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Stephen King’s Most Under-the-Radar Movie? · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday with Barry Nixon and the host of the most, Jason Riley,
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the maestro, as we're very fond of calling him that around the
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Two Shot Studios. Jay, how you doing today, my
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friend? I'm doing great.
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That was a really nice, kind of warm intro.
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Yeah, kick that one off. Really well done.
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Well, at the time of this recording, we are still in the
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the month of Love. Yeah.
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So I got a lot of love to give Jay.
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And you know what? It's going to continue well past
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February. Really.
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Just giving you a heads up. Yeah, but it's going all year
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long. I'm excited for that.
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I've decided and you know. What makes you decide that this
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is the year that love is going to stretch the entire year?
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Because I think of all the years that you and I have been on this
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planet, I think we need love in 26 more than any other year
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aside from maybe I don't know, 1939.
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But we could have used some love back then.
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But now we need love more than ever.
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And we weren't there to help out in 1939.
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Where we are, we are here now. And perhaps we kick it off by
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raising a glass to love. Yeah.
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To love. What have you got?
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I don't think we've ever toasted to love before.
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This is kind of cool. No, there was that one time
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where you were kind of all in the I love you phase.
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That was a few years ago. You were loved.
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I love you to everything. And so we might.
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Have I'm still in that phase, I've just dialed it back a bit
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because it was getting weird it. Was it was.
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It was. Uncomfortable.
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Certain people. OK, you were asking me what I
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have. Jay, it's the Bushmills 12 year.
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You know, I love it. What about yourself?
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That's a real staple for you on the show.
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It really is. I was gifted and I've got a
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little bit left of classic Jameson.
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You know how much I love a classic shot, so absolutely to
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love. To love.
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Oh, by the way, Yeah, Maybe I should have tested this.
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But you, you and I got together on Friday, and you put out an
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idea that maybe sometimes I get a shiver from the first shot of
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the evening because it's on an empty stomach versus you have
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already had your dinner. And often times your first shot
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is smooth as a cold mountain stream.
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Yeah. And did you eat?
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No, I didn't have time. I'm again doing the empty
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stomach and again I felt the shiver.
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I think it's maybe you're on to something here.
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I think so. You have to eat before one of
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our episodes foods and drink the same whiskey and we're going to
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test that out. This is a proper lap unless you
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have a sandwich next to you and you'd like to snack before our
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second. Shot that'd be classy, wouldn't
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it? It's chowing down.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's something for
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later, but this is going to be this episode.
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Jay is probably going to be pretty update heavy.
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We're going to do a 4K corner and some RIP from the headlines
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just to preview our audience so they know what they're in for.
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Yeah. Do you want me to kick off with
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4K? Please do.
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All right? This is a 4K that you lent to
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me. Yes.
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I'm going to talk. Do we talk about it on the show?
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I think we might have talked about you were just receiving
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it. You hadn't even watched.
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It yet yeah, I think that that did but what I'm I got to jump
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in right away and just say you have watched it so quickly.
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This is already making my head spin.
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The fact that you are you only got it like not even a full week
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at the time of this recording and you've already watched it.
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This is insane. Yeah, executive producer Aldo
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Roma and I needed a Saturday movie and I said I've got it,
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Barry. I realized as I was holding it
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after you gave it to me, we're going to talk about, let me just
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show it fourteen O 8. Yeah, 2000.
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And seven, John Cusack, who did a fantastic job in this movie,
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also one of the executive producers, Harvey Weinstein.
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So if you're a fan of Harvey Weinstein, that hasn't aged well
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for him. But him and someone else from
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the Weinstein family were executive producers.
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It came up because this was back in the day when credits still
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ran at the front of. The film.
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That's right. You saw all of that.
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And it's based on a short story by Stephen.
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King. Stephen King.
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I didn't know this movie existed, to be honest with you,
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Barry. I thought it was something else.
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I don't know why you thought to lend it to me of all the movies
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that you get. And you brought this one to me
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because damn good. It's damn good.
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And I so I was like, since I don't know what this is, I'm not
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going to read the back of the package.
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I'm not going to look at anything.
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In fact, I asked ChatGPT only one thing, because I knew there
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was a director's cut because it said so on the disk.
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And which one did you watch? The director's cut, the unrated
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ChatGPT, I said just tell me the runtime of it and it's at 112
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minutes. So that's all I needed to know.
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So I wasn't going to get antsy, although, and I sat down to
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watch it. No idea.
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I I was I realized it was a Stephen King short story.
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Phenomenal, like a really great movie.
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John Cusack, like they're just some actors you can watch do
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almost anything and like, he's by himself for a good portion of
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this movie. Yeah, almost the whole thing.
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Yeah, almost the whole thing. And it just captivates you.
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And he's, he's a good for listeners and viewers, kind of a
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writer. Stephen King often writes about
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writers, yes, goes to haunted hotels and stays there.
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And no, he's a quite a skeptic of the spiritual side, so he
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likes to debunk these things. Yeah, because he's never come
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across anything real. Until now.
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Until now. And they try to keep him out of
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the room. Samuel L Jackson does another
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classic. You know, he likes to do small
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roles. He's not such a small role, but
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little chunks. He pops in and out of this movie
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and does a great Samuel L Jackson job.
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And then it's John Cusack. And like said, mostly by himself
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with a few other actors that come in and out.
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And he's in this haunted hotel room.
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Yeah. Yeah, in one room.
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In one room, the whole, the whole action mostly is in one
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room. And Samuel Jackson, he pops back
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up, but only in the director's cut.
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So in the theatrical, that middle piece where he kind of
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pops in when the he's freaking out, he opens the bar fridge
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door and he sees him down that long hallway that all that stuff
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is added for the director's cut that did not make it in the
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theatrical. Really.
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Wow. And that's.
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What I'm saying there was it's it just fleshes out the story
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far more like yeah, and doesn't feel rushed.
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I always I was the director's cut if you or sorry, the
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theatrical, if you do end up just out of curiosity, it's
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quite a bit shorter. It is a bit shorter, yeah.
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It's at least 10 or so minutes shorter.
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And yeah. Yeah.
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Anyway. OK.
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And so Samuel L Jackson, he's also at the end, he pops in at
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the end. That must have been in the
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director's in the original cut or no, Even at the cemetery.
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I'm trying to remember whether he was, I don't know.
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I think it might have ended with, well, I we can't say.
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Well, we just can't spoiler, you know, you're 20, almost almost
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2020 movie. I think the final scene is John
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Cusack in the hotel room after it's been burnt out and he's
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talking to his dead daughter and he just turns away and walks.
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Yeah, like. Then vanishes and just says OK,
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we got to go. Who knows where he was going?
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We don't know. But I I think that added scene
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was put in for the directors that were Sam Jackson goes with
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the goes to the funeral and tries to return some of the dead
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writers belongings to his ex-wife.
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Doesn't want anything to do with it.
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And then he pops up as a burned face in the rearview mirror,
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which I thought was a nice little added jump at the very
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end. Like what was the OK?
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Jump scare. Yeah, there wasn't a lot of jump
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scares in the movie, but that one, yeah, pops in for almost no
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reason but. Really it's I felt like the
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clock radio going off with that song.
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There was a couple of movies, I was like holy shit.
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And then there was 1 crazy guy who comes charging at him and
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we're like what? Where the hell did this guy
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Serial? Killer kid, it looked like with
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the knife. Yeah.
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In fact, a quote from all those who watched it was, you know,
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oh, the movie's good when you've got sweaty palms.
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And I did like there was points when you're like, I'm, I'm
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anxious watching this movie because you're not sure what's
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going to happen next. Yeah.
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And then, and then when you think at one point he's out, you
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think he's out. And then.
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And then he's not, yeah, he's not out because yeah, I was
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like, it happened. I'm like, Oh yeah, the surfboard
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accident, I forgot about that. Of course that's going to come
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back into play because they made nothing of it.
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And then it did. But then that's a fake out.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly the 4K itself.
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So 1 scene if they if that there was 1 scene that really stood
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out for me for 4K and it was because we were watching it in a
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dark room and it's when that doorway appears and he opens the
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door and then suddenly you just see the doorway tiny in the
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middle of the screen. That's black everywhere else.
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The blacks Berry the black. I couldn't tell where the TV
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ended and the rest of the room began.
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It was incredible. I was like, that's the 4K
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advantage. That and the, the black outfits
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at the end at the at the funeral, like when they're
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outside, it's like it's not Gray.
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There's no bluish coats. These are jet black outfits
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they're wearing. And it is, it's like just the
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absence of color. But the depth in the blacks was
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incredible. Yeah.
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And then you contrast that with those scenes at the beach, at
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his house, right on the beach where it's bright and sunny.
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It just felt like you could field out California sunshine.
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Yeah, it was really cool. I, I, I enjoyed the the movie as
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well. And you can't really argue with
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the with the transfer at all. If they did justice to a movie
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that's 20 years old. Steel box, yes.
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With a with. A slip cover and a digital code
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if you act now kids. But some of the disks in here
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like look at that. That's a great looking set right
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there. It is a good looking set and a
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lot of people online were saying that they appreciated the fact
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of having the director's cut on its own disk and not just
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shoehorned onto 1 where you could do like seamless
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branching. Yeah, that's not the thing on
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this. You can watch the director's cut
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on its own disk, which I guess allows it to flourish a little
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more in terms of picture and sound.
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By the way, did you enjoy the Atmos track?
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And I assume that you did. It was very good.
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Yeah, it was. The sounds are all around you,
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which is what you want in a haunted house kind of movie.
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Because for sure there's. Plenty going on behind you with
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creaks and knocks and stuff like that happening.
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Yeah, and like some heartbreaking stuff too, like
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where he's visiting his dying father and then his his dead
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daughter is kind of resurrected or he thinks she is for a time,
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and then she dies again in his arms and he's saying, don't do
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this to me again. It was like, holy crap.
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There was another cool scene where he was like, you know, on
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his laptop trying to have an Internet connection with his
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ex-wife on like a video call and it's not him it turns out.
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It's like the room is impersonating him and saying,
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oh, you need to come down here. They were trying to ensnare her
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as well. It was like, fuck, man, this
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thing is diabolical. This.
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Yeah. Everywhere you turn.
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Yeah, the room. The room not.
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Even how alive? That's what's so cool about.
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It's like it's not a ghost that of somebody that died in the
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room. It's the room itself is this
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evil room in a hotel and they had to rent it out because it
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was in good shape and then he caused the burning of the room
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and so forth. So it's still worth everybody
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check this thing out. This is a really good movie.
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Sure. And it wasn't just one person.
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Remember, Samuel Jackson said 56 deaths occurred and then they
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repeated it and said, like, John Hughes character was like 56.
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He's like, Yep. And he gave him the book.
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He said, I'll give you all the information.
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I just don't want you going in there.
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He didn't listen. You know, it's in that way, it's
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kind of a familiar trope where you don't heed the warning of
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the guy who actually knows what's up to your own peril.
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So anyway, great movie movie. Check it out.
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I love it. Absolutely.
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I'm happy to have it in my Stephen King library.
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It's definitely on the upper tier of King movies for sure.
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Yeah, his short stories, when they get adapted, that's the
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magic, because you can just build that.
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There's just so much depth in his stories that you can build
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that out. That's your Shawshank
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Redemption. That's your Stand by Me The
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Body. That's this.
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Short stories tend to, I think, translate better.
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To the running man. The running man, exactly.
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There you go. All right, Jay, I think we
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should get our second shot in there.
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I don't know about you, but to pretty thirsty after that.
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To love our love of 14 O 8 here's.
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Wonderful. Did you want to do a 4K or do
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you want to go to RIP from the headlines?
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I can just very briefly, because we were talking about swapping
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things back and forth. You were kind enough to give me
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not one, but two seasons of Seinfeld and 4K.
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I'm telling you right now, I am burning through season 8.
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I was amazing, probably 6 or 8 episodes already.
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By the way, perfect condition, no disk errors, no skipping, no
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nothing that you need to worry about.
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I'm more than happy to check. Thank you for loaning.
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But you were right. You said many moons ago we've
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been watching Seinfeld all wrong.
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And I didn't quite get it until I mean, season looks incredible.
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You wanna talk about details on the clothing on in Jerrys
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apartment? You can kind of you can almost
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make out some of the movies that were like on his shelf by the
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stereo, like just little things like that or just everything
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popping and it just looks fantastic.
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And these episodes also with the extra scene that we were losing
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because of TV and commercials, there's like these extra bits at
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the very end. I was like, I've never seen any
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of this. Yeah, as it went to syndication,
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they added in more commercials for syndication to make more
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money. So they've been chopping it back
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year over year. And now here we are.
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We get it in the full format. And like you said, I I owned the
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DVDs originally, yeah, but did that.
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Include that as well. Did they have?
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Those it was the full episode, but I mean, you weren't seeing
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details. You weren't reading the the
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movies that were on the shelf or the cereal boxes.
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Here we get to see everything. We we are in Seinfeld's world.
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I'm glad you are getting to enjoy it and test those discs
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for me. Yeah, I'm happy to do it, Jay.
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I'll test the rest of your collection.
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No problem at all because I'll be done before you even finish
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season 4. I think you're on season 4.
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I think anyway, it's fantastic. I and thank you very much for
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for that. And if anyone out there is
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considering a purchase, if you want to add Seinfeld 4K to your
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library, I think it's this is an absolute buy with confidence.
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It looks stunning and it is in the original 4 by 3.
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So if that bothers you, maybe you don't want the 4K
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restorations if you're a purest and you do want to see the best,
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but also have it in that original 4 by three format by
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with confidence. Great, which I like if you want
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the wide screen Blu-ray that you got to go Blu-ray because those
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are cut that way for and I'm sure with the four KTV that'll
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up convert nicely yeah. I didn't give a star rating 4.5
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out of stars I told you for 14 O 8.
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So I wanted that the extra .5 for the blacks.
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So, yeah, and that. The.
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Blacks that surround everything there.
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It's incredible. And yeah, it looks great.
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Anyway, OK, we have time for one RIP from the headlines, I
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believe. So why don't I scroll through
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some that you sent me? I'm gonna hit this one.
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I see a picture of something that you're going to like very
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much. So let me read the headline of
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this Fungi mining and giant waste piles.
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How to get rare earths without mining rock.
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And it's a picture of mushrooms, that's why.
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That's what attracted me, Jay. Yeah.
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I was thinking like, what else can these thing?
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What can't they do? Like it's almost the whole story
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in the headline there. Fungi mining and giant waste
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piles colon. How to get rare earths without
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mining rocks. What do you think?
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Barry I think it might be they're going to apply some
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pressure to those piles of rubbish and perhaps form
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something useful out of it. No, it makes me think of, you
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know, Superman 3 when he, when he uses all of his might and he
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takes that piece of coal and makes a diamond.
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I mean, I think that's, I mean, I don't know what, what else,
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what else could it be? A perfectly formed diamond,
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wasn't it? If I'm.
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Oh yeah, beautiful. Yeah, he didn't have to do
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anything to it. It was ready to go into a ring.
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Yeah, well, it would have been quite a ring.
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For sure, I think that perhaps this has to do with with how
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fungi are going to be instead of rare earth minerals, you're
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going to be able to use perhaps like dried out mushrooms to be
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able to to get some benefits from.
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What do you think about that? Well, I feel like those benefits
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are already here and for those who are in the know, they have
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been enjoyed for some time now. But you're talking about like,
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you know, like electronics application maybe because this
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is like a rare earths that they're trying to get which we
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need those minerals for phones and tablets and that kind of
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stuff. Imagine if a fungus would.
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Power a car powered iPhone. Yeah, or that.
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Yeah, imagine that. Just rub a mushroom on it and
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it's. I'm in.
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OK, well, we've got that. How about one more because we've
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got one more to go through. Yeah, that was.
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Quick. That was a quick one.
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How about this? Here's a question for you.
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Picture of a NASA space shuttle. Have you got what it takes to go
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to the moon? Barry, that's a question for
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you. Is it just go to the moon or
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live on the moon? I thought I'd said live go to.
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No. What it takes to go to.
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So you just got to get there, spend a few minutes, come back
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or you can live. If you got what it takes, What
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is it? Have you got what it takes?
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I definitely don't. I don't have what it takes to
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live there. Certainly not.
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Who do it to go there? Do you think you could survive?
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AI don't know man, you know, it's it's kind of a cool idea,
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but you know me, I'm a creature of habits.
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It like I like my I like my friendly environment like my
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friends my or my friends going if it's like a space shuttle
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load with you and a bunch of my, you know, closest besties.
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Yeah. OK, let's let's go let's go for
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a bit. But it's also dangerous as hell
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out there. And all it would take is 11
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little moon rock traveling at 14,000 kilometers an hour to
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crash into the thing and make a hole and next thing you know
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you're done. Well, that has very risky.
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Very risky. Hasn't happened, but the Artemis
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2 mission is about to at the time of this recording.
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Hasn't happened yet, but NASA is planning to do a pass by like a
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go around the moon, just going around it around it and they're
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not landing. Yeah, I meant like rocks haven't
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been really penetrating the hulls of spaceship.
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We know how risky that we know. You're right, they don't tell us
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every time that happens. They don't, and there's a lot of
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debris, a lot of garbage, just like around the Earth, like old
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satellites and all kinds of shit that's.
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Up and I you're right and there's more every day so that
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that is risky and. Aliens are probably looking us
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like, why do we want to go there?
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It looks disgusting. What's that ring of trash that
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they have around there? They're somehow proud of that,
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maybe. That was Saturn.
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We were talking, talking about the ring on Saturn.
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Maybe it's just, but that's. Rock.
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That's rock, but it's not trash. Not trash like we.
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Don't know. We haven't.
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Just used Soviet era satellites I don't think.
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What about what about the fact you have to?
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I think you drink your own pee. Isn't that kind of what happens
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there? Like the water is recycled from
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your sweat and you're in and kind of anywhere.
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And all your friends too. So it's all like together.
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It's all, it's like a big old fruit punch of of human
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excrement being recycled for everybody.
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Raise a toast, Jay. I don't think you can also on
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the space shuttle. Do you think other than maybe 1
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celebratory bottle of champagne, I'm not sure right?
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There'd be room for like like a volume of 2, four cans or or
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even Guinness. Oh, I think we'd have to make
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room. OK.
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We'd have to, we'd have to jettison some other heavier
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cargo. They're like, what are you
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doing? That's that's the whole purpose.
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Yeah. Anyway, it's it's a cool thought
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experiment, but what about you? Just quickly before we wrap up,
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would you? Yeah.
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I don't think I have what it takes either.
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I kind of like to be around home.
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And yeah, you know, my omnibuses, they probably
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wouldn't allow as well for more room for other practices,
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optical things they may think about.
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But you could probably get one under your spacesuit.
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I might, but only one. Just the 1.
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So that's it. I don't think I would go.
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I think you and I could let it pass.
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There's a lot of people that would like to go.
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And I say, you know, good luck to them.
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God would want to take up their seat.
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OK, Yeah. Same.
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Great. Well, Speaking of taking up too
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much of a seat or too much time, I think we've used up ours for
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the day. And we have.
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Yeah, I think that's plenty. So 14 O eight.
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I'm excited, Jay. Me too.
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