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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast Armageddon. That was

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Speaker 1: the movie Jack and I watched yesterday. We kick off

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Speaker 1: our eight z of the nineties.

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Speaker 2: That make you kid infinity and beyond. This is this

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety you can't handle the true go up Donga.

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Speaker 3: For her.

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Speaker 1: Time.

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell's aida z of the nineties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah maybe all right's all about the letter A this

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Speaker 1: week and our ad has said of the nineties, kicking

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Speaker 1: off them with aerosith this morning. Dont to miss a

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Speaker 1: thing from the biggest movie of nineteen ninety eight, one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest movies of the nineties, Armageddon. It made

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Speaker 1: over half a billion dollars right and I'm a huge, huge,

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Speaker 1: completely over the top nineties movie directed by Michael Bay

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Speaker 1: with a who's who of Hollywood in the movies. It's

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Speaker 1: stacked with premier talent.

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Speaker 2: I'm jealous that you got to watch this in the

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Speaker 2: cinemas in the nineties.

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Speaker 3: Because the acts just the way it should be.

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Speaker 2: Watching it yesterday, I wanted to see it on the

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Speaker 2: big screen. This is a movie that has only grown

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Speaker 2: more and more beautiful with time. I loved it.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's like an irony sort of free bulletproof zone, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: If they had if I mean, looking back on it,

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Speaker 2: the actors and the director try to claim that they

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Speaker 2: knew that it was irony. They did not.

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Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety eight, they lent in.

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Speaker 2: One and wear the better for it.

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Speaker 1: If you're trying to remember Armageddon, Okay, it's a load

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Speaker 1: of oil drillers who are putting a space rocket with

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Speaker 1: zero training. All right, people train four years, okay years

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Speaker 1: to go up to space. They just they need these

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Speaker 1: guys because there's a meteorite coming to planet Earth and

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Speaker 1: the only chance they've got is this renegade bunch. I

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Speaker 1: love also montage where they're getting the gang together. Any

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Speaker 1: movie that does that, I'm all in the premise of

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Speaker 1: the movie of armaged in, right, is that a meteor

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Speaker 1: is going to destroy planet Earth? Unless actually wrote this

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Speaker 1: down in my notes I was watching it. Unless oil

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Speaker 1: drillers drill into it, drop a nuclear bomb, then blow

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Speaker 1: it up from the inside. You heard all of that, right,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the nineties, when it had also nine different

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Speaker 1: writers brought in to try and beef the movie up

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Speaker 1: as the studio kept looking at a bit of it going, um,

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Speaker 1: this seems a bit odd one. The was a young

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Speaker 1: JJ Abrahams who went on, obviously we could do its

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Speaker 1: own amazing stuff. But nine different writers and no cliche

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Speaker 1: is left unturned in this movie. They actually say lines

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Speaker 1: like what I meant to say was sorry. You know

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Speaker 1: where someone high up goes to speak and someone gives

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Speaker 1: them a big spray and then go, what I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say was sorry. My favorite line of the entire

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Speaker 1: movie is that one.

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Speaker 3: Is this one here, Colonel Willie Sherup, United States Air

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Speaker 2: Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter. I'm

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Speaker 2: the brievest man I've ever met.

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Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you. The last ten minutes I

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Speaker 3: was watching this yesterday through by myself, tear tears. It's

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Speaker 3: so gung ho.

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Speaker 1: It's the most pro American movie I've ever seen. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: sit down, restless world, hold my beer, We've got this.

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Speaker 1: It is like the oil companies. I mean, this must

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Speaker 1: be Scomo's idea of porn. The oil companies and the

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Speaker 1: rice oil drillers. They're the good guys. The whole movie

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Speaker 1: celebrating oil.

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Speaker 2: Drink, nuclear weapons, planet.

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Speaker 1: I Reckon Scomo was on the nine writers on this

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: I love that he could still get emotional towards the end,

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Speaker 2: because every second counts towards the end, the closer.

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Speaker 3: The asternism how many times? How many times? Right?

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Speaker 1: If you?

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Speaker 3: If I always played a drinking game.

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Speaker 1: The phrase clubs chicken, guys is said about one thousand times.

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Speaker 3: This thing's gonna blow any minute, guys. It's also said

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Speaker 3: a lot in the movie.

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Speaker 2: So we're watching the clock over and over again, we

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Speaker 3: Second against time to save planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: Then it gets to the point where they're about to

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Speaker 1: And forth, real old, long winded chat with her as well.

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Speaker 1: And there they're also I love all the bits where

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Speaker 3: I don't even know if there is such thing as

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Speaker 3: the Iron Fairest Plate.

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Speaker 1: I'm going is think gonna make it to the Iron

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Speaker 3: Hurry. Eight hundred minutes ago.

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Speaker 2: I did love how how hell bent they were to

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Speaker 2: get like eight hundred feet into the into the asteroids

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Speaker 2: like seven ninety five would have probably done the job. Still,

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Speaker 2: send the nuke down there, you're gonna be all right.

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Speaker 1: There's a yeah, there's a bit in the movie as

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Speaker 1: well where there's a line I think he's in the

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Speaker 1: first twenty minutes, right, and that's where I actually got goosebumps,

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Speaker 1: about they're talking someone's talk about Bruce Woldi's and they

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Speaker 3: Said couldn't be drilled. This guy drilled. I'm all him.

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Speaker 3: I'm on in. Will you ask me to invest in this?

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Speaker 1: Just telling me this line's in the movie. I'll give you,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you my money, I'll remortgage.

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Speaker 2: Now this movie needs to be told, well, he's never

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Speaker 1: Hit At times, it's so believable. It's like watching a documentary.

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Speaker 1: You're thinking, is this a documentary? I think in the

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Speaker 1: end of it they've worked out there are one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty eight factual errors in that movie.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: It's movie made and you're having a good time.

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Speaker 1: But Christian Connell Show podcast. So yesterday Jack and I

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Speaker 1: watched Armageddon IF over some on that and through various lockdowns,

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Speaker 1: you feel like you've seen everything to stream. Go back

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Speaker 1: this weekend, grab a couple of beers, get some snacks.

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Speaker 1: You will love Armageddon.

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Speaker 2: I've just said he got thirty eight percent on Ronning Tomatoes.

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Speaker 1: That's criminal snobs, right, it's his sobbery. It's a fun movie.

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Speaker 1: I was grinning so many times. It's that there's something

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Speaker 2: I was watching it with Bianca, who's American, right, and

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Speaker 2: she said, this is so different to when I watched

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Speaker 2: this the first time, when as an American you just think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we always save the world, no problem. Then when you

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Speaker 2: watch it with a little bit of perspective, like America

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Speaker 3: The waist just gets obliterated. Right. Paris a city of

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Speaker 1: I don't know whether Michael Bayer, director had a dodgy

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Speaker 1: I'm going to make a movie one day? Well, we're

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Speaker 1: just going to wipe out Paris, and it's okay.

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Speaker 2: The scene is last probably two seconds. You see the

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Speaker 2: Eiffel Tar and all of Paris get obliterated.

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Speaker 3: And it's never mentioned again. The Paris is now gone.

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Speaker 2: It's a non issue.

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Speaker 3: It's a non issue.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that I found most unbelievable, aside from

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Speaker 3: Stuff ageally, well, ha's it. There's no creek factor about

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Speaker 2: Very hot, you mean from the other oil riggers, Yes.

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Speaker 1: A very different time. I mean there are just two

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Speaker 2: I didn't even really like the scene where her dad,

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Speaker 2: Bruce Willis, is hiding behind some space equipment watching her,

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Speaker 1: She he become a dad to Daches. I could easily

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Speaker 1: imagine myself doing the same thing. But the most unwindest

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Speaker 2: It's offensive and maybe that's why he's so cranky in

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Speaker 2: the film enough to shoot Beneffleck with a shotgun. On

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Speaker 3: There's a great moment as well.

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Speaker 1: And the real star for me watching again is Billy

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Speaker 1: Bob Thornton. I loved him without him, and bear in

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Speaker 1: mind he was in the nineties, like the indie kind

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Speaker 1: Slingshot a couple of years after this, which is a

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Speaker 1: great movie. Bruce Willis is proper Hollywood. You know he

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Speaker 1: He is amazing in this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's his best role. If he really

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Speaker 1: I was interviewing about one of the later die Hard

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Speaker 1: He didn't even look up. He was looking at his

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Speaker 1: it for the money. Oh, I know, I meant it.

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Speaker 3: I like it. I really tried. I was absolutely cut it.

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Speaker 1: But there's a bit where basically the world of America

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Speaker 1: any of their demands. And Bruce Willis, it's a great scene,

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Speaker 1: reads out the list of their demands and they've gotten

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Speaker 1: to sign and say yes, they'll do it. They've made

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Speaker 1: a few requests such as, ask her here has got

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Speaker 3: Max would like you to bring back eight track tapes.

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Speaker 1: That's sure, it's gonna work.

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Speaker 3: You have one more thing. None of them want to

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Speaker 3: pay taxes. Again, this comes up a lot in the movie.

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Speaker 3: They just don't want to pay taxes. It's like, what

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Speaker 3: are we learning from this?

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Speaker 1: Now? They track down tax torches in this movie. They

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Speaker 1: cell about people that just don't want to pay taxes anybody.

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Speaker 2: They could have demanded, they could have essentially had a

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Speaker 2: blank check in front of them. We're the only people

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Speaker 2: who can save the earth. Pay us whatever you want. No,

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Speaker 2: we'll just do it if we don't have to pay

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Speaker 2: taxes again.

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Speaker 1: Check out Armaged in this week right if you're looking

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