May 18, 2026
Send Help Movie Review | Hulu’s Hidden Sam Raimi Thriller Explained
What happens when the corporate ladder burns down and you're forced to survive a plane crash with the toxic executive who refused to promote you? This week on Parallel Frequencies, hosts Just Blane and Coco tackle Send Help, the razor-sharp horror-comedy that quietly dropped onto Hulu and immediately exposed the deep cracks in our hyper-individualistic workplace culture. Starring Rachel McAdams as the overworked corporate spine of the company and Dylan O’Brien as her completely incompetent, "nepo baby" manager, the film serves as a beautiful, brutal mirror for modern corporate alienation.
Blane and Coco break down the fascinating power shift from a patriarchal corporate structure to a communal survival matriarchy, dissecting the exact moments where vindication crosses the line into full-blown madness. Along the way, they swap real-world stories about escaping the corporate "value trap"—where being too good at your job locks you out of promotions—and share their own hilarious parenting survival metrics during the chaotic end-of-school-year season. From deep cinematic genre-blending to quick reviews of Netflix's Secret Millionaire and Apple TV's Widows Bay, this episode is a raw, no-nonsense look at human nature when the lights go out.
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What would you do if you were overworked and
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your arrogant boss and you had a plane crash
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on an island? Would you be able to survive or
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what would the power dynamic look like? Send
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Help is our movie today for Movie Monday. It
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is Parallel Frequencies. I am Just Blaine. She
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is Coco. You are the freaks. Coco, what's up?
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What's going on over there? I dare say if you
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and I were in a plane crash on a desert island,
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we gonna die. Probably. But I'm not a nepo baby
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boss. Yeah, you might have some skills. I got
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a couple skills. And I don't act like Bradley
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did in this. So, you know. Yeah, we're going
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to get into that. We might survive. We'll leave
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that up to the freaks. We'll ask them. Freaks,
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do you think if me and Coco crashed on an island,
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would we survive? Put it out there. How long?
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Over or under? How long? How many days? How long
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do you think we're going to make it? I got like
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three days. Exactly, right? I don't know, though,
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because I've been surviving pretty hard here
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lately. I just had a kindergarten graduation.
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That's why. Yeah. We're surviving May as parents.
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And any freaks out there who are parents wrapping
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up the school year, tell us how you're surviving
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May. How was it going? How was the graduation?
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It was it was great. It was it was cute, I guess.
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That's what you say. You know what? It was I
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got a text from my own dad and he said, congratulations,
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only 12 more to go. And I was like, oh, my God.
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Yeah. I mean, you don't have to do that many
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graduations because typically they don't do like
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first grade graduation and second grade and all
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that. Right. But I used to be a kindergarten
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teacher, so I used to. prep my kindergarteners
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for their kindergarten graduation. We did the
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caps and gowns. They used to rent a stage and
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an auditorium for it at my school. They went
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all out. And I can tell you, kindergarten teachers,
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we work really hard at getting those kids ready.
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And, you know, I was really good at, like, I
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would have programs where the kids were singing
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in a round. There was, like, different parts.
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They had... props i mean i really got went all
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in on it like really worked hard on it and then
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i realized after a couple years parents don't
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really care if they did a great job in their
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program or not they're just gonna be so thrilled
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and taking pictures that was it yeah bunch of
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bunch of that was happening we didn't care we
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were in there smiling clicking you know it was
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that's how well all the kids can fall down and
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it would still be a great program everyone loves
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it I think some of them did. I think I saw Amanda's
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kid in there. I think he was over there falling
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over, and mine was too, and their little buddy.
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Kids crying. Sometimes they just bust up crying
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in the middle of it, and you're like, meh, it
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is what it is. You never know. You never know,
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but it's wild. What have you been watching? You
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watch anything lately? Over the weekend, maybe?
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Yeah. Our family just finished on Netflix the
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second season of Secret Millionaire. We loved
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the first season, so we had to watch this. It's
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one of those reality shows where they're competing.
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And I love it because there's a lot of intrigue
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and they make it harder and harder and harder
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for the contestants. So they have all these people
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move into a mansion together. And in their rooms,
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there's going to be a box. And only one of them,
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when they open the box, it will have a million
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dollars in it. So Kim is a millionaire. But everybody
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else in the house is slowly trying to figure
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out who the millionaire is. And they get to vote
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off somebody. At the end of every episode. So
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if they vote the person off, a new millionaire
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is chosen the next day. But if they don't catch
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that millionaire and the millionaire is going
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to have all these like secret agendas that they
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give them. So they have to like do their agenda
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so that they can. get a special thing like they
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get to vote an extra person off or they get you
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know they get these little perks but if they
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don't do their agenda then they get three votes
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counted against them in the voting so they have
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to do their agenda like they have to but the
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agenda is also going to kind of expose them to
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everybody now this this is eerily similar to
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a show called the mole From way back. And then
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they brought it back on Netflix. It's on Netflix.
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There's a newer season from a couple years back.
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But I've always loved this premise. And the mole
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is the same type of thing, except for it's just
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one person's the mole. They got to sabotage the
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game. They're trying to win money. If the mole
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does his job, they get certain. Yeah, it's the
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same kind of concept. But I love these shows
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that do this, where it's making people come out
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of their comfort zones to play. Oh, for sure.
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I love how some of them are like they start off
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like, oh, I'm not going to lie, cheat and steal.
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And that's what they do the entire game. Exactly
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what they need to do. You can't blame them. They're
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they're in it for the long haul. But then you
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have these ones I love in Secret Millionaire.
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You have these one contestants once in a while
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that will say something like, I think I'm getting
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away with it. I don't think it's me. And then
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you hear all these other, you know, confessionals
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and they're like, I totally think it's her. They're
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like, she's so obvious and we are getting her,
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you know, and it's just hilarious to me. Let
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me tell you what I've been watching. I caught
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one and it's not it's not a surprise. It might
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be right now because it's top of mind for lots.
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Widows Bay on Apple TV plus. Holy shit. That's
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all I can say. Matthew Rhys. I love Matthew Rhys.
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He was on the Americans. I love that TV show.
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He did a great job on that. And I thought, you
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know, I was like, here's the. Come out party
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for Matthew Reese. Here he is. Welcome. Welcome
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to the, to the world of acting, you know, and
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this show it's, you got it. You got to check
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it out. There are four episodes deep in episode
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four. I did one of those like right off the couch.
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Like, Oh my God. What, what, what? I love that.
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It's up there. I love it. We got, we'll talk.
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I think we got to put that on our docket soon.
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And it's, it's a weekly every Wednesday. I think
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they got a couple more episodes. You can catch
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up. They're only 40 minutes long, but you got
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to go check out that one. I got to start recording
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myself watching something for the first time
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because I got super into watching this girl on,
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she's, you know, probably like TikTok, Instagram.
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She's probably really popular, but she watches
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Star Wars for the first time. And so the whole
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clip is just her watching Star Wars. Like, she's
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like, you guys, I've never seen Star Wars before.
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I'm going to watch it. And there is something
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about watching someone watch something like that
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for the first time. that I was hooked. I wanted
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to see the reaction. When, you know, it comes
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to finding out Darth Vader is Luke's father,
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she's like, what? I'm like, this is so satisfying.
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It's such a weird way. Yeah. I love it. I love
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it. But let's get to Movie Monday and send help.
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A movie that was quietly added to Hulu, kind
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of dropped out of nowhere. started making a name,
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put it on the banner up there, and that's when
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I finally said, you know what, I better click
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on this and watch it. And I was shocked at what
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I saw. It's not your typical, you know, there's
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a lot of twists and turns in this Send Help flick
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with a star cast, Sam Raimi directing. And I
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love Sam Raimi from way back, but you got Rachel
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McAdams crushing it, by the way, and Dylan O
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'Brien. crushing it in his own way we we hate
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him right we hate this guy bradley preston in
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the movie and he comes across and you think he's
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got some redeeming qualities and he just doubles
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down and it makes it even worse so he gets what's
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coming to him but what you think about this you've
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been this has been on your radar for a while
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too i think yeah i remember when i first came
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out and seeing the trailer and stuff and i said
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this is going to be great and i think Like a
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lot of other things, you just kind of forget
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about it or move on with life. So when it did
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drop on Hulu, I was so excited. I was like, oh
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my gosh, we're finally going to see it. So such
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a good premise of that blend of horror and comedy.
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I mean, I think they did a fantastic job. There
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was once a time when horror was horror and comedy
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was comedy. And now we live in this beautiful
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age where you get to watch a horror movie and
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laugh through it, too. And I love that. I'm here
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for it. Genre blending is my favorite types of
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movies. Like, blend them all together. I want
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to laugh in a horror movie. I want to have some
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moments where I'm like, this is hilarious. I'm
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having the best time. Yeah. Yeah. And this is
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one. This definitely is one. Simple premise,
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really, if you look at it, because this is the
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typical classic, who are you when the lights
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go out? Who are you when you don't have a LinkedIn
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profile to look at? And they joke about it. They
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make fun of her on the airplane. Remember that?
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And they find her Survivor audition tape, and
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they're making fun of her. I wish. Let me tell
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you, I got a Survivor audition tape out there
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somewhere. Do you really? I do. I applied. I
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went down, and this was way back. I faked. Oh,
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my God. I can't believe I'm going to tell you
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this. This video is out there. I hope it comes
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to life. We need to dig this up and show this
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video. That would be great. I took a stuffed
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animal and a thing of ketchup, and I took my
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shirt off, and I was out there. It was out in
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the snow. This was in Memphis. It was cold. It
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was snowing. I had my shirt off. I had some of
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the ketchup on me, like blood, and I was over
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there eating. Like I was eating raw meat out
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of just living off the land, you know, and I
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told him, I said, you know, I'm ready to, whatever.
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It's out there. I did that. They could have easily
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made fun of me, but they did it to her. And then
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you find out, you're like, oh, no. They shouldn't
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have done that because they're going to need
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her. You know, let's talk about that moment and
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every moment leading up to that in the movie
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first, because I would like to know. especially
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for the freaks who have watched this movie, was
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there any part of you that related to her? Like,
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were you more related to her? Are we more, more
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feeling like the bro, the bro energy was what
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you related to or resonated with? Because I was
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definitely more like her. I was. Probably, you
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know, growing up in elementary school, middle
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school, like a little bit nerdy, wore those oversized
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t -shirts because I didn't know how to dress
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yet. Didn't know how to do anything. I, you know,
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it was just kind of like, how come nobody likes
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me? And that kind of desperation for like wanting
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to be a part of the team, wanting to be like,
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oh, you guys are going to karaoke? I could totally
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kill it on this song. You guys, what time are
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we meeting? And they're just like. No, we can't
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have this girl join us. We don't. But this made
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me think of that phrase. And once I heard this
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phrase, it changed my life was you don't owe
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the world pretty. And that is so important because
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look at Rachel McAdams in this role. Not attractive
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in the first. Which is wild. Yeah. And she's
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gorgeous. We all know Rachel McAdams is gorgeous.
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We know that. But what if we are all that? We
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are all the unattractive and the attractive.
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What if we can all be either or both or anything,
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right? Like the episode of Seinfeld where the
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girl was one way in the light and another way
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in the, remember that one? I remember that, yeah.
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Yeah, but no, you're right. And I think I related
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more to her as well. I don't, you've known me
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for a while. I don't really have that bro energy
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where I'm going to make you fun of. I'm definitely
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not making fun of somebody's damn survivor tape
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when I've got my own out there floating around.
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Yeah, I don't do that. So I see myself more like
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where she was as well. And I think it's funny.
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You point out that she's not attractive in the
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beginning, but she's highly attractive once she
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gets on that island. I love that part. Yeah.
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I love that. How many people are going to be
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attractive when they've been stranded on a desert
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island? They're soaking wet. They're starving.
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They don't got moisturizer. They don't got their
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makeup. They don't got like all the things that
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make us, you know, presentable enough to leave
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our house every day. Yeah. She's like in her
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natural raw element and she actually finds her
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beauty there in that. I mean, you could be real.
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If the cell towers go down for more than six
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hours, half the people out there are trading
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their prized possessions for a single bar of
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service. So, yes. I think Rachel McAdams, and
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her character, I keep calling her Rachel McAdams
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because that's it, but Linda Little. And we find
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that out, too, and that plays in. Her shoes,
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I love that thing, too, that whole part of it,
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too. Yeah, I was made fun of for my shoes. Yeah,
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yeah. I have been there. This whole movie is
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a mirror for how deeply alienated we've all become
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from basic survival instincts and from each other.
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And you do that by making fun of the shoes and
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making fun of a survivor audition tape. How else
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do you want to alienate somebody? They should
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have been in there saying, oh, this is awesome.
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Yeah. They should have said, oh, let's survive
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your thing. It's awesome that they call you.
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It's that easy. It's that easy. Yeah. Okay. So
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if it's that easy, what is that bro energy? What
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is it? And it's also mean girl energy. I mean,
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let me be fair. Across the board, they're just
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types, right? But in this movie particularly,
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we see it as kind of this bro energy. I don't
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know how else to say it. These are... Yeah. Summer's
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Eve type guys like they're just like we we get
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each other. We're totally going to promote each
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other. We are totally going to, you know, have
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this bro thing going on. And this girl has to
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use dry shampoo. You know, she's not one of us.
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She's not getting the promotion. She's not. But
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she's willing to do the work for us. And. That's
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another point that I think that is really important.
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If you're too good at your job, you won't get
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a promotion is kind of the issue that we're seeing
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here, right? Never. And that goes for anybody.
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That's male or female in that spot because there's
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a lot of people I know have been there, myself
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included, to where you get too valuable in that
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role and they can't replace you. It's going to
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cost them more to replace you in that role than
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promote you and bring somebody else into that
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that can fill that spot. And that's crazy. The
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bro energy, a lot of that is a hive mind too.
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It is. But in this movie, Preston still carries
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that bro energy even when he crashes on that
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island and he's got nobody else. Yeah. Except
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for Survivor Audition Tape, who was a real survival.
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She had educated herself for this. She wants
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to stay. That tells you something. Yeah. And
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she goes through some crazy extremes to make
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that happen. Yes. And then you kind of get into
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a debate as we go along of like, who's the villain
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here? Exactly. Because at first, no question,
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Bradley Preston is a villain. He's horrible to
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her. He's so condescending. He's so awful, even
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as he depends on her for his survival. And she's
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being very generous. From the very beginning,
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she could be awful to him. And she's like. I
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need to keep you hydrated. I need to keep you
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fed. I'm going to take care of you. It's going
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to be okay. We're going to get through this.
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And as she's taking care of him, he's still acting
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like I'm your boss. I'm above you. So it takes
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a couple of rounds of putting him in his place,
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which none of us, I don't think the audience
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is unhappy to see at all. No, not at all. We
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love seeing his moment of, how low can you go
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yeah eating the bread and there's some crazy
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see i love that scene where she's got him she
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strips him naked waist down got him up said she's
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gonna castrate him that i don't know why that
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didn't scare him enough right there i mean you
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crash on an island you look across and at some
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point you gotta think like okay she's better
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at this than me But there you go. He was a nepo
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baby and probably didn't have any skills to be
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in that position to begin with. He didn't know
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what real leadership was and didn't know how
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to recognize it. And that's a problem when you
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crash on an island and you don't know what to
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do. Right. Like because I just think that, you
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know, the script was brilliant at making this
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character dynamic where it played on. Our hyper
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individualistic culture. Everybody wants to save
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themselves. But the irony, the cosmic joke, if
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you want to call it that. Isolation is its own
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death sentence. You need a tribe. You know, even
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if you can't stand them, you still got to have
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them. You still got to have them people. You
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see that on shows like Survivor, Alone, Naked
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and Afraid. Yes. When their survival skills are
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put to the test, they're almost often more valuable
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together as a couple. Even when one is pulling
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more of the weight than the other. I think even
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on Naked and Afraid, I've seen enough episodes
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to see that they make it better. They're more
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likely to make it together than when one leaves
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or taps out early than the other one. It's a
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real struggle to get to the 21 days or 40 days
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or whatever the time is that they have to stay
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there. uh alone uh when you watch the show alone
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you see the top survivalist people in the world
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are doing this show and even they struggle i
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mean you watch them struggle to make a fire you
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they struggle to find food um so even if she's
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been training to be on survivor uh linda little
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The fact that she is able to go to this island
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and actually use those skills and thrive and
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then think to herself, I might stay here forever.
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Yeah. I don't ever need to go home. To the point
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where she murders people to make it happen. Yeah.
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Which is, I mean, then you start to come into
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an argument of like, well, she took it a little
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farther, I think maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Then it goes
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from a, then it's not, then once again, we've
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got a genre blender. It's not the. female revenge
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movie now we've got a criminal as well you know
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she's a kidnapper uh murderers yeah right yeah
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we've got a problem here for sure but i do want
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to talk about like you talk about community or
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doing it together the question that i have when
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i watch this movie is a question of worth a person's
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worth because if you go to the beginning of the
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movie linda is treated like she's worthless She's
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disposable. She's dispensable. It's like, oh,
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we were going to give you a promotion, but we
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decided not to because, I mean, they don't say
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it outright, but basically you don't meet our
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expectations. Yeah. What a person should look
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like and smell like and what they have for lunch
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in their drawer or whatever. Yeah. But. Where
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is Linda's worth? Where is her worth? Because
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she is obviously capable, smart, a hard worker.
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She's carrying the company on her back as far
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as like what she's able to do. So much so that
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they'll allow her to make the presentations and
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the reports, but they won't let her present it.
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Yeah. You can come along. She can do all the
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work on her laptop, but... They're not going
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to actually thank her, promote her, pay her more,
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like any of the things that count as worth, right?
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And then what is her worth on this island when
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it's just the two of them? Then where does her
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worth become and where is his worth? And when
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does it become like a patriarchal kind of like
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there's a hierarchy? I'm above you. And what
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would it look like if it was more of a matriarchal
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community? We all find our worth and our contributions.
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As a community together, no one is above or below
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anyone else. Yeah. What would that look like,
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right? If me and you crash on an island, what
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are we doing? What's going to happen? We're going
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to talk first? This is what I can see happening.
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Okay. Is me and you discussing, hey, what kind
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of survival skills do you have? Hey, what do
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you have? Hey, what should we do first? Let's
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talk about what would we do first, Coco? We would
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make a good team because although I don't have
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the skills of actually being able to do a whole
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lot, I'm very capable of following directions.
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Oh, you are. You are a person. So I can be like,
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here's what I think we should do. Now you tell
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me how we get those things done and I will do
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what I'm told. And I have always seen it in you.
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It is. You do follow direction right to the T.
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But what? So you would want me to come up with
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our first idea and then, because I know the first
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thing we should do. I'd be like, I think we should
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get fire. What do you think? This is what people
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do. Now, how do we make a fire? And I would look
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at you and say, do you think fire will help us
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live? Because I think we should go find fresh
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water first. Right. Yeah. We go find our water
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source and then we probably build a shelter and
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then get our fire going. But this is it. It wouldn't
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be, oh, I'm above you. Go get the wood. Go get
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the... No, no, no, no. That's not how you do
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it. We would definitely be equals out there.
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Even if you were following my direction and instruction,
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I would still see you as an equal because we
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ain't getting out of there if I don't look at
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it like that. Yeah. Yeah. And one thing to understand
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about like the difference between a matriarchal
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system and a patriarchal system is that there's
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the hierarchy in a patriarchal system of like,
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I have authority over you. You do what I say.
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No questions. I'm not saying that's bad. I think
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there's a lot of situations where that's needed.
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I understand like that's the way hospitals run.
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Like there has to be a hierarchy of like I have
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tenure here. I have more, you know, time and
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skills I put in. And we don't have time for you
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to question me as an authority figure, right?
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So it saves lives. I get there's a place for
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that. But a matriarchal system is a little bit
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more like what you just described where like
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it's about everybody puts the community as a
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priority first rather than who's in charge of
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that. community so it's just interesting that
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while linda was in a system that was very patriarchal
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in her corporate job she has like no say in what
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happens to her she's completely at the mercy
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of this nepo baby boss that she's got and then
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she switches those roles and then she's like
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you will do what i say unquestioningly on this
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island because i have the authority what's your
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final thoughts on send help Oh, man, I just I
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always dreamed as a kid when I was really treated
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badly or made fun of, usually by boys. I'm just
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going to say. Yeah, I get it. I mean, too, but
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but the way that you see it in this movie, that's
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I recognize that more having having had that
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happen with boys when I was in elementary school
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than girls. And I would have loved an opportunity
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to get back at them or to. show show them up
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somehow a dream come true so that was really
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satisfying to watch in this movie is to see that
00:25:05.869 --> 00:25:09.430
moment where she stabs the rat yeah and her throat
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a feral primal like um almost like a tiger i
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don't know how else to describe it she's just
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like don't question me again or this will be
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your testicles yeah satisfying i'm not gonna
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lie i don't agree with the murdering but That
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was fun to watch. It was. And then that was a
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nice twist, I think. That's a Sam Raimi, you
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know, type of thing to throw in there to do.
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And they could have kept the movie straight and
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just done it without the murder. And it would
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have still been great. It would have still been
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great because we got that character dynamic we
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get to see and we get to sit here and break down
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and talk about. I've been in that corporate world.
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I've seen that type of stuff go on and maybe
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not recognized it. At the moment, but thought
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about it later and realized, oh, that's why all
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the girls were piled up in my tiny ass little
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studio. They felt better in there. They felt
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good around me. I didn't I wasn't doing that
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stuff. Make them feel seen and safe. And, you
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know, at least that their contributions are recognized
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and appreciated. I hope so. If you if I ever
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work with you and I made you feel that way, hit
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me up. I want to hear that. I want to know. I
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don't ask for much. I'd like to know. I got a
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couple names in mind that I, yeah, I could probably,
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I won't say them. It shouldn't be that rare,
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and yet it is, and that's sad. Yeah. Let's do
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better, humans. Yeah, do better. Do better. I
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love this movie. I think this movie was a no
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-nonsense thriller that really punched above
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its weight class. Like, I'm serious. I don't
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know why this one didn't get more. love from
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maybe it did I just did maybe I missed it maybe
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I'm on the wrong frequency and I didn't see it
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come out but I mean I think I found it and then
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had to tell you right and you didn't even know
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it was out yeah I didn't realize it was out streaming
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but I had remembered watching the trailer yeah
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and you you'd been waiting on it right like they
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didn't something else must have come out on Disney
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and Hulu right at the same time because no we
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can't all the time we're we're just too We're
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just human beings. Yeah. I got to say, final
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thought, that in a landscape out there of bloated
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three -hour corporate products, a movie that
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knows exactly what it wants to do and executes
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it with sharp wit and tension is rare. And that
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one is right here in front of you as send help.
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I give it a must watch. You got to watch this.
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Go watch it tonight. It's long, but it won't
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feel long. It won't feel long at all. I watched
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it in one sitting and I think it is over two
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hours long and that's rare for me. So yeah, go
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check this movie out. I am just playing. She
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is Coco. You are the freaks. And this is parallel
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frequencies. We will see you on the other side.
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What would you do if you were overworked and
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your arrogant boss and you had a plane crash
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on an island? Would you be able to survive or
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what would the power dynamic look like? Send
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Help is our movie today for Movie Monday. It
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is Parallel Frequencies. I am Just Blaine. She
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is Coco. You are the freaks. Coco, what's up?
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What's going on over there? I dare say if you
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and I were in a plane crash on a desert island,
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we gonna die. Probably. But I'm not a nepo baby
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boss. Yeah, you might have some skills. I got
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a couple skills. And I don't act like Bradley
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did in this. So, you know. Yeah, we're going
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to get into that. We might survive. We'll leave
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that up to the freaks. We'll ask them. Freaks,
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do you think if me and Coco crashed on an island,
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would we survive? Put it out there. How long?
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Over or under? How long? How many days? How long
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do you think we're going to make it? I got like
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three days. Exactly, right? I don't know, though,
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because I've been surviving pretty hard here
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lately. I just had a kindergarten graduation.
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That's why. Yeah. We're surviving May as parents.
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And any freaks out there who are parents wrapping
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up the school year, tell us how you're surviving
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May. How was it going? How was the graduation?
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It was it was great. It was it was cute, I guess.
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That's what you say. You know what? It was I
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got a text from my own dad and he said, congratulations,
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only 12 more to go. And I was like, oh, my God.
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Yeah. I mean, you don't have to do that many
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graduations because typically they don't do like
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first grade graduation and second grade and all
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that. Right. But I used to be a kindergarten
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teacher, so I used to. prep my kindergarteners
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for their kindergarten graduation. We did the
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caps and gowns. They used to rent a stage and
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an auditorium for it at my school. They went
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all out. And I can tell you, kindergarten teachers,
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we work really hard at getting those kids ready.
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And, you know, I was really good at, like, I
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would have programs where the kids were singing
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in a round. There was, like, different parts.
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They had... props i mean i really got went all
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in on it like really worked hard on it and then
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i realized after a couple years parents don't
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really care if they did a great job in their
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program or not they're just gonna be so thrilled
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and taking pictures that was it yeah bunch of
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bunch of that was happening we didn't care we
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were in there smiling clicking you know it was
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that's how well all the kids can fall down and
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it would still be a great program everyone loves
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it I think some of them did. I think I saw Amanda's
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kid in there. I think he was over there falling
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over, and mine was too, and their little buddy.
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Kids crying. Sometimes they just bust up crying
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in the middle of it, and you're like, meh, it
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is what it is. You never know. You never know,
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but it's wild. What have you been watching? You
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watch anything lately? Over the weekend, maybe?
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Yeah. Our family just finished on Netflix the
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second season of Secret Millionaire. We loved
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the first season, so we had to watch this. It's
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one of those reality shows where they're competing.
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And I love it because there's a lot of intrigue
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and they make it harder and harder and harder
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for the contestants. So they have all these people
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move into a mansion together. And in their rooms,
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there's going to be a box. And only one of them,
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when they open the box, it will have a million
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dollars in it. So Kim is a millionaire. But everybody
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else in the house is slowly trying to figure
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out who the millionaire is. And they get to vote
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off somebody. At the end of every episode. So
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if they vote the person off, a new millionaire
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is chosen the next day. But if they don't catch
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that millionaire and the millionaire is going
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to have all these like secret agendas that they
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give them. So they have to like do their agenda
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so that they can. get a special thing like they
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get to vote an extra person off or they get you
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know they get these little perks but if they
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don't do their agenda then they get three votes
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counted against them in the voting so they have
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to do their agenda like they have to but the
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agenda is also going to kind of expose them to
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everybody now this this is eerily similar to
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a show called the mole From way back. And then
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they brought it back on Netflix. It's on Netflix.
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There's a newer season from a couple years back.
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But I've always loved this premise. And the mole
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is the same type of thing, except for it's just
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one person's the mole. They got to sabotage the
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game. They're trying to win money. If the mole
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does his job, they get certain. Yeah, it's the
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same kind of concept. But I love these shows
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that do this, where it's making people come out
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of their comfort zones to play. Oh, for sure.
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I love how some of them are like they start off
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like, oh, I'm not going to lie, cheat and steal.
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And that's what they do the entire game. Exactly
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what they need to do. You can't blame them. They're
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they're in it for the long haul. But then you
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have these ones I love in Secret Millionaire.
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You have these one contestants once in a while
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that will say something like, I think I'm getting
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away with it. I don't think it's me. And then
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you hear all these other, you know, confessionals
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and they're like, I totally think it's her. They're
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like, she's so obvious and we are getting her,
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you know, and it's just hilarious to me. Let
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me tell you what I've been watching. I caught
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one and it's not it's not a surprise. It might
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be right now because it's top of mind for lots.
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Widows Bay on Apple TV plus. Holy shit. That's
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all I can say. Matthew Rhys. I love Matthew Rhys.
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He was on the Americans. I love that TV show.
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He did a great job on that. And I thought, you
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know, I was like, here's the. Come out party
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for Matthew Reese. Here he is. Welcome. Welcome
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to the, to the world of acting, you know, and
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this show it's, you got it. You got to check
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it out. There are four episodes deep in episode
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four. I did one of those like right off the couch.
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Like, Oh my God. What, what, what? I love that.
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It's up there. I love it. We got, we'll talk.
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I think we got to put that on our docket soon.
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And it's, it's a weekly every Wednesday. I think
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they got a couple more episodes. You can catch
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up. They're only 40 minutes long, but you got
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to go check out that one. I got to start recording
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myself watching something for the first time
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because I got super into watching this girl on,
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she's, you know, probably like TikTok, Instagram.
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She's probably really popular, but she watches
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Star Wars for the first time. And so the whole
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clip is just her watching Star Wars. Like, she's
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like, you guys, I've never seen Star Wars before.
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I'm going to watch it. And there is something
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about watching someone watch something like that
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for the first time. that I was hooked. I wanted
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to see the reaction. When, you know, it comes
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to finding out Darth Vader is Luke's father,
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she's like, what? I'm like, this is so satisfying.
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It's such a weird way. Yeah. I love it. I love
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it. But let's get to Movie Monday and send help.
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A movie that was quietly added to Hulu, kind
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of dropped out of nowhere. started making a name,
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put it on the banner up there, and that's when
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I finally said, you know what, I better click
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on this and watch it. And I was shocked at what
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I saw. It's not your typical, you know, there's
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a lot of twists and turns in this Send Help flick
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with a star cast, Sam Raimi directing. And I
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love Sam Raimi from way back, but you got Rachel
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McAdams crushing it, by the way, and Dylan O
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'Brien. crushing it in his own way we we hate
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him right we hate this guy bradley preston in
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the movie and he comes across and you think he's
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got some redeeming qualities and he just doubles
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down and it makes it even worse so he gets what's
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coming to him but what you think about this you've
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been this has been on your radar for a while
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too i think yeah i remember when i first came
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out and seeing the trailer and stuff and i said
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this is going to be great and i think Like a
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lot of other things, you just kind of forget
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about it or move on with life. So when it did
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drop on Hulu, I was so excited. I was like, oh
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my gosh, we're finally going to see it. So such
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a good premise of that blend of horror and comedy.
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I mean, I think they did a fantastic job. There
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was once a time when horror was horror and comedy
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was comedy. And now we live in this beautiful
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age where you get to watch a horror movie and
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laugh through it, too. And I love that. I'm here
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for it. Genre blending is my favorite types of
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movies. Like, blend them all together. I want
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to laugh in a horror movie. I want to have some
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moments where I'm like, this is hilarious. I'm
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having the best time. Yeah. Yeah. And this is
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one. This definitely is one. Simple premise,
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really, if you look at it, because this is the
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typical classic, who are you when the lights
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go out? Who are you when you don't have a LinkedIn
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profile to look at? And they joke about it. They
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make fun of her on the airplane. Remember that?
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And they find her Survivor audition tape, and
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they're making fun of her. I wish. Let me tell
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you, I got a Survivor audition tape out there
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somewhere. Do you really? I do. I applied. I
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went down, and this was way back. I faked. Oh,
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my God. I can't believe I'm going to tell you
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this. This video is out there. I hope it comes
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to life. We need to dig this up and show this
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video. That would be great. I took a stuffed
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animal and a thing of ketchup, and I took my
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shirt off, and I was out there. It was out in
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the snow. This was in Memphis. It was cold. It
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was snowing. I had my shirt off. I had some of
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the ketchup on me, like blood, and I was over
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there eating. Like I was eating raw meat out
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of just living off the land, you know, and I
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told him, I said, you know, I'm ready to, whatever.
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It's out there. I did that. They could have easily
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made fun of me, but they did it to her. And then
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you find out, you're like, oh, no. They shouldn't
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have done that because they're going to need
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her. You know, let's talk about that moment and
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every moment leading up to that in the movie
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first, because I would like to know. especially
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for the freaks who have watched this movie, was
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there any part of you that related to her? Like,
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were you more related to her? Are we more, more
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feeling like the bro, the bro energy was what
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you related to or resonated with? Because I was
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definitely more like her. I was. Probably, you
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know, growing up in elementary school, middle
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school, like a little bit nerdy, wore those oversized
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t -shirts because I didn't know how to dress
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yet. Didn't know how to do anything. I, you know,
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it was just kind of like, how come nobody likes
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me? And that kind of desperation for like wanting
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to be a part of the team, wanting to be like,
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oh, you guys are going to karaoke? I could totally
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kill it on this song. You guys, what time are
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we meeting? And they're just like. No, we can't
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have this girl join us. We don't. But this made
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me think of that phrase. And once I heard this
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phrase, it changed my life was you don't owe
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the world pretty. And that is so important because
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look at Rachel McAdams in this role. Not attractive
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in the first. Which is wild. Yeah. And she's
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gorgeous. We all know Rachel McAdams is gorgeous.
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We know that. But what if we are all that? We
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are all the unattractive and the attractive.
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What if we can all be either or both or anything,
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right? Like the episode of Seinfeld where the
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girl was one way in the light and another way
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in the, remember that one? I remember that, yeah.
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Yeah, but no, you're right. And I think I related
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more to her as well. I don't, you've known me
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for a while. I don't really have that bro energy
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where I'm going to make you fun of. I'm definitely
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not making fun of somebody's damn survivor tape
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when I've got my own out there floating around.
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Yeah, I don't do that. So I see myself more like
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where she was as well. And I think it's funny.
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You point out that she's not attractive in the
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beginning, but she's highly attractive once she
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gets on that island. I love that part. Yeah.
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I love that. How many people are going to be
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attractive when they've been stranded on a desert
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island? They're soaking wet. They're starving.
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They don't got moisturizer. They don't got their
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makeup. They don't got like all the things that
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make us, you know, presentable enough to leave
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our house every day. Yeah. She's like in her
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natural raw element and she actually finds her
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beauty there in that. I mean, you could be real.
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If the cell towers go down for more than six
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hours, half the people out there are trading
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their prized possessions for a single bar of
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service. So, yes. I think Rachel McAdams, and
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her character, I keep calling her Rachel McAdams
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because that's it, but Linda Little. And we find
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that out, too, and that plays in. Her shoes,
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I love that thing, too, that whole part of it,
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too. Yeah, I was made fun of for my shoes. Yeah,
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yeah. I have been there. This whole movie is
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a mirror for how deeply alienated we've all become
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from basic survival instincts and from each other.
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And you do that by making fun of the shoes and
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making fun of a survivor audition tape. How else
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do you want to alienate somebody? They should
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have been in there saying, oh, this is awesome.
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Yeah. They should have said, oh, let's survive
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your thing. It's awesome that they call you.
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It's that easy. It's that easy. Yeah. Okay. So
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if it's that easy, what is that bro energy? What
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is it? And it's also mean girl energy. I mean,
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let me be fair. Across the board, they're just
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types, right? But in this movie particularly,
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we see it as kind of this bro energy. I don't
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know how else to say it. These are... Yeah. Summer's
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Eve type guys like they're just like we we get
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each other. We're totally going to promote each
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other. We are totally going to, you know, have
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this bro thing going on. And this girl has to
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use dry shampoo. You know, she's not one of us.
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She's not getting the promotion. She's not. But
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she's willing to do the work for us. And. That's
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another point that I think that is really important.
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If you're too good at your job, you won't get
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a promotion is kind of the issue that we're seeing
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here, right? Never. And that goes for anybody.
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That's male or female in that spot because there's
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a lot of people I know have been there, myself
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included, to where you get too valuable in that
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role and they can't replace you. It's going to
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cost them more to replace you in that role than
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promote you and bring somebody else into that
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that can fill that spot. And that's crazy. The
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bro energy, a lot of that is a hive mind too.
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It is. But in this movie, Preston still carries
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that bro energy even when he crashes on that
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island and he's got nobody else. Yeah. Except
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for Survivor Audition Tape, who was a real survival.
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She had educated herself for this. She wants
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to stay. That tells you something. Yeah. And
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she goes through some crazy extremes to make
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that happen. Yes. And then you kind of get into
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a debate as we go along of like, who's the villain
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here? Exactly. Because at first, no question,
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Bradley Preston is a villain. He's horrible to
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her. He's so condescending. He's so awful, even
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as he depends on her for his survival. And she's
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being very generous. From the very beginning,
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she could be awful to him. And she's like. I
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need to keep you hydrated. I need to keep you
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fed. I'm going to take care of you. It's going
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to be okay. We're going to get through this.
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And as she's taking care of him, he's still acting
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like I'm your boss. I'm above you. So it takes
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a couple of rounds of putting him in his place,
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which none of us, I don't think the audience
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is unhappy to see at all. No, not at all. We
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love seeing his moment of, how low can you go
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yeah eating the bread and there's some crazy
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see i love that scene where she's got him she
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strips him naked waist down got him up said she's
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gonna castrate him that i don't know why that
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didn't scare him enough right there i mean you
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crash on an island you look across and at some
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point you gotta think like okay she's better
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at this than me But there you go. He was a nepo
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baby and probably didn't have any skills to be
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in that position to begin with. He didn't know
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what real leadership was and didn't know how
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to recognize it. And that's a problem when you
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crash on an island and you don't know what to
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do. Right. Like because I just think that, you
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know, the script was brilliant at making this
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character dynamic where it played on. Our hyper
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individualistic culture. Everybody wants to save
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themselves. But the irony, the cosmic joke, if
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you want to call it that. Isolation is its own
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death sentence. You need a tribe. You know, even
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if you can't stand them, you still got to have
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them. You still got to have them people. You
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see that on shows like Survivor, Alone, Naked
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and Afraid. Yes. When their survival skills are
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put to the test, they're almost often more valuable
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together as a couple. Even when one is pulling
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more of the weight than the other. I think even
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on Naked and Afraid, I've seen enough episodes
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to see that they make it better. They're more
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likely to make it together than when one leaves
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or taps out early than the other one. It's a
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real struggle to get to the 21 days or 40 days
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or whatever the time is that they have to stay
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there. uh alone uh when you watch the show alone
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you see the top survivalist people in the world
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are doing this show and even they struggle i
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mean you watch them struggle to make a fire you
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they struggle to find food um so even if she's
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been training to be on survivor uh linda little
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The fact that she is able to go to this island
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and actually use those skills and thrive and
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then think to herself, I might stay here forever.
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Yeah. I don't ever need to go home. To the point
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where she murders people to make it happen. Yeah.
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Which is, I mean, then you start to come into
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an argument of like, well, she took it a little
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farther, I think maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Then it goes
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from a, then it's not, then once again, we've
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got a genre blender. It's not the. female revenge
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movie now we've got a criminal as well you know
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she's a kidnapper uh murderers yeah right yeah
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we've got a problem here for sure but i do want
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to talk about like you talk about community or
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doing it together the question that i have when
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i watch this movie is a question of worth a person's
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worth because if you go to the beginning of the
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movie linda is treated like she's worthless She's
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disposable. She's dispensable. It's like, oh,
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we were going to give you a promotion, but we
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decided not to because, I mean, they don't say
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it outright, but basically you don't meet our
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expectations. Yeah. What a person should look
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like and smell like and what they have for lunch
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in their drawer or whatever. Yeah. But. Where
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is Linda's worth? Where is her worth? Because
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she is obviously capable, smart, a hard worker.
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She's carrying the company on her back as far
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as like what she's able to do. So much so that
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they'll allow her to make the presentations and
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the reports, but they won't let her present it.
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Yeah. You can come along. She can do all the
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work on her laptop, but... They're not going
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to actually thank her, promote her, pay her more,
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like any of the things that count as worth, right?
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And then what is her worth on this island when
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it's just the two of them? Then where does her
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worth become and where is his worth? And when
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does it become like a patriarchal kind of like
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there's a hierarchy? I'm above you. And what
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would it look like if it was more of a matriarchal
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community? We all find our worth and our contributions.
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As a community together, no one is above or below
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anyone else. Yeah. What would that look like,
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right? If me and you crash on an island, what
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are we doing? What's going to happen? We're going
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to talk first? This is what I can see happening.
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Okay. Is me and you discussing, hey, what kind
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of survival skills do you have? Hey, what do
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you have? Hey, what should we do first? Let's
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talk about what would we do first, Coco? We would
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make a good team because although I don't have
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the skills of actually being able to do a whole
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lot, I'm very capable of following directions.
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Oh, you are. You are a person. So I can be like,
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here's what I think we should do. Now you tell
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me how we get those things done and I will do
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what I'm told. And I have always seen it in you.
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It is. You do follow direction right to the T.
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But what? So you would want me to come up with
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our first idea and then, because I know the first
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thing we should do. I'd be like, I think we should
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get fire. What do you think? This is what people
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do. Now, how do we make a fire? And I would look
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at you and say, do you think fire will help us
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live? Because I think we should go find fresh
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water first. Right. Yeah. We go find our water
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source and then we probably build a shelter and
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then get our fire going. But this is it. It wouldn't
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be, oh, I'm above you. Go get the wood. Go get
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the... No, no, no, no. That's not how you do
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it. We would definitely be equals out there.
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Even if you were following my direction and instruction,
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I would still see you as an equal because we
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ain't getting out of there if I don't look at
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it like that. Yeah. Yeah. And one thing to understand
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about like the difference between a matriarchal
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system and a patriarchal system is that there's
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the hierarchy in a patriarchal system of like,
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I have authority over you. You do what I say.
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No questions. I'm not saying that's bad. I think
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there's a lot of situations where that's needed.
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I understand like that's the way hospitals run.
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Like there has to be a hierarchy of like I have
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tenure here. I have more, you know, time and
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skills I put in. And we don't have time for you
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to question me as an authority figure, right?
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So it saves lives. I get there's a place for
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that. But a matriarchal system is a little bit
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more like what you just described where like
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it's about everybody puts the community as a
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priority first rather than who's in charge of
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that. community so it's just interesting that
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while linda was in a system that was very patriarchal
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in her corporate job she has like no say in what
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happens to her she's completely at the mercy
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of this nepo baby boss that she's got and then
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she switches those roles and then she's like
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you will do what i say unquestioningly on this
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island because i have the authority what's your
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final thoughts on send help Oh, man, I just I
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always dreamed as a kid when I was really treated
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badly or made fun of, usually by boys. I'm just
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going to say. Yeah, I get it. I mean, too, but
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but the way that you see it in this movie, that's
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I recognize that more having having had that
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happen with boys when I was in elementary school
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than girls. And I would have loved an opportunity
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to get back at them or to. show show them up
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somehow a dream come true so that was really
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satisfying to watch in this movie is to see that
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moment where she stabs the rat yeah and her throat
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a feral primal like um almost like a tiger i
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don't know how else to describe it she's just
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like don't question me again or this will be
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your testicles yeah satisfying i'm not gonna
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lie i don't agree with the murdering but That
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was fun to watch. It was. And then that was a
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nice twist, I think. That's a Sam Raimi, you
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know, type of thing to throw in there to do.
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And they could have kept the movie straight and
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just done it without the murder. And it would
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have still been great. It would have still been
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great because we got that character dynamic we
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get to see and we get to sit here and break down
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and talk about. I've been in that corporate world.
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I've seen that type of stuff go on and maybe
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not recognized it. At the moment, but thought
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about it later and realized, oh, that's why all
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the girls were piled up in my tiny ass little
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studio. They felt better in there. They felt
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good around me. I didn't I wasn't doing that
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stuff. Make them feel seen and safe. And, you
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know, at least that their contributions are recognized
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and appreciated. I hope so. If you if I ever
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work with you and I made you feel that way, hit
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me up. I want to hear that. I want to know. I
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don't ask for much. I'd like to know. I got a
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couple names in mind that I, yeah, I could probably,
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I won't say them. It shouldn't be that rare,
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and yet it is, and that's sad. Yeah. Let's do
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better, humans. Yeah, do better. Do better. I
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love this movie. I think this movie was a no
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-nonsense thriller that really punched above
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its weight class. Like, I'm serious. I don't
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know why this one didn't get more. love from
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maybe it did I just did maybe I missed it maybe
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I'm on the wrong frequency and I didn't see it
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come out but I mean I think I found it and then
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had to tell you right and you didn't even know
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it was out yeah I didn't realize it was out streaming
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but I had remembered watching the trailer yeah
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and you you'd been waiting on it right like they
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didn't something else must have come out on Disney
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and Hulu right at the same time because no we
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can't all the time we're we're just too We're
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just human beings. Yeah. I got to say, final
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thought, that in a landscape out there of bloated
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three -hour corporate products, a movie that
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knows exactly what it wants to do and executes
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it with sharp wit and tension is rare. And that
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one is right here in front of you as send help.
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I give it a must watch. You got to watch this.
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Go watch it tonight. It's long, but it won't
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feel long. It won't feel long at all. I watched
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it in one sitting and I think it is over two
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hours long and that's rare for me. So yeah, go
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check this movie out. I am just playing. She
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is Coco. You are the freaks. And this is parallel
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frequencies. We will see you on the other side.