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

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and I'm welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Stephane Never told your production of I Heart Radio, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another sub subsegment of fictional women around the world.
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  Speaker 1: We're moving out of Star Wars territory today. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be back soon enough, don't you worry. But we
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  Speaker 1: are talking about one of my faves, Valkyrie, both for
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  Speaker 1: Pride Month and also because I'm getting pretty excited about
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming movie thor Love and Thunder. I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: revisit that after we've seen it um, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be primarily focused on her incarnation in the Marvel
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  Speaker 1: Cinematic Universe or the m c U, played by the
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  Speaker 1: fantastic Tessa Thompson Um. And as always with these episodes,
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  Speaker 1: that can get a bit messy trying to keep track
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  Speaker 1: of and clearly explain everything when it's of this huge,
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  Speaker 1: expansive and frequently rebooted universe. Now we've got multiverse upon multiverse,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to do our best. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons we're focusing on Valkyrie in the movies is
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  Speaker 1: she's actually kind of more prominent in the movie then
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  Speaker 1: she's in the comics. From what I understand and listeners
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  Speaker 1: you can write in if I'm incorrect on that, but
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  Speaker 1: it seems like she got a bigger role in the
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  Speaker 1: movie than she does have in the comics. You can
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  Speaker 1: see the movie crush I did on Thora Ragnarok, which
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  Speaker 1: is the first movie she appeared in. She would like
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about that, and just in case you're interested.
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  Speaker 1: After the success of Thora Ragnarok, a character kind of
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  Speaker 1: obviously based on Tessa Thompson was introduced in the comics.
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  Speaker 1: So that's interesting because originally this character was typically typically
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  Speaker 1: like blonde hair and blue eyed, uh'stereotypical Norwegian character. Tessa
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  Speaker 1: Thompson's version was saved by a version that looks like this.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that. It is complicated, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, okay, um, So Samantha is gonna go along
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  Speaker 1: with this ride as for you please is nodding. She's
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  Speaker 1: engaged everybody. Um, and if there are any questions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can stop me. I don't know that I'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to answer them, but I will draw on this.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Okay, here we go. So Valkyrie whose
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  Speaker 1: real name is bruin Hild in the comics, but has
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  Speaker 1: yet to be revealed in the m c U was
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  Speaker 1: once a valkyrie. Yeah, and that is the elite guard
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  Speaker 1: sworn to protect the throne of Ascard. So when the Valkyrie,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, I know this is confusing because there's the Valkyrie,
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  Speaker 1: but she's also called Valkyrie. Okay, all right, So when
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  Speaker 1: the Valkyrie went up against Odin's daughter, Lora's sister Hella,
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  Speaker 1: the goddess of death, they were obliterated. Everyone died except Valkyrie. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's the Thous's Valkyrie. Nicknaming hard this since she's the
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  Speaker 1: last remaining. So it makes more sense, it does, it does.
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  Speaker 1: It's just confusing when you're trying to Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so everyone died except yes, Valkyrie, including the Roman. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite sad, and actually I am not. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you can actually watch it anywhere, but I
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  Speaker 1: believe there is a deleted scene that has expanded, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's even sadder. As part of that expanded
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  Speaker 1: deleted scene, there's a woman who looks like the comic
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  Speaker 1: version of Valkyrie, i e. The blonde, blue eyed woman
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  Speaker 1: who saves Valkyrie, and it is implied that they were
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  Speaker 1: in love with each other or that they had a
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  Speaker 1: romantic relationship. So okay, Valkyrie escaped to the planet Scar,
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  Speaker 1: where she operated as a very successful, albeit frequently drunk,
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  Speaker 1: bounty hunter called Scrapper one for two um, and she's
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  Speaker 1: basically living in exile and wait him to die. Tessa
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  Speaker 1: Thompson has said that Valkyrie is bisexual. Um. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was this deleted scene another deleted scene from Thor
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  Speaker 1: Ragnarok of her leaving the bedroom of another woman. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently they're going to explore it more in the
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  Speaker 1: new movie, so we'll see. Uh. While fleeing from Hella,
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  Speaker 1: Thor crash lands on Sakar and Valkyrie fights off some
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  Speaker 1: bounty hunters trying to capture him, only to apprehend him
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  Speaker 1: herself and turn him over to the Grand Master Um
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  Speaker 1: played by Jeff Goldblum, who plans on pitting him against
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  Speaker 1: his champion in a fight for the planet's entertainment. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. The champion is the Hulk, who Valkyrie has
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  Speaker 1: been training to improve his fighting skills. They have a
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  Speaker 1: kind of cute, interesting relationship. When Thora realizes that Valkyrie
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  Speaker 1: was a Valkyrie, she snaps at him, telling him about
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  Speaker 1: what happened with Hella. How the throne is the lie.
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  Speaker 1: Thor convinces her to join the Revenger as he's calling them,
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  Speaker 1: and they escape the planet's a car. After Valkyrie kicks
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  Speaker 1: some serious ass and kind of takes control situation, she
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  Speaker 1: changes into her old Vacy uniform in order to fight
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  Speaker 1: for Ascard. When it becomes clear that they can't defeat
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  Speaker 1: Hella despite their best efforts, Thor kickstarts Ragnarok, which is
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  Speaker 1: the prophesized end of their planet, instructing Valkyrie to get
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  Speaker 1: the people on two ships to save them. So big
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  Speaker 1: fight happens. All of that happens. They decide to head
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  Speaker 1: to Earth, but are attacked by Thanos and his goons
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  Speaker 1: on the way. Valkyrie manages to escape with some survivors,
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  Speaker 1: and she did go on to survive the snap, basically
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  Speaker 1: running new Ascard in Norway while Thor grapples with depression.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't really see her survive so for the
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  Speaker 1: first part, and no, I think that they just were like,
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  Speaker 1: agency did she make it because she's not in Findy
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  Speaker 1: War at all? And then she shows up in your
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  Speaker 1: eye was very relieved when she showed up an end game,
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  Speaker 1: Um okay. Valkyrie takes charge and leans as Guardians during
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  Speaker 1: the Battle of Earth, which is the big final battle
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  Speaker 1: they have with Sanos. At the end of Avengers Endgame,
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  Speaker 1: Thora made Valkyrie the reigning sovereign of New Ascard. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't I'm not a good leader. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like it. You're good at it. Go you have
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  Speaker 1: my blessing, go forth. This makes her the first person
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  Speaker 1: to rule as Guardians that isn't part of the royal
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  Speaker 1: family um and you can see in the trailer it
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  Speaker 1: seems like she's something missing in her heart, there's something
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  Speaker 1: she wants. But I'm very excited. I'm very excited to
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. There's also I appreciate the scene in
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  Speaker 1: Thor Ragnarok four kind of gushes over her. He kind
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  Speaker 1: of has a celebrity moment of like, oh, you're a Valkyrie.
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to be one, And he says like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: but they're all women and so I couldn't be. But
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  Speaker 1: that's a like I liked up that was in there.
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  Speaker 1: She's definitely a very traumatized character. She's got the whole
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  Speaker 1: drinking to forget thing. She's very at least at first
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  Speaker 1: outwardly like I don't care about you or I don't
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  Speaker 1: care about your problems. I don't care about ascar, like,
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  Speaker 1: don't bother me with that. And I think like her
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  Speaker 1: putting on the Valkyrie uniform at the end and facing
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  Speaker 1: Hella and helping protect as cards and as guardians and
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  Speaker 1: then eventually become the leaders sort of is her grappling
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  Speaker 1: with that trauma, and you know, trauma never really like
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  Speaker 1: goes away, but having that kind of at least effort
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  Speaker 1: at healing. She's really good at what she does. She's
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  Speaker 1: got superhuman strength, she's got superhuman durability, speeds, dammin and reflexes,
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  Speaker 1: healing and longevity. I did find an interesting article about
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  Speaker 1: King Valkyrie as she's called and gender on Ascard. So
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  Speaker 1: here is a quote from Tessa Thompson from w nineteen
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  Speaker 1: as new King. She needs to find her queen, so
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  Speaker 1: that will be the first order of business. She has
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  Speaker 1: some ideas. I'll keep you posted. So that's interesting. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was kind of the article I read about.
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  Speaker 1: It was talking about how it seems in Ascard there
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  Speaker 1: are some things that break our traditional stereotypes when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to gender around women warriors. There's still also seems
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  Speaker 1: to be this idea of women being the carreers and
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  Speaker 1: sort of in this more traditional position and maybe Valkyrie
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  Speaker 1: breaking out of that. I don't know, but it was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It was interesting, So we shall see what happens. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's only like a week or two away. M
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  Speaker 1: Have you already got your tickets? I don't. I think
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  Speaker 1: I have some friends and I were talking about going
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  Speaker 1: in a drive through, and I'm just worried I'll like
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  Speaker 1: fried to a crisp the drive in drive in. I
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  Speaker 1: always say drive through, like that was the question of
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing was like any I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a point, but I did have a moment of like,
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  Speaker 1: I do that all the time. It's so frustrating, but
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  Speaker 1: you and I should find a weird off time to go. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think a double feature of what are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: do a double feature with? Though that's our tradition. I
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of movies I want to see that
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  Speaker 1: are coming out, if they'll they'll be out. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of horror movies coming out that I want to see. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have to vet these movies because the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of one husband traumatizing, Like I love horror,
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  Speaker 1: scary movies, the Slasher ones. I'm like, nah, nah, good
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  Speaker 1: now now I think kind of the ones I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about her Slasher. But I will I will let you
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  Speaker 1: know and you can have the final decision. Okay, what
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  Speaker 1: if it? What a twist that would be if the
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  Speaker 1: word took the horror movie? Like, what the hell? What
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  Speaker 1: the hell? You and I still need to come back
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  Speaker 1: and discuss dr strange multiverse. I'll have to wait. I'm
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  Speaker 1: waiting for it. I'm so ready. Okay, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime, this brings us to the end of
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