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Speaker 1: Ben, it's not even my birthday and you've brought me

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Speaker 1: more Indres Elba. Yes, a special gift for you. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: it's a movie about geniees. And I thought, you know what,

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Speaker 1: if least made a wish, what would it be, It'd

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Speaker 1: be for more Idris Elba.

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Speaker 2: And so that's what I have bestowed upon you today.

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Speaker 1: We talked about him in the Beast last week, right,

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Speaker 1: so next never say that Idris Elber is a one

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Speaker 1: trick pony.

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Speaker 2: So that was the Lion movie. He punched the line.

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Speaker 1: Idris punches the line, that's what that movie is all about.

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Speaker 2: This this week, he's a genie.

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Speaker 1: Except so when you think genie's you mentioned the Tim

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Speaker 1: Tam genie great reference and I dream of Genie with yeah,

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Speaker 1: Barbara and of course Robin Williams voicing the genie and

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Speaker 1: Aladdin was Smith did the live action version.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we shouldn't talked about that make a wish that

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Speaker 2: that never happened.

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Speaker 1: And so Idris Elber is the latest actor to take

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Speaker 1: on this role. But he's not, you know, a genie

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Speaker 1: per se. He plays it more like the original origins

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Speaker 1: of the creatures that genies, which are called gin in

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Speaker 1: kind of pre Islamic Arabic mythology going way way back,

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Speaker 1: and so like it's so that they were called like

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Speaker 1: Ginny's like a ginny, So that's how that's been anglicized

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Speaker 1: to Genie was a profound gv Yeah, yeah, so, and

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of but it's the same vibe, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you rub the bottle pops, he gives you three.

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Speaker 2: Vulcan falcon g He lives longer than prosperous. He does

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Speaker 2: live long, three thousand years of longing. It's the name

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Speaker 2: of movie.

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Speaker 1: Is the name of the movie, right, And so it's

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Speaker 1: directed by George Miller, who of course is the Aussie

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Speaker 1: director who gave us all of the Mad Max movies,

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Speaker 1: and the most recent one, Mad Max Fury Road, one

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Speaker 1: of the best action movies of all time, insanely good film,

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Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of excitement to see what

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Speaker 1: George Miller would do with this. Adapted from the book

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Speaker 1: The Gin and the Nightingale, which had written a few

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Speaker 1: years ago. It's a fantasy movie. It also stars Tilda

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Speaker 1: Swinton as this British academic. So she's what they call

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Speaker 1: a narratologist, so she specializes in studying stories from different cultures.

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Speaker 1: She travels around the world to try and find some

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Speaker 1: similarities between all of these different stories, to find some

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Speaker 1: kind of singular truth in humanity. That's kind of what

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Speaker 1: she does for a living. And so she finds herself

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Speaker 1: in the in Turkey, I think it is, and she

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Speaker 1: goes to the Bizarre and she finds this little glass

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Speaker 1: bottle and she thinks, oh, this is a curious little thing.

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Speaker 1: This will look great on my mantelpiece. And in her

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Speaker 1: hotel room, she accidentally, while cleaning it, knocks off the.

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Speaker 2: Lid of the bottle and out core.

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Speaker 1: Idris Elba and it actually and he's huge. Initially he's huge,

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Speaker 1: takes up the whole hotel room until he kind of

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Speaker 1: and he can't speak English, but he eventually quickly learns

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Speaker 1: how to do that and shrinks down to a reasonable size.

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Speaker 2: He's magical, versatile, and break him a break.

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Speaker 1: And he says, and he says to her, He says

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Speaker 1: to Tilda, her character Alathea, like you get three wishes,

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Speaker 1: so you know, good for you. There are some rules,

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Speaker 1: of course, no wishing, no wishing for more wishes.

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Speaker 2: You can't wish to live forever. You can't you know

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Speaker 2: there's a few little caveats, as there always are a

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Speaker 2: lot of women. Yeah, well there's a thing right.

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Speaker 1: So normally for most people that'd be a dream come true,

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Speaker 1: like unlimited tim tams, whatever you want. But Alathea, she

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Speaker 1: specializes in all of these stories, studying these stories, and

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Speaker 1: so she points out to the genie there isn't one

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Speaker 1: these wishes go bad. So I'm not going to fall

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Speaker 1: for this. You need to find some sucker to make

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Speaker 1: the wishes. I'm not going to do it. And he's like,

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Speaker 1: well you have to, Like, I can't be released unless

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Speaker 1: I get my three wishes.

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Speaker 2: And she's like, well, the rules and it's the way

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Speaker 1: And she's like, well, he's like, you know, so surely

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Speaker 1: I know, because he knows everything, Like I know, I

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Speaker 1: know your husband left you for a younger woman. Do

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Speaker 1: you want your husband back? And she's like, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: actually quite happy with and so And this is the

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Speaker 1: thing with hers, she's actually really content within herself.

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Speaker 2: She loves her work, she loves her place. So she

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Speaker 2: says I can't think of one wish let alone. She

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Speaker 2: just wanted to get more of his super real and

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Speaker 1: And so she's more curious about what led to him

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Speaker 1: being in this bottle and what he's seen in his

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Speaker 1: three thousand years of existence, and so he starts embarking

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Speaker 1: and King Solomon and all of these kind of famous

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Speaker 1: historical figures who he's been involved with over the years.

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Speaker 1: And you quickly realize this will come as no surprise

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Speaker 1: to you least, but women in history just fall in

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Speaker 1: love with Dresselba. And so the Queen of Sheba was

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Speaker 1: Renaissance Italy was in love with him. It was like

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Speaker 1: a kind of the female Leonardo da Vinci. And so

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Speaker 1: his stories just become these like incredible tales of romance,

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Speaker 1: these the epic romantic stories, and Tilda Swinton's character like

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Speaker 1: becomes like really infatuated with this idea of having a

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Speaker 1: great love for herself comes away, and so she wishes

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Speaker 1: to have a great love with the genie like all

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Speaker 1: of these women of history.

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Speaker 2: And so then that's kind of where.

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Speaker 1: The films Mills and boommn if it's just appeared to you, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I wish, I wish you. I want to fit in

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Speaker 2: the bottle.

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Speaker 1: And so it's as you would expect and as she

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Speaker 1: realized herself, you know, like these types of wishes always

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Speaker 1: come with unintended consequences, and so that kind of unfolds

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Speaker 2: And so the movie from the mind of George Miller

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of c g I like, he's a

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Speaker 1: visionary kind of director, right, so at times, like if

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Speaker 1: you imagine the films of Del Toro, right, likes like

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Speaker 1: Pans Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, like they're kind

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Speaker 1: the same time. And this film is a bit like

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Speaker 1: that as well, Like there are some things that you

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Speaker 1: just go wow, that's jaw droppingly incredible overall, though unfortunately

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Speaker 1: there's probably too much of that and not enough substance,

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Speaker 1: Like this could have been like a classic like Pans

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Speaker 1: but there's just not enough in there, Like it's got

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Speaker 1: all the elements like this three thousand year spanning tale

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Speaker 2: In it, like it is basically bonkers.

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Speaker 1: The film looks absolutely beautiful, but there's just unfortunately not

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Speaker 1: enough substance, and so by the time you kind of

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Speaker 1: this is like not enough. It's really making a lot

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Speaker 1: that it's a very clever movie, but as you're watching it,

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Speaker 1: going do you know what, maybe it's actually not as

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Speaker 1: clever as it thinks it is. And so those kind

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Speaker 1: of things take you out of that world. Tilda is great, interest,

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Speaker 1: elbra is good. The CGI is pretty amazing, and it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful film to watch, but it's kind of

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Speaker 1: doesn't really take that next step up into like real

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Speaker 1: impressive territory. All right, how many Barbara Edens are you

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Speaker 1: giving me?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give it. I'm going to give it three.

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Speaker 2: Break for the wishes, free wishes, and be careful what

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Speaker 2: you wish for. Indeed, Thanks Ben, Thank you Ben. Thanks guys,