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Joe Neumaier, WOR Movie Minute guy, interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, WOR movie admitted host and film journalist. And Joe,
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  Speaker 1: I was looking forward to talking to you because I
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  Speaker 1: just saw that Spider-Man is now domestically the best selling movie.
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  Speaker 2: At all time.
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  Speaker 3: 937 million.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of that movie again?
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  Speaker 3: I'm never going to live this down on my gravestone.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to say he wasn't crazy about Spider-Man. I
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  Speaker 3: liked it. I wasn't crazy, but I liked the other
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  Speaker 3: ones more. But I'm really happy that it's a movie
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  Speaker 3: that people have embraced. They've gone to the movie theaters
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  Speaker 3: a zillion times to see it. It's the number one
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  Speaker 3: movie that beat The Force Awakens of all time. and
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy for Spidey, and he's a New York guy.
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  Speaker 2: You called it slow, right? You said it was a
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  Speaker 2: little slow, right?
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  Speaker 3: I called it a little slow. Yeah, it's a little long,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a little bit of a downer, but you
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  Speaker 3: know what? What do I know? What do I know?
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: People are going back to see it two, three times. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh. Rub it in, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: There I am, like, you know, sitting alone being like,
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  Speaker 3: why is everybody going to see Spider-Man? But I liked it.
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  Speaker 3: I just wasn't crazy like the other ones.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, you proved to be like Gumby on this because
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  Speaker 4: Larry lobbied you and you took it from a three
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  Speaker 4: to a three and a half because of Larry.
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  Speaker 2: But you felt the pressure. You didn't do it because
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right. But you know what? If you ask me
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  Speaker 3: to see it again today, yeah, I'd say, okay, I'll
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  Speaker 3: see that Spider-Man brand new. I'd see it again.
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe there's something I missed. Clearly, I'm behind the eight
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  Speaker 3: ball on this one. I don't know. But I liked it.
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  Speaker 3: I liked it. I just didn't like it as much
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  Speaker 3: as those other Tom Holland movies. The first one, Homecoming,
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  Speaker 3: all those ones were terrific. But here's the problem. I
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  Speaker 3: gave Spider-Man three stars, and I'm also giving Resident Evil
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  Speaker 3: this week three stars. So it's sort of like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where am I falling in there? They're all, they're all
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  Speaker 3: the same movie to me. And that's not true. Spider-Man
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  Speaker 3: is obviously a, it's a really fun movie and it
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  Speaker 3: has a lot going on in it. Um, resident evil,
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  Speaker 3: which is this week's big movie, I think is also
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  Speaker 3: going to make some money. If I can make Spider-Man money,
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  Speaker 3: so I could be the number one film of all time,
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  Speaker 3: but it's, it's actually kind of an okay horror film. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of can't believe I'm saying that because I
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  Speaker 3: really didn't like many of those other Resident Evil movies.
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  Speaker 3: But this weekend, if people are not terrified by the
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  Speaker 3: headlines about AI, they can go to Resident Evil and
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  Speaker 3: be terrified by this thing. It's a basic kind of
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  Speaker 3: monster movie. It's got sort of references to the great
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  Speaker 3: movie The Thing, both the 50s classic and the 1982 remake.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just about like a guy who's running from
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  Speaker 3: zombies and monsters. And for 90 minutes, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: 90 minutes is a very short movie night. You can
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  Speaker 3: go in, be out within two hours. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so you don't have to bring your lunch like you
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  Speaker 3: have to for the Odyssey or something.
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  Speaker 4: Can you, are you permitted to bring your lunch into
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  Speaker 4: the movie theater any longer?
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  Speaker 2: I thought they prevent you from doing that, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, Curtis, they give, they, you can bring all your
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  Speaker 3: food in or you can buy the food there. People
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  Speaker 3: are chowing down and meals at movies now in ways
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen before. Like it's like they're having a
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  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving dinner or something. So, you know, popcorn is fine
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  Speaker 3: for me, but you see people there with the chicken
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  Speaker 3: wings and whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, you can bring it in. You can also order,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, you know, the three-course meal that they give
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  Speaker 3: you at the concession stand. But three stars for Resident Evil.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun if you want to go
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  Speaker 3: to it. And it's kind of creeped out. It's got
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  Speaker 3: a creepy kind of monster thing. that I haven't seen before,
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  Speaker 3: and it's based on the video games, which I've never played,
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  Speaker 3: but people, they're very popular. The six previous movies were,
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  Speaker 3: that's crazy, going back to 2002, but this one's okay.
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  Speaker 3: So three stars for Resident Evil. Like I say, if
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  Speaker 3: you want to be distracted from the nightmare that's going on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, every day with AI and whatnot, right?
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  Speaker 2: So you gave it three stars? You gave it three stars?
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a huge blockbuster.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's... Exactly. If I'm kind of okay on it,
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  Speaker 3: then it's like Spider-Man. Then people are going to say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: let's go with it. That's the one to go to.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now, Joe, you said the magic word. In the
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  Speaker 4: last week, out of nowhere, AI, artificial intelligence, has dominated
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  Speaker 4: the headlines. A lot of people still aren't sure of AI.
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  Speaker 4: So can you recommend, especially for this weekend, any good
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  Speaker 4: movies about AI that people can just go back and stream?
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  Speaker 3: I sure can. I'm with you, Curtis, in terms of
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  Speaker 3: how scary AI is or how crazy it is. I
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  Speaker 3: kind of feel like, why pay your credit card bill
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  Speaker 3: now if AI is going to be taking over in
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  Speaker 3: about five years? And I'm not recommending that. Let me
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  Speaker 3: make sure I put that out there. I'm not recommending it.
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  Speaker 3: People should take care of their....
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  Speaker 2: He's gun-shy now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now I'm like, oh, man, I didn't pay my
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  Speaker 3: credit card bill.
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  Speaker 2: You're sounding like a politician, Joe Neumeier.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God, no, not that. Here's the thing. I've got
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  Speaker 3: some good AI movies, but one or two of them
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  Speaker 3: are as terrifying, I think, as what we've got. The
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  Speaker 3: one I'm going to recommend that not a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people know about, because we've talked about 2001, A Space Odyssey,
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  Speaker 3: of course, and how that you know, how the supercomputer
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  Speaker 3: in there goes crazy. But two years after that came
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  Speaker 3: a movie called Colossus the Forbin Project. And it's a
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  Speaker 3: very unknown sci-fi movie that kind of is what we're
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  Speaker 3: going through right now. It's from 1970, and it's about
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  Speaker 3: a supercomputer, an AI system that merges with the Russian,
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  Speaker 3: the Soviet AI system, and they threaten nuclear Armageddon on
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  Speaker 3: the world. And it's ahead of its time. Not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people know. It's actually on YouTube. You can
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  Speaker 3: watch it there. It's directed by the guy who made
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  Speaker 3: the great New York movie, The Taking of Pelham, 1, 2, 3.
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  Speaker 3: But it's really creepy and good, and it's an unknown
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  Speaker 3: sci-fi movie, so I definitely recommend this unknown movie called
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  Speaker 3: Colossus the Forbidden Project, but it's a little scary. Then there's,
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  Speaker 3: of course, War Games from 1983, which is also kind
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  Speaker 3: of scary, but a lot of these movies have to
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  Speaker 3: get kind of action-y. And then the Terminator movies we
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  Speaker 3: always sort of think about, but the ones that remind
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  Speaker 3: me more of what are going on now are like
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  Speaker 3: terminator 3 and and even the fourth one terminator salvation
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  Speaker 3: they're not as great obviously as judgment day or the
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  Speaker 3: or the original but they kind of show how skynet
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  Speaker 3: takes over which i think is kind of where we're
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  Speaker 3: at right now uh looking at like what's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen and then there's spielberg's minority report.
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  Speaker 2: Oh i love that i was just thinking that when
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  Speaker 2: you were.
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  Speaker 3: Talking Yeah, that's a really great and scary movie, too,
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  Speaker 3: because it sort of has a, it's set in like
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  Speaker 3: the 2050s, and AI sort of knows what you're going
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  Speaker 3: to do before you even do it. And then there's
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  Speaker 3: the movie called Her, which is, it's both romantic and
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  Speaker 3: creepy and unsettling. From 2013, it's with Joaquin Phoenix, and
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  Speaker 3: he falls in love with his, with essentially his AI system,
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  Speaker 3: who's voiced by Scarlett Johansson, and that very much feels
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  Speaker 3: like where we are now, and it, I'm not giving
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  Speaker 3: anything away to say that at the end, there's sort
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  Speaker 3: of this moment where the The AI systems all sort
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  Speaker 3: of go off to kind of be with each other,
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  Speaker 3: leaving humans alone. And it's a very unsettling ending, but
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  Speaker 3: it's a great movie, and it's called Her from 2013.
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  Speaker 3: Like I say, it's also– it's got all these things
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  Speaker 3: in it. It's about a guy falling in love with his–
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  Speaker 3: essentially with his iPod or with his cell phone.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, I'm really– Having second thoughts for having asked you
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  Speaker 4: about all these AI movies, it's going to scare the.
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  Speaker 2: Hell out of people even more.
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  Speaker 3: There's not a lot of feel-good movies about AI. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's not a lot of feel-good.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing, Joe, how far ahead sometimes Hollywood is
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to science? All the things in Minority
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  Speaker 1: Report that you talked about, they all came true.
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  Speaker 2: They're all available right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're all right now. People often used to say this
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  Speaker 3: about Star Trek, too, right? Star Trek also. I love
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  Speaker 3: Star Trek, but people are like, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of these guys who designed these systems got them from
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  Speaker 3: Star Trek. I had a Hollywood the same thing. Her
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  Speaker 3: and Minority Report, Colossus, The Forbidden Project, we're living in
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  Speaker 3: that reality now in a lot of ways. Yeah, really
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  Speaker 3: ahead of the time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do appreciate it, Joe Neumeier, our movie expert
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  Speaker 4: here at 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry that he had to scare me.