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  Speaker 1: The Large New Drunk Collador Podcast is a production of
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  Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large New
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  Speaker 1: Drunk Collator Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky
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  Speaker 1: things happening in the world around us and how very
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  Speaker 1: excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Casting and with me,
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  Speaker 1: as always is the dulcic lee toned Jonathan Strickland. Why
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Ariel, And in return, I have a question
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  Speaker 1: for you. Okay, Ariel, you're a superhero. We already knew that,
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  Speaker 1: but no, you're a superhero. What does your mild manner
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  Speaker 1: to alter ego do for a living? Well? You see
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  Speaker 1: this is this is tricky, Jonathan, because in the past
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  Speaker 1: I have actually written theatrical bios about myself that have
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  Speaker 1: said by day a mild mannered admin and at night
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  Speaker 1: super thespian um. But I think I want to say,
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  Speaker 1: I think I want to switch it up. I think
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  Speaker 1: that my mild mannered day job for a no, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I don't. I don't I like my own
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  Speaker 1: actual personal backstory. So I think that my mild mannered
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  Speaker 1: alter ego would be a uh preschool teacher and struggling
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  Speaker 1: community theater artist. She could come back to a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of my actual past. She can save the world,
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  Speaker 1: but can she land a role in a Vida. I
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  Speaker 1: probably don't want to land a role in a community
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  Speaker 1: theater version of Avida. I think that would be a
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  Speaker 1: spectacular thing to see, though. What a circus, Oh what
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  Speaker 1: a show? Uh well, oh, I'm glad you asked. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'd want to be a a barista and like
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  Speaker 1: really like the superheroes, like just really determined to be
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  Speaker 1: the best barista that superhero can be when they're not
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  Speaker 1: off being a superhero, Like they treat it seriously and
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  Speaker 1: take it very hard on themselves when they misspell someone's
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  Speaker 1: name on a cup for example. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: I have been a barista. I loved it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a very serious job. Yeah. Yeah. At one point I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to think of a job that would have
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  Speaker 1: like have you locked down at all hours so that
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  Speaker 1: you could not go off and be a superhero, And
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  Speaker 1: thus the conflict would be like, well, I want to
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  Speaker 1: save the world, but I I have to I'm an
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  Speaker 1: I T professional and I'm on call and customers serve.
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  Speaker 1: This would do that. But you know that's that's funny
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  Speaker 1: because you've written mild managed superhero stuff, and that falls
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  Speaker 1: right in line with that. Yes, no, I I wrote
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  Speaker 1: a series for the Atlanta Radio Theater Company called Mildly
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  Speaker 1: Exciting Tales of Astonishment. In fact, there was an episode
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  Speaker 1: in which two characters are about to face off against
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  Speaker 1: a an incoming robot invasion, and just before the battle
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  Speaker 1: is to begin, one of them realizes that he forgot
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  Speaker 1: to call in sick to his job, and so's hurriedly
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  Speaker 1: trying to do so before all all chaos breaks out
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  Speaker 1: around them. And yeah, that was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Like I had a lot of fun playing with superhero
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  Speaker 1: tropes in that series, like taking things that are really
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  Speaker 1: much pretty much cliches in the superhero world and then
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  Speaker 1: putting them within the context of the mundane and just
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  Speaker 1: pointing out how absolutely ludicrous they could be. Um, maybe
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  Speaker 1: one day I'll bring that back. They still occasionally do
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  Speaker 1: those scripts. They're actually working on re recording some of them,
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  Speaker 1: I think, to release on YouTube. Yeah that's exciting, and
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  Speaker 1: and I've I've talked about going back and writing some
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  Speaker 1: more because some of them, like I wrote those who
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  Speaker 1: more than a decade ago, like like almost two decades
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  Speaker 1: ago probably, and some of the jokes I think I
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  Speaker 1: need to update because I'm a more aware and compassionate
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  Speaker 1: person now than I was then. And there were some
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  Speaker 1: jokes I made that I probably wouldn't make today. Nothing terterrible,
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  Speaker 1: but there's some where I'm like, you know what, that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of punching down. I could I could write better
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  Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, yeah, you know, but you're not the
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  Speaker 1: only person who who thinks that way. You know, there
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  Speaker 1: are plenty of other great pieces of art that could
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  Speaker 1: use some updating, like a lot of musical theater. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and some of it we've seen updates to musical theater.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, you are very correct, Like I think of
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  Speaker 1: the musical South Pacific that one. I mean, great, it's
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  Speaker 1: set in a very specific time, but who boy, what
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  Speaker 1: a what a show. But the reasons you bring that up, Ariel,
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  Speaker 1: is because we now know when Broadway is going to reopen, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and that is mid September ish of this year, uh,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know if I'll be ready to go
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  Speaker 1: back then, even though I'm I'm fully vaccinated now, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm excited that it's happening. Uh. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting slightly more comfortable being out places than I was before,
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  Speaker 1: although I still wear a mask when I go out
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  Speaker 1: because I want to encourage that behavior, but I think
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  Speaker 1: I might be comfortable enough to do it assuming that
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  Speaker 1: everyone is clearly following procedures to keep people safe, specifically
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  Speaker 1: to keep all the people in the who work at
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  Speaker 1: the theater, whether it's the cast or the crew or
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  Speaker 1: the front of house staff, all of those people safe,
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  Speaker 1: because those are the people who are coming into content
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  Speaker 1: act with crowds, you know, sometimes eight times a week
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  Speaker 1: if they're doing a full run of shows. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And we know that the Theater Alliance is really trying
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  Speaker 1: to make those positive changes happen before they go back.
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  Speaker 1: So here's hoping that they're on the right track. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the shows that they've mentioned coming back
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  Speaker 1: are not surprising, like eight Too Proud, The Life and
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  Speaker 1: Times of the Temptations, Hamilton's Jagged Little Pill six, things
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  Speaker 1: that have come out recently or are really popular. But
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  Speaker 1: I know you and I were both talking, we're kind
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  Speaker 1: of surprised that we haven't heard anything about Hadestown yet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's early, because this news broke the day we're recording this.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we're recording this on May eleven, just
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  Speaker 1: in case you're curious. Uh, And we just heard about
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  Speaker 1: this today, so it may very well be that within
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  Speaker 1: the next day or two we'll learn more. Because I
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  Speaker 1: actually had tickets to Hades Town before the pandemic happened,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they originally rescheduled me once, but then
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  Speaker 1: after that, you know, they pushed it back into September
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  Speaker 1: of last year, and when it became clear that that
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  Speaker 1: was not gonna happen either, they said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to try and do this again because
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  Speaker 1: we can't predict when we're gonna be able to reopen
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  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of work shifting tickets around. So
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  Speaker 1: they just said, we will let you know and give
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  Speaker 1: you a chance to book tickets early once they go
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  Speaker 1: on sale again. And I haven't heard anything yet. I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping that the shuffle allows Beetlejuice to come back in
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  Speaker 1: a new theater because they were going to close right
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  Speaker 1: after I was going to see them, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see them, So now I hope that they are able
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  Speaker 1: to stay open a little bit longer so I can,
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  Speaker 1: but if not, I really want to see this new
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  Speaker 1: musical that is coming from Off Broadway to On Broadway
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  Speaker 1: called Romeo and Bernadette a Tale musical Tale of Verona
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  Speaker 1: and Brooklyn. Because that sounds hilarious. Yeah, it's Uh. It's
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  Speaker 1: obviously based or inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but rather
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  Speaker 1: than the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, this one sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a comedy. So it's not like the West Side
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  Speaker 1: Story take on Romeo and Juliet, right, Like that one
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  Speaker 1: has some comedy in it, but it's still a tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert if you aren't familiar with West Side Story,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but yeah, it's based off Romeo and Juliet,
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  Speaker 1: so you should know it does not end well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but Romeo and Bernadette, Bernadette turns out to be the
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  Speaker 1: daughter of a crime lord and so apparently has a
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  Speaker 1: real potty mouth on her. Yeah, it just looks to
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  Speaker 1: be funny. I mean, you can't put too much humor
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  Speaker 1: in Romeo and Juliet. Oh no, I mean I've played Juliette,
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  Speaker 1: I know all about it. Yeah. Yeah, So if if
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  Speaker 1: I don't get to see Beetlejuice, maybe I'll get to
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  Speaker 1: see Romeo and Bernadette. Maybe I can drag my husband
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  Speaker 1: out to that one. He's not a huge Shakespeare fan
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  Speaker 1: like I am. So something else that I will have
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  Speaker 1: to make sure to see is the second Knives Out.
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  Speaker 1: I know we've talked about that, but news recently broke
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  Speaker 1: that has made me a little bit more excited about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we learned that Dave Batista, the pro wrestler turned Drags
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  Speaker 1: the Destroyer, is on the cast of Knives Out Too,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is great. Like I remember when he
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  Speaker 1: first started going out to acting gigs, I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 1: what to think because I had seen him back in
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  Speaker 1: his wrestling days when he was doing that all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, he could cut a promo and stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: I never really saw like acting chops from him. But
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  Speaker 1: he's been in so much stuff, including like Blade Runner,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually has range, like surprising range, and his
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  Speaker 1: his dracks is phenomenal. So I'm very much looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to him playing I don't know, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: it'll be in Knives Out Too. I kind of hope
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a big strong dude in some parts of
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  Speaker 1: mean the hope that he plays against type. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he says, well, it's interesting because he actually took there's
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  Speaker 1: an article on Polygon that I found right before we
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  Speaker 1: got on to record this where he's talking about his career,
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  Speaker 1: how excited he is that it's taking off in his fifties.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Hollywood has often been known to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit agist, more for women than for men, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: more for women than for men. But you know, so
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  Speaker 1: he actually took on the Army of Dead, the role
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  Speaker 1: he has an Army of the Dead that's coming out
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  Speaker 1: later this month, because it was more nuanced and serious. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and so I feel like he's trying to get this
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  Speaker 1: more dramatic career going, but Drax isn't that. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he said that the Knives Out role in the
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  Speaker 1: Polygon interview will be a little bit whack here, because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Knives Out is. But he's still
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  Speaker 1: excited about it because of the caliber of actor that
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  Speaker 1: the first movie got the second one. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's still a really great role. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity. So, um, I'm really excited to hear that
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  Speaker 1: he is he is still taking on comedic roles because
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  Speaker 1: he's so brilliant at it, even as even as he's
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  Speaker 1: pursuing a serious career, right, And and I like that
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  Speaker 1: he is playing stuff beyond the clich action film genre, right,
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  Speaker 1: because that's when we typically see We usually see these folks,
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  Speaker 1: like from professional wrestling, just take on either uh, straight
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  Speaker 1: out action films which run the gamut between mediocre to watchable,
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  Speaker 1: or they're playing you know, against type to comedic effect,
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  Speaker 1: and it's usually pretty painful to watch, like watching Hulk
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  Speaker 1: Hogan play The Tooth Fairy for example. Um. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and there are a few people who obviously can can
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  Speaker 1: branch beyond that. The Rock is one of them, right,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks like Bautista might be another one. I
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  Speaker 1: I agree, now, you know that does come with some
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  Speaker 1: sad notes news. He says that he is done playing
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  Speaker 1: tracks after Guardians of the Galaxy three and thor Love
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  Speaker 1: and Thunder. Um. He says that things will start sagging
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  Speaker 1: any second. Now, I don't know if I believe that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about his body, yeah, I know, this dude is
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  Speaker 1: like he he's built like like like a brick house.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just like he is solid, absolutely solid.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I know he's you know, he's talked about
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  Speaker 1: wanting to move on from that, which I totally respect.
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  Speaker 1: It is sad because his character, while never a like
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  Speaker 1: integral part of any of the movies that he's been in,
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  Speaker 1: U is always a welcome edition. Drax has consistently been
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  Speaker 1: an entertaining figure. Um. You know, between like drex And
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  Speaker 1: and Nebula having misunderstandings about stuff, you get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of of great humor in those Marvel films. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think it would be you know, sad to
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  Speaker 1: see him go, But at the same time, I think
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  Speaker 1: that as an actor he should totally be able to
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  Speaker 1: chase after whatever he wants. It was really cute seeing
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  Speaker 1: his exchange online about leaving it behind and saying someone
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  Speaker 1: else will play the part. But when he said you like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some other guy can play Drags, what was
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  Speaker 1: the response? James Gunn said, nobody else could play him,
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  Speaker 1: But I also respect your choice to retire from the role.
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  Speaker 1: Now that being said, I think James Gunn's original plan
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  Speaker 1: was to only do three Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like like it's it's Here's. The other thing
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  Speaker 1: is that we know in the comic books, the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: of the Galaxy is a team that has had lots
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  Speaker 1: of different members over the years, and so you can
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  Speaker 1: have a totally different lineup from one thing to the next,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the Avengers. Hell, the Avengers have a
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  Speaker 1: different line up now because of Iron Man no longer
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  Speaker 1: being part of the team and Keptain America having retired
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  Speaker 1: Um on the Moon. So yeah, well, and and beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about drax Is motivating factor,
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  Speaker 1: it was to get revenge on Thanos, and now Thanos
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  Speaker 1: is gone. Yeah, so he can retire and in a nice,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully happy manner. Um, maybe maybe he and the and
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  Speaker 1: the path Or can can Yeah Mantis, He and Mantis
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  Speaker 1: can have long and confusing conversations with each other. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I hope to get a lot of that in Guardians
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  Speaker 1: of the Galaxy three at the very least. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they've they've hinted at other characters. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to see where it goes, even though I will be
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  Speaker 1: sad to see him go. I'm also excited about some
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  Speaker 1: casting for the Borderlands movie. It's an action movie with
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  Speaker 1: a not cliche casting choice in it. Yeah, Penduleet has
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  Speaker 1: joined the cast. He's going to be playing a preacher apparently, um,
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  Speaker 1: which very much against type for Penjalalette. But also really
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  Speaker 1: funny because Penduleette appears in Borderlands three as as a villain,
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  Speaker 1: one of the villains you can face in Borderlands three,
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  Speaker 1: along with his his cohort Teller Um. Teller will not
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  Speaker 1: be in Borderland's the film as far as we know.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those movies where like, I keep
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  Speaker 1: looking at that cast list and I wonder what the
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  Speaker 1: heck is happening because that game is so just ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: and meandering, and I mean it's hard. It has a
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  Speaker 1: very simple story, but it's a very simple story that's
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  Speaker 1: told throughout like little bits and pieces as you're just
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  Speaker 1: thrown on various little side quests and looking for the
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  Speaker 1: next big gun. And yet you look at that cast
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  Speaker 1: list and here thinking what is happening here? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: very interesting. It's very interesting casting. Um. I'm exceptionally happy
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of it is for for an action
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  Speaker 1: movie and and for a game where all the characters
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  Speaker 1: seem so young to me, that they're using a lot
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  Speaker 1: of more seasoned actors in it. Um, like Jamie Lee
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  Speaker 1: Curtis and Kate Blanchett and Jack Black. Yeah, holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be Okay, it's gonna be good. Like I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it's gonna be good. I am. I
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  Speaker 1: am tentatively very very excited about this, and I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: it's like an adult version of Jimunji kind of. So
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  Speaker 1: I know that that's not the storyline, but that's the
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  Speaker 1: caliber that I'm hoping for. I am very I'm very
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  Speaker 1: curious to see what sort of tone they strike because
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  Speaker 1: the games are obviously very tongue in cheek, comedic, um,
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  Speaker 1: and I it would feel odd if the movie tries
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  Speaker 1: to go, you know, like mad Max but zani er,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's that's what it's going to be, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, like, well, I guess maybe it'll work
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  Speaker 1: better as a movie that way. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: can't really say. This is just so hard for me
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  Speaker 1: to wrap my brain around. Yeah, I guess you'll just
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: have to wait and see, uh something else that it
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  Speaker 1: might be hard to wrap your brain around. What about
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  Speaker 1: the idea of having animal human hybrid children after an
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  Speaker 1: apocalypse event or a pandemic. I mean, I've alreasa, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not having kids, so really hard to really, Yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: if I came home to a koala baby, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? Um, Yeah, you're referring to Sweet Tooth, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: which is a a little bit of a dark DC
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  Speaker 1: comic about exactly what we said, kids who are being
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  Speaker 1: born as an animal person hybrid after a pandemic happens,
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  Speaker 1: and then uh humans are are wary of them and
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  Speaker 1: scared of them and hunt them down, hunt them down.
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  Speaker 1: Um And this show focuses on one of those children.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hybrid dear boy named Gus. The interesting thing
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  Speaker 1: to me is that it's being helmed by a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of really great people, but among them Robert Downey Jr.
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  Speaker 1: And Susan Downey, who are actually trying to make it
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  Speaker 1: more lighthearted so that families can watch it together and
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  Speaker 1: it can be a little bit uplifting, which for a
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  Speaker 1: DC property, it's very refreshing for me to hear. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they are executive producers on the series. Um And I
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  Speaker 1: like that too. I like the idea of trying to
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  Speaker 1: create something that's not just dark and gritty and dower
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  Speaker 1: and and a downer right, Like you've heard me say
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  Speaker 1: that a billion times that I like my escapist uh
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  Speaker 1: fiction to help me escape and considering the last year
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  Speaker 1: and a half everybody has had I think having a
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  Speaker 1: few things that can perhaps focus on stories that make
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  Speaker 1: you feel good when it's all over, that that'd be nice.
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  Speaker 1: And for it to be genuine, right, not just not
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  Speaker 1: just a cheap cash in of let's throw a happy
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  Speaker 1: ending on there and it will make everyone go home
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  Speaker 1: happy like I want. I wanted to be earned, not
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  Speaker 1: just you know, not just a pat ending. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and and the trailer for this makes me feel like
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of tense moments, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also looks it looks so endearing, no, no pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I had no idea about this before before
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  Speaker 1: you put it on the lineup, so this was totally
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: new to me, and I am I'm very excited to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: learn more. I wasn't familiar with the comic book series either,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: so um, maybe it'll get me into looking at that
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: like I I didn't think. I thought my comic book
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: days were pretty much over, and then Invincible happened, so
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I might be getting pulled back in. Like the last
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: thing that I remember collecting, we actually have mentioned in
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: our show notes because you said, next, let's have someone
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: do an adaptation of Bone please. Well. Bone was the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: last thing I collected, and Bone is a phenomenal fantasy
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: epic series, highly recommended. Yeah, I I like it too,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And I it's hard for me to follow comics when
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it's the main the main ones like Justice League and Avengers,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: because there's so much out there. But smaller ones like
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: these are much easier to pick up and start and digest,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and and I'm excited about them. It's it's reinvigorating my
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: love of comics, not that it ever went away, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it's it's making it stronger. Uh. Well, now we need
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to take a quick break and afterwards, Uh, we're actually
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: going to talk about some more news, but it's going
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to lead into a conversation that's out of this world.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jonathan Aerial. Yes, so you also picked in
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: our news a little news item about how pretty soon
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: we could be having some private space flights to allow
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: people to become space tourists. Very wealthy people, but well
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: people all the same. Yes. Yes, So both Blue Origin
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and Space X are looking to start space tourism this year,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and NASA is saying that their first trip with civilians
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: could take place as early as January and I don't know. Yeah, well,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I mean like, okay, so so let's let's talk about
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a couple of other little things. First. First of all, uh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: do you know anyone who's been to space? I don't,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: but I know you have, you you bragging braggers. I'm
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: just I was just gonna check before I started talking
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: about my close personal friend Richard Garriott. Actually he's not
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: my close personal friend. I chatted with him for a while,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: like we we knew each other. We met through the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: conventions circuit because my dad was a guest Richard Garriott,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: who was the creator of the Ultima series of computer games.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: His alter ego is Lord British. He also was a
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: guest at a lot of these conventions, and he was
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: one of I believe seven civilians to pay an exorbitant
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: amount of money to UM to fly up on a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Russian space capsule to dock with the International Space Station.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So he actually spent time aboard the International Space Station,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: which is kind of neat. And now we are reaching
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a point where people who are not potentially not not
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: as wealthy as that can go UM still very expensive,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: or at least it's very likely to be before if
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you wanted to try and experience something like this. The
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: closest you could typically manage is to go on one
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of those parabolic airplane flights where they fly in these
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: big parallel parabolic arcs which end up simulating weightlessness. Technically
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the plane is falling faster than you are, so you're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: kind of yeah, but um, that was the closest you
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: could come. And now we're going to get into stuff
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that goes either in you low Earth orbit or close
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to it. Um. So the conversation then is would you
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: go I mean, like, it seems interesting, but I hate
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: roller coasters, so re entry just seems absolutely miserable to me. Well,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: not just re entry, I mean launch would be really
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: rough on you. That's when you would be experiencing serious gees.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So I know that astronauts have to go through a
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: ton of training to go into space, right, kids go
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to space camp to try to do it. So as
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a tourist, would you have to go through that same
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: rigorous amount of training to likely not, because you wouldn't
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: be expected to actually control anything or conduct any experiments. Um,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you would also not be up there for an appreciable
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: amount of time. Most of these experiences you're looking at
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: are things that take course over like half a day
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and maybe include you know, an hour worth of experience
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: where you're kind of in space um or or close
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to it. So in those cases, you wouldn't need to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: have quite that level of training. You know. Of course,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: in the early days of the astronaut program, no one
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: was really sure what the rigors were going to be
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of space travel, like what was it what kind of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: effect was it going to have on the body, So
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: astronauts needed to go through all that training to be
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: as healthy as they possibly could be before going up
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: into space because there was no telling what could happen. Well,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, would they at least put you into like
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the centerfuge thing to see if you're going to vomit
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: into your space helmet. You're totally gonna vomit. You're just
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: gonna that's just gonna happen. I mean, like like the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: parabolic flights that I was talking about. You know what
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the the nickname is for those, right, No, the vomit comment.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Oh I thought that was just roller coasters. Nope, the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: vomit comment. That's what they call all those parabolic flights
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: because you know that that experience of being waitless. It is.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It's very disorienting. Your brain is having trouble uh taking,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you know, figuring this out about how based upon the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: visual stimulation you get what you should be feeling, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you're not feeling that because you're weightless or in microgravity.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Then your brain says, I don't like it. Send a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: note to the stomach eject. Yeah. So all that being said,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: maybe once they figure out how to make launch and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: reentry gentler, I might consider it. What about you? So
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I would do it in a heartbeat if I had
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the ridiculous amount of wealth it would take for me
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to be able to do it. They are auctioning off
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: some seats, so maybe you could win one, yeah, because
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I mean most of these You look at them and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, I know. The going rate is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: for like a quarter of a million dollars. Uh that's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a how I can't I can't pay for a full
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: house price to just go up into space. Um. Yeah,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I I would do it if I had the opportunity
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the means to do it, where like it wasn't going
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to break me financially. I would do it because I'm
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: very curious about it, and I think it would be
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: an exciting thing. I would love to be able to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: look back and see the curvature of the Earth. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: think that would be super cool. Um, A lot of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: people talk about it being kind of a life changing
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: experience when you do that, like you get this new
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: perspective because when you look back at the Earth, you realize, hey,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at of everyone. The only people I'm not
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: looking at right now are either on this ship or
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: on the International Space Station. Everyone else who is alive
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at right now. That's an incredible thing. That
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is that is pretty incredible. So I guess along those lines,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So you'd go into space, But would you like go
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to Mars, because they're talking about sending people to Mars,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: possibly setting up colonies there, which to me just seems
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: like an awful waste of resources for a rock that's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: not very hospitable to us. Well, I mean, like there's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: there's there's things we could learn on Mars that would
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: be really useful to us in the long term. But
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I I I don't think of it as
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a place where you'd want to have, you know, like
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a permanent colony or like, I don't think setting up
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a permanent colony to have a heinland like Martian civilization
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: would make much sense. Um, I would not go to
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Mars because when one of those people talking an awful
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: lot about going to Mars is Elon Musk, who also
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: just casually mentions that a lot of people are probably
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: gonna die in the process. Um, I'm like, you know what,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: when the guy who's bankrolling it is like, yeah, people
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: are gonna die, I'm like, pass hard pass. So like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: accidents happen, you know, car accidents happened, that the challenger happened,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: things like that. But the effort, the goal is to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: do everything you can to keep those negative things from happening.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't want to go to Mars until the goal,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: expected goal and end result was to bring me home successfully. Well,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and see, that's the thing, that's the that's a I mean,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: there's so many differences between NASA and SpaceX and two
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I can't sum it up to just this one thing.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But this is one of the major differences, or rather
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you could say the difference between NASA and Elon Musk,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and that is NASA goes to extraordinary lengths to try
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and ensure the safety of everyone in the program, right
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: like that. The story of Apollo thirteen is a story
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: about NASA coming together to rescue three people who were
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: aboard of capsule and they could have been lost. They
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you know, they NASA could have said, like, this is
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a tragedy, there's no way to give them back, but
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: everyone with all their being worked to get them back
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: home safely, and they did get back home. Um and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and that's a great part of the mission of NASA.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Then you have Elon Musku says, yeah, people are probably
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: gonna die, and it's such a offhand, casual and callous
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: thing to say that. It makes me feel like too.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to put words in his mouth
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: or give then motivations that he may not have. But
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: it feels like the checking the box of sending people
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to Mars is more important than the people and as
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: long as that's the case, I don't want any part
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: of it. I definitely have the same feels about that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: But that leads me to a more left field question. Okay,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: so we don't want to necessarily permanently colonized Mars, right
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: It's it takes so many resources to make it a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: healthy place to live. What do you feel about taking
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: planets like Mars. If we determine that there's no life
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: on Mars, which I think there's bacteria or something, well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: they're they're looking for that, that's what we're looking for.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: What are your feels on taking a planet that has
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: no life in turning it into like a trash planet?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Against it? Against it? Yeah, NASA's against it too. I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: mean like like there are there are treaties out there
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that specifically state like you are not meant to contaminate
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: other planets. Like that is a bad idea. It is
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: um you know, it's it's it's an irresponsible thing to do.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: And there are other ways to deal with the issue
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of trash here on Earth that one don't require you
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to shoot anything off into space, and two are more
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: economical than shooting stuff off into space, but they do
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: cost money. So what's weird to me is that people
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: would talk about this as a as a potential solution
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: when there are better, more practical solutions here on Earth
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: that just require us to invest in them to make
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: them happen. But because the planet thing, I think is
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: far enough out as a as a possibility, they'd say like, oh,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: let's just push it till later. That's a later Earth problem.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I don't want to have to deal with that. Let
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: let like the generation behind me or the generation behind
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: them deal with it when it's reached crisis levels and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: they have no choice but to do something about it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: We can do things about it right now that don't involve,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you know, offloading our garbage to some other planet. Well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and to be fair, I don't I you know, personally,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many people are actually, like legitimately
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: thinking of that. Again, the resources it would take to
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: do that. It's but it's something that has been explored
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: in science fiction, sure media and Superman four through all
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: of the world's nuclear arms into the sun. Look, I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: watched Avenue five, which is an HBO show. I'm guessing
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you have not watched it. I have not, about space
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: cruise ship and all of the possible things that could
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: go wrong. It's a very dark comedy. I have seen
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the first episode of that series. It's a cumulative episode
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a series, so you should watch the rest of the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: episodes if it at least piqued your interest a little bit.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: But it shows all of the things that could go wrong,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: including like putting waste into space and the negative impacts
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that could have. And so I just I was curious
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: about your thoughts on it hypothetically. Like I said, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's actually considering it. Well, if they are,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: they gotta knocked that all off. Yes they do. Uh. Well,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed this conversation and I know that you
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: could probably talk about it for years on end, between
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: your your technical knowledge and your geek geek it to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: knowledge and your sci fi knowledge. But we don't have
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: years on end for this episode, so we're going to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: take another quick break. Okay, Aerial. So we've got a
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: couple of other news items we've really peppered them throughout
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the episode this time, UM that end up informing what
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: our mashup is today. One of those news items is
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that the Marvel release a series of posters for the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Black Widow film. Uh and I love the posters. I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: think the posters look great me too. It shows you
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: that you can have dark, serious characters and still have
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a color palette. Not only that, but that you can
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: have characters who are are women, but the costumes don't
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: all like fall into the super stereotypical sexy superhero you know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: outfit like, it's not like plunging necklines. Now, granted those
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: outfits hugged the curves, but they're not. But it's not
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: like to the point where it's you know, gratuitous. Yeah,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: they feel realistic. They like motorcycling outfits or or one
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of the characters, Florence Pugh. Her outfit seems very tactical.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: The most improbable thing about it is that it's white
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and you can't keep it clean, but that's probably just me.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And I love the look of the Taskmaster. I was
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: very curious how they were going to make the Taskmaster
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: look because in the comics, he's you know, got a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: very uh, cartoony skull mask um, and they make it
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: look kind of like a motorcycle helmet, like with a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: with like a holographic type of visor on it. Uh.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And I love his sword and shield. And I told
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Ariel before we did the show that he has sort
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of a Boba Fette kind of thing going on. He
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: certainly does. So we'll we'll post the link in the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: show notes so you can look at them if you
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: haven't seen them yet. So that is one of our
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: our mashup properties. Is Scarlett, sorry not Scarlett? Why do
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I say Scarlett Black Widow trys Scarlett Johanson. That's why.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Uh so one of our Mashut properties is Black Widow
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and the other is SpongeBob. Now why did you pick SpongeBob?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: What was in the news that prompted SpongeBob? So there
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: was a four year old boy in New York who
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: ordered two thousand, six hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: five cents worth of SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles party of that
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: kid's house. Yeah, I don't think his mom knew or
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: uh expected it. So he ended up getting fifty one cases,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: nine and eighteen individual popsicles from Amazon sent to his
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: aunt's house, and then Amazon would not take them back.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So did did the story say how he managed to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: order these? Was it like on the computer or was
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: it like through Alexa? Or I don't they don't know.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: There's a there's a post on Instagram that I didn't
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: get into, but I know that they set up a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: go fund me to kind of recoup the losses, and
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: they have well more than recoup the losses, so that kids,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the kids going to be able to get some cupcakes
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to go along with those popsicles. Yes, definitely, I mean
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: justin just in time for the summer to that kid's
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: got it made. Yeah, he's gonna have so many friends.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: But you know, well, we'll also post the link to
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: that article, and that article has a link to the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Instagram story, so you can read all about it. But uh,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that leads us into our black Widow SpongeBob mash up. Yep,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: that's that's why that happened. That's why that happened or
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: is happening. So I'm gonna go first, go for an arel. Alright,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: this is called the Red Pineapple. After Natasha Romanov told
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the KGB das Vedanga, they devised a plan to keep
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: tabs on their most formidable X operative. They tried sending
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: agents to befriend her, kill her, and seduce her, and
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: each time she saw through each agent's ruse and eliminated them.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: The KGB knew that sending any one would trip her trigger,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: so they then turned to their deep science division known
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: as Leviathan to help them solve their problems. And Leviathan
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: had a plan so crazy that they knew it would work.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Instead of sending someone, they would send something to keep
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: keep tabs on Natasha. You see. A week before, Leviathan
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: was trying to reanimate a corpse at the super Secret
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Science laser, but some dang fool tripped on the cord
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and the lasers swung to point at a TV in
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the next lab room where they were brainwashing a victim
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: with SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. When the laser struck the TV,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: it sucked the characters of SpongeBob's SquarePants out of the TV,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: SpongeBob and Patrick to be exact, and into the real world. Leviathan,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: having these new assets, was looking for some way to
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: use them, and this was the perfect opportunity. They would
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: brainwash the fools and train them as sleeper agents to listen,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to report back, and if need be, eliminate black Widow Bonus,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: SpongeBob and Patrick could use their own bodies to clean
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: up any mess before anyone found it if the last
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: option had to be taken. So desperate and out of ideas,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the KGB agreed. They brainwashed SpongeBob and Patrick, which was easy.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Training them in martial arts was a breeze, but weaponry
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: was difficult because no one was willing to volunteer to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: be in the room with SpongeBob when he had a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: weapon in his hand and he kept shouting we and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: pointing it at everyone. However, Patrick was a whizard weapons.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Turns out Patrick has a temper and he's just like
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a teeny tiny little hulk. Once trained, they put SpongeBob
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and Patrick into sleeper mode and sent them to Natasha
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: as a care package, which included a de sponge Bob
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: of course, a foot pumice Patrick, a digital picture frame
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  Speaker 1: with some jellyfish on it to help her relax, and
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  Speaker 1: a chocolate bar. They labeled it as a package from
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Banner with a card reading to help you get
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  Speaker 1: used to normal life with a little winky face to
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  Speaker 1: sell it at the end, and Natasha, while thinking it
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  Speaker 1: was a little weird, was none the wiser and put
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  Speaker 1: all the items to use in her house. And things
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  Speaker 1: worked well for the KGB for a while. Every night,
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  Speaker 1: when Natasha was asleep, the Black Widow Project would tap
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  Speaker 1: into the picture frame say the secret code word wombo
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  Speaker 1: to activate SpongeBob and Patrick. The two would report back
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  Speaker 1: on what they had heard Natasha say and where they
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  Speaker 1: saw her going each day, and after some determination to
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  Speaker 1: decipher the sponge and Stars reports. The KGB and crew
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  Speaker 1: thought they knew what she was up to and soon
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  Speaker 1: planned to have the sponge and Starfish neutralize her. But
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  Speaker 1: before they could complete their operation, something happened. Black Widow
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  Speaker 1: was sitting at home one day watching TV, eating a
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  Speaker 1: dozen donuts for dinner, which was her favorite thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Don't judge her, she burns a lot of calories being
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  Speaker 1: a hero, and she fell asleep. While she was asleep,
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  Speaker 1: SpongeBob square Pants came on the TV, and the familiarity
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  Speaker 1: of home a woke SpongeBob and Patrick out of their
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  Speaker 1: brainwashed state. They realized what was going on, and after
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  Speaker 1: they finished off the remaining donuts at Natasha had left
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  Speaker 1: untouched and left thank you note for finding them so useful,
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  Speaker 1: SpongeBob and Patrick shipped themselves back to Russia and exacted
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  Speaker 1: revenge on the entire nefarious organization that had brainwashed him.
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  Speaker 1: The Avengers never knew what took down Leviathan, the Red Room,
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  Speaker 1: and the KGB, but they were glad to have one
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  Speaker 1: less thing to worry about. Natasha, however, never figured out
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  Speaker 1: where her donuts went. Cute it didn't, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really have anything to do super with Avengers, Black
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  Speaker 1: Widow or SpongeBob lore Well, don't worry, I got you covered, areal.
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  Speaker 1: I figured you might all right. Get ready because this
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  Speaker 1: one's a long one. No, I'm kidding, this one's super short.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. I don't have a title for this one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so we'll just say getting on top of Bikini Bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Mr Crabs has a problem. Someone has
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  Speaker 1: broken into his office safe at the Krusty Crab and
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  Speaker 1: stolen his precious formula. Of course, his suspicion immediately falls
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  Speaker 1: on Plankton, owner of the competing restaurant, the chum Bucket.
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  Speaker 1: Going into full panic mode, he calls upon Earth's mightiest
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  Speaker 1: heroes to help out, despite the fact that his fry cook,
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  Speaker 1: SpongeBob SquarePants, says he is fully capable of finding out
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Three hours later, Terror Natasha Romanov, in full
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  Speaker 1: scuba gear, descends beneath the Bikini a toll to reach
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  Speaker 1: Bikini Bottom. Well, at first, her enormous size and relation
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  Speaker 1: to the citizens of Bikini Bottom is a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a problem. She uses a special gadget she got on
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  Speaker 1: loan from Hank Pim and shrinks down to a more
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  Speaker 1: appropriate height. She investigates the scene and gets a far
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  Speaker 1: off look in her eyes. What's wrong, black widow, says SpongeBob. Nothing,
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  Speaker 1: says Natasha. It's just displace. It's just like Budapest, just
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  Speaker 1: like my ledger Budapest, bikini bottom. It's so much there there,
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  Speaker 1: says Patrick, who turns to SpongeBob and says she seems nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'll find that formula, Mr Crabs, says Natasha, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: need some help. You have my rock, says Patrick, And
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  Speaker 1: my bubble gun, says Sandy. And my square pants says SpongeBob,
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  Speaker 1: and they form the new moist Avengers. First, we need
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  Speaker 1: a lead, says Natasha. It's plankton. He did it, says Sandy.
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  Speaker 1: Something that can really start us off down the right path,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: says Natasha. No, seriously, it's plankton. He tries this all
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  Speaker 1: the time, says Sandy. Wait, says Natasha. Who is that?
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  Speaker 1: SpongeBob looks to see where she's pointing. It's squid word.
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  Speaker 1: Oh him, that squid word, my neighbor and co worker.
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  Speaker 1: Natasha's eyes narrow and in a heartbeat, She's got squid
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  Speaker 1: word in a seven tentacle armbar. Where's the formula? She yells,
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  Speaker 1: squid word, unable to answer due to racking sobs of
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  Speaker 1: pain whimpers. SpongeBob turns to Patrick and says how long
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  Speaker 1: they think this is gonna last? Five ella's Later, Natasha, SpongeBob,
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  Speaker 1: and Gang are outside the chum Bucket. They see that
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  Speaker 1: inside the building Plankton is gloating about something and talking
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  Speaker 1: to a mysterious figure, clearly a human who has also
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  Speaker 1: been shrunk down. But this one has a cool skull
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: mask kind of thing on. He's got a sword and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a shield to Taskmaster, says Natasha. They can take him,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: says Patrick. No you can't. I need a distraction, says Natasha. Hey, Sandy,
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  Speaker 1: could you use that bubble gun to hide us and
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  Speaker 1: maybe dry up the Taskmaster, says SpongeBob. Boy howdy, says Sandy,
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  Speaker 1: and she does just that. Plankton suspicious, says Taskmaster. Out
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  Speaker 1: of the chum bucket, roman Off. It's going to be
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: a pleasure to bury you at sea, says Taskmaster. This
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: guy does not seem nice, says Patrick. What follows is
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: a cool underwater fight between Natasha and Taskmaster, except Taskmaster
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  Speaker 1: can learn how other people fight instantly and then counter it,
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  Speaker 1: so all of Natasha's attacks are countered. It's no use,
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  Speaker 1: she says, SpongeBob's eyes narrow. Now take care of it,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and he steps forward. Taskmaster, laughing, prepares to dispatch SpongeBob,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: except SpongeBob fights like really weird. I mean, he changes shape,
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  Speaker 1: he blows bubbles, he goofs around, and Taskmaster, trying to
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  Speaker 1: copy his opponent, quickly wears himself out and in an
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: attempt to change his shape, ruptures his spleen. And all right,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: so he passes out because this is a kid show
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  Speaker 1: and I'm told I can't kill anyone. SpongeBob, you did it,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: says Patrick and Natasha. The turn Amon walks into the
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  Speaker 1: chum bucket. Plankton, intimidated by the team, discovers the formula
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  Speaker 1: behind the chum bucket. Counter that man must have dropped
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  Speaker 1: this in here. I am sure I didn't know how
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  Speaker 1: else it could even be here. Natasha roughs him up
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  Speaker 1: a bit. The team returns to the Krusty Crab Triumphant.
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  Speaker 1: The end one that was brilliant too. I'm really glad
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  Speaker 1: that we don't uh do video as of right now
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  Speaker 1: for these episodes because people would have seen me doing
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: like a little squee face and dance every time you
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: did a SpongeBob impression. That was so uh so fun.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Story Like my old co host Protect Stuff, Chris Palette,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: uh he would do a SpongeBob impression at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of every podcast because I'm like, you're ready to go,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: he go, I'm ready. And so it was just I
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: had I had never watched an episode of SpongeBob before
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I did Text Stuff, and it was just my co
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: host Crystal Let's saying it over and over that finally
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: got me to watch it. Do you like SpongeBob? It's
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: adorable and I love it. I'm I am not like
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I wasn't like one of those um stoners who got
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: really into it and like just love to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: But I I think that the absurd humor is fantastic
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  Speaker 1: and SpongeBob um. I find I find the the show
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  Speaker 1: to be really joyful and silly, and I love the
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: things like the the the narrator coming in to talk
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: about the passage of time, which is why I had
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: to throw it into my script because those little touches,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I think are are what really make the show really funny.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I used to dislike SpongeBob Um, but it's not because
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: of the humor or the writing or anything like that.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I like ridiculous humor, and I like how off the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: wall and outside the box they think. But it was
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: just the it was the animation was ugly to me
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: and well and they also they do occasionally go into
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: that sort of uh humor of the disgusting, right, Like
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: you get a little bit of the stuff that you
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: would see in something like Wrinnen and Stimpy, though not
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: not quite to the grotesque lengths that written Stimpy went to.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Or even you know, Disney did their little retro style cartoons,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: makeing Mouse cartoons. Those can get into the little bit
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of the grotesque too. So there's a style that just
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: kind of it's interesting because it's popularity is stuck around
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: so long because rind and Stimpy, you know, that's like
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: thirty years old, forty years old now, at least that
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: style is popularity and sticking around has nothing to do
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: with me. Yeah, no, I mean, like yeah, the idea
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: of like let's do a quick, uh an extreme close
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: up on someone's nostril and show nose hairs and Boogers
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't really appeal to me that much either, but the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: humor is fantastic. Well, that being said, uh, we have
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: come to the end of all of the things that
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: we want to talk to you about for this week,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: for this week, but if you want to talk back
• 48:03
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• 48:06
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  Speaker 1: a SpongeBob Black Widow mash up, or telling us your
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: thoughts on traveling to space or some topics you'd like
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: us to talk about. How can they reach us, Jonathan, Well,
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