November 25, 2021 • 34 mins
It's Thanksgiving, and Jonathan and Ariel are super thankful for you. This week they chat about some news and jump straight into a mashup that's Legend...wait for it....dary.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast is a production of my
Heart Radio. Hi everybody, welcome to the large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how I'm very excited we
are about them. I'm Ariel casting, and with me is
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the I don't know. I don't have a good subtitle
for him this time, So just you know, the awesome
Jonathan Strickland. I'm here with a corny copeia of geeky news.
There you go. I gifted all of my creativity to
you for that. It was a generous gift, and in return,
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I have a gift for you, Ariel. It's a question, Okay.
So we are in the thankful season here in the
United States, and so my question to you is, what
is something geeky for which you are thankful? Oh, this
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is one of the ones you should have given me
a UM heads up on, Jonathan, just because I am
thankful for so many geeky things. Well, that should make
it easy. You just pick one. Okay, Yeah, but you
know what's the worst thing for me? Decision making? Uh? Now,
I think I think this year specifically, Um, I'm just
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really thankful that I was able to spend an early
Thanksgiving with my family, and that I'll be able to
spend Thanksgiving proper with a bunch of my geeky friends
playing geeky games. You know, we didn't get to do
that last year. They're all vaccinated, they're all being super careful.
We're you know, we we put kind of rules in
place so that this would be a safe gathering. But um,
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I'm just excited to see all these faces and I
haven't seen in a good while. Um, So that's what
I'm most thankful for. Uh. I guess secondly would just
be um that we're finally getting new geek media back,
so I'm not watching reruns of everything, although I do
like watching reruns what about You. I was gonna say
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I was thankful for larger or drunk Collider and getting
a chance to do a show with one of my
best friends in the world. But that all sounds good too.
I mean, of course, I'm thankful for large er drunk
Collider and doing a show with my best friend. You
know that that's a given, But you know, it is
thankful season, and I should say that more often. I'm
thankful for you, Jonathan. I'm thankful for passive aggressive attacks
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that get exactly what I want. Also, I'm thankful for
you Ariel Chucks. Well, I'm glad. And now that we've
probably turned to everybody's systomachs with our sweet thankfulness, let's
talk about some news yea, or or do you have
something else that you're actually thankful for that you'd like
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to do? You know what, I'm thankful for lots of stuff,
Like I'm thankful for the fact that things things in
the geek sphere are I think changing for the better
like I used to, you know I could. Of course,
I come from the seventies and eighties, right those are
That's when I was growing up, and during that time
there was this sort of idolization of nerd um that
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was a very negative stereotype actually, and I think it
also by extension, promoted other negative stereotypes things that I
think were ultimately harmful. And nostalgia often makes us view
those things and not realize sort of the harm that
they potentially could cause. And as we grow more aware
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of that and we start to build the geek properties
of the future, we can do so with more of
of awareness about that sort of stuff, and to make
things that people can love and people can bond over,
and people can be passionate about and excited about that
don't have those kind of harmful edges to them that
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exclude others or they other other people. Right, Like, I
think about all the stuff in the eighties, and uh,
there's just so much of that content that was presented
as mainstream entertainment that was harmful in some way or another.
I am just glad to see that kind of go away.
And I know that gets a little soapboxy, but it
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just it's nice to be able to go to bed
at the end of the day thinking about the geeky
stuff you love and not feel gross about it. Yeah. No,
I get that, you know, And and it can be
a little soapboxy certainly, and can certainly seem that way
to some people. But on the largeneration and clider, we
are and always have been about, you know, the geeky
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things that everybody loves and that doesn't fit into one
tiny box, and it should be we should sure that
love with everybody so and make make them feel accepted
the way that we feel accepted. So I do want
to throw in one more thing. I think our producer
Tari is going to be thankful for this episode because
we're going to keep it shorter um so that she
doesn't have to work over the Thanksgiving holiday. So just
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to give you all heads up on that, yes, we
are we are going to cut out what would normally
be the middle section. Just assume that we talked about
something geeky and I spent the entire time complaining, and
now let's go to the news, all right. So the
first thing that we wanted to talk about was this
Spider Man No Way Home trailer that dropped last week,
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well while Jonathan was in Disney or on his way.
I'm not exactly sure about the timing um and our
thoughts on it, So I will let you go first. Jonathan.
Have you watched it and what are your thoughts? I
did watch it. I thought it was entertaining. I mean,
it's it. This one clearly goes beyond the surprise. Oh
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my gosh, I can't believe they did that element of
the initial teaser where we got to see Doc Cock
then we got to had a had a teaser of
a of a pumpkin bomb um, but this time we
actually see villains. Uh, fully like we see Electro, we
see dot Cock, we see Green Goblin, we see the Lizard,
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and there's more excellent Sandman. It was Sandman in it.
I didn't even see him. I thought, maybe may it's
entirely possible, but I didn't notice him. But that doesn't
mean he wasn't there. But you know, we and there
was confirmation that Willem Dafoe is is Green Goblin and
that uh Marvel Slash Sony kept it secret to the
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point that that Spidy himself wasn't aware that William Dafoe
was in the movie. Well, I mean that's it's funny
to me because on the one hand, we know that
Tom Holland is notoriously bad at keeping secrets. Right, Yeah,
it's it's been in the news. Tom Holland, uh, for
those people who don't follow super closely, is the guy
who plays Spider Man. And yeah, you just you tell
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him what's happening, and he's going to accidentally say something
about it he shouldn't say. It's happened multiple times in
interviews and things like that. It's why they always pair
him with someone else, typically Benedict cumber Batch, to kind
of be the babysitter. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's an adult,
but yeah, Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo ends up getting the
same treatment, by the way, because he has the same issue, which,
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you know, I get it. You're excited about it, you know. Um.
But it's funny because a lot of us assumed that
it was already happening. So I wonder how many fans
figured it out before Tom Holland. Um, well, well there
were there were people who suggested that perhaps the voice
of the Green Goblin was provided by James Franco as
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opposed to William Dafoe. But the Green Goblin's son in yes,
in the Toby Acquired, So it looks like it looks
like that's uh, you know. Now we we can say
for certain that Willam Dafoe is in it as Green Goblin,
which is great. I mean, it's it's interesting to see
the trailer. I'm excited to see it. I am curious
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if this is really going to be the last Tom
Holland as Peter Parker Spider Man movie. That's been hinted
a couple of times, um, with Tom Holland himself saying
it might be time for Miles Morales to pick up
the Mantle, but I mean there's no I haven't seen
any confirmation on that. I mean, I don't think we
will till after this movie because they don't want to
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spoil the end. Right. So a couple of things. At one.
I want to say, I'm really excited to get to
see a revised version of Electro played by Jamie Fox,
because that got panned in the second Andrew Garfield Spider Man.
It was terrible, That's why I didn't watch it. But
a great actor, and so I'm excited to give him
another chance to play this villain in um the series
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that maybe handles the villains a little bit better. Um,
maybe we'll have to see, you know. I am all
for Miles Morales movie. Um, super you know, I loved
into the Spider Ver and I you can only watch
Uncle Ben die so many times? Right. I'm glad that
this current iteration of Spider Man didn't really start there
because we've seen it enough. Um. But on the one hand,
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like I want Miles Morales. On the other hand, I
want a happy ending to this movie. I don't. The
thing I like about the current Spider Man movies is
they're so much fun, and I don't want this one
to be super bleak. Yeah. Well, I mean there are
definitely some Spider Man storylines in the comics, and I know,
you know this areal that have bummer endings, so we'll
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have to see it. Would it would surprise me if
they left this on a sad note. I mean, there
might be kind of a bitter sweet one where Peter
Parker has decided to hang up the suit or something.
But yeah, we'll just have to wait and see. One
thing we don't have to wait and see anymore is
Ghostbusters Afterlife, because that's out in theaters now, and uh,
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it did fairly well on its opening weekend. Yeah, it
made two million less than the two thousand sixteen all
female version of Ghostbusters, but it also cost a fraction
of the cost to make it so well. And also
the two thousand and sixteen Ghostbusters came out in a
year that didn't have a pandemic. That's true. That's true.
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Um So I was kind of worried because all of
the like pre reviews of Ghostbusters After Life were saying like, oh,
this either this is not great and they missed the mark,
or oh it was good until it wasn't. Um I
haven't seen it yet I have you know, I'm not
gonna haven't gone to the theater for it. You know,
we might. I might get some friends to rent like
a theater room for it, but um not before I
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have a bunch of people over for Thanksgiving. But you know,
I was like, well, how much of that is critical
and how much of that is people who truly truly
love Ghostbusters. And it seems to people that truly love
Ghostbusters truly love this movie, and that makes me happy. Uh.
I was okay with it. I mean, I had some skepticism,
and then I watched Red Letter Media do their half
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in the bag on Ghostbusters, and their critique kind of
falls in line with stuff I was afraid about. And
that's not to say that they're right, and it's not
to say that I won't enjoy it, but I I
worry because I tend to have very similar perspectives on
things as the Red Letter Media folks, and so watching that,
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I I am a little I'm a little anxious about
seeing it. Uh. It to me sounds like the last
third of the movie might get a little too reference heavy,
to the point where it might be identical to the
ending of the first movie. But but I haven't seen it,
so I don't know. Um, some people waste it will
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say time is cyclical, so it's just time forgo. Well,
it comes down to something where like they're big critique,
and this is something I can get behind, is that
the original Ghostbusters is a comedy film. It's it's a
sin cool movie about some shlubs who essentially become exterminators.
And that nostalgia was totally antithetical to kind of the
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the humor of the first movie. So it's weird to
have a movie that's so heavily dependent upon nostalgia as
part of the value proposition of the film. And and
I can totally get behind that sort of idea that now,
that doesn't mean that if you watched it and you
enjoyed it, you were wrong. I hope everyone who saw
it really enjoyed it, because I'd rather people have a
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good time at the movies. I just have a feeling
that I'm going to have a similar reaction to the
red letter media guys. Gotcha, gotcha? Well, we'll have to
watch it and then talk about it after we do,
because I will be curious. Let me ask you a question,
arial this isn't this isn't an official question question, so
we don't need to play the music. But uh, when
is a zombie movie not a zombie movie when it's uh,
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machines instead of organic life. Yeah, there you go. You
just described the Blood to Mother Slash Android. I'm sure
glad you said that, because Yeah, this is a thriller
fantasy trailer that just came out. It's going to be
a Hulu original. It comes out on December UM and
it features Chloe Grace Morritt's, Algie Smith and Ral Castillo.
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And I was like, okay, yeah, I like sci fi,
I like androids. I've I've read, you know, I Robot
and Asimov's thesis on Artificial Intelligence. And I'm like I
could see, you know, we've seen plenty of stuff where
that goes wrong. This is going to be something new
and fun. And yeah, it looks like twenty eight days
later are walking Dead with androids? Yeah? No, it it
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evokes so much zombie movie imagery that it just feels
like there are zombiescept except days androids. That's I mean,
it's it. That's not to say that the people working
on it did a bad job. It's not. The trailer
looks good the acting might be amazing, but it does
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feel like this could easily have been a zombie movie,
and in fact is a zombie movie, but for you know,
with a little flip of a switch, so to speak,
we just changed the zombies to androids and and that's it.
Like the premise appears to be that, you know, people
made androids to help do menial tasks. This is going
to come back to play when we get to our
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meshups after the break. And then, uh, then one day
they just all the androids snapped and became these kind
of killing machines that were just hunting down and eliminating humans.
And the characters in the movie are a young couple
expecting their first child and they are trying to to
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make it from the middle of the Eastern Seaboard is
what looks like up to Boston, where apparently the humans
have established a sanctuary. So that's the plot. But yeah,
like if you watch that trailer, you're gonna think, wow,
this is a zombie movie. It also gave me a
little bit of like the stand vibe with the trying
to go across country while pregnant. Um. It also gave
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me a little bit of a vibe of a quiet
place because the way to avoid the robot zombies is
to be quiet. And the mom and that was also pregnant.
So there's a bit of a Children of Men thing
going in there too, right, Like there's there's there's a
lot of yeah you have you have in our notes,
a mix of so many games, but really it's a
mix of so many tropes. Doesn't Again, that doesn't mean
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it's going to be bad. It just means that it's
going over some very familiar territory and we're you know,
I'm not entirely sold on it because I feel like
I've seen the movie already. But um, I'll wait and here,
actually I'll have to wait. I don't have HULO anymore.
So but yeah, So that that wraps up our news
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because we need to go take a break and then
we're gonna come back and we're gonna be some smashing
ups of a a une inexplicably popular sitcom and hey,
stalwart foundational science fiction film. But we'll do that after
we come back from this break. Okay, So, as Jonathan
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alluded to before the break, we are mashing up the
inexplicably popular sitcom that Jonathan is talking about is How
I Met Your Mother. And the reason that we're mashing
that up is because there's a spinoff that we're getting
called How I Met Your Father, um, which sounds like
it follows exactly the same idea as the first one.
You know, a woman is sitting down talking to her
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children about how she met her their dad in the
year with her close friends, with all of the craziness
of dating in the current age. So that's what that
was like How I Met your Mother, And so I
guess that's what this new one will be to just reverse.
It's gonna be on Hulu, so again, I won't be
watching it, but that's okay because I wouldn't be watching
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it anyway. I think as my mashup unfolds, you will
understand my thoughts about the original How I Met Your Mother. Yeah, So,
so that that series, in case you had never seen it,
really it was it was more like it was more
like Friends, right. It was more like a series like Friends,
where it's a group of friends and their personal lives
and how they intertwined with each other and how their
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friends their friendship was one of there was a lot
of meanness in their friendship, like people were pretty mean
to each other, uh in in that group of friends,
to the point where I was like, I don't think
i'd want to be friends with any of these people. Um.
I feel like it's it's it's um a generational thing though,
because this show did come out years ago at this point,
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which is ridiculous to me, but it did, you know,
And I remember my friends and I used to be
jokingly mean to each other. We're a lot nicer now
because we've we've grown and we've matured, um, and we've
decided to tell each other how much we appreciate each
other instead of ragging on each other. I think the
slap bed alone kind of sums it all up for me, see,
but I kind of it is funny to me. I
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think because I've you know, improv friends, they can they
can get kind of a whack of do and I
can relate a little bit to me to to it.
So you know, I've never slapped somebody, but like I
do watch slaps giving often on Thanksgiving because it's it's
funny to me, and in the end they kind of
come back together. So I don't know, I think the
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idea of finding great joy and being able to slap
someone as hard as you possibly can, just it strikes
it hits just the wrong nerve. It will never be charming,
it will never be funny. So I I definitely have
a grudge against How I Met Your Mother, and I
fully admit it, and it is apparent in my mashup.
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It is interesting because it is based on a group
of friends who are still friends and good friends. UM,
But I do I will be interested to see how
they change. Because I watched all of How I Met
your Mother, I will probably watch How I Met your Father, um,
and I will be interested to see how they change
to fit today's sensibilities. Yeah. And one other thing I
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want to point out, because this is important for my
mash up people need to understand is that, uh, one
of the things that really bugged me about the series
is the premise is it's the dad telling his kids
about their mom who has passed away and in fact
passed away when they were much younger, and he's telling
them the story about how the two of them met.
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But in fact, once you get through the nine seasons
of How I Met your Mother, the actual mother character
is very much a minor character in that series, and
ultimately it becomes a rug pull at the end where
it's not really how I met your mother, it's really, hey,
i'd really like to ask your aunt out on a date.
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Would you guys be cool with that? A lot of
people had issue with that? Yeah? Yeah, um, a lot
of people an issue with that. Okay. So the other
thing that we're matching up is something we have talked
about before but not in this context, which is blade Runner.
And that's because we have found out that Ridley Scott
has written a blade Runner TV show and bible or
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a pilot and bible for a blade Runner TV show
that is going to be a ten part series and
they're going to pitch it. And so maybe now on
top of an Aliens series for I guess Hulu is
where we're getting Aliens, we might get a blade Runner
series somewhere. Yeah. And so blade Runner, in case you're
not familiar, again classic science fiction film that's based off
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a story called do Android's Dream of Electric Sheet, and
it's a story about a retired police officer that a
specific type of police officer called a blade Runner, and
a blade Runner's job is to identify and track down
and quote unquote retire replicants Replicants are synthetic humanoids. They
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they look just like people, but they might have greater
strength and speed and ability to tolerate pain and that
kind of stuff. And they were specifically designed to do
stuff like heavy labor and to replace humans into doing
heavy labor. They are given a very limited lifespan of
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just four years. And the story of Blade Runner is
that after there was a replicant uprising, Earth passed a
law that said replicants are not allowed on planet Earth
because it's too dangerous, so they should only be used
in off world, you know, mining colonies and that kind
of stuff. But four replicants have escaped and have come
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to Earth, and so decored Rick Deckered, the Blade Runner
is brought back in service to track down the four
replicants on the run and to retire them. That's the story.
So we're going to mash those up. Um, and I
will say, as as cranky as Jonathan is about how
I met your mother, Uh, the idea of this mashup
did make him almost spit out coffee that he said
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he drank three hours earlier, so maybe that was vomiting,
and so he was really upset about this idea. But
it couldn't could be a little bit of both. Yeah,
I like to. I mean, I don't know if you
titled yours how I Met your Replicant, but that's how
I titled mine. No, that's not But do you want
to go first? Since we have your title? Sure, sure,
Mine's a short one. And again, my apologies because I
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couldn't resist throwing in all my criticisms into a mash
up that's supposed to be funny. Here we go, How
I Met Your Replicant. Rick Deckard has a problem. His
two kids have no idea about their own history and
seemed completely uninterested in it, which can mean only one thing.
It's time to set them down on the couch and
spend the following nine years explaining how he met their replicant.
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I mean mother, Yeah, mother. Now, obviously this is going
to pose some problems, like by the end of the story,
the kids won't be kids anymore, they'll actually be adults.
But don't worry. We'll just take some video at the
beginning of the story, and we'll just reuse that video
multiple times throughout the rest of the story, because otherwise
we're going to have to recast Deckard's kids and that's
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the whole thing. I just don't want to get into anyway.
Rick explains that it all started when Rick's friend Roy
Batty told Rick he's going to propose to his longtime
girlfriend Chris. And by a longtime girlfriend, I mean they've
known each other for like a few months, because Roy
and Prince are both replicants and they have a limited
lifespan of just four years. But that's not important for
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this story. That's what we call a tangent. And you
know what, this story is actually gonna be filled with
a lot of tangents, because you could argue convincingly that
the entirety of the story is really just tangents that
are strung along as a massive red herring, and that
ultimately the ending as a rug pole for the audience,
and that the entire premise of the show is a
false one. But I'm getting ahead of myself. No, the
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important part is that this got Rick to thinking about
love and to his own life and his rapidly diminishing
opportunity to find someone special of his own, and so
he sets out to find that someone special. Now, he
goes to meet with Taffy Lewis, the owner of the
snake Pit Bar, but that ended up being a dead end.
He and Taffy just were not compatible and Taffy had
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no time for Deckord. So then Deckard goes out to
the Tyrrell Corporation and there he meets a series of
different Nexus six models being prepared to ship off world.
But that too is a problem because Deckard is an
earth boy and it's illegal to have replicants on Earth,
and you know, their enhanced abilities and crazy desire to
live longer than four years are a problem. Also, while
Deckord is not necessarily opposed to a relationship that lasts
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a relatively short time, having a four year hard out
is even that's a bit much. So we follow Deckert
on his adventures as he meets various women, many of
whom are at least some form of semi celebrity that
the audience knows, and we learned that Deckard is a
really crappy guy. I mean, for reals, he's a crappy,
crappy dude. For one thing, He's neurotic as heck for another,
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places unrealistic expectations on every potential partner he encounters. And thirdly,
he's telling his kids these stories about how he essentially
slept away his way around with most of the city
in a quest to find Mrs Wright. But ultimately Deckerd
meets this woman. She's named Rachel. She has an anachronistic
hair do and a limited emotional range, which really appeals
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to Deckard, and so the two start dating after Deckard
finds Rachel's light up umbrella. Oh, by the way, they
were like three years of stories that involved that umbrella
and a series of like near misses between Deckard and Rachel,
but honestly, they all bleed into each other and they
just get progressively more irritating. Anyway, we get to the
point where Roy and Priss are supposed to marry, and
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decker weirdly enough, is meant to conduct the ceremony. So
he gets to the vows and he turns to Prison.
He says, do you take this man to be your
lawfully wedded husband? Even if you come across a tortoise
in the desert that's on its back and you refuse
to help it, and Press like totally flips out, like
she she does not know how to handle this. So
then Deckerd turns to Roy and he says, and to you,
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But then Roy stops him and says, I've seen things
you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the
shoulder of Orion. I watched sea beams glitter in the
dark near the tan Houser Gate. All those moments will
be lost in time like tears in rain. And then
deckerd remembers what his job is and he totally retires
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prison Roy right then and there, which means he blasts him.
And then he heads back to Rachel, who was standing
in the back, and then he realizes she's replicant too,
so blam he retires her. And that's how I met
your replicate, he says to the kids. But hey, said
the kids, none of that story is about us, Like
we didn't factor into that story at all, all right,
says Deckard. Well, then I met your mother and we
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totally did it and two were the result, but that
didn't work out. I just didn't think your mother was
actually that important in this story, and so I was
wondering if you'd be cool if I asked out your
on on a date. And then the two kids blast
Deckord the end for for a ranting mashup, that was
pretty funny, Jonathan, well done, Thank you Okay, well it's
time to do my mashup, but first let's take a break.
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Mine is called Blade Mother. Oh I love the title,
Thank you. It's sadly the story is a lot more
How I Met Your Mother than Blade Runner. But we're
gonna We're gonna get into it. So the McLaren's bargain
was unhappy. You see, Ted Mosby wanted to get married,
but every time he met a girl he liked and
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he not liked him back, she would inexplicably disappear. Marshall
and Lily wanted to have a baby, but kept inexplicably
getting into fights when they didn't want to, and Robin
kept getting beat out for all of her newscasting jobs
by the same mystery person that she didn't know. Ted
thought about it and suspected replicants because Ted's a huge nerd,
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and so the gang made a plan. They would all
find and defeat their replicant doppelgangers, which must be at
the bottom of this, and then be able to move
on with their lives. The first person to find their
doppelganger was Robin. You see, turns out that this man
made version of her was applying for all the same
newscasting jobs and beating Robin out well. Because of this,
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Robin knew she couldn't beat the replicant in the news arena,
but she certainly could beat her in one other area,
and that was wilderness survival. Thanks to Robin's dad wanting
a boy, being very tough on her and teaching her
to survive in the worst conditions. So Robin lured replicant
Robin into the wilderness. We don't know what happened, but
only the original Robin came out. The next person to
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find their replicate doppelganger was Marshall. To add insult to injury,
the replicated could grow this really cool mustache, and Marshall
just he had been trying for years but he couldn't.
Marshall did have one thing the replicant didn't have, though,
and that was a mighty slab. I know you're thinking
to yourself, replicants are super strong. Of course they could slap,
but they are not built for slapping. So Marshall reared
back and slapped the mustache right off his replicant counterpart,
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which he considered defeating the opponent. Because Marshall's a really
nice guy, so he hummed a little tune and went
on his merry way. Lily, however, uh is not as
nice and always want to keep up with her husband,
found her doppelganger. Next. Her doppelganger was a dancer, and
Lily was also an artist, but more of a painter.
What Lily really had was her mastermind. She was conniving
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and she knew that her replicant really wanted to get
out of the dancing game, so she sent a fake
scholarship to an art school in Seattle to her replicant
and sent her on her merry way, not caring what
happened once the replicate got to Seattle. She didn't need
to think that far ahead. So once Lilian Marshall's replicants
were out of the way, they were off to bacon
babies all right. Next was Ted se Ted found his replicate,
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but his replicant was super cool. His replicate was a luchador,
and not just any luchador, but a lucha door that
wrestled robots, and Ted knew that he could never defeat
this robot wrestler and win. But that's when he saw it.
His old girlfriend Rachel, who was hanging on the side
of the ring where replicate Luca Door Ted was, you see, replicant.
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Ted had been stealing all of Ted's girlfriends for his own,
and Ted never knew it. So Ted did what he
could do, not wrestle robots, not wrestle lucha doors. He
went and he talked to Rachel. Rachel and Ted started
making googly eyes at each other and it distracted the
Lucha Door Ted and Luca Door replicant. Ted got beat
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up by a robot, and ray Hill and Ted fell
in love and they ran off and got married. But
something still wasn't right with the gang. Why replicants for
all of them and why all at the same time.
So they investigated, and they traced out clues and they
followed them back to a one Barney Stinson, who was
at the bottom of it all. You see, Barney was
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upset from being outed from their friends group because he
was super tached, lecherous, and self centered, and so he
hired a science company to make replicas of all his friends.
But what Barney didn't expect was that these replicas would
be their own people and have their own lives and
their own thoughts. He thought they would be exactly his friends,
and he was wrong. The gang at finding this out,
of course, was livid. Marshall was so angry he raised
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his mighty slapping hand and, with the might of a
thousand Minnesota Winters, slapped Barney's face so hard that all
of the evil, evil, horrible things were slapped out of him.
Or were they? No, they were? Or were they anyhow?
The gang didn't know, but they were always quick to forgive.
So they headed down to make Clarence bar to grabage
rate and promptly forgot about the ordeal, and everyone lived
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happily ever after, even Ted, who never realized Rachel was
also a replicant. The end also was Thanksgiving. I wanted
to make it. Oh yeah, and it was Thanksgiving. And
that concludes our Thanksgiving special of large Nurgron Collider. You
can put it right up there with things like Charlie Brown.
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So one other thing that both Ariel and I are
thankful for, and I'm pretty sure I can speak this
in confidence, is we're thankful for you are, our listeners,
our community, very thankful for you to be part of
this weird conversation that continues every week, and we want
to you to be a bigger part of it. You know. Please,
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if you have your own thoughts about a how I
Met your mother? Uh and Blade Runner mash up, or
maybe you think I'm so just terribly unfair and completely
off base. Uh. You can totally write us and let
us know, just be nice about it. Our email addresses
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We really appreciate hearing from you, and we hope to
hear from more of you. Yes, and until next time.
I am Jonathan oh so thankful Strickland, and I am
Ariel Stuffing Cast and I'm really got to get better
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The large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast is a production of my
Heart Radio. Hi everybody, welcome to the large Nerdrunk Collider Podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how I'm very excited we
are about them. I'm Ariel casting, and with me is
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the I don't know. I don't have a good subtitle
for him this time, So just you know, the awesome
Jonathan Strickland. I'm here with a corny copeia of geeky news.
There you go. I gifted all of my creativity to
you for that. It was a generous gift, and in return,
(00:54):
I have a gift for you, Ariel. It's a question, Okay.
So we are in the thankful season here in the
United States, and so my question to you is, what
is something geeky for which you are thankful? Oh, this
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is one of the ones you should have given me
a UM heads up on, Jonathan, just because I am
thankful for so many geeky things. Well, that should make
it easy. You just pick one. Okay, Yeah, but you
know what's the worst thing for me? Decision making? Uh? Now,
I think I think this year specifically, Um, I'm just
(01:37):
really thankful that I was able to spend an early
Thanksgiving with my family, and that I'll be able to
spend Thanksgiving proper with a bunch of my geeky friends
playing geeky games. You know, we didn't get to do
that last year. They're all vaccinated, they're all being super careful.
We're you know, we we put kind of rules in
place so that this would be a safe gathering. But um,
(01:58):
I'm just excited to see all these faces and I
haven't seen in a good while. Um, So that's what
I'm most thankful for. Uh. I guess secondly would just
be um that we're finally getting new geek media back,
so I'm not watching reruns of everything, although I do
like watching reruns what about You. I was gonna say
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I was thankful for larger or drunk Collider and getting
a chance to do a show with one of my
best friends in the world. But that all sounds good too.
I mean, of course, I'm thankful for large er drunk
Collider and doing a show with my best friend. You
know that that's a given, But you know, it is
thankful season, and I should say that more often. I'm
thankful for you, Jonathan. I'm thankful for passive aggressive attacks
(02:42):
that get exactly what I want. Also, I'm thankful for
you Ariel Chucks. Well, I'm glad. And now that we've
probably turned to everybody's systomachs with our sweet thankfulness, let's
talk about some news yea, or or do you have
something else that you're actually thankful for that you'd like
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to do? You know what, I'm thankful for lots of stuff,
Like I'm thankful for the fact that things things in
the geek sphere are I think changing for the better
like I used to, you know I could. Of course,
I come from the seventies and eighties, right those are
That's when I was growing up, and during that time
there was this sort of idolization of nerd um that
(03:28):
was a very negative stereotype actually, and I think it
also by extension, promoted other negative stereotypes things that I
think were ultimately harmful. And nostalgia often makes us view
those things and not realize sort of the harm that
they potentially could cause. And as we grow more aware
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of that and we start to build the geek properties
of the future, we can do so with more of
of awareness about that sort of stuff, and to make
things that people can love and people can bond over,
and people can be passionate about and excited about that
don't have those kind of harmful edges to them that
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exclude others or they other other people. Right, Like, I
think about all the stuff in the eighties, and uh,
there's just so much of that content that was presented
as mainstream entertainment that was harmful in some way or another.
I am just glad to see that kind of go away.
And I know that gets a little soapboxy, but it
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just it's nice to be able to go to bed
at the end of the day thinking about the geeky
stuff you love and not feel gross about it. Yeah. No,
I get that, you know, And and it can be
a little soapboxy certainly, and can certainly seem that way
to some people. But on the largeneration and clider, we
are and always have been about, you know, the geeky
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things that everybody loves and that doesn't fit into one
tiny box, and it should be we should sure that
love with everybody so and make make them feel accepted
the way that we feel accepted. So I do want
to throw in one more thing. I think our producer
Tari is going to be thankful for this episode because
we're going to keep it shorter um so that she
doesn't have to work over the Thanksgiving holiday. So just
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to give you all heads up on that, yes, we
are we are going to cut out what would normally
be the middle section. Just assume that we talked about
something geeky and I spent the entire time complaining, and
now let's go to the news, all right. So the
first thing that we wanted to talk about was this
Spider Man No Way Home trailer that dropped last week,
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well while Jonathan was in Disney or on his way.
I'm not exactly sure about the timing um and our
thoughts on it, So I will let you go first. Jonathan.
Have you watched it and what are your thoughts? I
did watch it. I thought it was entertaining. I mean,
it's it. This one clearly goes beyond the surprise. Oh
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my gosh, I can't believe they did that element of
the initial teaser where we got to see Doc Cock
then we got to had a had a teaser of
a of a pumpkin bomb um, but this time we
actually see villains. Uh, fully like we see Electro, we
see dot Cock, we see Green Goblin, we see the Lizard,
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and there's more excellent Sandman. It was Sandman in it.
I didn't even see him. I thought, maybe may it's
entirely possible, but I didn't notice him. But that doesn't
mean he wasn't there. But you know, we and there
was confirmation that Willem Dafoe is is Green Goblin and
that uh Marvel Slash Sony kept it secret to the
(06:40):
point that that Spidy himself wasn't aware that William Dafoe
was in the movie. Well, I mean that's it's funny
to me because on the one hand, we know that
Tom Holland is notoriously bad at keeping secrets. Right, Yeah,
it's it's been in the news. Tom Holland, uh, for
those people who don't follow super closely, is the guy
who plays Spider Man. And yeah, you just you tell
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him what's happening, and he's going to accidentally say something
about it he shouldn't say. It's happened multiple times in
interviews and things like that. It's why they always pair
him with someone else, typically Benedict cumber Batch, to kind
of be the babysitter. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's an adult,
but yeah, Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo ends up getting the
same treatment, by the way, because he has the same issue, which,
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you know, I get it. You're excited about it, you know. Um.
But it's funny because a lot of us assumed that
it was already happening. So I wonder how many fans
figured it out before Tom Holland. Um, well, well there
were there were people who suggested that perhaps the voice
of the Green Goblin was provided by James Franco as
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opposed to William Dafoe. But the Green Goblin's son in yes,
in the Toby Acquired, So it looks like it looks
like that's uh, you know. Now we we can say
for certain that Willam Dafoe is in it as Green Goblin,
which is great. I mean, it's it's interesting to see
the trailer. I'm excited to see it. I am curious
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if this is really going to be the last Tom
Holland as Peter Parker Spider Man movie. That's been hinted
a couple of times, um, with Tom Holland himself saying
it might be time for Miles Morales to pick up
the Mantle, but I mean there's no I haven't seen
any confirmation on that. I mean, I don't think we
will till after this movie because they don't want to
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spoil the end. Right. So a couple of things. At one.
I want to say, I'm really excited to get to
see a revised version of Electro played by Jamie Fox,
because that got panned in the second Andrew Garfield Spider Man.
It was terrible, That's why I didn't watch it. But
a great actor, and so I'm excited to give him
another chance to play this villain in um the series
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that maybe handles the villains a little bit better. Um,
maybe we'll have to see, you know. I am all
for Miles Morales movie. Um, super you know, I loved
into the Spider Ver and I you can only watch
Uncle Ben die so many times? Right. I'm glad that
this current iteration of Spider Man didn't really start there
because we've seen it enough. Um. But on the one hand,
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like I want Miles Morales. On the other hand, I
want a happy ending to this movie. I don't. The
thing I like about the current Spider Man movies is
they're so much fun, and I don't want this one
to be super bleak. Yeah. Well, I mean there are
definitely some Spider Man storylines in the comics, and I know,
you know this areal that have bummer endings, so we'll
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have to see it. Would it would surprise me if
they left this on a sad note. I mean, there
might be kind of a bitter sweet one where Peter
Parker has decided to hang up the suit or something.
But yeah, we'll just have to wait and see. One
thing we don't have to wait and see anymore is
Ghostbusters Afterlife, because that's out in theaters now, and uh,
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it did fairly well on its opening weekend. Yeah, it
made two million less than the two thousand sixteen all
female version of Ghostbusters, but it also cost a fraction
of the cost to make it so well. And also
the two thousand and sixteen Ghostbusters came out in a
year that didn't have a pandemic. That's true. That's true.
(10:16):
Um So I was kind of worried because all of
the like pre reviews of Ghostbusters After Life were saying like, oh,
this either this is not great and they missed the mark,
or oh it was good until it wasn't. Um I
haven't seen it yet I have you know, I'm not
gonna haven't gone to the theater for it. You know,
we might. I might get some friends to rent like
a theater room for it, but um not before I
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have a bunch of people over for Thanksgiving. But you know,
I was like, well, how much of that is critical
and how much of that is people who truly truly
love Ghostbusters. And it seems to people that truly love
Ghostbusters truly love this movie, and that makes me happy. Uh.
I was okay with it. I mean, I had some skepticism,
and then I watched Red Letter Media do their half
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in the bag on Ghostbusters, and their critique kind of
falls in line with stuff I was afraid about. And
that's not to say that they're right, and it's not
to say that I won't enjoy it, but I I
worry because I tend to have very similar perspectives on
things as the Red Letter Media folks, and so watching that,
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I I am a little I'm a little anxious about
seeing it. Uh. It to me sounds like the last
third of the movie might get a little too reference heavy,
to the point where it might be identical to the
ending of the first movie. But but I haven't seen it,
so I don't know. Um, some people waste it will
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say time is cyclical, so it's just time forgo. Well,
it comes down to something where like they're big critique,
and this is something I can get behind, is that
the original Ghostbusters is a comedy film. It's it's a
sin cool movie about some shlubs who essentially become exterminators.
And that nostalgia was totally antithetical to kind of the
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the humor of the first movie. So it's weird to
have a movie that's so heavily dependent upon nostalgia as
part of the value proposition of the film. And and
I can totally get behind that sort of idea that now,
that doesn't mean that if you watched it and you
enjoyed it, you were wrong. I hope everyone who saw
it really enjoyed it, because I'd rather people have a
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good time at the movies. I just have a feeling
that I'm going to have a similar reaction to the
red letter media guys. Gotcha, gotcha? Well, we'll have to
watch it and then talk about it after we do,
because I will be curious. Let me ask you a question,
arial this isn't this isn't an official question question, so
we don't need to play the music. But uh, when
is a zombie movie not a zombie movie when it's uh,
(12:57):
machines instead of organic life. Yeah, there you go. You
just described the Blood to Mother Slash Android. I'm sure
glad you said that, because Yeah, this is a thriller
fantasy trailer that just came out. It's going to be
a Hulu original. It comes out on December UM and
it features Chloe Grace Morritt's, Algie Smith and Ral Castillo.
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And I was like, okay, yeah, I like sci fi,
I like androids. I've I've read, you know, I Robot
and Asimov's thesis on Artificial Intelligence. And I'm like I
could see, you know, we've seen plenty of stuff where
that goes wrong. This is going to be something new
and fun. And yeah, it looks like twenty eight days
later are walking Dead with androids? Yeah? No, it it
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evokes so much zombie movie imagery that it just feels
like there are zombiescept except days androids. That's I mean,
it's it. That's not to say that the people working
on it did a bad job. It's not. The trailer
looks good the acting might be amazing, but it does
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feel like this could easily have been a zombie movie,
and in fact is a zombie movie, but for you know,
with a little flip of a switch, so to speak,
we just changed the zombies to androids and and that's it.
Like the premise appears to be that, you know, people
made androids to help do menial tasks. This is going
to come back to play when we get to our
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meshups after the break. And then, uh, then one day
they just all the androids snapped and became these kind
of killing machines that were just hunting down and eliminating humans.
And the characters in the movie are a young couple
expecting their first child and they are trying to to
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make it from the middle of the Eastern Seaboard is
what looks like up to Boston, where apparently the humans
have established a sanctuary. So that's the plot. But yeah,
like if you watch that trailer, you're gonna think, wow,
this is a zombie movie. It also gave me a
little bit of like the stand vibe with the trying
to go across country while pregnant. Um. It also gave
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me a little bit of a vibe of a quiet
place because the way to avoid the robot zombies is
to be quiet. And the mom and that was also pregnant.
So there's a bit of a Children of Men thing
going in there too, right, Like there's there's there's a
lot of yeah you have you have in our notes,
a mix of so many games, but really it's a
mix of so many tropes. Doesn't Again, that doesn't mean
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it's going to be bad. It just means that it's
going over some very familiar territory and we're you know,
I'm not entirely sold on it because I feel like
I've seen the movie already. But um, I'll wait and here,
actually I'll have to wait. I don't have HULO anymore.
So but yeah, So that that wraps up our news
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because we need to go take a break and then
we're gonna come back and we're gonna be some smashing
ups of a a une inexplicably popular sitcom and hey,
stalwart foundational science fiction film. But we'll do that after
we come back from this break. Okay, So, as Jonathan
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alluded to before the break, we are mashing up the
inexplicably popular sitcom that Jonathan is talking about is How
I Met Your Mother. And the reason that we're mashing
that up is because there's a spinoff that we're getting
called How I Met Your Father, um, which sounds like
it follows exactly the same idea as the first one.
You know, a woman is sitting down talking to her
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children about how she met her their dad in the
year with her close friends, with all of the craziness
of dating in the current age. So that's what that
was like How I Met your Mother, And so I
guess that's what this new one will be to just reverse.
It's gonna be on Hulu, so again, I won't be
watching it, but that's okay because I wouldn't be watching
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it anyway. I think as my mashup unfolds, you will
understand my thoughts about the original How I Met Your Mother. Yeah, So,
so that that series, in case you had never seen it,
really it was it was more like it was more
like Friends, right. It was more like a series like Friends,
where it's a group of friends and their personal lives
and how they intertwined with each other and how their
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friends their friendship was one of there was a lot
of meanness in their friendship, like people were pretty mean
to each other, uh in in that group of friends,
to the point where I was like, I don't think
i'd want to be friends with any of these people. Um.
I feel like it's it's it's um a generational thing though,
because this show did come out years ago at this point,
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which is ridiculous to me, but it did, you know,
And I remember my friends and I used to be
jokingly mean to each other. We're a lot nicer now
because we've we've grown and we've matured, um, and we've
decided to tell each other how much we appreciate each
other instead of ragging on each other. I think the
slap bed alone kind of sums it all up for me, see,
but I kind of it is funny to me. I
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think because I've you know, improv friends, they can they
can get kind of a whack of do and I
can relate a little bit to me to to it.
So you know, I've never slapped somebody, but like I
do watch slaps giving often on Thanksgiving because it's it's
funny to me, and in the end they kind of
come back together. So I don't know, I think the
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idea of finding great joy and being able to slap
someone as hard as you possibly can, just it strikes
it hits just the wrong nerve. It will never be charming,
it will never be funny. So I I definitely have
a grudge against How I Met Your Mother, and I
fully admit it, and it is apparent in my mashup.
(18:57):
It is interesting because it is based on a group
of friends who are still friends and good friends. UM,
But I do I will be interested to see how
they change. Because I watched all of How I Met
your Mother, I will probably watch How I Met your Father, um,
and I will be interested to see how they change
to fit today's sensibilities. Yeah. And one other thing I
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want to point out, because this is important for my
mash up people need to understand is that, uh, one
of the things that really bugged me about the series
is the premise is it's the dad telling his kids
about their mom who has passed away and in fact
passed away when they were much younger, and he's telling
them the story about how the two of them met.
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But in fact, once you get through the nine seasons
of How I Met your Mother, the actual mother character
is very much a minor character in that series, and
ultimately it becomes a rug pull at the end where
it's not really how I met your mother, it's really, hey,
i'd really like to ask your aunt out on a date.
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Would you guys be cool with that? A lot of
people had issue with that? Yeah? Yeah, um, a lot
of people an issue with that. Okay. So the other
thing that we're matching up is something we have talked
about before but not in this context, which is blade Runner.
And that's because we have found out that Ridley Scott
has written a blade Runner TV show and bible or
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a pilot and bible for a blade Runner TV show
that is going to be a ten part series and
they're going to pitch it. And so maybe now on
top of an Aliens series for I guess Hulu is
where we're getting Aliens, we might get a blade Runner
series somewhere. Yeah. And so blade Runner, in case you're
not familiar, again classic science fiction film that's based off
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a story called do Android's Dream of Electric Sheet, and
it's a story about a retired police officer that a
specific type of police officer called a blade Runner, and
a blade Runner's job is to identify and track down
and quote unquote retire replicants Replicants are synthetic humanoids. They
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they look just like people, but they might have greater
strength and speed and ability to tolerate pain and that
kind of stuff. And they were specifically designed to do
stuff like heavy labor and to replace humans into doing
heavy labor. They are given a very limited lifespan of
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just four years. And the story of Blade Runner is
that after there was a replicant uprising, Earth passed a
law that said replicants are not allowed on planet Earth
because it's too dangerous, so they should only be used
in off world, you know, mining colonies and that kind
of stuff. But four replicants have escaped and have come
(21:53):
to Earth, and so decored Rick Deckered, the Blade Runner
is brought back in service to track down the four
replicants on the run and to retire them. That's the story.
So we're going to mash those up. Um, and I
will say, as as cranky as Jonathan is about how
I met your mother, Uh, the idea of this mashup
did make him almost spit out coffee that he said
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he drank three hours earlier, so maybe that was vomiting,
and so he was really upset about this idea. But
it couldn't could be a little bit of both. Yeah,
I like to. I mean, I don't know if you
titled yours how I Met your Replicant, but that's how
I titled mine. No, that's not But do you want
to go first? Since we have your title? Sure, sure,
Mine's a short one. And again, my apologies because I
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couldn't resist throwing in all my criticisms into a mash
up that's supposed to be funny. Here we go, How
I Met Your Replicant. Rick Deckard has a problem. His
two kids have no idea about their own history and
seemed completely uninterested in it, which can mean only one thing.
It's time to set them down on the couch and
spend the following nine years explaining how he met their replicant.
(23:01):
I mean mother, Yeah, mother. Now, obviously this is going
to pose some problems, like by the end of the story,
the kids won't be kids anymore, they'll actually be adults.
But don't worry. We'll just take some video at the
beginning of the story, and we'll just reuse that video
multiple times throughout the rest of the story, because otherwise
we're going to have to recast Deckard's kids and that's
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the whole thing. I just don't want to get into anyway.
Rick explains that it all started when Rick's friend Roy
Batty told Rick he's going to propose to his longtime
girlfriend Chris. And by a longtime girlfriend, I mean they've
known each other for like a few months, because Roy
and Prince are both replicants and they have a limited
lifespan of just four years. But that's not important for
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this story. That's what we call a tangent. And you
know what, this story is actually gonna be filled with
a lot of tangents, because you could argue convincingly that
the entirety of the story is really just tangents that
are strung along as a massive red herring, and that
ultimately the ending as a rug pole for the audience,
and that the entire premise of the show is a
false one. But I'm getting ahead of myself. No, the
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important part is that this got Rick to thinking about
love and to his own life and his rapidly diminishing
opportunity to find someone special of his own, and so
he sets out to find that someone special. Now, he
goes to meet with Taffy Lewis, the owner of the
snake Pit Bar, but that ended up being a dead end.
He and Taffy just were not compatible and Taffy had
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no time for Deckord. So then Deckard goes out to
the Tyrrell Corporation and there he meets a series of
different Nexus six models being prepared to ship off world.
But that too is a problem because Deckard is an
earth boy and it's illegal to have replicants on Earth,
and you know, their enhanced abilities and crazy desire to
live longer than four years are a problem. Also, while
Deckord is not necessarily opposed to a relationship that lasts
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a relatively short time, having a four year hard out
is even that's a bit much. So we follow Deckert
on his adventures as he meets various women, many of
whom are at least some form of semi celebrity that
the audience knows, and we learned that Deckard is a
really crappy guy. I mean, for reals, he's a crappy,
crappy dude. For one thing, He's neurotic as heck for another,
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places unrealistic expectations on every potential partner he encounters. And thirdly,
he's telling his kids these stories about how he essentially
slept away his way around with most of the city
in a quest to find Mrs Wright. But ultimately Deckerd
meets this woman. She's named Rachel. She has an anachronistic
hair do and a limited emotional range, which really appeals
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to Deckard, and so the two start dating after Deckard
finds Rachel's light up umbrella. Oh, by the way, they
were like three years of stories that involved that umbrella
and a series of like near misses between Deckard and Rachel,
but honestly, they all bleed into each other and they
just get progressively more irritating. Anyway, we get to the
point where Roy and Priss are supposed to marry, and
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decker weirdly enough, is meant to conduct the ceremony. So
he gets to the vows and he turns to Prison.
He says, do you take this man to be your
lawfully wedded husband? Even if you come across a tortoise
in the desert that's on its back and you refuse
to help it, and Press like totally flips out, like
she she does not know how to handle this. So
then Deckerd turns to Roy and he says, and to you,
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But then Roy stops him and says, I've seen things
you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the
shoulder of Orion. I watched sea beams glitter in the
dark near the tan Houser Gate. All those moments will
be lost in time like tears in rain. And then
deckerd remembers what his job is and he totally retires
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prison Roy right then and there, which means he blasts him.
And then he heads back to Rachel, who was standing
in the back, and then he realizes she's replicant too,
so blam he retires her. And that's how I met
your replicate, he says to the kids. But hey, said
the kids, none of that story is about us, Like
we didn't factor into that story at all, all right,
says Deckard. Well, then I met your mother and we
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totally did it and two were the result, but that
didn't work out. I just didn't think your mother was
actually that important in this story, and so I was
wondering if you'd be cool if I asked out your
on on a date. And then the two kids blast
Deckord the end for for a ranting mashup, that was
pretty funny, Jonathan, well done, Thank you Okay, well it's
time to do my mashup, but first let's take a break.
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Mine is called Blade Mother. Oh I love the title,
Thank you. It's sadly the story is a lot more
How I Met Your Mother than Blade Runner. But we're
gonna We're gonna get into it. So the McLaren's bargain
was unhappy. You see, Ted Mosby wanted to get married,
but every time he met a girl he liked and
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he not liked him back, she would inexplicably disappear. Marshall
and Lily wanted to have a baby, but kept inexplicably
getting into fights when they didn't want to, and Robin
kept getting beat out for all of her newscasting jobs
by the same mystery person that she didn't know. Ted
thought about it and suspected replicants because Ted's a huge nerd,
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and so the gang made a plan. They would all
find and defeat their replicant doppelgangers, which must be at
the bottom of this, and then be able to move
on with their lives. The first person to find their
doppelganger was Robin. You see, turns out that this man
made version of her was applying for all the same
newscasting jobs and beating Robin out well. Because of this,
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Robin knew she couldn't beat the replicant in the news arena,
but she certainly could beat her in one other area,
and that was wilderness survival. Thanks to Robin's dad wanting
a boy, being very tough on her and teaching her
to survive in the worst conditions. So Robin lured replicant
Robin into the wilderness. We don't know what happened, but
only the original Robin came out. The next person to
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find their replicate doppelganger was Marshall. To add insult to injury,
the replicated could grow this really cool mustache, and Marshall
just he had been trying for years but he couldn't.
Marshall did have one thing the replicant didn't have, though,
and that was a mighty slab. I know you're thinking
to yourself, replicants are super strong. Of course they could slap,
but they are not built for slapping. So Marshall reared
back and slapped the mustache right off his replicant counterpart,
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which he considered defeating the opponent. Because Marshall's a really
nice guy, so he hummed a little tune and went
on his merry way. Lily, however, uh is not as
nice and always want to keep up with her husband,
found her doppelganger. Next. Her doppelganger was a dancer, and
Lily was also an artist, but more of a painter.
What Lily really had was her mastermind. She was conniving
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and she knew that her replicant really wanted to get
out of the dancing game, so she sent a fake
scholarship to an art school in Seattle to her replicant
and sent her on her merry way, not caring what
happened once the replicate got to Seattle. She didn't need
to think that far ahead. So once Lilian Marshall's replicants
were out of the way, they were off to bacon
babies all right. Next was Ted se Ted found his replicate,
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but his replicant was super cool. His replicate was a luchador,
and not just any luchador, but a lucha door that
wrestled robots, and Ted knew that he could never defeat
this robot wrestler and win. But that's when he saw it.
His old girlfriend Rachel, who was hanging on the side
of the ring where replicate Luca Door Ted was, you see, replicant.
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Ted had been stealing all of Ted's girlfriends for his own,
and Ted never knew it. So Ted did what he
could do, not wrestle robots, not wrestle lucha doors. He
went and he talked to Rachel. Rachel and Ted started
making googly eyes at each other and it distracted the
Lucha Door Ted and Luca Door replicant. Ted got beat
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up by a robot, and ray Hill and Ted fell
in love and they ran off and got married. But
something still wasn't right with the gang. Why replicants for
all of them and why all at the same time.
So they investigated, and they traced out clues and they
followed them back to a one Barney Stinson, who was
at the bottom of it all. You see, Barney was
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upset from being outed from their friends group because he
was super tached, lecherous, and self centered, and so he
hired a science company to make replicas of all his friends.
But what Barney didn't expect was that these replicas would
be their own people and have their own lives and
their own thoughts. He thought they would be exactly his friends,
and he was wrong. The gang at finding this out,
of course, was livid. Marshall was so angry he raised
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his mighty slapping hand and, with the might of a
thousand Minnesota Winters, slapped Barney's face so hard that all
of the evil, evil, horrible things were slapped out of him.
Or were they? No, they were? Or were they anyhow?
The gang didn't know, but they were always quick to forgive.
So they headed down to make Clarence bar to grabage
rate and promptly forgot about the ordeal, and everyone lived
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happily ever after, even Ted, who never realized Rachel was
also a replicant. The end also was Thanksgiving. I wanted
to make it. Oh yeah, and it was Thanksgiving. And
that concludes our Thanksgiving special of large Nurgron Collider. You
can put it right up there with things like Charlie Brown.
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So one other thing that both Ariel and I are
thankful for, and I'm pretty sure I can speak this
in confidence, is we're thankful for you are, our listeners,
our community, very thankful for you to be part of
this weird conversation that continues every week, and we want
to you to be a bigger part of it. You know. Please,
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if you have your own thoughts about a how I
Met your mother? Uh and Blade Runner mash up, or
maybe you think I'm so just terribly unfair and completely
off base. Uh. You can totally write us and let
us know, just be nice about it. Our email addresses
l n C at my heart media dot com. Yeah,
you can also reach out to us on social media
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if you just want to send a quick hello or thought. Um.
We on Twitter we are l n C Underscore Podcast,
and on Instagram and Facebook we are Large NURDERNK Collider.
And I just want to say thank you to Clara
and Gregory and Aaron and Penny and Elliott who have
all written us and send us sent us their thoughts
on episodes and their favorite things and ideas from mashups.
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We really appreciate hearing from you, and we hope to
hear from more of you. Yes, and until next time.
I am Jonathan oh so thankful Strickland, and I am
Ariel Stuffing Cast and I'm really got to get better
at these, you really do, ye, m m hm. The
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Large New Drunk Collider is a production of I Heart
Radio and was created by Ariel Kasten. Jonathan Strickland is
the executive producer. The show is produced, edited, and published
by Torri Harrison. For more podcasts on my heart Radio,
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