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Speaker 1: Hey, there're folks. It is Tuesday, October twenty eighth, and

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Speaker 1: haven't you heard everybody is really worked up about this

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Speaker 1: new hit Netflix movie House of Dynamite. We just watched

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Speaker 1: it and now we see why. And with that, welcome

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Speaker 1: to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rohobes. Is it

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Speaker 1: justified folks have really worked up about this?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's an exceptionally good movie and you're along for

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Speaker 2: the whole ride. You are waiting at the edge of

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Speaker 2: your seat for what's going to happen. Tick talk, tick talk,

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Speaker 2: And then I would just say, as you pointed out,

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Speaker 2: oh I should save that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm wondering I should we say ahead of time

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Speaker 1: this will be a spoiler free episode. Can we make

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Speaker 1: sure we don't give anything away? Or should we openly

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Speaker 1: and fully discussed We didn't discuss.

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Speaker 2: This before we get we didn't, But what about this

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Speaker 2: the first half? Maybe before we go to break, we

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Speaker 2: won't give a spoiler. But I don't see how we

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Speaker 2: have a full conversation about this movie without revealing a spoiler,

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Speaker 2: and so maybe we do it after the break.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we will make sure we give a heads up

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Speaker 1: before anything even resembling a spoiler comes out.

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Speaker 2: That's fair because I don't think you can talk about

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Speaker 2: why people are upset without discussing the end of the movie.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you think we'll start with that. Do you

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Speaker 1: think the only issue or the main issue folks that

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Speaker 1: have would just be with the ending.

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Speaker 2: Yes, one hundred percent, And I would say that that

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Speaker 2: is and was my only issue. I thought it was

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Speaker 2: an amazing movie, really really good, with phenomenal actors.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So if folks don't know this movie House of Dynamite,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I saw some of the posters and advertisements

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Speaker 1: for but I didn't really understand what it was about.

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Speaker 1: But it's a new thriller I came out over the

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Speaker 1: weekend on Netflix. Is about two hours long. Described this

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Speaker 1: way from Academy Award winning director Catherine Bigelow. When a

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Speaker 1: single unattributed missile is launched to the United States, a

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Speaker 1: race begins to determine who is responsible in how to respond.

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Speaker 1: That's yeah, accurate.

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Speaker 2: Catherine Bigelow of The hurt Locker, a very phenomenal film.

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Speaker 2: She knows her well. She knows what she's doing when

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Speaker 2: it comes to making movies about war or impending war

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Speaker 2: or just the just it's her lane for sure, and

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Speaker 2: this movie confirms it, and it.

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Speaker 1: Has all that intensity you expect from her. So in

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Speaker 1: that response, it's from that perspective. It is fantastic. Now,

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Speaker 1: the cast fantastic. Itris Elba and he actually plays the

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Speaker 1: president in this movie. Rebecca Ferguson. If you don't know

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Speaker 1: Impossible movies. Jared Harris, Anthony Ramos of course, he's a singer,

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Speaker 1: Jason Clark, who has been in everything you know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I was just gonna say, I feel like every

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Speaker 2: I didn't know their names, but I'm like, oh that guy,

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Speaker 2: from White Lotus. Yeah, I just feel like everyone in

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Speaker 1: Even a Angel Reese's appearance and there to throw that

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Speaker 1: everything is fantastic. Now we'll give more of our opinion

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Speaker 1: on it, but this is one The audience robes and

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Speaker 1: the critics pretty evenly.

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Speaker 2: Splayed Yes, Rotten Tomatoes seventy nine percent, audience score seventy

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Speaker 2: seven percent. And you know something that was interesting When

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Speaker 2: I have to admit I was a little shocked. It

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Speaker 1: Did you know it was going to be formatted the

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Speaker 2: I did not, So we can tell people to format Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that makes a lot of sense. So it's basically the

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Speaker 2: same twenty minutes from the perspective of several different characters.

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Speaker 2: So you're seeing what's happening on the ground. Basically, you're

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Speaker 1: I've seen movies done this way. We just saw on

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Speaker 2: Actually all was the same. You're just seeing it from

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really liked I was done. And the first

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Speaker 2: Oh my heart was pounding. I was getting chills. I

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Speaker 1: So a big part of this movie, of course, is

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Speaker 1: Now the Pentagon has now gotten involved, the.

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Speaker 2: Actual Pentagon, the actual United States kind of got not

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Speaker 1: The real one has gotten involved, and Bloomberg, the news agency,

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Speaker 1: has acquired a memo, an internal memo in which the

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Speaker 1: Pentagon is essentially defending its missile defense system against some

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Speaker 2: Wait, I thought that they had just stopped all eeks

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Speaker 1: And you know what, Bloomberg made the point in their

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Speaker 2: Pledge, and meaning that there are still folks willing to

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Speaker 1: And so there you go.

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Speaker 2: But that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Really, you know what, didn't solve any problem.

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Speaker 2: That actually hearing that and just putting those two things

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Speaker 1: All right. So this internal memo that Bloomberg got their

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, this is from the memo. The fictional interceptors

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Speaker 2: The fictional interceptors in the movie miss their target. And

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Speaker 1: Yes, they say that it's essentially right there, Robes. They're saying,

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Speaker 1: system displayed a one hundred percent accuracy rate in testing

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Speaker 2: It's just a coin toss. And then one of them,

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Speaker 1: It was a big moment in the movie.

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Speaker 2: Not one hundred percent. Sixty one percent.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And there are other reports out there, official testing

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Speaker 2: So the movie was actually being generous generous to our

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Speaker 1: But if you're being told that your tax dollars are

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Speaker 2: Had me until that last bit. I was going to say,

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the Pentagon wants you to know it's okay,

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Speaker 1: what the writer, Noah Oppenheim, is taking issue with what

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Speaker 2: but I did talk to many missile defense experts who

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Speaker 2: He said. Unfortunately, our missile defense system is highly imperfect.

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Speaker 2: If the Pentagon wants to have a conversation about improving

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Speaker 2: What we show in the movie is accurate, and that

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Speaker 2: was in the movie. We just watched it. Yeah, they

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Speaker 2: said sixty one percent accuracy, and we watched in the

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Speaker 2: movie two of the missile defense what are they called

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Speaker 1: Ground based interceptors is what they call them, and we

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Speaker 2: Well, honestly, I actually do and have up until now.

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Speaker 1: they absolutely do nail. And I loved idests alway as

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Speaker 1: the president. He was cool.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was so good. I thought it was an excellent movie.

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Speaker 2: Highly recommend And yeah, I would love to hear what

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Speaker 2: you all think about the ending as well after you've watched,

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Speaker 2: but thank you for listening to us. We appreciate you

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Speaker 2: as always. I made me Robock alongside DJ Holmes. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you soon.