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Speaker 1: The large Nerdrunk Collider podcast is a production of my
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi everybody, welcome to The large Nerdrunk Collider,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the kiki things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how super excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm arial casting and with me as always.
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Speaker 1: Is this super fantastic? Jonathan Strickland, thank you for that
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Speaker 1: lovely introduction, aial, and in return, I have a question
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Speaker 1: for you. Okay, So this is a scenario question for
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Speaker 1: those of us who are familiar with my alter ego
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Speaker 1: Quizster for Ridiculous History. You've agreed to do a twenty
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Speaker 1: four hour charity marathon, and which you will be playing
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Speaker 1: a video or a computer game for the entire duration,
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Speaker 1: same game for all twenty four hours, allowing for breaks
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Speaker 1: for food and bathroom breaks and that games stuff. Which
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Speaker 1: game do you choose? You're asking me to do some
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Speaker 1: big thanks, Jonathan. Uh. I guess I'm gonna say Desert
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Speaker 1: Plus because that is legit a thing that already happens
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Speaker 1: and I have always wanted to be a part of it.
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Speaker 1: Um Desert Bus is a video game created by Penn
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Speaker 1: and Teller where you drive a bus real time across
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Speaker 1: the desert, and it veers slightly to one direction. But
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Speaker 1: they every year a bunch of Internet personalities get together
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Speaker 1: and and drive it in marathon to raise money for
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Speaker 1: the Child's Play Foundation, which I think is really cool
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Speaker 1: and I've always wanted to be a part. It's not
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Speaker 1: the game i'd pick for funness. That would probably be
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Speaker 1: Mass Effect or Minecraft with my mom are, but uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what I do think. And just to stick on
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Speaker 1: desert bus for a second, I think it takes like
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Speaker 1: seventeen hours to make the trip one way. It's I
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Speaker 1: think it's Los Angeles to Las Vegas. And if you crash,
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Speaker 1: if you veer off the road too far, you get
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Speaker 1: a flat tire and you get towed all the way
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Speaker 1: back to the beginning in real time. So and you
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Speaker 1: can't just set the computer to to go in a
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Speaker 1: straight direction and walk away because, as Ariel said, it
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Speaker 1: pulls a little to the right, so you're constantly having
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Speaker 1: to correct for that. So it was made to be
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Speaker 1: irritating and pointless, and you get one point every time
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Speaker 1: you go from one city to the other. It just
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Speaker 1: takes hours to do it. For me, well, first of all,
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Speaker 1: I actually have done this a couple of times. I've
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Speaker 1: done it for charity for for the Children's Hospital of Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: and both times I played Minecraft for twenty four hours straight.
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Speaker 1: I built stuff in the world based upon the donations
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Speaker 1: I got. So people donated, I would build a monument
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Speaker 1: to them that was fitting for whatever the level of
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Speaker 1: donation was. But if I were to do it again,
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Speaker 1: I think I would actually do Star Do Valley because
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Speaker 1: I find that game really really like chill, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just curious how far I could get in, just like
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Speaker 1: if I started a brand new game and had twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours to go, how much could I get done?
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Speaker 1: But if it were really chill, wouldn't you fall asleep
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Speaker 1: during I mean there's always a danger, but then that
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Speaker 1: can also happen in the game. And if you fall
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Speaker 1: asleep while you're out and about in Star Dow Valley,
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Speaker 1: you wake up either when you wake up back at home,
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Speaker 1: but someone has rifled through your pockets and taken all
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Speaker 1: your money. So oh, but a good portion of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, No, I mean it's you know, you learned
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Speaker 1: some hard life lessons. Okay, well we got that answered. Well,
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Speaker 1: we should probably just segue right into the show and
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Speaker 1: we wanted to start off, you know, we went gaga
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Speaker 1: for Wanda Vision when it debuted on Disney Plus, and
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Speaker 1: now the next mini series from Disney Plus has started,
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Speaker 1: that being Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and we thought
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Speaker 1: we would do an attempt check to see what we
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Speaker 1: each thought of the first episode because we have each
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Speaker 1: watched it. So what did you think, ariel? Um? It
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Speaker 1: was good, It wasn't. It was a lot more serious,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't enjoy it quite. It wasn't quite as
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Speaker 1: fun as Want of Vision for me, Um, but I
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Speaker 1: did enjoy it. They did some really cool things with cinematography.
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Speaker 1: They had some people in squirrel suits doing some some
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Speaker 1: like paragliding I guess what would be called point plane jumping,
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Speaker 1: and they would put the same sort of body cam
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Speaker 1: on them as they would on the Falcon, which I
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Speaker 1: thought was just really cool. It made it made it
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Speaker 1: feel so much more real to me, um to see
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Speaker 1: the superhero flying around. Um. There were some cool little
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Speaker 1: minor character drops in there that I kind of spoiled.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I know how some things are going
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Speaker 1: to turn out based on those spoilers that I spoiled
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Speaker 1: for myself. Um, And it It also dealt with Marvel's
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Speaker 1: been doing a really good job with their properties lately
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Speaker 1: of dealing with the rough percussions of the snap and
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Speaker 1: little things you don't think about, like the little things
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Speaker 1: that happened in the five years between your disappearance and
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Speaker 1: your reappearance, And they did that in Falcon and Winter
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Speaker 1: Soldier in a really cool way. So I liked it.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the next episode. It just wasn't
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Speaker 1: quite as fun as one division for me. I agree
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Speaker 1: that it wasn't as fun, but I loved it. I
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Speaker 1: absolutely loved that episode. I loved how they are taking
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Speaker 1: their time establishing the characters and what their current conflicts are.
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Speaker 1: And so far in the series, the two main characters
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Speaker 1: haven't haven't teamed up at all. They are in their
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Speaker 1: separate story relines. But those storylines are really compelling, and um,
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Speaker 1: I would even say like the Falcons is more compelling
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Speaker 1: to me than the Winter Soldiers. I mean, the Winter
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Speaker 1: Soldier is dealing with massive amounts of guilt for the
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Speaker 1: things he did, as you know, a weapon in the
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Speaker 1: hands of Hydra. He's he's trying to cope with that.
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Speaker 1: The Falcon is trying to help rescue his family's business,
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Speaker 1: whereas his sister is being much more pragmatic and trying
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Speaker 1: to do what's best for her family. The Falcon doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to let go of the past. And um, I
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Speaker 1: feel like this show is also doing some great stuff
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Speaker 1: and that it is addressing and not in a super
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Speaker 1: heavy handed way, but addressing things like systemic racism, the
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Speaker 1: practice of redlining, things that have disproportionately affected people of color.
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Speaker 1: And you know, in this world, you're seeing that that
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Speaker 1: stuff happens even for the people who are superheroes. Same
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Speaker 1: sort of thing where you know the falcon Um spoilers,
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Speaker 1: I guess if you haven't watched it yet, so skip
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Speaker 1: ahead a litt bit if you haven't watched Falcon and
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Speaker 1: Winter Soldier. But he voluntarily hands over Captain America shield
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Speaker 1: because he doesn't feel he's ready to take on that mantle,
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Speaker 1: and then the impression he's given is that this is
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Speaker 1: going to be held as an object of reverence. But
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Speaker 1: then by the end of the first episode, it's shown
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Speaker 1: that there is a new Captain America that they chose
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Speaker 1: someone who happens to be extremely white, and it's not
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Speaker 1: so it's not Sam, And that also feels like it's
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Speaker 1: another kind of way of dealing with you know, here's
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Speaker 1: a country that you've got this heroic figure who was
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Speaker 1: who was given everything to to serve his country, and
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Speaker 1: his country is not reciprocating. And I think that that's
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Speaker 1: really compelling too. So I really like that first episode.
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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that the whole series kind of holds up
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Speaker 1: to this. Let's kind of move on. I think we've
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Speaker 1: got a lot of superhero stuff to talk about. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it's almost all exclusively superhero stuff. Yeah, and we want
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Speaker 1: to talk about other superhero stuff. It's just been some
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Speaker 1: super heavy superhero weeks. So the first thing is the
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Speaker 1: other geeky thing I watched this weekend was the Snyder cut.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Justice League of the Justice So you
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Speaker 1: spent four hours and two minutes of your life doing that.
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Speaker 1: I spent six hours in like ten minutes of my
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Speaker 1: life doing it because I kept having to stop and go, wait,
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Speaker 1: when did that happen? Where is this? What was this
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Speaker 1: in the first one? Oh, I have to pee, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I need a snack. Yeah, it took me more like
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Speaker 1: six hours to watch it, but um and I took
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Speaker 1: a walk in the middle just so I wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: a couch potato all day. I enjoyed it more than
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Speaker 1: I thought I would, So, yeah, Snyder. But you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the things I thought about it was, well,
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Speaker 1: it's getting such good reviews and not completely across the board,
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Speaker 1: but it's getting a lot of really good reviews, and
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it more than I could. Is there a
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Speaker 1: potential that they might try to bring back more of
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Speaker 1: of the Snyder verse? You know, he he set up
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Speaker 1: a lot at the end of the four hour movie,
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Speaker 1: and then we got articles saying, yeah, Warner Brothers brothers
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Speaker 1: have have essentially said there this that is the conclusion
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Speaker 1: of the Snyder trilogy. So setting up stuff like Martian
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Speaker 1: Man Hunter is to no avail because we're probably not
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Speaker 1: going to see that version in future DC. I mean
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Speaker 1: there will probably we might see the character, but maybe
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Speaker 1: not that version of the character in future DC movies. Um. So,
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Speaker 1: I I have not watched the Snyder Cut as of yet. Um.
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Speaker 1: I just haven't set aside the time to do it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I've seen conflicting reviews. I've seen some people who said
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Speaker 1: it's different but not necessarily any better than the Weed
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Speaker 1: and cut. I've seen others who have said it's more
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Speaker 1: coherent than the we din't cut, like things make more sense,
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Speaker 1: but it's not, you know, the the quippy stuff is
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Speaker 1: is toned way way way down. Um. So I've seen
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Speaker 1: a lot of different things. I I don't have a
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Speaker 1: dog in this fight, honestly, Like to me, I have
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Speaker 1: a feeling that there's just nothing they could have done
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Speaker 1: that would have made me really interested, simply because this
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Speaker 1: was the continuation of storylines that I already didn't like,
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Speaker 1: So there really wasn't any way of them going forward
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Speaker 1: that I was going to be totally on board. That's
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Speaker 1: that's my deal. I'm not saying they're bad movies, just
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Speaker 1: saying they didn't appeal to me. Um. But me, I,
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Speaker 1: you see, I felt like they each had some benefits
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Speaker 1: over the other, So each each each had some blind
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Speaker 1: spots that I felt like the other one might have addressed. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and almost all the reviews I saw did say that
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Speaker 1: while the film moves along fairly well, it is too long. Um.
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Speaker 1: Although the helps that they've broken it up into chapters,
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Speaker 1: so it feels almost more like a mini series that
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Speaker 1: does a full movie. And I think maybe that's the
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Speaker 1: way Snyder needs to tell his stories because he does
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Speaker 1: have a hard time. He's got so much story he
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Speaker 1: wants to tell almost always, and my biggest problem with
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Speaker 1: him is trying to fit too much story into two
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Speaker 1: little times. So maybe he just needs to start getting
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Speaker 1: some high budget miniseries. Maybe we need to, like somehow
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Speaker 1: do our own ll en c mashup of Peter Jackson
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Speaker 1: and Snyder because Peter Jackson took The Hobbit, a book
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Speaker 1: that doesn't have that much story and stretched it, and
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Speaker 1: then Snyder's trying to cram too much story into too
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Speaker 1: small of a form. Factor. Somewhere in the middle is
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Speaker 1: the sweet spot. Um, Somewhere in the middle is the
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Speaker 1: sweet spot. But you know, w B and and DC
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Speaker 1: do have plans to continue the universe. Maybe we will
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Speaker 1: get Marsha Manhunter. I really liked his design and I
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Speaker 1: love that actor. Um, but we are getting Zatana movie. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: She's a magician character who has a lot of history
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Speaker 1: in the in the DC universe, so that's really exciting.
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Speaker 1: And Emerald Fennel is writing it. She's the one who
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Speaker 1: wrote Promising Young Woman. I'm guessing Ariel, you have not
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Speaker 1: seen that movie. I haven't. I wanted to and then
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Speaker 1: it just fell off my radar. It's you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a brilliant It's a brilliant film. Mhm.
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Speaker 1: It is a heavy film. It's dealing with some heavy stuff,
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Speaker 1: but a brilliant movie. And so interesting that that someone
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Speaker 1: who wrote something so visceral and heavy is now writing
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Speaker 1: a like a superhero script. Well, you know, Sitana is
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Speaker 1: often a part of you know, kind of the dark
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Speaker 1: dark University. C'ss the hook up with constantin. Yeah. Also
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Speaker 1: one thing the other. The other thing that we didn't mention,
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Speaker 1: but I just want to give a quick shout out
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Speaker 1: to is that despite the fact that we got a
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Speaker 1: Snyder cut of Justice League, it looks like we're not
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Speaker 1: going to get an air cut of Suicide Squad. So
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Speaker 1: the Suicide Squad that we got the theatrical cut, that's
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Speaker 1: the only version that we ever expect to see, and
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Speaker 1: I have feelings about that too. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: I would have liked the Suicide Squad original version. I
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Speaker 1: definitely didn't like the one that came out, but I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing that. But I'm very much looking forward today. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: because that's gonna be yes that's that's gonna be handled
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Speaker 1: by someone who can tell a story and hopefully not
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Speaker 1: have it chopped up by a movie trailer studio, because
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Speaker 1: that's what happened to the first one. Um switching back
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Speaker 1: over to Marvel, though, we have another quick Disney Plus announcement,
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Speaker 1: which is that, uh, there is a already an announcement
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Speaker 1: of a spinoff of a series that hasn't even come
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Speaker 1: out yet, right, So Hawkeye is getting a spinoff before
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Speaker 1: Hawkeye even comes out on Disney Plus. And this one
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Speaker 1: should make you really happy because the spinoff is about
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Speaker 1: Echo U a k a. Mile Lopez, who is a
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Speaker 1: Native American woman who is hearing impaired. She usually shows
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Speaker 1: up as a supporting character in dare just who you
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Speaker 1: have been wanting to come back so bad. I would
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Speaker 1: love to see Daredevil returned to the m c U.
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Speaker 1: I really think. I think that the first season, in
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Speaker 1: particular of Daredevil, it really set the stage for some
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Speaker 1: incredible Marvel series. Now, granted, the Marvel series we got
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Speaker 1: post Daredevil and Punisher and all those have not been
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Speaker 1: nearly as bloody as Daredevil was for good reason, but
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Speaker 1: I would love to see Daredevil brought back in Echo
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Speaker 1: has a superpower where she's able to copy the fighting
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Speaker 1: style of whomever she's going up against, which makes her
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Speaker 1: very similar to a character named Taskmaster, who is the
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Speaker 1: villain that will be appearing in the Black Widow movie,
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Speaker 1: assuming we ever get it. We will, we will. There's
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Speaker 1: news that that's probably going to come out on D
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Speaker 1: Plus and in theaters at the same time. Um, that's
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Speaker 1: wasn't on our list of news items, but it did
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Speaker 1: come out this week. Uh. And the last news item
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Speaker 1: we have is about a comic book series called There
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Speaker 1: Are No Vowels. The r z r K vowels are
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Speaker 1: for other heroes. Yeah. This is a comic book series
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Speaker 1: that was created by Keanu Reeves and he of course
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Speaker 1: has been attached to appear in both a live action
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Speaker 1: film and an animated series that are both have been
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Speaker 1: optioned from this comic book series and the short version
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Speaker 1: of it. Ariel and I decided that it's John Wick
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Speaker 1: meets the Highlander because it's it's a or Or or
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Speaker 1: Vandal seven. No one knows who that is. A Highlander
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Speaker 1: Highlanders so immortal immortal warrior type who at this point
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Speaker 1: is just looking for a way to get some rest.
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Speaker 1: M so the comic was originally kick started and it
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Speaker 1: was produced by Boom Studios, and I actually I looked
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Speaker 1: at Boom Studios because I'm not always super familiar with
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Speaker 1: some of the smaller comic houses. But Boom Studios has
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Speaker 1: done some comics that I like, specifically the Buffy series.
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Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed this season eight and season nine and
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Huh yeah, awesome. Well, I'm very
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Speaker 1: excited to learn more about all of these things. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm still kind of curious about why A
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Speaker 1: or wouldn't get a Suicide Squad re cut. I mean,
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Speaker 1: with the with the success of the Snyder cut, I
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Speaker 1: would have thought that might lead to other possibilities. That
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Speaker 1: does not appear to be the case. Maybe if there's
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Speaker 1: enough uproar there will be. I honestly don't care enough.
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Speaker 1: I'm just curious what Suicide Squad originally was going to
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Speaker 1: be and whether or not I would have liked it.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I would, but I definitely don't like
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Speaker 1: the theatrical one. So but again, there were there were
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Speaker 1: some things I liked, but overarchingly I did not. Now
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Speaker 1: One thing that Ariel and I both like is to
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Speaker 1: wallow in the good old nostalgic entertainment that we enjoyed
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Speaker 1: years and years ago. And it turns out we're not alone.
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna talk more about that after we take
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Speaker 1: this quick break. All Right, we're back, and as Jonathan said,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit about nostalgia. So
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Speaker 1: this week it was announced that Family Matters viewership sword
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Speaker 1: about four d in UM, which is amazing. Family Matters
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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite sitcom shows, um, and so
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Speaker 1: I was super excited to hear this news, and it's
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Speaker 1: one I feel like has transcended time a little bit
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Speaker 1: because even even kids nowadays, Uh, you know who Steve
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Speaker 1: Urkel is, right, and he was a big pop culture
17:52
Speaker 1: nerd who was oftentimes very unapologetically nerdy, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like you kind of intro the way into the geekdom
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Speaker 1: we have now. Um. So that was really awesome. But apparently,
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Speaker 1: like because we haven't had a lot of new media,
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Speaker 1: people are just watching their old favorites over and over
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Speaker 1: and over. I think that's part of it. And I
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Speaker 1: think another part of it is that there is so
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Speaker 1: much comfort to be found in watching something that you're
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Speaker 1: already familiar with, right like, I don't know, Ariel, has
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Speaker 1: this ever happened to you? Where let's say you've got
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Speaker 1: some spare time, you want to watch something. You take
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Speaker 1: a look at the stuff that's on your queue. There's
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Speaker 1: a ton of stuff you've never seen before. But you
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Speaker 1: find yourself drawn to something that you've watched a bazillion
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Speaker 1: times already. Yes, yes, And it's oftentimes when I want
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Speaker 1: something a little distracting, but I don't have to pay
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of attention to. So I've done it
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Speaker 1: with friends. I've done it with the office. I've done
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Speaker 1: it with family matters, Full House, Ship's Creek, How I
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Speaker 1: Met Your Mother? Yep, all those. I'll just put it on.
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Speaker 1: I've watched it at times, and I'll just put it
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Speaker 1: on because it's it's like going home to well for me,
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Speaker 1: it's going home to a dysfunctional family because I think
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Speaker 1: of it's always sunny in Philadelphia is one of my
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Speaker 1: go toos Um. Yeah, No, I'm the same way where
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Speaker 1: like it gets there's a whole meme about this, right
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Speaker 1: about the idea that you've got like five hundred titles
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Speaker 1: on on your list of things you've never seen, and
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Speaker 1: they're readily available. They're just a click away or a
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Speaker 1: remote button push away or whatever. All you have to
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Speaker 1: do is start it. Instead, you are like, well, let's
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Speaker 1: rewatch season three of the Great British Bakeoff or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Um oh, I can't do that one. I'm so invested
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Speaker 1: in the bakes and I'm always trying to learn something new,
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Speaker 1: like I have to, I have to. Like So I
19:45
Speaker 1: don't mean that I don't mean to get off track already,
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Speaker 1: but arial you know, recently, I have spent a lot
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Speaker 1: of time looking up just clips not of British Bakeoff,
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Speaker 1: but of Master Chef, just clips of people doing really well,
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Speaker 1: but because I don't like the parts where people fail.
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Speaker 1: So so it's like I'm watching just I'm watching a
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Speaker 1: show where nobody does anything wrong. Everyone always is on
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Speaker 1: their a game and impressing Gordon Ramsey. That's that's the
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Speaker 1: Master Chef that exists in my world. That's really interesting
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Speaker 1: to me because you don't want to watch anybody fail,
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Speaker 1: but your go to comfort show is always sunny in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: which is just But those are awful human beings who
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Speaker 1: deserve terrible things to happen to them, right, Like it's
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Speaker 1: like that that's and it's all fictional. I can. I
20:36
Speaker 1: can enjoy that. In fact, for a long time I
20:38
Speaker 1: wasn't able to enjoy it because I have a thing
20:40
Speaker 1: about cringe humor. I'm not I'm not super fond of it,
20:45
Speaker 1: but from me, the cringe comes in when I have
20:49
Speaker 1: a great deal of empathy or sympathy for a character
20:54
Speaker 1: and I don't want to see terrible things happen to
20:56
Speaker 1: that character. It's always Sunny. Freed me of this terrible
21:00
Speaker 1: burden by making all the characters reprehensible, so you want
21:04
Speaker 1: to see term Like, for the longest time, I didn't
21:06
Speaker 1: want anything bad to happen to Charlie because in the
21:08
Speaker 1: first season Charlie's Charlie just seems to be downtrodden. He
21:13
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be bad, but then as you get
21:15
Speaker 1: a little further in, he is terrible. Yeah. Yeah, As
21:21
Speaker 1: I mentioned, all the shows that I tend to go
21:23
Speaker 1: back to are all sitcoms, but they're more lighthearted sitcoms.
21:29
Speaker 1: But still the humor in their shows does come mainly
21:32
Speaker 1: from people's failure. Well, that's that's the thing though. That's
21:35
Speaker 1: usually where comedy comes in, right. Comedy usually comes in
21:38
Speaker 1: where like the saying, as you stub your toe, it's
21:41
Speaker 1: a tragedy, you'd walk off the edge of a cliff.
21:44
Speaker 1: And it's a comedy kind of thing where it's it's
21:47
Speaker 1: this idea of subverting expectations and typically setting people up
21:52
Speaker 1: to have whatever thing they were trying to achieve fall
21:56
Speaker 1: through in a unexpected way, and that lead to the comedy.
22:01
Speaker 1: But and then how they handle that also leads to
22:04
Speaker 1: the comedy. But I am curious, like, are there any
22:07
Speaker 1: particular titles that you really leaned on heavily during pandemic
22:13
Speaker 1: where we just didn't have the opportunity to get out
22:16
Speaker 1: or was it just the sort of the ones you
22:17
Speaker 1: had already kind of listed off? Um, I think I
22:25
Speaker 1: So I did go through a bunch of shows that
22:27
Speaker 1: I hadn't had the chance to watch. I like, I
22:32
Speaker 1: made myself take some discipline, and I I said, here
22:36
Speaker 1: the series, here are the movies that I've wanted to
22:38
Speaker 1: watch during pandemic, and I'm going to do that. But
22:41
Speaker 1: then when that was done, when I'm like getting ready
22:45
Speaker 1: for bed and I'm just trying to shut off my brain,
22:47
Speaker 1: or if I've had a particularly rough day and I
22:49
Speaker 1: just want just something chill, I think it's it's been
22:54
Speaker 1: The Office, which is really weird because when I first
22:57
Speaker 1: started watching The Office, I did not like it. I
23:01
Speaker 1: didn't the for entire first season where they're trying to
23:04
Speaker 1: be the British Office, I felt I thought it was
23:07
Speaker 1: mean spirited and belabored. Um. And then you get into
23:10
Speaker 1: the second season and everybody starts to have growth, and
23:13
Speaker 1: there's still episodes of the Office that are largely cringe
23:16
Speaker 1: ey that I can't stand to watch. But um like
23:21
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm so familiar with it at the point,
23:24
Speaker 1: and part of it is because my husband also, we'll
23:26
Speaker 1: put it on and just watch it. Um. So I'm
23:30
Speaker 1: so familiar with it that I kind of tune out
23:33
Speaker 1: those episodes or those moments that really make me cringe,
23:36
Speaker 1: and tune in on my favorite moments. We also rewatched
23:39
Speaker 1: Buffy and are currently rewatching far Escape. Yeah, I did
23:44
Speaker 1: a little bit other than well, and I haven't, to
23:48
Speaker 1: be perfectly fair, I haven't watched any of It's Always
23:50
Speaker 1: Sunny during Pandemic. It's just that was my go to
23:52
Speaker 1: for a while when I wanted to watch something that
23:55
Speaker 1: I had already seen in the pandemic. The stuff i've
23:58
Speaker 1: watched the most. Actually, what I haven't watched that much
24:02
Speaker 1: television programming. I watched a lot of stuff that creators
24:05
Speaker 1: were making, either on Twitch or YouTube or whatever. But
24:08
Speaker 1: when I was whenever I would watch television, it tended
24:12
Speaker 1: to be British comedy series, which is terrible because you
24:16
Speaker 1: will go through them in like two days and they
24:20
Speaker 1: just got to turn over again. So Garth Mringhey's Dark Place,
24:25
Speaker 1: if you've never seen that, it's bonkers crazy. The premise
24:30
Speaker 1: is that there's a Stephen King like writer named Garth
24:34
Speaker 1: Mringhey who has an extremely high opinion of himself. He's
24:39
Speaker 1: a dream weave, and there's a television series that was created.
24:45
Speaker 1: It's a fake TV series, but the idea is that
24:48
Speaker 1: it's a television series that was created from his works,
24:50
Speaker 1: and he, being the egotistical person that he is, stars
24:53
Speaker 1: in it as the main character. UM. And it has
24:57
Speaker 1: a lot of of British comedy actors in it that
25:01
Speaker 1: you would recognize from other stuff like Richard Iawada isn't it,
25:05
Speaker 1: Matt Barry is in it. UM. It is a very
25:09
Speaker 1: silly take. Uh. Stephen Merchant is in a couple of episodes. UM.
25:13
Speaker 1: Noel Fielding is in a couple, so yeah, it's it's
25:16
Speaker 1: a really British British actors are all in. Yeah, it's
25:19
Speaker 1: a small group of of really tightly knit group. But
25:23
Speaker 1: it's really it's really silly, it's ridiculous, Like it's it's
25:28
Speaker 1: really making fun of like early eighties British TV and
25:34
Speaker 1: the limitations on things like special effects, but everyone's treating
25:38
Speaker 1: it like it's the most cutting edge stuff ever. And
25:41
Speaker 1: the other one I watched a couple of times through
25:44
Speaker 1: was The Mighty Bush, another British comedy series. At least
25:48
Speaker 1: that one has four series or four seasons, so little
25:52
Speaker 1: extra to watch in that one. Um very very weird
25:56
Speaker 1: series as well. But yeah, those really kind of like
25:59
Speaker 1: my go toos, And it was because I mean, I
26:00
Speaker 1: had seen them all so many times. I can still
26:03
Speaker 1: get enjoyment even though I know exactly what's coming, because
26:07
Speaker 1: the quality of the performances and the weird writing, the
26:11
Speaker 1: British humor is just so strange, which is one of
26:14
Speaker 1: the reasons I love it so much. Those were my
26:16
Speaker 1: go twos. I like going to nostalgic things a little
26:20
Speaker 1: bit because it brings back those feelings before being stuck
26:26
Speaker 1: in the house. Yeah, So I think about, you know,
26:31
Speaker 1: watching these these older shows, and I go back, like
26:35
Speaker 1: I I think about going out and hanging out my
26:37
Speaker 1: friends and watching it or talking about the episodes, and
26:39
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a little mini brain vacation. One
26:43
Speaker 1: thing I had thought about doing I just never got
26:46
Speaker 1: around to doing, was doing like, you know, like a
26:48
Speaker 1: Netflix watch party, because that capability is built right into
26:51
Speaker 1: a lot of the Netflix apps. But I never coordinated
26:54
Speaker 1: with friends to do that, to kind of watch something
26:57
Speaker 1: collectively and then talk about And I think part of
26:59
Speaker 1: the zone for that is that it it just feels
27:02
Speaker 1: like everything we do is through Zoom or teams or
27:07
Speaker 1: you know, some other video conferencing system, So it ends
27:12
Speaker 1: up feeling more like work than socializing, and it just
27:16
Speaker 1: ends up being exhausting. At least that's my armchair personal
27:20
Speaker 1: psychology approach to why I haven't done anything. Now I
27:24
Speaker 1: get it. I've done I've done a few watch parties,
27:27
Speaker 1: and we tend to just do it on voice. We
27:30
Speaker 1: watched the TV on whatever streaming platform we're using. Most
27:34
Speaker 1: of them have a watch party feature now, um, and
27:36
Speaker 1: then we'll connect on discord or over the phone and
27:39
Speaker 1: we'll just chat throughout it, because yeah, you know me,
27:44
Speaker 1: I love being in front of a camera, but it's
27:47
Speaker 1: just relaxing to be able to just sit and talk
27:49
Speaker 1: and not have to worry about making eye contact or
27:53
Speaker 1: how I look or if I've got pizza in my
27:55
Speaker 1: teeth or it's it is tough to make eye contact
27:58
Speaker 1: because it means you're looking to a camera, not actually
28:01
Speaker 1: looking at the picture of the person you're talking to,
28:03
Speaker 1: which is usually several inches below where of the cameras.
28:07
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, like I totally get the whole nostalgic,
28:11
Speaker 1: comforting experience. There's some element of ritual there too, like
28:16
Speaker 1: the idea of doing something you've done before and being
28:19
Speaker 1: able to go through it. You already know what to expect.
28:21
Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any surprises, so nothing's gonna tax
28:25
Speaker 1: you psychologically. Um, I get all that. So I'm not
28:30
Speaker 1: really super surprised to see that these numbers are are
28:33
Speaker 1: so high. Um, and good for them, I mean, it's
28:37
Speaker 1: and good for all the people who are discovering stuff
28:40
Speaker 1: for the first time. Like they're younger audiences who may
28:43
Speaker 1: be watching this kind of stuff for the first time ever.
28:46
Speaker 1: So I hope that they're enjoying it. Well, you know,
28:49
Speaker 1: I think good shows tend to come around. You know,
28:51
Speaker 1: they might be dated, but they also have timeless concept
28:55
Speaker 1: and relatable humor no matter the age. For instance, one
28:58
Speaker 1: of the shows that had great viewership was the Andy
29:01
Speaker 1: Griffith Show, Yeah Dating. By the time I watched it,
29:06
Speaker 1: I was amazed that jabber Jaw wasn't on there, because
29:08
Speaker 1: that's a real work of art. You know. I don't
29:11
Speaker 1: know if you're joking or not, but I actually did
29:13
Speaker 1: enjoy jabber Jaw. So it was between Jabber John Great
29:16
Speaker 1: Babe that I was gonna say, liked them both, and
29:19
Speaker 1: Troopy Dog and Wacky Races and all that snaggle. Now,
29:24
Speaker 1: you know what else I liked what Charlie Brown Meat.
29:28
Speaker 1: I still like Charlie Brown, me too. You know how
29:31
Speaker 1: much I like Charlie Brown. How much Jonathan enough to
29:34
Speaker 1: mash him into somebody else? That's so me. You're the
29:38
Speaker 1: one who picked it. So we're gonna do a mesh
29:40
Speaker 1: up after the break where we take Charlie Brown and
29:44
Speaker 1: mesh up Charlie Brown with a classic English literature literary figure.
29:51
Speaker 1: I bet you'll never guess who it is who lives
29:54
Speaker 1: at two twenty one B Baker Street. Well, you gave
29:57
Speaker 1: it away, now we'll be right back. Okay, we are back,
30:17
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we we chose to mash up Sherlock
30:21
Speaker 1: Holmes and Charlie Brown and to give you guys a
30:24
Speaker 1: little bit of a behind the scenes view of how
30:27
Speaker 1: these sort of things come together. Uh, usually we look
30:31
Speaker 1: at the news and see if there's anything in the
30:34
Speaker 1: news where we can mash stuff up. But obviously this
30:36
Speaker 1: time we were covering so much superhero stuff. We're like,
30:38
Speaker 1: we've done superheroes. Yeah, so we started kind of thinking
30:43
Speaker 1: outside of that and saying, well, let's just pick two
30:45
Speaker 1: things that we wouldn't normally put together and figure out
30:48
Speaker 1: how would we do that? And um so Sherlock Holmes
30:53
Speaker 1: is when we settled on pretty quickly. But then we
30:55
Speaker 1: had to figure out what the other one was. And
30:57
Speaker 1: my initial reaction was dumb because I was like, oh,
31:00
Speaker 1: Scooby Doo. But then you're like, but that that's already
31:04
Speaker 1: like two things that do the same thing. Yeah, And
31:08
Speaker 1: then you said smurfs and I was like, well, then
31:11
Speaker 1: all we're gonna be doing is replacing every third word
31:14
Speaker 1: with smurf. And when one person does it when two
31:18
Speaker 1: people do it, it's a bits smurfing much it would
31:21
Speaker 1: have been fifteen minutes of smurfing. We're a family show, Jonathan,
31:28
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't mean smurfing. I meant surfing smurfing, Okay.
31:32
Speaker 1: So then I said, well, what about Charlie Brown, because
31:35
Speaker 1: you know we're talking about nostalgia. Yeah, and so so
31:38
Speaker 1: for those who don't know who either of these are,
31:42
Speaker 1: where have you been? Charlotte Holmes obviously famous detective created
31:46
Speaker 1: by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lots of stories, four novels
31:49
Speaker 1: written by Conan Doyle and multiple novels written by other
31:52
Speaker 1: people since then, been in series and films. Everyone knows
31:57
Speaker 1: who Sherlock Holmes is. Uh. And then you have Charlie Brown,
32:00
Speaker 1: famous comic strip character made by Charles Schultz, star of
32:05
Speaker 1: beloved specials and cartoons, so things like you know, the
32:10
Speaker 1: the Charlie Brown Christmas Special is still one of my
32:13
Speaker 1: favorite cartoons of all time. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie
32:17
Speaker 1: Brown another fantastic one one of my favorites. So yeah,
32:21
Speaker 1: something that it also comes back around because it's had
32:23
Speaker 1: a movie recently. Yeah, that's true. So let's let's see
32:27
Speaker 1: who do you Who do you want to go first? Cally, Um,
32:32
Speaker 1: I I guess I can. That's the confidence I like
32:38
Speaker 1: to hear, wearing and ready to go. All right, Sherlock
32:45
Speaker 1: Holmes in the Great Pumpkin taketh away. One briskfall evening
32:50
Speaker 1: on two to one Baker Street. Mr Sherlock Holmes and
32:53
Speaker 1: Dr John Watson got a mysterious letter. It stated, please
32:58
Speaker 1: Mr Holmes and Mr Watson come to the Brown House
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Speaker 1: Saint Paul, Minnesota. We have something dark and mysterious going
33:05
Speaker 1: on here and we need your help, desperately, signed, asked Brown.
33:10
Speaker 1: Surprised and egotistically delighted, Sherlock immediately packed up and headed
33:14
Speaker 1: for America, bringing doctor Watson begrudgingly in tow. A day later,
33:19
Speaker 1: the two master minds walked up to the door of
33:21
Speaker 1: a modest house with yellow maybe it was white maybe
33:25
Speaker 1: blue siding. They rang the bell, but no one answered.
33:29
Speaker 1: They rang again. Finally, a young boy with an oddly
33:32
Speaker 1: round head in a furrowed brow came out. He hesitantly
33:36
Speaker 1: began to introduce himself. Hi, I'm Charlie Brown. Can I
33:39
Speaker 1: help ye? But all of a sudden he stopped stammered
33:42
Speaker 1: good grief and ran inside, slamming the door. They turned
33:45
Speaker 1: to look to see what could have scared him so,
33:48
Speaker 1: but all they could see was a young auburn trust girl.
33:52
Speaker 1: Nothing seemed odd about her, and they decided that following
33:54
Speaker 1: her would just be a red hare ingh And that's
34:00
Speaker 1: when they heard it from around the bushes, us barely
34:04
Speaker 1: audible above the sounds of some chirping yellow canaries nearby.
34:08
Speaker 1: Were canaries local to Minnesota. The duo didn't know, but
34:12
Speaker 1: they did follow the Upon tracking the sound, they saw
34:17
Speaker 1: a beagle sitting on top of a dog house. They
34:20
Speaker 1: must have been hearing things, so they turned to leaf,
34:22
Speaker 1: but then they heard it again. Turning back to the noise,
34:26
Speaker 1: they saw the beagle and one of the yellow birds
34:28
Speaker 1: stuck into the dog house. The dog going into his
34:30
Speaker 1: house wasn't weird, but the bird following him certainly was,
34:33
Speaker 1: and Sherlock, much to Watson's chagrin, decided to follow. Squeezing
34:37
Speaker 1: through the dog house door, they found themselves on a
34:39
Speaker 1: large staircase leading into the dark. They followed it down
34:43
Speaker 1: and at the bottom of the staircase was a bunker
34:44
Speaker 1: filled with maps, no science equipment, and monitors. All of
34:48
Speaker 1: the monitors were looking at one place, a quiet pumpkin patch.
34:52
Speaker 1: There was a tug on Sherlock's pant leg, and as
34:54
Speaker 1: he looked down, the beagle handed him a letter. It started,
34:57
Speaker 1: my name is Snoopy, I wrote you the here to
35:00
Speaker 1: come here, thank you for coming. And through the letter
35:03
Speaker 1: and an intrigue game of charades and a tour around
35:05
Speaker 1: the doghouse bunker, Holmes and Watson learned that the town
35:08
Speaker 1: was being plagued by a creature called the Great Pumpkin.
35:11
Speaker 1: Over the years, that had been a childhood legend that
35:13
Speaker 1: most of the town didn't believe in, but this year
35:15
Speaker 1: was different. Every night, the entire town, and not just
35:19
Speaker 1: the children, would go and bring all of their greatest
35:21
Speaker 1: belongings to the field to give to the Great Pumpkin,
35:23
Speaker 1: hoping in its arrival. But it never showed up. However,
35:27
Speaker 1: in the morning, when the town spoke awoke, all of
35:29
Speaker 1: their belongings would be gone from the field. Snoopy believed
35:32
Speaker 1: this was the doing of his arch nemesis, the Red Baron. Sherlock,
35:35
Speaker 1: feeling a kinship with this remarkably intelligent dog, offered to
35:39
Speaker 1: help Watson Ashlock. Where might we even begin, and Sherlock answered, elementary,
35:44
Speaker 1: dear Watson. Long pause, Sherlock continued, literally, we'll start at
35:53
Speaker 1: the elementary school, and that's where they headed. And indeed
35:58
Speaker 1: things were weird. They're the kids were all large and
36:02
Speaker 1: round headed, and the adults were unintelligible. Sherlock didn't have
36:05
Speaker 1: much experience with children, so it took him a while
36:07
Speaker 1: to learn that these children were all, in fact just kids,
36:11
Speaker 1: big headed and all. But he did notice something particularly odd.
36:16
Speaker 1: The kids were having a fundraiser. The fundraiser was selling
36:19
Speaker 1: cans of red bear and branded pumpkin, and according to
36:22
Speaker 1: the gold chart on the blackboard, all the children had
36:24
Speaker 1: been successful in selling can pumpkin to the whole town.
36:27
Speaker 1: And this was particularly particularly odd because Red Baron only
36:32
Speaker 1: sold frozen pizzas. These FROs and pizzas were a secret
36:35
Speaker 1: pleasure of Sherlock's when he was alone in his studio.
36:37
Speaker 1: No one knew about it. So they opened a can
36:41
Speaker 1: and noticed trace amounts of scopolamine, which, if you don't know,
36:43
Speaker 1: is a way that people can use to make you
36:46
Speaker 1: extremely suggestible. Sherlock, nuthn villain must be using it to
36:49
Speaker 1: make everyone believe in the Greek pumpkins so that they
36:51
Speaker 1: could get their belongings and valuables and such. But who
36:55
Speaker 1: would have such knowledge of the mental condition. They returned
36:59
Speaker 1: to Snoopy, who affirmed that there was no therapist in town. However,
37:02
Speaker 1: there was a small psychiatrist booth run by the class
37:06
Speaker 1: bully Lucy. It was then that they knew they had
37:08
Speaker 1: found their culprit, but now they had to figure out
37:11
Speaker 1: how to get her to admit to her diabolical plan.
37:14
Speaker 1: They had noticed Lucy eyeing Charlie Brown, that that awkward
37:19
Speaker 1: boy they first met when they came into town, So
37:21
Speaker 1: they commandeered Charlie to flirt with her and offer her
37:23
Speaker 1: a muffin liced with some of the pumpkin in it. Lucy,
37:26
Speaker 1: being a proud person, accepted the muffin offering and ate
37:29
Speaker 1: it in one bite. Upon doing so, Holmes jumped out
37:31
Speaker 1: and got her to spill the beans all about how
37:33
Speaker 1: she wasn't a kid of the town, but really Snoopy's
37:35
Speaker 1: arch nemesis, the Red Baron, how she felt she deserved
37:38
Speaker 1: all of the good things the town had to offer her,
37:40
Speaker 1: but the town never appreciated her, and so she took
37:43
Speaker 1: it into her own hands. Upon her confession, she was
37:46
Speaker 1: sent at attention and the pumpkin cans were destroyed. The
37:49
Speaker 1: mystery being solved, Sherlock and Watson returned to England, but
37:52
Speaker 1: Sherlock and Snoopy remained pen pals, helping each other solve
37:56
Speaker 1: the occasional mystery. The end very very cute. There are
38:01
Speaker 1: going to be a couple of common touch points. I
38:05
Speaker 1: figured as much so minus Sherlock Holmes and the Beagle
38:09
Speaker 1: of the Baskervilles. Spoiler alert, there's a spoiler in the title. Okay,
38:16
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes has a problem. He's been summoned to Dartmoor
38:20
Speaker 1: to investigate reports of a giant hound terrorizing the countryside.
38:24
Speaker 1: His friend and biographer John Watson has joined him. Watson,
38:28
Speaker 1: being slightly more inclined toward flights of fancy, worries that
38:32
Speaker 1: perhaps the Moors are truly haunted by an impossibly large
38:35
Speaker 1: spectral hound, hypothesis that Holmes finds quite unsupportable. But more
38:41
Speaker 1: than that, Holmes has a bigger challenge on his hands.
38:44
Speaker 1: It seems that shortly after his arrival, a carriage carrying
38:47
Speaker 1: a bunch of kids got stuck in a muddy patch
38:50
Speaker 1: on the road through Dartmoor and then it broken Axel.
38:53
Speaker 1: The kids, a group of Americans, are all curious little people.
38:58
Speaker 1: One named Blindness homes of Me Lead Deduces has severe
39:01
Speaker 1: anxiety issues as he relies heavily on a security blanket
39:04
Speaker 1: as a coping mechanism. Linus is older. Sister Lucy seems
39:09
Speaker 1: to be a bit of a brute. Then there's a
39:11
Speaker 1: rather disheveled child named pig Pen who seems to attract
39:14
Speaker 1: all the various flies in the surrounding area into his orbit.
39:17
Speaker 1: A rather musical young man named Schroeder is also part
39:20
Speaker 1: of the gang. Then there's an energetic young gal named
39:24
Speaker 1: Sally in the mix, and finally there's a rather hopeless
39:27
Speaker 1: fellow called Charlie Brown, always Charlie Brown, never just Charlie.
39:33
Speaker 1: And Peppermint Patty isn't there, so there's no Chuck to
39:36
Speaker 1: speak of. The coachman, who was looking after the children,
39:40
Speaker 1: asks Holmes to keep an eye on them while the
39:42
Speaker 1: coach needs repairs. At least that's what Holmes thinks. The
39:46
Speaker 1: coachman said, in truth, the driver spoke in such a
39:49
Speaker 1: way like a muted trumpet that it was quite impossible
39:52
Speaker 1: to make out what was really being said. While at
39:55
Speaker 1: first irritated, Holmes soon comes to the conclusion that the
39:58
Speaker 1: children might prove useful. Being a long way from home,
40:02
Speaker 1: Sherlock doesn't have access to his assortment of irregulars who
40:05
Speaker 1: would normally gather up information on his behalf, and so
40:09
Speaker 1: he names this odd assortment of children his new irregulars.
40:14
Speaker 1: Tasked with great purpose, the gang begins to help Holmes investigate.
40:18
Speaker 1: There is a great manor house in Dartmoor, and Schroeder
40:21
Speaker 1: finds himself there and encounters an amazing piano, upon which
40:24
Speaker 1: he plays a truly stupendous piece by Beethoven, which impresses
40:28
Speaker 1: Holmes a great deal. Lucy meanwhile sets up her own
40:31
Speaker 1: psychiatry booth and through interactions with the locals, begins to
40:35
Speaker 1: learn more about the general thoughts about the Moors. Seems
40:38
Speaker 1: the people of Dartmoor are particularly superstitious, and many seem
40:42
Speaker 1: all too inclined to accept that there is a ghostly
40:45
Speaker 1: hound haunting the area, though at least one fellow, a
40:48
Speaker 1: man named Jack Stapleton, seems a bit dodgy. Lucy charges
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Speaker 1: everyone five cents and then later complains that all the
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Speaker 1: nickels she got are funny looking. Linnus and Holmes have
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Speaker 1: some pretty deep philosophical discussions, and Linus is also quick
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Speaker 1: to dismiss the ghostly dog hypothesis, believing instead that the
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Speaker 1: creature haunting the moors is in fact the Great Pumpkin.
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Speaker 1: And so Linus decides to sneak out at night to
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Speaker 1: wait for the Great pumpkins arrival, and the next morning
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Speaker 1: he has nowhere to be found, but a little blue
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Speaker 1: blanket is discovered half buried in the mud, with a
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Speaker 1: very large paw print next to it. Pigpen also disappears,
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Speaker 1: but that just happens every time he steps outside, because
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Speaker 1: he blends right in with the mud and the moors.
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Speaker 1: He's fine, though Sally mostly just irritates John Watson a lot.
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Speaker 1: As for Charlie Brown, he investigates as best he can,
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Speaker 1: but being a bit clumsy, he is usually told to
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Speaker 1: get out of the way after breaking or nearly breaking
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Speaker 1: a vase or a window or a bust or whatever.
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Speaker 1: And so Charlie Brown, while walking by himself and wondering
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Speaker 1: if he'll ever be good at anything, stops to lean
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Speaker 1: against a tree. Except it turns out it's not a tree.
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Speaker 1: It's actually a support for a clever camouflage. As Charlie
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Speaker 1: Brown leans against it, it causes the whole thing to
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Speaker 1: come tumbling down. Just as Sherlock is walking by, Holmes says,
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Speaker 1: you've done it. You've solved the case and indeed revealed
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Speaker 1: beneath the brushes Snoopy and Woodstock and Jack Stapleton plus
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Speaker 1: a pair of very big, very fake dog pause. Yep.
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Speaker 1: Turns out Snoopy, Woodstock and Stapleton have been playing a
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Speaker 1: bit of a prank on the locals, and while sheepish,
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Speaker 1: they get off easy, particularly once the group finds Linus
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Speaker 1: a mile down the road in a fetal position, but
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Speaker 1: he makes a swift recovery once his blanket is returned.
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Speaker 1: At the end, Sherlock Holmes turns to Charlie Brown and says,
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Speaker 1: Charlie Brown, out of all the irregulars, you're the irregularist.
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Speaker 1: The end, Oh, I loved it. I felt like there
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Speaker 1: were two stories in the same anthology. You are, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's two different It's it's a what if
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Speaker 1: comic book where your story is the right side up
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Speaker 1: version on the front, and then you have to flip
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Speaker 1: it over upside down on the back and then that's
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Speaker 1: my story. Yes, yeah, well that was fun, but obviously
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Speaker 1: just two different, slightly different takes on how sherl likeck
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Speaker 1: Holmes and Charlie Brown would mash up. We had completely
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