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Godzilla, Godzilla! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Godzilla, Godzilla. It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong and geddy, one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: Would that counts as a mocking Asian accent? I just did.
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  Speaker 1: I hope not, because we almost lost our jobs over
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  Speaker 1: that one time. I don't know whether that would count.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Godzilla minus one over the weekend. Had
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  Speaker 1: you all heard of that, Katie, Joe Michael, anybody? Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever even heard of that?
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  Speaker 3: I never heard of it. I missed that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not getting the publicity that normally a blockbuster
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  Speaker 1: movie like a Godzilla or King Kong would get because
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  Speaker 1: it's not that kind of a movie at all. I
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  Speaker 1: just heard that there actually is. Our friend Tim Sanderfer,
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  Speaker 1: who is a man of letters, had twenty six of them,
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  Speaker 1: had impressive, had tweeted out that this is the this
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  Speaker 1: is finally a great monster movie Godzilla. Mines one thought,
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  Speaker 1: oh okay, cool, and I was still just picturing like
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  Speaker 1: a regular, like we've seen all the god Zilla movies,
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  Speaker 1: the modern ones, all the King Kong movies. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: Godzilla versus King Kong. We've seen Megaladon one and two,
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  Speaker 1: which are the stupidest movies ever made. They're they're they're
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  Speaker 1: they're basically Shark Nato with a giant shark. More expensive cast, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: more expensive actors. But that's I was kind of picturing that,
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  Speaker 1: but like maybe better, but no, it's not at all.
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  Speaker 1: God Zilla minus one is a Japanese movie subtitles black
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  Speaker 1: and white, and it's a hardcore art film. It's like
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  Speaker 1: the sort of thing they would make you watch in
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  Speaker 1: a college class and then you'd have to write a
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  Speaker 1: paper about it. It's way closer to that than a
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  Speaker 1: than a blockbuster movie, and so you don't hear as
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  Speaker 1: much about it. And it was huge in Japan. It's
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  Speaker 1: doing pretty well in the United States. It has had
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  Speaker 1: some Oscar nominations. Uh. I don't know how to explain
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  Speaker 1: it minus one. I guess it's a translation thing. It
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  Speaker 1: means Japan was so far beaten down at the end
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  Speaker 1: of World War Two that they were like blow world something.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the minus one means.
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  Speaker 1: And this movie is featured at the very end of
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  Speaker 1: World War two and the and the aftermath, when we
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  Speaker 1: had just reduced it to rubble, even before we dropped
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  Speaker 1: to the atomic bombs, it was rubble. And it's featured
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  Speaker 1: in Tokyo mostly and they're just people living like cavemen,
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  Speaker 1: the people that are still alive, scrounging for food, trying
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  Speaker 1: to push some boards and rocks together to have something
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  Speaker 1: to keep you out of the rain. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: by yourself because your whole family's dead, and you team
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  Speaker 1: up with some old lady who the rest of her
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  Speaker 1: family is dead and you try to make a go
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  Speaker 1: of it. Is this a comedy. It's a comedy sort
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  Speaker 1: of in line with like sort of The Three Stooges
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  Speaker 1: meets Jim Carrey. Yeah, yeah, No, it is not a
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  Speaker 1: comedy obviously, and starring Will Ferrell, that's exactly a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Will Ferrell makes a comic cameo. Jack Black plays
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  Speaker 1: a prominent role.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it's a very heavy movie, and long parts of
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  Speaker 1: it are silent. There's not a sound, no music, nobody talking,
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  Speaker 1: no nothing, and it's so quiet in the theater. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like weird. I don't think I've ever been to
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  Speaker 1: a movie that got silent for that long before.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. Wow's that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to try to describe it because
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't, but just making the point that by the
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  Speaker 1: climactic scene where like with all Godzilla King Kong movies.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's time to finally, like really confront the
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  Speaker 1: monster with your best plan to bring him down and
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  Speaker 1: save humanity. You know that has featured in all of
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  Speaker 1: those Megaladon or Jaws or whatever. When it gets to
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  Speaker 1: that final scene, you feel way more like you're watching
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  Speaker 1: saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers or something. Thing.
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  Speaker 1: Then you do a monster movie. I mean, like the
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  Speaker 1: director managed to make it like you don't even think
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  Speaker 1: about it being Godzilla in a giant radioactive creature that
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  Speaker 1: can stomp on people in crushed buildings somehow, like that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even matter anymore. It's all about humanity in wartime
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  Speaker 1: and sticking together and overcoming adversity and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's hard to explain. I thought it was phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: and no longer things seems it doesn't even seem weird
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  Speaker 1: that you're like tugging at my heartstrings in a Godzilla movie.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's such an interesting like union of being
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  Speaker 4: invested in characters and how that affects your willingness to
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  Speaker 4: suspend disbelief.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yes, that is exactly it.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was like the Harry Potter formula, although
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  Speaker 4: that's obviously fantasy and everybody knows it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this was as gritty, realistic as any movie I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. And it featured a giant monster that can
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  Speaker 1: crush buildings under its feet, which doesn't seem like it'd
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  Speaker 1: be possible in terms of the theater going experience. And
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  Speaker 1: there's hardly anybody at this this Saturday night, seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: I think there were a total of ten people in there. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: because nobody's heard of it, and that's an art film.
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  Speaker 1: And my youngest kid didn't like it much. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: like the reading. There's a lot of reading really fast
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  Speaker 1: and his reading is not quite up to and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of really hard words, so he just couldn't quite
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  Speaker 1: keep up with it. But my eighth grader loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Thought it was really really good. It was a powerful movie.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole movie going experience in the modern world,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got such a great TV with a cool sound system,
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  Speaker 1: you got that whole thing. Although I've noticed this before,
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  Speaker 1: I have walked out of many movie theaters in my
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  Speaker 1: life like rattled in some way, either like you know,
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  Speaker 1: down emotionally or inspired emotionally, or fired up emotionally or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And I don't know if that ever happens
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  Speaker 1: when I watch on TV. I think it probably does.
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  Speaker 4: I think being at home you get back to your
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  Speaker 4: set point a lot more quick.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you have control to turn it off and
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  Speaker 3: change it. But I always feel like leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I always feel like a walk out of movie theaters
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's quiet because they're just like so affected by
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  Speaker 1: what you saw in.
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  Speaker 2: One way or another.
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  Speaker 1: And I never feel that way at home. Really, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe there's a I think there's something about and I
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  Speaker 4: think that was right the first time when you leave
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  Speaker 4: a movie. Other than like zipping up your jacket, all
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  Speaker 4: you're doing is walking to your putting on my.
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  Speaker 1: Shoes, putting on my shoes, because I take off my
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  Speaker 1: shoes and socks put.
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  Speaker 2: Them on the scene in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: That guy.
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  Speaker 2: No, I do not, But that's funny.
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  Speaker 4: So even if you're check in your phone or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: you have three to five minutes where you're doing nothing
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  Speaker 4: but thinking about what you've just maybe that's it. Whereas
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  Speaker 4: you know, you turn off the TV at home and
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  Speaker 4: then you would go.
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  Speaker 2: Do something and get the kids to bed or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but the dude did when your kids were younger,
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  Speaker 1: did you buy them treats to go to the movie occasionally? See,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in a family where we never did.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even a consideration. It's like, we're not getting
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  Speaker 1: that stuff because it's too expensive. That's fine, yep, already eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not thirsty. If I'm thirsty, I'll go get a
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  Speaker 1: drink of water at the drinking van.
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  Speaker 5: I knew a family that would hide the treats and
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  Speaker 5: mom's purse.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, you know I used to bring you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'd smuggle in uh popcorn in our pockets.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: I used to bring beer to the movies all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta wait for a loud part. You gotta wait
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  Speaker 1: for God'zilla to scream before I open your beer. If
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  Speaker 1: you open your beer during the silent, is the baby
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  Speaker 1: gonna die or not seen?
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  Speaker 3: Your girl has mastered opening a bottle of champagne in
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  Speaker 3: a movie.
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  Speaker 2: Nice style points.
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  Speaker 1: I remember one time when I kicked over my empty
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  Speaker 1: bottle of beer and it rolled all the way down,
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  Speaker 1: clicking it, clicking it click.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And then what you do is you start
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  Speaker 3: looking around, like, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: What? You're generous? Who is doing that? Somebody brought in
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  Speaker 1: some unauthorized food or drink and I'll take away if
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  Speaker 1: somebody would do that, and I'll see it. I think
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  Speaker 1: we should pause the movie and go through everybody's pockets
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  Speaker 1: until we can find out who this miscreanton is. But
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  Speaker 1: I think I am gonna tell my kids, mostly for
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  Speaker 1: the noise reason, partly for the money reason. No, we're
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  Speaker 1: not doing this next time. Let's eat before we go.
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  Speaker 1: We can even stop and get a treat, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna buy stuff at the theater.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to listen to you eating and drinking.
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  Speaker 1: Oh right, if I took the drink away from one
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  Speaker 1: of my kids, like doneenough, because he kept doing the
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom, you know, trying to get the last
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  Speaker 1: two SIPs through the ice thing, Like yeah, you quit.
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  Speaker 1: I took it out of his hand and put it
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  Speaker 1: in my couple.
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  Speaker 3: You blessed every other person with the same sound issue
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  Speaker 3: in that in that theater.
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  Speaker 1: That right, So, but between the noise the cost, we
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  Speaker 1: spent fifty bucks at the concession stand. Jeez, that's nuts
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  Speaker 1: with the modern inflation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two kids, I.
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  Speaker 1: Got smolves, but I got in the largest I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I had to get a loan.
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  Speaker 1: I had to apply for a loan and somebody had
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  Speaker 1: had to be there to fill up my paperwork and
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  Speaker 1: look at my credit score.
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  Speaker 4: So if this movie is successful, they've got to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: continue the theme. And I, you know, on the radio show,
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  Speaker 4: I just throughout the idea King Kong it anteat them then,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe sas Squatch at a house fire
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  Speaker 4: where a family loses their house and he takes them
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  Speaker 4: in or eats them, or.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Frankenstein's list, if Frankenstein had done Shindler's List.
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  Speaker 6: There you go. Now you're thinking, yeah, I'd watch it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I told people, and I got a date. I said,
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  Speaker 6: it's way closer to Dos Boot than it is to
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  Speaker 6: King Kong.
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  Speaker 4: Right. Count Dracula is a gifted cancer doctor, but he
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  Speaker 4: has a blood addiction. Right, he's noble, but he just
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  Speaker 4: can't he's a junkie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be a hit.
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  Speaker 1: The Mummy in Philadelphia, so you get the dying AIDS
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  Speaker 1: guy and the Mummy. Yeah they're hanging out together. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Plot twist solving crimes or something.
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  Speaker 4: They're actually lovers who solve crimes.
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  Speaker 5: My wife and I tried to sneak Fahitas into the
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  Speaker 5: theater at one time. Was really hot and I forgot
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  Speaker 5: the hot paths which really really it was sizzling and everything. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I guess that's it.