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A Week Off, Ever Heard Of It?? · The Bechdel Cast

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  Speaker 1: On the Bell Cast, the questions asked if movies have
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  Speaker 1: women and um are all their discussions just boyfriends and
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  Speaker 1: husbands or do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef in
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  Speaker 1: best start changing it with the Beck del Cast. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Beck dol Cast listeners, Hi everyone, Jamie Loft us here
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  Speaker 1: and Caitlin Durnte. You know us, you love us, of us?
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  Speaker 1: You know us, or maybe you don't. This is your
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  Speaker 1: first episode and you're choosing violence for no reason because
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  Speaker 1: there's no episode this week, and we are I will say, so, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's just you know, I think we can put all
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  Speaker 1: our cards on the table at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: We're contractually obligated to provide fifty episodes a year. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. We really enjoy our job, so we
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  Speaker 1: usually don't skip any weeks. And then at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year usually it's like, oh, we we put
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  Speaker 1: out enough episodes, we can we can have a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a break if you will. Yeah, I'm tired. One.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little peek behind the iron curtain of podcasting
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  Speaker 1: so opaque, and yet you know now you know that
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  Speaker 1: we we are entitled to have two weeks off and
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  Speaker 1: we usually don't take them, and this year we're going
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  Speaker 1: to take one of them. I didn't even know that
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  Speaker 1: because I'm terrible at reading contracts. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: if anyone's ever tried to read a contract before, but
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  Speaker 1: they're impossible to understand. I do know, I I know
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  Speaker 1: that much. I know that we we are allowed to
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  Speaker 1: take two weeks off a year, and we just usually
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  Speaker 1: only take one. And I think that that's true this
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  Speaker 1: year too, and this is the only one that we're taking,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe we did, I didn't know, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I think we did in August as well. All I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying is we're doing the right thing by doing this,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're mad, then you're being a labor problem. True. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we are tired and we deserve a break and you
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  Speaker 1: should respect that. Yeah. So, um, we are taking the
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  Speaker 1: last week of the year off this year. However, if
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  Speaker 1: you are looking for fun, fun end of year episode
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  Speaker 1: and you didn't hear our New Year's Eve Gary Marshall
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  Speaker 1: episode from last year, I would say that we have
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  Speaker 1: already produced primo end of your content for your listening enjoyment,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know it's available free on the feed
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  Speaker 1: right now. Yes, and there's also stuff on the Matreon,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's also the Matreon, which we were going
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  Speaker 1: to plug in this episode, right, so so tell me
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  Speaker 1: about that. Well, gee whiz, we have a Patreon ak Matreon.
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  Speaker 1: It is five dollars a month sure as subscribers get
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  Speaker 1: access to two bonus episodes every single month and access
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  Speaker 1: to the entire back catalog of all of those bonus episodes,
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  Speaker 1: which is now over one hundred episodes because we've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it for since over four years. Yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 1: and and another fun look behind it doesn't feel right
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  Speaker 1: to call it but the iron curtain of podcasting. As
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  Speaker 1: we are recording this right now, we are about to
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  Speaker 1: go in and record our final Matreon episode of the
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  Speaker 1: year on the Snowman from two thousands seventeen. The Matreon
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  Speaker 1: is welcome, hut loose, We let our hair down, and
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  Speaker 1: we cover the most fucking fun weird. It's a mix
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  Speaker 1: of like very popular requests that Caitlin and I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about one on one, and it's also a
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  Speaker 1: mix of weird movies. Are personal favorites, your personal favorites,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more obscure movies that we want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Frankenstein. I was gonna say this episode
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  Speaker 1: we're about to record The Snowman is going to be
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  Speaker 1: of the I Frankenstein ilk and that it's a very
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  Speaker 1: very bad movie that there's somehow so much to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm very excited to record it. We have so
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  Speaker 1: much fun in the Matreon. It's also just like a
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  Speaker 1: really really kind hearted and sweet community. And and so
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  Speaker 1: usually on the Matren, we we or our listeners on
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  Speaker 1: the Matren will pick a theme every month and we
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  Speaker 1: will do two episodes on that theme. We've observed Portman
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  Speaker 1: July in different months of the year, I think two
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  Speaker 1: or three different times. So my cat is, Oh, isn't
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  Speaker 1: this okay? This is cozy holiday content? My cats screaming
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  Speaker 1: for no reason. Wellfully, did I tell you that I
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  Speaker 1: saw Natalie Portman on the street walking by like just that? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Well I did. That's so I had Natalie A. Portman
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  Speaker 1: appeared to me as like intrusively the other day where
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  Speaker 1: I woke up and the TV was on and the
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  Speaker 1: first thing I saw was a perfume commercial with Natalie A. Portman.
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  Speaker 1: But she was doing this thing where she was like hey,
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  Speaker 1: like she got really close to the camera and it
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  Speaker 1: scared me and I jumped. Yeah, so what does she
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  Speaker 1: She's so short, right? She she was very petite. She's
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  Speaker 1: so I love when people are petite. That's Hollywood, isn't it. Anyway?
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't You wouldn't necessarily know that's that's movie magic.
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  Speaker 1: But that's movie magic. I wish that that was me.
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  Speaker 1: Every time we post a picture of us together, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: why is Jamie so humongous? I feel sick? People, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people say, are so disturbed by that picture of us.
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  Speaker 1: They think that I'm that you're a giant, and they
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  Speaker 1: think that I am three ft tall. Liz, I'm wearing
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  Speaker 1: a one inch heel in that picture. And it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: sorry for looking confident for once in my life. And
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  Speaker 1: everyone gets so upset about it. So I forgot slouching
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  Speaker 1: over to try to accommodate the world. Jesus Christ, well,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of peeking behind the iron curtain, listeners to clear
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  Speaker 1: it up once and for all. I am five ft
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  Speaker 1: four and I'm six ft tall, Okay, sometimes I sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I I I literally was at therapy today, Wow, brave, amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and my therapist was once again like, you make yourself
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  Speaker 1: small in the world. You don't you to make yourself small.
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  Speaker 1: You can be. But I interpreted it physically. I'm six
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  Speaker 1: ft tall. I'm six ft tall, period, Jamie, take up space,
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  Speaker 1: take up space literally and metaphorically. Look, we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: it on the show a million times, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I want other women to take up I want everyone
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  Speaker 1: to take up the appropriate amount of space, except for myself.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I shouldn't be allowed to even vote.
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  Speaker 1: Um So, it's a comf. We're all on a journey.
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  Speaker 1: We weren't supposed to be on an episode this week,
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  Speaker 1: and look at us providing free content once again. It's
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  Speaker 1: at least five minutes long by now. So, so join
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  Speaker 1: the Matreon, the Matron's Fund. That's where Caitlin and I
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  Speaker 1: really get confessional and have and have a real goofy time.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the Snowman, and I swear
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  Speaker 1: to god, I have so many notes it's absurd. My
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  Speaker 1: recap is like five pages long. I don't think I've
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  Speaker 1: prepared this hard for an episode in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And we prepare very well. I mean, yes, we do, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: um oh. And then one final thing is so we'll
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  Speaker 1: be returning in the new year with regular episodes as normal.
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  Speaker 1: We have a list of movies we definitely want to
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  Speaker 1: cover in the coming year. If there are any, though
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  Speaker 1: that you would like to request. We forget to plug
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  Speaker 1: this all the time. But we have a Google like
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  Speaker 1: Google something. What is it called a Google form? A
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  Speaker 1: Google form that don't edit that out. Don't edit that out.
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  Speaker 1: That was I really loved that. You're like a Google Google.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, it's not a Google. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: good silting up. I simply could not think of the word.
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  Speaker 1: I do that four hundred times a day, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like liberating to see someone else the
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  Speaker 1: same like um um um, you know, and then just
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  Speaker 1: get to any of the sentence. Yeah, so fine, I'll
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  Speaker 1: keep it all in anyway. It is a Google form,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Jane. Yes, you're welcome. And on that form
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  Speaker 1: you can submit requests for movies you would like us
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  Speaker 1: to cover, and then we compile all the results of
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  Speaker 1: that and yes, you know, make an effort to do
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  Speaker 1: episodes on very popular requests. Um. But we're also you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing everything that you request, so request away, we'll
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  Speaker 1: provide that. And we are especially always looking for movies
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  Speaker 1: that you want to hear who are that are not
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  Speaker 1: directed by white guys? UM as always that it is
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  Speaker 1: always a continuing initiative of us on the show and
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  Speaker 1: also just in life in general, to lift up, discuss,
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  Speaker 1: learn about, talk about, find guests who want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to us about movies that aren't made by straight white guys.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine they're out there. We've covered many of them,
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  Speaker 1: but we would like to cover more. And so in
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  Speaker 1: the coming year, particularly if there if there are movies
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  Speaker 1: that are not by white guys that you would like
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  Speaker 1: us to cover, we are particularly interested in those because
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of you know, our job is it's it's um.
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  Speaker 1: We want to give you movies that you want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about, that you want to hear discussed, and we
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  Speaker 1: also want to discuss movies that are not by white guys,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, and and and so that is um
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  Speaker 1: the continuing goal. So please submit your requests. We love
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  Speaker 1: to know what's on your mind. It helps us stay sharp,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes the show better for us and for you.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely, and we will provide that link to the
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  Speaker 1: what's it called again, a Google Google Google Google Google
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  Speaker 1: Google form form. We'll stick that in the show notes
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  Speaker 1: for this episode, and we will pin it to our
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  Speaker 1: Twitter for a little bit, so submit away, submit away,
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  Speaker 1: and with that, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year. We hope that, um,
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  Speaker 1: however you observe or don't observe the holidays, that you
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  Speaker 1: are well, that you are protecting yourself and protecting others,
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  Speaker 1: and that you had a little snack. My neighbor dropped
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  Speaker 1: off Christmas cookies at my at my door this morning,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I was like, oh, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy these for the next couple of days because what
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  Speaker 1: they're gone. Oh well, I just treated myself to what
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  Speaker 1: I think was like three dozen sugar cookies that I
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  Speaker 1: just bought at the grocery store. Yes, and I'm really
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  Speaker 1: plowing my way through those. Well, we will will keep
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  Speaker 1: you posted as well on our I mean, as many
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  Speaker 1: of you know, Caitlin and I were not fake podcast friends,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not like directed at anyone in particular. Although
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  Speaker 1: there are people out there, are codes out there who
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  Speaker 1: are fake friends. We're real friends. Were uh, we're playing
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  Speaker 1: it safe and then we're getting tested before we spend
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  Speaker 1: Christmas together as we usually do. Indeed, so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You'll probably see some of our annual Christmas content. Are
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  Speaker 1: we gonna watch Titanic? Yes, like we did on Thanksgiving. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: it's like we do have two annual Titantic that are
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  Speaker 1: very close together. I have a quick question for you,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it if it's too personal for the episode,
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  Speaker 1: you can cut it. But I'm curious, Well, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what if it was disgusting? Um No, I'm curious where
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  Speaker 1: did you did you find like a place for the
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  Speaker 1: lego Titanic or is it just still like on your
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  Speaker 1: table in your TV? Wow, that is not too personal
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  Speaker 1: at all. Okay, it is currently resting in front rest.
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  Speaker 1: I'd laid it to rest at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic Ocean. Um, it is in front of my TV
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  Speaker 1: stand on the floor. Okay, I feel I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you need to get like a sturdy shelf for that, right.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna like spray it with like spray glues
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't because what if you if it falls.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought about that. I know I think if it falls,
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  Speaker 1: no amount of glue will hold it together. So I
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  Speaker 1: think I don't want to glue it. Someone had the
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  Speaker 1: idea that I mount my TV on the wall, which
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  Speaker 1: requires so many more skills than I than I have.
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  Speaker 1: But if I mount the TV, then I can put
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  Speaker 1: the Titanic just like put it on top of the
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  Speaker 1: TV stand. That's an excellent idea. Mounting a TV is
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  Speaker 1: has made me cry, but it is possible, and I
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  Speaker 1: can help you because I cried doing it once. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I might just hire a task rabbit or something. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Not to impreune your work, Jamie, No, trust me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to mount your TV. I was y nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's really hard and and TVs are heavy. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: happy New Year everyone, Happy holidays. Please stay safe, please
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  Speaker 1: protect yourself and others. And if you're mad at us
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  Speaker 1: for not releasing an episode, go back and listen to
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. And you're a union buster, so you
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  Speaker 1: know you're Goodbye. Bye bye