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The Extremely Black Christmas of 2020 · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: This episode is a very special holiday episode. And it's
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  Speaker 1: even more special because it's an exclusive Horror Club episode.
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  Speaker 1: And actually, that is pretty special. I started thinking about
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  Speaker 1: it this past week, and we've settled into doing Life
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  Speaker 1: Day episodes for the last several years, which I guess
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about doing a new Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars movie this year. And then I thought about it
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  Speaker 1: some more, and it's been even longer since we've done
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  Speaker 1: a horror-themed holiday episode. And actually, that's the fires we
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  Speaker 1: were forged in, because this month is also the anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of our very first episode. That's right, our very first
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  Speaker 1: episode was in December, and that very first episode, we
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  Speaker 1: watched a holiday-themed horror movie. So it's all come full
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  Speaker 1: circle a dozen years later. That's right, in 2021, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be crossing over into our 13th year of
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  Speaker 1: the show It's been an amazing ride, and I'm so
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  Speaker 3: 900.
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  Speaker 1: Someone out there. And, you know, maybe one or two
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  Speaker 1: of them might actually like it. But regardless, it is
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  Speaker 1: a huge gift to give someone this holiday season. So
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  Speaker 1: feel free.
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  Speaker 2: They're out there.
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  Speaker 1: where not only do we have fun holiday discussions, but
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  Speaker 1: we also question some really interesting issues that come up
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  Speaker 1: in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, along the way, we say.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome things like this.
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  Speaker 2: We're decked out. Look, the Christmas lights everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: This giant aluminum purple tree. I've decided to go the
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  Speaker 1: other way on the Peanuts Christmas. Usually I have the
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Brown tree, but I'm going big aluminum Christmas tree
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  Speaker 1: this year. So it's just, it's overwhelmingly Christmas-y in here,
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  Speaker 1: you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Because when the internet eventually collapses in on itself, which
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  Speaker 4: it will, and people want to watch Shaun of the Dead,
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  Speaker 4: we're good to go at my house.
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  Speaker 1: But wouldn't you have extra copies at, I don't know, Christmas?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere. I went like four places.
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  Speaker 1: Which, granted, there's only about four places that carry DVDs anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I had to wait ten minutes at the Red Box
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  Speaker 3: for another person.
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  Speaker 2: To get their movie. Which was fine. Take your time.
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  Speaker 2: Pick out something. But I'm like, who goes to these?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of true at this point. It's rare that
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  Speaker 1: I know anybody that goes to Red Box.
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  Speaker 2: The same script outline. Sure they do.
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  Speaker 5: I think at Hallmark they even just use the same sets.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a constant year round.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the old studio where they used to have
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  Speaker 1: the western town and just everybody rolled in and used it.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's just the small town set up for Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and they have their, now you two go kiss over
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  Speaker 1: there and we'll shoot it and then the next group
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  Speaker 1: comes in.
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  Speaker 2: Santa Claus, played by a business suit.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing Barry Boswick, This was 2019. This is current era
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  Speaker 1: Barry Boswick wearing a business suit with, like, a green tie.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes him Santa, I guess. He at least
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  Speaker 2: has a big white beard.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell? He's got a little bit of a beard.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm all for putting Santa in a new outfit.
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  Speaker 2: 2020 has been enough.
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  Speaker 1: He's got kind of a little, like, relatively trimmed beard. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's had white hair for a while now.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I'm like, alright, you're age appropriate, but.
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  Speaker 4: Barry Boswick has grown into someone's lovable, adorable grandpa.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much. I'm all for him playing.
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  Speaker 1: That was the other reason I got suckered in.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, really? Okay, let's watch this. Does he
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  Speaker 2: wear a fishnet?
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  Speaker 4: Was it Christmastime and Porky's?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it was. I don't think it was. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: because they were... It was the end. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was the end of the.
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  Speaker 3: No? Because football was... I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. And I saw all these.
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  Speaker 3: Hundreds of reviews for this one.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of talk about this one. For this one.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I'm not going to watch any
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  Speaker 4: because I don't want it to taint what we're going
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  Speaker 4: to do on the show.
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  Speaker 3: But I was maybe not surprised, but kind of disgusted
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  Speaker 3: about how many of the reviews, the description of the
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  Speaker 3: review at least, made it look like the movie was anti-men.
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  Speaker 2: Which I feel is a bit of a stretch, but...
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess we just need to get into that.
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  Speaker 1: Because there are, like, there's problems on every end of
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  Speaker 1: the scenario. Like, everything involved is problematic. So, and not
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  Speaker 1: in the buzzword way.
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  Speaker 2: In the more basic way, really, to me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I see what they were trying to do, and
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  Speaker 5: they just went about it all in the worst way.
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  Speaker 5: And I was actually surprised to see that, like, women wrote.
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  Speaker 2: And directed it. Because it kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Seemed like something that, like, men would try to make
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  Speaker 5: a feminist movie. See?
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  Speaker 2: We're feminists. That's exactly what I said to my wife.
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  Speaker 2: And she was like, please explain. Because she didn't watch it.
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  Speaker 2: But she was like, please explain that comment.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, you'd have to watch it if you
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  Speaker 3: watched it.
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  Speaker 2: They just, like, did it wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did anyone else.
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  Speaker 4: Feel like they were suddenly watching a different movie when
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  Speaker 4: the security guard shows up at a completely different house where.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently the same bullshit's been happening? They could have set
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  Speaker 2: that up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And that's another thing where I was talking about a
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  Speaker 4: minute ago where it's like, hey, why don't you show
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  Speaker 4: us some of what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: If you're in a normal size, if you're indoors and
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  Speaker 1: in a normal sized room, you know a weapon that's
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  Speaker 1: not a really optimum weapon is a bow and arrow.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 2: What the.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they made all the women just like the worst
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  Speaker 5: type of people. I'm just like, what? I just don't
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  Speaker 5: know what they were trying to do when they were
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  Speaker 5: writing this movie because it's so outwardly obnoxious. They're like
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  Speaker 5: every stereotype of every horrible social justice warrior that everybody
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  Speaker 5: hates on Facebook and stuff. And it's like, what are you.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: So the guys, it's not their fault for being rapists
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  Speaker 5: and murderers.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, of course.
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  Speaker 5: And the women are really obnoxious.
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  Speaker 1: All the time.
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  Speaker 2: Which they can't. There you go. There's your movie. And
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  Speaker 2: it's a feminist movie. Like what?
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  Speaker 5: Homegirl with the broken broomstick had so much time to
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  Speaker 5: just sneak up behind the dude with the bone arrow
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  Speaker 5: and just fucking.
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  Speaker 2: Has anyone ever tried to break a broomstick over the knee?
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  Speaker 2: I think you're about to say the same thing I said.
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  Speaker 2: That does not work.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, if you can crack that broomstick over
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  Speaker 1: your knee, you don't need any help.
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  Speaker 2: You're a badass, and you can go kick all those
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  Speaker 2: dudes' asses. Because that would break your damn leg. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like.
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  Speaker 4: I would have been perfectly... My opinion of this movie
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  Speaker 4: would have gone up if she went to break the
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  Speaker 4: knee and went.
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  Speaker 5: God!
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  Speaker 1: Stop!
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  Speaker 4: Stupid!
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  Speaker 5: Like, if you want an example of actual, like, female empowerment.
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  Speaker 2: This is it. Like, this chick... There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Like, even if you don't get into the killer, just
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  Speaker 1: her and her boyfriend arguing about, look, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to have a kid, you know? It's just like, and
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  Speaker 1: now legally, I don't have to, so this is my choice.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is a feminist movie. Like, this
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  Speaker 2: is bullshit.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: No. Just if you need to see Lois Lane drunk
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  Speaker 1: for an hour. It's mostly just her drunk off her ass.
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  Speaker 4: So many bad jokes I could make about Margot Kidman.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to. No, no.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, of course, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: make them the white guys with all the power.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be way more interesting if because the point
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  Speaker 1: the men are making is that we're men, not that
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  Speaker 1: we're white men, that masculinity and toxic masculine. So wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: it be way more interesting if half these guys were black?
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  Speaker 1: And so you couldn't even play on the, well, all
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  Speaker 1: the good people over here and all the bad people
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  Speaker 1: are white people. And like, it would be way more
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  Speaker 1: to question and to get into if they were just like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't care what race you are.
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  Speaker 2: As long as you're a man, you're on our side.
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  Speaker 2: We want to include you.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, it's just, again, the most generic, here's the bad guys, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Dorky white frat boys. I'm like, of course we hate
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  Speaker 2: white frat boys. Who doesn't?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what, because they just made them really obnoxious.
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  Speaker 4: They made them what I feel like an anti-feminist guy
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  Speaker 4: or a guy who just started to realize maybe this
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  Speaker 4: feminism thing. isn't so bad but doesn't really understand it yet,
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  Speaker 4: what they would think a feminist would talk like.
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  Speaker 1: Because at any point, if anybody got close to asking
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  Speaker 1: a question that might be interesting or lead to something bigger, nope,
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  Speaker 1: you are asked to leave, sir. We will have no
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  Speaker 1: thinking in this movie, damn you. We will make our points,
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  Speaker 1: we will throw out our buzzwords, and then we will
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  Speaker 1: stop talking about it because we.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want to have a dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to explore these issues. We just want
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  Speaker 1: to throw them out there and exploit them for being issues.
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  Speaker 2: And then that's it. We're done. Oh, I meant to
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  Speaker 2: bring this up earlier.
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  Speaker 4: I meant to bring this up earlier as I sat
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  Speaker 4: down to watch the movie I said to myself I
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  Speaker 4: wonder how long it's going to take before they play
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  Speaker 4: the rocking around the Christmas tree movie that you hear
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  Speaker 4: in every Christmas movie 6 minutes 32 seconds that.
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  Speaker 2: Then you'll get all.
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  Speaker 1: Of our exclusive episodes as we delve into frightening films,
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  Speaker 1: both old and new. So happy holidays to everyone out there.
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  Speaker 1: For God's sakes, we've survived this year so far. And
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  Speaker 1: let's look forward to a better 2021. You will get.
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  Speaker 2: A sentimental feeling.
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  Speaker 1: When you hear voices singing, let's be jolly.
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  Speaker 2: Deck the halls with boughs of holly. Buckle around the
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  Speaker 2: Christmas tree. Have a happy holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way.