Latest / I Do, Part 2 / Should You Bring Your Man To “The Devil Wears Prada 2”? T.J. Has The Answer
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Hey, evolks, it is Thursday, April thirtieth, and this weekend
- 0:07Speaker 1: one of the biggest movies of the year is coming out.
- 0:11Speaker 1: It is already guaranteed to be a hit, and fellas
- 0:16Speaker 1: just sit this one out.
- 0:18Speaker 2: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Do you all even want? Do you care if we
- 0:25Speaker 2: accompany you all to see Devil Wears Prada too this weekend?
- 0:30Speaker 3: I think it depends on the woman and the relationship
- 0:34Speaker 3: she has with her guide.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk. It's just say in general generally speaking,
- 0:40Speaker 2: of course, it's individual, but is this a thing that
- 0:44Speaker 2: guys just need to, Hey, enjoy this one with you girls?
- 0:48Speaker 3: Well, I would just say it depends on the guy,
- 0:51Speaker 3: because look this obviously this movie is spurring all sorts
- 0:56Speaker 3: of girls' night out parties.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Yes, all the.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Women who watched this movie twenty years ago. The original
- 1:03Speaker 3: Devilwar's product was out in two thousand and six, so
- 1:07Speaker 3: a lot of us women who are around at that
- 1:09Speaker 3: age might be getting together with old friends, good friends,
- 1:13Speaker 3: new friends to watch this together. But I had this
- 1:17Speaker 3: discussion with you, and this prompted this episode because I said, hey, obviously, yeah,
- 1:23Speaker 3: we could. I could get a group of girls together.
- 1:24Speaker 3: But I'm in an age now where look the truth
- 1:27Speaker 3: is I I love being with you. And I said,
- 1:30Speaker 3: would you want to go see this? Would you go
- 1:32Speaker 3: see this with me? Should I go outsour this, outsource
- 1:35Speaker 3: this and seek seeing this movie out maybe with my.
- 1:38Speaker 4: Daughters or my girlfriends, or would you see this with me?
- 1:41Speaker 4: And what did you say?
- 1:42Speaker 2: Of course, I'll see it with you. But I didn't
- 1:45Speaker 2: want to take away from an experience you might want
- 1:47Speaker 2: to have. This is going to be a Barbie type
- 1:51Speaker 2: phenomenon and maybe not make the same type of money,
- 1:54Speaker 2: but as far as culturally the experience and how women
- 1:58Speaker 2: are excited about it, it's that type of equivalent. Maybe
- 2:01Speaker 2: this would even skews a little older type thing, so
- 2:04Speaker 2: I didn't want to take that away. But I'm not
- 2:07Speaker 2: sitting it out as so, oh my god, I don't
- 2:09Speaker 2: want to see that thing. I enjoy going to any
- 2:11Speaker 2: movie with you, And maybe that's what you're talking about.
- 2:14Speaker 2: It depends on the health of a relationship. Yes, and well,
- 2:17Speaker 2: of course I would love to go. I'll go anywhere
- 2:20Speaker 2: with you.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:20Speaker 4: In fact, so here's the deal.
- 2:21Speaker 3: This might be so sappy, but I actually when I
- 2:26Speaker 3: really enjoy something and have a blast with watching something
- 2:30Speaker 3: or just taking something in. I always want to share
- 2:33Speaker 3: it with you. So I actually wanted you to come,
- 2:35Speaker 3: but I didn't want you to feel like you had
- 2:37Speaker 3: to come. And then it just got me thinking how
- 2:40Speaker 3: many guys are just like whooho, wifey.
- 2:43Speaker 4: Or girlfriends got her thing with their girls.
- 2:45Speaker 3: And I can go sit there and watch golf all day,
- 2:47Speaker 3: or I can go golf with the guys, or I
- 2:49Speaker 3: can go whatever, do my thing because she's got her thing.
- 2:53Speaker 4: So and that probably.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Is generally speaking, how most couples are probably going to
- 2:58Speaker 3: approach devilwares proud of too. But not everybody.
- 3:01Speaker 2: But that is the question. What generally should women do?
- 3:06Speaker 2: What should guys do? Is this one where guys would
- 3:09Speaker 2: just sit out and say, hey, honey, go enjoy it
- 3:12Speaker 2: with the girls. Is this one that the girls prefer
- 3:15Speaker 2: to go see it with the girls?
- 3:18Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
- 3:19Speaker 3: Yes, I would say, as long as you didn't because
- 3:22Speaker 3: you were oh this is so stupid or eye rolling
- 3:25Speaker 3: or groaning. If you're going to ruin the experience and
- 3:29Speaker 3: yuck and yuff the yum, then you should stay home. Okay,
- 3:33Speaker 3: But if you can have some fun and laugh and
- 3:36Speaker 3: just maybe try to understand why this is so appealing
- 3:39Speaker 3: to so many of us women. Then I think it's
- 3:41Speaker 3: cool if you want to be a part of it,
- 3:42Speaker 3: want to experience it, want to see it, as long
- 3:45Speaker 3: as you keep your negative opinions to yourself, you know.
- 3:50Speaker 2: And help me. This is classified. This isn't rom com.
- 3:56Speaker 3: It's called is what they say, like a it's like
- 3:59Speaker 3: a rom calm drama like it.
- 4:02Speaker 4: It's a little bit of everything.
- 4:03Speaker 2: But the way minute the first one had a love
- 4:05Speaker 2: story at the centerpiece.
- 4:06Speaker 4: Yeah, there was some. There was some love interest.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Yes, Anne Hathaway was pulled between someone who she had
- 4:12Speaker 3: been with and a new flashy journalist dude who she
- 4:16Speaker 3: was potentially falling for, but the main focus. That wasn't
- 4:19Speaker 3: the main focus. But it was a subplot. It was
- 4:21Speaker 3: a subplot. It it's not a rom com for sure.
- 4:24Speaker 3: It is not a flat out comedy, yes, but there's
- 4:28Speaker 3: drama and there's romance, so there was Actually I think it's.
- 4:32Speaker 4: A rom dram com. That's what I'm gonna call it.
- 4:34Speaker 2: I'll start, still start.
- 4:37Speaker 3: But right now, this movie they're saying is heavily skewed
- 4:40Speaker 3: towards women over the age of thirty five.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Research on the perfect sense.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Although both of my daughters already have girl groups ready
- 4:48Speaker 3: to go this weekend, they're all going to see the movie.
- 4:51Speaker 3: They've already got their tickets. The core audience expected this
- 4:54Speaker 3: weekend overwhelmingly female. Industry analysts are estimating seventy five to
- 5:00Speaker 3: eighty percent of the opening weekend audience will be women.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Wasn't that like a Milania I remember numbers from Malania
- 5:08Speaker 2: being similar.
- 5:09Speaker 3: But anyway, we went to go see that together.
- 5:11Speaker 2: There was nothing but women in the audience of a
- 5:13Speaker 2: certain age. But yes, that those numbers make perfect sense.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Did you.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Did you see too? I mean, do you ever feel uncomfortable?
- 5:22Speaker 3: I guess to be in an audience with mostly women,
- 5:25Speaker 3: and you're the only guy.
- 5:28Speaker 2: I seek out those audiences.
- 5:31Speaker 4: That's home for you.
- 5:32Speaker 2: No, but do you know what I was just at
- 5:35Speaker 2: an event with you, recently dressed for success in Atlanta, right.
- 5:39Speaker 3: You were probably one of four men in a sea
- 5:42Speaker 3: of two hundred and fifty three hundred women.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Okay, I thought they were a little more.
- 5:47Speaker 2: It's it's fine, it's okay. It's only when you're in
- 5:50Speaker 2: that audience when it's Sometimes when the subject or the
- 5:55Speaker 2: reason they're in the room is a really strictly female theme.
- 6:00Speaker 2: It's like, I shouldn't be here. I feel like I'll
- 6:03Speaker 2: be easy to drop along here.
- 6:05Speaker 3: But I actually liked the idea of you being there
- 6:07Speaker 3: because I think you being in on some of these jokes.
- 6:09Speaker 4: So being in on some of what makes.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Us happy, laugh, excited, whether it's fashion, humor whatever, I
- 6:18Speaker 3: do think it's fun to have you be a part
- 6:20Speaker 3: of it.
- 6:20Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
- 6:21Speaker 3: I think it actually can bring a couple a little
- 6:24Speaker 3: closer if the other person who's being exposed to something
- 6:27Speaker 3: maybe a little bit different is open to it and
- 6:30Speaker 3: looking at it as an opportunity to understand.
- 6:32Speaker 4: Perhaps even more right, I am.
- 6:34Speaker 2: With you there and rogues you know this. Yes, you're
- 6:37Speaker 2: very familiar with this because you were there when this
- 6:40Speaker 2: was all happening. I until at five years ago, I
- 6:43Speaker 2: had never seen devil Ware's product, and it was a
- 6:46Speaker 2: big deal made out of it on Air Live and
- 6:48Speaker 2: Good Morning America. I had never seen the movie. I
- 6:52Speaker 2: know what it is, I respect what it is, but
- 6:54Speaker 2: I hadn't seen it. I went I think that weekend,
- 6:57Speaker 2: came back and announced that I had seen it, and
- 6:59Speaker 2: I wasn't moved. But here's the thing though, and this
- 7:03Speaker 2: is where I would encourage any guy Robes. Some of
- 7:08Speaker 2: my favorite, like in the top ten favorite actors working
- 7:15Speaker 2: today are in this movie. And you know, Emily Blunt
- 7:20Speaker 2: is one of my favorite humans walking and she I
- 7:24Speaker 2: didn't realize she was in the first one.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Oh, it's a huge role, yes, and she plays such
- 7:29Speaker 3: a bach it's so fun, a nervous, scared, kiss ass
- 7:33Speaker 3: Batch Robes.
- 7:35Speaker 2: So many of those people have become the biggest superstars working.
- 7:40Speaker 2: Mel Streep was already in her own zone. Stanley Tucci, yes,
- 7:44Speaker 2: but now between Tucci is his profile has even risen
- 7:48Speaker 2: after the first one came out.
- 7:49Speaker 4: But Anne Hathaway are.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Aaaa lists yes now, So even if you're not interested
- 7:55Speaker 2: in the movie, you love those people who are in it,
- 7:57Speaker 2: negotie it and.
- 7:58Speaker 3: The fact that they got all of them to return
- 8:00Speaker 3: for this is such a big deal. Just and look,
- 8:02Speaker 3: the reviews are in, I believe right now as of
- 8:05Speaker 3: this recording, seventy eight percent and pretty much the critics
- 8:09Speaker 3: are saying this, if you loved the first one, you're
- 8:12Speaker 3: gonna love the second one.
- 8:13Speaker 4: Period.
- 8:14Speaker 3: There's a little bit of a modern twist in fact,
- 8:17Speaker 3: they said, if you're a journalist, especially if you're in
- 8:19Speaker 3: print or in any sort of magazine type journalism, this
- 8:22Speaker 3: is a horror story or a horror movie, because yes,
- 8:26Speaker 3: it clearly points out the declining numbers for folks in print, broadcast,
- 8:32Speaker 3: et cetera. If you're a journalist right now, it is
- 8:35Speaker 3: a well, let's just call it an evolving career that
- 8:38Speaker 3: might not be as stable as it once was considered.
- 8:40Speaker 4: And this movie goes there and talks about all of that.
- 8:43Speaker 3: So it does have some modern elements to it, which
- 8:45Speaker 3: makes it cool as well.
- 8:46Speaker 4: Now, I actually went on to AI.
- 8:49Speaker 3: I haven't used a lot of it, but I see
- 8:51Speaker 3: my daughters doing it all the time, and I thought
- 8:53Speaker 3: it would be funny. I actually put a search in
- 8:55Speaker 3: saying should you bring your man to devil?
- 8:58Speaker 4: Where's Prada?
- 8:59Speaker 3: Tode? And it gives me a whole list reasons to
- 9:02Speaker 3: bring him, and then a list of reasons he.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Might not enjoy it.
- 9:07Speaker 3: So I thought we could have some fun and go
- 9:10Speaker 3: through that list with you, TJ, and then it will help.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Maybe any of you are sitting at the on the
- 9:15Speaker 3: fence thinking, hmm, should I bring my guy with me?
- 9:18Speaker 4: Should I just go with my girlfriends.
- 9:21Speaker 3: These are basically the pros and cons of bringing your
- 9:24Speaker 3: guy to the theater to see Devilwaar's Prota Tow. We'll
- 9:27Speaker 3: have those for you when we come back. And welcome
- 9:39Speaker 3: back to this episode.
- 9:40Speaker 4: Of Amy and TJ.
- 9:41Speaker 3: We are talking about the Devilwaar's Prada to It opens
- 9:45Speaker 3: this weekend. Lots of girls' night outs plan for so
- 9:48Speaker 3: many women, but there might be some of us present
- 9:51Speaker 3: party included, who were really wanting to see this movie
- 9:55Speaker 3: with our guys and then wondering is he gonna like it?
- 9:58Speaker 3: Is he not gonna like it? And what he thinks
- 9:59Speaker 3: about it? And how much is that going to impact
- 10:01Speaker 3: my experience of the movie. And DJ has said that
- 10:05Speaker 3: he is more than willing and actually, would you say
- 10:08Speaker 3: you're happy to go? You're willing to go? How would
- 10:10Speaker 3: you categorize it?
- 10:12Speaker 2: Robes, I love the four Leads. There's nothing else to
- 10:18Speaker 2: talk about. I will go see Meryl Streep do anything.
- 10:21Speaker 2: I don't give a damn if you tell Meryl Streeper
- 10:23Speaker 2: is in a movie about a stripper and she's the stripper.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Let's go see what that's about. I don't care if
- 10:28Speaker 2: you're tell me that she plays. I don't care what
- 10:31Speaker 2: she does. I will go watch MARYL. Streep and Hathaway is.
- 10:37Speaker 2: She's close to Hollywood royalty in a way. I know,
- 10:42Speaker 2: we got what really sexy actresses and all this not
- 10:46Speaker 2: saying she obviously she's stunning, but robes. She is a
- 10:49Speaker 2: throwback to a time that I just love and respect.
- 10:52Speaker 2: You know how I feel about Emily Blunt. She's christ
- 10:54Speaker 2: Stanley Tucci? How much? How much cooler can you get?
- 10:59Speaker 2: This dude is wonderful. Bros. What I'm saying to you,
- 11:01Speaker 2: I am excited to see those four people on a
- 11:04Speaker 2: screen together.
- 11:05Speaker 3: All right, So you just told me that we're gonna
- 11:08Speaker 3: have a good time going to see Double Ware.
- 11:10Speaker 2: And you know what, any guy out there, don't ruin
- 11:13Speaker 2: an experience of any movie with If she's excited for
- 11:17Speaker 2: you to be sitting there next to her, don't sit
- 11:19Speaker 2: there and being asked, yeah, don't sit there and say
- 11:22Speaker 2: this is dumb, but this is really Don't do that.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Just come on, give her that and enjoy. We can
- 11:29Speaker 2: sit there for two hours and bite your tongue or
- 11:32Speaker 2: try to enjoy. Don't just that's not a good way
- 11:36Speaker 2: to be. Okay, Really, I know we don't have a mass,
- 11:41Speaker 2: huge male audience here, But my goodness, fellas give her that.
- 11:46Speaker 4: I agree. It's not a lot to ask.
- 11:49Speaker 3: They do have on AI the reasons to bring your
- 11:53Speaker 3: guy and the reasons that he might not enjoy it.
- 11:56Speaker 4: I wanted to get your take on this.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Okay, how many you got on each?
- 11:59Speaker 4: How many one two three four?
- 12:01Speaker 3: One two three? So four reasons to bring him? Three
- 12:03Speaker 3: reasons maybe why you shouldn't. Okay, all right, reasons to
- 12:06Speaker 3: bring him. It's a good natured date movie.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Yes.
- 12:09Speaker 3: The sequel is described as fun, breezy and a serviceable comedy,
- 12:15Speaker 3: making it a comfortable, lighthearted option for movie night. So
- 12:19Speaker 3: just if you look at it as a date night,
- 12:21Speaker 3: that would be one way to do it. High fashion appeal.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Does your guy like your Gucci Prada?
- 12:27Speaker 2: If it?
- 12:28Speaker 3: If your guy likes style or has any interest in fashion,
- 12:31Speaker 3: he might actually appreciate that part of the mo is.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Gonna be a tougher sell for most men. Come on, honey,
- 12:36Speaker 2: let's see this. They're gonna have the latest fashion. Okay,
- 12:39Speaker 2: let's let's go to number three. Baby.
- 12:42Speaker 3: I thought that's why you liked the Kardashian show. All
- 12:46Speaker 3: that fun fashion, all's fair.
- 12:49Speaker 2: It was fun to look at. I wasn't analyzing looking
- 12:52Speaker 2: for a spring, all right.
- 12:54Speaker 3: But it's just pretty to look at. They're okay, fine,
- 12:56Speaker 3: that's more for the girls. Fine, the cast chemistry. And
- 12:59Speaker 3: you've already talked about fans of the original enjoy seeing
- 13:02Speaker 3: Meryl Streep and Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci reunite,
- 13:05Speaker 3: so you're in on that. And then here's the other
- 13:08Speaker 3: reason why. I don't know what this says about men. Oh,
- 13:10Speaker 3: it's not too heavy. Unlike some dramatic sequels, this one
- 13:14Speaker 3: is a celebratory reunion rather than a life changing film.
- 13:17Speaker 3: I guess the implication is men don't like heavy films
- 13:20Speaker 3: or life changing films.
- 13:21Speaker 4: That doesn't seem fair, but.
- 13:23Speaker 3: They're One of the reasons to bring him is it's
- 13:25Speaker 3: just not too heavy, it's not too deep. It's just fun,
- 13:28Speaker 3: just slighthearted, exactly, okay, all right. Reasons he might not enjoy.
- 13:33Speaker 2: It, it's gotta be good.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Repetitive plot reviews note that the plot relies heavily on
- 13:39Speaker 3: the formula of the first film, which might be predictable.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Wow, a movie being formulated formulaic shocker, I watch horror movies.
- 13:47Speaker 4: Okay, wait, this one is. Yes, that's hilarious.
- 13:50Speaker 3: This one is making me laugh so hard because I
- 13:52Speaker 3: feel like this is a reason why you would like it.
- 13:55Speaker 4: One of the reasons why they say he might not.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Enjoy it the lack of rom The romantic subplots are
- 14:01Speaker 3: described as dull and chemistry free, so it's not a
- 14:04Speaker 3: strong romantic movie.
- 14:05Speaker 4: That's a plus for most of them.
- 14:07Speaker 2: That's fine. I don't want to see that savvy shit.
- 14:09Speaker 3: You're like, I don't really care about the romance part
- 14:12Speaker 3: of it, so okay, I actually think that goes into
- 14:14Speaker 3: the category of why you should bring him, and then
- 14:17Speaker 3: reasons he might not enjoy it. It's described as a
- 14:20Speaker 3: softer or more sugary version of the original, so it
- 14:23Speaker 3: loses some of the sharp satire that it was known
- 14:26Speaker 3: for in its original.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Yeah, because most guys remember the sharp satire from the
- 14:30Speaker 2: first one.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Okay, wait, this is this makes me laugh. They had like,
- 14:34Speaker 3: I've never really done this ai thing. But they have
- 14:36Speaker 3: a verdict if he loved the first one or enjoys
- 14:39Speaker 3: snappy dialogue in fashion it's.
- 14:42Speaker 4: A solid choice.
- 14:43Speaker 3: Okay, if he hated the first or if he prefers
- 14:47Speaker 3: action over fashion world drama.
- 14:49Speaker 4: He might want to sit this one out.
- 14:53Speaker 2: What's the's the that's the thing with gay best Friend.
- 14:56Speaker 4: Gb GBF GBS.
- 14:58Speaker 3: I mean, obviously GBF is an obvious choice for a
- 15:01Speaker 3: day night. Yes, OK on this one, but I do
- 15:03Speaker 3: think it's funny they say basically, whether or not you
- 15:05Speaker 3: should bring your man to this sequel is depends on
- 15:09Speaker 3: whether he enjoys nostalgic, fashion driven comedy or does he
- 15:14Speaker 3: prefer high stakes action. I believe that most women would
- 15:19Speaker 3: be pretty safe to say that's fine that their men prefer.
- 15:22Speaker 4: The latter of the two.
- 15:24Speaker 3: But to what you say is maybe this isn't about
- 15:26Speaker 3: what your man prefers, and just about the experience of
- 15:29Speaker 3: the date night robes.
- 15:31Speaker 2: There is I have gone to places with you. You've
- 15:34Speaker 2: gone to places with me that you would never have
- 15:37Speaker 2: chosen to do on your own.
- 15:39Speaker 4: The entire month of March could fall into that category.
- 15:41Speaker 2: That is true. But places I've taken you and people
- 15:44Speaker 2: you've hung out with, places you've taken me, and I've
- 15:46Speaker 2: hung out with folks and done things I've never would
- 15:48Speaker 2: have done. They were experiences, and you know what, I
- 15:51Speaker 2: wouldn't have done it on my own, but I had
- 15:52Speaker 2: a frickin' blast. Wat can you be happy or experiencing
- 15:55Speaker 2: something new? It's just what it is. And if I
- 15:57Speaker 2: said I didn't like it, you know what, you didn't
- 15:59Speaker 2: take me the second, the third, of the fourth time.
- 16:01Speaker 2: It's okay. This is what a relationship is. And yes,
- 16:04Speaker 2: devil Wear's Brada is another opportunity, a simple one to
- 16:08Speaker 2: compromise in a relationship, to concede, to give something in
- 16:12Speaker 2: a relationship or from the other side, to offer something,
- 16:15Speaker 2: to bring somebody into your experience robes. This is very
- 16:19Speaker 2: I always say, this is simple stuff, and if your
- 16:22Speaker 2: relationship is struggling, this is an easy way to ease
- 16:25Speaker 2: into compromise. Meryl Streep can do it for you.
- 16:29Speaker 4: I love that. That is such a good way to
- 16:32Speaker 4: look at this.
- 16:33Speaker 3: And you know what, I want to give you kudos
- 16:35Speaker 3: because just two weeks ago you sat through a musical
- 16:41Speaker 3: on Broadway about the Cold War, Yes, which the focus
- 16:46Speaker 3: and theme of that musical was chess. Yes, And you
- 16:50Speaker 3: knew I loved that musical and you came anyway, Yes.
- 16:54Speaker 2: Because I love a night out. Because you know what,
- 16:56Speaker 2: I had a hot date that night, I got a
- 16:59Speaker 2: good dinner, I had good drinks, my woman dressed up.
- 17:02Speaker 2: She looked amazing, and I said around, I learned new things,
- 17:06Speaker 2: I saw new people, and I saw wonderful talent on stage. Yes, Robes,
- 17:11Speaker 2: I had a good night. I never ever ever want
- 17:14Speaker 2: to see Chess again, but I had a wonderful night
- 17:17Speaker 2: at Chess.
- 17:19Speaker 4: Amazing. So hope that helps.
- 17:21Speaker 3: If any of you all were deciding who, when where
- 17:25Speaker 3: to see the devil, Whar's prada to make it happen
- 17:29Speaker 3: and let us know what you think.
- 17:31Speaker 4: But we will find it.
- 17:32Speaker 3: Not I don't know when we're seeing it, but when
- 17:34Speaker 3: we do, if we have strong opinions, we'll walk back on.
- 17:37Speaker 3: But otherwise I will we'll just enjoy it like the
- 17:40Speaker 3: rest of you. And with that, everyone, thank you for
- 17:42Speaker 3: listening to us. As always, we appreciate you. I made
- 17:45Speaker 3: me Robock alongside TJ. Holmes.
- 17:47Speaker 4: We will talk to you soon.