Ad-Supported Afterlife: The Terrifying Premise of Sam Rockwell’s New Movie

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doesn't necessarily feel like the title of a

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movie as much as it feels like the most honest

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advice left in the 21st century. Good luck, have

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fun, don't die. Imagine doing our podcast intro

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116 times and this is 117 and we've failed every

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time before that. Right now, we've got a pre

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-apocalypse vibe going on that we're carrying

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around and... We feel like checking the bank

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account and your news at the same time and both

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are screaming at you. That's what today's movie

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is kind of doing. And we're talking about good

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luck, have fun, don't die. It is Parallel Frequencies

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with Just Blaine and Coco. You are the freaks.

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What's up over there, Coco? How are you? I am

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finally getting my technology situation under

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control so that I can record again. So I'm doing

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my Instagram on camera. We did it. We had a couple

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days off. We deserve those. We do. Yeah, mostly

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so that I could learn how to use a MacBook. That

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was what that was all about, really. You caught

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up quick. I got to say you caught up quick because

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I'm going to tell you, using a Mac and a PC is

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like two different languages. It really is. It

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really is. It really is. Yeah, I almost couldn't

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get over that hump of newness about it. But I'm

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here, and I got it working, so I must be doing

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okay. Must be figuring it out. You've got the

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world at your fingertips to figure out the answers

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now anyway. So it's like if you don't know what's

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going on, type it in the old Google there, and

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it'll spit you out an answer. It'll tell you

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what's going on. It'll tell you how to fix it.

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Pictures and all. Pictures and all. But we're

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back for Movie Monday. I saw some sad news come

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out last week, though. You know Storage Wars?

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I would be a fan of Storage Wars. Big fan. Harold

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Sheets, the dad on the show. He's passed away.

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He shot himself is what they're saying. And from

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what I'm hearing from the facts and stuff out

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there, it's because of cyberbullying. And I got

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to say, that's unacceptable. Humans, right? That

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makes me so sad to hear. I see the news. It's

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already said, OK, I'm thinking, all right, I'm

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going to go to the headlines. He had a heart

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attack or something awful. You know, he's 67.

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And no, I see the news that it's. He shot himself.

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Yeah. And it was literally because people online,

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maybe not people, maybe it's just one person,

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I hope. Or even bots that were programmed to

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be awful. I mean, who knows in this day and age,

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right? This, you see, this has got me shook.

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It's got me, it's got me hurting a little bit.

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And it's, you know, we work close with Promise

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to Live. And that's a suicide prevention organization.

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We've went through and heard town halls on cyberbullying

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from Brandy Vega. And it's a real thing. it is

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serious there is nothing out there that somebody

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can say that should make somebody else take their

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life that's that's just flat out point blank

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that's all there is to it yeah i mean people

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are awful and people do things and say things

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for whatever reason maybe they get that little

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hit of dopamine by being cruel online there's

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no consequences because they can do it over computer

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and they don't have to see the reaction and they

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don't have to be accountable for what the the

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effect of that is. But I do want to say for anybody

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listening who engages in digital media and yeah,

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there's going to be messages sent to you that

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are uncomfortable and unkind. I want you to just

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pay really close attention to how those comments

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make you feel. That's the message coming into

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your body to let you know that if something feels

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like it's stuck. It poked a sticky button inside

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you somewhere deep down energetically where you're

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feeling like you're not lovable or you're not

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enough. And those words that came in on digital

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media felt true to you or felt like it hit something.

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Be aware of that. Don't let that stay there.

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Don't let that keep hurting you. Say, wow, there's

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something there that I need to work on because

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it's awareness, right? Don't let it actually

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be the receipts to the belief that you are not

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good enough or not enough. It really is. And

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I want to talk about Promise to Live again because

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they got a big event coming up. The One Million

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Hugs for Hope Gala, May 30th. And that's right

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here in Utah. It's in Lehigh. So if you're around

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in Utah. But then again, if you're not, come

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from wherever. We went to Hollywood. For the

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same organization. This is one of the hugs right

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here, Promise to Live. And if you want one of

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these, I've got some of these. I'll send them

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to you. Hit us up. I bring my big old bag when

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I go for walks. And sometimes I'll just leave

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a coin, a hug, you know, in different random

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places around where we live so people can find

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them when they need them. If anybody out there

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wants a pocket hug, right here they are. And

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I will, no cost. This is no charge for these.

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On the back of it, it even says, call or text

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988 if you're struggling. When times are tough

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and you don't know what to do, here is a hug

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from me to you. We'll give these out. We'll give

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these out. Because that should not be a thing.

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And you can go to promisetolive .org as well.

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They have the hugs. They have the promise. You

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can make a promise to live. Do it. It takes 15

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seconds. Yeah. That's it. And call 988, though,

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if you need some help. Let's get to Movie Monday,

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because I'm excited about this movie. Yeah. It's

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one that took me by surprise. And you see the

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title of it, and it doesn't necessarily feel

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like the title of a movie as much as it feels

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like the most honest advice left in the 21st

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century. Good luck. Have fun. Don't die. It's

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that simple, right? That's what life is. Yeah,

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I wish it could be that simple. I try to remind

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myself every day. I'm like, remember, you're

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supposed to be having fun. Yeah. In this movie,

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we got Sam Rockwell. What movie is he in that

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he's not good? But he comes in and makes chaos

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look like choreographed dance. He shows up at

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a Norm's Diner. Now, I got to tell you right

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off the bat, this thing, that hit me. writing

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a soul. Me and Lindsay had many, many a nights

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at Norm's Diner in LA. This is a staple in LA

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and it looks just like that. You could have really

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seen a guy that looked like Sam Rockwell come

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in there who might've said he's from the future,

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dressed in the plastic bags and maybe. futuristic

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look i don't know we this could have happened

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really it could have happened and the way the

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way that he starts it is he comes in there and

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he says it's his 117th time doing this what do

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you think from the beginning did you think that

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he was crazy or what well i mean if i had been

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one of the people in the diner for sure i would

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have been oh no what do we do how do we get out

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of this how you know can i like quietly slide

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under the table and just hide Maybe, you know,

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just sneak out somehow. Definitely I wouldn't

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have been thinking, oh, maybe I should listen

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to this guy. Maybe he's telling some truths right

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now if this had been happening to me. But as

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he starts to give information that no one else

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would have had or starts to guess what's going

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to happen next or starts treating people really

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personally like, oh, no, no, I don't want you.

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Put your hand down. You're useless. I've had

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you once. such and such number of missions. And

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every single time you are the most useless human

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being I've ever met. And, you know, sort of starts

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to sound like maybe there's something to this.

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And I love movies where something like we've

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done this already 117 times. And that knowledge

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of doing it that many times plays into the plot

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of the movie. So there's all these layers to

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it where you're like. Oh, he knows that because

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he already did it this many times. Oh, he already

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knows this. Oh, okay. So this is how they're

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going to use that information a different way.

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I love all those layers to sci -fi movies like

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this. So this is fantastic for me. I didn't know

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that this was going to be a sci -fi movie. I

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found the movie. I watched it. I didn't read

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the synopsis. I didn't. Watch a trailer. Honestly,

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I saw Sam Rockwell's name, and the movie had

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a good title, and I was like, oh, I'm all in.

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I don't care. And he had me convinced. You know

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what? I thought about it. There's different times

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in my life that if I would have been at Norm's

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Diner, I would have been the first one to say,

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let's go. Let's roll. There was times I lived

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in Hollywood where, sure. Okay. It's like, what

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do I got to lose? Let me go see what this guy's

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got to do. Got to say, is he crazy? Yeah. If

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he's crazy, what's the worst that happens? I

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catch the red line back up to my apartment in

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North Hollywood or what? There's a little bit

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of a privilege of being a white man in a situation

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like this and saying, well, what's the worst

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that could happen? Whereas I would be a little

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bit more careful and being like, no. I am programmed

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to protect myself at all costs. You say that,

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but the one girl in there by herself, she throws

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it to the wind. She's like, whatever, let's go.

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Yeah, she's like, she does do that. So, but I

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do see your point too. In a real life scenario.

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The worst thing that could happen is probably

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a lot of pretty bad things. So, I'm more careful.

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Yeah. It's going to be an adventure. So, yeah,

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let's go on for the ride. Come on, Sam Rockwell.

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Let's go. Now, he convinced me. And it was his

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acting. It was the look in his eye. It was all

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of it. And he seemed crazy, but he also seemed

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like he knew what the hell he was talking about.

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And that's the kind of person that I would probably

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gravitate towards, especially with how we feel

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in the world today. You never know what you're

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going to turn the TV on and see or what tweet

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you're going to see that came out and have to

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go fact check and see if the person who sent

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it actually sent it. He did. I'll tell you that

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he did. But we see all this stuff. We don't really

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know what to believe anymore. We don't know who

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to believe. So when a guy comes in like this,

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I got to say that like I will I can my BS meter

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will will go off. OK, if I if I sense any of

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it and his seemed legit and especially when he

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starts talking about facts about people in the

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in the norms, you're like, well, wait a minute.

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How would he know? All right. There's something

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to this. And you would probably get curious.

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And that's where that's where my downfall might

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end up being would be my curiosity because I

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would end up dying. I'd run off into the fall

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of Sam Rockwell ago and get killed by the giant

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cat or whatever it was. But you don't see yourself

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as the group that would get to the end. I think

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I would. But I think the whole movie. It's a

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metaphor, too. Look at what we do in the creator

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economy. How many times are we throwing something

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to the void before we hit the right combination

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and the listeners or the viewers find it? It's

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the same situation here. He's going through it

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over and over and over, doing the same exact

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thing, steps and steps and steps, systems, all

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this stuff. Tweaking one little thing, one little

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framework of how this is all playing out and

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then trying again. Yeah. Life, right? And there's

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some real hard -hitting stuff in here that are

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mirrors, reflections, metaphors for what's going

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on in real life. Susan, who loses her son in

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a school shooting, if that didn't make you feel

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something while you're watching it. That was

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powerful. It was. And then you see that she goes

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and buys a clone of her deceased son, but because

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she's on a budget. She gets the ad -supported

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version. Can you imagine your son who died in

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a school shooting hugging you? Yeah. And you're

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having a moment, and all of a sudden a 30 -second

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ad for Arby's pops up, and he's talking about

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roast beef sandwiches and stuff. Could you imagine?

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Like, that's wild. It's really heartbreaking.

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And the fact that, you know, we can actually

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see some of the technology that is... present

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is already very prevalent in our lives right

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now, how it comes to that point. I mean, school

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shootings being a very, very hot button topic

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of what are we doing about this in America? There's

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a lot to that. And to see a reality in which

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it's just normal, the women that get together

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and go, oh, this is your first time. I'm so sorry.

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Oh, gosh. I was devastated. And I'm skeptical

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enough. Grief is such a hard thing to justify,

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to classify, or to even say what's the right

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or wrong way to grieve. But when she's presented

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with an opportunity to get a clone of her son,

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I'm like, that screech sounds in my mind like,

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whoa, that feels not okay. I mean, my relationship

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with death and the death cycle is a little bit

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different from my spiritual beliefs. But when

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it's like, we can just go ahead and make you

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a new one. No problem. Yeah. And we can, you

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know, have it with ads. I would be going, whoa,

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I don't think this is going to help my grieving.

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I think it's actually going to make it worse.

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Yeah. I think I'm going to miss my son more if

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I have to experience this new reality. And maybe

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the best thing would be to just go home and begin

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the grieving process of understanding my son

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is moved on. And that's the that's the satire

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and the whole thing right here. It's showing

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that we've traded our dignity for freemium versions

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of reality. We'd rather have a buggy corporate

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version of a loved one than deal with the silence

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of the real truth that they're gone. Trying to

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avoid the pain. Just doing everything that you

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can to avoid the pain. And that's a lot of what

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all of us are doing. I mean, there's no judgment

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there. Everybody does it. Everybody does it in

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some form or another. Everybody has a vice or

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a drug, you know, whatever it looks like to you.

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But it's to avoid pain. So it makes sense that

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this offering was there. The technology was there

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to do it. And, you know, you can understand why

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people would go ahead. But just because it's

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there. And just because it may relieve some of

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that pain temporarily doesn't necessarily mean

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it's the best route or the most natural thing

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to do. I love how this movie presents it in that

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satirical way. I'm like, look at how hilariously

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sad this dark comedy that it is. They don't stop

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with that. I mean, the hive mind classroom is

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very reflective of what you see out there now

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with students with their phones. You know, they're

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buried in a screen. It's not just students. It's

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old people. It's young people. It's everybody.

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I tell my dad to put his phone down sometimes

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and be like, hey, I'm talking to you. I saw some

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people on a bike ride the other day passed by

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their house. They had a beautiful view of the

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lake. Three of them sitting on their back porch

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and every one of them with a phone in their face.

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And I I thought of this movie. I was like. You've

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got these teachers played by Michael Pena and

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Zazie Beetz. And they realize the students are

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a hive mind. Touch one phone and the whole class

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turns into an eerie synchronization. Zombies.

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What's wild about this is, though, that they're

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not even monsters. They're just synchronized.

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It's the scariest thing Pena has ever faced.

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And he was an Ant -Man. So think about that.

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But seriously. This is something that we're already

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living in. You know, stand in line for coffee

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and look around. We aren't waiting for the AI

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apocalypse. We are already the biological servers

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for it. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary how

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much this movie made you think about, like you

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said, almost a dark comedy. Like you sit there

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and laugh about it and you're like, oh, shit.

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Yep. You know, like, really? Exactly what I was

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feeling for the entire movie. I was like. Honestly,

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the character of Ingrid, Hayley Lou Richardson,

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who it turns out is somehow, not sure it doesn't

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explain biologically, allergic to Wi -Fi and

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to devices that are connected to Wi -Fi. She

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has had to avoid technology her whole life in

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some way, shape, or form. She has to take a job

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working with kids because she's like, most kids

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don't have Wi -Fi until they start having Wi

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-Fi. And they start having cell phones. And honestly,

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I felt for that character thinking, wow, she's

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actually really lucky. What a lucky disease to

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have because she has had to bypass and avoid

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all this. and not even be tempted by it. Yeah.

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I think that she plays a very important role

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in what we've kind of been talking about too,

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and the metaphors and all that, but she, she's

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this girl in the fairy wings. You know, she's

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the only one that's sane because her body literally

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rejects the frequency everyone else is tuned

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into. There's a lesson there. You know, sometimes

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you've got to be allergic to the noise to actually

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hear the signal. I think that's what we really

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see here, she can't be affected by what's going

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on with everybody else. And, you know, you think

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about it and you're looking at it and you're

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like, oh, this isn't real. Or is she imagining

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this? But every time she's around it, she gets

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a damn nosebleed. So there's something to it.

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Yeah, it's very Elle. I loved her role in the

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movie. I loved the part. Did you guess, or if

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you did, how early into the movie did you guess

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that she was... How do you say his name? Sam

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Rockwell's character. Homie? Homie? Yeah. I'm

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not sure I'm saying it right. The man from the

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future. The man from the future. How early did

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you guess that she was his mother? I didn't.

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It was right when it was kind of coming to the

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end. What about you? When the bunker that they

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lived in blew up. When you saw the flashback

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of his childhood and you saw that. Actually,

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earlier. Because I saw when he said, my mother

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kept me away from it. I was like, I bet Ingrid's

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his mother. And I remembered he saved her from

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getting hit by the cars that came into the dumpster.

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And I was like, the only reason he would do that

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and not save anyone else is because he knows

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she's pregnant with him. See, I didn't pick up

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on all that. Totally nailed it. Totally. This

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might have been a late night watch with a vape

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pen for me. You would have been more on top of

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it, I think. I think you would have been more

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observant. But yeah, I was watching it going,

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telling my husband, of course, watches all the

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movies with me. I'm like, I bet you anything

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that's his mother. I bet you anything. Princess,

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right? He calls her princess. Shout out to husband

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Matt for watching all of these movies and shows

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with you and being on board with whatever we

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put on the docket. We should let Matt pick up.

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We should let him pick out something for us to

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talk about. A lot of times, you know, he pulls

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his own perspective into things as we're watching

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it. So it's really helpful to me as I'm writing

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notes about what are some other perspectives,

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not just mine, that we can bring into this movie.

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And I think both of us as parents of the same

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children. Yes. My husband and I have the same

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children. We watch this movie with sort of that

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perspective or that lens of when I protect my

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kids from being on too many screens, too many.

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You know, when are they allowed to own a phone

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or what sort of video games are they allowed?

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My kids are pretty protected as modern standards

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go. We don't have any video games that connect

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to the Internet for the kids. So when they play

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a video game, it's literally the video game here

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in our house. Yeah. Not with anyone on the interwebs

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or anything like that. Yeah, we keep it pretty

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locked down. And there's like very locked down

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screen times when they can play. And most of

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the rest of the time it's go play outside, go

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interact in nature. It just is about balance.

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It's not about like completely cutting them off.

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Because you look at what Sam Rockwell's character

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felt when his mom did keep him completely locked

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down from all of it. He wanted it more. He wanted

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to pick it up and put that VR set on his head.

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Yeah. And I don't want my kids to feel like that.

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I don't want them to feel restricted or deprived.

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But I do want there to be balance to know that

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there's more to life than this. Yeah. But is

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there really? Because you've got this ending

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scene. And there is. There definitely is. But

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the final scene of this, the AI didn't kill the

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people. It gave them a simulated win. Like a

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fake happy ending to keep them compliant. Sam

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Rockwell's got to go back to that damn diner

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and do this all again. That's what I got from

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it. And the AI gave them a participation trophy

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reality. But that really goes to the real world.

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How much of our happiness is just an algorithm

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giving us exactly what we want? Oh, that's dangerous

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ground, my friend. For everybody. I say. Just

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be willing to question everything. Be willing

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to, when you ask ChatGPT a question, to understand

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you're getting this conglomerated, every human

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being on the planet version of the answer and

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not take it as facts and reality and truth. Because

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I think that, you know, we have to remain...

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somewhat skeptical skeptical somewhat uh again

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it's not balanced right like this is a helpful

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thing this is a helpful use of technology but

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also to what limit right exactly exactly what

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was your final thoughts on uh good luck have

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fun don't die i think there's some the right

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word for this uh some truth and um awareness

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about the the ending How it comes to, again,

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like you said, that curated, like, give them

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the illusion of a win so they'll leave me alone.

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Yeah. AI is thinking. And she gets this all to

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start again because she knows we didn't win.

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We didn't do it. But the very ending of the Sam

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Rockwell's character. Sorry. I'm terrible at

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remembering his character name. But he comes

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in and sits down and he says, I realized it's

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not. It's not this that I've been trying to do.

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The little thumb drive that he drops. He says,

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it's you. You're the key to this. And we got

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to get everybody to be allergic to technology

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the way you are to save humanity. And I think

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about that a lot. I think, what if that is the

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key? What if that really is like, again, going

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back to a time when none of that existed? What

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would that be like? What would we pull back from

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where we've come? Have we reached a point where

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there's a point of no return when it comes to

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AI and technology and Wi -Fi? And I don't know,

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you know, this little girl who had to learn how

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to use a MacBook all week. You know, is there

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a point of no return? Or can we save ourselves?

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Love that take. I thought this movie was incredible.

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It's a must watch. I'm going to tell you that.

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You got to watch this movie. It could have went

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in a non -dark humor way and been just a horror

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movie, really. Could have, yeah. This movie could

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have went in a million different genres. It could

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have went for a mental health movie, and this

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could have all not been true. So many different

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things. But I want you to watch this movie and

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take it for what it is and what you think it

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is, because that's what's fun. When we get those

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different perspectives. And I'm going to give

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you one more recommendation on a Sam Rockwell

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film to watch that you haven't seen. Moon. It's

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called Moon. Go watch that one right there. Low

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budget, but still worked. And it's another sci

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-fi one. We should put that on our list. We should

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put Moon on our list. But I would say go watch

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that one. It's so big. I know it is. It's good.

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It is growing, but we try to keep the freaks

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out there updated on what's coming up so you

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can go watch it and not get spoiled. Because

00:25:26.700 --> 00:25:28.940
we spoiled the shit out of this movie. If you

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haven't seen it, we ruined it for you. So you

00:25:31.980 --> 00:25:36.119
can go watch it still, but it's ruined. You know,

00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:38.839
we balled this one up, threw it away. But yeah,

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I would definitely go say watch this one and

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Moon. Maybe even back to back. Make a Sam Rockwell

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night of it. That'd be a fun thing. And let me

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just tell you this. Along with the title of the

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movie, good luck with whatever you're gripping

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onto so tight that your knuckles are white. Have

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fun because otherwise, what's the damn point?

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And please, please don't die until it's your

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time because guess what? We're all going to.

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So stay on the frequency with us right here.

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We love the freaks. That's Coco. I'm Just Blaine.

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This is Parallel Frequencies, and we'll see you

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on the other side.