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Fuller Monster House · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large ner Droun Collider Podcast is a production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hi everybody, Welcome to the Larger ner
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Speaker 1: Dron Collider Podcast, the podcast that's all about gee things
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Speaker 1: happening in the world around us and how excited we
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Speaker 1: are about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as
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Speaker 1: always is geek Boy Jonathan Strickland on the Geek Boy. Hey, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: I got a question for you. All right, Ariel, You've
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Speaker 1: got all the materials, all the skills at your disposal
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Speaker 1: all the time you need to make your dream cosplay.
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Speaker 1: We both have been to Dragon Con many times. Cosplay
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Speaker 1: is a huge part of dry and con. What is
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Speaker 1: your dream cause play? So this is This is difficult
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Speaker 1: because I have many of them, um, but the one
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Speaker 1: that I have yet to see anybody do. So I'm
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Speaker 1: picking this because, like I could say, I want to
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Speaker 1: be a realistic Little Mermaid or I want to be
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Speaker 1: Jessica Rabbit. Those have always been like high on my
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Speaker 1: list of things to play or fem ship from Mass Effect.
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Speaker 1: But the one that I have yet to see anybody
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Speaker 1: do that I would love to love to do is
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Speaker 1: a really well is a female version of the tick?
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Speaker 1: Oh you know what? I don't think I've seen anyone
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Speaker 1: ever play a female version of the tick either, And
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Speaker 1: it's an interesting choice. But you know, since cause players
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Speaker 1: like to role play their characters oftentimes, I just think
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Speaker 1: it would be an awful lot of fun. I can
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Speaker 1: very much relate to the Ticks non sequitors. Sometimes we
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Speaker 1: would have to see if our our mutual friends Sasha
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Speaker 1: would be your Arthur. Oh, that would be amazing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because you and Sasha whenever you're paired together. I mean
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Speaker 1: it's been a while, it has been a while, but
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Speaker 1: and Sasha has gone on to that. Yeah, and Sasha
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Speaker 1: has gone on to do some like phenomenal causeplays. Sasha
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Speaker 1: is just if you've ever seen that picture by picture
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Speaker 1: of tinker Bell next to thorign Oaken shield and it says,
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Speaker 1: this is the same person. That's our friend Sasha, whom
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Speaker 1: we've known for years. Yeah, yeah, I would love to
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Speaker 1: do that with Sasha, but I don't have the skills
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Speaker 1: to actually build that costume, nor all the resources in
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Speaker 1: the world to do so what would be yours? I
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Speaker 1: gave this a lot of thought, and you know, because
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Speaker 1: I like playing bad guys, because you know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: a bad guy, so it's fun to kind of just
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Speaker 1: play pretend. I think I would go uber bad guy,
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Speaker 1: I wanna really cool witch King ring Wraith cost him
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Speaker 1: from Glori of the Right. Yeah, it would. That's so
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Speaker 1: before we started recording, actually, just to peek behind the veil,
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Speaker 1: I gave Arieal a bit of a heads up on
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Speaker 1: this one because I felt like this particular question is
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Speaker 1: one of those where you kind of want to think
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Speaker 1: about it. You know, you just get you get that
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Speaker 1: one dropped on your lap, and your chances are you're
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Speaker 1: going to give an answer and then like twenty minutes later,
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Speaker 1: you're going to say that I hate that answer. So
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Speaker 1: I wanted to give her a little time, and I said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is one of those costumes that if I were
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Speaker 1: wearing it at Dragon Con, if I did have the
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Speaker 1: ability to put it all together, I would probably be
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Speaker 1: stationary because I don't think I would be able to
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Speaker 1: see very well in a which King outfit, and um,
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Speaker 1: i'd be worried about walking into people or falling down
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Speaker 1: an escalator. Worse yet, falling down an up escalator, which
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Speaker 1: means you're just falling forever. It's you. That would be horrible, horrible,
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Speaker 1: you know, I honestly, I changed my mind like three
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Speaker 1: times between the time you gave me time to think
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Speaker 1: about it in the time you actually asked the question
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Speaker 1: during recording. But I mean because I've done a lot
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Speaker 1: of causeplay, and it tends to be things that are
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Speaker 1: easier to do because as much as I love sewing
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Speaker 1: and I love costume design, I'm not actually fantastic at execution.
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Speaker 1: So all of those I would love to read in
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Speaker 1: a better format. And and lately when I've caused played,
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Speaker 1: it's been very closet cause play things like Street Close,
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Speaker 1: Black Widow or Mary Jane on a business day, or
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Speaker 1: you know, stuff that doesn't require specific pieces that are
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Speaker 1: not normally viable at a story. Yeah, the last causeplay
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Speaker 1: I did was kabuky Mask from Big Hero six, the
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Speaker 1: bad guy from Big Hero six. Um. I did that.
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Speaker 1: I had a three D accustomed three D printed mask
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Speaker 1: for that that that I painted up and put reflective
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Speaker 1: lenses inside and everything, So it was it was probably
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Speaker 1: the most involved one I did. And that one was
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Speaker 1: that was off the rack pieces that I just alter
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Speaker 1: slightly because if you've seen Big Hero six, you've seen
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Speaker 1: that kabuky Mask wears a bunch of layers and dragon
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Speaker 1: Con happens in August in Georgia. So yeah, but it
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Speaker 1: looked good. I got to see it. It looked really good.
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Speaker 1: Thank you well. I I hope that we can once
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Speaker 1: again indulge in some cosplay and plus just really enjoy
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Speaker 1: the incredible work that the cosplay community puts into their pieces.
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Speaker 1: It's constantly the highlight of dragon Con for me is
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Speaker 1: just seeing the creative costuming, everything from incredibly accurate replicas
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Speaker 1: of pieces you've seen in film or television or even
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Speaker 1: comic books, up to the crazy, you know, mash ups
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Speaker 1: and offshoots that come up a lot of I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of the spirit of large Nerdon Collator is
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Speaker 1: in those kinds of cosplay. It definitely is. I wonder
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Speaker 1: when we get back to conventions with cosplay, dragon Con specifically,
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Speaker 1: since that's the one right right outside our door, if
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Speaker 1: we're going to get many knives out cosplays. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: an excellent question, because I mean, that's the thing is
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Speaker 1: that one of the interesting bits about cosplay is that
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Speaker 1: we've seen it branched far beyond the fantasy and science
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Speaker 1: fiction and superheroes and horror. It started to go all
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Speaker 1: over the place and in all the areas where people have,
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Speaker 1: you know, a deep fandom for the thing. And the
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Speaker 1: reason you bring out Knives Out is because we've heard
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Speaker 1: about yet another addition to the cast. We talked about
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Speaker 1: Batista being part of the cast. Now we know that
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Speaker 1: Leslie Odom Jr. Is going to be part of the cast.
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Speaker 1: He played uh well, He's been in lots of stuff,
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Speaker 1: but I think of him as Aaron Burr from Hamilton's
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Speaker 1: where he was phenomenal originating that role. I'm going to say,
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Speaker 1: if he's the killer, then that's type casting and not fair.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he accidentally shoots the victim or something. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: we also know that Edward Norton is in the cast,
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Speaker 1: as is Catherine hahn Um. So I mean, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It could have been Yeah, I think it might be
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Speaker 1: Kevin because it was Agatha all along. So really, what
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Speaker 1: you're saying is you expect Knives Out to to be
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Speaker 1: Aaron Burr, the Hulk, Agatha from from One Division and
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Speaker 1: James Bond and James Bond, Daniel Craig all in a
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Speaker 1: room together. Yes. No, I'm just I'm just in dracks
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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to figure out which Janelle Monet character
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Speaker 1: I want to select for this. Yeah, so it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be individual characters. It's going to be all the
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Speaker 1: other characters they've played, Yes, exactly. Also, it'll turn out
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Speaker 1: to be kind of like Clue, where everyone ends up
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Speaker 1: being a killer. Oh spoiler for Clue in case you
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Speaker 1: haven't seen that movie. Jonathan came out in the early eighties.
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Speaker 1: I think I think the Statute of Limitations is done.
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Speaker 1: I've watched it like a thousand times. But I was
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Speaker 1: going to say that you're making me redo my evening plans,
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Speaker 1: but that's not true at all. Well, and I have
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Speaker 1: to say I'm really excited about Knives Out too. I
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Speaker 1: very much enjoyed the first film. I was late to
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Speaker 1: seeing the first movie. I knew that it was. There
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Speaker 1: was a huge amount of buzz around it already by
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Speaker 1: the time I saw it, so I didn't. I was
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Speaker 1: not on that that first, like boat of folks who
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Speaker 1: saw it. I was so lucky that no one spoiled
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Speaker 1: it for me, so I got to go into it
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Speaker 1: and enjoy the mystery for what it was. Although I
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Speaker 1: maintain that if you do watch Knives Out, if you
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Speaker 1: haven't seen it before, I maintained that. I'm I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure most people are going to suss out who the
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Speaker 1: killer is pretty pretty early on. But it was still
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Speaker 1: a very entertaining film. Yes, and and from a storytelling
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Speaker 1: standpoint and an artistic standpoint, there are so many little
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Speaker 1: clues enhants that they put in throughout that's just really fantastic. Um, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: I'm actually going to be a bit of a book,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to change our show order after we
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Speaker 1: decided it, because I really I said, if we're talking
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Speaker 1: about Knives Out, which is a murder mystery, we should
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Speaker 1: then talk about our other true crime murder story. Now,
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Speaker 1: Dear Evan Hanson, got it. I'm sorry, that's what we
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Speaker 1: were supposed to, Okay, Right, So you're you're talking about
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Speaker 1: the the Steve Martin and Martin short series that is
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Speaker 1: coming out on Hulu. Yes, it's called Only Murders in
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Speaker 1: the Building, which took me a bit because that's not
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Speaker 1: really a name that like rolls off the tongue or
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Speaker 1: makes a whole lot of sense. But it's Steve Martin,
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Speaker 1: Martin Short, Amy Ryan and Selena Gomez and they are
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Speaker 1: true crime podcast fans who then decide to solve true crime. Yes,
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Speaker 1: a murderer, or at least a death happens in the
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Speaker 1: apartment building where they all live. They're all strangers to
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Speaker 1: one another except for the fact that they all happened
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Speaker 1: to share this love of true crime podcasts, and a
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Speaker 1: death happens in their building, and collectively they decide that
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Speaker 1: they want to investigate it because they all suspect that
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Speaker 1: the death was in fact a murder um and they
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Speaker 1: want to put the skills they have learned by listening
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Speaker 1: to true crime podcasts to the test. Ariel, I gotta
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Speaker 1: tell you this to me is kind of my nightmare.
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Speaker 1: I've thought it might be, uh, just just because I
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Speaker 1: know that you have feels on true crime pod I do.
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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a podcast producer who works for a
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Speaker 1: company that produces more than a few true crime podcasts.
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Speaker 1: And the thought of fans taken it upon themselves to
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Speaker 1: try and solve crime because of their perceived expertise because
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Speaker 1: they listened to a lot of true crime shows fills
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Speaker 1: me with a terror that is difficult to put into words.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I totally get it. That being said, the
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Speaker 1: trailer is so adorable, like so Steve, Steve Martin and
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Speaker 1: Martin Short. Oftentimes they're both comedic, comedically brilliant in many ways,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of times, especially like when they rehash
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Speaker 1: old characters on S and L or whatnot, they're so
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Speaker 1: over the top. To me, they're just very very large,
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Speaker 1: and so I was worried that watching this trailer they
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Speaker 1: would both be very very large. Um, and they're they're big,
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Speaker 1: but they're not unbearably big. And then you've got Selena
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Speaker 1: Gomez coming in is just this straight man like, very
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Speaker 1: wry sort of personality that balanced it out really well
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Speaker 1: in the trailer. I didn't expect to. I had to
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Speaker 1: watch the trailer, but I didn't expect to want to
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Speaker 1: watch the show. Now, I agree with you, Like you know,
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Speaker 1: when I think of Steve Martin and Martin Short together,
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Speaker 1: my thoughts immediately go to the Three Amigos, um but
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Speaker 1: which is great, fantastic, I love it. But yeah, as
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Speaker 1: you say, like the performances in that film are not
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Speaker 1: at all subtle. They're not supposed to be. That's not
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Speaker 1: the kind of movie it is. We By the way,
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Speaker 1: fun fact, if you go back through our old YouTube videos,
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Speaker 1: there's one of our YouTube videos where we heavily reference
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Speaker 1: the Three Amigos when we talk about the seven Sons
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Speaker 1: of the Seven Samurai. But yeah, like I'm the same way.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what to expect, but everyone, like Steve Martin,
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Speaker 1: especially in the past few years, has turned in some
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Speaker 1: performances that are much more nuanced and subtle. Like he's
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Speaker 1: not the wild and crazy guy at the seventies or
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Speaker 1: the zany comedy guy of the eighties. Uh. He still
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Speaker 1: has that incredible since a humor, but it's channeled in
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Speaker 1: a different way now. Yeah. Yeah, I would definitely say
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Speaker 1: that he's the more mild of the two. Uh, Martin's yes,
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Speaker 1: the Steve Martin short, Yes, Steve Martin short, Martin Steve
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Speaker 1: Martin Short. Okay, So speaking of nuanced performances, Yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be a fun conversation. We're about to get
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Speaker 1: into year. Um yeah we wanted so we do. Do
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Speaker 1: want to talk about Dear Evan Hanson because the trailer
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Speaker 1: for the movie adaptation of the Broadway show launched the
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Speaker 1: day we're recording this, which is one and it surprised
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Speaker 1: me because despite the fact that I'm on a show
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Speaker 1: where we cover entertainment news, I wasn't aware that there
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Speaker 1: was a musical version of this coming out, Like I
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Speaker 1: had heard that it was happening, but it completely fell
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Speaker 1: off my radar because it was just the beginning stages
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Speaker 1: last I personally picked up on it. Well. It surprised
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Speaker 1: me also that you know, they actually cast the actor
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Speaker 1: who played the character of Evan Hansen in the Broadway
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Speaker 1: stage show as that character in the film, which, on
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Speaker 1: one hand, is a neat thing because you very rarely
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Speaker 1: see that, right. We usually see Hollywood actors who end
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Speaker 1: up getting cast in these roles and maybe, if you're lucky,
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Speaker 1: they can sing. But in this case, we're seeing the
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Speaker 1: actual person who originated the part on Broadway doing the
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Speaker 1: role on the screen. That doesn't always work out. Rent
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Speaker 1: was a disaster, but um, but we're hopeful on this one. However,
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Speaker 1: it does bring up an issue that the Internet has
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Speaker 1: more than jumped all over, yeah, which is the fact
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Speaker 1: that Ben Platt is seven, which you know, it's not
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Speaker 1: always an issue in Hollywood. They are constantly people being
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Speaker 1: in their best Yeah, And we should point out Evan Hanson. Dear.
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Speaker 1: Evan Hanson's is a story that's set in like mostly
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Speaker 1: in a high school with the main character feeling like
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Speaker 1: an outcast at that high school, and he has a
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Speaker 1: couple of encounters with a similar outcast in that school,
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Speaker 1: and it appears that the two of them from the
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Speaker 1: outside like people who are just casually looking. It looks
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Speaker 1: like the two of them formed a friendship. Then this
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Speaker 1: other person, Connor to makes his own life, and that
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Speaker 1: appearance of a friendship becomes uh kind of a lie
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Speaker 1: that people just start to believe, and Evan is sort
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Speaker 1: of wrapped up in it. Um. The story gets much
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Speaker 1: more complicated from there, but the point being that you've
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Speaker 1: got an actor in his late twenties playing a teenager,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people started sharing memes, especially of
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Speaker 1: the Steve Boosimi like you know what's up, young people?
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Speaker 1: Fellow young people that kind of meme as a joke
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Speaker 1: about being Evan Hanson. All of the kids are in
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Speaker 1: their twenties, so a Lana Back, Zoe Murphy, Connor Murphy,
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Speaker 1: Jared Kleinent. They're all in their twenties between twenty two
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Speaker 1: and twenty six. So Ben Platt playing Evan Hanson is
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Speaker 1: not so far off, but he looks way older than
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Speaker 1: that he does, and so I feel weird about this
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Speaker 1: areal And the reason why is because every film depends
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Speaker 1: upon a suspension of disbelief. Right, you have to suspend
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Speaker 1: disbelief because you know, this is a movie. People showed
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Speaker 1: up to set, there was entering, there were lights, there
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Speaker 1: were crew that are not in view. If the movie
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Speaker 1: is done properly, like like like you know, it's all artifice,
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Speaker 1: so you already have to buy into it. Now it
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Speaker 1: is asking you more to buy into it. When an
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Speaker 1: actor is the wrong age to play a character quote
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Speaker 1: unquote wrong age, it's a little easier, I would argue, uh,
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Speaker 1: when you go to see a stage production, because then
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Speaker 1: you're having to suspend your disbelief even more because you
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Speaker 1: can just look around and see that you know, you're
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Speaker 1: not really you know wherever um. But I also like
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Speaker 1: I get it where like you know, you're you're you're
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Speaker 1: feeling a disconnect between the uh, the appearance of an
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Speaker 1: actor and the supposed age of the character they're playing.
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Speaker 1: But there are a lot of shows out there that
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Speaker 1: have adults playing children and that's part of the show,
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Speaker 1: like like annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is that way
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Speaker 1: you're a good man? Charlie Brown is that way. So
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Speaker 1: I guess it just depends on intent and the way
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Speaker 1: it's portrayed. But I'm not feeling a mental block here,
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Speaker 1: I guess, is what I'm saying. Me neither. So like
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Speaker 1: if you look at the movie Eighth Grade, where they
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Speaker 1: used actual eighth graders, if they had used high schoolers
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Speaker 1: and then put Ben Platt into that environment, I would
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Speaker 1: have felt real creepy about that. But because they've cast
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Speaker 1: everyone older, you know, you can kind of just age
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Speaker 1: up in your brain. I know that as I get older,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not old by any means, but as I
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Speaker 1: get older, all of a sudden, people my age look
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Speaker 1: younger to me. So well, and I think about things
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Speaker 1: like you know, like you said, it's not a new
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Speaker 1: thing to cast adults as teenagers. Like the television series
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Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampires Slayer, every single one of the principal actors,
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Speaker 1: we're playing characters several years younger than themselves, sometimes like
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Speaker 1: a decade younger than themselves, So it's not an unusual thing. Um,
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Speaker 1: I do get like the initial knee jerk reaction, It's
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Speaker 1: not a big deal to me. I can get past it. Also,
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Speaker 1: Like I think part of it's also that I kind
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Speaker 1: of wanted to see Dear Evan Hanson when it was
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Speaker 1: originally running on Broadway. But it's one of those things
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Speaker 1: where like it's tough to see a show with its
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Speaker 1: original cast. I mean, there's it's just it's an exclusive thing, right,
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Speaker 1: So this is a chance to see the the guy
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Speaker 1: who originated the part do it again. And when else
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Speaker 1: am I going to get a chance to see that?
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Speaker 1: I agree? You know, I think I was going to
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Speaker 1: say they could have done it because you run into
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Speaker 1: work issues like how much time a kid can be
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Speaker 1: on set if they're under eighteen. But I really think
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Speaker 1: they did it so that people could see Ben Platt
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Speaker 1: as Evan Hanson, which you know, when I listened to
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Speaker 1: the soundtrack, that's who I love singing it. So I'm
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Speaker 1: also quite excited. I'm I'm not having any hang ups.
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Speaker 1: So he does look a little old to me, but
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Speaker 1: I do know, I I agree, I agree. Well, you
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Speaker 1: know what, Ariel, I think what we should do is
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Speaker 1: take a rake and when we come back, we'll talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit about some interesting mergers that are coming up,
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Speaker 1: and then segue into some situational comedic conversation. Okay, Ariel
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Speaker 1: so there are a couple of stories here that get
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Speaker 1: into the realm of one of the other shows. We
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Speaker 1: used to do Business on the Brink, where we would
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Speaker 1: talk about like some big, big, big moments in business
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Speaker 1: history that either led to incredible success or monumental failure.
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Speaker 1: And we've got a couple of stories that could be
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Speaker 1: like a turning point, um. And one of them is
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Speaker 1: that Amazon is rumored to be on the prowl to
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Speaker 1: pick up MGM, the one of the oldest movie production
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Speaker 1: companies ever, which has had numerous financial difficulties throughout its
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Speaker 1: very long history. Mm hmm, yeah, which, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I get it. The interesting thing to me is along
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Speaker 1: with MGM comes things like getting the movie Fargo, but
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Speaker 1: the Fargo television show is on Hulu, which is owned
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Speaker 1: by Disney. So but they get like the James Bond
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Speaker 1: series that's got to be worth something, Hobbit, Rocky, RoboCop.
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Speaker 1: I'm just reading through the list here, Get Shorty, which
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Speaker 1: is probably not a show a movie that like half
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Speaker 1: our audience has ever seen, but it's I saw it
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Speaker 1: in the theater. Yeah, So yeah, it's it's really interesting, um,
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Speaker 1: because as these big mergers happen, they kind of start
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Speaker 1: overlapping in my brain. But at the same time, like
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Speaker 1: I so, it feels a bit incestuous, and I get
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Speaker 1: I have a hard time keeping them all straight. But
20:56
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm like, Okay, merge because aready
21:00
Speaker 1: have Amazon primes, so it'll just open up my options.
21:06
Speaker 1: When I think of MGM areal, the two things that
21:08
Speaker 1: come to my mind are the original name for Disney
21:12
Speaker 1: Hollywood Studios, Disney's MGM Studios, Yes, which I still call
21:17
Speaker 1: it that so do I, which I'm sure irritates cast
21:20
Speaker 1: members like crazy, but you know that it was burned
21:24
Speaker 1: into my brain as a kid. But the other thing
21:27
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest movies of all time. And
21:29
Speaker 1: I'm not this isn't me being like flippant, but Wizard
21:32
Speaker 1: of Oz was an MGM film like that is that
21:37
Speaker 1: is truly an iconic movie. So it's interesting, Like I think,
21:42
Speaker 1: I look at MGM as a business and I think, yeah,
21:44
Speaker 1: that that's a company that's really it's really struggling. I mean,
21:48
Speaker 1: we would call it a business on the brink, and um,
21:52
Speaker 1: it's only companies like massive companies like Amazon that would
21:55
Speaker 1: be able to come in and potentially scoop up those
21:59
Speaker 1: ass and maybe make something out of it. You know,
22:03
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect Amazon to just you know, liquidate everything.
22:07
Speaker 1: They would do something with it. What they would do
22:10
Speaker 1: with it is another question. But you alluded to the
22:13
Speaker 1: fact that it's hard to keep these things straight. It's
22:16
Speaker 1: not getting any easier because this is not the only
22:19
Speaker 1: merger story we have. No Warner Media is apparently being
22:25
Speaker 1: sold by A T and T and getting picked up
22:27
Speaker 1: by Discovery, which hurts my head a little. Me too.
22:30
Speaker 1: I used to work for Discovery, so it hurts my
22:33
Speaker 1: head too. Um yeah, So A T n D is
22:36
Speaker 1: looking to spend off Warner Media and have it merge
22:40
Speaker 1: with Discovery, which is all sorts of strange to me.
22:43
Speaker 1: I mean, in some ways, I think it's a good
22:46
Speaker 1: thing because A T and D is, you know, a
22:50
Speaker 1: telecommunications company, so they're in charge of making sure the
22:54
Speaker 1: connections exist between different entities. And then Warner Media is
22:58
Speaker 1: a content company, and I don't really like it when
23:02
Speaker 1: content and delivery are merged together. That's why I really
23:06
Speaker 1: don't care for the the Comcast, NBC Universal massive conglomerate
23:13
Speaker 1: I find, because that that's the kind of stuff that
23:15
Speaker 1: ends up threatening things like net neutrality, so I'm not
23:18
Speaker 1: a big fan of it. But yeah, so the part
23:20
Speaker 1: about them spending off Warner Media in order to focus
23:23
Speaker 1: solely on telecommunications and have Warner Media focused solely on content,
23:28
Speaker 1: that part was easy for me to understand. It's the
23:30
Speaker 1: merger with Discovery that I also find Like, that's the
23:33
Speaker 1: one where I had the big question mark pop up
23:35
Speaker 1: over my head. I you know, I wonder if Discovery
23:40
Speaker 1: was on board to get it, because like, so they've
23:42
Speaker 1: got Discovery Plus right, and a lot of their content
23:46
Speaker 1: is now on there. A lot of the shows that
23:48
Speaker 1: people like to watch, you know, like Dr Pimple Popper
23:51
Speaker 1: or fix Er Up or things like that, a lot
23:54
Speaker 1: of those shows are now on Discovery Plus because they
23:57
Speaker 1: want people buying there their streaming service, but there are
24:00
Speaker 1: just too many of them. So I wonder if that's
24:03
Speaker 1: a way for them to still maintain a streaming service,
24:06
Speaker 1: not admit defeat because I don't know what their numbers are,
24:09
Speaker 1: you know, um, but then roll it in under like
24:13
Speaker 1: HBO Max HBO Max because which is also hard because
24:18
Speaker 1: I get my HBO Max through Hulu, which is owned
24:21
Speaker 1: by Disney. Yeah, no, it's it's I thought the cable
24:26
Speaker 1: business was of confusing mishmash, but it was you know,
24:32
Speaker 1: streamlined and simple compared to the online streaming world that
24:35
Speaker 1: we're in today. Um, yeah, it's it's also it blows
24:39
Speaker 1: my mind to think that if things had been a
24:41
Speaker 1: little different, I could count Batman as my coworker. That
24:47
Speaker 1: that is a pretty cool thought, John. But I haven't
24:49
Speaker 1: worked for Discovery for a few years now. Discovery spun
24:52
Speaker 1: off How Stuff Works several years ago, or actually sold
24:55
Speaker 1: off How Stuff Works several years ago, which then went
24:58
Speaker 1: through a whole series of things. And I don't even
25:00
Speaker 1: work for How Stuff Works anymore. Been in the same
25:03
Speaker 1: job for fourteen years. It's the bosses that keep changing. Yeah,
25:09
Speaker 1: but you you are constant, Yeah, like steadfast in the side, Yes,
25:16
Speaker 1: but steadfast pillars. Speaking of pillars, one of the pillars
25:21
Speaker 1: of comedy, one of the pillars of entertainment. Listen, I'm
25:27
Speaker 1: I'm grasping at any straw that I can see. But
25:30
Speaker 1: one of the pillars of entertainment, particularly in places like
25:34
Speaker 1: the UK and America, is the sitcom or situational comedy. Now, Mariel,
25:41
Speaker 1: what was it that that made you want to talk
25:43
Speaker 1: about sitcoms? Today. Uh yeah, So sadly, it looks like
25:48
Speaker 1: we won't have much time to talk about it, so
25:50
Speaker 1: this conversation might lead into another week. But ABC released
25:55
Speaker 1: trailers for a bunch of its fall lineup, and there
25:58
Speaker 1: was there was a drama called Queens, and then three sitcoms,
26:03
Speaker 1: one of which we knew about, The Wonder Years, which
26:06
Speaker 1: is a remake and it's starring Delay Hill, which I
26:09
Speaker 1: love Delay Hill, so I'll watch anything he's in um
26:13
Speaker 1: and then Abbott Elementary, which is about a school, and
26:16
Speaker 1: then Maggie, which is a comedy about a psychic. And
26:21
Speaker 1: I pulled up the article to watch the trailer about
26:24
Speaker 1: Wonder Years because I loved the original and I'm very
26:27
Speaker 1: excited about this remake. I love I love how certain
26:32
Speaker 1: certain comedy, certain situational things are and sometimes hate too
26:39
Speaker 1: are are a part of the basic human conditions. So
26:41
Speaker 1: no matter when you look at them throughout your history,
26:43
Speaker 1: that they remain relevant. You know, there are some some
26:46
Speaker 1: things that remain relevant that I wish wouldn't. For instance,
26:49
Speaker 1: when they redid All in the Family and Jeffersonce. There's
26:51
Speaker 1: certain social topics that I wish we're not still relevant
26:55
Speaker 1: that sadly are, But you know, a lot of comedy,
26:58
Speaker 1: a lot of family is the particulars might change, but
27:03
Speaker 1: the overall feeling of them stays the same, And so
27:06
Speaker 1: you can make remake something like Wonder Years, have it
27:09
Speaker 1: been new and have it still hit all of the
27:11
Speaker 1: same old fields, which is what I'm hoping for. There
27:14
Speaker 1: are certain sitcoms and certain shows that I think fall
27:17
Speaker 1: into the comedy range. They maybe don't fall into the
27:20
Speaker 1: classic sitcom category like I wouldn't. I wouldn't think Wonder
27:24
Speaker 1: Years falls into sitcom, but it is more comedic than
27:26
Speaker 1: anything else. It's more of a kind of a drama
27:28
Speaker 1: y series in a way um situation. But like like
27:32
Speaker 1: Doogie Houser is another one. That's another one that has
27:36
Speaker 1: the remake, right, so uh full House, Yeah, no, full
27:40
Speaker 1: House is like We're gonna have so much more to
27:42
Speaker 1: talk about with full House in a minute. It had
27:44
Speaker 1: a sequel, it had a Fuller House. Yeah. But but yeah,
27:49
Speaker 1: there are other there other like sitcoms I think of
27:51
Speaker 1: from my childhood. Now. I grew up in the seventies
27:54
Speaker 1: and eighties, so a lot of the sitcoms I remember
27:57
Speaker 1: are not good. Some of them are like Golden Girls,
28:01
Speaker 1: pretty good sitcom. Designing Women was frequently a pretty good sitcom. Um,
28:07
Speaker 1: but there are others that, you know, we're varying degrees
28:11
Speaker 1: of corny or just uh, you know, not not particularly relevant,
28:17
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, Perfect Strangers, not not so much perfect.
28:21
Speaker 1: I did at the time, but I have things to
28:24
Speaker 1: say about that that I'll tell you off Mike, Yeah,
28:27
Speaker 1: well I did rewatch it recently. It doesn't quite hold
28:30
Speaker 1: up as well or like, here's here's an example of
28:32
Speaker 1: one that totally like would not fly today for good reason.
28:36
Speaker 1: Bosom Buddies that would not fly. So if you don't
28:40
Speaker 1: know what Bosom Buddy says, it was a Tom Hanks
28:44
Speaker 1: was in it. It was a a comedy in which
28:47
Speaker 1: a couple of guys dressed in drag in order to
28:50
Speaker 1: be able to live in a um housing area that
28:55
Speaker 1: only would allow women. And um, yeah, so yet jokes
29:00
Speaker 1: about men dressed up as women and that just would
29:04
Speaker 1: not like that. That humor doesn't work today at all. Um,
29:09
Speaker 1: arguably it didn't work so great then either, But you know,
29:12
Speaker 1: you get by a long way on Tom Hanks's charm. Um,
29:16
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's interesting. So are there any are there
29:20
Speaker 1: any sitcoms that you can think of that you would
29:23
Speaker 1: love to see a reboot of that you think could?
29:26
Speaker 1: I mean, we know we're getting some like Punky Brewster
29:29
Speaker 1: is another one that's coming back. But see the reboot
29:32
Speaker 1: of Punky Brewster again, it's not a reboot, it's a sequel. Um.
29:36
Speaker 1: It feels like it's banking heavily on nostalgia, which is
29:40
Speaker 1: not always a bad thing, but um, it felt it
29:42
Speaker 1: felt a little too forced for me. You know, I
29:45
Speaker 1: talked about this in a previous episode, But I would
29:48
Speaker 1: love to see Family Matters reboot. Um. I don't know
29:52
Speaker 1: if they could, Like I don't know if anybody could
29:54
Speaker 1: replace Julia White is Steve Urkel, and now that geek
29:57
Speaker 1: is being a geek is so much more mainstream. I
30:00
Speaker 1: don't know how it would play, um, but I'd be
30:03
Speaker 1: interested to see it. Um. Yeah, Perfect Strangers, although I
30:10
Speaker 1: can guarantee that's probably because I haven't watched most of
30:13
Speaker 1: it in a long time. Um. That one's tricky because
30:18
Speaker 1: so much of the humor is all about fish out
30:20
Speaker 1: of water, and the the exaggeration of foreign nous makes
30:26
Speaker 1: it hard to do in a way that doesn't feel
30:29
Speaker 1: like it's playing upon almost racist stereotypes. Yeah yeah, But
30:34
Speaker 1: like I've been real I've been watching through Blackish, which
30:38
Speaker 1: actually just got announced it's going to be in its
30:41
Speaker 1: final season. I'm not sure if it's already in or
30:43
Speaker 1: if it's going to be, but they did a take
30:46
Speaker 1: on good Times in one of their episodes, and so
30:52
Speaker 1: I feel like, I feel like sometimes you can reboot
30:57
Speaker 1: a concept without having to do an exact reboot of
30:59
Speaker 1: a show. I think black is just a great example.
31:01
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. Um, you know, Abbot Elementary. I'm
31:08
Speaker 1: sure there have been other sitcoms about elementary schools that
31:10
Speaker 1: that it's a reboot, and maybe like Saved by the Bell,
31:13
Speaker 1: although it's more focused on teachers. But well, I'll tell
31:16
Speaker 1: you which one. What classic sitcom from my childhood I
31:20
Speaker 1: want to see rebooted? Sure? I bet you can tell already.
31:24
Speaker 1: This is going to be a flippant answer. Silver Spoons,
31:29
Speaker 1: I know I've seen it, but I don't remember. Here
31:32
Speaker 1: we are face to face a couple of silver Spoons,
31:36
Speaker 1: hoping to find we're two of a kind, making a go,
31:39
Speaker 1: making it grow together. We're gonna find a way. Um yeah, no,
31:43
Speaker 1: So Silver Spoons had had Rick then Ricky Schroeder as
31:51
Speaker 1: a very serious young man coming to live with his father,
31:55
Speaker 1: who is essentially a man child who's extremely wealth a
32:00
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like the story of the father
32:03
Speaker 1: who is largely irresponsible and and living in a state
32:08
Speaker 1: of arrested development, bringing the child out of his son
32:12
Speaker 1: and his son kind of encouraging the dad to be
32:16
Speaker 1: more um, you know, responsible and mature. But that's like
32:22
Speaker 1: from a very high level on an episode by episode basis,
32:24
Speaker 1: it was just an excuse for goofy things to happen
32:27
Speaker 1: by wealthy people. Okay, I mean, but can you imagine
32:32
Speaker 1: Let's say, let's say like the dad is obsessed with Instagram,
32:36
Speaker 1: Like he's obsessed with being an Instagram influencer, and the
32:39
Speaker 1: kid is like a much more kind of focused kind
32:42
Speaker 1: of person. Like you could you could easily update that
32:45
Speaker 1: concept to today and it would still work, Isn't it
32:50
Speaker 1: kind of like Young Sheldon at that point. I've never
32:53
Speaker 1: watched Young Sheldon, so it's very possible. Uh So I've
32:59
Speaker 1: got it. I've got the perfect sitcom to reboot. What's
33:02
Speaker 1: that I knew you're gonna say, alf I knew you're
33:05
Speaker 1: gonna say ALF. I mean, just think about like it
33:10
Speaker 1: was funny. It was a little a reference, which we
33:13
Speaker 1: know you like because you like always sunding a Philadelphia.
33:15
Speaker 1: I don't. I sometimes do um, you know, but it
33:18
Speaker 1: could be done on such a higher level now. I
33:21
Speaker 1: think what you do is you do a new version
33:23
Speaker 1: of Alf, same puppet, so you don't update the puppet
33:27
Speaker 1: at all. And in this version of Alf, everyone else
33:32
Speaker 1: in the family is aware that Alf is a puppet
33:34
Speaker 1: and can see the puppeteer, but they they're scared for
33:38
Speaker 1: their lives of the puppeteer, and so they humor the
33:41
Speaker 1: puppeteer and treat Alf as if he is in fact
33:45
Speaker 1: an alien. I want to watch that so very well.
33:54
Speaker 1: You know. I'm all about taking things from our past
33:57
Speaker 1: and turning them dark, which is a great way for
33:59
Speaker 1: us to ease what's going to happen after we come
34:01
Speaker 1: back from the break with our mashup. Okay ariel h.
34:26
Speaker 1: Let's talk for a second now that we're back, Let's
34:29
Speaker 1: talk for a second about monsters at work, because that
34:33
Speaker 1: serves as one of the two inspirational points for our
34:36
Speaker 1: mash up today. Yeah, so the first inspirational point is
34:39
Speaker 1: full house um or fuller House in Jonathan's case, because
34:44
Speaker 1: we are inspired by sitcoms. But there was also news
34:47
Speaker 1: that Disney Plus is making a Monsters at Work TV
34:50
Speaker 1: show that is a sequel to Monsters Inc. And I
34:52
Speaker 1: guess by that account, Monsters University, Monsters You's a prequel.
35:00
Speaker 1: It's fantastic by the way. I mean it's it's unnecessary.
35:03
Speaker 1: It's totally unnecessary. It's a prequel that doesn't need to exist,
35:06
Speaker 1: but it is. It is legitimately entertaining and adorable. Mm hm,
35:11
Speaker 1: well so is Monsters Inc. And so I therefore think
35:14
Speaker 1: that Monsters at Work will also be adorable. Uh. But
35:19
Speaker 1: you know, when I was looking at I'm like, okay, sitcoms.
35:23
Speaker 1: Full House just is ripe for yeah. Uh And I
35:30
Speaker 1: don't know why. It's just like there was no question
35:32
Speaker 1: in my mind that we needed to mash it up
35:34
Speaker 1: with Monsters Inc. Unfortunately, I think both of our mashups
35:39
Speaker 1: got a little bit more adult than maybe initially anticipated
35:44
Speaker 1: going into it. Yeah, and by adult you mean dark
35:48
Speaker 1: and or disturbing and or bleak. I mean mine's not
35:54
Speaker 1: super dark or disturbing. It has a moment, but so
35:57
Speaker 1: does Full House. Like both oll House and Fuller House
36:01
Speaker 1: start on a sad note and then get happy. So
36:04
Speaker 1: that's where mine is. Since yours is apparently so crushing
36:07
Speaker 1: lee depressing, I'm gonna let you go first this time. Okay,
36:11
Speaker 1: all right? Well, um so, yes, I did set in
36:14
Speaker 1: Mine in the world of Fuller House. So for those
36:18
Speaker 1: who are not you know, havn't ever watched it, first
36:21
Speaker 1: of all, thank you're lucky stars. But it is a
36:25
Speaker 1: sequel to Full House in which the character of Dj Tanner,
36:29
Speaker 1: one of the daughters of the the in the original
36:33
Speaker 1: Full House season. She's a grown woman. She's as the
36:37
Speaker 1: series opens, she has recently lost her husband. She has
36:40
Speaker 1: three kids. Her younger sister, Stephanie comes to live with her,
36:44
Speaker 1: as does her childhood friend Kimmy Gibbler, and they all
36:49
Speaker 1: are working together to try and you know, look after
36:51
Speaker 1: the kids and just make it in a world that's
36:54
Speaker 1: tough and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So um Mine is set
36:59
Speaker 1: in the world of er House, uh and the world
37:02
Speaker 1: of monsters, inc. So here we go. Dj Tanner has
37:05
Speaker 1: a problem. She's a widow and mother with three children
37:08
Speaker 1: who now also has her younger sister, Stephanie living in
37:12
Speaker 1: her house. And there's Kimmy Gibbler, who for reasons I'm
37:16
Speaker 1: only vaguely aware of, has also moved into the Tanner
37:19
Speaker 1: family home with her own daughter. Anyway, the real problem
37:23
Speaker 1: DJ has isn't with all of this. It's that there's
37:27
Speaker 1: a monster under her bed. Not that DJ knows this though,
37:31
Speaker 1: but the monster is lurking quietly, just hiding there. Because,
37:37
Speaker 1: as it turns out, the Tanner Home is the secret
37:41
Speaker 1: to Monstropolis's energy crisis. Cut to title fuller Monsters Flash Monstropolis,
37:50
Speaker 1: The city has grown exponentially since the events of Monsters Inc.
37:55
Speaker 1: Becoming a mega metropolis that covers most of the Monster
37:59
Speaker 1: World buildings more than a hundred stories tall tower in
38:03
Speaker 1: the incredibly dense hacked urban area. Though occasionally huge monsters
38:08
Speaker 1: do give the buildings a run for their money, and
38:10
Speaker 1: the monsters on the laft floor at the Monsters Ink
38:13
Speaker 1: Factory are close to burning out. Even with the incredible
38:17
Speaker 1: juice supplied by laughter, which is orders of magnitude greater
38:21
Speaker 1: than screams, they are running dangerously close to not meeting
38:25
Speaker 1: the energy needs of the growing city. The Monster World
38:28
Speaker 1: is on the precipice of a true crisis. That is,
38:32
Speaker 1: until Mike Wazowski, already a legend, tries a door that
38:36
Speaker 1: hasn't ever been opened. That door leads to the Tanner
38:41
Speaker 1: Home in San Francisco. It was always there, ready to
38:45
Speaker 1: be used, but for whatever reason, simply was never picked.
38:49
Speaker 1: Wazowski goes through a process of trying lots of doors
38:52
Speaker 1: in quick succession, trying to find a solution to his
38:54
Speaker 1: growing problem. Just as he's about to give up, he
38:57
Speaker 1: sneaks into the Tanner Home and Wazowski slips under DJ's
39:02
Speaker 1: bed on a reconnaissance mission, and there he discovers something phenomenal.
39:08
Speaker 1: Laughter and endless supply of laughter. Not from the Tanner
39:15
Speaker 1: family or their surrounding sphere of weirdo friends. No, it's
39:21
Speaker 1: from some other source, some source that the Tanners seem
39:26
Speaker 1: unaware of. But Wazowski hears it loud and clear. Whenever
39:31
Speaker 1: anyone says anything, even if it doesn't remotely resemble a joke,
39:38
Speaker 1: there's laughter, lots of it. Wazowski can collect enough power
39:42
Speaker 1: in half an hour to power all of Monstropolis for
39:46
Speaker 1: a week, and so Wazowski makes his way into the
39:49
Speaker 1: Tanner Home on a regular basis. He doesn't even have
39:52
Speaker 1: to do anything at all. Sometimes a guy will just
39:56
Speaker 1: say have mercy in a way that you know, you
40:00
Speaker 1: can tell it's a reference to something, but there's not
40:03
Speaker 1: really any ooof behind it anymore. But for some reason,
40:07
Speaker 1: the unseen audience laughs at it, or Stephanie will say
40:11
Speaker 1: how rude and boom laughter, or heck DJ will say, oh,
40:17
Speaker 1: my lantern, there's a ridiculous amount of laughter. Monstropolis's energy
40:23
Speaker 1: problems are solved, but there's a cost. Day after day,
40:31
Speaker 1: was Zowski sits under that bed, doing nothing but just
40:35
Speaker 1: being there to help harvest the energy from the studio
40:39
Speaker 1: audience laughter. He becomes despondent. He the great Mike Wowski,
40:46
Speaker 1: the monster known for doing anything for the sake of
40:50
Speaker 1: a laugh, the master of gags and jokes. He was
40:54
Speaker 1: being overshadowed by meaningless quotes and the occasional terrible musical number.
41:01
Speaker 1: He had put so much work into his craft, creating
41:04
Speaker 1: a real approach to comedy that would elicit laughter. But
41:08
Speaker 1: here was this weird family and even weirder friends who
41:13
Speaker 1: were making it all happen without even trying. Heck it
41:16
Speaker 1: a little like no one was even willing to try,
41:20
Speaker 1: and why would they? There was no need to try?
41:23
Speaker 1: The laughs would come even without the effort. Day after day,
41:27
Speaker 1: was Zowski slips further into a deep depression, even as
41:31
Speaker 1: he is surrounded by laughter. At home, people treat him
41:35
Speaker 1: as a hero. Monstropolis continues to grow unabated. It gets
41:39
Speaker 1: larger and more dense and more hungry for energy, and
41:43
Speaker 1: was Zowski supplies it. But every day another little part
41:48
Speaker 1: of him dies inside. Every day he hides under that bed,
41:52
Speaker 1: not even paying attention to what's going on in the
41:55
Speaker 1: house anymore. The laughs come one way or another, and
41:59
Speaker 1: nothing was Owski does has any effect on it. He's
42:03
Speaker 1: just there to channel the energy back home, slipping deeper
42:07
Speaker 1: into depression and on we the world appears to be
42:10
Speaker 1: black and white for Mike Wazowski. Laughter has lost all meaning.
42:15
Speaker 1: There's no difference between a joke and a reference. There's
42:19
Speaker 1: no difference between a reference and just a random line
42:22
Speaker 1: of dialogue between two people. It all brings in the same,
42:26
Speaker 1: almost robotic laughter. Flash forward ten years. Monstropolis is a
42:33
Speaker 1: nightmare city. You can't even see the sun. The buildings
42:37
Speaker 1: stretch up so high and block out the light. The
42:40
Speaker 1: streets are lit with garish neon and bright incandescent bulbs.
42:45
Speaker 1: Loud music spills out from buildings onto the streets. Monsters
42:49
Speaker 1: are all on their phones and computers and other energy
42:53
Speaker 1: hungry devices. There's a new craze in the monster world,
42:56
Speaker 1: crypto zoology currency, which Wazowski doesn't really understand, but he
43:01
Speaker 1: does know it requires a huge amount of energy to work.
43:04
Speaker 1: Wazowski himself is a shell of who he once was.
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Speaker 1: His colleagues have all retired. Why work at the monster
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Speaker 1: in factory anyway? Was? Wazowski is collecting more energy than
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Speaker 1: anyone needs. Wazowski's own fame has faded from the minds
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Speaker 1: of the monsters. He's taken for granted and the backs
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Speaker 1: of their minds. The monsters know that without Wazowski's work
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have their energy, but it's just a given now. Wazowski,
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Speaker 1: now a sickly shade of his once vibrant green, puts
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Speaker 1: his hand on the door knob to the Tanner home.
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Speaker 1: He closes his one eye in despair. A single tear
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Speaker 1: runs down the left side of his eye. He pauses
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Speaker 1: for a moment, staring at his hand on that door knob.
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Speaker 1: We see a close up of that hand end. It
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Speaker 1: begins to move, but is it turning the knob or
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Speaker 1: letting go, we don't know. The screen goes black and
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Speaker 1: we cut to the credit directed by Lars von Trier.
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Speaker 1: The end, Wow, I told you, was told you was bleak.
44:23
Speaker 1: It is bleak um and oddly a lot closer to
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Speaker 1: my mashup than I thought it was gonna be okay,
44:32
Speaker 1: So I might have I might have put an awful
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Speaker 1: lot of commentary on my opinions about Fuller House in
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Speaker 1: that I mean, I was gonna say salty much, but
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Speaker 1: then you brought it back from your ranch into a sad,
44:45
Speaker 1: depressing drama series. Um, but I'm gonna glass half full,
44:52
Speaker 1: your glass half empty. So this is called Uncle Sully
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Speaker 1: and the Screamers. It's and Mary Gibb formally known as Boo,
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Speaker 1: is moving back to her childhood home. Her husband has
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Speaker 1: perished in a car fire because heaven forbid, Disney have
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Speaker 1: more than one alive parent, and she is struggling to
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Speaker 1: take care of for three children Donna, Boo, I e
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Speaker 1: dB Sullivan, and Mike Ella. And she is also struggling
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Speaker 1: to hold on to her job as a TV producer
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Speaker 1: and pay her mortgage at the same time. Meanwhile, Mike
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Speaker 1: and Sully are hard at work on the Laughing Floor Monstropolis.
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Speaker 1: It's been harder and harder to generate enough laughs to
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Speaker 1: power Monstropolis over the years, as children have become more cynical,
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Speaker 1: and Mike and Sully are getting worn out trying to
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Speaker 1: meet the demand. Over lunch one day, they are reminiscing
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Speaker 1: of when they first discovered the power of laughter, how
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Speaker 1: easy it all seemed back then, and how much they
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Speaker 1: missed Boo. As they cleaned up their lunch trades, they
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Speaker 1: got a warning light and rushed back to their office
45:48
Speaker 1: to see what was going on. The warning light was
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Speaker 1: attached to Booze door, but that door hadn't been active
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Speaker 1: for years. They quickly rushed to the door and turned
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Speaker 1: on a monitor to check out what was happening on
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Speaker 1: the other side, just to see a sad, stressed out
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Speaker 1: adult Boo. Mike immediately insists that they should go visit her.
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Speaker 1: They were just talking about her, so it must be
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Speaker 1: a sign. Sully, however, is hesitant, afraid that as an adult,
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Speaker 1: she won't remember or believe in them, and that would
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Speaker 1: break his heart. However, Mike, through some loony tune level
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Speaker 1: rabbit season duck season antics, get Sully to go through
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Speaker 1: the door, and when they get to the other side,
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Speaker 1: not only does Boo recognize them, but so do her children.
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Speaker 1: It turns out she told her kids stories about the
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Speaker 1: monsters duo, and the reunion is happy. The kids love
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Speaker 1: love Mike and Sully, and with their help, Mary is
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Speaker 1: able to catch up on some much needed chores and work,
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Speaker 1: and for a week, everyone is blissfully happy hijenk Sin Sue,
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Speaker 1: and for a time the three forget their worries, enveloped
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Speaker 1: in love and laughter. But at the end of a
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Speaker 1: wonderful week of Sually yelling watch the hair and Mike
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Speaker 1: saying cut it out to the kids, the two monsters
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Speaker 1: realize that they need to return home. Monstropolis is counting
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Speaker 1: on them. The kids all say a tearful are well,
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Speaker 1: and Mike and Sully go back through Booze door. However,
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Speaker 1: when they get to the other side, they find out
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Speaker 1: that they had forgotten to turn off the monitor to
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Speaker 1: Booze House, and while they were away, the feed was
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Speaker 1: so hilarious and popular that it caught syndication and was
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Speaker 1: broadcast to monsters and people all over the world. It
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Speaker 1: had become a hit, and so many people were laughing
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Speaker 1: that it was powering the whole town one hundred times over.
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Speaker 1: Mike and Sulli rushed back to tell Mary the news
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Speaker 1: and decided to move in with her. That way, Monstropolis
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Speaker 1: would get its power, Mary would get her help, and
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Speaker 1: the Hodgepodge family would live happily ever after. Oh yeah.
47:37
Speaker 1: Once they move in, Mike starts a spinoff show called
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Speaker 1: Ranger Mike where he has a puppet sidekicks spider thing
47:44
Speaker 1: let's call it a spider called Mr Waternoos and Sully
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Speaker 1: Anax's lifelong dream of being a rockabilly singer with a
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Speaker 1: great hair, and starts the band Sully and the Screamers,
47:55
Speaker 1: very very cute. I'm glad that yours didn't go to
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Speaker 1: Laura's van. Cheer to our tory. Now. I debated, by
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Speaker 1: the way, I debated when I got to the end
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Speaker 1: of mine, whether the director of my piece was going
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Speaker 1: to be Lauras von Trier or were Hurts hurt Zog
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Speaker 1: and uh Lars von Trier one out? Either way, I
48:15
Speaker 1: feel like there is kind of an existential dread in mind.
48:18
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, this was this was weird aerial because
48:24
Speaker 1: you know, obviously like the two properties that we picked. Uh,
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Speaker 1: neither of which are are dark or like, you know,
48:31
Speaker 1: Monsters Inc. Has some moments that might be a little, yeah,
48:34
Speaker 1: a little scary, for like, the whole premise is that
48:36
Speaker 1: the monsters are trying to scare kids, right, But but
48:39
Speaker 1: they're not dark. They're they're very fun, uplifting kind of things.
48:43
Speaker 1: I mean, mileage may very for Fuller House, but it
48:47
Speaker 1: is interesting that we both kind of took it to
48:49
Speaker 1: that place. I think that just tells us that when
48:52
Speaker 1: we do these creative endeavors where we try to tweak
48:55
Speaker 1: something that we're familiar with, we don't want to just
48:59
Speaker 1: repeat eat the stuff that's there, or you know, or
49:04
Speaker 1: just crank up the dial a couple of notches too,
49:08
Speaker 1: and you know, intensify whatever was there. We want to
49:11
Speaker 1: transform it. And I think we did that too. I
49:14
Speaker 1: think we did some good work. I think so too.
49:16
Speaker 1: I also think that when you take to comedic enterprises
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Speaker 1: and you smush them together, it brings out the genuine
49:22
Speaker 1: heartfeltness or sadness. Yeah, there was there was a deep,
49:27
Speaker 1: deep comedy cancels it cancels each other out and all
49:30
Speaker 1: you've got left is the truth. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't
49:33
Speaker 1: even have Sully in mind, I couldn't. I couldn't think
49:36
Speaker 1: of a way of incorporating Sully where I wouldn't do
49:40
Speaker 1: something equally terrible to him. So I thought, let's just
49:43
Speaker 1: limit this. Shelly Um fair enough. Yeah, well that was
49:47
Speaker 1: that was fun for a given definition of fun for
49:52
Speaker 1: for mine anyway. So we look forward to doing a
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Speaker 1: lot more of these. We are curious if any of
49:58
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50:02
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50:04
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50:07
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50:10
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