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Clowning Around With Batman's Butler · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: M Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large and Your Drunklelider podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the kiki things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ario casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: as a super stupendous Jonathan Strict. I'm super thanks for asking.
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Speaker 1: You're welcome. So once again we have come together to
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Speaker 1: gather a lot of the geeky news of the week
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Speaker 1: and talk about it. And once again, our our news
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Speaker 1: items got way longer than what we had anticipated. So
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Speaker 1: we thought, since the last time was such a big hit,
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming, I mean, I haven't heard anyone complain about it,
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Speaker 1: that we would do another thirty seconds or less segment
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Speaker 1: where we attempt to describe a geeky news story within
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds or or less. Hopefully the actual description of
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Speaker 1: the news story will take less time than me introducing
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Speaker 1: this segment. I like your shat and er esque like
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Speaker 1: uh int intro there. Yeah, I've had some positively pregnant
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Speaker 1: pauses in that in that phrase. All right, So we
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Speaker 1: have divided up these stories between the two of us,
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Speaker 1: although now I look at it, I'm like, huh, we
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Speaker 1: could have done this so that they would alternate back
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Speaker 1: and forth, but didn't. It's it's it's a scramble. It'll
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Speaker 1: be fun. Yeah, So I've got the first one. I
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Speaker 1: am going to start the clock now. So our first
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Speaker 1: story is that Sean Levy is developing a Star Wars film.
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Speaker 1: Sean Levy is known as the director of Deadpool. He's
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Speaker 1: working on Deadpool three right now, and so there is
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Speaker 1: an assumption that any Star Wars film he is working
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Speaker 1: on is probably going to becoming probably i'd say five
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Speaker 1: at the earliest, probably later than that. So we don't
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Speaker 1: really have any details on it, but it's an interesting choice.
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Speaker 1: And I'm done. Great, Okay, what's the next one? Oh? Shoot,
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Speaker 1: I had two in a row, all right, next one
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start now, Okay. We also have the
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Speaker 1: barest of details about an upcoming Star Wars series called
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Speaker 1: The Acolyte, which, as far as we know, is some
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Speaker 1: sort of murder mystery ish things set during the era
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Speaker 1: of the High Republic. We know that Amandela Stenberg and
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Speaker 1: Lee Jung Jai are in it, as well as Carrie
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Speaker 1: and Moss who was in the Matrix, and lots of
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Speaker 1: other folks and I'm running out of time. But that's
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Speaker 1: about all we know except this is going to be
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Speaker 1: a series on Disney Plus and done. Oh you're technically
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Speaker 1: one second late, Jonathan, Okay, my turn, well not on mine.
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Speaker 1: On mine, I had the little timer on. It's at
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Speaker 1: twenty nine seconds point five eight. All right, well then
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Speaker 1: I'll trust your timer, okay and go. We have more
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Speaker 1: Star Wars news, which is that shoot studio Giebli. And
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Speaker 1: we didn't know the Start Wars news until today. Probably
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Speaker 1: um Studio Ghiblie posted something really cryptic on Twitter that
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Speaker 1: was the lucasfilm logo and then their student Studio Giblie
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Speaker 1: photo our logo, and everybody was like, oh, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: do some sort of mashup and we don't know anything
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Speaker 1: about it what they're doing. But today they tweeted something
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Speaker 1: that was just a little like gro Goo or Yoda
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Speaker 1: mini figure on a table with um I thank Miazaki
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Speaker 1: maybe behind it anyhow, U so that is a mashup.
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Speaker 1: We might have Did I go over thirty seconds? You
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Speaker 1: were three point three point four seven seconds over? Dang it? Ah?
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Speaker 1: Well uh not according to my Oh dang already said
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Speaker 1: I wasn't using my timer. Okay, the next one, I
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Speaker 1: will make it up in this one. Okay. So we
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of news about the Umbrella Academy,
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Speaker 1: and really that's just that season four has wrapped, I think.
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Speaker 1: And also oh nope, it's underway. And also the title
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Speaker 1: of the first episode is the inmbearable Tragedy of getting
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Speaker 1: what you Want done. Also it's the final season. It
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Speaker 1: is the final season. Surely that was under thirty second,
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Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was where you were right around
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Speaker 1: eighteen seconds when I jumped in. Um. Yeah, so that's
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Speaker 1: the In fact, the music was probably playing out even
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Speaker 1: as I started saying that sentence, because I don't plan
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Speaker 1: on cutting it short. It will just play until until
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Speaker 1: it gets through, and then it'll play again because it's
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Speaker 1: fun to put the music behind this segment, but it's
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Speaker 1: also a little time consuming. All right, last one for
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Speaker 1: our thirty seconds and less and I it's my turn,
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna hit it now. Okay. Our last story
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Speaker 1: is that James Gunn and Peter Saffron, who are the
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Speaker 1: co ce owes of d C Universe for like all
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Speaker 1: the all the non comic books stuff appeared with David
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Speaker 1: Zaslov like a town hall meeting and said that they
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Speaker 1: are working together on an eight to ten year plan
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Speaker 1: for DC across movies, t D, animation, and potentially video games,
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Speaker 1: so unifying vision, long term plan. Not a big surprise,
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Speaker 1: but pretty cool and done. I'm actually pretty surprised, not surprised,
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Speaker 1: delighted about that. James Gunn says, if Zaslov wasn't um
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Speaker 1: excited about it, he wouldn't be doing this. So hopefully
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Speaker 1: that's good news. Uh Okay, I know we're done with
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Speaker 1: that news story, but having worked for David Zaslov, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna say James Gunn was being very very kind in
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Speaker 1: saying that David Zaslov clearly has a deep appreciation for
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Speaker 1: this i P and that that's why this is going forward.
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Speaker 1: I would argue David Zaslov sees the d C i
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Speaker 1: P as being profitable just like the Harry Potter i P.
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Speaker 1: And that's why he wants it, because he's trying to
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Speaker 1: get the company out of a very deep debt pit.
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Speaker 1: I get that, and I don't want to disqualify any
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Speaker 1: of your past experiences. In my like little brain, I'd
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Speaker 1: hope there would be at least a little bit of
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Speaker 1: h he also enjoys d C, even if it doesn't
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Speaker 1: actually factor in. Um, I hope, I hope. So I
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Speaker 1: would just not be surprised to learn that that is
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Speaker 1: fair enough. We'll move on, Okay, Okay, yeah, no, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a good valid point you have having worked for
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Speaker 1: him before. All right, So we are first actual news story, UM,
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Speaker 1: which I don't know if we're going to talk much
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Speaker 1: over thirty seconds about it except for now I probably
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Speaker 1: already have, is that we have a trailer for z Utopia. Plus.
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Speaker 1: I'm especially delighted by this because last week I thought
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Speaker 1: we had a trailer first Utopia. Plus, I could have
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Speaker 1: sworn that Disney had released something, and then when we
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Speaker 1: went to look for the link, it wasn't there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it may very well be that Disney prematurely posted
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Speaker 1: the trailer, because there were there were dozens of YouTube
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Speaker 1: channels out there that had footage from this trailer that
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Speaker 1: we have watched for this episode. They had the footage,
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Speaker 1: so clearly something got released, and so there were lots
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Speaker 1: of fan made trailers. And I used that phrase loosely. Uh,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of YouTube channels out there that
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Speaker 1: attempt to cash in on popular I p by just
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Speaker 1: doing like a hatchet job edit. And that was the
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Speaker 1: case of the Utopia stuff we saw. There was one
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Speaker 1: that had the worst voice over I've ever heard to
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Speaker 1: attached to a trailer, to the point where I was like,
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Speaker 1: how did Disney even release this? And the answer was
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Speaker 1: they didn't. But now whatever happened originally, whether the trailer
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Speaker 1: was accidentally published early and then pulled, we have it
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Speaker 1: and it looks cute. It's a so the series. Each
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Speaker 1: series episode in the series looks like it's a focusing
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Speaker 1: on a different character slash scenario, and the one I'm
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Speaker 1: really looking forward to, of course, is the one with
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Speaker 1: the slots. Yeah. Yeah, I honestly did not, and maybe
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Speaker 1: they announced it and I just missed it, But I
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Speaker 1: did not expect them to go the anthology route with this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah no, I didn't either. That was I just thought
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Speaker 1: it was going to be a episodic series. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited about the Godfather of the bride
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Speaker 1: um because that was one of my favorite pop culture
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Speaker 1: references in c Utopia. Did you enjoy the movie? I did? I? Well,
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Speaker 1: I go back and forth because some of the underlying
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Speaker 1: messages in that film I struggle with It's kind of
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Speaker 1: similar to how I feel about wreck ittt Ralph in that. Uh.
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Speaker 1: These are movies where if I think critically about about
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Speaker 1: the story, I come up with things where I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I assumed this isn't what they intended, but this is
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Speaker 1: how I'm inferring the meaning behind this particular story, and
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Speaker 1: I have a deep disagreement with the point of view.
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Speaker 1: That being said, I thought the performances were great. I
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Speaker 1: thought the animation was great. I was charmed by it
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Speaker 1: um so, and I actually kind of like the Shakira
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Speaker 1: song at the end, so I was is it. Yes, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a there are a bunch of like Disney um
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Speaker 1: during the pandemic. There are a bunch of like Disney
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Speaker 1: Zoomba or hit workouts that popped up on YouTube for free.
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Speaker 1: They're still there if you want to try them out
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Speaker 1: in your house. Uh. And that Shakira song was very
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Speaker 1: popular among them. So yeah, it's a It's a good
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Speaker 1: fun one to pop along to. Our next story is
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Speaker 1: the rumor is that Doctor Who under Disney Plus, Because
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Speaker 1: now we know that Disney Plus is going to be
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Speaker 1: streaming Doctor Who is going to end up getting a
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Speaker 1: bit of a budget boost. This was based off an
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Speaker 1: article in The Merry Sue, And honestly, I don't know
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Speaker 1: how accurate that that that suggestion is, that that guess
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Speaker 1: is right, because I don't know how much the streaming
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Speaker 1: side of things is going to play into the broadcast
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Speaker 1: side of things. Because the assumption that the Mary Sue
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Speaker 1: article makes is that because Disney Plus tends to have
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Speaker 1: these higher production value series, that we're going to see
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Speaker 1: a triple the budget boost for Dr Who. And then
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Speaker 1: there's the question of whether or not that's a good thing,
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Speaker 1: because Doctor Who, as an English production, has a very
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Speaker 1: long history of working doing a lot with the smallest
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Speaker 1: of budgets. So that's true, they're like compared to the
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Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars at something like Rings of
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Speaker 1: Power cost which per episode, which the Mary Sue kind
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Speaker 1: of pends. But I'm at three episodes in and I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of enjoying it, honestly. You know, Doctor Who is
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Speaker 1: only like one to three million pounds per episode. Now,
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Speaker 1: I do feel like I've heard stories and obviously I
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Speaker 1: can't corroborate them that, like the actors are a little
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Speaker 1: bit run ragged because they have to run over all
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Speaker 1: over these like practical sets because you know, low budgets
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Speaker 1: and whatever. I feel like in the past few years,
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Speaker 1: doctor who has upped their budgets, um, their effects have
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Speaker 1: gotten better. It's gotten a little bit away from that
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Speaker 1: BBC direct feel, which like my my husband doesn't actually
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Speaker 1: like watching BBC shows because there's something about the video
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Speaker 1: or sound quality that just he's always like, that is
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Speaker 1: a BBC show and he can't get past it. Well, yeah,
11:39
Speaker 1: especially like if you're looking at stuff from the seventies
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Speaker 1: and eighties, it has an extremely cheap quality to it,
11:46
Speaker 1: and like, you know, anything that was sci fi related,
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Speaker 1: and the Brits love sci fi, Like there were a
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Speaker 1: lot of British sci fi shows. But if you look
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Speaker 1: at any British sci fi show that has any sort
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Speaker 1: of alien that isn't just a slightly altered human, they
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Speaker 1: all look like giant rubber suits. But I know that, Like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: So for even for shows that are now kind of
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Speaker 1: under Disney's umbrella that are not necessarily on Disney Plus itself,
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Speaker 1: so like X type shows or Hulu shows for instance,
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Speaker 1: Always Sunny in Philadelphia also had Disney poor and money
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Speaker 1: in the budget where they needed it to make it quality. Uh.
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Speaker 1: They put a monkey into an episode of the latest
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Speaker 1: season I've Always Sunny in Philadelphia and um because people
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Speaker 1: don't want to use monkey actors anymore. It was C
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Speaker 1: g I and Disney paid for that so that it
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Speaker 1: would be like, I couldn't tell it was a really
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Speaker 1: good C g I monkey. So if they can do
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Speaker 1: that for Always Sunny in Philadelphia, surely they can do
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Speaker 1: that for Disney or for dry What were you going
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Speaker 1: to say, So, are you sure it was a monkey
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Speaker 1: or was it just Charlie Day? Oh, it was certainly
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Speaker 1: a monkey, because sometimes the monkey and Charlie Day would
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Speaker 1: be on the screen at the same time. Uh. I
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Speaker 1: don't think he can split himself into two and they
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Speaker 1: would be like it wasn't a mirror either. Did that
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Speaker 1: splits green thing? You know, like parent trap style? Uh No,
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Speaker 1: I'm just teasing. Obviously. Well we'll we'll see if in
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Speaker 1: fact we do get more money poured into Doctor Who
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Speaker 1: and whether or not that will change things. I can't
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Speaker 1: see it changing the tone of the show, especially with
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Speaker 1: Russell T. Davies coming back. And I know there's some
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Speaker 1: people who worry because any change to something that's beloved
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Speaker 1: is often viewed with anxiety, that kind of anticipation. That's true,
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Speaker 1: but I mean like things like the foundation of the show,
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Speaker 1: Like that's different than changing. Oh, this doctor has a
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Speaker 1: slightly different level of quirkiness to him or her or them. Um,
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Speaker 1: So you know, well, we'll have to we'll have to see.
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Speaker 1: I'll have to see. Maybe you'll watch it if it's
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Speaker 1: on Disney. Plus, I'm looking forward to seeing what they do. Also,
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Speaker 1: something that I am looking forward to m I was
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Speaker 1: an and I wasn't and now I am again, which
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Speaker 1: is the gameral Germo del Toro Pinocchio. Um. When we
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Speaker 1: first heard about it, I was so excited because he
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Speaker 1: kind of used Pinocchio as like a Frankenstein type story.
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Speaker 1: And then the first trailer came out and it looked cute,
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Speaker 1: and that was about it. We'll see. I remember seeing
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Speaker 1: the teaser and thinking it looked a little creepy to me,
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Speaker 1: which didn't really surprise me too much because Yeamo del
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Speaker 1: Toro is also known for being a big horror fan.
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Speaker 1: But I was like, why are you making a horror
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Speaker 1: movie version of Pinocchio? But now we've got a longer
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Speaker 1: form trailer and it's left me thinking either one I'm
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Speaker 1: misremembering the teaser, or whoever cut the teaser together did
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Speaker 1: so in a way that that gave me the wrong
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Speaker 1: impression of what this film is going to be, because
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Speaker 1: the new full trailer really makes it look like a
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Speaker 1: sweet adaptation of Pinocchio. Oh that's so interesting, because when
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Speaker 1: I watched the teaser or the first trailer, I don't
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Speaker 1: know which way it was, I was like, okay, this,
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Speaker 1: I expected something that was Pinocchio but a little scary.
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Speaker 1: And if you think I think there are some scary
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Speaker 1: aspects behind the Pinocchio story, there there are some scary
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Speaker 1: through lines in it. I thought it was gonna be
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Speaker 1: much scarier than it looked, and this new trailer makes
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Speaker 1: it look a little bit more of like that creepy
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Speaker 1: um not Pans Labyrinthe isn't horror because Pan's Labyrinthe is
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Speaker 1: scary and hard, but kind of just that level of
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Speaker 1: like step away from reality, which is a weird thing
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Speaker 1: to say about, like a c G I clamation whatnot story,
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks a little bit more um Pan's
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Speaker 1: Labyrinthe mirror mask to me now, unless of just like,
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Speaker 1: oh sweet story, So it's interesting that you feel off
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Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, yeah, it is interesting we have these
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Speaker 1: kind of opposite takes on this. Uh. I also want
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Speaker 1: to say that I don't know about you, arial but
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Speaker 1: to me, this looks about a billion times more appealing
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Speaker 1: than the recent Disney Live action adaptation of their Pinocchio.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, um you know what. I have said
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Speaker 1: that we need another Pinocchio story. No, because we get
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Speaker 1: one like every three years. But I will probably watch
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Speaker 1: this and I will probably enjoy it. Now. See, if
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Speaker 1: Giammo del Toro had cast Benicio del Toro as Pinocchio,
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Speaker 1: you would you would have to pry me away from
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Speaker 1: the movie theater because I would just be there to
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Speaker 1: see every showing, just just because why is someone so
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Speaker 1: old playing Pinocchio? It's because he'll flip you. He'll flip
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Speaker 1: you for real. It's a usual Suspects reference. I get,
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Speaker 1: you know, I guess. I guess he could play Geppetto.
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Speaker 1: He'd be better as a Geppetto. He's not quite old enough,
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Speaker 1: but you can make him as a as the cricket, like,
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Speaker 1: but then the cricket would steal the show. Jimney isn't
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Speaker 1: supposed to steal the show. I'm okay, all right, Well
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Speaker 1: you know what, maybe that's it. Maybe the next version
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Speaker 1: of Pinocchio is going to follow the point the view
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Speaker 1: of a totally different character, and we'll get a story
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Speaker 1: completely from Jiminy Crickets perspective, from starting from the point
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Speaker 1: where he's like resultful of being given the burden of
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Speaker 1: having to be the conscience of this wooden boy like
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Speaker 1: in the original story, he gets Pinocchio kills him and
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Speaker 1: then feels bad about Well, I am So your final
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Speaker 1: question for you, Ariel, are you planning on will you
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Speaker 1: watch this? Will you watch this version of Pinocchio? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna watch it. It's gonna happen. I might
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Speaker 1: even have like my nieces, my niece and nephews over
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Speaker 1: to watch it with me. What about you, I probably
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Speaker 1: ain't gonna watch it. It's it's definitely it definitely, like
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Speaker 1: I said, caught my attention way more than the live
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Speaker 1: action Disney version of the story. Uh. Something else that
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Speaker 1: we're curious about and that Ariel probably isn't going to
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Speaker 1: watch because she lacks the streaming service for it is Spirited,
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Speaker 1: which we we talked about last week, but they keep
17:59
Speaker 1: putting out more promotional material for this twisted take on
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Speaker 1: a Christmas Carol, and um, why don't you talk about Ariel? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so this latest video and is I don't even know
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Speaker 1: if Spirit is already out or not, Like they say,
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Speaker 1: watch it on Apple TV, which I don't have Apple
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Speaker 1: TV yet. I will, but right now I'm paying for
18:19
Speaker 1: dropout and so I've got to get rid of another
18:23
Speaker 1: streaming service before I buy another streaming service. But that
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Speaker 1: being said, uh, this like one they're they're doing a
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Speaker 1: lot of kind of like a free Guy, just a
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Speaker 1: lot of um because Bryan Reynolds, of course of like
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Speaker 1: small little skits around the movie and this one, this
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Speaker 1: latest one, or at least as of putting it on
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Speaker 1: our lineup like it's it's kind of Ryan Reynolds being
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Speaker 1: super down about it, almost like nagging the movie, like oh,
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Speaker 1: they're expecting Elf and they're going to be disappointed, and
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Speaker 1: Will fare was like, no, no, no, they're not going
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Speaker 1: to be disappointed. And then Ryan Reynolds is like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it's just us singing and we don't even sing well,
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Speaker 1: and Will Ferrell's like, come on, dude, which I mean
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Speaker 1: fits with the characters. That we know that they're going
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Speaker 1: to be playing in the movie. I just thought it
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Speaker 1: was an interesting um marketing tactic. And there was some
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Speaker 1: article I read where I finally learned what what Ryan
19:18
Speaker 1: Reynolds is, uh Scrooge like nature is in this movie?
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Speaker 1: Do you happen to know now, Ariel? What? What? Why
19:28
Speaker 1: the ghosts have chosen him to visit that night because
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Speaker 1: they all are fans of Ryan Reynolds. No, no, you
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Speaker 1: know their their whole goal is for redemption. Do you
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Speaker 1: know what? He has to be redeemed from being Ryan
19:43
Speaker 1: Reynolds kind of he's a troll on the internet. Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Yeah I read that. I was like, it's because he
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Speaker 1: apparently his character. This was from an interview I saw
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Reynolds where he talks about how his character
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Speaker 1: enjoys causing chaos, uh mainly online and stirring up stuff
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Speaker 1: and and making other people have to deal with it.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I mean, but also like, uh, there
20:19
Speaker 1: were there was I don't remember the name of the podcast,
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Speaker 1: but it happened I want to say, shortly before pandemic.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's still happening, where there was this guy who
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Speaker 1: has some views that you know, not everybody likes it.
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Speaker 1: Her podcasts, Uh decided that he was going to make
20:34
Speaker 1: a podcast about anybody who wrote him and said like
20:37
Speaker 1: disparaging things about him. He was going to set up
20:39
Speaker 1: like an in person or phone call conversation and talk
20:42
Speaker 1: with them. And just the level of non realization people
20:46
Speaker 1: had about being mean and hurtful on the Internet because
20:49
Speaker 1: they were separated from that human interaction was a real thing.
20:53
Speaker 1: He often ended up getting apologies from those people, going, man,
20:56
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about how this was affecting a
20:58
Speaker 1: real person. Um, So, like, it's definitely an issue people
21:03
Speaker 1: have dealt with, and you know something people should be
21:07
Speaker 1: cautious about. Sure, for me, it's maybe it's because I
21:11
Speaker 1: cover this uh in my day job. And so I
21:15
Speaker 1: just I've I've seen so many of these stories over
21:21
Speaker 1: and over again that to get a Christmas Carol version,
21:24
Speaker 1: I'm just like, great, But hey, who knows, maybe the
21:30
Speaker 1: maybe the execution will be incredibly entertaining. I mean, it's
21:35
Speaker 1: clear that they put a lot of effort behind this production.
21:40
Speaker 1: So and I think I remember reading one headline that
21:42
Speaker 1: said it's essentially a Broadway musical on screen. I mean
21:46
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. Um you know, even
21:49
Speaker 1: though I wasn't a huge fan of ELF, I I
21:53
Speaker 1: liked Will Ferrell playing a nice character in it. So
21:57
Speaker 1: so yeah, so we'll see. Maybe I'll get Apple TV
22:00
Speaker 1: before Christmas and I'll watch it. But if not, you
22:03
Speaker 1: and I can just always watch a Christmas Carol for Netflix, Jonathan, Yeah,
22:08
Speaker 1: the animated one. Yeah. So uh the title I gave
22:11
Speaker 1: this the story is a trailer for a new animated
22:16
Speaker 1: version of a Christmas Carol for Netflix. And you couldn't
22:18
Speaker 1: pay me to watch it? Okay, well then you can
22:21
Speaker 1: watch it for free. I just let me tell you so.
22:27
Speaker 1: So I'll start off by saying it doesn't look bad,
22:33
Speaker 1: all right, I'll start with that. It doesn't look bad,
22:36
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look good either. It looks like a
22:40
Speaker 1: very straight down the middle, milk toast musical adaptation of
22:45
Speaker 1: a Christmas Carol, which we have seen a billion times.
22:49
Speaker 1: There's nothing that looks particularly creative about it. I don't
22:54
Speaker 1: really like the character designed for Scrooge. He looks a
22:58
Speaker 1: little too hale and hardy for my days. But um,
23:02
Speaker 1: you know, it's not quite a professional wrestler in his
23:06
Speaker 1: decline mode, but it's not far off and I don't
23:10
Speaker 1: know it. Just I saw it. I was like, yeah, man,
23:14
Speaker 1: there's so many different versions of a Christmas Carol that
23:17
Speaker 1: are easily available for viewing. I don't know why anyone
23:21
Speaker 1: would bother with this one. I mean, I get it.
23:26
Speaker 1: There are some new songs, and so the animation style
23:29
Speaker 1: kind of looks very Rise of the Guardians to me.
23:31
Speaker 1: I did not have time to to see if it's
23:33
Speaker 1: the same group. Um Also, Hardy Inhale, I want to
23:37
Speaker 1: start a restaurant that's called Hardy Inhale or Hale and Hardy.
23:42
Speaker 1: It was at this point, dear listener, that aerials power flickered.
23:48
Speaker 1: She did get a little bit more in, but it
23:49
Speaker 1: didn't catch on the recording where she mentioned that her
23:53
Speaker 1: Hardy and Hale restaurant would be Hail h a I
23:56
Speaker 1: l and they would be selling cold stews. And I said,
24:00
Speaker 1: maybe you should make it Hardy and Kale, and then
24:02
Speaker 1: she said that's a much better idea. But that's kind
24:05
Speaker 1: of where things broke down until we were able to
24:08
Speaker 1: re establish communications, which we pretty you too now. Whether
24:12
Speaker 1: or not I like this particular trailer of a Christmas Carol,
24:16
Speaker 1: we now know that Ariel is being visited by spirits
24:20
Speaker 1: because they kicked her off her power grid briefly, so
24:26
Speaker 1: we had a little interruption in recording. But Ariel, what
24:29
Speaker 1: what was your opinion of this trailer? You were kind
24:32
Speaker 1: of talking about it before we we were unceremoniously disconnected.
24:37
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I was going off on a
24:38
Speaker 1: bunny trail for for a restaurant, which is why maybe
24:41
Speaker 1: the spirits were telling me that I needed to get
24:43
Speaker 1: back on track. Um. I I mean, I think it
24:45
Speaker 1: looks cute. I like the animation style. Um, But like you,
24:51
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think it's necessary. But I also feel
24:54
Speaker 1: hypocritical for saying that because a lot of times I
24:57
Speaker 1: do like new versions of a Christmas Carol. So well,
25:00
Speaker 1: and you've been in stage versions of a Christmas Carol
25:03
Speaker 1: so as different characters. Well, let's let's move on. So
25:11
Speaker 1: the Christmas Carol animated film is coming up for Netflix.
25:14
Speaker 1: The trailer is available if you want to watch it.
25:16
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a really cute, family friendly version. And
25:20
Speaker 1: maybe that's the point, right, Maybe this is a way
25:23
Speaker 1: to get audiences into the story who might not watch
25:28
Speaker 1: other versions because they look really dated. Maybe they're paced
25:34
Speaker 1: in a way that doesn't really appeal to younger viewers.
25:38
Speaker 1: So I can see where this would have appeal. It
25:40
Speaker 1: just doesn't work for me because I've seen so many
25:42
Speaker 1: different versions and I have favorites of my own, none
25:46
Speaker 1: of which are the Muppets. Don't at me, shay, Yeah,
25:50
Speaker 1: the Muppets Christmas Carol is not good. It's not my
25:53
Speaker 1: favorite either. I have other friends that would good at
25:55
Speaker 1: before that as well. Um, but we're probably gonna have
25:59
Speaker 1: listeners at us. To you, that's fine. If you like
26:02
Speaker 1: mum bit of Christmas Carol, that's awesome. I was watching
26:04
Speaker 1: him actually the other day, a really old one, and
26:06
Speaker 1: they left out Emmett Outter jug Band Christmas, which is
26:09
Speaker 1: my favorite Muppet Christmas special. I like the John Denver one,
26:13
Speaker 1: but yeah, the Emmett Atter one is really good too. Yeah.
26:15
Speaker 1: John Denver One's not bad. Uh. Something else that doesn't
26:18
Speaker 1: at least look bad is the new trailer for Knives
26:21
Speaker 1: Out Glass Onion. Yeah. So this gave us a little
26:25
Speaker 1: more of a view of what's the premise behind us,
26:30
Speaker 1: which obviously was going to be a murder mystery. That's
26:33
Speaker 1: what we would all expect based upon the first Knives Out,
26:37
Speaker 1: But the premise here is that you've got a bunch
26:40
Speaker 1: of people who are very competitive, but they're friends with
26:43
Speaker 1: one another who are gathering together for a murder mystery weekend.
26:48
Speaker 1: And Ben wa Blanc has been invited to participate as well,
26:52
Speaker 1: even though he's not part of this inner circle of friends. Uh.
26:57
Speaker 1: And the trailer looks really entertained, my favorite being his
27:02
Speaker 1: very quick conversation about the board game Clue. Yes, yes,
27:06
Speaker 1: that was That was delightful. I was thinking that this
27:09
Speaker 1: new Knives out looked a lot like Clue to me,
27:12
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm excited about it. Uh, there's not really
27:15
Speaker 1: much more to say, Like Ben Wabb kind of looks
27:18
Speaker 1: like a fanboy of the person who invited him to
27:20
Speaker 1: the house, which is also delightful, at least from the trailer.
27:23
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll put these notes up on our on
27:27
Speaker 1: our large er joint to colleider dot com sometime between
27:31
Speaker 1: today and Sunday. So if you want to check it
27:33
Speaker 1: out and you don't like Googling, you can check it
27:35
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, just use us as your Google for
27:40
Speaker 1: a very narrow use of Google. Yes. Also, apparently in
27:44
Speaker 1: film news, we're getting Gears of warm War movie and
27:48
Speaker 1: animated series. Yeah, I I could have put this in
27:53
Speaker 1: the thirty seconds or less category honestly because I don't
27:56
Speaker 1: really Yeah, I don't really want us. I'm not gonna
27:59
Speaker 1: get my time rap out again, but I don't really
28:01
Speaker 1: want to spend any time on this. Gears of War
28:04
Speaker 1: is a video game series that's been around forever, and
28:07
Speaker 1: it's really you know, it's like like Army slash Marines
28:12
Speaker 1: type characters fighting against aliens, bug like aliens. It's kind
28:16
Speaker 1: of like Starship Troopers but said on Earth and or Halo,
28:21
Speaker 1: or kind of well, kind of like a little less
28:23
Speaker 1: than like Halo. I'd say more like Starship Troopers and Halo.
28:26
Speaker 1: It's not it's not my cup of te aerial. I
28:28
Speaker 1: tried playing one of these games, could not get into it.
28:31
Speaker 1: It's just not my style of gameplay. So this is
28:34
Speaker 1: one of those things where I'm sure fans of the
28:36
Speaker 1: series will be excited to get mad at how their
28:40
Speaker 1: favorite characters are portrayed in this film an animated series,
28:43
Speaker 1: but I I'm gonna skip it fair enough. Are you
28:48
Speaker 1: a fan of the Witcher? No? Cool? But not because
28:55
Speaker 1: not because I don't like it, but because I have
28:59
Speaker 1: not taken the time to dive into that world. I
29:02
Speaker 1: have The Witcher three, which I think a lot of
29:05
Speaker 1: people consider the best of the computer game series, and
29:09
Speaker 1: I started playing it and it is really good, right,
29:14
Speaker 1: It's like really well done, but it's super deep. You
29:19
Speaker 1: can pick up practically anything, which for someone like me
29:22
Speaker 1: is terrible because I just become a walking inventory of
29:27
Speaker 1: stuff that I worry I might need at some point,
29:30
Speaker 1: and I don't do anything. I sympathize, I sympathize. I've
29:34
Speaker 1: not played any of the Witcher games, though I have
29:36
Speaker 1: watched you know, the series, and there are things I
29:39
Speaker 1: like about it, but it's it's very hard to get
29:41
Speaker 1: into and follow, especially like in the second season, because
29:45
Speaker 1: you have to remember everything from the first season. But mhm.
29:50
Speaker 1: We got a teaser for the Witcher Blood Origins, which
29:54
Speaker 1: looks like a different cast of characters featuring Michelle Yaw
29:58
Speaker 1: and I like anything that she in and it looks
30:01
Speaker 1: good to me. Yeah, you know, the trailer based upon
30:05
Speaker 1: it being called Blood Origins, I'm guessing this is going
30:08
Speaker 1: to kind of take us way back in the history
30:12
Speaker 1: of the world of the Witcher, and we're going to
30:13
Speaker 1: see how like the Witcher race was born, like these
30:20
Speaker 1: mutated humans essentially is what a Witcher is um and
30:24
Speaker 1: that they have a bit of the monster in them.
30:27
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's kind of what this story is about.
30:31
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know much because I watched the trailer
30:34
Speaker 1: and like you, I thought it looked really cool, uh,
30:38
Speaker 1: And I thought that the characters looked interesting, and I
30:41
Speaker 1: didn't really want to dive into more because I didn't
30:45
Speaker 1: want to spoil anything. That being said, I do wonder
30:49
Speaker 1: if my very very very limited exposure to the Witcher
30:54
Speaker 1: world so far will be a strike against me if
30:57
Speaker 1: I try to get into this show. You'll have to
31:00
Speaker 1: let me know. I'll be interested to hear something else
31:04
Speaker 1: that could have gone in thirty seconds or less. Apparently
31:06
Speaker 1: we're getting welcome to dairy TV show that finally has showrunners. Uh.
31:10
Speaker 1: It is a story about how penny Wise the Clown
31:13
Speaker 1: became penny Wise the Clown. I'm sorry, Sarah. I know
31:15
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, and I know you're shaking in
31:17
Speaker 1: your boots because you don't like clos well. I I
31:20
Speaker 1: so we did have to include this in the full
31:23
Speaker 1: lineup because I've got a mash up and it depends
31:26
Speaker 1: upon it. But but also um dairy. You know, Like
31:32
Speaker 1: I was curious about this because I thought, well, in
31:34
Speaker 1: in it, the characters they refer to research they've done
31:43
Speaker 1: that shows that every twenty seven years, this evil force
31:48
Speaker 1: re emerges and causes catastrophe in the dairy region. And
31:57
Speaker 1: so I was kind of interested it, and I thought, well,
32:00
Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna get like an interesting and episodic series
32:05
Speaker 1: where perhaps we can even have different seasons, be different generations.
32:09
Speaker 1: And then with it being said worded as like the
32:13
Speaker 1: history of penny Wise, I thought, I know, it's not
32:17
Speaker 1: really going to be the history of penny Wise, because
32:21
Speaker 1: that is not interesting at all. It's got to be
32:25
Speaker 1: the interest. It's got to be the story about the
32:27
Speaker 1: people who are affected by penny Wise. Because if it's
32:31
Speaker 1: just the history of Pennywise, I'm like, forget it. I
32:33
Speaker 1: don't want to see it. I mean, it might be
32:35
Speaker 1: it might make him like a maleficit level sympathetic character
32:38
Speaker 1: who he's just a monster that feeds on fear and
32:43
Speaker 1: and terrorizes children literally to death. But he's misunderstood. That's
32:48
Speaker 1: the scariest story of all. All right, moving on until
32:52
Speaker 1: we get back to your mashup, Jonathan, which thank you,
32:56
Speaker 1: spiel Steven Spielberg recently said that he does not um
33:01
Speaker 1: or the Ashanta Post that he resents the streaming strategy
33:04
Speaker 1: that Warner Brothers did during the pandemic. Yeah. Yeah, So specifically,
33:10
Speaker 1: he was referencing how when the pandemic set in, Warner
33:14
Speaker 1: Brothers made that big announcement that all the films that
33:18
Speaker 1: it was releasing fore we're going to be released day
33:21
Speaker 1: and date in the theaters and on streaming. And Spielbrigg's
33:25
Speaker 1: point was that filmmakers create films for the big screen,
33:29
Speaker 1: gosh darnet, and that they shouldn't be forced to compromise
33:34
Speaker 1: their vision by having it scrammed onto a teeny tiny
33:37
Speaker 1: television screen, because that's just not that's just not right,
33:41
Speaker 1: That's not the way it was intended. And gosh darn
33:44
Speaker 1: ittt people should feel great about gathering together in a
33:48
Speaker 1: big dark room and all having a communal experience during
33:53
Speaker 1: a pandemic where a respiratory illness can quickly spread through
34:00
Speaker 1: a group of people. Um. Yeah, you might be able
34:03
Speaker 1: to detect from my tone that I respectfully disagree with
34:09
Speaker 1: Mr Spielberg. I acknowledge that it's kind of crappy for
34:14
Speaker 1: a filmmaker who was planning on people consuming their work
34:19
Speaker 1: on the big screen find out that instead people are
34:22
Speaker 1: watching it on TV. I get that that's disappointing. I
34:26
Speaker 1: don't think that that Trump's people not dying. Yeah, I
34:32
Speaker 1: mean I agree, Um, the pandemic was crappy for a
34:35
Speaker 1: lot of people. Man, we've got a lot of stories, Jonathan.
34:39
Speaker 1: We might need to pick it up if we also
34:40
Speaker 1: want to get to your mashup and not keep people
34:42
Speaker 1: on for two hours. Yeah, and by people, she means herself,
34:46
Speaker 1: because time is ticking, all right, we're gonna go through
34:49
Speaker 1: next up. We got quick reaction for the trailer for
34:53
Speaker 1: john Wick four. It got released. We got to see
34:55
Speaker 1: a little bit more, not a whole lot about the story,
34:58
Speaker 1: mostly you know, cool action shots and somewhat vague talk
35:04
Speaker 1: about being at the table and stuff like that. I
35:09
Speaker 1: find the lore of the John Wick series to get
35:11
Speaker 1: increasingly ridiculous with each episode, um to the point where
35:16
Speaker 1: I think everyone in that world now is an assassin.
35:19
Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, Also it's confusing because like in the trailer,
35:23
Speaker 1: he's like, They're like, if we have family at the table,
35:26
Speaker 1: you can get out. I'm like, wasn't that the story
35:28
Speaker 1: of like two or three are or even one even Yeah,
35:37
Speaker 1: it looks like more of the same. So if you
35:39
Speaker 1: really like the John Wick movies, then you know you're
35:42
Speaker 1: probably gonna enjoy this. I personally, I think they're fine.
35:45
Speaker 1: I think they're they're The action scenes are entertaining to watch.
35:48
Speaker 1: I don't understand how two trained assassins who are supposedly
35:53
Speaker 1: at the top of their game can stand six ft
35:56
Speaker 1: apart from each other firing handguns at one another while
35:59
Speaker 1: also holding melee weapons and not hit anything. I don't
36:03
Speaker 1: understand how that happens. Bullet bending it must be. Yeah,
36:07
Speaker 1: they're they're doing what was that movie with Angelina Jolie
36:11
Speaker 1: where you did bend the bullet? But no, never mind,
36:15
Speaker 1: I mean I remember what I don't remember. Yeah, I
36:17
Speaker 1: don't remember either, like had like a one word name
36:20
Speaker 1: like wanted or something. All right, Well, tell me Ariel
36:24
Speaker 1: about Magic Girl Shakespeare. Okay, so Magic Girl Shakespeare. Well
36:29
Speaker 1: that's not the name of the game. I don't think. No,
36:31
Speaker 1: it's not. The game is called this Way Madness Lies.
36:33
Speaker 1: It's an indie game that is a bunch of um
36:37
Speaker 1: high school girls putting on drama that occasionally have to
36:41
Speaker 1: jump into Shakespeare plays to fight the forces of evil.
36:45
Speaker 1: So your magic girls and you put on plays and
36:49
Speaker 1: you fight evil and it kind of looks like Pokemon
36:52
Speaker 1: kind of ish turn based fighting from the screenshots, but
36:57
Speaker 1: the review I've read about it says that it's pretty
37:00
Speaker 1: good at like giving you um interesting fighting opportunities while
37:05
Speaker 1: still letting you feel like you're part of the world
37:07
Speaker 1: and exploring the world. And it's not just one or
37:10
Speaker 1: the other, So it sounds like it's pretty well balanced. Interesting. Yeah,
37:14
Speaker 1: this was one of those news stories that I accidentally
37:18
Speaker 1: did not look at before we started recording, so I
37:21
Speaker 1: literally only had the headline to go from, and I
37:24
Speaker 1: was like, what the heck is a Magic Girl Shakespeare
37:27
Speaker 1: fighting game? But now you're on to download and play it,
37:30
Speaker 1: aren't you. Well yeah, I mean it sounds like it's
37:33
Speaker 1: totally my bag. You want to be a magic Shakespeare Girl. Yes,
37:38
Speaker 1: we have a couple of sad stories to conclude this
37:41
Speaker 1: episode before we go into our mash up. One is
37:44
Speaker 1: that Kevin Conroy, the actor who, perhaps to our listeners,
37:48
Speaker 1: might be best known as the actor who lent his
37:52
Speaker 1: voice as Batman for countless incarnations of the Batman character,
37:59
Speaker 1: and like animation and in games and stuff has passed away,
38:02
Speaker 1: so that's very sad. And another Kevin, Kevin O'Neill, who
38:08
Speaker 1: co created The League of Extraordinary Gentleman with Alan Moore,
38:12
Speaker 1: has also passed away. So two important Kevin's in the
38:18
Speaker 1: geek sphere have have passed on. Well, isn't Leak of
38:22
Speaker 1: Extraordinary Gentleman also d C? Yeah, technically it is. Yeah,
38:27
Speaker 1: it was. I forget what the name of the the
38:31
Speaker 1: branch of d C that it fell under, but yeah,
38:34
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's a sad day for DC. Kevin Conroy
38:37
Speaker 1: was like, I like, leave Extraordinary Gentleman. I haven't read
38:40
Speaker 1: a whole lot of it in the movies have just
38:41
Speaker 1: been okay, um, but I appreciate what like the use
38:46
Speaker 1: of classic monsters. Kevin Conroy was my Batman. He was
38:49
Speaker 1: my favorite batman. I'll say this areal like the League
38:54
Speaker 1: of Extraordinary Gentleman. If anyone out there is interested in
38:56
Speaker 1: reading those graphic novels, just know that the the key
39:00
Speaker 1: phrase in that is graphic, because joy howdy, there are
39:06
Speaker 1: some really rough things that happened in those stories. And uh,
39:14
Speaker 1: I've read it and kind of think like I would
39:17
Speaker 1: have been just fine, not having read it, particularly when
39:21
Speaker 1: you get to Dr Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, It's it's rough,
39:26
Speaker 1: so um so, so just be aware. But yeah, um yeah,
39:31
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I like classical monsters. I'm
39:33
Speaker 1: glad to know that it's rough. The movie wasn't rough.
39:35
Speaker 1: I guess the little bit I've read wasn't rough. The
39:38
Speaker 1: movie was ridiculous. It was the little with Sean Connery.
39:42
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of ridiculous, Yeah, we haven't done a
39:46
Speaker 1: mashup in a little bit, and I just thought I would.
39:48
Speaker 1: I had a little extra time on my hands, so
39:50
Speaker 1: and I had the creative bug bite me. So I
39:53
Speaker 1: asked Ariel if I could do one, and she said yes.
39:56
Speaker 1: So I took two properties to mash together. That's what
40:00
Speaker 1: we do. We take two unrelated things and then say
40:03
Speaker 1: what would happen if you combine them? And you might
40:06
Speaker 1: remember we were talking previously about a series called Pennyworth
40:11
Speaker 1: The Origins of Batman's Butler, which just got that subtitle
40:16
Speaker 1: this most recent season. It had had two seasons on
40:20
Speaker 1: a little watch network called Epics E p I X,
40:24
Speaker 1: and now has moved to HBO Max. And of course
40:28
Speaker 1: it follows the history of Alfred Pennyworth, the man who
40:32
Speaker 1: would become Thomas Wayne's butler and kind of the man
40:37
Speaker 1: behind the keyboard for Bruce Wayne as Batman. And this
40:41
Speaker 1: particular incarnation is supposed to be the historical version of
40:47
Speaker 1: the one that showed up in the series Gotham, which
40:50
Speaker 1: I could not stand that series. So but anyway, that's
40:55
Speaker 1: one and the other. Because we were talking about the
40:58
Speaker 1: the Dairy series of the background on penny Wise, I thought, well,
41:03
Speaker 1: we got Alfred Pennyworth. What happens if I combined that
41:06
Speaker 1: with penny Wise the clown? And so those are the
41:10
Speaker 1: two properties I've decided to put together for my mashup. Yeah.
41:15
Speaker 1: So also when Jonathan asked me if he could do
41:17
Speaker 1: a mashup, and I said, yeah, I won't have time.
41:19
Speaker 1: I do want to write more mashups, you guys, because
41:23
Speaker 1: I love doing that too. I just it's it's been
41:26
Speaker 1: a couple of a couple of crazy months for me.
41:28
Speaker 1: But but I said, yes, of course you should write
41:30
Speaker 1: a mash up. In fact, you should. It is penance
41:33
Speaker 1: you have to pay for sorely misjudging. Are the number
41:37
Speaker 1: of our audience? Oh right? Yeah? Because I found out
41:40
Speaker 1: that we had h I was just off by a
41:42
Speaker 1: couple of zeros. Yeah, we have more like four hundred
41:47
Speaker 1: other than four. So okay, all right, But here's my
41:53
Speaker 1: here's my mashup is called Pennywise, the terrifying story of
41:57
Speaker 1: Batman's butler, Bruce Wayne has a problem. Actually, he has
42:03
Speaker 1: a bunch of them. For example, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you know this, but when Bruce was a kid,
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Speaker 1: his parents were killed during a robbery attempt in a
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Speaker 1: place called crime Alley. And you might say, wow, I
42:16
Speaker 1: don't want to victim blame, but maybe it's a bad
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Speaker 1: idea to take a shortcut down a lane called crime Alley,
42:22
Speaker 1: particularly if you're dressed in a lot of rich folks stuff.
42:26
Speaker 1: And sure, their judgment was at best questionable, but the
42:30
Speaker 1: real blame still has to go to the guy who
42:32
Speaker 1: actually attacked them, Joe Chill or the joker whoever. I'm
42:37
Speaker 1: not sure in this particular fiction who it was. Anyway,
42:41
Speaker 1: that's not the problem. Also, as a consequence, Bruce develops
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Speaker 1: this deep need to seek vengeance on the criminal element
42:48
Speaker 1: in Gotham City, which is, by the way, where we are.
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Speaker 1: If I got to mention that we're in Gotham, so
42:53
Speaker 1: it's crime Alley that's in Gotham City. And when names
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Speaker 1: like these, it's just a matter of time before we
42:58
Speaker 1: get to murder Boulevard or or it sure would be
43:01
Speaker 1: a shame if something happened to your Kneecaps Avenue. But
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Speaker 1: that's not even the problem I'm talking about, Nor is
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Speaker 1: the problem of Bruce figuring out how to scare criminals
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Speaker 1: so that they don't, you know, immediately murder him to death.
43:15
Speaker 1: He figures out that by dressing up like a bat
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Speaker 1: he could scare bad guys, But really he could have
43:21
Speaker 1: dressed up like anything, because I submit to you that
43:24
Speaker 1: a grown ass man dressed as any kind of animal,
43:27
Speaker 1: running and punching and kicking at you is gonna make
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Speaker 1: you just have your tummy clinch in fear. No, Bruce
43:34
Speaker 1: Wayne's current problem, the one that pertains to our story,
43:39
Speaker 1: is his butler, Alfred Pennywise. He's been in the family
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Speaker 1: for generations, or at least one Bruce's parents, Thomas, And
43:48
Speaker 1: why did you say Martha hired Pennywise something like twenty
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Speaker 1: six years ago. Oh, and this version of the story,
43:54
Speaker 1: we're gonna say that Bruce Wayne is like which is
43:57
Speaker 1: young vera batman's story? But I need it for the
43:59
Speaker 1: man to work out anyway. For some reason, Alfred is
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Speaker 1: looking a little bit different from his normal self. For
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Speaker 1: all of Bruce's life, which again is twenty five years,
44:09
Speaker 1: this is important. Alfred has just been a kind of
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Speaker 1: boring old English guy. Sure, there were hints of a
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Speaker 1: more dramatic past that Alfred may at one point and
44:19
Speaker 1: belonged to the Special Air Services of Britain, becoming a
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Speaker 1: decorated Special Forces soldier and leader a paramilitary security expert. Also,
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Speaker 1: he might have crossed paths with an anarchist wearing a
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Speaker 1: guy Fox mask at some point. But honestly, I'm not
44:34
Speaker 1: caught up with Pennyworth, so I don't know if that's
44:36
Speaker 1: really developed yet. But now Pennywise seems a bit more eccentric.
44:42
Speaker 1: For one thing, he's about a foot taller. He has
44:45
Speaker 1: a bulbous head with fluffy red hair all around it.
44:48
Speaker 1: One of his eyes goes all funny, so it's hard
44:50
Speaker 1: to know which one's looking at you. And he drools
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Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, he drew it a lot before,
44:56
Speaker 1: but now his mouth is all fangy. Oh and he's
44:59
Speaker 1: also no longer in his butler uniform. Instead, he wears
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Speaker 1: a clown suit. It's a dramatic enough departure from his
45:05
Speaker 1: normal appearance that even Bruce notices one morning when Pennywise
45:10
Speaker 1: brings him his breakfast, which, once Bruce lifts the close,
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Speaker 1: appears to be a red helium balloon that immediately floats
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Speaker 1: to the ceiling. Bruce decides it's time to dive into this,
45:21
Speaker 1: so Alfred, he says, how are things now? At this point,
45:26
Speaker 1: Alfred smiles an impossibly wide smile, and he opens his mouth,
45:30
Speaker 1: whereupon the top of his head flips back in this
45:32
Speaker 1: intense light begins to shine out, and then he starts
45:35
Speaker 1: to sound like Tim Curry as this voice just comes
45:38
Speaker 1: out of him, saying, we all float down here. Huh,
45:44
Speaker 1: says Bruce Wayne, who gets up and casually strolls to
45:47
Speaker 1: the bat Cave. There, Bruce Wayne does a little research,
45:50
Speaker 1: by which I mean googling, because let's face it, no
45:54
Speaker 1: recent depiction of Batman outside of the comics has managed
45:57
Speaker 1: to show him as an actual detective. And there he
46:00
Speaker 1: finds out that twenty seven years ago, one year before
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Speaker 1: Thomas Wayne hired Alfred, there was this problem in Gotham
46:08
Speaker 1: where all these kids went missing, including Bruce's older sibling,
46:13
Speaker 1: who might have been a brother or a sister, depending
46:16
Speaker 1: on if you're reading the comics or watching the Pennyworth
46:20
Speaker 1: TV show. And Bruce starts researching more, by which I
46:24
Speaker 1: mean he goes to a few Wikipedia articles, and he
46:27
Speaker 1: figures out that the timeline of Pennywise joining the Wayne
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Speaker 1: household came right after all these mysterious disappearances because he
46:35
Speaker 1: does the math, and then he figures that the correlation
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Speaker 1: is the same thing as causation. Everybody knows that it's
46:44
Speaker 1: because he's a really bad detective. Hey, Alfred, says Bruce.
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Speaker 1: Do you have like this crazy cycle that happens every
46:54
Speaker 1: twenty seven years where you become a hideous monster that
46:57
Speaker 1: preys upon children because they feel you're more intensely than adults.
47:02
Speaker 1: And Alfred is like, yes, sorry about that, Master Waine.
47:05
Speaker 1: That does tend to happen. And my father hired you anyway,
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Speaker 1: says Bruce. Honestly it didn't come up in the interview,
47:14
Speaker 1: says Alfred. And then Bruce is like, look, I can't
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Speaker 1: have my butler terrorizing children unless they are villains. If
47:23
Speaker 1: if they are children and villains, I guess it's okay
47:26
Speaker 1: to scare them, because that's kind of my thing when
47:29
Speaker 1: I go after villains, because they are superstitious, cowardly lot.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's the only exception I can make.
47:36
Speaker 1: I understand, Master Wayne, Shall I hand in my notice?
47:38
Speaker 1: Says Alfred. How long does this crazy cycle last? Asks Bruce.
47:44
Speaker 1: About ye Masta Wayne, says Alfred. All right, how about
47:48
Speaker 1: you take a year, hiatus. I'm sure I can figure
47:51
Speaker 1: out how to put on my pants before a year
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Speaker 1: is out, says Bruce. Thank you, masta wine. And you
47:57
Speaker 1: aren't going to come off to me, asks Alfred. Oh no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no, you already have a clown arch nemesis. I
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Speaker 1: can't risk being redundant. Already have to explain my backstory
48:08
Speaker 1: in every single incarnation, and so I'm on thin ice already,
48:13
Speaker 1: says Bruce. Very good, must wine, says Alfred, before I go.
48:17
Speaker 1: Do you know what? We fall? Musta Wayne, so that
48:21
Speaker 1: we can get back up again, says Bruce. No, so
48:24
Speaker 1: we can float. We all float down here, says Alfred,
48:28
Speaker 1: who begins to laugh maniacally credits. I absolutely loved it.
48:33
Speaker 1: Your will our net Batman was spot on, and your
48:38
Speaker 1: Bill Scarce guard anywise was no it was more of
48:42
Speaker 1: the Tim Curry Pennywise. It was great. It wasn't I was.
48:47
Speaker 1: I was searching rouugh for Michael Caine, but I was like,
48:49
Speaker 1: unless I say my Cocaine and Michelcaine, I can't really
48:53
Speaker 1: get it. Oh no, like you're your Alfred was great.
48:56
Speaker 1: It was just when it when it went into penny Wise,
48:57
Speaker 1: because it was a mix of Alfred and penny Wise,
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Speaker 1: which again spot on. It almost sounded a little Sea
49:03
Speaker 1: captain e, which I was delightful. Now that it was delightful. Uh,
49:12
Speaker 1: scary clowns and all. I love that. Thank you see
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Speaker 1: in my bash up. It's good. I didn't write one
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Speaker 1: because it would just be, uh, Pennywise shows up at
49:20
Speaker 1: the Wayne manner Or and Pennyworth just goes nope and
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Speaker 1: closes the door. Yeah, because I thought about putting Pennywise
49:31
Speaker 1: into the story of penny Worth, but then I thought
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Speaker 1: this is going to require me to watch some episodes
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Speaker 1: of Pennyworth and I don't have that kind of time,
49:38
Speaker 1: so I have not done that yet. I did read
49:41
Speaker 1: a synopsis of the stuff that's going on, and I
49:44
Speaker 1: was surprised to find that um that according to the
49:48
Speaker 1: wikis anyway, that the series Pennyworth has within it elements
49:55
Speaker 1: that hint that the Britain you see in Pennyworth is
49:59
Speaker 1: the one that evolves into the Britain that's in V
50:02
Speaker 1: for Vendetta. Oh interesting, Yeah, which is why I had
50:06
Speaker 1: the whole thing about Guy Fox Mask, because apparently Pennyworth
50:11
Speaker 1: is active during the time where there's this fascist faction
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Speaker 1: in the UK that's attempting to get power, and assuming
50:21
Speaker 1: that it becomes the V for Vendetta universe, they eventually succeed.
50:26
Speaker 1: I that almost makes me interested in watching same. Yeah,
50:31
Speaker 1: which in V for Vendetta that's another Alan Moore connection,
50:34
Speaker 1: Alan Moore being the co creator of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
50:37
Speaker 1: So it all comes back around the geek sphere ends
50:40
Speaker 1: up having you know, one degree of separation from everything else.
50:44
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