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Bonus* Sinners Movie Review · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Twist. I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: everything and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that, right,
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  Speaker 1: all right? So I told y'all that I was going
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  Speaker 1: to get into my thoughts about Sinners, the movie by
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Coogler, because it is. It's insane. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen it, go watch it. But let's get on into it.
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  Speaker 1: Sinners is a horror film starring Michael B. Jordan by
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Cougler and Baby. I've seen the film twice so
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  Speaker 1: the opening weekend placed Sinners number one in the box office.
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  Speaker 1: They made forty eight million dollars domestically and sixty three
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  Speaker 1: point five million dollars globally, nineteen point two million dollars
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  Speaker 1: domestically just in the opening day, and that number was
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  Speaker 1: actually captured before the opening day even closed. This made
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  Speaker 1: this the second biggest opening day for an original horror
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  Speaker 1: film this decade. But this also made this film the
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  Speaker 1: biggest debut in post pandemic history for an original film,
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan Cougler and the cast earned a rare A
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  Speaker 1: Cinema score. This is the first horror film to do
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  Speaker 1: this in thirty five years. Don't You don't even Gotta
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  Speaker 1: say nothing, y'all, Like that is so fire and Sinners
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  Speaker 1: needs to make two hundred to two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars globally in order to break even theatrically.
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  Speaker 1: So the money that was put out to push the
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  Speaker 1: film to do everything that they needed to do, you know, globally,
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  Speaker 1: that is that's that's the number that they need to return.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, this movie has surpassed a Minecraft movie already
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  Speaker 1: numbers wise, right, A Minecraft movie is set to make
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  Speaker 1: is predicted to make seven hundred million dollars globally. A
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  Speaker 1: Minecraft movie is in seventy six international markets. Centners movie
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  Speaker 1: is in seventy one international markets. So I'm gonna read
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  Speaker 1: a tweet from Variety. This happened early in the release
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  Speaker 1: of the movie. Variety released this statement, I mean this
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  Speaker 1: headline on X. Sinners has a mask sixty one million
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  Speaker 1: dollars in its global debut. It's a great result for
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  Speaker 1: an original R rated horror film. Yet the Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 1: release has a ninety million dollar price tag before global
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  Speaker 1: marketing expenses, so profitability remains a ways away, y'all. They
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even closed out Sunday. They hadn't even closed out
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  Speaker 1: all seventy two hours of the weekend, and these were
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  Speaker 1: the headlines every time they talk about black movies in
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  Speaker 1: the theaters. Instead of talking about how well they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: they talk about what is not being done. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about what's actually happening here, and if they're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it, I will. So I saw some people upset,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to get on here and have a
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  Speaker 1: conversation about that, because what is what Centners is doing
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  Speaker 1: outside of hitting all the marks we talked about earlier
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  Speaker 1: making all of the money, making Michael be Jordan look
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  Speaker 1: damn good, because baby, the muscles were muscle ling, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Michael B Jordan. And I don't know if it was
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  Speaker 1: like the muscles with the guns and the action and
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  Speaker 1: the but Michael b Jordan was he was giving it up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he was looking good. So there's most conversations happening, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna focused on three. So the Bible thumpers right
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  Speaker 1: now are having a conversation as they always do anytime
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  Speaker 1: a black horror film drops. The Black Bible Thumpers come
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  Speaker 1: out and they start having a conversation about black magic
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  Speaker 1: and witchcraft and vampires and you know, darkness and the
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  Speaker 1: devil and all of these things. And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I was raised very traditionally in a very black traditional church.
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  Speaker 1: Where As I was watching this, I was like, my
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  Speaker 1: grandmother would be pissed at me sitting here watching this
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  Speaker 1: movie right now. But I think when they start having
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  Speaker 1: a conversation around black magic and a lot of that thing,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those things in the movie, you really,
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  Speaker 1: honestly just begin to see our healing power, Like especially
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  Speaker 1: strong Black women in faith, Like strong Black women rooted
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  Speaker 1: in spirituality and faith, they always emerge as being the
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  Speaker 1: leaders of their relationships, of their families or their communities,
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  Speaker 1: and they're often overlooked. What they do is often overlooked,
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  Speaker 1: is often mopped until it's like the world is exploding.
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  Speaker 1: I think we saw you will see if you have
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  Speaker 1: not watched it yet, and if you did watch it,
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  Speaker 1: you see that story life and play out, and you
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: give it away. But it also dies into, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the struggle with God that I think black people have,
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  Speaker 1: especially Black people in poverty or in really hard situations,
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  Speaker 1: they're always asking God why. Like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: loss in this film, there's a lot of like we
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  Speaker 1: had to fight, we had to kill, we had this,
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  Speaker 1: we had to that. So God in the conversation around
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  Speaker 1: that is like everybody's trying to get away from God
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  Speaker 1: in this movie, and they're trying to find something, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's money, whether it's love, whether it's wholeness, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a friend group, whatever, And it all comes back to
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the person who is
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  Speaker 1: the main character in this film, taking us right back
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  Speaker 1: to God. And I feel like that's what the vampires
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  Speaker 1: kind of showed. It was like, here's these these bad
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  Speaker 1: people who are doing these bad things. But because of
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  Speaker 1: it's like a cause and effect. Because of that, people
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  Speaker 1: are coming together, they're having a fight together, they're realizing
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  Speaker 1: who really is there for them. They're realizing what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you, you know what I mean, give your power and
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  Speaker 1: your energy to the negative thoughts in the you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff that the devil tries to wrap you
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  Speaker 1: up into, especially when you're doing well. You figured out something,
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  Speaker 1: You figured out a way to make some money and maneuver.
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  Speaker 1: I also thought that, you know, there was like such
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  Speaker 1: a black versus white conversation in this movie the white
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  Speaker 1: passing conversation was like one that I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people didn't really sit with. I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people just saw black versus white, because that is
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  Speaker 1: very prevalent in the movie, especially before the time period
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  Speaker 1: that the movie is during the gym Crow period, so
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  Speaker 1: especially during the time period the movie is placed in
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  Speaker 1: where the movie is placed, and that is very prevalent.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of like leaning into Irish culture as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it made me like google the Black struggle and
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  Speaker 1: the Irish struggle. In this film, you really get a
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  Speaker 1: sense of like, if we had all just figured it
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  Speaker 1: out and work together, could it have been better? Because
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  Speaker 1: at one point they were the white people, weren't weren't
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  Speaker 1: fooling with this little set of white people, this set
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  Speaker 1: of Irish people, right, and they were pushed away. They
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  Speaker 1: were they were that they were able to assimulate back
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  Speaker 1: into culture way differently and come up of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and that's a conversation for another day, but it
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  Speaker 1: was there for them too. So even with you know,
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  Speaker 1: certain people of certain uh you know, backgrounds, choosing to
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  Speaker 1: be so black versus white, when in reality, there are
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  Speaker 1: sectors of these cultures where it's like y'all weren't accepted either.
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  Speaker 1: They wasn't fooling with y'all either, to the point where
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  Speaker 1: they bring the KKK into this, and I'll just give
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  Speaker 1: y'all a little spoilers, so spoiler alert. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: evil people that are Irish, they even lean into the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they had to bring in a member of
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  Speaker 1: the k KKK and kind of work this person so
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  Speaker 1: that they had an inside man because they wasn't fooling
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  Speaker 1: with them either, nor were they fooling with us this
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  Speaker 1: whole movie either. So that was it made me look
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  Speaker 1: look up that and again I'm not comparing the two
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  Speaker 1: because black is black, period, and you can't tell me
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  Speaker 1: nothing about what we're dealing with it if you look
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  Speaker 1: like a white man white men, you know what I mean, period,
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  Speaker 1: you just can't tell me it's just not happening. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, like what Ryan Cookleer's point
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  Speaker 1: and that was, and honestly, it made me want to
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  Speaker 1: do more research. And we're reading around that and I
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  Speaker 1: love films that do that, but the White Passing Conversation,
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  Speaker 1: it brought that up a ton because the ability to
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like move in an out of different
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  Speaker 1: cultures in different sectors, different music, different energies, different you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, struggles versus non struggle, and to
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  Speaker 1: turn it on and turn it off. The ability to
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  Speaker 1: do that it comes back to, you know, backfire in
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  Speaker 1: this film really heavily, like extremely heavily. Y'all, y'all gotta
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  Speaker 1: go see this movie. But I will say though, like
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  Speaker 1: the way that mainstream media covered this movie, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to do anything but help it. I
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  Speaker 1: got to move on now because it's so hard to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the film without giving y'all the film. But
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  Speaker 1: please go see Centers if you have seen it already,
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  Speaker 1: drop alone to comments some of the conversations that you
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  Speaker 1: picked up from the movie. There's a lot more like
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  Speaker 1: I was in the movie, like writing down like a
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  Speaker 1: notepad of just different things I wanted to research, and
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  Speaker 1: like just just so much stuff, just soul, my stuff.