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a movie you and I both saw at the
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premiere
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Allan full disclosure Allan and I
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attended I don't know how we got invited
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we do get invited to premieres of Indie
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movies indie films so we got invited to
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this
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film strange darling and if you're a
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member you'll see uh there's a Q&A on
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our members only videos and some video
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from the premiere strange darling is
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directed by JT
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molner remember that name JT
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molner because this film we will get we
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will not get into the story too deeply
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yeah or yeah barely we will barely get
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into the story suffice it to say this
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movie strange darling if You' seen the
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trailer it's Charles Kyle gner
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in the film and uh the will Fitzgerald
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will Fitzgerald who is amazing in this
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film amazing
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performance
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and I I don't want to tell you much
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about the film except that it is
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brutal it is the it looks amazing the
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opening of the film as it says in
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there's a title card
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where uh it is shot in 35 millimeter and
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you'll see who shot that by the way and
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who shot and who shot the movie Giovanni
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rabi Giovani rabi shot this film and in
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the Q&A you'll see uh JT molner and
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Giovanni risi became friends and they
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started talking about shooting a film
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and the one thing that's really in
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interesting in the Q&A they talk about
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shooting in 35 there's a um
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intensity when you're shooting shooting
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digital you just shoot and shoot and
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shoot you got infinite storage when you
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are shooting in
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35 everyone is elevated to their aame
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the acting the design the camera
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work why you've got
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Limited film to shoot I seen this movie
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twice
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the first time I saw it I paid to go see
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it public screening a week before with a
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special Q&A
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right and then I got somehow got invited
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to the premiere so V disclosure if you
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think that you shouldn't hear my opinion
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because I was at the premiere where they
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had sushi and drinks such good sushi
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fine dismiss my but I've seen it twice
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now I loved it it's even better on
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second viewing I plan to see it a third
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time there are twists upon twists
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because the movie this is all I'll
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say the movie is not in order the way
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this story is revealed like an
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onion is it's in six chapters with an
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epilog seven chapters seven chapters
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seven
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chapters you start with chapter three
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three is it it says chapter 3 and then
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you see a little story play out you are
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given pieces of the story out of
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order it's so brilliantly
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done the acting is so
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authentic Kyle gner an under
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underappreciated actor that go to redl
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Media red letter media did a video about
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just a video tribute to Kyle G
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ER of like cheesy movies he's been in
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where he's great watch that video uh
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very
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good I can't recommend this enough it's
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on my best films of the year list
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and like other movies like the coffee
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table I don't want to tell you anything
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specific by the way not comparable to
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the coffee table no it's not it's so
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much better it's a different movie it's
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similar wait similar in the sense that
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if I tell you what this movie's about it
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ruins the surprise so we're not we will
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get into zero spoilers Allan what did
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you think of strange yeah no I love this
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movie you're right about Kyle gner uh he
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is and will a fitzerald two amazing
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performances um the the best thing about
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this movie The Best Thing I could say
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about this movie is uh the fun of it is
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watching it for the first time
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yes that's why you know look the the
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only thing other thing I'll reveal is a
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serial killer story um and uh it is it
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is so well done uh here I'll bring up uh
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Daniel Stein Stein stam's comment better
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than momento it's very much like momento
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in terms of how the story plays out yes
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and how they use uh time how they use
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these chapters to tell a story and then
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subvert pull and twist
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and turns that just intensifies the
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story itself uh I may be overselling it
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maybe I don't want to oversell it but it
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is definitely a movie worth seeing um
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and it is look clever that that's the
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best way I can describe the film it's
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it's very cleverly told and um it's
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beautiful it's a beautiful movie be
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warned uh
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shocking violence and
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sex that's all I'll say more violence
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and sex right but sex yeah there's there
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is sex but I
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wouldn't this is a movie the type of
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movie they used to make in the 70s this
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is a movie for adults yeah it's very
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Grand now I don't mean it's an adult
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film like pornographic or whatever but I
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mean it's for adults it must be seen in
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a theater apparently the new Beverly is
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going to show it on 35
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but you have to see this movie once you
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see it you'll be recommending it to your
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friends it's the kind of a shock that
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you would see in early
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Tarantino and I don't mean like I mean
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that as a compliment you
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know and uh God I love this film yeah
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it's the best movie currently playing in
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theaters go see it and I won't will not
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tell you anything more yeah
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yeah I mean what what we've told you is
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in the title title credits uh at the
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beginning of the movie yeah and also we
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should point out there are some great
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cameos from Ed Begley Jr and Barbara
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Hershey oh yeah like it's great and
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Jason Patrick is the narrator at the
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beginning of the film he reads this
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paragraph and you're like this serial
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killer like it's it's so it just sets
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you up that opening paragraph the
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opening just the sound design oh the
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sound design is so intense the movie
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grabs grabs you by the shirt and says
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hey by the way pay attention get off
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your phone watch this movie pay
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attention and upon second
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viewing it's even better on second
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viewing because I know what's coming so
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I I loved it will Fitzgerald and Kyle
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gner gner are the heart of the film wow
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w wow but let me also point out the
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cinematography you know it's weird to
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have to call it out but it is gorgeous
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uh and I I don't know that I mean I I'll
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ask you in a moment the sound is mine
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the the guns the gun sounds in this
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movie are nothing like I've ever heard
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before and and it plays right into the
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story uh it plays right into the impact
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of the story um the other thing is you
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know it opens with this with shot in 35
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M meter do do we really need to be told
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that I'm just curious what you think no
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I like that because tell you or I like
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it it it sets a tone in the beginning it
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tells you the opening paragraph tells
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you what the movie is
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about and I'll just say serial killer
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and wow it's the I I I I'm kind of
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speechless I can't believe I can't
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believe this wasn't an AMC they did a
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special screening it would they
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advertised special screening and Q&A so
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I'm like all right I'll go see it
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random um yeah and wow did it deliver so
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it's in theaters this weekend see it on
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the big screen one of my favorites of
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the
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year yeah uh I I I'm just blown away
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well I mean go go to the theater this
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weekend don't don't look anything up
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don't watch a trailer don't read
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anything just go go and enjoy this movie
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with with zero as zero knowledge as you
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can everything we told you is in the
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title credits so uh you know at the
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beginning of the movie so we're not
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we're not we haven't even gone five
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minutes into the movie yeah yeah like
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you
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can't and and there is a trailer I will
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say this the trailer does a very good
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job of telling you
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nothing
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nothing so that's a good thing that's a
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good thing
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