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We Love Signs Even When It Makes No Sense · High n' Dry Podcast

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  SPEAKER_05: See what happens.
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  SPEAKER_05: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_05: So everything happens for a reason.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_05: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_05: If we learned anything from this film, it's everything happens for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_05: So what's going on, everybody?
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  SPEAKER_05: Welcome to High and Dry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm your host, Ryan Barron North.
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  SPEAKER_05: With me as always, James Crosslin joining us this week.
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  SPEAKER_05: Also, musician, songwriter, singer, extraordinaire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kadarius, welcome to the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: You already know who it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know I'm saying Big Papa on the scene.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
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  SPEAKER_05: And for everyone who's aware, you're all already aware, we're the only podcast keeping alive the fandom of the Static Shock cartoon series.
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  SPEAKER_05: If you recall.
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  SPEAKER_05: Good times.
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  SPEAKER_05: Good times.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that was uh that was a middle school one.
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  SPEAKER_04: That was like what, right around the time of like that's when I was watching Pokemon on Saturdays.
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  SPEAKER_04: It was in the WB lineup.
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  SPEAKER_04: It was in I don't remember that at all.
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  SPEAKER_05: You don't remember that?
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  SPEAKER_05: I remember Pokemon being a totally separate thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you don't remember that?
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  SPEAKER_01: It'd be in the WB lineup with Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!
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  SPEAKER_04: and yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: X-Men first or X-Men uh team the team.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, I remember that one too.
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  SPEAKER_01: You did not remember the shit.
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  SPEAKER_05: Isn't that whole Saturday lineup?
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  SPEAKER_05: No, I missed it.
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  SPEAKER_05: I missed it.
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  SPEAKER_05: I uh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_05: I was out.
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  SPEAKER_05: I was I was going around doing things.
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  SPEAKER_04: I was making moves.
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  SPEAKER_04: We were inside kids, all right.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, if I was inside, I wanted to play video games.
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  SPEAKER_05: But uh well, anyway, so we are not gonna be talking about static shack the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_05: This week we're actually gonna be talking about the film Signs from 2001, right?
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  SPEAKER_05: Is that when that's 2002, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: 2002.
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  SPEAKER_05: Well, the uh Joaquim Phoenix Mel Gibson romp signs.
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  SPEAKER_04: I've always heard it described.
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  SPEAKER_05: That's how it's and we're gonna be doing a three-part method guaranteed to get you the results for your podcasting buck.
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  SPEAKER_05: All right, first, we're gonna rate this thing at five stars, give you the definitive score, can never be argued after this point.
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  SPEAKER_05: Once we lay it down, that is it.
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  SPEAKER_05: Unless we choose to reopen it.
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  SPEAKER_04: For whatever reason.
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  SPEAKER_04: At any time.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because our because our favorite dictator, Vladimir Putin, reached out and respectfully requested it.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, well, then our hands are tied.
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  SPEAKER_05: But um part two, we're gonna dive into the golden path and talk about the deeper meanings behind signs.
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  SPEAKER_05: And then finally, we're going to insert ourselves, drugs, and alcohol into the film.
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  SPEAKER_05: And what makes it so special and so fun is that we're gonna be doing it under the influence.
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  SPEAKER_05: So, fellas, uh, what are you uh what are you drinking this weekend?
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh, Kadarius, what about you?
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  SPEAKER_01: What did you what did you bring to the table?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I totally forgot that we'd be drinking, so I was a little ill-prepared, so I had to go into the old trusty dusty cabinet and see what I had.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I got is platinum vodka.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I wouldn't say this is like bottom shelf shit, but it's about close to smearing off, so probably a step above it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It definitely can see the bottom shelf.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just a smidge above it, just a smidge above bottom shelf.
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  SPEAKER_01: But and then, of course, you know me, I'm a baby, so I need a chaser, and I got Minute-made spiked vodka.
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  SPEAKER_01: Literally tastes like juice.
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  SPEAKER_01: This this will sneak up on you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not carbonated, so none of that fizzy make your stomach all bubbly, nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just drink that like normal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_05: Now they they got some uh booze scientists out there these days making those drinks.
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  SPEAKER_05: I like to still water myself.
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  SPEAKER_05: But uh, well, James, what are you uh what are you bringing?
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  SPEAKER_05: The old faithful?
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the one I've been on a kick with for a while now.
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  SPEAKER_04: I've got my coffee and oat creamer and ube cream liqueur.
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  SPEAKER_04: Lovely.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I will be joining you guys with Knob Creek.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sailor Jerry.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ah, oh no.
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  SPEAKER_04: Almost.
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  SPEAKER_04: Why?
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  SPEAKER_05: 92 horsepower.
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  SPEAKER_05: Um it's rum.
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  SPEAKER_04: Are you feeling are you feeling bad or are you?
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  SPEAKER_04: Are you upsetting yourself?
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  SPEAKER_05: Have you been no backslide here?
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm trying to empty my uh tub of loose booze.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_05: So I'll suggest maintenance.
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  SPEAKER_05: I I was gonna bring skull vodka, um, but I I opened it up and it I think it's been exposed to air too long because it's just rubbing alcohol at this point.
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, I I got a shit to do.
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  SPEAKER_05: Come on, you can you could power through that.
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  SPEAKER_05: You got it.
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  SPEAKER_05: I would just be sick next week.
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  SPEAKER_05: Like, not even from the alcohol, it's just this stuff has gone bad.
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  SPEAKER_05: So I really wanted to pull out a skull, but like I couldn't do it.
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  SPEAKER_05: Couldn't do it.
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  SPEAKER_04: You could yeah, drink tainted alcohol like real Russians do.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_05: Maybe next time.
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  SPEAKER_05: Maybe next time.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
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  SPEAKER_05: Well, it's time to line them up.
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  SPEAKER_05: This first toast, first shot.
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  SPEAKER_05: This one goes out to our newest listeners.
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  SPEAKER_05: These ones are coming to us from Panchkula of Haryana.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't did you you didn't look that up at all, did you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where is that even at?
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  SPEAKER_04: It's in India.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh is it is it is it P-A-N-C-H-K-U-L-A?
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  SPEAKER_04: That's the one.
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  SPEAKER_04: Have we finally arrived on the continent?
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  SPEAKER_04: Well, we've been on the continent for a while.
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  SPEAKER_04: Have we been in India?
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, we've been in India before.
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay, well, we also got, let's see, we also got um Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
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  SPEAKER_05: That's kind of new.
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  SPEAKER_05: I don't remember that.
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  SPEAKER_05: Um, the exotic land of Cincinnati, Ohio, and uh Milan.
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  SPEAKER_05: So there you go.
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  SPEAKER_05: New listeners.
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  SPEAKER_05: So two of your newest listeners, cheers.
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  SPEAKER_05: Cheers.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh god.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's also turned a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_04: Broken Bow is a charming city in McCurtain County, known as the premier gateway to outdoor recreation, scenic mountain foot halls, and foothills and cabin getaways.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, that is rubbing alcohol that I'm drinking now.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, mine's not too much better.
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  SPEAKER_05: It uh we're gonna power through it though.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: No, it definitely turned because it tastes like cough syrup now, and that's not how rum's supposed to taste.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, not at all.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: If we ever if we ever feel like going to see our uh listener in in Oklahoma, we can meet them at Beaver's Bend State Park.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, where it's nice and safe, and there's plenty of witnesses.
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  SPEAKER_05: We know some trout fishing.
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  SPEAKER_05: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh god, I should have just brought up the bourbon.
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  SPEAKER_05: Why did I do this?
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  SPEAKER_05: Why did I do this to myself?
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  SPEAKER_05: All right, well, I guess everything happens for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_05: So the second shot here's to uh here's to follow in those signs.
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  SPEAKER_05: Cheers.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll catch up.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, I'm feeling good after this.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, that's gone bad.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_05: That's gone bad.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_05: That's just stale liquor right there.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_05: Oh it's not even carbon.
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  SPEAKER_04: I can only imagine what it would sound like if that shit was carbonated.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, dude.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: Hit one of them like Scooby-Doo burps.
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  SPEAKER_05: All right.
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  SPEAKER_05: Final toast.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh, geez.
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  SPEAKER_05: This one, of course, to the film this week.
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  SPEAKER_05: Here is to the Joaquin Phoenix Mel Gibson romp.
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  SPEAKER_04: Didn't we just do this?
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  SPEAKER_05: All right, more to uh what was it?
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  SPEAKER_05: Everything happens for a reason was the last one.
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  SPEAKER_05: That was the first one.
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  SPEAKER_05: No, was it?
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay, cheers.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bombs up.
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  SPEAKER_03: First one is the broken bow.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, everyone feeling good.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_05: I know I am.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Ryan, this might be a repeat of that one night.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know what night I'm talking about.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_05: Oh good.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, good.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_05: So I uh yeah, this might be the only time I have to bleep this show.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'll try to refrain from saying that word.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, you do you.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_05: You let them fly.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
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  SPEAKER_05: This is your show, too.
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  SPEAKER_05: So all right.
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  SPEAKER_05: Trigger warning, people at home.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this is my friend.
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  SPEAKER_05: All right, so let's talk about signs.
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  SPEAKER_05: All right.
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  SPEAKER_05: So um, for those of you who've never seen signs before, uh, spoiler alert.
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  SPEAKER_05: So signs follows Mel Gibson.
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  SPEAKER_05: I don't know his name.
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  SPEAKER_05: Graham.
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  SPEAKER_05: Graham, that's it.
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  SPEAKER_05: Um, and his brother, and they uh Daryl?
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  SPEAKER_05: Meryl.
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  SPEAKER_05: Merrill, that's right.
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  SPEAKER_05: I thought it was something kind of weird.
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  SPEAKER_05: Um, and uh Mel Gibson's two children.
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  SPEAKER_05: And uh this is following um an incident six months ago where Mel Gibson's wife lost her life in a uh in a driving accident.
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  SPEAKER_05: She was walking, and um the uh you know the signs, it's a uh and some piece of shit director slammed his car into a shit director, shamelessly inserted himself into the film, as he does always, and killed Mel Gibson's wife.
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  SPEAKER_05: Six months later, he is now an ex-reverend, he's lost his faith, he's kind of struggling, um, and he's living with his brother who's just trying to help out, and things are starting to happen.
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  SPEAKER_05: He discovers a crop circle in his field.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_05: Ooh, that uh Sailor Jerry's is coming up.
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  SPEAKER_05: And as the story progresses, we see that um it is indeed an alien invasion, all focused right here for whatever reason.
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  SPEAKER_05: And um the family bands together, boards up the house, works through the alien invasion, and finds that along the way, everything happens for a reason.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_05: And yeah, you get the idea.
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  SPEAKER_04: The the plot isn't that complex, and then and then the lifetime original movie stinger comes up, and that's it.
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  SPEAKER_05: And then that's about it.
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  SPEAKER_05: Um, but so science.
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  SPEAKER_05: Um, well, who wants to kick this thing off?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_05: Who wants to raid this bad boy?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_04: I can go for a yeah, you want to start?
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so uh so my history with M.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_04: Knight Shyamalan as a director, uh, you know, this was his in his uh retinue of early works, um, you know, along with the sixth sense, you know, and he still had a lot of credibility at this point.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he still had a lot of credibility, and he did a good I think this movie really shows off why he had credibility.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, uh uh he he chose good actors, you know, Joaquin Phoenix and Mel Gibson, I think were really good in their roles.
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  SPEAKER_04: So this is like the most reserved Mel Gibson I've ever seen.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, in any of his movies.
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  SPEAKER_04: This is this is this is maybe the most out-of-character acting that he's had that he's done.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I thought it was really good.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_04: No, you know, with that in mind.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh Joaquin Phoenix Phoenix plays a good Dolt, like uh really good, like yeah, it's like he was held back, but uh but he did a good job.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh really throws it over.
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  SPEAKER_04: The the kids were good in their roles, you know.
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  SPEAKER_04: The boy was a little creepy, uh, you know, weirdo, and the and the girl was terrified the entire time, and uh and they did a good job.
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh the the cop also was a really good actress.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_05: First thing I'm doing is getting the boy tested.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_05: He stabbed the dog.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_05: Like and there then there was no recovery from that.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_05: It was just kind of some sniffling, and then he went back like I'm like, I'm gonna like, hey bud, do you want this locomotive magazine?
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_05: This might be running up your ass.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you stabbed a dog.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Your your your mom just died six months ago, so like you're you this is this is normal signs, you know.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_04: And then they forgot the other dog outside when they knew an invasion an invasion was happening.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_04: That was such bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_04: I was so mad.
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  SPEAKER_04: I was like insane.
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  SPEAKER_05: If an invasion is happening to me, the first and this will come up in part three.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_05: The first thing I'm thinking is, where's my dog?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_04: Where yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: But anyway, acting for this, I thought the acting was pretty good.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_04: It was it wasn't anything like uh, you know, mind bending or anything.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, but I thought the acting was uh was was really competent in this, and they got me engaged.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh, you know, the the scenes where they were crying together, I was engaged, and when they were huddled and scared together, I was like, oh, this looks like people who are like trying to figure out what's gonna happen tomorrow, you know.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and so I think the acting was really good.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna give it a four.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_04: Um the cinematography, this is really where Imnight Shamalan shines.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_04: And this was his collaboration with Takashi Fujimoto, who he who he's used on several films.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_04: It's his director of photography.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_04: And he uh and we could talk about this in the next section because I don't know if we'll have a lot to talk about in deeper meanings of shit.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_04: We can talk more about cinematography techniques, everything has a purpose, man.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_04: Uh but uh you gotta look at the signs.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the signs were shown very well by the cinematography.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_04: The cinematography led you around and it like they did this, they did a they did a lot of cinematography trip tricks like um like the block and reveal where they'll hide something and then move the camera slightly, and so you now see more that like changes what like the meaning of the scene you're looking at.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_04: They did that a lot, and and we'll talk about the meaning of that later.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_04: But I think the cinematography of this is really like this is why M.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_04: Night Chamalan was considered a good director.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_04: Uh sure he's got twists, but like this kind of this filmmaking, this like really good linear pacing and like wide angle lenses where you where you can like where things are blurry in the background but clear up front and you can see like you get like wisps of things, the camera's like the the house feels unsettling the whole time because of the cinematography tricks.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_04: It's really good.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so I'm gonna give a 4.5 to the cinematography.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_04: Score, uh score was super forgettable for me.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I'm gonna give it a three.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, super forgettable for me.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_04: Um for plot, uh the plot on this was I this isn't a plot about an alien invasion, it's a plot about a family uh who is overcoming trauma and there's an alien invasion happening.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_04: Um and so I think that's a really thing that triggers you having to deal with it because you have to get past your trauma in order for you to get past the situation you're in.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_04: Um and so um I think that I think that the movie did a good job of all all the parts came together to push the plot along.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_04: When you go back and take stop and take a look at the plot in retrospect, you're like that's really dumb.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_04: And and and and it gets a hit, it gets a hit because of it.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_04: Because a lot of things about the alien invasion are really fucking dumb.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_04: Um why would they go to a planet that's 70% water?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh literally breathing water.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Right, and if their weakness is water, it's like, hey, my weakness is water.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just go where water is, really.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why not?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_05: Water falls from the sky.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_05: Not only do they go to a place where water falls from the sky, they entered cornfields where farmers regularly turn on the sprinklers.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and not only that, even if they're not turning on the sprinklers, the fucking dew accumulates.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_04: If you've ever been to somewhere wet, like somewhere humid like the Midwest around harvest time, it's humid as shit.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_04: And in the morning, do just fucking at night accumulates.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_04: It's like you will you're walking through a car wash when you walk through a cornfield.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_05: Well, like I know most people they only will walk through corn like after it's been harvested and it's it's pumpkin season, you know.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_05: But if you walk through corn in the summer and like the that time period, you walk out wet.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_05: Those aliens are dead.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: The aliens would have would have set one foot on a wet lawn and been like, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: People have sprinklers at their homes.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: They didn't wear shoes.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it it doesn't make any fucking sense.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_04: No, it doesn't make any fucking sense.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_04: Um and so it it's it's I was engaged the entire time, and then I looked back and then I was like, okay, this is really dumb.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_04: So it's uh so I gotta give it a 2.5 for that.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_04: The plot's just so bad.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_04: Um it it really sucks.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_04: It really sucks that it was such it was undone by such a dumb premise.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_04: That that dumb details.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_04: Dumb details.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_04: Um and then for rewatchability, I've watched this movie a bunch of times.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_04: I've watched it even though I think the plot's dumb.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I think that it I think because M.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_04: Night Chavan is such a good filmmaker and he he does such a good job of leading you through a narrative that it's it's an enjoyable watch.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: And and and uh, you know, the the slow reveal of the aliens always gets me.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_04: I'm always like, ooh, ooh, this is about to be it where you see it.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_04: What if I see?
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_04: Am I gonna see something different this time?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_04: You know, my TV's gotten better.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_04: Am I gonna see something different?
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_04: You know, uh, and uh and so yeah, I'll I'll watch this movie again.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_04: I'll give this movie a 3.5 rewatchability.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna I'm sure I'm gonna be watching this movie for years and years until I die.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_05: Solid.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_05: Alright.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_05: Which was always meant to be.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_05: It was meant to be.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no, yeah.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_05: You just gotta look for the signs.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_05: Well, uh so you or me.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_05: Uh we'll look at any give your scores.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_05: What did you think about this movie?
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so acting like uh James was saying, I think Mel Gibson is like this is like his most like different role that he's ever taken, and it's really good.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me if I start like stuttering anything like that, because it's alcohol.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Alcohol is hitting me right now.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I honestly think everyone did a really good job in this, even the kid actors, because I know like a lot of times the kid actors like you know, they're they're kids, so it's like they're not gonna give you like Oscar Award-winning performances, but especially like the little girl playing a little scared role.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: I felt like that was really good.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like when she was playing as a scared child, I felt she was really scared.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like at like towards the end of the movie where the aliens like holding Morgan, that's the son, if you forgot.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um whenever she's holding Morgan, she's like there, like kind of breathing.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like she's like, oh my god, I'm just kind of standing there.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's like, girl, you're like hyperventilated, you're doing that pretty good.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, act acting.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna hold you.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Acting, I'll give I'll give acting a four.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give acting a four.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Four was acting was actually pretty good.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Cinematography.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: I I loved everything about the cinematography.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: They did good.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't like uh it didn't have to focus on like cheesy uh jump scares, really.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: It was more of like that eerie presence of everything going on, plus like you know, throwing in the dealing with grief, it kind of helped out.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: So cinematography, I'll give that a 4.5.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: All right, solid scores, Jesus.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, all right now, all right.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're gonna shift here a little bit now.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: Score there wasn't really a lot that stood out to me, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: But also, like, they didn't have to like use that like cheap, scary movie music to kind of get you to be scared.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: It was kind of like it was kind of a little something.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: It was something.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's like the best way.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: That was like the best way I could describe it.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: So score, I give it a I I'd give it a three.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_04: Fair, fair?
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_04: Alright, we're right in line.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_04: All the same score so far.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, plot.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_04: I
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: I loved I kind of actually like the plot of the movie, like the whole point of the alien invasion, but like at the same time, this family's like dealing with grief, and like they have to like put their feelings to the side.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because you know, the dad uh the dad's dealing with losing his wife.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: The son blames his father for their mother's death, even though, you know, yeah, it's your fault she was walking at night.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Dumbass, you should have texted her not to walk at night.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: What is your problem?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're reverent.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: You should have got the word from God saying tell her not to walk at night.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_05: And it and it's like the Midwestern farm area, so I know that the infrastructure does not support sidewalks.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, there's no sidewalks.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I know, and I know on Facebook after she died, there were like 20 comments about how she shouldn't have been walking at night, dude.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_04: You're gonna walk at night and you're not gonna wear something reflective.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_04: You deserve to get hit.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Where was your flashlight?
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: You should have had some type of light on you.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: You should have should have done, you know.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, like the whole movie's based around that.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: There are no coincidences.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's it was her fault she was walking.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Cause like, come on now.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_04: God killed your wife for a reason.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_05: Because she doesn't know what a reflective belt is.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, um, plot, I actually like the plot because the whole family has to like put apart how they're grieving about a death in the family six months ago to try to survive.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: So plot, I'm gonna actually give that.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm actually I'm gonna give that a four.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna hold you.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's just on me.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's just me.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give that a four.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, read watchability.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: I rewatch it.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Me and my sister have watched this.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: There's like certain scenes that we love each other, uh, that we have between each other.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: So, like it's little inside jokes that we have.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I could text her right now about something from signs, and she would automatically get it.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Rewatchability, I'm gonna watch it again.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: I give that a 3.5.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: High scores, solid score, solid score.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: I really like the movie.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: I really like the movie.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_04: We love we love some signs high and dry, I guess.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: We love some signs, you know.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_05: All right, well, let me uh step in here.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, I'm ready for this one.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_05: All right, so acting.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_05: Um, there was so much fucking dead staring space.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_05: Was that bad for you?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_05: They love to just stare at each other after things happen.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_05: It's like if if a bunch of strangers was a family, this is what it would look like.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_04: Don't you remember what it was like living where nothing was happening?
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes you just gotta stare at each other.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes you just end up sometimes you just end up looking at each other and there's no words.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_05: There was so much looking at each other with no words.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_05: Um like so much of like the camera like right here, and Mel Gibson just kind of staring into nothingness.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um but but it worked.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_05: Like, like, like what James was saying earlier, like it still worked.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_05: It was a very subdued Mel Gibson, like obviously.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and then this is right where he was coming up on his very famous performance with that police officer that pulled him over.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and so obviously, this was the most subdued he had ever been.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_05: Um and like, yeah, it it did work for what they were trying to do.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_05: Um, some of it threw me a little bit.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_05: The the bizarre staring off into nothings.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_05: Um and I like if if you're gonna get that kid tested, then it was good acting on his part.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_05: If not, then I don't know.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_05: Like I like I I I wish it like had like Joaquim at some point said, hey, uh, we just got him back.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_05: Um he is on the spectrum, I would have been like, superb, superb, um, fantastic acting.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_05: Um, but I don't know if that was the case.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_05: Um, acting for me on this one, I'm gonna give a three.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_05: Um cinematography on this one.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I agree that this uh everyone sort of gave M.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_05: Night Shim his cred because they of the twist.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_05: And then when the twist started getting stale, we kind of like pulled back from him.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_05: But no, it was his ability to lead you properly through a uh narrative arc.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_05: Um the cameras tell stories.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_05: Um like in this one, yeah, like especially you could see it when Mel looks out onto the uh the barn roof, and the thing's just standing there and then kind of slips behind the chimney.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_05: The first time I saw that, shit, like that was that was insane.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_05: And when um, you know, when the when the kids at the birthday party are all there and Joaquin's like, vomitos.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_05: Um and when the thing just walks by, no one forgets about when that thing just walks by.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_05: Like it wasn't a jump scare, it's just an alien aliening and walking on by.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_05: It scared me as a kid.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like that that was like the most scariest part of the movie for me.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_04: So well done.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_04: It was confirmation that extraterrestrials are on the planet, which is which is like an existential feeling rather than a jump scare.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_04: It's like it does, it's it's just a confirmation that existence has changed, you know?
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_05: And and it was fantastically well done.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_05: Um, so and and it's it's stuff that we have not forgotten, these little shots in this movie.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_05: Um, so cinematography on this one, I am going to give a four.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_05: And I bring it down from a four point five just because of the weird Mel Gibson forehead angles.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_04: If you say so.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_04: I think of when you say weird med Mel Gibson forehead angles, it's that just that scene where you just talked about where he's like sitting and then he looks up at the window and then he stands up and it's like oh, and then and then you see the alien.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_04: It did have a weird forehead angle, but it's about drawing your line of sight, right?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_04: It's like you're it's like you're the alien looking down at Mel Gibson talking to his daughter, and then he looks up and sees you, you know?
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you don't have to you don't have to change your score.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_05: I'm just saying like I see where you're coming from.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_05: Now, this is where I defer with you gentlemen.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_05: Um score?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_05: As soon as like I could hear this thing in the other room, like, oh shit, someone's playing signs.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, really?
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_05: Tell me about it.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_04: Tell me how tell me what you got from it.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_05: I hear that little uh sort of violin.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_05: Signs is on.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and then there's like I I could tell the distinct difference between the the standard kind of you know obscurity and fear and all those sort of the guilt sounds versus the hope sounds when the characters are sort of overcoming and and learning that the signs are there and that it's gonna be like those hope sounds.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_05: I I recognized immediately.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_05: I thought this score was really good.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_05: Um yeah, no, I g I give uh the score on this one, I give the score a 4.5.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I'm glad you're here to listen for those things.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_05: Um, yeah, no, I think the score on this movie is is like obviously I didn't I mean I just rated it.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_05: I think the score on this is better than the cinematography.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_05: I uh I I truly appreciated it.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_04: It certainly works together to lead you in the to to tell you what to feel and to tell you what to look out for.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I guess I guess thinking about it, I the the inquisitive things, like when they're uh kind of like putting the pieces together, you have like an inquisitor.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_05: And like things are coming at like the the the music in this told a story for me.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_05: That all that always threw me off.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_05: It's like when like uh you you got a partner and they're like working on your ear, but they start going and you don't know if you got crustings in there, so it kind of makes you self-acto.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_05: Makes you soft, but anyway, um that's what I got from the aliens.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_05: They made me soft.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um they made you soft?
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, I was bricked up when I saw that alien.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, fucking concrete.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: I was like how long its arms are.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, I was like, everybody run, I'll hold it off.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_02: I got it.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_05: He could give you a hand alien room.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_05: Uh for me, plot here.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the plot, this plot is terrible.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_05: Like so bad.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_05: Like these aliens are capable of interstellar travel.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_05: And no one thought to send a probe in there and be like, hey guys, we die from water.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_05: That planet is water, it's all water.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_05: They the creatures breathe water.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, and the thing, the thing is, they could they didn't go over this in the movie, but if you're gonna make up headcanon about it, they could have stolen the technology, you know, like some other, some more advanced species.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_05: See, and that was a thought I had that these assholes were like um um maybe like a subservient species that finally rose up, took over the ships, flew to Earth not knowing really how to work everything, and they're like, we're just gonna take this over and we're gonna do some, you know, some fucking top-down management.
• 33:00
  unknown: Yeah.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_05: And then they're like, shit, water.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what I'm doing.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_02: I just got promoted three weeks ago.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_05: Well, maybe, maybe, maybe there were some huge logistical errors on the planet that we aren't privy to.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_05: There was maybe a slave rebellion, and then this happened.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_04: Didn't you hear they're excellent problem solvers?
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:26
  unknown: What?
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, for for me, there's one point in the movie where the guy they're like when they're talking on the radio after they survived the night in the basement, and some guy on the radio, he's talking about how he saw the aliens, and they said they sprayed his friend with the gas and they took him away.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: I maybe they were more interested in humans.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: That they're probably probing people, they're probably, you know, just and sticking their fingers up someone's butt.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_04: Like just a probe effort.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_04: The conclusion they came to in the movie was that they were after us.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: They was like they saw somebody with a thick ass butt, and then they're like, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_05: But when you you didn't you didn't have to drop down to the planet to do it, just fucking tractor beamless, like you've been doing since the 1600s.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_04: Like uh set up traps, people will wander into them.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, like we're not we're not a smart species.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_04: You can catch people, no problem.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_05: You could literally just drop pamphlets and ask, hey, who wants to get probed?
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_04: Who wants to beat an alien?
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_04: And some people will show up.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, a lot of people will show up.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_05: Like, hey, you want to meet an alien and do butt stuff?
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_04: Like I'm holding a seminar to teach you how to make five thousand dollars a day, and a bunch of people will show up and you can just take them.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_05: The the the current political situation shows you that if you offer five thousand bucks, half of us will be like, yeah, yeah, sure.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'll lick some boot and get shit shoved up my ass.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's that's five G's, you know, shit like whatever.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, shit.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: Come on now.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_05: So they they didn't have to go, they didn't have to drop down.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_05: Um, but but like headcanon aside, these beings are capable of interstellar travel, but they didn't look up the planet.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_05: They're just like, fuck it.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_05: The if you've seen human ass, it is fine.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_05: I don't care what like and they didn't even think to put on PPE.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_05: Like, cool.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_05: You you can't you can't survive down here.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_05: Fine.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_05: Put on a mask and wear some clothes.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_05: Why are you going unarmed and naked?
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_04: What by the way, I don't know if you guys know this, but water is one of the most common molecules in the universe.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like, they would have this can't be the first time they fucking encountered water.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_04: No, they clearly breathe something in our atmosphere.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_04: You know, oxygen exists in uh tons of other atmospheres.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_04: Water is so fucking common.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, it's weird.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_05: And especially they looked very carbon-based, they looked very squishy.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_05: Uh it there was a lot here that didn't make sense.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_05: And um, the whole fucking just refining your faith after your wife gets run over.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_05: It's like it sounds like you should be spending more time on moving to a place with infrastructure that has sidewalks.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_05: Like and therapists.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_05: And a therapist.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_05: Like, obviously, your son needs serious professional help.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's out here stabbing his dog.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_05: He shoves a barbecue skewer up his dog's throat and then just kind of sniffles it off in five, ten minutes and talks mad shit on you the whole like you need professional help, you need infrastructure, you you like no.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_05: Like, this was so dumb.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_05: Um, plot mad shit on him.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_05: Like, holy shit.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, I would, oh my god.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_05: I I I do not I do not believe you should ever raise your hand against your child unless your child is this kid.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_05: Unless it's this kid, unless they unless they talk mad shit at you.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_05: That's when I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna be classily deciding.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_05: Like, do I want to use the spatula?
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_05: Do I want to use my leather belt?
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I'm I'm gonna be taking time to decide I'm gonna whoop this kid's ass.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_05: If you want to act like a clown, I'm gonna beat you with an oversized shoe.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's what I'm saying.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, like, like during the dinner scene, he was like, I hate you.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you hate me?
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see how the aliens like you.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'll throw your ass outside, bro.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_04: You hate me more.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_04: You hate the alien more or you hate me more.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_05: It's time to make some real choices.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and then like I I like Mel Gibson couldn't get a fucking er word and edge wise about how his home was gonna be run without having some side commentary.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_05: And it's like, okay, that's it.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_05: You kill my dog, you you fucking won't shut the fuck up.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_05: You you won't listen.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_05: Like I ain't never touched a child in my life, but I'm about to whoop your ass.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and and that would plot on this.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_05: I give this plot a two.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_05: I give this plot a two.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_05: Sure.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_05: It's totally fair.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_05: Fair.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_05: Um, rewatchability.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_05: I have seen this movie a million times, and I'll see it a million more.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_05: You might as well give it a five.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_05: I uh I but I'm I'm not like I'm not I'm not gonna put it on every particular holiday.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_05: Well, that's not fair either.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna put it on in spooky season.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, spooky month.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_04: Every spooky year.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_05: Every spooky year.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_05: Every October.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: Every October.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_01: Shit.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I'm gonna give the rewatchability on that because the more I'm I'm rewatching it, the more I'm like, ah, god damn it, I gotta watch it again.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_05: But like, yeah, fine, put it on.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_05: Um, so for that, be just because like I'm not always excited for it, I'm gonna give rewatchability a 4.5.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's a really good score.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_03: Fair, fair.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_04: All right, so ooh, so close.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_04: So the average comes out to 3.63 repeating.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_04: So almost, almost to the round up, but it is round down to 3.5.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_05: 3.5.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_05: That that's fair.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_05: That is so fucking fair.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_05: That is our our system is infallible.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: Only thing I'm really happy about, signs did better than that one, the last podcast I was on.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: What was it?
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: For uh ladies first or whatever.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, ladies.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh shit.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_02: We sucked.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: We sucked.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_03: Holy shit.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was bad.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: We should we should have we should have done the podcast on the other one with uh uh what's his face?
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um Pete Gibson, what women want.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_05: Let's have Mel Gibson month.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_05: Every October.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_05: Every October over here at High and Bry.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_05: We tackle the latest Mel Gibson romp.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's really funny that uh, you know, this movie didn't end up with an amazing score, but we all were like, watch it, watch the movie.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, have fun.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_02: Watch it.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like I don't want to say it's like one of those things where it's like you have to like before you die, you have to watch it.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: But I if you got the time, bro, watch the movie.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's watch the movie.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's pretty much watch the movie.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: Just just watch the movie.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_05: Well, that being said, it's time to line them up for the final go.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_05: We got our final toast, our final shot, final hit.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus, I'm out of this shit straight wrong.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_04: To being undone by your dumb fucking premise and ending.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_05: Here's the signs.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_05: Three out of five.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_05: Cheers.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sorry, 3.5 out of five.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_05: Cheers.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, if it didn't have such a such a dumb premise with the water and stuff, I think it'd be rated much higher.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, easily.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_05: Easily.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_04: Just can't overlook it.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_04: It's too hard for me to overlook.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_04: And I've you know, I've heard that uh yes, I can't remember who said this that I heard recently, but someone was like the the less ignorant you are, the less you can put up with shit like that, where you notice more, you notice too much.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_04: I saw um I saw Don't Move recently, which is which was just in theaters.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_04: It was about big spiders.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_04: And um and I was like, and when I was in the theater, I was like, you know what?
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_04: Fuck, I know too much about spiders for this to be enjoyable.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_04: I know too much about spiders, and I'm like, these are the wrong types of spider.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_04: Like this spider does it does like the jumping spider thing, but it doesn't have the right eyes, and it does like the funnel web thing, but why is it hunt by jumping?
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_04: Then it's like uh I'm so mad, I know too much about spiders.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, it seems like just just have a fucking person, like have an arachnologist on the set.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: It would make it better.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, honestly.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_05: Like if you're gonna do a military movie, have a fucking E7 standing right there, ready to tell you what you're doing wrong.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_05: If you're making a movie about spiders, have an arachnologist sitting right there.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_05: Because if you're making a movie about Well, exactly.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_05: But if you're making a movie about fucking aliens who are allergic to water, have anyone with common sense standing right there who you just have to listen to.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 43:22
  unknown: Yeah.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_04: And guess what?
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_04: Entomologists are like so cheap.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_04: You can get them real, real cheap.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_04: You don't have to you don't have to look very hard either.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_05: Well, you uh you made a statement about um the just ignorance and things like that.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_05: It makes you happier.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_05: Um, a thing I learned very, very early on in my life is the smaller your world is, generally the happier you are.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_05: Um the more you could just sort of wrap yourself into not having to learn.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_05: Um but then also at the same time, though, I've kind of learned that's the opposite.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_04: Uh with eventually it'll come you can ignore things, but they'll come knocking anyway.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_05: Well, so signs.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_05: Let's talk about some deeper meanings.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I I mean I do you guys believe in signs?
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_05: I I I don't know.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_05: What's the D version?
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_05: Do we believe in aliens?
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_05: Is that the Well, I mean, well sure.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_05: Well, so yes.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_04: Are you saying do we believe in crop circles?
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_04: Is that your question?
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_04: What what's your what's your question?
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_04: Crop circles are real.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_04: We've seen them.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_02: The orange like do you do we think aliens did crop circles?
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_05: Well, sure.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_05: Do you do you guys think aliens did crop circles?
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_05: Is that no?
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_05: What do you no?
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_05: Well, Canaries, what do you think?
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't know.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we were gonna go a whole different direction with the deeper meaning.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_05: Well, what did you have in mind?
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_01: Please do.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: I really thought the deeper meaning behind the movie was like dealing with grief, and obstacles are still gonna come your way while you're dealing with grief, and you have to find a way around that and still deal with your grief.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_01: Cause like the whole time, you know, they're trying to figure out, you know, going through the dealing with their mom's death and hit you know, Graham's wife's death, and then like they're throwing aliens at you, and it's like, hey, even though aliens are going on, you still gotta deal with that grief, big dog.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's that's what I thought the deeper meaning behind the movie was.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'm just intoxicated, which I am just a smidge.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I don't think you're wrong.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think you're wrong.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_04: I think that they openly discuss that meaning, though.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_04: I can see how I can see how it's it's not the main focus of the movie, but like uh Mel Gibson gives us gives a speech where he's like, There's two kinds of people, you know, someone who who who believes that there's a being out there looking out for them and is supporting them, and that they know that whatever happens, that support is on the other side, and there are people who believe that everything is just chance and that there is no deeper meaning, and they're on their own.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and so he and so this movie is kind of overtly saying that he believes he's on his own, and dealing with his trauma is moving to recognize the signs, you know.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_04: The movie is the movie is the the name is a double use for you know the crop signs, you know, the crop circles are a sign, and he looks around and sees signs of meaning.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_04: Um and that it all links back to everything being for a reason.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_04: And he when he talks to M.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_04: Night Shamalan's character, the who killed his wife, you know, he talks about the you know, he even says, you know, I could I've never fallen asleep while I was driving.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_04: It it had to have been that 10 to 15 seconds on that one bit of road, it's like it was meant to be, and then he talks to his wife and she's like it was meant to be.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_04: And the whole thing I feel I don't know if I don't know if it qualifies for deeper meaning.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_04: If it's like, guess what?
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_04: Here's the meaning.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_05: I would kick it if I was in a face-to-face with the dude who killed my my partner, and he's like, Yeah, it had to have been I never fell asleep before it had to have like there was no chicken I would have beat the ever-loving fuck out of him.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, like I would have no for sure, for sure, bro.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: I would have oh my goodness, the things I would have done to him would have been atrocious.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_01: I was supposed to kill your wife.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_05: In this movie, I I would have I would have just got done beating the shit out of my son with a belt.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and then this guy would have told me that he killed my wife for a reason.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_05: I would have dragged his ass out of that car.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_05: The last fucking thing he had to worry about was aliens.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_05: You have nothing to do with that.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody responds to trauma, everybody responds to trauma differently.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, it's part of how we were raised.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_05: And I'm responding into by beating the shit out of this guy who killed my wife six months ago and is now telling me that it had to have happened for a reason.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_05: Because I never he was right.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_05: He was right.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: He was right.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm scared that he was right.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm dealing with the loss of my partner and my son hates me.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm beating the I'm beating the ever loving shit out of you.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_04: You know, it's funny that we all just assume that it's God, you know, God was but it he it could have just been that the mom was psychic and she ended up having like psych a psychic daughter and stuff with the glasses all around like that.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_05: Uh yeah, yeah.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_05: I thought this was a DC film, actually.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_05: Um I I did not thank the Christian God at all.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_05: Um I I also believe that uh Meryl was guided by the Tentacles of Cthulhu, um, uncertainly, of course.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_04: Because as tentacle, as as tentacle Lord Cthulhu always said, it just feels wrong not to swing.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_05: That's straight out of the script.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I think I think that's like that that's the thing there.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_05: It's like like it's so like look, you got a sign and everything like that, and the assumption just goes back to this your your Christian Judeo God.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I like I when I watch signs, I like to think that it's a darker entity that is actually protecting them from the aliens because he has worked really hard to get his slice of this fucking pie, and he's not about to let a bunch of water allergic dumbasses take it from him.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_04: Wouldn't it be neat to learn that this was Scientology?
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_04: Like it was the Z, it was like Zenus and Zenu's aliens on this planet, and these were like the bad invading aliens, and Xenu was the one who was giving them the sign the signs.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_04: That would be fucking hilarious.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_04: Like this is this is this is Dianetics.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_04: But you know, I do have a thought about this.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_04: Is that this might be one of the first it's it it happened before the term was created, but elevated horror?
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_04: This might be one of the first kind of elevated horrors in that it's like mostly about trauma and grief and overcoming it.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_04: And the the uh the horror is like a meta the horror is a metaphor for those things and intertwined with those things.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, I don't have faith personally, and I don't believe everything happens for a reason, but those messages are really front and center uh as themes in a genre that that many, many, many times doesn't have much to say about life outside of like the immediate dangers that we face in horror.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_04: You know, it's way more it's about more than horror.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_04: Um uh in a complicated uh how we deal with our personal feelings, which is what elevated horror is about.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_05: Well, so for me personally, I've always felt that the the term elevated horror um was late to the party.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_05: Sure, yeah, absolutely was very late to the party.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I'm not particular like you'll never see me signing off on it, but like I could go back to Hellraiser.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_05: Uh sure, like I go to the 80s, um, and and just that movie was an entire discussion on excess and um how like certain like like I I feel yeah, I I always felt that elevated horror was laid to the party because we we've been using horror to talk about deeper themes since the 70s at the bit um earlier than that.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_05: I Akira.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_04: It's a good one.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_04: It's elevated horror in my opinion.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_05: No, I I feel I feel elevated horrors existed long before elevated horror um personally.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_05: Um and this one, I like I do like the more we talk about it, I feel like they were sort of um hitting us over the head with a bat on the message they were trying to convey.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_05: So that's true.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_05: It gave us a lot.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_04: Well, with that being said, I I didn't get a chance to talk about some of the cinematography things.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_04: Just really quick.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna run through them.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_04: Um uh but like the blocking of scenes like crouching over the dead dog and stuff, and like us showing like the ramifications of actions and like actively overcoming them.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_04: Uh uh, we talked about Gibson like looking up at the window and being startled with sudden activation and stuff.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_04: Like these are just the really great cinematography techniques that I noticed in this movie.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_04: Um uh like when he get he goes together, when Mel Gibson goes together the glasses when the um uh the glasses of water when the sheriff first comes there, and he like he picks a whole bunch of them up and then he looks, and we do like this it's the block and reveal thing again where the camera like zooms out a little bit and it and it brings more glasses into view, and he sees them.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_04: We see him look at them and he and then he just puts the glasses he has in his hands back down.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_04: I think it's something that we can all relate to.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_04: It's like a cinematic to blow that kind of uh shows the overwhelm that he's feeling in this moment, you know, with the trauma of his wife's death and also having to deal with someone invading his home and shit.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh he's overwhelmed and he has the inability to keep up with everything that needs his attention.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_04: Uh he's like a he's a really simple guy who does linear problem solving and one problem at a time and like it's over his head because he because it's like too much um for him to get in one armful.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_04: Um uh whatever.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_04: Everything else is fine.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_04: I just wanted to I just wanted to get that one out.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_04: That I that I did that there were times where this where this used the camera to say things that it wasn't beaten over the head with us.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_04: There's a few more, but it's good.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_05: Well, with that being said, it's time to insert ourselves into this film.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_05: So, gentlemen, how does science change with the introduction of you?
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Kadarius, would you like to start this one off?
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you ever notice when you watch science, there's no black people because I think we were the smart ones.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_01: I think we just got the hell up out of there.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like the moment we realized something was going on, we just got the hell up out of there.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, how things changed, I think I would have spoken to Mel Gibson's character more on believing what was going on.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_01: Because even after when he goes to uh what's his character's name?
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_01: Ray Reddy, I think Ray Reddy, whoever M.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_01: Knight Shamala Malamala Fala, Shamalama Ding Dong, whoever his character was, it was Ray something.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever he goes to his house and he like he cuts off two fingers or toes, you know, obviously it was fingers because you find out later it was fingers, but it could have been toes, could have been like some toes doing some like sticking his feet under there.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was sticking his feet under there.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta find out.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_01: But like after after he cuts off his toes and he goes back home and he's like, hey, we can leave or we can board at the house, and it seems ridiculous.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, that seems ridiculous when you just cut off some alien toes.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like, it was like him still not understanding what was going on, or still like refusing to believe, like you just cut off some toes.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, if I was in there, I'm telling him straight up, like, bro, you just cut off some alien toes.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like, how how is this not real?
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_01: I think it would change by like me speaking into him that, like, hey, I don't care.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_01: I do care, but I also don't care that you're grieving about your dead wife who's been dead for six months.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, there's aliens here, brother.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what what what are we gonna do about that?
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_01: Cause the whole time, the whole time he's like, Oh, you guys are silly.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like when his kids are wearing the tin foil Hershey Kisses hats, he's like, Oh, you guys are silly.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you wearing those?
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, whole time he's like looking at them like you guys are crazy.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you just cut off alien toes, brother.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_01: You saw an alien, you saw something in your cornfields, and that's not working.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_01: But obviously, if I got inserted into it, I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna go up to the aliens, I'll be like, Abra, take this shot of Rumpel Mints and tell me how you feel after that.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_05: Dude, and I think that honestly, I think that can work because I watched it last night and the scene where he's holding the boy, he never takes a swing at Meryl.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_05: What I think actually happened was the alien was like, yo, dude, your kid has had a serious asthmatic event.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna puff some medicine into him.
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, and then Meryl beat his ass.
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_05: Wait a second.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they were saying that he pumped poison, they were pumping poison gas.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_01: They know they had poison, bro.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_04: Did we have we reviewed this movie before?
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_04: Because I've heard have we are we having this conversation where the aliens are actually there to help the humans?
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_04: Is that we have we had this conversation before?
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_05: It looked that's what it looked like because not once, not once, this alien is getting his ass beat with a bat, and not once did he swing back, not a sentence, watch it, pull back the tape.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_05: Not once did he swing a marrow.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_02: I think, dude, chill out.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_05: I I pumped your kid with medicine.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_05: My species can do that.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_05: We're allergic to water, but I I have uh an epipen that's in my wrist.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_01: But they were pumping poison gas into other people around the world knowing they were dying, so they had to know something.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we don't know that.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know they actually died.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, real real talk though.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_01: My thing is this like Mel Gibson, you know, has a flashback of his wife telling her wife telling him to swing away, tell Meryl to swing away, and then he tells Meryl to swing away.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, if I was Meryl, I'm like, why are you throwing me into the danger?
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_01: Why do why do I gotta go fight the alien?
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: These aren't even my kids, these are yours.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_01: You protect them.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_01: Why do I have to go and try to fight this?
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_01: This alien could probably like pick me up and toss me across the room, and you're like, go swing away.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_01: I have a bet.
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's not even a metal bet, it's a wooden one.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I love I love the idea of Mel Gibson having a strong adoptive brother who's the black voice of the family.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_05: Are you out of your fucking mind?
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_04: What do you mean you're what do you mean your wife said swing away?
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_04: How do you know that's even how do you know that was even God?
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_04: That might have been the devil telling her to swing away.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_04: What if these guys are our friends?
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_04: What if you're what if you're cutting the fingers off our friends?
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_05: I love it.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_05: Fantastic.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_05: Well, uh, also uh well James, how about uh how about you when uh you get inserted into signs?
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_04: Um okay.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_04: So the first thing that we would do is, you know, I know that I'm not gonna be able to get my medication from the pharmacy after uh after aliens invade.
• 1:00:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so we're gonna be uh we're gonna be hotboxing the whole farmhouse.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I gotta I got a whole bunch of weed that I gotta use up.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_04: And so that's gonna that's gonna not only fill fill the whole area with uh with with you know cannabis smoke, but also increase the humidity from the from the burning of uh of plant matter that contains uh you know water.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_04: And so we're gonna have like a uh a whole a whole cloud in the house of like uh water uh with with weed in it that's gonna burn them a little bit as they inhale it, but I think they're gonna chill out real quick.
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_04: And I think we'll be able to uh I think we'll be able to have a bit of a conversation at that point.
• 1:00:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, conversation at that point.
• 1:00:57
  SPEAKER_04: They're gonna be clicking at me.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna be like, yeah, yeah, no, I understand.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's really tough down here.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_04: Um, you know, people be hitting you with bats and stuff, and it's not fair.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_04: And we'll just chill, we'll have a conversation, get them some, get them some good barbecue.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_04: Uh you know, they were out there barbecuing before.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_04: We'll we'll give them some of that leftover barbecue, some French toast that my kid didn't eat because he was all freaked out, and uh we'd actually have a pretty good time, I think.
• 1:01:24
  SPEAKER_04: We'll cultural exchange.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_04: And uh and uh yeah, we uh my my farmhouse would be the the epicenter of the of the peace between our two species.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_05: Nice.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_05: Nice um cure my kids' asthma.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, for me, um yeah, uh I'm gonna do the same thing they did.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_05: I'm definitely gonna use it as a huge excuse to have a cheat day.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_05: Um my calories are just gonna be insane.
• 1:01:57
  SPEAKER_05: Um I'm having 5,000 calories that night.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_05: Um I'm shouldn't you?
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_05: Like, oh yeah.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_05: No, I'm gonna have that.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_05: Uh first thing I'm doing though, even before the meal, is I'm getting my fucking dog inside.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_05: Holy shit.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_05: They don't care about their dogs at all.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_01: They really don't.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I mean, like after he's after Morgan stabbed the first one, he was just like, alright.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh well.
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_05: Oh well.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_05: It happens, dogs die.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_04: It's too bad.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no, the first thing I'm doing is I'm getting my fucking dogs inside.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and then once I learn that these guys are so easy to kill, um, because apparently in rural regions, I'm the only guy with a gun.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_05: Um, once I learn that these aliens can die from the kitchen sink if I just turn it on stream, um I'm I'm gonna take out the aliens that come for me.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_05: And uh, look at that doggy.
• 1:03:06
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, your dog's inside, your dog's safe.
• 1:03:08
  SPEAKER_05: See that dog is safe from the aliens.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_05: Look at that.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_05: And uh, yeah, so I'm going to uh use if I see an alien, I'm gonna use garden hoses, I'm gonna use kitchen sinks, and then I am going to murder and rob all of my neighbors.
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um start with M.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_04: Night Shyamalan.
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_05: Wall, yeah, while this chaos is happening, because I know which way all these assholes voted, you know, so they're they mean very little to me.
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_05: And um I'm just going to take what is theirs and make it mine in the ensuing chaos.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_05: And if I encounter an alien, I'll just spray him with a hose.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_05: Um, my dogs are safe.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_05: I have increased my wealth three times, and uh we're gonna call it a successful alien invasion.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's what I'll do.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_01: I I you know, yeah, people died, but at the end of the day, I'm richer, so you know.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this is before all the security cameras, all the home security cameras that we're used to.
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_04: It was really rare at that time.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_04: You just go in, you you kidnap them, you hide them, hide their bodies, and it's like I guess the aliens took them.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_04: I'll take that property off their hands.
• 1:04:28
  SPEAKER_04: We got a joining property, is I'll just you know I'll take care of it until maybe they're found out.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I mean, you look at um like uh the fucking uh the bubonic plague in Europe is a chief cause for redistribution of wealth and then the movement of the power structure we have now, and it was because this massive event where a lot of people died.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I know that, so I'm just getting out there up in it.
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not afraid of the aliens, they're freaking dumb.
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_05: Um for real.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_05: Can't even open a door.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_05: And so I'm just getting mine.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_05: I'm I'm getting my slice of the pie, and I am putting myself on the top.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_05: My dog is safe, um, my my child is beat.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_05: Um, we're we're making the most of it.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_05: My brother is simple.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_05: My brother, yeah.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_05: My brother needs a little bit of help.
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_05: Well, but it looks like the army's about to take him.
• 1:05:23
  SPEAKER_05: That that tracks.
• 1:05:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um and uh yeah, I'm just gonna have a really nice cheat night that night.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_05: Um in food, calories, and morality.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and I will wake up the next day with an increase in wealth and a really nice outlook in life.
• 1:05:40
  SPEAKER_05: Do I believe in signs?
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_05: No.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_05: But uh, I'm glad this happened.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_05: I'm glad it happened.
• 1:05:48
  SPEAKER_05: And that's what I would do different.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_05: So, well, there you have it, folks.
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_05: Um, congratulations, Mr.
• 1:05:55
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• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_05: You got yourself a 3.5 out of five on your obviously flawed film.
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKER_05: Um, we still love it for what it is.
• 1:06:04
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• 1:06:06
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• 1:06:08
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• 1:06:11
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• 1:06:18
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• 1:06:23
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• 1:06:26
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• 1:06:28
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• 1:06:30
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• 1:06:40
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• 1:06:48
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• 1:06:54
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• 1:06:55
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• 1:06:56
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• 1:06:57
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• 1:07:02
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• 1:07:11
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• 1:07:13
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• 1:07:15
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• 1:07:21
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• 1:07:21
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• 1:07:23
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• 1:07:25
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• 1:07:28
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• 1:07:30
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• 1:07:36
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