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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What sparked Glen Merzer's protest against Koo Koo Roo?
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So I'm Leanne. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How did Glen Merzer's protest impact the vegan movement?
This is my best friend Janet. Hey. And we have been joined at the hip since high school. A redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips. This is a podcast, we're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a BOGO.
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So I turned a corner with Indy. It's very specific. For the first time, he introduced me to something that I think is culturally so freaking cool and sophisticated. And because, you know, like you're always introducing stuff to your kid and Indy's always introducing stuff to me.
most of the time i'm like yeah that's cool for a kid like whatever he's into i'm like yeah whatever or i freaking hate it because it's mind-numbing and it's meme culture which is mostly what he introduces me to and i can't stand it but this last week he was like will you watch this youtube show with me and i'm like no I freaking hate YouTube.
Like we have, we've had a no YouTube rule in our house. I just don't let him go down those rabbit holes, but you can't avoid it. There's just too much of it. So he was like, trust me. I think you're, you know, he kept fighting for this.
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Chapter 4: What was Glen's experience like writing for Boy Meets World?
Alex was out of town. It was just the two of us. So I finally was like, okay, fine. Let's watch this thing. He puts on this show called the amazing digital circus. It starts off, it's all CGI animation. It's insanity. It's visually chaotic.
Chapter 5: Why did Glen Merzer dress as a chicken for his protest?
It's very hard to keep up with. There's a lot of like eyeball stuff, like characters messing with their eyeballs. That makes me very uncomfortable. My skin starts crawling just looking at it. It's super fast, like a lot of the YouTube meme culture stuff where it's like, you know, like characters and there's like 15 characters introduced right away. I don't know what's happening.
It makes me uncomfortable in ways that like Ren and Stimpy used to make me uncomfortable.
Mm-hmm.
I have come to love this show so much. By the end of the season, there's only been eight episodes. They are now getting a theatrical release because it is- So it's all animated. Dude, it is, you have to watch the show. This is the most sophisticated, incredible writing I've encountered in so long. And it took, like by episode three, I was like- Actually, Indy, I think this is awesome.
And he's like, see? And I'm so proud of him for loving, because it's actually very adult. It's not a kid's show. It looks like a kid's show, but it is super dramatic. It is very heavy and psychologically dark.
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Chapter 6: What unique challenges did Glen face in the writers' room?
What is it about? So it's basically, and this goes back to when I tried to show Indy the Matrix, he was like, this is the most boring thing in the world. Because the idea of like being an avatar, like the idea of like being inside of a virtual world is so basic for kids now. Like that's Free Guy. That's Avatar. That's like the Matrix is like that. Like the idea of you're living in a simulation.
This takes that to the next level. So it's a character of a human. Presumably you never see them because you're in the. Oh, it's first person. No, she just shows up as a character with a body that she did not choose. And she is trapped inside a virtual circus where anything's possible. And she's being held captive by an AI.
And this AI is this scary looking crazy character named Kane, who is somehow capturing people. The only thing you know is that at one point, these people who you very drips and drabs get their backstory. At some point, they put on a virtual headset and they can't take it off. So you know that there are humans. Jumanji, but AI. But against their will.
Chapter 7: What is the story behind Glen's transition to veganism?
Right.
And they're being held captive by an AI. And I am not, by the third or fourth episode, you will start going like, oh my God, they have planted seeds. It's written by somebody who has remained anonymous. It's a woman who goes by Gooseworks. It's an Australian show. It is genius. Wait, you didn't answer me. It's all animation. Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah. And it's, it's like, it's like, um, basically I haven't like, um, uh, Rick and Morty is like the closest to the sort of self-conscious, incredible storytelling that you get from this thing, but it's dark. And like, like I said, like, it still doesn't make me super comfortable with some of the animation choices, but it's all in the service of storytelling.
Like, I'm just so happy that now Indy's introducing me to stuff. And like, I totally trust his taste now. Cause he was like insistent. He's like, dad, you're going to like this. And I was so happy that I'm like, dude, I love this. Like I am so, yeah.
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Chapter 8: How does Glen Merzer describe his film 'Buddhist Blues'?
So I feel like we're at that age now where he's going to just be introducing me to stuff and I'm going to like trust him because it's worth it. Like, yeah. But anyway, check out the show. It's incredible. Digital animal circus. No, The Amazing Digital Circus. The Amazing Digital Circus. Yeah. The humor is there. It's so funny. It's dark, but it's so funny. Is it inappropriate for my six-year-old?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's pretty much inappropriate for 11-year-olds. It looks and feels like some of the best adult cartoons. It looks and feels like a kid's show. And there's elements of it, like basically Kane, the AI, is saying he's trying to keep them entertained by giving them adventures every week. And each adventure is like some crazy out there thing that he's come up with to like keep them occupied.
And they're just trying to escape the whole time.
Right. But man, it is so brilliant.
And he's the one who's entertained. Yes.
Oh, you guys got to check it out.
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