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Okay, we're here today talking about a movie we once saw yesterday.

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Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events.

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So Holly, I know you're really into the books.

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What do you like so much about them?

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Well, I like them because I know that they're never going to happen.

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So I like to read about them and I like how he writes the stories.

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Now he sometimes interrupts the story and then he talks about something really interesting.

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And like in one book, she starts off with talking about the water cycle

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because basically the whole book is in the water.

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Oh, okay.

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So he talks about rain, evaporation, that sort of idea, the whole cycle of water.

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Okay, cool.

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So how many books are there?

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Right now there's 11.

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And have you read all of them?

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I'm reading the 11th right now and I've read one through 10.

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So Kay, how many of these have you read?

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One through 10.

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Really?

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Yes.

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Do you look as forward to them coming out as Holly does?

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No, I just read them.

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You just read them?

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So why don't they sort of fire your imagination as much as they do your sisters?

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I guess they're just like other books.

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They're kind of short.

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Yeah, so they're definitely short, which is why the movie covers how many books?

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Three.

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The first three?

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So yeah, since the series seems to not be letting up, are you finding the stories seem to repeat

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It's kind of boring in the 10th book because all they find is more mysteries, more mysteries.

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It gets kind of confusing after a while.

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It gets confusing in the 10th book because then you know that break is going and that

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means that you have a series that you can keep reading for a long time.

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So the movie, the first three books, what's the basic idea behind the movie?

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Explain the whole concept of the series of unfortunate events.

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Okay, so these three orphans who are exceptionally bright lose their parents in a fire and so

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they keep going to guardian after guardian, but they encounter several unfortunate events

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and they stay with each guardian.

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So the kids each have a special sort of skill?

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Lyle the eldest is an inventor, Klaus, is the middle child and he likes to read

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and Sonny, the youngest, likes to bite things with her four sharp teeth.

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Okay, and who's the main bad guy?

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Count Olaf.

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And what's so evil about him?

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He's trying to steal the ball of fortune.

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He was funny too.

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He's funny and mean?

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Yes, in the movie.

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In the movie? Is he less funny in the books?

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Yes, more sinister in the books.

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So Jim Carrey plays Count Olaf in the movie and I was a little concerned

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that Jim Carrey is sort of known for going over the top.

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He did the Grinch and I thought he was a little over the top of the Grinch

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and he's done some good performances where he's been a little bit more restrained

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so I was kind of afraid he'd go over the top

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but I thought he did a good job as Count Olaf.

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You guys agree?

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I could see some of the ham in him coming out a few points

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but I thought he definitely played the character more evil than he did as a goofball.

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Which he's supposed to be.

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He's supposed to be evil, yeah.

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So the basic plot behind the movie is?

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He's trying to steal a bottle out of fortune.

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Right, he's trying to steal the fortune

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and the kids are trying to sort of figure out through clues

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who set the fire to their house.

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Yes, and they always know who Count Olaf is

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but one of the adults they don't believe him.

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Right, so the adults are pretty dumb in this movie.

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Yeah, they're kind of clueless.

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They're kind of clueless.

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There's a lot of great short performances in the movie

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by some famous actors, Billy Connolly plays Uncle Monty,

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Meryl Streep plays Josephine and their third guardian I guess

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because Count Olaf is the first.

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There's some bits by Cedric the Entertainer and Dustin Hollen

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and so I thought it was pretty well cast.

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I thought the kids in the movie were exceptional.

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Do you guys agree?

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Yes.

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So what's your favorite part of the movie, Holly?

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What's your favorite character and what's your favorite scene?

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My favorite character is probably either Sonny or Violet

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and I like the scene where I like all the scenes

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when Sonny says something and the adults don't understand her

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but it's really funny.

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So she speaks baby talk and they put it

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as closed captioning underneath the screen

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and the closed captions are a riot.

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They're definitely the funniest part of the movie I thought.

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How about you, Kate?

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Well I liked the part where Lemony Snicket kind of interrupts the books

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and he talks while he's typing and stuff

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and he stops an exciting part

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to say like my typewriter broke and stuff.

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I thought that was good too.

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I was just about jumping out of my seat at that one scene

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but it was in the leeches where his typewriter breaks.

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The snake.

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The snake.

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The snake for the thing.

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The incredibly deadly viper.

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Yes.

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That was very good.

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I like the way they do that too.

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So Lemony Snicket is played by Jude Law,

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who's a pretty good actor in his own right.

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He has a really good job with that also.

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So what's your favorite part of the movie, Holly?

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My favorite part is when...

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well it's kind of two parts that make this one part really good.

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It's Josephine says,

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well I don't want you to touch the journal

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because I think it's going to shine into a million pieces

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and hit my eye.

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And then when the house is falling down

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all the things that she said happen.

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She's extremely paranoid and frightened of everything

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and she puts the most ridiculous excuses in place

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while she never uses the stove and things like that

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and then that whole series comes true

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which I thought was pretty funny also.

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How about you, Kate?

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What's your favorite part?

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I like the sunny subtitles

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when she's talking to Aunt Josephine

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and she says she must have flew in from Crazy Town

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and stuff and she thinks she's a goofball.

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So they changed the movie compared to the books at all?

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They kind of switched up the first book.

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They put the beginning at the beginning

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and the end of the first book at the end of the movie.

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And also Claude, he uses a grappling hook

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really in the books, Violet does that.

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I thought it was interesting how they twisted that up

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so that made him be an inventor for a little bit.

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What would Violet do?

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And at the same time, I know in the book, they had her.

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I was thinking about law.

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How law, how she could get out of that marriage legally.

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They didn't use it in the movie, but you know.

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Yes, they did.

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She was trying to sign with her left hand.

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All of a sudden, right.

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Yeah, he caught her.

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So I thought it was a really fun movie.

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What do you give it for out of four stars, Holly?

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I give it five out of five.

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Five out of five.

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I give it four out of five.

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I thought it was really well done.

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And I encourage everybody to stay through the closing credits

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because I thought they were really,

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Yeah, they were really good.

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They were really cool and really interesting.

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The theater luckily left the lights down

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to give sort of people a clue to stay through there.

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and people head out, but they were very inventive

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so that's the best credits I think I've ever seen.

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So I think we give it definitely a big thumbs up.

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Go see it.

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It's a fun movie.

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Yeah.

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But I would say probably it's a subject matter

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that's pretty dark.

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So I would say eight years old and up would be the most.

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We chose not to bring our six and a half year old to it.

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I would have been really scared.

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She would have been really scared.

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that it's dark but it's still funny at the same time.

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Also a lot of coincidences.

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And one of my friends thought and she said

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she didn't understand it at all.

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And she's my age, but I think she didn't need the books

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That's a shorter podcast so I was able

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to fit another one in between.

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This guy has actually become somewhat of a friend of mine

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although I've never met him in person.

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He's shown up in interviews together.

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His name is Father Roderick.

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He's a Catholic priest from the Netherlands

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and he got started in podcasting

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when he was at the Vatican.

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like the e-ticket and you're allowed to walk in

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wherever you want to.

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He was there just as the Pope fell ill

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before he passed basically

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and Father Roderick was there,

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had a mini-disc recorder and a microphone,

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pulled it out and started recording

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and he really, he'd already been listening to podcasts

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and started him into doing what you can hear

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on CatholicInsider.com

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and most of the stuff you hear

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is nothing you'd expect from a Catholic priest.

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He does all kinds of great features

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like what he had recently, debunking the Da Vinci Code.

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He goes on sound-seeing tours

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deep inside the Vatican where no tourists

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or pilgrims are allowed

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and he's really starting to become a big man

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on campus there at the Vatican.

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He even got Vatican Radio to start podcasting.

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So on this particular show

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Part 1 of his Star Wars Chronicles

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he talks about his

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his obsessiveness with the Star Wars

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where it came from

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and there's an interesting twist to the story

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at the end and if you want to hear Part 2

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well you'll just have to check out his website

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CatholicInsider.com

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but for right now here is Father Roderick

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with the Catholic Insider Part 1

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of the Star Wars Chronicles.

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[ Music ]

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A couple of years ago

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I received an email from someone

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who worked at Skywalker Ranch.

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Skywalker Ranch was built by George Lucas

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and a lot of the creative departments

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of Lucasfilm are located there

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and the email said

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since you're coming over to the States

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for the premiere of Episode 1

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The Phantom Manus

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would you like to visit the ranch

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while you're in the neighborhood?

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A few months later

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I was in California

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in a car

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driving up the lane

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and stopping at the security

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checkpoint at the entrance

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of Skywalker Ranch.

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I was about to visit the place

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where George Lucas was working

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on his Star Wars movies

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thousands of Star Wars fans

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would have happily traded in their homes

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their cars, their dogs, their wives

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to be able to be where I was

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at that moment.

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It was an unforgettable experience.

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But let's not rush into things

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how did a Dutch Catholic priest

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working in a small village

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ended up there

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at the heart of the Star Wars universe?

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And why does a Catholic priest

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care about Star Wars altogether?

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Aren't priests supposed to be talking

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about heaven instead of galaxies

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far far away?

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It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

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In these Star Wars chronicles

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I'll tell you where my interest

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for George Lucas's movies came from

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how Star Wars taught me

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how to use the power of the internet

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and which adventures

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I experienced because of Star Wars.

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Now to understand why I used

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to be so much into Star Wars

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we have to go back to

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my youth when I was about 8 or 9

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I lived at the time

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in a small village

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and I always had the idea that

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if there was a bright spot in the universe

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I was living in the place that was farthest from

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at least in my perception

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Now all that changed

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when I saw the first Star Wars movie

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Now this movie

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was one of the first movies

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I ever saw in a theater

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in my life

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had an incredible impact

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it totally

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totally stunned me

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and I was talking only about

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this movie. Of course we got

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the toys and with my brother

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and my sister we would play

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for hours and hours each day

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replaying these adventures

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invent new adventures

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and I just basically

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collect anything that had to do

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with Star Wars

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I remember that one day

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at Carnival

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I dressed up as Luke Skywalker

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and I went to school

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in this outfit

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and I was totally horrified

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when my teacher said

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oh you're dressed up like this

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Star Trek guy

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and I thought like

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Star Trek

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you are supposed to be my teacher

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in this school

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how on earth can you talk about Star Trek

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when this is clearly Luke Skywalker

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let alone Star Wars man

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where did you get your education

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and then most of my classmates

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and the other people at school

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didn't even know

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about Star Trek let alone Star Wars

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but anyway

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I had my brother

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I had another couple of friends who were also into Star Wars

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so for me that was

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like a fantastic

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world in my imagination

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and in my dreams

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I would travel to the stars

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and with these same adventures

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I would have my own C-3PO and R2-D2

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and

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it was a great inspiration

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for all the games we played

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and all the adventures we kind of invented

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playing with the toys etc

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now don't get me wrong

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I don't have anything against Star Trek

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actually

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I was very fascinated

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by Star Trek we couldn't get that

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on Dutch television

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but from time to time

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we went over to stay at

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our grandparents place

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and they were living in the south

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of the country

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on their television they could receive

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German television

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and I remember that I used to watch

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their black and white television

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and they would show these episodes

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of Star Trek

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and they dubbed it in German

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and of course I didn't understand a word of it

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but I thought it was great

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I clearly remember

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Doctor Spock

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now we would say hokey special effects

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but at the time I thought it was

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just fantastic

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this series

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about stars

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about a starship that would travel to the stars

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about aliens

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just totally fantastic

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that alone was worth

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making the trip to my grandparents

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it was fantastic

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but Star Wars was still something

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that sparked even more

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my imagination

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Star Wars and Star Trek

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also to a lesser extent

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also sparked my interest for astronomy

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and I used to have

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in my room all these model kits

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of space crafts

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of the space shuttle

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I used to make these little planets

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of round balls

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I would paint them and I would hang them

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a little cord

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like that on the ceiling

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so my whole room looked like

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observatory actually

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and then after a long long time

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finally we had the second

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Star Wars movie and it was even

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even better than the first one

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and of course I was older so I understood the story

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a little bit more

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and that was just fantastic

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and of course I was kind of

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shocked that Luke

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didn't get involved with Leia

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but that Han Solo actually got the princess

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I found that very shocking

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Luke Skywalker was my hero

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and Han Solo was just this

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kind of wild guy

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he just didn't deserve princess Leia

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that was my opinion at the time

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and the third movie came out

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I was even older and that was also

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a fantastic conclusion

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to the whole saga

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and then of course we got our first video recorder

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and I bought these movies on video

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and I would play them

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over and over again

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I must have seen a hundred times

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a total waste of time perhaps

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for some people but for me

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it was just like reading my favorite book

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I would read it over and over again

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and it was the same with these movies

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so I knew them all by heart

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I wasn't the only one because my brother

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had the same geeky behavior

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so we were used to

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when we were washing the dishes

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we used to kind of recite the whole movie together

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so when I was about 17 or 18

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I started to rediscover

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my faith and

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when I was in that process

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I also started to

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discover that there was actually

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a second layer in these Star Wars movies

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it wasn't just a popcorn story

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about a princess

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about Luke Skywalker

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some spaceships and some space wars

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but that there were

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a lot of mythological

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also religious themes

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that church Lucas took

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and put them in the story

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of the movie

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I also started reading about this

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it was actually

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something that George Lucas did deliberately

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because he said

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he wanted to create

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a new mythology for young people

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for today's young people

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to talk to them

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to teach them about good

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and evil about the consequences

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of our choices

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and I was fascinated

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by that deeper level

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00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
of the movie and I started to read

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about it and start to

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rediscover these movies

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and so they became even more

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intriguing and more interesting

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so I also

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tried to find out the differences

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between the kind of

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philosophy that you find in Star Wars

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and the

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philosophy of faith

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of the Catholic faith and the values in there

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it made me look at these movies over and over again

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trying to

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see all these links and references

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and also the whole

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trilogy itself had so many

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internal references

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and I just rediscovered

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how very very well constructed these stories were

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and that is also

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for me

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why they worked and why they worked on a global level

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because

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George Lucas didn't only want to make

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a popcorn movie

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but he just inserted all these

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mythological themes

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and kind of the core

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themes of storytelling

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so that would actually

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kind of evoke

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the central themes

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in a lot of cultures and a lot of

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philosophies and in a lot of religions

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I studied for 10 years

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in order to become

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a priest I first did 4 years

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of philosophy and then

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I did another year of theology

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I did all that in Belgium

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then I did another 5 years of

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theology in Holland in Utrecht

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and then I was ordained

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and after my ordination

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my bishop asked me to work

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for 50% in a couple of parishes

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and then for 50% to start

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a doctorate

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on the theology of

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Saint Thomas Aquinas

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a very important medieval

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theologian and philosopher

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and while I was starting

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my studies at university

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I first got into contact with

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the internet

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and one thing that at the time was relatively new

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we didn't have it

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at home so what I did

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was in my free time I was kind of

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surfing the internet and discovering

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all these different topics

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that people made websites about

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and one thing I discovered

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was a website about Star Wars

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that told me that you know

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George Lucas was going to make the prequels

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so new Star Wars movies

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and suddenly this whole

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enthusiasm for Star Wars

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just know everything about it

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so I started looking for the rumors

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00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000
about these new movies and when they would be

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filmed and you know I was most

644
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of course very much interested

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00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,000
in the storyline you know

646
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how can you make prequels what are they going to be about

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and of course this storyline

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was ultra secret

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but I started to

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gather on the internet

651
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all the little rumors

652
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000
and little you know leaked out secrets

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of this new movie

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and I started to put them

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on a website

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00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000
and that started off

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00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
a whole new adventure for me

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00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000
on the internet and I will tell you more

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00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
about it in the next episode

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00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,000
of the Star Wars Chronicles

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the past weeks podcasting activity

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and some of the news stories that popped up

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on the radar

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this week a warning

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from the international nano casting alliance

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00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000
a South Carolina podcaster

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00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,000
gets fired over a podcast

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00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,000
and Bitbass Unplug

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00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,000
lets you charge micropayments for your podcast

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00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,000
later this year

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welcome and thanks for tuning in

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I know you have a lot of choices

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I sure do my iRiver right now

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has 36 hours of podcasts

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00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000
that are just waiting to be listened to

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so we're honored that you're spending

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a few minutes with us today

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I'm Scott Fletcher and I'm just gonna

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help you keep up and catch up

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with everything that's been going on in the podcast world

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I can't even pretend

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to give you all of it

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but I'll give you the ones that popped up on my radar

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if I miss anything

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or if you want a bitch about my lack of

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or my poor coverage

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give me a holler

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or you can reach me at

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show

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at podcheck.com

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without further ado

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let's get into the news

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BMI has started a podcast series

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called see it here now

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with the word here

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spelled like you're listening here

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not like locally standing

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where I am here

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00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,000
they started the podcast showcase and promote

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some of its new songwriter artists

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00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000
that don't have a record deal yet

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00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000
the podcast has been available since

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May 9th at BMI.com

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and BMI will select songwriter

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00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,000
artists for the podcast

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from its new signings each month

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we here at podcheck weekly review

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wonder if that's all it takes

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to be an agency in the 21st century

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honestly we'd be happy

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to audition music and put it together

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00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,000
in a monthly podcast of independent music

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00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000
what a great idea

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why hasn't anyone thought of this before

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00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,000
why this is that what

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so someone else

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someone else has

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125 other

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00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000
podcasts do that already

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well our offer still stands

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00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,000
so all of you starving musicians

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00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000
out there send us your

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00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000
independent pod safe music

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00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,000
along with $300 cash

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00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000
and we'll consider playing your music

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00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000
on our new podcast

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00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000
then if some fat cat

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00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,000
record executive happens to hear your song

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00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,000
on our podcast

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00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000
you end up getting signed

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00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000
with a record company deal

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00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000
all we ask is 30%

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00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,000
of the take and your soul

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00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,000
South Carolina reaffirmed

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00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,000
its tolerance this week

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00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000
when podcaster Nate Fullermer

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00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000
was fired from his day job

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00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,000
in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

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00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
he described his own podcast

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00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000
the Nate and Die Show

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00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000
typical podcast fare

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00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000
probably some dirty words and nasty talk

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00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,000
Nate Fullermer was apparently fired

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00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000
from the laboratory supply company

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00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000
for not representing his employer

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00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,000
in a moral manner

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00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,000
you know that's odd

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00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,000
because I think that Pat O'Brien

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00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,000
still has his job

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if you agree

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00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,000
say yes

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00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,000
listeners of the Geek News Central

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00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,000
podcast will tell you that Todd Cochran

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00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000
has been king geek for the last week

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00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,000
incessantly promoting

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00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000
his quote big announcement

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00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000
that he made on Friday the 13th

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00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,000
and the announcement was

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he wrote a book

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it's a new podcasting how to book

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00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,000
published by Wiley Publishing

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00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,000
the book called podcasting do it yourself guide

763
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000
shows readers not only how to find

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00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000
download and listen to podcasts

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00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000
but also how to create

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00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,000
a podcast of their own

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00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,000
the books do out in May 30th this year

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for retail price of $19.95

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it's also available for

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pre-order at Amazon for $13.59

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and will be available

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00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,000
on the clearance table

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at Sam's in October for $3.99

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what?

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it's true

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nothing against him

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I'm sure it's a great book

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but in six months the whole landscape is going to change

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00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,000
to be fair I haven't read the book

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so I don't know how specific it is

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00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,000
but boy podcasting

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00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,000
is changing every day

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00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,000
so I

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but hats off to him if he can keep that book

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00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,000
relevant for more than a few months

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00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000
you never know about consumers though

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because I still have my

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1991 internet yellow pages

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book that I bought for $20

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that was back before google

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00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000
and altavista and all those

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00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,000
before search engines he had to buy

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a book back in my day

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00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000
anyway onward

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so

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imagine getting a wake up call

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at 6.30 in the morning

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from podcasting drag queen

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Wanda Wisdom

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good morning

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this is your wake up call

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get that little bottom out of bed

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eh

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Wanda Wisdom's lucky bitch

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00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,000
radio podcast wants to ensure

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00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,000
listeners are bright-eyed and

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bushy-tailed for her daily

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radio show

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I'm not sure how that's going to work

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00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000
be great if it was automated

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Wanda Wisdom wicked dialer

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00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,000
my wife I wonder what my wife

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00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,000
think I just signed us up for that

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00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,000
and at 6.30 this drag queen called us up

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00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,000
sounds like a great idea

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Scott

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building and maintaining that quality marriage

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I'm sure you've heard by now that

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infinity broadcasting has

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a radio station called KYOU

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00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,000
radio

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the world's first ever podcasting

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radio station and that's set to

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launch Monday that's tomorrow

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May 16th at 9 in the morning

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featuring content

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created exclusively by

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00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000
you the listener the podcast

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sucker giving away your stuff

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00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,000
for free

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00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,000
it's up to you if you want to do that

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speaking of the KYOU

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00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,000
radio if you're considering

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00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,000
submitting your podcast to KYOU

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00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000
radio then you might be interested

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00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,000
in the story from the International

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00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Nanocasting Alliance a trade organization

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00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,000
dedicated to hijacking the podcast

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00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,000
movement by renaming it and then claiming

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00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,000
all credit for its success

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okay no that's not really

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their slogan I just made that up

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I'm sure you know I'm sure

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there's nothing wrong with renaming a

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00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000
commonly accepted concept like podcasting

846
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and calling it instead

847
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000
nanocasting considering that

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00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000
most of us listen to our nanocast

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00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,000
on our nanopod while

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driving to work in our auto

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00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000
car whatever

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in any event the

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international nanocasting alliance

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has an unexpectedly valid warning

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to podcaster I mean nanocasters

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the

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warnings about the legal issues in the

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KYOU contract

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according to attorney Michael Leventhal

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clauses in the KYOU

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radio agreement are intended to

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protect infinity broadcasting

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and shift legal exposure to the content

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provider you the podcaster

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essentially if

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they get sued you get sued

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and they're not gonna carry your ass so

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you know doesn't matter what kind

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of contract you're in this language

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is gonna be in it essentially saying if

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I get sued and it's your fault

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00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,000
I'm not gonna take the blame

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00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000
so if you're a podcaster considering

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00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,000
getting involved in the KYOU

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00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,000
radio here's my warning

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from podcheck

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weekly review

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00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,000
that KYOU contract contains

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00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,000
nothing out of the ordinary

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be careful

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00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,000
and whatever you do don't

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00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000
read the contract before you sign it

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00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,000
this story out of Lycos

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00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,000
according to them

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00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,000
the search requests related to

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00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,000
podcasting are up a gazillion percent

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00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,000
no wait

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that's that's only got

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00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,000
that's three zeros that's a thousand percent

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00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,000
well though without really

891
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,000
any real numbers from Lycos

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00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,000
that could be an increase from one to

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one thousand probably a little bit

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more than that anyway in addition

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Lycos is calling Godcasts

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00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,000
the hottest trend in podcasting

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we here at podcheck weekly

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00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,000
review suggest that Paris bashing

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00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,000
is the hottest trend this week

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00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,000
not only are podcasters bashing

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00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,000
the hell out of her podcast

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00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,000
but now teenage boys googling

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00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,000
for Paris Hilton sex videos are likely

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00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,000
to be redirected to the Paris Hilton podcast

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00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,000
and there's nothing less

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00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,000
wankable than the Paris Hilton

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00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,000
podcast teenage boys

908
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000
around the world are going to be

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pissed

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00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,000
so I mentioned yahoo is going to get

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00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,000
into the online music business sure

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00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,000
enough this week they have a beta

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00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,000
version of a new music subscription

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00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
service called yahoo music

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00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000
unlimited made available on

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00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,000
May 11th it

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00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000
has got a catalog of more than a million songs

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00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,000
supports portable devices

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and a system for sharing music and

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playlists with friends

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00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,000
you can listen to commercial free internet radio

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and you can access your subscription service

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00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,000
from the yahoo messenger application

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00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,000
so essentially you pay your monthly

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00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,000
membership to get in and then you start

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forcing all of your friends to listen

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00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,000
to the crap that you happen to like

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00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,000
and like being at all you can eat buffet

929
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000
and tossing a dinner roll across

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00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,000
the dining room anyway

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00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,000
so we welcome yahoo music

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00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,000
unlimited to the fray

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00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,000
of online music stores now

934
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,000
if someone would just offer Brent

935
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,000
bourgeois solo album

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00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,000
online I'd be in heaven

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00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,000
sci-fi talk

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00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,000
the program

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00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,000
has announced that it's dropping

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00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,000
live 365.com

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00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,000
in favor of podcasting

942
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,000
the show will no longer broadcast

943
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,000
in the extended radio station

944
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,000
or playlist mode on live

945
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,000
365.com

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00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,000
the show had had an extremely loyal

947
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,000
listenership for over five years

948
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,000
so converting from live 365

949
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,000
to podcasting makes a ton of sense

950
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,000
especially since most Star Trek fans

951
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
bought an iPod they purchased

952
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,000
iPods because they look so much like

953
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,000
the futuristic communicator

954
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,000
and they like to pretend that they're talking on it

955
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,000
Sulu we're in a world

956
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000
of hurt down here send down

957
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,000
three pizzas and

958
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,000
get it to really enslave girl

959
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,000
this week the company BitPass

960
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,000
announced that they're coming out with a product

961
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,000
called BitPass Unplugged

962
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,000
it's a new service that will give you

963
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,000
the ability to charge for your podcast

964
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,000
the company will present a preview of it

965
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,000
at the streaming media east

966
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,000
2005 conference

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00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,000
at New York City

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00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,000
on May 17th

969
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,000
BitPass Unplugged

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00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,000
will allow podcasters to offer

971
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,000
a la carte and subscription driven

972
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,000
podcasts they plan to launch the

973
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,000
product for real in the fourth

974
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,000
quarter of 2005

975
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,000
Microsoft has announced

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00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,000
that it is acquired a company called

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00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,000
message cast message cast

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00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,000
who has a product called live message

979
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,000
sends out alerts when the

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00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,000
information is updated and that's also

981
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,000
being used by some of the podcasters

982
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000
in the community to communicate to

983
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000
listeners via alerts

984
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,000
live message alerts which essentially

985
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,000
can pick and choose among the various

986
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,000
delivery options you can

987
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,000
let someone know via cell phone

988
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000
or a pda or even right there on the desktop

989
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,000
that they got a new podcast

990
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000
or that your hair is on fire

991
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,000
or some sort of very important alert

992
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,000
that you just can't wait for the thing

993
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,000
to be downloaded onto your iPod

994
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,000
you gotta have an alert whatever

995
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,000
I guess that'd be alright having my cell phone

996
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,000
tell me there was a new episode of Radio Clash

997
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,000
ready for my mash up

998
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,000
pleasure

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00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,000
also this week Hillary Rosen

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00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,000
former chairman and chief executive officer

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00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000
of the recording industry association

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00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000
of america industry ria

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00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,000
riai

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00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,000
a

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00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,000
had the gall to out of the phrase

1006
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,000
let my music go

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00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000
she said that to apple

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00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,000
CEO steve jobs can you believe it

1009
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,000
well she's right that the apple

1010
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,000
iPod doesn't support the

1011
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,000
microsoft digital rights management scheme

1012
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,000
from competitors and that the iPod

1013
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,000
DRM only works with

1014
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000
the either songs that you buy

1015
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,000
from the online apple iTunes store

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00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,000
or songs that you rip from the CDs

1017
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,000
and want to apply rights to

1018
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,000
however she's wrong when she says

1019
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,000
that you can't load MP3s from other

1020
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,000
sources you can load any pod

1021
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,000
safe MP3 file on your iPod

1022
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,000
and there's plenty of free independent music

1023
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,000
out there so I don't know what her deal is

1024
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,000
apple does have the iPods

1025
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,000
DRM system locked up so the competitors

1026
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,000
at MSN.com

1027
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,000
Rhapsody.com AOL music

1028
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,000
Walmart now Yahoo

1029
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,000
they have some reason to gripe

1030
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,000
and the iPod users

1031
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,000
don't enjoy the full benefits of the competition

1032
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,000
and potential price lowering

1033
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,000
that all this competition in the

1034
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,000
online music market will bring

1035
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,000
so just one more

1036
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,000
reason to buy an iRiver

1037
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,000
alright last but not least

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00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,000
michael gohagen of realreviews.com

1039
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,000
scored a huge

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00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,000
coup Disney is celebrating

1041
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,000
their 50th year or something or other

1042
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,000
and michael gohagen got a call

1043
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,000
from a guy who got a call who got a

1044
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,000
guy who got a call

1045
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,000
I need a bar napkin to write

1046
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,000
that relationship down but anyway

1047
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,000
he was the guy responsible

1048
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,000
for podcasting

1049
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,000
Disney's 50th anniversary celebration

1050
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,000
that's huge

1051
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,000
go over to

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00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,000
realreviewsradio.com

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00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,000
and check out that podcast

1054
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,000
if you haven't already

1055
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000
and if you haven't already you must be living under a rock

1056
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,000
because it does a great job

1057
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,000
reviewing movies that you may or may not

1058
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,000
have seen oh see what I did there

1059
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,000
I almost started doing reviews

1060
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,000
of a review podcast

1061
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,000
that's clever

1062
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,000
well that's the show for this week

1063
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,000
thanks for listening to

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00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,000
PodCheck Weekly Review

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00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,000
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00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,000
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00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,000
or my wallet or something

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00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,000
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[ Music ]

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Parsi

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stick it in your ear

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00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,000
stick it in your ear

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00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,000
stick it in your ear