The following podcast contains explicit language.

I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent green is people.

I need my sister and my daughter.

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What's in the box? Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and we are here with the Slate's spoiler special podcast on Avengers Infinity War, the new Marvel Paloza starring hundreds of familiar and beloved Marvel characters here to talk about this infinite movie with me are Forrest Wickman, Slate Culture Editor. Hello, Forrest.

Hey, Dana.

And joining us from Slate's DC office is Jonathan Fisher, a senior editor at Slate. Hey, Jonathan.

Hey, how's it going?

Pretty well. So are you guys ready? This is going to be a big one.

Yeah.

I mean, I've been waiting for this for two days because I've hardly talked about the ending with anyone.

You haven't been waiting for it for 10 years for us?

I've been.

John, I think that's, you asked.

I've been getting ready for this for the last 19 movies. Well, yeah, I should say that one reason we're having Jonathan on is because you're one of our resident Marvel completest, right? You've seen, you say, all of the 18 movies leading up to this? I have from Iron Man on. Yeah, just to clarify, yeah, this is the 10th anniversary

of, I mean, they were saying at the beginning of the movie, it's the 10th anniversary of Marvel movies. But of course, the Toby McGuire Spider-Men precede this. Well, it's the 10th anniversary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

which started with Iron Man. Right. That was the Big Bang. Right. So previously, there have been,

of course, other movies based on the Marvel Comics, but they haven't been part of this universe.

So they've known, would you say, has the company known since 10 years ago that they

were going to work toward this cycle? Or was it only because the movies were such a success

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