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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI,

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<v Speaker 1>A M six forty, Nature.

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<v Speaker 2>Talks, PONTIFICATESOU pop Culture, Ronner Report with Mark Ronner.

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<v Speaker 3>It's Later with Mo Kelly on k IF. I am

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<v Speaker 3>six forty live everywhere on the iHeart App. I'm Mark Ronner.

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<v Speaker 3>This is the Runner Report. This part of the show

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<v Speaker 3>isn't the best of it's live. I'm mostly alive. Foosh

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<v Speaker 3>is here with me because thank you for that. Because

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<v Speaker 3>Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning is out for the big

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<v Speaker 3>holiday weekend and you need to know the score.

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<v Speaker 4>Here's a little bit of the trailer. Lives I'm not

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<v Speaker 4>defined by any one action. Our lives of the sum

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<v Speaker 4>of our.

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<v Speaker 2>Choices, everything you are, everything you've done.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's come to this when the need for certainty.

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<v Speaker 2>Is absolute and the odds are deemed impossible, the mission

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<v Speaker 2>falls to him.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes it does. That's all We're going to play that

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<v Speaker 3>because there's a lot of running. It's a largely visual

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<v Speaker 3>trailer in radio not so much a visual medium. Now listen.

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<v Speaker 3>You almost can't review Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning like

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<v Speaker 3>a normal movie. It's too much of a huge event,

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<v Speaker 3>with too much of a huge Star that maybe only

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<v Speaker 3>years down the line are we're going to be able

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<v Speaker 3>to take a real critical look at it and see

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<v Speaker 3>how much it holds up. But let's just come clean here.

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<v Speaker 3>There's movies that we were into in the moment, but

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<v Speaker 3>we're kind of embarrassed of now.

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<v Speaker 4>Foosh, I'll admit this.

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<v Speaker 3>I think I have a positive review of at least

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<v Speaker 3>one of the Star Wars prequels. I'm a little embarrassed

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<v Speaker 3>of now, maybe all of them. In fact, we were

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<v Speaker 3>just so happy to have new Star Wars and we

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<v Speaker 3>were in an audience and there was air conditioning, and

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<v Speaker 3>I don't want to talk about it anymore. Or that

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<v Speaker 3>Ben Affleck Daredevil movie. I said, I don't want to

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<v Speaker 3>talk about it anyway. Right now, I'll say you'd have

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<v Speaker 3>to be kind of an a hole to look down

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<v Speaker 3>your nose at Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. It's a

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<v Speaker 3>huge amount of fun. It's far from perfect, but the

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<v Speaker 3>fun parts are such massive cinema crazy spectacle that you're

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<v Speaker 3>just gonna see it. Okay, you have to, but you'd

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<v Speaker 3>be forgiven if you didn't like the first few in

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<v Speaker 3>the series. And we can argue about this if there's time.

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<v Speaker 3>Greg Morris if you remember him from the original Mission

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<v Speaker 3>Impossible TV show. He walked out of the first one

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<v Speaker 3>of the movies and called it an abomination. He was right,

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<v Speaker 3>especially if you loved that TV show making mister phelps

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<v Speaker 3>the bad guy go straight to hell with that. The

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<v Speaker 3>TV show ran for seven seasons and it was based

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<v Speaker 3>on a French caper movie called Top Copy Topkapi. It's

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<v Speaker 3>really good. It was tense without much dialogue, and the

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<v Speaker 3>Mission Impossible TV series had a lot of this aesthetic

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<v Speaker 3>as Star Trek, and they were both made by Desi

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<v Speaker 3>lou That's right, Lucy gave us both Mission Impossible and

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<v Speaker 3>Star Trek. The second movie was much good either. The

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<v Speaker 3>third one that kind of sucked to They started getting

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<v Speaker 3>good around maybe the fifth one. You just had to

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<v Speaker 3>accept that it wasn't going to be like the show

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<v Speaker 3>and it was going to be more a series of

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<v Speaker 3>extreme stunts strung together with some exposition. So by the

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<v Speaker 3>time of the one where Tom Cruise is swinging around

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<v Speaker 3>the skyscraper and the Middle East and hanging on to

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<v Speaker 3>the side of a plane, they'd gotten a lot better.

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<v Speaker 3>They also show Cruse has no fear of heights, and

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<v Speaker 3>this new one really confirms that.

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<v Speaker 4>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>By the way, another reason the early Mission Impossible movie

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<v Speaker 3>sucked is a reason they should have been great, and

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<v Speaker 3>credit to Cruz for at least taking a stab at this.

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<v Speaker 3>They wanted each Mission Impossible movie to be from a

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<v Speaker 3>different distinctive director in his style, So we got one

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<v Speaker 3>from De Palma, from John wu from jj Abrams, which

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<v Speaker 3>would make a good one of those One of these

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<v Speaker 3>things is not like the other in Sesame Street, you

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<v Speaker 3>remember that. Then Chris from a Quarry took over and

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<v Speaker 3>he's been the director since Rogue Nation. In twenty fifteen.

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<v Speaker 3>He worked with Cruz on The Reacher movie, which we

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<v Speaker 3>all sort of disavow now because of the Alan Richson series.

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<v Speaker 3>And he also did a good little crime movie called

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<v Speaker 3>The Way of the Gun. Put that on your list

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<v Speaker 3>if you haven't seen it. Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning.

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<v Speaker 3>The first part was Dead Reckoning that came out two

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<v Speaker 3>years ago. I'll tell you how much you really need

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<v Speaker 3>to know before you see this new one.

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<v Speaker 4>Nothing.

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<v Speaker 3>If you go through them all from the first one

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<v Speaker 3>like Mo did, then that's fine. You're in a masochism.

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<v Speaker 3>Doesn't hurt anybody else. Go to town. But there are

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<v Speaker 3>plenty of references to the early movies in this one,

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<v Speaker 3>and some good and not so good attempts to tie

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<v Speaker 3>them all together, which reminded me of the clumsy way

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<v Speaker 3>they tried to do that in the awful Last Couple

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<v Speaker 3>Daniel Craig James Bond movies Now Dead. Reckoning involved a

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<v Speaker 3>world threatening artificial intelligence called the Entity, and in part

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<v Speaker 3>two they're trying to stop the Entity from destroying the

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<v Speaker 3>world and really playing up Ethan Hunt as the savior,

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<v Speaker 3>which you kind of heard a little bit of in

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<v Speaker 3>the trailer that sets off my cheese zoemeter. But like

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<v Speaker 3>I said, the movie's not perfect. In fact, the first

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<v Speaker 3>act is so talky and portentous and irritating that I

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<v Speaker 3>was surprised it survived in the finished movie. Some tedious,

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<v Speaker 3>clumsy stuff. That's when you go to the bathroom. We

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<v Speaker 3>got to the theater for a twelve to fifty five

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<v Speaker 3>am show and we were there until well after four am.

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<v Speaker 3>Good lord, that's because we're dedicated. Final Reckoning features a

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<v Speaker 3>minor character from the very first movie, and I won't

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<v Speaker 3>spoil that, but what a cool jackpot to bring this

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<v Speaker 3>guy back and give him a major role. I hope

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<v Speaker 3>it gives him a career boost. There is a callback

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<v Speaker 3>to that mister Phelps is the bad guy thing, which

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<v Speaker 3>again I hated, and the callback's unnecessary. But by that

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<v Speaker 3>time in the movie that reveal you just need a

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<v Speaker 3>cigarette and you're not going to care. What else do

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<v Speaker 3>you want to tell me? It was actually missus Phelps

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<v Speaker 3>all along? Go ahead, Now, there are a couple of

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<v Speaker 3>major sequences that even if you hate everything else, these

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<v Speaker 3>are going to make you feel like you're at a

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<v Speaker 3>Capital M movie.

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<v Speaker 4>You've seen some.

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<v Speaker 3>Highlights and trailers of crews on a plane and other things,

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<v Speaker 3>and those have been playing for a long time, but

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<v Speaker 3>I promise you haven't seen anything close to all of it.

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<v Speaker 3>I was cackling a couple times. I almost grabbed Twala's arm.

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<v Speaker 3>I think I clapped like a carnival seal a couple

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<v Speaker 3>times too. Oh, it's so much fun. The villain is

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<v Speaker 3>played by Issai Morales, and it's pretty unmemorable as a villain,

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<v Speaker 3>but he does look like he's having a good time.

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<v Speaker 3>In his defense, they don't really give him much to

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<v Speaker 3>do in this movie except to be a delivery device

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<v Speaker 3>for some of the action. They go big in Final Reckoning,

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<v Speaker 3>they got to save the world. I don't know how

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<v Speaker 3>final this one really is for the series. If there

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<v Speaker 3>are anymore, I wouldn't mind him going a little smaller

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<v Speaker 3>like the old TV show Go to some completely made

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<v Speaker 3>up little South American dictatorship where it's all white American

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<v Speaker 3>actors in whatever kind of makeup American presidents use these

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<v Speaker 3>days in a constant sheen of sweat. Those are on

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<v Speaker 3>Paramount Plus now you can watch them top copy the

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<v Speaker 3>movie that they were inspired by that's on Amazon Prime.

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<v Speaker 3>They aren't full of extreme stunts at all, but they

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<v Speaker 3>are great fun. They're tense, and they're good to watch

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<v Speaker 3>if you want more. When you finally stagger out of

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<v Speaker 3>the Final Reckoning and use the bathroom after about three hours, okay,

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<v Speaker 3>now foosh, unless you have something to add. This is

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<v Speaker 3>where MO would usually throw back to me for a

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<v Speaker 3>news break.

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<v Speaker 5>I was just going to ask, so, okay, you don't

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<v Speaker 5>have to watch a lot of or you don't have

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<v Speaker 5>to watch the other ones, but what about watching the

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<v Speaker 5>what is it Dead Reckoning?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>I think at the beginning they were going to call

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<v Speaker 3>this one Dead Reckoning Part two, but they changed it

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<v Speaker 3>to Final Reckoning, so we don't know if it's the

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<v Speaker 3>end of.

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<v Speaker 4>The series or what, you can watch it.

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<v Speaker 3>But if you don't watch it, it's not going to

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<v Speaker 3>affect at all how you understand the plot or appreciate

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<v Speaker 3>all all the set pieces. If you're a completist whatever

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I don't know what your tastes in movies

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<v Speaker 3>are because you and I argue off the air about

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<v Speaker 3>you know, once upon a Time in Hollywood and whatever else,

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<v Speaker 3>and to the point where we doubt each other's sanity.

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<v Speaker 3>But any spy action movie, I'm going to watch it.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's the final question is was there post credit scene?

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<v Speaker 4>There is not a post credit scene. It's not a

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<v Speaker 4>Marvel movie.

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<v Speaker 3>And then Twala and I actually made sure to stay

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<v Speaker 3>even though we're like holding up our phones to each other.

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<v Speaker 3>It's after four am. We stayed just to make sure

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<v Speaker 3>that's nothing.

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<v Speaker 5>There's nothing there.

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<v Speaker 3>All right now, Foosh, this is now your mission. Should

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<v Speaker 3>you choose to accept it, go ahead and throw to

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<v Speaker 3>me for a news break.

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<v Speaker 5>All right, let's go right back to Mark Rondo the

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<v Speaker 4>Well done.

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