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Speaker 1: The large Ner Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hi everybody, Welcome to The large Ner
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Speaker 1: Drunk Collider Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky
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Speaker 1: things happening in the world around us and how very
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Speaker 1: excited we are about them. I'm aerial casting and with
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Speaker 1: me as always, is looking sharp in the studio Jonathan Strickland,
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Speaker 1: I'm not in my house. It's it's jarring, not in
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Speaker 1: a bad way, just in a like I'm a creature
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Speaker 1: of of repetition. So yeah, so seeing like like sheets
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Speaker 1: of foam behind my head, are it is a little
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Speaker 1: it's it throws you off. Yeah, no, it's totally fine.
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Speaker 1: It's totally fine. I had to come into the studio
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Speaker 1: for unrelated reasons and just was one of those things
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Speaker 1: where it made more sense to record from here than
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Speaker 1: to try and rush home and set everything up there. So, uh, sat,
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Speaker 1: great show, just a slightly different location for me, probably
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Speaker 1: sounds a little different. I'm also recording on a different
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Speaker 1: microphone than I usually use. So for all those out there, who,
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Speaker 1: like Ariel, are creatures of habit, do not do not worry,
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Speaker 1: Do not fear. Your beloved show is still here and
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Speaker 1: That means that I have a question for Ariel. Okay, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: here's your question. What is your favorite amusement park ride.
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Speaker 1: I think that would be Stall for Time. Stall for
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Speaker 1: a Time. Uh no, I think that for me. Oh gosh, well,
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Speaker 1: it's changed recently. It has changed recently. So it used
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Speaker 1: to be the Men in Black ride at Universal Studios Orlando. Um,
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Speaker 1: just because I liked the video game aspect and the
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Speaker 1: idea that you could mess with the opposing team. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Tower of Terror is really really great. They're all like
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Speaker 1: Universal and Disney rides. Tower of Terror is really great.
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Speaker 1: But I think the most amazing experience that I've ever
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Speaker 1: had it is Disney Park. Was Rise of the Resistance
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Speaker 1: at Galaxy's Edge in Florida. That was It's a it's
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Speaker 1: a Star Wars ride. It's the ride itself is cool,
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Speaker 1: but just everything surrounding the ride is really amazing, and
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Speaker 1: if you avoid spoilers before going on it, it's even
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Speaker 1: it's just like my moggling. So that is my favorite
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Speaker 1: amusement ride. If you're gonna go like six Flags or
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Speaker 1: something like that, then it's the Batman. It's a roller
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Speaker 1: coaster where your feet hang down and every once in
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Speaker 1: a while they make it go backwards and it's really uncomfortable,
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Speaker 1: but it's also fun. What about you, Jonathan, I'm not
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Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean guy. Still through and through. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion are probably my
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Speaker 1: two favorite rides. And um, one day I might say
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Speaker 1: Pirates and the next day I might say Haunted Mansion.
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Speaker 1: But those are my two favorites, even though I've written
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Speaker 1: them a billion times each. Um, Tower of Tears good.
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Speaker 1: I actually prefer the Guardians of the Galaxy version, which
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Speaker 1: is at Disneyland. Um. I think to Disney it's it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Pirates of the Caribbean is better at
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Speaker 1: Disneyland too. I say that as someone who is a
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Speaker 1: hardcore fan of disney World. I mean that's like my
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Speaker 1: home park. But yeah, I still have to admit that
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Speaker 1: Pirates is better at Disneyland. I think Handed Mansion. I
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Speaker 1: think I prefer that at disney World. The Disneyland layout
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Speaker 1: makes more sense, but the theming at disney World I prefer. Um.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the Guardians like need to ride
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Speaker 1: the Guardians version, not that it's like the right itself.
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Speaker 1: Is still the same as Tower of Terror. It's not
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Speaker 1: like they could change that. But the effects and the
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Speaker 1: soundtrack and all the jokes and stuff. It's just fun.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun ride. I hope to make it out
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Speaker 1: to California to go to Disneyland someday. It's just an
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Speaker 1: expensive trip to go to an expensive theme park. Uh.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting though, because I never when someone asked, what's
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Speaker 1: your favorite ride? I never think of the ones that
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Speaker 1: aren't like thrill rides. And it's ridiculous because as a
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Speaker 1: child I hated thrill rides. I went on the Great
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Speaker 1: White Woody or so Great Great, the Great White whatever
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Speaker 1: it was called, roller coaster up in New Hampshire when
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Speaker 1: I was four, and my parents were like, are you sure,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, yep, I'm sure. I'm not even
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Speaker 1: gonna scream and I didn't. But I hated roller coasters
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Speaker 1: for a very very long time after that. Um. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think if you're going water ride, though, the best
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Speaker 1: water rides that I have experienced have been at Universal
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Speaker 1: Studios Orlando. The pop By Rapid Rivers is a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun. It's long, it's like people interact with you.
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Speaker 1: It it's just got a bunch of stuff that I
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Speaker 1: don't normally experience on rapid rivers and then they're deadly
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Speaker 1: do right falls which is like a log flume is
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Speaker 1: also a lot of fun. Yeah, I've never written those
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Speaker 1: because I don't like walking around in wet jeans and
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Speaker 1: um so I've never I need to bring like a
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Speaker 1: change of clothes to Universal and finally ride those because
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Speaker 1: I've never been on those. Um. I did write the
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Speaker 1: Star Wars ride. Uh. I appreciated it from a technical level.
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Speaker 1: I will say it that. I'll say that way. Did
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Speaker 1: you run into technical difficulties because that ride is very
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Speaker 1: prone to them? I did not. There were no technical
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Speaker 1: difficulties when I wrote it. I just, um, I think,
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Speaker 1: I think my love of Star Wars is extremely particular
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Speaker 1: now and if it falls outside of that narrow band
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Speaker 1: of love for Star Wars, I have just not going
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Speaker 1: to enjoy myself. And that's on me. I at you, Okay,
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Speaker 1: the the flying the Millennium Falcon was cool, but it's
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Speaker 1: the other one that I like better. But I can
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Speaker 1: understand if you don't like it. I mean, I agree
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Speaker 1: like the flying the Millennium Falcon was a neat idea.
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Speaker 1: Uh not I didn't enjoy the ride that much. I
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Speaker 1: thought Rise of the Resistance was the better ride. I
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Speaker 1: just don't like the sequels, so the setting doesn't work
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Speaker 1: for me. Oh okay, yes, yes, yes, um. I ignored
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Speaker 1: most of that and just paid attention to the the
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Speaker 1: Q portion. The Q portion is really what I like
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Speaker 1: about that ride, especially if you get good cast members. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when you go through like the transport and everything, it's
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Speaker 1: really cool how they do that. Well, something else that's
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Speaker 1: cool that we need to talk about is the news,
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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of it and there's some fun
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Speaker 1: stuff in there. The first of which is that we
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Speaker 1: are getting a TV series based on the old nineteen
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Speaker 1: I think it's twenty seven seven in movie Metropolis. You
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Speaker 1: might go, what's Metropolis if you haven't listened to our
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Speaker 1: episode on old like old sci fi and fantasy films
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Speaker 1: that people don't remember anymore. I mean a lot of
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Speaker 1: people remember Metropolis, to be fair, but it's it's one
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Speaker 1: of the for like, it's the first sci fi I
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Speaker 1: think of when I think of sci fi. It's not
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Speaker 1: the first sci fi movie, but it's it's the first
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Speaker 1: one that comes to my mind, and it's dystopian and
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Speaker 1: there's robots and things like that. Yeah, there's there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of iconic imagery from Metropolis that if you were
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Speaker 1: to see a single frame from the movie, you'd say, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I recognize that. I've seen that represented in other art
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Speaker 1: or I've even seen references to it. Incredibly influential film,
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Speaker 1: and now we're getting a series based off of it,
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Speaker 1: what should be really fascinating. Metropolis is a movie. I
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Speaker 1: have seen it. It's been a very long time since
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Speaker 1: I watched it. Um, And even though it's not a
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Speaker 1: very long movie, it is it is. Uh, it's paced
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Speaker 1: in a way that will make it feel a bit
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Speaker 1: longer to modern audiences. It can be a bit of
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Speaker 1: a still haven't seen it. Still haven't seen it. Um.
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Speaker 1: By the time, by the time this episode goes live,
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Speaker 1: maybe I will have seen it, but as the recording
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Speaker 1: I have not. Yeah, I'm excited to see what this
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Speaker 1: is because I mean, the original film, like I said,
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Speaker 1: was really important in the history of of cinematic science fiction.
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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, and it's not it's not
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Speaker 1: necessarily one that you know, It's not like a well
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Speaker 1: that people have gone to a ton of times Obviously
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Speaker 1: there's been tons of stuff influenced by Metropolis, but we
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Speaker 1: haven't seen like a retelling. Yeah, and you might go
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Speaker 1: if you've actually heard before us that Metropolis is gonna
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Speaker 1: be a TV show. While that was announced in March,
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Speaker 1: we missed it, but we found out about it this
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Speaker 1: week because they're using Mandalorian tech for it. That the
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Speaker 1: backdrop thing that we talked about where they're putting up
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Speaker 1: like images of the background instead of just a green screen. Um,
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Speaker 1: they're adopting that for Metropolis. It's also being worked on
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Speaker 1: by the dude who did Mr. Robots. So if you
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Speaker 1: like that, you might like this, And if you like
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Speaker 1: video games, you may or may not like the next
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Speaker 1: couple of stories we have because well, let's let's face it.
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Speaker 1: You know, with a with a few exceptions, video game
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Speaker 1: adaptations that go to series or movies haven't always turned
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Speaker 1: out so great. Like for every Mortal Combat you've got
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Speaker 1: a Street Fighter, for every Sonic you've got a Super
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Speaker 1: Mario Brothers. So there's not not a perfect track record there,
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Speaker 1: but you see there are moments of Street Fighter that
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Speaker 1: are amazing because the actors just mits so hard. M Bison,
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Speaker 1: the actor who plays in Bison commits hard. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well he's just good and everything, you know, and it
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Speaker 1: was it was his final film role. I yeah, so
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Speaker 1: I can't hit it, but also, like some Super Mario Brothers, don't.
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Speaker 1: It's terrible. It's terrible, and you should feel bad anyway.
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Speaker 1: The first, the first of our video game adaptation stories
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Speaker 1: is that we've heard updates about the rumored Minecraft film.
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Speaker 1: Now there's been there's been an attempt to bring Minecraft
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Speaker 1: to the movies for a while now, and it's passed
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Speaker 1: through a couple of different hands. But the current person
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Speaker 1: supposedly attached to star in a Minecraft film is my man,
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Speaker 1: Jason Moboa. Uh yeah, And I like what the Hollywood
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Speaker 1: reporter says about it, like he seems like the perfect
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Speaker 1: zany guy just stick into a pixelated world full of boxes.
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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what they said. Guy gets
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Speaker 1: sucked into a video game. We don't know anything about
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Speaker 1: the plot. I mean, yeah, this is movie that's supposed
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Speaker 1: to come out in two with the people who made
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Speaker 1: Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and Rob mceleny, who Jonathan
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Speaker 1: and I both like, he's he's uh one of the creators,
11:22
Speaker 1: if it's always sunny in Philadelphia and it's the person
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Speaker 1: who made Napoleon Dynamite, which I'm not familiar with the
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Speaker 1: other things that Jared has has done, or if i am,
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Speaker 1: I'm not aware that he is the person that did them.
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Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to think about Jason Momoa in
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Speaker 1: Napoleon Dynamite, and I know he's a good actor, but
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Speaker 1: it's just kind of making my brain implode just a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, And and for my part, like you know,
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Speaker 1: like you said, we don't know anything about the plot.
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Speaker 1: We don't know if this is going to be like
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Speaker 1: a Tron style story where Jason Momoa gets digitized and
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Speaker 1: pulled into the world of Minecraft, or if he's just
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Speaker 1: gonna playing a character that is in this Minecraft world
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Speaker 1: and that's just that's just been his existence the whole time.
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Speaker 1: We have no way of knowing. We know it's live action.
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Speaker 1: We know it's live action. Yeah, so we know it's
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Speaker 1: not a cartoon. But but I mean, like there are
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Speaker 1: a lot of different opportunities. Obviously, like the Minecraft being
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Speaker 1: such an open sandbox kind of experience really means that
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Speaker 1: you've got a setting, you've got some creatures, that you
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Speaker 1: can play around with, but anything else, like the sky's
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Speaker 1: the limit as to what your story is. It's not
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Speaker 1: so linear that it's like a beat him up game
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Speaker 1: where you're just slowly moving to the right and punching
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Speaker 1: bad guys that keep coming after you over and over.
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Speaker 1: Who the heck would make a game or make a
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Speaker 1: movie based off a game like that? Apparently the creator
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Speaker 1: of John Wick and you segued out because I have
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Speaker 1: many more thoughts on Minecraft, but I'll save them for
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Speaker 1: after the podcast. But that's okay. Yes, So we're getting
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Speaker 1: Streets of Rage movie from Derek Klestad, who is the
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Speaker 1: franchise creator of John Wick. Uh. And that's interesting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: um yeah, so because that's the beat him up game.
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Speaker 1: I was telling Ariel before we started recording, because you know, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: you've never played the Streets of Rage game, right, I
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Speaker 1: have not know. I thought it was like Street Spider,
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Speaker 1: but you told me it's not. No, it's I would say,
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Speaker 1: it's more like Double Dragon in the sense or or
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Speaker 1: Bad Dudes. Like there were all these games that came
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Speaker 1: out in the eighties and early nineties that were side
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Speaker 1: scrolling beat him up games where you you know, you
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Speaker 1: just you were trying to make it to the end
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Speaker 1: of the level and then to an end of series
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Speaker 1: of levels to end a storyline. But there's no deep
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Speaker 1: game play here. It's just like you're just beaten, beating
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Speaker 1: the snot out of people as you're making your way
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Speaker 1: and then occasionally facing a boss. Uh. That's how these
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Speaker 1: games typically were structured, which is what makes me say,
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Speaker 1: what the heck makes anyone think they can make a
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Speaker 1: movie based on that? Although I say that, but when
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Speaker 1: I think about it, that is kind of the structure
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Speaker 1: of every eighties martial arts action flick. So maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: it's gonna have retro appeal in it. And and vaguely,
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Speaker 1: John Wick, what I want to see is uh something
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Speaker 1: between uh Lethal Weapon and Birdman, because if it's a
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Speaker 1: side scroller, it just needs to be a one continuous
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Speaker 1: shot movie and have nothing but jazz drums and the
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Speaker 1: soundtrack the whole jash drums. Yes, that that highlight every
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Speaker 1: time someone gets hit or punched or shot, Like, I
14:44
Speaker 1: think it's now, this is the movie that I want.
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Speaker 1: And if this is not the movie that it is,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be upset. I mean, you you did
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Speaker 1: say like it's essentially just like John Wick. And now
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Speaker 1: that I think about it, you are correct that is
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Speaker 1: what John Wick is. It's just a side scrolling beat
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Speaker 1: him up with guns. I guess it's it's the way
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Speaker 1: for the creator to make more John Wick if people
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Speaker 1: are burnt out on John Wick, which I've only seen
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Speaker 1: the first two. Oh, I've seen. I've seen all three
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Speaker 1: at this point, although I didn't see them in order.
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Speaker 1: I saw the third one first. It's a bit weird,
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Speaker 1: but um, yeah, I uh, I don't know. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: also an attempt to have an action franchise that maybe
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Speaker 1: stars an actor who is not in his fifties. Um,
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Speaker 1: although they might cast an actor who's in their fifties.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's perfectly fine if they do, as
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Speaker 1: like I don't. I don't want to age out of Hollywood,
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Speaker 1: so I don't want to wish other people aging out
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Speaker 1: of Hollywood. But I do understand the desire for new talent.
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Speaker 1: But I will admit something. Whenever someone talks about Double Dragon,
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Speaker 1: I always have to confirm what movie I'm thinking of,
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Speaker 1: because sometimes I get it confused with the last Dragon. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The Dragon is probably the best martial arts movie that's
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Speaker 1: ever been made. Double Dragon is a travesty. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm aware of both of these things, but
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Speaker 1: I always have to remind myself because their names are similar. Well,
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Speaker 1: while we go and deliver our fizza to Daddy Green's Pizza,
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Speaker 1: you guys are going to take a quick break and
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Speaker 1: we'll be right back. That was some good fizza pizza,
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Speaker 1: and we're back. We're back, and we're here to talk
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Speaker 1: about a couple of other series and things that that
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Speaker 1: we've learned about, and um, some of it's really really
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Speaker 1: got me excited. Our first one is that the fact
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Speaker 1: that we're going to get a Dead Boy Detectives series. Yes,
16:59
Speaker 1: so you aren't familiar with Dead Boy Detectives because a
17:02
Speaker 1: lot of people are not. Uh, they are a a
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Speaker 1: couple of dead boys with a living friend who kind
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Speaker 1: of solve ghost stories, mysteries, things like that. They're they're
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Speaker 1: dead boys and their detectives. That's what it is. Neil
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Speaker 1: Gaiman is one of the writers for it. It's a
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Speaker 1: DC property. They showed up in the most recent was
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Speaker 1: it the most recent season of Doom Patrol? I believe so, yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and they were absolutely delightful within the series. Um, I
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Speaker 1: really enjoyed them. It's just another long line of Neil
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Speaker 1: Gaiman things coming out, and I'm I'm pretty excited about
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Speaker 1: it me too, And um, you know, having this sort
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Speaker 1: of expansion of the Doom Patrol universe is exciting. There's
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Speaker 1: one other reason that this series is really personally exciting
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Speaker 1: to me, and that's because the show runner is somebody
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Speaker 1: I know personally. Oh who is the show? I missed it?
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Speaker 1: Steve Steve Yaki. So Steve Yaki, who has worked on
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Speaker 1: several different series now, he's incredibly successful. I met Steve
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Speaker 1: when he was the house manager for Dad's Garage theater
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Speaker 1: company back in the early two thousands. He used to
18:19
Speaker 1: work at Dad's garage. In fact, Steve was the first
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Speaker 1: person to specifically reserve seats for me and my wife
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Speaker 1: to go and see shows, like before anyone. He would
18:30
Speaker 1: have our names on chairs whenever we would come to
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Speaker 1: see shows, and he really endeared himself to us that
18:38
Speaker 1: we That's one of the reasons, one of the many
18:40
Speaker 1: reasons we came to love the theater so much. And
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Speaker 1: then he eventually moved on and he was writing plays,
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Speaker 1: and then he moved out to Hollywood and started working
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Speaker 1: on lots of series, and one of them being Dead
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Speaker 1: Boy Detectives. And I'm so excited to see his work
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Speaker 1: because he's incredibly talented, very smart, really entertaining. I know
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Speaker 1: he's gonna knock it out of the park. And so
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Speaker 1: when you combine like the writing O'Neil Gaiman and the
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Speaker 1: creativity of Steve Yacky, I mean, I'm just I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to see it. Well, that is extra exciting. Um.
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Speaker 1: I hope they you know, maybe they'll film it here
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Speaker 1: because they do film Doom Patrol here, And if they
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Speaker 1: do that, maybe you'll get a chance to check up
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Speaker 1: catch up with him. That would be amazing. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe my sister will have it in because
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Speaker 1: she was in an episode of Doom Patrol. She was
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Speaker 1: and she was brilliant. And you see how good I
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Speaker 1: am at at refraining from asking you to give me
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Speaker 1: an in. I mean, I'm not able to get in it,
19:46
Speaker 1: so kind of in Hollywood, there is a lot of
19:51
Speaker 1: networking that goes on that is a part of the business.
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Speaker 1: But I would not ever impose upon you to do
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Speaker 1: that because you're my friend, and you know that if
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Speaker 1: I ever had that leverage, I would totally be using
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Speaker 1: it all the time, so because I have no scruples
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Speaker 1: and am really eager to take advantage of any opportunity
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Speaker 1: I have. So just know that I'm scrupulous, fair enough,
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Speaker 1: but I am really excited about this. The one thing
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Speaker 1: that's interesting to me is it doesn't look like they're
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Speaker 1: using the same two actors to play the main characters
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Speaker 1: that they did in Doom Patrol. It looks like they've
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Speaker 1: recast the two dead boys. MM. So that's interesting. It
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Speaker 1: is interesting. I wonder why that it might have been
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Speaker 1: an availability thing. Who knows, but we will keep our
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Speaker 1: eyes out on that because it does sound like it's
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Speaker 1: right up our alley. And um, who knows, maybe the
20:44
Speaker 1: next thing will also be right up our alley. Because
20:47
Speaker 1: just when we thought there couldn't be more podcasts out
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Speaker 1: there competing with our amazing talent, here comes another one.
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Speaker 1: And it's hosted by the most powerful bra hero who
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Speaker 1: was ever created. Yes, we are getting a Marvel's Squirrel
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Speaker 1: Girl the Unbeatable radio show. Um, and there's a trailer
21:10
Speaker 1: out for it on YouTube, which is you know, an
21:13
Speaker 1: interesting place. It's I mean, it's a reasonable place to
21:16
Speaker 1: have a a podcast trailer, but at the same time,
21:21
Speaker 1: it's an audio format, like, this is not a cartoon
21:23
Speaker 1: we're getting, it's not a live TV show. It's so
21:28
Speaker 1: I will say, I was actually really jazz to listen
21:32
Speaker 1: to this trailer because I love the idea of a
21:36
Speaker 1: Squirrel Girl radio show, especially if it turns out that
21:40
Speaker 1: this version of Squirrel Girl is incorporated into the m
21:44
Speaker 1: c U. Yes, so I don't think it will be
21:46
Speaker 1: because based upon the trailer, there's a voice of a
21:50
Speaker 1: character that is not the voice of the character that
21:52
Speaker 1: we've seen in the m c U. The character has
21:55
Speaker 1: already shown up in the m c U, but it's
21:57
Speaker 1: a different voice. Um. I will will say. The trailer
22:02
Speaker 1: did not did not thrill me. I was I was
22:05
Speaker 1: a little let down by it. I thought it was cute.
22:08
Speaker 1: It gave me very like Space Ghost Coast to Coast
22:11
Speaker 1: sort of vibes to it. It felt like that, but
22:15
Speaker 1: less spontaneous, like I almost always felt that Space Ghost
22:19
Speaker 1: was like, uh, improvised. This felt much more scripted and
22:27
Speaker 1: like I could hear the script beats. Uh. But again,
22:32
Speaker 1: it was a trailer. It may be that when I
22:33
Speaker 1: listened to a full episode, it's a very different experience.
22:37
Speaker 1: It just it didn't feel it didn't feel like a
22:40
Speaker 1: natural kind of conversation. It felt extremely scripted. Got you now,
22:46
Speaker 1: I can see that. I kind of thought maybe that's
22:49
Speaker 1: what they were going for. Um, I don't know how much.
22:54
Speaker 1: Well I say, I don't know how much Marvel let
23:00
Speaker 1: people improvised within their world, but I do actually know
23:03
Speaker 1: because h Thor Ragnarok was largely improvised. Uh. That being said,
23:08
Speaker 1: I will probably listen to The Squirrel Girl the Ambautiable
23:12
Speaker 1: radio radio show and give it a shot. I'll probably
23:15
Speaker 1: give it a shot, and my hope is that the
23:17
Speaker 1: actual episodes are probably a little more um engaging than
23:21
Speaker 1: the trailer was, because the trailer was really just to
23:24
Speaker 1: introduce the concept. It wasn't. It didn't come across as
23:27
Speaker 1: like here are some excerpts from the show. It was
23:31
Speaker 1: more like we're promoting the show and that you're not
23:34
Speaker 1: going to hear the same stuff in the episodes. And
23:37
Speaker 1: if that's the case, if you do have it where
23:39
Speaker 1: it's this radio show where it's just constantly supervillains calling in,
23:43
Speaker 1: it could be a lot of fun. So I'm hopeful
23:46
Speaker 1: I will definitely check it out. You know, I know
23:50
Speaker 1: you said that one of the voice actors, and it
23:53
Speaker 1: is not the live actor for m c which they
23:56
Speaker 1: did in in What If as well. But the voice
24:00
Speaker 1: of squirrel Girl is Milana of Antrim, who was supposed
24:03
Speaker 1: to be Squirrel Girl in the live action m c
24:05
Speaker 1: U before Pandemic and then Pandemic happened, and I don't
24:08
Speaker 1: know where any of that stands, but yeah, she's perfect.
24:13
Speaker 1: I really hope that they do pull her in. Like
24:16
Speaker 1: my hope is that one of the many unnamed Marvel
24:20
Speaker 1: projects is going to be like the West Coast of
24:23
Speaker 1: Avengers where we get some of or even the Midwest
24:26
Speaker 1: Avengers where we get some of the wackier characters. I
24:31
Speaker 1: mean Great Lakes Avengers would be like super wacky. But
24:35
Speaker 1: if they did West Coast, then they could tie moon
24:37
Speaker 1: Night into that because he did a stint with the
24:39
Speaker 1: West Coast Avengers. Yes, we don't know yet if Moon
24:43
Speaker 1: Night is still going to be around by the time
24:45
Speaker 1: we get to the end of the series. There's been
24:48
Speaker 1: a lot of talk already that Oscar Isaac is not
24:50
Speaker 1: coming back to the m c U after this series,
24:54
Speaker 1: which is I hope that that's not true, and or
24:59
Speaker 1: if it is true, I would other people shut up
25:00
Speaker 1: about it so that it doesn't spoil things. I hope
25:03
Speaker 1: it's not true, Like I could start thinking about it,
25:06
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna on how they could still have
25:08
Speaker 1: Moonnight if that did, if that happened. But he's I'm
25:11
Speaker 1: really enjoying the show. Like I'm still really enjoying the show.
25:16
Speaker 1: I'm sad that it's such a short run. Real quick,
25:19
Speaker 1: before we go on to our third segment with our mashups.
25:22
Speaker 1: I know that you watched Spider Man. I just want
25:24
Speaker 1: to get a quick like thumbs up, thumbs down? Did
25:27
Speaker 1: you enjoy it? Um? I liked it, I didn't love it?
25:33
Speaker 1: Got you? Do you know what I did love? What?
25:36
Speaker 1: Did you love? The Thor Love and Thunder teaser? Oh
25:41
Speaker 1: that's right, we have to talk about that before we
25:43
Speaker 1: go to break. Oh my goodness, how could I forget?
25:46
Speaker 1: We got the trailer for Thor Love and Thunder and
25:49
Speaker 1: it is so good and it's jam packed, like every
25:55
Speaker 1: single shot I even watched, so that that it's a
25:58
Speaker 1: teaser trailer, right, so at lasts like a minute and
26:01
Speaker 1: a half something like that. And then immediately after that,
26:04
Speaker 1: I watched a video of people breaking down all the
26:07
Speaker 1: shots and all the stuff that's in all the shots,
26:10
Speaker 1: and those are like eleven minutes long, and you're like,
26:12
Speaker 1: when you have an eleven minute long video to dissect
26:16
Speaker 1: a minute and a half long trailer, you know you've
26:19
Speaker 1: you know, you've struck a nerve. And yeah, you get
26:22
Speaker 1: to see so much stuff in that trailer, including the
26:26
Speaker 1: fact that Zeus is in it, like they now go
26:29
Speaker 1: to Olympus. And also you get to see for a
26:34
Speaker 1: brief second, you get to see four the new Thor,
26:41
Speaker 1: you know, Jane Foster Thor, and she looks great, you see.
26:45
Speaker 1: I I don't know what it is, and I feel
26:48
Speaker 1: like maybe they it's because they gave her blonde hair.
26:50
Speaker 1: It looked a little weird to me, but it's like
26:54
Speaker 1: she she did have a very striking, like I catching
26:58
Speaker 1: first appearance, and I think that's appropriate for Thor, you know,
27:01
Speaker 1: just just to be someone who immediately draws your attention.
27:04
Speaker 1: But the hair was thrown me off. Well that's the thing.
27:07
Speaker 1: Whosoever holds this hammer will have the power of Thor,
27:10
Speaker 1: and part of the power is amazing gold tresses. Is
27:14
Speaker 1: that really is Thor just like a version of Sampson,
27:17
Speaker 1: Like I mean, like I'll say this, they cut it
27:20
Speaker 1: off and he was fine. And the comic book Jane Foster,
27:24
Speaker 1: when she becomes Thor also ends up having blonde hair,
27:27
Speaker 1: so it's okay, that is true. One thing we didn't
27:33
Speaker 1: see that was interesting is we didn't get to see
27:34
Speaker 1: the bad guy. We didn't see Christian bail As as
27:38
Speaker 1: Gore the god Killer. Yeah, we didn't see the bad guy.
27:42
Speaker 1: Of course, we didn't see Loki. I don't think we
27:44
Speaker 1: saw Loki, um because but he's probably still lost in
27:48
Speaker 1: that other, yes, parallel dimension. Yeah um, it looks really good.
27:55
Speaker 1: The song they played throughout the teasers sweet Child of Mine,
27:58
Speaker 1: and it is like the perfect song choice because it's
28:02
Speaker 1: both engaging and energizing while being uh like, I don't
28:08
Speaker 1: want to say sappy. Sappy is not the right word,
28:11
Speaker 1: but like, you know, touching, and I feel like that's
28:15
Speaker 1: that's what the trailer was. It's it's so we're dealing
28:19
Speaker 1: with everything that he's been through thus far. I also
28:23
Speaker 1: think that tai Ko Wa t D and James Gunn
28:27
Speaker 1: have really got their finger on the pulse of selecting
28:30
Speaker 1: amazing soundtracks for their movies. Because, of course, Thor Ragnarok
28:36
Speaker 1: obviously also had an amazing soundtrack, and obviously all the
28:42
Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy movies due too, so they're just
28:45
Speaker 1: keeping it going. They're setting the bar pretty high. Hopefully
28:49
Speaker 1: other directors will be able to rise to that challenge.
28:52
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see what Sam Raimi does with Doctor Strange.
28:56
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to that. We didn't talk about it,
29:00
Speaker 1: but they are playing that like they're doing a sam
29:03
Speaker 1: ramy kind of like special at a certain theater that
29:06
Speaker 1: plays thirty five millimeter movies because they're going to show
29:09
Speaker 1: Doctor Strange in that way. It's it's Quentin Tarantino's new
29:13
Speaker 1: Beverly Cinema. It's where Tarantino is like a hardcore fan
29:17
Speaker 1: of thirty five millimeter, he hates digital projection, and they
29:21
Speaker 1: are showing a special thirty five millimeter print of Doctor
29:24
Speaker 1: Strange in the Multiverse of Madness during a thirty five
29:26
Speaker 1: millimeter festival at that theater, which is pretty cool. But yes,
29:30
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see between his superhero work and his
29:34
Speaker 1: horror work, which is still fun. I'm very excited to
29:38
Speaker 1: see him combined the two. Well, speaking of combining the two,
29:43
Speaker 1: when we come back, we will combine two different things
29:46
Speaker 1: to make something brand new You, my friend, are on
30:06
Speaker 1: a like all on that segue. Yeah, I mean all
30:12
Speaker 1: you have to do is lean forward in it. The
30:14
Speaker 1: segue doesn't the rest for you. It's harder than it
30:17
Speaker 1: looks it does. I almost fell off the first time.
30:20
Speaker 1: I used to joke about that, and um, I've only
30:22
Speaker 1: written one once and the biggest issue I had was
30:27
Speaker 1: it was at a disney World actually, where we got
30:30
Speaker 1: a chance to write an Epcot And the problem is
30:34
Speaker 1: when your first experience is with a big group of
30:37
Speaker 1: people and everyone is looking at you, it really makes
30:41
Speaker 1: the experience much more difficult. I would have preferred to
30:44
Speaker 1: have had some private time to equate myself with the
30:48
Speaker 1: peculiarities of the segue before before being pushed out into
30:52
Speaker 1: the limelight. I got to ride one once. This is
30:56
Speaker 1: not what our mashup is about people, but I got
30:57
Speaker 1: to ride one once, and it was at one of
31:01
Speaker 1: my old places of employment, like one of the C
31:05
Speaker 1: suite level people had a segue and we had some
31:09
Speaker 1: like some people that we work within, and they're out
31:12
Speaker 1: in the parking lot and I walked out and they're like,
31:13
Speaker 1: do you want to try it? Come on, try it?
31:14
Speaker 1: You want to try it? And I was in a
31:16
Speaker 1: wrap dress in very high heels, so maybe that also
31:19
Speaker 1: made it a little bit more difficult because on high
31:20
Speaker 1: heels you're already like tilting forward, like you're you're fighting,
31:23
Speaker 1: not falling forward, right, And now you're on a segue
31:27
Speaker 1: in high heels, and so it just amplifies how much
31:29
Speaker 1: you have to lean forward to go. It was I mean,
31:32
Speaker 1: it was fun, but it was a train track. We
31:35
Speaker 1: found her three days later in Arkansas. It's true. It's true.
31:40
Speaker 1: That's fine. Well, let's talk about let's talk about the
31:43
Speaker 1: things what we are mashing up together in this episode. So, um,
31:49
Speaker 1: you want to take the classic one that Disney handled
31:52
Speaker 1: and I'll take the other one. Sure, So our first
31:56
Speaker 1: property is Beauty and the Beast, which, uh, the original
32:00
Speaker 1: plastic story is. There's a merchant. He has three daughters
32:03
Speaker 1: and they'll go a real old school, and they he
32:08
Speaker 1: asked if they want anything from market, and they say yes,
32:10
Speaker 1: And the two of the daughters are very vain and
32:13
Speaker 1: like worldly, and they want a bunch of stuff and
32:14
Speaker 1: that their daughter only wants a rose. But he can't
32:16
Speaker 1: find a rose, and he gets lost, and he goes
32:17
Speaker 1: to the beast house and he gets a rose. That's
32:19
Speaker 1: the original version of the story. And then it goes
32:22
Speaker 1: kind of similar like Bell has to go to take
32:25
Speaker 1: her dad's place at the Beast mansion and they fall
32:27
Speaker 1: in love and blah blah blah blah blah. Um and
32:31
Speaker 1: the Disney version of that, there's like an antagonist. His
32:33
Speaker 1: name is Gaston and he's evil. Um. He wants to
32:36
Speaker 1: marry Bell for the for like the like the status
32:42
Speaker 1: of it. I get, I don't know. I don't know,
32:43
Speaker 1: because because she's the prettiest, and therefore, since she's the prettiest,
32:48
Speaker 1: he deserves to marry her because he's the he's the
32:51
Speaker 1: manliest man in the poor provincial town. Yes. And then
32:55
Speaker 1: after Bell is in the Beast Castle, and then she
32:57
Speaker 1: goes back to visit her sick father and she realized
33:00
Speaker 1: he loves the beast because it beats sick without her.
33:02
Speaker 1: Then Gaston goes and storms a beast castle and tries
33:05
Speaker 1: to kill him. Um. The Dizzy version has a lot
33:07
Speaker 1: of really great music. Uh so that's Beauty and the Beast. Yeah.
33:13
Speaker 1: And our second, our second property, was this a suggestion
33:17
Speaker 1: that we got. Uh what it was was my I
33:20
Speaker 1: was playing D and D with some friends, and one
33:22
Speaker 1: of them made a comment about Beauty and the beast Boy,
33:24
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm taking it, So now we're doing it, okay.
33:27
Speaker 1: So beast beast Boy is our second mashup. Property also
33:31
Speaker 1: ties in with some stuff that we've talked about already.
33:33
Speaker 1: So Beast Boy is a d C character. D C
33:36
Speaker 1: comics character um and was one of the members of
33:40
Speaker 1: Doom Patrol back in the late six sees. I want
33:42
Speaker 1: to say, uh, the character is probably best known from
33:46
Speaker 1: the Teen Titans series. That's where everyone's seen this character.
33:50
Speaker 1: His actual name is Garfield Logan, and in the comics
33:55
Speaker 1: origin story was that his parents were scientists. Um. He
34:00
Speaker 1: ends up as a child catching a deadly disease, and
34:03
Speaker 1: the only creature that is immune to this deadly disease
34:07
Speaker 1: is a West African green monkey. So the parents, the scientists, decide, hey,
34:13
Speaker 1: we'll save our son by turning him into a West
34:15
Speaker 1: African green monkey for a day and then changing him back,
34:19
Speaker 1: and this does cure him, but it also curses him.
34:24
Speaker 1: He is from that point forward green, and he's capable
34:28
Speaker 1: of changing shape into any other animal, and he ends
34:32
Speaker 1: up taking on the name beast Boy for a while
34:36
Speaker 1: until he gets sick of that name and changes it
34:38
Speaker 1: to Changeling Um. And there are a lot of different
34:41
Speaker 1: versions of Beast Boy, but like I said, I think
34:42
Speaker 1: most people will be familiar with the Teen Titans version
34:45
Speaker 1: of the character. Yeah, I mean I went with Teen
34:48
Speaker 1: Titans from my mashup and Teen Titans Go actually did
34:52
Speaker 1: a Doom Patrol. I don't know if it was a
34:54
Speaker 1: short or an episode where they brought in Elastic Girl
34:58
Speaker 1: and Mr Negative and and others into which is not
35:05
Speaker 1: a children's property at all. So that was fun. Okay,
35:08
Speaker 1: so we are going to mesh up Beauty and the
35:10
Speaker 1: Beast and Beast Boy. Uh. If your title isn't Beauty
35:13
Speaker 1: and the Beast Boy, I don't know what it could be.
35:16
Speaker 1: It's not oh wow, Well then do you want to
35:19
Speaker 1: go first and hit me? Or do you want me
35:21
Speaker 1: to go first? Sure, now I'll go first. It's called boy.
35:23
Speaker 1: What a beast. One day, when the Teen Titans returned
35:29
Speaker 1: to their headquarters from spring break, something was different. And
35:32
Speaker 1: it wasn't that Cyborg had gotten extra vanity lights installed
35:36
Speaker 1: or that Starfire had tanned to an extra bright orange.
35:40
Speaker 1: It was Beast Boy, and he was so very different.
35:43
Speaker 1: He was tall, bulky, hairy, and not green, and he
35:47
Speaker 1: looked like no animal that the team had ever seen before.
35:49
Speaker 1: He kind of looked like a mix of them. Starfire
35:52
Speaker 1: asked Beast Boy what was going on, but he looked
35:54
Speaker 1: confused at her and said, I'm not a boy and
35:56
Speaker 1: stormed off into his room. Everyone assumed it was puberty,
35:59
Speaker 1: but being a kid's show, no one made a direct mention.
36:03
Speaker 1: The days to come were no better, and when the
36:05
Speaker 1: team was out fighting crime, beast Boy, i mean beast
36:09
Speaker 1: Boy no more couldn't shape shift. He was pretty strong, though,
36:13
Speaker 1: but the team was used to adapting, so adapted they
36:15
Speaker 1: did that night when all of their crime fighting antics
36:18
Speaker 1: were over. However, the strangeness continued. First when Beast just Beast,
36:23
Speaker 1: sat down and dug into a hearty rare steak. While
36:27
Speaker 1: Raven thought it was pretty funny, Beast had always been
36:28
Speaker 1: a vegetarian, but when his dishes got up and washed themselves,
36:32
Speaker 1: and then the chair made a funny joke about his weight,
36:35
Speaker 1: the team were flabbergasted. Still, the team tried to understand
36:39
Speaker 1: because they were used to weird things, but then the
36:41
Speaker 1: inanimate objects of Titan Tower started talking to the rest
36:44
Speaker 1: of the team distracting them for whatever tasks they were
36:47
Speaker 1: trying to do, and they had had enough. They all
36:49
Speaker 1: stormed into beasts room demanding an explanation, and then beast
36:55
Speaker 1: begrudgingly explained that he had met this girl on spring
36:58
Speaker 1: break and that she was like super into reading fairy tales,
37:01
Speaker 1: and to show off, he tried to use some tech
37:03
Speaker 1: that they had confiscated from a bad guy and weren't
37:05
Speaker 1: supposed to use to bring the girl into a fairy
37:07
Speaker 1: tale for a date. But the machine backfired, and as
37:11
Speaker 1: confiscated tech that you aren't supposed to use often does,
37:15
Speaker 1: and it morphed beast Boy and the girl into fairy
37:17
Speaker 1: tale characters. Beast Boy tried to reverse the machine and
37:21
Speaker 1: broke it. For the girl, she just ended up with
37:23
Speaker 1: a bit more whimsy and like forest animals flocking to her,
37:25
Speaker 1: so it wasn't so bad, but beast Boy definitely got
37:28
Speaker 1: the end of the stick, being turned into Beauty's beast.
37:31
Speaker 1: Cyborgs said not to worry, he would start working on
37:33
Speaker 1: a solution, and he did, and in the meantime, Starfire
37:36
Speaker 1: offered to read beast Boy a fairy tale to calm
37:39
Speaker 1: his nerves, and the Titan Tower furniture joined in in song.
37:42
Speaker 1: Beast Boy wanted to be mad at this, but he
37:44
Speaker 1: actually kind of liked it. He was eventually turned to
37:48
Speaker 1: his normal self, but the girl was never found. You see,
37:51
Speaker 1: he was so busy trying to impress her that he
37:52
Speaker 1: never got her number. So everyone in Titened Tower lived
37:55
Speaker 1: happily ever after. But then cut to a post credit
37:59
Speaker 1: scene and we see the unnamed girl amassing an army
38:01
Speaker 1: of Woodland creatures to gain revenge on Beast Boy and
38:04
Speaker 1: take over the world the end. Uh. First of all,
38:09
Speaker 1: you went meta, and that's my job. I'm sorry. No,
38:14
Speaker 1: it was really good. I really liked it the whole time.
38:17
Speaker 1: I was like, man, it's such a shame that Disney
38:20
Speaker 1: owns Marvel and not DC because there's no way we'll
38:24
Speaker 1: ever get this. But I liked it. I really that
38:28
Speaker 1: that sounds like it would be an amazing episode of
38:31
Speaker 1: Teen Titans. You know, I think they could do it.
38:33
Speaker 1: They'd have to be like slightly off the brand. They could.
38:36
Speaker 1: They could. They could be slightly off brand about it.
38:39
Speaker 1: They could go with the original Beauty and the Beast.
38:42
Speaker 1: They would have to go far enough where you know
38:44
Speaker 1: what they're going for. But it's not like copying. Yeah,
38:48
Speaker 1: but I mean like, if you look at the original
38:50
Speaker 1: Beauty and the Beast, it's not so very different. Here's
38:55
Speaker 1: here's mine, and I'm just calling it a Beauty and
38:58
Speaker 1: the Beast boy, and it goes like this. Garfield Logan
39:02
Speaker 1: has a problem. See, when he was young, he caught
39:05
Speaker 1: this rare disease that kills pretty much everything it affects
39:08
Speaker 1: except for West African green monkeys. So naturally, his mad
39:11
Speaker 1: scientists parents used science to turn Garfield into a monkey
39:15
Speaker 1: for a day. Only some of it stuck anyway, that
39:18
Speaker 1: cured his disease, but his scientists parents both died shortly
39:21
Speaker 1: after returning to the poor provincial town that their massive
39:26
Speaker 1: castle looked out over. So yeah. Part of Garfield's problem
39:30
Speaker 1: is that he has these weird attributes like green skin
39:33
Speaker 1: and a tendency to transform into animals. He also hates
39:37
Speaker 1: mondays and he loves lasagna. And it takes a while
39:41
Speaker 1: for the family servants to get used to Garfield, but
39:44
Speaker 1: they all look after him with affection, even when he
39:47
Speaker 1: gets a bit prankish. Anyway, one winter's day, his butler
39:52
Speaker 1: gear's Worth comes to him and lets him know that
39:55
Speaker 1: an old woman is at the door of his castle.
39:58
Speaker 1: So he goes to see what's going on, and the
40:00
Speaker 1: old lady begs him for shelter and offers up a
40:04
Speaker 1: single rose as compensation. Well, you know, Garfield actually has
40:07
Speaker 1: tons of rose bushes. The logan grounds are covered with
40:11
Speaker 1: the things. But he sees right away that the old
40:13
Speaker 1: woman is in need and that she wants to at
40:15
Speaker 1: least try and pay for lodging, so he agrees. Wait,
40:21
Speaker 1: what says the old woman, I said, you're you're welcome
40:25
Speaker 1: to stay. We've got plenty of room and food. Please
40:27
Speaker 1: come in. So Garfield's welcoming in the old woman, and
40:30
Speaker 1: she says, uh, I might be at the wrong castle.
40:36
Speaker 1: Let's see, And she shovels around in a robe until
40:39
Speaker 1: she pulls out a piece of paper says, here, I'm
40:41
Speaker 1: supposed to teach us spoiled prints that it costs nothing
40:45
Speaker 1: to be kind. Oh, says Garfield, you'll be wanting the
40:50
Speaker 1: kid on the other hill, the other hill that overlooks
40:53
Speaker 1: the poor provincial town. I think his name is Adam.
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Speaker 1: We've never really been clear on that, like nay be,
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, he's a real dick. Ah My mistakes
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Speaker 1: as the old woman, sorry to bother you. No, no,
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Speaker 1: no bothers, says Garfield, and the old lady goes on
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Speaker 1: her way. So skip ahead about a decade. So Garfield
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Speaker 1: is still a kind person. He mostly keeps to himself
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Speaker 1: because his green appearance can really throw people off. Occasionally
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Speaker 1: he'll take the form of a bear or a stag
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Speaker 1: or some other creature, and he does his best to
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Speaker 1: help keep the people of the surrounding regions safe, but
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Speaker 1: he also tries to stay out of sight so he
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Speaker 1: doesn't scare them. There are, however, plenty of legends in
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Speaker 1: the area of kindly magical green creatures and that they
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Speaker 1: end up looking out for the people of this poor
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Speaker 1: provincial town. There's also stories of a much more sinister, angry,
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Speaker 1: vicious beast that lives one hill over. One day, an
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Speaker 1: eccentric inventor type, a guy named Maurice is on his
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Speaker 1: way to show off his latest invention, a automatic woodcutting machine.
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Speaker 1: But he gets turned around and he comes to this
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Speaker 1: fork in the road, and one fork leads off into
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Speaker 1: a dark, scary wood, and the other looks bright and cheerful,
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Speaker 1: and you know, in this particular universe, he picks the
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Speaker 1: cheerful way. However, a storm rolls in and soon he
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Speaker 1: finds himself stuck and he has to leave his wagon behind,
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Speaker 1: so he moves to walk on foot. He's leading his
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Speaker 1: horse along and increasingly ricky path, and off to the
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Speaker 1: side he sees the Logan castle, so he starts to
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Speaker 1: try and make his way there for safety, but on
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Speaker 1: the way he hears the sound of wolves. His horse, frightened,
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Speaker 1: makes dash for it and Maurice is left on his own.
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Speaker 1: So he hurries up to the castle and he bangs
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Speaker 1: on the door, which is quickly opened by a pleasant
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Speaker 1: looking servant here, who quickly ushers Maurice inside while he
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Speaker 1: fetches the head of the house. So Garfield comes down
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Speaker 1: and he welcomes Maurice, expresses concern when he hears about
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Speaker 1: Maurice's horse bolting. He says he will personally look into it,
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Speaker 1: and he heads right out into the storm. So Maurice
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Speaker 1: is totally speechless because he never expected this kind of hospitality,
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Speaker 1: and the staff are happy to help him out and
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Speaker 1: make him comfortable. So Garfield then goes outside. He turns
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Speaker 1: into a horse himself, rushing through the woods on the
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Speaker 1: trail of the escaped horse, and as he closes the
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Speaker 1: gap between them, he hears the sounds of wolves, so
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Speaker 1: he transforms again, this time into a big, powerful bear,
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Speaker 1: and as the barry manages to scare off the wolves,
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Speaker 1: convincing them not to chase after the horse, but in
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Speaker 1: the the whole kerfuffle, the horse manages to run away,
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Speaker 1: and that horse rushes all the way back to the
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Speaker 1: poor provincial town and encounters the inventor's daughter, who has
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Speaker 1: her own drama going on with a local meathead giving
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Speaker 1: her googoo eyes and whatnot. But as smart as this
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Speaker 1: woman is, she is unable to speak horse, so all
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Speaker 1: she knows is that her father is missing, so she
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Speaker 1: depends on the horse to bring her to him, and
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Speaker 1: the horse does so. The young woman arrives at the
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Speaker 1: castle the next day and she is welcomed inside, and
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Speaker 1: there she is reunited with her father, who has none
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Speaker 1: the worse for wear, and who in fact has enjoyed hospitality.
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Speaker 1: Garfield introduces himself to the young woman, who is at
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Speaker 1: first astonished to see that he is green, but before
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Speaker 1: long she deduces that he is the source of all
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Speaker 1: the legends of green mystical animals in the village, and Moreover,
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Speaker 1: she recognizes his compassion and desire to help others, so
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Speaker 1: the two become best friends. Maurice and Belle, for that
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Speaker 1: is the inventor's daughter's name, are able to retrieve Maurice's wagon,
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Speaker 1: so they go together to go show it off, where
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Speaker 1: Maurice's invention is the hit of the fair. He becomes
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Speaker 1: incredibly wealthy after making just a small adjustment to his device.
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Speaker 1: You see, his invention was designed to cut firewood using
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Speaker 1: a furnace and a boiler to provide the energy. Now,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't quite catch the attention of the French public,
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Speaker 1: but a slight tweak to turn it into a device
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Speaker 1: that can more efficiently remove the aristocratic heads from aristocratic
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Speaker 1: next goes over way better and Maurice becomes famous for
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Speaker 1: inventing the steam powered guillotine. Bell meanwhile becomes a book publisher.
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Speaker 1: She is famed for being able to foster authors and
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Speaker 1: pick out the best stories Before long libraries are let
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Speaker 1: me try to again. Before long, libraries across Europe are
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Speaker 1: seeking out the books coming out of her publishing house.
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Speaker 1: She maintains a close friendship with Garfield, and Maurice and
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Speaker 1: Bell are frequent visitors to his castle. As for the
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Speaker 1: poor provincial town, they continue to be largely unaware of
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Speaker 1: Garfield's existence, but they also continue to tell the stories
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Speaker 1: of the mysterious green animals that often come to their aid,
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Speaker 1: and that it is customary to leave out a plate
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Speaker 1: of steaming hot lasagna in thanks. Oh and there are
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Speaker 1: other stories as well, stories about a cursed castle on
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Speaker 1: the other hill, a castle forever haunted by a frightful
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Speaker 1: beast grown ever more angry and tortured, and poor sir
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Speaker 1: It's who, through no fault of their own, are doomed
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Speaker 1: to serve him until the end of their days transformed
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Speaker 1: into furniture. But let's forget about them and focus on
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Speaker 1: the happy ending. The end. I slip and loved that.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask what about the other beast
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Speaker 1: because he only made one tiny brief mention at the beginning,
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Speaker 1: But you you brought it full circle. Um, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is what happens when you take the wrong path. That's
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Speaker 1: that's true. This would also make a great teen Titans
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Speaker 1: Go episode because they go all over the place. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it was fun to write. I will say this is
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Speaker 1: one of those cases Areal where I started writing my
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Speaker 1: mash up and I was probably about three pages into
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Speaker 1: it end up being only four pages long. But I
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Speaker 1: was about three pages into it and realized I didn't
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Speaker 1: like where I was headed, and I it was right
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Speaker 1: at the it was right in the after, like the
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Speaker 1: midway part of Age two, where I felt that I
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Speaker 1: had gone the wrong way and I actually scrapped more
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Speaker 1: than a page is worth of material and started from
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Speaker 1: that point forward again and changed it because I I
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Speaker 1: felt like what I was creating was too dark and
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Speaker 1: not entertaining. Well, I like what came about, just like
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Speaker 1: in your story, you took the better path, h and
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Speaker 1: it was I feel like I feel like Bell ends
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Speaker 1: up getting her own worth. Her worth is not defined
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Speaker 1: by who she's married to. Maurice gets great success as
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Speaker 1: an inventor of the guillotine that threw me, That threw me? Yes,
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Speaker 1: and Garfield gets lasagna yes uh, and he hates mondays
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