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Speaker 1: I think this version of the Little Mermaid is even

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Speaker 1: more trans than the cartoon.

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Speaker 2: She's sheen im.

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Speaker 3: Me no, may not my name? Yo? Yo yo?

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Speaker 2: What is your child? I am a cook?

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Speaker 3: You know what's going down? Before round?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Like a Virgin Patreon where we talk

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Speaker 1: about stuff that we want you to pay money to

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Speaker 1: listen to. I'm roised on you and I'm fran Torado,

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Speaker 1: and we're fulfilling the promise of our Little Mermaid DVD commentary,

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Speaker 1: which if you haven't listened to, you definitely should. It's

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Speaker 1: very funny. We have now both seen the live action

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Speaker 1: Little Mermaid and we're going to talk all about it.

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Speaker 1: And I actually have some friends to help.

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Speaker 2: Me do that.

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Speaker 3: Oh do oh?

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Speaker 2: I think I know what this is. Virgins?

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Mike down, woman down? Wait wait keep we're

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Speaker 3: keeping all of this. Okay, the virgins can't see. But

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Speaker 3: Rose has a friend recording with me. Lifted up a

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Speaker 3: limited edition Hallie Bailey.

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Speaker 1: As it is not limited edition, that's like sell it

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Speaker 1: at Target. They sell it a Target. It will be

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Speaker 1: made forever. So there's just one friend. This is one

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Speaker 1: friend who I have, and then another friend who I

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Speaker 1: have is is that the Vanessa.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, this is.

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Speaker 1: Human aerial and her like blue dress and her sandals.

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Speaker 3: Oh, her sandals are very lesbian.

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Speaker 2: And then I do have Vanessa.

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Speaker 3: I love that you have Vanessa. Is that Vanessa from

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three or is that a vintage Vanessa?

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Speaker 2: No, this is Vanessa from twenty twenty three. Wow.

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Speaker 3: I'm so shook that they made a Vanessa doll too,

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Speaker 3: because like, she's such a small part of the movie.

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Speaker 3: They like kind of, but she's an iconic part, which

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Speaker 3: we'll get to. Yes, are Rose and I have big, big, big,

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Speaker 3: like lots of thoughts about this, Like I feel like.

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Speaker 2: Can I guess?

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Speaker 1: I can I guess?

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Speaker 2: Can I guess what you thought about it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I would love that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I loved it. So I'm assuming you didn't

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Speaker 1: you loved it. I loved it, Okay.

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Speaker 3: I loved my experience of watching the movie. I would

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Speaker 3: absolutely watch it again. I did not think it was

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Speaker 3: an amazing movie. But I thought that Hallie say that

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Speaker 3: to Halle's face as I was about to say.

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Speaker 2: That, Wait, we need we're gonna spread. What do you

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Speaker 2: think of my movie?

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Speaker 3: Fand Roses holding up the Bailey, Barbie and it's actually

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Speaker 3: one of the funniest inside of.

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Speaker 2: So I was gonna say it again, say it again

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Speaker 2: to her face, So say it to her.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I did not think, Oh, wow,

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Speaker 3: her mole is present. I love that.

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Speaker 2: And look she has she has edges too.

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Speaker 3: Wow, she looks so good. I was gonna say, I

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Speaker 3: did not think it was an amazing movie, like on

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Speaker 3: the kind of construct and like creative directorial level. But

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Speaker 3: I thought that Halle Bailey was amazing, and I will

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Speaker 3: watch that movie over. I will watch that movie again

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Speaker 3: just for Halle Bailey. Like to me, very extreme statement incoming.

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Speaker 3: I feel personally that Halle Bailey has given us the

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Speaker 3: greatest contribution to the Disney Princess cinematic universe since Lea

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Speaker 3: Slanga gave us Mulan like. I adored her and her performance,

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Speaker 3: and it was untouchable to me as far as all

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Speaker 3: other as far as Rose is still playing with the doll.

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Speaker 2: As far I've been playing with in the.

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Speaker 3: Grand scheme of Disney reboots, of which I have seen

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Speaker 3: almost all of them, I think I haven't seen Dumbo

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Speaker 3: or jungle Book. I actually heard jungle Book was pret good.

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Speaker 3: But I've seen all the other ones, and I felt

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Speaker 3: like this was far and beyond way better than the

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Speaker 3: other reboots. I know that's a very low bar, but

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Speaker 3: that's what I'll say. Okay, I think it's a good

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Speaker 3: place to start. I feel like we both really liked

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, so I loved it. I I gave

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Speaker 1: it when on my letterboxed review, I gave it a

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Speaker 1: four point five out of five.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: I Hallie was incredible.

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Speaker 2: She had.

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Speaker 1: She brought such such a lovely softness to the role.

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Speaker 1: She was so innocent and effervescent, and she really was

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Speaker 1: a Disney princess exactly. She was so expressive the part

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Speaker 1: of the movie where she couldn't talk, like her feelings

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Speaker 2: She was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Her voice was incredible, bowl.

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Speaker 2: And I loved the movie.

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Speaker 1: There was enough different about it that while I was

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Speaker 1: watching it, I found myself thinking, Oh, Like I found

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Speaker 1: and like, obviously I know what's going to happen next

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Speaker 1: because it's the Little Mermaid, but I was still it

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Speaker 1: took me along for the ride. I was still like

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Speaker 2: I thought it was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: You know some of the cgi stuff, like was a

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Speaker 1: little entranning Valley, you mean her.

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Speaker 3: Fall face of makeup, her fall like Pat McGrath beat Underwater. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but you know that's just like magic, magic Disney movie.

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Speaker 3: I was about Mermaid's like I could not spend I

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Speaker 3: was not distracted. I honestly didn't even I wasn't even

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Speaker 3: thinking about it until someone brought it up to me

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Speaker 3: after I had seen the movie.

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Speaker 1: I thought her her tail was beautiful. I thought like

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Speaker 1: all of the sea creatures were really well articulated, even

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Speaker 1: like you, I know, Sebastian Flounder, which there was obviously

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Speaker 1: so much conversation around in the lead up to the movie,

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Speaker 1: like yes, the first time you see them, they're a

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Speaker 1: and I was fully immersed in the movie. I loved

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Speaker 1: the music, you know, the new linn Manuel Miranda songs

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Speaker 1: like I don't love him as a songwriter, but Halle's

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Speaker 1: like I just Got Legs song was fun and catchy.

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Speaker 1: Prince Eric's song was so good. Also, Prince Prince Eric.

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Speaker 1: I need him biblically. I am in love with him,

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Speaker 1: and I thought he and Hallie had incredible chemistry. I

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Speaker 1: thought there scenes of them, like running around the island

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Speaker 1: were so effective and so fun. I loved the sort

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Speaker 1: of fan servicing moments like when Jody Benson gave.

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Speaker 2: Her the fork.

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Speaker 3: Was Jody Benson?

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Speaker 2: Jody bensid so amazing?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I sobbed through so much of the movie.

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Speaker 2: I cried. I cried so much.

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Speaker 3: What was your biggest crime moment?

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Speaker 1: I think it was probably.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the one that sticks out to me the

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Speaker 1: most was during the shipwreck when Ariel saves Max the

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Speaker 3: That to me, I was I was gad, that was

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Speaker 3: really that was really beautiful. I I definitely cried during

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Speaker 3: a lot of Halle Bailey songs just because her her

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Speaker 3: voice is so emotional and perfect. I want to respond

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Speaker 3: to a few different things you said, So Okay, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna make.

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Speaker 1: Sure I'm gonna help you respond to her, to her,

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Speaker 1: to her and you.

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Speaker 2: Know what, and to Vanessa.

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Speaker 3: Vanessa. We'll get to you, Vanessa.

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to hear this full episode in our

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Speaker 1: full conversation about The Little Mermaid twenty twenty three and

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Speaker 1: how it potentially exists in a shared SONMTAC universe with

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