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Speaker 1: The large Ner Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: my Heart Radio. Everybody, Welcome to the large Ner Drunk
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Speaker 1: Collider Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky things
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Speaker 1: happening in the world around us and how very excited
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Speaker 1: we are about them. I'm arial casting and with me
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Speaker 1: as always is uh Frosty the Snowman Jonathan Strickland. I
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Speaker 1: was trying to come up with a rhyming scheme, like
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Speaker 1: last time, I aim to misbehave. That's not what Frosty says, Jonathan, No,
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Speaker 1: but it plays into stuff we're gonna talk about later.
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Speaker 1: So I'm thematically okay, you are thematically okay. I guess
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Speaker 1: Frosty technically could say that he aims to misbehave, like
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Speaker 1: that's just a certain time birthday, I aim to misbehave. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that would be a little weird. Ariel, I got a
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Speaker 1: question for you, okay, Ariel, you are given the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to travel to a fictional location of your choice. What
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Speaker 1: do you choose? Um, I'm trying to decide between you know,
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Speaker 1: loth Lorean or Narnia. Gotcha? So either Tolkien or Lewis
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Speaker 1: got it? M Okay? I mean those are both great choices,
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Speaker 1: and you know what, there's uh some interesting parallels between
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Speaker 1: the two. So you know, I'll say this way Narnia
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Speaker 1: after the White Witch. Yeah right, you don't, Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: don't want White Witch era Narnia. How about this, I'll
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Speaker 1: do a I'll do one of those things that Disney
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Speaker 1: sometimes does when they sell their travel packages. You can
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Speaker 1: spend four days in one and three days in the other.
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Speaker 1: That sounds delightful. What about you, Jonathan? Oh? I chose
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Speaker 1: Mega Dune. Oh I haven't seen it yet, Schmiga Dune
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Speaker 1: because because just imagine traveling to a place where people
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Speaker 1: burst out into song and choreographed dance all the time.
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Speaker 1: Like that's as long as it's a vacation and not
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Speaker 1: a permanent residence, I'm all for it. You don't think
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Speaker 1: that would get old? Uh well, I mean what I
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Speaker 1: would think is if it started to feel old, I
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Speaker 1: would just start trying to say cues for a different
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Speaker 1: kind of song style. Let me see if I can
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Speaker 1: set up like the sad old man song like sell
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Speaker 1: of Fame or something, or now it's time for a
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Speaker 1: big ensemble musical number kind of thing that makes sense,
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Speaker 1: that makes sense, Thank you? You know, I that I
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Speaker 1: that once I watched Mega Dune that um, I will
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Speaker 1: want to go there. Well, watching stuff is gonna get
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Speaker 1: even more complicated, which brings us to our first news
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Speaker 1: story of the day, which is that Paramount Plus the
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Speaker 1: streaming service for NBC is now going to break out
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of streaming channels that focus on specific topics.
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Speaker 1: And by a whole bunch, I think, I mean what
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Speaker 1: eighteen something like that. It's they're calling them linear channels.
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Speaker 1: And guess what a linear channel is, folks. It's pretty
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Speaker 1: much a cable channel. So like if you watch Cozy
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Speaker 1: TV for like all of the mid nineties sitcoms, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty much what it is. You know, They've got
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Speaker 1: a seven laughs channel that's going to have like Reno
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Speaker 1: nine one one in Hotton Cleveland, and they're going to
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Speaker 1: have like a Crime Injustice, which is all of like
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Speaker 1: the c S I and C I S, Blue Bloods mcgiver,
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Speaker 1: and then like a SpongeBob channel and a Paw Patrols channel.
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Speaker 1: I honestly did not think there was enough Paw Patrol
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Speaker 1: content to have an entire channel devoted to it, But
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Speaker 1: here we are. Yeah, and this is not on demand.
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Speaker 1: This is like episode streaming followed. But yeah, just like
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Speaker 1: if you turn on a regular television channel and you're like,
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Speaker 1: let's see what's on, it's that It's like you don't
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Speaker 1: choose the episode, it's just playing through in real time.
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Speaker 1: And my question to you, Ariel is does that sound
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Speaker 1: like something you want in your life? So yes and no,
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Speaker 1: I think I understand the reason why they are categorizing
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Speaker 1: it the way that they are. Um. But I own
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Speaker 1: Hulu Plus, so I actually have the wh who lose
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Speaker 1: version of cable um, and it is really great when
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Speaker 1: you don't know what you want to watch, but like
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Speaker 1: you're doing housework and you want something on in the
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Speaker 1: background and you're not feeling music, you know, you you
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Speaker 1: want some sort of story going on, and you're all
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Speaker 1: caught up on your podcasts. Right. Um. So I do
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Speaker 1: have cable. I occasionally watch it. Mainly I watch it
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Speaker 1: for like shows that I like, like The Connors or
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Speaker 1: Abbott's Elementary, which I just watch it, which is freaking amazing. Um.
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Speaker 1: I feel very seen uh as they come out. But um,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean that I do still use cable
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Speaker 1: channels essentially, so at a high concept level, it does
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Speaker 1: appeal to me, but you know the items that they've
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Speaker 1: mentioned because I don't know, I guess this is true
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Speaker 1: of any channel, Like if you watch CBS Live already,
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Speaker 1: you're only going to get their stuff, but it's going
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Speaker 1: to be more varied. So if you want just sci fi,
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Speaker 1: I guess that that's where that fits in. So it
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Speaker 1: makes it. It's just funny to me that we have
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Speaker 1: all these streaming channels and now the streaming channels are
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Speaker 1: kind of going back to live television cable concepts. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I um, I have no desire. This doesn't appeal to
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Speaker 1: me even a little bit. I stopped watching cable TV
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Speaker 1: probably five years ago, and I haven't bothered going back. Like,
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Speaker 1: the only times I've ever seen any cable TV in
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Speaker 1: that in the years following that would be when I'm
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Speaker 1: at a hotel, right, Like at a hotel, turn on
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Speaker 1: the TV and see what's on and that's it. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: I just watch stuff on demand. I kind of get
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Speaker 1: the idea, like the notion of you don't really want
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Speaker 1: to have to dedicate the mind space to figure out
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Speaker 1: what you want to watch next, Like that alone can
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Speaker 1: be paralyzing at times. I felt that too, where I'm
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Speaker 1: just like, I don't even know how I want to watch,
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Speaker 1: and you're just scrolling through endless options depending on how
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Speaker 1: many streaming services you to. Too many is the answer
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Speaker 1: to that. But anyway, um, I just I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't really work for me. I do
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Speaker 1: know that there are times where I will be you know,
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Speaker 1: back when I was watching cable, where I would come
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Speaker 1: across something and even though I had no real desire
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Speaker 1: to see it, I would watch it and then by
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Speaker 1: the end of it, I'm like, yeah, that was good.
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Speaker 1: And I don't do that if it's on demand, like
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Speaker 1: this doesn't happen. I have to want to watch something
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Speaker 1: otherwise as soon as it starts like fifteen seconds and
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Speaker 1: I'm like nope, quit and I go into something else.
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Speaker 1: So maybe that, But I mean, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: feel like TV still does that. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: I would need to have access to a streaming service
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Speaker 1: of eighteen different channels that also does that. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean, I mean, like, right now,
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Speaker 1: I'll put on a show that I'm watching. Well, let's
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Speaker 1: say I work and I want some background noise because
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Speaker 1: I work from home now, So I don't have that
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Speaker 1: office hubbub that sometimes keeps you going. Um. But if
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Speaker 1: I do it with a show that I haven't watched yet, UM,
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Speaker 1: that I care about, then I end up twelve episodes
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Speaker 1: in going what happened? Um? So there's a place, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I app shape Paramount trying.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's it's enough for me. I'll
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Speaker 1: be curious to see how well it does once they,
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Speaker 1: you know, have some some data on that, although I'm
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Speaker 1: not necessarily expecting them to share that data readily with
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Speaker 1: the rest of us. Uh. Moving on, we have learned
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Speaker 1: about an actor who has joined the Fall of the
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Speaker 1: House of Usher Netflix series. This is the Mike Flanagan series,
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Speaker 1: the same guy who did uh, The House on Haunted
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Speaker 1: Hill and Midnight Mass and Blind Manner. Um. And we
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Speaker 1: know that this is a mini series that is based
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Speaker 1: off of the work of Edgar Allen Poe with perhaps
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Speaker 1: the Fall of the House of Us are serving as
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Speaker 1: kind of a bookend series with other stories playing out
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Speaker 1: throughout the series. And um, yeah, the force is strong
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Speaker 1: with the actor who just joined this project. Yeah it's
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Speaker 1: Mark Hambill. We don't know who he's going to be playing,
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like they're anticipating he plays someone creepy. Um.
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Speaker 1: I just finished watching the second half of of uh
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Speaker 1: He Man on Netflix, and the entire time I'm like, well,
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Speaker 1: Skeletor is just Joker. Mark Camill's super talented, but I
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Speaker 1: was like, Skeletor is just Joker. So I'm assuming that
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Speaker 1: he will not just be Joker in the Fall of
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Speaker 1: the House of Us. I mean, if he shows up
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Speaker 1: as just an animated character, I will be somewhat disappointed.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, like, Mike Flanagan has found actors who,
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Speaker 1: you know, some of them are from like the eighties,
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Speaker 1: who hadn't really been seen in a lot of stuff
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Speaker 1: since the eighties, and yet are doing amazing work in
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Speaker 1: his in his in his projects. And he's the kind
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Speaker 1: of director who when he lands on someone he likes,
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Speaker 1: he has a tendency to use them again, to have
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Speaker 1: them show up in later works. So my hope is
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Speaker 1: that Mark Hamill ends up just knocking it out of
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Speaker 1: the arc and that we start seeing this ensemble of
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Speaker 1: talented people who aren't necessarily seen in that many things
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Speaker 1: these days get more work. Yeah, I mean the other
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Speaker 1: the other notable name is Franklin Gela. Um who is
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Speaker 1: who is going to be in it? Who? I guess
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Speaker 1: he's still working, He's still doing stuff. Um. I mean
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Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of people, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas,
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Speaker 1: and um, Carla Gugino. So I mean, like, there's lots
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Speaker 1: of Carl. Like, there's just a lot of names, and
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Speaker 1: some of them you may not be familiar with because
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Speaker 1: of the earlier stuff. Some of them you might be.
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Speaker 1: Like if you watch Alias, you know who Carl Lumble is.
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Speaker 1: You know. So I'm sorry, Ariel, I'm sorry. I hate
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Speaker 1: to interrupt you, but my mind just melted because I
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Speaker 1: didn't I didn't notice that Franklin Gella is in this two.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand what the connective tissue is here between
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Speaker 1: Mark Hamil and Franklin Gella. You mentioned it, Skeletor. Franklin
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Speaker 1: Gella played Skeletor in The Night teen eight seven Masters
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Speaker 1: of the Universe Live action movie. Got you well, he
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Speaker 1: is playing Roderick Usher, the patriarch of the Usher dynasty,
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Speaker 1: in the Fall of the House of Usher. So the
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Speaker 1: Fall of the House of Usher has two Skeletors in it. Yeah, maybe,
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Speaker 1: maybe they'll both dress up a skeletons at some point.
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Speaker 1: You know, I almost wonder if Mark Camill's going to
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Speaker 1: be like some sort of narrator, like the crypt Keeper
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Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, I'm now regretting that our mashup.
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Speaker 1: Isn't he man Masters of the Universe and Fall of
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Speaker 1: the House of Usher. Uh, it's not so Maybe once
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Speaker 1: that show comes out. Maybe I don't know. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: just because I'm I'm blown away that there are two skeletors.
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Speaker 1: I know it's silly. I'm sorry, that's just my brain works.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome. Thank you for pointing that out, because that
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Speaker 1: is super awesome and great casting. I'm really really looking
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Speaker 1: forward to seeing this. I really like Mike Flanagan's work.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I get that a lot of people say,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who are like this,
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Speaker 1: this isn't scary or whatever because or not. There's not
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Speaker 1: really a lot of jump scares in his work. I
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Speaker 1: find his work incredibly emotional, unsettling, creepy. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of terror in it. It's not necessarily terror from the
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Speaker 1: supernatural either. Sometimes it's from very mundane sources, but it's
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Speaker 1: it's treated with such raw truth that I find it
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Speaker 1: incredibly effective. I mean that makes attal sense. Honestly, I'm
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Speaker 1: generally not a fan of jump scares anyhow I haven't
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Speaker 1: watched his stuff. I do think it would be too
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Speaker 1: scary for me. But I think I think if you
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Speaker 1: watch The House on Haunted Hill, Um, I mean, it
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Speaker 1: does have its scary spooky moments, but moreover, I think
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Speaker 1: you would be struck by the emotional trauma that this
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Speaker 1: family is going through, because that's really what the show
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Speaker 1: is about. It's not so much about the ghosts as
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Speaker 1: it is dealing with emotional trauma, and uh, it's I
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Speaker 1: can't like. I highly recommend the show because I think
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Speaker 1: it's incredibly effective. However, it's also that kind of incredibly
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Speaker 1: effective where you don't necessarily feel better after you have
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Speaker 1: watched it. No, I get it. I mean, that's definitely
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Speaker 1: a good tool to have in my arsenal because I
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Speaker 1: often watch media to get an idea of how certain
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Speaker 1: archetypes play within a story, um for things like auditions. So, um,
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Speaker 1: I haven't watched it. I've heard good things. I definitely will,
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Speaker 1: but I am one thousand percent going to watch the
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Speaker 1: Fall of the House of Usher because I like Edgar
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Speaker 1: Allan Poe. I had to memorize the cask of a
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Speaker 1: manchato word for words. So yeah, I I also love
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Speaker 1: at Garlan Poe, one of the few American poets that
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Speaker 1: I bothered studying. Most of my studies were in English poets.
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Speaker 1: One other thing I studied, Yes, he's very creepy. One
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Speaker 1: thing is not creepy, but it is something that I
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Speaker 1: studied a lot of. It was Firefly. Uh, not much
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Speaker 1: to study, but I studied what there was for quite
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Speaker 1: some time. I was a fan. I would never have
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Speaker 1: of myself a brown coat, as a lot of the
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Speaker 1: fans of the series would call themselves. Uh, that fandom
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Speaker 1: got a little over the top for my tastes. But
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Speaker 1: the reason why we wanted to mention Firefly is that
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Speaker 1: there's been a rumor that's been going on for almost
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Speaker 1: a full year now that Disney Plus is in some
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Speaker 1: form of production for a reboot of Firefly. And this
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Speaker 1: rumor recently resurfaced recently as of last week, but the
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Speaker 1: first time it popped up was almost almost a full
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Speaker 1: year ago, and the reason why we wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: it up is that despite lots of checking and double checking,
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Speaker 1: and triple checking. We can't find any reputable source that
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Speaker 1: definitively says, yes, Disney is working on this. It's all.
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Speaker 1: It seems to all hinge upon an unnamed source who
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Speaker 1: spoke with a blogger like almost a year ago about this.
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Speaker 1: So we wanted to bring this up largely to caution
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Speaker 1: you to just latching onto a rumor. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: I should also add arials the one who totally caught that,
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Speaker 1: Like I saw this and I was like, huh did
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Speaker 1: you see this? And she looked at and said, huh
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Speaker 1: did you see what sight it was on? And went
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Speaker 1: huh I didn't. Okay, good note. I mean, so the
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Speaker 1: thing is, there are lots of and and actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: we'll we'll take a break and get into this more
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Speaker 1: after the break. But there are lots of sites that
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Speaker 1: UM occasionally get the blind worm, I guess to mix
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Speaker 1: some metaphors. You know, they'll they'll report on everything and
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Speaker 1: every once in a while it's correct. Um and I
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Speaker 1: have very mixed feelings about that, both as someone who
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Speaker 1: talks about the geeky news and someone who gets excited
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Speaker 1: about geeki news. Yeah, you know, obviously, like at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, and we will talk about this
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Speaker 1: in a second, so I won't get too much into this.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, these sites are dependent
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Speaker 1: upon people seeing their stuff, so sensational things can get
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Speaker 1: a lot of attention. But mostly what we wanted to
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Speaker 1: say was that, you know, we haven't seen anything that
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Speaker 1: outright denies there's work being done on a reboot of Firefly.
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Speaker 1: We've also not seen anything that confirms it either. The
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Speaker 1: general thought is that if there is such a project,
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Speaker 1: it is going forward without Josh Weeden, because Weeden obviously
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Speaker 1: has that uh controversial and and upsetting past that a
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Speaker 1: lot of performers, actors, you know, people behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: have alleged that he's been very abusive toward people in
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Speaker 1: the past. So um, same thing with like the Buffy reboot.
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Speaker 1: There's you know, hasn't been much talk on that, but
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Speaker 1: that was a thing that was happening for a while.
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Speaker 1: Um and you know, it was clear that it was
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Speaker 1: going to have to go on without him, uh once
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Speaker 1: more of those stories came to light. But we will
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Speaker 1: talk more about reliability and rumor in just a moment
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Speaker 1: after we take this quick break. So did you care
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Speaker 1: about Kim what about possible. Did you hear about Kim?
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Speaker 1: Did she kiss him and cry? Did he pin the
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Speaker 1: pin on? Or was he too shy? Oh? I heard
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Speaker 1: about Kim. I'm sorry, that's by by Bertie. I was
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Speaker 1: just having a little musical moment talking about rumors telephone game.
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Speaker 1: That's fine, That's totally fine. It's a wonderful segue, better
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Speaker 1: than me just shouting click ba well, except that that's
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Speaker 1: click bait is more accurate, because that does seem to
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Speaker 1: be what a lot of this comes down on. So
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Speaker 1: Ariel and I, mostly Ariel Aial, we do research for
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Speaker 1: the show where we look into the different stories that
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Speaker 1: are out in the geeks here, and unfortunately, some of
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Speaker 1: the sites that we have kind of lumped in with
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Speaker 1: our various RSS readers and stuff seem to be a
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Speaker 1: bit on the less reliable side. It's not to say
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Speaker 1: that they don't report real news, it's just that they
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Speaker 1: also report rumors. The problem is is that they tend
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Speaker 1: to headline them look at this amazing thing, and then
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Speaker 1: you go into the article and it's like, oh, there's
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Speaker 1: this rumor or we don't know anything about it. Like
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Speaker 1: it's it's so very frustrating because we all have limited
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Speaker 1: time in a day, um, and I don't want to
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Speaker 1: waste it reading through an article that's just going to
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Speaker 1: tell me that, not even say that it's a rumor,
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Speaker 1: but just say, you know, here's this thing we think
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Speaker 1: may someday happen and we know nothing about it. For
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Speaker 1: twelve paragraphs, Yeah, it's this is this are the same
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Speaker 1: thing that you hear about, Like there's that joke that
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Speaker 1: goes around online about you look up a recipe for
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Speaker 1: something anything online and the first like eight paragraphs are
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Speaker 1: a story about immigrating to America and and and claiming
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Speaker 1: land in Montana or something has nothing to do with anything,
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Speaker 1: and then like nine paragraphs down it says, Okay, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna need butter garlic onion, you know, Like it's that
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Speaker 1: And the reason for that, for those who don't know, uh,
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Speaker 1: the reason for that is obviously that these pages are
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Speaker 1: ads supported, and that the number of ads you serve
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Speaker 1: up end up translating to how much money you're generating
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Speaker 1: per web page. Right Like, if you can add, if
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Speaker 1: you can put more ads in your web page, then
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Speaker 1: you can get more money per view. And if people
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Speaker 1: are reading through something because they really want that recipe.
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Speaker 1: They're spending more time on your web page, and that
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Speaker 1: adds value too. So that's really the goal here, right,
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Speaker 1: It's all about how many ads can you serve? How
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Speaker 1: much can you keep people there? And so a lot
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Speaker 1: of these sites, like you were saying, Ariel, they lure
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Speaker 1: you in with a headline and you go in and
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Speaker 1: then like, the first five or six paragraphs are nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with the headline. It might even be recapping
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Speaker 1: whatever the headlines about. Like the headline might say something
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Speaker 1: like the latest on the next Spider Man movie, and
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Speaker 1: the first five paragraphs will be summarizing the first two
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Speaker 1: Spider Man movies, and you're like, I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: need this. This is not what I clicked on this for. Um.
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Speaker 1: So there's that part two, right, the wasting of the time.
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Speaker 1: But the ones I hate are the ones where you're
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Speaker 1: reading this and you're like, well, this isn't even a rumor,
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Speaker 1: this isn't news or a rumor. This is just literally
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Speaker 1: just an opinion piece. It's speculation. And here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: Opinion pieces are. Okay, I realized that they want the
20:53
Speaker 1: clicks because they want the revenue from the ads, but
20:56
Speaker 1: you know, I will read an opinion piece. If I
20:58
Speaker 1: go in knowing it's an opinion, right, I will. I
21:01
Speaker 1: will read a rumor. I love speculating about the things
21:05
Speaker 1: that I'm excited about. I'll read a rumor. Just label
21:09
Speaker 1: it is that. Um. I think Inside the Magic is
21:11
Speaker 1: pretty good at labeling the rumors that they talk about. Um.
21:17
Speaker 1: And And to be fair, the firefly news that you found,
21:22
Speaker 1: or the firefly rumor that you found, Jonathan, is not
21:25
Speaker 1: from a necessarily unreliable site, but the corroborating information that
21:30
Speaker 1: I could find is from a site that is pretty
21:33
Speaker 1: frequently uh dinged by like our social circle for doing
21:38
Speaker 1: clickbait type stories right well and don't actually have truth
21:43
Speaker 1: to your point. Like when I when I finally dove
21:46
Speaker 1: all the way down and I got to that initial
21:49
Speaker 1: story from like a year ago. Um, that's when I
21:51
Speaker 1: saw that it was an unnamed source that said this
21:55
Speaker 1: not just unnamed, but like no indication of what in
21:59
Speaker 1: what respect they would know this information, like you know,
22:03
Speaker 1: like like it could be oh, I know, uh, I
22:06
Speaker 1: know a person who works in the male department of
22:09
Speaker 1: this one studio. And it sounded more like it was
22:13
Speaker 1: speculation in the sense of firefly is a known property,
22:19
Speaker 1: there is a loyal, rabid fan base, or at least
22:23
Speaker 1: there was. I don't I think that enough time has
22:25
Speaker 1: passed where the brown Coats probably have have have chilled
22:30
Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know, for years they were
22:33
Speaker 1: like the most rabid of of sci fi fan bases,
22:36
Speaker 1: more so than any other property I could name, like
22:39
Speaker 1: even Star Wars and Star Trek. Their fandom didn't get
22:42
Speaker 1: as um in your face about the show they loved
22:47
Speaker 1: as Fireflight did. And I like Firefly, but the fandom
22:51
Speaker 1: I did not like as much. Yeah, I you know,
22:54
Speaker 1: honestly I was not. I think I've talked about this
22:56
Speaker 1: plenty of times on the show. Was not a huge
22:58
Speaker 1: fan of Firefly. But I would give a rebooted chance. Yeah,
23:02
Speaker 1: I would give a rebooted chance too. But I think
23:04
Speaker 1: what I was trying to get at was that it
23:06
Speaker 1: sounded to me like this was more about speculation in
23:09
Speaker 1: the sense that Disney had purchased twentieth Century Fox, that
23:13
Speaker 1: Fox had owned the rights to Firefly. Therefore, now Disney
23:16
Speaker 1: owns the right to Firefly. Wouldn't it be cool if
23:19
Speaker 1: Firefly came back? And that's what led to the rumor.
23:23
Speaker 1: Although I mean again According to that initial report, someone
23:28
Speaker 1: within Disney Slash Fox had leaked the fact that they
23:32
Speaker 1: were in I guess pre production because it sounded to
23:35
Speaker 1: me like it wasn't even at a point where they
23:38
Speaker 1: had scripted anything, just like the formulation of an idea
23:42
Speaker 1: for a reboot. Uh. The one thing that I would
23:45
Speaker 1: add to that is that my wife, when I told
23:48
Speaker 1: her this story, she said, you know, who would be
23:51
Speaker 1: a great captain if they were to reboot it and
23:53
Speaker 1: they're not bringing the original well what remains of the
23:56
Speaker 1: original cast back? She said, I would have ming When
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Speaker 1: play the role of the captain, and oh my god,
24:03
Speaker 1: she would be amazing, and she would, you know, have
24:06
Speaker 1: to do double duty with Boba Fett. But she I
24:09
Speaker 1: mean she was the voice of Mulan as well. Correct. Yes, yes,
24:14
Speaker 1: she's pretty fantastic. She's the sniper. She's the sniper character
24:17
Speaker 1: in um In Mandalorian Slash Boba Fett. Uh. And of
24:21
Speaker 1: course she was the cavalry in Agents of Shield and
24:25
Speaker 1: so she could play that a part of Like the
24:29
Speaker 1: main character is someone who was part of a resistance
24:34
Speaker 1: that ultimately got squashed. So it's a character who was
24:38
Speaker 1: fighting for a lost cause. And how that character tries
24:42
Speaker 1: to carry on when almost everything they believe in has
24:45
Speaker 1: been stripped away from them. And um, I mean this
24:48
Speaker 1: is all summed up in the song, the theme song
24:50
Speaker 1: for the show. But I think that she would do
24:52
Speaker 1: a great job as playing a character like that. Plus,
24:55
Speaker 1: in the world of Firefly, it's uh, it's essentially told
25:00
Speaker 1: that China became the dominant world power on Earth and
25:05
Speaker 1: had and Chinese influence is touching everything in society in
25:11
Speaker 1: by the time you get to Fireflight, and yet none
25:13
Speaker 1: of the none of the characters had any Chinese ancestry,
25:17
Speaker 1: So that was a little weird. Yeah, I mean I
25:19
Speaker 1: would I would watch mcnowhen. I'd also watch Michelle Yo. Um,
25:23
Speaker 1: she'd also be fantastic. She's already played a cap Starship captain,
25:28
Speaker 1: so um yeah. But yeah, Anyway, like the point we
25:34
Speaker 1: were trying to make is that, uh, it's it always
25:39
Speaker 1: benefits you to use a little critical thinking, like Ariel
25:41
Speaker 1: did when she kind of pulled me back down to Earth.
25:44
Speaker 1: And I recommend critical thinking all the time, but even
25:47
Speaker 1: I as someone who recommends it, there are times where
25:49
Speaker 1: I get carried away and when when you're talking about
25:53
Speaker 1: stuff that you're excited about or that you really love.
25:55
Speaker 1: That's when you have to use it the most, because
25:57
Speaker 1: you need to balance out your enthusiasm with some rationality
26:02
Speaker 1: and ask questions and make sure that you know that
26:06
Speaker 1: if you're getting excited about something, there's something to be
26:08
Speaker 1: excited about. Yeah, and do your research because also it
26:11
Speaker 1: goes the other way. Um. You know, there there were
26:13
Speaker 1: rumors about movement of various studios, you know, production studios
26:17
Speaker 1: and things like that. The rumors are kind of true,
26:20
Speaker 1: but they also lacked a lot of nuance. So just
26:22
Speaker 1: make sure you do your research and qualify the information
26:25
Speaker 1: that you share and goog about with your friends. Right.
26:29
Speaker 1: That's great advice. And we are going to goog about
26:32
Speaker 1: again in just a moment with some creative mashups. But
26:38
Speaker 1: before we do that, let's take another quick break. Okay,
26:58
Speaker 1: Ariel Hunt. One of the things we're mashing up today's Firefly,
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Speaker 1: and I can I can talk a little bit more
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Speaker 1: about what that is. What's the other thing we're mashing
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Speaker 1: up Peter Pan slash Hook. And the reason why is
27:11
Speaker 1: because when I was going through our RSS feeds, there
27:14
Speaker 1: was an opinion piece about why Hook was the like
27:18
Speaker 1: the worst Peter Pan movie ever, and I don't believe
27:21
Speaker 1: that at all. I think Hook is an amazing movie.
27:25
Speaker 1: I think Hook has amazing parts in it, and overalls
27:29
Speaker 1: a movie, it's a mess. So I will explain Hook,
27:33
Speaker 1: and then Jonathan can explain Firefly a little bit more so.
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Speaker 1: Hook is the story of Um, Peter Pan. He's grown
27:40
Speaker 1: up and he's forgotten that he's Peter Pan. So he lives.
27:44
Speaker 1: He's a lawyer, and he's got a wife and kids
27:46
Speaker 1: and things like that, you know, like Peter Pan's gots kids.
27:50
Speaker 1: Peter Pans gots kids. Um, that's that's a quote from
27:54
Speaker 1: the movie from one of the Lost Boys who hasn't
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Speaker 1: grown up yet. Um. And uh, some of them have,
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Speaker 1: some of them haven't. And then tinker Bell shows up
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Speaker 1: and tells Peter that he needs to come back and
28:05
Speaker 1: he needs to save Neverland. And it takes like the
28:08
Speaker 1: entire movie is Robin Williams, who plays Peter rediscovering himself.
28:13
Speaker 1: His kids get kidnapped by Hook. Um, and as I
28:16
Speaker 1: think that maybe that's the reason that he actually goes
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Speaker 1: back to Neverland, but um, Hook's got a vendetta huh um, surprise, surprise,
28:24
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's him reconnecting with his kids and
28:27
Speaker 1: learning how to be fun and um just learning to
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Speaker 1: kind of childlike, learning to put his and and the
28:33
Speaker 1: end of the story, he ends up putting his family first,
28:36
Speaker 1: you know, learning to let go and spend more time
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Speaker 1: with his family and and be a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a kid again. Um, it's it's got just I don't know,
28:47
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. The casting of the Lost Boys
28:49
Speaker 1: was great. There was a Lost Boy named Rufio who
28:52
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal actor. Don't don't get attached, don't get attached,
28:57
Speaker 1: but I mean just there's a scene where Peter Pan
29:00
Speaker 1: goes and they all he's hungry, and all he and
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Speaker 1: the Lost Boys sit down for a meal and all
29:04
Speaker 1: the Lost Boys imagine the meal and it shows up
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Speaker 1: in front of them and they eat and it's so
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Speaker 1: great and they're like, you have to imagine this Peter
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Speaker 1: and he can't eat until he can imagine the food
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Speaker 1: because it's a neverland that like actually works. But you know,
29:17
Speaker 1: real life, obviously that wouldn't necessarily you can't live on air.
29:22
Speaker 1: But I I always felt the movie was a bit
29:25
Speaker 1: too muddled. It wasn't like it drags a bit. It's
29:29
Speaker 1: a little less joyful and a little more crass than
29:33
Speaker 1: I like if there's too much Goonies in there. Um
29:36
Speaker 1: but I will say that when Robin Williams is getting
29:41
Speaker 1: to be his truly, uh more chaotic self, that's when
29:45
Speaker 1: the movie shines. It's just that he's he's reeled back
29:48
Speaker 1: quite a bit for most of the film. But Dustin
29:51
Speaker 1: Hoffman's Captain Hook is sublime. It is one of my
29:55
Speaker 1: favorite versions of Captain Hook. He's so he's so mean
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Speaker 1: and nasty. I mean, it's very the very beginning when
30:04
Speaker 1: he's introduced, he's insulting his own crew, and I think
30:08
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Um oh, and and I really like the
30:11
Speaker 1: casting they did for Smeet as well. He played a
30:15
Speaker 1: good mix between doting and kind of sort of competent
30:20
Speaker 1: Bob Hoskins, which he was, Well, I just like Bob Hoskins. Yeah.
30:24
Speaker 1: And Glenn Close is in it too, so yeah, she's
30:27
Speaker 1: put in the boom box. She is a he in
30:29
Speaker 1: the in the in the movie. Um So we're gonna
30:32
Speaker 1: also talk about Firefly real quick. So Firefly was a
30:36
Speaker 1: short lived, as in less than one full season science
30:40
Speaker 1: fiction western series that Josh Weeden created had Nathan Fillion
30:46
Speaker 1: starring as Captain Malcolm Malcolm Reynolds and his crew of
30:51
Speaker 1: the the space cargo ship the Serenity. And the storyline
30:57
Speaker 1: in that is that it takes place in like I
30:59
Speaker 1: think it's two thousand, five hundred seventeen is the year,
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Speaker 1: and humanity had left Earth and colonized a solar system
31:08
Speaker 1: that has planets and moons in it, UH and an
31:12
Speaker 1: alliance formed in the alliance became kind of a domineering,
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Speaker 1: restrictive society, and independent planets that wanted more freedom rebelled.
31:22
Speaker 1: The rebellion was effectively defeated by the Alliance. Malcolm was
31:27
Speaker 1: one of the captains or one of the officers who
31:31
Speaker 1: led in the rebellion. His first mate, Zoe was also
31:35
Speaker 1: in the rebellion. But now they are essentially smugglers. They
31:40
Speaker 1: take on any job they can in order to make money,
31:43
Speaker 1: to make, you know, to pay for stuff. And you've
31:46
Speaker 1: got a bunch of different characters in there. You've got
31:49
Speaker 1: Wash who's the pilot uh and played by Alan tu
31:52
Speaker 1: Diacon is probably the most beloved character. And it's a
31:55
Speaker 1: Josh Weeden product, So you know what happens to him
31:58
Speaker 1: because we can't have things when in Weed inverse, Um,
32:03
Speaker 1: there's Simon and River Tam the brother and sister. Simon
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Speaker 1: is a doctor. River is uh crazy. She's also psychic
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Speaker 1: and is a murder machine. By the time you get
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Speaker 1: into the movie. Uh, You've got Jane, a man they
32:19
Speaker 1: called Jane, who is a mercenary who's on the crew.
32:23
Speaker 1: You've got Kaylee, who's the happy, bubbly mechanic on the crew. Um,
32:29
Speaker 1: you've got Shepherd Book who is a mysterious pastor who
32:32
Speaker 1: has some sort of uh eventful past that makes him
32:37
Speaker 1: extremely capable in areas that your typical pastor would not
32:41
Speaker 1: be capable. And um, yeah, it's their adventures as they
32:45
Speaker 1: tried to avoid the Alliance, run jobs and get themselves
32:49
Speaker 1: out of trouble. And Captain Malcolm is the guy says
32:52
Speaker 1: I aim to misbehave and um yeah, so that's the
32:56
Speaker 1: rundown on Firefly. Like I said, I think it lasted
32:58
Speaker 1: maybe eight or nine episodes total before they got canceled.
33:02
Speaker 1: And then there was the film Serenity that came out
33:04
Speaker 1: after it. And there have been comic books and graphic
33:06
Speaker 1: novels and stuff like that that have added to the story.
33:11
Speaker 1: But I'm less familiar with those. Yeah, well, my mashup
33:16
Speaker 1: has very little to do with most of that plot. Um, well,
33:20
Speaker 1: mine has a lot to do with it. So it's
33:21
Speaker 1: important that people know what it is. No, No, that's
33:25
Speaker 1: that's that's good, that's true. So I'm going to say
33:28
Speaker 1: that I'm going to go first system. Okay, so my
33:31
Speaker 1: mashup is called that shiny second star to the right.
33:35
Speaker 1: Peter Pan, the boy who said he would never grow
33:37
Speaker 1: up and then did and forgot he was Peter Pan
33:40
Speaker 1: and then went back to Never Neverland and remembered and
33:43
Speaker 1: defeated Hook and then went home to his family. Was
33:45
Speaker 1: his hitting, his third, I don't know, maybe his fourth
33:48
Speaker 1: midlife crisis. While he loved his family in life, he
33:52
Speaker 1: longed once again for the shores of Mermaid Lagoon and
33:54
Speaker 1: Cannibal Cove. To be fair, he often longed for those
33:57
Speaker 1: distant lands when his quarterly crunch came round, but this
34:00
Speaker 1: time it was different. This time he decided to go back.
34:04
Speaker 1: Upon arriving and Never never Land, he checked in with
34:07
Speaker 1: a lost boy he had left in charge, thud Butt.
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Speaker 1: Thud Butt had nothing interesting to report since the last
34:13
Speaker 1: time Peter was in town and fed hooked to the
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Speaker 1: taxi or meat crocodile. It had been a boring existence
34:18
Speaker 1: in the Neverlands. Peter tried to wrestle up some trouble
34:22
Speaker 1: with the mermaids, but they had no interest, and he
34:24
Speaker 1: tried fussing with the fairies, but to no avail. Then
34:27
Speaker 1: one day, Peter, while laying and staring at the stars,
34:30
Speaker 1: noticed an extra twinkly star he had never seen before.
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Speaker 1: It was the second one to the second one to
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Speaker 1: the right. Peter asked thud Butt what was this new star,
34:39
Speaker 1: and thud Butt had no clue, So off Peter flew
34:42
Speaker 1: in search of this new adventure to answer his question.
34:46
Speaker 1: His flight took him to outer space, where he found
34:49
Speaker 1: a spaceship named the Serenity. Thinking these were new pirates
34:53
Speaker 1: to battle, he boarded the space vehicle, but when he
34:56
Speaker 1: got on there was nothing there but crew journals, and
34:59
Speaker 1: p Or saw this as an opportunity. He flew down
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Speaker 1: and gathered all the long lost boys and girls who
35:04
Speaker 1: also needed adventures to crew the ship, each taking on
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Speaker 1: the identity of one of the crew mates whose position
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Speaker 1: they were taking, and of course, Peter took the captain's role,
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Speaker 1: a one Malcolm Reynolds. Peter didn't even realize that by
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Speaker 1: stealing this spaceship that he and the Lost Boys and
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Speaker 1: Girls were turning into pirates themselves. Just then, they got
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Speaker 1: a message that told them to bring the cargo they
35:24
Speaker 1: were carrying to a rendezvous point. They did, and that's
35:27
Speaker 1: when Peter realized that he and his crew were smugglers,
35:30
Speaker 1: and it slowly dawned on him that he was the
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Speaker 1: pirate now, the thing he always despised. As the crew
35:36
Speaker 1: pulled the Serenity out of the loading dock free of
35:38
Speaker 1: its smuggled cargo, they were attacked by reavers, which are
35:41
Speaker 1: these horrible cannibal like bad guys. If Peter and his
35:46
Speaker 1: lost crew were pirates, these were like double bad pirates.
35:50
Speaker 1: And after a mighty battle where the Lost Boys and
35:54
Speaker 1: Girls slash the Serenity crew defeat the ravagers, Peter and
35:58
Speaker 1: the crew realized that maybe pirate weren't as bad as
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Speaker 1: they had always thought, and much like living in the
36:03
Speaker 1: real world, the longer Peter and the crew stated board
36:06
Speaker 1: the ship, the more they forgot about their old lives,
36:08
Speaker 1: until they were using words like shiny and eating fruity
36:11
Speaker 1: ODI bars and losing their minds. The lesson of the
36:14
Speaker 1: story is um Uh, I don't know. The more you
36:19
Speaker 1: try to run away from life, the more of a
36:21
Speaker 1: pirate you become. The end. Okay, all right, well, um,
36:28
Speaker 1: mine is epic, so settle in, get yourself a snack. Uh.
36:31
Speaker 1: Mine is called epic in length, not not necessarily in scope.
36:35
Speaker 1: I'm not going to suggest that it's epically good. It's
36:38
Speaker 1: just long. This is called Captain tight Pants and the Pirates.
36:44
Speaker 1: Captain tight Pants has a problem. That is, Captain Malcolm
36:48
Speaker 1: Reynolds of the spaceship Tinkerbell has a problem. He and
36:52
Speaker 1: his ragtag crew are running late on a smuggling run
36:55
Speaker 1: to their contact. On their latest job. There have been
36:58
Speaker 1: a couple of tie knee issues freeing the cargo from
37:02
Speaker 1: the Alliance transport ship, and then a couple of other
37:05
Speaker 1: issues as a crew of piratical nasties got wind of
37:08
Speaker 1: their hull. But Malcolm still had his ship and his crew,
37:13
Speaker 1: which was saying a lot. So Malcolm pops up into
37:16
Speaker 1: the cockpit of the Tinkerbell and says how far out
37:19
Speaker 1: are we wash The pilot, never taking his eyes off
37:23
Speaker 1: the view, says, well, since he asked me that not
37:26
Speaker 1: two minutes ago, I'd say we're about two minutes closer
37:30
Speaker 1: than we were, which is about an hour away. Now,
37:33
Speaker 1: if you'll excuse me, Captain, these maneuvers won't evade themselves.
37:38
Speaker 1: And with that, the ship makes a roll to the
37:40
Speaker 1: right as a harpoon projectile tethered into a cable narrowly
37:43
Speaker 1: flies next to the ship. Malcolm swears quietly and runs
37:47
Speaker 1: back to the cargo hold. There he spots Jane, the
37:50
Speaker 1: mercenary on board, who has been mysteriously recast in this
37:53
Speaker 1: film because there's no way I'm going to have Adam
37:55
Speaker 1: Baldwin in something I make anyway. Jane scram bulls to
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Speaker 1: look casual, but clearly he was trying to open one
38:03
Speaker 1: of the boxes. Best get yourself prepared for company, says Malcolm.
38:07
Speaker 1: No time for goodies. Jane growls a bit, and the
38:10
Speaker 1: ship lurches suddenly, and both men have to grab onto
38:13
Speaker 1: stuff to keep them from falling over, and there's a
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Speaker 1: loud clunking noise and then nothing. Malcolm says, hold that thought.
38:21
Speaker 1: Then he glances over and sees River tam standing calmly
38:25
Speaker 1: looking down into the cargo bay. Remember she's the sort
38:28
Speaker 1: of crazy killing machine one, and he says, River, keep
38:32
Speaker 1: an eye on things for me. We don't want anything
38:34
Speaker 1: to go walking off before we get paid. River nods
38:37
Speaker 1: and looks at Jane impassively, and Jane growls again, and
38:41
Speaker 1: then Malcolm rushes back to the cockpit. Status We're out, captain,
38:45
Speaker 1: says Zoe, who puts a hand on washes shoulder thanks
38:48
Speaker 1: to him. Wash offers a nervous smile and says, oh,
38:51
Speaker 1: it was nothing that the galaxy's greatest pilots couldn't do
38:54
Speaker 1: in their sleep. Wait, so we lost them, says Malcolm.
38:58
Speaker 1: Well they brought probably know where we're going, but they're
39:02
Speaker 1: on the other side of the asteroid belt, so it'll
39:04
Speaker 1: take them a few hours to find a way around,
39:06
Speaker 1: says Wash. You took us through an asteroid belt, says Malcolm.
39:12
Speaker 1: Wash offers up a shrug. Work, didn't it. The ship
39:16
Speaker 1: continues on down to a planet covered in lush forests
39:19
Speaker 1: with beautiful oceans and lagoons. It looks like a paradise,
39:23
Speaker 1: particularly compared to the desert plants that the tinker Bell
39:26
Speaker 1: usually lands on. Huh, says Wash, And what does huh mean?
39:32
Speaker 1: Asks Malcolm. My husband is trying to say. It's a
39:36
Speaker 1: bit tricky to set down when there aren't many open
39:39
Speaker 1: landing zones, says Zoe. Yeah, says Wash. The raid this
39:43
Speaker 1: is going will never never land. But just then, as
39:48
Speaker 1: they close in on the cornets given to them by
39:51
Speaker 1: their contact, they see it. It's a wide beach, and
39:54
Speaker 1: the tinker bell sets down, struts sinking slightly into the sand.
39:58
Speaker 1: Time to get paid, says Malcolm. Zoe with me. I'm
40:02
Speaker 1: going to need you and Jane there in case things
40:04
Speaker 1: get interesting. I hate interesting, says Zoe. They head back
40:10
Speaker 1: to the cargo bay, where they see that River Tam
40:13
Speaker 1: hasn't moved an inch, nor has Jane, who is still
40:15
Speaker 1: looking at river. The girls spooky, he says, Gather your
40:20
Speaker 1: wits about you and look tough. We're gonna go meet
40:22
Speaker 1: the clients as Malcolm, mind if I join, asks a
40:26
Speaker 1: voice from behind, and at Shepherd Book, who has a
40:28
Speaker 1: gentle smile. Might be useful for to have someone with
40:31
Speaker 1: a slightly more diplomatic disposition. Malcolm glances at Zoe and
40:35
Speaker 1: Jane and the nods and the forehead over as the
40:37
Speaker 1: cargo bay door opens, revealing that about a hundred feet
40:41
Speaker 1: behind the ship is a line of young men, actually
40:44
Speaker 1: not men, boys, young boys, with one dressed in green
40:48
Speaker 1: standing in the front, and Malcolm scans the crowd, um
40:53
Speaker 1: any of your parents surround by any chance, and the
40:56
Speaker 1: lead boy lets a delighted laugh, not hard, he says,
41:01
Speaker 1: you must be Malcolm Reynolds. He then does this weird
41:03
Speaker 1: flourishing bowel thing. You may call me Peter. Malcolm and
41:08
Speaker 1: Crewe are now more than a little surprised, and Zoe
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Speaker 1: leans over to Malcolm's isn't Peter the name of our contact?
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Speaker 1: Malcolm nods. Peter hand asks Malcolm the same, says Peter,
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Speaker 1: who then lets out an odd rooster crow for some reason,
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Speaker 1: and the boys behind them all cheer, and Malcolm notices
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Speaker 1: that they're all armed kind of with like small swords
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Speaker 1: and spears and that kind of thing, though everything is
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Speaker 1: currently at least sheathed and relatively peaceful. Well, I have
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Speaker 1: your delivery here, says Malcolm, and Peter nods happily. We
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Speaker 1: can take it from here if you don't mind us
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Speaker 1: coming aboard to unload. Malcolm considers it for a second
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Speaker 1: and nods. The boys look pretty harmless and friendly, but
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Speaker 1: we sure would appreciate the help, he says. Peter gestures
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Speaker 1: and a group of boys go out to the ship
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Speaker 1: and they begin to carry crates with the Alliance emblem
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Speaker 1: still burned on them, all the way down to the
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Speaker 1: beach below. Now there's the matter of payment, says Malcolm,
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Speaker 1: and Peter grins and gestures off to one side where
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Speaker 1: Malcolm sees a bunch of chests, like like pirate chests,
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Speaker 1: and they're filled with gold and jewels and such, and
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Speaker 1: Malcolm says something rude in Chinese. We have no use
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Speaker 1: for it, says Peter. And I know this caused you
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Speaker 1: no end of trouble. Malcolm's radio then buzzes. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: he says to Peter. Yes, he says into the radio. Captain,
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Speaker 1: We've got company, says wash Well. Malcolm looks up and
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Speaker 1: in the sky far above he sees the telling sign
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Speaker 1: of a ship entering the atmosphere. Peter looks too, hoses Peter,
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Speaker 1: the codfish and the boys all make growling tones. The
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Speaker 1: codfish asks Malcolm and Peter Grant's let's just say we've
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Speaker 1: got a history. Care to stick around for the fun.
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Speaker 1: And just then a blast hits the ground next to
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Speaker 1: the tinker bell, followed by a second that slams right
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Speaker 1: into the ship itself. Malcolm's radio lets out a high
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Speaker 1: pitched wine and then gives out It looks like you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to stick around, says Peter. It's gonna take
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Speaker 1: time for that ship to recover from a fully charged
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Speaker 1: ion blast. Sure enough, a moment later, Wash rushes rushes
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Speaker 1: out of the ship. Captain, all systems are disabled. The
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Speaker 1: ship doesn't seem damaged, it's just not working. They never
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Speaker 1: damage ships if they can help it, says Peter. They
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Speaker 1: want it all cargo crew and ship um who once
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Speaker 1: it all, asks Wash, and Peter points up the pirates,
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Speaker 1: of course, and he lets all another crow. Malcolm turns
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Speaker 1: to Wash. Secure the ship as best you can get
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Speaker 1: Simon out here. We might need him later. Shepherd had
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Speaker 1: sure appreciate if you would go back to the ship
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Speaker 1: and keep her safe. Book nods and returns with Wash,
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Speaker 1: who shares a look of understanding with his wife before leaving.
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Speaker 1: Malcolm watches his book and Wash use manual controls to
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Speaker 1: slowly close the cargo doors. Then he turns to Peter
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Speaker 1: and says, where's the next nearest landing spot and how
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Speaker 1: much time do we have? Peter gives Malcolm a sympathetic
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Speaker 1: looks not far at all for them, you'll see best
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Speaker 1: get ready, And with that, Malcolm sees that the incoming
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Speaker 1: ship has a very odd design. It has no landing
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Speaker 1: gear extended. Instead, it glides down to touch onto the
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Speaker 1: ocean itself, causing huge waves to either side as slows down,
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Speaker 1: and then hatches open and outpour the pirates, dozens of them,
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Speaker 1: with the final two being an odd, chubby fellow and
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Speaker 1: a tall Foppish pirate with a hook. Pan says the pirate,
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Speaker 1: what a pleasure shall we dance? Dark and sinister man?
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Speaker 1: Says Pan, have at the and what follows is a
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Speaker 1: brilliant battle scene in which Malcolm, Jane, Zoe, and River,
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Speaker 1: who snuck out of the ship and picked up why
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Speaker 1: the Lost Boys swords and went to town, join in
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Speaker 1: with the Lost Boys against the pirates, and Pan and
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Speaker 1: Hook are in an intense fencing battle, with Pan playfully
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Speaker 1: taunting the captain, and Malcolm and Zoe quickly adopt their
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Speaker 1: military approach, which proves to be far more competent than
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Speaker 1: the more chaotic pirates, and things are going pretty well
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Speaker 1: when Hook, in a stunning turn of events, disarms Peter.
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Speaker 1: He calls out, now watches your beloved leader suffers the
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Speaker 1: as I have suffered, and he raises his sword up
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Speaker 1: as Peter moves a hand up to protect himself, and suddenly,
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Speaker 1: from the ocean, the water royals as a beast leaps
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Speaker 1: up from the ocean, casting a shadow on Hook and Pan.
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Speaker 1: Hook looks up in terror, and Malcolm watches as a
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Speaker 1: massive beast, something like a cross between a crocodile and
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Speaker 1: a shark, plunges down on the pair and there's a
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Speaker 1: huge flash, and when the water clears, Malcolm can see
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Speaker 1: that Pan had scrambled away at the last second. He's
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Speaker 1: sitting soaked on the beach and there is no sign
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Speaker 1: of Hook. The pirates, demoralized, quickly surrender. The boys lead
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Speaker 1: them off, and Malcolm returns to Pan. This happened a lot,
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Speaker 1: he says, and Pan grints, not nearly frequently enough. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for the help, Malcolm nods, didn't have much choice, but
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Speaker 1: you're welcome. Then Pan lets out a laugh, say says Malcolm.
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Speaker 1: I usually don't do this, but I'm curious what exactly
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Speaker 1: did we bring back to you. Pan looks at Malcolm
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Speaker 1: with a glint in his eye. Wasn't it obvious? Pixie dust?
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Speaker 1: He says, and heads off. After the rest of the
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Speaker 1: Lost Boys. Shaking his head, Malcolm returns to the tinker
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Speaker 1: Bell with his crew. Kaylee has managed to restore power
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Speaker 1: to the systems and soon they take off. Where to next,
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Speaker 1: Captain asks Wash second, start to the right, he says,
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Speaker 1: straight on until morning the end. I loved it. You
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Speaker 1: made me like Firefly, but mainly because there was a
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Speaker 1: you don't frequently here in American English. I mean the
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