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Justice League of Their Own · 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,
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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 and how happy and excited we are about them.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting and with me as always is a
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Speaker 1: dude who is always a home run in my books
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. That's foreshadowing. Ariel, I got a question for you.
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Speaker 1: What fictional location would you most like to visit? This
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Speaker 1: is a tough one. There's so many it is. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this was one that I struggled on because as there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of fictional places that hold a special
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Speaker 1: spot in my heart. Although, to be fair, a lot
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Speaker 1: of them some some stuff goes down and some of
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Speaker 1: those visual locations, Um yeah, it's it's dorky. But Narnia,
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Speaker 1: Narnia is coolis cool. You got talking animals, You've got
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Speaker 1: talking animals, You've got you know, a diverse biodome, You've
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Speaker 1: got magic and wonders. It's just now you do have
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Speaker 1: the greatest evil ever made. Turkish delight. Turkish is the worst.
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Speaker 1: I love Turkish Delight. You are do you eat rose?
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Speaker 1: Flavored Turkish Delight, the chocolate flavor, the chocolate covered rose
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Speaker 1: flavored Turkish Delight, and lemon Turkish Delight. So like that
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Speaker 1: is to me, like that is like the that's like
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Speaker 1: anti candy. It's like eating solid perfume. I used to
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Speaker 1: have Okay, you know how kids eat Plato. I used
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Speaker 1: to have a tiscuit, a tasket of flower making basket,
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Speaker 1: which is a Plato thing, and it had rose scented
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Speaker 1: plato and it reminded me of that but better tasting.
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Speaker 1: Shut up. I was a little kid. Um. Yeah, this
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Speaker 1: was three years ago. Just in case you guys are wondering, Okay,
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Speaker 1: where would you like to Okay, so there there are
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Speaker 1: tons that I think of, and uh but I think
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Speaker 1: the one that I keep going back to is the
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Speaker 1: Shire from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings the
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Speaker 1: Shire because I think Hobbits have got the right idea
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Speaker 1: when it comes to general approach to life, which is
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Speaker 1: eat your way through it. I am, I'm down with that,
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Speaker 1: And so that's the one that I think I most
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Speaker 1: would like to visit. You know, Love Laurien was a
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Speaker 1: close second on my list, so lame best spreads spread
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Speaker 1: But but your your point about the food in the shire,
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Speaker 1: that is that is a strong motivator. Yeah, not interesting
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Speaker 1: that we both went fantasy locations. Clearly we could have
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Speaker 1: picked something from a science fiction type of place, but
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Speaker 1: that that gives us a little I think of myself
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Speaker 1: as more of the sword than the laser type, so
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Speaker 1: you know that that's fit. And there's also a lot
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Speaker 1: of like if I think, well, do I want to
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Speaker 1: go to Gallifrey from Doctor Who? No, there was a
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Speaker 1: horrible war that happened there. It's not a happy place too.
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Speaker 1: I want to go to alder On. No, I don't
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Speaker 1: you know? You can't. I can't. The locations in Star
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Speaker 1: Wars are for the most part inhospitable like deserts and
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Speaker 1: and frozen tundras and salt plains. Yes, maybe maybe Paralandria
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Speaker 1: if I want to go sci fi, but that's still
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Speaker 1: kind of fantasy. So well, let's get back to reality
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Speaker 1: by talking about some of the top news stories in
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Speaker 1: the geek sphere and launching us off is something that
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Speaker 1: Ariel and I are so gangbusters for. We got a
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Speaker 1: trailer for the Snyder cut of the Justice League and uh, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: what was your reaction to this? New trailer. I think
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Speaker 1: probably the exact opposite of your reaction, which was I
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Speaker 1: started it and I went, oh, I don't like this.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't like Lex Luthor's talking at
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Speaker 1: the beginning and screaming Superman. And then in the middle
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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I kind of like this flash
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Speaker 1: of saving a girl from a car. I really liked
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Speaker 1: the flash in the Justice League, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: that was great casting and the actor did a great
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Speaker 1: job with it. So I kind of got excited in
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Speaker 1: the middle. I mistook because I read an article saying
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Speaker 1: that Granny Goodness made an appearance in the trailer, and
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Speaker 1: I'm as stood dark Side for her, because Sex Snyder's
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Speaker 1: Justice League and all of the DC stuff he does
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Speaker 1: is so so dark that I was like, well, he
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Speaker 1: just made an ugly dark version of any Goodness, But no,
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Speaker 1: it was dark Side. She was standing to his left,
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Speaker 1: and uh yeah. I couldn't pick out anyone because to me,
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Speaker 1: every all the villains look vaguely the same to me,
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Speaker 1: so I was just like, sure, I'll take your word
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Speaker 1: for it that these characters were in that trailer. She
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Speaker 1: she looks like a oh, a woman with gray hair. Um,
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Speaker 1: and then at the end of it, I just I
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Speaker 1: was like, I was back to that, you know, because
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Speaker 1: I do not like what they did with the Joker's mouth. Yeah, Like,
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Speaker 1: I just don't like the I don't know it just
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Speaker 1: visually it strikes me the wrong way. I hated it,
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Speaker 1: Um don't. I mean, I just I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: d C hasn't worked for me. No one's no one's
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Speaker 1: surprised by this. Keep in mind that before the Marvel
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Speaker 1: Cinematic Universe, my favorite superhero movie of all time was
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Speaker 1: the Christopher Reeve Superman film, the Original Superman movie. That's
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Speaker 1: such a good one. It's a great movie. It's very campy.
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Speaker 1: It's very campy, but it knows it's ampy, right Like,
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Speaker 1: it's not can't be by mistake. Um, And I just
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Speaker 1: find it really entertaining. And so I am clearly the
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Speaker 1: wrong audience for the Snyder version of DC Universe, and
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Speaker 1: I acknowledge that. And I'm not saying that they are
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Speaker 1: bad movies. I say I don't find them entertaining. And
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Speaker 1: this trailer just kind of reinforced that for me. Again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's gonna be a bad movie. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a long movie. I can say that, yes,
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Speaker 1: you better pack a lunch, but I don't know that
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be bad. I just know that, like, I'm
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Speaker 1: still not seeing anything that appeals to me. Now, maybe
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Speaker 1: this is going to be one of those cases where
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Speaker 1: the trailer and the finished product are different enough where
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Speaker 1: I have a very different reaction from the film than
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Speaker 1: I did from the trailer. That could be a discussion
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Speaker 1: thing that we have in the future is movies where
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Speaker 1: we felt it was very different from the trailer we
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Speaker 1: had seen for that film. But that's a discussion for
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Speaker 1: another time. Yeah. Now, I mean I will probably watch
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Speaker 1: this because I feel like I ought to and I
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Speaker 1: have HBO Max. But I do wish that it had
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Speaker 1: just been two movies, yeah, I hear you, Yeah, or
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Speaker 1: mini series like they're originally talking about. If you are
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Speaker 1: watching it on HBO Max. Though, you could always just
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Speaker 1: pause it and make it two movies. You just have
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Speaker 1: to determine. Maybe it's when they start yelling Martha who knows? Yeah, listen.
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Speaker 1: I started watching The Stand on CBS All Access last night,
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Speaker 1: and I almost turned the first episode into like four
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Speaker 1: different episodes because I kept pausing it. Not because it
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Speaker 1: was bad or anything, just because I haven't heard good
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Speaker 1: things about that. But then I don't have I don't
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Speaker 1: have CBS All Access, so I've not seen any of it.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting. I have no attachment to the source material.
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Speaker 1: I never read the stand and i'd never watched the
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Speaker 1: original mini series, so you're not missing much there being
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Speaker 1: being two episodes in. It's interesting. I understand that the
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Speaker 1: ending is kind of blah, but um, well, okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: getting off on a tangent. Let's go back to Zack Snyder. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because he's in our next story. Yes, apparently he is
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Speaker 1: not done with crazy convoluted stories because he's thinking about
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Speaker 1: doing the legend of King Arthur. Yeah, he said that
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Speaker 1: he wants to do something that's a more true representation
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Speaker 1: of the Arthurian legend. The problem is which version of
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Speaker 1: the Aryan legendary talking about, because there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of different ones. I mean, Lamour d'Art is the famous one, right,
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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of others that are, you know,
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Speaker 1: no less valid. In fact, there are others from that
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Speaker 1: same time period of Arthurian legend. So it's curious to
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Speaker 1: see what he means by that. Um, I'm not particularly
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Speaker 1: excited by that either. I mean, I think I think
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Speaker 1: it could be good. It could be I'm sure it
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Speaker 1: would be very grim and dark, but then Artherian legend
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Speaker 1: does get grim and dark. So I'm curious what you think, Ariel.
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Speaker 1: I think it is it is a legend that is
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Speaker 1: already existing in his wheelhouse, which is too much story,
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Speaker 1: not enough editing. And I love, you know, Authoritian legend,
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Speaker 1: but it does, like you said, there's lots of versions.
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Speaker 1: It goes all over the place. There's a bunch of
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Speaker 1: bunny trails and so well. And it's a collection of stories, right,
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Speaker 1: It's not like it's one story. It's a bunch of
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Speaker 1: different stories. Yeah, and so I feel like making a
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Speaker 1: movie of those bunch of stories is what Zack Snyder
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Speaker 1: always does. I feel like he has a really hard
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Speaker 1: time editing down to one story. So I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it will be good. I don't have as much
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Speaker 1: distaste for a lot of the King Arthur movies that
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Speaker 1: have come out in the past um as some people do.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite, um, I would say probably
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Speaker 1: the Sam Neil mini series Merlin. Shut Up. You say
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Speaker 1: shut Up a lot? Okay, Well, it's Merlin. Merlin's very
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Speaker 1: entertaining Martin Short notwithstanding. But yeah, but I also like
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Speaker 1: to know Disney Sword in the Stone I like, I
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Speaker 1: like it's it's not really a Thurian legend, but like
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Speaker 1: all the takes on the Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's court.
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Speaker 1: Like for me, it's Excalibur. Excalibur I think is like
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Speaker 1: almost a perfect movie. Ex Caliber is also a good movie.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I will be the first person to
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Speaker 1: say that sometimes I go into a movie not expecting much.
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Speaker 1: So there are a lot of so so movies that
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Speaker 1: I really enjoy. Um that's some foreshadowing there too, Yes,
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Speaker 1: but you know, this is Arthurian legend is one where
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Speaker 1: I tend to enjoy most of it. So well, We've
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Speaker 1: got a couple of stories that I am curious about
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Speaker 1: that we can kind of pair together, which is that
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Speaker 1: we know a little bit about the casting of two
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Speaker 1: different projects that are at a tations of video games,
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Speaker 1: that being Borderlands, where we know that Jack Black has
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Speaker 1: joined the cast to voice the character of clap Trap,
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Speaker 1: a robot in the Borderlands video game series, and we
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Speaker 1: also know that the last of US television series is
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Speaker 1: going to have Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as the
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Speaker 1: two leads of that story. Now, Mariel, have you played
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Speaker 1: either or watched either border Lands or Last of Us? Um?
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Speaker 1: I have not played or watched Last of Us other
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Speaker 1: than the trailers. I have played some Borderlands, and I've
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Speaker 1: watched a lot of Borderlands. UM. I don't do as
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Speaker 1: great with strictly first person shooters because I get motion sick.
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Speaker 1: But I've watched a lot of this story and I
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Speaker 1: enjoy it and I get casting. You know, Bella Ramsey
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Speaker 1: and Pedro Pascal have done The Game of Thrones is
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Speaker 1: pretty dark, so I think they're great casting for Last
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Speaker 1: of Us. However, as great as I think Jack Black
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Speaker 1: will be as clap Trap, i'mlike, it's an animated character.
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Speaker 1: Just use the voice of that character. Yeah. Last I
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Speaker 1: heard he was working for Rooster Teeth. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if he still is, but I remember hearing him on
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Speaker 1: the Rooster Teeth podcast and he actually talked about how
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Speaker 1: he was the voice of Claptrap and I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Um. Yeah. I I honestly don't
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Speaker 1: know what to think about the Borderlands one, because I
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Speaker 1: don't really think of those games as having much of
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Speaker 1: a story. Um, I mean there's a there's a general
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Speaker 1: kind of story to it, but there's not there's not
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Speaker 1: any meat on the bone there. It's essentially there's this
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Speaker 1: big secret cash of powerful items and you're looking for it,
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Speaker 1: and there are other people who are bad guys who
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Speaker 1: are also looking for it, so you need to look
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Speaker 1: for it harder. I don't think that supports a really
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Speaker 1: great movie. I could be wrong. Last of Us is
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Speaker 1: more of a narrative, a traditional narrative. The game plays
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Speaker 1: out like like a mini series. It feels like you're
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Speaker 1: playing through something like The Walking Dead, and it has
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Speaker 1: one heck of an ending. And we know that the
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Speaker 1: television series is going to closely follow the events of
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Speaker 1: the first game. It might also incorporate some elements that
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Speaker 1: were found in the second game, and it's going to
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Speaker 1: expand on the world of Last of Us, so you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get more than what was in the video game,
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Speaker 1: which is also good because again, video games have to
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Speaker 1: make way for for gameplay, right, and whenever they're making
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Speaker 1: way for gameplay, you're not really making much of a story.
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Speaker 1: You're you're playing through stuff. So obviously the television series
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Speaker 1: has to make some adjustments there or else. If you
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Speaker 1: boil down the actual story to what it what it is,
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Speaker 1: it would it would last like two episodes. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: also did get casting news for the Dungeons and Dragons
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Speaker 1: movie movie that we've been anticipating. Um Kind Michelle Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: were recently announced as well as just As Smith. Now
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Speaker 1: we have Jean Paige. He's a actor from Britain and
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Speaker 1: he's joined the D and D group. We don't know,
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Speaker 1: we don't know what class he's playing. I'm hoping for rogue.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say, I think he would be
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Speaker 1: a rogue. That's what he plays in Bridgerton. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was like like, I mean, I don't want to type cast.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to type guests. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: type guest. But yeah, it's um, it's this is one
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Speaker 1: of those those announcements that I thought was really interesting.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's clearly very much in the zeitgeist because
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Speaker 1: Bridgerton has become one of those series that a lot
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Speaker 1: of people were watching and talking about and talking about
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Speaker 1: all the sexy times in that show. I'm hoping there
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Speaker 1: won't be as much sexy times in D and D
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Speaker 1: because that stuff can go wrong, y'all. You miss a
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Speaker 1: saving throw, next thing you know, you're you're marrying a manticore.
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Speaker 1: It's rough. Well, you know, I don't know, because it
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Speaker 1: just hit me, marrying a manticore. That would be a
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Speaker 1: great sitcom. I think it's I think that's the prequel
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Speaker 1: prequel to Hello from the Magic Tavern. But go ahead, Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's it's got you know, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis
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Speaker 1: daily working on it, and they worked on Spider Man
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Speaker 1: Homecoming and Horrible Bosses. So like the Spider Man Homecoming
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Speaker 1: side excites me, the Horrible Bosses side makes me worried
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Speaker 1: for marrying amanticor. But I guess we'll see. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if this becomes a film adaptation of Hello from the
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Speaker 1: Magic Tavern, I'm okay with it. It would it would
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Speaker 1: not really be a D D series of that point,
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Speaker 1: but you know, you could, you could. We know you
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Speaker 1: could do worse, because there have been other D and
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Speaker 1: D adaptations and they were terrible. But you know what, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: I think we should probably have a little conversation about
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Speaker 1: movies where we had expectations and the result of seeing
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Speaker 1: that movie subverted those expectations. In one way or another.
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Speaker 1: Does that sound good to you? It does, but first
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Speaker 1: I need to take a quick break. M Arials finished
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Speaker 1: breaking things, so we're ready to have this conversation. Now
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Speaker 1: do you want? I think we should start with movies
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Speaker 1: that we hoped we would like but it turned out
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Speaker 1: we didn't really like them that much, and then we
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Speaker 1: can end it talking about movies where we had low
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Speaker 1: expectations but then we really ended up enjoying it. That way,
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Speaker 1: we end on a on a positive note. Sure. Sure, um,
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to start because I feel like people
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Speaker 1: have heard me go on this diet tribe before. I
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Speaker 1: have two movies that I expected to like and really didn't. Um.
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Speaker 1: And the first one was not as about as the
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Speaker 1: second one. So the first one is Elf, and I
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Speaker 1: thought I would like it because everybody built it up
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Speaker 1: so much. Uh, and then when I watched it, I
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Speaker 1: was very nonplussed. But the movie, the movie that I
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Speaker 1: was excited to go see, and that when I went
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Speaker 1: to watch it, I just it hit me in all
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Speaker 1: the wrong ways. Is Sucker Punch. It should be not
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Speaker 1: a surprise at all to you. This is one of
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Speaker 1: those movies that did have like the really stylistic trailer
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Speaker 1: that made it look incredible with elements of like fantasy
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Speaker 1: and maybe substeam punk in there, and it just had
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Speaker 1: it was like a music video style movie trailer that
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Speaker 1: made that movie just look like it was just oozing cool. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And the storyline is there's this girl who gets sent
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Speaker 1: to an insane asylum and to deal with it, she
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Speaker 1: imagines that she's in a brothel, and to deal with
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Speaker 1: the fact that she's in a brothel, she imagines that
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Speaker 1: she is fighting Nazis or orcs or giant robots or whatnot. Uh, surprise, surprise.
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Speaker 1: It's by Zack Snyder. And my biggest problem with the
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Speaker 1: movie is that there were one too many levels. It
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Speaker 1: was it was like inception but not handled well all. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was like any of those two levels paired together
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Speaker 1: would have been a good story, but you had that
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Speaker 1: third level to it, and it's just too much and
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Speaker 1: it's too disjointed, and I stopped caring. Yeah, so much potential.
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Speaker 1: I so full disclosure. I have never seen Sucker Punch Um.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to when I saw the trailer, but by
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Speaker 1: the time I would have been able to go see
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Speaker 1: the movie where it had gotten out about Ariel Leavin
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Speaker 1: told me about it. I remember back in the day
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Speaker 1: you were messaging me about it, and and the more
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Speaker 1: I heard about the more I thought, maybe I just
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Speaker 1: give this one a miss, because it also sounded to
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Speaker 1: me like, well, Snyder, it goes it goes so dark. Um,
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Speaker 1: it deals with some very very dark material, and the
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Speaker 1: everything I heard told me that it did not reconcile
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Speaker 1: or resolve any of that in a very satisfying way. No,
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Speaker 1: it's got a it's got a very bleak ending. And again,
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Speaker 1: like nothing against movies with bleak endings, but if you
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Speaker 1: wanted a bleak ending, I think it should have just
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Speaker 1: been the I've been sent to a sanitarium and I'm
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Speaker 1: dealing with it by pretending I'm desirable in some way.
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Speaker 1: Adding that fantasy level almost made fun of those first
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Speaker 1: two levels, And yeah, like, if if he wanted it
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Speaker 1: to be poignant and serious, I feel like he should
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Speaker 1: have taken out the fantasy level, And if you wanted
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Speaker 1: it to be a little bit more adventurous, he should
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Speaker 1: have taken out one of the two bleak levels. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I also find what I also find that your escape
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Speaker 1: mechanism involves you imagining yourself in a different, but in
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Speaker 1: many ways equally bad. Situation isn't much of an escape mechanism? No, no,
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Speaker 1: and then you have to use another one, and then
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Speaker 1: you have to use another one, and like, none of
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Speaker 1: the escape mechanisms were great. And I guess there's some
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Speaker 1: some sort of moral or point to that, but I
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Speaker 1: just did not find it enjoyable. So what what is
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Speaker 1: the movie that you thought you would like that you didn't?
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Speaker 1: So all right, I've I've got I've got four that
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Speaker 1: i'm gonna uh talk about, but really only only one.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about four, I'm gonna mention three. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to mention rather so h the Hobbit. But everyone's
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Speaker 1: heard me talk about the Hobbit. How I really wanted
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Speaker 1: to like that movie. I had some misgivings simply because
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Speaker 1: I knew they were making three films and I didn't
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Speaker 1: think that the book could support three films, and might
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Speaker 1: I was right. I fell asleep twice. I saw the
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Speaker 1: movie twice, and I fell asleep in the same two
20:30
Speaker 1: spots twice. So that tells you like And that's that
20:34
Speaker 1: was my favorite book growing up. My favorite book. I
20:37
Speaker 1: have a Lord of the Rings tattoo on my arm.
20:39
Speaker 1: I am a Lord of the Rings fan, but yeah,
20:42
Speaker 1: that that totally failed to meet my expectations. Indiana Jones
20:46
Speaker 1: and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull another one. I
20:49
Speaker 1: highly anticipated that movie. I really love the Indiana Jones trilogy.
20:54
Speaker 1: I think each movie is interesting in a different way.
20:57
Speaker 1: I think Raiders is my favorite of the three, but
21:00
Speaker 1: I like all three for different reasons. Kingdom of the
21:03
Speaker 1: Crystal Skull comes around. I actually like Shyla buff in it,
21:06
Speaker 1: but apart from him, there wasn't much in that that
21:09
Speaker 1: I liked. I didn't think Kate Blanchett was an interesting villain.
21:13
Speaker 1: I didn't like the science fiction angle as opposed to
21:16
Speaker 1: the more mystical angles of the other Raiders films. Um So, yeah,
21:20
Speaker 1: that one fell short for me. Transformers I was hoping
21:24
Speaker 1: I would like, but I couldn't even make sense of
21:26
Speaker 1: that mess. Um. Now, I didn't have high expectations. It's
21:30
Speaker 1: a movie that's based off a cartoon that itself was
21:33
Speaker 1: a way to sell toys, so I didn't have high hopes.
21:37
Speaker 1: But I couldn't even tell what was going on in
21:39
Speaker 1: the transformation scenes, and it gave me a very strong
21:44
Speaker 1: negative opinion of Michael Bay in general. Other elements added
21:49
Speaker 1: to that, but the movie, the real one I picked
21:53
Speaker 1: is is um is Star Trek five The Final Frontier,
21:58
Speaker 1: because I think movie Star Trek five Kirk versus God. Now,
22:06
Speaker 1: so so I I was. I was a huge Star
22:10
Speaker 1: Trek fan growing up, big Star Trek fan, the son
22:13
Speaker 1: of two Star Trek fans. And you gotta remember that
22:17
Speaker 1: this movie followed up Star Trek four a Voyage Home,
22:20
Speaker 1: which was a very lighthearted, very silly departure for Star Trek.
22:25
Speaker 1: Like it. It still had an adventure in it, but
22:27
Speaker 1: it was I mean, there was a lot of comedy
22:30
Speaker 1: in Star Trek four, which is interesting because my other,
22:33
Speaker 1: the other one that everyone really loved from that era,
22:35
Speaker 1: was Star Trek two. There wasn't a lot of comedy
22:38
Speaker 1: in that one. There was a lot of drama and
22:40
Speaker 1: a lot of action. So then Star Trek five comes around.
22:44
Speaker 1: William Shatner directed it, and it's essentially Kirk versus God
22:48
Speaker 1: and Kirk wins. And as big a fan of as
22:52
Speaker 1: I was of Star Trek, I was just like, come on,
22:56
Speaker 1: he was Mary suing himself to the ends of the
23:00
Speaker 1: universe and back. I couldn't stand it. So that was
23:02
Speaker 1: one that was a huge letdown for me. Yeah. Yeah,
23:09
Speaker 1: Star Trek five was was pretty weak. I I realized
23:13
Speaker 1: that my joke about liking it didn't really fly. But
23:15
Speaker 1: the fact is, I know people used to say every
23:17
Speaker 1: other Star Trek movie was a good one. The even
23:20
Speaker 1: ones are good ones for the original, like Star Trek
23:23
Speaker 1: two as Wrath of con Star Trek Forward's Voyage Home.
23:25
Speaker 1: Star Trek six is Undiscovered Country, which was you know,
23:29
Speaker 1: Christopher Plumber, who just recently passed away, was a villainous
23:34
Speaker 1: klingon who quoted Shakespeare in that in that movie, and
23:37
Speaker 1: that one was that one was pretty good. I don't
23:39
Speaker 1: think it's as strong as two and four are, which
23:42
Speaker 1: are strong for totally different reasons. They're also they're also
23:46
Speaker 1: totally so different from each other. That's kind of interesting
23:50
Speaker 1: that they're all part of the same series, but they
23:52
Speaker 1: have very different tones. But you know, especially when we
23:55
Speaker 1: got to the Star Trek Next Generation movies, I just
23:58
Speaker 1: like them all. It didn't matter if are good or bad.
24:00
Speaker 1: I still enjoyed. Okay, well this is where our paths part.
24:06
Speaker 1: But we're not talking a podcast with you that we're
24:09
Speaker 1: not talking about the Next Generation movies. So talk about
24:12
Speaker 1: a movie that you didn't think you were going to enjoy,
24:15
Speaker 1: or at least you had lower expectations, it turned out
24:18
Speaker 1: that it exceeded them. So there's a lot of movies
24:22
Speaker 1: where I thought, you know, this is gonna be an
24:25
Speaker 1: okay movie, and then it turned out to be a
24:27
Speaker 1: great delight Central Intelligence Game Night jimmungji. Uh. There are
24:33
Speaker 1: two movies. One the first one, I'm going to mention
24:37
Speaker 1: it's not that I had didn't have high expectations, it's
24:40
Speaker 1: that I didn't expect to like it. And that was
24:42
Speaker 1: it the most uh current version, not not the second one,
24:49
Speaker 1: but the first one. The second one was okay, But
24:52
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a big horror fan. Uh. I
24:55
Speaker 1: had watched the mini series with Tim Curry when I
24:59
Speaker 1: was younger and found it very frightening. And yeah, Harry
25:02
Speaker 1: Anderson's jokes are terrifying. Yeah they really are. Um. And
25:09
Speaker 1: so I was like, this is surely going to be good,
25:11
Speaker 1: but it's just gonna be too scary for me. But
25:14
Speaker 1: I I quite enjoyed it. Um. But the one, and
25:17
Speaker 1: I'm almost ashamed to say that I enjoyed it is
25:21
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of people tell me that I
25:23
Speaker 1: should watch Spy the Night two fifteen Melissa McCarthy movie,
25:28
Speaker 1: and I am like, I'm not a big fan of Bride'smaids.
25:34
Speaker 1: I you know, I or or a lot of Melissa
25:37
Speaker 1: McCarthy's movies. She is a phenomenal actress who I first
25:43
Speaker 1: learned about and Gilmore Girls. Honestly that's when she first
25:46
Speaker 1: hit my radar. But phenomenal actress. She's very funny, and
25:50
Speaker 1: she does great dramatic work as well. But I find
25:52
Speaker 1: her her her sense of like disparaging humor just not
25:57
Speaker 1: almost too cruel, um, a little cruel, a little gross,
26:02
Speaker 1: but and she is certainly disparaging to herself in Spy.
26:06
Speaker 1: But it was remarkably funny with Jason Statham and Peter
26:11
Speaker 1: Sarah Finowitz as foils. Yeah, he was, he was. He
26:17
Speaker 1: was Darth Maul's voice in The Phantom Menace, and he
26:20
Speaker 1: was also he was in Shaun of the Dead and
26:23
Speaker 1: he was also in Space. Um, fantastic, really fun actor.
26:29
Speaker 1: And he was the latest Tick as well, Like he's
26:32
Speaker 1: he's great. These two gentlemen played such a great foil
26:37
Speaker 1: to her that it was just it not that she
26:40
Speaker 1: needed help to shine, but it elevated that self depreciation
26:44
Speaker 1: and gave her a chance to, like, you know, in
26:46
Speaker 1: the movie, she becomes quite capable. Um. I really enjoyed it.
26:51
Speaker 1: It certainly goes a little blue for my taste at
26:53
Speaker 1: some points, but it was like I would watch it again.
26:55
Speaker 1: It was quite enjoyable. Nice. What about you? Well, for me,
26:58
Speaker 1: we have to go back to nineteen be nine when
27:01
Speaker 1: I was a teenager, Yeah, and the movie would be Uh.
27:06
Speaker 1: And I apologize to you, Ariel for this The Little Mermaid.
27:11
Speaker 1: I did not pick it because of your name. I
27:13
Speaker 1: did not pick it because of your name. I picked
27:15
Speaker 1: it because I was a teenager at the time. And
27:18
Speaker 1: you have to remember that the Disney animated films that
27:21
Speaker 1: had been released leading up to Little Mermaid we're seen
27:25
Speaker 1: as being a big step down from classic Disney. Not
27:29
Speaker 1: that they were terrible movies. I mean I didn't like
27:32
Speaker 1: all of our own company. I don't think I've ever
27:33
Speaker 1: watched it all the way through because I just didn't
27:35
Speaker 1: like it. Uh. The Great Mouse Detective is entertaining, but
27:39
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't remember it. The Black Cauldron
27:42
Speaker 1: is not very good. It's not a good representation of
27:44
Speaker 1: Lloyd Alexander's work. The Fox in the Hound was good
27:48
Speaker 1: but heartbreaking. Yeah. I don't like animal movies like that,
27:52
Speaker 1: so so there there had just not been like Disney
27:56
Speaker 1: had not been in that that classic fairy tale warm
28:00
Speaker 1: for a long time. So I, as a teenager, had
28:04
Speaker 1: no interest in seeing this, but my family had bought tickets.
28:06
Speaker 1: They were determined to go, so I went with them.
28:09
Speaker 1: And from the opening sequence where the music starts playing
28:14
Speaker 1: and you see the big animated ship breakthrough the sea missed,
28:18
Speaker 1: I immediately was entranced, and halfway through the movie I
28:23
Speaker 1: was like so mad at myself for being the poopy
28:28
Speaker 1: head teenager who didn't want to go see the cartoon movie. Uh.
28:33
Speaker 1: And by the very end of it, I was thinking,
28:34
Speaker 1: all right, well, I gotta buy the soundtrack because this
28:37
Speaker 1: thing is amazing. Didn't It didn't hurt that the music
28:41
Speaker 1: was all written by Ashman and Lincoln who did Little
28:43
Speaker 1: Shop of Hars and I was a big fan of that.
28:46
Speaker 1: So um yeah, that was the movie where I I
28:50
Speaker 1: was determined to be the sulky teenager who hated it
28:53
Speaker 1: all the way through. I was ready to just pout
28:55
Speaker 1: my way through that movie, and it won me over.
28:59
Speaker 1: From the opening sequence and I was on board for
29:03
Speaker 1: the rest of the ride, and I became a huge
29:07
Speaker 1: fan of Disney again. Like for a while, I just
29:11
Speaker 1: like I had loved the classic Disney movies, but I
29:14
Speaker 1: never really like. I didn't I didn't hate the later stuff.
29:19
Speaker 1: I just didn't find it as captivating. And this recaptured
29:23
Speaker 1: my fascination until Pocahon has destroyed it. Yeah, you know,
29:28
Speaker 1: I think I think that's completely valid. I'll even mostly
29:31
Speaker 1: agree as much as I say I have a love
29:33
Speaker 1: hate relationship with The Little Mermaid. When I first watched it, Yeah,
29:36
Speaker 1: it's that that first moment is captivating. It's it's pretty baller,
29:40
Speaker 1: and the music is great and it's a lot of fun.
29:42
Speaker 1: And it wasn't It was until I really thought about
29:45
Speaker 1: you know, I always liked the story that Little Mermaid,
29:49
Speaker 1: even though the original tale is the hunch Kristen Anderson
29:52
Speaker 1: versions rather bleak. It does not have a happy ending. No,
29:58
Speaker 1: I still liked it until the ending. Um, you know,
30:02
Speaker 1: I I liked it until I thought about the story.
30:05
Speaker 1: And the story is it's a braddy girl who just
30:08
Speaker 1: gets her way. Well, it's also I mean, there's also
30:11
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of of elements to
30:14
Speaker 1: it that, uh in in a more modern sensibility fall
30:19
Speaker 1: way short, right, Like it's a girl who gives up
30:21
Speaker 1: her voice so that she can be with a guy
30:24
Speaker 1: that she's seen once, Like it's it's it's falling into
30:27
Speaker 1: those fairy tale tropes that are unrealistic, but you could
30:32
Speaker 1: also say are potentially harmfully unrealistic. So I can totally
30:37
Speaker 1: get those criticisms, and I think they are valid. Uh yeah,
30:40
Speaker 1: It all depends on your threshold of where you can
30:43
Speaker 1: say it's a fairy tale and not meant to be
30:46
Speaker 1: a realistic depiction of relationships and that kind of stuff,
30:49
Speaker 1: and you can step back or if you're like, no,
30:52
Speaker 1: this is really messed up. Well, I mean, but if
30:55
Speaker 1: you and that's part of the problem I have with
30:57
Speaker 1: a Disney one. If you look at Hans Christian Anderson's version,
31:00
Speaker 1: it's a cautionary tale about bad like even today could
31:03
Speaker 1: be viewed as a cautionary tale about making bad decisions
31:08
Speaker 1: for you know, somebody you're lusting after, and the repercussions
31:12
Speaker 1: of of dealing with that. I would argue that that
31:14
Speaker 1: Disney sort of address that when they did the other
31:18
Speaker 1: Hans Christian Anderson's story with Frozen, because you actually do
31:23
Speaker 1: have the story of a young woman who makes some
31:27
Speaker 1: bad decisions based upon her instantaneous attraction to someone who
31:32
Speaker 1: turns out to not be a good person, and then
31:36
Speaker 1: then the rest of the story kind of escalates from there.
31:39
Speaker 1: But that was you know, it's a long time to
31:41
Speaker 1: go before you address those concerns. Yeah, I agree. I
31:45
Speaker 1: mean there were some consequences in The Lion King, but
31:48
Speaker 1: it's not the same, no, I mean, I mean, like, like, yeah,
31:52
Speaker 1: the biggest consequence being that you've got Elton John right
31:55
Speaker 1: in the music. So it's real. It's real Elton John.
31:59
Speaker 1: Now that that's a bad thing. It's just real Elton John. Um,
32:05
Speaker 1: I love Elton John. But it's real Elton John. Okay,
32:08
Speaker 1: Well that's enough of me saying things that don't really
32:11
Speaker 1: mean anything. When we come back, we are going to
32:14
Speaker 1: mash up uh. One of my favorite things in the
32:17
Speaker 1: whole wide world the d C universe was specifically Justice
32:22
Speaker 1: League and a classic feel good, uplifting story about a
32:28
Speaker 1: bunch of women who who step up when all the
32:33
Speaker 1: men are overseas fighting war. But we'll understand, we'll explain
32:36
Speaker 1: more after we come back for this break okay, Ariel,
32:56
Speaker 1: So what are the two properties we are mashing up? So,
33:00
Speaker 1: as you said, uh, DC is the Justice League and
33:04
Speaker 1: um a League of their Own, which is Yeah, let's
33:07
Speaker 1: give a quick overview of what League of their Own
33:09
Speaker 1: is for those people who don't know. It's also being
33:11
Speaker 1: adapted into a series, right, Yes, it's being adapted into
33:14
Speaker 1: a series by Amazon has picked the series up. It's
33:18
Speaker 1: got a really great cast. Um. They announced it in August,
33:23
Speaker 1: so we don't have it yet, but it is upcoming.
33:26
Speaker 1: It's a story about you know, baseball during World War Two,
33:30
Speaker 1: how the wars is affecting the league, and so a
33:37
Speaker 1: gentleman decides to start a league of women baseball players.
33:42
Speaker 1: H and uh. It starts and ends uh with them
33:48
Speaker 1: being honored and and kind of goes through their journey
33:51
Speaker 1: to becoming a great team and and a fan favorite,
33:56
Speaker 1: and then their personal lives and things like that. It's
33:58
Speaker 1: really great. It's got Gina Davis and Rosie O'Donnell and
34:02
Speaker 1: all sorts of really great actresses. There's there's Tom Hanks. Uh, yeah,
34:08
Speaker 1: there's a ton. There's there's a ton of really really
34:11
Speaker 1: um talented actors in that in that space and They're
34:16
Speaker 1: all like, it's all done in flashback form, and so
34:19
Speaker 1: we are now doing Justice League of their own mash up.
34:23
Speaker 1: And do you know what I'm about to ask you? Aerial? Yeah,
34:28
Speaker 1: do you want to go first or second? I struggled
34:31
Speaker 1: with mine, So I don't know if you if you
34:32
Speaker 1: feel yours is good, maybe I should go first so
34:34
Speaker 1: that we can end on a high note. I don't
34:37
Speaker 1: know the mine is good, but it's very Jonathan, Okay,
34:40
Speaker 1: then I will go first. Um, this is called Major
34:46
Speaker 1: League Field of their own justice. My story is my
34:52
Speaker 1: story is about as convoluted as that title. You went,
34:55
Speaker 1: you went hard on the bash ups? Yes, okay, all right. So,
35:00
Speaker 1: after the latest attack in Uproar from dark Side, the
35:03
Speaker 1: excitement of baseball had all but lost its luster to
35:06
Speaker 1: the American public, and major league team owners were worried
35:09
Speaker 1: that it would be the final death stroke to the
35:11
Speaker 1: beloved pastime. Thankfully, one owner, Walter Harvey Steele, owner of
35:16
Speaker 1: the Star City Rockets, had an idea. He had seen
35:19
Speaker 1: the prowess with which some local vigilantes fought crime, and
35:22
Speaker 1: heard of more in other places, and thought, what a
35:25
Speaker 1: great chance to take a great game and make it
35:27
Speaker 1: super However, the other team owners were hesitant, thinking that
35:31
Speaker 1: using such adept individuals would take all the fun out
35:33
Speaker 1: of the game and no one would want to watch
35:35
Speaker 1: them play. But Walter would not be deterred. He called
35:38
Speaker 1: on his good friend and mover and shaker, Amanda Waller,
35:41
Speaker 1: to help recruit the perfect team to change the owner's
35:44
Speaker 1: minds and reinvigorate the sport. Amanda started out across the
35:47
Speaker 1: country recruiting the super she knew of. Soon her team
35:51
Speaker 1: was created. It consisted of wonder Woman, Stargirl, Supergirl, Black Canary,
35:54
Speaker 1: Hawk Girl, and Satana. Also Mayra was there, but she
35:58
Speaker 1: was regulated to being the Water Girl because she wasn't
36:00
Speaker 1: that great of a player. Um these ladies had never
36:03
Speaker 1: worked together or played together before. But after a brief
36:06
Speaker 1: and humorous training montage, the new team, the Super Peaches,
36:11
Speaker 1: was ready to play ball. Much to Walter's joy, they
36:14
Speaker 1: proved him right and brought in new crowds, but only briefly.
36:17
Speaker 1: You see, there was this problem. They thoroughly trounced every
36:21
Speaker 1: team they played against, So then Amanda had to go
36:24
Speaker 1: and recruit a second team to play them. She got Batman, Superman,
36:28
Speaker 1: the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Aquaman as a water
36:31
Speaker 1: boy just to make it even. And these egotistical guys
36:34
Speaker 1: were harder to get to work together as a team again,
36:37
Speaker 1: all being kind of solo artists. But eventually they were
36:40
Speaker 1: ready to play the Super Peaches. Their team name the
36:43
Speaker 1: Racing Boys. Racine Boys, Racing Boys. It was a bad
36:48
Speaker 1: try to tie things together. Okay, so these two teams
36:52
Speaker 1: were playing each other, but it was dangerous for the spectators.
36:55
Speaker 1: Tempers ran high, fights broke out, and every game ended
36:58
Speaker 1: with destroyed stadiums and casual injuries in the stands. So
37:02
Speaker 1: Amanda and Walter were demanded to put a stop to
37:04
Speaker 1: these two teams. These teams didn't want to stop, though,
37:07
Speaker 1: so Amanda and Walter found a spot in the middle
37:09
Speaker 1: of nowhere, a one Kent farm, and got the Kent's
37:13
Speaker 1: to agree to let them build a special stadium in
37:15
Speaker 1: the Kent's biggest field. They called the stadium the Hall
37:19
Speaker 1: of Dreams Stadium. Once the stadium was built, the super
37:23
Speaker 1: Teams instinctually came. What the teams and the Kent farms
37:27
Speaker 1: didn't know was that it was actually a space station.
37:30
Speaker 1: So as soon as the soups were inside, it blasted
37:33
Speaker 1: off into space. The Supers were told via intercomment that
37:36
Speaker 1: they had to stay in the space station until they
37:38
Speaker 1: learned to play together nicely, and that they were banned
37:41
Speaker 1: from ever playing baseball on Earth again. The teams decided
37:45
Speaker 1: that they would just play each other in outer space
37:47
Speaker 1: because they didn't like being told what to do. Uh.
37:50
Speaker 1: They would be the only two teams in the league,
37:52
Speaker 1: and that was just their's and they called it the
37:54
Speaker 1: Just Us League. Yes, I know that's an old, played
37:56
Speaker 1: out joke, but stay with me. They renamed the Hall
38:01
Speaker 1: of Dreams to the Hall of Justice. Uh. And every
38:04
Speaker 1: now and then some villain team like the Legion of
38:06
Speaker 1: Doom or the Dark Side Elites or the Apocket Hitters
38:09
Speaker 1: would try to join in on their baseball games, but
38:11
Speaker 1: they were always defeated. So those villain teams turned to crime,
38:16
Speaker 1: and the Justice League turned to the Justice League to
38:18
Speaker 1: stop them, which is okay because by that time they
38:21
Speaker 1: were really tired of baseball. The end that I was,
38:27
Speaker 1: I mean, I was amazed that we didn't get the
38:29
Speaker 1: rookie in there, but everything else like so many baseball
38:33
Speaker 1: movie references. All right, um, you will see that I
38:38
Speaker 1: very quickly decided to abandon making a more overt reference
38:43
Speaker 1: to League of their Own, although there is some spirit
38:46
Speaker 1: of it in mine. Mine is just justice League of
38:49
Speaker 1: their Own. And here it goes. Bruce Wayne, head of
38:52
Speaker 1: Wayne Enterprises of Gotham City, has a big problem. Well really,
38:57
Speaker 1: he has a bunch of problems. One say, his parents
39:00
Speaker 1: were murdered in crime Alley when he was a kid,
39:02
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. Man, that just messes you up.
39:05
Speaker 1: But Bruce was able to stay on the straight and narrow,
39:08
Speaker 1: and he inherited his father's enormous business where they were
39:12
Speaker 1: making sporting equipment. While Wayne was expected to embrace golf
39:16
Speaker 1: or maybe tennis, he learned early on that baseball was
39:19
Speaker 1: his true love. In fact, when he was little, you
39:21
Speaker 1: could say that Bruce was quite the bat boy. But
39:24
Speaker 1: now he's a batman. But Bruce has a new problem.
39:28
Speaker 1: An upstart businessman named Lex Luthor has opened up his
39:32
Speaker 1: own baseball bat company in Metropolis, just across the way
39:36
Speaker 1: from Gotham, and Luther is using all sorts of underhanded
39:39
Speaker 1: means to make bats on the cheap, undercutting Wayne's product
39:43
Speaker 1: and doing a measurable harm through predatory employment practices in
39:46
Speaker 1: the process. Wayne, in an effort to compete against this menace,
39:50
Speaker 1: proposes a contest, a company softball game, Wayne versus Luther.
39:56
Speaker 1: Winner gets to stay in business. The loser leaves Luther
40:00
Speaker 1: and seeing the opportunity to get a monopoly on bats
40:02
Speaker 1: in the Northeast, agrees, and so Bruce rushes around to
40:06
Speaker 1: form a great team, the Gotham Peaches. He finds that
40:10
Speaker 1: Diana Prince, who works in accounting, has a wondrous pitching arm.
40:14
Speaker 1: He also learns that Arthur Curry, the guy who delivers
40:17
Speaker 1: water to all the water coolers and Wayne Enterprises, I mean,
40:20
Speaker 1: he's a real aquam man, is also an incredible catcher.
40:25
Speaker 1: Billy Batson, who seems pretty immature for an adult, is
40:28
Speaker 1: as his name suggests, a pretty good batter himself. Victor Stone,
40:33
Speaker 1: who is really into robotics to the point where his
40:35
Speaker 1: coworkers jokingly call him Cyborg, makes an amazing third baseman.
40:40
Speaker 1: Hal Jordan's, who keeps the lights on even in the
40:42
Speaker 1: darkest night, is the perfect outfielder. Twins Zan and Jay
40:47
Speaker 1: No work in the cafeteria, but their ability to work
40:49
Speaker 1: together seamlessly makes them a great shortstop and first base player.
40:54
Speaker 1: Oh and all these people also happen to be superheroes.
40:56
Speaker 1: I should mention, but they don't like to brag about it.
40:58
Speaker 1: So in case he missed it, We've got Wonder Woman, Accoman, Shazam, Cyborg,
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Speaker 1: Green Lantern, and the Wonder Twins. Wayne's team practice is
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Speaker 1: hard getting ready for the big game against Luther Court.
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Speaker 1: At one point, Wayne pushes the team really hard. At
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Speaker 1: that moment, Batson bursts into tears, but as we know,
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Speaker 1: there's no crying in superhero baseball. The team gradually becomes
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Speaker 1: really close knit, learning more about one another. In a
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Speaker 1: charming series of vignettes, however, a rivalry develops between siblings
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Speaker 1: Jana and Zan, and Zan, feeling he is like way
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Speaker 1: out classed by everybody else, defects to Luther's team. The
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Speaker 1: day for the big game comes, and Luther has his
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Speaker 1: own squad of heavy hitters, the Metropolis Bells, Solomon, Grundy, Gorilla, Grod, Sinestro,
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Speaker 1: the Joker Zan, each one a formidable opponent except Zan,
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Speaker 1: because seriously, when your superpower is turning into different kinds
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Speaker 1: of water, you're just really lame. Oh and there's also
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Speaker 1: Luther's ace in the whole, a mild mannered Clark Kent,
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Speaker 1: who was working on a big story about Luther and
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Speaker 1: agreed to join the team as part of this investigation.
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Speaker 1: We get to the game with both teams playing really hard.
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Speaker 1: Luther's team isn't afraid to get dirty either, cheating at
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Speaker 1: times when possible. But despite this, the two teams stay
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Speaker 1: fairly even in their scores, and Wayne is biting his
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Speaker 1: nails on this one. It comes down to the final inning,
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Speaker 1: with Wayne's team given a boost when Wonder Woman knocks
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Speaker 1: a ball deep into right field, bringing home a couple
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Speaker 1: of runs, tying up the game. It leaves Shazam on
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Speaker 1: third base. He'd be the winning run up to bat
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Speaker 1: is swamp Thing, who I don't think I mentioned earlier
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Speaker 1: because I couldn't think of a valid reason for him
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Speaker 1: to be there. But he's there, and he's facing off
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Speaker 1: against their pitcher, Clark Kit. Clark pitches two strikes before
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Speaker 1: swamp they could even get his bearings, but on the
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Speaker 1: third pitch, swamp Thing accidentally makes a wild swing that
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Speaker 1: happens to connect, driving a grounder to shortstop. Shazam is
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Speaker 1: racing to home plate when Gorilla Grod fires that ball
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Speaker 1: and throws it at the catch who is Lex Luthor himself.
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Speaker 1: Luther catches the ball, but Shazam hits homeplate so hard
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Speaker 1: it knocks the ball from Luther's glove. It also knocks
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Speaker 1: Luther's hand from Luther's arm, and Luther in general turns
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Speaker 1: into a kind of red misted. Wayne's team celebrates as
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Speaker 1: Billy Batson is quietly arrested for involuntary manslaughter. There's no
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Speaker 1: crying in prison, except they're totally his. Wayne can keep
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Speaker 1: making bats. Luther is not only out of the industry,
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Speaker 1: but it's like totally dead. And all it took was
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Speaker 1: losing Billy Batson. But come on, that guy was a
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Speaker 1: joke anyway. The end one that was brilliant to you
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Speaker 1: almost made me like baseball. I mean, it would be
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Speaker 1: more exciting if there were superpowers, right, Yeah, I love
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Speaker 1: I love watching baseball, but like I admit, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of downtime with baseball. I'm more of a hockey
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Speaker 1: girl for that reason, a lot more like Constant. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I would be a fan of hockey if Atlanta still
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Speaker 1: had a team. Oh man, the reason for Atlanta's team
44:08
Speaker 1: was to get other teams in, but I think that's
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