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Muppets, Mortal Combat, and Magical Mr. Mistoffelees · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: The Large nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of My
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  Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdrun Collider Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about gkiki things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us, and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel cast In and with me, as always is
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Fatality Strickland. I wasn't expecting that you. You genuinely
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  Speaker 1: got me tickled. Hey, Ariel, guess wise what I got
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  Speaker 1: a question for you? You wake up from a long
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  Speaker 1: nap and you discover you've been kidnapped by the cast
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  Speaker 1: of Cats because they need you to fill in. Which
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  Speaker 1: cat are you? Oh, Jeezy Louisy uh rumple Teaser? Nice?
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  Speaker 1: So you so you're partnered with Mungo Jerry, Yes, which
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  Speaker 1: would hide my inadequate dancing skills. I mean, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: decent dancer, but I'm not like Cats level decent. Like
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  Speaker 1: that's what that's got going for it. Rumpled Teaser does
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  Speaker 1: like like cart wheels and rumble Teezer is a pretty
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  Speaker 1: athletic one. I can do cartwheels, but also like I
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  Speaker 1: really like their um cheeky It's it's a fun song
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  Speaker 1: that they have Mungle Jerry Rumple Teaser is a fun song.
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  Speaker 1: They're kind of cheeky, they're kind of a reverent. They
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  Speaker 1: don't take things too seriously, and I feel like that
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  Speaker 1: would be my mentality if I were thrown into cats,
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  Speaker 1: as I cannot take this too serious? Right, good, what
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  Speaker 1: about you? I'm going to go with Buster for Jones
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  Speaker 1: because then I don't have to dance at all, just
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  Speaker 1: a big old fat cat, which I mean, they won't
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  Speaker 1: even need to add padding if I'm if I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to the gym pretty soon. So yeah, bust for
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  Speaker 1: Jones for me. I mean, let me, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: It was a close call. Because Mr must Files obviously
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  Speaker 1: is fabulous. Yes, he's my favorite cat. I I love
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  Speaker 1: the character. I do not think I'm nearly fabulous enough
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  Speaker 1: to be Mr must Flees. Uh. And then of course,
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  Speaker 1: uh gus the Theater cat is a lot of fun too,
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't even have to sing really except for
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  Speaker 1: like one line. So uh So there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different options, but I think Buster for Jones is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna go with. Um. I definitely am not
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  Speaker 1: a macavity I I and and to be fair, we're
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  Speaker 1: really talking about the stage production here, not the not
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  Speaker 1: the film. Did you ever see the movie? I used
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  Speaker 1: to own the VHS of the PBS special movie, which
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  Speaker 1: is the one I'm assuming you're talking about, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the latest movie, the one. No no No,
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  Speaker 1: I did not. I did not see the one with
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  Speaker 1: with the butthole cut. But I did own the VHS
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  Speaker 1: of the old PBS version when PPS used to show
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  Speaker 1: like masterpiece, every kind of stuff, and I would clear
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  Speaker 1: all of the furniture in my living room and try
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  Speaker 1: to do all the dances and songs with the cats.
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  Speaker 1: That's adorable, which also means I know which cat I
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  Speaker 1: would succeed at the most. Got it? Okay? So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you've you've rehearsed, I see, all right, that's clever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was going to say, I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say that the film. I haven't watched the movie
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  Speaker 1: all the way through because I just don't have that
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  Speaker 1: kind of fortitude. But I did. I did just for
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  Speaker 1: here's the funny thing. You know what song I watched
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  Speaker 1: before I decided to ask you that question, Mungo Jerry
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  Speaker 1: and rumbled teaser and um, I decided to watch the
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  Speaker 1: movie version, and they completely rearranged the song. It's a
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  Speaker 1: totally different tune and I hate it. I haven't listened
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  Speaker 1: to it, but I am a fan of the original,
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  Speaker 1: so I suspect it would take some getting used to.
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  Speaker 1: At the Yeah, I don't well listen. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that I can handle the Eldridge horror that is the
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  Speaker 1: entire movie. I just a little bit I saw. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even watch the whole thing because the the c
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  Speaker 1: g I like the faces on on top of the
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  Speaker 1: c g I heads and then the ears that can
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  Speaker 1: turn independently of each other. Was it was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: all the hems? Oh No, I don't like. I really
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  Speaker 1: respect all of the talent that was in that movie,
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  Speaker 1: and I like the ingenuity that they had when they
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  Speaker 1: were thinking about it. I just I I think that
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  Speaker 1: there were some design flaws. I think that it was
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  Speaker 1: a huge mistake to go with a live action approach
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. It should have been an animated
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  Speaker 1: film because there is a different social contract between a
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  Speaker 1: audience that's going to a musical that's accepting a certain
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  Speaker 1: level of disbelief because you are in a space, like
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  Speaker 1: a physical space, where the stuff you're watching is clearly
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  Speaker 1: not really happening. I mean, Shakespeare addressed this in King
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  Speaker 1: and the Fifth. And then there's the enormous difference of
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  Speaker 1: going to a movie theater where things are presented as
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  Speaker 1: if they are usually somewhat realistic or happening in some
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  Speaker 1: sort of real space, and there's a huge disconnect there.
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  Speaker 1: It's asking too much of a movie audience, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and um, yeah, I don't know that I could ever
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  Speaker 1: watch more of it. You've watched some pretty bad movies.
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  Speaker 1: This is true watching bad movies in the past. So
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  Speaker 1: I believe, I super believe in you, Tad Cooper. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: in June you can touch based only because I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get a little get together with some friends and
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  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe we'll all like decide to be super
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  Speaker 1: silly and try and watch it. But there's some other
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  Speaker 1: stuff we need to talk about, and one of the
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  Speaker 1: things we want to talk about is so the Falcon
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  Speaker 1: and the Winter Soldier concluded, Um, what did you think
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  Speaker 1: overall of the series? Aerial? It had some really high moments,
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  Speaker 1: h and it had a good overall message and plot,
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  Speaker 1: and the moments were so electric that I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Later in the series, when Sam and Buckey got over
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  Speaker 1: there machismo and started becoming friends like that was brilliant
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  Speaker 1: to me. Sam's sister was a super fantastic voice in
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  Speaker 1: the story. I feel like the flag smashers kind of
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  Speaker 1: lost the plot towards the end, totally agree, which to
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  Speaker 1: me made it feel like Sam's ending speech, which was
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  Speaker 1: super moving, it had a titanic effect on me, whereas
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  Speaker 1: the first time I listened to it, I'm like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is great, I love it. Thanks for pulling on
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  Speaker 1: my heartstrings. I agree, And then I thought about it
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, m I don't one agree. It's lost
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  Speaker 1: some of its impact on me now because specifically because
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  Speaker 1: the villains have kind of lost their plot and the
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  Speaker 1: speech was not about that. I felt like the speech
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  Speaker 1: was a little too on the nose, a little too
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  Speaker 1: heavy handed, Like we already as an audience had come
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  Speaker 1: to the conclusion that the speech takes you too, because
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  Speaker 1: we have seen all the stuff leading up to it.
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  Speaker 1: So the speech to me felt like it was a
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  Speaker 1: little too on the nose, like it felt a little
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  Speaker 1: too pat in some ways, and so that that didn't
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  Speaker 1: quite ring true to me. I agree with you. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that the villains kind of got a little muddled,
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  Speaker 1: or or antagonists if you prefer. Villain is too strong
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  Speaker 1: a word. UM. I thought that Sam and Bucky had
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  Speaker 1: some great interactions. I thought it was weird that Zimo
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  Speaker 1: was like a totally different character than the way he
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  Speaker 1: was a Winter Soldier. And I thought that it was
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  Speaker 1: weird that Sharon Carter ended up being very, very different. However,
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  Speaker 1: the reason we're even bringing this up is not just
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  Speaker 1: to recap what we felt about the series, but because
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  Speaker 1: we now know that the writer on that series, or
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  Speaker 1: a co writer on that series, uh, is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: writing a fourth or co writing a fourth Captain America film. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know. And as as much as I I don't
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  Speaker 1: think UH, Falcon and Winter Soldier was as strong of
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  Speaker 1: a a series as One Division was, right, um, I,
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  Speaker 1: I still enjoyed it way more than I thought I
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  Speaker 1: would going in. Like you know, I I have had
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  Speaker 1: very few Marvel movies that I've just genuinely not really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: Iron Man two is probably the closest, and even still
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  Speaker 1: there are moments of it I liked. I just fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep during it two times. UM. I feel the same
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  Speaker 1: way about four two as well. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of people do, um, but there was
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  Speaker 1: enough that I really liked. I really liked the way
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  Speaker 1: they handled Falcon becoming Captain America. I really liked his
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  Speaker 1: heroic moments when he was Captain America. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to spoil it for anybody who hasn't caught up yet,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, like he did some really really cool stuff
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  Speaker 1: in that final episode that just made me excited to
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  Speaker 1: see what he could do. I like the fact, I
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  Speaker 1: think we talked about this last week that he's not
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  Speaker 1: or a week or two ago, that he's not superpowered, right,
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  Speaker 1: He's he's more like Iron Man than any of the
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  Speaker 1: other Avenger characters. Yeah, so I'm really excited about this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, they've introduced a character or that I,
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  Speaker 1: according to the comics, will be the next Falcon, and
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  Speaker 1: I really liked that character as well. So and we
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  Speaker 1: still have us Agent. In fact, he's called us Agent now,
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  Speaker 1: yes that really. I was like, are they gonna call
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  Speaker 1: him us Agent? And then uh, Elaine from Seinfeld did,
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  Speaker 1: and I was so happy. And I'm really interested to
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  Speaker 1: see where she goes with her because there's been lots
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  Speaker 1: of speculation about who she actually is and what like,
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  Speaker 1: is she going to come into Secret Invasion? Is she
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  Speaker 1: actually you know, Madame Hydra part of Leviathan? Or where
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  Speaker 1: is she? Or is she starting a Dark Adventures? Does
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  Speaker 1: she so much? Does she have a connection to Nick Fury? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of questions that we don't know
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  Speaker 1: the answers to. And um, yeah, So presumably this fourth
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  Speaker 1: Captain America film will follow Sam as Captain America. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: Bucky will be in there too, because those two together
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  Speaker 1: are a great team. I agree and um, I agree
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  Speaker 1: entirely with what you said, Ariel. I think One Division
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  Speaker 1: was the stronger of the two series. I think it
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  Speaker 1: also benefited because One Division had I think three more
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  Speaker 1: episodes than Falcon and when The Soldier did. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we already talked about in a previous episode how
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  Speaker 1: some of the episodes of Falcon and Winter Soldier felt
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  Speaker 1: like they were taking a lot of short cuts in
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  Speaker 1: order to get through the story. Yeah. I think that
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  Speaker 1: they could have used maybe one or two more episodes
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  Speaker 1: to space things out a little bit, so that so
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  Speaker 1: that at the end of the episode, I wasn't saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how the heck did such and such? No to be
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  Speaker 1: there at that time, right, Yeah, that's being said, like
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  Speaker 1: I could, I could see them even with the movies, saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this could have a second season and it could very
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  Speaker 1: well do well. But that's not the only Marvel News
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  Speaker 1: we have. So you know, let's move on. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about Groot Robots. Yes you found this story, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the story is that like some Disney World imagineers
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  Speaker 1: have made a robot baby group or kid group I
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  Speaker 1: should say, it's the group that's in between baby grout
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  Speaker 1: and sullen teenager group and um and this uh, this
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  Speaker 1: kid group apparently looks and moves in really amazing realistic ways. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I've seen Disney imagineering before, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is going to be old hat. And then
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  Speaker 1: I watched the video. Good golly, that's like general dynamics
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  Speaker 1: level stuff. Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's exciting. I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see this thing at disney World. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: they're going to put it over at Epcot where the
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  Speaker 1: new Guardians of the Galaxy ride is going to be
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  Speaker 1: probably probably. I'm glad that it's coming to disney World
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  Speaker 1: and not just Disneyland because disney World is much more
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  Speaker 1: accessible for me. Um, and he will. He will be
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  Speaker 1: my biggest Disney character crush. Yeah, you know I met
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  Speaker 1: blatonic crush. I met Groot at Disneyland, but that was
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  Speaker 1: adult group, was it. I know that Disney World has
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  Speaker 1: had star Lord and baby Grout like potted Grout. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. That's exciting. Yeah, where you could
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  Speaker 1: just meet him? Um, you could do like a meet
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  Speaker 1: and greet with them. I didn't. I haven't met and
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  Speaker 1: Gret with Grout. It's the group Gret. But are are
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  Speaker 1: are some of our mutual Disney friends have? Yeah? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be at Disney World a little later
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  Speaker 1: this year and will report back if there are any
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  Speaker 1: group sightings while I'm there. But I expect that he
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  Speaker 1: will not quite be on this what Maybe he'll be
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  Speaker 1: on display because Disney World is reaching a big anniversary
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  Speaker 1: in October. So man, I'm super jelly If you're Disney
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  Speaker 1: trip dude, Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: several months away. And between then and now, we have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Disney and Sony reaching an agreement. Earlier
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: in a previous episode, we talked about how Sony had
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  Speaker 1: signed a deal with Netflix, which would give Netflix exclusive
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  Speaker 1: streaming rights for stuff right away, but now it looks
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  Speaker 1: like Disney is gonna get a shot at it too.
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  Speaker 1: Sony owns the rights to Spider Man, which obviously exists
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  Speaker 1: in the Marvel Cinematic universe, so that would mean that
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  Speaker 1: Disney Plus wouldn't be able to stream that those movies.
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  Speaker 1: But now we know that Disney and Sony have signed
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  Speaker 1: an agreement where after an initial time period where Netflix
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  Speaker 1: will still have that that exclusivity, things will then be
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  Speaker 1: able to stream on Disney Plus as well. So we
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  Speaker 1: will actually get Spiderman on the Disney Pluses eventually. Yeah, eventually. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited for this. We're also going to
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  Speaker 1: get like Jimungi and Hotel Transylvania. Um, I like Jamungi,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. Okay, that's fair. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen the new ones though, you are missing out, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: They are really good, both of them. Both of them
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  Speaker 1: are fantastic. Aquafina makes the best Danny de Vito stand
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  Speaker 1: in there has ever been. I look forward to finally
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  Speaker 1: giving it a shot. Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's definitely
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  Speaker 1: some kid humor, but it's it's they're both solid, solid movies,
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  Speaker 1: and they even give nods to the original um. But
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  Speaker 1: the Disney movies will be All of the theatrical releases
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  Speaker 1: from that will be on Netflix as well as their
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  Speaker 1: directed streaming. So I don't know how soon they'll go
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  Speaker 1: go on Disney Plus afterwards, but yeah, it might be
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  Speaker 1: a few months, but at least it is going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I don't really like having a fractured
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  Speaker 1: cinematic universe that that's tough where you're having like you
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  Speaker 1: already had to do it in the in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Because Netflix had the series like Daredevil and Jessica Jones
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  Speaker 1: and all that, UM, I would love to see those
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  Speaker 1: come back to Disney Plus. It would be weird because
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  Speaker 1: those movies are decidedly darker than or those series are
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  Speaker 1: decidedly darker than the other stuff we've seen on Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 1: But the hope is still there that we will eventually
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  Speaker 1: see some reboots of those over on Disney Plus. I
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: would hate if those just disappeared, honestly, Ariel I was
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: thinking about this the other day. I think the street
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  Speaker 1: level characters like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke, Cage Guy, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fist Man, whatever his name is. UM. I think those
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  Speaker 1: guys would all be great characters to explore, assuming like
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get snapped out during the blip, and explore
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that happened in that five year span in
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: between the snap and when everyone was returned, because you
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: would think that street level heroes would be even more
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  Speaker 1: important during that phase. And it makes me think, what
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  Speaker 1: was you know, assuming that they weren't snapped out, what
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  Speaker 1: was Jessica Jones doing, What was Daredevil doing, What was
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  Speaker 1: Luke Cage doing, what was fist Man doing? And it
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  Speaker 1: also gives them the option to con you know, plotlines
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  Speaker 1: in the in the old television series that didn't quite
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  Speaker 1: grab audiences because it was hit or miss. I liked them,
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  Speaker 1: and also like, on the one hand, I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: Disney's getting everything. They're becoming this massive media conglomerate, more
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  Speaker 1: massive than they already were. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, but I also hate paying for every single
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  Speaker 1: streaming service there ever was, so the more consolidation, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: just make a Disney cable channel and I'll be happy. Um.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, yeah, no, I hear you, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: I also don't look forward to a lack of competition.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's good for people. But I also
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  Speaker 1: don't want to have to maintain seventeen subscription services so
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  Speaker 1: that I can watch the various pieces of media that
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I'm really into. Yeah, but there's another piece of media
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  Speaker 1: we need to talk about, which you are really into. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very much. Not into this, but people aren't surprised by that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the ever do Ble Godzilla Versus Kong sequel.
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  Speaker 1: We already are hearing rumors about it. Yep. So they
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  Speaker 1: didn't set anything up at the end of Kong Godzilla
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  Speaker 1: Versus Kong, But apparently people are vaguely open to the
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  Speaker 1: idea of a Son of Kong movie, which the first
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  Speaker 1: one was not good or fun or pleasant. Um. No,
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  Speaker 1: you need to go to Mighty Joe Young for that one.
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  Speaker 1: That's a much better that's a much better big Giant
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  Speaker 1: ape movie. Yeah. Yeah, But if they do this with
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  Speaker 1: Adam win Guard, it's going to take a while because
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: we've already talked about he's working on the ThunderCats movie,
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  Speaker 1: which I am super excited about. In theory. Um, in theory,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about it. We'll see if it lives
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  Speaker 1: up to the hype I'm building in my brain. Um,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and then he's also working on a reboot of Base Off. Yeah,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: so apparently this is like the new King of Schlock,
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm hearing. Yeah yeah, Like, well, thunder Cats
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  Speaker 1: is quality cinema, Jonathan, Yeah yeah, face off definite. Thunder
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  Speaker 1: Cats is no silver Hawks or whatever the other show
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  Speaker 1: was that was exactly the same, but but with silver
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  Speaker 1: bird people instead of cat people. Um yeah, no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I I I have no dog in this fight. I
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  Speaker 1: just I just figure it can't be worse than the
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  Speaker 1: original Son of Kong. Apologies to anybody who liked the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: original movie. You know, I've talked about animal movies give
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: me a stress. So Son of Kong is not for me. Um.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: King Kong is hardly for me. But I still love it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But it's hard. It's hard. It breaks my heart to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: go through um and and to lift spirits. We have
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: one net last news item we kind of just want
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to hit on real quick. So, uh, we don't know
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: if you've seen in the news, but a woman got
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: charged with felony and beds all meant charges for failing
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to return a vh S tape. Yeah, that that's an
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: old thing that we used to watch movies on kids
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: VHS tapes with a VCR. Yes, and the tape was
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Sabrina the Teenage, which so Satan was involved, the old
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: nineties Clariss ex blades at all version. So Salem the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Cat was involved. Salem the Cat was involved. Um, And
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: it was rented in and like this woman she lost
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: She believes that she lost jobs over it and failed
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: to get jobs over it because this would show up
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: on her on her report on her background checks. She
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: didn't even rent it. It was her kids. She thinks
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: she had no idea she owned this this video, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: this video like back in the day was like under
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it was about just a little bit under sixty dollars
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: in values. So that's yeah, it's one of those crazy
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: stories like it. It It makes you think about like if
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you ever saw weird stories about people with like astronomical
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: library fees or something, and you you you are left
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: with the first of all, to whom would you even
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: pay that at now? Because nobody, nobody's in that business anymore. Well,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the court in Cleveland where this was originally filed against her,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and who would even actually filed it against her? Like seriously, Um,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: dropped all the charges and expunged her records. So that's happy.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You know, the stars of the original Sabrina the Teenage
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: which kind of spoke up on social media and we're like, oh,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: we're so sorry, we're rooting for you, stuff like that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It's just like, and she found out because she tried
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to renew her driver's license and there was she got
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: flagged for having a felony charge against her. Yes, but
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I would imagine between and one she would have had
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to have renewed her license a few times. So now
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: this makes me really anxious, Like did I forget to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: return a VHS or a book like I was a kid,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I might see. This is why I don't drive, so
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: people can never find out about your crimes. Yep, that's it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I gotta the past needs to stay buried. And with that,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: it's time for us to head into a commercial break.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But we're gonna be back because we have some combat
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: coming up and it's Mortal ariel. Let me ask you
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a questions. I thought we already did that section. Yeah, no,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: this new question that's actually related to our conversational topic
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: at hand. You've done seen the Mortal combats, right, I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: done seen the Mortal Combats. I watched it Sunday. You've
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: done seen the Mortal Combats too, correct, Yeah, I watched
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it Saturday morning, and um uh so, let's let's talk
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: about what our feelings were regarding this Mortal Kombat film,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: which was all big hit is already some talk about
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: like ideas for a sequel. Nothing firm yet, but clearly
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the movie left it open for lots of different sequels,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: which might see the return of some characters that are
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: very most sincerely dead by the end of Mortal Kombat,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: as well as the introduction of characters that that weren't
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: even you know, include like Johnny Cage uh is not
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in the movie, but spoiler at the very end of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: this Mortal Kombat film, there's at least a hint of
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Cage's involvement in a potential sequel. Yeah, I think you're
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: being generous with your praise. Like I felt that the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: actors are actually good, but the characters that I expected
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to like the best I didn't really care about. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the characters I didn't really care about I liked the best.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And it's like the dialogue. Some of the dialogue was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: really really funny or really good and then some of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: it felt like it had been translated from another language
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to me because it was very still to and phrased oddly.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, um like, like, let me let
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: me name a character. I'll name characters. You tell me
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: whether or not you found them entertaining. Okay, okay, all right,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: here we go, Raydon Raydon m he did good, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: he wasn't. I love that actor, but he just I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: don't know, I didn't do much. Okay, got it, got it? Okay. Uh.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Let's go with Sonjah. She had one or two moments,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: but I did not care for her. But I think
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that was dialogue related. I think that she had some
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: some pretty clunky dialogue to do it right. Jack's oh,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I liked him. Yeah, same here, but I like him
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and Supergirl. True, he was Jimmy Elson and Supergirl was he.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that he was. He was good as Jack's.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I liked. I thought he did a I thought he
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: did a really good job considering the material he had. Um,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: all right, lu kang uh. Yes. I loved his physicality, Okay,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that's fair. I enjoyed watching him move and work in
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the environment, but I didn't like Again, the dialogue was
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a little stilted here and there. My my reaction was
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: he was also there. I like when he's super sayand
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: um oh yeah, Kunglao was awesome. I thought I thought
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Kunglaw was better than lu King. I thought he was
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: more interesting and more fun to watch than Luke King. Snarky.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: He was snarky. He had an amazing entrance and a
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: jawline that would not quit. Scorpion Oh yeah, I loved
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I loved him. Yeah, here are you Ki sonata is?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I love him and almost everything I've seen him do.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So Yes, I liked Scorpion Heat. But I felt like
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you couldn't understand if you didn't have some knowledge of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Moral Kombat going into the movie, you'd be a little
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: bit lost as too. They set up with Scorpion and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: sub Zero and you'd be a little bit lost as
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to what's happening in Why Yeah no, I mean there's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: no real explanation, right, It's just that sub Zero shows
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: up to wipe out the the you know, Scorpions clan,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: But there's no explanation as to why that happens. It's
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: just it just happens. Um So yeah, sub Zero same
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: like sub Zero I don't think had Like he was
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: very interesting in the first ten minutes and then after
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that it was you know, ninja guy. But the fight
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: at the end was fantastic, so it was okay, I see,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I have issues with the fights. I didn't think the fights.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: My problem with the fights were that because it's Mortal Kombat,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and because you're incorporating the fantastical with those fights, right,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: because characters have essentially magic powers, the fantastical parts didn't
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: look good enough to me, and the martial arts parts
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: were given a little bit of a short shrift because
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: they were using the fantastic elements. Like I felt that
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it could have been a really amazing martial arts movie,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: or maybe they could have like I've seen martial arts
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: movies that have effectively magic powers in the Crouching Tiger,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Hidden Dragon is phenomenal. It's a work of art. This
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: is nowhere close to that. Oh, I forgot the character Kano.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: What do you think of Kno you you forgot a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: bunch of characters. No one else showed up in that movie. Yes,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: huh okay, Kano Kano was he was funny, he was
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: he was he went too blue for me to appreciate
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: all of his humor, but he definitely was, you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the funny guy. Um. But you also forgot Shank Song,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: who was the evil Emperor and he was pretty good. Actually,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure songs not in that movie. I'm gonna
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: have to have you go back and watch it until men.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And you forgot the character they made up, which was Cole,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: which I mean he did find he did fine. I
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: liked his wife and his like I liked his kid,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and he did fine. But the entire movie, I was like, man,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he looks like Anders from the new Battlestar Galactico, which
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Jonathan hasn't watched so he won't get. But someone out
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: there has got to look at Lewis Ton and be like, yes,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he looks like this other actor. So for me, like like,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't have a problem that Cole was a brand
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: new character. I kind of get the point, like the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: idea that you need to have a character who is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: introduced to this world and is the sort of the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: surrogate for the audience, except that he doesn't really serve
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that purpose because they're trying to pack too much into
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: one movie, so so you don't you don't really get
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a sense of who these people are and how this
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: all started. You don't get a sense of how long
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it is between tournaments. Also, by the way, tournament never happens.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: You never have the tournament. I mean officially no, but
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: unofficially yes, like half the movie is a tournament of swords.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Except though no, no, no, I will not except. I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: will not accept that answer, not at all. No, there's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: no tournament because the whole point of the movie is
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Shang Sung is trying to uh to sabotage, to ambush
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the Earth Realm fighters and kill them. Because if there's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: no one alive when the tournament starts, they win by default,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: or really like when whatever warriors are called up, if
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: they don't have time to to train, they can't possibly
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: compete in the tournament. So the tournament never happens because
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Shang Sung is trying to plan this out. And then
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the Earth Realm folks are like, all right, let's take
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the fight to them. So they're just doing what Shang
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Sung was doing, but in reverse and no tournament. There's
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: no tournament. You can't you can't blame Shang Song's logic
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: on that, considering their past record. I will say, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: like the changes. They did follow a lot of like
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the actual lore of the Mortal Kombat games, if you've
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: followed that at all, a lot of it was similar.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I do feel it was too rushed, Like the biggest
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: problem I had with the characters was that I didn't
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: get enough time with any one of them to really
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: feel them out, exception of Sonia and Kano. Honestly, um,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you spend more time with those two them with Coal
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: or anybody else, it feels like. And I like a
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: couple of things about what they did with Sonia. One,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: they got rid of her kiss ultimate power, her kiss
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: mentality power, and I thought that was great. Um. And too,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: she held her own. I guess this is a spoiler
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: if you haven't watched it and you actually care about
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: spoilers to this movie. She held her own without actually
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: being an Earth Champion for the majority of the movie. Yes,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: she she is incredibly capable. She's incredibly capable, and I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: really like that, not that she wasn't capable in the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: video games. Um. But yeah, Like, the the effects didn't
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: bother me as much as I was worried they might.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I was actually completely fine with them. Um. I just
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I feel the story was a little bit rushed, But
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that being said, I had fun. I think see here's
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: here's my biggest issue out of all of it. Yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the a script is shlockey, but it's a movie based
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: off a video game that's just a tournament style despite
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: there's no tournament movie tournament style video game where people
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: are beating the snot out of each other, So I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: didn't have high expectations for the scriptum the lore in
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the Mortal Kombat games has been retconned twenty times, so
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about there being any consistency. The thing
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that bugged me was that the tone of the movie
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: was all over the place. You had scenes that were
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: giving homages to some of the goryoust fatalities, like Kong
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Lao has a particularly gory fatality that is shown in
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the movie. And uh, that's why this movie had to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: have an R rating, because the level of gore in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: it is far beyond anything you could ever show in
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a PG thirteen or PG movie. However, that being said,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the script, the plot, most of the lines, with the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: exception of anything Kano says, is not like like, it's
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: not sophisticated at all. It's nowhere close to something that
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you would associate with an R rated movie. It feels
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: like a PG thirteen movie that has had massive amounts
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of gore for a couple of sequences shoved in which
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: make it required to be an R rated movie. So
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it's not it's not like I was. I was telling
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you off microphone, I think yesterday maybe that. To me,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: it felt like they were trying to walk the line
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: between the super schlocky camp nineties movie and the very dark, gritty,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: grounded web series that came out a few years ago,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and this was kind of trying to walk a tight
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: rope between those two. And I didn't find it satisfying
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: because it wasn't campy enough to be goofy can't be fun,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't wasn't grounded enough for me to care
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: about anybody. I can see that, and I mean largely
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I would have to agree, Um, yeah, it wasn't as
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: good as the nineties. To me, I enjoyed it. They're
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: talking about possibly a sequel and um bringing in some
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of the other characters, which I enjoyed it enough. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: would probably watch it because that's you know, it falls
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: like into the Van Helsing category with me. Um I
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: will say the other thing I liked, and I know that,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: like this is super controversial. Some people hated the soundtrack
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and some people really liked it. And I fall into
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the camp of liking it because in the nineties movie,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: it's the four tracks from Mortal Kombat over and over
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and over again, and it gets very very repetitive, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: this one built up. It would give me little hints
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and it just kept teasing me with little hints of
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: like the Moral Kombat soundtrack I liked, and it built
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: it up to the end, and so when that crescendo hit,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I found it very satisfying. I thought that was neat
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: to honestly, I also like that to me is a
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: positive of the movie. I thought the score it was fun,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and that it built up to that. It reminded me
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of some more recent like comic book movies,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: where you'll get a hint of a motif or theme
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: that's really familiar, but you know the they're very careful
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: with introducing it, so it's not like, hey, we're just
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: gonna lean heavily on this nostalgia and that's going to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: take up the place of quality. You'll just remember that
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: other thing that you like a lot more than the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: thing that you're watching right now, and hopefully some of
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that will rub off on our movie. It didn't feel
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: like that's how I write all of my mashups. Um well,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: speaking of that, we're gonna have to get to some
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: mashing up in a minute. But first let's take a
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: quick break. Arial Jonathan. You know what happened over the weekend.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: We watched Mortal Kombat. We just talked about that, okay.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: In addition to that, there was a big award show
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend. You know what it was called? Uh?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: The Oscars. Yes, So, Ariel, when we sat down to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: try and think of what to properties we should mash up,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and I was mentioning the fact that the Oscars had
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: just happened. That flashed something into your brain, and you
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: came up with an inspired and yet really weird pair
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of properties to mash up. Please tell our audience what
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: they're about to endure. Okay. So we're debating whether to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: talk about Mortocombat or the Oscars, and we decided on
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Mortal Combat. But I was trying to find something that
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: was Oscar themed for our mashup, and I went through
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: like a bunch of different Oscar nominated movies or geeky
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Oscar movies or whatever. But then in the end decided
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: we would go with The Office and Sesame Street because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: they both have characters named Oscar. The best reason ever. Listen,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: some some weeks, I got it in some weeks, I don't.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Uh well, I have got my uh my mash up
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and you have your mash up. Mhm, who should go first? Um?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I will, I will? I know, I know you spoiled
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that your's ends on a little bit of a positive note,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: so I would let you once I don't. I don't
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: have all the characters died terribly, so that would be horrible.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So my episode is can you tell me how to
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: get to some decently priced paper? And I'm stealing a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: queue from Jonathan by the way, I'm starting this out.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: The denizens of Sesame Street had a problem. Their show
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: is no longer popular with children, and because of that,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: they found themselves non syndicated and non renewed, and this
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: meant they all had to get jobs to pay for food,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and they're assorted odd homes. But all the jobs on
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Sesame Street were taken by their grown ups, already big
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Bird took this the worst and fell into a depression,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: locked in his nest all day watching old syndicated TV.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And that's when he saw it the Office, specifically the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: episode where Kevin is being compared to the Cookie Monster,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and Big Bird thought to himself, Hey, they might be
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: onto something here. The similarities are striking. I mean, they
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: have an Oscar, we have an Oscar, and I'm totally
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a Jim. We should take a road trip to apply
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: for jobs at dunder Mifflin. Besides, paper is integral to learning,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: so selling paper seems the next logical step for us.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: So from Elmo to Oscar to Count Voncount, they all
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: piled into a van and hit the road for Scranton, PA.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: When they got there, at first the staff of dunder
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Mifflin were astonished. They thought that the residents of Sesame
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Street were all puppets. Only Michael Scott, the manager of
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the company, took it in stride. Of course, they're real,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: he said, They just say their puppets to protect their
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: privacy from paparazzi. Duh, And I should know. I wasn't
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Fundel Bundle when I was a kid, don't you remember.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And he immediately put them into internships and everything was
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: literally funny games at first. I mean Count von Kaunt
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: went into accounting as a cookie Monster, of course, and
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: they did a bang up job, except for when Cookie
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Monster tried to eat the filing cabinet. Elmo helped Aaron
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: at reception because, as Michael said, they're both redheads. But
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: this was a mistake as they fed each other with
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  Speaker 1: manic energy and couldn't even get a phone answered in
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  Speaker 1: time because they were both so excited at each other.
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  Speaker 1: Burton Ernie went into customer service because they had learned
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  Speaker 1: great coping skills from being roommates. Telly, with his caution,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: went into QA. Grover shadowed Michael because as Michael put it,
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  Speaker 1: he is super Grover and I am a supermanager. And
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  Speaker 1: Telly and Big Bird went into sales. Oscar didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a place because he's super grumpy. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: why he went with them, but when he spouted beat
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  Speaker 1: Spars and Battlestar Galactico, we're all trashed. Dwight knew he
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  Speaker 1: had to keep his eye close on his new enemy
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  Speaker 1: and offered to train him. And here's the thing. The
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  Speaker 1: office got much better, and the employees of Dunder Mifflin
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  Speaker 1: all started getting a law and learning conflict resolution, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the problem because Oscar hated this. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: want people to get along. He only came to Scranton
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  Speaker 1: because he saw how horrible the work environment at dunder
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  Speaker 1: Mifflin was and he wanted to feed on the chaos.
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  Speaker 1: And Dwight was equally upset because without without the office divided,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't adequately assert his dominance over his coworkers. So
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  Speaker 1: Oscar and Dwight teamed up to devise a plan to
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  Speaker 1: stop all the friendliness and plunge the paper company back
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  Speaker 1: into turmoil. However, before they could put their plan into motion,
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  Speaker 1: the TV executives of both Sesame Workshop and the documentary
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  Speaker 1: crew filming The Life at the Paper Company burst into
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  Speaker 1: the office company meeting. Michael Scott called and after fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes of trying to stuff Snuffy into a conference room,
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  Speaker 1: they were told that because people who watched the Office
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  Speaker 1: once fans of Sesame Street, Sesame Street had a huge
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  Speaker 1: rise of popularity and the show was back on, which
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  Speaker 1: was also great news for dunder Mifflin because with no
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  Speaker 1: interpersonal drama, their viewership was down the toilet and they
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  Speaker 1: really needed the residuals to stay afloat. I mean, who
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  Speaker 1: buys paper nowadays. So the denizens of Sesame Street were
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  Speaker 1: sent back home and dunder Mifflin went back to being
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  Speaker 1: the way it was before all the positive change, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone was happy ish except wider Oscar, who didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to uh unveil their grand plan uh and didn't get
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  Speaker 1: any plom for it. Now. For one week every year,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the employees of the office and the inhabitants of Sesame
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  Speaker 1: Street changed jobs and homes to not forget the valuable
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  Speaker 1: lessons and friendships they learned and made along the way,
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  Speaker 1: and to keep the ratings going strong. How heartwarming? All right,
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  Speaker 1: mine is, can you tell me how to get how
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  Speaker 1: to get to the Dundees? Michael Scott as a problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Dundees. The script and dunder Midlin Office is
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  Speaker 1: to get together for their annual awards show hosted by
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  Speaker 1: Michael Scott. Everyone is told to pile into an old
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  Speaker 1: bus that Michael has somehow rented for this occasion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: everyone except Stanley, who outright refuses to go, and Toby,
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  Speaker 1: whom Michael purposefully leaves behind by shutting the bus door
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  Speaker 1: in his face and they're off with Michael behind the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't take long before Oscar is asking Michael if
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  Speaker 1: he happens to actually have a Class B driving license,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: which he is legally required to have in order to
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  Speaker 1: drive a bus. Michael attempts to deflect, but the process
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  Speaker 1: he kind of gets turned around while arguing with Oscar,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and they don't find their way to the chilies, which
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: is much to Pam's relief as she was still under
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: a lifetime ban at this point. Michael, attempting to reassure
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  Speaker 1: everyone that he is not in fact lost, turn down
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  Speaker 1: an odd street. It's a charming town neighborhood with bright
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  Speaker 1: colors and extremely cheerful inhabitants. After much urging from the
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  Speaker 1: co workers in the back they he decides to stop
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  Speaker 1: the bus and ask for directions so everyone has the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to get out and stretch their legs. Michael hops
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  Speaker 1: into a store called Hooper's, run by a nice guy
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  Speaker 1: named Alan. Pam and Jim watches some kids play, and
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: they talk about how excited they are to see their
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  Speaker 1: own child grow up, while also being you know, a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: little melancholic about it. The idea of being sad that
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: time has to pass. Meanwhile, Kevin makes friends with a
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  Speaker 1: huge elephant like creature that only he can see. Guys.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Guys stuffle up a gus is awesome. Everyone pretty much
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  Speaker 1: ignores Kevin. Oscar and Finance accidentally stumbles and bumps up
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: against a trash can, whereupon a green monster pops out.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Startled Oscar the Office. Oscar let's out a high pitched
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: screen which Oscar uh the Sesame Street. Oscar says his
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: music to his ears. After the momentary shock, the monster
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  Speaker 1: introduces himself as Oscar the Grouch Office. Oscar and Grouch
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Oscar immediately fall into deep conversation about the relative shortcomings
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: of their respective circle of acquaintances. Meanwhile, Dwight is impatiently
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: walking around the bus when he encounters Burt and Ernie. Dwight, shocked,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: looks at Burton, says cousin, Burt, and yes. It turns
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: out Dwight and Bert are distant cousins. The two immediately
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: begin catching up, while Ernie irritates the living hell out
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: of both of them. The dunder Mifflin crew encounter more
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of the inhabitants of Sesame Street, and for the most part,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: they're enchanted. Kelly is a bit distracted by the whole thing,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: and Angela seems even more uptight than burt Is. But
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: apart from that, things are going pretty well. Jim and
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Pam decided they're gonna pop into Hooper's to see what's
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: taking so long. They find Michael and Alan are singing
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: a song about feelings and friendship. Michael looks happier than
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: he has and years, and Alan, it turns out, is
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: in need of paper. Big Bird wants to write to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: his pinpal Gulliver the Seagull, but they're fresh out of paper.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Alan gives Michael helpful kind instructions on how to get
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: back on track, though. Now the dunder Mifflin crew are
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: reluctant to leave, and so Michael decides to hold the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Dundees right there, right on Sesame Street. He even creates
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: new categories for some of their new friends. Ernie gets
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: most likely to use a bath toy in an inappropriate manner,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Big Bird gets most likely to scare Angela, snuffle up
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: against gets most fake friend, which makes Kevin a little sad,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: but he and Big Bird both talking about how awesome
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: snuffle up Agauss is and Pam gives Michael d got
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: found by getting Lost award and everyone sings a song
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: at the end about Class B driving license, which begin
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: with the letter B. The end, Class B driver's license
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: begin with the letters C. No, let's be says so
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: right in my script. That was absolutely delightful. I'm I
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: am like, I watch to watch this episode, and also
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I am slightly scared at the lessons that the poor
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: one months of Sesame Street will learn from Michael Scott.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I see, no one died, I didn't kill
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't kill a single muppet in this one. And
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: poor Toby always gets the short end of the star.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just Toby, That's what Let's let's be fair.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: That actor is also one of the head writers for
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the show, so he more likely than not wrote himself
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: being abused like that. That's true. That's true. Well that
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: turned out way better than I anticipated. Yes, well, and
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: we are curious to hear all of your mash ups
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: about you know, the office and Sesame Street and what
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: that might look like. We realized that we both went
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: you know, we went both you know, fairly fairly friendly,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: like pretty heavy on the Sesame Street side. If you
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: had gone heavier on office things probably would have turned
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: out a bit differently. There would have been a lot
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: more embarrassing, embarrassing cringe humor there. But we're curious what
• 45:04
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• 45:07
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• 45:42
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