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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 nor
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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 Ariel casting and with
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Speaker 1: me as always though not on our usual day, is
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I have to catch them all you do,
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Speaker 1: So that's a little that's a little peek until later
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Speaker 1: on because Pokemon our in our mashup. But we also
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Speaker 1: feel that way about the news stories this week. There's
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Speaker 1: a ton of them, and that's saying something. We're recording
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Speaker 1: this on Monday because of reasons, and so yeah, we
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Speaker 1: normally record on Tuesday nights, so we're recording on Monday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: which means that by the time this episode goes out
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Speaker 1: on Thursday, there will be more news. But yeah, we've
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Speaker 1: reached a point where news is hitting like crazy level.
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Speaker 1: So we once again have two segments of news to
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Speaker 1: bring to you, dear listeners. But before we get to
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Speaker 1: any of that, Arial m I have a question for you. Okay,
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Speaker 1: here is your question. Arial, what weapon in fantasy or
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Speaker 1: science fiction would you most want to get hold of
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Speaker 1: Great Acts. So not a not a specific weapon, just
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Speaker 1: a Great Acts because that's like an actual weapon that
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Speaker 1: you could get. I'm like saying, like a fantasy or
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Speaker 1: science fiction weapon, like something that does not really exist.
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Speaker 1: You didn't say doesn't really exist. You just said any weapon,
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Speaker 1: and like, okay, So I I larned for a while.
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Speaker 1: My favorite LARP character ever was a Barbarian and I
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Speaker 1: had this giant boffer Great Acts that I called your
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Speaker 1: Mom and uh it was a bad joke that just
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Speaker 1: never went away. Um, and it was my favorite thing
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Speaker 1: ever to swing around. So I'd like a real Great Acts, Okay,
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Speaker 1: But if it were an imaginary yeah, like something that's
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Speaker 1: actually I mean, okay, Great Acts is the your go
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Speaker 1: to weapon in the real world, but yeah, any any
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Speaker 1: sort of fantasy or science fiction weapon that does not
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Speaker 1: necessarily actually exist. Um, you know, I'd say the Sword
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Speaker 1: in the Stone, not because I want to be the
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Speaker 1: King of England, but because I want to have the
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Speaker 1: bragging rights. What about you? Okay, I'm not gonna lie.
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Speaker 1: My choice was Excalibur, so very similar because the Sword
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Speaker 1: in the Stone and Excalibur are not always the same sword.
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Speaker 1: It all depends on which Marthurian legend you're looking at.
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Speaker 1: Excalibur sometimes is the one that is given by the
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Speaker 1: lady in the lake to Arthur. Uh, and the Sword
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Speaker 1: in the Stone is a different sword, then that's the one.
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Speaker 1: Whomever shall holp pull the sword from the stone shall
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Speaker 1: be king of all England. So but it is funny
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Speaker 1: because I literally was like Excalibur and then you said
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Speaker 1: that went well, I guess we're on the same page. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: It just I worry about our mash up. Now, Like
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Speaker 1: I said, I don't well, truth, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: fight you to be the king of England. So I
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Speaker 1: will just go to my backup imaginary weapon since a
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Speaker 1: great acts wasn't good enough and you've already claimed Excalibur,
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Speaker 1: and I'll just say I want mume you. Okay, that's fair,
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Speaker 1: all right, Owner, I know you might. But see, that's
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Speaker 1: the thing is that if you're not worthy, then you
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Speaker 1: just have a immovable paper weight. Look, if I'm giving
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Speaker 1: up the sword in the Stone, that means I am
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Speaker 1: worthy to carry meal there. I think it'd be hilarious
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Speaker 1: if you had the sword in the stone, but you're
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Speaker 1: not actually King of England, so you just literally have
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Speaker 1: a big rock with the sword sticking out of it.
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Speaker 1: And I've got and I've got a wet woman holding
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Speaker 1: a weapon. Yes, yes, but but you know, here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: If I can carry meal nerd, then I can also
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Speaker 1: probably pick up the stone on top of the sword
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Speaker 1: if I can't pull it out, and just whack people
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Speaker 1: with that. Like see when I was first coming up,
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Speaker 1: when I was first coming up with the idea for
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Speaker 1: questions for this show, this is exactly the kind of
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Speaker 1: conversation I was hoping we would have, because it's the
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Speaker 1: sort of thing, the geeky conversations that kids have with
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Speaker 1: each other, and then they have to find ways to
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Speaker 1: one up one another. But we do need to get
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Speaker 1: to the news, and our first story is a serious one.
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Speaker 1: This is this is not like a super happy, fun story,
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Speaker 1: but rather that you may have heard that the International
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Speaker 1: Alliance of Theater Stage Employees a k A Yachts not yatzi,
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Speaker 1: but IATs that they are contemplating they're going to take
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Speaker 1: a vote on a potential union strike. Now, this particular group,
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Speaker 1: it consists of a lot of people who work behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes on stuff like the various series and movies
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Speaker 1: you find on things like streaming services. Yeah, so they're
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Speaker 1: the people who do like the electrical and the set
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Speaker 1: building and costumes and props and and a lot of
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Speaker 1: the back end behind the scenes stuff. And their complaints
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Speaker 1: are that the streaming services typically are sidestepping regulations that
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Speaker 1: would usually be in place for things like your standard
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Speaker 1: TV series and your standard films. For example. One of
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Speaker 1: the big ones is that you might find that you
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Speaker 1: have a late night shoot on a Friday night and
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Speaker 1: then you have a morning call on Saturday, and you
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Speaker 1: have you know, you're spending like a couple of hours
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Speaker 1: at home and you're getting all this extra time butt
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Speaker 1: in and it's just working you to exhaustion where you're
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Speaker 1: falling over because you're you're being worked to death and
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Speaker 1: there's no real protection there. So that's what the union.
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Speaker 1: The union meeting about voting for a strike is all
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Speaker 1: about about whether or not enough people support a strike
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Speaker 1: to demand more protections. And and right now a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of the other unions do so. SAG
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Speaker 1: after I was usually for Actors UM and they support it.
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Speaker 1: Frank Dresser is currently the head of that if you
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Speaker 1: don't know who she is, she played the nanny on
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Speaker 1: The Nanny Um. But you know, so actors tend to
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Speaker 1: get like a set day that's kind of a healthier
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Speaker 1: work day and then paid over time, and NATSI doesn't
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Speaker 1: have that. For streaming services there under a new media
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Speaker 1: contract which at the time that I think those you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on this. At the time the
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Speaker 1: contracts are written up, Netflix and all that were kind
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Speaker 1: of all new in testing the waters. But now they're like,
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Speaker 1: they're winning prime to on Emmy's. They are big competitors
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Speaker 1: for mainstream television, so it's kind of time to update
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Speaker 1: those contracts and and those working conditions exactly. Aerial pointed
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Speaker 1: out very rightly before we started recording that you know,
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Speaker 1: these are these are services that are getting consideration and
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Speaker 1: their winning awards that put them in the same category
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Speaker 1: as these established old media companies, and they kind of
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Speaker 1: want to have it both ways. They want to get
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Speaker 1: the consideration and the prestige of the old media companies,
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Speaker 1: but they kind of want to work in that fast
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Speaker 1: and loose way where they don't have to follow the
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Speaker 1: same rules. And that's what the Guild is specifically kind
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Speaker 1: of protesting. Will have to wait and see that they
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Speaker 1: actually vote on a strike. If they do, that will
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Speaker 1: mean that things that are currently in production will be
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Speaker 1: on hold until that can get resolved. Now, Deadline did
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Speaker 1: have an article saying like things like HBO primetime movies
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Speaker 1: and and commercials and stuff that do not fall under
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Speaker 1: some of those more loosen fast rules that are set
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Speaker 1: to the higher standards won't fall under that. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how reputable Deadline is. I personally hope that they
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Speaker 1: get their demands. One. You know, I'm an actor. If
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Speaker 1: a strike needs to happen, impractions need to shut down
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Speaker 1: so that people can have good working conditions, I'm fine
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Speaker 1: with it. But of course I'd always rather have the
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Speaker 1: option the ability to work. I want everybody else to
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Speaker 1: get fair treatment, so I'm for it. But also I
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Speaker 1: don't want my electrical uh professional to be who's hanging
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Speaker 1: all the big heavy lights for a film set, to
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Speaker 1: be exhausted and sleep deprived, the big light falling on
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Speaker 1: my head. Well yeah, and I mean, like, honestly, you
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Speaker 1: just don't want anyone to be exploited and and and
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Speaker 1: treated poorly. So we wanted to lead with that because
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Speaker 1: that is something that could have a potential big impact
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Speaker 1: on things like release dates and planned uh sequels and
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Speaker 1: stuff like. We haven't been recording since the days of
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Speaker 1: old when there was like the big writers strike where
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Speaker 1: entire seasons of shows were cut short. But this is similar, except,
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Speaker 1: of course, instead of writers were talking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the behind the scenes cruise of these things. So we'll
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Speaker 1: find out on Friday whether or not they vote to strike,
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Speaker 1: and then moving forward we'll learn what the results are.
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Speaker 1: Like these are these are big decisions too. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to I don't want to minimize that, Like for
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Speaker 1: any individual to make the decision to support a strike
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Speaker 1: is a big deal. But I am one behind all
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Speaker 1: those books, I mean, and everything is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Productions are expensive, so I get that there's back and forth.
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Speaker 1: That being said, since we're talking about new media, Netflix
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Speaker 1: has announced a bunch of stuff that's coming out. I
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Speaker 1: guess we'll see if it's in a place where it
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Speaker 1: can be released or whether it's still in production for
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Speaker 1: a lot of it. Two of notable note Jonathan and
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Speaker 1: I that's a good sentence are Cowboy Bebop and Sandman. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We the opening credits for Cowboy Bebop, which has a
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Speaker 1: very the opening credits have like a very kind of
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties nineteen seventies spy movie vibe to them, complete
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Speaker 1: with like the jazzy music intro, really really creative. I
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Speaker 1: like it a lot. And then the Sandman teaser is
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Speaker 1: just you've got this collection of people who are attempting
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Speaker 1: to summon death, but they accidentally summon her brother Dream. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and uh yeah. It looks like it's a very quick look.
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Speaker 1: But it's based off Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book series
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Speaker 1: that was critically acclaimed. Um, I read some of it,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't read the whole series. I haven't read
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Speaker 1: a lot of Sandman. I have looked at a lot
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Speaker 1: of the artwork, and Dream is spot on. So killer cheekbones,
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Speaker 1: killer cheekbones. And I will say so Cowboy Bebop, I like,
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Speaker 1: I haven't watched it in a long time, so I'd
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Speaker 1: have to really fresh my brain on the story. But
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Speaker 1: it feels very Cowboy Beboppy to me, and I like
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Speaker 1: my husband shared an article with me where they're like,
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Speaker 1: it's so hard two match the amazing nous of the
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Speaker 1: opening of the theme song for the cartoon Cowboy Beepop,
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Speaker 1: which is tank so they didn't try to come up
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Speaker 1: with something new. They used the same song as from
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Speaker 1: the cartoon. Yeah. Well, and and you know both of
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Speaker 1: those are you know, connected to Netflix. Both Sandman and
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Speaker 1: Cowboy Beepop are Netflix exclusives. And we also have another
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Speaker 1: little thing about Netflix, and by little I mean pretty big,
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Speaker 1: that the company actually acquired the roll Doll Story Company,
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Speaker 1: a roll Doll being the author of books like Charlie
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Speaker 1: and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Glass Elevator
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Speaker 1: and Giant Peach, James and the Giant Peach. Yeah, witches.
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Speaker 1: I think he did the Witches. I believe maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: the big friendly Giant. Yeah, so he wrote tons of stuff. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And now Netflix has acquired that company, which means they
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Speaker 1: will be able to make all sorts of different adaptations
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Speaker 1: should they wish, which may mean that we'll get yet
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Speaker 1: another you know, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory adaptation, although
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Speaker 1: I would argue that the perfect one came out in
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Speaker 1: we we already know that we're getting a prequel about
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Speaker 1: Willie Wonka, so which we do not need. But okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you know, we also know because they shut down
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Speaker 1: production a little while ago when the Delta variants started
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Speaker 1: back up, that they're working on Matilda as well. Um,
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Speaker 1: Matilda the Musical, which you know we'll see. I I.
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Speaker 1: We've known for a while that Netflix was going to
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Speaker 1: do some stuff with Roald Dahl, but I did not
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Speaker 1: think they were going to get the entire series of stories.
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Speaker 1: Do you happen to know who it was that wrote
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Speaker 1: music for Matilda the Musical. It's Tim mentioned. I was
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Speaker 1: about to say it was like, I was like Alan Manken, No,
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Speaker 1: that's not right. Tim mentioned, yes, yes, brilliant, brilliant Australian
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Speaker 1: comedian and musician. Uh, and the music for Matilda is wonderful.
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Speaker 1: Like I still haven't seen the show. I have never
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Speaker 1: read the book. I didn't see the film adaptation of Matilda,
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Speaker 1: but I've heard some of the songs and I and
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Speaker 1: they're very charming. He's he is an incredible gifted musician
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Speaker 1: and creator. Look, he got me on board with a
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Speaker 1: Groundhog Day musical. So I also didn't know that he
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Speaker 1: did that until I watched an interview where he mentioned it,
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Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, I completely dismissed groundhog Day the
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Speaker 1: Musical when I heard that, I thought, oh, I am
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Speaker 1: a poopoo head, and I need to listen to that music,
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Speaker 1: I will say. I say, it's really I haven't watched
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Speaker 1: groundhog Day the musical either, Unfortunately it's not touring, it
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Speaker 1: won't tour. But I have listened to the soundtrack and
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Speaker 1: I've watched some performances like taped either on stage or
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Speaker 1: for promos from it, and it's yeah, it's fantastic. So well,
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Speaker 1: we have one last little thing we want to say
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Speaker 1: in this segment before we go to break, and that
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Speaker 1: is we have a release date for a new season
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Speaker 1: of a science fiction show that Aerial likes. Yes, The
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Speaker 1: Orville March two. I was excited about it because I
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Speaker 1: like goofy space comedies. Uh, and then it ended up
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Speaker 1: being fairly sincere um. Yeah, The Orville completely took me
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Speaker 1: by surprise. I know I've talked about it before. I
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Speaker 1: really like it. I'm so glad that we know when
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Speaker 1: it's coming back. I can't. They left the second season
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Speaker 1: with some pretty like dramatic stuff, so I'm very much
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Speaker 1: looking forward to what they do in a season three.
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Speaker 1: And this one is going to go to Hulu, whereas
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Speaker 1: the previous seasons had been on Fox, I believe. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting because the article we have says, you know,
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Speaker 1: since that Disney now owns Fox, they decided to put
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Speaker 1: Orville on the streaming service they own. I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you mean the other streaming service they owned, because Disney
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Speaker 1: have course owns Disney Plus. Yeah, Orville cannot go on
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Speaker 1: Disney Plus. It just can't. Um. I mean, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: there's some stuff on Disney Plus that is not for kids. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but this is Seth McFarland. You can't like, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's fair. There's definitely Seth McFarland, at least in
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Speaker 1: the first half of the first season and throughout the
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Speaker 1: rest of the season here and there. It's not as
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Speaker 1: prevalent as like a Family Guy episode, but there's definitely
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Speaker 1: some Seth McFarland humor spattered throughout. Yeah. And and and
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Speaker 1: that was the reason why I didn't get on board
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Speaker 1: with the Oraville originally, because I was thinking, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is just going to be an unfunny send up
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Speaker 1: of Star Trek. And then people that I respect, like
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Speaker 1: Aeriel and folks that I don't know, but I respect
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Speaker 1: them because I like their work ended up saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Orville is more feels like it's more in the
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Speaker 1: spirit of Star Trek than some of the more recent
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Speaker 1: Star Trek series have not for me to I haven't
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Speaker 1: watched the new Star Trek series either, because I kept
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Speaker 1: feeling like, uh, this feels like it's I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: it's bad, I'm saying it doesn't feel like Star Trek
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Speaker 1: to me, so I don't really want to watch it. Um,
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Speaker 1: But everyone kept on saying, yeah, the Orville feels kind
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Speaker 1: of more like in the spirit of like Star Trek
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Speaker 1: the next generation. Yeah, they do. They do some really
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Speaker 1: cool stuff, and I would agree with that. I will say,
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Speaker 1: having watched all of Discovery that is out currently, I
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Speaker 1: do actually like it more than I thought I would.
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Speaker 1: In season one, it feels like Star Trek voyagery ish.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's definitely got a little bit more
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Speaker 1: great to it, but it also has a lot of
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Speaker 1: feel good Well, we've got some more you know, news
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Speaker 1: to cover, include some feel good news. But before we
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Speaker 1: get to that, we're going to take a quick break. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're back now, Ariel, I got a question for you,
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Speaker 1: and this is not we don't need to play the
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Speaker 1: We don't need to play the music. That's not that's
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Speaker 1: that's not. That's not the kind of question. And you
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Speaker 1: got a question, you got no, no, no, that's fine. Uh,
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Speaker 1: this is a sincere one because I am I am
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Speaker 1: unfamiliar with a lot of the show runners for Doctor Who,
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Speaker 1: and so like I can't keep straight which one's the
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Speaker 1: general fandom typically likes and which one's the general fandom
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Speaker 1: blames everything on. I know that there is that that happens.
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Speaker 1: But we have heard that Russell T. Davies is coming
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Speaker 1: back to the Doctor Who series to run the show.
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Speaker 1: So can you tell me more about who he is
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Speaker 1: and what that means, like at least in regard with
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Speaker 1: Doctor Who. So, Russell T. Davies is was the showrunner
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Speaker 1: for Doctor nine and Doctor ten who were the first doctors.
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Speaker 1: They were Christopher eccleston and UM David Tennant. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: when the show decided to come back after many years
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Speaker 1: of being off the air with new doctors, he was
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Speaker 1: the showrunner for that. Um and then when he he left, uh,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Moffatt took over for the eleventh doctor, who was
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Speaker 1: Matt Smith. And then I think I'm missing Somebody, but
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Speaker 1: Chris Chimnell took over for Jody Wicker. The interesting thing
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Speaker 1: is all of these people, like Moffatt wrote episodes while
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Speaker 1: Russell T. Davies was a showrunner. You know, Chimnal wrote
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Speaker 1: episodes while other people were showrunners. So they've all worked together.
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Speaker 1: But it's kind of who's who's at the helm And
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Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like people who, um, people
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Speaker 1: who are super like divisive over which doctor is good
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Speaker 1: which doctor isn't, are also divisive over the writers. But honestly,
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Speaker 1: they've all written some really amazing episodes and they've all
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Speaker 1: written some pretty crappy episodes. Um. You know, there's a
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Speaker 1: Doctor who is one of those shows, as much as
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Speaker 1: I love it, where it's very inconsistent in the quality
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Speaker 1: of the storylines from week to week. Um. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: so if you've heard of Bad Wolf, Russell T. D
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Speaker 1: Davies was a part of that entire arc through the
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Speaker 1: ninth and tenth Doctor, which honestly wasn't my favorite arc,
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Speaker 1: but you know, there were a lot of you know,
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Speaker 1: he was the showrunner during the Empty Child and the
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Speaker 1: Doctor Dances, and yeah, I I the for the Bad
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Speaker 1: Wolf thing. I remember watching because I did watch all
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Speaker 1: the way through that particular arc, and I remember thinking
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Speaker 1: that when it was resolved, I thought, wow, I thought
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Speaker 1: this was building up to something more interesting than what happened.
19:52
Speaker 1: Like I felt like it was one of those things
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Speaker 1: where people start setting something up before really knowing how
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Speaker 1: they're going to pay it off, and then they finally
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Speaker 1: get to the point where they need to pay it off,
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Speaker 1: they're just kind of like trying to do it. And
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Speaker 1: I could be totally wrong, that might not be anything
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Speaker 1: close to what actually happened, but um, yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: it's Moffitt that I typically hear the most divisive commentary about.
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Speaker 1: But again, this is from someone who's coming from outside
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Speaker 1: because I'm I am. I am not a devoted Doctor
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Speaker 1: Who fan. Again, under his under his show runnership, there
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Speaker 1: were some amazing episodes and there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: like rappy episodes, but I feel that way about every
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Speaker 1: Doctor Who series, including the old ones. So I'm excited
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Speaker 1: because again, Russell T. Davies was part of the team
20:43
Speaker 1: that made Doctor Who popular again, So hopefully for for
20:48
Speaker 1: this uh it's Doctor Who's sixty anniversaries. When he's coming
20:53
Speaker 1: back on sixty years of Doctor Who, that's incredible. I'm
20:59
Speaker 1: very excited. And there's always these discussions about whether or
21:01
Speaker 1: not Doctor Who will continue after like the current doctor,
21:05
Speaker 1: and you know, whether or not there are plans to
21:08
Speaker 1: keep it going. And I suspect that as long as
21:11
Speaker 1: there are people who want to tell the stories, that
21:14
Speaker 1: we will continue to see some incarnation of Doctor Who,
21:17
Speaker 1: unless they just completely squandered the goodwill of Doctor Who.
21:21
Speaker 1: Fans they're going to have to come in with a
21:23
Speaker 1: new doctor because Jody Whittaker has announced that she's leaving
21:27
Speaker 1: after next year's specials along with Chris Chimnel, which why
21:32
Speaker 1: is Davies is taking back over. So I keep on
21:35
Speaker 1: hearing about how actors love the experience of becoming the
21:38
Speaker 1: Doctor and they love the experience of leaving the show.
21:42
Speaker 1: But David Tennant said the biggest lie he ever told
21:44
Speaker 1: was I don't want to go. You know, I've heard
21:47
Speaker 1: it both ways. I'm sure that that's a very mixed bag.
21:51
Speaker 1: You know, when I get done with a stage play,
21:53
Speaker 1: I'm tired. It takes a lot of work, and especially
21:57
Speaker 1: on from from what I've heard, and maybe this isn't
22:00
Speaker 1: sure anymore. A lot of BBCT BBC sets at least
22:03
Speaker 1: he used to be practical effects. So you're doing a
22:05
Speaker 1: lot of running around. Yeah, um, you know that's very
22:09
Speaker 1: very like physically intensive work. So I can imagine at
22:13
Speaker 1: least wanting a break. Well. One show that got a
22:16
Speaker 1: long break was night Court. Yes, Nightcart the the sitcom
22:23
Speaker 1: almost like it was. I showed a clip of this
22:25
Speaker 1: to our friend Shay, who had never She didn't know
22:28
Speaker 1: what night Court was. It was like, I mean, she's
22:31
Speaker 1: she is a young in yeah, And I said, I said,
22:33
Speaker 1: you've watched Red Letter Media videos. You know. Mr Plinkett
22:36
Speaker 1: is obsessed with night Court. He has a night Court
22:39
Speaker 1: tape he wants to watch. She's like, yeah, I didn't
22:41
Speaker 1: know what that was. I that was a movie. I'm like, no,
22:43
Speaker 1: it was a TV series. Harry Anderson played Judge Harry T. Stone.
22:47
Speaker 1: John Laraquette was Dan Fielding. Marquee Post was Christine Sullivan. Sadly,
22:52
Speaker 1: we've lost two of those three since then, but now
22:56
Speaker 1: we hear that there's going or at least in development,
22:59
Speaker 1: there is a reboot of night Court, and that on
23:03
Speaker 1: top of that, uh, John Laraquette is attached to both
23:09
Speaker 1: be a producer and to appear in it. And um.
23:14
Speaker 1: Melissa Rouch, who was in Big Bang Theory, is slated
23:20
Speaker 1: to also be on the producing side and to play
23:23
Speaker 1: the part of Harold T. Stone's daughter, who is now
23:26
Speaker 1: a judge at Night Court. So she'll she'll be the
23:29
Speaker 1: main character. Uh. If you don't know who she was
23:32
Speaker 1: on Big Bang Theory, she was Bernadette. She had the
23:35
Speaker 1: glasses and the high voice. She kind of sounded like
23:37
Speaker 1: Audrey from a Little Shop before she's a She's a
23:41
Speaker 1: great actress. She's got really good comedic chops um, but
23:44
Speaker 1: she can also be you know, do it in a
23:47
Speaker 1: way that is believable. You know, you may not know
23:50
Speaker 1: that from Big Bang Theory, but like not not to
23:54
Speaker 1: just her her performance on that. I thought she did
23:57
Speaker 1: quite well on that show. But yeah, she's she's really
24:00
Speaker 1: good at at balancing comedy and sincerity. So I look
24:04
Speaker 1: forward to this very much. They better bring Moose back
24:07
Speaker 1: Richard Maule, who played Bowl Bowl and Moose. No, that's
24:14
Speaker 1: Squirrel and Moose. Now he played Ball. I don't know
24:17
Speaker 1: why I keep thinking Moose. I mean, like when I
24:19
Speaker 1: think Moose, I think of you can't do that on television,
24:22
Speaker 1: which is really dating me. But yeah, he was the bailiff.
24:26
Speaker 1: Richard Maull played the bailiff ball and Who's Who's a
24:30
Speaker 1: very sweet, very dim character. That the thing about night
24:35
Speaker 1: Court is that the longer it went, the weirder it got.
24:38
Speaker 1: Where Like a typical episode might have sort of an
24:43
Speaker 1: ongoing plot for the actual individual episode, but it's broken
24:47
Speaker 1: up by all these court sessions. And the whole joke
24:51
Speaker 1: about night Court is that that's when the weirdos are
24:54
Speaker 1: brought before a judge. And so like Brent Spiner before
24:59
Speaker 1: he was data uh played a recurring character of this
25:03
Speaker 1: country bumpkin and his family that always had the worst
25:07
Speaker 1: things happen to like hello, your honor, it's us. And
25:12
Speaker 1: so hopefully Brent Spiner will be able to come back
25:15
Speaker 1: and reprise his role of it. But yeah, very weird
25:20
Speaker 1: because this is one of those shows that I never
25:22
Speaker 1: expected to see come back. Also, I'm curious to see
25:26
Speaker 1: if they will kind of pick up that sense of
25:29
Speaker 1: absurdity that the show had, because it I don't know
25:32
Speaker 1: if it would fit now. I'm part of me things like,
25:35
Speaker 1: well gen Z might really attached to it because they
25:38
Speaker 1: really like absurd humor, and part of me is like
25:42
Speaker 1: I don't is that gonna fly or is that just
25:44
Speaker 1: gonna sink? I was about to say the same thing
25:47
Speaker 1: I had. I just watched an episode of night Court
25:50
Speaker 1: the other day. Half watched I was putting away laundry,
25:52
Speaker 1: so I didn't give it my full attention. But um, yeah,
25:56
Speaker 1: I don't know if that kind of humor holds up.
25:58
Speaker 1: I don't know how the old areas holds up. I mean,
26:00
Speaker 1: it's definitely dated. There's a lot of references to the
26:03
Speaker 1: time that came out. Um, but it's one of those
26:07
Speaker 1: shows that if you had asked me would you like
26:09
Speaker 1: a show like this, I would have said no. And
26:11
Speaker 1: then I absolutely loved it, even even like, even not
26:14
Speaker 1: fully understanding all of the content at the time that
26:17
Speaker 1: it was on, I had a lot of fun with it.
26:19
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I like all the best is because
26:21
Speaker 1: he was kind of He's very cartoony, and it's a
26:24
Speaker 1: very corny show. But as you were alluding to, there's
26:27
Speaker 1: also like the character of Dan Fielding played by John Laraquette,
26:31
Speaker 1: is a lecherous, uh money obsessed prosecutor who almost all
26:37
Speaker 1: of his jokes have to do with him wanting to
26:39
Speaker 1: go to bed with some woman. In the episode so yeah,
26:43
Speaker 1: like one wonders if his character will have a reckoning
26:50
Speaker 1: because it is a very different time now. It is
26:53
Speaker 1: a very different time now. Fun fact, I had a
26:56
Speaker 1: friend who was creating his own tabletop RPG and you
27:01
Speaker 1: were able to pick, like we are building our own skills,
27:04
Speaker 1: and so I had a skill that which knowledge Night Court. Um,
27:08
Speaker 1: I think you just had an expansive encyclopedic knowledge of
27:12
Speaker 1: Nightclas Yes, and him being the awesome DM that he was.
27:18
Speaker 1: And it ended up being a heist where we're stealing
27:21
Speaker 1: some item. I don't even remember what it was, but
27:24
Speaker 1: my knowledge Night Court allowed us to call upon Bull
27:27
Speaker 1: to help us with the heist, who is working as
27:29
Speaker 1: a security guard after his time on the show ended.
27:32
Speaker 1: It was brilliant, very odd that, just like the show.
27:36
Speaker 1: You know what else is very odd? The beloved science
27:40
Speaker 1: fiction film that you absolutely love, Fly of the Navigator,
27:45
Speaker 1: it's getting a reboot. I'm so happy. Um. Actually this
27:50
Speaker 1: one is one that it's semi holds up for me.
27:54
Speaker 1: Um rewatching it. Some of the effects are definitely not there,
27:57
Speaker 1: some of them. I'm like, okay, cool, I can still
27:58
Speaker 1: get behind this. Um. Yeah, it's about this twelve year
28:01
Speaker 1: old boy who uh disappears for eight years and when
28:05
Speaker 1: he comes back, he's the same age because he ends
28:07
Speaker 1: up being the navigator of an alien spaceship. Yeah, and
28:13
Speaker 1: the fact that the alien spaceship was traveling at essentially
28:16
Speaker 1: the speed of light meant that he was aging more
28:20
Speaker 1: slowly than people back on Earth, and so he was
28:22
Speaker 1: taken to be studied, I guess, and then returned. But
28:27
Speaker 1: by the time he's returned, eight years have passed for
28:30
Speaker 1: everybody else and he has not aged an he befriends
28:35
Speaker 1: his spaceship. Yeah, so I don't know. Like recently, a
28:41
Speaker 1: local casting director posted about this movie, and it got
28:44
Speaker 1: me to thinking about how it's kind of actually very dark,
28:47
Speaker 1: Like if you're it's scary. If you're a twelve year
28:49
Speaker 1: old kid, you come back, you know, eight years later,
28:52
Speaker 1: the same age, and all of your family has grown up,
28:54
Speaker 1: and now everybody wants to like do all these tests
28:57
Speaker 1: on you, and you can't go home. Like it's actually
29:00
Speaker 1: kind of a scary movie. It also it also makes
29:03
Speaker 1: me think about how, except for a certain little glimpses
29:07
Speaker 1: we've seen in some of the series, the m CU
29:11
Speaker 1: really kind of tried to dodge the bullet of having
29:14
Speaker 1: to deal with the consequences of the blip where half
29:18
Speaker 1: of the universe is population returns after being gone for
29:22
Speaker 1: five years. It's not quite the same thing, but it's
29:24
Speaker 1: a similar like issue. Yeah yeah, I mean they try
29:30
Speaker 1: to They try to address it a little bit, but
29:33
Speaker 1: in small spits and starts because they don't want their
29:35
Speaker 1: whole movie to be about that. Um I'm excited about this.
29:39
Speaker 1: Bryce Dallas Howard is directing it. Uh you know if
29:44
Speaker 1: you don't, she's Ron Howard's daughter. She's she's a great actress.
29:47
Speaker 1: I think she was in Drassic World. She's also a
29:50
Speaker 1: great director. She's done yea quite a few movies already.
29:53
Speaker 1: One of my favorite episodes of the Mandalorians. So um,
29:57
Speaker 1: I am. I am very much excited about It's like
30:02
Speaker 1: it's one of the first movies I remember like sci
30:05
Speaker 1: fi movies I remember liking independently as a child. Um,
30:11
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a navigator and have a cool
30:13
Speaker 1: ship and make all these little alien friends on my ship.
30:16
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, I just want to know if Paul Rubens,
30:21
Speaker 1: a k a. Pewee Herman will be back, because he
30:24
Speaker 1: provided the voice of the spaceship robot. If if one,
30:29
Speaker 1: if has taught me anything, is that you can replace
30:31
Speaker 1: any actor with any other voice actor and they will
30:34
Speaker 1: sound the same. Like. Half of that what I've cast
30:37
Speaker 1: every episode I watched and I go is that the
30:39
Speaker 1: actual actor is that somebody else, And half the time
30:41
Speaker 1: it's somebody else, and they sound if it's Spiderman, it's
30:45
Speaker 1: somebody else. Yeah, I know that, I know that it's
30:48
Speaker 1: it's Captain Marvel, it's somebody else. Yep, so many of them.
30:54
Speaker 1: If it's Thor, it's still Thor. And if it's low Key,
30:57
Speaker 1: it's still low key. Well, we've got our last story,
31:00
Speaker 1: which is another reboot that's in the works. This is
31:03
Speaker 1: one a news item that broke the day that we're
31:05
Speaker 1: recording this, which we again is is the Monday um
31:09
Speaker 1: and that's that there's going to be a reboot of
31:11
Speaker 1: the science fiction series Babylon five. And Babylon five was
31:16
Speaker 1: an interesting series for one thing. From the very beginning,
31:20
Speaker 1: it was conceived as a five season show that each
31:26
Speaker 1: season would coincide with a year or like a year's
31:31
Speaker 1: worth of time for the crew of this spaceship, and
31:36
Speaker 1: that at the end of those five years the story
31:38
Speaker 1: would be over, so that it wasn't designed to be
31:41
Speaker 1: this kind of ongoing series that trudges on and on
31:45
Speaker 1: and then eventually peters out. Gave an opportunity to create
31:49
Speaker 1: a beginning, middle, and end for the series, which is
31:52
Speaker 1: not common here in the US. The article on Deadline
31:57
Speaker 1: says that they ran for five seasons and one hundred
32:00
Speaker 1: and ten additional episodes. Yeah, yeah, it Actually they didn't
32:05
Speaker 1: stick to it. No, so the plan was like it
32:08
Speaker 1: was gonna be five, five and done. But you know,
32:12
Speaker 1: when something has got a following, studios really like it,
32:16
Speaker 1: when something can continue to potentially bring them money, and
32:20
Speaker 1: they hate not making money. Supernatural like, I'm sure Supernatural
32:25
Speaker 1: would still be going to this day if it weren't
32:27
Speaker 1: for the fact that everyone was just exhausted. Well, I mean,
32:30
Speaker 1: it had a beginning, middle, and end. They had. The
32:33
Speaker 1: writer had an endpoint. He says, the story is over
32:35
Speaker 1: at this point, and then the studio is like, no,
32:37
Speaker 1: it's not sorry, no, we can kill the Winchesters like
32:40
Speaker 1: at least twelve more times. So, I mean they learned
32:44
Speaker 1: from comic books. Were you ever a fan of the
32:47
Speaker 1: original Babylon five. I was not. I don't think I've
32:50
Speaker 1: ever watched an episode of Babylon Five all the way through. Uh.
32:56
Speaker 1: But then I was also like, like, I was kind
32:59
Speaker 1: of a Star Trek Next Generation fan, and then after
33:02
Speaker 1: a while I kind of fell off science fiction for
33:05
Speaker 1: a bit. So this might have been right around the
33:07
Speaker 1: time where I was kind of migrating away from science
33:11
Speaker 1: fiction and fantasy and then eventually I came back around
33:14
Speaker 1: to it. But I think this was right around the
33:16
Speaker 1: time where I was starting to lose interest. Yeah, like
33:19
Speaker 1: I've seen some episodes. I probably watched more Babylon Five
33:22
Speaker 1: than I recall, but it was kind of like filler
33:25
Speaker 1: for when there wasn't Star Trek. Star Trek was definitely
33:28
Speaker 1: my Space opera of choice. Um. But that being said,
33:33
Speaker 1: they're coming back with the original creator Strazinski. So you know,
33:39
Speaker 1: I have friends who absolutely love it. One of them says,
33:43
Speaker 1: you have to get through the first two seasons to
33:44
Speaker 1: absolutely love it, which is a big commitment. I would
33:48
Speaker 1: say the same thing. It's true for Star Trek the
33:50
Speaker 1: Next Generation though, or at least the first season and
33:52
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, maybe have someone cherry picked the good
33:55
Speaker 1: episodes for you. Yeah, it won't take long, no know. Uh,
34:01
Speaker 1: but that being said, I will definitely give the new
34:03
Speaker 1: one a try because I still do like space operas.
34:06
Speaker 1: So yeah, So that that's it for our news. It
34:09
Speaker 1: was a lot. Obviously, we had so much that we
34:12
Speaker 1: we could not do a full discussion piece. We just
34:15
Speaker 1: didn't have the time. We're going to take another break
34:18
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we're gonna be mashing up
34:20
Speaker 1: some Pokemons with some things that go bump in the night.
34:41
Speaker 1: So last week we talked about Pokemon hitting an anniversary
34:44
Speaker 1: and getting a new game, and there have been multiple times,
34:47
Speaker 1: so I'm like, hey, let's do a Pokemon mashup. So
34:49
Speaker 1: it finally made the cut this time. Yeah, and it's
34:52
Speaker 1: inspired also because coming up on Disney Plus getting back
34:57
Speaker 1: to streaming, we're gonna get a mup It's special of
35:01
Speaker 1: Muppets and the Haunted Mansion. You know, they've been running
35:03
Speaker 1: some promos for it, like they've seen some trailers and stuff,
35:06
Speaker 1: and so we thought we've mashed up the Muppets before,
35:09
Speaker 1: but we haven't mashed up the Haunted Mansion with something yet. Yeah,
35:13
Speaker 1: and you know, beyond the Muppets Hanted Mansion, it is
35:15
Speaker 1: a ride and it also had a another movie which
35:18
Speaker 1: I've never watched, so that doesn't really factor into my mashup.
35:22
Speaker 1: But Eddie Murphy was Eddie Murphy. Oh for the Haunted
35:25
Speaker 1: Mansion movie. Yeah, I I never watched that film. I
35:29
Speaker 1: am aware of it. I never watched that film. It's
35:32
Speaker 1: funny because Haunted Mansion, just for those who don't know, like,
35:35
Speaker 1: the original idea was that was going to have more
35:37
Speaker 1: of a storyline to it, and then things were considered
35:42
Speaker 1: to be a little too intense in the original I
35:44
Speaker 1: think it was even supposed to be a walk through
35:46
Speaker 1: attraction when they were first designing it, and of course
35:49
Speaker 1: is not walked through. It is you get on your
35:51
Speaker 1: your doom buggy and your ghost host takes you around
35:55
Speaker 1: the ride. Uh, they got rid of a lot of
35:58
Speaker 1: the story elements. They're some bits of it in there,
36:02
Speaker 1: Like there's the the Black Widow bride who now appears
36:07
Speaker 1: multiple times in the ride. That that's a not a
36:11
Speaker 1: fairly recent but like it was a later addition. I
36:13
Speaker 1: remember as a kid that she only appeared at the
36:17
Speaker 1: very end. Really um, but like, there's not a whole
36:21
Speaker 1: it's more like an experience, not a story. So I
36:24
Speaker 1: think the Haunted Mansion movie was kind of a nod
36:28
Speaker 1: to the original concept of the haunted mansion experience. But
36:32
Speaker 1: I say that as someone who has never watched the movie,
36:35
Speaker 1: so I don't know for sure. I haven't either, I
36:38
Speaker 1: will probably watch the new movie if it continues to
36:41
Speaker 1: be made. Um uh all right, So do you want
36:46
Speaker 1: to go first? Or shall I? Uh? I can go
36:49
Speaker 1: first if you want? Sure? My my, My matchup is
36:54
Speaker 1: called ghost balls. All right, here we go, Ash catch
37:00
Speaker 1: him a k Satoshi has a problem. He has lost
37:04
Speaker 1: his raison d'etre, for he has caught them all. That
37:09
Speaker 1: was what he had to do, and then he did it.
37:13
Speaker 1: Every normal type, every water type, every grass type, even
37:19
Speaker 1: every ghost type. Yep, he had caught your mask dust skull,
37:25
Speaker 1: and he had even caught Poultia geist. Ash catch him wept,
37:31
Speaker 1: for there were no more Pokemons to conquer. That is,
37:35
Speaker 1: it wasn't until something mysterious happened in a rarely visited
37:40
Speaker 1: corner of Palette Town is an old mansion, long since
37:45
Speaker 1: abandoned and fallen into disrepair. But Ash here's a rumor,
37:49
Speaker 1: a rumor that the mansion might be haunted by brand
37:53
Speaker 1: new ghost Pokemon. Unable to contain himself, Ash immediately gets
37:58
Speaker 1: dressed tossing the pj's he had and wearing for seven
38:01
Speaker 1: straight weeks into a corner. They make a crunching sound.
38:04
Speaker 1: He rushes across town, his handy poke ball ready to go.
38:09
Speaker 1: Once he arrives at the rusty decrepit gate that leads
38:13
Speaker 1: into the mansion, Ash takes a long look. The path
38:16
Speaker 1: to the mansion winds here and there, past crypts and
38:20
Speaker 1: a small graveyard and this thing where if you if
38:23
Speaker 1: you push it, sometimes it plays like music and other stuff,
38:26
Speaker 1: and like there's a coin, but the coin is actually
38:29
Speaker 1: attached to the ground, so you can't move the coin anyway. Yeah,
38:31
Speaker 1: there's all this stuff there, and parked in front of
38:34
Speaker 1: the mansion is an old fashioned horse drawn hearset, and
38:37
Speaker 1: everything about the place screams. This place is haunted and
38:40
Speaker 1: Ash can't wait, and he doesn't have to. As he
38:44
Speaker 1: is contemplating how he's going to get through the gate,
38:46
Speaker 1: he sees this bluish glow emanating from around the corner
38:50
Speaker 1: of the house, and around that corner it comes a
38:52
Speaker 1: cloaked figure wearing a top hat and carrying sheafs of
38:57
Speaker 1: paper which happened to have musical notation on them, and
39:00
Speaker 1: Ash goes for his trusty poke ball, which has inside
39:05
Speaker 1: of it Leppard. Because everyone knows that ghost type Pokemon
39:09
Speaker 1: are weak against dark type Pokemon. I mean, what are
39:12
Speaker 1: you kidding me? You think I don't know about the
39:14
Speaker 1: pokemon's no light hearts of dark Pokemon. Dark type very
39:18
Speaker 1: good against ghost type. So Ash tosses his poke ball
39:20
Speaker 1: at the spectral figure and Lepard bursts out, and what
39:24
Speaker 1: follows is a brutal example of using creatures to battle
39:28
Speaker 1: one another for your own amusement, and the spectral Musician
39:31
Speaker 1: is soon bested. Of course, he was also taken by surprise,
39:36
Speaker 1: and after being knocked silly, Ash catches him. The poke
39:40
Speaker 1: ball glows that same spectral blue color. Thus begins ashes
39:45
Speaker 1: long battle with the ghosts of the Haunted Mansion. After
39:49
Speaker 1: that first night where he managed to catch three ghosts,
39:52
Speaker 1: he realized that they weren't pokemon's at all. Nope, these
39:57
Speaker 1: are just playing ghosts. They could catch them, but he
40:00
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to you know, forced them to fight
40:03
Speaker 1: in his underground dog fighting style sport sniven underground. It's
40:08
Speaker 1: like celebrated there is messed up anyway, they were collectible
40:12
Speaker 1: and with no more poker critters for him, to catch.
40:15
Speaker 1: They would just have to do so. Night after night
40:18
Speaker 1: Ash returns to the mansion, Boom, he would catch a
40:21
Speaker 1: vanishing Hitchhecker Bang, he grabbed a twirling ghost dancing a waltz.
40:25
Speaker 1: Madame Leota proved to be a bit of a challenge
40:28
Speaker 1: because she emerged from her own crystal poker ball, but
40:31
Speaker 1: even she would join Ash's collection eventually. Months past a
40:36
Speaker 1: year passes. Ash sometimes would leave with as many as
40:39
Speaker 1: five ghosts, and some nights he failed to bring home
40:42
Speaker 1: a single one. It took a long time, longer even
40:45
Speaker 1: than it took him to get all the Polka decks,
40:47
Speaker 1: because there are nine nine of the ding Dang things
40:50
Speaker 1: in that mansion, even though there was room for one thousand.
40:55
Speaker 1: A year after beginning his quest, he completed it. The
40:58
Speaker 1: final ghost to capture was an opera singer, but once
41:02
Speaker 1: the Fat Lady sang, it was all over. Ashe had
41:05
Speaker 1: caught the final ghost, even the ghost host was his,
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Speaker 1: he was once again in danger of falling into a depression,
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Speaker 1: having exhausted the supply of spirits, except he got a
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Speaker 1: strange message. He got a message from a kid named Trevor.
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Speaker 1: Seems he's putting a team together and that he too
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Speaker 1: has a family history with ghostly activities. But we'll learn
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Speaker 1: about that more in a sequel called Pokemon Afterlife, a
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Speaker 1: ghostbuster story. The end that was quite delightful. I really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Yeah, I had to throw in an extra mashup.
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Speaker 1: I no, I think that was. That was brilliant. So
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Speaker 1: if your mash up was At first, I was gonna say,
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Speaker 1: if your mash up his ex caliber mine and in
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Speaker 1: fact is a sword in a stone, but it's they're different.
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Speaker 1: So this is called the Haunted Manchup much hamp um? Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Haunted the Champ yes, uh, which there's actually not much
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Speaker 1: my champ in this uh in this mash up. But
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Speaker 1: I couldn't pass up on the title. So Misty needed
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Speaker 1: a break, so she convinced her fellow Pokemon trainers to
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Speaker 1: go on vacation with her. And where did they go?
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Speaker 1: The happiest place on Earth now not Rhyme City. They
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Speaker 1: went to Disney World, Pocket Monsters and all at first.
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Speaker 1: When they reached the park, they split up, Misty taking
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Speaker 1: her water Pokemon to Splash Mountain Rock taking his Pokemon
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Speaker 1: to the Seven Dwarves Mind Train because you know he
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Speaker 1: has a lot of like rock metal and with Pokemon
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Speaker 1: and Ash being stuck on a small world over and
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Speaker 1: over again, with Pikachu, who Ash was certain would never
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Speaker 1: now stop singing the song peak Pea Cap Peak Cat You,
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Speaker 1: peek c peak cap peak cat You. But after much
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Speaker 1: gallivanting around the park, they all found themselves at the
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Speaker 1: same place, staring at the haunted mansion. The three trainers
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Speaker 1: wanted to ride, and just their luck, there was absolutely
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Speaker 1: no line, but the Pokemon all refused. When the trainers
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Speaker 1: tried to drag their Pokemon into the building, side Duck
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Speaker 1: popped out of his poke ball and just stood outside
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Speaker 1: the entrance going side, making Misty more and more frustrated
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Speaker 1: than ever. But finally, after a lot of pushing and prodding,
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Speaker 1: they got all of their poke A critters into the mansion.
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Speaker 1: Once they were inside, it dawned on the trainers how
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Speaker 1: weird it was that there was no one else riding
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Speaker 1: the ride. Also, did they even have ride operators? They
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Speaker 1: couldn't recall as the voiceover, which sounded eerily familiar, started up,
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Speaker 1: and the pictures in the stretching room started to morph
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Speaker 1: as the pictures more after, the group could see that
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Speaker 1: they were pictures of them, not the normal denizens of
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Speaker 1: the haunted mansion. This thoroughly creeped out Pikachu, and he
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Speaker 1: fried the portraits to a crisp. The door opened and
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Speaker 1: the teammate ut on because that was the only way out.
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Speaker 1: As they boarded their doom buggies ushered by an operator
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Speaker 1: who they could have sworn had a couple extra arms,
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Speaker 1: they heard an ominous ghostly growl. The trainers thought they
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Speaker 1: recognized it as a gangar, but the operator chopped their
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Speaker 1: lap bar down and took the car took off before
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Speaker 1: they could catch or check for the Pokemon. As they
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Speaker 1: went through the Hunting Mansion, they kept seeing ghost Pokemon
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Speaker 1: it or maybe just ghosts out the corner of their eyes,
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Speaker 1: and by the end they were certain that's what they
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Speaker 1: were seeing. In the big hall scene, there were tons
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Speaker 1: of ghostly, ghastly Pokemon, all causing a ruckus among the animatronics,
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Speaker 1: and none other than Team Rocket trying to catch them all. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: the ghost types had fudged up the ride workings and
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Speaker 1: scared all the regular ride goers away, and Team Rocket
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Speaker 1: thought this was their chance to get a leg up
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Speaker 1: on the other pok A trainers. And increase their menagerie. However,
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Speaker 1: when they saw Missy and Brock and Ash were trying
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Speaker 1: to get on the ride, they knew they had to
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Speaker 1: pretend it was all business as usual and get the
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Speaker 1: three through the ride as soon as pass it possible
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Speaker 1: so they wouldn't notice something was wrong and Team Rocket
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Speaker 1: could catch them all. However, Ash, Missy, and Brock were
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Speaker 1: so upset that this was just another one of Team
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Speaker 1: Rockets stupid dumb, dumb, stupid plans and not like an
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Speaker 1: actual ghost mystery, so they had Pikachu like fry their
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Speaker 1: Doom Buggy so it stopped. They jumped out, and they
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Speaker 1: battled Team Rocket for all the ghost Pokemon because they
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Speaker 1: are still poker trainers and they had to catch the
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Speaker 1: ghost Pokemon, and of course they succeeded because there's so
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Speaker 1: much smarter and better than stupid Team Rocket. And then
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Speaker 1: they remounted their Doom Buggy to leave the attraction. As
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Speaker 1: they left the Doom Buggy, their hitchhiker ghost friends turned
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Speaker 1: into the gangar they thought they heard earlier, and the
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Speaker 1: animatronics in the hall scene morphed back into more creepy
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Speaker 1: Pokemon to have a party. The end I see now
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Speaker 1: I have written the Haunted Mansion when it has its
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Speaker 1: Nightmare before Christmas overlay. I look forward to trying to
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Speaker 1: ride the Haunted Mansion when it has its Pokemon. I mean,
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Speaker 1: especially like if the Pokemon are real and it gives
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Speaker 1: you this other sense of like urgency to it it,
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Speaker 1: then Disney would shut it down, just like they they
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Speaker 1: shut down the Stitch Ride because it was too scary.
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Speaker 1: Well they should have stud shut down that that whole.
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Speaker 1: I didn't like that ride when it was Alien Encounter.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't a big fan of it when it was
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Speaker 1: the Stitch one either. I feel like Encounter, I felt
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Speaker 1: like it was a bad fit, like a bad fit
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Speaker 1: for a park that's that's heavily geared toward kids. Yeah,
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