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Bring on the Fireworks: Independence Day (1996) · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  [Music]
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  Welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie podcast. I'm Olivia and I'm here with
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  Shauna and we are both extra ready for the holidays. What are your 4th of July plans? Shauna?
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  Not a damn thing. I'm not feeling particularly patriotic
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  lately. I would agree with that. I think my 4th of July plans are going to be probably go swimming.
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  Okay. Needed in Arizona. Right. Oh my god dude it's like 117 tomorrow already. It's not even
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  summer yet. It's not even summer yet until what the 21st of June. That's absolutely disgusting.
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  Yeah I'm probably just going to go swimming and gobble down a few glizzies.
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  Okay. One hot dog, Ray Bans. I don't know what it is lately about my Jennifer Coolidge
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  like accent. Impersonation. Impersonation. There we go. There we go. We know where it's
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  it's coming out as Owen Wilson so much lately and all the last few weeks I kept going wow
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  and it just sounds like it's gone so far because he always goes wait wait Jennifer Coolidge is
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  oh wow. Oh jeez but then Owen Wilson is like wow so that's sort of the sort. They're they're real close
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  but I'm only hitting Owen at this moment in time but I would agree with that. I am feeling
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  quite patriotic for Kesha which is July 3rd here in San Francisco. You're gonna go. Yeah me and my
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  friend Dagger are gonna go. I wish we were going together because I'm going July 6th literally like
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  that is all I'm looking forward to that weekend is swimming eating hot dogs and going to Kesha.
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  Like God bless Kesha. God bless Kesha. That's my president. Yeah I've recently I've decided that my goal
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  for the summer is to see as much live music as possible. I love that. It's it's been going well
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  been going shows. I went to a friend's DJ thing on Saturday. I went to a cyber punk EDM show at the
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  metal bar by me which was I'm so jealous that looks so cool. It was cool but then I I had two
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  ciders and I was like yeah I'm having fun I was like making friends and then I hit my pen and I went
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  nonverbal and was like everybody thinks you're weird you need to leave immediately. Isn't it the same
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  strain that you usually smoke though? No I don't know I don't know it just hit it hit wrong I took a big
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  one and I keep I keep forgetting that like I hadn't been smoking for so long so now when I do it I'm
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  like a newborn baby again and so like I'm like smoking like I used to but I don't have the tolerance
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  that I used to do and I was so freaked out I was like the all everybody knows you're here alone
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  and thinks you're weird and then I like was walking home and I was like do I remember how to walk?
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  See that is why I can't smoke every time I try to smoke I'm like everyone knows I'm high
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  and no one else is I'm higher than everyone in the entire world and they all think I'm terrible
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  and then I fart and I'm like I shit I shit myself like I just pooped my pants okay and I didn't I didn't
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  poop my pants I just put like a regular person in my head just poop everywhere. So your your
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  butt hole gets high too? Yeah it doesn't know what's going on in there? Like the feeling from my like
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  belly button down is just it's just sad. You're stupid you forgot out of walk and I forgot how to fart.
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  So different different parts of the lower half I think it's like pelvic floor things. Yes.
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  Yes so you know maybe we we don't hit the pen when we're by ourselves. I think I would have been fine
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  had I not been at a concert by myself but all of a sudden it just went like bad and concerts
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  like I was at a bar with live music like it was very much I always say that this bar reminds me of
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  being like 15 and an emo kid and back in like the days where you were I was dating a guy in a metal
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  band who was like a drummer and so it gives me great nostalgia vibes. I love that. Yeah it was
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  unfortunate I got so big because I was flirting with a cute boy and then do you remember his name?
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  No. No. No. No. No. I am going to Tucson this weekend or with this episode airs I will have gone to
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  Tucson just for one night. One night and Tucson. One night and Tucson. It's like the world's worst porn.
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  A night and Tucson on shaved bush on watch the bean sounds like a Seth Big Farhulinskitt. A night and Tucson
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  but it's called emo versus anime so it's gonna be like a dance party and then going to the sweet tomatoes
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  finally I'm so excited I feel like I've said it on this podcast before but oh you know this podcast
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  says opposed to all my other podcasts. I wouldn't be surprised. Oh god I know seriously the only
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  sweet tomatoes in the entire United States of America isn't Tucson, Arizona and I'm gonna eat
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  everything inside of it. I'm very excited for you. Thank you. Thank you baby. Yeah absolutely. I think
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  that's that's gonna be amazing and then ultimately you know we're gonna go see Keshia so
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  I wish we were doing it together but at least we're going close. Yeah yeah yeah I don't wish I was
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  in Arizona but I wish you were in San Francisco. Yeah agreed agreed. Well maybe I could still book
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  those tickets and come and set timber. Yeah I just want to biggest for work and I do have to tell
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  you that the second I stepped off that plane I was like oh thank god I left Arizona it is so grossly hot
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  like I I lost it in like two seconds I was like wait I'm so spoiled now like I can't deal for anybody
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  not from the West Coast Vegas is hot Phoenix is hotter. Yeah Phoenix is hotter. You would
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  say that little taste of it. It was like 107 in Vegas and that's still pretty gross. I know I
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  felt bad for Ziggy because his little paws were like burning when we were walking and he's like I got
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  him little sparkly shoes for the Vegas. You didn't really think about it we didn't go walking on
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  the strip they had like a dog park but even then it was hot and I was like oh you're so spoiled now
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  you have like a little San Francisco paws it's like 55 degrees here right now. He should have gotten
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  them little like slutty Vegas shoes like rhinestone. I wanted to get him a fedora. I mean I was
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  buying Ziggy hat era. Oh my god okay we need to get him. Here he has a cowboy hat. He's a Christmas
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  hat. He needs like a leather kink daddy hat for private months. He does. Like that. Mr. Slav wears
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  in a South Park instead of Ziggy needs. And a little leather vest. And some little leather
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  straps. Yes. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. A little leather daddy. Leather daddy Ziggs in the
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  Castro. That sounds like a man named daddy Ziggs in the Castro. Are you kidding me? Yeah.
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  Daddy Ziggs. Daddy Ziggs in the Zastro. Yeah. Literation. Oh my god. Okay we should actually like talk
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  about what this episode is about because you and I could jump probably just yeah for like two hours.
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  We should have an episode someday where all we do is just yeah that's it. But yeah all we do is just
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  yeah we could there's no there's no like aim there's no topic yeah and we just shut up and we feel
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  like it. Yeah there you go. I mean I feel like anyone listening is like babe let's already what you
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  do but you know is there ever a topic to any episodes? It's different okay. So Shana and I decided
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  that we would talk about an iconic film scene where the White House explodes. That's an honor.
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  An honor of you know the horrors. How we're feeling about Independence Day. We wanted to talk about
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  the 1996 movie Independence Day where times were better we had American pride we felt good about
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  the country. We liked Will Smith. I was gonna say we felt good about Will Smith too. So we're gonna take
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  a quick break and we're gonna dive into Independence Day. As we talked about right before the break
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  we're here to talk about Independence Day but before we start the fireworks now's a good time to
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  that later. So I want to talk a little bit about the first time you saw Independence Day where were you
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  set the scene. Oh god. I don't remember where I was. I was seven years old when it came out so I
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  don't think I saw it when it first came out and honestly I re-watched it for this episode and
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  there was so much in it that I totally had forgotten. So I think I've only seen it maybe like
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  twice over the course of my life all the way through. What? Yeah dude. I mean I've seen like clips
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  here and there and it was on TV back in the day and like TVS so you'd be like scrolling through TV.
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  You're like oh, depending on the day. Is it your dad really into aliens? Well now he is. Oh okay.
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  But no I think I've only seen it like twice. You've seen like maybe you've seen it a lot?
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  Yeah I've seen this movie a lot. So my dad first of all was let me watch it. He should not have
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  let me watch. I saw the poltergeist when I was five. That was a little crap out of me. Oh my god.
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  Same movie scarring. I was five and the main character and it is also five and we had a house that
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  looked like it and it had a basement and it had an upstairs. My mom's. And your house was haunted.
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  It wasn't. No that's my aunt my uncle's house. Okay your aunt's house was haunted. Yeah.
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  But it wasn't Chicago at the time and most of Chicago is haunted so you know because they had a big
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  big fire there. Yes I also had a TV in my room so it was it wasn't good but that's not the point of
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  this. So I think that I probably watched Independence Day when it like around when it came out my dad
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  loves the movie. It is a great movie just how old were you in 1996 like four years? Three. Okay.
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  Okay so you know don't don't think I was remembering it but I do just remember being in Chicago
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  and watching this movie in my Chicago house with my dad and I do think that this movie is just
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  a great action. It does. It's a good iconic piece of like yeah America TV and and movie. I ain't film.
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  It's a film. It's a film. It's a good film. But I really do love this movie. I think that it's great. You have
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  the aliens. You have the presidential look. You have the soldier look and then you also have
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  you know Kuku bananas. Conspiracy. You're like. Exactly. And they all come together to save the world.
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  Yes. And the president was hot. I kept saying that as I was watching. I was like. Oh God. Remember when we
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  had hot president. Remember when you could want to sleep with the president. Yeah. Yeah. Patrick
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  Farmer remembers and everybody in this movie remembers and Wilson was so handsome in this movie. Oh my
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  God. So handsome. So I was thinking about like attractive politician. Yeah. This is going to be a
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  hard love turn from Independence Day. But that's fine. This is what we do. Have you seen Gavin Newsom's
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  Instagram like Reels or TikToks lately? No. Oh my God. They they are so funny. I mean Gavin Newsom
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  is is kind of like American Psycho hot where like he's an attractive man. But it's it's a little it's
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  Paul. He's a politician. So he looks he definitely looks like a politician. But like I wouldn't
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  kick him out of bed, freaking crackers. Yes. Exactly. And so but he's he's obviously fighting with
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  you know the orange band quite a bit. And he's making the funniest TikToks in the world.
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  Obviously I can download them and send them to you. But Gavin Newsom's TikTok and it's like his
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  official California TikTok. I need to post posting some of the funniest things. But I keep now that
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  I've been like engaging with Gavin Newsom's like shit talking TikToks. Getting therst traps for
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  Gavin Newsom. And that just like those those Reels that they what do they called where they make
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  them for like Petra Pascal and it's just like yeah. Yeah. And basically this is that with Gavin Newsom.
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  Oh my God. I am here for it. I'm here for it. He's handsome. And he hates Donald Trump. I am also
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  handsome and hate Donald Trump. It works. I also feel like Gavin Newsom kind of looks like Bill
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  Pullman in this. But like the I agree. I absolutely agree. He just like Bill Pullman. Yeah. I guess
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  I mean Gavin Newsom should be president. He I mean he's definitely going to try for it. But he is.
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  Gavin Newsom is like one of those people where right now California's like him because he's like
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  fighting Trump. But he's also but they don't always like him. He's yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's definitely like
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  a moderate. Yeah. That makes sense. And he's any swing back is good. Which I guess. Yeah. Not really.
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  Not really. This is a patriotic episode. Damn it. Yep. Will Smith is sexy. He's got great abs.
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  Daddy. Daddy in this movie. Uh, Jets. Boom. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. What do you mean? Okay.
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  Daddy. Jets. Gold bloom in this movie is an ungodly level of hot. Like he is so fine in this movie.
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  Which can Jeff Goldblum are you taking? You're taking Jurassic Park Gold Bloom or God. That's hard.
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  That is really hard. I think I'm going Independence Day. He's a super smart and he's so smart.
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  But then he's got that like lounging shirtless scene in Jurassic Park and he's like women
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  hair of the earth. That's it. Both of them are the same time. Fines away. I want to have a
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  three. Somebody's just both me and then both versions of him from both of these movies. I need
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  Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum Independence Day. We're meeting in Paris. We're meeting.
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  But in you know what? Let's throw in Jeff Goldblum wicked. Screw it. Let's do it. Throw it all in.
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  Yeah. You know you would do it. Yeah. But it doesn't hit the same way. We'll do it. It doesn't
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  hit the same way. But he is so fine for an older man. He's so fine. One thing. This one thing that is so
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  stupid. It has nothing to do with the plot of this movie. But I kept saying out loud. I can't wait
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  to talk to Olivia about this. Will Smith buys Vivica A. Fox's character, a ring. That is the
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  ugliest engagement ring I've ever seen in my entire life. He's like she likes dolphins. So I got to
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  ring with a dolphin on it. It's giving like Pimp my ride. Remember when they're like we know you like
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  bubbles. So we may bubble shoot out of the back of your car. We gave you a bubble bath. Like she likes
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  dolphins. I'm going to give her an engagement ring with like a gold plated dolphin on it. She's like
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  I don't think you know she's like the second that we come back from this alien attack. You're getting
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  me a rock. You're getting me a rock and not a cool. I had a ring with a dolphin on it when I was like
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  the third grade because I like dolphins in the 92. Everyone did. We talked about it. We were all
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  trying to be marine biologists. Yeah. It was quite quite interesting how how that one happened.
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  What I was actually reading about this movie is it was originally not going to be Will Smith.
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  I was the original cast. So the studio originally wanted Ethan Hawk or Matthew Broderick or the lead.
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  Matthew Broderick. I couldn't say that. Yeah. Matthew Broderick. Weird. That's Inspector Gadget.
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  Yeah. Not Inspector Gadget. There's too many like white men in this movie. No. We need
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  switched up. Get Will Smith in there. Well it was 1996 and they were afraid of a black actor or
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  a global market which shortly after Will Smith became one of the biggest action stars of all time.
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  I was going to say he's like in the prime of his career right now. He's got Min and Black and it
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  didn't occur to me until my rewatch of this of Independence Day. But I was like oh my god Will Smith
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  and the aliens in the 1990s like that was his stick. So he had Min and Black. He had Wild Wild West
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  come out. He had just finished up on fresh prints. Yeah. He was he was racking up the dough. Yeah.
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  Vivica A. Fox is gorgeous in this movie. Oh she's so beautiful. She's gorgeous. I forgot if the
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  dog lived or died in this movie and right when like the bomb is like the laser is destroying everything
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  in Los Angeles and the dog leaps into safety. It's like good. I can keep watching the movie now.
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  She also did her own stunt with that. The dog or Vivica A. Fox. The Vivica A. Fox.
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  I almost said the fox. Not the dog. The fox. The dog. Everyone. Everyone did it.
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  Yes. So she gave Fox a great this movie. I love her.
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  Yes. There is so much like good stuff. I think this movie is still like it's it's old like when
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  you watch it you're like okay I can tell this was made in the 90s but it is a movie that had a lot
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  of practical effects to it. So they didn't use what would have been like incredibly early CGI
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  at the time. And so like the White House blowing up our manifestation scene that we're watching. I'm
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  just kidding. I'm just kidding. What is she doing? What? Oh my god. Only if one person is in there at that time.
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  But maybe too. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. So that is actually like a a mature but they yeah,
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  a miniature that they do. Yeah. They all of the effects. I really think stood up pretty well
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  in this movie. I was really impressed with all like the fire sims that they had going on. All
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  the explosions. Like you said, like they have the miniatures going on for a lot of stuff. But
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  really when like the cars are flying over and hitting each other and even the scenes in space with
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  the like spaceships all flying and shooting, I thought looked better than episode one of Star Wars,
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  which came out a couple of years later, you know, but I thought it's it looked really good for 96.
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  Yeah. They had over 80 miniature sets that were built so they did New York City Skyline full size
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  aircraft models and they used fire crackers gasoline and compressed air. That's amazing. I love
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  practical effects in movies. I think that's just such a good quality to it. It makes it feel more
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  realistic. Like don't get me wrong. I love me some good CG too. But there's just something more
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  tangible about a well done, you know, practical. I think a lot of the aliens for practical effects too.
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  They all look like puppets, honestly. Yes. So I was actually reading about the aliens for this and it
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  was it was supposed to be a different alien design in the beginning and then they tested it with
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  audiences and people laughed at them. So the team redesigned them to be taller, scarier and put the
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  real alien inside of like a biomechanical exosuit. These aliens were scary. They freaked me out. Like
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  me too when they're in the scene where they have them in like the containment center and the alien.
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  They're doing the surgery on him and he comes to life and murderers everyone. That's terrifying,
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  especially when you're a child. Like that's gonna stick with you. Yeah. And of course,
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  there are like funny things in this like the computer virus that they put onto the alien ship that
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  like makes them be able to do these things. There's some goofy shit in here and we kept commenting that
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  Jeff Goldblum's character. He makes all these computer programs and then he makes little logos for it.
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  Andrew kept saying he took the time to make that logo. Oh, you see the little spinny graphics with the
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  doomsday clock. He took the time to make that. He's like graphic design is my passion.
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  I need to make a little green like angry skull.
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  So unnecessary but iconic. Yes. Yeah. There was some funny moments in this maybe and definitely some
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  iconic lines like the president's speech is still iconic. And it has been referenced by actual
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  politicians. So Tony Blair used it and it's been used in local US elections which is kind of crazy.
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  You know can't come up with anything. What's funny is the script was written in four weeks actually.
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  What really? So maybe that's where the weird text stuff comes from. But the idea came from
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  Roland Emrick asking what if there was a big ship hovering over every city on earth with Dean Deblin
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  and yeah I mean it's a great great movie great action film. So obviously things ramp up and people
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  are scared but I feel like in the beginning everyone's acting kind of chill like a little too chill.
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  I don't know they know these anomalies are coming and they're just kind of like well this will be
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  scary let's see how it goes. And the president even says later in the movie that he waited too long
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  to evacuate the cities. I was screaming at the TV. I'm like evacuate them. What are you doing?
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  What are you doing bro? Do you remember when we just have like hundreds of drones in the sky
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  and nobody cared and nobody could tell us what was going on and we all just went that's scary.
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  All right. No. We would want 100% do that. That would be so real. I guess you're right. I was just like
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  evacuate the cities bro. What are you doing? Like oh my god do do something besides just be like let's
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  wait and see you know what let's meet them first. No. I do think that I would be like that that one
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  stripper. That would be me. Andrew said he's like that would absolutely be you and Olivia up there.
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  It's like no I would be screaming and pissing myself like I am if you get a few drinks in me and like
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  you were going up there I'd be like oh my god fine okay. But I mean it makes sense like we did
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  an episode on B and they welcomed the aliens in like it's a really good thing right like I feel like
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  friends you would want to do that before you became hostile like if the if we just had an alien
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  over us and we started trying to attack it I'd be like what the fuck yeah but I don't know if I'd go
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  up there and be like take me home sky daddies. I don't know maybe during a Trump presidency I'd be like
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  yeah fuck it like and that's the worst sick in the world. I think there would be so many I feel like I
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  would go up there and there are just you know some some crazy things in this movie but I absolutely
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  love it if you haven't seen it in a while. It's a great movie to pop on on the 4th of July. It's a
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  big president it's you know belief that we would do the right thing in all kind of other. Like every
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  nation in the world is coming together to defeat the aliens the president talks in coherent
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  full sentences it's you know it's a great fantasy yeah right so there's just so much good about this
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  this movie. Oh I have a fun fact this is the 69th highest grossing movie of all time.
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  A nice A nice a sick breath. Why not? So we're going to pop Independence Day maybe not the holiday
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  but definitely the movie. We're going to pop Independence Day and we're going to take a quick break
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  but did you guys know there was a Independence Day 2
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  so apparently there was a Independence Day resurgence independence to like nine years ago yeah
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  the film takes place 20 years after the events of the first film during which the UN has collaborated
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  to form Earth Space Defense and International Military Defense and Research Organization
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  Space Force. Space Force. Yeah and just makes worse still exists. Is that still like an
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  agency? I don't know and so through reverse engineering the world has harnessed the power of
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  alien technology and laid the groundwork to resist a second invasion which I do think is pretty
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  interesting in concept because of Bob Lazar so Bob Lazar is an Area 51 scientist who has become a
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  whistleblower he has a few documentaries you can just like look up Bob Lazar docs and he claimed
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  that when he worked for Area 51 he was actually reverse engineering crashed spacecraft. So basically
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  what happened to Independence Day yeah exactly and so he claims that he has done it I mean he has
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  some really interesting like stuff watch the documentary I'm really oversimplifying it but that is
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  that is like something in pop culture in the zinc I guess and so I think that it's interesting that
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  they tried to bring it in now this movie here does not have any of the original like people in it
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  right well well Jeff Goldblum is in it yeah the I think the only character like main character that
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  doesn't come back is Will Smith he was doing I want to say suicide squad at the time so they kill off
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  his character I know I mean both movies but fun career decisions rumors are to be to believe you know
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  you'd margo robby back then so that's true but yeah this came out in 2016 it flopped it's got a 29
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  percent on rotten tomatoes and I don't think anybody even remembers that it exists yeah I
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  sure sold it no absolutely not let's see here Jeff Goldblum Lee and my hymns worth is in it and he plays
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  Bill Pullman's daughter's fiance yeah yeah so you know it's got it's got a little cast in here but it
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  was a financial disappointment only grossing 389 million even though it cost oh okay it cost 165 million
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  so it made back how much it cost to make but still no one saw this ship yes and apparently there was
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  also a planned series of films that would have come out Independence Day 3 and 4 they were also
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  talking about doing a TV show at the time which would have been like rebuilding after the original
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  film and you know one thing we did in the 90s where it was if if someone like the first one we were
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  gonna we were gonna hit that heart we were gonna do novels we were gonna do comics we were gonna do
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  video games and spin-offs yeah an animated version yes there was so many animated versions of live action
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  movies and TV shows in the 90s like there was a pilot for a animated bucket of vampires layer
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  they had the Beatles use cartoon uh minute black I think got a cartoon for a second anyway it wouldn't
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  surprise me if there was an Independence Day cartoon in the works so there actually is a comic
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  that came out and it was a Marvel comic it was a Marvel comic yeah yeah yeah interesting
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  in 1996 and then Titan comics did one in 2016 all the Independence Day dark bathroom okay and that's
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  was probably trying to tie to the 2016 movie there was also a flight simulator video game that came
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  out in 1997 and don't know how successful that was it looks like it was for PlayStation and Sega
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  Saturn I never played it but upon rewatching this it the first Independence Day it reminds me so much
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  of Star Fox 64 like so much of Star Fox 64 is I think totally ripped off of Independence Day you're
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  flying under this giant like circle space craft trying to shoot like into little like nodules at the
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  bottom trying to shoot you low into a tiny nodule nodule opening until it explodes oh it's a gift
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  you have a gift you know for making anything disgusting yes I do a gift and a curse
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  take this burden away from me yeah special gift you out there we are who we are as Kesha
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  what's that as our president would say yeah absolutely our president Kesha exactly do you think that
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  there should be another Independence day do you think we should give it a third times a charm I mean
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  the first time was the charm but maybe another another sequel another cash grab I think that they
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  should leave it but I am a very big person where like I don't like a sequel for a sequel sake I think
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  that's exactly what 2016 ones as well so do you need a sequel of a bad sequel probably not either I do
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  think that you could make it kind of interesting like up with a prequel like what did the government
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  know what were they hiding like you could kind of bring that in yeah or another person's story so we
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  focus on like the heroes of the 1996 film but what about the little people what about just regular
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  Joe Shmoe is going about their life like I don't know let's dive in and see what so and so up the
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  block was doing well the aliens were taking over that could be interesting yeah and I think you could
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  do that but I think you it really just have to be like in universe in a very different like
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  perspective of it yeah but I really think that Independence Day said what it needed to say at the time
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  and and we could really kind of leave it there I blow shit up eat popcorn yeah bless America yeah
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  hey in 96 yeah that's it yes exactly yeah maybe so really ultimately we want to just say that it is
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  not a great time in this state of the world and we are here to support any of our immigrant communities
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  we love you guys we're here for you we're protesting for you yep you know really we wanted to silly
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  goof and laugh over this episode and just have a fun time where we could remember like oh there used
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  to be a time of patriotism but until all of us are free no one is free and we look forward to
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  a time of American freedom again one where we can hope for at least very very well said yes I think
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  it's nice that we have you know you have to take breaks from the horrors and you know laugh and
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  you know try to give yourself a little mental downtime to giggle with your besties but at the end of
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  the day I you know I hope everyone's staying safe and you know we're out there fighting the good fight
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  along with you and PCJ stands with you absolutely absolutely and now is time for us to go make some
• 34:51
  potato salad fire up our protest signs find our stash is I don't know why that was so funny I'm like
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  where is she going with this yep oh yeah that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna eat so much potato salad
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  and just protest on the floor to go but carrying the tub of the potato salad yeah yeah yeah exactly
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  fire up our protest signs find our stashes of illegal explosives just for fun um just get
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  not to blow up the white house what just get out of my white house no we would never never
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  and hope that the next invasion comes from aliens for our little orange man maybe they can
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• 35:50
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• 36:01
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