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Moon Knight Goes To Kindergarten · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider podcast is a production of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi everybody, Welcome to The Large Nerdron Collider,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always is.
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Speaker 1: Someday He's going to kick the ball. Jonathan Strickland. I
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Speaker 1: just learned the moon night doesn't actually moon people. Moon moon.
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Speaker 1: You can't ask why moon night doesn't moon people. Okay,
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Speaker 1: well you know what I can ask. I can ask
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Speaker 1: a question. I can't even explain what made me think
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Speaker 1: of this question, Ariel. When you're under the weather, what's
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Speaker 1: your go to comfort food? Um, mac and cheese. That's
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Speaker 1: a good answer. It is or cheese, bananas, cheese, bananas.
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Speaker 1: It's when you take a block of cheddar cheese and
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Speaker 1: you peel it and you eat it like it's a banana.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I was about to I was about
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Speaker 1: to say, like I'm starting to the thing that your
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Speaker 1: comfort food is what makes you sick. I mean maybe so.
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Speaker 1: Originally my comfort food was poor man Shepherd's pie, which
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Speaker 1: my mom used to make, which is where you put
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Speaker 1: the mashed potatoes on the bottom, and you cover it
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Speaker 1: with a layer of ground beef and saute onions, and
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Speaker 1: then you put regular canned corn and then canned cream
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Speaker 1: corn on top of it. So you don't have I don't.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a big gravy fan, so you don't have
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Speaker 1: the gravy in there. And it's just really simple and
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Speaker 1: it's really good and it's really hardy, and that's like
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite dishes of all time, as simple
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Speaker 1: as it is, but it makes me sick. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I have a I can't eat potatoes a cyclical thing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't and I don't get a severe
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Speaker 1: reaction to them, but I have to eat them. I
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Speaker 1: have to eat it sparingly. So mac and cheese is
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Speaker 1: my backup, which also means that it's my primary. What
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Speaker 1: about you, I'm a simple man. I go with the
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Speaker 1: tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich combo um typically very
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Speaker 1: very much a a simple grilled cheese like I'm talking
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Speaker 1: like American slice cheese, you know, just because it has
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Speaker 1: a really good melt factor. I realized that that is
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Speaker 1: not the best of grilled cheese, as I've had grilled
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Speaker 1: cheeses that have fancy cheeses in them, and they are
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Speaker 1: by every definition better. But from comfort food, I go
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Speaker 1: for the simple, like Kraft American Slice, grilled cheese sandwich,
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Speaker 1: Campbell's Tomatoes soup combo. The well. I can't do the
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Speaker 1: tomato soup, and I used to, like, I throw a
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Speaker 1: fit in pre school because I had to eat like
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Speaker 1: tomato soup with elbow noodles in it, and I only
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Speaker 1: want to eat the noodles and I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: eat the tomatoes. So at that time, we didn't know
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Speaker 1: I had an allergy. So I threw kind of a
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Speaker 1: fit and gotten trouble for it. But American cheese and
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Speaker 1: a grilled cheese is the way to go. It's like
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Speaker 1: a hug. It's it's so like silky and smooth. It's
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Speaker 1: like a hug in your mouth. For dessert, you've got
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Speaker 1: to also cut the sandwich on a diagonal, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I forgot that. I agree, I agree, So you get
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Speaker 1: the ultimate cheese pull uh for dessert because you know
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Speaker 1: you have to have your comfort dissert as well. It's
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Speaker 1: coffee ice cream, Okay, yeah, I think for me it's
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Speaker 1: peanut butter ice cream. But okay, let's uh no, no
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Speaker 1: reason why I was asking that. Cough, cough, covid yuck. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's move on. Sorry, still not feeling well. Almost I'm
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Speaker 1: almost through it. I'm like, one more day and I
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Speaker 1: get to emerge from isolation. But we've got news to
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Speaker 1: cover and you'll be in the future, yes, just just
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Speaker 1: like whereas by the rest of our lives. Look, I
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Speaker 1: was segueing into the fact that we're getting a future
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Speaker 1: rama reboot um again again, Like, okay, the first few
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Speaker 1: Surama reboot was okay, yeah, I've got thoughts on that.
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Speaker 1: But also, like I like Futurama, I do, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's like Simpsons, it's one of the ones that
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Speaker 1: has more potential for reboot, but like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's never quite the same. If you look at Animaniacs,
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Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite cartoons of all times,
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Speaker 1: and the reboot just did not hit the same notes.
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Speaker 1: And I'm worried that the more you reboot Futurama, like
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Speaker 1: you know, like a clone of a clone of a
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Speaker 1: clone of a clone, the dumber they get right, right,
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Speaker 1: It's it's a copy of a copy of a copy,
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Speaker 1: So a couple of other things we want to mention.
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Speaker 1: One is that, at least as of the recording of
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Speaker 1: this podcast, one of the performers, John DiMaggio, who voice Bender,
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Speaker 1: is not currently slated to return. He's been having a
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Speaker 1: contractual disagreement about how much he should be paid. And
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Speaker 1: I mean this is a thing like voice actors have
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Speaker 1: been kind of the kicking uh folks in the acting
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Speaker 1: world for a long time, like like like they don't
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Speaker 1: get treated with the respect that other types of actors do.
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Speaker 1: That in fact, to the point where like guilds would
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Speaker 1: sometimes exclude voice actors from other types of actors, which
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Speaker 1: is ridiculous. It is ridiculous. So that is still going on. Um,
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Speaker 1: I imagine they'll work something out, because I cannot fathom
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Speaker 1: them going with Futurama with a different voice vendor and
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Speaker 1: that actually working out for them. I mean, they could
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Speaker 1: try to get someone who sounds the same way, but
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Speaker 1: you can always tell one. Generally speaking, voice actors have
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Speaker 1: kind of this code of ethics where it's not cool
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Speaker 1: to go after someone else's gig, Like if someone else
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Speaker 1: has that sort of a contractual falling out, it is
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Speaker 1: considered sort of taboo to sign up for that so yeah.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I want to mention is you talked
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Speaker 1: about the reboot being kind of just okay. I think
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Speaker 1: a big part of that was that they spent so
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Speaker 1: much time making jokes about getting canceled and coming back,
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Speaker 1: and like they had a lot of jokes that were
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Speaker 1: directed at Fox in particular, um and essentially saying, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you idiots, you you canceled us. And it got to
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Speaker 1: the point where as I was watching, I was like,
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Speaker 1: can we just move on and make funny stories because
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of I get that you're better that your
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Speaker 1: show got canceled, but this is not entertaining. It might
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Speaker 1: be therapeutic for you, but it's not entertaining. Yeah, like
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Speaker 1: you can make one episode about that. Animaniacs did the same,
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Speaker 1: like or at least that they had one skin in
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Speaker 1: their first episode at least, but you know, if you're
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Speaker 1: going to play that joke super sparingly, yeah, I have
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Speaker 1: no real segue into our next story. So that's if
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Speaker 1: you want to watch the Netflix Defender series Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Punisher,
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Speaker 1: Iron Fist or Luke Cage or the actual Defends, you've
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Speaker 1: got to do it this month, this February because afterwards,
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be on Netflix anymore. Yeah, the the
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Speaker 1: contract where they had the agreement on how long it
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Speaker 1: would stay on Netflix is coming up to being expired.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation as to where those series
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Speaker 1: might end up. It's been reported that Daredevil in particular
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Speaker 1: has seen like a resurgence in views ever since the
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Speaker 1: Hawkeye series. Um, I don't know why, Hemp Kingpin and
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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's it's definitely and also Spider Man,
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Speaker 1: which I still haven't seen, but it has been spoiled
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Speaker 1: pretty thoroughly for me. But anyway that it's, it's been
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Speaker 1: getting popular again, and so there's some real speculation could
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Speaker 1: end up going to Hulu, could end up going to Disney. Plus,
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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of articles that are worded the
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Speaker 1: headline is worded as if it's definitively going to one
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Speaker 1: or the other, but I have seen no confirmation on either. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think that wording is probably just to make people click.
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Speaker 1: I think so too. It's almost like they're baiting you,
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Speaker 1: almost almost. But I will be interested to see, you know,
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Speaker 1: at least we know we're going to get those characters
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Speaker 1: some more, some of them at least, which is nice.
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Speaker 1: Um something else I I thought was nice until the
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Speaker 1: trailer came out for it, and I think it's really nice. Now, Lord,
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Speaker 1: is the Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers trailer that just
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Speaker 1: came out the day that we're recording this. It's the
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Speaker 1: one with John mulaney is Chip and Andy Samberg is Dale.
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Speaker 1: And it is not at all what I expected. And
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Speaker 1: the trailer is so bon curse. It is very weird.
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Speaker 1: It has um, it has has it's a mixture of
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Speaker 1: live action and animation, which we knew was going to
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Speaker 1: happen going in. We knew that was going to be
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Speaker 1: the case. But you thought it was going to be
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Speaker 1: like like the Chipmunks with like c G I chipmunks
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Speaker 1: and like Alvin Simon Theodore Chipmunks, chipmunks and real people.
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Speaker 1: You get half of that, one of the two. One
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Speaker 1: of the two is c G I because he got
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Speaker 1: the c G I surgery. Yeah. So this new story,
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Speaker 1: from what little I can gather from the trailer, because
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Speaker 1: there's the story might have a wonderful through line in
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Speaker 1: It might have a wonderful story, but I can't tell
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Speaker 1: from the trailer. There's just so much packed into it.
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Speaker 1: That's just like makes you go, what in the world.
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Speaker 1: So Chip and Dale are are kind of past their prime. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Chip is a like insurance salesman or something, and Dale
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Speaker 1: is running the convention circuit. Chip is still in two
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Speaker 1: D Dale's and three D. And then they have to
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Speaker 1: rescue somebody. Um, and then there's like all kinds of cartoons,
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Speaker 1: all kinds of real life. It's a very like Roger
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Speaker 1: Rabbit kind of the world where Pete Bowl and cartoons
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Speaker 1: lived together and c g I and like, yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's all sorts of weird. And there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of meta jokes. Yeah did you happen to see
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you did. I mean, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you couldn't. Uh did you happen to see mc scat
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Speaker 1: cat and Paula Abduel in the background in one of
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Speaker 1: those sequences? I did. I did not know Disney owned
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Speaker 1: mc scat cat. I don't know that they did, but
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Speaker 1: they might have licensed him, but ye might have mc
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Speaker 1: scat cat from two steps forward, two steps back with
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Speaker 1: the Baula Abdul song shows up, as does Roger Rabbit,
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Speaker 1: and then My Little Ponies and the cats from Cats,
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Speaker 1: but they're the bad c g I version. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: as in the Cats from the recent film adaptation of
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Speaker 1: the musical Cats. Uh, it is truly bizarre. Like I
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Speaker 1: it is the weirdesting I think I would have ever
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Speaker 1: noticed or ever seen from Disney. And I mean it's
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Speaker 1: because they partnered with a lonely island folks when they this,
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Speaker 1: which is like when you think about how protective Disney
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Speaker 1: is of its I P. It is absolutely insane to
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Speaker 1: see this. Yes, yeah, I don't know if it's going
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Speaker 1: to be good, but I know I'm going to have
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Speaker 1: to watch it. Yeah, yeah, same, I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: know that I like it as of right now because
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Speaker 1: I just don't understand so much of it. I like
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Speaker 1: one little part and there's a little c g I
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Speaker 1: mouse that's addicted to cheese and he's like, more please
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Speaker 1: in a cartoon mouse feeds some cheese and he says
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Speaker 1: more please. In a cartoon, mouse feeds some cheese. And
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Speaker 1: that moment is adorable and horrible and I like that moment.
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Speaker 1: It's given me ready player one vibes in a way.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's sort of like let's throw or space jam.
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Speaker 1: The most recent space jam leists throw every single reference
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Speaker 1: we can at this one movie, and knowing the people
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Speaker 1: who are behind it, I would expect that this would
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Speaker 1: come across more as a spoof of that, like they're
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Speaker 1: making fun of that, as opposed to them trying to
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Speaker 1: create their own version of that, which is part of
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Speaker 1: why I'm interested. Yeah, I know. Originally, when this movie
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Speaker 1: was announced and like the casting was up on IMDb,
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Speaker 1: like the minimal casting, my my friend and my niece
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Speaker 1: and nephews were upset that there wasn't a Monty or
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Speaker 1: Zipper or gadget. But there are. There is a Monty
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Speaker 1: in a zipper. We know at least um from this trailer.
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Speaker 1: No Gadget can be seen, but maybe they have to
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Speaker 1: rescue her. And that's how we found out, thank you Gizmoto,
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Speaker 1: that there is also a gadget cult in Russia. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I did not know that until I read that article.
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Speaker 1: So bizarre, so bizarre. The world is so much stranger
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Speaker 1: than any bizarre movie with a three D chipmunk and
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Speaker 1: a two D chipmunk teeming up could could make you
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Speaker 1: believe that's true. I guess just have to go to
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Speaker 1: outer space for some normalcy. Yes, we are just as
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Speaker 1: we were about to go to record it. This we
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Speaker 1: saw the notification that there is going to be another
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Speaker 1: Star Trek film in the Abrams universe of Star Trek films.
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Speaker 1: So we had Star Trek Beyond, which a lot of
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Speaker 1: people just assume was going to be the third and
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Speaker 1: final film in a trilogy with Chris pine As as
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Speaker 1: Captain Kirk and you know, uh, you know, Simon peg
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Speaker 1: As as Scottie and all that, but all the surviving
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Speaker 1: cast members are going to come back and do a
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Speaker 1: fourth movie. Yeah, it's it's hard to hear surviving members. Well,
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Speaker 1: I know, I it's hard for me to talk about
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Speaker 1: because he was an incredibly talented actor. Yeah. Yeah, um,
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Speaker 1: I do like that Matt Shakeman is directing. He did
13:51
Speaker 1: want a vision Shackman, not shank Chackman. Um, because I
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Speaker 1: feel like One Division had the kind of moral and
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Speaker 1: emotional bent that would play really well in Star Trek.
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Speaker 1: Not that that's all he can do, but but we
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Speaker 1: need sensibilities. Yeah, because One Division, like to this day,
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Speaker 1: One Division is still one of those shows that I
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Speaker 1: think had one of the deepest emotional gut punches for me,
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Speaker 1: one that is currently very relevant in uh in our
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Speaker 1: lives not to get into it, but like, there were
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Speaker 1: messages in one division that I felt were really powerful
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Speaker 1: and it made you forget that they were being delivered
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Speaker 1: from comic book characters. So I agree. I think that
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Speaker 1: this could be something that you know, we could see
14:43
Speaker 1: some real emotional resonance in this Star Trek film as
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Speaker 1: well as it'll be you know, thrilling and exciting and
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Speaker 1: all that as well. Yeah, yeah, I actually I really
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Speaker 1: liked the first I didn't mind the second. Uh, I
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Speaker 1: really like the third as well, which I know you
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Speaker 1: have not seen so excited. I haven't seen Star Trek
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Speaker 1: on I did not like Into Darkness. I was pretty
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Speaker 1: vocal about that. The second one of the first second one,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the that's the Return of Con. Listen. It's
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Speaker 1: following the old Star Trek movie trope, which is every
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Speaker 1: other one is good and every other one is The
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Speaker 1: old trope was that the even ones were good. Well
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Speaker 1: that number two, number two was the one that you
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Speaker 1: didn't like. So I'm saying that the even ones were
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Speaker 1: good in the original one, see because Wrath of Con
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Speaker 1: was too and then Search for Spot was three, but
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Speaker 1: Voyage Home was four, but then Final Frontier was five. Listen.
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Speaker 1: You know I watched them at a period of time
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Speaker 1: where I had very little like refined taste, and I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed most of them. I understand. It was back when
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Speaker 1: Griel wasn't able to count. Okay, we're gonna go to
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Speaker 1: commercial break. I'm kidding, Garril, I'm kidding. I may I
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Speaker 1: may not come back. Hey, Twitter fans who were talking
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Speaker 1: about us getting spicy on Twitter, it's happening again. Tell
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Speaker 1: you what's going to happen in the commercial break will
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Speaker 1: be all love e W when you come back. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we uh we made up during the commercial break of
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Speaker 1: nothing like a little consumerism to really bring people back together.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of consumerism, we're now going to talk about
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Speaker 1: some of the geek themed commercials that were in the
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Speaker 1: superb Owl. Yes, so I watched the game and Jonathan
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Speaker 1: did not. There were a lot. There are a lot
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Speaker 1: of what I would say would be geek themed commercials
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Speaker 1: in there. Also a lot of cryptocurrency commercials. Yeah yeah,
16:49
Speaker 1: including the coin base one where they had the QR
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Speaker 1: code up on screen and it crashed their app, which
16:55
Speaker 1: which two people. I only had a couple of people
16:58
Speaker 1: over that have been in my bubble. Um, we all
17:01
Speaker 1: knew we were not Covidy before they came over, but
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Speaker 1: two of them scanned the QR code. One of them refused, um,
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Speaker 1: and I let them tell me what it was. I
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Speaker 1: followed the story of the commercials using a live blog
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Speaker 1: that only told me about the commercials and had nothing
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Speaker 1: about the game itself, which is fine. I am not
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Speaker 1: a well and you know, I had an incredible ending.
17:27
Speaker 1: I understand that I don't care about the Kitty Cats
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Speaker 1: versus the Horny Goats, so I didn't really watch it.
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Speaker 1: But um again, I'm making light of it. But that's
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Speaker 1: because like, it's just not my passion. I totally respect
17:40
Speaker 1: people who love sports. That's great. I'm glad that's your thing,
17:44
Speaker 1: and I hope that you took a great amount of
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Speaker 1: enjoyment if you were a fan of the Kitty Cats.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. But yeah, Well, we wanted to talk about
17:52
Speaker 1: some of the trailers that came out. Yeah, real quick,
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Speaker 1: Before we do that, I want to say, because you
17:57
Speaker 1: didn't watch them, you followed the blog, you missed many
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Speaker 1: of the commercial ski here not had a really good music,
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Speaker 1: like something I noticed exceptional music. I actually watched the
18:08
Speaker 1: commercials that because I watched the they had the YouTube videos.
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Speaker 1: But I will say also there were different versions that
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Speaker 1: were on YouTube versus the ones that were actually during
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Speaker 1: the game. The first one we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: is the trailer for Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,
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Speaker 1: and that one had two different, slightly different versions. The
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Speaker 1: one in the game was different from the one that
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Speaker 1: they actually put up on YouTube. But boy, howdy did
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Speaker 1: they give us a lot in that one. Yes. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I First of all, I am glad that it's so
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Speaker 1: prominently featuring Wanda yes Um Scarlet Witch, and I love
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Speaker 1: there's this great moment where she is talking about how
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Speaker 1: when he breaks the rules, when Doctor Strange breaks the rules,
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Speaker 1: he's considered a hero. When she breaks the rules, she's
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Speaker 1: a villain, and she says it doesn't seem fair, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, there's it's like shelling the way she delivers
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Speaker 1: that line, because it's just so matter of fact and
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Speaker 1: like Elizabeth Olsen is a phenomenal actress, which I really
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Speaker 1: didn't appreciate until one division. But boy, I loved the
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Speaker 1: little bits we got to see in this trailer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this movie is going to be so bizarre that. I
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Speaker 1: think she's really going to bring a super grounded perspective
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Speaker 1: to it, which I considering the subject matter, which I like. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm also very excited that in the trailer you can
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Speaker 1: see that there is evil Doctor Strange, which we got
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Speaker 1: in the what If series. Yeah, there's actually I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of what If is bleeding into this because
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Speaker 1: not only was their sinister Strange, which yes, please let
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Speaker 1: Benedict Cumberbatch and go go off the rails please, there
19:48
Speaker 1: looked like there could be some zombie stuff going on.
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Speaker 1: It looked like that's a possibility. It looks like Captain Carter.
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Speaker 1: Isn't this Captain Carter. That's Peggy Carter as Captain America,
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Speaker 1: So she's Captain. I saw that, but I missed it
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Speaker 1: in the trailer. Okay, So in the trailer there's a
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Speaker 1: sequence where we see doctor Strange being led to stand
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Speaker 1: in front of a group of people. Uh, there four
20:18
Speaker 1: Ultron robots that are leading in there. That already was crazy.
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Speaker 1: They see Ultron again, or at least the Ultron bots again,
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Speaker 1: and what it appears to be the Illuminati. In Marvel Comics,
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Speaker 1: the Illuminati is a group of of characters who together
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Speaker 1: try to protect all of reality and Doctor Strange usually
20:41
Speaker 1: as a member of the Illuminati, as is uh the
20:44
Speaker 1: Black Bolt, and Iron Man has often one as well. Well.
20:50
Speaker 1: If you look at the silhouettes on the diet, which
20:54
Speaker 1: is hard to make out, one of them appears to
20:57
Speaker 1: I think be Captain Carr, the one sitting down. Um,
21:02
Speaker 1: I think Morda is one of the other ones. Uh, yeah,
21:06
Speaker 1: it's also. But the big news, obviously is that there's
21:11
Speaker 1: a familiar voice that rings out and a little bit
21:14
Speaker 1: of a hint of a silhouette from behind it, and
21:18
Speaker 1: it's Jonathan Strickland that yeah, well, I mean same haircut,
21:22
Speaker 1: but no, it is it is Captain McCard. No, I'm sorry,
21:26
Speaker 1: it's Professor X. It is. It'll be good to see
21:29
Speaker 1: him in something after Logan because that was so sad. Yeah,
21:34
Speaker 1: I love this trailer. Here's the thing, you know what
21:39
Speaker 1: this trailer made me think of Ariel. Do you remember
21:41
Speaker 1: way back in the day when there was that fan
21:44
Speaker 1: film that was presented as a trailer that was Grayson
21:48
Speaker 1: supposed to be the story of Robin. That's the feeling
21:51
Speaker 1: I got walking away after the first time I saw
21:53
Speaker 1: Grayson was that looked amazing and then on second thought,
21:56
Speaker 1: I was like, how would you actually fit all of
21:58
Speaker 1: that plot into a single movie. That's the feeling I'm
22:01
Speaker 1: getting with this trailer. Yes, I completely agree um something
22:06
Speaker 1: and maybe I just missed it that I was surprised
22:09
Speaker 1: not to see in it because we knew that back
22:11
Speaker 1: and not that plans can't change. We knew back in
22:13
Speaker 1: the day that she would tell Afo was going to
22:15
Speaker 1: be kind of the villain of this series of this movie.
22:18
Speaker 1: That's what they said way back when I might have changed.
22:21
Speaker 1: We see him, we don't see King the Conqueror. I
22:24
Speaker 1: don't think. I think I think we're not going to
22:26
Speaker 1: see Kang again until Quantum Mania, the next ant Man movie.
22:33
Speaker 1: I think that's when we're going to see him next. Um. Yeah.
22:37
Speaker 1: So there's like there's so many different opportunities to see
22:40
Speaker 1: interesting stuff, Like I still I'm still hoping to see
22:44
Speaker 1: alternate versions of heroes and maybe two of the same
22:48
Speaker 1: hero played by two different actors, just from other Marvel franchises.
22:53
Speaker 1: I mean Human Torch. We would get to see Chris
22:55
Speaker 1: Evans again, but I mean Captain America. Yeah, I was
22:58
Speaker 1: gonna say we could get Keptain America and Human Torch.
23:01
Speaker 1: But now that he won't come back Captain America, he
23:03
Speaker 1: could get three different human torches if they really wanted.
23:06
Speaker 1: But no one ever acknowledges the Roger Corman film. I
23:10
Speaker 1: mean that one I'm fine with. It's the latest one
23:12
Speaker 1: that I'm like. But yeah, but then you could also
23:15
Speaker 1: have kill Monger and human human torch going face to face.
23:18
Speaker 1: That's true. Okay, that's okay, that makes it exciting again.
23:21
Speaker 1: I mean anyhow, I'm excited for this. Uh. Sam Raimid
23:24
Speaker 1: tends to make really fun movies. Um so yeah, so
23:30
Speaker 1: we have other trailers we should chat about very quickly.
23:32
Speaker 1: We spent way more time on Dr Strange than I anticipated.
23:35
Speaker 1: There was so much. We we have a little bit
23:37
Speaker 1: of time. Yeah, we saw nope, um the next Jordan
23:41
Speaker 1: Peel suspense horror sci fi film. This one's an alien film. Uh.
23:48
Speaker 1: It was just enough to intrigue me. And I love
23:51
Speaker 1: the soundtrack. Yes, I love the soundtrack. There's still a
23:55
Speaker 1: lot of like what much like Chip and Dale or
23:57
Speaker 1: Multiverse of Madness, A lot of like what what exactly
24:00
Speaker 1: is going on here? There's an awful lot of genres.
24:04
Speaker 1: It feels like in this one movie. Um, they say
24:07
Speaker 1: never read the comments, but I read the comments under
24:09
Speaker 1: the YouTube trailer and someone said, man, Jordan Keele has
24:13
Speaker 1: a really good way of putting horror into comedy and
24:16
Speaker 1: I or vice versa, and I really really agree. I
24:19
Speaker 1: thought that this the trailer had a really good um
24:24
Speaker 1: balance of everything that it put into it. Yeah, and
24:27
Speaker 1: I think those are the movies that I find the
24:30
Speaker 1: most intriguing, right Like, there are a lot of horror
24:34
Speaker 1: movies that attempt to have some comedy in them and
24:37
Speaker 1: kind of fail. There's some that will surprise you, Like
24:41
Speaker 1: there was the Friday the Thirteenth reboot from a few
24:43
Speaker 1: years ago that had some I wouldn't say alright comedy,
24:47
Speaker 1: but definitely humor in it, and to me, it totally worked.
24:50
Speaker 1: I was like, I I was surprised at how entertained
24:53
Speaker 1: I was by a movie. Nope, looks like it's gonna
24:57
Speaker 1: be really interesting. I'm curious. I'm curious what sort of
25:02
Speaker 1: because with Jordan Peel you start to expect it, you
25:04
Speaker 1: start to expect some sort of deeper commentary as part
25:08
Speaker 1: of it. And I'm very curious to see what that
25:10
Speaker 1: deeper commentary might be in this full me too. Two
25:15
Speaker 1: other quick things about it before we move on to
25:16
Speaker 1: the next trailer one. I was very much getting like
25:19
Speaker 1: welcome to night Vale glow Cloud vibes from it. I
25:23
Speaker 1: feel like, uh, nobody, nobody in my close social circle,
25:27
Speaker 1: like my husband as in, like the person I live
25:29
Speaker 1: with and see every day, he's never listened to Nightvale.
25:31
Speaker 1: He doesn't know, so like I've got to night Vell
25:34
Speaker 1: posters up behind me on the wall. So I've just
25:37
Speaker 1: been waiting to say that and then too. I also,
25:42
Speaker 1: with that same group of very small people that came
25:44
Speaker 1: over for Super Bowl, we watched Color out of Space
25:46
Speaker 1: because my friend is the Nicolas Cage version because my
25:49
Speaker 1: friend is a huge Lovecraft horror esque fan, which one
25:54
Speaker 1: uh watching next to the Nope trailer. See there are
25:57
Speaker 1: some similarities between the two. Um and to that movie
26:02
Speaker 1: is really scary and really disturbing. I'll have to check
26:05
Speaker 1: it out. I haven't seen that, and I've seen Mandy,
26:08
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen Color out of Space. There was
26:09
Speaker 1: a trailer for Mandy at the beginning of it. Boy,
26:12
Speaker 1: Mandy is a heck of a ride. Look, I watched
26:16
Speaker 1: Dagon and that was ridiculous, so I could I could
26:18
Speaker 1: enjoy the one This one. This one is not as ridiculous.
26:22
Speaker 1: This one, I would say is a better quality movie
26:24
Speaker 1: and not as fun. But again, unless you're a really big,
26:27
Speaker 1: like creepy, disturbing horror fan, wouldn't recommend it. Well. Next up,
26:34
Speaker 1: we saw a trailer for The Rings of Power, the
26:38
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings series on Amazon, which I am
26:41
Speaker 1: told is going to feature four main storylines and see
26:45
Speaker 1: if I can remember them. One is like the coming
26:48
Speaker 1: of age of l Rond, because this is when l
26:50
Speaker 1: Rond is much younger. It's the Second Age. Lord of
26:53
Speaker 1: the Rings in Hobbit take place in the third Age,
26:57
Speaker 1: so which in an age last thousands of years. So
27:01
Speaker 1: one is the coming of age of el Rond essentially.
27:05
Speaker 1: One is the rise of Sauron, back when he was
27:08
Speaker 1: still like a physical entity before he became the flat
27:14
Speaker 1: sexy magicians. One is a glad Reel story when she
27:20
Speaker 1: was like warrior queen type of character. And then one
27:25
Speaker 1: is the last alliance of elves and men, which is
27:28
Speaker 1: sort of the final stand at the end of the
27:30
Speaker 1: second Age. This is what we saw the We saw
27:33
Speaker 1: a bit of that in the prologue to Lurd of
27:36
Speaker 1: the Rings. That's when a selder cuts the ring off
27:38
Speaker 1: of Sauron's hand that's at the end of one of
27:41
Speaker 1: the climatic battles in the Last Alliance of Elves and Ments.
27:44
Speaker 1: That's gonna be part of it. Um, I guess. Actually
27:47
Speaker 1: technically then there's also the rise and fall of New Menoir,
27:51
Speaker 1: which is an island that doesn't exist by the time
27:54
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings is taking place, but is where
27:57
Speaker 1: like uh Arragorn's ancestry dates too. Yeah. So so Game
28:04
Speaker 1: of Thrones and Wheel of Time both have this issue
28:06
Speaker 1: with me where there's so many characters and there's so
28:08
Speaker 1: much going on it's hard for me to follow. Um.
28:11
Speaker 1: I'm a little more familiar with Lord of the Lord
28:12
Speaker 1: of the Rings history, so it'll be easier for me
28:15
Speaker 1: for me to follow. But despite despite my issues with
28:18
Speaker 1: other series in that sort of format, I am actually
28:21
Speaker 1: really looking forward to this. I thought it looked so
28:23
Speaker 1: pretty and it excited me, and I want to know
28:27
Speaker 1: the things that they were showing me. So yeah. Finding
28:30
Speaker 1: a little side note, this was not part of the
28:32
Speaker 1: big game commercials, but we also learned of an animated
28:36
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings movie that's supposed to come out
28:38
Speaker 1: in four The War of rohre Um so I think
28:41
Speaker 1: we talked about that on a previous episode. Did we
28:44
Speaker 1: don't think I had even heard of it before, but
28:46
Speaker 1: if we didn't, I at least put it in our
28:48
Speaker 1: show notes. But it is recent news. Yeah, So that's
28:51
Speaker 1: that's gonna come out in a couple of years. Uh,
28:54
Speaker 1: and we'll that'll deal with stuff that happened earlier in
28:57
Speaker 1: the third age, so it'll be between the stuff we
29:00
Speaker 1: see in the Rings of Power and the Lord of
29:04
Speaker 1: the Rings movies. And then we had a little trailer
29:08
Speaker 1: of various Netflix projects that are coming out in the
29:11
Speaker 1: near future, including Knives Out Too, which is the one
29:14
Speaker 1: I'm most excited about seeing. I'm excited about that. There's
29:17
Speaker 1: a movie called Slumberland, which is one thousand percent a
29:20
Speaker 1: child's movie, I think, But um, I say one, I think,
29:25
Speaker 1: good talking aerial but it's got Jason Momoa and it
29:28
Speaker 1: and they show it's the movie they show the least
29:31
Speaker 1: amount of and it was the most visually intriguing to me.
29:35
Speaker 1: It's it's got like a dude with horns on a
29:38
Speaker 1: flying carpet with a kid um. And then the Adam Project,
29:42
Speaker 1: which is done by Brian Reynolds and the Free Guy crew,
29:47
Speaker 1: and is adult Ryan Reynolds and kid Ryan Reynolds with spaceships.
29:52
Speaker 1: So it made me think of Free Guy Meets Meet
29:55
Speaker 1: the Robinson's Flight of the Navigator a little bit. Yeah. Yeah,
29:59
Speaker 1: so that was interesting too. We'll definitely be talking more
30:02
Speaker 1: about those projects as time goes on. But speaking of
30:06
Speaker 1: time going on, it is time for us to take
30:08
Speaker 1: another break, and when we come back, we're going to
30:10
Speaker 1: talk about a couple of other commercials that played at
30:14
Speaker 1: the superb Owl, a bit of sad news and how
30:18
Speaker 1: that leads into our mashup for this week. But first
30:21
Speaker 1: these messages. Okay, more commercial. Yeah, we've taken back from
30:43
Speaker 1: commercials to talk about the things. Yes, the first of
30:46
Speaker 1: which is the Moon Night uh commercial, which it was okay, Yeah,
30:56
Speaker 1: it gave us a little It honestly just felt like
30:58
Speaker 1: kind of an alternative trade alert to the one we
31:00
Speaker 1: had already seen. Yeah, it didn't make me more interested
31:03
Speaker 1: in the property. I'm gonna watch it because Oscar Isaac
31:07
Speaker 1: and Ethan Hawk, although it's interesting to me that they're
31:10
Speaker 1: spending so much time on Ethan, like showing Ethan Hawk
31:15
Speaker 1: in the show because from my research for our mash up,
31:19
Speaker 1: because it's Jonathan I have said previously, we are not
31:21
Speaker 1: we're not Moonnight s one of our mash up properties.
31:24
Speaker 1: Neither of us is like incredibly familiar with the property,
31:27
Speaker 1: even though I have some Moonnight comics right behind me. Um.
31:32
Speaker 1: But his character I think is super minor in the comics.
31:36
Speaker 1: But also from why I understand we get an explanation,
31:40
Speaker 1: or we will get an explanation for that absolutely atrocious
31:43
Speaker 1: Cockney accent that Oscar Isaac is using, because it may
31:47
Speaker 1: be that that's one of we've mentioned this before that
31:51
Speaker 1: the character, uh, it's associative identity disorder, right, Mark Spector
31:56
Speaker 1: has dissociative identity disorder and has multiple personnalities, and the
32:01
Speaker 1: chance is that one of those is one that has
32:04
Speaker 1: this accent and it's not the quote unquote true personality,
32:08
Speaker 1: which would make sense because if you know the background
32:09
Speaker 1: to Mark Specter, the character that you see on screen
32:13
Speaker 1: doesn't even remotely resemble that character. So we'll talk about
32:17
Speaker 1: that more, i'm sure in the mashups. But then another
32:21
Speaker 1: bit was that we had talked about how Arnold Schwarzenegger
32:24
Speaker 1: had shown up on a poster where he's Zeus and
32:27
Speaker 1: we had guessed that that was probably a reference to
32:30
Speaker 1: a commercial that we played during the Super Bowl, But um,
32:35
Speaker 1: I think at the time I thought it was going
32:36
Speaker 1: to be a beer commercial. It turns out it's not.
32:38
Speaker 1: It was for an electric BMW vehicle commercial. Yeah, which
32:42
Speaker 1: I guess makes more sense. I also thought there because
32:45
Speaker 1: it's kind of got that Budweiser blue going on in
32:47
Speaker 1: the picture. Um, it also had summahiak and I had
32:53
Speaker 1: them singing a terrible like singing along to Electric Avenue
32:57
Speaker 1: and yeah, and it was horrible. It was okay, it
33:01
Speaker 1: was maybe a cute concept and way more highly produced
33:05
Speaker 1: than it needed to be. It wasn't funny enough. I
33:09
Speaker 1: feel too warrant the budget spent on it, because Super
33:14
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials are very expensive. I have to say, though,
33:17
Speaker 1: thanks to meta slash Facebook, it was by no means
33:20
Speaker 1: the worst commercial show during the Yeah, that was scary. Yeah,
33:25
Speaker 1: the metal one was terrible. But anyway, so that there
33:28
Speaker 1: was that, and then the Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to
33:31
Speaker 1: play a part in our mashup. But the other bit
33:33
Speaker 1: of news, the sad bit of news, is that Ivan
33:37
Speaker 1: Reitman passed away. Ivan Rightman was a director who directed
33:40
Speaker 1: lots of of great films, including Ghostbusters, the original Ghostbusters,
33:46
Speaker 1: but he also directed a little film called Kindergarten Cop. Yes,
33:51
Speaker 1: and so Kindergarten Cop, because we've done Ghostbusters recently, will
33:55
Speaker 1: be the other property in our mashup. So which do
33:58
Speaker 1: you want to explain, John, Then I'm hoping it's Moonnight. Okay,
34:02
Speaker 1: I'll explain moon Night. Sure, Sure, Okay. So here's here's
34:06
Speaker 1: the here's what you need to know about Moonnight if
34:08
Speaker 1: you're going with the broad canon, because just like with
34:13
Speaker 1: any comic book character, lots of different writers have written
34:15
Speaker 1: for Moonnight, and when different writers write for a character,
34:18
Speaker 1: sometimes they change, like sometimes their powers change. So Moonnight
34:24
Speaker 1: in general doesn't really have superpowers. Uh. The character is
34:28
Speaker 1: Mark Specter, who was a former marine who then becomes
34:33
Speaker 1: a mercenary. He has his own code of ethics and morality,
34:39
Speaker 1: and when he's pushed really hard to break that, he
34:42
Speaker 1: gets into an altercation with a fellow mercenary. He's left
34:45
Speaker 1: for dead. He has brought to a statue of an
34:48
Speaker 1: ancient Egyptian god of the moon and of vengeance. The
34:52
Speaker 1: god resuscitates him and he is now the god's uh emmissary.
34:58
Speaker 1: He's the vessel the the instrument of vengeance for this god. However,
35:04
Speaker 1: it might just be that he's crazy, that this near
35:07
Speaker 1: death experience drove him insane, and that he believes that
35:11
Speaker 1: he has this Egyptian god telling him what to do.
35:15
Speaker 1: He also has a couple of other personalities that he
35:17
Speaker 1: uses on occasion. One of them is a taxicab driver.
35:21
Speaker 1: They're called altars alters um important. Well, he's one of
35:26
Speaker 1: them is a taxicab driver. Another one is a a
35:30
Speaker 1: a masked suited character called Mr Knight, who is not
35:35
Speaker 1: like a punch him up, beat him up of hero
35:40
Speaker 1: like Moon Night is, but is more of like a detective. Um.
35:44
Speaker 1: He's also got one that's like a billionaire playboy called
35:47
Speaker 1: Stephen Grant. And I think that people are assuming that
35:51
Speaker 1: the character we're seeing in the Moon Night trailers is
35:54
Speaker 1: supposed to be the Stephen Grant personality, who is not
35:58
Speaker 1: a billionaire in this version, but is rather a peon
36:01
Speaker 1: working for a company. See I would have thought that
36:04
Speaker 1: it was the Jake Lockley Cabby Um Cabby personality. Yeah,
36:09
Speaker 1: but uh, Moon Night's kind of like Batman, except he
36:14
Speaker 1: hurts people way more than Batman typically does. Yeah. Yeah,
36:18
Speaker 1: And in the TV show Arthur Harrow, which is who
36:20
Speaker 1: Ethan Hawk is playing, actually does amplify some of moon
36:23
Speaker 1: Night's more like legitimate powers like a super intelligence and
36:30
Speaker 1: and like physical things. Yeah, so he he doesn't he
36:36
Speaker 1: can't fly or anything like that. He has very strong,
36:40
Speaker 1: very smart, very agile. Uh tends to use a lot
36:44
Speaker 1: of different like gadgets too, which is again he gets
36:47
Speaker 1: he gets compared with Batman a lot. He does. I mean,
36:50
Speaker 1: he does have some physical powers depending on where you
36:54
Speaker 1: where you go into things. Um. Also he's very violent, yes,
36:58
Speaker 1: very like I said, he MUTI lates like he doesn't
37:01
Speaker 1: just beat him up. And at one point in time
37:03
Speaker 1: he took up boxing. Okay, Um, just like adding little
37:07
Speaker 1: things that are important for you for my own yes, okay,
37:14
Speaker 1: I'm sure it still won't because I took what I
37:18
Speaker 1: knew with what my husband knew, with what the Internet
37:21
Speaker 1: told me. Um. And that's always a recipe for a
37:24
Speaker 1: glorious cake. Okay. Uh. So Kindergarten Cop is a story
37:28
Speaker 1: where Arnold Schwarzenegger is a cop and he's trying to
37:33
Speaker 1: take down like this drug lord and he's able to
37:36
Speaker 1: do it, but he really needs a witness to make
37:39
Speaker 1: sure that this guy actually gets booked with his charges
37:42
Speaker 1: and goes to jail and all that stuff. Um, And
37:45
Speaker 1: so he he targets the drug lord's wife for that. Um.
37:51
Speaker 1: He thinks that the wife has taken money from the
37:53
Speaker 1: drug lord and the drug lord is after her, and
37:56
Speaker 1: so he goes to Oregon with his partner to like
38:00
Speaker 1: look her down and offer her immunity in exchange for
38:03
Speaker 1: her testimony against her ex husband. Um. And to do that,
38:07
Speaker 1: he and his partner become well, his partner becomes as teacher.
38:10
Speaker 1: She used to be a teacher before she was a cop.
38:12
Speaker 1: She gets sick, he takes over. He's not really teacher material,
38:16
Speaker 1: but the kids love him anyhow, and he brings like
38:18
Speaker 1: a ferret in and uh. Like there are lots of
38:23
Speaker 1: lots of great lines from Kindergarten. Copy my favorite, I
38:27
Speaker 1: don't think I can it's not a tumor, or I'm
38:29
Speaker 1: the party pooper. Um, this is what I'm gonna do
38:34
Speaker 1: to you, which he says to a kid who won't
38:36
Speaker 1: be quiet, and he snaps a pencil in front of
38:37
Speaker 1: it and then like my favorite line, I don't know
38:40
Speaker 1: if I can say it on this podcast, which is
38:43
Speaker 1: boys have um boy parts and girls have girl parts. Um,
38:49
Speaker 1: I don't know, can I can I say those words?
38:50
Speaker 1: You can see, Okay, boys have penises and girls have vaginas. Um,
38:55
Speaker 1: you know just what a kid just just free. So
39:01
Speaker 1: kids are kindergarten kids and it's hilarious. Right. So the whole,
39:03
Speaker 1: the whole thing is that, of course he's trying to
39:05
Speaker 1: track down where the mom is, and he's also having
39:08
Speaker 1: to pose undercover as this teacher, and he did not
39:12
Speaker 1: account for the fact that that means he's actually going
39:15
Speaker 1: to have to deal with these kids. And it ends
39:17
Speaker 1: up being this very silly, very warmhearted kind of comedy
39:23
Speaker 1: that also still managed steff Arnold Schwarzenegger acting all action
39:27
Speaker 1: hero e. Yeah, because the drugg Lord does find the parent,
39:31
Speaker 1: he comes, he shoots up to school, he shoots up
39:32
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Um, you know, Arnold falls for the mom,
39:37
Speaker 1: finds out that she's actually the person he's been looking for,
39:39
Speaker 1: and then she gets mad because he's lied about who
39:41
Speaker 1: he is. It's it's the whole action intrigued thing. But
39:44
Speaker 1: it's it's very fun. It's a lot of fun. It's
39:47
Speaker 1: it's heartwarming. So so we're now going to do our
39:51
Speaker 1: mashups and Ariel. I'm going to demand you do yours first, okay.
39:55
Speaker 1: Uh So I picked two titles in case one of
39:58
Speaker 1: your titles is the same as mine. Uh So this
40:00
Speaker 1: is Kindergarten, Knight or moon Moon. You forgot how to night?
40:04
Speaker 1: Mark Specter x Marine, x Boxer x c I A
40:08
Speaker 1: now cop finally did it. He had long suspected the
40:11
Speaker 1: notorious Raoul Bushman, horrible person who he had fought in
40:14
Speaker 1: his former careers, was somewhere in America operating a drug
40:18
Speaker 1: and gambling ring. And then one day Mark cott Bushman
40:21
Speaker 1: trying to order a hit on his ex wife Joyce Lockley.
40:24
Speaker 1: That's a play on Jake Lockley, okay. But to make
40:28
Speaker 1: sure that Bushman would stay behind bars, Mark Spector had
40:31
Speaker 1: to seek out Joyce to testify against him. So Mark
40:34
Speaker 1: and his partner, Marlene Marlene is also his girlfriend in
40:37
Speaker 1: the comics, traveled to small town, Oregon, where they thought
40:40
Speaker 1: Joyce was hiding out. When they got there, they found
40:43
Speaker 1: out that Joyce had a kid, a little red haired girl.
40:46
Speaker 1: That was the reason she had left Bushman, and Bushman
40:48
Speaker 1: was after the child, so Mark and his partner went
40:51
Speaker 1: undercover as school teachers Marlene under the name Phoebe and
40:54
Speaker 1: Mark under the name Stephen Grant Kimball to try to
40:56
Speaker 1: get close to the kid and also the mom. Marlene
40:59
Speaker 1: took to the VOT teaching like a duck in water. However,
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Speaker 1: Mark was not prepared to be a teacher. He was
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Speaker 1: rough and strict with the kids and even threatened violence
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Speaker 1: on a couple of abusive parents, which was well intentioned
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Speaker 1: but unacceptable within the school system. Nonetheless, but the kids
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Speaker 1: adored Mr Steve, and Mr Steve adored them. He would
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Speaker 1: do things like teach them how to punch tumbles, speak
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Speaker 1: other languages, which you know the kids were only did
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Speaker 1: so well because they were kindergarteners after all, and the
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Speaker 1: kids would equally enriched Mr Steve's life with bacsab learned
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Speaker 1: about life, like the differences between princesses and police officers,
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Speaker 1: their parents, marital relations, and the anatomical difference between boys
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Speaker 1: and girls. It took some adjusting, but Steve began to
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Speaker 1: love his teaching job. But Mr Steve was closest of
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Speaker 1: all with that little red haired girl, often spending time
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Speaker 1: together on the swing set during recess. He felt like
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Speaker 1: she made him closer with his inner child. Then one
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Speaker 1: day the worst happened. Bushman got off trial and out
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Speaker 1: of jail and on a technicality and came for his
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Speaker 1: wayward family. Mr Steve came out to Joyce in the
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Speaker 1: Child about who he really was, Mark Spector, saying that
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Speaker 1: if they helped him, he would keep them safe, and
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Speaker 1: as expected, Bushman came to the school to get the
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Speaker 1: girl and kill his ex wife Mark Slash. Mr Steve
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Speaker 1: got shot multiple times and fell to the ground, but
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Speaker 1: not before getting a shot out on Bushman himself, and
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Speaker 1: then he felt someone shaking him Marked In. When Mark
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Speaker 1: opened his eyes, he was on the swing set with
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Speaker 1: the little red haired girl, who said enough fun, time
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Speaker 1: to get back out there and fight real crime. Mark
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Speaker 1: Spector looked confused, but then Joyce Lockley turned into Jake
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Speaker 1: Lockly and moon Night realized he was in a mental
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Speaker 1: meeting with his altars, not in small town, Oregon, and
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Speaker 1: the little red haired girl was actually his inner child,
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Speaker 1: and she yelled at him to wake up and smacked
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Speaker 1: him in the face. When he woke up, he was
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Speaker 1: laying on the couch. Marlene ull Rain his on again,
42:43
Speaker 1: off again Paramore and grounding Forest standing above him. Come
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Speaker 1: on We've got a lead on Bushman. The West Coast
42:48
Speaker 1: Avengers are waiting for you, she said. As moon Night
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Speaker 1: got up, he said, man, I had the weirdest dream,
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Speaker 1: and I mean weird for me. That's the last time
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Speaker 1: I watched eighties movies while I nap. Also, do you
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Speaker 1: think I'd make a good teacher? Marley and gave him
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Speaker 1: a confused look as he changed to Moonnight and they
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Speaker 1: left out to meet the team the end. So moon
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Speaker 1: Night does actually have a little red haired girl that
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Speaker 1: he'll have meetings with his altars in his mind, at
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Speaker 1: least in the ultimate universe. And there's a little red
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Speaker 1: haired girl in there that's his that's referred to as
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Speaker 1: his inner child and might actually be the god that
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Speaker 1: revived him. So yeah, and that's what Again. One of
43:26
Speaker 1: the things we were chatting about earlier is that depending
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Speaker 1: on who's writing the comic, you get these different takes.
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Speaker 1: So like Mr Knight will play a part in mine,
43:36
Speaker 1: but it is not in every version of Moonnight. Um.
43:40
Speaker 1: And also like there are other ones to like, there
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Speaker 1: are writers who had have it where moon Night's strength
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Speaker 1: grows or wanes along with the the phases of the
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Speaker 1: moon But that's not always the case. Um, mine is
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Speaker 1: long enough where I think we're probably going to need
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Speaker 1: to take a quick break. Okay, Ariel, are you prepared
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Speaker 1: for the thing I'm about to do? I look, I
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Speaker 1: pretty much just gave you kindergarten cop with some name
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Speaker 1: changed out mine mine. Okay, I cheated. I'm just gonna
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Speaker 1: say that right out front. I cheated. I am not
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Speaker 1: I don't regret cheating that I have cheated. Mine is
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Speaker 1: called Moon Night and the kindergarten Cop. And here we go.
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Speaker 1: Mark Specter has a problem. For one thing, he has
44:40
Speaker 1: dissociative personality disorder, and a lot of folks keep misidentifying
44:44
Speaker 1: it a schizophrenia, which is something else entirely. For another,
44:48
Speaker 1: mysterious forces outside the borders of space and time have
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Speaker 1: infused Specter with incredible strength and agility, turning him into
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Speaker 1: the Moon Night. But he's losing himself in the process.
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Speaker 1: But perhaps worst of all, he forever being pursued by
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Speaker 1: John Kimball, a cop, a cop in kindergarten. Yes, Kimball
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Speaker 1: is five years old and he's on Specter's ass. Oh
45:12
Speaker 1: and and John Kimball is five years old and he's
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Speaker 1: an l A p D. Detective and he's also played
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Speaker 1: by Arnold Schwarzenegger that everyone behaves like. This is a
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Speaker 1: regular five year old kid who happens to also be
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Speaker 1: a cop. It's a really high concept idea and I
45:27
Speaker 1: think it's gonna test incredibly well with audiences. Anyway, we
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Speaker 1: joined the story in progress as Mark Specter is making
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Speaker 1: his way through a major city, which one I don't
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Speaker 1: really care. We see him shrugging on a coat and
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Speaker 1: putting on a hat and jumping into a cab, a
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Speaker 1: cab that's driven by Mark Specter. Yes, Specter is having
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Speaker 1: a dissociative episode in which he sees himself in his
45:53
Speaker 1: guys as Jake Lockley, a cab driver behind the wheel,
45:56
Speaker 1: while another of his identities, Stephen Grant, is the passenger.
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Speaker 1: But then keep in mind, Stephen Grant in this case
46:03
Speaker 1: is the Mark Specter we've been following, and he's in
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Speaker 1: the back seat, and we zoom in on Specter's eyes
46:08
Speaker 1: up the passenger, Mark Spector the Steven Grant version, and
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Speaker 1: those eyes are framed by sweaty brows as he tries
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Speaker 1: to will himself back into reality, and he does, and
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Speaker 1: he sees that behind the wheel is just a nondescript
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Speaker 1: cab driver looking at him and say, come on, Pal,
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Speaker 1: where's it you want to go? And Spector mumbles a
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Speaker 1: destination in a really unconvincing Cockney accent. But it's not
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Speaker 1: important where we're going, so again I don't really care.
46:32
Speaker 1: The cabby gets ready to pull into traffic, when suddenly
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Speaker 1: the back door opens again and a small hand reaches
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Speaker 1: into the cab and grabs Specter's coat at the shoulder
46:42
Speaker 1: and hauls Specter out, and we cut and now we
46:44
Speaker 1: see Specter held up on the sidewalk above the sidewalk
46:48
Speaker 1: by Arnold Schwarzenegger. So the small hand was like a
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Speaker 1: stand in because Arnold wasn't available that day. And now
46:54
Speaker 1: he's holding up Mark Spector over the ground and he says, gotcha,
46:58
Speaker 1: says Kimball, And remember that's Arlo Schwarzenegger. Okay, the cop
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Speaker 1: who is in kindergarten. Now you're coming with me to
47:05
Speaker 1: answer for your crime. You're looking at a tough sentence, Pal,
47:08
Speaker 1: you're headed to time out in Specter, feeling his heart race,
47:13
Speaker 1: immediately lifts his arms over his head and slides out
47:16
Speaker 1: of his coat, hitting the ground and then dashing off.
47:19
Speaker 1: Poop sickles, yells Kimball, throwing the coat to the side
47:23
Speaker 1: and taking chase, and we get this cool foot chase
47:27
Speaker 1: sequence where Specter is making his way through a crowded sidewalk,
47:30
Speaker 1: you know, ducking down alleys and stuff, and Kimball is
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Speaker 1: close behind, running like an enormous kid and yelling stop
47:37
Speaker 1: in the name of the law, and Specter ducks into
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Speaker 1: a building. He runs up a set of stairs, and
47:42
Speaker 1: he's trying different doors as he's running down hallways and stuff,
47:45
Speaker 1: but they're all locked until at the third floor he
47:47
Speaker 1: finds a door that's open, and he dashes in and
47:50
Speaker 1: he closes the door behind him and he locks it,
47:52
Speaker 1: and he is really really quiet, and he hears the
47:55
Speaker 1: loud clop clomp clump of Kimball's feet as the kid
47:59
Speaker 1: cop tries to match up. And you know, do you
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Speaker 1: know how kids sound like when they're running, They sound
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Speaker 1: like they weigh you know, like a thousand pounds, Like
48:09
Speaker 1: a little twenty pound kid can sound like an elephant
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Speaker 1: when they're running around. Well, imagine that same sort of
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Speaker 1: heavy footed run, except this time it's HERTLD. Schwarzenegger. So
48:18
Speaker 1: it's amazing that the building doesn't just collapse in on itself.
48:21
Speaker 1: Well anyway, the clapping eventually fades away, and Spector looks
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Speaker 1: around and he's in an empty room. It's an apartment
48:29
Speaker 1: that it doesn't have any furniture or anything, and it's
48:31
Speaker 1: just a vacant apartment. So he slides to the floor
48:34
Speaker 1: trying to catch his breath, and his eyes slipped shut,
48:37
Speaker 1: and we have a sudden lighting change. It goes from
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Speaker 1: bright to dark, and we realized that Spector fell asleep
48:43
Speaker 1: and slept through the day and now it's nighttime. And
48:45
Speaker 1: he gets up and he says, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no,
48:48
Speaker 1: not now, but it's no use. He transforms into the
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Speaker 1: moon Night Vigilante with somewhat inconsistent powers because it kind
48:56
Speaker 1: of depends on who's writing the story. And the moon
48:59
Speaker 1: Night ventures out the apartment, silently stalking through the building,
49:03
Speaker 1: making his way all the way up to the rooftop,
49:05
Speaker 1: and there he is, silhouetted against the moon itself, a cloaked,
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Speaker 1: shadowy figure all dressed in white, and he hears the
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Speaker 1: sound of a struggle, so he quickly makes his way
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Speaker 1: to a blind alley where a group of thugs are
49:17
Speaker 1: surrounding an old Wineo and the elderly wine No seems harmless,
49:21
Speaker 1: but the brutes all appear determined to beat the stuffing
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Speaker 1: out of him. So the Moonnight suddenly drops into the
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Speaker 1: middle of the group, and then he sees what it
49:29
Speaker 1: was all along. It was a trap. Yes, Kimball has
49:34
Speaker 1: managed to convince his fellow kindergarten students to help him
49:37
Speaker 1: lure moon Night into an ambush. Too late, the Moonnight
49:41
Speaker 1: sees that the assailants are not adults. Nope, each one
49:45
Speaker 1: is two kids in a trench coat, with one kid
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Speaker 1: sitting on top of the other kid's shoulders, and the
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Speaker 1: wine No. Well that turns out that's John Kimball on
49:54
Speaker 1: top of another kid's shoulders, and that kid is flattened
49:57
Speaker 1: because again this is Arnold Schwarzenegger standing on top of
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Speaker 1: an unconscious child. So that kid is out of the
50:04
Speaker 1: rest of the film. Don't worry, he got well compensated anyway.
50:09
Speaker 1: The group converges on Moonnight, who then goes into the
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Speaker 1: spectacular fight scene and kids are tossed left and right,
50:15
Speaker 1: And sure I could go all edge Lord on this
50:18
Speaker 1: and make this a scene where a masked vigilante really
50:22
Speaker 1: beats the ever Love and stuffing out of a bunch
50:24
Speaker 1: of kindergarten kids, but instead the kids all fly off
50:28
Speaker 1: to the side and go we and each of them
50:30
Speaker 1: lands in a soft pile of garbage or rags or something,
50:33
Speaker 1: so none of them are actually hurt, but they all
50:35
Speaker 1: pretend to be knocked unconscious and only occasionally giggled. But
50:39
Speaker 1: then Kimball, he's a different story because he's a kid,
50:42
Speaker 1: but he's played by a very large adult. So we
50:44
Speaker 1: did a pretty tough fight scene here, but Moonnight is
50:48
Speaker 1: super capable, so he shakes Kimball makes his escape, and
50:52
Speaker 1: Kimball stares up into the night sky as Moonnight scrambles
50:54
Speaker 1: up a fire escape to safety. And then Kimball looks
50:57
Speaker 1: at his watch and says, oh no, the big cand
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Speaker 1: is on the twelve and the little hand is on
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Speaker 1: the eight. It's passed my bedtime, and he heads off
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Speaker 1: down the alley. Always see some of the kids kind
51:07
Speaker 1: of picking themselves up out of the piles of garbage
51:09
Speaker 1: and stuff because they didn't wait for the director to
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Speaker 1: yelle cut And that was the best take they got
51:13
Speaker 1: all night. Okay, so we get back to Specter, who
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Speaker 1: we see is no longer the moon Night and he's
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Speaker 1: in his own apartment and he opens up a closet
51:21
Speaker 1: which reveals a white suit, not the Moon Night superhero suit,
51:26
Speaker 1: but an all white business suit complete with a white tie,
51:29
Speaker 1: and we see him put this on, as well as
51:31
Speaker 1: a white balaclava style mask with like a moon symbol
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Speaker 1: on it, and now he is Mr Knight, and Mr
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Speaker 1: Knight wants to clear mark Specter's name. So C. Kimball
51:42
Speaker 1: is after Specter because well, once upon a time, Specter
51:45
Speaker 1: was a mercenary for hire and he was involved in
51:48
Speaker 1: some not very nice things, and Specter is suspected in
51:51
Speaker 1: taking candy from a baby, except it wasn't Specter who
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Speaker 1: did it. Mr Knight decides he has to find out
51:57
Speaker 1: who really did take that candy from that bay ev.
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Speaker 1: But you know, Moon Night fans will already be aware
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Speaker 1: that it was the mercenary Raoul Bushman, who was also
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Speaker 1: responsible for critically injuring Specter, which right to Specter's encounter
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Speaker 1: with Konsku, a moon god from ancient Egypt. Two values vengeance.
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Speaker 1: So we have this little flashbag to tells tells Moon
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Speaker 1: Night's origin story, and then Mr Knight says, all right,
52:20
Speaker 1: it's just Raoul Mr Saul, so Mr Knight goes on
52:24
Speaker 1: to track down Raoul Bushman. Kimble, of course, is still
52:28
Speaker 1: on Mr Knight's trail, Specter's trail, but sometimes he has
52:32
Speaker 1: to put that on hold because he has to pause
52:34
Speaker 1: for snaps and snack time and recess. And we get
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Speaker 1: this cool sequence Mr Knight on the trail of Bushman
52:41
Speaker 1: and then he changes into Jake Lockley, the cab driver,
52:43
Speaker 1: and he talks to some various criminal types to get
52:45
Speaker 1: more information, and he ultimately tracks down Raoul Bushman. Then
52:50
Speaker 1: we see Specter change back into the moon Night and
52:53
Speaker 1: he goes into this big brutal fight with Bushman, and
52:55
Speaker 1: Bushman is also a skilled mercenary, so he fights back
52:58
Speaker 1: really well, but moon Night just kind of absorbs a
53:01
Speaker 1: whole lot of punishment because that's kind of his bag.
53:04
Speaker 1: And then he ends up hurting Bushman a lot. Like
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Speaker 1: we're talking broken limbs left and right, and teeth getting
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Speaker 1: knocked out and eyes getting galloshed. It is surprisingly violent
53:16
Speaker 1: for a movie that also features an enormous five year
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Speaker 1: old cop. Anyway, Bushman is left barely alive writhing in
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Speaker 1: pain when Kimball runs up the moon Night points at
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Speaker 1: Bushman and says, this is the man who did the
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Speaker 1: bad thing you thought that I had done. Oh, says Kimble, Okay,
53:33
Speaker 1: sorry about that. And then he puts on a pair
53:35
Speaker 1: of handcuffs on Bushman, who is making a lot of
53:38
Speaker 1: like distressing pain noises because the beating was so brutal.
53:41
Speaker 1: And he does his best to read Bushman his rights,
53:44
Speaker 1: but that's hard because he's still in kindergarten and he
53:46
Speaker 1: can't really read very well yet. And then we get
53:49
Speaker 1: the credits. But then there's a mid credit scene or
53:52
Speaker 1: you see Mark Specter sitting on a park bench looking
53:55
Speaker 1: the worse for wear, and he's clearly distressed by all
53:57
Speaker 1: those multiple personalities. And then who sits next to him
54:01
Speaker 1: but Kimball, the cop, who says, bio a juice box,
54:06
Speaker 1: and then Spector gives him a grin grin, and we
54:08
Speaker 1: cut to black. The end, I'm going to start by
54:11
Speaker 1: saying I love it, and then I'm going to say
54:12
Speaker 1: your writers were inconsistent, because you're Arnold only had an
54:16
Speaker 1: accent in his final line. I uh so, here's the thing.
54:20
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. They say that everybody has an Arnold
54:22
Speaker 1: Schwartzenegger impression. I do not if I do. It is
54:27
Speaker 1: literally the world's worst. Anyone else in people who have
54:31
Speaker 1: never even seen Arnold Schwarzenegger can do a better Arnold
54:35
Speaker 1: Schwartzenegger impression that I can do. I have accepted that
54:38
Speaker 1: this is just the truth, and I made the executive
54:42
Speaker 1: decision that I was not going to do a Schwartzenegger
54:44
Speaker 1: impression all the way through. I um. I also at
54:48
Speaker 1: first thought maybe you were doing a kindergarten cop spoof instead.
54:52
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you did. I've never watched the
54:54
Speaker 1: movie of Kindergarten Cop. Yeah, no, I don't know, not
54:59
Speaker 1: Kindergarten CA. Sorry, Cop and a half, Cop and a half, Oh,
55:03
Speaker 1: I haven't. I don't even know what Cop and a
55:05
Speaker 1: half is. It's like, I think Burt Reynolds is a
55:08
Speaker 1: cop and he takes an eight year old on as
55:09
Speaker 1: a partner, but it's an actual eight year old. Uh.
55:12
Speaker 1: My husband actually got a chance to audition for that role,
55:15
Speaker 1: and then they decided they wanted to go with a
55:17
Speaker 1: different demographic for it, which is totally fine and the
55:19
Speaker 1: right choice. But back when he was a kid he
55:21
Speaker 1: was able to audition for it. No, this was this
55:23
Speaker 1: was just me thinking like, how can I make Kindergarten
55:25
Speaker 1: Cup interesting. And then because I actually I started working
55:29
Speaker 1: on one, I got only like a paragraph in, and
55:32
Speaker 1: I hated where it was going, and I felt like
55:34
Speaker 1: I had written myself in a corner and that it
55:37
Speaker 1: wasn't really funny, Like it was all the bad choices, right.
55:40
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you say, I have
55:42
Speaker 1: made all the wrong choices. So I thought, well, what
55:45
Speaker 1: can I do instead? And I thought, well, I could
55:47
Speaker 1: just ignore the brief and not and make it a
55:52
Speaker 1: literal kindergarten cup, but keep it as Arnold Schwarzenegger. I
55:57
Speaker 1: absolutely loved it. I thought it was brilliant and I
55:59
Speaker 1: want to watch this. But like with uh eighties Arnold Schwarzenegger,
56:05
Speaker 1: I was gonna see, he can't be young, and he
56:06
Speaker 1: can't be current age. He's gotta be nineteen eighties. So
56:08
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56:14
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56:17
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56:21
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56:25
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56:28
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56:30
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56:35
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