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The Lost Toys · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: The Large Nerd Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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  Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerd
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  Speaker 1: Drunk Collider Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky
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  Speaker 1: things happening in the world around us and how excited
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  Speaker 1: we are to talk about them. I'm Ariel casting and
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  Speaker 1: with me as always is the awesome Jonathan Strickland. And
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  Speaker 1: before you say anything, Jonathan, I almost said, and all
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  Speaker 1: the freaky things in the world happening around us, because
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  Speaker 1: it's been that kind of a day. How are you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm freaky, I'm super freaking out. That's where I'm. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I am, I am. No. Three is not a crowd
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  Speaker 1: for me. I say, wait, no, I can't say that. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: but that's in the in the song. It's in the song. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, okay, okay, you know what I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get us back on track. You threw me off, Ariel,
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  Speaker 1: but I got a question for you. Okay, Ariel, here's
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  Speaker 1: your question, and this one's a nice innocent question, so
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  Speaker 1: we can get this back on the family Friendly Trek
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  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be on. What is a book that
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  Speaker 1: you have read multiple times and why do you like
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  Speaker 1: to read it. I would say that would be a
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  Speaker 1: Phantom Tollbooth, yes, I know, or the Phantom Tollbooth. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's a children's story, but I just love all
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  Speaker 1: of the word play in it. I think it's super clever. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But it's more uplifting than let's say, a Series of
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunate Events, which also likes to play with grammar and
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  Speaker 1: words and children's intelligence, but it's on a darker level.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, the Phantom Tollbooth. It's one of my one
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  Speaker 1: of my like my favorites outside of like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best standalone book that I read over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. That's great. It's a good answer. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: about you? Okay, I was wondering if you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: around to asking me. Well, I thought about not. But
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  Speaker 1: then there's actually quite a few books that I like
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  Speaker 1: to read over and over again. Some of them some
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  Speaker 1: of them are are more lighthearted, like The Hobbit is
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  Speaker 1: a book that I often refer to as being my
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  Speaker 1: favorite of all time, which is probably not not accurate.
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  Speaker 1: It was certainly my favorite book as a kid. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I still very much enjoy it. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I have the same like it. You know
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  Speaker 1: how things change in your estimation over time, not that
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  Speaker 1: they get worse or anything, but you just start to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate other stuff. But I would say probably Good Omens
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  Speaker 1: the Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman novel. I came across that
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  Speaker 1: while having having already read some of Neil Gaiman's work
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  Speaker 1: and a little bit more of Terry Pratchett's work, and
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  Speaker 1: someone described ribed it to me. And this is a
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  Speaker 1: description that a lot of people use as Hitchhiker's Guide
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  Speaker 1: to the Apocalypse. And I was a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I absolutely loved the
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  Speaker 1: humor and the satire and the very human story that's
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  Speaker 1: told in there. And um, yeah, so that that's probably
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  Speaker 1: one of those. It's also the book that I think
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  Speaker 1: I've purchased the most because I'm one of those people
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  Speaker 1: who would buy a copy. I would lend it out
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  Speaker 1: to someone saying, you've got to read this, never get
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  Speaker 1: it back, and so I would go out and buy
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  Speaker 1: another copy. I now have it digitally with Good Omens.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know this happens to me, with most of
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  Speaker 1: Terry Pratchett's stuff, I pick up the book to read
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  Speaker 1: it and I'll read like a chapter and I'll put
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  Speaker 1: it down, and then like months later, I'll come back
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  Speaker 1: and read another chapter. And that's how I read good
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  Speaker 1: omens um take the story, and I like the TV
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  Speaker 1: show and I'm interested about the sequel. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just for some reason, Terry Pratchett is tiny, tiny,
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  Speaker 1: small chunks. For me. It's probably the easier to understand
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't do it that way. Uh. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of the Discworld novels. I will say
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  Speaker 1: that towards the end of the Discworld novels, towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of Practet's life, unfortunately, um, I was feeling like
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  Speaker 1: they were starting to get a bit repetitive, and so
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  Speaker 1: I kind of fell off of them after a while.
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  Speaker 1: But the earlier ones are some of my Again, there's
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  Speaker 1: so much humor and satire, and it's all in this
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  Speaker 1: sort of fantasy world trappings. Just very very clever, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. We will try to be very clever then,
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  Speaker 1: will definitely be fun. As we talk about some news
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  Speaker 1: stories for the top of the show. Yes, and this
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  Speaker 1: first one is about a bunch of clever and fun people,
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  Speaker 1: specifically the animators who make the Pixar shorts, um the
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  Speaker 1: Sparks Stories. So if you're not familiar with Sparks Stories,
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  Speaker 1: you know all those little pigs are short, uh short
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  Speaker 1: films in front of like a big Pixar movie, and
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  Speaker 1: how we all loved them. Well, I think starting the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it, Jonathan when they started releasing Sparks Stories. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I it was one of those things that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: notice at first, is when when I logged into Disney
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  Speaker 1: Plus one day, I saw that and I thought, huh,
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  Speaker 1: I guess this is like just a collection of all
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  Speaker 1: the shorts, And no, it's it's not just that. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's short short pieces that have been created by Pixar
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  Speaker 1: uh employees that maybe none of them, like some of
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  Speaker 1: them had had never been screened really on a big
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  Speaker 1: screen to the general public like it had been seen
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  Speaker 1: inside Pixar. But that was about it. And um, I
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  Speaker 1: remember watching one and my my uh wife and I
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  Speaker 1: were watching it and we were shocked because there was
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  Speaker 1: a joke that was it wasn't dirty, but it was
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  Speaker 1: a little body. It was more body than what you
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  Speaker 1: would expect to see in a Pixar film, like especially
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  Speaker 1: you know, like that Disney style Pixar film, And it
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  Speaker 1: took us by surprise, and that's when we said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is something a little different. This isn't just like
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  Speaker 1: the little amuse bush before the main course of a
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  Speaker 1: Pixar movie. And they're very they're very fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: This documentary is following two filmmakers as they go through
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  Speaker 1: the process of developing and writing and animating their works,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's kind of talking about what that process is,
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  Speaker 1: like how personal it can be for storytellers, and that
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the ways that picks our helps
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  Speaker 1: to develop their future, you know, lead storytellers, the people
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  Speaker 1: who will pick up the baton and make the Pixar
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  Speaker 1: classics of the future. Yeah, if you had asked me
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  Speaker 1: if I wanted a Pixar documentary, I probably would have told,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And this is even after having like looked
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  Speaker 1: into their company history at one point in time, back
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  Speaker 1: when you and I were doing The Brink. But the
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  Speaker 1: trailer for the for the documentary looks absolutely uplifting and delightful,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something I need in my life right now. Agreed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's got a very positive sort of feel to it,
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  Speaker 1: like you feel like there's gonna be there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some conflict, there's gonna be some challenges and stuff that
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  Speaker 1: people have to overcome because maybe you maybe you come
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  Speaker 1: up with an idea and then you realize later that
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  Speaker 1: the idea you had is not something that's working out
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, but that ultimately it does have this kind
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  Speaker 1: of optimistic and creative spirit to it. Um. Have you
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  Speaker 1: watched any of the Sparks shorts. I've watched a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them. The Little Boy Who flew Um, I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember the name of it. I haven't seen that one.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Ball of Yarn one. Did you see
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  Speaker 1: that one? I did not see that one. The Ball
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  Speaker 1: of Yarn one was the one that shocked us with
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  Speaker 1: having us I mean body joke. I'll tell you after
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, because I love the joke. It's a great joke. Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear it. Another thing that might
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  Speaker 1: have somebody jokes in it that we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: What is the around the World in Nadie Days mini
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  Speaker 1: series were about to get which I don't recall. Having
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  Speaker 1: learned about this in the past. What about you, Jan, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know about so. First of all, Around the
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  Speaker 1: World in eighty Days is a Jules Verne story that's
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  Speaker 1: been adapted numerous times. Um, you know, having having everyone
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  Speaker 1: from Jackie Chan to Jackie Chan in it. And uh
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  Speaker 1: it's um uh serious story about a very educated but
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  Speaker 1: somewhat childish man, Phileas Fogg, who makes a bet with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of snooty British aristocrats that he can circumnavigate
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  Speaker 1: the globe in eighty days and if if he loses,
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  Speaker 1: he has to pay up some outlined and just think
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  Speaker 1: it's like twenty thou pounds or something, some crazy amount
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  Speaker 1: of money. Um. And like I said, there's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of adaptations, but this one's got a great actor
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  Speaker 1: in it. Um who who who? Oh nice joke. It's
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  Speaker 1: David Tennant which slash film. The slash film article that
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  Speaker 1: will link on our website. Large you're drawn Collider about this.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he traveled the stars as Doctor Who,
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  Speaker 1: but he can barely make it around the world in
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  Speaker 1: any days. Um, paraphrasing a little bit, but it is
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  Speaker 1: pretty funny. Um. The trailer looks cute. I had I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about this with my folks the other day
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  Speaker 1: and one of them asked me how many times are
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  Speaker 1: they going to remake this movie? And I said, they've
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  Speaker 1: got to do it once for every generation if you
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  Speaker 1: want this story to like continue on, if you want
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  Speaker 1: the classics to continue on, and you try to show
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  Speaker 1: like whatever generation is after millennials, an old version of
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  Speaker 1: around the world in eighty days, likely it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to grasp their attention. So maybe it's just the every
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  Speaker 1: ten years bid to keep this story alive. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Second of all, gen Z, I
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  Speaker 1: love you. Nif aial doesn't, I do love you, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't. Third of all, no, but I think you're
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  Speaker 1: making an excellent point there, arial because as I had
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  Speaker 1: a very similar discussion about something else we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: much later in this episode, a different remake where you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's a sort of knee jerk reaction
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  Speaker 1: among people to say, why are they remaking that isn't
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  Speaker 1: the version that we already have perfectly, you know, fine
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  Speaker 1: already And in some cases I can fall into that trap,
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  Speaker 1: but I try to remind myself, like you were saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is a way to make a story appealing and
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  Speaker 1: relevant to a different generation, people who don't necessarily have
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  Speaker 1: a connection to the actors who are in a previous version,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe the previous version looks dated, maybe it looks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little clunky to their eyes, and that
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't engage with it otherwise. And in that sense,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like theater, right, Like every production you
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  Speaker 1: see of any show is going to be different in
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  Speaker 1: some ways to all the other productions. So I'm okay
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  Speaker 1: with I don't like what they've done to this story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay. I'm he with the idea. Mostly. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are cases where I start questioning things, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the remake of Psycho that was a shot for shot remake.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, what's I don't even understand the point
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  Speaker 1: of that. But um, but others I'm like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: can I'm this this isn't for me. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I have to start with this is not for me,
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  Speaker 1: and that's okay, And if it works on a different
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  Speaker 1: level for other audiences, that's great. Yeah. I tend to
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  Speaker 1: be more forgiving about it. With like classic literature that
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  Speaker 1: this is done with, then maybe just a really good
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  Speaker 1: movie that started off as a movie. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it's just you know that that Gooney's effect
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  Speaker 1: of what I watched as a kid and holds the
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  Speaker 1: perfect place in my heart for me versus anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, like if you do it with Shakespeare, I'll
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  Speaker 1: watch a Brazilian Shakespeare revisions. I can definitely see that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I sit there and I think about, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how many movies from the nineteen fifties and ninth sixties
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  Speaker 1: did I seek out to watch because I knew that
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  Speaker 1: people older than than my generation like them, and the
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  Speaker 1: list is pretty small, And and I sit there and think, well,
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  Speaker 1: if they remade that with a cast that was contemporary
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I knew the actors and I knew
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  Speaker 1: like the director or whatever, then I might be more
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  Speaker 1: inclined to see it, even though it's you know, sacrilege
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  Speaker 1: because they're remaking a classic film. But yeah, I feel
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  Speaker 1: the same way. Like if if I were to hear
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  Speaker 1: oh Abrams is he got the go ahead to do
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  Speaker 1: a remake of E T I would probably be like
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  Speaker 1: pitching a fit outside right now. Yeah. Yeah, And the
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  Speaker 1: other thing is, you know some some classic movies and
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  Speaker 1: probably you know I haven't read around the world in
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  Speaker 1: eighty days and forever, so probably even that story, you know,
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  Speaker 1: has some things that are problematic nowadays. If you change
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  Speaker 1: it too much, then you should just make it its
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  Speaker 1: own new thing. Um yeah, but uh so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it is a a place where people can be
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  Speaker 1: very opinionated, and it's it's a very tricky, tricky thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, right. Yeah, it's a tight rope, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: if you go too close to the source material, then
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  Speaker 1: you're boring. If you go too far away, then people
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  Speaker 1: are saying, why did you even bother calling it this?
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  Speaker 1: And or you know, if you're going too close to
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  Speaker 1: the source material, and as you say, if the source
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  Speaker 1: material happens to contain stuff that just does not work
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  Speaker 1: in a modern setting, like in a with a modern audience,
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  Speaker 1: like it is not gonna play well, it's gonna it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be seen for what it was, which is probably
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  Speaker 1: a bad take. It was always a bad take, it's
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  Speaker 1: just now we recognize it as a bad take. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you wanna you don't want to inflict that on your
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  Speaker 1: audience necessarily, So yeah, it's tricky. Yeah, but you know
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  Speaker 1: who is timeless Jonathan uh if you if you, I
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  Speaker 1: think I do know, but I want to hear you
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  Speaker 1: say it. Okay, yeah, I know that warming uh anti
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  Speaker 1: hero from Marvel. Yeah. Well, we're not gonna spend too
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  Speaker 1: much time on this. I just wanted to, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Ariel made the lineup, as she always does because she's amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the things she put in was that
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  Speaker 1: there was the the let There Be Carnage TV spot
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  Speaker 1: for the new Venom movie as well some posters, and
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I thought was interesting, it wasn't. Really.
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  Speaker 1: The TV spot actually didn't do much for me. To
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  Speaker 1: be fair, I am I am not the person for Venom, Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not that's not my bag. But the thing I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about with Ariel before we started recording is
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  Speaker 1: that I find the marketing for this movie to be
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  Speaker 1: absolutely perplexing because the trailers we saw early on seemed
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  Speaker 1: to really emphasize the humorous relationship between Eddie and Venom,
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  Speaker 1: right like there's this constant struggle between the two, and
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  Speaker 1: then this TV spot makes it look more like a
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  Speaker 1: classic kind of horror movie, and so it starts to
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  Speaker 1: raise the question of what kind of movie is this really?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? Is it primarily a horror movie with some
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  Speaker 1: elements of humor. Is it primarily kind of a buddy
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  Speaker 1: cop film with some elements of horror. It's hard to say.
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  Speaker 1: It is the first one. I felt rode the line
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  Speaker 1: pretty well because it was scary, but it was also funny.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Carnage is as all the trailers will
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  Speaker 1: lead you to believe a bigger batter symbiote. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it. I'll let you know, Jonathan, that's good, Yeah, godspeed,
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  Speaker 1: I uh yeah, I mean for me, it's again. It's
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  Speaker 1: just coming down to the marketing thing. Like I look
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  Speaker 1: at the marketing and I think about other movies that
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  Speaker 1: were marketed in different ways, Like the original Suicide Squad
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  Speaker 1: movie had very different marketing attached to it throughout before
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  Speaker 1: its release, and that movie turned into a total mess.
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  Speaker 1: So I always get a little like and see when
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  Speaker 1: I see a film where I feel like the people
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  Speaker 1: behind the campaign didn't actually know how to market the film.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it comes across as to me. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's probably why I didn't watch the first
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  Speaker 1: one for so long, but I did enjoy it personal.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. We have one less story that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to touch on real quick before the break,
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  Speaker 1: and that is that we're getting a new digital Pokemon
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  Speaker 1: card game. Whoo, just to lighten the mood a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a celebrating it's a anniversary in this Pokemon.
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  Speaker 1: How is it years old? I mean like it's still ariel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still of an age where I still call it
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  Speaker 1: Pokemon's okay, Like I don't know your charizards from your
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  Speaker 1: Pikachu's or your Squirtles or whatever the heck they are
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  Speaker 1: so so to me, it's all to me. It's all
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  Speaker 1: all all Greek. But yeah, there's there had been a
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  Speaker 1: digital card game of Pokemon where you collect Pokemon and
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  Speaker 1: you battle people, but it was really limited and it
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  Speaker 1: was really clunky. And so now there's a new free
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  Speaker 1: to play Pokemon digital card game that's available on a
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  Speaker 1: lot more platforms. So that's great. Yeah. The other nice
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  Speaker 1: thing about it is they have there will probably be
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  Speaker 1: some micro transactions, but they haven't really talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: So it seems like to play this game, uh, most
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  Speaker 1: of it will be free and you'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: pour it over your cards that you have in real
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  Speaker 1: life and from the old game. So they're they're really
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  Speaker 1: trying to make this accessible, which I think is great
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  Speaker 1: for Pokemon because it's it's something that I've seen lived
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  Speaker 1: through many generations of children. At this point, um and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'll be at you're fighting animals until they
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  Speaker 1: make each other pass out. But compared to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of entertainment nowadays, it's pretty wholesome. So yes, and as
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  Speaker 1: they say, you have no choice but to collect every
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  Speaker 1: single one of them, I'm pretty sure that's how it goes.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what I do with Pringles. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: on that note, we're gonna go into a quick break,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: but when we come back, we're gonna ask the question
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: what if? What if? Alright, we're back. I've recomposed myself.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It was pretty impressive to watch her do that on camera, like, actually,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you know, reconnect all of her pieces so that she
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: was a whole aerial once again. Yeah, I'm just actually
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a jigsaw puzzle of complexity, just like all of the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: what if stories we've been getting from Marvel. Yeah, So
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Ariel and I have both caught up on the what
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: If series that's streaming on Disney Plus right now. If
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you are not familiar with what if. It is a
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: line of special com x that came out from Marvel
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: that just asked the question what if and then you
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: have a different scenario. Gave Marvel artists and writers a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: chance to play around with characters that you normally you
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have that much leeway because these are money making figures,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: so you can't do anything too crazy with them, um like,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you can kill them up, but you gotta bring them back.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So the way if series didn't have those limitations, so
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they could ask questions like, you know, what if Aunt
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: May got bit by the radioactive Spider instead of Peter Parker,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Like those are the kind of question. So some of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: them could be very, very silly, and some of them
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: could be very not silly. And we're we're kind of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: seeing that with the the streaming series too, which is
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: taking the Marvel Universe as it exists from the m
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: c U. So it's the m c U versions of
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: these characters, often voiced, not not always, but often voiced
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: by the actors who played those characters on screen, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: putting them into different scenarios. So these are not retellings
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of the classic what if comic books. They are new
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: what if scenarios using the mc U version of comic
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: book characters. And I was so hopeful when the series
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: first came out because the first two episodes left me
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: feeling pretty good. Um yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I was like after Endgame, which was so, you know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: largely sad. Yeah, but one division had at oh ah soldier,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: that was okay, that was okay, it was he was
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in a better spot at the end than he was
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the beginning. So well, he's Captain America, so definitely. Uh.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And I guess Loki had Um, Loki was like a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: LOOKI was like a lateral move because he was essentially
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in the same like weird situation at the end as
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: he had been in the beginning. Spoiler alert for anyone
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: who hasn't seen Loki. But and and we're gonna try
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: not to spoil any of the wide IF episodes in particular.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: But as you say, like, I think we're on what episode,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: like episode six was the one that just played, I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: think so, um it was five Okay, So more than
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: half of them have had endings that were perhaps more
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of the bummer end of the spectrum. Um, and I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: had I had even warned my wife when we first
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: started watching it, I told her, I said, now, listen,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I've read the what If comics. Things do not always
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: end so well in what If. Like often often the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: question is what if and it seems kind of lighthearted
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: or interesting or uh maybe just silly or whatever, but
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it frequently ends poorly, kind of like a Twilight Zone
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: episode or a horror movie where your characters end up
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: in a situation at the end that is not good.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: That is frequently the way what If plays out, And
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the theory I gave Arial is that it sends the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: message that the actual Marvel timeline is the superior Marvel timeline,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and any deviation from that ends in sadness. But but
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: here's the thing that I think is, if that's the case,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: very poor is that Okay? Then I don't want to
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: watch this next uh, this next phase because it's all
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: going to be sadness. Um and I I but want
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the multiverse to be full of wacky z any fun adventures. Well, Loki,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it was full of some wacky z any fun stuff
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: in addition to some pretty grim stuff. So I suspect
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: like the Marvel films have always had at least some
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: element of humor. And self awareness to them. I don't
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: think that's gonna go away. Um. I think that the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: multiverse will give them the ants too explore. Some stuff
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that might be a little experimental is probably going too
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: far because this is still Disney and Marvel. I don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: think they're going to push the envelope too hard, but
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: they might be able to do some stuff that is
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a departure from their typical MCU approach. Yeah, I can
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: see that. And and to be fair, you know, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: watched Hung XI and that was an absolute delight. Um,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't I don't know. I was and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I get that it's a cartoon, so you want to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: make sure that adults know that it's for them. But
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I was hoping that more of the episodes would have
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a bit more levity to them. That being said, the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: zombie episode, which I don't think is a spoiler because
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: there are flipping funko pops out about zombie and and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the zombie and the zombie stuff in Marvel has been
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and I apologize, my dog is going to join in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: on the conversation here, but the MBI stuff with Marvel
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: has been uh, you know, it's been covered quite a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: bit in the comics right, their entire graphic novels that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: are about that sort of alternate reality. Yeah, well that's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, is I feel like this now.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Mind you, I've mainly had the Marvel Zombies explained to me,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: but between that and watching the what If episode with Zombies,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like there was more levity and and a
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: bit of more of a story that I could get
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: behind in the what If version than the Marvel Zombies
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: series itself. Yeah. No, yeah it was. It was not
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: as I mean, well, it was not as drawn out
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: as the Marvel Zombie series, which really takes its time
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and absolutely destroying all the characters you know and love. Um. Yeah, Like,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I would love it if there were at least one
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: or two more lighthearted what ifs. Um, something that would
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: be a little more uplifting or jovial be great, because
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the dark stuff does get a little wearing after a while. Um.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: If I want that, I'll watch DC content, which we
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: know how much you love DC. Yeah that's that's that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: was me throwing shade at d c Um. There is
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: one that I would love. I mean, it won't happen
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: because they haven't introduced the Fantastic four yet and the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: m c U. But there there was one I remember
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: where it was what If Dr Doom was a good guy,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and I want to say he was even in gold
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: armor in that What If comic. It's hard for me
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to remember. This was like one that might have dated
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: from the eighties, and um, but I would love to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have seen like something along those lines. It actually would
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: be fun to see what If and they picked some
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: villain and they make that villain the good guy. We
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: kind of got a little bit of that in the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy one, but don't want to say
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: too much about it. A little bit. Yeah, um, I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: would watch Dr JOm although if they introduced fantast Stick
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: four in What If, then now that would be a ridiculous.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: They're never going to do that, Like everyone was expecting
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that to happen in One Division. The two things everyone
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: was sure we're going to happen in one Division is
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that Read Richards was going to be the guy that
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: when when they they're told that Monica Rambo knows a guy,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that that that guy was gonna be Read Richards and
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: it wasn't. And the other thing, of course was that
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you know, Mephisto was behind it all, and a theory
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that I still loved heard talked about even you know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: no matter what Marvel property it is, I'm pretty sure
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that's Mephisto behind it all. Yeah. Yeah, Um, I want
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to see an episode that is all Howard the Duck.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Surprise surprise, Yeah, um, I guess. But they give Seth
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Green a lot of work, right, because he's the guy
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: who does the voice for him. Yeah. I mean he
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: was in the Guardians of Galaxy episode, which that's a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: tiny spoiler if you haven't watched that one yet, but
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you know, he was also in the movie. So um,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I liked him. I would I would love to watch
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: something like that. I couldn't I wouldn't be able to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: say it would be happy, but it would be probably
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: be fun. Um, you know, I'm I'm surprised honestly that
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Hulu came out with the Hit Monkey series instead of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: just throwing that character into what If. Yeah. Yeah, we
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: didn't talk about Hit Monkey, but that is a weird
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: that's a weird concept for a show. It's so adult
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that they're like barely associating it with Marvel. Yeah, because
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it's Yeah, it's well it's kind of like, how do
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you incorporate Deadpool into the m c U, right, Like,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: how do you how do you manage to put those
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: two things together where totally they are so different and um,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you know, content wise, like Deadpool's content is just so
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: edgy compared to the stuff you get out on Marvel.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: The same thing with Hit Monkey. Like Hit Monkey is
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: it's about It's about a monkey that that that goes
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: on a revenge killing spree. Yeah, now they could bring
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Deadpool into the what If. I mean, they've already showed
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that they can mash it up with Marvel somewhat well.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: The whole free Grant Free Guide trailer with him and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Corg was delightful and relatively family friendly, So it would
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: be fun if they could. If they snuck in a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Deadpool moment in what If before It's over, I think
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: that would be incredible. I agree, I think that would
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: be great. Like the neat thing about the Waif series
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: two is that again, it just gives the people that
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the chance to to present scenarios that they could not
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: possibly support in a longer form comic book, And it
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: was the spirit of what If, I would say, is
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the same spirit you would get when a bunch of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: geeks get around and they would just start spitballing stuff
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: like the stuff that you would see in the film
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Stand By Me, where you're like, who would win in
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a fight? Superman or Mighty Mouse? Not completely dissimilar to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: what you do. No, no, So therefore, that's part of
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: why I think it appeals so much to me. I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: am curious to see the rest of the series. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: am hopeful we get a couple more lighthearted entries. I'm
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: sure we'll get some more you know, dark grim stuff too.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: M hmm. Yeah, speaking of dark and grim, we should
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: take another break and then get into our mashups. You know, Ariel,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: People are strange when you're a stranger. Aces look ugly
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: when you're alone. Are you quoting The Lost Boys? I'm quoting.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'm quoting a song by The Doors that was featured
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: in The Lost Boys. People are strange. Although I think
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: it might have been the Echo and the bunny Man
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: version that was in Lost Boys. I would have to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: go and look at the soundtrack listing at this point. Yeah.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I alluded to this earlier in the episode. Lost Boys
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: is a film that's getting a remake, and with you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: brand new actors and stuff, and so Lost Boys was
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: one of those movies that people in my generation kind
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: of latch onto as being sort of a classic you know,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: halloween slash horror slash vampire movie, um with like you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: key for Sutherland in it and stuff, and that it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: like this this film where you've got this sort of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: biker punk gang of vampires in this little fictional beach
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: town in California, and then you've got this family that's
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: just moving into that town and they get mixed up
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: with the vampires and then it becomes kind of a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: vampire movie and it's, um, it's really entertaining. Yeah, well
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: they're remaking it, and this time with Jid Martell and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: no A Juke. Jid Martell is from it, he played
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Bill and no A Jew is the boy from the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Quiet Place, um, who have both grown up over the pandemic,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but they still look so young to me. Like, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: haven't watched The Lost Boys a lot, although I have
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: seen it, you know, I haven't watched it multiple times
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: like many of the people I know, and like Corey
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Hame looked young in that movie. Yeah, but Keifer Sutherland
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and is it Liam Michelle was she the love interest. Oh,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: i'd have to look, I am the worst when it
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: comes to names. Uh, they look they looked like adults
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to me, so it felt very off. Yeah. Jamie Gertz
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: was the the female lead. She played Um but yeah,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: like um, the two Coriries, Hayman and Feldman, we're both
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: they both looked very young in it or pretty young
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in it. And Keifer Settling like an older teenager, maybe
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: like someone who's maybe in the early and he's like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: that's kind of how the gang looked. And the the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: actors that have been picked for this remake look significantly younger.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: need to be like a beat for beat remake of
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the original for it to work well. Much like it,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: there are some disturbing um coming into your puberty moments
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: um for it that if they include in this remake
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: with the young boys might also be a little bit
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable for like me to watch. I mean, I know
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Jade Martell is eighteen, but he looks like he's twelve. Um. Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: so it's just that disconnect. Well, that is going to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: be one of our Oh and I was right. It
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: was the Echo and the Bunnyman version. I had to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: look it up after I said it. Um, that's one
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: of the two properties where matching up the other one
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: is sort of I guess I'm Arie'll tell me if
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong here, But you picked it perhaps because of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the Sparks documentary. That is correct. We're doing Toy Story, yeah,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: so so I mean, if you don't know what Toy
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Story is, I don't know where you've been over the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: last like two decades, three decades. Toy Story obviously Pixar's
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: first really big hit as a as a feature film.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: As their first feature film, it features toys that take
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: on a life of their own whenever people are not
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: paying attention, and um, yeah, it's spawned a beloved franchise
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: of films and now we're going to ruin it. Yes, um,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to ruin it first. So I bet
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you titled Your's the same thing I titled Mine the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Lost Toys. There you go, Well, let's see if they're
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the same story. I hope, But I really, I really
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I just I suggest things before I think about them,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and then I have a heck of a time actually
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: writing it. So wood he was depressed, with Andy and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Molly grown up, and he and the other toys donated
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: to new homes. What he found himself in the attic
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: of a house in California, with no one left to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: care about him, and he was lonely. Then one day,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: staring out the window of his now about banded home,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: he saw a familiar face he never thought he would
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: see again, Baby Face, one of the lost toys created
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: by Sid, laying on the sidewalk. Then what he saw
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a kid pick up the spider Baby toy and return
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: it to a house across the street. The kid went
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: in but never came back out, even after days. You
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: see what, he was a toy, so he never needed
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to sleep. He could just stare out the window for days,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and that's what he did. He was absolutely perplexed and
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: decided to go investigate. When what he got to the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: lost Toys home, he was surprised that Sid lived there,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and was even more surprised that Sid was still a kid,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and Sid was not the only kid in the house.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: In fact, there were only kids in the house and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: no parents. And that's when what he heard of from
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: under the couch, which wasn't actually it was a sound
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: of legs, reeling out her fishing line, hooking Woody and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: pulling him under the couch with her. She ushered him
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: back to the room where the rest of the Lost
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Toys are being kept and explained what was happening. You see,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Sid was a kid with little self control and less
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: self worth, so one day, when he met a bunch
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of ne'er do wells during one of his rebellious outings,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: of course he joined their motorcycle gang, and then he
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: had no qualms joining their ranks once he learned they
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: were actually vampires. The Lost Toys had been waiting anxiously
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: for the day when Sid would move out so they
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: would maybe finally find loving homes with non judgmental, sweet
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: loving children, and once Sid disappeared with the vampire gang,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: they thought that day had come. They were packed up
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to be donated, and then it happened a couple of
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: kids ruined the vampire secret hotel hideout where Sid was staying,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and the vamp gang needed a new place to stay, So,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: of course Sid offered to let them move into his
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: house if, of course, they would help him get rid
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: of his parents, because his parents wouldn't agree to it,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and that's just what happened. Sid infested his house with
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: his vampire friends. It was horrible news for the Lost Toys.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Once the vampires moved in, each one claimed one of
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Sid Sid's mutant toys to help them lore victims back
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to the house for food or increasing their ranks. You see,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: vampires are less than human, and now that they were
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: less than human, they could see that the toys were
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: living creatures, and the Lost Toys hated this. Their long
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: away to day of freedom seemed like it was never
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: going to come. Or The kids who found and returned
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the Lost Toys didn't mind their garish appearance and would
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: make loving homes for them. But once they returned the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: toys to Sid's house, they were eaten or turned into
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: vampires themselves. The Lost Toys thought they would never experience
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: love and forever be tools of the murdering monsters in
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: their home. But when Wood He got there, he gave
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: them new hope. He had survived so many bad turns
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: of fate and gotten out of so many situations. Surely
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: he could help. Thankfully. What he had spent many days
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: alone in his attic, watching vampire movies through the window
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: of his neighbor's house, which you know, it's a little creepy,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: but he's a toy, so who really cares. So he
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly how to free the lost Toys and vanquish
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  Speaker 1: the vampires. They team up like the good old days,
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  Speaker 1: and through a montage of home alone antics mixed with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fire sharpened pencils and windows, they attacked
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  Speaker 1: the vamps. It was a gruesome scene of vamp on
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  Speaker 1: toy action. They had just finished off the final original
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  Speaker 1: vampire and we're about to start in on the newer
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  Speaker 1: recruits that they had lured. When all the new recruits
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  Speaker 1: turned back into kids, apparently they hadn't become full vampires yet,
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  Speaker 1: and each re enlivened child was so grateful that they
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  Speaker 1: adopted their lost toy and gave it a loving home.
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  Speaker 1: And what he found a new purpose monster slaying with
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  Speaker 1: all the toys in their new homes. He flopped off
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  Speaker 1: into the sunset, never to be heard of again. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think we have slightly different mash ups. So here's mine,
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  Speaker 1: also called the Lost Toys. Buzz Lightyear has a problem.
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  Speaker 1: He's just been brought home as a gift for a
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  Speaker 1: young boy named Sam Emerson as Sam's family is moving
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  Speaker 1: into Sam's grand father's home in Santa Carla, California. Also
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  Speaker 1: in the home is Sam's older brother Michael, their mom Lucy,
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  Speaker 1: and their grandfather just plain old Grandpa. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: buzz Is problem. No, his problem has to do with
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  Speaker 1: other toys. Sam takes Buzz with him as he visits
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  Speaker 1: the local boardwalk and Buzz sees there are these signs
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  Speaker 1: up about missing toys, which, yeah, that's weird, but this
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  Speaker 1: is Santa Carla, I mean, weird is kind of their thing.
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  Speaker 1: And Buzz spots this gorgeous toy around the corner, a
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  Speaker 1: shepherdess who seems to be in some sort of relationship
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  Speaker 1: with a cowboy toy. At night, when Sam is asleep
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  Speaker 1: and Buzz can move around, Buzz does them exploring, including
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  Speaker 1: a local comic book store. They're a pair of squeaky
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  Speaker 1: frog toys named Edgar and Alan, the frog brothers. Warren
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  Speaker 1: Buzz that Santa Carla is home to a force of evil,
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  Speaker 1: but then they also spend all their time in the
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  Speaker 1: horror comics section of the comic bookstore and it probably
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  Speaker 1: just rubbed off. Buzz on his way home, spots the
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  Speaker 1: Shepherdess again and approaches. She introduces herself as bo Peep
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  Speaker 1: and invites him to follow her to a gathering. That
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  Speaker 1: gathering is a group of toys on the beach around
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  Speaker 1: a little fake bonfire, you know, one of those that
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  Speaker 1: has lights, and it's got fabric flames and a little
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  Speaker 1: fan to blow the fabric and flames around. Anyway, the
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  Speaker 1: toys are all hard cases, and the leader of the group,
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  Speaker 1: known as Woody, is the hardest of them all, like
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  Speaker 1: he's hard plastic. Anyway, Woody offers Buzz some quote unquote
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  Speaker 1: special batteries. Bo Peep warns Buzz not to take them,
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  Speaker 1: but Buzz, wanting to be accepted, does so anyway and
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  Speaker 1: inserts them into his battery pack. Next thing, we see
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  Speaker 1: Buzz quote unquote waking up back at the Emerson home.
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  Speaker 1: He seems to have no memory of how he got
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  Speaker 1: back there, but his voice Modu keeps going off and
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  Speaker 1: it's saying weird stuff like I'm Buzz Lightyear blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: and watch me hearn into a bat which it totally
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  Speaker 1: did not do that before. Sam is a bit concerned
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  Speaker 1: over his toy. He thinks it might be broken. Buzz
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  Speaker 1: once alone tries to remove the special batteries from his
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  Speaker 1: battery pack, but they are corroded into place and he
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  Speaker 1: can't budge them. That night, he seeks out the Frog Brothers,
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  Speaker 1: who immediately recognized the Buzz has been corrupted with batteries
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  Speaker 1: that they say run on vampire power. Buzz says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what vampire power means, but it seems to
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  Speaker 1: have little effect on the Frog Brothers. At first, they
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  Speaker 1: consider eradicating Buzz, but he convinces them to help him
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  Speaker 1: find a way to reverse the corruption. To do that,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: say the Frog Brothers, they need to take out the
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  Speaker 1: lead vampire power toy Woody. So Buzz leads the Frog
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  Speaker 1: Brothers to the toy gangs hideout the backyard of a
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  Speaker 1: particularly twisted kid named Sid. But he's actually not important
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  Speaker 1: to our story, so I'm just throwing that in for flavor.
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  Speaker 1: As they sneak around, they encounter potato Head and they
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  Speaker 1: steak him a steak and potatoes don't mix, potato Head says,
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  Speaker 1: as the vampire life sleeps out of him. But but
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  Speaker 1: they do, though, says that they do mix, like like
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  Speaker 1: that's a thing, that's that's the thing that exists. Steak
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  Speaker 1: and potatoes. The group retreats back to Sam Emerson's home,
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  Speaker 1: shaken by the experience. A bit later, they hear noise
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  Speaker 1: and realize that the house is under assault. The toys
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  Speaker 1: underwood E's direction are attacking, and so Buzz and the
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  Speaker 1: frogs go on this wild vampire power toy slaughter. They
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  Speaker 1: use stuff like pushing electric toys into bathtubs filled with
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  Speaker 1: water so that they short out, or they knock more
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  Speaker 1: delicate toys down the stairs to break into pieces. Or
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  Speaker 1: they might knock one particularly flammable toy into a fireplace
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  Speaker 1: that's on for some reason, even though this is California
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  Speaker 1: and it never gets cold enough for it there to
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  Speaker 1: be a fire anyway, it comes down to a showdown
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  Speaker 1: between Buzz and Woody. The two have this knock down,
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  Speaker 1: drag out fight, and it looks like Woody is gonna
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  Speaker 1: get the upper hand. When Buzz and desperation manages to
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  Speaker 1: get Wood, he's pull string hooked on a coat hook
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  Speaker 1: on the on the door, and wood he unable to
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  Speaker 1: advance because he's tethered to the door, finds himself face
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  Speaker 1: to face with Buzz holding a toothpick, and Buzz says, right,
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  Speaker 1: a good catchphrase here, which is clearly a note for me.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't I didn't do that in time for
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  Speaker 1: the movie to be made, and he plunges the toothpick
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  Speaker 1: into Woody's chest. Woody's voice box scrambles a bit, and
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  Speaker 1: you hear there's a sneaking one last time before he
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  Speaker 1: drops Lifeless. But despite taking out Woody Buzzes batteries are
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  Speaker 1: still corroded into place. Suddenly the door opens and there's
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  Speaker 1: a toy to renaisseurs Rex there, the true leader of
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  Speaker 1: the vampiric power toys. The Frog Brothers yell, it's the
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  Speaker 1: head vampire that one just as the as Rex Knox
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  Speaker 1: Buzz prone standing over him his jaws, and then suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: from behind him one of those like go kart size
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  Speaker 1: military jeeps, you know, like the kind that's made for kids.
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  Speaker 1: It just comes barreling through the door, running over the
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  Speaker 1: t Rex and as the life ebbs from Rex's eyes, Buzz,
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  Speaker 1: here's this clattering sound and it's the batteries they've fallen
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  Speaker 1: out of his battery pack. He looks up and he says,
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  Speaker 1: the grandpa was driving the jeep, and so Buzz immediately
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  Speaker 1: falls slack to the ground. But looks like Grandpa might
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  Speaker 1: already know what's up, and he quietly picks up Buzz
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  Speaker 1: and he carries him back up to Sam's room, tucks
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  Speaker 1: Buzz into bed, and then says one thing about living
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  Speaker 1: in Santa Carla. Never could stomach all the damn Vampire
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  Speaker 1: Toys credits. I never knew how well like, how seamlessly
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  Speaker 1: those two properties would shop. It's disturbing. I mean, I
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: literally just took the plot of Lost Boys and replaced characters.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do you pick Rex because it was the
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  Speaker 1: closest to Max that had vampire from the Lost Boys?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I picked Rex. I picked Rex because I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to think of who would be an unexpected
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  Speaker 1: toy from the toy story universe to actually be in
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  Speaker 1: charge of everything, and Rex is the one I would
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  Speaker 1: think would be wreck. Actually, Slinky Dog is probably the
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  Speaker 1: least likely, but Rex would be like right behind Slinky Dog. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just was trying to think of one
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  Speaker 1: that would be the least likely to be the head
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  Speaker 1: of the vampires. I also was very pleased with my
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Frog Brothers because Frog is the last name of the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: two brothers in Lost Boys who are obsessed with vampires
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  Speaker 1: and become vampire hunters as the movie progresses. Yes, if this,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: if this were a championship, I would give you the belt.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about working in the references. This
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: was this was a fun one. I honestly, as I
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: started off, I wasn't sure I was gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it. That which frequently the way I feel
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  Speaker 1: when I start these things. But um, you know, once
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  Speaker 1: agat into a groove, I felt like it went pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just my version, and that was arials version.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a version of how you would mash
• 45:12
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• 45:15
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