Hello and welcome to episode 117 of the Marvel Studios news podcast.

My name is Sean Gerber.

I am joined as always by Paul Herman.

How you doing Paul?

I am well but feeling old and tired today. Yeah feeling old and tired is kind of my resting state at this point. I shouldn't I'm not really I haven't reached an age where I'm entitled to feel old all the time so a lot of people would rightfully roll their eyes at me by saying

that I feel old but nevertheless I do and so I just have to own that and then figure out

where to go from here but anyway we are continuing our in the end game series as we lead up to

Avengers end game which is getting closer and closer so in our last episode

episode 116 we talked about Thor.

This is going to be another episode where we have to double up.

And the characters that we are going to highlight this week are two Steve Ditko co- creations who met on

the big screen for the very first time in Avengers infinity war last year, Spider-Man and

Dr Strange. We'll go ahead and we'll start with

Spider-Man because Dr Strange is Paul's favorite and that's probably gonna soak up a

lot of time. So let's go and talk about Spider-Man which Paul you're a less a fan of

and let's...

Yeah. We'll track his arc. These characters are similar situations. They're

relatively recent additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

They both debuted in phase three of the MCU.

Spider-Man actually debuted first because he showed up in Civil War in May of 2016,

and then Dr. Strange debuted in his own movie in November of 2016 and then

they've both had well Spider-Man actually did have another his own solo film and

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