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<v Speaker 1>All right, So in this review I make a mistake.

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<v Speaker 1>I referenced an earlier film that Mila Djovivich did, and

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<v Speaker 1>because I was thinking and talking way too fast, I

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<v Speaker 1>pulled the wrong Bruce Willis reference. Out of my mind.

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<v Speaker 1>I say that she was in the sixth sense, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's the wrong numbered Willis film. She was, of course

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<v Speaker 1>in the fifth element. Hopefully you can understand how I

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<v Speaker 1>made this mistake and spare me the emails and dms.

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<v Speaker 1>I caught the mistake, it was just too late to

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<v Speaker 1>do anything about it. That's life. In these live recording

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<v Speaker 1>podcast streets, I can tell you with one hundred percent

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<v Speaker 1>certainty that Mila Jovivic is in fact the Protector. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Ronald Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater. All right.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after

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<v Speaker 1>seeing Protector. Protector written by bung sieb Munn, directed by

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<v Speaker 1>Adrian Grunberg, starring Mila Djoviovich, Matthew Modine, dB Sweeney, Don Harvey,

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<v Speaker 1>and Michael Stall, David per Usual. For a complete listing

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<v Speaker 1>of the cast and crew, you could check out the

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<v Speaker 1>link in our show notes. It is just me today.

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<v Speaker 1>If you listen to Hoppers. You know that this is

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<v Speaker 1>the third part of a three day, four movie marathon.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw Project Hail Mary yesterday. Earlier today I saw Hoppers,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I left Hoppers and came immediately over to

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<v Speaker 1>Tyson's Corner to watch Protector. Protector is a film starring

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<v Speaker 1>Mila Djovivich, and the best way to describe this film

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<v Speaker 1>is if John Wick and Taken had a terrible baby,

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<v Speaker 1>just a baby that they had a child, and it

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<v Speaker 1>just you were like, how could this be the child?

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<v Speaker 1>There are resemblances, but how could this be the same child.

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<v Speaker 1>The best thing about this movie is that it is

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<v Speaker 1>an hour and thirty five minutes long. Other than that,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible terrible movie. Everything.

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<v Speaker 1>There's little things like there's a way that Mila Djoviovich

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<v Speaker 1>is talking that is making me think she did something

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<v Speaker 1>to her mouth or she's trying to do an accent.

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<v Speaker 1>Either way, it just it does not work. I almost

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<v Speaker 1>want y'all to go see this movie so y'all can

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm talking about. Mila Jovivich is a former

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<v Speaker 1>soldier who finds who has to She's formal special for

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<v Speaker 1>former Special Forces. She has to go home to take

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<v Speaker 1>care of her daughter after her husband dies of leukemia.

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<v Speaker 1>She's missed most of her child's life growing up. It

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<v Speaker 1>shows glimpses of her from age three to sixteen on

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<v Speaker 1>her birthday, her missing birthday sometimes being there, that type

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<v Speaker 1>of thing. Her father dies of leukemia, therefore she has

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<v Speaker 1>to go home and take care of her daughter. So

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<v Speaker 1>her husband dies of leukemia and she has to go

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<v Speaker 1>home and take care of her daughter. She goes home

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<v Speaker 1>to take care of her. She decides that she wants

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<v Speaker 1>to go out for a sixteen birthday instead of hanging

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<v Speaker 1>out with mom. They have a little bit of a

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<v Speaker 1>bit of a fight, and then she goes to a bar.

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<v Speaker 1>She is human trafficked. Mila Djovivich goes to try to

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<v Speaker 1>save her, and that is the rest of the film.

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<v Speaker 1>So right off the bat, I just was like one star,

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<v Speaker 1>one star, right off the bat, because something happens early

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<v Speaker 1>in the film where basically the same thing they always

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<v Speaker 1>say in most films like this, you only have seventy

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<v Speaker 1>two hours before the trail goes cold, and Mila Djovivich

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<v Speaker 1>finds herself in a predicament where she's beat up some

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<v Speaker 1>of the bad guys while trying to get her daughter back.

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<v Speaker 1>They're able to escape. She's lying on the ground, knocked out,

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<v Speaker 1>and the clock starts at seventy two hours. Then inexplicably,

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<v Speaker 1>the clock jumps ahead to only forty four hours being left,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's like, I'm running out of time, and we

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<v Speaker 1>see her upside down in a butcher's meat locker type

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<v Speaker 1>situation where obviously the guy that's about to torture her

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<v Speaker 1>is going to die horribly right off the bat, I

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<v Speaker 1>said one star, I don't know why y'all just skipped ahead,

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<v Speaker 1>because in that thirty hours that they skipped, they showed

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<v Speaker 1>this very quick montage of her burning down a whorehouse,

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<v Speaker 1>beating the trash out of the dude that actually that

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<v Speaker 1>first trafficked her daughter, and kind of just going on

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<v Speaker 1>a rampage while alerting everyone in the bad guy club

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<v Speaker 1>the syndicate that she's out to get them. Why did

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<v Speaker 1>I miss that? Why would you not show that to me?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you doing? I was sitting there watching this

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<v Speaker 1>and I remember thinking, well, I'm definitely gonna have to

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<v Speaker 1>watch Taken because in taking one of the best parts

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<v Speaker 1>about that film, and I don't talk about Taking two

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<v Speaker 1>or Taken three, But in Taking the first, it just

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<v Speaker 1>they made a good movie. They made a good movie.

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<v Speaker 1>You're rooting for Brian to find I remember the name

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<v Speaker 1>of the character. You're rooting for Brian to find his daughter.

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<v Speaker 1>You're rooting for him the entire time. And they they

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<v Speaker 1>know that the action of the film is better than

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<v Speaker 1>who's doing the action. Yeah, we see Liam Neeson's face

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<v Speaker 1>doing stuff, asking questions, that type of thing. But bottom

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<v Speaker 1>line is they want to give us good shots of

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<v Speaker 1>the action because this is an action movie. Protector. On

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<v Speaker 1>the other hand, it's bad. The acting is bad, the

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<v Speaker 1>score is bad. It looks cheap. I'm thinking about the score.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how I know it's bad. It's just it's dark,

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<v Speaker 1>it's dower, it's tones. They couldn't afford nobody good. They

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<v Speaker 1>got somebody's cousin to do this. It's not good. It

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<v Speaker 1>looks cheap. The seat, the sets look like airbnbs. It's

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<v Speaker 1>filmed in New Mexico, and it's shot to look like California.

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<v Speaker 1>It just it doesn't look good. And maybe it's not

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<v Speaker 1>shot to look like California. Maybe I'm supposed to tick

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<v Speaker 1>in its new Mexico. However, unfortunately, Vince Gilligan in Breaking

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<v Speaker 1>Bad and Pluribuss has such a love affair and Better

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<v Speaker 1>Call Saul has such a love affair with the American

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<v Speaker 1>Southwest that it's hard for me to look at a

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<v Speaker 1>movie like this and be like, Mandy, y'all hate the

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<v Speaker 1>American Southwest. This is terrible. Yeah. So I brought up

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<v Speaker 1>to taking comparisons because for a film like this, you

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<v Speaker 1>don't have to reinvent the wheel. They already have good

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<v Speaker 1>movies like this that have been made. You can just

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<v Speaker 1>copy those movies. It's fine. Man on Fire is one

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<v Speaker 1>of my favorite movies until Taken came out, and I said,

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<v Speaker 1>oh man, what a great film. They really took something

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<v Speaker 1>and they made it even better. But they didn't necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>reinvent the wheel with the vengeful, vengeful parent or parent

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<v Speaker 1>figure going after their child. And in this film, they

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<v Speaker 1>just man, I, oh boy, what a bad movie. Just

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<v Speaker 1>bad acting bad, I said, score bad. The antagonists are

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<v Speaker 1>cartoonishly evil. They're using words like livestock and merchandise, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh, we get it. They're bad guys. We

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<v Speaker 1>know we want them to die. We get it. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't have to say much about them for us, for

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<v Speaker 1>me to want them. They don't have to say much

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<v Speaker 1>at all to be like, kill those guys, what are

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<v Speaker 1>we talking about. There's just several times in which the

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<v Speaker 1>plot just doesn't make sense, and then there is a

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<v Speaker 1>twist at the end of the film. Matthew Modine is

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<v Speaker 1>in this film. There's a twist at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the film that he explains that I almost stood up

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<v Speaker 1>and actively started booing. I almost booed this film right

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<v Speaker 1>off the screen. It was one of those films in

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<v Speaker 1>which I wanted to connect with the other people in

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<v Speaker 1>the audience to be like, we all agreed this was garbage, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone got up and left quietly. No one clapped or

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<v Speaker 1>or hooted or talked to their neighbors. Everyone just got

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<v Speaker 1>up and left quietly. And I remember thinking, Oh, y'all

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<v Speaker 1>didn't like it either. Y'all saw this Mila Joviovic movie,

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<v Speaker 1>and we thought, man gonna get a good movie with Milijoviovich.

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<v Speaker 1>We've watched her in Resident Evil and probably some other

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<v Speaker 1>action movies and or The Sixth Sense, and we've really

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<v Speaker 1>enjoyed her career. Wow, I feel like she was doing

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<v Speaker 1>a favor for a friend or something. Just I mean

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<v Speaker 1>it's bad. I I don't think I need to say

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<v Speaker 1>that it's bad much longer. It's just it's a bad movie.

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<v Speaker 1>That being said, better than Scream seven. With all that,

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<v Speaker 1>one point five of five stars. That's right. I would

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<v Speaker 1>still watch this before I watched Scream seven again, that's right.

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<v Speaker 1>You heard me. You heard me. One point five stars,

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<v Speaker 1>not quite too, not very good, not as bad as

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<v Speaker 1>Scream seven. And with that leaving the theater is a

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<v Speaker 1>production of Oh It's Big Ron Studios. I mixed this episode.

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<v Speaker 1>You have heard me talking about this four movie three

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<v Speaker 1>day marathon in which I've just done my double feature.

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<v Speaker 1>I have one more movie to go tomorrow, and I

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<v Speaker 1>will have four weeks of content for y'all, four episodes

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<v Speaker 1>Hot Fresh ready to go. All I gotta do is

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<v Speaker 1>edit them through next week. So I'll edit probably one

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<v Speaker 1>on Sunday, and I'll probably edit one every day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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<v Speaker 1>just to make sure that I'm ahead of schedule and

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<v Speaker 1>that everything's coming out nice. If you are in the Patreon,

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<v Speaker 1>you will be getting Project Hail Mary this Friday. Now

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<v Speaker 1>here's the interesting thing about this no one who's in

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<v Speaker 1>this part of the episode is not in the patreon.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm only telling y'all that are not in the

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<v Speaker 1>patreon that this Friday, everyone's gonna have the Project Hail

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<v Speaker 1>Mary review, and you're not gonna get it until Monday

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<v Speaker 1>because you're not in there. Now. I'm working hard out here.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm watching these movies. I'm giving you my little thoughts

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<v Speaker 1>on them. I'm forcing my opinion on you. As Curtis

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<v Speaker 1>said one time to me, this is what I do

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<v Speaker 1>because I love movies way more than you do. Oh no,

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<v Speaker 1>why is he getting personal with the audience. It's been

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<v Speaker 1>a long day, all right. I've done a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>labor for y'all. It's a labor of love, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>still labor. If that means something to you, please join

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<v Speaker 1>theepatreon patreon dot com slash Oh it's big. Ron joined

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<v Speaker 1>because that was a really good pitch. Just join and

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<v Speaker 1>say you know what, Ronald baby Spy, I'm a joint.

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<v Speaker 1>Or you could go to the link in our show notes.

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<v Speaker 1>Show art from Heather Wilder. Theme music by the Mysterious

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<v Speaker 1>Breakmaster cylinder. For more information about Protector, check out our

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening.