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Movie Talk: Missing · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all and welcome back to Daddy to talk, I'm your host
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  Robert. And today today we are going to
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  be jumping into not jumping into discussing a movie a Netflix
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  movie called missing. Now, missing is a mystery
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  thriller movie that stars storm read And the along as her mother
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  and lots of other great characters and actors bomb.
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  Shut out the storm read. Because a lot of y'all, you
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  know, I'm kind of getting more from everybody's with her work
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  recently, but a lot of our probably know her, as she plays
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  she's in Euphoria, she is Rouge younger sister, as it is, a dies
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  characters, little sister in the Suicide Squad movie.
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  She was eating A daughter and more recently in The Last of Us
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  TV show she was Riley. So so yeah, so storm.
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  Read here as a character named June alley.
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  Now, the basic setup for this movie is that it is basically as
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  the title suggests missing because it basically follows
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  June's mother going missing and how she's able to basically use
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  technology in her efforts to try to trade down and figure out
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  what happened to her mother. Now, what I'll say for this
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  discussion is that up front I'll give just kind of just general
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  spoiler-free thoughts but of course, if I do decide to go
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  into the spoilers a little bit later, I'll let y'all know and I
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  wore Of timestamps in the description below for when I do,
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  you know, hard spoilers. But for now just be just a
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  general overview and discussion of the movie and my thoughts on
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  itself. For those of you who might be
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  new here, who do not know a couple things about me, our
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  working at T, I've been in the tea field in the it field
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  professionally for a little over a decade now which is super
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  weird to say that I've been dealing with.
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  Technology in a professional sense for about 10 years or so
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  at this point. And, of course, obviously,
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  because this place this channel, I'm on podcasts, Etc, as called
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  Danny's to talk. So, obviously, I have five kids,
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  so, three signs, and twin girls. So this movie really hit me in a
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  couple different ways both as a parent.
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  And also, as somebody who Works with in technology and stuff as
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  well. And one thing about this movie
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  that I feel like it's both Hey great.
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  But also kind of like a horrifying.
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  Just remember reminder of the power of Technology because the
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  way that the movie was shot. So majority of the movie is kind
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  of shot from the perspective of storms character, basically, in
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  front of her webcam for a good chunk of the movie.
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  Just because she spends a lot of time at her computer doing
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  everything, you know, if, of course, no social media.
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  So, you know, chatting with her friends to where, you know, her
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  house has a has a ring light on it.
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  So every time know, there's activity outside.
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  She's getting a notification on the screen, so it was just very
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  fascinating. Like I said, just, you know,
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  stuff that we all kind of deal with and work with and our
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  day-to-day lives kind of laid out in the format.
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  That it was laid out in. But like I said, it was just
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  kind of just like a stark reminder of like how everything
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  we do is connected and can potentially be tracked and
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  traced and all these different things of our personal data
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  locations. Places, we've been to yada, yada
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  yada Can be used for both good as well as bad, you know.
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  Because you know, there are some examples in this movie, they
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  kind of showed if somebody is Savvy enough to where they can
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  track down information or they can they can discover a lot with
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  very little information and especially when it comes to
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  dealing with family or close friends that you know really
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  well sometimes it might be pretty easy.
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  See to try to, you know, guess what their passwords already get
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  into their email or different social media accounts, or you
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  know, people's habits and stuff. Where they'd be like places,
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  they places that they frequent and all of that stuff whenever
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  so, but, but yeah. But yeah, like I said this was
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  just very fascinating, just watch watching the evolution of
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  this character and this roller coaster from You know, her kind
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  of having this kind of weird standoffish relationship with
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  her mother. For some reason that you kind of
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  learn over the course of the movie and stuff.
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  But, you know, you know, and as a parent myself, and of course,
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  somebody who once was a child and teen and stuff for her,
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  because I think she, she's 18 in the movie where she, she just
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  turned 18, I towards the beginning of the movie.
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  Right. You know, just kind of just
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  never mind her sometimes. You don't know the full story on
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  both sides of the equation, but but sometimes we fail to realize
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  how harsh. You know, we might be towards a
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  person who really does have our best interest in mind.
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  And that sometimes, we might not always know, or be aware of the
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  true realities of Our life and sometimes family situations and
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  stuff because you know you think you might know somebody
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  regardless of if they're your parents your siblings your child
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  but you don't you might not always be able to not even a
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  might not. I feel like for most of the part
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  you are never really going to know 100%.
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  Of what a person is thinking going through, whatever you
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  might get close, you know, you might get a pretty high
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  percentage but there might still be some pieces that are missing.
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  You know, they either they don't feel comfortable sharing with
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  you or something that they might be ashamed to share with you and
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  things of that nature. So.
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  But but yeah. And this movie just constantly
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  had twists and turns Rivero's. And like I said, just along the
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  way, just kind of reminding you of, you know, like hey use your
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  resources, you know, because that that is something, you
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  know, I have my moments where I've, you know, try to do good
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  at that because back in college, my friends called me, I was kind
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  of like the researcher do the group because anytime somebody
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  was talking about something or whatever that I didn't know
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  about, or there's some, I was like, wait, why does?
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  Is that I'll be over in the corner on my phone, Googling it,
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  researching it looking it up and stuff like that and put trying
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  to put the pieces together and be the okay.
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  Here's the answer or hey, here's how we do this.
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  Here's how we do that. Just because with with the power
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  of Technology nowadays and how connected we are, like I said
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  all you need is a few bread crumbs to eventually lead you to
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  the whole pie so to speak. But Back bar, like I said that
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  this was a really dope watch, like I said something that I
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  highly recommend likes especially if you're into kind
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  of mystery thriller movies and stuff.
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  And like I said, just wanted to kind of get that that little
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  reminder of the power of these devices.
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  This technology that we have in our pockets that we're
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  constantly sitting in front of at all times and stuff.
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  So but ma'am so missing, highly recommended Go check it out.
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  Like I said, it's on Netflix. It's not that long.
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  It was what little a little under two hours.
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  So not too too bad. But yeah and so with that I am
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  not going to transition to speaking on a couple of specific
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  spoiler points throughout the movie.
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  So of course, if you ever watch the movie yet go check it out.
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  And then come back to finish hair in the rest of this
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  discussion. So like I said, spoilers and
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  three, two, one. You're still here.
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  All right, so Maiya they really took us on a freaking roller
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  coaster with this movie. With the set up at the beginning
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  of, you know, showing the footage, the kind of like the
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  kind of like family video of her father, when she was really
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  young and her father, having the bloody know.
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  So kind of Makes you think or lead you to believe I?
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  Oh he was sick or something whatever and then I know he
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  probably he possibly died from an illness or whatever yada yada
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  yada. Like I said for that to come
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  back full circle towards the end you find it like no he actually
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  wasn't dead. He was just a very abusive
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  father and husband we're not maybe not necessarily father
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  Beast to her when she was very tiny.
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  But to the mother he was no drugs and all this stuff
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  whatever. Still in it somehow.
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  ER stuff. And that basically the mother
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  basically got him put in jail and went through the whole
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  government thing of having her name and stuff.
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  Legally changed basically erasing everything of her past
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  and moving away, all that stuff. But in between those two booking
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  points of the movie. Just watching how like I said
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  the, you know, her going through this storm going through.
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  This cycle of depression, because it was close to Father's
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  Day, which I think, which, I guess was kind of close to her
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  birthday and stuff as well. But Father's Day, her mom is out
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  of the country on this trip. And so she is just partying,
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  drinking Heaven. Everybody all over at the house.
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  Whatever. And then the Sarah that it
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  reality hits of. Oh, okay, it's Monday mom.
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  I'm so going to pick up my Mom and her boyfriend, or whatever
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  from the airport. So let me go they whatever.
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  And so she's there for hours they never show up.
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  And then, you know, throughout the trip, there was like, small
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  hints, or, or the the boyfriend Kevin was sending her like,
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  videos or like pictures and all this stuff.
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  Whatever Bahamian. Your mama, hear me your mama
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  hair. Or hanging out, yada yada yada.
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  And then, like I said, first to discover later on his like, nah,
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  the mom actually that wasn't the mom, you know?
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  It's kind of like like a like a look-alike that he hired and
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  just seeing like her using taskrabbit at the beginning
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  because I like how certain applications whatever kind of
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  came back and other ways throughout the movie like you
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  know, her using taskrabbit too high.
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  Or somebody to clean the house, while she's going to pick
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  Harper, her mom, them from the airport and then her you scan
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  using, or trying to figure out what the taskrabbit equiv
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  equivalent was. And I believe was it was?
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  I think it was Columbia is where they were at.
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  Okay, yeah, yeah, Colombia and finding that out.
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  Then she meets this guy named Harvey and, you know, seeing
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  their relationship and kind of back and forth, build over the
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  course of this movie, you know, with her hiring him to try to go
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  to the hotel that, you know, that they supposedly was that
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  and all that, all that stuff which is just like very dope to
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  see Her using those different applications and stuff in these
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  different ways to kind of basically going outside of the
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  law, because the legal process of okay, getting with no get in
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  touch with the police, then eventually the FBI and them
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  having to work with the Colombian Embassy because there
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  is no, that's a different jurisdiction out of the country
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  and all that stuff. But because there's a time frame
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  about hey the hotel security footage, gets wiped every Eight
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  hours or guess. It only lasts for 48 hours
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  before it gets recorded over. And just seeing her like I said,
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  like like like like doing everything she felt like or
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  thought that she sure to try to help speed up the process to,
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  you know, getting into Kevin's emails and eventually towards
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  the end of the movie, getting to her, mom's emails, and all their
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  dating application things, and yada yada yada.
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  All that stuff was like, just like so fascinating to watch,
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  play out to how they kind of gave.
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  The misdirection with the lawyer lady who was also close friend
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  of the mom with making it seem like her and the dad and the,
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  the boyfriend or whatever were in cahoots, and maybe they had a
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  secret thing going on, only for us to later.
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  Find out that it's like, no, they, she was actually being
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  blackmailed in order to keep her safe.
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  She had to kind of like work with them on different stuff but
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  then unfortunately, you know, she ends up getting killed when
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  Storm or June starts getting too close to the truth and stuff.
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  And then of course, like I said, like liked or not, the end, like
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  the big reveal of like, oh, the dead is actually not dead but
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  the crazy coincidence. Him showing up right.
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  When she discovers that, there's a login for a security camera,
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  set up at some house, which ended up being the house that
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  she grew up at which because of the family photo that she had on
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  her background for computer kind of helped her piece together all
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  those missing things, whatever. And yeah man it was just so dope
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  even just seeing how she used That that website, which I guess
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  isn't real because I try to go to the E tourist dot live or
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  whatever. But yeah as she tried to go to
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  or using that that to basically see live footage from all these
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  different tourist locations to have.
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  She used that to find footage of seemingly.
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  What she thought was her mom and the boyfriend at the like little
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  Like Love Lock Bridge and them getting abducted quote unquote.
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  And all this stuff. Whatever was just like super
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  crazy to see and then of course. seeing how at the end she used
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  to come in action of her Smartwatch and then using the
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  combination of Siri 20, To basically, you know, place a
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  emergency phone call and stuff, whatever through her, through
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  her, through the camera, that had been, I placed on the house
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  to keep track of stuff, whatever.
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  She basically use that against him or whatever and shout and
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  shout out to attorney long, the mom for doing everything, she
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  can to protect her baby. And I was so glad that she
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  survived because I was Like man. Things are looking a little, a
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  little ground and I clock sounds.
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  I was like, please, I don't want, you know, this lawyer, let
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  it get killed in the in the chaos of everything and then
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  also the moms to end up getting care.
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  Of course, she got shy and her really bad, but like I said,
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  thanks to the power of technology, and herb, and being
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  able to use the voice commands to activate her phone.
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  They're still at her house and then got the police and SWAT
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  teams and stuff out there to help.
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  And then the funny thing of how they revealed at the end that
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  they turned it into a documentary series of hello,
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  this is that even a real show and what was it called.
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  And I'm filtered. TV.
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  I don't think that's a real show.
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  They basically turned their story and to a Netflix
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  documentary thing, whatever. So it's kind of fun, just seeing
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  all that come back around. But like I said, I like how they
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  how it all just like seamlessly, just transitioned from, you
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  know, her the police and stuff coming in and then when the girl
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  turned around and then it's like wait, who is this girl?
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  And then Screen. Pauses is you know minimizes
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  it's like she's watching something on Netflix and get a
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  video call from her mom. Some time has passed at all this
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  stuff so but but yeah bawling. Oh man like I said this this
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  this was a very gripping movie. Like I said I was pretty much
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  stuck to my screen the whole time, just trying to figure out
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  like man, what is going on? Like I said, just like every
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  times Oka, okay, maybe I'm from the pieces together and then
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  it's like, no swerve, no swerve, no swerve, swerve again.
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  It was like, yo, y'all are you keeping me guessing?
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  Which I like and like I said, especially in a mystery,
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  thriller type of movie or show. I love just something that's
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  going to keep your attention and keep you going the whole way
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  through. So, but with that being said,
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  I'm I think I'm gonna cut this off here.
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  Thank y'all so much for For watching and listening.
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  As always, you can find me everywhere at Danny's to talk.
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  So make sure to let me know. Hey, how did you feel about this
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  movie? First of all, if you listen to
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  this far, did you check out the movie?
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  And if you did, let me know either.
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  family. Manga anime TV movies.
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  And video games. And so with that, I hope you all
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  have an awesome rest of your day and week and I'll catch you on
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  the next one piece. And video games.
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  And so with that, I hope you all have an awesome rest of your day
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  and week and I'll catch you on the next one piece.