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Daredevil's Daring 'Do · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast is a production of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to The Large Nerdrounk Collider Podcast,
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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 very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: is extra extra. Jonathan Strickland, I am Vengeance. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: that's one of the extra extras we're going to talk about.
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Speaker 1: I'm super extra when it comes down to it, And uh,
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Speaker 1: I got some I got some extra extra spin to
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Speaker 1: put on the beginning of this episode because I got
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Speaker 1: a question. Okay, Ariel, your question for this week is
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Speaker 1: who is is your favorite sidekick? You see, Jonathan, I'm
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Speaker 1: onto you. I know you were trying to um to
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Speaker 1: guide me to a Batman sidekick. Uh because because of
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Speaker 1: your which which Robin well, surprisingly, my favorite sidekicks are
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Speaker 1: foul Bird, not foul bird. There's a difference, right, Yes,
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Speaker 1: our birds one of them is a foul uh So
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Speaker 1: right now, my favorite sidekick is Eagerly from The Peacemaker
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Speaker 1: Show because he's just so adorable. He's just so flipping
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Speaker 1: adorable and deadly and I love it. Um, he's the
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Speaker 1: best character of the show. Uh. And then my other
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Speaker 1: favorite sidekick if if Eaglely doesn't count because you might
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Speaker 1: just be considered a pet by some people, Um would
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Speaker 1: be uh launch Pad mcquack. Yeah, I think those are valid.
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Speaker 1: My favorite sidekick in case you're curious, is not a
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Speaker 1: bird but a moth. Arthur from the Tick. That's a
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Speaker 1: that's a really good one, Jonathan Arthur. They're throwing dogs
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Speaker 1: at us. The Tick in all of its manifestations is fantastic,
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Speaker 1: whether you're talking about the animated series, the both of
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Speaker 1: the live action series because there's two of them, uh,
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Speaker 1: and the original comic book. They're all different. Each one
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Speaker 1: takes a slightly different take, but they're all great. I
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Speaker 1: I love that in the most recent tick, the one
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Speaker 1: where Peter Saraphino wakes plays the Tick, the Amazon Prime one,
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Speaker 1: which I wish we get more of but we aren't. Um.
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Speaker 1: That Griffin Newman who plays Arthur in that looks an
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Speaker 1: awful lot like Griffin from my brother, my brother and
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Speaker 1: me And this year on the Joco Cruise that's happening
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Speaker 1: the weekend after we record this, Griffin Newman will be
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Speaker 1: on the Joco cruise, but Griffin from the Bim Bam
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Speaker 1: will not be so in my mind, they are completely interchangeable.
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Speaker 1: They've even joked about it on their show. But um yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty funny. Well, let us get to some news
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Speaker 1: because we have a but load of it. I just
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Speaker 1: looked to see exactly what the metric term is and
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Speaker 1: it is, in fact, but load. But were yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: And the first thing who we're gonna talk about is
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Speaker 1: the Adam Project trailer. We've talked about this a couple
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Speaker 1: of time. It's that family sci fi that's coming out
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Speaker 1: by the creators A Free Guy, which we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about real soon in a future episode. But um yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's Ryan Reynolds. He goes back in time and meets
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Speaker 1: himself and takes himself as a child on an adventure
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Speaker 1: and it looks cute. It's got um Zoe Selodana in
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Speaker 1: and it's got Jennifer Garner and then it's got Mark
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Speaker 1: Ruffalo in it. Um so a good cast. But this
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Speaker 1: new trailer, it shows us a bit more of the story,
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Speaker 1: claims that it's going to be a next family classic
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Speaker 1: like et or Back to the Future, and that's that's
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Speaker 1: a really big claim. Yeah, them's big shoes to fill. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I like Ryan Reynolds, but I do too. I
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Speaker 1: do too. Before we started recording, I told Ariel that,
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Speaker 1: you know, I like Ryan Reynolds. I find him very entertaining.
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Speaker 1: I like his movies, but uh, he also tends to
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Speaker 1: come across to me at least as smarmy and snarky
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Speaker 1: and pretty much everything. Um freakay is kind of an exception,
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Speaker 1: but mostly he comes across as smarmy and snarky and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And that ends up to me being almost like an
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Speaker 1: obstacle toward becoming like a classic beloved family adventure film
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Speaker 1: type thing. I get that. I so I do get that,
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Speaker 1: But I feel like he seems less smarmie in this
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Speaker 1: trailer than he does in most other things. Like he
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Speaker 1: seems adult caring, which again is an odd hat to
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Speaker 1: watch Ryan Reynolds to put on, even though you know,
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Speaker 1: I think he's a dad in real life, right and
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Speaker 1: so probably I mean, he definitely treats his his alcohol
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Speaker 1: like his children. Well and now his his cell phone company.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm looking it up, everybody, Yes he's got children. Um, ok, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so he's a dad in real life, and so I could.
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Speaker 1: I could see him, you know, just putting his dad
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Speaker 1: hat on into in a movie as well, playing dad
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Speaker 1: to his twelve year old self. Creepy, you know, I
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Speaker 1: am my own grandpa. Uh. But it's a song for
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Speaker 1: anybody who doesn't know there's there's actually a song that
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Speaker 1: is that classic novelty song listen to your Dr Demento.
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Speaker 1: But Home Alone is a family classic and that's awful snarky.
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Speaker 1: So it's also one that I've never watched all the
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Speaker 1: way through, So that's maybe it's just that I have
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Speaker 1: trouble connecting to it. Maybe maybe Uh. The the other
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Speaker 1: thing about this because Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo are
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Speaker 1: both who I think they play Ryan Reynolds parents who
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Speaker 1: are both in this time travel sort of sci fi. Um.
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Speaker 1: In my brain, I'm telling myself it's the sequel to
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Speaker 1: thirteen going on thirty, where Jennifer Garner is a thirteen
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Speaker 1: year old who gets turned into a thirty year old
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Speaker 1: overnight and falls in love with her childhood best friend
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Speaker 1: Mark Ruffalo. So apparently they eventually got married and had
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Speaker 1: a kid, and that kid is Ryan Reynolds in my head. Okay, well, um,
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Speaker 1: I will give this a chance like I'm probably I
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Speaker 1: would say I'm a little skeptical, but um, I watched
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Speaker 1: Free Guy and thought it wasn't terrible. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to go into that because we are going to talk
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Speaker 1: about that at more at length in the in the
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Speaker 1: near future. So here's hoping at my doubts are completely unjustified.
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Speaker 1: And when I watch it, I say, oh, I get
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Speaker 1: it now, and because I mean, I would love there
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Speaker 1: to be more really fun adventure films like I loved
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Speaker 1: those as a kid, and I get the feeling uncharted
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Speaker 1: doesn't quite I haven't seen it, but I get the
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Speaker 1: feeling uncharted doesn't quite nail it. Yeah, now, I think
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Speaker 1: that's definitely a bit more um older child, young teenager
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Speaker 1: at least. Um. Something that I'm hoping that my fears
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Speaker 1: are unfounded on is the Batman movie. You all know
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Speaker 1: that if you've been listening to the show at all,
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Speaker 1: it's a three hour laugh a minute riot from what
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Speaker 1: I understand, Oh man, just three It is three hours,
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Speaker 1: but it's a detect story hours like, Okay, I get it,
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Speaker 1: detective story noir. Noir's moves slow, okay, but I just well,
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Speaker 1: and you've got to have enough space for like the
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Speaker 1: story to play out, right, because if you have a
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Speaker 1: really short detective story, like a really short one, then
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Speaker 1: everything everything feels so manufactured, like it just it feels
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Speaker 1: like it's a story, and you wanted to play out
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Speaker 1: where it's like more of an actual solving of mysteries
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Speaker 1: type thing. Um. I've heard a lot of conflicting things
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Speaker 1: about The Batman, But the thing we wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about is even before The Batman came out, we knew
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Speaker 1: there was talk of a spinoff series centered around one
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Speaker 1: of the villains featured in The Batman, Danny de Vito. No,
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Speaker 1: well kind of. It's the Penguin. Uh and unlike God
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Speaker 1: played by Danny de Vito. Yeah, no, no, it's being
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Speaker 1: played by Colin Farrell. Uh, but it is. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be a story of how Oswald cobble Pot turns
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Speaker 1: into the Penguin. Which we've had that before. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Gotham even kind of covered it a little bit, right, Okay, sure, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but Gotham. Gotham had all the subtlety of a train wreck.
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Speaker 1: It was. In fact, I would describe that series as
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Speaker 1: a trade wreck. I had to give up on it
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Speaker 1: because I host the cringe eyst segment and all of podcasting,
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Speaker 1: and even I couldn't handle the cringe that was Gotham. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Gotham TV show was very unbad. The characters were
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Speaker 1: unbalanced for me. And it's not that I disliked any
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Speaker 1: of them particularly, but I didn't feel they fit well
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Speaker 1: into a singular story together. Um, the way they were
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Speaker 1: each being portrayed. Um, whether that's on the fault of
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Speaker 1: the actor or the director or whatnot. Um. That being said,
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Speaker 1: like watching Mr Chips turned into Scarface. We watched that
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Speaker 1: with Breaking that too, So this is just another Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I like if they if they create a really interesting
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Speaker 1: take on this where you do get more insight into
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Speaker 1: the character, I'm all for it, mainly because traditionally in
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Speaker 1: Batman stories, until you get into some of the stuff
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Speaker 1: that started to come out, like in the late eighties
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Speaker 1: early nineties, you didn't really get that much insight into
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Speaker 1: a lot of the villains, Like they were just these
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Speaker 1: wacky bad guys. Especially in the sixties and seventies, they
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Speaker 1: were these wacky bad guys who had particular fetishes around something.
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Speaker 1: So like that was the era where the penguin was
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Speaker 1: always doing crimes that had some sort of bird related
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Speaker 1: piece of artwork, as the key or joker was always
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Speaker 1: doing some sort of Frankish crime. See that. It's just
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Speaker 1: a good classic, wholesome crime fun but but so so
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Speaker 1: cartoony that it would be very hard to pull off
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Speaker 1: in a way that didn't come across as a spoof,
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Speaker 1: right like and so so this is I don't object
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Speaker 1: to learning more about a villain so that you kind
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Speaker 1: of get the idea of how they turned into what
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Speaker 1: they are and what their motivations are. I think that
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Speaker 1: could be really interesting. Uh, there's some cases where I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's necessary at all, Like you'll hear me
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Speaker 1: complain about that with Disney all the time, because Disney
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Speaker 1: villains are not meant to be multidimensional. They are meant
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Speaker 1: to be fairy tale villains, which are fairy tales are
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Speaker 1: all supposed to be about sending specific messages like hey,
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Speaker 1: don't go out in the woods at night, you will die.
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Speaker 1: And you don't need to have nuance with your villains.
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Speaker 1: In that case, don't talk back to your parents, you
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Speaker 1: will die. Um old old fairy tales. Not I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying that's actually going to happen. Um No, that man
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Speaker 1: has always had some more. You know, they've they've played
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Speaker 1: with the Joker's backstory how many times? Oh? Sure? And
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Speaker 1: there's several with the Joker where like I mean, of course,
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Speaker 1: there's the film Joker, but there are other like comic
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Speaker 1: books and stuff, where we get sort of a sympathetic
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Speaker 1: portrayal of how the Joker became the Joker. All. They
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Speaker 1: also always play with the idea that the Joker himself
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Speaker 1: is an unreliable narrator, so you can never be sure
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Speaker 1: if that's the actual true story. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: as I hear, Colin Ferrell does a good job with this, um,
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Speaker 1: even though they put him into a suit to make
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Speaker 1: him look heavier than he is, which I think is
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Speaker 1: unnecessary practice in Hollywood. Um, and not just because I'm
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Speaker 1: plus sized. Uh. But you know, I hear he does
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Speaker 1: a good job as the Penguin. Um, so I'm sure
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Speaker 1: he'll do a good job on the show. Whether it's
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Speaker 1: necessary or not, I don't know, Like I I Penguin
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Speaker 1: is not one of those characters that have ever really
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Speaker 1: felt the need to super sympathize with personally. I think
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Speaker 1: it is one of the characters that I feel is
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Speaker 1: probably the easiest to do a series about. If you're
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Speaker 1: going to go the crime series way, I think the
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Speaker 1: Penguin is probably like, you can take a a take
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Speaker 1: on the Penguin that isn't outlandish and over the top.
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Speaker 1: It does have to be the Penguin from the classic
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties TV series or anything, although that would be fun,
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Speaker 1: but I would watch that. But I feel like it
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Speaker 1: would be easier, easier to have a sustainable series based
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Speaker 1: around the Penguins than say, The Riddler. While the Ridder
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Speaker 1: is really fascinating, I don't know if you could do
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Speaker 1: a series Face Yeah, or clay Face. I watched the
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Speaker 1: Harley Quinn cartoon. I would watch an entire clay Face series. Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 1: but we we have other stories we gotta cover and
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Speaker 1: and if you keep up this pace, this show is
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Speaker 1: going to be two hours long, so just like The Batman. Okay,
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Speaker 1: but our next story is about it is about how
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Speaker 1: you know we we mentioned in a previous episode how
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Speaker 1: there was this surprise announcement that there was going to
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Speaker 1: be another Star Trek film with the J. J. Abrams
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Speaker 1: cast like the Crisp Pine cast, and it would be
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Speaker 1: the fourth in the series and how we were surprised
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Speaker 1: to hear about that. Turns out we were not the
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Speaker 1: only ones surprised to hear about that. Apparently the cast
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Speaker 1: who were, you know, at least implied to all be returning,
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Speaker 1: had not been approached about another Star Trek film before
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Speaker 1: that announcement went out. Yeah, I think Chris Pine might
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Speaker 1: have been, but I'm not certain. But at first I
14:23
Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe someone leaked it. But according to
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Speaker 1: the Mary Sue, it was J. J. Abrams himself, who
14:29
Speaker 1: is moving to the role of producer for this movie,
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Speaker 1: who said it. And so now I'm wondering if it
14:35
Speaker 1: was a sly move to put more um negotiation power
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Speaker 1: into the hands of the actors. Yeah, because if the
14:43
Speaker 1: actors are all saying, oh, it says here that I'm returning,
14:46
Speaker 1: well that's gonna cost you, you know, and that I
14:49
Speaker 1: think that that's a valid thing for the actors to have.
14:52
Speaker 1: Like we've already seen several stories in the past about
14:57
Speaker 1: actors who really had to fight tooth and nail to
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Speaker 1: get compensation that they felt was fair. And most of
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Speaker 1: the time, we're talking about compensation that's well beyond anything
15:08
Speaker 1: most of us will ever see in our lives. But
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Speaker 1: then you also have to take into consideration, well, what
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Speaker 1: is what are the other people involved in the project getting, Like,
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Speaker 1: what are what's their compensation? So comparatively speaking, what is fair?
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Speaker 1: How much of the lifting are you doing as an actor? Uh?
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Speaker 1: And this gets into a much more complicated territory. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I started going into circles when I start thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, interesting that apparently even the cast didn't know
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Speaker 1: about it until that announcement went out. And finally, we
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Speaker 1: have one last story for this segment that I want
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Speaker 1: to just mention quickly because we're running out of time
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Speaker 1: on it, and that is the Beetle Juice sequel might
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Speaker 1: be coming out at some point again again again. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So there was talk of a sequel by Tim Burton
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Speaker 1: and then he went on to do something else. I
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Speaker 1: think it was, uh batman um, And then there was
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Speaker 1: talk about a sequel coming like a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: and then Pandemic. Well, now that Brad Pitt's production company,
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Speaker 1: Plan B is supposedly in like pre pre production for it,
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Speaker 1: and there are rumors, unsubstantiated rumors, but rumors that Michael
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Speaker 1: Keaton would be back to play Beetle Juice and that
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Speaker 1: one Nona Wryter would be back to play Lydia, but
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Speaker 1: they kid unsubstantiated rumors, so we don't know that for sure.
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Speaker 1: There have been, as Ariel said, multiple attempts to bring
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Speaker 1: a sequel to Beetlejuice, something that I would love to see.
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Speaker 1: I really enjoy the original movie. Um it has some
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Speaker 1: of the same classic Tim Burton problems that all Tim
16:44
Speaker 1: Burton movies have, like issues with pacing and stuff, but
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Speaker 1: it's still really entertaining and I would love to see
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Speaker 1: what those characters are up to, you know, a couple
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Speaker 1: of decades later. I agree, I would. Well, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: Beetle Juice is just being himself, but everybody else it
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Speaker 1: would be. But is Lydia still strange and unusual? I mean,
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Speaker 1: my brain thinks that she's going to be like some
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Speaker 1: sort of soccer mom, like Stranger Things soccer mom who's
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Speaker 1: really strange and unusual underneath, but has had to like
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Speaker 1: hold it down for so long to acclimate into regular
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Speaker 1: society that she has to rediscover it. Kind of like
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Speaker 1: a Beetlejuice version of Hook. She could be like on
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Speaker 1: the outside, she's Gina Davis and on the inside she's
17:29
Speaker 1: still one knowna writer. Yes, yes, they could do that
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Speaker 1: with c g I too. I think we accidentally just
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Speaker 1: did a mash up there, but that's not a real
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Speaker 1: one for this this episode. When we come back, we've
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Speaker 1: got some news related to games that we're going to
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Speaker 1: be talking about. But first let's take a quick break. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're not gaming with you. We really are talking about
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Speaker 1: video games. I know we don't do it, uh super often,
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of video game news. Yeah. First
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Speaker 1: up is that the the spinoff to Borderlands three, the
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Speaker 1: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands game. Some folks got a chance to
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Speaker 1: get some early time with it. It won't be coming
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Speaker 1: out until later this month, but some reviewers got a
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Speaker 1: chance to play like four hours worth of content. And
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Speaker 1: so we've had a chance to see some of this
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Speaker 1: because a lot of folks you know, shot video of
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Speaker 1: it or streamed it. And um, what do you think, Ariel?
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Speaker 1: I think I wish I could play first person shooters
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Speaker 1: because unlike Borderlands, which has an interesting art style and
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Speaker 1: some good humor, this like the the tongue in cheek
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Speaker 1: fantasy game, uh is super up my alley. Um, I
18:58
Speaker 1: do like the art style like the comedy. One of
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Speaker 1: the previews that I watched it was actually a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. The guy playing it was playing a
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Speaker 1: character who walked up to a drawbridge and the character said,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to seduce the drawbridge and it was a
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Speaker 1: hilarious bit. And it reminds me of the way my
19:15
Speaker 1: friends and I played D and D sometimes. Um, and
19:18
Speaker 1: so this game looks like if you're if you're playing
19:21
Speaker 1: a bar, that's your go to move. Yeah. Yeah, And
19:24
Speaker 1: this game, you know, looks like it's it's everything that
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Speaker 1: I would like in a video game if I were
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Speaker 1: good at this kind of video game. Yeah. I I
19:33
Speaker 1: played the Borderlands expansion years ago that was a smaller
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Speaker 1: version of this idea, and um, it was fun. Tiny
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Speaker 1: Tina as a character that can really get on my nerves.
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Speaker 1: So but the voice actually doesn't sound quite as obnoxious
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Speaker 1: as it usually does, so maybe that's a good thing. Um,
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Speaker 1: I might pick this up. I also am someone who
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Speaker 1: I picked up Borderland three and uh, I thought I
20:03
Speaker 1: had played through most of the game and just put
20:06
Speaker 1: it down and never picked it back up again. And
20:08
Speaker 1: so when I finally decided, oh, you know what, I'm
20:10
Speaker 1: going to finish Borderlands three, I picked it back up
20:12
Speaker 1: realized I was maybe two hours into that game at
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Speaker 1: most when I put it down, and I still couldn't
20:21
Speaker 1: get much further than that because it just didn't click
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Speaker 1: with me. Borderlands and Borderlands two, and Borderlands the pre sequel,
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Speaker 1: all of those I liked, but Borderlands three, for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: I did not like. And um, this looks like it's
20:37
Speaker 1: way more my speed than Borderlands three. Yeah. I like
20:42
Speaker 1: it because you have the option I mean, there was
20:45
Speaker 1: only always melee options in Borderlands, but um, you have
20:51
Speaker 1: I think a few more melee and spell options. And
20:53
Speaker 1: it's a little bit easier to play than in traditional
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Speaker 1: Borderlands in this game. Um. And also it is brighter. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I like the fantasy skin on the bad guys and
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Speaker 1: good guys as opposed to the kind of mad Max skin. Um,
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Speaker 1: just a little bit more just aesthetically. Um, So maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe I'll even actually try it instead of just watching it.
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Speaker 1: That's so, yeah, I might give it a shot to
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Speaker 1: It's I don't have that much time to game anymore,
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Speaker 1: so it's rare when I ever picked something up, like,
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Speaker 1: I haven't played a recent game in ages, but this
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Speaker 1: might be one I actually give a try something I
21:28
Speaker 1: don't think I will try because I have never tried it,
21:31
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's gonna change now is pick
21:34
Speaker 1: up the next Pokemon's but um, but that hasn't stopped
21:39
Speaker 1: the internet from going gaga over a new Pokemon starter
21:45
Speaker 1: cat thing called Sprigga Tito. Yeah, it's a weed. It's
21:51
Speaker 1: a weed version Pokemon, which means or grass version. They're
21:54
Speaker 1: calling it a weed cat. All kinds of jokes there. Um,
21:58
Speaker 1: it is really cute, as as as a little like
22:01
Speaker 1: markings on its face that kind of look like it
22:04
Speaker 1: might be similar to like a marijuana leaf. Not not
22:09
Speaker 1: enough leaves. But yes, there are a few, there are
22:12
Speaker 1: a few. I will say a lot of starting monsters
22:16
Speaker 1: for Pokemon tend to be really cute, um in general,
22:20
Speaker 1: and I usually never like the way they they evolve ever,
22:25
Speaker 1: um yeah, like ever ever because they get less cute.
22:28
Speaker 1: In fact, the article on Polygon talks about the Sun
22:31
Speaker 1: and Moon version starter, which was a cat called litton Um.
22:38
Speaker 1: I think it was a fire fire Pokemon that turned
22:41
Speaker 1: into like a giant like person cat and they call
22:43
Speaker 1: it a bipedal luchador because it does kind of look
22:47
Speaker 1: like that so you go from this cute little animal
22:49
Speaker 1: to like this big persony thing, right, and there's this
22:55
Speaker 1: like campaign almost you can't really call it a campaign.
22:58
Speaker 1: There's this overwhelming sentiment among at least some parts of
23:04
Speaker 1: the Pokemon fandom that are just begging for this Pokemon
23:10
Speaker 1: to remain a four legged cat creature throughout all its evolutions.
23:15
Speaker 1: I mean I would back that. I would back that. Um. Now,
23:18
Speaker 1: the the trainer look for Scarlett Inviolent Pokemon is not
23:24
Speaker 1: as getting as good a review. Some people don't like it.
23:26
Speaker 1: It's less um colorful. It looks more like uh studio
23:31
Speaker 1: Geebli like school kid look as opposed to like cool
23:35
Speaker 1: hip trainer kids. Um, and some people don't like it.
23:39
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll play this. I'm still through
23:42
Speaker 1: playing through original uh Pokemon on my game Boy and
23:47
Speaker 1: Pokemon Unite and that augmented reality Pokemon Get Pokemon Go
23:53
Speaker 1: as well. Like I have a lot of Pokemon games,
23:55
Speaker 1: I really find time to play them. I played Pokemon
23:59
Speaker 1: Go for about a month and a half and then
24:01
Speaker 1: never picked it up again. So that's the that's the
24:04
Speaker 1: only experience I've had actually playing it, and of course
24:06
Speaker 1: it's it was the least Pokemon of all of them,
24:09
Speaker 1: because when I was playing, they still had not incorporated
24:13
Speaker 1: any kind of battle system or anything. You had the gems,
24:16
Speaker 1: g y m s, but that was it. But you
24:19
Speaker 1: know who knows? Hey, Ariel, why don't you start off
24:24
Speaker 1: this next story because this next story illustrates why I
24:28
Speaker 1: will always be paying for the domain name for large
24:33
Speaker 1: Dirtron Collider forever. Okay, sure, So Konami, which is the
24:41
Speaker 1: publisher company for the Silent Hill video games, apparently lost
24:47
Speaker 1: the domain or gave it up to silent Hill dot
24:50
Speaker 1: com and somebody else has bought it and is using
24:54
Speaker 1: it to vaguely troll the video game. Now there's not
24:57
Speaker 1: There have been rumors about like a new Silent Hill
24:59
Speaker 1: game me out, there haven't. There hasn't been one super
25:02
Speaker 1: super recently since two thousand twelve, not since like two
25:07
Speaker 1: thousand twelve. Is that how long ago the last one
25:09
Speaker 1: came out? It feels like it was more recent. But
25:15
Speaker 1: but there are some remasters that have come out, but
25:19
Speaker 1: not like a new title. Yeah yeah, but so now
25:24
Speaker 1: Silent Hill does have like a web page like on
25:27
Speaker 1: on the Konami website, but they can't they're going to
25:31
Speaker 1: have to buy back their domain if they want to
25:34
Speaker 1: release another game, and in the meantime, this dude can
25:37
Speaker 1: just keep whoever it is, can just keep trolling them. Yeah. Yeah,
25:44
Speaker 1: the I guess the Like I said, the message here
25:46
Speaker 1: really is don't let your domains expire because if you do,
25:51
Speaker 1: someone else can scoop them up. There's nothing because there's
25:54
Speaker 1: no really no way to like say, I have DIBs
25:58
Speaker 1: on this domain forever and ever. You have to pay
26:01
Speaker 1: the registrar for it. And if that expires and you
26:04
Speaker 1: don't pay, guess what, it's up for grabs. And uh.
26:09
Speaker 1: In these sort of cases, that can end up being embarrassing.
26:12
Speaker 1: I mean, like I could understand you saying, hey, we
26:15
Speaker 1: I'm done with large Ner drunk collidor I can't stand
26:18
Speaker 1: aerial anymore, and then that domain will go away, because
26:20
Speaker 1: I would never start the show with somebody that wasn't
26:22
Speaker 1: a huge Jonathan. I'll be worried about someone else just
26:25
Speaker 1: getting it. And then they're like, not large Ner, drunk Collider,
26:28
Speaker 1: why Jonathan is a stinker, And I'm like, I don't
26:30
Speaker 1: need that. Yeah, no, I get that, but especially in
26:35
Speaker 1: the case of Konami, because they're still making money off
26:39
Speaker 1: of the Silent Hill games, so I can still pay
26:42
Speaker 1: for that domain technically. Um yeah, I think people are
26:46
Speaker 1: still upset that PT never became a thing, you know,
26:49
Speaker 1: like when when the PT the playable trailer came out
26:53
Speaker 1: that was teasing the next Silent Hill project. But then
26:58
Speaker 1: there was the massive fall falling out that ultimately meant
27:02
Speaker 1: that the creator of Silent Hill left the company, and
27:05
Speaker 1: like it just got there was a lot of drama
27:08
Speaker 1: and and it kind of died a death at that point.
27:12
Speaker 1: It did. But that's okay because if you want to
27:15
Speaker 1: play a new game with Hill in the title, you
27:17
Speaker 1: can just play the third edition of Betrayal at House
27:20
Speaker 1: on the Hill that's coming out. This is a board
27:24
Speaker 1: game that I love. I've only played it a few times.
27:27
Speaker 1: I own the second edition, and I own the widows
27:31
Speaker 1: Peak expansion. Though I haven't played the windows Peak expansion yet.
27:36
Speaker 1: I do own it. I'm just waiting for the time
27:37
Speaker 1: where people can come over to my house and I
27:39
Speaker 1: can play it again. But for those who aren't familiar,
27:43
Speaker 1: it's a game where it starts off as a cooperative
27:46
Speaker 1: game where all the players are on the same team
27:48
Speaker 1: and you're exploring a house and In the second edition version,
27:52
Speaker 1: you're exploring the house by picking up tiles then flipping
27:57
Speaker 1: them over to find out what room or hallway is represented,
28:01
Speaker 1: and then you fit that to the existing house, So
28:04
Speaker 1: the house literally expands as you play. And at some
28:08
Speaker 1: point in the game, there is an event that turns
28:14
Speaker 1: one of the players into a trader, and then it
28:16
Speaker 1: becomes a a combative game where the remaining human players
28:23
Speaker 1: are trying to escape the house while the trader is
28:26
Speaker 1: trying to kill everybody. And there's all these different variations
28:29
Speaker 1: on it. There's like dozens of different variations of haunts
28:33
Speaker 1: is what they're called. Uh. Well, now we're getting a
28:36
Speaker 1: third edition where they're going to have they're going to
28:39
Speaker 1: address some of the problems with the second edition because
28:43
Speaker 1: there were some weird cases you could have where like
28:48
Speaker 1: certain rooms and certain items could break the game. Yeah, yeah,
28:53
Speaker 1: and certain haunts that were really difficult and not fun
28:57
Speaker 1: to play. Um, so yeah, sort of fixing it. Every
29:00
Speaker 1: edition fixes errata from the previous game. It's a really
29:02
Speaker 1: fun game. But I think I think it's the first
29:05
Speaker 1: edition where like the underground pool was in the upstairs, uh,
29:10
Speaker 1: and so they had to write like in the upstairs tiles,
29:12
Speaker 1: so they had to write rata that when you find
29:14
Speaker 1: this tile, it moves to the basement because there's a
29:16
Speaker 1: basement in main floor in an upper level. Um, and
29:19
Speaker 1: they just printed it wrong. Um. I have played most editions.
29:24
Speaker 1: I don't think I've played Widow's Peak. I've I've even
29:26
Speaker 1: played a little bit of Betrayal at House on the
29:29
Speaker 1: Hill Legacy, which was quite a lot of fun. Um.
29:33
Speaker 1: But this, this version super appeals to me for a
29:36
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. And the first is that, uh, I
29:40
Speaker 1: have had friends turned off from this game because the
29:42
Speaker 1: first time they played, they become the trader when the
29:45
Speaker 1: hunt happens in the game, and it's unfun for them
29:47
Speaker 1: because they aren't familiar enough with board games or this
29:50
Speaker 1: board game to really enjoy doing that role. I know,
29:53
Speaker 1: I don't even enjoy always playing the trader because it's
29:55
Speaker 1: you against everybody. So they've made a feature where you
29:58
Speaker 1: can pass it off to someone who may mind being
30:00
Speaker 1: the trader, especially if you're a new player. That's cool.
30:04
Speaker 1: That's cool, yeah, because it can definitely it can definitely
30:06
Speaker 1: start to feel like everybody else is effectively ganging up
30:10
Speaker 1: on you. Yeah, and then the other thing is they're
30:12
Speaker 1: going to continue to come out with new haunts for it.
30:14
Speaker 1: So the other thing is, after you played Betrayal a
30:17
Speaker 1: certain number of times, you start reliving the same haunts
30:20
Speaker 1: and then you know how to beat them and things
30:22
Speaker 1: like that. So, um, they're just going to keep coming
30:25
Speaker 1: out with expansions, which I like. But on the other hand,
30:27
Speaker 1: my house is filled with a Batman game with like
30:30
Speaker 1: fifty expansions, and uh, Marvel Legacy with fifty expansions, and
30:35
Speaker 1: I'm I'm running out of room for new games because
30:38
Speaker 1: the number of expansions to existing games that are coming
30:42
Speaker 1: into my house. So yeah, I don't have that many that.
30:46
Speaker 1: I don't have that many games. So for me, uh,
30:49
Speaker 1: this is okay for now, but check back with me
30:51
Speaker 1: in ten years and I might not be able to
30:54
Speaker 1: answer you because I'll be buried in expansions. Yes, you'll
30:58
Speaker 1: be stuck in the basement of House on a Hill
31:02
Speaker 1: that didn't work well. Um, something else I expect not
31:05
Speaker 1: to work super well is the twisted metal show that's
31:07
Speaker 1: coming out. Yeah, so we had heard that there was
31:11
Speaker 1: gonna be a twisted metal television series kind of being
31:14
Speaker 1: pitched around. If you're not familiar with the video game
31:17
Speaker 1: Twisted Metal. It's from the PlayStation era, the early PlayStation era,
31:21
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like a car battle game
31:24
Speaker 1: where you would pick up weird weapons and you're driving
31:29
Speaker 1: crazy vehicles. The thing that everyone remembers is a clown
31:33
Speaker 1: driving an ice cream truck, like a crazy looking clown
31:36
Speaker 1: driving an ice cream truck. But there were lots of
31:38
Speaker 1: weird vehicles in that game. And we heard that there
31:41
Speaker 1: was gonna be a series. It's gonna be like an
31:44
Speaker 1: adventure comedy series Anthony Mackie, isn't it? Love Anthony Mackie,
31:49
Speaker 1: you know, Captain America. Love him? Yeah, not sure what
31:54
Speaker 1: to think about this, Like, how do you make it
31:56
Speaker 1: a plot? Sounds like it's gonna be kind of a
31:59
Speaker 1: series where he has to traverse a post apocalyptic landscape
32:04
Speaker 1: and meanwhile he's being pursued by and plagued by people
32:10
Speaker 1: driving these crazy style vehicles. So obviously it's not like
32:15
Speaker 1: a direct adaptation of the game, because how the heck
32:17
Speaker 1: would you make that a story? Yeah, so so really
32:22
Speaker 1: the article I was reading the article about this show,
32:24
Speaker 1: I was thinking, huh, it sounds like Mad Max with clowns,
32:29
Speaker 1: and then the article said it's like Mad Max with clowns,
32:32
Speaker 1: which is very frightening. I mean, some of the Mad
32:35
Speaker 1: Max characters look like clowns anyhow, but uh, you know,
32:40
Speaker 1: like actual clowns, like villainizing them is is sad and scary,
32:46
Speaker 1: or like, you know, a little bit of Grand Threat
32:48
Speaker 1: Theft Auto putting there like that Max meets Grand Theft
32:54
Speaker 1: Zombie Land. I don't know. I mean, obviously I don't
32:57
Speaker 1: know what to think because there's nothing to look at yet.
33:01
Speaker 1: It will be coming to Peacock, so I'll probably never
33:04
Speaker 1: know because I don't subscribe to Peacock. It might come
33:07
Speaker 1: to the free portion of Peacock. There is a paid
33:10
Speaker 1: in an unpaid version. Um also don't even know that.
33:14
Speaker 1: That's how bad a bad a fan I am. Yeah. Yeah,
33:17
Speaker 1: you can watch some shows on Peacock and then some
33:20
Speaker 1: shows you have to pay for. It's also being done
33:23
Speaker 1: by H. H. Reese and Paul Warnick who worked on Deadpool. Um,
33:27
Speaker 1: so when they say Anthony Mackie is playing a smart
33:31
Speaker 1: Alec Milkman, I believe that will be appropriately done at
33:35
Speaker 1: least that part of it. Yeah, But something that will
33:40
Speaker 1: not be appropriately done is our mash up. You'll learn
33:43
Speaker 1: more about what I mean when we come back after
33:46
Speaker 1: this is your mash up inappropriate? Jonathan Listen Ariel, I
34:07
Speaker 1: was really hoping that they would forget how I let
34:09
Speaker 1: out of that ad break and we just brought it
34:11
Speaker 1: right back. Yes, yes, it's our inappropriate mashupshappropriate. Considering the
34:20
Speaker 1: two properties we picked, it's it's pretty out there, I guess. So. Yeah,
34:25
Speaker 1: so we picked Daredevil and Rapunzel, but for good reason. Yes,
34:32
Speaker 1: there are some good reasons and and their their news related.
34:34
Speaker 1: Although you know that we wanted to kind of do
34:37
Speaker 1: quick rundowns on this one. Is that, uh, we have
34:41
Speaker 1: received confirmation from Charlie Cox himself that Daredevil will be
34:45
Speaker 1: back in the m c U and some means in
34:48
Speaker 1: some manner. Uh, We've been hearing this for a while,
34:52
Speaker 1: so it's really just more a confirmation on that. But
34:54
Speaker 1: also we recently found out that in the middle of
34:59
Speaker 1: this month, those uh m c U properties that were
35:03
Speaker 1: on Netflix and ABC, so you know, Daredevil, Defenders, Jessica Jones,
35:08
Speaker 1: all those plus Shield, they're all coming to Disney Plus
35:13
Speaker 1: in the middle of this month. Uh, we knew that
35:15
Speaker 1: was going to happen in Canada, but it's just been Um,
35:19
Speaker 1: as we're recording this, it's just been confirmed that's happening
35:22
Speaker 1: here in the United States as well. So that's why
35:24
Speaker 1: we picked Daredevil's because the man who Knows No Fear
35:30
Speaker 1: lives on Yes. Um And just just as a note
35:33
Speaker 1: to parents who have Disney Plus who don't maybe want
35:35
Speaker 1: their kids watching Jessica Jones, Disney Plus is also adding
35:38
Speaker 1: additional parental controls. Make sure to put them in place. Uh. Also,
35:44
Speaker 1: we picked your Punzel because as Zassie Beats, who played
35:48
Speaker 1: Domino in Deadpool and other Marvel property that doesn't belong
35:52
Speaker 1: on Disney Plus, is writing a like a sequel to
35:57
Speaker 1: the traditional Rapunzel story with her husband. But it's not
36:02
Speaker 1: traditional because in this one, Rapunzel has a giant afro
36:06
Speaker 1: and Zassy Beats will be playing her, and that actually
36:09
Speaker 1: really appeals to me. I'm I kind of like that
36:12
Speaker 1: twist on the classic fairy tale of the girl with
36:15
Speaker 1: the incredibly to one one. I love that they've already
36:19
Speaker 1: gotten out of the classic Rapunzel story and that this
36:23
Speaker 1: is taking place presumably after she's already escaped her tower.
36:27
Speaker 1: Um and I love this idea like it could be
36:31
Speaker 1: really fun. Um and interesting and funny and I think
36:37
Speaker 1: moving depending on what way they want to go with it.
36:40
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm I'm really excited to learn more about this.
36:44
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that that comes to fruition and we
36:47
Speaker 1: actually get that project. Yeah, me too, Me too. And
36:51
Speaker 1: I like husband and wife teams working together. It's it's
36:55
Speaker 1: there's a lot of communication there usually and it I'm excited. Yeah,
36:59
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Okay, So real quick For people who don't know,
37:02
Speaker 1: Daredevil is a blind superhero. As a kid, he got
37:05
Speaker 1: blinded by a bunch of chemicals and now he has
37:08
Speaker 1: like super awesome other abilities. He also his dad was
37:11
Speaker 1: a boxer, so he got trained to be a really
37:13
Speaker 1: good fighter, so he's he's he kind of has sight,
37:16
Speaker 1: but it's like superhero supernatural whatever site echo e echoe site.
37:21
Speaker 1: And also he grows up to become a lawyer, so
37:26
Speaker 1: he's a defense lawyer. He's capable of detecting lies because
37:30
Speaker 1: he can hear if someone's heart beat speeds up or whatever.
37:33
Speaker 1: So he typically only takes cases if he is convinced
37:36
Speaker 1: that the person is innocent, and then he does his
37:38
Speaker 1: best to try and win their court case. And he's
37:43
Speaker 1: also the guy who goes out and kicks the stuffing
37:45
Speaker 1: out of bad guys in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. Yeah,
37:48
Speaker 1: so pretty cool character, pretty violent character, Rapunzel if you're
37:53
Speaker 1: not familiar, And I'm just gonna go with the classic story,
37:55
Speaker 1: which is fairly similar to the Disney version, is a
38:00
Speaker 1: mom is pregnant and she has a craving for some
38:03
Speaker 1: vegetables that can only be found in a neighbor's yard.
38:05
Speaker 1: That neighbor happens to be a witch, so when the
38:07
Speaker 1: dad picks them, the witch catches him and claims her
38:10
Speaker 1: firstborn child is retribution. When she gets the baby, she
38:13
Speaker 1: puts it into a tower as her own daughter and
38:15
Speaker 1: leaves her stranded up there and has her grow out
38:17
Speaker 1: her hair so that she can visit her daughter each day.
38:20
Speaker 1: But like the tower has no doors or anything like that,
38:22
Speaker 1: because she doesn't want the girl leaving her. Yeah, there's
38:25
Speaker 1: a window at the top of the tower. And the
38:27
Speaker 1: way that the old woman visits the tower is she says, Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
38:31
Speaker 1: it down your hair. Rapunzel lets her hair down, and
38:34
Speaker 1: the witch climbs her hair, and you don't hear anything
38:37
Speaker 1: about Rapunzel being put through severe agonizing pain and then
38:42
Speaker 1: eventually a prince overhears the witch and goes and rescues Rapunzel,
38:47
Speaker 1: who didn't even know she needed rescuing, and the end
38:51
Speaker 1: well version is slightly different. He falls into some briars
38:55
Speaker 1: and it pokes out his eyes and he goes blind,
38:57
Speaker 1: and then she gets kicked out because her mom is
38:59
Speaker 1: ng her, which mother is angry, and she cries on
39:03
Speaker 1: her poor mutilated uh sweetheart's face, and it restores his
39:08
Speaker 1: sight and they live happily ever after. Yeah, I kind
39:11
Speaker 1: of skipped over that bit. Well, I've built it in
39:14
Speaker 1: for you. You're welcome. YEA. Oddly enough, Disney did not
39:18
Speaker 1: include the eyes getting gouged out part of the story.
39:22
Speaker 1: It's important to my mash up. So that's good to know.
39:26
Speaker 1: I can't wait. And here you were saying, like, is
39:29
Speaker 1: yours inappropriate? Well mine didn't have eye gouging. Violence is
39:34
Speaker 1: different than inappropriate in some situations. Jonathan Friendly Friendly Family
39:41
Speaker 1: Friendly Podcast. Yes, this is not it's not that bad.
39:44
Speaker 1: It's not that bad. Mine is not that bad. So
39:47
Speaker 1: do you want to do you want to go first?
39:48
Speaker 1: Or should I? Uh? Which I can go first if
39:52
Speaker 1: you want. But we're gonna definitely need another break before
39:55
Speaker 1: this is done. All right, um was long? Do you
39:59
Speaker 1: want me to go first? I'll do it. I'll go first. Okay,
40:03
Speaker 1: So this is called dare Punzel. Rapunzel, the girl with
40:07
Speaker 1: the impossibly long hair, had been locked away in a
40:10
Speaker 1: tower with no doors for as long as she could
40:12
Speaker 1: remember by her adoptive mother, Gothel, who are fear familiar
40:15
Speaker 1: with the fairy tale, was also a witch. Gotha would
40:18
Speaker 1: use the said impossibly long hair to climb up to
40:20
Speaker 1: visit the girl, but she was Punzel's only visitor. When
40:24
Speaker 1: Rapunzel became a teenager, she realized how lonely she was
40:27
Speaker 1: with only her mother to visit her, and she longed
40:30
Speaker 1: for some handsome stranger to climb up her hair and
40:32
Speaker 1: take her away, And so she started flirting with any
40:34
Speaker 1: adventurer and prince that spotted her high up in her tower.
40:38
Speaker 1: The problem was Rapunzel's mother kept catching her and her sweethearts,
40:42
Speaker 1: and at first Gothel would catch them at the bottom
40:44
Speaker 1: of the tower and scare them away with questions like
40:46
Speaker 1: what are your intentions with my daughter? And are you
40:48
Speaker 1: content living in a tower for the rest of your life?
40:51
Speaker 1: Until the would be suitors bolted, but as the suitor's
40:53
Speaker 1: got more bold, Rapunzel's mother got more cold. You see,
40:57
Speaker 1: Rapunzel's bows would climb her hair, but Nzel couldn't think
41:00
Speaker 1: of a way to get back down herself, so they'd
41:02
Speaker 1: be stuck up in the tower with her, and Gothel
41:04
Speaker 1: would climb up the tower to visit her daughter and
41:06
Speaker 1: find the hiding bow and throw them out the window
41:08
Speaker 1: to the brambles at the base of the tower, each
41:11
Speaker 1: finding it best blindness as her eyes got poked by
41:13
Speaker 1: the thorns, and at worst death. Uh. Things hit a
41:17
Speaker 1: sad crescendo when one of her Punzel's suitors, her favorite
41:20
Speaker 1: in fact, figured out that wait, I am sorry, I'd
41:25
Speaker 1: never do this, But they hit a sad crescendo after
41:29
Speaker 1: the blindings and deaths. Just listen, okay, I'm sorry, when
41:35
Speaker 1: one of Rapunzel's suitors, her favorite in fact, figured out
41:40
Speaker 1: that if her Punzel cut off her hair and used
41:42
Speaker 1: it as a rope to climb down, they would both
41:44
Speaker 1: be free to live a life full of love together
41:47
Speaker 1: out of the tower. But when Gothel found this out
41:49
Speaker 1: and climbed up, Yep, you guessed it, she threw him
41:51
Speaker 1: out the window, he went blind, and then she confiscated
41:55
Speaker 1: her Punzel's hair so she couldn't use it anymore to
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Speaker 1: try to escape. That's the sad crescendo, Jonathan. Wasn't wasn't
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Speaker 1: the multiple deaths and blindings. It was better hair got taken.
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Speaker 1: I mean now she can't hopefully not blind anymore. Guys,
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Speaker 1: All right, Rapunzel was left sad and broken hearted, crying
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Speaker 1: in her tower, and then a most curious fellow came along.
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Speaker 1: At first Rapunzel thought he was a mere blind beggar,
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Speaker 1: but upon hearing her cries, he threw off his street garb,
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Speaker 1: revealing a bizarre red leather suit and mask that made
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Speaker 1: him look like a devil. He scaled the smooth tower walls,
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Speaker 1: Sam's eyes and Sam's hair, said you sure you want
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Speaker 1: out of here? Oh, my name's Matt Burt Muruch by
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Speaker 1: the way, and threw her over his shoulder and began
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Speaker 1: scaling back down the smooth stone tower wall. But before
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Speaker 1: he could get very far down, Gothel caught them and
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Speaker 1: magic Matt off the wall into the brambles. He tumbled
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Speaker 1: and landed on his feet, scratched up, but no worse
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Speaker 1: for wear. Gothel ran at him, screaming, don't you dare,
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Speaker 1: devil try to take my girl away from me, But
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Speaker 1: much to her surprise, despite bleeding from his eyes, he
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Speaker 1: was able to dodge her every move until she was
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Speaker 1: worn out. Matt told Gothel to yield, which she did,
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Speaker 1: and he threw her over his shoulder and climbed her
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Speaker 1: up into the tower and left her there forever. Matt
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Speaker 1: was about to head home, but Rapunzel asked him to stay,
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Speaker 1: and he really did like this pet place better than
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Speaker 1: New York. I mean, you know, the fresh air alone.
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Speaker 1: So he did, and they fell in love and they
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Speaker 1: lived almost happily ever after, until one day when Gothel's
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Speaker 1: great niece named Electra showed up to visit her dear
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Speaker 1: great aunt recognized her ex Matt Murdoch and vowed revenge
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Speaker 1: on Rapunzel. But that is a story for another time.
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Speaker 1: The end, Okay, I can I can confidently say that
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Speaker 1: your story of my story are about as different as
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Speaker 1: they can be. So as you are in for a treat.
43:52
Speaker 1: Because the first of all, that was great. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: I was I had to interrupt because the way you
43:58
Speaker 1: put that, I was like, wait, there's a criscendo after
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Speaker 1: all the deaths. Most people think, like multiple deaths, that's
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Speaker 1: kind of a crescendo right there. But no, we have
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Speaker 1: to go one step further. Unzel isn't right in the head.
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Speaker 1: She's been up in that tower by herself too long. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's that's fair. Um. I am so proud of the
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Speaker 1: title of mine, but you're not gonna get to hear
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Speaker 1: it until after we take this break and we come
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Speaker 1: back with my mash up. Okay, we're ready for my mashup.
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Speaker 1: And the title is a secret that you're gonna find
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Speaker 1: out what in the actual episode. Yeah, no, I the type.
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Speaker 1: There's a title reveal, So we have to build to
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Speaker 1: the title. Here we go. Rapunzel Murdoch has a problem. See,
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Speaker 1: she was raised to be helpful, respectful, and most importantly,
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Speaker 1: non violent by her father, Battling Jack Murdoch, a boxer
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Speaker 1: in New York City. Battling Jack always wanted his daughter
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Speaker 1: Rapunzel to have more than he had, and he taught
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Speaker 1: her the valuable lessons of perseverance, honesty, and integrity, lessons
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Speaker 1: that Battling Jack had to learn the hard way before
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Speaker 1: he retired. But Rapunzel's actual problems started one day when
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Speaker 1: she saw an old, blind man crossing a street in
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Speaker 1: New York. The man had no way of knowing that
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Speaker 1: a truck carrying radioactive material was barreling toward him. Rapunzel
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Speaker 1: dashed out into the street and pushed the man out
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Speaker 1: of the way, narrowly avoiding the truck. But some of
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Speaker 1: the radioactive substance hit Rapunzel, blinding her instantly and causing
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Speaker 1: her hair to grow so fast you could hear it. Rapunzel, scared,
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Speaker 1: blinded and disoriented, was looking was looked after by concerned
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Speaker 1: citizens until her father could find her. In the hospital,
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Speaker 1: she slowly regained her vision, which just made it all
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Speaker 1: the more puzzling when she could actually see the long,
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Speaker 1: golden tresses that now grew from her head. Cutting it
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Speaker 1: didn't seem to help. The hair would just grow right back,
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Speaker 1: just as long as before, and sometimes it moved the
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Speaker 1: Rapunzel also noticed that she felt faster, more graceful, and
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Speaker 1: stronger than she had before the accident, But her hair
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Speaker 1: was the real issue. It just gets in the way
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Speaker 1: no matter what she does. Rapunzel's hair is such a
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Speaker 1: distraction that it becomes hard for her to function in
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Speaker 1: polite society, and so Battling Jack, who had retired from
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Speaker 1: the sport of boxing, starts hustling up new bouts so
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Speaker 1: he can help support his daughter. At one point, Battling
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Speaker 1: Jack is approached by organized crime members to throw a fight. Rapunzel, though,
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Speaker 1: attends the fight, and at the last second Battling Jack
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Speaker 1: decides not to throw the belt and he wins, knowing
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Speaker 1: that the organized crime gang that arranged everything would be
46:57
Speaker 1: coming after him. Next thing, Rapunzl knows she's without a father,
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Speaker 1: but then you know, if her father had stuck around
47:04
Speaker 1: Disney never would have touched the story. Also a plot twist,
47:08
Speaker 1: her dad actually manages to fake his own death, but
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Speaker 1: in order to keep his daughter safe, he keeps his distance.
47:13
Speaker 1: So that breaks his heart, but it means that she's
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Speaker 1: safe so anyway, Rapunzel, seeing the corruption around her, dedicates
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Speaker 1: her life to becoming a superhero, someone who can make
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Speaker 1: a real difference, since the legal system clearly isn't up
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Speaker 1: to the task. She dawns an outfit and learns how
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Speaker 1: to use her hair as a weapon. She becomes Hair Devil.
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Speaker 1: Boom title screen Hair Devil Yes, Hair Devil answers the
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Speaker 1: call and begins to take on the various criminals of
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Speaker 1: Hell's Kitchen in New York City. At first, her efforts
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Speaker 1: are just stuff of rumor, with criminals laughing off the
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Speaker 1: stories of a woman with incredibly long, end at times
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Speaker 1: animated hair that seems to serve as a way to attack,
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Speaker 1: tie up, or trip criminals. Over time, these rumors grow
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Speaker 1: into ledge and criminals from all strata of society don't
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Speaker 1: dare whisper hair Devil's name as for Rapunzel Murdoch mild
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Speaker 1: mannered young woman with long hair. She attends Columbia Law School,
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Speaker 1: graduating with honors and becoming a lawyer. She becomes a
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Speaker 1: defense attorney, which raises all sorts of ethical questions about
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Speaker 1: her defending criminals while at the same time beating the
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Speaker 1: stuffing out of other criminals as her costume dealter ego. Also,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing that no one has connected the fact that
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Speaker 1: the lawyer with the really long hair is also the
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Speaker 1: superhero with the really long hair. She just hears big
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Speaker 1: poofy hats in court. Yeah, I'm thinking like she wears
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Speaker 1: like one of those like knit caps and it's just
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Speaker 1: really big on top of her head and it just
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Speaker 1: holds all her hair, and no one's put two and
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Speaker 1: two together. I don't know anyway. She usually only takes
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Speaker 1: cases when she's sure that her client is actually innocent
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Speaker 1: of the crime they're accused of. And she could tell
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Speaker 1: if someone is lying by listening to their hair. It's weird,
48:56
Speaker 1: but it works anyway. All her crime fighting of inn
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Speaker 1: gains the attention of the Kingpin of New York, a
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Speaker 1: woman otherwise known as Mother Gothel, and she is one bad,
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Speaker 1: bad woman. She relies on a corrupt system to cement
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Speaker 1: her power. She has judges and police on her payroll.
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Speaker 1: She decides where crime can run rampant and where criminals
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Speaker 1: have to lay low, and she does it in this
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Speaker 1: really passive aggressive way, and she gaslights folks like a lot.
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Speaker 1: So Mother Gothel the Kingpin, here's about this mass superhero
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Speaker 1: with crazy magic hair. And she gets increasingly frustrated as
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Speaker 1: their plans are complicated by this hero. So Gothel is
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Speaker 1: pretty sure she's gonna get her way in the end,
49:41
Speaker 1: like things are going to turn out her way because
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Speaker 1: the system is just so darnbroken. But that timeline is
49:47
Speaker 1: going to end up being a lot longer than she
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Speaker 1: wanted it to be. And you know she's not getting
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Speaker 1: any younger ha, so she's still tiring martial arts experts
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Speaker 1: to try and take out the flippy Dippy Harry Hippie,
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Speaker 1: and hair Devil is ready for whatever Gothel throws at her.
50:03
Speaker 1: She gets into a big brawl with a martial arts
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Speaker 1: expert who, despite his best efforts, can't defeat hair Devil,
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Speaker 1: and he says, how can this be happening? And then
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Speaker 1: hair Devil says, easy, I know you're going to do
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do as you're doing it, because I
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Speaker 1: sense when you're throwing a punch or a kick and
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Speaker 1: then just move out the way. Yes, is the martial
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Speaker 1: artist that's called seeing, I'm doing it too, like I
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Speaker 1: can also see that doesn't really answer my question of
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Speaker 1: how you can be beating me in a fight, and
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Speaker 1: Hair Devil just like shrugs, which makes her hair flip
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Speaker 1: out and wrap around the martial artists like five times,
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Speaker 1: sinching him in a tight bind, making him fall over,
50:41
Speaker 1: and she whacks him a few times before she makes
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Speaker 1: her escape. And then King Penn Gothel is so mad
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Speaker 1: about this she decides she's gonna be the bad guy,
50:51
Speaker 1: even though really she's been the bad guy the whole time,
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Speaker 1: and really it's she's just doing her best to delude
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Speaker 1: herself into thinking that her actions are totally justifiable and
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Speaker 1: therefore she's not the bad guy. But come on, y'all
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Speaker 1: know she's the bad guy, right. So anyway, Gothel realizes
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Speaker 1: that Hair Devil operates almost entirely out of Hell's kitchen,
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Speaker 1: and so in an effort to draw out the hero,
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Speaker 1: she sends a bunch of criminals to cause a ton
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Speaker 1: of trouble in that area. So crooks threatened shop owners,
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Speaker 1: they light fires and buildings, they mug innocent people on
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Speaker 1: the streets. So hair Deevil moves into action, taking out
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Speaker 1: crook after crook. But as soon as she's done defeating one,
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Speaker 1: another one is springing into action a couple of blocks over,
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Speaker 1: and so she has to rush off and stop them,
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Speaker 1: and then another and then another, and it becomes this
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Speaker 1: exhausting marathon of trying to stop a seemingly unstoppable mass
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Speaker 1: of crooks, and by the end of the night, Rapunzel
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Speaker 1: as Hair Devil starts to recognize some of the folks
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Speaker 1: that she's fighting because they're the same ones that she
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Speaker 1: had to beat up earlier in the night, and it
51:51
Speaker 1: turns out that Kingpin Gothel has been greasing the wheels
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes and bribing judges so that they let
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Speaker 1: out these tufts as quickly as they are being brought in,
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Speaker 1: all in an effort to crush hair Devil's spirit, and
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Speaker 1: it almost works. Hair Devil is confronted with the fact
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Speaker 1: that as hard as she fights, the system underneath has
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Speaker 1: deep corrupted roots. That she might put a crook down
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Speaker 1: again and again, but sooner or later they're back out
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Speaker 1: on the street. Heck. Gothel, herself, in disguise as a
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Speaker 1: homeless woman, watches as hair Devil becomes discouraged, and she
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Speaker 1: can almost taste the victory. But then hair Devil stands
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Speaker 1: tall and she clenches her fists and she shakes it off.
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Speaker 1: She embodies the lessons her father battling Jack taught her,
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Speaker 1: and she also detects the presence of King Penn Gothel,
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Speaker 1: and not knowing who Gothel is, she gets into a confrontation,
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Speaker 1: and Gothel, furious that her plan didn't work, wades into
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Speaker 1: a slug fest. And you know, Gothel is a little
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Speaker 1: bit older, but she's nothing to sneeze at. She's strong
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Speaker 1: and she's crafty, and hair Devil has to work hard
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Speaker 1: to keep up and keep in mind, she's exhaust did,
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Speaker 1: so this fight is a brutal one, and it seems
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Speaker 1: like Gothel might actually win that the last second, Hair
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Speaker 1: Devil is able to dodge a crushing blow and her
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Speaker 1: hair whips across Gothel's face, blinding her. Gothel, staggered, stumbles
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Speaker 1: back into the street, where yes, another big old truck
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Speaker 1: hauling radioactive material runs her down. Hair Devil, exhausted but
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Speaker 1: certain that she has chosen the right path, heads home.
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Speaker 1: She knows that her fight will never end, but that
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not worth fighting. She climbs into bed
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Speaker 1: and across Hell's kitchen the crumpled form of Kingpen. Gothel
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Speaker 1: stirs just slightly as we hear an ambulance pull up credits.
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Speaker 1: Then mid credit scene, we're back on the day where
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Speaker 1: Rapunzel Murder got hit with a radioactive material when she
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Speaker 1: was a kid, and the camera at first is following
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Speaker 1: the action exactly as how we saw earlier in the movie,
53:58
Speaker 1: But then the angle shift and it follows some of
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Speaker 1: the radioactive goo as it goes down a storm drain,
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Speaker 1: and we see that goose slowly dripped down on four
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Speaker 1: tiny baby turtles and a grizzled rat. Back in credits
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Speaker 1: post credit scene, we see four humanoid Harry Turtles. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's the teenage mutant Harry Turtles coming soon to theaters
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Speaker 1: the end. I now you have to write that one
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Speaker 1: to Jonathan. I mean that is the origin of teenage
54:30
Speaker 1: mutant Ninja turtles. Like there was a joke that the
54:33
Speaker 1: same ooze that turned the turtles into mutants was the
54:36
Speaker 1: one that gave Daredevil's powers. Yeah, but now they're Harry.
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Speaker 1: So I I want to watch. I want to listen
54:43
Speaker 1: to a story about fuzz turtles. Uh, so many things.
54:47
Speaker 1: You put me through, so many emotions, Jonathan. First of all,
54:49
Speaker 1: I'm real mad I didn't see that title coming and
54:52
Speaker 1: that I didn't think of it. I was so hoping
54:56
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't. I was like, Man, I'm gonna I'm
54:58
Speaker 1: gonna be kicking myself if she if she got the
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Speaker 1: same title I did. Secondly, I always forget, even if
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Speaker 1: I've just heard it, that mother gothel had powers to
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Speaker 1: stay young even though look young, even though she was
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Speaker 1: really old, and at one point in time. Also give
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Speaker 1: me a hard time for blinding people. You did it too,
55:19
Speaker 1: but not with Florence. Now with hair, which is you know,
55:23
Speaker 1: also a thousand tiny cuts. Uh. And at one point
55:27
Speaker 1: I thought that this would be like the story of
55:30
Speaker 1: Medusa from in Humans, but no, um, much better, much better.
55:35
Speaker 1: You should write this children's story and a whole series
55:38
Speaker 1: of them. Like what I should do is take take
55:43
Speaker 1: like the darkest Marvel and d C storylines and pair
55:47
Speaker 1: them with fairy tales and just see what happens. Yes, well,
55:52
Speaker 1: you have a platform for it. I do, because you know, Daredevil,
55:57
Speaker 1: A lot of people have written for a Daredevil, including
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Speaker 1: like Frank Miller, who a lot of people know as
56:03
Speaker 1: the guy who wrote um Batman Year one and The
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Speaker 1: Dark Night and that kind of stuff. So there have
56:09
Speaker 1: been a lot of Daredevil stories that get real dark. Um.
56:15
Speaker 1: So that's you know, most characters have eras where they
56:20
Speaker 1: kind of go through that where depending on who's writing
56:23
Speaker 1: and what the tone is at the time, you can
56:25
Speaker 1: get these super dark stories. Um, Daredevil is one of
56:29
Speaker 1: those that have Like, like, I would put Daredevil up
56:32
Speaker 1: there with the Punisher or the Batman as characters who
56:37
Speaker 1: get some seriously dark storylines. Yeah, i'd agree, Moonnight is
56:41
Speaker 1: another one. Um yepon Moonnight, like pretty much Moonnight where
56:46
Speaker 1: the whole run is that way. Yeah, yeah, well that
56:50
Speaker 1: was a surprising amount of fun. Um. And if you
56:54
Speaker 1: out there have other ideas of how you'd mash up
56:57
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Speaker 1: for Jonathan, but it is the highlight of my week. Um.
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