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Maybe The Marvels Is Just a Bad Movie · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning,
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fifteenth day of November. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. We're eight
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days out from Thanksgiving as we record, just letting you know Thanksgiving is a
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week and a day away, Black Friday week and two days away. Holiday
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season is full force now, man. I started seeing people on social media
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on their calendars interested in this, definitely going to this, interested in this
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tree lighting ceremony. Interested like they're starting to pop in there and I'm seeing
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them coming in there. One of the ones popping in there, of course,
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is the Nutcracker at the Columbus River Center. So just quick reminder.
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I'm not going to go into the full spiel again, but I'm going to
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remind you if you're going to see the Nutcracker, presented by the Columbus Ballet
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staring me in the role of Mother Ginger, I said, starring, I'm
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standing by it. Uh. You know, I make the most of my
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time on stage. That's what I do. Uh. Don't buy the tickets
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from a third party outlet. Get the tickets through the River Center box office.
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That's what you want to do. River Center box office the easy way
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to get your tickets. You can get them online. You're gonna notice the
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ticket price through the River Center box office is a lot different than the third
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party outlets. I've had people tell me in the past, I was gonna
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come, but tickets were two hundred dollars. No, that's you don't don't
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pay two hundred dollars for the ticket. You can buy like five tickets,
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six tickets, two hundred bucks. I mean that you should not be paying
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two hundred dollars for one ticket to come see the Columbus Ballet. I know
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I'm in demand, I'm not that much in demand. Okay, you can
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if you're interested in the Mother Ginger Tea event presented by w C.
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Bradley, thanks to those guys for a sponsor in the event. We appreciate
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that. And that will also that'll be hosted by my all three ego,
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the Mother Ginger, So there'll be a whole lot of me. There's more
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me at the tea party than there is on stage during the Nutcracker. So
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if you're really interested in me, you know that's the one you're gonna come
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to. But come to both by all means. And again, get those
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tickets through the valid places to get the tickets the Columbus Ballet dot org or
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go to the River Center. You can follow the links from the ballet website
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though some great photos publicity photos of me the star of the show, there
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on the Columbus Ballet's website. All right, so I want to talk a
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little bit today. There's a lot of stuff we could talk about, and
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I could have talked about this at the beginning of the week, but something
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else says now happened. And at risk of being the guy that was piling
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on, because I did not want to be the guy that was piling on,
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but I do think it's worth talking about this particular topic because it relates
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to societal things, you know. So they say that art imitates life or
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life imitates art or whatever. I think this is a good example of that.
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And we're just gonna just spend a little time with this this morning,
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because Stephen King has chimed in on this and he has his own take on
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it, and he wants to know why conservatives and folks on the writer gleefully
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celebrating the box office failure. I mean, there's no way this movie needs
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to make six hundred million dollars I think to break even, and opening weekend
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for the Marvels is forty six million. It was number one for the weekend,
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but is nowhere close to what they were hoping this thing would make opening
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weekend. I think as it started to get closer to the release date,
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pre sale for tickets was not what it normally is for Marvel movies. So
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there's a few things to this, and we'll get to that in a second.
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But the rest of the top five for the weekend five Nights at Freddy's,
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which was number one last weekend, then the Taylor Swift concert, the
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Era's Tour that was third. Everything bumped down from last week. Those two
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did killers. The Flower Moon dropped from third to fifth, and the Priscilla
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movie Please give us an Oscar movie from A twenty four It was fourth place,
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So that was the top five. Other new movies for the weekend the
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Journey to Bethlehem, which is a Sony release, And I could talk about
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this because I've heard great things about this, partly just the way that Joseph
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and Mary are portrayed in it for starters, but this is of course a
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Christmas story movie. And then Tiger three on the Move. Tiger three,
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I guess Sick Freedom really joke. But that's a little dated, isn't it.
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And that was a seven and eight on the list, and It's a
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wonderful Knife was new for the weekend and that was down at fourteen. Okay.
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So, and the Journey to Bethlehem can tie into this, and I
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feel like I needed to mention that as well. So the Marvel's sequel to
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Captain Marvel. So we know that the writer strike has been going on.
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We know that that just wrapped up. And finally, just before this movie
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came out, they were able to do some publicity for the movie. And
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there were, you know, some people that thought, well, maybe a
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little publicity will actually help with this movie. I saw an article that was
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written this is on I guess coming soon dot Neet and this author's vance Mirra
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basically says reasons why vanch I don't know if this is a male or female,
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and I don't see any pronouns laid out. I'm I don't know a
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lot of people named vanch reasons that were laid out as hypothetical by Vance,
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and these are just suggests. These are possibilities about why the movie didn't do
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well. Superhero fatigue or sequel fatigue, less familiarity or interest in certain characters,
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the Marvel actors didn't promote the movie, the Disney plus factor, and
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lack of critical support, as critics are not given the movie good reviews.
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Now it's gotten decent views from people who have watched the movie that have gone
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to the trouble of reviewing it. I don't always buy that, because that
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very easily could be one of those deals where they got an army of people
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jumping in and rating scores, but actual critics. I don't know how easy
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it is for people that aren't actual critics to give scores as critics on Rotten
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Tomatoes. But anyway, and they call it entertaining, all right. The
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cinema score from the audience was a B. So all right. So this
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is the suggestion from Vansh Mirra, and I say, poppycock. I think
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we all know why these movies are starting to not do well, and this
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idea of superhero fatigue is one of the ridiculous covers that's being used. So
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and I know, I think Little Murma started out very disappointed. I know,
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the Little Mermaid didn't make what they hoped it would. They're trying to
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say it would turn it around, and it did great, but Little Mermaid
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was not what they hoped it would be for the release of it, the
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revamped version of it. And I think that goes into what's going on here.
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This is the Marvels. If you're not familiar, there's there's three characters
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that tie into this Marvel's movie Captain Marvel, Miss Marvel, and Photon I
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guess is the other character. But they all have a tie to this,
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you know, Marvel's universe, and I guess the three of them are somehow
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they find themselves connected and they keep trading places with each other where they are
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and something I don't know, trailer didn't look overly interesting. That's a problem
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there in its own right. That's an issue that should come up. And
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then Samuel L. Jackson is in this, and you know that part of
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it. They say there's no real stars in it because Brie Larson is apparently
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I don't know. They say that she doesn't get respect as an actress even
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though she's you know, won An Oscar. I really like the movie Room,
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by the way. It was a great movie. But anyway, okay,
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so let's talk about the reality here. This is a Disney movie,
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and I think the folks at South Park summed all of this up really well
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in their special that's out now about the pander Verse. And I'm not saying
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that this movie specifically is fully just a pander movie. I do think that
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Disney is trying to tell stories that are still all connected with these Marvel movies.
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The problem that they're running into is that the pander part of all of
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this is getting in the way of the storytelling. And I've mentioned this before.
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We saw this rear its head in the Avengers Endgame. There was that
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one scene where they had all of the women who'd been in the Marvel movies
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over the ten year period all had their one moment together. And I think
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that's probably one of those things where they said, this is good, we
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need more of this kind of thing. So they make this movie. And
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it's not to say that making a movie with three main characters that are women
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is a problem, because I don't think that would be a problem at all
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if you pick the right three characters in the right three women. And I
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think when you set yourself up to put out a movie with three characters that
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I mean, people know who this Captain Marvel character is because of her role
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in the Avengers movies, but she didn't have big roles in the Avengers movies.
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She shows up, she does her thing, she's got a couple of
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scenes, but she's not like, really a major character in those movies.
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She was the lead in her movie, but she's not a character in this
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universe that we've seen a lot of. Okay, And honestly, the Captain
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Marvel movie it wasn't great. It wasn't terrible, it wasn't great. MS
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Marvel on Disney plus not a great show. It was okay, had some
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fun to it. But that's how we know. These characters are from these
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two projects. And if you're not excited about the characters, you're not gonna
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go. They say superhero fatigue is one because they've made so many superhero movies,
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and this gets blamed for so many things. The Spider Man animated across
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the Spider Verse, Monster hit Okay, the last Spider Man live action movie
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monster hit. You know, it was the biggest movie ever until they re
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released Avatar again, because that's just going to be going on forever. Guardians
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of the Galaxy three, also a Marvel project, did very well. Some
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thought, oh no, this isn't gonna go well. The ant Man movie
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did not do well, but the Guardians three was sort of the culmination of
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that trilogy. People wanted to see how that story ended. They were interested
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in those characters, they wanted to know where it was going. I can't
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explain what happened with ant Man. I actually enjoyed the third ant Man.
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But I don't necessarily think it's superhero fatigue. I think some of these other
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things may have played in with ant Man. Or maybe it's because people are
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just tired of the Marvel pandaverse. Maybe that is a huge part of all
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of this. And I think when people don't seem to be interested in your
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movies, rather than blaming everything else, maybe look at what the root cause
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might actually be. And it said you're not making great movies anymore. Guardians
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of the Galaxy three I enjoyed a lot. I like the ant Man movie
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fine, I don't know that if the ant Man movie was the first ant
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Man that we would still be talking like I don't know that we would have
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ever got but the fourth Thor movie great, it just wasn't great. There's
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a lot of weird stuff in there. There was a lot of things in
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it that kind of took it to a point, but people still checked it
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out at first. Then it didn't do so great. Any of these movies
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that starts to insert these gender swapping or race swapping in characters sometimes that are
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beloved by people, I think you're going to run into this problem, and
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you're going to continue to run into this problem because you got some people who've
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just given up on it. They've just said, I'm done with Disney.
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I'm done with these movies. It's not a superhero fatigue. I think in
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some cases it's become a Disney fatigue. Now if they're making a good movie.
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I think if you made a live action snow White movie and the snow
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White character looked like the snow White that you expected snow White to look like,
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and it had Dwarf actors playing the seven Dwarfs, I think people would
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go watch it. I think people would be excited about it. I don't
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think making these major changes with the seven Dwarf characters and making these major changes
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with snow White is going to draw in a new audience. You might draw
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in a small new audience, but you're not drawing in a big enough audience
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to make up for what you're gonna lose from the people who are like,
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just give us snow White, give us the character that we want to see.
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Just give us that. That's what everybody wants to see. Most people,
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the people who go to see the movies probably want to see that.
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It's not looking good for the snow White movie, by the way. There's
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so many problems and it's not just about what snow White looks like. That's
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not even the biggest problem. There's so many problems with that down the line,
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and people aren't gonna go and they're gonna blame oh, we got too
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many of these remakes, or I don't know what they're gonna blame it on.
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You can't blame the Little Mermaid on superhero fatigue. You can't blame snow
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White on superhero fatigue. That that's not even a thing for those movies.
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We're gonna start calling it Disney princess fatigue. I don't think that's a real
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thing. So we have these movies that are getting made and they're not keeping
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the actual fan base in mind. That's the problem. That's what we're running
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into in society in general now, is that we're not keeping from a marketing
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standpoint, Budweiser, bud Light. Hey, let's put a transgender activist on
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our can, and let's alienate all the people who actually buy the beer so
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that we can try to pander to this very small group of people. Movie
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companies, we're doing this years ago. The Passion was a monster hit in
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theaters, right, So what did movie studios do? Ah. Let's make
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a movie about Noah. We're going to cast Russell Crowe and it's going to
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be weird. There's going to be rock people. They are going to be
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building the arc with him. Let's make a movie about Moses. We're going
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to cast Christian Bale to play Moses, and he's gonna play him as if
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he has schizophrenia, and he's here's voices, not that he's Moses, not
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that he's the Moses from the Bible that talks to God. No, he
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has schizophrenia. That's the way Moses was portrayed in that movie. They don't
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and they couldn't figure out why aren't Christian audiences run into these movies it's about
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Noah and Moses. That's not what people want to see. You want to
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know what people want to see. They want to see the Chosen. They
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want to see something that gives a reasonably accurate representation. They want to see
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the passion. They want to see a reasonably accurate presentation or representation of a
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story from the Bible that means something to them on a personal level. And
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that's true with these other stories. That's true with you know, nobody wants
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this she Hulk series. People were just pointed. They tried to do a
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bunch of weird different things with the series, and it just didn't click with
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audiences the way they thought it was going to. And people are going,
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when are we going to see another movie with the Hulk? When are we
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going to see him just be the Hulk and you know, knock some buildings
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down and maybe fight Wolverine. When are we going to see stuff like that?
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That's what we want to see. Stuff from the comics. There's a
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reason why the Batman movies always do really well. They stick with a pretty
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consistent formula, right, They stick with a reasonably consistent formula of portraying Batman
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a certain way. There's some variation, but they're not making drastic changes with
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Batman. And it's and they always talk about it. They're like, you
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know, we're thinking about maybe the comics wanted to make Batman black permanently moving
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forward. That's not going to go well with the audience. That's not what
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they're expecting. That's not who Batman has been for all this time. That's
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the problem in theaters. That's the problem in society is we're trying to force
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things on people. And I've talked about Star Wars. Star Wars had an
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audience of women that liked the movie when they were kids. They liked the
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original Star Wars trilogy. They loved it. I've got friends that are women
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that loved the original Star Wars. Not crazy about the new stuff. But
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we made it for you. No, make more like that. I liked
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that you don't have to force gender, and you don't have to force you
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know, lesbian kisses. We don't have to see that. Just make it
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like the original ones. That's all we're asking for. I've never understood why
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there's this need to say we have to reach out to a new audience.
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You already have that audience. They love it, they love the original Star
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Wars. You don't have to make changes too you have to dumb it down.
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You don't have to make changes for them. Just give them more of
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what they want to see, and if you do, you'll have more box
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office hits. You want. Be scratching your head saying, why did the
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Morning Show right after the break. How important are friendships to women? New
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research has revealed that eighty one percent of women over the age of eighteen say
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that their friendships are as important to them as their romantic relationships. And these
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friendships are more important to women than ever, with friends being more who were
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like family to them. As the traditional family unit has changed over the past
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decades, with more choices to live a life you want, not one that
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is socially expected, it means that friendships take on an even greater significance than
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they have in the past, and they've always been important. This according to
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Jackie Manning, resident psychologists at Connected women and their role is to help women
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over fifty bill community. She says, as we age, our values,
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priorities and things we need from these relationships start to change. Yeah, I
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would think that maybe the pandemic maybe played a role in this too, as
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far as the numbers, if they've changed in any way. But it's a
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nice thought that friendships are important, and I've got a number of friends who
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are women that really seem to appreciate and cherish their women friendships. I like
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it is naile self care another excuse for the ladies to get many petties or
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men to get many petties. I guess a new study shows that getting your
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nails done boosts positive emotions and relaxation. And it's more than just having nice
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nails. The pampering experience and the discussions had at the appointments contribute to well
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being. I'm guessing that this is geared more towards women, this particular study,
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But still, you know, you could men can give it, or
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you could, you know, maybe think about gifting a many petty appointment to
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your significant other over the holidays. Speaking of the holidays, it's the season
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for eating and drinking and unsurprising new survey found that the majority of Americans said
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the holiday season derails their healthy eating habits, with seventy two percent of respondent
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saying they they look forward to food around the holiday season, but sixty five
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percent admit it's the worst time of year for their diet. Seventy five percent
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said during the holiday season they eat more often throughout the day, and seventy
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six percent and said they're eating habits change more often throughout the day than any
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other time of the year, fifty one percent saying that they often are always
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feel like they ate too much during the holidays. There's a number of factors
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I think that play into this. If you have vacation time over the holidays
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that might play into it. If you're visiting family over the holidays that could
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play or friends that could play into it. Sometimes you've got that family member
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that says, oh, just have some dessert, have a little more food,
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have a little extra something to eat. And there's always that little bit
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of pressure that comes into play sometimes because let's face it, sometimes when you
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cook for someone else, you get a satisfaction out of watching them eat it
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and enjoy it, right, I mean, that's just a fact. So
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I think all of that could play into it as well. That and then
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it's different food that you maybe don't eat year round, and I think that
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could possibly play into it as well. Are you good at keeping secrets?
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According to a study by the American Psychological Association, keeping secrets, especially about
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positive news, can make you feel more energized and alive. There was a
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long held belief that keeping secrets was bad for you, but that focused on
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secrets that were negative, and they say that with negative secrets being far more
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common than positive secrets, some of my's most joyful occasions begin at secrets,
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including secret marriage proposals, pregnancy, surprise gifts, and exciting news. According
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to the lead author, Michael Sleepian, an associate professor of business at Columbia
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University, being privy to positive news makes people happy, which leads them to
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feel more energized. And there's an excitement about being in on something that will
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make others happy. So that's nice, that's a good that's a good thing,
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so keep that in mind. It says a one third of men do
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this behind their partners back, not cheating, not gambling, not hiding money.
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A survey found that one thing that thirty three percent of men do without
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telling their partner is a home improvement project by coincidence. This week, Jill
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has been at a work conference and I did a home improvement project that I've
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been putting off and putting off, and I thought, I'm gonna do this
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while she's gone get it done. It'll be a nice surprise, positive news
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for when she gets back. I let the cat out of the bag yesterday
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because we were on a video call and I happened to pass by where the
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home improvement project was taking place, and she went, wait, wait,
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wait, go back, what was that. Let me get a look at
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that area of the house again, because there's something different there. So all
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right, that'll do it for I'm just a nice husband, that's what it
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is. I'm just a good guy. That's It's all that. So two
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of these stories applied to me. I like it. I like it when
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you know when they when football, when they're in a huddle, I just
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imagine to myself, they're all talking about me. Not really. That'll do
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