January 13, 2025 • 38 mins
Mattson, Alec and JJ dive deep into the film "Get Out," exploring its unique blend of horror and social commentary. They engage in a lively debate about the film's effectiveness, with one expressing a strong appreciation for its suspenseful storytelling and unexpected twists. In contrast, another host critiques the pacing and execution, arguing that it fails to maintain suspense and ultimately leaves viewers bored. The discussion also touches on the film's cultural implications, particularly regarding the portrayal of race and the decisions made by characters that defy typical horror movie logic. As they reflect on the standout performances and the film's original screenplay, the hosts provide a well-rounded analysis that highlights both strengths and weaknesses, ensuring an engaging conversation for film enthusiasts.
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But I want to hear what Alechas to say.
I don't care what I just said.
I want to hear what Al has to say.
I completely disagree withalmost everything you said.
Welcome to the what's Our Very podcast.
We fashion ourselves cinematicjudge and Jerry.
(00:20):
My name is J.J.
crowder.
I'm here with my co host Matt Ander.
Better Red Than Dead.
And Alec Burgess.
Let's get it.
That was appropriate.
Welcome.
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Also, what will help us growthe podcast is if you tell a friend
about us, family members aboutus, really rich elite weirdos or
normal people about us.
Yeah, we're in.
We skip the weirdos.
Tell the normal people.
Yeah, other than the elitepart, we probably fit in better with
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the weirdos, but.
Because we certainly aren'telite, but.
Well, I'm not anyway.
You guys might be, but yeah.
Week two of OriginalScreenplay Month where we're trying
to find, go back and enjoythings that weren't just redos or
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things like that.
So we're getting.
Getting weird here, but thisweek, get out was released February
24, 2017.
It was written and directed byJordan Peele.
It stars.
And I'm going to screw thesenames up.
Stars Daniel Kalua, AllisonWilliams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine
Keener.
Okay, just the one name.
(01:47):
Caleb Landry Jones, MarcusHenderson, Betty Gabriel Lakeith
Stanfield, and Stephen Root.
It is about a young AfricanAmerican who visits his white girlfriend's
parents for the weekend, wherehis simmering uneasiness about their
reception of him eventuallyreaches a boiling point.
That's a.
That's a weird synopsis, butyeah, Matson.
(02:08):
It's about as weird as Matsonbeing on mute while he's on mute.
I was like, they had toclarify a white girl in this synopsis.
Well, sure, but yeah, that's a.
That's an interestingsynopsis, but sure, but yeah, let's.
Whose was this?
I think it was me, right?
This had to have been youbecause it wasn't Alec.
(02:29):
Pretty sure this was me.
I was like, this was an Alecmovie, but I'm curious to hear.
I mean, honestly, very curiousto hear what Alex has to say.
So this movie.
Didn't see it in theaters, butI heard about this movie because
people were talking about this movie.
Um, I like, I heard it was good.
I heard it was entertaining.
I'm not sure if I really heardit was scary.
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And having watched this, like,to me, this isn't a scary movie there.
This is like a, a thrillerwith suspense.
But I'm curious to hear Alec'sopinion on this.
He's a baby, but we'll seewhat he has to say.
Watching this movie, though, Ithink I.
Did I come across on TV firstor I just straight up read this.
I think I just straight uprented it.
(03:12):
I was, I knew there was goingto be a twist of some sort.
I was like, you could.
This movie gives you enoughlittle hints here and there, but
even still, the, the twist, Ijust, I don't know if I was fully
prepared for that.
And the, the way that thegirlfriend changed, like, immediately
I was like, oh, man.
Like, it's a little un.
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Not even a little.
It was very unsettling.
I was like, this is very terrifying.
I liked the movie and I kindof could tell it was gonna go that
way, but I really liked it.
I like everything that builtup to it.
It was entertaining, kept youon the edge of your seat a little
bit.
And the ending, I was justlike, whoa.
And then it had a good littlebit of comedic relief from his friend.
(03:54):
You needed that at times.
I like the movie.
I thought it was really chin.
I watched it with Tay like ayear ago.
She'd never seen it.
We had fun doing that.
I just think it's a unique movie.
Very interesting, weirdpremise and really good acting.
But I want to hear what Alechas to say.
I don't care what I just said.
I want to hear what Al has to say.
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I completely disagree withalmost everything you said.
Walk us through your emotions, Alec.
So I hated it.
Hated it.
But not because I was scared.
It was.
It's a great premise for astory, phenomenal premise for a story.
And I think that whoeverdirecting, writing, whatever, dropped
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the ball in several placesthat really hurt the story.
I mean, I was bored for mostof this because, you know, there's
a twist coming, and I don'tthink the suspense was enough to
justify the drawn out.
It was.
I was more bored waiting forthe twist to hit rather than excited
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or feeling that suspense.
I was like, hey, let's get to it.
Come on.
Like, we know it's coming.
I, I, the twist did kind of go.
I mean, the twist got me inthe sense that I was thinking the
entire time, what's her bucketWas hypnotized by your mom.
And so she had no idea thatthis was, you know, she was, I didn't
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think she was complicit in it.
And so the fact that.
Oh, yeah, no, she's 100 onboard was a twist.
Got me.
But I.
I'm gonna say something.
Okay.
You might want to edit thispart out, jj.
Oh, boy.
But five minutes into thismovie, I knew it was trash because
there is not a single youngblack man that is walking into the
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woods after he hears a noise.
In no way, way, shape, or formis Daniel Kalua's character, Chris,
ever going to go into thewoods after they hit a deer because
he hears the deer saying something.
There is zero chance that has happened.
That's fair.
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Never.
Never in a million years.
So after.
After that happened, I mean, Idon't care that he was still, like,
his heels were still on the road.
Like, that's already too far.
It's.
It's not going to happen.
Never going to happen.
And it's funny.
It's like, okay, all thecommon sense just went out of this
dude.
Ignoring every single lessonlearned over the past, I don't know,
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a couple thousand years.
And walking in the woods aftera noise.
No.
So after that, I was kind oflike, okay, this.
This is gonna have somehiccups and some stuff.
And it did.
There.
There was a few of them, but Iwas just like, I.
I feel like the story wasright there.
Story's great.
And they dropped the ball inthe execution of it.
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And so there was enough to me.
Wow.
All right.
Well, yeah.
Aj, what did you think?
I mean, first of all, I thinkI'll trust Jordan Peele.
A very funny black man.
Yeah, I was gonna say.
But.
But I do get your point.
Like, that is a fair point.
That's one of those thingsthat's always talked about in the.
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In that community is the.
Are you white people doing inhorror movies?
Yeah, that's white peoplegoing in the woods after annoyance.
Oh.
So, yeah, I mean, good catch.
But there's probably more to be.
What's the word?
I'm looking?
Like, to be funny or to be,like, have people be like, oh, that
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wouldn't happen.
Than it was to.
Because that's.
I mean, Jordan Peele, he's thekey appeal.
And, like, he's more surprising.
I think that was what, like,so this movie was weird for me because,
you know me, I love horror.
I love this kind of thriller.
Interesting story, new.
But I didn't see this in the theater.
I.
This was one of those weirdones where Key and Peele's comedy,
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for me, is either spot on or Idon't like it at all.
Like, there's no in betweenwith the two of them with me.
So when I'm laughing like I'mdying or I'm like, okay, this just
isn't funny to me.
So I was hit and miss onwhether I wanted to see it at all.
When I found out it was JordanPeele, I was like, him doing a horror
movie, how's that going to work?
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Like, all I'm used to there isthe key and peel show and the skits
and the.
So I was like, I don't knowhow I feel about this.
So it took me a long time towatch it, but I.
Everybody kept saying, oh,it's so good and it's so different.
So I went into it thinking,there's no way I'm gonna like this.
But then the first time Iwatched it, I was like, okay, I'm
with you though, Alec.
There are places where I'mlike, okay, it's a little overdone.
(08:37):
But I mean, I guess that'spart of the risk that you run in
a.
In most original something new.
Like you're not relying ontried and true story themes, right?
The like doing something new,you have to take some risk.
And.
And there are some places inthe middle of the movie where I'm
(08:58):
like, okay, let's move it along.
But overall, like, I love the story.
Like, I thought it was very interesting.
I saw the twist coming a mile away.
Like, when it was only theblack folk that were in like doing
weird, I was like, because toyour point, Alec, like, they do things
that are outside of our.
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The typical stereotypes thatwe expect in this kind of a scenario
and situation.
Like, how'd you get them toget trapped in this?
You know what I mean?
Like, no.
And so it's like.
But I think again, like,that's part of the cleverness of
it is to me, like I waslaughing going, wait a minute, come
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on now.
I grew up in the South.
They don't.
They're not doing that, like,get the out of here.
So it's like.
And I all like, to be honestwith you, like my buddy Lamar, one
of my best friends since I'm alittle kid like that lives in Kentucky.
I would just, every time I waswatching Stinking going, no, he wouldn't
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do that.
Like, like all I could hearwas Lamar in my head shouting, no.
And so.
But I.
It kept me engaged in themovie and having fun.
And there are some momentswhere it's like, makes me very uncomfortable.
And I think part of whatreally get got me about this movie
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was it's Not a stretch in myhead for a group of elite white folk
to be snatching people's brains.
You know what I mean?
Like, if that technologyexists, existed, they'd figure that
out.
And I.
It.
So it's not.
And I think that's what mademe the most uncomfortable about it.
(10:46):
It's like, leave, becausethey'll do it.
Like, you know what I mean?
Something up's going on, and Ibelieve it.
And so it was really when youget that reveal of what's happening,
and then I think the partthat, like, made my skin crawls when
he goes to attack him near theend and she just taps the glass.
I was like, oh, no, no, no.
(11:07):
I don't know.
Then the whole explanationcoming from Steven Root, you're like,
oh, gross.
No, you're gonna be, like,functional in this whole thing.
And then you tie that to,like, the part where I can't remember
the character's name, but whenhe comes out and she's like, help
me, or whatever.
Like, she has that moment ofclarity where it's her again.
(11:28):
I'm like, oh, God, that's just.
That's so vile.
And so the movie gives me theheebie jeebies, for sure, but I thought
it was.
She's stone cold.
I was like, yeah, that's somecommitment to the craft right there.
When you're dating someone forthat long and doing it that many
times and just knowing you'resending them to basically their death,
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I'm like, dude, you're some.
You're some type of way.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
In the ending.
Ending, like, she's smilingthrough it all, like.
Yeah.
Like, do you feel pain at this point?
Like, are you.
Are you there?
Yeah, it's wild.
Wild.
And I think that's.
I don't think there had been atwist that made me go, oh.
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Even though I knew a twist wascoming to your point out.
Like, you hear enough aboutthe movie.
You know, it's like one ofthose things where people are like,
I can't believe that happenedin that movie.
So I knew it was coming, but Istill was like, oh, gross.
Like, that's.
I was still good enough.
That made you, like, if youwere comfortable with that twist,
even though it's coming, you.
I mean, you're kind of messed up.
So.
Yeah.
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Yeah, it was.
Yeah, it made my skin crawl.
So I was like, that's clever.
And that's what I'm.
This is what this month is all about.
I think of all the movieswe've watched, like, the next one
we do.
Could.
There could be some argumentsfor that one, too.
But, like, this one, I think,fits the bill of original.
The.
What's believable to me is thehypnotist part is very believable.
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What they do there, like, andkeeping kind of a body, obviously,
the brain transference,everything, like, living on.
We don't.
I mean, sure, if we have thattechnology where us men of the people
are not going to hear aboutit, but the rest of it, though, like,
yeah, I could see thathappening tomorrow.
I've been hypnotized before.
It's a very interesting experience.
(13:16):
I can't imagine if I washypnotized for the wrong reasons,
but that stuff may behappening, too.
So I just.
Very creative premise.
And, like, you were talkingabout JJ Scary relevant to.
If you told me tomorrow therewas a news break that this was happening
somewhere, I hate to say it,but you'd be like, well, all right,
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that's terrible.
But I.
Not overly surprised.
Yeah, that's.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprisedat all, unfortunately.
I don't know what that saysabout myself or the world, but.
Or both, but I wouldn't be.
So.
And I think that's what.
Yeah, it's.
It hits.
I mean, with everything comingup, what's happening with celebrities
these days?
Come on.
Like, it's just like, allright, well, yeah, okay.
(14:05):
Yeah, that elite.
That level of elite was.
And I.
You know, it's interesting.
So I've been watching.
Not by choice, but Casey'sbeen watching this trash show as
she does on Netflix.
And this is, like, nopromotion of this show.
I don't recommend it, but it'scalled Selling Sunset, and it's a
bunch of.
(14:25):
Oh, I know what.
Selling to a bunch of elite,which you don't get to see most of
the people buying the housesbecause they're mostly famous and
they don't want to be anyway.
They're not getting paid to beon the show.
So it's like.
It's really odd because, like,you're seeing 50, like, 20 million.
I think the smallest house Isaw sold was, like, $8 million or
$4 million on this house.
(14:46):
I'm like, this is just adifferent world.
Like, and we.
Casey and I watch it.
Like, I couldn't.
I couldn't navigate.
Like, I'd be like, the blackeye on Hollywood.
Like, I just.
So if you want, like,Powerball and you were, like, trying
to buy a house, then you did a big.
The community, like, f.
Is this JJ Guy, like, yeah,get him out of here.
(15:06):
Like, he doesn't belong.
Like, absolutely.
Like, I would not fit.
But that's what I think of like.
So it was really interestingwatching this after watching like
three seasons of that show.
Casey's watched all eight atthis point.
But, like, I was only presentfor like three or four of them.
But I'm just like.
That wouldn't surprise, like,hearing the way some of those people
talk.
I'm like, yeah, I don't put itpast the elite having some nasty
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up their sleeve that you'relike, wow, we did that and felt okay
about it.
Okay, J.J.
well, you don't have to worryabout neighbors that much.
Even though your window wouldbe open at a weird temperature, they
wouldn't even know.
They'd just be like, all right.
Yeah.
I couldn't live in LA for theheat alone in the summer.
Like, I'm out.
It's not bad.
Not quite.
Arizona.
You'd be a walking sweaty pit.
(15:54):
Yeah, dude, I.
I'd spend all my.
I couldn't buy a house in thethose millions of dollars even if
I had it because my electricbill would be out of control keeping
the.
That big ass house.
California, the power grizzly me.
Mr.
Crowder shut you down.
His fuckers gotta go.
(16:15):
He's.
He's ruined our budget in theentire neighborhood.
Like, you need solar panels, son.
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, it's.
Yeah.
Anyway, I will say that therewas some seriously standout performances
in this though.
Like, that's.
I think the one thing that Ican give this that I surprised me
too.
I was like, weird, interesting movie.
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And I didn't like, I recognized.
So I mean, everybody knowsStephen Root, right?
Like, he's just one of those,like all I see give my stapler.
Like that's what.
You know what I mean?
I can't help it.
But he's great.
You see him a lot.
But outside of that, like.
And there were people.
I was like, I know their facesbecause they've done like bit parts
like the dad and the mom.
Like, I know who they are, butI don't look to them as like, these
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are our top of the line actors.
But I will say, like DanielKalua Loray, like all these guys.
Like, I was like, okay, theseare fun performances.
And I can't remember his name.
The chemistry was off the charts.
Yeah, well.
And the two like Betty Gabrieland Lakeith Stanfield, the two that,
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that played the ones that werealready taken over and dude just
absolutely killed it with thecreepy level and like the whole running
part.
Like, I didn't Know, make arunning scene be so.
But he's running out of fullspeed and just turns on a dime.
Like, see, that's the.
That's the first clue to get out.
Yeah, right there.
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Seriously.
Seriously.
Well, and that's what.
So I.
Again, I kept thinking about Lamar.
Lamar, who's just this vocal.
Why you.
Alec, you and him would getalong perfectly.
Like, don't run outside at night.
No, seriously.
And, like, all the conspiracy theory.
Like, you guys would get along.
(18:03):
So.
So, yeah, you remind me on somany different levels.
But anyway, like, he.
I just kept hearing him says,I was watching this for.
And even now, like, when Iwatch it the other day, like, I'm
just like.
All I can hear is Lamar going,nah, we wouldn't.
The instant one of them wasacting weird like, that, we'd be
hitting them going, what thewrong with you, dude?
That's all I could hear wasLamar go, n.
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That wouldn't work.
And he's like, even if theywere in trouble, that's what I kept
thinking.
Like, even if they.
He's like, no, they're acting weird.
I'm out.
Like, you know, go wrong.
Yeah, that's.
That's so.
It's just like.
And I.
Look, I love Lamar, but he'snot the voice I want in my head constantly.
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But, like, that's every time Iwatch this movie.
Like, that's all I can.
Yeah, I just picture him.
And I don't know if I've neveractually asked him about this movie,
like, if he likes it or not,but, like, he's the voice inside
my head when I watch it.
Like, no.
So, yeah, it was funny.
But I think another part thatreally made my skin crawl is the
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part where near the end whenSteven Roots explaining to him, like,
this is this dude, one ofthese dudes, like, heroes, right?
He's, like, explaining to himwhat's happening, and he's like,
I just want your eye.
I was like, oh, you are a up dude.
Like.
And he's like, I'm done.
Turn me off.
Whatever.
(19:32):
What a wild.
Like, that whole scene, there's.
Yeah, there's like, 10 minutesat the end, like, as they're revealing
everything in the lineup to him.
Escaping and, like, figuringit out.
Like, man, it just is, like,creepy skin crawly.
So kudos to Jordan Peel onthat because, like, the writing on
(19:53):
that dialogue is great.
Were you creeped out at all,Alec, or.
Or not at all?
You weren't even nothing.
Nothing put you on edge?
Nope.
I figured out Alex's safetymechanism with Horror movies, like,
anything that's got some scareto it.
Alec finds, like, the firstthing that he can go n.
This is.
(20:13):
Yeah.
And then he latches onto it and.
Uses it as an armor, holds onto it.
Yeah.
That's why.
That's why we've never gottenthis motherfucker.
Like, we put some seriousmovies to this dude.
And he comes away fine becausehe finds something that he's like,
nope, this is bullshit.
And then he latches onto itand never lets it go.
A little clarity is all I need.
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And it protects him throughthe movie.
Because, like, even the.
The I thing, as soon as theguy is winning this silent bingo
auction, which.
That.
That's a peel joke if I'veever seen one.
Oh, for sure.
This is silent bingo auction.
A bunch of rich, white elites, 100.
As soon as he wins, I'm like,oh, he's going for the eyes.
Like, it's just parts.
(20:56):
And so by the time we gotaround to that, I was just confirming
it and I was like, all right.
I was like, okay, now how doeshe get out?
Because there's no way thismovie's gonna end with him losing.
Right?
So.
But yeah, no, I.
I will latch on to whatever Ican, and I will hold on to it.
Yeah.
Use it as a shield.
(21:16):
It's the horror shield.
Yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, I figured you out.
Figured you out.
That's one more.
One more thing for me to lookfor the right horror movie for you
now is actually.
I don't know anymore becauseI'm getting braver, I think.
But if something like theExorcist probably will still give
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me, like.
And I don't know if I canlatch on to anything in there.
Be like, huh.
Well, I was gonna say.
I was gonna.
At one point before thingschanged a little bit, I was gonna
beg.
Now I gotta go to Rich.
Which might be more dangerousfor you, I don't know.
But I got a horror movie in mind.
(22:00):
I gotta watch it again firstto make sure.
But I was gonna be like, she'sgonna be begging, Charles.
Like, hey, I need a favor.
No, you.
You guys can do your.
I don't.
I don't want to be a part of that.
All I'm saying, all I heardthrough all this is basically, again,
our listeners know I'm a manof the people.
And Alec has invalidated hisreview this movie because he latched
(22:23):
on to something.
So you don't have to payattention to what he is saying or
what's coming out of his mouth.
JJ and I aren't gonna lead you astray.
Alec is blinded by his abilityto find something he hates, so he
protects himself from notgetting scared.
So just like, let's tune them out.
Alec, you can go on mute.
I don't even need you.
As I say, don't encourage him.
(22:45):
He'll stay on mute the wholerest of the.
The podcast episode.
Oh, I will say it did fit thebill, though.
I don't think anybody can argue.
There he goes.
I don't think anybody canargue that this fit the bill of the
original screenplay, which isin and of itself, like, so distracted
(23:05):
right now.
Of itself is, like, unique in.
In Hollywood these days, whichwe talk about a lot.
But yeah, it was definitely original.
Alec, wake up.
You're distracting me.
Easily distracted.
Disney shirt on.
I know, I love it.
It's like a walking conundrum.
(23:27):
Yep.
I'm just saying, for those ofyou that haven't seen it, and if
you're too afraid to watchreal scary movies, but you're feeling
up for something that'ssuspenseful and an interesting storyline,
give it a watch.
Yeah.
I will say that's one thingthat I do remember when this came
out, everybody going, oh, it'ssuper scary.
And I didn't find it scary.
(23:48):
I found it intense and I foundit unsettling.
Like, very unsettling.
But I didn't find it scary.
No, it's not like demonic.
It doesn't have any.
All those other, like, there'snot like, true.
I mean, jump scares.
There's a running scene, butit's not like even that.
Like, it kind of just builds.
You're like, oh.
But yeah, it was a lot likelast week's movie actually, where
(24:11):
the lighthouse made meuncomfortable a lot.
But it didn't.
Wasn't scary, but it was likethis one.
And it fixed all the problemsI had with the lighthouse because
it gave me a bunch of optionsto lean into and then clarified at
the end and gave me what Ineeded to feel like.
Oh, you know what I mean?
Like, it had at the end what Iwanted from the lighthouse.
(24:34):
Like an actual answer, nomatter how ridiculous that answer
might be.
Might be.
It had an answer.
Right?
So that's what I think I likedone of the most about that.
So did I say hi?
Hi, bags.
Oh, oh, he's not quite ashappy as he was.
Hi, bags, headphones on.
(24:56):
He's happy you say jj.
Oh, he thought about it again.
You do it.
No, no.
Can you say jj?
Is that a one hit wonder?
You're so focused.
Yeah, it's.
He get some things on his mind.
Well, what would we take fromAlec if we were trying to select?
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I don't even know if Alecwould be selected.
I probably just pass a bit.
You don't want anything.
Yeah.
On top of that, I not going tothe woods to visit nobody's family.
Soon as some comes running atme in the middle of the night, I
am gone.
I'm not telling nobody.
Camera phone, everything canbe replaced.
I'm gone.
There's a I would be gone fromthis party seven times before it
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gets so far.
That's funny.
I believe that about you too though.
Like, yeah, that's.
It's a do what you gotta dokind of thing.
I don't think that's like Iwouldn't leave.
I don't know.
I think I fit.
Like I'd just be like, whatever.
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That's weird.
But she's hot, dude.
Like, doesn't matter.
That's funny.
I can't see her like being hotor good looking anymore because of
how she like the lastingmemory of her.
Yeah.
Terrifying.
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Yeah.
Cold blooded.
Oh yeah.
She.
She plays that well.
For sure.
Is like.
You're like, damn.
And then like the.
What is it the picture albumthat he finds, like with all the
pictures of the previous.
I'm just like, oh shit.
Like, so I did have a questionabout that.
Yeah.
Who's leaving that out?
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Like, is it some sort of sick,twisted, demented, like you had a
chance to look and explore andyou didn't take it type thing?
Or like because Georgina's grandma.
Right.
I forget the dude who'slandscaping, but that's grandpa.
Yeah.
Like this is all the familywho's leaving the door open so you
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can go find these photos and learn.
I think it's one of thosethings that they just don't care.
You know what I mean?
Like, I think and the factthat you get to see like him fighting
and then she just taps ateacup and she always has that teacup,
like which now it makes sense.
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Right?
Like, and I think that's where.
I don't think they give a ifit's open, if it's not, if they figure
it out because they've got theace in the hole 1.
The house is under freakinglock and key for the most part.
And then something gets out of line.
Somebody gets out of line.
She just taps the freakingteacup and you're like done for.
Right.
So then it's like, well, we'llkeep you in the falling.
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And that made Me uncomfortableevery time they showed that scene
of him, like, falling backwards.
Like, that's like a real,like, thing for, like, drowning.
Like that kind of like fallingfor mouth.
Like, that makes me.
My skin crawl worse than mostanything else in this.
But.
Yeah, that's a.
But, yeah.
I don't think they care.
Like, I think that's why it's okay.
So he was able to find out.
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Man, just accelerate.
Well, the brother sure doesn't care.
He sure likes his job.
Well, yeah, that guy's up.
But that's the thing is youlike all the brothers up.
They're all up.
Let's.
Let's be honest.
Like, there's no.
They just.
He's up or just she's like, everybody.
That's a up whole deal there.
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So.
Yeah.
Anyway, interesting movie.
Interesting story.
Last thing I wanted, the deathscenes, like, the using the freaking
antlers.
I full on approved.
Like, that was.
That was a great kill.
Like, I was like, yeah, theabject violence at the end of this
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movie is just like, I'm all.
I'm here for it.
Like, because that's.
I like that too.
Where it's not just runaway.
Like, there's some seriousdamage being done on your way out.
I.
I like that.
So good stuff.
Do you guys know there was analternate ending that didn't play
well with audio?
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That.
What was it?
So instead of it being hisbuddy that shows up in the flashing
lights car, like, it's theactual cops, like, and they arrest
him.
Like, that's how.
Oh, yeah.
He was going for what reallyprobably would have happened.
You know what I mean?
And it didn't play well withaudiences because, you know, white
guilt is real.
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But, like, everybody watchedthat went, no, that's up.
Like, he got out of this andnow he's gonna go to jail for it.
But that's.
Yeah, that's how the safestplace for him is in jail.
No, no, what's funny aboutthat, though.
Is, like, I can see whyaudiences like it because movie wise,
like, I mean, it's just hardbecause we're so ingrained with.
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You have to have the feel good.
Not that this was a feel goodending, but, like, at least it's
on a better note than going toprison because, yeah, that's the
real world.
But most Hollywood movies, Imean, let's call what it is, we don't
want the real world ending.
Sure.
But I still think even the wayit ended, okay, so his buddy drives
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him away in the freaking TSA vehicle.
He's still gonna get likethere's enough of those people left
that they can still blame himfor what happened.
He's got evidence of him inthat house all over the place.
Like.
Yeah.
Someone thinking.
Yeah.
The more you talk about itthough, like, obviously not gonna
get framed for that.
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Yeah.
I mean, in the, in the, inreal time, it feels like a happy
ending, but when you think itthrough, not so much.
It's.
That's.
It's not gonna go well for him.
So.
Yep, I agree.
All right, let's rate it.
Matt, since your movie, yougo, what.
Am I gonna give this?
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I'm gonna give it a 4.
I like this movie, Rich.
I mean, great plot.
I mean to Alex point, like, isthere when you know what's coming,
do they draw it out a little bit?
Sure.
I.
I guess I just don't mind itthat much because I enjoy the acting
performances.
The twist is like, it's hardto say predictable because I didn't
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know exactly what it was goingto be.
But you knew something likethat was coming.
But it was still well doneenough that it was interesting and
intriguing to me.
Like I said earlier, if youhaven't seen this movie and you want
something that's a littlethriller esque and you're not like
a horror movie person, thisisn't horror.
But you'll be on the edge ofyour seat a little bit if you're
not like Alec and look for theone thing you don't like.
And then Jade, the rest of the movie.
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Watch this movie.
I think it's entertaining.
It's.
I've watched it a couple times.
It's a good re watch.
I still feel some of the same emotions.
So four for me.
Happy to have watched it.
All right, you go, buddy.
I'm gonna give it a two.
Great story in great acting.
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I think that they missedopportunities where you make just
a little adjustments here andthere and you can make this nearly
perfect, which is, I mean,again, you know, maybe get myself
in trouble but feed into thestereotypes a little bit like yuffie.
I.
I think Daniel Kalua could doit really well to where he.
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I mean, because he calls hisfriend a little bit occasionally
but have a little bit more ofthat kind of go back for like, hey,
there's something strange up here.
Some strange.
I'm gonna leave, maybe havehim try and leave a couple times.
But you know, he gets off theproperty or whatever and car accident.
Right.
Puts him back to sleep and hewakes up in the bed and kind of have
that almost loop happen alittle bit to where he's actually
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trying to get away and they'renot letting him.
They'll build that suspense.
And I think you cut probably15, 20 minutes out of this to speed
it along.
And I think you do a couplethings like that, then you have enough
to really start freaking meout because he's trying to get away
and he's not getting away.
But there's nothing that hecan really prove or remember because
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he's under this hypnosis.
So I think you do that and youmake it a far better movie, in my
opinion.
But I'll give it a two.
I'm not gonna watch it again.
Shocker.
Oh, it's a tough one for me.
I'm gonna give it.
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I think I'm gonna give it afour as well.
And I think my big gripe withit is it feels longer than it should
at an hour and 45 minutes.
Like, in the middle, for me,it gets a little sloggy.
And I think, again, thatpartially comes from the fact that
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it is an original.
Like, there's very littleleaning on your stereotypical tropes
within movies.
Like, there's some.
But most of them, they'regagging on them or.
You know what I mean, They're.
They're acknowledging thatthey're tropes, but they're things
like that.
So.
But I.
I don't know.
And I think that also hindersthe rewatch ability for me.
Like, I don't.
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This one's so in your face.
Once you know what's happening.
Like, I think re watching itonce, maybe twice, to see the things
that you might have missed,the clues that you might have missed
is great.
But then after that, like, I'm just.
Like, there's other thingsthat I'd rather watch that have more
entertainment value outside of once.
I don't know when.
I don't know what's going on.
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But that's very true for mostof Jordan Peele's shock and awe stuff,
like the US Movie.
I don't remember the otherlike them or whatever it was where
the Alien type movie that hedid, the most recent one, like, all
of those have really great inthe moment stories and the shock
values there.
But once you know what'scoming, like, it's less entertaining,
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at least for me.
So that's a big issue for meas far as watch rewatchability.
But in the moment, like, Ithink the story's great, I think
the acting's great.
I think there's someinteresting things that they did
to make it uncomfortable AndI, I think I give it a lot of credit
for being original.
I think anything that'swilling to be that original, especially
nowadays, like 2017, when itcame out, like, yeah, original was
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not a thing very much backthen, so.
Or now, so I like that.
But yeah, four for me as well.
I could have gone up or downeither way, depending on which argument
I wanted to make.
So.
Figured I'd meet in the middle.
So.
Now listen, our audience knowif you make some small scary movie,
you'll go from a perfect movie.
So that logic makes a wholelot of sense to me.
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Dude, it is true for everysingle movie.
If your movie's black andwhite and has crappy sound, you probably
get a four and a half.
Yeah.
Oh, well, for you, that samemovie, if you tweak a little bit,
gave a little color and bettersound, it's gonna get a five, so.
Well, when we live a life ofcolor, I'm not asking for much.
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I'm just asking what my eyescan see in everyday life.
But it looks so bad back then.
Like it wasn't real life color.
It was like pastels and muted shit.
Like it was weird.
They all just had bad eyesback then.
Technicolor was not real Technicolor.
Get Jordan Peele's character's eyes.
They're good.
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You'll see it better.
There you go.
This dude just be contrary.
I like it.
All right, well, Alec, telleverybody where they can find us.
Happy to.
So thank you for tuning intoour review of Get Out.
This is week two of OriginalScreenplay Month.
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Yeah, speaking of Patreon andCharles or cb, I have to show the
gift that he sent me.
Dude, nice.
It actually, it actuallylights up and everything.
Hate the movie, but I lovethis and it will find a.
A place behind me somewhere.
I've got to figure out how toget it to light up.
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It's kind of a difficult thingto keep standing up because like
the plug piece is really top heavy.
So like, I gotta figure outhow to get it up.
I think they designed it justhow it was in the movie.
Jj it's tough to keep up then too.
Sure.
Well, though, like, I waslaughing because the other day it
was sitting over here and Ihave it propped up just right and
my dog walked by and her tailhit it and knocked it over.
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And I was like, oh.
I was like, please don't break.
And then I started laughing.
I was like, wait, that mightactually be pretty funny if it had
broke.
But, like, I would feel bad,but it might actually make for a
funny gag.
So that, yeah, I laughed.
But yeah, no, I.
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Hasta love, Easter, baby.
Wait.
Magic out.
But I want to hear what Alechas to say.
I don't care what I just said.
I want to hear what Al has to say.
I completely disagree withalmost everything you said.
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the weirdos, but.
Because we certainly aren'telite, but.
Well, I'm not anyway.
You guys might be, but yeah.
Week two of OriginalScreenplay Month where we're trying
to find, go back and enjoythings that weren't just redos or
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things like that.
So we're getting.
Getting weird here, but thisweek, get out was released February
24, 2017.
It was written and directed byJordan Peele.
It stars.
And I'm going to screw thesenames up.
Stars Daniel Kalua, AllisonWilliams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine
Keener.
Okay, just the one name.
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Caleb Landry Jones, MarcusHenderson, Betty Gabriel Lakeith
Stanfield, and Stephen Root.
It is about a young AfricanAmerican who visits his white girlfriend's
parents for the weekend, wherehis simmering uneasiness about their
reception of him eventuallyreaches a boiling point.
That's a.
That's a weird synopsis, butyeah, Matson.
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It's about as weird as Matsonbeing on mute while he's on mute.
I was like, they had toclarify a white girl in this synopsis.
Well, sure, but yeah, that's a.
That's an interestingsynopsis, but sure, but yeah, let's.
Whose was this?
I think it was me, right?
This had to have been youbecause it wasn't Alec.
(02:29):
Pretty sure this was me.
I was like, this was an Alecmovie, but I'm curious to hear.
I mean, honestly, very curiousto hear what Alex has to say.
So this movie.
Didn't see it in theaters, butI heard about this movie because
people were talking about this movie.
Um, I like, I heard it was good.
I heard it was entertaining.
I'm not sure if I really heardit was scary.
(02:50):
And having watched this, like,to me, this isn't a scary movie there.
This is like a, a thrillerwith suspense.
But I'm curious to hear Alec'sopinion on this.
He's a baby, but we'll seewhat he has to say.
Watching this movie, though, Ithink I.
Did I come across on TV firstor I just straight up read this.
I think I just straight uprented it.
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I was, I knew there was goingto be a twist of some sort.
I was like, you could.
This movie gives you enoughlittle hints here and there, but
even still, the, the twist, Ijust, I don't know if I was fully
prepared for that.
And the, the way that thegirlfriend changed, like, immediately
I was like, oh, man.
Like, it's a little un.
(03:32):
Not even a little.
It was very unsettling.
I was like, this is very terrifying.
I liked the movie and I kindof could tell it was gonna go that
way, but I really liked it.
I like everything that builtup to it.
It was entertaining, kept youon the edge of your seat a little
bit.
And the ending, I was justlike, whoa.
And then it had a good littlebit of comedic relief from his friend.
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You needed that at times.
I like the movie.
I thought it was really chin.
I watched it with Tay like ayear ago.
She'd never seen it.
We had fun doing that.
I just think it's a unique movie.
Very interesting, weirdpremise and really good acting.
But I want to hear what Alechas to say.
I don't care what I just said.
I want to hear what Al has to say.
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I completely disagree withalmost everything you said.
Walk us through your emotions, Alec.
So I hated it.
Hated it.
But not because I was scared.
It was.
It's a great premise for astory, phenomenal premise for a story.
And I think that whoeverdirecting, writing, whatever, dropped
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the ball in several placesthat really hurt the story.
I mean, I was bored for mostof this because, you know, there's
a twist coming, and I don'tthink the suspense was enough to
justify the drawn out.
It was.
I was more bored waiting forthe twist to hit rather than excited
(05:02):
or feeling that suspense.
I was like, hey, let's get to it.
Come on.
Like, we know it's coming.
I, I, the twist did kind of go.
I mean, the twist got me inthe sense that I was thinking the
entire time, what's her bucketWas hypnotized by your mom.
And so she had no idea thatthis was, you know, she was, I didn't
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think she was complicit in it.
And so the fact that.
Oh, yeah, no, she's 100 onboard was a twist.
Got me.
But I.
I'm gonna say something.
Okay.
You might want to edit thispart out, jj.
Oh, boy.
But five minutes into thismovie, I knew it was trash because
there is not a single youngblack man that is walking into the
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woods after he hears a noise.
In no way, way, shape, or formis Daniel Kalua's character, Chris,
ever going to go into thewoods after they hit a deer because
he hears the deer saying something.
There is zero chance that has happened.
That's fair.
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Never.
Never in a million years.
So after.
After that happened, I mean, Idon't care that he was still, like,
his heels were still on the road.
Like, that's already too far.
It's.
It's not going to happen.
Never going to happen.
And it's funny.
It's like, okay, all thecommon sense just went out of this
dude.
Ignoring every single lessonlearned over the past, I don't know,
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a couple thousand years.
And walking in the woods aftera noise.
No.
So after that, I was kind oflike, okay, this.
This is gonna have somehiccups and some stuff.
And it did.
There.
There was a few of them, but Iwas just like, I.
I feel like the story wasright there.
Story's great.
And they dropped the ball inthe execution of it.
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And so there was enough to me.
Wow.
All right.
Well, yeah.
Aj, what did you think?
I mean, first of all, I thinkI'll trust Jordan Peele.
A very funny black man.
Yeah, I was gonna say.
But.
But I do get your point.
Like, that is a fair point.
That's one of those thingsthat's always talked about in the.
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In that community is the.
Are you white people doing inhorror movies?
Yeah, that's white peoplegoing in the woods after annoyance.
Oh.
So, yeah, I mean, good catch.
But there's probably more to be.
What's the word?
I'm looking?
Like, to be funny or to be,like, have people be like, oh, that
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wouldn't happen.
Than it was to.
Because that's.
I mean, Jordan Peele, he's thekey appeal.
And, like, he's more surprising.
I think that was what, like,so this movie was weird for me because,
you know me, I love horror.
I love this kind of thriller.
Interesting story, new.
But I didn't see this in the theater.
I.
This was one of those weirdones where Key and Peele's comedy,
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for me, is either spot on or Idon't like it at all.
Like, there's no in betweenwith the two of them with me.
So when I'm laughing like I'mdying or I'm like, okay, this just
isn't funny to me.
So I was hit and miss onwhether I wanted to see it at all.
When I found out it was JordanPeele, I was like, him doing a horror
movie, how's that going to work?
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Like, all I'm used to there isthe key and peel show and the skits
and the.
So I was like, I don't knowhow I feel about this.
So it took me a long time towatch it, but I.
Everybody kept saying, oh,it's so good and it's so different.
So I went into it thinking,there's no way I'm gonna like this.
But then the first time Iwatched it, I was like, okay, I'm
with you though, Alec.
There are places where I'mlike, okay, it's a little overdone.
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But I mean, I guess that'spart of the risk that you run in
a.
In most original something new.
Like you're not relying ontried and true story themes, right?
The like doing something new,you have to take some risk.
And.
And there are some places inthe middle of the movie where I'm
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like, okay, let's move it along.
But overall, like, I love the story.
Like, I thought it was very interesting.
I saw the twist coming a mile away.
Like, when it was only theblack folk that were in like doing
weird, I was like, because toyour point, Alec, like, they do things
that are outside of our.
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The typical stereotypes thatwe expect in this kind of a scenario
and situation.
Like, how'd you get them toget trapped in this?
You know what I mean?
Like, no.
And so it's like.
But I think again, like,that's part of the cleverness of
it is to me, like I waslaughing going, wait a minute, come
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on now.
I grew up in the South.
They don't.
They're not doing that, like,get the out of here.
So it's like.
And I all like, to be honestwith you, like my buddy Lamar, one
of my best friends since I'm alittle kid like that lives in Kentucky.
I would just, every time I waswatching Stinking going, no, he wouldn't
(10:05):
do that.
Like, like all I could hearwas Lamar in my head shouting, no.
And so.
But I.
It kept me engaged in themovie and having fun.
And there are some momentswhere it's like, makes me very uncomfortable.
And I think part of whatreally get got me about this movie
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was it's Not a stretch in myhead for a group of elite white folk
to be snatching people's brains.
You know what I mean?
Like, if that technologyexists, existed, they'd figure that
out.
And I.
It.
So it's not.
And I think that's what mademe the most uncomfortable about it.
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It's like, leave, becausethey'll do it.
Like, you know what I mean?
Something up's going on, and Ibelieve it.
And so it was really when youget that reveal of what's happening,
and then I think the partthat, like, made my skin crawls when
he goes to attack him near theend and she just taps the glass.
I was like, oh, no, no, no.
(11:07):
I don't know.
Then the whole explanationcoming from Steven Root, you're like,
oh, gross.
No, you're gonna be, like,functional in this whole thing.
And then you tie that to,like, the part where I can't remember
the character's name, but whenhe comes out and she's like, help
me, or whatever.
Like, she has that moment ofclarity where it's her again.
(11:28):
I'm like, oh, God, that's just.
That's so vile.
And so the movie gives me theheebie jeebies, for sure, but I thought
it was.
She's stone cold.
I was like, yeah, that's somecommitment to the craft right there.
When you're dating someone forthat long and doing it that many
times and just knowing you'resending them to basically their death,
(11:50):
I'm like, dude, you're some.
You're some type of way.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
In the ending.
Ending, like, she's smilingthrough it all, like.
Yeah.
Like, do you feel pain at this point?
Like, are you.
Are you there?
Yeah, it's wild.
Wild.
And I think that's.
I don't think there had been atwist that made me go, oh.
(12:13):
Even though I knew a twist wascoming to your point out.
Like, you hear enough aboutthe movie.
You know, it's like one ofthose things where people are like,
I can't believe that happenedin that movie.
So I knew it was coming, but Istill was like, oh, gross.
Like, that's.
I was still good enough.
That made you, like, if youwere comfortable with that twist,
even though it's coming, you.
I mean, you're kind of messed up.
So.
Yeah.
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Yeah, it was.
Yeah, it made my skin crawl.
So I was like, that's clever.
And that's what I'm.
This is what this month is all about.
I think of all the movieswe've watched, like, the next one
we do.
Could.
There could be some argumentsfor that one, too.
But, like, this one, I think,fits the bill of original.
The.
What's believable to me is thehypnotist part is very believable.
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What they do there, like, andkeeping kind of a body, obviously,
the brain transference,everything, like, living on.
We don't.
I mean, sure, if we have thattechnology where us men of the people
are not going to hear aboutit, but the rest of it, though, like,
yeah, I could see thathappening tomorrow.
I've been hypnotized before.
It's a very interesting experience.
(13:16):
I can't imagine if I washypnotized for the wrong reasons,
but that stuff may behappening, too.
So I just.
Very creative premise.
And, like, you were talkingabout JJ Scary relevant to.
If you told me tomorrow therewas a news break that this was happening
somewhere, I hate to say it,but you'd be like, well, all right,
(13:40):
that's terrible.
But I.
Not overly surprised.
Yeah, that's.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprisedat all, unfortunately.
I don't know what that saysabout myself or the world, but.
Or both, but I wouldn't be.
So.
And I think that's what.
Yeah, it's.
It hits.
I mean, with everything comingup, what's happening with celebrities
these days?
Come on.
Like, it's just like, allright, well, yeah, okay.
(14:05):
Yeah, that elite.
That level of elite was.
And I.
You know, it's interesting.
So I've been watching.
Not by choice, but Casey'sbeen watching this trash show as
she does on Netflix.
And this is, like, nopromotion of this show.
I don't recommend it, but it'scalled Selling Sunset, and it's a
bunch of.
(14:25):
Oh, I know what.
Selling to a bunch of elite,which you don't get to see most of
the people buying the housesbecause they're mostly famous and
they don't want to be anyway.
They're not getting paid to beon the show.
So it's like.
It's really odd because, like,you're seeing 50, like, 20 million.
I think the smallest house Isaw sold was, like, $8 million or
$4 million on this house.
(14:46):
I'm like, this is just adifferent world.
Like, and we.
Casey and I watch it.
Like, I couldn't.
I couldn't navigate.
Like, I'd be like, the blackeye on Hollywood.
Like, I just.
So if you want, like,Powerball and you were, like, trying
to buy a house, then you did a big.
The community, like, f.
Is this JJ Guy, like, yeah,get him out of here.
(15:06):
Like, he doesn't belong.
Like, absolutely.
Like, I would not fit.
But that's what I think of like.
So it was really interestingwatching this after watching like
three seasons of that show.
Casey's watched all eight atthis point.
But, like, I was only presentfor like three or four of them.
But I'm just like.
That wouldn't surprise, like,hearing the way some of those people
talk.
I'm like, yeah, I don't put itpast the elite having some nasty
(15:32):
up their sleeve that you'relike, wow, we did that and felt okay
about it.
Okay, J.J.
well, you don't have to worryabout neighbors that much.
Even though your window wouldbe open at a weird temperature, they
wouldn't even know.
They'd just be like, all right.
Yeah.
I couldn't live in LA for theheat alone in the summer.
Like, I'm out.
It's not bad.
Not quite.
Arizona.
You'd be a walking sweaty pit.
(15:54):
Yeah, dude, I.
I'd spend all my.
I couldn't buy a house in thethose millions of dollars even if
I had it because my electricbill would be out of control keeping
the.
That big ass house.
California, the power grizzly me.
Mr.
Crowder shut you down.
His fuckers gotta go.
(16:15):
He's.
He's ruined our budget in theentire neighborhood.
Like, you need solar panels, son.
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, it's.
Yeah.
Anyway, I will say that therewas some seriously standout performances
in this though.
Like, that's.
I think the one thing that Ican give this that I surprised me
too.
I was like, weird, interesting movie.
(16:37):
And I didn't like, I recognized.
So I mean, everybody knowsStephen Root, right?
Like, he's just one of those,like all I see give my stapler.
Like that's what.
You know what I mean?
I can't help it.
But he's great.
You see him a lot.
But outside of that, like.
And there were people.
I was like, I know their facesbecause they've done like bit parts
like the dad and the mom.
Like, I know who they are, butI don't look to them as like, these
(17:00):
are our top of the line actors.
But I will say, like DanielKalua Loray, like all these guys.
Like, I was like, okay, theseare fun performances.
And I can't remember his name.
The chemistry was off the charts.
Yeah, well.
And the two like Betty Gabrieland Lakeith Stanfield, the two that,
(17:20):
that played the ones that werealready taken over and dude just
absolutely killed it with thecreepy level and like the whole running
part.
Like, I didn't Know, make arunning scene be so.
But he's running out of fullspeed and just turns on a dime.
Like, see, that's the.
That's the first clue to get out.
Yeah, right there.
(17:42):
Seriously.
Seriously.
Well, and that's what.
So I.
Again, I kept thinking about Lamar.
Lamar, who's just this vocal.
Why you.
Alec, you and him would getalong perfectly.
Like, don't run outside at night.
No, seriously.
And, like, all the conspiracy theory.
Like, you guys would get along.
(18:03):
So.
So, yeah, you remind me on somany different levels.
But anyway, like, he.
I just kept hearing him says,I was watching this for.
And even now, like, when Iwatch it the other day, like, I'm
just like.
All I can hear is Lamar going,nah, we wouldn't.
The instant one of them wasacting weird like, that, we'd be
hitting them going, what thewrong with you, dude?
That's all I could hear wasLamar go, n.
(18:25):
That wouldn't work.
And he's like, even if theywere in trouble, that's what I kept
thinking.
Like, even if they.
He's like, no, they're acting weird.
I'm out.
Like, you know, go wrong.
Yeah, that's.
That's so.
It's just like.
And I.
Look, I love Lamar, but he'snot the voice I want in my head constantly.
(18:49):
But, like, that's every time Iwatch this movie.
Like, that's all I can.
Yeah, I just picture him.
And I don't know if I've neveractually asked him about this movie,
like, if he likes it or not,but, like, he's the voice inside
my head when I watch it.
Like, no.
So, yeah, it was funny.
But I think another part thatreally made my skin crawl is the
(19:11):
part where near the end whenSteven Roots explaining to him, like,
this is this dude, one ofthese dudes, like, heroes, right?
He's, like, explaining to himwhat's happening, and he's like,
I just want your eye.
I was like, oh, you are a up dude.
Like.
And he's like, I'm done.
Turn me off.
Whatever.
(19:32):
What a wild.
Like, that whole scene, there's.
Yeah, there's like, 10 minutesat the end, like, as they're revealing
everything in the lineup to him.
Escaping and, like, figuringit out.
Like, man, it just is, like,creepy skin crawly.
So kudos to Jordan Peel onthat because, like, the writing on
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that dialogue is great.
Were you creeped out at all,Alec, or.
Or not at all?
You weren't even nothing.
Nothing put you on edge?
Nope.
I figured out Alex's safetymechanism with Horror movies, like,
anything that's got some scareto it.
Alec finds, like, the firstthing that he can go n.
This is.
(20:13):
Yeah.
And then he latches onto it and.
Uses it as an armor, holds onto it.
Yeah.
That's why.
That's why we've never gottenthis motherfucker.
Like, we put some seriousmovies to this dude.
And he comes away fine becausehe finds something that he's like,
nope, this is bullshit.
And then he latches onto itand never lets it go.
A little clarity is all I need.
(20:34):
And it protects him throughthe movie.
Because, like, even the.
The I thing, as soon as theguy is winning this silent bingo
auction, which.
That.
That's a peel joke if I'veever seen one.
Oh, for sure.
This is silent bingo auction.
A bunch of rich, white elites, 100.
As soon as he wins, I'm like,oh, he's going for the eyes.
Like, it's just parts.
(20:56):
And so by the time we gotaround to that, I was just confirming
it and I was like, all right.
I was like, okay, now how doeshe get out?
Because there's no way thismovie's gonna end with him losing.
Right?
So.
But yeah, no, I.
I will latch on to whatever Ican, and I will hold on to it.
Yeah.
Use it as a shield.
(21:16):
It's the horror shield.
Yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, I figured you out.
Figured you out.
That's one more.
One more thing for me to lookfor the right horror movie for you
now is actually.
I don't know anymore becauseI'm getting braver, I think.
But if something like theExorcist probably will still give
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me, like.
And I don't know if I canlatch on to anything in there.
Be like, huh.
Well, I was gonna say.
I was gonna.
At one point before thingschanged a little bit, I was gonna
beg.
Now I gotta go to Rich.
Which might be more dangerousfor you, I don't know.
But I got a horror movie in mind.
(22:00):
I gotta watch it again firstto make sure.
But I was gonna be like, she'sgonna be begging, Charles.
Like, hey, I need a favor.
No, you.
You guys can do your.
I don't.
I don't want to be a part of that.
All I'm saying, all I heardthrough all this is basically, again,
our listeners know I'm a manof the people.
And Alec has invalidated hisreview this movie because he latched
(22:23):
on to something.
So you don't have to payattention to what he is saying or
what's coming out of his mouth.
JJ and I aren't gonna lead you astray.
Alec is blinded by his abilityto find something he hates, so he
protects himself from notgetting scared.
So just like, let's tune them out.
Alec, you can go on mute.
I don't even need you.
As I say, don't encourage him.
(22:45):
He'll stay on mute the wholerest of the.
The podcast episode.
Oh, I will say it did fit thebill, though.
I don't think anybody can argue.
There he goes.
I don't think anybody canargue that this fit the bill of the
original screenplay, which isin and of itself, like, so distracted
(23:05):
right now.
Of itself is, like, unique in.
In Hollywood these days, whichwe talk about a lot.
But yeah, it was definitely original.
Alec, wake up.
You're distracting me.
Easily distracted.
Disney shirt on.
I know, I love it.
It's like a walking conundrum.
(23:27):
Yep.
I'm just saying, for those ofyou that haven't seen it, and if
you're too afraid to watchreal scary movies, but you're feeling
up for something that'ssuspenseful and an interesting storyline,
give it a watch.
Yeah.
I will say that's one thingthat I do remember when this came
out, everybody going, oh, it'ssuper scary.
And I didn't find it scary.
(23:48):
I found it intense and I foundit unsettling.
Like, very unsettling.
But I didn't find it scary.
No, it's not like demonic.
It doesn't have any.
All those other, like, there'snot like, true.
I mean, jump scares.
There's a running scene, butit's not like even that.
Like, it kind of just builds.
You're like, oh.
But yeah, it was a lot likelast week's movie actually, where
(24:11):
the lighthouse made meuncomfortable a lot.
But it didn't.
Wasn't scary, but it was likethis one.
And it fixed all the problemsI had with the lighthouse because
it gave me a bunch of optionsto lean into and then clarified at
the end and gave me what Ineeded to feel like.
Oh, you know what I mean?
Like, it had at the end what Iwanted from the lighthouse.
(24:34):
Like an actual answer, nomatter how ridiculous that answer
might be.
Might be.
It had an answer.
Right?
So that's what I think I likedone of the most about that.
So did I say hi?
Hi, bags.
Oh, oh, he's not quite ashappy as he was.
Hi, bags, headphones on.
(24:56):
He's happy you say jj.
Oh, he thought about it again.
You do it.
No, no.
Can you say jj?
Is that a one hit wonder?
You're so focused.
Yeah, it's.
He get some things on his mind.
Well, what would we take fromAlec if we were trying to select?
(25:16):
I don't even know if Alecwould be selected.
I probably just pass a bit.
You don't want anything.
Yeah.
On top of that, I not going tothe woods to visit nobody's family.
Soon as some comes running atme in the middle of the night, I
am gone.
I'm not telling nobody.
Camera phone, everything canbe replaced.
I'm gone.
There's a I would be gone fromthis party seven times before it
(25:40):
gets so far.
That's funny.
I believe that about you too though.
Like, yeah, that's.
It's a do what you gotta dokind of thing.
I don't think that's like Iwouldn't leave.
I don't know.
I think I fit.
Like I'd just be like, whatever.
(26:00):
That's weird.
But she's hot, dude.
Like, doesn't matter.
That's funny.
I can't see her like being hotor good looking anymore because of
how she like the lastingmemory of her.
Yeah.
Terrifying.
(26:21):
Yeah.
Cold blooded.
Oh yeah.
She.
She plays that well.
For sure.
Is like.
You're like, damn.
And then like the.
What is it the picture albumthat he finds, like with all the
pictures of the previous.
I'm just like, oh shit.
Like, so I did have a questionabout that.
Yeah.
Who's leaving that out?
(26:41):
Like, is it some sort of sick,twisted, demented, like you had a
chance to look and explore andyou didn't take it type thing?
Or like because Georgina's grandma.
Right.
I forget the dude who'slandscaping, but that's grandpa.
Yeah.
Like this is all the familywho's leaving the door open so you
(27:03):
can go find these photos and learn.
I think it's one of thosethings that they just don't care.
You know what I mean?
Like, I think and the factthat you get to see like him fighting
and then she just taps ateacup and she always has that teacup,
like which now it makes sense.
(27:24):
Right?
Like, and I think that's where.
I don't think they give a ifit's open, if it's not, if they figure
it out because they've got theace in the hole 1.
The house is under freakinglock and key for the most part.
And then something gets out of line.
Somebody gets out of line.
She just taps the freakingteacup and you're like done for.
Right.
So then it's like, well, we'llkeep you in the falling.
(27:47):
And that made Me uncomfortableevery time they showed that scene
of him, like, falling backwards.
Like, that's like a real,like, thing for, like, drowning.
Like that kind of like fallingfor mouth.
Like, that makes me.
My skin crawl worse than mostanything else in this.
But.
Yeah, that's a.
But, yeah.
I don't think they care.
Like, I think that's why it's okay.
So he was able to find out.
(28:08):
Man, just accelerate.
Well, the brother sure doesn't care.
He sure likes his job.
Well, yeah, that guy's up.
But that's the thing is youlike all the brothers up.
They're all up.
Let's.
Let's be honest.
Like, there's no.
They just.
He's up or just she's like, everybody.
That's a up whole deal there.
(28:29):
So.
Yeah.
Anyway, interesting movie.
Interesting story.
Last thing I wanted, the deathscenes, like, the using the freaking
antlers.
I full on approved.
Like, that was.
That was a great kill.
Like, I was like, yeah, theabject violence at the end of this
(28:51):
movie is just like, I'm all.
I'm here for it.
Like, because that's.
I like that too.
Where it's not just runaway.
Like, there's some seriousdamage being done on your way out.
I.
I like that.
So good stuff.
Do you guys know there was analternate ending that didn't play
well with audio?
(29:12):
That.
What was it?
So instead of it being hisbuddy that shows up in the flashing
lights car, like, it's theactual cops, like, and they arrest
him.
Like, that's how.
Oh, yeah.
He was going for what reallyprobably would have happened.
You know what I mean?
And it didn't play well withaudiences because, you know, white
guilt is real.
(29:32):
But, like, everybody watchedthat went, no, that's up.
Like, he got out of this andnow he's gonna go to jail for it.
But that's.
Yeah, that's how the safestplace for him is in jail.
No, no, what's funny aboutthat, though.
Is, like, I can see whyaudiences like it because movie wise,
like, I mean, it's just hardbecause we're so ingrained with.
(29:53):
You have to have the feel good.
Not that this was a feel goodending, but, like, at least it's
on a better note than going toprison because, yeah, that's the
real world.
But most Hollywood movies, Imean, let's call what it is, we don't
want the real world ending.
Sure.
But I still think even the wayit ended, okay, so his buddy drives
(30:15):
him away in the freaking TSA vehicle.
He's still gonna get likethere's enough of those people left
that they can still blame himfor what happened.
He's got evidence of him inthat house all over the place.
Like.
Yeah.
Someone thinking.
Yeah.
The more you talk about itthough, like, obviously not gonna
get framed for that.
(30:35):
Yeah.
I mean, in the, in the, inreal time, it feels like a happy
ending, but when you think itthrough, not so much.
It's.
That's.
It's not gonna go well for him.
So.
Yep, I agree.
All right, let's rate it.
Matt, since your movie, yougo, what.
Am I gonna give this?
(30:56):
I'm gonna give it a 4.
I like this movie, Rich.
I mean, great plot.
I mean to Alex point, like, isthere when you know what's coming,
do they draw it out a little bit?
Sure.
I.
I guess I just don't mind itthat much because I enjoy the acting
performances.
The twist is like, it's hardto say predictable because I didn't
(31:18):
know exactly what it was goingto be.
But you knew something likethat was coming.
But it was still well doneenough that it was interesting and
intriguing to me.
Like I said earlier, if youhaven't seen this movie and you want
something that's a littlethriller esque and you're not like
a horror movie person, thisisn't horror.
But you'll be on the edge ofyour seat a little bit if you're
not like Alec and look for theone thing you don't like.
And then Jade, the rest of the movie.
(31:39):
Watch this movie.
I think it's entertaining.
It's.
I've watched it a couple times.
It's a good re watch.
I still feel some of the same emotions.
So four for me.
Happy to have watched it.
All right, you go, buddy.
I'm gonna give it a two.
Great story in great acting.
(31:59):
I think that they missedopportunities where you make just
a little adjustments here andthere and you can make this nearly
perfect, which is, I mean,again, you know, maybe get myself
in trouble but feed into thestereotypes a little bit like yuffie.
I.
I think Daniel Kalua could doit really well to where he.
(32:21):
I mean, because he calls hisfriend a little bit occasionally
but have a little bit more ofthat kind of go back for like, hey,
there's something strange up here.
Some strange.
I'm gonna leave, maybe havehim try and leave a couple times.
But you know, he gets off theproperty or whatever and car accident.
Right.
Puts him back to sleep and hewakes up in the bed and kind of have
that almost loop happen alittle bit to where he's actually
(32:43):
trying to get away and they'renot letting him.
They'll build that suspense.
And I think you cut probably15, 20 minutes out of this to speed
it along.
And I think you do a couplethings like that, then you have enough
to really start freaking meout because he's trying to get away
and he's not getting away.
But there's nothing that hecan really prove or remember because
(33:05):
he's under this hypnosis.
So I think you do that and youmake it a far better movie, in my
opinion.
But I'll give it a two.
I'm not gonna watch it again.
Shocker.
Oh, it's a tough one for me.
I'm gonna give it.
(33:25):
I think I'm gonna give it afour as well.
And I think my big gripe withit is it feels longer than it should
at an hour and 45 minutes.
Like, in the middle, for me,it gets a little sloggy.
And I think, again, thatpartially comes from the fact that
(33:45):
it is an original.
Like, there's very littleleaning on your stereotypical tropes
within movies.
Like, there's some.
But most of them, they'regagging on them or.
You know what I mean, They're.
They're acknowledging thatthey're tropes, but they're things
like that.
So.
But I.
I don't know.
And I think that also hindersthe rewatch ability for me.
Like, I don't.
(34:07):
This one's so in your face.
Once you know what's happening.
Like, I think re watching itonce, maybe twice, to see the things
that you might have missed,the clues that you might have missed
is great.
But then after that, like, I'm just.
Like, there's other thingsthat I'd rather watch that have more
entertainment value outside of once.
I don't know when.
I don't know what's going on.
(34:27):
But that's very true for mostof Jordan Peele's shock and awe stuff,
like the US Movie.
I don't remember the otherlike them or whatever it was where
the Alien type movie that hedid, the most recent one, like, all
of those have really great inthe moment stories and the shock
values there.
But once you know what'scoming, like, it's less entertaining,
(34:50):
at least for me.
So that's a big issue for meas far as watch rewatchability.
But in the moment, like, Ithink the story's great, I think
the acting's great.
I think there's someinteresting things that they did
to make it uncomfortable AndI, I think I give it a lot of credit
for being original.
I think anything that'swilling to be that original, especially
nowadays, like 2017, when itcame out, like, yeah, original was
(35:14):
not a thing very much backthen, so.
Or now, so I like that.
But yeah, four for me as well.
I could have gone up or downeither way, depending on which argument
I wanted to make.
So.
Figured I'd meet in the middle.
So.
Now listen, our audience knowif you make some small scary movie,
you'll go from a perfect movie.
So that logic makes a wholelot of sense to me.
(35:35):
Dude, it is true for everysingle movie.
If your movie's black andwhite and has crappy sound, you probably
get a four and a half.
Yeah.
Oh, well, for you, that samemovie, if you tweak a little bit,
gave a little color and bettersound, it's gonna get a five, so.
Well, when we live a life ofcolor, I'm not asking for much.
(35:56):
I'm just asking what my eyescan see in everyday life.
But it looks so bad back then.
Like it wasn't real life color.
It was like pastels and muted shit.
Like it was weird.
They all just had bad eyesback then.
Technicolor was not real Technicolor.
Get Jordan Peele's character's eyes.
They're good.
(36:16):
You'll see it better.
There you go.
This dude just be contrary.
I like it.
All right, well, Alec, telleverybody where they can find us.
Happy to.
So thank you for tuning intoour review of Get Out.
This is week two of OriginalScreenplay Month.
What'd you guys think of our verdict?
Let us know in the commentsbelow what you think.
Special thanks to our currentpatrons, Richard and CB for selecting
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Reviews to get the votingrights for selection choices and
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With that, I'll kick it backto the King of Crash, the Titan of
Terror.
Jj.
(37:00):
Yeah, speaking of Patreon andCharles or cb, I have to show the
gift that he sent me.
Dude, nice.
It actually, it actuallylights up and everything.
Hate the movie, but I lovethis and it will find a.
A place behind me somewhere.
I've got to figure out how toget it to light up.
(37:22):
It's kind of a difficult thingto keep standing up because like
the plug piece is really top heavy.
So like, I gotta figure outhow to get it up.
I think they designed it justhow it was in the movie.
Jj it's tough to keep up then too.
Sure.
Well, though, like, I waslaughing because the other day it
was sitting over here and Ihave it propped up just right and
my dog walked by and her tailhit it and knocked it over.
(37:43):
And I was like, oh.
I was like, please don't break.
And then I started laughing.
I was like, wait, that mightactually be pretty funny if it had
broke.
But, like, I would feel bad,but it might actually make for a
funny gag.
So that, yeah, I laughed.
But yeah, no, I.
Thanks, Charles.
Thanks for being a Patreon patron.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
We always love your commentaryand choices you put us through and
(38:05):
it's been great.
So we appreciate it.
But yeah, thank you for theleg lamp.
Best part of that movie.
And then we'll find a place todisplay it.
So, yeah, there it is.
But if you want to know theshenanigans, go, go find us on Patreon.
We got all sorts of optionsand over 200 different posts down
there as well.
So it's been fun.
A lot of behind the scenes stuff.
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So with that, as always, weappreciate you tuning in.
We'll catch you on the next one.
Hasta love, Easter, baby.
Wait.
Magic out.
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