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Flyover Burning Kentucky · Movie Meltdown

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Speaker 1: I am Anna Asensio.
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Speaker 2: I directed the film Most Beautiful Island, and I'm listing
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Speaker 2: the movie Meltdown.
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Speaker 3: The following feature has been rated R by the Motion
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Speaker 3: Picture Association of America. It is intended for mature audiences
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Speaker 3: and parental discretion is advised. It's showtime, folks.
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Speaker 4: Enjoy the show.
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Speaker 3: Our nuclear reactor pumping out one million kilowatts of power.
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Speaker 5: As if!
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Speaker 6: I am only 16 and this is California, not Kentucky.
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Speaker 7: Looks like I'm running late again As the wind tips
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Speaker 7: all concrete Keep the beat Always somewhere to go.
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Speaker 8: Nowhere to be.
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Speaker 9: I'm looking for my flyover stick Those backyards and great
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Speaker 9: lakes I gotta take it easy now Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois,
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Speaker 9: Ohio The red ones.
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Speaker 7: And blue ones and places that I know.
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Speaker 9: Look up the way you've gone, the way you've been.
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Speaker 7: Away from I'm in a flower stand I've found.
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Speaker 10: I'm in a flower stand.
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Speaker 11: I'm proud what's up and welcome to movie meltdown i'm
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Speaker 11: brian and i'm nora and we're coming to you live
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Speaker 11: digital recording from the speed cinema area we're on the
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Speaker 11: outskirts we're avoiding people as we always are our anti-social
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Speaker 11: nature on this show but we obviously love the arts
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Speaker 11: and we keep coming to these things where we then
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Speaker 11: sort of talk to people but right now we're just
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Speaker 11: hanging out on.
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Speaker 1: The outskirts.
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Speaker 6: In the heat in the heat once again.
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Speaker 1: Not quite under a truck like we were on our
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Speaker 1: last outdoor adventure.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is much more scenic and it doesn't smell
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Speaker 6: like dead fish.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a plus. That's the one thing you can
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Speaker 1: say about the campus here. Old Speed Cinema General Vicinity here. So,
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Speaker 1: how's it going?
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Speaker 6: It's good. It's hot. A little less hot. I'm waiting
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Speaker 6: for it to not be hot.
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Speaker 1: Once we go inside, it'll be a nice air-conditioned theater.
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Speaker 1: So one more reason to get yourself down there and
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Speaker 1: go enjoy a movie at the old Flyover Film Fest.
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Speaker 1: Because we are, once again, coming to you live. You
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Speaker 1: did a recording from Flyover Film Fest. This is our
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Speaker 1: annual event. I don't think we've not been at Flyover.
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Speaker 1: Maybe since it started. It's been a lot of years
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Speaker 1: we've been pairing up, teaming up, partnering with the crew here.
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Speaker 12: So....
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to be back. And I'm glad you are
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Speaker 1: here with me today. Because just earlier today, this is
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Speaker 1: just a little feedback for you. And an invitation to
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Speaker 1: other people out there. So, one of our wonderful listeners
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Speaker 1: was discussing things with me on the internets today. And
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Speaker 1: specifically had a comment about our cast. And in general,
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Speaker 1: because this person has been around for a long damn time.
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Speaker 1: so uh referred to i'll say it himself um has
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Speaker 1: an old school meltdown so he's into the og cast
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Speaker 1: as he put it so he's usually pretty hardcore about
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Speaker 1: you know he really enjoys when the the regular old
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Speaker 1: school people decide to show up that's always a plus
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Speaker 1: but specifically said though mental illness girl is my new
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Speaker 1: favorite So of the new cast of the year's recent... Oh,
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Speaker 1: I have a fan. You're the favorite.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, person who is unnamed.
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Speaker 1: You're my favorite. I'm giving them their anonymous nature.
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Speaker 6: You're my favorite anonymous.
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Speaker 1: They can lurk in the shadows, which I kind of
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Speaker 1: feel like they probably do most days of their life. So,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, so... That's so kind.
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Speaker 6: Wow, I'm so flattered.
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Speaker 1: People out there like Mental Illness Girl.
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Speaker 8: But.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's not you. I mean, maybe you're sitting there going, Nora, please. No,
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Speaker 1: thank you. So if you have a favorite, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: always have to be Nora. It probably will be whatever.
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Speaker 1: But if you yourself, it's not me. I learned a
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Speaker 1: long time ago. I am no one's favorite. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not just talking about the show in life in general,
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Speaker 1: I've realized, but that's fine. I've come to terms with it.
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Speaker 6: You're my favorite.
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Speaker 1: That's a lie. So, but I've, I've, I put together
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Speaker 1: this amazing group of people over the years. So I've
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Speaker 1: just sort of banked on that. I'm like, I'm just
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Speaker 1: here to push record and keep the ball rolling and whatever.
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Speaker 1: But I know I usually bring in this amazing array
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Speaker 1: of characters. Good, bad, or otherwise. They are definitely characters.
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Speaker 1: So let's keep it positive. If you have negative input,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell them anyway. So don't bother
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Speaker 1: with that. But if you have a favorite, keep it
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Speaker 1: on the up and up here and send in your email.
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Speaker 1: The link's on the website. Go to moviemountdown.com. There's an
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Speaker 1: email thing and it goes to me. So yeah, let
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Speaker 1: us know if you have favorites, suggestions for upcoming episodes,
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Speaker 1: other wonderful places we should go, other trucks we should
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Speaker 1: wedge ourselves underneath as we record. There's many, many things
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Speaker 1: we can do in the future and you can be involved.
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Speaker 1: Get in there. So there you go. See? Just that
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Speaker 1: one comment led us down this path. So you can
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Speaker 1: be involved and And, you know, change the course of
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Speaker 1: this show. Be somebody.
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Speaker 6: Just do it.
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Speaker 2: Alright, so as usual, I like to go to a
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Speaker 2: specific event, get as far away from the people at
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Speaker 2: the event as I can, and then continue on about
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Speaker 2: doing a show like we normally do when we're not
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Speaker 2: at an event.
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Speaker 1: That's the way I've come to do it. I like
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Speaker 1: going places, but I also don't like completely retooling the
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Speaker 1: entire episode so that it's not what we normally do.
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Speaker 1: I like going to a place and then plopping ourselves
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Speaker 1: down in the middle of it, sometimes literally in the
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Speaker 1: middle of what's going on, and then just conducting our
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Speaker 1: own regular episode like we do.
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Speaker 6: It's comfortable. It's like a safety blanket.
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Speaker 1: I would hope that's still what people want. I think
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Speaker 1: they want to hear people talk about movies on a
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Speaker 1: movie show. So at most episodes at some point, I'm like, hey,
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Speaker 1: have you seen any movies lately? yes like too many
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Speaker 1: we'll pick one okay and roll with it okay this
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Speaker 1: episode we'll always have more to talk.
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Speaker 6: About last weekend i took two of my nieces who
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Speaker 6: are nine and six years old to see toy story four.
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Speaker 1: Oh you didn't go with that other one i know
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Speaker 1: you were thinking.
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Speaker 6: About taking them to midsummer.
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Speaker 1: I feel like they'd be fine I.
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Speaker 6: Want to go see Midsommar but I can't get anyone
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Speaker 6: to go with me and I couldn't sucker my nieces
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Speaker 6: into that I would be a bad aunt forever.
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Speaker 1: So I'm still up for it we suggested doing a
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Speaker 1: horror episode around it but that involves coordinating all of
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Speaker 1: our flunkies so you know how our people are trying
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Speaker 1: to motivate them to do a thing at a time
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Speaker 1: is already hard enough then when you cycle in and
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Speaker 1: you all gotta go to a theater in this span
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Speaker 1: of time it gets difficult so It's still in the works.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get to it eventually, I'm sure. But
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Speaker 1: in the meantime, Toy Story 4. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 6: I mean, they're all so good. It just kills me.
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Speaker 6: This one focuses on Bonnie, who's the little girl that
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Speaker 6: Andy gave his toys to in Toy Story 3. And
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Speaker 6: so she's like five years old going into kindergarten. And
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Speaker 6: it already, before anything sad even happens, it like hits
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Speaker 6: me right in the heart because she looks exactly like
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Speaker 6: my niece, who's now nine, like exactly like when she
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Speaker 6: was little. So I'm just like, it's her. So I'm
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Speaker 6: already like a baby, but they're just so funny. And
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Speaker 6: like my dad went with us and he and I
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Speaker 6: were laughing at the same parts that my nieces were.
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Speaker 6: And then he and I kind of got some stuff
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Speaker 6: on another level, but they got something else on another level.
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Speaker 6: And it's just like, Actually a family fun, just really
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Speaker 6: well written and well shot and really funny and really
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Speaker 6: emotional movie.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Pixar in general, kind of. Toy Story in
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Speaker 1: particular of the run is always so well put together.
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Speaker 1: And from the very first one was so well written
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Speaker 1: and was kind of meant to work on those levels. Like, again,
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Speaker 1: Pixar in general, like always is still fun and appealing
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Speaker 1: for the kids. but it's always written smart enough to
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Speaker 1: be sort of appreciated by grown-up type peoples or our equivalent, whatever.
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Speaker 1: It definitely works on many levels the way a lot
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Speaker 1: of other kids' movies don't. I think there's a ton
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Speaker 1: of kids' movies that come out every year, and some
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Speaker 1: of them try to do that, and not all of
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Speaker 1: them are successful, and some of them don't even try.
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Speaker 1: It's good to kind of go back to the main...
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Speaker 1: you know, I guess originally Disney and now it's all
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Speaker 1: kind of the same company anyway. But Pixar in particular
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Speaker 1: always kind of tried to take it up a notch
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Speaker 1: for adults.
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Speaker 6: And the animation itself is just like, well, like a
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Speaker 6: lot of the scenes take place in this old antique store.
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Speaker 6: And it's like exactly the way you'd picture any antique store,
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Speaker 6: which is like full of mostly junk, some good things,
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Speaker 6: but like kind of dirty and just like piles and
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Speaker 6: piles of stuff. And it's just like all the detail
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Speaker 6: that they put into it, which is like, You could, like,
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Speaker 6: smell it. I was like, this is gorgeous and weird,
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Speaker 6: and it must have taken so much time to do
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Speaker 6: all of that in one store.
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Speaker 1: Coming to you in Smell-O-Vision!
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Brought to you by John Waters.
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Speaker 6: That whole animation is crazy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it really does seem like it would be, like,
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Speaker 1: it's just them making so much trouble for themselves. You'd
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Speaker 1: think they'd be like, so then Buzz and Woody go
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Speaker 1: to a big empty room.
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Speaker 6: It's all white.
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Speaker 1: And everything from that point on is just a big box.
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Speaker 1: We plug it into the computer. It's ready to go.
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Speaker 6: It'd be so much easier.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But no, they got to put like stuff everywhere.
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Speaker 6: But they had like, and of course all the best
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Speaker 6: guest stars like Keanu Reeves is this little kind of,
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Speaker 6: what's the.
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Speaker 11: He's the Evel Knievel knockoff.
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Speaker 1: Because every kid from that generation had the little wind-up
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Speaker 1: motorcycle jumping Evel Knievel. I saw that as the little
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Speaker 1: tribute to him.
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Speaker 6: And the little somebody gets stuck in her closet with
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Speaker 6: all her toys from when she was a baby. And
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Speaker 6: so there's Rob Reiner and Mel Brooks and Betty White
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Speaker 6: play the old baby toys.
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Speaker 1: Old toys.
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Speaker 6: And Carol Burnett. Except, oh yeah, she was a plastic
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Speaker 6: chair and her name was Cheryl Burnett.
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Speaker 1: Oh God.
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Speaker 4: The dorkery.
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Speaker 1: They're all puns.
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Speaker 6: And Rob Reiner is like Rob Rhino because he's a
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Speaker 6: little rhino. Isn't that cute? Ridiculous. It's like layers and
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Speaker 6: layers of greatness.
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Speaker 1: But maybe they're, I was trying to think because I'm like,
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Speaker 1: they didn't really start off doing a lot of guest voices.
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Speaker 1: But I also like thinking about it when this fourth
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Speaker 1: one came out, I was like, We've lost several. We
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Speaker 1: don't have Slinky Dog voice originally anymore. We don't have Mr.
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Speaker 1: Potato Head now. It's like we're kind of losing the
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Speaker 1: original cast. I guess they have to sort of expand
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Speaker 1: and bring in different people. That's good.
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Speaker 6: In true Toy Story fashion, the ending is like, moving
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Speaker 6: on to another stage. And yeah, I was crying and
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Speaker 6: then my niece turned around and was like, are you crying?
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Speaker 6: And then I'm embarrassed. I'm like, yes, but you won't
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Speaker 6: understand it till you're older and you have nieces too.
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Speaker 1: You are a weird aunt. God, we can't take you anywhere.
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Speaker 6: Oh my God. But speaking of midsummer, the like henchman
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Speaker 6: of this little doll, who's like the villain, all of
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Speaker 6: her henchmen who live in this antique store, it's four
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Speaker 6: ventriloquist dummies. and they don't talk and so they just
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Speaker 6: like pop up and it's like and they literally just
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Speaker 6: walk around like with their limbs like hanging everywhere just
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Speaker 6: like chattering their teeth and they're like Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. They don't ever really shy away from
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Speaker 1: even the creepy elements.
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Speaker 12: No.
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Speaker 1: Because that's my favorite thing about the first one is
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Speaker 1: the weird mutant kids that Sid has torn to hell
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Speaker 1: and back. I have the little spider baby. It's sitting
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Speaker 1: on my desk at home right now. I bought it
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Speaker 1: when the first movie came out.
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Speaker 10: I was like, that is amazing.
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Speaker 1: I need that. And it's moved with me every time
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Speaker 1: and it's... Every time I'm like, well, this obviously needs
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Speaker 1: to be out here because it's creepy as hell.
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Speaker 6: Just put it in the middle of the dining table
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Speaker 6: and give it a place of prominence.
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Speaker 1: That and I always love the, again, underlying commentary on
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Speaker 1: the weird aliens in the machine. The weird religious zealot
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Speaker 1: thing going on there. I have been chosen. I love that.
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Speaker 1: It's a cult. Creepy aspect to it. So that's, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty awesome.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Toy story. Let's check it out. Go see it. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever heard of it.
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Speaker 6: It's very cute.
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Speaker 1: It's worth it. They've made a few of them now.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's only taken them like 25 years or whatever they're
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Speaker 1: up to now. Is it the 30th anniversary yet? Probably
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Speaker 1: around that.
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Speaker 6: I guess the first one came out right around when
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Speaker 6: I was born.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. 92. And now they're just cranking them out every year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought the third one was the last one.
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Speaker 1: So did they, I think, at the time.
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Speaker 6: And everybody got dramatic.
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Speaker 1: They capped it off pretty nicely. So I think there
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Speaker 1: were a lot of people going in kind of worried
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Speaker 1: that I'm like, but you had such a great trilogy
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Speaker 1: arc there. Why would you mess with it?
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Speaker 6: I don't think they needed to do a fourth, but
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Speaker 6: they did a good job of doing the fourth.
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Speaker 1: I've heard pretty good things, so it's worth checking out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: very cute. What about you?
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Speaker 6: What have you seen lately?
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Speaker 1: Mine, I was trying to go back and think of
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Speaker 1: something that was... Again, a little off the beaten path.
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Speaker 1: And this is one I've heard. Again, I heard of
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Speaker 1: it because I think the person I originally heard it from,
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Speaker 1: who lives, I believe, in L.A., saw it at a
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Speaker 1: film fest. So it's kind of tying in if you
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Speaker 1: go back because it's several years ago. But are you
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Speaker 1: familiar with Personal Shopper? Is that the one with... Kristen Stewart? Okay.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
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Speaker 12: No.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: But you at least kind of, well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've heard of it.
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Speaker 1: Again, I would say know what it's about, but even
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Speaker 1: if you know about it, you don't know what it's about.
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Speaker 6: Is it like a thriller-ish?
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. I went in and I heard, again,
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Speaker 1: coming off like the festival circuit, and I heard about it,
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Speaker 1: and then I heard pretty good things. But again, knowing
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Speaker 1: the sort of group I was hearing it from, I
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Speaker 1: was assuming it was slanting a little artier. And so
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Speaker 1: I get in kind of assuming like an indie drama mostly. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: And you get in, and that's more or less what
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Speaker 1: it is. Again, if you've been listening for a while,
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Speaker 1: you know I'm not the biggest Kristen Stewart fan. I've
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Speaker 1: come back around. I know a lot of people gave
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Speaker 1: her kind of too much flack in the beginning there.
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Speaker 1: So I'm kind of trying to ease up and be like,
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Speaker 1: all right, you did have a ridiculous amount of attention
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Speaker 1: thrown on you as a teenager. That's a lot to
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Speaker 1: deal with. So I'm like, I know she's made a
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Speaker 1: lot of projects specifically to be specifically to be like
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Speaker 1: screw you guys I can act and like she's proven
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Speaker 1: herself so I still feel like there's there's a hump
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Speaker 1: to get over sometimes with her performances but she's actually
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Speaker 1: legitimately really good in this and it's kind of understated
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Speaker 1: again she she gets a lot of weird criticism on
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Speaker 1: her choices sometimes but it's also like the movie itself
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Speaker 1: is almost understated it is again you kind of get
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Speaker 1: in it's this girl in Paris and she's sort of
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Speaker 1: picked up this weird Job as a personal shopper, thus
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Speaker 1: the name. But again, as you get into it, you're like,
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Speaker 1: that's not what this is about at all. So it's
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Speaker 1: this weird, more of like indie drama in the first
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Speaker 1: half or so where she's dealing with, she had a
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Speaker 1: twin brother and he's died recently and she's kind of
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Speaker 1: dealing with that. And she doesn't want to leave until
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Speaker 1: she sort of, again, they had this weird bond and
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Speaker 1: she's trying to decide if there's still some sort of
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Speaker 1: weird connection and she doesn't want to leave Paris until then.
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Speaker 1: So that's kind of the basic setup. So the first half, again,
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Speaker 1: I started dividing it up today. I was like, you
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Speaker 1: got about 45% that's indie drama about this girl kind
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Speaker 1: of dealing with loss. Then you jump a little further
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Speaker 1: towards the end of the movie. You got another 45%
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Speaker 1: that's kind of thriller. There's like a weird aspect that's
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Speaker 1: going on that at first you think is something else
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Speaker 1: that I'll come back to at the end. But then
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Speaker 1: you realize, OK, maybe it's just something real world and
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Speaker 1: maybe it's something more sinister. And she's getting these like
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Speaker 1: weird texts. So you're thinking maybe she's being stalked and
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Speaker 1: maybe there's someone. And then at some point there is
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Speaker 1: kind of like a murder that goes on. So then
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Speaker 1: it becomes like almost a full on thriller of, you know,
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the mystery is sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: And then add in the last 10 percent Supernatural. That
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Speaker 1: you do not really see. Even when you realize what's
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Speaker 1: going on in the premise, you don't see it coming
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Speaker 1: or don't expect it to do the moments that it does.
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Speaker 1: But again, 10% may be overshooting. It is so minimal
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Speaker 1: compared to all this other stuff going on. You'll just
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Speaker 1: be relaxing of like, okay, so I'm watching. Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: So it takes these weird little side paths that you're
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Speaker 1: just kind of like, wait, what am I watching again?
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Speaker 6: That sounds like a Mix of a lot of things
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Speaker 6: that could go well if done right and could be
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Speaker 6: really terrible if not done right.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really well done.
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Speaker 13: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I think it's well written. I think it's well shot.
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Speaker 1: It looks terrific. The weird sinister stuff works. It's so
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Speaker 1: well put together. Again... coming off of the art house
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Speaker 1: scene and the festival crowd. Knowing those people, I think
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Speaker 1: if you're into that kind of thing, you'll probably really
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I think a lot of other people in
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Speaker 1: the world would be so pissed off by this movie.
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Speaker 1: It's one of those that like, this isn't what I
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Speaker 1: thought it was going to be and it's going to
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Speaker 1: anger the regular film going crowd.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: It is, I think, one that's going to divide people.
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Speaker 1: If you are leaning a little more towards that type
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Speaker 1: of thing, you'll probably like it. If not, you may
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Speaker 1: not be okay with the way it goes. So just, yeah,
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Speaker 1: go in kind of knowing that. And I won't go
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Speaker 1: into the plot because, again, you're watching it and you're
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Speaker 1: not really 100% sure where the plot's going.
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Speaker 6: Interesting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely worth checking out if you think you're that
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Speaker 1: kind of person. All right. So we are here. At
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Speaker 1: the event. So I think we're going to take our
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Speaker 1: break here and then see if we can go maybe
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Speaker 1: track down a celebrity guest, an actor, director, one of
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Speaker 1: these many festival-going people, filmmakers that are here. So I
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Speaker 1: say we go do that right now.
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Speaker 6: Let's do it.
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Speaker 14: Let's do it.
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Speaker 4: Good evening, folks, and a hearty welcome to our drive-in theater.
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Speaker 10: The world's largest bourbon festival, Bourbon and Beyond, will make
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Speaker 10: its anticipated return to Louisville, Kentucky, Friday, September 20th through Sunday,
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Speaker 10: unique culinary events, and unmatched experiences from the region's best
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Speaker 10: distilleries at the new Highland Festival Grounds and Kentucky Expo Center.
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Speaker 10: In addition to an unforgettable lineup of bourbon and chefs,
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Speaker 10: the weekend also includes musical performances with a unique mix
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Speaker 10: more than 45 artists will play on three stages, including
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Speaker 3: Feeling low Where my loved one used to live She
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Speaker 3: ain't there no more Poor.
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Speaker 15: Me Why such bad luck fall on me?
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Speaker 9: Poor me I'm living in misery.
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Speaker 1: Hey Jacqueline Hi Guess what?
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Speaker 2: All I do All day long Fall.
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Speaker 1: Down on my knees and pray She come back home
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Speaker 3: America has bred many bold adventurers, but none won more
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Speaker 3: breaking new trails, searching for a new home in the wilderness,
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Speaker 3: a freer life, realizing a dream of adventure.
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Speaker 4: This is the story of one of them.
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Speaker 3: A mountain of a man and his young son and
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Speaker 3: two women.
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Speaker 12: Sometimes people can ruin what they love.
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Speaker 18: All we know, little Eli and me, was living free
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Speaker 18: in the woods. Shooting our meals and following foxes. It's
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Speaker 18: habit-like with us and hard to bust. And maybe it
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Speaker 18: shouldn't be busted.
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Speaker 3: The most colorful of all American eras lives again. The
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Speaker 3: romance of the riverboats, the gambling lures that lay below,
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Speaker 3: where beautiful women played a man for a fool, when
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Speaker 3: men leapt boldly into danger and all barriers were swept aside.
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Speaker 3: Pioneer contests of skill and power in frontier taverns. The
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Speaker 3: dynamic star of From Here to Eternity, Apache and Veracruz,
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Speaker 3: Burt Lancaster, in a notable first achievement as star and director.
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Speaker 3: Co-starring Diane Foster, Diana Lynn. Introducing Donald McDonald. Breathtakingly photographed
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Speaker 3: in CinemaScope, print by Technicolor, released through United Artists, produced
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Speaker 3: by Harold Heck. The Kentuckian.
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Speaker 1: Yes, hello, this is Kentucky Riley. You're listening to Movie Meltdown.
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Speaker 8: ¶ ¶ ¶.
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Speaker 13: Seven lonely days ¶ And a dozen towns ago ¶
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Speaker 13: I reached.
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Speaker 6: Out one night ¶ And you were.
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Speaker 13: Gone ¶ Don't know why you'd run What you're running
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Speaker 13: to or from All I know Is.
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Speaker 4: I want to Bring you home.
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Speaker 13: So I'm walking in the rain Thumbing for a ride
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Speaker 13: On this lonely Kentucky back road I've loved you much
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Speaker 13: too long My love's too strong To let you go
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Speaker 13: Never knowing what we'll grow.
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Speaker 9: Kentucky rain keeps pouring down.
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Speaker 13: And up ahead's another town.
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Speaker 15: That I'll go walking to. With the rain in my.
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Speaker 1: Shoes So this episode, we're here at the showing of
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Speaker 1: Burning Kentucky, and we'll be talking with one of the
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Speaker 1: actors and the writer.
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Speaker 10: And director of the film.
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Speaker 1: But I thought first, I better give you at least
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Speaker 1: a little overview of the movie. And by that I mean,
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Speaker 1: the official description as you might find it in your
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Speaker 1: film festival program. And so, it reads, In the foggy
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Speaker 1: mountains of eastern Kentucky, a young woman searches for the
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Speaker 1: missing pieces of a mysterious event that killed her family.
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Speaker 1: When the truth is revealed, she must choose between the
30:29
Speaker 1: love of a man or avenging her family. So that's
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Speaker 1: the basics of the film, but I thought as we
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Speaker 1: go into these interviews, I better set the scene for
30:37
Speaker 1: where we are exactly, because that sort of comes into play,
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Speaker 1: especially in the first one here. So we just finished
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Speaker 1: up the screening of the movie, and it's way too
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Speaker 1: loud inside there to talk, so we decide to go
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Speaker 1: sit outside, which was actually nice to go and sit
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Speaker 1: outside and talk with our guests. But the outdoors does
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Speaker 1: bring with it its own brand of challenges, we'll say.
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Speaker 1: Not just the fact that at any given moment you
31:03
Speaker 1: may be dealing with the crazy noise of planes and
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Speaker 1: trains and or automobiles, which two out of three of
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Speaker 1: those actually happened, and those clips might just be on
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Speaker 1: this week's Dinger. But aside from all that, we're also
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Speaker 1: heading out into the humid, balmy, humid, no, we're sticking
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Speaker 1: with humid, breezy evening. And I do mean breezy. You
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Speaker 1: can hear the wind whipping by us. In fact, you'll
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Speaker 1: hear a moment when the rush seems like it might
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Speaker 1: pick us up and carry us away. So don't think
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Speaker 1: Augie is losing it. She was just about to be
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Speaker 1: literally blown away. Also, as we go on, the sky
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Speaker 1: begins to showcase an impressive display of lightning, so impressive
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Speaker 1: that it might just distract Augie from what she's saying.
31:43
Speaker 1: But all that said, we will be talking with an
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Speaker 1: actress you may already be familiar with, Augie Duke. Now,
31:49
Speaker 1: in this film, Augie plays Jolene, a character with some
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Speaker 1: dark scenes to play, so we will definitely touch on
31:55
Speaker 1: the dark nature of the film. Also, she was born
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Speaker 1: in L.A., the actress not the character and I only
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Speaker 1: mention that because pretty much everyone else making this film
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Speaker 1: was from Kentucky including everyone who was on stage with
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Speaker 1: her tonight so we'll cover that as well and it
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Speaker 1: might also be useful to know that in the movie
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Speaker 1: her character has a bit of a drug problem we'll
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Speaker 1: say and if you watch the movie you'll see she
32:19
Speaker 1: is surprisingly good at looking zoned out of her mind
32:22
Speaker 1: of course in scenes acting because obviously those are the
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Speaker 1: only times. The rest of the day, she seems to
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Speaker 1: be bubbly and delightful, as you are about to hear,
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Speaker 1: as we head out into this muggy night to talk
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Speaker 1: with Augie Duke.
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Speaker 12: Searching for you.
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Speaker 1: That's my real question for you. Are you prepared for
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Speaker 1: the general mugginess of this town?
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Speaker 5: I like the mugginess. See, I prefer the mugginess.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say, it's got to be a
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Speaker 1: little change from LA.
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Speaker 5: Well, LA's got that dry sort of heat, and I
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Speaker 5: prefer the muggy because I think my skin looks better here.
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Speaker 5: I always tell people, my skin looks better in the
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Speaker 5: muggy as something.
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Speaker 1: Just hit us. And the breeze is taking us out
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Speaker 1: in the process.
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Speaker 5: But I prefer this. For sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The glistening.
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Speaker 6: That's what you're looking for. The glistening.
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Speaker 1: My skin is glowing.
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Speaker 12: Glowing.
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Speaker 5: Lightning striking my face with glistens.
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Speaker 1: Well, that was quite an experience in there. We just
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Speaker 1: got out of the movie, so I wanted to touch
33:40
Speaker 1: base with you because that was, as they were going
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Speaker 1: through the questioning, you, again, so many of our cast
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Speaker 1: and director and everything were specifically from Kentucky. Here in Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: You felt Alone, I could see. The lone Los Angelino.
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Speaker 5: I'm like the lonesome Angelino LA native.
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Speaker 1: No, you know what?
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Speaker 12: They.
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Speaker 5: welcomed me with open arms the cast and crew so
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Speaker 5: for me I kind of like I loved pretending I
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Speaker 5: was from Kentucky for you know however long I was
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Speaker 5: shooting the film for so for me I didn't even
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Speaker 5: question I love it I got you know I got
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Speaker 5: to have this accent and Dara had a little bit
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Speaker 5: she was teaching me how to talk like them and
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Speaker 5: I sort of took from you know there's this film
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Speaker 5: called California with uh juliet lewis and so i kind
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Speaker 5: of kept on thinking about her and what she played
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Speaker 5: in that and that was sort of a big influence
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Speaker 5: i didn't play that.
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Speaker 19: You know what i mean but it was something about
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Speaker 19: that it's it's it's a lateral move it's not direct but.
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Speaker 5: Right right right yeah i'm not trying to steal her
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Speaker 5: no no she's very influential in her acting and i
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Speaker 5: love what she does but anyway in that movie because
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Speaker 5: i love that movie i kept on thinking about that
34:48
Speaker 5: film particularly for some reason that i kept on Throwing
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Speaker 5: it back to that.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I can see that. But then, I guess, coming in,
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Speaker 1: what was it that seemed different to you from the outside?
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Speaker 1: Just as far as, I guess, the shoot itself, but
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Speaker 1: maybe even just the experience.
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Speaker 5: Well, I think anywhere going in the South, anywhere in
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Speaker 5: the South is going to be different. There's something about
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Speaker 5: coming here, and I hate to say this, that seems
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Speaker 5: a little bit more welcoming than in L.A. And I'm
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Speaker 5: from LA. I'm literally born and raised. And it's just
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Speaker 5: a different.
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Speaker 1: I don't get that. And I live here.
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Speaker 6: He's like, no.
35:27
Speaker 1: They're like, please leave, sir. I don't believe that.
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Speaker 5: Anyway, something, I mean, personally, something about it. And I
35:33
Speaker 5: also think Bethany.
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Speaker 17: Really rooted me in the fact that I was going
35:37
Speaker 17: to be safe and comfortable.
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Speaker 5: And we were going to do this together. And it
35:40
Speaker 5: was going to be kind of a team thing.
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Speaker 6: So that was cool to me, too, as well.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely a dark story. And you have one of
35:47
Speaker 1: the darker kind of angles to play. How did you, again,
35:52
Speaker 1: like reading it, were you kind of fully getting what
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Speaker 1: you were going to have to delve into?
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Speaker 5: You never really know what you're going to delve into
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Speaker 5: until you're actually diving into it, if that makes any sense.
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Speaker 5: She was actually one of my favorite characters. Oh, look
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Speaker 5: at the lightning.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear that? See?
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Speaker 5: It's all authentic and real.
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Speaker 1: This is special effects.
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Speaker 13: It is.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I... What was the question?
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Speaker 5: The depths that you were delving.
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Speaker 1: The depths that I was.
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Speaker 5: I, she was one of my favorite characters in the script. Again,
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Speaker 5: she's been doing this over a span of eight years,
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Speaker 5: I believe.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And she had a trailer from a couple years prior
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Speaker 5: to me shooting. And I read the script and I
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Speaker 5: cried and it just hit me like a ton of
36:36
Speaker 5: bricks and like in a good way. And I had
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Speaker 5: chills down my spine and I was like, I need
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Speaker 5: to do this. And when I read Jolene, it was
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Speaker 5: like I fell madly and deeply in love with this
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Speaker 5: hopeful lost soul that she was and I really wanted
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Speaker 5: to show that and you know I wanted to take
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Speaker 5: pieces of my own personal life and kind of mix
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Speaker 5: between her and Jolene as the character so I guess
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Speaker 5: that's the best way I can describe that yeah the other.
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Speaker 1: Thing I thought was really interesting watching it is how
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Speaker 1: again it seems like it's going to be so different
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Speaker 1: from anywhere you know especially coming from LA or wherever
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Speaker 1: but I'm like I feel like There's like a universal
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Speaker 1: kind of thing going on, especially as time's gone on.
37:17
Speaker 1: I think originally people from Kentucky and people from smaller
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Speaker 1: towns or wherever would look at something like like drugs
37:24
Speaker 1: and any sort of weird dependency and sort of. push
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Speaker 1: it away as though it's, oh, that sort of thing
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Speaker 1: happens in the big city, but not here, especially drugs.
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Speaker 1: Drinking's always been there. That's where we're built.
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Speaker 8: Right.
37:35
Speaker 1: But I mean, literally, but the drugs in particular, like
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Speaker 1: I think it's something that people pushed away. And then
37:43
Speaker 1: you start looking at these statistics of how many people
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Speaker 1: in these small towns are just addicted and dying.
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Speaker 6: So many people.
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Speaker 1: And guess what?
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Speaker 6: Brian, it's everywhere.
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Speaker 5: It's everywhere. And sometimes it's somebody that you're friends with
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Speaker 5: and you don't even realize. You know how visually they
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Speaker 5: made me look like I was on mad drugs. Not
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Speaker 5: everyone looks like that. Some people look like put together.
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Speaker 5: You would be surprised. I talked to some drug addicts
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Speaker 5: that did it and that you would never know.
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Speaker 1: That's when you know you're really good at it.
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Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 5: That's when you know it's too late. Definitely.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, I felt like there's something very universal about that.
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Speaker 4: Right.
38:22
Speaker 1: That the suffering is sort of universal. Absolutely. But it's
38:25
Speaker 1: also we have to kind of accept what's going on. Absolutely.
38:28
Speaker 1: And how exactly, specifically that opening scene with you, how
38:33
Speaker 1: did you get to that level? Because you are out
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Speaker 1: of it. There is a very.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well.
38:37
Speaker 1: For you that haven't seen it... Oh, yes. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to... There's a lot of drugged out.
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Speaker 5: I'm on the couch and I barely move. I mean,
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Speaker 5: to me, that was an easier part of the entire
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Speaker 5: film because I just know from, you know, again, personal
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Speaker 5: experience of seeing people on drugs, that's what happens when
38:56
Speaker 5: you do heroin.
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Speaker 17: You get to sort of a euphoric place of ecstasy
39:01
Speaker 17: and after that you sort of just kind of numb
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Speaker 17: out and everything is sort of just there and you
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Speaker 17: kind of from what I've seen.
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Speaker 5: I have never done heroin I will be honest with
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Speaker 5: you I've actually never done drugs this is what's so
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Speaker 5: crazy and I play a lot of druggies which is
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Speaker 5: funny anyway which is like I'm like okay thanks guys
39:18
Speaker 5: I know wow okay cool thanks guys haven't done this
39:22
Speaker 5: anyway so from what I've seen and experienced I guess
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Speaker 5: that's where I was trying to go with it and
39:27
Speaker 5: kind of just zone zone out and in that moment.
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Speaker 1: Well you've got a ton of projects in the works
39:35
Speaker 1: yeah How do you manage all of that at this point?
39:40
Speaker 1: You've done a good amount anyway, but then looking at
39:43
Speaker 1: upcoming projects, you've got so many things. It's so funny.
39:45
Speaker 5: It's such a crazy business and it's so up and
39:48
Speaker 5: down and it's dead and then it's fast and quick
39:51
Speaker 5: and everything's happening at once. I love acting so much.
39:55
Speaker 5: It's where I feel home when I'm working on set.
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Speaker 5: I'm not really a public speaker, but I'm definitely a
40:03
Speaker 5: love to be on set and do that so it's
40:05
Speaker 5: a whole different experience um i love it i don't
40:09
Speaker 5: know i just it seems like you know imdb seems
40:12
Speaker 5: like oh you're doing this and that back to back
40:14
Speaker 5: but you know like i have space in between these
40:16
Speaker 5: projects i.
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Speaker 1: Think it's more of the juggling like all the aspects
40:19
Speaker 1: of it that you've got characters and shooting and then
40:22
Speaker 1: you're planning one two years out and then you're reading
40:24
Speaker 1: a script and then yeah absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Um i that's part of the game i think it's
40:30
Speaker 5: just part of the acting game you gotta you gotta
40:31
Speaker 5: know that that's a part of it and juggle.
40:34
Speaker 1: So do you have stuff you want to tell people
40:36
Speaker 1: to look for aside from obviously burning kentucky.
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Speaker 16: Yeah look for burning kentucky everybody um yeah i've got
40:43
Speaker 16: a couple movies coming out one of them i'm so
40:46
Speaker 16: proud of called trauma is a time machine which is
40:48
Speaker 16: about rape It's another woman director.
40:51
Speaker 6: I know another heavy one.
40:53
Speaker 1: I know.
40:54
Speaker 5: Uh, Angelica Zolo is, is the director of it and
40:57
Speaker 5: she's incredible. And then right now I've got a movie
40:59
Speaker 5: about Steve McQueen, the actor. It's a biopic on him, uh,
41:04
Speaker 5: out on digital platforms right now called chasing bullet. Uh, Yeah,
41:08
Speaker 5: so those, and then I got a show on Netflix
41:11
Speaker 5: coming out soon.
41:12
Speaker 1: That Netflix.
41:13
Speaker 5: That Netflix, man.
41:14
Speaker 1: They're running everything. They're just running the town.
41:16
Speaker 5: They're running the city.
41:17
Speaker 1: I don't trust them until they start promoting us, and
41:19
Speaker 1: then I will run your ads nonstop. There's a Netflix show.
41:22
Speaker 17: Like, on every street right now. It's like, oh, I'm
41:24
Speaker 17: in a, yeah. Anyway, so I got that coming out too.
41:28
Speaker 5: I got a little recurring role in that with Michelle
41:30
Speaker 5: Monaghan and Jane Addams and John R.T., some incredible actors
41:34
Speaker 5: I was so lucky to be a part of. So, yeah.
41:36
Speaker 1: Amazing. Thanks, man. Anything else you want to pass along
41:40
Speaker 1: to the world?
41:42
Speaker 5: Thank you all for listening. I hope I didn't bore
41:44
Speaker 5: you too much. I appreciate you all. Thank you. Enjoy life.
41:49
Speaker 6: Do what you got to do.
41:49
Speaker 5: Keep going.
41:50
Speaker 6: Love you all.
41:51
Speaker 1: Thank you.
41:52
Speaker 20: That's how it works.
41:53
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. Thank you, Brian.
41:54
Speaker 6: I appreciate you.
41:55
Speaker 1: No problem. Thank you so much.
41:57
Speaker 15: Thank you.
41:58
Speaker 5: It's funny because I was actually, when we first started shooting,
42:01
Speaker 5: I was originally cast as Jolene.
42:03
Speaker 21: That's true.
42:05
Speaker 14: Yeah.
42:06
Speaker 1: But the script.
42:08
Speaker 5: changed a little bit.
42:09
Speaker 1: And then.
42:11
Speaker 21: She was the dialect coach and she ran our audition.
42:15
Speaker 21: She was there from day one.
42:16
Speaker 1: So this is really incredible.
42:18
Speaker 6: Another progression that I love is Lauren.
42:21
Speaker 22: I also auditioned for Jolene.
42:23
Speaker 6: Didn't get the part.
42:25
Speaker 22: Didn't get the part, but there was a side boob
42:28
Speaker 22: audition and it was favorable. Again, then when we met
42:33
Speaker 22: Augie and Darren and I were like, if you get Jolene,
42:36
Speaker 22: I'm going to be so stoked for you. And she's like,
42:37
Speaker 22: if you get Jolene, I'll be stoked. And then we
42:39
Speaker 22: were like, all you Duke from L.A. And then we
42:44
Speaker 22: were like, this is actually Jolene.
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Speaker 8: ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶.
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Speaker 1: ¶ And now we will continue with another lovely post-film discussion,
43:16
Speaker 1: sitting out next to the Speed Cinema, as we welcome
43:19
Speaker 1: the creator of this film, the writer, the director, and
43:23
Speaker 1: the woman who worked long and hard to bring this
43:25
Speaker 1: movie together, as you are about to hear. This is
43:28
Speaker 1: Bethany Brooke Anderson. Basically, I just kind of want to
43:49
Speaker 1: get because I think you're the production end of this
43:52
Speaker 1: is such an interesting story. I wanted you to kind
43:54
Speaker 1: of give people a basic timeline before we even get
43:58
Speaker 1: into the plot type of stuff. of the range that
44:01
Speaker 1: went into putting this project together. Cause it's, it's different
44:04
Speaker 1: than most movies.
44:05
Speaker 3: Yeah.
44:05
Speaker 12: I would have never thought that, uh, nine years into this,
44:08
Speaker 12: I was going to be still working on it and
44:10
Speaker 12: not being paid.
44:12
Speaker 14: Um, but burning arts, burning Kentucky started.
44:16
Speaker 12: Um, basically I read an article, um, when I was
44:20
Speaker 12: visiting Louisville about, um, corrupt law in Appalachia. I thought
44:25
Speaker 12: it was so interesting to see, do a story about
44:31
Speaker 12: religion and law and outlaws and there not be a
44:36
Speaker 12: good guy or a bad guy and just have everyone
44:40
Speaker 12: in the story be really relatable and also just paint
44:44
Speaker 12: Kentucky in both a real and fantasy way that I
44:50
Speaker 12: saw it in my head. So that's what started. I
44:53
Speaker 12: was acting in Los Angeles and I was being completely
44:56
Speaker 12: uninspired by the sets that I was on. And I
45:01
Speaker 12: fired my agent and I stopped going to casting calls
45:05
Speaker 12: and I stayed at home for 2012. And I hold
45:08
Speaker 12: up in a garage in Canoga Park The least glamorous
45:14
Speaker 12: place on the planet. And I started writing this story.
45:18
Speaker 12: And I was delusional enough to believe that I could
45:22
Speaker 12: make my own movie. That's what you need, really. Until
45:26
Speaker 12: it was a reality, yeah.
45:28
Speaker 1: But the thing that I was trying to decide is
45:32
Speaker 1: how much of... Because it's kind of two major shoots,
45:35
Speaker 1: more or less, right?
45:35
Speaker 12: Yeah, so we started... We started in 2014. We turned
45:39
Speaker 12: the camera on for the first time in 2014 and
45:41
Speaker 12: we shot for about 13 days. And it was the
45:45
Speaker 12: worst time of my life. It was the hardest experience
45:50
Speaker 12: I've ever gone through. We had like a crew mutiny.
45:55
Speaker 12: We were $ 30, 000 over budget with three days left. We
46:01
Speaker 12: had an actor break a collarbone. We had every single thing.
46:05
Speaker 19: The movie about this shoot's going to be coming out
46:07
Speaker 19: in a few years. Right, the documentary behind the scenes. Yeah,
46:10
Speaker 19: that probably would make more money than the movie. It
46:13
Speaker 19: was the hardest thing I've ever done. And then, you know,
46:18
Speaker 19: we went for a year and a.
46:20
Speaker 12: Half without doing anything besides just trying to raise money
46:23
Speaker 12: off of the footage that we shot was really beautiful.
46:27
Speaker 12: And eventually meeting after meeting and me going to all
46:32
Speaker 12: the film festivals in the world, just trying to give this...
46:37
Speaker 12: story um some life again and and finally i just
46:42
Speaker 12: um my my husband is a is a film school
46:46
Speaker 12: nerd And, um, yeah. And he just reminded me that
46:50
Speaker 12: my Calvary wasn't coming. Um, and that, uh, nobody was
46:54
Speaker 12: going to save me, uh, besides me. And so we
46:59
Speaker 12: decided that I was going to call everyone who had
47:01
Speaker 12: ever been a part of it and say, I'm going
47:03
Speaker 12: to go to the woods and shoot this on my iPhone.
47:05
Speaker 12: If you guys should want to show up and help
47:06
Speaker 12: make it happen, then we're going to do that. And
47:08
Speaker 12: from there, that energy of just manifesting it back into reality, uh,
47:14
Speaker 12: And not waiting for anybody. Then people just started jumping
47:17
Speaker 12: on board. And sometimes I think that's what it takes.
47:19
Speaker 12: It just takes you having both the delusion and the
47:22
Speaker 12: passion that drives it into existence.
47:25
Speaker 14: And people will follow that. And so they did. And so.
47:27
Speaker 12: We turned it back on in 2007. We spent a
47:30
Speaker 12: year perfecting every... I was not going to release it
47:34
Speaker 12: until every note and color correction and edit was exactly
47:40
Speaker 12: what I wanted because we had put so much time
47:43
Speaker 12: and love into it for so many years that we
47:45
Speaker 12: had to have it right.
47:47
Speaker 1: I appreciate that level of perfectionism and the amount of
47:50
Speaker 1: time I grew over this thing. Regardless of whether it
47:54
Speaker 1: needs to be or not. I think with any of
47:56
Speaker 1: these projects, like if you're going to bother doing it.
47:58
Speaker 12: What makes us artists, though, I think is that we
48:01
Speaker 12: all have a level of taste. Now, whether we're ever
48:05
Speaker 12: able to achieve that taste ourselves by creating is maybe
48:11
Speaker 12: it happens, maybe it doesn't. But we're artists because we
48:14
Speaker 12: have this taste. So if we keep fighting and not
48:17
Speaker 12: compromising on that taste, then that's the key.
48:21
Speaker 4: Definitely.
48:22
Speaker 1: But that's what I was trying to decide is because
48:24
Speaker 1: there are flashbacks and a lot of it takes place
48:27
Speaker 1: in different timelines. That wasn't originally part of the plan, right?
48:31
Speaker 1: Because you do have a character aging quite a bit.
48:34
Speaker 12: That part came to our advantage. I did know that
48:37
Speaker 12: if we were going to shoot the first part, it
48:38
Speaker 12: would have to be all the old stuff because I
48:40
Speaker 12: knew there was a possibility that we wouldn't get back
48:42
Speaker 12: on set for a while. I didn't think it was
48:45
Speaker 12: going to be as long as what it was.
48:47
Speaker 1: It is a time jump there. Looking at your lead. Right.
48:50
Speaker 1: And you're talking about how young she was when she
48:52
Speaker 1: started shooting. I was like, oh, good. Yeah, I guess
48:54
Speaker 1: the math adds up there.
48:55
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was a very long time. So there were
49:00
Speaker 12: so many moments where in the editing room we discovered
49:04
Speaker 12: that we just had barely enough of that background to
49:08
Speaker 12: pull the story in together. So there were so many
49:11
Speaker 12: miracles that happened in the editing room and the story
49:15
Speaker 12: changed just from moment one to the last moment we
49:18
Speaker 12: locked the picture.
49:19
Speaker 13: Yeah.
49:20
Speaker 14: Um it kind of just evolved into what it is.
49:22
Speaker 1: That's that's another thing i was kind of wondering watching
49:25
Speaker 1: it is there is sort of this narrative literally at
49:27
Speaker 1: some points that goes through and kind of leads you
49:29
Speaker 1: through and by the end it's sort of making a
49:33
Speaker 1: point and i'm like is that did you start out
49:35
Speaker 1: with that idea or did that come The thing was
49:38
Speaker 1: such a journey for you that what you're experiencing kind
49:41
Speaker 1: of happens and changes and morphs into this thing.
49:44
Speaker 12: Life does not stop because you're making a movie. I
49:47
Speaker 12: went through the loss of relationships and I was almost
49:51
Speaker 12: homeless at one period of time making this. All of
49:56
Speaker 12: my money, all of my own money went into this.
50:00
Speaker 12: There was some really dark moments. times and there was
50:04
Speaker 12: a time where i had to like reinvent the wheel
50:07
Speaker 12: on this project and and um every time i thought
50:11
Speaker 12: that i just didn't have an ounce of creativity left
50:13
Speaker 12: to give it i just i knew i couldn't give up.
50:17
Speaker 1: Yeah we were too far in again you're dealing with
50:20
Speaker 1: darkness on the side of the camera it's also a
50:23
Speaker 1: really dark story is that at some point does that
50:26
Speaker 1: get overwhelming like because the story and the subject matter
50:30
Speaker 1: and the scenes you're shooting are so heavy does that
50:33
Speaker 1: ever weigh in or you keep that in a different area?
50:35
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it's hard to not let the darkness
50:40
Speaker 12: seep in. I will say that there's some of it
50:43
Speaker 12: that you become really immune to, which was a really
50:47
Speaker 12: hard part of doing the editing process too because we
50:50
Speaker 12: knew the story so well and because there's flashbacks and
50:53
Speaker 12: reveals and in order to cut it in a way
50:56
Speaker 12: where we have to unlearn things that we know exist,
51:01
Speaker 12: is very, very hard on the brain and the content
51:05
Speaker 12: is not a light romp in the park. So, you know,
51:08
Speaker 12: you have to always, as an artist, I think balance
51:13
Speaker 12: health as a human, mental health, physical health, emotional health, and, you.
51:20
Speaker 1: Know, and your work.
51:22
Speaker 14: So that, yes, that was a factor for sure.
51:25
Speaker 12: I don't see myself doing any light romp movies in
51:29
Speaker 12: the future anyway. So I think I'm just going to
51:31
Speaker 12: buckle up and do it again.
51:32
Speaker 1: Fun Kentucky rom-coms in the future. Yeah, I don't know.
51:37
Speaker 14: I'll let other people do those.
51:39
Speaker 1: But you do have a real connection to and a
51:41
Speaker 1: passion for Kentucky. So did you ever question that you
51:45
Speaker 1: were going to end up back here shooting or did
51:47
Speaker 1: just project because the subject matter was so Kentucky-based? You
51:52
Speaker 1: knew you were going to be back here.
51:54
Speaker 14: I feel like.
51:56
Speaker 12: I know that my first three feature films will be
52:00
Speaker 12: Kentucky Stories. I might be an only Kentucky filmmaker. I
52:04
Speaker 12: consider myself an artist that uses film currently as my medium.
52:11
Speaker 14: And I.
52:14
Speaker 12: I don't know where that will end. My ability to
52:18
Speaker 12: express might turn into something different, but I want to
52:22
Speaker 12: make as many Kentucky movies as stories that I am
52:25
Speaker 12: drawn to because, again, Kentucky has... natural storytelling humans and
52:34
Speaker 12: has a beautiful, um, just geography, um, and topography that's
52:41
Speaker 12: just magical and endless to shoot in. And also the
52:44
Speaker 12: crew here is super resourceful in a way that they
52:48
Speaker 12: aren't other places. Um, and, and also people, um, You know,
52:53
Speaker 12: there's a total difference between shooting something in Los Angeles
52:56
Speaker 12: and coming back home. We had police officers shutting the
52:59
Speaker 12: roads down. Their wives were bringing us lemonade. We had
53:02
Speaker 12: the carpenters.
53:03
Speaker 1: It's not happening in LA.
53:04
Speaker 6: It's not happening.
53:05
Speaker 14: We can't get my friend to let her use her
53:07
Speaker 14: apartment on a Thursday. And it's just, we're trying to
53:11
Speaker 14: make a movie. So the fact that there's still.
53:14
Speaker 12: That sparkle for creating and storytelling here in that way
53:18
Speaker 12: makes it super, super useful for someone who wants to
53:23
Speaker 12: kind of make a dream like that come true.
53:25
Speaker 1: There are definitely storytellers here and here where we are.
53:29
Speaker 1: Last night, actually, it was one of the people that
53:31
Speaker 1: had a question in the Q & A, continued on
53:34
Speaker 1: out in the lobby and sort of attached herself to Augie.
53:38
Speaker 4: Oh, fun.
53:39
Speaker 1: It went on for a really long time. Her daughter
53:41
Speaker 1: came over and went, okay, mom, I think we're done
53:44
Speaker 1: with the stories.
53:44
Speaker 6: Come on.
53:45
Speaker 14: Yeah, all he's easy to talk to.
53:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, that helped too. She just sucks people in. It's
53:50
Speaker 1: what she does.
53:51
Speaker 14: Yeah, bless her. So hypnotizing.
53:54
Speaker 1: But then you mentioned you've gotten picked up, more or less.
53:58
Speaker 1: You've at least got a plan for the film in
54:00
Speaker 1: the future. You can't go into specifics.
54:02
Speaker 12: Yeah, the movie's going to have a release, and it's
54:05
Speaker 12: a big, awesome company that we never... Listen, we've been
54:09
Speaker 12: little kids just lucky to be in the room every
54:12
Speaker 12: step of the way with this, and we have been
54:14
Speaker 12: so lucky. We can tell you that Lakeshore is going
54:17
Speaker 12: to release our soundtrack, and they released the soundtrack for Moonlight,
54:20
Speaker 12: the Oscar-winning, incredible Barry Jenkins movie. Um, and we did
54:25
Speaker 12: our sound mechs at Warner brothers, like on the sly
54:28
Speaker 12: at nighttime with someone that worked there that was young that,
54:31
Speaker 12: you know, it's, it's been like giving, finding talent and
54:36
Speaker 12: then giving people an opportunity to do a job that
54:38
Speaker 12: no one else would give them the opportunity to do,
54:40
Speaker 12: including myself did the same thing with myself. I would
54:43
Speaker 12: never be hired before this movie to direct produce or
54:46
Speaker 12: write a feature film. And so sometimes we just have
54:49
Speaker 12: to pave the way for ourselves.
54:51
Speaker 3: Yeah.
54:52
Speaker 12: And for other people and take a chance on people.
54:54
Speaker 12: And that's what we did. And now a lot of
54:56
Speaker 12: people we took a chance on, that's their career.
54:58
Speaker 1: That's awesome. All right. Anything else to tell people or
55:02
Speaker 1: in the future when it gets on board with this company,
55:05
Speaker 1: what's the best way to find it for everybody out
55:07
Speaker 1: there listening?
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Speaker 12: It's going to be on all the streaming platforms. So
55:10
Speaker 12: you'll be able to just see it all over the place.
55:12
Speaker 12: But if you want to follow when that happens, you
55:16
Speaker 12: can follow us on Facebook at Burning Kentucky or on
55:20
Speaker 12: Instagram at Burning Kentucky Films.
55:22
Speaker 1: All right. Sounds good. Thank you for being on the show.
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Speaker 14: Thank you so much.
55:25
Speaker 1: Thank you.
55:25
Speaker 2: Kentucky woman, she shine with her own kind of light.
55:31
Speaker 6: She look at you once in a day, that's.
55:33
Speaker 15: All wrong, looks all right. And I love her.
55:39
Speaker 1: God knows I love her.
55:40
Speaker 6: Kentucky woman.
55:45
Speaker 1: She get to know you. She got to own you.
55:51
Speaker 11: The other thing.
55:59
Speaker 21: That makes it so amazing to make a movie in
56:01
Speaker 21: Kentucky is that Kentuckians are so resourceful. And when you're
56:07
Speaker 21: making a grassroots indie film, having people like Lala and
56:10
Speaker 21: people like.
56:10
Speaker 1: Casey who did our wardrobe, who.
56:14
Speaker 21: Don't spend any money but.
56:16
Speaker 1: Make miracles happen.
56:19
Speaker 21: I mean, I just don't, I want to make all
56:22
Speaker 21: my movies in Kentucky about Kentucky stories with Kentucky people
56:26
Speaker 21: because it just feels like it makes sense to me.
56:30
Speaker 6: From that one girl and life.
56:32
Speaker 7: Is sweet and good Ain't no doubt I'm talking about
56:40
Speaker 7: Kentucky woman.
56:43
Speaker 10: She gets to know you.
56:47
Speaker 1: Alright, so we're rounding it out here on the opening
56:50
Speaker 1: night of the festival. We're checking out Burning Kentucky. So again,
56:54
Speaker 1: that's the big thing for this evening. And if you're interested,
57:00
Speaker 1: there is a website for the director. So go to BethanyBrookeAnderson.com
57:04
Speaker 1: and there is a trailer for the movie on her website.
57:07
Speaker 1: So go find out more about it if you're into it. Otherwise,
57:11
Speaker 1: I think that about does it for this week. We've
57:14
Speaker 1: got some other stuff in the works. It'll fly over,
57:18
Speaker 1: as per usual. I like to hit it and find
57:21
Speaker 1: different people if possible, so that's what we're planning. So
57:26
Speaker 1: we will be back to discuss that in the near future. Otherwise,
57:30
Speaker 1: that about does it. We'll return next time, same geek feed.
57:32
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.
57:33
Speaker 14: Bye!
57:35
Speaker 15: Georgia I love your big magnolia tree Texas I love
57:47
Speaker 15: to feel the prairie breeze Tennessee, you made me what
57:57
Speaker 15: I am today But it's got to be Kentucky for
58:07
Speaker 15: me She loves me and she knows where I am Kentucky,
58:22
Speaker 15: you are my motherland Say hello to the rivers and
58:33
Speaker 15: the trees Oh, it's got to be Kentucky for me
58:43
Speaker 15: New York that's a fine place to go Colorado my
58:51
Speaker 15: it's pretty.
58:52
Speaker 8: Covered with.
59:01
Speaker 15: To go Colorado my it's pretty covered with the snow
59:14
Speaker 15: California sunshine just brings me to my knees oh but
59:23
Speaker 15: it's got to be Kentucky for me My flesh and
59:34
Speaker 15: my blood is buried there I believe that Jesus blessed the.
59:45
Speaker 4: Bride Big.
59:50
Speaker 15: World, I have seen your majesty But it's got to
59:59
Speaker 15: be Kentucky for.
1:00:05
Speaker 7: Me.
1:00:07
Speaker 15: Oh, it's got to be Kentucky for.
1:00:15
Speaker 12: Me.
1:00:17
Speaker 14: Hold for plane. We did it.
1:00:20
Speaker 1: Louisville International Airport. Right over there. Welcome to Louisville.
1:00:27
Speaker 14: It's just hovering above us now. What were we saying?
1:00:31
Speaker 1: Production value.
1:00:31
Speaker 14: Production value.
1:00:34
Speaker 1: Oh, here comes the train. There's the atmosphere. This is
1:00:36
Speaker 1: really Kentucky right now. Ambience, y'all. Have you guys ever
1:00:41
Speaker 1: heard me say y'all? No, because I don't.
1:00:45
Speaker 5: I do love being outside. It's so much better than inside.
1:00:47
Speaker 1: Right?
1:00:48
Speaker 5: I feel so, like, claustrophobic inside.
1:00:51
Speaker 1: No, I fucking love it. Oh, sorry.
1:00:54
Speaker 6: I swear.
1:00:54
Speaker 1: Oh, please do. It's on the radio show. I'm on
1:00:57
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