May 13, 2021 • 49 mins
We talk about a hunky new cast member of the Knives Out sequel, whether or not we'd take a trip to outer space, and what would happen if Black Widow went to a Pineapple Under the Sea.
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The Large New Drunk Collador Podcast is a production of
I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large New
Drunk Collator Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky
things happening in the world around us and how very
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excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Casting and with me,
as always is the dulcic lee toned Jonathan Strickland. Why
thank you, Ariel, And in return, I have a question
for you. Okay, Ariel, you're a superhero. We already knew that,
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but no, you're a superhero. What does your mild manner
to alter ego do for a living? Well? You see
this is this is tricky, Jonathan, because in the past
I have actually written theatrical bios about myself that have
said by day a mild mannered admin and at night
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super thespian um. But I think I want to say,
I think I want to switch it up. I think
that my mild mannered day job for a no, you
know what, I don't. I don't I like my own
actual personal backstory. So I think that my mild mannered
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alter ego would be a uh preschool teacher and struggling
community theater artist. She could come back to a little
bit of my actual past. She can save the world,
but can she land a role in a Vida. I
probably don't want to land a role in a community
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theater version of Avida. I think that would be a
spectacular thing to see, though. What a circus, Oh what
a show? Uh well, oh, I'm glad you asked. I
think I'd want to be a a barista and like
really like the superheroes, like just really determined to be
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the best barista that superhero can be when they're not
off being a superhero, Like they treat it seriously and
take it very hard on themselves when they misspell someone's
name on a cup for example. Let me tell you
I have been a barista. I loved it, but it's
a very serious job. Yeah. Yeah. At one point I
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was trying to think of a job that would have
like have you locked down at all hours so that
you could not go off and be a superhero, And
thus the conflict would be like, well, I want to
save the world, but I I have to I'm an
I T professional and I'm on call and customers serve.
This would do that. But you know that's that's funny
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because you've written mild managed superhero stuff, and that falls
right in line with that. Yes, no, I I wrote
a series for the Atlanta Radio Theater Company called Mildly
Exciting Tales of Astonishment. In fact, there was an episode
in which two characters are about to face off against
a an incoming robot invasion, and just before the battle
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is to begin, one of them realizes that he forgot
to call in sick to his job, and so's hurriedly
trying to do so before all all chaos breaks out
around them. And yeah, that was a lot of fun.
Like I had a lot of fun playing with superhero
tropes in that series, like taking things that are really
much pretty much cliches in the superhero world and then
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putting them within the context of the mundane and just
pointing out how absolutely ludicrous they could be. Um, maybe
one day I'll bring that back. They still occasionally do
those scripts. They're actually working on re recording some of them,
I think, to release on YouTube. Yeah that's exciting, and
and I've I've talked about going back and writing some
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more because some of them, like I wrote those who
more than a decade ago, like like almost two decades
ago probably, and some of the jokes I think I
need to update because I'm a more aware and compassionate
person now than I was then. And there were some
jokes I made that I probably wouldn't make today. Nothing terterrible,
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but there's some where I'm like, you know what, that's
kind of punching down. I could I could write better
than that. Yeah, yeah, you know, but you're not the
only person who who thinks that way. You know, there
are plenty of other great pieces of art that could
use some updating, like a lot of musical theater. Yeah. Yeah,
and some of it we've seen updates to musical theater.
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But yes, you are very correct, Like I think of
the musical South Pacific that one. I mean, great, it's
set in a very specific time, but who boy, what
a what a show. But the reasons you bring that up, Ariel,
is because we now know when Broadway is going to reopen, Yes,
and that is mid September ish of this year, uh,
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which I don't know if I'll be ready to go
back then, even though I'm I'm fully vaccinated now, thank you.
But I'm excited that it's happening. Uh. You know, I'm
getting slightly more comfortable being out places than I was before,
although I still wear a mask when I go out
because I want to encourage that behavior, but I think
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I might be comfortable enough to do it assuming that
everyone is clearly following procedures to keep people safe, specifically
to keep all the people in the who work at
the theater, whether it's the cast or the crew or
the front of house staff, all of those people safe,
because those are the people who are coming into content
act with crowds, you know, sometimes eight times a week
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if they're doing a full run of shows. Yeah. Yeah,
And we know that the Theater Alliance is really trying
to make those positive changes happen before they go back.
So here's hoping that they're on the right track. You know,
a lot of the shows that they've mentioned coming back
are not surprising, like eight Too Proud, The Life and
Times of the Temptations, Hamilton's Jagged Little Pill six, things
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that have come out recently or are really popular. But
I know you and I were both talking, we're kind
of surprised that we haven't heard anything about Hadestown yet. Yeah,
it's early, because this news broke the day we're recording this.
By the way, we're recording this on May eleven, just
in case you're curious. Uh, And we just heard about
this today, so it may very well be that within
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the next day or two we'll learn more. Because I
actually had tickets to Hades Town before the pandemic happened,
and you know, they originally rescheduled me once, but then
after that, you know, they pushed it back into September
of last year, and when it became clear that that
was not gonna happen either, they said, you know what,
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we're not going to try and do this again because
we can't predict when we're gonna be able to reopen
and it's a lot of work shifting tickets around. So
they just said, we will let you know and give
you a chance to book tickets early once they go
on sale again. And I haven't heard anything yet. I'm
hoping that the shuffle allows Beetlejuice to come back in
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a new theater because they were going to close right
after I was going to see them, but I didn't
see them, So now I hope that they are able
to stay open a little bit longer so I can,
but if not, I really want to see this new
musical that is coming from Off Broadway to On Broadway
called Romeo and Bernadette a Tale musical Tale of Verona
and Brooklyn. Because that sounds hilarious. Yeah, it's Uh. It's
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obviously based or inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but rather
than the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, this one sounds
like a comedy. So it's not like the West Side
Story take on Romeo and Juliet, right, Like that one
has some comedy in it, but it's still a tragedy.
Spoiler alert if you aren't familiar with West Side Story,
I guess, but yeah, it's based off Romeo and Juliet,
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so you should know it does not end well. Um,
but Romeo and Bernadette, Bernadette turns out to be the
daughter of a crime lord and so apparently has a
real potty mouth on her. Yeah, it just looks to
be funny. I mean, you can't put too much humor
in Romeo and Juliet. Oh no, I mean I've played Juliette,
I know all about it. Yeah. Yeah, So if if
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I don't get to see Beetlejuice, maybe I'll get to
see Romeo and Bernadette. Maybe I can drag my husband
out to that one. He's not a huge Shakespeare fan
like I am. So something else that I will have
to make sure to see is the second Knives Out.
I know we've talked about that, but news recently broke
that has made me a little bit more excited about it. Yeah,
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we learned that Dave Batista, the pro wrestler turned Drags
the Destroyer, is on the cast of Knives Out Too,
which I think is great. Like I remember when he
first started going out to acting gigs, I wasn't sure
what to think because I had seen him back in
his wrestling days when he was doing that all the time,
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and yeah, he could cut a promo and stuff, but
I never really saw like acting chops from him. But
he's been in so much stuff, including like Blade Runner,
and he actually has range, like surprising range, and his
his dracks is phenomenal. So I'm very much looking forward
to him playing I don't know, I don't know what
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it'll be in Knives Out Too. I kind of hope
it'll be a big strong dude in some parts of
mean the hope that he plays against type. I mean,
he says, well, it's interesting because he actually took there's
an article on Polygon that I found right before we
got on to record this where he's talking about his career,
how excited he is that it's taking off in his fifties.
You know, Hollywood has often been known to be a
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little bit agist, more for women than for men, but yes,
more for women than for men. But you know, so
he actually took on the Army of Dead, the role
he has an Army of the Dead that's coming out
later this month, because it was more nuanced and serious. Um,
and so I feel like he's trying to get this
more dramatic career going, but Drax isn't that. And I
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think he said that the Knives Out role in the
Polygon interview will be a little bit whack here, because
I mean, that's what Knives Out is. But he's still
excited about it because of the caliber of actor that
the first movie got the second one. You know, it's
it's still a really great role. It's a it's a
great opportunity. So, um, I'm really excited to hear that
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he is he is still taking on comedic roles because
he's so brilliant at it, even as even as he's
pursuing a serious career, right, And and I like that
he is playing stuff beyond the clich action film genre, right,
because that's when we typically see We usually see these folks,
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like from professional wrestling, just take on either uh, straight
out action films which run the gamut between mediocre to watchable,
or they're playing you know, against type to comedic effect,
and it's usually pretty painful to watch, like watching Hulk
Hogan play The Tooth Fairy for example. Um. Yeah, you know,
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and there are a few people who obviously can can
branch beyond that. The Rock is one of them, right,
and it looks like Bautista might be another one. I
I agree, now, you know that does come with some
sad notes news. He says that he is done playing
tracks after Guardians of the Galaxy three and thor Love
and Thunder. Um. He says that things will start sagging
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any second. Now, I don't know if I believe that. Yeah.
Talking about his body, yeah, I know, this dude is
like he he's built like like like a brick house.
I mean, he's just like he is solid, absolutely solid.
But yeah, I know he's you know, he's talked about
wanting to move on from that, which I totally respect.
It is sad because his character, while never a like
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integral part of any of the movies that he's been in,
U is always a welcome edition. Drax has consistently been
an entertaining figure. Um. You know, between like drex And
and Nebula having misunderstandings about stuff, you get a lot
of of great humor in those Marvel films. Um. I
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think I think it would be you know, sad to
see him go, But at the same time, I think
that as an actor he should totally be able to
chase after whatever he wants. It was really cute seeing
his exchange online about leaving it behind and saying someone
else will play the part. But when he said you like,
you know, some other guy can play Drags, what was
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the response? James Gunn said, nobody else could play him,
But I also respect your choice to retire from the role.
Now that being said, I think James Gunn's original plan
was to only do three Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah,
I mean, like like it's it's Here's. The other thing
is that we know in the comic books, the Guardians
of the Galaxy is a team that has had lots
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of different members over the years, and so you can
have a totally different lineup from one thing to the next,
kind of like the Avengers. Hell, the Avengers have a
different line up now because of Iron Man no longer
being part of the team and Keptain America having retired
Um on the Moon. So yeah, well, and and beyond that,
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I mean, if you think about drax Is motivating factor,
it was to get revenge on Thanos, and now Thanos
is gone. Yeah, so he can retire and in a nice,
hopefully happy manner. Um, maybe maybe he and the and
the path Or can can Yeah Mantis, He and Mantis
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can have long and confusing conversations with each other. Well,
I hope to get a lot of that in Guardians
of the Galaxy three at the very least. Um, you know,
and they've they've hinted at other characters. So I'm excited
to see where it goes, even though I will be
sad to see him go. I'm also excited about some
casting for the Borderlands movie. It's an action movie with
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a not cliche casting choice in it. Yeah, Penduleet has
joined the cast. He's going to be playing a preacher apparently, um,
which very much against type for Penjalalette. But also really
funny because Penduleette appears in Borderlands three as as a villain,
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one of the villains you can face in Borderlands three,
along with his his cohort Teller Um. Teller will not
be in Borderland's the film as far as we know.
This is one of those movies where like, I keep
looking at that cast list and I wonder what the
heck is happening because that game is so just ridiculous
and meandering, and I mean it's hard. It has a
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very simple story, but it's a very simple story that's
told throughout like little bits and pieces as you're just
thrown on various little side quests and looking for the
next big gun. And yet you look at that cast
list and here thinking what is happening here? Yeah, it's
very interesting. It's very interesting casting. Um. I'm exceptionally happy
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that a lot of it is for for an action
movie and and for a game where all the characters
seem so young to me, that they're using a lot
of more seasoned actors in it. Um, like Jamie Lee
Curtis and Kate Blanchett and Jack Black. Yeah, holy crap,
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that's gonna be Okay, it's gonna be good. Like I don't,
I don't know it's gonna be good. I am. I
am tentatively very very excited about this, and I'm hoping
it's like an adult version of Jimunji kind of. So
I know that that's not the storyline, but that's the
caliber that I'm hoping for. I am very I'm very
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curious to see what sort of tone they strike because
the games are obviously very tongue in cheek, comedic, um,
and I it would feel odd if the movie tries
to go, you know, like mad Max but zani er,
you know, I mean, that's that's what it's going to be, right, Yeah,
but you know, like, well, I guess maybe it'll work
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better as a movie that way. I don't know. I
can't really say. This is just so hard for me
to wrap my brain around. Yeah, I guess you'll just
have to wait and see, uh something else that it
might be hard to wrap your brain around. What about
the idea of having animal human hybrid children after an
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apocalypse event or a pandemic. I mean, I've alreasa, I'm
not having kids, so really hard to really, Yeah, if
if I came home to a koala baby, I'd be like,
what happened? Um, Yeah, you're referring to Sweet Tooth, Yes,
which is a a little bit of a dark DC
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comic about exactly what we said, kids who are being
born as an animal person hybrid after a pandemic happens,
and then uh humans are are wary of them and
scared of them and hunt them down, hunt them down.
Um And this show focuses on one of those children.
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It's a hybrid dear boy named Gus. The interesting thing
to me is that it's being helmed by a bunch
of really great people, but among them Robert Downey Jr.
And Susan Downey, who are actually trying to make it
more lighthearted so that families can watch it together and
it can be a little bit uplifting, which for a
DC property, it's very refreshing for me to hear. Yeah,
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they are executive producers on the series. Um And I
like that too. I like the idea of trying to
create something that's not just dark and gritty and dower
and and a downer right, Like you've heard me say
that a billion times that I like my escapist uh
fiction to help me escape and considering the last year
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and a half everybody has had I think having a
few things that can perhaps focus on stories that make
you feel good when it's all over, that that'd be nice.
And for it to be genuine, right, not just not
just a cheap cash in of let's throw a happy
ending on there and it will make everyone go home
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happy like I want. I wanted to be earned, not
just you know, not just a pat ending. Yeah. Well,
and and the trailer for this makes me feel like
there's gonna be a lot of tense moments, but it's
also looks it looks so endearing, no, no pun intended.
I'm excited. I had no idea about this before before
you put it on the lineup, so this was totally
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new to me, and I am I'm very excited to
learn more. I wasn't familiar with the comic book series either,
so um, maybe it'll get me into looking at that
like I I didn't think. I thought my comic book
days were pretty much over, and then Invincible happened, so
I might be getting pulled back in. Like the last
thing that I remember collecting, we actually have mentioned in
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our show notes because you said, next, let's have someone
do an adaptation of Bone please. Well. Bone was the
last thing I collected, and Bone is a phenomenal fantasy
epic series, highly recommended. Yeah, I I like it too,
And I it's hard for me to follow comics when
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it's the main the main ones like Justice League and Avengers,
because there's so much out there. But smaller ones like
these are much easier to pick up and start and digest,
and and I'm excited about them. It's it's reinvigorating my
love of comics, not that it ever went away, but
it's it's making it stronger. Uh. Well, now we need
to take a quick break and afterwards, Uh, we're actually
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going to talk about some more news, but it's going
to lead into a conversation that's out of this world.
Thank you, Jonathan Aerial. Yes, so you also picked in
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our news a little news item about how pretty soon
we could be having some private space flights to allow
people to become space tourists. Very wealthy people, but well
people all the same. Yes. Yes, So both Blue Origin
and Space X are looking to start space tourism this year,
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and NASA is saying that their first trip with civilians
could take place as early as January and I don't know. Yeah, well,
I mean like, okay, so so let's let's talk about
a couple of other little things. First. First of all, uh,
do you know anyone who's been to space? I don't,
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but I know you have, you you bragging braggers. I'm
just I was just gonna check before I started talking
about my close personal friend Richard Garriott. Actually he's not
my close personal friend. I chatted with him for a while,
like we we knew each other. We met through the
conventions circuit because my dad was a guest Richard Garriott,
who was the creator of the Ultima series of computer games.
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His alter ego is Lord British. He also was a
guest at a lot of these conventions, and he was
one of I believe seven civilians to pay an exorbitant
amount of money to UM to fly up on a
Russian space capsule to dock with the International Space Station.
So he actually spent time aboard the International Space Station,
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which is kind of neat. And now we are reaching
a point where people who are not potentially not not
as wealthy as that can go UM still very expensive,
or at least it's very likely to be before if
you wanted to try and experience something like this. The
closest you could typically manage is to go on one
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of those parabolic airplane flights where they fly in these
big parallel parabolic arcs which end up simulating weightlessness. Technically
the plane is falling faster than you are, so you're
kind of yeah, but um, that was the closest you
could come. And now we're going to get into stuff
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that goes either in you low Earth orbit or close
to it. Um. So the conversation then is would you
go I mean, like, it seems interesting, but I hate
roller coasters, so re entry just seems absolutely miserable to me. Well,
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not just re entry, I mean launch would be really
rough on you. That's when you would be experiencing serious gees.
So I know that astronauts have to go through a
ton of training to go into space, right, kids go
to space camp to try to do it. So as
a tourist, would you have to go through that same
rigorous amount of training to likely not, because you wouldn't
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be expected to actually control anything or conduct any experiments. Um,
you would also not be up there for an appreciable
amount of time. Most of these experiences you're looking at
are things that take course over like half a day
and maybe include you know, an hour worth of experience
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where you're kind of in space um or or close
to it. So in those cases, you wouldn't need to
have quite that level of training. You know. Of course,
in the early days of the astronaut program, no one
was really sure what the rigors were going to be
of space travel, like what was it what kind of
effect was it going to have on the body, So
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astronauts needed to go through all that training to be
as healthy as they possibly could be before going up
into space because there was no telling what could happen. Well,
I mean, would they at least put you into like
the centerfuge thing to see if you're going to vomit
into your space helmet. You're totally gonna vomit. You're just
gonna that's just gonna happen. I mean, like like the
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parabolic flights that I was talking about. You know what
the the nickname is for those, right, No, the vomit comment.
Oh I thought that was just roller coasters. Nope, the
vomit comment. That's what they call all those parabolic flights
because you know that that experience of being waitless. It is.
It's very disorienting. Your brain is having trouble uh taking,
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you know, figuring this out about how based upon the
visual stimulation you get what you should be feeling, but
you're not feeling that because you're weightless or in microgravity.
Then your brain says, I don't like it. Send a
note to the stomach eject. Yeah. So all that being said,
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maybe once they figure out how to make launch and
reentry gentler, I might consider it. What about you? So
I would do it in a heartbeat if I had
the ridiculous amount of wealth it would take for me
to be able to do it. They are auctioning off
some seats, so maybe you could win one, yeah, because
I mean most of these You look at them and
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you're like, oh, yeah, I know. The going rate is
for like a quarter of a million dollars. Uh that's
a how I can't I can't pay for a full
house price to just go up into space. Um. Yeah,
I I would do it if I had the opportunity
the means to do it, where like it wasn't going
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to break me financially. I would do it because I'm
very curious about it, and I think it would be
an exciting thing. I would love to be able to
look back and see the curvature of the Earth. I
think that would be super cool. Um, A lot of
people talk about it being kind of a life changing
experience when you do that, like you get this new
perspective because when you look back at the Earth, you realize, hey,
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I'm looking at of everyone. The only people I'm not
looking at right now are either on this ship or
on the International Space Station. Everyone else who is alive
I'm looking at right now. That's an incredible thing. That
is that is pretty incredible. So I guess along those lines,
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So you'd go into space, But would you like go
to Mars, because they're talking about sending people to Mars,
possibly setting up colonies there, which to me just seems
like an awful waste of resources for a rock that's
not very hospitable to us. Well, I mean, like there's
there's there's things we could learn on Mars that would
be really useful to us in the long term. But
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but yeah, I I I don't think of it as
a place where you'd want to have, you know, like
a permanent colony or like, I don't think setting up
a permanent colony to have a heinland like Martian civilization
would make much sense. Um, I would not go to
Mars because when one of those people talking an awful
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lot about going to Mars is Elon Musk, who also
just casually mentions that a lot of people are probably
gonna die in the process. Um, I'm like, you know what,
when the guy who's bankrolling it is like, yeah, people
are gonna die, I'm like, pass hard pass. So like,
accidents happen, you know, car accidents happened, that the challenger happened,
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things like that. But the effort, the goal is to
do everything you can to keep those negative things from happening.
So I wouldn't want to go to Mars until the goal,
expected goal and end result was to bring me home successfully. Well,
and see, that's the thing, that's the that's a I mean,
there's so many differences between NASA and SpaceX and two
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I can't sum it up to just this one thing.
But this is one of the major differences, or rather
you could say the difference between NASA and Elon Musk,
and that is NASA goes to extraordinary lengths to try
and ensure the safety of everyone in the program, right
like that. The story of Apollo thirteen is a story
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about NASA coming together to rescue three people who were
aboard of capsule and they could have been lost. They
you know, they NASA could have said, like, this is
a tragedy, there's no way to give them back, but
everyone with all their being worked to get them back
home safely, and they did get back home. Um and
and that's a great part of the mission of NASA.
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Then you have Elon Musku says, yeah, people are probably
gonna die, and it's such a offhand, casual and callous
thing to say that. It makes me feel like too.
And I don't want to put words in his mouth
or give then motivations that he may not have. But
it feels like the checking the box of sending people
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to Mars is more important than the people and as
long as that's the case, I don't want any part
of it. I definitely have the same feels about that.
But that leads me to a more left field question. Okay,
so we don't want to necessarily permanently colonized Mars, right
It's it takes so many resources to make it a
healthy place to live. What do you feel about taking
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planets like Mars. If we determine that there's no life
on Mars, which I think there's bacteria or something, well,
they're they're looking for that, that's what we're looking for.
What are your feels on taking a planet that has
no life in turning it into like a trash planet?
Against it? Against it? Yeah, NASA's against it too. I
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mean like like there are there are treaties out there
that specifically state like you are not meant to contaminate
other planets. Like that is a bad idea. It is
um you know, it's it's it's an irresponsible thing to do.
And there are other ways to deal with the issue
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of trash here on Earth that one don't require you
to shoot anything off into space, and two are more
economical than shooting stuff off into space, but they do
cost money. So what's weird to me is that people
would talk about this as a as a potential solution
when there are better, more practical solutions here on Earth
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that just require us to invest in them to make
them happen. But because the planet thing, I think is
far enough out as a as a possibility, they'd say like, oh,
let's just push it till later. That's a later Earth problem.
I don't want to have to deal with that. Let
let like the generation behind me or the generation behind
them deal with it when it's reached crisis levels and
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they have no choice but to do something about it.
We can do things about it right now that don't involve,
you know, offloading our garbage to some other planet. Well,
and to be fair, I don't I you know, personally,
I don't know how many people are actually, like legitimately
thinking of that. Again, the resources it would take to
do that. It's but it's something that has been explored
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in science fiction, sure media and Superman four through all
of the world's nuclear arms into the sun. Look, I
watched Avenue five, which is an HBO show. I'm guessing
you have not watched it. I have not, about space
cruise ship and all of the possible things that could
go wrong. It's a very dark comedy. I have seen
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the first episode of that series. It's a cumulative episode
a series, so you should watch the rest of the
episodes if it at least piqued your interest a little bit.
But it shows all of the things that could go wrong,
including like putting waste into space and the negative impacts
that could have. And so I just I was curious
about your thoughts on it hypothetically. Like I said, I
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don't know if anybody's actually considering it. Well, if they are,
they gotta knocked that all off. Yes they do. Uh. Well,
I really enjoyed this conversation and I know that you
could probably talk about it for years on end, between
your your technical knowledge and your geek geek it to
knowledge and your sci fi knowledge. But we don't have
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years on end for this episode, so we're going to
take another quick break. Okay, Aerial. So we've got a
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couple of other news items we've really peppered them throughout
the episode this time, UM that end up informing what
our mashup is today. One of those news items is
that the Marvel release a series of posters for the
Black Widow film. Uh and I love the posters. I
think the posters look great me too. It shows you
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that you can have dark, serious characters and still have
a color palette. Not only that, but that you can
have characters who are are women, but the costumes don't
all like fall into the super stereotypical sexy superhero you know,
outfit like, it's not like plunging necklines. Now, granted those
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outfits hugged the curves, but they're not. But it's not
like to the point where it's you know, gratuitous. Yeah,
they feel realistic. They like motorcycling outfits or or one
of the characters, Florence Pugh. Her outfit seems very tactical.
The most improbable thing about it is that it's white
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and you can't keep it clean, but that's probably just me.
And I love the look of the Taskmaster. I was
very curious how they were going to make the Taskmaster
look because in the comics, he's you know, got a
very uh, cartoony skull mask um, and they make it
look kind of like a motorcycle helmet, like with a
with like a holographic type of visor on it. Uh.
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And I love his sword and shield. And I told
Ariel before we did the show that he has sort
of a Boba Fette kind of thing going on. He
certainly does. So we'll we'll post the link in the
show notes so you can look at them if you
haven't seen them yet. So that is one of our
our mashup properties. Is Scarlett, sorry not Scarlett? Why do
I say Scarlett Black Widow trys Scarlett Johanson. That's why.
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Uh so one of our Mashut properties is Black Widow
and the other is SpongeBob. Now why did you pick SpongeBob?
What was in the news that prompted SpongeBob? So there
was a four year old boy in New York who
ordered two thousand, six hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty
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five cents worth of SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles party of that
kid's house. Yeah, I don't think his mom knew or
uh expected it. So he ended up getting fifty one cases,
nine and eighteen individual popsicles from Amazon sent to his
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aunt's house, and then Amazon would not take them back.
So did did the story say how he managed to
order these? Was it like on the computer or was
it like through Alexa? Or I don't they don't know.
There's a there's a post on Instagram that I didn't
get into, but I know that they set up a
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go fund me to kind of recoup the losses, and
they have well more than recoup the losses, so that kids,
the kids going to be able to get some cupcakes
to go along with those popsicles. Yes, definitely, I mean
justin just in time for the summer to that kid's
got it made. Yeah, he's gonna have so many friends.
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But you know, well, we'll also post the link to
that article, and that article has a link to the
Instagram story, so you can read all about it. But uh,
that leads us into our black Widow SpongeBob mash up. Yep,
that's that's why that happened. That's why that happened or
is happening. So I'm gonna go first, go for an arel. Alright,
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this is called the Red Pineapple. After Natasha Romanov told
the KGB das Vedanga, they devised a plan to keep
tabs on their most formidable X operative. They tried sending
agents to befriend her, kill her, and seduce her, and
each time she saw through each agent's ruse and eliminated them.
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The KGB knew that sending any one would trip her trigger,
so they then turned to their deep science division known
as Leviathan to help them solve their problems. And Leviathan
had a plan so crazy that they knew it would work.
Instead of sending someone, they would send something to keep
keep tabs on Natasha. You see. A week before, Leviathan
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was trying to reanimate a corpse at the super Secret
Science laser, but some dang fool tripped on the cord
and the lasers swung to point at a TV in
the next lab room where they were brainwashing a victim
with SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. When the laser struck the TV,
it sucked the characters of SpongeBob's SquarePants out of the TV,
SpongeBob and Patrick to be exact, and into the real world. Leviathan,
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having these new assets, was looking for some way to
use them, and this was the perfect opportunity. They would
brainwash the fools and train them as sleeper agents to listen,
to report back, and if need be, eliminate black Widow Bonus,
SpongeBob and Patrick could use their own bodies to clean
up any mess before anyone found it if the last
option had to be taken. So desperate and out of ideas,
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the KGB agreed. They brainwashed SpongeBob and Patrick, which was easy.
Training them in martial arts was a breeze, but weaponry
was difficult because no one was willing to volunteer to
be in the room with SpongeBob when he had a
weapon in his hand and he kept shouting we and
pointing it at everyone. However, Patrick was a whizard weapons.
Turns out Patrick has a temper and he's just like
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a teeny tiny little hulk. Once trained, they put SpongeBob
and Patrick into sleeper mode and sent them to Natasha
as a care package, which included a de sponge Bob
of course, a foot pumice Patrick, a digital picture frame
with some jellyfish on it to help her relax, and
a chocolate bar. They labeled it as a package from
Bruce Banner with a card reading to help you get
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used to normal life with a little winky face to
sell it at the end, and Natasha, while thinking it
was a little weird, was none the wiser and put
all the items to use in her house. And things
worked well for the KGB for a while. Every night,
when Natasha was asleep, the Black Widow Project would tap
into the picture frame say the secret code word wombo
to activate SpongeBob and Patrick. The two would report back
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on what they had heard Natasha say and where they
saw her going each day, and after some determination to
decipher the sponge and Stars reports. The KGB and crew
thought they knew what she was up to and soon
planned to have the sponge and Starfish neutralize her. But
before they could complete their operation, something happened. Black Widow
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was sitting at home one day watching TV, eating a
dozen donuts for dinner, which was her favorite thing to do.
Don't judge her, she burns a lot of calories being
a hero, and she fell asleep. While she was asleep,
SpongeBob square Pants came on the TV, and the familiarity
of home a woke SpongeBob and Patrick out of their
brainwashed state. They realized what was going on, and after
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they finished off the remaining donuts at Natasha had left
untouched and left thank you note for finding them so useful,
SpongeBob and Patrick shipped themselves back to Russia and exacted
revenge on the entire nefarious organization that had brainwashed him.
The Avengers never knew what took down Leviathan, the Red Room,
and the KGB, but they were glad to have one
less thing to worry about. Natasha, however, never figured out
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where her donuts went. Cute it didn't, I mean, it
doesn't really have anything to do super with Avengers, Black
Widow or SpongeBob lore Well, don't worry, I got you covered, areal.
I figured you might all right. Get ready because this
one's a long one. No, I'm kidding, this one's super short.
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Here we go. I don't have a title for this one.
Uh so we'll just say getting on top of Bikini Bottom.
Here we go. Mr Crabs has a problem. Someone has
broken into his office safe at the Krusty Crab and
stolen his precious formula. Of course, his suspicion immediately falls
on Plankton, owner of the competing restaurant, the chum Bucket.
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Going into full panic mode, he calls upon Earth's mightiest
heroes to help out, despite the fact that his fry cook,
SpongeBob SquarePants, says he is fully capable of finding out
what happened. Three hours later, Terror Natasha Romanov, in full
scuba gear, descends beneath the Bikini a toll to reach
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Bikini Bottom. Well, at first, her enormous size and relation
to the citizens of Bikini Bottom is a bit of
a problem. She uses a special gadget she got on
loan from Hank Pim and shrinks down to a more
appropriate height. She investigates the scene and gets a far
off look in her eyes. What's wrong, black widow, says SpongeBob. Nothing,
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says Natasha. It's just displace. It's just like Budapest, just
like my ledger Budapest, bikini bottom. It's so much there there,
says Patrick, who turns to SpongeBob and says she seems nice.
I'll find that formula, Mr Crabs, says Natasha, and I'll
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need some help. You have my rock, says Patrick, And
my bubble gun, says Sandy. And my square pants says SpongeBob,
and they form the new moist Avengers. First, we need
a lead, says Natasha. It's plankton. He did it, says Sandy.
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Something that can really start us off down the right path,
says Natasha. No, seriously, it's plankton. He tries this all
the time, says Sandy. Wait, says Natasha. Who is that?
SpongeBob looks to see where she's pointing. It's squid word.
Oh him, that squid word, my neighbor and co worker.
Natasha's eyes narrow and in a heartbeat, She's got squid
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word in a seven tentacle armbar. Where's the formula? She yells,
squid word, unable to answer due to racking sobs of
pain whimpers. SpongeBob turns to Patrick and says how long
they think this is gonna last? Five ella's Later, Natasha, SpongeBob,
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and Gang are outside the chum Bucket. They see that
inside the building Plankton is gloating about something and talking
to a mysterious figure, clearly a human who has also
been shrunk down. But this one has a cool skull
mask kind of thing on. He's got a sword and
a shield to Taskmaster, says Natasha. They can take him,
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says Patrick. No you can't. I need a distraction, says Natasha. Hey, Sandy,
could you use that bubble gun to hide us and
maybe dry up the Taskmaster, says SpongeBob. Boy howdy, says Sandy,
and she does just that. Plankton suspicious, says Taskmaster. Out
of the chum bucket, roman Off. It's going to be
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a pleasure to bury you at sea, says Taskmaster. This
guy does not seem nice, says Patrick. What follows is
a cool underwater fight between Natasha and Taskmaster, except Taskmaster
can learn how other people fight instantly and then counter it,
so all of Natasha's attacks are countered. It's no use,
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she says, SpongeBob's eyes narrow. Now take care of it,
and he steps forward. Taskmaster, laughing, prepares to dispatch SpongeBob,
except SpongeBob fights like really weird. I mean, he changes shape,
he blows bubbles, he goofs around, and Taskmaster, trying to
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copy his opponent, quickly wears himself out and in an
attempt to change his shape, ruptures his spleen. And all right,
so he passes out because this is a kid show
and I'm told I can't kill anyone. SpongeBob, you did it,
says Patrick and Natasha. The turn Amon walks into the
chum bucket. Plankton, intimidated by the team, discovers the formula
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behind the chum bucket. Counter that man must have dropped
this in here. I am sure I didn't know how
else it could even be here. Natasha roughs him up
a bit. The team returns to the Krusty Crab Triumphant.
The end one that was brilliant too. I'm really glad
that we don't uh do video as of right now
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for these episodes because people would have seen me doing
like a little squee face and dance every time you
did a SpongeBob impression. That was so uh so fun.
Story Like my old co host Protect Stuff, Chris Palette,
uh he would do a SpongeBob impression at the beginning
of every podcast because I'm like, you're ready to go,
he go, I'm ready. And so it was just I
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had I had never watched an episode of SpongeBob before
I did Text Stuff, and it was just my co
host Crystal Let's saying it over and over that finally
got me to watch it. Do you like SpongeBob? It's
adorable and I love it. I'm I am not like
I wasn't like one of those um stoners who got
really into it and like just love to watch it.
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But I I think that the absurd humor is fantastic
and SpongeBob um. I find I find the the show
to be really joyful and silly, and I love the
things like the the the narrator coming in to talk
about the passage of time, which is why I had
to throw it into my script because those little touches,
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I think are are what really make the show really funny.
I used to dislike SpongeBob Um, but it's not because
of the humor or the writing or anything like that.
I like ridiculous humor, and I like how off the
wall and outside the box they think. But it was
just the it was the animation was ugly to me
and well and they also they do occasionally go into
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that sort of uh humor of the disgusting, right, Like
you get a little bit of the stuff that you
would see in something like Wrinnen and Stimpy, though not
not quite to the grotesque lengths that written Stimpy went to.
Or even you know, Disney did their little retro style cartoons,
makeing Mouse cartoons. Those can get into the little bit
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of the grotesque too. So there's a style that just
kind of it's interesting because it's popularity is stuck around
so long because rind and Stimpy, you know, that's like
thirty years old, forty years old now, at least that
style is popularity and sticking around has nothing to do
with me. Yeah, no, I mean, like yeah, the idea
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of like let's do a quick, uh an extreme close
up on someone's nostril and show nose hairs and Boogers
doesn't really appeal to me that much either, but the
humor is fantastic. Well, that being said, uh, we have
come to the end of all of the things that
we want to talk to you about for this week,
for this week, but if you want to talk back
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excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Casting and with me,
as always is the dulcic lee toned Jonathan Strickland. Why
thank you, Ariel, And in return, I have a question
for you. Okay, Ariel, you're a superhero. We already knew that,
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but no, you're a superhero. What does your mild manner
to alter ego do for a living? Well? You see
this is this is tricky, Jonathan, because in the past
I have actually written theatrical bios about myself that have
said by day a mild mannered admin and at night
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super thespian um. But I think I want to say,
I think I want to switch it up. I think
that my mild mannered day job for a no, you
know what, I don't. I don't I like my own
actual personal backstory. So I think that my mild mannered
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alter ego would be a uh preschool teacher and struggling
community theater artist. She could come back to a little
bit of my actual past. She can save the world,
but can she land a role in a Vida. I
probably don't want to land a role in a community
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theater version of Avida. I think that would be a
spectacular thing to see, though. What a circus, Oh what
a show? Uh well, oh, I'm glad you asked. I
think I'd want to be a a barista and like
really like the superheroes, like just really determined to be
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the best barista that superhero can be when they're not
off being a superhero, Like they treat it seriously and
take it very hard on themselves when they misspell someone's
name on a cup for example. Let me tell you
I have been a barista. I loved it, but it's
a very serious job. Yeah. Yeah. At one point I
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was trying to think of a job that would have
like have you locked down at all hours so that
you could not go off and be a superhero, And
thus the conflict would be like, well, I want to
save the world, but I I have to I'm an
I T professional and I'm on call and customers serve.
This would do that. But you know that's that's funny
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because you've written mild managed superhero stuff, and that falls
right in line with that. Yes, no, I I wrote
a series for the Atlanta Radio Theater Company called Mildly
Exciting Tales of Astonishment. In fact, there was an episode
in which two characters are about to face off against
a an incoming robot invasion, and just before the battle
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is to begin, one of them realizes that he forgot
to call in sick to his job, and so's hurriedly
trying to do so before all all chaos breaks out
around them. And yeah, that was a lot of fun.
Like I had a lot of fun playing with superhero
tropes in that series, like taking things that are really
much pretty much cliches in the superhero world and then
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putting them within the context of the mundane and just
pointing out how absolutely ludicrous they could be. Um, maybe
one day I'll bring that back. They still occasionally do
those scripts. They're actually working on re recording some of them,
I think, to release on YouTube. Yeah that's exciting, and
and I've I've talked about going back and writing some
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more because some of them, like I wrote those who
more than a decade ago, like like almost two decades
ago probably, and some of the jokes I think I
need to update because I'm a more aware and compassionate
person now than I was then. And there were some
jokes I made that I probably wouldn't make today. Nothing terterrible,
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but there's some where I'm like, you know what, that's
kind of punching down. I could I could write better
than that. Yeah, yeah, you know, but you're not the
only person who who thinks that way. You know, there
are plenty of other great pieces of art that could
use some updating, like a lot of musical theater. Yeah. Yeah,
and some of it we've seen updates to musical theater.
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But yes, you are very correct, Like I think of
the musical South Pacific that one. I mean, great, it's
set in a very specific time, but who boy, what
a what a show. But the reasons you bring that up, Ariel,
is because we now know when Broadway is going to reopen, Yes,
and that is mid September ish of this year, uh,
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which I don't know if I'll be ready to go
back then, even though I'm I'm fully vaccinated now, thank you.
But I'm excited that it's happening. Uh. You know, I'm
getting slightly more comfortable being out places than I was before,
although I still wear a mask when I go out
because I want to encourage that behavior, but I think
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I might be comfortable enough to do it assuming that
everyone is clearly following procedures to keep people safe, specifically
to keep all the people in the who work at
the theater, whether it's the cast or the crew or
the front of house staff, all of those people safe,
because those are the people who are coming into content
act with crowds, you know, sometimes eight times a week
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if they're doing a full run of shows. Yeah. Yeah,
And we know that the Theater Alliance is really trying
to make those positive changes happen before they go back.
So here's hoping that they're on the right track. You know,
a lot of the shows that they've mentioned coming back
are not surprising, like eight Too Proud, The Life and
Times of the Temptations, Hamilton's Jagged Little Pill six, things
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that have come out recently or are really popular. But
I know you and I were both talking, we're kind
of surprised that we haven't heard anything about Hadestown yet. Yeah,
it's early, because this news broke the day we're recording this.
By the way, we're recording this on May eleven, just
in case you're curious. Uh, And we just heard about
this today, so it may very well be that within
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the next day or two we'll learn more. Because I
actually had tickets to Hades Town before the pandemic happened,
and you know, they originally rescheduled me once, but then
after that, you know, they pushed it back into September
of last year, and when it became clear that that
was not gonna happen either, they said, you know what,
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we're not going to try and do this again because
we can't predict when we're gonna be able to reopen
and it's a lot of work shifting tickets around. So
they just said, we will let you know and give
you a chance to book tickets early once they go
on sale again. And I haven't heard anything yet. I'm
hoping that the shuffle allows Beetlejuice to come back in
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a new theater because they were going to close right
after I was going to see them, but I didn't
see them, So now I hope that they are able
to stay open a little bit longer so I can,
but if not, I really want to see this new
musical that is coming from Off Broadway to On Broadway
called Romeo and Bernadette a Tale musical Tale of Verona
and Brooklyn. Because that sounds hilarious. Yeah, it's Uh. It's
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obviously based or inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but rather
than the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, this one sounds
like a comedy. So it's not like the West Side
Story take on Romeo and Juliet, right, Like that one
has some comedy in it, but it's still a tragedy.
Spoiler alert if you aren't familiar with West Side Story,
I guess, but yeah, it's based off Romeo and Juliet,
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so you should know it does not end well. Um,
but Romeo and Bernadette, Bernadette turns out to be the
daughter of a crime lord and so apparently has a
real potty mouth on her. Yeah, it just looks to
be funny. I mean, you can't put too much humor
in Romeo and Juliet. Oh no, I mean I've played Juliette,
I know all about it. Yeah. Yeah, So if if
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I don't get to see Beetlejuice, maybe I'll get to
see Romeo and Bernadette. Maybe I can drag my husband
out to that one. He's not a huge Shakespeare fan
like I am. So something else that I will have
to make sure to see is the second Knives Out.
I know we've talked about that, but news recently broke
that has made me a little bit more excited about it. Yeah,
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we learned that Dave Batista, the pro wrestler turned Drags
the Destroyer, is on the cast of Knives Out Too,
which I think is great. Like I remember when he
first started going out to acting gigs, I wasn't sure
what to think because I had seen him back in
his wrestling days when he was doing that all the time,
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and yeah, he could cut a promo and stuff, but
I never really saw like acting chops from him. But
he's been in so much stuff, including like Blade Runner,
and he actually has range, like surprising range, and his
his dracks is phenomenal. So I'm very much looking forward
to him playing I don't know, I don't know what
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it'll be in Knives Out Too. I kind of hope
it'll be a big strong dude in some parts of
mean the hope that he plays against type. I mean,
he says, well, it's interesting because he actually took there's
an article on Polygon that I found right before we
got on to record this where he's talking about his career,
how excited he is that it's taking off in his fifties.
You know, Hollywood has often been known to be a
(10:02):
little bit agist, more for women than for men, but yes,
more for women than for men. But you know, so
he actually took on the Army of Dead, the role
he has an Army of the Dead that's coming out
later this month, because it was more nuanced and serious. Um,
and so I feel like he's trying to get this
more dramatic career going, but Drax isn't that. And I
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think he said that the Knives Out role in the
Polygon interview will be a little bit whack here, because
I mean, that's what Knives Out is. But he's still
excited about it because of the caliber of actor that
the first movie got the second one. You know, it's
it's still a really great role. It's a it's a
great opportunity. So, um, I'm really excited to hear that
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he is he is still taking on comedic roles because
he's so brilliant at it, even as even as he's
pursuing a serious career, right, And and I like that
he is playing stuff beyond the clich action film genre, right,
because that's when we typically see We usually see these folks,
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like from professional wrestling, just take on either uh, straight
out action films which run the gamut between mediocre to watchable,
or they're playing you know, against type to comedic effect,
and it's usually pretty painful to watch, like watching Hulk
Hogan play The Tooth Fairy for example. Um. Yeah, you know,
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and there are a few people who obviously can can
branch beyond that. The Rock is one of them, right,
and it looks like Bautista might be another one. I
I agree, now, you know that does come with some
sad notes news. He says that he is done playing
tracks after Guardians of the Galaxy three and thor Love
and Thunder. Um. He says that things will start sagging
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any second. Now, I don't know if I believe that. Yeah.
Talking about his body, yeah, I know, this dude is
like he he's built like like like a brick house.
I mean, he's just like he is solid, absolutely solid.
But yeah, I know he's you know, he's talked about
wanting to move on from that, which I totally respect.
It is sad because his character, while never a like
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integral part of any of the movies that he's been in,
U is always a welcome edition. Drax has consistently been
an entertaining figure. Um. You know, between like drex And
and Nebula having misunderstandings about stuff, you get a lot
of of great humor in those Marvel films. Um. I
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think I think it would be you know, sad to
see him go, But at the same time, I think
that as an actor he should totally be able to
chase after whatever he wants. It was really cute seeing
his exchange online about leaving it behind and saying someone
else will play the part. But when he said you like,
you know, some other guy can play Drags, what was
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the response? James Gunn said, nobody else could play him,
But I also respect your choice to retire from the role.
Now that being said, I think James Gunn's original plan
was to only do three Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah,
I mean, like like it's it's Here's. The other thing
is that we know in the comic books, the Guardians
of the Galaxy is a team that has had lots
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of different members over the years, and so you can
have a totally different lineup from one thing to the next,
kind of like the Avengers. Hell, the Avengers have a
different line up now because of Iron Man no longer
being part of the team and Keptain America having retired
Um on the Moon. So yeah, well, and and beyond that,
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I mean, if you think about drax Is motivating factor,
it was to get revenge on Thanos, and now Thanos
is gone. Yeah, so he can retire and in a nice,
hopefully happy manner. Um, maybe maybe he and the and
the path Or can can Yeah Mantis, He and Mantis
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can have long and confusing conversations with each other. Well,
I hope to get a lot of that in Guardians
of the Galaxy three at the very least. Um, you know,
and they've they've hinted at other characters. So I'm excited
to see where it goes, even though I will be
sad to see him go. I'm also excited about some
casting for the Borderlands movie. It's an action movie with
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a not cliche casting choice in it. Yeah, Penduleet has
joined the cast. He's going to be playing a preacher apparently, um,
which very much against type for Penjalalette. But also really
funny because Penduleette appears in Borderlands three as as a villain,
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one of the villains you can face in Borderlands three,
along with his his cohort Teller Um. Teller will not
be in Borderland's the film as far as we know.
This is one of those movies where like, I keep
looking at that cast list and I wonder what the
heck is happening because that game is so just ridiculous
and meandering, and I mean it's hard. It has a
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very simple story, but it's a very simple story that's
told throughout like little bits and pieces as you're just
thrown on various little side quests and looking for the
next big gun. And yet you look at that cast
list and here thinking what is happening here? Yeah, it's
very interesting. It's very interesting casting. Um. I'm exceptionally happy
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that a lot of it is for for an action
movie and and for a game where all the characters
seem so young to me, that they're using a lot
of more seasoned actors in it. Um, like Jamie Lee
Curtis and Kate Blanchett and Jack Black. Yeah, holy crap,
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that's gonna be Okay, it's gonna be good. Like I don't,
I don't know it's gonna be good. I am. I
am tentatively very very excited about this, and I'm hoping
it's like an adult version of Jimunji kind of. So
I know that that's not the storyline, but that's the
caliber that I'm hoping for. I am very I'm very
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curious to see what sort of tone they strike because
the games are obviously very tongue in cheek, comedic, um,
and I it would feel odd if the movie tries
to go, you know, like mad Max but zani er,
you know, I mean, that's that's what it's going to be, right, Yeah,
but you know, like, well, I guess maybe it'll work
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better as a movie that way. I don't know. I
can't really say. This is just so hard for me
to wrap my brain around. Yeah, I guess you'll just
have to wait and see, uh something else that it
might be hard to wrap your brain around. What about
the idea of having animal human hybrid children after an
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apocalypse event or a pandemic. I mean, I've alreasa, I'm
not having kids, so really hard to really, Yeah, if
if I came home to a koala baby, I'd be like,
what happened? Um, Yeah, you're referring to Sweet Tooth, Yes,
which is a a little bit of a dark DC
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comic about exactly what we said, kids who are being
born as an animal person hybrid after a pandemic happens,
and then uh humans are are wary of them and
scared of them and hunt them down, hunt them down.
Um And this show focuses on one of those children.
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It's a hybrid dear boy named Gus. The interesting thing
to me is that it's being helmed by a bunch
of really great people, but among them Robert Downey Jr.
And Susan Downey, who are actually trying to make it
more lighthearted so that families can watch it together and
it can be a little bit uplifting, which for a
DC property, it's very refreshing for me to hear. Yeah,
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they are executive producers on the series. Um And I
like that too. I like the idea of trying to
create something that's not just dark and gritty and dower
and and a downer right, Like you've heard me say
that a billion times that I like my escapist uh
fiction to help me escape and considering the last year
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and a half everybody has had I think having a
few things that can perhaps focus on stories that make
you feel good when it's all over, that that'd be nice.
And for it to be genuine, right, not just not
just a cheap cash in of let's throw a happy
ending on there and it will make everyone go home
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happy like I want. I wanted to be earned, not
just you know, not just a pat ending. Yeah. Well,
and and the trailer for this makes me feel like
there's gonna be a lot of tense moments, but it's
also looks it looks so endearing, no, no pun intended.
I'm excited. I had no idea about this before before
you put it on the lineup, so this was totally
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new to me, and I am I'm very excited to
learn more. I wasn't familiar with the comic book series either,
so um, maybe it'll get me into looking at that
like I I didn't think. I thought my comic book
days were pretty much over, and then Invincible happened, so
I might be getting pulled back in. Like the last
thing that I remember collecting, we actually have mentioned in
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our show notes because you said, next, let's have someone
do an adaptation of Bone please. Well. Bone was the
last thing I collected, and Bone is a phenomenal fantasy
epic series, highly recommended. Yeah, I I like it too,
And I it's hard for me to follow comics when
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it's the main the main ones like Justice League and Avengers,
because there's so much out there. But smaller ones like
these are much easier to pick up and start and digest,
and and I'm excited about them. It's it's reinvigorating my
love of comics, not that it ever went away, but
it's it's making it stronger. Uh. Well, now we need
to take a quick break and afterwards, Uh, we're actually
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going to talk about some more news, but it's going
to lead into a conversation that's out of this world.
Thank you, Jonathan Aerial. Yes, so you also picked in
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our news a little news item about how pretty soon
we could be having some private space flights to allow
people to become space tourists. Very wealthy people, but well
people all the same. Yes. Yes, So both Blue Origin
and Space X are looking to start space tourism this year,
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and NASA is saying that their first trip with civilians
could take place as early as January and I don't know. Yeah, well,
I mean like, okay, so so let's let's talk about
a couple of other little things. First. First of all, uh,
do you know anyone who's been to space? I don't,
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but I know you have, you you bragging braggers. I'm
just I was just gonna check before I started talking
about my close personal friend Richard Garriott. Actually he's not
my close personal friend. I chatted with him for a while,
like we we knew each other. We met through the
conventions circuit because my dad was a guest Richard Garriott,
who was the creator of the Ultima series of computer games.
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His alter ego is Lord British. He also was a
guest at a lot of these conventions, and he was
one of I believe seven civilians to pay an exorbitant
amount of money to UM to fly up on a
Russian space capsule to dock with the International Space Station.
So he actually spent time aboard the International Space Station,
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which is kind of neat. And now we are reaching
a point where people who are not potentially not not
as wealthy as that can go UM still very expensive,
or at least it's very likely to be before if
you wanted to try and experience something like this. The
closest you could typically manage is to go on one
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of those parabolic airplane flights where they fly in these
big parallel parabolic arcs which end up simulating weightlessness. Technically
the plane is falling faster than you are, so you're
kind of yeah, but um, that was the closest you
could come. And now we're going to get into stuff
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that goes either in you low Earth orbit or close
to it. Um. So the conversation then is would you
go I mean, like, it seems interesting, but I hate
roller coasters, so re entry just seems absolutely miserable to me. Well,
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not just re entry, I mean launch would be really
rough on you. That's when you would be experiencing serious gees.
So I know that astronauts have to go through a
ton of training to go into space, right, kids go
to space camp to try to do it. So as
a tourist, would you have to go through that same
rigorous amount of training to likely not, because you wouldn't
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be expected to actually control anything or conduct any experiments. Um,
you would also not be up there for an appreciable
amount of time. Most of these experiences you're looking at
are things that take course over like half a day
and maybe include you know, an hour worth of experience
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where you're kind of in space um or or close
to it. So in those cases, you wouldn't need to
have quite that level of training. You know. Of course,
in the early days of the astronaut program, no one
was really sure what the rigors were going to be
of space travel, like what was it what kind of
effect was it going to have on the body, So
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astronauts needed to go through all that training to be
as healthy as they possibly could be before going up
into space because there was no telling what could happen. Well,
I mean, would they at least put you into like
the centerfuge thing to see if you're going to vomit
into your space helmet. You're totally gonna vomit. You're just
gonna that's just gonna happen. I mean, like like the
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parabolic flights that I was talking about. You know what
the the nickname is for those, right, No, the vomit comment.
Oh I thought that was just roller coasters. Nope, the
vomit comment. That's what they call all those parabolic flights
because you know that that experience of being waitless. It is.
It's very disorienting. Your brain is having trouble uh taking,
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you know, figuring this out about how based upon the
visual stimulation you get what you should be feeling, but
you're not feeling that because you're weightless or in microgravity.
Then your brain says, I don't like it. Send a
note to the stomach eject. Yeah. So all that being said,
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maybe once they figure out how to make launch and
reentry gentler, I might consider it. What about you? So
I would do it in a heartbeat if I had
the ridiculous amount of wealth it would take for me
to be able to do it. They are auctioning off
some seats, so maybe you could win one, yeah, because
I mean most of these You look at them and
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you're like, oh, yeah, I know. The going rate is
for like a quarter of a million dollars. Uh that's
a how I can't I can't pay for a full
house price to just go up into space. Um. Yeah,
I I would do it if I had the opportunity
the means to do it, where like it wasn't going
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to break me financially. I would do it because I'm
very curious about it, and I think it would be
an exciting thing. I would love to be able to
look back and see the curvature of the Earth. I
think that would be super cool. Um, A lot of
people talk about it being kind of a life changing
experience when you do that, like you get this new
perspective because when you look back at the Earth, you realize, hey,
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I'm looking at of everyone. The only people I'm not
looking at right now are either on this ship or
on the International Space Station. Everyone else who is alive
I'm looking at right now. That's an incredible thing. That
is that is pretty incredible. So I guess along those lines,
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So you'd go into space, But would you like go
to Mars, because they're talking about sending people to Mars,
possibly setting up colonies there, which to me just seems
like an awful waste of resources for a rock that's
not very hospitable to us. Well, I mean, like there's
there's there's things we could learn on Mars that would
be really useful to us in the long term. But
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but yeah, I I I don't think of it as
a place where you'd want to have, you know, like
a permanent colony or like, I don't think setting up
a permanent colony to have a heinland like Martian civilization
would make much sense. Um, I would not go to
Mars because when one of those people talking an awful
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lot about going to Mars is Elon Musk, who also
just casually mentions that a lot of people are probably
gonna die in the process. Um, I'm like, you know what,
when the guy who's bankrolling it is like, yeah, people
are gonna die, I'm like, pass hard pass. So like,
accidents happen, you know, car accidents happened, that the challenger happened,
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things like that. But the effort, the goal is to
do everything you can to keep those negative things from happening.
So I wouldn't want to go to Mars until the goal,
expected goal and end result was to bring me home successfully. Well,
and see, that's the thing, that's the that's a I mean,
there's so many differences between NASA and SpaceX and two
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I can't sum it up to just this one thing.
But this is one of the major differences, or rather
you could say the difference between NASA and Elon Musk,
and that is NASA goes to extraordinary lengths to try
and ensure the safety of everyone in the program, right
like that. The story of Apollo thirteen is a story
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about NASA coming together to rescue three people who were
aboard of capsule and they could have been lost. They
you know, they NASA could have said, like, this is
a tragedy, there's no way to give them back, but
everyone with all their being worked to get them back
home safely, and they did get back home. Um and
and that's a great part of the mission of NASA.
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Then you have Elon Musku says, yeah, people are probably
gonna die, and it's such a offhand, casual and callous
thing to say that. It makes me feel like too.
And I don't want to put words in his mouth
or give then motivations that he may not have. But
it feels like the checking the box of sending people
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to Mars is more important than the people and as
long as that's the case, I don't want any part
of it. I definitely have the same feels about that.
But that leads me to a more left field question. Okay,
so we don't want to necessarily permanently colonized Mars, right
It's it takes so many resources to make it a
healthy place to live. What do you feel about taking
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planets like Mars. If we determine that there's no life
on Mars, which I think there's bacteria or something, well,
they're they're looking for that, that's what we're looking for.
What are your feels on taking a planet that has
no life in turning it into like a trash planet?
Against it? Against it? Yeah, NASA's against it too. I
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mean like like there are there are treaties out there
that specifically state like you are not meant to contaminate
other planets. Like that is a bad idea. It is
um you know, it's it's it's an irresponsible thing to do.
And there are other ways to deal with the issue
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of trash here on Earth that one don't require you
to shoot anything off into space, and two are more
economical than shooting stuff off into space, but they do
cost money. So what's weird to me is that people
would talk about this as a as a potential solution
when there are better, more practical solutions here on Earth
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that just require us to invest in them to make
them happen. But because the planet thing, I think is
far enough out as a as a possibility, they'd say like, oh,
let's just push it till later. That's a later Earth problem.
I don't want to have to deal with that. Let
let like the generation behind me or the generation behind
them deal with it when it's reached crisis levels and
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they have no choice but to do something about it.
We can do things about it right now that don't involve,
you know, offloading our garbage to some other planet. Well,
and to be fair, I don't I you know, personally,
I don't know how many people are actually, like legitimately
thinking of that. Again, the resources it would take to
do that. It's but it's something that has been explored
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in science fiction, sure media and Superman four through all
of the world's nuclear arms into the sun. Look, I
watched Avenue five, which is an HBO show. I'm guessing
you have not watched it. I have not, about space
cruise ship and all of the possible things that could
go wrong. It's a very dark comedy. I have seen
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the first episode of that series. It's a cumulative episode
a series, so you should watch the rest of the
episodes if it at least piqued your interest a little bit.
But it shows all of the things that could go wrong,
including like putting waste into space and the negative impacts
that could have. And so I just I was curious
about your thoughts on it hypothetically. Like I said, I
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don't know if anybody's actually considering it. Well, if they are,
they gotta knocked that all off. Yes they do. Uh. Well,
I really enjoyed this conversation and I know that you
could probably talk about it for years on end, between
your your technical knowledge and your geek geek it to
knowledge and your sci fi knowledge. But we don't have
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years on end for this episode, so we're going to
take another quick break. Okay, Aerial. So we've got a
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couple of other news items we've really peppered them throughout
the episode this time, UM that end up informing what
our mashup is today. One of those news items is
that the Marvel release a series of posters for the
Black Widow film. Uh and I love the posters. I
think the posters look great me too. It shows you
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that you can have dark, serious characters and still have
a color palette. Not only that, but that you can
have characters who are are women, but the costumes don't
all like fall into the super stereotypical sexy superhero you know,
outfit like, it's not like plunging necklines. Now, granted those
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outfits hugged the curves, but they're not. But it's not
like to the point where it's you know, gratuitous. Yeah,
they feel realistic. They like motorcycling outfits or or one
of the characters, Florence Pugh. Her outfit seems very tactical.
The most improbable thing about it is that it's white
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and you can't keep it clean, but that's probably just me.
And I love the look of the Taskmaster. I was
very curious how they were going to make the Taskmaster
look because in the comics, he's you know, got a
very uh, cartoony skull mask um, and they make it
look kind of like a motorcycle helmet, like with a
with like a holographic type of visor on it. Uh.
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And I love his sword and shield. And I told
Ariel before we did the show that he has sort
of a Boba Fette kind of thing going on. He
certainly does. So we'll we'll post the link in the
show notes so you can look at them if you
haven't seen them yet. So that is one of our
our mashup properties. Is Scarlett, sorry not Scarlett? Why do
I say Scarlett Black Widow trys Scarlett Johanson. That's why.
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Uh so one of our Mashut properties is Black Widow
and the other is SpongeBob. Now why did you pick SpongeBob?
What was in the news that prompted SpongeBob? So there
was a four year old boy in New York who
ordered two thousand, six hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty
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five cents worth of SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles party of that
kid's house. Yeah, I don't think his mom knew or
uh expected it. So he ended up getting fifty one cases,
nine and eighteen individual popsicles from Amazon sent to his
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aunt's house, and then Amazon would not take them back.
So did did the story say how he managed to
order these? Was it like on the computer or was
it like through Alexa? Or I don't they don't know.
There's a there's a post on Instagram that I didn't
get into, but I know that they set up a
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go fund me to kind of recoup the losses, and
they have well more than recoup the losses, so that kids,
the kids going to be able to get some cupcakes
to go along with those popsicles. Yes, definitely, I mean
justin just in time for the summer to that kid's
got it made. Yeah, he's gonna have so many friends.
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But you know, well, we'll also post the link to
that article, and that article has a link to the
Instagram story, so you can read all about it. But uh,
that leads us into our black Widow SpongeBob mash up. Yep,
that's that's why that happened. That's why that happened or
is happening. So I'm gonna go first, go for an arel. Alright,
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this is called the Red Pineapple. After Natasha Romanov told
the KGB das Vedanga, they devised a plan to keep
tabs on their most formidable X operative. They tried sending
agents to befriend her, kill her, and seduce her, and
each time she saw through each agent's ruse and eliminated them.
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The KGB knew that sending any one would trip her trigger,
so they then turned to their deep science division known
as Leviathan to help them solve their problems. And Leviathan
had a plan so crazy that they knew it would work.
Instead of sending someone, they would send something to keep
keep tabs on Natasha. You see. A week before, Leviathan
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was trying to reanimate a corpse at the super Secret
Science laser, but some dang fool tripped on the cord
and the lasers swung to point at a TV in
the next lab room where they were brainwashing a victim
with SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. When the laser struck the TV,
it sucked the characters of SpongeBob's SquarePants out of the TV,
SpongeBob and Patrick to be exact, and into the real world. Leviathan,
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having these new assets, was looking for some way to
use them, and this was the perfect opportunity. They would
brainwash the fools and train them as sleeper agents to listen,
to report back, and if need be, eliminate black Widow Bonus,
SpongeBob and Patrick could use their own bodies to clean
up any mess before anyone found it if the last
option had to be taken. So desperate and out of ideas,
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the KGB agreed. They brainwashed SpongeBob and Patrick, which was easy.
Training them in martial arts was a breeze, but weaponry
was difficult because no one was willing to volunteer to
be in the room with SpongeBob when he had a
weapon in his hand and he kept shouting we and
pointing it at everyone. However, Patrick was a whizard weapons.
Turns out Patrick has a temper and he's just like
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a teeny tiny little hulk. Once trained, they put SpongeBob
and Patrick into sleeper mode and sent them to Natasha
as a care package, which included a de sponge Bob
of course, a foot pumice Patrick, a digital picture frame
with some jellyfish on it to help her relax, and
a chocolate bar. They labeled it as a package from
Bruce Banner with a card reading to help you get
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used to normal life with a little winky face to
sell it at the end, and Natasha, while thinking it
was a little weird, was none the wiser and put
all the items to use in her house. And things
worked well for the KGB for a while. Every night,
when Natasha was asleep, the Black Widow Project would tap
into the picture frame say the secret code word wombo
to activate SpongeBob and Patrick. The two would report back
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on what they had heard Natasha say and where they
saw her going each day, and after some determination to
decipher the sponge and Stars reports. The KGB and crew
thought they knew what she was up to and soon
planned to have the sponge and Starfish neutralize her. But
before they could complete their operation, something happened. Black Widow
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was sitting at home one day watching TV, eating a
dozen donuts for dinner, which was her favorite thing to do.
Don't judge her, she burns a lot of calories being
a hero, and she fell asleep. While she was asleep,
SpongeBob square Pants came on the TV, and the familiarity
of home a woke SpongeBob and Patrick out of their
brainwashed state. They realized what was going on, and after
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they finished off the remaining donuts at Natasha had left
untouched and left thank you note for finding them so useful,
SpongeBob and Patrick shipped themselves back to Russia and exacted
revenge on the entire nefarious organization that had brainwashed him.
The Avengers never knew what took down Leviathan, the Red Room,
and the KGB, but they were glad to have one
less thing to worry about. Natasha, however, never figured out
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where her donuts went. Cute it didn't, I mean, it
doesn't really have anything to do super with Avengers, Black
Widow or SpongeBob lore Well, don't worry, I got you covered, areal.
I figured you might all right. Get ready because this
one's a long one. No, I'm kidding, this one's super short.
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Here we go. I don't have a title for this one.
Uh so we'll just say getting on top of Bikini Bottom.
Here we go. Mr Crabs has a problem. Someone has
broken into his office safe at the Krusty Crab and
stolen his precious formula. Of course, his suspicion immediately falls
on Plankton, owner of the competing restaurant, the chum Bucket.
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Going into full panic mode, he calls upon Earth's mightiest
heroes to help out, despite the fact that his fry cook,
SpongeBob SquarePants, says he is fully capable of finding out
what happened. Three hours later, Terror Natasha Romanov, in full
scuba gear, descends beneath the Bikini a toll to reach
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Bikini Bottom. Well, at first, her enormous size and relation
to the citizens of Bikini Bottom is a bit of
a problem. She uses a special gadget she got on
loan from Hank Pim and shrinks down to a more
appropriate height. She investigates the scene and gets a far
off look in her eyes. What's wrong, black widow, says SpongeBob. Nothing,
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says Natasha. It's just displace. It's just like Budapest, just
like my ledger Budapest, bikini bottom. It's so much there there,
says Patrick, who turns to SpongeBob and says she seems nice.
I'll find that formula, Mr Crabs, says Natasha, and I'll
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need some help. You have my rock, says Patrick, And
my bubble gun, says Sandy. And my square pants says SpongeBob,
and they form the new moist Avengers. First, we need
a lead, says Natasha. It's plankton. He did it, says Sandy.
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Something that can really start us off down the right path,
says Natasha. No, seriously, it's plankton. He tries this all
the time, says Sandy. Wait, says Natasha. Who is that?
SpongeBob looks to see where she's pointing. It's squid word.
Oh him, that squid word, my neighbor and co worker.
Natasha's eyes narrow and in a heartbeat, She's got squid
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word in a seven tentacle armbar. Where's the formula? She yells,
squid word, unable to answer due to racking sobs of
pain whimpers. SpongeBob turns to Patrick and says how long
they think this is gonna last? Five ella's Later, Natasha, SpongeBob,
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and Gang are outside the chum Bucket. They see that
inside the building Plankton is gloating about something and talking
to a mysterious figure, clearly a human who has also
been shrunk down. But this one has a cool skull
mask kind of thing on. He's got a sword and
a shield to Taskmaster, says Natasha. They can take him,
(43:41):
says Patrick. No you can't. I need a distraction, says Natasha. Hey, Sandy,
could you use that bubble gun to hide us and
maybe dry up the Taskmaster, says SpongeBob. Boy howdy, says Sandy,
and she does just that. Plankton suspicious, says Taskmaster. Out
of the chum bucket, roman Off. It's going to be
(44:02):
a pleasure to bury you at sea, says Taskmaster. This
guy does not seem nice, says Patrick. What follows is
a cool underwater fight between Natasha and Taskmaster, except Taskmaster
can learn how other people fight instantly and then counter it,
so all of Natasha's attacks are countered. It's no use,
(44:23):
she says, SpongeBob's eyes narrow. Now take care of it,
and he steps forward. Taskmaster, laughing, prepares to dispatch SpongeBob,
except SpongeBob fights like really weird. I mean, he changes shape,
he blows bubbles, he goofs around, and Taskmaster, trying to
(44:43):
copy his opponent, quickly wears himself out and in an
attempt to change his shape, ruptures his spleen. And all right,
so he passes out because this is a kid show
and I'm told I can't kill anyone. SpongeBob, you did it,
says Patrick and Natasha. The turn Amon walks into the
chum bucket. Plankton, intimidated by the team, discovers the formula
(45:06):
behind the chum bucket. Counter that man must have dropped
this in here. I am sure I didn't know how
else it could even be here. Natasha roughs him up
a bit. The team returns to the Krusty Crab Triumphant.
The end one that was brilliant too. I'm really glad
that we don't uh do video as of right now
(45:29):
for these episodes because people would have seen me doing
like a little squee face and dance every time you
did a SpongeBob impression. That was so uh so fun.
Story Like my old co host Protect Stuff, Chris Palette,
uh he would do a SpongeBob impression at the beginning
of every podcast because I'm like, you're ready to go,
he go, I'm ready. And so it was just I
(45:53):
had I had never watched an episode of SpongeBob before
I did Text Stuff, and it was just my co
host Crystal Let's saying it over and over that finally
got me to watch it. Do you like SpongeBob? It's
adorable and I love it. I'm I am not like
I wasn't like one of those um stoners who got
really into it and like just love to watch it.
(46:16):
But I I think that the absurd humor is fantastic
and SpongeBob um. I find I find the the show
to be really joyful and silly, and I love the
things like the the the narrator coming in to talk
about the passage of time, which is why I had
to throw it into my script because those little touches,
(46:37):
I think are are what really make the show really funny.
I used to dislike SpongeBob Um, but it's not because
of the humor or the writing or anything like that.
I like ridiculous humor, and I like how off the
wall and outside the box they think. But it was
just the it was the animation was ugly to me
and well and they also they do occasionally go into
(46:59):
that sort of uh humor of the disgusting, right, Like
you get a little bit of the stuff that you
would see in something like Wrinnen and Stimpy, though not
not quite to the grotesque lengths that written Stimpy went to.
Or even you know, Disney did their little retro style cartoons,
makeing Mouse cartoons. Those can get into the little bit
(47:20):
of the grotesque too. So there's a style that just
kind of it's interesting because it's popularity is stuck around
so long because rind and Stimpy, you know, that's like
thirty years old, forty years old now, at least that
style is popularity and sticking around has nothing to do
with me. Yeah, no, I mean, like yeah, the idea
(47:40):
of like let's do a quick, uh an extreme close
up on someone's nostril and show nose hairs and Boogers
doesn't really appeal to me that much either, but the
humor is fantastic. Well, that being said, uh, we have
come to the end of all of the things that
we want to talk to you about for this week,
for this week, but if you want to talk back
(48:03):
to us about any of those things, you should reach
out and do so. Whether it's sharing your version of
a SpongeBob Black Widow mash up, or telling us your
thoughts on traveling to space or some topics you'd like
us to talk about. How can they reach us, Jonathan, Well,
you can do it via the emails. The email address
for the show is l n C at I heart
(48:25):
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for the email. That's that's my job, yes, and uh,
(48:46):
we really hope to hear from you. And also remember
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numbers are good until next time. I'm Jonathan. Numbers are
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all that mattered to me. Strickland and I am Ariel.
Get this sponge out of here. Casting m m M.
(49:39):
The Large Nur John Collider is production of I Heart
Radio and was created by Ariel cast In. Jonathan Strickland
is the executive producer. This show is produced, edited, and
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