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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday. It's Barry Nixon alongside the
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one and only the master of ceremonies, the true Prince of
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the holiday season, and it's Jason Riley.
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Jay, great to see you. Before we go any further, yes,
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you look like you're about 14 years old.
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And it's it's quite amazing. Completely clean shaven.
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This is a this is a departure for you.
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But you kept the hair a little bit longer up top.
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I love it. You look like you're straight
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out of an Archie comic. Please explain to me what is
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that what you're doing next to? You're doing a live action,
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Archie. Yep, it's time.
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What's what's going on, bro? You guessed it.
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You guessed it, Barry. No, today I am clean shaven
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because yesterday evening I was and I sent, I texted you as I
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left. I was in your neck of the woods,
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sort of Liberty Village, lovely King West area, which I hadn't
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been to in a long time, getting new actor headshots done.
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Yeah. So as part of the bundle we had
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with the scruff, because I had the scruff.
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And then for the last few shots, we did the in a suit, cleaned
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up, slicked back, taken, taken off the 5:00 shadow for because
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I can, because I'm able to do it.
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I'm able to grow it back. And so we were able to get some
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shots that way. So now wait a minute.
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Clean shaven for a few days. Yeah.
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But you shaved on site like not in your home in the comfort of
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where everything is. You'd what was it electric razor
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or you just you brought a BIC with you.
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What happened? I brought my Gillette Mach 5 or
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whatever they're called now. Have like 27 blades and six on
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the back. So close.
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Yeah, and my Fusion, my whatever shaving cream, and it was great.
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Yeah. The Proglide, that was it.
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And then I had my aftershave because that's what you do.
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I'm an actor. I had to bring, I had to bring
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so many wardrobe changes to get ready.
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I had a hair product so I could put it in and, you know, style
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things up the way that I wanted to have it done and trust in the
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photographer to style things up the way she was going to have it
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done. And soon, Barry, I'll have some
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actor headshots to run by you as I narrow down to my favorites,
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because last time I had it done, we hadn't really reconnected
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yet. So you can get to participate in
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the friends and family favorite choice so.
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No, I certainly didn't. But rest.
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Assured you will. That is a grievous error that
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will be corrected on this round of actor headshots.
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OK, well, that sounds like the perfect way to kick off our show
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with a toast. Let's have our first shot in
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honor of all of this great news. And to Jay, you've never looked
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better. Here's to you, brother.
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And happy. At the time of this recording,
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it's still the holidays. So happy.
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We're one week out. Yeah.
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What are you drinking? I got Bushmills 12 year my
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friend. Oh, very nice.
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OK. Just re upped.
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Nice. I'm going to raise a glass of
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what you have deemed my favorite whiskey.
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Uh huh. Jamison Triple.
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Triple. Yes, I have deemed it.
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Cheers. Cheers.
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So the photographer also was the stylist.
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That's cool. Yes, because she she's a
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professional photographer and knows a lot about styling and
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can help me through that. I trust her judgement on
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outfits, what looks good on camera, you know, that kind of
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stuff. Because it's still still
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photography is very different than.
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Yes. Motion, the motion picture, as
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you know, but the biggest difference, it's still, you're
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actually still. So that's it.
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So it's not hidden in the name. It's it's there in the name.
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It's right up front. Still photography versus motion
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picture. So, Barry, I can take you
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through more detail. Well, you're an expert.
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You're an expert in both, as we know, and the audience already
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cannot wait for you to be on everyone's platform very soon.
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Can't say anything more than that, but I'm excited.
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We're excited, Barry. Speaking of, we're talking about
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movies, we're talking about TV. Why don't we pivot immediately
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to 4K corner? Big 4K corner this week?
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Yeah, we're overdue. Yeah.
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Do you want to start us off with some reviews like what are when
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our listeners and viewers watch this?
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If they're seeing when it comes out, it's like we're on, they're
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on the eve of Christmas. It's Christmas Day.
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It's something around there. So what are they picking up for
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very last minute gifts that has come to The Newsroom that you're
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enjoying? Well, one I just got yesterday,
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this was like a blind buy, and I don't usually do that, as you
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know, but I did it based on. Yeah, you're going.
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No, half of your collection are blind by, well, not half, but,
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you know, maybe 1/3. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's fair. Anyway, the movie's called
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Sinners. Are you familiar?
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I watched it on the would. Michael B Jordan.
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Yeah. Actually on the plane home from
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Japan. I watched it, yeah.
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OK, so then this is great. You've seen them, you've seen
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the movie. I just watched it for the first
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time yesterday in 4K. The transfer, the sound,
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everything was stunning and it was a really cool, different
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take on the vampire genre and I really loved how it wrapped up.
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And for those who have seen it, you probably know there is a
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sequel in the works, so it's interesting to see where they
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go. Yeah.
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Yeah, the lots of places they can go.
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We won't totally spoil it for anyone, but yeah, it was
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interesting. I enjoyed it.
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Like, I really did enjoy it. It was a really big deal.
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Like it kind of broke through. It's kind of changed, kind of
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got people thinking not about superheroes anymore, now into
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horror. Like the kids are really into
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the horror these days, so. Yeah.
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And this was a smart. It was a smart horror like.
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And I really like the characters.
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I like the fact that it was set in the early 19.
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Yeah. And Michael B Jordan playing two
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roles was pretty wild. I wasn't sure why.
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Like, it didn't seem to really factor in that he had to be
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playing two roles. Yeah, it unless I missed that.
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Clearly he was happy to do it. Yeah.
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Why share the why share the payday.
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You get the payday for both. Exactly.
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Yeah. And once again, he's in
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phenomenal shape. He's the only guy in the 19 foot
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during the Dust Bowl famines who has about 900 lbs of muscle on
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him. He just looked absolutely
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jacked, especially at the end of the movie.
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So good for him. Yeah, it's aspirational.
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It's nice to see that. But yes, a very different take
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on the vampire, you know, or that we've seen a million times.
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So this one was kind of cool. I heard that Ryan Coogler, who
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created it, also did Black Panther.
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So he's famous for Black Panther and Wakanda came up with a
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unique deal. I think he has licensed Sinners
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to Warner Brothers or whoever produced this movies.
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They have it for 20 years. They can do whatever they want
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with it, and then the IP reverts back to him, which is something
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which is like a whole new way of doing things, which is kind of
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cool. It's a way you get to own a
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piece of it and do what you want to be to another studio.
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Of course. Yeah, he's got his negotiation.
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But if if they're not treating it right or they want to let it
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rest or something, he can then take it somewhere else and do
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other things with a potentially redo it, turn it into comic
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books, novels, all that kind of stuff and prevent maybe it from
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it from getting too watered down.
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So it's like 20 years with them and then it comes back to him.
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That doesn't usually happen. You know, well, 20 years is a
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long time. I mean, that's a but still it.
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Wasn't a great payday when you're kind of maybe he's
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cruising into retirement or something or kind of that second
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stage and he'd boom all of a sudden you got this IP that did
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quite well and he could bring. It back.
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah, what's yours party?
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I'd say that's a 4.5 out of five.
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I really enjoyed it. I was totally glued to it.
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It wasn't, and I'm sure a lot of our viewers and listeners have
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already seen it because it's been out a while, but it it
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didn't exactly like truck along the beginning, like the first
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hour was pretty much setting up everything.
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We get to really know the characters, which is cool.
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And then that last hour is just, that's when things get a little
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wild. And yeah, it's just some really
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great performances and some nice little, I wouldn't call them
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twists, but I did like how it wrapped up at the very, very the
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very last part of the movie was like, oh, that's really cool.
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You kind of saw one of the characters, you know, fulfilling
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his dream. Yeah, which was pretty cool.
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Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
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And really interesting to kind of see like where the movie, you
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don't think it's going to go the way that it goes.
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And I know a million people have talked about this movie already.
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Yeah. So we're kind of stating the
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obvious. But yeah, you, you really kind
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of set that first hour kind of sets you up.
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You're like, we're going to go down this path.
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And then it's just like a really hard right or left.
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And that was cool. Not really spoiling anything.
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When they do the when they're playing the music and you get
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all the different genres of music and they incorporate all
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the musicians from like different time.
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Periods as well, yeah. Really cool, yeah.
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Yeah anyway, getting back to the 4K aspect of it, it looks
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sensational. It sounds amazing yeah.
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If you can get it at a deal, I would do it.
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Yeah, I was happy to. I, I think I got it for like 35
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bucks on Amazon. So I feel like that's that.
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That's a fair deal for a movie that definitely has some repeat
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value. Yeah.
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Terrific. Great.
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What about you, your 4K corner or do you want to do our next
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shot? First let's do 4K corner we'll
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do then we'll do our shot and then maybe we have time for RIP
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from the headlines. All damn right.
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I'll be brief and I'll hit the highlights cause I've got 2
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discs that I want to talk about, actually 2 franchises I want to
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talk about that both came to my door this weekend and I was
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really excited to receive both. The first hit on Amazon, a price
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that I wanted to pay for it, the 40th and anniversary 4K release
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of Back to the Future trilogy. Yeah, you can't go wrong with
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that movie. All three of those movies are
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great movies and just fun to watch.
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And I will say that the 4K transfer I've watched part of
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the first one is incredible. Like super clear.
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Do you own the non 40th anniversary?
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The one that came out like only a couple years ago, maybe the
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30th. I own the 30th anniversary so I
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feel a little riff. Your luck.
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Yeah. I feel like there's some
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additional stuff in the 40, but they also have individual steel
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books of this 40 release too. Yeah, looked at those.
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Yeah, but the price just hit. I think it was like 58 bucks or
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55. Bucks.
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I mean, you can't beat that. Yeah, that's a good price.
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I'm in. I don't think I've owned it
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since DVD. Like I didn't upgrade to
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Blu-ray. Oh, I'm enjoying it.
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It's great watching it. The first one with executive
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producer Alda Roma and we're going to make our way through
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that incredible transfer, like super clarity.
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This is the format to own it in. You get to see the, you know,
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the threads on the coats and the detail, the the bricks on the
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walls. That's what you want.
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To see all the stuff that you want, yeah.
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So based on what I've seen so far, 4.5 out of five, great
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transfer, great everything I wanted and I knew the quality of
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the movie. Second franchise straight from
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Arrow, purchased from their website in the US.
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My first direct purchase from Arrow, Yes.
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Second arrow purchase. Second arrow purchase, Yes,
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Spawn being the first. This one.
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Plenty of swag. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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90s trilogy. Wow.
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I'd seen one, I'd seen two. I've never seen three.
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I've watched now the first movie again.
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Executive producer, All the Roman.
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Watch that Saturday night, I believe Friday or Saturday.
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How does it hold up? Great movie like I really enjoy
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it lots of fun. It is a kids movie, but it's
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dark and it's fun. The thing is and I had to it
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hasn't been released on on blu-ray.com.
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I haven't seen a review for yet, but I've seen some on YouTube
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because I'm struggling with it because what I don't appreciate
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is what some of the other reviewers appreciate.
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I'm not sure if they just really love wanted to love it, but they
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didn't clean up the grain all that much.
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There are some scenes that are super cleaned up and like you
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can tell they're wearing rubber turtle suits, which is kind of
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what you expect in a 4K like it's almost cleaned up too much.
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But for the the most part, like the really dark scenes, like
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it's kind of cloudy and the deep blacks I didn't find there.
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But then I tuned in and I'm watching the reviews and they're
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going, this is what I love about it.
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It's exactly how I watched it on VHS.
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It it triggers all my memories and I'm like, but that's not
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what I want it for. I want grain.
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Spiffed up? Yeah.
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But all spiffed up. And so it's like they left.
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Especially the faces. Like April O'neil's raincoat.
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The yellow raincoat, perfectly clear, but her face is kind of
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grained out. And then when it's all darkness,
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I found it was. I didn't, I didn't love it so
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much. Like, I don't think the transfer
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held up. It's Dolby Vision.
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There's an Atmos track, but it kind of took me out of it
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because I was too. I was looking for it to get
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better and better. And there were moments of super
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clarity. But have you found this?
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Have you found this with an arrow release or anything?
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Yeah. Well, not with a necessarily
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arrow, but I have seen some inconsistent releases like and
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we could look to one example that I brought to your place
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that this was a record for you on going for walks during the
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movie. It was the sword and the
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sorcerer. The sorcerer had a very uneven
11:50
release. There were some scenes, a
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handful that looked gorgeous, and then there were others that
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just looked muddy. Yeah.
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So that's. They.
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Told you to hear that for, didn't they?
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The turtles. Yeah, I just found it was.
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You're right. They did warn us at the
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beginning that some of the film elements had been lost or
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they've been left in somebody's garage for 25 years and water
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damaged. Whatever.
12:12
You're right, they did preface it.
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They didn't do that, I guess with Ninja Turtles saying hey
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guys. They just kind of left it.
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And because people are talking about it and saying how it's not
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as cleaned up, two apparently is much better.
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I haven't watched it yet. I'm going to watch it.
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Yeah. But apparently.
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But then those people that love the grainy of one were like, the
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colors weren't perfect in two. They seemed a little brighter
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than I remember them. I don't know.
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Anyway, I really liked the movie.
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But you know, had I known? Sound.
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Was the sound OK? Yeah.
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The sound was good, not so much going on around you, but it
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wasn't at most track. So it was clear right.
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Back to the Future had much more like the clocks all around you
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at the beginning like that. That was at most up really well.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love that when all the
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turtles channels start to engage.
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Perfect. Yeah, Turtles.
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I'm given 3.5 out of five. Good movie, quality movie, but
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the transfer disappointing. I'll report back on the others
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as I get to them. I have a feeling you're not
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going to get too far into the third one.
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I heard that that that is good, probably holding steady at a 1.5
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out of five for most people who have been able to get through it
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because it's they decide to go back in time to like 17th
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century Japan and become samurais.
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And apparently it looks exceedingly cheap.
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Like even less expensive than the first one.
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Or yeah, anyway, I look forward to you, you know, telling me.
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I've heard about that one. I've heard it described as not
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terrible on the sights of people that really like these movies,
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so I'm going to have to go over quite an open mind.
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But before I do that, I think we're not going any further
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until we do. Shot #2 Jameson Triple triple
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for me. Yeah, and I'm sticking with, you
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know, the the good stuff. In your honor, Jay, here's to
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you. Cheers.
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Now let's be honest, did you forget the name of it?
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Is that what you said the good stuff was?
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12 year. Yeah, I know, but for a moment
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you forgot, didn't you? Yeah.
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I like to call it the good stuff.
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In your honor, good Sir, let's raise a glass of this amber
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gold. Yeah, yeah.
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And then let's move past it quickly cuz it'll come.
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It'll come to me. We got time for one RIP from the
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headline. Shall I go to the magical phone
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that you sent? Cuz you are our RIP from the
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headlines guy. I haven't.
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Got we? We got time for that, but before
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we do, if we had to shoehorn in one quick thing, just super
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quick. Linda and I on Saturday night
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went to Rebel Nightclub and we got to see $0.50 live in
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concert. It happened, it happened.
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He was he was great. One thing I will say for those
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of you who might be considering going to Rebel, this event was
14:41
at minimum 20% oversold. It was literally fighting hard
14:47
through the crowd, even just to get to the bathroom, and I was
14:49
being squished on both sides. Like it was like being in like a
14:53
Brazilian soccer stadium that was about to burst.
14:56
It was not cool. That was one thing.
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I will say, however, he was great.
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OK, let's get to Rep from the headlines.
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My God, that's awful. That's an awful.
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I'm just saying that as a as a cautionary thing if you're going
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to rebel. One other thing is when we got
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there, immediately, the security was accepting bribes right away.
15:13
They're like 20 bucks. You want to skip the line, 20
15:15
bucks you want to skip the line. Of course we paid.
15:16
We wanted to skip the line. It's phrasing out, but it has
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this kind of air of scumminess as soon as you pull up there
15:23
with stuff like that, and then it's like you can pay to get in
15:25
faster and then you get in there and then you're crushed because
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they sold at least 20% more than they should.
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That's anyway he was great. That's great.
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Well, I'm glad you enjoyed the whole episode on $0.50.
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Not too long. Ago.
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Here we go. We're going to do this.
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RIP from the headlines, Barry. We do the headline, we give you
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the news. We only read the headline.
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We don't go any further beyond that.
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This one is the ultimate Christmas ghost story.
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How 1980s horror The Woman in Black terrified Britain.
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Right. And they did a remake of that, I
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believe, with Daniel Ratcliffe many years later.
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I've never. Heard of this movie, The Woman
15:57
in Black? Yeah.
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OK, well how did it terrify Britain, do you think?
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Well, I think it was only in Britain at the time, so that's
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probably part of why it just scared those folks.
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But, you know, I think people were a lot easier to scare in
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the 90s J and especially around the holidays.
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They were skittish. You want?
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Yeah, they were skittish. You know, everyone's kind of on
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edge during the holidays. You know, there's pressure.
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You got family dinners, you got to perform.
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This is true. You had no no social media, no
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phones. You don't know who was coming
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and going when anybody you had to could knock on the door or
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call. It was very terrifying.
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But actually, what's funny that you say when back in the day
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when you used to get someone knocking at the door, it was
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kind of exciting and everyone would go to the door.
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And now if someone knocks at your door, no one's fucking,
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you're looking at the ring lights or whatever the the ring
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camera. You want to see who it is.
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You're like, who the hell is that?
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Yeah, exactly. Because nobody has any business
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coming up to a door or phoning you for that matter, that you
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don't know and aren't expecting. Whereas that's very different.
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And maybe that's what made this the ultimate Christmas ghost
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story. That's that's why is it the
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ultimate? Did it take place at Christmas?
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The Woman in Black? Do you know?
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Apparently apparently it. Did.
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It's very, very sure of yourself.
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You know what? We should check out the Daniel
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Radcliffe remake of The Woman. And why did they do that?
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I don't know. I believe it was in like kind of
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like the teens, if I'm remembering correctly.
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But I, I do remember that he was involved in that.
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I've never heard a man in black. I believe it is the woman in
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black. OK, even though it's Daniel
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Radcliffe, Radcliffe, he's he wasn't in the black, He wasn't
17:26
the woman in black. He was a friend of or adjacent
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to the woman in black. Scaring people as well maybe?
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I guess I don't know. I don't know, I don't know.
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But that's why we don't go behind the headline or beyond
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that line. Yes, that's and so I think we
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got to it, Barry, here we are. Another great episode, huge 4K
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review. If you guys are checking this
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out, our lovely listeners and viewers sinners, the Teenage
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Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy. Look for a sale on that one and
17:53
Back to the Future. You're going to want to Add all
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of those to your collection. Maybe check out The Woman in
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Black, either the original or the remake with Daniel
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Radcliffe. Sir Daniel Radcliffe.
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I know he's really, but maybe one day he will be.
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I think he's on the path. Yeah, this is good.
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Great. All right, Barry, have a great
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