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Speaker 1: The Large Nerd Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to The Large Nerd
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Speaker 1: Drunk Collider, the podcast that's all about the geeky things
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Speaker 1: happening in the world around us and how excited we
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Speaker 1: are about them. I'm Ariel Casting and with me, as
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Speaker 1: always is the person I'm ever thankful for, Jonathan Strickland
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Speaker 1: thematic I'm thankful for you too, shuts and and to
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Speaker 1: show my thanks, I got a question for you. So
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Speaker 1: you are going to play in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. However,
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Speaker 1: you are not allowed to be either a bard or
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Speaker 1: a barbarian. What do you play? Um? I think I
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Speaker 1: would play a fighter like that feels like a cop out, um,
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Speaker 1: But but probably like a swashbuckling. Well, no, Chris, Swashbucklers
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Speaker 1: are rogues. But I'm playing a rogue currently, and it's
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Speaker 1: a challenge for me. It's not that I just like it.
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Speaker 1: It's a challenge. I'd probably be a fighter, but i'd
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Speaker 1: be a very charismatic fighter. Well, that's still the same
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Speaker 1: thing as a barbarian. Yeah, you're you're you're you're saying
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Speaker 1: a barbarian. I mean it could be a palace. Okay,
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Speaker 1: they're pretty, they're pretty a badass, Ariel's getting into the
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Speaker 1: monkey business, got it? What about you? I mean, if
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Speaker 1: I were playing in a campaign, I would probably want
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Speaker 1: to try and play like, probably a ranger. I think
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Speaker 1: a ranger would be interesting, kind of an Arragorn kind
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Speaker 1: of character from Lord of the Rings. Um. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: probably the one I would go with. I haven't played
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Speaker 1: as a character in so long that maybe something like
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Speaker 1: that would be kind of easing into it, because it's
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Speaker 1: sort of like one of the quintessential D and D
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Speaker 1: character choices I think of. Not very useful in dungeons necessarily,
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Speaker 1: but great in the forest. If you could, if you
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Speaker 1: could make up your own character class to play, what
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Speaker 1: would that be, Oh, curfball? Oh well, then in that
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Speaker 1: case it would probably it would probably be the swashbuckler
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Speaker 1: version of a fighter, not the rogue subclass, but like
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Speaker 1: a fighter version subclass where dexterity is the more important
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Speaker 1: attribute than strength. Um. And if that weren't available, then
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Speaker 1: I'd say drunken kung Fu master. I think that's also available. Wow,
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Speaker 1: it would be a monk subclass, I would imagine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I actually don't know what the monks subclasses are. My
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Speaker 1: husband plays one in our current D and D game,
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Speaker 1: and he's got he's got some pretty pretty neat skills.
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Speaker 1: But um, I don't know all of the subclasses. Drunken
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Speaker 1: may not be one of them. No, I mean it
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Speaker 1: would definitely be a role playing for me because I
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Speaker 1: do not get drunk, so it would it would be
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Speaker 1: an exercise and fantasy. There you go. Well, with that
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Speaker 1: decided and discussed, we're going to move on to some
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Speaker 1: news items, and the first one we have is that
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Speaker 1: Xbox is doing a twentieth anniversary broadcast. Yes, it's going
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Speaker 1: to happen on Monday, the So this coming Monday if
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Speaker 1: you're listening to this when it comes out, And this
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Speaker 1: is on the twentieth anniversary of the original Xbox debuting,
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Speaker 1: you know, the the big the big splash of Halo,
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Speaker 1: which had previously been shown off. Originally it was shown
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Speaker 1: off as a Mac computer title before it came over
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Speaker 1: to the Xbox platform. So yeah, it'll be fun to
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Speaker 1: see how much they look bad on the history of
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Speaker 1: Xbox and what they have in store for the future.
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Speaker 1: I suspect they will not talk about how the original
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Speaker 1: launch event not Launch Event but the E three event
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Speaker 1: for the Xbox One, when they were first talking about it,
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Speaker 1: how that went over like a bag full of bricks.
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Speaker 1: I bet they won't talk about that. Probably not something
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Speaker 1: we know that. They won't talk about our game announcements,
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Speaker 1: so they're not gonna announce any games. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be more fan based. In fact, if you want to
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Speaker 1: attend and you sign up for the Xbox fan Fest event,
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Speaker 1: which would need to do by Saturday, November five pm
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Speaker 1: Eastern time, uh, there's like a trivia contest and giveaways
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Speaker 1: and things like that. So I think it's going to
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Speaker 1: be more like just fun little bits for people who
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Speaker 1: love Xbox games. I think that's fine. I think that's
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Speaker 1: fine because I mean we've were I think we're slowly,
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Speaker 1: not really even slowly. I think we're quickly moving away
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Speaker 1: from the sort of centralized event where you get all
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Speaker 1: the big announcements and unveilings. We're kind of away from
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Speaker 1: that world because we tend to get them when they
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Speaker 1: happen now, as opposed to let's wait until this one
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Speaker 1: event and do it all there. That's why E three
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Speaker 1: has largely declined in usefulness, at least from a like
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Speaker 1: a marketing standpoint, and why these companies tend to hold
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Speaker 1: their own events to announce stuff just because that way
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Speaker 1: they're not beholden to a specific schedule, and you know
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Speaker 1: they don't. They can try to avoid the problem of
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Speaker 1: announcing something before it's ready, or just holding off on
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Speaker 1: announcing something because the date hasn't gotten here yet. Mm hmm, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree, speaking of announcing things, uh, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: a movie movie poster release isn't really an announcement. But
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Speaker 1: we finally got a movie poster for Spider Man No
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Speaker 1: Home with Green Goblin in it, which we knew he
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Speaker 1: was going to be due to the trailer that came out.
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Speaker 1: But I just wanted to talk about this briefly because
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Speaker 1: in the article from I g N, they say that
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Speaker 1: Sony has plans for uh mashing up with the m
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Speaker 1: c U like their Spider Man universe and making sure
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Speaker 1: that it plays well with the m c U, because
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Speaker 1: they have a really good relationship with Kevin Figi. So
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Speaker 1: when we talked about the more O Bous trailer the
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Speaker 1: other day, we said that we didn't know that whether
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Speaker 1: more Bous and Blade the Blade New Blade movie would
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Speaker 1: have any crossovers because it seemed like Sony might try
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Speaker 1: to pull away, but according to I g N, as
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Speaker 1: of it's not new news, but as of June that
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Speaker 1: may not be the case. So I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: mention that that's good. I mean, like, it's hard to
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Speaker 1: say because that particular story has so many contradictions in it.
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Speaker 1: The fact that Tom Holland had talked about the fact,
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Speaker 1: you know, he didn't have a contract beyond the next
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Speaker 1: this coming Spider Man movie, that that suggests that perhaps
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Speaker 1: that part is over. So like there's I've seen I've
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Speaker 1: seen things that go both ways. It makes me wonder
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Speaker 1: if companies like Disney and Sony are are just jockeying
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Speaker 1: to find out how to fine tune any kind of
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Speaker 1: agreement so that they get the most advantageous position they
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Speaker 1: can based upon the leverage they have. So like Sony
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Speaker 1: when it has a big success come out like with Venom,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how well the sequels Venom did. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it comes down to that sort of thing, like can
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Speaker 1: Sony say, oh, our our track record is good enough
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Speaker 1: now that we can stand on our own, we can
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Speaker 1: have more leverage when we negotiate with Marvel slash Disney
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Speaker 1: or is Disney. I mean, Disney is always the pound Gorilla.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if this is like posturing or
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Speaker 1: if this is an indication that we will have a
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Speaker 1: more integrated the universe. I don't know how long that's sustainable,
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Speaker 1: because it's kind of like if you're a fan of
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Speaker 1: comic books, you know that eventually you get to such
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Speaker 1: a huge and complicated universe of stories that ultimately at
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Speaker 1: some point they have to hit reset because otherwise things
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Speaker 1: are just too later, too many loose ends. And the
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Speaker 1: question is will that happen with the movies? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, and you know it's It's also that that
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Speaker 1: was based on an old interview, so things always change.
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Speaker 1: But just because Tom Holland may not have a continuing
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Speaker 1: contract doesn't mean that the next if there is a
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Speaker 1: next Spider Man. If if it is in fact the
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Speaker 1: end of Tom Holland is supposed to him just doing
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Speaker 1: a more like movie by movie basis deal um that
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Speaker 1: maybe they'll bring the next Spider Man into through the multiverse.
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Speaker 1: But I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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Speaker 1: I hope, I hope if they do bring a new
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Speaker 1: Spider Man in, it's the Miles Morales version, just because
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Speaker 1: we've had so many Peter Parker's in such a relatively
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Speaker 1: short span of time, Like Spider Man and Batman are
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Speaker 1: like neck and neck for the most number of actors
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Speaker 1: who have played that one character in the least amount
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Speaker 1: of time. So i'd I would rather they take the
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Speaker 1: Miles Morales approach and kind of retire Peter Parker at
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Speaker 1: least for a while, if that's in fact what they
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Speaker 1: want to do. I would also love to see a
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Speaker 1: Miles Morales movie. Uh. Speaking of Disney though, another event
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Speaker 1: that is upcoming is Disney Plus Day. Yeah, that's on Friday,
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Speaker 1: So if you're listening to this when it comes out,
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Speaker 1: it's tomorrow and there it's Disney Plus Day for a
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Speaker 1: lot of different reasons. I mean, we're coming up on
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Speaker 1: like the renewal of Disney Plus, so all the people
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Speaker 1: who have first adopted it will have a chance to
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Speaker 1: were new. They're running a promotion where the first month,
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Speaker 1: whether you first uh you know, get subscribed to Disney Place.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't remember the word subscribe. When you first subscribe
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Speaker 1: to Disney Plus or if you renew year sscription, that
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Speaker 1: first month is a dollar ninety nine, and then it
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Speaker 1: jumps up to like the seven normal amount for the rest.
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Speaker 1: And also that's the day when things like shan Chi
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Speaker 1: come out and Jungle Crews come out on Disney Plus
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Speaker 1: for normal view. So yeah, you know, um, I'm actually
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Speaker 1: going to be at Disney on Disney Plus Day and
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Speaker 1: you know they're doing special stuff at the parks too.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool. I didn't know that. Thing to note,
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Speaker 1: if you do want to sign up for Disney Plus
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Speaker 1: for cheap for just a month, you can't sign up
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Speaker 1: through the fourteenth, which is actually Sunday. Uh. They're they're
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Speaker 1: not just doing fun stuff on Disney Plus Day and
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Speaker 1: at the parks, but they're also doing like classic movies
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Speaker 1: at AMC for five bucks. Yeah, and they're not telling
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Speaker 1: you what the movies are until they start. So maybe
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Speaker 1: you look out, maybe you get something really good, like
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Speaker 1: you get The Little Mermaid, or maybe you get pocon
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Speaker 1: Home on the Range. Yeah, our Brother Bear or the
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Speaker 1: Good Dina sore. Well. I really look forward to hearing
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Speaker 1: about all the fun stuff that you get to experience
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Speaker 1: at the park. Yeah, it's all stuff. It's mostly things
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Speaker 1: like there. Their photo stuff has got some specials like
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Speaker 1: you can go and get your picture taken and then
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Speaker 1: grow Goo will be in the background with you, a
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Speaker 1: little baby baby Yoda and stuff like that. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: they're supposed to have some characters who aren't normally at
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Speaker 1: the parks out and about too. I think that's mostly
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Speaker 1: at Hollywood Studios. We're actually arriving in Orlando that day,
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Speaker 1: So whether we bother to go to a park, we
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Speaker 1: have to make that decision real soon because we have
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Speaker 1: you still have to make a park reservation before you
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Speaker 1: can actually go to a park. But um, we have
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Speaker 1: not yet decided if we're going to do that or
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Speaker 1: if we're just going to hang out at the resort
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Speaker 1: and relax. We're gonna be at the Animal Kingdom resort
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Speaker 1: for a day, both options. Before we moved to a
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Speaker 1: different resort. We're doing three resorts and when we wow.
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Speaker 1: But well, both options relaxing or going to a park
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Speaker 1: seem like they're the right choice, So I don't think
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Speaker 1: you could go wrong. And we have one last thing
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Speaker 1: to talk about before we go to break and into
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Speaker 1: our discussion piece, which is there's a trailer for a
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Speaker 1: Christmas movie that came out called Eight Bit Christmas. The
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Speaker 1: trailer is pretty cute. Um. It's obviously when you have
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Speaker 1: a phrase like eight bit Christmas, it's tapping into nostalgia
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Speaker 1: for people who are of a certain age, that age
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Speaker 1: being generally Arial's age group in my age group. Um.
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Speaker 1: The storyline follows Neil Patrick Harris as a young boys.
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Speaker 1: He's telling a story to presumably his kid about being
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Speaker 1: a young boy and wanting a Nintendo entertainment system, which
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Speaker 1: that's what xboxes were before there were xboxes. Honestly, it
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Speaker 1: feels to me so the trailer one, it just made
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Speaker 1: me feel really good. It had a lot more appealed
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Speaker 1: to me than ELF did. But maybe that's because it's
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Speaker 1: about video games and growing up wanting video games and
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Speaker 1: I relate very much to that. But also it just
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Speaker 1: feels like an updated version of the Christmas Story a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I think they even make that that
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Speaker 1: comparison in the trailer. But yes, it does feel very
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Speaker 1: Christmas story esque. And yeah, it's It's funny because when
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Speaker 1: I heard the title, Aerial messaged me late late yesterday evening.
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Speaker 1: I think I to you to ignore it until today
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Speaker 1: I get a notification. How do I ignore that? My
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Speaker 1: I've been trying to ignore notifications my entire adult life,
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Speaker 1: and I haven't figured it out yet. I'll stop messaging
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Speaker 1: you late at night. Then, I don't know. It might
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Speaker 1: be an emergency, like it could have been an emergency
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Speaker 1: movie trailer and I have to watch it. So but yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was expecting something like I don't know. I thought
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Speaker 1: at first it was going to be like an eight
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Speaker 1: bit animated film kind of thing, like animated in the
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Speaker 1: eight bit style. It is not. It is more of
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Speaker 1: like Christmas Story, where it's live action about the desire
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Speaker 1: to obtain a Nintendo entertainment system and finding a potential
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Speaker 1: way of doing it because of course the characters parents
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Speaker 1: are dead set against getting a Nintendo, which they're treating
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Speaker 1: as if it were in fact a red writer be
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Speaker 1: begun allah Christmas Story. Yeah, yeah, it's very funny, or
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Speaker 1: it looks like it might be very funny to me. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's there's a line in the trailer. I guess the
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Speaker 1: kids are trying to sell reads to earn this thing.
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Speaker 1: And kid goes up to a house and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: I want to sell you a reef And the husband
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Speaker 1: looks in and says, hey, wife, this this kid thinks
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Speaker 1: your reef is crap um, And it's just there's already
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Speaker 1: a wreath on the door. I don't know why. That
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Speaker 1: just made me chuckle really hard. It's very New York
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Speaker 1: kind of thing. Well, the reason why we wanted to
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Speaker 1: end with that particular news item is that when we
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Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna have of a discussion about artwarming
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Speaker 1: films like stuff that you watched to get the warm fuzzies.
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Speaker 1: But we'll do that after we take this quick break.
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Speaker 1: I'm done breaking me too, Me too. And since we
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Speaker 1: are past the Halloween and into the Thanksgiving season, which
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Speaker 1: refused to move completely into Christmas until after Thanksgiving, we
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Speaker 1: wanted to just talk about some movies that make you
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Speaker 1: feel happy and thankful. And I feel like Jonathan and
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Speaker 1: I have you and I have probably talked a lot
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Speaker 1: about movies that just make us feel good in the past. Um,
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Speaker 1: so are movies that we really like. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of the movies on my list that make me feel
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Speaker 1: good are things like The Princess Bride or Labyrinth or
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Speaker 1: you know, older stuff like that. And I'm sure people
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Speaker 1: have heard me talk about a thousand buzillion times Flight
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Speaker 1: of the Navigator, you know. Um, I was gonna guess
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Speaker 1: play of the navigators on your list. Yeah, but I
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Speaker 1: have some newer ones too. But looking through all the
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Speaker 1: geeky movies like fantasy and sci fi, most sci fi
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Speaker 1: movies that I like are not very feel good. Well no,
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Speaker 1: I mean, like a lot of science fiction films are
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Speaker 1: really like the science fiction is there as window dressing.
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Speaker 1: The really important thing is that it's it tends to
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Speaker 1: be dealing with some pretty heavy stuff, like either it's
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Speaker 1: how people react when they are threatened or uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: how how technology might enhance certain negative aspects of humanity
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Speaker 1: and really show them in sharp relief like there. That
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Speaker 1: typically is the science fiction way. It's usually a method
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Speaker 1: of kind of looking at the human condition and and
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Speaker 1: deconstructing that. Fantasy can be a little different depending upon
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Speaker 1: your fantasy. Some fantasy is like fun, lighthearted adventure stuff,
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Speaker 1: and then of course you get the fantasy that's like
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Speaker 1: the blood and guts, sword and sorcery kind where there's
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Speaker 1: usually a lot of really bad stuff going on that
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Speaker 1: the hero may or may not be trying to actively stop.
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Speaker 1: There's some fantasy movies where the hero is one of
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Speaker 1: the bad guys kind of yeah, yeah, definitely, Uh you
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Speaker 1: know feel good there. I mean there are some there
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Speaker 1: are more fantasy movies that make me feel good than
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Speaker 1: science fiction. There are a few science fiction movies that
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Speaker 1: make me feel good even with all the conflict, like
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Speaker 1: Ghostbusters or Galaxy Quest. I would say those are sci fi.
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Speaker 1: I mean Ghostbusters, I think of as as primarily a comedy,
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Speaker 1: and then I would put sci fi and horror kind
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Speaker 1: of underneath that, and probably that order. Yeah. Yeah, Scott
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Speaker 1: Pilgrim also makes me feel pretty good, but I don't
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Speaker 1: know what key. I guess comedy is what that falls
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Speaker 1: into as well. But that also I think you know,
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Speaker 1: it's comic bookie it is. It is an adaptation of
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Speaker 1: a comic book. So yeah, but do you know, do
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Speaker 1: you know what my number one feel good movie is
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Speaker 1: right now? Oh? Golly, um a feel good movie for Phantasm.
18:17
Speaker 1: Uh for a second, I thought you said Fantasia, but
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Speaker 1: even that, No, um no, it's shun Chi. Oh. I
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Speaker 1: still I have to wait till Friday to see it
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Speaker 1: for Disney BLUs Day. Yeah. Yeah, so Shaunch. I mean
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Speaker 1: there's you know, there's definitely conflict in it, and there's definitely, um,
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Speaker 1: some tense moments. But I left that movie feeling just
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Speaker 1: so uplifted and good. Uh. It beat out crazy Rich Asians,
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Speaker 1: which beat out Hidden Figures. So those have been my
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Speaker 1: last three feel good movies. Um, Jamanchi is kind of
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Speaker 1: in there, but because it's an old new movie, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it counts. So you mean the Robin
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Speaker 1: Williams went well, No, the Robin Williams one is depressing
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Speaker 1: and sad. No, the New Jamais, which you haven't watched
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Speaker 1: him all you think it's Do you think the ending
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Speaker 1: of the first Jumanji is depressing and sad? No? Like
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Speaker 1: the movie just gives me anxiety all the way through.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like without conflict, there is no story, so
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Speaker 1: I agree. Okay, So, but like the old Jamui is
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Speaker 1: fantasy drama, I would say the New Jamai is fantasy
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Speaker 1: comedy with some like fantasy drama action. And then the
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Speaker 1: new one is fantasy comedy action. And so there's still
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Speaker 1: tense moments, but it's you have a little bit more
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Speaker 1: respite between them. What about you? What are you some
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Speaker 1: of some of yours? Jonathan? Because I've been reading, well,
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Speaker 1: first and foremost is a Christmas Carol, and I know
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Speaker 1: you said that we no, no, that's that's fine, I said,
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Speaker 1: completely into Christmas. Yeah, no, I know. Christmas Carol is
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite feel good stories, and like, there
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Speaker 1: are many different adaptations, uh that I enjoy. Um, but
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Speaker 1: I really like that story. I find it extremely heartwarming,
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Speaker 1: especially when it's a well told version. My personal favorite
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Speaker 1: is Scrooge, the musical version that came out in the
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Speaker 1: seventies and had Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge and Sir
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Speaker 1: Alec Guinness a k a. The original Obi Wan Kenobi
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Speaker 1: as Jacob Marley. Um that that was one of my favorites.
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Speaker 1: Oddly enough, and I know we've talked about this before
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Speaker 1: in the show, the Muppet version of a Christmas Carol
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Speaker 1: is not one I like. Although our our good friend
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Speaker 1: and honorary co host, she loves it, and I don't
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Speaker 1: blame her for it. I think, like there are moments
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Speaker 1: that I find really charming in that, but overall it
20:46
Speaker 1: doesn't quite hit me in the fields as they say. However,
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Speaker 1: the Original Muppet Movie, the Original Muppet Movie with the
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Speaker 1: original cast of characters and voices, that one and to
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Speaker 1: this day, still gets me. It's still one of those
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Speaker 1: that I find incredibly earnest and sincere and yet entertaining
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Speaker 1: and fun. And yeah, that's still one of my go
21:13
Speaker 1: to feel good movies of all time. Yeah, that one,
21:17
Speaker 1: it really holds up for me. Like I feel like
21:19
Speaker 1: Muppet movies tend to just that's what they are, and
21:23
Speaker 1: they're always yeah, I mean like it, but it depends right,
21:26
Speaker 1: Like The Muppet Movie was fantastic. The Great Muppet Keeper
21:30
Speaker 1: is fun, but less heartfelt, Like it doesn't have the
21:34
Speaker 1: tug at your heart string stuff. Muppets Take Manhattan destroys you,
21:39
Speaker 1: especially if you're a kid and you don't understand that
21:41
Speaker 1: when the Muppets are saying goodbye to each other that
21:43
Speaker 1: it doesn't really mean that they're going away forever. But
21:46
Speaker 1: as a kid, you think that that's what it means,
21:48
Speaker 1: and so you end up crying your eyes out at
21:50
Speaker 1: the movie theater. Not that I'm having a moment of
21:53
Speaker 1: pure like a recollection here as a kid when that
21:57
Speaker 1: movie came out. Uh. And there are some that, like
22:01
Speaker 1: Muppet Treasure Island is also very entertaining, doesn't tug at
22:04
Speaker 1: your heart strings. Um, there's just I was about to
22:09
Speaker 1: say that one is like probably the worst of all
22:11
Speaker 1: of them at least, and I have yet to watch
22:14
Speaker 1: it because I refused to um. But from why I
22:18
Speaker 1: understand my sister is a puppeteer and his friends with
22:21
Speaker 1: one of the hen sends and stuff, and I think
22:23
Speaker 1: she feels the same way that Muppets in Space is
22:27
Speaker 1: like the worst or Muppets from Space whatever it is
22:30
Speaker 1: is like the worst of the Muppet films that came out.
22:33
Speaker 1: But uh, the more recent ones are also fun. But again,
22:36
Speaker 1: like if you're talking about something that is just really heartwarming,
22:41
Speaker 1: I think it's the original Muppet movie. I don't think
22:43
Speaker 1: any of the other Muppet movies come close to hitting
22:46
Speaker 1: that same emotional strong point. Like the Rainbow Connection is
22:50
Speaker 1: still a song that can get me weepy. I'm going
22:53
Speaker 1: to go back there someday. The song that Gonzo sings like,
22:56
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can sing that without starting
22:59
Speaker 1: to to get a little emotional, which I know is sappy,
23:03
Speaker 1: but I'm a sappy guy. I mean, if if you
23:05
Speaker 1: didn't get misty at those, I would I would say
23:08
Speaker 1: that you know your heart had turned to stone. Are
23:11
Speaker 1: there any new movies that affect you the same way? Well?
23:16
Speaker 1: Probably not new new movies, not for one thing, a
23:20
Speaker 1: lot of the newer movies I've seen don't fall into
23:23
Speaker 1: like the heartwarming category. A lot of them are in
23:26
Speaker 1: the more isn't reality awful category. UM, so they don't
23:33
Speaker 1: really touch on that. However, I will say like there's
23:37
Speaker 1: a strong slate of Pixar movies that did it for me. Um,
23:43
Speaker 1: Like Monsters Inc. Is one, it's very lighthearted, but that
23:46
Speaker 1: one also I find very I mean the end shot
23:49
Speaker 1: of Monsters Inc. Was one that that made me break
23:52
Speaker 1: down weeping in the theater. Um Finding Nemo Is another
23:57
Speaker 1: one that I found genuinely heart warming. Uh. The Toy
24:03
Speaker 1: Story movies to some extent, although unlike a lot of
24:06
Speaker 1: my friends, I didn't feel anything in Toy Story three.
24:09
Speaker 1: Like I know people who talking about Toy Story three
24:11
Speaker 1: and they just found it devastating, And I'm like, yeah,
24:14
Speaker 1: Toy Story two, now that was different. With the song
24:17
Speaker 1: when She Loved Me, that that slaid me. But yeah, yeah,
24:20
Speaker 1: what about Luca Because I heard Luca was really heartwarming,
24:24
Speaker 1: but I never actually got to see that one. I
24:26
Speaker 1: like Luca. I thought it, I thought it was entertaining. However,
24:30
Speaker 1: I do have a criticism for Luca, which is largely
24:33
Speaker 1: that UM and in the in the climax of the film,
24:39
Speaker 1: there is a moment where a large group of people
24:43
Speaker 1: have an almost instantaneous change of heart and it doesn't
24:48
Speaker 1: feel earned, like like it doesn't ring true. Because characters
24:53
Speaker 1: change their complete outlook so quickly and so effortlessly, that
24:59
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to mean anything. And for that it didn't
25:03
Speaker 1: have the emotional impact on me. It's a charming movie.
25:07
Speaker 1: It is fun to watch, but yeah, you get to
25:11
Speaker 1: the and this is towards the end of the movie,
25:12
Speaker 1: you get to a moment where something happens and characters
25:15
Speaker 1: change and you think, well, they changed because the movie
25:18
Speaker 1: needed them to change, not because it made sense within
25:22
Speaker 1: the context of the movie itself. Yeah, yeah, that's you can't.
25:28
Speaker 1: You can't cut corners on moving a person's emotions. I
25:32
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, that's that's a great way of putting it.
25:35
Speaker 1: Areal absolutely like like you. It's like it's the difference
25:39
Speaker 1: between being led somewhere and being allowed to discover it
25:43
Speaker 1: and then just being told you need to cry. Now. Well, yeah, listen,
25:47
Speaker 1: I'm an actor. I can cry on demand, but I
25:49
Speaker 1: really don't feel like it. I was about to say,
25:52
Speaker 1: I've tried that it's not. It's not super easy. No,
25:55
Speaker 1: it's not. You go back and you think about rainbow
25:58
Speaker 1: connection and then you start getting tear Yeah. Right, you're like,
26:01
Speaker 1: what if what if my dog got lost? Oh no,
26:04
Speaker 1: I like that'll do it for me. Yeah. I don't
26:06
Speaker 1: like to go there, but it'll work. Yeah. I mean,
26:09
Speaker 1: I guess you could make yourself cry on happy memories
26:11
Speaker 1: as well, but that's a little bit. It's a little
26:14
Speaker 1: bit harder if you're the acting or insert personal experience
26:18
Speaker 1: kind of a person. Agreed, Yeah, it's it's it's it's
26:23
Speaker 1: a very personal thing to write. Like like we said,
26:25
Speaker 1: you know, our friend Shay loves the Muppet Christmas Carol
26:30
Speaker 1: um and it has a very meaningful place in her emotions,
26:34
Speaker 1: which is that's fantastic. And so they're gonna be some
26:38
Speaker 1: things that might impact me, like like Muppet movie. There
26:43
Speaker 1: might be someone who watches the Muppet Movie and they're
26:45
Speaker 1: just like, I just don't get it, which is totally legit,
26:47
Speaker 1: Like it's what speaks to you and we are not
26:50
Speaker 1: here to yuck anyone's yum. If there's a movie that
26:52
Speaker 1: I've named that you're like, or if i I've named
26:56
Speaker 1: a movie that I don't care about, but it means
26:58
Speaker 1: a lot to you. That's that's good, Like, that's that's
27:01
Speaker 1: what art is supposed to do. So that's that's what
27:04
Speaker 1: we have so much of it. I was going to say,
27:05
Speaker 1: some of our listeners don't like Princess Bride, and that's okay. Yeah,
27:09
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay to be wrong. So, um, I've
27:13
Speaker 1: got one last movie I want to mention as a
27:15
Speaker 1: feel good movie. I want to see if you agree
27:17
Speaker 1: with me, if you also think it's a feel good movie. Okay,
27:21
Speaker 1: it's a fantasy movie, all right, Willow, Yes, yes, yes,
27:27
Speaker 1: I'd say so. Um. Honestly, it's been a while since
27:32
Speaker 1: I've watched it, so sometimes bits of a mixed up
27:35
Speaker 1: with an ewalk movie. But Willow is definitely okay, Willows good,
27:41
Speaker 1: So that's the major difference. No, Willow is good, and
27:46
Speaker 1: it it does make you feel good. There's I mean,
27:48
Speaker 1: there's a lot of you know, tenseness and and and conflict,
27:52
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's it is a very happy movie.
27:55
Speaker 1: It is. It's like in my top twenty favorites. So yeah,
28:00
Speaker 1: and I have a niece named after one of the
28:02
Speaker 1: characters in it, So it's got a soft spot in
28:04
Speaker 1: my heart as well. UM curious to hear if our
28:08
Speaker 1: listeners have any favorite heartwarming films like things that you
28:12
Speaker 1: know you watch this partly because it gives you that
28:16
Speaker 1: sort of warm, fuzzy feeling when the movie's over, like there.
28:22
Speaker 1: I mean, there are plenty of other movies I love
28:24
Speaker 1: to watch over and over again that do not have that.
28:27
Speaker 1: As much as I love Jaws, I don't come out
28:29
Speaker 1: of it feeling warm and fuzzy. But but I'm curious
28:32
Speaker 1: if there are any for our listeners. So at the
28:34
Speaker 1: end of the show, make sure you listen up when
28:36
Speaker 1: we tell you all the different ways you can contact us,
28:39
Speaker 1: because I'm curious. Yes, And when we come back from
28:42
Speaker 1: the break, we're going to do a mashup that was
28:44
Speaker 1: suggested by a listener and that makes us feel warm
28:48
Speaker 1: and fuzzy too. Ariel, Hey, Jonathan, Um as warm as
29:08
Speaker 1: I am fuzzy. Let's do this awesome. So we had
29:13
Speaker 1: a listener, Clara, Thank you, Clara, rite us and ask
29:17
Speaker 1: us to match up Mighty morphin Power Rangers with Pokemon
29:21
Speaker 1: and we thought that was a great idea. So that's
29:23
Speaker 1: what we've done. And this is not the first time
29:26
Speaker 1: that Pokemon has shown up in our mashups. If I'm correctly,
29:31
Speaker 1: we did. We did Pokemon and Hotted Mansion. Yes, so
29:34
Speaker 1: now we're doing Pokemon and Power Rangers. So just in
29:37
Speaker 1: case those of you out there are not familiar with
29:40
Speaker 1: the properties, Um, which one you want to take? Ariel,
29:44
Speaker 1: I'll do the other one. Um, I'll do Pokemon. Okay.
29:47
Speaker 1: So Pokemon is is this like I guess it's anime, um,
29:52
Speaker 1: And it's also a card game where uh, trainers catch
29:57
Speaker 1: pocket monsters and then battle them. Like, so you've got
30:01
Speaker 1: different kinds of pocket monsters. You've got like electricity pocket
30:04
Speaker 1: monsters like Pikachu, which is a little yellow rat that
30:07
Speaker 1: shoots lightning. You've got uh, you know, water type like squirrel,
30:12
Speaker 1: which is a squirrel turtle like the name suggests, and
30:15
Speaker 1: it has water attacks. Um. And then you know there
30:18
Speaker 1: are villains who tried to catch other Pokemon and defeat
30:21
Speaker 1: the good trainers. I mean, it's a real simple concept,
30:24
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's it's a deck collecting sort of
30:28
Speaker 1: a game and a story that's based off of that
30:29
Speaker 1: kind of the way I think he Man was based
30:31
Speaker 1: off of toys. So that's that yeah, so Power Rangers.
30:37
Speaker 1: Power Rangers started off as a Japanese TV show and
30:41
Speaker 1: then there were some producers in America who wanted to
30:45
Speaker 1: kind of import it. But they decided to do something
30:48
Speaker 1: really wild, which is that they recast all the characters
30:52
Speaker 1: with American actors for all the times when the characters
30:55
Speaker 1: are out of costume, because their costumes include a helmet
31:01
Speaker 1: with a an opaque visor, so you can't see the
31:04
Speaker 1: person's face inside it. So they had American actors playing
31:08
Speaker 1: the kids who would transform into the Power Rangers who
31:11
Speaker 1: would be in these costumes. But you know, it's not
31:14
Speaker 1: just enough to transform into Power Rangers who have superpowers,
31:17
Speaker 1: because the monsters that the Power Rangers would have to
31:20
Speaker 1: fight invariably would turn into giant monsters. They start off,
31:25
Speaker 1: you know, normal, whatever normal sizes for a monster, like
31:29
Speaker 1: human size, and then they would get giant, and then
31:32
Speaker 1: that that would they'd be too big for the Power
31:34
Speaker 1: Rangers to fight unaided, and they would summon their swords,
31:39
Speaker 1: which were um the these giant robot dinosaurs in the
31:44
Speaker 1: first generation of Power Rangers. I should add there are
31:47
Speaker 1: multiple incarnations of the Power Rangers and they change from
31:51
Speaker 1: generation to generation. But then they're in these giants like
31:55
Speaker 1: robot dinosaurs for the first season or first generation, and
31:58
Speaker 1: they fight off. They fight the monsters. If that's too much,
32:00
Speaker 1: like if the monsters are too much, then they form
32:03
Speaker 1: Mega's Ord. So it's like Vultron, the various pieces all
32:07
Speaker 1: come together and form a very big robot that then
32:10
Speaker 1: fights the monster. Although I don't know if you're if
32:13
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with Mighty morphin Power Rangers, you're probably
32:16
Speaker 1: also not familiar with Vultron unless you've watched the new
32:18
Speaker 1: Netflix series. I mean, I just think Vultron is a
32:21
Speaker 1: classic cultural touchstuff. Maybe that's because I'm forty five and
32:26
Speaker 1: I grew up with Vultron. It also might be clear
32:30
Speaker 1: at this point that I have never actually watched Power Rangers.
32:33
Speaker 1: I'm just aware of what they are because, again cultural touchstone.
32:36
Speaker 1: I've watched Power Rangers, I've met Power Rangers, I've I
32:40
Speaker 1: watched the Power Rangers movie. I even watched a more
32:43
Speaker 1: recent one as an adult, and it was so bizarre
32:46
Speaker 1: because I think it was turbo. It's Power Rangers Turbo,
32:49
Speaker 1: where they have crazy sized weapons and then tires around
32:53
Speaker 1: their legs that they rev up to call their vehicle swords. Um,
32:57
Speaker 1: they're probably not called swords at that point, but I
32:59
Speaker 1: don't know what. And like the beginning of it feels
33:02
Speaker 1: kind of mad Max higher production value, and then it
33:05
Speaker 1: goes into power rate. It's so bizarre. It's so bizarre. Well,
33:09
Speaker 1: now we're going to mash up the pokemmand's with the
33:12
Speaker 1: power rangings, And who do you want to go first?
33:15
Speaker 1: Ail Um? I went first last time, so you can
33:19
Speaker 1: go first this time if you'd like. Okay, Doki, here
33:22
Speaker 1: is my mashup, and I'm calling it Mighty Balling Pokey Rangers.
33:29
Speaker 1: Sordon has a problem. Okay, he's got a few problems, right,
33:33
Speaker 1: Like one, he's stuck in a time warp and not
33:36
Speaker 1: the fun, rocky horror show kind where it's just a
33:38
Speaker 1: jump to the left. He's also a floating head for
33:41
Speaker 1: goodness sake, but that's just the start of his problems.
33:45
Speaker 1: His big one, or at least a contender for top
33:47
Speaker 1: five Swordon problems, is that there's this obnoxious woman named
33:51
Speaker 1: Rita Repulsa who escaped her moon dumpster and is up
33:55
Speaker 1: to all sorts of no good and Swordon needs a
33:58
Speaker 1: team of heroes to help fight. But you know, being
34:01
Speaker 1: a floating head and an energy tube presents Zordon with
34:04
Speaker 1: a certain set of limitations that really restrict his recruiting capabilities.
34:09
Speaker 1: Fortunately for Zordon and I guess us the movie audience,
34:14
Speaker 1: a little kid just happens to wander into a cave
34:17
Speaker 1: that has Sordon's energy tube inside it, and that kid
34:21
Speaker 1: is Ash catch Um, a young boy out seeking fame
34:25
Speaker 1: and fortune if only he can find a way to
34:28
Speaker 1: do it. Ash finds the equipment connected to Zordon's energy
34:32
Speaker 1: tube and he presses a few buttons randomly and it
34:34
Speaker 1: activates Sordon. Ashes understandably startled, but soon the two have
34:39
Speaker 1: a conversation. Zordon, recognizing the ability to finally have a
34:43
Speaker 1: proxy who can journey beyond the cave, enlists Ash to
34:48
Speaker 1: help him. You must go out and collect great warriors
34:52
Speaker 1: to help me find me five teenagers with attitude. Ash
34:56
Speaker 1: tries to protest and says that really sounds like something
34:59
Speaker 1: by identical cousins and Toshi would be really good at
35:02
Speaker 1: Are you sure you got the right guy? And Zordon
35:06
Speaker 1: reassures Ash that he does in fact have the right guy,
35:09
Speaker 1: though Zordon privately is thinking, you're like the only guy,
35:15
Speaker 1: so I gotta think what I can get. Ash then
35:19
Speaker 1: goes out to find some heroes, and he first encounters
35:22
Speaker 1: a pair of young men, Jason Lee Scott and Zach Taylor,
35:26
Speaker 1: practicing martial arts at a youth center. He watches them
35:30
Speaker 1: closely and realizes that both kids seem to be really
35:33
Speaker 1: good people, willing to help others and to stand up
35:36
Speaker 1: to bullies, and so he pulls out his pokey ball.
35:39
Speaker 1: See this is the ball that Ash uses to poke people,
35:44
Speaker 1: which is his fun way of describing the act of
35:46
Speaker 1: knocking someone unconscious by hitting them in the head with
35:49
Speaker 1: a fast ball. He finds an alley and he lies
35:53
Speaker 1: in wait. Soon enough, Jason heads out. Ash makes a
35:56
Speaker 1: soft noise in the alley and Jason goes to investigate,
36:00
Speaker 1: and with his back to Ash, Ketchum pounces on the
36:03
Speaker 1: opportunity and hurls his pokey ball, hitting Jason in the
36:06
Speaker 1: back of the head, knocking him unconscious, and then he
36:09
Speaker 1: stuffs Jason's unconscious body into an even larger pokey ball.
36:14
Speaker 1: This Ash, it's got a thing for balls, I guess.
36:17
Speaker 1: Next we see him ambush Zack as he leaves her school,
36:21
Speaker 1: similarly assaulting the kid and shoving him into another pokey ball.
36:25
Speaker 1: These kids might be great at martial arts, but they're
36:27
Speaker 1: no match for ash ketch Him is incredible aim and
36:30
Speaker 1: vicious attitude catch them. Sees a young woman practicing gymnastics.
36:35
Speaker 1: It's Kimberly Heart. She's athletic and resourceful, so of course
36:40
Speaker 1: Ash hides and then hits her upside the head with
36:42
Speaker 1: his knockout sphere I'm sorry, I mean pokey ball, and
36:46
Speaker 1: also she gets shoved into a giant ball of holding. Finally,
36:49
Speaker 1: Ash tracks down his last two victims I'm sorry, I
36:53
Speaker 1: mean heroes. He finds two kids in black uniforms. They're
36:58
Speaker 1: working on creating an animal fighting ring, which, yeah, I
37:02
Speaker 1: know that's awful, right, I mean, forcing animals to fight
37:06
Speaker 1: each other for your amusement is just reprehensible to any
37:10
Speaker 1: rational person. But to ash Ketchum it comes across as
37:14
Speaker 1: heroic because that kid is messed up. I mean, he
37:19
Speaker 1: immediately thinks, oh, I gotta get these two, and the
37:23
Speaker 1: two are named Jesse and James. Jesse's a young woman,
37:27
Speaker 1: James is a young man, and they each have a
37:29
Speaker 1: letter R on their shirts because this is of course
37:33
Speaker 1: the infamous Team Rocket. But soon they become Team Unconscious
37:38
Speaker 1: because once again, ash Ketchum and is knock out ball
37:41
Speaker 1: of doom strikes. They both get shoved into a containment
37:44
Speaker 1: sphere I mean a large pokey ball. Ash returns to
37:48
Speaker 1: Zordon pushing a giant cart filled with the poke balls
37:51
Speaker 1: in it. What's in the cart, asked Zordon. Your heroes,
37:56
Speaker 1: says Ash. Behold, and he opens the balls and like,
38:00
Speaker 1: fortunately none of them suffocated to death. I mean I
38:03
Speaker 1: thought about doing that, by the way, for reels, I
38:06
Speaker 1: was gonna have them be dead, but then that that
38:09
Speaker 1: was that was too dark even for me. So we'll
38:12
Speaker 1: just say they were perhaps, you know, slightly less alert
38:15
Speaker 1: than they were pre Ash encounter. Zordon a Gas says, wow,
38:21
Speaker 1: you really went in a direction I wasn't expecting, As shrugs.
38:25
Speaker 1: They're here, aren't they? And so Sordon lays it out
38:29
Speaker 1: to the kids, who perhaps in a dazed state, agree
38:32
Speaker 1: to become the Power Rangers, and they all sign a waiver,
38:36
Speaker 1: which I know it's a little late, but what ends
38:38
Speaker 1: and they become the Power Rangers. There's a red one
38:42
Speaker 1: and a black one, and a pink one and two
38:45
Speaker 1: other black ones, but they have the letter R on them.
38:48
Speaker 1: The Rangers are each given powers which is good because
38:50
Speaker 1: this is about the time Rita Repulsa attacks with her monsters,
38:54
Speaker 1: and she's got a monster that shoots lightning and all
38:56
Speaker 1: it does is say Pikachu. She's got a one that's
38:59
Speaker 1: a and a leer that doesn't seem to do much
39:01
Speaker 1: of anything. And then there's a giant mime whose power
39:05
Speaker 1: is that he's so unsettling you poop yourself. The Rangers
39:09
Speaker 1: a symbol. They each control a giant robot. It looks
39:12
Speaker 1: kind of like a dinosaur because we're going Gen one
39:14
Speaker 1: with this group. Jason, Zach, and Kimberly are all really supportive.
39:19
Speaker 1: Jesse and James are a bit more selfish, but you know,
39:21
Speaker 1: they kind of get the job done. That is, until
39:25
Speaker 1: it's time to form into the megaz Ord, the giant
39:28
Speaker 1: vultron like robot, because Jesse is in charge of like
39:31
Speaker 1: the left arm and James is in charge of the
39:33
Speaker 1: right leg, and they keep disagreeing on what they need
39:35
Speaker 1: to do, so the Megazord does kind of these jerky motions,
39:38
Speaker 1: like it's crumping or something. Anyway, despite the problems with
39:42
Speaker 1: Team Rocket, the Rangers managed to defeat Rita's monsters, knocking
39:45
Speaker 1: them silly, and we all know what happens next, right,
39:49
Speaker 1: That's right, Ash catch him shows up with a truly
39:53
Speaker 1: enormous captivity sphere and he shoves the monsters right into
39:57
Speaker 1: it and rolls it off. Why because he's going to
40:00
Speaker 1: be the big bad in the sequel. Just you wait
40:05
Speaker 1: the end. That was brilliant, Jonathan, I loved it. It
40:11
Speaker 1: was such. It was such a good marriage of the
40:13
Speaker 1: two properties. All right, So this is called mighty morphin
40:18
Speaker 1: powerballs just because it amused me. So. Rita Repulsa had disappeared,
40:23
Speaker 1: and the Power Rangers thought that maybe they had defeated
40:26
Speaker 1: her forever, or maybe she had just eaten herself into
40:29
Speaker 1: like a Crispy Cream coma or something. Either way, there
40:32
Speaker 1: seemed to be one lass villain for them to save
40:34
Speaker 1: the Earth from. However, what the Power Rangers didn't know
40:37
Speaker 1: was that Rita Repulsa wasn't hiding making final touches on
40:41
Speaker 1: her ultimate plan. You see, after lord Z stripped of
40:44
Speaker 1: her space which powers and her putty Patrollers failed her,
40:47
Speaker 1: she knew she needed a plan to get the super
40:49
Speaker 1: powerful Zeo Crystal get back in lord Z's good graces
40:52
Speaker 1: and to get her powers back and then take over
40:55
Speaker 1: or destroy all life on Earth. Either way it was
40:57
Speaker 1: a win. So she toiled day and night with fenced
41:00
Speaker 1: her leprechron wizard inventor henchmen, creating little orbs that could
41:03
Speaker 1: hold immense power and corrupt it into something horrible. Then
41:06
Speaker 1: she started, very slowly and sneakily, using the same technology
41:10
Speaker 1: she used to make the Putties appear. She would use
41:13
Speaker 1: the orbs to pick off some of the lesser social
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Speaker 1: power Rangers. Then she would send in her henchman in
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Speaker 1: disguise to make up some excuse for them leaving school
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Speaker 1: or what not, so nobody I knew that they were missing.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't flawless, as her henchmen weren't super great at
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Speaker 1: adopting Earth culture, but it seemed to work well enough
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Speaker 1: because teenagers are dumb, and even better, those orbs seemed
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Speaker 1: to have a zero percent fail at capturing and holding
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Speaker 1: the rangers. Once inside the orbs, the force that created
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Speaker 1: the Putties started to morph the mighty morphin Power Rangers
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Speaker 1: in a new way, turning them into her own little
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Speaker 1: pocket sized monsters. Soon she had collected them all, well
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Speaker 1: by them all, I mean one of each color of
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Speaker 1: power ranger, and then she was ready to make her move.
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Speaker 1: The New Power Rangers were all green and didn't know
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Speaker 1: what they were doing, and she figured it was a
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Speaker 1: perfect time to step out in attack. As Rita shouted
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Speaker 1: it's time to conquer Earth, the mighty Morphin Power Rangers
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Speaker 1: called forth their swords. In response, Rita called forth her
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Speaker 1: monster Morphin Pocket Rangers, the one she had captured, who
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Speaker 1: once they were released, grew into the size of the
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Speaker 1: swords themselves. The battle was immense, with the Pink Pocket
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Speaker 1: Ranger throwing electric attacks, the Yellow one straight up fighting,
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Speaker 1: the Blue one throwing fire, Black One ice, and the Redwood,
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Speaker 1: and using a combo of ground and psychic attacks. The
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Speaker 1: two teams seemed evenly matched, and when the good Power
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Speaker 1: Rangers transformed into Megasord, the Pocket Rangers did too, but
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Speaker 1: theirs was a lot less pleasant to watch, with like
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Speaker 1: bones changing shape and skin melding together like putties. The
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Speaker 1: New Power Rangers were super conflicted. They knew they needed
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Speaker 1: to defeat Rita and her monsters, but the monsters were
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Speaker 1: their predecessors and originally good guys. Thankfully, after a lengthy
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Speaker 1: battle of unnecessary posturing imposing, they were able to get
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Speaker 1: the monsters Ord encased in ice and defeat Rita once again,
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Speaker 1: and then they sent the monster morphin Pocket Rangers to
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Speaker 1: sort on who kept them in stasis and Hilly could
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Speaker 1: figure out a cure. Rita went back into hiding, coming
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Speaker 1: up with her next more ultimate plan than the flast,
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Speaker 1: and the general public was none the wiser. I think
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Speaker 1: we did a bang up job. I think these two
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Speaker 1: properties you would you would almost never know that. I
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Speaker 1: have never watched Pokemon or Power Rangers. You know, I
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Speaker 1: probably knew at one point, but the way you did that,
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Speaker 1: mast Frelly, I had no idea. It turns out that
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Speaker 1: a little bit of research gives you just enough information
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Speaker 1: about what's the core of these things to be able
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Speaker 1: to mutate them terribly. Um Yeah. My biggest fear when
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Speaker 1: we do these mash ups areal just to pull the
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Speaker 1: curtain away, is that we will pick something that I'm
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Speaker 1: not super familiar with. I'll do some research and I
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Speaker 1: won't realize that whatever it is I'm mashing up has
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Speaker 1: in fact been one of the storylines of the one
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Speaker 1: of the things that I'm I'm manipulating. I I can
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Speaker 1: understand that I'm more worried that, uh, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: get all the details wrong. I came to a conclusion
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Speaker 1: a long time ago of never let the details get
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Speaker 1: in the way of a joke. You know that is
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Speaker 1: a good conclusion to come to, like the conclusion of
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Speaker 1: our show. Yes, here we are concluding. And then our
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Speaker 1: concludation we must address you the audience and say, should
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Speaker 1: you have your own idea of how Power Rangers and
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