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Equalizer 3 aka "Judgmental Netflix"
Episode 34 • 18th September 2024 • Films in Black and White • Doug Wagner, Marcus Destin, and Bryan Roush
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Do it live.

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Do it live.

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I don't understand wrestling

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relationships.

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People feed in,

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they're married in real life,

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but they feed into the plot in wrestling.

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And then,

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but to do that means you have to

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kind of commit in a

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different way via socials.

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You know what I mean?

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These two people are married.

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It's the equivalent of

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Facebook relationships to a

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certain extent.

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You know what I mean?

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You know those two friends

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that they're not in a relationship.

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It's like, I'm married to Rick,

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but Rick thinks... I don't know.

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It feels very made up.

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It feels like a throuple at that point.

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A little bit, yeah.

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That's fine.

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Welcome to Films in Black and White,

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everybody.

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Brian started doing finger guns,

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but Marcus was a slide,

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like slightly delayed.

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So it's like a bad dubbing

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where like shooting those.

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And then like a bad Godzilla movie,

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like later, they're my air horn blasters.

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You know, I was ready.

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I was ready.

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I'm not mad about it.

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I just think it's funny.

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So we got, we got a great show for you.

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We are doing our Patty family picks.

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So if you are not a member of the Patrion,

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This is your like little

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prod to join because we

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asked our Patty family

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movie and we watched

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Equalizer three starring

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Denzel Washington.

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And so we're super excited

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to get into that.

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We're also going to play a little game.

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We also have we're going to

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break down the Emmys a smidge.

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So we've got a little bit of

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this and that and everything.

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So we're pretty excited about it.

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But in order to do it well,

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in order to do it right.

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I'm going to kick it on over

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to Brian Roush, a.k.a.

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Space Badge recipient.

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Hello, Brian.

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How'd you earn that space badge?

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Well, I I'm happy to share with you.

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It was a long, arduous journey,

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and it involved one of my

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sons coming up to me.

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And then he just started

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taping me on the shoulder.

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And I was eating lunch and I was like,

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I don't know what's happening,

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but I'm just going to roll with it.

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And then I looked at my

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shoulder expecting just to

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have this like giant wad of tape.

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and I had this triangle

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squid thing on my shoulder,

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and I was like, hey, Parker, what's this?

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He goes, it's your space badge.

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I was like, thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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It's an honor.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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At about time.

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Yeah, I appreciate that.

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You know,

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it's been a long time coming and

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it's just nice to be recognized.

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But no, for real,

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when a kid does something like that,

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you you have to go with it.

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It's like when they hand you the phone.

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There is no other option

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other than go with it.

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Like, oh, hello.

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Yeah.

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Oh, well, he's right here.

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So I immediately went with

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it and I wore it the rest of my Sunday.

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I was going to ask you,

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how long did you keep it on after that?

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Marcus, there was no way out.

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I was wearing this badge with pride,

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honor and respect for the rest of my day.

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So excited.

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Did you go out and about

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into the town and the

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community with your badge?

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You know what?

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I did not.

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I did talk to somebody at my front door,

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though,

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who was collecting signatures for

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someone's political office.

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They didn't see it, though,

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but I would have proudly

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said it's my space badge.

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I don't know what it means.

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Your signature is extra important.

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I've earned a space badge.

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Did you know, honey, honey,

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I went and talked to a spaceman today.

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He had a badge and everything.

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What type of tape was it?

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Oh, it was scotch tape.

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It was scotch tape on my shoulder.

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Oh, okay, scotch tape isn't bad.

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Yeah, it was fine.

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So I was like,

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this makes the perfect

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Chiron to enter into this space.

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I have so many questions

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about the badge itself,

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so I just feel like... I do too.

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You know,

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at one point it changed to

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kindness because I asked, like,

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what exactly do I get with

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the space badge?

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And Parker's like, oh, it means kindness.

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And I was like, oh, like, was I kind?

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And he goes, no, it's the space badge.

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And I was like, OK, got it.

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Thank you, sir.

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I will.

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These are.

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All right.

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This is great.

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I love this.

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So, yes, I'm here.

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I'm ready to pod.

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I watched Equalizer three

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Friday night with a DiGiorno's pizza.

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And it was it was a top tier combo.

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I'm just going to put that out there.

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I put on my own pepperoni, though,

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because the pepperoni pizza

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is never enough.

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It was ten dollars at my grocery store.

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And I looked at the four

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cheese and it was like,

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I'm six ninety nine.

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And I was like.

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I have pepperoni at home.

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I'm just going to get the

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six ninety nine pizza

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pepperoni out of myself.

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I've never felt like such a

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suburban dad before.

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We've got pepperoni at home.

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Like my my like

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transformation and

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evolution into a full

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suburban dad is nearing

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completion because I guffawed.

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I guffawed in the aisle.

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I was like, what the fuck is this?

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I'm not going to pay four

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extra dollars for probably

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somebody who just wanted to

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go home and sprinkled some

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pepperoni on the street.

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That is a risky run.

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That's a risky run.

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Three pieces.

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I brought this sucker home

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and I just coded it in pepperoni.

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OK,

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so I got I got what I exactly what I

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want.

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Now, you know, do this by yourself.

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Was your family somewhere else?

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Yeah, well, Maggie had a book club thing,

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so I was alone with the

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kids Friday night.

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And then I was like, you know what?

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I'm doing my own pizza.

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I got I got some of the

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Italian seasoning out,

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got some of the garlic powder out.

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I just I made my own shit up frozen.

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Yeah, I did.

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I did.

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I bougie it up.

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I went to Italy with Denzel.

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I felt pretty I felt pretty

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great about it.

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God damn it.

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So, Doug,

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I don't know if your mic is doing

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something.

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I don't know.

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Yeah,

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you just muffled out like you was

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underwater.

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A little bit.

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A little bit.

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Yeah.

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No, it was fun.

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I hear you now.

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Mason, you are wilding.

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I'm not even going to

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address that comment.

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A little bit of ink left.

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That's great.

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That's crazy.

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Well, Marcus J. Dustin,

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aka Mr. Get Your Money's Worth Who?

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I didn't see the first Get

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Your Money's Worth.

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No, that's my name.

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I'm Mr. Get Money's Worth the second.

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Oh, the second.

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So this isn't a sequel.

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No, no, no.

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Okay, anyway.

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Take it away!

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Chiron just fucking ruined it.

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I did.

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I ruined it.

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No, it's good.

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I'm feeling good.

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I'm happy to be here.

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I got my money's worth on

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Netflix this weekend.

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Watching Rebel Ridge and

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Equalizer three twice and

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Jujutsu Kaisen the whole first season,

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twenty four episodes.

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So I really just got into it.

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I got into the shit.

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Me and Netflix,

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we was bonded and I tried

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to watch something else.

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But it kind of sent me on a

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weird rabbit hole of like.

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Oh,

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I watched Hellboy because I wanted

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things that had lore that I

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didn't understand.

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Oh, got it.

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Yep.

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So kind of like that Equalizer three, like,

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why the fuck is this guy so good?

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They never explain it.

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And I keep watching fucking movies.

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You know what I mean?

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That's kind of went into Hellboy,

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kind of like that.

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Lord,

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you got to understand and everything

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isn't understood.

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And I don't know.

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I just ended up on Netflix the whole time.

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There you go.

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You know what?

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Netflix quietly has become

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so easy to use that it's so

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easy to spend time there.

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That's the long game.

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Well done, Netflix.

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And not to mention,

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they trap you with their

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movie poster previews

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because they're going to

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show you the character that

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you are interested in.

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Mine is filled with black

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people and fine women.

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So, I mean, that's what they show me.

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It's like Edge of Tomorrow.

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Usually, Tom Cruise, the main lead,

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the big baller.

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Do you know who they show me?

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Not motherfucking Tom Cruise.

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They show me Emily Blunt.

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Emily Blunt doing the

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push-up in the black racerback tank top.

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I know exactly what you're talking about.

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That's exactly what they show.

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And they did not show me.

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That's not even a wallpaper.

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That's just a still from the movie.

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And it was like,

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these guys are going to like this shit.

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This is what this guy wants.

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And you know what?

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They nailed it.

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You

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got me motherfuckers

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red-handed so I mean we we

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all know what they I mean

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we all have our we all each

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of us knows what they would

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show us to get us to watch

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the movie oh yeah I know

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doug's can we all guess

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each other's oh oh I'm

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guessing if we log into

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doug's netflix and it's

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gonna pull up it's gonna

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pull up that rhythm of

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action movies but somehow

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madame webb's gonna be

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there and they're gonna

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show him sydney sweeney

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Is she in the movie a whole lot?

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No.

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Does she have a solid

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thumbnail on Netflix?

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I guarantee it.

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It's like a .

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five millisecond.

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That .

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five millisecond she's in the black suit.

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That's it.

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That's all it is.

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How the fuck did y'all get that?

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It's going to be the gif of

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it turning upside down.

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I try to watch the trailer and it's like,

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this is all you want to see,

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you gross perv.

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Jesus, why'd you call yourself that?

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No, no, no.

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Netflix.

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My Netflix is really judgmental.

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Oh, got it, got it, got it, got it.

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I paid extra for it to shame me.

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Oh, got it.

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I paid extra for the guilt.

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Even for Morbius,

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I forgot the love interest in Morbius.

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And then I was like,

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she's on the cover of one

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of the little things.

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I'm like, who the fuck is that?

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And then, yeah.

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She sure is.

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Oh, yeah.

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All the AMC stuff.

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Yeah, it's all going to be women leads.

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Right.

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Yeah,

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it's going to be Elizabeth Olsen who

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leads for Brian.

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Anything with Elizabeth

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Olsen is going to populate first.

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Look, we all know how I feel,

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but additionally,

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I don't think she has

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anything on Netflix that she's like,

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I don't think she does either.

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Yeah,

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I just logged into mine and I have...

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Yes, Madam Web was mentioned.

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It was, yep.

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In a positive light this time.

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Yeah, I guarantee you.

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They know.

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She knows so much.

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Scary.

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Ambiguous villain with the

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ambiguous accent.

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Anyway, Doug, my resolve is strong.

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Okay, okay.

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Look, y'all.

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I've made it pretty clear my

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political leanings, okay?

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Yeah, there's no surprises here.

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But I need someone to

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understand what's going on

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with my cell phone.

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So my cell phone somehow,

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I don't know if the person,

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so I have a North Dakota number.

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I got the number from

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somebody else who relinquished it.

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Like, I don't know.

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It's not a number I have.

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And I have had a litany of

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things that have happened

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with this phone that the previous person,

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I want to know what life she was living.

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Because I get text messages

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from Donald Trump that start out with,

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I got one tonight at five

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thirty that said,

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my resolve is strong in all caps.

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That's all it said.

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And the problem is,

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was there a fundraising link or anything?

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Did I delete it?

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Hold on.

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I don't think I deleted it.

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I thought the campaign just

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sent you my resolve in Strong.

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I thought that was all they sent you.

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I also have something about campaign email,

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why he pulls it.

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No, I deleted it.

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Why'd you delete it?

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I don't want to keep looking at it.

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But anyway, so it sent me that.

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And of course,

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I've watched episode three

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enough that the only thing

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I can hear in my head

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Is Emperor Palpatine going,

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my resolve is strong?

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That's the only thing that I

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can hear that it spirals into, no.

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That's all it sort of spirals into.

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Guys, when I first got this phone number,

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I had a penis sent to me

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via text message from a

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gentleman I didn't know.

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And even if it was somebody I did know,

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someone's

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No, no, no, no, no.

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This was a white dick.

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Oh, okay.

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It was a mediocre white dick.

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And so like, it was just,

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but my response was like, Hey man, like,

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and I tried to approach it so gently.

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Like I tried to be like,

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Hey, so, like,

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I don't know who you think this is,

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but you, but, like, I'm a dude.

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And he goes, what did you say to this guy?

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This is what I, I was very, like,

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I tried to be really gentle

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because this man sent me something, but,

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like, so that one's deleted.

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That one's long gone.

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I have deleted and blocked that gentleman.

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Yo,

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the first ten minutes of this podcast

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is always my favorite

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because that shit can go any way.

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Wow.

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It's true.

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It's true.

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We like to work from the

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broad down to the specific

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of what we're talking about.

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It goes right there.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, he sends me this picture,

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and I'm like, ugh.

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Just immediate disappointment.

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But then I was like, oh,

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this guy's so vulnerable.

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I don't want him to think

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I'm just going to put this out there.

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So I had to be really like, hey, man,

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I don't know who you think this is.

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You went back to console him?

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I went back to be like, hey,

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don't send... Because I

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didn't want to get another dick pic.

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You didn't even offer me

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that much consolation when

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I told you this story.

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You didn't send me a picture

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of your penis.

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So I don't need to be gentle with you.

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sound.

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This whole thing is just fucked.

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We are only... A lot of gentleness.

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A long story short, a long story less long,

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I eventually just said, hey, I'm a dude,

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and he was like, haha, very funny.

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I'm like, no, seriously,

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you've made a mistake.

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And then like ten minutes

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goes by and he goes, I am so sorry.

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Like immediately...

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I am so sorry.

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And I was like, yeah, me too.

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That was so bad.

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Viewership up.

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Did I send one back?

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No, I did not.

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And if there is a trash,

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I'm in a lot of trouble.

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If there's a trash,

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I'm in a lot of trouble.

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But anyway,

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that's my story on this phone number.

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And now he's a Patreon member.

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Wow.

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What tier did he pay for?

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So, pay the hundred dollar tier.

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He's on the text, Doug, whatever you want.

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The text, Doug, whatever you want tier.

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Do it for the pod, Doug.

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Do it for the pod.

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uh should we say this is a

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good time to join the

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patreon we have three

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different tiers all right

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it's five dollars I'm on

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the I'm on the cover it's

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great and then there's the

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second though that gets you

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access to the bonus

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episodes only ten dollars a

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month that third heat

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that's twenty bucks you ask

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us anything so it's not

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exactly the situation doug

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described you can but it's pretty close

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If I would have known Mason

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talking about this is what

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will bring in more Patreon,

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if I would have known that,

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I would have put that shit

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up fucking three years ago.

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Yeah, that's true.

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I would have not kept this

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secret to myself.

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I would have shared this with the people.

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I could have been sharing

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this with the people for a cost.

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I'm sharing my shit for free.

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That's true.

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Look at Brian.

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Brian doesn't know what to do.

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Oh, this is great.

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That's a situation you had.

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That's a lot, man.

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That was a thing you were in.

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That's a lot.

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Yeah,

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I like to bring it up so I don't have

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to cry about it later.

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You know what?

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Own it.

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That's the way you own it.

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That's the way you make it work for you.

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You're taking it back.

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Like the N-word.

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Both black. ...

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Well,

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I'm going to pivot us over in to

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catch that quotable because

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now's a really good time.

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I wish y'all could have saw y'all faces.

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What am I going to say?

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Yeah, you are.

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Yeah, you're right.

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Take it back.

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Say it whenever you want.

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If I say anything other than oof,

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I'm in trouble.

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If I say, ooh, yep, and then you're like,

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wow, you said yep a little too hard.

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I'm like, huh?

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Yep, I did.

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You don't want me being that

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guy that's like, I'm an ally,

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and I think whatever you say goes,

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Marcus.

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I'm right behind you.

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That's worse.

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I'd rather somebody call me

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out of my name than be a

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fake-ass ally because I hate that shit.

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Oh, my God.

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I'll get my button,

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and we'll go to sleep all together.

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Yeah, you're right.

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The N-word is black.

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And you're like,

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that's not what you need to

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put on a button, Brian.

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That's way too much emphasis

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on the wrong point in this whole thing.

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You got, like, eighty percent of it,

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buddy.

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Like, eighty percent.

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You're almost there.

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Almost there.

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Take my hand.

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Anyway.

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Okay.

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Well,

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let's play a little game we like to

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call Catch That Quotable.

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Catch that quotable.

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The silky sounds of Marcus J. Help!

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Gentlemen,

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are you ready for this week's quote?

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Hit me, hit me.

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High five, high five.

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Okay, here's the quote.

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Okay.

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That's gotta be clash of the Titans,

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right?

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Right.

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Right.

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Or, I mean, it could be Hercules,

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but I don't think Disney would have gone.

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No, no, that's, that's pretty dark.

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That's, that's like,

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that's gotta be clash of the Titans.

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And you're talking about the cracking,

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right?

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Yeah.

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Say it like Jimmy Stewart.

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Clarence was a rich man and he was right.

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The harbor of fire.

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Yeah.

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Crazy.

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Is that the guess we're going with?

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I don't know what else.

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That sounds like Clash of

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the Titans to me.

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Talking about the three Titans.

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Yeah, and then getting all those things.

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Yeah, collecting everything.

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Feels right on the nose, though.

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Right?

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I don't want to second guess it, though.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I know they did a sequel.

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I guess we would be tripped up by that,

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but...

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What was the name of the sequel?

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It wasn't.

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Was it Rise of the Titans?

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Same dude.

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Oh my God.

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We got this wrong.

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This is from Pokemon the movie.

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You got to be shitting me.

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You have to be shitting me.

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Roman is laughing his ass off right now.

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I have not.

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It's said by The Collector.

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I don't remember seeing this movie.

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I have not seen Pokemon.

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I don't think I've seen this movie.

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That's ridiculous that you

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could take that line and

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put it with Clash of the

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Titans and it's really about Pokemon.

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Yep.

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That's the thing.

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Roman's really trying to

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keep us as far away from

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that hundred dollars as possible.

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Roman hates charities.

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That's what it feels like.

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That's what you're working on,

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to beat the Jerry.

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Oh my god.

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Oh my god.

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That's hilarious.

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Gentlemen,

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I would like us to play a little

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game before we get into our

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review of the Equalizer.

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I'm buying myself ice cream

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with all the money I have.

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It's going to be going to charity.

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All the little kids looking at you.

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It's crying.

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Okay, so I'm going to pick five movies.

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We have no air conditioning, sir.

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We use the fan to blow the ice cream.

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My friend holds an ice cube

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in his hand and he blows from his lips.

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It keeps us cool in the heat

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in the summer.

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Please, please.

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This place does not exist.

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This is not a place.

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I'm going to pick five

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random Denzel Washington

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movies at random from his

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filmography as provided by IMDb.

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And I would like you to rank

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these movies from one to

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five without knowing which

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one comes next.

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All right.

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One being what and five being what?

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One being the best, five being the worst.

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Okay.

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Oh, one the best.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So I'm going to give you the movie.

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Are you giving me five?

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I'm sorry.

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You're giving me five movies?

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I'm giving you and Brian five.

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Okay.

::

And we rank them one through five.

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And you each have to rank

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them without knowing which

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one comes next.

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We have our own ranking.

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Are we a team or just individual?

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Individual.

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All right.

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Let me grab a pen.

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Individual.

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Hang on.

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I'm getting a visual.

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Keep going.

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Keep going.

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Please.

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So I'm going to start.

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With the movie Man on Fire

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from two thousand four.

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Man on Fire, two thousand four.

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And we just got to rate

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these one at a time.

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This is bullshit.

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Yes, this is going to be very hard.

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A little bit.

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This is bullshit.

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Not what's coming next.

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So.

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All right.

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There you go.

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Yep.

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So we got to figure out,

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we got to figure out man on fire.

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So yes.

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So Marcus,

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where does man on fire rank for you,

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for you not knowing which one comes next?

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Okay.

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I feel like I'm going to go.

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I got to put man on fire at

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three just to be safe.

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Man on fire at three.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I'd agree with that.

::

Here's what I'm nervous about.

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I'm waiting for training day to show up.

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You gotta play it safe.

::

It may not show up,

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but I want to make sure we

::

have enough wiggle room.

::

I'm good with man on fire at three.

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It's a good...

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thriller action movie well

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brian I think we have to do

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separate they do we do in

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separate we're doing

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separate we have three we

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have two separate ones I'm

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writing mine down if you

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want to keep yours on the

::

here no no no hang on hang

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on here folks he's he's a

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wizard he's in the fucking

::

zone brian can make all of

::

this work that is true that's my guy

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We'll figure this out one way or another.

::

For those of you listening,

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we have a whole visual

::

system happening right now.

::

I hope you enjoy that as a listener.

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Brian's putting it at four.

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I'm putting Man on Fire at four.

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I'm not mad at that.

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Okay.

::

It's a good first one.

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The next one.

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I do.

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Light.

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Light.

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Oh.

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Flight?

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Flight,

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where he played the alcoholic pilot.

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I'm going to put it at five.

::

You're going five for Flight?

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Yeah, because Flight is good,

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but I just feel like there

::

are other Denzel movies

::

that are better than Flight for me.

::

Flight was really good, though.

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I'm going flight at three.

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I liked flight better than man on fire.

::

I also liked flight better

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than man on fire.

::

Actually, can I swap my three and my five?

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You can absolutely do that.

::

Can I swap my three and my five, please?

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Alright.

::

Because I do like flight

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better than man on fire.

::

Are you putting man on fire at five?

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Yeah, I'm going to put it at five.

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That's just me being safe, Brian.

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Alright.

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Alright.

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Okay, let's do this.

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Alright.

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The next one is.

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Nineteen ninety three's.

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I'm going to go four because

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I'm still playing it safe.

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Okay.

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Because I can swap later, right?

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I can swap.

::

You could.

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Up until the last one.

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Up until the last one, you can swap.

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Up until the last one, I can swap.

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Yeah, I'm going to keep that there.

::

I'm going to keep that there

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because it's a toss-up for me.

::

Philadelphia, I want to put at two,

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but I have two Denzel movies that are my,

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like, I think if you mention them,

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they're going to be my absolute favorite,

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and I don't want to fuck those up.

::

All right.

::

Where are you going with Philadelphia?

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I'm going to go put at four.

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Four?

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Yeah.

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I don't know how to spell Philadelphia.

::

Don't worry about it.

::

We had it right the first time.

::

We didn't say anything.

::

I'm going to go to five.

::

We'll move.

::

It's good.

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It's good.

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I just, I don't know.

::

There's some stuff I would

::

need to rewatch because I

::

don't know how it holds up

::

and what I'm thinking about it.

::

Is it

::

I don't know.

::

I need to rewatch it.

::

I need to rewatch it.

::

Somebody's mad.

::

Somebody's listening to this.

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They're mad as fuck.

::

A hundred percent.

::

Y'all ready for the next one?

::

The next one.

::

John Q. Number one.

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John Q. That was one of the

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ones that I was waiting on.

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John Q is going to be number one for me.

::

Because if I'm going to swap,

::

I got to swap now, right?

::

Yes.

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Yeah,

::

I think I'm going to put John Q right

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here.

::

Hey, I love that decision.

::

That's one of my favorite Denzel movies.

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It's a quality movie.

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One of the first I remember

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watching with Denzel in it, for sure.

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Great movie.

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Yeah,

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that was one of the first movies I

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remember watching with my parents.

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Legit.

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Same for me.

::

Yeah, I think... I mean,

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I think I gotta lock in John Kiewit, too.

::

It's good,

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and I definitely feel like it is

::

better than Flight.

::

That's not gonna be training day.

::

I know I'm waiting for doug

::

just to not he's not gonna

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be training day I don't

::

think well then that's

::

whatever this is is my

::

number one I guess okay my

::

last your last pick is

::

malcolm x oh number two

::

yeah for sure I yeah for

::

sure because those were my

::

top two I was waiting on

::

that's it those are my top

::

two so yeah for sure I'm

::

not mad about this at all yeah

::

I'm not mad at that.

::

I would swap maybe

::

Philadelphia and Man on

::

Fire now that I see the final list.

::

But I'm not mad at this.

::

So Brian and I's list

::

probably would have looked

::

similar except a couple swaps.

::

So I'll say this.

::

I left Training Day and

::

Remember the Titans off intentionally.

::

I can't believe those are,

::

those are just so good that those are,

::

those are sort of iconic and it's,

::

that one's always just

::

going to come down to like

::

the day of the week.

::

Like they're both awesome,

::

but like which one do you

::

want to watch and what mood are you in?

::

Um, so I left those off,

::

but I wanted to kind of do

::

some of these other,

::

some of these other ones.

::

Are there any honorable mentions?

::

So maybe an honor,

::

maybe an honorable mention

::

from each of you that I didn't mention.

::

So deja vu for you.

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Deja vu for sure.

::

Oh, man.

::

Brian,

::

any honorable mentions that are

::

Genzel that you really liked?

::

I don't know.

::

This might seem very simple for me,

::

but I... It's the Book of Eli.

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Oh, the Book of Eli!

::

You're right!

::

The Book of Eli.

::

You're right.

::

There's a lot of factors to it for me,

::

and I think the main one, though,

::

is like...

::

Book of Eli came out in two thousand ten.

::

It wasn't it didn't have a

::

shared universe.

::

It wasn't like it was just

::

like a post-apocalyptic story.

::

And it didn't even do zombies.

::

It just it was just an

::

apocalypse with Denzel in it.

::

It felt like finding a

::

diamond in the rough in the theater.

::

Like back when I went to

::

movies like every weekend.

::

Yeah.

::

Man, it just it blew me away.

::

It blew me away.

::

Inside Man is also up there for me.

::

Yep.

::

I mean, it's a really smart movie.

::

Okay, wait, hold on.

::

Brian,

::

make another tear because I want to

::

do the same thing to Doug.

::

Oh, I'm gonna pick a random five.

::

And okay, okay, okay.

::

Order they're going in.

::

So let me know when you're ready.

::

I'm ready whenever you are.

::

All right.

::

Now, are you familiar with Denzel movies?

::

Because I don't want to pull

::

nothing that you're not familiar with.

::

Okay, all right.

::

All right.

::

The Preacher's Wife.

::

We're doing some deep cuts here.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

I'm going to put The

::

Preacher's Wife at three.

::

Yeah.

::

Again, you're playing smart.

::

Playing a little safe.

::

Yeah, that's what I would have done, too.

::

I'm going to say...

::

The Bone Collector.

::

We put Bone Collector at four.

::

Yeah.

::

Ooh, interesting.

::

Yeah, that's an interesting pick.

::

Interesting.

::

Okay.

::

American Gangster.

::

American Gangster, I'm putting it too.

::

I really liked American Gangster.

::

I love the way that Russell

::

Crowe and Denzel play off of each other.

::

I love the I just I'm a

::

sucker for like crime movies like that.

::

And I thought that was an

::

outstanding cast.

::

I really like that.

::

I agree.

::

I like it.

::

The Manchurian Candidate.

::

Yes.

::

I mean, Doug's in a tough spot here.

::

He's only got one in five left.

::

Mm hmm.

::

I'm going to move.

::

Okay.

::

I'm going to move the

::

preacher's wife to five.

::

Okay.

::

And I'm going to put the

::

Manchurian candidate at three.

::

I forgot you got a swap.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

I do get the swap.

::

That's not okay.

::

That's not okay.

::

All right.

::

Antoine Fisher.

::

Oh, that's all.

::

That's yeah.

::

Yep.

::

That's my one.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Gotta double check that spelling.

::

But yeah.

::

Yeah, there it is.

::

That's good.

::

I'm not mad about that either.

::

That's my bad.

::

That's my bad.

::

No, that's not a bad list.

::

This dude Denzel is a fucking monster,

::

dog.

::

Dude, I mean, you combed through.

::

That's what I wanted to talk about.

::

Like, if you wanted to comb through, like,

::

the shit he was in, starting from, like,

::

like, He was in that, like,

::

really intense...

::

civil war like movie called

::

called glory glory he was

::

in glory okay and then he

::

kind of does some stuff

::

that like you don't know

::

about ricochet but then he

::

does malcolm x yeah then he

::

does much ado about nothing

::

yeah then he does the

::

pelican brief jesus then he

::

does philadelphia

::

Then he does Crimson Tide.

::

That's a run.

::

Crimson Tide.

::

Then he does Courage Under Fire.

::

Then The Preacher's Wife.

::

Then here's this run from

::

nineteen ninety eight to

::

nineteen ninety nine.

::

Oh, sorry.

::

Nineteen ninety eight to two

::

thousand and two in from

::

nineteen eight listing from

::

oldest to youngest.

::

He got Game, The Siege, The Bone Collector,

::

The Hurricane, Remember the Titans,

::

Training Day,

::

and John Q. All back-to-back

::

from in the year.

::

That was only three years?

::

That's crazy.

::

That was three years and he

::

had all of those.

::

I could re-watch any of

::

those movies right now.

::

Crimson Tide actually got me...

::

Denzel as a military man

::

somehow every time just

::

gets me fired up he plays

::

that role so well he has

::

such good discipline in his

::

acting that I feel like it

::

translates really well and

::

I feel like that's what

::

like really makes him pop

::

in training day cause like

::

He gets to go off the rails

::

a little bit with that discipline.

::

And, like, man, just what a talented guy.

::

That guy's talented.

::

Roman put some in the chat, too.

::

He said he was waiting on

::

Remember the Tide.

::

Oh, Fences.

::

He also said he got Game,

::

which is also another good one, too,

::

as well.

::

Denzel in a completely

::

different role than he got Game.

::

Magnificent Seven, which is, yeah, like,

::

that's a good movie, too.

::

And then Two Guns.

::

I remember Two Guns as well.

::

Two Guns is not on the top of my list,

::

but it's still one of those good movies.

::

I think Mark Wahlberg kind

::

of threw me off a little bit in Two Guns.

::

I don't think I saw Two Guns.

::

It was one of those that I

::

feel like you could have shot to nobody,

::

but you could have replaced

::

Mark Wahlberg with anybody else, I think,

::

and maybe it would have hit,

::

but I don't know.

::

Anyway.

::

That was great, though.

::

Great job.

::

That was a good game.

::

Great job.

::

I enjoy those.

::

Before we dive into the Equalizer,

::

I think it's fun.

::

We can just sort of run down.

::

I mean, the Emmys were last night,

::

which is a big night for TV.

::

And while we're usually a movie podcast,

::

that is still in our sphere

::

of relevance for the most part,

::

especially with the level of quality that

::

some tv shows are starting

::

to go up in and then also

::

the fact that this sort of

::

contributes to excuse me

::

the streaming wars a little

::

bit yep and we've been

::

covering that we've been

::

covering that for a while

::

too so um I have the I have

::

the winners in front of me

::

um I'm gonna I can run some

::

of them down um and just

::

kind of talk a little bit

::

about those so the first is

::

Shogun from FX fucking cleaned up.

::

Cleaned the fuck up.

::

Fucking cleaned up.

::

So they won Best Drama Series.

::

Actor in a Drama,

::

Hiroki Sadana won from Shogun.

::

Actress in a Drama, Anna Sawai, Shogun.

::

So they won all of those,

::

which was awesome.

::

In terms of comedy,

::

so Best Comedy Series was Hacks.

::

Your best actor in a comedy

::

series was Jeremy Allen

::

White for The Bear.

::

Actress in a comedy series

::

was Jean Smart from Hacks.

::

Supporting actress was Lisa

::

Colon-Zayas for The Bear

::

and Evan Moss Bacharach for The Bear.

::

The Bear did really well,

::

albeit a weird title for them.

::

Here's what I'll say about it,

::

and welcome to others' thoughts.

::

I watched the bear.

::

That shows really heavy.

::

Like you guys, like there's,

::

there are moments where I

::

kind of watch that and I'm like,

::

oh like this is trying to

::

see the humor in it but

::

especially season three

::

like end of season two into

::

season three like the

::

episode was it seven fishes

::

yeah oh god damn like that

::

is just that's a lot that's

::

a lot I have a question I

::

know brian that thoughts

::

but I have a question after brian yeah

::

Oh, you want to go now?

::

No, go ahead.

::

Have y'all both have seen the bear?

::

Yeah.

::

Okay.

::

I have not seen the bear yet.

::

I'm doing where I wait until, you know,

::

wait until the hype downs

::

down or the show is over.

::

I mean,

::

the thing about the bear is that I

::

do think at its like base DNA,

::

you can call it a comedy.

::

Oh, sure.

::

Say that.

::

Where does it come from?

::

It is the bleakness of the situation.

::

It is incredibly heavy

::

because the premise and

::

this is not a spoiler.

::

The premise is that Jeremy

::

Allen White goes back to

::

Chicago after being a like

::

five star Michelin like chef.

::

because his brother takes

::

his own life and is running

::

this Chicago beef sandwich

::

shop in like the middle of

::

downtown Chicago.

::

It's a rundown piece of crap.

::

And here comes this

::

five-star Michelin chef who

::

like basically has to step

::

in at that night at the

::

eleventh hour to try to

::

like make something happen.

::

yeah um and that's really

::

heavy but then it's also

::

sliced with like he gets

::

angry because he can't find

::

a sharpie that works and

::

they they are also trying

::

to figure out how to take

::

grubhub orders and they

::

find out that they didn't

::

turn off the function to

::

stop taking orders so it

::

gets to a point where

::

they're just having order

::

after order come in for

::

grubhub and they have to figure out how

::

how they're going to do this.

::

And like it, uh, if Maggie was here,

::

she would tell you that it gives,

::

it's like the best

::

representation of an

::

anxiety attack she's ever seen on TV.

::

Um, and it,

::

it really is just the humor of like,

::

this is so bleak.

::

This is so rough.

::

How do you,

::

how do you find the light in it?

::

How do you find the positive

::

and move on and change and

::

evolve and deal with it?

::

And like actually deal with it.

::

Um,

::

And the idea, though,

::

that it's totally cordoned

::

off into a comedy category

::

for the Emmys just kind of

::

shows you... To me,

::

these awards shows haven't

::

evolved with the material

::

that they're awarded.

::

And when they do,

::

it's slow at best and like...

::

redemption at best like

::

because I don't think the

::

bear should be going up

::

against hacks like that

::

doesn't make sense to me

::

like I look at this list

::

and I mean you have the

::

bear going up against the

::

only like only murders in

::

the building in what world

::

does that makes incur your

::

enthusiasm like what is

::

happening here now yes you

::

can have the conversation

::

that like if they put it in drama

::

Then what does that do to

::

Shogun or whatever?

::

But it's also like, how are we doing this?

::

Because it clearly is broken.

::

There needs to be some level

::

of delineation.

::

But yeah, Marcus, did you have something?

::

Yeah,

::

just I guess just a quick question of

::

like,

::

do you think that the writers wrote

::

it with the intent of it being a comedy,

::

but it is received as

::

something else or that

::

there's no way this could

::

be mistaken that this isn't

::

really a comedy?

::

It's more this than it is that.

::

I think you have to submit

::

as what you want it to be.

::

Or can you change?

::

Can you pick what genre you compete under?

::

Or is it more?

::

I think you have to put in

::

your nomination for what

::

you want to be considered for.

::

And then they have to select you.

::

So they,

::

they made the decision to submit

::

their paperwork that said like, yep,

::

we're a comedy.

::

Now I think Brian's point is

::

spot on because I think

::

there's a very distinct

::

difference between like,

::

like ha ha funny and ha ha

::

funny and dark comedy funny

::

where you're kind of

::

laughing because you're a

::

little uncomfortable you're

::

uncomfortable with the

::

situation and you're like

::

oof this is a family

::

dynamic that doesn't work

::

because there are moments

::

especially in season one

::

the interaction between

::

like jeremy allen white and

::

I'm gonna pull up his name

::

just give me one second

::

Jeremy Allen White and Evan Moss,

::

like their exchanges back

::

and forth are very funny.

::

Like for that first one,

::

they're just the exchange

::

and it's very uncomfortable.

::

Like it's very uneasy.

::

And if you can't see the humor in it, like,

::

and there are moments in it, like,

::

and again, not giving anything away,

::

but there's a,

::

there's a strange thing

::

that happens at a kid's birthday party,

::

which you're like, Oh no,

::

but it's kind of funny at the same time.

::

So it's sort of like,

::

Yeah, there are humorous moments.

::

This feels like this feels

::

like I don't know if the

::

bear was nominated last

::

year or the year before.

::

Oh, yeah, it was.

::

And it won last year.

::

okay then never mind because

::

I was gonna say this this

::

feels like the lord of the

::

rings where like they

::

didn't want to give

::

everything to they didn't

::

want to give everything to

::

that movie like the first

::

two so they were like make

::

it win everything when the

::

last movie comes out

::

because it's not going to

::

do it again so never mind

::

what I was so the bear won

::

the best outstanding comedy

::

series okay so they've been

::

doing this a while so then

::

never never mind but yeah

::

Sorry, this is from Forbes,

::

an article on Forbes.

::

Why is the bear considered a comedy?

::

The bear is considered a

::

comedy because the show's

::

producers see it as one.

::

The Television Academy of

::

Arts and Sciences doesn't

::

actually enforce any

::

definitions of what comedy is.

::

Think about it for a moment.

::

Comedy is quite subjective.

::

It's hard to say a show must

::

have this many laughs per

::

minute to be considered a comedy.

::

That's an absurd limitation.

::

But the producers have said

::

that they see the show as a comedy.

::

The characters often find a

::

lifeline in humor.

::

They are dealing with dark

::

feelings such as grief, shame, and guilt.

::

The show writers use humor

::

to defuse tense situations

::

and deflect things.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah, I mean, I agree with that.

::

I would never want to put like a...

::

I just think there need to

::

be more categories.

::

I mean, you know what I mean?

::

Like, cause I think, yeah,

::

I don't think y'all,

::

but I just think like a, you know,

::

I just think there needs to

::

be a way to categorize it a

::

little bit differently.

::

So,

::

but other honorable mentions that I

::

think are worth like mentioning.

::

So Billy Crudup won best

::

supporting actor in a drama

::

series for the morning show.

::

Oh, this one,

::

this one's worth mentioning

::

because the morning show is

::

an Apple TV production.

::

Hmm.

::

So FX,

::

FX definitely had the best showing

::

because Shogun, The Bear, both FX series.

::

Jodie Foster won for her

::

best actress in a limited

::

anthology series for True

::

Detective Night Country,

::

which was fucking nuts, by the way.

::

Like that show is just.

::

that show is so good that

::

show is so good but I tell

::

everybody watch it I tell

::

everybody yes um and then

::

the other ones that I'll

::

I'll kind of give a shout

::

out to baby reindeer one

::

one two three yeah three

::

different awards which is

::

really great um and then I

::

want to shout out john

::

oliver because he's I I

::

really like him he won best

::

scripted variety series oh nice

::

And another instance where

::

the Emmys made a whole

::

different category so that

::

John Oliver wouldn't keep

::

winning the gosh,

::

what was the previous category?

::

I think it was like late night comedy,

::

late night talk series,

::

late night talk series.

::

So they made scripted quote

::

unquote a scripted category

::

basically because the the

::

John Oliver show kept winning.

::

So they could have like, you know,

::

your Jimmy Kimmel's and

::

your Seth Meyers and your

::

Stephen Colbert's and your daily shows.

::

Yeah.

::

Which is bonkers.

::

Yeah.

::

And the daily show won best talk series.

::

So Brian,

::

it's not even late night anymore.

::

It's just talk series.

::

Yeah.

::

Crazy.

::

Yeah.

::

That's why.

::

Oh, it is best talk series.

::

I'm just seeing this now.

::

Yeah, you're right.

::

So the view and the daily

::

show are on the same playing field.

::

Is Jon Stewart back?

::

On Mondays.

::

And he's executive producing.

::

So he is still a part of the

::

writer's room a little bit

::

in a little bit of show direction.

::

So I think he got an

::

executive producer credit,

::

but he's only hosting on Monday.

::

Him and Trevor Noah carried

::

that thing for a nice loop.

::

I mean, those two guys,

::

they were hitting it.

::

I don't know.

::

Yeah, I did not pay.

::

I'm going to be honest with you.

::

I did not pay.

::

Let me shoot you a buck.

::

I did not pay attention to that.

::

There was an actor that

::

brought a lot of attention

::

to the missing indigenous

::

women and children.

::

Yes.

::

Yes.

::

So I thought that that was

::

really good to bring

::

attention to that on the Emmy red carpet.

::

And shout out to Res Dogs

::

for being nominated.

::

Shout out to Tazbook for being nominated.

::

Shout out to Tazbook.

::

Cool.

::

Well, thank you for indulging me on that.

::

But gentlemen, we got a movie to get to.

::

And I don't want to leave this.

::

This was a Patty family recommendation.

::

So I don't want to leave

::

anything on the cutting room floor.

::

Mason?

::

Shout out to Mace.

::

Mace asked us to watch Equalizer III.

::

I had not watched either of

::

the previous two Equalizers.

::

So this was exciting for me.

::

And he didn't even say

::

anything until he hopped on the podcast.

::

Yep, yep.

::

And so, and again,

::

as a reminder of how I'm a non-completist,

::

I've seen Fast and Furious one, two, five,

::

nine, and ten.

::

And Tokyo Drift.

::

And Tokyo Drift.

::

I've seen Equalizer three.

::

I've watched Equalizer three,

::

but not two or one.

::

Bad Boys.

::

I've seen Bad Boys three and

::

Bad Boys Ride or Die, but not two or one.

::

And that's the worst because

::

that's the one that gets under my skin.

::

You're welcome.

::

That's for you all.

::

Mason, I can't.

::

I could have lied.

::

I should have lied.

::

Everybody's saying you

::

should have lied and you could have lied.

::

So I want my two friends to

::

know that I keep things a

::

hundred percent.

::

You can trust me.

::

Sometimes you can keep it

::

ninety-nine on the movie

::

podcast when you don't watch the movies.

::

That's fine.

::

well it'll be even a hundred

::

sometimes you can keep it

::

nine to ten I mean it'll be

::

a unique perspective I

::

guess if you just go

::

straight into equalizer

::

three crazy because that's

::

like there's there's lore

::

that you should probably

::

like consider they don't

::

hold your hand for any of

::

that background they're

::

like people in the ass welcome

::

On that note, let's do it.

::

Let's get into it.

::

Marcus,

::

would you care to give us your

::

barbershop synopsis, maybe morally for me,

::

of Equalizer III?

::

Yeah,

::

so what happened was in Equalizer three,

::

it follows up Equalizer one and two.

::

That's all you need to know.

::

That's all you need to know.

::

No, we're back with Denzel again.

::

And oh, my God, Fuqua directed this.

::

And so that combination is

::

just a really dangerous combination,

::

to be honest with you.

::

And I think that he really

::

understands Denzel and they

::

have a really good relationship.

::

Anyway, that's the whole different thing.

::

You have this talented killer.

::

And there's this guy who

::

wants to do right by people.

::

Right.

::

And he has some type of history,

::

but we don't really know

::

what the history it is.

::

It never really is explained.

::

He's just really good at killing.

::

It's kind of hinted at into

::

when he's like across from

::

Pedro Pascal and they may

::

have been in the military

::

together or something like that.

::

Or like there was in some secret,

::

some secret force where

::

they was all really

::

talented killers or something like that.

::

I don't really fucking know.

::

But he's really good.

::

In number one,

::

he was protecting this

::

little girl who got kidnapped,

::

went to go find her.

::

Then in number two,

::

he's protecting this young

::

man who there's gangs

::

taking over the

::

neighborhood or something like that,

::

and they want to get rid of that.

::

And then Pedro Pascal is also... Right?

::

Is that right?

::

I might be blending them.

::

His friend dies.

::

His friend dies in the second one.

::

Oh, yes.

::

His friend does die in the second one.

::

His friend does die in the second one.

::

That's the motivation for

::

them to fight each other.

::

And then in this one,

::

what happens is... Thank you, Brian.

::

In this one...

::

Our lead character, Roberto,

::

is the fake name that he gives them.

::

Roberto.

::

But his real name is McCall.

::

Robert McCall.

::

He gave Roberto,

::

which is kind of his real name,

::

but he mostly goes by his last name.

::

He just gave an Italian

::

version of his real name.

::

He just did this at the end of his name,

::

and so it's kind of like, yeah, for sure.

::

Pretty much.

::

So he meets, he gets,

::

he kills all these people.

::

Open insane, kills all these people.

::

Everything's going good on his side.

::

He kills,

::

he finds whatever the fuck he's

::

looking for.

::

He comes out,

::

and of all the people that

::

fucking hurt this, oh, spoiler alert,

::

just for everybody.

::

Yeah, spoiler alert.

::

For anybody, he goes out of there,

::

he walks out of the building,

::

gets shot in the fucking back by a kid.

::

He lets the kid get away.

::

He's like, don't fucking move.

::

He turns his back to the kid

::

looking for which direction

::

he wants to go.

::

Kid shoots him in the

::

fucking back with a fucking

::

rifle or a shotgun or some shit.

::

He drives himself while he's

::

halfway dying.

::

Now he's halfway dying.

::

The motherfucker is damn near dead.

::

He drives himself on the

::

ferry boat from the ferry

::

boat to the mountains and

::

he ends up pulled over on a

::

Side of the road,

::

there is a officer that

::

finds him and they're in Italy.

::

There's an officer that

::

finds him and takes him to

::

this doctor that lives in

::

this small town.

::

The doctor takes the bullet

::

out of his back, fixes him up,

::

lets him rest in the house.

::

He then tries, you know,

::

he's still this guy that is

::

suspicious of everybody

::

trying to figure out where he is.

::

So he discovers this town.

::

This town is like this beautiful city.

::

The doctor's super nice.

::

The people are super nice.

::

The stores are like that.

::

He's finding basically his place.

::

As he's finding his place,

::

getting familiar,

::

there's also like a love

::

interest there a little bit, too.

::

That's kind of hinted at very lightly.

::

That's the lightest

::

sprinkling of love I've

::

ever seen in a thing.

::

I was like,

::

is it because of the age difference?

::

I don't know.

::

It was weird.

::

But they go.

::

He finds his place.

::

He finds his people.

::

He ends up being very happy there.

::

There is a gang called the...

::

I don't remember the name.

::

They basically say that

::

gangs like this exist in

::

towns where they basically

::

charge the businesses.

::

And if you don't pay a

::

certain amount of money

::

that you owe the businesses,

::

then they come and beat you up.

::

Well,

::

fish guy in the fish market got beat

::

the fuck up.

::

And McCall was there.

::

They burned that guy's store down.

::

And he was like, listen, basically,

::

You're not going to come

::

fuck with the place that I'm in.

::

I love this place.

::

I have finally he tells him

::

straight up directly.

::

Y'all need to leave.

::

If y'all don't leave,

::

we don't have a problem

::

because I finally found a

::

place where I belong and

::

where I'm meant to be.

::

If y'all don't leave,

::

I'm gonna start killing.

::

He kills the brother.

::

He kills the little brother

::

of the giant mob boss who

::

are like bringing drugs in,

::

which is what he was doing

::

at the beginning of the

::

movie was finding where those drugs were.

::

And then it boils down to

::

this big face off between

::

the mob boss and Robert McCall.

::

But for killing his little

::

brother in those streets and in that city,

::

they terrorize and he like

::

defends the city because he's home now.

::

Got it.

::

So it's like a redemption story.

::

A little.

::

It didn't really go ruin one.

::

Really?

::

Yeah.

::

I mean,

::

I thought it was going to go

::

redemption story, but by the,

::

by the way they were

::

hinting at it of like,

::

he didn't want to be that guy anymore,

::

but it definitely does not.

::

It doesn't really go for redemption story.

::

It's more,

::

I'm defending the place that I

::

love that this is where I'm

::

supposed to be.

::

I mean,

::

I would say it's just like it's a

::

vengeance story is what I would call it.

::

I mean, like revenge, like action revenge.

::

Yeah, it's definitely I mean,

::

vigilante justice type situation.

::

Sure.

::

Definitely vigilante justice.

::

I'm glad that they did not.

::

I know Doug's about to give

::

the rundown on like the

::

movies and the numbers and stuff,

::

but I'm glad that they did

::

not go redemption.

::

I'll just say that for right now.

::

I agree.

::

I agree.

::

um okay so let's do box

::

office and then we'll do

::

cast so the budget for this

::

movie was seventy million

::

dollars this movie made its

::

opening weekend thirty four

::

million dollars and its

::

opening weekend was

::

september third twenty

::

twenty three so about a year ago

::

And then the gross it made

::

in US and Canada total was

::

ninety two million dollars.

::

Its gross worldwide was one

::

hundred and ninety one million dollars.

::

So they got their money back.

::

It's money back us a little bit,

::

which is never bad.

::

What weekend did this drop?

::

Do you know?

::

Do you know the date?

::

It said September third,

::

twenty twenty three.

::

Yeah, that would have been Labor Day.

::

That would have been Labor Day weekend.

::

Oh, OK.

::

Got it.

::

That would have been Labor Day weekend,

::

right?

::

Yeah.

::

I remember this movie was

::

advertised on a billboard

::

to my work and it was on

::

there for the longest time.

::

So I'm glad I had a good

::

excuse to watch this movie

::

because I was like...

::

I saw that billboard for

::

like I saw it three months.

::

There you go.

::

The cast.

::

So Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall.

::

Dakota Fanning plays his

::

Dakota Fanning plays his

::

contact at the CIA Emma Collins.

::

Y'all we're about to get

::

into a bunch of Italian names.

::

So just good luck to me.

::

No accent.

::

Yeah.

::

That's going to be an

::

impossible challenge.

::

Eugenio Mastriandria plays

::

Gioria Bonannucci.

::

David Dedman plays Frank Conroy.

::

He does.

::

Yeah, Conroy.

::

Roy from The Office.

::

Roy from The Office.

::

They've got a lot of roles.

::

Oh, my God.

::

David Dedman.

::

Oh, that's incredible.

::

I think he was also in Rebel Reach, too.

::

Was he?

::

Might have been.

::

Might have been.

::

Gaia Scordilello plays Amena.

::

Remo Gironi plays Dr. Enzo Arizio.

::

Andrea Scarduzio plays... Oh,

::

you're not going to let me

::

do Andrea Scarduzio.

::

You're not going to let me do that?

::

I'm not going to let you do it anyway.

::

It's crazy.

::

You're not in the room with me.

::

I'm going to read these how I want to.

::

Andrea Dodeo.

::

Andrea Donero plays Marco Quintana.

::

Danielle Perron plays Angelo.

::

See,

::

now I'm just trying to get away with it.

::

Sakaria Hamaza plays Khaled.

::

Manuel Tascote plays Carmela.

::

Jesus,

::

these are some Italian names to the max.

::

And I don't know the rest of them,

::

so I'm going to give myself

::

a pass because they don't

::

even have images on IMDb,

::

so I'm not going to worry about it.

::

This was during the strike.

::

This movie came out during the strike.

::

That's why I don't remember it.

::

Yeah, I had seen the previous two,

::

so I didn't remember it anyway.

::

But yeah,

::

that's also why it would float

::

under the radar.

::

David Denman is in,

::

he must have got a deal

::

with Netflix or something like that.

::

David Denman is in Ripple

::

Reach too as well.

::

Is he a cop in that?

::

He's a cop in that, too.

::

I don't understand what

::

happened to that guy

::

because he was in the

::

office as a great comedic actor,

::

even though he was an

::

antagonist in that show.

::

I don't know what happened

::

after the office.

::

It feels like he only took

::

like tough guy military

::

police roles after.

::

that.

::

I don't know who hurt you, man.

::

You know what?

::

I think that, if I'm being honest,

::

just as a quick theory,

::

I think that whole Jim and

::

Pam and Jim took,

::

you know how the people do in real life,

::

and they treat you like you

::

are the characters?

::

I do think that that

::

motherfucker got tired of

::

that shit and went to

::

complete opposite roles.

::

I mean,

::

I guess I guess it wouldn't be

::

surprising.

::

I just think I don't know.

::

It just seems like such a

::

weird turn from comedy.

::

I think that's where my

::

surprise is coming from.

::

Like, I'm surprised.

::

I mean,

::

he was I would say he's comedic in

::

the office,

::

even though there were like

::

these romantic ties to it,

::

because he also did the Benghazi movie,

::

too, with with.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Jim, oh my gosh, John Krasansky.

::

He did.

::

I don't know what it is

::

about the cultures of Benghazi.

::

The dad in Brightburn, too.

::

That's crazy.

::

I don't know.

::

It's just something of note.

::

I don't know what to make of it.

::

Maybe it's a non-connection.

::

He's the dad in Power Rangers, too.

::

That's crazy.

::

Oh, I didn't know that.

::

I'm glad he's finding work, honestly.

::

Yeah, shout out to him.

::

Me too.

::

Shout out to him.

::

But yeah, and so that's the cast.

::

Gentlemen, you know what?

::

Good for him.

::

I'm proud of him.

::

He should be proud of himself.

::

Gentlemen, thoughts on The Equalizer?

::

I watched it twice.

::

Okay, so then you go first.

::

You watch it twice.

::

Yeah, you go first.

::

You watch it twice,

::

so that's on the equalizer.

::

So John Wick and the

::

equalizer go like one A,

::

one B for me because it's

::

basically the same kind of, it's a lore,

::

it's a lore-less movie

::

where it doesn't give you a

::

lot of background.

::

You just got, you meet this motherfucker,

::

dump right into this scenario of like,

::

this guy's really good at killing.

::

I'm going to start here.

::

This movie,

::

I had to stop eating while I

::

was watching because it is

::

violent as fuck.

::

Yeah, it is.

::

It is.

::

Like, gory, the blood.

::

Like, they don't pull back.

::

Let me tell you the scene

::

that made me like this movie, but also go,

::

oh shit,

::

let me put my phone down and pay

::

attention.

::

the they were they were in

::

the building the mob boss

::

the big guy is in the

::

building and he's talking

::

to this couple about

::

signing the building over

::

and they say listen sir you

::

got to be quiet my granddad

::

is in there and he's

::

sleeping and he says listen

::

y'all can either sign this

::

motherfucker or don't um

::

then they leave the next

::

scene is happening he's in

::

the middle of a dialogue

::

they throw grandpa old ass

::

with a rope around his neck

::

right out the fucking window

::

That's when I texted the group,

::

Jesus Christ, this movie is insane.

::

They went there.

::

Yeah, this movie starts like that.

::

Denzel Washington,

::

in the first ten minutes of this movie,

::

shoves a gun through a

::

man's head and then shoots

::

another guy with the gun he

::

shoved through the man's head.

::

that was the moment I did

::

sit up I'll be honest I was

::

like oh we're gonna get

::

good good and then he

::

shoots the guy in the butt

::

with a shotgun and I was

::

like oh I'm gonna like this

::

movie this is gonna go hard

::

this is not gonna pull any

::

punches and that's when I

::

knew it was gonna be something special

::

All in the first ten minutes.

::

That's what made me love this movie.

::

First of all,

::

it's held in a beautiful location.

::

It's Sicily, Italy.

::

Yeah, for sure.

::

But putting Denzel in an

::

action-packed movie where it's like, okay,

::

he's older.

::

Obviously, they're going to pull back.

::

It's not going to be as whatever,

::

whatever.

::

But I think that they did a

::

really good job making it

::

feel like Denzel was doing these things.

::

Because never once did I be like, oh,

::

that's a body double.

::

Oh, that's a whatever, whatever.

::

The action scenes are really good in this.

::

So that's what I liked.

::

I feel one of the main

::

reasons that I liked this

::

movie was that it felt like

::

it was an action movie for

::

an older audience.

::

And I am fitting into more

::

of the older audience as days go on.

::

Because there was some

::

really brutal action and

::

horrific violence in this.

::

However, most of the movie,

::

most of this movie is just

::

Denzel Washington walking around Italy

::

no I'm not kidding like it

::

really feels like at parts

::

of the movie it was like

::

Denzel Washington wanted to

::

go on vacation in Italy and

::

decided to just make a

::

whole movie around it Brian

::

took the words right out of

::

my mouth this feels like a

::

hey I know you're in Rome

::

for a week just pop down to

::

Italy like pop down to

::

Sicily just for a moment

::

we'll shoot the rest of it yep

::

I'm not mad.

::

I'm not mad about it.

::

If I'm making the third movie of whatever,

::

it's like, well, I've already done this.

::

I really want to go to Italy.

::

Can we make it in Italy?

::

Sure, Denzel.

::

You can do whatever you want.

::

It's great.

::

It was beautifully... The

::

key frames in this movie...

::

are gorgeous yeah and you

::

can tell this wasn't shot

::

on like volume or a ton of

::

green screen and like I

::

told I told the guys in the

::

chat as I was watching it

::

this podcast has made me

::

such a movie snob more than

::

I was before because I'm

::

like oh those bricks on the

::

ground look good that

::

cobblestone you can tell

::

it's real cobblestone like

::

Just everything you feel

::

like you can touch every

::

edge of this movie.

::

You can tell it's lived in

::

because they shot on location in Italy.

::

Yeah.

::

And it comes through so well.

::

So like those are like the two.

::

Those are like the two high

::

highs for me of this movie.

::

Just man,

::

you can just tell a lot of work

::

and care went into that.

::

Those aspects of it.

::

Yeah.

::

I would say for me,

::

the thing that I

::

appreciated the most about

::

this is that there's no

::

homework required.

::

So again, we joke like, oh,

::

Doug didn't see the first two.

::

But he didn't really need to,

::

if I'm being honest.

::

But I also did not need to.

::

And I was like, really,

::

the only thing I needed to know,

::

I was like, okay, cool.

::

You really did.

::

I did not need to watch the

::

first I'm not gonna

::

embarrass him in public but

::

yeah you guys just settle

::

this for your separate

::

message chain that you all

::

have and you can be like

::

can you believe this

::

motherfucker didn't do his

::

homework you believe we

::

have a second the only time

::

we started a separate chain

::

was to try to break your

::

crazy ass we all saw how that worked

::

Not well.

::

I'm still mad about this.

::

But anyway, you don't need to do a lot.

::

If you just suspend all of your questions,

::

you're like, oh, okay.

::

So this guy's clearly a

::

badass because you've spent

::

the first five minutes walking through

::

carnage.

::

And then, Oh,

::

there's this moment and he's you,

::

the way he talked so calm.

::

And this is the thing that I

::

love about Denzel as an

::

actor is that he's

::

You believe he does, like, this sense of,

::

like, badass calmness.

::

He just does that so well,

::

where he does not make you

::

feel like he's never somebody who, like,

::

if he has to do something violent,

::

especially his character here,

::

never has to get, like,

::

over the top or yell or in your face.

::

Nope.

::

He can just be like a, hey, your guy here,

::

he's standing about,

::

he's standing too close,

::

which can make it, this guy is a problem.

::

Or what was it?

::

Or what was the other quote that he had?

::

Like with the watch where he was like,

::

you got nine seconds.

::

He said,

::

you got nine seconds to figure out.

::

Yep.

::

You got nine seconds.

::

But then the other thing

::

where he's like grabbing

::

that guy's arm and he's like,

::

is this a time X?

::

No, it's a,

::

and he's doing like the thing

::

with the pressure point.

::

Like that's, those are really,

::

really cool lines where he emphasizes the,

::

like, this guy is set scary.

::

This guy is intimidating.

::

Yeah.

::

But because of that sense of

::

like calmness and

::

reservedness and that sort

::

of like confidence that he

::

carries along with him.

::

Well, even when he's talking to the agent,

::

he kind of he catches her

::

taking a picture.

::

And some of it feels like Denzel,

::

not improvising,

::

but like adding his own

::

spice to whatever the original line was,

::

you know, like, oh,

::

how about I turn around and

::

take a picture while he's

::

still folding his napkin in

::

this very eloquent way,

::

which he does every single time.

::

Like, I agree.

::

Right.

::

Yes.

::

And Dakota Fanning was a

::

weird foil for this.

::

I'm just going to put this out there.

::

Dakota Fanning haven't seen

::

her in a lot recently, which is fine.

::

She's fine.

::

I just I was very surprised

::

to see her in this movie.

::

I was very surprised to see

::

her in an action movie.

::

I was very surprised to see

::

her as a foil again to

::

Denzel because she was in Man on Fire.

::

But like as a child actor, I mean,

::

I think she was a child

::

actor at that time.

::

I can't I'd have to double check,

::

but she was younger for sure.

::

So I was like,

::

this is an interesting dichotomy.

::

Maybe they just they're

::

working together again

::

because like they just have

::

a good working relationship.

::

By the end of the movie, I was I was like,

::

OK, I'm good with Dakota Fanning.

::

I'm good with that because I

::

feel like a lot of other

::

folks would have oversold it.

::

Like, I feel like they I don't know.

::

I'm trying to find like the

::

best example of it.

::

I feel like they would have

::

gone like just a little too

::

over the top of just like,

::

I don't know what you're doing or X, Y, Z,

::

ABC, like just, just that type of vibe.

::

And Dakota Fanning was very matter of fact,

::

which I did appreciate

::

because she did need to

::

come off as a very

::

level-headed CIA analyst.

::

Um,

::

didn't expect her to almost

::

get blown up by a car.

::

That completely took me off guard,

::

which I applaud this movie for.

::

I thought she was going to

::

be in the finale.

::

She totally is not.

::

She almost gets blown up by

::

a car and goes to the hospital.

::

She is.

::

She's thirty years old.

::

She's thirty.

::

Which is wild as fuck

::

because I'm almost thirty.

::

What the fuck?

::

She was born in nineteen ninety four.

::

And when she did Man on Fire,

::

she did Man on Fire when it

::

was two thousand and ten.

::

Stop.

::

Please stop.

::

Hold on.

::

Because you've got to stop

::

putting numbers on shit.

::

I've committed to things and

::

I've committed to this.

::

So Man on Fire came out in

::

two thousand four when she was ten.

::

So that was twenty years ago.

::

That's what I thought.

::

That's what I thought.

::

We guess she was a child actress.

::

That's disgusting.

::

All right.

::

How does that make you feel?

::

Shut up.

::

Brian keeps telling me I'm middle-aged.

::

I mean,

::

Doug and I are very clearly

::

entering middle-age.

::

I ain't that damn old.

::

I'll kick your ass.

::

How about that?

::

Marcus, you do need to think about AARP.

::

And investing in your future.

::

Brian, what the fuck?

::

You know what?

::

Something that you'll need

::

to talk about right now.

::

I will quit this podcast and

::

it'll be white on white.

::

It'll just be the printer paper podcast.

::

What do you want?

::

Off-white?

::

Eggshell?

::

Eggshell is hilarious.

::

Eggshell in black.

::

This isn't even a big flaw

::

because it didn't bother me that much.

::

I just thought it was

::

strange that Dakota Fanning

::

was playing opposite and was like, okay,

::

I like the fact that you

::

had this lead actress that

::

was just as smart and

::

cunning and it didn't need

::

Denzel to really put all

::

the pieces together.

::

He knew he could give her a

::

little bit and then she was

::

able to fill in the rest of the gap.

::

I did like that.

::

I enjoyed that she had

::

somebody who she was able

::

to figure out his name and

::

she was able to do some of

::

the stuff to go back and forth with him.

::

Yeah.

::

I don't know if they ever

::

answered the question of

::

why he picked her because

::

she asked him that question deliberately.

::

And I thought that that was

::

a very interesting question

::

to bring up that you didn't

::

refer back to.

::

I made an assumption that

::

this was going to spin off

::

like an Equalizer spin-off

::

series for her.

::

That's why I thought why she

::

asked that question.

::

Like he was picking her to

::

take over for something.

::

I didn't, whatever.

::

I'm just going to say this.

::

I was not necessarily a fan

::

of the casting of Dakota

::

Fanning in this role.

::

Fascinating.

::

I think I would have done

::

somebody more... Until I

::

saw the car blow up.

::

Then I said, oh,

::

she's not even going to be

::

in the end of this.

::

So it didn't really matter.

::

Then I was fine with it.

::

But at first I was like,

::

if this is the person

::

that's going to be opposite Denzel...

::

I don't know what I was looking for,

::

but maybe a different

::

person casted in that role.

::

I don't know.

::

Older, maybe?

::

She seemed young.

::

I don't know.

::

I could get to Shailene

::

Woody a little bit.

::

Zoe Zaldana a little bit.

::

I think I would have liked

::

Zoe in that role.

::

I feel.

::

So here's the thing.

::

I feel like they wanted like

::

somebody that was like at

::

the start of their career.

::

I think that was the vibe

::

they were going for.

::

Yeah.

::

And Zoe Saldana, maybe,

::

maybe I'm going to say maybe,

::

but she's helming her own

::

series at CBS as the lead operator.

::

So I'm, I'm,

::

I'm wondering if Zoe Saldana

::

is like moved on from those roles.

::

Yeah.

::

She's been in some of the

::

biggest superhero blockbusters.

::

Oh, for sure.

::

I think you're looking at

::

Chloe Grace Moretz.

::

She was in the first Equalizer,

::

so I guess you can't

::

really... I don't know.

::

I get maybe.

::

Dove Cameron comes to mind.

::

I see her in a lot of Disney stuff,

::

obviously with Descendants.

::

She was in a series called

::

Schmigadoon that I liked.

::

I would have liked Dove Cameron.

::

That was a good one.

::

But again,

::

they I understand why they

::

didn't go maybe for actresses that are

::

I don't know.

::

I understand why they went

::

with a more subdued Dakota

::

fanning performance.

::

I understand why they did

::

that for this movie.

::

Not the end of the world by any means.

::

No.

::

Did they ever mention in the

::

first two movies,

::

and this is because I haven't seen them,

::

did they ever mention in

::

the first two movies a

::

woman named Susan Plummer?

::

Was that his wife?

::

So according to Wikipedia,

::

I'm looking this up to try

::

to answer your question, Marcus.

::

According to the Wikipedia

::

summary for this particular movie,

::

The reason why Robert picks

::

Collins is because she's

::

the daughter of his friend, Susan Plummer,

::

and wants to help her in his career.

::

So that's the reason why he

::

sends all that material,

::

because she does get a promotion,

::

and then...

::

That's where they're like, oh,

::

and then he sends her that

::

note that's like, oh, by the way,

::

you're the daughter of my friend.

::

I missed that detail.

::

Where the fuck was that at?

::

They didn't explicitly say it.

::

They do a quick flashback.

::

I missed it too.

::

That's the reason why I'm on

::

Wikipedia because I was like,

::

I don't know because it

::

does feel very random in the movie.

::

I watched this shit twice.

::

Yeah, well...

::

Cue that bitch up for a

::

third time because you got

::

to catch this one.

::

So, well, I think you do.

::

You would have to pay

::

attention the first time

::

her name is mentioned and then it's gone.

::

So you would you would have

::

to know that name from

::

equalizer to immediately.

::

So, like,

::

I think it's I think it's

::

reasonable to me.

::

It's reasonable that you would miss it.

::

Mm hmm.

::

I also would agree that you would.

::

And I mean, and again,

::

I didn't need to do a lot of homework,

::

but I yes,

::

it is reasonable that you would

::

like fly right by it.

::

Yeah.

::

That makes a lot more sense.

::

Okay.

::

Thanks, Doug.

::

Yeah, that was good.

::

I'm so mad that the

::

motherfucker who did not

::

watch one and two figured that shit out.

::

I watched this shit twice

::

and he did further proves

::

he didn't have to do no

::

homework to get here.

::

I mean, admittedly, I cheated.

::

I pulled it up on Wikipedia

::

to try to put that gap together.

::

How did you catch that to pull that up,

::

though?

::

Did you catch that in the

::

movie the first time or

::

just from this conversation?

::

I was just listening to you.

::

No, I didn't catch it in the movie.

::

No, I didn't catch shit at all.

::

Okay, I'm sorry.

::

No,

::

I was just trying to help answer your

::

question.

::

I apologize.

::

Well,

::

the Equalizer's also not like an

::

MCU-type project where, like,

::

we're being reminded of this stuff on,

::

like, an annual basis.

::

Like, this is a tight trilogy.

::

And the Equalizer II, when did,

::

I don't even know when

::

Equalizer II came out.

::

In the

::

Yeah.

::

No one's going to remember that.

::

Ten years.

::

Twenty twenty eighteen.

::

Twenty eight.

::

Oh,

::

equalizer to equalizer to is twenty

::

eighteen.

::

And that cast is I should

::

have watched this movie.

::

Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal,

::

Bill Pullman.

::

Man, that was a good cast.

::

I should have watched this.

::

It's almost like it was so good.

::

They made two sequels.

::

Maybe.

::

Yeah.

::

Oh, man, you crack me up, Doug.

::

I love you, man.

::

I love you, man.

::

I love you, too.

::

I will say that I do love

::

the... I love that they

::

really leaned on the

::

community portion of this movie.

::

Because what makes Equalizer

::

movies so good is the

::

relationship that he has in

::

the area that he's in with the people.

::

Because he is just... So

::

this is what I was mentioning earlier.

::

When he is like healing up

::

and in the bed and he's

::

like flashbacking about

::

that opening scene,

::

which I do love that they

::

did a POV shot of the

::

opening scene chaos that we saw.

::

They're underrated.

::

I'm so glad they did one through his eyes,

::

too,

::

because you can make that look and

::

feel corny.

::

But they did it in a way of like, no,

::

he's he's reliving this.

::

He shot somebody in the face

::

and like now he's looking

::

at his cracked reflection in the mirror.

::

I was hoping that they

::

weren't going to go on this whole,

::

I don't want to be that person.

::

I'm not going to kill anyone.

::

He was just going to watch

::

these people die and then

::

kick back into this is who

::

I always am and it's for other people.

::

I love the fact that Denzel

::

never at any point in this movie

::

Robert McCall does not hesitate.

::

He doesn't seem worried.

::

There is no,

::

the big boss villain finally

::

got a hold of this guy.

::

Like, no, he's just, I'm confident.

::

I'm the same motherfucker

::

I've always been.

::

You just are another person

::

that I've dealt with.

::

I've dealt with worse.

::

Like to me,

::

Pedro Pascal's character is like the one,

::

a two Roberts, like one B,

::

like these two were evenly matched.

::

You know what I mean?

::

Like, and they set that up like that.

::

This guy was just another

::

fucking mob boss in the

::

city who didn't really know

::

who he was fucking with.

::

And I like that he never wavered.

::

Denzel's character never

::

wavered in that or his confidence.

::

I think that's,

::

that is one of the reasons

::

I really enjoy this movie.

::

Cause I feel like for writers, they,

::

they feel like they run out

::

of places to go.

::

So eventually they're like, Oh,

::

they need to have a crisis

::

of faith in themselves.

::

And like those stories don't

::

always vibe with me for various reasons.

::

Like Spider-Man two,

::

I still even get a little

::

hesitant on like the

::

original Spider-Man two.

::

And he's like, well,

::

I don't know if I need to be Spider-Man.

::

And like, it's a good movie.

::

We've talked about it,

::

but even in that movie, which is,

::

critically acclaimed I'm

::

like really so I'm really

::

happy that in a movie like

::

this it's like no we know

::

exactly what we're doing

::

and we're going we're going

::

full speed we're going full

::

speed and making it seem

::

like Denzel is this like he

::

is the weather and this

::

hurricane just came to your

::

town you have no idea

::

what's gonna hit you like

::

it's almost like an

::

opposite of that dynamic in

::

a normal I would say action

::

movie I agree you know and

::

that's what's enjoyable it's

::

You don't need to understand

::

how he got his particular

::

set of skills to borrow a

::

thing from Liam Neeson.

::

You don't need to understand.

::

You just need to know that

::

if he is in your community...

::

And you are a, like a, a bad guy.

::

Watch out.

::

Like that's basically all

::

you need to know.

::

Like that's it.

::

And they don't,

::

they just kind of created

::

this like mysterious air around him.

::

Like of, you know,

::

what's the motivation though?

::

He just saw something he

::

that's wrong and wanted to fix it.

::

Like, you know what I mean?

::

So it's like,

::

Yeah, that's interesting.

::

And he has those flashbacks

::

or those words come up in

::

his memories of like... I

::

think it's Susan.

::

I think it's Miss Plummer

::

that is repeating that in

::

his head of like... I was

::

trying to figure whose

::

lady's voice that was.

::

Who the woman's voice was

::

that kept saying you want

::

to do it on behalf of

::

others and protecting others.

::

It was something along those lines.

::

Or I could have got all my

::

shows mixed up because I

::

watch a lot of fucking TV.

::

You're right.

::

Um, but somebody was saying like, yeah,

::

you do this for others

::

basically of like

::

protecting others and the

::

protection of others.

::

And I like that being your

::

fucking motivation.

::

Like that's sometimes all you need.

::

Like, I don't know.

::

The only time that trope, this is random,

::

the only time I like that

::

trope where a hero gives up

::

their shit is Superman II.

::

When Lois finds out that

::

Christopher Reeves is Superman,

::

that Clark Kent is Superman,

::

and he gives it up for Lois.

::

And then they go to the bar,

::

and he gets beat up in the bar.

::

They throw beer on him,

::

and they disrespect him.

::

I really love that movie,

::

only because that

::

motherfucker goes back to the bar,

::

beats the shit out of the dude,

::

and then drops money on the

::

table when he gets his powers back.

::

That's just one of my favorites.

::

I love when Sabrina does that shit.

::

I think for me, too,

::

the reason that the charm

::

of this movie really

::

connects with me is that

::

where John Wick is like,

::

this was a personal affront to me, and

::

I don't know.

::

You killed my dog.

::

You killed my dog.

::

In the stones of hell with your blood.

::

Like, it's just, it is vengeance.

::

Look, look, I get angry too.

::

Okay.

::

But like that.

::

You know what?

::

I was about to say something crazy.

::

Brian?

::

Brian?

::

I'll mail you another star

::

badge in the mail.

::

No, it's okay.

::

There's somebody who likes

::

to see him get that angry,

::

but I don't want to...

::

Somebody likes to watch that happen.

::

It's like, ooh, I'm hot.

::

I'm hot.

::

Do it again.

::

Somebody piss him off again.

::

Tell him Captain America sucks.

::

Tell him that Cap was wrong.

::

Tell him you sided with Tony.

::

She just sit back watching it.

::

Tell him that capitalism is

::

just the way it is.

::

Tell him black lives don't matter.

::

We'll see what he does.

::

Look him in his eyes when you say it.

::

And then she scurries off to the corner.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

You know what that guy – hey, Brian,

::

you know what that guy said?

::

He was talking during the movie,

::

and you know what else he said?

::

He also said, like,

::

workers don't deserve shit.

::

Fuck workers.

::

That's what he said.

::

That's what he said.

::

And scurries off?

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

::

Folks, they got me dialed in.

::

What can I say?

::

They're right.

::

I mean, yeah.

::

Yeah, all that stuff gets me angry.

::

Yes,

::

I also have a wide variety of vocabulary.

::

So yes, when I do get upset,

::

I'm not just being like, I hate you.

::

It's like...

::

you will come to me when you

::

need me the most and I will

::

look you in the eye and you

::

will know that you've

::

messed up and you will not

::

come to me again not

::

through your own volition

::

but mine you know like it's

::

just when when I think of

::

words they they just come

::

um but uh never mind

::

I'm so sorry.

::

We're very close to the nine

::

minute monster.

::

The monster is knocking on your door.

::

I am so sorry.

::

Five minutes away.

::

Right around the corner.

::

The charm of this movie,

::

we did mention workers.

::

I'm going to connect to this.

::

Basically,

::

it is still trying to keep that

::

focus on normal everyday

::

people and not super

::

assassins like John Wick,

::

which has its place.

::

It's fine.

::

The whole idea that

::

that that rob that roberta

::

roberto was like so upset

::

that this one guy in jersey

::

had his pension stolen by

::

like this investment group

::

and he only went for like

::

four hundred k when there

::

was clearly millions of

::

dollars there and something like pacific

::

really emphasizing the fact

::

that like that type of

::

money is life changing for

::

most people and that's you

::

don't always see that

::

because in so many movies

::

the stakes are always so

::

high and it's like unless

::

you pay me a billion

::

bajillion dollars you'll

::

never you'll never find me

::

I don't know what accent

::

that was but it's always

::

like oh my gosh we gotta

::

get a bajillion dollars and

::

it's like no man a whip pretty much

::

I know what it feels like.

::

My empire.

::

Spiders, spiders, spiders.

::

The only other movie that did this,

::

that I would say does this

::

sort of like average dude looking out for

::

on like average criminals is

::

kind of sorta unbreakable

::

by M night Shyamalan in the sense of like,

::

he's just an average dude

::

who senses that somebody

::

did something wrong and

::

steps in to try to,

::

it steps in to fix it.

::

Now he is, the motivations are different.

::

So it's not a direct comparison,

::

but it is this,

::

it is still saying that like similar,

::

that vibe of like,

::

No,

::

like they we don't as a community have

::

to put up with someone

::

disrupting what we are

::

trying to do because they

::

want to make some like some

::

extra money in an unethical way.

::

Like it's just it's just the

::

best way that I can understand.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

And I think to me, what really paid,

::

I think one,

::

I'm gonna say the funny thing first.

::

I think it's funny that

::

nobody in the city flinched.

::

Like they accepted Roberto,

::

but when they saw that

::

motherfucker get the killing,

::

nobody flinched in the city.

::

Nobody,

::

they still party with him and threw

::

the blue paint up when they

::

won the soccer game.

::

I was like, you know what?

::

I fucked with that.

::

They say, yeah,

::

we got somebody to protect us.

::

Shout out to this black man

::

coming to protect us.

::

But on the other side,

::

I do like how they set up

::

how important things were to him.

::

Because something so simple

::

like the man who owns the

::

fish market getting beat up

::

in the freezer.

::

And you can hear it from outside the door.

::

That simple scene where it

::

wasn't a lot going on at all.

::

He's just beating the shit

::

out of this man.

::

And shout out to the guy who played...

::

the shop owner that

::

motherfucker made that shit

::

feel real it could have

::

felt corny as hell and

::

unreal but that is what set

::

Denzel off on that route

::

was like he knew he wasn't

::

healed up enough he knew he

::

could not fight those dudes

::

where he was but that scene

::

to me was like oh yeah like

::

that and then them and then

::

the young the beautiful

::

young lady saying they see

::

you as one of them like

::

that solidified his

::

placement in the city and I

::

like that a lot yeah yeah a

::

hundred percent

::

Any other final thoughts

::

that you all have about Equalizer three?

::

The only thing there were

::

just two things left,

::

one positive and one critical.

::

The critical thing was that

::

the terrorist subplot was a

::

little underbaked for me.

::

I could have had more of that.

::

I could have had more of the

::

political maneuvering of that.

::

That is how I found out that I'm like,

::

trending older with these

::

movies because I was like

::

look at these look at this

::

italy isn't italy wonderful

::

this is so nice he's there

::

yeah there's a little bit

::

of blood but look how nice

::

italy is he's having such a

::

nice time you sound like a

::

stereotypical midwest

::

mother like italy great this is

::

A little bit of blood on the cobble.

::

A little bit of blood on the cobble.

::

So there's a little bit of blood,

::

but you know what?

::

We're here.

::

We have our happy hats on

::

and we're going to make the best of it.

::

Big smiling faces, everyone.

::

Don't worry, everybody.

::

I pack sandwiches.

::

We're going to have such a great day.

::

I got fruit snacks for everybody.

::

I got you.

::

I got you.

::

And I know what we're doing for dinner.

::

What kind, Brian?

::

They're the Welch's variety.

::

I'll go anywhere with you.

::

They're the ones at Murphy's.

::

No,

::

I'm not doing this Sam's Club generic

::

fruit pack bullshit.

::

Where am I meeting you?

::

For how long?

::

I mean, Brittany is on record of,

::

I have snacks in my purse,

::

not for my children, but for my husband.

::

It's not... She knows that I,

::

at three o'clock,

::

She's like, three o'clock, I get crabby.

::

And she's like, don't worry.

::

I brought fruit snacks.

::

I'm like, fucking good.

::

This is going down south.

::

I can always tell.

::

She's like, hey,

::

you kind of got really mad

::

at that dude who was just driving.

::

Like, your road rage is a little extra.

::

Here's a fruit snack.

::

Oh, man.

::

That's how I know Brian and

::

I's anger is different

::

because my anger is like,

::

do you see this fucking dipshit?

::

Look at him.

::

Look at him driving over there,

::

that fucking moron.

::

The gull.

::

The gull of that guy.

::

Brittany,

::

take the first leg and just puts

::

it right in your cheek.

::

Brittany, go.

::

You want raspberry?

::

Take that.

::

Yep, yep.

::

Okay, last little tangent.

::

Here's one thing that we're

::

starting to notice.

::

Harrison,

::

I need to be careful because

::

Harrison is starting to turn into me.

::

There is somebody who does

::

something and he'll be like...

::

I don't understand why he did that at all.

::

And Brittany starts laughing and I'm like,

::

what's so funny?

::

She goes, is you.

::

And I was like, no, she's like, no,

::

that's something you have

::

said out loud to other people.

::

So does he do it with your cadence?

::

I don't understand why he did that.

::

Yes.

::

Yes.

::

That is exactly how I've,

::

I've ruined things.

::

Yes.

::

To your point, Brian, like, yes,

::

that you're absolutely right.

::

Of like,

::

Carry on.

::

I don't know.

::

I could have had a little

::

bit more political.

::

I agree.

::

But it's fine.

::

It's totally fine.

::

And then I blink if you miss it,

::

because the way that they I

::

liked how they were trying to connect it.

::

Like, yeah,

::

you think this little thing in

::

this little city is a one off,

::

but it is a part of this

::

bigger terrorist sale funding.

::

Right.

::

Maybe we should have hit on

::

that a little bit more.

::

But yeah, I get it.

::

yeah no and then I like the

::

finale I liked how it was

::

like almost like a scary

::

movie in reverse like that

::

was totally my vibe I loved

::

that this is a good movie

::

that shit happened that

::

dude when he was stepping

::

on glass and shit like that

::

I was like god damn I felt

::

like I had it in my foot

::

the sound was done very

::

well yes very very well

::

Marcus any other final thoughts for you

::

No, I mean, I really enjoyed the movie.

::

I think it was a great Patty pick,

::

so shout out to Mace for the Patty pick.

::

Yep, shout out to Mace.

::

This makes me want to go

::

back and watch two in one.

::

I was just about to kind of

::

say the same thing.

::

It's a great conclusion to all three.

::

I think you could watch all

::

three straight through and

::

get a different feeling from each one.

::

Yeah, I think they're on Paramount+,

::

so it's pretty easy to do.

::

Fun stuff.

::

Cool.

::

Well, Mace, thanks for the recommendation.

::

We appreciate it.

::

And if you'd like to

::

recommend our next movie,

::

sign up for the Patreon.

::

Go over to patreon.com slash

::

films in black and white.

::

Sign up over there.

::

Gentlemen,

::

what do you all have to plug this week?

::

Hey folks,

::

I'm here to tell you about the

::

Etsy shop via the love nerds.

::

So you can go find it by, Oh, you're good.

::

The banner was good.

::

The banner was good.

::

You can go to the love nerds.com.

::

There's a link there to the Etsy shop.

::

You can take a look around the blog,

::

find recipes if you want.

::

But Maggie is now producing

::

new material for the Love

::

Nerds Etsy shop.

::

So you can go find

::

everything she's offering there.

::

More than just party supplies.

::

We're talking,

::

there's a whole range of things.

::

Go check it out yourself at lovenerds.com.

::

Absolutely.

::

Marcus, what do you got?

::

Oh, you know what it is.

::

You got to follow the mantra.

::

Never offend it.

::

Always humble.

::

Soul Tide put out a new song

::

called Fooling You.

::

It is a country jam of the summer.

::

So make sure that you go and listen.

::

Thank you.

::

Make sure you go and listen to that.

::

S-O-U-L-T-Y-E.

::

And the song is called Fooling You.

::

you all right um I'm also

::

dropping new music very

::

soon I'm gonna be dropping

::

um my first single for my

::

next short project my short

::

ep called big texas um

::

extortion will be dropping

::

here very very soon and so

::

I'm very excited about it

::

just a lot just a small

::

package of music of

::

creating and going.

::

I also want to give a huge, huge,

::

huge shout out to the AV

::

Lounge here in Vermilion,

::

South Dakota and Studio B,

::

which is where I have been

::

going to record my music.

::

It is also a podcasting space and it is a,

::

like if you need to go in

::

and record your music, record your audio,

::

you can do it with someone

::

there or you can do it by yourself,

::

but just shout out to

::

Studio B at the AV Lounge

::

here in Vermilion, South Dakota.

::

You can always reach out to

::

Joe or reach out to the AV

::

Lounge to schedule your

::

time to get some recording in today.

::

I mean, that's free promo.

::

That's not paid promo.

::

I genuinely found a place

::

because I got new neighbors

::

and I need to go record

::

like in a space where, you know,

::

I can really open up a

::

little bit more and I don't

::

want to disturb nobody.

::

This place has been clutch.

::

I spent four hours in there

::

this past weekend by myself recording.

::

So really good.

::

Oh, yeah.

::

That's dope.

::

Shout out to the AV lounge.

::

I would like to plug this podcast.

::

So if you had fun listening,

::

you had fun with the silly

::

moments from us and our

::

talk of the equalizer,

::

share us with a friend or a

::

family member.

::

That is the best way to

::

support the podcast.

::

You love is just that sort

::

of word of mouth advertising.

::

But if you want to help us

::

pick our next Patty family movie,

::

or if you want to just help

::

support the show,

::

go over to patrion.com

::

slash films in black and white,

::

sign up for what are our tiers there.

::

Also want to remind folks

::

that this weekend at the

::

coyote twin is the vortex film festival.

::

There's going to be a link

::

in the episode description

::

about how you purchase your tickets.

::

A lot of really cool stuff

::

going on with that.

::

So be sure to head over there,

::

sign up for that.

::

especially if you're in town, look, y'all,

::

there's no reason to miss this.

::

Like this is going to be a

::

really cool like film festival.

::

It's going to be a great

::

thing for you all to check

::

out and it's going to be a lot of fun.

::

So support your local theater,

::

support the film festival.

::

And that's what I got.

::

But gentlemen,

::

we have a three step process to success.

::

So Brian, what is that first step, sir?

::

Hey folks,

::

I'm here to tell you to read a book.

::

That's right.

::

Just pick up any book.

::

It can be an instruction booklet.

::

I don't care.

::

Just read anything.

::

And then you find out the more you read,

::

the easier it is to read.

::

So just read a book.

::

Yeah.

::

Didn't realize that's where you're going,

::

but I completely agree.

::

Marcus, lay us down that second step.

::

Make sure you drink some water.

::

Listen, it's getting a little.

::

chilly outside.

::

It's getting a little nippy, just a hair.

::

All right.

::

But before the summer is over,

::

that doesn't mean you need

::

to stop drinking water.

::

Go ahead.

::

Keep drinking water so you

::

can prepare for the winter time.

::

You know,

::

all that moisture is going to be gone.

::

Ain't no vitamin D. You want

::

to keep that skin on and popping.

::

So drink some water,

::

treat yourself to something

::

nice while you're at it.

::

Some Voss, some all that good stuff.

::

Absolutely.

::

And that third step is, look, y'all,

::

wash your ass.

::

I saw an article that the

::

New York Post made where it

::

said like that washing your

::

body was just it had no medical benefit.

::

The medical benefit is your

::

ass don't stink.

::

So I did see one practice

::

media literacy and to wash

::

your ass like that.

::

Yeah.

::

Even if it doesn't,

::

even if it doesn't like,

::

let's take this out this way.

::

Even if it doesn't have any

::

like medical benefit, you, I mean,

::

you're still not carrying

::

around that stink of a

::

stinky ass with you wherever you go.

::

And so make sure you get up

::

in it with some soap and water,

::

wash your legs, just wash your ass.

::

It's important.

::

So, um,

::

And then step four from

::

Roman this week is be a

::

gooder person than you think you are,

::

which is good advice.

::

Absolutely.

::

Gooder, huh?

::

Gooder.

::

That's fine.

::

I'm not going to question it.

::

That's fine.

::

Gentlemen,

::

that does it for this week's

::

episode of Films in Black and White.

::

We'll be back next week with

::

another fantastic episode.

::

But in the meantime,

::

and in the between time, stay safe,

::

stay healthy.

::

We love y'all.

::

We appreciate y'all.

::

We'll catch y'all next week.

::

Marcus, do you think you're playing music?

::

Am I not playing music?

::

You are not.

::

What the hell is that?

::

I don't know.

::

I just didn't say anything.

::

I'm going to jump in.

::

Close that shit out, Brian.

::

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