Ep 151 | Fateful Findings: Part 1

The Motion Picture Men wrap up their 2024 with a look at Neil Breen's Fateful Findings, the movie that boldly takes a stand against secret government and corporate secrets

Van's choice for MPM film is one of the darlings of the "so bad it's good" B-movie industry and it starts off with a literal bang as Dylan (played by Breen himself) is mowed down by a Rolls Royce in the middle of a crosswalk. But mystical powers that aren't ever actually explained allow Dylan to heal almost immediately and he winds up doing the deed while covered in bloody bandages in the shower. Let's just say there's a lot to unpack here, and you'd better put on some gloves before doing so

Episode Transcript

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Secrets and mysteries and government and corruptionand secrets and Boob two Boys. And
that's right, that's me Van Leeof the Boob two Boys. No,
I'm not. Oh, I alreadyscrewed it up. This is the motion
picturement Fellas. And by Fellas,I mean Spencer Hendrix. Yeah, that's
me. And you know you saidBoob two Boys. And I realize just
now I kind of missed the Boobtwo Boys. I'm glad they'll be back

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sometime soon here, sometime, veryvery soon. Well, what about you,
I'm trying to think of a goodway to fuck up your name,
Burdolla and Vaughan. Oh, I'mparanoid and suspicious, and I'm looking into
something that will change the world andperhaps bring civilization to a reboot. Well,
can I tell you you are infor a treat today, my real

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end. We have a film,a motion picture, a masterpiece in store
for you today that is so goodit will be right up your alley,
the alley of being faithful and findingit. Fateful Findings is a movie we're
covering. It's a Neil Breen movie. Guys. We haven't done a Neil
Breen movie yet. With the motionpicture man, it was inevitable that it

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would occur, and here it is, and this is the Neil Breen movie.
As far as I'm concerned, Ithink it's his kind of master work
of shit. And Neil Breen iskind of the master creator of shit active
today at least that has that sortof reputation on mass and I do believe
that this is his best movie.This is his magnum opus. How many

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have we seen of Neil Breen now? Well, I believe we haven't seen
pass Through and of course the mostreason when kaid the Tortured Crossing correct,
which means we've seen four of six. Okay, I have acquired both of
those films though, oh we'll bewatching now. Oh yeah, I'm sure
we'll get to it. They weren'tavailable to me until recently. They're very
hard to get. And first andforemost, I do need to point out

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that typically on our show we liketo discuss the cast of whatever movie or
show, discussing that is not reallyrelevant. That's a lot like what I
had with Miami Connection. There isno need, no need to get known
back me. In Online twenty thirteen, I had to talk about Jack Nicholson.
I had to talk about Helen Hunt, I had to talk about Greg
kinnear the rest of the cast ofAs Good as It Gets exactly. But
Spencer and I don't have that luxury. No, we have casts that are

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non existent in other films. Actually, I did see that the main lead
of this movie has also been ina different period piece movie, which is
interesting considering her accent. That Ican't play the main lead of this movie.
I don't believe he's been in anything. Well, no, no,
like the female lead. Oh okay, which, by the way, I'll
just go out and say this nowand reiterate it many times later. But

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that is my favorite character in themovie. Emily. Is she my favorite
character? I bet I'd get alongwith her for at least one very obvious
reason. Well, she's just sodramatic and I can't resist her dark turns,
especially opposite Neil Breen, who reallyneeds a foil. If I might
say so, and all of thatis fair, let's go ahead and just
get the cast then out of theway. I'm literally going to just name
them, with the exception of oneperson who we will then spend probably a

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half hour discussing. We'll just callhim n B. And we'll figure that
out later. Who we're talking aboutNew Balance. We have Neil Brain of
course, playing the main character,Dylan, and guess what he's who we're
talking about. But I'm going tosay that for the last real heart throb.
Next up, we have Clara Landratand that's Clara with a K.
She's Dylan's girlfriend, Emily. She'sa woman who develops quite the pill habit

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over the ensuing hour and a half. Her name is land rat, like
a land wrest. Them are rightbecause rats being kind of non amphibious mammals.
I'm going to tell you right now, we have such trouble getting rid
of rats once they infest a placethat if they become anything other than land
rats, we are in deep drop. You got water rat in your hands?
There. Ah, they're in thesky almost as bad as like an

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air dolphin. That's scary. Ohwell, that is our end. Well.
The actresses from New York but livedin Africa as like a diplomat's daughter
or something. So maybe that's whather accent is, almost Scandinavian or something.
That's where I was leaning, butI think it's made up. She
was influenced by a dozen different accentsand came up with whatever she uses.

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It's almost why Zoean and its abilityto confound it is memorable. I'll say
that much for her. Jennifer Autreyis next up and she plays Leah,
who's Dylan's long lost best friend andlove interest. Apparently possibly a head of
neurology. We'll get to that later. We also have Victoria Vivierios. She
plays Amy, Dylan's and Emily's friendand the wife of Jim, mother of

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Ali and Jim. Is then playedby David Silva, which is not his
real name. That's not what Ihad. What do you have, Tommy
Dreamer? Yeah, that's pretty close, I said, Jeff Bagwell, but
you know about the same. DavidSilva is what he's billed as. That
is not his name. Someone onReddit found him in a different movie and
he's not credited as that, andthere was some huge, big investigation.

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They never found the guy. Maybehe doesn't want to have been in Fateful
Findings. That's a shame on him. You know what. I'm just gonna
interrupt to say, what a title, What a perfectly Breenian title, because
it's absurd when you really think abouthalfway sounds like a movie title, but
it's hard to say, even thoughit's alliterative. Kind of weird, kind

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of weird, says Brian about NeilBreen. Well, after the four hours
that we're going to be using discussinghim, you might change your opinion on
that. Jim is, of coursethe husband to Amy and stepfather to Ali.
Do they get along? They suredon't do, but don't we'll see.
We don't really know Daniel Andrade,not like the wrestler, right,

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isn't that andreda and any Well,Daniel Andrade. She plays Ali, daughter
to Amy and stepdaughter to Jim,and she's a lustful thirteen year old temptress
of Neil Brain's character. That's unfairto say about any woman, though in
this circumstance when it's Neil you're talkingabout, because you're saying all women throw
themselves a Neil Breen. I'm tryingto think of a contemporary example of,

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like, I don't know who's hot, like a Ryan Gosling. Sure,
sure, Like who wouldn't throw themselvesat Ryan Gosling? Mm hmm. Okay,
I see where you're coming from,and I agree. So Neil Breen
is the Ryan Gosling of twenty thirteen. Correct, okay, you know what,
He's the Ryan Gosling of twenty twentyfour. Now, Ryan Gosling is

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the Neil Breen of twenty thirty.I wrap your brain around. I'm gonna
have to take some time to sortthrough this. Well, we're gonna cycle
all the way back to the beginningnow, because that's it. That's the
cast. There are some other weirdfreaks that show up, but for the
most part, these are the oneswe need to Not. Like all Neil
Breen movies, most of the castis comprised of people he's found He's stumbled
across, and I mean found literallypulled them out of obscuit, probably out

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of traveling circuses, things like that. Well, we have a bit of
a Tommy Wiseau's situation on our handshere. Because not a ton is known
about Breen's early life. We knowthat he was born on the East Coast
and had an interest in filmmaking froman early age. Eventually, he becomes
an architect because as a kid,he knew he couldn't make it the movie
industry. How wrong he was.He wanted to do something creative and he

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found architecture and I do admire thatabout him. I think that's neat.
And he, by all accounts wasa successful architect, because that's how he's
funded these movies. There was arumor that came out that he had a
real estate license and so he wassome big real estate mogul. The truth
is he got the license for oneyear and barely made any money off of
it. It was just a blip. But after Double Down his first film

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came out, someone searched him,found that and made up this thing,
and that has permutated society. Soanybody who talks about it thinks that's true.
It's not. However, the sentimentstands, which is, this is
a guy who's worked sort of anoffice type job for his whole life,
right, and he made some moneyon it, enough to make a movie.

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I don't know what the budgets are, they're not listed, but it
is not much. Fifty Butler.He does admit, very proudly in fact,
that he doesn't find himself to bescummy in the regard that it's you
know, I'll pay after we havesuccess or whatever. He agrees to contracts
up front. He pays people whathe agrees. There's no money issues,

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that sort of thing, like heschedules it like an actual filmmaker, the
difference being he doesn't know how tobe an actual filmmaker, and he doesn't
have any money. And also it'snot like this is a situation where someone
could have a stake in the filmand Breen pays them up front, but
the percentage would have been more whenthe film blows up. The ceiling on
a Neil Breen creation financially very low, lower than the one in this room.

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I think if you have an agentand your agent is dealing with Neil
Breen, you don't bother worrying aboutthat clause. You just say, just
give me a flat rate. That'shigh. Ye ah, dinner, get
me something to eat. I don'teven know if I trust that, because
Neil Breen did all the craft serviceshimself. Oh dear, he would make
food, but he would also buyit. But like he does every role
in the production. I bet it'sa lot like what he himself in the

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movie was eating later in the Yeah, well, I wouldn't want to like
grab hold of anything Neil Breen handedme and said, I my fingers have
been in this. Put it inyour mouth. Well, sometime in the
oughts, he decided he wanted tomake a movie. He'd made enough money
on his architect job. Presumably hewas Pete Lightning Boy architect's origin, we
don't know that. He says,I want to make a movie. So

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in two thousand and five, aftera little bit of production time and a
lot of taking a bunch of stockfootage and looping it over and over again,
he releases Double Down. This featuresBreen as a hacker genius develops a
biological weapon that can eliminate the LasVegas Strip. But he has a conscience
and he doesn't want to just harmthose who don't deserve it right, So,

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you know, there's a little bitof a question now, I want
to want to harm though the badpeople. Oh that you can't explain it
further though, I wonder if hecontinued to explore that theme. We'll see.
It did become a minor success,but it was not a big one.
It was not faithful fine for him, he was still kind of on
the fringes as an auteur, badmovie maker, whereas now he's a made
man. Now he is up there, He's in the pantheon. I believe

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we made it. Scorsese of Shittwo thousand and nine saw his follow up
film I Am here dot dot dotdot, and it's four dots, and
Ellipses says three. This has four. It's that impressive. It's an ellipses
plus I'm here dot dot dot dotnow, not then, not before now.
This features Breen as an alien godwho has come to the planet to

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punish the sinful and corrupt for destroyingthe planet. Now. He was about
as successful as the previous film,Double Down. It did garner cult following,
but again not too much. Allof these, yeah, are mostly
desert shots. These early ones hedefinitely filmed near where he lived, which
is the desert. So basically hisfirst four movies are ninety percent desert.

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Then it's Green Screen. Then comesalong twenty thirteen, and along with it
Faithful Findings, the movie were coveringtoday. It is what I consider is
magnum opus. Like I mentioned earlier, I think the earlier two movies were
sloppy, if that's understandable. EarlyBeatles pop album sure might you like them

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for what they are, but whenthey really come into their own it's the
full realization of all those ideas atonce. Plus some new ones, It
is realized, it is refined,it is crisp, despite not being any
of those things that there's reality,fat, dusty book em it, and
then from later the next couple ofmovies, I think the quality goes a
little downhill, but that's the mostnegative thing I would say about it.

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They're still enjoyable, and we'll talkabout those in his catalog a little bit
later on, But before we moveon to the next movie, I did
want to talk about our experience watchingit, because this is our first Neil
Brain movie. This was the firstthing we'd ever seen, and I remember
my story of learning about it.Basically our whole friend group, three of
us as well as your sister MandyBryan, also known in this podcast sometimes

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as AKJ five nine. That's theright. We all kind of had gotten
back together after not really talking fora few years, and we started watching
bad movies. I introduced The Roomand Purdemic to you guys, and we
started in particular with the Room watchingit constantly, and I remember my girlfriend
at the time, Gail, whowe brought up recently, was watching a
few of them with us, gettingkind of into it, and she approached

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me one day. I think shesaw something on Facebook about this next bad
movie that's going to be so badyou gotta love it, and it was
Faithful Findings. I saw a trailer, I saw the Facebook page, the
website. I could not get ahold of it. I think I mentioned
you, Brian, and you hadheard of it. Yeah. I had
heard of it because it was comingup on a lot of lists and some
bad movie podcasts I was checking out, and it really stuck with me because

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of the descriptions that I had read, like someone trying to take on like
this big of a theme with thisnon existent of a budget sounded really dumb
and foolhardy. Then I believe weall got together and watched the trailer maybe
one hundred times in a row.Nah, that sounds about right After that,
it was a while before we wereable to get a copy because it's

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huge build up. Yeah, NeilBreen is notoriously difficult to get that from
it. I actually love that.I look back so fondly upon that,
like my early days of having towait for BAM's albums to come out physically
and acquire them track them down,and that felt like that, like a
real luxury item. I wanted sobadly and when van when you finally got

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it, it felt like an event. Oh and we had an event.
We threw like a big party foreverybody, and it lived up to the
hype. That's the thing that sorarely happens. And it was literally a
couple of years later because Breen isnotorious for not releasing his stuff and you
can't even pirate eg well, anyway, he finally starts selling DVDs on his
website, which was Fatefulfindings dot Biz, I believe, and it was thirty

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five dollars but I happily paid itand back then that was still quite a
bit of money still as to menow. And eventually it was like a
month later it came, and I'massuming it came from his act actual physical
house, because it was a likeburned off a home computer. It's amazing,
in a jewel case with a labelon it, just like a ride
on and peel and stick label thatsaid Faithful Findings, which this again reminds

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me of when I'll order stuff frombands on band camp and they'll send it
to me like from their house orwhatever, and there's like a little handwritten
note that's like thank you and itfeels so personal, just like with Neil
Breen. There are some stories onlineabout people paying the money and ordering it
from Neil Breen and him like lookingthem up, or people suspecting this anyway,

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looking up their social media things likethat, and then learning that they
intend to like laugh, watch it, and then denying them the movie Amazing,
which I hope that that's true.I know he has a couple of
other things. He tries to limitlate night screenings, keep that to his
new movies when he does screen themin theaters, to keep like the rowdy

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crowd out. Well, he believesthat because he's older. He's I think
six five, is that what itis? I knew he was older.
Well also eternal. Well he looksa hundred, so he's a solid like
close to mid fifties and fateful finance. Yes, okay, that's important seeing
as how the lead or one ofthe leads that he acts across, is
supposed to have been at childhood friendtame age. They're the same age.

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I think she's older when their kids, which makes older. She's like way
bigger than that boy is. Butanyway, Neil Breen says he wants to
be like a filmmaker. He doesn'tconsider himself a novelty like goofy movie filmmaker
or I think late Night films is. He doesn't want to be putting that
in issue. He doesn't think ofhimself as a B movie guy. And
that's why it works in that category. That's why we can watch it the

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way we do. And I respectthe hell out of that. I mean,
these movies are embarrassing to have made, but the sheer sincerity of the
project, even though there's a lotof hate in it, less in Faithful
Findings than in some of his otherones, but it's still in there.
A little bit in Double Down andI am here dot dot dot, now
there's a little bit of misogyny Iremember, and there is in this one

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a little bit too, but itwas more uncomfortable. Well, anyway,
the moral of the reason I startedsaying when I started saying, was that
that's why he does the seven thirtyeight o'clock things. He thinks it's you
have one showing. Everybody shows up, they want to be there, it's
packed, they watch it, theyleave. It's not a you get drunk
at the bar and you come atmidnight and watch my movie. Because my
movies are good any once you'll actuallywatch it, not talk over it and

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laugh with people like we do.But by god, we watched it for
this podcast with headphones on and everythingin my case several times. Yeah.
Well, after the successful Faithful Findings, and there was a lot of it,
he releases passed Through. That's passhyphen Thhru like a drive through.
This is in twenty sixteen, andthat's a movie where he plays in artificial

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intelligence from the future which has arrivedat Earth to kill a bunch of humans
because they're destroying the planet. Ifyou heard this before, bringing a bell.
This one actually features Breen's first majorusage of green screen effects, where
he'll put something in front of thegreen screen and chroma key it out,
and we've dubbed it, of course, the Breen screen. It wasn't too
crazy in this one. However,everything since has been like eighty five percent

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Breen screen, and I don't likethat as much. It feels a little
fake. It feels like when Hollywoodwent from doing natural effects and puppets and
stuff for movies to doing CGI andI didn't like that then, So I'm
not a fan of that. No, And part of the joy of the
early Neil Breen movies and especially FatefulFindings is his hilarious idea of set decoration

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and CGI, and green Screen takesthat away. I understand his impetus to
say I need to creatively grow andtry something new, but he maybe needs
to do that again now change somethingup absolutely and who knows, maybe kid
the torture crossing is that thing?I don't think it is. You know,
we're gonna find out later. Tonight, pass Through was fairly successful,
not quite as well as Faithful Findings, but again, people still enjoy it.

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I still think it's probably a normalBreen film and it'll be a lot
of fun to watch. That's onewe haven't seen. Twenty eighteen, he
followed it up with Twisted Pair,which was the first film to really have
any sort of commercial release. Heactually had showings at the Alamo Draft House
released of his film, and that'swild. I would love to go to
one of those. Oh man.It does feature Breen as both brothers in

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a pair of supernatural chosen siblings thatare trying to rescue humanity from whatever themselves.
Probably the brothers are Cad and Kale, all terror and when Breen plays
Caid. I think he plays oneof them evil and he wears a fake
beer. It's my favorite fake facialhair ever in a movie, because it's
the worst. No it's not,it's it's just good enough to not be

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truly the worst actual beat. Butall the time it is so horrible looking,
but I love it, every bitof it. I also understand Neil
brain thinking I'm so good at actingnormal as one character that I should probably
take on a second one. Ithink it's fascinating to have any idea of

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what Neil Breen looks like with facialhair, because that guy doesn't have any
He knowesn't have hair anywhere, andI don't think he shaves it. I
don't think it's somebody buys. Hejust kind of looks like that, So
him having a beard is startling.He has that like grandma hair on his
head and then no hair anywhere else. And we've talked about this. With
his skin, it looks like ifyou pressed into it, it would just

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it would yield. Yeah, youcould push it in and he would just
he'd fall apart. He's physically oneof the world's softer men, and his
hair does also appear to be thatin the same way, like it's permed,
but not permed. I think you'dhave to be really gentle with him
or you just pick him into pieceshim real bad. Well, you know
how you see like skeletons, andI don't know if they really do this

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in movies or whatever, where ifthey died with a full head of hair,
the full head of hair will bethere. That's kind of like what
his hair looks like is a skeletonhas dyed and the hair's been there for
fifty years, but it's still there. I think that hair is like part
of his skull, do you think. I don't think it's like the normal
sort of follicles going on, andthat I think it's part of his bones.

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Thus it hasn't changed for his seventysome years on life. It came
out and stayed like that, andthen finally in twenty twenty three, Breen
released Spiritual Success for a twisted pairthat one's kid the Tortured Crossing. It
does apparently feature a return of thetwo brothers from the last movie. However,
he has come out and said,and again I haven't seen this one

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yet, that this is not asequel to the last movie. Despite starring
the same characters. I don't know, it's very weird. Maybe he just
means it's like another chapter in theirstory, but not sequentially after it or
something. I think he's just dumbin that way. That could be.
This may not be like a GeorgeLucas type deal where he's arguing the chronology.
He's like, this is episode eightCade and Kale story. I call

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it the Phantom Menace, and thenhe's watto. My favorite part of The
Cad and Kill when we saw itwas just how much of it was repeating
to each other, how close theyused to be. That was like seventy
percent of the dialogue was the brothershad fallen apart because one of them is
evil, the one with the beard, and the other one's trying to still

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do the right thing. That's oneof the most common causes for divorce in
this country is one of them's evil, and that's how they spend most of
the movie talking about that, lamentingthat this wasn't always the way. This
movie has a little bit of thattoo. Yeah, he does kind of
hit on his themes and really latchon. I'm wondering if maybe not a
lot's rattling around in the old noggand the idea. But apparently he is

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very capable of an architect, andI don't see it. I don't know
how this guy can be really goodat anything based on what I'm seeing as
movies. I wouldn't think design expertbased on anything, I guess, so
though, I guess it's like,holy shit, this guy knows his architecture,
you know what? I bet?In the I think I call it
the psychotherapy building because there's two differentpsychotherapists in that building, and one of
them may not be real, butanyway, maybe it's a hotel. Also

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it might be, but we seethis big, beautiful double staircase and all
kinds of stuff. I wonder ifhe designed that building or something, and
then he was given permission to filmthere. Further proof is those double staircases
almost look like a twisted pair.Uh huh. The buildings that they use
for this movie are all pretty attractive. I don't know if he was involved
in them. But even the housethat he and Emily live at, it's

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a nice looking house that's actually hishouse. Brilliantly, it's a good house.
The interiors are kind of gross,though, well they just look like
they were decorated by an old mangrandma. The taste is probably lacking.
Oh, by the way. InKid the Tortured Crossing, the story is
that there's a mental institution and theevil one with the beard is trying to
take the patients that are there andturn them into warriors, and then the

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good one is not letting that happen. Okay, well it sounds promising.
I want to see some of thesewarriors. There haven't been any warriors in
Neil brain movies yet they all lookexactly like the people in this movie,
which I would not be frightened ofthem. No, I wouldn't either.
Another thing is whoever was in chargeof costuming for got the bras. That's

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true, it might be a NeilBreen preference. Yeah it could be,
but also not really because you neveractually see nipple. No, you just
see like side boob. He seemsto be anti non Breen nudity. There
is exactly There is that same element, which is the Tommy Wiseau sort of
thing where you know, he wantedto show his ass because he didn't think

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it would sell without it, andI feel like maybe that's just kind of
pervaded all these indie sort of developerslike I gotta put my ass in it
too. But unlike Wiseau, whoseemingly wanted to leer it his whole cast
in the nude if possible, hewas asking every like you do nude with
Neil Breen. I think he maybethinks I'm the only one. I'm the
only one who can carry it physically. I'll sell tickets, but no one
else will. And Neil Breen notin Tommy Wiseau's shape at all. No,

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again, he's in fine. He'sa normal thing. He's a fifties
guy. That's fine. I guaranteeyou that guy's never eaten any meat in
his life. I could just telllooking at him. Well, I don't
think he can physically, as wetalked about, he's physically too soft to
tackle the prey and eat it likehow we do when we eat meat.
I'm just I think a stiff breezecould harm him. And that's how skinny

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and hurtful he looks. It's weirdto describe. He moves very delicately also,
which again the grandma thing applies thereto His movements are grandmotherly. All
right, Well, we have hellof a movie to cover today, so
I say, let's just get intoit. We're going to talk fatal Fateful
Findings. But cast oh man,so many people die in these goofy movies

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that we talk about, and it'salmost ignored for the most spart Like,
you get one grief scene and it'slike, hey, what in this movie?
It's almost entirely ignored. Well,the movie begins with a soft piano
theme playing in the background, andwe look skyward. There's a nearby building
and there's clouds just furiously passing byoverhead. The words Fateful Findings appear in

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the sky, much like how StarWars words appear in space. There's no
crawl, though explaining the story.In fact, maybe there should have been.
Honestly, it would have benefited thismovie a lot. This goes on
for a bit though, before wefind ourselves eventually in a clean, indoors
storage unit. It's probably refrigerated,you know, a real nice place to
put your boat or your kids things. After they move out, the camera

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slowly creeps towards a mysterious object atthe far end of the room. After
just moving at a snail's pace downthis storage unit hallway, we arrived at
the object at the end that we'vebeen looking at, and we learn that
as a massive golden tome. It'shuge. Its pages are flecked with where
some sort of fancy book and it'snot in one of the storage units.

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No, it's just in the hallat this point. If you just left
it here, I would actually thinkthat this could be interesting. What's going
on in the starting scene here?What are they setting up? Later?
Did Marlin rent this? I wouldhave been curious. The'd be like,
all right, let's see where thisis going. This could be interesting,
and then kind of just does whatit does instead. Well, it is
interesting. Now does he speak tothe book later or is he just talking

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to an imaginary audience. I thinkit's one of the faded people he yells
at because it looks like he's talking, because it shows up towards the end
and I swear it's like he's talkingto it. Yeah, well, there
were three people and they fade,the book still there, then he talks,
so it almost does look like he'syelling at the book. I'm just
trying to figure out the nature ofthe book and how it factors in and
why it's the first character we meetin this movie. Perhaps it is God.

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It is like the prophecy that foretellshim as the chosen One. So
you're saying, like, we asviewers are baby birds in this instance,
and the first thing we see that'smom and dad. So we see this
book first, and we're like,oh, must love book exactly, And
the filmmaker is instructing us to latchonto this book as an object of importance
early on. If you're showing itlike that that quickly, yes, I

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would expect you to follow up andactually have some kind of a story with
his book. Unfortunately that does nothappen. Also, more baby bird stuff
at the end of the episode.Stay tuned, But anyway, the scene
in fad to some aerial footage.We've got mountains, we've got cast names
of people you've never heard of before. Eventually we come across a couple of
children who're wandering through the woods.They're doing things the kids do. They're

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skipping, they're pawing at one another, it's just kids whatever. One of
them looks like she's probably going togo on into neurology at some point later
in her life. The other onelooks like it might be a Baby Neil
Breen. When we talked about MiamiConnection, we talked a lot about how
the movie Ykkem tried to do histake on eighties tropes a lot. Neil
Breen is not, to his credit, trying to do anyone's tropes. So

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each scene, from scene to scene, you cannot predict what it will do
because the mind generating these ideas isseemingly just like a million sided dice that
avoids human connective thought. Well,you know when people say things like,
oh, I'm in love with film, I'd love to be in the industry
or create my own films, Typicallyit's because they've watched a lot of movies,
yeah, or any or any atall. So that's my question.

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Do you think Neil Breen's ever seena movie? I don't know. I
would pay good money to talk tohim about movies for like thirty minutes,
even just I'd love to like NeilBreen. Give me ten movies that really
influence it. Influences would be interesting. Well, I really like Herbie,
the love Bug, Cars three.It's anything with a vehicle in it.
Yeah, the two kids are here, one's a young girl, one's a

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little boy. The girl does looka little older than the boy to me,
not a lot, maybe in ayear, because girls do mature faster
physically. They're always taller for alittle while. What are you saying?
Seven to nine? That's what thesekids are somewhere in there. The kids
continue to wander through the desert forestand eventually they passed by a very clean
ram skull, you know, likea goat a ram, except he watches

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him. It turns and follows themas they walk past, and the music
gets weird. That's how you knowit's gonna turn. Eventually, the kids
come across a fat little mushroom onthe ground. They're like, wow,
look at this mushroom. It's amagic day. And little Neil Breen boy
says, look, leah, amushroom. He opens up both of his
hands to point, because you don'tpoint with their fingers, you point with

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open palms. When he says this, they're also both right in front of
it already and looking at it.And why is that exciting? A big
mushroom? Maybe he knew what wasabout to happen. Are you hungry?
Well? He sits there like thiswith his hands out pointed at the mushroom
for a good long while, buteventually something weird happens in the shroom,
like opacities away, it fades.I have to really quickly address you,

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said, He stares out and pointsout it for a good long while.
A full probably five ten minutes ofthis movie is him not knowing when to
cut because he knows he wants todo an effect yeah, but doesn't know
how long the effect will take,so it's like, eh, whatever,
just hold for a bit, andhis editing process seems to be a lot
of good enough. Well, thisshroom feeds into a little baggy with a

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couple of ropes on it. It'snot unlike those old Crown Royal bags we
used to get from the bowling alley, the purple ones. He put lines
in when you play weird bowling cardgames. What a cool container. But
just then a ghost or wispy pieceof something appears and it whooshes and it
makes like a ghost sound, andthe little Brien boy says, look what

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I found a treasure, And thenthe camera cuts to the little girl Leah,
who's doing that fake smile thing thatyou do once you your parents put
them in like one of those beautypageants, and they don't want to be
there or like a Sears family photo. Yeah, it's that kind of grin,
that's what she does. And thenlittle Breen opens up the bag and
finds a little jewelry box which isyou know, encrusted with fake gold and

(30:29):
jewels, which he then opens tofind a square rock, which he then
refers to as buried treasure. WhenLeah says they can't leave the box empty
because that's bad luck. Ever heardthat that is not a superstition I've ever
heard of, Spencer. No,this cannot be real. No, And
I would have argued that if Iwere a little boy and Neil Brien,
I would know it's not that's notlet's take everything on there. I've never
heard that in my life. Andthat's again, Neil Breen's brain has all

(30:52):
this stuff in it in the movietakes for granted that we also have that
in our brains. Well, thelittle Neil Breen kid doesn't say, oh,
that's fake, that's not real,it's dumb, would be dumb.
He says, I'm not afraid,which why would he be, But that
means he believes it. He believesthat leaving the box empty. I don't
give a shit. Yeah, I'mmotorcycle, I'm tough, I'll walk under

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a ladder. That must be whatLeah sees in him all the time.
He's a bad boy. Yeah,every woman in the movie. Give her
enough time around Neil brings he's mostlytrue with the neighbor's the only one who
resisted. Well, Leah fills thejewelry box with some very conveniently placed shiny
garbage gems, which are just sittingthere nearby. She gathers a few extra
of them and says, I'm goingto make a bracelet out of this cool

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garbage. So to solidify how wonderfulthis moment is, Leah takes out her
notebook and writes down it's a magicalday, and then repeats the phrase out
loud as to cover up the jewelrybox. And then the mushroom comes back
and they run off. May Iannounce now this will come into play later
that the notebook she has is afull sized continue Well, abruptly the scene

(32:02):
changes. Now, buckle up,kids, because the scenes like to change
like this. They don't have endings. They don't fade, they don't transition,
They stop and they start. Andthat's what's kind of Glagi. It's
Neil Breen is something of something ofan art filmmaker. So this scene change
has happened, and we see someadobe brick inspired Las Vegas homes, you

(32:25):
know, where they don't have yards. There's no grass because there's socks burns
everything to death. Anyway, that'swhat we see. And there's a couple
who come out of the car withyou know, luggage or whatever, and
they're complaining that they're going to misstheir plane, they're going to be late.
And then little Leah comes into focusand she looking straight ahead, yells
where's Dylan? And then Dylan comesfrom right where she's looking right up to

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her instantly from maybe under a sewergrade, I don't know. Yeah,
he doesn't have a real home,so you think he's some weird orphan kid.
That would explain a lot of things. Spencer. I think he's from
the forest, you know where heknows exactly where that mushroom is. And
look, Leah, a mushroom.He's a little sprite. He was testing
her with filling the thing back up. I get it. And maybe he
was raised by deer or something,and that explains his kind of disconnect with

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human reality and his fragility, Leahand Little Brain hug. She gets in
the car after Dad yells at herand tells her they have to go,
so her and Dylan do this weirdthing where they high five each other,
but they hit and then they staythere like a hand press, just pressing
in one another. The car beginsto pull away, and then Leah starts
waving like Richard Nixon that one timewhen he gets on the plane, and

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Dylan kind of wanders in the middleof the street chasing after he waves his
hands, screams her name, andthen when I guess she's out of sight,
he goes like, oh shucks,like all eight year old kids,
I'm assuming. Yeah, they gavehim very vague directions like just look real
disappointed when she pulls away, Andthat was what that kid's idea was.
It's like, I'll just be like, darn it, she's gone, the
love of my life. Finally,as we're treated images of Leah riding away

(34:00):
and Dylan flailing his arm around ina wave, the banal monotone voice of
our hero, mister Neil Breen,he comes screeching into our ears. The
man himself explains exactly what's happening inthe movie. Lee and I had a
fantastic summer together, but Lea's fathergot transferred and they had a move.

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I never heard from her or sawher again, which, as Brian pointed
out, is a lie. Yeah, not true at all. No,
this is just like an online twentythirteen when the lovebirds separated at too young
of an age. Who knows ifthey'll get back together again. And just
like an online twenty thirteen, someof the emphasis on syllables is misjudged.

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Now, you know how movies andshows and stuff. If they're going to
show you a younger version of acharacter and like a flashback and then show
you the current version you're going tobe looking at, they'll kind of fade
out from one to the other,fade in. There will be a visual
cute that serves as connective to wellfaithful findings. Does actually do that,
except instead of slowly like I mentioned, it actually does it violently, fast

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and jarring because Neil Breen is ajarring man to look at, as we've
discussed. So we've got a littleweird kid to boom, fifty year old
Neil Wrinkley, Grandma Breen. Andwhen you first get your eyes on him.
You're seeing Neil. You're drawn tohim. You are drawn to him
because there's something about him that doesfeel alien and it just always is present
in his acting and his presentation.But also sort of I get a sense

(35:29):
that the haircut he has, thisone that he's had since the nineteen seventies,
and his hair's thinned out considerably,but it's still poofy. So again
it's that grandma quality. But you'reseeing a guy trying to dress in a
young man's business suit. Yeah,and I suspect we're supposed to believe this
is like twenty five years later orsomething from when they were eight years old.

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That should be fair, because shelooks about thirties early thirties. To
me, well, we're presumably seventyfive years in the future because he is
ragging and worn. Dylan's walking outof a building wearing a suit, and
he's calling his girlfriend Emily on hiscell phone. She's at home. She's
washing one little plate and the sinkthat is very clearly already clean, and
she then puts it right back inthe sink that she pulled it out of

(36:12):
before washing. She's not washing thedishes pretending to. Maybe that's where they
store their clean dishes in the sink. And these are the sorts of little
things and movies like this that wouldbe so easy to not get wrong.
But every single one of them iswrong in this movie. And these are
controllable, Like, if you're operatingon no budget, why not nail all
the things you can nail? Right? We could have a whole scene if

(36:35):
her washing dishes very realistically. Yeah, and they had to do something here
where they just weren't faithful to itfor some reason. If they were doing
it now in the newer movies,he'd be like green screening plates in or
what there'd be a little face ofNeil Brain on the dish ow. You're
hurting me with that scrub brush.If they had like a novelty Neil Breen
plate, would you want itsolutely?Yeah, hang it up on the wall.

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I've already been investigating the Miami connection. Hopefully you find it well.
Emily, after she finishes washing herone clean plate, she gets on the
phone with Dylan. Although it's avery one sided conversation. We never see
Dylan or hear Dylan say anything.It's just her saying things like okay great,
yeah, no nothing special, yeahokay, yeah great. And this

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reminds me of the room, theinability to manufacture small talk for a natural
movie scene. There are a lotof scenes where characters are either talking to
one another on the phone or inthe same room or space where when they're
speaking, they can't be shown atthe same time, and it makes me
think he messed something up in theoriginal sound or something. Or it could

(37:42):
be a George Lucas thing where hefilms the scene one hundred times and use
snippets and pieces of each one andMUSHes him together. That would explain why
it's so unnatural at times. Well, one of the things that would explain
that. We see Dylan approaching acrosswalk where he waits for the little light
to flash up to say walk.Well, he starts crossing, but he's
got a little case of the butterfingers, guys, because he drops his cell

(38:06):
phone. He's a little Nintendo DSlooking cell phone and sidekick, and he
bends over to pick it up,but just then he looks over to see
a Rolls Royce casually driving towards him, not barreling, but like you know,
thirty thirty five, Yeah, sure, he's going fairly quick, but
he doesn't have time to get outof the way. Suddenly the tire screech
and blam, he gets nailed bythis car right in the head. Long

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after he can't speak, Emily isstill trying to get his attention on the
phone. Well she has since somethinghas gone amiss. Maybe it was because
of the loud crash sound in thephone. Who knows. She's not figured
out though that it might mean hecan't talk anymore and she should go figure
that out. Yeah, she justkeeps yelling, did and talk to me?
What's going on? And we seea bunch of lower halves of various

(38:49):
people. They rush over to Dylan, and we also see a sexy lady
climb out of the back of theRolls Royce. These people here start yelling
things like is he dead? Andit will the Rolls Royce to hit him
right there? Yeah, the carthat didn't try to drive away or anything.
There's blood on the front of it, that stopped, it's parked.
It's that one get him that.Sirens begin to howl in the background,

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and we get a good glimpse ofthe bloody injured Dylan, who does seem
to be unconscious and just pouring blood. He's lost half his body's blood up
between the front of the car andthe pavement. It's everywhere. His hand,
however, does kind of paw aroundat his side, and we think
he's reaching for his phone, whichis there, but he's not. He's
actually trying to grab that black,shiny square rock the young Dylan found in

(39:36):
the garbage jewelry box at the beginningof the movie. He's kept it on
his person this whole time, allforty five years. With that sexy lady
who walked out of the car alsohas walked over to him. She reaches
and to grab the rock, buthe snatches it up into his closed hand,
and she kind of like stumps herfeet a little. She's disappointed,
and we know that because we cansee only her feet. Suddenly, that

(39:58):
same ghost thing from the beginning whooshesacross when we get a ghost noise too,
so that happens occasionally. At thehospital, though, Dylan is hooked
up to a bunch of equipment andhe has a big bandage over almost the
entirety of his face. He's gotone eye and like one cheek sticking out,
so it's like eighty five percent coverageon his head. It is hideous.
I know it's a bandage, butI've never seen one this ugly.

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Well, the doctor walks over toDylan's side. He's accompanied by a crying
Leah and Jim, of course,a friend of theirs. Jim consoles Leah
and the three just kind of standthere looking at Dylan for a bit for
the doctor turns them and says he'sin critical condition, unconscious and it does
not look good actual medical detail Icannot give you. The doctor is mostly
appearing to be just observing him likethey are. He doesn't look like he's

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like in his element of his professionor anything. He's just kind of looking
at him. Maybe he's just adifferent doctor that wandered over. You have
expect an intercom to go off.That's saying someone is impersonating a doctor.
All of that causes Lea to cryeven harder in a gym before she turns
to basically yell the plot at anunconscious Dylan, saying we were on the

(41:04):
phone when he was hit. Canyou hear me now? And doctor goes,
well, no, I just toldyou he suffered extreme trauma. Now,
this could explain a lot, justthat Neil Brien has experienced extreme had
trauma. Well, you know howlike Drew crime podcasts go into how serial
killers often have a brain injury whichcauses some issues. Maybe this is his

(41:25):
brain injury killing people thing. Yeah, if you don't get one in childhood,
if you get one like when you'reforty or fifty, maybe it just
makes you make stupid movies instead ofkilling people. There's a horrible architectural accident
which caused it. Yeah, apillar felt what's a part of a building?
Do you guys know about building?Manserd roof? Oh that's pretty good.

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Trell Us, Yeah, Trellis ison there backyard. Oh wait,
gutters Jim by the way says hewas my friend, which we are all
aware of. The camera then slowlypans as a whole bunch of medical equipment
for a good long while. Whobefore, I think is the hospital's director

(42:06):
of neurology. She shows up,youngest one in history. Well I say
that because the original doctor says,well, our director of neurology is going
to come look at him later.She shows up, but then there is
no indication that she actually is thedirector of neurology at all, but we
don't see another doctor exactly, sowe might take that inference, or we
might just say she wandered over aswell, and then it happened off camera.

(42:29):
Either way, she is a veryyoung medical professional. Good for her.
Well, she does what any gooddoctor would do, which is ignore
all of the beeping machinery that's aroundher and hooked up to Neil Breen and
then she takes his pulse with herfingers because no one's figured the pulse part
out at that. Now, thewhole pulse taking thing makes sense in a
way from a writer's perspective, becausewhat you need to show here is the

(42:54):
bracelet made out of garbage found inthe forest that slides down her wrists.
What she should have done is say, oh, look at the time,
and then really demonstratively shove her arminto her face. But nope, this
is how she does it. Shetakes his pulse. So of course this
is Leah. She's back, andimmediately we're like, wait, hold on

(43:15):
a second. It raises some question. Lea is at most thirty three or
something. Probably Neil Breen, aswe've discussed his mid fifties, looks like
sixty five or so. Then Imean, this is every weird guy who
thinks he's special making a movie wherethe woman is always significantly younger. Yes,
it is exactly like Tommy Wisseau sayinglike, these are my friends,

(43:37):
We're the same age, only withBRIENI is literally saying they're the same age.
They're not just on screen together.And you think, well, I
don't know, he could just bean older guy. Maybe in the World
of Faithful Findings, his character Dylanwas burned badly and this is the reconstructed
version. H Yeah, maybe theprice of being a messiah is that you

(43:59):
look like at potato. It's likein old like Merlin stuff or whatever.
When you use magic, it wouldtake away some of your life essence.
I'm seeing Neil Breen is magic guys. Well, he definitely is using magic
like the dissolve Leah here tells everyonethis isn't my patient. By the way,
I just kind of wandered over tolook. But I'll be checking on
him regularly because I'm very invested inhim. For some reason, I've not

(44:21):
looked at his chart or anything,but I am in all the way.
But he has a pulse. Youdo make a point on all this that
maybe she isn't supposed to be theneurology person. It just seems like she
would have had to think. Butthen if her contribution as neurology is to
feel his pulse and be like,it's not my patient, she seems weak
to me. She should have felthis brain. Not very good at what

(44:43):
she's doing. It's hard to tellagain because it's Neil brain. Because yeah,
it makes you think, well,she's just on call or whatever.
She's got the night shift, soshe's gonna check on him. She's not
the head of neurology, but withNeil Breen, you never know what he
thinks. The head of neurology knowsor does. The first doctor who's still
here tells Emily and Jim, hey, get out here. Dylan needs plenty
of rest and quiet. So Emilyshe leans over. She plants a big

(45:07):
wet kiss right on his bandage wound. Oh yeah, that's a bloody ass
bandage and it's gonna get worse andthat, Oh yeah, it's gross.
Speaking of gross, let's take abathroom break. Later on, we see
Dylan lying motionless while in bed andthe air conditioner kicks on, so like

(45:30):
the blinds shuffle a little bit.It's supposed to be a ghost, but
it sure looks like the air conditioneror the sprite of fate or whatever.
That thing is just paranormal stuff.Yeah, we know that you're gonna say
Paramore. At first, it's theband Paramore. She's too hot for him,
That's all I can say. Whois not? Yeah, but we
do see Dylan's clutched hand to openup once again reveal that shiny square rock

(45:54):
he always has. Suddenly Dylan's oneuncovered ike because again, bandages everywhere.
I kind of wish he kept iton the whole movie, the entirety of
the film. That'd be amazing,given the speech at the end. Well,
his one uncovered eye bursts awake andhe begins to take out all of
his tubes and stuff. Eventually helowers the side of the hospital bed and

(46:14):
starts lurching upright like a milnourished Frankenstein. He walks out of the room and
does his hospital gown thing where itcatches on the bed and we see some
booty sweet Neal Breen ass Yeah,this is the WHI was though, and
upon watching it at my computer withheadphones on, you, I mean they're
straight up back of the balls.Yeah, oh yeah. My first thought

(46:36):
when I saw that was this iskind of in the Boobtoo Boy Slash Motion
Picture and Pantheon. Now we hadthe carn Cock and now this is the
breen Butt, two very iconic privateareas, and of course the Tommy Men
that we've covered on of course ofthe show Beautiful Bodies Guys. The camera
focuses on the now empty bed andslowly turns down to show the dirty carpet

(46:57):
for a bit before our first instantof a shiny black business pair of pants
and shoes show up. And that'sall we see. It's just business legs.
And we know that that means kindof mysterious bad organization or something.
Yeah, evil businessman. It's thepeople from the Rolls Royce. They're connected,
yeah yeah yeah, And they justdisappear and the air conditioner turns off

(47:19):
because the blinds settle. Well,they have magic powers, just as Neil
Breen does. Dylan has somehow wanderedhis way home. I don't know if
he drove there, I don't knowif he took a cab, but he's
home. He could have teleported.He's still well, he's not anything anymore.
He is actually taking a shower andwe see his feet as seemingly gallons
of thick, viscous blood just comepouring down his leg and through the drain.

(47:43):
Why is he still bleeding? Andis thought process of returning home to
shower, not even telling Emily he'sthere too. Yeah, he just lets
her wake up and hear that he'sback. He just stumbles into the shower
bloody, and yeah, she wakesup. She hears the water if he
rushes, and he says, whatare you doing home? You're supposed to
be at AHAs not the hospital?A hospital? Why is there a mummy

(48:05):
that well, the head is amummy, but the body is a nude
old man. Why is that inmy shower? Well, he answers what
happened? He says, I letmyself out, And then his quivering voice
comes up and he says help me, And she can't help but help him,
which is what people do to helpin this situation. You climb in
the shower with him, Yeah,you know, take off your clothes.

(48:25):
You's just yeah, step in theblood. At first, She's like,
you're not supposed to be here,but since you are, I'm going to
get me some well, I mean, you'd become like an animal around Neil
Breen. She begins to just kindof spin him around a bunch as he
posed her face and grabs her bythe hips. Here you try on my
bandage. It's covered in dried blood. But as all of this is going

(48:46):
on, back at the hospital,Leah has come back to check on Dylan,
you know, the patient she's justso interested in. She's miffed to
see that the bed is empty,so she calls that first doctor, who's
doctor Rosen by the way, andasks him, hey, did you charge
the patient? And the scene shiftsto doctor Rosen, who is I guess
on the roof of the hospital becausethe camera's like at bjview looking up at

(49:08):
him and always see a sky.I think you went and took a break
to go, I don't buy somegroceries or something. He's not where doctors
would be working at all. No, I guess he's off dude, he's
golfing or something. He's off duty. But it was already I think night
time. I don't know. Ohthat happens a lot like good morning and
it's pitch black. Yeah, butdoctor Rosen says, no, I didn't

(49:29):
discharge him. Let me look intoit. I won't though, I won't
be in this movie anymore. Byeforever. Doctor Rosen died on the way
to the hospital that morning. Nowwe're probably fifteen to twenty minutes into the
movie so far, and this entiretime, and I mean this entire time,
there's like a hobbit flute song playingin the background, just non stop.

(49:51):
I don't know how to describe whatthat vibe gives me when I hear
that mus It's very medieval. Yeah, it's not appropriate. Oh that's the
most important part theoretically, Noah,this movie is what it is. But
you would want kind of I thinkinvestigative sci fi ish type, because that's
what he's aiming for as kind ofa mystery slash science fiction story. Yeah,

(50:12):
but instead we've got Bilbo's life iscoming to an end. Yeah.
He's like, well, I needto get the music done for cheap with
my low budget, so I hiredthe local rin Fair band. An indeterminate
amount of time passes and we seeEmily on her phone. She's sitting at
the kitchen table, which has abunch of weird shit on it, and
she's on the phone with Leah,who I'll remind you, is not aware

(50:34):
that Dylan is actually her childhood friendwhom she dug up mushroom trash alongside in
the forest. She wouldn't think sonaturally by looking at him either, because
again, he looks horrible compared toher. She just took an interest in
him. That's it. But it'sanother one sided phone conversation featuring Emily,
who then says that Dylan seems tobe fine. In fact, right this
very second, he's at his deskworking on his next hit book. And

(50:55):
that's when we're told he's an author. Apparently the desk is in his awe,
which is one of the great setsin the movies we've covered, and
he's at that desk and will bemany times in the future. How many
computers do you need to write abook? Six, seven, ten,
maybe, because he's got the threelaptop screens set up in a little triangle,

(51:15):
and there's a fourth one in there, and they're never on. You
never see an on screen, andit seems like he's always swiveling around to
hit keys on a different one andclack on him very urgently, and he
types by first raising his hand onefoot above the keyboard and then slamming it
down. But it's also hunting andpecking type. Yeah, he types with
just the pointer face. They allaccomplished novelists. And later, of course,
you know from what he says.This whole time we see him doing

(51:37):
that, he's not actually writing.Yeah, and we'll get to that.
It's a big deal. But Iwould also like to note that these laptops
that are in there, all fourof them, that are all turned off.
He also doesn't have them shut,so the screens are just up and
not turned on, and that drivesme even more insane. He could just
have the laptop shut and pile themon top of one another. I'll spend

(52:00):
like some sort of but I meanthat is also freakish behavior. But maybe
just collects him. He likes torepair him, so he gets a bunch
to part out. Dude, you'regetting all sorts of dells. Well,
suddenly a pained expression comes across hisface. And by the way, the
bandages are now down to like fifteenpercent coverage. It's not the full face
thing. But he drops his unlabeledbook, which has a bookmark in at

(52:23):
about fifty pages before where he isin the book I didn't notice that.
It's great, and he seems tolose his bearings because he also kind of
falls slightly off to the side,and then he sweeps two of the mini
laptops off of his desk. Thisis incredible physical acting. And then suddenly,
just as quickly as that happened,he's on the phone and he's yelling

(52:44):
at who we find out to likelybe his book publisher. He tells them,
leave me alone, and I know, I know you've got deadlines.
I've got deadlines. I'm not goingto sign your contract. Leave me alone,
Do not call me anymore. Iwill call you. It's pretty accurate.
If someone spoke to me like hedoes, I would be so angry

(53:06):
with them. He's an ass.I think this is his idea of what
it would be like to be anin demand creative person. And of course
Neil Bring in real life has probablyalways wanted that and doesn't have it because
he's had to work at just officejobs. I definitely think that's right.
So he's enjoying playing this role oflike when you're a visionary, everyone wants
a piece of you and you're justtoo goddamn busy. This how I be

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if it was Christopher Nole. Ifeel like he's really enjoying that whole,
like you don't bother me. Iam a genius and I am at work
and I don't have time for you, and you're deadline. I'm the talent
here. And if you combine thatwith his version of being anti authority,
which is so unfocused because he doesn'tknow why he's doing it, so like
the idea that a book agent thathe signed a contract with, you would

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think, which later we find outmore about that, and then that this
all turns in on itself because like, why are they even calling him if
he's not under contract. I'll remindyou, Brian, because you might have
forgotten. He's already made them alot of money. He doesn't know them.
Shit, Oh that's true, butthey published his book to get him
that money, and he agreed todo it. He also has sold out

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if he thinks he hasn't. Yeah, the whole thing's a little bit.
I mean, I love it because, like we've mentioned this before, but
all of these sort of dime storeauitour types are it's a direct look into
their psyche. Every scene and wehear all of his moaning and bitching with
the publisher as we see him autographingcopies of that same book he was reading.

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Yeah, it's his book. Healso read his own book, and
later he looks at it as areference for something when he's not writing his
book. My first instinct was tobe like, that can't be right.
That's not his book. That doesn'tmake sense to be But he's such a
narcissist. I do think it is, because that's something a narcissist would do.
And like, it also does makesense that an author would have a

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bunch of extra copies of their book. They always have to give him away.
But why does he have them allout on his desk because he's trying
to work, scattered and he's readingthem. There's also the thing where when
he opens it to sign it,he goes several pages in and there's nothing
on those pages. There's no print. I know later there actually is print
in the book, but the firstI don't know, like six or seven

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pages, where they're supposed to bea whole bunch of fine print and copyright
stuff, there's not a thing.It's blank. Well, anyway, while
we watch him autograph his books,he does say, possibly to the book
publisher still on the phone, orpossibly as movie narration, because we have
had that this. I have adamn master's degree in computer science and I

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turn out to be a writer ofnovels. All that's coming to an end
now, ooh ominous. Wait aminute, don't be a dick. You're
a like a best selling author.Fuck you man. Yeah, come on,
and this is all I guess toset up the fact that he's a
hacker genius and like all of thebest and most prolific hackers in the world,

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he has a computer science degree.Yeah, that's actually where they teach
you hacking is in college. He'sgot through hacking three oh one. All
right, Well, next we geta nice view of some huge tits.
We're in the home of Jim,whom we met earlier at the hospital,
and he's sitting in hercliner drinking boozewhile wearing his little Nike sneakers inside the
house and across from him is hiswife Amy. The requisite jugs that are

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quite large and they're out, andthen he kind of snottily asks her to,
oh, for you a drink.A lot of the scenes between Jim
and Amy wouldn't be aggressive if theyweren't read the way they are if the
guy wasn't aggressive, yeah, orher for that matter. She says,
no, I don't want to drink. She backs away from him, but
he chases after her while making dumbfaces, and the two kind of settle

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in on opposite sides of the couch. Out of nowhere, He kind of
goes, huh, we don't evenhave sex anymore? Do you realize that?
So Amy asks a very viable questionback to which is where did that
come from? But he ignores thatquestion and continues complaining that it's been months
since she last took those heaving melonsand plopped them down on his little jeff

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bagwell dick, and she is definitelyone of the mini Bralis women. Oh
yes, certainly, And Neil Breendid that on purpose. He was like,
that's the whole reason this woman's here. And actually I believe he met
her at some bar. She waslike at a coyote ugly bar, and
that's yeah, you know, heprobably was, like it's part of the

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character's backstory that she doesn't like bras. Jim continues and says he loves her
and that it is important that theyshare each other's bodies, and her excuse
is that I'm very busy, muchlike Mark in the room. But tellingly,
she also says in my back hurts, and I'll give you two big
reasons why her back yeuts well,and they're not being supported either exactly.

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She says her office at the bankis also having major problems, presumably because
they haven't already put her ideas intopractice. Yeah, the very first time
that we all watched this movie,there were so many elements of this scene
that reminded us of the room.But anyway, Jim, you need to
shut up because you're too loud andshe might hear you. And when Amy

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says that, the camera reveals itas a young girl behind a corner,
listening to the whole conversation, andJim snarkily says, oh, you mean
your step daughter. Okay, soJim is saying your stepdaughter, so it's
his daughter. I don't understand,but not her. I didn't even put
that in my brain. You're right, which makes this whole movie make even
less sense. Wait, really,okay, so Amy marys guy A right

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guy. A is a kid froma previous marriage. They split up,
so Amy takes that kid and marriesJim or it's Jim's daughter, and he's
saying like that, what don't youdeal with your stepdaughter while it's actually his
biological kid. There is a laterscene where he says that it's your turn
to watchers. Yeah, he actslike she's a pet. I don't really
know what they have in mind withAli. I don't. I don't know

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who she is. I know whatthey have in mind for her. I'd
be willing to bet Neil Breen hasnever had or been around children. He
doesn't know how it works. Yeah, Well, in these side characters that
he was determined to thrust into themovie, never really I don't know exactly
what they're doing or why they're hereever, at any one of these scenes,
I can't help but think with NeilBreen, like with a lot of

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these other filmmakers, they try toput some comedy in there, They try
to put, you know, variousdifferent elements in their side characters. But
with Neil Breen, I think everyone'strying to make some weird moralistic point of
his everybody's actions. Jim also sayssomething like, you know, maybe she
should hear this conversation that way.She doesn't make the same mistake as you.

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What that mistake may be is unclear, sure, and we will never
find out. But basically he's adick. That's what we're learning in this
little conversation. These two just don'tlike each other. That's the crux of
the whole thing. They do havea pillow fight. Yeah, she angrily
pillow swipes at him, but notreally. Pillow fight doesn't say to me,
real argument, one goofy moment.Yeah. Back at his desk,

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Dylan is now working on one ofhis mini laptops. It might be a
different one, might be the sameone we don't know, might be on,
might not be. We don't seethe screen. This one's probably a
ten year old Sony Viio. That'snot a name I thought of in a
while. And he's feverishly typing ata pace only best selling novelists can do.
He suddenly stops and begins patting hisown body down before asking where are
my pills? This is to himself, by the way, and then slightly

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louder still to himself, he goes, where are my pills? Yeah,
he's leather heading, but Emily,somehow hears this across the room. In
the bathroom because she says, I'llget them for you, and she pulls
the pill bottle out of the medicinecabinet, pocketing a handful of him.
You go girl, and then sheannounces, I've got your pills. I

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don't know what the accident is,so I'm just doing really stifly close what
you're doing. It's not far off. It doesn't make any sense, but
I mean neither deshears. She tossesthe pills to Dylan as he lets out
a playful thank you, and hecatches him. But before he does the
right thing and takes a bunch ofpills, he insteads stops, changes his
mind and says, I don't needthese. I'm not gonna take these anymore.

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I love that all to himself,So he heads to the bathroom when
we finally get a good look atwhat he's wearing in this scene, which
happens to be a light blue denimlike button up long sleeve shirt, an
old man's shirt, but it's probablya quad excel. Yeah, and he
is a sninety pounds. Yeah,it's way too big, And every single
shirt he wears in this movie toobig and half unbuttoned. Got to show

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those pecks off that he's worked sohard to get in his hairless chest.
Mm hmm, like a lizard man. He really is appropriately in the desert,
and that's how the brain works,because it's not like humans do.
I've eaten just about all the bugsI want. Were's my heat rock.
Dylan says no more while looking atthe pill bottle a few times, and
then he struggles to get the lidoff before bending over to pour them into

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the toilet. It was child proofed. This is an old person thing.
I guess when both people used towant to give rid of pills, they
pour them in the toilet. Don'tdo that. That's very bad for your
locals. It affects the water supply, doesn't it keep the pills? And
also he doesn't even flush them.No, he just pours them in there,
leaves in the bowl, and walksaway. But before he does pour

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them, Emily's here watching all ofthis, and she kind of waffles a
bit. She say, he gothe maybe maybe don't do that. Okay,
we get it might need that,yeah, Emily might want to have
fun later. But he dumps themin regardless, and then he takes the
pill bottle and flings it and youhear it bounce along the tiles and porcelain.
It's very weird. No one's everdone that. You would carry it

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with you, throw it in thetrash, set it on the counter.
You would not throw it into theabyss. After he leaves the bathroom,
Emily rushes over to the toilet andshe starts pawing the pills out of the
bottom. She also holds them inthe palm of her hand, just kind
of looking at them. And thatgoes on for too long while toilet water
trickles down. Put your hand underregular water, rents them off, then

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put him on a towel dry them. And this is one of those convenient
things Neil Breen just doesn't seem tocare about, which is that he didn't
flush the toilet. It makes mewonder what he's normally doing when he goes
to the bathroom. I don't thinkhe does go to the bathroom. I
don't think he creates waste. Sothe whole concept of a bathroom is foreign
to him. That's why he climbedin the shower when he was bloody.
What are these gross rooms humans have? Like? If you go to his

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house and you open the bathroom.It's musty because no one's been in there.
I do have to give credit toEmily the actor for actually sticking her
hand in that toilet, yeah,and grabbing those pills. And it was
a dirty toilet. Yeah, youcan get a good look at it.
You can see a little ring inthere. And she just reached in there
and did it. She had asoggy hand when she pulled that thing back.

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I gotta tell you though, i'ddo it. I'd thought some pills
of a toilet Neil Breen's toilet Iprobably would do, especially if they were
Neil Breen's pills. The story alone, I thought, for like a little
bit when I was watching this thefirst time, because it hovers on her
face forever, I was just goingto have her actually go ahead and take
the pills for there toilet straight outof the toilet bowl. The toilet water

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whys them both down faster. Maybethat could be a side story, is
instead of the pills, she getsaddicted to toilet water. Maybe that's not
weird ether because I could see aNeil Breen just getting on his hands and
knees and crawling over and laugh attoilet water out this is how people drink.

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Suddenly, the air conditioner in thehouse turns on and papers begin to
blow, while at his desk there'sa bunch of windy sounds. Is that
shiny black square rock that he alwayshas falls off of a folder full of
paper that he placed it on andonto the desk. Then a whole bunch
of weird shit happens. Dylan playswith the rock in his hand for a
minute before we focus on a room. Every wall is made of black trash

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bag and we're slowly kind of goingthrough it, and then we see at
the very end of it a kneelingnude Neel Breen with his back to the
camera. And this is like recurringimagery that seems to happen when he and
he's really got that stone in hishand and he's given in a good rub
rubbing stones, Brian, It's likehis mind goes to this trash bag room

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when he's got the stone. It'sTHEE Infinity Stones. He's a real Thanos
type, you see. He looksa lot like Robert Downey and I can't.
We then do zoom in once moreon his hand, which is kind
of fumbling that black rock around,but we're snapped back to reality. We're
no longer in the trash bag room. We see a smiling Emily who is

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just staring at Dylan and asks wherewere you just now? She says,
you were mumbling something, and thenwe finally get to see an extended shot
of his hand fumbling the rock,and it turns out the rest of him
was like lying on his desk withhis arm and his head possibly his head
fully resting on it. It's avery weird situation for any human to be
and it is his default collapse tothe desk sleep position, which happens three

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times in this movie. He looksright at Emily gulps a couple of times.
He's got a real concerned look onhis face, and then he blurts
out, this, I feel likesomething's inside me. It's not a soul,
I tell you that. She says, well, you know, you're
clearly still not well from your wholenear death experience, and you did lose
a lot of blood, and she'sright on that. And then he asks

(01:06:15):
if he remembered to take his pills, which of course he didn't, and
of course she knows he didn't becauseshe just watched him for him in the
toilet, which makes me wonder exactlyhow many of those she's already taken.
But he doesn't say anything. Hejust sits there. So later on we
see Dylan walking up a cool doublestaircase where he approaches Sweet eleven eleven.
This is the office of psychotherapist doctorDavid S. Lee. No relation guys,

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by the way, although I realizeit would be like if he took
my weird pseudonym last name my dad, it would be David Lee. Oh
yeah, that's true. I meanthat's my real name. Your dad wasn't
this guy though he was not thisguy. My dad is dead, you
know what. This guy's This guy'sone hundred percent dad. He's dead.
Now he looks Dad here, Sois the other therapy. The other therapist

(01:07:01):
is oh wait, yeah, okaywait. I could go on in the
office though. There's a big conferencetable and at one end we have Neil
Breen and at the way other endof the office. I don't think that's
a very good way to do therapy. I don't think I've ever been done
this way ever in the history oftherapy. There's fifteen chairs worth of distance
between these times. I like tomake my clients feel isolated and alone when

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I when I have to yell ateach other. It's of course, doctor
David s Lee psychotherapist. He's avery old, very floppy, wet mouthed
man. He's really sweaty and likepanicky, and it's an ill ditting suit
byfocals at the end of his nose. And his only real means of treating
Neil Breen seems to be to makehim take medicine right then and there up

(01:07:46):
the dose? Did they sitting stareat each other hey face? But then
that's all he does is he keepssaying I've known you forever and I could
have given you drugs den, butdo you need more medication. He's also
a real shit talker to Breen,like he's a therapist whose method is to
say, like I used to thinkyou were cool and now I hate you.
Yeah. He seems like maybe hesomehow has been upset by something Dylan's

(01:08:10):
done to him, like I don'tknow, and he's worried later that he's
going to someone else. So Ithink this therapist is just very protective.
He has a real old Carnie vibeto him, like he doesn't seem like
a medical guy. Yeah, thiswhole building, wherever these therapists are,
I question that it's a legitimate placeof business. The sign on the door
has been printed off at times newroman and taped. He was written on
word. Yeah, it for surewas, Dylan says to doctor David s

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Lee, psychotherapist, I'm feeling lessstable. And then he leaves and he's
back home. That's it, Nomore of that, well for now.
Back in Dylan's office, he's onthe phone again, I think with his
publisher. This time he's kind ofbegging a little. He's saying, I
need more time. I'm struggling torecover from the accident. More importantly,

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however, he is a coffee mugthat he's placed on the track pad of
his laptop, by the way,not one of the side laptops that he
has, the one he's actively workingout, the main one. This scene
is I just want to say,really great, it's delightful. His head
does start to hurt again, andhe makes a bunch of terrible moaning sounds
that I did not like listening to, and he smashes his fingers into the

(01:09:15):
sides of his head every time ithurts. And he picks up his coffee
cup and shakes it very strangely,like shaky, like oh I'm weak,
that kind of shaking it, beforehe plants it right back down on the
laptop keyboard. He then throws hishead onto the desk and has a flashback
to being hit by a car theearlier in the movie, and then he
attempts to lean over and take asip of the coffee because that's all he
can focus on. He's like,I can barely stay conscious, but I

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need that coffee. Coffee, youknow. I think this plays more in
the lizard brain. You know thoselizards they see a critter that they want
to eat, and that's all theycan focus on. He sees that critter
that is coffee and thinks, Imust have coffee. All his bodily systems
are still focused on drink coffee frommug, no matter what else is going
on. But he's collapsing. Sohe ends up passing out, moaning a

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bunch, and then pouring the mugof coffee all over his face. It's
all over the table, on papers, laptops, it's everything in the keyboard,
and he's like wiping it around whilehe's passed out to make it worse.
While that is happening, Jim backat his house is busy shining the
mirrors on his hot rod in hisgarage. One mirror. It's just the
one, the driver's side view mirror. They didn't want to move the camera.

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They couldn't show him shining the othermirror. He's a real Tim Allen
type. Oh in the garage shiningthe thing. I wish they would have
had the presence of mind to showcasein the camera that the other mirror is
filthy and that he just clearly sawthe one for some reason. He can
only bother with that one mirror,And that's just a character trait. The
side of the car we see islike super clean and shiny. What if

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the whole other side is just fallingapart and gross. Jim just has a
strange obsession with cleaning half the car. Amy comes into the garage, though,
and yells at him about caring moreabout his car than her, which
is a bit of a change inattitude from earlier. Now she wants him
to care about cash. You shouldbe happy that he's got the car,
because that way he's not bothering her, right, But Nope, characters don't

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stay consistent. Guys. We're justto know they have marriage problems, but
we're not meant to know why.Amy of course, is now jealous of
the car, saying, you careso much more about that car than me.
You won't pleasure me or clean myfeet or whatever it is she wants.
But Jim does show here that hecan give it as well as he

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can take it. You would ratherbe drunk in here than with me right
now. Gives me more pleasure thanyou did in the past few months.
Burned, and again, another rapidtransition happens. We're back with Emily.
She's sitting at the dining room tablefull of junk. She calls Amy,
who I guess is done yelling inthe garage and is now in the house.

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And Emily tells Amy, you andJim should come over for dinner tonight.
It'll be good for Dylan, it'llbe fun. I don't think Jim
and Amy should be doing any publicappearances right now, from what we've seen
of their dynamic. They need tosettle that before they go anywhere together.
But she puts on a fake smileand she says, of course, we
would love that we need the break. I don't well what from each other

(01:12:10):
is what it should be, buteither way it's I do think this is
interesting because it does show that we'rethe couple that fights all the time but
is trying to put the outward presentationthat they're perfect or whatever. It's like
every idea Neil Breen has that likea person who thought about humanity differently or
correctly, or was good at movieswould do, he does them different.

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He knows that there are couples whoare dissatisfied deep into their marriage with complex
issues at the center. He doesn'tknow what any of those are though those
issues, so he just shallowly presentsit. And I think he thinks he
and Emily are the stable couple,only undone by those pills. But much
like Tommy in the room, Ithink Neil Breen likes to present himself as

(01:12:55):
like the stable one. Well,and I think you raise a good point,
which is that he can understand andconcepts of a to B. He
can understand couple has trouble, buthe can't understand everything that happens in between.
So his little lizard brain sits onhis lamp heated rock or whatever and
writes down ideas that no one wouldthink of. Yes, and that's why,

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like even the non relationship related plotlines are very vague and broad.
It's like he just is so afraidof having to figure out how to fill
into detail or incapable. Amy's excitedabout the dinner date that night, I
guess, and Emily says, awesome, we'll see you then, And so
it's then we are now at thedinner date boom, just like that another

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thing where any other movie then hasa different scene in between. Amy,
Jim, Emily, and Dylan areall sitting at the dinner table, and
Amy's daughters here as well Ali.So all five of them are there.
Everyone's plate is empty and unused,their wineglasses are empty and unused. And
yet Dylan is chugging a bud lightwhile everyone just kind of sits there and

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looks at him and smiles. There'sa lot of looking at he each other
and smiling, and they hold abunch of we'll go dialogue, because it
is dialogue. It's not words peoplesay to one another. This is something
written down in a script for themto say out loud, possimbly picked from
different pages of the script, thisscene, this dinner scene here is extremely
awkward to watch, but not inthe way that would indicate it was done

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well, where they're like, theseare people that are all going through a
lot, and they don't really interactvery smoothly. Right now, it's just
so painful because there's a terrible scriptthat's accompanying it, and none of the
people at the table know how toact, and they don't even seem like
they like one another and know oneanother. And that's the thing about these
group gathering scenes, Neil Breen doesthey never feel like he thinks they do.

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Once again, I think he's thinking, this is what a casual gathering
is like. It's not. It'slike Tommy Wiseau with everybody in the alley
tossing a football underhand. And thereare some parts where if the dialogue involves
Dylan, where he tries to dolike a pleased face and it's just frightening.
He's not meant to smile. No, you know how like apes when
they smile, it's not like humanssmiling and greeting. For the most part,

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there's like fear smiling and there's likethe you know, look at my
teeth kind of smiling. To scarepredators away or other males. That's what
Neil Brain does when he smiles.Most people smile and you think, oh
good, like they laughed at myjoke, or they're happy to see me,
or I made them happier. It'sa positive thing. You feel warm
and fuzzy when Neil Brain smiles.I feel the need to leave the room.

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I it is uncomfortable. I think. My favorite line in this whole
weird dinner thing, and there's maybetwo or three conversations happening is Amy tells
Emily that you have to try thisnew wine that I bought, and Emily
goes, I'd love to try yourwine, and then she does try it,
but doesn't indicate that it's good badin between, that's it. That's

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the lot of that conversation. Thereare also people will say things, and
then those will not be answered orresponded to. Basically, the entirety of
this whole dinner date conversation is absurdand wild. Let's just listen into some
of it. How school almost done. But I have this really interesting project

(01:16:12):
about elephants in Africa. I'm sureDylan doesn't want to hear about that.
Now. I want to hear aboutour project. Can I excuse I don't
feel so low? Ali? Howold is she? I think she's supposed

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to be thirteen? Fourteen elephants tome, sounds like you're five. Yes,
indeed, like you just got yourzoo books and you're saying that were
big and gray. Well that that'sthe scene. Yeah, it's amazing,
and there's so much differing levels ofroom noise. Ali's sentiment is the one
that's very relatable, and she's like, I need to leave, I need

(01:16:57):
to get away from that. Shestorms right off. She should mean for
the whole town. Probably. Ishould point out though, that at one
moment, Jim drops his beer orspills it, and then he goes whirr
whin, and he puts his handsup and makes a stupid face and he's
like, oops, clumsy, lookat me. He just just I hate
it so much wrong, I fuckinghate it. It's awful. And then

(01:17:18):
we cut again and then that's nothaving happened, like no one's cleaning it,
no one acts like he's weird.Well after that, just cluster fock
of a scene. I guess Idon't know that seems like that's too polite
of a way to say that that'shurt anyway, it seems like it's later
that night, because well maybe it'san hour later. Who knows, because
the sun is still out. Couldbe in the past. Amy and Jim

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have clearly gotten down and dirty withone another, and they've decided to go
to sleep, just like all humansdo. Nude and lying flat on your
stomach with your arms raised above yourhead. Do we think that they have
had sex? I think they've hadsex. But then again, anytime anyone
sleeps, they're nude. In thismovie, they're nude and face down,
and they have to be face downagain because Neil Breen wants women never wearing

(01:18:03):
bras, but he doesn't want thenipple out for some reason. It's a
strange thing with him just and bythat I mean everything. I do think
it's interesting that. Okay, sowe know why Amy is lying face down.
I think it's an interesting choice thathe does. The director wise to
say, and I want the guyto be a stomach sell well too.

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Throughout the movie, Neil Breen presentsmen's chest the same as women's in terms
of their allure and stripping it openlike there's a lot of teasing of men's
chests and maybe he has just asupple of breasts as she does. Yeah,
we don't know it. We didn'tget to see them, so maybe
he's got a heaving set. Whoknows. I've just never seen no in

(01:18:45):
a movie someone like just confidently presentinga couple is like, yeah, they
both sleep on their stomach, sideby side. It's what married couples do.
This is common. It feels likethey're powered off at the same time.
It's funny to me though, becauseI am one of the rare stomach
sleepers, so I like that.I have never known there to be two
people doing that at the same time, side by side, And it's just
funny that Neil Breen thinks, like, sure that would happen. What's the

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percentage on that? Do you thinkit's gonna be low? It's not high.
And it's not good for you becauseyou know, you can't put your
head straight down into the pillow,so you have to turn your neck and
that's bad for your spine. Soare you literally billy down straight? So
what do you do with your head? You turn it side? Yeah,
you have to turn it. Youcan't you can't breathe if you don't turn
it so and sometimes I'll contort likethe whole lower. It's terrible. It's

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it feels great, but it's gonnabasically be where I can't probably even sit
up right in another five or tenyears or so. Well, briefly though,
Brian, how do you sleep?Then? I'm mostly a side sleeper,
but I'm on my back a goodchunk of it. I am not
a back or front. I'm side. But I would most describe my sleeping
habits as tornado because even when I'masleep, I twirl and I will not

(01:19:51):
stay in the same position for anygiven amount of time. Are you doing
like souplexes and stuff you're doing liketope, susitas, yeah, moon salts
you need it's happening there and shootingstar press. I do usually wake up
in a different position than I fallasleep in, like I'm usually I don't
think. I'm usually on my stomachwhen I wake up, but I have
to be on my stomach to fallasleep or I just won't. Well,

(01:20:12):
It's one of these irritating things forme because I struggle to fall asleep and
I struggle to sleep at all.But both of my last two long term.
Girlfriends Katie and Gail, who've mentionedbefore, are corpses when they sleep,
like they can lay down, closetheir eyes and be asleep, and
that infuriates me because it takes anhour for me to do it. And
both girls, I don't know,maybe it's gene that I'm attracted to,
and I don't know it in genetics, but both of them don't move when

(01:20:35):
they sleep and barely breathe, soI think they're dead and it's a poke
them to see that they're still alive. Thing. I turn a lot in
my sleep, but in a confinedpart of my bed. My bed is
too large for my needs, exceptfor the fact that my movements are also
limited by my person sized cat.I think Neil brain actually in Neil brain,

(01:20:57):
because you don't stay in Nel brainfor a second. I think Neil
Breen sleeps like and you know thoseMurphy beds that go in the wall.
I think he sleeps in one ofthose with the bed in the wall.
He gets in and then it goesyeah, and then it goes up.
I actually think Van already said thecorrect Neil Breen's sleeping solution, which is
outside on a heat rock. Theonly other thing I would say is he
sleeps vertically, most likely upside downlike a bat, Yeah, for sure,

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but not hanging. He doesn't havehis hands down. He bounces on
the top of his head. I'mnot rolling out in a coffin, even
though he's not a Dracula, allright. Well, Jim tries to reconcile
with Amy. They're nude, andthey're in bed. They're face down,
but Amy turns him down. Shedoesn't want to talk, and to do
this she turns her head to theside. But because she's on her stomach,

(01:21:43):
she's to lift her head back upoff the bed, then turn,
and then plan it. And shehas to do it carefully to not reveal
a boob or smear makeup all overthe pillow. This movie is a lot
of moving around carefully. Back atthe main house, Dylan has recovered from
his dinner conversation and he's feverishly typingon a laptop. He's yelling about how

(01:22:04):
much work he has to do andhe'll never get caught up in the same
way. I get it, man, But before we continue, I need
to stop and ask you guys something. At this moment in the movie,
we're thirty five forty minutes in whatwould you say the plot of it is,
Spencer. It appears to be acharacter study, is the only thing
I could say so far. Andit seems as though we're working towards some

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kind of big secret that our maincharacter has, and it's just such a
slow burn. We haven't gotten thereyet, and I'm trying to present it.
If I were looking at this ingood faith and I was saying,
like, I think something's going tohappen, That's what I would say so
far. Ran in good faith.Similarly, I think we're looking at the
story of one very special guy withsuperpowers, because that has been mentioned at

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the beginning, and I think hecould reasonably guess that the story as he's
getting ready to work, is thatthe magic stone actually sort of gives him
his story. So I think youcould think that that's the story. This
is some sort of supernatural novelist whogot his gift from a magical token as
a child. I have the samething with mine. A man found a

(01:23:11):
magic rock that allowed him to recoverfrom injury quickly, which might or might
not help him write his new book. These all sound like boring, but
maybe something could happen. Then theirconnective leaps of human mind could make Well,
that's not what it is. Though. This is not a movie made
by Steven Spielberg. This is nota Greta Gerwig flick. This is not
a Bruckheimer blockbuster, so it's notAmistad. Then it is not a Zack

(01:23:33):
Snyder sixteen hour director's cut of asuperhero movie no one liked, thank god,
although I would watch that of FatefulFindings, well, that'd be interesting.
This is a Neil Breen movie.This is a Neil Breen masterpiece.
So everything you thought was happening upto this point in the film is wrong.
And we're like thirty five minutes in. Because if you thought in a

(01:23:55):
Neil Breen movie you could go anyamount of time without being preached to about
corruption places of power, you're wrong. I'm going to continue hacking into these
government systems to see what I canfind out about all this national and international
corruption I know is going on.I really like it. Starcastic national,

(01:24:16):
the clacking as he can only typewhen he stops talking. Oh, I
really wonder where he got his materialfor corruption, and how it's such a
nasty little thing that he's adamantly againstIt never seems to have any real examples
of what that is or what itentails. Someone was mean to his architecture

(01:24:38):
business or something, Yeah, Iwouldn't give him a grant, or I
can't think of what else it is. But he's got this real hate hard
on for corporations and government. Andit's so vague in general, which we
agree with all this to, youknow, with actual reason. Ours is
a little more specific, yeah,a little more targeted. But what it
reminds me of more than anything islike a teenage punk band's first release when

(01:24:58):
they're just like talking about taken downthe system, and you're like, what
system? Though they're mad at themain you haven't said anything, but who's
the man? And much like withFateful Findings, while the message may not
be clear, the artifice that surroundsit is fascinating. Well that's a wrap
on our first part of the FaithfulFinding coverage. It is it. You
may have thought it was about awriter, or a drug addict girlfriend,

(01:25:20):
or an unhappy marriage or whatever doctorDavid s Lee's psychotherapist is up to,
but in truth, it's about governmentcorruption and one man who's poised to take
it all the magic stone and atrue love from the past. Well,
next week when we return and finishoff the movie, we've got sex,
we've got mysterious gems, we've gotsuicide a couple, we've got young topless

(01:25:42):
girls falling for Neil Breen and asaggy, sunburned body. It is going
to be quite the adventure. I'mlooking forward to it. I had a
rating here for the first half suremovie here says four hundred out of ten.
That is accurate. Well, ifyou like what we do, go
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out the videos there. We bonusstuff in edition to the regular shows.
Apple Podcasts. Give us a rateand review. I'll get a tattoo of
that big fat book with a tasselcoming out of it. Okay, I'll
get a tattoo of a mysterious squaregym. I could do that spencer.
Yeah, a tattoo is some pillsand a toilet. There, you go
leave us an Apple podcast rate andview and we'll do that five stars.

(01:26:27):
Don't do this two star bullshit?Fuck yeah, and don't have a vendetta
against fan about something related to baseball. Yeah, if you hate me for
baseball, get yell at me onbaseball. Don't or this. This is
a novel concept. Think it over. Keep it to yourself. What if
Neil Breen hears this and gives youone starts not being very nice to his
movie? Neil Breen, please comeon the podcast and talk about it with

(01:26:47):
us. Yeah, you can tellus why we're wrong, we're right,
or whatever. There's a website,butto inc dot com you can join our
discord where we're chatting on there.Butto inc a gmail dot com that's an
email. If you want to sendan email to us, maybe we'll read
it on the show. Do allthat stuff. We have one last thing
before we get out of here,though, guys. A bird has set
up a bird's nest in the lightfixture by my front door. And actually

(01:27:10):
I believe on the podcast we mentioneda bird had gotten in the house previously
for a while. It turns outthat was actually mom or Dad, and
anyway, they're still there. Foureggs were laid. All four eggs have
hatched, All four chicks are doinggreat. It's awesome, it's beautiful,
see life and all that shit.They're my babies, unprotecting, and you
know what, We're going to namethem right here and now. And you've

(01:27:30):
already named the parent bird. Inamed the parent birds. I decided to
make them after Bootoo boy stuff,so of course I went with Gyre is
the mother and the father of Smith. Of course Walker Smith. This is
from Babylon five. Go listen tothis episode. It's convenient if you want
to chant the bird's names. That'sright. But we've got four babies to
name. I've decided each of uswill name a baby. Katie is also
named a baby, which I willreveal is and this might fuck you up,

(01:27:51):
ran Birdman, marminous, just Birdman. You don't know how close I
was to do that. Katie.If you're listening, which I assume you
are, almost named the other birdBirdman perfect well Birdman. By the way
of the birds, they're identical thetlittle baby birds, except for one.
One likes to perch at the edgeof the nest and yell like birdman.

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Oh that's great. What if wejust named all four of them birdman?
Beautiful? All right, Well we'regonna name these things. I'll go first,
my baby bird, and of coursethe rules are we're going to name
them from our own hosted boot toBoys Motion Pictureman show is going to be
Bargantua. Of course, I didn'tname him the Hall of Fame yet.
I will this year. And anyway, the baby Bird, I just see

(01:28:34):
his eyes. I see his beautifuleyes that are expressive behind that eight man.
How he's pretty average size, Yeah, tall like they say, but
a little gargant I like it.And it's actually a pretty good name for
a pet or a pseudo pat.So yeah, we've got Gargantua and we've
got Birdman. What else do wehave? Well, I was looking around
and I considered all sorts of things, Roger Klots, things like that.

(01:28:56):
What I wound up with, thoughvery quickly, upon just looking down the
list further, was street Hawk.Ooh, that's good because it's in and
it lives out there by the streetMan. So we've got street Hawk,
Birdman in Gargantua. Yeah all right, So do any of the birds seem
real dumb? Like you're just especiallydim witted? Well, okay, so
there's this thing apparently where birds' nestsget mites and they're called bird mites,

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and they're microscoping a tiny but Idon't like the little bugs, and they
were fucking everywhere. Apparently they're inthe nest. Several of the birds will
get to the edge and open theirwings to get relief from the mites.
But one of the birds is toodumb and stays in the middle of the
nest. One. Yeah, doesit seem like they could possibly be a
coordinator on a football team? Oh? Maybe a little yeah, yeah,

(01:29:38):
Well we've got a dabber on ourhand. Oh yeah, that little dumb
dauber. Oh this is beautiful dauber. Gargantua birdman, and of course street
hawk. Yeah, those are ourbaby birds. I will update everyone as
they go along. They're still notready to leave the nest, but their
feathers have come in, because youknow, when baby birds are born,
they're like hideous little globs monsters,and then they have the stupid like angry

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faces, like their beaks are toobig. I kind of like them look
like they're frowning, and then eventuallythey grow in the bird. They're still
frowny, but the feathers are comingin. They're they're showing personality. I
like how similar birds are in someways to dinosaurs. Just mean are dinosaurs.
You can really tell too when youlook at especially when they're developing,
it's like, well, that's adinosaur. I think that's why I like
them, you know, I think, oh, this could eat me alive

(01:30:24):
if it were bigger. Have youever seen a cassiwary? Those just are
dinosaurs in person. I would wantto they tear it up. And then
also their noises are dinosaur noises.Go look it up. There's also a
little bit of like the reptile things, so they're kind of like snakes in
a way. Look in their eyes. One time, I was actually discussing
that because my family actually has parrotsmost of my life, and I was

(01:30:44):
talking about this once with my dadwhen I was I was probably in my
teens, and we were discussing howmuch birds look like snakes in a way.
And we had this conversation about it, and then he got the African
gray. He was gonna take himfrom the outside of the cage, put
him in, and then throw thecover over the cage. That's how you
put the birds to bed, sothey you know, the darkness and they
can sleep peacefully. So we'd beentalking about Gizmo the bird name looking like

(01:31:08):
a snake. So when my dadwent to pick him up and put him
in the cage and said, allright, Gizmo, you snake. Well
that's it. I don't have anythingmore for you. You say your favorite
Neil brain word. I'm just gonnago with government, corporate secret,