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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
seven one the Freak Just Life is a

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highway. You bet your buns it
is you like this song? How did

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you find this? How does it
spoke to me? Just the words on

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the screen? How do you know
that happening? Go? This song?

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Going close? I don't know if
Floryd's Oh this is the updated country version?

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Is ah? There was another version
of this? Who is Rascal Flats?

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Oh? Yeah? The original is
John something is that? It's really

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good? It says two thousand and
six Rascal Flats. That's that's not the

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Oh. Tom Cochran, Tom Cochran, you're right, Tom from nineteen ninety

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one. Yea, it is a
nice song. You know. Tom Cochran

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is a Canadian. I know I'm
looking at I'm looking at the picture of

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him. That's Danny Baylesstu Suee,
Michelle Sidawah, Kevin Turner. Not here.

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Today's off, Today's off, Tomorrow's
off, Mondays off, Tuesday,

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and of course Thanksgiving week. I'm
off Wednesday. Then be me and Katie.

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You and Katie, sweet little Katie, You and k Pax, A

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little baby, little baby kt a
little boy who might be from a different

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planet. Funny funny kid, isn't
he I miss him? Don't you?

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Oh? Absolutely miss him? You
really are the most devious Boston in Neil

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yach sit here, well, wow, Mosdevia's bastard of New York City is

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on the streets going to some borrow. I swear to god, I don't

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know. He's so funny. I
would watch KT cam Would you not watch

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kt? Does? Man takes Manhattan
just to watch? Yes, the way

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watching the hamster on the wheel spin
as he's gearing up for something yep,

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and then just the random nonsense that
spews forth as a result of all those

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calculated decisions going into something he's about
to say. It's never what you expect.

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Now, it's a pleasure to be
around. Can you imagine New York.

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He's crossing the street, he's got
rocks sweet Roxy there and he's okay,

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here we go, you know,
and like Clade gives himself pumped,

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and he kind of does a point. He's across the street, We're gonna

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go over here, you know,
like trying to be decisive, and he

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does. I don't know if he's
even convinced himself about the decision. He's

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about to make and she just gets
it. Yeah. I've done Kat for

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a long time, but until we've
done this, I don't know. I

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don't know if I even appreciated him
enough. Yeah, he works hard,

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he loves this stuff. He's legit
funny, like I think, he's excellent

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radio. He's one of the most
unique people that I've ever met in my

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life. And it's positive, yes, and it's not like disingenuous either.

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He is very genuinely exactly whoever the
hell he is. And I don't even

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know the I don't know what that
means. But I love him beyond all.

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He's one of the most lovable people. Yes, that we've all had

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the fortune of encountering. All that
kindness. That's integrity, that's that's doing

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something when the other person's not around. I'm sure the same things were said

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about me when I had to take
Monday off last week. Yeah, he's

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got diarrhea. He'll be back tomorrow. He's here. Who cares me well

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anyway, No KT Moyana, but
my brother Cash, former co host of

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The Certain de Surroy, he is
going to kick it with us tomorrow and

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we might have our special guests from
London zooma in and talk a little f

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one. Not scared. Cash likes
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he loves. I don't know how
the time he's gonna work. When I'm

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gonna get the boys on, well, we'll figure it all out. It's

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gonna be a good little Friday show
and then a nice weekend and then we're

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we made it all Thanksgiving week,
the countdown to Crimbo begins. We neither

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one of us knew what Crimbo was
until I got a text from one of

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my dear friends who lives in Liverpool, born and raised there. He sent

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me. We were trying to,
like I do have to use like the

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British slang dictionary sometimes to decipher what
it is that my my buddy Mark is

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saying. And he is something about
a song you'd make a good Crimbo.

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What does that mean exact sayl Yeah, yeah, I had to look it

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up and it's like, oh,
it's the British sling for Christmas. It's

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like okay. Next Thursday, Thanksgiving
begins the countdown to Crimbo. The official

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count right here at ninety seven one
freak something else we only have here on

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nineties having one the freak as someone
is talented and lovely sweet JJ Jackson,

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who is a movie expert. She
sees things early and lets you know if

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you should see these things when they
come out for the normal people. It's

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time for press play, J j
oh oh, wait, that's in five

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minutes. Yeah, that's a good
five minutes. Ron. So let's do

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a couple of stories real quick.
I read about a lost cat, Graham

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Prairie, the owners. Oh I'm
sorry, Harriet. Oh yeah, it's

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time once again for rest play with
JJ. The Lady coup with the Syling

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in cinema. So, without further
ado, we got movie reviews with the

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original screen queen herself, the twentieth
Century Bucks Miss J. J. Jackson.

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There it is, love Boom,
here it is. We love talking

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movies with JJ, especially this time
of year because I think big ones are

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popping. We all talked last week
about The Iron Claw, the movie that

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we went and checked out at the
very very exclusive premiere at the Texas Theater.

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That's a great thing about JJ.
She's got the exclusive access to see

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these things before the public does.
Yeah, and she's also bound by rules

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sometimes and what she can and can't
talk about. And I don't fully understand

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it like the other day after Iron
Claws, she kind of wasn't allowed to

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talk about the movie, and you're
not supposed to until December twenty seven,

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so the week it comes out.
Yeah, okay, but we as morons,

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I don't know what's not bound by
the same standards because she's in the

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cinema world and they have a strict
set of guidelines on what they can and

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can't talk about when they're privileged enough
to go see these films at such an

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early release. So we went as
just members of the local media, but

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you go as a as I press
press. Yeah. So yeah, the

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PR company that I specifically worked with, I mean for this film. That's

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one of the things you you have
to keep in mind when you sign up

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for these things. They're like,
okay, well you know you got to

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go buy follow the rules, and
you know, so there's embargoes on certain

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films at certain periods of time where
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but you can't do a full review, or you can do partial review but

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you can't. You know, it's
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with the Iron Claw for instance,
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like at the after party. Then
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is because I had a feeling embargo
and there was still pretty sure. They're

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like, well, you can do
social media reactions all that, obviously because

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of the premiere and everything, but
no reviews, like review reviews of the

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film until like the week of the
film, because I looked it up on

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Rotten Tomatoes just last night and there's
nothing. No reviews. You'll hear like

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little quotes or comments, and obviously
they probably be taking them from socials like

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the greatest before, you know,
stuff like that. Yeah, that's what

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I was the other day when I
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There's been more screenings nationwide specific for
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and I guess what what did our
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lot of it are film buyers.
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Yeah, that are there to determine
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would perform in their cinemas. But
the reviews that I was reading were one

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sentence quips that were called from social
media. I'm sure, yeah, yeah,

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but no official, documented published reviews
are allowed right until we of Well,

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if you haven't heard the segment.
Yet JJ is one of the one

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of the important people who gets to
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we the general public, civilians,
and you've seen like five new ones.

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Let's start with Napoleon. Napoleon I
think so is that? Okay? I

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figured that's the one that maybe I'm
most was most intrigued by these, although

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Hunger Games I'm very interested in.
But yeah, dide you rock a trailer

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like that with the Joaquin Phoenix as
Napoleon. I am intrigued. I know

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you're probably about to say it's really
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it's a period dramas a piece,
it's always going to be two plus two

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and a half. They're going,
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you have a week to watch this
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Okay, and it comes out and
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get date. Yeah the twenty second, oh a week until a wee can

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all watch it? Yeah, that's
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be Wednesday. The twenty second is
theater only or are we doing it?

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Okay? Why you saw it the
other day? I did? I saw

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it? Yeah Tuesday? Okay,
right, Yeah, I've seen a lot

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of moves. I can't remember.
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showing, so it was right after
this show. I mean knowing, knowing

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Joaquin Phoenix, knowing the history with
him, and really Scott, you know,

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obviously they did Gladiator together. Incredible
film. Is probably one of my

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favorite period dramas. I mean,
it's probably one of the of all time

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in my opinion. You can put
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it's it was. It was great. It was everything that I expected it

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to be. Great acting. I
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Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kurby because I
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two, because that's what the story
was about. It was about Napoleon,

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his rise to becoming emperor and friends, which I was already shaky on the

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story. History isn't my cup of
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in history class growing up in school, so I wasn't too short like wrapped

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around the story of Napoleon. But
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showing where he started, how he
conquered and became the empro France, and

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how you know, he got exit
all that stuff. They go all through

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that, his relationship with his wife, his first wife, Josephine. So

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it it was, it was awesome. There's a one fight scene in particular

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sequence that everyone's talking about and it
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think it was the Battle of Arbelitz. I don't know if I can't remember

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the names, but it was a
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the ice. And oh yeah,
they show a little bit of that trailer.

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Okay, Battle of Austerlitz where the
opposing army is approaching and he just

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lets him go but they're on like
an icy lake and then they fire cannon

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balls. They all sink it was
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I don't know they if it didn't. They did a damn good job

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of strategy him out of the ice
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was known for that, like they
his tactics were. He was a sneak

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attack type of a guy. Like
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as a fighter in the Yeah,
some people will say he was the blueprint

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for gorilla warfare. Mike. Yeah, yeah, so they you know,

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they really, you know, showed
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like said, I didn't know much
about Napoleon, but I mean, Phoenix

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one of the best actors of our
time, and it's it's it's surprisingly funny

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and and it'll keep you. I
mean, you know, sometimes they can

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period dramas can drag it. There's
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it did kind of do a really
good job. I guess. I don't

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know if that's how his personality was
was because he was kind of like awkward,

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especially when it's first meeting Josephine,
his wife. He was kind of

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like awkward, like and and it
was funny because John locking Venus can kind

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of He's kind of awkward in a
way anyway, So it was awesome to

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see. I Vanessa Kirby. It's
just she's just a cherry on top.

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She's she's amazing and I'm she's becoming
one of my favorites to watch too.

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So now this movie is not stupid
long. It's you know, a half

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when you factor in credits and all
that stuff, you probably under too thirty

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two thirty five. I think, well

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that's part obviously official eight. Yeah, So yeah, I mean of course

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you're gonna You're probably gonna be hearing
about this a lot come January, throughout

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throughout War season two, at least
about at least him, right, he'll

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probably get the and Ridley Scott,
I mean, honestly, Vanessa Kirby,

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you she might come in and get
a nomination herself. But yeah, but

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you know, keep, yeah,
definitely keep this on your list of this.

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Does the story follow his life all
the way to his death or it

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does okay, cool, all the
way to you know, the exile all

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that. Does it start with him
as a kid, No, he's man

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r at the beginning, and I
think, yeah, yeah, it was

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kind of it kind of come in
right in of a film giving them giving

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him a task, and he's like
scoping out the land and and you know,

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he does a little sneak at tech, uh, you know, on

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a on a city or you know, I don't know, I couldn't keep

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up with the cities and all that, but yeah, it was. It

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starts off when right before he becomes
you know, the the guy of France

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and becomes the Emperor. And so
someone who didn't know too much of the

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story and just saw the movie,
would you say Napoleon good guy or bad

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guy. I mean he's I guess
he's a good guy for his people.

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I'm it's it's it's it's a crazy
line to draw because obviously it's war.

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So he's obviously the bad guy to
some people, to some countries because of

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everything that he did. He's not
like America, who's just always the guy

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always yeah, okay, at all. You know, he kind of walks

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that line a little bit, and
you know, you show his struggles of

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with his personal life, with you
know, him being emperor and him trying

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to trying to you know, juggle
and kind of find his way, you

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know. And so with sequences was
their Holy S set pieces like for the

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I mean you see like heads chopped. I mean you're seeing all of it.

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It's literally just you know, they're
they're not sugarcoating nothing. You're seeing

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all of You're seeing legs blowing off, heads blown off. I feel like

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in the modern era when it comes
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really anything that can be done that
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right more than starting with saving Private
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The level of blood and guts and
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to battle scenes, I don't know
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a notch. I mean, Game
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of what was capable of depicting when
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That was fantasy. We can go
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gore war like and being realistic of
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then was The Patriot. And there's
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and they're cutting legs off. Yeah, there's something about that type of conflict,

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that type of battle that to me
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getting back into Napoleonic times and American
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matter, it just seems even more
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or Vietnam. Medical advancements is almost
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you do with an amputee and Napoleonic
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you're bleeding out from a poke from
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a stepping on a land mine and
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There's just something more I don't know, visceral about that type of fighting modern

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age. Were there te's and d's
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so yes, some d's. There's
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just know ds. If there's no
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here? Was here a good lover? That's another thing? Okay? So

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the word there's the word napoleonic or
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he was notoriously short. I guess
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on that in this film? About
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of anybody having a Napoleon complex.
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him for being diminutive in stature.
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to be particularly short next to his
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I don't think right, So you
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around him. Cool. See we
are we always screw this up. We

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had five movies and we did one
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let's do Hunger Games. Yes,
the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

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Yeah, is this out yet?
It's out this weekend? Okay, all

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right, so you can start watching
it today. I think you are on

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like three o'clock or something. That
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the franchise. Man, I always
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always think, like, you know, kid, this have come first before

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they introduced us to this story.
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time, you know, setting the
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in because this is generally the story
your presidents know when he's young and you're

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you know, he's eighteen, and
this is early early Hunger Games, because

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we're this is like the tenth Annuel
Hunger Games, I believe. So it's

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just sixty four years before we even
introduced to Catinus. And the panem that

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we were introduced to was like Burent, like big and colorful and glorious,

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and it didn't seem that way in
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the earlier days. And they did
a really good job at depicking that.

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And I thought this movie was so
much darker than the first four films.

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And obviously the situation with sending your
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it's that doesn't sound great at all, it's you know, and they in

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the first few films they try to
make it as beautiful and glorious as they

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could, you know, send them
to the capitol, you get to eat,

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you get to die, and you
get it. Was none of that

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in this movie, because this is
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like crap, like animals, and
and you're seeing the early, the early

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processes of them trying to maintain a
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keep hold of it. They're like, we're not getting many views. How

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do we amp this up to make
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the early processes of how they came
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President Snow who happens to be a
good guy at the beginning. So you're

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seeing how how he turns and becames
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know him as in you know,
the Hunger Games franchise. And I thought

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it was really good. I loved
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the than the first feelings that I
need to go watch it again. It

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was just I mean, it was
great that Tom Blith is the guy who

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played President, so he's amazing in
this. And Rachel Zaggler, who I

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thought would be a one off because
she came she was started a West Side

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Story, the Steven Spielbrook film a
few years ago. I thought she'd be

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in one off. Honestly, she
was actually pretty solid. She's she's,

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you know, becoming pretty good name. She's gonna she's gonna be in the

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Snow White Live actions, so she's
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up and dropping it. But man, I I was all in from the

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beginning and I was like, on
my head, was just like oh God,

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Like it felt so much darker,
more violent and more and it's still

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kept that same message of you know, of like how bad like this is

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and just how the uprisings, you
know, like this is how because that's

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how it started. It was the
uprisings of the district and they did not

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divided the districts and took the kids, and it was just so much more.

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I don't know, I was it
was just so much more darker.

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It was crazy. Concept of this
movie is so good. I almost want

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to go back and read all these
books. And I've never read the book,

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so I kind of go went into
this whole franchise in college. I

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think it was the first one came
out. It's such a cool no thought

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of what this was a full idea
for what would happen in the future.

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I've never seen anything outside of the
very first movie. Does this movie Hunger

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Games, the Ballad of Songbirds and
Snakes? Does it follow the same format,

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like introduce the young sure, set
up the whole thing, and then

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they go to battle, Like,
yeah, so it's someone in that way,

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it's not like I said, it's
not as glorious as they made it

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out to be. In the first
few movies. It was broadcasted on television,

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and because the whole bliss of this
thing is they're trying to find a

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way to keep it interesting, to
keep it because they were losing. They're

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like, how do we keep viewers? Like what do we do? How

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do we empt this up to make
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last, we want this to last, you know, it's just trying to

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And then so they're coming up with
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so you're like, so that's where
that came from. So that's where this

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So you know, you're seeing this
on how they how the games really became

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the games and built and Viola Davis
is who's the game maker incredible. The

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look that she had with the two
colored eyes was brilliant. I don't know

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who came up with that. I
think it was one of the designers.

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It was amazing. Yeah, Peter
Dinklic was incredible, Like it was.

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I'm excited to see it again.
I really really am. I really want

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to go back to see it again
because I'm sure there's little things that I've

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missed there. But you still get
that heart like that, you know that,

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because you you just really feel for
those kids that are in And obviously

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there's some who who they team up
and they're out killing these I mean,

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but they're all victims. They're trying
to you know what I mean. So

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you're seeing President Snow and you're seeing
why he becomes who he is. He's

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fall you know, he's falling in
love and and then yeah, you start

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to realize, Yeah, you know, once once you get a group of

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you know a power who you really
become. You know, Jesus, you

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really stop asking her that I want
people. I want them to bring their

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children. Don't want to bring the
tease. I don't know that's inappropriate.

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All right, Hunger Games, How
many dumplings? I say, three and

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a half, five and a half
four? Napoleon Napoleon dumplings? Same,

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all right, three and a half
four four? Yeah, so real good.

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