WEBVTT - Episode 65: Mortal Kombat

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everyone, Welcome to another edition of Nerdificent, your favorite

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<v Speaker 1>podcast that covers everything nerdy. I am one half of

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<v Speaker 1>your host, Danny Fernandez, sitting across from me. If you

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<v Speaker 1>want a way, how's it going, every body, It's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be a fun app. We got a lot of fun

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<v Speaker 1>things to talk about. But first let's talk about our guests.

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<v Speaker 1>He's great. He's the host of Mortal Podcast, so perfect

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<v Speaker 1>for bringing him on here. He's also TV writer Ben Meckler,

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<v Speaker 1>Dog good, How are you good? Good? Ben? So we're

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<v Speaker 1>covering Mortal Mortal Kombat and you have a Mortal podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>How long has it been going on for? I just

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<v Speaker 1>released the tenth episode. My guest was Iffy Hell and uh,

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<v Speaker 1>I just decided to I'm like, okay, well, so I'll

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<v Speaker 1>pause for a minute and call that the first season

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<v Speaker 1>because because we got through all the characters that are

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<v Speaker 1>in Mortal Kombat one. Yeah. I know you asked me

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<v Speaker 1>on it last month and I was like, this is

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<v Speaker 1>actually not my background, and You're like it doesn't matter.

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<v Speaker 1>The whole the whole premise of the podcast is that

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<v Speaker 1>I I've spent my whole life knowing way too much

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<v Speaker 1>about Mortal Kombat. And keeping up with the story, and

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<v Speaker 1>so every episode, I have a friend who ideally, I've

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<v Speaker 1>had a couple of people who were like, no, almost

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<v Speaker 1>as much as I do about it, but ideally a

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<v Speaker 1>friend who knows nothing about Mortal Kombat at all, and

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of combat explain um the entire lord like

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<v Speaker 1>twenty seven year continuitous Mortal Kombat, Laura, from the perspective

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<v Speaker 1>of a single character, if you we have been doing

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<v Speaker 1>this podcast wrong. We have been bringing on experts every week,

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<v Speaker 1>and we should be bringing on people that know nothing

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<v Speaker 1>so that we could just explain to them what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Bring on some real du faces, like my guess. Can

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<v Speaker 1>you imagine last week when we had a COI like,

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<v Speaker 1>and we just brought some that has no idea what

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<v Speaker 1>who Spider Man is? It would be somebody that would

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<v Speaker 1>be like legitimately would probably just be someone's mom or something.

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<v Speaker 1>Nobody you knows mom. I'm very certain anyone you guys

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<v Speaker 1>knows his mom's will know about Spiderman. I bet she

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<v Speaker 1>would know Spiderman. I bet she would know, but I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think she would know Peter Park Like. I know

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<v Speaker 1>that sounds crazy, but I bet if I were like,

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<v Speaker 1>what spider Man's real name. Obviously, if I said Peter

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<v Speaker 1>would John spider Man. Anyways, Yeah, yeah, we've been starting

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<v Speaker 1>our podcast out with what you're geeking out about? What

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<v Speaker 1>are you getting out about this week? Uh, this week,

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<v Speaker 1>especially because today there was a big game. I'm geeking

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<v Speaker 1>out about the US women's soccer team. Yeah are I

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<v Speaker 1>have not been a fan of the sport for long, admittedly,

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<v Speaker 1>I just started watching during this World Cup a little

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<v Speaker 1>more regularly. And they're just really strong and fast, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and intense and cool and uh, I love them and

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<v Speaker 1>they're my heroes and I'm geeking out. It's funny. It's

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<v Speaker 1>been a known fact that the women's soccer team, the

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<v Speaker 1>US women's soccer team is just way better than comically better. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Like they have succeeded, Like this wouldn't be like their

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<v Speaker 1>first try, Like it's not. It's kind of not a

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<v Speaker 1>surprise that they're doing well because they have consistently done

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<v Speaker 1>well in the Women's World Cup, which again is is

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<v Speaker 1>the World Cup. It's just for women, and consistently the

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<v Speaker 1>US is like one of the greatest teams in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah we are. Yeah, I'm so excited. Thanks for bringing

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<v Speaker 1>that up. Yeah, it's awesome, and then I look forward

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<v Speaker 1>to seeing them playing in the finals this weekend. So wait,

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<v Speaker 1>people will have it. We're in the future now the drops.

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<v Speaker 1>So I am really enjoyed watching them when in the finals.

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<v Speaker 1>And I hope that this doesn't sound comically ignorant when

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<v Speaker 1>this episode air's Yeah yeah, no, um they've The US

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<v Speaker 1>women's World Cup team has won three World Cups? Yeah

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<v Speaker 1>what years it was? The one that has shown me

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<v Speaker 1>is uh the last one is in two thousand fifteen,

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<v Speaker 1>looks like which was the last World Cup? Yeah? Ok,

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<v Speaker 1>yeah yeah, and then before that was eleven, and I

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<v Speaker 1>think they won that one. What win was Mia Hammond?

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<v Speaker 1>It oh, because that spawned so many girls named Mia.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody I knew that was having babies then named their

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<v Speaker 1>daughter Mia. So we won in two thous Okay, So,

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<v Speaker 1>so the women's team won the last World Cup and

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<v Speaker 1>is still paid less than the men's US team, which

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<v Speaker 1>is worse and way less people watch their games, but

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<v Speaker 1>just makes sense for for the whole it just so

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<v Speaker 1>you can know. So two thousand fifteen they won. In

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and eleven, they got second place, in two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand seven, they got third place in two thousand three

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<v Speaker 1>before that third place they won at that and so

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<v Speaker 1>they haven't not got top three and they they're just

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<v Speaker 1>one of the greatest teams in sports in the world

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<v Speaker 1>historically from the last I'm gonna look up US Men's

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<v Speaker 1>World's Cup us rrible mention over and over, big fat doughnut,

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<v Speaker 1>Big fat donuts. This is very painful for me. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>But the wage gap is real. It's real. It is tangible. Yeah. God, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>let's move on before I get blow an artery. What

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<v Speaker 1>are you geeking out about? You know what I'm geeking

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<v Speaker 1>out about is dream Works has lined up a new

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<v Speaker 1>series called Kipo and the Age of Wonder Bees that's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be on Netflix. And somebody here wrote for it.

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<v Speaker 1>That person has bent it's me. I wrote for it. God,

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<v Speaker 1>it's such a good show. And I'm really it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>an animated show. I should have said that. Did I

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<v Speaker 1>say that? Yeah? So I think it comes with the Yeah, um, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>it's so cool. I think I'm allowed to say pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much nothing other than it comes out. But like you

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<v Speaker 1>created it, Rad Secris, Uh, and it was developed by

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<v Speaker 1>Bill Wilkoff, and Uh, it was really, really, really great

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<v Speaker 1>writing staff was the most fun I ever had working

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<v Speaker 1>on a TV show. Um, there for a while. I

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<v Speaker 1>was there for a year and a half, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think I'm allowed to say, well, I was there,

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<v Speaker 1>But there's a lot of really great ship. Yeah, very exciting, definitely.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you all have started a Twitter,

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram or whatever for the show, but people should follow it,

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<v Speaker 1>or you guys should create one and people should follow it.

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<v Speaker 1>It'll it'll be out there eventually. Until then, you just

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<v Speaker 1>have no choice but to follow me on social media

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<v Speaker 1>for me to direct you towards more. Check out some

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<v Speaker 1>of the Yeah, go check out some of the It's

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<v Speaker 1>set in a post apocalyptic time. Uh, it's a girl, right,

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<v Speaker 1>that's true. This is in I want to You should

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<v Speaker 1>see Ben's face right now. I'm trying. This is what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm reading from Hollywood Reporter then, so it's okay. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not any of our private conversation waiting for me to miss.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you can see his face when I asked him,

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<v Speaker 1>he started a sweat. Um. Yeah, it's post apocalyptic. She Anyways,

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<v Speaker 1>this is from the Hollywood Reporter that DreamWorks gave them,

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<v Speaker 1>so you're fine. Anyways, the animation is really beautiful. Check

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<v Speaker 1>it out. Postocalyptic, lots of big cute animals and other

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<v Speaker 1>surprises coming. If you what are you seeking out about?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm geeking out about the new season of Apex Legends.

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<v Speaker 1>We got a new map change, we got a new hero,

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<v Speaker 1>Uh Watson, She's amazing, she'll zapp you good. And that

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<v Speaker 1>that gets me hyped, and I think the runner up

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<v Speaker 1>behind that for me is definitely con season. We're getting

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<v Speaker 1>ready for San Diego Comic Con. By the time you're

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<v Speaker 1>hearing this, I would have already done our t X

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<v Speaker 1>and Anime Expo and Danny's uh and Danny's and then

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<v Speaker 1>after that, Uh, we have a twitch Con. So I'm

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<v Speaker 1>soups excited. And you know, any of the nerd fam

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<v Speaker 1>or Salt squad who plans on being down in San

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<v Speaker 1>Diego for twitch Con, let me know. I'm gonna put

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<v Speaker 1>a channel for it in the discord so we can

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<v Speaker 1>do one big Salt fan meet up and NERD fan

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<v Speaker 1>meet up where nerdificent or Salt fan shirt or um

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<v Speaker 1>or I'm a tickle on the subject of salt. I

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<v Speaker 1>saw a custom video game controller today where by pouring

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<v Speaker 1>salt you can quit out of a match. Online. Really

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<v Speaker 1>it had a I don't know how that it worked,

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<v Speaker 1>but it had a sensor that you could pour salt

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<v Speaker 1>onto and it would quit you out of now, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I need that. Well. Speaking about quitting, uh, quitting out

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<v Speaker 1>matches and being salty, we're talking about Mortal Kombat. Mortal

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<v Speaker 1>great game. I really hope to play something. Oh yes,

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<v Speaker 1>if my little brother was exactly that person that if

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<v Speaker 1>you were beating him, he would just turn off the game.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah tactic. And you know what I did. I already

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<v Speaker 1>said this. I threw his buzz light ear in the pool.

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<v Speaker 1>And it was really funny, like to get back at him,

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<v Speaker 1>and he deserved it. And it was really funny as

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<v Speaker 1>I was talking to one of the animators for Toy

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<v Speaker 1>Story four and we were saying that we both had

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<v Speaker 1>that chrome buzz light ear. I don't know if you

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<v Speaker 1>remember people out there, remember there was a chrome member

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<v Speaker 1>one that one came out. Um. I may have also

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<v Speaker 1>thrown that in the pool. Whatever he deserved it. Please

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<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat. All right, let's get the nitty gritty out

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<v Speaker 1>the way. First. Mortal Kombat is media franchise sent around

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<v Speaker 1>a series of video games originally developed by Midway Games

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<v Speaker 1>Chicago Studio in the development of the first game was

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<v Speaker 1>originally based on the idea that Ed Boone and John

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<v Speaker 1>Tobias had of making a video game starring Sean Claude

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<v Speaker 1>Van Damn, but that idea fell through A fantasy theme

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<v Speaker 1>fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead. Mortal Kombat

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<v Speaker 1>was the first ever fighting game to introduce a secret

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<v Speaker 1>fighter uh reached at the player fulfilled a set of requirements.

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<v Speaker 1>The original game has spawned many sequels and spinoffs, consisting

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<v Speaker 1>of several action adventure games, films, animated and live action,

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<v Speaker 1>with its own sequel and television series, as well as

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<v Speaker 1>a comic book series, a card game, and a live

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<v Speaker 1>action tour. Along with Street Fight and Second Mortal Kombat

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<v Speaker 1>has become one of the most successful fighting franchises in

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<v Speaker 1>the history of video games and one of the highest

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<v Speaker 1>grossing media franchising of all time. Ben, what was your

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<v Speaker 1>introduction Immortal Kombat? Like? What do you remember was your

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<v Speaker 1>first time you got your hands on it? I vividly

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<v Speaker 1>remember big Foot's Arcade and South Florida, where I grew up.

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<v Speaker 1>I did not have enough quarters to play a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of games, and I wasn't good at them because I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I had to have been five or six. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>I have this memory. But because I could play like

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<v Speaker 1>a game for like five seconds and I was out

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<v Speaker 1>of quarters, I would just stand in front of Mortal

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<v Speaker 1>Kombat Kay Cabinet and watch the like character profiles flipped

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<v Speaker 1>by and yeah, that's like a that is a struggle story. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I would just watch it in a tract mode, which

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<v Speaker 1>is what they call the arcade games, and they just

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<v Speaker 1>start going through screens trying to attract people to play,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, Cabinet, you've convinced me I would

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<v Speaker 1>like to play. I just can't. I don't have the

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have coinage. So I would just study the

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<v Speaker 1>like little character profiles and I became very invested in

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<v Speaker 1>them because I was like right into thunder God who

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<v Speaker 1>controls the like for he had a really weird character

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<v Speaker 1>problem like Mortal Kombat two and three, but it was

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<v Speaker 1>like he controls the power of the wheels, and I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, what are the wills and what? And then

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<v Speaker 1>it would be like sub Zero, He's a ninja who

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<v Speaker 1>could control ice and it's very mysterious, like well, what

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<v Speaker 1>a mystery? And uh, I vividly remember standing there, and

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<v Speaker 1>then I remember that by the time World Combat four

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<v Speaker 1>came out, there was a new arcade in town called

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<v Speaker 1>Blockbuster Golfing Games, and I wanted to go there as

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<v Speaker 1>soon as it opened because I heard the Mortal Kombat four.

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<v Speaker 1>So I know that I had to have become obsessed

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<v Speaker 1>enough at a young enough age that by the time

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<v Speaker 1>the fourth one came out, I was like, I'll drive

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<v Speaker 1>a crawl. I will make my mom drive me across

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<v Speaker 1>town so I can see the cabinet. I probably play

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<v Speaker 1>like two times. So you you are a legit Mortal

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<v Speaker 1>Kombat fan's even before the podcast you're like, oh, no,

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<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat is my jam. Yeah, admittedly, Like I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I worked at a lot of nerdy places in my time.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been a lot of time working at nerdicet, and

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<v Speaker 1>I always kind of felt like odd man out, So

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not. I feel like I'm not nerdy enough about

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<v Speaker 1>enough things compared to a lot of my friends. With

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<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat, I'm like, uh, painfully nerdy about I know everything.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like it's like having your things, like, because I

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<v Speaker 1>have maybe like five, I don't I can't be nerdy

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<v Speaker 1>about everything I have maybe four or five things that

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<v Speaker 1>I know a lot about, and that's what you're brought

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<v Speaker 1>in for as like the expert, Like you'll be on

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<v Speaker 1>panels for that specific thing. Yeah, oh man, So yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think my earliest memory of Mortal Kombat was definitely

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<v Speaker 1>going to be Ultimate Mortal Kombat three. Like I definitely

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<v Speaker 1>dabbled in m K one and two and three, but

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<v Speaker 1>Ultimate Mortal Kombat three is when I remember getting hands

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<v Speaker 1>on getting like really try and get good with Syrax.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, you're definitely going with the cyber ninch

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<v Speaker 1>and I kept I remember, I was trying so hard

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<v Speaker 1>to get the move where he opens his chest and

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<v Speaker 1>shoots a missile out and I could not get it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really hard. Yeah, I still care. So so that

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<v Speaker 1>was where I kind of like really got into it.

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<v Speaker 1>But like there's, like doing your podcast, there's like deep

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<v Speaker 1>lore that has actually built up from the first one

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<v Speaker 1>and continued that I was really unaware of. I think

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<v Speaker 1>they've been more dedicated with that franchise to keeping like

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<v Speaker 1>a continuitous story over almost three decades now then anything

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<v Speaker 1>else I can think of, And it's all the more

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<v Speaker 1>impressive considering like it is just a fighting game. Like

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a very violent fighting game and you generally speaking,

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<v Speaker 1>like they'll have stories, but not not as intense as

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<v Speaker 1>like an RPG. Yeah, they go hard. Yeah, So let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk about like the actual game it came out. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a two D fighting game that had a joystick,

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<v Speaker 1>so that was originally help people played with five buttons.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh. So do you still play the like

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<v Speaker 1>the no, the original ones? I mean I also Ultimate

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<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat three was like my favorite. I think it

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<v Speaker 1>was because that wasn't was the one that opened the

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<v Speaker 1>world up the most, but it was also like joystick

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<v Speaker 1>two D fighter. Um, but I never really had that

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<v Speaker 1>at home. I mean, all the consoles that I've owned

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<v Speaker 1>at home, they haven't really done re releases, especially since

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<v Speaker 1>I have had consoles that I owned myself. I might

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<v Speaker 1>have gotten like one of the Midway Arcade treasures or something,

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<v Speaker 1>but I never had like a fighting stick at home.

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<v Speaker 1>Well we but we have so many barcades now, Like

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<v Speaker 1>is that do you seek out Mortal Kombat when you

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<v Speaker 1>go to it? Is I gravitate directly towards it. I

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<v Speaker 1>went to a friend's engagement party recently that was at

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<v Speaker 1>a barcade and dragged my wife over the Moral Combat

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<v Speaker 1>four cabinet and we played a bunch and it was great.

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<v Speaker 1>Anytime I know that Moral kombats in arcade, it's the

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<v Speaker 1>very first thing I gravitate towards, and I'm still not good.

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<v Speaker 1>One thing I wanted to on a highlight because, like

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<v Speaker 1>you said, it's typically a fighting game. You know, what's

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<v Speaker 1>your what's your punch strong strong punch, uh kick strong

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<v Speaker 1>kick type moves that you string in the combos. But

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<v Speaker 1>one thing that set Mortal Kombat apart from other fighting

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<v Speaker 1>games is they introduced these things called fatalities, which was

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<v Speaker 1>you know, uh, which is I think one of those

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<v Speaker 1>things that started off in a nerdy way and transcended it,

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<v Speaker 1>which is the line finish him. Apparently it was. The

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<v Speaker 1>original idea was that it was going to give gamers

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<v Speaker 1>a free hit at the end of the fight, and

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<v Speaker 1>it basically evolved into fatalities, and from that it evolved

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<v Speaker 1>into other things. So the fatalities, it would do some

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<v Speaker 1>extra gruesome way to to finish off an opponent, like

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<v Speaker 1>I think, um, the one I remember that kids were

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<v Speaker 1>talking about in school was Scorpion pulling off his mask

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<v Speaker 1>and blowing fire and lighting the personal it's a great one.

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<v Speaker 1>And the other cool thing about like like they kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like buried storytelling details in those fatalities because like

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<v Speaker 1>no one really knew, you know, if you sat down

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<v Speaker 1>and started playing the game, he picked Scorpion, you started playing,

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<v Speaker 1>he's just a human ninja wearing the yellow suit. And

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<v Speaker 1>if you actually get to the fatality, yeah, he pulls

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<v Speaker 1>his face off and revel City as a skull Underneathan

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<v Speaker 1>breathes fire and you're like, wait, is he not a person?

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<v Speaker 1>And there weren't necessarily answers for like a whole game. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but but the answer is no, he's not a person.

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<v Speaker 1>He is a revenant. Yeah, in the hopes I gotta

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<v Speaker 1>ask you if he since you grew up around here,

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<v Speaker 1>I've had two guests on my podcast that also grew

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<v Speaker 1>up in the l A area, and they had insane

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<v Speaker 1>rumors going around at their school about fatalities that were

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<v Speaker 1>not actually in the Moral Kombat games, but they were

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<v Speaker 1>like rumors going around that were like, I I can't

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<v Speaker 1>even repeat the horrific stuff these little kids were talking about.

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<v Speaker 1>Theorizing Yeah, no, I was gonna say something like having

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<v Speaker 1>your but pulled out of it like a lot of

0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.600
<v Speaker 1>that was. That was the one I heard, is that

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<v Speaker 1>Sonja Blade can like rip your genitals. Yeah, it's only

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<v Speaker 1>as the male character. Yeah, that's not a fatality. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not it's not a fatality. I went. I went through

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<v Speaker 1>my whole life assuming that that was. I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>like a southern CALIFORNIATI are you from around here? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>County Okay. And then but I was in Texas for

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<v Speaker 1>high school. So it's clear that Mortal Kombat genital mutilation

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<v Speaker 1>rumors were going around here because they were obviously the rumors.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the rumors everywhere because it was such a like,

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<v Speaker 1>uh taboo thing that kids had access to those things

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<v Speaker 1>when we were younger. But in Florida, I can't remember

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of rumors going around about like genital mutilation,

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<v Speaker 1>people puppeteering like severed genitals, but apparently a thing every

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe maybe it was just on one of our cabinets

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<v Speaker 1>and y'all just didn't get it, because I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>weird that all of us down here know about that. Honestly,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe I'm dominant, isn't there, And I just don't know

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<v Speaker 1>what The one thing I love about fighting games and

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<v Speaker 1>also anime is I think that our parents didn't realize

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<v Speaker 1>what we were watching like they would. I think with

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<v Speaker 1>fighting games, like they weren't really paying attention and so

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<v Speaker 1>they would just be like, um, they would never put

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<v Speaker 1>that in there kids, you know game because video games

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<v Speaker 1>are for kids, and anime, like they look at cartoons

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<v Speaker 1>and animation is like for kids, and so I think

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<v Speaker 1>if they actually knew what we were exposed to, that's

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<v Speaker 1>how so many young kids got to watch Evan Gelian

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<v Speaker 1>even though then for kids because their parents are like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just cartoons, they would the people making this would

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<v Speaker 1>never put that in there. I just watched the first

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<v Speaker 1>episode of that show. We actually have to take a

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<v Speaker 1>really quick break and then we're going to we're already in,

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<v Speaker 1>but then we're gonna hop back into Mortal Kombat right

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<v Speaker 1>after this, and welcome back to Nerdificent. You know it's

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<v Speaker 1>me if you wide away across from me as always,

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<v Speaker 1>Danny Fernandez and guesting with us to talk about one

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<v Speaker 1>of combat. Ben Meckler A mac dog. How you doing.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I've ever gotten dog feels like

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<v Speaker 1>one who calls you mac dog, but it flows so well,

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<v Speaker 1>so I will never I addam Eington to people's names,

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<v Speaker 1>so you would be like Meckington or whatever. Because my

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<v Speaker 1>sister in law's Alexis, I call her Lexington. I think

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<v Speaker 1>because my first name is so short and I've rarely

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<v Speaker 1>gotten nicknames. Well there you go. Yeah, I get Ferny

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<v Speaker 1>a lot. So I just like took that great. I

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<v Speaker 1>hated it growing up, and then I just used it

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<v Speaker 1>against them. Um okay, so who is did you gravitate towards?

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to talk about the characters with their particular

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<v Speaker 1>ones that you gravitated towards in the beginning that changed

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<v Speaker 1>over time. Yeah, I kind of was just thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>this actually, So, I mean I always gravitated. I was

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<v Speaker 1>always like a monster kid. I love monster movies. And

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<v Speaker 1>so in Mortal Kombat, you know, you have like soldiers

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<v Speaker 1>like Sony Blade and like Hollywood movie stars like Johnny

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<v Speaker 1>Case next to actual like monsters. Uh, so I always

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<v Speaker 1>gravitated towards them, like to Reptile, who's essentially a dinosaur

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<v Speaker 1>ninja and Goro, who's like a half dragon prince. It

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<v Speaker 1>looks like a giant forearmed ogre um. And then as

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<v Speaker 1>they started adding like robots and other sorts of fantasy creatures.

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<v Speaker 1>That was always where I gravitated. I know a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of kids when I was younger were super into like

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<v Speaker 1>Scorpion and sub Zero. I think once I actually started

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<v Speaker 1>trying to be good at playing those games, I gravitated

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<v Speaker 1>towards sub Zero just because he was like pretty easy

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<v Speaker 1>to pick up, and I'm just not good at video

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<v Speaker 1>games as much as I like them. Um. But most recently,

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<v Speaker 1>I've started getting really into playing as Luke Kang in

0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.800
<v Speaker 1>the NU Mortal Kombat, which I was surprised I liked

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<v Speaker 1>him so much because I always thought he was so

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<v Speaker 1>four because he was kind of like because like it's

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<v Speaker 1>like picking Luke Skywalker in a Star Wars game. It's like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>he's the he's just not super interesting. Yeah yeah he is. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but he's just like he's like a prototypical hero. But

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<v Speaker 1>because Mortal Kombat storytelling is so like wow yeah no

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<v Speaker 1>mk Levin, Luke Kang looks straight up like Han solo

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<v Speaker 1>cause player. Um yeah, I've gotten into playing I said recently,

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<v Speaker 1>because they've just taken him on such an insane journey

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<v Speaker 1>where he started as kind of like a boring prototypical

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<v Speaker 1>hero and has now gone through some truly insane ship.

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<v Speaker 1>He's been dead and alive and alive and dead over

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<v Speaker 1>and over again, good and evil that I find him

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<v Speaker 1>a lot more interesting now than I did before. But

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's like something more. Kombat always been really

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<v Speaker 1>good at changing characters and evolving them. If he who

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<v Speaker 1>are the ones that you were into as always a

0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Scorpion guy, Scorpion, and then which was anyone who were yellow? Yeah? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I got it. Yeah, that was there my guy. I

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<v Speaker 1>loved him. I was big, big, big fan u And

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<v Speaker 1>even when I came back from Mortal Kombat ten, I

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<v Speaker 1>went back to Scorpion. I just love the flame and

0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.840
<v Speaker 1>the teleportation. You know. I was actually, uh, do you

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<v Speaker 1>know much about cyrax Is? Like backstory? No, what's what's

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<v Speaker 1>his deal? So when you came on my podcast, you

0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.680
<v Speaker 1>were joking about being like the one guy who didn't

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<v Speaker 1>fit in with the rest of Scorpions Clan uh in

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<v Speaker 1>Japan the share I are you, Yeah, cyrax is that

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<v Speaker 1>but for the Linn quit for the Chinese Ninja clan

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<v Speaker 1>uh sub Zeros clan. Yeah, he's like not Chinese. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know. I think he can accident in MK nine,

0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:45.040
<v Speaker 1>but he's like not from there. He is like the

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<v Speaker 1>odd man out where you never really get a full

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<v Speaker 1>backstory on like where he came from or what he's

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<v Speaker 1>doing with those guys. Um, But he's kind of awesome.

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<v Speaker 1>And he's also like the tragic monster of the Cyber

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<v Speaker 1>Ninjas because he is the one who did not want

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<v Speaker 1>to be turned into a robot, but was forced into

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<v Speaker 1>a cyborg body. So he just like woke up one

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<v Speaker 1>day and looked at himself. I was like, oh God,

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<v Speaker 1>what if I had become and my body has literally

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<v Speaker 1>been discarded? So I'm like this forever. Now. One thing

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<v Speaker 1>I like about Cyrax two is I went back to

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<v Speaker 1>his original art. Now he's very robot, but really these

0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:21.680
<v Speaker 1>dudes were just in dirt by gear and they a helmet,

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<v Speaker 1>and I like that they three different colors. Yeah, in

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<v Speaker 1>the that was the span of the creativity and making

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<v Speaker 1>these robo guys. Do you know how many Mortal Kombat

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<v Speaker 1>characters there are? I should because I'm trying to do

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<v Speaker 1>all of them, but it's got to be in the

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<v Speaker 1>fifties or sixties. I'm looking at a poster with them

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<v Speaker 1>and it looks no joke like the Infinity War posters,

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<v Speaker 1>just like all of them stuffed on there. That's not

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<v Speaker 1>even up to date because I know that art is

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<v Speaker 1>from like a few games ago. Yeah. Yeah. In the

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<v Speaker 1>spirit of Mortal podcast, I'm gonna just do a slight

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<v Speaker 1>deep dive into the cy rex by backstory so apparently. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so you're right. Cyrax was a member of the Lynn

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<v Speaker 1>Quake Lan with sub Zero, Sector and Smoke, and when

0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.400
<v Speaker 1>the clan decides to utilize modern technology by converting its

0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:13.600
<v Speaker 1>members into soul, is Cyborgs initiative? Yeah? Yeah, sub Zero

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I'm out failed, which sucks because Smoke was

0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:22.960
<v Speaker 1>like his best friend. He was like later, so did

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<v Speaker 1>Smoke get turned into a robot? Although in the new

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<v Speaker 1>timeline because there's two different timelines. Yeah, it's kind of

0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:33.920
<v Speaker 1>like the Star Trek reboot, and like their side timelines,

0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:37.120
<v Speaker 1>Smoke did not get turned into Cyborg and sub Zero did.

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<v Speaker 1>Whoa yeah, but then Smoke died and sub Zero got

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<v Speaker 1>on Cyborg somehow. I love it. Yeah, man, let's tell

0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:52.520
<v Speaker 1>the audience original roster the original roster was, and their moves,

0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.600
<v Speaker 1>all of the moves, okay, not all of the don't

0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:59.040
<v Speaker 1>just give me give them give me their signature move

0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:03.800
<v Speaker 1>a what they look like radon thunder god. Uh, he's

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<v Speaker 1>got lightning in his eyes, and so of course his

0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:09.600
<v Speaker 1>moves are all lightning based. His most iconic probably is

0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:16.040
<v Speaker 1>going completely horizontal and flying across the screen, and flying

0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:20.879
<v Speaker 1>with your body across the score does not look good anymore,

0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.880
<v Speaker 1>but it's of its time. It's perfect. I love it. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see who else we got. Uh. Well, the first

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<v Speaker 1>you mentioned that Mortal Komba had the first ever hidden character. Uh,

0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:37.480
<v Speaker 1>that was reptile. Um. He I think he actually, you know,

0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:39.160
<v Speaker 1>he may have appeared in the background of the first game,

0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:42.240
<v Speaker 1>been playable in the second, but were just pot acid.

0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:45.560
<v Speaker 1>He's as a terran um lu Kang. Of course, he

0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.879
<v Speaker 1>has a lot of Bruce Lee inspired moves. He's very

0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:52.120
<v Speaker 1>much inspired by Bruce Lee. He can throw fireballs, which

0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.119
<v Speaker 1>Bruce Lee, to my knowledge, was not able to do.

0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:57.159
<v Speaker 1>Son you blade. He was in the US Special Forces

0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.919
<v Speaker 1>in the military, so a lot of guns stuff shooting guns.

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<v Speaker 1>Johnny Cage Hollywood movie star, so of course he could

0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:06.800
<v Speaker 1>do a kick where he slid forward on green energy blasts,

0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.040
<v Speaker 1>just like Jean Claude van Dam who he's inspired by

0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:12.359
<v Speaker 1>because they couldn't actually do a j CVD game, so

0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.320
<v Speaker 1>they made Johnny Cage as a parody of Jean Claude

0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:18.640
<v Speaker 1>vandam he like stands out so much from the other character.

0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:22.560
<v Speaker 1>It's hilarious that he was literally created as like a goof.

0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:24.760
<v Speaker 1>They're like, what if his missical island of monsters and

0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:27.080
<v Speaker 1>ninjas in a fighting tournament, and what if the Hollywood

0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:29.640
<v Speaker 1>actor went there to prove that he doesn't use visual

0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:33.600
<v Speaker 1>effects in his action movies. And now he's like the

0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.280
<v Speaker 1>most sympathetic character in the whole series. He's wound up

0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:38.280
<v Speaker 1>becoming like a great guy and a good dad, and

0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:41.280
<v Speaker 1>he has like a tragic romantic storyline in the most

0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:44.879
<v Speaker 1>recent game. It's kind of great. Who else the first

0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:50.600
<v Speaker 1>sub zero who eventually became noopsibot um behn was in there. He's,

0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:54.919
<v Speaker 1>of course suberiously throws uh you know, freezy balls. Scorpion

0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:58.479
<v Speaker 1>naturally revenant undead ninja who was there to kill Behond

0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:01.040
<v Speaker 1>to get revenge for allegedly murder during his entire clan.

0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:05.399
<v Speaker 1>Uh Scorpions got fire moves because he's a little demon

0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:09.399
<v Speaker 1>from Hell, so a lot of hell fire moves. Um Goro,

0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:11.760
<v Speaker 1>who was one of the sub bosses where he was

0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:15.119
<v Speaker 1>thus sub boss big fore armed half dragon Shokan Prince

0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:18.080
<v Speaker 1>pick you up in a punch you with his top

0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:20.160
<v Speaker 1>arms while he held you up with his bottom arms.

0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:24.199
<v Speaker 1>Shank Sung sorcerer who hosted the first Mortal Kombat tournament

0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:26.280
<v Speaker 1>on his island, which had the very clever name of

0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:29.639
<v Speaker 1>Shank Song's Island. Ah. He is a sorcerer who can

0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:31.479
<v Speaker 1>steal your soul. So one of his iconic moves is

0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:37.040
<v Speaker 1>stealing your soul. You know that that um Dream Daddy game? Yes,

0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:39.639
<v Speaker 1>I do. This is like the original Dream Daddy. Yeah.

0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:43.000
<v Speaker 1>There are a lot of daddy's. Only one mommy was

0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:47.760
<v Speaker 1>just Sonia Blade, I mean originally. Now there's a lot

0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:53.000
<v Speaker 1>of mommies. Yes, I think I got everyone. Yeah. If not,

0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:55.280
<v Speaker 1>somebody will write you. Yeah. If not, someone can just

0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.320
<v Speaker 1>be mad at me and I'll just say, yo, buddy,

0:27:57.359 --> 0:27:59.879
<v Speaker 1>how have you made ten episodes of a podcast about this?

0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:04.200
<v Speaker 1>Eat stuff? Wait? So let's talk about the if he's

0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:10.000
<v Speaker 1>something happened? Yeah, yeah, the movie. I was trying to

0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:14.080
<v Speaker 1>read off the cast of the movie, which had Christopher

0:28:14.119 --> 0:28:18.720
<v Speaker 1>Lambert as Raiding Robin Shoe as lu Kane uh Lyndon

0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:24.240
<v Speaker 1>Ashby as Johnny Cage, Carrie Hairoi Tagawa as Shang Zung,

0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:28.560
<v Speaker 1>who most recently came back for MK Levin. Yeah. Everyone,

0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:32.560
<v Speaker 1>everyone has been so hyped about Oh my gosh, h

0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:38.080
<v Speaker 1>Bridget Wilson Sampras as Sonya Blade and Talisa Soto as Katana.

0:28:38.440 --> 0:28:42.040
<v Speaker 1>Trevor Goddard as Kanoh sorry, Kano was also in the

0:28:42.040 --> 0:28:45.120
<v Speaker 1>first game. Yeah, I will admit that. Chris Casa Massa

0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:49.400
<v Speaker 1>as Scorpion, France as sub Zero. I don't know a

0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:54.560
<v Speaker 1>lot of these actors. Keith Cook as Reptile, Hakim Alston

0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:57.560
<v Speaker 1>as the Fighting Monk. Yeah, you have long left behind

0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:08.160
<v Speaker 1>recognized not play. These are NPC what's known as an extra.

0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:13.479
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, that movie, Yeah, it was like, you know,

0:29:13.560 --> 0:29:16.760
<v Speaker 1>looking back on it, it's probably not great, you know,

0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:19.640
<v Speaker 1>but when I saw it as a kid, I remember

0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:24.760
<v Speaker 1>coming out of that theater swinging my fist ready to fight.

0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:28.440
<v Speaker 1>I was so into, probably scared the stuffing out of

0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:32.400
<v Speaker 1>some people coming into the theater. I'm realizing how much

0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:35.000
<v Speaker 1>I default to discussing. I don't remember what was the

0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:38.240
<v Speaker 1>plot of this movie is. It was basically a remake

0:29:38.280 --> 0:29:40.360
<v Speaker 1>of Entered the Dragon. Um, it was just that a

0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:42.280
<v Speaker 1>bunch of people get summoned to an island for a

0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:45.840
<v Speaker 1>mysterious fighting tournament that winds up having the fate of

0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:49.280
<v Speaker 1>the world at stake. Um as you do. Yeah, but

0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:51.640
<v Speaker 1>the hero onto it's got to be in the history

0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:53.960
<v Speaker 1>of action movies. It's got to be one of the

0:29:54.080 --> 0:29:58.680
<v Speaker 1>great uh like meetups of hero ensembles. It's literally like,

0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:01.840
<v Speaker 1>all right, there's this guy Luke Kang who's partnered up

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<v Speaker 1>with a thunder god name Raydon, who's on his way

0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:06.920
<v Speaker 1>to this island to get revenge on the person holding

0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:09.280
<v Speaker 1>the tournament for killing his brother. He teams up with

0:30:09.320 --> 0:30:11.400
<v Speaker 1>a Hollywood actor trying to prove that he doesn't use

0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:14.360
<v Speaker 1>visual effects in his movies, and uh, someone from the

0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:17.920
<v Speaker 1>military who's tracking down a mercenary who killed her partner

0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:20.320
<v Speaker 1>who's going to the island to try to get rich,

0:30:21.640 --> 0:30:25.080
<v Speaker 1>and the three of them become buddies. Yeah, yes, yeah, man,

0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:29.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's it's crazy, just kind of like looking back,

0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:32.480
<v Speaker 1>because this is one of those movies that fell for

0:30:32.760 --> 0:30:35.000
<v Speaker 1>the Hollywood trick of like we're not going to have

0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:38.280
<v Speaker 1>them in their costumes from the game. That would be lame,

0:30:38.360 --> 0:30:40.960
<v Speaker 1>so we're gonna have them wear regular clothes to a

0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:44.560
<v Speaker 1>fighting tournament, like this is the one time you can

0:30:44.600 --> 0:30:48.000
<v Speaker 1>actually probably and probably should have them wear what they're

0:30:48.000 --> 0:30:50.400
<v Speaker 1>wearing in the video game. They at least put all

0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:54.320
<v Speaker 1>of the villains in their costume, which kind of works

0:30:54.360 --> 0:30:56.160
<v Speaker 1>I think for a movie, because it was like the

0:30:56.160 --> 0:30:58.960
<v Speaker 1>heroes are not from a magical world and they're being

0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:02.840
<v Speaker 1>dragged into uh an insane world of monsters and stuff.

0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:07.400
<v Speaker 1>How insane Goro look the Goro puppet in that movie is,

0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:10.600
<v Speaker 1>isn't is just terrifying to look at. They also like

0:31:10.760 --> 0:31:13.800
<v Speaker 1>toned it down a lot, like there wasn't like the

0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:18.120
<v Speaker 1>violence was not, like it was free of blood and gore. Yeah,

0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:20.600
<v Speaker 1>it was a PG thirteen, which actually wound up bumming

0:31:20.640 --> 0:31:22.560
<v Speaker 1>me out as a kid because I did not ask

0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:25.520
<v Speaker 1>to go see it because I assumed it was rated R.

0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:28.600
<v Speaker 1>I was like six, maybe five when it came out,

0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:31.080
<v Speaker 1>so I just like didn't even ask my mom, even

0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:33.320
<v Speaker 1>though it was all I wanted to see, And then

0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:35.239
<v Speaker 1>when it finally came out, I had to wait till

0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:37.120
<v Speaker 1>I could go see it at like a friend's house

0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:39.840
<v Speaker 1>or even watch it like an after school program or something.

0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:42.040
<v Speaker 1>But it's better than people remember. It's like a pretty

0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:44.880
<v Speaker 1>good movie, yea, for like a video game movie. It's

0:31:44.920 --> 0:31:47.360
<v Speaker 1>like a fun action flick. Here just so you were

0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:50.400
<v Speaker 1>just so people were wondering how games ended. I went

0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:55.120
<v Speaker 1>and found the final text for if Raydon wins the

0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:57.880
<v Speaker 1>first Mortal Kombat, and this is the text that it

0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:01.400
<v Speaker 1>uh that it reads you. Raden's victory comes as no

0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:03.880
<v Speaker 1>surprise to him. He was never impressed by Shank Sun's

0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:07.240
<v Speaker 1>and fear sorcery, Grol's brute force, or the challenge of

0:32:07.280 --> 0:32:10.480
<v Speaker 1>the other contestants. He quickly becomes bored with his mortal

0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:15.640
<v Speaker 1>competition and soon invites other gods to participate in the contest.

0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:19.160
<v Speaker 1>The ensuing battles rage on for years, and the wars

0:32:19.240 --> 0:32:23.960
<v Speaker 1>results in our world's final destruction. Have a nice day,

0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:26.240
<v Speaker 1>that's that's that's what you said at the end of

0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:30.680
<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat the world the world ends, have a nice day.

0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:32.479
<v Speaker 1>But not even that. I like that. They were just

0:32:32.520 --> 0:32:34.200
<v Speaker 1>like a frightened wins. I don't know what could happen.

0:32:34.480 --> 0:32:36.720
<v Speaker 1>He gets bored, invites every god in the world to

0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:39.320
<v Speaker 1>enter a fighting tournament that becomes a centuries along war

0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:43.440
<v Speaker 1>that ends all of that kind Yeah, also, we got jokes, okay,

0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:49.120
<v Speaker 1>by So after this amazing film that Ben says still

0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:52.240
<v Speaker 1>holds up because you want to watch it tonight. Um,

0:32:52.320 --> 0:32:56.360
<v Speaker 1>we had the cartoon Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm.

0:32:56.400 --> 0:33:05.160
<v Speaker 1>Do you remember watching the good? Yeah, but I thought

0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:08.080
<v Speaker 1>you would have like an air of nostalgia around it. No,

0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:11.840
<v Speaker 1>it's just bad. I didn't like it then and I

0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:15.280
<v Speaker 1>don't like it now. I weirdly as a kid like

0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:18.680
<v Speaker 1>didn't whoa And IMDb it has three out of five stars,

0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:23.280
<v Speaker 1>so people don't agree with you, Ben, Three is what

0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:29.600
<v Speaker 1>it's more than two. That's like almost half. It's barely passing,

0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:33.280
<v Speaker 1>but it is passing. Yes, I'll give you that it

0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:36.160
<v Speaker 1>is passing. Um, look, you know how the Internet is.

0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm willing to stand up to the Internet movie database

0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:43.200
<v Speaker 1>and say that also looks like the Infinity War poster.

0:33:44.720 --> 0:33:47.880
<v Speaker 1>It's so funny, like everyone copies that stands with having

0:33:47.920 --> 0:33:49.520
<v Speaker 1>like a main character in the middle and then they're

0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:52.160
<v Speaker 1>all kind of like winged out. Yeah. I do love that.

0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:54.640
<v Speaker 1>It's from an era though, where they were like kids

0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:57.000
<v Speaker 1>like things that are not for them. So we'll just

0:33:57.120 --> 0:33:59.479
<v Speaker 1>make animated shows anyway. Like around the same time they

0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:02.960
<v Speaker 1>were doing like Ambo, the animated series where I think

0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:05.240
<v Speaker 1>the intro is like a full minute and half him

0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:09.279
<v Speaker 1>putting knives on his belt. Crease Summer played Katana. She's

0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:11.680
<v Speaker 1>amazing if you all don't know she's she's like every

0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:16.080
<v Speaker 1>She's like a tear of strong. She's voiced everybody ever.

0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:20.080
<v Speaker 1>So there was also She's Sorry, She's Susie Carmichael on

0:34:20.160 --> 0:34:25.200
<v Speaker 1>The Rugrats. She's Penny and Inspector Gadget anyways, that's really cool.

0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:31.160
<v Speaker 1>And then also Ron Perlman played Striker. Yeah, Striker who

0:34:31.280 --> 0:34:35.239
<v Speaker 1>is Everyone makes fun of Striker for being just a

0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:43.160
<v Speaker 1>straight up NYPD riot com Hi, just shooting guns at dragons. Yeah,

0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:45.680
<v Speaker 1>I can find those worlds. Sorry, I mean to cut

0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:48.279
<v Speaker 1>you off. Yes at all. Um, I was gonna say

0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:51.560
<v Speaker 1>that the animated series not great. Um. There was also

0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:54.359
<v Speaker 1>a live action show, right that came out after that. Yeah,

0:34:54.400 --> 0:35:00.200
<v Speaker 1>it was Mortal Kombat Conquest and my directing team true

0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.880
<v Speaker 1>In film school, Chip Chalmers directed a couple episodes and

0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:06.440
<v Speaker 1>I made him give me a VHS copy of one

0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:08.200
<v Speaker 1>of his episodes so I could watch it, and he

0:35:08.280 --> 0:35:10.680
<v Speaker 1>was like, why do you want this? It's because I

0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:12.279
<v Speaker 1>love Mortal Kombat. I want to see it. He's like

0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:15.880
<v Speaker 1>all right, whatever, have you asked him to be on

0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:20.279
<v Speaker 1>your podcast? He I think it's back in Florida Skype. Yeah,

0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:23.879
<v Speaker 1>maybe maybe he should be. And then there's also one

0:35:24.000 --> 0:35:27.400
<v Speaker 1>or Premier ordered a web series that was inspired by Rebirth,

0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:32.319
<v Speaker 1>titled Mortal Kombat Legacy, and that series was on YouTube

0:35:32.520 --> 0:35:36.760
<v Speaker 1>and also Machinima I believe. Yeah, that was an interesting

0:35:36.760 --> 0:35:40.120
<v Speaker 1>because I remember in college that short came out Rebirth,

0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:43.480
<v Speaker 1>and I was so hyped because it was like a

0:35:43.520 --> 0:35:46.320
<v Speaker 1>gritty reboot of Mortal Kombat, which at the time I

0:35:46.320 --> 0:35:48.480
<v Speaker 1>think everyone's getting really sick of gritty reboots, but it

0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:52.279
<v Speaker 1>worked for something that began pretty dark and gritty in

0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:55.279
<v Speaker 1>the first place. Maybe not, I guess Mortal Kombat is

0:35:55.320 --> 0:35:58.240
<v Speaker 1>kind of still pulpy and goofy around that time. But um,

0:35:58.280 --> 0:35:59.960
<v Speaker 1>it was really really hyped about and then for whatever

0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:02.080
<v Speaker 1>is And I never actually brought up watching that web series,

0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:04.440
<v Speaker 1>but they did like two seasons. It did pretty well.

0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:06.960
<v Speaker 1>I know what you can do tonight now, Ben watch

0:36:07.000 --> 0:36:10.080
<v Speaker 1>the entirety of the website. You said it like, I

0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:17.640
<v Speaker 1>was like, I need something to do tonight. You're the extra. Yeah,

0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:20.560
<v Speaker 1>all of the content I gotta catch up. I have

0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:22.840
<v Speaker 1>to watch the entirety of Defenders of the Realm, the

0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:27.480
<v Speaker 1>animated series. I gotta finish up Conquest because I've only

0:36:27.520 --> 0:36:31.160
<v Speaker 1>seen Chips episode, and uh, I gotta watch the entirety

0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.920
<v Speaker 1>of m k Legacy. Yeah. Well, if you guys want

0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:38.879
<v Speaker 1>to hang out, I'll be busy for the next al Right, Well,

0:36:39.239 --> 0:36:41.200
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna take a quick break, but when we get back,

0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:44.080
<v Speaker 1>we're going to talk some more Mortal Kombat and we're

0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:47.160
<v Speaker 1>also gonna get your thoughts on this new Mortal Kombat

0:36:47.360 --> 0:37:00.439
<v Speaker 1>movie that's apparently coming out in a bit. And where back,

0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:04.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm still Danny Fernandez here with Iffy Wade and Ben Meckler.

0:37:04.400 --> 0:37:06.680
<v Speaker 1>We were just during the break talking about Mortal Kombat

0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:09.840
<v Speaker 1>the album, which was a techno album based on the

0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:14.960
<v Speaker 1>first game, inspired by the first game. I'm reading this

0:37:15.080 --> 0:37:19.640
<v Speaker 1>directly from this article. Ben, I just like saying inspired. Um,

0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:21.680
<v Speaker 1>but you said that several of your friends have admitted

0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:24.560
<v Speaker 1>that they have it in their car currently at this moment. Yeah.

0:37:24.880 --> 0:37:26.480
<v Speaker 1>The most recent person I could think of who told

0:37:26.480 --> 0:37:30.160
<v Speaker 1>me that was Jenuine Motto. Yeah, I play I don't

0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:36.320
<v Speaker 1>play CDs anymore, But that was a flex must be nice.

0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:38.879
<v Speaker 1>I didn't mean for it to come out that way.

0:37:39.080 --> 0:37:41.359
<v Speaker 1>You were looking derisively at my walkman while you said.

0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:44.000
<v Speaker 1>What I meant to say was I play soundtracks. I'm

0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:47.120
<v Speaker 1>a weirdo. I play like in my car on Spotify,

0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:50.160
<v Speaker 1>I'll play like the Halloween soundtrack. I play Wild Wild

0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:55.480
<v Speaker 1>West one, so good Ghostbusters And that's what if you

0:37:55.520 --> 0:37:57.759
<v Speaker 1>come into my car, I'm just playing soundtracks. Yeah, I

0:37:57.800 --> 0:38:02.279
<v Speaker 1>have the Tokyo Drift soundtrack in my car, you know, No,

0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:05.320
<v Speaker 1>that's my jammer. But yeah, the one song it talks

0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:08.400
<v Speaker 1>about is the one called Techno Syndrome, which is the

0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:13.360
<v Speaker 1>one everyone thinks of when they hear Mortal Kombat, which

0:38:14.000 --> 0:38:19.000
<v Speaker 1>is just screaming Mortal Kombat. I cover that song for

0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:22.120
<v Speaker 1>the intro to my podcast, and with me yelling the

0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:24.839
<v Speaker 1>name of every single Mortal Kombat character to the beat

0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:28.960
<v Speaker 1>of the song for the entire length of it, I

0:38:29.000 --> 0:38:35.359
<v Speaker 1>will say, you know what what really goes unappreciated is

0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:38.279
<v Speaker 1>that portion in the middle of that from from from

0:38:38.360 --> 0:38:41.920
<v Speaker 1>from from from from, Because not only is that just

0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:46.560
<v Speaker 1>a fun riff, it really encapsulates, encapsulates, like techno of

0:38:46.640 --> 0:38:49.920
<v Speaker 1>that time, like that goes beyond Mortal Kombat. Yeah, I

0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:52.640
<v Speaker 1>think I know why it sounds like a cyber goth

0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:56.879
<v Speaker 1>piece of music, which was what nineties techno. Yeah, oh

0:38:56.920 --> 0:38:59.640
<v Speaker 1>my gosh, yeah, it sounds like the techno you would

0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:03.160
<v Speaker 1>play in a spooky cyber goth castle. Oh man, I

0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:05.240
<v Speaker 1>guess we can just kind of run through the games

0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:09.120
<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna go, we're gonna we're gonna do like

0:39:09.160 --> 0:39:12.239
<v Speaker 1>a mini just and I feel like you're the man

0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:15.120
<v Speaker 1>for the job of what each game is about. So

0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:18.000
<v Speaker 1>oh boy, let's do it. M K one m K

0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:21.799
<v Speaker 1>one the Mortal Kombat, the tenth Mortal Kombat tournament in

0:39:21.800 --> 0:39:24.640
<v Speaker 1>a row, is occurring between the realms of out World

0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:27.319
<v Speaker 1>and Earth Realm. If out World wins the tournament, that's

0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:29.319
<v Speaker 1>the tenth one, which means they're allowed to merge our

0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:31.919
<v Speaker 1>realms and eat the souls of pretty much everyone on Earth.

0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:36.880
<v Speaker 1>If Earth Winds, the world is saved. Earth Winds Mortal

0:39:36.920 --> 0:39:41.239
<v Speaker 1>Kombat too. Out World is pissed that they lost, so

0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:45.120
<v Speaker 1>they demanded you over tournament, uh, and they forced the

0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:47.680
<v Speaker 1>fighters of Earth Realm to come to out World for

0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:52.239
<v Speaker 1>another Mortal Kombat tournament. Earth Realm wins Mortal Kombat three.

0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:56.279
<v Speaker 1>Outworlds like real piss now that they lost twice, so

0:39:56.320 --> 0:39:59.560
<v Speaker 1>they decided to say forget the rules, man, and they

0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:03.520
<v Speaker 1>straight been vade Earth Realm. Uh. So our heroes at

0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:05.239
<v Speaker 1>this point are now fighting in the streets of New

0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:08.000
<v Speaker 1>York as like dragons and centaurs are rampaging around in

0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:13.400
<v Speaker 1>death squads. Mortal Combat four, with out World finally defeated Shinnok,

0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:16.080
<v Speaker 1>a fallen elder god in the Nether Realm, yet another

0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:18.880
<v Speaker 1>realm it's basically Hell, decided to tis time to shine

0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:21.239
<v Speaker 1>and he's going to take over both Earth Realm and

0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:26.520
<v Speaker 1>the realm of Adenia. Combat five Shannak got beat up,

0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:31.040
<v Speaker 1>so he's done. And in Mortal Kombat five, Shinnok's little

0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:34.480
<v Speaker 1>buddy Quanchi and Shacom, the former ruler of out Worlds

0:40:34.840 --> 0:40:38.160
<v Speaker 1>little assistant Shang Song, say, uh, let's go kill our

0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:40.840
<v Speaker 1>bosses and become a deadly alliance. So they do, and

0:40:40.880 --> 0:40:44.960
<v Speaker 1>they also kill Earth's champion Lukang and wage a campaign

0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:47.719
<v Speaker 1>of h I guess evil to try to take over

0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:52.239
<v Speaker 1>the realms and succeed. Wortal Combat six. H Just as

0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:55.160
<v Speaker 1>those two guys have succeeded in their plan to take

0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:57.799
<v Speaker 1>over all the realms, Uh, an ancient ruler from out

0:40:57.800 --> 0:41:02.680
<v Speaker 1>World Onaga the Dragon King is resurrected and kills everybody

0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:05.440
<v Speaker 1>and brings an undead army to ramd Page throughout the

0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:09.120
<v Speaker 1>realms unless somebody can stop him. This Mortal Kombat seven

0:41:09.200 --> 0:41:13.480
<v Speaker 1>or right next would be seven. Uh. Someone does stop Onaga,

0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:16.560
<v Speaker 1>but just in time for an ancient prophecy to kick off,

0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:19.600
<v Speaker 1>in which all of the heroes in the world. At

0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.040
<v Speaker 1>this point, all of the villains in the world are

0:41:21.080 --> 0:41:23.560
<v Speaker 1>basically going to go to war uh, in which only

0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:27.640
<v Speaker 1>one person can survive. It is armageddon. Mooral Combat eight

0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:32.400
<v Speaker 1>will Combat eight is kind of like not necessarily canon.

0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:35.319
<v Speaker 1>That was morratl Kombat Verse d C universe. Uh so

0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:40.120
<v Speaker 1>that was uh our realm includes DC superheroes. They wind

0:41:40.200 --> 0:41:46.160
<v Speaker 1>up fighting. It's like a dark Side Shoo Khan hybrid

0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:48.880
<v Speaker 1>and I don't really remember what happened. It's not really cannon.

0:41:50.480 --> 0:41:54.319
<v Speaker 1>Before I saw a news about the Joker joining that's

0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:56.440
<v Speaker 1>a rumor, but I'm pretty sure it's true that he's

0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:59.440
<v Speaker 1>going to be DLC for Moratal Kombat eleven. Yeah, yeah, okay,

0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:02.280
<v Speaker 1>I just wanted say that they're bringing that back. Oh yeah,

0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:04.640
<v Speaker 1>uh wait, so before who were there? Who were the

0:42:04.680 --> 0:42:07.640
<v Speaker 1>other DC characters? Do you remember any of them there,

0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:12.560
<v Speaker 1>Captain Marvel in their Batman, um Superman. Obviously I can't

0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:14.800
<v Speaker 1>remember if Harley Quinn was in that one, but basically

0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:18.080
<v Speaker 1>that game was why Injustice exists, because it's the same

0:42:18.080 --> 0:42:20.840
<v Speaker 1>studio that makes more makes Injustice. So I want to

0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:23.399
<v Speaker 1>say it was a woman was in there too, right, man,

0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:26.000
<v Speaker 1>I want to see her fatality. Well that was the

0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:29.080
<v Speaker 1>other thing that out. Yeah, yeah, they're rated. It's a

0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:31.040
<v Speaker 1>it's a rated T game. So they took out a

0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:33.960
<v Speaker 1>lot of the gore. Oh yeah, they had Batman, Captain Marvel, Catwoman,

0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:37.160
<v Speaker 1>Dark Side, death Stroke, the Flash, Green Lantern, the Joker,

0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:41.360
<v Speaker 1>Lex Luthor, Superman, and Wonder Woman. But yeah, you'd expect

0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 1>more or less. Yeah maybe, Harley. Yeah, you were right

0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.960
<v Speaker 1>about it being a rumor but probably true that the

0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:51.719
<v Speaker 1>Joker will get added to Mortal Kombat eleven. Yeah, I'm

0:42:52.040 --> 0:42:56.680
<v Speaker 1>like sure that's true. Please continue. What where are we at?

0:42:56.800 --> 0:43:00.480
<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat nine? Kombat nine is the reboot only kind

0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:03.560
<v Speaker 1>of a reboot because Raydon is the like second to

0:43:03.640 --> 0:43:05.839
<v Speaker 1>last person to survive Armageddon. He's going to die. It's

0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:08.120
<v Speaker 1>an active desperation. He sends a message to himself back

0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:11.000
<v Speaker 1>in time, which creates a new timeline. Some Moortal Kombat

0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:14.520
<v Speaker 1>nine kind of retails the first three games, but certain

0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:17.880
<v Speaker 1>events change and uh go kind of catastrophically, so the

0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.759
<v Speaker 1>only survivors out of our entire cast wind up being

0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:25.399
<v Speaker 1>raid In, Johnny Cage and Sony Blade and Mortal Kombat ten.

0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:30.040
<v Speaker 1>Twenty five years later, the children of Johnny or Johnny

0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:32.200
<v Speaker 1>and Sonya's daughter and the children of other Mortal Kombat

0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:34.960
<v Speaker 1>characters are a new team being trained by special forces,

0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:37.480
<v Speaker 1>and they wind up having to take on Shinnok in

0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:43.240
<v Speaker 1>this timeline and Mortal Kombat eleven. Shinnok's mother, a Titan

0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:46.040
<v Speaker 1>named Cronica who controls all of time, is pissed about

0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:49.640
<v Speaker 1>all this weird time stuff, so she decides she's going

0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:53.120
<v Speaker 1>to kill rate In and create a new timeline, but

0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:55.760
<v Speaker 1>in doing so, she opens up a rift that brings

0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:59.040
<v Speaker 1>back heroes and villains from the past that collide with

0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:01.680
<v Speaker 1>heroes and villains in the few mature for the present,

0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:04.960
<v Speaker 1>and everyone basically has to work together to stop critical

0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:07.920
<v Speaker 1>from creating a new timeline. Doesn't work, she does, so

0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:11.120
<v Speaker 1>we're back to zero now and then will kind of franchise. Wow,

0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:14.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm so proud of you. Yeah. Again, I just did

0:44:14.160 --> 0:44:15.839
<v Speaker 1>ten episodes of podcast in a row where I had

0:44:15.840 --> 0:44:18.160
<v Speaker 1>to I had to make sure I had all of

0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:21.600
<v Speaker 1>that down. I know. I love just how easy that

0:44:21.800 --> 0:44:25.600
<v Speaker 1>was for you. Also, I love like like I've I've

0:44:25.640 --> 0:44:29.680
<v Speaker 1>been going through as we've been um doing this podcast,

0:44:29.719 --> 0:44:33.200
<v Speaker 1>watching lou king play throughs and just kind of comparing

0:44:33.400 --> 0:44:36.640
<v Speaker 1>comparing them to what you said in our episode. You

0:44:36.640 --> 0:44:41.080
<v Speaker 1>didn't miss a beat. Hell yeah, so so definitely make

0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:43.920
<v Speaker 1>sure you if you're definitely interested in the lower side

0:44:43.920 --> 0:44:47.560
<v Speaker 1>of Mormal combat and hearing just the whole run of

0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:51.360
<v Speaker 1>all the games through one character's perspective. I can't recommend

0:44:51.680 --> 0:44:54.960
<v Speaker 1>Mortal podcast enough. And if you listen to the most

0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:57.839
<v Speaker 1>recent episode, you can hear if he's completely insane story

0:44:57.880 --> 0:44:59.480
<v Speaker 1>about the time you saw a guy do a bicycle

0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:01.799
<v Speaker 1>kick in real life. Yeah. Yeah, I'm saving that for

0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:04.080
<v Speaker 1>your podcast. I'm gonna make I'm gonna make people go

0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:05.880
<v Speaker 1>check it out if they want to learn about the

0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:09.480
<v Speaker 1>legend of Jimmy dank O man legend. Yeah, I realized

0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:16.200
<v Speaker 1>I totally missed Mortal Kombat Annihilations for the best. Yeah. Yeah,

0:45:16.840 --> 0:45:21.239
<v Speaker 1>it's unnecessary mention. It's an unbelievably bad movie. With some

0:45:21.520 --> 0:45:25.680
<v Speaker 1>iconic lines. Um. I think the probably most quoted one

0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:30.160
<v Speaker 1>is when uh Kaittana yells to her resurrected mother, mother,

0:45:30.280 --> 0:45:34.520
<v Speaker 1>you're alive, and Sandel says, too bad you, we'll die.

0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:38.439
<v Speaker 1>And it's great. Really, you know, I mean that kind

0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:41.440
<v Speaker 1>of sounds like video games. It's extremely It's a very

0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:44.400
<v Speaker 1>watchable movie. Honestly, you've probably seen Annihilation more times in

0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:47.920
<v Speaker 1>the first movie because it's just so completely bonkers. With

0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:51.200
<v Speaker 1>the first movie, I also wanted to mention that this

0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:55.719
<v Speaker 1>is crazy. Steven Spielberg, who's an avid fan of the

0:45:55.760 --> 0:45:59.160
<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat series, was supposed to make a cameo appearance

0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:02.759
<v Speaker 1>as the direct in Johnny Cage's first scene, like the

0:46:02.800 --> 0:46:06.200
<v Speaker 1>first six minutes of the film, and he wanted to

0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:08.920
<v Speaker 1>be in it, but he had a scheduling conflict and

0:46:08.960 --> 0:46:13.200
<v Speaker 1>so he couldn't. But but the director character in the

0:46:13.239 --> 0:46:17.719
<v Speaker 1>film is supposed to resemble Steven Spielberg, So Steven Spielberg

0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:22.080
<v Speaker 1>was almost in Mortal kombast. Oh wow, that's news to me.

0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:26.440
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, I guess, I guess. Stephen then decided

0:46:26.480 --> 0:46:28.080
<v Speaker 1>to kind of hold off on a cameo like that

0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:32.879
<v Speaker 1>until Austin Power's Gold where that cameo at the beginning

0:46:32.920 --> 0:46:35.080
<v Speaker 1>of the movie. How many stars does it have? If

0:46:35.080 --> 0:46:40.840
<v Speaker 1>Steven Spielberg wasn't, it would have five four nine. It

0:46:40.840 --> 0:46:45.680
<v Speaker 1>would be a classic the classic film. Oh. One other

0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:48.120
<v Speaker 1>thing was Johnny Depp was and Tom Cruise where it

0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:51.319
<v Speaker 1>was considered for the role of Johnny Cage and they

0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:53.759
<v Speaker 1>the idea that either of them would have said yes

0:46:53.800 --> 0:46:59.279
<v Speaker 1>even then Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I did

0:46:59.400 --> 0:47:02.400
<v Speaker 1>not recoize is most of the names that we said uh,

0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:06.000
<v Speaker 1>And then Danny Glover was considered for rayd in Oh.

0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:09.920
<v Speaker 1>That would have been cool. Although Christopher Lambert his performance

0:47:09.920 --> 0:47:13.600
<v Speaker 1>wound up being kind of iconic and that his delivery

0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:21.040
<v Speaker 1>of every line is really weird and good weird. So

0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:24.000
<v Speaker 1>what do you think about this new UH movie coming out?

0:47:24.080 --> 0:47:29.480
<v Speaker 1>Are you excited about it? I? I love and trust

0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:33.760
<v Speaker 1>James One who's producing it. Um. I want to believe

0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:36.400
<v Speaker 1>that a big budget Mortal Kombat movie will be good.

0:47:36.960 --> 0:47:40.640
<v Speaker 1>I need to know what story they're telling. I'm hoping

0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:43.200
<v Speaker 1>they're not going to do some revisionist like we need

0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:45.560
<v Speaker 1>an access character stuff where it's like a normal guy

0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:47.719
<v Speaker 1>finds out that he's actually destined to be a part

0:47:47.719 --> 0:47:50.279
<v Speaker 1>of the Mortal Combat Tournament. I'm afraid that it might

0:47:50.280 --> 0:47:52.640
<v Speaker 1>go that way because I know that at a certain budget,

0:47:52.680 --> 0:47:57.239
<v Speaker 1>studios get afraid of being too uh, you know, going

0:47:57.440 --> 0:48:00.200
<v Speaker 1>too far with the story, or or making something it's

0:48:00.239 --> 0:48:02.920
<v Speaker 1>just for a niche audience. Like with Dark Tower, they

0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:05.359
<v Speaker 1>totally turned that into like, you know, it's just a

0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:07.880
<v Speaker 1>boy's journey, like he realizes he's part of a larger tale,

0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:10.080
<v Speaker 1>which is an interesting perspective to take into it. But

0:48:10.080 --> 0:48:11.680
<v Speaker 1>it didn't make it the same story. So the things

0:48:11.680 --> 0:48:13.239
<v Speaker 1>that worked about it didn't work quite as well. I'm

0:48:13.239 --> 0:48:17.240
<v Speaker 1>worried the same thing I happened with Mortal Combat. Also selfishly, uh,

0:48:17.280 --> 0:48:19.600
<v Speaker 1>since I also write movies, I would very much like

0:48:19.680 --> 0:48:23.359
<v Speaker 1>to be writing this movie. Um specifically, I would love

0:48:23.480 --> 0:48:26.640
<v Speaker 1>I feel like the story of of Bihan, the first

0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:30.600
<v Speaker 1>sub Zero going on in odyssey through the Nether Realm,

0:48:31.000 --> 0:48:34.240
<v Speaker 1>so an ice Ninja going on an odyssey through basically

0:48:34.280 --> 0:48:38.520
<v Speaker 1>hell Um in order to obtain an artifact, while coming

0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:42.440
<v Speaker 1>into contact with his blood rival Scorpion, and falling in

0:48:42.480 --> 0:48:46.600
<v Speaker 1>love with demon S who lives in the nether realm,

0:48:46.640 --> 0:48:50.000
<v Speaker 1>and realizing that he's serving the wrong masters, and meeting

0:48:50.040 --> 0:48:52.560
<v Speaker 1>like an untimely tragic demise. I feel like that would

0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:54.320
<v Speaker 1>be a really good story for a movie that could

0:48:54.800 --> 0:48:57.399
<v Speaker 1>kind of tick all the boxes, um while still being

0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:02.160
<v Speaker 1>canonically something people would enjoy. UM. I had no idea,

0:49:02.200 --> 0:49:05.600
<v Speaker 1>but I guess Warner Brothers bought the Midway Games assets

0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:08.480
<v Speaker 1>and in bankruptcy court. I didn't know that they had

0:49:08.480 --> 0:49:13.560
<v Speaker 1>a file for bankruptcy. Yeah. Sad, Midway like owned the nineties.

0:49:13.640 --> 0:49:17.560
<v Speaker 1>But things would go so great after that. Maybe who knows,

0:49:17.640 --> 0:49:20.000
<v Speaker 1>Maybe this movie will be successful. And there's the m

0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:26.279
<v Speaker 1>k c U and then crossed. Alright, where can people

0:49:26.320 --> 0:49:29.440
<v Speaker 1>find you? Ben? You can find me at Ben Meckler.

0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:31.600
<v Speaker 1>That's b e n m e k l e R.

0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:34.839
<v Speaker 1>There's no ce in my last name on pretty much

0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:38.399
<v Speaker 1>every social media platform. I worked on show called Final Space.

0:49:38.440 --> 0:49:41.759
<v Speaker 1>It's erin now, so you can check that out. You

0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:44.960
<v Speaker 1>can get There's this application called Netflix you can be

0:49:45.040 --> 0:49:47.879
<v Speaker 1>a subscriber of. That's where KEEPO will be airing next

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<v Speaker 1>year and hopefully more exciting stuff you can catch for

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<v Speaker 1>me soon. But also just check out Mortal podcast p

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<v Speaker 1>O d K A s T because combat um wherever

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<v Speaker 1>podcasts exists. I assume that was my opportunity to plugs.

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<v Speaker 1>I just want to write to it. That's what that was.

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<v Speaker 1>You can catch me at if you wait. I f

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<v Speaker 1>Y n W I D I W E on Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>and Instagram, if D's on Twitch. Here on Tuesday's Candy

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<v Speaker 1>Dinner on Monday, and I'm now the host of Who

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<v Speaker 1>Shot Your Pod? On Max Fun on Fridays. UM, too

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<v Speaker 1>many things, but let's keep it going. The marathon continues

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<v Speaker 1>as Nipsey hustles. I know somebody asked if I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to be the host of a twilight Zone podcast, and

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, absolutely not, absolutely not, even though that

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<v Speaker 1>is the thing that I know a lot about. I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I cannot take on one other thing. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>trying to make some things and I am at Miss

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<v Speaker 1>Danny Fernandez. If you and I will be at San

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<v Speaker 1>Diego Comic Con, so check out our our twitters and

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<v Speaker 1>our Instagrams will be posting. I think we're gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>a meet up. I have two panels on Thursday that

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<v Speaker 1>I will be sharing whenever I have that info officially,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, check us out. We will be there in

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<v Speaker 1>San Diego. We are friendly. Come get a drink with

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<v Speaker 1>us whenever we finally pick a time uh and, as

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<v Speaker 1>we always say, staying nearty