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Dinner And A Movie Family Movie Night Menus From Leonard And Jessie Maltin · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: You must be living inside my home because everything that
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  Speaker 1: you have inside this book is what my wife and
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  Speaker 1: I have been living since the lockdown. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: dinner has got to match the movie. And then when
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  Speaker 1: I found out about this book, family movies, night menus,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going, my god, this is and because I love
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing here aarow.
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  Speaker 2: Did you not see us sitting underneath your dinner table?
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  Speaker 1: So true? I'm shocked. Yeah, you were down there with
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  Speaker 1: my dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Rainbow hair, sir, you would notice me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you, you must be living this as well.
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  Speaker 1: To make it as personable as you do inside this,
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  Speaker 1: you had to have been living in it as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: So we all we all live together, my mom, my dad,
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  Speaker 2: my husband, myself, my daughter. We are all in one
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  Speaker 2: crazy house plus two dogs.
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  Speaker 4: It is a circus here.
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  Speaker 2: But so movies obviously are a huge part of our lives.
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  Speaker 4: And now that I am a mom.
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  Speaker 2: Which I still can't quite believe anybody allowed me to.
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  Speaker 4: Have a child.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's another layer where now I'm introducing
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  Speaker 2: her to all of the things that my parents introduced
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  Speaker 2: me to, and I'm watching my dad sort of gleefully
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  Speaker 2: try to explain certain things to Daijie, who you can
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  Speaker 2: hear playing in the background. It's you know, it is
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  Speaker 2: a gift to share movies, and it is so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: And whether it's with your friends or your family or anyone,
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  Speaker 2: it is the thing that brings us together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's part of the fun is right there
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  Speaker 1: in that kitchen where you can prepare the dinner together.
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  Speaker 1: Then let's go watch the movie. Okay, So that means
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  Speaker 1: we're not at the family table don't care. The family
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  Speaker 1: table to me is right there in front of that
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  Speaker 1: TV watching movies.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, it works.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, but the way that you create the themes,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I love about it. In Adam's family theme,
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  Speaker 1: I never even thought about that over the past five years.
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  Speaker 1: Create a theme. Don't just go and create something. Make
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  Speaker 1: it about the movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well again, it's part of it is just as
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  Speaker 3: simple as what would be fun. You know, we want
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  Speaker 3: you to have a good time, and we want it
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  Speaker 3: to be an activity and the thing that you're doing tonight,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing again? I have had so many
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  Speaker 3: friends sending me messages saying that they've planned nice with
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  Speaker 3: their friends to come over.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna make this. We're gonna watch Sounder
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  Speaker 2: and make jumbalaya. We're gonna you know, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: great and it brings me so much joy because that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing is, movies make me happy, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: huge part of my life in my family, and part
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  Speaker 2: of what we loved was working on this book.
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  Speaker 4: My parents would rewatch.
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  Speaker 2: A movie and then we'd all be sitting together having dinner,
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  Speaker 2: and we'd be talking about it because obviously there are
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  Speaker 2: some that they know backwards and forwards and some that
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  Speaker 2: I know backwards and forwards. So something like the Adams
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  Speaker 2: Family or Princess Bride, which I can recite from memory.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they hadn't seen those movies in a while,
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  Speaker 2: and it was really fun to sort of go back
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  Speaker 2: and say, oh, yeah, this was such a great scene.
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  Speaker 4: This is such a great moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you bring up Princess Bride, and right now
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  Speaker 1: you need to get your hands on that Charlotte Observer
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  Speaker 1: because they're doing a big thing on Andre the Giant.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing a big series, is what they're doing, and
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  Speaker 1: so and right away I wanted to see the movie,
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  Speaker 1: and then I went right to your dang book, and
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  Speaker 1: because I wanted to know what we were going to
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  Speaker 1: have for dinner, because I mean, they've ignited it by
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  Speaker 1: talking about the history of being a part of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: But man, now we get to have dinner. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how the world connects. Just exactly what you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the documentary they did on him, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: was fascinating. It was really sad, but fascinating. No agein
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  Speaker 2: movies aren't in general brings us together, right, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: going to see a band, whether it's watching a movie together,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's me telling my daughter to play a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more quietly, please, angel, love of my life. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like this is what brings us all together. And
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  Speaker 2: it's just you know, like my daughter now is she
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  Speaker 2: loves the musical numbers from Sound of Music and Mary Poppins,
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  Speaker 2: And I cannot tell you sitting with my parents watching
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  Speaker 2: step in Time and having my daughter try to do
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  Speaker 2: the dance, it's like I've never felt that, just glee
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  Speaker 2: and elation, her running around the house singing doray me.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's just it's yeah, you you.
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  Speaker 1: There, good lord see And what what what you inspire
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  Speaker 1: me to do is especially when you when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about being the family movies and stuff, when you take
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  Speaker 1: a movie like the Sound of Music, maybe maybe what
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  Speaker 1: we need to do is make a kid like and
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  Speaker 1: maybe have a tea party of sorts, except use real
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  Speaker 1: tea and do things with the music. And I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're inviting here is creativity in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then write the entertainment center.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, this is not prefab this is not spoon fed.
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  Speaker 5: This a participation, participation together as a family unit.
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  Speaker 4: It's a communal experience.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Leonard Malton and
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  Speaker 1: his daughter Jesse coming up next. This is a fantastic book,
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  Speaker 1: family movie night menus. We are back with Leonard and
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  Speaker 1: Jesse maulton. What have you learned from this? Because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is it really just looking in the mirror or are
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  Speaker 1: you're going, wow, we haven't done that. I'll write about
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  Speaker 1: it and then we as a family, because we're all together,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do this well.
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  Speaker 5: When I was writing The Secret Garden, Jesse said, I
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  Speaker 5: remember when I saw that. When you stop and see
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  Speaker 5: that when it was new, it's a scene in India.
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  Speaker 4: At the beginning, it really stuck with me.
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  Speaker 5: They were very exotic and they all indoors.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't get to see the outdoor setting. It was
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  Speaker 4: implied rather than shown.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what's really interesting about this book coming
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  Speaker 1: out as we enter the summer months is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people are getting together. They usually
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  Speaker 1: do game nights and things like this. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to tell people about family or even just movie nights
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  Speaker 1: where you can create the dinner. Because if Thanksgiving now
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  Speaker 1: is friends Giving, so can movies bring the friends over,
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  Speaker 1: let's cook dinner together. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, it's something that I've done with my friends
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  Speaker 2: my whole life, and it's something that I value deeply. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you meet your friends, the ones that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to know for the rest of your life again,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's going to a concert or sitting and watching
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  Speaker 2: a movie together. My friend Dylan thinks his popcorn is
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  Speaker 2: the greatest thing in the entire universe, and that man
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  Speaker 2: takes seven hours to make it when he was a
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, that he'd come over with his stuff to
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  Speaker 2: make it and then we'd all watch a movie together.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, those memories, if they are things that
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  Speaker 2: I cherish, and again watching stuff with my parents, and
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  Speaker 2: now watching those things with my daughter too, and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting to sort of show her things that
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  Speaker 2: I've loved forever, and then hearing her sing the songs. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean Singing in the Rain is not
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  Speaker 2: a hard movie to fall in love with. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I've loved Donald O'Connor my entire life. I
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  Speaker 2: would kill for that man. And you know, Gene Kelly
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  Speaker 2: is spectacular, but there's just something for me about Donald
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  Speaker 2: O'Connor and showing her, you know, make him laugh, showing
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  Speaker 2: her mosesses his toeses are rosy. It's like, it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's so cool to see her respond.
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  Speaker 4: It's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear she's very musical as she sings from
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the room.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're just setting up the future for more musicals,
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  Speaker 1: and we can't have enough of those, My God, just
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  Speaker 1: keep making those musicals so we can all sing along.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the world is a bit of a scary place.
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  Speaker 4: And anytime you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Something that fulfills you, anytime you can do something that
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  Speaker 2: fills your cup, you know, and makes you feel good,
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  Speaker 2: it's worthwhile.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Call your friends and saying let's have a movie night,
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  Speaker 2: Let's try one of these dishes, and let's just sit
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  Speaker 2: together and forget everything else for a little while and
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  Speaker 2: just be here and be present.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that book cover for a moment. In
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  Speaker 1: the way of all the things that you've gone through, Leonard,
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  Speaker 1: you went with this one, which I totally agreed because
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  Speaker 1: I laughed. I felt so good on the inside when
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  Speaker 1: I when I saw that cover. There's just something about it.
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  Speaker 4: It made me laugh too. Yep. I can't pretend that
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  Speaker 4: I had the idea.
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  Speaker 5: I'm the lucky recipient of other people's ideas.
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  Speaker 4: I picked.
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  Speaker 2: We had a couple that we narrowed down to, and
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  Speaker 2: the woman that we worked with at the publisher, that
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  Speaker 2: was her favorite. It was between that and an Adam's
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  Speaker 2: family image, and she felt the Adams family image might
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  Speaker 2: be a bit too dark. But but yeah, that so
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  Speaker 2: that ended up being that that picture, which does it
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  Speaker 2: just makes you laugh.
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  Speaker 4: It's so funny. Hi, crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Sick, keep talking. I love that. Oh my god, you're
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  Speaker 1: bringing out that that inner grandpa in me.
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  Speaker 4: You say hi, say hi. She's a no.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to make noise.
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  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to be crazy.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about everything
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  Speaker 1: that you guys are doing with Family Movie Night? And
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  Speaker 1: why isn't this a TV show? It's got to be
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  Speaker 1: that's you've got to be working on that.
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  Speaker 4: I wish, uh, you know, we're our phone line girls. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I wish that's always been, as I say, my greatest joy,
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  Speaker 2: and we did.
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  Speaker 4: I will say a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: We just been called Maltenfest, we put on our own
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  Speaker 2: film festival, and then the next year we're going to
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  Speaker 2: do our second year in covid hit and we weren't
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  Speaker 2: able to do it, which broke my heart. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting to watch movies with people who are like minded
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  Speaker 2: is just one of the greatest things you will ever do.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and and I can't recommend it enough. I hope
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  Speaker 2: that one day, whether we get to make a show,
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  Speaker 2: whether we just get to make another book, I'm so
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  Speaker 2: grateful that we get to share these things with folks.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you guys have got to come back to this
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  Speaker 1: show anytime in the future. The door is always going
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  Speaker 1: to be open for you.
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  Speaker 4: You're so kind. Thank you so much. You're very, very kind.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today? Okay, you too, Thank you sir.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try kyo.