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Who Killed Diane Lane's Anti-Fascism Movie? · Conspiracy! The Show

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  Speaker 1: Wait true a checkup by everybody. Welcome back to Conspiracy Show.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Adam Todd Brown joining me as
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we are putting on our movie reviewer hats
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  Speaker 1: for this episode because, for one thing, David.
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  Speaker 2: Told you was not a bad idea to invest in those.
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  Speaker 1: For one thing, Dad has to take it easy because
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  Speaker 1: I am fresh out of the hospital. Lost a little
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  Speaker 1: weight last week in the form of the pointer toe
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  Speaker 1: on my left foot. Had to have that chopped off.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like a vanity toe. Anyway, I might have
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  Speaker 1: the other one taken off just for feng shwe reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, you found out that this is a total life hack.
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  Speaker 2: You lose six ounces and you run slightly faster or something. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just have an insane vertical now, but still too
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  Speaker 1: unathletic to do anything with it. I can jump really high,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll shatter my fucking ankle when I land.
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  Speaker 2: Adam is sixth man for the Hornets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a medical emergency. Spent my New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Eve in the hospital. So there was no episodes last week.
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  Speaker 1: Deal with it, Missy.
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  Speaker 2: I told Adam whenever he needs I'm there. I'm right
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  Speaker 2: there behind him. I stand behind him. Nine toes down.
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  Speaker 1: Connor's been waiting to drop that joke. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: it before we started recording.
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  Speaker 2: I just sort of panicked and did it inelegantly here
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  Speaker 2: because I was like, I didn't want to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to forget a fucking gem like that.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, how often is my foot going to
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  Speaker 1: come up? Honestly, on the rest of the episode, I
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  Speaker 1: feel obligated to tell people why there was no episode
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  Speaker 1: last week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be referring to you as nine toes
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  Speaker 2: Brown for decades.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's certainly not what we're talking about this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the conspiracy is word. Did Adam Togo sent a
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  Speaker 2: medical wastepind somewhere in the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no real conspiracy behind how my toe got infected.
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  Speaker 1: I waited too long to go to the doctor. Actually
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  Speaker 1: I didn't wait too long. Too long I might have
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  Speaker 1: died because I had the flesh eating disease.
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  Speaker 2: Which MRSA.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all I've ever heard of that is you get
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  Speaker 1: that and you're like dead three days later.
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  Speaker 2: I've had a flesh eating disease before you can come
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  Speaker 2: back from a flushing disease.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, live and proof, buddy, I made it out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's both of us now, Yeah, hell yeah,
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  Speaker 2: survivors of body rot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder how many other conspiracy podcasts can say
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  Speaker 1: that both hosts survived necrotizing fascitis. Probably quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I know this is a hack joke, but that
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  Speaker 2: is literally a sick name for a band. As soon
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  Speaker 2: as you said necrotizing fascitis, I just pictured in that
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  Speaker 2: pile of Stick's metal font. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what infection I actually had until I
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  Speaker 1: overheard two nurses talking about it just in the room
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  Speaker 1: in front of me, and I googled it and was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh shit, that's something to have survived. That's right up
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  Speaker 1: there with having smoke crack.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, nine toes crack smoking. You're like a fucking country
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  Speaker 2: song bro.
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  Speaker 1: So we're talking about a movie this week, a recent
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  Speaker 1: movie that I'm pretty sure you didn't see anyone listening
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  Speaker 1: to this. It made six hundred thousand dollars at the
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  Speaker 1: box office.
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  Speaker 2: I would give yourself some serious hipster points. If you've
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  Speaker 2: seen this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you are among the six hundred and seventy two,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and eleven dollars that were spent at this movie,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you. How did it happen?
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  Speaker 1: Was it an accident? Was the movie he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see sold out? I don't know, but it's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five film called Anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to figure out how many people that is.
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  Speaker 2: So what fifteen bucks a ticket? Yeah, roughly if you're
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  Speaker 2: one of the forty four, eight hundred and forty seven
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  Speaker 2: people that actually went to the movies and saw.
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  Speaker 1: This, that is so few people compared to just the
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  Speaker 1: general population of the country. That's just not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Even the worst performing post on the Costco Guy's page
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  Speaker 2: and it's got more use than forty four thousand. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this movie. It's got a decent cast. Stars Diane
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  Speaker 1: Lane and Kyle Chandler. The guy from Friday Night Lights.
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  Speaker 1: I always have to look up his name. He will
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  Speaker 1: forever just be the guy from Friday Night Lights, just
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  Speaker 1: like most people on the Wire will always just be
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  Speaker 1: the guy from the Wire. Yeah, to me, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know any of those actors. I mean, Michael K. Williams,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, Andris Elba there's a few. But beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: that's all just a bunch of dudes from the wire.
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  Speaker 1: And same thing with Kyle Chandler. This movie, like we've
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  Speaker 1: already hinted at, seems like it fell through the cracks,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least when it comes to critics and viewers.
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  Speaker 1: Both was released October twentieth, twenty twenty five seven million
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  Speaker 1: dollar budget and made six hundred and seventy two foul.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's it led slightly less than ten percent return.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough. Directed by a guy named Jan Komasa,
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  Speaker 1: who previously was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
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  Speaker 1: International Feature Film, ironically enough for a film called Corpus
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  Speaker 1: Christy financed and distributed by Lionsgate, but it has been
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  Speaker 1: suggested that lions Gate buried this film because of its
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  Speaker 1: subject matter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good news is you got distribution. Bad news is
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  Speaker 2: it's by a company that hates everything you stand forward
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  Speaker 2: bought your product only out of spy to squash it.
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  Speaker 1: The claim here is that this movie was made in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, when everyone thought Biden was gonna win,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know who everyone is in that scenario.
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  Speaker 1: I was pretty off board with Biden winning by twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three myself. But one of the claims here is
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  Speaker 1: that when they were making this movie, they assumed Biden
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  Speaker 1: was gonna win in twenty twenty four, and then this
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  Speaker 1: would just come out as some sort of Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is the nightmare that could have been, and instead Trump won,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, shit, if we put this movie out,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's gonna sue us or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not to get too ahead of ourselves, but this
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  Speaker 2: movie is almost lose his believability because the fascism has
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  Speaker 2: an elegance to it. It starts with a book. Trump
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  Speaker 2: is to start with the book. I wrote a book
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  Speaker 2: that everybody read and thought about and it changed their minds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the tipping point for this country is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a meme with a really buffed Trump. There'll be
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  Speaker 1: a fucking eagle on it.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll be called the Gay Andy and it'll be
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  Speaker 2: so I'm just gonna kill you, Yeah, Gay Andy.
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  Speaker 1: This movie covers five years in the life of a
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  Speaker 1: family that is torn apart under the weight of a
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  Speaker 1: burgeoning fascist regime in the United States. You mentioned a
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  Speaker 1: TV show before we started recording that is very similar
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  Speaker 1: to this Years and Years, Yeah, which if people haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen that, it is an HBO limited series, really really
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  Speaker 1: good and very similar premise, very very similar. You're just
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  Speaker 1: kind of seeing a family unravel under the weight of
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  Speaker 1: a fascist regime. I think that series is maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little better than this movie. But I think just because
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  Speaker 1: this is the kind of story that I think needs
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  Speaker 1: a little more room to breathe and develop than you
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  Speaker 1: can get in the span of this is only like
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  Speaker 1: an hour forty something like that. Tastefully brief as far
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  Speaker 1: as movies go these days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't really drag at any point. Yeah, Years
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  Speaker 2: and Years. I liked just because when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: stuff like the decline of humanity, I like the lore.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, they're like, Okay, they got the drones
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  Speaker 2: flying around with the little flashlights. That's part of their lore,
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  Speaker 2: the past curfew drones. I could have done with some
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  Speaker 2: more of that stuff, but they got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good world building and in the time that they had.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have liked to know more about the
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  Speaker 1: government in this was the girl running it? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she was. I mean, she wrote the books.
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  Speaker 2: She's basically like the what the fuck is that guy's
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  Speaker 2: name is to Curtis Yelchin or something, the guy that
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  Speaker 2: the Dark Enlightenment Mint guy, Curtis Jarvin. Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's like the Curtis Jarvin of this centrist fascism thing
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  Speaker 2: stars in the middle of the Flag movement. The Change.
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  Speaker 1: The change is what this idea she's pushing is. And
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  Speaker 1: they don't go into a lot of detail, but it
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  Speaker 1: seems like she's mostly pushing for, Hey, this two party system,
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  Speaker 1: it's not working out. We should have just a one
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  Speaker 1: party system instead. Then there's nothing to fight about. And
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  Speaker 1: somehow most of the country is like, yeah, I read
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  Speaker 1: this book.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds insane to me, just and no of them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying it out loud. I'm like, how did I
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  Speaker 2: buy this movie? For a second, there's a popular book.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have to become a documentary at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that gad turned into a series of analytical YouTube videos.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, The Secret started as a book, but that
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  Speaker 1: eventually they turned that into a movie. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: could see The Change being the same thing. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's also the kind of thing people would lie about
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  Speaker 1: having read it.
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  Speaker 2: They would get the gist of it and be like, yeah, yeah, abundance, gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, centrist that's me. I'm yeah, kill all the radicals
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  Speaker 1: on both sides, let's come together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people would just fucking fall for it.
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  Speaker 1: The suggestion, though, is that this movie was buried on
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  Speaker 1: account of the studio being uncomfortable releasing it during the
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  Speaker 1: second reign of Trump. This is a quote from Frank Woollager,
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  Speaker 1: a partner at GERSH who represents director Jan Coomasa. The
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  Speaker 1: film was buried because it's incendiary. To me, it's a
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  Speaker 1: sign of the world we live in. End quote. And
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  Speaker 1: this is producer Nick Wexler. I've never had a movie
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  Speaker 1: that we thought was really interesting that no one was
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  Speaker 1: aware of. It's hard to market a political film today.
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  Speaker 1: People are afraid of them. They don't know how it
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  Speaker 1: will be received emotionally. It's a weird time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is one of these things. Who's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I need an escape. How about politics?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the nineties, politics was so you could just
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  Speaker 2: ignore Bill Clinton, a new Gingrich so you can then
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  Speaker 2: go watch The West Wing because you had space emotionally
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  Speaker 2: for political content.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with what he's said saying, But also,
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  Speaker 1: what about One Battle after Another, which is a decidedly
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  Speaker 1: political movie that people are calling the best film of
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  Speaker 1: the year. It's damn near three hours long. Seems like
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  Speaker 1: they did in okay job marketing and selling that.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't that one have Loo DiCaprio in it. It's sure
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  Speaker 2: a shit does well. That helps your movie a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Benicio del Toro in the booth, also.
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  Speaker 2: In the booth, Yeah, so so that means he's spitting
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  Speaker 2: so in that he's that means he's acting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. That movie makes me kind of question that
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  Speaker 1: argument that it's hard to sell a political movie. And also,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Diane Lane isn't nobody. She's no Leonardo DiCaprio,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but this is her first movie since before COVID.
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  Speaker 2: I like to imagine a family guy code away, Diane
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  Speaker 2: Lane hearing that going, you're you know, Leonardo DiCaprio, honey,
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  Speaker 2: and she's like, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, yeah, this movie. It wasn't reviewed by the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times, the LA Times, the Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Post, any of the gay andy papers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, none of the outlets that are cowtowing to the fascists.
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  Speaker 1: These days bothered reviewing this film. Only two cast members,
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  Speaker 1: aside from Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler, attended the premiere,
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  Speaker 1: with the claim being that most were persuaded to distance
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  Speaker 1: themselves from the project by their respective agents and publicists.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you gotta love show business. We're concerned that you
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  Speaker 2: might be perceived as principled.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I do remember on more than one occasion when
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  Speaker 1: Trump was running for office the first time. There's a
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  Speaker 1: few different comedians I had booked on the Unpopular Opinion podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and when I sent them the topic and they found
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  Speaker 1: out we were talking about Trump, they were like, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: my manager says, I can't talk about politics. How's that decision,
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  Speaker 1: agent in your fucking craw now? Probably fine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably great, to be honest with you, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: was out here buying products and consuming them with my
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  Speaker 2: friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: So this movie again was initially filmed in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the articles we'll link to about it
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  Speaker 1: says they thought Biden was gonna win when they filmed it,
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  Speaker 1: and then when he didn't, they pushed the release back,
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  Speaker 1: to which I say, you fucking cowards, Why honestly, what
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  Speaker 1: was Trump gonna do about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: This really symbolic, kind of subtle movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Civil War movie did fine at the box office.
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  Speaker 1: No one got sued. I mean the fucking fascist president
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  Speaker 1: spoiler gets shot in the face in that. No one
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  Speaker 1: called it a leftist incitement to violence. They should have
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  Speaker 1: just fucking put this movie out. I mean they did,
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  Speaker 1: but they did it very stealth.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't standing nine toes down behind it, absolute lutely not.
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  Speaker 2: This was five made six toes at most.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember which of the three articles we linked to,
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  Speaker 1: but they talk about the movie's release in LA and
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  Speaker 1: it was only at like two different AMC theaters and
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  Speaker 1: only as the matinee thing super super limited release. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know, seems weird.
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  Speaker 2: Bit, it definitely seems like you tried to bury it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then they were going to release it in
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  Speaker 1: time for the election, but then the shooting of Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk happened, and for some reason they decided that was
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  Speaker 1: grounds to push the movie back. This is another quote
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  Speaker 1: from Frank Wollager. Do I want this film to be
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  Speaker 1: on Trump's radar and have him attack this film from
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  Speaker 1: the podium? I have sympathy for Lionsgate. Here they buried it.
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  Speaker 1: They could have buried it worse, but they made the
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  Speaker 1: movie and that's impressive.
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  Speaker 2: End quote.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think I'm that impressed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like, you know when Asketon needs
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  Speaker 2: to fucking comply with the missions regulation, so they convert
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: a smart car into an Aston Martin and call it
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: an Aston Martin just because they need a little three
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  Speaker 2: cylinder car with forty horse powers so they can comply
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  Speaker 2: with this. It's like, yeah, look at this one cool
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  Speaker 2: thing we made. Yeah, we made cool stuff. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to it or nurture it or try to
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  Speaker 2: promote it at all, but we've made it. We threw
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  Speaker 2: some money at it so we could say we did it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the kind of movie that maybe could have changed
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  Speaker 1: a couple minds going into the election. This would have
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  Speaker 1: been great if this got more wide scale publicity or
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  Speaker 1: any publicity at all. Trailers showed before other Lionsgate movies,
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  Speaker 1: but that was about all the publicity it got. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the controversy behind the movie. That's the back story.
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  Speaker 1: We should talk about the movie itself because you can
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  Speaker 1: watch it now. It's available to rent. At the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like four ninety nine, five ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: But it's also going to be on Hulu soon, so
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  Speaker 1: you can just hold out for that if you want.
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  Speaker 1: I like the movie. It's not probably what you're expecting
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  Speaker 1: from a dystopian film about a future fascist government. There's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of violence.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of modern farmhouse interiors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Movie that's about a dystopian government.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Future.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of family functions. It's called Anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: It starts and ends at an anniversary party, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifth and thirtieth anniversary of the two main characters, Diane
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  Speaker 1: Lane and Kyle Chandler's characters. Diane Lane plays a Georgetown
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  Speaker 1: professor who had to run in with a student in
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  Speaker 1: the past because that student wrote a paper called The
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  Speaker 1: Change Birth of a Nation, which fucking gulp, don't put
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  Speaker 1: Birth of a Nation in the title of your shit,
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  Speaker 1: I was supposed to, said, you google that. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: a bad connotation to have.
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  Speaker 2: The new book My Struggle by Connery Speed and uh oh.
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  Speaker 1: One day, this student that Diane Lane had this confrontation
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  Speaker 1: with turns up dating Diane Lane's son. They are both
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  Speaker 1: writers and they were introduced through their agent. They have
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  Speaker 1: the same agent. And we start the movie at this
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  Speaker 1: anniversary party and the girl who wrote the Change the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Nazi in Training. Her name's Liz. She's standing in the
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  Speaker 1: mirror trying to be normal. She's practicing saying hi to people,
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  Speaker 1: which is weird. It would be alarming if you just
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  Speaker 1: saw it happening, because you should be able to say hi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't seem like the kind of thing you
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: don't need to overthink this much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and everything I just said about their past relationship,
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  Speaker 1: they don't tell you that right away. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: builds up to that. We meet the rest of the family.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sister who is a stand up comedian who's
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  Speaker 1: getting kind of famous.
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  Speaker 2: By the way. Let's so you know, this is a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good movie. Is because it has a depiction of
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  Speaker 2: a stand up comedian in it. And I still approve
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  Speaker 2: of the movie. Yeah, tough to do. It was definitely
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the worst part of the movie that parts that had
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: fixed in up in it, but was done tastefully enough
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: that I accepted. Well.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It is pretty relevant also because if you look into
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: all the things that are happening in India with fascism
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: right now. That is super common stand up comedians. If
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: they say anything about the government, motherfuckers will take to
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the stage and beat the shit out of them, or
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: they will send a bulldozer knock their fucking house down.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: It's bad times. It's worse than it is here right now.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Like you can still get on stage and joke about
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Trump and maybe someone in the audience is going to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: get a little cranky. But it's not like India, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: it's not like what you see in this movie yet,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: but it's getting there. So Liz at this family function
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: is a very divisive presence because everyone knows she's a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: fucking fascist who wrote this paper. She was ostracized from
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Georgetown after she wrote it because of liberal mind virus.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: And as everyone is leaving this party, Liz walks up
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to Ellen that is Diane Lane's character's name, and hugs
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: her and says, you know, I used to be afraid
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: of you, but I don't think I am anymore. And
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: then that's just how that scene ends. It's got sort
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of almost kind of horror movie vibes at first, because
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you don't really know what Liz is up to.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's very unassuming. She doesn't necessarily strike you
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: as the creator of the new hot breed of fascism.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: She's pretty mild mannered.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she doesn't seem threatening at all, almost to the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: point that maybe she was just misunderstood by the libs.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But by the end it's clear that's not the case.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: This movie is good, but there are some moments, like
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in any movie, where I don't know it's got its
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: eye roll moments, like when Ellen gets the book copy
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of The Change just in the mail and is completely
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: caught off guard that this thing exists. It's like, you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: would have known that book was coming out, that is
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: your son's girlfriend. You'd have all this fucking conflict. There
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: would have been some promo behind it. And she's just
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: blown away that this book has arrived at her home.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It's like you knew, you would have known. But it's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a minor sticking point, I guess. But that happens. The
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Change becomes a book, and that's when we meet the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Cumberland Company. I like that part. There's this mysterious organization
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that is behind all of this. They get behind The
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Change and Liz's book.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: This is not to be confused, by the way with
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the cumber Bunt Company, which is sort of a seasonal
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: business around prom time. It's sort of the H and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: R block of the prom They really only operate during
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: it's kind of a prom centric period.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: But anyway, but still also very right wing connected.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, and tied to the Heritage Foundation.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very nefarious outfit. They just also will spice
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: up your outfit with a nice cumber bunt. The Cumberland Company,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you don't learn much about them either in this See
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: that's kind of what I was missing from this is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: all of the fascism, the government, whatever the Cumberland Company
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is doing. It all is happening in the background and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you don't really see it. It reminds me of The Purge,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the first Purge movie, the original og Purge movie, where
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it promises you one thing, which is unbridled chaos in
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the streets. Everything's legal, murder, whatever you want, all this carnage,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it's all happening. Now. Let's put a camera inside Ethan
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Hawke's home and just watch what happens there. It's like, no,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: get me out in the streets. I want to see
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the fucking violence happening out there. This kind of hit
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: me in the same way where it's like, show me
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the government.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I want to see Diane Lane and Alligator Alcatraz.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we almost get there.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Yea.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess we're just supposed to assume that this
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: move toward the center, that's not going to leave room
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: for any rabble rousers on either side. So I guess
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: they just killed everyone. But yeah, this could have used
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: some world building. It could have used I mean, it
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: could have stood to be a little longer, I think.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But it also kind of reminds me of that horror
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: movie Good Boy, where you just see it from the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: dog's perspective. This is you're just seeing the fascism from
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the perspective of this family, Yeah, who are very connected
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to it, but also kind of disconnected from it because
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: they're not fascists. They don't support this. Their son just
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: happens to now be married eventually to the woman who
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: invented the idea.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I liked his character art that he was a failed
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: sign and it totally went to his head.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he by the end is probably the most unlikable
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: person in the room. I have several times in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: notes that I was just really really hoping that guy
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: would get shot in the face. He's just a movie character.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I can say that with no fear of repercussion. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: wish this guy would have got shot in the goddamn face.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: When the clown shows up, I thought he was getting shot.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeap. Did you know who the clown was?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: When I knew the clown was immediately.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was. I knew who the clown was,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and I was like, she's gonna shoot that motherfucker in
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the face. But we'll get there. So that's the early part.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: We find out that this paper has been made into
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a book. It becomes this big cultural phenomenon, and now
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: there's another holiday gathering. Liz is pregnant this time. Josh
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: announces that Liz is going to be a guest lecturer
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: at Georgetown, and Liz asks Ellen to do the introduction
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: That turns into a whole debacle. It was a bold move.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: This is like a very frenemy move. Yeah, let's give
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you this honor. I know you'd hate. Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of passive aggressiveness in this movie. And
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: before everyone leaves, Liz creeps into the youngest Darter's room
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and tries to buddy up to her, which sets up
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a great moment later where Ellen is talking to Liz
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and she goes, if you try to groom another one
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of my kids, I will kill you. Fun scene.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's the power of motherhood.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the things that you see in this
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: is Ellen sort of losing her shit as time goes
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: on because Liz, the student that she had all this
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: conflict with, is winning and her ideas are winning. She
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: has infiltrated her family and taken her son away. She's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: trying to go after her other kids, and you see
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Ellen just breaking down over time. There's a viral video
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of her tearing up a neighbor's flag because the flag
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: changes under this regime that it's still red, white and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: blue with the stars, but the blue and the stars
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: are in the middle of the flag now instead on
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the left. Get it spooky one side, there's only one
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the center.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: That'd be one of the toughest things to come back from,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: just in terms of your self esteem. It's like having
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: like your sort of frustrated Karen moment go viral.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that happens, and you can't really tell the flag
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: is different in that scene. It's not till later on
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: there's a scene with the daughter and her boyfriend, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: then you see that flag again, because at first it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: looks like she's just fucking up an American flag.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: And you're like, all right, sister, yeah, yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Facts, lady, right. And so then they cut to one
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: year later, and this is when Comedy Daughter is on stage.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: She's got the flag on her shirt but it's crossed out,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and she's talking shit about the government and people just
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: come on stage and beat the shit on her. She
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: ends up in the hospital and then disappears when she
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: is discharged from the hospital. I assumed she was dead
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: at first.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I thought she was dead too. Yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I thought that was what they were getting at, was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that she had been.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Killed, had been disappeared. Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: So by this point the country is just a fascist
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: hell escape. Youngest sister is looking for Comedy Sister on
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the dark web again implication, and she's been disappeared. Ellen
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: is on some sort of watch list now and can't work.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: But we got another family gathering. It's dad's birthday. Josh
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and Liz show up. Shit is tense on account of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Comedy Daughter getting black bagged, and this is where we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: sort of find out that Comedy Daughter might not be dead.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe Dad knows where she is. Maybe she's just hiding out,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and it's just sort of hinted at because fascist dick
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: head son tries to get Dad to bring him on
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: as a silent investor in his struggling restaurant, and Dad's like,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: what you think, I'm just going to give up Anna,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and the kid's like, you know where she is? So
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: up to that point, I thought she was dead. But
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: they inject a little drama there and make it clear
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that maybe she's not like that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I also liked that they seem to have kept it
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: from the mom just because they didn't trust her to
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: not shut up about it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that seemed like the right call. Mom was wigging
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: out by this point.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I mean to bring up the flag video, but you
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: know it's relevant.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a good look. I have neighbors who
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: flew Trump flags the day before the election. I wasn't psyched,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: But then tear the shit down, yes on it or
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: anything they got doorbell cameras.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I like this, but it was another thing I wish
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: they could have built on a little more or expanded on.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: When Josh and Liz the fascists show up for Dad's birthday,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: they have this creepy ass nanny with them who is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: teaching the kids German. She seems very stern, almost military like,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: kind of scary. But then at one point she pulls
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Ellen the mom aside and shows her a video of
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: comedy daughter who is alive. So the fascists have an
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: infiltrator in their midst and they never tell us anything
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: else about that. This woman is clearly working for the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: resistance or something, and that's all we get is that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: moment where she shows Ellen the video that proves her
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: daughters alive, and then she's like thumbs up and fucking
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: runs back off.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wonder if there's more the cold edit
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: it out, or if that was all they ever intended
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to show. It does seem like kind of a weird
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: nugget to drop to not pay off.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this could have been longer. I don't say that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: that often about movies, but I think this should have
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: been a little bit longer. I think one of the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: probably creepiest scenes is when the census takers show up. Yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: those two ladies sure are a problem because there's a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: new census that is being conducted in the United States
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: in this version of the future, and you basically have
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to sign a thing saying you support the change and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you are a change household and if you don't, bad
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: things could happen to you. And these two census takers
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: show up. They're girls, they're young, probably early thirties at best,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and they're being really pleasant in a really threatening kind
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of way. It's like you would have to watch the scene.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It kind of reminded me of the beginning of Glorious
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Bastards when he's talking to that guy when Londa is
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: just interrogating him. Foe pleasantly.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot like that. It's unsettling. They show
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: them pictures of their youngest daughter at a protest and
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: threaten to charge her with terrorism basically and to send
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: her to prison. So Ellen ends up signing it. She
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: just grabs it and signs it, which at that point,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: what else can you do? I mean, it turns out
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to be too little, too late, but what can you do?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if they got you on the ground with rocks
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and pitchforks, is your God really going to be mad
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: at you if you denounce your religion?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And so then we get to the anniversary party that
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: ends the film. This covers again five years in this
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: family's life and Liz and Josh the fascists show up
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: once again, but this time Liz she immediately kind of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: corners Ellen and now she's scared of Josh, the no
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: good nick son who just married into all this shit.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: She goes to Ellen and she's like, listen, as a mom,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I need you to help me. This son of yours
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: is out of control. And Ellen does the right thing
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and just slaps the shit out of her, just smacks
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: her right in the goddamn face and is like, beat it,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: lady Hitler, I like that part. Josh gives a highly
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: creepy and fascist speech at this anniversary party, forces the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: parents to dance to a Tears for Fears song.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is apparently their song. Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Dad had danced to it at the anniversary party five
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: years earlier, and no one's in a dancing mood. But
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: by this point point, this kid is so powerful and
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: so fucking drunk off that power that kind of just
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: got to do what he says, or he'll send the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the Gestapo after you. And then that's when the surprise
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: clown shows up, just out of nowhere from the backyard.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: This clown just emerges and everyone's like, what the fun
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's a party. Someone hired a clown.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Do you hear his little line He goes, I don't
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: know what this is, but I bet I'm paying for it. Yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And immediately I was like, that's comedy daughter and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: she's gonna shoot Josh in the fucking face. Fifty percent right,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: it was comedy daughter, but she was not there to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: shoot Josh in the face, unfortunately. But she does make
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: her return. But also Bertie, the youngest daughter, has escaped.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: No one knows where she is. She's left the house,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and she has left the house because she was going
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to stage and attack on the Cumberland come. Seems like
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: she lets off a dirty bomb or something. She gets
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: it all on on very crisp video. It's great, there's
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: surveillance video. Yeah, she just blows herself up in the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: lobby of the building and it's like, okay, it's the lobby.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I bet all the work stuff is on a different floor.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: It's probably still fine.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Just fucked up the reception area, but receptionist next week.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they can just route people in through a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: different door probably, But cool, I mean cool.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It was neat to look more than I've ever to
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: fight the power.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. And so after that, after they realized
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the youngest daughter's dead, Anna comes out, thankfully not still
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: dressed as a clown. She got out of that makeup
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: really fucking fast. She comes out and Josh immediately calls
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the state in rats on her. It's like, my sister's here,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: come get her. And that is when one of the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: most useless characters in this entire film, who we have
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: not talked about at all, which is depressed daughter I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: guess you would call her.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: She has a boyfriend, husband, husband, I think, and their
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: whole plot line is she's pregnant. He thinks she's pregnant.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: She actually got an abortion. And the whole time, I'm like,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: but you can't tell us about the government. Yeah, but
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you have time to fill us in on all of this.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen the movie Den of Thieves.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I just watched this movie. I totally forget that was
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: even happened. That abortion scene. It was so irrelevant everything's
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: going on. No, I've never seen Den of Thieves.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Den of Thieves is a perfect action movie, except for
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the like fifteen or twenty minutes they spend on Gerard
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Butler's broken marriage. I don't care about any of that.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Get me back to that fucking shootout on the LA Freeway.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Every minute of that movie absolutely fucking rips, except the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: family drama and this movie, whenever the pregnancy stuff comes up,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it's like, God, damn, there's so much I don't know
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: about this world that you are all living in. I
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: don't know anything about this government. I don't even know
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: what the government's called. Is the party just called the Change?
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Are we still the United States of America?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Can I get any details? But we get this
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: lady's fucking pregnancy drama, and her only redeeming moment comes
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: after Josh calls and rats on comedy Sister. That's when
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: depressed abortion sister walks in and just stabs Josh in
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the stomach. Nice, which is satisfying, but I was also like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that doesn't look fatal.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: It looks flesh woundy.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it turns out you want him to survive
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: because the well first, depressed sister goes out and commits
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: suicide by fascist. The state pulls up with their goons.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: She's got the knife she just stabbed Josh with. They're like,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: put it down, and she like twitches her arm a little,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and they shoot her like one hundred eight times. Very realistic,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: very literally suppose they're very realistic seeds. Yea, yeah, absolutely,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: as it would happen in real life. And then because
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Josh has called and rated on Anna, they show up
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and just round up the entire family. Actually, Anna gets
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: away and just jumps into the ocean. I don't know
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: if she lived or drowned or if she's a fucking mermaid.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Now maybe she lives in the ocean now, I don't know,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: but she sort of gets away. But Diane Lane and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Kyle Chandler end up by the end of the movie
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: on their knees white bagged in this version of America.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Not black bag.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not black bagged. I bet you can sort of
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: see through those white bags, which would just make it worse. Yeah,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I would rather be black bagged. There's a blurry out
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: line of everything I once loved. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. It's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a pretty rough ending. It's an emotional moment because they
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: know it's about to go down. Diane Lane is literally goes,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I'm scared, and.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: To get white your anniversary too.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and to have it happen because your piece of
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: shit son called and ratted on your.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Other child, dropped the dime on you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: But then that motherfucker he gets his because he was thinking,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you know, much like Trump voters who were like, Oh,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: they're just gonna round up the bad ones. This dipshit thought, oh, well,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: they'll just come get my sister and I'll be able
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to talk the rest of my family out of this.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, that's my family in there. I
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: don't want them. We're not just my sister. And these
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: ice goons, basically this world's version of Ice, are like,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: are we gonna have a problem, sir? And he's like,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: do you know who I am? And they just fucking
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: knocked that motherfucker over. And that's when Liz, his wife,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: his loving wife who wrote the change, walks in and
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: they're like, ma'am, what do you want us to do
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: with him? And spoiler, she goes take him too. He's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: with them. Very satisfying ending. I should have mentioned we're
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: gonna spoil this whole goddamn movie.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I think people probably figured it out by now.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a happy ending. I mean that part
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: is fun, but it's pretty bleak.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bittersweet at best.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a cautionary tale about fighting fascism doesn't always
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: go the way you want.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: It to, either in the movie, real life or at
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the box office. Yeah, in any version of reality.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: But I do hope people watch this when it's on Hulu.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: At least it's a good movie. It has its flaws,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: for sure. It again could have done a little more
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: world building and one less family member, I.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Think, yeah, one too many daughters, But yeah, watch the movie.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Do we have any final thoughts on anniversary?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Do you know be a comedy daughter, not a Josh
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: if you can in life?
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would one hundred percent support that. I don't
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: think we can legally say be a birdie, yeah, but
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: comedy daughter fight the power that way for sure. And yeah,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: check this movie out. I would recommend it. You could
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: do a lot worse, and I think that is it. Connor,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for doing the pod. As always,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I don't want to jinx it and tell people the
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: episode we have coming up soon, but god damn people. Yeah,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: holy shit, it is the stuff dreams are made of.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Can Yeah, conspiracy the dream come true?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we might just end it and start a new
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: podcast after that. I think like we've reached the pinnacle.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: But you'll so it'd be like if you know, this
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: was called Pizza the Show and we had Papa John on.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Kind of yeah, so be on the lookout for that, Bolo.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I don't have anything to plug right now. I'm still recovering.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I can barely work. Connor, what do you want to plug?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I don't have anything to plug either.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, let's get the fuck out of here.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Connor, say goodbye, goodbye everybody.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Goodbye everybody. We love you. Able about