'Thor: Love and Thunder' Deep Dive | Plus: Director Taika Waititi

House of R

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Jo and Mal step into the shadow realm for another MCU deep dive: This time it's 'Thor: Love and Thunder'. They talk about their initial thoughts of the film and how it stacks up in the 'Thor' canon and the MCU as a whole (06:23). They then dive into the characters of both Thor, and Mighty Thor (48:32). They also tackle Gorr the God Butcher and Christian Bale's captivating performance (107:18). Then, Joanna is joined by the film's director, Taika Waititi, to discuss comics influence, queer representation, and much more (2:20:05). Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Mallory Rubin Guest: Taika Waititi Social: Jomi Adeniran Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman Addition Production: Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Charles Holmes, the Ringer Music Show, and I'm Cole Kushner from Disect, and Charles and I
0:05.2	are teaming up to create Last Song Standing, a new show where we determine an artist's single best
0:10.1	song by debating our way through their entire catalog. And for our first season, we're covering
0:15.2	Kendrick Lamar. We're talking good kids, pimple butterfly, damn Mr. Morale, the mix tapes,
0:20.4	the Lucy's, and the features. Listen to Last Song Standing on the Disect podcast feed only on Spotify.
0:30.4	Kids get to popcorn out. Let me tell you the story of the spacefiking. Thor Odinson.
0:37.4	He was no ordinary man. He was a god. After saving planet earth for the 500th time, Thor said
0:44.7	off on a new journey. Well, he got in shape. He went from dead bod to god bod.
0:52.2	And after all that, he reclaimed his title as the one and only Thor. Oh, Spook Tissing. Jain?
1:11.3	Greetings. And welcome into the Ringerverse. Here on the Ringer podcast network. I'm Mallory
1:27.6	Rubin and it is my absolute pleasure to invite you not only to the Shadow Realm, but also to join us
1:35.2	on the Ringer's Nexus podcast feed for all things fandom. Joining me today.
1:46.3	Now that she's finished our SVPing to Zeus's orgy. It's my house.
1:55.2	Working title. Go host Joanna Robinson. You know, this makes the pan flaps joke that I was about to
2:03.9	make sound so much worse when you put it in proximity to the end of a city orgy. Well,
2:11.1	you know, house of our contains adult content. So it's invite only I'm honored. It's an honor to be
2:15.6	invited. Thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, boy, folks, we have a full pod for you today, including
2:25.6	a fun chat with a special guest at the end of this episode. Joe, you want to tell the people
2:30.8	he got today? Oh, yeah, he's got a small part in the film. He he voices the character of
2:37.3	Korg. It is actor and sometimes director and writer Takeaway T.T. is here for just like a little
2:44.4	chitchat. So a little chitchat would take a at the end of this episode. So yeah, stay tuned.
2:50.5	Amazing. Can not wait to hear that before we dive in to our Love and Thunder chat today. And
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