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Ghostbusters of the Galaxy · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Ner Drunk Collider Podcast is a production of
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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'm Aerial casting and with
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Speaker 1: me as always is Ace reporter Jonathan Strickland. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why there's no sun up in the sky, stormy weather.
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Speaker 1: We're recording this in the middle of a big storm
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So if you hear thunder in the background,
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Speaker 1: that's not our producer going bonkers and adding Halloween soundscaping
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Speaker 1: too many months early. That's the sound of thunder in
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Speaker 1: the background. Just so you know, we don't mean it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna try our best to soldier through. However, this
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Speaker 1: does lead me to a completely unrelated question for you. Okay,
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Speaker 1: as the heavens shake around us, Ariel, I have a question.
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Speaker 1: All right, you have been given the role of executive
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Speaker 1: producer for the next big Broadway hit, and like any
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Speaker 1: good executive producer, your plan is to take something that
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Speaker 1: people already know and turn it into a musical. So
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Speaker 1: what geeky property it can be a TV series, a
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Speaker 1: comic book, it could be a movie. It can be,
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Speaker 1: but it has to already exist and be Geekie, what
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Speaker 1: do you turn into the next hit musical? I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think wand division. I know that that's probably not
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Speaker 1: as clever of an answer as I ought to give
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Speaker 1: because I use it for a lot of answers right now.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like it already lends itself to music. Well,
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Speaker 1: I feel like it ought to be a musical. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and well, and also, you know, with that particular one,
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Speaker 1: I like that that answer because you know, you think
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Speaker 1: about all the different sitcom styles that they did throughout
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Speaker 1: the show. You can imagine them doing a musical where
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Speaker 1: they do like a musical pastiche that is reminiscent of
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Speaker 1: specific eras of musicals, like you know, like the big
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Speaker 1: Golden Age of musicals, and then like the angsty sixties
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Speaker 1: and seventies stuff that came out, and then like the
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Speaker 1: bombastic eighties musicals like Phantom and Layman Is. Like, that
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Speaker 1: could be really fun. It could be, although I wonder
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Speaker 1: if it would lose some of its innate like structure
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Speaker 1: premise if it used original songs inste have jukebox musicals,
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Speaker 1: because it lends so heavily to pre existing properties. I
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Speaker 1: feel like it would almost need to be a jukebox musical.
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Speaker 1: And I know you and I do not super careful this.
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Speaker 1: I think you could do like parodies of like like
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Speaker 1: not not like an outright parody, but clearly inspired by
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Speaker 1: a specific song, because I would argue that the the
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Speaker 1: sitcoms in one division, like you could tell what the
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Speaker 1: inspiration was clearly, but it wasn't like they were directly
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Speaker 1: replicating those sitcoms. That's true. My backup choice is Richard
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Speaker 1: Corman's a Fantastic Four because, by golly, that one. I
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Speaker 1: feel like Artie is a musical just without the music.
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Speaker 1: That's all right, I like, yeah, that's the Roger Corman
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Speaker 1: but yes, yes, oh no, listen, I do it all
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Speaker 1: the time. Like after you said it, my brain was like, wait,
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Speaker 1: is that right? But that's just but no, I agree,
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Speaker 1: Fantastic Before would make an excellent musical. Okay, now what
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Speaker 1: about you Big Trouble, Little China the musical that would
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Speaker 1: be fantastic fee would be amazing? Can I feel like
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Speaker 1: it'd be akin to Beetlejuice in the amount of stage
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Speaker 1: magic it would need to be successful. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: of it as something along the lines of like Evil
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Speaker 1: Dead the musical, which is one of the most over
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Speaker 1: the top gory musical has ever made. Like, I think
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Speaker 1: something along those lines will be a lot of fun,
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Speaker 1: and uh, it's fun to talk about that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's that that's fun sort of fan discussion. A lot
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Speaker 1: of the topics we're going to talk about this week
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Speaker 1: are coming to us courtesy of Comic Con, which happened
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Speaker 1: since the last episode, And one of the things we
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Speaker 1: want to talk about at the top of the show
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Speaker 1: is a story that's, uh, you know, a sort of
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Speaker 1: frustrating one. Kevin Smith's Masters of the Universe reboots Slash
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Speaker 1: reimagining Slash sequel uh launched the first half of the
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Speaker 1: first season launched, and a lot of fans reacted, let's say, strongly,
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Speaker 1: to it. And it has one of the most unbalanced
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Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes score as I've ever seen. As we record this,
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Speaker 1: the critic score is that fresh. The audience score is
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Speaker 1: around thirty. Listen, Nature itself is angry at that because
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Speaker 1: I hear the thunder in your background. Yeah. Critically, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's really good, but fans just don't like the
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Speaker 1: fact that there's not as much he Man as some
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Speaker 1: of them expected in there. Apparently. Yeah, I feel like
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Speaker 1: a big part of this is that the expectations were
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Speaker 1: subverted to a point where some of the fans got
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Speaker 1: very very mad about it, right, Like it was this
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Speaker 1: feeling that you you promised me he Man and you
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Speaker 1: took he Man away in like the first episode, and
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Speaker 1: then I get some flashbacks, but he doesn't show up
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Speaker 1: again until episode five. Spoiler alert by the way, if
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Speaker 1: you have not watched like Arial, if you have not
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Speaker 1: watched The Masters of the Universe, Reyboot, I actually full disclosure,
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Speaker 1: I haven't watched all of it. I just know what
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Speaker 1: happens because I was following the story, and um, it
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Speaker 1: sounds to me like a lot of people kind of
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Speaker 1: jumped the gun one. They're they're reacting poorly to Tila
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Speaker 1: taking such a prominent role in the series, which by
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Speaker 1: the way, is called Masters of the Universe, it's not
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Speaker 1: called he Man um. But a lot of people are
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Speaker 1: are saying that her character is very different from the
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Speaker 1: way it had previously been established, that the transformation doesn't
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Speaker 1: feel particularly natural, and there were some other complaints, some
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Speaker 1: of which I think might have merit, But I would
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Speaker 1: argue that a lot of people I think are really
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Speaker 1: jumping the gun that the first half of this season
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Speaker 1: one is really setting up the hero's journey, which is
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Speaker 1: really just begun by the end of episode five, and
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Speaker 1: it's the second part of season one that will really
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Speaker 1: show us the journey UH moving forward. And Kevin Smith
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Speaker 1: self has not shied away from addressing people's complaints. Yeah see,
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Speaker 1: I myself has have been one to say, like, if
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Speaker 1: you're not going to follow a storyline, don't call it that.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've had that. I've had that complaint with
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Speaker 1: Disney before with things like Pete Dragon. You know, they
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Speaker 1: changed the story so much in that or or you know,
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Speaker 1: people say about the way that they changed some other
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Speaker 1: properties Pinocchio or Mary Poppins or whatnot. Call it something
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Speaker 1: new because you've changed it so much. But again, they
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Speaker 1: called it Masters of the Universe. That's just like calling
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Speaker 1: it He Man and Friends, um, and like as far
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Speaker 1: as not following to what a character sets up as
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Speaker 1: And again, you're right, I haven't watched it yet. It
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Speaker 1: is high on my to do list. It's just been
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Speaker 1: a busy week. I feel like the original show didn't
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Speaker 1: set up a whole bunch of characters very well or
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Speaker 1: very deeply, so I'm fine with them varying from that. Personally, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I feel the same way. Arial I think we were
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Speaker 1: going to originally do a full discussion about fan communities
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Speaker 1: and how fans can sometimes take not just a sense
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Speaker 1: of of love of a of a property, but almost
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Speaker 1: like a sense of ownership of it, and then they
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Speaker 1: can get vindictive if they feel like there's been some
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Speaker 1: sort of failure on the part of the creators to
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Speaker 1: give the fans what it is that the fans actually want.
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Speaker 1: It's it ends up becoming a pretty toxic part of fandom.
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Speaker 1: It's something that I've seen happened numerous times. I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously the Star Wars fandom is infamous for this, and
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Speaker 1: I've been guilty of that myself, being someone who has
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Speaker 1: fairly low opinion of any of the movies that are
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Speaker 1: outside the original trilogy. Um, although I just say I
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Speaker 1: don't really care for those movies as opposed to It's
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Speaker 1: ruined everything. So yeah, this is one of those stories
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Speaker 1: where it's kind of disappointing to see how it has
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Speaker 1: turned out. I think maybe if they had the full season.
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Speaker 1: From what I'm guessing, if if the full season had
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Speaker 1: premiered and not just the first half, a lot of
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Speaker 1: the issues that people would be upset about would be
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Speaker 1: somewhat resolved. Although you probably still have a lot of
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Speaker 1: dude bros real upset that there was a chick who
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Speaker 1: was the lead character in their dude bro male power
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Speaker 1: fantasy cartoon that was a commercial for toys back in
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Speaker 1: the eighties. Yeah, because technically those dude bros, if they
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Speaker 1: don't like changing up the characters, should also really hate
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Speaker 1: the Dolph Lunger in version of the movie. I'm just
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, um, but who can actually hate that?
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Speaker 1: Another property that you know, if they don't get it
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Speaker 1: right fans are gonna get real, real finicky about it
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Speaker 1: is Dune. And we got a new trailer for that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and uh and that that trailer really drove home that
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Speaker 1: everyone in Hollywood is cast in this movie. Oh man,
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Speaker 1: it's true. The funniest thing is re cently they released
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Speaker 1: a bunch of posters for Dune and it's got all
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Speaker 1: of the main characters faces up close. Of course, that's
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Speaker 1: all the celebrity casting, but then underneath it on social media,
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Speaker 1: I think it was on Facebook and I saw a
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Speaker 1: poster for Aquaman or an article that had a picture
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Speaker 1: of Aquaman. I'm like, that's not Jason Momoa's character in Dune.
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Speaker 1: But I mistook the Aquaman poster for one of the
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Speaker 1: Dune posters. I guess you had to be there, but
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Speaker 1: it was very funny to me. Well, and the trailer,
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Speaker 1: I think the trailer looks beautiful. I think the cinematography
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Speaker 1: looks amazing. I think the effects look really neat. I
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Speaker 1: think the realization of the world is really compelling. I
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Speaker 1: hope that this will translate into a truly like like
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Speaker 1: a lynch Pen science fiction film, one of those where
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Speaker 1: you point to that and say it's like this in
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Speaker 1: like two thousand one, and like you know you name,
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Speaker 1: like the ones that are are sort of the foundations
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Speaker 1: for great science fiction films. I think this has potential
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Speaker 1: on a technical level, and it's certainly like a lot
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Speaker 1: of the actors they've cast are phenomenal actors. So I'm
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Speaker 1: really hoping that it all coalesces. So is this one
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Speaker 1: of those movies that you would have them get rid
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Speaker 1: of all of the previous versions Version two completely reboot it,
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Speaker 1: or did you like the previous versions, like like my
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Speaker 1: theoretical would you wipe out the like a race from
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Speaker 1: Time t V? A style from Loki um Uh. I
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Speaker 1: don't you know what? I think I would probably keep
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Speaker 1: the previous version because it's such an oddity. It is
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Speaker 1: not I wouldn't call it a great film, but it
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Speaker 1: has weird and evocative moments and I wouldn't want to
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Speaker 1: lose them. Fair enough, I do feel like this trailer,
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Speaker 1: at least now it's been a very long time since
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Speaker 1: I've read Dune. Uh, it is more similar to the
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Speaker 1: source material than that original version or the first version
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Speaker 1: of Dune that I watched. It certainly feels that way
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Speaker 1: to me. Uh, But we'll have to wait and see.
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Speaker 1: I do think it looks like, if nothing else, it
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Speaker 1: looks like it's going to be breathtaking. But I really
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Speaker 1: do hope that they are able to evoke the same
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Speaker 1: sense of kind of wonder and epic storytelling that is
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Speaker 1: the first of the Dune novels. It probably makes me
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Speaker 1: wonder if they're going to try and tackle the rest,
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Speaker 1: because I think the Dune books get progressively less cinematic
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Speaker 1: as they go on, like less it would be harder
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Speaker 1: to convert them into a cinematic experience. As they go on,
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Speaker 1: they might do what other properties have done, like American
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Speaker 1: Gods and or even never Ending Story, although too great
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Speaker 1: detriment for never Ending Story, veer off in their own
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Speaker 1: creative direction within the universe. Well, we've got a couple
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Speaker 1: of other trailers we want to talk about briefly before
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Speaker 1: we go into our first break, and one of them
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Speaker 1: is a trailer for the the animated series coming out
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Speaker 1: on Adult Swim here in the US. It's also going
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Speaker 1: to be on crunchy roll and that's the Blade Runner
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Speaker 1: Black Lotus series. And uh, what did you think of
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Speaker 1: this trailer? So? I thought the voice acting was very good.
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Speaker 1: I know we talked about the voice actors in an
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Speaker 1: earlier episode of Ellen c Um that it feels like
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Speaker 1: bad c G. I to me, Wow, I had like
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Speaker 1: totally the opposite feeling. I felt like the fight scenes
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Speaker 1: looked amazing. They made me think of like the fight
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Speaker 1: sequences of Black Widow. Actually, okay, so the fight sequences
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Speaker 1: were good. The fights there there There was at least
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Speaker 1: one fight sequence where I went, wow, that looks really good,
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Speaker 1: which further drove home to me that when I was
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Speaker 1: watching characters bend their legs in there, and I don't.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a cartoon, so of course they aren't
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Speaker 1: kind of bend like a real humans or like when
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Speaker 1: they were taught gaing. The mouths didn't quite match up,
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Speaker 1: and I'm I'm not certain whether they recorded it in
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Speaker 1: uh Japanese first or in English first, so that might
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Speaker 1: be a part of the reason the mouths don't completely
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Speaker 1: match up for me, But it does give me just
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Speaker 1: enough on Canny Valley for it to be noticeable as
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Speaker 1: opposed to, oh, this is just a cartoon. Mhmm. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: I think I had a very different reaction, but I mean,
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Speaker 1: I totally get what you're saying. I think when I
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Speaker 1: saw it, I was thinking, this feels very much like
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Speaker 1: the world of Blade Runner, like that kind of industrial
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Speaker 1: neo uh. There's a lot of neon. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of like it's almost like neo retro because you've got
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Speaker 1: a lot of architecture and elements that date back to
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Speaker 1: like the early nineteen eighties but obviously projected forward. Um,
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Speaker 1: And it felt like it was true to that to me.
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Speaker 1: But I see what you're saying. I might have to
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Speaker 1: watch it again and just see. But when I saw it,
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Speaker 1: I thought I hadn't really this was on my radar,
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Speaker 1: but it was and something I was really excited about.
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Speaker 1: But this trailer actually because we want to watch the series. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I agree that like the setting, it does
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Speaker 1: feel very accurate to Blade Runner, and it had that
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Speaker 1: very noir kind of paste to it as well. So
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Speaker 1: everything I'm feeling is is just based on art style
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Speaker 1: and maybe it was just the screen I was watching
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Speaker 1: it on. So I'm definitely willing to give it a chance.
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Speaker 1: Something I wasn't completely on board with, but I am
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Speaker 1: now one bazillion percent on board with is Ghostbusters Afterlife.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like I was pretty sure I was going
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Speaker 1: to be on board, but the new trailer just came
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Speaker 1: out and I I could not be more smitten with it.
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Speaker 1: The trailer was interesting. It gave a little more character.
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Speaker 1: We got to see a little bit more about the
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Speaker 1: you know, Egon's grandchildren, which is not a spoiler that's
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Speaker 1: revealed in the trailer, and uh so we got a
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Speaker 1: little bit more time with them, which was good. We
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Speaker 1: got a little bit more of the the stay puffed
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Speaker 1: marshmallow Man sequence in the Walmart is so disturbing it is.
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Speaker 1: I'm still wondering what the tone of this movie is
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Speaker 1: going to be, like, is it going to be is
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Speaker 1: it going to have as much humor in it as
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Speaker 1: the original Ghostbusters or will it be slightly, like slightly
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Speaker 1: less on the humor side, Like it's clearly still there.
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Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's going to be like
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Speaker 1: the kind of movie where you first call it a
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Speaker 1: comedy or if it's a you know, like thriller comedy
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Speaker 1: or horror comedy or whatever. I mean, I feel like
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Speaker 1: the original Ghostbusters it had comedy, but it felt it
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Speaker 1: still felt very situational, and this feels situational. Maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: just misremembering, but that's how it feels to me. And
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Speaker 1: then like, or at least the stuff that was really
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Speaker 1: funny to me that really landed was some some of
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Speaker 1: the more situational humor in it, and then this one
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Speaker 1: feels that way as well. Albeit media has changed in
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Speaker 1: the last thirty forty I mean, yea yeah, A lot
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Speaker 1: of the a lot of the jokes in the original Ghostbusters,
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Speaker 1: not all of them, but a lot of them aren't
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Speaker 1: really as a cool today as as they were treated
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Speaker 1: back in the eighties, Like there was a lot of like, no,
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Speaker 1: you know you like me kind of stuff coming from
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Speaker 1: Peter of Inkman, which would not be cool. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: cool then. It's just wasn't called out back then. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm very curious to see more of it.
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Speaker 1: I definitely want to see this movie. I am excited
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Speaker 1: to learn more about it. I thought that seeing a
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Speaker 1: ghost trap on a uh like like on a on
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Speaker 1: a rover, like a little remote control car was kind
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Speaker 1: of a tool idea. And and seeing the couple of
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Speaker 1: cameos at least at least at minimum cameos that they
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Speaker 1: had in the trailer excited me, even though I knew
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Speaker 1: that they're going to be in the movie. Yeah, there's
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Speaker 1: a specific voice at the very end of it that
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Speaker 1: anyone who's a fan of Ghostbusters or or I guess
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Speaker 1: skull Vodka will really recognize. But yeah, I I can't
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Speaker 1: wait for this. And here's the thing, y'all. Normally we
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Speaker 1: would have a big conversation after the break to talk
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Speaker 1: about like some topic in geek culture, but we're just
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Speaker 1: scratching the surface of the geek news this week, so
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Speaker 1: we're going to take a quick break and when we
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Speaker 1: come back, we're going to talk about a few more headlines.
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Speaker 1: All Right, we're back and we've got more news for you.
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Speaker 1: And this is something we've talked about a bunch on
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Speaker 1: the show, but we're going to talk about it a
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Speaker 1: little bit more, which is the pandemic pivot to movies
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Speaker 1: happening at the same time on your streaming device as
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Speaker 1: they do in the theater. Because Warner Media has come
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Speaker 1: out saying that they are going to make at least
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Speaker 1: ten films that will debut on HBO Max the same
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Speaker 1: day they're released, and they might release in theaters. They
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Speaker 1: might even do more movies and they might release in theaters.
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Speaker 1: Is like special engagements. But they're really looking at keeping
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Speaker 1: this close release between theater and TV indefinitely. Yeah, they
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Speaker 1: they said they don't really see the possibility of going
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Speaker 1: back to the just releasing out in theaters and it
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Speaker 1: might be, you know, eight or nine months before you
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Speaker 1: have it come out to home theater. That seems to
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Speaker 1: be a thing of the past, at least for Warner
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Speaker 1: at least for now. Now knowing that Warner is going
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Speaker 1: to have a merger with Discovery, maybe that will change
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Speaker 1: when that happens. But this is something that did upset
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Speaker 1: a lot of directors back when they were first announcing it,
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Speaker 1: you know, back in when they were saying that the
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Speaker 1: movies for this year we're going to release simultaneously in
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Speaker 1: theaters and at home. A lot of directors didn't like
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Speaker 1: that because obviously what they working toward is creating a
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Speaker 1: piece of media that is meant to be experienced in
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Speaker 1: a theater, and they felt that that the audiences we're
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Speaker 1: not going to get the experience that the directors were
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Speaker 1: crafting if they were watching it at home. I counter
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Speaker 1: that with I like it when people can continue to breathe,
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Speaker 1: and so with with the ongoing pandemic and the rise
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Speaker 1: of the delta variant in particular, I think that this
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Speaker 1: is really the responsible thing to do. Like some communities,
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Speaker 1: going to the theater probably isn't that risky. Ariel and
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Speaker 1: I unfortunately live in a part of the United States
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Speaker 1: where COVID transmission rates are on the rise again, so
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Speaker 1: it's it's important to be responsible as well as you know,
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Speaker 1: support art. Yeah, it is another thing. It's not just
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Speaker 1: the viewing the art on the big screen, which I
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Speaker 1: will admit is is important. You know, there are definitely
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Speaker 1: movies that I've said, this would have been better on
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Speaker 1: the big screen. Yeah, with the full surround sound, with
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Speaker 1: being able to see all of the detail that so
21:02
Speaker 1: many people worked so many hours to put in. Watching
21:05
Speaker 1: watching King Kong throw a right cross at at Godzilla,
21:09
Speaker 1: I mean, like you just don't get that effect even
21:11
Speaker 1: if you have a pretty big TV. Well, and the
21:13
Speaker 1: other thing is uh, like, for instance, when I watched
21:16
Speaker 1: Black Widow, some of the c g I looked very
21:19
Speaker 1: c g I, and I had a conversation with a
21:22
Speaker 1: friend about it. A lot of times when I'm watching
21:25
Speaker 1: television on a like an on an h D TV,
21:28
Speaker 1: specifically not on the big screen, stuff that looks really
21:31
Speaker 1: amazing on a movie screen looks very fake or set
21:36
Speaker 1: or c g I to me on a television just
21:40
Speaker 1: because of the light and the resolution and the color
21:42
Speaker 1: and all that. So that can definitely take you out
21:45
Speaker 1: of it. I know for my friend it did with
21:46
Speaker 1: Black Widow with some of the fight sequences. But also
21:50
Speaker 1: you know, movie theaters are stressed about this because if
21:54
Speaker 1: it releases at the same time on TV as it
21:56
Speaker 1: does in theater, people don't have as much of a
22:00
Speaker 1: reason to go to the theater if they were maybe
22:02
Speaker 1: on the fence about it, They'll just rent it at home.
22:06
Speaker 1: You know. That happened again with Black Widow and so
22:09
Speaker 1: I had a really great opening weekend, but then sales
22:11
Speaker 1: kind of heatered off, and they said that that was
22:14
Speaker 1: you know, due to the fact that people could rent
22:16
Speaker 1: it on Disney Plus. Now it was expensive to rent
22:20
Speaker 1: it on Disney Plus. With HBO Max, like, we're getting done.
22:22
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any cost to watch it. So
22:25
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure how they're buffering that part of
22:28
Speaker 1: the box office, to be honest. You know that when
22:30
Speaker 1: it comes to things like figuring out how much of
22:34
Speaker 1: a take subscription services are providing, Like you know, you
22:40
Speaker 1: can try and map it to the number of people
22:42
Speaker 1: who sign up for new subscriptions, but even that's not
22:46
Speaker 1: an apples to apples comparison. It's it's a problem that
22:49
Speaker 1: Hollywood has been trying to grapple with for a while, because,
22:54
Speaker 1: like Netflix has been doing this for a while, right,
22:56
Speaker 1: Netflix keeps coming up with original programming, But how do
23:01
Speaker 1: you measure the success of that. I mean, Netflix has
23:04
Speaker 1: metrics on how many people watched it, but unless it
23:08
Speaker 1: moves the needle into how many people are subscribing and
23:11
Speaker 1: paying month after month to have Netflix. It can start
23:16
Speaker 1: to get hard to justify those expenses. And I think
23:19
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a lot of media companies kind of
23:21
Speaker 1: grapple with this. We might see things like like movie
23:24
Speaker 1: budgets take a big cut in the long run if
23:28
Speaker 1: things don't, you know, level out. But yeah, might might
23:34
Speaker 1: all become Space Jam two, which was which I think
23:39
Speaker 1: had more commercials per second than anything else I've ever
23:42
Speaker 1: seen in my life. Did you watch Space Jam two?
23:45
Speaker 1: I watched. I watched, Uh, I kind of watched commentaries
23:51
Speaker 1: about Space Jam two. I'll be fair. I did not
23:55
Speaker 1: watch because I I've never seen the first Space Jam,
23:58
Speaker 1: so I don't know that jumping straight into the sequel
24:01
Speaker 1: is really the right move for me. I wouldn't know
24:03
Speaker 1: any of the characters or the more who's this bugs
24:08
Speaker 1: Bunny character? What is up? Doc? You wouldn't get the
24:13
Speaker 1: in jokes between the first and the second one. Maybe
24:17
Speaker 1: the joke pretty unlikely. I get the joke about bringing
24:20
Speaker 1: in Michael B. Jordan's and instead of Michael Jordan's, which
24:25
Speaker 1: is a great segue to our next news item. Hey, yes,
24:30
Speaker 1: which and also HBO, which is that Michael B. Jordan's
24:34
Speaker 1: is working on a limited series for HBO. Uh, that's
24:38
Speaker 1: a Superman series. Yeah, with the character of val Zod,
24:43
Speaker 1: a character from Earth Too in d C comics. So
24:47
Speaker 1: this is not a reimagining of Clark Kent, but rather
24:51
Speaker 1: the introduction of a character that has been in the
24:54
Speaker 1: comic books but now will be in a live series.
24:58
Speaker 1: This would not be a movie, but a series, and
25:01
Speaker 1: uh sounds to me like it would be a really
25:04
Speaker 1: interesting or potentially a really interesting series. Like the challenge
25:09
Speaker 1: with Superman, of course, is always how do you create
25:12
Speaker 1: a compelling story for a character who has practically no weaknesses?
25:16
Speaker 1: But I have I have a feeling that this would
25:19
Speaker 1: be an interesting take on that. I feel like Valsad
25:22
Speaker 1: automatically has an interesting story because in the comics he's
25:26
Speaker 1: from Earth Too, and he takes over when Kalel is killed.
25:31
Speaker 1: So the original the Superman we We Knew, like the
25:34
Speaker 1: Christopher Reeves Superman um is killed um by dark Side, which, yeah,
25:39
Speaker 1: dark Side kills a lot of a lot of superheroes
25:41
Speaker 1: in the comics and then they come back and sometimes
25:44
Speaker 1: and sometimes they don't, and sometimes there's a flashpoint and
25:46
Speaker 1: it's just, uh, you know, it's it's always interesting because
25:50
Speaker 1: half the time when you I'm going off of any truck. Now,
25:52
Speaker 1: half the time when I watch dark Side, either in
25:54
Speaker 1: like a sex neither movie or a cartoon movie that's
25:58
Speaker 1: like straight to streaming or straight to DVD or whatever,
26:02
Speaker 1: I'm like, half the time I'm like, oh man, dark
26:04
Speaker 1: Side so big, bad and powerful, And half the time
26:06
Speaker 1: I'm like, dark Side is just such a dumb dork.
26:13
Speaker 1: I will say he has not been handled with consistency.
26:16
Speaker 1: That is true. But one thing I will say, as
26:19
Speaker 1: I consistently like Michael B. Jordan's performance, and I really
26:22
Speaker 1: liked Raising Dion, So you know, we've seen a little
26:25
Speaker 1: bit of him both being a superhero slash supervillain and
26:29
Speaker 1: also I don't know if you can call kill Monger supervillain,
26:32
Speaker 1: but um yeah you can, you can, okay, And then
26:36
Speaker 1: you know we've also seen his directorial side of superhero
26:40
Speaker 1: dum With Raising Dion, it was such a good it
26:43
Speaker 1: was such a great like series. It was endearing, and
26:47
Speaker 1: it surprised me at times, and it really dealt with
26:49
Speaker 1: like interpersonal relationships without taking away the super aspect of it.
26:54
Speaker 1: So like Superman, and Lois is so much at home
26:59
Speaker 1: slice of life that it doesn't feel very supermanny to me.
27:02
Speaker 1: So I think he's got a really good grasp on
27:05
Speaker 1: how to balance that. Mm hmm, agreed. And to round
27:09
Speaker 1: out our news in this one, we had so many
27:12
Speaker 1: like it was hard to choose which stories we're going
27:14
Speaker 1: to talk about because for the ones that we're including
27:17
Speaker 1: there there at least you know, ten that we didn't
27:19
Speaker 1: touch on. But this one's close to our hearts, and
27:24
Speaker 1: that is that. Polygon reports that the Bone animated series
27:29
Speaker 1: for Netflix is taking formation that they have their creative
27:34
Speaker 1: team in place, and Bone, for those who do not know,
27:38
Speaker 1: it was a self published comic book, started off that
27:41
Speaker 1: way anyway that has uh, It's set in a fantasy world.
27:46
Speaker 1: It's kind of got an epic fantasy feel to it,
27:49
Speaker 1: with some rather cartoonish characters who have remarkable personalities and
27:56
Speaker 1: perseverance and bravery, and it's just a very charming fantasy story.
28:03
Speaker 1: One of my favorite comics ever. And we were so
28:07
Speaker 1: excited when we first heard that this was going to
28:09
Speaker 1: become an animated series, and now I think I'm even
28:12
Speaker 1: more excited. Why are you more excited? Well, because the
28:16
Speaker 1: creator of Bone has talked about how during the pandemic,
28:21
Speaker 1: So the pandemic sidelined the production of Bone, just as
28:25
Speaker 1: it did numerous other projects. Right, And meanwhile, here's the
28:30
Speaker 1: creator of Bone watching all these different animated series and saying, Wow,
28:34
Speaker 1: I really like this person's work, and Wow, I really
28:36
Speaker 1: like that person's work, and it wouldn't it be great
28:39
Speaker 1: to get someone like this to work on Bone. And
28:42
Speaker 1: he said that because of the length of the pandemic
28:46
Speaker 1: and how that impacted everyone's schedules, it just so happened
28:50
Speaker 1: that he was able to get every single person who
28:53
Speaker 1: was on his wish list to come on board and
28:56
Speaker 1: be part of the team. So he's got a dream
29:00
Speaker 1: and he won't he he didn't say who they were
29:02
Speaker 1: because he said he didn't want to steal Netflix is Thunder,
29:05
Speaker 1: but he said that the people on his wish list
29:08
Speaker 1: are now actually working on the show. I'm I'm also
29:13
Speaker 1: very excited for that. I I'm interested to see if it.
29:18
Speaker 1: I feel like Bone rides a very fine line between
29:22
Speaker 1: being enjoyable for adults and children, and I wonder if
29:25
Speaker 1: it will keep that or if it will lean more
29:28
Speaker 1: towards one demographic or the other in the Netflix show.
29:31
Speaker 1: I would love to see it kind of stay true
29:33
Speaker 1: to itself because I think it's the sort of thing
29:35
Speaker 1: that had I read it when I was maybe ten
29:38
Speaker 1: or twelve, I would have really been into But even
29:41
Speaker 1: as an adult, I read into it and I'm like, like,
29:45
Speaker 1: there's some elements. There's some pretty dark elements in Bone.
29:48
Speaker 1: Nothing nothing to the point where I think it's darker
29:50
Speaker 1: than say, Lord of the Rings, right, I think it's
29:53
Speaker 1: on the same sort of level as that, But Lord
29:56
Speaker 1: the Rings does have moments that are pretty dark, especially
29:58
Speaker 1: if you're a little kid trying to read the his
30:00
Speaker 1: books and you're like dealing with the fact that that
30:04
Speaker 1: major characters die and you're like, this is this is
30:06
Speaker 1: so not the way characters and kids books like, they
30:10
Speaker 1: don't die in kids books typically, so so that sort
30:13
Speaker 1: of thing is uh, you know, a little rough for kids,
30:17
Speaker 1: but I think it would be a shame if they
30:20
Speaker 1: strayed too far away from the tone of the original comics.
30:25
Speaker 1: I agree. However, we're going to stray away for a
30:28
Speaker 1: quick break, and when we come back, we are gonna
30:32
Speaker 1: do something that I think both kids and adults would like,
30:36
Speaker 1: gonna mash up yeah, so who are you gonna call?
30:40
Speaker 1: Not me? Well, after that masterful segue from my wonderful
31:01
Speaker 1: co host, Areal smooth as butter, we're going to We're
31:06
Speaker 1: gonna do our mash up, now, our mash up. So
31:09
Speaker 1: one of the other stories that we didn't really cover,
31:10
Speaker 1: because really the story is minimal, is that, hey, Guardians
31:15
Speaker 1: of the Galaxy's sequel has a title. It's exactly what
31:19
Speaker 1: you thought it was gonna be. Its Guards of the
31:20
Speaker 1: Galaxy Volume three, Like everyone knew it was going to
31:23
Speaker 1: be that, but now, uh, it's been confirmed that that
31:27
Speaker 1: is in fact the title. So in case you were wondering,
31:31
Speaker 1: but we thought we would mash that up with Ghostbusters
31:35
Speaker 1: since we got the trailer for Ghostbusters afterlife, Um, who
31:40
Speaker 1: you want to go first? Areal, I'll go first? All right?
31:46
Speaker 1: From tradition, all right, this is called Ghostbusters of the Galaxy.
31:50
Speaker 1: The year is The Ghostbusters are all living unfulfilling lives
31:54
Speaker 1: in New York after saving it from Gozer. However, despite
31:57
Speaker 1: not working together any longer, Peter Ray, Egon Winston, and
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Speaker 1: Jeanine decide one night to meet up for dinner, just
32:03
Speaker 1: for old time's sake. Dinner, However, was not off to
32:07
Speaker 1: a great start. The appetizers were cold and the drinks
32:10
Speaker 1: were watery, and they were seated right next to the restroom.
32:14
Speaker 1: Peter Vankman was the first person to get fed up
32:17
Speaker 1: with the situation and pushed for the party to leave.
32:19
Speaker 1: They all agreed, but as soon as they stepped out
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Speaker 1: of the restaurant, they were all blinded by a bright light.
32:24
Speaker 1: When they could see again, they were no longer outside,
32:27
Speaker 1: but in what Egod could only deduce was a spaceship
32:30
Speaker 1: of some sort. As they started to look around to
32:33
Speaker 1: find a way to leave, they came face to face
32:36
Speaker 1: with a whistling blue man, who, as soon as he
32:38
Speaker 1: saw them, exclaimed, you aren't an eight year old kid?
32:41
Speaker 1: Who the heck are you? That's really bad? You want
32:44
Speaker 1: to impression all? Uh. Peter stepped up and said, I'm
32:47
Speaker 1: Peter Vankman and we are the Ghostbusters. Who the hell
32:50
Speaker 1: are you gone? So I'm yondo, replied the blue man.
32:53
Speaker 1: Dang get Craig Ln, you grabbed the wrong Peter. Does
32:55
Speaker 1: this idiot look like a kid to you? Craig Ln
32:58
Speaker 1: argued back, how the heck of ies ppposed to know?
33:00
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen one before? Yanda screamed, well, now
33:03
Speaker 1: we're going to have to waste our time killing these fools,
33:06
Speaker 1: and the Ghostbusters watched in amazement as these two bizarre
33:08
Speaker 1: creatures who they didn't think we're ghosts argued and threatened
33:11
Speaker 1: to kill them, but just then they heard something shattered.
33:15
Speaker 1: The thing that shattered, it turns out, was a glass
33:19
Speaker 1: jar full of some slime that Egon had found in
33:21
Speaker 1: an underground series see. Egon was hoping to get the
33:23
Speaker 1: team back together and brought it to dinner to discuss
33:26
Speaker 1: with them. However, all of the fighting between Yonda and
33:29
Speaker 1: Craggling causes time to grow and burst out of its container,
33:31
Speaker 1: and Egon stuff will and start to expand. Ray yelled,
33:35
Speaker 1: you brought volatile ghost stuff into a restaurant, Egon. That's
33:38
Speaker 1: not sanitary, and the Ghostbusters started to argue too. Janine,
33:42
Speaker 1: who was also along for this inane ride, figured she
33:45
Speaker 1: ought to pipe in. Hey I'm Janine, she stated, but
33:48
Speaker 1: no one seemed to hear her. I am Janine, she
33:51
Speaker 1: stated again, before realizing nobody cared and she was stuck
33:55
Speaker 1: in space with a bunch of idiots, so she just
33:57
Speaker 1: shook her head in frustration. As a room filled with
34:00
Speaker 1: more and more arguing and negative emotion. The slime continued
34:02
Speaker 1: to expand until they exploded into space, but as it
34:06
Speaker 1: did so, the whole of the spaceship filled with hundreds
34:08
Speaker 1: of angry dead ghosts of yon DU's former crewmates who
34:11
Speaker 1: had been dispatched in one way or or another, and
34:14
Speaker 1: they started to close in around yond He called his
34:17
Speaker 1: fancy arrow thing, but it seemed to not phase the
34:20
Speaker 1: ghosts at all, and Peter saw his opportunity. He offered
34:24
Speaker 1: to help rescue Yonder from the eventual ghosts if Yondu
34:27
Speaker 1: would not kill them and return them home. Yondo said deal,
34:31
Speaker 1: and so the ghostbusters ran around the ship to make
34:34
Speaker 1: some makeshift proton packs and busted all the ghosts, at
34:36
Speaker 1: which point Yonda agreed to send them home. Winston, excited
34:40
Speaker 1: about being back at their ghostbusting ways and less than
34:43
Speaker 1: eager to return to being a bad children's performers, said,
34:46
Speaker 1: you know, some of that slime did escape the ship.
34:49
Speaker 1: It would be irresponsible to leave it out there doing
34:51
Speaker 1: who knows what, and Peter said, yeah, I'm not in
34:54
Speaker 1: a rush to get home either. Hey, Gonzo, can we
34:56
Speaker 1: have a ship? Um? Hey, Egon, can you pilot a
34:59
Speaker 1: ship up, and Yonda agreed it was the least he
35:02
Speaker 1: could do, so he outfitted the Ghostbusters to stop the slime.
35:06
Speaker 1: Just then, Cragland noticed the ignored party member. He waggled
35:09
Speaker 1: his eyebrow at her and said, so, who are you,
35:10
Speaker 1: sweet stuff? And she sighed and said yet again, I'm Janine.
35:16
Speaker 1: As a Ghostbusters suited up and launched into space, they
35:19
Speaker 1: find a tape in the ship's dash. They pop it
35:22
Speaker 1: in and their theme begins to play. We cut to
35:25
Speaker 1: this slime, ever growing, zooming through space, and millions of
35:29
Speaker 1: space ghosts popping up around it. As the slime reaches
35:32
Speaker 1: the horizon, however, it's all of a sudden eaten by
35:35
Speaker 1: another huge object hurtling towards us, a giant stay phuffed
35:39
Speaker 1: marshmallow Man, the Devourer of Worlds. I like your version
35:44
Speaker 1: of Galactus. Thank you. I can't wait to meet their herald.
35:50
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I did set it up for a sequel
35:53
Speaker 1: or three. That's great. You always have to do that, Okay, alright,
35:57
Speaker 1: mine is called Ghostbusters of the Galaxy. I mean, what
36:00
Speaker 1: else are we gonna call it? Here we go. Peter
36:04
Speaker 1: quill A k A star lord, has a problem. Actually
36:09
Speaker 1: he has several problems. One is that Gomera, the woman
36:13
Speaker 1: he cares about, has run off because she's actually a
36:15
Speaker 1: Gomura from another timeline, and it would take too long
36:17
Speaker 1: to get into all of it. But another problem is
36:20
Speaker 1: that he and the remaining Guardians of the Galaxy have
36:23
Speaker 1: found themselves stranded in New York City as their ship,
36:26
Speaker 1: the ben Attar, is in serious need of repairs. It's
36:30
Speaker 1: currently perched, some might say, teetering on the top of
36:34
Speaker 1: Avenger's tower. Rocket and Groot are working on it, but
36:38
Speaker 1: they need parts, and it turns out Earth isn't the
36:41
Speaker 1: best planet to land on if you need to overhaul
36:44
Speaker 1: your intergalactic transmission. Parts cost money, and they are fresh
36:49
Speaker 1: out of Earth bucks. So the crew comes to the
36:51
Speaker 1: conclusion that one of them needs to get a job,
36:54
Speaker 1: and that one is Peter because he's human mostly, I mean,
36:59
Speaker 1: he's half human. It would take too long to get
37:01
Speaker 1: into that too. Peter is not thrilled about this. He
37:05
Speaker 1: knows the private sector expects results. But then he sees
37:09
Speaker 1: an ad in the paper. An extermination company is looking
37:13
Speaker 1: to hire, but not just any extermination company, it's one
37:16
Speaker 1: called the Ghostbusters. Quill makes his way to an old
37:20
Speaker 1: fire fighting station and finds the Ghostbusters HQ, and he
37:24
Speaker 1: walks in and immediately applies for the job, whereupon he's
37:28
Speaker 1: accepted without hesitation. Uh so I don't need to do
37:33
Speaker 1: an interview or anything, he says. Listen, kids says the
37:36
Speaker 1: office manager looks like you got most of your parts
37:39
Speaker 1: and you can carry some weight, so you're hired. Will
37:42
Speaker 1: is then brought into a conference room with a big
37:44
Speaker 1: screen in it, and before he knows that he's watching
37:46
Speaker 1: an orientation video, and on the screen are these four
37:50
Speaker 1: shlubby guys and even shlubby or cover rolls carrying ridiculous
37:54
Speaker 1: huge equipment. And they explained that they founded the company
37:58
Speaker 1: back in the eighties and that things got really wild,
38:01
Speaker 1: and then they quieted down a bit, but eventually ghosts
38:04
Speaker 1: began popping up again, and so they franchised the company
38:07
Speaker 1: and now they take more of a behind the scenes role. Quill,
38:11
Speaker 1: barely paying attention, gets through the orientation and next thing
38:14
Speaker 1: he knows, he's given his own set of coveralls, which
38:17
Speaker 1: he reluctantly puts on. And then the call comes in
38:22
Speaker 1: and Quill finds himself jostled into a group with three
38:25
Speaker 1: other ghostbusters. There's um shoot. I should name them Benny
38:30
Speaker 1: and Roberta and Dominique first time, says Dominique, who is
38:36
Speaker 1: clearly the sympathetic one. We're setting up here fighting ghosts.
38:42
Speaker 1: No no, I thought ghost slots of times, just you know,
38:46
Speaker 1: not here on earth, says Quill. Mhm, says Dominique. Well,
38:51
Speaker 1: let's consider this a ride along until you get your
38:54
Speaker 1: feet under you. So Quill is whisked off to get
38:58
Speaker 1: inside this weird station wagon like car. It's called the
39:00
Speaker 1: Ecto eighteen, and they rush off to an apartment building
39:04
Speaker 1: on top of a deli, and apparently there's some rat
39:07
Speaker 1: king ghost up there, you know, rat kings. They get
39:09
Speaker 1: their tails all nodded together and they begin this terrifying
39:12
Speaker 1: ball of rats. Anyway, there's a ghost one roaming this building.
39:16
Speaker 1: So the Ghostbusters, including Quill, go in and Dominique hands
39:20
Speaker 1: Quill a ghost trap. When I signal, you slide this
39:24
Speaker 1: under the ghost, she says, and Quill nods in. The
39:26
Speaker 1: group hunts down the ghost, using p k e meters
39:29
Speaker 1: to track it down, and they find the rat king
39:31
Speaker 1: ghost at the end of the hallway, and the ghostbusters
39:34
Speaker 1: all whip out their little proton wants and these days.
39:37
Speaker 1: They're much smaller than the nineteen eighties models, but they
39:40
Speaker 1: still pack a huge energy punch, with that wibbly wobbly
39:43
Speaker 1: lines of proton energy that can cleave you in Twain.
39:46
Speaker 1: And so Quill has to dodge a couple of times
39:49
Speaker 1: as the rat king ghost and the proton beams fly around.
39:52
Speaker 1: It's real funny now, yells Dominique, and the rat king
39:56
Speaker 1: ghost gets trapped in some beams and Quill slides the
39:59
Speaker 1: trap under it, and the trap opens up in a
40:01
Speaker 1: bright light shines and Quill is temporarily blinded, and the
40:04
Speaker 1: team nabs their ghost. Not bad rookie's, Dominique. You didn't
40:08
Speaker 1: even freeze out there. Most folks split the first time
40:10
Speaker 1: to see a ghost. Wasn't my first time, says Quill,
40:14
Speaker 1: who is totally facing the wrong direction over here. Buddy,
40:18
Speaker 1: your site will come back. Just give it a little time,
40:20
Speaker 1: says Dominique, and that begins Quill's short career as a ghostbuster.
40:24
Speaker 1: We then get a montage of him going on different
40:26
Speaker 1: calls using a proton wand at first very ineffectively because
40:31
Speaker 1: the power gets away from them. He causes way too
40:33
Speaker 1: much collateral damage, but gradually he gets to the point
40:36
Speaker 1: where he's almost competent with it, and then we also
40:39
Speaker 1: see him getting checks, which he then sheepishly hands over
40:42
Speaker 1: to Rocket and Groot to take it to, presumably by
40:46
Speaker 1: parts for the ship. And then we also see montages
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Speaker 1: of Rocket and Grout getting new threads and sunglasses, and
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Speaker 1: Groot gets a new Nintendo switch and stuff, but they
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Speaker 1: always hide it whenever Quill comes back around. We pick
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Speaker 1: up a against sometime later, and several weeks have gone by,
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Speaker 1: and Quill is crawling through these air ducts quietly, and
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Speaker 1: there's this creepy music playing, and he's getting the drop
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Speaker 1: on a musical ghost that's haunting a Broadway stage. It's
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Speaker 1: floating close to the stage is ghost light, and it's
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Speaker 1: singing old show tune standards. And just as he's about
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Speaker 1: to get to event where he plans to open up
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Speaker 1: the vent and then just shoot this ghost from above,
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Speaker 1: the duct work gives way and he crashes down twenty
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Speaker 1: ft to the stage. But this is Marvel, and characters
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Speaker 1: can fall a very long way without actually getting hurt
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Speaker 1: unless they pass a certain threshold, at which point they
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Speaker 1: totally die, and there's no way that version of the
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Speaker 1: character is ever coming back. Fortunately, that high is actually
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Speaker 1: higher than twenty feet, so he's okay. What follows is
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Speaker 1: a musical battle as the Ghost and Quill do this
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Speaker 1: crazy awesome duet of you're the one that I want
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Speaker 1: from Greece, but it ends with Quill single handedly zapping
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Speaker 1: the Ghost in trapfingeer take a bow, sis, he says
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Speaker 1: to no one. Then we see him return to Avenger's
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Speaker 1: Tower with his most recent paycheck, and Drax sees him
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Speaker 1: before he goes to meet with Rocket and Groot. When
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Speaker 1: do we leave this place? Says Drags. Jack's come on,
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Speaker 1: you know we have to fix the ship, says Quill.
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Speaker 1: The furry one fixed the ship. It has been fixed
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Speaker 1: for twenty earth days, says Drags. Wait they fixed the ship,
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Speaker 1: says Quill. Yes, how are you so bad at the
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Speaker 1: language you grew up with? Asks Drags. Quill stomps over
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Speaker 1: to the ship. Oh, says Rocket. I am Groot, says
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Speaker 1: Groot apologetically. I don't want to hear it from you,
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Speaker 1: says Quill to group. He points at Rocket. You are
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Speaker 1: in so much trouble. Hey, I can explain, says Rocket,
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Speaker 1: and after a moment of Quill staring at him, Rocket
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Speaker 1: says I really wanted a leather jacket, but I was
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Speaker 1: a bit short, So like, if you have that paycheck,
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Speaker 1: quill ushers them into the ship. Then the process he
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Speaker 1: slaps a sticker on the side of the Benettar, a
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Speaker 1: sticker with a ghost in the middle of a circle
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Speaker 1: with a slash across it. Ben at are a k A.
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Speaker 1: The Ecto nineteen becomes the ship for the Ghostbusters of
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Speaker 1: the Galaxy. We get credits and some cool eighties music
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Speaker 1: on top of pictures of the crew all dressed in
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Speaker 1: cover roles and fighting space ghosts, including space ghost the end. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I absolutely loved it. Um, thanks for ruining Guardians of
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Speaker 1: the Galaxy Volume three for me, but I still absolutely
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Speaker 1: loved it. Yeah. Go Moura ironically doesn't show up in
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Speaker 1: it at all. Yeah, but you do get space ghosts,
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Speaker 1: so there's something right, you might get brack, you know
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Speaker 1: who knows. I almost put space ghost specific in mind
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Speaker 1: instead of just a bunch of generic space ghosts as well,
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Speaker 1: but now I'm glad I didn't. Yeah. No, when you
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Speaker 1: were getting to the space ghost part, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: we might both have the same joke, And that's the
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Speaker 1: way that I end mine, But yeah, this one was fun.
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Speaker 1: I mean obviously, like both Ghostbusters and Guardians of the
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Speaker 1: Galaxy have those comedic elements to them, so they both
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Speaker 1: kind of lend themselves to zany humor, particularly humor at
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Speaker 1: the expense of the protagonist, right, Like like like the Guardians
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Speaker 1: of the Galaxy movies frequently have Peter Quill getting it
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Speaker 1: way over his head and that's part of the comedy.
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Speaker 1: It's very similar to stuff you would see in like
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Speaker 1: Indiana Jones movies. It's one of those things that really
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Speaker 1: appeals to me. I agree it appeals to me as well. Well,
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Speaker 1: if it appeals to you and you've got your own
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Speaker 1: version of how you think these two properties would be
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Speaker 1: We like that thing you do. It's so true. Still
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Speaker 1: stuck on Broadway, huh. Anyhow well that was a Hollywood musical,
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