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Blade Mother · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: The large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast is a production of my
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  Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi everybody, welcome to the large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how I'm very excited we
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  Speaker 1: are about them. I'm Ariel casting, and with me is
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  Speaker 1: the I don't know. I don't have a good subtitle
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  Speaker 1: for him this time, So just you know, the awesome
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm here with a corny copeia of geeky news.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I gifted all of my creativity to
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  Speaker 1: you for that. It was a generous gift, and in return,
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  Speaker 1: I have a gift for you, Ariel. It's a question, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we are in the thankful season here in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and so my question to you is, what
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  Speaker 1: is something geeky for which you are thankful? Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the ones you should have given me
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  Speaker 1: a UM heads up on, Jonathan, just because I am
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  Speaker 1: thankful for so many geeky things. Well, that should make
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  Speaker 1: it easy. You just pick one. Okay, Yeah, but you
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  Speaker 1: know what's the worst thing for me? Decision making? Uh? Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think this year specifically, Um, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: really thankful that I was able to spend an early
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving with my family, and that I'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: spend Thanksgiving proper with a bunch of my geeky friends
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  Speaker 1: playing geeky games. You know, we didn't get to do
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  Speaker 1: that last year. They're all vaccinated, they're all being super careful.
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  Speaker 1: We're you know, we we put kind of rules in
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  Speaker 1: place so that this would be a safe gathering. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just excited to see all these faces and I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen in a good while. Um, So that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm most thankful for. Uh. I guess secondly would just
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  Speaker 1: be um that we're finally getting new geek media back,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not watching reruns of everything, although I do
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  Speaker 1: like watching reruns what about You. I was gonna say
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  Speaker 1: I was thankful for larger or drunk Collider and getting
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  Speaker 1: a chance to do a show with one of my
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  Speaker 1: best friends in the world. But that all sounds good too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course, I'm thankful for large er drunk
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  Speaker 1: Collider and doing a show with my best friend. You
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  Speaker 1: know that that's a given, But you know, it is
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  Speaker 1: thankful season, and I should say that more often. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thankful for you, Jonathan. I'm thankful for passive aggressive attacks
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  Speaker 1: that get exactly what I want. Also, I'm thankful for
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  Speaker 1: you Ariel Chucks. Well, I'm glad. And now that we've
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  Speaker 1: probably turned to everybody's systomachs with our sweet thankfulness, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about some news yea, or or do you have
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  Speaker 1: something else that you're actually thankful for that you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to do? You know what, I'm thankful for lots of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm thankful for the fact that things things in
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  Speaker 1: the geek sphere are I think changing for the better
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  Speaker 1: like I used to, you know I could. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I come from the seventies and eighties, right those are
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  Speaker 1: That's when I was growing up, and during that time
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  Speaker 1: there was this sort of idolization of nerd um that
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  Speaker 1: was a very negative stereotype actually, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: also by extension, promoted other negative stereotypes things that I
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  Speaker 1: think were ultimately harmful. And nostalgia often makes us view
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  Speaker 1: those things and not realize sort of the harm that
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  Speaker 1: they potentially could cause. And as we grow more aware
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  Speaker 1: of that and we start to build the geek properties
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  Speaker 1: of the future, we can do so with more of
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  Speaker 1: of awareness about that sort of stuff, and to make
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  Speaker 1: things that people can love and people can bond over,
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  Speaker 1: and people can be passionate about and excited about that
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  Speaker 1: don't have those kind of harmful edges to them that
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  Speaker 1: exclude others or they other other people. Right, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: think about all the stuff in the eighties, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's just so much of that content that was presented
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  Speaker 1: as mainstream entertainment that was harmful in some way or another.
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  Speaker 1: I am just glad to see that kind of go away.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that gets a little soapboxy, but it
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  Speaker 1: just it's nice to be able to go to bed
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day thinking about the geeky
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  Speaker 1: stuff you love and not feel gross about it. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 1: I get that, you know, And and it can be
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  Speaker 1: a little soapboxy certainly, and can certainly seem that way
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  Speaker 1: to some people. But on the largeneration and clider, we
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  Speaker 1: are and always have been about, you know, the geeky
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  Speaker 1: things that everybody loves and that doesn't fit into one
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  Speaker 1: tiny box, and it should be we should sure that
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  Speaker 1: love with everybody so and make make them feel accepted
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  Speaker 1: the way that we feel accepted. So I do want
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  Speaker 1: to throw in one more thing. I think our producer
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  Speaker 1: Tari is going to be thankful for this episode because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to keep it shorter um so that she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to work over the Thanksgiving holiday. So just
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  Speaker 1: to give you all heads up on that, yes, we
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  Speaker 1: are we are going to cut out what would normally
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  Speaker 1: be the middle section. Just assume that we talked about
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  Speaker 1: something geeky and I spent the entire time complaining, and
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  Speaker 1: now let's go to the news, all right. So the
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  Speaker 1: first thing that we wanted to talk about was this
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  Speaker 1: Spider Man No Way Home trailer that dropped last week,
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  Speaker 1: well while Jonathan was in Disney or on his way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure about the timing um and our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on it, So I will let you go first. Jonathan.
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  Speaker 1: Have you watched it and what are your thoughts? I
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  Speaker 1: did watch it. I thought it was entertaining. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it. This one clearly goes beyond the surprise. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe they did that element of
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  Speaker 1: the initial teaser where we got to see Doc Cock
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  Speaker 1: then we got to had a had a teaser of
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  Speaker 1: a of a pumpkin bomb um, but this time we
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  Speaker 1: actually see villains. Uh, fully like we see Electro, we
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  Speaker 1: see dot Cock, we see Green Goblin, we see the Lizard,
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  Speaker 1: and there's more excellent Sandman. It was Sandman in it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even see him. I thought, maybe may it's
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  Speaker 1: entirely possible, but I didn't notice him. But that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean he wasn't there. But you know, we and there
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  Speaker 1: was confirmation that Willem Dafoe is is Green Goblin and
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  Speaker 1: that uh Marvel Slash Sony kept it secret to the
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  Speaker 1: point that that Spidy himself wasn't aware that William Dafoe
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  Speaker 1: was in the movie. Well, I mean that's it's funny
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  Speaker 1: to me because on the one hand, we know that
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  Speaker 1: Tom Holland is notoriously bad at keeping secrets. Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been in the news. Tom Holland, uh, for
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  Speaker 1: those people who don't follow super closely, is the guy
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  Speaker 1: who plays Spider Man. And yeah, you just you tell
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  Speaker 1: him what's happening, and he's going to accidentally say something
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  Speaker 1: about it he shouldn't say. It's happened multiple times in
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  Speaker 1: interviews and things like that. It's why they always pair
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  Speaker 1: him with someone else, typically Benedict cumber Batch, to kind
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  Speaker 1: of be the babysitter. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's an adult,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo ends up getting the
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  Speaker 1: same treatment, by the way, because he has the same issue, which,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I get it. You're excited about it, you know. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny because a lot of us assumed that
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  Speaker 1: it was already happening. So I wonder how many fans
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  Speaker 1: figured it out before Tom Holland. Um, well, well there
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  Speaker 1: were there were people who suggested that perhaps the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Green Goblin was provided by James Franco as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to William Dafoe. But the Green Goblin's son in yes,
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  Speaker 1: in the Toby Acquired, So it looks like it looks
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  Speaker 1: like that's uh, you know. Now we we can say
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  Speaker 1: for certain that Willam Dafoe is in it as Green Goblin,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. I mean, it's it's interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: the trailer. I'm excited to see it. I am curious
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  Speaker 1: if this is really going to be the last Tom
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  Speaker 1: Holland as Peter Parker Spider Man movie. That's been hinted
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times, um, with Tom Holland himself saying
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  Speaker 1: it might be time for Miles Morales to pick up
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  Speaker 1: the Mantle, but I mean there's no I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: any confirmation on that. I mean, I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: will till after this movie because they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: spoil the end. Right. So a couple of things. At one.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, I'm really excited to get to
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  Speaker 1: see a revised version of Electro played by Jamie Fox,
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  Speaker 1: because that got panned in the second Andrew Garfield Spider Man.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrible, That's why I didn't watch it. But
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  Speaker 1: a great actor, and so I'm excited to give him
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  Speaker 1: another chance to play this villain in um the series
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  Speaker 1: that maybe handles the villains a little bit better. Um,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll have to see, you know. I am all
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  Speaker 1: for Miles Morales movie. Um, super you know, I loved
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  Speaker 1: into the Spider Ver and I you can only watch
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Ben die so many times? Right. I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: this current iteration of Spider Man didn't really start there
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  Speaker 1: because we've seen it enough. Um. But on the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: like I want Miles Morales. On the other hand, I
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  Speaker 1: want a happy ending to this movie. I don't. The
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  Speaker 1: thing I like about the current Spider Man movies is
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  Speaker 1: they're so much fun, and I don't want this one
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  Speaker 1: to be super bleak. Yeah. Well, I mean there are
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  Speaker 1: definitely some Spider Man storylines in the comics, and I know,
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  Speaker 1: you know this areal that have bummer endings, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: have to see it. Would it would surprise me if
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  Speaker 1: they left this on a sad note. I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: might be kind of a bitter sweet one where Peter
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  Speaker 1: Parker has decided to hang up the suit or something.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll just have to wait and see. One
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  Speaker 1: thing we don't have to wait and see anymore is
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  Speaker 1: Ghostbusters Afterlife, because that's out in theaters now, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it did fairly well on its opening weekend. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: made two million less than the two thousand sixteen all
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  Speaker 1: female version of Ghostbusters, but it also cost a fraction
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  Speaker 1: of the cost to make it so well. And also
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  Speaker 1: the two thousand and sixteen Ghostbusters came out in a
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  Speaker 1: year that didn't have a pandemic. That's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Um So I was kind of worried because all of
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  Speaker 1: the like pre reviews of Ghostbusters After Life were saying like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this either this is not great and they missed the mark,
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  Speaker 1: or oh it was good until it wasn't. Um I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet I have you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna haven't gone to the theater for it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we might. I might get some friends to rent like
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  Speaker 1: a theater room for it, but um not before I
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  Speaker 1: have a bunch of people over for Thanksgiving. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, how much of that is critical
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  Speaker 1: and how much of that is people who truly truly
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  Speaker 1: love Ghostbusters. And it seems to people that truly love
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  Speaker 1: Ghostbusters truly love this movie, and that makes me happy. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I was okay with it. I mean, I had some skepticism,
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  Speaker 1: and then I watched Red Letter Media do their half
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  Speaker 1: in the bag on Ghostbusters, and their critique kind of
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  Speaker 1: falls in line with stuff I was afraid about. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not to say that they're right, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: to say that I won't enjoy it, but I I
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  Speaker 1: worry because I tend to have very similar perspectives on
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  Speaker 1: things as the Red Letter Media folks, and so watching that,
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  Speaker 1: I I am a little I'm a little anxious about
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  Speaker 1: seeing it. Uh. It to me sounds like the last
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  Speaker 1: third of the movie might get a little too reference heavy,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where it might be identical to the
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  Speaker 1: ending of the first movie. But but I haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know. Um, some people waste it will
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  Speaker 1: say time is cyclical, so it's just time forgo. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to something where like they're big critique,
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  Speaker 1: and this is something I can get behind, is that
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  Speaker 1: the original Ghostbusters is a comedy film. It's it's a
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  Speaker 1: sin cool movie about some shlubs who essentially become exterminators.
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  Speaker 1: And that nostalgia was totally antithetical to kind of the
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  Speaker 1: the humor of the first movie. So it's weird to
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  Speaker 1: have a movie that's so heavily dependent upon nostalgia as
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  Speaker 1: part of the value proposition of the film. And and
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  Speaker 1: I can totally get behind that sort of idea that now,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that if you watched it and you
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it, you were wrong. I hope everyone who saw
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  Speaker 1: it really enjoyed it, because I'd rather people have a
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  Speaker 1: good time at the movies. I just have a feeling
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going to have a similar reaction to the
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  Speaker 1: red letter media guys. Gotcha, gotcha? Well, we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: watch it and then talk about it after we do,
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  Speaker 1: because I will be curious. Let me ask you a question,
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  Speaker 1: arial this isn't this isn't an official question question, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to play the music. But uh, when
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  Speaker 1: is a zombie movie not a zombie movie when it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: machines instead of organic life. Yeah, there you go. You
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  Speaker 1: just described the Blood to Mother Slash Android. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: glad you said that, because Yeah, this is a thriller
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  Speaker 1: fantasy trailer that just came out. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a Hulu original. It comes out on December UM and
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  Speaker 1: it features Chloe Grace Morritt's, Algie Smith and Ral Castillo.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, yeah, I like sci fi,
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  Speaker 1: I like androids. I've I've read, you know, I Robot
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  Speaker 1: and Asimov's thesis on Artificial Intelligence. And I'm like I
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  Speaker 1: could see, you know, we've seen plenty of stuff where
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  Speaker 1: that goes wrong. This is going to be something new
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  Speaker 1: and fun. And yeah, it looks like twenty eight days
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  Speaker 1: later are walking Dead with androids? Yeah? No, it it
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  Speaker 1: evokes so much zombie movie imagery that it just feels
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  Speaker 1: like there are zombiescept except days androids. That's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it. That's not to say that the people working
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  Speaker 1: on it did a bad job. It's not. The trailer
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  Speaker 1: looks good the acting might be amazing, but it does
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  Speaker 1: feel like this could easily have been a zombie movie,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact is a zombie movie, but for you know,
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  Speaker 1: with a little flip of a switch, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: we just changed the zombies to androids and and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Like the premise appears to be that, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: made androids to help do menial tasks. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to come back to play when we get to our
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  Speaker 1: meshups after the break. And then, uh, then one day
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  Speaker 1: they just all the androids snapped and became these kind
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  Speaker 1: of killing machines that were just hunting down and eliminating humans.
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  Speaker 1: And the characters in the movie are a young couple
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  Speaker 1: expecting their first child and they are trying to to
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  Speaker 1: make it from the middle of the Eastern Seaboard is
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  Speaker 1: what looks like up to Boston, where apparently the humans
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  Speaker 1: have established a sanctuary. So that's the plot. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like if you watch that trailer, you're gonna think, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is a zombie movie. It also gave me a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of like the stand vibe with the trying
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  Speaker 1: to go across country while pregnant. Um. It also gave
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit of a vibe of a quiet
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  Speaker 1: place because the way to avoid the robot zombies is
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  Speaker 1: to be quiet. And the mom and that was also pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a bit of a Children of Men thing
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  Speaker 1: going in there too, right, Like there's there's there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of yeah you have you have in our notes,
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  Speaker 1: a mix of so many games, but really it's a
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  Speaker 1: mix of so many tropes. Doesn't Again, that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be bad. It just means that it's
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  Speaker 1: going over some very familiar territory and we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sold on it because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the movie already. But um, I'll wait and here,
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  Speaker 1: actually I'll have to wait. I don't have HULO anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, So that that wraps up our news
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  Speaker 1: because we need to go take a break and then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and we're gonna be some smashing
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  Speaker 1: ups of a a une inexplicably popular sitcom and hey,
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  Speaker 1: stalwart foundational science fiction film. But we'll do that after
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  Speaker 1: we come back from this break. Okay, So, as Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: alluded to before the break, we are mashing up the
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  Speaker 1: inexplicably popular sitcom that Jonathan is talking about is How
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  Speaker 1: I Met Your Mother. And the reason that we're mashing
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  Speaker 1: that up is because there's a spinoff that we're getting
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  Speaker 1: called How I Met Your Father, um, which sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it follows exactly the same idea as the first one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a woman is sitting down talking to her
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  Speaker 1: children about how she met her their dad in the
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  Speaker 1: year with her close friends, with all of the craziness
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  Speaker 1: of dating in the current age. So that's what that
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  Speaker 1: was like How I Met your Mother, And so I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's what this new one will be to just reverse.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be on Hulu, so again, I won't be
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  Speaker 1: watching it, but that's okay because I wouldn't be watching
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  Speaker 1: it anyway. I think as my mashup unfolds, you will
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  Speaker 1: understand my thoughts about the original How I Met Your Mother. Yeah, So,
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  Speaker 1: so that that series, in case you had never seen it,
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  Speaker 1: really it was it was more like it was more
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  Speaker 1: like Friends, right. It was more like a series like Friends,
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  Speaker 1: where it's a group of friends and their personal lives
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  Speaker 1: and how they intertwined with each other and how their
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  Speaker 1: friends their friendship was one of there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of meanness in their friendship, like people were pretty mean
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  Speaker 1: to each other, uh in in that group of friends,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where I was like, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: i'd want to be friends with any of these people. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's it's um a generational thing though,
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  Speaker 1: because this show did come out years ago at this point,
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  Speaker 1: which is ridiculous to me, but it did, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I remember my friends and I used to be
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  Speaker 1: jokingly mean to each other. We're a lot nicer now
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  Speaker 1: because we've we've grown and we've matured, um, and we've
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  Speaker 1: decided to tell each other how much we appreciate each
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  Speaker 1: other instead of ragging on each other. I think the
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  Speaker 1: slap bed alone kind of sums it all up for me, see,
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  Speaker 1: but I kind of it is funny to me. I
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  Speaker 1: think because I've you know, improv friends, they can they
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: can get kind of a whack of do and I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: can relate a little bit to me to to it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So you know, I've never slapped somebody, but like I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: do watch slaps giving often on Thanksgiving because it's it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: funny to me, and in the end they kind of
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: come back together. So I don't know, I think the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: idea of finding great joy and being able to slap
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: someone as hard as you possibly can, just it strikes
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: it hits just the wrong nerve. It will never be charming,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: it will never be funny. So I I definitely have
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a grudge against How I Met Your Mother, and I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: fully admit it, and it is apparent in my mashup.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It is interesting because it is based on a group
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: of friends who are still friends and good friends. UM,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But I do I will be interested to see how
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: they change. Because I watched all of How I Met
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: your Mother, I will probably watch How I Met your Father, um,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and I will be interested to see how they change
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to fit today's sensibilities. Yeah. And one other thing I
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: want to point out, because this is important for my
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: mash up people need to understand is that, uh, one
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: of the things that really bugged me about the series
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: is the premise is it's the dad telling his kids
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: about their mom who has passed away and in fact
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: passed away when they were much younger, and he's telling
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: them the story about how the two of them met.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: But in fact, once you get through the nine seasons
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of How I Met your Mother, the actual mother character
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: is very much a minor character in that series, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: ultimately it becomes a rug pull at the end where
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it's not really how I met your mother, it's really, hey,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: i'd really like to ask your aunt out on a date.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Would you guys be cool with that? A lot of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: people had issue with that? Yeah? Yeah, um, a lot
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of people an issue with that. Okay. So the other
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: thing that we're matching up is something we have talked
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: about before but not in this context, which is blade Runner.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And that's because we have found out that Ridley Scott
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: has written a blade Runner TV show and bible or
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a pilot and bible for a blade Runner TV show
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: that is going to be a ten part series and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they're going to pitch it. And so maybe now on
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: top of an Aliens series for I guess Hulu is
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: where we're getting Aliens, we might get a blade Runner
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: series somewhere. Yeah. And so blade Runner, in case you're
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: not familiar, again classic science fiction film that's based off
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a story called do Android's Dream of Electric Sheet, and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: it's a story about a retired police officer that a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: specific type of police officer called a blade Runner, and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a blade Runner's job is to identify and track down
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and quote unquote retire replicants Replicants are synthetic humanoids. They
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they look just like people, but they might have greater
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: strength and speed and ability to tolerate pain and that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And they were specifically designed to do
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: stuff like heavy labor and to replace humans into doing
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: heavy labor. They are given a very limited lifespan of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: just four years. And the story of Blade Runner is
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: that after there was a replicant uprising, Earth passed a
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: law that said replicants are not allowed on planet Earth
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: because it's too dangerous, so they should only be used
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: in off world, you know, mining colonies and that kind
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: of stuff. But four replicants have escaped and have come
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to Earth, and so decored Rick Deckered, the Blade Runner
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: is brought back in service to track down the four
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: replicants on the run and to retire them. That's the story.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So we're going to mash those up. Um, and I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: will say, as as cranky as Jonathan is about how
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I met your mother, Uh, the idea of this mashup
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: did make him almost spit out coffee that he said
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he drank three hours earlier, so maybe that was vomiting,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and so he was really upset about this idea. But
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it couldn't could be a little bit of both. Yeah,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I like to. I mean, I don't know if you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: titled yours how I Met your Replicant, but that's how
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I titled mine. No, that's not But do you want
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to go first? Since we have your title? Sure, sure,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Mine's a short one. And again, my apologies because I
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't resist throwing in all my criticisms into a mash
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: up that's supposed to be funny. Here we go, How
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I Met Your Replicant. Rick Deckard has a problem. His
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: two kids have no idea about their own history and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: seemed completely uninterested in it, which can mean only one thing.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: It's time to set them down on the couch and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: spend the following nine years explaining how he met their replicant.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I mean mother, Yeah, mother. Now, obviously this is going
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to pose some problems, like by the end of the story,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the kids won't be kids anymore, they'll actually be adults.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But don't worry. We'll just take some video at the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: beginning of the story, and we'll just reuse that video
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: multiple times throughout the rest of the story, because otherwise
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to recast Deckard's kids and that's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. I just don't want to get into anyway.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Rick explains that it all started when Rick's friend Roy
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Batty told Rick he's going to propose to his longtime
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: girlfriend Chris. And by a longtime girlfriend, I mean they've
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: known each other for like a few months, because Roy
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and Prince are both replicants and they have a limited
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: lifespan of just four years. But that's not important for
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: this story. That's what we call a tangent. And you
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: know what, this story is actually gonna be filled with
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of tangents, because you could argue convincingly that
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the entirety of the story is really just tangents that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: are strung along as a massive red herring, and that
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: ultimately the ending as a rug pole for the audience,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and that the entire premise of the show is a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: false one. But I'm getting ahead of myself. No, the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: important part is that this got Rick to thinking about
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: love and to his own life and his rapidly diminishing
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: opportunity to find someone special of his own, and so
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: he sets out to find that someone special. Now, he
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: goes to meet with Taffy Lewis, the owner of the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: snake Pit Bar, but that ended up being a dead end.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: He and Taffy just were not compatible and Taffy had
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: no time for Deckord. So then Deckard goes out to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the Tyrrell Corporation and there he meets a series of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: different Nexus six models being prepared to ship off world.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: But that too is a problem because Deckard is an
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: earth boy and it's illegal to have replicants on Earth,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and you know, their enhanced abilities and crazy desire to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: live longer than four years are a problem. Also, while
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Deckord is not necessarily opposed to a relationship that lasts
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a relatively short time, having a four year hard out
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is even that's a bit much. So we follow Deckert
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: on his adventures as he meets various women, many of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: whom are at least some form of semi celebrity that
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the audience knows, and we learned that Deckard is a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: really crappy guy. I mean, for reals, he's a crappy,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: crappy dude. For one thing, He's neurotic as heck for another,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: places unrealistic expectations on every potential partner he encounters. And thirdly,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: he's telling his kids these stories about how he essentially
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: slept away his way around with most of the city
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: in a quest to find Mrs Wright. But ultimately Deckerd
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: meets this woman. She's named Rachel. She has an anachronistic
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: hair do and a limited emotional range, which really appeals
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to Deckard, and so the two start dating after Deckard
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: finds Rachel's light up umbrella. Oh, by the way, they
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: were like three years of stories that involved that umbrella
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and a series of like near misses between Deckard and Rachel,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: but honestly, they all bleed into each other and they
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: just get progressively more irritating. Anyway, we get to the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: point where Roy and Priss are supposed to marry, and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: decker weirdly enough, is meant to conduct the ceremony. So
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he gets to the vows and he turns to Prison.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: He says, do you take this man to be your
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: lawfully wedded husband? Even if you come across a tortoise
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in the desert that's on its back and you refuse
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to help it, and Press like totally flips out, like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: she she does not know how to handle this. So
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: then Deckerd turns to Roy and he says, and to you,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: But then Roy stops him and says, I've seen things
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: shoulder of Orion. I watched sea beams glitter in the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: dark near the tan Houser Gate. All those moments will
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: be lost in time like tears in rain. And then
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: deckerd remembers what his job is and he totally retires
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: prison Roy right then and there, which means he blasts him.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And then he heads back to Rachel, who was standing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: in the back, and then he realizes she's replicant too,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: so blam he retires her. And that's how I met
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: your replicate, he says to the kids. But hey, said
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the kids, none of that story is about us, Like
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: we didn't factor into that story at all, all right,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: says Deckard. Well, then I met your mother and we
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: totally did it and two were the result, but that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: didn't work out. I just didn't think your mother was
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: actually that important in this story, and so I was
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: wondering if you'd be cool if I asked out your
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: on on a date. And then the two kids blast
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Deckord the end for for a ranting mashup, that was
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: pretty funny, Jonathan, well done, Thank you Okay, well it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: time to do my mashup, but first let's take a break.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Mine is called Blade Mother. Oh I love the title,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's sadly the story is a lot more
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: How I Met Your Mother than Blade Runner. But we're
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna get into it. So the McLaren's bargain
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: was unhappy. You see, Ted Mosby wanted to get married,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: but every time he met a girl he liked and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: he not liked him back, she would inexplicably disappear. Marshall
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and Lily wanted to have a baby, but kept inexplicably
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: getting into fights when they didn't want to, and Robin
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: kept getting beat out for all of her newscasting jobs
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: by the same mystery person that she didn't know. Ted
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: thought about it and suspected replicants because Ted's a huge nerd,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and so the gang made a plan. They would all
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: find and defeat their replicant doppelgangers, which must be at
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the bottom of this, and then be able to move
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: on with their lives. The first person to find their
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: doppelganger was Robin. You see, turns out that this man
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: made version of her was applying for all the same
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: newscasting jobs and beating Robin out well. Because of this,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Robin knew she couldn't beat the replicant in the news arena,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: but she certainly could beat her in one other area,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and that was wilderness survival. Thanks to Robin's dad wanting
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a boy, being very tough on her and teaching her
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to survive in the worst conditions. So Robin lured replicant
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Robin into the wilderness. We don't know what happened, but
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: only the original Robin came out. The next person to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: find their replicate doppelganger was Marshall. To add insult to injury,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the replicated could grow this really cool mustache, and Marshall
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: just he had been trying for years but he couldn't.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Marshall did have one thing the replicant didn't have, though,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and that was a mighty slab. I know you're thinking
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to yourself, replicants are super strong. Of course they could slap,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: but they are not built for slapping. So Marshall reared
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: back and slapped the mustache right off his replicant counterpart,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: which he considered defeating the opponent. Because Marshall's a really
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: nice guy, so he hummed a little tune and went
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: on his merry way. Lily, however, uh is not as
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: nice and always want to keep up with her husband,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: found her doppelganger. Next. Her doppelganger was a dancer, and
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Lily was also an artist, but more of a painter.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: What Lily really had was her mastermind. She was conniving
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and she knew that her replicant really wanted to get
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: out of the dancing game, so she sent a fake
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: scholarship to an art school in Seattle to her replicant
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and sent her on her merry way, not caring what
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: happened once the replicate got to Seattle. She didn't need
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to think that far ahead. So once Lilian Marshall's replicants
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: were out of the way, they were off to bacon
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: babies all right. Next was Ted se Ted found his replicate,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: but his replicant was super cool. His replicate was a luchador,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and not just any luchador, but a lucha door that
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: wrestled robots, and Ted knew that he could never defeat
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: this robot wrestler and win. But that's when he saw it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: His old girlfriend Rachel, who was hanging on the side
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of the ring where replicate Luca Door Ted was, you see, replicant.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Ted had been stealing all of Ted's girlfriends for his own,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and Ted never knew it. So Ted did what he
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: could do, not wrestle robots, not wrestle lucha doors. He
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: went and he talked to Rachel. Rachel and Ted started
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: making googly eyes at each other and it distracted the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Lucha Door Ted and Luca Door replicant. Ted got beat
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: up by a robot, and ray Hill and Ted fell
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: in love and they ran off and got married. But
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: something still wasn't right with the gang. Why replicants for
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: all of them and why all at the same time.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: So they investigated, and they traced out clues and they
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: followed them back to a one Barney Stinson, who was
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of it all. You see, Barney was
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: upset from being outed from their friends group because he
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: was super tached, lecherous, and self centered, and so he
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: hired a science company to make replicas of all his friends.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: But what Barney didn't expect was that these replicas would
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: be their own people and have their own lives and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: their own thoughts. He thought they would be exactly his friends,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and he was wrong. The gang at finding this out,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: of course, was livid. Marshall was so angry he raised
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: his mighty slapping hand and, with the might of a
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: thousand Minnesota Winters, slapped Barney's face so hard that all
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of the evil, evil, horrible things were slapped out of him.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Or were they? No, they were? Or were they anyhow?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The gang didn't know, but they were always quick to forgive.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So they headed down to make Clarence bar to grabage
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: rate and promptly forgot about the ordeal, and everyone lived
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: happily ever after, even Ted, who never realized Rachel was
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: also a replicant. The end also was Thanksgiving. I wanted
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to make it. Oh yeah, and it was Thanksgiving. And
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that concludes our Thanksgiving special of large Nurgron Collider. You
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: can put it right up there with things like Charlie Brown.
• 32:23
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• 32:27
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• 32:29
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• 32:33
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• 32:37
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• 32:42
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• 32:45
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• 32:48
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• 32:51
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• 32:55
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