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Speaker 1: The Large Nerd Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerd
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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 Ariel casting and with
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Speaker 1: me as always. Is this super awesome Jonathan Strickland yellow arial?
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Speaker 1: Do you say that because I'm wearing a yellow shirt?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you're wearing a yellow shirt. I didn't
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Speaker 1: even notice. Uh, Okay, yeah, So hey, Ariel, I got
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Speaker 1: a question for you. All right, here we go, and
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Speaker 1: once again we have a scenario leading up to it.
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Speaker 1: So you are having the freaky of freaky Fridays and
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Speaker 1: you have found yourself in a body swap with a
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Speaker 1: fictional character for twenty four hours. Which fictional character would
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Speaker 1: you want it to be? Okay, So I'm gonna say.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say Ben Grim because I really do
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Speaker 1: want to be Ben Gram in the New Fantastic Four movie.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep holding onto this hope until they cast him.
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Speaker 1: But no, it would be the Little Roomaid. I just
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Speaker 1: got to get it out of my system. I mean,
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Speaker 1: pre or post transformation pre obviously, Like, there's no point
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Speaker 1: in changing into another redheaded normal girl. I've had he'd
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Speaker 1: be engaged to a prince whatever. Whatever. Look, I've had
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Speaker 1: laryngitis before. It's no fun. But like I liked scuba diving,
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Speaker 1: but I always I always like get a jaw ache
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Speaker 1: from the gear. So like this would just allow me
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Speaker 1: to like scuba dive without having to wear the wetsuit
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Speaker 1: or the fins or the mouthpiece, just it seems and
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Speaker 1: then I could just say I've done it, and I
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Speaker 1: could get all those those menis off my back. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I got you, Okay, alright, acceptable answer. How about you? Well,
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Speaker 1: my answer it's interesting because you came at it from
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Speaker 1: the perspective of what sort of experiences could I have
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Speaker 1: as someone else? In twenty four hours? I went the
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Speaker 1: other way. I thought, who the hell could fix my life?
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Speaker 1: I want a body swap with Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
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Speaker 1: for twenty four hours, because when twenty four hours is up,
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Speaker 1: my my house is gonna be clean. I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: a promotion, I might get to fly a kite. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna my life is going to be so much better
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Speaker 1: after just twenty four hours, and yeah, I mean she's
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Speaker 1: gonna have a mess to clean up when she comes
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Speaker 1: back to her body. But I'm just thinking about me
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Speaker 1: right now. Alright, alright, So, so like that seems good
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Speaker 1: on the on, like at face value, but realize then
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Speaker 1: you're to have to live up to the standard that
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Speaker 1: Mary Poppins set while she was in your body, and
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Speaker 1: that's going to be frustrating. You're gonna end up being
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Speaker 1: more like yawn do I mean, I don't care. I
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Speaker 1: just I just need my house to get clean. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So like higher, that alone is going to take her
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Speaker 1: about sixteen hours of the twenty four so and then
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Speaker 1: she's got to sleep sometime, right, so I think I'll
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Speaker 1: be fine. Um, but yeah, my my option, my option
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Speaker 1: is I need someone to get my life in order
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Speaker 1: because clearly I'm not up to the task. And that's
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Speaker 1: Mary Poppins. And now we both see how each other's
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Speaker 1: brains work, and we can move on to the news
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Speaker 1: items for this week. Yes, and the first one is
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Speaker 1: that apparently we will be getting a and I say we,
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Speaker 1: and by we, I mean the world will be getting
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Speaker 1: a Game of Thrones convention. Yeah, a specific geared to
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Speaker 1: game of Thrones. Yeah, and Las Vegas, as you said,
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Speaker 1: and you know, obviously science fiction and fantasy, comic book,
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Speaker 1: horror conventions. These are things that have been around forever,
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Speaker 1: and Game of Thrones nearly always has a presence at
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Speaker 1: any major con these days. But this one is specifically
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Speaker 1: dedicated to Game of Thrones, and there's something else that
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Speaker 1: sets it apart from the kinds of conventions that Ariel
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Speaker 1: and I typically go to, which is that Warner Brothers
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Speaker 1: is sort of organizing it so and Creation Entertainment, So
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Speaker 1: it's very official. It's an official con. I would guess
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Speaker 1: at that point it's not going to be a social
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Speaker 1: con like Dragon Con is. It'll be closer to a
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Speaker 1: comic con. But at the same time, there there's enough
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Speaker 1: subject matter and Game of Thrones that one makes me
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Speaker 1: really glad that it's not a social convention where everybody
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Speaker 1: is caused playing Game of Thrones and too, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it just the there's a lot of stuff in Game
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Speaker 1: of Thrones that makes me feel like I wouldn't want
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Speaker 1: to convention that is solely devoted to that. I would
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Speaker 1: need a breather. Yeah, so by by you're dancing around it,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about some of the subject matter, like, well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, obviously there's an incredible amount of violence.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of sexual graphic content as well. In
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Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. There's also very taboo subjects. There's things like,
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Speaker 1: you know, multiple characters in the Game of Thrones are incestuous,
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Speaker 1: which is there's some big questions to be asked about that.
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Speaker 1: The fact that it's not just it's not just a
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Speaker 1: pair of characters where that happens. It happens a couple
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Speaker 1: of different places in the canon of the characters, and
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Speaker 1: that's ikey as all get out. Um, but yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's I mean, I'm sure there's gonna be lots
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Speaker 1: of cause playing. I'm sure all of that sort of
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Speaker 1: stuff is going to happen. The one thing that I
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Speaker 1: would say is a huge benefit is that with Warner
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Speaker 1: Brothers behind it, you can expect that they'll pull some
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Speaker 1: pretty top tier talent to come in and be part
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Speaker 1: of it, so that you could you might end up
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Speaker 1: seeing people who otherwise don't do the convention circuit outside
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Speaker 1: of something like a San Diego comic con. I mean,
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Speaker 1: and and also because it is an official convention run
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Speaker 1: by you know, not not just fans. Uh, You're going
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Speaker 1: to get some cool behind the scenes information like on
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Speaker 1: on production and costume design and things like that. I
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Speaker 1: can see as being very cool story writing things like that.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot just to be on this
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Speaker 1: one property. Yeah, convention, I get it, Like I feel
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Speaker 1: the same way about pretty much any convention that's solely
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Speaker 1: devoted to a single thing, even for something that has
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Speaker 1: as much content as Game of Thrones, which has obviously
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Speaker 1: multiple seasons of shows, the books, you have the upcoming
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Speaker 1: prequel series of which I'm sure will be heavily promoted
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Speaker 1: at this event. I bet one of the big attractions
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Speaker 1: for this event is going to be come and see
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Speaker 1: an early look before anyone else does. I bet that's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a thing. It's in Las Vegas, that's not
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Speaker 1: too far from Los Angeles, so again we can probably
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Speaker 1: expect to see quite a few celebrities there. And if
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Speaker 1: you're interested, it's February. Yeah. I will not be going
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Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. One, I'm sure I'll still
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Speaker 1: be concerned about health and safety. Uh. Two I was
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Speaker 1: I've read all the books in the series that have
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Speaker 1: been written up to this point, but rapidly decided I
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Speaker 1: did not want to go any further after reading the
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Speaker 1: last of those books, and I've yet to watch anything
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Speaker 1: more than the first episode of the television series. Like
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Speaker 1: I'm aware of it. I know how it ends in
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Speaker 1: the series and everything. I know, all because you know,
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Speaker 1: you can't you can't be a geek and not know,
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Speaker 1: because it was everywhere because people had such a visceral
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Speaker 1: reaction to the way that show ended. But um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's not for me. But I hope for
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Speaker 1: anyone who wants to go that they have an amazing time,
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Speaker 1: that everyone is really safe, and that ultimately it becomes
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Speaker 1: a great memory for them me too. And and remember,
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Speaker 1: if you are going to these conventions to be safe,
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Speaker 1: test beforehand, make sure you're not carrying COVID, get tested
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Speaker 1: after two because even if you're vaccinated, you can still
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Speaker 1: get the delta variant. Um. I was really happy at
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Speaker 1: Dragon Con the very very brief amount of time that
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Speaker 1: I was there that most people were in fact wearing
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Speaker 1: their masks and wearing them correctly, and it wasn't very crowded,
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Speaker 1: so uh, props to the geeks out there who are
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Speaker 1: doing it right. And then we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: some other geeks that are doing it right. These are
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Speaker 1: geeks over at Marvel, and that's the doing it right
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Speaker 1: is that they got shung Chi out there and it's
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Speaker 1: doing great. Okay, I say doing it right, but honestly, honestly,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I'm a master of the seg you.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I uh, okay, I say doing it right.
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Speaker 1: But they did insist on releasing it to theaters, and
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Speaker 1: that's still kind of kind of ruse me the wrong
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Speaker 1: way because i haven't seen it full disclosure. I'm waiting
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Speaker 1: for it to come out on streaming because I'm still
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Speaker 1: not quite comfortable going to a movie theater. But I'm
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Speaker 1: glad it's doing well me too. I was hoping to
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Speaker 1: see Shanchi at the drive in, but the drive in
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Speaker 1: close to me is not currently having movies outdoors, but
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Speaker 1: you can still rent their drive in. But we have
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Speaker 1: a big one in Atlanta, Starlight drive In, and I
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Speaker 1: thought they were going to have it there, but it's
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Speaker 1: not playing on any of their screens right now, so
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Speaker 1: I'm a little disappointed. Something I've heard a lot of
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Speaker 1: people doing though, is renting out theaters which have like
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Speaker 1: a maximum capacity when you rent it out, they have
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Speaker 1: a minimum, but they also have a maximum that isn't
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Speaker 1: full capacity. So I've got a few friends who have
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Speaker 1: rented the theater and are having basically private showings for
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Speaker 1: their friends who are they know are being careful and vaccinated,
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Speaker 1: which I feel like is a good middle ground. I
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Speaker 1: wonder how expensive that is. I have not looked into it.
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Speaker 1: I feel like if if you rent a theater for
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Speaker 1: a few hundred dollars and then each of your friends
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Speaker 1: who goes gives you like twenty or thirty bucks for
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Speaker 1: private showing, you know that's that's you'll probably recoup most
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Speaker 1: of that cost um. I know one person Atlanta is
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Speaker 1: doing it, has done it a couple of times. It's
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Speaker 1: very important to them that this movie succeeds, and it
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Speaker 1: seems like it is so far. But you know, also
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Speaker 1: if you do that, then you're less likely to have
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Speaker 1: those jerk wads in the movie theater who are talking
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Speaker 1: through the movie you want to listen to. That's true.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, Hung Chi has been doing well at the
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Speaker 1: box office all things considered. I mean, like, even outside
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Speaker 1: of the pandemic, it's done well. But in the pandemic
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Speaker 1: it's doing incredibly well, which is great, great news for Marvel,
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Speaker 1: great news for all the people connected to shung Chi. Um.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who are really jazzed
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Speaker 1: about it. I am now actively avoiding spoilers as best
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Speaker 1: I can, despite the fact that I keep seeing like
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Speaker 1: here's what the ending means, like, I don't can you?
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Speaker 1: Can you stop recommending this to me? Search engines and
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Speaker 1: Google because I don't want see it. I still have
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Speaker 1: to wait forty days before I can watch it. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just happy right now. It is the
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Speaker 1: number two highest opening of the pandemic, right after Black Widow,
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Speaker 1: but better than uh, Fast to the Furious Nine, says
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Speaker 1: F nine. I keep every article I see that says
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Speaker 1: F nine. I keep thinking Final Fantasy and that's not correct.
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Speaker 1: Yes that too. But also U shang Chi is the
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Speaker 1: now top scoring Labor Day holiday weekend movie. The last
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Speaker 1: person to hold that title was Rob Zombie's Halloween in
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Speaker 1: two thousand seven. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, uh and
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Speaker 1: um do the folks that I know who saw it,
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Speaker 1: their reaction ranged from it's pretty good too, it was amazing,
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Speaker 1: So I am very much looking forward to seeing it. Um.
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Speaker 1: The trailers had me convinced when I saw the very
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Speaker 1: first one, and each trailer that came out after it
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Speaker 1: made me want to see it more. But I'll be
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Speaker 1: waiting a little bit longer to see it. But congratulations
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Speaker 1: to everyone connected to shuan Chi. It's funny because before
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Speaker 1: we started recording this episode, Arial sent me a tweet
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Speaker 1: that referenced the the fact that there were a lot
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Speaker 1: of haters for shaan Chi who are from you know who.
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Speaker 1: They were all predicting that the movie was gonna bomb
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Speaker 1: and that it did not do so, which confused me
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Speaker 1: because I was like, who the heck thought movies were
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Speaker 1: gonna bomb? And then I fell down a rabbit hole. Aerial.
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Speaker 1: Let me just tell you, they're a bunch of really
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Speaker 1: bad faith YouTube channels out there that are just devoted
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Speaker 1: to crapping all over everything and essentially saying everything is
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Speaker 1: going to be a big colossal failure. They're they're dumpster
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Speaker 1: fires of YouTube channels, and they don't they're not built
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Speaker 1: on anything substantive, Like they don't have any any real
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Speaker 1: argument for why they say the things they say. And
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Speaker 1: in fact, I tried watching one of the videos not
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Speaker 1: for shoan Chi, but for something else didn't know it
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Speaker 1: was one of those types of channels, got about a
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Speaker 1: minute in and said, this person has nothing valid to say,
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Speaker 1: and I don't like the way I feel when I'm
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Speaker 1: listening to it, so I'm gonna bounce and it just
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Speaker 1: it shocks me that those channels do so well. They're
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Speaker 1: do incredibly well, by the way. That's the most depressing thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand it. I don't understand it,
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Speaker 1: but I do like that. The lead actor of shang
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Speaker 1: Chi tweeted out when he was saying, you know we're
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Speaker 1: doing great. Uh, you haters are wrong. He used a
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Speaker 1: picture of himself from when he was doing stock footage shoots.
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Speaker 1: So it's nice to know that someone who had humble
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Speaker 1: beginnings Because I sometimes get calls for stock photo shoots.
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Speaker 1: I haven't done one yet, but somebody who was there
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Speaker 1: is now a Marvel superhero. That's delightful that he can.
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Speaker 1: It's also great to see a stock image used in
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Speaker 1: a meme by the person who's in the stock image. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that rarely rarely happens. I can't say never, but it
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Speaker 1: rarely happens. So that's really cool. Something else that I
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Speaker 1: think It's really cool is that Lego Star Wars is
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Speaker 1: doing a Halloween special on Disney. Plus I knew that
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Speaker 1: they were doing like a Christmas special. They did a
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Speaker 1: Christmas special. We're getting a Guardians to the Galaxy Christmas special,
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Speaker 1: but for some reason, the Star Lego Star Wars Terrifying
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Speaker 1: Tales special eluded me. Yeah. The trailer for this is
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Speaker 1: absolutely adorable and cheeky and ridiculous, just as you would
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Speaker 1: expect from Star Wars and from Lego. And it is
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Speaker 1: a I mean, it's a lot of like you know,
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Speaker 1: back and forth between Emperor and Vader and that kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Um. I am eager to see it because
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Speaker 1: it looks very, very silly, like most Lego stuff, and
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Speaker 1: I typically find those to be refreshingly entertaining. Yes, a
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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of Halloween spe sholls tend to
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Speaker 1: be a little bit bleak for me or or mean spirited, um,
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Speaker 1: and so this just feels not either of those things. Now,
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Speaker 1: this one I'm looking forward to about as much as
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the Muppets Haunted Mansion Halloween Special. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I cannot wait for that either. And one last thing
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Speaker 1: before we go to break, because this is going to
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Speaker 1: lead into a discussion we're gonna have after the break.
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Speaker 1: Is that the Matrix, the new Matrix sequel, has a
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Speaker 1: website called the Choice is Yours dot What is the
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Speaker 1: Matrix dot com where if you go to that you
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Speaker 1: are given the choice of choosing either the Red Pill
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Speaker 1: or the Blue Pill, and if you choose one of those,
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Speaker 1: you get one narrative version that kind of introduces YouTube
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Speaker 1: philosophies behind the Matrix. If you choose the other, you
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Speaker 1: get a different one. You get a different narrator like
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Speaker 1: Neil Patrick Harris is the narrator for the Blue Pill,
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Speaker 1: which is where you know, you want to maintain the
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Speaker 1: illusion that reality is everything it seems to be, whereas
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Speaker 1: the Red Pill is it strips away reality and you
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Speaker 1: see the Matrix. Um, it's an interesting thing. Also by
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Speaker 1: the way, it knows what what time it is, time
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Speaker 1: it is, it'll tell you which you know. I feel
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Speaker 1: I feel a little bad because now we've ruined it
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Speaker 1: for you, because when I clicked on it, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's so cool. It's still pretty cool. It's it's fun. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's a nice little gimmicky and it's teasing the fact
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Speaker 1: that a trailer is coming out, and by the time
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Speaker 1: you listen to this, the trailer will be out. But
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Speaker 1: for us, for us, we have to wait to the
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Speaker 1: same day this episode releases. Yeah, so there's a matrix trailer.
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Speaker 1: What are you listening to us for? There's a matrix trailer. No,
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Speaker 1: keep listening. You can do both. You can do both.
16:46
Speaker 1: But but this is kind of gonna lead into a
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Speaker 1: discussion We're going to have it just a second about
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Speaker 1: different gimmicks that various movie studios and TV studios have
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Speaker 1: used in order to convince you to either watch something
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Speaker 1: or purchase some media, or that you know the next
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Speaker 1: big thing is going to be this new gimmick, when
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Speaker 1: in fact it may not be. But we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about that after we take this break. So, Ariel, are
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Speaker 1: you familiar with like those gimmicky nineteen fifties sci fi
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Speaker 1: movies where they would do all sorts of things like
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Speaker 1: put little vibrating buzzers in the seats so that they
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Speaker 1: would buzz and cause people to scream at at pivotal
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Speaker 1: points of really cheap horror movies. So I'm familiar with
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Speaker 1: things doing that. For instance, there are certain movie theaters
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Speaker 1: that have like both speakers in the seats, so it'll
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Speaker 1: vibrate when you watch the movie. That's how I watched
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Speaker 1: The Martian. I wasn't aware that that was happening as
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Speaker 1: early as the nineteen fifties. Yeah, like the Tingler was
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Speaker 1: the name of this one sci fi horror movie where
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Speaker 1: the idea was that you would feel this electric tingle
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Speaker 1: if the critter were to latch onto you, and so uh,
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Speaker 1: some theaters that were promoting the film installed they were
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Speaker 1: just a little vibrating motors, but it would make you
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Speaker 1: feel like you were getting like buzzed, like a hand
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Speaker 1: hand buzzer like hate. But it's just you know, it's
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Speaker 1: not really a shock, it just vibrates. But yeah, that
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Speaker 1: that that was a real gimmick, And like there were
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them that came out of the
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Speaker 1: fifties and sixties. Then you get up to like the
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Speaker 1: late seventies and into the eighties where you started seeing
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Speaker 1: three D film have its first real push, uh or
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Speaker 1: it really was a second rule push, but you saw
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Speaker 1: the big three D phase. Because I remember as a
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Speaker 1: kid seeing Jaws three D and a few other three
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Speaker 1: D films um that were just ridiculous and very gimmicky.
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Speaker 1: There's always that moment where someone for no good reason
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Speaker 1: is reaching out towards the camera so that their their
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Speaker 1: arm is coming right at you. Um. Three D has
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Speaker 1: gotten better over the years. Three D movies still gives
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Speaker 1: me a headache, though. Yeah, I'm not a big fan.
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Speaker 1: And that was something that we saw really pushed hard
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Speaker 1: in the early to mid two thousand's, Right like all
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Speaker 1: the TVs. If you wanted a new TV, it was
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Speaker 1: almost guaranteed to be three D ready, if not a
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Speaker 1: full three D television with you know, super expensive glasses
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Speaker 1: to go with it. Um. Yeah. And so these are
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Speaker 1: all kinds of things that we see studios throw in
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Speaker 1: either to create some sort of perceived extra value to
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Speaker 1: the viewing experience or and this is the other big one,
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Speaker 1: discourage piracy because if you throw in gimmicks, it makes
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Speaker 1: it way harder for someone to sneak a cam quarter
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Speaker 1: in and get like a cheap o bootleg version. I
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Speaker 1: was about to say, like you could. Your experience would
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Speaker 1: not be nearly as cool though, but you still could.
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Speaker 1: Well if it were if it were like three D,
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Speaker 1: then you would lose a lot of the effects. You
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Speaker 1: would just have like this really blurry image. Um, if
20:12
Speaker 1: it were forty eight frames per second, you might not
20:16
Speaker 1: have like, you might have a lot of jitter in
20:19
Speaker 1: your screen because the refresh rate of your camera would
20:22
Speaker 1: not be matching up to the UH frame rate of
20:25
Speaker 1: the film. Um. But if it was the Tinkler, you
20:28
Speaker 1: would just be forgiven an annoyance. So I feel like
20:32
Speaker 1: that would be a boon in that case for all
20:34
Speaker 1: those people in the fifties bringing their cam quarters into
20:37
Speaker 1: the movie theaters. Well, I want to ask you if
20:39
Speaker 1: you a few questions about various gimmicks, and then we
20:42
Speaker 1: can we can have to see where this conversation goes.
20:44
Speaker 1: So first of all, all right, what is your opinion
20:48
Speaker 1: about three D? You said it gives you a headache?
20:50
Speaker 1: Do you other like do you actively avoid seeing a
20:55
Speaker 1: movie in the three D version? Do you seek it out?
20:57
Speaker 1: What's your what's your go to? So I tend to
21:01
Speaker 1: like to watch movies and two D. I did watch
21:03
Speaker 1: Avatar in three D and it was very pretty. Um.
21:07
Speaker 1: I prefer three D when it's on like a ride
21:10
Speaker 1: like a Disney right, like the Avatar Flights of Passage
21:13
Speaker 1: or the Muppet for D Theater um or a Bug's
21:16
Speaker 1: life or something like that. Um all Disney rights, right,
21:20
Speaker 1: That's that's where I encounter the most three D for
21:23
Speaker 1: D experiences in a general movie theater. Um, I just
21:29
Speaker 1: it gives me a headache. I don't mind some moments.
21:31
Speaker 1: If there is a way that they could give me
21:33
Speaker 1: a couple of moments where I could experience that without
21:35
Speaker 1: having to wear the glasses the entire time, I might
21:38
Speaker 1: appreciate it. The other thing is movie screens to me,
21:41
Speaker 1: are so large, and when you put on three D glasses,
21:44
Speaker 1: they block part of that view, So now you're also
21:46
Speaker 1: trying to see the entire screen through these very small windows,
21:49
Speaker 1: and I think that's part of what contributes to my headache.
21:51
Speaker 1: What about you? Do you like three D movies? Actively
21:54
Speaker 1: avoid three D for for some of the reasons you mentioned.
21:58
Speaker 1: I also find that three D often means that you're
22:02
Speaker 1: getting less light and the glasses are blocking some light,
22:08
Speaker 1: so the screen looks darker than it normally would, so
22:11
Speaker 1: you're not getting as bright a picture. UM. I don't
22:15
Speaker 1: like the effects of three D most of the time.
22:18
Speaker 1: I just find them distracting rather than adding to the experience.
22:23
Speaker 1: There are certain times where I'm like, Okay, I want
22:25
Speaker 1: to see this in three D because that's the whole Like,
22:28
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing of it. Like seeing something like
22:31
Speaker 1: gravity and three D would be pretty spectacular and probably terrifying. Right. So,
22:37
Speaker 1: I don't think I saw it in three D, but
22:39
Speaker 1: I think uh so, I typically I avoid it, and um,
22:43
Speaker 1: I also can get a headache from it. I don't
22:46
Speaker 1: really care for that experience. Um so, I I'm not
22:51
Speaker 1: a big three D fan and I typically will go
22:53
Speaker 1: with a two D over a three D any day
22:55
Speaker 1: of the week. How about forty eight frames per second?
22:58
Speaker 1: I know, I think you and I both saw The
23:02
Speaker 1: Hobbit in forty eight frames per second as part of
23:05
Speaker 1: a fellow friends. Well wait, no, it was your birthday,
23:08
Speaker 1: wasn't it. I think so it was your birthday. We
23:11
Speaker 1: went to see the first of the Hobbit films at
23:13
Speaker 1: forty eight frames per second. What's your opinion of the
23:16
Speaker 1: forty frames per second on movies? I think in a
23:19
Speaker 1: movie experience, especially one where there's a lot of c
23:21
Speaker 1: G I it allows you to see extra detail. Um.
23:24
Speaker 1: I liked it as far as the way that movies
23:26
Speaker 1: are shot, as long as it's it's complimentary to the story.
23:31
Speaker 1: That's trying to be told or it enhances it. I'm
23:33
Speaker 1: fine with that. You know, there are certain movies that
23:36
Speaker 1: I really like when they shoot on old classic Kodak
23:39
Speaker 1: film too, as long as it for there's a story
23:42
Speaker 1: and allows me to see their vision the way that
23:46
Speaker 1: they wanted to be seen outside of three D. Okay, Well,
23:49
Speaker 1: I hate forty frames per second. I think it's an
23:51
Speaker 1: abomination that never be is because everything looks fake to
23:55
Speaker 1: me at forty frames per second. When we saw The Hobbit,
23:59
Speaker 1: everything looks like it was a set. Like I think
24:02
Speaker 1: of the Lord of the Ring high high definition televisions. Well,
24:06
Speaker 1: if it's a high definition television that has a high
24:08
Speaker 1: refresh rate, that's effectively the same sort of thing as
24:11
Speaker 1: forty frames per second where you're removing motion blur and
24:14
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. See for me, when we watched
24:17
Speaker 1: The Hobbit, I felt like, this is weird because everything
24:20
Speaker 1: looks like a set and everything like all the outfits
24:23
Speaker 1: look like costumes, and everything looks like like it's fake.
24:27
Speaker 1: And I know it's fake. I mean, I know it's
24:29
Speaker 1: a movie. I know it's fake. But Lord of the
24:31
Speaker 1: Fake Okay, but Lord of the Rings made it look
24:35
Speaker 1: way more real. Like the costumes didn't like costumes, they
24:38
Speaker 1: look like these are the clothes these characters where right.
24:42
Speaker 1: The settings didn't look like they were sets, they look
24:44
Speaker 1: like they were real locations. Um. And in the Hobbits
24:48
Speaker 1: part for the most part, But for the Hobbit I
24:50
Speaker 1: just felt like everything looked It felt more like you
24:53
Speaker 1: were watching like a live action production on a very
24:57
Speaker 1: very expensive stage set, but not not like it was
25:02
Speaker 1: an actual location. So I finds per second really distracting.
25:08
Speaker 1: I'm glad it did not become the standard, despite the
25:12
Speaker 1: fact that that was what everyone was pushing for at
25:15
Speaker 1: the time, just as I'm glad that three D hasn't
25:17
Speaker 1: become the standard. Um. Something that I've never experienced, though,
25:21
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I'm sure you have a real because you
25:23
Speaker 1: tend to go to the movies more frequently than I do. Um.
25:26
Speaker 1: I have never gone to see a film on an
25:30
Speaker 1: Imax screen where it does that thing where the movie
25:34
Speaker 1: expands from the normal view to the full Imax view
25:37
Speaker 1: for certain sequences. Yeah, what's that like? Yeah? UM, it
25:42
Speaker 1: can be really cool. Uh for me, That's that's one
25:45
Speaker 1: of those changes that unless I'm paying attention to it
25:48
Speaker 1: I just really don't notice. Now, like if the story
25:50
Speaker 1: is crap, then you're going to start paying attention to
25:52
Speaker 1: the technical stuff, or at least that's what I do.
25:54
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, in that instance, my experience has in
26:00
Speaker 1: it kind of expands and I'm paying attention to the story.
26:03
Speaker 1: So when that moment happens where you know, all of
26:06
Speaker 1: a sudden you fall off the cliff or whatnot, it
26:09
Speaker 1: moves you in a way that you did not expect
26:11
Speaker 1: to be moved in that moment, and it's it makes
26:13
Speaker 1: that moment a little bit more poignant. I think. I
26:15
Speaker 1: think it's cool. I really like that there are there
26:17
Speaker 1: are movies that I will opt to see on an
26:19
Speaker 1: Imax just to get some of that feeling like I'm
26:23
Speaker 1: there without having to do the three D. I actually
26:27
Speaker 1: really like Imax films for that reason. If if they're
26:30
Speaker 1: um conducive to that. It's funny because, like I said,
26:34
Speaker 1: I've never done it. I have yet to go see
26:36
Speaker 1: a film on an Imax screen that has that component.
26:41
Speaker 1: Like I know that one of the bat at least
26:42
Speaker 1: one of the Batman films did that where a couple
26:44
Speaker 1: of sequences expanded into full Imax mode and that Uh,
26:50
Speaker 1: It's always made me curious what that transition is like
26:52
Speaker 1: and whether or not I would find it distracting, like
26:55
Speaker 1: oh were, because I think about like like movies where
26:59
Speaker 1: they have that built in as part of the style,
27:03
Speaker 1: where the screen will expand or change shape in some way.
27:08
Speaker 1: I want to say that Quentin Tarantino has done that,
27:10
Speaker 1: but I could be wrong. I'm just trying to think
27:12
Speaker 1: of movies where that has happened, where like the framing changes,
27:16
Speaker 1: and I wonder if that's just what it would feel like,
27:18
Speaker 1: but on a really big scale, like is it something
27:20
Speaker 1: that is like a transition or is it just an
27:23
Speaker 1: abrupt change? I mean, I feel like so when you
27:26
Speaker 1: go to the movie theater, or at least if I'm
27:29
Speaker 1: remembering correctly from way back when I went to movie
27:32
Speaker 1: theaters two years ago. So like when you're watching the
27:36
Speaker 1: pre movie like Real whatever it is, the commercials and
27:40
Speaker 1: the trivia and all that, it's on a smaller frame rate,
27:43
Speaker 1: and then when the trailers start, the curtains slowly start
27:46
Speaker 1: to expand. And so that's at least what I have experienced,
27:50
Speaker 1: is that's kind of what's happening, is so like it's
27:52
Speaker 1: slowly your your field of vision is slowly expanding, so
27:56
Speaker 1: it's not switching straight from like whatever the normal movie.
28:00
Speaker 1: The aspect ratio is too full imax, like in a
28:02
Speaker 1: blink of an eye. It's more of a gradual transition
28:05
Speaker 1: in my experience. Now I can't say that that's always
28:07
Speaker 1: the case, but well, I mean, like I've never experienced
28:10
Speaker 1: at all. So that's why I was like, and I
28:12
Speaker 1: realized that asking you that when you're not specifically going
28:15
Speaker 1: to a movie to take note, it's kind of unfair
28:18
Speaker 1: because it's it's really it's relying on memory, and memory
28:21
Speaker 1: is incredibly you know, subjective and can be changed and stuff. Well,
28:25
Speaker 1: what are some of the the like like gimmicks that
28:29
Speaker 1: various studios have used that you found particularly compelling. I
28:33
Speaker 1: can think of one example of something that a studio
28:37
Speaker 1: did that I thought was incredibly brilliant. Uh, but I'll
28:43
Speaker 1: I'll go after you go. So the one that comes
28:47
Speaker 1: for forefront of my mind, I've already mentioned it. When
28:49
Speaker 1: I went to see The Martian. It was in an
28:52
Speaker 1: extra fancy Imax theater and all the seats had like
28:57
Speaker 1: these both speakers built into them, so that when like
29:02
Speaker 1: spaceships are taking off, I got the rumble, and it
29:05
Speaker 1: was very immersive and without being too distracting, which meant
29:10
Speaker 1: that or uncomfortable, which meant that I almost felt like
29:14
Speaker 1: I had I had more of a stake in what
29:16
Speaker 1: was happening to the character. Now, The Martian is a
29:18
Speaker 1: fantastic movie, and I already had a stake in what
29:21
Speaker 1: was happening to Matt Damon in that movie, but it
29:24
Speaker 1: kind of brought me in a little bit more and
29:27
Speaker 1: it made it feel it made the stakes feel a
29:29
Speaker 1: little bit more real, understandable because of that sensory involvement.
29:33
Speaker 1: And so that was I think one of my favorites. Um,
29:38
Speaker 1: I don't know. Otherwise, I guess I could say, like
29:40
Speaker 1: when movies use practical effects instead of c G I
29:42
Speaker 1: nowadays it's shouldn't be a gimmick, but I feel like
29:44
Speaker 1: it is and I like it better. I got you
29:47
Speaker 1: practical effects. I think practical effects always went out over
29:50
Speaker 1: c G. I like c G I is important and
29:53
Speaker 1: it can really enhance a film, but when you're getting
29:56
Speaker 1: into certain effects, there's nothing like having something that has actual,
29:59
Speaker 1: real physical form inside a camera frame. UM. So I
30:05
Speaker 1: was thinking of two actually, one that I thought was
30:07
Speaker 1: brilliant was the way Blair Witch Project promoted itself by
30:12
Speaker 1: creating an entire website filled with stuff that supported the
30:17
Speaker 1: narrative that the movie was a found footage piece, like
30:22
Speaker 1: it was actual, like this is something that actually happened.
30:25
Speaker 1: In The website had tons of extra detail that doesn't
30:29
Speaker 1: even come out in the movie. But if you read
30:31
Speaker 1: the website, if you explored it before you saw the film,
30:35
Speaker 1: little things in the film suddenly had a much bigger
30:37
Speaker 1: impact on you because you understood the significance. Whereas in
30:40
Speaker 1: the movie, if you didn't go to the website, like
30:43
Speaker 1: you could still enjoy it as a film, but those
30:46
Speaker 1: little those little almost like easter eggs, wouldn't have an
30:49
Speaker 1: impact on you. Um. But my favorite, my favorite promotion
30:55
Speaker 1: that I am aware of, and I have to stress
30:57
Speaker 1: that I did not physically experience this one, was when
31:03
Speaker 1: the American version of Ringoo The Ring, when it was
31:07
Speaker 1: first coming out, there was some sort of screening where
31:11
Speaker 1: I think people got to see a little bit of
31:13
Speaker 1: the Ring, or maybe they even were watching the full movie.
31:17
Speaker 1: But after the film was over, people are coming out
31:20
Speaker 1: of the theaters going back to their cars, and when
31:23
Speaker 1: they did, some of the cars had a VHS cassette
31:26
Speaker 1: tape left on the windshield and if they brought it
31:29
Speaker 1: home and played it, it was the video from The Ring.
31:36
Speaker 1: I was like, for a horror movie, that is such
31:39
Speaker 1: a brilliant promotion, Like I get that, it's it's incredibly
31:43
Speaker 1: it's incredibly like targeted, right, It's not like it's not
31:47
Speaker 1: like you're getting a very widespread but the word of
31:50
Speaker 1: mouth on that was insane. And then in the Internet age,
31:55
Speaker 1: word of mouth can go really far, really fast. So
31:58
Speaker 1: I was like, what a truly innovative approach. And we've
32:02
Speaker 1: seen similar things like alternate reality games. I think we're
32:06
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a full discussion about alternate reality
32:08
Speaker 1: games at some point because I took I took part
32:11
Speaker 1: in a couple of the really early ones. Um and
32:14
Speaker 1: I would like Eternal Darkness. That's not even no, that's
32:17
Speaker 1: that's just that's just a video game. I'm talking things
32:20
Speaker 1: like uh, oh gosh, what was the Bees one? There's
32:24
Speaker 1: there's one that was related to Halo. There was one
32:26
Speaker 1: that was related to the to the movie Artificial Intelligence.
32:30
Speaker 1: I guess Pokemon Go would that's augmented reality. No, alternate
32:34
Speaker 1: reality is it's kind of like augmented reality. Alternate reality
32:37
Speaker 1: games are where you have a game that is dependent
32:41
Speaker 1: upon some fictional universe, such as Gotham because one of
32:45
Speaker 1: the Dark Knight did this one um. Or it could
32:49
Speaker 1: be like Halo, it could be the world of artificial
32:51
Speaker 1: intelligence like AI that that that film, and it also
32:57
Speaker 1: involves you doing real world act is. It might involve
33:00
Speaker 1: you having to go to a real world location, pick
33:04
Speaker 1: up a real world telephone, and have a real world
33:06
Speaker 1: conversation with a fictional character within the game, and then
33:10
Speaker 1: you report back to an online group and say what happened,
33:13
Speaker 1: and you all try to solve a mystery together. It's incredible. Uh,
33:16
Speaker 1: you don't see it as frequently because, as it turns out,
33:19
Speaker 1: it's very hard to do well. But it's it's sort
33:22
Speaker 1: of the thing that I would say lead into the
33:25
Speaker 1: popularity of stuff like escape rooms further down the line. Yeah,
33:29
Speaker 1: I've had friends who run tabletops similarly, back back to
33:33
Speaker 1: the doing that sort of thing for movie. So like
33:36
Speaker 1: with Blair Witch or The Ring. You know, I think
33:41
Speaker 1: it's really cool that they put that much thought into
33:43
Speaker 1: the world surrounding their media. Um, but it it can
33:48
Speaker 1: be a little scary. I mean, if you look back
33:50
Speaker 1: to the War of the World's, like, that's one of
33:52
Speaker 1: the first instances I can think of where they tried
33:54
Speaker 1: to make people think it was a real thing, and
33:56
Speaker 1: it was like it caused a lot of freak out.
34:00
Speaker 1: People didn't realize this radio show was just a radio show. Um,
34:04
Speaker 1: And so like, I don't know, it's I think it's
34:06
Speaker 1: really cool. And at the same time, I'm like, uh,
34:10
Speaker 1: do I really want life imitating this art? No? Well,
34:15
Speaker 1: and and to be fair, I mean, like the radio thing,
34:18
Speaker 1: I think that gets drummed up a lot. I don't
34:20
Speaker 1: think it was nearly as big, like everyone makes it
34:25
Speaker 1: out as if there were widespread panics too in response
34:29
Speaker 1: to the world War of the World's when in reality
34:32
Speaker 1: there was that was that appeared to mostly be something
34:35
Speaker 1: that was a fabrication of the media. But to your point,
34:38
Speaker 1: to your point, um, something like coming out of a
34:42
Speaker 1: movie theater and seeing just a random VHS tape left
34:46
Speaker 1: on your windshield, especially if you didn't go like I don't,
34:49
Speaker 1: I can't. I think it must have been a promotion
34:51
Speaker 1: before the movie came out, which means that these were
34:53
Speaker 1: people who didn't see the ring. They just came out
34:57
Speaker 1: of a regular theater and there was this videotape sitting
35:00
Speaker 1: on their their windshield. They take it home and play it,
35:02
Speaker 1: and then you get the super creepy video with with
35:05
Speaker 1: a little thing at the end that gave either a
35:07
Speaker 1: link or a time of when the film was coming out.
35:10
Speaker 1: And uh, like that to me would be really unsettling,
35:14
Speaker 1: even thoughing that it was just a totally random kind
35:16
Speaker 1: of experience and that I wasn't targeted. Like, the brain
35:21
Speaker 1: works differently, right, you might know, quote unquote deep down
35:25
Speaker 1: in your heart, like this was just a random little
35:27
Speaker 1: movie promotion. But there's that reptile part of your brain saying,
35:32
Speaker 1: but what if it's seven days? Yes, yeah, Well that
35:36
Speaker 1: reptile part of my brain can be pretty strong, especially
35:38
Speaker 1: with scary movies. That's that's why I limit myself on them. Uh.
35:43
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, I'm now starting to get creeped out
35:47
Speaker 1: about this conversation. So let's take a break. Ye, it's
35:51
Speaker 1: natural chatting with me, Ariel. I'm sorry, it's just kind
35:53
Speaker 1: of happens now. It's fine, We'll take a break. I'm
35:56
Speaker 1: going to regroup and then we'll do a mashup that's
35:58
Speaker 1: a little bit happier. Maybe Okay, we're back an Ariel,
36:19
Speaker 1: I believe that the mashup we're about to do comes
36:22
Speaker 1: to us courtesy from a listener suggestion. Yes, so this
36:28
Speaker 1: is this is a listener suggestion. Um, actually it is
36:31
Speaker 1: a suggestion from one of our listeners kids. So thank
36:34
Speaker 1: you Tip, Penny Elliott and Aaron for this suggestion. We
36:37
Speaker 1: are mashing up The Princess Bride with Super Mario Brothers,
36:41
Speaker 1: the video game, not the movie. Um, the movie is
36:45
Speaker 1: a creature of its own that doesn't need a mash up. Well,
36:47
Speaker 1: you might think differently, and if you do, please let
36:50
Speaker 1: us know. And if I do, you do let us know.
36:52
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, I know about the Super Mario Brothers movie.
36:56
Speaker 1: I've seen little bits of it. I've never watched it
36:59
Speaker 1: all the way through. And if you make us do
37:01
Speaker 1: a mashup, I'm gonna have to watch it, which means
37:04
Speaker 1: I'll be forwarding my therapists bills to you. That might
37:08
Speaker 1: be worth it alone. So I think probably most of
37:12
Speaker 1: our listeners are familiar with both properties, but if you're not.
37:15
Speaker 1: The Princess Bride is a movie from I guess the eighties. Um,
37:19
Speaker 1: where uh, it's a Grandpa reading a story to his
37:23
Speaker 1: sick grandson, and um, you probably know about it because
37:27
Speaker 1: Deadpool recently did a mash up with it. Um, but
37:31
Speaker 1: you know. The story is about a farm boy who
37:34
Speaker 1: falls in love with a girl who comes engaged to
37:38
Speaker 1: prince when the farm boy goes missing, and then it
37:41
Speaker 1: turns out he's a pirate, and there's high jinks. It's
37:43
Speaker 1: low budget, it's kind of cheesy, but that's the whole
37:47
Speaker 1: charm of it. So I know some people who love
37:48
Speaker 1: it and other people who hate it. I am a
37:51
Speaker 1: person who loves it. I think it's a perfect movie.
37:54
Speaker 1: It is. It is charming, it is silly. It doesn't
37:57
Speaker 1: take itself too seriously, which I think is the secret
38:00
Speaker 1: to its real success. Has incredible performances from some truly
38:04
Speaker 1: gifted and funny actors, as an amazing performance from Andre
38:11
Speaker 1: the Giant as physic. It is is a great movie.
38:14
Speaker 1: It's also it's also a book. It's based off a book,
38:17
Speaker 1: and the book itself is also really charming, and a
38:20
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that's in the movie is directly
38:23
Speaker 1: taken from the book. There are some things like Billy
38:25
Speaker 1: Crystal goes off script a little bit for some of
38:28
Speaker 1: his stuff, but to great effect. So and of course
38:31
Speaker 1: Super Mario Brothers. If you don't know what that is,
38:33
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're listening to a geeky podcast,
38:35
Speaker 1: but yeah, one of the most popular video game franchises
38:38
Speaker 1: of all time. Mario and Luis Gi Mario apparently their
38:43
Speaker 1: last name is Mario. Um. They are plumbers and bro well,
38:47
Speaker 1: no one talks about being plumbers anymore but their brothers,
38:50
Speaker 1: and they have a whole series of different video games
38:53
Speaker 1: where they go on various adventures, either trying to rescue
38:56
Speaker 1: a character called Princess Peach, or maybe chasing spooks out
39:00
Speaker 1: of a ghost house if you're Luigi, or maybe trying
39:04
Speaker 1: to run down people in a little go kart in
39:06
Speaker 1: Mario Kart, or maybe trying to just smash the heck
39:09
Speaker 1: out of him and Super Smash Brothers. But yeah, those
39:12
Speaker 1: are the two properties we're going to be mashing together. Yes,
39:16
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let you go first. All right, My
39:20
Speaker 1: mashup is called Super Princess Brothers. Buttercup has a problem.
39:26
Speaker 1: Her beloved plumber Wesley was lost in the Sewers. He
39:30
Speaker 1: was taken captive by the dread Gumba Roberts and as
39:33
Speaker 1: we all know, Dredd Gumba never takes prisoners. Despondent, she
39:38
Speaker 1: barely had the energy to protest when Prince Bowserdink claimed
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Speaker 1: her as his fiancee. But unbeknownst to Buttercup, but benknownst
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Speaker 1: to us, Wesley did not in fact die. Instead, he
39:51
Speaker 1: spent five years surviving and the harshest of environments. I mean,
39:56
Speaker 1: have you seen the Mushroom Kingdom. They got bullets with
39:59
Speaker 1: eyeballs flying around, and bombs with feet and stuff. Over
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Speaker 1: that time, he perfected the fireball throw, experimented with mushrooms,
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Speaker 1: but this is a family show, so we'll skip that,
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Speaker 1: and learned how to turn into a raccoon, you know,
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Speaker 1: typical adventurer stuff. All the while Buttercup despaired at the
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Speaker 1: prospect of being bowser Dink's wife. One day, when Buttercup
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Speaker 1: was riding her horse, the one activity that brought her peace,
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Speaker 1: she came across a troop of kopas, but not a
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Speaker 1: kopa trooper. There was one very small koopa, one very
40:32
Speaker 1: very large koopa, and one Spanish Koopa. Pardon me, madam,
40:37
Speaker 1: says the little kopa. But we are poor circus performers.
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Speaker 1: Could you tell us where the nearest town is. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing to hear nothing from miles, says Buttercup. Then there
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Speaker 1: will be no one to hear you, scream, says the
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Speaker 1: little one, And then the big one jumps up in
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Speaker 1: the air and bobs Buttercup on the head and a
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Speaker 1: coin pops out from somewhere. But it's best not to
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Speaker 1: question where. Next thing, you know, the Kopas are on
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Speaker 1: a boat going over water, and we hear this song
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Speaker 1: Dude do do, Dude, do do do? But then the
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Speaker 1: Spanish Koopa keeps asking if someone could possibly be following them,
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Speaker 1: to which the little Kopa says, that's not at all conceivable,
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Speaker 1: and the Spanish one says, it's just that when I
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Speaker 1: look behind us and something is there, and they look
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Speaker 1: and there's a figure swimming and hopping in the water
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Speaker 1: and avoiding fish and occasionally throwing fireballs at stuff, which
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Speaker 1: makes this weird little coconut plink some when they hit. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: what follows is the Kopas and their captured princess make
41:34
Speaker 1: a run for it, and they reach the mushrooms of insanity.
41:38
Speaker 1: But we're not going to talk about those because this
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Speaker 1: is a family show. Anyway, They try to escape, and
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Speaker 1: the swimming figure becomes a jumping figure and it leaps
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Speaker 1: up and gains ground on the three and so the
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Speaker 1: Spanish one stays behind to try and stop the figure,
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Speaker 1: but the Spanish one fails, and then the very large
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Speaker 1: Kopa stays behind and is also unsuccessful. And eventually the
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Speaker 1: little figure in black runs up to a big fort
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Speaker 1: and goes inside. Do do Do Do Do Do Do
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Speaker 1: Do Do Do, And he navigates a maze like structure
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Speaker 1: and avoids traps and fireballs and stuff until he finds
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Speaker 1: the little koopa at the end, and after a quick
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Speaker 1: battle of wits, manages to dump the koopa into lava
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Speaker 1: and to go into the room beyond, where he finds
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Speaker 1: talking mushroom. But we won't talk about him because you
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Speaker 1: know family show, right, But the talking mushroom says, sorry,
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Speaker 1: but your princess is in another castle, all right, So
42:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be straight with you. Like the rest of
42:36
Speaker 1: this movie is that the figure in black, which is
42:38
Speaker 1: obviously Wesley in the dread Gumba disguise, actually has to
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Speaker 1: clear out castles, only to be told this princess is
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Speaker 1: in another one. But this is true love, Do you
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Speaker 1: think this happens every day? No, the answer is no.
42:51
Speaker 1: So he keeps on going. He dodges critters and bullets
42:54
Speaker 1: and bombs and fireballs and chomping plants in the fire swamp,
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Speaker 1: and geo Us is gumbas of unusual size, and he
43:03
Speaker 1: eventually gets a one up so that when he quote
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Speaker 1: unquote dies, he's only mostly dead and he actually has
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Speaker 1: an extra life, so he's okay. Now, admittedly this does
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Speaker 1: get a little repetitive. Okay, I'm gonna be straight with you,
43:15
Speaker 1: but it's okay because somewhere around the SEV completion, Mark
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Speaker 1: Wesley the dread Cumba uses a warp zone to skip
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Speaker 1: ahead a bit, and so he goes straight for bowser
43:25
Speaker 1: Dak and ultimately the two face off and Wesley is
43:28
Speaker 1: able to dodge like a whole bunch of fireballs, and
43:30
Speaker 1: he terrifies Bowserdink into submission, and he finally reunites with Buttercup,
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Speaker 1: who was very happy to discover her lost love is
43:37
Speaker 1: actually fine, and the two go on to open up
43:40
Speaker 1: a moderately successful plumbing business until some crazy rabbit like
43:44
Speaker 1: creatures invade the Kingdom, but that's a story for another time.
43:49
Speaker 1: Did you just serve Rabbit Rabbits into it, because there's
43:52
Speaker 1: a Rabbit Rabbits and Super Mario crossover game. Did you
43:57
Speaker 1: did you not know that it's squad based tactic al
44:00
Speaker 1: So it's like you literally are doing turn based tactical
44:03
Speaker 1: squad combat with your Mario characters against a bunch of
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Speaker 1: rabid characters and it's hilarious. I bow to your geeky knowledge,
44:13
Speaker 1: my friend. All right, I know that everyone out there
44:16
Speaker 1: is just as eager as I am to hear Arial's
44:18
Speaker 1: amazing mash up because it's dedicated. I guarantee you it's
44:23
Speaker 1: going to be better than mine. But before we do that,
44:25
Speaker 1: let's take this quick break. So there are a couple
44:40
Speaker 1: common threads between ours, but they made me laugh. So, uh,
44:44
Speaker 1: mine is the plumber bride. Mario was doing his normal
44:49
Speaker 1: thing like he normally did. You see, while his profession
44:51
Speaker 1: was plumber, his job was to free the Mushroom people
44:53
Speaker 1: from King Cooper's evil rain. But to do so, he
44:56
Speaker 1: needed to find and free Princess Peach. But just like
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Speaker 1: Lucy with the football, King Coopa a k. A. Bowser
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Speaker 1: for people who don't know, kept yanking the princess away
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Speaker 1: from Mario's grasp. Mario had searched all the castles in
45:07
Speaker 1: the Mushroom Kingdom to no avail, and that's when he
45:10
Speaker 1: came upon it, a green tunnel he had never seen before.
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Speaker 1: Usually this leads towards positive discoveries, so without a second thought,
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Speaker 1: Mario jumped in. When he was in the pipe, Mario
45:21
Speaker 1: heard a loud, screeching noise, and all of a sudden,
45:24
Speaker 1: a giant eel appeared and he had to fight it.
45:26
Speaker 1: When he came out the other side, he was in
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Speaker 1: a level of the Mushroom Kingdom he had never seen before.
45:33
Speaker 1: There was like a sign on the wall. It said
45:35
Speaker 1: pit of Despair Comma guilder. Uh. But it looked way
45:39
Speaker 1: different from anything he had ever seen in the Mushroom Kingdom.
45:42
Speaker 1: He didn't know services could have such texture to them.
45:46
Speaker 1: And it only had one villain in the room, a
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Speaker 1: bizarre bipedal figure who had a face so pale it
45:51
Speaker 1: must have been a shy guy, but again so detailed.
45:54
Speaker 1: Then the figure said, don't even try. Don't even try
45:58
Speaker 1: to escape. Uh. On the less, the princess didn't seem
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Speaker 1: to be in the room, so escape Mario must. He
46:04
Speaker 1: jumped on the shy guy who did not crumple like
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Speaker 1: a shy guy normally would and escaped. Once out of
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Speaker 1: the pit of despair, Mario found himself in what a
46:15
Speaker 1: sign was calling the fire swamp. I mean swamp. It
46:19
Speaker 1: was full of flame balls and exceptionally hair and gumbas
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Speaker 1: of unusual size. Uh sound familiar. Uh, this must mean
46:26
Speaker 1: it's true. All right. This felt familiar to Mario as well,
46:31
Speaker 1: but he quickly escaped because he used to fireballs and
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Speaker 1: gumbas and things. But just on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the swamp, Mario ran into some familiar faces, but the
46:40
Speaker 1: familiar faces didn't seem to recognize him. You see, Luigi
46:44
Speaker 1: had traded in his green overalls for a vest and
46:47
Speaker 1: had somehow gotten scars on the side of his face
46:49
Speaker 1: and grown out his hair, which was exceptionally bizarre to
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Speaker 1: Mario because he had just seen Luigi this morning. Along
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Speaker 1: with him, was towed in a fancy doublet and Yoshi
46:58
Speaker 1: if Yoshi were a small giant. Mario said, hey, let's
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Speaker 1: find the princess, but the three blocked his path. Toad
47:06
Speaker 1: said that Mario could look for the princess if he
47:09
Speaker 1: could pick the box with contents that weren't Io Kaine
47:11
Speaker 1: powder Mario did and towed quote unquote wilted. But before
47:19
Speaker 1: Mario could mourn the loss of Toad, Luigi said, bulky
47:22
Speaker 1: ducky I'm Luindigo Montoya, you killed my father prepared to die,
47:28
Speaker 1: and he and the giant Yoshi, who Luindigo called Yoshig,
47:33
Speaker 1: attacked Mario. Mario bested them, but instead of jumping on
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Speaker 1: them and killing them, as he normally would do, he
47:39
Speaker 1: offered them the opportunity to join him, especially since he
47:43
Speaker 1: hadn't killed Luigi and his father, Papa Mario was retired
47:46
Speaker 1: and living good in a distant part of the Mushroom Kingdom.
47:50
Speaker 1: Uh Lu Windigo and Yoshik agreed to join Mario. They
47:53
Speaker 1: had nothing better to do now that their leader was wilted.
47:57
Speaker 1: But they told Mario he had to hurry if he
47:59
Speaker 1: wanted to save the princess because she was going to
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Speaker 1: marry the king and Guilder. This was odd to Mario.
48:04
Speaker 1: He didn't recall that being a part of King Cooper's plan,
48:07
Speaker 1: and where the heck is Guilder this in this the
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Speaker 1: Mushroom Kingdom. Despite his confusion, they traveled along and stopped
48:13
Speaker 1: at a merchant along the way to the princess. So
48:16
Speaker 1: Mario could get a power up, he bought a cloak
48:19
Speaker 1: called the Holocaust Cloak. However, when they got to the castle,
48:22
Speaker 1: much to Mario's dismay, instead of giving him flying powers,
48:25
Speaker 1: when he put the cloak on, it just caught on fire.
48:28
Speaker 1: This is not what he wanted, but it was enough
48:31
Speaker 1: to scare the Cooper men out from outside the castle
48:33
Speaker 1: away and they were able to get in to try
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Speaker 1: to save the princess. Mario expected a castle full of
48:38
Speaker 1: the normal pitfalls he usually experienced, bob bombs, bullet bills,
48:42
Speaker 1: prana plants, but oddly he didn't see any of those.
48:47
Speaker 1: And when he punched the castle bricks, it didn't free
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Speaker 1: any want to give him money. It just hurt his
48:51
Speaker 1: hand man. This new level stinks. Mario thought the group
48:55
Speaker 1: were almost done searching the castle and about to give
48:58
Speaker 1: up when Mario came across Count Boogan. But this boo
49:02
Speaker 1: didn't stop when he looked at it. What kind of
49:05
Speaker 1: boo was this? Nonetheless, between the three in the party,
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Speaker 1: they were able to feat Count Boogin and find and
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Speaker 1: defeat King Cooperdink and locate the princess. Yeah, but when
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Speaker 1: they got to the princess, it wasn't Peach, it was
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Speaker 1: some princess Buttercup, and Buttercup was equally dismayed that this
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Speaker 1: wasn't her Wesley but some short workman with the gross mustache. However,
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Speaker 1: a rescue was a rescue, and they escaped. Mario was
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Speaker 1: tired of this new realm, so far from what he
49:33
Speaker 1: was familiar with, and searched high and low for the
49:35
Speaker 1: Pipe to return back to the Mushroom Kingdom. When he
49:37
Speaker 1: finally found it, Princess Buttercup refused to leave Gilder. She
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Speaker 1: had to wait for her Wesley, So Mario returned to
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Speaker 1: the Mushroom Kingdom alone to search for the true princess.
49:46
Speaker 1: It's a speech who could save all the people in
49:48
Speaker 1: the Mushroom Kingdom. That was his job, after all. Later,
49:53
Speaker 1: Mario decided to return to Guilder to see how things
49:55
Speaker 1: were going with Buttercup and the strange versions of his friends.
49:59
Speaker 1: But the Pipe was no longer there, and no one
50:01
Speaker 1: knew what he was talking about. Recalled being there with
50:04
Speaker 1: him the end. Yeah, you know, I like that there
50:09
Speaker 1: were similarities, but not nothing too gratuitous. Yeah yeah, well,
50:18
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you gonna do. Yeah, I was,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Gumbas of unusual size or koopas of
50:23
Speaker 1: unusual size. It's gonna be one of them. Two. Um,
50:26
Speaker 1: and I had to do the troop of Koopa's instead
50:28
Speaker 1: of the Koopa Troopa. So no, I think that. I
50:31
Speaker 1: think we acquitted ourselves admirably in that nation. And uh,
50:36
Speaker 1: and it was nice to have like a lighthearted one
50:39
Speaker 1: because you know what. You know, we're in the beginning
50:42
Speaker 1: of September aerial, so you know what that means. Right,
50:46
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a lot of Halloween news. That's right.
50:48
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be spooky times from here on through
50:52
Speaker 1: to the end of October. Honestly, like we've been dragging
50:56
Speaker 1: our feet on the spooky times because they've been starting earlier.
50:59
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are kind of longing
51:02
Speaker 1: for the spooky times because it's a nice relief from
51:06
Speaker 1: you know, real world issues and problems. And it's a
51:10
Speaker 1: lot easier to be to pretend to be scared of
51:13
Speaker 1: spooky ghosts on the screen than it is to look
51:15
Speaker 1: at the news and go oh man, So I get it.
51:18
Speaker 1: I totally get I'm feeling the call of Halloween to y'all.
51:21
Speaker 1: I I am eager for Halloween season. So um, we
51:25
Speaker 1: even got a little bit of cooler weather in Georgia,
51:28
Speaker 1: which was you know, fall ish fall adjacent. So yeah,
51:34
Speaker 1: we're both very eager. We're gonna be covering lots more
51:36
Speaker 1: Halloween stuff coming up, and um, who knows, maybe I'll
51:40
Speaker 1: even convince arial to watch another spooky movie or something that. Well,
51:45
Speaker 1: we'll see how how well that goes. It'll have to
51:49
Speaker 1: be a time where I'm fine not getting sleep for
51:51
Speaker 1: like a month. Well, for those of you out there
51:55
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51:58
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52:05
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52:13
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52:16
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