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Ariel and Jonathan do Sportsball · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider Podcast,
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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 Ariel casting and with me as
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Speaker 1: always is get off my lawn. Jonathan Strickland. Nay, here
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Speaker 1: we all. I got a question for you, Okay, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: here is your It's more of a scenario as a
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Speaker 1: lot of these turn out to be, but here is
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Speaker 1: your question. You have been given a quest to carry
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Speaker 1: a powerful magical artifact a very long way and throw
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Speaker 1: it into some sort of dangerous natural phenomenon. Let's say
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Speaker 1: it's a volcano. What form does this artifact take for you? Uh? Well,
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Speaker 1: it couldn't be a ham sandwich because I'd eat it.
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Speaker 1: Um yea, it can only be unmade in the volcano.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's call it four door. You see.
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Speaker 1: I like I feel like, even though you're alluding to
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Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings, that I want to say Meg Ryan. Um,
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Speaker 1: you want to throw Meg Ryan into a volcano because
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Speaker 1: I watched recently. But she also wouldn't be a artifact
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Speaker 1: that's actually objectifying Meg Ryan literally, which is not okay,
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Speaker 1: Which is not okay. So my artifact would be, um,
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Speaker 1: something big enough that I wouldn't lose it, but small
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Speaker 1: enough that it's not a pain to carry, probably an
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Speaker 1: old Nokia cell phone, like one of the old break times.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing because my answer, and I'm not kidding you,
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Speaker 1: the answer I came up with was it would be
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Speaker 1: a remote control for something where I don't remember what
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Speaker 1: the remote control goes to. I can't seem to get
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Speaker 1: it to work with any of my current technology, so
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Speaker 1: I just wanted out of my life. Yeah, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean I have a bunch of old Nokia phones sitting
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Speaker 1: in my closet because I can't seem to get rid
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Speaker 1: of them, and it would give me one last chance
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Speaker 1: to like without my fancy Nokia hip holster. I think
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Speaker 1: what this tells us is that it is really hard
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Speaker 1: to recycle electronics in a responsible way. Well, that is
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Speaker 1: in the past. Now question has been asked and answered.
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Speaker 1: We are now ready to move on to some news items.
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Speaker 1: Our firsts item is this week ish, it came out
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Speaker 1: that Netflix bought the sequels the second and third sequel
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Speaker 1: for Knives Out, Yeah, for like four hundred million dollars. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and Daniel Craig and director Ran Johnson will be back
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Speaker 1: for it. I would imagine they wouldn't have to have,
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Speaker 1: you know, some modicum of different characters since the last
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Speaker 1: story has already been solved. Yeah, I imagine, Like I
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Speaker 1: don't know for a fact, but I would think that
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Speaker 1: they would have each of these be really episodic standalone stories,
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Speaker 1: kind of like how Columbo was just a series of
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Speaker 1: different mysteries whenever there was another Columbo special. Um. But
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Speaker 1: this really has me excited because one I have Netflix
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Speaker 1: and too, I really like Knives Out. Yeah, I do too.
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Speaker 1: I could take or leave Daniel Craig's accent. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: loved it. I loved every second accent. But it kind
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Speaker 1: of it kind of went all around. I kind of
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Speaker 1: want the third one to reveal that he's not actually
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Speaker 1: random southern ambiguous Southern. Yeah. I was gonna say like Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: but sometimes it went to Virginian, but sometimes it went
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Speaker 1: to Georgia. It was just it's kind of like kind
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Speaker 1: of like listening to an American do an English accent
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Speaker 1: that English Americans doing English accents wander all over the
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Speaker 1: British Isles, sometimes taking a nice stay in Ireland. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: I really like Knives Out. They think of so many
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Speaker 1: tiny details throughout the filmography of it and the videography
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Speaker 1: of it that I just I found it appealing from
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Speaker 1: beginning to end, acting to technical I will say that
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Speaker 1: it has the one downfall in that the person I
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Speaker 1: thought who did it did it. And I was pretty
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Speaker 1: convinced very early on in the film about what what,
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Speaker 1: not specifically what happened, but who was responsible. I had
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Speaker 1: a very strong suspicion, and the fact that my suspicion
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Speaker 1: turned out to be accurate kind of disappointed me because
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Speaker 1: I was sort of hoping that I was on the
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Speaker 1: wrong track. Um, but I mean, the details delighted me.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of sour grapes to complain something
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Speaker 1: else that the details delighted you. On with the trailer
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Speaker 1: for Loki, yeah, which I am so very, very very
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Speaker 1: excited for this show. So Disney released the trailer for Loki,
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Speaker 1: as we said April five, I believe, and it's just
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Speaker 1: so much fun. And Jonathan immediately was like, did you
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Speaker 1: see the Renaissance Festival in it? And I didn't despite
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Speaker 1: watching it through two times. It's literally a blink and
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Speaker 1: you miss it moment if you're looking at the the
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Speaker 1: trailer around the one minute fourteen second mark, after Loki
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Speaker 1: says do I get a weapon and he's told nope.
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Speaker 1: They passed through a gate, and the next blink and
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Speaker 1: you miss it scene shows the opening gate area of
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Speaker 1: the Georgia Renaissance Festival. It's literally what you would be
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Speaker 1: looking at if you had just walked through the entrance,
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Speaker 1: because there's a kiosk where we put maps and you
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Speaker 1: can see the m for the maps there. Um. So
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Speaker 1: I got excited because it's like, oh, I there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a scene presumably at a Renaissance festival, because I
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Speaker 1: think there were people in the background dressed in and
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Speaker 1: current day clothing. So it would tell you that it's
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Speaker 1: not like he didn't travel back to a really cheap
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Speaker 1: version of medieval England. Um, it's a Renaissance festival. But
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Speaker 1: also like there's their sequences, the the the the timekeepers.
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Speaker 1: Their headquarters is in uh well, the building that they're
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Speaker 1: in was is the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, which
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Speaker 1: is one of the big hotels that is used by
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Speaker 1: Dragon Con and anyone who's ever seen used in every
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Speaker 1: movie ever. Yeah, because it has like a well, I
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Speaker 1: mean like like people have said, the interior of that
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Speaker 1: hotel is science fiction. It's that weird. It looks almost
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Speaker 1: like a rib cage of an alien with elevators going
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Speaker 1: up inside of it. So yeah, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: the delight I got was from the fact that I
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Speaker 1: was recognizing locations. It's the same sort of feeling I
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Speaker 1: get when I watch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
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Speaker 1: and I find out that if you go through the
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Speaker 1: Crags Street Tunnel, which is just down the street from
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Speaker 1: my house, you end up in Magripor. That that kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff delights me. But beyond that, it just looks
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Speaker 1: like it's gonna be a fun series. Um And I
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Speaker 1: will not take this opportunity to rant about the problems
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Speaker 1: I had with episode three of The Falcon and the
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Speaker 1: Winter Soldier. You should not do that, um I. I
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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying Falcon in the Winter Soldier, but I am
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Speaker 1: definitely more looking forward to Loki. It looks like it
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Speaker 1: will be a balance of fun and an action like
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Speaker 1: One Division was maybe a little bit more action. I
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Speaker 1: really like how things are going with these these mini series.
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Speaker 1: I feel like they're really hitting their stride. It kind
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Speaker 1: of makes me wish that Agent Carter had held off
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Speaker 1: until now, because I have a feeling that now Agent
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Speaker 1: Carter would really succeed, Whereas it kind of fizzled out
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Speaker 1: after a season and a half when it first came out. Um,
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Speaker 1: and that's a shame because it was it was entertaining.
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Speaker 1: It was entertaining for me. I don't know. It was
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Speaker 1: something about the effects or something about it. The first
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Speaker 1: time around. The story was good, but something about the
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Speaker 1: show just didn't grab me. But I think that if
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Speaker 1: they put the same behind it now that they're putting
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Speaker 1: behind these mini series, I agree that I think it
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Speaker 1: would take off. It had, at least among our friends,
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Speaker 1: a large following and fan base. Uh. Something else that
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Speaker 1: has a large following in fan base among our friends
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Speaker 1: is Star Trek. Yeah. I mean, my my parents wrote
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Speaker 1: books for the series, so I kind of I kind
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Speaker 1: of inherited it. Yeah, Ariel, you found this great story
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Speaker 1: about how the second season at Piccard is set in motion.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be on Paramount Plus because CBS All
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Speaker 1: Access is no longer a thing and um. Also, it's
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Speaker 1: going to have the return of a beloved antagonist from
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Speaker 1: Star Trek the Next Generation, yes Que played by John Delancy,
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Speaker 1: who is this beyond time and space kind of being
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Speaker 1: with magical powers. I don't want to say magical. That's
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Speaker 1: not right. It's effectively right. I mean there's no there's
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Speaker 1: no in universe good exp nation for how he does
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Speaker 1: way he does, and he's in many ways similar to Loki.
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Speaker 1: So it's good to have these stories back to back. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say he is he's pretty much uh,
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Speaker 1: Federation Loki. Yeah, I was gonna say Space Loki. But
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Speaker 1: Loki is Space Loki. But I just throughout the Next
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Speaker 1: Generation he was one of my favorite characters because when
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Speaker 1: Q showed up, you had no idea where the story
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Speaker 1: was going to go or what was going to happen.
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Speaker 1: He was all about the mischief and I love Loki
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Speaker 1: to Loki's one of my favorite MCU characters. My favorite
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Speaker 1: My favorite Q line was to warf where he said
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Speaker 1: eat any good books lately, which is one of my
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Speaker 1: and I also really loved the episode where he is
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Speaker 1: forced he turns mortal, his powers are removed from him
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Speaker 1: and he has to adjust to what it is to
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Speaker 1: be Mortal, and everything just disgusts and horrifies him. It's
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Speaker 1: a fantastic episode. I do wonder how he's going to
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Speaker 1: fit into Picard, which has a very very different tone
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Speaker 1: from Star Trek the Next Generation, and it fills me
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of anxiety that they might go
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Speaker 1: like more grim and dark with him, which I think
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Speaker 1: would be a mistake. Yeah, the the little teaser that
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Speaker 1: we've got seems like there's at least some tongue in
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Speaker 1: cheek in there. So I'm hopeful that they'll treat his
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Speaker 1: character right. Um, just just like I was hopeful, and
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Speaker 1: it seems to be so that Mortal, this new Mortal
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Speaker 1: Kombat movie will be treated right. Yea, I was struggling,
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Speaker 1: so h Mortal Kombat announced that it was pushing back
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Speaker 1: its release date on HBO Max and in theaters one
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Speaker 1: week from Able six to April um. The probably just
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Speaker 1: to give Godzilla versus cong a little bit more time
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Speaker 1: to make money because Godzilla Versus Cang is doing really
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Speaker 1: well in the box office right now considering the pandemic. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you put the qualifier in there, because it
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Speaker 1: wasn't long ago when a fifty million dollar weekend would
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Speaker 1: have been seen as a colossal failure. Mm hmm, Well,
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Speaker 1: it's made a hundred and twenty one million dollars internationally
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Speaker 1: so far, at least as of March, so probably a
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Speaker 1: little bit more by now. Um. But in the meantime,
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Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat gave us this little feature at that kind
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Speaker 1: of let us meet the characters of the movie and
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Speaker 1: learn a little bit of the behind the scenes. And
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Speaker 1: it's I am very excited because they have said that
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Speaker 1: they really wanted to make sure that the actors could
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Speaker 1: do all of the martial arts moves. They didn't want
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Speaker 1: it to all be c g I and that excites me.
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Speaker 1: I'm a little little bit less excited by the fact
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Speaker 1: that they wanted to be pretty brutal, but um, I wasn't.
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Speaker 1: That's not a total surprise. But all in all, I'll
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Speaker 1: say this, this featurette does make me more excited to
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Speaker 1: watch the movie than I previously was. What about you, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: I remain uncommitted. I think it's I think I'm just
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Speaker 1: past the point where Mortal Kombat has a huge appeal
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Speaker 1: for me. Uh. Back when it first came out, I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the game, and I enjoyed the first movie, as
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Speaker 1: cheesy as it was. But I don't know. I think
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Speaker 1: it's just part of me is in there thinking, like
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Speaker 1: cobbling together a good script from the various video game narratives.
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Speaker 1: It makes me wonder what the focus is going to
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Speaker 1: be and is it just going to be a movie
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Speaker 1: where you've got everyone's got their own little subplot the
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Speaker 1: kind of the kind of the way it does in
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Speaker 1: the in the game, And if so, how do you
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Speaker 1: put those together in a way that makes a satisfying
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Speaker 1: story without just dropping some of those storylines, like part
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Speaker 1: way through, and we know that there's stuff like that
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Speaker 1: going on, because there's of course there's beef between sub
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Speaker 1: Zero and Scorpion, for example, there's beef between Sonja and Kano,
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Speaker 1: so uh, and we know that someone that's going to
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Speaker 1: play out. I just don't know to what extent. I'm
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Speaker 1: also hopeful that by the time it actually comes out
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Speaker 1: that the the effects look a little bit better because
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Speaker 1: Kano's eye laser is still kind of cheesy. Yeah, Cano's
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Speaker 1: eye laser is kind of cheesy, but I like some
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Speaker 1: of the other effects. Anything with sub Zero looks really
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Speaker 1: cool so far, well, I would have to he's sub
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Speaker 1: zero has to look cool. I see what you did.
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Speaker 1: We do know a little bit about the story that
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Speaker 1: it's a new fighter, Cole Young who has mysterious I'm
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Speaker 1: just freezing right past that because it was so bad,
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Speaker 1: Uh so bad, it was good. Now he's got connections
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Speaker 1: to the Mortal Kombat tournament and to me at least
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Speaker 1: got a Mortal Kombat birthmark. Yes, I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to be kind of like WHZ, like like Ozzy Osbourne.
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Speaker 1: I'm down with that. Like he like he's Dorothy and
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Speaker 1: he gets pulled to this tournament and meets friends along
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Speaker 1: the way. I don't I don't really understand the need
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Speaker 1: to introduce a new character. I mean, it just means
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Speaker 1: that you had even more story that you have to
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Speaker 1: add to this on top of all the other characters
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Speaker 1: that you're hoping to incorporate. But maybe it's just to
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Speaker 1: have somebody like blank slate so that you're not going
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Speaker 1: into something where all the fan fan boys out there
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Speaker 1: will say, that's not how it happened in the game. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: this movie is you know, total b s. Whereas I'm like,
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Speaker 1: it's a game. We can't really treat the cannon as
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Speaker 1: being sacred or anything. M hm hm. We're sorry to
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Speaker 1: all of the Mortal Kombat fans who just got very
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Speaker 1: upset at Jonathan. Yeah, well, just make sure you you
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Speaker 1: don't do a fatality on me. Another thing that you're
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Speaker 1: not super excited about, mainly because you've never watched the
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Speaker 1: first one, is the new Space Jam movie. Right, you
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Speaker 1: are correct. I have never seen Space Jim So. Space
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Speaker 1: Jam came out when I was already in my twenties.
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Speaker 1: Uh so, I didn't have any real desire to see
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Speaker 1: it. It It didn't appeal to me. I don't have kids,
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Speaker 1: so there's I'm not into basketball, so like the only
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Speaker 1: the only hook it had for me is that I
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Speaker 1: did watch Looney Tunes a lot when I was a kid,
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Speaker 1: and I appreciate the Looney Tunes cartoons. I just didn't
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Speaker 1: have a desire to see them in that context. However,
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Speaker 1: now we've got the sequel, the trailers are out an
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Speaker 1: aerial you made. You described it in a way that
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Speaker 1: now pretty much everybody else is describing it. How did
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Speaker 1: you describe the sequel to Space Jam? Yes, the moment
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Speaker 1: that I watched the trailer, I was like, well, this
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Speaker 1: is just Ready Player one but for kids, and I
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Speaker 1: will admit that's largely because Iron Giant was featured in
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Speaker 1: Ready Player one and is featured in this one. Um.
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Speaker 1: But then after I said that, my husband sent me
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Speaker 1: an article from Gizmoto that had come out afterwards, saying, Hey,
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Speaker 1: the new Space Jam trailer looks like Ready Player one,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, camp on the pulse of children's media.
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Speaker 1: Whatever dimension they that this story is taking place in,
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Speaker 1: ends up having, oddly enough, all the Warner Brothers villains
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Speaker 1: as courtside attendees for the game, with the Loony Tunes
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Speaker 1: characters and Lebron against the I forget what they called
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Speaker 1: the bad Guy squad, but anyway, it's yes, the goons,
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Speaker 1: but like the clockwork orange drugs are right there courtside.
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Speaker 1: I saw them in one shot. Uh. The Tim Burton
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Speaker 1: version of Joker and the Tim Burton version of the
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Speaker 1: Penguin are both there. Because I went frame by frame
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Speaker 1: and looked at all the different characters I could spot
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Speaker 1: and just saw there was a character that looked like
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Speaker 1: the Um, the leader of the White Walkers from the
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Speaker 1: Game of Thrones series. So, like I said, I went
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Speaker 1: framed by frame, and as I said, this is weird
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Speaker 1: to have the penny Wise from the latest IT films
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Speaker 1: is in there. I was like, this, it's weird to
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Speaker 1: see these characters who are very much not part of
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Speaker 1: family friendly entertainment being included in a you know, a
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Speaker 1: film that's made presumably for kids, or maybe it's just
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Speaker 1: made for grown up kids who saw the original film
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Speaker 1: when it came out. I mean I saw the original film.
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Speaker 1: I was a little bit old for it too, but
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Speaker 1: I also worked with children, and I really liked Roger Rabbit.
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Speaker 1: So for me, this live action cartoon hybrid excited me
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Speaker 1: on that level. I I watched it because not because
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Speaker 1: I like basketball, but because I like to frame Roger Rabbit. Um,
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Speaker 1: but the trailer looks very hid focused to me. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure they put that in there as a Easter egg
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Speaker 1: for adults, but yeah, that isn't that is an odd choice. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you could argue that it's like the Looney
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Speaker 1: Tunes cartoons where some of the humor was aimed at kids,
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Speaker 1: and some of the humor would go right over kids
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Speaker 1: heads but adults would get it. You could argue that,
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Speaker 1: but these aren't jokes. It's visual references, which is different.
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Speaker 1: And I will go to my grave arguing that you
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Speaker 1: cannot tell me that putting in a visual reference is
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Speaker 1: a joke. No matter what you say, family guy, No,
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Speaker 1: I I agree with you that putting in a visual
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Speaker 1: reference is not necessarily a joke, but maybe it's enough
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Speaker 1: to distract to the parents from realizing what minute market
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Speaker 1: is in a children's movie. Well, speaking of minute marks,
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Speaker 1: we should probably go to break and when we come back,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a little conversation about how we can
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Speaker 1: both be grouchy pants about weird stuff in movie because
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Speaker 1: we're human. But first let's take a quick break. So
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Speaker 1: we're back, and as Jonathan said, we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about some stuff that makes us grumpy pants, or or
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Speaker 1: stuff that we've both looked at each other and said, huh,
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Speaker 1: that's inconsistent in your likes, uh, based on the fact
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Speaker 1: that this weekend Jonathan watched Invincible and I watched Godzilla
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Speaker 1: versus calm Um, and and from that we both surprised
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Speaker 1: each other with some stuff that normally I would say
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Speaker 1: Jonathan would like that he didn't, and probably that he
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Speaker 1: would think that I would like that. I probably would
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Speaker 1: not yeah. In other words, like I think things that
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Speaker 1: things that we find as a hang up in our
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Speaker 1: enjoyment of something, and it's not necessarily always easy to express.
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Speaker 1: So the example that started this whole thing off was that,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I didn't even I have not watched
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Speaker 1: any of the Monster verse movies, So I haven't watched
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Speaker 1: any I hadn't watched uh, Kong of Skull Island, I
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Speaker 1: hadn't watched you know, Godzilla, King of All the Monsters, whatever,
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Speaker 1: any of those. And so when I started seeing reviews
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Speaker 1: that actually gave some details about the plot of Godzilla
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Speaker 1: versus Kong, which I still have not seen, um, I
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Speaker 1: saw that I didn't realize that the movies had incorporated
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Speaker 1: a hollow Earth storyline, part like, like, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: that hollow Earth was part of it, and finding that
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Speaker 1: out immediately turned me off of all of those movies.
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Speaker 1: The reason being I the hollow Earth theory is is
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Speaker 1: such a dumb thing in real life. I mean, not
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Speaker 1: that these movies are trying to represent real life, but
22:03
Speaker 1: such a dumb thing in real life that real people
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Speaker 1: have have subscribed to, along with things like the Flat
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Speaker 1: Earth Society, which is equally dumb um that it immediately
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Speaker 1: turned me off because I'm just like I. I spend
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Speaker 1: my time often fighting against misinformation and trying to uh
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Speaker 1: promote skepticism and critical thinking, and it's so hard for
22:30
Speaker 1: me to get past that, even though I acknowledge this
22:34
Speaker 1: is a movie. It's a movie about giant monsters fighting
22:37
Speaker 1: each other. I have no problem with a Godzilla versus
22:41
Speaker 1: an enormous monkey sorry ape fighting each other and destroying cities.
22:47
Speaker 1: All of that I can totally buy. Suddenly, Hollow Earth boom,
22:51
Speaker 1: I'm out, I'm out, and it's weird, and it is weird.
22:55
Speaker 1: It surprised me because I was like, well, surely Jonathan
22:58
Speaker 1: likes Journey to the Center of the Earth, but apparently not.
23:03
Speaker 1: But to me, I'm like, it's so and I actually
23:06
Speaker 1: enjoyed the movie. Did I think that it could have
23:08
Speaker 1: a better plot? Possibly? There are bits that just didn't
23:11
Speaker 1: really matter to me. There are other bits that I
23:13
Speaker 1: really liked, but I could not write something better. Um,
23:17
Speaker 1: so I still enjoyed it. But to me, it just
23:20
Speaker 1: was honestly a little surprising that anybody believes that Hollow Earth,
23:25
Speaker 1: and probably not the Hollow Earth that Godzilla versus Kong
23:29
Speaker 1: was talking about exists because you know, that's that's there
23:33
Speaker 1: the movie is saying, that's Godzilla and Kong's origin, that's
23:36
Speaker 1: where they came from, That's where all these titans came from.
23:40
Speaker 1: Um that it was just surprising to me that it
23:44
Speaker 1: had any any real life parallels. And and I'll say
23:47
Speaker 1: like for me, despite the I like monster movies, I
23:52
Speaker 1: like big fight monster movies, despite the fact that I
23:55
Speaker 1: don't like uh, animal movies. Um. And I would consider
24:00
Speaker 1: Godzilla and King Kong both animals because I get very
24:03
Speaker 1: anxious about whether those animals are going to be okay.
24:05
Speaker 1: And I don't like big c g I and Boss
24:08
Speaker 1: battles in my superhero movies. But I really like Godzilla
24:12
Speaker 1: versus Coan. Yeah. I also I also just I don't
24:16
Speaker 1: really connect with mons big monster movies like that, with
24:20
Speaker 1: a couple of exceptions, which tend to be the outliers anyway,
24:24
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I actually don't think I've liked any
24:30
Speaker 1: King Kong film except for the original King Kong, which
24:34
Speaker 1: I appreciate on kind of a an academic level. But
24:40
Speaker 1: it's hard for like, I don't, I don't lose myself
24:43
Speaker 1: in the movie. But from an academic level, I appreciate it. Uh,
24:46
Speaker 1: the only monster movie I can think of giant monster
24:49
Speaker 1: movie that well two of them, and one of them
24:53
Speaker 1: kind of isn't a giant monster movie, but clover Field.
24:57
Speaker 1: The first clover Field I kind of dug because it
25:00
Speaker 1: is just a different take on that. It was very
25:02
Speaker 1: human centric without it without the humans feeling like they
25:05
Speaker 1: were a distraction. It was about the humans within that world.
25:09
Speaker 1: And the second one was, um, was it Colossal? The
25:14
Speaker 1: movie about the woman who turns out she controls a
25:18
Speaker 1: giant monster in Korea at the whenever she she gets
25:22
Speaker 1: blackout drunk apparently or not just then, but typically then
25:26
Speaker 1: it was Anne Hathaway. Yeah, Colossal was the name of it, Colossal,
25:29
Speaker 1: which is another subversion of the genre. I thought, I
25:33
Speaker 1: didn't think I was gonna like that movie, and then
25:35
Speaker 1: I watched it and I thought, wow, this is a
25:37
Speaker 1: really good film that is not what you think it's about. Um,
25:43
Speaker 1: But yeah, otherwise I just don't connect to them, So
25:45
Speaker 1: that's that was kind of like. Ultimately, it wouldn't have
25:49
Speaker 1: been surprising if I didn't really care for god Zilla
25:51
Speaker 1: versus Calm, simply because it's not really my jam that's
25:54
Speaker 1: just not where my geekdom falls typically. So well, and
25:58
Speaker 1: and like I had interested in Invincible, I knew it
26:01
Speaker 1: was going to be violent, but you you said that
26:03
Speaker 1: it was exceptionally graphically Gore. Oh yeah, no, okay, So
26:08
Speaker 1: we've talked about Invincible on previous episodes. Um, yeah, the
26:12
Speaker 1: first episode it's you know, it's it's kind of superhero
26:16
Speaker 1: violence level of violence and like teenager getting their butt
26:21
Speaker 1: handed to them in high school before discovering their superpowers,
26:25
Speaker 1: violence is in there too. But yeah, there. Every episode
26:29
Speaker 1: has a little sequence that happens after the initial credits
26:32
Speaker 1: pop up, and the one for episode one is critically
26:36
Speaker 1: important for the entire series, so you have to watch it.
26:39
Speaker 1: But it's also possibly the goryoust animation I have seen
26:44
Speaker 1: outside of Japanese animation ever, and it is like excruciating
26:53
Speaker 1: Lee detailed in its Gore. Um, you could argue it's
26:57
Speaker 1: still cartoony, but it's disturbing. Uh yeah, So that would
27:01
Speaker 1: not be Ariel's jam because as much as she loves superheroes,
27:05
Speaker 1: she also really doesn't care for Gore. I don't care
27:08
Speaker 1: for Gore, and it's interesting because like I do, I
27:11
Speaker 1: do watch M M A occasionally, but the moment that there, like,
27:15
Speaker 1: I can only watch somebody's jaw get punched so many
27:18
Speaker 1: times before I have to look away because I'm afraid
27:20
Speaker 1: I'm going to see that gore. Now that's real people,
27:22
Speaker 1: not a cart too. But I don't want to see
27:25
Speaker 1: eyeballs pop out of their sockets. To you, well, no,
27:28
Speaker 1: I have, but I don't particularly enjoy it. I don't
27:31
Speaker 1: want to watch Invincible episode one because spoiler alert, that
27:36
Speaker 1: definitely happens, but apparently I need to if I want
27:40
Speaker 1: to watch the rest of the series. But I'm curious, Jonathan,
27:44
Speaker 1: because you you don't like these things where these stories where, um,
27:51
Speaker 1: you don't like big monster movies exception of clover Field.
27:55
Speaker 1: But I would say that I would imagine that you
27:58
Speaker 1: would like this is like two part I would ima
28:00
Speaker 1: that you would like like space invasion movies or space
28:03
Speaker 1: alien fighting movies. Like do you like Independence Day or
28:06
Speaker 1: Enders Game or anything like that. I don't like Independence
28:09
Speaker 1: Day or Enders Game, but I do like the Last Starfighter.
28:13
Speaker 1: Um so like it. Again, it depends on the tone
28:17
Speaker 1: of the film. It depends on the characters. Edge of Tomorrow.
28:21
Speaker 1: I like that a lot lived I repeat is also
28:23
Speaker 1: the other name for that the Tom Cruise film, which
28:25
Speaker 1: surprised me because I don't really care for Tom Cruise
28:28
Speaker 1: that much, but I really like that movie. It was
28:31
Speaker 1: really good. So so there are there are versions. But
28:35
Speaker 1: like you know, just like with any genre, there are
28:39
Speaker 1: ones that you would consider to be good and ones
28:42
Speaker 1: that you consider to not be good. And this isn't
28:45
Speaker 1: me saying that that you know, Independence Day is bad,
28:48
Speaker 1: although it is, And it's not me saying that um
28:51
Speaker 1: Ender's game is bad. I haven't seen it. It's just
28:54
Speaker 1: a preference thing, right, So I remember when we had
28:57
Speaker 1: our discussion, you also pointed out, like I'm not I
28:59
Speaker 1: hate like the idea of a movie that would present
29:02
Speaker 1: flat Earth as being a real thing, and you brought
29:04
Speaker 1: up Discworld and I said, wha, but that Discworld is
29:06
Speaker 1: not Earth. Discworld is a different world, and it's in
29:09
Speaker 1: a fantasy setting, and it's okay there, okay, But what
29:13
Speaker 1: about like are Thuri in legend that's set on Earth
29:17
Speaker 1: in a in a real time and you being a skeptic,
29:22
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you believe in things as fairies,
29:24
Speaker 1: but there are people who do. This is a interesting point.
29:28
Speaker 1: I think of it as a fairy tale, and I
29:32
Speaker 1: see this is interesting because yeah, I can't even know.
29:35
Speaker 1: This is why I wanted to have this conversation. I
29:36
Speaker 1: can't even explain it because I'm okay with that, and
29:39
Speaker 1: I'm okay with things like one of my favorite horror
29:41
Speaker 1: movies of all time is The Witch or the vich
29:43
Speaker 1: if you prefer. And there are people who believe in
29:46
Speaker 1: in witches. I have friends who, I mean, they're not
29:50
Speaker 1: like which is in The Witch the Witch, but friends
29:53
Speaker 1: who are wicked right, who talk about witchcraft and witchy stuff.
29:58
Speaker 1: They use a different them than stuff. But um, I
30:03
Speaker 1: can get past that too. Even being a skeptic and
30:06
Speaker 1: a critical thinker and all this kind of stuff, I
30:07
Speaker 1: can get past that as well. And I can't explain it. Maybe,
30:13
Speaker 1: I mean I can't. I don't know why. There's a
30:15
Speaker 1: block there just is. Um It's it's one of those
30:18
Speaker 1: things where when I encounter it, it's frustrating for me
30:20
Speaker 1: to even talk about simply because I don't even have
30:24
Speaker 1: the language to convey why. Right, it just is that
30:32
Speaker 1: is interesting. I was just curious. I think it's really interesting.
30:35
Speaker 1: You know, they are also like I am a skeptic
30:39
Speaker 1: on certain things, but I'm also a person of faith,
30:41
Speaker 1: and there are there are certain stories where I can
30:43
Speaker 1: watch and be like, well, that's just it's it's just
30:46
Speaker 1: a story, you know. It doesn't matter if it veers
30:48
Speaker 1: from what I believe because it's just a story, and
30:50
Speaker 1: stories are made up. Um. But there are certain things,
30:53
Speaker 1: Yeah that I couldn't tell you why certain things press
30:56
Speaker 1: my buttons and other things don't. But I do think
30:58
Speaker 1: it's really interesting to look at. And I thought, specifically
31:01
Speaker 1: the one about fictional stuff that some people believe and
31:07
Speaker 1: where that line is was was something fun to explore. Yeah,
31:11
Speaker 1: it's odd. Will probably be something that I revisit in therapy.
31:15
Speaker 1: So thanks for that. Another thing to talk about. I'm
31:20
Speaker 1: I'm just teasing. Well, we're going to take another break,
31:24
Speaker 1: and I'm sure this is going to be a topic
31:26
Speaker 1: that will dive into more, especially if you folks out
31:29
Speaker 1: there have things to say about it. But when we
31:32
Speaker 1: come back, we're going to do our meshup, which was
31:35
Speaker 1: inspired by that trailer for the sequel to Space Jam.
31:41
Speaker 1: But you'll find out more when we come back after
31:44
Speaker 1: this break. So we have a slightly different mash up
32:03
Speaker 1: this week than we normally would. My pitch to Ariel,
32:06
Speaker 1: was that, you know, Space Jam combines the Looney Tunes
32:10
Speaker 1: characters with basketball, So I thought it'd be fun to
32:15
Speaker 1: combine some other group of cartoon characters with some other
32:18
Speaker 1: sport and talk about the movie that comes out because
32:22
Speaker 1: of that. And uh, we didn't really want to pick
32:24
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes and we didn't want to pick basketball. We
32:26
Speaker 1: wanted to pick two different things and say, what is
32:29
Speaker 1: that version that is akin to Space Jam? Ariel, would
32:34
Speaker 1: you want me to go first or would you prefer
32:36
Speaker 1: to go first? Um? I can go first. I will
32:41
Speaker 1: say that I'm sorry everybody. So I decided to do
32:45
Speaker 1: a direct sequel to Space Jam, dealing with the same aliens,
32:51
Speaker 1: but a different sport and a different cartoon group. And
32:55
Speaker 1: the cartoon group I picked. So if you're not familiar
32:58
Speaker 1: with the original Space Jam, there's this alien guy, Mr
33:01
Speaker 1: swag Camer, and he his attraction park more Mountainous failing,
33:06
Speaker 1: and so he wants to get the Looney Tunes as
33:10
Speaker 1: an attraction, and he sends some minions to Earth to
33:15
Speaker 1: get them, and then the Looney Tunes say, hey, you
33:18
Speaker 1: guys are tiny, so we'll go if you can beat
33:20
Speaker 1: us in basketball. But then the minions steal basketball players powers,
33:24
Speaker 1: and so the Looney Tunes get Michael Jordan to help
33:26
Speaker 1: them and it's a big ordeal and it's funny. It's
33:30
Speaker 1: it's like winner take all, winner gets to leave the
33:33
Speaker 1: prison dimension and um, spoiler alert, the Looney Tunes win, yes,
33:39
Speaker 1: but then you know, the minions get freed from Mr
33:42
Speaker 1: Swack camera in the end. And then the cartoon I
33:45
Speaker 1: picked was the Flint Stones because I figured after his
33:51
Speaker 1: run in with the Lindy Tunes, uh, he might he
33:55
Speaker 1: might go for some lower hanging fruit and the flint
33:57
Speaker 1: Stones that are about a prehistoric family and our friends, um,
34:01
Speaker 1: who have prehistoric modern conveniences, and then family there are
34:08
Speaker 1: modern Stone age family. Yes. And then my sport was
34:11
Speaker 1: curling because I thought that the flint Stones and the
34:16
Speaker 1: curling would be good curling. I was just about to
34:21
Speaker 1: say that curling is when it's a it's an ice sport.
34:25
Speaker 1: It's like, um, it's like the relaxing version of hockey.
34:32
Speaker 1: Maybe no, not even that. It's ice shuffleboard. Basically, so
34:35
Speaker 1: you have this stone called a rock. It's it's like
34:40
Speaker 1: a giant puck and someone pushes it down this lane
34:43
Speaker 1: and tries to get it into a a target, and
34:48
Speaker 1: everybody else on the team has brooms that are called brushes.
34:51
Speaker 1: Their ice rooms are called brushes, and they brush the
34:54
Speaker 1: ice in front of the stone to try to get
34:55
Speaker 1: the ice to melt and veer the stone to land
34:59
Speaker 1: directly in this center of the target. So it's also
35:01
Speaker 1: a little bit like darts, um, and it's I love it.
35:05
Speaker 1: I actually really enjoyed curling. I really enjoy hockey. Um.
35:09
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you any of the people who play it,
35:11
Speaker 1: but I enjoyed the sport. But the game can take
35:13
Speaker 1: like three hours because you're just throwing a rock down
35:18
Speaker 1: some ice and then brushing the ice and trying to
35:20
Speaker 1: get the ice to melt to get the rock into
35:22
Speaker 1: the target. So that's what curling is. Um. So you
35:27
Speaker 1: guys are in for a a slow, slippery ride. Uh.
35:34
Speaker 1: So this is Space Jam three. Mr Swackhammer's Revenge. Mr
35:39
Speaker 1: Swackhammer is at it again. Having lost his his star
35:42
Speaker 1: attraction and his minions, he has at a loss for
35:45
Speaker 1: how to keep his park more on Mountain Afloat, I mean, briefly,
35:49
Speaker 1: the infamy of his Monstars versus the Loony Tunes brought
35:52
Speaker 1: some people in, but that was short lived, and his
35:54
Speaker 1: interim employee, Gazoo, just didn't fall in line and he
35:57
Speaker 1: had to get rid of them. Mr Swacker had just
36:00
Speaker 1: finished up his free trial of HBO Max to try
36:03
Speaker 1: to keep tabs on the Looney Tunes, which is how
36:06
Speaker 1: he learned about the flint Stones. They were the perfect
36:10
Speaker 1: new attraction idea. They weren't too up to date on
36:13
Speaker 1: modern technology, so they shouldn't be able to fight back.
36:16
Speaker 1: They were mostly out of work. They were outdated enough
36:19
Speaker 1: that Earth wouldn't care, but just still relevant to bring
36:22
Speaker 1: in some space tourists. Surely they would be easy to
36:25
Speaker 1: dupe into coming back with him and putting in long,
36:27
Speaker 1: underpaid hours of work at Moron Mountain. So Mr Swackhammer
36:32
Speaker 1: packed up and went to Earth back in time and
36:34
Speaker 1: found Fred and Barney at the Water Buffaloes Lodge. Swackhammer
36:38
Speaker 1: quickly convinced them to pack up their families and travel
36:41
Speaker 1: to space in the future with him with a bunch
36:42
Speaker 1: of empty promises on how they had risen to immense
36:45
Speaker 1: fame and fortune and would be treated like stars. Barney
36:48
Speaker 1: and Fred went home and apprised their wives and kids
36:50
Speaker 1: of the news, but Benny and Wilma, being the smarter
36:52
Speaker 1: of the couples, decided to talk to their only other
36:55
Speaker 1: alien they had ever met, the Great Gazoo, who had
36:58
Speaker 1: been banished to Earth in the Stone Age, and they
37:02
Speaker 1: wanted to get his whole take on the thing. And
37:04
Speaker 1: that's when they found out all about Mr Swackhammer. You see,
37:07
Speaker 1: the Great Gazoo was actually a former employee at more
37:09
Speaker 1: in Mountain and was banished to Earth by Mr Swackhammer
37:11
Speaker 1: in an attempt to not pay the Great Gazoo severance
37:15
Speaker 1: when he was let go. It was a low down,
37:17
Speaker 1: dirty trick, and the Gazoo was certain that whisking the
37:19
Speaker 1: Flintstones and rebels away to the future was a low down,
37:22
Speaker 1: dirty trick too. Knowing of the former running with the
37:25
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes, the Great Gazoo figured out the Flintstones could
37:28
Speaker 1: get out of their gentleman's agreement with Mr Swackhammer by
37:31
Speaker 1: doing something similar. They should challenge Mr Swaghammer to his sport,
37:36
Speaker 1: and without his nerd lux, Mr Swackhamer's minions, Mr Swackhammer
37:41
Speaker 1: would be out of luck. Fred and Barney and family
37:44
Speaker 1: went to confront Mr s and challenged him to their
37:46
Speaker 1: new favorite sport. Curling. It was all the rage. Mr
37:50
Speaker 1: Swackhammer agreed on the condition that he could call in
37:52
Speaker 1: his own team and the match was on. Unfortunately, Mr
37:56
Speaker 1: Swackhammer misheard the name of the sport and thought it
37:59
Speaker 1: was curly and ended up abducting weird Al Yankovic, Carrot Top,
38:03
Speaker 1: and Curly from the three stooges for his team the
38:06
Speaker 1: day of the because they all have curly hair. The
38:09
Speaker 1: day of the match arrived and everyone showed up on
38:11
Speaker 1: the ice, but of course, since Mr Swackhammer misheard the challenge,
38:14
Speaker 1: none of his players were prepared. While Bam Bam was
38:17
Speaker 1: tossing the rock flawlessly down the curling sheet with pebbles
38:20
Speaker 1: and Dieto mannying the brushes getting point after point, weird
38:23
Speaker 1: I was lost in thought trying to figure out a
38:25
Speaker 1: parody song about the whole ordeal, and Carrot Top kept
38:28
Speaker 1: trying to pick up the stone for prop comedy. Curly,
38:32
Speaker 1: it turns out, was really good at curling and was
38:34
Speaker 1: able to keep the game tied until it came time
38:37
Speaker 1: to throw the hammer the last rock, when he slipped
38:40
Speaker 1: and fell, knocking himself out with the rock. After an
38:42
Speaker 1: excruciating three hours, the flint Stones had won the match.
38:46
Speaker 1: The minor celebrities were sent back to their times, and
38:49
Speaker 1: the Great gad Zoo took Mr Swackhamer ship back to
38:51
Speaker 1: Moura Mountain to become the new CEO, leaving Mr Swackhammer
38:55
Speaker 1: to live in the Stone Age working at the rock
38:56
Speaker 1: Quarries forever. Amazing, amazing. All right, Well, I have never
39:03
Speaker 1: seen space jam, so I created my mash up based
39:08
Speaker 1: on the very limited, almost free of context understanding I had.
39:13
Speaker 1: And so, uh, the the combination I chose were the
39:17
Speaker 1: Snorks and Snooker, so it's called Snorker. But but let
39:24
Speaker 1: me explain what these are for people who may not know.
39:27
Speaker 1: The Snorks were a cartoon series from the mid nineteen eighties,
39:31
Speaker 1: and they were created essentially to compete against the Smurfs.
39:36
Speaker 1: The producer who had brought the Smurfs to television was
39:40
Speaker 1: having these financial disputes with the artist who originally created
39:44
Speaker 1: the Smurfs, and he was left thinking, man, I sure
39:47
Speaker 1: would love to have a cartoon product that doesn't go
39:51
Speaker 1: back to someone else's intellectual property so that I could
39:53
Speaker 1: keep all the moneys. And so we get the Storks,
39:56
Speaker 1: which are essentially underwater Smurfs that have a little snor
40:00
Speaker 1: called popping out of the top of their head um.
40:03
Speaker 1: So the snorks are very similar to the Smurfs, except
40:07
Speaker 1: that there's no gargamel type villain. The villains and the
40:10
Speaker 1: snorts are usually other villainous snorks or magical seaweed or
40:15
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But anyway, that's all you really need
40:18
Speaker 1: to know. Then. Snooker it's kind of similar to billiards,
40:22
Speaker 1: so it's played on a table. It's larger than a
40:26
Speaker 1: pool table. It's got a table with six pockets. There's
40:30
Speaker 1: a que ball, and then there are twenty one other
40:33
Speaker 1: balls of various colors. Most of them are red, and
40:36
Speaker 1: generally speaking, the way you play is on your turn
40:40
Speaker 1: you try to sink or pot a red ball and
40:44
Speaker 1: then you choose one of the other colors to sink,
40:48
Speaker 1: and that determines how many points you get for that play.
40:51
Speaker 1: If you do sink that ball, you keep going to
40:53
Speaker 1: all the red balls are gone. And there's a lot
40:55
Speaker 1: more to it, but trust me, I was in England
40:57
Speaker 1: and I watched about twenty hours of this sport on
41:00
Speaker 1: TV and I still don't understand it, but I feel
41:02
Speaker 1: like I'm closer to it than cricket, So that's why
41:05
Speaker 1: I went with it. All right, none of this is
41:07
Speaker 1: really gonna matter from my mashup, by the way, all right,
41:09
Speaker 1: here we go Snorker. The main character is all Star Seaworthy,
41:15
Speaker 1: who was the main protagonist in The Snorks. All Star
41:19
Speaker 1: Seaworthy has a problem. His uncle, Dr Galio Seaworthy has
41:24
Speaker 1: gone missing, and the resident mad scientist, doctor Strange Snork,
41:30
Speaker 1: brother to Galleo, seems pretty happy about it. All Star
41:34
Speaker 1: tries to investigate his uncle's disappearance, but he keeps hitting
41:37
Speaker 1: roadblocks or ocean blocks or something. Anyway, Strange Snork is
41:43
Speaker 1: being awfully cocky about the whole thing. While seeking clues,
41:47
Speaker 1: All Star comes across something really weird, a mysterious whirlpool
41:51
Speaker 1: that descends into a portal. He and his friends Dimmy
41:54
Speaker 1: and Casey also Snorts, get caught up in the current,
41:58
Speaker 1: and while they make a valiant effort to ask eight,
42:00
Speaker 1: they're ultimately swallowed up by the portal and they find
42:03
Speaker 1: themselves in outer space. Um, not our version of outer space,
42:10
Speaker 1: but the surface world which the Snorks call outer space. However,
42:16
Speaker 1: they can breathe, and they look different, as if hand
42:18
Speaker 1: drawn animation had somehow transformed into c g I characters.
42:22
Speaker 1: In this realm, they quickly encounter an odd person who
42:26
Speaker 1: themselves calls themselves the Master of Ceremonies. This character is
42:31
Speaker 1: of course played by Tilda Swinton, the androgynous MC. Hence
42:35
Speaker 1: that Dr Galleo is nearby. But in order to see him,
42:39
Speaker 1: the three friends will have to enter into a tournament
42:42
Speaker 1: playing an odd game snooker, and so begins space pot Okay,
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Speaker 1: well that's a terrible name, but but potting is what
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Speaker 1: you call it when you sink a ball and snooker
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Speaker 1: and they're in outer space. Okay. Anyway, they enter the
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Speaker 1: tournament and they go up against celebrity snooker play years
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Speaker 1: real and animated like Snoopy and Fu Fu the Snoo
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Speaker 1: from Dr Seuss and of course Snooky from the Jersey Shore. Also,
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Speaker 1: there are other celebrity types they're playing in the tournament,
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Speaker 1: like Kevin Hart and Robert Downey Jr. Lynn Manuel, Miranda
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Speaker 1: gal Gadot and Meryl Streep. Jimmy gets knocked out early
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Speaker 1: despite his athletic skill, he gets too hyped up and disqualified.
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Speaker 1: That's a bad miss, says one of the commentators on
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Speaker 1: the tournament. Casey lasts a bit longer, but ultimately is
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Speaker 1: defeated by a mysterious cloaked opponent. All Star makes it
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Speaker 1: to the top of his bracket and thus faces off
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Speaker 1: against the cloaked one in the final, and the cloaked
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Speaker 1: one uncloaks and it's professional snooker player Mark Selby, the
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Speaker 1: jester from Lester. The commentators are going wild, but pretty
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Speaker 1: much all the celebrities and stores are like, who's this guy?
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Speaker 1: Because they're all American, we don't know snooger players. The
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Speaker 1: audience is probably the same way, unless they happen to
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Speaker 1: be English and follow snooker. What follows is an incredibly
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Speaker 1: competitive snooker match, with Selby playing extremely well and it
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Speaker 1: looks like All Star will lose until Casey encourages him
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Speaker 1: to set aside the Q stick and use his snorkel instead.
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Speaker 1: He does so and pulls off an insane trick shot
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Speaker 1: that helps him gain the upper hand, defeating Selby and
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Speaker 1: dooming him to the Great Punishment, which we don't see
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Speaker 1: but it sounds really really painful offscreen. Having won the tournament,
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Speaker 1: Tilda Swinton returns and rewards All Star by bringing Dr
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Speaker 1: Galileo to him, and it seems that Dr Galleo was
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Speaker 1: studying the anomaly back under the ocean and determined that
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Speaker 1: it was the work of Strange Snork before he was
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Speaker 1: sucked into it. So the Snorks say their goodbyes and
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Speaker 1: they returned to where they entered to the Strange world.
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Speaker 1: Dr Galleo is able to reverse the portal using some
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Speaker 1: cool outer space technology that is surface world technology, and
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Speaker 1: they return home. Galleo seals the portal on the ocean side.
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Speaker 1: Then they all had to give doctor Strange Snork a
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Speaker 1: firm talking to as Strange Snork, as lectured at All Star,
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Speaker 1: heads off to build the first underwater snooker table the end.
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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. I also learned that a lot
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Speaker 1: of Hollywood is interested in snooker apparently, well in my
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Speaker 1: movie they are. Do you think Bill Murray is a
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Speaker 1: basketball player? Come on, you know, I would not put
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Speaker 1: it past him. He's a golfer, although he did say
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Speaker 1: like being in the new Ghostbuster movies was very physically taxing,
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Speaker 1: so maybe not. He was playing golf in space jam. Okay, again,
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Speaker 1: have you not seen it? I'm just grasping at what
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Speaker 1: little context I have from memes he and Michael Jordan's
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Speaker 1: and others were playing golf and Michael Jordan's got sucked
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Speaker 1: down a hole to help the Looney Tunes gotcha? Well,
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