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Speaker 1: The Large nerd Drunk Collider podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to The Large ner
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Speaker 1: Drunk Collider, the podcast that's all about the geeky things
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Speaker 1: happening in the world around us and how very excited
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Speaker 1: we are about it. I'm Arial casting and with me
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Speaker 1: as always is. He talks to fish Jonathan Strickland. I
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Speaker 1: feel the need, the need for seafood, but only specific seafood.
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Speaker 1: It'll yeah, I can't have any shellfish anymore. Thanks allergies.
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Speaker 1: Nothing like anaphylaxis to get in the way of a
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Speaker 1: good time. How you doing, Arial, I am doing well, well, excellent.
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Speaker 1: A week full of fun and shenanigans for me. How
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Speaker 1: are you doing, my friend, I'm I'm doing pretty well,
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Speaker 1: apart from from that moment. You know that moment where
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Speaker 1: you go out to pick up something that's been delivered
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Speaker 1: and you're just wearing your pj's and then you come
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Speaker 1: inside and you realize, hey, my pjs have a hole
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Speaker 1: in them. I sure, hope I don't get arrested because
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Speaker 1: I don't have a license to sell hot dogs. I mean, yes,
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Speaker 1: I experienced that every day. Look, I barely know some
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Speaker 1: of the windows in my home, do not have like
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Speaker 1: blinds on them, and so like I'm very modest walking
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Speaker 1: around inside my house. Nevertheless outside my house, but don't
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Speaker 1: most dudes pajamas have holes in them. I'm just saying, like,
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Speaker 1: this one has, this one has an unintentional hole in it,
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Speaker 1: this one has a Jonathan has kept these pajamas far
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Speaker 1: too long because they are Boba Fett pajamas. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: but that you know what, none of that matters, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: because as I have a question to you, my question
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Speaker 1: for you this week. Area. We talked last week about
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Speaker 1: favorite film scores, which you know, I think of those
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Speaker 1: like the orchestrated music that accompanies a film. What about
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Speaker 1: what's one of your favorite film soundtracks? Okay, so this
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Speaker 1: is gonna maybe it'll surprise you. Uh. It is from
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Speaker 1: a movie called Now and Then that's from nineteen about
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Speaker 1: a bunch of adult women who get back together. They
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Speaker 1: were like childhood friends and now they're back together as
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Speaker 1: adults and relearning to be friends. Kind of like a
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Speaker 1: stand by Me, like a future version of stand by Me,
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Speaker 1: but with women. So it had Christina Ricci and Thora
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Speaker 1: Birch and Rosie O'Donnell and Demi Moore. Uh it was.
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Speaker 1: It was a really good like movie that spoke to
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Speaker 1: me in my my younger girl years. But it had
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Speaker 1: like what I what I consider the precursor to the
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Speaker 1: guard into the Galaxy soundtrack, so on it it had
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Speaker 1: Sugar Sugar by the Archies, I Want You Back by
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Speaker 1: Jackson five, Band of Gold, by Free to Pain, I'll
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Speaker 1: Be There by Jackson five not three times, sin Sel
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Speaker 1: delivered Daydream Believerer. So like all of those songs that
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Speaker 1: you hear growing up that or maybe before your time,
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Speaker 1: but you absolutely love. They're ingrained in your brain and
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Speaker 1: they just make you feel good and sing and dance
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Speaker 1: along when you hear it, like Guardians of the Galaxy
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Speaker 1: does that for me. And I was going to say
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Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy, but then I remember that now
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Speaker 1: and then did it for me first, So that is
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Speaker 1: my answer. It's amazing soundtrack. It's like I used to
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Speaker 1: I used to sing Knock three times on my bike
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Speaker 1: with my friends riding around my complex. So okay, that's great.
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Speaker 1: I mean you already named like one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: like Guardians of the Galaxy, the volumes one and to
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Speaker 1: have fantastic soundtracks but if we're talking about my favorite,
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Speaker 1: it's probably Gross Point Blank, which was a film that
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Speaker 1: came out in nine John Cusacks. In it, he plays
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Speaker 1: a hit man who is going back to his high
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Speaker 1: school reunion in Gross Point Michigan, and and and Trying.
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Speaker 1: He's on an assignment. He has to go and do
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Speaker 1: a hit in order to make good on something that
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Speaker 1: he botched in his past. But he's also kind of
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Speaker 1: dipping in on his old high school buddies. And there's
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Speaker 1: some great songs in there. There's like Blister in the
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Speaker 1: Sun by Violent Films is on there, Rudy Can't Failed
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Speaker 1: by the Clash under Pressure with David Bowie and Queen
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Speaker 1: I can see clearly now with Johnny Nash one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite songs, and also an amazing use of that
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Speaker 1: song in that movie because it's while John Cusack is
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Speaker 1: sniping at one of his targets. And to hear you
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Speaker 1: know how I feel whenever there's like super happy music
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Speaker 1: but super dark stuff happened at the same time. I
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Speaker 1: love that juxtaposition. Pressure Dropped by the specials Um We
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Speaker 1: Care a Lot by by Faith No More, Let My
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Speaker 1: Love Open the Door by Pete Downsend. There's so many great,
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Speaker 1: great songs on that and so many that they actually
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Speaker 1: released two different soundtracks on the movie. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna say that A backup one now
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it is The Crow. The Crow had
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Speaker 1: a really great soundtrack. Yeah, the Crows soundtrack and the
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Speaker 1: Crows uh kind of visual tone. We're like of why
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Speaker 1: that movie even remotely worked? Yeah? No, I agree. I agree.
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Speaker 1: Going back to gross put point blank, can I admit
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Speaker 1: something to you? Sure I didn't. I didn't watch it
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Speaker 1: until like the last five years, maybe the last seven years.
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Speaker 1: I was definitely in my current home. Um, and up
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Speaker 1: until that point, and still sometimes I confuse Gross point
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Speaker 1: Blank with Point Break, very very different movies, much less
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Speaker 1: much less surfing, much less surfing, and Gross point blank. Um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I I love that soundtrack so much and the film
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Speaker 1: is great. Also, Dan Ackroyd plays a bad guy in
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Speaker 1: Gross point Blank, and he is crazy Dan Across just
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Speaker 1: he's a really good actor. I'm not always a fan
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Speaker 1: of like some of his improv SNL stuff, but as
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Speaker 1: an actor I really enjoy him. Yeah. Well, as long
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Speaker 1: as you don't watch nothing but Trouble. But you know, well,
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Speaker 1: Rich I have not because you you're You're fine, You're
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Speaker 1: absolutely fine not having I mean, if you want to
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Speaker 1: watch Chevy Chase and Demi Moore get chased around by
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Speaker 1: John Candy with a dan Ackroyd and grotesque makeup, then yes,
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Speaker 1: you can do that. I mean that sounds that sounds delightful.
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Speaker 1: That sounds almost as fun as something else I've never watched,
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Speaker 1: which is the Best and the Furious movies. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: also haven't seen it. But we have a news item
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Speaker 1: about a potential actor being cast in the at least
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Speaker 1: one of the two final are so we're told Fast
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Speaker 1: and Furious films. Yes, Jonathan titled this news article when
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Speaker 1: he shared it with me aquaman joins Fast and Furious
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Speaker 1: and so that's that's what I think of. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's a mamoa. They're they're in talks to bring him on,
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Speaker 1: and I wonder if it's because they are not going
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Speaker 1: to have Dwayne Johnson anymore. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're running out a big beefy dudes in Hollywood. Who
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Speaker 1: haven't who don't have beef with Vin Diesel, They haven't.
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Speaker 1: They haven't tapped most of the cast of expendables yet.
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Speaker 1: So that's a huge like lineup of beefy man right there,
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Speaker 1: They're just yeah. But then Vin Diesel would be like, no, man,
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Speaker 1: I all of them are octogenarians. I could beat them
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Speaker 1: with my eyes closed like that. You know, that's that's
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Speaker 1: a terrible Vin Diesel oppression. Night my voice does not
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Speaker 1: go as nearly as low as Vin Diesels. I don't.
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Speaker 1: It makes me really sad that Vin Diesel and Dwayne
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Speaker 1: Johnson have beef because like the fact that Dwayne Johnson
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Speaker 1: seems like such a cool dude, and that Vin Diesel
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Speaker 1: likes D and D Like I would have said they
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Speaker 1: were both cool dudes prior to their beef, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I would have said that Dwayne Johnson was a cool
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Speaker 1: dude until his recent praise of Joe Rogan. But that's
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Speaker 1: another story. I missed that. So yeah, that's another story.
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Speaker 1: Moving moving on. Um I want I wanted to mention
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Speaker 1: that that with the Aquaman joins fast and Furious, that
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Speaker 1: was just my joke of explaining what was happening. But
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Speaker 1: for a moment, dear listeners, that was going to be
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Speaker 1: our mashup for for this week, but it is not.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it might be in the future. We'll have
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Speaker 1: to see how many other people come out with stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. There have been a few times where we've
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Speaker 1: done a mash up and then like the next week
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Speaker 1: there will be like this is how it should have ended,
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Speaker 1: or an honest trailer that is in a similar vein. Um.
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Speaker 1: Obviously they started working on it before our mashup came out.
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Speaker 1: It's not like they're listening to us and getting ideas
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Speaker 1: because they're much more well established than we are. They're
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Speaker 1: maybe they're listening in on a recording session that gives
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Speaker 1: them an extra three days. Maybe maybe, um, but it
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Speaker 1: just shows that great minds think alike. UM. I will say, though,
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Speaker 1: though I've not watched Fast and Furious like it is
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Speaker 1: on my to do this year, watched them all because
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Speaker 1: I've heard that maybe past the first one, they're just
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I like cars. I want
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Speaker 1: to say that there's at least a couple. I think
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Speaker 1: there's a couple in the franchise that that people generally
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Speaker 1: feel are sort of, you know, the lesser thans. I
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Speaker 1: guess what we should do is is see if we
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Speaker 1: can find that the the episodes that Justin and Sydney
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Speaker 1: McElroy did where they talk about the Fast and Furious
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Speaker 1: franchise to kind of get pointers on which ones we
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Speaker 1: should really pay attention to. Yeah, probably probably. So. A
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Speaker 1: show that slipped past my radar and I'm really mad
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Speaker 1: because apparently my husband knew about it but I didn't
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Speaker 1: is a show that's coming to Netflix called murder Ville
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Speaker 1: m That is a mostly scripted show where Will are
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Speaker 1: net from like you know, Arrested Development, and Lego Batman
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Speaker 1: plays the main character, and each week they bring in
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Speaker 1: a celebrity guest star who does not have the script
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Speaker 1: and has to improve with the rest of the scene,
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Speaker 1: like it is my nightmare scenario for being on on
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Speaker 1: on stage. But the trailer for it looks brilliant. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's literally it's literally one of my stress dreams, right,
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Speaker 1: the idea of that. And in fact, there is a
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Speaker 1: there is a play, a short play called Actor's Nightmare
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Speaker 1: that's about this. That that dream that where actors sometimes
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Speaker 1: have that they are suddenly in a show that they
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Speaker 1: have never rehearsed, they don't know the script. Everyone else
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Speaker 1: is doing it and it's and you're just trying to
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Speaker 1: get on through it. But this is this is one
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Speaker 1: where yeah, it's a murder mystery, so only is it
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Speaker 1: is it a scripted thing, but it's something where the
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Speaker 1: the guest star who was filling in as will Arnette's
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Speaker 1: character's partner in the solving of a mystery is expected
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Speaker 1: to at least contribute something towards solving it. Yeah. Yeah, so,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Jonathan and I have both been
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Speaker 1: a part of murder mysteries. But in that case, you've
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Speaker 1: got a lot of people who don't know what's going
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Speaker 1: on trying to solve it, and a few people who
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Speaker 1: know what's going on. This is the opposite. I think
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Speaker 1: the saving grace with the show and the reason why
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Speaker 1: I'll be able to watch it without getting incredible anxiety, um,
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Speaker 1: is that, uh, the actors go in knowing that this
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Speaker 1: is what they're getting into. So it's an improv scene
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Speaker 1: as opposed to an unfortunate situation like uh, and and
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Speaker 1: it's it's meant to be improve and funny. You know,
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Speaker 1: if like if you're an understudy and you get called
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Speaker 1: into a show like the weekend, like the day before
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Speaker 1: it happens, and all of a sudden they need you
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Speaker 1: because they don't have an understudy in their actor has
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Speaker 1: broken a leg and can't go on or whatever it happens.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's incredibly stressful because you want to
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Speaker 1: put on a good show, you want to put on
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Speaker 1: an accurate show. There's no I think there's probably no
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Speaker 1: drive for accuracy to the script in this No, no,
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Speaker 1: I think. I think. I mean the whole shows predicated
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Speaker 1: upon the fact that the guest performer has no idea
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Speaker 1: what is about to happen, or what is going on,
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Speaker 1: or what they should be doing. That's where the entertainment
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Speaker 1: comes from, right, I mean, like the writing still needs
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Speaker 1: to be good, but the real entertainment is coming from
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Speaker 1: the the fish out of water who has thrust into
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Speaker 1: this this world with no preparation. That's where the entertainments from.
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Speaker 1: And these are all you know, professional actors, many of
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Speaker 1: whom are also professional comic actors. You know who have
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Speaker 1: who have specialized in that, like Conan O'Brien, who's been
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Speaker 1: in comedy for deck Aids, Like he was a writer
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Speaker 1: on so many different comedy shows before he even was
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Speaker 1: you know, a famous late night talk show host. So
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm. The little teaser trailer that we got is
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Speaker 1: very entertaining. So I definitely will be checking this out.
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Speaker 1: I have a question for you, would you have more
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Speaker 1: because you've done improv and I've done improv? Would you
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Speaker 1: have more fun being the guest who does not have
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Speaker 1: the script or being one of the scripted actors who
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Speaker 1: then has to justify their next lines with whatever the
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Speaker 1: improvising person has done. I would, Oh, gosh, that's a
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Speaker 1: really good question. I think I would love to be
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Speaker 1: the improviser, so so other Uh. I've seen something similar
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Speaker 1: to this at a local theater here in Atlanta. There's
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Speaker 1: a theater that puts on a version of The Christmas Carol,
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Speaker 1: but they have an improviser come in every single night,
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Speaker 1: a different improviser. The cast is not told who the
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Speaker 1: improviser is or what their character is going to be.
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Speaker 1: The improviser shows up as that character early on in
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Speaker 1: the show of the Christmas Carol, and everyone else has
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Speaker 1: to pretend like they are supposed to be part of
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Speaker 1: the story and they have to try and continue the
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Speaker 1: story while this improviser is just like doing their own thing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know. The goal isn't to derail the show, but
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Speaker 1: to be very entertaining and to force the other actors
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Speaker 1: to figure out how they can justify the fact that
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Speaker 1: this improvisers there. This feels very similar to that, UM,
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Speaker 1: but it does also feel like it flips it on
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Speaker 1: its head a bit, right, So instead of the instead
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Speaker 1: of the improviser coming in and being the wild card,
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Speaker 1: it's more like the improviser is just trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out how to fit into this complex system that has
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Speaker 1: a place for them, but they haven't been told what
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Speaker 1: that place is. Yeah, I I very much looking for
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Speaker 1: I am very much looking forward to watching it, um,
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Speaker 1: which I'll be able to do this week. It comes
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Speaker 1: out on the third, So the day that this episode
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Speaker 1: comes out, I think, yeah it is. So let's uh,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna rush through our last two little news items
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Speaker 1: because we've got a lot of stuff to talk about
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Speaker 1: in this episode. UM. But one of them is that
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Speaker 1: we got a trailer for the Halo Live Action series. Uh.
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Speaker 1: What did you think of the trailer? UM? I thought
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Speaker 1: it was really good. It has made me more interested
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Speaker 1: in the Halo franchise than I ever was. Watching people
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Speaker 1: play the game. UM, I feeled the opposite, but that's
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Speaker 1: probably because I often feel that video game adaptations miss
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Speaker 1: out on the one thing that actually makes the video
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Speaker 1: game version of the story is interesting, which is that
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Speaker 1: you are the person taking place as the main protagonist
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Speaker 1: and watching someone else just doing that is less interesting
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Speaker 1: to me. But you know, it's it's it's great that
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Speaker 1: we have that opposite viewpoint for one thing. Like I
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Speaker 1: played a lot of Halo. You watched people play Halo.
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Speaker 1: This seems like it's going to be much more interesting
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Speaker 1: to you. So I'll be curious once the series comes
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Speaker 1: out if you feel the same way and how I feel.
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Speaker 1: I would also say I'm not a fan of the
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Speaker 1: Halo storyline. It is convoluted and messy. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: maybe that's why I like it in story for more
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Speaker 1: is because they're going to probably streamline it a bit
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Speaker 1: they could, which didn't make it messy. Um. I do
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Speaker 1: like some some particular things that I like about it
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Speaker 1: is that they left the the AI partner Cortana as
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Speaker 1: a as a like a c g I character, and
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Speaker 1: I think that was a cool choice. Also, the person
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Speaker 1: playing Master Chief is Pablo Schreiber, and uh, he was
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Speaker 1: Mad Sweeney in American Gods, and I think he's just
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Speaker 1: a really really good actor. Um, with a lot of
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Speaker 1: he can play some very complicated scenarios and emotions very
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Speaker 1: very well. Um, and so I think he's a really
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Speaker 1: great choice to play Master Chief and will never take
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Speaker 1: off his helmet. And then finally, we're just going to
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Speaker 1: mention this that we heard a little bit more about
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Speaker 1: a Mortal Kombat sequel as and it's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: And they have tapped the writer of the Moon Night
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Speaker 1: series to uh to write the script. Yes, and also
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Speaker 1: Travis Knight will be directing it and he worked on
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Speaker 1: Umbrella Academy. Uh. The other thing I learned in this
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Speaker 1: this article that we share from Engadget is that not
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Speaker 1: only did they tap the writer from Moonnight for Mortal Kombat,
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Speaker 1: but apparently he's also working on an adaptation of The
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Speaker 1: Tommy Knockers by Stephen King, which I didn't know or
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Speaker 1: I did know and I forgot. Interesting. Well, we'll probably
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Speaker 1: have a lot more to say about Mortal Kombat in
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Speaker 1: future episodes. We have gone long in this segment. Let's
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Speaker 1: take a quick break, and when we come back, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna hear us catch up on two things that have
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Speaker 1: been out for a while. But it took us a
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Speaker 1: while for us to get to it. And now we've
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Speaker 1: got thoughts and orr feelings about them, but we'll get
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Speaker 1: to that after this break. All right, we're back And
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Speaker 1: and so Jonathan and I just both watched Eternals and
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Speaker 1: some amount of The Peacemaker, which I keep calling peacekeeper. Uh,
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Speaker 1: very different, very different to keep the peace as opposed
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Speaker 1: to making the peace. Um, but we we did so. No,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of I think, on both of our
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Speaker 1: like lists of things to eventually get to. But we
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Speaker 1: had a listener. Gregory asked us our thoughts on it,
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Speaker 1: and that was a really good excuse to actually buckle
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Speaker 1: down and watch these properties. Yeah, which one would you
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Speaker 1: like to start off with? Terns is older? Let's start
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Speaker 1: off with Eternals, okay, Um, Maternals is a movie that
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Speaker 1: technically the last two and a half hours, but as
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Speaker 1: you're watching it, you're pretty sure you need to be
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Speaker 1: an Eternal to make it all the way through. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I've I've watched I watched the honest trailer for
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Speaker 1: Eternals right after I watched The Turnals, because he came
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Speaker 1: out right after. And the narrator for that thinks that
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Speaker 1: it is better than Iron Man to thor too and
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Speaker 1: Ed Norton's the Hulk. I think Eternals might be my
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Speaker 1: least favorite of the m c U movies. Um, although
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Speaker 1: I also have not watched Ed Norton's Hulk film, so
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Speaker 1: maybe that one would edge it out. I do have it.
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Speaker 1: I've got it now on Blu ray. I just haven't
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Speaker 1: watched it yet, and I realized that more than a
19:43
Speaker 1: decade late to it. But out of all the other
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Speaker 1: m c U movies that I have seen, so the
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Speaker 1: only other one I haven't seen is No Way Home,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen that one yet. Um, this one is
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Speaker 1: the lowest rank for me. I did not care about
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Speaker 1: the characters. I thought some of the actors were very charismatic.
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Speaker 1: I thought they were putting in charismatic performances. But I
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like I knew very much about most of
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Speaker 1: the characters. Despite the fact that this movie is two
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Speaker 1: and a half hours long. Um, there are characters. There
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Speaker 1: are characters who don't make it all the way through.
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Speaker 1: So first of all, uh, I take issue with the
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Speaker 1: name Eternals because some of them don't last forever all right,
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Speaker 1: some of them don't make it. Uh. You know, I
20:29
Speaker 1: feel like it's long enough that it can be a
20:30
Speaker 1: spoiler for this. It's been on Disney Plus for a
20:32
Speaker 1: while now. Just because you don't make it doesn't mean
20:36
Speaker 1: that they aren't going to revive you. Because we find
20:39
Speaker 1: out the Eternals are spoiler spoiler, spoiler robots created by
20:45
Speaker 1: um celestials celestials, So which is that's that's yeah, that's
20:52
Speaker 1: a big departure from the comic book Origin of the Eternals. UM,
20:57
Speaker 1: but I didn't care because I wasn't familiar with the
21:01
Speaker 1: comic book Origin of the Eternals. I never read in
21:04
Speaker 1: the Eternal's comics. So this was my first exposure to
21:07
Speaker 1: these characters. And I feel like I can only describe
21:12
Speaker 1: them with regard to their their power, and that's it. Yeah,
21:17
Speaker 1: a couple of them I can maybe give you a
21:19
Speaker 1: little bit more about, but like Seriously I could probably
21:22
Speaker 1: give a little bit more about, and Sprite I could
21:25
Speaker 1: give a little more about. Yeah. So, so I could
21:28
Speaker 1: tell you the names of Seriously and Sprite and Icarus
21:32
Speaker 1: only because they gave me the easy thing of he
21:35
Speaker 1: fleut close to the sun um as they like early. Yeah,
21:39
Speaker 1: we made that story up about him. Okay, so I
21:40
Speaker 1: know those three um but spoiler alert, they make that
21:44
Speaker 1: story real by the end of it. Yeah. I so
21:50
Speaker 1: there were characters that I like. I agreed there there
21:53
Speaker 1: were too many characters in the Eternals to spend any
21:58
Speaker 1: amount of time showing us their character arcs and why
22:02
Speaker 1: we should care about them, as opposed to telling us. Um,
22:06
Speaker 1: there were too many flashbacks to the past. I didn't
22:08
Speaker 1: I didn't care as much about about that. For the
22:11
Speaker 1: most part, there were some, there were some moments, but
22:13
Speaker 1: the characters I really liked, Yeah, I could tell you
22:15
Speaker 1: one of their names. There was the dude who slapped
22:19
Speaker 1: people as a power, who was really awesome, Gilgamesh. He
22:23
Speaker 1: was one of my favorites. There was the dude who
22:28
Speaker 1: was like the inventor dude, and I really liked him
22:32
Speaker 1: us yes, yes, um, and I liked his character because
22:37
Speaker 1: they actually gave him a flashback that was very moving.
22:41
Speaker 1: They gave him a flashback moment as to why he
22:44
Speaker 1: changed from the way he was in ancient history to
22:47
Speaker 1: modern day history that made a lot of sense, was
22:50
Speaker 1: hard hitting, didn't need a lot of explanation, and just
22:54
Speaker 1: immediately connected. Um. And then I liked And I'm really
22:57
Speaker 1: surprised to say this. I love Jimmy chand I believe
23:02
Speaker 1: it is the woman who played Cerci, and I absolutely
23:06
Speaker 1: love her. She's such a good actress that when they
23:08
Speaker 1: used her in Captain Marvel, they said, we did not
23:12
Speaker 1: use you enough. We need to use you more, and
23:13
Speaker 1: that's why they cast her as the lead in The Eternals.
23:16
Speaker 1: But I actually liked Andrew Lena Jolie's character the best
23:20
Speaker 1: out of the female cast. I don't know, I didn't
23:24
Speaker 1: feel very much connection with most of the characters. I
23:26
Speaker 1: didn't like Gilgamesh, even though that was again because of
23:29
Speaker 1: the actor's charisma. Gilgamesh is not given very much in
23:35
Speaker 1: the movie. I mean, like he takes on the role
23:37
Speaker 1: of caretaker, but we're mostly told that. We see a
23:42
Speaker 1: little bit of evidence of it, but we're mostly just told.
23:45
Speaker 1: Watching him smack down a deviant, like just take a
23:51
Speaker 1: hand to just smack it in the face into the
23:53
Speaker 1: ground made me giggle out loud. I loved it. I
23:59
Speaker 1: think I just think this was There's there's an issue
24:04
Speaker 1: I have with a lot of Marvel movies where in
24:06
Speaker 1: the third act everything turns into a video game. Well,
24:09
Speaker 1: Eternals all the way through felt like that. Whenever there
24:11
Speaker 1: was any kind of action sequence, it all felt very
24:14
Speaker 1: video gamey to me, and I just didn't care. Also,
24:19
Speaker 1: let's let's break something down here that really made no sense,
24:22
Speaker 1: and it infuriated me because one of the questions, and
24:26
Speaker 1: they showed it in the trailer, is like, why didn't
24:29
Speaker 1: you help lyn Thanos was kicking everyone's butts? And the
24:33
Speaker 1: essential answer that they give, it's the only answer they
24:35
Speaker 1: can give, because now you know, you figure this is
24:37
Speaker 1: almost like Rhett conning the entire history of the Earth
24:40
Speaker 1: by introducing the eternals into this. They say, our instructions
24:45
Speaker 1: were we don't interfere with human affairs. We are only
24:48
Speaker 1: supposed to be here to protect against the deviance. That's
24:52
Speaker 1: the only reason we're here. And technically they they were
24:56
Speaker 1: done with that millennia ago, so they were at this
25:00
Speaker 1: just waiting to get called home. Yeah, not quite a millennial,
25:03
Speaker 1: but yes, half a millennia because I think it was
25:06
Speaker 1: fifty two. But um, but yes, agreed, Like, but here's
25:10
Speaker 1: the thing that drives me nuts. It is later revealed
25:14
Speaker 1: that at least two of the Eternals know that the
25:19
Speaker 1: real reason they're there is huh, maybe three maybe three,
25:24
Speaker 1: but at least two they know the real reason they
25:27
Speaker 1: are there, which is that the Celestials, their life cycle
25:31
Speaker 1: involves being born out of a planet that has intelligent
25:36
Speaker 1: life on it. They absorb energy from intelligent life, and
25:40
Speaker 1: there has to be a significant amount of intelligent life
25:43
Speaker 1: present on the planet in order for them to uh
25:47
Speaker 1: to have enough like sustenance really to be born. Well,
25:52
Speaker 1: then Thanos comes around, snaps his fingers and wipes out
25:55
Speaker 1: half the population of the entire universe, which would obviously
26:00
Speaker 1: be up pretty big setback if you're trying to to
26:05
Speaker 1: birth a celestial And that's why it made no sense
26:09
Speaker 1: to me that the Eternals didn't have anything to do
26:12
Speaker 1: with the Thanos storyline, because it directly impacted their real mission.
26:17
Speaker 1: It amazed me that they didn't, like a Jack, who's
26:20
Speaker 1: the leader of the Eternals, didn't receive a phone call
26:24
Speaker 1: from their their celestial to say, you know what, maybe
26:29
Speaker 1: we need to stop this guy, especially since Thanos, I
26:32
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna turn out to be this
26:33
Speaker 1: way the m c U. But Thanos is essentially an Eternal,
26:38
Speaker 1: so although obviously a different guy, he's a Titan in
26:41
Speaker 1: this but so yeah, because we meet his brother at
26:46
Speaker 1: the end of Eternals, one of the mid credit sequence
26:50
Speaker 1: has a character called Aeros slash star Fox show up
26:54
Speaker 1: star foxes than through a bunch of like rings um
26:59
Speaker 1: to get points a barrel roll. Um, but yeah, it's
27:06
Speaker 1: so anyway. I did not like Eternals. Um. I felt
27:11
Speaker 1: I felt it it didn't hold its logical center. It
27:16
Speaker 1: was not it felt it felt strangely empty for such
27:21
Speaker 1: a long movie with so many characters in it. I Uh,
27:25
Speaker 1: the end of it made me interested to see the
27:26
Speaker 1: second Eternal's movie, if they ever make one. Um. I
27:30
Speaker 1: don't know how they could have done it better with
27:32
Speaker 1: so many characters. I know Guardians of the Galaxy did it,
27:35
Speaker 1: but I don't like. I couldn't. I couldn't say this
27:38
Speaker 1: is the formula to make it happen. Um. My biggest
27:41
Speaker 1: problem is that there's a celestial that half births out
27:45
Speaker 1: of the Earth. You can see it from outer space,
27:46
Speaker 1: and how is that not in like Hawkeye? Um. There's
27:53
Speaker 1: also like a very big tonal difference between Hawkeye and
27:57
Speaker 1: shan Chi and the Eternals and uh, big big spoiler. Um, Well,
28:03
Speaker 1: I don't know, I know who who The voices in
28:05
Speaker 1: the final end credit scene that talks to the Black Knight,
28:09
Speaker 1: who is Jon Snow from Thrones. I had to look
28:13
Speaker 1: it up because I did not have any idea who
28:16
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be, And only by looking it
28:18
Speaker 1: up did I realize who the character was. I think
28:21
Speaker 1: it's okay to say, right, yeah, it's Blade. It's Blade,
28:25
Speaker 1: and we knew what the Blade movie is coming out.
28:27
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. We've talked about how does that
28:29
Speaker 1: fit into the m c U. I figured there is
28:34
Speaker 1: what I want to know, Well, he fits into the
28:37
Speaker 1: Black Knight storyline. Blade and Black Knight do encounter each
28:42
Speaker 1: other in the comics, But I feel like and and
28:45
Speaker 1: and Black Knight and Sarcy do you have a relationship
28:49
Speaker 1: in the comics. But I feel like trying to get
28:51
Speaker 1: him into that movie where there's so many other characters
28:53
Speaker 1: and get us to care about him was a bit much.
28:57
Speaker 1: Um they probably could have done it in another way.
28:59
Speaker 1: I also felt like it was a total misfire because,
29:02
Speaker 1: all right, let's say that I'm at the movies. I'm
29:04
Speaker 1: watching it in the theater when it when Eternals first
29:07
Speaker 1: comes out, So there's there's nothing online explaining the mid
29:10
Speaker 1: credits and in credit scene. Yet I see the mid
29:13
Speaker 1: credit scene. Let's say that I'm not like a Marvel
29:15
Speaker 1: comic book super fan. So this character star Fox shows up.
29:20
Speaker 1: I don't know who star Fox is. So like star
29:23
Speaker 1: Fox and Pip, and I don't know who either of
29:25
Speaker 1: those characters are, so they're revealed. Doesn't do anything for me, right,
29:29
Speaker 1: Like I don't like like, Okay, so these two characters
29:32
Speaker 1: I don't know just showed up to talk to characters
29:34
Speaker 1: I don't care about, yea. And then at the end
29:38
Speaker 1: you have the Little Black Night sequence where he's contemplating
29:41
Speaker 1: actually picking up the sword and he hasn't done it yet,
29:44
Speaker 1: and then you hear this voice off screen say something
29:48
Speaker 1: if you aren't already aware of who that is, how
29:51
Speaker 1: would you even know it was Blade? And why would
29:53
Speaker 1: you care? Like none of it it was like all
29:56
Speaker 1: bad decisions. If you saw that it was Blade, that
30:00
Speaker 1: would have gotten a reaction out of it. Yeah, yeah,
30:02
Speaker 1: But just hearing a voice without knowing who it is, no,
30:05
Speaker 1: I I agree with that. I feel like they put
30:09
Speaker 1: so much in for people who are actually fans of
30:11
Speaker 1: the Eternals the comics, um. But when you're trying to
30:15
Speaker 1: appeal to a mass audience, like I said, the the
30:18
Speaker 1: charisma of Pip and Star Fox at the end of
30:22
Speaker 1: The Eternals made it seem like it would be fun
30:25
Speaker 1: to go into a future story with the characters that
30:27
Speaker 1: I did like. One of the characters I actually liked
30:29
Speaker 1: in the movie, who I know very little about is
30:31
Speaker 1: the Speedster the Flash equivalent, because we spend maybe five
30:36
Speaker 1: minutes with her the entire movie. One of the more
30:38
Speaker 1: charismatic characters, even though she doesn't speak. Yeah, yeah, which
30:42
Speaker 1: is super awesome. Um So, I wish they had focused
30:46
Speaker 1: more on that. They chose the wrong characters to focus on, mainly,
30:51
Speaker 1: um which was not much time for anybody. Um So, Yeah.
30:55
Speaker 1: I also think it was a misfire. I think that
30:58
Speaker 1: there is a way that they could make those characters
31:00
Speaker 1: fun in future stuff, but I don't know if they
31:02
Speaker 1: could carry their own second movie. Yeah. I mean it
31:05
Speaker 1: does say at the end, like you, the Eternals will return.
31:08
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't bet money on that because I mean,
31:14
Speaker 1: like the response to Eternals, there's no secret to it.
31:18
Speaker 1: It was incredibly lackluster, and I'm pretty sure that the
31:22
Speaker 1: folks over at Disney at this point they're saying, doesn't
31:25
Speaker 1: even make sense to pour the resources into making another
31:29
Speaker 1: Eternals movie. I mean maybe a mini series, maybe a
31:32
Speaker 1: Disney Plus series, although obviously that would mean like a
31:36
Speaker 1: big step down in the visual effects budget range, but
31:41
Speaker 1: they would work. They also, I guess it is one
31:44
Speaker 1: of the more adults m CU movies. You know there
31:47
Speaker 1: was a sex scene in it, um very you have
31:52
Speaker 1: very PG sex scene. But yes, there is one, a
31:54
Speaker 1: very PG sex scene, but more than we've gotten I think,
31:57
Speaker 1: in any other Marvel movie. So it stands out. I
32:02
Speaker 1: mean not not in comparison to anything that I saw
32:06
Speaker 1: in the first two episodes of Peacekeeper, which I don't
32:08
Speaker 1: think we have time to talk about maker, I'm gonna
32:12
Speaker 1: get wrong every single time. We've run out of time.
32:15
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll maybe we'll chat with about Peacemaker in
32:19
Speaker 1: next week's episode, because then maybe you'll have seen all
32:22
Speaker 1: the episodes that are up to date. Maybe are are
32:26
Speaker 1: you caught up? I know you had watched all of
32:28
Speaker 1: them at the time, but there was another one that
32:29
Speaker 1: came out. Yeah, yeah, I am caught up. I mean
32:32
Speaker 1: there will be another one that comes out the same
32:34
Speaker 1: day that this episode comes out, and obviously I'll have
32:36
Speaker 1: to watch that one too. I'm making the commitment to you, Jonathan,
32:40
Speaker 1: to catch up so we can fully discuss this because
32:42
Speaker 1: I have very specific feelings on it. I am not surprised. Well,
32:49
Speaker 1: we'll leave that off for now because you know, we
32:52
Speaker 1: have the eye of wind enough about eternals, so we'll
32:58
Speaker 1: leave We'll leave that, and when we come back, we
33:00
Speaker 1: will discuss some mashups. All right, So our mashups are
33:22
Speaker 1: kind of based off of recent news stuff, but kind
33:25
Speaker 1: of not. Um. We are mashing up Hercules with Fraggle Rock.
33:30
Speaker 1: And the reason for Hercules is that Arnold Schwarzenegger tease
33:33
Speaker 1: that he's playing Zeus in something upcoming. Now. Some people
33:37
Speaker 1: feel that might be a super Bowl commercial. And if
33:40
Speaker 1: that's the case, well, I'm sure I'll enjoy the commercial.
33:42
Speaker 1: I'm kind of p o. I do not like super
33:44
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials to be ruined for me. Um. And I
33:48
Speaker 1: don't need trailers for them. Uh, you don't need a
33:51
Speaker 1: commercial for a commercial. Yeah. And and the other thing
33:55
Speaker 1: is Frago Fraggle Rock Back to the Rock just came
33:58
Speaker 1: out on Apple TV along with like a behind the
34:01
Speaker 1: scenes little short video on YouTube and intro and it
34:06
Speaker 1: just is everything that I love about Fragle Rock returned. Yeah,
34:15
Speaker 1: So the Zoos thing really reminds me, like, I am
34:18
Speaker 1: certain it's a super Bowl ad. I have no doubt
34:21
Speaker 1: it's just a commercial that's going to play in the
34:23
Speaker 1: super Bowl. It reminds me a lot of when they
34:26
Speaker 1: were teasing there was going to be another Big Lebowski movie,
34:31
Speaker 1: but it was just the character of the dude showing
34:33
Speaker 1: up in a beer commercial, like as I saw when
34:37
Speaker 1: I saw the first promos for that, I was like,
34:39
Speaker 1: this is for a super Bowl ad back when the
34:41
Speaker 1: Big Lebowski thing happened, And I'm gaining the exact same
34:43
Speaker 1: vibes with the Zoos thing. Yeah, which is so sad
34:46
Speaker 1: because I saw the Big Lebowski ad it was okay.
34:49
Speaker 1: It would have been better if I didn't know it
34:51
Speaker 1: was coming because there was too much build up for
34:53
Speaker 1: a mediocre commercial. Yeah, I agree. I still maintained super
34:58
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials need to be complete surprise. Yeah. I also
35:03
Speaker 1: like the ones that end up uh playing with each other,
35:07
Speaker 1: Like when you see an ad later in the game
35:10
Speaker 1: that references, especially if it's two different things, like if
35:13
Speaker 1: it's for two different products or companies or whatever. But
35:16
Speaker 1: when a later ad reference is an earlier ad, I'm
35:20
Speaker 1: like well, that's cute. I like that, but I don't
35:22
Speaker 1: need it. I don't need posters and trailers for an
35:25
Speaker 1: ad like I don't even I mean, I don't even
35:29
Speaker 1: watch TV anymore. I hardly ever see ads anymore anyway,
35:32
Speaker 1: unless I'm seeking them out, so I don't really care.
35:36
Speaker 1: I will watch the super Bowl, and I will watch
35:38
Speaker 1: the commercials, and I will watch the halftime show. So yep,
35:43
Speaker 1: that's where we part ways. I will I will be
35:46
Speaker 1: watching I don't know, probably Community or something, Keeper, peace Maker, Trapper,
35:53
Speaker 1: Trapper Keeper, trapper Keeper. Yeah. So so let's give a
35:57
Speaker 1: quick rundown on these properties. Though. Hercules obviously a mythic figure, uh,
36:05
Speaker 1: son of Zeus has He's a demigod, He's got incredible strength. Uh.
36:11
Speaker 1: There are lots of different legends about him. There's obviously
36:14
Speaker 1: the Disney film that's loosely based Yeah, very loosely based
36:20
Speaker 1: off the legends of Hercules. They really make you like
36:24
Speaker 1: the Hercules megaa pairing, but spoiler alert, folks, things do
36:31
Speaker 1: not end well if you keep reading them the myths.
36:34
Speaker 1: Um So anyway, side note, I was so upset that
36:38
Speaker 1: they were to party. They were so loose on the
36:40
Speaker 1: Hercules because I loved Greek mythology as as a school child. Um,
36:45
Speaker 1: I was so upset with how loosely based it was
36:48
Speaker 1: on Hercules that I did not watch that movie till
36:50
Speaker 1: I was an adult. I really like that movie though,
36:54
Speaker 1: and yes it is. I really like the music. Yeah, well,
36:59
Speaker 1: I mean it's another like it came out of the
37:03
Speaker 1: Ashman Lincoln era, although well it's after the Ashman mincl era,
37:08
Speaker 1: but you still had, you know, one half of the
37:11
Speaker 1: team working on that one. And um, yeah, I think
37:14
Speaker 1: the music is great. I think the cartoons very entertaining.
37:16
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the more uh forgotten about
37:20
Speaker 1: Disney movies, right up there with like The Emperor's New Groove.
37:23
Speaker 1: It's one of those that, you know, the people who
37:25
Speaker 1: love it, they really love it, and then everyone else
37:27
Speaker 1: is like, oh, yeah, that existed. But but you know,
37:30
Speaker 1: Disney always takes an enormous departure from source material to
37:36
Speaker 1: tell their version of these stories, right Ariel, Yes, no,
37:40
Speaker 1: I'm aware. I've also not seen The Emperor's New Groove yet.
37:43
Speaker 1: Um wow, you gotta watch that. It's It's It's again.
37:49
Speaker 1: It's one of like I haven't seen up, I haven't
37:50
Speaker 1: seen Emperor's New Groove. I haven't seen Nightmare before Christmas.
37:53
Speaker 1: There are certain ones that I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
37:54
Speaker 1: watch it, and then they're so built up for me
37:56
Speaker 1: that I just I lose interest. I know I need
37:59
Speaker 1: to watch it. Yeah, I think I think you'll be
38:02
Speaker 1: entertained by it. I'm not going to call it the Grace.
38:04
Speaker 1: It's it's a very strange Disney movie because it's so zany,
38:10
Speaker 1: much more zany than your typical mainstream Disney animated feature is. Yeah,
38:16
Speaker 1: I will watch it, even if it's just so that
38:17
Speaker 1: I can communicate with some of our friends who love
38:19
Speaker 1: it and put references in every other sentence about it.
38:24
Speaker 1: Um Uh, I can context clue most of them. Um.
38:28
Speaker 1: The other the other property is Fraggle Rock. It's at
38:30
Speaker 1: Jim Henson show that is very old that is getting
38:33
Speaker 1: a resurgence. Jordan Joseph Gordon Levitt was working on it
38:36
Speaker 1: at one point. Um, he's not involved in the current property.
38:41
Speaker 1: It's about a bunch of these creatures called Fraggles that
38:43
Speaker 1: live underground that dancer cares away worries for another day,
38:46
Speaker 1: except for, of course, they do have worries. Because all
38:48
Speaker 1: shows need conflict. They eat radishes, which they steal from
38:51
Speaker 1: the gorg's which live above ground. Um. They have a
38:55
Speaker 1: wise sage called Madam Trash. I guess Marjorie trash heap.
38:59
Speaker 1: I thought Madam trash heat, but apparently it's not um.
39:03
Speaker 1: And there are these other creatures that they also destroyed
39:07
Speaker 1: the livelihood of, called the dousers. So these fraggles destroyed
39:12
Speaker 1: deuser hard work in engineering, and they also eat the
39:17
Speaker 1: thing that keep the gorgs from disappearing. So they're kind
39:21
Speaker 1: of pests. Yeah, but but I mean for the users,
39:26
Speaker 1: it's actually unnecessary. It turns out, like the stories essentially
39:30
Speaker 1: tell you that Fraggles, Gorgs, and users all are interdependent
39:34
Speaker 1: upon each other, and if any one of those entities
39:38
Speaker 1: were to go away, the other two would suffer. And
39:42
Speaker 1: in fact, there's an entire episode about what happens when
39:44
Speaker 1: the fraggles stopped eating user construction, which is made out
39:48
Speaker 1: of a material that comes from radishes. So we are
39:53
Speaker 1: mashing up Hercules and fraggle rock. Um, why who do
39:59
Speaker 1: you want to go first? I can do it, um. Okay,
40:03
Speaker 1: this is called Hercules and Mount trash Olympus. Once upon
40:06
Speaker 1: a time to Gorgs of Mount trash Olympus get it,
40:10
Speaker 1: God whom they're subjects called Mot and Paw had a
40:15
Speaker 1: most unusual baby. You see, this baby had the strength
40:18
Speaker 1: of a Gorgon, but it looks like a fraggle. The
40:21
Speaker 1: gorgons arch nemesis gorks Gorge is the plural of Gorg's
40:27
Speaker 1: arch nemesis. You see. Ever since the Fraggles had invaded
40:31
Speaker 1: the gors land, the Gors had begun to disappear. But
40:35
Speaker 1: despite the gors general dislike of fraggles, they love their
40:38
Speaker 1: little baby and they named him Hercules. However, the Gorgs
40:41
Speaker 1: of Mount trash Olympus had another child, Hate These. Well.
40:46
Speaker 1: His real name was actually Junior Gorg, but he always
40:48
Speaker 1: yelled so much about how he hated these darn fraggles.
40:51
Speaker 1: Whenever he saw one that he got the nickname Hate These,
40:54
Speaker 1: and Hate These would often pot plot with his two
40:56
Speaker 1: Hedgehrats fillowing Gunge to just suppose of Hercules, including trying
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Speaker 1: to sell him to a conman named the Wander mc
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Speaker 1: named Wander mcmooch in exchange for some magic beans or something.
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Speaker 1: But Junior Hate These was never successful and he was
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Speaker 1: always stopped by Mom pap However, Mom pau knew that
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Speaker 1: Junior Say was too strong for Hercules to remain safe,
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Speaker 1: so they sent him away from Mount trash Olympus to
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Speaker 1: live with the Fraggles. The Fraggles were also suspicious of
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Speaker 1: this newcomer who looked like them but was from the
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Speaker 1: realm of the Gorg's, so Hercules had to prove himself
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Speaker 1: to be accepted. He was set to a plethora of
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Speaker 1: well Herculean tasks. Red made him convince a blue dragon
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Speaker 1: to give him three golden apples. Boober made him clean
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Speaker 1: the home of a creature called the Beastie. Wembley had
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Speaker 1: Hercules capture and bring back a tree creature as a pet,
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Speaker 1: and he had to subdue a grown poison cackler. He
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Speaker 1: even had to obtain the girder of Chief Duce Polita,
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Speaker 1: and the list went on and on. All the while
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Speaker 1: the Fraggles would dancer cares away, leaving their worries for
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Speaker 1: poor Hercules. Hercule lease longed for his home, so one day,
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Speaker 1: in a lull between his tasks, he ventured to Mount
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Speaker 1: trash Olympus, who all of a sudden sprang to life
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Speaker 1: via hercules Is tears of sorrow and gave Hercules on
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Speaker 1: advice on how to make peace with both the Fraggles
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Speaker 1: and Junior, which he did, and he was able to
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Speaker 1: live happily ever after in both worlds and bring peace
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Speaker 1: between the Fraggles and the Gorgs. And I can't tell
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Speaker 1: you what that advice was because this is a tale
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Speaker 1: from ancient tresh Lympus and that knowledge has been lost.
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Speaker 1: The end fitting Okay, well, I'm gonna just launch right
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Speaker 1: into mine. Uh it's called hercule Rock huh or maybe
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but here we go. Red Fraggle has
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Speaker 1: a problem, But that's not really what I want to
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Speaker 1: focus on right now. Let's just say Red has been
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Speaker 1: procrastinating all week and she still needs to put in
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Speaker 1: her thirty minutes of work to pull her weight. By
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Speaker 1: the way, thirty minutes is how much work the average
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Speaker 1: Fraggle has to do in a week. But Red's totally
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Speaker 1: enthusiastic about the idea of of doing work, and she's
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Speaker 1: eagerly looking at any excuse to put it off. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Gobo gets a postcard from his uncle traveling Matt, and
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Speaker 1: he starts to read it as we get a cross
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Speaker 1: baide where we see Traveling Matt acting out the things
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Speaker 1: he describes in the postcard. Dear Nephew, Gobo, I have
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Speaker 1: been a particularly interesting silly creature who has taken on
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Speaker 1: quite a few odd jobs. He is called Hercules, or
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Speaker 1: maybe Heracles, I'm not certain. There seems to be some
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Speaker 1: disagreement on the matter, but this silly creature has been
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Speaker 1: told to do ten jobs for a king. First up
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Speaker 1: is defeating a very large furry creature called the Nemean lion.
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Speaker 1: I tagged along to witness the event, and let me
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Speaker 1: tell you, it was spectacular. Now, at this point, we
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Speaker 1: see Traveling Matt being chased around by a large lion
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Speaker 1: like beast. It very nearly got the best of the
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Speaker 1: silly creature, but thanks to my quick thinking, it all
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Speaker 1: turned out okay, And we see Traveling Matt trip and
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Speaker 1: then the pursuing lion trips over Traveling Matt, and then
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Speaker 1: Hercules totally beats the stuffing out of the lion. I
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Speaker 1: think it's a funny kind of job, but then these
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Speaker 1: are silly creatures. Love Traveling Matt. Then we cut back
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Speaker 1: to the main story where I don't care. Red explains
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Speaker 1: she can't get to work her work at this moment
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Speaker 1: because there's this glowing rock that she has to see
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Speaker 1: because maybe it'll stop glowing at any minute. But really
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Speaker 1: it's just an excuse so that she can, you know,
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Speaker 1: not do her work right at that moment. And some
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Speaker 1: silly fraggle stuff happens, and then we get another postcard.
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Speaker 1: My dear nephew, Gobo. The silly creature is really working
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Speaker 1: his way down his list of chores. Maybe the silly
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Speaker 1: creatures are very large relatives of the dousers, because this
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Speaker 1: one works harder than anyone I have ever met in
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Speaker 1: my life. After the fight with the Big Kitty Cat,
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Speaker 1: he was told to remove of a pest called a hydra,
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Speaker 1: and we see Traveling Matt watching Hercules do battle with
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Speaker 1: a hydra. Once again. I thought I would lend a hand,
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Speaker 1: and Traveling Matt, while moving to get a better view,
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Speaker 1: accidentally knocks over a large flaming brazier that cauterizes the
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Speaker 1: stumps of the hydra's neck, which prevents more heads from growing.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, the silly Creature's boss was unhappy that
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Speaker 1: I had joined in, and he told the Silly creature
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Speaker 1: that this job wouldn't count and he would have to
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Speaker 1: do another job at its place. I am amazed at
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Speaker 1: this silly creature's determination to get the job done. I
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Speaker 1: wonder what inspired his work ethic Love Traveling Matt. Then
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Speaker 1: we go back to the Fraggle story, where we see
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Speaker 1: some of the Fraggles debating on whether or not they
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Speaker 1: should help Red out with her workload. Boober is dead
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Speaker 1: set against it, but Wimbley is not so sure. Gobo
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel right about helping Red shirt her duties, and
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Speaker 1: then we get another postcard. My dear neview Gobo. So
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Speaker 1: much has happened in the last few days. My friend,
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Speaker 1: the silly creature with different names, caught a couple of
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Speaker 1: very large but very different furry creatures. Then his boss
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Speaker 1: told him that he needed to clean a long building
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Speaker 1: filled with stinky furry creatures and they're very very stinky.
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Speaker 1: Boop poops. My silly creature friend did something really clever.
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Speaker 1: He changed the course of a river to flow through
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Speaker 1: the structure. This cleaned everything out very quickly, but his
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Speaker 1: boss was again upset, saying the water did all the work.
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Speaker 1: These silly creatures really get hung up on their details.
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Speaker 1: Love Traveling bat Okay, So in the main storyline at
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Speaker 1: this point, Red is pretending she can't do the work
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Speaker 1: because she's sick. This concerns her friends, who are all
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Speaker 1: worried about Red's health, and they tell her they will
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Speaker 1: cover her workload for her. But they also reveal they
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Speaker 1: retrieved some medicine from the gore garden Bread terrified that
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Speaker 1: she might have to drink icky medicine has a miraculous recovery.
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Speaker 1: But if she's well now, doesn't that mean she can
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Speaker 1: do her own work. Before we get that answer, we
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Speaker 1: get another postcard. Dear Nephew Gobo, I have left my
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Speaker 1: friend the Silly Creature behind. He still has a few
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Speaker 1: jobs on his to do list, but after watching him,
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Speaker 1: I find myself exhausted. He has literally moved a river.
47:18
Speaker 1: He has captured yet more furry creatures, and most recently,
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Speaker 1: he stole a woman's belt and we see Hercules running
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Speaker 1: off with the girdle Hippo Hippolita, and Hippolita is chasing
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Speaker 1: after him, yelling something in Greek. Well, the Silly Creature
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Speaker 1: is a hard worker and seems determined to complete every
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Speaker 1: job given to him. I am not sure the jobs
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Speaker 1: make much sense. The silly creatures say a job worth
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Speaker 1: doing is worth doing well? But what is a job
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Speaker 1: not worth doing worth These are the kind of questions
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Speaker 1: I hope to answer in my travels. I hope that
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Speaker 1: you are well love traveling Matt, And our episode ends
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Speaker 1: with Red actually putting in her whole half hour of
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Speaker 1: work for the week all at once, and then lapsing
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Speaker 1: in exhaustion, but feeling better about herself the end. That
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Speaker 1: was delightful and a way better mashup than mine, Like
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Speaker 1: it made sense as opposed to me, like taking really
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Speaker 1: deep cut said, if you only know Fraggle Rock, you
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Speaker 1: might vaguely get um well, I structured mind kind of
48:22
Speaker 1: like a Fraggle Rock episode in that most episodes there
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Speaker 1: is some point where the Fraggles learned some sort of
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Speaker 1: lesson and it ties in with whatever traveling Matt was
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Speaker 1: doing at the same time. So that was that was
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Speaker 1: my inspiration there. And of course the Labors of Hercules
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Speaker 1: obviously that had to be just like you referenced the
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Speaker 1: Labors of Hercules, that had to be part of the mashup. Yes,
48:44
Speaker 1: And I feel like, really the moral of the stories
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Speaker 1: that I need to get Apple TV so I can
48:50
Speaker 1: watch the new Fraggle Rock series. So I can be
48:52
Speaker 1: better at Fraggle Rock bashups. Yes, I need to watch
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Speaker 1: it too. I need to watch it too. I've only
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Speaker 1: seen I've only seen the original series. I've never watched
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Speaker 1: the cartoon, and I haven't seen the shorts that were
49:03
Speaker 1: released like a couple of years ago. So I haven't
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Speaker 1: seen the shorts. I did watch the cartoon. You're not
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Speaker 1: missing a whole lot there. Like it, it loses something
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Speaker 1: in animation. I would say, well, we don't want to
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Speaker 1: lose your ideas, dear listeners. So if you have suggestions
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Speaker 1: for mash ups that we can do, maybe you have
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Speaker 1: your own Hercules Fraggle Rock idea that you want to
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Speaker 1: a quick high to your wrong about incredible it turtles,
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49:49
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49:54
Speaker 1: hear from you. Uh, and you know we we've been
49:57
Speaker 1: getting some great messages. I mean obviously that's what spawned
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Speaker 1: us talking about Eternals. Maybe next week we can talk
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Speaker 1: about peace Maker. I almost did the same thinges even Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's an easy mistake to make, So
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Speaker 1: we'll hopefully be able to touch on that next week.
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Speaker 1: We will talk about it first of all, before we
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Speaker 1: even say anything else about it. I think I can
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Speaker 1: I can put that forward as having one of the
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Speaker 1: best opening credits sequences of any TV show I've ever seen. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it is a good opening sequence, and I there are
50:34
Speaker 1: some parallels to it with Eternals, but we'll get into
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Speaker 1: that when we talk about it. Yes, and until next time,
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