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Happy Hour #90: Quick Horror Movie Reviews, Pt. 2 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm not going to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told your protection of I heart Radio. And it
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  Speaker 1: is Thursday, which means it is once again at time
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  Speaker 1: for another happy hour and peek behind the curtains. Listeners.
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  Speaker 1: This is part two of our mostly me but are
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  Speaker 1: quick reviews on recent horror movies that fall under the
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  Speaker 1: category of what I would call elevated horror, specifically around women,
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  Speaker 1: um which we are planning a whole episode on and
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  Speaker 1: as yeah, as we said in our part one of this,
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  Speaker 1: if you have any recommendations, please let us know, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm just fascinated by this whole thing. Uh so we
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  Speaker 1: are drinking the same thing, but for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: the listeners, Samantha William tell them again, what are you
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  Speaker 1: sitting on sipping on the Costco Advent calendar of wines?
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  Speaker 1: A white Sandria with ice cubes. Yes, teers, yes, cheers.
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  Speaker 1: I am having a Gen and tonic with some basil
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  Speaker 1: I picked from my mom's basil plant because I went
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  Speaker 1: home to visit her for her birthday and is delightful.
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  Speaker 1: As always, if you choose to drink, please do so responsibly.
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  Speaker 1: We are not sponsored by anything that we have mentioned currently,
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  Speaker 1: but that could change because we have dynamic sponsors Costco
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  Speaker 1: call me you know how to finder. So yes, this
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  Speaker 1: is a part two. Uh, there will be some spoilers
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  Speaker 1: and this one we're focusing on the movies She Will
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  Speaker 1: and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. If you want to listen to
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  Speaker 1: part one, we talked about Pearl and X and men Um.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, I have already started my horror movie rotation,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm looking for suggestions. If you've got them, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm forgetting a big one that I just
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  Speaker 1: saw and it's going to come back to you right
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  Speaker 1: after we finished. I'm gonna be so mad and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll do part three. But this is just something I've noticed,
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  Speaker 1: and I've had a curiosity around of movies trying to
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  Speaker 1: tackle these social issues, and I've just for me in
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  Speaker 1: my experience lately, I've seen a lot around women kind
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  Speaker 1: of me to stuff a lot of the time, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But it has
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  Speaker 1: given me a lot to think about because I do
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  Speaker 1: watch a lot of horror. It makes sense to me
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  Speaker 1: because I am a big believer that horror is a
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  Speaker 1: commentary on what we as a society are afraid of.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know, I just want to look more
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  Speaker 1: into it because I just have seen so many of
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  Speaker 1: them lately, and part of these, like is this just
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  Speaker 1: because I have like a feminist of a feminist podcast,
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  Speaker 1: And maybe I'm really reading too much into it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't think so, especially the ones
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. I'm pretty sure this is definitely something
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  Speaker 1: some commentary going on. And this one, this first one
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about, she will absolutely Oh my goodness. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So this movie is about witches who, yes, who had
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  Speaker 1: been burned during like the witch hunts and witch trials. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And the main character, who's this older woman who was
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  Speaker 1: an actress, um, kind of grumpy and closed off, goes
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  Speaker 1: to this retreat and it's this lodge in a secluded place. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And she's immediately like, oh, I do not want to
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  Speaker 1: be here because there's more people than they said was
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  Speaker 1: going to be here, Like this is not what I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: But the soil is supposed to be very special because
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  Speaker 1: as the ashes of all the women who were burned there,
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  Speaker 1: and so they use it and like, um, they're like
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  Speaker 1: charcoal paintings their projects like that. It's a very like
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  Speaker 1: that kind of retreat where their activities like that. And
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  Speaker 1: so this woman goes, she goes with her assistant who
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  Speaker 1: helps her just like everything, like medically, but also it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of her companion, even though the woman isn't
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  Speaker 1: super nice to her, but they do grow closer throughout
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  Speaker 1: this and the woman, this older woman, kind of it's
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  Speaker 1: not like she becomes possessed, but something is happening to
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  Speaker 1: her based on this land in these ashes, and she's
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  Speaker 1: able to sort of astral project um. And it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that as a child, she had been in a
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  Speaker 1: film um directed by this really well respected director and
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  Speaker 1: he had been in a relationship with her that we
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  Speaker 1: can determine was very very damaging for her and most
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  Speaker 1: likely criminal. So it's very Harvey Weinstein like Roman Plansky
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  Speaker 1: level um. And because she kind of I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: channels this the witches who are in the soil, and
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  Speaker 1: it's she sees visions of them and like kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, your creepy horror imagery of black Good and
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  Speaker 1: all those kind of classics like the ashes and then
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  Speaker 1: the air and everything. She's able to get revenge on him,
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing him on a live on an interview show and
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  Speaker 1: then ultimately taking her real revenge. There is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like in this movie, women protecting other women, like
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  Speaker 1: the witches being there helping her get this revenge. They
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  Speaker 1: help protect the assistant when a man attempts to sectually
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  Speaker 1: assault her, uh, they basically swallow him into the earth.
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  Speaker 1: There is a lot about trauma in it, pretty obviously
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  Speaker 1: UM and how the main character is being punished for
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  Speaker 1: what this older director did to her as a child,
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  Speaker 1: both in like just her mental health but also not
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  Speaker 1: being able to get roles. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: the reasons he goes to this resort is because he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a remake and they're casting another young child UM,
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  Speaker 1: and she feels like, oh, this is gonna happen again,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to do the same thing UM. Which I
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  Speaker 1: just saw an article about that about like the rise
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  Speaker 1: of UM trauma an examination of trauma and grief in horror,
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  Speaker 1: which I think has always been there, but it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: a big theme and it has been for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years now. I enjoyed this movie. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of women at the forefront. UM. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of felt an even it was certainly a slow Burn, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's not scary, but it's got a lot of like creepy,
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  Speaker 1: creepy stuff. I feel like every movie I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: I would at least like, if you're the least bit interested,
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  Speaker 1: I recommend checking it out. But maybe that's that's it,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I don't know. I always hesitate because I'm
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  Speaker 1: somebody who I like picking things apart and like thinking
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  Speaker 1: about the messaging. But sometimes that's that's not everybody's things.
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  Speaker 1: So some people are get so tired of watching things
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  Speaker 1: with me because we're like Eddie, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think maybe you're reading too much into it. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Uh. And then I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Bodies Bodies Bodies, which I really enjoyed and
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see again. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: try to not spoil this one because I want Samantha
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  Speaker 1: to see it. You haven't seen it, haven't. But basically
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  Speaker 1: it's like a Who Done It in a house where
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  Speaker 1: like relationships and truths get revealed. Um. I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 1: it's scary, but it did hold my attention and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what's going on? So it's this group of
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  Speaker 1: pretty well off, friend go to this mansion for what
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard of it as a hurricane party. So
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna wait out this hurricane in this mansion and
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  Speaker 1: like party hard. Uh, And they play this game. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty obvious their attentions in the whole group, like you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: something's going on here. Um. So they played this game
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  Speaker 1: called Bodies Bodies Bodies, which is essentially like Werewolf, um,
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  Speaker 1: the game Werewolf, but it's more physical, like you actually
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  Speaker 1: go hide, um and things like that. And then people
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  Speaker 1: start dying and they start trying to figure out who
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  Speaker 1: it is. So this this movie is really interesting because
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  Speaker 1: it's got a lot of like it was pretty well reviewed,
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  Speaker 1: but it's got a lot of kind of mixed reviews
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  Speaker 1: about how it handled gen Z in in particular, and
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  Speaker 1: I read a bunch of stuff about how gen Z
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  Speaker 1: is so difficult to actually represent accurately in media, so
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  Speaker 1: that was interesting. There's a lot of stuff around social media.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff around TikTok. There's a very
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  Speaker 1: funny bit about podcast staying, which I I did tell
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  Speaker 1: Samantha because it made your laugh so hard. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: I have to get a Google calendar isn't easy. I
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  Speaker 1: was like in the theater, like, yes, no, she understands.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things that stuck out to me
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  Speaker 1: about this one, which is something we've also been meaning
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  Speaker 1: to revisit, is ultimately it's mostly young women and they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of toxic friendships that get revealed. Um as you
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  Speaker 1: know if you think, like, oh, one of you could
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  Speaker 1: be the killer. All these secrets are coming out and
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  Speaker 1: all of these like old grudges are coming out, and
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  Speaker 1: this kind of idea of like are any of us
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  Speaker 1: really friends? Is all of this very fake? Is it
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  Speaker 1: all for the social media? Especially in this because there
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  Speaker 1: are some of them are very rich, so it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like who's using who, who's getting what out of
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  Speaker 1: what this very transactional look at friendship and toxic friendships
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  Speaker 1: kind of how quickly it falls apart, uh, which I
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  Speaker 1: know is something we've been meaning to to come back
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  Speaker 1: to because that is a big topic of conversation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That and we also need to talk about why women
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  Speaker 1: being sacrificed all the time, because like the invitation and
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  Speaker 1: then the one about the wedding are pretty much those
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  Speaker 1: two things. The girl who's married into the family and
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  Speaker 1: the game isn't gonna try to kill her. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen even one of these movies, but I'm like, but
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  Speaker 1: why I don't like um? Because ready or not? The
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  Speaker 1: message seems to be like, don't get married, and I
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  Speaker 1: get it, like everyone who has a happy marriage. Of
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  Speaker 1: The Invitation apparently is her meeting long lost family who
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  Speaker 1: are white. I think there's an implication in itself, but
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  Speaker 1: also very confusing. But yeah, so I'm trying to help
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  Speaker 1: you figure out the movie we're talking about. Is it Barbarian?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to see that this Friday, The Black Phone.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen Black Phone. I will eventually. It was
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  Speaker 1: not The Invitation, No, but I almost watched that last
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  Speaker 1: night and then I didn't. But I know what happens
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  Speaker 1: in it. It's not the one with the one that
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  Speaker 1: made you. I told you it was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the scary movies where they're possessed. Movie. You're like,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna like an animals die. No, but I
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  Speaker 1: did enjoy that movie. I mean because the okay, thank
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  Speaker 1: you blood first, because I know I told you to
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  Speaker 1: watch that and I've never seen that. That was fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you here. I know. I love working.
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  Speaker 1: I love this. I see so many horror movies and
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  Speaker 1: there's some one you hadn't see. So I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: because the menu, isn't that the one that's not come out?
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  Speaker 1: I want to see that. Yeah, that's about foodie culture,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like I need to see that one.
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  Speaker 1: Cannibalism I'm assuming. I'm assuming I've heard it's cannibalism, but
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  Speaker 1: not how you think, which cracks me up. Oh. I
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  Speaker 1: love when they say that, Okay, cool cool cool cool
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  Speaker 1: cool cool cool. All right, I'll goun out of the
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  Speaker 1: movies I can think in my head, oh my head,
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  Speaker 1: all right, no found footage movies? Is it the other
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  Speaker 1: Witch movie? I do love that movie, but no, I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's so many we could talk about, and we
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  Speaker 1: have talked about, like we have talked about The Witch.
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  Speaker 1: We've done a lot, a lot of things, not that one.
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  Speaker 1: It is not Uma, right, which I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: do want to watch that and we should come back
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  Speaker 1: and talk about it because it's a Korean horror film
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  Speaker 1: with Sandra Oh. I have seen that. It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that one, and I love this. This is
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  Speaker 1: so funny. Won't be alone. I'm here to help you.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen that. I've seen that. That one's disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: Good to know we'll not watch. That's basically about being
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  Speaker 1: too polite to call people out. That's about oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: catching I have seen that one too. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: You know what. I haven't seen The Nanny, which comes
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  Speaker 1: out No, it's not the Nanny, It's Nanny. It comes
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  Speaker 1: out December. But that one Sundance this year, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like one of the first times a horror movie has
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  Speaker 1: one Sundance. So I'm very excited about that. You're not
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  Speaker 1: my mother. That's a flip which I'm interested in. This flip.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you. I know, I know it's
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  Speaker 1: not no, but I did enjoy Nope, I enjoyed. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed that one too as well. Okay, i'm done, you've done,
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  Speaker 1: You've done your duty. I'm trying to help you with
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  Speaker 1: that one. I did say wretched and that has an
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  Speaker 1: interesting thing about motherhood and it too, but that's Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's a movie called Torn Hearts. I'm going to a
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  Speaker 1: list y'all know does not watched all of these at all.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in my and of Green Gables. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's my era right now, that's a fall era.
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  Speaker 1: It does crack for how many times you've sent me
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  Speaker 1: a horror movie and I watched it immediately and then
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  Speaker 1: you've never watched it, Like, hey, here you go, here's another.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. With the listeners, if you've got those suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: we should combine our loves and actually read uh MBI
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  Speaker 1: yeah it because I know there's a movie too. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how well the movie is, but yeah, well
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm into it. That would be a fun
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  Speaker 1: kind of interessection of our likes. But I love horror though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I can't say I don't love both. Okay, all right, well, cheers, cheers,
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  Speaker 1: tears um, cheers to you listeners, And if you have
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  Speaker 1: any to add to this list kind of haphazard list
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  Speaker 1: at the end. And then other other movies that I
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  Speaker 1: haven't mentioned in this two parter that you think, oh
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  Speaker 1: I bet Sminthy would love um, please let us know,
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  Speaker 1: or even if they're just interesting to talk about, because
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  Speaker 1: I would love that too. You can email us a
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