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[0:12] Mike Abrams: Welcome to the wrong cat died the podcast breakdown of the cat's catastrophe. I'm your host, Mike Abrams, and today we are covering the magical cat, Mr. Mustafa Lees to the intro music, there's a cat over here. There's a cat over there, on the wrong one died. Welcome to the wrong cat died the podcast breakdown of the cat's atrophy. Today we're going to talk about Mr. Misto Phillies like Buster for rhymes. I really want to call Mr. Mr. Lee's Eminem for the double M's, but instead I'm going to call him misto from here on out. But first, I love Mr. Mustafa Lee's plain and simple. This cat is one of the best cats in the entire play. His song is sung by rum tug Tugger, and tug is giving him a full on admiration. It's so over the top that the rumor mill about tug stuff police is insane. I covered it a little bit in episode three, but we're gonna dig way deeper today. Just stay tuned and be ready for a shower after but misto. Misto really steals the show. His number is towards the end, and it's intentionally a showstopper. He comes down from the ceiling with lights all over his fur, and in the 1998 movie, he immediately starts shooting lightning out of his hands just to show how magical he is. His song talks about all the insane magical things he's done. He does close up magic with Dyson cards. He uses deception with mice, and he produces seven kittens right out of a hat. In his song alone, he shoots lightning out of his hands, pulls a rainbow scarf out of a cup, and ends with a huge magic trick, which I'll cover in a few although misto doesn't really sing his song, he has an elaborate solo dance number. He does a few double toe taps and a ton of ballet based dancing, which means that the actor who plays him has to be incredibly talented. It's pretty impressive, and when you add in the magical tricks, it makes him an extremely worthy candidate to be the cat to die. The end of the song is where misto really makes his case. If we view cats as a competition show like America's Got Talent, like I have, magicians always do very well, and whenever they can incorporate a judge, they do even better. So what does misto do? He makes Old Deuteronomy appear out of thin air. He pulls out this giant red blanket, and somehow gets Old Deuteronomy to appear out of nowhere. Old Deuteronomy is so impressed that he embraces misto with this massive hug to end the song. And if you're telling me, Old Deuteronomy isn't hitting his Golden Buzzer or whatever automatic winning button he has after being conjured out of thin air by the magical Mr. Mesophiles, you are nuts. I'm saying it right here, right now. Mr. Misophunis has to be a top contender to die. How does Mr. Misophyllies song differ from the poem? Well, it's exactly the same, but only if you start in the second paragraph. Andrew Lloyd Webber cut out the intro, and here's what we learned at the start of the poem. Please listen to me and don't scoff all his inventions are of his own bat. There's no such cat in the metropolis. He holds all the patent monopolies for performing surprising illusions and creating eccentric confusions the magical Mr. Mistoolies. Well, it only took nine episodes for me to realize that TS Eliot is just as at fault for not rhyming the poems as Andrew Lloyd Webber is for not rhyming the songs. Either way, I'm a little mad that the holds all patent monopolies was cut from the song. What a great achievement holding all patent monopolies. It's like Macavity committing all human crimes. I bet mccavity stole Mr. Mustafa Lee's patent monopolies, but we wouldn't know, because Macavity is not there. Let's dig into some real and fictional characters for Mr. Mestophys. Let's start with some real magicians, and I'm gonna go in pairs, because I am a big believer of tuxtophilles. So let's kick off with Siegfried. I'd say both Siegfried and Roy, but Roy retired, and both of them nearly died from a large cat attacking the mid show. They incorporated cats into their show, and they have a ton of rumors of them being a couple. Honestly, Siegfried might be misto and Roy might be Tugger. Let's get the tug stuff felish a Vegas show as soon as possible, while we're on the duo magicians. What about pen and Teller for tug stuff? Feliz, pen does all of the talking. Which would make misto teller? They do some pretty elaborate magic, and I could definitely see them shooting lightning out of their hands. Let's move on from the real magicians and go to some fictional magicians. I want to kick us off with Barney Stinson, from How I Met Your Mother. Barney is known more for his sexual escapades, but he does a ton of magic throughout the show. He's also impeccably Jess at all times, and has some flair. Just like misto does in the movie world. He has a little Daniel Atlas from now. You see me, misto seems a little cocky throughout his whole song, and Daniel is a showman of the Four Horsemen. He's one of the leaders in the front men of the group, just like misto dominates this song. There's also a scene in the first movie where Daniel Atlas throws the handcuffs that are on him onto a police officer, and the movement looked exactly like misto shooting lightning out of his hands. But no matter what I did, and no matter how many times I thought about Mr. Misto police, I always think of misto as Joe Bluth from Arrested Development job is consistently doing magic through all the seasons. He founded the alliance of magicians, and misto would definitely be the president of that plus, I could totally see misto looking at one of the cats and going, it's an illusion. Michael, welcome to the internet rumor mill. I want to get through a couple of these quickly, because I promised you some of the tuxtofly stuff. So first things, first, misto is a Leo. Done next is probably my favorite rumor, which is that the rumor says he's probably gay. I hate to break it to you. Mr. Internet misto is 100% gay and he is proud of it. I'm not sure about Tugger and the took Sophie's, but it's looking like a high likelihood he does pull a rainbow scarf out of a cup throughout his performance. So I'm pretty sure he's gay and super proud of it. The last rumor is the one that's a little bit confusing. There's a rumor that Macavity gets his magical powers from Mr. Mesophiles, and I don't really know what to make of this rumor. One, because Macavity is not there, but two, because misto has shooting lightning from his hands, which definitely makes this possible. But it's also a rumor that misto is mccavity son, so maybe this has a little bit of Harry Potter Voldemort type of thing, where he's giving the powers and an act of trying to kill him. That would make Old Deuteronomy Dumbledore, which lines up a little bit because a father trying to get his son to die is makes a little bit of sense. But then Macavity is also kind of the worst character. So I'm not really sure if I can dig into this, but either way, I think this might make a little bit of Mrs. Case. If Macavity is trying to kill him, that's pretty much all I could figure out from this. My head starts spinning when I tried to figure it out. So I want to move on. And I want to move on because I made a promise to all of you listeners that I would do the research for you, and I do the work. And as we enter episode nine, I have fulfilled this promise, and I'm going to make it even more fulfilled here today, I dug into some took stuff, please, fan fiction. There are 3200 cats, the musical stories on fanfiction.net and 203, of them include Miss Stone Tucker. I didn't read them all, but I read more than any mentally stable human being should have possibly read. One of them really stood out for me. So I want to read you a few pieces from this story. I did not write it, so I will give credit to Where's credit is due, and I apologize up front, because I felt dirty just reading this. And I feel dirty reading it to you, but I think it's important for you as a podcast listener to know what's out there and to be prepared so you can watch this movie in the right way. So the best story I read was started in December of 2008 and finished in March of 2009 it's 15 full chapters and over 17,000 words, and it's written by Cleo Leo. So I present to you a few excerpts from Cleo Leo's tug my heart strings. Chapter One, misto Wait a minute. Tugger grabbed on his wrist and spun him around. I don't want to talk to you. Tug. He sighed, looking rather defeated, but I want to talk to you. That's gotta count for something. He smiled, not coming from you. Go back to the ball. Misto, snarl. Moving on to Chapter Five, please. Misto, just give me a chance. I want this. I want us. I do. He said, urgently, taking Mustafa's paws in his own Yes, you want it. But for how long? How long to get bored and want something else? He said softly, just meet me tonight. I'll find some way to prove it to you. Moving on to chapter 10. What did he tell you? Tugger asked forcibly. Missed. His eyes darted away from tuggers, nothing. Tugger quickly adjusted his head so he looking into Mrs. Eyes again, You're a terrible liar. Now tell me what he said most thoughtfully. Swallowed nervously. He didn't say much. Missed him. Tugger said, his tone filled with warning. He said you were dying quick, boss, and I promise, and I swear, I am not Cleo Leo, but I am so happy that this story is choosing Tugger to be the cat to die. What a win for the wrong cat died. Podcast, I have fan fiction on my side. Okay, back to the story. CHAPTER 15, which is the last chapter. I love you. Tugger said with such honesty, it made Mustafa, please, want to cry. He couldn't believe how stupid he had been, but that Tugger was really going to forgive him for his idiocy. I know he whisper back. Tucker simply leaned down and kissed me Sophie's and this time, neither was feeling guilty or battling with a conscious or angry or sad, they were finally what they should have been all along, happy the end, as I said in skimbo Shanks episode eight, it was. Time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything. Let's dig into Mr. Mustafa Lee's YouTube comments. Here are my favorite Aaron Martino Tugger. Mustafa Lee's is so shy and mysterious. Mustafa Lees comes in and starts blowing shit up left and right. Jim Halpert, which I don't think it's that. Jim Halpert, Mr. Mrs. Really pulled a rainbow flag out of a cup cat does not play around. T goblin I know will help after Old Deuteronomy was kidnapped, a number about how much I love my boyfriend. Victoria Morris, me at first. WTF is this musical? Who would like something like that? It's weird as f me now watching cats vids at 1am okay, Victoria, you're telling me this is my ninth episode about cats who would have thought. And then my personal favorite, the simple comment from lucaro Ninja, I want a cat that can shoot lightning. Me too. Lucaro, so why does Mr. Mesophiles deserve to die over crucibella? How can he not he shoots lightning from his hands. He makes the judge, Old Deuteronomy appear on a thin air. And he has the biggest show stopping number. Plus he clearly is in a relationship with Tugger, who is the other front runner. Magicians always do well on competition shows. And misto is a show stopping magician. He's also towards the end of the show, which gives him a little bit of a recency bias. My quick counter, as amazing as Mr. Mestophys is, he did give Macavity his powers potentially, and that would be bad. That's all I got. He's nearly perfect in every way, so the counter is even hard. So how do I rate Mr. Mestophys On a scale of one to nine cat lives? I give misto 8.5 cats, he'd get a full nine cats. But honestly, I want to stop foolies to be the only cat to get a nine out of nine, because I want them to die together. Thank you for listening to Episode Nine about the magical Mr. Mesophiles on the wrong cat died the podcast breakdown of the cats. Tastrophe to follow along. You can subscribe on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at the wrong cat died, or check out our website, the roncatide.com you.