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All right, time to celebrate another year of holiday festivities.
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Yeah, I think it's been a good one.
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You know. One of my favorite traditions in the holidays,
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one that's always like touched me a lot, even since
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I was a little kid, is sharing how you really
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feel with people you care about. You know.
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No, I think that's good.
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Because at the end of the day, even if the
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person you love may not feel exactly the same way
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about you, is they as you do about them? What
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really matters is do you have a plan to get
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what you want from them and kill anyone in your
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way and still be a little angel to your mom
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by the end?
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Okay, as long.
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As that is through. It's basically like Linus's speech in
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Charlie Brown.
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Oh okay you kind of you kind of lost be
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in the second half though you've.
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Never seen Charlie Brown. What are you are?
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You?
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Are you even from this country? I am so so confused?
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Ugh, oh no, oh boy.
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This podcast is about why horror scares us, what deep,
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dark secret scary cinema shines a light on. The discussions
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are frank and involve conversations about abuse, trauma, and mental health.
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There are also spoilers, so keep that in mind too.
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Now sharpen your machetes and strap raizors, because this is
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cutting deep into horror.
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Hello and Merry Christmas, everybody. Welcome back to cutting deep
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into horror. I'm your host, Enrique Kuto here with my
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co host and holiday celebratory aficionado Rachel RODOLFI. Hey everybody,
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and you're not mishearing. We are back much quicker than normal.
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We decided we really wanted to talk about tonight's film
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so much so that we we made time for it.
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It's important to.
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Us, like Scotty said in Star Trek Generations, when something's important,
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you make the time. And we're gonna be talking about
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twenty sixteen's Better Watch Out. It's a Christmas horror film,
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and I would say it definitely hits both of those
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notes pretty very well intensely. I have a scale, a
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rating scale for Christmas movies. I don't know if you
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knew this. I came up with it about I don't know,
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two or three months ago. One to ten scale of
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how Christmas a movie is while still being a Christmas movie.
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So like a Diehard may only get a three or
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a four because it said it Christmas and it uses
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Christmas imagery, maybe a little bit Christmas music, but it's
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not like about Christmas, right as to where like A
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Silent Night Deadly Night might score like a like an
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eight or a nine. Yeah, and nines and tens are
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relegated only to films literally about Christmas, So it could
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be like Crampus would be like a ten because it's
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about a Christmas demon, or Rare Exports would be a
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ten because it's literally about Santa Claus rising, you know,
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a Santa sleigh. It's literally Santa killing everybody. So it's
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a ten out of ten. Now, you know, most films
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at best they hit like a six, seven or eight,
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and I would say Tonight's film is like a solid
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six or seven. I agree, I mean because Christmas is
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a major element. But without Christmas there could still be
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a movie. Yes, you know, it could be another night,
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but Christmas just makes it extra.
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Fun exactly so.
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But this is very Christmasy. We get a ton of
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Christmas music, a ton of Christmas decor, and I really
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enjoy the hell out of this movie. And I want
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to mention real quick where people can watch it, which
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is great news because it's recently in the last two
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years become very readily available on the free with ads services.
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So if you've never seen the film, guys, you could
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find it on twob you can find it on Peacock,
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you can find it on Pluto, Zoomo, Sling TV, and
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the Roku channel. So it's basically anywhere you watch movies
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free with ads it is. It's waiting for you there. Yeah,
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so I just want to mention that, and again, better
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watch out from twenty sixteen. So Rach, this was actually
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your pick. Yeah, yeah, we've done two of your picks
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in a row.
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I feel so special.
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Well, it's the season of giving.
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Yeah, I better not get used to it.
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Well, but what made you decide you really wanted to
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talk about this one?
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Well, you had showed it to me shortly after it
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had I think it's when you got it on DVD
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or Blu Ray, shortly after it had come out.
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Well, I first watched it. It was streaming, I want
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to say, on shutter initially, right, how I saw it
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the first time, and after seeing it my first time,
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I went out and bought the Blu Ray immediately. Yeah.
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left an impression on me. Anyone who has seen the
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movie before will agree, and for those of you that
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are just watching it now, it will leave an impression.
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And I thought that it was a really good one
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because the first show that you and I did together
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for Cutting Deep, we did Funny Games, Yes, And when
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I watched this with you, I kind of joked that
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this is like, oh, this is like Funny Games Christmas Special.
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So I thought it was, you know, in the spirit
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of the kind of kind of movies that we like
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to talk about on this show.
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Yeah, this is not just the realm of Christmas horror.
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This is the realm of fucked up Christmas horror.
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Granted, most Christmas horror movies are pretty fucked up. I
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mean when you're having it be the holiday of Giving
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and lights and then there's horrible murder all throughout, But
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this one really leans into horrific elements and disturbing elements
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that really make it stand out. The other thing that
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makes it stand out is the excellent direction and performances.
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I do want to mention this is directed by Chris Peckover.
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I believe I'm saying that name right since it literally
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is pec k O v err, which looks like to me,
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this was his second feature film as director. Unfortunately, he
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hasn't directed in another film as far as I can tell,
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which shocks me. I don't know how successful the film
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was upon its release, but I was very impressed with it. It
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did have a pretty substantial budget for the type of movie.
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It was about three million dollars. Okay, yeah, and it
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stars Olivia DeJonge. I'm pretty sure I'm saying that, right,
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who went on to be on the TV series The
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Society on Netflix and the Elvis Presley movie from twenty
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thwety two. She's had quite a career since then. And
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I think the most impressive actor of them all would
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probably be the little boy he played by. His name
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was Luke, I believe. Yeah, and he's played by Ed Oxenbold,
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an Australian actor who was in I knew. I recognized him.
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He was an Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
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Very Bad Day in twenty fourteen, which I love that movie.
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It's a very good movie. I'm looking at the right
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kid actor, right, I want to make sure I might
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have the wrong one. Yeah, Oh no, that's Garrett. I'm sorry.
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I do recognize him from that Okay, I'm sorry, Yeah,
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why does it list him? He's a supporting Okay, so
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Alex Mickeck is the actor he has actually done very
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is the listing for Luke?
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He is Levi Miller. Sorry, the listing was really weird.
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an Australian actor though, just like the other kid. But
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he plays our lead basically our lead villain. But it
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also is the movie is pretty much about him, which
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this is one of the few films in my opinion,
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where it's about the villain Petty much all the way through.
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that's a big complaint I have with some movies, as
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they spend too much time with the antagonist and you
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don't really get an opportunity. Although and this one kind
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of flips it on its head because he's almost a protagonist.
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If you're a sociopath, I root for him, but.
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He's evil well, and that's kind of why I like
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the movie is for the first act, you really are
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rooting for him because you don't know what's going on.
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You're reluctantly rooting for him.
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You're like, oh, you shoot your shot, kid, you know,
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failing is part of learning well.
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And as far as films, he's been and he was
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in Pan, the Peter Pan Movie, Played Peter Pan. He
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was in Jasper Jones, A Wrinkle in Time.
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He was also in Before Dawn and in the More
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in the recently released Craven the Hunter. So sorry about that,
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I did. I All these names are new to me.
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For the most part, I don't know why it listened.
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I guess because ed Oxenbold was the biggest name, because
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he's in Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, very Bad Day,
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which was one of my favorite books growing up, and
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one of my favorite cartoons based on that book was
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Alexander in the Terrible Horrible, No Good, very Bad Day. So,
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but we're going to talk about what the film's all
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about right after this, and believe me, it may it
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may also be a pretty terrible, horrible, no good, very
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very bad day right after this. Alright, So better watch
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out from twenty sixteen basically is about a teenage boy.
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He's what like fourteen or fifteen.
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I think he's twelve, but he will be thirteen in
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a few weeks.
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It's his cell sales point. Well, I'm sure he's played
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by a slightly older actor, but I also I'm not
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good with kids like ages like, so we'd like, how
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old is he, I'll be like six to seventeen. I
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don't know. I didn't have younger siblings really, so I
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didn't really watch the progression. Yeah, this'sest thing I had
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was I watched Blossom every week. But so Luke, this young,
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this twelve year old almost thirteen year old boy has
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a babysitter whom he is infatuated with, named Ashley, and
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she's been his babysitter for quite a while, and he
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is in love with her his own words, and he
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is talking to his friend Garrett all the time about
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how he's going to get her to be in love
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with him too. She is five years older than him,
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so yeah, she's like seventeen, about to be eighteen. And
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find out when we meet her that she is getting
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ready to move away for college to Pittsburgh. I don't know.
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memory now, well, it definitely doesn't take place in Pittsburgh
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because they act like it's far away. Yeah, so, and
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that's what really matters is that we understand that. So
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so yeah, it's it's oh it was shot in Australia.
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Huh. Okay, that would that would explain all the Australian actors.
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What well. I mean, I'm never surprised though they get
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around a lot. Right now in America, a lot of
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our big movie stars are Aussie's and English people who
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do relatively flawless American accents. Like you'd be surprised how
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many people are actually like English or Australian. It's it's
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like Idris Elba is English. I mean he very rarely
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gets to speak with an English accent, so you wouldn't
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guess it. The guy who played Rick on The Walking
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Dead is English? Really, see what I mean?
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You're kind of like what they're among us. Yeah, like
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you'd never know.
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It's gotten to the point where I start to assume
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incorrectly that some actors are English. Like for the longest time,
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I thought John Ham was English because I saw him.
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He was a humorous guest appearance on an English a
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British TV show I was watching, like he played John
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Ham in it, Okay, and I just assumed, even though
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he didn't speak like he was British in it. I
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just kind of got in my head like, oh, well,
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he must live in England if they just like, you know,
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shoehorned him in this part as a joke, I just assumed,
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you know, he was he would come from a south
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lot of sense. I had actually initially thought Canada.
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I did too, but I think that may have just.
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Been because winter when you see winter. So anyway, our
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young Luke has some kind of plan to get Ashley
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to love him back before she moves away. And that
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that's all you can really say as far as a
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synopsis without giving away a lot. Yeah so but yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Let's dive on in.
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Figure out, let's figure out the deep elements of this.
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There is so much to unpack, so much, so very much.
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Well, first, you know, you've gotta you've got to chut
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check off one of the boxes for Christmasiness because when
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it opens, it literally opens on a winter scene, you know,
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in a in a neighborhood or called a sack or something, and.
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A high end neighborhood houses lots of piled snow everywhere, gorgeous,
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gorgeous and very very christmasy.
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Super and there's carrollers, you know, carollers.
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Just did you ever see carr carollers when you were younger?
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Nother well, where I grew up most of my life.
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I mean, those would be some pretty Those are the
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kind of carollers I'd be like, like, good on you,
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but also kind of are of you that you were like,
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I'm gonna carol right over in this neighborhood. Oh, good luck,
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have fun. There is no figgy pudding. You might score
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a crack rock though, oo. I mean it'll keep you warm.
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So but yeah, they're carrolers trudging around, and we're introduced
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to Ashley, who is I would say, a slightly above
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average teenage girl, Like she's clearly intelligent, but also a
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bit on the teenage girl petty side of things, because
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she's talking on the phone with I believe her mother
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and not using her headset. I love how by the way,
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we're getting to a point now where technology is advancing
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so aggressively that this movie is not even ten years old.
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Yet it'll be it's two years away from being ten.
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It's almost ten years almost, think Garrett or like Luke
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is almost thirteen. But she was, She's like, oh, I
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should put on my headset because my mom mentioned it.
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And it's a plug in thing. And now plug in
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headphones are almost completely gone from I mean, I'm sure
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people are listening to this right now on them, but like,
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but they're not standard, and no company is heavily marketing
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plug in headphones and earbuds anymore. Everybody is marketing Bluetooth.
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I try. I held off as long as I could
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stand it, but now I'm a believer in the Bluetooth headphones.
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But but yeah, so it was just it's just funny
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when you see that. It's like that dates the movie.
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Like I'll watch a movie and I'll be like, WHOA,
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their iPhone only has one camera on the back.
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What you're Ooh, yeah, well, well there are several times
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people will use their cell phones in this movie and
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you're like, oh, wow, look at that. I haven't seen
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one of those in a very long time.
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That was back when the iPhone was kind of tiny.
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So, but she's driving along her mom kind of says,
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are you using the heads you know, your headphones or whatever,
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and she goes, of course I am, and then tries
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to dig them out to start using them. She almost
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hits a black cat yeah in the road, which startles
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the carollers. They all look at her like she's in
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a moron, and she's like, sorry, nice, it's a nice
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little way to get to know her. And she's talking
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to her mom about the fact that she needs to
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start packing because she's leaving for Pittsburgh really soon.
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Yeah, and she's like, well, of course I'm not packing,
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but I do need to go babysit the learner's kid,
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like they called me and they need me to watch
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their son, Luke, and you know, kind of implies that, hey,
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this would be kind of nice because this will be
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the last time that she'll babysit them before she moves.
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Yes, she clearly has a fondness for the whole family, really,
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and they have a fondness for her. She's probably been
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babysitting for many years.
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him since he was like eight, so it has been
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a very long time. And there is a very like
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a very well established like camaraderie or warmth between her
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and the parents. You know, because she she arrives and
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the dad immediately starts joking about like you didn't get
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my approval.
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She's talking about going to college. He's like, you didn't
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get my approval, and there's like that beat and then
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they both smile.
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You know, it's like no, Yeah, they know each other
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very well and they're very friendly.
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From what I've heard, when it comes to babysitters, if
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you find one that's reliable, responsible, and the kid really
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likes them, you never like ally at two you're at best.
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You get two, yeah, at best. So if you have
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all three, like yeah, you basically want to adopt them
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into your family. You're you're at that point you're like
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throwing around c notes to keep them around. You know,
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you really want them to stick around. And we get
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that vibe very much from the family. Yeah, And right
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before she arrives there, I want to mention, as the
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boys are talking to me, they're just being total teenage boys. Oh,
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they're talking about they're talking about inaccurate things about girls
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and sex and love and like looking at things on
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the internet. They shouldn't be becomes very clear that they're
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kind of each other's only friends. I think that's very clear.
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Absolutely.
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I just wanted to establish that real quick. So now,
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if I remember correctly, then she arrives at she arrives
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at the house. There's that whole exchange about like you
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didn't ask me for permission. But then Luke Mom portrayed
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by Virginia Madson from Candy Man and a bunch of
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other films, mentions that Luke has started sleepwalking again. Yeah,
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and that that's something that they have to keep an
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eye on, and because of it, Luke has put on
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a special sleeping medication. And also they're doing a little
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way of gauging how often he's sleepwalking, which is they
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put a pencil on his door.
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Yeah, like on his door now, then like balance it
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so if he gets up in the middle of the
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night and opens the door, the pencil will fall off
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or we'll move and they'll know, Okay, he got up
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last night.
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Yes, And that way they can gauge if the medication
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is helping. I guess or what have you? Yeah, Because
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I mean, have you ever heard stories of severe sleepwalkers.
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I've watched videos online. It's terrifying.
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There was a comedian I think was a Berbiglia, I
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think that was his name, who was such a bad sleepwalker.
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He jumped through the window of a hotel room while
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he was touring as a comedian. But he found out
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that what was happening was he was in a miserable
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place in his actual life as well, and it was
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making it was exacerbating his sleepwalking severely because you would
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have these nightmares about being chased and running and stuff.
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So he but the end of the movie, one of
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the funniest parts about it, I think it was called
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Sleepwalk with Me. One of the funniest parts was he
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points out that that while his sleepwalking has improved immensely
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since he got out of the bag, I think it
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was a bad marriage or something. He got out of
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that situation everything, he still goes to sleep every night
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in a sleeping bag that loops around your neck, like
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it all seems the sleeping bag with mittens underneath on
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so that he can't undo the zipper. And there was
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something really like mind boggling to me about that concept.
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It all makes sense. Yeah, Like I just started wearing
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a seatpap mask and they actually recommend if you find
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you take it off at night where mittens while you sleep. Mm,
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so you just can't absent mindedly take it off. And
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that immediately made me think of sleepwalking. But unfortunately, this
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boy has much bigger problem problems than sleepwalking, oh boy,
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And we'll dive into those right after this. So the
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parents are getting ready to leave. It's a very average
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kind of thing. You know, he's got money for pizza,
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you know, have fun. And she even says something I
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thought was really cool because Luke kind of pops in
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and he's you know, talking or whatever. Nothing he says
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seemed at that point very important. But one thing she says,
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when he's kind of like, you know, she's going away
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or whatever, she says, like just one second, we get
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we'll be hanging out in a minute. So she's she's
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so that she's that babysitter they hang out, Yeah, babysit him,
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they hang out. For the record, you probably never had
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a babysitter, did you, or at least not a consistent one,
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or did.
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You There was a while there, you know, because my
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dad would travel so often that when you know, occasionally,
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especially before I was like thirteen, because once I turned thirteen,
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thirteen I became the babysitter. So before that there was
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several older homeschool kids that would babysit us.
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So it's worth mentioning how many, I don't want to
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say the wrong number, how many siblings do you have?
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I have four siblings.
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Four that sounds right for five kids in total, two
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half and three foll Yeah. Yeah. I had a sister
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who was nine years older than me, a half sister,
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and she didn't really babysit because she was not around
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super a lot. By the time she was around all
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the time, I was like eleven, and I was I
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was a latchkey kid, like one hundred percent. And for
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those who are not familiar with my elder millennial slang,
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that basically means a kid who comes home and locks
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the door behind him and then just is home.
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Yeah.
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I was a very quiet when I was very young.
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I was a very quiet kind of hi kid, and
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I didn't get in trouble. So my mom, I don't
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know exactly how old I was when she first started
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leaving me alone at the house, but it but it's
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it's young enough that you would probably I was probably
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I was probably nearly seven or eight. Oh wow, when
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I was being very young well, and the and the
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reason I could say that was such confidence is I
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remember being left home alone at two different apartments, which
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means it had to have been before I was nine, because.
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Oh yeah, we didn't have a house until I was.
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About ten, so I was very young. But we when
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we moved to a slightly nicer neighborhood, you know, Mom
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would eased up a little bit, so I was allowed
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to order her food, like I could order Chinese food
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or pizza if I was looking after myself. But the
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rule was when the when I opened the door, I
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had to turn away from the door and go, Mom,
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the food's here, and then complete the entire transaction myself
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as a little child. Fool proof, full proof stuff. So
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that was that was yeah. But but before that, I
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did have a I had a very regular babysitter until
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I was like about six or seven years old. Her
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name was Loretta. But she was an old lady.
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Yeah you've spoken about loret Oh she was.
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Wonderful, I mean she was. All the things I didn't
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like about her when I was a kid was because
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she was just literally not like my mom and I
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she was she was much more, much older, much more
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old school, loved children, very sweet, but also a bit stern,
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a bit strict, very religious as to where we were.
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You know, we maybe went to church, you know, a
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few times a year at best, but Loretta always like
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if I was with them on a weekend, I went
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to church with them, Loretta would part my hair for
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me because I was so little and put my neck
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tie on. Serious. Yeah, yeah, there's pictures. But Loretta was
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awesome and her husband, Howard was really fun too, because
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they were both clearly retired, and for you know, for
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most of my life, I was like, were they And
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I found out that mom, just a friend of a friend,
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was like, I know a lady who just retired who's
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really good with kids. So my mom contacted her, and
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my mom hired Loretta to take care of me for well,
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actually it started with my sister. My sister was babysat
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by Loretta first, and then my mom got pregnant with me.
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Gotcha.
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My favorite story about Loretta was about like five or
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six days after Mom got back from the hospital, Loretta
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came to visit, and I guess Loretta had like a
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lot of I find I found this a lot of
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older ladies they they love they love the little boys,
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you know, for whatever reason, you know. And my mom
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said that when Loretta picked me up to hold me,
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she just like looked at me and then went, well,
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you can go ahead and go back to work. I'll
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take care of them rest of the day. Don't even
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worry about it. And my mom was like, no, I'm
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna take the full maternity leave. Can
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I just have my Can I.
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Have my sight back, give me my baby back?
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Can I have my barely formed child back? Please? But
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she was always great to me. They they they they
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used to let me have like little we would you know.
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They were not like so religious that you couldn't watch television,
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but that was kind of the thing. Was like you
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could watch any movie you wanted as long as it
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was on like TV, because that meant that anything offensive
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was cut out, so it was all good. So we you know,
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but not cable, you know, like like on NBC. We
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could watch whatever. So I have lots of memories of
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like watching whatever movies were on regular TV with them,
481
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:30.160
and Loretta making me stovetop popcorn and stuff like that,
482
00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.440
you know. Yeah, and Howard falling asleep on the recliner,
483
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.119
but he'd like try really hard to be into the
484
00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:37.799
movie with me until he just conked out. But my
485
00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:42.599
favorite memory, since we're talking about babysitters, was on the weeknights,
486
00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:45.359
my mother had to work two jobs and go to
487
00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:50.000
school through the mail. So my mom would work eight
488
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:53.640
to four and then work at the dayton mall from
489
00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:57.640
five to ten or ten thirty, and then on the
490
00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:01.799
weekends she would do her school work. It was rough,
491
00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:05.440
it was really really rough, and so I would often
492
00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:07.799
be at Loretta's at about my bedtime and I had
493
00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.440
a very She was always surprised I had a very
494
00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:12.240
loose bedtime. My mom was like, he'll be tired by
495
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.200
like ten, he'll go to sleep, you know. That was
496
00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.440
her attitude. So my mom's a thing wasn't like I had.
497
00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.039
I didn't have a bedtime I had. I had a well,
498
00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:21.680
I mean, I had like a be in bedtime. I
499
00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:24.400
didn't have a sleep time. Okay, So my mom would
500
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.200
be like, by nine thirty, just make sure he's comfy
501
00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.039
and and you know, covered in blankets. So they would
502
00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.319
set me up in their guest room and leave the
503
00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:35.440
TV on on nicke at night, which was my choice.
504
00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.960
So I would watch Green Acres, i'd watch Get Smart,
505
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:42.000
I'd watch Dragnet. But what hit me really crazy was
506
00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:46.440
I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And I think
507
00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.759
that's what started my like obsession with horror quite a bit,
508
00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:52.759
or what made it, you know, maybe uh galvanized it
509
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:57.240
because I was upset. I would not I would struggle
510
00:26:57.319 --> 00:26:59.400
to stay awake through Dragnet because it's a good show,
511
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.359
but very for a child. Yes, I would struggle to
512
00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:03.839
stay awake through it so I could get to Alfred51300:27:03.839 --> 00:27:05.920
Ditchcock Presents. And I have so many memories of like51400:27:05.960 --> 00:27:08.000
starting to doze off in the hearing but bum it51500:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.759
up up and waiting right up and just being scared51600:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.759
for an hour or so. But and then my mom.51700:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.039
Usually i'd fall asleep at some point, and then my51800:27:17.039 --> 00:27:19.160
mom would pick me up at like eleven or eleven thirty,51900:27:19.200 --> 00:27:21.440
and I have all these memories of her lifting me52000:27:21.480 --> 00:27:24.359
out of a bed and then setting me down in52100:27:24.359 --> 00:27:26.880
the seat next to her in the car, buckling me52200:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.960
in and driving me home and then tucking me into52300:27:28.960 --> 00:27:30.880
my own bed. And I don't think it was like52400:27:30.920 --> 00:27:32.400
every night, but it was probably three or four nights52500:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.200
a week. It was a lot. Yeah, I mean my52600:27:34.279 --> 00:27:39.839
mom put in the work. So anyway, but do you52700:27:39.880 --> 00:27:43.640
have a favorite babysitter memory. If I don't, well I52800:27:43.680 --> 00:27:45.480
don't have so many siblings, You're gonna have a lot52900:27:45.519 --> 00:27:46.759
less babysitters overall.53000:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.359
Well, I don't know if I would necessarily count this53100:27:50.559 --> 00:27:55.079
as a favorite, but definitely a memory that stands out53200:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.680
is one time I had to call nine one one53300:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.680
for my babysitter. You're not joking, I'm not joking.53400:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.279
You had to dial nine one one, Yeah, for your babysitter.53500:28:05.359 --> 00:28:06.759
Yeah, I was only like eight years old.53600:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.880
Oh, I mean that that might this might just trump53700:28:09.920 --> 00:28:11.799
the fact that what I was when Loretta was watching me.53800:28:11.839 --> 00:28:13.319
One time I fell off a jungle gym and cracked53900:28:13.319 --> 00:28:13.839
my head open.54000:28:14.200 --> 00:28:15.119
Ooh did it please?54100:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.359
What I mean? I hope? So they gave me six stitches.54200:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.319
Oh god, so I had to go to the emergency room.54300:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.960
I got off a double gym and landed on a54400:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.960
pointed rock. And when I got up and was all woozy,54500:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.720
I went to the back door and knocked and yelled54600:28:27.720 --> 00:28:29.440
for Loretta, and she came to the back door and54700:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.279
screamed when she saw me. Oh god, so I'm guessing54800:28:32.359 --> 00:28:35.799
it was pretty bad. I'm guessing it was pretty bad. Yeah,54900:28:35.839 --> 00:28:38.119
And the only memory I have is then rushing to55000:28:38.119 --> 00:28:40.160
the hospital and I just remember laying on the table55100:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.400
while they were getting ready to stitch me and hearing55200:28:43.440 --> 00:28:47.160
my mom's work shoes clacking as she was running to55300:28:47.359 --> 00:28:49.440
me from she'd gotten off work and just headed straight55400:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.160
to me, you know, shoulder pads and all. But I55500:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.039
want to hear this story after we forced everybody to55600:28:55.039 --> 00:29:10.559
listen to a commercial A stunks. All right, tell me55700:29:11.559 --> 00:29:13.519
why you had to call nine one one for your babysitter,55800:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.279
and then we'll get back to a babysitter who wishes55900:29:15.319 --> 00:29:16.720
they could call nine one one.56000:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.680
So I was like eight years old, maybe nine, and56100:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.039
it was a babysitter. I believe it was a girl56200:29:24.079 --> 00:29:28.519
from church that time, and she babysat a couple times,56300:29:28.519 --> 00:29:31.400
but this was the last time she ever babysat for us.56400:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.799
It sounds I hope you're not like So then they56500:29:34.799 --> 00:29:36.839
took her corpse out of the house at the end.56600:29:36.880 --> 00:29:39.799
So you know, she came over and she had kind56700:29:39.839 --> 00:29:42.880
of mentioned to us, you know, me and my two56800:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.400
younger brothers. When she got there to a babysit, She's like, yeah,56900:29:45.440 --> 00:29:46.799
we kind of want to keep it low key to57000:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.599
get today because I'm not feeling very well. Oh no,57100:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.880
and you know me and my brothers are known for57200:29:54.000 --> 00:30:00.920
being terrors. Yes, even now, it's almost worse now. Yeah,57300:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.720
So we tried to keep it like low key for57400:30:03.759 --> 00:30:06.200
a little while, but it was spring and you know,57500:30:06.319 --> 00:30:08.960
it's nice out, and we were kind of star crazy.57600:30:09.359 --> 00:30:11.759
So finally she was like, okay, let's take a walk57700:30:11.799 --> 00:30:15.319
around the block so that you guys can like get57800:30:15.359 --> 00:30:16.359
some steam out.57900:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.200
So she basically handled you guys like you were border collies.58000:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.079
Oh my god, yes, that's it. That's probably the best advice.58100:30:23.319 --> 00:30:25.279
So she's like, maybe if we, you know, like walk58200:30:25.279 --> 00:30:27.319
a block or two, the kids will calm down and58300:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.279
then they won't be like trying to break things in58400:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.599
the house and I can get a moment's piece. So58500:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.559
we get maybe like five houses down and she turns58600:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.079
like white as a sheet and says, I really don't58700:30:40.079 --> 00:30:43.319
feel good. We have to go back. So we start58800:30:43.359 --> 00:30:45.839
walking back and she starts like throwing up, and I58900:30:45.960 --> 00:30:50.000
noticed that it's not like normal throw up color. It59000:30:50.039 --> 00:30:54.079
was like pinkish, and so we like rush her inside59100:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.519
and she starts like puking everywhere in the toilet and59200:30:57.559 --> 00:31:02.680
it's like full of blood, Oh my god. And so I,59300:31:02.880 --> 00:31:04.880
you know, I'm just kind of sitting there like and59400:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.799
so finally I can't remember whether she told me to59500:31:08.079 --> 00:31:10.640
or if I suggested it, but it, you know, we59600:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.480
all came to the conclusion like I need to be59700:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.039
the one to dial nine one one. And so I59800:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.880
even remember asking her. I'm like, really, it's just nine59900:31:17.920 --> 00:31:20.880
one one. She's like, yeah, just nine one one.60000:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.400
Like okay, that's what happens when your parents don't let60100:31:23.400 --> 00:31:25.480
you watch TV. You don't know stuff like that.60200:31:26.359 --> 00:31:29.799
So I called nine one one, and you know, they60300:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.200
asked what my address was, and I gave them my address,60400:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.440
and they asked, what's what's the you know, what's the60500:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.039
nature of your emergency? And I remember being eight years old,60600:31:42.279 --> 00:31:47.119
and I was just like, well, my babysitter's throwing up,60700:31:48.680 --> 00:31:53.440
and the poor dispatcher's like okay, and I'm like, my60800:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.079
babysitter's throwing up and I think it's full of blood.60900:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.519
And that's when she's like, oh, okay, that's okay. How61000:32:00.559 --> 00:32:03.720
old are you I'm like, well, I'm eight. She's like, okay,61100:32:03.839 --> 00:32:05.799
did she tell you to call? I'm like, well, she's61200:32:06.000 --> 00:32:07.960
right here. She can't get on the phone, so I61300:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.960
called myself and I realized now she was like since61400:32:10.960 --> 00:32:13.480
she had my address, she was just trying to keep61500:32:13.519 --> 00:32:17.319
me calm and occupied, and so then she asked, well61600:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.200
is she conscious? And I was like, what's conscious? She says, oh, sweetie, conscious,61700:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.720
is she awake? Is she talking? I'm like, yes, she61800:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.200
is conscious right now. And the lady was like, okay, good,61900:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.720
it's good that she's conscious. Okay, the paramedics are going62000:32:32.759 --> 00:32:34.559
to be there any minute now. I need you to62100:32:34.599 --> 00:32:36.519
stay calm and stay on the phone with me. Can62200:32:36.559 --> 00:32:38.680
you tell me, like what you guys were doing. It's like, oh,62300:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.759
we were going on a walk. She's like, okay, that's great.62400:32:40.759 --> 00:32:43.000
Who else is there? Paramedics get there?62500:32:43.640 --> 00:32:45.960
And were you the oldest You were the oldest kid there.62600:32:45.799 --> 00:32:47.799
And I was the oldest kid there. So I was62700:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.240
trying to like, also keep John and Michael calm, which62800:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.559
they you know, Michael was grossed out, so he was62900:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.880
like crying in the corner. John was just fascinated with63000:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.839
the whole thing. So you know that was fine. The63100:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.599
paramedics get there and by that point she had like63200:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.960
stopped throwing up so violently, so they took her into,63300:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.079
you know, into the ambulance just to check her out.63400:33:10.440 --> 00:33:16.200
Turns out you're probably supposed to drink water several times63500:33:16.240 --> 00:33:22.319
a day, and shouldn't only drink exclusively two leaders of63600:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.240
Mountain dew eight two liders a day, every single day63700:33:26.279 --> 00:33:26.839
for weeks.63800:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.759
I mean, in her defense, she was perky, she had63900:33:33.079 --> 00:33:33.920
she had the energy.64000:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.640
So yeah, apparently she just had a ton of stomach64100:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.759
ulcers and they all started bleeding like pretty much at64200:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.559
the same time. And so that's why she had felt64300:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.319
so bad when she first got there, is because stomach64400:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.359
ulcers and then her just walking around was like the straw.64500:33:51.079 --> 00:33:55.920
That walking increases digestion. Yeah, so that makes sense. Yeah,64600:33:56.039 --> 00:33:58.119
So well, I just want to point out the difference64700:33:58.160 --> 00:34:01.359
between being homeschooled in the suburbs and in public school64800:34:01.359 --> 00:34:04.200
in the ghetto. You're eight years old, You're like, what64900:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.359
does conscious mean? I'm eight years old of ordering Chinese65000:34:07.400 --> 00:34:10.119
food on the phone and pay for it at the door.65100:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.239
That is totally different worlds.65200:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.760
And we were like, we were like eighteen miles apart.65300:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.920
But yeah, so that's so good. That is one of65400:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.119
my most memorable babysitter stories.65500:34:29.239 --> 00:34:32.639
Is that? Do you have before we moved back, before65600:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.920
we leave this subject, do you have any babysitter stories65700:34:35.960 --> 00:34:39.119
as the sitter? Because I know you've sat a few65800:34:39.159 --> 00:34:40.079
babies in your day.65900:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.840
I've sat several babies. I mean a lot of my66000:34:42.920 --> 00:34:47.519
babysitting is for family members, right, so I think they're66100:34:47.679 --> 00:34:51.320
like my nephew Andrew, which it's really fun now that he's,66200:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.119
you know, a young man, but when he was like66300:34:54.159 --> 00:34:56.880
six years old, he was obsessed with Batman, and so66400:34:56.960 --> 00:34:59.960
we would like sit there and play his Batman action figure.66500:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.039
But I accidentally let it slip that I can kind66600:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.280
of do character voices, and then he wouldn't let me stop,66700:35:08.119 --> 00:35:10.920
Like he'd be like, now, doude do the Joker voice?66800:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.880
Like actually like the Joker, And I'm like a kid,66900:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.880
I've been doing this for fifteen minutes, Like my voice67000:35:14.920 --> 00:35:15.519
is gonna die.67100:35:15.719 --> 00:35:21.760
Oh poor baby, you four thing? Uh, poor poor thing.67200:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.400
But yeah, yeah, that's that's funny. See I am fortunate.67300:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.199
I have looked like a whack a doo basically since67400:35:28.239 --> 00:35:30.840
I was sixteen years old. Nobody's handed me the keys67500:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.519
there kids unless they are truly desperate, and very few67600:35:34.719 --> 00:35:39.320
direct family members have kids younger than me. So yeah,67700:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.039
I have not. I've I actually I don't think I've67800:35:41.079 --> 00:35:43.079
ever ever babysat at all.67900:35:43.880 --> 00:35:45.280
It's a it's a it's a trip, man.68000:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.639
Yeah, never have.68100:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.760
Yeah, So I will say I did get payback for68200:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.280
being a terror to my babysitter, because I've babysat my68300:35:54.360 --> 00:35:58.480
youngest brother's three siblings who are exactly like me and68400:35:58.599 --> 00:36:01.920
my brothers. So I did get it back. There have68500:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.679
been so many times where I'm like, well, this is68600:36:03.760 --> 00:36:05.719
just this is just payback.68700:36:06.119 --> 00:36:07.880
At least one of them doesn't punch me in the68800:36:07.920 --> 00:36:12.199
stomach anymore anymore. Yeah, I'm happy. That's so. Yeah, I'm68900:36:12.239 --> 00:36:16.239
happy that phase is over, thank god. Yeah. Well, you69000:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.360
never hugged you and then looked at you when you're fat.69100:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.119
No, that's that's the problem with kids, like they harm69200:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.280
you physically and psychologically.69300:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.079
Yeah. Yeah, I tried to handle them when my stepdad did.69400:36:30.079 --> 00:36:33.480
I mean, aside from all the scary Mexican stuff, you know,69500:36:33.480 --> 00:36:34.639
if I just look at him and going, you know,69600:36:34.639 --> 00:36:36.800
if you say stuff like that, people won't like you.69700:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.480
Yeah, that did kind of blow his mind.69800:36:39.320 --> 00:36:41.239
That did. I think it did. That's the kind of69900:36:41.239 --> 00:36:44.519
thing my stepdad would say though. Yeah, he would just70000:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.679
very matter of factly tell you why that ain't gonna fly. Yeah,70100:36:47.719 --> 00:36:51.559
you know he might. He was not as gentle, but70200:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.760
he also was like with me all the time. You know,70300:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.119
he was always around, so he I sometimes I'm like, man,70400:36:57.119 --> 00:36:58.239
he was kind of harsh. I'm like yeah, but he70500:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.960
was always there. Yeah, out of given props. You know, Now,70600:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.199
as an adult, I understand how much of effort it70700:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.639
is to like always be around a kid and always70800:37:06.639 --> 00:37:08.239
be there when they have a question, always be there70900:37:08.239 --> 00:37:12.039
when they're they're mad or upset or whatever. Yeah, he was.71000:37:11.880 --> 00:37:15.119
It was always there unless he was away on contracting jobs,71100:37:15.119 --> 00:37:18.440
which is one of the reasons mom needed childcare contracting71200:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.920
go out to California or Alaska, and we would just71300:37:21.960 --> 00:37:22.400
be us.71400:37:22.599 --> 00:37:23.480
Oh gotcha.71500:37:23.519 --> 00:37:26.400
It happened a ton, I mean a ton. So anyway,71600:37:26.800 --> 00:37:29.320
so back to the film, now that that was just71700:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.760
how often do you get to talk about your experiences71800:37:32.800 --> 00:37:36.519
with babysitters? You know? Yeah, so you take it please, Oh.71900:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.599
Well, well I'll take it away, Okay. So after after72000:37:41.960 --> 00:37:47.400
Luke's parents leave, Ashley, of course, as any teenage babysitter does,72100:37:47.519 --> 00:37:49.360
immediately gets a call from her boyfriend.72200:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.760
Of course, but unlike most, she doesn't want him to72300:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.159
come over.72400:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.760
No, and she's actually very very adamant about it that72500:37:56.880 --> 00:38:00.280
she doesn't. And it's not even like she's well, she72600:38:00.400 --> 00:38:03.480
is clearly trying to avoid him. She is clearly trying72700:38:03.519 --> 00:38:07.039
to rip off the band aid, but also not rip72800:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.840
off the band aid.72900:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.079
Yeah, because she's moving away, and that means that whether73000:38:10.079 --> 00:38:13.880
they've admitted it or not, their could put yeah. Yeah.73100:38:14.119 --> 00:38:18.639
But so she kind of talks to him, and we73200:38:18.719 --> 00:38:22.960
get to see what we think is Luke's character because73300:38:23.000 --> 00:38:25.320
as she's talking to her boyfriend Ricky on the phone,73400:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.159
this big spider comes out of nowhere and scares her73500:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.920
and she screams and she's like screaming for help, and73600:38:32.199 --> 00:38:34.679
Luke rushes in and she asks him to squish it,73700:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.239
and he's like no, no, and he you know, takes73800:38:37.280 --> 00:38:39.159
it and puts it in a jar and just takes73900:38:39.159 --> 00:38:39.639
it outside.74000:38:39.719 --> 00:38:40.239
Don't do it.74100:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.079
He didn't do anything wrong. And you're like, oh, look74200:38:43.079 --> 00:38:44.559
at the sweet little kid.74300:38:44.480 --> 00:38:49.199
Who doesn't value property rights. That spider has no right74400:38:49.280 --> 00:38:49.840
to that home.74500:38:51.519 --> 00:38:54.800
So she she hangs up with her boyfriend and Luke74600:38:54.840 --> 00:38:59.480
comes in and he wants to impress Ashley. So he's74700:38:59.639 --> 00:39:01.159
found a bottle.74800:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.639
Of champagne, which he scares her half to death with74900:39:03.679 --> 00:39:06.599
by firing off the frigging the cork. The cork, Yeah,75000:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.719
it shoots and hits the wall next to hers. Yead,75100:39:08.800 --> 00:39:11.960
you will over And this kid is just mouth on75200:39:12.119 --> 00:39:16.320
the end of that bottle, sucking down champagne.75300:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.519
Which, to be fair, it is delicious.75400:39:18.559 --> 00:39:22.440
I'm assuming. So well, we'll get to what happens next75500:39:22.480 --> 00:39:37.920
after some more underage drinking, but first this. So now75600:39:37.960 --> 00:39:41.159
she's demanding to get that champagne bottle back from the75700:39:41.360 --> 00:39:45.880
twelve almost thirteen thirteen, who is chugging it straight out75800:39:45.880 --> 00:39:48.719
of the bottle like he's at like a Kanye West75900:39:48.760 --> 00:39:49.760
concert or something.76000:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.519
Well, and he even insists he's like, well, me and76100:39:53.559 --> 00:39:55.880
Garrett his friend from earlier. He's like me and Garrett76200:39:55.920 --> 00:39:58.920
drank a whole bottle together. He was wasted, but well,76300:39:58.960 --> 00:40:00.239
he threw up every where.76400:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.480
It's hilarious. He can't hold his liquor like I can't.76500:40:03.559 --> 00:40:08.559
I can He's like eighty seven pounds it's great.76600:40:09.320 --> 00:40:13.119
So she manages to like get the bottle away from him,76700:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.000
and then she notices that the kitchen door is a jar,76800:40:16.920 --> 00:40:19.159
so she goes and she closes the kitchen door. And76900:40:19.159 --> 00:40:21.039
that's what I love is the first third of this77000:40:21.199 --> 00:40:26.679
movie is every single trope that you can imagine from77100:40:26.920 --> 00:40:29.119
a home invader like thriller.77200:40:29.360 --> 00:40:31.480
I mean, you could even go further back than that,77300:40:31.880 --> 00:40:36.039
just the every trope from the babysitter alone with the kid, yeah,77400:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.199
which I mean, which even predates slasher movies. Mm hmm.77500:40:39.400 --> 00:40:42.199
You know the whole concept of you know, the call,77600:40:42.480 --> 00:40:44.960
the phone calls, and they do play that up where77700:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.400
the phone rings and scares her and yeah, she's you're77800:40:47.519 --> 00:40:50.320
jumpy and all this stuff. Although although she never gets77900:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.480
a phone call that's like threatening or anything. No, I78000:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.079
love that they play that up. So you get you78100:40:54.119 --> 00:40:58.719
get shades of Scream, you get shades of of that78200:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.159
movie when a stranger calls. That's a lot, yeah, which78300:41:01.159 --> 00:41:03.960
I ow. That's such a great film. I mean it's78400:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.679
literally that movie's so old. It's literally a feature film78500:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.599
retelling of the calls coming from inside the house. Get out.78600:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.719
That's literally I'm serious though, Like, and we laugh, because78700:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.880
that's such a played out concept now, but back then78800:41:18.119 --> 00:41:20.519
it was people told that story in Whispers, and then78900:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.440
a movie came out, well two because then Black Christmas79000:41:23.480 --> 00:41:27.320
also played up the coming from inside the house. So79100:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.239
it's it's a great, it's a great. It's great the79200:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.280
way they're playing up your expectations, and even the poster79300:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.599
plays up your expectations because the poster is the two79400:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.920
of them, Luke and Ashley sitting by a Christmas tree79500:41:40.920 --> 00:41:42.960
with a knife, like they're like they're trying to defend79600:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.079
each other or protect each other. That plays up the79700:41:46.719 --> 00:41:51.000
you know, plays up the what they want us to think. Yes,79800:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.559
until the end of the first act exactly.79900:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.519
So she's kind of startled by the door being open,80000:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.440
and Ricky calls again, kind of pleading with her, like please,80100:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.760
I want to you know, I just maybe when the80200:42:04.840 --> 00:42:06.719
kid goes to bed, like can I come talk to80300:42:06.760 --> 00:42:09.519
you then, like let's let's at least talk together before80400:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.599
you leave, And she hangs up on him, you know,80500:42:13.719 --> 00:42:16.199
kind of upset, and she you know, looking at the80600:42:16.199 --> 00:42:19.000
bottle as she's pouring out, like what can it hurt?80700:42:19.079 --> 00:42:21.360
So she takes a swig and catches her.80800:42:21.440 --> 00:42:22.880
Like that as she's starting to pour it down the drade,80900:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.719
she says, I can't believe I'm doing this. I know,81000:42:24.800 --> 00:42:26.760
it's like a really nice bottle of champagne.81100:42:28.360 --> 00:42:29.159
Such a waste.81200:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.719
But then yeah, Luke catches her taking a sip and81300:42:31.760 --> 00:42:32.519
he's like, uh.81400:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.840
Which which is really good because you know, we get81500:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.320
glimpses of the character he wants us to think that81600:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.760
he is. Yes, but him catching her and and kind81700:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.800
of delighting in the fact that now they're co conspirators.81800:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.480
That's that's the real Luke.81900:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.679
Yeah, like, I won't tell if you don't. Yeah, But82000:42:55.719 --> 00:42:58.039
then but then he immediately takes another swig out of82100:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.239
it too. It's like, dude, you're you're a little dude.82200:43:00.239 --> 00:43:00.920
You don't need all that.82300:43:01.039 --> 00:43:03.039
Yeah, you don't need you don't need much. You don't82400:43:03.039 --> 00:43:03.480
need much.82500:43:03.519 --> 00:43:03.719
There.82600:43:04.199 --> 00:43:06.159
So that's when they get they get a call. You know,82700:43:06.199 --> 00:43:08.480
it startles her, but no one's on the other line.82800:43:08.559 --> 00:43:10.320
So she hangs up and she's, you know, kind of82900:43:10.360 --> 00:43:13.880
in a huff. They sit down and watch scary movies together,83000:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.920
which I think is funny because the mom even said, like,83100:43:15.960 --> 00:43:19.880
don't stay up watching scary movies, give yourself nightmares and83200:43:20.039 --> 00:43:21.880
what are they doing but watching Scary One?83300:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.400
And she's scared really bad by them. Yeah, Luke is83400:43:25.519 --> 00:43:26.800
pretty much unfazed.83500:43:27.239 --> 00:43:31.039
No, he's not face at all, and he's he keeps83600:43:31.079 --> 00:43:33.119
pushing He's he's like a dog with a bone, he83700:43:33.199 --> 00:43:35.440
keeps pushing it. He's like, why are you dating Ricky?83800:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.559
Like he's such a jerk, and you know, then he83900:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.239
starts talking about her ex Jeremy and what a jerk84000:43:40.519 --> 00:43:43.760
Jeremy was, and you know how awful all these people are.84100:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.679
But he's he's the real deal. And she's like, dude,84200:43:48.000 --> 00:43:49.119
well known you sense you were eight.84300:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.320
She actually says like, if you were my age, I84400:43:51.360 --> 00:43:53.840
would totally date you, and he's like really yeah, And84500:43:53.920 --> 00:43:56.159
she doesn't even follow up the really, She just kind84600:43:56.159 --> 00:43:57.960
of goes back to watching the.84700:43:58.000 --> 00:44:02.000
Movie because she's not she's she's not trying to seduce him.84800:44:02.039 --> 00:44:05.679
She's trying to do the nice thing and be like, yeah, dude,84900:44:05.679 --> 00:44:06.559
if I was your.85000:44:06.440 --> 00:44:10.119
Age, gass him up. Yeah yeah, yeah.85100:44:09.440 --> 00:44:11.159
But he's not taken it that way.85200:44:11.440 --> 00:44:15.119
Well, I don't think anything is gonna shift his notions85300:44:15.159 --> 00:44:18.079
of what's going on. No, no, not.85400:44:19.199 --> 00:44:21.480
So they talk a little bit, change the subject and85500:44:21.480 --> 00:44:23.639
they talk about, well, let's let's get something to eat,85600:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.039
and he's kind of dejected. I mean he's like, well,85700:44:26.079 --> 00:44:27.599
as long as it doesn't have mushrooms.85800:44:28.119 --> 00:44:29.960
She's like, what do you want? I think she says85900:44:29.960 --> 00:44:33.960
pepperoni or Hawaiian Yeah, and he says anything without mushrooms, yeah,86000:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.639
which made me laugh because when he had said, like,86100:44:35.679 --> 00:44:36.880
you know, he can't hold the liquor like me, she86200:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.000
was like, I'm so impressed, but now it's like, I86300:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.519
want to see me as a man. No mushrooms please,86400:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.199
I just didn't taste good in my mouth, you know,86500:44:46.360 --> 00:44:51.519
like the way they feel. So let's just made me chuckle. Yeah.86600:44:51.599 --> 00:44:54.239
No, it's it's so funny because there are so many86700:44:54.280 --> 00:44:59.400
points in this movie where Luke is trying so hard86800:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.440
to be tough, hardened adult, but then he'll instantly do86900:45:04.519 --> 00:45:05.679
something like a little kid thing.87000:45:05.840 --> 00:45:08.079
He's such a little la He's such a little.87100:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.000
Kid throughout, which is which is great. So then they87200:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.519
get a knock at the door and she goes and87300:45:17.039 --> 00:45:18.960
checks it out and it's a pizza and they hadn't87400:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.119
even ordered a pizza yet.87500:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.559
Yeah, because they gotten distracted by yeah, by some of87600:45:22.559 --> 00:45:23.320
them Tom foolery.87700:45:23.360 --> 00:45:27.159
That was yeah, that was going on. So she's she's87800:45:27.199 --> 00:45:29.559
a little weirded out, especially because the pizza guy like87900:45:29.760 --> 00:45:30.880
is kind of weird.88000:45:31.039 --> 00:45:34.360
Well, the way they show him is the weird part. Yeah,88100:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.000
because when they look through the peepole, his head cuts88200:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.000
off right at the top, so you can't see his face.88300:45:41.719 --> 00:45:44.519
You just see a big pizza and like the upper88400:45:44.519 --> 00:45:45.920
body of a man. He's like, you know, I have88500:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.719
a pizza for you. She opens the door and we88600:45:47.800 --> 00:45:51.639
never see his face never, and which I again, you88700:45:51.639 --> 00:45:54.280
want to talk about those tropes, that would be a88800:45:54.320 --> 00:45:59.599
heavy suggestion that the pizza man is who's terrorizing them88900:45:59.599 --> 00:46:04.119
because they hide his face, they obscure his face. But yeah,89000:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.199
she she's like, we didn't order this. See. He asks89100:46:06.199 --> 00:46:08.119
if that's the address and she's like it is, and89200:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.800
he's like, well then, I mean that's where this pizza89300:46:10.840 --> 00:46:13.199
was ordered to, and Luke jumps right and says, maybe89400:46:13.199 --> 00:46:14.119
my dad ordered it.89500:46:14.400 --> 00:46:15.239
Yeah.89600:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.719
So then they bring the pizza in after Luke pays him,89700:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.239
and she's like, if your dad ordered this, why are89800:46:22.239 --> 00:46:26.360
there mushrooms on it? And he goes, yeah, because they're vegetables,89900:46:27.159 --> 00:46:30.199
which checks out though, like that is a dad thing. Yeah. Well,90000:46:30.320 --> 00:46:33.880
parent thing just to get you to eat your goddamn vegetables, please,90100:46:34.360 --> 00:46:35.320
for the love of God.90200:46:37.360 --> 00:46:40.599
So, yeah, she's she's a little put off by it,90300:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.519
but she's sitting there, you know, eating the pizza, and90400:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.440
Ricky just keeps calling and calling and calling, and she90500:46:47.519 --> 00:46:51.440
keeps ignoring it. And Luke is sitting there on the90600:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.920
couch with her, like trying to cozy up on her.90700:46:53.960 --> 00:46:57.000
He like puts his hand on her thigh and she90800:46:57.159 --> 00:47:01.000
moves it away, like he's trying so hard delay the moves,90900:47:01.119 --> 00:47:05.159
and she just at every turn keeps blocking it, which91000:47:05.199 --> 00:47:07.639
is really funny to watch it, is well.91100:47:07.679 --> 00:47:11.199
And and he's a pip squeak, I mean little kid.91200:47:11.320 --> 00:47:15.280
Yeah yeah, yeah, he's shorter than her, like substantially. Yeah.91300:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.360
So as they're as they're sitting there watching the scary91400:47:19.400 --> 00:47:23.719
movies and like eating pizza, we see a shadow in91500:47:23.760 --> 00:47:30.039
the window and figures to just somebody standing there and91600:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.840
that's like a good little shock, and you know, of91700:47:32.880 --> 00:47:36.840
course Luke is still trying, so he puts like puts91800:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.320
his arm around Ashley and like tries to kiss her,91900:47:39.360 --> 00:47:42.599
and again she you know, totally shuts it down. And92000:47:42.639 --> 00:47:45.039
then they get another random call on the house line,92100:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.400
and this time they do hear someone. She does hear92200:47:48.440 --> 00:47:51.199
someone on the other line, and he says, I can92300:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.280
see you. So she goes over to the window and92400:47:54.280 --> 00:47:56.280
she's like, oh, yeah, can you see this, and just92500:47:56.320 --> 00:48:00.760
flips flips off, her flips off the whole neighborhood, which92600:48:01.519 --> 00:48:06.679
was great storytelling, kind of showing her her true colors.92700:48:06.679 --> 00:48:09.559
Her tuede ye know what she can get, like when92800:48:09.599 --> 00:48:10.880
push comes to shove.92900:48:10.840 --> 00:48:16.119
Because she she's, oh, she's got fire, she's a little perky. Yeah,93000:48:15.719 --> 00:48:23.559
she's got it in her. Then so as she's at93100:48:23.599 --> 00:48:26.559
the window and she flips it off, she notices that93200:48:26.679 --> 00:48:30.599
a decoration that she had moved, the Santa decoration. She93300:48:30.639 --> 00:48:32.559
had moved it out of the way when the pizza93400:48:32.559 --> 00:48:35.760
guy came, and she notices that it's been moved on93500:48:35.880 --> 00:48:41.000
its own. So she goes to check it out and93600:48:42.119 --> 00:48:45.199
she like kind of hears something and she starts to panic.93700:48:45.280 --> 00:48:47.519
So Luke picks up her phone and tosses it.93800:48:48.039 --> 00:48:49.280
It, puts her hand out for him to throw it93900:48:49.320 --> 00:48:49.840
to her.94000:48:50.280 --> 00:48:53.119
But he totally misses and it falls straight into the94100:48:53.119 --> 00:48:53.840
fish tank.94200:48:53.760 --> 00:48:55.480
Right into the fish tank, and of course it's a94300:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.440
very deep fish tank. She goes to put her arm94400:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.760
down there and it can't even reach down there without94500:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.280
get it like right over top of it. So now94600:49:02.280 --> 00:49:05.719
she has no phone and something is going on. But94700:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.079
we'll talk about that a little bit more right after this.94800:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.880
So someone is clearly messing with them from outside the house.94900:49:25.000 --> 00:49:27.960
So what happens next, So now that they don't have95000:49:28.079 --> 00:49:33.119
her cell phone, they hear you know, crashing, and they95100:49:33.119 --> 00:49:35.199
go to the front door, and they hear someone banging95200:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.239
on the door, and then the door you know, like95300:49:37.360 --> 00:49:42.960
flies open and someone tackles Luke and it's his friend Garrett.95400:49:43.159 --> 00:49:44.679
Yeah, and just in a black hoodie.95500:49:44.960 --> 00:49:48.920
Yeah, just doing shitty little kid shit.95600:49:49.159 --> 00:49:50.480
Yeah, and he's just laughing. He's I just want to95700:49:50.519 --> 00:49:53.119
check out you guys were doing, you know whatever. But95800:49:53.159 --> 00:49:56.840
then they say, you know, great job hanging out creeping95900:49:56.840 --> 00:49:59.400
around the backyard, and he's like, I wasn't in the backyard.96000:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.920
And they hear a loud crash from upstairs, and now96100:50:03.920 --> 00:50:05.039
they're all on edge.96200:50:05.280 --> 00:50:10.519
Yeah, So Ashley you know, takes the lead and she's like,96300:50:10.559 --> 00:50:14.039
you guys stay down here. I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm96400:50:14.079 --> 00:50:15.800
gonna check out what's going on.96500:50:16.159 --> 00:50:18.639
And she tells the friend to he has a phone. Yeah,96600:50:18.679 --> 00:50:21.079
So she tells him, you put nine one one on96700:50:21.079 --> 00:50:23.079
your phone and if you hear me yell in any96800:50:23.079 --> 00:50:25.400
way you hit hits.96900:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.400
End, hide, run and hide, and then don't come out97000:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.320
until the police get heres. Is her instructions to them.97100:50:31.559 --> 00:50:33.679
So she starts going upstairs, and of course they do97200:50:33.760 --> 00:50:35.480
none of that, and they just follow immediately.97300:50:35.639 --> 00:50:37.880
They say they're scared they heard stuff downstairs as well,97400:50:37.960 --> 00:50:38.119
you know.97500:50:38.119 --> 00:50:41.039
Please don't leave us downstairs by ourselves, And so she97600:50:41.119 --> 00:50:44.880
does the babysitter thing. She's like, okay, fine, just stay97700:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.639
right behind me. So they go upstairs and like at97800:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.119
the end of the hallway is like a window at97900:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.639
the end of the hall and the window's broken. Someone's98000:50:55.679 --> 00:50:58.559
thrown a brick through the window and.98100:50:58.480 --> 00:51:04.280
On the brick is written you leave you die. So98200:51:04.400 --> 00:51:07.039
and at that moment, also his friend realizes his phone's98300:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.280
getting no reception yeah, which he even says like my98400:51:09.280 --> 00:51:10.239
phone always works.98500:51:10.039 --> 00:51:12.400
When yeah, my phone always works here. So they try98600:51:12.519 --> 00:51:16.639
they try calling nine one one on the landline. No landline.98700:51:16.960 --> 00:51:19.000
So they're like, okay, well let's try getting on the98800:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.800
internet and see what's going on. They're not they can't98900:51:22.800 --> 00:51:26.199
connect to their internet either, and they're like not seeing99000:51:26.440 --> 00:51:31.880
any of the wife five, so that's all really scary.99100:51:31.920 --> 00:51:35.800
And then the light's cut out, so clearly something is99200:51:35.880 --> 00:51:40.719
going on, and Ashley you know, runs downstairs. She's like,99300:51:40.760 --> 00:51:43.920
I'm going to activate the emergency alarm, and Luke follows after,99400:51:44.239 --> 00:51:46.079
and she's like, why why don't you guys have like99500:51:46.280 --> 00:51:49.079
security system in the house, and he even says like, well,99600:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.039
we never we needed one. It's a really safe neighborhood,99700:51:52.920 --> 00:51:54.760
which I thought was funny because if you look on99800:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.000
the Wikipedia name, the original title of the movie was99900:51:57.039 --> 00:52:00.639
safe neighborhood, which so that they said that they.100000:52:00.280 --> 00:52:04.440
Yeah, but and I mean they have like a circular driveways.100100:52:05.880 --> 00:52:09.159
Very nice, yeah, very nice. And it's a very large house, big,100200:52:09.320 --> 00:52:11.920
and it's got a big this will play into the100300:52:11.920 --> 00:52:16.559
movie later, but it's got a big like entryway. It's100400:52:16.559 --> 00:52:20.920
a big foyer with like the the not quite spiral staircase,100500:52:20.960 --> 00:52:23.320
but you know, the big arching staircase that goes up100600:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.320
to the second second level. So like it's a it's100700:52:25.360 --> 00:52:29.239
a very nice house. So you know, lights are cut out,100800:52:29.280 --> 00:52:33.039
and you know, Ashley realizes her front tire has been slashed,100900:52:33.599 --> 00:52:36.840
so even more showing that someone is this isn't just101000:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.960
oh the power's gone out, like someone is hunting them.101100:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.800
And she she asks Luke like do your do your101200:52:44.840 --> 00:52:47.159
parents have a gun? Like let's go over a plan,101300:52:47.239 --> 00:52:49.760
and he's like, okay, yeah, well my parents have a gun.101400:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.119
They keep it upstairs, like on my my dad's side101500:52:52.119 --> 00:52:55.000
of the bed, and and she says that okay, what101600:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.559
they're gonna do is they'll they'll get the gun and101700:52:57.599 --> 00:53:01.480
she'll keep him safe and if any one, if anyone101800:53:01.519 --> 00:53:04.559
comes for them, then you know they'll do what they101900:53:04.559 --> 00:53:09.000
have to do. That's when Garrett comes downstairs with the102000:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.519
brick and it reveals that it says you leave, you die.102100:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.679
He panics, runs out the back door and is immediately102200:53:17.719 --> 00:53:20.239
shot by whomever is out there.102300:53:20.280 --> 00:53:23.400
And it's it's very you just barely see you hear102400:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.719
the sound of like a shot, and you see like102500:53:25.760 --> 00:53:27.880
a little bit of red and he just flops over102600:53:28.360 --> 00:53:31.599
and he's not moving, and now Luke is like, what happened?102700:53:31.599 --> 00:53:33.679
Is he okay? And she just keep says she's talking102800:53:33.679 --> 00:53:37.599
to him, staring at Jeremy's two feet laying in the snow,102900:53:37.679 --> 00:53:41.239
not moving, and she locks the door when she sees103000:53:41.320 --> 00:53:44.079
that she just locks the door. So sorry, Jeremy, you're103100:53:44.119 --> 00:53:45.079
as good as dead to her.103200:53:45.159 --> 00:53:48.559
So yeah, next got it. Got to take care of103300:53:48.599 --> 00:53:51.440
Luke because I mean, after all, his parents aren't paying her.103400:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.960
That's true, Jeremy's parents should keep her on retainer if103500:53:53.960 --> 00:53:54.719
he's going to visit.103600:53:55.519 --> 00:54:00.039
So they Ashley and Luke kind of sneak around and103700:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.159
the living room and they hear someone upstairs, and Luke103800:54:05.360 --> 00:54:08.880
then notices like another shadow of someone like passing by103900:54:09.000 --> 00:54:12.840
one of the windows, so they rush upstairs. It kind104000:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.840
of sneak upstairs and they notice that someone's already up there.104100:54:15.960 --> 00:54:20.159
They've got a shotgun and they're like going room to room.104200:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.559
Yeah, and they have a ski mask on an all black.104300:54:22.800 --> 00:54:25.480
Yeah, totally totally covered so you can't see their face.104400:54:26.000 --> 00:54:29.119
So Ashley kind of pushes Luke into the laundry room104500:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.960
and they hide in there. And the laundry room has104600:54:33.559 --> 00:54:36.719
one of those entrances to an atticant's the pull down ladders, right,104700:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.840
So she pulls down the ladder and she gets him104800:54:39.880 --> 00:54:42.880
to go up there, and she's like, we need to104900:54:42.960 --> 00:54:47.320
hide here and stay safe, and he keeps insisting because105000:54:47.320 --> 00:54:50.400
he's such a big tough man. He keeps insisting that105100:54:50.480 --> 00:54:52.760
he can go down there and get the gun himself105200:54:53.559 --> 00:54:55.360
and he can keep her safe well.105300:54:55.239 --> 00:54:58.039
And it is worth mentioning though. One element that makes105400:54:58.079 --> 00:55:02.039
this all much more believable is early on when his105500:55:02.119 --> 00:55:04.679
when it turns out to be Jeremy. Like, before that happens,105600:55:05.079 --> 00:55:09.719
he's acting like, like way too brave, he's really over105700:55:09.800 --> 00:55:12.880
selling it. But then after Jeremy reveals himself and then105800:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.239
more stuff start happening, he does or thank you Garrett.105900:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.519
After that he starts acting way less brave. Yeah, I mean,106000:55:19.559 --> 00:55:21.760
he's still acting kind of brave, and he's like kind106100:55:21.800 --> 00:55:24.599
of rising to the occasion, but it's much more believable.106200:55:24.920 --> 00:55:29.760
Yes, Yeah, and especially after Garrett gets you know shot. Yeah,106300:55:29.840 --> 00:55:32.119
he even you know, is stunned and he's like is106400:55:32.159 --> 00:55:35.000
he Is he dead? And she's like, let's not talk106500:55:35.039 --> 00:55:35.880
about that right now.106600:55:35.960 --> 00:55:36.360
Yeah.106700:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.400
So they're they're up there, hidden in the attic, and106800:55:41.239 --> 00:55:43.719
they get into an argument about what they need to do,106900:55:44.000 --> 00:55:47.960
and kind of as they're sitting there arguing, he pushes107000:55:48.000 --> 00:55:51.559
her a little bit. She falls back and nearly falls107100:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.519
out of the attic down the trap door.107200:55:54.800 --> 00:55:57.079
Yeah, but he grabs he grabbed time.107300:55:57.639 --> 00:56:00.840
And then all these spiders all out of the attic107400:56:01.159 --> 00:56:03.920
and they're like fall on her, and she's sitting there107500:56:03.960 --> 00:56:06.800
squirming and like screaming a little bit like say me.107600:56:06.880 --> 00:56:08.760
And he's like, it's okay, I've got you, I've got you,107700:56:08.840 --> 00:56:11.079
and he you know, pulls her back up to safety107800:56:11.719 --> 00:56:15.920
and the bad guy comes and you know, they're sitting107900:56:15.920 --> 00:56:18.360
there quiet, and you know they've pulled up the ladder108000:56:18.400 --> 00:56:20.920
and he kind of looks around and scans around in108100:56:20.960 --> 00:56:23.880
the laundry room and then, you know, and then leaves108200:56:23.920 --> 00:56:26.199
and you breathe, breathe a sigh of relief, but you're108300:56:26.239 --> 00:56:30.599
kind of wondering, like, how did this guy not notice?108400:56:31.239 --> 00:56:35.880
How did he not hear any of that? So he108500:56:36.000 --> 00:56:40.960
Luke comforts her and he runs and gets the gun108600:56:40.960 --> 00:56:45.400
from his parents' room and then runs back and the108700:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.840
you know, as the trespasser is coming around the corner,108800:56:48.000 --> 00:56:50.760
that's when you kind of notice, like, wow, this trespasser108900:56:50.840 --> 00:56:54.599
is like really short, but people are short. Big people109000:56:54.599 --> 00:56:59.679
can be short. Ashley pushes Luke through the or through109100:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.159
the the hallway and they kind of hide in his109200:57:03.079 --> 00:57:06.840
bedroom and then they hide in his closet and again109300:57:06.880 --> 00:57:12.360
the trespasser's coming along and going through room to room,109400:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.800
and as Ashley and Luke are sitting in there in109500:57:15.840 --> 00:57:18.920
the closet, they accidentally like bump one of his toys109600:57:18.960 --> 00:57:21.199
and it starts making a loud noise, and the trespasser109700:57:21.239 --> 00:57:26.679
comes right into the room. And while the trespasser is109800:57:27.119 --> 00:57:30.079
shining a light and they're sitting there cowering like hoping109900:57:30.119 --> 00:57:34.840
that he doesn't notice them in the closet, she gets110000:57:34.840 --> 00:57:39.119
a closer look and she realizes that ski mask is110100:57:39.239 --> 00:57:46.079
Luke's and then she puts two and two together. That's Garrett.110200:57:46.320 --> 00:57:49.559
That's Garrett that's been walking through the house scaring them.110300:57:51.679 --> 00:57:53.400
So she calls out to him and she you know,110400:57:53.639 --> 00:57:56.320
pushes open the closet doors and she's like, take the110500:57:56.360 --> 00:57:57.239
mask off.110600:57:58.400 --> 00:58:03.199
Take a mask off, Garrett, and he goes what, yeah. What.110700:58:04.880 --> 00:58:10.159
So it's revealed that Luke put all this act on110800:58:11.280 --> 00:58:14.039
just to impress her, just to scare her a little bit,110900:58:14.079 --> 00:58:15.960
because they know what they you know what they say111000:58:16.519 --> 00:58:18.960
about you know, fear and arousal.111100:58:19.079 --> 00:58:20.360
Same physical symptoms.111200:58:20.599 --> 00:58:23.119
Yeah yeah, so I mean the kid's onto something.111300:58:23.440 --> 00:58:28.239
So now the question will be will Ashley the babysitter111400:58:28.280 --> 00:58:31.800
be angry or aroused. Well, your guess is as good111500:58:31.800 --> 00:58:47.119
as anybody's, but we'll find out right after this. So111600:58:48.760 --> 00:58:51.679
how's Ashley the babysitter feel about this ruse?111700:58:53.239 --> 00:58:57.119
She does not like it. No, she is not impressed.111800:58:57.480 --> 00:59:00.760
Shock of the centric who I would have thought?111900:59:01.039 --> 00:59:05.480
Yeah, right, So she absolutely goes off on Luke, telling112000:59:05.519 --> 00:59:07.239
him that he's going to be in so much trouble112100:59:07.239 --> 00:59:09.400
when his parents get back home. Garrett's going to be112200:59:09.440 --> 00:59:12.559
in trouble when his parents get back home, Like, she's112300:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.320
going to make sure they know exactly what happened, and112400:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.239
she's going to call his parents right now, yeah, so112500:59:18.280 --> 00:59:22.360
that they come home early because this is not okay.112600:59:22.400 --> 00:59:25.079
And he follows her in the upstairs hallway and they112700:59:25.079 --> 00:59:30.840
start arguing about it, and she insists, like this is112800:59:30.880 --> 00:59:32.880
not okay, and he says, well, I just wanted to112900:59:32.920 --> 00:59:34.960
impress you. I just I wanted you to see that113000:59:35.039 --> 00:59:37.840
I can be brave, and she's like brave, Like you're113100:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.239
really stupid, Like this is the kind of thing that113200:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.079
a little kid does. You're just a little kid. So113300:59:45.159 --> 00:59:48.280
to prove that he's not a little kid, he just113400:59:48.320 --> 00:59:49.239
slaps her.113500:59:49.719 --> 00:59:51.599
And she falls right down the stairs.113600:59:52.000 --> 00:59:56.440
Yeah, very hard, and she is knocked out, yes, and113700:59:56.639 --> 00:59:58.480
Garrett hears it and he comes out and he's like,113800:59:58.519 --> 01:00:03.480
what the fuck did you do that for? Man? She113901:00:03.599 --> 01:00:10.760
comes to slowly. She's in the living room downstairs. Her114001:00:11.119 --> 01:00:13.320
arms and legs have been duct taped to a chair114101:00:13.840 --> 01:00:17.079
and she's gagged with duct tape, and the two boys114201:00:17.079 --> 01:00:23.000
are just kind of frolicking around. Luke rated his parents'114301:00:23.280 --> 01:00:28.239
medicine cabinet and gave Garrett some oxy. Yeah, he's having114401:00:28.639 --> 01:00:29.599
he's having a great time.114501:00:29.599 --> 01:00:32.039
And they're just talking about childish stuff. He's saying like,114601:00:32.119 --> 01:00:32.840
who do you marry?114701:00:32.880 --> 01:00:33.280
Who do you?114801:00:33.599 --> 01:00:37.079
Yeah, they're playing Mary fuck Kill with the Adventure Time girls.114901:00:37.360 --> 01:00:40.639
Yeah, it's just I think was just.115001:00:40.880 --> 01:00:46.199
Beautiful writing for the characters, because that is the kind115101:00:46.199 --> 01:00:48.719
of thing that twelve thirteen, fourteen year old boys would115201:00:48.760 --> 01:00:55.119
be talking about. Yea, So she's you know, she's bound,115301:00:55.199 --> 01:00:59.960
and they're kind of sitting there going over their plan115401:01:00.199 --> 01:01:03.000
a little bit, and you know, Luke's talking about how115501:01:03.079 --> 01:01:06.320
once tonight is over, like she's not even going to115601:01:06.400 --> 01:01:09.480
want to move away to college, Like she's going to115701:01:09.519 --> 01:01:12.119
be so madly in love with him that she's you know,115801:01:12.199 --> 01:01:16.840
not going to want to leave, and that's when Luke115901:01:16.880 --> 01:01:20.039
sits in front of Ashley and he starts like going116001:01:20.079 --> 01:01:24.920
through her purse and asking her some you know, increasingly116101:01:25.239 --> 01:01:31.960
uncomfortable questions about her dating life. And he he is116201:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.639
very upset with her because she's not acting grateful for116301:01:36.880 --> 01:01:39.920
all the lengths that he's gone to to impress her.116401:01:40.280 --> 01:01:43.719
So he takes lipstick out of her purse and he116501:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.760
draws smiley lips on the duct tape.116601:01:47.079 --> 01:01:51.639
Yeah, bizarre. We're starting to realize that something is.116701:01:51.840 --> 01:01:53.760
Something's not right with this kid.116801:01:53.920 --> 01:01:57.519
Dogs are yeah, And.116901:01:59.199 --> 01:02:03.920
That's when he says that he can take the gag off.117001:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.320
But he pulls out his parents' gun from upstairs, the117101:02:08.320 --> 01:02:11.000
the handgun, and he says that he can take the117201:02:11.039 --> 01:02:14.119
gag off, but he'll be forced to shoot her if117301:02:14.159 --> 01:02:17.559
she screams, and he really doesn't want to shoot her.117401:02:18.000 --> 01:02:20.079
So she's not going to make him do that, right,117501:02:21.079 --> 01:02:23.000
She's not going to make him shoot her.117601:02:23.519 --> 01:02:29.960
Yeah, he's big on displacing blame yes constantly. What you117701:02:30.000 --> 01:02:30.480
don't like that?117801:02:31.760 --> 01:02:36.760
Not? No? No, So then he says, okay, well he's117901:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.079
taken the gag off, and he says that is time118001:02:39.119 --> 01:02:43.360
to play truth or dare as one does at a118101:02:43.360 --> 01:02:47.159
at a sleepover, of course, yes. And the first thing118201:02:47.519 --> 01:02:50.880
that he does is he asks her truth, you know,118301:02:50.920 --> 01:02:54.679
how many how many boys has she fucked? Basically, and118401:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.599
she's like and she's like, well, none, She's still a virgin,118501:02:59.719 --> 01:03:02.239
and he he doesn't believe it, and that's kind of118601:03:02.559 --> 01:03:06.039
that's one of the things that throughout this next act118701:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.639
of the movie is he refuses to believe that she's118801:03:09.679 --> 01:03:14.440
still a virgin, and he's very obsessed with that, yeah,118901:03:14.559 --> 01:03:18.960
to an unhealthy degree. And finally it gets to be119001:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.079
Ashley's turn, and she wants to play truth and she119101:03:22.199 --> 01:03:25.639
asks Garrett if Luke ever admitted that he he's the119201:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.599
one who killed Garrett's hamster, you know, back in second119301:03:29.599 --> 01:03:33.320
grade or whatever. And this kind of fucks Garrett up, yeah,119401:03:33.760 --> 01:03:37.000
because you know, he apparently loved that hamster and Luke119501:03:37.119 --> 01:03:40.360
again displacing blame. He's like, well, it's been two years,119601:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.079
so like the hamster would have been dead already anyway.119701:03:43.159 --> 01:03:45.719
And besides, you know, you got a cat, so it's119801:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.840
not like it's not like you can have both of119901:03:47.880 --> 01:03:50.679
those at the same time. Like, you know, this is120001:03:50.800 --> 01:03:52.719
this is all for the better, and this is but120101:03:53.280 --> 01:03:59.360
Garrett's like, still not okay with this, And then it120201:03:59.400 --> 01:04:03.000
gets to be Garrett's turn and he says, well, okay,120301:04:03.239 --> 01:04:05.599
now that it's my turn, I'm gonna do dare and120401:04:05.639 --> 01:04:07.840
I dare myself to make out with Ashley and this120501:04:08.360 --> 01:04:09.920
royally pisses Luke off.120601:04:10.079 --> 01:04:13.840
Well you skipped over when Luke felt her up? Yeah, yeah,120701:04:13.960 --> 01:04:17.400
right before they even started Truth or Dare. He literally120801:04:17.480 --> 01:04:19.599
just like the and the way they depict it is120901:04:19.639 --> 01:04:21.960
really interesting. It happens off camera. You just see his121001:04:22.039 --> 01:04:24.360
face in her face, but he literally like reaches over121101:04:24.400 --> 01:04:27.159
and touches her boob and then he goes like, I121201:04:27.239 --> 01:04:29.800
see what all the fuss is about or whatever, and121301:04:29.840 --> 01:04:31.559
then he's and then he asked her like how do121401:04:31.559 --> 01:04:33.119
you feel? And she says, I feel like a little121501:04:33.159 --> 01:04:38.400
boy just felt me up, which, again given props to Ashley.121601:04:38.480 --> 01:04:40.679
She's feisty and tough.121701:04:41.119 --> 01:04:45.440
Yeah she got moxie, Yeah absolutely, but.121801:04:45.480 --> 01:04:47.679
No, so I mean that, so that's kind of what why.121901:04:48.159 --> 01:04:50.880
He then suggests like, you know, Darren, you know you122001:04:50.880 --> 01:04:52.679
should dare me to like make out with her or whatever,122101:04:52.760 --> 01:04:54.559
and he's like, no, you don't touch her mm hmm,122201:04:54.719 --> 01:04:57.440
and and he says something very telling where He's like,122301:04:57.440 --> 01:04:58.960
why do you get to have all the fun? She's122401:04:59.000 --> 01:05:02.159
not gonna remember this anyway, And that's when we figure122501:05:02.159 --> 01:05:05.880
out that the plan is to roofy her after all122601:05:05.920 --> 01:05:10.199
of this and then make it look like as she122701:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.719
got super drunk and passed out while she was babysitting,122801:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.480
and she won't remember anything with I guess the combination122901:05:17.559 --> 01:05:19.880
of the alcohol and the drugs. Yeah, is the theory.123001:05:19.920 --> 01:05:22.920
I don't know how sound that actually.123101:05:22.920 --> 01:05:28.480
Is, but it's a theory. So that's that's kind of123201:05:28.480 --> 01:05:34.400
their plan. While Luke and Garrett and again talking about123301:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.719
Ashley's moxie and her attitude. While Garrett and Luke are123401:05:38.760 --> 01:05:42.719
in the other room arguing about their plan about how123501:05:42.760 --> 01:05:45.079
they're going to deal with all this, she sees a123601:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.519
flashlight and she manages, even though she's all tied up,123701:05:47.559 --> 01:05:51.480
she manages to get this flashlight and she's blinking sos123801:05:51.679 --> 01:05:52.840
out the window.123901:05:52.800 --> 01:05:54.760
Yes, trying to signal anything.124001:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.679
Anybody, Hopefully someone will see her and come to her aid.124101:05:59.440 --> 01:06:01.800
But of course the boys see her, and you know,124201:06:02.119 --> 01:06:06.159
they feel really good about the fact that they caught her, yes,124301:06:06.360 --> 01:06:10.239
trying to escape. Luke kind of seems to get off124401:06:10.239 --> 01:06:13.079
on it a little bit. Yeah, he definitely has like124501:06:13.119 --> 01:06:14.079
some power issues.124601:06:14.719 --> 01:06:18.280
Would say, jeez, that's an understatement of the year.124701:06:20.280 --> 01:06:25.199
So he's Luke's there with the bottle of champagne, you know,124801:06:25.360 --> 01:06:29.079
having revealed his grand master plan. He's put the roofies124901:06:29.679 --> 01:06:31.760
in the champagne and he's trying to get her to125001:06:31.840 --> 01:06:33.679
drink it, and she kind of like head butts him125101:06:33.719 --> 01:06:37.719
and he drops the champagne bottle and it, you know, spills, shatters,125201:06:37.920 --> 01:06:41.280
spills everywhere, totally ruining his plan. So now he's got125301:06:41.320 --> 01:06:44.880
to figure out some other way to make his plan work,125401:06:45.719 --> 01:06:47.760
and that's going to be kind of difficult considering they125501:06:47.800 --> 01:06:51.199
only you know, got one dose of the roofees, so125601:06:51.199 --> 01:06:52.840
it's not like he can still go on with that.125701:06:53.880 --> 01:06:56.440
But then they hear a knock at the door unexpectedly,125801:06:58.079 --> 01:07:01.360
and they don't they weren't well. Ashley of course wasn't125901:07:01.360 --> 01:07:06.480
expecting anyone. Yeah, she's been a little preoccupied smidgeon. Yeah,126001:07:06.800 --> 01:07:11.559
Ashley screams, Luke gags are again because he can't have her,126101:07:11.760 --> 01:07:16.400
you know, alerting anyone that would be bad. He goes126201:07:16.400 --> 01:07:20.519
to the door and it's Ricky, her boyfriend.126301:07:20.760 --> 01:07:24.159
Just standing at the door hoping to have a talk126401:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.400
with his girlfriend. But I don't think it's gonna go126501:07:27.519 --> 01:07:30.039
the way he's hoping. But I guess we'll have to126601:07:30.079 --> 01:07:44.599
wait and find out till after this. All Right, we126701:07:44.679 --> 01:07:49.159
are back and things are getting they're escalating very quickly. Now, Yes,126801:07:49.679 --> 01:07:53.840
as you'll find watching the film, they sure do escalate126901:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.719
very basically once the first thirty minutes this movie's over,127001:07:57.079 --> 01:07:59.960
it becomes a knockdown, drag out brawl of nutter new.127101:08:00.760 --> 01:08:01.679
Yeah that's.127201:08:04.599 --> 01:08:07.519
But yeah, So, so the boyfriend is at the.127301:08:07.440 --> 01:08:13.159
Door yep, because apparently Ashley had texted him thirty minutes127401:08:13.199 --> 01:08:16.079
ago saying she wanted to see him, which, as the127501:08:16.119 --> 01:08:18.760
audience members will realize, doesn't quite add up.127601:08:18.840 --> 01:08:20.000
Yeah, it doesn't quite make sense.127701:08:20.359 --> 01:08:23.039
Quite add up. But Ricky, he's trying really hard. He127801:08:23.079 --> 01:08:27.319
even brought flowers. Yeah, but Luke insists that Ashley does127901:08:27.359 --> 01:08:30.359
not want to see him. But if if Ricky will128001:08:30.439 --> 01:08:34.319
just hand the flowers through the door, then Luke will128101:08:34.319 --> 01:08:35.920
make sure she gets him. But she doesn't want to128201:08:35.960 --> 01:08:36.680
see him right now.128301:08:36.760 --> 01:08:39.560
That's the funniest part is, like we said about like128401:08:39.640 --> 01:08:42.199
moments that make it very clear Luke is a little kid,128501:08:42.760 --> 01:08:46.960
so a basically grown man says, okay, well, if I128601:08:46.960 --> 01:08:48.880
can't see her, will at least give her my flowers.128701:08:49.000 --> 01:08:50.840
He's like, okay, you can pass him to the door.128801:08:51.119 --> 01:08:53.039
The moment he unlocks the door, he just pushes right128901:08:53.079 --> 01:08:57.239
past him because he's a little kid. And why would129001:08:57.279 --> 01:09:01.399
the kid, like an adult would be like nah a yeah,129101:09:01.439 --> 01:09:04.319
that sounds like you're gonna you're gonna come in any way.129201:09:04.840 --> 01:09:09.600
Yeah no, But he's a child, so he doesn't realize129301:09:09.600 --> 01:09:11.720
that that's like the least clever way to get into129401:09:11.760 --> 01:09:12.119
the house.129501:09:12.199 --> 01:09:15.119
But it works, you know sometimes efficacy.129601:09:15.520 --> 01:09:17.479
Yeah, I mean, you know eighty percent of the time.129701:09:17.520 --> 01:09:18.840
That works one hundred percent of the time.129801:09:19.840 --> 01:09:22.079
So Ricky pushes his way in. He's, you know, like,129901:09:22.119 --> 01:09:25.199
where where's Ashley? And that's where Luke says, well, she130001:09:25.199 --> 01:09:27.000
she doesn't want to see you and she's not feeling130101:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.279
well right now. And Ricky's like, okay, that's weird, and130201:09:30.279 --> 01:09:34.239
he's and Luke's like, well, it's cramps. It's menstrual cramps.130301:09:34.520 --> 01:09:38.199
He says it like he's repeating health class that's part130401:09:38.520 --> 01:09:41.359
menstrual cramps and Ricky.130501:09:41.479 --> 01:09:43.920
Ricky's like, okay, that doesn't make sense. He starts yelling130601:09:43.920 --> 01:09:46.399
for Ashley and Ashley in the other room with Garrett.130701:09:46.760 --> 01:09:50.279
She's still tied up, so to try to get Ricky's attention,130801:09:50.840 --> 01:09:53.359
she just manages to push the chair over so that130901:09:53.439 --> 01:09:56.680
she flops to the ground that Garrett like gets ready131001:09:56.720 --> 01:09:57.199
to stay.131101:09:57.079 --> 01:10:00.199
Quiet, and they put on a Christmas record yeah in131201:10:00.199 --> 01:10:01.640
the sound right before he answered the door.131301:10:01.800 --> 01:10:04.760
Yeah, yeah, and and Ricky. Ricky was even like, why131401:10:04.840 --> 01:10:07.159
is the music so loud? And Luke's like, oh, we're131501:10:07.199 --> 01:10:12.319
having a Christmas party, you know. So Ricky goes upstairs131601:10:12.399 --> 01:10:16.520
thinking maybe Ashley's laying down, so he's yelling for and131701:10:16.560 --> 01:10:18.439
when he gets upstairs, he sees at the end of131801:10:18.439 --> 01:10:21.000
the hallway some broken glass.131901:10:21.159 --> 01:10:23.760
He's also saying, like the most boyfriend ye stuff ever.132001:10:23.800 --> 01:10:26.199
He's like, Ashley, I don't care if you're sick, I132101:10:26.279 --> 01:10:27.600
just want to see you. Do you need me to132201:10:27.640 --> 01:10:31.560
go get you tampons? Like He's like, the most boyfriend132301:10:31.640 --> 01:10:32.159
stuff ever?132401:10:32.239 --> 01:10:32.800
Do you need me to go?132501:10:33.000 --> 01:10:34.319
He literally says that do you need me to go132601:10:34.359 --> 01:10:35.359
get you some tampons?132701:10:36.199 --> 01:10:38.279
Which is pretty sweet?132801:10:38.479 --> 01:10:38.680
Yeah.132901:10:38.720 --> 01:10:43.079
Sure. So yeah, he's up there looking for Ashley and133001:10:43.119 --> 01:10:46.079
he notices the broken glass.133101:10:46.199 --> 01:10:47.000
Yeah.133201:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.000
Now Luke has kind of trailed behind him, and Luke133301:10:50.319 --> 01:10:52.880
ducks into his bedroom and comes back out with an133401:10:53.079 --> 01:10:57.439
with a baseball bat, yep, an aluminum baseball bat, and133501:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.600
he sneaks up behind Ricky and as Ricky's they're you know,133601:11:00.720 --> 01:11:05.119
kind of dawning on him that something is rotten in133701:11:05.159 --> 01:11:08.399
the state of Denmark. I just wanted to have a133801:11:08.399 --> 01:11:09.119
hamlet reference.133901:11:09.159 --> 01:11:12.760
Sorry, that's okay, We'll allow one per year.134001:11:14.720 --> 01:11:18.079
Luke just knocks him over the head. Yeah, knocks him out,134101:11:18.600 --> 01:11:23.159
And Garrett comes running upstairs because he heard a commotion134201:11:23.560 --> 01:11:27.119
and he sees someone down on the ground and Garrett134301:11:27.119 --> 01:11:29.680
starts freaking out like this was not part of the plan.134401:11:29.920 --> 01:11:36.600
Meanwhile, Luke is dancing around like delighting that hit until134501:11:36.600 --> 01:11:41.000
he realizes that life ain't like the movies and Ricky's134601:11:41.039 --> 01:11:43.880
not unconscious, He's just on the ground kind of hurt,134701:11:44.239 --> 01:11:46.239
and he gets back up and comes right at the134801:11:46.279 --> 01:11:49.560
pip squeak. They start wrestling around a bit. It becomes134901:11:49.680 --> 01:11:53.119
very clear that if if Luke doesn't do something quick,135001:11:53.680 --> 01:11:56.720
Ricky will have no problem beating the ever loving shit135101:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.520
out of him. And luckily, as he's knocked down and135201:12:00.640 --> 01:12:04.920
Ricky goes to possibly clabber him with that baseball bat.135301:12:05.399 --> 01:12:08.600
He finds the He finds the pencil that's meant to135401:12:08.640 --> 01:12:10.800
be on his door, which is under the rug right135501:12:10.840 --> 01:12:14.079
next to his door. He pulls it out stabs Ricky135601:12:14.119 --> 01:12:16.840
in the face with it, right in the jaw. Yeah,135701:12:16.880 --> 01:12:19.479
it goes right through his cheek. And then as he's135801:12:19.520 --> 01:12:21.720
pulling that out of his cheek, he gets the bat135901:12:21.760 --> 01:12:24.760
and gives him a good whack again, and this time136001:12:25.399 --> 01:12:29.039
it's he it's him real hard. Yeah, So now he's136101:12:29.079 --> 01:12:30.399
actually unconscious.136201:12:32.319 --> 01:12:39.720
So now they've got Ricky tied up, and Garrett and136301:12:39.840 --> 01:12:44.840
Luke just start going crazy cleaning, and it's very well136401:12:44.880 --> 01:12:49.399
thought out because they're both wearing gloves. Luke even goes136501:12:49.479 --> 01:12:52.560
to the trouble of like the pencil, he makes sure136601:12:52.640 --> 01:12:55.000
that he's sharpened it down so that there is no136701:12:55.760 --> 01:12:58.680
evidence of like the blood or any flesh or anything.136801:12:59.199 --> 01:13:01.720
They've cleaned up the blood like they've so they've made136901:13:01.800 --> 01:13:08.079
sure that people won't be able to see exactly what happened, right,137001:13:08.279 --> 01:13:11.760
And it really shows that Luke has been thinking this137101:13:11.920 --> 01:13:16.960
through a lot. So they've got Ricky and Ashley tied up.137201:13:17.079 --> 01:13:22.640
They're sitting side by side and Ashley's begging Luke to137301:13:22.720 --> 01:13:26.800
let them go, and she's like, look, me and Ricky137401:13:26.880 --> 01:13:30.439
need the hospital. We can just say that there was137501:13:30.479 --> 01:13:34.359
an accident and Garrett can go with us to the137601:13:34.399 --> 01:13:37.880
hospital to corroborate the story. And Luke is like, no,137701:13:38.039 --> 01:13:40.560
I'm not gonna let you do that, and that's when137801:13:40.600 --> 01:13:44.640
he reveals that he had actually saved her phone by137901:13:44.680 --> 01:13:49.119
wrapping it up in plastic before he threw it. Yes,138001:13:49.479 --> 01:13:52.520
so that way, he was the one who had texted138101:13:52.600 --> 01:13:54.760
Ricky asking him to come.138201:13:54.960 --> 01:13:56.880
But the big problem was Ricky showed up about a138301:13:56.880 --> 01:13:57.680
half an hour.138401:13:57.479 --> 01:14:03.399
Early, so he wasn't prepared. And Garrett's now realizing more138501:14:03.439 --> 01:14:10.319
and more just how deeply disturbed his friend is because138601:14:10.439 --> 01:14:12.960
Luke never told him that there was another part to138701:14:13.000 --> 01:14:16.239
the plan. He never mentioned that anyone other than than138801:14:16.359 --> 01:14:21.640
themselves and Ashley would be involved. So Garrett like wants138901:14:21.680 --> 01:14:26.239
out and Luke the only way that Luke knows how139001:14:26.279 --> 01:14:31.720
to keep Garrett in line is by demeaning him.139101:14:31.760 --> 01:14:33.920
And threatening him, saying like it doesn't matter, We're so139201:14:34.039 --> 01:14:37.039
far in now, like anything else that anything that happens139301:14:37.079 --> 01:14:40.039
other than the plan, You're going away to jail forever.139401:14:40.399 --> 01:14:44.319
Yeah, By you know, scaring him and so Garrett keeps139501:14:44.399 --> 01:14:50.880
going along with his plan because well, he's my best friend,139601:14:50.880 --> 01:14:52.760
and he even he even says it later, He's like,139701:14:52.840 --> 01:14:55.119
he's my best friend, He's my only friend. And Ashley's like,139801:14:55.479 --> 01:15:00.520
really though, yeah really, yeah, I don't I don't think139901:15:00.680 --> 01:15:07.600
so so sorry at looking at my notes. Oh that's140001:15:07.680 --> 01:15:12.600
where it again. This movie goes so hard. That's where140101:15:12.760 --> 01:15:16.439
when Luke says that he wants to have another person140201:15:16.680 --> 01:15:20.600
join the party, and he wants Ashley to call her140301:15:20.640 --> 01:15:25.800
ex Jeremy and invite him over to and he even140401:15:25.880 --> 01:15:28.039
goes so far as pointing the gun in her face140501:15:29.000 --> 01:15:32.760
and threatening to shoot her to make her call him,140601:15:32.840 --> 01:15:35.520
and she says she Nope, not going to do it,140701:15:36.359 --> 01:15:39.119
not going to comply with your plans anymore. So he140801:15:39.159 --> 01:15:42.279
gets fed up and he ends up calling Jeremy from140901:15:42.439 --> 01:15:46.439
their home phone, and it's pretty funny because he calls Jeremy,141001:15:46.479 --> 01:15:50.439
Jeremy picks it up, picks up, and Luke says, I'm141101:15:50.720 --> 01:15:54.920
calling for Ashley, and Jeremy says there's no Ashley here, man,141201:15:55.000 --> 01:15:59.479
and just hangs up, and Luke says, what a more on?141301:16:00.079 --> 01:16:02.720
And you know, I don't believe you dated him? And141401:16:02.840 --> 01:16:05.039
Ricky who's you know, tied up and gagged and he141501:16:05.119 --> 01:16:10.840
kind of, you know, does it. So he calls Jeremy141601:16:10.880 --> 01:16:14.560
again and he says, don't hang up, No, I'm calling141701:16:14.720 --> 01:16:18.600
on behalf of Ashley. She just has been thinking about141801:16:18.640 --> 01:16:21.840
you and and that's when Jeremy says, like, oh are141901:16:21.880 --> 01:16:24.520
you that? Are you that topee kid that lives like142001:16:24.600 --> 01:16:29.239
lives down on the street, And Link's like, yeah, but142101:16:29.319 --> 01:16:31.640
she's been thinking about you and she wants you to142201:16:31.720 --> 01:16:35.119
come by later and you know, luing him into the142301:16:35.199 --> 01:16:40.279
trap too, and Jeremy buys it, you know, hook line142401:16:40.319 --> 01:16:47.680
and sinker. This whole time, Ashley's got a glass shard142501:16:48.159 --> 01:16:52.079
from the broken bottle and she's been trying to slowly142601:16:52.680 --> 01:16:55.520
cut away at her bonds, yes, and.142701:16:56.199 --> 01:16:58.920
It's digging into her hand and causing her to drip blood,142801:16:58.920 --> 01:17:02.439
which so far, luckily Luke hasn't noticed.142901:17:03.000 --> 01:17:07.279
Yeah, but it's it's an increasingly growing puddle of blood,143001:17:07.399 --> 01:17:12.000
so he's going to notice soon. And that's when Ashley143101:17:12.119 --> 01:17:16.000
she pleads with Luke that you know, hey, you don't143201:17:16.039 --> 01:17:18.439
you don't actually want to hurt anyone like you don't143301:17:18.880 --> 01:17:22.720
you cried, you know, you cried when you accidentally killed143401:17:23.159 --> 01:17:27.560
Garrett's hamster, and that's when Luke reveals like, no, it143501:17:27.960 --> 01:17:30.000
wasn't an accident. He did that on purpose.143601:17:32.960 --> 01:17:34.840
Don't worry. We're about to find out exactly what this143701:17:34.960 --> 01:17:38.039
kid is capable of real soon. In fact, that's a143801:17:38.039 --> 01:17:40.760
perfect segue. I didn't even mean that, but we'll find143901:17:40.800 --> 01:17:56.560
out after this. And we are back with a little144001:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.960
bit more as things are getting very dark in better way.144101:18:01.840 --> 01:18:04.840
So we know that Jeremy is going to be on144201:18:04.920 --> 01:18:09.520
his way and Ashley, you know, has been trying to144301:18:09.520 --> 01:18:16.399
free herself but she's been bleeding and Ricky mumbles something144401:18:17.279 --> 01:18:20.359
which really sets off Luke, and he you know, like144501:18:20.399 --> 01:18:23.720
points a gun in his face and you know, says144601:18:23.720 --> 01:18:25.760
that he's going to shoot him and rips his gag off,144701:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.720
and you know, demands that he repeat himself, and Ricky says,144801:18:30.319 --> 01:18:34.000
I got a pee, And then they realized, no, Ricky's144901:18:34.119 --> 01:18:37.960
urinated himself. He really did have to pee, but it145001:18:38.000 --> 01:18:39.920
may have been that he was trying to just keep145101:18:40.520 --> 01:18:44.479
Luke him, keep Luke's attention because then as Luke is145201:18:44.720 --> 01:18:47.720
cleaning up, he you know, cleans the urine up and145301:18:48.000 --> 01:18:51.880
he's taking the trash out. That's when Ashley's like really145401:18:51.920 --> 01:18:55.479
able to make headway and like really get like one145501:18:55.520 --> 01:19:01.399
of her hands loose and able to get like one145601:19:01.399 --> 01:19:03.760
of her legs almost loose, and she's able to take145701:19:03.800 --> 01:19:05.920
off her sock and like wipe up the blood so145801:19:05.960 --> 01:19:08.680
that Luke doesn't see the blood, can't see that she's145901:19:08.720 --> 01:19:12.319
been trying to free yourself. Right, So Luke comes back146001:19:12.319 --> 01:19:15.039
in and he starts complaining like, ah, Jeremy lives thirty146101:19:15.079 --> 01:19:18.279
minutes away, like that that's forever, and he's trying to146201:19:18.279 --> 01:19:23.159
think of like ways to keep himself entertained and being146301:19:23.439 --> 01:19:27.960
a twelve year old kid but also being just a146401:19:28.359 --> 01:19:30.760
touch of a psychopath.146501:19:30.319 --> 01:19:34.520
A touch, okay, just a little bit, just a little146601:19:34.520 --> 01:19:35.479
bit of a psychopath.146701:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.960
He decides that what he thinks would be fun is146801:19:39.560 --> 01:19:45.279
watching Ricky and Ashley have sex, and he says, like,146901:19:45.359 --> 01:19:47.199
I think, you know, I want to watch you guys fuck,147001:19:47.319 --> 01:19:51.760
and then starts teasing them about how often they must147101:19:51.760 --> 01:19:56.439
have had sex, and again doesn't believe them when they insist, like, no,147201:19:56.640 --> 01:20:02.720
they actually haven't had sex yet. And that's when I147301:20:02.760 --> 01:20:08.000
think it's important to mention that, well, two things. We147401:20:08.079 --> 01:20:11.079
forgot to mention that Garrett and Luke had been arguing147501:20:11.159 --> 01:20:14.800
about the paint can argument at the beginning of.147601:20:14.720 --> 01:20:17.359
The film, Yes, from Home Alone, From Home Alone.147701:20:17.039 --> 01:20:19.640
They're arguing about what would actually happen if you hit147801:20:19.640 --> 01:20:20.479
someone with a paint can.147901:20:20.560 --> 01:20:22.960
That's one thing from high up.148001:20:23.159 --> 01:20:27.079
Yeah, So that's one thing is they they do reference148101:20:27.159 --> 01:20:30.560
that pretty often as they're sitting there, you know, arguing148201:20:30.560 --> 01:20:33.000
about things. They'll talk about the paint can argument. And148301:20:33.039 --> 01:20:37.520
then the other thing is Luke is complaining about how148401:20:37.600 --> 01:20:43.239
much Ricky's urine smelled. And he's complaining again as he's148501:20:43.399 --> 01:20:46.600
you know, sitting there talking about watching them have sex,148601:20:46.720 --> 01:20:50.800
which is totally normal thing, and then he realizes that's148701:20:50.920 --> 01:20:55.119
not urine smell, that's weed smell. And he realizes that148801:20:55.159 --> 01:20:57.760
Garrett's been in the living room just smoking a joint,148901:20:58.359 --> 01:21:02.279
smoking a joint to himself, and Luke freaks out because149001:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.399
his mom will kill him if she realizes that they've149101:21:06.439 --> 01:21:09.800
been smoking weed in the house. And that's apparently like149201:21:09.840 --> 01:21:12.600
the one thing that he can't clean up, which I149301:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.520
think is pretty hilarious that he's got all these contingency149401:21:15.560 --> 01:21:20.359
plans in place for you know, drugging his babysitter and149501:21:20.399 --> 01:21:23.960
making her fall in love with him and holding her captive.149601:21:24.199 --> 01:21:29.279
But the weed smell is no one was supposed to149701:21:29.279 --> 01:21:33.279
smoke weed. It wasn't part of his plan exactly. So149801:21:34.840 --> 01:21:37.279
Luke rushes into the room to you know, like scream149901:21:37.359 --> 01:21:42.039
at Garrett, and Ashley struggles and you know, tries to150001:21:42.039 --> 01:21:45.199
get herself free. Luke comes in with the joint and150101:21:45.239 --> 01:21:49.079
he's trying to force Ricky to smoke it because he150201:21:49.159 --> 01:21:53.520
insists that he wants the weed to be in Ricky150301:21:53.640 --> 01:21:57.359
system so that they would assume that it's him who150401:21:57.359 --> 01:21:58.159
has been smoking.150501:21:58.279 --> 01:22:01.039
Well, they said that after he he was forced to150601:22:01.039 --> 01:22:03.000
take a toke already, that's what he said I needed150701:22:03.000 --> 01:22:05.239
in his system. Yeah, before that, you're saying we should150801:22:05.239 --> 01:22:06.000
all just relax.150901:22:07.119 --> 01:22:11.640
So so Luke's kind of coming up with his reasons151001:22:11.720 --> 01:22:17.000
on the fly sometimes definitely. And there's a moment where,151101:22:17.720 --> 01:22:20.840
you know, they forced Ricky to take a hit of151201:22:20.880 --> 01:22:23.640
the joint and they realize Luke and Garrett realize that151301:22:23.680 --> 01:22:26.520
the smoke is coming out of the hole in his cheek,151401:22:27.119 --> 01:22:29.359
so they you know, pinch his nose and cover his151501:22:29.439 --> 01:22:33.960
mouth to like watch the smoke come out. Look at that,151601:22:34.039 --> 01:22:38.600
and meanwhile he's suffocating. Yeah, so then they get borded151701:22:38.680 --> 01:22:42.119
that and they just drag him into the foyer, and151801:22:42.479 --> 01:22:45.560
that's when Luke starts talking about they're gonna settle the151901:22:45.600 --> 01:22:50.439
paint can debate once and for all, and he drags152001:22:51.319 --> 01:22:56.960
Ricky on the chair to right underneath the staircase the staircase,152101:22:57.680 --> 01:23:01.479
and he goes into like the you know, utility closet152201:23:01.560 --> 01:23:04.119
or whatever and gets a paint can and some rope,152301:23:04.760 --> 01:23:12.359
and Garrett realizes where this is going and immediately begins pleading.152401:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.239
And this is where for me, at least, this is152501:23:18.279 --> 01:23:21.279
where I really start to fall in love with Garrett,152601:23:21.359 --> 01:23:25.600
because at the beginning of the film, Luke's mom and152701:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.560
dad had kind of mentioned back and forth that they152801:23:28.640 --> 01:23:32.039
felt that Garrett was a bad influence on Luke. H152901:23:32.520 --> 01:23:34.920
But this is when we start to see with Garrett153001:23:34.960 --> 01:23:39.239
pleading for Ricky's life. We see that no, actually it's153101:23:39.279 --> 01:23:40.000
the other way.153201:23:39.840 --> 01:23:42.479
Around, definitely. Yeah.153301:23:42.520 --> 01:23:47.439
So Luke, you know, runs upstairs with his with his contraption,153401:23:47.960 --> 01:23:51.119
and in the other room, Ashley, unaware of what's really153501:23:51.119 --> 01:23:53.680
going on. She's just trying to get out of her153601:23:53.720 --> 01:23:59.319
binds just to get some help, and Luke lets the153701:23:59.319 --> 01:24:05.279
paint can go and it narrowly narrowly misses Ricky. That's153801:24:05.319 --> 01:24:08.760
when Ricky realizes what's happening, and he, you know, is153901:24:09.119 --> 01:24:13.039
screaming and pleading for his own life now for Ashley,154001:24:13.119 --> 01:24:17.039
and he's, yeah, he's calling for Ashley. And Garrett even154101:24:17.079 --> 01:24:18.720
says like, I, you know, I give up. I I154201:24:18.880 --> 01:24:21.680
you know, I don't want to play this game anymore.154301:24:21.760 --> 01:24:24.000
Like you win the argument. You know what you said154401:24:24.039 --> 01:24:30.039
is true. And Ashley manages to mostly get free, but154501:24:30.119 --> 01:24:33.000
she's still attached by one arm to the chair. So154601:24:33.039 --> 01:24:37.920
she grabs the parent's handgun and she runs into the154701:24:38.000 --> 01:24:41.840
foyer and she kind of notices what's going on, and154801:24:42.119 --> 01:24:47.079
she points the gun at Luke and he says, you know,154901:24:47.119 --> 01:24:49.399
if you don't, if you don't stop right now, I'm155001:24:49.399 --> 01:24:51.359
going to shoot you. And he says, we've got to155101:24:51.399 --> 01:24:54.840
test this MythBusters style and lets the paint can go.155201:24:56.000 --> 01:24:58.840
And well, we don't see anything. We hear it and155301:24:58.880 --> 01:25:02.119
we see the reaction as we cut to Garrett and155401:25:02.199 --> 01:25:05.840
he gets hit with a lot of yellow paint and155501:25:05.960 --> 01:25:10.560
just the smallest amount of red blood and he is155601:25:10.720 --> 01:25:15.880
just in shock. Ashley's screaming and she goes into literal shock.155701:25:16.000 --> 01:25:18.920
She stops making sense for a minute, and then we155801:25:19.000 --> 01:25:23.760
see Ricky's shoes and they just have this yellow paint155901:25:23.800 --> 01:25:27.840
ooze down his legs, with blood slowly becoming a part156001:25:27.840 --> 01:25:31.039
of it too, like a Jackson Pollock. And the choice156101:25:31.039 --> 01:25:33.560
of yellow was really smart. It makes the red pop156201:25:34.159 --> 01:25:38.640
super super vibrantly. It's very disturbing. And then every time156301:25:39.279 --> 01:25:41.199
that we are in the room where Ricky's body is,156401:25:41.279 --> 01:25:45.319
they creatively try to not show you his head. Yeah,156501:25:45.960 --> 01:25:50.520
And as m Luke walks down the stairs, he is156601:25:50.600 --> 01:25:53.000
giddy and excited. He's like, I can't believe it. His156701:25:53.079 --> 01:25:57.199
head exploded. It was amazing. And all Ashley can muster156801:25:57.359 --> 01:26:02.039
is why are you laughing? Are you laughing? It's a156901:26:02.119 --> 01:26:05.039
really it's this is the moment. This is the real157001:26:05.079 --> 01:26:06.199
moment of the movie.157101:26:06.439 --> 01:26:10.319
And she even says to the effect of like I157201:26:10.800 --> 01:26:16.439
knew you as a child, like when did this happen? Yeah,157301:26:16.479 --> 01:26:18.800
and to him like this is just what he's always157401:26:18.880 --> 01:26:19.479
wanted to do.157501:26:20.600 --> 01:26:23.079
Well, And that's the thing. It's easy to think that157601:26:23.159 --> 01:26:25.560
this movie has played up strictly for dark humor, but157701:26:26.000 --> 01:26:28.079
I don't think it entirely is. I think it is157801:26:28.399 --> 01:26:32.760
legitimately meant to be a disturbing film absolutely, and it157901:26:32.880 --> 01:26:38.039
succeeds very well. This sequence is very upsetting, and the158001:26:38.079 --> 01:26:41.039
way they did it is brilliant. It's really really clever158101:26:42.000 --> 01:26:44.920
to make it shocking for the audience without having to158201:26:44.960 --> 01:26:48.640
go for the big gory payoff, which I'm glad they158301:26:48.640 --> 01:26:50.119
didn't go for it, because most of the time a158401:26:50.119 --> 01:26:53.279
big gory payoff is not memorable. It may not be158501:26:54.359 --> 01:26:56.880
as good as people would hope or whatever. I'm not158601:26:56.920 --> 01:26:59.680
a big gorehound guy. I'm fine that we didn't see158701:26:59.680 --> 01:27:01.880
it because that makes it worse in a lot of ways,158801:27:02.159 --> 01:27:04.399
because it kind of makes it more real that you158901:27:05.119 --> 01:27:07.800
missed it, and instead you just get to see how159001:27:07.960 --> 01:27:11.199
the people who witness its brains just break, keep seeing159101:27:11.199 --> 01:27:15.800
something so wholesale, gruesome right in front of them that159201:27:15.880 --> 01:27:18.680
they would never imagine would happen for real in a159301:27:18.720 --> 01:27:23.479
million years. But the gruesomeness really has just begun, and159401:27:23.520 --> 01:27:25.680
we're going to get into that more right after this.159501:27:37.439 --> 01:27:41.479
All right, we are back and the home alone debate159601:27:41.560 --> 01:27:45.199
has been solved, But now there are more questions than159701:27:45.239 --> 01:27:47.520
ever before, quite.159801:27:47.359 --> 01:27:52.520
A few more. Yes, so, Ashley having realized or starting159901:27:52.560 --> 01:27:59.840
to realize at least the extent of Luke's problems. You know,160001:28:00.840 --> 01:28:03.600
one hand is still like duct taped to the chair,160101:28:03.720 --> 01:28:06.439
and in the other hand, she's got the handgun. So160201:28:06.479 --> 01:28:10.960
as he's you know, coming down the stairs laughing because160301:28:11.000 --> 01:28:16.479
he's just delighting in the carnage he just caused, she160401:28:16.640 --> 01:28:18.319
tries to fire a warning shot.160501:28:18.800 --> 01:28:21.520
Basically trying to get him pay attention because he's like ignoring.160601:28:21.199 --> 01:28:25.920
What she's saying, and she realizes the gun's not loaded,160701:28:27.000 --> 01:28:32.079
and the flip immediately switches and he goes from laughing160801:28:32.119 --> 01:28:37.319
maniacally to totally deadpan and says, well, good parents always160901:28:37.399 --> 01:28:39.039
keep the ammunition somewhere else.161001:28:40.079 --> 01:28:44.680
I mean, fair enough. Yeah, I've had a feeling, even161101:28:44.680 --> 01:28:46.479
the first time I watched this, I had a feeling161201:28:46.880 --> 01:28:49.319
that the gun wasn't loaded by how flippantly he was161301:28:49.359 --> 01:28:52.680
pointing it. He always had his finger on the trigger,161401:28:53.119 --> 01:28:56.000
he'd rest it on his cheek, yeah, on his face.161501:28:56.159 --> 01:28:59.399
And also threatening to shoot someone where they sit, where161601:28:59.439 --> 01:29:01.840
you get mad when they pee themselves because you have161701:29:01.880 --> 01:29:04.760
to clean it up. It's like it doesn't make a161801:29:04.760 --> 01:29:07.159
whole lot of logical sense, Like, no, you're willing to161901:29:07.159 --> 01:29:09.399
splatter their brains, but you don't want them to get162001:29:09.439 --> 01:29:11.000
a little bit of urine on the ground.162101:29:11.560 --> 01:29:14.119
They go, well, you gotta have you gotta have boundaries.162201:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.279
Yeah, fair enough, but I mean the foyer had no carpet,162301:29:17.439 --> 01:29:18.279
so there you go.162401:29:18.359 --> 01:29:21.960
That's easy to clean up exactly. So she realizes the162501:29:22.000 --> 01:29:25.399
gun's empty, so she runs out the back and runs162601:29:25.439 --> 01:29:29.760
out the back door, arms still duct taped to a chair.162701:29:30.239 --> 01:29:34.640
But Luke, we're starting to realize has been planning this162801:29:34.680 --> 01:29:36.720
a very long time because he put out a trip162901:29:36.760 --> 01:29:41.199
wire and you know, she trips over it. Garrett runs163001:29:41.239 --> 01:29:41.760
after her.163101:29:41.920 --> 01:29:44.680
Well, the trip wire was to set off the paintball gun.163201:29:45.560 --> 01:29:48.960
Oh that's like that Garrett got shot early. Yeah, so163301:29:49.199 --> 01:29:51.960
that's one of the things we start to notice as163401:29:52.000 --> 01:29:55.319
we go further in is it starts to reveal how163501:29:55.399 --> 01:29:59.000
everything was done. So she realizes that that trip wire163601:29:59.039 --> 01:30:02.079
after she runs the trip she gets shot, but it's163701:30:02.199 --> 01:30:04.760
a red paintball, and she sees a paintball gun mounted163801:30:04.800 --> 01:30:07.199
on the tree aiming in that direction, which is how163901:30:07.199 --> 01:30:09.439
they pulled off that gag because a little bit later164001:30:09.479 --> 01:30:12.560
we see that there's a like a little catapult and164101:30:12.600 --> 01:30:14.199
that's how the brick went through the window on the164201:30:14.279 --> 01:30:19.760
top floor. Like it's all been planned out so much. So. Also, man,164301:30:19.800 --> 01:30:22.560
those paintballs would really hurt after they've been out in164401:30:22.600 --> 01:30:25.039
the cold for a long time. I mean they already hurt,164501:30:25.039 --> 01:30:26.239
but that would not feel good.164601:30:26.359 --> 01:30:28.760
Frozen owl that'll leave a welt.164701:30:28.880 --> 01:30:29.359
Oh yeah.164801:30:29.520 --> 01:30:34.359
Ah, So Garrett comes out, you know, she's she's tripped.164901:30:34.720 --> 01:30:36.920
Garrett comes out and kind of wrestles her to the ground,165001:30:36.960 --> 01:30:41.199
and he's he's trying to detain her. But she's now165101:30:41.319 --> 01:30:44.159
realizes that this is life and death. So she manages165201:30:44.239 --> 01:30:47.359
to like break most of the chair and and get165301:30:47.399 --> 01:30:50.279
over the fence and run off and she hears carrollers,165401:30:51.000 --> 01:30:56.079
so she books it for the carrollers. But then she wait, no,165501:30:56.239 --> 01:30:58.199
then does Luke throw the brick at her?165601:30:58.640 --> 01:31:01.319
That's what stops her forgetting Yeah. Yeah, yeah, she gets165701:31:01.359 --> 01:31:04.079
hit on the head. She just collapses. That's what we165801:31:04.119 --> 01:31:06.600
see it first. But then they revealed the brick that165901:31:06.680 --> 01:31:09.760
said you leave you die is broken in half, which166001:31:09.800 --> 01:31:11.920
suggests that yeah, he threw it right at her head.166101:31:12.079 --> 01:31:15.640
Yeah, so she can't get to the carrollers, and then166201:31:15.680 --> 01:31:19.119
it immediately cuts to the carrollers at the front door,166301:31:19.720 --> 01:31:23.119
and Luke is there all cherry and like wearing his166401:31:23.159 --> 01:31:25.119
hot chalk. Give him a hot chocolate. We're in his166501:31:25.199 --> 01:31:29.920
cute little holiday sweater, and just beyond it's a great166601:31:29.960 --> 01:31:32.199
reveal because you know, he's standing in the door and166701:31:32.399 --> 01:31:36.960
the door is mostly closed and as the camera moves,166801:31:37.079 --> 01:31:41.159
we can just barely see the dead body with all166901:31:41.199 --> 01:31:43.600
the paint over it in a way that the carrollers167001:31:43.640 --> 01:31:45.880
would not see it. But it's, you know, kind of167101:31:45.960 --> 01:31:49.319
driving home, like just behind the surface, is this, Yes,167201:31:50.079 --> 01:31:54.199
And Ashley's now tied up back in the living room167301:31:54.239 --> 01:31:56.439
and she's tied up with Christmas lights, which is a167401:31:56.479 --> 01:31:57.000
great touch.167501:31:57.159 --> 01:31:57.720
It's festive.167601:31:57.880 --> 01:32:01.000
It's a fact that you know, we've we like festive167701:32:01.039 --> 01:32:01.560
around here.167801:32:01.680 --> 01:32:03.960
Yeah, it's good to get into the spirit of the167901:32:04.000 --> 01:32:05.279
season exactly.168001:32:06.279 --> 01:32:09.000
So she's all tied up and Garrett's you know, kind168101:32:09.000 --> 01:32:15.279
of trying to keep her quiet, and Luke comes back168201:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.760
and he gets all creepy and he says that, you know,168301:32:19.840 --> 01:32:22.399
someday she's going to learn to be grateful for this168401:32:22.800 --> 01:32:26.680
because he's getting rid of all the bad men in168501:32:26.720 --> 01:32:32.079
her life. And she again, she's like, you don't, you168601:32:32.239 --> 01:32:34.279
don't have to do this, like, you know, we could,168701:32:34.359 --> 01:32:37.600
we could still end this now. And he's like, basically168801:32:37.600 --> 01:32:41.359
says like she wouldn't understand because everyone likes her, and168901:32:41.439 --> 01:32:44.800
she wouldn't understand what it's like to love someone so169001:32:44.920 --> 01:32:46.880
deeply but they don't love you back.169101:32:48.359 --> 01:32:51.439
And and she takes quite a fense to that.169201:32:51.479 --> 01:32:55.720
She does. She does not like this well.169301:32:55.720 --> 01:32:58.960
And meanwhile, Garrett is just basically comatose on the couch,169401:32:59.039 --> 01:33:01.079
just laying there, kind of thinking about all he's seen,169501:33:01.640 --> 01:33:03.520
and he makes that comment to about like, and we'll169601:33:03.520 --> 01:33:05.399
get you cleaned up. You look like a hot dog169701:33:05.840 --> 01:33:08.479
because he's got yellow paint and red blood on him169801:33:08.560 --> 01:33:14.600
on him. Yeah, yeah, this is truly it earns the169901:33:14.640 --> 01:33:17.640
title of Funny Games Christmas Special to me.170001:33:17.840 --> 01:33:23.880
It really is. So Garrett. Then after Luke's makes that170101:33:23.920 --> 01:33:25.800
comment about like we got to get you cleaned up,170201:33:25.840 --> 01:33:29.640
you know, after we clean up everything else, Garrett asks170301:33:29.680 --> 01:33:33.159
like why did why did he have to kill Ricky,170401:33:33.960 --> 01:33:37.680
and Luke, again passing the blame, says well, I didn't170501:33:37.720 --> 01:33:40.239
kill Ricky. You killed Ricky when he decided to smoke170601:33:40.279 --> 01:33:44.600
pot in the house, his justification being, you know, if170701:33:44.600 --> 01:33:45.960
you wouldn't have smoked pot in the house, then I170801:33:46.000 --> 01:33:47.319
would have had to kill him, and that was the170901:33:47.359 --> 01:33:49.600
only way I had to kill him. So that's that's171001:33:49.640 --> 01:33:58.520
why we're doing this right ugh and outside the ex171101:33:58.640 --> 01:33:59.960
Jimmy or Jeremy.171201:34:00.760 --> 01:34:03.239
Yes. As Finally, it turns out he's been sitting in171301:34:03.279 --> 01:34:05.159
the car for a while, like trying to think of171401:34:05.159 --> 01:34:08.840
how to say cool in a cool way, Hey Ashley171501:34:08.960 --> 01:34:11.520
or whatever. And I wanted to mention because I didn't171601:34:11.520 --> 01:34:13.800
recognize him, and I don't think you did either. But171701:34:14.239 --> 01:34:18.119
that character is played by Daker Montgomery, who became very171801:34:18.560 --> 01:34:21.960
famous later that same year, even though I think he171901:34:22.000 --> 01:34:26.640
made this film earlier for playing Billy Hargrove on Stranger Things, Yeah,172001:34:26.720 --> 01:34:30.239
which made him a pretty big deal yea. But here172101:34:30.319 --> 01:34:33.520
he is. He's just kind of decked out in like172201:34:34.199 --> 01:34:37.279
I guess you'd call it streetwear. He's dressed like a172301:34:37.279 --> 01:34:41.640
white wrapper. But yeah, he's like rehearsing in the car172401:34:41.920 --> 01:34:45.720
and he was told to come around back when he arrives.172501:34:46.960 --> 01:34:49.720
So he comes around back and he's like banging on172601:34:49.760 --> 01:34:54.479
the back door and Luke comes up behind him, and172701:34:54.680 --> 01:34:58.760
Luke's got a notebook with him, and Luke says that172801:34:59.439 --> 01:35:02.359
Ashley he wants an apology, and he's.172901:35:02.239 --> 01:35:05.159
Like for what he's like, he said, she said you would.173001:35:04.880 --> 01:35:11.640
Know, yeah, which great great. So Jeremy's like, well, okay, well,173101:35:11.880 --> 01:35:13.800
if you let me inside, I can go inside and173201:35:13.840 --> 01:35:16.159
apologize to her, and says, no, no, no, she wants173301:35:16.199 --> 01:35:19.960
you to write out an apology. So he sits down173401:35:20.119 --> 01:35:22.640
on the swing that they have outside and he just,173501:35:22.760 --> 01:35:27.520
you know, writes in the notebook, I'm sorry, and Luke's like, no, no,173601:35:27.680 --> 01:35:31.800
you've got it. If no, what he says is that's173701:35:31.800 --> 01:35:32.560
all you have to say.173801:35:33.079 --> 01:35:34.800
Yeah, that's all you have to say to her.173901:35:35.199 --> 01:35:37.760
And Jeremy takes offense to this. He's like, what what174001:35:37.760 --> 01:35:39.800
do you want me to say? He's like, no, I'm174101:35:39.840 --> 01:35:42.880
not saying anything. I'm just asking is that all you174201:35:42.920 --> 01:35:46.600
want to say? So Jeremy decides, okay, he's going to174301:35:46.640 --> 01:35:54.000
write a actual apology note. Meanwhile, inside Garrett's having like174401:35:54.039 --> 01:35:56.640
a crisis of faith in his friend. Yeah, and he174501:35:57.119 --> 01:36:00.920
takes Ashley's gag off, and that's when she has the174601:36:00.920 --> 01:36:02.840
moment where she you know, points out like all he174701:36:02.880 --> 01:36:06.479
does is put you down, like I don't think this174801:36:06.600 --> 01:36:10.199
guy is actually your friend. And he says, you know,174901:36:10.239 --> 01:36:12.600
Garrett says that he's got to keep going with Luke's175001:36:12.600 --> 01:36:16.760
plans because otherwise he's like Luke's gonna come after him,175101:36:17.000 --> 01:36:20.000
and Ashley promises him, like, if you help me escape,175201:36:20.399 --> 01:36:22.399
we can both get out of this and I'll keep175301:36:22.439 --> 01:36:22.880
you safe.175401:36:23.000 --> 01:36:25.520
Yeah. She says that they'll both run out the front door,175501:36:25.720 --> 01:36:28.199
go across the street and call for help and that175601:36:28.319 --> 01:36:30.000
she would protect him.175701:36:31.039 --> 01:36:36.479
So, Jeremy's outside sitting on the swing writing this apology note,175801:36:37.680 --> 01:36:42.760
when Luke comes up behind him with a noose, slings175901:36:42.800 --> 01:36:45.800
it over his neck and ties it to the end176001:36:45.880 --> 01:36:50.359
of their lawnmower, starts the mower up and just hoists176101:36:50.399 --> 01:36:51.800
him up into the tree.176201:36:52.359 --> 01:36:54.760
Pulls him right up the tree, choking him out.176301:36:54.960 --> 01:36:58.840
Choking him out and with the apology note that he wrote,176401:36:59.000 --> 01:37:02.760
it kind of looks like a suicide, yes, which was176501:37:02.960 --> 01:37:07.520
apparently his plan all along, that even Garrett didn't know about.176601:37:08.720 --> 01:37:11.960
Luke goes back inside so that he can keep acting176701:37:12.000 --> 01:37:12.479
as plan.176801:37:12.680 --> 01:37:15.600
And it's important to point out that neither Ashley nor176901:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.960
Garrett know that that even happened. No, they didn't hear177001:37:19.039 --> 01:37:20.920
because it was what was in the back, far back177101:37:20.960 --> 01:37:24.159
part of the backyard. They didn't see anything at all.177201:37:24.520 --> 01:37:26.800
They're just talking to each other. So this is a177301:37:26.920 --> 01:37:30.640
kill that literally no one witnessed. At all. He just177401:37:30.800 --> 01:37:36.279
quietly executed it entirely himself. But the executions are not177501:37:36.760 --> 01:37:52.000
over yet, and we'll find out more after this. And177601:37:52.159 --> 01:37:58.880
the laughs just keep on coming as inside our boy177701:37:59.439 --> 01:38:03.199
Derek Garrett Garrett, I keep messing up his name, has177801:38:03.239 --> 01:38:07.800
decided he's going to cut her loose, and unfortunately it177901:38:07.880 --> 01:38:10.640
turns out that the lights are kind of just for178001:38:10.760 --> 01:38:15.680
decoration because underneath she is duct taped. Yeah, So as178101:38:15.720 --> 01:38:20.399
he's cutting it, he keeps apologizing and apologizing, which is178201:38:20.439 --> 01:38:24.119
so sad. And then at one point, as he's almost178301:38:24.159 --> 01:38:26.640
cut her out, he gives her a kiss on the cheek,178401:38:27.560 --> 01:38:32.840
I'm guessing because he feels so unbelievably guilty for helping178501:38:32.880 --> 01:38:35.279
with all this. And as soon as he's done kissing178601:38:35.319 --> 01:38:37.000
her in the cheek, blame.178701:38:37.600 --> 01:38:41.000
Yep, Luke saw and he did not like that.178801:38:41.359 --> 01:38:43.520
No, and he shot him with the shotgun we had178901:38:43.600 --> 01:38:46.399
seen earlier, which apparently did have bullets.179001:38:46.560 --> 01:38:51.399
Yeah, so the shotgun was loaded and Blue Garrett clear179101:38:51.600 --> 01:38:52.880
clear across the.179201:38:52.920 --> 01:38:54.560
Room, Yes, into the dining room.179301:38:54.760 --> 01:38:59.399
Yeah, and he's bleeding out quickly, and he's very quickly179401:38:59.439 --> 01:39:03.600
coming to terms with his own mortality, and he's pleading179501:39:03.640 --> 01:39:06.800
for his life. He's asking for Ashley to save him,179601:39:06.840 --> 01:39:09.079
and she's still you know, duct taped and tied up.179701:39:09.119 --> 01:39:10.800
There's nothing that she can do well.179801:39:10.800 --> 01:39:13.000
And he says the thing that I've always heard people179901:39:13.039 --> 01:39:17.199
really do say after they've been shot. He says, you180001:39:17.399 --> 01:39:21.520
shot me. You shot me. Because it happens so fast,180101:39:21.560 --> 01:39:24.159
you don't really get to you don't really get to180201:39:24.199 --> 01:39:26.720
process at the moment it happens. You have to. And180301:39:26.760 --> 01:39:28.600
he says, like, I need help. I'm gonna die, like180401:39:28.600 --> 01:39:33.119
I'm gonna bleed out. It's it's not cute, it's not funny.180501:39:33.640 --> 01:39:35.920
It is not And this is this is where the180601:39:36.000 --> 01:39:40.119
movie gets mean spirited, very I mean, I mean, it's180701:39:40.159 --> 01:39:42.319
been mean spirited the whole way, but you kind of180801:39:42.319 --> 01:39:46.319
feel like there's this joviality of it being the holidays180901:39:46.359 --> 01:39:49.239
and he's a kid and and all the stuff. But181001:39:49.279 --> 01:39:53.000
it's this one is really where they make sure that181101:39:53.039 --> 01:39:55.439
you understand the point they're making.181201:39:55.680 --> 01:40:00.359
Yeah, So Luke approaches, you know, with the gun rained181301:40:01.079 --> 01:40:04.079
on Garrett as he's bleeding out and pleading for his life,181401:40:04.640 --> 01:40:09.000
and as this was the moment in the movie when181501:40:09.039 --> 01:40:11.600
I first watched it with you, whereas like wow, they181601:40:11.640 --> 01:40:17.960
go places because then Garrett tries to say I want181701:40:18.000 --> 01:40:23.640
my mother, and as he's saying that, Luke shoots him181801:40:23.640 --> 01:40:24.159
in the head.181901:40:24.640 --> 01:40:27.920
Yeah. Again, we don't quite see it, but we know182001:40:28.359 --> 01:40:30.079
that he aimed the gun right at his head and182101:40:30.119 --> 01:40:32.640
he fires m and he's dead.182201:40:33.319 --> 01:40:33.600
Yep.182301:40:34.239 --> 01:40:37.039
And having that moment where he cries out for his182401:40:37.079 --> 01:40:40.640
mother is extra cruel because it makes sure that it's182501:40:40.680 --> 01:40:43.640
hid into your head, that that was a child, yeah,182601:40:43.640 --> 01:40:48.439
that they're both children. Yeah. And after he shoots him,182701:40:48.479 --> 01:40:51.439
there's a really interesting moment because he kind of freaks out.182801:40:51.600 --> 01:40:53.840
He gets really upset, but he says like, why did182901:40:53.840 --> 01:40:55.279
you make me do that? Like, why did you make183001:40:55.279 --> 01:40:56.920
me do that? I told you couldn't touch her? Why183101:40:56.960 --> 01:40:58.960
did you make me do that? And he like screams183201:40:59.000 --> 01:41:01.520
like a little kid cantrum. But then he calms down,183301:41:01.560 --> 01:41:03.399
takes a deep breath, and he goes, I was bored183401:41:03.439 --> 01:41:05.840
with hanging out with you anyway, and he stomps off,183501:41:06.800 --> 01:41:11.840
which is an interesting situation because it suggests he does183601:41:11.880 --> 01:41:15.880
have some element of feeling and some element of attachment,183701:41:16.359 --> 01:41:20.760
but he's very good at shifting that away to stay183801:41:20.800 --> 01:41:23.800
and I don't know what kind of I mean, I183901:41:23.840 --> 01:41:26.640
am not a therapist, but boy, would one make a184001:41:26.640 --> 01:41:28.039
full career out of this kid?184101:41:28.439 --> 01:41:31.119
Well, boy, somebody contact a Loomis.184201:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.319
Yeah, that's what doctor Loomis needs. He's another dead eyed184301:41:34.399 --> 01:41:35.119
kid to deal with.184401:41:36.039 --> 01:41:39.359
And but that's kind of the thing that makes this184501:41:39.520 --> 01:41:45.960
so excellent is the psychopathy of this kid. And the184601:41:46.039 --> 01:41:53.119
performance is phenomenal because he does switch between being just184701:41:53.159 --> 01:41:59.960
a kid and being a full blown, raging psychopath very quickly.184801:42:00.079 --> 01:42:01.479
I would say, at the drop of a hat.184901:42:01.600 --> 01:42:05.000
And this next scene, you know, so he says, you know,185001:42:05.079 --> 01:42:06.960
I was getting bored with you anyway, and then he185101:42:07.000 --> 01:42:10.520
goes and sits down next to Ashley, and she finally185201:42:10.560 --> 01:42:14.000
realizes like he never had any intention of letting her go.185301:42:15.199 --> 01:42:19.960
I I don't know, I I don't know.185401:42:20.560 --> 01:42:20.920
I don't know.185501:42:21.119 --> 01:42:23.960
Yeah, that's one part. I do believe that he always185601:42:24.000 --> 01:42:26.520
had the intention of killing the two guys mm hmmm185701:42:26.760 --> 01:42:29.359
and making it look like a murder suicide. But I185801:42:29.479 --> 01:42:32.880
wondered if his actual intention was to leave her drugged,185901:42:32.960 --> 01:42:37.119
unconscious or something so that she would survive the whole186001:42:37.159 --> 01:42:41.119
thing and not remember, which, by the way, is so186101:42:41.319 --> 01:42:44.560
much more cruel. Oh my, yes, I mean, imagine you186201:42:44.680 --> 01:42:47.439
just wake up and it's like, oh, these two guys186301:42:47.479 --> 01:42:49.840
you knew. Yeah, one of them killed your boyfriend and186401:42:49.880 --> 01:42:52.680
then killed himself while you were like while you were186501:42:52.720 --> 01:42:55.680
sleeping or whatever or last night, and you were drugs186601:42:55.680 --> 01:42:58.159
so you didn't remember, Like, yeah, that would have been186701:42:58.199 --> 01:43:00.880
the reality to her if the drug worked exactly the186801:43:00.880 --> 01:43:04.359
way he said. I kind of think that was the186901:43:04.760 --> 01:43:07.399
full plan. I don't think it was to kill her187001:43:07.560 --> 01:43:11.800
because the way he kills her is pretty sloppy. Spoiler187101:43:11.800 --> 01:43:16.720
earlier we're getting anyway, well, it's it's not even really,187201:43:16.760 --> 01:43:20.119
but so as he he gets on the on the187301:43:20.119 --> 01:43:22.680
couch with her and kind of snuggles up to her,187401:43:24.079 --> 01:43:28.399
and he talks about how his mom, and this is187501:43:28.479 --> 01:43:32.479
something that that I found really fascinating. Talks about his187601:43:32.520 --> 01:43:36.039
mom used to always hold him close to him, close187701:43:36.079 --> 01:43:39.319
to her and make him feel so safe, and he187801:43:39.319 --> 01:43:42.079
would sleep like that, and then one day she just187901:43:42.199 --> 01:43:46.000
stopped and he never knew why, and he never slept188001:43:46.000 --> 01:43:49.520
well after that. And earlier, it's referenced that he has188101:43:49.680 --> 01:43:53.680
a womb sound generator he sleeps within his bedroom. For188201:43:53.680 --> 01:43:57.319
those who know, it's literally a white noise generator that188301:43:57.479 --> 01:44:02.600
simulates the sound of a fetus might hear in the.188401:44:02.520 --> 01:44:04.720
Womb, so it's like the heartbeat in the rushing of188501:44:05.119 --> 01:44:06.119
fluids and stuff.188601:44:06.199 --> 01:44:09.439
Yeah, exactly, which, by the ways, is basically why humans188701:44:09.520 --> 01:44:12.479
like white noise, is because our earliest memory of sound188801:44:12.560 --> 01:44:15.000
is basically the sound of rushing. In fact, I read188901:44:15.039 --> 01:44:18.279
somewhere once that one of the reasons the whole idea189001:44:18.279 --> 01:44:20.680
of like playing Mozart for your baby doesn't make any189101:44:20.760 --> 01:44:24.640
sense is because inside of you, once the child has189201:44:24.720 --> 01:44:28.520
ear drums, the sound of the mother's heartbeat and all189301:44:28.520 --> 01:44:30.159
of that stuff going on is like, this is as189401:44:30.239 --> 01:44:33.880
loud as a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, you're that close to it,189501:44:34.279 --> 01:44:36.640
Which is also why what do you do when a189601:44:36.640 --> 01:44:44.279
baby needs to be comforted? It's simulating the sounds of189701:44:44.319 --> 01:44:47.880
the womb, which are very familiar. Yeah, but that suggests189801:44:47.920 --> 01:44:52.079
this kid has a major problem with his mother, with189901:44:52.359 --> 01:44:56.079
feeling with abandonment and something like that. But she says190001:44:56.079 --> 01:45:02.840
something so brilliant so four D Chess that every time190101:45:02.920 --> 01:45:06.640
I've watched this movie it impresses me more. As he's190201:45:06.640 --> 01:45:11.119
telling her that, she says, I know why she stopped,190301:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.359
and he lifts up his head and she just closes190401:45:15.399 --> 01:45:20.479
her eyes. She just ignores him. But what he basically190501:45:20.640 --> 01:45:28.000
just said was that his mother ignoring him, like ruined him. Yeah. Yeah,190601:45:28.039 --> 01:45:30.760
And now's he's looking at her, he's like, open your eyes,190701:45:30.880 --> 01:45:34.000
open your eyes right now, and he does something that's190801:45:34.119 --> 01:45:39.000
so typical of a juvenile delinquent. He's like, open your190901:45:39.000 --> 01:45:40.800
eyes right now, open them right now. And then he191001:45:40.800 --> 01:45:43.319
starts saying like, tell me I'm bad, tell me I'm terrible,191101:45:43.439 --> 01:45:45.640
tell me I disgusted you tell me how horrible. But191201:45:45.680 --> 01:45:47.479
I but as I think about it now, I also191301:45:47.600 --> 01:45:50.680
think he was trying to get her to make him191401:45:50.680 --> 01:45:54.399
feel better about killing her by having her say mean things.191501:45:54.439 --> 01:45:57.079
She shouldn't say a word, no, no, she just lays191601:45:57.119 --> 01:46:00.640
there with her eyes closed, ignoring him so much, which191701:46:00.760 --> 01:46:04.880
makes so much sense because all he wants is control.191801:46:05.640 --> 01:46:10.920
Control is so important to his psychosis. He needs to191901:46:10.960 --> 01:46:14.119
control his friend Garrett. He needs to control the babysitter.192001:46:14.159 --> 01:46:16.520
He needs to control the people he's setting up to die.192101:46:16.600 --> 01:46:18.840
He needs to control his parents by making them think192201:46:18.880 --> 01:46:22.199
he sleepwalks, which he dropped just in passing that he192301:46:22.319 --> 01:46:24.359
when he was trying to convince Garrett they were good friends,192401:46:24.359 --> 01:46:27.399
he mentioned like who pretended to be sleepwalking when you192501:46:27.439 --> 01:46:29.479
were stealing out of my mother's purse, so that nobody192601:46:29.560 --> 01:46:30.560
suspected anything.192701:46:31.399 --> 01:46:31.520
Like.192801:46:31.720 --> 01:46:34.560
He mentions that he's covered for Garrett a bunch by192901:46:34.680 --> 01:46:40.000
just being a straight up psychopathic liar. So now as193001:46:40.000 --> 01:46:43.720
she's ignoring him, he decides like, oh well, and he193101:46:43.800 --> 01:46:47.600
gets up. He gets right behind her, and we realize193201:46:47.600 --> 01:46:49.720
that he stabbed the side of her neck with a193301:46:49.800 --> 01:46:54.960
knife and pulled the knife out, and kids, that ain't193401:46:55.000 --> 01:46:57.600
even the end of it, and we'll get to that193501:46:58.199 --> 01:47:14.159
right after this. So now Rachel Ashley has been killed,193601:47:15.039 --> 01:47:17.800
She's been stabbed in the neck and left there, and193701:47:17.840 --> 01:47:19.159
now we're treated.193801:47:19.079 --> 01:47:22.199
To a montage, Yeah, a music montage to.193901:47:22.479 --> 01:47:23.680
I forget the name of it, but it's one of194001:47:23.720 --> 01:47:27.640
the Ramon's Christmas songs. Yeah, plays out loud as he194101:47:27.760 --> 01:47:30.760
is just cleaning the place, making it spick and span194201:47:31.520 --> 01:47:34.319
except for the parts he wants to be found.194301:47:34.520 --> 01:47:35.039
Yeah.194401:47:35.159 --> 01:47:39.199
He goes about cleaning off the shotgun, getting the fingerprints194501:47:39.199 --> 01:47:42.399
from Jeremy on it, putting some of the yellow paint194601:47:42.399 --> 01:47:45.359
and blood on Jeremy's hands to make it look like194701:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.239
he did that, putting his father's gun back under the194801:47:49.279 --> 01:47:52.239
mattress where it belongs because it was never actually used,194901:47:52.439 --> 01:47:55.680
so it's not a puzzle piece for the whole thing.195001:47:56.560 --> 01:47:59.560
And as he's doing all of this, we're seeing the195101:47:59.640 --> 01:48:03.319
car and we have this really incredible above like bird's195201:48:03.319 --> 01:48:06.399
eye view shot of the table where the table obscures195301:48:07.039 --> 01:48:11.560
Garrett's head because he has no head anymore. And he195401:48:11.720 --> 01:48:15.119
just cleans everything up. He's thought of everything. He's making195501:48:15.199 --> 01:48:18.479
everything nice and neat, and then we realized that earlier195601:48:18.520 --> 01:48:20.079
we had noticed he was looking at his phone and195701:48:20.199 --> 01:48:23.239
had a location on it. Now we've realized that's his195801:48:23.359 --> 01:48:27.279
parents' location. He's tracking their phones to know where they are,195901:48:28.439 --> 01:48:31.159
so now he's seeing they're on their way home. So196001:48:31.199 --> 01:48:33.800
he's wrapping everything up. But this is one of my196101:48:33.840 --> 01:48:37.560
favorite things. After all of that kerfuffle, after all of196201:48:37.600 --> 01:48:41.640
the hemming and hawing and planning he's about. His big196301:48:41.720 --> 01:48:46.000
plan is because he has to take these really powerful196401:48:46.039 --> 01:48:50.079
sleeping pills. He'll just take a sleeping his sleeping pill,196501:48:50.720 --> 01:48:53.279
lay down in bed and pretend he slept through all196601:48:53.319 --> 01:48:56.840
of it because it all happened after he was asleep.196701:48:57.760 --> 01:49:00.880
But one thing he doesn't consider is how the hell196801:49:00.920 --> 01:49:07.319
do you put a pencil on your door from the inside. Yeah,196901:49:07.359 --> 01:49:09.960
and he tries like hell and can't do it. He197001:49:10.000 --> 01:49:13.640
can't get it done. So what does he decides to do?197101:49:13.800 --> 01:49:16.520
So what he decides to do? I mean the seconds197201:49:16.560 --> 01:49:18.880
are ticking because his parents are just a few miles197301:49:18.920 --> 01:49:21.560
down the road. So he goes in the hallway, He197401:49:21.600 --> 01:49:25.039
closes his bedroom door, and he places the pencil on197501:49:25.319 --> 01:49:28.439
the doorknob like it's supposed to be, and then he197601:49:28.520 --> 01:49:32.600
goes to the adjoining room creeps out the window so197701:49:32.640 --> 01:49:37.199
that he can crawl on the roof and get in197801:49:37.359 --> 01:49:41.399
through his bedroom window. But while he's on the roof,197901:49:42.680 --> 01:49:45.399
you know, he hadn't planned this part. While he's on198001:49:45.439 --> 01:49:48.840
the roof, he starts knocking over the Christmas decorations, like198101:49:49.039 --> 01:49:52.079
as his parents are pulling up the driveway. So he's198201:49:52.119 --> 01:49:55.279
got to like skitter to like save the decorations and198301:49:55.680 --> 01:50:00.239
not be noticed. And this is such a perfect heart198401:50:00.319 --> 01:50:03.119
because the whole time, all you want is for him198501:50:03.159 --> 01:50:03.840
to be noticed.198601:50:04.079 --> 01:50:05.680
Yeah, all you want is for him to get caught.198701:50:05.760 --> 01:50:09.000
Yeah, that's all you want in the whole world. And198801:50:09.479 --> 01:50:13.840
so it is working out in his favor though, because198901:50:14.039 --> 01:50:18.760
he's able to save these decorations from falling. His parents199001:50:18.760 --> 01:50:21.439
are kind of distracted because they're talking, you know, his199101:50:21.520 --> 01:50:23.560
dad's kind of joking about having sex later and his199201:50:23.600 --> 01:50:26.039
mom's like, oh, with how much we ate? No, don't199301:50:26.079 --> 01:50:27.520
even talk about it. I'm bloated.199401:50:27.720 --> 01:50:28.560
Yeah.199501:50:28.840 --> 01:50:32.000
So Luke manages to get in his bedroom, takes his pill,199601:50:32.760 --> 01:50:35.960
lays down in bed, pulls the covers up over his head,199701:50:36.159 --> 01:50:39.399
and as he's laying there, he hears his mother's screen You.199801:50:39.439 --> 01:50:42.039
Forgot one important part because I like this because it's199901:50:42.079 --> 01:50:44.880
how detail oriented he is. Even though he forgot something.200001:50:45.680 --> 01:50:47.960
He pulls the covers up and then goes, oh wait,200101:50:48.079 --> 01:50:50.920
I almost forgot and he runs over and turns on200201:50:51.640 --> 01:50:56.319
that fetal sound thing, yeah, which shows how detail he200301:50:56.359 --> 01:50:58.760
didn't want a single thing to appear to be a200401:50:58.840 --> 01:51:00.880
miss when his parents find it.200501:51:01.600 --> 01:51:01.840
Hmm.200601:51:01.960 --> 01:51:05.279
So he turns that on, gets back into bed, lays there.200701:51:05.520 --> 01:51:07.880
Also taking his pills right then is brilliant because if200801:51:07.880 --> 01:51:11.119
they suspected him, they would do a toxicology report on200901:51:11.199 --> 01:51:13.000
him and see that he did in fact take his201001:51:13.039 --> 01:51:16.600
sleeping pills. So really clever because there's no way for201101:51:16.640 --> 01:51:18.800
them to know how long ago he took it.201201:51:19.079 --> 01:51:21.399
Yeah, they would just know it's there in the system.201301:51:21.520 --> 01:51:24.119
So but yes, you're right. Then he lays down. Here's201401:51:24.159 --> 01:51:27.000
his mother's scream. She is panicking, screaming, and then she201501:51:27.000 --> 01:51:30.359
starts yelling Luke, Luke, and runs up, bursts open his201601:51:30.439 --> 01:51:33.119
bedroom door, checks on him or relieved to see he's201701:51:33.159 --> 01:51:33.720
still alive.201801:51:36.039 --> 01:51:40.359
So the next scene, she's cuddling him, she's holding him,201901:51:40.680 --> 01:51:43.600
he's holding her sweet baby boy and telling him that202001:51:43.760 --> 01:51:48.039
everything's everything's gonna be all right. You're safe now, it's okay,202101:51:48.359 --> 01:51:50.239
mommy's here. He's loving it.202201:51:50.479 --> 01:51:51.479
Oh yeah, you can tell.202301:51:52.000 --> 01:51:53.840
And his you know, his dad's kind of off in202401:51:53.880 --> 01:51:56.399
the hallway talking to the police, you know, talking about202501:51:56.520 --> 01:51:59.159
Garrett and you know, his parents and what's been going202601:51:59.199 --> 01:52:02.680
on and all that. And then from outside we hear202701:52:02.720 --> 01:52:08.199
a commotion and then we hear we've got a live one,202801:52:08.359 --> 01:52:12.119
and Luke kind of looks around and they go to202901:52:12.159 --> 01:52:16.439
the window to look, and we hear the EMS talking203001:52:16.479 --> 01:52:19.920
about it and they say, yeah, she got stabbed in203101:52:19.960 --> 01:52:22.319
the neck and she covered it with duct tape and203201:52:22.319 --> 01:52:23.600
saved her own life.203301:52:23.800 --> 01:52:26.720
Which makes sense because he because Garrett had started cutting203401:52:26.800 --> 01:52:30.520
duct tape off from around her, so there.203501:52:30.520 --> 01:52:32.800
Was there was a duct tape there.203601:52:33.199 --> 01:52:37.399
And my favorite moment of the movie. As they're rolling203701:52:37.439 --> 01:52:41.279
her into the ambulance. You you tell it, you you203801:52:41.319 --> 01:52:43.039
deserve to, You deserve to tell everybody.203901:52:44.600 --> 01:52:47.680
So Luke's there at the window and they're you know,204001:52:48.359 --> 01:52:52.199
getting her into the ambulance. She's all bloodied, but she's alive,204101:52:53.239 --> 01:52:56.199
and she looks up in the window and she lifts204201:52:56.279 --> 01:52:59.560
up her hand and just flips him the bird.204301:53:00.039 --> 01:53:03.279
I'm right, And they close her up in there and204401:53:03.560 --> 01:53:09.079
we cut to credits. Great ending. I will say, there204501:53:09.119 --> 01:53:12.119
is a post. There's a mid credit sequence. I honestly204601:53:12.199 --> 01:53:13.159
wish they hadn't done it.204701:53:13.359 --> 01:53:15.159
Yeah, it kind of doesn't add anything, you know.204801:53:15.239 --> 01:53:17.520
It add's the idea that he's still trying or whatever,204901:53:17.880 --> 01:53:20.439
you know. But where it cuts to inside his bedroom205001:53:20.439 --> 01:53:22.920
and he goes, Mom, I'm really worried about Ashley. We205101:53:22.920 --> 01:53:26.760
should go to the hospital, which I get though, Like, honestly,205201:53:26.880 --> 01:53:28.880
if they were going to do a sequel, which they're205301:53:28.920 --> 01:53:30.119
not going to, but if they were going to do205401:53:30.159 --> 01:53:33.079
a sequel, the ultimate sequel would have been go Halloween205501:53:33.119 --> 01:53:35.359
two with it. The entire second movie is them in205601:53:35.399 --> 01:53:38.439
the hospital, because it would be cool to see cat205701:53:38.479 --> 01:53:41.079
and mouse of him trying to like negotiate the hospital.205801:53:41.199 --> 01:53:43.640
But I will say when I watched one of my friends,205901:53:43.640 --> 01:53:44.720
I don't think it was Dave, but one of my206001:53:44.760 --> 01:53:47.119
friends was like, oh man, he's going to get her206101:53:47.159 --> 01:53:49.840
the hospital, and my first my immediate reaction was, no,206201:53:50.000 --> 01:53:52.800
he's gonna fucking fall asleep. He took like that supercow206301:53:53.920 --> 01:53:57.520
so that his alifi would work. He'll probably he'll pass206401:53:57.560 --> 01:53:59.159
out tuckered out in the car and wake up in206501:53:59.159 --> 01:54:02.239
an interrogation room. But I love that too because you206601:54:02.279 --> 01:54:04.680
didn't have to spell anything out. When she's going into206701:54:04.680 --> 01:54:06.319
the ambulance, it's like, oh, dude, she's going to tell206801:54:06.359 --> 01:54:09.880
them everything will happened because she witnessed basically everything, all206901:54:09.920 --> 01:54:15.399
of it. Yeah, so what a great film, not twenty207001:54:15.560 --> 01:54:18.840
and sixteen, although it apparently came out in seventeen. Twenty207101:54:18.960 --> 01:54:23.880
sixteen's better watch out and you really? Is there anything207201:54:23.880 --> 01:54:25.680
else you want to say about this film? Before? I207301:54:25.760 --> 01:54:28.479
mentioned again that it's available on Roku channel, Pluto TV,207401:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.640
to b TV, and anywhere you rent movies as well.207501:54:31.640 --> 01:54:33.600
But if you want to watch it for free with ads,207601:54:33.640 --> 01:54:35.239
those are the places to check it out. Anything else207701:54:35.279 --> 01:54:35.760
you want to add?207801:54:36.840 --> 01:54:41.039
Drink water and don't drink exclusively. Two leaders of Mountain207901:54:41.079 --> 01:54:42.399
dew every single day.208001:54:42.479 --> 01:54:46.880
Do you have anything useful? I mean, fair enough, And208101:54:47.039 --> 01:54:49.600
I guess I'll say, don't let kids watch Alfred Hitchcock208201:54:49.640 --> 01:54:52.079
Presents unless you want them to make a bunch of208301:54:52.119 --> 01:54:56.239
weird movies and host a podcast. But I guess that's208401:54:56.439 --> 01:55:00.279
that's it for our holiday season horror films. Hope you208501:55:00.279 --> 01:55:03.960
guys enjoyed hearing our thoughts on Better Watch Out really208601:55:04.039 --> 01:55:06.159
is a great film. I think it deserves even more208701:55:06.159 --> 01:55:08.800
attention than it's gotten, so please do give it a208801:55:08.840 --> 01:55:12.239
watch if you haven't already. We've spoiled nearly everything about it,208901:55:12.319 --> 01:55:15.439
but some people don't mind that. And I mean, you know,209001:55:15.479 --> 01:55:18.520
they did a study about trailers where they did a209101:55:18.520 --> 01:55:20.800
focus group on trailers that tell to a ton about209201:55:20.800 --> 01:55:23.159
the movie and ones that don't. People respond way better209301:55:23.199 --> 01:55:25.960
to ones that are full of spoilers, really, because then209401:55:26.000 --> 01:55:28.000
when they watch the movie, they rate the scenes that209501:55:28.000 --> 01:55:30.600
were spoiled and the trailer super high, and they get209601:55:30.640 --> 01:55:33.279
really disappointed if they don't get those scenes in the209701:55:33.319 --> 01:55:38.520
actual movie. Yeah, that's why trailers are the way they are. Okay,209801:55:38.640 --> 01:55:41.640
that and it's hard to depict a ninety minute story209901:55:41.640 --> 01:55:43.520
in two and a half minutes anyway, so you gotta210001:55:43.560 --> 01:55:46.119
do what you gotta do. So but on that note,210101:55:46.119 --> 01:55:47.840
we're gonna head out of here. But we want to210201:55:47.840 --> 01:55:50.840
say just thank you guys so much for joining us210301:55:50.840 --> 01:55:52.760
on cutting deep into horror. It's been really fun to210401:55:52.800 --> 01:55:56.279
talk about some scary movies during the holiday season. Thank210501:55:56.319 --> 01:56:00.199
you Rachel for spending that time with me. Sorry not sorry.210601:56:01.680 --> 01:56:03.119
So if you guys want to reach out to us,210701:56:03.119 --> 01:56:05.319
you can send us an email at Weekly Spooky at210801:56:05.319 --> 01:56:07.760
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think about our opinions and movies. Maybe they're garbage, I'm211001:56:10.720 --> 01:56:13.479
ready to hear it. You can also go to Weeklyspooky211101:56:13.479 --> 01:56:15.199
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as well as exclusive audiobooks and creepypasta readings. But now211601:56:26.840 --> 01:56:28.199
it's time for me to get out of here because211701:56:28.239 --> 01:56:31.319
I still have so many more episodes, So make sure211801:56:31.319 --> 01:56:35.319
you tune in tomorrow for another terrifying tale from Weekly Spooky,211901:56:35.359 --> 01:56:37.760
and we'll see you very soon. Bye. Rach
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