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Speaker 3: of messages in response to our invention series on crossbows.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm going to kick things off with this

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Speaker 3: message from Ahmed If that's cool with.

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Speaker 2: You, Yeah, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Ahmed, who has written many great emails to us in

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Speaker 3: the past. By the way, Ahmed says, hey guys, I'm

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Speaker 3: ed again here. I loved your recent episodes on the crossbow,

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Speaker 3: especially the discussions of its association with evil that seems

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Speaker 3: sort of unfair and out of proportion with the technology

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Speaker 3: itself and as a refresher on the side. This is

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Speaker 3: from the episode where we talked about how if you

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Speaker 3: watch movies from the modern period where some kind of

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Speaker 3: medieval fantasy is depicted or there's a medieval technology context,

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Speaker 3: the crossbows are always used by the bad guys, almost

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Speaker 3: always exclusively a villain weapon, and how this wasn't a

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Speaker 3: It hasn't always exactly been seen like this, but there

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Speaker 3: are threads of that going back to the medieval period itself.

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Speaker 3: There are some writings from the period that characterize the

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Speaker 3: crossbow as a uniquely wicked or barbaric weapon, and we

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Speaker 3: were wondering, like, why that, why the crossbow compared to

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Speaker 3: any other weapon. Ahmed's message continues. One important example in

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Speaker 3: literature that came to mind for me was the Rhyme

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Speaker 3: of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge. For those not acquainted,

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Speaker 3: this is a Romantic Movement English poem that tells a

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Speaker 3: story within a story of a sailor who shoots an

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Speaker 3: albatross with a crossbow and is cursed for it before

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Speaker 3: ultimate redemption. It's had a big culture impact, with famous

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Speaker 3: imagery like an albatross hanging around someone's neck and lines

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Speaker 3: like water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink. I

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Speaker 3: always thought it weird that this poem, published in seventeen

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Speaker 3: ninety eight, so centuries into the gunpowder age, had the

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Speaker 3: crossbow as the weapon the unnamed narrator uses to shoot

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Speaker 3: the albatross. After listening to your episodes, this seems to

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Speaker 3: fit into a broader cultural association of the crossbow with

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Speaker 3: evil and wickedness, and in this case, a wicked act,

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Speaker 3: as the poem itself says. Quote by him who died

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Speaker 3: on cross with his cruel bow, he laid full low

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Speaker 3: the harmless albatross, Ahmed goes on. I wonder if part

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Speaker 3: of this association comes from the fact that the crossbow

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Speaker 3: unthinkingly kill or hurt someone. After all, the energy is

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Speaker 3: already stored up, and all it would take is an

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Speaker 3: accidental or impulsive pulling of the trigger. Besides dropping something

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Speaker 3: on somebody from high up. This was probably the first

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Speaker 3: time a regular person without a catapult or ballista could

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Speaker 3: get a ton of kinetic energy into something all of

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Speaker 3: I wonder if countless such unsung instances or half baked

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Speaker 3: but the speculation was too juicy not to share. Anyways,

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Speaker 3: keep up the great work and happy Thanksgiving, Ahmed uh

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Speaker 3: on it. Yeah, I don't know if that had occurred

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think it's a great point on top

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Speaker 2: the rhyme of the ancient marrin are shooting that blessed

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Speaker 3: So thanks for the email, Ahmed, I think that is

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Speaker 3: in Dungeons and Dragons and rob There are several emails

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Speaker 3: Do you want to do?

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Speaker 1: This?

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Speaker 3: One from Emily Sure.

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Speaker 2: Emily writes it and says, Hi, guys, I'm listening to

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Speaker 2: your episode about crossbows and wanted to chime in since

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Speaker 2: you asked for comments relating to crossbows in tabletop RPGs.

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Speaker 2: A few years ago, I DMed a game of Pathfinder,

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Speaker 2: playing a published adventure path called Second Darkness. Mild spoilers

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Speaker 2: follow for this fifteen year old AP. The central plot

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Speaker 2: revolves around the Drow rhymes with brow not crow, okay

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Speaker 2: for anyone out there, or dark Elves, which at the

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Speaker 2: time the AP was written, were an explicitly and exclusively

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Speaker 2: evil race. Yeah, this is true. Nowadays in Duns and Dragons,

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Speaker 2: you're finding a lot more needed nuance with specific races

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Speaker 2: matter of like, oh, yeah, the Drow are all evil,

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Speaker 2: They're all awful evil. Now we're opening it up and

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Speaker 2: realizing you, no, no, it's okay that some of the

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Speaker 2: Drow are evil and some are not evil. It's like

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Speaker 2: they're just like people, right, And I think that's a

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Speaker 2: much healthier place to land everything. Anyway, Emily continues. I

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Speaker 2: believe the recently released second edition of Pathfinder has been

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. The big twist of second Darkness in

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Speaker 2: Universe is that normal elves turn into Drow if they

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Speaker 2: are sufficiently wicked. There's an important scene where this happens

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Speaker 2: to an NPC picture below for your amusement. Kicking off

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Speaker 2: the back half of the adventure rob.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we should go ahead and look down to this

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Speaker 3: ps of this character, who is I don't even know

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Speaker 3: how to begin to describe this a V neck shirt

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Speaker 3: And yeah, he looks like he's no good.

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Speaker 2: He looks like he should be fronting a really ridiculous

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Speaker 3: In there, Yeah, like the kind of bands that have

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Speaker 2: Also, the Drow and this image has pale skin, which,

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Speaker 2: having a dark skin, which of course plays into some

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Speaker 2: And then also always threw me for a curve because

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Speaker 2: Like subterranean creatures, shouldn'y have like translucent skin or something?

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Speaker 2: But clearly I am and was overthinking that that aspect

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Speaker 3: Oh, and we should say Emily has a ps regarding

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Speaker 3: this image. It reads who in the world would have

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Speaker 3: suspected this guy of being evil? He has so many swords, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: like six swords. Going back to in the same discussion

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Speaker 3: is pretty equally silly to the crossbow being more evil

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Anyways, she continues on to I guess

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Speaker 2: the main point here, given your discussion in the second

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Speaker 2: episode about crossbows being evil coded weaponry in fiction, it

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Speaker 2: should come as no surprise that every single Drow the

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Speaker 2: PC's encountered was packing a master work hand crossbow as

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Speaker 2: part of their load out, even the castlers and folks

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Speaker 2: with other weapons, including swords. I suppose it makes sense

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Speaker 2: for the Drow to favor the crossbow for the same

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Speaker 2: reason Rob said dwarfs would favor them, good for low light,

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Speaker 2: close quarters underground combat. Also, for the record, according to

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Speaker 2: d twenty pfsrd dot com, an online pathfinder reference document,

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Speaker 2: loading a hand crossbow is technically a move action that

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Speaker 2: provokes attacks of opportunity. Why they have conveniently forgotten this

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Speaker 2: manage to defeat the Drow and avert the titular second

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, so in your campaign the Drow we're getting

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Speaker 3: double the amount of attacks they should have.

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Speaker 2: No, if I'm understanding what she's saying correctly, it's like

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Speaker 2: by engaging in reloading of the crossbow, you would be

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Speaker 2: Unless I'm misunderstanding something. But anyway, again, that sounds like

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Speaker 2: Okay. Emily closes with this was a really interesting series

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Speaker 2: podcast app this week. Thank you as always for the

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Emily.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I enjoyed dipping back into the Invention content from

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Speaker 2: time to time. You know, a splash of something different

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Speaker 3: Okay, here's more about crossbows and fictional worlds. Andrew says, Howdy,

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Speaker 3: regarding your recent crossbow episode, you failed to mention Chewy's

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Speaker 3: crossbow from Star Wars. I've always been confused on the

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Speaker 3: physics of a laser crossbow. Did he have to reload it?

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Speaker 3: any different from any other Star Wars blaster? Thanks Andrew, Andrew,

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Speaker 3: I have the same question growing up. I had no idea.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what advantage it provides.

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Speaker 2: those are for some sort of like electromagnetic rail gun scenario.

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Speaker 3: Or what have you.

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Speaker 3: to read, Rob.

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Speaker 2: All right, This one comes to us from Adam. Adam

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Speaker 3: Now I think I know what your asterisk is, Rob.

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Speaker 3: I don't personally recall recommending kill six billion demons. That's

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Speaker 3: movie Conquest. This is the Luccio Fulci Sword and Sorcery movies,

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Speaker 3: That's all. Keep up the great work. Happy holidays, Alan,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this Yea. It's like you've totally stole my life story.

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Speaker 3: How could they? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: It sounds but it sounds great.

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Speaker 2: It sounds good. It sounds so much better on paper.

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Speaker 2: Maybe some people love this. Maybe it's like Conquests, you

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Speaker 2: have to see it multiple times and you appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: But I just didn't like the music. And I felt

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Speaker 2: like if the music had been good. It felt like

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Speaker 2: if it had really good, solid disco numbers, I could

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Speaker 2: have gotten into it more. But I just couldn't. House

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Speaker 2: by the Cemetery is another great one. We did a

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Speaker 2: Conquest from Me. But you know, and maybe in the

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Speaker 2: future we'll come back and watch something else.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: There's of course the Beyond, there's Zombie, and then I've

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Speaker 2: You know, he did some westerns as well that are

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Speaker 2: supposed to be gory and gross, but also more or

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Speaker 3: I just had a thought, which is that I bet

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Speaker 3: Luccio Fulci is the filmmaker who has made the films

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Speaker 3: that the most people have years later wondered if they

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like we said, there's often a dream like quality,

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Speaker 2: especially in Conquest, and I think that's one of the

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Speaker 2: has this feeling of an unreality that you're cinematically engaging with. However,

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Speaker 2: you know, Fulchi never made a Christmas movie really, or

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Speaker 2: did he? I don't know, Maybe it was a dream.

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