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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. It is Thanksgiving week and

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Speaker 1: Review, we're gonna be talking about Wicked. Did it live

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Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Hellow, let's talk movies.

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Speaker 1: All right, it is Thanksgiving week and I want to

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Speaker 1: You do have to watch some commercials at times. Their

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Speaker 1: an entire theory about watching movies at home now that

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Speaker 1: And what has led me to TB is sometimes I'll

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Speaker 1: just search for a movie that's kind of old and

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Speaker 1: At first, it felt like, why there's so many commercials?

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Speaker 1: I should be telling more people about this to save

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Speaker 1: what does he do we start selling weed in California,

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00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 1: and selling weed is a gateway drug for him to

443
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 1: selling cocaine, and he is really good at it, but

444
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 1: there are a lot of problems that come from being

445
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 1: a drug dealer. So while it does focus a lot

446
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 1: on that story of how he rose to power, how

447
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 1: at one point in the late seventies to early eighties,

448
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: if you were anybody you know did cocaine in that

449
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: time period, there was an eighty percent chance that it

450
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 1: came from him and Pablo Escobar. He made about one

451
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars working with the cartel. And yes, on

452
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: the surface, it is a story about that just cocaine,

453
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 1: drug dealing, all the downfalls of that.

454
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 2: But at the root of this story that.

455
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 1: I felt rewatching him, I felt the true emotion of

456
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 1: somebody who just didn't want to repeat history. And you

457
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 1: very much connect.

458
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 2: With that aspect of his life.

459
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 1: And Ray Liota Rip did a fantastic job as his dad.

460
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: His dad just wanted the best for him and wanted

461
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 1: him to have a good life and was always supportive

462
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: of his son no matter what he did, no matter

463
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: how many times he ended up in jail, even when

464
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: he was inviting him to their house, and he knew

465
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: that this was all a product of him selling drugs

466
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: and being a criminal. He was always supportive of his son,

467
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 1: his mom not so much. But it was Johnny Depp's

468
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: character just trying not to relive that history. And this

469
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,719
Speaker 1: movie has one of the saddest endings that punches you

470
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,479
Speaker 1: in the gut in a very unique way because it

471
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: is not your typical sad ending. But when you really

472
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: think about all he went through in this movie, all

473
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: he wanted in life, the things that made him happy, it.

474
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 2: Is so sad.

475
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,120
Speaker 1: If I had a heart that wasn't made of stone,

476
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 1: I'd probably cry while rewatching this movie. But Blow is

477
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 1: a fantastic movie. There is nothing bad that I would

478
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 1: take out of it. There's nothing I would change, and

479
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,360
Speaker 1: it holds up. I loved it when I was ten,

480
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 1: I love it now that I'm thirty three. I give

481
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 1: Blow a five out of five and at number one

482
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: in my top five to b fines is a movie

483
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 1: called The Founder. It is directed by John Lee Hancock,

484
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 1: who I've actually had on this podcast before, and.

485
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: This was one I just kind of missed out on.

486
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: It came out back in twenty seventeen, where I wasn't

487
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: doing this podcast yet, so just kind of slipped through

488
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: the cracks. And sometimes when it comes to biographical dramas,

489
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: I'm not fully sold on them because I feel that

490
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 1: there's always kind of this glazing that happens where they

491
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: very much hollywood up the story and what the founder

492
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 1: is about. It is the true story of Ray Kroc

493
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,360
Speaker 1: played by Michael Keaton, started out as a struggling salesman

494
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: from Illinois and went on to be who we know

495
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: as the founder of McDonald's. Yes, McDonald's the Golden Arches,

496
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: and it's all about how he did it. And even

497
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: though he is credited being the founder, oh, that is

498
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: not the whole story, because I'll just read from the

499
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: plot synopsis. Because it is history, you could google it

500
00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: and find out exactly what happened. And from my research

501
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: on this story, overall, this movie is pretty accurate. They

502
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: changed a couple details here and there, but nothing major.

503
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: Because that is why sometimes I don't watch these biographical dramas,

504
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: because they changed things so much that it's like, hey,

505
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: that's not even what happened. And I thought this movie

506
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: was kind of going to focus so much on how

507
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: revolutionary McDonald's was, and how novel it was. But it

508
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: really focuses more on the seat, the cruel nature of business,

509
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: the backstabbing, the drama that comes with that, the money

510
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 1: that comes with that, And it led me to feel

511
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: a different way about McDonald's, not in a bad way.

512
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: I don't think McDonald's is at any fault in this movie.

513
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't make the franchise itself look bad. It just

514
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: changed exactly how I view business and it just happens

515
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: to be through the vehicle of McDonald's. Ray meets the

516
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 1: actual McDonald's brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald who are running

517
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: a burger operation and so the other in California back

518
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties. And the reason I even discovered

519
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: this movie and decided I want to watch it and

520
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: found it on two B is I actually saw a

521
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: clip of it on TikTok that was I was like,

522
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: where is this even from? But it's Michael Keaton going

523
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: up to the first McDonald's and being so fascinated on

524
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: how fast they make is food. And what the McDonald's

525
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: brothers did is they developed something called the speedy system.

526
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: They are really the ones.

527
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: Who created fast food because they wanted to set themselves

528
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: apart from all the other restaurants, which in the fifties

529
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: it was either had to go in, sit down, and order,

530
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of downfalls with that. They

531
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: wanted to take all of those factors out, that you

532
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: would just walk up, order your food and within seconds

533
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,479
Speaker 1: they could hand it to you, which is exactly what happens.

534
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 1: And then a clip I saw on TikTok It is

535
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: Michael Keaton going up ordering a burger, ordering a fries,

536
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: and ordering a drink and then being so shocked when

537
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,239
Speaker 1: they handed to them and they're like, here you go,

538
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: And he's like, where do I eat it?

539
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 2: They're like, wherever you want? Where's the plates, where's the silverware? Well,

540
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 2: you just eat it out of the wrappers, then you

541
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 2: throw it away. That to us now is just so

542
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: normal has been a part of our lives forever.

543
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: But to see that showcased in the Founder, where people

544
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: didn't know how to consume fast food, was what sucked

545
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: me into this movie. And that happens pretty early on

546
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: and he sees this and knows this is revolutionary, and

547
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: he is somebody who is always been chasing the next business.

548
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: He's kind of just like a sleazy salesman because it

549
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: all starts out with him selling these milkshake machines and

550
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: that is just one of his other many business ventures

551
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: that he's been on and he normally sells just one

552
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,959
Speaker 1: to a business. But he got this order to this

553
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: restaurant in California and they wanted eight, and he's like, this.

554
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 2: Has to be a mistake.

555
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: So he goes to see this operation himself, and that

556
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: is when he discovers McDonald's because they are so busy

557
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: that they need eight machines, and he's like, I need

558
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: to get in on this. And again, you could probably

559
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: google this and find out exactly what happened, but it's

560
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: the story of how he went to them and said,

561
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this. I want

562
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: to help you franchise this and we'll have McDonald's all

563
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: across the country.

564
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 2: And they're like, you know what, we've already done that.

565
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: The problem is that you can't really control the quality

566
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: when you give this to somebody else and say hey,

567
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: here you go, you can.

568
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 2: Run it now. They were so die.

569
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: Hard about what McDonald's stood for that I found really endearing.

570
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: They were so proud of the system they created and

571
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: how much care they have into making sure all the

572
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: details are right, with two pickles, handful of onions, the

573
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: meat cooked to perfection. They were so particular about how

574
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: much salt, what temperature to make the fries at. They

575
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that any McDonald's that they opened,

576
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: that everybody would follow these guidelines.

577
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: And Ray's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do it. We'll

578
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 2: make sure it happen because I believe in it too.

579
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: So the McDonald's brothers were like the artists, and Michael

580
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: Keaton's character was like the manager, and he wanted to

581
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: take this art and make it available everywhere because he's thought,

582
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: this is going to be my ticket, this is what's

583
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: going to make me successful, because up until now, I

584
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: consider myself to be a failure.

585
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: So it's all.

586
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: About him maneuvering his position into their business and turning

587
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: it into the McDonald's we know today.

588
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: So I enjoyed that this movie had such a.

589
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: Unique sense of realism and a founder story like this

590
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: in a biographical drama, because sometimes you could just really

591
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: stretch out all these details, fluff it up a little

592
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: bit to make it more cinematic. But I love that

593
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: for the most part, it stayed pretty accurate to what

594
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: actually happened between their negotiations and between this business.

595
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: So it's a really great movie to watch.

596
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: If you like watching movies where you can watch it

597
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: then go after and look at all the casting choices

598
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: and see how much they resemble them. So this movie

599
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: will give you a much different perspective on McDonald's. Again,

600
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: not really in a bad way. You'll just kind of

601
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: think of like, oh, that is how they operate, that

602
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: is what they do, and it seems so obvious, but

603
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: it's something you don't really think about because you go

604
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: there just trying to get a big mac or get

605
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: some chicken nuggets, or frustrated because the ice cream machine

606
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: is never working. They don't address that in this movie,

607
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: by the way, but for the founder, I would easily

608
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: give it a four point five out of five. I

609
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: love finding hidden gems like that. Hopefully you found something

610
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: in this list because those are my top five. I

611
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: know probably not all those are for everybody, but hopefully

612
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: there's something in there sounded good to you, and you

613
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: can go watch for free, have a great Thanksgiving week.

614
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: We'll come back.

615
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: I'll give my spoiler free review on Wicked and then

616
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: we'll talk about mission and possible eight. Will Tom Cruise's

617
00:29:54,080 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: character live or will he die?

618
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 4: Ah?

619
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 2: I wish I could be in a musical.

620
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 4: I don't think that note should be heard by humans.

621
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: I think I'll try Defying Gravity.

622
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: Yes, it's great, it's beautiful.

623
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: How about you try?

624
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 4: No? Thank you?

625
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: Have it in here?

626
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 4: No thank you?

627
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 2: Did you want to sing while we were watching this movie?

628
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 4: I mouthed the songs?

629
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: Did you say that they were telling people not to see?

630
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody wants to hear you over Cynthia Rivo and

631
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 4: Ariana Grande.

632
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 2: I'm surprised nobody did.

633
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: I felt it a little bit during Defying Gravity and

634
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: popular people wanted to.

635
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 4: They wanted to.

636
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: It was like the little Anyway, we're about to get

637
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: into our spoiler free review of Wicked Part one, which

638
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't know that this was going

639
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: to be split into two parts.

640
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 4: It is indeed split into two parts, and.

641
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: It is a long movie.

642
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: Two and a half hours went by so fast, it

643
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: really did. And I am a late comer to musicals,

644
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: I would say, but when I look back on the

645
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: history of me enjoying movies that have been really historic musicals,

646
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: I like them. I think I like musicals that have

647
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of fan to see in him. I

648
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: think when there's like realistic musicals, I don't like them,

649
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: Like Mama Mia.

650
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: Not really a fan of that one.

651
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 4: Hamilton Hamilton's History that's pretty realistic.

652
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that music is so dynamic and so different

653
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: and the fact that they go the entire time, Yeah,

654
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: that's an entirely different level. But I think when I

655
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: like musicals, I think of like Willy Wonka now Wicked,

656
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: even going back to the original Wizard of Oz, which

657
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: is a musical, but there's a lot of fantasy elements

658
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: to it.

659
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 4: Which if you watch their original Wizard, it's kind of

660
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 4: scary to watch as a child.

661
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: It is a dark movie.

662
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Speaker 1: That whole history of that movie is really intense of

663
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: all the conditions that all those actors went through. The

664
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: snow in the movie was asbestos. What they did to

665
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: Julie Garland was insane.

666
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 4: And was it the tin man that like they used

667
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 4: the paint that had something the paint.

668
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: Had He was in the hospital. I got in his eye.

669
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: He had an eye infection. The lion they used real

670
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: like lyon fur on him. Everybody got sick. Everybody had

671
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: health issues, people were burned on the set. But when

672
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: you watch that movie back, it's like, oh, it's a

673
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: it's a good movie. I think Wizard of Oz is

674
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: probably the most significant movie in history.

675
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 4: And then I gave you a little factoid you didn't know.

676
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 4: You did not know that Liza Minelli is Judy Carlin's daughter.

677
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 2: I did not know that.

678
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 4: There you go.

679
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that happened in Wizard

680
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: of Oz that have been so influential throughout.

681
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: Film, even just in life.

682
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: Like the reason witches are green and depicted the way

683
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: they are is because of the Wizard of Oz. It's

684
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: little things like that, the hero journey of that movie.

685
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: And then this is the prequel to that, but it's

686
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: actually also based on a book. But the book didn't

687
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: come out till like ninety five.

688
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 4: I wouldn't necessarily call it a prequel.

689
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 2: It's not a pre hasn't not a prequel the movie starts.

690
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 4: I guess it's a prequel, but like the book isn't

691
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 4: considered a prequel, like the original book is like a retelling.

692
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: I guess yes. I saw it as a prequel because

693
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: the way this movie opens up, you see Dorothy the

694
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: tin Man all the cast going down the road. It

695
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: starts with it starts at the end of that movie

696
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: saying that the Witch is dead, and then it's all

697
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: a big flashback. So to me, it felt like a prequel,

698
00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: but I guess it's a reimagining.

699
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 4: Go I already forget that. You see them at the

700
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 4: beginning of.

701
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: The yeah, very briefly, which I think people were upset

702
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: whenever that trailer first dropped and there was a little

703
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: glimpse of them because they were saying, no, they're not

704
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: involved in this story. But I think like they are.

705
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: I feel like they're building towards something else.

706
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: After watching this.

707
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 4: I think people So I watched a TikTok that gave

708
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 4: like a full breakdown because I was like, it's been

709
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 4: around for twenty years, Like, I don't consider it a spoiler.

710
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: Like yeah, which let's say at the beginning of this

711
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: that neither of us have seen the musical before this,

712
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: haven't I want to so I knew nothing about the

713
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: story you knew from watching TikTok.

714
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Speaker 4: I want to go see it in New York before

715
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 4: the end of February because I'm a very big fan

716
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 4: of Mary Kate Morrissey who is currently playing Alpha BA.

717
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 4: So I would like to go, I'm gonna try and

718
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 4: make that happen. So, no, I haven't seen the musical,

719
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 4: didn't know how it really ties in. So I watched

720
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 4: a TikTok that breaks it down because I was like, oh,

721
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 4: it's not a spoiler. It's been around forever, like I

722
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 4: want to know going into the movie, and it didn't

723
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 4: ruin the movie for me, like it made me more

724
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 4: excited for part two. But yeah, so I'll just say

725
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 4: that there's it does tie in. It's not a spoiler,

726
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 4: that's all. So it's been around for years. Yeah, the

727
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 4: musical premiered in two thousand and three.

728
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of like going into last

729
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: year Willy Wonka, like we kind of knew the story

730
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: Willy Wonka, even though that was a prequel to the story.

731
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: You kind of know what is going to happen, even

732
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: from watching the trailer. They show so much at the

733
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: end of the movie in the trailer that even though

734
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: I had no idea what was going on, what was

735
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: going to happen in the story, I kind of had

736
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: an idea because I saw what was happening at the

737
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: end of the trailer. Anyway, the movie is essentially the

738
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West.

739
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 4: And Glinda, the Goodwitch, and it's.

740
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: How they met in school.

741
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: I love that this movie had a really fun, quirky

742
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: vibe to it, which I guess is what I wasn't expecting.

743
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: When it came to Ariana Grande's performance. I absolutely loved it.

744
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 4: Incredible.

745
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: She is so good in that role as being this

746
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: bubbly cartoonish character that it reminded me a lot of

747
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 1: her Sam and Kat character.

748
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought she was phenomenal, and like, I think

749
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 4: she was such a good choice.

750
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: And I think the singing is just like who else

751
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 1: could you get that the pop star that's relevant right

752
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: now to be able to sing at this level because

753
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: you have to sing at such a high level to

754
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: do these songs.

755
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's like she's I mean, she's one of

756
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 4: the best singers and.

757
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: Out of anybody to come out of Nickelodeon, probably has

758
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: the best career of all time. Oh yeah, thank you

759
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: somebody who's had as equal success in film after Nickelodeon

760
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: and music after Like, just her music career alone is huge.

761
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: I guess her post acting career this is probably your

762
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:31,959
Speaker 1: biggest thing to date.

763
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, what else has she been? And I'm blinking, I feel.

764
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 2: Like this is it? Maybe this is her biggest role

765
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 2: so far.

766
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 4: I think this is her biggest role.

767
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 2: But I think who was your favorite character out of

768
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: the entire movie?

769
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 4: Easily? Alpha Ba? Cyndia Rivo is Alpha Ba was truly stunning,

770
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 4: Like she's just just so good.

771
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: The entire time, I was just thinking how much of

772
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: a pain that green makeup had to be. I would

773
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: go into full green makeup every single day on set.

774
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: The more and more I see about how much of

775
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: a struggle it is for different actors to get into

776
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: different costumes. That has to be pretty taxing to have

777
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: your entire body green.

778
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 4: Well, and she said it would take like the days

779
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 4: where she just had to do like face and hands

780
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 4: were long, and then the days where they had to

781
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 4: do like full body. Oh yeah, I mean we're talking

782
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 4: hours just to get into the makeup.

783
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: That just messes with your brain because not only is

784
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: it a taxing process to get into costume, but then

785
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: you have to be on set for it extended period

786
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: of time to make that just effort worth.

787
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 4: It, I mean, And then they sang live they did

788
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 4: the stunts while singing live like it's It's incredible, And

789
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 4: even if you find yourself thinking like I'm not a

790
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 4: musical person, I highly recommend seeing it. Like honestly, even

791
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 4: when they announced they were making a movie, I was

792
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 4: kind of like.

793
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: Okay, same and I liked it upon the first trailer,

794
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: and then the more we kept seeing the trailer were like,

795
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is.

796
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 4: Going to be. Good. Well, I was like, I just

797
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 4: want to see the movie. I'm sick of seeing trailers

798
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 4: blown away. I already want to see it again.

799
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: The reason I found myself really enjoying it coming from

800
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: a place of being I could go either way on musicals,

801
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: but I think it was the fact that there was

802
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: a good story at the core. It like it went

803
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: back to actual storytelling and acting, and the singing parts

804
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: were big and grand, but it wasn't really the main

805
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: focus point, which is I think what I attached myself to.

806
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: And also the fact that they had incredible set design,

807
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: which I think is really what I look for in

808
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: a movie like this because in some of the other

809
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz movies they have done all the spin

810
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: offs and prequels they've done in between the original and now.

811
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes they just cegi all the backgrounds. It feels very lifeless,

812
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: and it feels like just a bunch of actors in

813
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: a big empty studio. But here I could feel the sets,

814
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: and whenever they're running around and dancing and jumping off

815
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: of things and going from one set to another in

816
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: one song, it just felt like the entire production was alive.

817
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: And that is what I really enjoyed about it, because

818
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: it was a pleasure for my ears and my eyes

819
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: because there were so much to focus on. And like

820
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 1: you said earlier, those two and a half hours really

821
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: go by fast, which going into this we were thinking

822
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: that's a very long run.

823
00:37:58,840 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: Now.

824
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it got to that point where in a

825
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: long movie, I always have to make this decision, am

826
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: I gonna go pee or not? Because usually it's like

827
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: an hour in. If I know I have forty minutes

828
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: left in a normal movie, I'm like, okay, I can

829
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: make it. But in this one, there was a point

830
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: where it was like, at that two hour mark, I'm like,

831
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: do I go pee or not?

832
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: Some people did go pee.

833
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 4: I only went once. I didn't go at all, and

834
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 4: I think I missed a decent time, like I wasn't

835
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 4: or didn't miss anything important, like picked a good time

836
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 4: to go.

837
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: I'd say, if you're debating it, if there's a slow

838
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: song happening, you're probably good to go.

839
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 2: Pee.

840
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

841
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: And what I also loved about Opening weekend was the

842
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: fact that the entire movie theater was full. The parking

843
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: lot was to the brim. That never happened. I can't

844
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: remember the last time the parking lot alone was this full.

845
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 4: Everyone was wearing their like wicked merge. People were paying

846
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 4: thirty eight dollars for the combo with the Glenda cop

847
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 4: and I was like, cinema is alive right now.

848
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 2: You got me the pin, which I wanted the pin.

849
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 4: It did get you the alpha A pen.

850
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: I like collecting those.

851
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: And in the theater, I feel that was as close

852
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: to like a sellout theater we've been.

853
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 2: In a while.

854
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: And it was surprising to me how respectful the crowd

855
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: was throughout the entire thing. When there was that burning

856
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: passion of people wanting to sing.

857
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 4: I didn't hear anyone singing. I heard a couple kids

858
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 4: a few times, like younger kids being like what happened,

859
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 4: But like you can tell it's a kid. I'm not

860
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 4: gonna be mad like and they were. They just couldn't

861
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 4: understand and they needed their parents to tell them like

862
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 4: that wasn't a big deal. But yeah, I feel like

863
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 4: everyone was pretty respectful. I did see that some theaters

864
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 4: are gonna do singalongs on like Christmas.

865
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: I bet that is fun, but you gotta see it

866
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: the first time, just normal, and then and then you

867
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: had a single long version.

868
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 4: But then there's always gonna be that one person with

869
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 4: like a really good voice who's like singing to find

870
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 4: gravity and everyone else is like, ohay, you be terrible.

871
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 2: Like trying to get discovered in this movie. Yeah. The

872
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 2: thing I always enjoy about Wizard of Oz movies is

873
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 2: there's always this hidden layer of darkness and if you

874
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 2: look at the actual theme of this movie, the overall

875
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: message of this movie, there is kind of this underlying ooh,

876
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: it gets dark a little bit wicked.

877
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 4: Book is banned in like thirty two counties, which I

878
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 4: won't get started on my opinion on bookmaking.

879
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,280
Speaker 1: Twenty of your countries counties, oh counties in the US,

880
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: Oh dan because it's pretty it's pretty dark and like

881
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: raunchy is I guess a good word for.

882
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 4: It, But yeah, I've heard people are being laying him.

883
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 4: Even if you like to the musical, I don't know

884
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 4: if the book is for you.

885
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 2: And I don't know that.

886
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: Do you think that this is a kid it's like

887
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: a family movie, but it's not. I feel like overall

888
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: the message isn't completely family friendly because it does have

889
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: some dark themes that if you were just like a

890
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: five year old going to see this.

891
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 4: I don't think a five yearld's gonna pick up on

892
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 4: the dark themes. I think they're gonna see the pretty

893
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 4: costumes and the singing, and then I don't think they'll

894
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 4: feel scared. Part two could be different.

895
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could feel it going a different way in

896
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: part two because of the rise and action towards the

897
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: end of this. And I think the only thing I

898
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: didn't enjoy about it is the fact that it is

899
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: split into two, because I always feel like you kind

900
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: of get left off. I'm like, oh, it's just getting good,

901
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,720
Speaker 1: and now it's over and we have to wait another

902
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: year for the next part to come out. Least it's

903
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: only a year, that's true, But I worry a lot

904
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: of movies that ended up getting split into two. It

905
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: gets delayed and it doesn't come out in a year.

906
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: It comes out a year and a half and then

907
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: sometimes two years.

908
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 4: So I'm holding out hope that it'll be a year.

909
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: And how excited are you now for part two? We

910
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: don't want to give away where this movie left leaves off.

911
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: What are you at A ten to go into the

912
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: next one, or like, oh, a total ten.

913
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 4: Total ten. I saw a letterbox review on somebody posted

914
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 4: it on Twitter and they were like, I'm staying in

915
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 4: my seat till the next one. The theater employees are

916
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 4: scared of the mass final leave, but I'm seated till

917
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 4: November twenty twenty five, and I was like, honestly, I

918
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 4: get it.

919
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, think about this one being two and

920
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: a half I have to imagine the next one is

921
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: going to be a two and a half hour movie

922
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: as well. That's five hours of Wicked right there.

923
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 4: But I do want to see it on Broadway before,

924
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 4: so we got a year we need to make that happen.

925
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: I am now gonna completely leave out of my vocabulary

926
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: that I am not a musical person. I think I

927
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: like good musical, good musicals, but joker two.

928
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a musical person when it comes to that,

929
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 4: but a good musical that is. Here's the thing. It's

930
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 4: a Broadway musical and it is top not twenty one

931
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 4: years running like that clearly says something about it. Like

932
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 4: Joker too, Like it wasn't adapted from anything, it just was.

933
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think at that point you're just saying I

934
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: like good movies versus versus I like bad movies. Like

935
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: the genre doesn't have to really matter anymore. If a

936
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: movie is done well, it doesn't matter the genre. It

937
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: is really hard not to like a well put together,

938
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: a well made movie.

939
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 4: Listen. I even liked Mean Girls musical to be any

940
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 4: of the Year.

941
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 2: I like that too. It's a little underrated.

942
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 4: I still walk around being like, my name is ren

943
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 4: Jina George.

944
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: And the thing about this one that it didn't stray

945
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: away from in the promotion is hiding the fact that

946
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: it's a musical. You can't hide the fact that this

947
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: movie is a musical. But every other movie kind of

948
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: does the bait and switch.

949
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 2: Mean Girls.

950
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: A lot of people went into that, Oh yeah, they

951
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: had no clue. It was just the remake Joker, same thing.

952
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 2: There wasn't much.

953
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 4: Say, There wasn't any hiding. I did see a TikTok

954
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 4: of these three girls that took their boyfriends, and their

955
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 4: boyfriends didn't know it was a musical, and I'm like,

956
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 4: that's just on them.

957
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just not knowing anything about pop culture or anything.

958
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 4: You also fully have Wicked on the brain because we

959
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 4: were grocery shopping earlier and they had a display, which

960
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 4: I do think they did it on purpose, but it

961
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 4: was like pink bottles of champagne and green and you

962
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 4: weally is that display giving Wicked.

963
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 2: Pink and green?

964
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 3: Ey?

965
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 2: Now I see all the time in a studio. Now

966
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 2: have a green light it is. It's giving Wicked for

967
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 2: Wicked Part one? What would you rate it?

968
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 4: Five out of five? Flying monkeys?

969
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 2: I would go a strong four point five out of five,

970
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: Magic wands or bubbles. I'll go bubbles. I like the bubble.

971
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: And again, the only reason I give it less than

972
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: a five is because it's split off into two and

973
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:40,439
Speaker 1: I wanted more.

974
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: So there you go.

975
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: We are now both hardcore wicket stands that we are

976
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: for buying tickets for part two.

977
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 4: Right now, go see it.

978
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie.

979
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 1: Mike Traylor, Paul The first Mission Impossible movie came out

980
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety six, and by the time Mission

981
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: Impossible eight, which is what we're about to talk about,

982
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: comes out next year, it's gonna be twenty nine years

983
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: of Mission Impossible movies.

984
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 2: Mission Impossible.

985
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: The final Reckoning comes out May twenty twenty five. What

986
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 1: is going to happen with this franchise is somebody get

987
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: to take over? There's been the rumors of Glenn.

988
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 2: Powell taking over.

989
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: It has been a powerhouse in action for almost thirty years.

990
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: Four billion dollars it has grossed at the box office.

991
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: It is the seventeenth highest grossing film series of all

992
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: time and is often cited as one of the best

993
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: action franchises. And to think of all the great movies

994
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: that Tom Cruise has been a part of over his career,

995
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: I almost feel like these movies will be his legacy.

996
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: A lot of things from the Mission Impossible movies have

997
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: become what he is known for. Everybody knows Tom Cruise

998
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: is a great runner on screen, and this trailer has

999
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: showed oh case that almost to a point that it's like,

1000
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 1: is he really doing this on purpose?

1001
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 2: Now? Does he really want to see his run so fast?

1002
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 1: And when I think about, like why is he running

1003
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: in all of these movies. It looks cool on screen,

1004
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: I don't know where he's running to. And the tagline

1005
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: to this movie is our lives are the sum of

1006
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: all of our choices. And all I hope for Tom

1007
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: Cruise by the end of this movie, whether he lives

1008
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: or he dies, is he finally gets to where he's

1009
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: been running to in all of these movies.

1010
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 2: So it looks like.

1011
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a lot of running, a lot of

1012
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: big action. There are some things I like some things

1013
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: I don't like about this franchise. One is that they

1014
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: split this movie into two. We had Dead Reckoning Part one,

1015
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: which came out last year and was a little bit

1016
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: of a box office disappointment. The thing was, it came

1017
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: out at a really competitive time. It came out the

1018
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: weekend before Barbenheimer weekend, and Tom Cruise was trying to

1019
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: get that Mission Impossible movie on as many Imax screens

1020
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: as possible, and it made pretty good money.

1021
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 2: At the box office. It ended up costing about two.

1022
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: Hundred and ninety one million dollars was the budget on

1023
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: that movie, and it made five hundred and seventy million dollars.

1024
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 2: But the thing was it lost a lot of those.

1025
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: Imax screens the next week because Oppenheimer took them all over.

1026
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 2: So I feel if this movie.

1027
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: Would have had one or two more weekends at the

1028
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: box office in the summer where it is so competitive,

1029
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: I think it would have made more money. Because I've

1030
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: been in and out as far as how much I've

1031
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: enjoyed all the movies in the franchise, I would say

1032
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: I started to lose interest around five and six with

1033
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: rog Nation and Fallout, and it was last year's.

1034
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three that kind of gained my interest again,

1035
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 2: and that was a really solid action movie.

1036
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: It made me feel kind of the way that the

1037
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: early movies made me feel. And I love that Tom

1038
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: Cruise is really dedicated to making movies that feel like

1039
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: you need to see them on the big screen. So

1040
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: that number I mentioned earlier, four million dollars at the

1041
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: box office that this franchise has made. I think the

1042
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: into this movie he wants to reach that five billion

1043
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: dollar mark.

1044
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 2: Can he do it? I think he can.

1045
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:10,280
Speaker 1: Problem is, the budget has been reported that it's reaching

1046
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: about four hundred million dollars, which is really expensive. So

1047
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: maybe his thought is, Okay, let's pump all his money

1048
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: into it and just get the Bucks Office to a billion.

1049
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's going to be a

1050
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: profitable movie at that point. Is it just he wants

1051
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: to make a billion dollars and he doesn't care how

1052
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: much he spends on it, which I don't think is

1053
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: a great plan. I think Paramount would probably want to

1054
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: spend in that two point fifty even that two ninety

1055
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: from the last movie is a lot to make a billion.

1056
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: Those are much better margins considering how much you have

1057
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: to spend on advertising, which doesn't get added into that

1058
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: production cost that gets reported. So a lot going on

1059
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: in this franchise. There's a lot of money on the table.

1060
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: There's a legacy on the table. Before I get into

1061
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: more about this movie, here's just a little bit of

1062
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: the Mission Impossible eight final Reckoning trailer.

1063
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 5: Everything, everything you've done, has come to this. When the

1064
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 5: need for certainty is absolute and the odds are deemed impossible,

1065
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 5: the mission falls to him Jould.

1066
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 2: He cheers to accept You've always been on the right side.

1067
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 5: Brother, I have no regrets any should you. I need

1068
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 5: you to trust me one last time.

1069
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: This trailer is overly dramatic, I feel like as a whole,

1070
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: in the last couple movies, they have been overly dramatic,

1071
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: but I think I kind of feed off that energy.

1072
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 2: Now I want a little bit of cheesiness.

1073
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: Going into a movie like this, And what I love

1074
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: about this trailer and what I love about Tom Cruise,

1075
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: even though he's not the filmmaker here, he's not the director,

1076
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: but I consider him to be an essential part to

1077
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: the filmmaking process because how involved he is and doing

1078
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: his own stunts, outing locations, wanting things to look a

1079
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: certain way. I feel like he is much a part

1080
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: of that filmmaking process more than any other actor at

1081
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: his level. But there are real locations in these mission

1082
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: impossible movies, and that adds so much depth that you

1083
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: don't realize until you don't have it. When you start

1084
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: looking into the action genre and you see movies that

1085
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: look like they don't even take place on this world

1086
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: because it's these actors in front of green screens and

1087
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: blue screens. Some of these actors are never in the

1088
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,959
Speaker 1: same room together. So to have these movies in real

1089
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: locations all across the world just feels like something that

1090
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: doesn't happen anymore, and it just looks so much better,

1091
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: looks very expensive, but that really adds to the value

1092
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: of these movies, and that is something that is essential

1093
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: right now. And by looking at this trailer and even

1094
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: in like the first few seconds, where every one second

1095
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: is a different shot in a different location, in those

1096
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: eight seconds, there's millions and millions of dollars, and that

1097
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: is the commitment to filmmaking.

1098
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 2: When you are willing to go.

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Speaker 1: To another country for a shot, that is just a

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Speaker 1: price that only somebody like Tom Cruise can get approved.

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Speaker 1: And in the last Mission Impossible movie, it had that

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Speaker 1: one big action moment where Tom Cruise takes a motorcycle

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Speaker 1: flies it off a cliff. He's just like in midair

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Speaker 1: for like a second before hitting the parachute on his back.

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Speaker 1: And in this one, I don't feel like that moment

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Speaker 1: is at showcase. Maybe there's a trailer coming later that's

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Speaker 1: going to have that one big moment. So far in

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Speaker 1: this trailer, the one action moment that really stands out

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Speaker 1: is when it looks like him and another person are

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Speaker 1: like fighting each other or just flying really close to

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Speaker 1: each other and these two small planes and his plane

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Speaker 1: does a barrel roll.

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Speaker 2: He is holding on for dear.

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Speaker 1: Life, and I have to imagine, given his track record,

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Speaker 1: although they could fake this scene, they could use some

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Speaker 1: movie magic here. It looks like he is actually holding

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Speaker 1: onto that plane, which seems like a really just wild stunt.

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Speaker 2: To do if he pulled it off on his own.

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Speaker 1: I have to imagine for somebody like Tom Cruz, who

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Speaker 1: probably has like a crazy life insurance policy, they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: risk putting him in immediate danger where he could die,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like even with the stunt from the

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Speaker 1: previous movie where he runs off the cliff, he at

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Speaker 1: least has a parachute that fallback. In this scene, in

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Speaker 1: this trailer, it looks like if he let go, like

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Speaker 1: that's it. Like what if you get the propeller, what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen here? I imagine he had to probably have

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Speaker 1: some kind of parachute on him as well, and they

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Speaker 1: could probably in post production cgi that out of the shot.

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Speaker 1: But he has to have some kind of failsafe because

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Speaker 1: that stuff looks crazy and it looks good. It has

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Speaker 1: like those low angle shots that I feel we're really

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Speaker 1: showcased in Top Gun two where it really puts you

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Speaker 1: in the action by getting these almost go pro level shots,

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Speaker 1: but they're much more cinematic and expensive looking here where

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Speaker 1: you feel like you were right there chilling on the

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Speaker 1: wing watching Tom Cruise hold on for dear life. And

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Speaker 1: I have to imagine on May twenty third, they have

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Speaker 1: considered other movies coming out around that time, and they're

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Speaker 1: not going to be battling for some of these IMAX

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Speaker 1: screens like they did with the last movie.

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Speaker 2: It looks like they're going.

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Speaker 1: To wrap up the story that took place in Dead

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Speaker 1: Reckoning Part one, that was about this AI program that

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Speaker 1: could predict everything that Tom Cruise's character was doing. Angela

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Speaker 1: Bassett is returning as the CIA director, but she first

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Speaker 1: appeared in Mission Impossible Fallout. You have Tom Cruise exploring

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00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: this rec submarine. There's one shot where it looks like

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00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: he's either passed out or asleep underwater. He's floating there

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Speaker 1: in his underwear, and then after that there's a scene

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Speaker 1: of him in his underwear fighting somebody. So we're getting

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00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise running Tom Cruise passed out in the middle

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00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 1: of the ocean, and then Tom Cruise in his underwear

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00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: fighting somebody and kicking someone in the face. And I

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Speaker 1: thought the entire AI plot line in Dead Reckoning Part

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00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: one was actually pretty good, and it got me to

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00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: thinking how many things like this are happening in the

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00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: world without us knowing. I think about the things that

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00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: my parents didn't tell me growing up that I learned

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00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: as an adult. There were things that my parents kept

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00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: for me as a kid so I wouldn't freak out.

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00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 2: They didn't want to worry me.

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Speaker 1: If my parents are keeping secrets for me that I

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Speaker 1: didn't know about, imagine the government, Imagine the world the

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Speaker 1: secrets they have that they are not telling us about

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Speaker 1: because they don't want us to freak out.

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Speaker 2: And it seemed like the plot line of.

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Speaker 1: That first part of this movie had to have come

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Speaker 1: from somewhere, And I know a lot of Hollywood right now,

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, has really leaned in

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Speaker 1: to the dangers of AI as it's become a little

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Speaker 1: bit more prevalent, and we all kind of accept ail

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Speaker 1: line little bit more.

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Speaker 2: If you made these movies ten years.

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Speaker 1: Ago, it would still feel a little bit more like fantasy,

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Speaker 1: more like I Robot, like oh AI that's never going

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Speaker 1: to affect us. But with it being so much a

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Speaker 1: part of our lives now, I think we really start

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Speaker 1: to worry about that. I do think a lot of

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Speaker 1: the dangers of AI are really just kind of manufactured

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00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and our fear of them being so smart

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Speaker 1: that they take over the humans.

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00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 2: I don't think that is gonna happen. I hope it

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And if it does happen, AI, I have supported you

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00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: all these years. Just remember I was one of the

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00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: good ones. I never said anything bad about you, so

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Speaker 1: please remember I've always been an ally to the AI.

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Speaker 1: So again, the two big questions are will I make

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars? I think that comes down to the

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00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: promotion right around the month that this movie is coming out.

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Speaker 1: Is it going to build up a hype that makes

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Speaker 1: people who maybe have been in and out of this franchise,

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Speaker 1: or maybe haven't seen one since the nineteen ninety six version.

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Speaker 1: Is it gonna make them want to go see this

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Speaker 1: one in theaters without having seen all other six of

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Speaker 1: these movies. They watched one, they skipped out on two

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Speaker 1: through seven. Can you get him back to watch number eight?

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Speaker 1: A second question that I think kind of goes hand

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Speaker 1: in hand with that one, is Tom Cruise's character going

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Speaker 1: to die?

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Speaker 2: Is this gonna be the end?

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Speaker 1: Of Ethan, and I think if you start marketing that

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00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: and saying, oh, this could be it for Tom Cruise,

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00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: maybe that could get some of those original people back.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna be one of those situations

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Speaker 1: where you think he dies at the end of the movie,

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Speaker 1: probably does some big heroic stunt, sacrifices himself to save

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Speaker 1: the world, because that's what they talk about in this trailer.

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Speaker 1: He is the one man who can save the entire planet.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do something really heroic. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be like, this is.

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Speaker 2: The only way I'm gonna do it. He's gonna like.

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Speaker 1: Turn a key or something, and then you're gonna think

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00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: he's gone. You're gonna think he's dead. And then maybe

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Speaker 1: in like the last scene, he's like faked his death

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Speaker 1: and he's chilling out on an island, hanging out, you know,

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Speaker 1: a real dark Knight Rises style.

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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be the fate.

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Speaker 1: Of him, or you think he's dead and it sets

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Speaker 1: up somebody else, like a Glenn Powell, to take over

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Speaker 1: the franchise. They come in, they pick right up where

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Speaker 1: he left off, and then he makes it come back.

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Speaker 1: I can see that too, like they have another movie

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00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: after this one by introducing a new Ethan Hunt, and

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Speaker 1: then at the very end of that movie, he gets

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Speaker 1: a message from Tom Cruise saying I'm not dead. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can see that happening. But again, this movie is

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Speaker 1: coming out next year. On May twenty third, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: said that for.

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Speaker 4: Was this week's edition of movie Line.

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Speaker 1: He's framor par and that is gonna do it for

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Speaker 1: another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,

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Speaker 1: I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week.

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Speaker 1: This week, I'm going over to my Instagram dms and

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Speaker 1: My Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mikeadischer, comment on

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Speaker 1: my YouTube page, which I'm trying to build up, trying

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Speaker 1: to get to five hundred subscribers over there. So if

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Speaker 1: you're listening and you have YouTube and you don't mind subscribing,

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Speaker 1: you can always check out all the links to my

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Speaker 1: social media links to my YouTube in the episode notes

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Speaker 1: trying to get to five hundred over there, so it

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Speaker 1: would really appreciate it if you subscribed. Again, I also

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Speaker 1: send me an email Moviemike d at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: This week's Listener shout Out of the Week goes to Meguin,

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Speaker 1: who replied to my story where I posted a little

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Speaker 1: bit of my review from last week from a Real

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00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: Pain and said I was very moved by your review

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Speaker 1: today and how vulnerable you were. To be honest, I

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00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: skipped the movie reviews a lot because I like to

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Speaker 1: go into movies cold. Not sure why I decided to

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Speaker 1: listen today, but it really struck a chord. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate that because I wasn't expecting to get that vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know where that review was going to go

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Speaker 1: if you missed that. Last week, I did what was

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Speaker 1: called a no notes review because I wanted to go

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Speaker 1: from pure emotion talking about A real Pain and how

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Speaker 1: just much that movie really.

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Speaker 2: Of ripped open a scab that I wasn't quite ready for.

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Speaker 2: Didn't really see it coming.

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Speaker 1: But I got a lot of nice messages after I

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Speaker 1: talked about that, so thanks to everybody who sent a message.

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Speaker 2: I did go through and read and try to reply

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Speaker 2: to all those.

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Speaker 1: This week's listener shout out first goes to the Maguin,

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Speaker 1: but I will continue to read those because I feel

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Speaker 1: that that is something I've never really heard anybody talk about.

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Speaker 1: So if there is anybody out there who relates in

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Speaker 1: any way and I want to hear your story to

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Speaker 1: you with this podcast is all about talking about movies, which.

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Speaker 2: In turn is talking about live So thank you all

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Speaker 2: for listening.

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Speaker 1: Hope you have a great rest of your week, and

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Speaker 1: until next time, go out and watch good movies and

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Speaker 1: I will talk.

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Speaker 4: To you here.

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Speaker 2: What accent was on