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Speaker 1: Collidor Podcast is a production of I Heart Radio. Hi everybody,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Larger Ner Drunk Collador Podcast, the podcast
Speaker 1: that's all about gee things happening in the world around
Speaker 1: us and how excited we are about them. I'm Ariel
Speaker 1: Casting and with me as always is peek Boy Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 1: I'm the geek Boy. Hey, Ariel, I got a question
Speaker 1: for you. All right, Dariel, You've got all the materials,
Speaker 1: all the skills at your disposal all the time. You
Speaker 1: need to make your dream causeplay. We both have been
Speaker 1: to dragon Con many times. Cosplay is a huge part
Speaker 1: of Dragon Con. What is your dream causeplay? So this
Speaker 1: is this is difficult because I have many of them, um,
Speaker 1: but the one that I have yet to see anybody do.
Speaker 1: So I'm picking this because, like I could say, I
Speaker 1: want to be a realistic Little Mermaid or I want
Speaker 1: to be Jessica Rabbit. Those have always been like high
Speaker 1: on my list of things to play or fem ship
Speaker 1: from Mass Effect. But the one that I have yet
Speaker 1: to see anybody do that I would love to love
Speaker 1: to do is a really well is a female version
Speaker 1: of the tick? Oh you know what. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've seen anyone ever play a female version of the
Speaker 1: tick either, And it's an interesting choice. But you know,
Speaker 1: since cause players like to role play their characters oftentimes,
Speaker 1: I just think it would be an awful lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I can very much relate to the Ticks non sequitors.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we would have to see if our our mutual
Speaker 1: friends Sasha would be your Arthur. Oh, that would be amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you and Sasha whenever you're paired together. I mean
Speaker 1: it's been a while, it has been a while, but
Speaker 1: and Sasha has gone on to that. Yeah, and Sasha
Speaker 1: has gone on to do some like phenomenal causplays. Sasha
Speaker 1: is just if you've ever seen that picture by picture
Speaker 1: of tinker Bell next to thorign Oaken shield and it says,
Speaker 1: this is the same person. That's our friend Sasha, whom
Speaker 1: we've known for years. Yeah, yeah, I would love to
Speaker 1: do that with Sasha, but I don't have the skills
Speaker 1: to actually build that costume, nor all the resources in
Speaker 1: the world to do so what would be yours? I
Speaker 1: gave this a lot of thought, and you know, because
Speaker 1: I like playing bad guys, because you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a bad guy, So it's fun to kind of just
Speaker 1: play pretend. I think I would go Uber bad guy.
Speaker 1: I wanna really cool which King ring Wraith costume from
Speaker 1: Glord of the Rings. Yeah, it would. That's so before
Speaker 1: we started recording, actually, just to peek behind the veil,
Speaker 1: I gave Ariel a bit of a heads up on
Speaker 1: this one because I felt like this particular question is
Speaker 1: one of those where you kind of want to think
Speaker 1: about it. You know, you just get you get that
Speaker 1: one dropped on your lap, and your chances are you're
Speaker 1: going to give an answer and then like twenty minutes later,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say I hate that answer. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to give her a little time, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is one of those costumes that if I were
Speaker 1: wearing it at Dragon Con, if I did have the
Speaker 1: ability to put it all together, I would probably be
Speaker 1: stationary because I don't think I would be able to
Speaker 1: see very well in a witch King outfit, and um,
Speaker 1: i'd be worried about walking into people or falling down
Speaker 1: an escalator. Worse yet, falling down an up escalator, which
Speaker 1: means you're just falling forever. It's that would be horrible, horrible,
Speaker 1: you know, I Honestly, I changed my mind like three
Speaker 1: times between the time you gave me time to think
Speaker 1: about it in the time you actually asked me the
Speaker 1: question during recording. But I mean because I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of cosplay, and it tends to be things that
Speaker 1: are easier to do because as much as I love
Speaker 1: sewing and I love costume design, I'm not actually fantastic
Speaker 1: at execution. So all of those I would love to
Speaker 1: reado in a better format. And and lately when I've
Speaker 1: caused played, it's been very closet causeplay things like Street Close,
Speaker 1: Black Widow or Mary Jane on a business day, or
Speaker 1: you know, stuff that doesn't require specific pieces that are
Speaker 1: not normally viable at a story. Yeah, the last causeplay
Speaker 1: I did was Kabuky Mask from Big Hero six, the
Speaker 1: bad guy from Big Hero six. Um. I did that.
Speaker 1: I had the three D accustomed three D printed mask
Speaker 1: for that that that I painted up and put reflective
Speaker 1: lenses inside and everything, So it was it is probably
Speaker 1: the most involved one I did. And that one was
Speaker 1: that was off the rack pieces that I just altered
Speaker 1: slightly because if you've seen Big Hero six, you've seen
Speaker 1: that Kabucky Mask wears a bunch of layers, and dragon
Speaker 1: Con happens in August in Georgia. So yeah, but it
Speaker 1: looked good. I got to see it. It looked really good.
Speaker 1: Thank you well. I I hope that we can once
Speaker 1: again indulge in some cosplay and plus just really enjoy
Speaker 1: the incredible work that the cosplay community puts into their pieces.
Speaker 1: It's constantly the highlight of dragon Con for me is
Speaker 1: just seeing the creative costuming, everything from incredibly accurate replicas
Speaker 1: of pieces you've seen in film or television or even
Speaker 1: comic books, up to the crazy, you know, mash ups
Speaker 1: and offshoots that come up a lot of I think
Speaker 1: a lot of the spirit of large Nerdron Collider is
Speaker 1: in those kinds of cosplay. It definitely is. I wonder
Speaker 1: when we get back to conventions with cosplay, dragon Con specifically,
Speaker 1: since that's the one right right outside our door, if
Speaker 1: we're going to get many knives out causplays. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an excellent question, because I mean, that's the thing is
Speaker 1: that one of the interesting bits about cosplay is that
Speaker 1: we've seen it branched far beyond the fantasy and science
Speaker 1: fiction and superheroes and horror. It started to go all
Speaker 1: over the place and in all the areas where people have,
Speaker 1: you know, a deep fandom for the thing. And the
Speaker 1: reason you bring out Knives Out is because we've heard
Speaker 1: about yet another addition to the cast. We talked about
Speaker 1: Batista being part of the cast. Now we know that
Speaker 1: Leslie Odom Jr. Is going to be part of the cast.
Speaker 1: He played uh well, He's been in lots of stuff,
Speaker 1: but I think of him as Aaron Burr from Hamilton's
Speaker 1: where he was phenomenal originating that role. I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: if he's the killer, then that's type casting and not fair.
Speaker 1: Maybe he accidentally shoots the victim or something. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we also know that Edward Norton is in the cast,
Speaker 1: as is Katherine han Um. So I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it could have been Yeah, I think it might be
Speaker 1: Kevin han because it was Agatha all along. So really,
Speaker 1: what you're saying is you expect Knives Out to to
Speaker 1: be Aaron Burr, the Hulk, Agatha from from One Division
Speaker 1: and James Bond and James Bond, Daniel Craig all in
Speaker 1: a room together. Yes. No, I'm just I'm just in
Speaker 1: Drax and I'm trying to figure out which Janelle Monet
Speaker 1: character I want to select for this. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be individual characters. It's going to be all
Speaker 1: the other characters they've played, yes, exactly. Also, it'll turn
Speaker 1: out to be kind of like Clue, where everyone ends
Speaker 1: up being a killer. Oh spoiler for Clue in case
Speaker 1: you haven't seen that movie. Jonathan came out in the
Speaker 1: early eighties. I think I think the Statute of Limitations
Speaker 1: is done. I've watched it like a thousand times. But
Speaker 1: I was going to say that you're making me redo
Speaker 1: my evening plans, but that's not true at all. Well,
Speaker 1: and I have to say I'm really excited about Knives
Speaker 1: Out too. I very much enjoyed the first film. I
Speaker 1: was late to seeing the first movie. I knew that
Speaker 1: it was. There was a huge amount of buzz around
Speaker 1: it already by the time I saw it, so I
Speaker 1: didn't I was not on that that first like boat
Speaker 1: of folks who saw it. I was so lucky that
Speaker 1: no one spoiled it for me, so I got to
Speaker 1: go into it and enjoy the mystery for what it was.
Speaker 1: Although I maintain that if you do watch Knives Out,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it before, I maintained that I'm
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure most people are going to suss out
Speaker 1: who the killer is pretty pretty early on. But it
Speaker 1: was still a very entertaining film. Yes, and from a
Speaker 1: storytelling standpoint and an artistic standpoint, there are so many
Speaker 1: little clues enhanced that they put in throughout that's just
Speaker 1: really fantastic. Um, Jonathan, I'm actually going to be a
Speaker 1: bit of a book and I'm going to change our
Speaker 1: show order after we decided it because I realized that
Speaker 1: if we're talking about Knives Out, which is a murder mystery,
Speaker 1: we should then talk about our other true crime murder story. Now,
Speaker 1: Dear Evan Hanson, got it. I'm sorry, that's what we
Speaker 1: were supposed to talk about. Okay, Right, so you're you're
Speaker 1: talking about the the Steve Martin and Martin Short series
Speaker 1: that is coming out on Hulu. Yes, it's called Only
Speaker 1: Murders in the Building, which took me a bit because
Speaker 1: that's not really a name that like rolls off the
Speaker 1: tongue or makes a whole lot of sense. But it's
Speaker 1: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Amy Ryan and Selena Gomez and
Speaker 1: they are true crime podcast fans who then decide to
Speaker 1: solve true crime. Yes, a murderer, or at least a
Speaker 1: death happens in the apartment building where they all live.
Speaker 1: They're all strangers to one another except for the fact
Speaker 1: that they all happened to share this love of true
Speaker 1: crime podcasts, and a death happens in their building, and
Speaker 1: collectively they decide that they want to investigate it because
Speaker 1: they all suspect that the death was in fact a
Speaker 1: murder um and they want to put the skills they
Speaker 1: have learned by listening to true crime podcasts to the test. Ariel,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this to me is kind of
Speaker 1: my nightmare. I've thought it might be, uh, just just
Speaker 1: because I know that you have feels on true crime
Speaker 1: pod I do. I'm a I'm a podcast producer who
Speaker 1: works for a company that produces more than a few
Speaker 1: true crime podcasts. And the thought of fans taken it
Speaker 1: upon themselves to try and solve crime because of their
Speaker 1: received expertise because they listen to a lot of true
Speaker 1: crime shows fills me with a terror that is difficult
Speaker 1: to put into words. I mean, I totally get in
Speaker 1: that being said. The trailer is so adorable, like so
Speaker 1: Steve Steve Martin and Martin Short. Oftentimes they're both comedic,
Speaker 1: comedically brilliant in many ways, but a lot of times,
Speaker 1: especially like when they rehash old characters on S and
Speaker 1: L or whatnot, they're so over the top. To me,
Speaker 1: they're just very very large, and so I was worried
Speaker 1: that watching this trailer they would both be very very large. Um,
Speaker 1: and they're they're big, but they're not unbearably big. And
Speaker 1: then you've got Selina Gomez coming in is just this
Speaker 1: straight man like, very wry sort of personality that balanced
Speaker 1: it out really well in the trailer. I didn't expect to.
Speaker 1: I had to watch the trailer, but I didn't expect
Speaker 1: to want to watch the show. Now, I I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Like you know, when I think of Steve
Speaker 1: Martin and Martin Short together, my thoughts immediately go to
Speaker 1: the Three Amigos, um but which is great, fantastic, I
Speaker 1: love it. But yeah, as you say, like the performances
Speaker 1: in that film are not at all subtle. They're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be. That's not the kind of movie it is.
Speaker 1: We By the way, fun fact, if you go back
Speaker 1: through our old YouTube videos, there's one of our YouTube
Speaker 1: videos where we heavily reference the Three Amigos when we
Speaker 1: talk about the seven Sons of the Seven Samurai. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm the same way. I wasn't sure what to expect,
Speaker 1: but everyone, like Steve Martin, especially in the past few years,
Speaker 1: has turned in some performances that are much more nuanced
Speaker 1: and subtle. Like he's not the wild and crazy guy
Speaker 1: at the seventies or the zany comedy guy of the eighties. Uh.
Speaker 1: He still has that incredible since the humor, but it's
Speaker 1: channeled in a different way now. Yeah. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: definitely say that he's the more my old of the
Speaker 1: two h Martin's Yes, the Steve Martin short, Yes, Steve
Speaker 1: Martin short Martin Steve Martin Short. Okay, So speaking of
Speaker 1: nuanced performances, Yeah, this is gonna be a fun conversation
Speaker 1: We're about to get into here. Um yeah, we wanted it,
Speaker 1: so we do. Do want to talk about Dear Evan
Speaker 1: Hanson because the trailer for the movie adaptation of the
Speaker 1: Broadway show launched the day we're recording this, which is
Speaker 1: one and it surprised me because despite the fact that
Speaker 1: I'm on a show where we cover entertainment news, I
Speaker 1: wasn't aware that there was a musical version of this
Speaker 1: coming out, Like I had heard that it was happening,
Speaker 1: but it completely fell off my radar because it was
Speaker 1: just the beginning stages last I personally picked up on it. Well.
Speaker 1: It surprised me also that you know, they actually cast
Speaker 1: the actor who played the character of Evan Hanson in
Speaker 1: the Broadway stage show as that character in the film, which,
Speaker 1: on one hand, is a neat thing because you very
Speaker 1: rarely see that, right. We usually see Hollywood actors who
Speaker 1: end up getting cast in these roles and maybe, if
Speaker 1: you're lucky, they can sing. But in this case, we're
Speaker 1: seeing the actual person who originated the part on Broadway
Speaker 1: doing the role on the screen. That doesn't always work out.
Speaker 1: Rent was a disaster, but um, but we're hopeful on
Speaker 1: this one. However, it does bring up an issue that
Speaker 1: the Internet has more than jumped all over Yeah, which
Speaker 1: is the fact that Ben Platt is which you know,
Speaker 1: it's not always an issue in Hollywood. They are constantly
Speaker 1: people being in their Yeah, and we should point out
Speaker 1: Evan Hanson. Dear. Evan Hanson's is a story that's set
Speaker 1: in like mostly in a high school with the main
Speaker 1: character feeling like an outcast at that high school, and
Speaker 1: he has a couple of encounters with a similar outcast
Speaker 1: in that school, and it appears that the two of
Speaker 1: them from the outside like people who are just casually looking.
Speaker 1: It looks like the two of them formed a friendship.
Speaker 1: Then this other person, Connor, takes his own life, and
Speaker 1: that appearance of a friendship becomes uh kind of a
Speaker 1: lie that people just start to believe, and Evan is
Speaker 1: sort of wrapped up in it. Um. The story gets
Speaker 1: much more complicated from there, but the point being that
Speaker 1: you've got an actor in his late twenties playing a teenager,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people started sharing memes, especially of
Speaker 1: the Steve Boussimmi like you know what's up, young people,
Speaker 1: fellow young people that kind of meme as a joke
Speaker 1: about being Evan Hansen. All of the kids are in
Speaker 1: their twenties, so a Lana Back, Zoe Murphy, Connor Murphy,
Speaker 1: Jared Klein. They're all in their twenties between twenty two
Speaker 1: and twenty six. So Ben Platt playing Evan Hanson is
Speaker 1: not so far off, but he looks way older than
Speaker 1: that he does, and so I feel weird about this areal.
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because every film depends upon
Speaker 1: a suspension of disbelief. Right, you have to suspend disbelief
Speaker 1: because you know, this is a movie. People showed up
Speaker 1: to set, there was catering, there were lights, there were
Speaker 1: crew that are not in view if the movie is
Speaker 1: done properly, like I like, like, you know, it's all artifice,
Speaker 1: so you already have to buy into it. Now it
Speaker 1: is asking you more to buy into it. When an
Speaker 1: actor is the wrong age to play a character quote
Speaker 1: unquote wrong age, it's a little easier, I would argue, uh,
Speaker 1: when you go to see a stage production, because then
Speaker 1: you're having to suspend your disbelief even more because you
Speaker 1: can just look around and see that you know, you're
Speaker 1: not really you know wherever um. But I also like
Speaker 1: I get it where like you know, you're you're you're
Speaker 1: feeling a disconnect between the uh, the appearance of an
Speaker 1: actor and the supposed age of the character they're playing.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of shows out there that
Speaker 1: have adults playing children and that's part of the show,
Speaker 1: Like like the annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is that
Speaker 1: way You're a good man, Charlie Brown is that way.
Speaker 1: So I guess it just depends on intent and the
Speaker 1: way it's portrayed. But I'm not feeling a mental block here,
Speaker 1: I guess, is what I'm saying. Me neither. So like
Speaker 1: if you look at the movie Eighth Grade, where they
Speaker 1: used actual eighth graders, if they had used high schoolers
Speaker 1: and then put Ben Platt into that environment, I would
Speaker 1: have felt real creepy about that. But because they've cast
Speaker 1: everyone older, you know, you can kind of just age
Speaker 1: up in your brain. I know that as I get older,
Speaker 1: and I'm not old by any means, but as I
Speaker 1: get older, all of a sudden, people my age look
Speaker 1: younger to me so well, and and I think about
Speaker 1: things like you know, like you said, it's not a
Speaker 1: new thing to cast adults as teenagers. Like the television
Speaker 1: series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, every single one of the
Speaker 1: principal actors, we're playing characters several years younger than themselves,
Speaker 1: sometimes like a decade younger than themselves. So it's not
Speaker 1: an unusual thing. Um, I do get like the initial
Speaker 1: knee jerk reaction, It's not a big deal to me.
Speaker 1: I can get past it. Also, Like I think part
Speaker 1: of It's also that I kind of wanted to see
Speaker 1: Dear Evan Hansen when it was originally running on Broadway.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things where like it's tough
Speaker 1: to see a show with its original cast. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's it's just it's an exclusive thing, right, So this
Speaker 1: is a chance to see the the guy who originated
Speaker 1: the part do it again. And when else am I
Speaker 1: going to get a chance to see that? I agree?
Speaker 1: You know, I think I was going to say they
Speaker 1: could have done it because you run into work issues
Speaker 1: like how much time a kid can be on set
Speaker 1: if they're under eighteen. But I really think they It
Speaker 1: is so that people could see then Platt as Evan Hanson,
Speaker 1: which you know, when I listened to the soundtrack, that's
Speaker 1: who I love singing it. So I'm also quite excited.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not having any hang ups. So he does
Speaker 1: look a little old to me, but I yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. Well, you know what, Ariel, I
Speaker 1: think what we should do is take a break and
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: some interesting mergers that are coming up, and then segue
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Speaker 1: So there are a couple of stories here that get
Speaker 1: into the realm of one of the other shows. We
Speaker 1: used to do Business on the Brink, where we would
Speaker 1: talk about like some big, big, big moments in business
Speaker 1: history that either led to incredible success or monumental failure.
Speaker 1: And we've got a couple of stories that could be
Speaker 1: like a turning point um And one of them is
Speaker 1: that Amazon is rumored to be on the prowl to
Speaker 1: pick up MGM, the one of the oldest movie production
Speaker 1: companies ever, which has had numerous financial difficulties throughout its
Speaker 1: very long history. M hmm, yeah, which, you know, I
Speaker 1: get it. The The interesting thing to me is along
Speaker 1: with MGM comes things like getting the movie Fargo, but
Speaker 1: the Fargo television show is on Hulu, which is owned
Speaker 1: by Disney. But they get like the James Bond series
Speaker 1: that's got to be worth something, Hobbit, Rocky rebotop. I'm
Speaker 1: just reading through the list here, Get Shorty, which it's
Speaker 1: probably not a show a movie that like half our
Speaker 1: audience has ever seen, but I saw it in the theater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's It's really interesting. Um because as these
Speaker 1: big mergers happened, they kind of start overlapping in my brain.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like I so, it feels
Speaker 1: a bit incestuous, and I get I have a hard
Speaker 1: time keeping them all straight. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, merge because I already have Amazon Prime,
Speaker 1: so I'll just open up my options for When I
Speaker 1: think of MGM areal, the two things that come to
Speaker 1: my mind are the original name for Disney Hollywood Studios,
Speaker 1: Disney's MGM Studios, Yes, which I still call it that
Speaker 1: so do I. Which I'm sure it irritates cast members
Speaker 1: like crazy, but you know that it was burned into
Speaker 1: my brain as a kid. But the other thing is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest movies of all time. And I'm
Speaker 1: not this isn't me being like flippant, but Wizard of
Speaker 1: Oz was an MGM film like that is that is
Speaker 1: truly an iconic move. So it's interesting, Like I think,
Speaker 1: I look at MGM as a business and I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's a company that's really that's really struggling. I mean,
Speaker 1: we would call it a business on the brink. And um,
Speaker 1: it's only companies, like massive companies like Amazon that would
Speaker 1: be able to come in and potentially scoop up those
Speaker 1: assets and maybe make something out of it. You know,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect Amazon to just you know, liquidate everything.
Speaker 1: They would do something with it. What they would do
Speaker 1: with it is another question. But you alluded to the
Speaker 1: fact that it's hard to keep these things straight. It's
Speaker 1: not getting any easier because this is not the only
Speaker 1: merger story we have. No Warner Media is apparently being
Speaker 1: sold by A T and T and getting picked up
Speaker 1: by Discovery, which hurts my head a little. Me too.
Speaker 1: I used to work for Discovery, so it hurts my
Speaker 1: head too. Um yeah, so A T and d is
Speaker 1: looking to spin off Warner Media and have it merge
Speaker 1: with Discovery, which is all sorts of strange to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, in some ways, I think it's a good
Speaker 1: thing because a T and D is you know, a
Speaker 1: telecommunications company, so they're in charge of making sure the
Speaker 1: connections exist between different entities, and then Warner Media as
Speaker 1: a content company, and I don't really like it when
Speaker 1: content and delivery are merged together. It's why I really
Speaker 1: don't care for the the Comcast NBCUniversal massive conglomerate, I find,
Speaker 1: because that that's the kind of stuff that ends up
Speaker 1: threatening things like net neutrality. So I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of it. But yeah, so the part about them
Speaker 1: spending off Warner Media in order to focus solely on
Speaker 1: telecommunications and have Warner Media focused solely on content, that
Speaker 1: part was easy for me to understand. It's the merger
Speaker 1: with Discovery that I also find like, that's the one
Speaker 1: where I had the big question mark pop up over
Speaker 1: my head. I you know, I wonder if Discovery was
Speaker 1: on board to get it, because like, so they've got
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus right, and a lot of their content is
Speaker 1: now on there, a lot of the shows that people
Speaker 1: like to watch, you know, like Dr Pimple Popper or
Speaker 1: fix Er Upp or things like that. A lot of
Speaker 1: those shows are now on Discovery Plus because they want
Speaker 1: people buying their their streaming service, but there are just
Speaker 1: too many of them, So I wonder if that's a
Speaker 1: way for them to still maintain a streaming service, not
Speaker 1: admit defeat because I don't know what their numbers are,
Speaker 1: you know, um, but then roll it in under like
Speaker 1: HBO Max HBO Max because which is also hard because
Speaker 1: I get my HBO Max through Hulu, which is owned
Speaker 1: by Disney. Yeah. No, it's it's. I thought the cable
Speaker 1: business was of confusing mishmash, but it was you know,
Speaker 1: streamlined and simple compared to the online streaming world that
Speaker 1: we're in today. Um, yeah, it's it's also it blows
Speaker 1: my mind to think that if things had been a
Speaker 1: little different, I could count Batman as my coworker. That
Speaker 1: that is a pretty cool thought, John. But I haven't
Speaker 1: worked for Discovery for a few years now. Discovery spun
Speaker 1: off How Stuff Works several years ago, or actually sold
Speaker 1: off How Stuff Works several years ago, which then went
Speaker 1: through a whole series of things. And I don't even
Speaker 1: work for how stuff works anymore. Been in the same
Speaker 1: job for fourteen years. It's the bosses that keep changing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you you are constant. Yeah, like steadfast born in
Speaker 1: the side, Yes, but steadfast pillars. Speaking of pillars, one
Speaker 1: of the pillars of comedy, one of the pillars of entertainment. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm grasping at any straw that i can see.
Speaker 1: But one of the pillars of entertainment, particularly in places
Speaker 1: like the UK and America, is the sitcom or situational
Speaker 1: comm Now, Ariel, what was it that that made you
Speaker 1: want to talk about sitcoms today? Uh? Yeah, So sadly
Speaker 1: it looks like we won't have much time to talk
Speaker 1: about it, so this conversation might lead into another week.
Speaker 1: But ABC released trailers for a bunch of its fall lineup,
Speaker 1: and there was there was a drama called Queens, and
Speaker 1: then three sitcoms, one of which we knew about, The
Speaker 1: Wonder Years, which is a remake and it's starring Delay Hill,
Speaker 1: which I love Delay Hill, so I'll watch anything he's
Speaker 1: in um and then Abbott Elementary which is about a school,
Speaker 1: and then Maggie, which is a comedy about a psychic
Speaker 1: and I pulled up the article to watch the trailer
Speaker 1: about Wonder Years because I loved the original and I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about this remake. I love I love how
Speaker 1: certain certain comedy, certain situational things are and sometimes hate
Speaker 1: to our are a part of the basic human conditions.
Speaker 1: So no matter when you look at them throughout your history,
Speaker 1: that they remain relevant. You know, there are some some
Speaker 1: things that remain relevant that I wish wouldn't, for instance,
Speaker 1: when they redid All in the Family and Jeffers since
Speaker 1: there's certain social topics that I wish we're not still
Speaker 1: relevant that sadly are. But you know, a lot of comedy,
Speaker 1: a lot of family those the particulars might change, but
Speaker 1: the overall feeling of them stays the same. And so
Speaker 1: you can make remake something like Wonder Years, have it
Speaker 1: been new and have it still hit all of the
Speaker 1: same old fields, which is what I'm hoping for. There
Speaker 1: are certain sitcoms and certain shows that I think fall
Speaker 1: into the comedy range. They maybe don't fall into the
Speaker 1: classic sitcom category like I wouldn't. I wouldn't think Wonder
Speaker 1: Years falls into sitcom, but it is more comedic than
Speaker 1: anything else. It's more of a kind of a drama
Speaker 1: series in a way. Um situations like like Doogie Howser
Speaker 1: is another one. That's another one that has the remake, right,
Speaker 1: so uh full House, you know, full House is like,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have so much more to talk about with
Speaker 1: full House in a minute. It had a sequel, Fuller House. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but yeah, there are other there other like sitcoms
Speaker 1: I think of from my childhood. Now. I grew up
Speaker 1: in the seventies and eighties, so a lot of the
Speaker 1: sitcoms I remember are not good. Some of them are
Speaker 1: like Golden Girls, pretty good sitcom. Designing Women was frequently
Speaker 1: a pretty good sitcom. Um, but there are others that,
Speaker 1: you know, we're varying degrees of corny or just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, not not particularly relevant, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: Perfect Strangers, not not so much. I love Perfect I
Speaker 1: did at the time, but I have things to say
Speaker 1: about that that I'll tell you off Mike. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I did rewatch it recently. It doesn't quite hold up
Speaker 1: as well as or like here's here's an example of
Speaker 1: one that totally like would not fly today for good reason,
Speaker 1: Bosom Buddies that would not fly. So if you don't
Speaker 1: know what Bosom Buddy says. It was a Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: was in it. It was a a comedy in which
Speaker 1: a couple of guys dressed in drag in order to
Speaker 1: be able to live in a um housing area that
Speaker 1: only would allow women. And um, yeah, so you had
Speaker 1: a lot of jokes about men dressed up as women
Speaker 1: and that just would not like that. That humor doesn't
Speaker 1: work today at all. Um. I arguably it didn't work
Speaker 1: so great then either, But you know, you get by
Speaker 1: a long way on Tom Hanks's charm. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. So are there any Are there any sitcoms
Speaker 1: that you can think of that you would love to
Speaker 1: see a reboot of that you think could I mean,
Speaker 1: we know we're getting some like Punky Brewster. It's another
Speaker 1: one that's coming back. But see the reboot of Punky Brewster. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not a reboot, it's a sequel. Um. It feels
Speaker 1: like it's banking heavily on this algia, which is not
Speaker 1: always a bad thing, but um, it felt it felt
Speaker 1: a little too force for me. You know, I talked
Speaker 1: about this in a previous episode, But I would love
Speaker 1: to see Family Matters reboot. Um, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they could, Like, I don't know if anybody could replace
Speaker 1: Julia White and Steve Urkel, and now that geek is
Speaker 1: being a geek is so much more mainstream. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it would play, Um, but I'd be interested
Speaker 1: to see it. Um Yeah, Perfect Strangers, although I can
Speaker 1: guarantee that's probably because I haven't watched most of it
Speaker 1: in a long time. Um. That one's tricky because so
Speaker 1: much of the humor is all about fish out of water,
Speaker 1: and the the exaggeration of foreign nous makes it hard
Speaker 1: to do in a way that doesn't feel like it's
Speaker 1: playing upon almost racist stereotypes. Yeah. Yeah, but like I've
Speaker 1: been really I've been watching through Blackish, which actually just
Speaker 1: got announced it's going to be in its final season.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's already in or if it's
Speaker 1: going to be, but they did a take on Good
Speaker 1: Times in one of their episodes, and so I feel like,
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes you can rebooted concept without having
Speaker 1: to do an exact reboot of a show. I think
Speaker 1: black is just a great example. I really enjoy that. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Abbott Elementary. I'm sure there have been other
Speaker 1: sitcoms about Elementary schools that that it's a reboot of
Speaker 1: maybe like Saved by the Bell, although it's more focused
Speaker 1: on teachers. But well, I'll tell you which one. What
Speaker 1: classic sitcom from my childhood I want to see rebooted? Sure,
Speaker 1: I bet you can tell already. This is going to
Speaker 1: be a flippant answer. Silver Spoons, I know I've seen it,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember. Here we are face to face
Speaker 1: a couple of silver Spoons, hoping to find we're two
Speaker 1: of a kind, making a go, making it grow together.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find a way. Um yeah, no, So Silver
Speaker 1: Spoons had had Rick then Ricky Schroeder as a a
Speaker 1: very serious young man coming to live with his father
Speaker 1: who is essentially a man child who's extremely wealthy. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the story of the father who
Speaker 1: is largely irresponsible and and living in a state of
Speaker 1: arrested development bringing the child out of his son and
Speaker 1: his son kind of encouraging the dad to be more um,
Speaker 1: you know, responsible and mature. But that's like from a
Speaker 1: very high level on an episode by episode basis, it
Speaker 1: was just an excuse for goofy things to happen by
Speaker 1: wealthy people. Okay, I mean, but can you imagine Let's
Speaker 1: let's say let's say like the dad is obsessed with Instagram,
Speaker 1: like he's obsessed with being an Instagram influencer, and the
Speaker 1: kid it is like a much more kind of focused
Speaker 1: kind of person. Like you could you could easily update
Speaker 1: that concept to today and it would still work, isn't
Speaker 1: it kind of like Young Sheldon at that point. I've
Speaker 1: never watched Young Sheldon, so it's very possible. Uh So
Speaker 1: I've got it. I've got the perfect sitcom to reboot.
Speaker 1: What's that? I knew you're gonna say alf. I knew
Speaker 1: you're gonna say alf. I mean, just think about like
Speaker 1: it was funny. It was a little a reference, which
Speaker 1: we know you like because you like always sending a
Speaker 1: Philadelphia I don't I sometimes do um, you know, but
Speaker 1: it could be done on such a higher level now.
Speaker 1: I think what you do is you do a new
Speaker 1: version of alf same puppet, so you don't update the
Speaker 1: puppet at all. And in this version of alf everyone
Speaker 1: else in the family is aware that Alfh is a
Speaker 1: puppet and can see the puppeteer, but they they're scared
Speaker 1: for their lives of the puppeteer, and so they humor
Speaker 1: the puppeteer and treat Alf as if he is in
Speaker 1: fact an alien. I want to watch that so very well.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm all about taking things from our past
Speaker 1: and turning them dark, which is a great way for
Speaker 1: us to tease what's going to happen after we come
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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt depressed about work only to have
Speaker 1: your dad be like, why you're so down? So you
Speaker 1: told him you hate your job, and he said, well,
Speaker 1: you better talk yourself out of it. And then you thought, hmm,
Speaker 1: I love to talk. I could host a podcast. And
Speaker 1: then you went to Speaker from my Heart and started
Speaker 1: a podcast and got good at it, then monetize it,
Speaker 1: then quit your boring job and told your dad thanks
Speaker 1: for the advice. And he was like, well, that's not
Speaker 1: what I mean, and I don't understand what a podcast is,
Speaker 1: but you seem happy. That's great, kiddo. You ever do that? Well,
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Speaker 1: ariel uh. Let's talk for a second now that we're back,
Speaker 1: Let's talk for a second about monsters at work, because
Speaker 1: that serves as one of the two inspirational points for
Speaker 1: our mesh up today. Yeah. So the first inspirational point
Speaker 1: is full House um or fuller House in Jonathan's case,
Speaker 1: because we are inspired by sitcoms. But there was also
Speaker 1: news that Disney Plus is making a Monsters at Work
Speaker 1: TV show that is a sequel to Monsters, Inc. And
Speaker 1: I guess by that account, Monsters University, Monsters You, that's
Speaker 1: a prequel. It's fantastic by the way, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's unnecessary. It's totally unnecessary. It's a prequel that doesn't
Speaker 1: need to exist, but it is. It is legitimately entertaining
Speaker 1: and adorable. Mm hm, well, so is Monsters Inc. And
Speaker 1: so I therefore think that Monsters at Work will also
Speaker 1: be adorable. Uh. But you know, when I was looking
Speaker 1: at I'm like, okay, sitcoms full House just is ripe
Speaker 1: for mashup. Yeah. Uh, And I don't know why. It's
Speaker 1: just like there was no question in my mind that
Speaker 1: we needed to mash it up with Monsters Inc. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I think both of our mashups got a little bit
Speaker 1: more adult than maybe initially anticipated going into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and by adult you mean dark and or disturbing and
Speaker 1: or bleak. I mean mine's not super dark or disturbing.
Speaker 1: It has a moment, but so does Full House. Like
Speaker 1: both full House and Fuller House start on a sad
Speaker 1: note and then get happy. So that's where mine is
Speaker 1: since yours is apparently soul crushed, really depressing, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you go first this time, Okay, all right, well,
Speaker 1: um so yes, I did set Mine in the world
Speaker 1: of Fuller House. So for those who are not you know,
Speaker 1: havn't ever watched it, first of all, thank you're lucky stars.
Speaker 1: But it is a sequel to Full House in which
Speaker 1: the character of Dj Tanner, one of the daughters of
Speaker 1: the the in the original Full House season. She's a
Speaker 1: grown woman. She's as the series opens, she has recently
Speaker 1: lost her husband. She has three kids. Her younger sister,
Speaker 1: Stephanie comes to live with her, as does her childhood
Speaker 1: friend Kimmy Gibbler, and they all are working together to
Speaker 1: try and you know, look after the kids and just
Speaker 1: make it in a world that's tough and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So um Mine is set in the world of Fuller House,
Speaker 1: um and the world of monsters in so here we go.
Speaker 1: DJ Tanner has a problem. She's a widow and they're
Speaker 1: with three children, who now also has her younger sister,
Speaker 1: Stephanie living in her house. And there's Kimmy Gibbler, who,
Speaker 1: for reasons I'm only vaguely aware of, has also moved
Speaker 1: into the Tanner family home with her own daughter. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the real problem DJ has isn't with all of this.
Speaker 1: It's that there's a monster under her bed. Not that
Speaker 1: DJ knows this though, but the monster is lurking quietly,
Speaker 1: just hiding there, because, as it turns out, the Tanner
Speaker 1: home is the secret to Monstropolis's energy crisis. Cut to
Speaker 1: title fuller Monsters Flash Monstropolis. The city has grown exponentially
Speaker 1: since the events of Monsters Inc. Becoming a mega metropolis
Speaker 1: that covers most of the Monster World buildings more than
Speaker 1: a hundred stories tall tower in the incredibly dense hacked
Speaker 1: urban area. Though occasionally huge monsters do give the buildings
Speaker 1: a run for their money, and the monsters on the
Speaker 1: laft floor at the Monster's Ink Factory are close to
Speaker 1: burning out. Even with the incredible juice supplied by laughter,
Speaker 1: which is orders of magnitude greater than screams, they are
Speaker 1: running dangerously close to not meeting the energy needs of
Speaker 1: the growing city. The Monster World is on the precipice
Speaker 1: of a true crisis. That is, until Mike Wazowski, already
Speaker 1: a legend, tries a door that hasn't ever been opened.
Speaker 1: That door leads to the Tanner Home in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It was always there, ready to be used, but for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, simply was never picked. Wazowski goes through a
Speaker 1: process of trying lots of doors in quick succession, trying
Speaker 1: to find a solution to his growing problem. Just as
Speaker 1: he's about to give up, he sneaks into the Tanner
Speaker 1: home and Wazowski slips under DJ's bed on a reconnaissance mission,
Speaker 1: and there he discovers something phenomenal. Laughter and endless supply
Speaker 1: of laughter. Not from the Tanner family or their surrounding
Speaker 1: sphere of weirdo friends. No, it's from some other source,
Speaker 1: some source that the Tanners seem unaware of. But Wazowski
Speaker 1: hears it loud and clear. Whenever anyone says anything, even
Speaker 1: if it doesn't remotely resemble a joke, there's laughter, lots
Speaker 1: of it. Wazowski can collect enough power in half an
Speaker 1: hour to power all of Monstropolis for a week, and
Speaker 1: so Wazowski makes his way into the Tanner Home on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. He doesn't even have to do anything
Speaker 1: at all. Sometimes a guy will just say have mercy
Speaker 1: in a way that you know, you can tell it's
Speaker 1: a reference to something, but there's not really any oof
Speaker 1: behind it anymore. But for some reason, the unse audience
Speaker 1: laughs at it, or Stephanie will say how rude and
Speaker 1: boom laughter, or heck DJ will say, oh, my lantern,
Speaker 1: there's a ridiculous amount of laughter. Monstropolis's energy problems are solved,
Speaker 1: but there's a cost. Day after day was Zowski sits
Speaker 1: under that bed, doing nothing but just being there to
Speaker 1: help harvest the energy from the studio audience laughter. He
Speaker 1: becomes despondent. He the great Mike Wazowski, the monster known
Speaker 1: for doing anything for the sake of a laugh, the
Speaker 1: master of gags and jokes. He was being overshadowed by
Speaker 1: meaningless quotes and the occasional terrible musical number. He had
Speaker 1: put so much work into his craft, creating a real
Speaker 1: approach to comedy that would elicit after. But here was
Speaker 1: this weird family and even weirder friends who were making
Speaker 1: it all happen without even trying. Hack at a little
Speaker 1: like no one was even willing to try, and why
Speaker 1: would they There was no need to try. The laughs
Speaker 1: would come even without the effort. Day after day, was
Speaker 1: Zowski slips further into a deep depression, even as he
Speaker 1: is surrounded by laughter. At home, people treat him as
Speaker 1: a hero. Monstropolis continues to grow unabated. It gets larger
Speaker 1: and more dense and more hungry for energy, and was
Speaker 1: Zowski supplies it. But every day another little part of
Speaker 1: him dies inside. Every day he hides under that bed,
Speaker 1: not even paying attention to what's going on in the
Speaker 1: house anymore. The laughs come one way or another, and
Speaker 1: nothing was Zowski does has any effect on it. He's
Speaker 1: just there to channel the energy back home, slipping deeper
Speaker 1: into depression and on we the world appears to be
Speaker 1: black and white for Mike Wazowski. Laughter has lost all meaning.
Speaker 1: There's no difference between a joke and a reference. There's
Speaker 1: no difference between a reference and just a random line
Speaker 1: of dialogue between two people. It all brings in the same,
Speaker 1: almost robotic laughter. Flash forward ten years. Monstropolis is a
Speaker 1: nightmare city. You can't even see the sun. The buildings
Speaker 1: stretch up so high and block out the light. The
Speaker 1: streets are lit with garish neon and bright incandescent bulbs.
Speaker 1: Loud music spills out from buildings onto the streets. Monsters
Speaker 1: are all on their phones and computers and other energy
Speaker 1: hungry devices. There's a new craze in the monster world,
Speaker 1: crypto zoology currency, which Wazowski doesn't really understand, but he
Speaker 1: does know it requires a huge amount of energy to work.
Speaker 1: Wazowski himself is a shell of who he wants us.
Speaker 1: His colleagues have all retired. Why work at the monster
Speaker 1: in factory anyway? Was Wazowski is collecting more energy than
Speaker 1: anyone needs. Wazowski's own fame has faded from the minds
Speaker 1: of the monsters. He's taken for granted and the backs
Speaker 1: of their minds. The monsters know that without Wazowski's work
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have their energy, but it's just a given now. Wazowski,
Speaker 1: now a sickly shade of his once vibrant green, puts
Speaker 1: his hand on the door knob to the Tanner home.
Speaker 1: He closes his one eye in despair. A single tear
Speaker 1: runs down the left side of his eye. He pauses
Speaker 1: for a moment, staring at his hand on that door knob.
Speaker 1: We see a close up of that hand. It begins
Speaker 1: to move, but is it turning the knob or letting go?
Speaker 1: We'd oh no. The screen goes black and we cut
Speaker 1: to the credit directed by Lars von Trier. The end, Wow,
Speaker 1: I told you, I told you was bleak. It is
Speaker 1: bleak um and oddly a lot closer to my mashup
Speaker 1: than I thought it was gonna be okay. So I
Speaker 1: might have I might have put an awful lot of
Speaker 1: commentary on my opinions about Fuller House in that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say salty much, but then you brought
Speaker 1: it back from your ranch into a sad, depressing drama series. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna glass half full, your glass half empty.
Speaker 1: So this is called Uncle Sully and the Screamers. It's
Speaker 1: and Mary Gibbs, formerly known as Boo, is moving back
Speaker 1: to her childhood home. Her husband has perished in a
Speaker 1: car fire because heaven forbid Disney how more than one
Speaker 1: alive parent, and she is struggling to take care of
Speaker 1: for three children Donna, Boo, I, e dB Sullivan, and
Speaker 1: Mike Ella. And she is also struggling to hold on
Speaker 1: to her job as a TV producer and pay her
Speaker 1: mortgage at the same time. Meanwhile, Mike and Sully are
Speaker 1: hard at work on the laughing floor of Monstropolis. It's
Speaker 1: been harder and harder to generate enough laughs to power
Speaker 1: Monstropolis over the years, as children have to become more cynical,
Speaker 1: and Mike and Sully are getting worn out trying to
Speaker 1: meet the demand. Over lunch, one day, they are reminiscing
Speaker 1: of when they first discovered the power of laughter, how
Speaker 1: easy it all seemed back then, and how much they
Speaker 1: missed Boo. As they cleaned up their lunch trades, they
Speaker 1: got a warning light and rushed back to their office
Speaker 1: to see what was going on. The warning light was
Speaker 1: attached to Booze door, but that door hadn't been active
Speaker 1: for years. They quickly rushed to the door and turned
Speaker 1: on a monitor to check out what was happening on
Speaker 1: the other side, just to see a sad, stressed out
Speaker 1: adult Boo. Mike immediately insists that they should go visit her.
Speaker 1: They were just talking about her, so it must be
Speaker 1: a sign. Sully, however, is hesitant, afraid that as an adult,
Speaker 1: she won't remember or believe in them, and that would
Speaker 1: break his heart. However, Mike, through some loony tune level
Speaker 1: rabbit season duck season antics, get Sully to go through
Speaker 1: the door, and when they get to the other side,
Speaker 1: not only does Boo recognize them, but so do her children.
Speaker 1: It turns out she told her kids stories about the
Speaker 1: monsters duo, and the reunion is happy. The kids love
Speaker 1: love Mike and Sully, and with their help, Mary is
Speaker 1: able to catch up on some much needed chores and work,
Speaker 1: and for a week everyone is blissfully happy. Hijen Sin Sue,
Speaker 1: and for a time the three forget their worries, enveloped
Speaker 1: in love and laughter. But at the end of a
Speaker 1: wonderful week of Sually yelling watch the hair and Mike
Speaker 1: saying cut it out to the kids, the two monsters
Speaker 1: realize that they need to return home. Monstropolis is counting
Speaker 1: on them. The kids all say a tearful farewell, and
Speaker 1: Mike and Sully go back through Booze door. However, when
Speaker 1: they get to the other side, they find out that
Speaker 1: they had forgotten to turn off the monitor to whose
Speaker 1: house and while they were away. The feed was so
Speaker 1: hilarious and popular that it caught syndication and was broadcast
Speaker 1: to monsters and people all over the world. It had
Speaker 1: become a hit, and so many people were laughing that
Speaker 1: it was powering the whole town one hundred times over.
Speaker 1: Mike and Sully rushed back to tell Mary the news
Speaker 1: and decided to move in with her. That way, Monstropolis
Speaker 1: would get its power, Mary would get her help, and
Speaker 1: the Hodgepodge family would live happily ever after. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Once they move in, Mike starts a spinoff show called
Speaker 1: Ranger Mike where he has a puppet sidekicks spider thing
Speaker 1: let's call it a spider called Mr. Waternoos, and Sully
Speaker 1: annacs lifelong dream of being a rockabilly singer with a
Speaker 1: great hair and starts the band Sully and the Screamers.
Speaker 1: Very very cute. I'm glad that yours didn't go to
Speaker 1: Lauras von Cheer territory. No No. I debated, by the way,
Speaker 1: I debated when I got to the end of mine,
Speaker 1: whether the director of my piece was going to be
Speaker 1: Lauras von Trier or were Hurts hurt Zog and uh
Speaker 1: Lars von Trier one out. Either way, I feel like
Speaker 1: there is kind of an existential dread in mind. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was this was weird aerial because you know, obviously
Speaker 1: like the two properties that we picked, uh, neither of
Speaker 1: which are are dark or like, you know, monsters inc
Speaker 1: has some moments that might be a little, yeah, a
Speaker 1: little scary. For like, the whole premise is that the
Speaker 1: monsters are trying to scare kids, right, But but they're
Speaker 1: not dark. They're they're very fun, uplifting kind of things.
Speaker 1: I mean, mileage may very for Full our House, but
Speaker 1: it is interesting that we both kind of took it
Speaker 1: to that place. I think that just tells us that
Speaker 1: when we do these creative endeavors where we try to
Speaker 1: tweak something that we're familiar with, we don't want to
Speaker 1: just repeat the stuff that's there, or you know, or
Speaker 1: just crank up the dial a couple of notches too,
Speaker 1: and you know, intensify whatever was there. We want to
Speaker 1: transform it. And I think we did that to I
Speaker 1: think we did some good work. I think so too.
Speaker 1: I also think that when you take to comedic enterprises
Speaker 1: and you smush them together, uh, it brings out the
Speaker 1: genuine heartfeltness or sadness. Yeah, there was, there was a deep,
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