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all right Alan I have not seen this
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movie Uh The Penguin Lessons Love the
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cast Steve Kugan and Jonathan Price What
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is this about this is uh Yeah So I don't
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know if you remember My Penguin Friend
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last year Yes I I saw that movie I loved
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My Penguin Friend I love And I was
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hoping to like this one Um again Oh no I
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love the cast Steve Kugan Uh Jonathan
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Price I I'm going to say this about
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Steve Kugan I admire Steve Kugan Uh Alan
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Partridge is one of my funny my favorite
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things uh he's done Um but I've noticed
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in the last few years his movies are
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basically uh communist movies Um so
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let's talk about uh My Penguin Friend U
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this is a true story Steve Ken plays me
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Let's talk about the penguin lessons
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Yeah I'd rather talk about my penguin
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friend That was Let's talk about Let's
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talk about the Penguin lessons Uh Steve
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Kugan stars as a a kind of a ex
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expatriate teacher Uh Tom Michelle who
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is who finds himself in Argentina
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teaching at a boy's university He
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teaches them English Um he's kind of
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down on his uh down on his luck His wife
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left him a long time ago Something a
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family issue Um and he's just trying to
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live to the next day Um so he goes into
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the school Obviously the the shtick is
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is that he's a new teacher No one
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listens to him Him and a buddy decide to
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go to uh go to uh I think it's go to
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another country uh to meet women and
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dance And uh while meeting a woman and
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walking along the beach they discover a
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uh a penguin covered in oil and the date
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says "Hey we need to rescue this
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penguin." So they take the penguin back
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to the the hotel room They clean him up
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Um and uh all is well They try to
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reintroduce the penguin back to the
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ocean but the penguin hangs around much
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like in My Penguin Friend Um uh Tom
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Michelle cannot get rid of this penguin
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He has to take it back over the border
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The the customs won't let him bring the
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penguin across without spending a lot of
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money So so yeah keep it and they say
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"No just take it." Um he has to hide the
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Um yeah he has to hide the penguin and
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um and so all this shenanigans but the
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thing is is that uh Tom Michelle learns
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a little bit about himself rediscovers a
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passion for uh teaching But this is not
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the story of the movie Story of the
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movie is about uh the the housekeeper
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and his do and her daughter uh the
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daughter this in Ecuador at this time
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there's a fascist uh government regime
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running the government uh the the young
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people the communists are trying to take
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it over uh there's a civil war about to
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begin and uh the young woman uh the
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young girl who is the daughter of the
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housekeeper is kidnapped because of her
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communist views um he could have stopped
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it but he chose to play it safe and
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that's kind of what this movie is about
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the theme of you If you see something
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wrong say something That happens three
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or four times throughout this movie and
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becomes pretty much the pivotal point of
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this movie Uh the penguin is cute
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Everyone loves penguins Uh you know it
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the penguin's journey is similar to My
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Penguin Friend but doesn't follow it Um
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I I'll tell you bottom line I did not
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like this movie And I and it's all
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politically based Uh you know because
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for some reason they want us to be in
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one camp You're either for the fascists
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or you're for the communists right and
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uh and why can't I be not for either uh
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and this guy you know Steve Kugan has
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been putting out all these communist
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films lately or anti-fascist anti-
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capitalist movies lately and uh he's
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starting to really sour on me and this
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is just another example of it So look if
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if look if you like communism and
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socialism and think it's the greatest
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thing here here's a penguin movie for
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you Uh but for everyone else if if this
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if politics annoys you uh this movie is
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going to annoy you And so I I cannot
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recommend this movie So the the politics
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is woven into into the story Yeah Yeah
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About a penguin a rescued penguin Uh I
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mean the one thing about my penguin
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friend there really weren't any politics
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It was a very simple It was a friendship
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It was a story of friendship A
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friendship story very simple likable Um
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you know I I don't know It was It was It
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was uh good good for kids and adults And
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it's true It's a true too And this is a
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true story as well Uh this is not a kids
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movie I would not take kids to see this
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movie Oh wow I know It's And again it's
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all about politics And look this is this
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is I'm calling it now but this idea of
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you know the theme of rebelling against
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authority um is is that stories more and
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more stories are coming about that where
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where we are being said look uh these
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these fascists these capitalists uh
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they're doing evil things we need to
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take them down Um I will tell you this
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is this is the exact sentiment I have
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for Andor season 2 You know it's it's
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this the the little guys taking down the
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big guys So we have to paint the big
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guys as you know as as super evil And uh
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and it's I don't know I I'm I'm it's
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starting to become a trend and I'm
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starting to be bothered by it And again
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I'm not fascist and I'm not communist Uh
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there's a happy medium which is called
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America and and that's the one I follow
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Sorry There you go Political rant for
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the day So you do not recommend this not
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at all Let's go to communist unless
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you're a communist Unless you're a
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communist So communists will love the
