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Zombie to the Max! · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of My
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider Podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: is the Zade and Cookie. Jonathan Strickland, Hello, Ariel, wait
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Speaker 1: to wait to support my waity. Yes, and Jonathan, I
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Speaker 1: mean like, that's I'm subverting expectations. I'm like, I'm like
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Speaker 1: a Rhan Johnson over here. I'm I'm subverting all over
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Speaker 1: the place. Um wow. And then I get hit with
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Speaker 1: a frog in my throat. That was my fault. Hey, Ariel, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I've got a question for you, okay, and this is
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Speaker 1: a question about you, Ariel, which is if you can
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Speaker 1: think about, like, what is the longest amount of time
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Speaker 1: you've consistently stayed in character for something? I mean, LARPNG
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Speaker 1: is like a full weekend. Yeah, so you don't break
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Speaker 1: character at that You're just in character the whole time.
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Speaker 1: So in your cabins, generally, you know, people might break
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Speaker 1: character late at night or early in the morning or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Occasionally people break character to do a to do, like
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Speaker 1: an out of play question, or you know, when you
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Speaker 1: go to NPC, because most of the little arps I
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Speaker 1: go to, they require you to put in a certain
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Speaker 1: amount of volunteer time each game, either before, after, or during.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of people will go out and play
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Speaker 1: the monsters that everybody else is fighting for an hour
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Speaker 1: or two each game. Um, so you kind of break character,
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Speaker 1: but you're still in another character. So I guess every
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Speaker 1: once in a while there will be a game where
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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you don't have to volunteer during the game.
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Speaker 1: We have so many NPCs, at which point, Yeah, I'll
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Speaker 1: stay in character pretty much all weekend unless I have
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Speaker 1: to break out groovy. Maybe I don't shower in character,
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Speaker 1: but I mean it depends, Like you know, you're playing
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Speaker 1: a barbarian. I suspect that's just you're just having an
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Speaker 1: angry shower. I mean it's I do go in character,
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Speaker 1: and I get dressed in the showers. Some noone sees
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Speaker 1: me naked, so I get out of the showering character.
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Speaker 1: I guess I'm always in character because I'm quite the character.
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Speaker 1: What about you, I think I think we would have
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Speaker 1: to be the Rnissance festival, right, like UM, which you know,
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Speaker 1: obviously we would take breaks during the day, so it's
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Speaker 1: not like I would say I had a whole day
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Speaker 1: of being in character. But you're talking about sometimes, you know,
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Speaker 1: you might do a stretch of four to six hours
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Speaker 1: without really taking a break, and then you're just in
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Speaker 1: at that entire time UM, which is very different. Like
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Speaker 1: Ariel and I also come from backgrounds of of doing acting,
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Speaker 1: including like stage acting, and we both get into character
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Speaker 1: in similar ways. You're not method, right, So not in
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Speaker 1: the traditional sense. No, No, I would not consider myself
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Speaker 1: a method actor. But I think every actor takes some
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Speaker 1: and and and I've heard a whole bunch of stuff
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Speaker 1: recently about how Stanislovski, the creator of the method um,
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Speaker 1: is actually often misquoted and and his his technique is misused.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking technique classes if you can't tell UM, But
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Speaker 1: you know, I do feel like every actor needs to
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Speaker 1: put a part of themselves or they're real experiences into
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Speaker 1: a situation. Right now, I'm taking an Udah Hoggan class,
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Speaker 1: which is all about like building your environment to evoke
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Speaker 1: emotion and reaction. So that's really interesting. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, so every actor should have glimpses of who
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Speaker 1: they are, which I guess is why Renfest is so easy,
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Speaker 1: because like, even though I'm not Vogelomode, you're not the Admiral, Like,
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Speaker 1: there are definitely bits of us in there, so it's
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Speaker 1: not too far of a stray from reality for us
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Speaker 1: to Also, those characters are by their nature cartoonish, which
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Speaker 1: means that we can take a couple of characteristics and
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Speaker 1: then just dial that up to eleven without having to
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Speaker 1: worry about making a fully fleshed out character, because that's
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Speaker 1: not the point, right, We're not trying to make someone
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Speaker 1: who has all their hopes and fears and and motivations
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Speaker 1: and everything for people to discover. I mean, that's true.
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Speaker 1: You should do that with a lot of the characters
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Speaker 1: you're playing if you want people to believe them. Of course,
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Speaker 1: at Fair it's more about you know, gag getting get
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Speaker 1: out with how much time we interact with individuals. But
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Speaker 1: I do feel like over the years, the Admiral is
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Speaker 1: pretty fleshed out. I bet if I asked you a
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Speaker 1: bazillion questions about his life, you could answer them to
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Speaker 1: some degree or I mean, you know, just like me,
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Speaker 1: the Admiral is very good at Flights of Faith and see.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's interesting though, because, like you know, we
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Speaker 1: we've I think a lot of people in the geek
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Speaker 1: sphere have at least dabbled in elements of getting into character,
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Speaker 1: whether it's in productions or role playing games or cause playing.
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Speaker 1: Like I think that's a big part of the geek sphere.
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Speaker 1: It's this idea of a lot of the stuff that
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Speaker 1: geeks love are things of fantastical worlds, and there's sort
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Speaker 1: of this you know, natural desire to be in them.
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Speaker 1: And now we're going to get into some fantastical worlds
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Speaker 1: by covering a couple of news items. Yes, and the
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Speaker 1: first is, uh, many of you probably have heard, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if we've actually talked about it on the show,
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Speaker 1: that we're getting a Adam's Family spinoff on Netflix called
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Speaker 1: Wednesday about Wednesday Adam Um. But they've announced to Morticia
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Speaker 1: and Gomes Adams will be and it's Katherine's Aida Jones
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Speaker 1: and Louis Gooseman, which I think is absolutely perfect casting.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting. I'm very curious to see
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Speaker 1: how that plays out, because I wouldn't have they wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have jumped to my mind immediately, but I can't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm also kind of excited to see it, which is
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Speaker 1: weird because this is a project that Tim Burton is
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Speaker 1: attached to. He's an executive producer and he's going to
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Speaker 1: be directing at least some of the episodes. Um, I
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Speaker 1: do not think he wrote it, but Burton has been
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Speaker 1: real more missed than hit for me over the past
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Speaker 1: several years, and so I was not like super jazzed
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Speaker 1: about the announcement for a while, just thinking like that,
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Speaker 1: you know, at best, we might get something that's not
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Speaker 1: terribly offensive, and at worst we'll just get another sort
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Speaker 1: of Adams train wreck, because out of all the Adams
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Speaker 1: family stuff that's been created, there's like maybe half of
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Speaker 1: it is is watchable, too great, and then the other
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Speaker 1: half is forgettable, too terrible. So I was ready to
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Speaker 1: write it off. But I think that might have been
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Speaker 1: premature on my part. Yeah. So the like the premise
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Speaker 1: of the story doesn't super appeal to me. Wednesday is
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Speaker 1: using her psychic ability to support thwart a monster killing spree,
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Speaker 1: so it feels kind of super naturalish, Like I was thinking, like,
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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday Adams as Buffy Summers. Yeah, so like it
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like the plot is very I mean, it
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Speaker 1: might be original for Adams family, it doesn't feel very
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Speaker 1: original in the overall geek sphere to me. I think
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Speaker 1: what really appeals to me. One, I think Katherine say
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Speaker 1: To Jones is a very versatile actress, and I think
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Speaker 1: she'll she'll hit the comedy versus creepy versus you know,
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Speaker 1: elegant very well, which is the three adjectives I would
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Speaker 1: use to describe Morticia Adams. Louis Gooseman is not who
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Speaker 1: I would think that they would have picked for a
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Speaker 1: leading man. Now that they've mentioned it, Like, I feel
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Speaker 1: like he's perfect, Like he's he's good. I know he
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Speaker 1: will nail it. He's a great actor. But like, um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm just super excited for the casting. You know,
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Speaker 1: the cast can make a breaker show. And I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: very I'm very eager to see how Guzman does the role.
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Speaker 1: And you know, obviously, like Ralph, Julia did such an
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Speaker 1: amazing job as Gomez went um, and I mean, obviously
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Speaker 1: it's very hard to get around comparing anyone against that,
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Speaker 1: but I'm very eager to see what Guzman's take is
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Speaker 1: on the character. Also, I mean, they'll be like, I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping that in this show we see that Gomez and
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Speaker 1: Mortitia's devotion to one another hasn't diminished a bit, despite
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Speaker 1: the fact that this is like twenty years, you know,
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Speaker 1: further into the timeline of your typical Adams Family story.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's one bit of cannon that I
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Speaker 1: would not be able to get behind if it did diminish.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on The Adams Family Musical. Um,
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Speaker 1: I have only heard a couple of songs from it.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen it. I heard one was it It's
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Speaker 1: It's about being Crazy. Um, It's It's Wednesday singing to
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Speaker 1: her love interest in it um and and I thought
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Speaker 1: that the song was adorable, but I honestly don't know
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Speaker 1: enough about it too have an opinion. Like but again,
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Speaker 1: like the song I thought was adorable, but it was
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Speaker 1: also out of context, right. It was isolated, So you
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Speaker 1: could have told me that this was a song from
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Speaker 1: any show and it wouldn't have made a difference to
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Speaker 1: me because there wasn't enough identifiable information in the song
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Speaker 1: to make me say, oh, that's from the Adams Family Musical.
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Speaker 1: Actually had to look it up because it was one
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Speaker 1: of those that came on, I had like some you know,
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Speaker 1: web based radio station of Broadway stuff playing, and it
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Speaker 1: came on and I had no idea what it was. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: now I would have to agree there. Um, the songs
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Speaker 1: are catchy, but they don't necessarily for the most part,
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Speaker 1: don't don't stand out to me. I do think it's
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Speaker 1: interesting that we're getting a bunch of like the Monsters
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Speaker 1: and the Adams Family, and there's a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: horror jacent material coming out. Correct, Everybody I know is
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Speaker 1: already saying, hey, it's time for Halloween already. Um, they're
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Speaker 1: saying that in June. I was like, I was joking
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Speaker 1: about that, but I part of it is that I'm
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Speaker 1: craving cooler weather, and part of it is that that
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Speaker 1: the silly spookiness of Halloween is far preferable to the
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Speaker 1: nightmarish world we live in. Fair enough, fair enough. So
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Speaker 1: our next news item, moving right along, no good segue,
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Speaker 1: is about the Orville. And I just find this interesting
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Speaker 1: because right as like literally five different friends of mine said,
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Speaker 1: I wonder what's up with season three of Orville? Uh,
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Speaker 1: we got news about season three or Fourville. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: so Orville, the Orville is of course Seth McFarland's television
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Speaker 1: series that is clearly inspired by Star Trek the Next Generation.
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Speaker 1: And is it. I mean, it's it's impossible to you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean he said as much, right, Like, it's like
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Speaker 1: he has a love of Star Trek. But you may
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Speaker 1: have noticed that, you know, more recent Star Trek work,
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Speaker 1: with some exceptions, has been kind of that dark and
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Speaker 1: action oriented material, which is not what a lot of
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Speaker 1: classic Trek was really about. You know, you had moments
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Speaker 1: of action, but they weren't like action packed. It was
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Speaker 1: more about you know, figuring things out, exploration, diplomacy, that
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Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Well, the first two seasons were on Fox,
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Speaker 1: and then there was an announcement that it was going
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Speaker 1: to move over to Hulu for season three, and then
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Speaker 1: this little thing called COVID happened and it totally messed
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Speaker 1: up the production schedule, and that's why it's been a
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Speaker 1: very long quiet period. But now we know that it's
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Speaker 1: back in production. Yep, they've actually got some clips from
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Speaker 1: different episodes of season three, which means that it's it's
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Speaker 1: more than just yeah, we're getting back up. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited for this. I feel like So when I
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Speaker 1: talk about for Escape, I always and my friends talked
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Speaker 1: about for Escape. We say how it tried to be
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Speaker 1: a serious sci fi and then eventually it found its
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Speaker 1: niche with a little bit of this eight and a
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Speaker 1: little bit of the heart wrenching. I feel like or
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Speaker 1: Else the opposite. It tried to be family guy at
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Speaker 1: the very beginning, and then it really like found this
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Speaker 1: nice little like groove of quirky yet heartwarming, and the
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Speaker 1: further along we get, the like the more serious it gets,
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Speaker 1: and I kind of like, I like, yeah, I agree,
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Speaker 1: I was. I wrote off the Orderville early on because
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Speaker 1: I just figured it was going to be yet another
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Speaker 1: Seth McFarland, you know, joke fest with like tons of
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Speaker 1: references thrown into substitute for actual jokes. Like I have
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Speaker 1: a very low opinion of Seth McFarland, but I also
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Speaker 1: feel like that is a show that, just like Star
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Speaker 1: Trek the Next Generation, I mean, that show had at
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Speaker 1: least a season and a half of some ugly growing
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Speaker 1: pains before it started getting good. So like, I feel like,
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Speaker 1: I feel like the Orville is starting to really come
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Speaker 1: into its own. Also, we hear that there are apparently
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Speaker 1: talks for a potential fourth season with Hulu, even before
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Speaker 1: the third one starts to air, So that's great news
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Speaker 1: as well. It is I know that seven McFarland was
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Speaker 1: looking at doing some other projects, so it'll be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see if if he thinks he can balance them all.
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Speaker 1: But I would definitely like at this point, would like
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Speaker 1: more seasons of Orville after this third one. What we
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Speaker 1: got a couple more quick stories to talk about. One
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Speaker 1: is that we got a preview for season three of
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Speaker 1: Doom Patrol and it is super trippy it is, which
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Speaker 1: is right on brand for Doom Patrol. Um. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: season two ended earlier than they expected it too, and
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Speaker 1: it ended on a real cliffing once again, kind of
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Speaker 1: like the end of our skip. But to our listeners
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Speaker 1: have not watched it. It all comes back to for escape.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm rewatching it, so it's on it's on
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Speaker 1: my mind right now. But it ended just like in
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Speaker 1: this place where you're like, really, this is where it ends.
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Speaker 1: And thankfully this new trailer like a little bit says Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna resolve this, but also in a
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Speaker 1: way that's like, oh, you have no clue it look
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Speaker 1: like I can't follow anything in Australia. It's got tons
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Speaker 1: of really trippy visuals and like it's all disconnected. But
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Speaker 1: I'll also say that I found it incredibly appealing. Like
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Speaker 1: I just found Doom Patrol is again, Like there's certain
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Speaker 1: things in d C that I think are are really
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Speaker 1: hitting their stride and Doom Patrol is one of those things.
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Speaker 1: And you know me, I've been incredibly critical about d CS,
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Speaker 1: you know, media outreach, whether it's films or series or whatever,
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Speaker 1: but I feel Doom Patrol really is consistently interesting and
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Speaker 1: entertaining and sometimes well often extremely twisted. Yeah, yeah, it
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Speaker 1: definitely you have to you have to know that what
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Speaker 1: you're getting into, I think, to enjoy it going in.
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Speaker 1: But um, I've I've enjoyed it way more than I
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Speaker 1: anticipated I would um, and I'm very much looking forward
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Speaker 1: to it. If you like doing Patrol, you should definitely
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Speaker 1: check out the Neutril. The last thing we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about before we go into heart break is that Idris
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Speaker 1: Elba has signed on for the Sonic the Hedgehog two
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Speaker 1: movies as Knuckles. Yeah, he posted he tweeted out a
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Speaker 1: picture close up of Knuckles is spiked glove with the
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Speaker 1: message knock knock and hashtag Sonic movie to hashtag knuckles,
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Speaker 1: which then got more than a quarter of million likes.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I think somewhere it's somewhere in like the
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Speaker 1: four thousand range at this point, um, and more than
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Speaker 1: a thousand comments because uh, the Sonic fans are crazy. Now.
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Speaker 1: I will say this, like indras aba Insoba is like
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Speaker 1: a phenomenal actor, and he's a great voice actor too.
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Speaker 1: He's done voice acting for other projects, So I think
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Speaker 1: that this is like, it's not the casting I would
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Speaker 1: have imagined. But I'm not mad at it. I just
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Speaker 1: mostly find it so absurd to see the reaction, right,
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Speaker 1: like just the the enormous reaction to the announcement. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: me too, especially after and we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: this after after the break after you know, suicide Squad,
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Speaker 1: where some people are saying that like Idris Elba is
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Speaker 1: not a huge box office strade. To me, he is.
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Speaker 1: He's just such a phenomenal actor and um, very versatile.
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Speaker 1: But because of that, sometimes I forget that he does
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Speaker 1: voice acting and he has a goofy side, like I
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Speaker 1: can barely remember he was in Cats. Uh, so y'all
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Speaker 1: have tried so hard to forget hats. You know, he's
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Speaker 1: he's a sense of humor. It's just that like he's
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Speaker 1: obviously he's known for playing sort of dead pans, serious
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Speaker 1: and sometimes extremely intense characters like that's that's like his resume.
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Speaker 1: But the man himself has clearly got a real sense
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Speaker 1: of humor. Like if you ever see him in interview
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Speaker 1: shows and stuff, you really see see that come out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he does a great rendition if Baby got Back, I'll
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Speaker 1: take your word for that. That's the one I have
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Speaker 1: not seen. Well. On that note, we are going to
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Speaker 1: take a quick break and when we get back, we're
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Speaker 1: going to discuss some Suicide Squad. Yes, okay, Ariel, did
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Speaker 1: you watch the new The Suicide Squad film? I did
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Speaker 1: watch the Suicide Squad film. Uh. I double featured it
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Speaker 1: with another movie that came out just recently called The
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Speaker 1: Paper Tigers. Interesting. I only saw The Suicide Squad. I
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Speaker 1: watched it on Friday, and I thought I couldn't decide
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Speaker 1: if I liked it or not. Um I thought it
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Speaker 1: was I thought it was a well made movie. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was an entertaining movie in many places. But
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Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out if. I definitely think it's miles
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Speaker 1: better than the Suicide Squad film from two thousand sixteen,
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Speaker 1: like Night and Day better, but I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I like it. So I think your review of it,
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Speaker 1: because you told me when you watched it, um, and
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Speaker 1: then I asked you some questions prepared me, prepared my
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Speaker 1: mindset going into it so that I thoroughly I expected
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Speaker 1: all of the gore. I expected the bizarreness. So in
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Speaker 1: both of those respects, it actually wasn't as bizarre or
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Speaker 1: as gory as I anticipated. King also in half long ways,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, oh yeah, I mean there is gore, but
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Speaker 1: for some reason I expected a lot more. Um. I
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Speaker 1: mean it is gory. It is just gory. If you
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Speaker 1: haven't watched it yet, it's gory and it is bizarre.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I saw the review saying that there
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Speaker 1: was some full frontal male nudity, and there was less
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Speaker 1: of that than I expected as well. So um, all
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Speaker 1: in all, I think I was like I was going
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Speaker 1: in at eleven and I came out at a nine.
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Speaker 1: But that's okay. I really enjoyed it. Standard to d
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Speaker 1: C EU movies, I felt like it was a little
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Speaker 1: long and and had a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: story going into it. That being said, I feel like
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Speaker 1: James Gunn did it in a way that was very interesting,
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Speaker 1: and when the extra act at the end of the
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Speaker 1: movie came on or started, I was excited for it
19:51
Speaker 1: as opposed to thinking, oh my god, is this movie
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Speaker 1: so there there are a lot of things that I
19:56
Speaker 1: think we're done extremely well in the movie. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: one of the things that that would kind of irritated me.
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Speaker 1: Not irritated, but just like, I question the reasoning for
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Speaker 1: having that be part of the story is that you
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Speaker 1: do kind of have your own little Harley Quinn featurette
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Speaker 1: buried in the middle of this movie. Did you watch
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Speaker 1: the pitch meeting for it? Know? Is that what they
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Speaker 1: talked about YouTube among many movie inside the Suicide Squad movie? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they said, she needs her own movie. Well she already
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Speaker 1: got one, Well she gets another little When I was watching,
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Speaker 1: I was like this, like, it's good, it's entertaining, it's
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Speaker 1: a good but it feels almost like it could have
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Speaker 1: been a separate thing that would exist as its own
20:52
Speaker 1: featurette that is related to the film, right, Like you
20:57
Speaker 1: could have taken all of that out, Uh, you still
21:00
Speaker 1: would have had to figure out a way of getting
21:01
Speaker 1: Harley with the other characters, because you know, for those
21:03
Speaker 1: who don't know, the movie opens up with a a
21:09
Speaker 1: a surprise and characters are not necessarily with each other
21:14
Speaker 1: at the beginning, and they have to meet up later.
21:17
Speaker 1: And I don't want to spoil anything because it is
21:19
Speaker 1: worth seeing. Also, like it's James Gunn going back to
21:24
Speaker 1: some horror elements, which you know he did Slither, which
21:28
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal horror movie. And I feel like this
21:31
Speaker 1: has a lot of D n A in common with Slither. Um,
21:38
Speaker 1: It's like, I still don't know if I like it.
21:41
Speaker 1: It's definitely I can definitely recognize the good parts of it.
21:45
Speaker 1: I mean, I enjoy I thought it was very entertaining. Um,
21:49
Speaker 1: I really like so one of the things that he did.
21:52
Speaker 1: And I don't think this is a spoiler, but if
21:54
Speaker 1: you're worried that it is, just fair warning is instead
21:58
Speaker 1: of trying to explore lane everything at the beginning, just
22:01
Speaker 1: every once in a while we get character's backstory. Um.
22:06
Speaker 1: And well, I knew that that was a device that
22:09
Speaker 1: James Gunn was using in the movie to make us
22:11
Speaker 1: relate to the characters. I almost didn't mind it. Um.
22:15
Speaker 1: It was like a nice little breather from all of
22:17
Speaker 1: the gore and the action in the zanies. So um,
22:21
Speaker 1: I I really enjoyed that part of it. And I
22:23
Speaker 1: connected with the characters. I didn't think I will, and
22:25
Speaker 1: it was definitely Yeah, I connected with a character that
22:29
Speaker 1: was the big bad. Because there's one line, one stupid
22:34
Speaker 1: line the James Gunn puts in the stupid movie that
22:38
Speaker 1: makes you feel bad for the big bad. Okay, but anyway, Um, really,
22:46
Speaker 1: there's really one villain in the Suicide Squad, and it's
22:49
Speaker 1: not the giant starfish monster. See. I I feel like
22:54
Speaker 1: there's a few villains. There's there's one villain, and that's
22:57
Speaker 1: the United States governments. That's the real villain of the
23:02
Speaker 1: Suicide Squad. That's not a spoiler, because I mean that's
23:04
Speaker 1: the whole like premise, right, you have the government using
23:08
Speaker 1: villains as as as cannon fodder and to just throw
23:12
Speaker 1: it problems that they otherwise can't do. And because their villains,
23:16
Speaker 1: it gives the government plausible deniability to say, oh, those
23:20
Speaker 1: are villains being villains and if they die, well they're
23:22
Speaker 1: bad guys. So you kind of want them to die anyway,
23:25
Speaker 1: like you you get that the United States is like
23:27
Speaker 1: the worst um the government. There was one, Yeah, there
23:31
Speaker 1: was one death that I was exceptionally sad about. I'm sure, like,
23:35
Speaker 1: but it was I bet it's the death that I
23:38
Speaker 1: felt was completely telegraphed by the trailers. And we'll talk
23:41
Speaker 1: about off the show so that we don't Yeah yeah,
23:45
Speaker 1: but also I mean right away if like, it's not
23:48
Speaker 1: a surprise to anybody who actually watches d C stuff
23:52
Speaker 1: and cartoons and reads comics and stuff. But right away
23:55
Speaker 1: they dispelled the the image of a man of Waller
24:00
Speaker 1: being you know, an upstanding here motivated women. She's she's
24:05
Speaker 1: a psychopath in this movie. Um yeah, like this is
24:11
Speaker 1: their their choices that James Gunn makes that I think
24:13
Speaker 1: are phenomenal and are really really great. I don't know,
24:17
Speaker 1: maybe the film just didn't quite feel cohesive enough to me.
24:22
Speaker 1: Something about it just didn't stick with me. But that
24:26
Speaker 1: being said, all the individual performances are great. Margot Robbie
24:30
Speaker 1: continues to absolutely slay it as Harley Quinn. She is
24:34
Speaker 1: so good. But everyone is fantastic, and you know, getting
24:40
Speaker 1: to to feel empathy for characters like Rat Catcher two
24:44
Speaker 1: and Polka Dot Man. It's pretty phenomenal. It is now
24:48
Speaker 1: it's really interesting because you don't know if you like it,
24:50
Speaker 1: but a whole bunch of people did. It got amazing
24:53
Speaker 1: critical response, right like in the nineties on the critical
24:57
Speaker 1: response is great, but once again we saw review bombing
25:01
Speaker 1: going on as well, so that the audience score was
25:05
Speaker 1: different from what the critics score was. And generally it
25:08
Speaker 1: sounds like it was fans of the Snyder verse who
25:12
Speaker 1: are continuing to be upset that d C hasn't like
25:18
Speaker 1: tripled down on the Snyder approach to the d C EU,
25:22
Speaker 1: and so they were review bombing the movie before it
25:26
Speaker 1: hadn't even come out. Do you think that's the reason
25:29
Speaker 1: that the box office is so low because that's been
25:31
Speaker 1: the big news? Is that Suicide Squad? You know, well,
25:36
Speaker 1: it was highest grossing during the pandemic for a rated
25:38
Speaker 1: R movie, but it's still underperformed what they were for
25:41
Speaker 1: because it brought in twenty six and a half million
25:43
Speaker 1: dollars domestically over opening weekend, which is pretty low these days. Okay,
25:49
Speaker 1: I think that this is a an issue that is
25:52
Speaker 1: far too complicated to boil it down to a single
25:55
Speaker 1: or even one or two causes, right, because so much
26:01
Speaker 1: stuff is happening right now that impacts box office. We
26:06
Speaker 1: are in the middle of a surge of the pandemic
26:10
Speaker 1: where we've got like the delta and potentially the lambda
26:14
Speaker 1: variants of coronavirus taking holds of certain regions like Georgia,
26:19
Speaker 1: where Ariel and I live, are really being hit hard
26:23
Speaker 1: right now. Like there are hospitals in our state that
26:27
Speaker 1: are turning away ambulances because they have no room in
26:31
Speaker 1: the ICU to bring anyone else in. So, like that's
26:36
Speaker 1: you know that that was what we were worried about
26:38
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the pandemic of last year, was
26:42
Speaker 1: that we would overwhelm the hospitals. Well that's happening again.
26:45
Speaker 1: So in that environment, I assume there are a lot
26:48
Speaker 1: of people who are, you know, maybe a little reluctant
26:50
Speaker 1: to go to the theater and potentially become part of
26:53
Speaker 1: the problem. Uh. Then you also had the like us,
26:57
Speaker 1: we were going to see it in the theater. And
26:59
Speaker 1: then you had the fact that it was released simultaneously
27:03
Speaker 1: on HBO Max, which is you know what Warner Brothers
27:06
Speaker 1: said they were going to do um And so you've
27:09
Speaker 1: got some people saying, well, of course, if people are
27:12
Speaker 1: already subscribed to HBO Max, why would they pay extra
27:15
Speaker 1: to go see it in the theater. I mean, apart
27:17
Speaker 1: from the fact that you know, movies are meant to
27:18
Speaker 1: be seen on big screens. But I think most of us, uh, like,
27:22
Speaker 1: we measure that against convenience and safety and we make
27:26
Speaker 1: our decisions and like Ariel, I decided to watch it
27:29
Speaker 1: at home. Um, so that's part of it. I think
27:34
Speaker 1: that's so. I think there's just a lot of different
27:36
Speaker 1: elements that all together mean that it's a lower take
27:40
Speaker 1: in the box office. That being said, Black Widow was
27:44
Speaker 1: released in theaters and on Disney Plus and still made
27:49
Speaker 1: eighty million at the theaters. So but I feel like
27:52
Speaker 1: the difference there is if you wanted to watch it
27:54
Speaker 1: on Disney Plus, you had to pay thirty That's true.
27:56
Speaker 1: You did have to pay, which I did and I
27:59
Speaker 1: didn't mind doing because again, that would be to less
28:02
Speaker 1: than two movie movie tickets for myself and my husband. Atlanta.
28:06
Speaker 1: That's true because I think like the national average ticket
28:12
Speaker 1: prices somewhere around like eleven or twelve dollars, but that's
28:16
Speaker 1: not the case in Atlanta. No, Atlanta's like fifteen and
28:20
Speaker 1: twenty at least to your point. You know it with
28:22
Speaker 1: HBO Max you don't have to pay extra so as
28:25
Speaker 1: you as you point out, that is very different from
28:27
Speaker 1: The Black Widow. And even if you do by HBO
28:32
Speaker 1: Max to to watch the movie, which I'm sure some
28:34
Speaker 1: people did, if you keep it, you know, then they
28:36
Speaker 1: get that additional revenue. But how much of that actually
28:40
Speaker 1: goes into the movie numbers. You know, there's been a
28:42
Speaker 1: big kerfuffle between studios and the actors and the unions
28:46
Speaker 1: and all this because they're still trying to figure it out.
28:48
Speaker 1: On Matt Damon's Hot Ones interview, he actually talked about
28:52
Speaker 1: how streaming effects uh movie movie takes and how that
28:56
Speaker 1: factors into what kind of movies are made. That's why
28:58
Speaker 1: we're getting a lot more act shouldn't a big blockbuster,
29:01
Speaker 1: he said, because to do something like cider house rules
29:04
Speaker 1: are good while hunting where it's it's more of like
29:06
Speaker 1: a casual drama. I guess I would say, like you
29:11
Speaker 1: have to make all of the marketing, all of the
29:13
Speaker 1: production money back, and now you've got half the box office.
29:17
Speaker 1: Because things are going to streaming more quickly, you don't
29:20
Speaker 1: have the DVD, blu ray VHS sales anymore, and so
29:25
Speaker 1: it's a lot bigger of a gamble to do a
29:27
Speaker 1: smaller movie like that. So it's just the industry is
29:30
Speaker 1: still figuring it out. And what we're doing is we're
29:34
Speaker 1: seeing we're seeing a massive disruption that began as soon
29:38
Speaker 1: as we started seeing the first streaming services. And obviously
29:42
Speaker 1: Netflix has had to deal with this because they still
29:44
Speaker 1: produce a ton of original content, but you know, in
29:49
Speaker 1: order to grow that, either need to get more subscribers
29:51
Speaker 1: or they have to start charging more per month. And
29:55
Speaker 1: I think everybody else is starting to come to grips
29:58
Speaker 1: with that same reality. And as you point out, Aerial,
30:01
Speaker 1: it gets really hard then to associate the amount of
30:06
Speaker 1: revenue your your business is generating with specific products, right Like,
30:12
Speaker 1: if if it's a subscription based service, then it's pretty
30:16
Speaker 1: hard for you to make the argument of yeah, but
30:19
Speaker 1: the people who are subscribed to it, because the suicide squad,
30:22
Speaker 1: right like, you can't really make that argument. So it
30:26
Speaker 1: does mean that we're seeing a transformation in the business
30:29
Speaker 1: side of Hollywood, which ultimately could mean a massive change
30:34
Speaker 1: in the types of films we see. And that's not
30:37
Speaker 1: necessarily a bad thing. It does mean that, you know,
30:40
Speaker 1: there might be a time where stuff we've gotten used
30:42
Speaker 1: to seeing just isn't coming out as much anymore. But
30:48
Speaker 1: people are endlessly creative and there are an unlimited number
30:52
Speaker 1: of stories to tell. So I am confident that what
30:57
Speaker 1: however this does shake out, we're still going to have
30:59
Speaker 1: incredible films. They just might be made in a much
31:03
Speaker 1: different way than the way we've become used to over
31:07
Speaker 1: the last decade or so. I agree, And it's it's
31:11
Speaker 1: it's change, you know, from the last decade. So it'll
31:15
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what's next. Yes, now what's next
31:17
Speaker 1: for us is we're going to take a break, but
31:19
Speaker 1: when we come back, we're gonna have an interesting mash
31:24
Speaker 1: up between some wacky Shenanigan causing siblings and some zombes
31:30
Speaker 1: zombes zombe. Let's go to break, all right. Well, first
31:52
Speaker 1: of all, my apologies to the Cranberries. Um, no apologies
31:56
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, if I have to apologize, you
31:58
Speaker 1: are real. I gotta apologize to eybody else who listened.
32:00
Speaker 1: So that's just gonna take up my whole day. You
32:04
Speaker 1: did it surprisingly well, Yeah, so are two of our
32:09
Speaker 1: our mashups today we're doing because these are kind of
32:12
Speaker 1: related to news items that we did not cover at
32:14
Speaker 1: the beginning, but we wanted to go over very quickly.
32:17
Speaker 1: One of those is that before too long, we're going
32:21
Speaker 1: to get Night of the Animated Dead and animated film
32:25
Speaker 1: adaptation of the classic zombie movie Neither Living Dead, which
32:31
Speaker 1: is in public domain. There was a mess up with
32:35
Speaker 1: that film where the copyright notice wasn't properly filed and displayed,
32:40
Speaker 1: so Neither Living Dead's in public domain. Literally, anyone can
32:44
Speaker 1: screen that anywhere, anytime, you can charge money for it.
32:48
Speaker 1: It's there's there's no copyright on Neither Living Dead, and
32:54
Speaker 1: we're getting an animated film in which they're going to
32:57
Speaker 1: add in some stuff that wasn't in the original movie.
33:00
Speaker 1: It is interesting that it's going to be like in
33:04
Speaker 1: in streaming services, and also it's going to be on
33:08
Speaker 1: Blu ray and DVD. I guess some people still buy those, um,
33:13
Speaker 1: I mean I do if it's like you can't guarantee
33:16
Speaker 1: you're always going to be able to get the movie
33:17
Speaker 1: you want for free online, so I sometimes by I
33:21
Speaker 1: just don't have space for stuff anymore, so I don't
33:24
Speaker 1: buy those things to clutter up my house. But yeah,
33:27
Speaker 1: it's a that's that's coming out. So that's one of
33:30
Speaker 1: the two items we're going to take. And then the
33:32
Speaker 1: other one is Animaniacs season two trailer is out. Um.
33:37
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm still working through the season one
33:40
Speaker 1: of Animaniacs. Um. And I felt like the season one
33:46
Speaker 1: was hitted miss and I'm really hoping that season two
33:49
Speaker 1: finds its scroop a lot more. I know they tested
33:51
Speaker 1: out a few new characters and segments in season one.
33:54
Speaker 1: Season two still looks like it's banking a little bit
33:57
Speaker 1: on the gross base level humor a little bit um,
34:00
Speaker 1: but not too much. Wackos I pops out of his
34:03
Speaker 1: head at once, that's true. Yeah, the season two trailers
34:08
Speaker 1: really more of a teaser, It's not there's not a
34:11
Speaker 1: whole lot of content to it. Um. Yeah. And it's
34:13
Speaker 1: interesting because when I think of Animaniacs, I think of
34:16
Speaker 1: the original run where there were a lot more characters,
34:22
Speaker 1: uh and segments, right, and then they essentially boiled it
34:25
Speaker 1: down to the two that were the most popular, which
34:27
Speaker 1: were the Warner brothers and their sister and Pinky in
34:31
Speaker 1: the brain. Um, So we don't have like characters like
34:34
Speaker 1: the good feathers and all that anymore, which you know,
34:38
Speaker 1: I realized that shows need to grow and move on,
34:40
Speaker 1: and we talked about often how we don't want shows
34:42
Speaker 1: to just keep rehashing the old things. I wouldn't mind
34:45
Speaker 1: a Rita and run musical. Maybe I feel like a
34:50
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff they have cut out kind of
34:54
Speaker 1: needed cutting because they were the least consistent. Thank goodness,
34:58
Speaker 1: they don't have Katie Kaboom in the anymore. Um. Yeah,
35:02
Speaker 1: there's certain certain segments that were just terrible. But that
35:06
Speaker 1: being said, we are now going to mash up the
35:09
Speaker 1: classic NI the Living Dead and animaniacs. Uh. And for
35:13
Speaker 1: those who aren't aware, Night the Living Dead was not
35:15
Speaker 1: the first zombie movie. It's not like it was the
35:18
Speaker 1: original zombie film of all time, but it is. I
35:21
Speaker 1: would argue the zombie film that's set up certain tropes
35:25
Speaker 1: that we still see today, which are things like, you know,
35:29
Speaker 1: especially for slow shuffling zombies, they're the recently dead. Um,
35:34
Speaker 1: they hunger for human flesh. Killing them usually requires that
35:39
Speaker 1: you have to want. In DII The Living Dead, it
35:41
Speaker 1: actually involves setting them on fire or destroying the brain. Um.
35:46
Speaker 1: But like these are little things that would that planted
35:50
Speaker 1: the seeds for what we think of when we get
35:52
Speaker 1: to movie zombies. Um, and do you want me to
35:57
Speaker 1: go first? Or do you want to go first? Areal?
36:00
Speaker 1: I'll go first, all right, So I'm gonna apologize for
36:05
Speaker 1: any time I attempt a Warner sibling voice. It's not
36:11
Speaker 1: going to be good. This is called Night of the
36:13
Speaker 1: Living Dot. All right, Yacko, Wacko and Dot were doing
36:17
Speaker 1: their huge you know, running around the Warner movie lot
36:19
Speaker 1: one sunny afternoon, playing their daily game of hide and seek.
36:22
Speaker 1: They had just tagged an unsuspecting Ralph the security guard
36:25
Speaker 1: and Dr Scratch and Sniff, and had reached their home base,
36:29
Speaker 1: the water Tower, except one of the Warner siblings was
36:32
Speaker 1: not alone. Look, said Wacko, I found a pet. Can
36:36
Speaker 1: I keep him? Can I keep him? Can I keep him?
36:38
Speaker 1: As he held up a gaunt, moaning, grayish small figure,
36:41
Speaker 1: what is it? Said Dot? Some sort of chihuahua, asked Yacko.
36:46
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I love him, said Wacko, kissing
36:48
Speaker 1: the figure's face with a big wet lick. Yacko and
36:51
Speaker 1: Dot agreed to let Wacco keep him as long as
36:53
Speaker 1: Wacko promised to housebreak it. And Wacko promised. Wacko named
36:57
Speaker 1: the pet Stinky because of the smell. The next day,
37:00
Speaker 1: when it was time to play their daily game of
37:02
Speaker 1: hide and seek, Wacko was dragging. When asked what was wrong,
37:05
Speaker 1: he said he didn't feel so good. He had been
37:07
Speaker 1: up all night with Stinky, who was being a naughty
37:09
Speaker 1: pet by biting him and refusing to eat his healthy
37:11
Speaker 1: birthday cake for dinner and all honesty. Wacko didn't look
37:15
Speaker 1: too good either, but he rallied and they began their game.
37:18
Speaker 1: Wacko saw it and found Yacko first, but instead of
37:20
Speaker 1: tagging him, he bit him. Yacko said, yeah, hey, bro,
37:24
Speaker 1: what gives and Wacko just moaned. But fair was fair?
37:27
Speaker 1: So now Yacko was also it, and they saw it
37:29
Speaker 1: for Dot, but Jacko also started feeling not so good,
37:35
Speaker 1: and he started feeling hungry. What Wacko was feeling hungry too,
37:38
Speaker 1: But Wacko is always hungry, so nothing seemed off there.
37:41
Speaker 1: Next day ran across Chicken Boo while they were looking
37:44
Speaker 1: for Dot and thought, oh chicken, and they bait him too.
37:48
Speaker 1: Then Boo joined the search. Along the way, they passed
37:50
Speaker 1: the famous Warner movie Graveyard, where they could see a
37:53
Speaker 1: brother and sister playing with a bunch of those ugly, gray,
37:56
Speaker 1: moaning puppies. Yacko said, oh, more puppies, because he's not
38:00
Speaker 1: failing good and opened the gates to the studio lot,
38:03
Speaker 1: and the puppies rushed in. Soon almost everyone was tagged Rita, Run, Slappy, Skippy, Hello, Nurse,
38:11
Speaker 1: and even Brain well everyone except Dot, being the clever one.
38:15
Speaker 1: She realized what was happening that all the puppies were
38:17
Speaker 1: actually zombies and locked herself in the water tower for safety,
38:20
Speaker 1: thinking herself now the only Hide and Seek survivor on
38:22
Speaker 1: the lot. All of a sudden, she heard a norf
38:25
Speaker 1: at the water tower door. Turns out Pinky had escaped
38:28
Speaker 1: the clutches of the zombie Horde as well, so she
38:30
Speaker 1: led him in. The Warner Brother executives high and safe
38:32
Speaker 1: in their tower were powerless to fix the situation, having
38:35
Speaker 1: given up their rights to the Armies of the Dead
38:37
Speaker 1: on Netflix. However, they knew the show must go on
38:40
Speaker 1: and tried to spin it as a new Animaniacs, darker universe.
38:45
Speaker 1: They even rewrote some of the songs come join the
38:49
Speaker 1: and They're surviving, Sister Dot, and You're not as man,
38:52
Speaker 1: You're a zombie boo. But those songs didn't really catch
38:55
Speaker 1: on well all, except for Where's Pinky? We want brains Now.
38:59
Speaker 1: Legend has it that Dot and Pinky are still up
39:02
Speaker 1: there in the water tower fighting their time, hoping someday
39:05
Speaker 1: they can safely emerge. The Warner Brothers studio now claims
39:08
Speaker 1: it was all a marketing ploy and there wasn't really
39:10
Speaker 1: a zombie outbreak. You can't tour that part of the
39:13
Speaker 1: studio lot anymore, though, if you want to risk it.
39:16
Speaker 1: You can't sneak in through the Warner Movie Graveyard, but
39:18
Speaker 1: venture into the zany to the max at your own risk.
39:22
Speaker 1: Dunt dunt dunk. I like it very, very dark and whimsical.
39:29
Speaker 1: Um mine is called Georgia Merrow's Night of the Maniacs.
39:35
Speaker 1: I'm Sorry and the Maniacs. Barbara and Johnny have a problem.
39:42
Speaker 1: They're on their way to visit the grave of their
39:44
Speaker 1: late father, but the cemetery is a three hour drive
39:48
Speaker 1: from their home, and then they have to drive the
39:51
Speaker 1: three hours back. Meanwhile, a storm appears to be brewing
39:54
Speaker 1: and the car radio has cut out. They get to
39:57
Speaker 1: the cemetery and after some back and forth, bar Bra
40:00
Speaker 1: shows a little discomfort. Johnny, amused at how his sister
40:04
Speaker 1: finds the graveyard unsettling, tells his sister there coming to
40:08
Speaker 1: get you, Barbara, and points to a trio of shambling
40:12
Speaker 1: figures in the distance. Stop it, Johnny yells Barbara, and Johnny,
40:17
Speaker 1: growing board of the juvenile game, turns to head back
40:19
Speaker 1: to the car. But that's when he sees that between
40:22
Speaker 1: him and the car are the three figures, and they
40:25
Speaker 1: are bounding toward him, yelling boying gee, boying gi boying gee.
40:30
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, they've pounced on him and Barbara, terrified,
40:35
Speaker 1: runs toward a farmhouse as the three weird creatures poke,
40:38
Speaker 1: prad and latch onto Johnny. Who are you, screams Johnny.
40:43
Speaker 1: Where the Warner brothers says one and the Warner sister
40:48
Speaker 1: says another. I'm Jacko, says the first one. I'm Lacko
40:52
Speaker 1: says a shorter one with a hat, and I'm Dot
40:55
Speaker 1: says the third. And you're our new best friend, yells Jacko.
40:59
Speaker 1: Johnny her fight tries to run, but because he has
41:02
Speaker 1: a Warner brother and a Warner sister grabbing each of
41:05
Speaker 1: his legs, he loses his balance and falls, hitting his
41:08
Speaker 1: head on a gravestone. He has clearly passed on. Yikes,
41:12
Speaker 1: says Wacko. I wonder what's eating him? I suggest we do,
41:16
Speaker 1: says Dot, pulling out a knife and fork. Ah so
41:20
Speaker 1: it's that kind of movie, says Yaco, and the three
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Speaker 1: ravenously descend upon Johnny. Meanwhile, Barbara makes it to the
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Speaker 1: farmhouse and sees that no one's home. She wanders around,
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Speaker 1: picking up a phone, but the line is dead, and
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Speaker 1: as is a person in one of the rooms upstairs.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty unsettling. A man named Ben arrives at the
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Speaker 1: house and tries to talk with Barbara, but she's clearly
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Speaker 1: catatonic from fear. Ben sets about trying to secure the house,
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Speaker 1: already aware of the danger of some maniacs on the loose.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry animaniacs. As he is boarding up a door, Barbara,
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Speaker 1: here's brains, brains, and then whoops, sorry, I'm Brian point
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Speaker 1: and she looks over and sees a pair of mice
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Speaker 1: shambling toward her inside the house. She lets a scream
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Speaker 1: and scrabbles away. Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
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Speaker 1: Asks the shorter mouse with the really big head. I
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Speaker 1: think so Brian says the taller mouse. But if Zack
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Speaker 1: Snyder directs a reboot of the sequel, won't the film
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Speaker 1: be considered derivative action movie. Barbara runs from the room
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Speaker 1: just as Ben comes around the corner, and the door
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Speaker 1: opens up, and up from the basement come two men,
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Speaker 1: one slightly older and one younger. Harry is the older one,
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Speaker 1: Tom's the younger one, and they usher the pair downstairs
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Speaker 1: into the basement, and then we've got this really long
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Speaker 1: discussion inside the basement between the various characters as to
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Speaker 1: whether it's better to stay down there or to make
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Speaker 1: a run for it using a truck that's parked outside
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Speaker 1: the farmhouse. I mean this, this talk goes on for
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Speaker 1: a long time, honestly, in fact, long enough that we
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Speaker 1: kind of forget about the maniacs. I'm sorry, the animaniacs outside,
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of interpersonal drama, so it's okay.
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Speaker 1: The discussion is broken up when a window to the
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Speaker 1: basement breaks in and in fly three shabby looking pigeons
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Speaker 1: who talk like gangsters for some reason, and the humans
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Speaker 1: scream and they run up the stairs and like one
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Speaker 1: or two of them die. But I didn't bother naming them,
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Speaker 1: so that's fine. They get upstairs, and first they find
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Speaker 1: out that, you know, there are a few other maniacs
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Speaker 1: i'm sorry, animaniacs to worry about. There's this oblivious toddler
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Speaker 1: who's destroying everything she touches, and her extremely anxious dog.
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Speaker 1: There's a pair of squirrels, one who is trying out
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Speaker 1: jokes that wouldn't have gone over in the cat's skills
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Speaker 1: back in the batt old days. And there's a dog
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Speaker 1: and cats singing about stuff. Plus there are others, and
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Speaker 1: what follows is a zany sequence in which the humans
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Speaker 1: try to escape the maniacs I'm sorry, animaniacs, and and
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Speaker 1: they the animaniacs picked them off one by one or
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Speaker 1: sometimes two by two with cartoonish acts of violence. Only
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Speaker 1: the humans are in the real world, so while the
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Speaker 1: violence is cartoonish, the outcome is extreme, really realistic, And
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Speaker 1: there is a lot of body horror stuff going on here, y'all.
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Speaker 1: And then Yaco tries to calm everyone down until Dot
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Speaker 1: yells everybody quiet, and the maniacs I'm sorry, the animaniacs
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Speaker 1: and the remaining humans stopped to look at him, and
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Speaker 1: then the music starts out of nowhere. I've seen every
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Speaker 1: zombie flick from Versus to the Day of the Dead.
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Speaker 1: I've watched George ra Merrow tell us we need to
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Speaker 1: hit them in the head. Jeffrey comes to make corpses
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Speaker 1: moving the film The re Endamater, and I saw Killian's
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Speaker 1: junk in the beginning of twenty eight days later. Bill
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Speaker 1: Murray had a cameo that made us laugh in Zombie Land,
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Speaker 1: and Seth Green kind of had a zombie fist in
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Speaker 1: the film Idol Hands. If you're in South Korea, beware
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Speaker 1: of the train to Boosson and if you're in the Winchester,
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Speaker 1: say hello to my good friend Sean. Warm Bodies use
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Speaker 1: some zombies to give us Romeo and Juliet. Planet Terra
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Speaker 1: had zombies but wasn't really grindhouse yet. If there's a
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Speaker 1: zombie outbreak, don't go to the mall, fur shopping spree
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Speaker 1: or squish bugs and noncy de vi. Profanare il sandel
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Speaker 1: more Tea. It's a Italian zombie movie. But before you
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Speaker 1: Echo can continue his modern zombie movie song, his head
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Speaker 1: disappears and we hear the crack of a rifle shot
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Speaker 1: and we cut outside and there's this mob of humans
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Speaker 1: out there, and they just open up on that farmhouse
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Speaker 1: and what follows is a massacre of everyone in their
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Speaker 1: Animaniac and human alike, and then the mob pats themselves
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Speaker 1: on the back after a job well done. And as
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Speaker 1: the movie closes, we see two tiny figures slip out
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Speaker 1: from the house. We have to get out of here
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Speaker 1: and prepare for tomorrow night. Why why we gotta do
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, Brian, the same thing we do every night,
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Speaker 1: Pinky try to take over the world. Evil music sting credits. Jeez,
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Speaker 1: and you said mine was dark. I set mine in
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Speaker 1: the world of night Living. No, it's true, It's true.
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Speaker 1: It was really good. And at points I was like
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Speaker 1: when you started, I'm like, I'm not sure this wasn't
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Speaker 1: already in Animaniac's episode. But no, they don't get they
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Speaker 1: never go quite that dark. But it was brilliant. I
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Speaker 1: loved your song. Thank you for explaining. The Italian The
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Speaker 1: Italians really took the zombie film genre to heart after
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Speaker 1: The Living Dead um and made a lot of zombie movies,
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Speaker 1: including one in which a man fights a zombie shark.
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Speaker 1: That sounds brilliant to me. It is. Let put this way,
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