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Toss a Coin to Your Merfolk · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider Podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky 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 the delightful Jonathan Stringland. Well, how did they? Ariel?
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Speaker 1: I got myself a question for you, Ariel. Here's your question,
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Speaker 1: which of course starts off with a scenario. Here is
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Speaker 1: you get a chance to sit down and have lunch
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Speaker 1: with someone from the geek sphere that you really admire.
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Speaker 1: This person has to be alive, otherwise the lunch will
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Speaker 1: be really grim. Who do you pick? Well, first of all,
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Speaker 1: you cut my choices down immensely by saying they have
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Speaker 1: to be alive. But whatever, um does? Gary Oldman count absolutely?
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Speaker 1: Gary Oldman counts because Dracula, he counts. He counts at
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Speaker 1: least as high as Dracula and Commissioner Gordon and the
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Speaker 1: Devil and a bunch of other things. And Rosencrantz orro
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Speaker 1: was he Guildenstern? I can never rantz okay Rosenkrantz alright,
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Speaker 1: so was I anyhow. The reason why is because I
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Speaker 1: working at Drug cont I've actually gotten to peripherally worked
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Speaker 1: with a lot of celebrities, and that's kind of really cool.
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Speaker 1: You're not like sitting down and having lunch level, but
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Speaker 1: just kind of getting to see how they operate, how
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Speaker 1: they interact with other people, how they talk about their craft.
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Speaker 1: Gary Oldman is one of those actors who won has
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Speaker 1: played a ton of roles and I've love I had
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Speaker 1: a huge crush on him, and Rosencranz and Guildenstern and three.
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Speaker 1: He just disappears into every role that he plays. Like
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Speaker 1: when I take my acting classes, so often I'm told
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Speaker 1: that a director wants to see you in these imaginary
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Speaker 1: circumstances because otherwise it looks acting. But he can just
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Speaker 1: be someone completely different and it doesn't seem acting at all.
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Speaker 1: And that's just amazing to me. And I just want
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Speaker 1: to like be able to siphon off just a little
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Speaker 1: bit of that ability into myself. A fantastic answer. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of like the opposite of someone like Jack Nicholson,
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Speaker 1: who typically comes across as Jack Nicholson in whatever part
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Speaker 1: he plays, maybe like not not to the extent that
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Speaker 1: he's every character he plays is exactly the same, but
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Speaker 1: there are like you never see Jack Nicholson completely disappear
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Speaker 1: in front of you, right, You're always thinking that's Jack Nicholson.
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Speaker 1: Gary Oilman, as you say, can become characters to the
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Speaker 1: point where you can watch two different Gary Oldman projects
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Speaker 1: and potentially not realize it's the same actor playing two
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Speaker 1: those those different characters. I mean. And then my backup
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Speaker 1: would be Tom Hidleston and Kenneth Branna together because they're
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Speaker 1: both very large Shakespearean actors who do stuff on film.
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Speaker 1: I'm told Tom Hidleson's not that large, He's just at
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Speaker 1: least when he plays Loki, his persona is very large.
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Speaker 1: I have watched a lot of interviews with Hittleston and
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Speaker 1: and honestly, that was almost my pick. I almost went
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Speaker 1: with Tom Hidleston because of the interviews I've watched and
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Speaker 1: how charming and enthusiastic and uh and involved he is
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Speaker 1: with his craft, including his genuine love for the lore
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Speaker 1: of Loki. So I almost picked him his mind, but
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Speaker 1: that's not who I picked. Okay, who did you pick? Then?
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Speaker 1: A co worker of Tom Hidleston's, Elizabeth old Son, Because
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Speaker 1: so I picked her because I've watched interviews with Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: Olson where it's clear she very much takes the craft
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Speaker 1: of acting very seriously. She rejoices in it. She also
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Speaker 1: has a genuine appreciation for people who are nice and
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Speaker 1: who are gracious, at which I find really appealing. But
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Speaker 1: she also sees the absurdity that can come along with
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Speaker 1: the acting profession. I saw one interview where while she
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Speaker 1: was also expressing her love of acting, she was at
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Speaker 1: the same time pointing out how ridiculous certain acting schools
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Speaker 1: can be. Particularly yes, oh, it was so good, a
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Speaker 1: fantastic interview, but no, no that she she pointed out
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Speaker 1: that each school has its own prejudices against the other schools,
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Speaker 1: and that it all comes down to being very funny
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Speaker 1: to her, and it's just something that I find really
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Speaker 1: appealing and interesting. And the fact that she can inhabit
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Speaker 1: worlds of crazy fantasy and not be completely detached like
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Speaker 1: Gwyneth Paltrow to me, comes across as someone who honestly
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Speaker 1: couldn't care less if she were in m c U
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Speaker 1: or not. That's not how I feel about Elizabeth Olsen.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, she's not. She hasn't hitched
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Speaker 1: her wagons solely to that, right, she's also doing all
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Speaker 1: these other things that she finds great personal joy in.
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Speaker 1: So I just feel like that would be a great conversation.
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Speaker 1: Side question, where do you go to lunch? Where do
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Speaker 1: I go to lunch? Uh? I'm gonna say Raclett in
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Speaker 1: New York, um, not knowing any of the dietary restrictions
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Speaker 1: of the people I'm eating with, because it well one.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to go there when I was supposed to
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Speaker 1: go to New York last year, and I will go
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Speaker 1: there if it's open when I go to New York,
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Speaker 1: hopefully next year or the end of this year. Um.
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Speaker 1: But it's a restaurant where they just melt massive amounts
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Speaker 1: of cheese and pour it over your food, and that
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Speaker 1: sounds like heaven to me. And then I would get
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Speaker 1: stretchy ice cream for dessert. What about you? Uh? Similar?
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Speaker 1: But I'm going to make a restaurant that doesn't exist.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's from a disaffected millennial and it's all
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Speaker 1: about Mexican cheese and it's called K So I waited
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Speaker 1: until Ariel drank before I did that joke. That was
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Speaker 1: that was brilliant. Side sidebar, if you haven't watched Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: Olsen's Kitchen Tour on First Week Feed. You should do
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Speaker 1: that because talk about quirky and fun. Yeah, I can't.
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Speaker 1: I'm really I fell down kind of a rabbit hole
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Speaker 1: of watching interviews of various actors recently, and uh, and
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Speaker 1: she just struck me as being particularly fascinating. But we
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Speaker 1: have a fascinating show for you, or at least we
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Speaker 1: think so. And it starts off with some news items, yes,
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Speaker 1: our first news item and the I'll say that the
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Speaker 1: title of this news article when I found it, kind
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Speaker 1: of buried the lead, which is Dark Wins, a Western
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Speaker 1: thriller series from George RR. Martin and Robert Redford is
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Speaker 1: heading to a MC so that is all true. But
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Speaker 1: George R. Martin and Robert Redford are executive producing this show.
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Speaker 1: It's based on a book series called Lee Porman ch
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Speaker 1: by Tony Hillerman, and it follows two Navajo police officers
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Speaker 1: as they investigate like murder cases and things like that.
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Speaker 1: And it's, um it deals a lot with the Navajo
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Speaker 1: nation and um, it's it's very thrillery. And originally I
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Speaker 1: picked this because I was kind of surprised that Georgia R.
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Speaker 1: Martin had anything going to anything other than HBO. I
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Speaker 1: thought he had hitched his wagon to HBO. But two, uh,
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Speaker 1: they show so Tony Hillerman is not Native American from
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Speaker 1: everything that I know, I haven't actually read Lee Porn
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Speaker 1: and che but now I probably will actually go and
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Speaker 1: read it because it seems so interesting. I'm definitely gonna
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Speaker 1: watch the show. But he grew up in in Oklahoma,
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Speaker 1: so he grew up with a lot of indigenous people. Um.
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Speaker 1: And when they put this show together, which you know,
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Speaker 1: features indigenous stars such as Zan mclarnin, who I love
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Speaker 1: he was in West World and Fargo, uh and and
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Speaker 1: Kiowa Gordon um who was in The Red Road, which
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Speaker 1: I haven't watched, but he looks really familiar, so I
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Speaker 1: think I've seen him in other things and I think
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Speaker 1: I like him too. It also was written the writer's
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Speaker 1: room was entirely staffed by Native American writers. So I
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Speaker 1: just I love the chance to have a thriller that
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Speaker 1: features a population of people that doesn't always get to
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Speaker 1: be the star of the show, and should um with
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Speaker 1: some of the actors that I absolutely we love uh
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Speaker 1: and told accurately to to explore, you know, some of
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Speaker 1: the beliefs and culture of of the people that it's
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Speaker 1: it's presenting. So it's it's super exciting to me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: off off Mike. Before we recorded, I mentioned that this
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Speaker 1: is really cool because I come from an era where
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Speaker 1: any depiction of Native Americans one was almost certainly not written, edited,
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Speaker 1: or otherwise touched by a Native American during the writing process,
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Speaker 1: to frequently wasn't even acted by someone who was Native American.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there are famous examples where Italian actors were
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Speaker 1: hired on to play Native American characters, and so there
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Speaker 1: is a longstanding tradition in Hollywood of depicting Native American
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Speaker 1: cultures from the white lens, and to say that it
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Speaker 1: was inaccurate in most cases as being really generous. So
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be able to experience these stories told
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Speaker 1: from a perspective that I don't have any experience with, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't come from that world, and to be able
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Speaker 1: to get a glimpse into a cool thriller story that
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Speaker 1: I know reflects the actual words and cultures of the
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Speaker 1: people that I know very little about, which is a
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Speaker 1: shame because I live in the country that they're people's roamed. Uh.
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Speaker 1: That really excites me because it's it's that's one of
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Speaker 1: the things I find the most exciting about this particular
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Speaker 1: era of pop culture is that we're starting to see
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Speaker 1: these populations get to tell their stories their way, and
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Speaker 1: they're fantastic stories, they really are, and it's this one's
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Speaker 1: exceptionally good. I know you said you were worried again
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Speaker 1: off Mike when I mentioned that George R. R. Martin
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Speaker 1: was involved in this because of his because of the
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Speaker 1: way he's written certain types of characters in Game of Thrones,
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Speaker 1: where you know, it's set in a fantasy world, but
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Speaker 1: there are clear sort of allegorical or or simulachroom type
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Speaker 1: similarities between certain fantasy characters and certain real world people's
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Speaker 1: that didn't always come across as being particularly good. So
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Speaker 1: I was worried at first because I did not understand
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Speaker 1: that he was executive producing as opposed to writing, So
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Speaker 1: that changes things. Yeah. It Also it also makes it
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Speaker 1: extra cool because the Navajo Nation President Jonathan Ness super
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Speaker 1: on board with it too, in fact so much so
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Speaker 1: that they got permission to film on Navajone Land, So
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Speaker 1: just super cool. I feel like this could uh and
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Speaker 1: not in today's episode because we've got some really cool
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Speaker 1: discussion topics lined up. But this could really lead to
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Speaker 1: an interesting discussion about fantasy worlds inspired by real nations
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Speaker 1: in the future, agreed, And and again like there's no
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Speaker 1: shortage of those. And often in the history of the
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Speaker 1: fantasy genre because the fact that that genre, like many
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Speaker 1: others in the Western world, have been dominated by white authors,
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Speaker 1: it often means that the depictions aren't always positive, or
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Speaker 1: even when they are quote unquote positive, they're not accurate.
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Speaker 1: So they still do harm, just in a different way.
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Speaker 1: So like, again, I don't want to harp on it
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Speaker 1: too much, obviously, I don't want to harsh anyone's buzz
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Speaker 1: on on the stuff that they love. I'm just really
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Speaker 1: encouraged to see that change because honestly, it does mean
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Speaker 1: that I get to see stories I never would have
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Speaker 1: seen otherwise, So that's really exciting. Um. Something else that
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Speaker 1: some people probably find exciting but not me, is that
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Speaker 1: a commercial that posed as a cartoon for kids from
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Speaker 1: the eighties is getting a refresh. Uh And just from
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Speaker 1: that headline, I bet there's at least twenty titles you
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Speaker 1: could come up with. But which one are we talking about? Uh? Not? Heman,
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Speaker 1: not Thunder the Barbarian, not ThunderCats. Not ThunderCats. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about silver Hawks. You don't know what silver Hawks is,
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Speaker 1: don't blame yourself. Yeah, okay, so think of ThunderCats, but
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Speaker 1: everyone's made out of metal, and they are in space. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and they most of them have wings, and one of
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Speaker 1: them is a guy named Bluegrass who also plays a
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Speaker 1: space guitar and where's that cowboy hat? And one of
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Speaker 1: them looks vaguely alien and ish and one of them
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Speaker 1: is a half mechanoid actual hawk, which probably wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: able to fly in space using hawk dynamics. Um, I
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Speaker 1: mean yeah, like, yeah, there's a there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: Star Wars physics going on here. Also, the theme song
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Speaker 1: says that they're part metal, part real, which I take
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Speaker 1: issue with because metal is real. I was into that.
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Speaker 1: It's a catchy theme song, but yeah, I took I
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Speaker 1: took a little bit of a positive that lyric as well,
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Speaker 1: because it's I did watch uh silver Hawks a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but not enough to super remember it. I just like
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Speaker 1: ranking Bass, who is who is bringing this to fruition,
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Speaker 1: said that Thundercots ThunderCats got its go, but people were
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Speaker 1: really upset that silver Hawks didn't. I'm paraphrasing, but I
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Speaker 1: can't believe enough people actually missed Silver Hawks other than
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Speaker 1: my husband, who enjoyed it well enough. But who is
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Speaker 1: not mad at this? I mean, I can't be mad
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Speaker 1: at it. Maybe it'll be a lot of fun. I'm
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Speaker 1: really excited about the new he Man Show, and that's similar. Yeah. No,
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Speaker 1: I mean like these came from an era where the
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Speaker 1: cartoons were largely excuses to sell lines of toys to kids,
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Speaker 1: and also from an era where you might get a
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Speaker 1: perfunctory message at the end to make it quote unquote
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Speaker 1: educational to ball under certain governmental regulations and guidelines, but
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Speaker 1: otherwise again, was really just a twenty two minute long
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Speaker 1: commercial for a line of toys. Silver Hawks is no different.
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Speaker 1: Um I yeah, I I I'm not feeling very strongly
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Speaker 1: about this. I don't have any nostalgia for silver Hawks.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I watched a little bit of it. There
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Speaker 1: were only sixty episodes total when the first run happened.
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Speaker 1: Brankin Bass obviously famous animation studio. I always think of
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Speaker 1: them as the the people behind one Rudolph the Red
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Speaker 1: Nose Reindeer and to the Hobbit. Those are the two
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Speaker 1: that I always think about. But um, yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll we'll see. I'm not super excited about that.
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Speaker 1: But I tell you what I am excited about. I'm
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Speaker 1: excited about an upcoming Disney film that was going to
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Speaker 1: get in just a couple of months in Canto. Oh
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Speaker 1: me too. I think that this might be one of
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Speaker 1: the like most um exciting things to come out from
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Speaker 1: Disney this week for me, which is saying something because
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Speaker 1: Disney is coming out with like a billion things a week. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's true. So this is set. It's a story set
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Speaker 1: in rural Columbia, and it's about a girl who lives
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Speaker 1: with a magical family and she doesn't have any magic. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it actually reminds me. Did you ever read the book series,
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Speaker 1: the Zance book series. I didn't, so, so I'm not
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Speaker 1: recommending you read them, because when you talk about stuff
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Speaker 1: that has not aged well, the Zance series is way
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Speaker 1: up there. However, in the early books, there is a
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Speaker 1: character who seemingly has no magical talent in a world
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Speaker 1: where everybody has a magical talent. In fact, it is
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Speaker 1: such an anomaly that he is exiled because there's there's
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Speaker 1: a no tolerance policy for people who don't have a
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Speaker 1: magical talent. Spoiler alert, It turns out he has the
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Speaker 1: most awful magical talent of the malt It's just one
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Speaker 1: that is impossible to easily observe, and even he is
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Speaker 1: unaware that he has it because it's it's a passive thing,
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Speaker 1: not something he actively creates. Which makes me wonder if
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Speaker 1: we're going to see something similar in Incanto or if
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Speaker 1: this is rather going to be one of those stories
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Speaker 1: of how someone can be special, even should their talents
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Speaker 1: not be as um as as obvious as others. But
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Speaker 1: the animation, the color, the color of this movie so vibrant,
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Speaker 1: it looks so gorgeous. I want to see this on
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Speaker 1: the best screen possible because it just is beautiful. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I agree. The main the main actress is is voiced
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Speaker 1: by Stephanie Beatriz from Brooklyn My nine and in the Heights,
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Speaker 1: who is absolutely phenomenal um both as an actress and
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Speaker 1: a voice actress. Uh. And then the music like so
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Speaker 1: the music, like the entire thing is it's almost like
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Speaker 1: Baby Driver, and how the entire trailer is per cust
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Speaker 1: or stomp or something like that, where it's all per
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Speaker 1: custoed and orchestrated to specifically to the actions. So it's
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Speaker 1: it's pretty much every everything I love into a tiny,
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Speaker 1: little animated package. Yeah, and Lynn Manuel Miranda is the
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Speaker 1: guy behind the music, so uh yeah, he's he's clearly
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Speaker 1: the current Disney Darling, having worked on on projects like
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Speaker 1: Mowanna and um yeah, I thought that it looks great
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Speaker 1: and I'm very eager to see it. Um. Something else
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Speaker 1: I'm eager to see is the upcoming Marvel series what If. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't and then they came out with a new
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Speaker 1: trailer and now they've got me on board, and not
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Speaker 1: just because they show Howard the Duck Briefly, I was
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Speaker 1: gonna ask, um, you know, I didn't even realize that
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Speaker 1: Howard the Duck appears an end game, and then I
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Speaker 1: saw him and I thought, oh, there he is. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's so brief you kind of have to have
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Speaker 1: it pointed out. Yeah, he's standing behind the Wasp at
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Speaker 1: the on your left moment. But yeah. So so what
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Speaker 1: If is a series of comics from Marvel that, you
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Speaker 1: know the title tells you it asks the question what
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Speaker 1: if what if X happened? Right? So, I actually used
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Speaker 1: to collect these comics. Is one of the few titles
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Speaker 1: that I collected as a kid, and I remember having
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Speaker 1: comics like you know, what if Aunt May got Spider
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Speaker 1: Man's powers? Or what if Dr Doom was a good guy?
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Speaker 1: Those were like the kind of things. But it's clear
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Speaker 1: that in this case they're also tying it into that
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Speaker 1: concept of the multiverse. So it's kind of touching on
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Speaker 1: the other aspects of Phase four of the m c U. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wonder if they'll I mean, they could really use
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Speaker 1: Loki for this to all. I don't know because the
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Speaker 1: last episode, which neither Jonathan i are have have watched
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Speaker 1: at the point of recording this of Lookie just came out.
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Speaker 1: But they could use what if too right in a
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Speaker 1: second season of One Division potentially, Like I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they might tie it into the
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Speaker 1: multiverse since the show, like the live action shows, tie in,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this one is going to tie
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Speaker 1: in as well. Yeah. No, it's like my guess is
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Speaker 1: that this, if it ties in, it will be sort
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Speaker 1: of tangential. It will be like because of the multiverse,
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Speaker 1: these things are possible, but not like to a point
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Speaker 1: where anything in what ifs Cannon and carries forward in
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Speaker 1: any other Marvel product. Really, we're going to get kill
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Speaker 1: Monger as Black Panther. Uh No, Um, I don't think
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get I don't think we're gonna get Peggy
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Speaker 1: Carter as Captain America, although I would love that. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of the trailer. Also, the animation
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Speaker 1: I kind of dug. I wasn't sold on it when
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Speaker 1: I first saw teasers for it, but it's definitely grown
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Speaker 1: on me. It feels like they've they've rounded it out
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Speaker 1: just a little bit, not literally figuratively, it's it's got
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Speaker 1: a very comic style to it. We have one more
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Speaker 1: story which we're just going to hit on super quick
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Speaker 1: because it's too cute. Um before we go to break
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Speaker 1: and that is Uh. There was a new trailer that
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Speaker 1: came out for Free Guy, the Ryan Reynolds movie about
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Speaker 1: a an MPC in a video game who gained sentience,
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Speaker 1: and it was a reaction video done by Debt Pool
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Speaker 1: and Cord from Thor Ragnarok and I guess Love and
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Speaker 1: Thunder as well, Yes so so we and also from
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Speaker 1: from um Endgame, Corrige briefly appears an endgame. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: this technically means that we get our first Dead Bull
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Speaker 1: m c U crossover. We don't know if this will
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Speaker 1: be the extent of Dead Bull entering into the m
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Speaker 1: c you proper um, but yeah, technically we now have
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Speaker 1: Deadpool and another MCU character co existing in the same space.
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Speaker 1: Commenting on a different Ryan Reynolds movie trailer. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of meta commentary. They're both about
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Speaker 1: Free Guy as a as a thing, and also about
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Speaker 1: Marvel in general. Um. And it's also an opportunity for
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Speaker 1: both Ryan Reynolds and Taiko a Tit to make fun
22:16
Speaker 1: of themselves because they both appear in Free Guy as well. Yeah,
22:20
Speaker 1: and it actually makes me excited if they decided to
22:22
Speaker 1: pull Deadpool into the m c you proper because it
22:26
Speaker 1: shows how you can mash him up with someone who
22:28
Speaker 1: is delightfully sweet and still have it be entertaining and
22:33
Speaker 1: not too crass. Um. That being said, I'm a little
22:38
Speaker 1: bit mad at the very end of the trailer, which
22:40
Speaker 1: did at me a little bit when when Deadpool asks
22:44
Speaker 1: how to get into the m c U and Cord says,
22:46
Speaker 1: believe in your dream, pursue your dream, give up happiness
22:50
Speaker 1: in order of your dream that give up on your
22:51
Speaker 1: dream and be hopeless, and then maybe you don't get
22:55
Speaker 1: a call from Marvel and I'm like, why are you
22:57
Speaker 1: gotta at me like that? Core, It's real. It was
23:01
Speaker 1: funny until I got too real at the end. Um, Yeah,
23:04
Speaker 1: it's it's cute, it's I mean, it's again, it's just
23:07
Speaker 1: this playful thing. And I don't know that we'll ever
23:10
Speaker 1: really see Deadpool incorporated more into the m c U.
23:13
Speaker 1: I would love to see a Deadpool spider Man crossover,
23:16
Speaker 1: simply because that's always been a fun, fun thing in
23:20
Speaker 1: the comics. But you know, it's a complicated thing, right, Like,
23:25
Speaker 1: can can Marvel work in Deadpool into stories in a
23:28
Speaker 1: way that serves both Deadpool as a character well and
23:32
Speaker 1: whatever story they're trying to tell within the m c
23:34
Speaker 1: U remains to be seen. Then again, all these series
23:38
Speaker 1: that have come out with Marvel, I wouldn't have anticipated
23:42
Speaker 1: any of them before they happened, and I wouldn't have
23:44
Speaker 1: thought that they would have worked so well. But as
23:47
Speaker 1: we will discuss when we come back, they've been working
23:49
Speaker 1: pretty darn well. So we want to talk a little
24:02
Speaker 1: bit more about this whole dizzy plus phenomenon. But I
24:05
Speaker 1: think I think we wanted to start with Jock than
24:07
Speaker 1: I watched Black Widow over the weekend, and we just
24:09
Speaker 1: wanted to as non spoilery as possible chat about it. Yeah.
24:15
Speaker 1: So my general response is that it was entertaining. There
24:23
Speaker 1: were some really fun action sequences. I liked all the performances.
24:28
Speaker 1: I thought the performances were all very fun and strong.
24:31
Speaker 1: I thought Pugh. I thought Pugh was fantastic as Yellina.
24:35
Speaker 1: She was really entertaining. I thought David Harbor as the
24:40
Speaker 1: Red Guardian was very funny. Um. I thought Scarlett Johanson
24:46
Speaker 1: did an amazing job as Black Widow Rachel Weiss? How
24:50
Speaker 1: does she not age as that? The fact that she
24:53
Speaker 1: defies the passage of time is also interesting to me. Yeah,
24:58
Speaker 1: I found it entertained. I did. I wasn't blown away.
25:01
Speaker 1: I didn't. I would not even put this like the
25:04
Speaker 1: other the movie I would most compare it to in tone.
25:08
Speaker 1: I think it's probably Winter Soldier, but I don't think
25:12
Speaker 1: it's nearly as good as Winter Soldier was. I also
25:15
Speaker 1: agree there. So a couple of my family members said, oh,
25:19
Speaker 1: that was that was fun. But I wish I had
25:21
Speaker 1: focused more on the story, and I will have to
25:25
Speaker 1: admit that well one the as much as I was
25:29
Speaker 1: excited to see Black Widow get a movie, because I
25:32
Speaker 1: do like some fight choreography. Man, I love fight choreography
25:36
Speaker 1: if it's done well, and it was done well in
25:37
Speaker 1: this movie. The first fight between Black Widow and Taskmaster,
25:41
Speaker 1: which isn't a spoiler because you know they're going to fight, uh,
25:45
Speaker 1: was phenomenal and I actually gasped out loud at a
25:48
Speaker 1: couple of moments. Um. But the story overall of Black
25:50
Speaker 1: Widow just isn't like super My Jam. But I enjoyed
25:56
Speaker 1: it more than I thought I would. There was a
25:58
Speaker 1: lot more humor than I anticipated. I wish they focused
26:02
Speaker 1: on the story a little bit more, and I had.
26:04
Speaker 1: I heard one article say that or one review say
26:08
Speaker 1: that they felt like this movie would have done better
26:11
Speaker 1: in phase one because the stakes are too high now,
26:17
Speaker 1: I guess, But well, there's also the fact that we
26:20
Speaker 1: already know what Black Widow's ultimate fate is, right, So
26:22
Speaker 1: that ends up being a big issue too. If you
26:25
Speaker 1: already know what a character's ultimate fate is going to be,
26:29
Speaker 1: it's hard to have tension in a in a prequel
26:33
Speaker 1: movie because you know, well, she has to make it
26:35
Speaker 1: out of this because it happened. This other thing happens later, right, So,
26:40
Speaker 1: and there were other elements that I thought, you know,
26:42
Speaker 1: people have retroactively kind of red cond and it doesn't
26:46
Speaker 1: mean anything to me, like, oh, now we know where
26:49
Speaker 1: she got that vest she wore and that one movie.
26:52
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I can honestly say not once
26:55
Speaker 1: while I was watching Infinity War or Endgame was I thinking, Uh,
27:00
Speaker 1: where did this character get that specific piece of clothing from?
27:04
Speaker 1: It never passed my mind. So I was like, I
27:06
Speaker 1: don't care about the explanation so much. Well, and there's
27:11
Speaker 1: some big plot points that I won't get into for
27:13
Speaker 1: anybody who hasn't watched it, because I mean it was
27:15
Speaker 1: a fun watch. Um, it was a fun use of
27:18
Speaker 1: my two hours. I do not regret it that like,
27:22
Speaker 1: because they were explaining things that I previously had only
27:26
Speaker 1: heard about. It needed a lot of explanation to get
27:29
Speaker 1: me from point A to point B, and that kind
27:32
Speaker 1: of felt very slow compared to all of the action sequences. Well,
27:36
Speaker 1: and on top of that, I feel like they were
27:38
Speaker 1: trying to have it both ways. They were trying to
27:40
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of information about her background,
27:43
Speaker 1: including why there's so much read in her ledger, which
27:46
Speaker 1: she referred to consistently in Phase one, right, Like that
27:50
Speaker 1: was the coda from Black Widow was that she has
27:53
Speaker 1: read in her ledger and she's trying to atone you
27:56
Speaker 1: kind of learn a little bit about that, but there's
27:59
Speaker 1: so many big gaps in that story where like you know,
28:04
Speaker 1: she references Clint a k A Hawkeye, but spoiler alert,
28:09
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just there's very little information given about
28:13
Speaker 1: what actually happened and how things progressed. So you're you're
28:17
Speaker 1: still only kind of aware of what has happened, but
28:22
Speaker 1: you don't know how it happened the way it did.
28:24
Speaker 1: So it's not satisfying from that respect, right, it doesn't
28:27
Speaker 1: solve that mystery. You don't learn enough about her past.
28:32
Speaker 1: There's some big questions that remain unanswered. There's one huge
28:37
Speaker 1: question I have that goes from the penultimate scene to
28:41
Speaker 1: the final scene before credits, where I'm like, okay, wait,
28:47
Speaker 1: so some time has passed, but what happened, what's happening
28:53
Speaker 1: right now in front of me literally makes no sense
28:55
Speaker 1: based on what I just saw happen. Um so there's
28:59
Speaker 1: some there's some inconsistencies and some plot holes that you know,
29:03
Speaker 1: I'm willing to overlook for the sake of a fun story.
29:07
Speaker 1: But I agree, I feel like there were there were
29:09
Speaker 1: just enough gaps there that I could not completely disconnect
29:13
Speaker 1: from that, and I found myself asking questions to which
29:16
Speaker 1: there are no answers um and that that can be okay,
29:20
Speaker 1: but it felt frustrating. Yes, I agree, I feel like
29:24
Speaker 1: they did a disservice to the character in Scarlett Johansson
29:26
Speaker 1: by not making this movie earlier, not because of the stakes,
29:29
Speaker 1: but just because now they kind of had to shoehorn
29:32
Speaker 1: it in. Yeah, I am really excited for the like
29:35
Speaker 1: the very end credits teaser scene that they gave at
29:38
Speaker 1: the very very very end, it ties into another Marvel
29:43
Speaker 1: property that we recently saw. Yes, So, like I said,
29:49
Speaker 1: all in all, I think it was good. Regardless of that,
29:51
Speaker 1: regardless of when this movie came out and maybe some
29:56
Speaker 1: a bit shortfalls, it did really really well opening weekend.
30:00
Speaker 1: It made like what two hundred and eighteen million fantastic?
30:06
Speaker 1: Like I had not been following up on that. Uh,
30:08
Speaker 1: and curious, Ariel, how did you see this? Did you
30:10
Speaker 1: go to the theater to see it. I rented it
30:12
Speaker 1: on Disney Plus. Say, I mean like there might there
30:18
Speaker 1: might be something I go to the theater for um upcoming,
30:22
Speaker 1: but this was not it. Instead, we we had a
30:25
Speaker 1: small group of our vaccinated friends come and watch it
30:29
Speaker 1: with us. Yeah, I mean, like to be fair, like
30:31
Speaker 1: we we know someone who is vaccinated and yet still
30:36
Speaker 1: contracted COVID uh not too long ago. And it just
30:42
Speaker 1: again it even though and and this person is okay,
30:46
Speaker 1: they are having a mild case of COVID. However, just
30:50
Speaker 1: that possibility means like both Ariel and I feel very
30:53
Speaker 1: strongly that we don't want to end up passing COVID
30:57
Speaker 1: onto someone who might not be vaccinated, like whether that
31:00
Speaker 1: choice was made because the person can't get vaccinated or
31:04
Speaker 1: because they just don't want to. Like I disagree with
31:09
Speaker 1: that particular choice, the not wanting to thing, but I
31:12
Speaker 1: still don't want to kill anybody. So until then, I'm
31:15
Speaker 1: limiting my interactions outside of my very small bubble. Same
31:21
Speaker 1: so I mean I need to as well, just because
31:24
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a working actor, and I want to make
31:27
Speaker 1: sure that when I get booked, I am healthy for
31:30
Speaker 1: the people on set because they will check. Yeah, if
31:32
Speaker 1: you test positive, you don't get the gig. Yeah, and
31:36
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that be I mean beyond
31:38
Speaker 1: making like keeping other people safe as my top priority.
31:41
Speaker 1: That's my my other but that's my like professional priority. Um.
31:45
Speaker 1: But Disney plus man, they also ran away with the
31:49
Speaker 1: uh Emmy nominations this year, no joke, So twenty four
31:55
Speaker 1: nominations for the Mandalorian one division, right mind with twenty
32:01
Speaker 1: three nominations and then you've got additional ones from Falcon
32:05
Speaker 1: and The Winter Soldier. Like Marvel and and Star Wars
32:10
Speaker 1: have come out as power houses in this year's and
32:14
Speaker 1: Emmy nominations. The only show that got more nominations than
32:18
Speaker 1: Want Division and Mandalorian and the Emmy's was The Crown, um,
32:23
Speaker 1: which I haven't watched, but I've heard that it's good.
32:25
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, I spend most of my time
32:28
Speaker 1: in the geek geek verse, so, um, I guess that's
32:32
Speaker 1: it's a kind of geeky thing. Sure, yeah, there's like
32:35
Speaker 1: a there's a historosity element to it. Yeah, it's it's
32:41
Speaker 1: um you know. And honestly, the Crown got twenty four
32:45
Speaker 1: nominations too, so it actually tied with Mandalorian so and
32:50
Speaker 1: when you look at that, you're like, all right, So
32:51
Speaker 1: that means there's like, there's like more than fifty nominations
32:55
Speaker 1: for Disney Plus properties across the Emmy's, including you know,
33:01
Speaker 1: Best Actor, uh, nominations for Elizabeth Olsen and for Paul Bettany,
33:07
Speaker 1: and that that's fantastic. Catherine Hahn got a nomination for
33:12
Speaker 1: her role as a as Agatha slash Agnes Limited and
33:17
Speaker 1: like flat out just limited series, like Best Limited Series.
33:23
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a real testament to the work that
33:27
Speaker 1: went into that series. I think it's well deserved. I think,
33:31
Speaker 1: like what, while you can argue it's a comic book thing,
33:34
Speaker 1: it's a popcorn thing, it's not really you know, weighty
33:38
Speaker 1: or heavy. In my mind, the awards shouldn't just go
33:42
Speaker 1: to works that are attempting to be you know, quote
33:45
Speaker 1: unquote serious. It needs to go to nominations need to
33:49
Speaker 1: go out to really great examples of work. That work
33:54
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be heavy and weighty, although because I
33:57
Speaker 1: mean I've seen some quote unquote serious stuff that was
34:01
Speaker 1: just crappy, right, it was just poorly made, poorly acted.
34:05
Speaker 1: Maybe the subject matter was very serious, but doesn't mean
34:08
Speaker 1: the execution was great. And then I've seen some very
34:11
Speaker 1: whimsical stuff that is done incredibly well, and I think that,
34:16
Speaker 1: you know, there's room in the world for nominations to
34:21
Speaker 1: go to those sort of things. I agree, and I'm
34:23
Speaker 1: super excited because like when you look at the Oscars,
34:26
Speaker 1: exception of like Black Panther, most most sci fi fantasy,
34:32
Speaker 1: superhero geek things maybe get like a not or two
34:36
Speaker 1: for visual editing or score, and unless it's something like
34:43
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings, where Return of the King gets
34:46
Speaker 1: a butt load of nominations, but you feel like that's
34:50
Speaker 1: partly because the Academy did not hand out nominations for
34:55
Speaker 1: the previous two chapters, and now it feels like, oh,
34:58
Speaker 1: we need to do this now because this is undeniably
35:01
Speaker 1: a phenomenon and even if Return of the King is
35:04
Speaker 1: by all measures and metrics objectively the worst of the
35:08
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings movies that may or may not
35:11
Speaker 1: be my own opinion, we need to give them all
35:14
Speaker 1: the nominations. Fellowship deserved it more. Yeah, there's there's definitely
35:19
Speaker 1: some stuff like that happened like that that happens with awards. Unfortunately.
35:24
Speaker 1: Um I so I know that it got nominated for
35:27
Speaker 1: Best Support or Best Limited Series. But I kind of
35:32
Speaker 1: hope they decided to come back with a season two
35:34
Speaker 1: of One Division. I have no idea what they're doing
35:36
Speaker 1: with with Phase four, so I don't know if it
35:40
Speaker 1: could fit, but well, I can tell you it's still
35:43
Speaker 1: the strongest showed me. I agree. I think One Division
35:48
Speaker 1: One Division is still my favorite of the m c
35:51
Speaker 1: U series so far. Um with a Bullet Loki being
35:55
Speaker 1: following up Falcon and Winners Soldiers not bad, It's just
35:58
Speaker 1: not not as high up as the other. But Elizabeth
36:03
Speaker 1: Olsen has essentially said there's not going to be a
36:05
Speaker 1: season two of One Division. She has but I like,
36:07
Speaker 1: I want to live in my own fantasy world, and
36:09
Speaker 1: I hope that there is because I do like Loki
36:12
Speaker 1: and we're getting a second season of that. But uh,
36:15
Speaker 1: if you haven't read the news yet, because it's everywhere,
36:18
Speaker 1: if you haven't watched the episode, don't read the news.
36:19
Speaker 1: It'll spoil the last episode for you. But that series, yeah,
36:25
Speaker 1: but that series to me, like, there are some episodes
36:29
Speaker 1: that are really really fantastic that I absolutely love. Episode
36:33
Speaker 1: I think three of Loki. There's just some camera work
36:39
Speaker 1: where they film an action scene and the camera is
36:41
Speaker 1: circling around the action scene and they make it look
36:44
Speaker 1: much more chaotic than it actually. That was just so
36:47
Speaker 1: intriguing to me from a technical perspective. And then, um,
36:51
Speaker 1: the fifth episode of the series was phenomenal. Yeah, absolutely phenomenal. Yeah,
36:59
Speaker 1: it's I'm sure Loki is gonna end up getting some
37:02
Speaker 1: nominations for next year's Emmy's, you know, kind of carrying
37:07
Speaker 1: this on. It's bad timing simply because the way that
37:10
Speaker 1: these are all coming out means that Loki is not
37:12
Speaker 1: going to be front of mind by the time the
37:15
Speaker 1: next year nominations come out. But still really fascinating stuff.
37:20
Speaker 1: But we need to wrap this up and we need
37:23
Speaker 1: to move on to our mash ups, which we will
37:26
Speaker 1: talk about after this quick break. Okay, ariel Um, I
37:49
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this. You might not be
37:51
Speaker 1: aware of it, but there's a famous Disney character who
37:55
Speaker 1: has the same name that you have. Is it Dell?
38:00
Speaker 1: It is not, it's Ari l Um. Yeah, we are
38:04
Speaker 1: the Little Mermaid. So one of the two properties we're
38:07
Speaker 1: mashing up today is the Little Mermaid, and it's partly
38:10
Speaker 1: because one of the news items we almost covered is
38:13
Speaker 1: that The Little Mermaid production has wrapped, and they shared
38:17
Speaker 1: a photo of the character, uh kind of as a
38:21
Speaker 1: as a that's a wrap thing, which is starting to
38:24
Speaker 1: become a thing on on social media. We're seeing that
38:26
Speaker 1: with more and more productions where a tantalizing images shared
38:31
Speaker 1: as a production raps. And so that was one of
38:34
Speaker 1: the two stories we wanted to to allude to with
38:38
Speaker 1: our mash up. The Little Mermaid of course being now
38:41
Speaker 1: and a very loose adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson story. Um.
38:46
Speaker 1: The Disney version is one of my favorite films, UM,
38:49
Speaker 1: even though I acknowledge they took massive liberties with the
38:54
Speaker 1: original story, which is one of the things that Ariel
38:57
Speaker 1: finds somewhat um frustrating, irritating. Yeah, yes, darn Twoton going
39:05
Speaker 1: full circle with that that Western accent you did at
39:08
Speaker 1: the beginning. Yeah, that's frustrating to me. Yes, well that's
39:12
Speaker 1: one of our stories. So the other one is because
39:16
Speaker 1: we got a sort of teaser trailer for the second
39:20
Speaker 1: season of The Witcher, Yes, which was at It was
39:25
Speaker 1: a good trailer. It felt much more interpersonal. There were
39:29
Speaker 1: no obvious monsters in the entire trailer, which I thought
39:35
Speaker 1: that was what The Witcher was all about. Um, so, uh,
39:41
Speaker 1: that was a little disappointing. Um. If you're not familiar
39:44
Speaker 1: with The Witcher, it's a series of video games and
39:48
Speaker 1: books and the main characters a Witcher and he's kind
39:52
Speaker 1: of like looked on down by normal society, but he
39:54
Speaker 1: hunts hunts monsters, and some people think he's monstrous himself
39:58
Speaker 1: and evil, and um, then there was a TV I
40:01
Speaker 1: have not played the games, I have not read the books,
40:03
Speaker 1: but I watched the TV series and I can still
40:06
Speaker 1: only tell you vaguely about what happened. Well, yeah, so
40:10
Speaker 1: I can. I can help out a little bit in
40:12
Speaker 1: that the In the mythology of the Witcher series, whether
40:16
Speaker 1: it's the books, the games, or the television series, the
40:20
Speaker 1: idea is that UH powerful magic users created the Witchers
40:26
Speaker 1: by mutating humans, many of whom do not survive the process,
40:31
Speaker 1: and as a result, these humans gain uh greater strength
40:37
Speaker 1: than speed and agility and a few other powers, but
40:41
Speaker 1: they also tend to lose a lot of their emotive abilities.
40:47
Speaker 1: They become much less emotional and much less capable of
40:51
Speaker 1: forming emotional attachments with other people. And partly for that reason,
40:56
Speaker 1: and partly for the fact that they do exhibit these
40:58
Speaker 1: other abilities. Norm old folks can look upon witchers as
41:03
Speaker 1: being rather monstrous themselves. So that's kind of the the
41:07
Speaker 1: grounding of what that is. And and the Witcher series
41:10
Speaker 1: follows a specific Witcher, um Girault, who is going on
41:14
Speaker 1: various adventures and uh the I think there's something like
41:19
Speaker 1: fourteen books in the series, so summing up the storyline
41:23
Speaker 1: would be a fool's errand but that that's the ground
41:26
Speaker 1: that we have to build upon with our mashup of
41:30
Speaker 1: the Little Mermaid and the Witcher. So do you want
41:35
Speaker 1: me to go first? I have a very short one
41:37
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's particularly funny. So you want
41:40
Speaker 1: me to go first? Or would you like to go
41:42
Speaker 1: You can go ahead and go first. Okay, yes, so
41:45
Speaker 1: minus minus particularly short this time. But here we go.
41:48
Speaker 1: This is the Little Witcher Sirie. The Little Mermaid has
41:53
Speaker 1: a problem. She wants to be where the people are.
41:56
Speaker 1: She wants to see him dancing walking around on those
42:00
Speaker 1: what do you call him, oh, bloody stumps. Plus, she's
42:05
Speaker 1: seen this total hottie up there on the surface named Galahad,
42:09
Speaker 1: and she totes wants his number, but she's stuck being
42:12
Speaker 1: a fishy little mermaid. However, she has heard rumor that
42:16
Speaker 1: there is someone who can help her. Ursula, the Sea Witcher.
42:21
Speaker 1: Ursula was once ruler of the realm, but the seas
42:24
Speaker 1: were plagued by monstrous evil creatures that terrorize the underwater denizens,
42:29
Speaker 1: and so Ursula volunteered to undergo a dangerous, brutal process
42:33
Speaker 1: in which magic wielding mur folk mutated her to become
42:37
Speaker 1: a monster killing machine a lot of the literation of
42:40
Speaker 1: that one. Many others underwent the same process, but few survived.
42:45
Speaker 1: Ursula was one of the survivors, but as a result
42:48
Speaker 1: lost much of her humanity or mermanity, I guess. Oh.
42:53
Speaker 1: And also her fish tail mutated into octopus legs, which
42:57
Speaker 1: is fitting because she belongs to the school of the Octopus.
43:01
Speaker 1: Siri makes the perilous journey to Ursula's lair, where Sirie
43:05
Speaker 1: finds the sea which are relaxing in a bath, which
43:09
Speaker 1: I mean, that's weird, right, I mean, they're already underwater,
43:13
Speaker 1: and yet here's Ursula bathing. In fact, it turns out
43:17
Speaker 1: Ursula bathes a lot like this is a thing with Ursula,
43:23
Speaker 1: which is kind of, you know, iconic, but also like
43:25
Speaker 1: just weird. Anyway. Sirie explains to Ursula her predicament. Ursula
43:31
Speaker 1: strikes a bargain with Sirie. Ursula will transform Sirie into
43:35
Speaker 1: a human using ancient magics, but in return, Siri has
43:39
Speaker 1: to serve as the above ground agent for Ursula, who
43:43
Speaker 1: can't really get out of the water for very long
43:46
Speaker 1: and thus has limited success hunting down and killing land
43:49
Speaker 1: based monsters. Siri, unable to see an alternative, agreed, and
43:54
Speaker 1: so Ursula begins the ritual that will make Sirie a
43:59
Speaker 1: new which but not a sea witcher, a land witcher,
44:03
Speaker 1: and Sirie endures intense pain and terror as she changes,
44:09
Speaker 1: transforming into a human, swimming to the surface to breathe,
44:12
Speaker 1: and landing on the shore. She has become Sirie the Sandwitcher.
44:18
Speaker 1: From that moment forward, Ursula and Syrie are in close contact.
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Speaker 1: Ursula continues to battle Leviathans and Krakens under the sea,
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Speaker 1: using a silver pitch fork to take care of the
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Speaker 1: really nasty gritters, and Sirie makes alliances on land, joining
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Arthur, and falling in love with Galahad.
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Speaker 1: In the background of all of this stuff are some
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Speaker 1: complicated political maneuvers that we kind of hint at but
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Speaker 1: don't really explore, you know, like between the current ruler
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Speaker 1: of the seas, king Triton, and the people who are
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Speaker 1: ruling on land. Tritan doesn't trust the land walkers, but
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Speaker 1: he also doesn't like to acknowledge the fact that Ursula
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Speaker 1: exists because you know, he's kind of responsible for that,
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Speaker 1: and it's not fun to remember your past mistakes, so
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Speaker 1: he does his best to bury it. But he's an
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Speaker 1: old white dude, so he's really good at that. In
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Speaker 1: the end, we get adventure, we get monster slang, we
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Speaker 1: get romance. Also, we get some songs. Oh and I
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Speaker 1: also meant to say, at the very beginning, this whole
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Speaker 1: thing is animated, but later on we're going to get
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Speaker 1: a musical stage adaptation, and later still we can make
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Speaker 1: a live action movie version, so you know, chut ching
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Speaker 1: the end. That was amazing, Jonathan, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about. I really enjoyed that. And my mash
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Speaker 1: up is vaguely like a what if version of yours? Okay,
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Speaker 1: like there are some similar through lines, um, but it's
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Speaker 1: not exactly. And thank you for going first, because I
45:46
Speaker 1: got one of my facts wrong and I had to
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Speaker 1: change it. Um I misremembered that Jazz Gears name in
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Speaker 1: the video games was either Marigold or translated to but
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Speaker 1: it's actually Dandelion. So I just needed to a quick
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Speaker 1: retcon my title, which is now the Little mermal Ion.
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Speaker 1: Uh it was before the Little mrma Gold, but it's
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Speaker 1: actually the Little mermal Lion. Okay. So Julian Ariel pancrats
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Speaker 1: that are known as Jaskar to some and to others
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Speaker 1: as Dandy Lion was a free spirit, the kind that
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Speaker 1: was never content with his place in life. That the
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Speaker 1: kind that annoyed the ones who loved him most. Though
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Speaker 1: he had a golden voice, a magical lute sidekick, and
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Speaker 1: a few regular local taverns, he longed for a life
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Speaker 1: of adventure. So when he met Gerald Rivia I'm going
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Speaker 1: to mispronounce all of these names. Of course, he wanted
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Speaker 1: to be where the Witchers are. The only problem is
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Speaker 1: that Jaskar was a bard and Jarl was a monster killer.
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Speaker 1: It was like Darrell barely acknowledged that Jaskar even existed.
46:51
Speaker 1: Jaskar tagged along everywhere that Garald went like a codependent flounder.
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Speaker 1: He did so many things to try to gain Gerald's attention.
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Speaker 1: He wrote witty and touching prose and songs about Girault's adventures,
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Speaker 1: such inspiring works of art like Shalla Kill the Ghoul
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Speaker 1: and drowners with tridents, and he gathered small monster killing
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Speaker 1: gifts like dingle harvesters and snarf blasts. He even nearly
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Speaker 1: got killed by a gin to need rescuing, but nothing
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Speaker 1: seemed to work. In fact, the only thing the Witcher
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Speaker 1: seemed to care about were monsters and somebody named Sirie.
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Speaker 1: No not you phone, shut up? Uh. So Jasker, desperate
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Speaker 1: and alone, decided to make a deal with Jennifer, a
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Speaker 1: selfish sorceress, to make him undignrable by the Witcher, and
47:39
Speaker 1: she did just that, how you ask, by turning Jasker
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Speaker 1: into a mer person. The Witcher by trade wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: able to ignore this fantastical creature, which some might call
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Speaker 1: a monster, and jask Your thought Girot would be pleased,
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Speaker 1: so he called out to him to get his attention,
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Speaker 1: but that's when he found out the sorceress took his
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Speaker 1: golden voice. He reached for his magical lute sidekick, who, yes,
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Speaker 1: is still there but we kind of forgot about. But
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Speaker 1: the sorceress had disenchanted it into a regular loot. He
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Speaker 1: tried to play this regular loot, but the sorceress took
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Speaker 1: his musical ability. You see, Jennifer also wanted the Witcher's
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Speaker 1: non existent attention, and she was also super annoyed by
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Speaker 1: jasker like all the time, so much like that jin
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Speaker 1: that almost killed him once. She didn't grant his wish
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Speaker 1: the way that you ask your thought she would. So
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Speaker 1: when Jaska called out to Gerald and tried to play
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Speaker 1: his lute, all Dralt heard was a cacophony in horrible, gurgling,
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Speaker 1: monstrous sounds, and he started rushing towards the murder person
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Speaker 1: to stop it, thinking it was a drowned Jaska, not
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Speaker 1: liking the attention he was getting from the Witcher, tried
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Speaker 1: to do a funny jask your jig, but he had
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Speaker 1: no legs, so he just ended up splashing dr up furiously,
48:44
Speaker 1: which only made the witcher angrier. The Witcher drew his
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Speaker 1: silver sword and ran the murperson through the heart, shouting
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Speaker 1: take that Lapoissan. As Jaska floated there in shock from
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Speaker 1: being impaled, a single bard tier ran down his face
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Speaker 1: and everything slowly turned to black. All of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: Jasker woke with a start. It had all been a
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Speaker 1: bad dream, but it had seemed so real. He went
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Speaker 1: to the tavern as usual to sing for his supper,
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Speaker 1: and was furiously booed and mocked as he tried to
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Speaker 1: sing with his golden voice and magical lute. Maybe it
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Speaker 1: wasn't a dream after all. No matter. From now on,
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Speaker 1: Jaska would be happy with his begrudging acquaintanceship with Gerald.
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Speaker 1: The end, I loved it. I love the I love
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Speaker 1: the puns and the song titles. Thank you they they
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure people heard me laughing in the background.
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Speaker 1: But Drowners with Trident's was a very, very long stretch
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Speaker 1: from Daughters of Triton, but I had to pick something
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Speaker 1: else that actually had lyrics, So yeah, you know it
49:49
Speaker 1: is does get tricky. That's why I like in this case,
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Speaker 1: I thought I would spare our listeners and not do
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Speaker 1: a song for once, despite the fact that I referenced them. Um.
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Speaker 1: But I was very attempted to try and write a
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Speaker 1: version of Poor Unfortunate Souls because it is one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite Disney songs of all time, but I resisted
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Speaker 1: the urge. You're welcome listeners. I almost wrote a Mermaid
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Speaker 1: version of Tasson Quintier Witcher, But even though that song
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Speaker 1: gets stuck in my head like no tomorrow, I can't
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Speaker 1: actually hum the tune correctly. Ever, that's that's fair, Like
50:23
Speaker 1: I I remember hearing that at a recent karaoke event,
50:28
Speaker 1: a little private karaoke event that we attended, and even
50:31
Speaker 1: while it was happening, I was like, what's this from?
50:34
Speaker 1: Oh no, I get it because I have not watched
50:37
Speaker 1: the show. I've only I've only played the games a bit.
50:41
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, that was fun. If you guys have
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50:48
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50:51
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