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Happy Hour #122: Horror Movie Roundup · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is any and Samantha, welcome to stuff I
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  Speaker 1: another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you choose
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  Speaker 2: Like he showed it all to all the ones I
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  Speaker 2: could get, Like wow. So with that, I bought myself
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  Speaker 2: a pineapple soda, which I've been thoroughly enjoying that I
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  Speaker 2: only drink once every few days because I don't typically
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  Speaker 2: drink lace straight soda. I know it was one of
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  Speaker 2: those people, because you know, I am a millennial that
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  Speaker 2: learned from the boomer to love die cokes. But I
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  Speaker 2: guess a geriatric millennial, elder millennials millennial anyway. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: very satisfying.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I like your koozy anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I made a G and T a gen atonic. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't had one in a very long time. I still
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  Speaker 1: have only Samantha and Cea my galaxy gin. So that
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  Speaker 1: tells you how, because that's a Star Wars based gin
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  Speaker 1: that I make anywhere. Today, I'm going to just issue
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  Speaker 1: a massive spoiler warning because I'm doing another horror movie update.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while to speak to these, but there
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  Speaker 1: has been a glut of horror movies lately. Samantha, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, and so I'm, you know, living the best time.
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  Speaker 1: But I am going to spoil. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: go to a depth because these are not feminist movie Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: even though I feel like I could do an episode
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  Speaker 1: on each of these, but they will. There will be
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  Speaker 1: spoilers for Late Night with the Devil You'll Never Find
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  Speaker 1: Me and The Royal Hotel, which Interestingly, all three of
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  Speaker 1: them are related to Australia. Came out of Australia. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on Australia? Like, write in and tell.
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  Speaker 2: Me in their horror face they're in.
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  Speaker 1: They're like something they're they're examining. So I love it,
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  Speaker 1: I love it, I love you know. Okay, So yes,
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  Speaker 1: all of these are very well reviewed and I been
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  Speaker 1: talking about them forever. My friend's probably really annoyed because
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  Speaker 1: I kept being like, on this stage, we have to
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  Speaker 1: do this, and they're like, what movie are you talking
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  Speaker 1: about again? So, as this is a feminist show, I
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  Speaker 1: do of course have feminist thoughts about all of these.
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  Speaker 1: Let us start with Late Night with the Devil. This
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a seventies weird deal with the Devil thing.
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  Speaker 1: There was some controversy around it because they used three
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  Speaker 1: images that were AI gen. Yeah, all that, but that
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  Speaker 1: is for a different podcast. I would say it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like watching someone to send into madness. But once again,
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  Speaker 1: we do have the classic horror movie tropes of sacrificing
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  Speaker 1: a woman you supposedly love for success, whether that is
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  Speaker 1: on purpose or not, or it was like a risk
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  Speaker 1: you were willing to take. That's up for debate, but
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  Speaker 1: still she's the one that pays the price for this
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  Speaker 1: man's success. Then you have, because it's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: talk show, it's Halloween, he's trying to beat Johnny Carson
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  Speaker 1: in the ratings. So he brings on this woman who
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  Speaker 1: wrote a book about the lone survivor of this young
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  Speaker 1: girl of this satanic cult ritual suicide, and he brings
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  Speaker 1: her on. But then of course he brings on the cynic,
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  Speaker 1: who is of course a man, and so she's sort
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  Speaker 1: of painted as like the unscientific guest, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: clear she has way more expertise at least in this
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  Speaker 1: case than the dude has and he keeps trying to
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  Speaker 1: prove her wrong. Then it comes out at the host
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  Speaker 1: of the show is also having sex with this guest,
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  Speaker 1: which also, you know, a trope that comes up a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We have the creepy little girl. Classic, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: have the creepy little girl. But as you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest things I took away from this is
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  Speaker 1: this deal with the devil. It's not ever like explicitly said,
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  Speaker 1: but it's pretty clear it happened at Bohemian Grove. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know what that is. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: very fancy exclusive club that there has been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conspiracy theories about and horror movies about. This is
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  Speaker 1: definitely not the first, but afterwards I looked it up.
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  Speaker 1: Women can't join the Bohemian Grove, and I was outraged,
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  Speaker 1: even though I'm like, this is a pretty shady club.
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  Speaker 1: You probably don't want to be a party, oh right,
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  Speaker 1: but I think there's like four honorary members who are women.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is, this is another thing I would
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  Speaker 1: love to come back and do an episode on, because
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  Speaker 1: you also brought up the masons is that the women
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  Speaker 1: in question were like, you know, like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: you do make a lot of connections at these things,
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  Speaker 1: and they are places where these kind of big deals
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  Speaker 1: are made and women aren't allowed. There was also a
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  Speaker 1: big lawsuit with just having women working at it. So
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  Speaker 1: it's I didn't anticipate when I saw this horror movie
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  Speaker 1: to come out and be like, I have an idea
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  Speaker 1: for Anny episode, but gosh darn it, I do geez,
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  Speaker 1: let women make deals with the devil and join your
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  Speaker 1: weird club.
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  Speaker 2: Well, come on, it's only fair you blame them for
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  Speaker 2: the devil, so why not?
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  Speaker 1: Why not come on now, all right, So moving on,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never find me. This is a horror movie that
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  Speaker 1: takes place in a trailer in Australia where there's this
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  Speaker 1: huge storm and this old man who was in isolation.
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  Speaker 1: Here's this like knock on the door, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: young woman who doesn't have shoes on, who was like
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  Speaker 1: desperate to get a ride or get a phone call
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  Speaker 1: or something to get back to her hotel. But throughout
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  Speaker 1: your kind of questioning her and him and who's telling
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  Speaker 1: the truth and what's going on. So the reason I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about this one is that it has
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting like main concept that I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say it didn't work because that's not true. But
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting to me that at the end I was like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but I and I think it was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be more like, oh, we don't know. So you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to believe that this man is haunted by his
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  Speaker 1: dead wife, which he is sorta and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: is like telling telling this meet cute gone wrong story
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  Speaker 1: like because it turns out, guess what, it's not his wife.
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  Speaker 1: It's a woman who just asked her help and he
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  Speaker 1: killed her. And but you're supposed to the whole time
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  Speaker 1: be like who's telling the truth. And it's very much
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  Speaker 1: playing on the tropes of like we're very suspicious of women,
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  Speaker 1: but less of these like old sad men who we
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  Speaker 1: believe have gone through tragedy, like oh he lost his wife,
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  Speaker 1: what old dear. She's being strange that she doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to drink what he gives her. But to me, as
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  Speaker 1: a woman, I'm like, no, of course, like no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna tell that.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And he's very like pushy in terms of like he
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  Speaker 1: makes it sound in the very benign sexism as it's called,
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  Speaker 1: like oh you must be cold, let me get you this,
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  Speaker 1: or let me you must be hungry, let me get
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  Speaker 1: you this. And she's like, no, I'm good, No, I'm good, No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. So to me it was very like I
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  Speaker 1: was not surprised when he was killed me, but it
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  Speaker 1: was interesting to me that I think they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to be like, see, we're so suspicious of women, which
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  Speaker 1: she clearly was saying over and over, I just want
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  Speaker 1: the phone call, I just want to ride, like I
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  Speaker 1: don't none of this. I am good. Because he has
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  Speaker 1: this big speech at the end where he's like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you women, you're always putting yourself in these dangerous situations
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  Speaker 1: and then you're mad when bad things happened to you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, she literally kept trying to say just
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  Speaker 1: trying to protect yourself, right, and the storm was really
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  Speaker 1: really bad, so it I think you're like, at first,
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  Speaker 1: you're believe she's suspicious because she's clearly lying about some stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but so is he. They have a whole game of
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  Speaker 1: like cards bullshit where they're like, I know you're lying,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're lying. And then it turns out she's
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  Speaker 1: a ghost. Oh yeah, of the woman he was saying
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  Speaker 1: was his wife, but because he says he can never
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  Speaker 1: remember what their faces look like because they don't matter
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  Speaker 1: at all to him, so he doesn't recognize her face.
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  Speaker 1: And then he has this whole thing about like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people don't care or notice when women go missinging, And
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  Speaker 1: then the woman has this whole thing where she's like,
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  Speaker 1: I keep traveling and hoping for something different, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just a new scenery for my misery. And it does
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  Speaker 1: have this other thing that I thought was interesting with
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  Speaker 1: the difference between men and women playing with danger because like,
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  Speaker 1: to him, he has this thing where he's like, I
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  Speaker 1: almost died and now I want to kill women, whereas
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  Speaker 1: her playing with dangers, like she's literally just trying to
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  Speaker 1: travel alone and trust people not to kill her, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she has so many opportunities to kill him and does
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  Speaker 1: it wow? Yeah, And so he's very much implying that
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  Speaker 1: it is her fault for needing help or asking for help.
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  Speaker 1: He says, this is not a chance, this is a
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  Speaker 1: choice that you took. Then he's like he's talking about
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  Speaker 1: how he's always waiting for sirens but they never come,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, do you know what happens when I
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  Speaker 1: do exactly what I shouldn't? I get rewarded? And he says,
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  Speaker 1: you've knocked on the wrong door, and she kind of
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  Speaker 1: jokes like wrong place, wrong time. But yeah, he's just
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  Speaker 1: like really guilting her into staying for so so long.
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  Speaker 1: So everything he says, like when you get to the
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  Speaker 1: end and you're like, oh, yes, yes, I thought you
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  Speaker 1: were bad, he's make it sound like she's the one
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  Speaker 1: that was being foolish. Yeah, But the kind of ending
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  Speaker 1: culminates and the women he is killed, which I believe
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  Speaker 1: there's even of them. He has this really nightmarish sequence
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  Speaker 1: and then he comes out of it and there's no
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  Speaker 1: storm and he's like a but hey, in his stupor,
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  Speaker 1: he accidentally drank all of that drug that he gave
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  Speaker 1: to all the women and he dies. So they got
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  Speaker 1: there in the end, the ghost star, his delusions, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, they got him. So I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: really interesting that it hinged on a point that I'm curious,
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  Speaker 1: like men watching it what they think. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: as a woman, I was like, no, this guy is
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  Speaker 1: no good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings us to The Last One Royal Hotel,
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  Speaker 1: which is apparently like the number one movie on Hulu
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  Speaker 1: right now. It has Hugo Weaving in it, but it
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  Speaker 1: follows two Canadian travelers in Australia who run out of money.
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  Speaker 1: They join like a work program that sends them into
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere to work at this bar Royal hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and they encountered like so much misogyny. They encounter so
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  Speaker 1: many like tropes of like the nice guy, so many
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  Speaker 1: things that's like, oh, he's just lonely. Let him do this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like let him talk to you like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because somebody had told me about it and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I definitely have to watch that.
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  Speaker 1: But they made it sound like the friends turned against
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  Speaker 1: each other more than I felt like they did. Like
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  Speaker 1: they definitely they don't. I would say they turned against
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  Speaker 1: each other, but one of them was way more concerned
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  Speaker 1: than the other one was. One of them was much
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  Speaker 1: more like, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: even and maybe like even a little flattered at the attention,
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  Speaker 1: whereas the other one was like, I don't feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should get out of here. So I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say they like turned against each other. They just
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  Speaker 1: were kind of not agreeing on the level of acceptable
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  Speaker 1: behavior and like who felt safe and who did it.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them, the one who was more okay
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  Speaker 1: with it, was definitely getting with drinks a lot, so
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  Speaker 1: she was often drunk and she was like, no, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go with this guy, and her friend very reasonably was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: he won't, it's not cool. But so, yeah, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: the generally left alone at this bar, very isolated, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of like, you know, kind of that flirting.
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  Speaker 1: I know almost all of us are familiar with where
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  Speaker 1: it's like this is you know, you're cute, but you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of making me uncomfortable. But it gets worse and
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  Speaker 1: worse and worse, and then it eventually explodes into like
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  Speaker 1: literally saying things like oh, you were mine, he promised
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  Speaker 1: me I could have you first, like very ownership over
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  Speaker 1: women wanting It's interesting because the one who wants to
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  Speaker 1: leave is the one everybody's sort of going after it. First,
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  Speaker 1: I think, because she doesn't want to be with them, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which is the thing we see. But then uh, they
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  Speaker 1: set the hotel on fire, of course, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to like pour one out for the indigenous woman who
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  Speaker 1: kept trying to make the bar run and kept trying
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  Speaker 1: to like make sure they got paid because they weren't
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  Speaker 1: getting paid either, Like they kept promising like, oh, you'll
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  Speaker 1: get paid, you'll get paid, and they weren't. So the
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  Speaker 1: interesting thing about this too was, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: be one hundred percent clear, I've had this experience in America,
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  Speaker 1: but when I was in Australia, a lot of this
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  Speaker 1: I did recognize, Like they would have I remember they
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  Speaker 1: would have these nights where women would just drink free
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  Speaker 1: and would be drunk, and like men would be all around.
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  Speaker 1: And I had definitely multiple experiences with being touched very overtly,
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  Speaker 1: and I did not want to be and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know how to get away from it. There was like
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  Speaker 1: the signals that you were supposed to use if you
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to get out of a situation, which to
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  Speaker 1: this day, I'm like, I don't know if that was
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  Speaker 1: really true, but that's what I was told listeners right
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  Speaker 1: in it. It was. There was a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: about the bar culture in this movie in Australia and
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  Speaker 1: sort of this idea like you can't escape misogyny. And
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  Speaker 1: so while they working at this bar, they heard a
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  Speaker 1: lot of comments that we hear all the time, like
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt you to smile a bit more? You're scaring
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  Speaker 1: everyone off. Good, Yeah, I know, And they were just
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  Speaker 1: like rude. And there's a very uncomfortable scene where one
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  Speaker 1: of the characters dude had like tried to sneak into
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  Speaker 1: their room at night and they knew it was and
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  Speaker 1: they scared them away because they were staying above the bar.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was a couple that was there celebrating
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  Speaker 1: their anniversary and the guy came back to the bar
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  Speaker 1: and made it really uncomfortable for them and for the
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  Speaker 1: bartenders where he's like she's she's such a she won't
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  Speaker 1: help me with it, like she all of this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and they were like, she's just trying to do her
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  Speaker 1: job and we're just trying to like celebrate, and you
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  Speaker 1: won't let it go. It was very uncomfortable. There's also
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  Speaker 1: the thing of isolation, which again going back to my
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  Speaker 1: experience in Australia, incredibly isolated, like some places your phone,
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  Speaker 1: phone's not gonna work like, and so there was that
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  Speaker 1: kind of added element of the horror of it. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, they burn it down, they burn it down,
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  Speaker 1: they burn it industry. So I would love to hear
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  Speaker 1: any people's thoughts about this these movies or if there
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  Speaker 1: are any other you know, we love a recommendation. I'm
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  Speaker 1: loving it so many horror movies right now, so many things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, let me.
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  Speaker 2: Watch someone about the kid Abigail or something like.
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  Speaker 1: That, Agail the Ballerina Dancer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I it tells you immediately in the review
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  Speaker 2: was goppening.
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  Speaker 1: I know, it was like, oh, is.
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  Speaker 2: There another twist? Like guess you just kind of completely
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  Speaker 2: opened that one up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, trailers these days it's hard to say. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: this is what the entire movie. Congratulations, Yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: There are a couple of other movies I'm interested in,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I'll wait for streaming. Immaculate I'm interested in,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to Oh yeah, because I've heard it's
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  Speaker 1: a different take on religious horror.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that too, but then I heard people are
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  Speaker 2: really upset about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which I'm like, I don't know, so I'm gonna
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