Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die: Sam Rockwell's Sci-Fi Warning

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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

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every time before that. Right now, we've got

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a pre -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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great. Here I am on camera. We did it. We had

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a couple days off. We deserve those. We do. Yeah,

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

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That was what that was all about, really. You

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

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

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a PC is like two different languages. It really

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is. It really is. It really is. Yeah, I almost

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couldn't get over that hump of newness about

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it. But I'm here, and I got it working, so I

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must be doing okay. Must be figuring it out.

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You've got the world at your fingertips to figure

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out the answers now anyway. So it's like if you

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don't know what's going on, type it in the old

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Google there, and it'll spit you out an answer.

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It'll tell you what's going on. It'll tell you

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how to fix it. Pictures and all. Pictures and

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all. But we're back for Movie Monday. I saw some

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sad news come out last week, though. You know

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Storage Wars? I was a fan of Storage Wars. Big

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fan. Harold Sheets, the dad on the show. He's

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passed away. He shot himself is what they're

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saying. And from what I'm hearing from the facts

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and stuff out there, it's because of cyberbullying.

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And I got to say, that's unacceptable. Humans,

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right? That makes me so sad to hear. I see the

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news. It's already said, okay, I'm thinking,

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all right, I'm going to go to the headlines.

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He had a heart attack or something awful. You

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know, he's 67 and no, I see the news that it's,

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he shot himself. Yeah. And it was literally because

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people online, maybe not people, maybe it's just

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one person. I hope. Or even bots that were programmed

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

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age, 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. 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 same

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organization. This is one of the hugs right here,

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

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I've got some of these. I'll send them to you.

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Hit us up. I bring my big old bag when I go for

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walks. And sometimes I'll just leave a coin,

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a hug. you know, in different random places around

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where we live so people can find them when they

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need them. If anybody out there wants a pocket

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hug, right here they are. And I will, no cost.

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This is no charge for these. On the back of it,

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it even says, call or text 988 if you're struggling.

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When times are tough and you don't know what

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to do, here is a hug from me to you. We'll give

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these out. We'll give these out. because that

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should not be a thing live .org as well they

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have the hugs they have the promise you can make

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a promise to live it takes 15 seconds yeah that's

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it and call 988 though if you need some help

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let's get to movie monday because i'm excited

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about this movie it's it's one that took me by

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surprise and you see the title of it and it doesn't

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necessarily feel like the title of a movie as

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much as it feels like the most honest advice

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left in the 21st century Good luck. Have fun.

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Don't die. It's that simple, right? That's what

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life is. Yeah, I wish it could be that simple.

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I try to remind myself every day. I'm like, remember,

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you're supposed to be having fun. Yeah. In this

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movie, we got Sam Rockwell. What movie is he

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

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chaos look like choreographed dance. He shows

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

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right off the bat, this thing, that hit me. Right

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in the soul. Me and Lindsey had many, many nights

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at Norm's Diner in L .A. This is a staple in

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L .A. And it looks just like that. You could

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have really seen a guy that looked like Sam Rockwell

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come in there who might have said he's from the

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future, dressed in the plastic bags and maybe.

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futuristic look. I don't know. This could have

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happened, really. It could have happened. And

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the way that he starts it is he comes in there

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and he says it's his 117th time doing this. What'd

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you think from the beginning? Did you think that

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he was crazy or what? I mean, if I had been one

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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

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out of this? How can I like quietly slide under

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the table and just hide? um maybe you know just

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sneak out somehow um definitely i wouldn't have

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been thinking oh maybe i should listen to this

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guy maybe he's telling some truths right now

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if this had been happening to me uh but as he

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starts to give information that no one else would

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have had or starts to guess what's going to happen

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next or starts treating people really personally

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like oh no no i don't want you put your hand

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down you're useless yeah i've had you once such

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and such number of missions and every single

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time you are the most useless human being i've

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ever met and you know sort of starts to um sound

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like maybe there's something to this and i love

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movies where something like we've done this already

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117 times um and that knowledge of doing it that

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many times plays into the plot of the movie so

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there's all these layers to it where you're like

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oh he knows that because he already did it this

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many times oh he already knows this oh okay so

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this is how they're going to use that information

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a different way i love all those layers to sci

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-fi movies like this so this is fantastic for

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me i didn't know that this was going to be a

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sci -fi movie i found the movie i watched it

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i didn't read the synopsis i didn't Watch a trailer.

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Honestly, I saw Sam Rockwell's name, and the

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movie had a good title, and I was like, oh, I'm

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all in. I don't care. And he had me convinced.

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You know what? I thought about it. There's different

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times in my life that if I would have been in

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that Norm's Diner, I would have been the first

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one to say, let's go. Let's roll. There was times

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I lived in Hollywood where, sure. Okay. It's

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like, what do I got to lose? Let me go see what

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this guy's got to do. Got to say, is he crazy?

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Yeah. If he's crazy, what's the worst that happens?

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I, I, I catch the red line back up to my apartment

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in North Hollywood or, or what? You know, there's

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a little bit of a privilege of being a white

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man in a situation like this and saying, well,

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what's the worst that could happen? Whereas I

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would be a little bit more careful and being

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like, no, I am programmed to protect myself at

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all costs. You say that, but the one girl in

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there by herself, she throws it to the wind.

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She's like, whatever, let's go. Yeah. She's like,

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she does do that. So, but I do see your point

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too. In a real life scenario. The worst thing

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that could happen is probably a lot of pretty

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bad things. So I'm more careful. Yeah. It's going

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to be an adventure. So yeah, let's go on for

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the ride. Come on, Sam Rockwell. Let's go. Now,

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he convinced me, and it was his acting. It was

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the look in his eye. It was all of it. And he

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seemed crazy, but he also seemed like he knew

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what the hell he was talking about. And that's

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the kind of person that I would probably gravitate

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towards, especially with how we feel in the world

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today. You never know what you're going to turn

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the TV on and see. or what tweet you're going

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to see that came out and have to go fact check

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and see if the person who sent it actually sent

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it. He did. I'll tell you that. He did. But we

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see all this stuff. We don't really know what

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

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So when a guy comes in like this, I got to say

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that my BS meter will go off, okay, if I sense

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any of it. And his seemed legit, and especially

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when he starts talking about facts about people

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in norms. You're like, well, wait a minute. How

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would he know? All right, there's something to

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this. And you would probably get curious. And

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that's where my downfall might end up being would

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be my curiosity because I would end up dying.

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I'd run off into the fall of Sam Rockwell and

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go and get killed by the giant cat or whatever

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it was. You don't see yourself as the group that

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would. get to the end? I think I would, but I

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think the whole movie is a metaphor too. Look

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at what we do in the creator economy. How many

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times are we throwing something to the void before

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we hit the right combination and the listeners

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or the viewers find it? It's the same situation

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here. He's going through it over and over and

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over, doing the same exact thing, steps and steps

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and steps, systems, all this stuff. tweaking

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one little thing one little framework of how

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this is all playing out and then trying again

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yeah yeah life right and there's some real hard

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-hitting stuff in here that are mirrors reflections

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metaphors for what's going on in real life uh

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susan who loses her son in a school shooting

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if that didn't like make you feel something while

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you're watching it that was powerful It was.

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And then you see that she goes and buys a clone

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of her deceased son, but because she's on a budget,

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she gets the ad supported version. Can you imagine

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your son who died in a school shooting, hugging

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you and you're having a moment and all of a sudden

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a 30 second ad for Arby's pops up and he's talking

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about roast beef sandwiches and stuff. Could

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you imagine? 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, is

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already very prevalent in our lives right now,

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

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being a very, very hot button topic of what are

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we doing about this in America? There's a lot

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to that. And to see a reality in which it's just

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normal. The women that get together and go, oh,

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this is your first time. Yeah, that hit. I'm

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so sorry. Oh, gosh. I was devastated. And I'm

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skeptical enough. Like, grief is such a hard

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thing to justify, to classify, or to even say,

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like, what's the right or wrong way to grieve?

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When she's presented with an opportunity to get

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a clone of her son, I'm like, that screech sounds

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in my mind. Whoa, that feels not okay. I mean,

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my relationship with death and the death cycle

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is a little bit different from my spiritual beliefs.

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But when it's like, we can just go ahead and

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make you a new one. No problem. Yeah, and we

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can, you know, have it with ads. I would be going,

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

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grieving. I think it's actually going to make

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it worse. I think I'm going to miss my son more

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if I have to experience this new reality. And

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maybe the best thing would be to just go home

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and begin the grieving process of understanding

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my son is moved on. And that's the satire in

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the whole thing right here. It's showing that

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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, then deal with the silence

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

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to avoid the pain. Just doing everything that

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

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

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judgment there. Everybody does it. Everybody

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does it in some form or another. Everybody has

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a vice or a drug, you know, whatever it looks

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like to you. But it's to avoid pain. So it makes

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sense that this offering was there. The technology

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was there to do it. And, you know, you can understand

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why 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. 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 got to 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 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 you're looking at it you're like oh

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this isn't real or is she imagining this but

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every time she's around it she gets a damn nosebleed

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so there's something to it yeah it's very l i

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loved her role in the movie i loved the part

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did you guess or if you did how early into the

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movie did you guess that she was How do you say

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his name? Sam Rockwell's character. Homie? Homie?

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Yeah. I'm not sure I'm saying it right. The man

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from the future. The man from the future. How

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early did you guess that she was his mother?

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I didn't. It was right when it was kind of coming

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to the end. What about you? When the bunker that

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they 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. 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 the

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

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in nature, go do... 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 see. 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. Again,

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it's that balance, 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.

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What was your final thoughts on good luck, have

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fun, don't die? I think there's some, I don't

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know the right word for this, some truth and

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awareness about the ending. how it comes to,

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again, like you said, that curated, like, give

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them the illusion of a win so they'll leave me

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alone. Yeah. AI is thinking. And she gets this

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all to start again because she knows we didn't

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

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Sam Rockwell's character, sorry, I'm terrible

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at 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

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do. The little thumb drive that he drops. He

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

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got 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

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can go watch it still, but it's ruined. You know,

00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:38.819
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.