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Speaker 1: The Large Nor Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to The Large Ner
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Speaker 1: Drunk Collider. The podcast. It's all about the giggy things
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Speaker 1: happening in the world around us and how very excited
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Speaker 1: we are about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me
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Speaker 1: as always is New Year, but still the same awesome
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. Ay, Ariel, y Jonathan, I don't have I
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Speaker 1: don't have anything fun to say. It's my New Year's
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Speaker 1: resolution to be dull and uninteresting on purpose as opposed
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Speaker 1: to just by nature. Have you read any comics for
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Speaker 1: your because that was your resolution? I have not. I
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Speaker 1: have not. I have not yet read any comics. No,
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Speaker 1: I just got back into town. I want not that
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Speaker 1: I was traveling, traveling. I went to a little cabin
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Speaker 1: for the holidays with just it's just me and my
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Speaker 1: wife and because everybody got COVID, so you know, it's
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Speaker 1: just that fun time. So we're now into two and uh,
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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that this year we see huge improvements.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the beginning of the year looks like it's
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Speaker 1: going to be pretty rough. But all that out of
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Speaker 1: the way for you, Ariel, I have a question, now, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: My question for you is can you think of a
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Speaker 1: particular property that a lot of people think of as
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Speaker 1: either corny or cheesy or you know, just they might
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Speaker 1: not think it's very good, but you have a genuine
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Speaker 1: and un ironic love for that property. Do I have them? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Can I think of one on the spur of the moment?
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Speaker 1: You know, I do know what's happening to my brain
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Speaker 1: lately because you asked me off microphone and I could
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Speaker 1: tell you a million of them. Um, well, golly, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: I think you actually stumped me. Okay, Fuller House, there
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Speaker 1: we go. Wow, okay, yeah, and by the way that
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Speaker 1: there are much better examples, but you're just like, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I'm not calling this guilty pleasures, but that would be one.
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Speaker 1: Um now okay, well here, let me let me tell
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Speaker 1: you what mine is, which actually, and I had thought
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Speaker 1: of this before we finalized our our topics for today,
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Speaker 1: and I did not intend for it to tie in,
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Speaker 1: but it kind of does. Zanna. Do I have an
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Speaker 1: on ironic, genuine love for the movie Zanna Do with
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Speaker 1: Olivia Newton, John and Gene Kelly, isn't it? And we're
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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about Gene Kelly in a little minute
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Speaker 1: a second or two. But yeah, Zanna Do is a
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Speaker 1: film that is corny. It is very much a product
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Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. Mean, you've got leg warmers and everything. Um,
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Speaker 1: And I have a genuine on ironic love for that film.
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Speaker 1: I have not seen it yet, I know I ought to,
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to pedal back in my Fuller House
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Speaker 1: because the reason I love that show is because of
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Speaker 1: nostalgia for full House. And then they catch you every
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Speaker 1: once in a while with the Fields because nostalgia opens
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Speaker 1: that door. Um. But and ironically love it would be
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Speaker 1: Tenth Kingdom. And I used to think it was so
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Speaker 1: cool and it wasn't cheesy at all. And then I
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Speaker 1: tried to show it to my husband last year and
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Speaker 1: it's horribly hokey. Yeah, and the bo Peep episode is
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Speaker 1: pretty rough. It is. But I mean there's like, what
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Speaker 1: eight episodes or something like that. It's a very long
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Speaker 1: mini series. But you know that that's the thing is
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Speaker 1: it's it's a Hallmark movie, which I didn't realize until
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Speaker 1: this year when I tried to show it to my husband,
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that I own it so well. I
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Speaker 1: can tell you that you and unofficial third Ellen c
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Speaker 1: co host Shay share a love for that particular of
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Speaker 1: her property. Yeah, yeah, great minds. I guess you. You
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Speaker 1: you redheads have to stick together. It is true, all right,
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Speaker 1: So let's dust the ring rust off. It's been a
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Speaker 1: few weeks since we've recorded one of these. It's toime
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Speaker 1: for us to get some news. It is. I was
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Speaker 1: trying to say something delightful about Shape, because she is
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Speaker 1: super delightful and I'm glad she loves our show and
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to have her as a friend. But then
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Speaker 1: my brain looked at our topic which just hurts my head,
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Speaker 1: which is that Chris Evans might be Gene Kelly. Yeah. Not,
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Speaker 1: It's not like some sort of weird multiverse thing where
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Speaker 1: it turns out Chris Evans might be Gene Kelly, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. There's a tart degrade that,
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Speaker 1: you know, might be the first quantum intangled creature, so
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Speaker 1: you never know. But yeah, this is a story about
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Speaker 1: how Chris Evans wants to do a film in which
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Speaker 1: he would play Gene Kelly, and it ties in with
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Speaker 1: another semi related news item that says Tom Holland might
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Speaker 1: be playing Fred Astaire in a totally different picture. So
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Speaker 1: we're looking at potentially an era where Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Speaker 1: alumni play classic film actors and performers. So what I
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Speaker 1: will say is Tom Holland can dance. So sure, I
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Speaker 1: guess he kind of looks like him. I don't I
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Speaker 1: should know this, but I don't recall if Chris Evans
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Speaker 1: can sing or dance. Well, I'm sure he can sing
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Speaker 1: and dance. I sure hope. So because gene Kelly had
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Speaker 1: something of an infamous reputation for being a perfectionist and
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Speaker 1: having extremely high demands as far as dancer capabilities are concerned,
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Speaker 1: So I suspect he would want anyone playing him in
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Speaker 1: a film to be really freaking good. I would expect
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Speaker 1: so too, And you know, for what it's worth, gene Kelly,
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Speaker 1: But you said factionist did not have the reputation of
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Speaker 1: being the nicest dude, right, Uh, Chris Evans plays a
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Speaker 1: real good jerk. If you look at Fantastic four out
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Speaker 1: Scott Pilgrim, Yeah, he's he's He seems like a very
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Speaker 1: sweet guy. Never met him, but he seems like a
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Speaker 1: super sweet guy. But he plays jerks really well. One
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Speaker 1: of my acting teachers actually said, you play your opposite.
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Speaker 1: It's easiest to play your opposite. So if you're a
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Speaker 1: nice person, play a mean must be. Must be why
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Speaker 1: I always gravitated towards playing villains at the Renaissance Festival.
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Speaker 1: It must be. Now, I will say that the plot
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Speaker 1: for this I guess it's known. Plot for this movie
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Speaker 1: is that there's a twelve year old working at MGM
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Speaker 1: Studios and he imagines becoming friends with gene Kelly. So
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Speaker 1: that's kind of a cool concept. Yeah, it's like Jojoe Rabbit,
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Speaker 1: but with gene Kelly instead of Hitler. Yeah, which step
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Speaker 1: your That's horrible, so horrible for in the New Year.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna drop bombs and make you have to
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Speaker 1: deal with it. Uh uh. You know Chris Evans is
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Speaker 1: producing this. Um, he may not star in it, but
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Speaker 1: he might star on it. Um. I'm gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: segue off of comparing gene Kelly to to Hitler because
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Speaker 1: I don't think I don't I don't know, but I
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Speaker 1: don't think he was that bad. Yeah, No, he was
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Speaker 1: definitely not Hitler bad. Over the holidays, I got to
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Speaker 1: take home of the photos and the head shot of
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Speaker 1: my great aunt Cecil Slavonia, who was a jake, pheld
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Speaker 1: police go and work for Paramount Studios. So yay, uh
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Speaker 1: brief aside, that takes us off of that bomb you dropped.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about something else that may or may not bomb,
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Speaker 1: which is the more bous movie, which, as we have learned,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure most of you out there who listened
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Speaker 1: to the show have already heard, has been delayed yet again.
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Speaker 1: Morbius has been delayed almost as many times as the
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Speaker 1: James Webb Space Telescope was. It was supposed to originally
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Speaker 1: come out, Yeah, it was originally supposed to come out
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Speaker 1: the summer of t and uh you know, got pushed
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Speaker 1: back multiple times because of COVID with the whole idea
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Speaker 1: of wanting to release it when theaters would be a
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Speaker 1: popular destination. And for a while, like we were on
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Speaker 1: that way because like Spider Man, No Way Home broke records,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was like the third top grossing film,
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Speaker 1: and so for this opening weekend, so like it it
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Speaker 1: was looking great and then of course I'm a cron
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Speaker 1: truly unleashed itself on the United States and now they
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Speaker 1: Sony is pushing it back again until April one, and
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Speaker 1: it is not an April Fool's joke. It might be
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Speaker 1: an April fools joke that that's what's gonna come out,
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Speaker 1: because who knows, it might get pushed again. Yeah, here's
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Speaker 1: the thing though, like Venom Carnage, Joey Home also made
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Speaker 1: really good numbers for the Pandemic, both Sony property, so
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Speaker 1: I understand that I can't imagine this movie having quite
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Speaker 1: the same draw because it's a lesser known character. Here's
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Speaker 1: my thought. My thought is that Morbius had the best
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Speaker 1: chance to do well with it being tied to the
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Speaker 1: Spider Man universe if it came out within you know,
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Speaker 1: a relatively small window compared to like next to Spider
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Speaker 1: Man no way home, because I think Morbus could have
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Speaker 1: coasted on Spider Man's or ridden Spider Man's coattails, although
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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think Spider Man wears a
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Speaker 1: coat with tails, but if he did, Morbius could ride them.
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Speaker 1: I mean, unless you're like into the Spider verse and
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Speaker 1: it's schlubby, uh pot belly Spider Man. Maybe I think
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Speaker 1: he wore like a trench so maybe then maybe then,
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think on its own merit. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that it's going to have that big of a draw,
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Speaker 1: And honestly, I think this might have been one of
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Speaker 1: those cases where they might have been better off doing
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Speaker 1: a day, uh and date kind of premier both online
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Speaker 1: and in the films in the theaters. But instead they're
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Speaker 1: they're really sticking to their guns to make this a
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Speaker 1: theatrical release and make it exclusive. And you know, I
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Speaker 1: certainly hope, I certainly hope that by April we don't
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Speaker 1: have a situation where we no longer feel safe to
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Speaker 1: go to places like movie theaters. I really hope, but
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Speaker 1: I've been hoping that for two years, so so I
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Speaker 1: mean same because I want to go see Beetle Juice
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Speaker 1: on Broadway, which opens in April, but it runs all year,
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Speaker 1: so hopefully I can find a window and it's relatively safe.
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Speaker 1: You know, I agree that I think probably releasing it
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Speaker 1: online and in movie theaters at the same time would
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Speaker 1: be great. But you know, if they aren't gonna do
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Speaker 1: that for Spider Man, if they didn't do that for Carnage,
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Speaker 1: then I could see the actors or the people who
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Speaker 1: are involved to make profits and make their living off
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Speaker 1: of the profits of the movie saying well, this isn't fair,
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Speaker 1: but now they're still having to wait for the profits.
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Speaker 1: So I guess it's a darned if you do, darned
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Speaker 1: if you don't sort of a situation. Um. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, maybe they should have just scrapped it, but
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Speaker 1: I guess if they've put all that time and money
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Speaker 1: into it, it should come out, especially since they're making
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Speaker 1: a craven movie. Yeah. I I just I feel like
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Speaker 1: I feel like that by delaying it and delaying it,
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Speaker 1: there's a real risk of people just completely losing interest,
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Speaker 1: like whatever interest they had in it just kind of
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Speaker 1: goes away and that it just fizzles, which that is
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Speaker 1: not going to do them any favors either. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: I say this, I honestly don't know all the answers,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not a film executive or anything
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Speaker 1: like that. And uh, it may very well be that
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Speaker 1: this is the best move for the film from a
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Speaker 1: business standpoint, it just seems like it just seems like
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Speaker 1: a bad call to me in general, the fact that
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Speaker 1: it's been delayed so long, Like anything that would have
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Speaker 1: tied in with other properties that would have been interesting
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Speaker 1: now it's an afterthought, right, because it's been delayed so
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Speaker 1: long that movies that were supposed to come out after
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Speaker 1: it have already come out. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's really interesting.
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Speaker 1: I'd to see this like the thought cloud of how
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Speaker 1: they organize all of these release states. I probably wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be able to follow it very well. But I kept
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Speaker 1: forgetting about more Bus until news pops up, like it's
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Speaker 1: it's so low in my brain. Yeah. Well, I think
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Speaker 1: the fact that they keep delaying it hurts that too.
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Speaker 1: Write like you, there's going to come a point where
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Speaker 1: they're gonna say More Bus is finally coming out next week,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna say, oh, I thought that already came out, right,
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Speaker 1: That's that's what's gonna happen. Uh. Something that I don't
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Speaker 1: expect to happen is to say that same thing about
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Speaker 1: The Batman, the film that I believe breaks Ariel's heart
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Speaker 1: every moment she sees a little more more of a
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Speaker 1: clip of it, because the version of the Riddler in
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Speaker 1: this film is so different from the one you love.
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Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it so much. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: there's something else I hate. Sorry, I don't hate hate.
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Speaker 1: It's the wrong word. The trailers don't super appeal to me. However,
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Speaker 1: the most recent the Batman trailer actually did appeal to
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Speaker 1: me a little bit for the reason that I expected
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Speaker 1: it to the least, which is Catwoman seems super engaging
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Speaker 1: and fun. Yeah, she might be the only fun thing
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Speaker 1: about that movie, uh, based on the trailer, but other
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Speaker 1: than when I wanted to cause play as Michelle Pfeiffer
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Speaker 1: after a Batman returns Batman begins, Returns, returns, Um, Catwoman
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Speaker 1: has never been my favorite character. Uh, It's always been
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Speaker 1: the Riddler. But I really like what I've seen of
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Speaker 1: Zoe kravitz Is as Catwoman so far. I also noticed that,
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Speaker 1: like Batman, hardly ever ever smiles or looks up in
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Speaker 1: these trailers. I mean, Batman is not known as a
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Speaker 1: smiley kind of guy anyway, Okay, but Bruce Wayne is.
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Speaker 1: But I think that might be what this movie is about,
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Speaker 1: is about how Bruce Wayne. Because this is still supposed
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Speaker 1: to be fairly early into the Batman's career as a vigilante,
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Speaker 1: I think this is probably the movie where he realizes
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Speaker 1: he needs to craft the Bruce Wayne persona in order
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Speaker 1: two more easily mask himself as Batman, and that and
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Speaker 1: not draw attention to himself. And so I feel like
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Speaker 1: that's part of the story, that that's what seems to
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Speaker 1: be to me based on the trailers. I want to
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Speaker 1: go on record as still saying that I absolutely love
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Speaker 1: this version of the Riddler, and I think it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's fine. You know, if every version
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Speaker 1: of Batman, spider Man, whatever was the same, it gets boring, right, Um,
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Speaker 1: if you're going to rehash the story, do something fun
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Speaker 1: with it. So it's just it's an absolutely terrifying version,
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Speaker 1: right like it is. I mean you can tell like
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Speaker 1: it is so not even remotely uh you know subtext
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Speaker 1: that they are drawing on the Zodia at Killer as
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Speaker 1: inspiration for the Riddler, and uh and it is a
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Speaker 1: terrifying vision of the Riddler. So yeah, we'll see when
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Speaker 1: that film finally comes out, we'll see, uh uh what
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Speaker 1: our reactions are. But we're going to take a quick
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Speaker 1: break and when we come back, we're gonna talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit, not just about reactions, but how long you
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Speaker 1: should wait before you start spilling the ding dang darn
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Speaker 1: beans about that new thing you just saw the first Uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this quick break. Well, that break was
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Speaker 1: so quick. Beans beans, I hope I don't spill them.
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Speaker 1: This big old bowl of beans here? Would you would
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Speaker 1: you like to eat some baked beans? George? Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: I know that that's a reference and I don't remember
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Speaker 1: what it's for. Um, would you like to take a survey? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Do you like beans? Do you like George went? Movies?
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Speaker 1: Do you like eating beans? At? George went? The critic
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Speaker 1: is it? It's from the Animaniac Animaniacs right, right right?
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Speaker 1: It was a Ben Stein that was doing the voice.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I don't remember, but it was a brilliant bit
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Speaker 1: that sticks with me to this day. Original Animaniacs, not
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Speaker 1: the New Sight. So the thing we wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about was a little bit about about spoilers and how
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Speaker 1: long you should uh you know, keep things to yourself
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Speaker 1: after seeing something brand new. I think COVID has made
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Speaker 1: this topic way more challenging because, like I, like Ariel,
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Speaker 1: you saw Spider Man No Way Home. I have not
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Speaker 1: seen Spider Man No Way Home because I didn't feel
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Speaker 1: comfortable going to a theater. I still don't feel comfortable
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Speaker 1: going to a theater, especially now because it's even worse
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Speaker 1: than it was. When I decided back then not to go,
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Speaker 1: and it's worse now. So like for me, the Spider,
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Speaker 1: the Spider, the spoiler Spider window needs to be pretty
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Speaker 1: big so that I can watch that film and enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: I've already had some stuff spoiled for me, and I
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Speaker 1: have tried to avoid it. But it's just difficult when
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Speaker 1: you're talking about a movie that did score number three
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Speaker 1: on top box office weekends of all time. Uh, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of hard to avoid all the geek talk about it.
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Speaker 1: That is true. I managed to avoid all spoilers going
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Speaker 1: into the movie, and then I didn't really see them
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Speaker 1: afterwards either, so I thought maybe there weren't many. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I see I see all of all of my friends
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Speaker 1: on Facebook or social media saying, uh, don't don't comment
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Speaker 1: on this thread with spoilers until after the spoiler window,
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Speaker 1: which I think is what like three weeks or something
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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I guess it depends, like I think,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't know. Now. I
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Speaker 1: think I would have said probably the old days, I
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Speaker 1: would have said like a week or two weeks, because
17:56
Speaker 1: back in the old days, like just it just was
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Speaker 1: a matter of having the time aim to get to
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Speaker 1: the theater to see something. Now now it's more complicated
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Speaker 1: than that. I agree, it's hard because, like I also
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Speaker 1: saw the Matrix which came out on HBO. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: have no excuse on that one, but I still haven't
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Speaker 1: seen it. Uh, it's not so there were some interesting
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Speaker 1: concepts that what a what a great way to say
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Speaker 1: I didn't like the movie. It was interesting. There were
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Speaker 1: bits that I liked um and some of the ideas
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Speaker 1: they had I thought were really cool and even executed well.
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Speaker 1: But then like the ending was just dumb and it
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Speaker 1: was it was kind of hard to follow. And then
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Speaker 1: I rewatched the original Matrix over the holiday afterwards, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, this one's a little hard to
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Speaker 1: follow it first two because you have to go down
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Speaker 1: the rebbit hole. I watched Everyone Knows I love Red
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Speaker 1: Letter Media. I watched a half in the Bag about
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Speaker 1: this movie without having seen the movie, just following Their
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Speaker 1: discussion of the movie was hard for me because they
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Speaker 1: didn't go in a truly linear fashion. They kind of
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Speaker 1: jumped around a bit. Uh, because the whole time I
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Speaker 1: was sitting there thinking like, how do they actually link
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Speaker 1: this to the original movie and to a lesser extent
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Speaker 1: to Part two and three, and even at the end
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Speaker 1: of that, I thought, I still don't know how they
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Speaker 1: did that, And I don't know if I'm ever going
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Speaker 1: to watch the movie. I guess I probably will at
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Speaker 1: some point. I never watched the third one, so I
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Speaker 1: don't know. There's no guarantee that I'm going to watch
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Speaker 1: Matrix Resurrections. But it was like one of those things
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Speaker 1: where it's just like, how the heck did they do that?
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Speaker 1: They eventually explain it to you in the movie, like
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Speaker 1: they do explain stuff, but it takes a while. Um,
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Speaker 1: kind of like with Done, which isn't on HBO anymore. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was done as a limited release. Yeah, yeah, they
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Speaker 1: have well exceeded their spoiler window. So I do think that,
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Speaker 1: you know, the pandemic makes it more difficult because I
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Speaker 1: want to see movies. I don't want them spoiled unless
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Speaker 1: I'm worried that I'm going to have anxiety, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't always hate spoilers personally, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you can't get somewhere, that's a lot harder, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of places is still don't have like a
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Speaker 1: shortened release window. Maybe they'll go back to that with
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Speaker 1: the current wave of things, like, you know, we're going
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Speaker 1: to have it in the theaters for three weeks and
20:10
Speaker 1: then we'll have it on I mean, it's the stuff
20:15
Speaker 1: I've seen recently. I think it was Deadline Hollywood that
20:17
Speaker 1: ran a piece that said that they were that movie studios,
20:21
Speaker 1: for the large for the largest part, we're done with
20:23
Speaker 1: the experiment of releasing things day of on streaming as
20:28
Speaker 1: they go to theaters, simply because they're not seeing the
20:32
Speaker 1: same you know, like like results revenue from that kind
20:36
Speaker 1: of thing. And so ultimately it becomes a business thing.
20:41
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to turn my nose up at
20:42
Speaker 1: that either, because I also realized that if you don't
20:45
Speaker 1: make money from this, it stops happening, right, It can't
20:48
Speaker 1: support the actual industry. You can no longer afford to
20:51
Speaker 1: make movies, at least not the way we have been
20:53
Speaker 1: making movies without this key component. And that you know,
20:57
Speaker 1: for a long time, movie studios were kind of ful
21:00
Speaker 1: about the idea of theater chains kind of failing. But
21:03
Speaker 1: now they realize that that's a very important part of
21:06
Speaker 1: the ecosystem, and uh, and all of that I understand.
21:10
Speaker 1: I also, you know, I also have very strong feelings
21:15
Speaker 1: about continuing to operate those kind of spaces when when
21:20
Speaker 1: things are as dangerous as they are now. So anecdotally,
21:27
Speaker 1: the number of people I personally know who have contracted
21:31
Speaker 1: COVID more than doubled since Thanksgiving, like all of all
21:38
Speaker 1: of one, I knew a certain number of people Thanksgiving
21:44
Speaker 1: to today that number more than doubled. And it just
21:47
Speaker 1: shows how quickly I think I counted over the last
21:51
Speaker 1: two weeks. But we you and I know a lot
21:53
Speaker 1: of the same people so well. And I'm not on
21:54
Speaker 1: Facebook anymore, so I don't know any of the Facebook
21:57
Speaker 1: crowd anymore. Like I don't know any of those friends
21:59
Speaker 1: I'm talking about bo I know outside of that. So yeah,
22:02
Speaker 1: it's a in that environment. Uh, it makes me feel
22:06
Speaker 1: like the push to continue to get things out to
22:09
Speaker 1: theaters is irresponsible, unethical. Really, I think of it as
22:14
Speaker 1: unethical and dangerous. Um. No, granted, that's right now we're
22:19
Speaker 1: getting toward the peak of a macron, which supposedly the
22:22
Speaker 1: peak isn't even gonna hit till another week or two,
22:24
Speaker 1: which is kind of scary to think about. But no
22:27
Speaker 1: one's really sure what happens after that. If things have
22:29
Speaker 1: calmed down. Then clearly it's a different world entirely, and
22:33
Speaker 1: I don't really have an objection to people. I don't
22:36
Speaker 1: really have an objection to people going to see a
22:38
Speaker 1: movie now. I just don't feel comfortable doing it myself. Um,
22:41
Speaker 1: even vaccinated, boosted, wearing a mask, all that stuff. I
22:46
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I've just been totally fundamentally changed as
22:49
Speaker 1: a person because of this. That might be the case,
22:52
Speaker 1: but it just makes me feel icky about that part
22:56
Speaker 1: of the entertainment business. Generally, I have felt okay with
23:01
Speaker 1: now seeing Spider Man. I saw it in a theater
23:04
Speaker 1: with people. I was double masked, and it was a
23:06
Speaker 1: very very empty theater. Um. But you know, generally I
23:12
Speaker 1: felt okay with seeing a movie at like a rented theater.
23:16
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'd feel about that right now,
23:18
Speaker 1: because again, yeah, it's it's vaccine boosted. Doesn't necessarily mean
23:26
Speaker 1: mean a whole lot. Yeah, now, most of the people
23:29
Speaker 1: I know who are vaccinated and boosted are okay, Um,
23:33
Speaker 1: you know, but it's more it's more of again the
23:36
Speaker 1: concern of becoming part of this overall system that is
23:41
Speaker 1: spreading COVID and then potentially allowing it to mutate and
23:45
Speaker 1: it's that kind of thing. Like it's not just I
23:47
Speaker 1: realize I'm vaccinated and boosted. If I caught it, I
23:50
Speaker 1: would probably feel lousy, but that would probably be the
23:53
Speaker 1: worst of it, right, Like I would probably have, you know,
23:56
Speaker 1: some mild symptoms, maybe it might even be asymptomatic and
24:00
Speaker 1: get through it. But but getting back to the spoilers,
24:03
Speaker 1: that's why again conversation. But it does, but it does,
24:08
Speaker 1: it does play into it. Though. It does play into
24:10
Speaker 1: it because it means that, uh, you know, I'm making choices,
24:14
Speaker 1: and granted they are my choices, but I'm making choices
24:16
Speaker 1: to not participate in these things, which means that it's
24:20
Speaker 1: stuff that I want to participate in. I just don't
24:22
Speaker 1: feel comfortable doing it. So, like, I don't think it's
24:26
Speaker 1: fair for me to ask everybody, Hey, don't talk about
24:30
Speaker 1: this thing you're really excited about just because I haven't
24:33
Speaker 1: seen it. I don't think that's fair. It's putting the
24:35
Speaker 1: burden on other people. I just remove myself from all
24:38
Speaker 1: those conversations because I think that's the responsible thing to do.
24:42
Speaker 1: I made the choice not to go see it, so
24:45
Speaker 1: I'm going to make the choice to not be present
24:48
Speaker 1: for those conversations so that when I finally do get
24:51
Speaker 1: to experience it, I can enjoy it. So if you
24:55
Speaker 1: get a spoiler, like a big spoiler, does it ruin
24:58
Speaker 1: the movie experience for you? Or can you still enjoy
25:00
Speaker 1: that movie? I can enjoy the movie, but I won't
25:03
Speaker 1: enjoy it as much. And the reason is that the
25:05
Speaker 1: joy of discovery is a huge part of my enjoyment
25:09
Speaker 1: of a film. Um Like, if I were to give
25:15
Speaker 1: you an example, if I were to to think of
25:17
Speaker 1: the merits of the movie Toy Story versus the merits
25:20
Speaker 1: of Toy Story two, I would probably say Toy Story
25:25
Speaker 1: two is the better film on pretty much every you
25:29
Speaker 1: know metric. But I enjoyed Toy Story one more because
25:34
Speaker 1: that was my exposure to that world and those characters,
25:38
Speaker 1: and the joy of discovering that was such a huge
25:41
Speaker 1: part of what made that movie work for me that
25:44
Speaker 1: while I really love Toy Story two, I had already
25:47
Speaker 1: experienced that discovery right I couldn't rediscover them. So that's
25:52
Speaker 1: the kind of problem I have with spoilers in that
25:55
Speaker 1: often the spoilers are about things that are specifically placed
25:59
Speaker 1: there too to light the audience, and for me, not
26:03
Speaker 1: to experience it for the first time, seeing the thing
26:06
Speaker 1: but having already heard about it and now I'm just
26:08
Speaker 1: waiting for it to happen. It does take away some
26:11
Speaker 1: of the joy for me. So what do you think
26:14
Speaker 1: about media outlets that depend on like cutting edge news, right,
26:20
Speaker 1: and they come out with the spoiler's day of moment
26:24
Speaker 1: of release, sometimes before the release, if they've had a
26:27
Speaker 1: pre screener. What do you what do you think about that?
26:30
Speaker 1: Should there should there be like a moratory moratorium? I
26:33
Speaker 1: think I think that headlines definitely should never contain spoilers
26:37
Speaker 1: in them. I think anyone who writes a headline that
26:40
Speaker 1: contains a spoiler in it is a scum bucket. They
26:43
Speaker 1: are a scum bucket. If you out there listening to
26:46
Speaker 1: this and you write headlines for various movie, movie, and
26:50
Speaker 1: TV news sites and you put spoilers in the headline itself,
26:54
Speaker 1: you are a scum bucket and you should feel bad.
26:58
Speaker 1: That's how they get the clicks job their scum buckets.
27:01
Speaker 1: You can get the clicks by alluding to AH and
27:05
Speaker 1: a cool thing in a movie without actually spoiling it. Right,
27:09
Speaker 1: You could say here like like, for example, I saw
27:12
Speaker 1: tons of headlines that say, here's what Spider Man no
27:15
Speaker 1: Way Home means, or what they ending to Spider Man
27:18
Speaker 1: no Way Home means, or things like that. I'm like, well,
27:21
Speaker 1: that's fine. I know the movie ends, right, that's not
27:23
Speaker 1: a spoiler. If the movie didn't end, that would be
27:25
Speaker 1: a hell of a spoiler. Like all my friends are
27:28
Speaker 1: still stuck in theaters. But um, that's not a spoiler.
27:31
Speaker 1: So that's fine. It's when you start actually dropping details
27:34
Speaker 1: in the headlines That's where I have my biggest problem.
27:37
Speaker 1: I I I don't hate the fact that everyone jumps
27:40
Speaker 1: on that. I get it from you know, the perspective
27:44
Speaker 1: of people are hungry for that kind of thing, uh,
27:47
Speaker 1: and they want to consume it. I get it. I
27:50
Speaker 1: just don't like the one people who do it clumsily,
27:53
Speaker 1: whether it's on YouTube or it's on blogs or news
27:56
Speaker 1: sites or whatever. I don't like that kind of thing.
28:00
Speaker 1: Neither do I prefer the headlines that say, like in
28:03
Speaker 1: giant bold letters, spoiler alert at the beginning, because then
28:07
Speaker 1: usually in a thumbnail he cuts off and that's all
28:10
Speaker 1: I see, and I'm like, I'm not going to click
28:11
Speaker 1: on that. Um, if I don't want the spoilers again,
28:14
Speaker 1: I know sometimes sometimes I'm like I need the spoilers,
28:17
Speaker 1: um generally if something spit out longer though, Uh okay,
28:21
Speaker 1: So my last question on that is, I'd love to
28:24
Speaker 1: know your opinion on like speculative spoilers. So the people
28:27
Speaker 1: who say we got this and we talked about this
28:29
Speaker 1: kind of in rumors and we've talked about this before,
28:31
Speaker 1: but they say we got this on set image of this,
28:36
Speaker 1: so it's kind of spoiled before the movie even happens,
28:38
Speaker 1: before it's even confirmed set fall into the same bucket. Yeah,
28:41
Speaker 1: I'm not too crazy about that either. Like, still haven't
28:44
Speaker 1: seen Spider Man, so I don't know if he shows
28:48
Speaker 1: up in it or not. But all the speculation about
28:51
Speaker 1: Charlie Cox uh as as Matt Murdoch possibly showing up
28:55
Speaker 1: in Spider Man, that was one of those things that, um,
28:59
Speaker 1: I would have rather have either seen it and been
29:02
Speaker 1: delighted or it's not in the movie and I never
29:05
Speaker 1: even knew it was a thing. Uh. It's the like,
29:09
Speaker 1: I like speculation when it's something where you watch a
29:12
Speaker 1: like a week to week show and you see something
29:15
Speaker 1: and it gets your imagination going and you want to
29:17
Speaker 1: talk about with your friends. I don't like speculation when
29:21
Speaker 1: it's some photographer from three blocks away using a telephoto
29:26
Speaker 1: lens to get a grainy photo of someone standing at
29:29
Speaker 1: craft services and saying, Christopher Watkins in the next Spider
29:32
Speaker 1: Man movie or whatever. I'm not crazy about that. Yeah, me,
29:37
Speaker 1: neither me neither. H I wish. I wish people would
29:41
Speaker 1: just be a little more considerate, you know, thankfully most
29:44
Speaker 1: of it, because I am still in social media. Most
29:46
Speaker 1: of people I know, if they're going to talk about
29:47
Speaker 1: a movie, they'll put multiple like breaks, space based based
29:52
Speaker 1: space baser return, return, return with spoilers below so that
29:56
Speaker 1: you don't see them by accident, which I think is
29:59
Speaker 1: the way to go, or you know, create a group
30:03
Speaker 1: every social media platform you're on, to just talk about
30:05
Speaker 1: it in that group. Yeah. I love I love people
30:08
Speaker 1: being passionate and enthusiastic about the stuff that they enjoy.
30:12
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't want anyone to ever feel like
30:15
Speaker 1: they can't indulge in that. I just want them to
30:18
Speaker 1: do it in a way that doesn't ruin it for me. Yeah,
30:22
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, which means that you know, Jonathan
30:26
Speaker 1: and I both both finished Hawk Eye, I watched Spider Man,
30:28
Speaker 1: I watched Matrix Jonathan watched Boba Fette, and I watched
30:31
Speaker 1: all of Cobra Kai, but we can't really talk about
30:34
Speaker 1: them because I feel like those are all still in
30:36
Speaker 1: the spoiler window. Here's what I'll say about Boba fett Ah.
30:42
Speaker 1: I hope episode two is better. It wasn't bad, you know,
30:47
Speaker 1: not bad. Just a slow start, just a slow start,
30:50
Speaker 1: not bad. That's that's what I heard, is that slow start.
30:54
Speaker 1: But you know a lot of shows have like that
30:56
Speaker 1: slow first episode. I will say I really joy Hawkeye
31:01
Speaker 1: way more than I thought I would. Uh, Matrix is okay.
31:05
Speaker 1: I enjoyed Spider Man uh and Cobra Kai. I don't
31:08
Speaker 1: know how that show can do, Like the characters can
31:11
Speaker 1: make so many decisions that make me so angry, yet
31:13
Speaker 1: I still like the show. Um, that's the secret of
31:17
Speaker 1: a great show runner. All right, Well, we have a
31:20
Speaker 1: secret to which is that we've got a couple of
31:22
Speaker 1: things to mash up. But before we do that, we
31:25
Speaker 1: need to take another quick break. Was that we have
31:44
Speaker 1: a couple of things to mash up really a secret
31:46
Speaker 1: job because we've done it for every episode up to
31:48
Speaker 1: this point. So I guess the things we were going
31:51
Speaker 1: to mash up remained a secret. So one of the
31:55
Speaker 1: things we wanted to do was pay tribute to Betty White,
31:58
Speaker 1: phenomenal actress and median, someone who managed to be a
32:05
Speaker 1: powerful force and entertainment all the way through her nineties.
32:09
Speaker 1: And of course she she passed away very recently, just
32:13
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks shy over on birthday, and so
32:16
Speaker 1: we wanted to pay tribute to Betty White. So we
32:19
Speaker 1: decided to go with one of the most iconic properties
32:24
Speaker 1: associated with Betty White, the Golden Girls, and mash that
32:27
Speaker 1: up with something else. Now, before we say what the
32:31
Speaker 1: something else is, Ariel, would you like to explain to
32:34
Speaker 1: those who may not be familiar what The Golden Girls
32:37
Speaker 1: was about. Sure, it's about four women who roommate together
32:42
Speaker 1: in Miami who are all retiring age mother's grandmother's kind
32:47
Speaker 1: of kind of like that slightly end of middle aged
32:51
Speaker 1: women and the amazing life that you can have in
32:54
Speaker 1: your uh later years. I think all of the women
32:58
Speaker 1: were supposed to be like in their fifty ease are
33:00
Speaker 1: beyond right well, and Sophia was supposed to be eighty,
33:03
Speaker 1: and three of them are widows and one of them
33:07
Speaker 1: is divorced. Uh. Dorothy is divorced, and then Blanche, Rose,
33:12
Speaker 1: and Sophia are all widowed or their widows, Yes, they're widows.
33:17
Speaker 1: And Blanche owns a house and she's looking for roommates
33:19
Speaker 1: and and the other three move in with her. Um
33:21
Speaker 1: and then then they get into hijinks. Having rewatched it,
33:24
Speaker 1: there are certainly some problematic episodes, but it was definitely
33:27
Speaker 1: a very aware show. Progress It's time, yeah, yeah, And
33:32
Speaker 1: I loved it, And and they were able to punch
33:35
Speaker 1: up in their comedy most of the time, I would
33:38
Speaker 1: say not all the time, but most of their time
33:40
Speaker 1: um or or do it in a satiristic way where
33:43
Speaker 1: you knew that they were like, okay, you know that
33:49
Speaker 1: made no sense to anybody but me and maybe Jonathan
33:51
Speaker 1: because he can see me. But one of the shows
33:54
Speaker 1: that I find the most uplifting, despite the fact that
33:57
Speaker 1: they used mean humor a lot, like I think halfway
34:00
Speaker 1: through the series, Dorothy said she didn't want people making
34:03
Speaker 1: fun of her looks anymore, because that used to be
34:05
Speaker 1: like they go to uh Dorothy being the b Arthur character.
34:09
Speaker 1: They ragged on each other all the time, but they
34:11
Speaker 1: were always nice to each other when they meant it.
34:13
Speaker 1: So kind of me and humor, but most of the
34:16
Speaker 1: time it was still positive and uplifting and left you
34:19
Speaker 1: in a in a good spot at the end. And
34:21
Speaker 1: Betty White played the part of Rose, who was the
34:26
Speaker 1: kind of dit see uh weirdo from a place called st. Olaf, Minnesota,
34:34
Speaker 1: and she would tell these crazy stories at the drop
34:37
Speaker 1: of a hat to that much to the annoyance of Dorothy.
34:40
Speaker 1: Dorothy was always irritated whenever Rose started into one of
34:43
Speaker 1: her storms. And so that's why you went because they
34:45
Speaker 1: didn't make sense. No, they never made they never attached,
34:49
Speaker 1: they never connected to whatever it was that they was
34:51
Speaker 1: going on, and they didn't make sense on their own.
34:53
Speaker 1: So it was a double whammy. And and half the
34:56
Speaker 1: time she used these words that were like either Swedish
34:58
Speaker 1: or Norwegian or something like that, or or like yeah,
35:01
Speaker 1: made up some sort of mixture of Norwegian and English
35:03
Speaker 1: and sometimes just nonsense. So that's going to be one
35:07
Speaker 1: of our properties. And the other one is Beauty and
35:11
Speaker 1: the Beast, and why well, there's a Rose in it.
35:16
Speaker 1: And then Betty White played Rose in The Golden Girls.
35:20
Speaker 1: I will say that we went through a couple of
35:24
Speaker 1: different pitches of Betty White and Golden Girls. Mixed with
35:27
Speaker 1: something else, and the common connective tissue was that there
35:31
Speaker 1: was always a Rose in the other thing. Beauty and
35:34
Speaker 1: the Beast is what we agreed upon. So um, who
35:38
Speaker 1: would you like to go first? Aerial for our Beauty
35:41
Speaker 1: and the Beast Golden Girls mash ups. You can go first, Okay,
35:46
Speaker 1: I will go first. Mine is called the Golden Beast
35:49
Speaker 1: of st Olaf. Rose Nyland has a problem. This big
35:55
Speaker 1: old lunkhead of a man named Gaston simply won't leave
35:58
Speaker 1: her alone. Here she is a grieving widow, having lost
36:02
Speaker 1: her husband Charlie only fifteen years ago, and Gueston just
36:06
Speaker 1: won't take a hint. It's enough to make a gal
36:09
Speaker 1: break into song. Here comes the cheese Man with his
36:12
Speaker 1: nasty questions, trying to track down Mr Miles. He is
36:17
Speaker 1: far too past his prime and belongs to organized crime.
36:21
Speaker 1: And you know what, on second thought, let's not sing
36:24
Speaker 1: because that whole cheese man plot was terrible. It was
36:28
Speaker 1: just the worst plot in The Golden Girls. Just trust
36:30
Speaker 1: me on this. But one day Rose is out hitting
36:33
Speaker 1: the streets to look for a job to help make
36:36
Speaker 1: ends meet, and she's having a tough time of it
36:38
Speaker 1: because a lot of places appeared to be turning her
36:40
Speaker 1: away due to her her age, and while she's walking around,
36:44
Speaker 1: she notices that she darned plum walked right out of
36:47
Speaker 1: St Olaf and into the woods. Well, she gets so
36:51
Speaker 1: turned around that she ends up at this rundown old castle,
36:55
Speaker 1: which she had never even seen before. It's pretty spooky,
36:58
Speaker 1: but it's also getting late, so she goes on inside
37:01
Speaker 1: to take shelter. Inside, she finds the most amazing things.
37:06
Speaker 1: All the furniture talks to her, well, most of the
37:09
Speaker 1: furniture talks to her, some of it just appears to
37:12
Speaker 1: be furniture. There's kind of a lack of consistency there,
37:15
Speaker 1: but really asking anything more about it is just inviting
37:18
Speaker 1: people to tear apart the magic, so we're gonna leave
37:20
Speaker 1: it anyway. There's a clock and a candlestick, and they
37:24
Speaker 1: talked to her a lot. Plus there's an ottoman acts
37:27
Speaker 1: a lot like a dog, and they decide to feed her.
37:30
Speaker 1: So she goes to enjoy a real hot dish, you know,
37:33
Speaker 1: the genuine article, filled with cream and mushroom soup and
37:36
Speaker 1: can veggies and tater Todd's, you know, the works, a
37:39
Speaker 1: real delicacy. So Rose has a nice big meal, and
37:43
Speaker 1: then she's told she's welcome to hang out in the
37:45
Speaker 1: castle as long as she never goes into the west wing,
37:48
Speaker 1: which Rose agrees to. But as we've already established, she
37:51
Speaker 1: has a really bad sense of direction, so of course
37:55
Speaker 1: Rose ends up walking right into the west wing, and
37:57
Speaker 1: there she meets President Bartlett, who is busy meeting with
38:00
Speaker 1: Toby Ziegler and Josh Lyman talking about a political crisis
38:04
Speaker 1: blooming in the Middle East. Rose gets very confused until
38:08
Speaker 1: Will Bailey helpfully guides her out, where she sees the
38:11
Speaker 1: Clock and Candlestick waiting for her. We told you not
38:14
Speaker 1: to go in there, Shari, says the Candlestick. Yes, that
38:18
Speaker 1: is a completely different television series in this mashup, can't
38:21
Speaker 1: support that many storylines, says the Clock. So Rose spends
38:25
Speaker 1: the night there, and she discovers that the old Castle
38:28
Speaker 1: is actually owned by a beastly monster, but you know,
38:31
Speaker 1: a misunderstood one. He has feelings and stuff, and sure
38:35
Speaker 1: he's not the most refined gentleman, but he seems keen
38:38
Speaker 1: to befriend Rose and listens to her stories, and so
38:41
Speaker 1: before you know it, the two are in love. Until
38:44
Speaker 1: one day, Gueston, you remember the big nasty brood from
38:47
Speaker 1: st Olaf. He shows up and he demands Rose, and
38:50
Speaker 1: he's being a real pain in the patokas, so he
38:52
Speaker 1: even threatens to smash up the furniture, and Rose says
38:55
Speaker 1: she will go with guests on if he spares the furniture,
38:58
Speaker 1: which Gueston agrees to but because I mean, it's just furniture,
39:02
Speaker 1: and he got what he wanted. So they all go
39:05
Speaker 1: back to st Olaf. But just as they're getting into town,
39:08
Speaker 1: Gaston slips on an icy patch on the ground and
39:11
Speaker 1: he falls over and he breaks his hip, and his
39:14
Speaker 1: injury means he can no longer be the big burly
39:16
Speaker 1: man of st Olaf. Pretty soon he is shunned by
39:19
Speaker 1: the rest of the town. I mean, why would they
39:21
Speaker 1: put up with his rude, brutish behavior if you can't
39:23
Speaker 1: even be all manly and stuff. He had one job
39:27
Speaker 1: and he can't do it. So Rose, free from Gaston,
39:30
Speaker 1: rushes back to the castle and Gaston ends up getting
39:34
Speaker 1: around with a walker and is largely pitied but not
39:36
Speaker 1: liked by the town, and so he ends up drinking
39:38
Speaker 1: himself to death, but we don't learn about that for
39:40
Speaker 1: a few seasons. Anyway, Rose runs back to the castle
39:44
Speaker 1: and into the beast's arms, and she gives him a
39:46
Speaker 1: long kiss. And that's how I ended up making out
39:49
Speaker 1: with a st Bernard, says Rose to her friends. It's
39:53
Speaker 1: very touching, Rose, says Dorothy. It shouldn't be, but it
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Speaker 1: is the end. First of all, absolute delight. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: the cheese man episodes not great. Second of all, you
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Speaker 1: told me earlier today that your mashup was short. I
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Speaker 1: don't think you understand them. I do not think that
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Speaker 1: word means what you think of them. It was still
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Speaker 1: it was still a respectable length, my friend, and a
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Speaker 1: respectable mash up. Thank you. You're welcome, all right, So
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Speaker 1: onto mine and this is called thank you for being
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Speaker 1: our guest. Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia. We're trying to
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Speaker 1: save up for a cruise, so they decided to take
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Speaker 1: on a new roommate to help lessen their bills. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: the room and board market was a little dry. Then
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Speaker 1: one day the girls heard a knock at the door.
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Speaker 1: Adjusting her decollttage to look her best, Blanche shouted, I'll
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Speaker 1: get it and ran to the door. But when Blanche
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Speaker 1: opened the door, she was startled by a large furree creature.
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Speaker 1: I have a bear, she shouted, a bear wearing pants.
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Speaker 1: Somebody saved me and the large furry creature tried to
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Speaker 1: clumb Blanche down, but that only resulted in Blanche throwing
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Speaker 1: her slippers at it. The other three ladies rushed into
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Speaker 1: the living room and rostated, well, that's not a bare Blanche,
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Speaker 1: that's my great aunt Hilda Gruffton's lawnmower from st Olaf.
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Speaker 1: She wrotely wrote me last week to tell me he
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Speaker 1: was moving to Miami and needed a place to stay.
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Speaker 1: And since we're looking for a roommate, I figured we
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Speaker 1: best not look a gift herring in the mouth, especially
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Speaker 1: a Harry harring. She laughed, expecting her three friends to
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Speaker 1: join in on her joke, but they just looked annoyed. Hi.
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Speaker 1: My name is Rose. It's so good to finally meet you,
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Speaker 1: she told the hugging figure. The figure couldn't take his
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Speaker 1: eyes off of Rose. She was so beautiful. Hi. Everyone
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Speaker 1: just calls me beast, he stammered, Beast equipped Sophia, Fine, whatever,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not cleaning the shower drains. Fuzzy wuzzy. Dorothy
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Speaker 1: shook her head and said, mob be nice. Here, let
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Speaker 1: me show you to the guest room, which was in
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Speaker 1: fact their garage, but they had made it really see. Sadly,
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Speaker 1: what the girls didn't know was that Beast was really
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Speaker 1: a cursed prince, not Great Aunt Hilda Grafton's lawnmower, and
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Speaker 1: Beasts was having a really hard time fitting into condo life.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was constantly expecting the dishes to clean themselves,
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Speaker 1: he had terrible table manners, and he was constantly demanding
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Speaker 1: that the candles sing for him. Only Rose was charmed
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Speaker 1: by his eclectic ways, oblivious to the crush that Beast
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Speaker 1: had on her. But the girls got more fed up
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Speaker 1: with the Beast the money they were saving on rent,
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Speaker 1: they were spending on lint rollers, new hair dryers which
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Speaker 1: weren't up to the task of the beast, screaming habits,
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Speaker 1: and groceries because dude had an appetite. Rose kept defending
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Speaker 1: the Beast, thinking the other ladies were being too judgmental.
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Speaker 1: But then one day Rose's boyfriend, Myles, who had been
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Speaker 1: on a school trip with his students, returned home, saw
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Speaker 1: that Beast was macking on his golden girl and told
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Speaker 1: the Beast to put up his dudes. Now Rose knew
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Speaker 1: that Myles wasn't the winning fights kind of boyfriend. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't the jumping out of planes kind of boyfriend. He
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Speaker 1: was the watch TV and make corny jokes kind of boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: And she was worried that he would not come to
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Speaker 1: the fight alive. So she stood between the Beast and
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Speaker 1: Miles and told the Beast that he better go. Beast
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Speaker 1: professed his love for her, but Rose said, I'm sorry, Beast,
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Speaker 1: I don't mean to make you a flugan knocking, but
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Speaker 1: Miles is the only one I want to play Google
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Speaker 1: fluggle with. Beast packed up his things and went to
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Speaker 1: return to his lonely long cutting job. But just then
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Speaker 1: there was another knock at the door. It was Ingabell,
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Speaker 1: Fairy Floorgan from St Olaf. She had lived next to
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Speaker 1: Aunt Hilda Grafton for her entire life and had fallen
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Speaker 1: in love with the Beast. They kissed, and the Beast
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Speaker 1: turned into the Prince. As Ingabell and the Beast Prince
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Speaker 1: walked out the door to return to saying Olaf. Blanche
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Speaker 1: adjusted her decolettage once more and ran after the Beast, saying, wait,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know you were a prince. But the couple
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Speaker 1: was gone. I have the worst luck, Blanch said, and
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Speaker 1: Rose comforted her, saying, you know what they say, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter who you love, but it does matter if
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Speaker 1: you shed. Here, let's get a slice of cheesecake to
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Speaker 1: cheer you up. The girls never went on their cruise
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Speaker 1: and they never married Princess, but they were happy. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: I love the jeers incorporated cheesecake, which of course was
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Speaker 1: an ongoing theme in The Golden Girls. Yes, and for
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Speaker 1: Flugan knockin is uh dude who parks his whatever ship
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Speaker 1: in the wrong fiord and google flugel is Hi didn't
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Speaker 1: seek for adults. These are actual Golden Girl things. And
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Speaker 1: Rose at one point did say, it doesn't matter who
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Speaker 1: you love, but it does matter if you sid Now,
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Speaker 1: can I tell you what episode that was from? No,
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Speaker 1: but she said I had to do some deep dies
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Speaker 1: to to remind myself because it has been a very
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Speaker 1: I mean, I did watch Golden Girls. I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Like there's certain series that you probably wouldn't necessarily associate
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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Strickland and Golden Girls was one of the
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Speaker 1: Designing Women would be another one, But No, I watched both. Um,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, I had, But I had to go back
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Speaker 1: and remind myself because I have not rewatched those in
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Speaker 1: so I had to do a little research to remind
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Speaker 1: myself of the Cheese Man for example, which was that's
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Speaker 1: a ref you referenced Miles. Cheese Man plays into Miles
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Speaker 1: as storyline as he is a apparently a member of
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Speaker 1: organized crime who was hunting down Miles who turns out
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Speaker 1: spoiler alert to be in the Witness Protection program. Yes,
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Speaker 1: which my first rewatch through Golden Girls, I thought they
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Speaker 1: completely dropped that through line, but no, they do resolve it. However,
45:19
Speaker 1: Golden Girls is notorious for setting something up and then
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Speaker 1: contradicting it in a future episode. Like I think blanches
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Speaker 1: one fear changes like three times and her previous one
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Speaker 1: fear no longer is a fear of her, and not
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Speaker 1: because she overcame it in the episode. They just they
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Speaker 1: conveniently needed a different fear. Yeah, the their continuity was
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Speaker 1: not always the best, but I don't think anybody could. Also.
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Speaker 1: It also didn't help that sometimes they aired the episodes
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Speaker 1: out of the order they were intended, because you know,
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Speaker 1: they'd be production delays or whatever, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: like episode ten might come before episodes seven and eight.
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Speaker 1: Then you're like, uh, things would be a little wonky
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Speaker 1: that way too, but yeah, this was a fun one
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Speaker 1: to do, of course. Uh we miss you, Betty White.
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Speaker 1: We you know, you were a truly amazing performer, wonderful comedian,
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Speaker 1: one of the funniest people. Like if you ever see
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Speaker 1: her on anything where she was being herself and just
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, riffing, she was. She could hang
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Speaker 1: with anyone, you know, she could. She was especially like
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Speaker 1: in roasts and stuff. Holy cow, um an amazing woman.
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Speaker 1: So we're thankful for the time we were able to
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Speaker 1: have with her and wish that it could have been more. Yes,
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Speaker 1: well we know that you wish your time with us
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Speaker 1: could be more too, but you'll have to wait till
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Speaker 1: next week. Let meantime, if you have any suggestions for
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Speaker 1: topics you'd like us to talk about, or thoughts on
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Speaker 1: news items we covered, we'd love to hear your opinions
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Speaker 1: or ideas for future mashups, or even if you want
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Speaker 1: to write a mash up yourself and send it to us.
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Speaker 1: And until next time, she has been Arial Blanche Casting,
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, and he has been Jonathan uh Sophia's
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Speaker 1: sister that she doesn't get along with Strickland. The Large
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Speaker 1: New Drunk Collider is production of I Heart Radio and
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Speaker 1: was created by Ariel Casting. Jonathan Strickland is the executive producer.
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