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Monday Mini: A Survey of July 4th Movies · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told you protection. iHeart radio. And today we have
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a lighter one, a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: sillier one, because we do have a holiday weekend coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We do have some vacation coming up, so this is
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  Speaker 1: what you get. No, I think it'll be fine. I
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  Speaker 1: hope everyone is having a good time whatever you're choosing
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  Speaker 1: to do. We were having that kind of hectic brush
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  Speaker 1: to the finish line, which is kind of yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: I am running a race the July fourth tradition.
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  Speaker 2: I have bowed out not so gracefully.
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  Speaker 1: Those pictures you took were epic. In that last race
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  Speaker 1: we did, that.
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  Speaker 2: Was look, I'm done. I did it, and you like.
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  Speaker 1: Came up to me and we're like, I can't stop.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: So like if I sit down, I'll never get up again.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think it was the perfect exit
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  Speaker 1: for you. I don't don't worry about it. I'm anxious
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I'm also I'm doing the virtual one
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  Speaker 1: and I did it last year and it was actually
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  Speaker 1: really lovely, So at least I have that, like I'll
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  Speaker 1: have the ac on I'll probably be watching in parstrikes back.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I don't know. It's nice quick content
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  Speaker 1: warning for our Fourth of July movie episode. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little gruesome in some places because of course
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  Speaker 1: I watch horror movies, so just to put that out there.
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  Speaker 1: But that's I kind of wanted to talk about because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you do this, Samantha. But I have
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  Speaker 1: my list of July fourth movies. I don't have that,
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  Speaker 1: and one year, one year I made you watch some
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 3: We watched that horror movie, yeah, the found talking about
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  Speaker 3: that documentary everyone right, Yeah, And we watched Draws Jaws.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's the other one. Both watched. Yes, Well that's what.
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  Speaker 1: When I made this list, which is just a brief
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  Speaker 1: list of what I watched on Independence Day, July fourth,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them are horror movies triels, right, I think, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And even if they aren't, they terrified me because I
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  Speaker 1: do watch Independence Day. I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: But when I was a kid, I had this my brother.
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  Speaker 1: I've told the story before. My older brother played this
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  Speaker 1: prank on me. He scared me so bad. It was
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  Speaker 1: about aliens that I could not watch et like no
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  Speaker 1: joke could not do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of one of those movies that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people they watched as children are still scared of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's scary. I did end up watching it, I
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  Speaker 1: think like seven years ago for the first time, and
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  Speaker 1: I was still like a little un settled. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: cute now, like that sound of him screaming in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a whole quarantine scene.
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  Speaker 3: That quarantine scene is really scary. That's something that's why
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  Speaker 3: everybody was kind of scared of. I remember seeing it, like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: why I just like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well now, but it scared me so bad, this prank
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  Speaker 1: that I couldn't watch, independence say, And they showed it
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  Speaker 1: one year in one of my classes and I had
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  Speaker 1: to leave, Like I literally had to leave. I think
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  Speaker 1: I made some excuse of like I got to go
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom and just did not come back until
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  Speaker 1: the glass was over.
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  Speaker 2: No one noticed.
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  Speaker 1: I think he did. I remember this teacher very well,
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  Speaker 1: and he probably was like, I wasn't a trouble maker,
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  Speaker 1: so he was probably like whatever, And it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those it's the end of some day in a
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  Speaker 1: holiday calendar.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, why would you be watching this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's no educational benefit to them now.
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  Speaker 1: But we watched a lot of movie We watched The Ring, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't what in seventh grade what? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I watched plenty of movies that had, oh,
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  Speaker 1: no educational value at all. They're just trying to pass
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hungover.
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  Speaker 1: But it was very embarrassing because even by that point
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  Speaker 1: I had kind of a reputation of the girl who
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  Speaker 1: likes horror movies, and for me to like pretty much
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  Speaker 1: fall out of my chairs, I go, I guess for
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  Speaker 1: watching Independence. This was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a horror movie, no.
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  Speaker 1: But that's how scared I was of aliens. I think
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  Speaker 1: I made it to that part where like Britt Stewiner's
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  Speaker 1: like no Peace, and I was like, I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: out of here.
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  Speaker 2: You're saying all this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen this movie either. I
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  Speaker 3: had no interest. I still don't obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's it's pretty corny. It's like really corny.
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  Speaker 1: And then it has like one of the most infamous
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't work technologically, where they send the ship of Virus,
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  Speaker 1: a computer virus, the alien ship a computer virus from
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  Speaker 1: a Mac laptop at the end, but you gotta love.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing, Like you can't just like it just you could
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  Speaker 3: just email it to.
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  Speaker 2: UFO.
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  Speaker 1: One of the aliens opens it up and it's like
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  Speaker 1: a like E card and this skull comes out.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, so I'm getting this confused with Mars Attacks
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  Speaker 3: and I know they're not the same thing, but like
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  Speaker 3: that seems more plausible in Mars Attacks than when I
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  Speaker 3: just heard it being an Independence Day.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's supposed to be a real.
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  Speaker 3: Like a serious movie, right, well really happened, like kind
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  Speaker 3: of be more realistic other than Mars Attacks when we
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  Speaker 3: see the goofyess.
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  Speaker 1: Mmmm, well see Mars Attacks. I haven't seen since I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid too, because it scared me so badly.
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  Speaker 1: But I do remember this is a very nineties movie,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's got a lot of the kind of like
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  Speaker 1: latent homophobia. I would say, a lot of jokes about lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: which again was big in the nineties. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: the whole plot line. Will Smith's wife is a sex worker.
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  Speaker 1: She's a stripper, and like the first lady is like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: She's like no, I enjoy what I do. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember as a kid being like what as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: as a young woman, because I definitely did not see
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  Speaker 1: it into college. It just feels like.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I saw it early college.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, when you said kid, I imagine it supposed
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  Speaker 3: to being shocked.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine you being no.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve, No, but you know what that might be, that
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  Speaker 1: again might be. I think I'm also confusing this with Mageddon,
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  Speaker 1: which also has a stripper scene, which I did see
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  Speaker 1: in middle school.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know if you see aliens in Armageddon though, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, this is which is why I watched that one.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that one.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I think of that one, I think of the.
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  Speaker 1: Song yeah, and I don't want to slip over there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And also his daughter Steve No not.
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  Speaker 1: I was, That's who. I think that was a hilarious
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  Speaker 1: smiths Under anyway, okay man, Yeah, so I do watch that.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely has the like death of the the mom,
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  Speaker 1: and it has the two dudes fighting over one person.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a lot of stuff we could talk about.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to the Bay, which is the when
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  Speaker 1: you were talking about it is. Originally it was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a documentary, but the creator didn't think he
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  Speaker 1: thought more people would watch it. If he made a
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  Speaker 1: horror movie and it's found footage, it's meant to seem
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  Speaker 1: like a documentary. I saw it. I think I've told
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  Speaker 1: this story before because it just sticks with me. Every
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  Speaker 1: time I watched this movie, I think of it. I
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  Speaker 1: was an intern at the company that eventually it's the
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  Speaker 1: same job I've had, but the company has changed names
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  Speaker 1: like seven times, but it's the same job. But I
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  Speaker 1: was an intern, and I for some reason, I was volunteering.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like the day after Thanksgiving. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: had to be in the office, going back to that
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  Speaker 1: old incode script I told you about, somebody had to
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  Speaker 1: be there to make sure it worked didn't fail. So
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  Speaker 1: I volunteered to do it. And I had to have
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  Speaker 1: this special phone because I was the only one on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. And of course, my very intelligent itself decided
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  Speaker 1: to watch horror movies while I was waiting for things
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  Speaker 1: to encode, and I watched the Bay and there's one
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  Speaker 1: scene and I remember it so well. I jumped so
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  Speaker 1: badly that my headphones got ripped off in my like
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  Speaker 1: rollly chair with all the way back to the opposite
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  Speaker 1: All well, but yeah, it's an environmental horror movie. It's
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  Speaker 1: about isopods taking over people's tongues and eating them from
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  Speaker 1: the inside. And it takes place on the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 1: so I watch it on the fourth of July.
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  Speaker 3: July.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really like, it's unsettling. Every time I watch it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm suddenly very uncomfortable drinking water because it's about it
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  Speaker 1: being in the water and getting in that way. And
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  Speaker 1: I was scared of isopods before because there was that
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  Speaker 1: viral picture that went around of the isopod eating fish's
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  Speaker 1: tongue and just like living as its tongue and eating.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and I it sticks with me. That movie
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  Speaker 1: sticks with me. It is upsetting. It's upsetting. It's about
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  Speaker 1: kind of companies and politicians and organizations lying two people
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  Speaker 1: and what happens. What happens another one. I don't watch
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  Speaker 1: this one every fourth of July because it's a really
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  Speaker 1: bad movie. I know what you did last summer. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the first slasher movies I saw. I
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  Speaker 1: think I saw it on like what was then the
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  Speaker 1: WB So it was edited like it wasn't wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: graphic as it is, but it scared me. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember I had a nightmare about that fisherman guy coming
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  Speaker 1: up into my room with a hook that night, so
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  Speaker 1: I was really scary and I hadn't watched it in forever,
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  Speaker 1: and then I was joking about I told the story before.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the biggest fun est twist ever, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, is in I Still Know What You Did
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  Speaker 1: Last Summer? When I guess the joke is because his
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  Speaker 1: name was Ben's son, and I'm supposed to know his name.
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  Speaker 1: He was Ben's son. So I was telling that story
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago and somebody was like, we
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  Speaker 1: should watch I Know What You Did last Summer. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it in forever, and we did, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not good, Like the acting is bad. It's just not good.
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  Speaker 1: I have been told by some listeners in fact, that
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  Speaker 1: it's based on the book, which I didn't know, and
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  Speaker 1: the book is really good, and they made a lot
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  Speaker 1: of changes in the movie that were not good.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a Christopher Pike book?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I have never heard of it.
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  Speaker 3: I because a lot of these movies that I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: this is like one of the teen horror stories that
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  Speaker 3: I would read. Maybe it's just legends, and then they
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  Speaker 3: make it into that story and then it becomes a movie.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but like it reminded me of those Yeah, this.
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  Speaker 1: The movie it does it's good, Like it's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those kind of toxic I like the way
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Philippi was he was terrible. Yeah, like an awful character,
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  Speaker 1: drunk driving, leaving someone for dead. Like it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of bad, not good things. And then Sarah Michelle Geller's
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  Speaker 1: character is kind of like the beauty Queen is treated
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  Speaker 1: as like she's very inferior and not very smart. Interesting
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  Speaker 1: looks at trauma. I won't say good, but interesting. And
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  Speaker 1: then I mean it's it's kind its creepy moments, but
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  Speaker 1: overall I just was like, oh dear, this scared me
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  Speaker 1: as a kid. But is this one of your It
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  Speaker 1: takes place of July. Yeah, I would say, I watch
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  Speaker 1: it like every three years. I don't watch it every year.
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  Speaker 2: But I do.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Fourth of July movie. Okay, Yeah, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how this Fourth of July goes.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy So I think of Fourth July because I think
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  Speaker 3: of the Sandlot. There's this big scene of them like
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  Speaker 3: loving Fourth of July because that's the only time they
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  Speaker 3: get to play baseball at night because the sky is
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  Speaker 3: lid up.
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  Speaker 2: But I always think about that scene.
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  Speaker 1: I think because I told you I hadn't seen Sandline
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  Speaker 1: as a kid, I'm pretty sure we watched it after
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  Speaker 1: I made you.
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  Speaker 2: I think we did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was, well, now I'm gonna make you this because
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  Speaker 2: I think of Fourth of July with this sea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, enjoy and there is a big I think a
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  Speaker 1: season of Stranger Things came out on fourth of July
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  Speaker 1: and it had a big Fourth of July arc. But
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  Speaker 1: my number one movie is Jaws. That is my number
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  Speaker 1: one July fourth movie. A big part of the plot
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  Speaker 1: is the reason they won't close the beaches even though
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  Speaker 1: all the experts are telling them to you, is because
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  Speaker 1: it's the fourth of July and they need to get
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  Speaker 1: those tourists in and make those tourist dollars. And I
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  Speaker 1: just I think I've watched this movie every year since
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  Speaker 1: I was like eight or nine. I love it and
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  Speaker 1: my dad and I would have very because he saw
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  Speaker 1: it in theaters and he had this story where the
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  Speaker 1: popcorn the popcorn bowl went up everywhere and popcorn showered
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  Speaker 1: the crown because it scared him so bad. And then
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  Speaker 1: we talked about Jaws for the Revenge, which is a
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  Speaker 1: very bad Jaws movie, and we talked about some of
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  Speaker 1: the feminism of Jaws and there if you want to
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  Speaker 1: check it out. I have been on a shark movie
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  Speaker 1: kick lately, and I was joking with my D and
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  Speaker 1: D group. If I had time, I would do a
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  Speaker 1: whole podcast that was just about all of these shark movies.
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  Speaker 1: There's a movie called Noah Shark. It's terrible, Shark Exorcist,
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  Speaker 1: Santa Jaws.
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  Speaker 3: Why but you've never seen Sharknado.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen Shargado.
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  Speaker 2: Still can't believe this. I've never seen Antha. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't love shark movies.
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  Speaker 1: So I do feel bad, we said in that Shark episode,
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  Speaker 1: because I know after Jaws came out, it was such
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  Speaker 1: a big hit. A lot of people say it was
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  Speaker 1: one of the first summer blockbuster, like it kind of
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  Speaker 1: started that idea. But because of that, and I did
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  Speaker 1: a whole report about this, I said it in that episode,
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  Speaker 1: the gray Nerve shark was almost hunted to extinction because
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  Speaker 1: people were so scared of this shark, which, if we're
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  Speaker 1: to believe Jaws the Revenge is a psychic shark. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a separate thing. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: the same as your regular shark.
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  Speaker 2: Before to believe, I think we.
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  Speaker 1: Just have to examine all the pieces we have of
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  Speaker 1: this puzzle and make a logical, logical hypothesis. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's been numerous numerous experts saying that it's
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  Speaker 1: not our shark would work, like, not how it would
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  Speaker 1: move anything. I think it's a it's a whole different thing.
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  Speaker 1: But it also came up when I was in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: recently where we were all talking about Jaws and how
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  Speaker 1: we all knew this kind of surprising amount of trivia
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  Speaker 1: about it. So it was an impactful, impactful movie. I
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  Speaker 1: used to watch it the beginning of every summer because
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  Speaker 1: I was that kind of kid who'd liked to scare
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  Speaker 1: myself before I got in the water. But now it's
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  Speaker 1: July force. I know that's something about me, doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they apparently they do exist. However we've ever seen
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  Speaker 3: it sharks however that we've definitely see no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Look, the human psyche is complicated about the I can't
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  Speaker 1: explain it. Yes, well, those are my movies. I would
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  Speaker 1: love to hear listeners if you have any movies that
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  Speaker 1: you just are going to be watching any foods, whether
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  Speaker 1: you celebrate or not. Just what do you do when
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