Robin Williams Wasn't Acting—He Was Transmitting a Secret Frequency!

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It is Parallel Frequencies. I am Just Blaine.

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This is Coco. You are the freaks. Hi freaks.

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Lots of freaks out there. They are growing. They

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are growing in number. They are commenting. They

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want to be a part of Freaky Friday. Can't wait

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for Freaky Friday. I love Friday. Yeah. We always

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say we love every day. I love Wednesdays. I love

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Tuesdays. I don't love Tuesdays. I like tube

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Tuesdays, but I don't like Tuesdays as a general

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day of the week. I never have. This week's Tuesday

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was rough for us. We had tech issues after tech

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issues. Tech issue Tuesday. Tech issue Tuesday

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is what we had. And today is wistful Wednesday,

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but it's shaping up to be a pretty rough one,

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too. I mean, nobody's gotten nuked, so at least

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there's that. We're still here. We're still here.

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For now, guys. But wistful Wednesday, today is

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a big one. But before we get to that, there was

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something else that big that just happened. Yeah.

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We went to the moon again. Yes. The furthest

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in space we've ever been. Allegedly. Allegedly.

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Except for the people living on the other side

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of the moon, guys. Every time it's mentioned,

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that's what Lindsay will say. Allegedly. As far

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as we know. Yeah. That's something, too. I am

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sure there have been secret missions. Yeah. I

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think humans have been further. I mean, that's

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further than we've ever sent them on record.

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Yeah. But what about the ones who get abducted?

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Where do they go? You'll just ask them. If any

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of our freaks have been abducted by aliens, let

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us know where you went and how far, and if you

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were actually further than the people on Artemis

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2. Mm -hmm. But I love the story of the astronauts

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being on the other side of the moon and seeing

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a bright spot that we've never seen before and

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naming it Carol after the one astronaut's late

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wife. I mean, that immortalizes her forever.

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That's incredible. How amazing is that? I mean,

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it's a spot that nobody will ever see until they

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flip around the backside of the moon. But we

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know it's there now. I like all the memes I saw,

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too. I saw, like, oh, here's the backside of

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the moon. Made it look like butt cheeks. Yeah.

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I saw that one. I saw another one. That's the

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sonogram of my son. Oh, is it? One of my sons

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totally mooned us in a sonogram when I was pregnant.

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I saw another meme that said, here's the first

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shot of the dark side of the moon. And, of course,

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it's the pyramid prism and a light shining through

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it like the Pink Floyd album. I love that one,

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too. Yeah. But, yeah, we went. around the moon,

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slingshot it back, and they're coming back home.

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I think they're going to be home Friday. Okay,

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welcome back. Makes me feel like I haven't really

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done shit this week. There's some people that

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went, launched in a rocket, went around the moon,

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and they're going to come back. I've done enough.

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You have? Oh, yeah. What have you done that's

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equivalent? I haven't done to the moon, but,

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I mean, I'm raising three kids, podcasting, running

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a business. All right. I feel like I've done

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enough. I'm doing enough. Would you have rather

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went to the moon? Good question. Which one's

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more work? I'm not actually sure. But maybe I

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would have rather gone to the moon. I don't know.

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No, I like what I do. Yeah, seeing some of those

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pictures looked like a dream. Like it looked

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unreal, like a visualization. But they were real

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pictures. But that gets me to Whisper Wednesday.

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Because the movie we are talking about today

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is like a fever dream. I know. Some people actually

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say, like, was this movie real or did I dream

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it? Yeah. And I'm like, it could have been. It's

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a movie that you half understood but never forgot.

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And you always had it in your head. You've seen

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pictures of this movie. We're talking about toys.

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Yes. Not Toy Story. Toys. T -O -Y -S with Robin

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Williams. And this is, like, at his finest. I

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think so. You guys. When I first was sending

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this out, like, okay, we're going to do this

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movie, I didn't research it or anything yet.

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I just put it on the schedule. I said, this is

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the one we're going to do. I've been talking

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about it with somebody. So I was like, that's

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a good one for Wistful Wednesday. Put it on the

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schedule. And then I'm texting you and I'm like,

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I am so sorry. I picked a movie we can't find.

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Yeah. It's disappeared. Do you know why we couldn't

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find it? Yes, I did. You researched. I researched.

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I'm glad somebody... I was like, why is this

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so hard to find? I can't even find it to rent

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on Amazon Prime. So I was like, that's got to

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be some... It's really buried. And basically,

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the answer I got was it didn't do well enough.

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It slipped through the cracks. What? That literally,

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I'm quoting. Gemini, I think, was telling me.

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Slipped through the cracks because it didn't

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make... Even half of what they spent making this

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movie when it came out. It was not popular. It

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didn't do well in reviews. So the fan base just

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wasn't there. Which surprises me. Because I picked

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this movie because when I was a kid, I probably

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rented it half a dozen. Maybe more. Maybe a dozen

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times. Rented it more times than you would have

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paid to buy it. Probably. Yeah, I loved this

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movie. So they're saying that this movie's not

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out on streaming services or anywhere it can't

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be found because it's too bad? Pretty much. That

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is insane. Come on, tell me, freaks. If you've

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watched it and you liked this movie as much as

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I did as a kid, do you think that that qualifies?

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Do people really not like this movie? They really

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don't think it was good? I have seen some real

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shit out there before. And this is not it. I

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don't think so. Honestly, I think it might have

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been more of... The theme of the movie and the

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time it came out is what maybe people didn't

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want to highlight. Because you've got basically

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a child's imagination if you gave it access to

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a defense budget. That's what this movie really

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is. So maybe the timing of it, I wonder if it

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comes out today, if this is... I think this will

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be a revival, you guys. I think if we all start

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writing into a streaming service that will pick

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it up, we will get it back. Yeah. And it'll have

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this whole new rewatch revival. Let's talk about

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this, though, because this movie feels like walking

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into a dream where everything is soft, but something's

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off. Like something feels off. Bright colors,

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toy factories, innocence everywhere, but underneath

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it, military takeover energy. Yeah. And we're

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seeing that all over the place now. We've seen

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this since this movie came out. And what was

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the year, 1994? Yes. So this is a 30 -plus -year

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-old movie. And it's still, I'm watching it,

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and I'm like, oh, this hits even closer to home

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now with some of the stuff. And back then, it

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would have been over the top. You wouldn't have

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thought about some of this. But it's almost like...

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Somebody whispered, what if imagination had to

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fight control? And then they just hit record

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and added Robin Williams into it. It's the best

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part. Robin Williams, he plays Leslie, a grown

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man who never left childhood. And somehow that's

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both his superpower and his vulnerability, which

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is a huge character trait. Now, this is really

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important to me, and I will tell you why. This

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is probably why I rented it so much and why I

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loved it so much. I loved Choice. As a kid, I

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had a huge imagination, but I also invented toys

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that didn't exist. Oh, yeah, yeah. In my mind.

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I kept thinking, oh, gosh, you know, this toy

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would be more fun if it just had this or if it

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did that. I loved playing with little animal

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figurines, and I would have my entire living

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room set up like a whole world with valleys and

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mountains and all the things and caves. And all

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of my toys had backstories. Oh, yeah. But I thought,

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you know, I wish you could just, like, move the

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animals better so that they, you know, their

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heads moved and their tails moved. They weren't,

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like, plastic and stiff and you had to, like,

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march them around. I always had ideas for new

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toys. So when I saw this movie and I saw you

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don't have to grow up, Leslie was a hero of mine

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because I clung to childhood. I squeezed the

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life out of every second of it. I did not want

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to grow up. I was like, someday I'm going to

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have to give up imagination and toys and childhood.

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I refused. I told my son the other day, we got

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Easter baskets until we were like 18 at our house

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because we couldn't let it go, right? And to

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see that someone like him could be a kid forever.

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Yeah. It gave me permission. It was like, I get

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to do that? I would love to work in a toy factory

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and invent toys. That would be my dream job.

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And you're touching on it right here. Let's be

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real. How many of us have been told to grow up

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when what we really needed was to hold on to

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something pure? And that's what he's doing. We

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want to hold on to our childhood. I still think

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of myself as a child. There's a lot of people

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that probably agree with that right now. They're

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like, really? Are you sure? They're like, yeah,

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just playing is definitely a child, the way he

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acts. But the child in this movie, Robin Williams,

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he wasn't just acting. He was transmitting. Frequency.

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There's a frequency that he tapped into where

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comedy and pain are sitting at the same table,

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not even arguing. You feel bad for him in some

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parts when you're laughing hysterically at him.

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And there's all these range of emotions. You

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run the gamut of emotions, really, watching this

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movie. And he portrays this guy. And have you

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ever noticed that characters feel like they're

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smiling through something? And that's what he's

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doing in this movie. He just left his father.

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I know. The beginning of the movie, I mean, you

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see the grief and also the... probably the conflicting

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feelings of my dad didn't trust me enough with

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the factory, didn't think I'd be responsible,

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and so he loses control over something he's so

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very connected to, his identity, his career,

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but his way of life. And so he has to kind of

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concede to, well, my dad made this choice to

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leave this toy factory with my uncle, who's in

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the military, not at all in the toy industry

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or childhood industry or anything like that.

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And that's when everything shifts and changes.

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But you can see all of that going on. I mean,

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of course, Robin Williams. The depth in his ability

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to be funny and emotional all at the same time.

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Watching this made me realize how much we miss.

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Not just me, but we miss Robin Williams. 100%.

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And seeing these kinds of... Because this isn't

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the only movie he did this in. Like this is like

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Mrs. Doubtfire energy, Jack. I mean, there's

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tons of movies. He plays a child. He came in

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and crushed it and makes you feel. And that's

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what we're supposed to be doing. But you're getting

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into it right there because the real thing is

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imagination versus control. Yeah. And you've

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got. And profit. I mean, they're creating toys

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for the military, for military purposes. And

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I love the character LL Cool J, the cousin plays,

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because he's like, you know, military all the

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way, doing what dad tells him to do, wants dad

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to be proud of him. But there comes a shift in

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the movie where he's like, even this is unethical

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for me. I can't see, I can't go along with this.

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just let this happen without standing up for

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what's right. And I love the dynamic of all these

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characters together. LL Cool J, you said that

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the movie was too bad for people to stream. His

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performance alone is worth putting on some streamers.

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Tooby can't get a copy of this? I know, right?

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Even Tooby. We can't get this on Tooby? Like,

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come on. This, I have seen way worse movies because

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LL Cool J. I'm going to tell you, he should have

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won an Oscar for this. This is so good. When

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he comes out of the couch. Oh, my gosh. Everything.

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Speaking of actors in this, a lot of big names,

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by the way. A lot of big names. If you're not

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going to say. Joan Cusack. Yeah. I was going

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to say Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx. Made his debut

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in this as well as Baker, I think. Joan Cusack.

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Joan Cusack is one of my all -time favorites.

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I love her in everything she's ever done. But

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in this movie in particular, I think she was

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the character I related to the most. Oh, okay.

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Is that sad? I don't know. But singing in the

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bathroom, when she goes in and she goes, there's

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just great acoustics in here, and she's singing

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in the bathroom. She's not wrong. I love it.

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All of my hits come from the shower. Yeah, showers

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and cars. That's where we all do our singing.

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But she just is who she is. You don't find out

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until the end. Spoiler alert for those who haven't

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watched it. She's not. actually human but she's

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playing the part of her of Leslie's sister um

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she just I can't I get there's nothing more I

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can say I just love her so much and she's so

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innocent and so lovable and the funny one -liners

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that come out of her mouth in this movie just

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still crack me up Jamie Foxx's debut yeah that's

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not worth Tubi that's not worth putting out there

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on the streaming circuit come on come on We're

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going to start the campaign to bring toys to

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a streaming service. Back to every home. I think

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even, you know what? I've got a copy of toys.

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Maybe we just invite the freaks to Discord and

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we'll watch it on Discord together. Yeah. If

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you want that to happen. This is a plug for that

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physical media, too. We've talked about before

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where, like, keep hold of your physical media.

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You never know. If I had a copy of Toys on DVD,

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it would be worth over $100 now. It is. We looked

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it up on eBay. They're going for that. So if

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you've got a copy out there, you're sitting on

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a rare treasure. The conflict in this whole movie

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is basically what happens when creativity gets

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hijacked by power. Toys meant for joy turned

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into tools of war. Sound familiar? Ideas getting

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monetized. Art gets optimized. Creativity gets

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put on a schedule. At what point do we stop playing

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and start performing? Yeah, it has to make money.

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And who benefits from the shift is the big question.

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Not the workers. We're not going to answer that

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here, but yeah, not the workers. You know, in

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the beginning, and can we just talk about the

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music for just a second? Yes. Oh, my God. The

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music was on point. Happy worker. I had that

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playing as a kid all the time. But, you know,

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obviously the shift of the workers in the factory

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are like, they love working at this toy store.

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They're treated really well. Everybody is, you

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know, nobody's making rich off of this and everyone's,

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it's like shared and shared alike. And it's just

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important that they have a good time while they're

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working. The factory itself is like a children's

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museum kind of vibe, like just fun little. Rooms

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that are made out of whatever and like the little

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grassy hill that they go over on the little cart.

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I always wish I had one of those in my house.

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Yeah. But just everything, you know, the little

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ducks that cross the street and the factory.

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So obviously they want the workers to have a

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great time and to love working here. And then

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that completely shifts when Uncle takes over,

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military takes over, and they've got security

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checks everywhere. They've got people marching

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around in their combat boots. They've got just

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a completely different vibe. LL doing his thing.

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But the movie really does flip the script on

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the whole grow up. What does that really look

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like? It shows us. It makes me feel like maybe

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the people running things forgot how to feel.

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Or what life is really supposed to be all about.

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It's really about the prophet. Robin Williams,

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Leslie's not the problem. The system trying to

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weaponize imagination is the problem. But they

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pointed out at him. That's why when you think

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about it, because society will label the dreamer

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as immature, but trust the strategist with no

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soul. Yeah. And it forces him to step into a

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place where he has to defend his role, his part.

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And in that way, he does grow up or he does go

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into a place of like. uh more balanced i guess

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more like there can be maturity and there can

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be responsibility but we have to remember what

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the youthful energy is really all about and the

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values we hold in this factory yeah and he gets

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to uphold that and like literally go to war for

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it literally explosions everywhere this movie

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let's talk about the movie overall because like

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the pacing is all over the place the tone is

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all over the place But maybe that's the point.

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I think that's the point of it. Because literally

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we're in toy factories and then we get explosions

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like it's a crazy action movie and all this stuff

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going on. The battle with the toys. The battle

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with the toys. I cry when I see the little alligator,

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the little wind -up alligator gets blown up and

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he's like half of his face is off. I'm like crying

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because my toys were my friends. This is like

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real. catastrophe happening in front of your

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very eyes and i'm like i think the layering of

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it too also is something to talk about uh because

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like it's not the fact that the tone shifts and

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there's action and then there's not and the pacing

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is all over the place i think that's the layer

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to the movie that shows us that rules of what

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we're fighting Not just in the movie, but we're

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fighting the roles in a movie. Because you watch

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it and you think, oh, this isn't the regular

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formula that we would normally see. Yeah. Yeah,

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it is very different. And maybe people didn't

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know what to do with it then. I think that now

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it would hit much different. That's what I'm

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saying. And so when it came out in 1994, not

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everything needed to be clean and digestible.

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But it did then. It doesn't have to be now. I

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think back then you had to have... The formula

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and that sort of thing. People watching were

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probably like, I don't know what this is. I don't

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know what we're watching. I do think this movie

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hits today. I think if you put this movie in

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a theater right now, I think you'd have people

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buying tickets to go see it. Yeah, they'd be

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like, what, a Robin Williams movie we've never

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heard of? Maybe it's ahead of its time. Toys

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was ahead of its time. Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

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I mean, obviously the toys, the video games,

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the things that you see in there, well, they

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were pretty advanced. I don't know. Big time.

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They had VR and stuff going on. Yeah. Like they

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were on the couch with VR headsets and playing

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video games. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. That scene

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where they're going on the couch. And then she

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tries the VR and she's like, this is uncomfortable

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in her nose. And he's like, oh, that's or it

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was poking her. And she's like, that's not where

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it's supposed to go. Yeah. Yeah. Those little

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details. I don't know. This just hit me and took

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me so much. But they were ahead of their time

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because VR didn't come out for 20 more years,

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I think. It's supposed to be a whole experience.

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Yeah. I want to watch this movie over and over.

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And I do think we should put it in a Discord

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and host a movie screen. We'll put that together

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if anybody's interested. Yeah. I've got a copy.

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Yeah. I won't say where I got it from, but I've

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got a copy of this movie. I've got one that I

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ordered. We'll see if I get a DVD. You paid $150

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for that off of eBay? I don't think I did, but

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we'll see if I get the copy. Man, what's your

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final thoughts on toys? Nostalgia, for sure.

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For me personally watching it, it is my childhood.

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It is how I felt about my childhood. It is how

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I felt about growing up. It totally encompasses

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my own experience. It's also just so great to

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see Robin Williams in another role that he's

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fantastic in. And that he brings all the layers

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of, like, funny, silly that he was good at. Obviously,

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we know that. But he also brings that layer of

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really passionately caring about humans and human

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connection. I love seeing all of that. And one

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thing we didn't touch on is the visuals in this

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movie. Oh, my God. It's magical, colorful, but,

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like, the landscapes. I don't know where. Oh,

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I think I researched it at one point in my life

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where those fields of grass are. Where was that?

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I'm going to say Idaho. No way. I know. You're

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going to have to look into that. I want to go.

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I want to go where that is because the sound

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of Enya playing when the cars are driving down

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the road in that fields of grass, for some reason,

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it makes me so happy. If it's that close, we

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should take a drive up there. Oh, for sure. We're

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going to have to figure that out and find out

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if it's really in Idaho. It might be northern

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Idaho. That could be a far drive then. That could

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be. Because that shape's kind of weird. Yeah.

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All right. A little weird shape. The Idaho stick

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up there. Yeah. Robin Williams also had a rebellious

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nature to him in this movie and in life. Yeah.

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And I think that's a theme here as well. That

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real rebellion right now is protecting that part

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of yourself that still knows how to play. Yeah.

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Not for content, not for money, not for approval,

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but because it's yours. Yours, freak. Yours.

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Yours, Coco, mine. Freak. Yeah. But that's why.

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And we got to remember how to do that. No matter

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how old we get, we can't lose that youth. Yeah.

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And that's the frequency we want to be on right

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here at Parallel Frequencies with Just Blaine

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and Coco and the freaks. What do we got coming

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up tomorrow? Tomorrow we have Trailer Park Thursday.

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Friday we are talking about, I might say this

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wrong, Begonia? Begonia. Am I saying that right?

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Begonia. Now, this one's been on my record for

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a while. I still haven't seen it yet. And now

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here it's. I watched it last night. I'm like.

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I'm going to watch it tonight. I'm going to say

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thank you guys. Watch it. We'll be here to talk

00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:06.519
about it. You know what I've been watching? We

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don't normally do this at the end of the show.

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But I've been on a Dune kick. Oh, yeah. And realizing

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how big and how good of a movie and universe

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that they have built with this. That's good stuff.

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So we're going to have to break Dune down. Yeah.

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Dune 1, Dune 2, Dune Prophecy. A lot of similar

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themes, too. Dune from 1980s, whatever it was,

00:22:26.579 --> 00:22:28.599
the David Lynch version. We've got to talk about

00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:30.880
all that. Yeah. But that's going to be it for

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this episode of Parallel Frequencies. We'll see

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you on the other side.