Welcome to episode 101 of the Marvel Studios news podcast.

My name is Sean Gerber and with me as always is my co-host Paul Herman.

Paul, this is normally when I would ask you how's it going, I already know how it's going this is a very

difficult week for everybody across Marvel fandom, superhero fandom, pop culture

fandom, any kind of fandom or just people who appreciate others who made monumental

impacts on the world.

This has just been a tough week.

Yeah, this was, you know, we had kind of talked about this and you know I work in health care and you know I prepare for stuff like this all the time but you know like you said to you know're prepare but you're not prepared and this is no

different for all those things and it's it's difficult because of what Stan is meant to every one of us as people and it's it's crazy.

It's sad.

It's really tough and this is of course going to be our celebration of Stanley.

It's very sad, but there's also plenty to celebrate and remember and happy memories of our of whatever

we have of the ways that Stanley impacted our lives and hopefully I'm sure

he touched those of you listening touch your lives in in similar

ways or different ways depending on interactions you may have had with him or how you first knew about

Stanley but we're going to be getting into we're going to be getting into all of that in in this episode

But I think we'll just start with let's just start with with Monday Paul because I was actually, it was normal day. I had just posted, I just

posted an article on Marvel Studios News.com. I was breaking down venom box office and

how that could impact the Spider-Man franchise and the association with the MCU and all of that

And then not long after I posted that article I just saw it was like right after the tweet had gone out from T.M. Z.

Somebody had retweeted it because I don't follow T. M. Z. I saw the story that that

Stan Lee had died. And I think it's just a sign to the times that when I saw it I didn't immediately I didn't immediately

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