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Shin Godzilla Vs John Carpenter · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday, Barry Nixon with the one and only Jason Riley.
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We are very pleased to be with you once again, the podcast you
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can consume and we invite you to whenever you have a break at
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work. And Jason, you've been working
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hard, as have I. But before we talk about how
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hard we we work here at Two Shot Studios, let's wet our whistles
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with our first shot of the evening.
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And then let's dive headlong into this thing, because it is
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damn cold out there, Jay. It sure is, Barry, but we're
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going to be warmed up and I have a feeling we may sync up on our
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shot if it's the same as the last little while.
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I'm going to the Bear face, one of our favorites from the
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Whiskey Global. I continue to enjoy that bottle.
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How? What have you got?
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Jay, we are perfectly In Sync, my friend.
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Here's to you. Cheers.
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Yeah, Jay, once you put that in my mind about the Maple syrup,
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that's all I taste now. Yeah, I was.
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Fantastic. The notes change a bit, like I'm
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getting less of the Maple syrup on this one, huh?
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I'm getting more or. Maybe more, I got a little more
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heat than I did the last time we had this.
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So and you've got, maybe you've got more of the Maple syrup in
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that syrup in that bottle. I'm not sure exactly how the
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levels work, but I'm enjoying it.
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Bear Face Whiskey. I'm glad we discovered that one.
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I'm glad it was our first stop on the tour at the Whiskey
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Global that we continue to discuss.
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We enjoyed it so much. It was fantastic.
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And one last thing before we move on.
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It's Canadian. Yeah, we know how important it
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is to support Canada and all Canadian products, whether they
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be liquid or whether they be something you can sit on.
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Support Canada. We're all about that here.
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Even gaseous ones, Yeah, solid, liquid, gaseous.
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So if there's a gaseous product that you're thinking of that's
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Canadian and you have an option, go with the Canadian gas.
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Yeah, that's a, that's a good call.
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All right, let's get into this thing, Jim.
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All right, let's do it. You know what?
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This is a pretty big episode just from the way that you kind
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of pumped it up today because you have quite a dilemma on your
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hands, Mr. Nixon, and I'm here to help solve that dilemma.
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Why don't you share with our listeners, with our viewers
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exactly what you what? What's what's tearing at you?
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Hey. What's tearing at you?
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What's making you consider ending your own life?
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It's not that bad, but I will say this, I have put my
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entertainment for the evening, the fate, my fate in your
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capable hands because arriving today at The Newsroom was 2K
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releases and I don't know which one to choose.
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So, viewers and listeners, I turned this over to Jason
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because he's the only guy who I trust to make this decision on
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my behalf. I got Shin Godzilla in 4K, the
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limited steelbook. We've heard good things and John
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Carpenter's part of his Apocalypse trilogy in the Mouth
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of Madness starring Sam Neil, and that came in the Super
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deluxe Arrow release. Jay you may want to.
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I know you haven't seen it, but maybe when you do see it, you
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might want to consider Arrow always does a great job with all
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their supplements. I got to tell you, I love all
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the extra non disc swag that they include.
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And this thing is it looks like a Bible, Jay.
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It's thick and it's and it's going to look fantastic on my
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shelf anyway. I've turned it entirely to you.
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My fate is in your hands, Sir. Well, because we've got to
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stretch on for a few more minutes, I'm going to ask you
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questions to help us get to the right solution for you.
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I do want to say the only my first foray into Arrow is was
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the spawn release. No extra swag, no real steel
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book of any kind really. I don't want to say it was let
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down, but it was that was a bit of a disappointment.
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But I am, as you know, I have a purchase in from Arrow US and
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I'm excited to have one of their exclusives come.
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I'll talk about that in December when it arrives.
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Yeah, that's a good call. Now why you didn't get the extra
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stuff, Jay is usually if you are going to get an extra bit from
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Arrow, you got to look for the letters L&E beside the release.
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If you see that, then yeah, well, there you go.
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They just sort of shipped it and that's fine.
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Not every release needs to be as thick as the Bible, but some do,
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and so I invite you to look for that next time you decide to
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buy. Yeah, I guess they weren't
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expecting Spawn to be a real big seller enough for them to go
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through the effort of, you know, some of the extra work that they
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would have, the extra cost of bringing in, which I'm sure they
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would have passed along to me. So it would have been nice to
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have, especially because it was. And I don't want to detract from
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your two choices, but just while we're on the Arrow releases,
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because it's based on a Todd McFarlane Image crop comics
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property. Like, he's an artist, he's a
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writer. It could have come with a signed
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first issue of the comic. It could have come with so many
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different things, character sketches, the development of
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these characters because they had been around for years before
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being there. So if I'm an Arrow, I'm like,
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you didn't just miss that. They didn't just miss that fact.
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There was a conscious choice to said no, no, no plastic case
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sleeve, one disc, special features on that disc and that's
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it. Not Blu-ray with the special
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features. Ship it, get it done.
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Not that cheap and we're going to pocket this money from the
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suckers that like Spawn, which is not a great movie, but
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fantastic looking, I will say that.
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Fantastic restoration and we're going to invest that money into
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things like what's the movie you got?
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What's the name in the mouth of Vadnais?
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Part of the John Carpenter Apocalypse Trilogy?
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J This movie needed to be handled with a little more
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loving care, and clearly they've done that, at least from the
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from the packaging perspective. OK, so we've talked about that.
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Let's talk about let's get you to a movie this evening, shall
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we? Let's get you to a movie.
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I need something to do Jay. I need your help.
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Let's. Shin Godzilla that you purchased
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when I brought it up because you're such a fan of Godzilla -1
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And I had been served up a Google ad for Shin Godzilla
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saying it was being released again in theaters.
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And it had been I think in Japan, maybe limited release as
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well in the US and even Canada. And this was one that we had
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missed. This was, I believe, a 2016 that
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has been called superior to Godzilla -1.
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Right. And when I read that, yeah, it
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is that you're treading on some sacred ground, because I really
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couldn't find a single thing wrong with -1 I thought -1 was
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amazing. Probably the best of the bunch.
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So could this be perfection on top of perfection?
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Like just because 1 is. Better perfection, Jay.
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Double perfection, perfection plus one because you have, you
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have Godzilla -1 perfection plus one.
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Well done. So perhaps this could be an
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absolute like don't go in there looking for issues.
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I would say when you do watch this, and you will watch both at
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some point, it's not like we're throwing one away.
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No, we're not. It's a first.
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So I want you to because I'm, I'm a little worried you might
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be going in looking for flaws that will sort of dispute
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knocking this precious Godzilla -1 from its perch.
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I don't want that. Because let's keep in mind,
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Barry, you now own both. They're both your children.
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And you know, as I've heard well described about children, I've
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heard there was a father that said with children, multiple
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children. I do play favorites.
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But that changes. From day-to-day.
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So I Ioffer that wisdom to you, Barry.
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What do you think? Thank you.
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As a couple of non dads, this is amazing stuff.
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Yeah, it really is now. OK, I took your advice, in fact.
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Well, I guess ultimately it was Google that served it to you,
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but then you felt it incumbent upon you to serve it to me.
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So thank you for doing that. I've not seen in Godzilla, so I
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purchased this sight unseen, Jay, based on your
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recommendation. Also on the tomato score, which
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is very high, they said it's quite different though in terms
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of like this one is more Godzilla is.
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I think he's kind of more sinister, whereas in -1 he
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looked to be a little bit like he was trying to help.
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And so this one is more like back to him just wanting to
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destroy things and, you know, in inflicting terror on the the
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city of Tokyo. So I don't know.
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Now they both have subtitles. Sometimes when people are tired,
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they don't want to read. So I'm not saying I'm tired
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today, but. These are factors, Jay.
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These are facts. How are you feeling?
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How are you? Feeling great, in fact.
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So you could read for an hour, 45, two hours.
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You're, I hope, decided to fold too, but it might be I I didn't
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check. The run.
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So that's important too. I hadn't even considered your,
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your, you know, emotional and physical well-being at this
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point, so. Well, some of that factors to
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picking a movie, Jay. Yeah, Shin Godzilla's I
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understand it was the license coming back to Toho or they had
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moved away now from these US? Toho, OK.
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They license it out to be and so they've licensed it out to the
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US group that made the Kong Godzilla and all that kind of
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stuff. Now they've brought it back and
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Shin Godzilla was kind of, as I understand it, their reset and
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things were going to go from there.
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But then somehow, and I don't know how Godzilla -1 came into
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play. So they obviously made a very
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different movie. I, I, they have licensed it to
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two different studios. I'm not sure how that works.
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Right. Yeah.
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So either way, I'm excited to see it and I got to say it is a
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very handsome steel book. So they did a nice job with the
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packaging. Important.
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So that is important. You know, let's talk about the
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mouth of madness for a minute. Let's do it inside the mouth of
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madness. The mouth of madness.
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Just in the mouth. In the Mouth of Madness, Yeah.
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Part 2. Part 1.
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Part 3 of the trilogy. That's a good question.
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I don't know. I know it's just part of said
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trilogy. I don't know where it sits and I
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if you were to press me on, what are the other two?
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We'd have to. We'll be right back.
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It would be one of those. Situations.
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OK, I see. Yeah, but.
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It's irregardless. It is in the mouth of madness,
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yeah. In the mouth of Madness.
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So we don't know that it's like it's not built like a Star Wars
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trilogy where one builds another.
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It's more thematic, the trilogy, right?
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Is that true? That is my understanding, Jay,
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from the minimal amount of research that I.
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Did great. So so you could be walking into
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a Part 2. And so I'm also concerned about
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this. I don't want you to be confused
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for a lot of the night. So if you're coming in on a
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hard, hard Part 2, you could have little satisfaction going
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in and then be left hanging if it's a true trilogy.
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I don't think you feel about that.
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I think you hit it earlier. I think it's trilogy in in theme
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only. They're not connected stories.
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Got it. OK.
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That's important so that that sort of puts the cities as you
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can go in and enjoy this as a complete movie in itself.
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Now I do have a question about runtimes.
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You may not know the answer to this.
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What are the runtimes of each film?
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Do you have any idea? That's a great question as well,
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Jay, a very well thought out question.
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And unfortunately, I do not at this time have the answer, but I
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do hope it's sub the two hours because as you know, that's the
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the wheelhouse that you and I like to live in for when it
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comes to movies nowadays. OK, so there's hope.
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We're going by hope it's around 2 hours.
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Hope Godzilla -1 was just about two hours if I remember
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correctly. I think it was, yeah, it was
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like 2 O1. It was like just crested two if
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I recall. But that was you didn't feel
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that runtime, Jay. And I challenge anybody who says
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that they felt that runtime. Yeah, to.
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Yeah, but but it gives us a window into what Shin might be.
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And then on John Carpenter, his movies are usually in then like
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1:45 to 2:00 or like 145 range. Yeah, they don't overstay their
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welcome. So that's good.
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So it kind of gives us an idea. Like us?
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Yeah, it's a movie you can enjoy on your break if your break was
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a full 2 hours. Yeah, exactly.
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OK, so we got, we think we're safe on the sequels.
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How are you feeling about the look?
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So one's a steel book, the other's not, Or they're both
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steel books. Yeah, Arrow doesn't really do
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steel books. That's one thing you'll notice.
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So. That's not a steel book.
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So the one's plastic and the other's a steel book.
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Right, but the arrow 1 is, like I said, is is thick as a Bible.
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So it's it's a loaded package. It's a handsome package, but
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it's just not made of steel. Whereas the Shin Godzilla, they,
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they made it steel, which is cool.
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So how are you feeling then? And that's why where I'm getting
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to this tonight. How do you feel your Dexterity
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Steel books are very easy to open.
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Everything's contained. This other one is quite large
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and you might feel the need to kind of flip through.
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Are you kind of in a in a restless mood where you would
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like to flip through things like lobby cards and booklets?
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I might I might like to do a little flipping and check out
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those lobby cards. And also, you're right about
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having more non disc swag in the package, but it all kind of
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slides out at the same time and then you're kind of fumbling for
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a second or two. So is it as smooth a, you know,
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operation as just popping the disk out of the steelbook?
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Probably not. But how are you feeling tonight?
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I the way I kind of hear it is you're OK with that?
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You wouldn't mind maybe flipping looking at some things, OK.
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I'm ready to flip, Jack. I think I've made a decision
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and. Should we have our second shot
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before you render said decision? Yeah, I could see you have the
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face of a true adjudicator you have, given you've weighed all
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the facts and the case. I can't wait to see what I'm
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going to be watching tonight. Jay, it's some Bare Face whiskey
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coming right at you. And you called me the face of an
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adjudicator. The bare face of an adjudicator.
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Right here. Outstanding.
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Cheers. We're still getting that Maple
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syrup, Jay. Yeah, it's.
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Perfect time of year for this kind of whiskey.
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It really is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We're tapping the trees and we're getting the syrup.
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I love that. Meanwhile, Bearface is writing
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us going, there's no Maple syrup in this guy's.
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Could you stop saying Maple can? You stop saying that.
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Yeah, but it's just the notes, like you said.
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The notes, Jay. Notes you want to hear, you
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know, that's what you get. And maybe if not, if there's no
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Maple syrup, perhaps a line extension, maybe two shot
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Tuesday presents bare face with Maple syrup because we all
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connect, OK? We'll talk.
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I love it. Here's what I think.
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All right, here's what I think. I think that I think that
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there's AI see a little hesitation on your part.
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I think I hit not a nerve, but I hit the right tenor when I'm
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like, you might be right, Willie, looking to find faults
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in Shin Godzilla that aren't there that you won't appreciate
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finding. If you can kind of watch it when
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you're in a more relaxed mode, when you're like, God, I got to
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watch this movie. So that's one thing I noticed.
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The second is you didn't seem very concerned about walking
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into the middle of the trilogy and you're kind of set that it's
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thematic and you're pretty comfortable with it being
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thematic. But either way, the Barry T
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Nixon I know is a risk taker and a risk taker will go into the
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middle of a trilogy and go what, what, what's going on?
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I don't care. I'm enjoying it.
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Exactly. Yeah, you'll take it, the bull
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by the horns. And I also think that if you did
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get a bit confused, you might like to have some lobby cards to
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flip through while you're doing. Also reading after a long day at
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the office, working hard, doing a podcast on top of that can be
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fairly challenging. And I don't want you to lose any
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of ruling. Some might say Jay.
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Yeah, exactly. So for those reasons, I think
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we're already leaning. It's in the Mouth of Madness is
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what I think would be your best watch.
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OK, Jay, thank you very much. I will watch that and I will
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tell you all about it. Well, I will tell you some
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things about it because you haven't seen it.
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It's a great 1 and I do want us to watch it together at some
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point in the future, but I'll give you a spoiler free 30,000
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Foot View review. OK I love this for our listeners
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and our viewers. Before we go, want to do 1 quick
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RIP from the headlines? I do.
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I'm glad that we still have time.
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We do. We have time.
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We have time for a quick one. Here we go.
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Let's do interesting from thebbc.com.
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You've sent me this headline and I'm going to read just the
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headline. For those joining us for the
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first time, we give you the news one headline at a time.
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We don't go past the headline and we discuss it and we'll give
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you the full story. Here it is.
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Willpower doesn't exist, period. Why?
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So much of your health isn't your fault, Right?
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Somber. Yeah.
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Yeah. I feel like I'm.
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I'm hearing the goodwill hunting.
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It's not your fault. It's not your fault.
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It almost sounds like they're trying to let you off the hook
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for bad habits, Jay. Yeah.
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Doesn't that kind of feel like that?
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Oh, it's OK that you're not feeling great, or you're little,
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perhaps a little sluggish or whatever.
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It's not you. It's the medical system or it's
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the environment. I don't know.
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Or it's in your genes. It's like a genetic blame for a
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lot of these things. But basically it's saying
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willpower doesn't exist. So if it doesn't exist, so there
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we go. But if we take the headline and
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and as fact that willpower doesn't exist, what could be the
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thing that gets people to take on challenges and actually do?
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Like you quit smoking on a dime at one point in your life.
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Nicotine gone, didn't look back. That's true.
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There's got to be some willpower, or at least some
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resolve, or what I like to call good old Barry Teenix and
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gumption. That's very nice of you, Jay.
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I was also a very young man when I decided to hang up my spurs
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when it came to tobacco, I think.
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In the woods. The only real motivator if
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willpower doesn't exist. If we're going to proceed with
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the assumption that it doesn't exist, the only thing I can
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think of that would motivate someone to change their life is
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to see examples in other people of what they might like to
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achieve. You know what I mean?
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So like if someone wants to change their body, for example,
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you might look to someone who is in shape and say, I want to
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emulate that person. Whatever they're doing, I'd like
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to do that. Too.
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Yeah, maybe it's, yeah, maybe it's.
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Yeah, exactly. So finding inspiration as
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opposed to willpower and then just having the, like, momentum
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to go on. You got to have a plan, some
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momentum. So that's, yeah, I think that's
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an interesting thing. Yeah.
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Now, do you think willpower is a real thing or not a real thing?
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I, I think I'm with you. I think it's more like you have
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a goal and you're kind of working towards it and you
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understand the consequences of making say bad choices or
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choices off of the path and you have to keep focused towards it.
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So maybe it's not so much will this kind of hanging on to
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something as aspirational, something that you're working
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towards. Yeah, so I agree.
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Perhaps willpower is dead. So if we agree with the first
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part of that or take it as it is, I'm just looking again, why
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so much of your health isn't your fault?
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Yeah, that's where. That's a bit.
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That that part kind of loses me a little bit because it it's
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kind of giving you an out. It's like letting you off the
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hook before you've even tried to maybe to do something like,
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yeah, you know what I mean? So I'm not sure that that's
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necessarily a positive thing if people are truly trying to
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change something in their life that isn't working to give them
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an out in the first head like at the second sentence.
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Is, yeah. I don't know, I'm just not sure
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and you should. Try it like I had like I'll
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share before we go on it is time to run.
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But like I had, I'm now taking a statin something for cholesterol
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that I had to take because it was up.
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And I said, before you put me on it, I want to have, you know,
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give me 60 days to just eat healthy.
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And I did I cooked. I you saw me.
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I was doing the Taco thing where I was had I had a wrap and
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chicken and I like, I was making it all home for like 60 days and
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I went hard and it just didn't come down enough.
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And then they said you should have this.
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It's mostly genetics and I took it and now it's down and
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everything's fine. So I, I couldn't get there a
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willpower alone, but I work towards it.
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And now I found that right balance and occasionally you
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need a little help from a little pink pill and that was fine in
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that case. So I don't know where I'm going
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with that, but it's like that, that health wasn't my fault.
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It wasn't because I was eating so terribly up to this point.
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It just I was more predisposed to have and, and it is in my
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family, I was more predisposed to have that.
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But there are solutions that I can work on to to do better.
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That's true. You can't change your genetics,
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but you can change your attitude, and I think that's a
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nice thing to leave our viewers and listeners with on this
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week's episode. We will be with you again next
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So that's right. That's us.
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See you next week by the headline.
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Yeah, Yep. See you next week.
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