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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdrunk Collador Podcast is a production of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large nerdrun Collider Podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always
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Speaker 1: is Jonathan Accordion. Boys Strickland. Fear is the mind killer,
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Speaker 1: so are Accordions. Wait what yeah, I mean that's like
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Speaker 1: the date killer. Hey, Ariel, Yes, Jonathan, I have a
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Speaker 1: question for you. Okay, Ariel, we talked last week a
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Speaker 1: bit about role playing games, and I happen to know
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Speaker 1: that you are an avid role playing game fan. You're
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Speaker 1: also an avid board game fan. And my question to
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Speaker 1: you is do you happen to have any lucky gaming
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Speaker 1: dice or dice that you typically will use above all others.
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Speaker 1: I do, and it depends on the game. Oh please explain.
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Speaker 1: So from my D and D game, I was gifted
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Speaker 1: with a set of I play a Changeling and I
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Speaker 1: was gifted with a set of like peacock or color
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Speaker 1: changing dice um that I use for my D and
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Speaker 1: D game. I do have other dice when you need
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Speaker 1: multiple for a role but that's my primary for anything
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Speaker 1: that is UM. Like most of the other games I
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Speaker 1: play used basically sixcited dice UH, and for those I
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Speaker 1: use the personalized dice that I have an extra surplus
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Speaker 1: of UH from my wedding. The one is a little
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Speaker 1: heart which says Ariel and Tony on it, so I
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Speaker 1: remember that they rolled pretty well. I mean I have
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Speaker 1: other dice, like I had paulin Storm dice, and I
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Speaker 1: have like a the whatever it is, like my star
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Speaker 1: sign dice, horoscope dice UM and things like that that
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Speaker 1: are fun. But yeah, it's it's either like the set
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Speaker 1: I was gifted specifically for the game or my personal distix. Nice.
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Speaker 1: What about you, I haven't played a role playing games
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Speaker 1: since I was like eighteen, so I don't. I do
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Speaker 1: own dice. I've got a bag of them, but I
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Speaker 1: haven't used them in so long. But you play board
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Speaker 1: games occasionally, too, correct, I do, and I use whatever
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Speaker 1: dice or in the box UM. But no, I I
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Speaker 1: when I when I was so, when I was a teenager,
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Speaker 1: I had a set that I would regularly use, which,
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Speaker 1: as I recall, we're translucent dice with blue in them.
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Speaker 1: So there weren't like solid. It is like like strands
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Speaker 1: of blue inside translucent dice. And they were a little sparkly,
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Speaker 1: and uh, they were just It was a set that
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Speaker 1: I bought, and then eventually I added more and more
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Speaker 1: dice to it, to the point where I was like
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Speaker 1: going to conventions and buying like a grab bag of
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Speaker 1: dice just to add to what I had. It was
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Speaker 1: a it was a problem. I had a problem, a
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Speaker 1: dice collecting problem. Listen, I I know people who anyway.
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Speaker 1: I feel like anybody who role plays has at some
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Speaker 1: point had a dice collecting problem. My niece and nephews
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Speaker 1: recently started their very first D and D campaign because
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Speaker 1: one of my nephews wrote his own RPG and then
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Speaker 1: his mom was like, hey, we shouldn't really, um, let
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Speaker 1: you have some experience with rule sets so that your
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Speaker 1: rules are a little bit more steady. Um. And they
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Speaker 1: were all playing this, this large family with one set
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Speaker 1: of dice. But as soon as they let the kids
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Speaker 1: go like into the everybody has a dice problem when
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Speaker 1: they start gaming. Everybody. I think I had like like
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Speaker 1: already to fifty teeny tiny six sided dice that came
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Speaker 1: in like some little grab bag like it was a
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Speaker 1: bunch of gimmicky stuff that back when I was going
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Speaker 1: to science fiction conventions as a teenager, I could not resist. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I'd actually have to go through my dice now, which
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Speaker 1: are not been near me, and to see if I
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Speaker 1: still have the ones that I used all the time
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Speaker 1: as a teen or if somehow I you know, lost
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Speaker 1: those and gained other dice. I also have a belief
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Speaker 1: that if I leave a dice bag out long enough,
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Speaker 1: the dice will just change. And I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: Well I'm saying, well, I'm both I understand that belief,
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Speaker 1: and it also ruins my plans to sneak into your
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Speaker 1: house and change out your dice on you. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean you'd really have to roll well on that
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Speaker 1: stealth check. Okay, so, uh we we should probably get
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Speaker 1: to the news. There's quite a bit it. In fact,
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Speaker 1: this is another one of those weeks where we really
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Speaker 1: had to whittle down the news items because there's so
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Speaker 1: much going on. Um. But the stuff that we picked
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Speaker 1: is really fun. Uh not all. Not all of it's fun.
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Speaker 1: Some of its sad. In fact, our first story is
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Speaker 1: a little little sad, but most of it's fun. I
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Speaker 1: was about to say. Yeah, our first story is sad,
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Speaker 1: which is that c W has canceled Batwoman after I
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Speaker 1: think three seasons, and they have also canceled Legends of Tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: um after seven I believe, which I have honestly not watched.
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Speaker 1: I keep saying I need to go back and watch
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Speaker 1: Legends of Tomorrow because I know that they became self
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Speaker 1: aware and and goofy, which is what I want out
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Speaker 1: of the show. Um. But I'm especially sad because apparently
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Speaker 1: Donald Fazon joined the cast for the latest season and
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Speaker 1: that that is enough to make me watch it. Yeah. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And the general feeling is that this is probably as
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Speaker 1: a result of, uh, the shifting ownerships of the parent company.
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Speaker 1: Like it gets so complicated that you worry that it's
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Speaker 1: one of those things where someone much further up on
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Speaker 1: the chain is just making very quick and perhaps too
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Speaker 1: quick decisions that end up affecting, you know, shows that
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Speaker 1: have strong fandoms. Um. And so there's been a lot
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Speaker 1: of talk about that, and uh, you know, we can't
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Speaker 1: really say one way or the other if that's the case.
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Speaker 1: It really is speculation, um, but it's it's it is
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Speaker 1: complicated because Warner Media, which was in collaboration with creating
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Speaker 1: the CW along with CBS. I mean, that's what c
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Speaker 1: W stands for, right, like you have CBS and Warner UM.
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Speaker 1: Warner Media of course just recently got acquired by Discovery Communications,
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Speaker 1: my old employer, and that may very well have been
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Speaker 1: part of it. It's hard to say. I will say this, Uh,
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Speaker 1: if Discovery buys you, you can probably count on a
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Speaker 1: whole big focus on reality television because it's way cheaper
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Speaker 1: to produce than scripted television. Not that I'm bitter, that's
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Speaker 1: a shame I do. Well, I say I enjoy the
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Speaker 1: c W superhero lineup. I haven't watched it in a
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Speaker 1: while quite honestly. Yeah, well, and I never did. I
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Speaker 1: never got into it, like I I was glad it
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Speaker 1: was there, but I never really watched any of it. Um.
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Speaker 1: I've seen like clips completely out of context, and due
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Speaker 1: to that completely out of context experience, I there's no
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Speaker 1: impact on me because I don't know what's happening. I
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Speaker 1: don't know who half the characters are. You know. In general,
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Speaker 1: I feel like their show most of their shows start
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Speaker 1: off strong and then kind of go longer than they
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Speaker 1: ought to, like Supernatural, which is also a c W show. UM.
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Speaker 1: So like Arrow I liked at the beginning and then
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Speaker 1: eventually lost interest, Flash I liked at the beginning and
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Speaker 1: eventually lost interest. Legends of Tomorrow is one of those
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Speaker 1: few that I feel like really found its footing as
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Speaker 1: it grew um as opposed to the other way around.
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Speaker 1: I guess the only other um outlier would be Constantine,
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Speaker 1: which got canceled after one season, unfortunately, because that actor
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Speaker 1: was brilliant in the role. But then he came back
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Speaker 1: in leg As of Tomorrow. I thought it was neat
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Speaker 1: to see, like there are also some crossovers with stuff
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Speaker 1: like Lucifer, because I know that there was a Lucifer
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Speaker 1: crossover either with either with the Legends of Tomorrow or
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Speaker 1: Arrow or something. I just remember I happened across a
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Speaker 1: clip of it, and I thought, Oh, that's cool. I
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Speaker 1: love it when different shows have little crossovers, especially when
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Speaker 1: you're talking about shows that exist in another media, all
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Speaker 1: as part of the same universe, Right like when you
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Speaker 1: see things that aren't necessarily created by the same people,
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Speaker 1: but the individual properties all belonged to a shared universe.
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Speaker 1: Seeing a crossover like that, it's just fun. And CW
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Speaker 1: was the best at that any time they had their
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Speaker 1: their multiverse events. Those are always my favorite mini series.
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Speaker 1: Um So it's sad something we've got because Netflix just
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Speaker 1: canceled a bunch of shows too, and it's just something
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Speaker 1: we have to remember. I think maybe we've forgotten in
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Speaker 1: the pandemic is that's normal. That's normal for television well,
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Speaker 1: and and Netflix in particular. We're probably going to see
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Speaker 1: a lot of that because the company had its first
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Speaker 1: setback where it had a loss and overall loss of
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Speaker 1: viewers and that was the first time in its history
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Speaker 1: that that had happened, and that ended up causing um
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Speaker 1: a massive uh drop in the stock price for Netflix.
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Speaker 1: You just saw people lose confidence in the company, which
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Speaker 1: I think is crazy because they had like a decade
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Speaker 1: of rowing quarter over quarter. At one quarter they have
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Speaker 1: a drawback, a setback, and everyone's like abandoned ship, and
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is just crazy. And it really does
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Speaker 1: have this massive impact on content, on entertainment, like stuff
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Speaker 1: that you know you might be looking forward to, like
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Speaker 1: I don't know, an animated adaptation to Bone suddenly goes away.
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Speaker 1: I get it. I also know they have numbers that
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Speaker 1: we don't see, probably as well, like metrics that we
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Speaker 1: don't see rather um to make those decisions. Um. But
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Speaker 1: like I also know people who have had Netflix forever
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Speaker 1: and are now saying there's nothing I really want to
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Speaker 1: watch on there, And I think it's less that there's
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Speaker 1: nothing they want to watch, and there's just so many
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Speaker 1: options that to find the ones that fit your personal
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Speaker 1: um box of enjoyment is getting more difficult because Netflix
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Speaker 1: really does push out so much media. Yeah, you get
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Speaker 1: paralyzed by choice. Yeah, it might, it might be a
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Speaker 1: good change, even though there are things that we have
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Speaker 1: to wait on at least for now, if not forever. Um.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, TV is not the only thing that experiences
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Speaker 1: change like that. So great segue because we learned last
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Speaker 1: week that Fast X has lost its director Justin Lynn,
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Speaker 1: who directed several of the entries in the Fast and
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Speaker 1: Furious franchise, including Tokyo Drift, which was considered a soft
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Speaker 1: reboot of the series. Uh. He has left the project
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Speaker 1: in the middle of production or in the beginning of production,
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Speaker 1: and the company was even losing like a million dollars
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Speaker 1: a day while they were looking to find a replacement director.
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Speaker 1: They did find one, uh, Louis Leterrier. Or Louis Literia.
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Speaker 1: I should say, um, he has directed tons of stuff,
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Speaker 1: including the Transporter movies, although those were like twenty years ago.
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Speaker 1: But he's he's known as an action director, so not
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Speaker 1: he hasn't done any like car stuff recently. But the
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Speaker 1: general consensus I've seen is that he's likely to do
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Speaker 1: whatever it is that Vin Diesel wants to do, because
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Speaker 1: that appears to have been again there's no confirmation, but
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Speaker 1: it appears to have been the The reason why director
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Speaker 1: Justin lynn left the project is because there was friction
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Speaker 1: between him and Vin Diesel, who was behaving and I'm
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Speaker 1: using other people's words here, like a total diva. Yeah good,
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Speaker 1: good to mention that you're using other people's words. It
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Speaker 1: didn't Justin Lynne also do the the last Star Trek
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Speaker 1: movie that we got. Maybe you know, I'm I'm so
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Speaker 1: terrible with naming directors, but it's quite possible. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's he's directed like the Big, Fast and Furious uh entries.
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Speaker 1: My guess is just that he just got to a
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Speaker 1: point where he couldn't put up with then Diesel's uh
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Speaker 1: nonsense anymore. I'm to choose my words real careful, aerial
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Speaker 1: because the words I would use are ones that are
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Speaker 1: not rated for a family. Good you, It's always good
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Speaker 1: to think about your words. Yes, Justin Lynne also did
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Speaker 1: Star Trek Beyond, which is great and I know you
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Speaker 1: haven't watched it, but I'm going to tell you yet
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Speaker 1: again to watch it. But it looks like he also
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Speaker 1: did the New Space Jam, which not so good. But whatever. Anyhow, Um,
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Speaker 1: I like about half of the stuff I know Lewis
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Speaker 1: Literier has done. I like the Incredible Hulk. I still
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Speaker 1: haven't watched it all the way through. I started it
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Speaker 1: and then I hit pause and then and I never
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Speaker 1: came back. I think I wasn't as fond of his
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Speaker 1: Clash of the Titans remake, but I really feel that
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Speaker 1: it has the same issue with like that I had
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Speaker 1: with BSG and other things like that, where I have
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Speaker 1: to step back and separate myself from the original that
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Speaker 1: I enjoy or the even if it's not the original,
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Speaker 1: the version that I grew up with that I enjoy,
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Speaker 1: and say, this is a different beast, let me watch
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Speaker 1: it with completely different classes on um. Yeah, once that
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Speaker 1: Blur did well. Actually, no, I'm kidding, well, we're hopeful that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not I don't have any stock and
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Speaker 1: Fast and Furious. I've never watched a single entry in
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Speaker 1: the series, but I obviously hope that, uh that whatever
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Speaker 1: comes out of the project ends up being the best
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Speaker 1: it can be. I want people to be proud of
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Speaker 1: their work, and I want people to feel, uh that
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Speaker 1: the stuff they do is worthwhile in whatever way, whether
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Speaker 1: it's pure entertainment or otherwise. And I never want to
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Speaker 1: see people fail. So hopefully Vin Diesel gets his act together,
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Speaker 1: because it sounds like he's I mean, we know that
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Speaker 1: Vin Diesel has been a bit of a handful in past,
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Speaker 1: like he's had stuff written into his contract where he
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Speaker 1: can't lose a fight to like Dwyane the Rock Johnson
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Speaker 1: and nonsense like that. Yeah, yeah, um, it's unfortunate. I
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Speaker 1: want all of the people who do the geeky things
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Speaker 1: I love to get along, but that's not always the case.
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Speaker 1: But you said that you want people to be proud
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Speaker 1: of their work, and there are there's somebody out there
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Speaker 1: who should be very proud of their work, which is
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Speaker 1: freely publishing an Alcon Entertainment because I am on the
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Speaker 1: Kickstarter page for the Blade Runner role playing game that
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Speaker 1: you put into our show notes Jonathan, And that pledge
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Speaker 1: ticker is like zooming up. What's it that now? It
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Speaker 1: was at five hundred thousand dollars when I looked at
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Speaker 1: it when I when I pledged seven uh, seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty five. But it
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Speaker 1: keeps going up by like thousands every few minutes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and this is this by the way, This is on Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: May three, so by the time you hear this it
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Speaker 1: will probably be significantly higher. So yes, it's a kickstarter
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Speaker 1: for a role playing game, a tabletop, pencil and paper
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Speaker 1: role playing game set in the Blade Runner universe. Uh.
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Speaker 1: They launched it today. They funded in three hours, they
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Speaker 1: hit their goal. Uh, they are now blasting through stretch
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Speaker 1: goals and it's not even the first full day. Um.
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Speaker 1: And I pledged because if I if you pledge in
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Speaker 1: the first twenty four hours, which be too late by
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Speaker 1: the time you hear this episode, but if you did
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Speaker 1: then you would get a print as well. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so super excited to see that. I love RPGs. I
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Speaker 1: think Blade Runner is a really interesting universe to explore.
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Speaker 1: I think the fact that you'll have the ability to
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Speaker 1: play a human or a replicant is interesting because that
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Speaker 1: campaign can't last too long. Replicants have limited lifespans. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well it's It's also interesting because I feel like Shadow
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Speaker 1: Run kind of played on the on the Blade Runner
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Speaker 1: world a bit um, but I guess this will be
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Speaker 1: a more more confined world because Yeah, I'm hoping that
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Speaker 1: this is the game that will finally teach us that
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Speaker 1: replica ants can become replica cans. Jonathan, We're going to
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Speaker 1: be a break. We're gonna go to a brake so
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Speaker 1: the aerial can recover from by bud, and then we'll
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Speaker 1: be right back. Okay, I think I think I'm ready
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Speaker 1: to continue now, Jonathan. Okay, well, let's go off by
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Speaker 1: talking about something that's truly amazing, yes, which is the
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Speaker 1: Weird Al Yankovic movie trailer. Uh. We we talked about
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Speaker 1: this a little bit ago when we found out that
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Speaker 1: it was happening and that Daniel Radcliffe would be playing
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Speaker 1: Weird Al, because they kept talking about all these like
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Speaker 1: we thought they were being very very tongue in cheek
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Speaker 1: about the movie about all of uh weird Owl's crazy
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Speaker 1: exploits and rock and roll lifestyle. Uh, but when you
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Speaker 1: watch the trailer, I don't think they were like, the
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Speaker 1: movie is tongue in cheek, but they were not being
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Speaker 1: tongue in cheek and describing it. No, No, it's it's
17:56
Speaker 1: like what if you did Pam and Tommy, But it
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Speaker 1: was about weird Owl, right, like the whole Pam and
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Speaker 1: Tommy mini series that came out about about Pamela Anderson
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Speaker 1: and you know that was the teaser. Gives you a
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Speaker 1: hint of that. It's clearly being a joke. It's very
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Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit. There was a special
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Speaker 1: that weird Ow did years ago that was about his
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Speaker 1: supposed journey to becoming a parody pop star. And I
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Speaker 1: think it's even called the Complete Weird Owl. It was
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Speaker 1: like done in like the late eighties. Maybe I remember
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Speaker 1: renting it on VHS multiple times. It's very, very silly,
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Speaker 1: and this actually reminds me a lot of that, Like
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Speaker 1: it has similar attitude toward that. I also love seeing
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Speaker 1: Rain Wilson as Dr Demento. That made me laugh out
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Speaker 1: loud when I saw the trailer. Yes, it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a really great cloud cast. You also mentioned that Evan
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Speaker 1: Rachel would will be Madonna, which I think is perfect casting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you only see her from the back at the very
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Speaker 1: end of the teaser. Yeah, Like, I didn't know what
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Speaker 1: you expect from this movie movie series. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a movie. It's a movie on Roku. Yeah, I have Channel,
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Speaker 1: I have Rocus thankfully, um so I have three of them,
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Speaker 1: so I'll watch it three times at least. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect. But I am one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent here for all of it. Oh. Yeah, Daniel Radcliffe,
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Speaker 1: Loo's like he's having the time of his life. And honestly,
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Speaker 1: if we can just keep giving him really weird projects
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Speaker 1: to do, I would love it, because he's the kind
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Speaker 1: of actor that I really admire in the sense of
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Speaker 1: someone who throws themselves into a project no matter how
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Speaker 1: ludicrous it is, and they can truly enjoy it. They
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Speaker 1: can truly understand how crazy and silly the project is.
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Speaker 1: But within the project there's commitment, right, So like it's
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Speaker 1: not like he's kind of like winking and nodding like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: isn't this silly? No, he is committed to the party.
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Speaker 1: He's like a modern day Nick Cage Jonathan Um who
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Speaker 1: sings better. Actually, I don't know if Nick Cage can sing.
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Speaker 1: Um but I do know Daniel Radcliffe can sing, and
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Speaker 1: he puts on a great performance when he does, so
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Speaker 1: any chance that I get to watch him do that
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Speaker 1: is a good one. Yeah. So really looking forward to this.
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Speaker 1: I I was looking forward to it before just because
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Speaker 1: it was such a weird announcement, but the teaser has
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Speaker 1: removed any doubt. And then Ariel sent me a trailer
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Speaker 1: for a movie that she thought I would like. Why
20:42
Speaker 1: don't you describe what you sent to me? So this
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Speaker 1: is called gatlop if I like, I'm looking at what
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Speaker 1: I typed into our show notes, and it looks like
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Speaker 1: I had I can't tell if I I was drunk
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Speaker 1: when I was typing. I wasn't drunk, but it looks
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Speaker 1: like it because of the name of the trailer, um
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Speaker 1: I clicked on it on a on a whim And
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Speaker 1: it's a modern day It looks like a modern day
21:06
Speaker 1: adult Jamanji if Jamuji was a drinking game. It's got
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Speaker 1: an actress from the Umbrella Academy, and it's got an
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Speaker 1: actor from Miracle Workers, which automatically tells you it's going
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Speaker 1: to be fun and weird. Uh. And it looks, I
21:21
Speaker 1: mean like it's got the same kind of I don't
21:26
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is another thing where it's really
21:28
Speaker 1: hard to describe, Like it's tongue in cheek, but it
21:30
Speaker 1: looks like there is actual action in tension in there. Um,
21:33
Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be funny and farcical.
21:36
Speaker 1: I don't know that. But like more like the original
21:38
Speaker 1: Jumanji where things come out of the game to people
21:41
Speaker 1: and things from the game happen, but not necessarily the
21:44
Speaker 1: new Jumanji where you get sucked into the video game itself. Um,
21:48
Speaker 1: but yeah, it looks really interesting. Yeah. No. The first
21:52
Speaker 1: thing I told Ariel is that I could hear the
21:54
Speaker 1: pitch meeting where the person literally said it's Jumanji but
21:58
Speaker 1: a drinking game adults, and that's it. Like that's literally
22:02
Speaker 1: that's all you really need to know. Although, again, like
22:05
Speaker 1: Ariel said, we're talking about the Robin Williams jumon G
22:08
Speaker 1: film where the elements of the game come into real
22:11
Speaker 1: life as opposed to being pulled into the game itself. Yeah. So,
22:15
Speaker 1: so it's a game where the players have to draw
22:18
Speaker 1: cards and the cards forced the players to do whatever
22:21
Speaker 1: the cards are saying, or the cards forced the players
22:25
Speaker 1: to play the game the way the game wants to
22:27
Speaker 1: be played, and they reveal that written on the back
22:30
Speaker 1: of the box it says that you have to complete
22:33
Speaker 1: the game, someone has to win before sunrise or everybody
22:37
Speaker 1: plays the game for eternity. It's actually written on the
22:40
Speaker 1: back of the box. And they'll make assumptions and the
22:44
Speaker 1: cards will argue with them. Yes, yeah, The cards will
22:48
Speaker 1: be like, don't don't try and get around by using that,
22:51
Speaker 1: Like that's not gonna work. The cards are actively trying
22:54
Speaker 1: to stop players from wheedling around the rules, and uh yeah,
23:00
Speaker 1: only looks like it's it's a comedy. It might be
23:03
Speaker 1: a dark comedy because there are some elements that look
23:07
Speaker 1: like it could get a little twisted. I don't think
23:11
Speaker 1: it's gonna get like grim but there's definitely some violence,
23:15
Speaker 1: like we we see someone gets shot in the leg
23:16
Speaker 1: with an arrow in the very beginning of the trailer.
23:19
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, which at which point is when I thought
23:22
Speaker 1: the trailer would go to like full on teen horror movie,
23:25
Speaker 1: but it didn't. Yeah yeah, like it like if it
23:29
Speaker 1: becomes something like like uh Weija or Truth or Dare
23:33
Speaker 1: or one of those, like one of the numerous teen
23:37
Speaker 1: horror movies that's written by sixty year old people and
23:40
Speaker 1: doesn't like none of the teenagers sound like actual teenagers,
23:44
Speaker 1: and all the movies are really terrible and they all
23:46
Speaker 1: end up on red letter media shows and stuff. That's
23:50
Speaker 1: what That's what it could have been. It doesn't look
23:53
Speaker 1: like it. It turned into that. And I am totally
23:56
Speaker 1: digging this era of horror comedies and and thriller comedies.
24:02
Speaker 1: So I think of stuff like Ready or Not, which
24:06
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed, or even Knives Out, which would be
24:09
Speaker 1: more of a like a mystery comedy type thing. Like,
24:12
Speaker 1: I'm really digging this era where yeah, probably I haven't
24:19
Speaker 1: seen it. Um, there's a lot of stuff I haven't seen,
24:25
Speaker 1: but no, I really dig this this underlying comedic tone
24:32
Speaker 1: that's coming in with certain movies where it's not like
24:35
Speaker 1: hitting you over the head necessarily with the comedy, although
24:37
Speaker 1: in parts at will, but um, but that it's more
24:42
Speaker 1: than just this is this is two hours of people
24:46
Speaker 1: making idiots of themselves in cringe humor, and that's what
24:51
Speaker 1: stands for a comedy. Because I can't stand those types
24:53
Speaker 1: of movies, not saying that they are bad or that
24:56
Speaker 1: people who like them are bad, but I can't watch them.
24:59
Speaker 1: I I get intensely uncomfortable trying to watch those kinds
25:03
Speaker 1: of movie. Yeah. Yeah, I'm I'm for this this new
25:05
Speaker 1: trend as well as long as it's not two on
25:07
Speaker 1: the nose, like you said, like with Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yeah. No,
25:11
Speaker 1: when it gets to that, Like when it's when it's
25:13
Speaker 1: that level of of like heavy handed approach to either
25:18
Speaker 1: making a comedic moment or trying to make a commentary
25:20
Speaker 1: about something in modern society, then I just roll my
25:24
Speaker 1: eyes because there are better ways to do it. Yeah,
25:26
Speaker 1: what do you what do you feel about being heavy
25:27
Speaker 1: handed in drama? Well, it depends if it's, Uh, if
25:32
Speaker 1: it's something like I don't know, Breaking Bad, you've got
25:36
Speaker 1: to be real careful because it'll just it'll make the
25:38
Speaker 1: whole show topple over. If it's something like Game of Thrones,
25:41
Speaker 1: well it kind of comes with the territory, and I
25:43
Speaker 1: think what you're referring to is going to be way
25:46
Speaker 1: more Game of Thrones than it will be Breaking Bad.
25:48
Speaker 1: Which is interesting because we're talking about the Dune prequel
25:52
Speaker 1: that is coming to HBO Max that is uh doing
25:57
Speaker 1: the Sisterhood so largely going to focus on the Benage, yes,
25:59
Speaker 1: or they have recently changed. Um some of the people
26:03
Speaker 1: who are who are working on that, And one of
26:05
Speaker 1: the people who is stepping in is the director for Chernobyl,
26:10
Speaker 1: which I haven't watched, but he also directed episodes of Vikings, Bloodline,
26:15
Speaker 1: Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, and Halt and Catch Fire. I've
26:18
Speaker 1: seen three of them. And so this series is going
26:22
Speaker 1: to be set ten thousand years before the events of
26:27
Speaker 1: doing the film, or do in the first novel, if
26:30
Speaker 1: you want to go with the book series. So, as
26:33
Speaker 1: Ariel was saying, it's going to really focus on the
26:35
Speaker 1: ben A Jeserit and sort of the foundation of that
26:38
Speaker 1: sect of powerful women who collectively are trying to shape
26:45
Speaker 1: the universal events towards a very specific outcome. And so
26:51
Speaker 1: by that I anticipate what we're going to get is
26:55
Speaker 1: a series that's going to be very similar to Game
26:57
Speaker 1: of Thrones, and that there's gonna be a lot of
26:58
Speaker 1: maneuvering and manipulation and political intrigue because that's what the
27:02
Speaker 1: Binages are. It are all about, like they orchestrate entire
27:06
Speaker 1: wars just so that they can continue their quest towards
27:12
Speaker 1: uh the creation of essentially a messiah like character which
27:17
Speaker 1: spoiler alert if you're not if you're not familiar with
27:20
Speaker 1: the Dune series, is totally where that's going. Yeah, yeah,
27:25
Speaker 1: I'm interested in it. I like the Dune Verse. The
27:29
Speaker 1: Dune Verse, is that the way to say it? Yeah, universe, brilliant,
27:34
Speaker 1: It's the universe. Yeah, I'm interested too, because I think, like,
27:41
Speaker 1: I think it has the potential to be really riveting. Uh,
27:46
Speaker 1: even though you know where everything's going ultimately, I mean,
27:49
Speaker 1: it's ten thousand years later, so the characters you're watching, like,
27:54
Speaker 1: they're all doing this knowing they're not going to live
27:56
Speaker 1: to see the fruits of their labor. But it's important
27:59
Speaker 1: that they do it. So I think it will be
28:02
Speaker 1: a really fascinating story. I do too. Another fascinating story
28:07
Speaker 1: that we found out about this week, although this one
28:09
Speaker 1: is for real, real, not for play play, is that
28:12
Speaker 1: LaVar Burton is getting a Emmy, a lifetime achievement, A
28:17
Speaker 1: lifetime achievement Emmy. Yeah, for his work on reading Rainbow,
28:22
Speaker 1: and congratulations LeVar Burton, well deserved. I love Reading Rainbow.
28:30
Speaker 1: I have loved it all my life. I am glad
28:35
Speaker 1: that a program that focuses on encouraging children to read
28:40
Speaker 1: and discover a love of literature has earned this level
28:46
Speaker 1: of recognition, and uh, I think LaVar Burton had a
28:49
Speaker 1: pretty humble reaction, like like gosh when he found out.
28:55
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's also it's great that this reading rainbow
28:59
Speaker 1: holds because you grew up up with that. I grew
29:01
Speaker 1: up with it. Despite the fact that we both do
29:03
Speaker 1: have like we are that far apart in age, but
29:05
Speaker 1: we're far enough at parting age that there are many
29:07
Speaker 1: shows that I watched that you didn't and vice versa.
29:10
Speaker 1: Um that it's still a thing today. I know. In
29:13
Speaker 1: two thousand six or after two thousand six, um, when
29:16
Speaker 1: it was canceled, Levarburton tried to bring it back via Kickstarter,
29:20
Speaker 1: and there are some legal battles in that, but it
29:23
Speaker 1: was the most widely supported Kickstarter campaign ever at the time.
29:28
Speaker 1: It reaches school in twenty four hours, which is now
29:31
Speaker 1: not so unheard of. But well, I mean, it all
29:34
Speaker 1: depends on what the goal is to Like we talked
29:36
Speaker 1: earlier about the Blade Runner RPG funding in three hours,
29:40
Speaker 1: but their goal was just ten thousand dollars. I mean,
29:43
Speaker 1: I say, just ten thousand dollars. That's a lot of money,
29:45
Speaker 1: but compared to like a massive Kickstarter project. That's nothing.
29:50
Speaker 1: Uh Now, granted they've also earned more than seven hundred
29:53
Speaker 1: thousand dollars now as of the time we're recording this,
29:55
Speaker 1: so it is significant. But yeah, really exciting and just
30:00
Speaker 1: I'm so pleased to see LeVar Burton be honored in
30:02
Speaker 1: this way. And yeah, we figured that that was like
30:06
Speaker 1: the happiest news to end our news segments on. And
30:09
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go to break and when we come back,
30:12
Speaker 1: we're gonna do our mash up and we're gonna talk
30:13
Speaker 1: about a couple of other news stories that you know
30:17
Speaker 1: inspired the mash up this week, Ariel, I want to
30:38
Speaker 1: take the render seller news item because I want to
30:42
Speaker 1: hear what your your thoughts are on the other one,
30:46
Speaker 1: because because of beloved character, the one that character that
30:50
Speaker 1: you really love shows up in it, and I want
30:52
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts. Which is exactly what you said
30:55
Speaker 1: when you told me that a new trailer for Chippendale
30:57
Speaker 1: Rescue Rangers had come out. Um, the I thought before
31:03
Speaker 1: she did, and I could not wait to hear what
31:05
Speaker 1: Ariels are reacting. So I started off the trailer actually
31:09
Speaker 1: feeling better about the movie because Chippendale are working together
31:14
Speaker 1: and they go into like their old Chippendale voices, and
31:16
Speaker 1: that kind of like that was a big weird thing
31:20
Speaker 1: for me in the first trailer was just the fact
31:22
Speaker 1: that they did not at all at any point sound
31:25
Speaker 1: like Chipperdale in any way, form or fashion. But they
31:28
Speaker 1: kind of got some of that groove going back in
31:30
Speaker 1: this new trailer. And then, um, they abduct Flounder, and
31:34
Speaker 1: I thought, well, maybe that's what Jonathan's talking about. That's
31:37
Speaker 1: not the case Flounder from The Little Mermaid because I
31:40
Speaker 1: like Little Mermaid and like the music better than the story. Um,
31:44
Speaker 1: you know what john is talking about is Peter Pan
31:47
Speaker 1: is a villain in this movie apparently, And I know
31:51
Speaker 1: you're all gonna say, Peter Pan is a villain Ariel,
31:55
Speaker 1: and he is if you go back and you read
31:57
Speaker 1: the original Peter Pan or even watch Disney Peter Pan.
32:00
Speaker 1: But um, they made him like a beer bellied, slovenly
32:04
Speaker 1: old man villain. And I don't like that Peter Pan
32:08
Speaker 1: grew up. I don't like that. Like it wasn't even
32:11
Speaker 1: like they didn't even make him like, what was it,
32:13
Speaker 1: a lawyer or an accountant like in Hook. They it
32:16
Speaker 1: just made him gross. And now now it exture, don't
32:21
Speaker 1: want to see Chippendale. It's not even Chipdale. It's the
32:24
Speaker 1: Rescue Rangers movie. I'm gonna watch it, but I don't
32:26
Speaker 1: want to, Like I'm I'm gonna be so sassed the
32:30
Speaker 1: entire time it. The trailer once again made me think, like,
32:37
Speaker 1: how did Disney give the green light to this? Like
32:41
Speaker 1: it's so not Disney's wheelhouse. I mean, like Disney does
32:46
Speaker 1: occasionally comment upon itself and get a little meta, Like,
32:50
Speaker 1: you know, you have the moments in the Wreckord Ralph
32:52
Speaker 1: sequel where all the princesses end up kind of revealing
32:58
Speaker 1: their own insecurities an anxiety ease that are brawn by
33:01
Speaker 1: trauma based upon their their individual stories, and I get it,
33:05
Speaker 1: Like that's cute. Um, but yeah, it was kind of
33:08
Speaker 1: wild seeing the sort of of subversion of Disney's I
33:15
Speaker 1: p in the in the trailer, and you know, I
33:19
Speaker 1: don't know how I feel about it. Yeah, I mean
33:22
Speaker 1: it's very we said this last time, it's very very
33:24
Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit, because once again they've got a bunch of
33:27
Speaker 1: IP that doesn't even belong to Disney, or if it does,
33:31
Speaker 1: like it's through through merger. It's not direct Disney property. Um. Yeah,
33:37
Speaker 1: although Roger Rabbit like that one was that was a
33:39
Speaker 1: partnership between multiple companies, and now it's just that Disney
33:44
Speaker 1: pretty much owns everything. I mean, Disney still partners with Sony.
33:47
Speaker 1: So but if you so, we're using Rescue Rangers as
33:50
Speaker 1: one of our one of our mashup items. If you
33:52
Speaker 1: aren't familiar, it was a show from the late eighties,
33:54
Speaker 1: I think, um, which means it was a little past
33:57
Speaker 1: Jonathan's time to enjoy it. About Chippendale, the classic Disney
34:01
Speaker 1: characters who run like a gumshoe detective agency, along with
34:05
Speaker 1: gadget Um who is a female mouse who is also
34:08
Speaker 1: a gadgeteer, and Monterey Jack, who is a mouse who
34:12
Speaker 1: has an amazing like sense of smell and is addicted
34:15
Speaker 1: to cheese, and Zipper, who's a little fly, and they
34:17
Speaker 1: fight crimes, usually against other animals, sometimes against people, sometimes
34:21
Speaker 1: with the help of human cops. Um, it's just darling,
34:25
Speaker 1: Um it does. I watched a little bit of it
34:27
Speaker 1: again today. It's cute. It's definitely a children's show. Um. Yeah,
34:32
Speaker 1: it came out a little too late for me, Like
34:34
Speaker 1: I was watching the Disney stuff that came out before that.
34:40
Speaker 1: So stuff like, I mean, even gummy Bears. I watched that,
34:44
Speaker 1: but I also watched uh like Duck Tails Tailspin, Darkwing Duck,
34:50
Speaker 1: Like that was the era that I was watching, and
34:52
Speaker 1: then I kind of got out of it. See I
34:54
Speaker 1: always thought, like in my brain cannon of of like
34:57
Speaker 1: my old childhood memories, Chippendale came out, but or Dark
35:00
Speaker 1: Green Duck and tail Spin. But I'm probably wrong there,
35:05
Speaker 1: you know, if it did well. The other thing is
35:07
Speaker 1: that you know what age group was it appealing to, right,
35:11
Speaker 1: because Tail Spin and Darkwing Duck had jokes that were
35:16
Speaker 1: geared towards older viewers, not necessarily like excluding younger ones,
35:21
Speaker 1: but there were jokes that young kids would never get,
35:24
Speaker 1: like references that kids would never get, that that older
35:28
Speaker 1: viewers would get. And uh and tho that was the
35:31
Speaker 1: sore of stuff I was watching. Um so that's one
35:34
Speaker 1: element Rescue Rangers. The other element is Cinderella. And the
35:38
Speaker 1: reason why we picked Cinderella is that the stage musical
35:45
Speaker 1: Andrew Lloyd Webber Cinderella. So we're not talking like Rogers
35:49
Speaker 1: and Hammerstein or anything here, but the the Andrew Lloyd
35:52
Speaker 1: Webber musical of Cinderella is scheduled to leave the West
35:56
Speaker 1: End this summer. It's only been up for about a year,
36:01
Speaker 1: not even a full year. Uh. The production was notoriously
36:06
Speaker 1: delayed by things like COVID. There was a COVID outbreak
36:10
Speaker 1: among the cast that caused the the show to uh
36:14
Speaker 1: to delay opening, which Andrew Lloyd Webber was really mad about.
36:19
Speaker 1: And I was kind of done with joyd Webber's opinion
36:23
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, he was being a little too little,
36:27
Speaker 1: too uh selfish, I think, which you know, if you
36:30
Speaker 1: know anything about andrewoid Webber, No shock there. I'm throwing.
36:34
Speaker 1: I'm throwing shade and spilling tea, folks, because I'm a
36:37
Speaker 1: musical kind of guy. But anyway, the music will follow. Cinderella.
36:42
Speaker 1: It's a twist on the classic Cinderella story. It's set
36:47
Speaker 1: in a town where everyone is beautiful, and in fact
36:50
Speaker 1: they the town wins like a beauty award every single year,
36:55
Speaker 1: and Cinderella is considered kind of the outcast goth chick
36:58
Speaker 1: who doesn't fit the standards of beauty of the town.
37:02
Speaker 1: She's also very beautiful, but not not conventionally, which is
37:06
Speaker 1: the problem. Uh. They in the story of the stage show,
37:10
Speaker 1: the godmother is like a plastic surgeon. She's that's that
37:14
Speaker 1: They call her the fairy Godmother, but she's the She's
37:16
Speaker 1: a plastic surgeon who fixes people's appearance so that they
37:19
Speaker 1: conform to the community standards of beauty. Kind of like
37:23
Speaker 1: Repo the Genetic Opera. Kind of like Repo the Genetic Opera,
37:27
Speaker 1: which we could talk about like four days and are
37:30
Speaker 1: our super fan. Sha would be like totally into it
37:34
Speaker 1: because uh Zidra comes in a little glass vib but
37:39
Speaker 1: the a little glass vial, little glass vile goes into
37:44
Speaker 1: a gun like a battery. Okay, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm sorry.
37:46
Speaker 1: So so yes, we're gonna talk about Cinderella and Rescue Rangers.
37:51
Speaker 1: The Cinderella isn't necessarily going to be the stage show version. Also,
37:54
Speaker 1: by the way, uh andrewaid Webber is planning on bringing
37:57
Speaker 1: that to Broadway next year, but there he's also planning
38:01
Speaker 1: on retooling the show extensively, Like essentially, it sounds like
38:06
Speaker 1: nothing is going to be unchanged, like everything is going
38:08
Speaker 1: to get up at somewhere form. I am morbidly curious
38:12
Speaker 1: to see what the new product is. I will say.
38:15
Speaker 1: Watching the trailer for the West End version, like the
38:17
Speaker 1: songs didn't grab me. There were certainly a lot more
38:20
Speaker 1: buff men without shirts doing sword fighting than in Roger
38:23
Speaker 1: and Hammerstein's. And I don't really like the way the
38:25
Speaker 1: Roger and Hammerstein's one has been recently retooled either. So yeah,
38:29
Speaker 1: I I hope that maybe they'll commit at least a
38:34
Speaker 1: performance of the West End version to video, because I
38:38
Speaker 1: would be curious to see what the differences are, right Like,
38:41
Speaker 1: I would want to see what what came before and
38:43
Speaker 1: what was changed. And there's no way I'm getting over
38:45
Speaker 1: to the West End before it closes. So anyway, we're
38:49
Speaker 1: gonna do that mash up. Ariel's gonna go first. Then
38:52
Speaker 1: we'll take a quick break and I'll do mine, because
38:54
Speaker 1: mine once again goes a little on the long side.
38:57
Speaker 1: So why don't you, why don't you take it away? Ariel?
39:00
Speaker 1: All right? Mine is called Chicha chip and Dale Rescue Princess.
39:04
Speaker 1: One day, while chip Dale and the rest of the
39:06
Speaker 1: rescue Rangers were doing some spring cleaning at their detective agency,
39:09
Speaker 1: they got a knock at the door. When they opened it,
39:12
Speaker 1: there was a human woman peering in through the door.
39:14
Speaker 1: Once the rangers got over the shock of their giant client,
39:17
Speaker 1: she introduced herself as Cindy. Cindy Ella Dale was instantly
39:22
Speaker 1: smitten and tongue tied, so Chip did the talking. He
39:25
Speaker 1: tried to tell Cindy that human crimes usually went to
39:27
Speaker 1: officers Kirby and Muldoon, but Cyndy insisted that there was
39:31
Speaker 1: no one else that could help her other than these
39:33
Speaker 1: gum shoes. You see, her husband, Mr. Charming, who she
39:36
Speaker 1: had met and had a whirlwind fairytale romance with, had
39:39
Speaker 1: face blindness but was great with feet, so when he proposed,
39:43
Speaker 1: he did so with a fancy diamond shoe. But the
39:46
Speaker 1: shoe has gone missing, and without it, her husband couldn't
39:49
Speaker 1: recognize her anymore. And even worse, they were supposed to
39:51
Speaker 1: be throwing an anniversary ball that evening. Chip asked what
39:55
Speaker 1: the gang thought if they should help, and after Gadget
39:58
Speaker 1: smacked Dale out of his stupor, they all agreed that
40:00
Speaker 1: they would help, so that this time this crime wouldn't
40:04
Speaker 1: go slipping through the cracks. I mean, they did claim
40:06
Speaker 1: there was no case too big, no case too small. Yes,
40:09
Speaker 1: those are lyrics from the theme song. All right, well,
40:12
Speaker 1: technically Dale said I'd love to go to the ball
40:14
Speaker 1: with you while spinning around and quick changing into a
40:16
Speaker 1: chipmunk sized ball gown. Chip asked, where did you get
40:19
Speaker 1: that spring cleaning, said Dale, so dreamy, I'm I mean Cindy,
40:23
Speaker 1: what clues do you have? Sadly, the only clue Cindy
40:26
Speaker 1: Ella could give to these gum shoes to find her
40:30
Speaker 1: missing slipper was some shoegum, some gum that had been
40:35
Speaker 1: stepped on that the cops insist insisted wasn't a clue
40:39
Speaker 1: at all, but it was enough for the rescue rangers
40:42
Speaker 1: to go on. Gadget whipped together a gum tread tracking
40:44
Speaker 1: device that paired with Monterey's impeccable sense of smell, made
40:47
Speaker 1: tracking the gum tracks a piece of cheese, I mean cake.
40:51
Speaker 1: The gum tracks led them straight to the height out
40:53
Speaker 1: of the infamous mobster fat Cat. They could see him
40:56
Speaker 1: talking through the window to another large cat, and the
41:00
Speaker 1: US had Zipper the fly in to listen to the conversation.
41:03
Speaker 1: When Zipper came out, he relaid to the team that
41:05
Speaker 1: the other cat's name was Lucifer. He was the family
41:07
Speaker 1: cat of Cindy's step family. You see, Cindy's marriage messed
41:11
Speaker 1: up a major merger that the step family had been
41:13
Speaker 1: planning with the Charming family, and once the merger was
41:15
Speaker 1: messed up, the family had to go, had to tighten
41:17
Speaker 1: their budget, and Lucifer had been switched to generic cat food.
41:22
Speaker 1: This shoe stealing scheme was his plan for revenge, and
41:25
Speaker 1: he would split the spoils with Fat Cat. The Rescue
41:28
Speaker 1: Rangers quickly devised a plan involving a flake fake slipper
41:31
Speaker 1: made from a roller skate, paper clips, and glitter, so
41:34
Speaker 1: much glitter, and then after a crafty in more than
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Speaker 1: one way montage, they had the diamond shoe in hand.
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Speaker 1: They high tailed it away from Fat Cat's lair, went
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Speaker 1: to plant evidence at the step family's home, and then
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Speaker 1: returned the diamond slipper to a grateful Cindy. Once Cindy
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Speaker 1: got her shoe back, her husband recognized her once again
41:51
Speaker 1: and the ball was back on. The rangers were all
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Speaker 1: giving invitation to join the festivities, so they all got
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Speaker 1: dressed up and joined the party, where there was dancing, merriment,
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Speaker 1: and cheese and nuts for all. Dale even gotta thank
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Speaker 1: you kiss from Cindy, at which point he exuberantly threw
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Speaker 1: pockets full of glitter into the air, quick changing into
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Speaker 1: an even more elaborate ball outfit. Chips stared and exasperated disbelief,
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Speaker 1: as Dale said, spring cleaning with a wink. Another case closed. Okay, uh,
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Speaker 1: that was amazing, thank you. I love that Prince Charming
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Speaker 1: has face blindness but a foot finish that that I
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Speaker 1: mean I had that you probably saw me. I was
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Speaker 1: having to suppress laughing my butt off from that. I
42:34
Speaker 1: also really loved the crafty pun a lot. Uh. Yeah,
42:40
Speaker 1: that was great. I so you were worried a bit
42:43
Speaker 1: that are our mashups might be a little too close.
42:46
Speaker 1: I can I can assure you that's not the case.
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Speaker 1: But I mean there's gonna be some some similar elements,
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Speaker 1: and I think you'll be tickled. Yeah, you'll be tickled
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Speaker 1: at the little bits that are kind of similar. But
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Speaker 1: um I okay, I'm also gonna warn you everybody out there,
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Speaker 1: not just Ariel. I went a little bunkers with this one. Um,
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna take a break, steal yourselves, and when
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Speaker 1: we come back, we'll do my mesh up. All right, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: I am looking forward to your mashup. I am fully
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Speaker 1: stealed and prepared. Yeah all right, Uh, I am sorry
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Speaker 1: and You're welcome. I guess is how I will start this.
43:44
Speaker 1: I honestly like this was one of those where I
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Speaker 1: kind of had an idea when I started, and then
43:49
Speaker 1: by the time I got into it. Um, It's like
43:52
Speaker 1: when a railroad trains going down the tracks and then
43:54
Speaker 1: someone pulls the lever and switches the tracks. That's what happened.
43:58
Speaker 1: When I was writing it, I called it Rescue by Midnight.
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Speaker 1: Cinderella has a problem. See. More than anything, she just
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Speaker 1: wants to go out clubbing. But her stepsisters are totally wicked,
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Speaker 1: as is her stepmother, and they constantly conspired to make
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Speaker 1: Cinderella's life hard because they're tots jealous that Cindy's father
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Speaker 1: always liked her best, and part of making Cindy's life
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Speaker 1: hard is telling her she is under no circumstances to
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Speaker 1: go clubbing, particularly at the hottest nightclub in town called
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Speaker 1: Club Royal, where Prince is gonna play. At one point,
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Speaker 1: Cinderella thinks she might have found a loophole, having discovered
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Speaker 1: a special wishing stone at the base of the wishing
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Speaker 1: well in what her father used to call their wishing garden,
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Speaker 1: but she had reckoned those were all just figures. Of speech.
44:50
Speaker 1: But before she can secretly make her wish, her totally
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Speaker 1: wicked stepsisters ransack her room just out of spite, and
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Speaker 1: in the process, the stone goes sing. Cindy tries looking
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Speaker 1: for it, but she can't find it anywhere. Being too
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Speaker 1: intimidated to ask her sisters, she looks around desperate. She's
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Speaker 1: at her lowest, convinced that her life is just going
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Speaker 1: to be a long series of misfortunes when she sees
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Speaker 1: an ad in the local paper a special detective agency
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Speaker 1: run by chipmunks. Well, Cindy has always had a special
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Speaker 1: affinity with small animals, having hired most of the local
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Speaker 1: birds and vermin to help her with her chores, so
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Speaker 1: she reaches out to the rescue rangers. Soon enough, detectives
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Speaker 1: Chip and Dale arrive and they're on the case. The
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Speaker 1: big Prince concert at Club Royal is that very night,
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Speaker 1: so there's not a moment to lose. The two immediately
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Speaker 1: starts searching for the stone, asking around with the various
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Speaker 1: animals nearby. In the process, they discover that, sure enough,
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Speaker 1: Gus Gus the mouse has the stone. He slipped away
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Speaker 1: with it as the totally wicked step sisters had invaded
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Speaker 1: Cindy's room, but he found himself stuck behind the stone
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Speaker 1: in his little mouse hole, and he was unable to
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Speaker 1: get back out. Chip and Dale are able to wedge
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Speaker 1: gust Gus out of his predicament and they pull him
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Speaker 1: free and they get the stone back to Cindy. Cinderella,
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Speaker 1: super thankful, pays the rescue rangers and invites them to
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Speaker 1: come with her to the ball, which they eagerly agree
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Speaker 1: to do. Well. Then she wishes upon the stone, which
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Speaker 1: then summons up this weird group of three men, three
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Speaker 1: blue men carrying wands. So this group of blue men
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Speaker 1: play this crazy song. This Blue Man group plays the song,
46:38
Speaker 1: and I think it's called Bitty Body Bitty Boo, and
46:41
Speaker 1: it's originally by a group called Bubbles. You need to
46:43
Speaker 1: go to YouTube right now, or at least when this
46:45
Speaker 1: episode is over and YouTube search bitty Body Bitty Boo.
46:50
Speaker 1: You are welcome anyway. Cindy is almost ready to say
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Speaker 1: never mind. The club is right here with this thumping
46:57
Speaker 1: tunes courtesy of the Blue Man group. Then she remembers
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Speaker 1: her dream to go to Club Royal. So she looks
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Speaker 1: at the blue weirdos and says, I wish I could
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Speaker 1: go to Club Royal and see Prince and to do
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Speaker 1: it in style. And even though that's technically two wishes,
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Speaker 1: the Blue Man Group is tots chill with it, and
47:15
Speaker 1: so the tunes really get cranking and the lights are
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Speaker 1: flashing and there's lazers and confetti and stuff, and the
47:20
Speaker 1: next thing you know, Cinderella is in this killer clubbing
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Speaker 1: outfit that's blue with like these perlscent accents that change
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Speaker 1: color when the lights hid it in different ways, and
47:29
Speaker 1: she's got these killer glass stiletto heels that are super
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Speaker 1: hard to walk in, let alone dance in. But then
47:37
Speaker 1: there's Chip and Dale. See, the Blue Man Group has
47:40
Speaker 1: figured that Cindy needs an entourage to really impress at
47:44
Speaker 1: Club Royal, and so Chip and Dale find themselves transformed
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Speaker 1: into human beings. Chip looks a lot like John mulaney,
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Speaker 1: but it's from that one sketch from Saturday Night Live
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Speaker 1: where he appears as Stephen's lawyer in a shiny black
47:58
Speaker 1: shirt with fishnets Lee Eaves and Dale looks like Andy
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Speaker 1: Samberg in that one episode of Like Brooklyn nine nine
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Speaker 1: in which his characters undercover in the mafia as a
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Speaker 1: disgrace cop and he's wearing his hair all slicked back,
48:12
Speaker 1: and he's got a maroon Valor jump suit on. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's what Dale looks like. And so Cindy and the
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Speaker 1: party boys leave her stepmother's house, which is totally trashed
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Speaker 1: in confetti, and they head outside and the Blue Man
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Speaker 1: Group groove into some cool techno casually turn a pumpkin
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Speaker 1: into a two thousand twenty two Lamborghini Hurricane Avo, which
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Speaker 1: means Dale has to sit in Chip's lap because there's
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Speaker 1: not really any back seat to speak off, and Sydy
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Speaker 1: tears off Downtown. She pulls up in front of Club
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Speaker 1: Royal and she gets out entourage and toe tossing the
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Speaker 1: key fob dismissively to a valet attendant as she sachets
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Speaker 1: confidently right into the club, and just as she comes in, boom,
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Speaker 1: Prince is on stage, playing a crazy guitar solo like
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Speaker 1: only he can. He's halfway through I Can Never Take
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Speaker 1: the place of Your Man, and Cindy starts grooving with
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Speaker 1: Chippendale awkwardly doing their best to dance around her while
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Speaker 1: not crowding her, and all eyes in the club go
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Speaker 1: to Cindy because she's the wicked one now and she's
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Speaker 1: tearing up the dance floor, and in between songs, Prince
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Speaker 1: even makes a mention of Cindy, saying, girl, you got
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Speaker 1: the look at bam right into you got the look?
49:21
Speaker 1: As Sheena Easton joins the stage and it is amazing. Well.
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Speaker 1: Cindy dances for three solid hours, but then she starts
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Speaker 1: to fade a little bit, so she and Chippendale all
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Speaker 1: take a breather at a table. Uh the now human
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Speaker 1: chipmunks are totally spent. They're absolutely drenched in sweat and
49:38
Speaker 1: they are way out of their element. Maybe we should
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Speaker 1: go back home now, says chip No, says Cinderella, I'm
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Speaker 1: out for the first time and forever, and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to enjoy it now. Just at that moment, her totally
49:52
Speaker 1: wicked step sisters walk up to their table. Were you
49:56
Speaker 1: doing here? Asks one of them. I haven't even given
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Speaker 1: them names. I'm gonna call her Margolin, and Cinderella says,
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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm partying loser, and I'll get your skanky
50:06
Speaker 1: self in your last year's outfits out of my face.
50:10
Speaker 1: And the totally wicked Stepsisters defeated roal the club, crying
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Speaker 1: mascara going all down their faces, and the bouncer is
50:17
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, must be Thursday. Shortly after that, Cindy's
50:20
Speaker 1: totally wicked step mom shows up and she says, how
50:24
Speaker 1: dare you? And Cinderella is like, no, no, not even
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Speaker 1: gonna listen to you. You're an old hag, and Dad
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Speaker 1: regretted marrying you. He said so a lot. I never
50:33
Speaker 1: said it because I'm a nice person, but you know what,
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Speaker 1: tonight's my night. So you just turn yourself around, drink
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Speaker 1: yourself into oblivion like usual and leave me alone. And
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Speaker 1: the stepmom, horrified, rushes off, and Trip and Dale exchange
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Speaker 1: worried looks Uh, Cindy, maybe it's best we take fun
50:52
Speaker 1: in moderation, says Dale, who are you kidding? I only
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Speaker 1: got tonight because of the wishing stone, which turned out
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Speaker 1: to be a real thing and not just a figure
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Speaker 1: of speech. Tomorrow I go back to being playing old
51:05
Speaker 1: Cinderella who would never get a shout out from Prince,
51:08
Speaker 1: and Chippendale don't really have an answer for that, it's
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Speaker 1: mostly true. So they then see this large guy, like
51:15
Speaker 1: like a really large, rotund man with a patchy beard,
51:18
Speaker 1: walked right into the club, and the guy's looking around
51:21
Speaker 1: until he sees the three of them, and he runs
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Speaker 1: up and Sindy's all busy trying to flag down a
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Speaker 1: waiter to take her next drink order, so she doesn't
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Speaker 1: notice the Chippendale do and after a brief exchange, they
51:31
Speaker 1: find out that this large dude is actually gust Gus
51:33
Speaker 1: transformed into a human and he's been sent to Club
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Speaker 1: Royal by the group of those three blue dudes. And
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Speaker 1: it has a note that says Toad's forgot be home
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Speaker 1: by midnight or else you're gonna be really embarrassed. Well,
51:44
Speaker 1: Chippendale guests, because it is three pm right now, and
51:48
Speaker 1: with traffic it could take upwards of twelve minutes to
51:51
Speaker 1: get home, and that's without factory again the valet, so
51:54
Speaker 1: they quickly grab Cindy. They shoved the note in her hands,
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Speaker 1: and gust Gus, Chip and Dale all hurry her out
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Speaker 1: of the Club Royal, just as Prince goes into the
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Speaker 1: kiss anyway. Next we see gust Gus hanging on for
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Speaker 1: dear life on top of the Lamborghini as Chip tries
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Speaker 1: to drive home, while Dale sits on Cindy's lap in
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Speaker 1: the passenger seat. The clock on the Lambeau is blinking
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Speaker 1: twelve because no one thought to set it, but you know,
52:17
Speaker 1: it's getting close to midnight, and just as the lambo
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Speaker 1: pulls up to Cindy's step mom's house, the car converts
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Speaker 1: back into a pumpkin chip and Dale become chipmunks, Gust
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Speaker 1: Gust becomes a mouse, and Cinderella becomes a washed up
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Speaker 1: party girl. Cindy ends up falling asleep in the wishing garden,
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Speaker 1: not even able to make it back into the house,
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Speaker 1: and the next day she has a totally wicked hangover.
52:38
Speaker 1: Her stepsisters are delighted to see Cindy back in her
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Speaker 1: old rags, and a step mom would be too, if
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Speaker 1: she weren't still drunk from the night before. Anyway, Cindy
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Speaker 1: is given the task to clean up all the darn
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Speaker 1: confetti in the house. When she realizes something. She still
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Speaker 1: has the wishing stone, and no one actually said that
52:55
Speaker 1: she would be limited to a single wish, so she
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Speaker 1: grips it and she says, I wish I were emancipated
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Speaker 1: from this family and that I could find a decent
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Speaker 1: support system so that I don't go so hard the
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Speaker 1: moment I get a taste of freedom and poof Cinderella
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Speaker 1: is freed from her indttured servitude, and she finds a
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Speaker 1: group of really nice friends who both support her and
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Speaker 1: still call her out on her bs whenever she gets
53:16
Speaker 1: a bit too much out there. So they find this
53:18
Speaker 1: perfect place to hang out in Manhattan. It's a coffee shop.
53:21
Speaker 1: It's called Central Perk. But they always have to make
53:24
Speaker 1: sure that they alternate with this other group of friends
53:26
Speaker 1: because they are all quite frankly toxic in one way
53:29
Speaker 1: or another. And she lives mostly happily ever after the end,
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Speaker 1: So please go off off the rails more often, because
53:40
Speaker 1: that was brilliant. I was crying. I was laughing so hard. Literally,
53:47
Speaker 1: I was crying um. And I like I like the
53:50
Speaker 1: I like the ending. I like the positive message and
53:54
Speaker 1: getting a support system and not going so hard when
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Speaker 1: you freedom. I was sitting there thinking about like celebrities
54:03
Speaker 1: who kind of got reputations for partying a little too hard,
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Speaker 1: and I always I was always left thinking, like, clearly,
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Speaker 1: these are people who have access to stuff I'm never
54:16
Speaker 1: gonna have access to there not gonna have any of
54:19
Speaker 1: the same issues that I have, at least none of
54:21
Speaker 1: the financial ones. Like their financial problems that they have
54:24
Speaker 1: them tend to be on scales way larger than I
54:27
Speaker 1: can contemplate. But you know, but they're they're they're mostly
54:30
Speaker 1: have things set, except that they typically lack really good
54:36
Speaker 1: support systems because frequently they find themselves surrounded by people
54:41
Speaker 1: who are essentially leeching off of them and thus encouraging
54:45
Speaker 1: the behaviors that can be really destructive. We've seen it
54:48
Speaker 1: happen over and over again. And um, yeah, like I
54:54
Speaker 1: feel a lot of sympathy for those people because even
54:57
Speaker 1: though they they their lives maybe in many ways amazing
55:02
Speaker 1: compared to mine, like mine might seem incredibly mundane in comparison,
55:07
Speaker 1: I also have a really good support system, so when
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Speaker 1: things are bad, I have people who actually are supportive
55:14
Speaker 1: and not uh not trying to take advantage. So you know,
55:19
Speaker 1: grass is always greener, I guess. Yeah. Well, uh, we
55:23
Speaker 1: hope that we could bring you a little bit of
55:26
Speaker 1: joy like a good friend, uh in today's episode. And
55:30
Speaker 1: if we have or if you have ideas of how
55:33
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56:03
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Speaker 1: we've been having a lot of fun with these mashups.
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Speaker 1: Sure it would be a shame if someone were to
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