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Speaker 1: Warning, Today's episode contains kind of contains spoilers for Blue

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Speaker 1: Eyed Samurai. Hello, my name is Jason Exceptio and I'm

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Speaker 1: Rosy Night, and welcome back to x Ray Vision of

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Speaker 1: podcast where we dive deep to your favorite shows, movies,

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Speaker 1: comics and pop culture. Coming to you from my Heart podcast,

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Speaker 1: where we're bringing you two episodes week every Tuesday and Thursday.

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Speaker 2: In today's episode.

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Speaker 3: In the previously on, we're talking about that stunningly impressive

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Speaker 3: Alien Romulus box office in space. Everyone can hear you

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Speaker 3: make money apparently because it's making money. We're talking Archie

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Speaker 3: comics and a new superhero take that they're bringing out,

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Speaker 3: and the controversy and slowly unfolded revelations around X Men

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Speaker 3: ninety seven show runner Bodomeo. And in a wonderful interview,

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Speaker 3: Jason will be chatting to the Blue Eye Samurai create

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Speaker 3: as Amba Nazumi and Michael Green Up next.

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Speaker 1: Previously on, First Up on News. Alien Romulus box office

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Speaker 1: numbers are in Oh baby, folks, it is a hit.

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Speaker 1: Forty one and a half million domestically, sixty six point

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Speaker 1: seven million internationally, a total of one hundred and eight

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Speaker 1: million plus globally. Wows Part of the secret sauce, of course,

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Speaker 1: is does the movie open in China. It opened in

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Speaker 1: China twenty five point seven million in China, and folks,

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Speaker 1: big hit Alien Romulus.

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Speaker 2: This is just unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Smash it full overseas debut on twentieth Century Studios. Slash

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Speaker 3: Disney's Alien Romulus is forty seven percent ahead of A

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Speaker 3: Quiet Place Day one Hello, which I feel like everyone

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Speaker 3: was like, this is.

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Speaker 2: A good hit.

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Speaker 3: Also seventeen percent above the controversial but now kind of

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Speaker 3: in hindsight, loved Prometheus in like for like markets, So

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying movie is great. Enjoyed the movie, love

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Speaker 3: to see the good box office numbers. I also have

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Speaker 3: to say, sure, it is also a Disney movie, so

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Speaker 3: you know, but Disney kind of went low on the

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Speaker 3: marketing with this one. I think there was not a

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Speaker 3: like Deadpool, So I think it's kind of crazy that

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Speaker 3: this overtook Deadpool in just like a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, but I like to see it. It's

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Speaker 2: like we said, you can always bet on horror.

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Speaker 1: Yes you can.

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Speaker 3: That's what we're finding at the box office, and we're

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Speaker 3: gonna be talking about a lot more horror as we get

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Speaker 3: into spooky season.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Archie Comics, the home to the Archie line

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Speaker 1: of comics, but also back in the day, way way

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Speaker 1: way back, a line of superhero comics and a variety

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Speaker 1: of other comic book stories, is getting back into the

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Speaker 1: superheroes with Rarioru miniseries. That quote blends a metaitextual examination

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Speaker 1: of Archie comics history with superheroes and the Golden Age

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Speaker 1: of comics with a new story of Archie himself coming

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Speaker 1: into Powers Unknown and becoming the world's mightiest hero. First

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Speaker 1: release is November twentieth.

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Speaker 2: Rosie series is called Archie Is Mister Justice. I feel

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Speaker 2: like the titles a little bit longer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think Mister Justice could have been cool, but

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that might be part of the metatextual nature

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Speaker 3: all the conversation around it is essentially Archie is like

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Speaker 3: a good guy. And Mike Norton, who's going to be

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Speaker 3: the artist on the first issue, he basically said that

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Speaker 3: is really what this is about, Like, what is it

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Speaker 3: like to be an incorruptible soul in like a corrupt world, Like,

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Speaker 3: what will we see Archie get into.

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Speaker 2: I'm interested. I'm a lover of the.

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Speaker 3: Weird Riverdale esque, you know, the horror Archie style stuff,

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Speaker 3: so this is very interesting to me.

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Speaker 2: They've definitely been trying a lot of stuff out.

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Speaker 3: There was recently an Archie one shot that was like

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Speaker 1: And finally, former X Men ninety seven showrunner bo DeMeo

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Speaker 1: causing Disney to fire back. Just a sad situational.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling for the people who were impacted by this

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Speaker 2: It kind of looked like they were backing him.

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Speaker 3: Like Disney did make some weird choices here, like Barad

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Speaker 3: Winderborm came out and said what good work BO had

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Speaker 3: he left. But yeah, it's it's not ideal. You hate

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure this will not be the last we

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Speaker 3: hear of this, because bo also has a very aggressive

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Speaker 1: I'm not a legal person, but it felt a lot.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't feel Yeah, it doesn't feel like a statement

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure this is not the last we've heard

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Speaker 1: That's right. Well, coming up next, we're stepping out of

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Speaker 1: their lock and talking to Blue Eyed Samurai creators Amber

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Speaker 1: Noi Zuomi and Michael Green. We're so delighted to welcome

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Speaker 1: Amber Noi Zuomi and Michael Green, the co creators of

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Speaker 1: Blue Eyed Samurai on Netflix. Welcome to the show, and

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Speaker 4: Us, Thank you for having me, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the latest news first. So season two

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Speaker 1: expected not until twenty twenty six. I am of the

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Speaker 1: opinion that good things are worth waiting for, and that

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Speaker 1: excellent things, which truly, truly, truly Bloyd Samurai is so good,

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Speaker 1: so excellent, excellent things are really worth waiting for. Explain

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Speaker 1: to our audience, who I'm sure are ravenous for the

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Speaker 1: new season. Why making something as good as this takes time?

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Speaker 5: Sort of like ordering the souflet. It says on the menu, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: to take forty minutes, So if you want it, order

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Speaker 5: it early. Yeah. But right now we're on schedule. Because

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Speaker 5: there was some some uh, there was different information going up.

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Speaker 5: We can confirm November twenty twenty six is when we

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Speaker 6: We're we are on track to deliver it then. And

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Speaker 6: I mean, look, we could you know, we could do

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Speaker 6: really rinkaging animation and get it phone these scripts in

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Speaker 6: get it, get it yeah, in six months.

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Speaker 7: But you know, these things take time.

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Speaker 6: We have our artists who diligently, you know, research everything

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Speaker 6: you know, we're we're trying our best to write scripts

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Speaker 5: And you know, but you know, the whole show, it

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Speaker 5: really just goes back to how we made it in

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Speaker 5: you know, our animation studio is Blue Spirit. They're wonderful,

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Speaker 5: And there are plenty of shows that are amazing. I'm

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Speaker 5: not denigrating to anyone's pipeline, but we chose something that

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Speaker 5: just takes a bit more time. So first season was

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Speaker 5: definitely a fluffy sou flet. And right now we are

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Speaker 5: beating the egg whites and a little pinch of tartar,

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Speaker 5: cream of tartar, and uh maybe truffles, little truffles, truffle

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Speaker 5: season truffle pig. We literally just confirmed with our team

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Speaker 1: You've spoken about in previous interviews. The genesis of the

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Speaker 1: that has become Blue Eid. Samurai is wondering if you

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Speaker 1: could expound on that for our audience. This is inspired

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Speaker 7: That's that's a good question.

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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I mean it started out as actually

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Speaker 6: about that? And those conflicting feelings I think so many

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Speaker 7: Where you want to be more of this or more that.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean, look, we turned that into a

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Speaker 6: But maybe she you know, starts to embrace parts of

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Speaker 1: whole conversation around diversity. It feels like sometimes like you're

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Speaker 1: it's so authentic to its characters and their journey and

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Speaker 1: everything else is there, all the themes, the very real

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Speaker 1: experiences of being a multi racial slash agent character that

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Speaker 1: feels out of place. It's all right there if you

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Speaker 1: want to engage with it. But it's also just like

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Speaker 1: a ripping story that's wonderfully told and looks so good.

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Speaker 1: Balance How did you balance all of that stuff, that

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think with our story, it just you know,

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Speaker 5: when we first meet her, you know, because how much

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Speaker 5: are we trying to hide the ball? Will the trailer

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Speaker 5: give it away anyway? So why are we you know,

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Speaker 5: how arc the circles under her eyes, like how pink

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Speaker 5: the edge of her nose because we know she's been

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Speaker 5: out in the cold wardrobe? How it came into play

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Speaker 5: and always our team very conscious of how it'll be

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Speaker 5: animated over time so that it's they to the integrity

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Speaker 5: of its day. But we have a lot of characters

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Speaker 5: and all the love went into all of them. We're

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Speaker 5: now designing characters for season two a lot of new

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Speaker 5: a lot of new people to meet. It's a really

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the art style is magnificent. It's so immersive and

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Speaker 1: so fluid, you know, the the from the action scenes

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Speaker 1: to the cooking scenes, everything moves in this really like liquid,

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Speaker 1: wonderfully inspiring style. You know, what was how do you

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Speaker 1: design stuff like that? Like the action scenes I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: in particular, are so stylized and graphic and edible. How

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Speaker 1: long does it take to kind of pin down that?

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Speaker 5: I mean we've talked about it the action and other interviews.

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Speaker 4: We haven't talked as much about like the food stuff.

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Speaker 1: The food stuff is so good.

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Speaker 5: Starving for so but no, I mean we wrote it

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Speaker 5: into the drafts that there were slow mo close ups

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Speaker 5: of Soba making process, like in the opening episode, and

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Speaker 5: you know, something that had to be cultivated and we

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Speaker 5: all worked at but took getting right and it is

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Speaker 5: one of those things that shakes out very easily, similarly

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Speaker 5: like language shots of walking through nature. I mean, you

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Speaker 5: know there's a shot that we scripted that was animated

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Speaker 5: beautifully about like the frozen leaves. You know, just slowly

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Speaker 5: swishing and sounding like wind chimes when the ice tinkles in,

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Speaker 5: and you know, you just you have to make sure

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Speaker 5: you save the resources to get that because it's very

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Speaker 5: easy to want to cut it because it's not story,

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Speaker 5: but it's feeling right, So you know, it comes from

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Speaker 5: having it in script, having a team that gets that

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Speaker 5: stuff and values it too, and then just making making

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Speaker 5: space for Michael and I went.

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Speaker 6: And took a soba making class in Japan, so we

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Speaker 6: really had that feeling. Our biggest regret was that we

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Speaker 6: couldn't take our whole team to Japan for a research trip.

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Speaker 5: But maybe one day, maybe COVID, but yeah, you know,

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Speaker 5: just just we wanted the pace of the show to

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Speaker 5: allow moments of breath, moments of just experiential feeling. And

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Speaker 5: that also came down to, like, you know, the way

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Speaker 5: it's colored, the way the effects come in, little dust

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Speaker 5: motes or little bits of flower floating through the air.

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Speaker 5: And then sound, our sound team led by you know,

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Speaker 5: they're up for an Emmy for a reason, Like they

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Speaker 5: really created the soundscape where it was experiential and hopefully transportive.

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Speaker 1: The show comes out and becomes a word of mouth hit,

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Speaker 1: a critical hit, obviously multiple Immy nominations. What's what's that been? Like?

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Speaker 7: I mean, very very exciting.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's I feel like we didn't know we

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Speaker 6: were exactly a hit. Like it's kind of a it's

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Speaker 6: not like you get the big numbers like I think,

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Speaker 6: like you used to get these, you know, it's.

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Speaker 5: Not like you know Wednesday where it's like one trillion

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Speaker 5: people for more.

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Speaker 6: So I think we would just slowly start to hear

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Speaker 6: from people and like, oh you watch that, and I

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Speaker 6: think people are still discovering it, which was just exciting.

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Speaker 5: But it's you know, so many people trusted us in

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Speaker 5: making the show and gave their talent and time.

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Speaker 4: For so long. It's so great to just be able

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Speaker 4: to say, like it was you know that it was

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Speaker 4: worth it.

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Speaker 5: You know that Netflix trusted us with with resources, with

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Speaker 5: making an original. Uh you know, hopefully it means that

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Speaker 5: they'll now keep betting on originals. So for us, there

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Speaker 5: was a lot of relief of like, after a lot

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Speaker 5: of trust.

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Speaker 4: To be able to go, okay, you aren't.

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Speaker 5: That's good, Thank goodness, because you know, on paper the

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Speaker 5: idea is nuts.

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Speaker 1: Agreed. I think from a from a certain from a

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Speaker 1: certain executive position. Certainly it feels nuts. I will say,

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Speaker 1: you know, as a person who watches too much TV

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Speaker 1: and too many movies, no such thing, no such something

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Speaker 1: something like this that comes, you know, I'd read a

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Speaker 1: couple of trade pieces about it, but that comes it

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Speaker 1: basically out of nowhere and is so good that you

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Speaker 1: can't believe it is. It's really a joy. So congratulations

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Speaker 1: to both you and really what is a magnificent season

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Speaker 1: of television. We eagerly await season two. Amber Noiszumi and

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Speaker 1: Michael Green. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I really appreciate talking to you.

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Speaker 1: On the next episode of X ray Vision, we're diving

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Speaker 1: into reactions to an alien Romulus, including a very special

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Speaker 1: interview with a wo who plays Novarro. That's it for

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Speaker 1: this episode. Thanks for listening. X ray Vision is hosted

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Speaker 1: by Jason kenspcion and Rosie Knight and is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeart Podcasts. Our executive producers are Joelle Smith and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Kaufman. Our supervising producer is a Boo Zafar. Our

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Speaker 1: producers are Carmen Laurent and Mia Taylor. Our theme song

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Speaker 1: is by Brian Basquez.

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Speaker 3: Special thanks to Soul Rubin and Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman

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Speaker 3: and Heidi A disco moderata