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Sean Means Movie Reviews From October 17th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well here he is Sean Means.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Patrick Means is the is a writer and editor
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  Speaker 2: at the Salt Lake Tribune. You can you can catch
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  Speaker 2: all of his writings and editings and stuff there sl
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  Speaker 2: trip dot com. And he's also a movie critic and
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  Speaker 2: you can find that stuff at movie cricket dot net.
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  Speaker 2: What do we got, Sean?
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  Speaker 3: We got three movies to talk about this week. We
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  Speaker 3: will start first with Good Fortune. This one stars Azi's
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sorry as Arge. He's underemployed in Los Angeles. He
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  Speaker 3: he also directed. He wrote and directed it. Yes, he
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  Speaker 3: works in a hardware story. He does some gig jobs
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  Speaker 3: for a delivery app. He's living in his car, which
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  Speaker 3: is what he else on needs for those delivery delivery jobs.
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  Speaker 3: One day he meets Jeff, a rich tech bro guy
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  Speaker 3: played by Seth Rogan. He he works for Jeff as
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  Speaker 3: his assistant for a while, but then he gets fired
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  Speaker 3: on a whim, which is kind of the joke here
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  Speaker 3: that you know which we rich people do things on
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  Speaker 3: whims and poor people have to suffer. The other joke
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  Speaker 3: here is that Arch has a guardian angel named Gabriel
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  Speaker 3: played by Keanu Reeves. Gabriel is not a very good
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  Speaker 3: guardian Angel. The phrase he uses is dumb dumb, and
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  Speaker 3: he wants to show Arch that his life isn't so
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  Speaker 3: bad and the Jeff's life isn't so good. So he
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  Speaker 3: makes some swap places and unsurprisingly Arge likes this and
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  Speaker 3: Jeff hates it. Well, sure, but Arch doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: switch back, then it's up to him. My biggest problem
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  Speaker 3: here is that as he's unsorry Like I said, he's
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  Speaker 3: the writer director. He wants to have a light, funny comedy,
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  Speaker 3: but he also wants to say something big and important
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  Speaker 3: about the working class, trying to do both at once,
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  Speaker 3: and he's not.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't He doesn't have the chops to make that turn.
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  Speaker 1: He is not deaf enough.
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  Speaker 3: He is, Yes, he doesn't have that talent yet as
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  Speaker 3: a directitor, as a director to make it work. The
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  Speaker 3: other thing is I've discovered I'm really getting annoyed with
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  Speaker 3: Seth Rogan.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's kind of the same and everything.
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  Speaker 3: The same, big lug care dur in every movie. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is basically him doing a variation on his character
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  Speaker 3: from the studio, which is a variation on himself.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he could, he could, He could really change
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  Speaker 2: a performance if he just didn't laugh once during a performance.
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  Speaker 3: I was listening to a podcast he was on recently,
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  Speaker 3: and he laughed at all of his own jokes, which
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  Speaker 3: was bad enough in itself, but his laugh is so horrible. Yea,
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  Speaker 3: Keanu is really funny though, as this Not So Bright Angel,
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  Speaker 3: which which is why I'm kind of being nice to
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  Speaker 3: this movie. Two and a half stars for Good Fortune,
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  Speaker 3: and it's in theaters all right.
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  Speaker 1: Next, Truth and Tree, Truth and Treason.
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  Speaker 3: This is somewhat faith based drama set in World War
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  Speaker 3: two Germany. You may have heard the story of Helmuth Hubner.
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  Speaker 3: He's known especially in LDS circles. He uh, this is
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  Speaker 3: a sort of story they tell in Sunday School. He
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  Speaker 3: was a teenager in Germany in nineteen forty one, raised
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  Speaker 3: LDS and he ends up getting access to banned books
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  Speaker 3: and the BBC on radio. So he starts figuring out
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  Speaker 3: that Hitler is you know, bad, not a good guy,
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  Speaker 3: not a good guy, and.
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  Speaker 1: Lying and so on.
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  Speaker 3: So he starts on the slide writing pamphlets and sticking
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  Speaker 3: them in mailboxes all around Hamburg, and he gets a
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  Speaker 3: couple of his friends involved as well. It's very exciting
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  Speaker 3: for these teams. It's like, you know, a big adventure,
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  Speaker 3: but until the Gestapo figures out what's going on, and
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  Speaker 3: then then the stuff gets really bad. The guy that
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  Speaker 3: directed this, Matt Whitaker. He co wrote Saints and Soldiers,
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  Speaker 3: which is a well known LDS World War I two
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  Speaker 3: drama from like twenty years ago. It's funny that Jered
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  Speaker 3: Drusie has worked as PA's on that movie when they
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  Speaker 3: when they were just out of BYU. Matt Whitaker spent
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  Speaker 3: twenty years trying to make this movie. It's not as
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  Speaker 3: melodramatic as you might expect. It's more even handed in
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  Speaker 3: its portrayal, not justif Houbner, but also the officer who
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  Speaker 3: finally caught him. Three Stars for Truth and Treason was
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  Speaker 3: filmed in Lithuania. For a second, I thought it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's sometimes sometimes with the movies like this, you they
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  Speaker 3: were filmed, you know, they used the Hebrew Valley railroad
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  Speaker 3: or something. But no, this is so in Lithuania is
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  Speaker 3: actually not bad. It's an Angels Angel Studios. Thankfully, they
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  Speaker 3: don't do the thing they usually do where they put
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  Speaker 3: a QR code at the end ask you to buy
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  Speaker 3: tickets for the next person, which is kind of kind
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  Speaker 3: of scammy, I think, in my in my opinion, in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion, all right, all right, after the Hunt.
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  Speaker 1: After the Hunt.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this is a big, heavy drama and it's really good.
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  Speaker 3: Probably the best word Julia Roberts has done in a while.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So you're happy. I'm sure you're happy to hear.
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  Speaker 2: That Tina gets paid every time she supports Lea Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad somebody's getting something out of it. I have
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  Speaker 1: to go all the way down to Santa Quin for
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  Speaker 1: the for the club meetings. That's a big family.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. She plays Alma, who's an English professor at Yale
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  Speaker 3: teaches his creative writing and whatnot. She has to deal
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  Speaker 3: with an accusation made by her protege, Maggie played by
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  Speaker 3: Io Adebris, and Maggie tells Alma that another professor who's
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  Speaker 3: one of Almah's best friends, Hank played by Andrew Garfield
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  Speaker 3: Uh sexually assaulted her.
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  Speaker 1: So Alma has to figure out who to believe.
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  Speaker 3: And because Alma has some history with Hank and a
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  Speaker 3: compliment which is complicated, and it complicates her marriage to
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  Speaker 3: Frederick played by Michael Stoolbark And it's also complicated by
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  Speaker 3: something else in.
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  Speaker 1: Almah's past, which we find out about later.
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  Speaker 3: This is directed by Luca Gwadinino, who did Challengers and
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  Speaker 3: Called Me by Your Name and the Suspiria remake. You
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  Speaker 3: can tell he did this movie to provoke a reaction.
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  Speaker 3: There are there are signs all over he's trying to
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  Speaker 3: start people talking and arguing about race and class and.
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  Speaker 1: Other forms are privilege.
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  Speaker 3: Even actually in the open the opening credits, you can
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  Speaker 3: tell he's trying to to to do you know, get
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  Speaker 3: your goat, because he does the opening credits in the
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  Speaker 3: typeface windsor uh windsor light con condensed, which is the
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  Speaker 3: same typeface Whatody Allen used in all of this movie.
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  Speaker 3: And so, okay, you're you're evoking what he allen, a
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  Speaker 3: movie about privilege and sexual assault and stuff. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're saying you're saying something there. I wonder how
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  Speaker 3: many people would pick up on that movie movie freaks
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  Speaker 3: would yeah, and and and will and half that I've
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  Speaker 3: been reading. It's all very interesting to watch this happen,
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  Speaker 3: and the performances iOS A Debris is good, which I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if if you watched The Bear you knew that already.
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  Speaker 3: Julia is good, Edar, Garfield's good, Stoolbart's good. Kloy seventy
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  Speaker 3: isn't here as well? Really, she's she's she's interesting. She
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  Speaker 3: she sort of laghs low for a good half of
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  Speaker 3: the movie, and then when she does come in in full,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, okay, yeah, she's three and a half stars
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  Speaker 3: sight halfter the Hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. And it's also playing in theaters everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You like that one, Okay, let's see now. Next next
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  Speaker 2: week we have Frankenstein.
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  Speaker 3: We have Frankenstein, directed by Giamro del Toro, who has
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  Speaker 3: been wanting to make this movie forever, and you can
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  Speaker 3: tell that by every other movie he's yeah with This
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  Speaker 3: one has Oscar Isaac as Victor and Jacob Elordi as
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  Speaker 3: the monster Monster. Possibly next week you also have Springsteen
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  Speaker 3: Delivered Me from Nowhere, which is the biopic of Bruce
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  Speaker 3: Springsteen played by Jeremy Allen White. And there's Regretting You
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  Speaker 3: eighteen romance that's also a grown up romance. It's based
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  Speaker 3: on a Colleen Hoover novel. So this this movie will
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  Speaker 3: help you fake it through your next book club Gina,
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  Speaker 3: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, h and do you It ends with us.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've seen Frankenstein I have.
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  Speaker 3: Would you like to just drop a little hint? Can
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  Speaker 3: you a bit? I can say that it's it's very
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  Speaker 3: definitely the movie Girmo was born to.
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  Speaker 1: Make, born to me. All right, all right right, I
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  Speaker 1: bet that could either be good. That's just vague enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's as vague as I can get. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Allay Sean means thank thank you, movie cricket dot net
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  Speaker 2: and of course the salt Lake Revue on sl trib
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  Speaker 2: dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles, thank you very much,