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With Further Ado Episode #12: The Municipal Ghost Census · Presented by Speaking Human

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  Speaker 1: Tell me if this sounds familiar. You're listening to a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: attending a presentation, or watching a live stream, and after
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of chatter, the hosts finally get around
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  Speaker 1: to the reason for the whole shebang, saying without further ado,
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  Speaker 1: it happens all the time at almost every event going
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  Speaker 1: back to the beginning of recorded history.
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  Speaker 2: But what happens at the host never.
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  Speaker 1: Actually get to the main attraction.
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  Speaker 2: What if the whole thing were just the ado? This
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  Speaker 2: is that show, Patrick. I'm gonna be just completely upfront
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  Speaker 2: with you here today. I did not think of a
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  Speaker 2: trivia question to ask you to start off the show.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna just pull one randomly out of my
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  Speaker 2: pocket here. Oh okay, just totally random, just off the
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  Speaker 2: top of my head, and we'll see if you can
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  Speaker 2: get it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I love that kind of trivia question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you'll definitely have a good good shot
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  Speaker 2: at this. So what is the smallest country in the
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  Speaker 2: world by land area.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like it was pulled out of your pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I might have had some, you know, artificial help.
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  Speaker 2: Smallest country in the world by land air Do you
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  Speaker 2: want some? Do you want some multiple choice on this one,
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  Speaker 2: or do you want to just guess?
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  Speaker 3: No, I know it. It's pop tarts and it's pop tarts.
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  Speaker 3: I know it, it's pots. No, I know this for sure.
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  Speaker 3: It's Lithuania.
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  Speaker 2: It's not Lithuania. Oh let me, let me give you
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  Speaker 2: a hint. Maybe this will help you get it. Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not something you would think about as a city.
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  Speaker 2: But it has a religious affiliation. Oh Rome not Rome
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  Speaker 2: is not that's not very small. Maybe I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: the multiple choice the Vatican, Yeah, Vatican City, Vatican City. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Vatican City.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was thinking of when I said
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  Speaker 3: Rome and our wives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I could tell. Yeah, I could tell because
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Roman Empire, very tiny empire.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I just this came up somewhere in
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  Speaker 3: some weird algorithm really lately. Is that what made you
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  Speaker 3: think of the question or did you just pull out
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  Speaker 3: a thin air from I.
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  Speaker 2: Just actually asked. I was like, I need some trivia
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  Speaker 2: questions quick chat TVT give me a few options, and
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  Speaker 2: that was one of the ones that came up. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: that sounds good.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds pretty good. I like that, Hey, I got
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  Speaker 3: it without multiple choice.
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  Speaker 2: You did. And you know, Vatican City, to be clear,
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  Speaker 2: is in Rome. Yes, so I you know, didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to like shame you for saying Rome. That was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not super crazy, but smallest country in the world, covering
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  Speaker 2: only zero point four to nine square kilometers, which is
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  Speaker 2: less than a quarter of a mile.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Should it be a city?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but there's how many people are in that city?
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  Speaker 3: A lot, right, I mean for the square footage square mileage.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how many we got eight hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: two people.
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  Speaker 3: I mean in a square mile though less than a
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  Speaker 3: square mile.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. They're all like kind of standing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: armed arm elbow to elbow, but to butt, not to
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  Speaker 2: butt however you like it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think of the old we are the world.
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  Speaker 3: We all the children. One of the people were like
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  Speaker 3: holding hands. But they're like just in a small quarter mile. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I take la quarter a mile at a time, a
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  Speaker 3: little fast and furious for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which, as many people know, is one of our
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  Speaker 2: great franchises. Ravis franchise, Patrick, what do we have here?
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  Speaker 3: Revise a franchise? Tell me about this all right? So
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  Speaker 3: you can buy any franchise what would it be and
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  Speaker 3: what's your one weird, new original idea to implement with
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  Speaker 3: that franchise. So, you know, taking any franchise listeners, I'll
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  Speaker 3: give you an example. You know, you buy bed, bath
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  Speaker 3: and Beyond, but you want to make a new twist
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  Speaker 3: on it, and you're like, you know what, I want
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  Speaker 3: it to be like a paranormal supply shop, and the
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  Speaker 3: beyond is you know, beyond.
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  Speaker 2: The You're just leaning into the beyond, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you still get towels, but they're haunted.
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  Speaker 3: So that would be an idea for revise a franchise.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing more to than that. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you could go as in depth as you want, or
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  Speaker 3: you can kind of just be off the cuff. So
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  Speaker 3: what do you got?
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  Speaker 2: So I'd say I went a little in depth with it.
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  Speaker 2: My franchise that I have purchased is FedEx, okay, because
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  Speaker 2: you know the great quality work they're always doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the superior delivery service that you get every time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you can just always rely on them
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  Speaker 2: to get your parcel where it needs to go.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought I would take that service and try
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  Speaker 2: to do something a little different with it. With my franchise,
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  Speaker 2: so you might know their tagline when it absolutely has
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  Speaker 2: to get there overnight. Mm hmmm, so I've kind of
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  Speaker 2: modified that a little bit with when it absolutely positively
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  Speaker 2: has to vanish forever. Here's my pitch. Would you love
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  Speaker 2: to never see your husband wearing that torn up T
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  Speaker 2: shirt again? Do you have some incriminating documents you need
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  Speaker 2: to make disappear? Is the family pet doing a little
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  Speaker 2: too much barking these days? Meet FedEx? Fade away? The
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  Speaker 2: logistics solution for things you'd rather never see again. How
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  Speaker 2: it works. Pack your item in a special box called
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  Speaker 2: a Vanish box. We offer sizes for tiny regrets or
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  Speaker 2: massive mistakes. Choose your Vanish speed first, forget, which is
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  Speaker 2: fast and discreete Your item disappears asap overnight oblivion absolutely
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  Speaker 2: positively gone by morning, the vanishing equivalent of next day
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  Speaker 2: shipping or archive. Anonymity for things you're not quite sure about.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you think you want them gone, but you're still
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  Speaker 2: a little nostalgic. Just in case you change your mind,
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  Speaker 2: you get to keep a receipt. Step three track your
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  Speaker 2: Vanish with updates like gone your item left the building,
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  Speaker 2: most gone. The item is fading fast and delivered to
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  Speaker 2: the void. Final confirmation it's officially disappeared. Four get a
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  Speaker 2: certificate that says items successfully unremembered, so you can forget
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  Speaker 2: ever remembering. And as I mentioned, our slogan when it
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  Speaker 2: absolutely positively has to vanish forever, we also have a
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  Speaker 2: second slogan, ship it and forget about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. I like that, Ship it and forget forget about
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  Speaker 3: it because it takes it to another level, right, because
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  Speaker 3: forget about it it's not I mean, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: could be mobster, but it's not really mobster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little mobster feel to it, though, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it could be like, you know, I got this pinky
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  Speaker 2: finger I cut off. I don't know what to do
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  Speaker 2: with it, bring it to my FedEx.
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  Speaker 3: So I like that. I do like that, and the
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  Speaker 3: idea that it just vanishes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't know what happened to it.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know where it went.
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  Speaker 2: Sir. Did you ship out a parcel for a mister
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  Speaker 2: Johnson last week? Let me check my records. Ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know what happened to that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not far from what happens now we discussed.
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  Speaker 2: So it's different, but it's not that. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: just we're just upfront marketing it a little more.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're kind of owning what we are, I guess, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: owning it and just being like, listen, you already get
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  Speaker 3: this service.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not going to pretend anymore like it's going
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  Speaker 2: to where it's supposed to go.
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  Speaker 3: We're not reinventing anything.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing what we do. We're just selling it different
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  Speaker 2: more honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe some might say you're repackaging it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your package still ends up in the same ditch
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  Speaker 2: somewhere where no one can ever find it. But now
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  Speaker 2: you want that to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that service needs to exist.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of get rid of stuff sometimes without people knowing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know what I would use it for?
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  Speaker 3: Right now?
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: We have these yard signs, you know, like vote for
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, yard signs, And my wife agreed to put
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  Speaker 3: these up for several people that she knew in the
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  Speaker 3: local community. And I was like, these yard signs are trashing.
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  Speaker 2: Up my yard. Yeah, you're a yard signer.
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  Speaker 3: Huh there's three of them, oh, three in one yard.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's so I would use this version of
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  Speaker 3: your revisor franchise to make them.
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  Speaker 2: Disappear when ship no yard signs.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, you do that pretty good, would be
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  Speaker 3: the voice of it.
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  Speaker 2: So what's your franchise? What are you working with here?
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  Speaker 3: All right? So I had a really hard time with
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  Speaker 3: this because, like, there's it's kind of hard. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of hard. It is, you know, especially because you know,
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  Speaker 3: what do you do with it? There's a zillion things
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  Speaker 3: you could do with any one of the franchises to
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  Speaker 3: make it kind of fun or is it serious? Is
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  Speaker 3: it like a little serious revision of that franchise.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. I spend twenty minutes trying to
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  Speaker 2: think of a way to make Radio Shack work, and
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, radio Shack would be a good one.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like it would be, but I just couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't pull it.
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  Speaker 3: So here's what I'm thinking. We've talked about this brand recently,
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  Speaker 3: this franchise Duncan. It's not dunkin Donuts anymore. It's just
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  Speaker 3: dunk And we all know this, Okay, much shorter. We
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  Speaker 3: take Duncan and we make Duncan after dark. It's the
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  Speaker 3: nation's first donut themed speakeasy. Instead of it being a
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  Speaker 3: place where you go in the morning to get your coffee,
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  Speaker 3: you go there after dark. I mean it's in the name,
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  Speaker 3: it's all.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great name.
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  Speaker 3: And speakeasiers are kind of becoming a thing, right like
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  Speaker 3: you see them. They're popping up places you don't know,
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  Speaker 3: you're not supposed to know they exist, but they do.
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  Speaker 3: And I could tell you just in our small little
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  Speaker 3: town here, I think there's three speakeasies that exist, and
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  Speaker 3: that's becoming widespread across the nation, as it were. So
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  Speaker 3: if you don't know what a speakeasy is, it's usually
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  Speaker 3: like a hidden bar. It's usually like something where they
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  Speaker 3: have like a very unique way in which you enter
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  Speaker 3: this bar. It's hidden, it's a secret, it's like a
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  Speaker 3: puzzle or something that gets you in there. But with
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  Speaker 3: Duncan after dark, it's not quite that elaborate. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's just this kind of secret backroom lounge area. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's like behind the pastry case at Duncan. Where you
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  Speaker 3: go in it's just a normal Duncan store, clearly, but
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  Speaker 3: then there's this whole other section where it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: you knock three times and whispered double chocolate glazed to
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  Speaker 3: get in right. The bar could serve coffee based cocktails,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like espresso martini type things with names like
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  Speaker 3: the Long Espresso Goodbye or the Hot cupa Regret, Hot
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  Speaker 3: cuppa Regret. And there's a live DJ maybe wearing a
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  Speaker 3: giant munchkin head, you know. And at midnight, someone reads
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  Speaker 3: poetry from the back of a receipt where it's a
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  Speaker 3: little it's always a little sticky on their receipt. Then
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  Speaker 3: I thought of a tagline. We're not just about mornings anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We're about poor decisions at one am.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love a speakeasy and Duncan after dark it just sounds,
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  Speaker 2: you know, super intriguing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just it's got this name right. It feels like
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  Speaker 3: it rolls and you know, people would love this, you
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  Speaker 3: know they would, you know, like this, this is the
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  Speaker 3: thing that we don't have. And Duncan could be the
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  Speaker 3: nationwide franchise that could bring this to the people, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, because there's nothing quite like this
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  Speaker 3: in a big franchise like that. You know, you find
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  Speaker 3: these little speakeasy but they're they're just little bars, you know,
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  Speaker 3: local bars. Most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they're little one offs. This could be nationwide
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  Speaker 2: and you could build them, you know, it would be
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  Speaker 2: built in with these capabilities.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that would be kind of the fun part
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  Speaker 3: is like which one of the Duncans because there's Duncans everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: like McDonald's, right, Like, not all of them would be
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  Speaker 3: dunkin after Dark. It would be like, oh, the one
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  Speaker 3: over on Main Street is the dunkin after dark and
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  Speaker 3: you got to like know the gist on how to
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  Speaker 3: get in it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So they don't have a they don't have an after
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  Speaker 2: dark that starts flashing.
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  Speaker 3: That would be so cool, though, wouldn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It would be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean certain time, all of a sudden, it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: neon lights come up. I don't know. It's serious but
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  Speaker 3: also kind of fun, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it works and then just dunk
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  Speaker 2: and after you're dark? Is you know me in alliteration?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it, you know, competes with FedEx
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  Speaker 3: what was the second part of that fed X fade
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  Speaker 3: away fade Away? It doesn't quite compete with that alliteration.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's probably a better name. They've probably worked
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  Speaker 2: together in some way. Yeah, it's like FedEx fada. We
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  Speaker 2: could probably get a lot of work just going into
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  Speaker 2: a dunk and after dark.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those guys who work there are going to
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  Speaker 3: the dunk and after dark.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, could also be FedEx forget about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I like that if we want to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: more upfront.
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  Speaker 3: Just being honest. It's transparency at its finest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just right there.
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  Speaker 3: We're just giving alternatives. Are you putting on your socks?
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  Speaker 2: Ah? The AI alternative ending. Well, in this segment, we
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  Speaker 2: get another possible ending to a classic movie everyone loves,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: provided by our friends at Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens here is you know, you tell us
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  Speaker 2: what the movie is, you share your new ending, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe the crazier it is, the better it is. Who knows,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: maybe it's even better than the original ending. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know any movie from any decade is eligible. It just
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: should be a well known movie. You know, people should
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  Speaker 2: know this movie. So it shouldn't be like I made
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  Speaker 2: a home movie of my mom. What would be a
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  Speaker 2: different ending for it? Nobody's interested in hearing about that.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think this is kind of interesting and fun
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: because one we get to go back to our weirdo
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  Speaker 3: friend Avery. As everyone may or may not know, Avery
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  Speaker 3: is the AI version or chat GPT version of I
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: mean it is chat GPT. Essentially, we just gave her
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  Speaker 3: a name, yeah her, he them whatever your prona and
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  Speaker 3: it always gives you like strange results typically, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: especially with something like this.
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  Speaker 2: So what's your movie and what's your alternative ending?
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  Speaker 3: So I thought it would be good to pick a
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  Speaker 3: movie that everyone would probably know or heard of. So
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  Speaker 3: this is an alternative ending for the sixth sense. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: which you know, a famous ending, very famous ending in
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  Speaker 3: this twist because you know, it felt also very Shamalama
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  Speaker 3: ding Dong Shamalayan shimo Lama. He always had those twists.
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  Speaker 2: Twisted as many times you can just keep a twist.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So in this twist on sixth Sense, everyone is
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: actually dead except for Bruce Willis Okay, okay, the big reveal.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a ghost at all, He's just ignored. Turns
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  Speaker 3: out people have just been avoiding him because he he's awkward,
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  Speaker 3: emotionally unavailable, and still wears turtlenecks in July. It's less
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  Speaker 3: a supernatural thriller and more a brutally depressing meditation on
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  Speaker 3: middle aged loneliness. And this is also, according to chat GPT,
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  Speaker 3: is the slow ghosting of adult friendships.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's deep, right.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, okay, so that's the sixth sense.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't see dead people, he just needed therapy. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: what a turn, right, or Bruce Willis he's a ghost
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  Speaker 3: because no one wanted to talk to him anymore. Really unexpected,
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  Speaker 3: a little sad, a little depressing. But then again, so
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  Speaker 3: was the movie. You know, when you find out he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Get to the whole end and you're like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: guy's just a loser.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, not what I expected, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see Shyamalan come up with that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, Shyamalan for mine.
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  Speaker 2: I also turned to the maybe it's the time of year.
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  Speaker 2: Also turned to the horror realm, thinking of our recent
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  Speaker 2: work on movies and marketing where we talked a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about the Exorcists. So I went with the Exorcist
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  Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy three. This is an old movie, so
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  Speaker 2: let me remind people of the ending of that movie
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  Speaker 2: in case they forgot. After a harrowing exorcism. The priest
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  Speaker 2: in that movie demands the demon leave the possessed girl
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  Speaker 2: and enter him instead. So the demon does this, jumps
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  Speaker 2: into the priest, who then throws himself out the window
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  Speaker 2: to his debt, you know, sacrificing himself to save the
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  Speaker 2: little girl she's freed In the film, in's kind of
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: on a somber haunting note. Right, here's the alternative ending.
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  Speaker 2: As thunder crashes in holy water sizzles on the walls,
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  Speaker 2: Father Karris summons every ounce of faith he has left
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  Speaker 2: coming to me, he shouts, yanking the demon out of
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  Speaker 2: Reagan with a burst of light and pure determination. The
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  Speaker 2: room falls silent. Then from the shadows, the demon manifests
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in full form, a smoldering, otherworldly figure with an unsettling
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: charm and eyes that can melt crucifixes. Carris raises his cross,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: but instead of attacking, he freezes their eyes lock. Time
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: slows somewhere inexplicably, take my breath away, starts playing you
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: You're not like the others. The demon murmurs, stepping closer.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Neither are you, Carris replies, breathlessly, before Reagan's stun mother
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: can scream, what is happening. They're already kissing passionately gloriously,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: as candles topple and doves where did those come from?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Flutter through the open window. Reagan blinks, covered in pea
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: soup residue. Is this normal? She whispers? I don't think so, honey,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: her mom says, but let's let them have this to
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Six months later, a cozy little cafe called Holy Grounds
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Coffee and Cleansing, the priest and demon, now going by Pazou,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: run it together, serving lattes and spiritual advice and equal measure.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: As they close up for the night, Caris wipes down
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the counter while Pazu flips the open sign to eternally clothes.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: They share a knowing smile. You still tempt me, Karas says,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: that's kind of my thing. Pazou purrs Q. Don't stop
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: believing as they kiss again, bathed in the warm glow
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: of neon and redemption. Dear God, what yeah, that went
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a different way.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: That is an alternative ending if I've ever heard one.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, no one would have seen that coming.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Gotta be honest. My favorite part of that ending is
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the name of the coffee shop, holy Grounds, Holy Grounds,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: and what was the rest.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Of coffee and cleansing.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Coffee and cleansing. I pictured that, I pictured them in
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: this place. The other part of that is the fact
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that the Pazuzu bringing Pazuzu back our old friend. Yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: it goes by the name Pezuzu. Does it have a
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: form like a.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Not in the actual movie now we never actually see
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I say, I like, I wanted to say naked Pazuzu,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: but you know, like exposed. Yeahazuzu, it's always inside of
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: a person.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Corporeal. Is that what they call corporeal form?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah? That sounds that sounds smart.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah. The choice of music is also slightly concerning. Take
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: my breath away and don't stop believing.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the end though, I you know, I was just thinking.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I was like, you know, what else would be a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: good one at the end would be now that we've
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: found love, what we.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Do in the voice with it a lot?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the music feels like it takes it
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to a different place. Yeah, well, do you know anyway,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: that's a that's a really wow. I liked that they
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: were both kind of horror genres.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Fitting with the time of year. You know, we're just
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: coming out of the scare season, so it makes sense
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: that this is on our mind, and you know, horror
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: taken to horrific new heights. I think with these alternative endings.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one thing I will point out, I had a
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: an inkling of an idea for it to try ET,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: because you know, I think of Halloween in this time
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: of year, you know, like E T and stuff, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: it started to kind of like put it together, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I abandoned it, you know, because I didn't really feel
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: it was right. But it started by ET never leaves.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, he gets a job at radio Shack. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: think you were just talking about radio I was, yeah,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: gets a job at radio Shack and becomes America's longest
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: living undocumented worker. So it actually churned out for me.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: So I thought that was really funny that it just
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you know, that's where it went, and I thought I
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: could explore this more with it. But I ended up
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: choosing six cents because I thought it was a little
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: bit more apropos I guess.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean anything anything goes?
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Could this be a segment? So in this could this
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: be a segment? If you haven't listened to the podcast already,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I get it. If this is your first time. Every
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: episode we come back with this segment, which is could
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: this be a segment? And essentially we're just giving new
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: ideas for a segment.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: We're just pitching things that we could do in the future.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: We're just basically feeding the machine every time, right, we
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: got to feed the beast to keep it going.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and once in a while we'll repeat one. But
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: sometimes we've just been doing like reviser franchise is brand new.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think these are both brand new. I don't
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: think we've ever done them before.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is where we get it. So what
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: do you think? What do you got it in your
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: in your bag of goodies?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So sometimes you know I have it's always a mixed
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: bag with the ideas. Sometimes they're like fully formed. Sometimes
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: it's a struggle. This time was a little harder to
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: come up with some. But you know, as we were
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: talking about, it's been it's been kind of hard with
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: TV lately to find shows to watch. Lot of just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: just slick out in this this streaming void and there's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: just so much junk. So that's kind of the the
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: inspiration for my segment idea here, which is called is
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: this a real Netflix show? It could be Also, is
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: this a real streaming show? If you wanted to go bigger,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: you know, broader. So basically, you provide a title and
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a description. The other person has to decide yay or nay?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Is this a real Netflix show? I got a couple
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: for you. Let's see if you can. Let's see if
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: you can get them?
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: First one, Fatal Seduction. In this South African thriller, a
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: married professor's weekend affair with a mysterious younger man spirals
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: into tragedy and exposes a tangle web of lies, betrayal,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: and murder. As secrets unravel, nothing and no one are
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: what they seem. Fatal Seduction. Is that a real Netflix show?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: You are correct, that is a real Netflix show. Ah, yes,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Fatal Seduction.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I'd be good at this segment.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Then, I mean, obviously. Let me give you another one.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: The title is Dream County. After a small town sheriff
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: discovers that the townfolks dreams are mysteriously sinking up, she
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: must figure out who or what is controlling them before
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: their shared nightmare becomes a reality. A surreal mystery that
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: blends small town drama with mind bending sci fi. Dream
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: County Uh, this sounds real. This is not a real
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Netflix show. That one is made.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I feel like I've seen this summary somewhere on Netflix.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: It just it sounds like it's something, doesn't it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: It sounds wrong, But it also I feel like I've
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: seen that summary. I swear I've seen that summary.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: So you go, you know, one out of two. Yeah,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: it's hard because they're all so dumb. They all sound
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: like they're real or they are all real. I don't know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: You don't know what's real and what's fake anymore.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yees, so, I don't know. I'm on the what do
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: you I'm on the fence all this. But what do
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: you think about this? Does this have enough juice to
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: actually be a segment?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: It's a little bit of trickery.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: It is a little bit of trickery. It might be
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: like a one timer. I don't think that it has legs.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's worth a shot if we want to
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: keep it in the mix for like a one timer,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: and we can figure out if we let you know, better.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Way to do it would be like maybe you provide
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: three and you have to figure out which one is
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: the real one or something like that. Maybe that's the better.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's yeah, I like that. I like that better.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Let's do that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: That's a little harder, I think.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: M hm, it's a little harder, and it's a little
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: bit more interesting challenge. What do you got so not
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: to sound like the segment we just did revise a franchise,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: this does have franchise in the name, it's franchise or cult. Okay,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: now hear me out on this one, because this one's
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: a little different. You describe an organization or I describe
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: an organization, and then you would guess is it a
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: global franchise or low key cult? Because the line is
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: blurrier than we think sometimes. So this is kind of
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: like what you were talking about with the Netflix, where
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: you're devising sort of a like a description of this
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: and you're kind of like, wow, that sounds a lot
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: like a cult. But it could be just fans of
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: an organization or a franchise. Right, So let me give
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: you an example one we all have heard about. Okay,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the Apple Faithful. Now I'm telling you what it is, right,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: but your clues would be like members line up outside
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: temples called stores in this case to give money for
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: updated rectangles. Now that's a pretty bad example. Of a clue,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: but the leader wears a black turtleneck and is still
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: quoted as scripture, right, like people quote Steve Jobs right.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: New members are welcomed into the fold with a glowing device,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: immediate judgment if they text with green bubbles. Now I'm
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: giving you kind of like obvious things, but it's kind
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: of culty. Another example would be to people who go
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: to Chick fil a. Right, they gather at a sacred
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: line and six days a week, not seven. On the
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: seventh day they grieve. They have a sauce that is
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: treated like holy oil, and some claim to have seen
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: visions of cows urging vegetarianism. So you could be very
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: obtuse with it and very abstract and like not give
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: any hints that would tell you what the franchise is.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: But you could just play up like is this a
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: franchise or is it a cult? And you know, if
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: you get creative with their clues, then I think it
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: has I think it has some merit.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So would you be guessing whether it's a cult
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: or franchise or would you be guessing like what the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: actual brand company, whatever you want to call it is.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: You're really guessing which brand or which franchise is this.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: It's not like you're you're not saying is it a cult,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: but you're you're sort of pitching the clues like it's a.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Cult, okay, explaining like it's a cult, and the other
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: person has to guess what it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Is, right. Like Another example would be like cross Fit, Oh,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: that is a cult. Actually that's legitimate, but you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: like or the Swifties, right, like Taylor Swift, Like that's also.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Also a cult.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so stuff like that, you know, and you could
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: you could use you know, like the Taylor Swift betraying
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: her is social suicide stuff like that, and you're like,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: who the hell who is this? Right? But you could
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: probably put it together with multiple clues, but the idea
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: would be to guess the brand or the franchise.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. It's a different way of like
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: one thinking about them and like trying to actually figure
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: it out. Like even the Apple updating rectangles this fine?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, because it seems silly when you
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: hear it like that, but it's kind of what you're doing,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Jet. Yeah, so that's a good one. I'd say move
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: it on, let's advance it to the next round, Sweet.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I like that one.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot of franchises, you know that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: It's the downside.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe we need to change the title, name that cult
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, name that cult. I like that better, so
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I'll put that in as Oh yeah, still have to
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: think of a reason behind Kirk Gruffel with Kurt Russell
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: name that cult and yours was called.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Mine is called Is this a real Netflix show?
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I was looking at the franchises. Originally I had this.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I had this thought on like farms and nobles. It
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: was just it was related to something we were talking
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: about earlier to Hawker,