head, inexplicably living in a house that he
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Speaker 1: could not possibly afford. Well, that's hard to say, says Scott.
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Speaker 1: I'm aunt man, aunt man, says the older of the
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Speaker 1: two girls. Aunt man, yet more laughter. Scott feels himself sweating,
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Speaker 1: which is making the inside of his helmet a little foggy.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I didn't mean to intrude. I'll be
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Speaker 1: on my way, says Scott. No, no, no, stay, says
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Speaker 1: the younger of the two girls. Can he stay? Eddie?
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Speaker 1: She says to the very typical American dad type fellow. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that would be the best idea.
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Speaker 1: The man starts to say. But just last week, says
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Speaker 1: the younger girl, weren't you explaining that it's important to
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Speaker 1: show compassion and kindness to people when they're in need.
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Speaker 1: I feel like an entire half hour of our lives
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Speaker 1: was dedicated to saying that very thing. It was more
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Speaker 1: like twenty two minutes, says the man in the outlandish shirt.
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Speaker 1: The American dad dude looks at his daughter and he
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Speaker 1: says Hi, he says to Scott. I'm Danny. This is Jesse.
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Speaker 1: He points to the mullet dude. This is Joey, he
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Speaker 1: points to the tacky dude. And these are my daughters,
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Speaker 1: dj the older one, Stephanie the younger one, and Michelle
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Speaker 1: the bebe. Scott this whole time has been trying to
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Speaker 1: activate his tech to send himself back to the quantum realm,
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Speaker 1: but it's not happening. It's just this buzzing noise, and
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Speaker 1: then a message saying that the tech needs time to recharge. Gosh,
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Speaker 1: your fidgety, says Stephanie. How rude again? That laughter? Okay,
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Speaker 1: I just have to ask, what is that? Says Scott.
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Speaker 1: What is what? Says Jesse? The mullet the laughs? Where
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Speaker 1: are the laughs coming from? Says Scott? In this house
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Speaker 1: right here, my friend, says Joey, pointing at himself with
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Speaker 1: both thumbs. And indeed there is laughter, but again none
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Speaker 1: of it is coming from the family. Danny stares at Scott.
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Speaker 1: I feel better about having this guy in my home already.
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Speaker 1: More laughs, and then something really weird happens. Scott hears music,
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Speaker 1: and then suddenly he's not in the kitchen anymore. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it appears as though time has jumped. It's now mourning,
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Speaker 1: and there he is, laid out on a couch under
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Speaker 1: a blanket, still in his aunt man costume. He sits
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Speaker 1: up and Danny is right there. What what happened? Asks Scott.
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Speaker 1: You spend the night mysterious aunt person in my house,
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Speaker 1: says Danny, And as he talks, we see Stephanie walked
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Speaker 1: down the stairs without telling us who you are, continues Danny,
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Speaker 1: or why you broke in? And then you see Stephanie
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Speaker 1: and it was absolutely lovely, and Stephanie grins, and now
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Speaker 1: it's time to fight crime, and Scott does a double take.
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Speaker 1: You fight crime, Stephanie says, today we do. Tomorrow it's ballet,
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Speaker 1: and then on Monday it's school. But after school it's
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Speaker 1: being a vet. Danny says to Stephanie. Can I have
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Speaker 1: a little moment to chat with our guest? Maybe you
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Speaker 1: can go get some breakfast? Oki dokis is Stephanie, and
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Speaker 1: she exits. I'm really sorry for all this is, Scott.
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Speaker 1: I'll leave. You can't, says Danny quietly. I can't, why not,
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Speaker 1: asked Scott. It won't let you, not until there's a resolution.
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Speaker 1: Says Danny, looking around nervously. What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Asks Scott, and then he hears it in the room
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Speaker 1: next door the kitchen, laughter, followed by aloud how rude,
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Speaker 1: and more laughter. Okay, listen, close, says Danny. You're trapped
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Speaker 1: in a TV show. Wait what, says Scott? A TV show,
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Speaker 1: stresses Danny. You are stuck in a family sitcom show.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you got here, because you clearly
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Speaker 1: don't belong, but now you're here, and the show won't
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Speaker 1: let you leave, not unless it fits the plot. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's nuts, says Scott, and he gets off the couch
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Speaker 1: and he walks quickly to the door, and he opens
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Speaker 1: it and he takes three steps outside and then there's nothing.
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Speaker 1: An empty white void stretches out in all directions save
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Speaker 1: for back into the house, which he hurriedly go back to. Okay,
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Speaker 1: says Scott, I think I see what you mean, and
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Speaker 1: Danny says stop. The scene is going to shift back
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Speaker 1: here into this room in a second, and we won't
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Speaker 1: be able to talk like this, And sure enough, a
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Speaker 1: moment later, Jesse comes into the living room, followed by Joey,
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Speaker 1: the two being pursued by an irritated Stephanie, and for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the day, Scott does his best to
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Speaker 1: try and navigate what is unfolding to be an episode
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Speaker 1: of a really cheesy family sitcom from the mid nineteen eighties.
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Speaker 1: With a super heavy hand on the laugh track button.
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Speaker 1: He helps DJ deal with a self esteem issue, He
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Speaker 1: entertains Stephanie, he teaches Jesse a new guitar lick, and
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Speaker 1: he lets Joey test out his new material, all while
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Speaker 1: Danny watches quietly nodding knowingly. Toward the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: the whole group is sitting around you know aunt man,
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Speaker 1: says DJ. I'm sorry I was suspicious of you. You
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Speaker 1: really help me out, Danny, take the ball. Sometimes it
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Speaker 1: takes looking under a person's exterior to really know what
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Speaker 1: they're about. Of course, says Scott. You can't see undermine
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Speaker 1: because I've got a secret identity. Laughter, and not just
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Speaker 1: from everywhere. The folks in the room are laughing too,
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Speaker 1: and Danny catches Scott's eye and gives an urgent nod.
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Speaker 1: Well says Scott, I should probably get moving. I got
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Speaker 1: a lot of crime left to fight, and Stephanie looks
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Speaker 1: at him and Scott adds, though we put a real
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Speaker 1: serious dent in it today, didn't we, partner, and Stephanie
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Speaker 1: gives a big thumbs up. See you guys around, says Scott,
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Speaker 1: who takes a deep breath and heads out the door,
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Speaker 1: and as he does, his suit hums loudly, apparently energized,
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Speaker 1: and he hits the switch, sending him back into the
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Speaker 1: quantum realm, away from this weird universe, and in the
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Speaker 1: quantum realm, he faces a new challenge. Standing in front
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Speaker 1: of him is a mysterious man, a man who has
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Speaker 1: lived many lives and who now represents a true danger
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Speaker 1: to Scott. It's Phil Connors, the weather man, and Scott
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Speaker 1: knows what day it is. Oh, yes, it's February, second
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Speaker 1: ground hard day. At the end, you see, I was
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Speaker 1: worried it was gonna be like bleak and dark and depressing.
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Speaker 1: But first I had to remind myself that DJ's boyfriend
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Speaker 1: was not Paul Rudd in Full House, because I feel
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Speaker 1: like Paul Red's version of Scott Lang would fit perfectly,
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Speaker 1: like he could be all three dads in one right. Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: I thought. Well That's the other thing is that I
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Speaker 1: specifically didn't look because one of the things I was
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Speaker 1: thinking was, I'm almost certain Paul Rudd must have shown
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Speaker 1: up in an episode of Full House at some point,
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Speaker 1: simply because he was in everything, you know, even if
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Speaker 1: it was just for a second. But I did, I
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Speaker 1: purposefully did not look into that. I think he did
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Speaker 1: at one point. Uh, it doesn't It wouldn't surprise me, man,
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Speaker 1: not even for a second. But yeah, it was. I
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Speaker 1: started off with that and it was just going to
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Speaker 1: be zany and silly. But then you know what, you know,
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Speaker 1: the things that influenced this particular writing exercise for me
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Speaker 1: were Twilight Zone and WandaVision. Those were like, those were
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Speaker 1: like the things that kind of and then of course
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Speaker 1: I was like, how can I work Bill Murray to this?
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Speaker 1: I loved it all. I thought it was fantastic. Thank
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Speaker 1: you the bottom of this Full House I can spell. Well,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do that off, Mike Ariel. We
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Speaker 1: don't have time. We're already over fifty minutes. He's not
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Speaker 1: even he's not even pulling in there. We're done. So okay,
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Speaker 1: if you find out that I was wrong and Paul
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Speaker 1: Rud was in fact in Full House, you should write
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