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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, we just saw the movie that so

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Speaker 1: many people were talking about Millennia. This is our very

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Speaker 1: carefully worded review with that, welcome to this episode of

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Speaker 1: Aiming and TJ. Road. I say, everybody was talking about it,

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Speaker 1: the President, the big premiere they had at the Kennedy

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Speaker 1: do well, and let's give it it's do. It performed

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Speaker 1: beyond expectations, made a little lower seven million dollars opening weekend.

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Speaker 1: That's a big deal for a documentary.

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Speaker 2: It's a huge deal for a documentary, even one with

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Speaker 2: the hefty price tag that this one had. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: they were expecting between three and five million at best,

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Speaker 2: and it was north of seven million. Correct, There were

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Speaker 2: some astermates to say closer to eight million. So that

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Speaker 2: is a wild success for a documentary.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I put that in right context. You hear that

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Speaker 1: seven million dollars If it was an Avengers movie, that's

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Speaker 1: total bust. This is gangbusters and one of the best

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Speaker 1: documentaries we've seen perform in a decade at the box office.

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Speaker 1: So that let's give it it's due. Now. The other

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Speaker 1: part of it is that in ropes, you have it

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Speaker 1: up right now, what's the current Okay, so it has

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Speaker 1: been just skewed by the critics out there, and the

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Speaker 1: Rotten Tomato scores are hilarious.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so the critics score is five percent, that's about

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Speaker 2: as low as I've ever seen, and the popcorn meter,

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Speaker 2: which is the audience verified reviews or ratings, are at

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Speaker 2: ninety nine percent.

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Speaker 1: That's why I say it's hilarious, and that makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 1: You go, okay, why is this possible? I don't see

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Speaker 1: that kind of We see discrepancy. Sometimes the critics are

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Speaker 1: like that can't happen. This doesn't happen, and it makes

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Speaker 1: sense when you think about it. Maybe don't have to

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Speaker 1: think about it that long. Why that be such a discrepancy?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, yes it makes sense, But I also thought,

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Speaker 2: you know, what are all of these critics? And yes,

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Speaker 2: you might think people who work in the mainstream media,

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Speaker 2: could start to think, Okay, those critics had an agenda,

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Speaker 2: and we obviously leave space for that as well. So

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Speaker 2: we wanted to go see for ourselves to have the

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Speaker 2: much as they have, and to see the critics not

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Speaker 2: just say this isn't a good film, don't go see it,

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Speaker 2: but just disparage it, call it a horror movie, call

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Speaker 2: it an abomin nation.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they went off on this film.

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Speaker 1: Okay, some of that was a little much, and it

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Speaker 1: certainly you can understand robes. The people who are in

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Speaker 1: the theater, in all likelihood at least who aren't critics

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Speaker 1: citizens are probably already fans of Donald Trump and Milania Trump,

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Speaker 1: so that would make sense predisposed to like Milania a lot.

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Speaker 1: But ninety nine percent versus five percent is just not

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Speaker 2: And it was I think that was really the driving

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Speaker 1: So we had to see it, and we did some

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Speaker 1: context here. You've seen a lot of headlines and some

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Speaker 2: Every time we go to the movies, and it could

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Speaker 1: And up, and that goes exactly in line with the

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Speaker 1: it up. We get in there with our popcorn, literally

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Speaker 1: let's take this thing in now, robes let's go before

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Speaker 1: general initial first response to it are initial thoughts upon

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Speaker 2: Well, she looked perfect. She was perfectly curated from head

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Speaker 3: That was the whole point of the film.

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Speaker 2: She started out saying, you know, you all want to know,

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Speaker 2: so here it is, and you think, okay, great, We're

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Speaker 2: going to pull back the curtains. We're going to see

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Speaker 2: twenty days in the life of Malania Trump leading up

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Speaker 2: to the inauguration. This is going to be fantastic. Finally

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Speaker 2: see her interactions with President Trump, and maybe even get

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Speaker 2: to hear Baron Trump's voice. I've never even heard his

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Speaker 2: voice before, so I was hoping for all of those things.

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Speaker 3: And none of them happened.

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Speaker 1: None. So before you even I mean, content wise, it

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Speaker 1: me was a reality show. A reality show where certain

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Speaker 3: Feels staged without any drama.

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Speaker 1: There was zero drama conflict of any kind.

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Speaker 2: And that's what make reality shows good and interesting and entertaining.

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Speaker 1: I think you pointed it out. There was something that

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Speaker 3: I was like, is this like in the film?

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Speaker 1: This was perfectly packaged presentation of Milania And they didn't

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Speaker 3: We didn't, and that is but that was the flaw

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Speaker 1: Me, because I went in genuine I am fascinated by

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Speaker 1: this woman, and I walked away still fascinating, fascinated. You

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Speaker 1: I was fairly sunned. We were stunned at how little

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Speaker 1: played long stretches of the inauguration like film footage we

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Speaker 1: have seen plenty of times before. Why do I need

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Speaker 2: I yes, agreed, because we knew going in obviously the

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Speaker 2: show us Malania Trump as a human, as a woman,

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Speaker 2: as a mother, as a wife. And all I saw

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Speaker 2: she likes her collars, and she likes you know, she

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Speaker 3: That's what I got.

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Speaker 1: That's not sarcasm. What you just said was accurate, what

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Speaker 1: being facetious there no no, no, no, no, we learned

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Speaker 1: this about her like that is what she is skilled at.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying how they were highlighting things robes that I

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Speaker 1: I see all that. I wanted to know what she's

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Speaker 1: like as a mother, what if she is in handling

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Speaker 2: I just wouldn't it have been amazing though, to have

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Speaker 3: To her she wanted to look. I can't see what

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Speaker 2: It seemed as though, based on the film and what

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Speaker 3: And it just fell so far below.

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Speaker 2: want to like the first lady. I want to root

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Speaker 2: I already knew she's beautiful, she's stunning, she was a model.

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Speaker 2: You don't need to prove that to us. You are gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: That's it what I saw, I already knew that's it.

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Speaker 1: That's the review. You could probably write that and keep

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Speaker 1: But we were just saying what we saw with our

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Speaker 1: Feel to these introductory shots, these big opening it felt

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Speaker 2: Yes it you know, the look of it just and

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Speaker 2: and the cinematography were gorgeous, but most of the time

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Speaker 3: They just had a bunch. I was like, oh, I

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Speaker 2: But basically that is what the director had to put

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Speaker 2: because all we saw were I think you said fifty

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Speaker 2: Foreshore of the film, and this is not an exaggeration.

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Speaker 2: Is her walking, and the only thing that changes is

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Speaker 1: In this one, however, Melania did have what I think

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Speaker 3: Stay here, Welcome back everyone.

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Speaker 2: As TJ and I talk about our time in the

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Speaker 2: A way that appeared to be so forced and so contrived.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't natural, it wasn't authentic, it wasn't off the cuff.

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Speaker 2: It was again, like everything in the film, so highly

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Speaker 1: Again, if that's what they were going for, they succeeded.

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Speaker 2: That's what a documentary typically typically is for, so you

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Speaker 1: Well, you're right, it was cute. It was you said

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Speaker 2: And I think that's when I thought, what a missed opportunity.

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Speaker 1: other highlight for me Robes And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Somebody Humor.

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Speaker 2: That book is hilarious without being mean. Again, they know

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Speaker 1: You're not being mean. And then the other time, I

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Speaker 2: And couldn't Amazon have said, clever marketing will take whoever

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Speaker 1: Take my movie and go home. Oh goodness, I wanted

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Speaker 3: Ropes, Yes, it reads.

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Speaker 2: No good impression emerges of the former Slovenian model. No

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Speaker 3: That's spot on, right, spot on, get.

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Speaker 1: Up close to it. You're just watching this thing happen

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Speaker 2: even after reading the bad reviews, I was still surprised

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Speaker 2: at how boring it was.

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Speaker 1: She gets her steps in with that, Folks, check it

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Speaker 1: out by all means see for yourselves. And with that,

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Speaker 1: I am TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate your spending some time

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Speaker 1: with us, with my dear Amy Robot, talk to y'lson,