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Sean Means Movies Reviews for June 27th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well here he is Sean Means Sean Patrick Means.
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  Speaker 2: He is a film critic and he's also a reporter
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  Speaker 2: and editor at the Salt Lake Tribune. You can see
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  Speaker 2: his stuff at sltrib dot com his reviews at movie
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  Speaker 2: cricket dot net. And Sean, are you going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about fast cars in Harriman at all?
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  Speaker 3: If they if they go to Harriman, Yes, if they
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  Speaker 3: go to when when they have the Harriman Grand Prix?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what movies are we talking? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the list I gave you the last.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're just going to talk about F one
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  Speaker 2: and Megan and Meghan three, Megan two point oh, Reagan.
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  Speaker 3: You want to we will to start with MTh Reagan,
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  Speaker 3: Megan two point zero. This is the sequel to the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three movie about the killer Robot in the
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  Speaker 3: form of a ten year old girl.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it. Apparently it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: It was okay, it was it was fun, it was
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  Speaker 3: fun ridiculous mayhem so so she was destroyed in the
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  Speaker 3: last movie, Bye Bye, by her creator, Gemma played by
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  Speaker 3: Alison Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Or was she?
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  Speaker 3: Of course she wasn't We wouldn't have a movie. Meghan
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  Speaker 3: has been hiding in the in the software of Gemma's
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  Speaker 3: smart home technology, waiting to reveal herself. This happens when
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  Speaker 3: the Feds come in saying that there's an even deadlier
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  Speaker 3: robot out there named Amelia, and I there's there's a
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  Speaker 3: there's an acronym, but I don't care and neither do
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  Speaker 3: you Autonomous militaries whatever something like that. Uh, the Feds
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  Speaker 3: think Gemma is controlling Amelia because it's based on the
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  Speaker 3: same designs. It's it's based on Meghan's original designs. So
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  Speaker 3: now Meghan's so this is now Meghan's chance to come back,
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  Speaker 3: get some redemption and fight the.
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  Speaker 4: Other killer robot.
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  Speaker 3: And you know if armed Schwarzenegger could do it, a
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  Speaker 3: terminat or too sure, why not. Yeah, it's like many
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  Speaker 3: of the original players are back here and a Alison Williams,
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  Speaker 3: like we said, Violet McGraw as Gemma's niece Katie, who's
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  Speaker 3: the person Megan has sworn to protect at all costs.
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  Speaker 4: And Meghan the same people who did.
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  Speaker 3: Meghan the the the body actor who is only fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: and Amy Donald and Jena Davis is the voice actor.
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  Speaker 4: They're back so.
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  Speaker 1: So it's so it's too too takes two people yep,
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 3: One to be yes, you need you need the robot voice,
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  Speaker 3: and then you need the and then is there and
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  Speaker 3: then is there?
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  Speaker 1: Is cg in some way too.
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  Speaker 3: There's some puppetry involved, but mostly mostly it's practical effects.
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  Speaker 4: Though, yeah, it looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: So the director Geryld Johnstone, he's recycling the best bits
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  Speaker 3: of the first movie, which can be fun for a while,
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  Speaker 3: but it gets kind of repetitive. So this isn't as
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  Speaker 3: good as the first one. Two and a half for
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  Speaker 3: Megan two point zero, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Now, this movie is supposed to be the just
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  Speaker 2: the biggest, the best, the loudest, the greatest of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, F one F one or the assay f one
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  Speaker 3: the movie to to to to.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why you thought it was something else.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a lot of while you know, we good
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  Speaker 3: good racing movies, are you know, there's some great ones.
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  Speaker 3: The Days of Thunder in the nineties, Grand Prix in
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  Speaker 3: the sixties, Ford versus Ferrari just a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Was it the Steve McQueen one? Was that Graham Grand Prix,
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  Speaker 2: Grand Prix or no a Lamans Lamon's was the That
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  Speaker 2: was a good one because Grand Prix was Paul Newman.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, these these actors who take up racing as a
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  Speaker 3: as a side hobby.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: This one starts with Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, who
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  Speaker 3: knows racing and will go anywhere and race anything to
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  Speaker 3: get that adrenaline rush. And he's and he's definitely old
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  Speaker 3: enough of that the name Sonny does not really fit anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We are told that he did Formula one some thirty
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  Speaker 3: years earlier, but he had a bad crash that knocked
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  Speaker 3: him out of it. So one of his driver buddies
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  Speaker 3: from back then, Reuben played by Hobby ar Bardem, he
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  Speaker 3: now owns a Formula one racing team and he needs help.
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  Speaker 3: The team's in dead last in the standings and if
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  Speaker 3: they don't win a race this season, the folks who
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  Speaker 3: run Formula one are going to make him sell the
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  Speaker 3: racing team. So millions and millions of dollars are on
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  Speaker 3: the line here and and you you can feel them.
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  Speaker 4: You can feel the.
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  Speaker 3: Millions of dollars because every flat surface in this movie
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  Speaker 3: and has has some but he's logo on it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're so if you're if you need help
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  Speaker 2: to save your racing game, you naturally you turn to
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  Speaker 2: a washed up yep, yep has.
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  Speaker 4: Been yes, because this is the movies. Yeah, okay, So
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  Speaker 4: so Reuben.
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  Speaker 3: Wants Sonny to come drive for and be the number
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  Speaker 3: two driver behind his lead driver. Who's this hot headed
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  Speaker 3: kid Joshua Pierce played by Dempson Idris. Who's Who's a
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  Speaker 3: cool young actor. He's good, He's arrogant, just like Sonny
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  Speaker 3: was thirty years ago. Of course, you know where this
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  Speaker 3: is going. The drivers are going to argue, then start
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  Speaker 3: to respect each other, They lose races, they get better,
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  Speaker 3: and the question, you know, can they become a team
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  Speaker 3: and and of course of.
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  Speaker 4: Course they can't.
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  Speaker 3: Well and also, you know, to throw a little more
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  Speaker 3: into the mix, the team's technical director, the person who
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  Speaker 3: designs the cars, is the first woman ever to have
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  Speaker 3: that job with a Formula One team, and they fall
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  Speaker 3: in love, played by Kerry Condon and you can kind
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  Speaker 3: of guess what happens with her and Brad Pitt.
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  Speaker 4: The director here is Joseph Kaczinski. He top gun Maverick.
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  Speaker 3: So you can do action, you do fast, cargo fast
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  Speaker 3: from room you know, that's that's what you need for
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  Speaker 3: this movie.
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  Speaker 5: Do you so, so just talk speak to that for
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  Speaker 5: just a minute.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like you're in the car, like this
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  Speaker 6: is what it feels like to be in an F
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  Speaker 6: one car.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot there's a lot of scenes racing scenes
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  Speaker 3: where yeah, you feel like the car, the cameras in
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  Speaker 3: there with with the car, with the driver, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: that is pit and and Idris they are they actually drove,
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  Speaker 3: they actually did the driving, uh for for some scenes
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  Speaker 3: uh that they feel very real. A lot of big
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  Speaker 3: action here and they get the camera, Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: get the cameras right there.
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  Speaker 4: You feel every moment of it.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're gonna go see this movie and there
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  Speaker 3: some of you definitely are IMAX is the way to go.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna get get the full sensory experience, you know,
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  Speaker 3: glue you know, push you to the back of your
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  Speaker 3: seat kind of thing. Uh, you want that the full
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  Speaker 3: sort of the full visual and sonic effect. The downside
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  Speaker 3: here is that it is a sports movie, and every
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  Speaker 3: sports movie cliche, trope, whatever is in here that you
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  Speaker 3: can think of.
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  Speaker 4: And it is like a racecourse.
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  Speaker 3: You know where the turns are, you know, where the
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  Speaker 3: finish line is, and it's just a matter of how
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  Speaker 3: well they complete the course.
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  Speaker 4: And here they do it pretty well. Okay, So three
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  Speaker 4: stars for F one.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, it is playing everywhere. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: go see it in imax if you if you really
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  Speaker 3: want to go see it.
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  Speaker 1: So you gave it three stars, not because it's a
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  Speaker 1: good story.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with the story. It's just a story,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Every Here's the thing sports movies, at one point or another,
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  Speaker 3: no matter how serious they are about the atmosphere, about
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  Speaker 3: the feel of you know, making it feel like the
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  Speaker 3: real thing whatever, at some point or another, every sports
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  Speaker 3: movie is going to become the Mighty Ducks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah, Okay, it's or it's not Jimmy Stewart.
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  Speaker 2: It's a I forget the actor who says tell me
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  Speaker 2: the truth though, because it's strike three, you know.
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  Speaker 4: That kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's even that, there's the there's there's even
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  Speaker 3: a you know, you're you shouldn't be racing to begin
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  Speaker 3: with kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, even is there a death on the track. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to give stuff away.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean there's rarely a death in Formula one
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  Speaker 2: racing anymore.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, that's why one of the reasons I think
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  Speaker 6: Rocky was so popular because he doesn't win at the end,
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  Speaker 6: like he.
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  Speaker 4: Gets the girl.
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  Speaker 6: But I mean, like the sports movie, you know, the
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  Speaker 6: guy you want to win usually.
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  Speaker 5: Wins, and that's that's I think. I do think that's
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  Speaker 5: one of the reasons that was Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean he triumphed yea, even though he didn't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily you know, the outcome of the but like you.
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  Speaker 6: Would think in that sports trope and then you win,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he's not supposed to win any win.
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  Speaker 4: Then they had to make five more movies.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't you know.
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  Speaker 2: I was sort of excited about seeing it until I
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  Speaker 2: heard what the story was like, and then I thought, well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, go for the go for the excitement, go for
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  Speaker 3: the visual rush. All right, that's what you go for.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: What are we on next week?
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  Speaker 3: Not a lot going on, scept there's one big movie
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  Speaker 3: for the fourth of July weekend, Jurassic World Rebirth.
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  Speaker 4: So Katie gets her dinosaurs.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, I'm all for it, and Scarlett Johansson and meherschelaw
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  Speaker 3: Ali are in it.
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  Speaker 1: But there's dinosaurs and swimming spinosaurs swimming Sinusus.
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  Speaker 4: I am ecstatic.
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  Speaker 2: So I went to see twenty eight years later. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was quite good. Oh yes, and yet somebody
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  Speaker 2: I won't say who here in our officer I saw
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  Speaker 2: that movie.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you think of it? I said, I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: He's really I hated it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I just I know.
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  Speaker 5: Well Bill told him he was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, you're wrong. But the more I think
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  Speaker 2: about the movie, the more I like it. Yes, it
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  Speaker 2: sticks with you, it does images and I and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't realize that it had.
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  Speaker 1: You may have mentioned it. And it was filmed with iPhones.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about that. Yeah, that may be some parts.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, actually all of.
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  Speaker 2: It was filmed fifty different iPhones.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Gina, I think we need a girl's day
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  Speaker 6: on the afternoon and go see it next week.
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  Speaker 5: Agree.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it's it's really quite something.
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  Speaker 6: I'm dying.
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  Speaker 4: But you keep your iPhones put in your pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And I didn't realize that island that they live on.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, that's a real thing. Okay, it's with the
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  Speaker 2: tide and all of that. That's that's a real place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, it seems like it was made up for
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  Speaker 2: the movie.
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  Speaker 4: But you do know the zombies aren't real, right?
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  Speaker 1: I do know that, Yes, at least I hope they're not.
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  Speaker 5: And somebody's mad at me for spoiling Rocky one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think I think it's a little over the time.
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  Speaker 4: Next year is fifty years. I think you've had your chance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah all right.
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  Speaker 2: Shaw means you can read his stuff movie cricket dot net,
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  Speaker 2: or you can.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, or you can.
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  Speaker 2: You can also find his stuff in Salt Lake Tribune
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  Speaker 2: and sl trip dot com.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks Sean, Thanks you