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Speaker 1: like some of his most gruesome murders and their people.

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Speaker 1: As the story you know, um comes to light in

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Speaker 1: the series, there are um looky loose who come and

427
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: like take photos of the murder house, and nice Nash

428
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: is like people died here, like these are our real

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00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: lives and you're standing here taking photos and I'm like,

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00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: this is is actually what the show is doing. That's

431
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: insane And it's a complete lack of self awareness. Literally

432
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Speaker 1: like I'm sorry, Like Bryan Murphy is like farting and

433
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: then like eating his own farts like it it actually

434
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 1: makes no sense, but it's just like this is like

435
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Speaker 1: when we can when we consume culture like this, especially

436
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: culture that's like ultimately in the hands of like white creators,

437
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: the question of intent actually does become really important, but

438
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: also like warped and tricky because we don't really know

439
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: the intent of like how everyone is supposed to be,

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Speaker 1: like seen in this series, and whether Dahmer is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be, whether you're supposed to There are a few

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Speaker 1: moments where like you sympathize for Dama and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what the fuck is this? Like what is this? And

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Speaker 1: there is I will say the sixth episode, which is

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Speaker 1: one of the best episodes of TV I've seen this year, unfortunately,

446
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: UM tells the story of this black death victim, a

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Speaker 1: black gay death victim of Damers, and the story is

448
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: kind of almost like a bottle episode that follows him

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00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: around and how he comes into Dahmer's orbit. And this

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Speaker 1: is unfortunately also the episode where you have like a

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Speaker 1: hair of sympathy for Dahmer because he almost builds a relation.

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00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: This is the only victim that he ostensibly builds a

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Speaker 1: relationship with, which is completely fabricated, not real at all.

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Speaker 1: But um. Most of the episode is in a s

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Speaker 1: l and the actor um Rodney Burford, who's from Deaf You,

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00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: which is like one of my favorite Like I loved

457
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: that show so much if you haven't watched it, Um

458
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Speaker 1: a first time actor, deaf actor cast in a death

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Speaker 1: role and I was like, this is like, like so

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Speaker 1: amazing to watch. I just like hate that it's um

461
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: in service of something that is like so horrible. Um.

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Speaker 1: The ninth episode is directed by gregor Acki, which is

463
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Speaker 1: kind of cool. I know to interview him once and

464
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: I like almost pissed ship and came all at the

465
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: same time. He's one of my cultural blind spots. I

466
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: don't really which we should do. We should do an episode,

467
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: we should um watch Doom Generation and talk about it. Oh, um,

468
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: like back to our like John Wayne Gayzy episode. Um.

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Speaker 1: There is towards the end of the series, the Ryan

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Speaker 1: Murphy kind of like cuts from Dahmer and introduces John

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Speaker 1: Wayne Gaycey as a kind of like cultural character and

472
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: moment during this time, because I guess like his murder

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Speaker 1: was maybe happening, his like story was happening around the

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Speaker 1: same time that Dahmer's story was coming out, or maybe

475
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: john Wyn Gayzy was inspired by Dahmer's or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there was kind of this era of serial

477
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Speaker 1: killers in the seventies eighties. Yeah, and it was really

478
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: it was almost as if like Ryan Murphy was like

479
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: pitching John Wayne Gaycy's show, Like it was like a

480
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: completely backdoor pilot. Yeah, it wasn't. It was a backdoor

481
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: pilots exactly what it was. There's also a virtuous landlord

482
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: narrative in this series that was like super annoying. And

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00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: I feel like, at the end of the day, the

484
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Speaker 1: show is still centering dam and centering dams parents, and

485
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: it's like these are actually the narratives that we care

486
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Speaker 1: the least about, that deserves the least amount of storytelling,

487
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: But clearly the narratives that the people making the show

488
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: care the most about and the most interesting. They are

489
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: the most interested in the pathology of the serial killer

490
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: and that is something that our culture wants and is

491
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Speaker 1: as as I said, you can trace it directly back

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Speaker 1: to Silence of the Lambs, because this whole movie is

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Speaker 1: about prothologizing a serial killer. To me, the thing that

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Speaker 1: Silence of the Lambs does well, that unfortunately dam Were

495
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Speaker 1: also does kind of well. But that you say is

496
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Speaker 1: the engine of the movie is the relationship and intimacy

497
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: built with a serial killer that s real killer is

498
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: not just this you know, oogie boogie monster lurking in

499
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Speaker 1: shadows who you don't see until the end of the movie.

500
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Speaker 1: Like the serial killer can be right at the beginning,

501
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: um at some points helping and assisting the um prospects

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Speaker 1: of moral good, um being a kind of almost accomplice

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00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: in the heroes, like I guess like main goals. Yeah, yeah,

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00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean, as I was saying before, the Silence of

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Speaker 1: the Lambs is about It's not really about Buffalo bill

506
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Speaker 1: If it's not about um, you know, Frederica Bimmel, it's

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Speaker 1: about Clarice and Hannibal Lecter. I mean, it's right there

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Speaker 1: in the title, the Silence of the Lambs. Can you

509
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: still hear the lamb screaming? It's a which is something

510
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: that Hannibal Lector says to Clarice. It's about their relationship.

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Speaker 1: And that is the most compelling thing about this movie.

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Speaker 1: It's about a woman who has to dive into the

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Speaker 1: absolute depths of evil in order to save someone. And

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00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: what does she find there, what does she lose in

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Speaker 1: the process, what does she learn about herself in the process? Um,

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Speaker 1: And how does that change you? And like was it

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Speaker 1: worth it? Was it worth it to save this life

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Speaker 1: for her? That now she is forever connected to this

519
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: man and you kind of end the movie not knowing

520
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: you know what is what is the cost of her

521
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: you know, descent into hell basically, you know, with this

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Speaker 1: man who she you know through um having him help

523
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: her solve this case, escapes and it's at large in

524
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: the world. Again, like was it worth it to save

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Speaker 1: one life? And I don't know if you know this,

526
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: but something else that really enriched the kind of like

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Speaker 1: arc of that relationship was the fact that Jodie Foster

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Hopkins never spoke on set. Did you know

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00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: that they literally never spoke on I mean, Anthony Hopkins

530
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,959
Speaker 1: is only in the movie for like fifteen minutes, you know,

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Speaker 1: but like I like fifteen minutes total. But like it is,

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00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: it is kind of crazy. You know. This kind of

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00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: goes back to when we were discussing Pearl. I love

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00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: a character study movie, um, and I think this film

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00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: does that so well. You know, so much of this

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00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: movie is about Clariss's place, um in the FBI and

537
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: what it's like to be a woman in her field.

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00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: And you know, she spends the first half of the

539
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: movie kind of being dismissed or used or sexualized by

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00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: the men around her. And then the one man who

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00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: respects her is a serial killer, the one man who

542
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: takes her seriously, and it makes her very important. It

543
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: makes her the only person who can solve this crime

544
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: and save the day. And that was what I found

545
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: really fascinating about it. Like, I don't get why Clarice

546
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: is so special, Um, I don't get why Hannibal Lecter

547
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: is obsessed with her. And I don't think there's an

548
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: answer for those things. I don't think the film wants

549
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: you to find out. I think it just wants you

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00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: to keep asking those questions. Um, And those are the

551
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: kind of movies I like. Uh. Jodie Foster very specifically

552
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: took this role because she said she had the utmost

553
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: respect for um FBI agents. Did you know that she's

554
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: the utmost respect for FBI agent she she took she

555
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: decided to take on the role because she really respected

556
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: what the How do we feel about the FBI? And

557
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: in the context of you know, hating hating force, I

558
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: love the FBI putting themselves in mortal danger. I think

559
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: if that, if they want to do that, I'm I'm,

560
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: you know, go off, queen. And I also think, you know,

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00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: women of the FBI representation matters rose like. I think

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00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: that I think that, you know, Jennie Foster really went there.

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00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: I think at one time in my life, I want

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00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: to be an FBI agent. You would be amazing, You

565
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: would be so good. But I think I would be

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00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: so if I was Clarice. I mean I would have

567
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,959
Speaker 1: run off with Hannibal Lector and we would be, you know,

568
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: like a cannibal power. Yeah. I think that's also something

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00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: we should talk about, is the cannibalism of it all.

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00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's I mean also going back to Dahmer,

571
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: who you know, ate his victims because he wanted to

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00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: feel close to them, He ate their hearts. What what

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00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: is it with cannibalism. I'm not saying I want to

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Speaker 1: eat human flesh because I'm a cannibal, or like because

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00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: I want to like sure, you know, like be close

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Speaker 1: to someone or like maintain their essence. I'm more approaching

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00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: it from curiosity. Well, I mean, not to blow up

578
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: your spot, but like, and I'm a biter. I was

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00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: just about to say, you're a biter. I'm got there

580
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: before I am a biter. I have I have been

581
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: told in sexual scenarios before that I bite a little

582
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: too hard. I've experienced it on a sexual capacity, but

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00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: you have bitten me. Well, we could make it a

584
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: sexual capacity. Um. Yeah, I'm a scratch rum a biter,

585
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm a hair puller. Um anyways, and I both I

586
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: like both inflicting and receiving pain. But I also want

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00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: to say that I actually think people eating my body

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00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: when I die would be the best case scenario for me.

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00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: I would love that instead of cremation or anything or yeah, well,

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00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: because I don't really want to be buried, um, cremated shore,

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00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: but I would love for my body to do something useful.

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00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: I would love for it to nourish people, like if okay,

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00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: if this was yellow Jackets, Um, and you needed to

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Speaker 1: eat me to survive. I want you to eat me.

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00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: If our plane goes down, Bran, I want you to

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00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: eat you know that is a circumstance where and I

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00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: would eat someone. Yeah, and I know, and I know

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00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: that I'm the one who's gonna get eaten because I

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00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: think you're more of a survivalist. You would give up immediately,

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00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: no offense. Yeah that's actually absolutely true. Yeah, yeah, you

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00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: would literally like day one of Yellow Jackets. He'd be

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00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: like goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Or would I end

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00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: up being the like deer queen? M I could? I

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00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: think I think you had the willpower. I think if

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Speaker 1: I had the will but I think if I could

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Speaker 1: manipulate other people into like surviving for me. But I

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00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: think you're too smart for I think you're like existence

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00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: in this scenario is a scam and I don't know.

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00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: Actually goodbye and the drama. Okay, that's that's but you

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00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: would definitely become the dear queen more than I would sure. Um.

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Speaker 1: But all that is to say is that when I die,

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Speaker 1: um could be any day now, I would love for

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Speaker 1: I would love nothing more than for you to feast

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Speaker 1: on my flesh. Fran, thank you. I will keep that

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