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Going Bananas for Cannoli · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Ner Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nor
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Speaker 1: Drunk Collider Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky
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Speaker 1: things happening in the world around us and how very
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Speaker 1: excited we are about them. I'm Ariel casting and with
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Speaker 1: me as always is the creepy and cookie Jonathan stranglind Hey, everybody,
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Speaker 1: him and happy. Yeah, and I got Uncle Fester's haircut.
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Speaker 1: Before we get into this, though, Ariel, I have a
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Speaker 1: question for you now. My question for you is, can
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Speaker 1: you tell me about one of your favorite movie theater experiences.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got lots. You don't have to tell
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Speaker 1: me your most favorite, but tell me about the movie
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Speaker 1: theater experience that you thought was particularly fun and special.
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Speaker 1: It's when you and I went to go watch the
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Speaker 1: preview of Scott Pilgrim uh with with our respective partners
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Speaker 1: um and then like the crew, like the crew and cast.
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Speaker 1: Some of the crew and casts were there, like Edgar
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Speaker 1: Wright and Jason Schwartzman, and I think Michael Sarah and
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Speaker 1: maybe a couple others who Michael Sarah was there didn't
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Speaker 1: stick in my head as much as the people that
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Speaker 1: I already knew, Um that now I know better where
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Speaker 1: they're doing a Q and A afterwards. It was just
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Speaker 1: such a fun experience and like it's just got some
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Speaker 1: cool stories that maybe not everybody knows still about the production.
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Speaker 1: And I love I love watching movies for the story,
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Speaker 1: but I also love watching movies to glean like how
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Speaker 1: people act in different techniques they use and production details
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Speaker 1: and so like just the whole the whole kitten caboodle
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Speaker 1: is very interesting to me. And so that was a
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Speaker 1: really wonderful experience. What about you, As I recalled, Schwartzman
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Speaker 1: shared with us at that experience that he acted his
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Speaker 1: scenes wearing ladies underwear. Yeah, and then that his pants
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Speaker 1: split and everybody found out later on because it was
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Speaker 1: like a character like something he did in his mind,
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Speaker 1: like this is something the character would do, so he
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Speaker 1: did it, which is hilarious. Plus the movie was a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Yeah, no, that movie, and it was
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Speaker 1: the best crowd to see it in, right, because you
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Speaker 1: were in a crowd of people who were determined to
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Speaker 1: have a good time. Those are really the experiences I
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Speaker 1: think of. You know, I also got to do a
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Speaker 1: very similar thing when uh Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
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Speaker 1: and Nick Frost came to town to promote Hot Fuzz.
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Speaker 1: So I saw Hot Fuzz in a very similar way
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Speaker 1: to Scott Pilgrim. So uh, those are very special events.
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Speaker 1: The one that leaps to my mind though, is when
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Speaker 1: Star Trek for The Voyage Home premiered. There was a
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Speaker 1: premiere in Atlanta, not like a premiere with any of
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Speaker 1: the stars they or anything, but rather one of Atlanta's
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Speaker 1: old movie houses which no longer exists. It was torn down.
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Speaker 1: UM was the first to show it. And my family,
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Speaker 1: you know, we I grew up an hour away from
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Speaker 1: downtown Atlanta, but we made the trip down to Atlanta
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Speaker 1: because my parents obviously big science fiction fans. UM also
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Speaker 1: big science fiction fan. And then we we went to
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Speaker 1: this theater to watch it, and they even played a
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Speaker 1: cartoon ahead of time. They played a Disney cartoon. It
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Speaker 1: was Goofy Hockey Team cartoon, which was everyone loved. The
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Speaker 1: entire crowd was totally into the movie. Everyone was laughing
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Speaker 1: at all the jokes, everyone cheered at the music. It
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Speaker 1: was just such a wonderful group positive experience. Those are
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Speaker 1: the things I missed the most about movie theaters, you know,
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Speaker 1: I obviously I don't miss the situations where you go
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Speaker 1: and you know there are people who are talking or
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Speaker 1: texting on their phones to the whole thing. I don't
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Speaker 1: like any of that, obviously, But when you were in
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Speaker 1: a crowd of people who were invested in what they're
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Speaker 1: watching and the movie is good, that's also important. Or
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Speaker 1: the movie is entertaining, doesn't have to be good, but
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Speaker 1: it's entertaining, it's a great experience. I mean, I definitely
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Speaker 1: get it there. And like there's a difference too, because
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Speaker 1: I've been to opening night movies where people talk or
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Speaker 1: they gasp or they laugh all at the same things,
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Speaker 1: right because you're all seeing it for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Nothing's been ruined yet that happens less likely now and
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Speaker 1: that is amazing. And then like I went to Deadpool two. Once,
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Speaker 1: I went to a movie tavern and it was opening weekend,
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Speaker 1: and I had a couple sitting behind me, drunk off
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Speaker 1: their butts, just talking about not movie stuff through the
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Speaker 1: entire thing. Like I have gotten less patient with people
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Speaker 1: talking and movies over the years. So um, I definitely
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Speaker 1: like like those big groups where you know the entire
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Speaker 1: audience is there for the same reason you are and
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Speaker 1: not just let's go see a movie. Not that that's
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Speaker 1: a bad reason to see a movie as someone who's
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Speaker 1: in the industry, not necessarily a bad reason to go
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Speaker 1: see a movie, except for the fact that, you know,
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Speaker 1: if it's if it's down to how should we spend
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Speaker 1: our time, I don't know, let's go see a movie. Um,
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Speaker 1: and you're there with a crowd that's really like invested.
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Speaker 1: It does make you feel very much out of place. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is true. That is true. I will say the
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Speaker 1: one time I didn't mind talking during a movie is
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Speaker 1: my husband and I went to see The Martian and
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Speaker 1: we did like one of those big AMC chair things.
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Speaker 1: Were like, uh, I'm not getting I'm not getting paid
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Speaker 1: to say AMC. But okay, they had like the chairs
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Speaker 1: that had like the Dolby surround in the headrests and
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Speaker 1: like it kind of shook the seat and so i'd
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Speaker 1: like the really pivotal stuff. Yeah, like you know, so
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Speaker 1: I'm as things are taking off and landing on Mars
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Speaker 1: like I'm shaking, and it's very like it helps you
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Speaker 1: really invest in what's going on and kind of puts
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Speaker 1: you in that place. But there was a little girl
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Speaker 1: sitting next to us, asking her dad's science questions about
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Speaker 1: the movie through the entire movie, and you can't be
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Speaker 1: mad at that, Like, yeah, you don't want someone talking,
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Speaker 1: but it's so adorable and she's so interested that you
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Speaker 1: have to love it. For me, it was when when
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Speaker 1: when Rebecca and I went to go see the movie
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Speaker 1: Up in the theater and the first ten minutes destroyed us.
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Speaker 1: Anyone who's seen Up knows what I'm talking about. The
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Speaker 1: first ten minutes of Up was like it was like
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Speaker 1: it was genetically engineered too to to break us psychologically.
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Speaker 1: And I remember distinctly sitting there like holding back, just
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Speaker 1: racking sobs, and the little girls saying next to my
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Speaker 1: wife said Mommy, the people next to me are crying,
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Speaker 1: like you just don't get it, but you will don't
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Speaker 1: hopefully not for a long time, and hopefully not for
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Speaker 1: a long time. I wasn't angry, it was more like
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Speaker 1: it almost made him start laughing. But you know, we
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Speaker 1: were still kind of emotionally traumatized by Pixar. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 1: We might be talking a little bit more about Pixar
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Speaker 1: a bit later in this episode. Yes, if we can
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Speaker 1: get through this discussion topic, I've got one more movie
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Speaker 1: experience that you reminded me of with that little girl.
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Speaker 1: I went to watch Raiders of the Lost Arc at
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Speaker 1: like maybe you were there, I don't know, at one
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Speaker 1: of those like flashback weekends nights at the movie theater
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Speaker 1: as a little couldn't been more than like five year
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Speaker 1: old boy and his three year old sister were there,
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Speaker 1: and he was dressed up like Indiana Jones with his
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Speaker 1: like little canteen, and he was super into playing Indiana Jones.
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Speaker 1: He would drink out of his canteen and go, I
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Speaker 1: need to get more water, and then like leave and
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Speaker 1: then like coming back, and so like he and his
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Speaker 1: his sister gave like Statler and Waldorf level hilarious comedy
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Speaker 1: through the entire movie, and it was super adorable because
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Speaker 1: they were super into it. Um Like she at one point,
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Speaker 1: Indie and Marian Ravenwood she the in Raiders a lost
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Speaker 1: ar kiss and the little three year old girl goes
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Speaker 1: awkward destroyed me and we all so like, yeah, oh so,
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Speaker 1: I guess I guess either like cool things where like
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Speaker 1: I know everybody in the crowd is is a geek
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Speaker 1: or into it as much as I am. And then
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Speaker 1: like kids enjoying the movie and discovering that wonder. That's
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Speaker 1: that's yeah to sum up, agreed, great, great discussion. Now
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Speaker 1: let us move on to some news, and the first
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Speaker 1: one is something that I thought was really cool. Actually,
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Speaker 1: Rebecca pointed this out to me. I wouldn't have known
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Speaker 1: about this news if it hadn't been for her, and
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Speaker 1: that is we knew that Netflix is producing a series
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Speaker 1: about Wednesday Adams um, apparently kind of like a supernatural
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Speaker 1: detective series where Wednesday is the lead. We now know
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Speaker 1: that Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in The Adams Family
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Speaker 1: and Adams Family Values, has been cast in a role
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Speaker 1: obviously not Wednesday, but a role in that series. Not
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Speaker 1: just thought that's kind of cool. Yeah, my guess maybe
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Speaker 1: she's a teacher. I'm hoping whomever she's playing is exactly
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Speaker 1: the opposite of Wednesday and she's kind of like one
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Speaker 1: of those vapid characters that we saw and when in
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Speaker 1: Adam's Family Values, because that would be amazing. First of all,
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Speaker 1: I know that Christina Ricci can play whatever she likes,
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Speaker 1: and she's she's great, but um, and she tends to
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Speaker 1: play pretty edgy, kind of dark characters. But I would
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Speaker 1: love to see her play against Type. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: feel like in the Matrix directions whatever this latest one was,
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Speaker 1: she played somebody outside of Type, but it was also
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Speaker 1: super brief. Um. There is rumor that she brought on
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Speaker 1: was brought on to replace Thora Birch, yes, who who
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Speaker 1: left the project for reasons unknown at least to us. Um.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm I am, color me curious. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna dig it because sometimes these things
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Speaker 1: that feels like they're just cashing in on nostalgia, But
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Speaker 1: I'm willing to give it a shot. They're going to
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Speaker 1: have to find a real good balance between nostalgia and
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Speaker 1: going to dark for modern sake. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: and that's the thing is, like Adam's Family could go
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Speaker 1: could could at least imply super super dark stuff, but
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Speaker 1: it did it with such kind of panache and humor
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Speaker 1: that you know, you just went with it right, like
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Speaker 1: it didn't phase you, even though if you really sit
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Speaker 1: there and think about the things that are being said
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Speaker 1: and depicted, you're like, no, this in any other context
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Speaker 1: would be absolutely horrifying. Yeah. Yeah, it would be like
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Speaker 1: shining level horrifying. The Shining level horrifying aeg. Explain yourself
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Speaker 1: and pray make it improbable. So Ben Stiller, who I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing most people know as Zoolander, he is in talks
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Speaker 1: to play Jack Torrence, who is like the lead character
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Speaker 1: in The Shining for an at a stage adaptation in
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Speaker 1: the West End in England, Yes, which is in London
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Speaker 1: for those who don't know where the West End is. Um, this,
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Speaker 1: this story really perplexes me. So first of all, it's
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Speaker 1: it's going to be an adaptation not of the film
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Speaker 1: version of The Shining, which was Stanley kubricks project that
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Speaker 1: that ended up taking a different path than the novel.
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Speaker 1: Like if you've read Stephen King's book and then you
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Speaker 1: saw Stanley Kubrick's film, you would see where the connective
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Speaker 1: tissue is. But you would say, yeah, I mean there
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Speaker 1: was a very loose adaptation when you get down to it.
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Speaker 1: There was a more faithful adaptation in a made for
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Speaker 1: TV mini series with Stephen Webber. That is the less
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Speaker 1: said about the better because it was terrible. But the
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Speaker 1: stage adaptation is supposed to like that. That mini series
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Speaker 1: is supposed to follow the book more closely and not
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Speaker 1: so much the the movie. Um, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: I feel about that. I personally think Kubrick's film is
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Speaker 1: pure yes, and I think I think the book is good.
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Speaker 1: But I've seen quote unquote faithful adaptations of that book
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Speaker 1: and they don't do much for me. But who knows,
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Speaker 1: maybe the live stage element really will change things. I'm
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Speaker 1: also like, my mind boggles at what kind of effects
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Speaker 1: they're going to pull off for that theatrical experience. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the article on Slash Film says that you know, it's
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Speaker 1: not the first Hora adaptation to make it to the stage,
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Speaker 1: and I am iffy on I'm glad that they're going
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Speaker 1: from the book version, because I'm honestly iffy on movies
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Speaker 1: going to stage. There's only a few that have really
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Speaker 1: captured me. We've talked about it before Groundhog Day, Beetlejuice.
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Speaker 1: Beetlejuice has amazing effects, like amazing stagecraft, and so probably
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Speaker 1: they'll pull a little bit from that hat to get
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Speaker 1: off some of the same effects. If they can do
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Speaker 1: Beetlejuice on stage, they can do the shining. I wish
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Speaker 1: I could go to London to watch this, because not
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Speaker 1: all of the Distiller's comedy strikes me correctly although I
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Speaker 1: do like some of it. I did like Suelander, and
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Speaker 1: I like parts of Dodgeball, and I know he can
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Speaker 1: play like a charming yet angry character because that's what
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Speaker 1: he plays in a lot of his comedy. But like
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Speaker 1: he also does some great serious stuff that does gets overlooked.
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Speaker 1: He's done work on Broadway. He's a director on Severance,
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Speaker 1: which I haven't watched and didn't know until today it
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Speaker 1: was a sci fi show. Um, so I'm super interested
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Speaker 1: to see how it goes. I kind of hope it
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Speaker 1: goes well, um because I wanted to come to Broadway
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Speaker 1: so I can potentially watch it. Maybe that'll be my
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Speaker 1: first viewing of the shining. I certainly hope it goes
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Speaker 1: better than the stage adaptation of Misery that had Bruce
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Speaker 1: Willis in it. But you know, is that really a thing? Well,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, that was really a thing about after the show.
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna move on to our final little story
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Speaker 1: for this segment, which is that a company called Merlin Entertainments,
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Speaker 1: which makes amusement park attract sans, has secured the intellectual
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Speaker 1: property rights to create Jumanji themed amusement park rides. So
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Speaker 1: now you two can fear that you will be stuck
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Speaker 1: in jungle for the next forty years. Listen. I so
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Speaker 1: as scary and as dangerous as Jumanji is, Like, people
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Speaker 1: forget that because it's so engaging, both the Robin Williams
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Speaker 1: version and the rock Kevin Hart version. Um, you watch
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Speaker 1: the movie going that would be a lot of fun
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Speaker 1: to be a part of. I mean, I I made
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Speaker 1: the joke, but I mean, like, Jurassic Park is monumentally
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Speaker 1: more dangerous than the Jumanji films because there's a higher
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Speaker 1: death count and uh, and yet there are plenty of
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Speaker 1: amusement park rides that are modeled after Jurassic parks, so
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Speaker 1: they're fun. But but I would also say Jurassic Park
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Speaker 1: is geared a little bit more towards adults than Jamanjee is,
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Speaker 1: just ever so slightly. We don't we don't really know
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Speaker 1: anything more about that, Like where these these meansment park
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Speaker 1: rides might end up. I mean, it really just ends
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Speaker 1: up being uh, which parks partner with Merlin Entertainments to
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Speaker 1: build out that kind of thing. But yeah, it could
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Speaker 1: mean that we'll have some Jumanji themed attractions before too long.
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Speaker 1: I will say that I hope that they do not
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Speaker 1: end up at Madame Tiso's wax House, which Merlin also owns,
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Speaker 1: and I guess they could fit into Lego Land, but
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Speaker 1: I would hope they would not be lego versions of
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Speaker 1: Jumanji because that you'll lose something, you'll lose something. Yeah, yeah, Well,
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Speaker 1: before we lose anything, aerial, I think we need to
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Speaker 1: go take a quick break. When we come back. We've
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Speaker 1: got a couple more news items to cover, and then
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that Pixar thing I was
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Speaker 1: mentioning earlier. The first I'm gonna take this quick break. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're back, and we had a creepy first segment and
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Speaker 1: now we have a creepy second segment. Did not work.
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Speaker 1: Thank for that, Yeah, for the creepy second segment. Well
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Speaker 1: for both segments really, because well, I mean I didn't
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Speaker 1: that we're we're both both to blame, Jonathan, Yeah, yeah, Well,
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Speaker 1: first one is that you you've pulled up a featurette
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Speaker 1: on the upcoming sure to be blockbuster smash hit morbious,
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Speaker 1: the movie I Keep Forgetting is a thing, And apparently
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Speaker 1: I love how you how you titled the news item too,
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Speaker 1: that apparently this featurette is to remind us it is,
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Speaker 1: in fact a thing easy to forget when Sony keeps
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Speaker 1: moving the the premier data around. Yes, but we are
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Speaker 1: going to well I say this in theory, we are
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Speaker 1: going to get it April first, so uh next week potentially. Yes, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, shout like that might
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Speaker 1: just be a huge joke on us, And I guess
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Speaker 1: we'll see the thing, the thing like that they were
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Speaker 1: hoping we get everybody in this little feature at because
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Speaker 1: it doesn't honestly show that much new or engaging material
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Speaker 1: that makes me go, oh, I want to see this
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Speaker 1: more than I did before. It's Jared Letto talking kind
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Speaker 1: of around the thirty second feature at saying, hey, the
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Speaker 1: multiverse has been open, as if they're implying that Sony
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Speaker 1: was not going to have character crossovers. Yeah. Well, and
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Speaker 1: and we were talking before we started recording that. One
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Speaker 1: of the issues I have anyway, is I suspect that
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Speaker 1: for the Sony Marvel movies, you're not going to see
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of crossover from the m c U
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Speaker 1: Marvel movies. Like I don't expect that we're going to
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Speaker 1: see characters from the m c U pop up in
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Speaker 1: Sony films that frequently, if at all, and vice versa,
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Speaker 1: with the possible exception of Spider Man, who's kind of
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Speaker 1: the an element that ties these two parallel Marvel universes together. Um,
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Speaker 1: and so I don't really, I don't know. To me,
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Speaker 1: it's a weird thing to think about about. I don't
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Speaker 1: think we're gonna see, say, Venom show up in an
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Speaker 1: m c U movie. And the big reason for that is, again,
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Speaker 1: Spider Man is like the connective tissue, and Spider Man
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Speaker 1: in the cinematic universes doesn't have a direct connection to Venom.
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Speaker 1: Right Like in the comics, Venom starts off as a
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Speaker 1: symbiote that bonds with Spider Man, and that's why Venom
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Speaker 1: looks the way he does in the comic books. Spider
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Speaker 1: Man three, that's that's old. We're talking about new movies, yes,
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Speaker 1: but now the old is new because they brought Toby
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Speaker 1: McGuire into this latest Spider Man movie. That's not a spoiler.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry what wait? What? What? Some of us haven't
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Speaker 1: seen No Way Home yet? Shoot? Is that? Did I
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Speaker 1: really just spoil that for you? I mean I knew
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Speaker 1: that Andrew Garfield, and like I thought, that was I
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Speaker 1: thought that was no longer a spoiler. I'm sorry, we
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Speaker 1: can cut that out. It's not It's not really a spoiler.
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Speaker 1: I'm just being crouchy because I still haven't seen the movie.
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Speaker 1: I'm you, you've bought the movie. You could watch it
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Speaker 1: digitally right now. Um, but I just have to buy
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Speaker 1: it digitally to like that. The problem is that so
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Speaker 1: I bought the Blu Ray for Spider Man No Way
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Speaker 1: Home because I still haven't seen it, and at the
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Speaker 1: time when I bought it, there was no preorder option
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Speaker 1: for a digital version, so I just thought, oh, I'll
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Speaker 1: just buy it, so I'll get it the day it
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Speaker 1: releases on Blu Ray. That day is not until the
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Speaker 1: middle of April, so I'm if I want to watch it,
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Speaker 1: I have to pay it again. I genuinely apologize if
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Speaker 1: I have spoiled that moment for anybody who has not
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Speaker 1: seen the movie yet, because I realized not everybody can
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Speaker 1: go to the movie theaters. Um I I just figured
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Speaker 1: it was everywhere on the inter and no one could
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Speaker 1: have missed it by this point. Um. No, that's true.
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Speaker 1: I I've seen multiple references to it. I am being
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Speaker 1: a grouchy for no good. I'm not I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: that Venom was in the movie. I'm just saying because
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Speaker 1: Toby McGuire was. Again, sorry everybody. Um, now that I'm
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Speaker 1: doubling down, it does open that door. Um, but you're
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Speaker 1: right in in the m c uth Sony joint pictures
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Speaker 1: prior to now, Venom is not a thing. I mean,
20:28
Speaker 1: I think it could be interesting for Venom to come in, honestly, morbous. Also,
20:32
Speaker 1: Marvel character really hasn't had much crossover outside of Spider
20:40
Speaker 1: Man either. Um. He almost made a cameo and Blade apparently,
20:43
Speaker 1: but which would make sense because Blade is a vampire
20:47
Speaker 1: vampire hunter and that is That is one example I
20:52
Speaker 1: could I could imagine right where when we finally get
20:56
Speaker 1: the MCU Blade movie, for more Bus to have of
21:00
Speaker 1: even just a cameo in that that would not be
21:02
Speaker 1: surprising to me. Um, it would seem like a wasted
21:07
Speaker 1: opportunity if they didn't do it, unless, of course, the
21:10
Speaker 1: more Bious movie is a total flop. If the film
21:14
Speaker 1: flops and the m C you would rather just not
21:18
Speaker 1: acknowledge it, I could understand that too. Yeah, I mean,
21:21
Speaker 1: Sony and m c you have both said recently that
21:23
Speaker 1: they are going to continue to play nice together and
21:26
Speaker 1: are excited about collaborations. So, um, I'm excited to see
21:30
Speaker 1: what that might bring about. I love the Tom Holland
21:33
Speaker 1: Spider Man movies, and so I don't necessarily think it's
21:36
Speaker 1: a bad thing. But this whole like, well, the multiverses
21:40
Speaker 1: open whatever whatever. Yeah, yeah, I mean like we can't
21:46
Speaker 1: like the danger there is to say that the multiverse
21:49
Speaker 1: being a thing gives an excuse to do any story whatsoever,
21:54
Speaker 1: because that very quickly can wear out. It's welcome something
21:58
Speaker 1: else they can wear out. It's welcomes excessive marketing. Yes, yes,
22:03
Speaker 1: like we've been getting for Moonnight. I don't know, like
22:07
Speaker 1: it's not as pervasive as the marketing for Eternals was.
22:11
Speaker 1: Moon Night being a TV show with Oscar Isaac that's
22:13
Speaker 1: coming out on Dizzy Plus kind of a darker according
22:17
Speaker 1: to some of these clips that I have watched, and
22:19
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spoil what's in them, A darker
22:21
Speaker 1: show for sure, which we already knew. Um, but yeah,
22:25
Speaker 1: they keep releasing like every few days another clip from
22:28
Speaker 1: the show, and to me, they are things that while
22:32
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily hold context without the rest of the show,
22:35
Speaker 1: I feel like pivotal moments that have now been spoiled
22:38
Speaker 1: for me see, and I have refused to watch those.
22:43
Speaker 1: I've seen them pop up in my suggested videos feed,
22:47
Speaker 1: but I same with eternals. I didn't watch them for
22:50
Speaker 1: that and I tried to avoid those. I get that
22:54
Speaker 1: it's Disney kind of taking this blanket marketing approach in
22:57
Speaker 1: order to raise awareness and excitement for series. But for
23:01
Speaker 1: someone like me, who I'm kind of bought in on
23:04
Speaker 1: the m C you already to to the largest extent.
23:08
Speaker 1: I mean not everything that's come out in the MCU
23:10
Speaker 1: has excited me, but I'm pretty much all in at
23:15
Speaker 1: this point. I'm gonna go see it. So I I
23:18
Speaker 1: have purposefully avoided it because I still want to be
23:21
Speaker 1: surprised at certain points while I watched the series, and I,
23:25
Speaker 1: like you were saying, I get the feeling that the
23:27
Speaker 1: more of those featurettes that pop up, the fewer of
23:32
Speaker 1: those little moments of delight you're gonna have. Yeah. What
23:36
Speaker 1: I will say, and this won't spoil anything, I promise,
23:39
Speaker 1: and if it does, we'll cut it out, is that
23:43
Speaker 1: one of the little feature at clips felt very in
23:47
Speaker 1: line with something well more in line with something that
23:50
Speaker 1: came over from Netflix, and one of the clips felt
23:52
Speaker 1: more in line with any of the other Disney Plus
23:55
Speaker 1: Marvel television shows, and so I'm really curious to see
23:58
Speaker 1: how they marry them. Especially really sense in all of
24:00
Speaker 1: the clips, like the c g I is just not
24:03
Speaker 1: that impressive to me. Yeah, I mean that that seems
24:06
Speaker 1: to be the case with a lot of the Disney
24:08
Speaker 1: Plus series, right, like that the effects are a pretty
24:14
Speaker 1: big step down from what you would see in the cinematic,
24:19
Speaker 1: which I mean you understand, like obviously the series are
24:22
Speaker 1: not going to have the same budget as a big
24:26
Speaker 1: ticket movie project, but it's still kind of a it
24:30
Speaker 1: still kind of pulls you out of the moment when
24:32
Speaker 1: you can sort of see like it's it's like being
24:34
Speaker 1: at a puppet show and suddenly you can all you
24:36
Speaker 1: can see are the strings. Yeah, I mean that being said, like,
24:39
Speaker 1: it didn't bother me in Loki. I thought Loki Loki
24:42
Speaker 1: also had some really amazing camera work that took place
24:46
Speaker 1: for some of its effects that just was so breathtaking,
24:50
Speaker 1: and it didn't bother me in uh one division because
24:53
Speaker 1: they also used a lot of practical effects to get
24:56
Speaker 1: the style of like how the old TV shows, did
24:59
Speaker 1: affe X right. Well, the thing that bothered me and
25:02
Speaker 1: Loki was the fact that they shot at the Georgia
25:04
Speaker 1: Renaissance Festival, but they moved some of the shop signs around,
25:08
Speaker 1: and that just really irritated me. You know what got me?
25:12
Speaker 1: First of all? Okay, first of all, I might have
25:16
Speaker 1: already gone off about this, and if so, I'm sorry.
25:19
Speaker 1: They shout at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, which I was
25:21
Speaker 1: an actor at for I think like eleven ten eleven years.
25:24
Speaker 1: I did not get an audition for it. And then
25:27
Speaker 1: the woman who did it, and I realized this is scripting,
25:30
Speaker 1: totally acted out of character for an actual Renaissance Festival performer.
25:35
Speaker 1: Like it bothered me more than any LARPing scene in Hawkeye,
25:39
Speaker 1: which I also did not get an audition for. At
25:41
Speaker 1: least the Renaissance Fair, from what I could tell, was
25:43
Speaker 1: supposed to be taking place in a different part of
25:44
Speaker 1: the world. So we know that it's not the Georgia
25:47
Speaker 1: Festival because we don't put up with that crap. Yes, well, yes,
25:51
Speaker 1: that was the Well, let's let's spend a couple of minutes,
25:54
Speaker 1: but we just got a couple left. Well, I wanted
25:57
Speaker 1: to quickly talk about ing Red, which is the new
26:01
Speaker 1: Pixar film which didn't get a ton of marketing. It
26:04
Speaker 1: did not you know, I got a little bit of it,
26:07
Speaker 1: but and I was anticipating it as I was waiting
26:09
Speaker 1: for it to come out on Disney Pluss, and when
26:12
Speaker 1: I watched it, I was delighted. It's follows a young
26:15
Speaker 1: Canadian Chinese girl, um as she turns thirteen, and it's
26:21
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a nut at all subtle tale
26:26
Speaker 1: that's dealing with uh maturity and uh. You know, there's
26:32
Speaker 1: a whole thing about uh, the mother misinterpreting what's going
26:36
Speaker 1: on with UH, with the character getting her first period,
26:41
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of stuff that I think that um,
26:44
Speaker 1: for people of a certain persuasion had trouble connecting with.
26:51
Speaker 1: I'm saying like straight white dudes, because there was this
26:54
Speaker 1: famous straight white dude who wrote a review that was like,
26:56
Speaker 1: I can't feel any connections to this character. And my
26:59
Speaker 1: response was, literally, every other piece of media is pretty
27:03
Speaker 1: much geared for you. Yes, you don't have to connect
27:07
Speaker 1: to everything. Back the heck off. Meanwhile, I thought it
27:11
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun, but um, you said that
27:14
Speaker 1: you know for the most part you felt the same,
27:15
Speaker 1: but you had a couple of other thoughts too. Yeah. So,
27:18
Speaker 1: first of all, it was a really interesting art style.
27:20
Speaker 1: It had some of the most beautiful c G I've
27:23
Speaker 1: ever seen, along with some what I can only equate
27:28
Speaker 1: to almost like Wallace and Grommit level cut c character design. Um.
27:33
Speaker 1: It was especially the eyes whenever they would get excited
27:36
Speaker 1: eyes and then the mouse kind of had like the
27:38
Speaker 1: rounded corners like Wallace and Grommit, not as not as
27:41
Speaker 1: pronounced um, which we aren't familiar with Wallace and Gramma.
27:45
Speaker 1: It's a delightful clammation series. You should watch it. Um.
27:49
Speaker 1: But I thought it was delightful. The first ten minutes
27:52
Speaker 1: had me cackling because boy did I relate to that
27:56
Speaker 1: growing up. I love how the movie deals things like
28:00
Speaker 1: periods because character does get a period. Spoilers, Um, you know,
28:03
Speaker 1: so they it's the first movie I've seen pad Disney movie, really,
28:07
Speaker 1: any kids movie where they've put pads into the movie. Um,
28:13
Speaker 1: that isn't like that isn't like an edgy or teen drama.
28:16
Speaker 1: Obviously there are some that are, but you know, like Pixar,
28:20
Speaker 1: Disney never has never shown that. Um. I do like
28:23
Speaker 1: I do like the story of Like Kids, the struggle
28:26
Speaker 1: of like being a kid and trying to find your
28:29
Speaker 1: And I feel like this crosses whatever gender. Every child
28:32
Speaker 1: grows up trying to figure out who they are and
28:35
Speaker 1: what they like, and that doesn't always mesh with the parents.
28:37
Speaker 1: And if you love your parents, then you know you're
28:39
Speaker 1: worried about hurting them because your viewpoints are different. So
28:42
Speaker 1: all of that I thought was great. The issue I
28:46
Speaker 1: had with it, and maybe this is just uh archive
28:52
Speaker 1: of of my upbringing, is that. And I have the
28:56
Speaker 1: same issue with The Little Mermaid is that you have
28:58
Speaker 1: this child who's rebellious to find in their own way.
29:00
Speaker 1: That's great, that's fine. Who reconciles with their parents at
29:04
Speaker 1: the end, But there is absolutely no no like consequence
29:09
Speaker 1: or acknowledgement of the wrongdoing for that. And like I get,
29:14
Speaker 1: when you're a teenager, you do things. You you you
29:17
Speaker 1: sneak out of the the house. You you know, not that
29:19
Speaker 1: I ever did, mom, I know you listen, um, yeah,
29:22
Speaker 1: but you do things to test your boundaries and that's fine.
29:26
Speaker 1: Usually there are consequences. And I feel like thirteen is
29:31
Speaker 1: there were some times where the kid would be like,
29:33
Speaker 1: I'm thirteen and I'm doing this and I'm like, thirteen
29:37
Speaker 1: is maybe it's sixteen. I would think it was okay
29:39
Speaker 1: at thirteen. I still feel like there should be a
29:41
Speaker 1: little bit more of a consequence for some of the
29:44
Speaker 1: things the kid was doing, because at thirteen you're still
29:47
Speaker 1: pretty much a kid, like you think you're an adult.
29:50
Speaker 1: I agree with that mostly, but I mean I I
29:54
Speaker 1: give a lot of I give a lot of leeway
29:56
Speaker 1: to films because generally speaking, you know, a lot of
30:00
Speaker 1: the movies I love involve things that happened where at
30:04
Speaker 1: the resolution of the film, everything seems to be okay,
30:07
Speaker 1: but if you thought about it for more than five seconds,
30:09
Speaker 1: you'd say, you know, there's there's a lot that's gonna
30:12
Speaker 1: be that's gonna need to be addressed because of this. Heck.
30:16
Speaker 1: I mean, like the Marvel films are great examples, right,
30:18
Speaker 1: like their entire cities that are destroyed, where they kind
30:22
Speaker 1: of reference it in future films, but they don't really
30:25
Speaker 1: reconcile with it. So I gave a lot of of
30:29
Speaker 1: forgiveness for that. UM just really curious before we wrap
30:33
Speaker 1: up and move on to our our next segment, did
30:36
Speaker 1: you have a favorite character, because I definitely did. Uh, Yes,
30:41
Speaker 1: it was Priya. Priya is kind of like the dead
30:44
Speaker 1: pan April Ludgate if you're familiar with Parks and Rex,
30:47
Speaker 1: sort of best friend who's totally there. I thought she
30:52
Speaker 1: was channeling Rosa from Brooklyn nine nine. Yes, that too.
30:56
Speaker 1: Like at first I thought it might have been, um,
30:59
Speaker 1: this say, the same voice actress, but it's not, because
31:03
Speaker 1: she just did Marabella Incanto. There's a lot of overlap
31:06
Speaker 1: thematically Withincanto, like the whole like perfect child kind of thing.
31:11
Speaker 1: My favorite character was Abby because that manic energy, the
31:15
Speaker 1: little short one who was just like super like aggressive.
31:19
Speaker 1: I thought she made me laugh every time she was
31:22
Speaker 1: on screen, so big right here she was. She was funny,
31:27
Speaker 1: like I said, super relatable and you know, looking back
31:30
Speaker 1: at thirteen, I felt all of those things. You know.
31:34
Speaker 1: Um that being said, like, if you're a parent with
31:37
Speaker 1: a kid who is not yet thirteen, maybe watch it
31:41
Speaker 1: first because every child is different and not every child
31:45
Speaker 1: might know that. You know, these are boundaries that you
31:47
Speaker 1: maybe shouldn't cross, even though this character crossed it and
31:50
Speaker 1: was fine. Um, but that's you know, that's why you
31:53
Speaker 1: watch movies with your kids and you explain, you talk
31:56
Speaker 1: about it, right, That's that's partly the point is to
31:57
Speaker 1: open discussions. So I mean like I grew up in
32:00
Speaker 1: the eighties and I turned out beautifully. She turned out
32:05
Speaker 1: beautifully if you look at if you look at the
32:08
Speaker 1: entertainment that I was, that I had access to in
32:11
Speaker 1: the eighties. Who boy, it's a miracle. But he also
32:13
Speaker 1: had an open dialogue with your parents. I did. I
32:16
Speaker 1: did we have a miracle to bring to you Right
32:19
Speaker 1: after this break, as we get into some mash up material,
32:39
Speaker 1: I might have oversold that area. I mean, possibly true,
32:43
Speaker 1: possibly true. I liked it. It invoked like physical movement
32:47
Speaker 1: in me, which I have not had enough of today,
32:48
Speaker 1: even though we're a audio platform and people can't see
32:53
Speaker 1: me do my cool like interpretive speaking. No, but if
32:59
Speaker 1: you if you watch, if you watch the videos that
33:02
Speaker 1: we did as Larger Drunk Collider from many years ago,
33:06
Speaker 1: I guarantee you you will see a very similar gesture
33:09
Speaker 1: to what Ariel just did in one of Yes, definitely
33:12
Speaker 1: I missed those videos. I kind of want to redo them.
33:15
Speaker 1: If people want to see videos, they should write us
33:16
Speaker 1: and tell us. We'll tell you how at the end
33:18
Speaker 1: of the episode. Um not, don't know if we if
33:20
Speaker 1: we'll be able to, but we'll definitely consider it. Well
33:23
Speaker 1: darnwell want to. Yes, we are mashing up a couple
33:26
Speaker 1: of things that we haven't talked about, and that is
33:29
Speaker 1: King Kong and The Godfather. Now King Kong, we we
33:35
Speaker 1: kind of came to because we know that there's going
33:38
Speaker 1: to be a Godzilla Versus Kong sequel that's going to
33:42
Speaker 1: go into production this year shooting in Australia. Um, I
33:46
Speaker 1: never saw the first one, so I mean, I'm just
33:49
Speaker 1: assuming that there wasn't a definitive end where one of
33:52
Speaker 1: them ate the other one. Now there was not. Sorry
33:55
Speaker 1: again spoilers. It's been out a long time and it's
33:58
Speaker 1: out on HBO Max. If you have HBO Max, you
34:01
Speaker 1: can watch it. Um No, there was not a definitive ending.
34:04
Speaker 1: There never is in a monster movie. Even if it's
34:06
Speaker 1: a definitive ending, it's not a definitive ending like no,
34:10
Speaker 1: you gotta be you gotta leave room for sequels. Yeah,
34:13
Speaker 1: and and The Godfather because the day that this episode
34:17
Speaker 1: comes out, the Godfather turns fifty years old. Doesn't look
34:23
Speaker 1: a day over thirty five. No, it's still a decent
34:28
Speaker 1: mob movie. Um, So it's okay. It's a it's a
34:37
Speaker 1: good movie, that's what it is. It's a masterpiece. Godfather
34:41
Speaker 1: is a man like Godfather and Godfather two are practically
34:45
Speaker 1: untouchable about Godfather three Mafia movies. That is a totally
34:50
Speaker 1: touchable mafia. Okay, so I like it. It's long. I
34:55
Speaker 1: don't need to watch it all the time. Do we
34:58
Speaker 1: want to explain long what these movies are for people
35:02
Speaker 1: who are not familiar? I mean, okay, So King Kong.
35:04
Speaker 1: It's about a giant ape that is captured on an
35:08
Speaker 1: island called Skull Island, brought over to New York, climbs
35:11
Speaker 1: the Empire State building, falls off, dies the end. It
35:14
Speaker 1: turns out Beauty killed the Beast. Godfather film about a
35:19
Speaker 1: family called the Corleone family in New York, one of
35:22
Speaker 1: the five families of the fictional versions of the Five
35:26
Speaker 1: Families representing five different crime families in New York. The
35:31
Speaker 1: the the title character, Godfather, is played by Marlon Brando.
35:35
Speaker 1: He's Vito Corleone and he leads the Corleone family. His
35:40
Speaker 1: son Michael, his youngest son, is back from World War Two,
35:45
Speaker 1: and then the story pretty much follows that family's journey
35:49
Speaker 1: as they get into conflicts with one of the other
35:53
Speaker 1: the Five families, and yeah, it's it's a lot of
35:57
Speaker 1: mob mob stuff and a lot of the famous famous
36:00
Speaker 1: lines that you hear quoted all the time. Even if
36:02
Speaker 1: you've never seen The Godfather, chances are you've heard the
36:05
Speaker 1: lines things like take the gun, leave or leave the gun,
36:09
Speaker 1: take the cannolis, or he's sleeping with the fishes, or uh,
36:13
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to give you my daughter's wedding. Yeah,
36:17
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you revenge is a dish best,
36:24
Speaker 1: that's that's it's not that. But yes, a lot of
36:29
Speaker 1: the famous quotes you've heard probably gave Rother the Godfather,
36:34
Speaker 1: not things like that or we're gonna need a bigger boat.
36:37
Speaker 1: Not all quotes came from the Godfather. I cold was
36:42
Speaker 1: from the Godfather. Oh my gosh, it's been so that quote.
36:46
Speaker 1: We're not going to go into it, but that quote
36:47
Speaker 1: is very old and has been used in tons of
36:49
Speaker 1: stuff from Star Trek to mean pretty much everything you can.
36:53
Speaker 1: But we're going to now mesh up King Kong and
36:58
Speaker 1: the Godfather, and um, believe it or not, mine is
37:01
Speaker 1: actually a little short this time. Um, I know I
37:04
Speaker 1: say that a lot. Okay, good. Do you want me
37:06
Speaker 1: to go first this time? Okay, mine is called and
37:10
Speaker 1: I'll be shocked if yours is called something else. The
37:13
Speaker 1: Kong Father, all right, Michael Corleone has a problem. See
37:17
Speaker 1: his father, Kong the King. Corleone is the head of
37:21
Speaker 1: an Italian crime syndicate. He's also a thirty foot tall
37:24
Speaker 1: giant ape. So, as you can imagine, Michael's life hasn't
37:27
Speaker 1: been what you would call typical. He's the youngest of
37:30
Speaker 1: Kong's sons, the other being Sonny and Fredo, and he's
37:34
Speaker 1: got also got a sister named Connie. And it's at
37:36
Speaker 1: Connie's wedding where we pick up on our story where
37:39
Speaker 1: Michael is introducing his girlfriend k to the rest of
37:41
Speaker 1: his family while trying to keep the family business on
37:43
Speaker 1: the down low. Meanwhile, folks are seeking counsel with the
37:47
Speaker 1: Kong Father, And there's this awesome scene where we see
37:50
Speaker 1: this guy asking Kong cor Leone to step in an
37:53
Speaker 1: exact justice on a couple of terrible dudes who wronged
37:56
Speaker 1: this guy in a way that's legit awful. I'm not
37:59
Speaker 1: going to go into it that Corleone says. Now we
38:06
Speaker 1: see in subtitles that what that means is you come
38:09
Speaker 1: on the day of my my daughter is to be married.
38:12
Speaker 1: Whatever have I done to you for you to treat
38:14
Speaker 1: me so disrespectfully. If you had come to me in friendship,
38:17
Speaker 1: I would have thrown these guys from the Empire State Building.
38:20
Speaker 1: But then guys like that would fear you. And one day,
38:24
Speaker 1: and this day may never come, you will do a
38:26
Speaker 1: service for me. But until that day, except this gesture
38:29
Speaker 1: as a gift on my daughter's wedding day. And it's iconic.
38:32
Speaker 1: And you barely noticed that con cor Leone is like
38:35
Speaker 1: all folded up so he can fit into this room
38:38
Speaker 1: in the first place, because he's a thirty foot tall
38:40
Speaker 1: giant eight. Anyway, we find out that there's a rival
38:44
Speaker 1: crime family that has invited con cor Leone to join
38:48
Speaker 1: a narcotics ring. But cong he's a little cautious. He
38:51
Speaker 1: doesn't like it when he's you know, hit with narcotics.
38:54
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how he ended up in America in
38:56
Speaker 1: the first place. And he decides he's going to turn
38:59
Speaker 1: down the opportunity. But then he becomes a target. Literally
39:03
Speaker 1: one day, he's out on the streets in New York.
39:06
Speaker 1: He's minding his own business, causing traffic jams everywhere as
39:09
Speaker 1: he lumbers down the street, and he suddenly attacked a
39:13
Speaker 1: bunch of biplanes armed with machine guns zoom in and
39:16
Speaker 1: starts shooting him up a bunch of times. So Kong
39:19
Speaker 1: survives this attack, but he's whisked off to a really
39:22
Speaker 1: big veterinary clinic. Meanwhile, Sonny takes charge of the Corleone family,
39:27
Speaker 1: and Michael, determined to avenge his pop, agrees to put
39:30
Speaker 1: a hit on the guys that the Corleones have identified
39:33
Speaker 1: as being behind that attack. Immediately after that hit, Michael
39:37
Speaker 1: has to flee the United States, and so he seeks
39:39
Speaker 1: the relative safety of Skull Island, the homeland of his father.
39:43
Speaker 1: Kong slowly recovers in the veterinary clinic, but he worries
39:47
Speaker 1: about the safety of his family as hostilities between the
39:50
Speaker 1: various crime families in New York have really escalated and Sonny,
39:53
Speaker 1: his eldest son, tends to be pretty hot headed. Meanwhile,
39:57
Speaker 1: the Corleones have have to worry about the Marinzanos, the Tatalias,
40:02
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs, and the giant chattering insects. Because the crime
40:06
Speaker 1: families in New York are pretty weird. Sonny enraged at
40:11
Speaker 1: the attempt on his father's life, sends Cappo Peter Clemenza
40:14
Speaker 1: out on this uh, this, this this mission to deal
40:19
Speaker 1: with a particularly nasty dinosaur that was involved in the shooting.
40:23
Speaker 1: And so Clemenza and his associate Rocco, and then the
40:26
Speaker 1: dinosaur known as Ghattosaurus go for a ride with Fay
40:30
Speaker 1: Ray there who's also in the car, but Jesus sleep.
40:33
Speaker 1: Clemenza has the gatosaurus drive the car out to the countryside,
40:36
Speaker 1: and then Rocco wax the dinosaurs, shoots him in the
40:39
Speaker 1: back of the head three times, and then Clemenza says
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Speaker 1: to Rocco the famous line, leave the gun, take the bananas. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: We follow Michael a bit as he settles in on
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Speaker 1: Skull Island, but always has to you know, dodge various
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Speaker 1: assassination attempts and the occasional delusional Hollywood director who comes
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Speaker 1: to the island for some reason. Meanwhile, back home, Sonny
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Speaker 1: gets ambushed by some of those giant insects and then
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Speaker 1: he dies, and Kong, wishing to avoid extinction, makes a
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Speaker 1: deal with the other families, and in return, Michael safety
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Speaker 1: is assured and he comes back to the US. So
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Speaker 1: then the Kong Father decides, you know what, I can
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Speaker 1: handle this, and he goes eight literally on the other
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Speaker 1: four families. I mean, he starts throwing around soldiers and
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Speaker 1: capos left and right and center. He bats airplanes out
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Speaker 1: of the sky. He bounds the other families into submission,
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Speaker 1: until ultimately he has reasserted his position as the true
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Speaker 1: Kong Father of New York. And we conclude in a
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Speaker 1: scene where Cong Corleone is relaxing in an orange grove
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Speaker 1: and he's picking up entire trees and just shoving them
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Speaker 1: into his mouth, and then he suffers a massive heart attack.
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Speaker 1: I mean it would have to be a massive heart
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Speaker 1: attack because he again he's huge, but that's I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a fatal heart attack. He dies, and Michael becomes
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Speaker 1: the new Kong Father, which requires him to both grow
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Speaker 1: about twenty four ft taller and sprout furrel over his body,
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Speaker 1: but Michael, being an obedient son, doesn't, and so we
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Speaker 1: in the movie we see Michael the new Kong Father
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Speaker 1: other as he begins to receive visitors, all of whom
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Speaker 1: carry enormous creates a bananas in tribute, and a gorgeous
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Speaker 1: blonde woman dressed in black quietly enters the room, cut
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Speaker 1: to credits. Oh, I absolutely loved it. That was wonderful.
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Speaker 1: I would watch it, sucker, what no, I like that.
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Speaker 1: I like bananas better than Cannoli's. Um it totally hit. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I feel exactly the opposite. I love Cannolis and I
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Speaker 1: am not a banana fan. I like Cannolis, but I
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Speaker 1: love bananas. Okay, well, Ariel, I am curious to hear
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Speaker 1: your treatment of this pairing. Okay, yes, So originally I
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Speaker 1: had picked the title The Kong Father, but I do
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Speaker 1: have a backup title. I just need to be very
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Speaker 1: very clear as we go through my mash up of
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Speaker 1: what I am saying. This is King Dawn d o
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Speaker 1: n that's it, uh, Because I had the door open
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Speaker 1: today and I went for a walk yesterday, so I'm
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Speaker 1: a little bit stuffy and I'm kind of accidentally putting
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Speaker 1: other letters on the end of my words sometimes, Okay, Okay.
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Speaker 1: So our stories are a little similar, but also completely not.
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Speaker 1: Our story starts out on a boat where famed director
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Speaker 1: and cinematographer Carl Denham has assembled a team of movie
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Speaker 1: makers to travel to a place. If you know of Cranio,
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Speaker 1: Isla or skull islanding in English, an uncharted island off
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Speaker 1: the coast of Italy to find a mysterious identity called
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Speaker 1: the Dawn. Two of said movie makers that Carl recruited.
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Speaker 1: We're Connie an Adams, a lovely Italian American blonde actress,
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Speaker 1: and Jack Fontaine, a scriptwriter or deck hand or singer.
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Speaker 1: He never really gives a straight answer as to who
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Speaker 1: he is. Upon landing on the island, they see the
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Speaker 1: low pols of the island giving offerings to a statue
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Speaker 1: of what the group can only assume is the Dawn
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Speaker 1: while asking for requests. The film crew decided not to
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Speaker 1: interfere as the sun sets and set up camp out
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Speaker 1: of sight from the local village. When the crew awakes
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Speaker 1: from what they thought was a peaceful night, they discovered
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Speaker 1: that Connie, the actress, has been abducted, and in her
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Speaker 1: place is the head of a stegasaurus in her bed.
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Speaker 1: The crew have many questions on finding this out, but
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Speaker 1: push them aside, realizing first and foremost that the important
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Speaker 1: thing is to find and rescue Connie. When they find her,
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Speaker 1: she is in the village being offered as the bride
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Speaker 1: of Dawn to appease the being of legend, and that's
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Speaker 1: when they see him, a giant, hulking, twenty five ft
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Speaker 1: tall man in a sharp suit with slicked back hair,
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Speaker 1: appearing out of the jungle. He sees Connie, his new bride,
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Speaker 1: and the village is about to marry him when he
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Speaker 1: notices the film crew running up, and he grabs Connie
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Speaker 1: and runs off into the jun goal. Carl, the director,
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Speaker 1: was prepared to fight the beast, however, and follows close behind,
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Speaker 1: screaming to him to stop. When the Dawn reaches an impass,
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Speaker 1: he stops and mumbles something to the crew. The crew
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Speaker 1: think they almost understand. It wasn't English, surely not, so
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Speaker 1: they pause and they say what The dawn repeats what
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Speaker 1: it said, but the crew still does not understand what
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Speaker 1: they say again, and this time the Dawn signs at them,
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Speaker 1: a communication method that he learned from the locals, who
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Speaker 1: also couldn't understand him. Carl, tired of the back and forth,
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Speaker 1: orders his crew to shoot the dawn with tranquilizer darts,
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Speaker 1: and the Dawn falls to the ground signing. And this
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Speaker 1: on the day of my wedding, dropping Connie, the bride
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Speaker 1: of the Dawn, in the process. Now having the legendary
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Speaker 1: Dawn knocked out but unable to continue the movie, Carl,
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Speaker 1: the director, decides to take the Dawn back to the mainland.
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Speaker 1: They escape the locals and do just that. Along the way,
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Speaker 1: Connie and the Dawn bough she finds out that he
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Speaker 1: isn't like that. That I mean, he's bad, but he
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Speaker 1: isn't that bad, or so she thought. And that is
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Speaker 1: until they get to the mainland, when Carl and the
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Speaker 1: rest realized something they hadn't before. The Dawn was a
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Speaker 1: former mob boss, Vito Corleone, known as the Godfather, who
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Speaker 1: had escaped an assassination attempt on him from the Five Families,
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Speaker 1: well four if you exclude his own, by escaping Italy,
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Speaker 1: and when that didn't work, he went to Cranio Island,
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Speaker 1: uh and was assumed dead as soon as he arrived
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Speaker 1: on the island. However, the bizarre magical power that kept
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Speaker 1: you know, like Stegasaurus is alive mixed with the immense
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Speaker 1: family plant power Vito had and combined and mutated him
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Speaker 1: into a giant beast version of himself. The problem is,
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Speaker 1: now that he was back on the mainland, the families
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Speaker 1: were after him again. Eager to finish off the job
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Speaker 1: they had started. As soon as the Dawn sees the
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Speaker 1: first hit coming at him, he grabs Connie protect her
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Speaker 1: and runs off, being chased up the leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Speaker 1: Surrounded and nowhere to go, he puts Connie on the
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Speaker 1: top of the building he has promptly gunned down, and
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Speaker 1: falls onto the local pizzeria next door. He mumbles as
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Speaker 1: he dies, I guess and if very going to refuse,
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Speaker 1: but only Connie understood and grieved for him. Years later,
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Speaker 1: newspapers and historians have changed the story to say it
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Speaker 1: was an ape because they thought the real story would
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Speaker 1: be too hard to believe. The end, it was beauty
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Speaker 1: that killed the Dawn, Yes, Dawn. That was a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun and weird. One of the weirdest mashups we've
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Speaker 1: done so far, I think, which is odd because it's yeah,
47:39
Speaker 1: it's odd because it's you know, we've picked more far
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Speaker 1: out films too to serve as mash up fodder. So obviously,
47:46
Speaker 1: if you have your own thoughts about how to mash
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Speaker 1: up King Kong and the Godfather and create some sort
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