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Still Comfy? The Addams Family · To All the Men I've Tolerated Before

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  Speaker 1: the end, So we did Adam's Family But like whatever,
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  Speaker 1: Hi everyone, it's still comfy Tuesday. My name is Nathley Katona.
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  Speaker 1: the desk hardcore Parkour. All right, well, today we are covering,
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  Speaker 1: if you couldn't tell by my fantastic musical renditions, we
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  Speaker 1: were covering the Adams Family. And when I say the
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  Speaker 1: Adams Family, I mean the good one, the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: one version. Yeah. Okay, but this is a question. Did
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  Speaker 1: you ever watch the original black and white TV version.
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  Speaker 2: Every now and again at my grandparents' house because whatever
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  Speaker 2: channel did the reruns for it, and we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: cable growing up, so I did see it in the
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  Speaker 2: summers on I mean obviously by the time we were
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  Speaker 2: kids it was in reruns anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I was a big nicket night kid,
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  Speaker 1: so I've seen it, and I've seen the monsters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the monsters.
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  Speaker 1: Then.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the Adams Family, though, was more taboo
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  Speaker 2: in my house because, if you'll recall, was raised in
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  Speaker 2: a conservative Christian home.
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  Speaker 1: J just couldn't go to camp or learn about space
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  Speaker 1: or or you know, spooky things. Yeah, and I think
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  Speaker 1: the monsters were like the the water.
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  Speaker 2: Down version of a Adam's family, and that's probably why
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't as like no, no, no kind of situation
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  Speaker 2: because I don't remember if, because the nineteen ninety one
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  Speaker 2: version was definitely like a no.
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  Speaker 1: Go oh a no go a.
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  Speaker 2: It was a no go.
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  Speaker 2: But what my opening my statement of like Adam Stanley
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  Speaker 2: was definitely a nog As I was watching it and
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  Speaker 2: the opening scene when we first get eyes on Angelica Houston,
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  Speaker 2: my first.
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  Speaker 1: Thought was, damn, damn, ma'am, you are stuck ning always stunning,
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  Speaker 1: m h always stunning. My no, we were a huge
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  Speaker 1: Adams family house. Like we watched all of the movies, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of the recent ones, but I
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  Speaker 1: watched Wednesday and then didn't like it.
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  Speaker 2: But is that because you're a purist, like a nineties purist.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not because I'm a purist. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: I truly feel that Wednesday takes out the entire heart
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  Speaker 1: that is the Adams Family franchise, like it was Adam's
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  Speaker 1: Family for a reason. Sure, yeah, they're an ensemble, and
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  Speaker 1: as an ensemble. Now, I did try to turn on
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  Speaker 1: the cartoon because I was very curious if when they did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the newfound like claymation animation that they did
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  Speaker 1: in the most more recent videos dress sexy, like Ifmas
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  Speaker 1: and Martsha are all over one another, are so horny
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  Speaker 1: for each other, they're so horny, Like Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is such a beautiful example of
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  Speaker 2: when a couple is in love and like genuinely wants
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  Speaker 2: to be together, which we don't often have, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you think about the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, And here's the thing about the Adams family that
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  Speaker 1: always gets me tickled. And by the way, just because
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  Speaker 1: like Adam's Family and the Adam So I thought the
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  Speaker 1: original Adam's Family was Adam's family values. And I just
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  Speaker 1: think it's because Joan Cusack, isn't it and therefore it
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  Speaker 1: made it a bigger movie on my radar. But the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one Adam's Family is the reboot that they
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  Speaker 1: did for US millennials, and it stars Angelica Houston, a
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  Speaker 1: very young but a very talented Christina Ricci, so she
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  Speaker 1: was so good I stand, and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the one where Uncle Fester has been
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  Speaker 1: missing for decades and then an impostor comes to take
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  Speaker 1: the Adam's fortune and shenanigans ensue, and then spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 1: at the end, it does actually end up being Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Fester because there's only one man who looks like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think so. The thing about the thing that always
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  Speaker 1: tickles me about the Adams Family is that it's it's
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  Speaker 1: meant to be like, oh, they're scary and they're outsiders
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and they're like weirdos. But it's like we've
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  Speaker 1: made that up in our minds, and like the story
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  Speaker 1: never plays that out. Because I was like, why is
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  Speaker 1: it that everyone's real quick convinced that the Adams family
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  Speaker 1: is a real alternative lifestyle when they're literally the happiest
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  Speaker 1: people I know. They're the happiest people.
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  Speaker 2: They are so rooted in family and being in like
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  Speaker 2: so focused on family and honoring those who like lived
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  Speaker 2: before them, and just again a demonstration of like the
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  Speaker 2: parents actually wanting to be together and loving each other
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  Speaker 2: and not sniping at each other and just really showing
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  Speaker 2: us like, hey, this is kind of what the kind
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  Speaker 2: of love that.
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  Speaker 1: You should probably look for. Well, and I love all
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  Speaker 1: of the joke structures in the Animals family because none
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  Speaker 1: of the jokes are at the expense of anyone else
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  Speaker 1: in the family. It's not like Gomez is always digging
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  Speaker 1: in at Martitia and Pugsy is a real consensual partis
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  Speaker 1: of him in whatever weird shit Wednesday has decided that
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  Speaker 1: they will do, and they're like real siblings. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I turned off the cartoon because the first person who
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  Speaker 1: spoke was Pugsy and he sounded too intelligent and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's not my Pugsly, and then I turned
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  Speaker 1: it off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, because Pugsly in this movie doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: have a lot to say.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I remember that in this show, like that
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  Speaker 1: is Pugsley's vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's more of a quiet character, which makes sense
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  Speaker 2: too when you think of it or not, like not
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  Speaker 2: it makes sense. But like when they go to the
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  Speaker 2: Halloween party and he dresses like Uncle Fester, it's like
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  Speaker 2: one of those things. It's like out of admiration because
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  Speaker 2: they're different, but the you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 2: he admires Fester for who he is versus like.
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  Speaker 1: Not that was a dumb point that you get it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like we don't get to do ur We
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  Speaker 2: didn't get to do our get ready for the show.
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  Speaker 1: We did it camping.
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  Speaker 2: So we're a little today.
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  Speaker 1: We but he we all have that uncle or that
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  Speaker 1: aunt who is our favorite uncle or aunt. I also
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that winsday. So one of the really big things
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  Speaker 1: that I enjoy about the Adam's family is it's not
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  Speaker 1: even that like no one's outwardly mean to you, but
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  Speaker 1: like everyone is respected and heard in that family. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So when Wednesday is the first person who starts catching
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  Speaker 1: on that Uncle Fester is an Uncle Fester or there's
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  Speaker 1: more to the story or whatever, no one is like
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  Speaker 1: outwardly telling her like you're insane, right crazy, We've accepted
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  Speaker 1: this to be true. Why can't you like, oh that Wednesday?
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  Speaker 1: And when they go to the school for the little
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  Speaker 1: performance and the teacher is expressing to Martitia like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we did some we did some projects on our heroes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and Wednesday did her great aunt who was burned at
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  Speaker 1: the state for a witch or whatever. There's never any like,
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  Speaker 1: at no point are the Adams family in on the
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  Speaker 1: fact that that's actually weird to like basic white people.
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  Speaker 1: So Martos' is like, oh, yes, that is one of
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  Speaker 1: our favorite family stories. And so naturally the only connection
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  Speaker 1: I can make is that the Adams family are just
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  Speaker 1: a Gothic version of my Croatian family.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it based on some of the stories you
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  Speaker 2: told me. I did write down Hall of Heroes because
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  Speaker 2: on my notes, because I think that is one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest scenes of the film, because it also highlights
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  Speaker 2: just how much they value the family lore versus placing admiration.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think in the Hall of Heroes you had
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  Speaker 2: George Bush and Barbara Bush and like all of these
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  Speaker 2: other faces that you know, you look at them and
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  Speaker 2: you're like.
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  Speaker 1: Kids don't know anything about George Bush.
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  Speaker 2: And also scratch your head like like why, And then
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  Speaker 2: here comes this family, this little girl who's like I
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  Speaker 2: am so I love my family history so much that
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  Speaker 2: I respected enough to share with you yeah, and like
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  Speaker 2: fully understands it versus again, like like you said, who
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't in nineteen ninety one, I couldn't have told
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  Speaker 2: you what the fuck George Bush was doing.
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  Speaker 1: No, so like just like literally picking the president because
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  Speaker 1: you know that someone has to be president of.
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  Speaker 2: This that or like your parents are like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: who should we should admire is George w is George
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  Speaker 2: hw h W. This is ninety one. But still that
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  Speaker 2: was a great scene to me. And then the other
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  Speaker 2: thing that I wrote down was I love how everyone
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  Speaker 2: assumes that the Adams family is a bunch of dummies
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  Speaker 2: when really there that's just their prejudice, Like they're not
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  Speaker 2: Like the Adam's family just doesn't see the world the
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  Speaker 2: way that everyone else does, which is so freeing. But
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  Speaker 2: it's like because of that, everyone just assumes they're stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I just got chills because now we
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  Speaker 1: can connect it to the other thing that we've been
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  Speaker 1: obsessed about this week, which is Britney Spears. Like everyone
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  Speaker 1: is just assuming that Britney is in crisis. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that she's out of crisis, right, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not taking into context that you know, there's mental illness,
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  Speaker 1: there's medical abuse, there's a lot of distrust for society
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  Speaker 1: due to things that she had to live through. And
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  Speaker 1: with the Adams family, they're just so comfortable in themselves,
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  Speaker 1: much like a naked Britney spears twirling with knives. They're
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  Speaker 1: just so comfortable with themselves that at no point, just
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  Speaker 1: it's not that they don't pick up that you're questioning
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  Speaker 1: their culture or their family structure or their lore. They're
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  Speaker 1: just not questioning it with you, like it's not making
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  Speaker 1: them falter on who they are as people.
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  Speaker 2: Right, exactly exactly, and even when, like you said, even
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  Speaker 2: like weeks since early on that Martitia isn't quite sold
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  Speaker 2: on this being the true fester. But she's still loving
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  Speaker 2: her husband, she's still supporting him through it. But she's
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  Speaker 2: also proceeding with in with caution to still protect her
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  Speaker 2: family until they know for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought it was done so.
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  Speaker 2: Beautifully because it wasn't uh I told you so, or
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  Speaker 2: I was concerned or like this this that usually comes
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  Speaker 2: when you read this.
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  Speaker 1: Guy into our house, yeah and ask questions. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It really highlights just how solid their relationship is because she's, like,
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  Speaker 2: my husband has to work through this. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: support him even though I have doubts. And then when
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  Speaker 2: it all does kind of start to fall apart, she's like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, let's solve this problem. And it's not like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my stupid husband, Oh I have to fix this. Oh
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  Speaker 2: why didn't you listen to me. It's very much like
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  Speaker 2: an understanding of their partnership and the partner m I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm saying the same shit over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over.
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  Speaker 1: Again because I think. I mean, honestly, I stopped taking
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  Speaker 1: notes on the movie because I was like, I have
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  Speaker 1: no notes on this family really would move into this
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  Speaker 1: family's home tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I would get freaked out because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like intense and scary things, but the whole
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  Speaker 2: Like another note I wrote, so it's I have like
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  Speaker 2: no like you have no criticism.
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  Speaker 1: In the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Another note I wrote it was, this is just a
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  Speaker 2: movie of finding belonging in an unexpected way.
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  Speaker 1: Like yeah, because and everyone fels good about it at
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  Speaker 1: the end. What so what was Fester's amnesia name? Was
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: it Harold? Was his name? Gerald? Jerry Gerald? It was
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  Speaker 1: a George? Yeah, it was Yeah, when Fester doesn't realize
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  Speaker 1: that he's fester. He has this really toxic mom figure,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably something that we can go into. He
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  Speaker 1: has this very toxic mom figure who has basically made
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  Speaker 1: it impossible for him to not feel like an outsider,
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  Speaker 1: Like she revels in his violent tendencies because it gets
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  Speaker 1: it helps her get her way. But then she's also
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  Speaker 1: only allowing him to socialize with her so she can
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  Speaker 1: keep in control of him. And then through this con
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  Speaker 1: he does I mean, honestly, what I do as a
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  Speaker 1: person who's been used in a used just goes, oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, are these people okay? I will become their
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  Speaker 1: uncle like and he becomes very endeared to the kids,
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  Speaker 1: year and Grandma and Lurch. And it's when when he's
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  Speaker 1: so upset because his mean mommy isn't going to let
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  Speaker 1: him go to the kids play and he goes, but
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  Speaker 1: I've been helping them with them with it and she's
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  Speaker 1: like why and he's like, well, it's all part of
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  Speaker 1: the bit, but you can very much still it's it
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  Speaker 1: out part of the bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's almost it's like you watch him start
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  Speaker 4: to realize that he fits there, like that it makes
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  Speaker 4: sense that he's there even though he doesn't believe that
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  Speaker 4: he's a part of the family.
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  Speaker 2: He's not really Uncle Fester. There's something about that family
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  Speaker 2: that makes him feel valuable and whole. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: other thing that I really loved about it, too, is
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  Speaker 2: that Fester doesn't find romantic love to make him whole.
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  Speaker 2: Fester just finds his community to make him whole.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And it all comes to head in a beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: choreographed moment which we know. I love with the mamushka yea,
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  Speaker 1: And I remember I remember being a kid and that
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  Speaker 1: used to be my favorite scene and I would dance
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  Speaker 1: the mamushka. That's adorable. Yeah, because, as you know, my
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  Speaker 1: family likes to poka. To me, it was the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And like there are so many again, honestly, my
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  Speaker 3: family is gonna be so pissed when I text them
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  Speaker 3: all and be like, I know that we thought that
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  Speaker 3: my big fat Greek wedding was the truest representation of
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  Speaker 3: our family we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: But have you guys revisited the Adam's family? Can't you
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: guys looked into Adam's family in nineteen ninety one? Wait
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  Speaker 1: for that response. And because they have that big family
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  Speaker 1: party because they're so excited that Fester has been found,
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  Speaker 1: so if going to share it with all of their family,