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Super Munsters · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: The Large nerd Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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  Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large ner
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  Speaker 1: Drunk Collider Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky
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  Speaker 1: things happening in the world around us and how very
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  Speaker 1: excited we are about them. I am Aerial casting and
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  Speaker 1: with me as always is Pumpkin Spice Jonathan stream. This
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  Speaker 1: podcast is clear now the questions do you know what
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  Speaker 1: that's a reference to her? That's a that's a reference.
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  Speaker 1: I changed it, but it's a reference to the original
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  Speaker 1: Poultergeist movie. Um, all right, well you know like I've
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  Speaker 1: watched that all the way through, so good. Well, it's scary.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, arial, I got a question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Is it about Poltergeist? Because I'll fail that quiz. Not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily about polter Geist. The question is are there any
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  Speaker 1: Halloween movies that you know, get a lot of of
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  Speaker 1: that you just don't connect with. We talked last week
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  Speaker 1: about hocus Pocus and how both of us kind of
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  Speaker 1: we missed the boat, like that movie came out at
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  Speaker 1: the wrong time during our respective earlier lives that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have that emotional connection. Are there any others that
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  Speaker 1: you're like I could take it or leave it, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but mainly because I have left it thus far and
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  Speaker 1: haven't watched it. And that's a nightmare before Christmas. Gosh,
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  Speaker 1: it's such a good movie, and you know, you might
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  Speaker 1: even argue that it's a Christmas movie, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's a Halloween movie, and I don't know, it
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't like right now TikTok is full of everybody
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  Speaker 1: doing like their nightmare before Christmas. Cause play so Halloween
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Um, I just it has never appealed to me.
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, it's definitely one of the
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  Speaker 1: it's very tim Burton, So if you are not a
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  Speaker 1: big Tim Burton fan, then it's not going to it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to connect with you. But it's got like
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  Speaker 1: that Tim Burton aesthetic, I mean an overdrive. I was
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  Speaker 1: a Tim Burton fan during like Edward scissor Hands. I'm
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  Speaker 1: less a fan of like his claymation stuff. Although I
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  Speaker 1: don't like hate it. It's just I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why. I don't know why. Maybe it's because
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  Speaker 1: I'm cranky about holidays, trying to push into each other's
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  Speaker 1: holidays already. Well, I mean like it's it's a fun
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  Speaker 1: it's a fun take on that. Um. I think I
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  Speaker 1: think you would. Honestly, I think you would dig it
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  Speaker 1: if you were to give it a shot. But I
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  Speaker 1: also respect the fact that you know it just hasn't
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you. That's that's totally legit. Like, I know
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  Speaker 1: there are people out there who Princess Brian like it
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  Speaker 1: does doesn't do anything for them. And while I think
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  Speaker 1: those people are monsters, you know, it's their prerogative. I
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  Speaker 1: know for a fact that some of our listeners are
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  Speaker 1: not huge fans of the Princess Bride. We do not
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  Speaker 1: think you are monsters. Um, I do not, I do,
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  Speaker 1: I do not. I love you. Look, my stepdad is
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  Speaker 1: not a fan of Princess Bride either. Um. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: maybe I will give Nightmare before Christmas and try this Halloween. Um,
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  Speaker 1: if the shining doesn't turn me off to Halloween movies
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  Speaker 1: for a year. Uh, what about you, Jonathan. So there's
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  Speaker 1: this movie that I had not watched until this year
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  Speaker 1: called Trick Our Treat and it came out several years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a horror anthology movie and all of
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  Speaker 1: the stories tie in with Halloween. It all takes place
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween Night, and the story is kind of involve
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  Speaker 1: each other, like like stories cross in and out. You'll
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  Speaker 1: see something happen tangentially to one of the vignettes, and
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  Speaker 1: then in a later vignette it becomes like front and
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  Speaker 1: center and you're like, oh, so that's what that was
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  Speaker 1: all about. Um, And I know that it has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of kind of like cult status. Love. I watched
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  Speaker 1: it and I was like, I was just not terribly impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen other Halloween anthology movies that I thought were better.
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  Speaker 1: This one just didn't quite work for me. But again,
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  Speaker 1: like I realized that a lot of folks they think
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  Speaker 1: it's a fun Halloween film, and I do not begrudge
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  Speaker 1: them that it just did not speak to me. Is
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  Speaker 1: that the one with the kid who's got like either
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow or the pumpkinhead or something like that both.
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  Speaker 1: He's got like a sack head until a spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 1: he's got like a sack head, and then when the
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  Speaker 1: sack is pulled away, he's got like a a desformed
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  Speaker 1: pumpkinhead type thing. He's kind of like the essence of Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't follow the rules of Halloween, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get you. I see see, Like in concept that
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  Speaker 1: sounds interesting. Yeah, And that's just one part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the other stories, Like there's a story about
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  Speaker 1: where wolves. There's a story about a psychopath who is
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  Speaker 1: behaving kind of like a vampire. There's a story about
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  Speaker 1: kids who want to go visit a quarry where some
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  Speaker 1: children supposedly died many years before. Like, they're all these
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  Speaker 1: different elements that tie in together. Like I said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it just and parts of it I thought were creepy,
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  Speaker 1: but parts of it I just found very off putting
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  Speaker 1: or not effective. Also, it's a it's a product of
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  Speaker 1: its time as well, Like if they were to make
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  Speaker 1: a version of it today, it would probably, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe speak to me a little more. I see, I see.
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  Speaker 1: Is it super gory? Parts of it are? Yes? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: then I will not watch that it is not is
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  Speaker 1: not aerial rated. Alright, alright, but we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: today about some news that's not so spooky. Although one
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  Speaker 1: thing might fill you with of feeling to say, boo,
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  Speaker 1: but not like a ghost, and that is that Disney
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  Speaker 1: has announced that it has pushed back the debut of
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  Speaker 1: several films, like all the Marvel Films got pushed back
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  Speaker 1: at least a few months, and Indiana Jones five has
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  Speaker 1: been pushed back almost a full year to July or
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  Speaker 1: at June. I'm sorry of so, yeah, so let's start
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  Speaker 1: with Indiana Jones because well most of these Disney is
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  Speaker 1: saying that most of the pushback is due to production.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked about this with video games before,
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  Speaker 1: where if you can't put out a good product that
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  Speaker 1: isn't buggy, maybe you should wait on release. And I
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel the same way about big budget movies
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  Speaker 1: that use a lot of c G. I I would
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  Speaker 1: rather wait a little longer and get really amazing c
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  Speaker 1: G I then get something that gives me like super
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  Speaker 1: and Kenny Valley m hum. So I'm fine with that.
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  Speaker 1: But Indiana Jones actually is getting postponed because Harrison Ford
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  Speaker 1: hurt his shoulder. Yeah, I mean he's he's he's up
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  Speaker 1: there right, I mean, he's he's a he's a venerable gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: As they might say, um, he's old as heck is
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  Speaker 1: another way of putting it. And us years young. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, these movies are pretty physically demanding and
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what the details were of the injury.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he's going to have to take some time
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  Speaker 1: to heal for them. And of course it's an Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Jones movie. There's only so much footage you can shoot
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't have Indiana Jones in it. So you say
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  Speaker 1: it's because Harrison Ford is old that he hurt his shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, Jeremy Renner was filming Tag in Atlanta, part
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  Speaker 1: of which filmed like less than two miles from my house,
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  Speaker 1: and during one of the scenes, I think he broke
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  Speaker 1: like both arms and so arms, shoulder body injuries can
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  Speaker 1: happen in movies at any age if you aren't careful.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't Harrison Ford last get injured when a door slightly
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  Speaker 1: closed on him during shooting Star Wars. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure anyway. Uh. Disney has also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talked about all these other things that have been pushed back,
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  Speaker 1: like Dr Strange has been pushed back, Black Panther sequel
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  Speaker 1: has been pushed back, like all these different projects have
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  Speaker 1: been pushed back. The marvels have been pushed back now
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  Speaker 1: at least with some of the films. I suspect titled
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  Speaker 1: Twentieth Century has been pushed back. There's a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: untitled ones that we don't know what they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be yet. Maybe Fantastic four, who's to say, Disney Live Action, Um,
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  Speaker 1: guessing Hercules? Yeah, I mean that would be that would
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  Speaker 1: track right. Well, actually, maybe it will be Hunchback and
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. But yeah, we're pretty sure that it's one.
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  Speaker 1: It's production into. It may also be an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: try and feel out when the theater experience will be
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  Speaker 1: closer to what it was pre pandemic, because while we
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  Speaker 1: have seen some successes, uh, they have only been a
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  Speaker 1: fraction of what a big success would be pre pandemic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I know a lot of theaters
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  Speaker 1: are doing a lot of business renting out for private parties.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a few friends who have done that now. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I just can't imagine that it's near the same.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're still operating at a decreased volume even
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  Speaker 1: when they rent out a theater, so I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: that they're making the same kind of money back. I'm sorry, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I have a cat from each side trying to like
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  Speaker 1: eat my desk. Yeah, I'm actually watching as cats descend
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  Speaker 1: um on aerial. It's making me sad that this is
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  Speaker 1: not a video podcast. One of these days I will
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  Speaker 1: have Harvey and Walter White on camera for everybody. Harvey
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  Speaker 1: is trying to eat some fiery bird seed right now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's up. Okay. Uh So some of
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  Speaker 1: you might think that all of pushing all of these
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  Speaker 1: release states for Disney back is tragic, but I like
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  Speaker 1: the segue. It's not as tragic as the infamous Scottish
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  Speaker 1: play Yeah, also known as Macbeth Macbeth. Yeah, so we
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  Speaker 1: got a trailer actually really more of a teaser for
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  Speaker 1: an upcoming film of the Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel
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  Speaker 1: Washington in the title role and Francis McDormand as Lady Macbeth.
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  Speaker 1: That's intriguing casting because if I were to cast Denzel Washington,
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  Speaker 1: I think I would probably cast him as Duncan as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to Macbeth. Yeah, I think I would have cast
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  Speaker 1: him as Duncan as well, But I can totally see
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  Speaker 1: him as a Macbeth. It's interesting because I don't associate
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  Speaker 1: him with like, like a conniving, ambitious, villainous carrot. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually very eager to see him play this part.
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  Speaker 1: I have no doubt he can do it. I absolutely
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  Speaker 1: think you could do it. I just don't associate him
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  Speaker 1: with that kind of character. Well from what I've heard.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is actually this film, The Tragedy of Macbeth,
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  Speaker 1: came out at a film festival, first New York Film Festival.
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  Speaker 1: It's done by Joel Cohen, not with his brother, Um,
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  Speaker 1: which is a first. But it's I think it's focusing
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  Speaker 1: on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at a time when they
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  Speaker 1: are older than normally portrayed, and so I'm really interested
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  Speaker 1: to see how grizzled life experiences shape the dialogue. Yeah. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the teaser is very short, um, and you only have
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  Speaker 1: one line in it, but you have you have some
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  Speaker 1: really compelling visuals. It looks like it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a creepy film and I'm I'm looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: it me too. Oh. Also, it's an all black and
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  Speaker 1: white yes, yes too. Uh, something else we're looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing. This is not a film. It is a
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  Speaker 1: sequel to a film, but it's actually going to be
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  Speaker 1: its own little series. Is History of the World part
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  Speaker 1: to a sequel to the mel Brooks comedy from many
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  Speaker 1: years ago that had lots of uh tongue in cheek
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  Speaker 1: humor about history. Yes, which seems right in line with
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  Speaker 1: the current current things going on. H Yeah, mel Brooks
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  Speaker 1: is bringing his series to Hulu and he's working with
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  Speaker 1: Nick Krol and Wanda Sykes as some of the comedians. Um,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting because I don't know, maybe it's just
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  Speaker 1: a generational thing because like mel Brooks can can get
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  Speaker 1: pretty blue, but Nick Krawl is like super blue. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean like it's to me, it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things where it's it's bringing new voices into the writer's room,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is a good idea because as I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I love mel Brooks, okay, but but his his comedic
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  Speaker 1: sensibilities probably don't resonate quite the same way today as
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  Speaker 1: they did many years ago. And so getting some other
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  Speaker 1: comedic points of view in the writing situation to come
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  Speaker 1: up with things that are satirical and funny that say
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  Speaker 1: something about our modern world, but do it by using
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  Speaker 1: history as kind of the vehicle. I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: really good move. I do too. You know, I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if it will be similar at all to Drunk History.
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  Speaker 1: I suspect it will be different enough where you know,
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  Speaker 1: it'll I think it's probably gonna have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the same sort of zane nous of the original. Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: why would you even do it right? Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll have to see, Yeah, we will have to
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  Speaker 1: see something that is any that we just saw as
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  Speaker 1: in like right before we recorded this episode, is the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy Bebop trailer? Yes, which was it's stuff that was
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  Speaker 1: made specifically to promote Cowboy Bebop. It's not taken from
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  Speaker 1: an episode of the live action series, uh. And it
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  Speaker 1: is stylistic to the extreme in such a brilliant way.
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  Speaker 1: They use like almost like comic book paneling as transitions
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  Speaker 1: as as moving interactive transitions throughout the page. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not like you've got a cell and then you move
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  Speaker 1: to another cell. It's it's this divider in what is
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  Speaker 1: happening on the screen is being moved by characters to
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  Speaker 1: further the plot. It made like every bone in my
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  Speaker 1: body happy. Um I found it. I found myself feeling
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  Speaker 1: every year of my age as I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep up with what was going on because because characters
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  Speaker 1: could move the bar and thus change what setting another
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  Speaker 1: character was in. Like if you were like one character
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  Speaker 1: might be in a setting that's got a red background
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  Speaker 1: and another one's in kind of a greenish background, and
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  Speaker 1: by pushing or pulling the bar, they can move characters
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  Speaker 1: from one set into a different one. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: you suddenly we're teleported to a totally different environment. And
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  Speaker 1: then it gets into an action sequence, which just makes
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  Speaker 1: it even more complicated. And it was brilliant and I
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  Speaker 1: loved it, very creative. It actually reminded me a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like the kind of stuff you see in an
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  Speaker 1: Edgar Right movie. Um, but I was I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I need to pay attention because this is moving fast.
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  Speaker 1: It was moving fast. I mean at first I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening? What's happening? And then I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're just they're chasing a dude, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to pay that much attention to it other than they're
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  Speaker 1: going through all of these different potential settings to to
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  Speaker 1: find this dude. Um. I I had a thought and
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  Speaker 1: it just slipped my mind because I was so invested
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  Speaker 1: in the account Popo trip or Well. We're definitely looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the series, uh and and you know they've
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  Speaker 1: they've really captured the spirit, I think of the animated series,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to seeing more of the live action. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because it's the first thing that I've been
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  Speaker 1: really jazzed about watching that wasn't like a Disney plus
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  Speaker 1: you know original. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a while. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I still need to watch Midnight Mass all the way through.
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  Speaker 1: That's quite good. I just haven't set aside the time
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  Speaker 1: to do it. I'm guessing that's not rated aerial either.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten far enough for me to say for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but it's probably a pretty good bet. All Right, you
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  Speaker 1: did watch Masters of the Universe Part one, so that
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  Speaker 1: was recent? No, I didn't. Oh you didn't know, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched it. But part two is coming out,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, and well, I mean I watched, I watch
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  Speaker 1: Actually I did watch some of Masters of the Universe
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  Speaker 1: part one. I just didn't. I don't think I got
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  Speaker 1: all the way through it. If I did, it's already
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  Speaker 1: escaped my memory. Listen, time is limited, and there is
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  Speaker 1: so much, so much media coming out, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to stop because I AT is not going to strike.
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  Speaker 1: Came to an agree now not now, They came to
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  Speaker 1: an agreement for now, so we're going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: get all of this media. So maybe you and I
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  Speaker 1: need to work up a system where like I watched something,
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  Speaker 1: and you watch something, and then we tell you the
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  Speaker 1: person whether it's worth watching. That sounds that sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we do a whole podcast about it, Divide and Conquer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would be a good idea. Anyhow, for the time being,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take a quick break, but when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, we're going to talk about all things d C.
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  Speaker 1: And by all things DC, Jonathan meant some things DC
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  Speaker 1: because DC Fandom just happened, and there's way too much
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  Speaker 1: to cover in a single episode. Yeah, we could have
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  Speaker 1: actually done a full episode just about the stuff they
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  Speaker 1: announced at DC Fandom, but we thought we'd hit some
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  Speaker 1: of the highlights that we particularly found interesting, and then
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  Speaker 1: after that we might chat a little bit about some
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  Speaker 1: of the other things that were announced. Um, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned a couple because this was like jam packed
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  Speaker 1: with announcements and trailers and reveals and and pretty exciting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you start arial? Um, I think that I
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  Speaker 1: want to start with No, sorry, Blue Beetle, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with. Okay, start with cobrack thought DC Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's cross, it's it's casting from coverer Kai. So at
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  Speaker 1: DC fandom they released, uh, basically a concept image of
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  Speaker 1: Blue beat all, yes, and not the Blue Beetle that
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  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with because I was reading comics that Blue
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  Speaker 1: Beetle and them in the nineties, which was a different
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  Speaker 1: It was the second Blue Beetle, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: third blue Beetle. Yes, this blue Beetle is very like
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  Speaker 1: Spider man esque. And he is being played by and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to this actor whose name I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to to not say correctly, but Zolo Mara
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  Speaker 1: duenya um, who is Miguel on Cobra Kai. See, like
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  Speaker 1: there was a method to my much madness. Madness yet
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  Speaker 1: there is method in it. That's a different Shakespearean play
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  Speaker 1: than Macbeth. But anyway, so yeah, this um the concept art.
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  Speaker 1: It has like the character has like the mandibles kind
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: of above the shoulders, like like almost framing the head
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and that that Actually it took me a second to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it used to that because it was so different from
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the Blue Beetle outfit that I was used to. Also,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you know, the when I was reading the comics. It
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: was when it was like Justice League International and Justice
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: League Europe were titles, and those were more humorous, Like
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it was a little more comedic than what you would
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: typically see. It was a strange phase in comic books.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So I associate Blue Beetle and and Booster Gold as
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: being Yeah, there there were sort of these comedic foils,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and so it's very It's takes me a big adjustment
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to look at this and go right, right, but that's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: not always who Blue Beetle is. Yeah, yeah, I mean
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it is interesting. I'm more familiar with the Booster Gold
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Blue Beetle as well. When I first looked at the image,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I thought the mandibles were wings actually, so thank you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: for pointing that out. It is a little creepier now. Um.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: That being said, the like the image has this really
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: great like Futuri Nannie. I mean, it just actually does
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: have a very neon aesthetic to it, but it's got
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this like really cool vibe that feels high energy and
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: potentially not super bleak. Um you know what's actually you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: know what? It actually kind of reminds me of static shock. No, no,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: it kind of reminds me of the Flashes outfit in
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the trailer we got for the Flash film because there's
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a sequence where he's stepping forward where the gold in
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: his outfit is almost glowing tron like, and it made
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: me think of like it was kind of a red
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and gold version of what we were seeing with the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Blue Beetle concept art. So it almost felt like those
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: two outfits were kind of similar in style in that way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: The Flash trailer, by the way, it's it's really more
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: of a teaser than a trailer. It's not really a trailer.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: You get a little bit of sense of what's going on.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: You get to hear Michael freaking Keaton talk, um, it's
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: his voice in the background, and you get to see
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Batman from behind and you're assuming it's the Mike Keaton Batman.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You also get to see the a tarp that is
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: over what you assume is the Michael Keaton Batmobile. But
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you don't get a whole lot of details other than
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the fact that obviously time travel slash dimension shifting is
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a thing, which is not a surprise. I mean, that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was that was what was being set up the entire time.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But um, flash point, yes, but why do you think
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of that trailer? Um? I feel like it didn't give
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: give us much. Honestly, it didn't give me as much
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Michael Keaton as I expected. I do like that at
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: one point in the trailer, you get three versions of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Barry Allan standing together. Maybe more. I only saw three.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It was quick, it was dark, it was DC dark. Yeah. Well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: here's the thing that I found strange. Okay, so everyone
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: knows Michael Keaton is in the Flash film, Like, that's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: not a secret. Why did they not have one last
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: shot where it's the reverse and you see Michael Keaton's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: face in the Batman cow That would have like, that
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: would have that would drive people over the edge. They
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: would have gone banana for the trailer, and instead you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: just see him from behind, which I mean, yeah, Batman
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: is cool, but we've got a billion Batman's and if
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you're just saying it from behind, you might be thinking, oh,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: this is the Ben Affleck Batman or the Robert Pattins
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: or the Robert Pattinson Batman. Um. Actually, that's another one.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: That's another trailer they showed off, was the Batman trailer.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: So back to the Flash. You can't end every movie
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: or every movie trailer with Michael Keaton's face no matter
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: how much you want to. So that's probably why they
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But he's in this one, so he is. I mean
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I would end every movie trailer with Michael Keaton and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that even if Michael Keaton weren't in the movie, but
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he is in this movie. I'm kind of hoping that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Neon Flash and Neon Blue Beetle team up and then
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: we get a Neon Green. I was going to see
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Green Goblin, but it would actually be Green Lantern. Yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: because great Goblins different, different, different comic book comment and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we know we're not getting that. Well. And here's the thing. Also,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: like like we needed to see Michael Keaton aerial because
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: he didn't show up in the Spider Man trailer. We
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: get Doc Doc in the Spider Man trailer. I wanted
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Vulture in there too. We don't get Vulture because Michael
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Keaton Vulture was busy being Batman's But listen, we got
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Vulture in the I think it was the Venom movie. Wait,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: what at the end there was a at the end
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of Venom post credits You mean the second Venom that
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: let there be Carnage one. He gets transported into the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the universe. The m C. U was it No? I
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: think it was in Venom Venom. No, no, because then
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Venom would have already been in the m c U.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Venom was already in the m c U. Venom it's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: now in the m Okay, so okay, there we go. Yeah. Anyhow,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: by the way, spoilers for Venom. Sorry, I haven't seen
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: it yet. I can't remember everything. Spoilers for you for Venom.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: It's a post credits thing. It's not important for the movie. Listen,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you're gonna You're gonna make me go to a really
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: dark place and then I'll be just like Robert Patton
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: patterns that Batman who is not Batman. He's a vengeance vengeance.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: He's doing a bit of a Christian Bale voice for Batman,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: which is unfortunate. But uh, that trailer I think looks
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: pretty good. It is interesting. They really eased off on
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the Zodiac creepy Riddler vibe. I mean they showed him
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: at one point for certain well, they definitely had some
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: stuff about Riddler, but he didn't It didn't have him like.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: It didn't look the same as that one trailer where
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he was just pulling the duct tape, did it. I mean,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: he had like the big leather football burn mask thing
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: on pop on a screen in one's section. Okay, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: must have missed that part. I was paying attention to,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: uh to to the the penguin, the version of the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: penguin they have in this one. Yeah, yeah, I mean, so,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I know that there was controversy about casting a thin
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: dude and putting him in a like a fat suit,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: which you know, as a plus size actress. I'm like, what,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: there are lots of plus size actress and actresses out there.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You could have just hired one, but they wanted the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: name recognition. But that being said, like the performance in
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the in the trailer was like the most intriguing part
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of the trailer for me. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: forward to seeing more about it. I will say my
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: wife Rebecca was not impressed by it, but then uh,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: she's dead inside, so um not true. But but it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: was funny. It was funny, but it's not true. No,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: she's wonderful, but no, it didn't like I thought it
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: looked neat. She was like, and I think part of
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: it is just it's kind of like tider Man. We've
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: had a lot of Batman movies over the last few decades,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and so you kind of get numb to it after
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a while. One thing we have not had is a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: movie about Black Adam, but we're getting one. Originally, Black
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Adam was going to be the villain in Shazam, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: then they decided, hey, let's hold off on that, give
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Black Adam his own films, will be an anti hero
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and then maybe set that up for a confrontation with
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Shazam further down the line. And we got a teaser
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: for Black Adam. Yeah, and my favorite part about it, like, honestly,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna honestly say, like I barely paid attention to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the trailer because they mentioned Hawk hawk Man was going
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to be in it, and then I was just over
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the moon and I no longer cared about the rest
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of it because I was like, we're gonna get Hawkman,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: which means eventually we're gonna get hawk Girl. Huh. I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: watched it thinking Black adams skin looks a lot like
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Drags from the Guardians of the Gale, But I'm pretty
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: sure that was like his mummified skin. I bet as
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he zaps the actual meat off of people's bones that
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: he'll like read hydrate, I guess. Yeah, well he certainly
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: needs some Oh good, Timbaled has decided to change this show.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Someone's talking outside of our house, which is obviously not allowed. Okay, fine,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: but yeah. The Black Adam Teezer was kind of interesting.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: It was very short, There's not a whole lot to it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: We also got to see some behind the scenes stuff
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of Shazam for the next film, The Fury of the Gods,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: with Helen Mirren and Lucy Lousey playing playing villains. Um,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: we learned about we got a mid season trailer for
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Doom Patrol, which Ariel rapidly scrubbed through before we started
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: because she hasn't finished um season the episodes that already
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: exist in season three, so you didn't want to see
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the mid season. We also learned it's been renewed for
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a season four, so Doom Patrol fans you can rejoice. Um.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: They showed some stuff off about the Injustice movie we
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: got to see, which got super mixed. Is getting a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: super mixed reception, Yeah, I mean, I mean that's well,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it's really dark, and I think people are just tired
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of dark Superman. Like if I would say that if
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the more recent Superman films are the films that have
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Superman in them had been more the uplifting, inspiring Superman,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: then maybe people would be more receptive to all right, well,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: here's an alternative take where Superman kind of goes off
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the edge. But we've had a pretty dark and broody
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Superman for the past few movies, so I think people
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: are like, can we stop with the Superman? And I'd
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: agree with that because I own both Injustice video games
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and the storyline is really interesting, but it is very,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: very dark. It's exceptionally dark. Um. We also got to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: see a trailer for Peacemaker, which is also dark, but
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: it looks funny. It looks maybe less gruesome than the Boys,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: but we'll see yeah, which I mean, come on, like,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that's a low bar, Like, you don't have to you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: don't have to do much to be less gruesome than
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the boys. If you want to be more gruesome than
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the boys, you're gonna be going through a lot of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: corn syrup. Uh. Yeah. And we also saw Gwenlin Christie
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: as Lucifer in the upcoming Sandman, which I forgot a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: DC property, yep. And we got a concept art for
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the live action Bad Girl movie, so the concept art
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: obviously isn't a live action shot. It looks like a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: comic book frame, but it tells you that, you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: she's going to have a very classic kind of bad
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: girl look, she's gonna have the cowl and everything in
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the long red hair. It's still kind of has like
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that Nanni vibe. So maybe this is the new era
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: they're going into for for their superheroes, which which as
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: long as it's not monochrome, I'm happy, me too. And
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that I think is pretty much what we wanted to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: say about the stuff that wasn't meant mentioned at fandom.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: There's a lot more. So if you are a big
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: d C fan and somehow you you managed to stay
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: mom about the DC fandom announcements, you should definitely look
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: those up because there's a ton of other stuff. We
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: didn't go into the video games that are announced or
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: any of the comic book stuff, but there's a ton
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of it, and we just wanted to touch on some
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of the things that we found pretty interesting. And now
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: we're gonna mash up some d C with some Halloween
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: spooky kind of so Ariel. One thing that we got
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to see that wasn't d C related. Was we got
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to see a shot behind the scenes shot for Rob's
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Zombies upcoming Munsters adaptation film adaptation where we got to
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: see actors playing Herman, Lily and Grandpa in their fancy s.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Fancy actor cheers. Yeah, they look like the characters from
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the Munsters. And the most interesting thing to me is
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: that Rob Zombie's wife is playing Lily Munster. That's not
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: interesting to me at all. And I'll tell you why, Ariel.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: It's because he casts her and everything he does. She
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: ends up playing the lead female role in every movie
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Rob Zombie does. And um, this tells you how much
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Rob Zombie I've watched. I'll tell you. I'll just tell
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you this, Ariel. I've seen better actors. But she plays,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: she plays like she's in She's the one of the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: main characters in the House of a Thousand Corpses and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the Devil's Rejects, and like, I just you know, I
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: get I get it, but there's there's a limit to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: my my forgiveness for nepotism. But anyway, I get that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: We got to see the clip. I'm still curious as
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to what kind of tone it's going to have because
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the original Monsters was corny as heck it was. It
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: was sort of a a spoof twist on the sitcoms
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of the time, literally leave it to Beaver, Yeah, leave
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: it to Beaver, which is one of the corny is
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: shows that ever existed. So I actually watched some clips
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: from old Monsters episodes because I haven't seen that show
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: since I was a kid, and I watched us like, wow, yeah,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: laugh track out the wazoo. Uh, lots of corny jokes
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: that aren't really jokes, like it's they say something and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: then there's a big laugh response and you're like, that's
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: that's not even a joke. But but at the same time, it,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, it had a really good message to it,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: which was, you know, no matter what you like look like,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: no matter who you are, you you have worth you know. Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Actually it had very progressive approach to that sort of thing.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Herman Munster tells his son in an episode, a very
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: loving message about that about how who you are inside
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: is what matters, and it doesn't you know, whether you
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: look unusual or and he even says white, black or
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I think green or something like that, it doesn't matter.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And like that message was fantastic. Also, I will add
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that while I personally find it really corny and not
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: particularly entertaining, uh, it was the higher rated show between
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: it and The Adams Family. I was about to say
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the same exact thing. Yeah, I think I think the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Adams Family is the superior show, but it was not
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the one that it was not the one that one
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: out in the ratings. It definitely has more more of
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: an ongoing following Adams Family does. But yeah, yeah, they
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: played at the same time. And I don't know. I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: found I like both Adams Family and Munster's because they
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: focus on like more loving families. So like Adam and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Morticia Gomez are a very loving parent couple, you know.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Same with Lily and Herman. Munster Monsters I felt was
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit happier I think. Also the theme song
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: to Munsters slaps. Yeah, it does. It's one of my
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: favorite TV theme songs of all time. Um, so we
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: have decided to mash up Munsters. We we decided to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: go with d C because DC had so many announcements.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: And originally I said that Man, but but Ariel thought
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I said Superman. So we went with Superman and and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we did because mine is short and stupid awesome.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I am really afraid that we have the same exact
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: title this time. What's yours, Superman? No? Mine is super Eddy.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Oh so who do you want to go first? Um,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I'll go, I'll go first. So yes, super Herman Superman
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: because you know Herman Munster is the dad. Um. They
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: all moved from Transylvania to mocking Bird Lane. That's we
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: didn't cover that. But that's the story. Is this this
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: monster family Frankenstein, the frankstis monster Brian to Frankenstein. There
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: well were wolf Son and their Dracula grandpa moved to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: mocking Bird Lane. And then they have a niece who
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: is a normal looking person who they think is an
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: ugly ducky duckling, even though we would think she's very
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: beautiful because she's not a monster. Okay, so that's the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: monster's okay. Herman Munster was your stereotypical retro family man
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: carrying tall bolts coming out of his neck, who lived
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: with his family in a lovely gothic house on mocking
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Bird Lane. One day, while he was working at Gateman
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Good Burying Graves, which was a mortuary company, he fell
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: into an open plot and into an open casket. But
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: this casket was like none he had ever seen before.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: For one thing, it went forever, and it was superspacious,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: with like crystals and weird panels and this weird S
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: symbol everywhere. Herman didn't know why, but when he looked
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: at the symbol, it made him feel hopeful. And as
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: he felt that hope, he leaned back on one of
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the panels, and that's when he felt a sharp pain
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: in his posterior as the panel injected him in the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: rear with something, and he passed out. When Herman awoke,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he was back in the cemetery of Gaitman Goodbury in Graves.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: He explained what happened to his co workers, but no
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: one believed him, so Hermann was sent home to his
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: lovely wife, Lily and the rest. At dinner that night,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Herman started feeling feverish, and when he said the turkey
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: was cold, his eyes flared up and shot lasers out,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and he did the turkey up. Herman had a lot
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of powers, like he was super strong and immovable and stuff,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: but this had never happened before, so the family called
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: for the doctor. Upon examination, the doctor stated that Hermann's
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: blood was a bit more radioactive than normal, and he
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: ought to take a couple of aspirin and called the
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: doctor again in the morning if things didn't get better.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That night, when Hermann and his wife were sound to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: sleep in bed, Herman heard a cry for help. When
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he went to explore the noise, he realized that he
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: was super fast and could fly, and that was also new.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: He rushed to the cry, and it was his niece, Marilyn,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: who was being robbed. Herman at first was surprised that
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: anyone would be mean enough to pray on someone who
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: looked so undeniably plain as his niece, but she was
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  Speaker 1: family and he loved her no matter what, so he
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  Speaker 1: rescued her. It was a rush like Herman monster had
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  Speaker 1: never felt before. Literally, he had always been super strong,
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  Speaker 1: but dude was slow. I mean he was Frankenstein's monsters.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen his feet? He made Maryland promise not
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  Speaker 1: to tell anyone about his new changes. He bought a disguise,
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  Speaker 1: and at night, when his family was asleep, he went
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  Speaker 1: about town as Superman. It lasted about a week before
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  Speaker 1: he was sat down by his family. When he came
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  Speaker 1: home late one night to confront him about his new powers.
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  Speaker 1: You see, Marilyn had told Eddie. Eddie told Grandpa, and
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  Speaker 1: Grandpa had told Herman's wife, Lily, and now they were
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  Speaker 1: all mad at him. Herman explained that he was a
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  Speaker 1: superhero now and helping helpless people at night, and the
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  Speaker 1: family said that he could not do that without them.
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  Speaker 1: They strapped Herman down and Grandpa sampled Herman's blood and
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  Speaker 1: they all got injected with some sort of super seria
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  Speaker 1: made from it, and that's how the monsters became superheroes,
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  Speaker 1: super Herman, Superman, the Bride of Superman a k A.
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  Speaker 1: Lily Lane, Grandpa bats Sam, Eddie the beast Boy, and
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  Speaker 1: Maryland was controlled because she was Maryland. Uh. The neighbors
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  Speaker 1: never suspected anything though, because well, the monsters were a
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  Speaker 1: family of monsters and we're so weird anyhow, how could
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  Speaker 1: the neighbors tell any difference? The end? Nice? Nice? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So um, where's ours not completely similar? Which is good?
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  Speaker 1: Minus minus called minus called super Eddie. And it goes
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  Speaker 1: like this, George l has a problem. His home planet
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  Speaker 1: of Krypton is on a collision course with its own
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  Speaker 1: son as the Sun was collapsing, or maybe crypton became
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  Speaker 1: unstable due to uranium in the planet corps, or maybe
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: there was a colossal war that scarred the planet beyond
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  Speaker 1: the point of no return. Whatever doesn't matter. Joel and
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  Speaker 1: his wife Laura rushed to send their only son, cal
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  Speaker 1: L off planet in a special rocket ship, and so
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  Speaker 1: the infant cal L escapes the destruction of his home
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  Speaker 1: planet and travels across the galaxy. We cut to Mockingbird Heights,
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  Speaker 1: an idyllic town that happens to be the home of
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  Speaker 1: the Munsters. There's Herman and Lily, a loving couple who
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  Speaker 1: have been together since the late eighteen hundreds. There's the
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  Speaker 1: irascible Grandpa, and there's Herman and Lily's niece Maryland. There
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  Speaker 1: your average American family, though Herman is essentially Frankenstein's monster,
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  Speaker 1: Lily is a vampish woman, Grandpa is an outright vampire,
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  Speaker 1: and Maryland is well. The Munsters love Maryland. Herman is
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  Speaker 1: driving back home after a long day of work at
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the Undertaker's office when all of a sudden, this shooting
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  Speaker 1: star plummets out of the sky and right onto the
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  Speaker 1: hood of his car. The munster coach takes a licking
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  Speaker 1: and keeps on Revin as it were, but Herman gets
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  Speaker 1: out and to his astonishment, he discovers that inside the
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  Speaker 1: rocket is a baby. Well, he and Billy had wanted
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  Speaker 1: a child with their own, but so far had not
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  Speaker 1: been so fortunate, and so he decides to bring the
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  Speaker 1: space baby back to the Munster House at thirteen Mockingbird Lane.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Lilly immediately is enchanted by the baby. Even Grandpa is
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  Speaker 1: taken by the little tyke, and we fade out to
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  Speaker 1: see a title card that reads eight years later. The
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  Speaker 1: young Kalel, now named Eddie, fits right in with the
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  Speaker 1: Munsters at home. Like his parents, he values family and
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  Speaker 1: hard work, and like Herman, he does his best not
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  Speaker 1: to judge people on how they look, but by what's inside.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Of course, it takes him a while to realize that
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  Speaker 1: Herman didn't mean that literal, so for a while Eddie
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  Speaker 1: was going around peeping at people's guts with his X
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  Speaker 1: ray vision. But soon he gets the hangout. Like his dad,
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  Speaker 1: Eddie is really strong. He's also really fast. Also, he
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: can fly, which even Grandpa has trouble doing these days.
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  Speaker 1: He's a pretty remarkable guy from a pretty remarkable family,
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  Speaker 1: and while he does get into the occasional misadventure, he
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  Speaker 1: always learns a valuable lesson, and he also becomes really helpful.
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  Speaker 1: His cousin Marilyn helps him a lot because well, he
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  Speaker 1: he looks kind of like her, you know, kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't have pointed ears or fangs, his
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: skin isn't green or alabaster white. He doesn't have bolts
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  Speaker 1: sticking out of his neck. He feels like a bit
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: of a monster, to tell you the truth. But Marylyn,
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  Speaker 1: who also is an ugly duckling in the family, helps
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  Speaker 1: him accept who he is. We fade out and get
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  Speaker 1: another title card. Fifteen years later, Eddie has all grown
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  Speaker 1: up and has learned a lot about himself. Like he's
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  Speaker 1: not just past, he's super fast. He's not just strong,
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  Speaker 1: he's super strong, and he has the ability to help people.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, he feels obligated to help people. After all,
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  Speaker 1: his own parents helped him. They explained where he came
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  Speaker 1: from years before, and stressed that they love him just
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  Speaker 1: as they would if he had been their natural born child.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: He takes a job with the Mockingbird Heights newspaper as
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: a local reporter, but that's really a cover story. What
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: he's really up to is protecting the citizens from criminals
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  Speaker 1: and calamities. But he has to do it in secret
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't want his family bothered by reporters or
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: soldiers or police. So he's decided to adopt a superhero persona.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: But what should that be? Ultimately, he decides he wants
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to honor his grandpa. Sure, Grandpa is a bit eccentric.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Sure he occasionally laments the fact that he's not allowed
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to go on rampages anymore, but his heart's in the
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  Speaker 1: right place. Probably, It's kind of hard to say, because
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: sometimes Grandpa likes to move his heart around just in
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  Speaker 1: case someone's got a stake nearby. It's just a smart idea,
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  Speaker 1: and so Eddie formerly kell L decides to adopt a
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  Speaker 1: cost uhim that honors his grandpa. He dresses as a
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  Speaker 1: big old bat, a bat that flies around and fights crime. Yep,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: he uses the name super Bat. Over the years, super
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  Speaker 1: Bat helps the citizens of Mockingbird Heights in numerous ways,
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  Speaker 1: and he always does so by following the sweet guidance
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  Speaker 1: of his loving family. The end, Yeah, because we were
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: going to do Batman? Was it? Batmanman? You go back
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and look at that that that conversation when I first
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: suggested d C and munsters. No. Um, But here's the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: thing is that as I was like sitting down to
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: write this, and I sat there and I thought about
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the character of the monsters and the way their personas
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: come across in the show. The conclusion I came to
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: is that the monster's face Emily is like mon Paw
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Kent in the classic Superman stories, and that they would
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: instill those those values like, yeah, they're weird characters and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: they you know, they don't see monsters as being monstrous,
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  Speaker 1: but otherwise they have those those kind of pure sweet
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  Speaker 1: values at the core of them, the same as mon
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  Speaker 1: Paw Hit. So that, in my opinion, Superman would essentially
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: turn out to be kind of Superman like the way
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: we think of him in the classic sense, not not
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: not not the dark, brooding Superman that we've been saddled
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: with for the last couple of decades. But you got me. Yeah,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: that was surprisingly uplifting. I feel. Um. Yeah, yeah, no
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: one died. I didn't kill anybody in this one. I mean,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Eddie doesn't exist in this version, but I mean, but
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: he does kind of yeah, kind of, even even though
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you're kind of sticking it to me for my poor recollection.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I really liked your mashup, John, thank you. No, I'm
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I was being silly about it. Actually, I think Superman
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: was a better option than Batman, because Batman would have
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: One of the things is that a peek behind the curtain, folks,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: is that when we sit there and think about things
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: to mash up, we really are trying to look for
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: stuff that is different enough from each other that you know,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: it's not like it's it's not like a mashup is
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: just going to feel like the same thing as the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: two things we took. And so it took us a
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: while to figure this one out. And we decided to
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: go with something with d C because of fandom and
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: the Monsters, because of the monster reveal, and and that
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  Speaker 1: could have I mean, I think if we had gone
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: with Batman, it probably would have been less interesting. So
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we went with Superman. Well, you know, I
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: think we're all winners here. Ah will be even more
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: winners if anybody listening has their own version of a
• 46:53
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