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James Bond: Mummy's the Word · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large nerd Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large nor
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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 Arial casting and with me,
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Speaker 1: as always, is the super spooky, scary John I've been Strickland,
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Speaker 1: I go bump in the night. Hey, hey, Ariel, I
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Speaker 1: got a spooky question for you. So we are we
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Speaker 1: are officially in the Halloween season, Ariel, which means that
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Speaker 1: for the next like four episodes, there's gonna be some
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Speaker 1: spooky nous, but this first one we're gonna ease into.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to grow the heaviest spooky questions that
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Speaker 1: you first thing, So this question is more about what
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Speaker 1: are some of your favorite fall or Halloween centric activities.
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Speaker 1: I like to go apple picking and then bake things
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Speaker 1: with apples. This is true. I knew this of Ariel
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Speaker 1: already because every year she goes apple picking. So so,
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Speaker 1: like you said, fall centric, and so it is my
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Speaker 1: pre Thanksgiving activity. You know, I wouldn't necessarily say it's
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Speaker 1: a Halloween activity, but it is my favorite pre Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: preparatory festival activity. Um, yes, what about oh, in decorating
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Speaker 1: for the tricker treaters, I do like handing out um
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Speaker 1: full sized candy bars for the like the three kids
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Speaker 1: we get every year. What about you? I Well, so
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Speaker 1: I've only ever done it one time and then COVID happened.
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Speaker 1: But I had a blast going through a corn maze
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, went with with my wife
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Speaker 1: Rebecca and our friend Shay. She came along. You've heard
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Speaker 1: us talk about she is kind of like an honorary
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Speaker 1: l n C member at this point. Hi, Sha, she
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Speaker 1: does listen to the show. So we all went together
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Speaker 1: to this fall festival thing that had a corn maze
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Speaker 1: and a little like hay ride and stuff and had
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Speaker 1: a good time. And I really enjoyed the corn maze.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a lot of fun, or a
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Speaker 1: maze maze if you like. How was it scurry? It
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Speaker 1: was not scurry. It was just festive like they had,
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Speaker 1: you know, some jack O lanterns and stuff. But it
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Speaker 1: was more like fall festival and less spooky horror. So, um,
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Speaker 1: I've never done a haunted house, apart from like the
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Speaker 1: Haunted Mansion, which I don't count. I've never done like
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Speaker 1: a haunted hay ride or anything like that. It's so
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Speaker 1: it was just like, you know, this chill sometimes literally
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Speaker 1: it was kind of chilly that day, um and fun.
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Speaker 1: I cannot believe you've never done a haunted house. I
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Speaker 1: have so many of them in Georgia. I know, we
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Speaker 1: have a nether World, which is one of the really
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Speaker 1: like the premier haunted houses in the United States, particularly,
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Speaker 1: I mean really definitely in the Southeast, But I have
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Speaker 1: never ever. I know people who have worked them, but
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Speaker 1: I've never been to one man, going going to a
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Speaker 1: haunted house when while working Renaissance Festival was miserable because
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Speaker 1: the actors aren't supposed to touch you, but if they
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Speaker 1: know you sometimes they get a little loosen with us
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Speaker 1: with that rule. Yeah, because there there's a there's a
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Speaker 1: bit of a crossover between the Resaissance Festival crowd and
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Speaker 1: the Haunted House crowd. A lot of the same actors
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Speaker 1: will do both gigs. Yeah, I, um, nope, still have
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Speaker 1: never done one. I don't know if it would be
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Speaker 1: my thing or not. Like, like, I definitely appreciate the art, right,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate what it's all about. The scares, and all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, So I wouldn't be one of
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Speaker 1: those jerks trying to, you know, put on a tough
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Speaker 1: face and not act like that's nothing. Because I'm an
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Speaker 1: actor too. I hate that, Like, if you're up on
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Speaker 1: stage and you're giving it, you're all and the audience
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Speaker 1: is giving you nothing, there is no feeling that's worse
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Speaker 1: in the world. So I would never want them to.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I would be like, do
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Speaker 1: I play it up? Do I go like or maybe
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Speaker 1: I'd be legitimately scared. I don't know, because I've never
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Speaker 1: done one I am. I tend to like the like
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Speaker 1: the fantastic. I've done Another World quite a few times,
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Speaker 1: and usually if I'm not with a big group, I
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Speaker 1: introduce myself to the people in front of me and
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Speaker 1: then bury my face in their back times like I
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Speaker 1: am the person. I am the person who will be
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Speaker 1: using you as a human shield. It's nice to meet you.
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Speaker 1: I have legitimately said that in the past when I
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Speaker 1: did not have enough friends to buffer myself from the
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Speaker 1: haunts um like. I prefer the more fantastical haunted houses,
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Speaker 1: the ones that are more like real life grotesque or
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Speaker 1: scary or sat like I don't like um as much
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Speaker 1: or like three d ones. So usually half of another
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Speaker 1: world would be really for me, and then half of
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Speaker 1: another world would be really not for me. But you know,
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Speaker 1: like if you if for instance, if you're going through
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Speaker 1: and looking at art, you can look and try to
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Speaker 1: anticipate where the jumps are, the scares of the haunts
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Speaker 1: are going to be, or you can go through and
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Speaker 1: enjoy the creation of the world they've built and then
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Speaker 1: be genuinely startled when someone jumps out at you. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's I know somebody who was working on Haunted House
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Speaker 1: ones who got punched in the face though because the
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Speaker 1: recipient's reaction to fear was fight not flight. Um, so
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Speaker 1: just don't do that. Yeah, I I I would definitely
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Speaker 1: want to be a good you know, patron, right, I'd
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Speaker 1: want to be one of the people that at the
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Speaker 1: end of the night, maybe some of the actors are
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Speaker 1: getting together and talking like, oh, yeah, there's this one
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Speaker 1: bald guy. He had the best screen. It was great.
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Speaker 1: Like I would like to be that dude, right, Like
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Speaker 1: I don't. My masculinity is not threatened by the fact
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Speaker 1: that I am easily startled. Also, as I have made
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Speaker 1: clear on this very podcast in the past, I am
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Speaker 1: not observant, so I am not likely to notice the
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Speaker 1: obvious set up for a scare, and thus it will
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Speaker 1: work like gang Busters on me. Nice. So so that
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Speaker 1: will be our two uh Folliday goal for you. Yeah, maybe,
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Speaker 1: Well we'll do it. We'll do a podcast recorded live
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Speaker 1: at another world and it'll just be me going, which
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Speaker 1: you know it won't be just to you. Okay, let's
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Speaker 1: get so be I won't be alone in that. Well,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk now about some news items, and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of breeze through some of these because
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Speaker 1: we've got quite a few we want to cover before
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Speaker 1: we get to the next section. But the first is
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Speaker 1: to follow up on a story we talked about last week,
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Speaker 1: which was ATSI, the the Professional Association. As for the
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Speaker 1: below the line crew members who work on various movie
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Speaker 1: and TV productions, including streaming productions. They held a vote
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Speaker 1: to authorize a strike and the vote passed with a
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Speaker 1: ninety eight percent support level, which is incredible. Now, this
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Speaker 1: does not mean that they've gone on strike. It means
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Speaker 1: they've authorized a strike, which gives the union leads more
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Speaker 1: leverage when they go back to the negotiating table to
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Speaker 1: talk about getting better benefits, which they're doing UM, which
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Speaker 1: they started doing this week. The Alliance of Motion Picture
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Speaker 1: and Television Producers did go back to the table with
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Speaker 1: iatsy UM to try to h find an agreement with them.
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Speaker 1: Following the vote, the AMPTP said that it remains they
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Speaker 1: remain committed to reaching an agreement that will keep the
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Speaker 1: industry working. They deeply value their IoTs crew members and
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Speaker 1: are committed to work with them to avoid shutting down
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Speaker 1: the industry at such a pivotal time, especially after the
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. So it would be nice if they
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Speaker 1: had said this before the strike vote. Yeah, well, it
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Speaker 1: also would have been nice if that commitment that they
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Speaker 1: talked about had actually come through in the various actions
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Speaker 1: that have led people to want to strike in the
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Speaker 1: first place. Right, Like the reason why people are willing
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Speaker 1: to go because obviously, going on strike is an enormous sacrifice. Right,
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Speaker 1: It's not like it's fun. It's not like you're making
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Speaker 1: money while you're doing it. You are, you are putting
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Speaker 1: your livelihood on hold in an effort to get better
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Speaker 1: treatment from your employers. And if it weren't for the
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Speaker 1: fact that conditions were at a point where it was
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Speaker 1: necessary for this, then we wouldn't be where we are today.
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Speaker 1: I am hopeful that because they had that percent support, like,
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Speaker 1: it was pretty clear that they were going to get
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Speaker 1: the votes needed to authorize a strike. The question was
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Speaker 1: would it be enough to send a message to say, no,
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Speaker 1: we are serious. And it's the overwhelming majority, well, I
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Speaker 1: think exceeds pretty much everyone's estimation of what it was
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Speaker 1: going to be nowe of those who voted, but I
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Speaker 1: think even that was over of union members. So still
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Speaker 1: very very high numbers. Yep. And uh, what about our
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Speaker 1: next story, because this is one that I have expressed
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Speaker 1: some skepticism about, but this particular news is kind of interesting. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So Wonka, which is the prequel starring Timothy Shallow may
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Speaker 1: um to like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at All,
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Speaker 1: has begun gun filming and they've announced more of the
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Speaker 1: cast members. So we talked about this earlier on the
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Speaker 1: Pandemic and we had said that, you know, it was
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Speaker 1: being headed up by the gentleman who worked on Paddington,
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Speaker 1: which Paul King Paddington too, he co wrote Um and Um.
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Speaker 1: Paddington has been one of those movies that his surprised
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Speaker 1: many adults as being actually quite fun and has gotten
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Speaker 1: a lot of very very large name actors involved in it.
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Speaker 1: And that is also true for Wonka. So we're getting
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Speaker 1: Ron Atkinson, Olivia Coleman, Rich Fulture, Sally Hawkins, all kinds
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Speaker 1: of people who have Keegan Michael Key, all kinds of
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Speaker 1: people who have who are award winning actors and then
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Speaker 1: also award winning like producers and costume designers and things
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Speaker 1: like that, all involved in this prequel to Really Wanka
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Speaker 1: and the Chocolate Factory. Yeah, it's it's enough to make
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Speaker 1: me really interested. First of all, like I love Rowan Atkinson.
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Speaker 1: I was a huge Blackadder fan, not as much Mr Bean.
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Speaker 1: I liked Mr Bean, but I'm I'm an enormous black
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Speaker 1: Adder fan. Rich Fulture I think of from the Mighty
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Speaker 1: Bush that I know him as a crazy American who
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Speaker 1: shows up in a lot of British comedies. But I
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Speaker 1: love that the story that that Ariel linked to mentions
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Speaker 1: him as a member of the cast of Marriage Story,
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Speaker 1: because I haven't seen Marriage Story. But I did a
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Speaker 1: double take because I've never thought of Rich Culture as
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Speaker 1: a serious actor, and I was just like. So I
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Speaker 1: was immediately imagining him playing a part of the Marriage
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Speaker 1: Story where he was just his you know, over the
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Speaker 1: top comedic self. That that is pretty funny. I also
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Speaker 1: have not watched Marriage Story, but I I love when
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Speaker 1: comedic actors go dramatic, so um, I would probably at
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Speaker 1: least enjoy his performance. Yeah, you Laurie made it work,
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Speaker 1: so that that's uh. Now I'm like I was. I
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Speaker 1: was already kind of interested because I had heard the
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Speaker 1: reputation of Paddington and Paddington two, which I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: yet and I need to see it, so that had
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Speaker 1: already got me a little curious. This makes me more curious,
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Speaker 1: which makes me kind of hate myself because I was
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Speaker 1: so gung ho on not caring about Willy Wonka prequel,
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Speaker 1: and now I kind of do I get it, because Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when they first announced it, I was like, you, Willy
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Speaker 1: Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a really well done movie.
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Speaker 1: I didn't like the Johnny Depp one. I don't think
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Speaker 1: we need more of it. You know, if you even
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Speaker 1: look at the original story. Even though the House of
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Speaker 1: roll Doll has been trying to correct some of his
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Speaker 1: past misgivings, and missteps and issues. Um you know, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a story that if you go back to some
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Speaker 1: of the past, you're like, do we really want to
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Speaker 1: explore that? But well, and and plus like, a big
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Speaker 1: appeal to me for the character of Willy Wonka is
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Speaker 1: the mysterious nature of the character. And if you explore
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Speaker 1: a character's backstory, then you are, by definition removing some
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Speaker 1: of that mystery, which is part of what made the
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Speaker 1: characters so appealing to me. And that's what kind of
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Speaker 1: worries me. Now. The nice thing is, no matter what,
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Speaker 1: that nineteen one Gene Wilder Willy Wonka film will still exist.
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Speaker 1: I actually recently purchased it in Ultra for K Blu ray,
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Speaker 1: so it's one of the Ultra four K Blu rays
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Speaker 1: that I own. Um, so yeah, that'll still exist, and
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Speaker 1: I can still enjoy it all on its own. Even
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Speaker 1: if ultimately I decide like this version, even if it's
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Speaker 1: a great movie, if it kind of removes the mystery
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Speaker 1: behind Willy Wonka, I can kind of, you know, forget
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Speaker 1: that it exists. Speaking of classic media that you don't
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Speaker 1: want to be rewritten over, We've got an article about
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Speaker 1: the Peanuts and a new holiday Special. Yeah, Peanuts a
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Speaker 1: k a. The Charlie Brown Gang. Everyone probably thinks of
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Speaker 1: it more as Charlie Brown than Peanuts. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: another one of those things that could have easily been forgotten.
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Speaker 1: But we're getting a new Charlie Brown Special, one that
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Speaker 1: is going to be focused on the New Year. And
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Speaker 1: the little summary that we got sounds classic Charlie Brown.
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Speaker 1: I'm totally digging it. Mm hmm. Yeah. It says in
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Speaker 1: for Odd Lank Sign, which is the name of the special.
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Speaker 1: After the Peanuts Gang experience a disappointing Christmas because Grandpa
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Speaker 1: can't visit, Lucy resolves to throw herself the best New
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Speaker 1: Year's Eve party ever. What Charlie Brown struggles to accomplish
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Speaker 1: just one of his resolutions before the clock strikes twelve
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Speaker 1: end quote. Um, Apparently this is based off of an
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Speaker 1: old Charles Schultz comic strip. So oh excellent. I didn't
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Speaker 1: even know that, And I mean I used to have
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Speaker 1: like all the Charlie Brown books, but I just I
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Speaker 1: love that that plot point of Charlie Brown just determined
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Speaker 1: to try and complete one of the resolutions he had
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Speaker 1: for that year before it becomes the New Year. Like
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Speaker 1: that is the most Charlie Brown Charlie Brown thing I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard. I agree, I agree, I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: I really like Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the Peanuts. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: me too. Well, let's talk a little bit about some
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Speaker 1: of our reactions to some recent trailers, one of which
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Speaker 1: is House of the Dragon, that is the prequel series
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Speaker 1: to Game of Thrones, because obviously HBO and Warner Brothers
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Speaker 1: want a reason to print more money, and they ran
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Speaker 1: out of they ran all the Song of Ice and
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Speaker 1: Fire books, so now they have to make new ones. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you saw this trailer, what did you think? I think
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Speaker 1: it looked like Game of Thrones with a lot more Targarians. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that, Okay, you said what I would say. The honestly,
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Speaker 1: the most surprising part was that Max that Matt Smith
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Speaker 1: a k a. Doctor eleven, Dr Who Number eleven looks
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Speaker 1: really good in a long white wig. I just thought
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Speaker 1: he looked weird. But I always think he looks weird.
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Speaker 1: He always looks a little alien to me, So that's
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Speaker 1: I don't mean that in a bad way, like I
15:54
Speaker 1: don't mean like bad weird, just he's got a unique
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Speaker 1: kind of look to him. And even with the light
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Speaker 1: wig that unique this comes through. Yeah, he's playing the
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Speaker 1: younger brother of one of the big Targarrans. This shows
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Speaker 1: how much I know about Hi Timble, how much I
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Speaker 1: know about Game of Thrones. Um, it sounds like from
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Speaker 1: the trailer it's I think Matt Smith is doing the
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Speaker 1: voice over, and it sounds like he's kind of like, uh, Si, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we we're not as good as we say. Um is
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Speaker 1: the impression I get from him. Yeah. Well, and it's
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Speaker 1: it's supposed to follow the story of like a my dog.
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Speaker 1: It's no, it's not supposed to follow a story of
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Speaker 1: my dogs. Definitely watching it. I mean a series with
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Speaker 1: Tibble would be adorable and obnoxious as you can hear
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Speaker 1: in the background. But but no, it's supposed to follow
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Speaker 1: like a civil war among the Targearians, among that house
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Speaker 1: from what I understand. But like, I really fell off
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Speaker 1: the Game of Thrones stuff, so I don't know that
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Speaker 1: this is going to bring me into it. Um. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure it will have the same production values, the same
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Speaker 1: amount of drama, probably lots of brother and sisters getting
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Speaker 1: closer than I would care to watch, because that's uh,
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Speaker 1: that's one of the Tartarian's like, that's one of the
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Speaker 1: things that makes them who they are. They gotta keep
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Speaker 1: those bloodlines pure. Um, it's a historical thing. But well,
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Speaker 1: the more the historical thing tends to be more cousins
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Speaker 1: than siblings. But yeah, good old George R. R. Martin
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Speaker 1: decides to up it a notch. Well, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: a different trailer, a trailer for Serra No. It is
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Speaker 1: another adaptation of the nineteenth century place Sierra No de Bejarrek.
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Speaker 1: This time, Uh, the main character is not a tall
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Speaker 1: man with lots of panache who happens to have a
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Speaker 1: very long nose. It is instead Peter Dinklich playing the
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Speaker 1: role of Serra No. Yes, Peter Dinklage from Game of
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Speaker 1: Thrones and many other things. Uh, the trailer for that.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't watched it, you should. This is one
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Speaker 1: of those classics that I We've had a couple of
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Speaker 1: versions of Siano de Bergerac, including one I think with
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Speaker 1: Steve Martin Roxanne. Roxanne is is a loose adaptation of
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Speaker 1: Sira No. But it's one of those stories that I
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Speaker 1: feel like comes up so like remakes come up so
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Speaker 1: infrequently that I'm always delighted when I see they're making
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Speaker 1: a new one, and Peter Dinklige is a cutie so
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Speaker 1: other than his they're playing off the fact that he's
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Speaker 1: so short, but yeah, he's a doorps. So I love
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Speaker 1: the idea of Peter Dinkliche playing Sarah No, and I
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Speaker 1: love the idea that they have have kind of changed
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Speaker 1: the physical aspect but retained the spirit. What I did
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Speaker 1: not expect was that this is a musical that threw
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Speaker 1: me off. I was watching, I was like ready to
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Speaker 1: be totally on board. Sidr No de Bergerac is one
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Speaker 1: of those plays that I absolutely adore. It has one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite lines in drama. Ever. It is like
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Speaker 1: a punch to the stern um. That's how powerful the
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Speaker 1: line is. So I was ready, I was all in,
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Speaker 1: and then the music started and then Roxanne started singing,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I didn't know it was
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Speaker 1: a musical, and that that that took me aback. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's gonna be bad. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying I'm not gonna like it, but um, but it
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Speaker 1: made me take a step back from jumping totally on board.
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Speaker 1: I get that. So when you told me, because you
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Speaker 1: watched this trailer before I did today, and when you
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Speaker 1: told me it was a musical, I'm like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I could get behind that. And then the song was
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Speaker 1: underwhelming and it was the only song in the trailer.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like the first episode of Galivant
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Speaker 1: where it was just the same song repeating over and
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Speaker 1: over and it was underwhelming. Yeah, I, um, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: hope it will be great. Uh. I would have preferred
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Speaker 1: it to not be a musical, and I this is
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Speaker 1: coming from someone who loves musicals, by the way, I
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Speaker 1: just don't feel that this one needed to be. Uh.
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Speaker 1: It already has a lot of melodramatic elements to it.
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Speaker 1: If you are familiar with the original play, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: subtle about it. So for them to dial that up
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Speaker 1: to eleven spinal taps style and make it a musical
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Speaker 1: really kind of took me by surprise. Yeah, yeah, i'd
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Speaker 1: say that. Um. And we've got one last piece of
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Speaker 1: news we're just going to touch briefly on because it
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Speaker 1: is spooky season, uh, to segue us into our next
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Speaker 1: spooky segment, which is that Netflix is adapting the works
20:40
Speaker 1: of Edgar Allan Poe for a new series. Yeah, Mike,
20:44
Speaker 1: Flanagan is heading it. He's the guy behind the Haunting
20:47
Speaker 1: of Hill House and the Haunting of Blind Manner and
20:49
Speaker 1: Midnight Mass. They're calling it the Fall of the House
20:52
Speaker 1: of Usher, which is a specific Eggarland Post story, but
20:56
Speaker 1: apparently that's going to serve as kind of the connective
20:59
Speaker 1: tissue or different eggar Allan Post stories to be told
21:02
Speaker 1: throughout the season. So it's like that ends up being
21:06
Speaker 1: the bookend kind of element, and that maybe the the
21:10
Speaker 1: House of Usher ties everything else in together. Uh no
21:15
Speaker 1: word yet on which specific egg Allen Post stories are
21:19
Speaker 1: going to be included, but based upon the people involved,
21:23
Speaker 1: and based upon the fact that I love the source material,
21:26
Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to this being really atmospheric
21:30
Speaker 1: and creepy. I agree, um so I One of my
21:35
Speaker 1: first shows that I did that I acted in was
21:40
Speaker 1: a touring school show or we're supposed to act in it.
21:43
Speaker 1: This one never actually took off, but it was the
21:45
Speaker 1: stories of ed Garland Poe and I had to memorize
21:49
Speaker 1: Annabelle Lee and Cask of a Manciato um and I
21:53
Speaker 1: memorized Cask of a Manciado word for word um as
21:57
Speaker 1: my stories to tell during this staged production of post
22:02
Speaker 1: post Works. Um fascinating. I know I was. I was
22:04
Speaker 1: also in a stage production that was inspired by Agar
22:08
Speaker 1: Allan Poe. It was a one man show about eggar
22:11
Speaker 1: Allan Poe called I'm just a po Boy Nobody Loves Me?
22:15
Speaker 1: Is that true, Jonathan, No, that's that's what I like
22:18
Speaker 1: to call a lie. I would watch it, though, I
22:22
Speaker 1: would watch it. Here's the thing. I like post works
22:25
Speaker 1: and I like reading them. And I had so much
22:27
Speaker 1: fun prepping for that show. Even if it never took off.
22:29
Speaker 1: We had a few shows we were doing in that series. Um,
22:32
Speaker 1: but that one never never booked. I guess, um, I
22:37
Speaker 1: would be too scared to watch this series of it though.
22:42
Speaker 1: Stories are scary if you look at them. I mean
22:45
Speaker 1: maybe so. But did you ever watch the Haunting of
22:48
Speaker 1: Hill House? You know the answer to that, Jonathan, You should,
22:51
Speaker 1: it's so good. I watched House on Haunted Hill, like
22:56
Speaker 1: the very original one. That's a different thing, easily too
23:01
Speaker 1: easy to mistake, because there is there is the House
23:04
Speaker 1: on Haunted Hill and there's the Haunting of Hill House.
23:07
Speaker 1: Those are two different things, but they're very easy to
23:09
Speaker 1: mix up. And you know, I will, I will probably
23:14
Speaker 1: I'm probably more likely to watch The Fall of the
23:16
Speaker 1: House of mc escher Um, where where a bunch of
23:22
Speaker 1: impossible staircases just fallen on themselves. That's that's why it's
23:26
Speaker 1: called the fall Um. Yeah, I'm sure, I am certain
23:31
Speaker 1: it will be very well done. If nothing else, well,
23:34
Speaker 1: one thing that we're certain has not been very well
23:37
Speaker 1: done is what we're going to talk about in our
23:39
Speaker 1: next segment. We're gonna try and keep that short and
23:41
Speaker 1: sweet before so we can get to our mashups. But
23:43
Speaker 1: first let's take a quick break. Okay, So back in December,
24:02
Speaker 1: Jonathan and I were looking at topics that we wanted
24:05
Speaker 1: to talk about, and there was some news about Universal's
24:07
Speaker 1: Dark Universe, I think about like paintings or something that
24:10
Speaker 1: we're being sold, and we said, no, we're going to
24:12
Speaker 1: hold on to this topic into Halloween. And it's Halloween,
24:15
Speaker 1: and so now we can finally talk about the missteps
24:18
Speaker 1: of Universal's Dark Universe, which made me so so sad. Right,
24:23
Speaker 1: and in case you're not familiar with that whole concept,
24:27
Speaker 1: Universal was trying to do something similar to Marvel's Cinematic
24:31
Speaker 1: Universe or the Star Wars Universe, or even DCS extended Universe,
24:37
Speaker 1: although that approach is kind of haphazard and all over
24:40
Speaker 1: the place, which we have covered on this show before,
24:43
Speaker 1: but they wanted to do it with properties that Universal
24:46
Speaker 1: owns the rights to, which includes all these classic movie monsters,
24:50
Speaker 1: some of which obviously come from fiction, like like novels
24:54
Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean, they're all fictional, but some of
24:57
Speaker 1: them come from novels and stuff, but Universe a stones
25:00
Speaker 1: the movie rights, so stuff like Frankenstein's Monster and the
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Speaker 1: Invisible Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and
25:07
Speaker 1: The Mummy and apparently Phantom of the Opera and Quasimoto,
25:12
Speaker 1: though I would say those two do not belong in
25:13
Speaker 1: the same category at all. Yeah, but they do appear
25:18
Speaker 1: as like they are thought of as classic Universal monsters.
25:20
Speaker 1: You know, you think about Lawn Cheney and Lawn Cheney Jr.
25:23
Speaker 1: And the characters that they made iconic, and that's all
25:26
Speaker 1: kind of wrapped up in this. So the idea was
25:28
Speaker 1: to create a franchise of movies that were tied together,
25:33
Speaker 1: where you could have you know, monster films, either standalone
25:37
Speaker 1: ones or ones that they were kind of stitched together.
25:40
Speaker 1: And we saw a little bit of that because well,
25:42
Speaker 1: first they tried it with Dracula Untold that was going
25:45
Speaker 1: to be kind of the soft entry into this Dark universe.
25:49
Speaker 1: But Dracula Untold did not do well either critically or
25:55
Speaker 1: at the box office. So Universal kind of decided, like
26:00
Speaker 1: uh A Mulligan, that that was not going to count
26:03
Speaker 1: and that they were going to try again, and that's
26:05
Speaker 1: when they released the Tom Cruise Mummy film, and you
26:11
Speaker 1: also had Russell Crowe show up in that as as
26:15
Speaker 1: Dr Jekyl slash Mr. Hyde, and it turned out he
26:18
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the Nick Fury type character who
26:22
Speaker 1: would tie together various monsters in the Dark Universe extended Universe,
26:29
Speaker 1: and that we would eventually start getting these other movies
26:31
Speaker 1: that would establish those characters and also have them encounter
26:35
Speaker 1: one another and potentially go forward from there. But then
26:40
Speaker 1: the Mummy didn't do so well. It's so the Mummy
26:43
Speaker 1: didn't do well either. No, it's so frustrating too. Wasn't
26:46
Speaker 1: there also like a Frankenstein. There was a Frankenstein movie
26:49
Speaker 1: that came out around those times. Yeah, there were there were.
26:53
Speaker 1: There was one. Oh gosh, yeah, I don't know if
26:55
Speaker 1: it falls in the it doesn't. That one was a
26:59
Speaker 1: maxim and this movie also was not very good. No,
27:03
Speaker 1: there was one that was that, the one that had
27:04
Speaker 1: Daniel Radcliff in it as here. Yeah. Yeah, So there
27:10
Speaker 1: were several attempts like that one that one was not
27:13
Speaker 1: supposed to as far as I know, was not officially
27:16
Speaker 1: supposed to be part of the Dark Universe. Like they
27:18
Speaker 1: even announced actors who are going to be attached to
27:22
Speaker 1: playing iconic characters. So for example, Johnny Depp was supposed
27:26
Speaker 1: to be the Invisible Man um and of course we
27:29
Speaker 1: did get an Invisible Man movie in twenty that was not,
27:33
Speaker 1: at least according to the director, intended to be part
27:37
Speaker 1: of the Dark Universe. But now we have Universal and Bloomberg,
27:41
Speaker 1: not Bloomberg bloom blom House, Yeah, Bloomberg something different bloom
27:47
Speaker 1: House and Universal perhaps kind of treating it like it
27:53
Speaker 1: might be another back end attempt to create a Dark
27:56
Speaker 1: Universe maybe, or maybe that they will just reboot the
28:00
Speaker 1: old Monster movies. But like how the d C You
28:05
Speaker 1: is now where they're independent from each other, but they're
28:07
Speaker 1: all refreshers. I mean, on paper, this should be great,
28:14
Speaker 1: like the old Monster movies are wonderful. The Wolfman I
28:16
Speaker 1: think I didn't watch it, but it got pretty good
28:18
Speaker 1: reviews um and then like you also have Leak of
28:22
Speaker 1: Extraordinary Gentlemen, which, while the movie they made was horrible,
28:25
Speaker 1: is this entire concept wrapped up in a comic book
28:28
Speaker 1: of all of these like the Invisible Man and Dr
28:31
Speaker 1: Jackal mr Hyde and all of these people who might
28:33
Speaker 1: be considered monstrous working together kind of like superheroes. Although
28:38
Speaker 1: although the stuff that happens in that graphic novel does
28:42
Speaker 1: get brutally monstrous, particularly between the two characters you just mentioned. Yes,
28:48
Speaker 1: I'm I'm aware of that, but like that comic series
28:52
Speaker 1: was very popular for a long time, so it seems
28:55
Speaker 1: like Universal had a guideline to follow even they that
29:00
Speaker 1: they could play with. Yeah, I would say that The
29:03
Speaker 1: Mummy was just a bad movie. Like, for one thing,
29:07
Speaker 1: the character that Tom Cruise plays like, he's he's sort
29:10
Speaker 1: of an Indiana Jones slash Laura Croft type who then
29:15
Speaker 1: through the course of the film is hit with a
29:19
Speaker 1: Mummy's curse. But the Mummy he's fighting isn't like the
29:22
Speaker 1: classic monster movie Mummy, and he's not the classic monster
29:28
Speaker 1: movie Mummy. So it also comes down to this thing
29:31
Speaker 1: that we've both you know, commented on before, which is
29:35
Speaker 1: where a studio wants to capitalize on the brand that's
29:41
Speaker 1: already been established, but change it so much that it
29:44
Speaker 1: no longer even resembles the thing that the brand was.
29:47
Speaker 1: And so they're trying to have it both ways, and
29:51
Speaker 1: it's not connecting with fans of the classic monsters and
29:56
Speaker 1: it's not establishing new fans because the movie was terrible.
30:01
Speaker 1: So it's just a failure. And so we're seeing like
30:04
Speaker 1: these flailing attempts. Uh. And the question is whether or
30:08
Speaker 1: not they're going to continue or they will just quietly
30:13
Speaker 1: brush aside the idea of a dark universe and go
30:17
Speaker 1: more than route you were saying, Ariel, where they do
30:20
Speaker 1: reboots and refreshes on these classic I p s, but
30:24
Speaker 1: they don't try and turn it into an interconnected universe. Yeah.
30:29
Speaker 1: I'd be fine with either. I just since I have
30:34
Speaker 1: a hard time with scary movies. Those classics were ones
30:37
Speaker 1: that I really enjoyed. Um And until I get a
30:41
Speaker 1: new is it swamp Thing or Creature from the Black
30:44
Speaker 1: Lagoon either both movie, I'm just going to be a
30:47
Speaker 1: sad said Ariel. Yeah, no, it would have to be
30:51
Speaker 1: Creature for the Black Lagoon. Warner Brothers could potentially do
30:54
Speaker 1: a swamp Thing I think. I mean, they did a
30:56
Speaker 1: TV show. DC does owns swamp Thing. So here's the thing.
31:01
Speaker 1: I always got Creature from the Black Lagoon and Swamp
31:03
Speaker 1: Thing mixed up, although I like both um and I
31:08
Speaker 1: do want a creature from the Black Lagoon reboot movie
31:13
Speaker 1: not serious movie. UM. So the swamp Thing DC TV
31:18
Speaker 1: show got canceled because of, from my understanding standing, confusions
31:23
Speaker 1: with tax reimbursements in the state where it was filming. Uh.
31:27
Speaker 1: And I was sad because I did not want to
31:29
Speaker 1: pay for the DC streaming service to watch it. But
31:31
Speaker 1: now it's on HBO and it is on my list
31:33
Speaker 1: of things to watch. And I don't know if they're
31:34
Speaker 1: ever going to do a second season or if the
31:36
Speaker 1: first season is any good because they had to cut
31:38
Speaker 1: it short, but I'm gonna watch it. Yeah, I mean,
31:43
Speaker 1: I would love to see I don't know. I would
31:47
Speaker 1: love to see certain directors get a shot at making
31:54
Speaker 1: a new version of some of these classic movie monster stories.
31:59
Speaker 1: Like Guielmo del Toro. I think could make a phenomenal
32:05
Speaker 1: entry into into any of these classic characters, Like he
32:09
Speaker 1: could make an amazing movie filled with pathos, like he
32:13
Speaker 1: could make you feel for the monster while still making
32:16
Speaker 1: the monster monstrous. I think that would be phenomenal. Or
32:19
Speaker 1: Mike Flanagan, the person we were chatting about with the
32:22
Speaker 1: The Haunting of Hill House and uh the upcoming Edgar
32:26
Speaker 1: Allan Poe adaptation. I think he could make a really
32:29
Speaker 1: atmospheric like Dracula movie. I agree. My pick would be
32:33
Speaker 1: Jordan Peel. Yeah, that'd be great. Who would you which?
32:37
Speaker 1: Which character would you want him to do? Honestly, I
32:40
Speaker 1: feel like he would best handle Frankenstein's Monster or possibly
32:49
Speaker 1: either Quasimotor or a Family the Opera, the two that
32:51
Speaker 1: I feel like aren't really monsters because he does really
32:54
Speaker 1: good social commentary. I think for that reason, he would
32:58
Speaker 1: also be great for Bride of Frankenstein. Yes, yes, that
33:02
Speaker 1: would also be quite good. Yeah, no, these would be
33:05
Speaker 1: These are the sort of things where I would really
33:07
Speaker 1: be excited to hear, like to give it to directors
33:12
Speaker 1: who have a particular strong voice and perspective. It's one
33:17
Speaker 1: of the things that I find frustrating about the Marvel movies,
33:20
Speaker 1: because even though I love the Marvel movies, you get
33:24
Speaker 1: the feeling that with a few exceptions, Taiko wa Tit
33:27
Speaker 1: being one of them that directors aren't given enough leeway
33:32
Speaker 1: so that their voice comes through. The Marvel voice is
33:36
Speaker 1: more important than the director's voice. So you see a
33:39
Speaker 1: couple of directors leave because of that. Yeah, yeah, And
33:42
Speaker 1: I think that's also why Marvel tends to go for
33:45
Speaker 1: people who aren't necessarily associated with big name films, because
33:50
Speaker 1: the studio can have more leverage over someone who isn't
33:54
Speaker 1: already a household name. Right. So, but that's getting into
33:58
Speaker 1: the politics of movie making. Maybe we'll do a full
34:01
Speaker 1: discussion about that at some point, because it is both
34:05
Speaker 1: fascinating and frustrating, both for for you know, audiences and
34:09
Speaker 1: for filmmakers. But yeah, um, here's hoping that we do
34:14
Speaker 1: get some really great films that feature these beloved characters.
34:20
Speaker 1: I just I just want to see it in a
34:22
Speaker 1: way that doesn't feel like they're shoving a dark universe
34:26
Speaker 1: structure down our throats and trying to to build like
34:31
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Cathedral all at once instead of brick by brick.
34:36
Speaker 1: I I agree with that. Well, speaking of shoving some
34:39
Speaker 1: dark universe down people's throats, let's take a quick break
34:41
Speaker 1: and then we'll come back into our mash ups. Real
35:00
Speaker 1: that was an amazing segue into the ad break. So, uh,
35:05
Speaker 1: we did decide to go with something spooky for one
35:08
Speaker 1: half of our mashups, and that is the Mummy. We
35:12
Speaker 1: we thought the Mummy would be right for us to use.
35:16
Speaker 1: What is the other half of our mash up equation,
35:20
Speaker 1: James Bond, because the is It No Time to Die
35:24
Speaker 1: as most recent James Bond movie, That one just came out. Yeah,
35:27
Speaker 1: the final it's the final Daniel Craig James Bond film. Yes, yes, So,
35:32
Speaker 1: inspired by the fact that Daniel Craig is is uh
35:36
Speaker 1: shaking his martini for the last time, we thought we
35:40
Speaker 1: would mash up these two properties. Uh, who would you
35:44
Speaker 1: like to go first? Arial, I'll go first, and I
35:46
Speaker 1: will say I am. I vaguely built my mash up
35:50
Speaker 1: off of the Brendan Fraser version of The Mummy, not
35:53
Speaker 1: the Tom Cruise nor the very original one. Um. So
35:58
Speaker 1: this is called the Mysterious m Bond. James Bond had
36:04
Speaker 1: just gotten done capturing Ernst stavro Blofeld and decided to
36:07
Speaker 1: visit his deceased love's tomb. But when he got to
36:10
Speaker 1: the place where Vesper had been laid to rest, the
36:12
Speaker 1: site was anything but RESTful. In fact, it was completely empty,
36:16
Speaker 1: only a whole remained. But before Bond could figure out
36:19
Speaker 1: what was going on, a bomb detonated and he was
36:22
Speaker 1: knocked out. When Bond comes to, he sees Q and
36:26
Speaker 1: Money Penny hovering over him. They say, due to the
36:29
Speaker 1: severity of his internal trauma, they are taking him off
36:31
Speaker 1: his latest assignment, taking away all of his gadgets, and
36:34
Speaker 1: relegating him to desk duty for the time being. But James,
36:37
Speaker 1: no stranger to pushing his body past its limits, protests.
36:41
Speaker 1: He insists on seeing M and getting his assignment back,
36:43
Speaker 1: but it is told by Many Moneypenny that M is
36:45
Speaker 1: indisposed and he cannot see her. This is in a
36:48
Speaker 1: world where M is still alive all day at his desk.
36:52
Speaker 1: Bond feels something is off, and so he waits until
36:55
Speaker 1: late at night when the m I six is shut
36:57
Speaker 1: down to a skeleton crew and he sneaks into M's
36:59
Speaker 1: of this. When he gets into M's office, it's a shambles.
37:03
Speaker 1: Everything is overturned, there scratch marks on the walls and desk,
37:06
Speaker 1: and dusty bits of cloth in jerky everywhere, and the
37:10
Speaker 1: secret door out of M's office is broken. Bond starts
37:14
Speaker 1: to go down the secret hallway, but thinks he hears
37:16
Speaker 1: someone coming up from the other end and leaves before
37:18
Speaker 1: he can be caught. The next day, Bond goes to
37:21
Speaker 1: confront Moneypenny, but she hasn't come into work. Bond decides
37:25
Speaker 1: to visit Q instead to figure out what's going on,
37:27
Speaker 1: since Q was the other person who delivered Bond's new orders.
37:30
Speaker 1: But Q's door is locked, and when Bond tries to
37:33
Speaker 1: get into the lab, he's told by Q through the
37:36
Speaker 1: intercom to go away. The Bond is undeterred, even though
37:40
Speaker 1: his gadgets are gone, his skills are not, and he
37:42
Speaker 1: made divers his way into Q's office. Once inside, Bond
37:45
Speaker 1: can see that Q is in bad shape. He has
37:47
Speaker 1: scratches all over him, a chunk is missing out of
37:49
Speaker 1: his arm, and he's sweating profusely due to a high fever.
37:53
Speaker 1: Bond tries to glean what's happened from Cube. Before he can,
37:55
Speaker 1: Que passes out. Bond quickly raids Q's lab and bugs
37:59
Speaker 1: his phone to try to get any more pieces to
38:01
Speaker 1: the puzzle. Now that all the people he knew that
38:03
Speaker 1: had pieces are unconscious are gone, and then it happens.
38:07
Speaker 1: Kira receives a message from Cairo a one Ben Benny Gayber.
38:11
Speaker 1: In fact, Bond, with no one around to stop him,
38:14
Speaker 1: traces the call to Benny's location and hops a private
38:17
Speaker 1: jet to Egypt. Once in Egypt, Bond finds Benny and
38:21
Speaker 1: gets the truth out of him. At first, Bond did
38:23
Speaker 1: not believe it working for a mummy. Did Benny take
38:26
Speaker 1: Bond to be a fool. But when the man's story
38:28
Speaker 1: did not waver even in Iota, no matter what Bond
38:31
Speaker 1: put him through, Bond knew it was true. You see, Vesper,
38:34
Speaker 1: Bond's old love was to be the new vessel of
38:37
Speaker 1: Emma Hotep's long lost love. Years ago, tomb raiders had
38:40
Speaker 1: broken into Imma hoteps crypt and awoken him. The grave robbers,
38:44
Speaker 1: one of whom was a reincarnate of Emmitt Hoteps Love
38:46
Speaker 1: all escaped, but Benny did not, and he was stuck
38:48
Speaker 1: to be a servant to immat To Hotep, I can't
38:50
Speaker 1: say this name until the day that his love was
38:52
Speaker 1: returned to him, and Vesper was a relative to the
38:57
Speaker 1: original grave robber love, and therefore was also occursed to
39:00
Speaker 1: be a new vessel. But sadly, before Benny could dig
39:03
Speaker 1: up the grave of Vesper to bring her corpse to
39:05
Speaker 1: in my Hotep M I six got word and retrieve
39:07
Speaker 1: the body. They hadn't told Bond, knowing he was too
39:10
Speaker 1: close to the situation. However, once they had retrieved the body,
39:14
Speaker 1: Vesper reanimated in the headquarters due to the curse and
39:17
Speaker 1: then in my Hotep's power, at which point she scratched
39:19
Speaker 1: and turned M into a mummy zombie. It's a thing,
39:22
Speaker 1: people deal with it. Q and Moneypenny, knowing that the
39:25
Speaker 1: news on M being mummified could if it got out,
39:29
Speaker 1: would be trouble, tried to contain the secret Money Penny
39:33
Speaker 1: felt to M, and then Q contained both M, Moneypenny,
39:37
Speaker 1: and Vesper, trying to find a cure, but not before
39:40
Speaker 1: getting scratched and bitten himself. Benny then offers James Bond
39:45
Speaker 1: a cure now we're back in Egypt, in exchange for
39:47
Speaker 1: Bond to set him free. Bond agrees, and after Benny
39:50
Speaker 1: gives him the cure, Bond gives Benny a bullet between
39:52
Speaker 1: the eyes. Bond swiftly returns home to London and tries
39:56
Speaker 1: to save his teammates. He finds Moneypenny and M locked
39:59
Speaker 1: up and is able to cure them and queues condition
40:01
Speaker 1: is also reversible, but Vesper, or what had once been Vesper,
40:05
Speaker 1: has disappeared without a trace. That night, Bond goes to bed,
40:08
Speaker 1: worried about how things have been left, and anxiously closes
40:11
Speaker 1: his eyes, and then we see a sam shambling shadow
40:14
Speaker 1: on his wall. Cut to black, and that's that Daniel type.
40:18
Speaker 1: Craig retires. But it really, it really sets the bar
40:24
Speaker 1: high for the next Bond. Yes, it's gonna start with
40:28
Speaker 1: a mummy fight. This this one here is my mash up.
40:33
Speaker 1: And I call this one keeping It under Wraps, which
40:39
Speaker 1: which I'm guessing has to be also the name of
40:41
Speaker 1: whatever song it is. And someone's gonna sing it. I'll
40:44
Speaker 1: say it's um Oh, I don't know. Billie Eilish. Billie
40:48
Speaker 1: Eilish does a song called keeping It under Wraps and
40:51
Speaker 1: that becomes the theme song. All right, here we go.
40:55
Speaker 1: James Bond has a problem. See, he accidentally ended up
40:59
Speaker 1: in ancient Egypt somehow and got mummified in a tomb
41:03
Speaker 1: for three thousand years. So when Dr knows long lost son,
41:08
Speaker 1: Dr no No hatched his own evil plan to disrupt
41:11
Speaker 1: the International Space Station by causing a bank of thrusters
41:15
Speaker 1: to send it into a spin while blocking all signals
41:18
Speaker 1: to try and you know reverse that m I six
41:22
Speaker 1: was without their greatest agent. However, as we all know,
41:26
Speaker 1: the British are fantastic at taking other people's stuff, and
41:31
Speaker 1: so in himself um in in this In this version,
41:35
Speaker 1: m is a guy again is overjoyed to discover that
41:39
Speaker 1: at a British museum exhibit on the ancient Egyptians, the
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Speaker 1: very sarcophagus holding James bonds mummified corpse remains on display.
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Speaker 1: It's right there, and so he sends Q to the
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Speaker 1: museum check it out. Q, using a gadget that was
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Speaker 1: intended to zap bad guys by convincing to pull out
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Speaker 1: a stick of um before electrifying them, manages to reanimate
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Speaker 1: the mummified Bond. And while Bond doesn't quite have the
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Speaker 1: mobility he had in life, he's still a heck of
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Speaker 1: a spy, kind of I mean, honestly, he was never
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Speaker 1: really a good spy, was he. I mean, after all,
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Speaker 1: he would introduce himself by name to people without being prompted.
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Speaker 1: Seems like the kind of thing you would actively avoid
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Speaker 1: doing if you were a spy. I mean, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: how are you. I'm James Bond. Oh you mean the
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Speaker 1: international spy. Well nice chatting with you, but we're done
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Speaker 1: here anyway, all right, Bond shuffles off to track down
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Speaker 1: Doctor No No, who he suspects has taken up residents
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Speaker 1: on crab Key. That's the same island that Dr No
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Speaker 1: had built a base upon. Generally people avoid that island
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Speaker 1: because it's radioactive. So, in case you haven't seen Doctor No,
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Speaker 1: and I'm guessing of our audience hasn't, the bad guy
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Speaker 1: in that movie sets up his base and has a
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Speaker 1: nuclear power plant on it, and it provides power to
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Speaker 1: a radio beam that Dr No was using to jam
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Speaker 1: signals that were around Project Mercury, which was of course
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Speaker 1: an early space race project at NASA. But in the end,
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Speaker 1: James Bond causes a nuclear meltdown and as a result,
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Speaker 1: everyone evacuated the island because it got radio active. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So anyway, we next see Bond in full mummy bandages
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Speaker 1: from head to toe aboard a yacht sailing toward what
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Speaker 1: we assume is crab Key, and like there's this super
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Speaker 1: hot Egyptologist woman on board. She's um oh gosh, I
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Speaker 1: gotta give her a name. Um, her name is Sally
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Speaker 1: Oh Cyrus. Sally Oh Cyrus, you know, because the James
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Speaker 1: Bond series tends to be stuck in this whole Bond
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Speaker 1: girl mentality that really belongs to a different era, but whatever,
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Speaker 1: and Bond is like, I'll have a martini shaken, not stirred,
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Speaker 1: but it comes out m m m m m m.
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Speaker 1: But you know, they all figure it out in the end,
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Speaker 1: and he gets his martini and then after spending way
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Speaker 1: too long trying to figure out how he's going to
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Speaker 1: drink the darn thing because you know, he's covered in
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Speaker 1: bandages all over, he just ends up pouring it on
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Speaker 1: top of his head and just lets it soak in
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Speaker 1: through the bandages. Okay, Anyway, the yacht gets as close
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Speaker 1: to the island as they dare before their Geiger counters
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Speaker 1: on board start warning them that if they get any
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Speaker 1: closer then the living people on board the ship will
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Speaker 1: receive an unhealthy dose of radiation. So then Bond, because
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Speaker 1: he's undead, just gets in his special submarine sarcophagus that
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Speaker 1: Q made. And it's weird that Q had even made
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Speaker 1: this and it was ready to go before they even rediscovered.
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Speaker 1: Bond ques into some weird stuff. Anyway, Bond takes the
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Speaker 1: submersible sarcophagus to the island unseen, and he emerges from
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Speaker 1: it near the shore and he slogs the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way up to the beach and what can only
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Speaker 1: be described as a really pathetic recreation of the beach
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Speaker 1: scene from the original Doctor Not. He then shuffles off
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Speaker 1: to the decrepit base on the island, dripping the whole way,
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Speaker 1: and once there he infiltrates the base, and by infiltrates,
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Speaker 1: I mean he mostly kind of stumbles through it because
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Speaker 1: again he's got really limited mobility and visibility. Uh. He
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Speaker 1: encounters no hnchmen or Hnch women because the place is radioactive,
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Speaker 1: But he does turn a corner and he comes face
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Speaker 1: to face with doctor No No. Now dtr No No
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Speaker 1: is wearing a big, clunky suit and presumably this protects
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Speaker 1: him from the radiation, and Bond recognizes Doctor No No
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Speaker 1: right away, saying, you have your father's hands, And sure
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Speaker 1: enough No No has two mechanical hands that stick out
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Speaker 1: from the suit. Because if you had seen doctor No
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Speaker 1: you would know that he also had mechanical hands because
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Speaker 1: he lost his regular hands due to radiation. Poisoning, so
45:48
Speaker 1: apparently this was an inherited trait. His son also has
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Speaker 1: mechanical hands, but none of that really matters because Dr
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Speaker 1: No No heres for so Dr No No says what,
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Speaker 1: And what we get is a scene that stretches on
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Speaker 1: about four minutes too long of James Bond trying to
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Speaker 1: fire off a witty one liner to Dr No No
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Speaker 1: and Dr No Nos trying to figure out what the
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Speaker 1: heck James Bond is, even saying it's kind of like
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Speaker 1: a really unfunny scene in a later Austin Powers movie. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's redundant. It's like a scene in a later Austin
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Speaker 1: Powers movie. So anyway, this goes on for a while
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Speaker 1: until we get the slowest, most awkward fight scene from
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Speaker 1: any of the Bond films, and I am including the
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Speaker 1: Roger Moore ones. So Bond is stiff, plus you know,
46:39
Speaker 1: he's a stiff and he's slow, but then so is
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Speaker 1: Dr No No because he's in this big, bulky suit.
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Speaker 1: So it's like watching two people in those giants sumo
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Speaker 1: wrestler inflatable outfits trying to struggle. But eventually Bond is
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Speaker 1: able to get the upper hand and he rips Dr
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Speaker 1: No No suit and thus exposes Dr No No to radiation,
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Speaker 1: which makes him freak out big time. And then Bond
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Speaker 1: shovels over to the controls and he manages to make
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Speaker 1: the International Space Station stop spinning, though now it's upside
47:06
Speaker 1: down and the lights are going off and on like
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Speaker 1: a disco, but he can't figure out how to fix
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Speaker 1: that part. So then Bond leaves the island and along
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Speaker 1: the way he meets up with a hot Egyptologist and
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Speaker 1: he says something really sexist that for some reason she
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Speaker 1: finds charming, and the movie ends. I guess the end.
47:23
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that my mashups become more of a
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Speaker 1: diet tribe against whatever it is we're matching up. Listen.
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Speaker 1: Usually when you do that, it's it's allowable and very entertaining.
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Speaker 1: So well, thank you. I appreciated the opportunity to go
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Speaker 1: back and revisit a classic Sean Connery era James Bond film.
47:47
Speaker 1: Yes that again, I doubt like most of the people
47:51
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast probably have not seen it. That's
47:53
Speaker 1: not a judgment, that's just that's just a guess. Like
47:57
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think you're a lesser person
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Speaker 1: not having seen Doctor No, Yeah, I agree, and or
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Speaker 1: most James Bond movies or any Daniel Craig James Bond
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Speaker 1: movies either, although I really did like Casino Royal. Yeah,
48:12
Speaker 1: that one, that one in particular, like it was I mean,
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Speaker 1: for one thing, it was such a tonal change, Like
48:17
Speaker 1: it was a very dark and gritty James Bond, which
48:20
Speaker 1: we had not like there were some of those uh
48:24
Speaker 1: in the the was it was it the Timothy Dalton
48:27
Speaker 1: or knows, the pierced brasn and ones that kind of
48:29
Speaker 1: got pretty dark. But this, this one was going even
48:33
Speaker 1: further than that. But it worked. Daniel Craig made it work. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree. Well, if you have an idea of how
48:42
Speaker 1: a mashup between the Mummy and James Bond could work
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