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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider podcast is a production of My
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to The Large Nerdron Collider,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I am arial casting and with me as
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Speaker 1: always is scuba Man, Strickland, blood blood bial. Don't know
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Speaker 1: where scuba man came from, but okay, so it came
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Speaker 1: from the fact. Okay, because we we tried to record
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Speaker 1: this podcast and then we had to stop because Jonathan's
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Speaker 1: question was so stumping to me that we had to
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Speaker 1: start again. Um. We Originally I was going to have
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Speaker 1: us just run it, and I was going even have
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Speaker 1: our super producer tari keep all of ariel struggles in,
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Speaker 1: but after about seven minutes, you just wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 1: have it end. So yes, But he had said in
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Speaker 1: the previous one that he wasn't underwater, So um, that's
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Speaker 1: that's the truth that my brain normally goes on. People.
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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry you had to take that journey with me.
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Speaker 1: I love that you made a reference to something that
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Speaker 1: only you and I even knew existed. Now we're going
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Speaker 1: to have you answer the question that you struggled over,
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Speaker 1: and I will reveal it to our lovely audience. So Ariel,
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Speaker 1: here is your question. So you're given the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: go back in time to any point in history to
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Speaker 1: witness something. However, you cannot interact with anything, kind of
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Speaker 1: like Scrooge and Christmas Carol. So what is your choice?
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Speaker 1: I would want to go to the n Muhammad Ali
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Speaker 1: sunny list in fight. Oh wow, Wow, that's a very
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Speaker 1: specific answer. I like it. It's a good like it
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Speaker 1: was a it's a historic fight. Yeah. Interesting, I didn't
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Speaker 1: really think of you as a as a boxing fan,
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Speaker 1: so like, I enjoy it. I you know, I love
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Speaker 1: Rocky and Creed and all those movies. Um, I used
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Speaker 1: to want to be a boxer before I realized that
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Speaker 1: I actually liked my face um in my ears. But no,
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Speaker 1: I I enjoyed that. I I enjoy mm A. It
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Speaker 1: is hard sometimes to watch people get injured, so it's
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Speaker 1: it's like a love hate relationship. But I do enjoy
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Speaker 1: watching stuff. You know, I took I took boxing for
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Speaker 1: a little bit as well. I didn't ever get good
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Speaker 1: at it, but I enjoyed it. So yeah, that would
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Speaker 1: be it. Wow, I'm still reeling. I mean, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I have been hit by a like a right
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Speaker 1: cross or something. Uh, you know, so am so. I
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Speaker 1: actually actually went back and forth on this because originally
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say I would love to go back
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Speaker 1: to the sixteenth century England to see a Shakespearean production
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Speaker 1: during Shakespeare's actual time. But then I sat there and
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Speaker 1: thought about and thought, chances are, with the accents the
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Speaker 1: way they would be, I probably wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 1: understand very much. So instead I would want to go
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Speaker 1: to the eight World's Exposition in Chicago. Oh, that would
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Speaker 1: be so much fun because the so the Science and
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Speaker 1: Industry Museum in Chicago is the only remaining I believe
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Speaker 1: it's Science and Industry. I could be wrong about this.
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Speaker 1: There's one remaining building from that exposition that serves as
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Speaker 1: a museum today in Chicago. The rest of it's all
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Speaker 1: been taken down. I would have loved to have seen
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Speaker 1: that in person, because it sounds phenomenal. If you really
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Speaker 1: want to learn a lot about the position. By the way,
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Speaker 1: I highly recommend the book The Devil in the White City.
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Speaker 1: It is a book that tells both the story of H. H.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and the story of the World's Fair, and it
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Speaker 1: alternates chapters, so like you'll get a World's Fair chapter
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Speaker 1: followed by a Holmes chapter, et cetera. And the World's
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Speaker 1: Fair stuff I thought was absolutely fascinating. Oddly enough, I
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Speaker 1: found the home stuff a little too dry for my tastes,
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Speaker 1: but that is really interesting. Um. And I also was
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Speaker 1: thinking about picking Shakespeare after thinking about it, and I said, no,
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Speaker 1: Shirley Jonathan will pick that, So I almost did. You
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Speaker 1: talked about H. H. Holmes, and my brain went to
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Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes, which leads us to our first newspiece, which
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Speaker 1: is about Spider Man. See you guys just to get
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Speaker 1: to go on all these little uh windy journeys with
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Speaker 1: me tonight. But today ariel If If H. H. Holmes
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Speaker 1: makes you think of Sherlock Holmes, why does Sherlock Holmes
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Speaker 1: make you think of Spider Man? Because Benedict Cumberbatch plays
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Speaker 1: both Sherlock Holmes and Dr Stephen Strange. And Dr Stephen
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Speaker 1: Strange is in the Spider Man trailer. All right, now
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Speaker 1: we've got all the connective tissue there. Yes, we watched
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Speaker 1: this teaser. It came out the day before we record
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Speaker 1: this we're recording it on Tuesday, and y'all I love
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Speaker 1: this teaser. Yeah, me too, Me too. A lot of
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Speaker 1: this stuff that got leaked, you know, was in the trailer,
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Speaker 1: stuff like Alfred Molina being in the new movie. But
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Speaker 1: his reveal is so good. It is so good. And
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Speaker 1: there's some other little reveals before that that I don't
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Speaker 1: want to describe because like it made me squee a
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Speaker 1: little bit, like okay, um, and I don't want to
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Speaker 1: ruin that that excitement for anybody else. We do get
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Speaker 1: more of the plot. The thing that I find really
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Speaker 1: interesting is that fans are are still in one division
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Speaker 1: grain in the m c U. First, because one, they're
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Speaker 1: trying to find any little hidden thing, and there were
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Speaker 1: lots of hidden things in the trailer um, but one
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Speaker 1: of them is there. Matt Murdoch is in this. Matt
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Speaker 1: Murdoch is in this a k A. Daredevil um off
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Speaker 1: of a couple of scenes which so far he has
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Speaker 1: been saying and everybody saying that he's not so um
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Speaker 1: if everything about Spider Man has been leaked, but that
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Speaker 1: that's quite impressive. And then two is that in one
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Speaker 1: division they had a little heart on August the first
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Speaker 1: episode and that's when the trailer drops, So everybody's assuming
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Speaker 1: that that was another Disney Easter A, yeah, that that
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Speaker 1: was intentionally a reference to a one division moment. One
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Speaker 1: of the things that I thought was really interesting is
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Speaker 1: that this reminds me a little bit of a storyline
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Speaker 1: that actually happened in the Spider Man comics, but it's
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Speaker 1: a different a totally different storyline um in that. So
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Speaker 1: the reason why Dr Strange is in this movie is
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Speaker 1: that if you remember, at the end of the previous
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Speaker 1: Spider Man film, Spider Man comes home and his identity
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Speaker 1: is revealed on national television by Jay Jonah Jameson, and
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Speaker 1: you wonder, well, how the heck is he going to
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Speaker 1: deal with this? Well, clearly he's dealing with the aftermath
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Speaker 1: of that in the beginning of this movie, but he
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Speaker 1: wants to ask after Strange if there's some way that
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Speaker 1: they could reverse things so that not everyone knows he's
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Speaker 1: Spider Man, and then we get into the whole multiverse stuff.
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Speaker 1: And the thing this reminds me of is there was
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Speaker 1: a Spider Man storyline in which Spider Man has to
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Speaker 1: make a deal with Mephisto, which erases everyone's knowledge that
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Speaker 1: he is that Peter Parker is Spider Man. UM. Totally
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Speaker 1: different circumstances, but a similar kind of idea. And in
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Speaker 1: a way, you could argue that this is almost like
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Speaker 1: a multiverse flipping on its head of that particular storyline. UM.
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Speaker 1: The little easter eggs I spotted I loved. I have
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Speaker 1: not gone through like frame by frame or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: but I really dug the trailer or teaser I should say,
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Speaker 1: it's not really a full trailer. Yeah, I I did too.
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Speaker 1: I there was a little bit of comedy and it
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Speaker 1: it did seem a lot more serious than the other
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Speaker 1: Spider Man trailers UM, which I guess happens as Spider
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Speaker 1: Man grows up. So but I am very excited about it.
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Speaker 1: I think it will be a good ushering into this
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Speaker 1: new phase of the m c u UM agreed. I
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Speaker 1: also said that I hope that they go to a
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Speaker 1: reality where Doctor Strange and Peter Parker are both British,
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Speaker 1: so that way Tom holland Becummer Badge can speak in
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Speaker 1: their normal accent. You know, you put that on Twitter
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Speaker 1: and I almost tweeted back, save something for the show.
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Speaker 1: Show that's fair. But but it is interesting again with
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Speaker 1: the whole tide to wand Division because one it's going
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Speaker 1: to be in Multiverse of Madness that you know, they
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Speaker 1: thought Mephisto was going to be in wand Division, And
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Speaker 1: this is very similar to another storyline. Even though we
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Speaker 1: know King the Conqueror is going to be a big
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Speaker 1: bag bad in this uh in this phase. Well maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe it'll be one of those things where Kang is
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Speaker 1: like the big big bad early on and Mephisto ends
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Speaker 1: up being like the Thanos level big bad at the
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Speaker 1: end of the phase. You never know. Yeah, possibly, but
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Speaker 1: we'll see, Like the I I honestly, at this point,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that Marvel should ever pull the Mephisto card,
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Speaker 1: just because it will consistently become that joke about maybe
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Speaker 1: it's Mephisto. But let's move on and talk a little
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Speaker 1: bit about So shank Chi is about to come out
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Speaker 1: in theaters and I'm really looking forward to seeing that
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Speaker 1: when it comes out to streaming because I won't be
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Speaker 1: going to the theater um. But I have to have
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Speaker 1: to wait forty five days for that. But we also
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Speaker 1: got a trailer for the next film in the Marvel series,
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Speaker 1: The Eternals. It's the final trailer in that What did
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Speaker 1: you think of this trailer? Um? I liked it. They
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Speaker 1: gave us a little bit more of a story. I
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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen in this movie. Kind Of
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Speaker 1: it almost feels so grandiose that I I can't care,
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Speaker 1: got you? Yeah, you know what, I can see that
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Speaker 1: like the idea, but like it's kind of like the
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Speaker 1: opposite of Spider Man, right, because Spider Man is such
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Speaker 1: a a street level hero that it's something that you
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Speaker 1: could relate to, like the idea of someone swooping into
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Speaker 1: rescue you if you were about to get mugged or something.
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Speaker 1: But when you're talking about existential threats, it starts to
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Speaker 1: get so big that it's hard to wrap your mind
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Speaker 1: around it. Um. We do get answers about why the
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Speaker 1: Eternals didn't, well, sort of answers about why the Eternals
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Speaker 1: didn't intervene during the whole Thanos thing. That's not terribly
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Speaker 1: satisfying answer because it kind of just sort of punts
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Speaker 1: it down the road a little bit. But UM, you know,
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Speaker 1: I feel the same way. I'm hoping that when I
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Speaker 1: see the movie it really clicks with me. I'm hoping
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Speaker 1: also that one of the reasons I don't feel a
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Speaker 1: deep connection yet is that I don't know these characters.
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Speaker 1: So maybe once I get to know the character, I
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Speaker 1: will care more. But right now I'm kind of in
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Speaker 1: the same boat that you are in. I mean, so
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Speaker 1: the characters do have more personality. There's you know, we
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Speaker 1: get to see a little bit about all of them.
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Speaker 1: They recently talked about how Jimmy Chan is going to
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Speaker 1: be a nuanced female hero, which we almost talked about,
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Speaker 1: but then there was too much exciting news to discuss instead.
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Speaker 1: So like, I feel like I will have to go
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Speaker 1: into it just assuming I know nothing about the story
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Speaker 1: and enjoy it for its own piece of fantasy. I
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Speaker 1: think to to really get into this movie, it looks
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Speaker 1: like it's going to be stunning. Yeah, it's the visuals
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Speaker 1: look great. I haven't connected to the characters yet, but
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Speaker 1: hopefully the film will do that for me. But one
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Speaker 1: thing I am absolutely certain is going to work for
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Speaker 1: me is Anthony Mackie signing on to be Captain America
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Speaker 1: for the fourth Captain America film. I am super excited
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Speaker 1: about that. Me too, Me too. I think he did
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Speaker 1: a great job in Falcon and Winter Soldier, even though
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Speaker 1: the overall mini series was not my favorite of the
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Speaker 1: Disney television shows. Uh, but honestly, I'm kind of surprised
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Speaker 1: that it's news at this point because that's how they
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Speaker 1: left off the TV show so well. For me, it
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Speaker 1: was the news was more that they were actually going
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Speaker 1: to make a fully fledged Captain America film, as opposed
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Speaker 1: to just having him play a role like The Hulk
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Speaker 1: where he shows up in other movies but he doesn't
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Speaker 1: get his own film. Gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, I am. I
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Speaker 1: am happy about that. I hope that Bucky is his
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Speaker 1: sidekick because I really like their chemistry together. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: do too. And Anthony Mackie is just like, he's such
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Speaker 1: a he's such a charismatic actor. Um and, and I'm
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Speaker 1: really looking forward to to seeing him on the big
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Speaker 1: screen as Captain America. Also like, I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: see a full Disney budget behind like all those effects
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Speaker 1: and costumes and stuff. The Disney Plus was actually surprisingly
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Speaker 1: good for a streaming television series as far as effects goes,
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Speaker 1: but still obviously a tier below like Disney feature film quality.
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Speaker 1: And also hopefully by that time we'll be back in
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Speaker 1: theaters and able to um watch it on the big
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Speaker 1: screen and get all of those little details that they
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Speaker 1: stick in there. Yeah, I certainly hope so. Well, we've
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Speaker 1: got some more news items to cover, because, like we said,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot that's what happens when we take a
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Speaker 1: week off. But we'll we'll come back and cover some
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Speaker 1: more news items after this quick break. We're back from
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Speaker 1: our break, and here's a story that we could have
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Speaker 1: kind of lump in with the previous ones because it
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Speaker 1: is Disney Marvel related, but it was of the segment
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Speaker 1: One Go Way too long, and it's a follow up
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Speaker 1: on a couple of different stories that kind of don't
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Speaker 1: reflect so well on on Disney and Marvel, one of
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Speaker 1: them being that Scarlett Johansson famously sued Disney for the
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Speaker 1: fact that the company chose to release Black Widow both
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Speaker 1: in theaters and on streaming, but her compensation agreement was
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Speaker 1: hinged upon the box office take, not the streaming take,
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Speaker 1: and she had allegedly asked to negotiate to have streaming
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Speaker 1: incorporated into that, and Disney and Marvel reportedly didn't return
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Speaker 1: her calls, essentially, and so she's taken it to court
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Speaker 1: and um. Then the other one has to do with
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Speaker 1: shang Chi. Yes, So after that happened and they're still
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Speaker 1: working through it. Um. And at first, at first I
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Speaker 1: was like, surely Disney could not have released this movie
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Speaker 1: that she is a producer on without discussing it with
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Speaker 1: her first. But you know, there everything with them so
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Speaker 1: tight lipped that I guess they did. Um. So now
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Speaker 1: they're looking to adjust things and try to finally figure
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Speaker 1: out how to fairly compensate their actors. Uh. And with
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Speaker 1: shang Chi, they said, well, we're going to do exclusively
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Speaker 1: movie theaters for forty five days and then bring it
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Speaker 1: to Disney Plus, which will be a fun experiment, which
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Speaker 1: upset the actors of of shang Chi because they're like,
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Speaker 1: we're not an experiment. Yeah, so yeah, we're not an experiment.
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Speaker 1: We are a valued part of this overall enterprise of
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Speaker 1: the m c U. Like this is like to them,
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Speaker 1: this is to really to everyone, this is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: It's a major motion picture. It has you know, has
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Speaker 1: Asian cast taking the primary spot in a major superhero film,
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Speaker 1: and this is a big deal. And so using a
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Speaker 1: word like experiment carries with it a lot of baggage that,
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Speaker 1: whether you intended it or not, is definitely not appropriate
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Speaker 1: to describe the situation. And so, yeah, Disney and Marvel
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Speaker 1: really mostly Disney has found itself kind of at the
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Speaker 1: heart of this sort of uh storm of scandal. Seems
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Speaker 1: like it's too strong of a word, but brew haha,
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Speaker 1: if you prefer and um. You know, originally I was
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Speaker 1: kind of like, I'm staying out of the whole Scarlett
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Speaker 1: Johannson Disney thing because it's hard for me to get,
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Speaker 1: you know, emotionally invested in millionaires being upset at trillionaires. Um.
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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, hearing more of the story,
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Speaker 1: assuming that Scarlett Johansson's version of events is is the
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Speaker 1: accurate one, it's hard to not feel for her because
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Speaker 1: she if your compensation is dependent upon the profits, and
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Speaker 1: if there was a decision to switch out the distribution
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Speaker 1: model and you were left of that discussion so that
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Speaker 1: you could not have your compensation reflect that, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's a big deal. If that happened to me, I
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Speaker 1: certainly would be up in arms about it. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree it It's one of those things that so
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Speaker 1: I have the same issue where I'm like, it's so
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Speaker 1: much money, and she made so much money, and if
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Speaker 1: they hadn't. I certainly the box office was affected by
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Speaker 1: the fact that they released it on streaming as well
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Speaker 1: as in theaters, but it also released at a time
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Speaker 1: that not a lot of people were going to theaters.
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Speaker 1: And I also so, I don't it had a really
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Speaker 1: good opening weekend, and after that the ticket sales dropped off,
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Speaker 1: and I, you know, I don't know how much is pandemic.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much of it is people being
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Speaker 1: interested in a black widow movie. I think Scarlett Johnson
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Speaker 1: did a fantastic job and I enjoyed it, but you know,
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Speaker 1: going in it wasn't a superhero movie. I hate to
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Speaker 1: say it, it it wasn't superhero movie that I was exceptionally
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Speaker 1: excited about when I first heard about it. It was
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Speaker 1: much more excited about Captain Marvel, for instance. Well, and
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Speaker 1: also on top of that, like Disney pulled this so
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Speaker 1: Ariel and I are both big Disney fans, but we
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Speaker 1: both can also recognize when a company does stuff that's
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Speaker 1: not cool, and this was not cool where Disney essentially
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Speaker 1: played the We just wanted people to be safe during
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, so we wanted to give them the option
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Speaker 1: to watch this at home. It's a shame that you
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Speaker 1: want people to go to the theater and risk their
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Speaker 1: lives that you have a bigger paycheck, which is not
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Speaker 1: what Scotlett Johanson was saying. And it ignores the fact
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Speaker 1: that Disney still released it in the theaters. Like if
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Speaker 1: that were truly the case, then they wouldn't have released
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Speaker 1: in the theaters at all. They would have gone only
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Speaker 1: to streaming at home. So it was a disingenuous, insincere
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Speaker 1: and sleazy thing to say. And like, it pains me
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Speaker 1: to say that to you, Disney, but you did or
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Speaker 1: dirty Yes, I agree, And it's very frustrating, and it
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Speaker 1: is frustrating for to hear them say Shang Chi is
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Speaker 1: an experiment, even if it is just on the financial
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Speaker 1: release side of things, Like I get that that is
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Speaker 1: an important data point of where do we find that
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Speaker 1: balance between in theaters and distribution and on streaming, because
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Speaker 1: everybody's still figuring that out right, But um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they would say the same thing
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Speaker 1: if it were the next Captain America a movie, if
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Speaker 1: it were Multiverse of Madness, you know. But in the end, disnease,
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Speaker 1: Disney's a company, and as much as I might like
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Speaker 1: some of the stuff they put out, You've got to
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Speaker 1: remember that. And companies don't always make great decisions. Yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: and like and and this is this could be something
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Speaker 1: where we just point at the new CEO of Disney
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Speaker 1: and say, you, you might need to take some emotional
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Speaker 1: intelligence sources. I definitely think he needs to take some
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Speaker 1: EI courses. That being said, everything I've heard about shank
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Speaker 1: Chi so far has been fantastic. Every every advanced review
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Speaker 1: I have seen has got me so excited, Like I
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Speaker 1: was already excited, Like I didn't have any expectation for
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Speaker 1: shang Chi. I was not familiar with the property. I
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Speaker 1: never read those comics. Obviously, the film adaptation is a
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Speaker 1: very different take than the original nineteen seventies comic book,
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Speaker 1: which honestly is what we needed because otherwise it would
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Speaker 1: just be kind of a Bruce Lee sort of clone. Um.
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Speaker 1: But everything I've seen makes me think like this is
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Speaker 1: this is one of those movies that could easily be
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Speaker 1: in the the very top part of like favorite Marvel films,
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Speaker 1: Like they might go right up there with things like
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Speaker 1: Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, like films that
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Speaker 1: I think are some of the best of the m
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Speaker 1: c U. I I agree, I expected to take a
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Speaker 1: very high place in my in my bracket of Marvel films.
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Speaker 1: I do hope that releasing solely to theaters doesn't hurt
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Speaker 1: their box office. I hope they have great numbers for that,
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Speaker 1: even though hesitant to have a bunch of people in
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Speaker 1: movie theaters at the moment um, you know, I want
21:06
Speaker 1: them to succeed, and I want Disney to see that
21:09
Speaker 1: there really is value in in more diversity in their superheroes. Um,
21:15
Speaker 1: and more martial arts because I like martial arts. I
21:18
Speaker 1: like martial arts. Yeah. You know someone who also really
21:21
Speaker 1: likes martial arts Batman. And one of Batman's many villains
21:27
Speaker 1: is the Penguin. Yeah, because I couldn't say Penguin likes
21:29
Speaker 1: martial arts. Penguin likes. Penguin likes heists and stealing art,
21:34
Speaker 1: and often if it's in the nineteen seventies, he likes
21:37
Speaker 1: to steal. He likes crimes that relate to birds. Um.
21:41
Speaker 1: But yeah, we wanted to talk about this story where
21:43
Speaker 1: there's an upcoming big annual for Batman Villains coming out
21:49
Speaker 1: that's that's going to focus largely on the Penguin. But
21:53
Speaker 1: also other Batman villains, because Batman, out of all superheroes,
21:57
Speaker 1: I argue, Batman has the best rogues gallery. The Batman's
22:01
Speaker 1: got the best villains, bar none better than Superman, better
22:05
Speaker 1: than any Marvel character. He also has some of the worst.
22:10
Speaker 1: But yes, I agree, he has some of the best.
22:12
Speaker 1: But you got Joker, Riddler, Penguin, You've got like Zazz
22:16
Speaker 1: You've got yeah, okay, alright, calendar Man, you know, yeah,
22:22
Speaker 1: continent many so anyway, one of the stories in this annual,
22:30
Speaker 1: because it's like it's a collection of different stories, but
22:32
Speaker 1: one of them is being written by Danny de Vito,
22:38
Speaker 1: who played the penguin Batman Returns. Yeah. I I never
22:45
Speaker 1: took Danny de Vito as a comic book writer, so
22:50
Speaker 1: but I really liked his portrayal of the character. So
22:52
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see what stories come out of
22:56
Speaker 1: him having been in that mindset. Yeah, no, I I
23:01
Speaker 1: don't think I've really like, I don't know of any
23:05
Speaker 1: of his written work. I mean, I know obviously of
23:07
Speaker 1: his his acting and his directing, so I wasn't even
23:12
Speaker 1: I wasn't even aware that he would have any interest
23:15
Speaker 1: in writing a comic right, Like often when you talk
23:19
Speaker 1: to actors. If you see interviews, like really earnest interviews
23:23
Speaker 1: with actors and they're talking about stuff they've done, you
23:26
Speaker 1: can kind of get this disappointing feeling that that you know,
23:30
Speaker 1: for some of them, it's it's the mentality of a
23:33
Speaker 1: gigs a gig, right, like, Yeah, they went in and
23:36
Speaker 1: they did their best, and they did an amazing job.
23:38
Speaker 1: But it was a job. It wasn't anything more than that.
23:42
Speaker 1: It had no other further meaning. Then occasionally run into
23:45
Speaker 1: other people like Tom Hittleston and Tom Holland, who takes
23:49
Speaker 1: such incredible value and ownership of the parts that they
23:54
Speaker 1: play that it's very clear it means a lot to them.
23:57
Speaker 1: So I didn't think of the paying and being like
24:00
Speaker 1: a sauce spot for day de Vito, But apparently it's
24:04
Speaker 1: enough for him to actually contribute to this work, and
24:07
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see it. I am as well.
24:10
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to read it. I it might
24:12
Speaker 1: be one of my more favorite roles he's ever played,
24:15
Speaker 1: quite honestly, Yeah, it's definitely. I really like his version
24:20
Speaker 1: of the penguin. It's so different from the other versions
24:24
Speaker 1: that we had seen. Now he's he's clearly an actual
24:27
Speaker 1: monster in that Tim Burton film. He's not. He's not
24:31
Speaker 1: like the rotund well to do uh Oswald cobble Pott,
24:37
Speaker 1: who's also a master thief and and criminal. He's it's
24:42
Speaker 1: beyond that. So yeah, really uh interesting, And it looks
24:47
Speaker 1: at least from the illustration, that this incarnation of the
24:50
Speaker 1: Penguin is going to at least bear some resemblance to
24:53
Speaker 1: the the Batman returns. Um uh yeah for design yeah,
25:03
Speaker 1: design yeah, speaking of designing. Speaking of designing, you know
25:10
Speaker 1: who does a lot of designing. Uh, this is not
25:15
Speaker 1: my strong suit. Um yeah, I'm gonna say kite man.
25:20
Speaker 1: Uh well, probably yes, But I was trying to smoothly
25:27
Speaker 1: segue into our next story, which I guess won't happen.
25:30
Speaker 1: The people who are involved in a Broadway show do
25:32
Speaker 1: a lot of designing, from sets to costumes, to sound
25:36
Speaker 1: to lighting, and soon we will be able to get
25:41
Speaker 1: all into the bowels of theater craft at a museum
25:46
Speaker 1: of Broadway. Yeah. I can't wait to climb into those bowels. Yeah. No, no,
25:54
Speaker 1: you're so sorry, everybody. I'm the one who's being a jerk.
25:58
Speaker 1: You are being fine. Yeah, there's the museum of Broadway,
26:01
Speaker 1: which will that's that's a term, right, You're absolutely yeah, absolutely,
26:06
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. I am the one being a jerk. Okay,
26:09
Speaker 1: I mean no, like I was second guessing, like do
26:12
Speaker 1: people not say that there are lots of things I
26:15
Speaker 1: say that it's the Bulls of Theater in the Bulls, yeah,
26:20
Speaker 1: like Cereal. Uh no, no, no, we're yeah, we're talking
26:25
Speaker 1: about the Museum of Broadway, which is supposed to open
26:28
Speaker 1: summer of twenty two. Not a whole lot to say
26:31
Speaker 1: about other than if you read up on the description
26:34
Speaker 1: of what the exhibits are going to be, it actually
26:37
Speaker 1: sounds really cool to me, Like you were saying, Ariel,
26:39
Speaker 1: it's supposed to give you kind of a behind the
26:41
Speaker 1: scenes look literally in this case, at how shows come together,
26:46
Speaker 1: the different components that make a show possible, also obviously
26:50
Speaker 1: honoring the history of Broadway and some of the iconic shows.
26:54
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go through the Cat's Wing. I'm
26:57
Speaker 1: sure there will have to be don't know if there
27:00
Speaker 1: is a Cat's Wing, but there will be a lot
27:02
Speaker 1: of interactive exhibits and reality experiences. So the first it's
27:06
Speaker 1: like a three section the museum, three section, theater three
27:11
Speaker 1: section museum theater museum. It makes sense, all right. The
27:14
Speaker 1: first section is kind of about how theater moved through
27:16
Speaker 1: New York, The second section is about the shows, and
27:18
Speaker 1: the third section is the behind the scenes look. So uh,
27:22
Speaker 1: maybe there will be a cat's segment, but I hope
27:24
Speaker 1: not a whole wing. I'm just hoping for a jelical
27:27
Speaker 1: experience from beginning to end. If I don't get turn
27:30
Speaker 1: the heavy side layer by the end of it, I'm
27:32
Speaker 1: going to ask for my money back. I mean, you
27:35
Speaker 1: don't want people assuming that they're going to die at
27:39
Speaker 1: the end of Broadway experience rum tum Tugger to be
27:44
Speaker 1: bumping and grinding all right up against me. I mean,
27:46
Speaker 1: these are like the expectations I have for a museum
27:51
Speaker 1: of Broadway. Okay, well, hopefully the ticket price will not
27:55
Speaker 1: be too bad, so it will be an affordable experience,
27:58
Speaker 1: cats experience for you John with then well we will
28:02
Speaker 1: have to see you know. Well, we had one more
28:05
Speaker 1: story that we were going to include, but we're running along,
28:08
Speaker 1: but we will come back to that story, and that
28:10
Speaker 1: is about the Star Wars Galactic Cruiser a Star Wars hotel.
28:14
Speaker 1: It is a heck of a story to talk about,
28:16
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of different things. In fact, we
28:18
Speaker 1: could probably make that a whole segment by itself, especially
28:20
Speaker 1: once we get to the price, but we'll leave that
28:23
Speaker 1: for for maybe next week's episode. In the meantime, we're
28:26
Speaker 1: gonna go to break and when we come back, we
28:29
Speaker 1: will talk about the things that inspired this week's mash up.
28:33
Speaker 1: But first let's uh, let's take that break I talked
28:35
Speaker 1: about Ariel. Welcome back from the break. Thank you, Jonathan.
28:55
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be back from the break. Ariel has
28:58
Speaker 1: been breaking all episode. Yeah, apparently every segment my computer
29:02
Speaker 1: is like, gotta this is such good content. I gotta restart.
29:07
Speaker 1: That's true, Like after segment one and did it, and
29:09
Speaker 1: after segment too, it did it? All right, Well, let's
29:12
Speaker 1: talk about the stories that we didn't cover in our
29:15
Speaker 1: earlier part of the episode, but that did inform our
29:20
Speaker 1: mashup decision this week, and one of those is that
29:24
Speaker 1: HBO Max is going to have a spinoff film focusing
29:28
Speaker 1: on Black Canary, one of the characters from the Birds
29:31
Speaker 1: of Prey film, And yeah, that's cool it is. I
29:36
Speaker 1: liked Journey smollett in in the role, and she'll be
29:40
Speaker 1: reprising it, and she's working with Misha Green, who she
29:42
Speaker 1: also worked with on Lovecraft, worked with on Lovecraft Country. Uh.
29:47
Speaker 1: But honestly, out of the Birds of Prey movie, if
29:50
Speaker 1: I were going to pick a character that I wanted
29:51
Speaker 1: to stand alone show, stand alone show from, it would
29:54
Speaker 1: have been Huntress. Well, me too, but that's because I
29:57
Speaker 1: have the biggest crush on Mary Elizabeth Winstead. But sure
30:00
Speaker 1: she also was She had a She wrote a really
30:02
Speaker 1: good line of comedic and dramatic and I enjoyed it.
30:06
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm sure this will be really good again.
30:08
Speaker 1: I think Journey Small it's a great actress. I think
30:10
Speaker 1: she did a great job with the role. And what
30:13
Speaker 1: is our second piece that has inspired our mash up
30:17
Speaker 1: this week. It's that we are getting a Field of
30:19
Speaker 1: Dreams television show for Peacock. Uh. Like the old movie,
30:25
Speaker 1: if you build it, they will come. And it's being
30:27
Speaker 1: done by the team from Parks and rec So that'll
30:32
Speaker 1: be interesting. On whether it's a drama comedy. Yeah, it's
30:36
Speaker 1: hard to imagine that they would do it as like
30:39
Speaker 1: a kind of a drama the way the original film was.
30:43
Speaker 1: If you've never seen the movie, it's about this guy
30:46
Speaker 1: who gets obsessed with the concept of building a baseball
30:50
Speaker 1: park in his corn field and then, um, you know
30:54
Speaker 1: he's told if you build it, they will come. That's
30:56
Speaker 1: where that famous phrase comes from. So yeah, I'm very
30:59
Speaker 1: curious whether or not the Parks and Wreck crew will
31:04
Speaker 1: leave behind their their comedic shops and sink into drama
31:09
Speaker 1: or if it's going to be more of a wacky
31:11
Speaker 1: version of that. I mean, so specifically it's Mike Michael Schert,
31:15
Speaker 1: and so he also was involved in The Good Place
31:18
Speaker 1: The Office where the Fruit Falls, So I'm guessing it
31:22
Speaker 1: will be cheeky, even if it's a little more serious.
31:26
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, we decided we would mash
31:29
Speaker 1: up Birds of Prey with Parks and Wreck. Uh So,
31:34
Speaker 1: just in case you're not familiar with Parks and Wreck,
31:36
Speaker 1: it was a sitcom that was kind of uh it
31:40
Speaker 1: really for the first few episodes was heavily modeled on
31:44
Speaker 1: The Office, but followed the story of Leslie Nope, the
31:49
Speaker 1: head of the Parks and Reck department in the city
31:51
Speaker 1: of Pawnee, Indiana, and then ultimately they kind of made
31:56
Speaker 1: their own thing. Um, they got away from being so
32:01
Speaker 1: similar to The Office, which was good because those first
32:04
Speaker 1: few episodes are a little hard to watch, but after
32:07
Speaker 1: that they get amazing. It's it was one of the
32:10
Speaker 1: most consistently surreal, absurd and funny shows. That's where Chris
32:15
Speaker 1: Pratt really came to prominence, Like he really stood out.
32:19
Speaker 1: And you know, I would say Aubrey Plaza as well. Yes, yes,
32:24
Speaker 1: Aubrey plazas April fantastic. So yeah, great series and uh
32:29
Speaker 1: yeah it was when Ariel pitched this one, I was like,
32:33
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'll do it, but I know
32:36
Speaker 1: I want to do it. Um, so we each of
32:39
Speaker 1: our mashups. Ariel, I'm going to ask you who do
32:41
Speaker 1: you want to go first? Um, I would like you
32:45
Speaker 1: to go first. And also give everybody just a tiny
32:47
Speaker 1: bit of a rundown of what Birds of Prey are
32:50
Speaker 1: if they had not other than eagles and hawks and falcons,
32:53
Speaker 1: if they hadn't watched the movie or the old TV
32:55
Speaker 1: show right right. So Birds of Prey is, uh, it's
33:00
Speaker 1: essentially it's a different it's several different groups of characters
33:03
Speaker 1: in the d C universe who have formed essentially a
33:07
Speaker 1: vigilante hero group, and so they're different incarnations. It's not
33:12
Speaker 1: always the exact same characters kind of like Guardians of
33:14
Speaker 1: the Galaxy too. I mean, we're familiar with one lineup
33:17
Speaker 1: of Guardians of the Galaxy from the films, but in
33:20
Speaker 1: the comics there have been several different characters and several
33:23
Speaker 1: lineups of that group. Well. In the film Birds of
33:26
Speaker 1: Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn, uh, the
33:30
Speaker 1: Birds of Prey consisted of Black Canary, who has a
33:32
Speaker 1: metahuman ability to uh to project her voice and use
33:38
Speaker 1: it as like a sonic weapon, Huntress who's mad crazy
33:42
Speaker 1: good at shooting things with crossbows uh, and eventually a
33:46
Speaker 1: former detective named Montoya who joins the group, and then
33:50
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn is also there. In fact, Harley Quinn shouldn't
33:53
Speaker 1: be there at all, but they wanted her to have
33:56
Speaker 1: a movie. It really ends up being more of a
33:58
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn movie than a Birds of Ray movie, which
34:01
Speaker 1: was something that I got upset about. But um, the
34:04
Speaker 1: film is still entertaining if you can just get past
34:08
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm a grouchy old man, and I
34:11
Speaker 1: got grouchy because I wanted it to be a Birds
34:13
Speaker 1: of Prey movie in not a Harley Quinn movie. Well, uh,
34:17
Speaker 1: at least she get an HBO TV show now, so
34:20
Speaker 1: why don't and Margot Robbie was amazing, so she was
34:23
Speaker 1: why don't you, grumpy old man into your mashup? Okay,
34:27
Speaker 1: my mashup is called Birds of Pawnee. Leslie Nope, has
34:32
Speaker 1: a problem. Pawnee's Harvest Festival is coming up, and while
34:36
Speaker 1: the band mouse Rat has been threatening to reunite for
34:39
Speaker 1: the seventh time, there's still an enormous gap left by
34:43
Speaker 1: the absence of Lil Sebastian, even ten years after the
34:47
Speaker 1: horse's demise. So she forms a party planning committee, even
34:52
Speaker 1: calling in her old friend Ann Perkins to join in.
34:55
Speaker 1: Tom says he's got it all covered, and then he
34:58
Speaker 1: called up a party planning company to stock the festival
35:01
Speaker 1: full of superheroes because they're totally the hot thing for
35:04
Speaker 1: as long as Disney says, so he says. Leslie, impressed
35:09
Speaker 1: with Tom's proactive approach, but a little worried about what
35:12
Speaker 1: heroes are going to show up, tries to come up
35:15
Speaker 1: with a backup plan, but the next day, April comes
35:17
Speaker 1: in and says that there's a group of weirdos that
35:20
Speaker 1: have come in to see her, So Leslie goes to
35:22
Speaker 1: the conference room to discover the Huntress, Black Canary, detective Montoya,
35:27
Speaker 1: and for some reason Harley Quinn waiting there. Can I
35:31
Speaker 1: help you? She says, Well, we're here to help you,
35:34
Speaker 1: says Montoya. Oh you're from the party company. You're our heroes,
35:39
Speaker 1: says Leslie. I understand all those words, and I'm still confused,
35:44
Speaker 1: says Harley. What exactly is going on? Says the Black Canary. Well,
35:51
Speaker 1: so what, We've got the Harvest Festival at the end
35:53
Speaker 1: of the week, and that's why we're gonna need all
35:54
Speaker 1: of you, says Leslie. Where's the guy who called us?
36:00
Speaker 1: Asks Huntress. So Leslie gives an anxious grin to the
36:04
Speaker 1: camera and then leans out of the room and yells
36:06
Speaker 1: for Tom, who shows up and immediately makes googoo eyes
36:09
Speaker 1: at Huntress because she's dreamy. As I have previously established,
36:15
Speaker 1: you called and said there was an emergency, says Huntress
36:19
Speaker 1: to Tom. It's totally an emergency. I need the entertainment
36:23
Speaker 1: at this festival to be on point. I've got potential
36:25
Speaker 1: investors in that crowd, says Tom. Hang On, says Harley,
36:30
Speaker 1: So you called a vigilante justice group out to the
36:33
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere to act as entertainment at a festival.
36:38
Speaker 1: The middle of nowhere is a bit harsh, says Leslie.
36:41
Speaker 1: Pawnee has a rich and problematic history, filled with amazing
36:45
Speaker 1: stories which some are admittedly not fit for history classes
36:49
Speaker 1: unless you first sign a waiver? Can it? Says Montoya,
36:53
Speaker 1: who then looks at the others. I told you this
36:54
Speaker 1: was a mistake, so you called in Vigilantes. I thought
36:59
Speaker 1: you said it is a company that provided characters for parties,
37:02
Speaker 1: says Leslie to Tom. Look, I did a perfunctory Google
37:06
Speaker 1: search and called the top number, because that's always the
37:09
Speaker 1: best number, says Tom. Google ads screwed us again, says Huntress.
37:15
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we could use the vacation,
37:18
Speaker 1: says Harley. I'm with Quinn, says Black Canaria. Beats chasing
37:22
Speaker 1: down hoodlums and blowing up third rate batman villains. Montoya
37:26
Speaker 1: shoots some dirty looking as a nope, can we have
37:28
Speaker 1: the room? Sure? Sure, says Leslie, and she grabs Tom
37:32
Speaker 1: and they both leave the room. She turns to him
37:34
Speaker 1: and says, what were you thinking? Now? We've got vigilantes
37:37
Speaker 1: in city hall for goodness sake. What would Pawnee's bounder,
37:40
Speaker 1: Reverend Luther Howell. Say, probably tell me to leave Pawnee
37:44
Speaker 1: and then confuse me for a Native American, says Tom. Yes,
37:47
Speaker 1: that's probably true, says Leslie. Just then the conference room
37:51
Speaker 1: door opens. Okay, we'll do it, says Harley. Great, says Leslie.
37:58
Speaker 1: We cut to the Harvest festival. Jerry is sampling blueberry
38:01
Speaker 1: pie and it dribbles down a shirt while he clubs.
38:03
Speaker 1: Lee tries to clean up and makes a little noises.
38:06
Speaker 1: April and Andy are daring Huntress to do lots of
38:09
Speaker 1: trick shots by firing small crossbow bolts and stuff like
38:12
Speaker 1: the sign above the stage, a balloon that's held by Tom,
38:15
Speaker 1: who then lets out a high bitch screen, and a
38:17
Speaker 1: candy apple held on a stick by Jerry, who somehow
38:21
Speaker 1: manages to then spell more blueberry pie on himself in
38:23
Speaker 1: the process. Ben is sitting with Leslie, looking absolutely terrified
38:28
Speaker 1: as Hardly does some wicked roller skating tricks on a
38:30
Speaker 1: half pipe. Next to the stage. Ron Swanson is chatting
38:33
Speaker 1: with former detective Montoya about the most effect efficient way
38:37
Speaker 1: to disassemble and clean firearms, and Donna and Black Canary
38:40
Speaker 1: are warming up for their killer duet of the classic
38:43
Speaker 1: song five Thousand Candles in the Wind attribute to Little Sebastian.
38:47
Speaker 1: But as they are warming up, several men rush the stage.
38:51
Speaker 1: Black Canary knocks two of them down, and Huntress is
38:53
Speaker 1: about to shoot a third when April shouts wait, and
38:55
Speaker 1: that's when they realize that yes, indeed it is mouse
38:58
Speaker 1: Rat and they have come to provide the backing for
39:00
Speaker 1: this duet. So you know, christis averted. Though Andy now
39:04
Speaker 1: has a black eye and the drummer can't walk anymore.
39:07
Speaker 1: The festival otherwise goes off without you know, many more hitches,
39:11
Speaker 1: and the next day Leslie is in her office chatting
39:13
Speaker 1: with the camera. Well, I have to admit it, it
39:17
Speaker 1: wasn't the disaster I thought it would be. Those ladies
39:20
Speaker 1: really know how to put on a show. We've received
39:23
Speaker 1: thirteen letters so far saying it was the best festival yet,
39:26
Speaker 1: and only two saying it was the worst thing to
39:28
Speaker 1: ever happen in the history of the planet, and both
39:31
Speaker 1: of those were from Jeremy Jams, so they don't even count.
39:33
Speaker 1: It was a pretty amazing day, one I'll always be
39:36
Speaker 1: thankful for. Though it does turn out that Gotham City
39:39
Speaker 1: was overrun with Hoodlum's Last Night and two thirds of
39:41
Speaker 1: it burned to the ground, So you know, sucks to
39:44
Speaker 1: be them the end. Oh, I liked that. That was delightful.
39:51
Speaker 1: That was so delightful. Now, so I was like, what
39:54
Speaker 1: would a Parks and rec episode be if if the
39:57
Speaker 1: Birds of Prey invaded? Well, I did the exact opposite.
40:02
Speaker 1: So what would an episode of I Guess Batman be
40:07
Speaker 1: or Birds of Prey thee if it were inhabited by
40:11
Speaker 1: the characters from Parks and Wreck? So this is called
40:14
Speaker 1: Gotham City, Parks and Wreck, birds of a Park flock together.
40:18
Speaker 1: This story isn't about the Leslie Nope. You know. This
40:21
Speaker 1: story is about a different Leslie Nope, A darker Leslie Nope,
40:24
Speaker 1: a Nope that was never born in her beloved Ponty,
40:27
Speaker 1: but was rather birthed into the underbelly of Gotham. Leslie
40:31
Speaker 1: a k a. The Nopingale had a passion for parks
40:33
Speaker 1: and Recreation, but had an even larger passion for bad boys.
40:37
Speaker 1: After lard and failed romances with the Brandano Riddler and
40:41
Speaker 1: the Tragermeister and kite Man, she swore off relationships and
40:45
Speaker 1: focused all of her mannic attention on restoring Gotham City Park,
40:48
Speaker 1: which up to that point had been a haven for bums,
40:51
Speaker 1: possums and vegetarians. Yuh. She wanted to turn it into
40:55
Speaker 1: a place where babies, puppies and tiny horses could frolic safely,
40:59
Speaker 1: and the people of Atham, we're glad for it. The
41:01
Speaker 1: project wasn't without its hurdles, however, but she was determined
41:04
Speaker 1: to succeed. And that's when Ben Wyatt entered the picture.
41:08
Speaker 1: A mild mannered accounting nerd, he said he would help
41:10
Speaker 1: her make the park the most glorious thing the people
41:12
Speaker 1: of Gotham had ever seen, no matter the cost. She
41:15
Speaker 1: fell instantly in love with his determination, and they started
41:18
Speaker 1: taking down every obstacle in their way. The obstacle like
41:21
Speaker 1: Gotham City Bank for funding, the obstacle like the Gotham
41:24
Speaker 1: City Zoo for their own petting attractions. Then one day
41:28
Speaker 1: Ben told her to show up at Gotham City Park
41:30
Speaker 1: at sunset. So she did. When Leslie got there, she
41:33
Speaker 1: found the entire park, babies, puppies, possums and all frozen
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Speaker 1: into a giant skating rink. He maniacally said, today, the park, tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: the city, soon the world, and That's when Leslie realized
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Speaker 1: that ben Wyatt was not an accounting nerd, but rather
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Speaker 1: none other than the Ice Clown himself. She broke up
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Speaker 1: with him after only a brief monologue about her bad
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Speaker 1: choices and men, and vowed to stop him and though
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Speaker 1: the park. This angered the ice Clown, but before he
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Speaker 1: could grab him punish, Leslie skated away, which anchored the
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Speaker 1: Ice Clown even more so. He called upon all of
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Speaker 1: her past flames, as well as a few other of
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Speaker 1: his nefarious friends, Johnny Karate, Freddy Spaghetti to face Haverford,
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Speaker 1: and John Ralphael, the King of Cool Cats, to hunt
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Speaker 1: her down. Leslie thought, fine, who can play at this game?
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Speaker 1: So she fashioned an arsenal from playground equipment swing shots,
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Speaker 1: chain see saws, and a portable slide cannon, and recruited
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Speaker 1: her own squad to fight back. All women who flew
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Speaker 1: just under the radar of what was acceptable twisting law
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Speaker 1: in Gotham City planning code to their whims, All women
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Speaker 1: who could be blackmailed into assisting. But what you call
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Speaker 1: this team of her closest gallop, How's Leslie thought? Her chicks? Chicks,
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Speaker 1: That's it, she thought, and she has signed them all
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Speaker 1: bird code names Donna, Mockingbird, April Ludgate, a K A Jenets,
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Speaker 1: Snake Eagle, and a storkins. In the process of chasing
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Speaker 1: and fighting each other, they thawed the ice, accidentally set
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Speaker 1: the zoo animals loose, exploded a waste management plant, collapsed
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Speaker 1: to ferris wheel, and leveled several buildings until all that
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Speaker 1: was left of Gotham City Park was a pit, a
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Speaker 1: big giant hit. And that's when Commissioner Swanson showed up,
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Speaker 1: yelling stop it, and he arrested them all. He hadn't
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Speaker 1: wanted a new park, he didn't like the old one,
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Speaker 1: but he was going to be damned if these ne'er
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Speaker 1: do wells were going to ruin the rest of his city.
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Speaker 1: He locked a lot of them up in Gotham Penitentiary,
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Speaker 1: all except Leslie, who he put on work detail to
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Speaker 1: fill the pit. He saw too much good in her
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Speaker 1: to let her rotten prison. The end, I love it,
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Speaker 1: I love it, Thank you well. That is our mash
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Speaker 1: up of parks and rec and birds of prey. Clearly
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Speaker 1: two masterpieces, both of which will soon come to Peacock
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Speaker 1: like something. Probably won't, but they because D C. D
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Speaker 1: C as part of the Warner family, and so that's true.
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Speaker 1: It would be a little bit of a trick to
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Speaker 1: go from HBO Max to Peacock, but maybe we can
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Speaker 1: make it happen. Um. But yeah, we're curious to hear
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Speaker 1: what your thoughts are on our mashups or your own
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Speaker 1: mashups if you have some plus, if you have any
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Speaker 1: concept of like mashups we should do in the future.
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Speaker 1: You know, just unrelated stuff. The more unrelated typically the better.
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Speaker 1: If it's two things that are kind of similar, it's
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Speaker 1: it's hard to make anything creative out of that. You
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Speaker 1: can't really do a lot of free association kind of
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