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Fictional Women Around the World: Rain Ocampo · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and smitha all come of stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you procure of iHeart Radio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another sub sub sub sub segment, Fictional Women around
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  Speaker 1: the World. I'm excited about this one, but I have
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  Speaker 1: to admit I'm this one's kind of selfish because I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to talk about Resident Evil. We're still in
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  Speaker 1: our Horror month times, even though we talk about horror
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  Speaker 1: all the time, and I just I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: Resident Evil. I really haven't talked about it that much
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  Speaker 1: except in our Women in Survival Horror Video Games episode.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, it's time, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's time. Have you ever seen it? I know you
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  Speaker 1: haven't played the games, but have you ever seen any
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  Speaker 1: of the movies? No? Okay, just a plain note? Is
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  Speaker 1: this the Milla? Yes? Okay, that part, I know, that's
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  Speaker 1: the end. That's fine. They're not very good and no
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  Speaker 1: one would disagree with you. Okay. They're kind of like
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  Speaker 1: one of the you know, the the long held belief
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  Speaker 1: that there's never been a good video game adaptation until recently.
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  Speaker 1: These were a big part of that reason. There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them, though, and they are successful. Whether
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  Speaker 1: they're good or not so. I have a long history
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  Speaker 1: with Resident Evil. I played the first game when I
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  Speaker 1: was nine or so, very young, and I snuck into
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  Speaker 1: the first Resident Evil movie, like literally through the back
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  Speaker 1: door with me and my friends because it was rated
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  Speaker 1: R and we weren't old enough. I have played these
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  Speaker 1: games and seen these movies for a decade plus. I
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  Speaker 1: have been in it and the games are phenomenon. The
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  Speaker 1: first one came out in nineteen ninety six. It was
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  Speaker 1: hard as hell. The angles switches were unnerving, and it
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  Speaker 1: kind of set the tone for a long time for
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  Speaker 1: how horror games were because it was so The way
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  Speaker 1: the camera worked was very scary. You couldn't look ahead,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't in your control. And not only were they
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  Speaker 1: credited with repopularizing the zombie genre, they with Resident Evil four,
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  Speaker 1: which is a really good game that I have talked
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  Speaker 1: about before. When that came out in two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: it made the over the shoulder shooter style action game
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  Speaker 1: pretty standard. So some people were like, this is in
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  Speaker 1: a Resident Evil games, this is an action game, but
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  Speaker 1: people love that game anyway. These games try all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things, some network and some that do not. This
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  Speaker 1: franchise is usually reported as the best selling horror game
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  Speaker 1: franchise ever. The first film came out in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two. So yes, I was very young and I
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  Speaker 1: really should not have been there. But while it is
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  Speaker 1: loosely based on the first and second game, the writers
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  Speaker 1: specifically didn't follow the plot of any game because they
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  Speaker 1: thought it would be scarier if none of us knew
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  Speaker 1: what was going to happen. I would say, your mileage
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  Speaker 1: may vary on that. I disagree. I was like, so,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know the very basic plot of Resident Evil,
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  Speaker 1: it essentially boils down to an a moral slash probably
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  Speaker 1: very evil corporation, the Umbrella Corporation, running secret experiments resulting
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  Speaker 1: in what is called the T virus that led to
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  Speaker 1: the creation of zombies of all types. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of corporate espionage, very strange, very strange individuals in power,
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  Speaker 1: but also tales of people trying to to cure cancer
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  Speaker 1: or what have you. It's at the intersection of bioweapons
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  Speaker 1: and potential cure. I believe that the Japanese game is
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  Speaker 1: called Biohazard, and when it comes out, it turns out
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  Speaker 1: at zombies that happened out of this whole thing. Umbrella Corp.
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  Speaker 1: Tries to cover the whole thing up. So that's how
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  Speaker 1: the movie kind of starts, is you realize something's very
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  Speaker 1: wrong here and it gets out and you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with Mila Jovovic's character Alice, who's definitely
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  Speaker 1: not in the games at all. Neither is the fictional
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  Speaker 1: character of today Rain Ocampo, played by Michelle Rodriguez. She
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  Speaker 1: does not exist in the game. In the movie, the
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  Speaker 1: main character, yes, Alice can't remember anything that happened, but
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  Speaker 1: we as the audience know she's involved because she was
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  Speaker 1: in that opening scene where they were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: T virus. But the T virus gets out and you've
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  Speaker 1: got the Raccoon City RPD, which is where the early
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  Speaker 1: games largely take place. Racoon City, that's where Umbrella is headquartered.
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  Speaker 1: Coer Slash convinced Alice to go with them to investigate
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  Speaker 1: Umbrella's main building and see what going on here, what's
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong. Turns out the building is infected with zombies
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  Speaker 1: and guarded by an AI called the Red Queen, and
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  Speaker 1: she's a little girl, creepy little girl. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: got to have one. Rain was a part of Umbrella's
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  Speaker 1: Special Forces who was in on this mission. She was
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  Speaker 1: very skilled in combat and martmanship. While she was close
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  Speaker 1: to some of her team a JD especially who perished.
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  Speaker 1: He perished in front of her as she tries to
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  Speaker 1: help him. She blamed team member Chad Kaplan for the
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  Speaker 1: deaths of their team, and she said it was his
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  Speaker 1: lack of experience and why was he even here? Is
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  Speaker 1: ruining everything. After their first encounter with the undead who
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  Speaker 1: Rain thought she thought it was a survivor and tried
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  Speaker 1: to help. At first, Rain was the one who got
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  Speaker 1: the headshot, saying quote, she's not standing now. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the undead rose again and a bit Rain for the
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  Speaker 1: second time, more of the undead attacked her and her team,
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  Speaker 1: and she was bent several times. The Red Queen informs
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  Speaker 1: the whole all the survivors what this means, and Rain
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  Speaker 1: realizes she'll die, but she's like, I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 1: fighting for this team until it's the end. When the
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  Speaker 1: surviving members of the team are on the verge of escaping,
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  Speaker 1: the Red Queen demands that Alice killed Rain to contain
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  Speaker 1: the infection, because while they're close to retrieving the anti virus,
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  Speaker 1: Rain's infection has gone on to long to be cured.
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  Speaker 1: Alice refuses and destroys the screens the Red Queen was
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  Speaker 1: using to communicate with them. Eventually, they get to the
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  Speaker 1: anti virus and Alice gives it to Rain, but not
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  Speaker 1: before Rain makes Alice promise to kill her if she turns,
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  Speaker 1: and for a moment there's kind of a funny moment
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  Speaker 1: where Alice is like, oh, here it is. She's not responding,
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  Speaker 1: I have to kill her, and then Rain is like,
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  Speaker 1: still eyes closed, I'm not dead yet. But then it
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  Speaker 1: turns out she has in fact died, and she does
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  Speaker 1: turn into a zombie. Oh no, yes, yes, And all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff happens at the same time. So you
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  Speaker 1: got a liquor that attacks, and a liquor is basically
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  Speaker 1: these like really deadly zombies with huge tongues that they
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  Speaker 1: used to kill you, very scary, don't mess with them.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah Rain. Then you got Rain who's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a zombie now. One of the survivors shoots her
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  Speaker 1: in the head with her own gun, and her body
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  Speaker 1: falls onto the button to open the doors that then
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  Speaker 1: allows the rest of them and the liquor to escape.
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  Speaker 1: Alice is very, very depressed about Rain's death. She really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to save her, and they were kind of begrudging buddies.
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  Speaker 1: The Umbrella Corporation later cloned Rain as part of test
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  Speaker 1: that they were running about how the virus would would
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  Speaker 1: spread depending on the conditions, in order to sell it
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  Speaker 1: to whoever was willing to pay the most. The clones
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  Speaker 1: had no memories of Rain's life, and there were two
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  Speaker 1: main clone Rains, the Good one and the Bad one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the good one was all about gun control and learning,
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  Speaker 1: and the bad one was very, very very blunt and
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  Speaker 1: worked as part of Umbrella's security. Good Rain was killed
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  Speaker 1: by a liquor and Bad Rain purposefully infected herself with
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  Speaker 1: a parasite to make herself and vulnerable, but then was
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  Speaker 1: eaten by the undead. As it happens. This character was
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  Speaker 1: the tough, skilled, no nonsense one, outwardly closed off but loyal.
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  Speaker 1: She liked to fight. She was ready to fight. While
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  Speaker 1: she was hard to impress and often arrogant and violent.
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  Speaker 1: She changed her mind about people if they inspired her too,
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  Speaker 1: and despite working for Umbrella, when she found out what
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  Speaker 1: they were capable of, she was horrible and she stuck
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  Speaker 1: out with me. I haven't seen this movie in forever
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  Speaker 1: I remember it very well though I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember her character very well. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe one day I'll come back and do just women
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  Speaker 1: in Resident Evil, because there's a lot of good ones,
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  Speaker 1: but there's also a lot of Like I know, I
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  Speaker 1: talked about Jill Valentine, I mean, even Alice in this movie,
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  Speaker 1: like the sexualized costumes they're wearing in a zombie apocalypse
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, I guess I can give Alice a pass.
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  Speaker 1: Jill Valentine was kind of a cop though, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. But you get introduced to Jill Valentine in
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  Speaker 1: the next movie, and that's when you meet Nemesis. And
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  Speaker 1: Nemesis is one of the scariest villains of all time
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, not necessarily necessarily in the movie, but
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  Speaker 1: in the game, very scary. If you hear his theme
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  Speaker 1: music on and you know he's around, I would just leave.
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  Speaker 1: I would just go back out the door. I just
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  Speaker 1: came in. Yes, yes, well, thank you for letting me.
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  Speaker 1: This was fun to revisit. I haven't thought about Resident
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  Speaker 1: Evil in a while. You're gonna watch it again now?
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  Speaker 1: Might it might be on my like Halloween list because
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it in a while, and I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure it's streaming, so I would love to rewatch it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not very good. If anybody's listening to this, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna tell you it's fun, but don't expect more
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  Speaker 1: than fun. I don't think it's gonna be a life
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  Speaker 1: changing movie. No, none of them are. I am. Back
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  Speaker 1: when I was in college, they used to have this
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  Speaker 1: student deal, you know, and you could go see a
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  Speaker 1: movie for two dollars. So I saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: movies that I never would have seen if it cost
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  Speaker 1: any more than that. So I saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the resident evil movies because of that price. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot about three d also happens, I will say,
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  Speaker 1: of course, of course, and a lot of cloning, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cloning. But anyway, yes, listeners, I would love
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