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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gardosky. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for being here again. Today's Thursday, October sixteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The next election for your local office

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Speaker 1: is coming up in eighteen days. Make a plan and

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Speaker 1: go vote, vote by mail, vote early, vote on election day.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure your voice is heard in your local elections.

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Speaker 1: Now usually start rambling up polls that have come out

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Speaker 1: in this party election. But it's crazy. We are in

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Speaker 1: a drought of polling. Even though the election is so close,

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Speaker 1: we are in a complete drought for quality polls. The

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Speaker 1: only statistic I could share with you at an election

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Speaker 1: is that in New Jersey they broke One of my

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Speaker 1: very smart autistic friends broke down precinct data based on

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Speaker 1: race and ethnicity, and he found that in districts that

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Speaker 1: are a majority white, they are voting about ten percent

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Speaker 1: higher on average than districts that are precincts that are

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Speaker 1: majority Black, Hispanic, or Asian. Now that is interesting. So

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Speaker 1: why is it interesting is because this is all mail

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Speaker 1: in ballads. By the way, if you are less likely

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Speaker 1: if if you have an outstanding ballot, you get a

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Speaker 1: want to go vote for Trump or Obama, whoever it is.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go vote the first day you get the ballot, right,

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Speaker 1: You're so excited to vote. If you put the ballot

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Speaker 1: So will these people who get mail in ballads vote?

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Speaker 1: Most of them absolutely will. But if they're not excited

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Speaker 1: how excited will they be to show up on election day?

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Speaker 1: That is a big question. That is the question that

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Speaker 1: has plagued mikey Ryl's campaign this entire time. She's not

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Speaker 1: popular with a lot of minority voters, and it is

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Speaker 1: she has a very very strong ground game. So I

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Speaker 1: told you all that this episode be a non political episode.

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Speaker 1: I said, I wanted to do something easy in light.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of dark news I'm in the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks to months, you know, since I think Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk's assassination. So I said, let's do something not intense.

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Speaker 1: Let's do something free of a lot of polling conversation,

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Speaker 1: and let's just talk about something interesting. And I said,

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Speaker 1: let's do a movie episode. I picked ten movies for

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Speaker 1: give advice on because I am not a movie snob.

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Speaker 1: But the movies I tend to like are only liked

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Speaker 1: by movie snobs. So I like a lot of art

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Speaker 1: house films, some foreign films. I like a lot of

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Speaker 1: love old movies. You know, it hurts my heart. And

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Speaker 1: people sit there and say young people sit there and

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Speaker 1: say movies made before two thousand are old, because no

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Speaker 1: And it's very difficult. So they said for me to

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to pay like The Dark Night Rises

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Speaker 1: on today's episode is my buddy, gian Carlo Sopo. He

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Speaker 1: is a writer of culture for National Review and an

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Speaker 1: Gen Carlo, thank you for being here. It's great to

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Speaker 1: be with you. Okay, So, gian Carlo, you are a

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Speaker 1: movie buff. You write about culture. When someone says, what's

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Speaker 2: Of a good movie? You know? A lot of it

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's a perfect formula. But I do

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Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna give our

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Speaker 1: top ten list of movies that conservatives should watch. These

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Speaker 1: to understand nine seven, eight, nine ten. Why did you

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Speaker 2: So I've been working on a project now for most

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Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty films that speak to the

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Speaker 2: little bit too early. In terms of the movies that

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Speaker 2: I've tried to focus on films that were not on

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Speaker 2: films that that I selected. Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 1: Picked movies that were not like too. I like a

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Speaker 1: lot of arts nob films like I do. People hate

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Speaker 2: It's a fantastic film. I think it's some of Gibson's

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Speaker 2: So the very first one on my list is They

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Speaker 2: Live by I've never seen It Yeah, by by John Carpenter.

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Speaker 2: It's a movie from the eighties. This is by no

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Speaker 2: it's about an alien invasion. That's that's happened on Earth.

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Speaker 2: by way of background, the film is a critique of

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Speaker 2: it's an amazing film in terms of if you're into

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Speaker 2: It's fantastic. I love I love John Carpenter. Obviously I

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Speaker 1: It's a very slow paced movie. This is not a

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Speaker 2: It stands on its own. Uh. There's there's nothing like it. Uh.

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Speaker 2: And I like it.

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Speaker 1: The acting is good, it's interesting, it moves, even though

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Speaker 2: A great film. I watched it for the first time

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Speaker 2: seen this movie, And I'm just like, how can you

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean people of a certain age may not

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah. And so obviously it's not just a gangster film.

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Speaker 2: And I think Coppola himself intended it almost as a

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Speaker 2: And it tells the story of how some of those

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Speaker 2: To me, it's it's a must watch for anyone left,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those movies that if it's on,

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Speaker 1: Okay, My next movie, I think this is number four

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Speaker 1: promise you this movie is brilliant. It's called Godzilla Minus one.

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Speaker 1: It's in twenty twenty three by Takashami Yamazaki.

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Speaker 1: It was the best movie I saw in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: And what I love about this film is that you

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Speaker 2: shows about very few films I think treat the border

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Speaker 2: with the seriousness that it deserves, and this is one

433
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Speaker 2: of those films that really got it right about some

434
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Speaker 2: of the dangers on our southern border. And it's absolutely fantastic.

435
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 2: It's got Brad Pitts in it too, Cameron Diaz. So

436
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it, make sure to check out

437
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Speaker 2: The counselor.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So my next movie is from number I think

439
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: six now or five or whatever. My next movie is

440
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: also in the art from the twenty tens. It is

441
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: Hotel Mumbai from twenty eighteen by the director was Anthony Maras.

442
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: It was about the Mumbai terrorist attacks in two thousand

443
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: and eight. I did not even know there were terrorist

444
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 1: attacks at the Hotel Mumbai in Mumbai, Doesney, because it

445
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,919
Speaker 1: happened like two days after Obama was elected, so the

446
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: American media really didn't cover it. But it's about Islamic

447
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: terrorism in India. It is fast paced, it is foreign,

448
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: but they has a lot of English speaking in. It

449
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 1: is past, it is quick, it is action packed, it

450
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: has a real moral lesson in it. Absolutely a movie

451
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: I've seen probably three or four times and worth watching,

452
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: especially for people who are like, you know whatever, foreign films.

453
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: But this, I promise you it doesn't miss abeat. It's brilliant. Okay,

454
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 1: your next movie.

455
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 2: My next movie is also a foreign film. It is

456
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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven's Less Samurai by John Pierre Melville. Okay, now,

457
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: this is the coolest movie ever made. There is no

458
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: debate in terms of just the aesthetics. It is the

459
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 2: coolest movie ever made. It's been copied a million times.

460
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 2: Tarantino has copied it in reservoir dogs and in pulp fiction.

461
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 2: It tells the story of a you know, a professional

462
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 2: killer who is a hired gun and he's played by

463
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Speaker 2: Alain Delonne. So, for those who don't know, is align

464
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 2: the loan. He's uh, you know, just a terrific actor

465
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: who would have you know, It's funny because it's almost counterintuitive.

466
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 2: He would have gotten a lot farther in his career

467
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Speaker 2: if he weren't so damn handsome.

468
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, you would have been taking a lot

469
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Speaker 1: same I have that same problem yeah.

470
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 2: So, uh you know. So it's about a killer, a

471
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: contract killer who has a moral code, and it's got

472
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 2: a great story. But the real reason I think for

473
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 2: watching this film is for the aesthetics. It's the director

474
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 2: is maybe the greatest director that you haven't that most

475
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: people haven't heard of. His name is John pire Mellville.

476
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: He made some of the best movies of the sixties.

477
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 2: He was an American file like, he loved America. That's

478
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: not it's not even his real name. He he adopted

479
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 2: that name. He was famous for driving around Paris and

480
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: a big Cadillac and wearing a stetson and and and

481
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 2: ray ban. So this this is the guy who loved

482
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Speaker 2: American gangster films and really wanted to bring that vibe

483
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: to France. It is a cool It is just one

484
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 2: of the coolest looking films I've ever seen. So if

485
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: you have not seen Les Samurai or The Samurai, definitely

486
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: check it out. It's been copied, I said by Tarantino.

487
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: One of its most direct descendants, though, is the Ryan

488
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: gosslingfilm Drive. Mm hmm, yeah, I saw it. Yeah, so

489
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 2: it's absolutely fantastic. It's one of my favorite movies.

490
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Speaker 1: Okay, is a my next one? Number six I actually

491
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: I counted because I was very off, But number six

492
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Speaker 1: of the ten that I suggest is an oldie, but

493
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: a classic and a class that people kind of forgot

494
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: in the last thirty years. It's from nineteen ninety one

495
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: by Steven Spielbert and it's Hook, and it is the

496
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Speaker 1: story of Peter Pan grown up. Robin Williams plays Peter Pan,

497
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: Julia Robbers plays tinker Bell, Dustin Hoffman plays Captain Hook.

498
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Speaker 1: And why it is great is if you deconstruct. I

499
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: watched the movie recently and deconstructed it is really a

500
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,959
Speaker 1: celebration about fatherhood, and that's really the essence of the

501
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: entire movie is not about not growing up. It is

502
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: about five fatherhood and why bothers are important, and movies

503
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: like that don't get made very often. So nineteen ninety

504
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: one Hook is my thing, especially if you have younger

505
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: kids and it's not gonna be a Disney movie you

506
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: just turn on. It's a movie you kind of don't

507
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: remember to look for. Just check it out. It is

508
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: very very good. What was your next?

509
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 2: Don't those stories hit harder now as a dad? Yeah? Yeah,

510
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 2: So what's your nexte? My next? Movie is nineteen ninety

511
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 2: threes falling Down. Okay, I've never seen this, So this

512
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 2: is the Michael Douglas goes ape shit movie. So I

513
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 2: think it's a it's a look. It's a movie about alienation,

514
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 2: it's a movie about social instability. Conservatives who understand conservatism

515
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: will pick up on a lot here. You know you're

516
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: not gonna like this guy because he's a vigilante and

517
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 2: because he goes around shooting up a fast food place

518
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: because of false advertising, but you will appreciate how if

519
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: things move too fast, be it through societal change, due

520
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 2: to changes and laws, due to economic changes, due to

521
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 2: a lot of new people moving into your community, you

522
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 2: will recognize how that could really destabilize a society and

523
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 2: push people who were already vulnerable or on the margins

524
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 2: or on the fringes towards really dark places. So it's

525
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Speaker 2: not a perfect film. I think it could have been

526
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 2: a perfect film. I think they made some decisions in

527
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,479
Speaker 2: the third act where you kind of you end up

528
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: thinking that what happens to him is what deserved to

529
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 2: happen to him. I think a Boulder version of that

530
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 2: movie would have had him a little bit more restrained

531
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 2: in the third act, like he shoots a cop in

532
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: the third act, you should not have done that in

533
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: the script.

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Speaker 1: Spoiler alert for anyone going to see it, Well, that's

535
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: not a major spoiler.

536
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a major spoiler. But you it's a

537
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 2: kind of movie that I think if the studios had

538
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 2: had more balls in the early nineties, this is like

539
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: a feel good era and we were like in that

540
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: nineties glow where they would have made a film where

541
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: the ending would have been a little bit more ambiguous,

542
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 2: where you wouldn't have walked out of there thinking, Okay, well, yeah,

543
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 2: this guy's a case study, and not in What Not

544
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: to Do. You would have walked out of there thinking

545
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: a little bit more like, Okay, maybe he had a

546
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: point and yeah, and it would have forced you to

547
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 2: grapple with some of the tensions that he was dealing

548
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 2: with a little bit better. Okay.

549
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Speaker 1: My next one is I think number seven or six

550
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: or whatever. My next one is Sabrina from nineteen fifty

551
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: four by Billy Wilander. It is a black and white film.

552
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: It's an older film with Audrey Hepfern and Humphrey Bogart,

553
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: and it's an easy movie to watch. It's basically a

554
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: Cinderella story. Why I think Conservits could watch it is because

555
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: Humphrey Bogart gives one of the best defenses of capitalism

556
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: you will watch in a movie when he discusses why

557
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: he is so in love with his job and how

558
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: great industry is very very easy movie to watch, has

559
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: a good lesson in it, but overall quick and easy.

560
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: But I do love that movie from Billy. Billy Wilder's

561
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: probably top three greatest American directors that ever lived, so

562
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: it's great.

563
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm glad you didn't mention the Harrison Ford remake.

564
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: And no, I would not do that to anybody.

565
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,959
Speaker 2: My next film, it's a movie from nineteen seventy directed

566
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: by Bertolucci. It's an Italian film. It's called The Conformist,

567
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 2: which is it's a great lesson for anyone who works

568
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 2: in politics. It's a story about an operative for Mussolini

569
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 2: who essentially gets hired or ordered to knock off somebody

570
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 2: close to him. And what you eventually start realizing about

571
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: this guy is that he's just a careerist. He was

572
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 2: never really a Mussolini guy or a Fascist or whatever.

573
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 2: He was just a guy who was in this for

574
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 2: personal advance in it. So, you know, I think that

575
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 2: if you work in this business, it's always good to

576
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: have a north star and to be very clear about

577
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: why you're in this and I think this movie has

578
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 2: a lot to offer that. And by the end of

579
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: the film you see that he didn't believe in anything

580
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: at all. I'm not giving away any spoilers, but it's

581
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: also just one of the best looking films you'll ever see.

582
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: If you'd like cinematography, The Conformist is one of the best,

583
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: and honestly, it's also just one of the most influential

584
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 2: movies ever made.

585
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: One of you know something, very typical people in policies.

586
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: They end up not believing in anything at all. Okay,

587
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: my third to last mine is Belfast from twenty twenty

588
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: one by Kenneth Brana. This is the story of Belfast,

589
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: Ireland during the Troubles. I have family in Ireland during

590
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: that who moved from New York to Ireland during the troubles.

591
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: I should have a whole episode on that one day.

592
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: He but it is a story of life in Northern

593
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: Ireland and it is black and white for most of

594
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: the movie. It is sad and it is happy about

595
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: being said, it is the most Irish movie I've ever seen.

596
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: But I love it.

597
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: It's a story of childhood, youth and both longing for

598
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: a better life, of being being confined to certain things.

599
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: Everyone's on a different path, everyone's in a certain different thing,

600
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: and so there's a real love for community, even when

601
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: community is terrible. Great, great, great movie love it really

602
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: really recommend this. I shouldn't have my grandparents and it

603
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: was like their favorite movie ever. So Belfast by Kenneth Brono.

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00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: It's yours.

605
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

606
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 2: My next one is a movie called Joe from nineteen seventy.

607
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 2: This is a grindhouse movie. It's a okay, this is

608
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 2: like cinema veritas American style in the seventies. It is

609
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: directed by John Adilson, the same guy who did Rocky

610
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: and Lean On Me and The Karate Kid. And the

611
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: reason why I say that is because a lot of

612
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: people say that this is like an anti right wing movie,

613
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: and I don't think a guy who made those films

614
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 2: and was set to direct Reagan but died of cancer

615
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: before he was able to do it, it could be

616
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: really that anti right wing. So it's I think it's

617
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: better understood as a critique of the right from within

618
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: the right. So it's also a story of an upper

619
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 2: middle class executive whose daughter goes down the wrong starts

620
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: hanging out the wrong people in the counterculture, and she

621
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: gets involved with the hippie. The guy kills the hippie,

622
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: and so he's so the executive guy's already on the

623
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: wrong track. But then he goes to a bar and

624
00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: there's this loud mouth at a bar who's saying, like

625
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: these obscene, crazy racist rants. And the whole point is

626
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 2: is like, this guy is a caricature. Everybody in this

627
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 2: movie is kind of a caricature of the worst versions

628
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 2: of themselves. But the point though, is that this guy

629
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 2: should have been at a stage where he's okay, like

630
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 2: facing justice and some kind of contrition. But because he

631
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 2: befriends this guy, he creates almost like a permission structure

632
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 2: for what he just did to his daughter's boyfriends. It

633
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 2: has a very tragic ending. It's also just a fun movie.

634
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 2: You're gonna laugh your ass off by hearing the things

635
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: that this guy says that are I could ever say

636
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 2: and we would all get canceled. But you can imagine

637
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 2: people laughing in movie theaters in the seventies watching some

638
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 2: of this. It's called Joe. It's not easy to find,

639
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: I think, but you probably it's probably found it on YouTube.

640
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: It may even be on Amazon Prime. This really quick story.

641
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: I was I would see Death Wish in the theaters

642
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: in New York, but it was like a very hipster

643
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: theater Death Wish from the seventies. And when watching it

644
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: too like hipster Transplants. Clearly Transplants said New York can

645
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: have possibly been that bad. It's like, I hate these people,

646
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: but I love movies from the seventies, so you mention it, okay.

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Speaker 1: Second to last from me, This is from twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: by Armando in New Scene. He's a director. It's called

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Speaker 1: Death of Stalin. It is a dark comedy and I

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Speaker 1: mean dark, but it is very very funny if you

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the conversations happening. And I think, why

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Speaker 1: a conservation watch this movie is it's actually accurate. It

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00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: is more accurate than not accurate detail of what happens

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Speaker 1: in a non democracy when there is a transfer of power,

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Speaker 1: and how violent it is, and how the section of

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Speaker 1: power happens, and how oftentimes what follows is what follows

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Speaker 1: a dictator is usually chaos and destruction and not this

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Speaker 1: clean transition towards you know, Jeffersonian democracy. So Death of

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Speaker 1: Stalin from twenty eighteen is my second to last pick.

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Speaker 2: What's yours? That's a great pick. My second to last

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Speaker 2: is a silent film, nineteen twenty One's The Kid all Time?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my favor at all time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's one of the greatest movies of all time.

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Speaker 2: It's it's one of the greatest stories about well, it

665
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Speaker 2: is the greatest story about surrogate fatherhood. What I love

666
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: about this film and why I think conservatives should watch it,

667
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Speaker 2: is that it really speaks to a sense of duty.

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00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 2: This guy was not planning to be a dad. He

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Speaker 2: was just like some tramp. He like literally stumbles upon

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Speaker 2: a kid. There's a and he the only reason why

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Speaker 2: he takes him home is because he doesn't want the

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Speaker 2: cop who saw him stumble over the kid to think

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Speaker 2: that he was kidnapping the child. So he just acted

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Speaker 2: like everything was going was honckey dor and he just

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Speaker 2: took the kid home, and he ended up growing very

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Speaker 2: attached to the kid and raising him. It's a beautiful film,

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Speaker 2: Like everything that Chaplin did, It's it shows you some

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Speaker 2: of the rough edges of society at the time, but

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Speaker 2: with very deep, like humanistick lessons that you could really

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Speaker 2: take away. And it's one of my favorite films too.

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Speaker 1: That is my favorite, is my number one favorite movie

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Speaker 1: of old I see it constantly.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: My last pick for this number ten movie conservatives watch

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Speaker 1: is a movie called April Ninth. It was made in

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen by Ronnie Ezra.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard of it?

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Speaker 1: I've not heard of this one. Okay, Wow, I found

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Speaker 1: on a movie that even Jim Carlos. It is free

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Speaker 1: on YouTube to watch. It is a Danish movie. It

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Speaker 1: is all in Danish. It is the story of Danish

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Speaker 1: resistance to Nazi Germany from the perspective of a lieutenant.

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Speaker 1: And it is really a question of what is your

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Speaker 1: role when you are faced with insurmountable odds? How much

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Speaker 1: do you owe to a cause or to a country

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Speaker 1: when you cannot succeed in what you're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of conservatives when things are very bleak,

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Speaker 1: would resonate with this message. It's a very very powerful movie.

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Speaker 1: There's one really powerful scene where the farm woman was

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Speaker 1: like you could just hide out and she goes, you know,

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Speaker 1: this country was Germany, then it was Denmark. Doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: to me, and he says it matters a lot to me. Beautiful,

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Speaker 1: beautiful movie in Danish, free on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Jim Carlo, your last movie, So my final pick, and

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Speaker 2: on a positive note, is White Christmas. Kay, So I

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Speaker 2: wanted to end on a high note. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to tell you that I think it's the greatest Christmas

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Speaker 2: movie ever made. It's a little kitch uh, it's a

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00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 2: little Sacharin, a little sentimental, but it's very sincere. So

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Speaker 2: it's it's about a couple of army buddies who they

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Speaker 2: essentially they go on vacation and they end up at

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Speaker 2: the at the at the Vermont Inn of their old

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00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: military superior and the place is about to go out

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Speaker 2: of business because it hasn't snowed, and so they essentially

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00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 2: so it's Bing Crosby and Danny k and they summon

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00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: they they're able to go on TV and they summon

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Speaker 2: their entire platoon to join them. At the end time, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it does have one of the most heartwarming and beautiful

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Speaker 2: endings in all of cinema. I every time I watch

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Speaker 2: that film, I just look over to my wife, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, this got to me. It's just a

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Speaker 2: great movie about camaraderie, patriotism and loyalty and friendship, and

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Speaker 2: you know it's it kind of masksself as a romantic film.

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Speaker 2: I don't really think that's that's the heart of it.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it's a coincidence that that movie

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Speaker 2: was made at a time when we had a general

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Speaker 2: as president. So I think it's a It's a gorgeous

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Speaker 2: film and definitely put it on your watch list for

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Speaker 2: this Christmas season.

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Speaker 1: Well, gian Carlo, where could we go to read more

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Speaker 1: of your stuff?

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Speaker 2: So they could read me at National Review or they

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Speaker 2: can follow me on Twitter. I've been posting a lot

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Speaker 2: less there, just just busy with being a dad. But

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Speaker 2: you could follow me at National Review and I'll I'll

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Speaker 2: have a lot more to share about movies on this

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Speaker 2: project that I've been working on in the next couple weeks.

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to retweet it when it comes out, So

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Giancarlo, thank you for coming on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you for having me. Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Hey, we'll be right back after this. Now it's time

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Speaker 1: for the Ask Me Anything segment. If you guys want

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Speaker 1: to be part of the Ask Me Anything segment, email

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Speaker 1: me ryanat Numbers Gamepodcast dot com. That's Ryan at Numbers

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Speaker 1: gamepodcast dot com. I love getting these questions. I have

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Speaker 1: a few built ups, so I'm trying to get through

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Speaker 1: more than one per episode. This question comes from Jennifer

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Speaker 1: in Florida. She writes about a month ago she started

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Speaker 1: tracking local registration in her county, which has a large

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Speaker 1: university as a blue county in Florida. Because of the

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Speaker 1: Supervisor of Elections announced that she would be doing outreach

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Speaker 1: at college campus events. Weekly net registration by party has shown,

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Speaker 1: but she included the attachment that there are no new

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Speaker 1: Democrats in the last three weeks and one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy new Republicans and two hundred and sixteen new others.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think some people are registering as others

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Speaker 1: basically not in either party? And why are so few

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Speaker 1: registering as Democrats? And are you of ver any state

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Speaker 1: laws that require university students to vote in their home

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Speaker 1: precincts if they're still dependence on their parents. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: the first question is the purge three weeks ago about four.

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Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, Florida did a regular voter registration purge.

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Speaker 1: All states do it. They said, there in state who's

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Speaker 1: been inactive for years, and they assume that they moved.

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Speaker 2: Or they died.

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Speaker 1: And I looked at this data for this precinct and

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Speaker 1: this county, and there was enormous drop off for Democrats

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Speaker 1: who either had moved or died or were completely inactive

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Speaker 1: for a long period of time. So they registered not zero,

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Speaker 1: they registered more than zero, but the numbers that they

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Speaker 1: lost in that purge exceeded that the numbers that they gained.

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Speaker 1: And why are they registering so few voters is because

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Speaker 1: their brand is terrible. I mean the brand of you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're not registering for an election that's coming up, right,

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Speaker 1: if you like, if you like the presence she's coming up,

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Speaker 1: I got a register to vote.

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Speaker 2: I got to registered to vote.

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Speaker 1: Unless thing like that is happening that's motivating you to vote,

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Speaker 1: you're more than likely just either someone who just moved

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Speaker 1: to an area or someone who just turned eighteen. And

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party is not They just don't have a leadership,

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Speaker 1: they don't have a message. They're very isolating to a

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Speaker 1: lot of different people. Republicans don't have an amazing brand name,

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Speaker 1: but it's better than Democrats. And a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are just picking independence because they don't want to belong

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Speaker 1: to a party one of the two parties that they

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Speaker 1: feel are you know, service to the country or to

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Speaker 1: voters as a whole. This is the question on voter

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Speaker 1: registration for college kids. I looked up the law in Florida.

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Speaker 1: College kids can register either at their home that their

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Speaker 1: parents live at, or at their college campus and their dorm,

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Speaker 1: so they don't need to have registered where where they're

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Speaker 1: dependent on their parents. They can register to vote in

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Speaker 1: the dorm that they live on. That is the case.

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Speaker 1: Every state is a little different. That is the case

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Speaker 1: in a lot of important swing states like Wisconsin, where

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of college kids at Wisconsin who register

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Speaker 1: at their dorms and they have to be lefties. But

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Speaker 1: that's a New Hampshire I think is the same exact way.

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Speaker 1: That's a big question from individual states. But Florida, you

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Speaker 1: can register at your dorm. I did look that up. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Next question comes from Ryan Shannon. He writes, farmers and

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Speaker 1: Democrats say you can't get rid of illegal workers because

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Speaker 1: our crops will go up.

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Speaker 2: You touched on the show.

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Speaker 1: On your show, why don't Republicans Dems whoever actually helps

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Speaker 1: shows a chart of how much it will cost the

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Speaker 1: strawberries would be how much if we hired Americans? I

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Speaker 1: will help one side of the aisle. So clearly they

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Speaker 1: don't care. Okay, So he said, welcome to my TED. Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Thank you Ryan

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Speaker 1: for asking that question.

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Speaker 2: I was by way.

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Speaker 1: It was National Ryan Day the other day, so I

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Speaker 1: hope you celebrated by liking and subscribing to this podcast.

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Speaker 1: The question of how much will crops go if you

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Speaker 1: hire only Americans?

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Speaker 2: One?

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Speaker 1: Okay, A, you don't need to hire only Americans. You

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Speaker 1: could hire h two A vs A holders because hwavs

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Speaker 1: holders all have an unlimited supply and they're legally here

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Speaker 1: and farmer farming companies manufacturing companies manufacturing, but agriculture companies

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Speaker 1: have to subsity have to pay for some of their

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Speaker 1: housing and transportation and other things in case they get

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Speaker 1: injured or where they have to stay. That would otherwise

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Speaker 1: who knows where they would go, But they don't want

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Speaker 1: to do that. They want to go to illegal aliens.

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 1: You can hire Americans. It's perfectly you know fine, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of places do hire Americans to do some things.

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Speaker 1: And third is that you could just mechanize. You can

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Speaker 1: go to machines and have a one time increase for

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Speaker 1: the cost that your your machine's never going to get sick,

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Speaker 1: it's going to work harder. There's cameras like this is

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Speaker 1: this is so, this is so nonsensical. They're arguing that

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Speaker 1: it's only going to go. But if you have to

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Speaker 1: hire an American for forty dollars an hour, it's just

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Speaker 1: that's not true. It's such a lie. And the reason

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Speaker 1: they can't keep a their estimate out is because look

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Speaker 1: at what happened during the terrified during the first Trump

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Speaker 1: term over things like tuna. They were saying, tuna cans,

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Speaker 1: we're going to cost like ten dollars a can because

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Speaker 1: of tax tariffs on aluminum. That never happened, like it was,

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Speaker 1: it was all a lie. A lot of these statistics

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Speaker 1: and numbers they throw out for projections are to make

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Speaker 1: a case for their side. Sometimes it happens a lot

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Speaker 1: of times it doesn't. Uh And as far as what

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Speaker 1: the answer is, the answer for your industry is to

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Speaker 1: do what other countries that don't depend on slave wage

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Speaker 1: labor to do. Japan does not import a million Mexicans

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Speaker 1: to pick rice every year. They've mechanized the process. We

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Speaker 1: can mechanize the process. We can make it cost efficient

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Speaker 1: that farmers can sit there on hire machines to do

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Speaker 1: the work and to make sure that crops grow. It

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Speaker 1: will make things cheaper. Ultimately, the one important detail is

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Speaker 1: that the number one driver of food costs, besides regular

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Speaker 1: monetary inflation, is energy supplied. How much it costs to

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Speaker 1: get your food to your local grocery store is a

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Speaker 1: big reason as to why your food prices are going up.

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Speaker 1: Energy energy, energy, energy, and then also electricity to store

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Speaker 1: and cool those things. And as electricity prices arising, is

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Speaker 1: that those numbers are moving and filtering down to your

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Speaker 1: local grocery store. So that's the answer. Why it's something

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Speaker 1: they don't care. They bring up these kinds of statistics

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Speaker 1: all the time. Ryan, It's just that they are using

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Speaker 1: whatever data they need to use to make their case

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Speaker 1: and for political reasons. It's not just the most accurate

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Speaker 1: place I think you would find them, but someone's going

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Speaker 1: to talk about it more so, thank you for bringing

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