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[0:00] Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Ariana Grande. Hi, I'm Cynthia Erivo, and you're listening to the Broadway Podcast Network. Visit vpm.fm to discover more.

[0:13] Speaker 2: There's a cat over here. There's a cat over there. I'm the one who died. I'm the one who died. I welcome

[0:23] Speaker 3: to the wrong cat died the podcast breakdown of the catastrophe. I'm your host, Mike Abrams, and we have a special, special bonus episode. I am sitting here with the brilliant Josh layman from Josh walls, Broadway, meow, bitches, what's up, Josh? Before we watched this brand new trailer, which came out today. Oh, really, I want to know, yeah, today came out from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Instagram. I wonder

[0:48] Speaker 4: if this is damage control. Probably, you know, because I did you see the first trailer, I was horrified. Were you actually horrified? Yes, because I didn't really get the outrage. I was like, What the fuck do you can I swear on this show? I was like, What the fuck do you What were you expecting? It's a musical about cats. It's the movie for like, what did you think they were going to I

[1:14] Speaker 3: was hoping they would give us some inkling of the story. They did. No, there was just, there's

[1:24] Speaker 3: to even talk. Since, who in the in the actual musical, they don't

[1:29] Speaker 4: talk? Yeah, but Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote both, and he's like, in this one, they do a movie. So is there going to be a story? Now, I'm there is a story. The cats is a competition to kill yourself. It is that is the prize. If you are, if you're talented enough, you die. And except in Grizabella case, who, because all of them are like, I'm a thief, I should die. You know, absolutely I'm sexy tom tom Tugger. And I got a Scottish accent in this production, because that's an evil von hovid version of cats, and I should die. Okay, so let's see. I vote that they're doing this for, like, major damage control, because everybody was furious. I

[2:12] Speaker 3: they also it came out the same day Top Guns trailer came out, which I thought was a really bad, I

[2:17] Speaker 4: didn't see the Top Gun trailer was actually good. Well, you're straight and you're not in theater. So your Facebook feed is probably like, hey, omega, Zetas. Like, Did y'all see the new Top Gun? It was crazy.

[2:34] Speaker 4: So straight ish straight ish Alan, shut up. You're not guesting on the podcast. I am. Okay.

[2:41] Speaker 3: Are we ready to watch? We're gonna go live watch the new trailer. I hope you're not horrified. So obviously we can't play the music in the trailer because Andrew led Weber has listened to this podcast and does not like me anymore. But we'll put a link in the notes in the description for the episode, so we will tell you when to hit play, and you can follow along if you'd

[3:04] Speaker 4: like to. I think it's stupid that that that we can't play it. I agree, but I don't

[3:10] Speaker 4: sued, to get sued too. But Andrew, hey buddy Andy, it's me, Josh. You cut me from phantom two a long time ago. Now, you know, anyway, um, so you're you're being silly, and we should be able to air this with the audio. I just want to put that out there. Lavia Santa Boulevard is a national treasure. Okay,

[3:34] Speaker 3: all right, let's go. Okay, so we're going to hit play now. Is that Taylor Swift?

[4:00] Speaker 2: you do work. You

[5:00] Speaker 4: I see that looks spectacular, that that looks spectacular. I didn't love the fat joke, and I thought it was interesting that they didn't show Jennifer Hudson singing

[5:28] Speaker 3: at all or Taylor Swift, and they just launched her new song. Yeah,

[5:32] Speaker 4: but you know Jennifer Hudson sings memory. But so if Andy, I just want you to know that Jennifer was not the problem with the old trailer, but this one is really spectacular. It

[5:45] Speaker 3: does get me way more interested in seeing it. They got some humor in it. Now they're showing a little bit more. Yeah,

[5:50] Speaker 4: they're showing how they've advanced the story. Like, my cavity is fucking terrifying, yeah? And the show is like, ah, you know, not

[5:59] Speaker 3: use memory. That's the one thing people know about this show, because

[6:02] Speaker 4: they did in the last one and fucking Twitter blew up. Well, not like Twitter, but like Twitter everything. But it blew up

[6:13] Speaker 3: because of their like the bodies and the noses and everything else, not the cutting of the story.

[6:19] Speaker 4: I don't know. People are dicks, especially theater people, when it comes to cats, but you know, like in any other situation, when you talk shit about a show or you know, you know whatever live musical event is happening, you know, Nobody's allowed to talk shit online because we're like, we gotta support the community. And I agree with that, but it is a rite of passage for musical theater performers to talk shit about cats and

[6:54] Speaker 4: in general, you know, like it's just, it's tradition to talk shit about cats. Which cat would you play? Um, God, they had had to create a different cat. What would you name him? I don't know. I don't know, Lazy, Lazy cat. He's just lazy and stoned and dislike, you know, over it. Here's

[7:18] Speaker 3: a, here's a good YouTube comment already from this, from does that say milk rebel? The trailer already explained more of the plot than the entire Broadway show. Did finally get what the story is about? It's true,

[7:29] Speaker 4: but how could you finally get what the show's about? Like, it does not take a genius.

[7:35] Speaker 3: There's a lot of interpretations of it, yeah,

[7:39] Speaker 4: but if you're spending that much time interpreting cats, I would love

[7:46] Speaker 4: But like, in general, like, if you really went to the theater and, just like, pondered this and made a study of it, I don't know, uh oh, this is from Kingdom Hearts, fan, 3211, there's only one thing I don't really like about this trailer, the significant lack of singing, and that has 131 likes and eight replies. Um, okay, sorry that you know first

[8:22] Speaker 4: I'm sure they're preserving it for later. It's only the second trailer. Let's not give everything away at once. I'm with you. Lynelle. Lynelle Fletcher, I'm so with you.

[8:36] Speaker 3: So does this make you more excited to see the movie now? Absolutely, absolutely, and you're going to Yes, yes, Christmas morning.

[8:45] Speaker 4: No, I'm all about it. Let the memory live again. I'm ready to see it. I'm ready to come out. I'm ready to take you on a nice date, to go see it.

[8:57] Speaker 4: can hear it everywhere you hear podcasts. The show is called Josh swallows Broadway, and it is a hoot. And we are also on the Broadway Podcast Network. Thank you for asking.

[9:13] Speaker 3: Thank you for being here and recording and watching this trailer with me anytime you