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Sean Means Movies For May 30th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. Say I'm tired of waiting
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm bad, I'm new sorry. Sean Means is here from
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  Speaker 2: the Salid Tribune and he's one of the invisible hands
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  Speaker 2: behind the paper.
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  Speaker 1: But see his hands, they're right there. But he's also
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  Speaker 1: a film critic.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to movie cricket dot net for all
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  Speaker 2: of his stuff and sltrib dot com for the rest.
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  Speaker 1: What have we got?
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  Speaker 3: We got fourth four movies to talk about. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot to say about Karate Kid Legends, Karate Kid,
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  Speaker 3: Karate Kid. It's this is It's ninety four minutes and
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  Speaker 3: it's boring. It's like what Shakespeare once said is tedious brief.
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  Speaker 3: This is a legacy sequel. It's trying to tie up
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  Speaker 3: some of the loose ends by tying together the two.
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  Speaker 1: Branches of the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Daniel LaRusso, the original hero of the first
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  Speaker 3: two movies, played by Rath Macchio. And you've got mister Hahn,
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  Speaker 3: who's the kung fu teacher played by Jackie Chan in
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  Speaker 3: the in the last movie when when when it was
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  Speaker 3: the Karate Kid, but they were doing kung fu and
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  Speaker 3: not karate I mean.
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  Speaker 1: This could have been a good they could have done.
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  Speaker 3: You've got You've got one of mister Hans's best students,
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  Speaker 3: Lee Fong uh young actor named Ben Wong. He's actually
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  Speaker 3: he's actually pretty cool. He moves to New York with
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  Speaker 3: his mom, who's a doctor played by Mg nah Win
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  Speaker 3: Her love her.
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  Speaker 1: Uh mom.
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  Speaker 3: Mom tells Lee no fighting for reasons. There's that we
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  Speaker 3: get into later. Uh. But Lee encounters some bullies and
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  Speaker 3: he figured the bullies. The bullies are the biggest bully
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  Speaker 3: is like the champion of the of the New York
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  Speaker 3: five Burroughs uh karate contest. And the second you hear
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  Speaker 3: that mentioned, it's like, well, we know where this movie
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  Speaker 3: is gonna wind up at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But he's been training kung fu, so he has to
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  Speaker 3: learn karate and that's when Lee bring you know, Lee called.
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  Speaker 3: Lee calls mister Han, and mister Han calls Daniel and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: uh yeah, heavens it's boring. Uh, it's all the storylines
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  Speaker 3: are ridiculous and predictable, and the only good part art
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  Speaker 3: is that is watching Macio and Chance sort of go
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  Speaker 3: back and forth as their training. Yeah, they're they're they're
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  Speaker 3: they're kind of fun. But you wish there was more
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  Speaker 3: of that. Of the two of them. You don't actually
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  Speaker 3: get Macio into the movie until about fifty minutes in.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, all right, two stars legends.
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  Speaker 2: You got Jackie Channon. You wasted him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not he's not doing full speed, you know,
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  Speaker 3: stuff like anymore.
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  Speaker 1: He can be very charming, all right. Yeah. Next, Jane
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  Speaker 1: Austin Wrecked My Life. Yes, that's that's actually the title.
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  Speaker 3: This is a this is a charming little romantic comedy
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  Speaker 3: that's actually French. It's it's it's split between France and England.
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  Speaker 3: It's about half in French, half in English. We have
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  Speaker 3: Agatha who is a writer who's stuck in her writing
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  Speaker 3: in her life. She works in Paris in a bookstore,
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  Speaker 3: the only famous bookstore you know in Paris because you've
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  Speaker 3: seen it in other movies like Before It's where Ethan
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  Speaker 3: Hawk did his book reading and Before Sunset.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a friend possible boyfriend who works there.
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  Speaker 3: Send some of her writing to the Austin Residency, which
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  Speaker 3: is a two week writers or tree in England, to
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  Speaker 3: where you go and write and soak up the atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: where Jane Austen used to be and stuff and so
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  Speaker 3: she's scared her doing it, but she goes anyway, and
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  Speaker 3: the first person she encounters is Oliver, who is the
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  Speaker 3: son of the people running the residency.
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  Speaker 1: Is he cute, He's very cute. He's cute.
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  Speaker 3: He's the great he's the great, great great grand nephew
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  Speaker 3: of Jane Austen, and he's a literature professor and he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't like Jane Austen. So so Agatha takes an instant
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  Speaker 3: dislike to him. And if you know Jane Austen, you
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  Speaker 3: know that's how pride and Prejudice starts. That's the prejudice.
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  Speaker 3: So we know where this movie is going, but how
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  Speaker 3: it gets there is really the fun part, because this
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  Speaker 3: woman who plays Agatha is really funny, really trying. My
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  Speaker 3: name is Camille Rutherford. And it's not just about the romance.
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  Speaker 3: It's also about the fear of writer's block and the
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  Speaker 3: idea of facing a blank page in writing, as in life,
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  Speaker 3: is you know, always a challenge for people.
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  Speaker 1: Three stars for Jane Austin Wrecked My Life.
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  Speaker 3: It's over the Broadway, all right, bring her, bringing her back.
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  Speaker 1: This is a horror movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is This is the Philippoo Brothers who did
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  Speaker 3: talk to me, which was that creepy one last year
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  Speaker 3: about the hand. Yeah, you shook the hand and it
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  Speaker 3: took you to the dark, to the other side, and
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  Speaker 3: it still creeps me out. They seem to like the
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  Speaker 3: other side, the dark side, the veil between this world,
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  Speaker 3: the and the next world.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a brother and sister who have to go
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  Speaker 3: into foster care when their stepdad suddenly dies, and they're
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  Speaker 3: staying with Laura, who's foster mom, who seems really nice,
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  Speaker 3: really fun, but there's something a little bit weird going on.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe it's the other kid who's staying with him,
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  Speaker 3: who seems who's mute and seems almost like he's possessed
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  Speaker 3: or something.
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  Speaker 1: He's just really creeping up. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Sally Hawkins who we love from like Shape of Water
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  Speaker 3: and Yeah, the first two Paddington movies, she plays the
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  Speaker 3: foster mom.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, and that's why you want to see this movie.
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  Speaker 3: She she really Oh right, I can't I really can't
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  Speaker 3: say a lot because it's no spoilers here. It's really
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  Speaker 3: well done. It will scare the living crap out of you.
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  Speaker 3: And Sally Hawkins is really good, really unsettling. Three and
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  Speaker 3: a half to bring her back if you Yeah, Katie's
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  Speaker 3: going to.
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  Speaker 1: Eat this up. Yeah, you're gonna like this one. And
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  Speaker 1: that's playing all over them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So now you're moving on to television what Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: go on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working Bill Bill Frost, Side of the Street from Anywhere, Mountainhead.
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  Speaker 1: This is play opening.
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  Speaker 3: It starts tomorrow night, Saturday night on HBO and then
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  Speaker 3: we'll be streaming on Max, HBO, Max, whatever they're calling.
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  Speaker 1: It this week.
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  Speaker 3: This this was filmed up in you up in Park
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  Speaker 3: City on a very quick schedule. This is the first
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  Speaker 3: project of Jesse Armstrong, the guy, the guy who created Succession.
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  Speaker 3: This is the first project he's done since Succession is over. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and it's his first feature for feature film.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is a film. This is in a series.
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  Speaker 3: In the series, this is just two hours and two
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  Speaker 3: hours and You're done right. And he wrote and directed
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  Speaker 3: and he wrote it in January. They film in March
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  Speaker 3: and it's out on HBO tomorrow, which tomorrow just happens
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  Speaker 3: to be the deadline for Emmy consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Every last second this is this is like when you
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  Speaker 1: open a movie on Christmas to get to the Oscars.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is yeah, can you does it feel like
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  Speaker 4: it was rushed, It feels urgent, it feels like you
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  Speaker 4: needed to do it quickly because it's dealing with stuff
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  Speaker 4: that is very here.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Okay, you have Jason Schwartzman.
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  Speaker 3: He's a rich tech bro who has a mansion on
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  Speaker 3: a mountain side and he invites three of his even
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  Speaker 3: richer friends for a poker weekend, played by Steve Corral,
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  Speaker 3: romy Yusef and Rommy Usseif if you remember from Poor Things,
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  Speaker 3: and Corey Michael Smith and you'll recognize him. He played
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  Speaker 3: Chevy Chase in the Saturday Night movie that was terrific.
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  Speaker 4: So was this like if like Elon and Jeff Bezos
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  Speaker 4: and Mark zucker.
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  Speaker 3: B I mean you can start picking up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Correl is sort of the the elder statesman of
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  Speaker 3: the Budge.
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  Speaker 1: So he's maybe the Gates or.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever, and and uh, chry megel Smith is his character
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  Speaker 3: is very definitely it's supposed to be Elon. But but
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  Speaker 3: but in the same way that Brian Cox is Rupert Burdock. Right,
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  Speaker 3: It's like you start that you start there as a
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  Speaker 3: sort of a sort of a character point jumping off point,
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  Speaker 3: and then you build from there. Okay, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Cory's character world rich, World's riches. Guys, he just added
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  Speaker 3: some tools to his massive online platform that's definitely not
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  Speaker 3: x uh. And it looks like those tools are adding
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  Speaker 3: to the disinformation and deep fakes out there, and they're
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  Speaker 3: causing riots and unrest all over the world. And so
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  Speaker 3: they're they're these guys are in this mansion and they're
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  Speaker 3: looking on their phones and the world is blowing up
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  Speaker 3: all on their phones, and we get we we start
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  Speaker 3: with denial like this isn't our fault to bargaining pretty
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  Speaker 3: fast as they go from they start figuring out how
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  Speaker 3: they can work this to their advantage. And it gets
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  Speaker 3: and then the spoilers will get into the rest of it,
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  Speaker 3: but it gets crazier from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the.
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  Speaker 3: Great performance is strong story. And the mansion it's it
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  Speaker 3: overlooks jordan'elle reservoir. It listed last year for sixty five
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  Speaker 3: million dollars. And it's the cliche they say the house
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  Speaker 3: is a character, but it really kind of is.
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  Speaker 1: Three and a half stars.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, And it's on anything said HBO tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 3: and they want streaming on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go to sl trip dot com, I
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  Speaker 1: interviewed all.
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  Speaker 3: Four of those actors, very nice and we talk and
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  Speaker 3: we talked a lot about the house. I was also
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  Speaker 3: eyeing you for the review on this because my brother
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  Speaker 3: was a PA on this. And if you see Tucker
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  Speaker 3: Davis in the credits, for me a photo of that
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  Speaker 3: so I can give it to my mom. Okay, all
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  Speaker 3: get on HBO tomorrow night and you can do it
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  Speaker 3: yourself three and a half for three and a half
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 1: So next week the Phoenicians scheme.
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  Speaker 3: Phoenician scheme, New Wes Anderson movie with Benicio del Toro
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  Speaker 3: and Mia Threppleton.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know, but you do kind of do because
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  Speaker 1: she is the daughter of Kate Winslet. Does she look
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  Speaker 1: like Kate Winslet a bit? She definitely acts like that.
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  Speaker 3: We also get to Ballerina Ballerina, which is the sort
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  Speaker 3: of spin off from the John Wick World with anadamas
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  Speaker 3: and Life of Chuck. Life of Chuck, which I'm hearing
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  Speaker 3: good things. Yes, they they're being kg about showing it
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  Speaker 3: to us, but we're going to get there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Seawan me sl trip dot com or movie cricket dot net.
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  Speaker 4: I just reposted your review of that, Sean on Twitter
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  Speaker 4: if somebody wants to look at that