Horror News
👻 ‘Him’ first trailer released at CinemaCon:
👻 ‘AHS’ season 13 in the works: https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3862926/everything-we-know-about-american-horror-story-season-13-what-we-want-to-see-in-the-final-season/
👻 Vera Famiga’s band ‘The Yagas’ releasing first album soon:
👻 ‘M3GAN 2.0’ first full length trailer has been released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55X8iSN3xA8
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Hi.
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Hi, happy Tuesday.
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Happy Tuesday indeed.
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My eyes are watering.
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Yeah, we're sleepy girls today.
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We're yawning.
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Also, I mean, I just put eucalyptus hand sanitizer on and then covered my mouth.
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yeah, that'll do it.
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Nice, nice.
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Well, welcome back to KillerQ's podcast.
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Yeah, that's us.
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We're your hosts.
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I'm Cassidy.
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And I'm Katie.
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brother.
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We're here to talk about Death of the Unicorn.
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we are.
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But first, news.
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Horror news?
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It's me first, I go first.
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Okay, we're starting now.
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We got a trailer for Jordan Peele produced him at CinemaCon and by we, I don't mean you and I because we weren't there.
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But people did get to watch it.
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The Hollywood Reporter reported, weird.
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that the footage is full of references to injury and danger, whatever that means, and Marlon Wayans in the announcement of the trailer, you know what I'm saying, said that the
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film burrows under the skin.
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His character in the trailer says, you have to ask yourself, what am I willing to sacrifice?
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So people are thinking it's body horror of some kind, and the poster that they released is a football with like staples.
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and blood.
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So they're like, maybe it's a skin football, but that seems too obvious to me personally anyway.
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The movie comes out on September 19th and contrary to what literally everyone on TikTok is saying, Jordan Peele did not write or direct this.
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It is not his movie.
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He's just producing, which could literally mean nothing.
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We'll just have to wait and see.
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Yeah?
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His next directorial project is through Universal and doesn't have a name yet.
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It's slated for October 23rd of next year, 2026.
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Do we know is he I don't think it's his fourth project because that was already announced But I know recently we got news that he's doing a remake of the people under the stairs
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And I can't remember if he's just producing that or directing it Or maybe it just hasn't been No, I don't think so because it wasn't that long ago that it was Maybe it was
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Maybe that is.
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almost a year ago that they announced it.
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Wow.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Anyways...
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He's up to stuff, he's doing things.
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yeah, hopefully multiple Jordan Buell projects is what we can look forward to.
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Yeah, but this one can't really call it a Jordan Peele project because he's just producing.
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I mean, he has a hand in it.
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But it's not like.
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It's obviously a project he believes in, so that says something, I think.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Alright, first news for me.
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It's not even new.
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I don't even have news if I'm being honest.
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It's a slow news day.
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Did you know that American Horror Story was still going?
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Because I didn't.
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I thought they were just done with that.
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They're not.
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Yeah.
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I guess it was just me.
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But apparently after 1984's success, they got renewed for three seasons.
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Yeah, which was...
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1984 was, yeah, people liked that one.
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I actually did watch that one and I didn't mind it.
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But yeah, so then they did NYC and then Delicate, which is the newest one, and then now the 13th one is like the last one that they were renewed for.
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So it could be the last season.
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Who's to say?
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Not me, Ryan Murphy in the network.
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That's who gets to say.
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Anyways, we don't know.
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one with What's-Her-Face and Kim Kardashian?
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Okay, I did watch part of that.
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Okay, I watched like two episodes because my sister was like, this looks fun and Kim K's in it.
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And I was like, I don't care.
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Anyways.
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Yeah, we don't know the theme yet.
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We really don't know much about it at all, except that Ryan Murphy has revealed to Variety that he was talking to Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters about the new season.
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Not confirmation that they're going to be a part of it.
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but I'm sure fans are gonna speculate that they are.
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Jessica Lange recently was in an interview where someone asked her about it and she said, hell no.
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So, who's to say?
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Interesting.
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Yeah, but I'm sure people who have stuck around with it for this long would be excited to have them back, because I don't think that they've been in the newest seasons.
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At least not in the two episodes that I watched of Delicate.
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Yeah, I didn't recognize them either.
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And I don't think either of them were in 84, which is the only other recent one I've seen.
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What's-her-face was in it though?
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the one...
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the...
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the...
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Rob...
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Robertson.
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Emma Roberts.
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Emma Roberts?
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Yes.
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Well, she was in Duts Who Isn't Delicate.
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Yeah.
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I was talking about when I said, what's her name in Kim Kardashian.
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I was thinking of the other girl.
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I only knew that those two were in it.
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Who's the other girl?
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She might not even be in it.
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I could be making it up entirely.
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God, what's her name?
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I really like her house.
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Her house was on an episode of AD.
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Cara Delevingne.
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Is she in it or did I make that up?
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I don't know.
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Yes.
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She wasn't delicate.
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Okay, interesting.
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Ivy.
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Wait, I think I do remember her in it.
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I'm getting flashbacks.
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Anyways, somebody tell me which seasons are worth it to watch because I don't want to watch all of them.
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If it's none of them, that's fine too.
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Keep in mind, I've already seen like one through four.
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Yeah, yeah, One through Coven.
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That's one through three.
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I did watch four, would not recommend.
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I hated it.
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I thought it was terrible.
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wait, is four what's it called?
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Freak Show?
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I didn't mind Freak Show.
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That shit was terrible.
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They got rid of the most interesting villain in the first, like, four episodes.
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And then they had fucking Neil Patrick Harris come on for two filler episodes in the middle of the fucking finale.
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What was that about?
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I him.
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I do not like Neil Patrick Harris.
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I so I don't know why you liked that season, it was terrible.
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Yeah, you're welcome.
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Anyways, if you love AHS, please tell me which of the later seasons I should watch.
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If it's none of them, that's fine too.
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Yes.
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Okay, well in happier news, better news or actual news, Vera Farmiga is releasing her debut psych metal album.
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We know her from The Conjuring and the newer age Godzilla movies, obviously.
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But now she's the front woman of a band called the Yagas and their first ever album is releasing on April 25th.
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It's a 10 song album called Midnight Minuet.
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and they just released the song Life of a Widow.
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It's pretty good, kind of slow.
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Vera described it as lamenting, which I definitely agree with.
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She's Walking Down was also released.
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It has a really sick classic metal guitar backing.
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And then The Crying Room, which has almost a million and half streams on Spotify alone and it's been out for like four or five months, maybe even longer.
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That one feels very Divorced Dad rock and I'm super into it.
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I do love Divorced Dad rock.
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the cover art is also stunning.
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I can see people getting that tattooed on them as like an adjacent homage to the conjuring.
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They could even like sort of tweak it and it would be the conjuring.
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I don't know.
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It's really cool.
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And I guess just fun fact, she and the other four band members met at Rock Academy's adult program.
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That's Woodstock's Rock and Roll School.
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And they just loved working together and now they're a band.
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How cute.
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Love that.
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Yeah, me too.
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Good for her, a little side quest.
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Fun side quest.
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And she's pretty good at it.
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don't- her singing's very good.
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I kind of wish she would have been the front man of the new Lincoln Park.
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I think she would have been good at it.
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Love that.
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Alright, last kind of news for me.
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The first full trailer for Megan 2.0 has been released.
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We will link it in the description.
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It's very clear that they are going to be leaning much more into the comedy and action than the horror.
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I believe in our episode on Megan like two years ago, I said that they needed to lean more into either the comedy or the horror.
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So it sounds like they've chosen and they've chosen the comedy and the action.
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Everybody in the comments is comparing it to the Terminator series because it feels like that where they're going full sci-fi action.
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But people seem excited.
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So.
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That's cool.
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I was watching, I don't even remember what the TikTok was, but it was about Megan, obviously.
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And one of the top comments was, who's asking for more Megan movies?
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Which is like, honestly, like who talks about Megan?
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What's funny is that like it feels...
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I do think when it came out, like there was hype around it.
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People loved Megan when it came out.
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But then I feel like some of it was just kind of artificial from Universal because they're like, Megan's gonna be at Horror Nights every year since she came out.
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And like they're pushing Megan on us.
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And I'm like, it's fine.
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But I didn't think the movie was that good.
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It was a fine movie.
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Do I think it's...
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You know what?
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Maybe I shouldn't judge until Megan 2.0 comes out.
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Maybe it'll be the best movie I've ever seen and I'll be so happy that they continued the Megan saga.
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Maybe.
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We won't be watching it because it's not a horror movie.
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I'll watch it on my own time.
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We won't be talking about it if it's not a horror movie.
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But yeah, I'll give it a go.
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Sure, I'll give Megan 2.0 a chance.
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I mean, we kind of had to have known that it wasn't going to be horror when they released the teaser during the Super Bowl.
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I feel like that doesn't really like.
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event.
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I don't think it's gonna be family friendly.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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I just mean that horror trailers generally don't play during the Super Bowl because they're scary.
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Yeah, true, but like a horror comedy might.
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So that's like, you know, that's fine.
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But it seems like they're kind of just going more towards that, which is fine.
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Like I feel like it makes sense for the premise.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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wow.
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A funny doll horror movie.
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Chuckie.
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Yeah, I was going to say Child's Play.
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I literally made Cassidy take that off our list.
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I didn't want to watch it.
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did, which is crazy to me.
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I don't know why.
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don't...
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he doesn't do it for me.
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I don't know.
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But you don't know because you haven't seen it.
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I know, but I know somebody that really likes him and I don't like that person.
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So it's like, little...
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You know?
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I guess, yeah.
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anyway.
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Maybe someday.
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But right now we're talking about Death of a Unicorn.
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Well, yeah, eventually we're going to talk about Death of a Unicorn.
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I just have one more tiny, tiny, tiny news before I get into a summary of Death of a Unicorn.
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It's more of a call out than a news.
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Screamboat.
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The Steamboat Willie horror comedy that came out last week actually has pretty decent Rotten Tomato reviews.
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I'm extremely surprised.
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It has 61 % critics out of 18 reviews and 64 % audience with over 100 reviews.
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I'm genuinely shocked.
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It's...
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Why?
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Because I think that the people who are going to see Screamboat and reviewing it the first weekend it's out are people who are interested in that type of thing.
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You know what I mean?
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And it's only 18 critics, so clearly it's people who like, wanted to go see this.
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that's fair.
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William Bibiani from The Wrap said, if we absolutely must have low-budget spree killer movies starring classic cartoon icons, I hope they are at least as good as Screeboat.
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See, like that feels like an almost backhanded comp.
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Yeah, so.
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which is why it's only a 61 % and not a 90%.
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But like, yeah, I didn't plan on watching it at all, but I'm kind of, now I kind of want to.
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Especially if it would redeem What's-his-face for me after he was in ES.
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Yeah.
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See, I always, I like him.
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No qualms with him.
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I think he's fun.
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And I think he does a great art, the clown.
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I just don't like Terrifier.
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I just don't want to watch the movies he's in.
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But I keep doing it for some reason.
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Anyway, okay, well, we're here to talk about our latest new movie release, Death of a Unicorn.
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This is A24's latest horror entry directed by Alex Sharfman
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and starring Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan, and Taile One.
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It's about a lawyer and his daughter who hit a real life unicorn with their car on the way to a business meeting where they discover the healing properties of the unicorn's blood,
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flesh, and horn.
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The man's boss tries to exploit the creature's curative powers with horrific results.
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And that summary is adapted from Google.
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Thanks, Google.
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A24 was working with a $15 million budget and had a slow couple.
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Weekends the last two weekends making back only six point five million dollars so far Audiences aren't super impressed.
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It's got a six point four out of ten on IMDB a three out of five on letterbox and a 54 % critics and 78 % audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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So pretty average overall but
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that's a good audience score, 78%.
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but Letterboxx is a 60 % technically and IMDB is a 64%.
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Yeah, I would take INDB over Letterboxd in terms of normal audience scores because Letterboxd is kind of full of pretentious people.
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That's kind of the whole point of it.
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And that's as someone who has a Letterboxd account and uses it all the time.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, what we actually care about is what we thought of the movie.
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Yeah, that's all that matters.
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Yeah, and if you're here, that's all you care about too, I hope.
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We're gonna tell you.
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listening to see if like, we think the same thing as you, you know?
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Because your opinion should be the only thing that matters.
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And you're just listening to us because sometimes we agree with you.
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That's the only reason to like critics.
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That's why everybody I follow on Letterboxd, I only did because they liked the same things I liked sometimes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And every once in a while, they leave me a stray.
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And I think, hmm, you're on thin ice.
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They pulled me back in.
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I saw this movie today and also today I learned that eyebrow kid is English.
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Yeah, we'll pull through.
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Yeah, I had no idea he was English.
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He is, yeah.
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Yeah, the only thing I remember him from is We're the Millers.
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Very good movie.
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And Maze Runner.
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In both of which he has an American accent.
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He does.
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I honestly think I knew that be...
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No.
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Was it Chronicles of Nart?
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Wasn't he in one of the Chronicles?
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yeah, you're so right.
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He totally was.
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He's in Prince of Persia, not Prince of Persia.
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Prince Caspian, I think.
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don't think that that's how I knew though, but I think I knew because when Maze Runner came out, one thing about me is that I fucking love Dylan O'Brien.
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He is white boy of every year for me personally.
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But anyways, so I was like, yeah, fuck yeah, Maze Runner, let's go.
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And I just remember reading that like half the cast was English, but only
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Thomas Brody Sangster got to keep his accents, so everybody was like mad at him because they had to do American accents and he didn't.
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So I think that's where that knowledge came from.
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Yeah.
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But you've also seen him in another movie that we talked about, Midsommar.
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my God, you're so right and he has an American accent in that too.
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does.
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He does it really well.
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Yeah, he honestly second only to Dr.
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House.
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Hugh Lowry.
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I couldn't think of his last name.
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knew his first name was Hugh.
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on a first name basis, us and Hugh.
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yeah, and speaking of Hugh, he has a very successful musical career.
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I've seen him in concert.
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He's great.
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He's a he's a pianist, jazz pianist.
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That checks out.
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He played piano on house a lot.
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Yeah, he actually is a musician.
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They put that in there because he is a musician
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Look at that.
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Is it time for an annual house rewatch?
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I think so.
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I need to finish Buffy first.
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Yeah.
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Don't ever do that to me.
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shit.
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Yeah.
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just turned into a little bit more work than I anticipated having to tandem watch it with Angel, which I am enjoying.
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It's just more work than I anticipated.
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Anyways, back to the movie we're here for.
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I want more teens with acne in movies.
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And I'd prefer it to not be plot relevant, but I'll take what I can get.
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Because when they first showed her on the airplane and she had like little acne marks all over her face, I was like, wait, I love this.
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I was so excited.
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I was like, she actually like kind of looks like a teenager now, you know?
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That's fun.
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And then it became plot relevant, which I understand it did make sense for, you know, the movie, but I kind of wish it.
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She just had acne.
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That's fun.
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Yeah, I mean, to your point, it was very noticeable.
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was like, I even asked myself, what did they put acne on?
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Like, why didn't they cover her acne?
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And then, yeah.
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But I think it's so noticeable because we never see that in movies.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And we know gen ortega has flawless skin.
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Yeah, well, she's rich, she should.
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Or she just takes care of her skin really well.
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You don't have to be rich to take care of your skin.
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No, but when you're rich you have access to dermatologists and skin care clinics and all that kind of stuff that the best products for your skin that work the best for your skin.
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It's a lot easier to have nice skin when you're rich.
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Yeah.
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fair, that's fair.
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Speaking of being rich, the steak budget for this movie must have been astronomical because Richard E.
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Grant ate 16 steaks while they were filming the dinner scene over one night and he'd be eating them when the camera was off.
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He just kept eating them.
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I'm obsessed with that.
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Yeah, he was so fun.
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And I watched an interview with the five of them, Richard Poulter, Paul Rudd, General Ortega, Richard E.
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Graham, and T.
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Leoni.
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And they were having so much fun together and he was hilarious.
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Yeah.
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It reminds me of, I think it was for E.Z.A.
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There's a scene where Emma Stone's like eating food.
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And I think she said in a behind the scenes interview that she just was actually eating the whole time.
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And because it was one of her first movies.
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And so they were like, oh, here's your spit bucket.
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And she was like, I'm not gonna, this is good food.
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Like, I'm not gonna spit it out.
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And she's like, after like 20 takes, I was like, I should have been spitting this out because this is too much.
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Yeah, that's funny.
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I remember I was gonna tell you something.
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Okay, in our last episode, we got into a fight, one of several, about how much I really love the movie Good Luck Chuck.
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And I'm a Good Luck Chuck apologist, that movie's fantastic.
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I remember my second favorite rom-com.
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Because Taileoni is in it.
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And it's not.
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It's actually much better.
00:20:45
It's like, unironically, a very good movie.
00:20:50
And when you and I were at the Met, which we were also talking about earlier, we went to the Met, they have the, Egypt room, the Egyptology room, you know, that has, like, the
00:20:57
water in it and everything.
00:20:58
And you took my picture in there.
00:21:00
I was pretending to be Taileoni in that movie because she was an Egyptologist in the movie Ghost Town.
00:21:07
She-In, Ricky's Your Face.
00:21:09
It's a very good movie.
00:21:11
I love that movie.
00:21:12
It's very good.
00:21:12
And once his face is in it too, I like him too.
00:21:15
It's like a comedy, comedy romance drama.
00:21:17
Yes.
00:21:18
Yeah, no, I've seen it.
00:21:20
Good movie.
00:21:21
Yeah, I don't remember not liking it.
00:21:25
I don't think it was one that stuck with me, but yeah.
00:21:30
It's good cast.
00:21:32
It's funny.
00:21:33
It's sad.
00:21:35
It's very good.
00:21:37
Good rom-com.
00:21:38
listen, at this point, I'll take anything.
00:21:40
I'll take anything over.
00:21:41
Good luck, Chuck.
00:21:42
So sure.
00:21:44
I still am going to show you my favorite rom-coms so that you can be like, my God, wow, a good movie.
00:21:51
Sorry.
00:21:51
You pick two rom-coms, I'll pick two rom-coms, and you already know what my two are, and we'll compare.
00:21:59
You have to!
00:22:02
Yeah, a long time ago, and you haven't seen it through the lens of, my best friend KD really likes this movie.
00:22:11
I should approach it differently.
00:22:13
I don't want to watch Dane Cook have sex with like 20 different women.
00:22:17
Like that's not on my list of things I want to watch.
00:22:20
You don't even have to watch that part, it's implied.
00:22:22
I don't wanna watch any of it, Katie.
00:22:25
Let's talk about this movie.
00:22:29
Great.
00:22:30
said that she accepted this movie based on the name alone.
00:22:34
She said when you get a script called Death of a Unicorn, you just...
00:22:39
you sign up for it.
00:22:41
She was great.
00:22:43
Yeah, she did a fine job.
00:22:46
I don't think anybody did like a bad job.
00:22:48
No, not at all.
00:22:49
I didn't really have any sort of attachment with the like, guard woman.
00:22:57
I don't even remember her name.
00:22:58
She was
00:22:58
there to be killed off, you know?
00:23:00
Yeah, but so are the doctors, but I liked both of them.
00:23:03
Yeah.
00:23:05
I feel like...
00:23:07
I think Will Poulter and Anthony Carrigan, who played Griff, they kind of carried the whole comedy aspect.
00:23:14
Like, they were the only two characters and I was like, okay, yeah, I'll see more of them, because they're kind of funny at least.
00:23:20
Yeah, loved Anthony here again.
00:23:21
He was very good.
00:23:23
Yeah, which apparently he watched a lot of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin to kind of get into the whole body movement comedy instead of talking, because he doesn't talk a lot.
00:23:35
So most of his is just silent acting.
00:23:38
Yeah, it does it very well.
00:23:40
He did.
00:23:41
Yeah, Will has all of the like zingers for sure.
00:23:45
Yeah, which I kind of wanted like the whole family to be a little bit more over the top and funny.
00:23:51
Whereas I felt like it was just kind of him and Griff.
00:23:54
Mm-hmm.
00:23:55
Cause then the main characters, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, those are like two straight men.
00:24:03
Not like straight men, but straight men in a comedy sense.
00:24:08
They're the ones that keep the straight face while the person next to them makes jokes, right?
00:24:14
That's kind of their role.
00:24:16
But then it was just them together.
00:24:19
Yeah.
00:24:20
Yeah, and I don't feel like Paul Rudd's talents were really...
00:24:27
accessed for lack of a better expression because I am a number one Paul Rudd hater.
00:24:35
I was before this movie.
00:24:37
I was the number one.
00:24:38
I hate him for absolutely no reason.
00:24:41
But having watched him in like interviews for this, he's actually really funny and like very endearing and likable.
00:24:48
So I apologize to Paul Rudd for hating you for no reason.
00:24:51
I don't anymore.
00:24:53
I did always think it was crazy that you didn't...
00:24:56
Not that like, you know, whatever, if you don't like a celebrity you don't have to have a reason, but it was just such a random one that I was like, he seems like someone you'd
00:25:02
like, but...
00:25:03
Yeah, I do.
00:25:04
I do.
00:25:04
I do like him.
00:25:05
And he was way funnier in the interviews for this movie than he was in the movie.
00:25:09
And I feel like had they let him be funnier, the whole movie would have been better.
00:25:15
Yeah.
00:25:16
Just let him do his thing.
00:25:18
Everybody was saying how funny he was behind the scenes.
00:25:21
Why didn't they put that into the movie?
00:25:23
Yeah, I don't know.
00:25:24
It wasn't as funny as it could have been from all accounts.
00:25:29
Yeah, I saw a lot of people, mainly on Letterboxd, talking about how like, he's the most unlikable he's ever been in this role.
00:25:37
And I was like, yeah, that was the point, you guys.
00:25:39
I don't know if you realize that.
00:25:41
You're not supposed to like him until like the last five minutes.
00:25:44
That's the whole point.
00:25:45
Yeah, in that regards, feel like he did a good, I think he did a good job for the role.
00:25:51
I just wish like,
00:25:53
It had been funnier.
00:25:54
Yeah, you can be unlikable and funny.
00:25:57
Like the dad.
00:25:57
And Will Boulder, exactly.
00:25:59
Will Poulter nailed being unlikable and funny.
00:26:03
Yeah.
00:26:04
He's actually really good at that.
00:26:05
That's what he does in We Are the Millers, too.
00:26:07
He's just an annoying little punk-ass kid.
00:26:10
Yeah.
00:26:11
Also unlikeable in the Maze Runner.
00:26:13
Not very funny though.
00:26:15
Not funny.
00:26:17
But, Midsummer?
00:26:19
Unlikeable and kind of funny.
00:26:22
my god, that's his niche.
00:26:23
Good for you, Will Poulter.
00:26:26
Yeah.
00:26:28
Have you seen the interview he did where they asked him about that?
00:26:32
And he...
00:26:32
Yeah, well they were like, you know when you Google like eyebrow kid, like he shows up.
00:26:38
And he was just like, yeah, I think that's interesting because every other actor has eyebrows too.
00:26:45
So, I don't know.
00:26:48
Yeah.
00:26:50
I feel like he really glowed up, glue up.
00:26:53
You know, not not that he was ever unattractive or anything, but he was also a child.
00:27:00
Yeah, he's just.
00:27:02
He got kind of buff.
00:27:04
He worked out.
00:27:05
Yeah, he did.
00:27:06
He kind of grew into his eyebrows too.
00:27:10
They suit him.
00:27:11
yes.
00:27:13
They were never bad eyebrows.
00:27:17
Yeah, they just were, yeah.
00:27:20
And now they're great.
00:27:22
Yes.
00:27:23
Yeah, I know his name.
00:27:27
Still Google him as Eyebrow Kid.
00:27:29
Interesting, okay.
00:27:31
Yeah.
00:27:32
Anyway.
00:27:34
I have a complaint.
00:27:35
I know I've been talking a lot, but it's...
00:27:39
I've been really heated about this one for the last three hours since I read it.
00:27:44
Mm-hmm.
00:27:45
Do you know what I'm gonna say?
00:27:47
in Carpenter.
00:27:50
Yeah.
00:27:52
John Carpenter was going to do the score of this movie and he didn't, which is like fine.
00:27:59
Whatever.
00:28:00
But what's really pissing me off is that Alex Sharfman, who's the director of this movie, it's his directorial debut.
00:28:06
He wrote a letter to John Carpenter asking, please, John Carpenter, my, my muse, my inspiration, would you do the score for my movie, my directorial debut, Death of Unicorn?
00:28:19
And John Carpenter said, yes.
00:28:22
Yeah.
00:28:24
And Alex Sharfman, he said, as production went on, the movie wanted a different sonic palette than what John does with synth, guitar and drums, which is great.
00:28:35
And I love it.
00:28:36
But the movie was asking for a more organic sound and a more varied kind of soundscape.
00:28:42
Now, he doesn't expand on that, but John Carpenter obviously did not do the music for this film.
00:28:47
But can you fucking imagine?
00:28:49
getting John Carpenter to commit to your movie and then being like, actually, we're going in a different direction.
00:28:55
No, but can I be honest?
00:28:58
It didn't need John Carpenter, but you don't say no to him.
00:29:02
Yeah, I don't think he should have ever asked John Carpenter.
00:29:05
Because this doesn't feel like a movie that should have John Carpenter score.
00:29:10
So I do think he did what was right for the movie, but yeah, it is crazy to be like, I got John Carpenter to do my movie and then be like, never mind.
00:29:17
Yeah, I get it.
00:29:18
I get, I sorta respect the commitment to the project and your vision, but-
00:29:27
It wouldn't have made the movie worse, it just would have made it different.
00:29:31
Yeah.
00:29:32
think at one point, maybe this was a movie that could have a John Carpenter score.
00:29:37
They've been working on this for a while.
00:29:39
Yeah, at least 2022.
00:29:41
Yeah, because that's when they sent to, I mean, before that, because 2022 is when they sent over the script to General Ortega.
00:29:48
So if you're sending the script to actors, it's already way past the initial pre-production when you're writing and developing it.
00:29:59
Alex Sharfman said that he was inspired by other creature features that kind of have anti-capitalist messages like alien, Jaws, and Jurassic Park, which I think you can
00:30:11
definitely see.
00:30:11
He knew that he wanted those themes in his Unicorn movie, and he felt like Unicorn lore kind of already coincided with that narrative, so he felt like that was the perfect kind
00:30:23
of messaging.
00:30:25
But you can definitely see the influences.
00:30:27
Even if you've just seen the trailer, that scene of like the alien or about the alien face, the unicorn face like yelling in Jenna Ortega's face is kind of a direct homage to
00:30:37
Alien 3 with the xenomorph in Ridley.
00:30:40
Ripley, sorry.
00:30:41
And then Ridley, her name is obviously Ridley Scott from the original director of Alien.
00:30:46
I think even Jurassic Park you can see when they're like trying to go around the car and hide from it.
00:30:52
It kind of mimicked Dr.
00:30:53
Grant in the T-Rex.
00:30:55
So there's a lot of little things that I see why people are comparing them and you can definitely see the influence there.
00:31:02
Yeah, I mean, it's a creature feature is what it boils down to, I think.
00:31:06
And it would be hard not to take inspiration from those movies are so iconic.
00:31:11
Yeah, I mean this really was just Jurassic Park with unicorns.
00:31:16
which is why I liked it so much.
00:31:18
wanna talk a little bit about costume design.
00:31:21
yeah, okay.
00:31:22
So Andrea Flesh was the costume designer for this film and she took like pretty much direct influence from the tapestries.
00:31:31
So she worked a lot of that into her own creations.
00:31:33
So lot of the textures and the patterns and the colors that were used were kind of direct reflections of those.
00:31:39
So Jenna wearing red, that was really apparent.
00:31:42
She's, you know, the maiden or the pure of heart maiden.
00:31:45
Paul always wearing blue was a reflection of one of the people on the tapestries.
00:31:49
And then the Leopold family.
00:31:51
Their entire palette was just like gold, white, and black, which were kind of all the hunters of the unicorn.
00:31:59
And then even the lab coats were kind of designed to mimic those like high collars that you see in the Middle Ages.
00:32:05
So I that was all really cool.
00:32:07
And then there was another little bit I saw about the hoodie that Jenna Ortega wears, which is very cape-like.
00:32:12
Like it was obvious, you know, very clearly an homage to the cape that the-
00:32:16
the maiden is wearing.
00:32:17
It was from a Japanese designer and they didn't make it in red so they had to get it custom made to be red so that would fit the tapestry.
00:32:25
I know, I love that.
00:32:27
You don't hear a lot about costume design in a lot of the fun facts so I always like that.
00:32:32
Yeah, fun.
00:32:33
One thing about the maiden though is I guess in that particular tapestry, it's called the unicorn surrenders to a maiden, which is obviously a big plot point in the movie.
00:32:44
Supposedly the actual maiden that the unicorn is surrendering to is like off screen for lack of a better expression.
00:32:53
But Alex Sharfman said that that was too hard to like teach people in the film.
00:32:58
Mm-hmm.
00:32:59
obviously went with like, General Ortega is this other maiden that is actually visible in the in the surviving tapestry because the the tapestries were found either during or after
00:33:10
the French Revolution and the theory is that they were damaged during the French Revolution.
00:33:18
So that's why she's not exactly on screen.
00:33:21
But anyway.
00:33:23
Fun.
00:33:24
Yeah, and I know he worked with a bunch of artists to kind of fill in the gap because the one tapestry with the maiden is the most damaged, like pieces of it are missing, which
00:33:33
they talk about in the film.
00:33:35
And so he got a bunch of artists to work together to kind of recreate that same style and expand it into what we see in the movie when they expand it.
00:33:43
Obviously, it's for the movie.
00:33:45
It's not a direct idea of what they think it was, but.
00:33:48
Yeah.
00:33:49
He said that was kind of fun because then they could fill it with stuff that he wanted to put in the movie instead of stuff that might have actually been on it.
00:33:55
for sure.
00:33:56
And we actually don't even know for sure what order the tapestries go in.
00:34:01
Which is super interesting.
00:34:03
I've seen the recreation.
00:34:06
So there's two there's like the originals obviously.
00:34:09
And then there's the recreations they made in like 2001 or 2002 for Stirling Castle in Scotland.
00:34:14
I've seen those ones.
00:34:15
And I think they're in a different order than the ones at Cloisters, which is interesting.
00:34:23
Yeah, that is.
00:34:25
I think he even changed the order in the movie from Cloisters.
00:34:29
I think in Cloisters it doesn't end with the surrender scene, but he wanted that to be the last scene, so that's why he put that at the end instead.
00:34:37
Interesting.
00:34:40
There was lot of talk about practical effects in some of the video interviews I was watching.
00:34:46
Most of the effects were practical, except obviously like the sky.
00:34:50
But the unicorns were puppets and the cast got to like go and visit them before they started filming and see them.
00:34:57
And everybody was really impressed by just how well done they were.
00:35:03
That's kind of
00:35:05
so interesting because it didn't look that way in the film.
00:35:08
If I'm being honest, I felt like there were maybe a handful of scenes where they looked really good and the rest I did not think they looked good.
00:35:19
It looked like so CGI to me.
00:35:23
Yeah.
00:35:24
baby never looked good to me.
00:35:26
The baby looked stupid and like.
00:35:27
the appearance definitely looked better.
00:35:30
But even sometimes, yeah, I don't know.
00:35:32
I feel like most of the time.
00:35:35
Unless it was like a close up, it just didn't, I don't know.
00:35:39
Interesting.
00:35:40
See, I thought the close-ups looked less CGI, like more puppety.
00:35:46
And the...
00:35:46
thought that looked better.
00:35:48
Like there was more realistic, enhanced with CGI rather than just like just CGI.
00:35:54
Interesting.
00:35:55
Okay.
00:35:56
And they also definitely look better in the black than the white for sure.
00:36:01
Yeah, I agree.
00:36:02
It's like the baby looks like shit.
00:36:04
Yeah, honestly.
00:36:06
Really?
00:36:08
But no, I think that that's, I mean, it's always a feat to pull off like a big creature.
00:36:14
Yeah, for sure.
00:36:15
And I'm not even blabbering, like I don't know.
00:36:18
We've talked about how CGI is just getting worse.
00:36:21
And it's not even, it's not CGI that's getting worse.
00:36:23
It's the working conditions and the budgets and all of that and like trying to squeeze workers for every last fucking piece that they can get.
00:36:32
And if you just gave them the time and the money to do it, movies could look so fucking good right now.
00:36:39
Yeah.
00:36:41
Like Transformers and Pirates of Caribbean.
00:36:44
Yeah, 15, 20 years ago look better than they do today.
00:36:49
Yeah, first avatar looked better than second avatar.
00:36:53
I wouldn't know.
00:36:55
Because you haven't seen Second Avatar?
00:36:57
I haven't seen either.
00:36:59
I've told you this.
00:37:00
I tried.
00:37:02
I tried watching the first one like five times.
00:37:05
just couldn't get into it, I'm so sorry.
00:37:08
You're more of a practical fix like Gurley anyway.
00:37:11
I am.
00:37:12
I think everybody who appreciates digital effects should watch it.
00:37:15
Because it's...
00:37:17
the masterclass.
00:37:19
Yeah.
00:37:20
Yeah, I definitely went down a rabbit hole with these tapestries.
00:37:23
Super, super interesting.
00:37:26
They even like, I mean, you kind of touched on this with the the comments about costume design, but even some of the shots are like directly from the tapestry is like one of the
00:37:35
ones of Odell and Elliot going into the wilderness while hunting the unicorn is like taken directly from one of the tapestries is very cool.
00:37:45
Yeah, liked that.
00:37:46
I liked the inclusion of that into the lore and that was fun.
00:37:52
Yeah, I kind of wish that he had like seen these tapestries and been like, my god, I should make a movie out of that.
00:37:58
But he found them in his research.
00:38:00
He was like, researching as far back as like Roman Empire.
00:38:05
Yeah.
00:38:06
before the 16th century, How, when was the Roman Empire in comparison?
00:38:11
It doesn't matter.
00:38:14
Either way, and like Old Testament Bible even, like way long time ago.
00:38:19
And then he came across the tapestries and was like, I think I saw these at the the cloisters.
00:38:23
And that's what brought them into it.
00:38:26
Interesting how ideas are developed that way.
00:38:28
Yeah.
00:38:30
You'll love this, even I'm sure you probably already know it.
00:38:35
So Sharfman worked, previously worked for the production company Parts and Labor Films.
00:38:41
And while he was there, he got to watch Robert Eggers put the finishing touches on The Witch, as well as develop very early versions of the Nosferatu script.
00:38:53
So, yeah.
00:38:54
So he said that he kind of credited him
00:38:58
for this movie because he watched how research-based Eggers is and just like how much he put into getting the lore of the witch and even Nosferatu, like how much he actually
00:39:10
studied that.
00:39:11
So he was like, if I'm gonna do a monster movie, I wanna do the same thing.
00:39:15
So that's kind of what inspired him to really dig into the lore.
00:39:20
Interesting.
00:39:20
I did not see that.
00:39:23
That was probably one of the longer facts on IMDB that I deleted because I didn't want to read it all.
00:39:28
my god, the IMDb facts for this are paragraphs.
00:39:33
I took all of that out of like a hundred word, no, more than that.
00:39:38
It was like a full page.
00:39:41
It was.
00:39:43
And that's all you needed to know from it.
00:39:45
Do remember five paragraph essays from school?
00:39:48
Yes.
00:39:48
I don't think they do those anymore.
00:39:51
I don't think that's a thing.
00:39:52
It's like not a format that people are writing essays in.
00:39:58
Yeah.
00:39:58
Why the fuck did you teach us all this shit?
00:40:00
Why didn't you teach us useful knowledge?
00:40:04
Thank God I know how to write a five paragraph essay.
00:40:07
I mean, that knowledge probably translates a lot to the fact that you're very good writer now.
00:40:15
You can do copywriting, can do cover letters, you can do all of that kind of stuff.
00:40:20
This bitch can write an email, that's for sure.
00:40:22
Yeah, I can.
00:40:24
I sent the best email of my life the other day.
00:40:26
That was such a good fucking email.
00:40:30
That was actually, yeah, she sent it to me beforehand.
00:40:32
was a really good email.
00:40:34
No, I had already sent it.
00:40:37
That email was sent.
00:40:39
Anyway, don't piss me off or I'm gonna send you a nasty email.
00:40:42
I like it.
00:40:44
I love that side of you.
00:40:46
Thank you.
00:40:48
I try to lay low.
00:40:50
Yeah, sometimes you can't.
00:40:52
Yeah.
00:40:52
Unless you fire John Carpenter from your project, you're safe.
00:40:59
In general, you fire someone that Katie loves, you're gonna get the biggest rant of your life.
00:41:07
Honestly, that's really what it boils down to so Alex Sharfman prepare for your fucking email bitch
00:41:14
Alex Sharpen's on the fucking list.
00:41:18
If I experience one more inconvenience from Alex Sharfman, it's fucking over.
00:41:23
It's over for his ass.
00:41:25
god, that's so funny.
00:41:29
We joke here, we joke here.
00:41:31
Yeah, we have fun.
00:41:36
You touched on this earlier, but Jenna Ortega received a script in 2022 the weekend before Wednesday premiered.
00:41:44
like she was not anywhere near as popular as she is now.
00:41:48
She hadn't done any those green movies.
00:41:50
Like she was not popular yet.
00:41:52
So they really got her on board at the right time.
00:41:55
And Alex said that he was really glad to have her and glad that they were able to get her before she got too big.
00:42:04
to be a part of it.
00:42:06
Yeah.
00:42:07
I mean, they have a huge cast, so I think she would have participated either way, but...
00:42:12
Very true.
00:42:13
Yeah, I mean, guess unless she was really busy, but.
00:42:17
Yeah, sometimes when it explodes like that, it's like you have so many offers that it's like, what do you choose from, you know?
00:42:24
Yeah, that was like, really sad time in my life.
00:42:29
But a really happy time for him when Brendan Fraser kind of had his like, Brent, Renaissance, Brenna, whatever they called it.
00:42:37
He was in the whale or whatever.
00:42:38
And people were like, justice for Brendan Fraser.
00:42:43
We had already tickets to go and see him at like, a Minnesota Comic Con, just like a little tiny thing to go and meet him and like take pictures and get a stature or whatever.
00:42:54
And literally like the month after we bought the tickets was when he like blew up and he had to cancel.
00:43:02
So we didn't get to go and see him.
00:43:04
Yeah, it was really sad.
00:43:05
I was really excited to meet him.
00:43:07
But I get it.
00:43:08
He was busy.
00:43:08
He was busy and working and he deserves it.
00:43:11
Yeah, I went to see a movie with a friend in Century City and they were doing, we were like, oh yeah, like let's meet at the theater and then, you know, we'll decide what we
00:43:21
want to see.
00:43:22
So we get there and they're having a showing with a Q &A with Brendan Fraser for The Whale.
00:43:29
And we were like, oh my God, we have to do it.
00:43:31
Sold out, couldn't get in.
00:43:33
So sad.
00:43:34
We were like, I mean, we knew as soon as we saw it, we're like, there's no way like day up we're going to get tickets, but.
00:43:40
It was still devastating to know he was in the building with us at that moment and we couldn't go talk to him.
00:43:46
Yeah.
00:43:48
I probably didn't just for good.
00:43:55
Yeah.
00:43:55
It is kind of fun having you as a friend.
00:43:57
Yeah, I can just, I can tell you any story anytime.
00:44:00
And you haven't heard it, even though you have.
00:44:06
funny.
00:44:08
Do you have any other fun facts?
00:44:10
Okay.
00:44:12
Yeah, I have one last one.
00:44:13
Okay.
00:44:15
Apparently Sharpen said that when he was trying to imagine what a pure-of-heart maiden would look like in the year 2025, he said he started thinking it's probably some Gen Z
00:44:25
leftist who's protesting on a campus somewhere right now.
00:44:28
Someone with very strong morals and ideas.
00:44:31
Yeah.
00:44:34
Yeah, I also love that, but the way that he worded that makes me feel like he's a righty.
00:44:41
You know what I mean?
00:44:43
No, because I don't think if you're thinking a pure of heart that a right winger would be like, yeah, leftist.
00:44:50
They'd be like, a follower of Christ.
00:44:53
yeah, leftist just feels like such a slur.
00:44:57
Like, Republicans use that, like, you're such a fucking leftist, you know what mean?
00:45:02
I just didn't like that he said that word.
00:45:05
No shade, no shade.
00:45:06
I mean, I think it was more of just a descriptor rather than an insult.
00:45:11
Yeah.
00:45:11
do love that and agree that.
00:45:14
I sort of agree, but didn't Gen Z vote for Trump?
00:45:16
like, didn't they?
00:45:19
I'm pretty sure more young people are Republican than, that's why they call them Zoomers.
00:45:25
We're just sandwiched in between shitty generations.
00:45:29
Sorry Gen Z, if you're listening to this, vote better next time.
00:45:34
Yeah.
00:45:35
Vote correctly next time.
00:45:38
You did this to your fucking selves.
00:45:41
Seriously.
00:45:41
I loved that because right after I went to see this movie, but before I read that fun fact, I was at a protest.
00:45:46
I was like, my God, it's me, I'm pure of heart.
00:45:52
funny, but you're not a Gen Z, so are you really that pure heart?
00:45:56
No, I'm this close.
00:45:58
I'm this close to being pure of heart.
00:46:03
Okay, we're not even elder millennials, are we?
00:46:05
We're just like right in the middle.
00:46:08
Are we?
00:46:08
Yeah, we're like near the end.
00:46:14
Cuspers, if you will.
00:46:18
Not quite like on the cusp, but.
00:46:21
Alpha, you're our only hope.
00:46:23
I'm raising one.
00:46:24
At least one of them's gonna be fine.
00:46:26
I love that.
00:46:27
We've got one on our side.
00:46:28
Yeah, maybe that's a reason to have more kids.
00:46:32
Just like an army of children that will vote correctly.
00:46:36
That's the problem is that I feel like everybody I know who doesn't want kids should be the one raising a kid.
00:46:41
And that's the problem.
00:46:44
the problem.
00:46:45
Yeah.
00:46:47
Yeah.
00:46:48
Right now.
00:46:51
Maybe.
00:46:52
they're already too expensive and they are not getting any cheaper, so...
00:46:56
I can't even imagine having to buy diapers right now.
00:46:57
Holy shit.
00:46:59
I need them for myself too.
00:47:01
Let's see those prices and shit myself.
00:47:04
Oh my god.
00:47:05
It's like, what are you talking about?
00:47:08
That joke.
00:47:10
All right, should we rate?
00:47:13
Yeah, let's read it.
00:47:14
How scary did you think it was?
00:47:17
Okay.
00:47:18
This was like a round, it was it?
00:47:19
It's unicorns.
00:47:20
I'm not, that doesn't scare me.
00:47:23
They were kind of scary unicorns.
00:47:25
They weren't like unicorns and rainbows unicorns.
00:47:28
Yeah, but like you just have to not try to kill them and they're fine, so...
00:47:33
What am I scared of?
00:47:34
No, it's not.
00:47:36
How scared did you think it was?
00:47:38
I gave one because there were some like really prolonged jump scare lead ups.
00:47:44
And you want to know what?
00:47:45
Yeah, you want to know what made me jump the most was and you knew it was going to happen was when they hit the unicorn with the car.
00:47:51
That noise was like really loud and sudden.
00:47:54
And it scared me.
00:47:55
I don't know why it was weird.
00:47:56
But I gave it a one just a little bump.
00:48:00
How sexy did you think it was?
00:48:03
Yeah, I don't know, man.
00:48:04
Will Poulters grow up is fucking crazy.
00:48:07
Paul Rudd is actually growing on me both in personality and he's kind of hot.
00:48:11
And then Teleoni is also very beautiful.
00:48:14
She's my favorite part of Ghost Town.
00:48:17
And then there's like the mythology and the sci-fi of it all.
00:48:20
So I gave it a three.
00:48:22
Wow, okay.
00:48:23
Yeah, I really liked it.
00:48:27
I'm also starting my period tomorrow.
00:48:28
That could have something to with it.
00:48:31
Yeah.
00:48:33
my god.
00:48:33
it.
00:48:35
I just, can't.
00:48:36
I can't deal with that too.
00:48:38
You know?
00:48:41
Yeah.
00:48:44
I give it a two.
00:48:46
So kind of some I agree.
00:48:48
Partially for the cast and then partially for the, you know...
00:48:52
horns.
00:48:52
she say?
00:48:52
That horn had a lot of girth to it?
00:48:54
that the line she used?
00:48:59
Also, did you ever see the like 824's webs?
00:49:03
What their like their merch for this?
00:49:06
It's a lamp that looks suspiciously like a door.
00:49:12
I think I did see it in an email, but I forgot which.
00:49:16
Let me look.
00:49:19
Yeah.
00:49:20
I really want it though.
00:49:21
$125?
00:49:23
Yeah, it's a lamp that looks like the horn from the unicorn, it also looks...
00:49:28
Although does it have...
00:49:29
it doesn't have a flared base, does it?
00:49:32
It does, well...
00:49:33
hook.
00:49:37
my God.
00:49:37
It's like double.
00:49:39
It's kind of.
00:49:41
Yeah, that you don't want to get caught with that at the at the hospital.
00:49:45
No, that'd be embarrassing.
00:49:47
It's made out of...
00:49:49
What's it made out of?
00:49:52
Made of molded...
00:49:53
it's made of molded frosted glass.
00:49:56
And it does have a bulb in it, like an actual bulb.
00:49:59
So please don't put this in your orifices.
00:50:02
It doesn't belong there.
00:50:04
It looks like it does.
00:50:05
It does.
00:50:06
I think they knew what they were doing.
00:50:08
I think they made it so that people could put it right next to their dune popcorn bucket and just have a cute little set.
00:50:17
Now you're talking.
00:50:21
Interior includes...
00:50:23
Wait, it's a fucking lava lamp.
00:50:27
Yeah!
00:50:28
Interior includes paraffin wax and tinted water.
00:50:30
Please allow two to three hours for contents to heat.
00:50:35
It like glows like the light like the horn
00:50:38
Wow, I love that.
00:50:42
And I am still a AAA24 member, so it's $20 cheaper.
00:50:47
Wow, she's getting it
00:50:51
Well, anyway, that's fun.
00:50:55
How fucked up did you think it was?
00:50:58
I gave it a 1.
00:51:00
I gave it like a little bump just cause like, the kills were fun.
00:51:05
Yeah.
00:51:06
I didn't necessarily think they were that fucked up, but like, I'll give it a point cause the effort was there.
00:51:11
They were going for it.
00:51:12
I like that.
00:51:14
What about you?
00:51:17
Okay, yeah.
00:51:19
Mmhmm.
00:51:20
Yeah.
00:51:21
they did a good job with the tone where it wasn't like out of place at all and it was just fun.
00:51:26
It was a romp.
00:51:27
Very, very romp.
00:51:29
The only one that really got me a little bit was the slow head pop.
00:51:33
Yeah.
00:51:34
Yeah, I made a noise through that entire setup.
00:51:38
and I had, I, where do you sit in a movie theater?
00:51:41
Am I with people or am I by myself?
00:51:45
okay.
00:51:46
Last row on the aisle.
00:51:48
Okay, like as far back as you can on the aisle.
00:51:53
Okay, I sit last row right next to where the projector is so that I can go like this.
00:52:03
Yeah, so I can go like this a little bit.
00:52:04
It's not exactly the middle, it's like right to the side.
00:52:06
So I can go like this if I need to.
00:52:09
What if there's other people in there, Katie?
00:52:12
Not if there's any other else in there.
00:52:14
Nobody goes to my theater.
00:52:15
movie for yourself sometimes?
00:52:18
Not when like the movie's running, but I just think it's funny to like do your little hand puppets.
00:52:22
Anyway, but also I like hearing the projector go.
00:52:25
I think that's kind of fun.
00:52:26
When it's quiet, I like hearing it.
00:52:29
And also I can be on my phone and nobody's behind me.
00:52:33
Why are you on your phone in a movie?
00:52:35
Are you taking notes?
00:52:37
Because you'll forget.
00:52:39
Got it, okay.
00:52:41
duh.
00:52:44
well, why was I telling you about that?
00:52:46
I was telling you about that.
00:52:49
The head pop, did you put your hand up during the head pop scene?
00:52:52
I was I was making a noise like an audible noise the whole time that that was like knowing that what was about to happen.
00:52:59
was like, and I was in the theater alone.
00:53:03
Okay good, that was going to be my next question.
00:53:06
Okay, fun!
00:53:08
my little seat in the back.
00:53:10
Yeah.
00:53:12
Alright, overall, what did you think of Death of a Unicorn?
00:53:15
This was really fun movie.
00:53:17
So fun.
00:53:17
I was so worried that Paul Rudd was going to ruin it for me.
00:53:20
And again, I apologize for ever hating him.
00:53:23
I don't know why, because now I don't hate him anymore.
00:53:26
I like him a lot.
00:53:28
But this movie had like everything that you could possibly want.
00:53:30
had mythology.
00:53:31
had science.
00:53:32
It had unicorns.
00:53:34
Amazing cast, beautiful effects.
00:53:36
I thought it had beautiful effects.
00:53:37
I'll forgive some of the shitty unicorn stuff for the good unicorn stuff and the like the galaxy thing.
00:53:43
Mm-hmm.
00:53:43
And then I have that little personal connection to the tapestries having seen them and fallen in love with them.
00:53:48
I found the pictures.
00:53:49
I didn't even realize I had pictures of them.
00:53:52
I don't even know if you're allowed to take pictures in that room.
00:53:54
But anyway, that little personal connection probably influenced my rating a little bit.
00:53:58
I gave it a 4.5 out of 5.
00:54:01
What?
00:54:03
Yeah, this might be my next salt burn because I got home and I was like, fuck, I want to fall asleep to this movie.
00:54:08
People were comparing it to Saltburton in some of the reviews I saw.
00:54:12
Why?
00:54:12
For what reason?
00:54:17
Like a, yeah, like a kind of surface level ether rich messaging.
00:54:24
Yeah.
00:54:25
Yeah.
00:54:27
Yeah.
00:54:28
Yeah.
00:54:29
Okay.
00:54:29
Yeah, I get it.
00:54:30
I get it.
00:54:30
Maybe that's maybe that's why I need to fall asleep is subliminal ether rich.
00:54:36
Okay.
00:54:37
Yeah, I guess that's true.
00:54:39
was no nuance in this movie at all.
00:54:43
No.
00:54:46
A little bit more, yeah.
00:54:47
It's not quite so...fuck you Big Pharma.
00:54:51
At least Jenna Ortega isn't saying it out loud.
00:54:53
Yeah.
00:54:55
How about you?
00:54:56
You liked it, you really liked it.
00:54:57
I really did.
00:54:58
I really, really did.
00:55:00
This is it.
00:55:01
I know this isn't like an Ari Aster directed movie, but this would have been my favorite Ari Aster had he directed it.
00:55:06
yeah, no, just, yeah, executive produced.
00:55:11
Nice, alright.
00:55:13
Um, I didn't like it as much as you did.
00:55:16
I'm so sorry.
00:55:18
I will say though, even though I kind of agreed, after I watched this movie I was like, alright, that was fine.
00:55:25
Like, I didn't love it, but that's fine.
00:55:28
And then I went to Letterboxd and people were so annoying about it that I wanted to like it more.
00:55:33
Because I was like, why are you guys criticizing the fucking Unicorn movie this much?
00:55:37
Like, it's not that big of a deal.
00:55:39
Calm down.
00:55:41
What are they saying about it?
00:55:43
Just how bad it is or whatever?
00:55:45
Just that, like, yeah, like the messaging is just very on the nose.
00:55:49
Like there's no subtlety.
00:55:50
It's very just like in your face.
00:55:52
Here's what it is.
00:55:53
There's no nuance or anything like that.
00:55:55
Which is fair, but also at a time when like media literacy is not very high, maybe sometimes people need just a direct message.
00:56:02
Is it the smartest script ever?
00:56:03
No, it's not.
00:56:04
But it wasn't even that I disagreed with people saying it.
00:56:07
They were just being so annoying.
00:56:09
Like, why are we being that hard on a unicorn movie?
00:56:11
It's a fucking unicorn horror movie.
00:56:13
Yeah, it was a great time.
00:56:14
It had great kill.
00:56:15
It was fun.
00:56:16
It was a little funny.
00:56:17
Could have been funnier, but it was funny.
00:56:19
Yeah, I think my major critiques, do think that it could have had a little bit more nuance.
00:56:25
It could have been funnier.
00:56:27
I felt like the pacing was off.
00:56:29
Like this was a slog.
00:56:31
I'm sorry.
00:56:33
I, yeah, I remember I think when she was like in the car the first time when the unicorns like first started attacking.
00:56:41
And I remember thinking like, how long is this movie?
00:56:43
Like, is this like an over two hour movie?
00:56:46
And I was like, because we're already at like two hours.
00:56:49
Yeah.
00:56:50
And I looked at my clock and it had been like an hour 15.
00:56:52
And I was like, okay.
00:56:55
Nevermind.
00:56:57
So that pacing was a little bit of an issue for me.
00:56:59
I really loved The Kills.
00:57:00
I thought that that was really fun.
00:57:03
It's a unicorn movie.
00:57:04
Like it was a fun time.
00:57:06
I thought Poulter and Kerrigan were great.
00:57:08
I just wish nobody did a bad job.
00:57:11
I just wish it had been funnier.
00:57:13
So yeah, overall I give it a three.
00:57:14
Yeah.
00:57:17
What's one of the biggest disparities we've had in a while?
00:57:20
I think so.
00:57:21
Maybe even ever.
00:57:22
A point and a half is a big disparity.
00:57:24
Men you had to be farther than that.
00:57:27
That's true.
00:57:28
Yeah.
00:57:29
I understand it now.
00:57:33
I kinda wanna watch that again.
00:57:35
Me too, I haven't seen it since we did that episode.
00:57:37
Two years ago.
00:57:39
eat the rich.
00:57:44
fall asleep to that.
00:57:45
Yeah, hell yeah.
00:57:46
Let's go.
00:57:49
All right, would you survive?
00:57:52
I think so.
00:57:55
I think if a mythical creature shows up, nobody's fucking touching that thing on my watch.
00:58:02
That's just...
00:58:03
yeah.
00:58:05
It's staying alive.
00:58:07
Yeah, number two.
00:58:08
Yeah, I agree.
00:58:10
Same thing.
00:58:10
If I relate to anybody, I relate to her character, because I'm not going to kill and harvest unicorns.
00:58:16
That's insane.
00:58:17
Yeah, absolutely.
00:58:18
Bonkers.
00:58:20
Did we learn nothing from Harry Potter?
00:58:22
No, I did not.
00:58:24
Do you want to predict next week's movie?
00:58:30
no.
00:58:31
You're gonna predict next movie anyway.
00:58:34
Well, I don't know why you asked.
00:58:37
Of course I do.
00:58:38
Of course I do.
00:58:40
Alright, next week we're going to be talking about a movie from 2014.
00:58:44
It's called Honeymoon.
00:58:47
Okay, so it's a gay couple, I hope, on their honeymoon.
00:58:56
Yeah, they're on their honeymoon.
00:58:58
It's in Italy.
00:59:00
around Italy, no specific places.
00:59:02
It's an Italian honeymoon and they...
00:59:09
It can't be a vampire movie.
00:59:10
I feel like we just had a vampire movie.
00:59:13
Hmm.
00:59:14
don't know.
00:59:14
This is hard.
00:59:15
I don't know.
00:59:16
don't have a lot to go off of from just the word honeymoon.
00:59:19
Who's in it?
00:59:21
Rose Leslie and Harry Tretaway.
00:59:24
Okay, so it's not a gay wedding.
00:59:26
That's annoying.
00:59:27
You can't use that to your advantage though, it's still a gay wedding.
00:59:31
In your version.
00:59:33
Yeah, that Rose is attending.
00:59:38
Yeah.
00:59:39
And she gets invited on the honeymoon, Italian honeymoon, because she's their best friend.
00:59:47
And while they're on the honeymoon, one of the gay men is murdered because that's annoyingly always the thing that happens in
01:00:00
gay horror movies is the gay people die.
01:00:03
So one of the men dies and then the other groom and the best friend played by Rose Leslie avenge him.
01:00:16
And they discovered that the person that killed the thing that killed the groom.
01:00:22
Yeah, the thing that oh, can't be.
01:00:23
It can't be.
01:00:24
It can't be a creature feature because we just saw one is a ghost.
01:00:28
It's a ghost.
01:00:30
It's supernatural.
01:00:32
And yeah, they don't get revenge, but they are able to escape.
01:00:38
The two of them are able to escape.
01:00:41
And they don't, they don't fall in love.
01:00:43
There's no straight love in this movie at all.
01:00:46
None.
01:00:47
Okay, cool.
01:00:49
Anything?
01:00:50
There is a couple on their honeymoon.
01:00:54
But as you inferred, it is not a gay couple.
01:00:59
sorry.
01:00:59
But yeah, I think that's all I'll give you.
01:01:04
I think it's a good one to kind of go into blind.
01:01:08
And I'm excited.
01:01:10
It's actually been a while since I've seen this one, so I'm excited to revisit it.
01:01:15
Yeah.
01:01:16
Speaking of going into movies blind, and I had this thought while I was watching Death of a Unicorn, wouldn't it have been so fun if Death of a Unicorn was not called that and it
01:01:25
was called something else like tapestries or something, and then you go in blind and it's a fucking unicorn movie?
01:01:31
Wouldn't that have been fun?
01:01:32
Yeah, but these days they have to like market it based on what's gonna draw you in.
01:01:37
Like tapestries, is that gonna draw people in?
01:01:39
No.
01:01:40
Unicorns are gonna draw people in.
01:01:42
yeah, but people would have then seen the trailer.
01:01:44
But I generally don't watch the trailer for movies that we're going to go see.
01:01:48
I don't even I try to avoid that completely.
01:01:50
I go in with just the title.
01:01:52
And can you imagine had we gone in just the title and it's called Tapestries and then there's fucking unicorns.
01:01:59
That would have been that would have been a blast.
01:02:01
I will, one thing I didn't say to you is this movie is like, violently predictable.
01:02:07
I'll go back and listen to my prediction of this movie.
01:02:10
It's the exact plot.
01:02:13
Like, beat for beat.
01:02:16
I nailed every part.
01:02:17
You said that the horn was gonna be a bomb.
01:02:19
So you, you didn't nail this one.
01:02:22
off.
01:02:22
They held on to that thing and it was exploding into the universe.
01:02:27
I wasn't far off.
01:02:28
At the end there, it was kind of bomb-like, but...
01:02:32
Yeah, they did the little thing where they crossed the horns and it was all smoking and stuff.
01:02:37
Yep.
01:02:38
We were both right.
01:02:41
You maybe a little more than me.
01:02:45
But no, I mean, what else is going to I mean, the unicorn lore is that they healed people and.
01:03:34
Yeah, no, you really did nail it.
01:02:53
That was that.
01:02:53
That's true.
01:02:54
Very, very much now.
01:02:56
Alright, well, that was Death of a Unicorn.
01:03:00
We had mixed reviews, kind of, just like audiences and critics.
01:03:03
So I guess you guys are just gonna have to watch it yourself.
01:03:05
You're gonna have to figure this out for us.
01:03:07
Yeah.
01:03:08
Go in blind.
01:03:09
Forget everything that we just said for the last hour and 20 minutes.
01:03:15
And then go see the movie.
01:03:18
Yeah, if you fast forward just to hear the reviews, this is the time.
01:03:22
Go watch it now.
01:03:24
Let us know.
01:03:26
funny.
01:03:26
All right.
01:03:28
Well, thanks for listening.
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Yeah, thanks for listening.
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Please like, subscribe, comment.
01:03:34
Which do they comment, Katie?
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You already asked them to comment what American Horror Story season they need to watch.
01:03:41
yeah, that I need to watch.
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yeah.
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They know what to watch, I'm sure.
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it.
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Maybe.
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What do mean maybe?
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If someone requests it, we will watch it.
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god.
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Okay.
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Fine!
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But it better not be like, ooh, I'm gonna recommend they watch this one and it's the worst one.
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Don't do that.
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Don't put me through that, please.
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Um, yeah, yeah.
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Even though the one episode we did on American Horror Story was one that we had both already seen.
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Yeah.
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That's because we're liars and frauds.
01:04:24
Anyways, thanks so much for listening again.
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