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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of a Walk
through the Multiverse. I'm your host, Joe, and this show
is part of the Geek Ultimate Alliance network, with six
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where I've been going through all of the Disney animated
feature films from beginning, working my way through to the

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current ones. I am currently up to Aladdin. That one
we'll be coming out later this week on the first,
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So welcome to this episode today. And yeah, guys, this

(01:50):
is brand new show, and man, I'd love horror stuff
and it doesn't give more horror than it, so why
not dive into more of that world with it. Welcome
to Darry. First episode just dropped, and man, this this

(02:16):
I I definitely enjoyed this show. Let's just put it
that way. So, yeah, I was gonna do some high
level thoughts, but like now, this was this was a
fun show, fun episode. I I can't think of anything
I really wanna I just kind of want to just
gotta kind of hop right into it, So we'll just

(02:37):
go ahead and do that. If you haven't seen it,
that's obviously over on HBO Max at the moment, I
will say they are doing if you have HBO Max,
or doing something really cool where they are streaming the
second episode early. It's gonna be dropping on Halloween, so
that's kind of fun. But then it also will still

(02:58):
be airing on Sunday on HBO, so if you don't
have HBO Max, then you can still watch it live
on HBO. So let's go ahead and get into this episode,
episode one of it. Welcome to Dairy the Pilot, So

(03:19):
picture it now. It's nineteen sixty two. You're sitting in
the Capitol Movie Theater in Dairy, Maine, watching The Music
Man on the big screen. A young couple is necking
in the middle row of seats, well one of them is, anyway.
The girl looks completely bored with whatever the boy is

(03:39):
doing to her neck. There's an old lady behind them
looking on in disgust, but our focus falls on a
young boy of about thirteen sitting behind the lady, sucking
on a pacifier one totally a comfort move, and you
can totally tell because of the black eye that he
has he gets singled out by the usher, not because

(04:06):
he's making noise and the lady has shushed him, but
because he's snuck into the movie, The usher tries to
corral the boy to the aisle, but he bolts to
the other side of the row and up the other
aisle and out of the theater. The usher rushes out

(04:26):
to find that the boy is gone. The projection operator,
possibly even the owner, Hank, walks up and asks what's
going on. The usher tells him about the boy, Maddie
and how this is the third time this week he
has snuck into the theater to see a movie. Hank says,

(04:47):
to let the boy be, implying that Maddie's home life
isn't all that great, and like I said, the black
eye he is sporting is a parent of that. Hank
then asks his daughter, Ronnie, who is close to Mattie's
age and works the concession stand, if she had seen
a boy run through the lobby. Ronnie, who is staring

(05:11):
directly into Mattie's eyes as he hides behind a movie standee, says, Yep,
he ran that way, pointing down the hallway behind the
concession stand. The usher runs off in that direction. Hank
hands Ronnie a film canister and has her help him
out in the projection room, Maddie comes out of his

(05:34):
hiding spot and then has to rush out of the
lobby when the usher comes back in, threatening to call
the police if he sneaks into the theater again. Maddie
is now out on the road leaving town, trying to
hit your ride. A car finally pulls over and we
see a family of four inside dad, mom, daughter, son,

(05:56):
with another one on the way. Mattie hops in and
a dad asks where home is so they can get
him back to his parents. He tells him anywhere but darry.
The mom says that's that he's in luck because they
are heading to Portland. As they pull away, the radio
starts talking about underground nuclear testing in Moscow that poses

(06:20):
a global risk from cancer to genetic mutations resulting in
highly unusual birth defects. The daughter asks to change the
channel because this stuff freaks her out. The sun starts
spelling out words, and then the mom starts to get
him really random words to spell. While he is doing that,

(06:43):
the daughter grabs a container of liver out of a bag,
opens it up, puts her fingers in it, and then
sniffs her fingers. Mattie is watching this play out, and
you can see the disgust in his face. The daughter
pulls her best doofy from a scary movie and starts
to put her fingers in Mattie's face, But the Sun

(07:05):
is having trouble spelling the word trouble, which frustrates her,
causing her to whip around and spell it for him,
yelling at him in the process. The mom told her
to be nice, and the daughter just scoffed at that.
Mattie then notices that they are driving back back into dairy,

(07:28):
which is weird because they didn't make any turns, and
when he asks about it, the dad turns up the
radio and the mom starts asking the sun to spell
words again. These words, however, are a little more sinister
than normal. Mattie starts to panic and yells to to
be let out when the door won't open. The demented

(07:50):
family focuses on the word out and starts spelling out
over and over again. Mattie tries to grab the wheel,
and in the struggle he manages to elbow the mom's
pregnant belly, forcing her to go into labor. And trust
me when I say this scene is just gnarly remember
the radio talking about genetic mutations causing birth defects. Yeah,

(08:14):
that's what happened here. We got ourselves a mutant baby,
two heads. You know, it kind of looks like it
didn't absorb its twin all the way, half of a wing,
sharp claws, sharp teeth, all that kind of thing. It
ends up flying out of control all around the car,
and then suddenly everyone stops and turns to Maddie, the

(08:39):
mutant baby included. By this point, he has put the
pass fire into his mouth, shut his eyes, covered, his ears,
and he's cowering by the door, just like a comfort move.
He's trying to just isolate himself. The car drives over
a bridge and the mutant baby pulls a fatality on Maddie,

(09:02):
going right for his head, slamming him so hard that
the pass fire flies out of the car window, which
mind you, is closed. It breaks through the window and
into the water below, floating down into the sewer. Four

(09:24):
months later, we find a boy named Phil at the
viewing deck of a building called the Dairy Standpipe, looking
through some binoculars as a giant plane comes flying into dairy.
He marks it down in his journal and then realizes
that he is running late. The plane lands at the
Dairy Air Force Base. Once there, Major Leroy Hanlin and

(09:49):
Captain Pauli Russo disembark and are met by Colonel Fuller,
General Shaw's XO. While driving to their destination, Colonel Fuller
informs them that the base is pretty remote, but when
shit hits the fan with Russia, they're in a very
strategic spot to get there quickly, only a seven hour flight.

(10:12):
Major Handlin is an optimus, saying if shit hits the fan.
Captain Russo points out a building they're passing by that's
heavily guarded and asks what's going on in there. The
colonel tells him that it's special projects that just screams important.
Later on, the colonel mentions that Handlan is only staying

(10:37):
on the base temporarily. Hamlin confirms this, saying that his
family will be moving here soon and he wants to
give his wife a bit of normality outside of the
military base. You know, normal like kids stuffing a girl's
locker at school full of pickle jars and rigging it
so that when it opens up, one falls out and breaks.

(10:59):
This lily and it seems like she gets picked on
the lot. Her friend Marge rushes up to comfort her
and they walk off talking about plans for the summer.
They walk by Phil and his friend Teddy, and Phil
is going on and on about how aliens are living
here on the earth and they are going to attack
and the military base is covering it up. Teddy asked

(11:23):
him if he even studied for the test, and Phil
said why bother World War three is eminent. Back at
the at the Air Force base, Hanlon and Russo go
check out their airman unit. As they fall in fall
in line, one of the men, airman's second class Masters,
decided to be more loyal to his racism than to

(11:45):
his country by not saluting his superior officer. Hanlan confronts Masters,
who blows him off, and before it can go any further,
General Shaw walks in and threatens the masters with the
court martial. Masters regrutgingly salutes Handlin and then Sel puts
Handlan or pulls Handlin's aside, apologizes and then invites him

(12:07):
to his office. The next day at Phil's house, he's
peeping out the window at the neighbor undressing as Teddy
is trying to do homework. Teddy pivots the conversation to Maddie.
It's been four months since he's disappeared. Phil doesn't want
to talk about it, saying it's hard to come back

(12:28):
from being dead, but Teddy is adamant that Maddie ran
away since the police never found the body. Teddy argues
that they weren't really good friends with him and how
they got paid with candy to go to his birthday party,
not even knowing that it was his birthday. Phil throws
out that just because they didn't know as his birthday

(12:48):
doesn't mean it was their fault that Maddie's gone. Teddy
gets frustrated and leaves. Over at Lily's house, she is
struggling with just being a normal girl. We see her
attempting to put her hair in the bun and smiling
into the mirror, but is very forced and doesn't look right.

(13:09):
She goes to run herself a bath, and her water
heater in that house must be hell itself, because she
turned on the water, put her hand under the faucet,
and apparently the water was already hot to the touch.
That's pretty impressive for nineteen sixty two. I just had
a tankless water heater put in and it still takes

(13:30):
a few minutes before the water, the hot water reaches
my bathroom. Granted it is the furthest pipe away from
the water heater, so it does take a minute, but
you know, you get what I'm saying. Anyway, as she
as she checks her hand or to make sure it's okay,
she notices her bracelet and it makes her think of Maddie.

(13:54):
So we get a flashback and Maddie had taken Lily
up to the dairy standpipe on New Year's Maddie hands
her a box of crackerjacks and the prize that she
got was a rocket charm. Lily complained because she always
gets a rocket. Mattie asked if she wanted to trade

(14:14):
since he had got a turtle. She she accepted it,
saying that turtles are lucky. Mattie then asks her not
to tell Phil and Teddy that he brought her up here,
since this is supposed to be a secret place for
the three of them. Lily assumes it's because she was
labeled looney. Lily, Mattie says that she isn't looney to him.

(14:39):
This is reassuring to Lily. He then asks about her
dad and what actually happened the day he died. She
ends up telling him the story. Her and her mom
went to go pick him up from or pick up
her dad from the drawing factory. They went to leave
when Lily realized that she had left her toy mood

(14:59):
ring and ste her dad went back to go get it.
While in there, one of the machines had jammed up,
and being a helpful employee and apparently not a union
member because he was working off the clock, he goes
over to try and fix the problem. Turns out when
he killed the power it was to the wrong station

(15:22):
and the gears kicked in, and that, as they say,
is that Lily blames herself obviously, but Mattie tries to
tell her that it wasn't her fault. Fireworks start to
go off, and reading the situation completely wrong, Mattie tries
to kiss her. She kind of freaks out and things

(15:43):
get awkward real quick. Mattie rushes out of there and
Lily comes out of her flashback. Lily's mom knocks on
the door and reminds her to lay out her clothes
for tomorrow. It has been a year and they are
going to go to the cemetery to visit her father.
Lily tells her that she would like to skip it
since she still isn't ready to see him. Her mom

(16:07):
remarks that she isn't the only person to have something
awful happen to them, and that as soon as she
realizes that, the better. As she closes the door, she
tells Lily to remember to take her medication. Lily then
starts hearing singing coming from the bathtub drain. She might
not have heard this if she had plugged up the

(16:28):
bathtub so the water would have stayed for the bath
she was trying to take, and not just to run
the water to rack up her mother's water bill. She
shuts the water off to try and listen more clearly.
The song coming Out is a song from the music
Man that Mattie saw in the theater the day he disappeared.
Lily cries to the voice. Cries out to the voice,

(16:51):
thinking that it is Maddie saying for him to come home.
Mattie says that he won't let me, and then two
bloody fingers pop out of the feeling around. Naturally, Lily
has freaked the fuck out. Next day, at school, Lily
told her friend Marge about what happened, but she doesn't

(17:12):
seem to believe her, and it becomes pretty apparent why
when Marge sees the popular girls and then rushes Lily
into the bathroom so they can't hear what they are
talking about. Marche says that she doesn't want people to
think badly of Lily and that there's only a few
months left to school, but Lily can read between the lines.

(17:34):
Marge is ashamed of her and doesn't want to be
associated with the crazy person, so there is only one
other option she can turn to for help. Phil and
Teddy come riding up to the dairy standpipe, Phil going
on and on about aliens and nipples, that boy is weird,
and Lily is waiting there for the two of them.

(17:55):
She tells them what happened the night before. After a
back and forth between Phil and Teddy about how Phil
has proven that aliens are here on Earth and are
probing people's amuses and I whatever, Teddy just can't believe
that Maddie talked to Lily through the pipes in her house.

(18:16):
At the Air Force base, Hanlan meets with General Shaw.
Shaw informs him that masters is going to be spending
the week on the latrine duty. I'm sure that's not
gonna come back to bite someone in the ass, and
that he's also getting a citation put onto his permanent
flight record. The two share a drink and Shaw asks

(18:39):
him about his time over in Korea. Hanlan isn't fond
of talking about Korea, mainly because he feels like he
has some unfinished business over there. Shaw says, that's why
he's here now. They have a brand new beefitted to
bomber that they want Handlin to test pilot and if necessary,

(19:00):
fly into the heart of the enemy. Then a time
at Teddy's place and his father asks Teddy how his
half Torah study is going. Studying is going, Teddy seems
oblivious to the question, so when his father follows up

(19:21):
asking if everything is okay, Teddy asks if someone could
be if someone could kidnap a kid and keep him
on the ground. His mother, father, and older brother are
shocked by this query. Teddy's dad skulls Teddy for asking
such a question, reminding him that his grandparents escaped Brockenwald Yep,

(19:47):
and about the atrocities of the Holocaust, like how the
Nazis use the skin of Jewish people as lampshades. His
father then spies a comic in his half t book
and scolds Teddy again for believing in fantasies. I just
hope that the issue of Flash one twenty three that

(20:08):
he had was a facsimile and not an original copy,
because he just threw anywhere between two hundred and thirty
dollars to upwards of three thousand, five hundred dollars across
the room, just saying. Later that night, Teddy is reading
another comic in bed as the lamp or beside him

(20:31):
starts to act up, shutting itself off the third time.
He turns it back on because the trope is always
in threes. The lampshade is made up of faces, and
they are screaming at him. He jumps off the bed,
screaming as the lamp falls over, and then rolls itself
toward him, screaming the entire time. It only stops and

(20:55):
disappears when his brother comes into his room and complains
about being related to him. The next day, at the
Darius Standpipe, Teddy recounts what happened to Phil and Lily
in between throwing up into a bucket. Lily is kind
of mad at Phil for now believing her. Phil says

(21:16):
that he's known Teddy since the first grade, and he
knows when he's lying, and he ain't lying, and if
he ain't lying, then she ain't lying. Them's the breaks.
Teddy suggests telling someone, but they don't know who would
actually believe them. Lily thinks that if she tells anyone,

(21:36):
then she will end up back in Juniper Hill. Juniper
Hill the insane asylum allegedly apparently she was in there
after her father died. That was implied throughout this episode.
I'm sure we'll probably get something in that throughout the season.
So it's decided that they are going to investigate what

(21:58):
happened to Maddie themselves. Lily has an idea on where
to start. We find them at the library, searching through
the newspaper reels. Phil's younger sister, Susie, is here because
their parents couldn't find the sister, so Phil tests her
with finding a certain book that doesn't exist. They find

(22:19):
the article about Mattie, which initially stated that he was
a runaway, but when he never turned up anywhere, they
ruled a homicide first, thinking his dad as a culprit
and then a drifter, neither panning out. The article mentions
Maddie as last seen by the daughter of a theater employee,
an unidentified twelve year old girl. Our group then is

(22:43):
seen standing in front of Ronnie, and when they ask
about Maddie, she yells at them to leave, saying that
the police were trying to pin his disappearance on her dad.
As they are walking away, Phil mouths off that he
knew this was a bad idea chasing a song he
heard or you heard in the sewers. Ronnie stopped dead

(23:05):
in her tracks. She turns around and Lily explains that
she about what she heard. Ronnie can't confirm that what
she heard was Maddie, but she did hear something in
the pipes in the basement of the Capitol Theater. Welcome
to the Cub Club, Ronnie. Nighttime at the Air Force base.

(23:28):
Hanlin is getting ready to call it a night when
he is attacked by two guys in full flight suits
demanding to know the specks of the B fifty two.
Another guy is watching on in the background as the
first guy pulls out the gun and gives Hanlin until
the count of three to comply. Hanlin tells them that
they are gonna have to pull the trigger because he

(23:51):
isn't giving them anything. Russo heard the commotion and rushes
into the room and helps Hanlan out. The two of
them driving the guys out, and Russo says Hanlon owes
him one for saving his life. We get back to
the kids as they bike over to the Capitol Theater.
Ronnie says that the song Maddie was singing was probably

(24:13):
from the music Man, and she thinks that there might
be another copy of it in storage. Ronnie goes to
the projection room as the rest of the kids go
into the theater to wait. With all the trash on
the floor, I'm curious to know if the theater has
been shut down for the last four months. I know
the place is operational in nineteen eighty nine because we

(24:36):
see Richie they're playing arcade games in the movies. I'm
just not sure if the theater part is still in
use at that time. Anyway, Ronnie loads up the film
right at the part where the song You Got Trouble
is at in the theater. Everything seems to be hitting
the kids hard because they are all thinking about how

(24:58):
they let Maddy down when he needed them most. The
movie starts up and Lily confirms that this is the
song she heard Maddie singing. Suddenly, Maddie, along with that
freaky family, is in the scene of the movie. He
is holding a swaddow baby in his arms. The kids
call out to Maddie and he hears them. He starts

(25:20):
walking toward the camera toward them. Lily says to keep
coming towards them, that they are going to get him out.
Mattie says that they aren't, that they lied, that they
weren't there, literally everything they are blaming themselves for. Mattie
buries his head in the blanket, and when he tilts

(25:42):
it back up, his smile looks very familiar, like a
certain clown smile. Everyone is flabbergasted at this, But then
Mattie throws the baby at the screen and the demon
spawned from the beginning comes flying out at the kids,
this time about ten times size. Phil blames the air

(26:03):
base for the mutant baby, and I think he might
be onto something, but this isn't from the air Force base.
Maybe the mutant baby flies around before crashing into the
front row or just in front of the front row.
And then this starts to crawl over the top of
the seats. Phil grabs Susie and they, along with Teddy,

(26:26):
run to one side of the row while Lily just
sits in her seat. Before they got to the aisle,
the mutant baby cut them off, so they doubled back
to the other side, but the baby gobble or grabbed
Teddy and flew him into the air before ripping him
in half and tossing him aside. Lily had finally ducked

(26:49):
to the floor and watched all that happen and was
lucky enough to get showered in his blood. Ronnie, who
was in the projection room watching it all play out,
was greeted with Teddy's top half hitting the window and
then sliding down. She gets locked in the room and
has to break the glass to get out. The baby

(27:11):
then grabs Phil and I think tears him up. It's
not shown, so I'm only assuming here, but we do
see Susie crawling under the seats reaching out to Lily's
outstretched hand, only for the mutant baby to show up
and start going nomnom on these two. Ronnie makes it
downstairs and finds Lily alive. They hurry out of the

(27:33):
theater and Ronnie demands to know what happened to everyone.
They both look down to see that Lily is still
holding Susie's hand, fresh with new teeth marks, and that's
how we ended. That's the end of the episode. I mean,
she starts screaming, but that's how we end. The upside.
I enjoyed this episode. I thought this was a pretty

(27:53):
good start to this season. And I was unaware of
this going in, but I did find out that this show,
apparently they're they're planning on three seasons, and each season
is gonna be going back to a different time period.
So this season, season one is going to be sticking

(28:17):
in nineteen sixty two, Season two is going to be
going back to the forties, maybe maybe even before that,
and then season three would be long before that. So
I'm kind of, you know, I'm kind of hoping we
get multiple seasons here, because just going back and seeing

(28:41):
the beginnings of everything is kind of cool. Now. I
did see I watch a couple of YouTube videos, a
couple of breakdowns, and I know that the breakdowns do
better job. They actually do some deep diving, they explain
some stuff. There is a lot of Stephen King lore

(29:07):
in this I know of a few things that I saw,
one being the turtle. So we do see apparently the
high school that these kids go to, there was a
the turtle. There's a turtle there. Apparently it's something that

(29:28):
was going on here. Like the turtle was a thing
about ducking and covering. But also the turtle charm that
Maddie gave to Lily, which I definitely think if she
did not have that charm she would have been killed.
Like that charm definitely was lucky. It saved her life

(29:49):
because the turtle itself plays a big part in the
Dark Tower series. Now that the turtle is a part
of it is I'm trying to His name is Matin

(30:10):
I think it's how you say it, And he is
a creature that is, uh, the enemy of of it,
of that that species. Basically that creature, it's the penny Wise.
He came to this world to escape Matran. Yeah. So,

(30:35):
like the turtle is the only thing that can actually
stop and kill well, I mean maybe kill. It's still
unclear if he actually died in part two, but so he,
like the turtle is the thing that could take out Pennywise. It.

(31:01):
So that is something that will be that I caught
on quickly. It's also, you know, we saw in the
movies that penny Wise is able to you know, shape shift,
to take the form of people and creatures and things.

(31:22):
I almost am positive that penny Wise, that penny Wise
was the mutant baby. But also I think he was
either controlling the family or taking over the family. He
definitely was. I think he was probably taking at least
taking over them at one point, because there's one point
where the boy, the son, we see him and he

(31:46):
is laughing or he's spelling. When he's spelling the words,
his eyes do that the the eye thing that Bill
Scarsguard does that Pennywise does where they're going the opposite direction,
showing a sign that is penny Wise. And then we
have the thing with Maddie in the movie where he's

(32:08):
got the smile looking like Pennywise. It's just showing how
much penny Wise is taking over. We do have a connection.
But we see so with Handlin when he is getting
ready to go to bed, he's reading the paper. We
see that they're getting ready to town. Darry is getting

(32:32):
ready to build the Paul Bunyan statue. That statue plays
a big part in the movies. I also think the
guys in the flight suits that attack Handling, I think
that they are. I think they're trying to lead you
to believe that they are spies, like Russian spies, to

(32:53):
figure out who you know, try and get specs on
the if it's too bomber. I think they're actually the
like Shawl and a couple of his close men, probably
somebody for that secret padrecs uh special Projects thing. They're

(33:16):
trying to see how loyal Handlin is and if he's
really loyal like he just is. He was not going
to give up anything. And I say that because when
Russo came in and started attacking these guys, the guy
had a gun and at no point did he move

(33:36):
to shoot Russo. The gun was out, he didn't go
to shoot Russo at all. So I think these guys
were were shaw testing Handlin, and I think he passed
the test. So I think he is just now been
initiated to be part of the Special Projects. So it

(33:58):
may not been shaw it may have been Fuller on Orders, whatever,
but I think these guys are We're there to test Handling.
That being said, though one of the videos I saw
we're talking about these guys maybe being a bigger connection
to some King work, a couple of different groups that

(34:22):
play a big part in other movies or other books.
So who knows exactly who knows exactly what it could be.
I also want to when one point out when we
heard Lily's the story of Lily's dad, and you start
start to think back of the pickle Jars, that's kind

(34:44):
of fucked up. What these kids did, you know? And
what they do and how they pick on her, like
Jesus so so messed up. But and I mean, I
understand kids are terrible, but that is like, like it's
literally locker is just full of pickles, Like that's just
that's too far. But it is what it is, I guess.

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And the last little bit of things that I want
to mention is one of the army guys, the airman.
I guess he's the one driving around well, he was
driving around Fuller when when Handlin and Russa first showed up,
and then he's driving around Shawl later. He is Dick Halloran.

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And if you know any of King's work, Dick Caluran
is a character from The Shining. He is the one
who helps Danny figure out what the shine is, so

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we have a connection to the shining here, which is great.
Turns out, again, this is something that I've never read
the books. The book is one thing I've always It's
been on my list. I actually have it on my shelf.
I borrow it from a friend and then never gave
it back to her, and I do feel bad for that,
but that's kind of a She moved out of state

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and so there's no way I can ever actually give
it back to her. But I still haven't read the series,
and apparently from what I saw online, what the show
is doing is taking a lot of the interludes of
the book, and that's how we're getting the show, which

(36:46):
I think is kind of cool. I've only ever known
what the mini series in the nineties and what the
movies from the two thousands have done, which is focusing
on the losers, users and then the adults, you know,
the kids and adults. So here we are getting all

(37:06):
the stuff in the past. And I really like that
you know this, and we have connections here to the
movies themselves. I mean, Leroy Handlin is the grandfather of
Mike from the first movie. We also saw, Uh, there's
a connection to Beverly from the first movie. Her father's

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name is drawn in the heart on the bathroom wall.
There's a bunch of other similarities to to the first movie.
So like it's I love what they're trying to do.
I love the where they what they are attempting to
do with this thing. It is definitely one of those
things where I'm like, Okay, it just makes me want

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to go and rewatch the movies to try and pick out,
you know what, what they have, just what they sprinkled
in kind of thing. But yeah, no, this is this
was a fun episode. Like I said before, second episodes
coming out on Halloween, so I'm looking forward to watching

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that Halloween Day. But other than that, that's all I got.
So thank you all for listening, and uh we will
catch you next time.