Margot Robbie Pirates A Christmas Story

Ariel and Jonathan talk about Zootopia+, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Quentin Tarantino projects, Pixar films and a whole lotta geek news. Plus, Ariel breaks Jonathan's brain. And we top it all off with a mashup of Margot Robbie's cancelled Pirates of the Caribbean project and A Christmas Story.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large new drunk a Ladder podcast.
The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about them. I'm arial casting and with me as always
is the super awesome Jonathan Strickland Boo, she's my baby.
What brought that on? My friend? Well, before I hit record,

(00:30):
you were doing this little head popp and number, and
I was thinking, man, it's sure as sad that this
isn't a video podcast. I mean I was thinking it
sure's sad that it's not a video podcast too, because
we're both looking pretty cute today. I will say, well, yeah,
I mean, you know, on a on a scale of
of dead too gorgeous, I think I'm hitting a solid cute.

(00:54):
I mean same, same, Yeah. Really I should look at it,
taking this video and doing a little something something with
it at some point so you can watch us as
we've take correl faces at each other, and maybe we'll
someday get together in person and actually do some more
of our video mash ups that we used to do

(01:15):
that launched this whole show in the first place. I
want to do that. I think I think a big
hurdle to that will be finding a camera dude. Yeah,
and someone who's willing to do the edits as well,
because that's a skill set I have not developed. I
can edit podcasts, but video is a step further than

(01:36):
I am capable of doing. Plus I don't even if
I did learn, I'm not sure where I would fit
that in in my schedule. But I can do some
some basic video edits, but I don't have the machines
to do anything more than cut up auditions and self tams.
So well, while ariels cutting up in her auditions, we

(01:58):
also took some time to you to come up with
a show today, and we've got some thirty seconds or
less stories we're gonna get to in a minute. But
before we do that, we're going to chat a little
bit about some stuff we saw that we had been
talking about previously, for example, Zutopia. Plus, you know when

(02:18):
I talked to when we talked just last week, I
think it was about the preview finally being out. I
didn't realize that the series was out too, you know,
I honestly hadn't either. That's that's what I get for
rushing through my my geek news sometimes. Yeah, so, so
I hop on Disney Plus last night, and I see
that the Utopia series is right there, the whole series

(02:41):
of shorts, six episodes, and so I think, huh, I
can watch these right now. Each video looks like it's
about seven minutes long. No, No, the videos are like
three minutes long. So more than half the videos are credits. Uh.
So I started watching them, and, like I said, there
are six of them, and they all kind of tie

(03:03):
into Zootopia, as in, like, these are things that are
happening while the story told in Zootopia is also unfolding.
And I felt they were a real mixed bag aerial
mm hmmm. I think I remember you saying that there
are only like two that you liked. There were two

(03:26):
that I liked and one that I thought was cute,
but it was so predictable that I didn't have any
kind of like positive response to it. So the two
I liked. One was the story of the Shrew Godfather,
which is told as a parody of really the Godfather
Part two is really what it is a parody of, um,

(03:47):
And that one was cute. It was also kind of sweet.
It was actually a very sweet little story. I think
that's part of the reason why I liked it because
some of the other stories didn't come across as sweet,
like I felt like they were pushing a little hard
to be not edgy because they don't go far enough
to be edgy, except with maybe one exception, the Bridesmaid episode,

(04:12):
the one about the Godfather's granddaughter getting married um or
maybe it's his daughter anyway, when she's getting married. That
one had a pretty twisted ending to it that I
actually found kind of disturbing. But the two that I
liked were the Godfather one and then the The Sloths

(04:35):
going to Dinner, which again was very predictable, but was
at least cute. Um. I mean you you said before
you watched it, you thought the Slots was going to
be your favorite, and I said, I thought the Godfather
was going to be my favorite. So yeah, well, I
think I think honestly, the Godfather one's the better of
the two. I just thought the slast one was charming.
It's again very predictable, like there's nothing surprising in it.

(05:00):
It is cute how they tie each of the episodes
kind of into the overall story of Zootopia, like like
the fact that these things are also happening in the
background while that story is playing out. That's kind of cute,
but I don't know. It just didn't work for me,
unlike the other thing we wanted to talk about before
we got into the news. Yeah, well, I was real

(05:22):
quick before we do. I was just going to ask,
do you think that maybe these little shorts are things
that they cut from the original's Utopia script? No? No,
because they focused too much on on incidental background characters,
so it wouldn't make sense for them to have been
part of the original movie because it's not their story, right,
it's the story of that rabbit and that fox whose

(05:45):
names I don't remember. Yeah, okay, Yeah, so anyhow, that
didn't quite work, unlike Weird the Al Yankovic story, which
Jonathan and I have both watched now, which was very
funny and ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, it's uh. They did a
great job doing a parody of the the clichee rock biopic,

(06:13):
the type of movie where they're taking a very liberal
take on the quote unquote true story of a band
or personalities rise to fame. Think of things like Rocketman
or Bohemian Rhapsody, right, like these are these are movies
that are tied to people who in some cases are

(06:39):
still alive or or who were alive at one point,
but are not really representative of how things really unfolded.
At least they're not telling the full story, and Weird
takes that ball and freaking runs with it. They do.
I Um, I watched it with some friends over the
weekend and completely by accident, guessed the twist before it happened.

(07:06):
Were there were there any standout moments in the film
that I mean without spoilers or anything that you really
responded to. There was. I think my favorite bit of
it was the entire I guess it was like a
couple of scenes are extended scene in the bar where

(07:27):
weird Owl does like his first live performance with like
the Dive Bar. I thought that, Yeah, I thought that
whole that whole deal was delightful. Um. I thought the
kids were really well cast because it starts off with
childhood weird al or childhood Alankovic and like. I thought
those children were very well cast and did a great

(07:47):
job at playing weird al Um. There was a joke
at the end uh that I didn't care for. I
thought it was a little base and I wasn't sure
why they were including it, so maybe it's just commentary
that went over my head. But for the most part,
it all landed really well and need made me laugh
or girl, oh no, or I love the clothes. I

(08:10):
love the song that goes over the closing credits because
it's a commentary on the movie itself. Uh and and
even pulls out the fact that by writing an original
song for a film, that song can be considered for
an Oscar because it's an original song written for a movie.
And and it's actually in the lyrics where it talks

(08:32):
about the fact that this is Oscar. Uh. At least,
at least it could qualify for being nominated for an Oscar.
Whether it is or not, we'll have to wait and see.
I doubt it, but it was funny. And but my
favorite scene in the whole movie is the pool party scene,
and it's largely because it's just fun seeing actors and

(08:55):
comedians standing in for other actors and comedians. Yes, it
was like this giant wears waldo of casting. Yeah, like
Emo Phillips playing Uh, who was he? He was Salvador
Dolly I think, yeah, s Dally. And we had Conan
O'Brien as Andy Warhol and you know, but you had

(09:18):
actors they're standing in for people like Divine, who was
known as uh, the the phenomenal performer in several John
Waters movies. Um. Then you know you had the Peewee
Herman and Gallagher rest in Peace. Uh. That was that?
That was like I was like, oh no, yeah, just
before the actual Gallagher passes away. Yeah. It was a

(09:41):
a fun sequence though, just to see all these these
actors clearly having fun doing over the top impersonations of characters.
Elvira is in that sequence. These these are not necessarily
characters who get to do anything, but they're there. Yeah.
I also so they also have during Uh, there's an

(10:01):
award ceremony in the movie. Without spoiling anything, there's an
award ceremony in the movie, and it's another it's another
one of those moments where they're just all of these
actors playing other actors, which is hilarious. But I liked
that scene because Alankovic's wife was in it. Yeah, yeah,
it was. And of course weird al himself shows up

(10:22):
in it as a record producer. Uh. And there's also
a really fun scene with him and Will Forte where
where Will Forte is is chewing out Daniel Radcliffe as
weird Al, while the real weird Al is sitting there
and going like, you might be kind of going a

(10:42):
little far because he's insulting weird Owl's musicality in front
of This is funny because the actual weird Al is
there and he's like, oh, can we maybe he's off
on this bed. Yeah, it was absolutely delightful. Uh. I
want to actually watch it again because I bet there's
some dumb little stuff that I missed. Um, you should
watch it too if you have the Roku channel, which

(11:05):
is a bizarre, bizarre channel. I flipped through. It was
really weird. I so I had not I didn't even
know if I still had an account with Roku or not,
because I once upon a time had a Roku box
that I connected to my television, but I haven't used
that in my probably six or seven years maybe, And um,

(11:28):
but I just went online to the Roku channel online
on the web. So I just used a regular web
browser on my computer and I was able to pull
it up there and watch it. And I mean it
is a little frustrating because there are ad breaks through
the whole thing, and I'm not used to dealing with
ads anymore, so that that I found a little off putting.
But most of the ads were for Roku products, So

(11:51):
I just sat there and watched the same like three
ads for Roku sticks and stuff and then got through
it eventually. So yeah, perfectly ad breaks. I really enjoyed
the experience. Yeah, I mean I had ads to because
it was a free movie on Roku. Uh, they weren't
all for Roku products, so they were for other things
because because I was watching it on a Roku. All right, So, uh,

(12:13):
let's do our thirty seconds or less, okay, and I've
got the timer out this time. We actually uh put
in the bare minimum effort and sorted the stories so
that we can alternate and not have back to back
thirty second spots. And Aeriel, you are up first. Are

(12:35):
you ready? Go? All right? So a little while ago
we talked about the fact that there is a true
Lies television series coming out. If you're not familiar, it's
a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger Jamie Lee Curtis about this
dude who's secretly a spy and his wife doesn't know,
his family doesn't know. Well, we're getting a TV show
about it on CBS, and we finally got the release date.
It's February nine pm. Fun fact, they're filming that in Atlanta. Um,

(13:00):
I'm looking forward to it. I really like that movie.
I hope the show is super awesome. Going bam, good job,
Yeah you got you got out with a couple of
seconds to spare, all right, Well, well then here I go.
This is gonna be quick, so I don't even think
I need to hit the timer, but I'm gonna and go. Okay,

(13:24):
So last week we talked about how there's gonna be
a Gears of War live action movie. Well, now we
know that there's a person who wants to play the lead,
and it's Dave Batista, which makes sense. He's a mountain
of a man and the main character in the video
game is a mountain of a man. And I'm sure
that Dave Batista could wield a machine gun that's also

(13:46):
a chainsaw and not break a sweat dot. Oh you
missed the important part. He posted on Twitter about it
and like had himself dressed up in like a full
costume and like tagged the Gears of War people, um
and and uh whole and Netflix and was like, you
need to cast me Uh, we have a game Spot
article on it. There's some shade in there that's kind

(14:09):
of funny that we won't go into, but I will
post it on our website. Well and Ariel, I only
had thirty seconds. Well, but you could have said that
he did like a whole costume deal. That's two seconds
worth of things. Okay, sorry, I will cut my next
one extra short. Okay, all right, are you ready? Yes?
And go? Okay. So Microsoft Teams has added some classic

(14:29):
work uh, Distractor Games, two Teams, Solitaire, Mind Sweeper, Icebreakers,
and something else. They're like, it's great for people to
play together, but honestly, Mind Sweeper is the game that
I played to slack off at work by myself. So yeah,
if you have m S teams you can do that. Excellent. Yeah,
this is you more than the music still play you

(14:50):
more than than crushed that story. I covered this on
tech Stuff and I mentioned I bet the same bosses
who are ending that people come back into the office
are going to hate this idea that people could play
games through Microsoft Teams, even though Microsoft showed some data

(15:11):
that suggests that that teammates who play games together end
up being more productive than people who go through your
other type of team building exercises, which I can believe
because I've had to do team building exercises a few times,
and it's always a miserable experience because no one wants

(15:32):
to be there. I mean, you know what else makes
people more productive working from home? Often? Yes? Anyhow, that
was also well more than well more than thirty seconds
in the end, so we gotta make it up. Well yeah,
but but you know it's fine. All right, here we go,
and I'm going, hey, you know, Quentin Tarantino, he's gonna
make a TV series, eight episodes. We don't know what

(15:54):
they're gonna be. It's gonna come out at some point done.
Maybe all right, next, some of those things go away.
Hang on, we can't just go next. We can't just
go next because the music is going to play for
thirty seconds and that was eight seconds. Shoot, okay? So yeah,
so so, um, what's what's your favorite Quentin Tarane? My

(16:15):
favorite Quentin Tarantino? Oh God, I don't know, Yeah, I
don't know. I don't have one. You don't have a
favorite Quentin Tarantino? What from Dust to Dawn, pulp fiction,
reservoir dogs? I like Restip Woard Dogs until the end.

(16:36):
It gets kind of scary at the end. Well, yeah,
I mean it's it's all about tension. Hateful eight, Once
upon a Time in Hollywood? Watch What's Upon a Time
in Hollywood? Still Bill Volume one? I guess Kill Bill?
I guess Kill Bill? Um which volume one? Um? I

(16:57):
fell asleep during pulp Fiction. I haven't watched at all. Hatefully.
It was okay, Django and Change was very hard but okay,
and Glorious Bastards was okay. But if I'm going to
watch a movie about how bad Nazis are, it's going
to be Jojoe Rabbit. So okay, okay, I think my
favorite wolf? Um? Wow, what is my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie?

(17:21):
Now that I've said it out loud, I'm not sure.
I mean, I really like the Hatefully a lot. I
like it a lot until you get to the first
I don't care for it, but it is I mean,
I get what he's He's he's purposefully going over the

(17:42):
top with the violence. I get it, like I understand
what the what he's doing. But yeah, this thirty seconds
or less segment has really totally failed. Okay, okay, So
next one? Okay, uh did we ready, yeah, go okay,
So we've gotten the news that they are making a
Princess Diaries three movie. Princess Diaries started Anne Hathaway as

(18:04):
a girl who was a surprise princess but didn't know
it because she was actually kind of geeky in her
San Francisco home. I think, I don't know. Don't quote
me on that anyhow. Uh. And Hathaway is not like
she she I don't even know. She's in talks to
come back. But she's totally on board for the third
because it will be a continuation of her story, her
character story, not like a brand new character story. Good

(18:28):
thing too, because we had just hit thirty seconds, all right,
finally last story and it's mine and I am gonna
hit go now. Okay, So you know how Henry cavill
isn't gonna do the Witcher no more because now he's
gonna go and be the Superman and he's gonna put
off show blue tights and the red underwear and he's
gonna go flying around. Well you might wonder who's Superman's

(18:50):
main squeeze is gonna be that's lowest lane And in
the other movies it was Amy Adams so you wonder
if Amy Adams is coming back, She says, no, one's
asked her the end, they ask her back. I liked her. Okay,
So now into our regular news that might also are
also not be thirty seconds. Yes, some of these are
going to be really short anyway. But like we we

(19:10):
specifically went through our lineup and said, which of these
do we not have that much to say about them?
And then and then we went and and then I
guess we were wrong. We didn't know ourselves to well.
This week it's yeah, okay, so uh, the first thing
we want to talk about is Parts of the Caribbean.
Oh not Pirates of the Caribbean, that's almost just played

(19:31):
out as avatar Um maybe more so. But Margot Margot
Robie Robbie, Margot Robbie was supposed to play or direct
star in something like that. She was making the Parts
of the Caribbean movie. That wasn't a spinoff. It was
going to be its own standalone thing. In the Parts
of the Caribbean World, which to me is still kind

(19:52):
of a spinoff, but they say it. It wasn't gonna
be a spinoff, and it was gonna, you know, be
a female starring cast Um and now apparently despite the
fact that there are some parts of the Caribbean projects
in the works that one isn't and they're all a
little disappointed. Yeah, there was some suspicion that that this
was part of the implosion that happened with the whole

(20:16):
Johnny Depp amber heard uh kerfuffle, which is, I know
that's dismissive. I don't mean to be dismissive, but that
whole scandal now that that that that court case played
out for everybody, whether you wanted it or not. I
remembered distately every time I went on to YouTube, YouTube
was trying to push videos on me about it, and
I'm like, no, YouTube, I don't This is private family

(20:41):
stuff that I don't have any right to know about,
so stop. But I kept trying anyway. There was some
suspicion that this was a casualty of that kind of stuff,
that the parts of the Caribbean I p might need
a little scrubbing before they can come back, uh, which
is it's a shame because first of all, Margot Robbie's

(21:01):
a really good actress um or at least I think so.
I think she's pretty talented and I think she could
have had a lot of fun being a pirate. And
now the only way we'll ever know if she'd have
fun being a pirate is if someone wrote a mashup
with her in it as a pirate. Spoiler alert. Oh goodness, Jonathan,

(21:22):
weren't you gotta I guess you can tell by this
which one of us hasn't mash up in which one
of us maybe doesn't. Um. And to be fair, I
literally wrote my mash up about ten minutes before Ariel
jumped on the call. So it's not good, but it exists. Listen.

(21:44):
Now I might Now, I might try to come up
with something anyhow, but it's not going to be written.
It's going to be all like off the Dome, and
that's going to be interesting anyhow. Um. Jonathan and I
have talked about Pixars Elemental Um just completely spe kido speculatively,
because we didn't have anything other than a little bit

(22:05):
of concept art and a description for it until now. Yeah,
the concept art and description made us both kind of
get Zootopia meets inside Out vibes. I'm definitely getting more
in a Zootopia in this than inside Out necessarily, but
it's it you can sort of feel the similarities there.

(22:27):
The we got a teaser for Elemental and it's a
bare minimum teaser. It's kind of cute, gives you a
little sense of the world that the characters inhabit and
the types of characters there are. And it shows like
a a water subwaying like a subway train that well

(22:49):
it's because it's underground, right. So the character who's uh ember,
she's a fire elemental, gets onto the subway and she's
walking down the subway listening to music, and you get
to see some of the other elementals, including you know, air, earth,
and water. Although I didn't see any other fire elementals
on that subway train. She was the only one. I mean,

(23:11):
that might be the point fire Fire tends to be
considered more destructive than those other elements, even though they're
all pretty destructive. Interestingly, though, none of the other characters
on the train react negatively to her. And and she's
she's donald ducking it, meaning she's got no pants. She's
just flames like a super baller hoodie that I definitely

(23:35):
want to own. So they better make some merch off
of it. It's Disney, They're gonna have so much merch,
but you know, it's a pretty nice looking hoodie. But yeah,
she accidentally drops her headphones and as she's reaching for it,
a water elementals reaching for it. And you find out
this is the meeting of Ember, the fire elemental, and

(23:56):
Wide very cute the water elemental, and that there's a well,
I guess there's a fizzle between them literally because a
little bit of water falls on her, but there's a spark. Yeah,
it looks cute. Visually, Um, it's very pretty. It's a
it's a it is still like a I think it's

(24:19):
a Pixar movie, right, it's still a Pixar like style,
but it's a little bit more stylistic then regularly kind
of like the characters of Inside Out. I'd say even
a little bit more so. This is um it almost
lends itself, at least Ember does too. And some of
the like the earth ele mentals to like almost hand

(24:42):
drawn aesthetic a little bit for like a watercolor aesthetic,
a little bit to me. I don't know, maybe that's
just me m Visually, I found it very pretty story wise,
I'm I I'm worried that it's just gonna be Oh,
that Pixar story. I again. I mean it might be.
I can tell you this. The director is the same

(25:04):
guy who directed The Good Dinosaur, which is the Pixar
movie everyone forgets because it was not a good one.
I did not watch it because it just again I
was like, maybe, yeah, it's yeah, okay, Well, what's your
least favorite Pixar movie? Oh golly, um we should yeah,

(25:27):
like you should ask me these things in advance, because
now not only do I have to like go through
my emotions for each Pixar movie, I have to remember
all of them. So let's see. There's Funny Nemo, there's
all of the Toy Stories there, there's Inside Above's Life,
there's Cars, there's Inside Out. I haven't watched Soul yet.

(25:51):
But there's the Onward. I haven't watched Sean Ward yet.
I thought that was a Disney animation, not a Pixar. No,
that's a I'm gonna say Toy Story one. What that's
your least maybe Toy story too? You you think Cars
is better than Toy Story one or two? So here's

(26:14):
I need a new co hosta. Okay, I liked Cars
just because they had a spoof on Click and Clack.
The Tappert brothers I like Toy Story. I like Toy
Story two. Toy Story three is very emotional for me.
But the problem is is that Toy Story one started
off really good and then again it's like this, this,

(26:35):
The second half of the movie just became a giant
chase movie for me. Um became like Homeward Bound with
toys and it was just um, it made me anxious
the entire time. Cars is literally just chasing the whole
time it's about racing is just chasing, but on a

(26:57):
professional level. Okay, okay, okay, but okay, oh gosh, I'm
so sorrybody gonna listen to me lose by crap. I
don't remember a whole lot of cars, but I specifically
remember just being anxious all the way through Toy Story,

(27:19):
which maybe means it was a better story, but I
had a well more anxiety through it. So I'll say this, what,
whichever Pixar movie you think is the worst one, The
Good Dinosaur is worse than that? Okay, okay, what is
so The Good Dinosaurs your least favorite Pixar movie? Yes,
followed probably pretty closely by Cars too. I haven't watched

(27:39):
Cars too. Um, well, I got problems with cars to Listen,
I'm behind on many Disney properties and I need to
catch up, and many Pixar properties and I need to
catch up. But that being said, I still like Toy
Story and Toy Story two. I just didn't like it
as much as like Finding Nemo or Bugs Life for yeah,

(28:02):
those things. So okay, Well, we know you have Disney Plus,
so we're just gonna have to sit you down for
like two days to have you start catching up on stuff.
But yeah, listen, the first one is going to be
up in Emperor's New Groove, and that's not even Pixar,
so you haven't seen up. No, I don't want to
be depressed for ten minutes and then watch a mediocre movie.
It's not a mediocre movie. It's actually quite good. I've heard.

(28:24):
Wait is Wally? Is Wally also Pixar? Yes, if you're
gonna say Wally is the worst time, no, no, no,
I love this is okay, So I love the beginning
of Wally, and then when they get onto the giant
ship with all the people, I feel like it's no
longer fun. But the first half of it I love. So.

(28:47):
Ariel also famously thinks that Into the Woods is a
great one. Act. It just leaves halfway through an intermission.
She was gone many things that are like the second
act of but yes, the first act of Into the
Woods is definitely better. Uh okay, So we're gonna move
on because otherwise, otherwise we're just gonna be. We're just

(29:11):
gonna be here all night, is what we're gonna be.
And you'll be listening to us, to me having discoveries
about my co host, someone I have legitimately known for
two decades, and I'm learning things now that are really
like shaking me to the gay Yeah thanks, yeah, yeah,
another bringing it back to Into the Woods. All right, well, children,

(29:35):
you'll listen to this. Sony is planning a whole bunch
a little spider Lings spinoffs of Spider Man. There's a
plan to create a bunch of live action Spider Man
TV series, the first being Silk, which is a fairly
recent entry into the Marvel comic books. Technically, she shows

(29:59):
up in the first Spider Man movie, but my guess
is that they'll just ignore that. The rather her alter
ego shows up in the first Spider Man movie, but
they don't really do anything with her. So my guess
is they're not going to have that Cindy become Silk
in this. But the plan is to have a bunch
of these because they're really hoping to to leverage those

(30:23):
Spider Man properties, and they will air on MGM Plus,
which I didn't know was a thing, And that's because
it used to be Epics. That's the channel that was
showing up Pennyworth, the Batman Butler origin story. I think
they were showing Pennyworth. I think they were showing um,

(30:44):
maybe the Evil Dead and like one other one. But yeah,
now they're now they're combining into new things. I so
very torn because I like Spider Man characters. Um, there's
like a Spider Man cartoon or he's got like quite
Tiger and a bunch of other people with him that
I love. It's great, but I also like it's weird

(31:06):
to have a Spider Verse separate from the m c
U but kind of in the m c U but
not really. And also like, you can't call them Spider
links because that turns it from really cool to really gross. Jonathan, Sorry,
you know, I just it's how I roll. Really gross
is how I roll. By the way, if you don't
have MGM plus or you are like me and you've

(31:30):
stopped watching television. It will also come to Amazon Prime,
so it'll be available for streaming on Amazon Prime at
some point after it airs on television. So yeah, that's um,
I mean, I'll I'm curious enough to give them a
shot because depending on who they get to run the show,

(31:52):
it could be a lot of fun. And also, like,
you gotta hit the right tone for it to be
a good Spider Man spinoff for me, Like there needs
to be a level of fun to it for me
to really get on board. I don't want to see
like a super drama heavy bummer of a series. Yeah,

(32:16):
I mean, I will say I you know this, the
Spider Man movies are good and the first Venom movie
was fun. It wasn't too much of a bummer. It
was kind of funny. Um you know more. Bus I
still haven't watched it and I kind of don't can't
bring myself to suffer through it. But um, I hope
they give Cindy Moon a better, better backstory than what
the article in Avy Club says that she has um

(32:38):
because it's just that right where she gets bitten by
the exact same spider that Peter Parker was bitten by
and then it is almost immediately like locked away, thrown
into solitary confinement. Yeah. Yeah, until somebody comes and tries
to eat all of the Spider people. Um, that's sad.
That's a sad life. Sometimes Spider Man stories are just

(32:59):
really depressed. Um, like in the comics. Well yeah, I
mean like well in the movies too, Like the ending
of the most recent Spider Man Tom Holland film has
a very sad ending. Does it didn't leave me comul sad? Middle,
it didn't leave me completely hopeless? Um, but yeah it
was a little blue. Yeah. I mean, he's he's always

(33:21):
got on. Oh okay, anyhow you want to cheer up,
Let's talk about your new favorite news of the week,
which is we're getting a musical coming to Broadway about Corn.
And and before we even started, like I had not
read this story before we were jumping on the call,
and I told Arielison, please tell me this isn't about

(33:42):
that stupid TikTok thing that I keep hearing about but
haven't seen because I don't have TikTok. I mean, it's
not It's not not about the apparently cute little kid
who likes corn. I mean who retired. According to TikTok,
he retired, he said, he retired, but he still loves corn.
Um it's a new video. If you have TikTok, I
will be surprised if you haven't seen it. Um. Now.

(34:02):
I included this simply because, Um, there is a fantastically
talented individual that I used to do community theater with.
His name is Andrew Dram and he posted on his
social media that he was going to be in this musical.
Most recently before this, at least as far as I know,
he was in like a really cool musical that was
a jukebox musical called Head over Heels um. And so like,

(34:26):
he's super talented. He does amazing work, even way back
in the day when we were doing little community stuff
in Roswald, just always so fantastic and great to be around.
And so if you like corn, if you like stories
about uh, like rural Middle America and learning how to
get along with people, um, then maybe check it out

(34:48):
because I know at least one of the people in
it is gonna be super awesome. Of course, it would
help if you told him what the title of the
musical was, because that could be so many things. It's
called Shocked. Uh. It's by h Robert Horne and Shane

(35:08):
Annalie and Brandy Clark, and it opens in the spring
made me laugh because I know what what pronunciation you
were stumbling over there? Yes, and it's there there. The
show is described as a hilarious and audacious farm to
fable musical about the one thing Americans everywhere can't get

(35:29):
enough of. Corn. Shocked is the new musical comedy that
proves sometimes tearing down a few walls, rather than growing them,
is the only way to preserve our way of life.
And then later on goes to say, uh, and of
course about corn because the basic thing that unity and
acceptance need for survival is a kernel of truth. Jonathan
Jonathan is so unhappy. I and I I am known

(35:55):
for liking puns, but this was too much for me.
Like I told Ariel, as, I feel like this, this
author chose this story just to throw as many corn
puns as possible. Do you think when they start the show,
this is the show that's that's apparently a love letter
to corn, that if people come into the theater the

(36:17):
bags of popcorn, they just point out at the audience
and scream. I mean, I think if it's farm to fable.
Like I feel like maybe people eat corn in the musical,
and so eating popcorn is not going to be the
worst thing. It's not like it's not like it's Veggie
Veggie Tales, Children of the Corn um No, but it's

(36:39):
it's making me think a lot more of war Horse
now where they have that whole scene where they eat
the horse. I haven't watched war Horse, haven't seen it,
and now I will nothing like that happens. Are you
sure because you haven't seen it, sir, I mean, okay,
as far as I know nothing, How about I should
have said Eques something way word Okay, hey, look, let's

(37:05):
talk about something else that you can enjoy. Vodka. Yes,
if you've just seen Equis, you may need vodka. Uh So,
there is a commercial out for vodka. I don't even
know the brand, because like that was Belvedere Belvidere vodka

(37:26):
that starts Daniel Craig doing silly dancing and it's directed
by Tycho Wahiti. And the very first thing I said
was the same thing that everybody else who has seen
this commercial and also seen the music video for Weapon
of Choice said, which is that it is extremely reminiscent

(37:46):
of Christopher Walkin dancing around a hotel in Fat Boy
Slim's Weapon of Choice video. Yeah yeah, so like I
have friends making up like this whole like extended universe
for people who get trapped inside these hotels just dancing. Um. Yeah.
And it also has a cute little bit at the
very end where the you get a reverse shot, so

(38:09):
you see Tycho with TV sitting in the director's chair
calling cut, and then you get out takes at the
end of your commercial. You get out takes from your commercial. Yeah. Yeah, honestly,
it also kind of reminds me of like the old
was it the BMW that we used to get like
the little mini movies about. I mean, there were several
commercials that started to push the envelope on things like

(38:33):
like length as well as spanning multiple commercials. I remember
being completely blown away during the Super Bowl one year
when the Energizer Rabbit made its way through like four
or five different commercials throughout the coverage, you know, the
Super Bowl commercial breaks, and nothing like that had been

(38:54):
done before, and it was really kind of fun and innovative.
These days, it would be like you're like, Okay, what's
the big deal, but at the time it was so
different from what you were used to that it really
kind of caught your attention. And then from that moment on,
I feel like some brands really pushed hard to go
a kind of cinematic route with their ads. Yeah, but

(39:15):
like back in the early two thousand's, BMW had a
series called to Hire. Did you ever see that, Jonathan?
I don't watch commercials, and it was like it was
like it starred Clive Owen, and like there was one
where he was driving Madonna around and I think it
was her ex husband who directed that particular short video
and like just throwing her all around. Yeah, yeah, directed

(39:38):
by guy Ritchie um And and trying to deliver her
to like an awards show. And then there was one
called Beat the Devil that had James Brown and Gary
Oldman as the devil in it. Like they're actually really
interesting little short movies. I'll have to see man. Well,
I feel okay because I don't drive, so you know,

(39:58):
their AD's not gonna work on me. I'll just watch it. Yeah,
I mean it's super it's they're super old. But it
was like, yeah, just like little short short, actual short
movies that were made by a bunch of celebrities and
directors that are some of them are pretty pretty interesting.
I would I would definitely check it out. But this
reminds me of that I kind of like when I
can get some actual interesting story along with my um

(40:23):
along with my product. Uh Like, my favorite product placement
and TV shows are the ones where like it's so
like it's either blatant or it's subtle because you have
to do it really well. Um hm, it has to
be one or the other, right, it can't. It needs
to either be over the top drawing attention to it,
or it has to be so well integrated that you

(40:46):
only really pick up on it if you're really paying attention. Yeah,
I mean, like I would say the same thing that
the ads I like are the ones that are are
narrative and entertaining, except that I find myself remembering the
gist of the ad, but not remembering what the ad

(41:06):
was for. I mean, you know, it's it keeps you
from buying a bunch of stuff, so that's not too bad,
It's true. Yeah, I need all the help I can get.
Someone else who needs some help David Zaslov Yes, yeah,
And we keep coming back to this and and Jonathan
is still upset, but he continues to tell us all
about his thoughts on UM his new streaming platforms. Yeah yeah,

(41:32):
he he had some more to say about streaming, saying
that he doesn't really get it because from a business
perspective is and you know, there's a there's a no
win scenario there because unlike television where you're playing against
ad revenue, or films where you're you're counting on box

(41:52):
office returns, there's no like direct feedback of revenue when
you're creating stuff for streaming, like you're, what you're doing
is you're trying to drive more subscribers to the service.
But then once you do that, you know where do
you go? And and you can't just keep escalating productions

(42:12):
because if you do that, you'll eventually run yourself bankrupt.
And he has a point, like there's a legit point
to be made there. The problem as I see it,
is that lots of audiences have sort of migrated over
to streaming services. More and more people are either cord
cutters or their cord never's. There are people who have

(42:34):
never had cable and have no plans to get it.
And while we've seen people return to movies. It's only
a few movies that have really done pretty well at
the box office. Like every every headline I see about
a blockbuster hit, the money they're talking about is almost

(42:54):
like an order of magnitude less than what we used
to see before the pandemic. Right, So it's great, I'm mean,
there are fantastic box offices, but it's it's not comparable
to what was before the pandemic hit. And I don't
I don't know. Maybe we will eventually build back up
to that, but it's hard to say right now, right

(43:14):
I am. I am going to go see just the
second movie since the pandemic tomorrow night. I'm gonna go
to the movie theater and actually watch a movie, What
kind of Forever? Oddly enough, no, I cannot watch Wakonda
Forever because my wife is in Pennsylvania and I'm in
Georgia and if I see it without her, she will
divorce me. So what is the second movie you're going

(43:35):
to see? Then? The menu? Ah, You'll have to let
me know how it is, because it looks a little
scary for me, but it also looks very interesting. Um,
We've we've talked about it previously on the show. It
is interesting because Zaslov talks about and I'll puss the
article the deadline article on on our web page www
dot large eners on clider dot com um because he

(43:55):
talks about, uh, how like you can get a whole
bunch of viewers to watch a show, but then they're
gone in two months, you know, in the show is over,
which is totally true. That's what I do with my
streaming services because there's way too many um. And then
he's talking about like how they can sell content non
exclusively and maybe create adlite and free services to join

(44:17):
their premium tiers like a tow b or pluto um
with their content. So it's just it's all over the place,
and I think I think, like many people, he's just
trying to figure out how to make streaming work. But
on the plus side, he does say that d C
is a hugely undervalued assets, so that's good for DC lovers. Yeah,

(44:39):
he's he's essentially saying that that DC's value has been
somewhat squandered with a haphazard approach. That kind of at
least that's that's what I infer from the way he
talks about it. It sounds to me like he feels
DC has the potential to be as big a player
in the in the TV and film space as Marvel.

(45:02):
And while we've had some standouts, in general, Marvel overall
has performed better than d C. If you if you're
talking about a film to film kind of sequence as
opposed to picking specific titles, right, because DC has had
some specific titles that had that really performed spectacularly well.

(45:22):
So yeah, I agree with that too. And I mean,
like again, zas Love is a cable guy. He comes
from the cable world. That's a world that's that was
all about getting on as many different cable providers as
possible and getting as many viewers as possible, and so
the business made sense to him in that respect and

(45:46):
streaming does not. Which on the business side, I totally
get it. The problem is that's where the audience is,
so you've got to figure out a way to make
it sustainable. It may very well mean that, you know,
in the not too distant future, the productions we get
for streaming services will be scaled back a bit, like
they won't be quite as extravagant and high production value

(46:09):
as what we've had. Maybe we'll get to a world
where the average quality of a streaming show will be
like an old episode of Doctor Who. I mean, that
couldn't be. That wouldn't be for some people, it wouldn't
be so bad for me. For other people they would
hate it, like my husband. Um, but uh, you know

(46:31):
it's not It's not the Warner Brothers, HBO, Max Discovery
is not the only streaming network that is trying to
figure stuff out that's making changes. Uh, Paramount is Hulu
is as well. Paramount is doing two things. One they're
bringing on Walter Hammada, who was heading dc UM over

(46:53):
to kind of head up their horror department, at the
same time that they're doing a bunch of layoffs to
the ads department. It so it's weird to hear all
these streaming services talk about using ads in various ways
because they're underperforming right now, right that that's actually true
across pretty much all of the Internet. I mean, you've
you've probably are aware that companies all across the Internet

(47:17):
are having issues. Companies that rely on ad revenue are
having problems. So Meta and Facebook and Instagram they're running
into problems. Twitter is running into problems for other reasons,
not just because advertisers are are just cutting back on spending,
but Twitter has proven itself to be a undesirable location

(47:39):
for a lot of advertisers at the moment. That might
change in the future, but right now it's too chaotic.
But generally speaking, it's getting harder to uh to conduct
a business if you're dependent on ad revenue because we're
in this sort of uncertain economic period that no one
knows what to call. I rant about this all the time,

(48:02):
but the fact is, it means that there are a
lot of companies that are choosing to curb spending, and
advertising is one of the first things they pull back on.
So any company that depends upon advertising as a chief
source of revenue is really facing some tough decisions right now,
including laying off parts of ad departments, because if they're

(48:24):
not able to get ads anyway, then what are they
paying the people for. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, you know,
if if that's the case and they just want to
get more subscribers, bringing somebody on who has a good
track record with horror movies like Walter Hammada, it's not
a bad decision. Um No, no, it's not. And I
mean like it. It's interesting to see the kind of

(48:47):
of of merry go round effect you get when someone
gets the boot from one from one big studio and
then they just pop on over to another one. UM.
Gives me hope that if I'm ever fired, some other
podcast network will scoop me up. Yes, I believe that,
but you know you're let's talk about happy things. I

(49:09):
don't want you to get fired. I just want you
to be a wonderful, loved asset to everybody in the world, Jonathan,
because you are awesome. I'm definitely an ass uh So
A little bit last uh last little bit of streaming
network news, which is Hulu Live, is also trying to
keep subscribers. They're doing that by adding some music channels

(49:30):
and some other light channels like Hallmark and things like that. UM,
which is hilarious because my husband and I were just
talking about after the Thanksgiving Day parade getting rid of
Hulu Live and downgrading just to Hulu because it's also
getting a price increase. It's going up from seventy dollars
a month to seventy five dollars a month. Basically, you're
getting cable you still have like you're just getting cable

(49:52):
through Hulu. It's commercials. It's it's you know, some channels
it doesn't include like HBO, Holy Cow. Yeah, I mean
it's seventy a month right now. But I get I
get a DVR. I get to watch things live as
opposed to like regular Hulu where you might have to wait,
you know, a little bit after it airs. So especially
like it for the connors Um and then for like

(50:16):
so you think you can dance and stuff like that.
There are a few shows, but it's it's not enough
for me to keep it. That's probably more information than
any of our listeners needed about me. Who alive is
not that? If you're looking for a cable alternative that
isn't through your internet provider. Yeah, it's interesting to see them,
you know, trying different things or to to add more subscribers.

(50:38):
Like I said, like you you typically with the subscription services,
you do see them hit a plateau right where they've
kind of hit the saturation that the service can manage
in whatever market it's in. And that's really where a
lot of these services sort of languish because there's an

(50:59):
expectation on the stakeholder side to consistently grow and and
to add value, and the truth of the matter is
you can only grow so much and then you have
to figure something else out. The growth strategy isn't enough anymore. Yeah, Yeah,
it will be interesting to see how um entergy and

(51:20):
I say this as an actor and someone trying to
to make it in the uh, you know, entertainment industry
and trying to tell these stories that are all up
in limbo based on how all of these various delivery
methods do. It'll be interesting to see how um it
all evolves. Um. I think the next two stories we

(51:41):
have we talked about, or we're talking about, we should
have put in thirty seconds or less at least from
my end, but maybe you have more. Oh, I'll just
say I'm really quickly. So we've got a couple of
stories about different entertainment entities coming together to create partner ships, collaborations,
that kind of thing to bring various types of content

(52:05):
to folks. So the first one is Blumhouse Productions, Blumhouse
being mostly known for making horror films of varying degrees
of quality. Some of them are very very good and
a lot of them aren't. And then Atomic Monster and
they're gonna become the vultron of horror movie studios, as
I wrote in our little show notes, so they're gonna

(52:25):
combine or partner together to bring some uh you know,
new qualities to horror, and Blomhouse really has been kind
of setting setting a bar for horror, for better or
for worse. Something Like I said, some Blumhouse I think
is really really good and some some I don't respond to.

(52:47):
Was Blumhouse Get Out, Yes, I believe, which was fantastic. Well,
I I also get a twenty four mixed up with
all this, but anyway, Yeah, so it's uh, I'm encouraged
by this because I want to see more horror I like.
I like horror a lot, and in fact, I'm always
looking for good horror to watch. The problem is I

(53:08):
almost always find bad horror, which can be entertaining in itself,
but it's not what I was looking for. I really
like with this, they are not becoming They're still keeping
the Blumhouse productions and the Atomic Monster identities and doing
their own projects. They're just also working together, so they're
they're like a production house together with these two products underneath.

(53:30):
So that's kind of cool. Uh. The other story we
have is that Sony is partnering with Crunchy Role, which
is known for bringing anime to audiences online, and a
Japanese pay TV broadcaster called Wow Wow in order to
produce more anime projects. So again, it's kind of this
collaborative effort to to create more material, more content for

(53:55):
folks to watch. And I think you know that has potential. Like,
on the one hand, I don't really care for like
mass consolidation in any field, because I feel that you
can start to lose some interesting perspectives that way. But
on the other like, if you get together and do

(54:15):
partnerships or whatever in order to to complement one another's strengths,
great stuff can come out of it. So I am
cautiously optimistic. Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. I am
also not huge into consolidation, although some some things need
to be consolidated right now a little bit, so, uh,

(54:37):
I mean sooner or later Disney will own everything, yeah,
but they'll still own it under like a thousand different
umbrellas that you'll have to buy separately. Um. But speaking
of Disney owning things, they own alien and aliens, Um
do they Yeah? Well, yes, yes they do. I guess so.

(54:59):
Because it's twentieth century, right, it's twenty Century Fox, and
then they bought Fox back, and they bought Fox. There's
a huge joke about the alien the xenomorph queen being
like a Disney princess. Ah See, this is what I
get for jumping off of social media. I miss all
the good meetings. Anyhow, so we knew we were getting
an alien TV show in three that has it. It

(55:23):
has nothing to do with like the whaling Utahn in
corporation or you know, it's not like a direct chunk
of the stories that have already been told. Um. But
now we're also getting a new alien movie, yes, and
Fede Alvarez is going to direct it. So that's really

(55:44):
pretty much all the information we have. We don't know
a whole of details. But if you're wondering who Alvarez is, uh,
it's the director behind the Evil Dead reboot that came
out back in the very super duper violent and not
at all funny version of Evil Dead. Doesn't that like

(56:06):
defeat the whole purpose? I mean, the very first Evil
Dead wasn't intended to be funny. It just kind of was.
Because of the overton, over the top approach. Sam Ramie
and Bruce Campbell had to the film, But yeah, it's
I actually have not yet watched the two version of
Evil Dead. I just understand that it's much more um

(56:28):
gory and intense than the original Evil Dead was. I mean,
it would be not impossible, but difficult to make Alien
more gory and intense than like Alien Covenant was. Like
I had to turn that one off. I've watched Alien Aliens,
I've watched Prometheus. I had to turn Alien Covenant off

(56:49):
because it was just too upsetting so it could be done,
which I don't think it should be done. We do
know that this is going to be a standalone movie
and likely not related to the what's happening in the
TV show, So yeah, So so what we're getting with
Alien is our own little micro DC universe. I mean,

(57:10):
sci fi is made for anthologies, so like you can
buy pick up all entire book of Asimov and just
have a bunch of different stories within the same universe
that don't really tie together maybe a little bit. So
it's it's not as bad as d C because like
I couldn't tell you this zenomorph queen from this that
xenomorph queen, you know, whereas like I can tell Superman.

(57:34):
Superman is very distinctive. Yeah, he's the one who has
the brother named Martha. Oh wait, Jonathan, this is okay,
we're gonna we gotta talk about this next thing. Uh.
If you like a Christmas story and you want to
live in a Christmas Story, you can buy the town

(57:56):
over Christmas Story. Essentially, it's not an entire town like that,
the whole town. It's like a can't purchase Cleveland. Okay,
you're just not trying hard enough. It's like seven different
buildings and it's a little more than an acre. So
these these are on small plots of land, but includes
several locations that were used as filming locations for the

(58:20):
for a Christmas Story, the original film. So the house
that Ralphie grew up in is one of the Bumper's house,
the one that had all the dogs. That that's one
of them. There's a building that currently houses a Christmas
Story museum that's part of it, and um and also

(58:40):
a gift shop. So the article of nerdus says, hey,
you even have a way of generating revenue to help
pay off this house. However, what is not expressly uh
admitted on the website the listing for this is the
price it's one of those where you have to ask,

(59:02):
and if you have to ask, you can afford it. Yeah, yeah,
you got to make them an offer. It's really interesting
because like I would feel obligated to keep the museum
in the gift shop running, but I don't want to
buy I mean, I guess it for somebody who likes
doing stuff like that, but like, pardon me, I don't

(59:23):
want to I don't want to buy it just to
make more work for myself. Also, like, let's say you
wanted to just live in a like you wanted to
live in the Christmas story House because you thought it
would be nice. You would have a bazillion people around
your home every Christmas, and it would you would have
no peace. Maybe I'm looking at this. Yeah, that's why.
That's why I just walk around naked with the curtains open.

(59:45):
I mean, Jonathan, eventually, you're gonna have people complain. Maybe
that's fine, they'll stop coming around the house. I don't.
I don't think your next door neighbors can avoid it.
Um well, you know, depending on how these houses are
are located, I might own the next door neighbor's house

(01:00:08):
that's pretty dark. It's pretty dark. Maybe even darker than
Sonic Prime. It's just a new Sonic. Explain this to me.
It's a new cartoon, a new Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon
coming to I think Netflix. Um, and it's basically Dr
Robotic or Dr Egghead or I don't know what they're
calling him in the cartoon shatters the universe and Sonic

(01:00:30):
gets sent back into like another universe, and it's kind
of like Cyberpunky and he's got to restore things. And
they say it's dark, but it actually looks pretty cute
to me. It's a whole new voice cast. Um, I
don't know, it looks fun. If you like Sonic the
Hedgehog and you like the old cartoons, you might like this.
You should check the trailer out. Gosh, it's everyone is
really running with that whole multiverse idea right now. Yep.

(01:00:54):
Next it's going to be an l n C multiverse. Yeah,
well we'll do one. We actually have an episode that's
less than an hour long. All right, Well we're not
done yet because I wrote a mashup and I'm gonna
I'm gonna do my mashup. Now. Before I do this mashup,

(01:01:16):
I do want to point out that I plagiarized liberally
in this mashup from myself, because I once wrote a
comedic little radio play for the Atlanta Radio Theater Company.
They still perform it on occasion. But I wrote it,

(01:01:36):
and it's called Christmas on the High Seas. But I
I took some of it. Not all of it I took,
but I liked a lot of the jokes I made
for it, So I took a couple and I put
them into this mashup, which combines the Margot Robbie parts
of the Caribbean uh canceled project and a Christmas story,

(01:01:58):
so it's called Pirates of the Christmas Story Awesome. Margot
Robbie has a problem. Her Pirates of the Caribbean movie
has been canceled, but she's decided that's not going to
stop her. She wants to buckle her swash, and by Golly,
she's going to do it. So Margot does the only

(01:02:19):
sensible thing. She travels to Macy's department store in New
York City and gets in a very long line to
see the big Man himself, Santa Clause. It takes ages,
but finally it's her turn, and so she hops up
on Santa's lap, and Santa lets out a little oof
and says aren't you a bit old for this? And

(01:02:41):
Margot says, I reckon, I am mate, but I'm disparate, Ah,
says Santa. Throw a little shrimp on the barbie Ho
ho ho now, mate, says Margot Robbie. Already been Bobby,
been dead done that. I want to be a pirate now, oh,
says Santa. Well, uh so if you say fit to,

(01:03:04):
you know, do the I twink gold thing and help
me out. Show would appreciate you, says Margot Robbie. Well,
I'll see what I can do. I see that you've
been very good this year. I really liked your performance
in Amsterdam, says Santa. Where were you a wrotten tonight?
As nte, says Margot Robbie. Then she grins and hops off,
See you, Santa, And then Margot Robbie goes to head

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off to whatever beautiful location she stays in whenever she's
in New York City. That night, as she drifts off
to sleep, she imagines for a moment that she can
smell the faintest hint of salt air and maybe the
light scent of coconuts. Also there's a steel drum band
in her bedroom. She wakes up and sees that rather

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than the magnificent penthouse apartment she was in, she now
is in a smallish room and the room is a rocket.
She gets up and realized she's on a ship, and
she's wearing a pirate blouse and black leggings, and there's
a sort of pirate gear sitting on a chair near
her bed. So she leaps out and gets outfitted with
all the pirate gear, and she heads up to deck,

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where she sees a crew hard at work swabbing the
ship and manning the forecastle and pooping on the deck
or whatever it is. Pirates do our mayties, says Margot Robbie,
And in unison, all one hundred seventeen members of her
crew turned to look her in the eye and say

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our Captain, Margot Robbie. A scarred man with a hook
for a left hand walks up to her, and instinctively
she knows him as Mr Teal, the quartermaster report. Mr Tale,
says Margot Robbie. Hey captain, says Mr Teale. The crew
are all eager to learn what our next venture be.

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He indicated that today be a very special day. Well,
what be the day, asks Margot Robbie. Why tis December
the twin D fourth captain says Mr Teal Christmas Eve.
I haven't missed it, says Captain Margot Robbie. Christmas Eve
says one seventeen crew members, in perfect unison, looking at

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Margot Robbie with their full attention, I lubbers tis Christmas Eve?
Do you not know the story of Christmas? Asks Margot Robbie,
and in perfect unison, all one seven D crew members
slowly shake their heads no. And so Margot Robbie told
the pirates the story of Christmas, which they immediately got wrong.

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But they were so enthusiastic they swapped stories about what
they were going to ask. The flying pirates Santa the Claw.
They brewed egg grog. They sang songs about a woman
named Carol. They decorated the pirate ship, though they quickly
discovered that hanging cannonballs in the rigging wasn't a sound idea.

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And that night, while on eighteen people slept aboard the ship,
a jolly pirate in a big red broad coat landed
you ho ho ho, he said, and he gave gifts
to all the good little pirates, of which there were
none because they were pirates. So he flew away, but

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he left behind some coal. The next morning, the pirates
were all so excited to have coal. Finally we can
stop burning the rats for warmth, said Mr. Deal and
Margot Robbie, pleased with her crew of cutthroats, sailed off
into the Seven Seas and that's why she doesn't make
movies anymore. The end. I liked it. I liked it.

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I'm glad you did the Barbie thing because I was like,
she's she's Barbie. Oh you did that on purpose. Um. Okay,
So I have a bash up. It's going to be
super fast because it's not written down, um and not
totally dissimilar, but I'm going to do it anyhow. Okay. Uh.
So Ralphie Ralph here from a Christmas Story is getting taken.
He really wants like this red writer Beaty must get

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for Chris miss but he can't get a Red Rider
baby musket for Christmas because his parents are are like, no,
you're gonna shoot your eye out. Uh. But his parents
take him to see Santa to cheer him up so
that they can't ask for anything else that he wants
maybe they can get some ideas, because you know, they
sure are Santa's helpers. Anyhow, when they get there, Santa

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is outsick and so are all of his elves, and
so they had to get like this last minute volunteer
who's way too excited but actually dressed like a clown. Um.
So Ralphie goes up and the clown Santa's like, hey, kid,
what do you want for Christmas? And Ralphie goes, I
want a red ride her beanie musket, and the Santa

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Clown goes, okay, kid, but you know you're gonna shoot
your eye out, and uh then she kicks u Ralphie
down the slide. That night, Ralphie goes home sad, and
then here's like a scuttle on the roof and all
of a sudden, out of his chimney appears to Santa Clown,
who's feels him because she is uh ruined her reputation

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so much in the city that she now has to
start a new villain crew on international waters. And so
she brings Ralphie to her ship, and sure enough he
does shoot his eye out with his Red Rider baby musket,
but he's happy because he got it. What he wanted
for Christmas the end, and next year he gets to
ask for an eye patch. Yes, but you know, we'll

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have to see if it's in the budget. Your Santa
was Harley Quinn, Yes, who was also Margot rob Yeah. No,
I mean they're they're the same person, really is when
you get down to it. I mean, uh, yeah, it's
amazing that I resisted. I resisted putting Anya Taylor Joy
in my mashup because she's in everything now. So uh,

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that was for for something that was extemporaneous, was extremely entertaining.
And uh and you know I sat there and immediately
thought that a baby musket wouldn't be the most terrifying
weapon because you have no idea where that thing is
gonna go. I mean, you know, it's it's the darkest timeline. Well,

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I mean it could have been worse. You could have said,
a B B blunderbuss and that would have been like
weapon of mass destruction. It's the duskiest timeline. Okay, uh
if thank you all for listening to this incredibly long episode.
If you have ideas of how you think of Christmas story,
Empires of the Caribbean and Marco Rubby should be mashed up.
You should definitely write us and tell us. Yes, you

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you will be supporting two friends making time every week
except for next week because it's Thanksgiving to get together

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and be very very silly for like an hour, and
we definitely appreciate it. So yeah, we will be taking
a break next week because it's Thanksgiving here in the
United States and will be in different states of chaos
on on all next week, but we'll be back the
following week, or at least we should be unless something

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crazy happens, we should be back the following week. Uh.
And until next time, I have been arial. It's corn casting.
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