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The Gods Must Be Pranky · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: The large Nerdrun Colletor podcast is a production of I
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  Speaker 1: Heart Radio, Hey Everybody podcast podcast that's all about the
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  Speaker 1: kiki things happening in the world around us and how
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  Speaker 1: super excited we are about them. I'm a real casting
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  Speaker 1: and with me as always is the crazy awesome Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Strickland Areal, I got a question for you. Oh dear God,
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  Speaker 1: all right, here is your scenario, as the quister would say,
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  Speaker 1: you are in an escape room and you have a
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  Speaker 1: fictional character on your team. Who do you think would
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  Speaker 1: be best to have on your team without them having
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  Speaker 1: to cheat to get out so they're playing by the rules. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that takes out Indiana Jones and mcgiver. Um, I am
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  Speaker 1: going to say, catwoman interesting a batman villain. What is
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  Speaker 1: your reasoning because she's very perceptive and um, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that you like you've really throw you with this.
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  Speaker 1: They can't cheat. I'm like, she can get out of anything,
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  Speaker 1: so even following the rules, I am sure she could
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  Speaker 1: get out of this room. I have to admit, Ariel,
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  Speaker 1: you have surprised me. I thought for sure you were
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  Speaker 1: going to go Sherlock Holmes or something like that, someone
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  Speaker 1: that would have been so good, except that I think
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  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes would go down a lot of like red herrings,
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  Speaker 1: like he would. He would just because everything is set
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  Speaker 1: up to make it seem like it's a clue in
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  Speaker 1: an escape room, and a lot of them aren't clues, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so he could very quickly start going down wrong pathways.
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  Speaker 1: But it's interesting you chose a well batman villain slash
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  Speaker 1: anti hero slash hero depending upon the the what time
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  Speaker 1: in your in her timeline you're in because I chose
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  Speaker 1: a batman villain too. I chose the Riddler, ah, and
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  Speaker 1: he is my favorite of all that man villains. And
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  Speaker 1: and it's because he wouldn't have to cheat. The Riddler
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  Speaker 1: thinks in terms of setting up riddles and puzzles, so
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  Speaker 1: he would reverse engineer. He would think, how do the
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  Speaker 1: people who set up this escape room think? And then
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  Speaker 1: reverse engineer and solve the escape room without having to
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  Speaker 1: say like, oh, you just break the lock and you
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  Speaker 1: get out right, or or it's not actually locked. They
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  Speaker 1: say it's locked. They obviously can't legally lock you in
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  Speaker 1: there kind of thing. So that's that was my pick.
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  Speaker 1: It was just it surprised me because I thought, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna go like someone from the Scooby Gang or
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  Speaker 1: Shery like Holmes or something like that. So you really
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  Speaker 1: surprised me with Catwoman. I was I was pleased to
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  Speaker 1: hear it. Well, I was Indiana Jones. He breaks the rules,
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  Speaker 1: Um mcgiver, he kind of breaks the rules. The Supernatural
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  Speaker 1: Crew they kind of break the rules. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: can't cat Riddler would have been a better option. I
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  Speaker 1: think you chose like, even though there's not like a
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  Speaker 1: right answer, I think you got the right answer to
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  Speaker 1: be fair, though I also come up with the questions
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  Speaker 1: I'm at a an incredible advantage in this case. That's true. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's also interesting that we both picked Batman villains because
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  Speaker 1: our very first news story is about some DC villains. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I promise. I didn't even think that while we were
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  Speaker 1: having that discussion, and then I just looked at what
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  Speaker 1: our number one story was and went, huh, that that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's just kiss me. Yeah. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the trailer for the new Suicide
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  Speaker 1: Squad film because I think we both have different opinions
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  Speaker 1: about it. So Ariel, what was your reaction to the
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  Speaker 1: James Gun version of suicide squad. So I will start
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  Speaker 1: off by saying I really encho way to David dust
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  Speaker 1: Malchian made me laugh so hard when one of the
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  Speaker 1: characters said I think we're going to die and he goes,
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  Speaker 1: I hope. So yeah, the Polka Dot Man. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: Polka Dot Man so funny. It's so amazingly funny. This
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  Speaker 1: entire cast is amazingly funny. There was more and less
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  Speaker 1: blue humor and gore than I expected, so the blue
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  Speaker 1: humor they had was clever to me. The characters all
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  Speaker 1: seemed not where i'd predictably expect them to go as
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  Speaker 1: far as their conversations and motivations and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: although there was a little bit more gore than I
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  Speaker 1: was maybe expecting in the trailer with some King Shark moments.
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  Speaker 1: So overall, I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to this raunchier version of Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah see,
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  Speaker 1: I actually really enjoyed it too. I also felt that
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  Speaker 1: it was extremely Guardians esque, right, it's it's you can
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  Speaker 1: easily see the parallels with the whole These are anti
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  Speaker 1: hero type characters Guardians obviously, they're a little closer to
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  Speaker 1: the hero side but you know, you've got characters like
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  Speaker 1: Rocket who have let's say, very flexible morals, and everyone
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  Speaker 1: on the suicide Squad essentially has Rockets ethic ethical philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: Um I thought that, didn't you have like a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a reservation about Shark. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be very gory and very bloody and very
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  Speaker 1: graphic and and I don't know, there's one scene where
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  Speaker 1: he's You're looking at me like I'm not thinking of
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  Speaker 1: the right thing, Jonathan. Oh, I just thought that you
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  Speaker 1: had thought the King Shark was coming across as even
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  Speaker 1: a little too dense. Maybe, um I it was funny,
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  Speaker 1: but I will admit I like the Harley Quinn version
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  Speaker 1: of King Shark best, where he's just really cuddly and friendly.
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  Speaker 1: So I like a King Shark that is not just
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  Speaker 1: even though sharks are pretty smart, I think I have heard,
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  Speaker 1: um I don't know any personally, you know this slightly
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  Speaker 1: more amiable shark, but he he definitely is a shark still. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. As he starts to munch
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  Speaker 1: on various extras. Yeah, I'm very curious about it. This
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  Speaker 1: one definitely has been more interested than the original Suicide Squad,
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  Speaker 1: which I still have not been able to watch all
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  Speaker 1: the way through. I've tried twice and gave up both times.
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  Speaker 1: So this one I think I can probably stick with.
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  Speaker 1: I liked the bits that they had with Harley, with
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  Speaker 1: you know, her realizing that they were there to rescue her,
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  Speaker 1: and she's she's concerned that she's upset them by having
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  Speaker 1: rescued herself, so she's offering to put herself back in
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  Speaker 1: jeopardy so that they can continue. It's cute, like cute stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I also liked her interrogation of the thinker. That was fun,
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  Speaker 1: so I look forward to it. Um. I'm optimistic about
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  Speaker 1: this one, not even cautiously optimistic. However, it does reinforce
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  Speaker 1: the feeling that pretty much every movie and the d
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  Speaker 1: C EU is kind of compartmentalized off from every other
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  Speaker 1: movie in the d C EU. I think that's their
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  Speaker 1: goal for the indefinite future. Yeah, I don't mind that.
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  Speaker 1: I just mind the fact that there's very little consistency
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  Speaker 1: with characters that way too write like characters, the same
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  Speaker 1: character can come across very differently from one incarnation to
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  Speaker 1: the next, and yet be played by the same actor
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  Speaker 1: and and reptile brain. Jonathan finds this scary and confusing.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's just a multiverse. Just think of it as
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  Speaker 1: a multiverse. That's what I keep telling myself, going from
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  Speaker 1: the multiverse to the wide universe. We apparently are going
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  Speaker 1: to be getting a ThunderCats movie. Yeah, tell us more
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  Speaker 1: about this, because you brought this to my attention. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: Adam Wingard, who has done such movies as Blair Witch
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  Speaker 1: and Death Note and god Zilla Versus Kong, has signed
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  Speaker 1: on to rewrite a ThunderCats movie, which he first wrote
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  Speaker 1: in high school. Well, he wrote a version in hyper version. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Another screenplay was written for this film, and he's doing
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  Speaker 1: a rewrite on it as well as directing it. And
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  Speaker 1: from what I understand, he's like a mega super uber
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  Speaker 1: duber ThunderCats fan. I mean he must have been if
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  Speaker 1: he was working on his own version of a screenplay
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  Speaker 1: back in high school. And in high school his screenplay
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  Speaker 1: was two hundred and seventy two pages long. For those
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  Speaker 1: of you who aren't in the know, Typically the rule
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  Speaker 1: of thumb is that it's a minute of screen time
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  Speaker 1: for every page in a screenplay, so two pages would
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  Speaker 1: be two two minutes, so at that point, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: like a four hour plus movie, which you know not
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  Speaker 1: unheard of right now. But yeah, I will say I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen God sla Versus Calling yet obviously, but um
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  Speaker 1: Blair Witch got good reviews, as did I believe death Notes,
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  Speaker 1: so I trust him being passionate about the content that
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  Speaker 1: he will hopefully be able to edit himself down to
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  Speaker 1: something reasonable. Um. He says he doesn't want them to
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  Speaker 1: be hyper realistic looking ThunderCats. He doesn't want them to
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  Speaker 1: look like the cats out of the Cats movie, and
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  Speaker 1: that is probably the best news that I can hear
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  Speaker 1: about it. So I'm looking forward to it very much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious because it is supposed to have like an
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic that's similar to the eighties cartoon, so that I'm
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  Speaker 1: really wondering how they're going to do this. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be like this like c g I animation
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  Speaker 1: type hybrid thing, and it's hard for me to visualize.
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm very curious about it. I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: biggest ThunderCats fan, Like I watched that cartoon when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, but I wasn't like a hardcore thunder Cat.
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  Speaker 1: I was more of a he man. Masters of the
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  Speaker 1: universe junkie. So I wasn't really as big into ThunderCats,
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  Speaker 1: but I did watch the show, and you know, it
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  Speaker 1: would be great to have an entertaining film that really
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  Speaker 1: took those characters and did something fun with them. It
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  Speaker 1: says that the general plot is that there fleeing their
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  Speaker 1: dying planet of thund Thundra or Thundara, can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: the name of them, Yeah, Thundera, Okay, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I again, I haven't watched that since I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: but my fears that means they're going to end up
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  Speaker 1: in modern day Earth, like that's where it's gonna go,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just gonna be like a cat out of
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  Speaker 1: water scenario. No. Well, I'm just gonna move from that.
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  Speaker 1: Two other bad news, which is that we have learned
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  Speaker 1: that Stars has canceled the Neal gaming series American Gods.
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  Speaker 1: There's actually a really good article on The Mary Sue
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  Speaker 1: about this that goes into detail about the various setbacks
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  Speaker 1: that series had and when it was first coming out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this look like a true prestige fantasy series.
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  Speaker 1: You had incredible actors, a very diverse cast. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Neil Gaiman was involved in it and American Gods is
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  Speaker 1: a pretty dense but incredible work of fiction. So that
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  Speaker 1: first season had a lot of people excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: But then there were lots of problems behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: The show runners got removed by the studio for going
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  Speaker 1: over budget, and which meant that actors left who were
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  Speaker 1: loyal to those showrunners, right, and then you had a
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  Speaker 1: new showrunner and things didn't go so well, so you
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  Speaker 1: had more actors leave. You had some actors leaving under
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  Speaker 1: circumstances that were at best questionable, meaning that there were
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  Speaker 1: some calls that were made that it seemed like they
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  Speaker 1: were doing dirty to the actors. Um. Yeah, and now
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  Speaker 1: Stars is no longer going to have this continue, and
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  Speaker 1: they haven't concluded the story. Well, they're talking about maybe
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  Speaker 1: doing a little mini series or movie to wrap everything up,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like Far Escape Dead when it got canceled
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  Speaker 1: out of the blue, But that's not definite. Um. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: the first season was really good. It was really dark,
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  Speaker 1: so definitely not for everybody. But I really enjoyed the
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  Speaker 1: first season and then I stopped the second season halfway through.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't that it was horrible, it just wasn't grabbing me,
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  Speaker 1: So this is not this is not surprising to me. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Something that is surprising to me is that Comic Con
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  Speaker 1: might have a live event over Thanksgiving weekend this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's an interesting choice. Yeah, so Comic Con is going
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  Speaker 1: to have their virtual event over the summer, but they
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  Speaker 1: are tentatively planning a Thanksgiving weekend event in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: The reason for the Thanksgiving holiday is for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different things. One is that that was a holiday
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  Speaker 1: where they were able to get hold of the convention
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  Speaker 1: center in San Diego. I mean, these these buildings, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when it's not a pandemic, they book up years in advance,
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  Speaker 1: so it can be really tricky to find a weekend
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  Speaker 1: where there's availability. Thanksgiving weekend, Hey, who would have thunk it?
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  Speaker 1: Big conferences don't typically happen that weekend. Um. And so
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  Speaker 1: they're they're getting a lot of flak from fans, uh
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  Speaker 1: and and the press about this particular decision. They you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're calling it tentatives. So we'll see. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're already thinking that people who can't travel to San
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  Speaker 1: Diego easily won't go. They still want to keep it safish,
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  Speaker 1: so I guess we'll see. However, Pax East has canceled
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  Speaker 1: their live event UM, which is supposed to happen I
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  Speaker 1: think in July. Yeah, yeah, that one, that one happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to happen into June. You're right, you're right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was supposed to happen. It's been canceled. They will
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  Speaker 1: have a virtual event instead, which is great, and they
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  Speaker 1: are also tentatively or at least hoping that they can
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: hold the other packs events in person later in the year.
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  Speaker 1: Those will happen around like September UM, so the hope
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  Speaker 1: is that by then there will have there will be
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: some kind of new normal and herd immunity situation with
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  Speaker 1: vaccines being rolled out and such. That's still a to
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  Speaker 1: be determined kind of thing. I think that they're, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're just kind of gauging stuff as it
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  Speaker 1: goes along, because we learned all in twenty that you
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  Speaker 1: can't just say, oh, in six months, this will be fine. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're hoping to have Packs East, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: didn't sell any tickets or any vendor space, just to
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  Speaker 1: be cautious, and that was good of them. So body
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  Speaker 1: who was not so cautious was a young twenty year
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  Speaker 1: old young uh Tokyo resident who stole a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: Pokemon cards in a very like mission impossible sort of
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  Speaker 1: a way. Yeah, he broke into a store that that
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  Speaker 1: sold Pokemon and Yugio cards. Uh And this was a
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  Speaker 1: store that was located at the top of a six
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  Speaker 1: story building. He apparently got on top of the building somehow.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how he got on top of the building.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps there was another building nearby that he went up
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  Speaker 1: and then got on top of their. He anchored a
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  Speaker 1: rope to the top of the building, threw it over
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  Speaker 1: the side, climbed down the building so that he could
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  Speaker 1: break through the window of the shop, and then he
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  Speaker 1: stole around almost ten thousand dollars worth of Pokemon and
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  Speaker 1: Yugio cards, plus another couple of grand and hash. But however,
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  Speaker 1: in the process he was caught on camera and then
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  Speaker 1: he was caught for real zes um, and he confessed
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  Speaker 1: and said that he did it because he he owes
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  Speaker 1: the money. They're gonna take my thumbs. He didn't say
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  Speaker 1: they were going to take his song. Maybe the pinkies
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  Speaker 1: he was going to pay off his debt. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting because he didn't really have a safety wire.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and and he said, yeah, I did rock climbing
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  Speaker 1: in high school, so I wasn't afraid of heights. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the only only reason I go out
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  Speaker 1: to the gym is that I'm constantly thinking I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to use this newfound strength and flexibility in heists. It
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  Speaker 1: just sounds like a cartoon or a fantasy story, but nope,
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  Speaker 1: it's real life. It sounds like a Kevin Smith movie.
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  Speaker 1: It does it does, or just some really elaborate prank.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of pranks, since it is April Fool's Day today,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to talk a little bit about our
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  Speaker 1: opinions on pranks and prank shows and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But first we're going to take a quick break, all right, Dariel,
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  Speaker 1: before we talk about prank shows and our own ranks. Um,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever pulled an able pools on anyone that
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  Speaker 1: was of, you know, an elaborate nature? No? No, I
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  Speaker 1: am really bad at branks. My husband is freaking phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: at pranks. To the point like where and this, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the fools. This was just vidictive. Somebody went
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  Speaker 1: on vacation at his office and he dry walled up
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  Speaker 1: their cubicle with permission from his CEO while they were away,
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  Speaker 1: because he was left doing some like very late night
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  Speaker 1: early morning deploys for them to cover for them. So
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  Speaker 1: he is phenomenal. I am horrible at it. Like the
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  Speaker 1: best I can do is maybe look behind you out
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  Speaker 1: of a window and get you to look. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good at franks, What about you. I've done
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  Speaker 1: a few little pranks. They're usually incredibly silly things where
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  Speaker 1: I make a claim that's just not not true. But
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  Speaker 1: I tend to make claims that I think as i'm
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  Speaker 1: making them. This is obviously a joke, this is obviously
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  Speaker 1: not real. The problem is I underestimate how other people
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  Speaker 1: view the information I share. So, for example, I live
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  Speaker 1: across the street from a site that is frequently used
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  Speaker 1: during filming, Like there are a lot of different projects
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  Speaker 1: that filmed their Baby Driver filmed their Falcon, and the
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  Speaker 1: Winter Soldier filmed there. According to The Falcon and the
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  Speaker 1: Winter Soldier, I live across the street from Munich anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice a short trip to go internationally. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just gonna bring my passport whenever I walk my dog.
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  Speaker 1: But that that leads me to the April Fool's joke.
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  Speaker 1: I claimed on Facebook that while walking my dog Tibolt,
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  Speaker 1: who is by every measure adorable, that he was spotted
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  Speaker 1: by like a scouting agent essentially, who was looking for
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  Speaker 1: credits to put into a Captain America movie. This was
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  Speaker 1: several years ago, and that I posted that timbole its
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the next Captain America movie because
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  Speaker 1: this talent agent had seen me walk the dog. Like
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  Speaker 1: the talent agent was not at all interested in me,
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  Speaker 1: but only interested in my dog. And I made up
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  Speaker 1: some goofy like facts and stuff or whatever or details
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  Speaker 1: about the story. But it was pretty tongue in cheek,
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  Speaker 1: and I think I even posted something like and to
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  Speaker 1: think it happened today, of all days, because it was
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  Speaker 1: April one, Thus like the the definite indicator that this
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  Speaker 1: is in fact not true. But a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: started saying, look, that's amazing, that's fantastic. So I've done
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  Speaker 1: things like that a couple of times. I stopped doing
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  Speaker 1: it because I just reached the conclusion that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: if I if I go so far that it's patently
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  Speaker 1: obvious that it's false, then there's no real fun in it,
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  Speaker 1: but if everyone buys into it, I feel badly for
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: telling them, Oh, that's not actually true. I made it up,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm just lying. So now I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: don't do it anymore. I haven't done it for like
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: three or four years. Yeah, I kind of agree, unless
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the April Fools is like a happy surprise, like you're
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you're fooling him at level A of good, but then
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: level level B happens like oh, I'm taking her out
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: for dinner, but you just want a million dollars to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: med McMahon, which isn't really a prank. That's just a
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: happy surprise. I pulled a great prank on my wife.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I surprised her with a brand new car, and it's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: really hers got you. But yeah, but you know, I'm
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: very torn over April Fools because sometimes I love it,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Like back when think Geek was a website, I loved
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: going on every year and seeing the crazy ideas for
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: merchandise that they came up with, uh, and then trying
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to figure out which ones would become actual products later.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that that was them testing those
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: out occasionally, like in some cases it was like, this
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: is just silly we're just going to put it up.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And in other cases they got enough of a reaction
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to say, like, well this should actually be a thing,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: like the Tonton sleeping Bag. Yeah, I I agree, although
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: some of the things definitely are not in today's day
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and age super achievable. Um. I also like when video
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: games will put out special mods for for April Fools Day.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I know, like Legal Legends had one where everybody moved
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: super slow one year or something like that that was
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: pretty hilarious. I like it when video because a lot
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of video games will build in things where whatever the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: internal clock is of the device they're running on, when
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it reaches certain dates, then you get those kind of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: special events in games. I love those. I think that
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: those are a lot of fun, whether it's April Fools
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: or something else. I liked some websites like Google would
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: typically have three or four things every year that were,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you know, not they were just ridiculous. They were absolutely
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: ludicrous ideas, and sometimes they would play with like Google Maps,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Like there was one year where they turned Google Maps
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: into an interactive game of pac Man, so whenever you
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: looked at a map, it became a pac Man maze. Yeah,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like things like that. I really like. I like that creativity.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I know there are people I cover tech. I know
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who cover tech who
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: are absolutely fed up with April Fools, and they have
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: been for the better part of a decade. And their
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: justification is that a lot of companies take it as
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to essentially just tell unfunny jokes or to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you know, present a big lie as if that's a joke. Uh,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And I get it. Like it's kind of like comedians.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: If you go and see an open mic night, you're
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: gonna see some people who definitely do not belong on
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: stage and should not ever try this, And you have
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: other people who are doing really well. They might be
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: trying really hard, maybe they haven't quite found their voice yet,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: but there there's something genuine there. And I feel like
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the same thing is true with a lot of stuff
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: you see in April Fools, where some jokes are genuinely
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: pretty amusing and then some just fall flat. And I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: feel like the tech journalists are so exasperated with the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: ones that don't land that they've just written off all
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of them. And to me, they come across like a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: bunch of stick in the MUDs. You know, I can
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: totally see that the other side of pranks is now
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping that prank tech pranks are at least in
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a pleasant, positive nature and not horribly malicious, because you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I've seen friends who, as soon as you you put
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: your pranks out there on social media or the news
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: or whatever, feel the the pressure to escalate to a
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: point where I think the pranks are no longer fun
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and just horrible and vindictive and mean. I guess that's
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: why we have like the show Pardon for My Language,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: jackass and such that I absolutely don't appreciate. So I
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: can I can understand if those if those pranks are
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: not good spirited, how they could be fair. Yeah, I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: get that too. Most of the time, I don't even
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: think it's every now and then you get a company
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: that just as a terrible stupid mistake of a joke,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: like they like joke in air quotes, where you know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: whatever the the quote unquote joke is really just comes
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: across as crass or insensitive, or insulting or a offensive.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: There are those those cases, but most of the time
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it's just jokes that just aren't like someone just has
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to say they're just not very funny, right, Like, it's
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: not that it's offensive, it's just it just doesn't land.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: But there are other ones that I think, do I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: get it that it can be exasperating because everyone's doing it,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and especially if you report on tech News April Bools,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: gets to be a bit of a headache because you're
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: constantly trying to suss out what's the real story versus
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: what's a pr stunt or fake story, and that can
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: get exhausting. So I do understand it from that perspective.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: As for a mean spirited like when you brought up Jackass,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I never was a fan of the show, not to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: not to speak ill of anyone who is a fan
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of the show, but in that case, I think of
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: it almost like it's always sunny in Philadelphia and that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it's a group of people who are all doing terrible things,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: but they're doing them to each other primarily, and they're
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: all kind of terrible, so it's almost okay. Um. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there are other shows where it's most of the pranks,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: like most of the pranks on Jackass are directed within
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the group of Jackass, but pranks on some of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: other shows are directed outward towards people who are not
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: involved in that show Punked as an example, right, So Punked,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I mean it's all celebrities who are getting it mostly,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: but they aren't celebrities who are on the show, so
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they are are the unsuspecting victims of those pranks. Depending
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: on the nature of the prank, I can find it funny,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: but often I just find it really mean spirited. Um.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I kind of felt that way even back in the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: old days of light candid camera. Yeah, no, I feel
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the same. Like it's it's hard to find like because
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: because the law of the humor of pranks tends to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: be like finding that crazy reaction from someone, and obviously
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: getting a crazy reaction with something that is outrageous is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: way easier. Right. However, that being said, the kind of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't call them pranks, but it's arguably based
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: on the same kind of premise. It's just a different focus.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I like things like, um, the various YouTubers and streamers
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: who end up giving away money to people who have
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: like streams or channels that have very few viewers as
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a way of just surprising them, or the folks who
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: give really big tips to really hard working wait staff
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and restaurants and that kind of thing. But I don't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: like about those shows though, because that frequently the hosts
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: come across as being a little um smug about about
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: their role in doing this. Uh, that's not so much
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: fun because it then the focus ends up being Hey,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: let's look at me, and how good am I for
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: giving away this money? That shouldn't be the focus of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the show. I think the focus of the show should
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: be the benefit of helping out someone who, uh who
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: wasn't expecting it. Yeah, And I mean I kind of
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: think that that's that's a good line to to put
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: for any sort of prank. Is how are you improving
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the prank ease life by doing this? Because and it
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: makes it hard because you don't always you might think
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that something is a fun prank, and somebody else won't
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: take it that way, so you just you gotta be cautious. Um.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're if you're generally trying to leave
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the person better than they started off, as that's a
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: good prank. Yeah. I mean, like there are times where,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: depending on your relationship with the person, something a little
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: more prank ish, like a little more impatient mischievous, can
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: be perfectly fine. There have been times where people have
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: pulled little pranks on me that I found genuinely hilarious.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: One example is that on my birthday one year, many
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: many years ago, UM, a friend of mine gave me
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a scratch off lottery ticket, and so I scratched it off,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and according to the lottery ticket, I had one ten dollars.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: It was really exciting. I was like, oh my gosh,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. That's amazing. You know, it's not like
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: ten dollars is a lot of money, but it's not
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a life changing enormous amount of money, right. It's like, Wow,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I can do a lot of cool things with this
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: ten grand, but you're not. You're not. Your life hasn't changed.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: And then he finally broke it to me, So turn
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the ticket over. And I turned it over and reading
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the back of the ticket, it's clear that it was
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a prank. It was a joke, it wasn't a real
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: scratch off lottery ticket. My wife was so angry. It
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: was her friend that because I met him through her,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: she was so angry about this. I thought it was hilarious,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and she said, why aren't you angry? She was angry
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: at me. For not being angry, And I said, because
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: what he gave me was the gift of feeling like
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I had one. But even though I didn't win, it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: not like I lost anything. I didn't lose ten thousand dollars.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I just got the feeling that I had one ten
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars and it was a great feeling. And it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: okay that I don't have it. I'm no worse off
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: now than I was before the prank happened. That's um,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: that's a really great attitude, you know. I do think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: that that's situational though, because like when I was you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty well right now, but when I was
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: very very poor and splitting a pack of ramen between
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: two meals you like one, I would have been really
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: skeptical if a friend had given me a winning lotto
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: to get with ten thousand dollars, and I would have
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: like triple check to make sure it was accurate. But
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: then if I had found out no, I wouldn't have
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: lost anything exception of that hope of maybe like stepping,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: like paying off a few credit cards and and having
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a good steak dinner. So but but I really like
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: your attitude on that that's that's a really great one
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to have that I hadn't thought of. Am I have
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I lost anything because this isn't true? Yeah? I like that. Yeah,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I mean like I didn't. I didn't walk out any
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: poorer than I walked in. And I was I was
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: at a stage of my life for Tin Grand would
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: have come in really handy. But it was not. Um, Yeah,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't mean spirited. Well maybe it was
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: on his behalf, but I didn't interpret it that way.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: To me. It was just kind of like, oh, that
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: was a fun feeling. I wish it were real, but
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: it's not a big deal that it's not so. But um,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: speaking of things that we wish were real but aren't,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: are going We're going to go into our mash up
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: as soon as we come back from this break to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: talk about something that we wish was real but as
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: far as we know, isn't so. One bit of news
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that we did not cover in our news segment, we
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: decided to move to this and make it the focus
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of our mash up, and that is we now know
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the release date of one movie and possibly a second movie,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: although that second movie is more questionable. Ariel, which two
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: movies am I talking about. Well, one is Black Adam, which, uh,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: if you haven't heard, is a DC superhero film starring
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson. He's actually, I think most commonly a Shazam villainy,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: but he's getting his own story and at least for
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: this first movie, is not supposed to be in it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And then the other one in theory is Indiana Jones five.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: So Warner Brothers in and Disney going head to head there. Yeah,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the article that we cite and you'll find in our
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: show notes over at large nerdron Collider dot com talks
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: about the suspicion that Disney will push that date, maybe
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: because they don't want to go up against Black Adam,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: but also, I would argue because they are rapidly running
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: out of time to make the next Indiana Jones movie,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: which as far as we know hasn't even been written yet,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: whereas Black Adam hasn't. You know, it's got a long
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: way to go to. Superhero movies take a long time
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to make, but that one at least has a shot
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: at making its twenty twenty two date. We decided that
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: since these two films at least right now are scheduled
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to go head to head we would find out what
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: what would happen if instead of fighting, they made sweet
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: sweet love to one another and gave birth to some
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: sort of mash up. Yes, so do you want to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: go first? Or shall I go first? Uh? If you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: want me to go first, I will, but I'm giving
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you the option. That means ears is really really good
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and I don't think mine. Let me put it this way,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of mine. That doesn't mean it's good. Listen,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I am always proud of mine, but I also am
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: proud of some pretty dorky stuff. So I'll go first.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: This is Indiana Jones and the Lost Chronicles of the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Mysterious Child. So you all probably know Indiana Jones's story,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Well maybe not everybody my best friend and just watched
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: them for the first time the other day. But assuming
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: that you have heard his stories and watched his movies,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you probably probably didn't know that they didn't all happen
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: quite the way they were actually told. So Uh, the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: year is n in Indiana Jones has just successfully nabbed
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the remains of an emperor in Shanghai and has headed
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: home along with a nightclub singer named Willie who has
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: a crush on him, and a fourteen year old orphan
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: kid named Billy who he picked up along the way.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: When Indie's playing crash lands in India, they all very
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: narrowly escaped the crash and head to a nearby village.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: When Indie and the crew meet the local people in
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: that village, they are prized of a gang of ne'er
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: do wells who have stolen all of the kids in
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the area to help them find some stones with some
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: odd markings on them that will lead them to a
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: state sacred throne room that is supposed to house some
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: rock of eternity thing. The locals explain it convinced stow
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the powers of the gods upon its finder, and they
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: beg Indie to help stop the ne'er do wells and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: returned the children and save the stone and Indie, ever,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the reluctant Euro agrees for himself and his crew. He
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: doesn't really ask them, but he agrees anyhow. That night,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Indian his crew get attacked by assassins, and in the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: process of defending themselves, they find a series of tunnels
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that leads to what one can only assume is the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: ancient Throne Room. Sadly, the No Good Gang has also
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: found the Throne Room, having acquired all of the sacred stones,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and they capture Indiana Jones, Willie and Billy and tie
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: him up. Indiana says, don't worry, kids, I've got this
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and begins to shimmy out of his bindings, just as
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a leader of the gang lights a nearby torch to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: search the Throne Room for the Stone of Eternity. All
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Billy is encased by lightning and he
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: shouts Shazam. Against his control, he bulks up into a
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: massive hunk of a man, defeating all of the gang.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: As Billy ties up the gang and frees the kids
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and his friends, the Stone of Eternity falls on the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: gang members, dispatching them, and a wizard appears to explain
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Billy's powers to him. Willie, no longer interested in Indiana
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Jones and kind of disturbed by her odd attraction to Shazam,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: leaves to talk to a shrink, and Indie, a little
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: dejected at not being the hero, heads home to forget
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: about having been saved by a kid, leaving Shazam to
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: return the children to the village. One year later, India's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: traveling along with his old crush Maryan Ravenwood, trying to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: find the Ark of the Covenant before some Nazis do.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: After some perilous encounters in Germany, they find themselves in Egypt,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: where a friend tells them that the Nazis are looking
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: in the wrong place for the Ark, and he gives
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: them a guide, a kid named Freddy, to help them
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: navigate to the correct location without tipping off the locals. Indian,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Marian and Freddie go to retrieve the Ark, which happens
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to be at the bottom of a snake infested well,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: but just as Indian Marian and Freddie uncovered the Ark,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the Nazis captured them and the captain of the Nazis
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: ties them up, crippling the boy in the process. The
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Nazis bring the three to the place where they intend
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to open the arc, but when they do, lightning bolts
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: strike out of the Ark onto Freddie. Freddie cries out,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I wish Shazam, we're here. He grows superpowers and defeats
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the Nazis. Shazam shows up, being called by this immense
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: our surge, and explains to Freddie that he is now
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Shazam Jr. Used to be Captain Marvel Junior with the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Chien into Shazam, and while Shazam Junior still looks like
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: a kid, Shazam Senior is still a big hulk of
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: a superman. So Marian, no longer interested in Indian, leaves
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: and India, a little dejected at not being the hero,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: heads home to forget about having been saved by a kid.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Two years later, India is at it again, this time
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: looking for the Holy Grail. Through his adventure, Indie saves
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: his father and his father's young research assistant Mary, who
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: looks oddly like that kid Billy from a few years
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: back from Nazis, only to be betrayed by his traveling
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: companions Savannah and Beautia, who are Nazis themselves. Savannah and
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Beautia beat Indie and the crew to the Grill and
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: meet with an old wizard who explains the whole Grail
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: thing to them about like dreaming the right cup immortality.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, can't leave blah. Beautia and Savannah tried
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to take the Grail as soon as they see Indie,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Henry and Mary arrive in the temple, but it causes
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  Speaker 1: a tem pull to start to collapse. A giant boulder
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  Speaker 1: releases from the ceiling, and as they start to run away,
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  Speaker 1: Mary runs through the wizard apparition and gets electrified, shouting,
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  Speaker 1: I wish Susanne were here. She turns into Mary Marvel
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  Speaker 1: nabs Henry and Indie from being crushed by the boulder
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  Speaker 1: and escapes the temple. On the outside, Indie thinks to himself,
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  Speaker 1: finally it's my turn. But Mary, who in this story
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  Speaker 1: is legal, kisses Henry and they fly off together, abandoning
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  Speaker 1: Indy to his rage and embarrassment. Indie vows revenge and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: after years of research, begins searching for the fabled Black
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Adam to help him defeat the Shazam Marvel family. And
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is what the next movie is
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  Speaker 1: going to be. So let me get this straight. Your
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Indiana Jones Black Adam Mashup is a prequel to the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Indiana Jones Black Adam Mashup. Yes, you've got a problem
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  Speaker 1: with that. I was impressed that you you worked in
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: new origins for the entire Marvel family. Um, alright, Hey, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Freddie was left for dead by Captain Nazi in the books.
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  Speaker 1: In his original yeah, he wasn't zapped by the Heart
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  Speaker 1: of the Covenant. But okay, okay, I'm gonna hey, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mashup. It's a fine. I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: my mashup. Mineus Indiana Jones and the Ancient Egyptian. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Indiana Jones has a problem. He's seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: years old. It's nine. He's in line at Grammin's Chinese
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  Speaker 1: Theater in Los Angeles to see this brand new movie
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  Speaker 1: called Star Wars, and he really needs to use the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: He tries to just focus on something else, but there's
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a guy hosing down the sidewalk across the street. A
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  Speaker 1: kid in front of him is sipping a soft drink
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  Speaker 1: from a big cup and a straw, and a dog
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  Speaker 1: just a little up the way is lifting his leg
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  Speaker 1: and looking Indie right in the eye. As he does so,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana grumbles under his breath and peels out of the
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  Speaker 1: line in search of a restroom. Next to the theater
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  Speaker 1: is an impromptu museum exhibit buil Ding promising examples of
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  Speaker 1: ancient Greek artifacts. More importantly, the exhibit has a restroom.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana rushes in after paying an entrance fee. As he
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  Speaker 1: runs by the displays, he gives him a casual glance,
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  Speaker 1: and we hear him say fake, fake, fake, Wait, what's this?
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  Speaker 1: Jones is stopped and he stares at a piece of
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  Speaker 1: pottery upon which are odd letters. This isn't fake, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not Greek, says Jones to no one in particular.
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  Speaker 1: He puts on his spectacles and takes a closer look,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: his mouth moving as his eyes look at these odd letters,
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  Speaker 1: and he utters only one word, Shazam bam. Lightning strikes
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  Speaker 1: and Jones sees he is no longer in the museum exhibit.
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  Speaker 1: He's also no longer a very very old dude. He
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: is a big, hunky guy in a king. He stands
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  Speaker 1: before a mystical figure who introduces himself as the wizard Shazam,
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  Speaker 1: and that the name itself stands for the power of
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  Speaker 1: the gods Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury. And
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  Speaker 1: that now Indiana Jones must take up the mantle, as
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  Speaker 1: the world has need of a hero to protect him.
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  Speaker 1: Can I take a leak? First, says Indy. We cut
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  Speaker 1: away to a totally different time in place where in
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  Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, and we see a wizard the same as
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  Speaker 1: the one from the previous scene in fact, bestow powers
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  Speaker 1: on a man named teth Adam. The man looks a
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: lot like Dwayne the Rock Johnson. In this case the gods,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: the Wizard Shazam calls for our shoo her chef aman
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Zuti on Pooh and Mentu also spelling Shazam. I guess
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  Speaker 1: the Wizard has a type. Anyway. Teth Adam gets the
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  Speaker 1: same powers as Shazam or Captain Marvel if you prefer,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: but the DC version of Captain Marvel, not the Marvel
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: version of Captain You get the idea. Soon, this hero
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: turns villain usurping the Egyptian throne to rule instead. That
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  Speaker 1: prompts the Wizard to banish teth Adam, now known as
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Black Adam to a distant star. Whereas Black Adam and
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: at Lea begins his very long journey back home, which
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  Speaker 1: will take him five thousand years plus thirty more because
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: he stopped for burgers or something. Anyway, we see this
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: in a quick flashback sequence that leads up back to
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: present day of present day being seven remember for this movie,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and Black Adam returns to Earth. There he decides he
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: will take over the planet, but not if Shazam Jones
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  Speaker 1: can do anything about it. The very very very old,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and I have to stress this, the very old. Indiana
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Jones says Shazam to turn into a hero and uses
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: his newfound superpowers to battle it out with Black Adam,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: and they start to have a big old punch fest.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: What the heck, let's even get Zack Snyder to direct
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: this part. He loves these So Shazam's Jones and Black
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Adams are are equally strong, they're equally resilient, They're equal
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: in every way really, and so while it's a real
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: slobber knocker, not much is actually getting done here. Shazam
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  Speaker 1: Jones decides to lead Black Adam away from Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: desperately trying to think of a way to defeat him.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: He knows that his own power comes from the word Shazam,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: so out of desperation, he attempts to get Black Adam
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  Speaker 1: to say that word. Hey, what's your beef? Says Indiana, which, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Black Adam has a bit of a trouble understanding, because
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the last time he was on Earth, he was speaking
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: an ancient form of Egyptian. So Black Adam says, an
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  Speaker 1: ancient Egyptian, I don't even know who you are man. Indiana,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: hearing the words, realizes what they are. And even though
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: no one has heard ancient Egyptian in thousands of years,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and there is no way to really know what it
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: sounds like, despite what Stargate would have us believe, Indiana
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Shazam Jones manages to say, you mean knock knock, but
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: why who? Old man with fuzz face. Black Adam, genuinely confused,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: looks off to the side for a moment, then back
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  Speaker 1: at Jones and says, you mean Shazam Bam lightning flash.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Black Adam transforms back into teth Adam. But while Black
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  Speaker 1: Adam had those godlike powers and was thus immortal, teth
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  Speaker 1: Adam did not, and so in an instant, Black Adam
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  Speaker 1: ages five thousand years seen this before, says Shazam Jones.
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  Speaker 1: He flies back to Los Angeles. I guess I'll see
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the movie tomorrow, you know, if it's still playing Star Wars.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Then he says Shazanne, transforms back into normal Indiana. Jones
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  Speaker 1: grabs his walker because he is so old, and he
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: slowly makes his way down the sidewalk as the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Jones theme plays. The end. Okay, I I did like it,
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  Speaker 1: but two things. One slobber knocker, Yeah, that's a that's
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: a good old w WF term from JR. Gotcha, gotcha?
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: And two is not that old Jonathan. Did you see
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He looked old in that
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: and that was done a decade ago. Yeah, but then
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I saw The Force Awakens and he didn't look super old. Also,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: he would say, it's not the years, it's the mileage. Fair.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: But yeah, you might say I'm a little skeptical about
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the next Indiana Jones movie. Listen, I i am too,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: but I'm I'm gonna see it, and I'm gonna hope
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: for that. I mean, if they if they actually do
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: said it in the time period that would be roughly
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: equivalent to Harrison Ford's age. We are talking late seventies,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: that would be awesome and I I would watch your
• 45:45
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• 45:51
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