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Hello and welcome to movies on the side.

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This is Stephen Robles.

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And this is Nate Baranowski.

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And today we are going to review the best picture of winner

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from the 2023 Academy Awards.

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Is that how you say it?

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Nate, do you say like this year?

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Did you have any to this?

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I am so not.

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Isn't it like this is the 95th?

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It's the 83rd and 20th.

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107th, it was the 95th Academy Awards.

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the Academy. We'll just go with that. This movie we're reviewing today, one best

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picture, the highest honor at the 95th Academy Awards. We're going to review the

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2022 movie, everything I already messed up everywhere. No, you got it. No, no, I

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did. I did everything everywhere all at once. That's the name of the movie.

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Everything everywhere. And we're going to try and talk about it. But also I want to

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talk about the Academy Awards because I need to know Nate. Did you actually

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watch the Academy Awards or any parts of it? No, I have not.

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to watch the Academy Awards.

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Yeah.

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Neither did I, which I take a screenshot.

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That's what we should talk about.

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But.

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Yeah, you watch all the clips.

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I do want to, yeah, I definitely,

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I go and check who won all the awards.

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Right. That's correct.

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That's kind of, I want to see certain moments

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that kind of get buzzy on social media.

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Right.

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And that's how I ingest the 90th Academy, 93rd,

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95th Academy Awards.

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So everything everywhere all at once,

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we actually won three Academy Awards.

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even more, but I know like best actress, best actress in Michelle Yo, and then Jamie

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Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress plus the movie won Best Picture.

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And Kwe Kwan, didn't he win Best Supporting Act?

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He won Best Supporting Actor and then the director, two Daniels.

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Right.

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One Best Directors, I believe.

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The team of Daniels.

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It won a lot.

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Hold on a second.

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It won seven Oscars.

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I don't look right here.

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One seven Oscars.

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So IMDB tells me.

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Right.

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on a screenplay, best picture, best achievement directing.

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One a ton, one a ton.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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The one it did not win, but I am so glad the person

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who won it did is best actor Brendan Fraser.

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Fraser?

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Fraser?

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He's like a Z, Fraser.

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Brendan Fraser, who, you know,

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if you had not followed the Brendan Fraser story,

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you know, there was a lot of stuff that happened.

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He was kind of blacklisted in Hollywood for a long time.

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Really sad, like kind of the whole situation.

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And now he has come back in this movie The Whale,

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which I have not seen.

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Like I just, I can't bring myself to watch it.

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I don't know why, but is it out?

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Is it, you can rent it.

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Yeah, you can rent it on digital.

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Yeah, yeah, you can watch it.

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Maybe we should watch it, but Bringen Fraser,

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one best actor, this is his first Oscar win.

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I think first time never nominated for an Oscar

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and he won best actor for that movie.

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It seems very well deserved,

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but also seems somewhat like a comeback story

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that maybe Hollywood also kind of wanted to like

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But I also feel like everyone like I don't know anyone who doesn't like Brendan Fraser. I can't say

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I don't know anyone who doesn't like Brian no one doesn't like Brendan Fraser, but I feel like he won this Oscar for his whole career

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I feel like yes, I'm sure he did incredible in this movie, but it's like this

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Decades of pent up nostalgia of time achievement award. It's like a lifetime achievement award and honestly so happy for him like he was crying

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like junket interview of Brendan Fraser for the past like three months like he was on a tonight show

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He did the interview with Adam Sandler. He did like other little video clips for like variety whatever

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I've seen every

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I feel like I love it all you see all the Brendan Fraser things and you see randomly all like Jim Carey things and his

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A lot of inspiration

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I don't know why traditional

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Anyway, I was so happy that he won,

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and I'm so glad that he's back.

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I don't know if you saw this.

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Again, I see every clip of Brendan Fraser anywhere.

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Man, you really fighting through.

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I know you wanna say Fraser each time you do it.

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And it's like you are like,

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each time you say it.

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Before, before recorded.

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I needed to say Brendan Fraser,

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Brendan Fraser, Brendan Fraser.

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I needed to do that like 10 times.

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Maybe just doing it right then.

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He's gonna edit Fraser in over top every time.

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It's gonna be a bad answer.

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Yeah, a razor.

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Yeah, just gonna insert it.

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No, no, no, because I love it so much.

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And I don't know, I just feel like it's so deserving.

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Oh, he showed up to some movie premiere.

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I think it was a premiere of the,

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or some showing of the whale.

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Brendan Fraser showed up in his like,

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mummy action type outfit.

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And he has said in multiple interviews,

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he likes it.

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He likes it.

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He's ready.

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Like give me a script for the mummy for right now,

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I will do it.

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The world is ready. I feel like that's gonna be that's gonna be an incredible opening. I do feel like everyone who has interviewed him

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Says like hey is that coming back and each time he's like get at me. So yeah, whatever

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Whatever send me this. How is that be that are like controlling that franchise? Yes, he's basically done a I'm ready

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Although I do I really want to see Rachel Weiss with him again also like it needs to be two of them

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of them 100% maybe she's not on board. Oh, maybe she's not. That would be sad. But anyway,

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I'm just so glad he won Best Actor. I'm glad he's like back in Hollywood. Like just seeing

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all these actress and actress actresses like love him for just being him. It's just so fun. So

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that's what are some of your like some of your fashion wins and losses? What were they? What were

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the ones that we're giving? What we're not giving? What were you really feeling as you watched people

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on the red carpet? Like what was really working for you?

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Well, for me, I don't, I mean, what?

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Every guy is wearing a tux.

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I will say Andrew Garfield.

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Michael B Jordan.

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Well, I felt like had a had a look that was.

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Very good look.

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He and the top.

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He and Jonathan majors, they, they like co announce something.

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And they, they were very cool together.

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I mean, they look very good.

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Andrew Garfield, you know, just a standard tux,

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but I just love seeing him at these things

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because I feel like he's so unassuming.

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And there was a, there was a moment.

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Jimmy Kimmel, again, I didn't watch the monologue

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But I saw this clip where Jimmy Kimmel like really laid into the whole like Will Smith slap thing and he was making this joke about

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How someone wants to try and slap him?

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He they have to go through all these people

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He's like they're gonna have to go through creed and they show Michael B Jordan on camera

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They're gonna have to go through the Mandalorian. They show Pedro Pascal up in the balcony like looking at the camera

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So they're gonna have to get through Spider-Man and they focus on Andrew Garfield and his face just like

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He's just he's just like not me

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I love Andrew Garfield and stuff.

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I just love his song.

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I just watched him take Boom.

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Oh, was that good?

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And I kind of wanted to see that.

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I, it's really affecting to me.

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I would say it's a bit of a slow move,

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but I knew nothing about the Jonathan Larson

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pre-rent days and it made me like appreciate

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the whole story.

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So I liked it.

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I watched it with my wife.

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She did not like it.

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Come after her.

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She's not on social media, so good luck getting out.

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Should I watch with Whitney or would she,

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you don't think she would enjoy it?

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No, do it.

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All of the, all of, so Lin-Manuel Miranda directed that movie

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and all of the music from it is Jonathan Larson's

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like, what do you, music diary?

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Music like all of his songs that he had written

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along the way, isn't it?

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I mean, if you like Andrew Garfield,

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you have to see it, that's just.

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I do.

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I feel like I love him.

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more now after like no way home and seeing even all those interviews just being like glad to be here.

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You know, it's kind of a little tough to be here.

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I'm just glad I get to be like, make you love me even more.

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I want just a comment because you asked about fashion.

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I have no way to comment on any like woman's clothing because I have no idea.

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I mean, you have no words.

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Look at everybody looks great.

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There was a, I did see this clip of it.

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Yeah.

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Is it Ariana DeBose?

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who was in, or Ariana, Ariana debos.

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There's a clip of her, like,

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I'm so sorry.

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There's a clip of her running into Morgan Freeman

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backstage at the Oscars,

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and she just like totally like get star struck

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and like frazzled because it's Morgan Freeman.

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Morgan Freeman just standing there like,

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hello, you know, like he didn't really say anything.

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He just says hello,

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and it's kind of an awesome moment.

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But did you have any thoughts about any of this fashion?

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I mean, where did you find this?

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My amount of Oscars,

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Looking up was again knowing who won two seeing Brendan Fraser except in speech

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A third raise let's say two or three. I'd say a B or C. I don't know how I'm

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Finally, yes furthermore the Harrison Ford hug

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Yes, yes, how I what's his name? It is with K way quan

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Yes, they were in who temple of doom together, right? They were and so

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That just like their excitement of like yes, it was just

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Joy glee. I didn't watch anything else. That's it. That's it. That's it.

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That was it. That was it. All right. So let's talk about I saw I mean, I saw some red carpet looks. I'm not commenting on them

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I think everyone looked great. All right. So let's talk about this movie. Everything everywhere all had once came out last year one best picture

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Ron tomatoes and they do have any guess what critics gave this movie. I'm gonna say critics gave it it's high

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93% very close 95% critics gave it 95% audience a little lower

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80 audience gave them so close 88% I'll give that to you. I give it to you. I can't even begin to summarize this movie

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Yes, yeah, that's right. You really you really I know I have to say this right up top. Yeah

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Yeah, when you asked if I have seen this movie and I have you last night

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I just feel like 12 hours ago and I saw it a long time ago

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relatively right right back probably back in 2022 whenever right when after it came out for

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Rental I wanted to see it. I immediately had this sinking weight on top of my shoulders because immediately

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I thought Steve is not gonna like this movie. He's

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Stevens this is this movie's too weird for Stephen and then that made me sad because it's like am I gonna be the one

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defending this because Stephen's gonna be like,

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I don't know.

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They're hot dog fingers, I don't get it.

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They're like, did okay.

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This movie, everyone was talking about it.

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So you do know, Straw Hat Goofy is on TikTok.

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He's like a movie review.

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You mentioned him before.

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I have no reference.

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Big movie review guy, he was raven about it.

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This has high expectations and I know you hate coming

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into things that have high expectations

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because you're a contrarian.

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That's correct.

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That is correct.

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I think, or should I say you're not correct

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Anyway, everybody was raving that it was this incredible, incredible movie.

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You read the synopsis on IMDB.

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Let me just read the one sentence synopsis.

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It says, a middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which

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she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives

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she could have led.

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That's the summary of this movie, which sounds bonkers.

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I think they didn't even put the bagel into that one.

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There's also a bagel.

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And I think there's an everything bagel joke in the movie

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if I'm not mistaken.

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But anyway, that synopsis plus like seeing the trailer,

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knowing it's rated R, not knowing,

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like that's gonna be weird.

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I was, like I had not seen it.

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I was resistant because I was like,

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I don't think I'm gonna like this.

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I don't, I can't do it.

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And so for a long time, I didn't do it.

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There was an evening where

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kind of by myself, I was like, I don't want to watch 2012 for the thousands of time.

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I don't, I don't want to watch Black Adam. It's so bad. So what do you know, I can't see it again.

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I like the kids. Yeah, exactly. I do. I know because when I don't know what to watch, I like default

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to like a Marvel movie, a disaster movie or some action movie. And you see, you've seen all the

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Star Wars stuff recently. Yeah, just you know, there's nothing else. And so, you know,

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right now, but I don't like the zombies. I don't want to be scared.

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Did you watch an episode of the last of us? You strike me. If I, and I know you,

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in my heart, I feel like Steven Robles one night at about 11 30 p.m.

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After everyone else has gone to bed, thought, man, this feels like a zeitgeisty sort of thing.

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It's everywhere. I wonder if I can watch this.

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And I feel like you would probably get about 15 minutes in and then go,

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Nope, I can't.

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That's my guess of what you did.

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Did you watch 15 minutes of last of us?

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Nate, that is an incredible assessment

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of who I am as a person.

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I did exactly that.

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I did exactly that.

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I watched like 15 minutes,

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but I will say I have an addendum

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because it was just as you said.

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It was like a lunch.

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Did you watch a little bit of the video game playthrough as well?

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No, no, I didn't really that.

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That's me actually.

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Another day, I forget what it was,

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but I was in a situation where I was just sitting

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in my car.

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So now it's daytime.

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Now it's daytime and the sun is out.

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Broad daylight.

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I have my little phone.

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I said, let me try and watch a little bit more.

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Zombies can't hurt me through this little screen.

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That's exactly right.

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And it's daytime.

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So no zombies, you know, can't do that.

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And so I finished that episode and those zombies,

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you know, they look weird.

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There were.

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And Pedro Pascal, listen,

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not around Brendan Fraser only, but also Pedro Pascal.

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I feel like every, every lady,

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the hot ones, the hot wings thing.

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I see the hot ones.

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I watch the whole thing.

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I didn't even eat.

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Like I watched, I watched him explaining

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to either variety or whoever,

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like as he goes through his like cinematography,

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like through his whole catalog,

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his whole filmography is the word I was looking for.

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I watched that whole thing

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I'm not even a huge Pedro Pascal.

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Guy, I've never seen Game of Thrones

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and I've never seen the Mandalorian.

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And this guy, I saw him in that one Kingsman movie.

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That's my relationship to Pedro.

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I don't, yeah.

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So he's just so big right now.

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And listen, I like him.

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I really like him.

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Like I like him on and off the hammers.

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I like the hot wings.

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I like, they were like Sarah Michelle Geller,

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posted a picture of them.

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I guess they were in like an old Buffy episode or something.

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We should just do like a ill-informed gossip celebrity gossip.

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That's what it's become.

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Let's go.

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Let's go.

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But they so I love everything about it.

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And so I think it's this movie.

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We're definitely going to get to this movie.

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I'm so sorry.

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Let's talk.

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This is like old school mods.

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This is what people are here for.

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People are here for this.

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So I finished that episode in broad daylight.

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I was watching my back for zombies.

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And listen, Pedro Pascal, I love seeing him.

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He's great in the show.

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But it's zombies.

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I can't watch it.

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I can't, I'm not doing it.

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So you can do it.

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You finished the one episode and said,

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I'm not coming back for two.

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I'm sure there was a hook at the end of that first episode.

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Oh, absolutely.

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I mean, I was.

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Didn't know.

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No, it's every time I open HBO, it's like, last of us.

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I said, no, thank you.

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I said, I'll just pass right on by that.

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No, I'm totally good.

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I want you black out of them again.

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Thank you.

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No, I can't bring myself to do it.

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I even tried, Nate, I even did the thing

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where I just went to the action scenes to watch it.

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And it's still, it was just so bad.

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Like, it's just so bad.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry doing the rock Johnson if you're listening. I love you. He had a killer suit

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You want to talk about fashion. Did you see his suit jacket?

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Giving

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That's suit jacket next level and they can't even believe you doing this. Okay

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There's some inside jokes here listeners and if you need to get you need to listen to the bonus episodes to get them

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directly in Apple podcast or patreon.com slash movies on the side anyway

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Good plot everything. Thank you everything everywhere all at once. I registered it for a long time

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I said I'm alone by myself

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these a hot dog fingers.

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Let's see the hot dog fingers.

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And you know what took me over the edge?

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The Google EIs, someone tweeted or whatever

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that like I can't believe everything everywhere

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all that once made me cry over two rocks.

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And I was like, I don't even know that means,

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but I have to know now.

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I need to know what is that even about.

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Yeah.

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And I'm gonna tell you right now Nate,

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I really didn't like this movie.

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Like as you correctly predicted,

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like I did not care for the plot devices,

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The action is super weird.

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Jamie Lee Curtis is both incredible and insufferable in this movie like...

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Incredibly insufferable.

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Incredibly insufferable.

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Like, I really did not like much of anything in this movie.

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I didn't like the donut or the bagel, whatever that thing was.

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But, I cried multiple times.

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And the storytelling it does in the midst or in spite of this ridiculous multi-dimensional plot

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is really compelling.

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And it's touching to see these different relationships,

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to see the catharsis happening,

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to see realizations happening.

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And it's like super deep.

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And so I don't even know what to think about this movie,

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because I really did not like it,

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but I also like cried multiple times.

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So I don't even know what to do with that.

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I guess it means it's good, maybe.

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I mean, I think it's, here's the thing.

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I think it's good.

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I think it's good.

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Yeah, okay.

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It is very weird.

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Very weird.

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Weird in a way, we went and saw Ant-Man and the Wasp

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Quantumania, which is weird in a big franchisey sort of way.

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And it was weird in a, so we got to create an accepted

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weird that we have to create merchandise from this.

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It's still in the guardrails of mainstream.

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Intertract.

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This is like a, we got to make sure we're still

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entertaining for the whole family.

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is so shockingly strange at times.

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So strange.

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That I love that it doesn't feel like,

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well we don't care if you're like,

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we don't care.

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This is not a franchise, we're not starting a new IP.

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This is just like killer actors

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going to put a real touching, impactful story

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wrapped in an everything bagel of absurdity.

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I was really good.

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That was very good.

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And yet, you won't care about the absurdity at the end because the real life emotions

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watch as we touch your emotions while we're also seeing two people with hot dog fingers

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hold hands.

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Nate, there was literally a fight scene that was incumbent upon two guys putting trophy

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somewhere that I can't even mention on this podcast.

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Yes, and that was the that was the plot device. Yes, and I just yeah, it is incredibly

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jarring

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violent like

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has all of these things

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but the themes behind it let me let's talk about the themes for a bit. Things behind it.

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Because there are several one generational family trauma passing through

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different generations and how

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marrying this guy that they don't want him to marry.

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They didn't want, they kind of rejected her.

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She then became sort of bitter at him,

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and then eventually had her own daughter,

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and like that sort of passed along.

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She became the thing that, you know, see you.

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So like, there's that whole story,

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and the whole like, as she finally realizes,

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like, oh, this is, this is what,

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like, I'm part of the problem.

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Like, the world hasn't happened unfairly to me,

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and I'm just like, been hurt by everyone.

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I am doing hurting.

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my daughter and I'm hurting other people. And that is like super relatable.

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Along the way. So that's like one theme. So like put that in a box. There's the whole

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like finding like nihilism full on straight like which is what her daughter

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matters. Nothing matters. There's no meaning. If you looked, if you zoomed out far enough,

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we're all specks enough. Everything's meaningless under the sun. And we're all just going to

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And like being able like that deep versus Waymond and versus like a man who has finds joy

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in these simple little googly eyes and like lives in the moment and like, yes, there's

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pain, but he is like seeing the beauty all around him.

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Can I tell you this?

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I need to I need to tell you about the googly eyes because you know, one of the like images

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that you keep seeing in all the like the trailer thumbnails is like the one big googly

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Michele goes like forehead and like you see him early in the movie and I told myself going into this movie

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I don't want to be whatever those googly eyes are about I don't want any of it. I don't want none of it

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I don't know if the googly eyes are supposed to be weird or creepy. I don't know what it is or if it's whatever it is

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I don't want it like the you basically I do not like greek a green eggs and ham

22:30
I do not want the balloons and other balloons.

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Yeah, I don't want Googleey eyes.

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But in this movie, Nate, that Googleey eye

22:40
gets slapped to her forehead.

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And I was almost visually angry

22:45
at how much that emotionally affected me.

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Oh, it's like so mad because it was so good

22:54
in that little moment.

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And I was like, shoot, they did it.

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But in like the imagery there of like that's like the traditional like enlightenment

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Taoism like that sort of that tie in, but then you combine it with the like fun loving

23:14
not seriousness of a waman and all of a sudden she like sees the goofy beauty in front of her

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and like that's her in like.

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I can tell you like.

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K K. Wequan who plays waman, who is Michelle Yo's husband in this movie.

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we see that he's like has divorced papers and is planning to leave her and it's like

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usually that is such a on-the-nose plot device and early in the movie it felt like such a

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like okay duh like this is an easy way to create conflict just by looking at a piece of paper

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but one of the plot devise of the movie is you see these different like it's a multiverse so

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you see these different possible outcomes like like just multiverse like it's the multiverse

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She wasn't with Waymond and she was a singer or whatever and then but Waymond was also very successful by himself too

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And he's wearing his tux and like she gets to see

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Like the innate goodness in some people like Waymond

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It might play out as a solo super successful entrepreneur who is also kind and loving

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But it might turn them into a husband who is also kind and loving

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success for something else and so they run a laundromat.

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But for her to come to understand that the same caring nature is in both versions of

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those Waymans.

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Like that is the realization of when the eyeball hits her forehead.

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And it is really compellingly portrayed.

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And like that moment, there is that catharsis.

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And that divorce that seems like an easy conflict at the beginning, it gets way tear as the

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movie progresses because you see like this is who he is as a person.

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Like he's the good one.

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He's the good one in this relationship and it's like,

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right, yeah, even I still didn't like the hot dog fingers,

25:07
but it's, you know, they do the other stuff well.

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Can we talk about Jamie Lee Curtis real quick?

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Or did I gotta stay in Waman for just a second?

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Yeah, please, okay.

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Yeah, he's so much like the man that I want to be in so many ways.

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Like that is like, he's so good.

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That is so good.

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I do think there is something about his face that,

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you know, remember how we talked about like,

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certain actors have a very punchable face.

25:32
He has,

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the guy in Top of Maverick,

25:35
the guy in Top of Maverick.

25:37
Yeah, exactly.

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He has maybe the most hugable

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one to like hold him close face of like,

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man, I just wanna give you,

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like I wanna give you,

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make you smile and hug you.

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And I'm trying to think right now of what other actor

25:52
I could think of that I would feel the same level of like,

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come on it, get in here.

25:58
Get in here, you rascal.

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You hug.

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I'll be like, here's the point.

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That's good, right?

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Oh, that was such, that was so good.

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That is true.

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And like, do you know what the glam body is

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at the Oscars and these award shows?

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No.

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The glam body is this like hyper-slomo camera

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that I forget his name, but this guy with like long curly hair.

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He basically instructs every actor like,

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stand on this spot, the camera's gonna come real fast

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and just try to look right in the camera

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and do something cool.

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And then there's this hyper-slomo little video clips

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of all these actors

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cool things like, or whatever.

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And K-Way Kwan did it at the Oscars yesterday,

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or on Sunday, and he was the only one that like,

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he literally jumped into frame.

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Like, he jumped perfectly into frame

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as the glam bar came in, it's a super slow mo,

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and he's like smiling as he's slowly falling

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for the jump, I was like, this guy, even in real life,

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this guy like you're saying, like he's just super huggable.

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So yeah, I totally agree.

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He's a good dude.

26:56
All right, let's go to Jamie Lee Curtis.

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I did not know she was in this movie and so when she appears behind that desk at the tax office

27:06
I was like is that?

27:08
She occurred like and then for her to keep returning throughout the movie as a villain character

27:16
It was shocking like it was also shocking how much she committed to being that role

27:22
Which is just oh bizarre

27:25
Ridiculous role, but she was 100% in it like she

27:30
the piece of paper to her forehead kind of in it because of her.

27:33
Right.

27:35
Well, so there's that, but also her like grounded character because everyone has

27:40
their like this universe boring grounded before they get a postress.

27:44
Like that person is so, man, I'm trying to think of a different word other than

27:50
cringey, but so like, yeah, just like a grading character.

27:56
It's like, oh, right, right.

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I don't have to deal with someone like you.

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Right.

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She did a great job of portraying that person who has at every DMV or social security

28:08
office that is just like a pain to work with.

28:12
So she portrayed a great, but she totally sold it and then there's the scene again at

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the end like this is one of the times when we talk about movies that didn't deserve one

28:22
of the payoff moments at the end and this super strange movie like does deserve those

28:30
and when Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yo

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are sitting on that bench outside the laundromat,

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it's like shoot.

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Yes, I'll take it.

28:40
Like that is another emotional cathartic moment.

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And it earned it.

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Like the movie earned it.

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I don't know what else is going on.

28:47
Exactly.

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Well, in the case, so we've now talking about

28:49
the relationship with Weman and Evelyn.

28:51
Now we got Deirdre and Evelyn.

28:52
Now let's go to Joy.

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The, the, the, the villain.

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There is a part near the beginning of this where after she basically sends her daughter away

29:08
and is like, listen, you know, basically don't tell your grandpa your gay, hide this from

29:13
him and also does something very, very insensitive there.

29:18
And then, Joy leaves the laundry man and Evelyn follows her out and says something like,

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also, you need to eat less or something.

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Yeah, and it's like, what have you done?

29:33
Like, yeah, just like, what have you done?

29:36
Like the kind of things that like make you feel like,

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wow, this relationship shot.

29:41
Like this can't come back.

29:43
Yeah.

29:44
But what's amazing is then this juxtaposition at the end

29:48
of the movie where she says the exact same hurtful things,

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but then follows it up with the most genuine, authentic,

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I love you and care about you.

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And if you choose to do X, Y, or Z,

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I'm your mom and I still love you even if your grandfather just owns you like whatever happens like it is such

30:06
Such an amazing juxtaposition of those two scenes and their dynamic like

30:11
Every scene that they have together is amazing and her is the villain

30:16
Stephanie she has the villain there is a TikTok of like best villain entrances of all time and

30:22
There is a scene in this movie where like she like ticks her head or whatever and they change dimensions

30:28
with every tick and it's like oh

30:30
That was amazing.

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Like, please do that again.

30:33
Like it was, there was the coolest thing.

30:36
And so, she's just frightening.

30:38
A frightening villain.

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Like, yes, she was frightening to me.

30:43
And it was so cool because it was reserved like power

30:47
for such, you know, for many of the scenes,

30:49
but she was able to exude like this,

30:52
I am dangerous vibe.

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And like totally, yeah, like it was amazing.

30:57
Right.

30:58
So it's a,

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It's like nihilistic evil.

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Like because none of this matters,

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we don't do what I want.

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And nothing to lose.

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Nothing to lose.

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Who cares about the life and death of people in this?

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Cause there's no value to any of it.

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And like that,

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which when you like,

31:16
if you and I watch this movie in person together,

31:19
I feel like discussing purpose and value and everything

31:22
would be one of those like, we would just stay up

31:24
for a long time talking about this giant.

31:27
It's a huge theme in this movie.

31:30
is this whole like, if you're everywhere

31:33
and if you see everything, then what, you know,

31:36
if you see how it all ends, if you see everything,

31:40
like what does a little moment, what does a little life mean?

31:44
And like those are huge questions at this movie

31:47
just in some ways, like addresses,

31:50
but you're more focused on the relationships

31:53
between the people, so it might not hit you

31:55
until like the second day after, it's like, oh yeah.

31:58
What's the point of living five extra years

32:00
years or whatever.

32:01
You don't have all that.

32:03
And I love how, you know, in the multiverse plot device, Michelle Yo gets to see herself

32:10
not only as like the laundromat wife, but as this successful opera singer.

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And what I feel like this movie does well is it shows you like, yeah, there are worlds

32:21
out there where you're the millionaire or you're the successful whatever.

32:30
and now sees his character for what it is.

32:33
In that universe, Michelle Yo, who wasn't married to

32:37
Wayman because she was a successful opera singer,

32:39
then she didn't stay with him.

32:40
The one thing she wants in that universe, then is Wayman.

32:44
And if there was, and you would,

32:46
the movie does a good job of implying or showing

32:49
and not telling you, it almost looks like if she could trade

32:52
whatever fame and success she had in that universe

32:54
for the relationship with Wayman, she would do it then.

32:57
And then to take that appreciation

33:00
for that person from that universe and apply it to the universe where you did

33:05
marry him only you ended up in a laundromat and then being able to appreciate and

33:09
love the person as though you were you know from that world but here I don't know

33:13
I think it just does it does a great job with that yeah it's it's good so overall

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let's rate this movie and here's what I want to say before we rate this movie yeah

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this movie is not for everyone I would have said before we did this it's not for

33:30
I didn't ask.

33:32
No, I didn't ask.

33:34
But, and it's violent crew at times, like, in a way that like, again, not for everyone.

33:44
But the themes of it are so touching and the originality of it, it is like no other movie

33:51
you've ever seen.

33:53
It is like no other movie that's coming out of Hollywood right now.

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beautifully startling about look at this original movie amongst the sea. They needed

34:07
that on the movie poster for the advertisements beautifully startling. That should have been

34:13
the tagline. I really yes. Yes. Go on. I was affected by this movie and enjoyed parts

34:22
of this movie. Yeah. And I kind of want to see this movie. I saw this movie again, maybe

34:30
a year ago or so.

34:32
I kind of want to see the movie again,

34:35
maybe in another four year.

34:37
Like, there's some rewatch ability to it for me,

34:41
which like maybe it's like more big curiosity

34:44
of like I don't quite remember all this stuff,

34:46
but I think I'm gonna go back and watch this movie again.

34:49
So that, whatever that means.

34:51
Yeah.

34:52
So on a scale of zero to five,

34:54
Google EIs, of course.

34:57
I will say, I'll rate it.

34:58
I'm gonna give this movie

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four out of five.

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Because I have to recognize,

35:05
you know, what is a movie supposed to do

35:07
if not feel things and think about things

35:11
and package deep things?

35:14
Yeah, in a way that it's like the medicine

35:18
with like a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

35:21
Like it is this.

35:23
It's a hallucinogen and not shit.

35:25
It's like, it is a startlingly troublesome hallucinogen.

35:30
at the core like powerful in many moments that are really deep.

35:34
And like when they're on the staircase and that bagel is sucking everything up

35:38
and Micheleo's dad character like holds on to her to help her keep going after he tried to fight against her like

35:45
it's steep, you know, it's a powerful moment.

35:48
So I'll give it four out of five.

35:50
It's cool, googly eyes.

35:51
I'm gonna give the movie four out of five too.

35:54
It is a movie that at some point in time two characters are deciding whether they want to

36:00
move towards complete annihilation from existence.

36:05
And it goes from that huge scale

36:08
to a couple trying to work things out in a laundry.

36:12
And all the things in between.

36:14
And so it is original.

36:17
In some ways, I think the win, the best picture nod,

36:22
almost comes as to me, it feels like a positive reaction

36:30
we've had in the last year or so.

36:33
Like almost as a like, hey, maybe take some risks.

36:36
There are some risky directors and risky screenplay.

36:41
Like, there's still some stuff out there.

36:44
And if this is an example of what taking a risk is

36:48
and succeeding, I'm good with that.

36:50
I'm good with more.

36:51
They might not all hit.

36:52
They might not all be good.

36:54
We may do something on this show that go like,

36:56
I didn't work for me.

37:00
and maybe there are parts of it that didn't work for me,

37:03
but on the donut hole it did.

37:07
Okay, last question.

37:08
Do you recommend people go watch this movie now

37:11
if they have not seen it?

37:12
Okay, yes, great question.

37:16
Not a blanket recommendation.

37:20
If you want to know whether you should go see it,

37:24
you should, I mean, you probably don't know us personally,

37:27
but if you'd know us personally,

37:30
DM us and we will tell you as a

37:33
conservative to you. If you don't know

37:36
as personally, you need to go to your

37:40
30 year old friend or cousin who is

37:45
kind of artsy, who has definitely

37:47
already seen it and ask them, am I

37:50
the kind of person who would like

37:51
this movie? That's a good. So you

37:52
need to go find your North Star and

37:55
then they will guide you in this

37:57
recommendation. Find your base. So

38:00
Find your bagel. It's not everything for everyone, but for a few. I definitely know some people who I wouldn't recommend it for.

38:11
So for example, mom don't look so bad.

38:16
Not even not because it's like like vulgar to the point of like you'll just can't stand it. It's just gonna be so weird like I

38:25
Mean watch gone with the wind. It is not

38:30
It is not a West Side story.

38:33
It is not a Disney movie.

38:35
It's just weird. It's super weird.

38:37
Super weird. But, but to every chalk artist out there who's listening to me,

38:42
blanket recommendation. I know all y'all.

38:45
Blanket recommendation for everyone in the art world.

38:52
Go after it. Go, go for it.

38:54
Get yourself an IPA and grab yourself and everything everywhere.

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All at once.

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Very good.

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39:28
what is it, what is it, what is it,

39:29
what is it, what is it, what is it,

39:30
those things. So thanks for tuning in. Oh, and as we always say, you think because I'm kind

39:35
that it means I'm naive. And maybe I am. It's strategic and necessary. This is how I fight being kind.

39:48
Stephen. Yeah. This goes after the sound at the very end, but sure, sure, sure. I do need

39:56
to ask you, you know my brother. Do you recommend this movie for my brother? Because I'm on

40:02
the fence. I feel it. I don't know. I mean, I feel like I need to know him a little bit.

40:08
I mean, we've only met in person like twice. I feel like I need to know. I need to know

40:15
what the weirdest movie he has seen already. Ooh.

40:18
and then he's like, the weirdest movie he's liked

40:21
and then maybe I could judge from there.

40:23
So Jacob, text us.

40:25
Is there, what is the weirdest movie?

40:27
Is there like a proxy movie that if you like this,

40:30
then you will like, like if you like Mulan Rouge,

40:34
then you will like.

40:36
What's, I just Googled best weirdest movies of all time.

40:41
That is what I Googled.

40:43
That's great.

40:43
I don't recognize any of these movies.

40:45
I'll be honest.

40:47
Yeah, I guess.

40:48
in the recommendation.

40:50
I just, I don't even want to say the name of some of these movies because I'm scared

40:53
to even know.

40:54
You don't even know.

40:55
I don't even know.

40:56
These movie posters are insane.

40:57
Quite weird.

40:58
Quite weird.

40:59
Very strange.

41:00
A labyrinth.

41:01
Have you seen labyrinth?

41:02
I have not.

41:03
We have several listeners that want us to watch it.

41:05
I didn't actually have labyrinth in here.

41:07
I don't know which one was.

41:08
One of them has.

41:09
There's labyrinth.

41:10
There's legend with the top pan.

41:12
There's pan.

41:13
There's Peter Pan.

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There's I am, right?

41:15
There's pan.

41:18
I don't know if it's too silent.

41:20
I don't know if it's what it is maybe late.

41:22
As we do word jazz.

41:24
If you could watch Scott Pilgrim versus the world,

41:28
I feel like, yeah, you could watch this for sure.

41:31
Oh, for sure.

41:32
Like, yeah, Scott Pilgrim was actually probably

41:35
a pretty good, like it's heads the right direction.

41:38
Yeah, if you like Scott Pilgrim,

41:39
you will like everything everywhere all at once.

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I think that's fair to say.

41:42
I think it's fair to say.

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There we go, we made it there.

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We made it there.

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Done.