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Bonus Episode - Sympathy for the Devil · Cage Match: A Roundabout Way of Meeting Nicolas Cage

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  Oh God. Oh my God.
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  Yes, squeaky bench time.
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  There is a chair if you want it.
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  No, it's way too late for that.
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  All right. You've sat.
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  I have sat. All right.
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  I am in permanent residence.
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  How you feeling tonight, Nick?
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  Oh, I feel pretty good.
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  It's a it's a nice, shiny Tuesday evening.
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  On a scale of zero percent to 100 percent sex.
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  Where are we at?
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  Oh, well, I started this night at 100 percent sex,
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  but here you've brought me down to 50 percent sex.
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  Yeah, that is not OK.
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  Because I suggested you switch chairs.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  And everybody knows I never switch seats.
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  It's true. Never never go to a second seat.
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  Nope. Well, I just don't take orders from anybody.
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  It's fair. Yeah, I don't either.
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  And that's why we're here without Peter.
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  Yeah. Suck it, Peter.
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  I don't know why he's always complaining about this.
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  This job seems easy.
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  Yeah. I mean, we figured it out.
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  Yeah. Barely needed his help at all.
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  No, it only took 40 minutes.
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  Yeah. Which is about as much time as it would take if Peter set up for a guest.
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  We love you shots fired. Yeah.
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  And at this audio, bitch, he has our he has the intellectual rights
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  to our faces. This is bad.
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  I'm pretty sure I'm just an AI generated like
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  overweight North American.
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  There's a lot of people who do look like you. Yeah.
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  Sucks to be them.
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  I mean, Nick Cage in this movie kind of looks a little bit like Skinny You.
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  Yeah, I guess kind of.
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  And Joel Kinnaman also kind of looks like Skinny You in this movie.
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  And wait, are you just saying that because they're all white?
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  Yes. Yeah. OK. That's what I figured.
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  So we just watched Sympathy for the Devil. Uh huh.
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  Oh, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sean.
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  You're my co host, Nick.
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  Oh, man, that was like nearly a segue.
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  And you just blew past it.
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  I know what I'm doing. Good at this.
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  This is a very special episode of Cage Magical,
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  one around about meeting Nicolas Cage, where we take 64 Nicolas Cage
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  movies and face him off until we find out what Nicholas Cage's best film is.
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  But he just put out a new one.
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  So we're going to talk about that for about 15 minutes.
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  But then that's it.
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  Yeah. Nothing really exciting.
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  I don't know what you're talking about. That movie was great.
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  OK. No spoilers then. How about that? That's fine.
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  We're not going to tell you anything about the movie.
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  We're just going to tell you that Nicolas Cage had red hair
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  that matched his red jacket.
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  Yeah, it was a sick red jacket, a crime jacket even.
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  Oh, he does have a crime jacket.
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  This also takes place in Vegas.
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  So part of the Vegas quadrilogy at this point.
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  Yeah. Of films we've reviewed that Nicolas Cage is filmed in Vegas.
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  That was part of and so Kinnaman has a sick goatee.
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  Yeah. Well, he really looks like a dirty dad.
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  He is a dirty. He is kind of a dirty dad.
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  Yeah. Joel Kinnaman's wife is giving birth when the cage takes him hostage
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  on a little ride about through the Arizona
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  interstate way system. Yeah.
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  A tour of the it would be Nevada, Nevada.
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  That's right. High jinks may or may not have ensued.
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  Mm hmm. They do.
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  That's the only reason why you would continue to watch a movie.
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  Yeah. If people drove with no hijinks, that'd be weird.
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  Maybe Joel Kinnaman has a past.
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  Nick Cage seems to think so.
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  Yeah. So the premise is Nick Cage picks up Joel Kinnaman.
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  Well, yeah.
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  When Joel Kinnaman arrives at the hospital, Nick Cage gets in the car
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  under the assumption that Joel Kinnaman is this person
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  that did him dirty once upon a time in Boston.
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  Nick Cage, obviously sporting a very sick Boston accent.
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  He finally got it.
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  One of his strongest like he's used it for every other regional like
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  regionality. And now it's finally, finally time to be from Boston.
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  He got it. You did it, buddy.
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  Somebody out there is just writing a movie for that.
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  They're like, oh, man, Nick Cage does such a sick Boston accent.
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  I'm going to write a movie just for him to do it.
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  And it works. I loved it. It worked great.
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  I am bummed this didn't get a wide release because it truly is
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  a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it.
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  Yeah. I can also see why it was real enjoyable.
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  Didn't get a wide release because it is niche. Yes.
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  Yeah. I don't know what the budget was on this, but
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  I mean, it's mainly two guys in a car,
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  very few location sets, very small cast,
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  but really kind of dialed in good performances from both
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  Joel Kinnaman and Nicholas Cage.
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  And I could not take my eyes off Cage this whole movie.
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  It wasn't just because of the bright red hair.
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  No, his performance in this was outstanding.
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  Oh, yeah. He was dialed in.
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  I mean, especially coming right off watching Ghost Rider
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  Spirit of Vengeance.
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  Like, oh, yeah, you're an actor. Yeah.
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  And he man, he gets wild in this.
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  If you like a wild Nick Cage, this is a good good movie.
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  Yeah. Just really let him settle into it.
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  Even like up until his very last minutes, like is like the movie
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  concludes with just crazy ass Nick Cage. Yeah.
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  It's a ride. Yeah. No.
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  I mean, not to spoil the ending, I will say the last five minutes
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  of this film are probably the weakest.
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  It's not it's not a twist, but something comes out
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  that I don't think served the larger narrative of the film.
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  Yeah. The last five minutes of script are just kind of weak.
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  Yeah. So it could have been a tighter ending.
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  But you know what? The movie we got is still good.
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  That's my only critique of the film.
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  The rest of it, I enjoyed start to finish.
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  I mean, I'm inclined to agree it had a really good run.
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  The intensity is like just up there through the whole movie.
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  Good, good drive.
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  It never feels like it slows down.
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  Now, even in the moments when they're not like
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  actively moving in the car, but like you hit like a location set
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  or some hang up in the story, the tension continues to build the whole time.
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  Yeah. Nicholas Cage sings a little song.
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  And you never know what's going to happen.
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  Oh, it's it's a good movie.
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  Yeah, I'm looking forward to watching this again, probably this week
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  with Josie, because I'm sure she'll want to see it as well.
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  Yeah. Peter, check this one out.
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  I think you'll really like it.
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  There we go. Recommending it to our significant others.
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  So I love Peter's wife.
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  I love that baby.
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  But, you know, that everyone sells would be would be such a cute couple.
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  You finally got what you wanted, Peter.
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  We we recorded a tight episode.
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  Hmm. Mouth noises.
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  So where are we? Where are we putting this on the bracket?
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  I mean, I'm inclined to say good, good.
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  I go good, good on this.
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  I'm all for good. Good. This was a great movie.
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  Good Nicholas Cage performance, wild Nicholas Cage performance
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  and wild Nicholas Cage performance while not being like over the top. No,
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  but he definitely exists on his own level in this movie.
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  Like he's a different energy than Joel Kinnaman's character.
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  Oh, 100 percent.
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  But it's not in such a way that it breaks the reality of the situation.
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  It doesn't lessen the tension at all.
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  No. Good movie, though.
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  I'd watch it again. I highly recommend it. Yeah.
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  This I mean, at least, you know, even the Renfield had some, you know,
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  stuff we could kind of critique, and I don't really have much to critique
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  about this one.
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  No, not without really diving into something that could
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  give away elements of the story.
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  And this one, just being a thriller and the whole nature of the like
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  identities.
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  I mean, we could do a spoiler warning right now and be like, stop listening
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  if you want to watch this movie and then talk about the ending.
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  Yeah, yeah. All right.
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  Watch the film. It's good.
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  Yeah. Try that out. Yeah.
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  Try that for once. Yeah.
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  Watch the movies that we tell you to watch.
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  We usually warn you against movies.
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  That's not true. Watch them all suffer with us.
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  Suffer in silence.
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  Yell at your neighbor, suffer in silence while yelling at your neighbor.
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  Hey, Nick, you know, felt 100 percent sex today.
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  Who's that? Me.
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  You know why? Tell me.
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  Old black guy bought me a beer.
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  Nick and I were at the bar before we watched the movie.
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  And this gentleman was talking at Nick for about 20 minutes.
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  I finished my beer and I was going to leave.
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  It was about the whole hour that I was there, actually. Yeah.
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  But yeah, I'm getting ready to leave.
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  And old black guy just goes, buy her another beer.
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  And we're all looking around because it's just us.
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  Only dudes in the bar. Only dudes in the bar.
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  Just talk about me. I felt pretty.
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  I got a beer out of it.
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  But he did reiterate.
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  He was like, yeah, that one, the lady by the lady.
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  I'm buying the lady a beer.
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  Yeah, it's pretty fucking great.
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  Yeah. We'll take it.
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  Yeah. Thanks, Harold.
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  I don't think he listens.
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  So he's 73 years old.
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  I don't think he doesn't look past 68.
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  No, not a day past 68.