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'Eternals' Instant Reactions With Kumail Nanjiani | The Midnight Boys

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Tv & Film

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The Midnight Boys are back to give their instant thoughts and reactions to the latest Marvel film, 'Eternals' (03:08). They discuss what critics have been saying and give their own takes on where the film fits in the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe. Later Charles and Van are joined by actor Kumail Nanjiani to ask all of the burning questions they had right after seeing the film (66:03). Hosts: Van Lathan and Charles Holmes Guest: Kumail Nanjiani Producer: Steve Ahlman Social: Jomi Adeniran Additional Production: TD St. Matthew-Daniel and Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:12.3

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0:15.8

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0:39.0

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0:45.0

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0:53.1

So go on, send those antler selfies and Santa remorges, and give those distant relays a video call.

0:59.1

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1:01.1

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1:07.1

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1:15.2

Welcome into the ringerverse. This is of course the ringer's Nexus podcast feed for all things fandom. We are.

1:41.3

Jomi the explainer. We are cutly steve almond, the holiday bear. We are coke baby chuck the 24 karat closer, and we are old man, hairline retreating like the goddamn Delta variant.

2:02.3

We are late and together, the four of us are known as the midnight boys. Listen, you guys, we're back. The midnight boys are back.

2:14.3

We got some program reminders right here for the ringerverse. The House of R will return this Monday to give their deep dive analysis of eternal.

2:24.3

The movie that we're going to be recapping today on the midnight boys, okay, the midnight boys will be back later on. The first ever edition of midnight misses.

2:33.3

We teased it. We heard you were on it. Midnight misses is coming Charles. Are you excited about this? You get to be negative for a whole hour.

2:43.3

Wow, guys, I was about to come back and say like I took a vacation. I've come back refresh positive. I like missed all of y'all so fucking much. And now you're just giving me this tree. Like you're hooking my arm up coke. You're giving me that snort a coke next week. I can be by true self. I'm so excited.

2:59.3

You can't wait. This is going to be fun. They can all be hits guys.

3:03.3

Most of them are misses, okay, they can all be hits. We're going to talk about some midnight misses next week on today's show though we're diving head first into our reaction to it turns and later we have a special guest to talk about the film.

3:20.3

One of the stars of the movie was very gracious to play 12 questions to midnight with us. His name is Kumaw Nanjiani and he plays kingo. We're at the top of fandom. This is the mode that nobody has been in before.

3:37.3

You know, in the main like we're we're at the top of fandom now. Here's the thing. It's time to discuss the movie. I've seen the movie twice. It's time to talk about it. Turnles. I know that some of you may have come to this podcast to listen to the reaction of a movie that you haven't seen yet because I know that that's a thing that happens.

4:01.3

It's not, but we have to pretend like it is. So Christmas bear Steve, please roll the spoiler warning.

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