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S3:E2 There's Someone Inside Your House (2021 Film)
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Secrets, scandals, and a masked killer lurking in the hallways. Welcome to Osborne High, where gossip spreads fast and no one’s secret is safe. In this episode, Lindsey kicks off our Back-to-School theme with Stephanie Perkins’ YA slasher, There’s Someone Inside Your House! We’re diving into the chilling murders, messy teenage drama, and that wild reveal of the Osborne Slayer’s motives.
Hosted by Lindsey with co-hosts Crystal and Keri.
Books & Adaptations Mentioned:
- There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
- There’s Someone Inside Your House Film
- Anna and the French Kiss Series by Stephanie Perkins
- Black Girl Nerds: The Cast and Crew of 'There's Someone Inside Your House' Share Creepy Moments from the Film
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(00:00) Introductions
(01:40) Ratings and Non-Spoiler Discussion
(07:55) Book vs Movie Breakdown (SPOILERS)
(49:02) Final Verdict
(52:12) Question of the Episode
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:08
Speaker
in session here at Based on a Book, and we're studying book adaptations like there's going to be a pop quiz. It's time for roll call. I'm Lindsay, and I don't test well. I'm Crystal, and I won't tell if you cheat.
00:00:21
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And I'm Carrie, studying to be a final girl. All right, everyone's accounted for.
Survival Theme at Osborne High
00:00:27
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Let's sharpen those pencils and talk about There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Falken in 2021 Netflix adaptation.
00:00:35
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Because at Osborne High, the real test isn't multiple choice. It's survival.
Makani Young's Move and the Killer's Target
00:00:41
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And McCona... Whoa, what's her name? McCona Young?
00:00:49
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See, I told you, i don't test well. Makani Young is trying to keep a low profile after moving from Hawaii to this small Nebraska town.
Unveiling the Killer Amidst High School Drama
00:01:00
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But things start getting real creepy as someone starts targeting students at Osborne High, breaking into their houses, moving stuff around, and then killing them in gruesome ways.
00:01:12
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Makani and her friends are trying to figure out who's next, and all while she's dealing with her own past that she's desperately trying to keep hidden. So yeah, creepy killer, high school secrets, and a whole lot of paranoia.
Comparing Book and Netflix Adaptation
00:01:26
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Pretty much the perfect recipe for a back-to-school slasher, right? Yep. I ask yourself like it's Connie, right? Right? Okay, let's go.
00:01:39
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Can I please just say this name? I knew it was. Yeah. Why? You got right. But how did, how did the movie hold up to the book?
Carrie's Book Rating and Review
00:01:50
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Let's get into our ratings and see what we, what we really thought. And I want to start with our final girl in training, Carrie. Uh-oh.
00:02:03
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Okay. So I gave this book three slashers. I thought this was pretty good. um Really great potential. I mean, this book is like a teenage like slasher horror her book, but it's got a little bit of romance in here. It's got a little teenage love story in here, so that was kind of exciting.
00:02:33
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But it had a lot of slow moments for me.
Crystal's Reading Experience and Rating
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And it just... had a little bit of boring moments in my opinion.
00:02:46
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Yep. ah So i thought it was kind of average. Crystal?
00:02:53
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Okay, so before I tell you how I rated this, I need to let you know that... don't know. Disclumber. So like, okay, like we've discussed a lot on the podcast how like for the most part we don't look up trailers or reviews or whatever ahead of time that we prefer to be to go into things kind of blind. Right.
Book Genre and Author's Influence
00:03:14
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yeah Yeah. And i so I did that with this book and like, I didn't even look up, like a synopsis or a plot or something, anything like that. Especially with like a thriller or horror.
00:03:25
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Right. exactly Like I, the few times that I have looked stuff up, it's definitely ruined certain reveals, you know? So I went into this completely blind. I knew the title.
00:03:36
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i knew that it had something to do with school or some sort, because that's our theme this month. Somehow I missed that this was a young adult. And I went into this terrified, terrified,
00:03:49
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terrified because this is literally the like someone inside your house is one of my biggest fears the monster stuff like don't you wrong I don't like it but I don't like it it is not like a giant I'm not gonna have a nightmare about a lot of monsters I'm gonna have nightmares about people inside my house about somebody creeping outside the window whatever and so I was terrified to read this book and And when I started the first chapter, I remember thinking it's really weird for them to open with the POV of a high schooler. But all right, weird choice. But let's see what happens.
00:04:24
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Oh, no. The whole book is set in high school. I had no idea. Having said that, it wasn't nearly as terrifying as I thought. it It was definitely still scary. It was definitely creepy, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. So, okay.
00:04:41
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But I did give this a two, two secrets. Okay. I'm glad I read it it. was a little more enjoyable than I anticipated, but it's still just not my thing.
00:04:53
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that's totally fair. The only reason
High School Setting and Genre Comparisons
00:04:55
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I knew it was young adult was because it's by Stephanie Perkins, who also does young adult romances. I don't know if either of you have heard of Anna and the French Kiss. It's like this whole young adult romance. I feel like I have heard of that, actually. Yeah, it's a young adult romance series. And I remember when I first started watching like BookTube, they that was like a huge series that everyone would read. Like this was like a while ago, like a long time ago, everyone would read this series.
00:05:27
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And that was like a very popular, like how it was going, how things go viral on book talk that it would go viral on booktube. And I remember that was like something everyone was reading. And so I was like, Oh my gosh, it's this author and it's for like, a horror novel.
00:05:44
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don't know. was very strange. I seriously completely missed that. Completely missed it. What did you think they were going back to school for? Going to school for? For the theme? Well, I thought maybe like college or
Makani's Relationship with Ollie
00:05:54
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you know, like, I didn't, I don't know. I don't know how i i And then like I i think I saw like one of you I think had said something like you know it's got Scream vibes or something like that. oh yeah Scream was college wasn't it? i don't remember.
00:06:11
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No. Was it high school? I don't remember. Either way I just right over my head. and I was so scared. I was so afraid to read this. I don't remember telling you guys that I was terrified to watch this movie that like I was putting it off.
00:06:25
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yeah Come to find out. It's high schoolers. That's why i said it was very similar to Fear Street. Yeah. See, and you said that, and i and then like you said something about the gore, and I was like, the gore isn't
Movie's Added Social Commentary
00:06:37
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the part I liked. But we'll say i like the movie better book.
00:06:43
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so So you were right. Interesting. Yeah, I gave this one three and a half suspicious classmates. o It had its moments.
00:06:57
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ah But the overall slasher vibe kind of liked. Mm hmm. Yeah. the kills were interesting. Boy, weren't they.
00:07:08
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Yeah, they were. I'm excited to talk about the difference between the book and the movie because we got to get into this. We have to. Yeah, and I'm going to need some help because there are lot. Were you confused? Because I was confused. Confused. But a lot of differences, yes.
00:07:26
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Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Plot Alterations for Dramatic Effect
00:07:28
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Like the whole plot. Yeah. It's not the whole plot. Yeah. Mostly. Right. yeah They like stuck with the idea and like the general plot.
00:07:41
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Like there's a lot of adaptations where they'll stick with the idea and then kind of run with it. It definitely stayed in the vicinity of the plot.
00:07:52
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Right. And most of the characters were the same. Yeah, but they put their own spin on it to the point where there were drastic differences. Absolutely. That makes sense. Yes.
00:08:02
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Absolutely. Yeah. ah But now that you know how we rated the book... It's time to get into the good stuff. And fair warning, we are about to spill all of the secrets.
00:08:16
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If you haven't read or watched There's Someone Inside Your House Yet, consider this your official heads up. From here on out, we'll be talking about major plot points, shocking reveals, and who's behind the mask.
00:08:29
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But of course, before we dive in, I just want to warn everyone...
Suspense and Killer's Reveal
00:08:35
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That there's someone inside your house contains graphic descriptions of murder and violence, bullying, and themes of grief and trauma.
00:08:43
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So if any of these are sensitive topics for you, please proceed with caution. But with warnings out of the way, let's start grading this adaptation.
00:08:55
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ah We're diving headfirst into the halls of Osborne High to see how the movie stacks up against the book. In the book, we open with Hayley Whitehall, Osborn's drama queen, literally.
00:09:09
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She's being chased around her house by an egg-shaped kitchen timer. So she decides to nap it off. And then, boom, her neck slid open.
00:09:21
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So immediately the book is like setting a creepy tone. It's got the home invasion. hu And you know what? I caught on it. i was like, oh, this person, they're going to die immediately.
Makani's Backstory Differences
00:09:33
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They're going to die immediately. Anytime the book was switching perspective, you're like, oh, die.
00:09:41
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yup ah Totally different opening in the movie. Football player Jackson Pace wakes up to his house, covered in photos of him hazing his classmate, Caleb.
00:09:54
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The killer slices Jackson's heels. And then... ah I hate that. i hate ah i hate like an Achilles heel.
00:10:05
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Yep. yep Like damaging your Achilles heel. That is the worst to me. It's the absolute worst. I always think Evil Dead with that one. But yeah.
00:10:19
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Bye heels. but Yeah. Can't walk. Yeah. Freaking out. But then yeah he he stabs him to death wearing the mask
Final Showdown and Character Deaths
00:10:30
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of Jackson's face.
00:10:33
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Immediately I'm going, what's going on? Because at this point I read the book. Uh-huh. I'm now watching the movie. I had not seen like trailer or anything like that because I want to go in completely blind into the movie. Mm-hmm.
00:10:49
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And I'm going, what the heck is going on? Mm-hmm. Immediately. Because... I know from the book that that was not a thing that this was not a thing where we are torturing the person that we are offing with pictures of their past or whatever event that they did or terrible thing that they did.
00:11:15
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And we are not wearing a mask. Right. and we're not wearing a mask of the person that we are offing. Right. And while he is being killed or has just been killed, the killer sends out like this mass text to everyone in the school, in the town with footage of what he has done, you know, which is also a thing that happens in the book.
00:11:41
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This...
Lack of Parental Presence
00:11:42
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like revealing that this guy was yeah a horrible person you know what i mean yeah and we see that this motive is happening what the motive is in the first few seconds of the movie yeah we don't know a motive whatsoever for a really long time in the book who and i just i want to throw this out there immediately because this was my first thought i see the mask And when they're doing the opening credits, you see that the mask is 3D printed.
00:12:14
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Yeah. And immediately I'm like, oh, this person has money. Small town in Nebraska. This person has money. Yes. Yep. Exactly. Also, i don't know about you guys.
00:12:26
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the The killer in the movie and the killer in the book are different. my Like, that's not really spoiling anything. They're different. Yep. But... I knew who the killer in the movie was instantly.
00:12:37
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yeah Immediately. it It was so... i And I kind of hated that. ah who
Tone Comparison Between Book and Movie
00:12:47
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Because hate legitimately, i like i like especially I don't mind that it was a different character. That doesn't bother me.
00:12:54
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But that it was so easy and quickly figured out. but It's kind of like... yeah Where's the fun in watching this when I already know what's going on?
00:13:05
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And I want to say, like, typical. Yeah. This was a very typical route to go. Yeah. In, like, a teenage slasher, my opinion.
00:13:16
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Like, I feel like I've seen this story before. Yeah. Yeah. Particularly Scream. The original Scream movie. Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. But Makani and her friends, Darby and Alex...
00:13:30
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This is in the book. They're gossiping about Haley's murder at school when Ollie shows up with his pink hair and Alex immediately suspects that he's the killer.
00:13:44
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In the movie, Makani's friend group is much bigger. There's Alex, Darby, Zach, Rodrigo,
Final Opinions and Preferences
00:13:52
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and then Caleb joins the mix and...
00:13:56
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They're all sitting together at lunch and Caleb's being shunned because of the hazing scandal from when Jackson was killed because he was the one in the video.
00:14:08
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I do want love this cast. It's a good cast. I really like this cast. Like I was just really drawn in to like in the book,
00:14:23
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I'm not really drawn into anyone individually ah besides the main characters, which feels like Makani and Ollie, just because their relationship is kind
Personal Anecdotes and Nostalgia
00:14:36
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of the main focus of the book.
00:14:38
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The side characters are just kind of present. Yeah. In the movie, all the side characters feel very much like in our face and it's really enjoyable And I really like that a lot more in the movie versus the book. Like this friendship group feels like real people to me.
00:15:01
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And I love that. Yeah. No, I get that. Yeah. Like you mentioned, I want to talk about Makani and Ollie's relationship. In the book, Ollie is quiet and misunderstood and Makani sticks up for him, especially after the,
00:15:19
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they have a fight with the football team. So this brings them to slowly reconnect in the book. um And in the movie, it It takes so much longer for
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:15:32
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their relationship to actually build. yeah The movie did them, so like, don't upset me right now.
00:15:39
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So dirty. The movie did them so damn dirty. yeah i was like, this is not my Makani, because my Makani was an incredible character in the book, okay?
00:15:50
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She was amazing, and she was kind, and she you know she had gone through a lot. But you know what? She was very kind to her friends and very kind to Ollie and forgiving with Ollie.
00:16:03
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Okay. And Ollie was extremely kind and amazing to Makani, and they had good communication after they had a misunderstanding. Because what had happened was they like had a like a thing a fling over the summer, and then high school started, and they see each other, and they both like kind of look at each other and like think that the other person doesn't want to be seen with each other after their little summer fling.
00:16:29
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And then it's like a misunderstanding because the other person thinks that, oh, she doesn't want to be seen with me because she's with her friends, and then that's what they think of each other and she thinks the same of ollie that that's what he's thinking and they don't speak for a while and then they reconnect they have a conversation figure it out and that's in the very beginning of the story and their relationship builds throughout the rest of the story instantly in the book makani is like opens this up to her friend group that like yes this is my friend ollie he is gonna be in our group now like in and in the in the movie movie
00:17:05
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does him so damn dirty and does Makani so dirty, making her seem she's always trying to hide their relationship from everybody, yeah is mean to him, like just being like, I don't want to be seen with you. I don't want to talk to you. We're only going to do everything in private and all that stuff, and is extremely suspicious of him. She was always defending Ollie during any during any type of suspicion.
00:17:34
Speaker
And they the story made him look extra suspicious because that was like the obvious route to go. Right. And I was like, why I got to do him so dirty? He was such a kind human. men we didn't even get just signed We didn't get to see him charming Grandma Young with the jigsaw puzzles. oh that was said That was the biggest disappointment in the movie. I kept yelling at the movie. I was like, how dare you? How dare you? Yep. Yep.
00:18:06
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It was horrible. Yeah. The relationship in the book was really soft and really sweet. hu And it really added to the emotional weight of the story. Absolutely.
00:18:16
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Yeah. Yeah. Movie Ollie was way sketchier. He's got a taser in his car ah And we don't really get into the story of what's going on with him and his brother. I mean, we do find out that his parents have died. But like in Changed it too.
00:18:34
Speaker
Right. it is But in the book, they really do talk about like Ollie's relationship with his older brother, Chris, who is a sheriff's deputy. And...
00:18:46
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you know, like how Chris had to step into the role of father, but Ollie kind of resents him for it. So like, there's a whole family dynamic there that's different. And that's part of why the town kind of looks at him as this like crappy kid and why people do suspect him because there has been family issues. But we don't really get that in the movie at all.
00:19:09
Speaker
Other than people being like, he was a troubled child. And then moving on, like, right. Hmm. And also that is why him and Makani were so close and connected because of how she has dealt with, you know, like her family in the past. But when we don't even dig into like her parents or any issues that she has with her parents.
00:19:28
Speaker
Right. Why she's living with her grandma besides like what had happened. But I mean, there was like a whole thing with her mom and dad the book.
00:19:39
Speaker
ah That really bothered me because that is a big thing that I really like in books is that extra little edge that makes me emotionally connected to the characters when all this crazy crap is going on.
00:19:54
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You know what I mean? Yep. And legitimately, Makani's, in the book, you know, her mom is pretty much a narcissist, or at least what we would consider a narcissist by current trends, you know, standard of narcissism.
00:20:12
Speaker
And we see her struggling with that. Through the book. And like I felt like super like that was really identifiable. That was something that I could understand is like that relationship with your mom not being what you wish it could be.
00:20:27
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And like we really they never mentioned that at all in the movie. Like it was so hard to find any connection to her in the movie really.
00:20:39
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The only thing I like about Ollie and Makani in the movie was that I think that they're Whenever they were like with each other, like present with each other, they had really great chemistry. Yes. Friendship chemistry, like romantic chemistry. Their chemistry was on it.
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah. And it was very, very good. like It made my like heart... feel a type of way where like whenever that high school love like your first like crush type thing like it was making me feel feelings that way I thought they did that really good on screen but the writing of their story was upsetting me yeah was upset yeah in the book Ollie uses his brother Chris to get Makani's phone number
00:21:31
Speaker
And in the movie, he just straight up runs a background check on her. Yeah. And then the way he confronts her just didn't feel like my Ollie. so No, not my Ollie. Nope.
00:21:47
Speaker
But in the book, the next victim is the all-American football star, Matt Butler. The second kill in the movie is actually Katie. Katie.
00:22:00
Speaker
The student council president. This one was funny. I'm sorry. Loved it. Loved it. It was so funny. I will say I loved how the movie ramped up the drama of the kills and the reason behind them.
00:22:16
Speaker
i because it's it's a little bit different in the book and in the movie for each one of the kills. It's kind of a little bit different. and But I love... This one had me like... through the yeah yeah She has like her the podcast playing in the background and everything. i freaking This is the best part.
00:22:37
Speaker
when she's Because the things that she's saying in the podcast are crazy. And then she's... um on the phone she calls the police and she's like the killer is here and making me record offensive hate speech knife point and then done yeah oft in the confessional in the confessional before he he even kills her like the podcast starts playing that the horrible things that she's saying and she's like well you know this was satire And she's like trying to like gaslight him um like into not killing her or whatever. and she's like, it was just once, you know, like it was only because people think these things and don't say them out loud. Like she was I was making a political point.
00:23:20
Speaker
Like, nah, bitch, you're just awful. Yeah, they the it was that was definitely like a um the whole running theme of the story in the movie. like This is not present in the book at all. No.
00:23:39
Speaker
It's that you know showing all the terrible things that all these people are doing and like throwing it in their face right before you off them and then sending it to everyone afterwards.
00:23:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's almost like it was her the motive behind the killings in the book is not this, but we are like instantly seeing that the motive is he is trying to show that these people are not who they say they are.
00:24:03
Speaker
These people are horrible people and hiding it. And so he is like letting loose with their their deep dark secrets and. Yeah. i thought that was I actually like that added touch to it. I was actually watching this interview on um YouTube. I think it's from Black Girl Nerds. I don't know either of you have watched that YouTube channel.
00:24:24
Speaker
But she was interviewing the cast and also like one of the producers and asking them if why they were added why they added this. like What was the point of adding secrets into the story?
00:24:37
Speaker
like That was like the big theme, right? Is the secrets and why they were you know, offing everyone and stuff. And they said that adding it, because it adds like an emotional level to the fear that's already happening.
00:24:54
Speaker
And I kind of liked that. thought that was cool. Yeah, no, no, that's super neat.
00:25:00
Speaker
So Rodrigo, who is the school's computer whiz, is the next one stabbed to death in the book.
00:25:12
Speaker
And in the movie, he's also next. He is killed differently. He is forced to overdose on his own medication. And then the killer slashes his throat.
00:25:26
Speaker
So again, we're exposing more secrets. Wearing their faces. Uh-huh. The killer then attacks Makani in her own house after she...
00:25:42
Speaker
This one upset me so bad. after sheni In the book, she sneaks in with Ollie while her grandma is away. And grandma comes home and lunges at the killer.
00:25:54
Speaker
And she's stabbed. But she survives. And in the book, this is when we finally see who the killer is. and And in the book, it's David.
00:26:07
Speaker
And this, this point, I'm going, who the hell is David? Right. I'm like, who the hell is David? Because the whole time like, oh, it's literally like mentioned one time.
00:26:18
Speaker
Yeah. There's no way we would have figured that out. Yeah. No way we would have figured that out. No. also I also hate in the book that they revealed who the killer was, like literally halfway through. We still have half the book to go. Literally 50%. Yeah.
00:26:34
Speaker
but yeah Why are you telling us so early? Also, I want to say that I thought there were multiple killers. Yes, I will say i that was the one thing that I didn't... like I expected there to be a second killer. really did.
00:26:50
Speaker
the second The second kill in the book, the jock, because it was in the locker room, right? the jock. He was explaining the killer to be super, super small and scrunched up like on the like bench in the locker room and then i believe like the next person that i think it was like mcconney was explaining how they look like and it wasn't or maybe it was rodrigo or something someone was explaining how he looked like and it wasn't matching up to how the guy in the locker room was explaining how he looked like so i was like
00:27:35
Speaker
Oh, maybe we have multiple killers on our hands. Mm-hmm. Or maybe that was just like something weird that was happening. really expected there to be a second killer. But what made me so mad about the difference in the Makani attempt in the book and in the movie was that in the book, she's there with Ollie.
00:27:56
Speaker
Grandma's gone, but on her way home. And she just happened. Grandma happens to come in just the right moment. Right. In the movie, no Ollie, no grandma. But grandma the.
00:28:10
Speaker
The book like it in the movie to like she's been they think she's been sleepwalking because Makani wakes up and like cupboard doors are opened and stuff is moved around in the cabinets and the kitchens all jumbled.
00:28:23
Speaker
and she So like grandma's sleepwalking and that they assume that that's what's happening. But in the in the and the book, that's how the killer kind of almost lets Makani know that, hey, I'm in your house, is grandma's gone.
00:28:37
Speaker
And Makani goes downstairs to get a drink after she has some intimate moments with Ollie. Mm-hmm. And she goes downstairs and the cabinet doors are open. And she was like, wait, grandma? Is grandma home? So then she like closes the cabinet doors and then goes into the other room and then goes back into the kitchen and the drawers are all now open and she's starting to realize someone's messing with me.
00:28:59
Speaker
And implying that like. This person is the one who's been opening the cabinets and opening the doors the whole time. Which leads me to believe, was Grandma ever sleepwalking for real?
00:29:13
Speaker
No, probably In the movie, they make it seem like, yes, in fact, she was. Because Makani finds her awake and standing with a blank stare at some point. You know, kind of... So that... I missed that in the movie. I kind of was hoping...
00:29:33
Speaker
for that. And it wasn't because in the book that there's a theme, like the sign of the killer being there is rearranging furniture. Yeah.
00:29:44
Speaker
To like leaving stuff out of place or, yeah you know, stuff that you would easily think to yourself, Oh, maybe somebody else did it, but it still kind of sticks in your head. Yeah.
00:29:55
Speaker
Moving the furniture, moving opening the cabinets, leaving stuff where it doesn't belong, you know? it Yeah. yeah Also something that really, really bugged me so bad in the movie.
00:30:09
Speaker
So at this point in the movie, I think Makani had gone on like a little road trip, not road trip, but like a little drive with Ollie. And that's when she had found out that Ollie knew about her past.
00:30:23
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And I think at this point she saw that he had a taser in his glove box, which aligned with ah Rodrigo's death or something like that.
00:30:36
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And so she thought, okay, Ollie might be the killer. Like I'm like 80% sure or something like that and leaves him. And so then this whole thing happens where Guy tries to off with this whole, all these theatrics of, you know, what she is possible, what we don't technically know yet, what she's done in her past and wearing her face.
00:31:04
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And immediately, instead of Ollie coming in to save her, we have her friend Alex coming in to save her. Mm-hmm. And I was so pissed at this that Ollie wasn't the one to come and save her.
00:31:19
Speaker
And then Makani says, oh, it's definitely Ollie. Ollie is the killer. Like, we need to, someone needs to go get Ollie because he's the killer. And I literally screamed at my TV. And then they go and arrest Ollie. dare you?
00:31:33
Speaker
How dare you? i was livid. Yep. They did Ollie dirty. so dirty. He is a kind, sweet boy. How could you? Justice for Ollie.
00:31:47
Speaker
Justice for Ollie. Yeah, so in the book when Rodrigo is killed, they they have the story from his perspective when it's happening, of course.
00:31:58
Speaker
And they mention that he's stabbed in the stomach because the killer is shorter. Right. Right. So you you get the image that they they are smaller.
00:32:12
Speaker
But he had also sent a text message to his friend group and another phone went off. So immediately you're like, oh, it's someone in his friend group. He knows who the killer is.
00:32:23
Speaker
Yep. But the physical description always threw me. So I never, i definitely didn't guess who the killer was in the book. I'm going to be honest. No. Yeah.
00:32:35
Speaker
that That one felt so random to me. um So there's the huge emotional scene with Makani where she reveals her hazing past in Hawaii.
00:32:53
Speaker
In the book where she... This is when she drunkenly cuts off her best friend's hair. And her guilt and shame... tied directly into the book's themes of secrets and judgment.
00:33:06
Speaker
And in the movie, it's a lot more intense because she actually pushed her friend into a bonfire during the hazing.
00:33:17
Speaker
So here's the thing. I like that they scaled it up in the movie because legitimately in the book, although I see why What she, like, cutting off her friend's hair was a horrible thing, and I'm not saying that it wasn't.
00:33:36
Speaker
I feel like the scale of, I cut off my friend's hair, and everybody was mad at me for a really long time, and, like... like I get it, but I feel like it wouldn't have made like the news and all over the place.
00:33:51
Speaker
The same way I pushed my friend into the fire. i think it made the news because she ran she drunkenly ran into the ocean and almost drowned. And they blamed Makani for it.
00:34:03
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And then they had to resuscitate her. had to bring her back. And then she caught assault charges for the hair the haircut. But they blamed her for her friend almost drowning.
00:34:14
Speaker
Yeah. great and But I feel like it was still one of those things that like...
00:34:21
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like it was because it scaled up in the movie. It was a little bit more understanding of why she moved like literally across the country. Changing names. Changing names. You know what I mean? Because like that is something that's going to be, it's not going to be just local news. It's potentially going to be national news that this, you know, this girl,
00:34:44
Speaker
half her face is all scarred up and burned up because she got pushed into a fire at a teenage hazing sports thing you know um yeah it was a little bit more oomph especially because we didn't have the parent storyline who in in the movie at all like i feel like we needed it to have a little more oomph as to why she moved across the country into the middle of nowhere nebraska from hawaii Yeah. Changing names, everything. Yeah.
00:35:15
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Yeah. That a lot of effort.
00:35:19
Speaker
but Since we already know who the killer is in the book, David's motive is slowly pieced together. and it's he's jealous of ambitious kids who will leave Osborne while he's stuck there forever.
00:35:38
Speaker
We get Caleb murdered at the supermarket in the book because Caleb is a totally different character in the book and the movie. And Katie is murdered at home.
00:35:50
Speaker
And this brings on the tension of who is next.
00:35:58
Speaker
There's the massive chaotic chase through the Martin family corn maze. And college kids and tourists are running around.
00:36:10
Speaker
And Darby and Ollie are stabbed. Alex is mortally wounded. And Makani is forced to chase David down.
00:36:21
Speaker
So David says he wants to kill kids, so they're stuck in Osborne forever. And then Makani ends up killing him herself, which is... Pretty brutal, but almost kind of satisfying.
00:36:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. At the end of the book, I was like, don't you dare kill Ollie, I swear. having a moment. I was having a moment i was like that?
00:36:47
Speaker
doesn't seem right i don't i don't like that because makhani like runs off like ready to like get the job done knowing that ollie is dead and then you know she goes and tells his brother oh my god brother like that really hurt me and his brother because like his brother has like no one his brother runs after him and then she hears like over like the radio or whatever that ollie is still alive I'm like, oh god, Holly.
00:37:17
Speaker
And the way they had just glazed over it, it's like they hit the ground dead and then she ran off and I was like, excuse you, go back. got stabbed in the head, didn't Like, like I can't remember where he got stabbed. but Yeah. It was on a chest or something. Yeah. It was a little crazy at the end for But this David kid has stabbed so many people at this point. He knows what he's doing. And it doesn't take much for him to kill someone with one stab. Because he knows. We talk about it in the book that he was a hunter and whatever.
00:37:48
Speaker
So like. I feel there's a part of me that was like, okay, he either killed him or he didn't. Stop playing these games with me. you know, like i like, if he's dead, leave him dead.
00:38:02
Speaker
i don't want you to kill him, but also please just stop with people coming back to life. Yeah. it like, she thought Darby was dead. Darby was not dead. She thought Ollie was dead. Ollie was not dead. Like, how fortunate for you that this killer just decided to stop being great at killing people at the very last second.
00:38:20
Speaker
it It was when Darby came back. I was like, oh, Ollie's not dead. Darby's here. Pretty much. Pretty much. Also, the fact that, like, you have all these people coming after you and we're, like, a bunch... Like, i I want to say, like, what? Like, four or five against one? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. the one person runs out and, like...
00:38:46
Speaker
kills Alex almost decapitates Alex yeah you ran by and decapitated someone one yeah and nobody caught them yep I think that's crazy yep this last bit just got wild the whole corn maze thing was just and like on bench like be that if I was in that friend group and And like someone was just continuously decapitating people. i'd be staying home.
00:39:18
Speaker
Well, but well no let's pretend like we're at the corn maze. We're in the friend group and we're literally actively chasing them down. Like I'm doing like windmill arms. Like I'm literally going to be going insane.
00:39:31
Speaker
Like I'm really like, you're going to think I'm like, you're going to be scared. You're going to be scared of me. You're actually going to hand the knife over and be like, I'm so sorry. Like, you're literally going to be terrified of me. I'm gonna start barking and you're going to oh my God, here.
00:39:46
Speaker
yeah I'm so sorry. harry survival strategies. Yes, I always say that. Like, don't even try with me. Like, I will start acting absolutely insane that you will be afraid of me. That is the best way to survive any kind of attack is to just like, do not let them take you anywhere else. Try fight like finally hell, be crazy, be wild, loud.
00:40:08
Speaker
There you go. like You're telling me they just did a run by ah decapitation and ran away? Absolutely not. thinking of Carrie windmilling and I was like oh yeah, make yourself bigger than your attacker. And I was like, no way. Is that a bear?
00:40:25
Speaker
I'm not sure. i just like cannot imagine one person. I mean, this happens all the time, but... Like just one person with one One person with a knife. This is a close-up weapon. This is not a pew pew. Yeah, close-up weapon. And we've all of us.
00:40:45
Speaker
wait like Come on it was We gotta do something. There was even the character in the book who wasn't in the movie at all who had a pitchfork. She had a pitchfork.
00:40:56
Speaker
Yeah. That's a long reach. Yeah. Give me some distance. Yeah. Like literally, like I'll probably start like levitating or something at that point. Like I'm literally going to be insane.
00:41:10
Speaker
You're going to be scared of me. I want to know where all these parents were. so like, okay, all of these kids were literally told there is a murderer on the loose.
00:41:22
Speaker
He is coming for high school students. Do not be alone. Stay with your whatever. and like Corn maze. Corn maze. What the hell?
00:41:33
Speaker
I just, come on, folks. And all these parents, like, there was the one mom who, like, she was a nurse and she had to be. Candy's mom. Right. And so, like, I get that.
00:41:45
Speaker
But, like, all these other kids that were just doing whatever and, you know, oh, I'm going to go with so-and-so. I'm still running around. I'm going to go with her. I'm going to go over there. I'm going to do over. Like, nah, bitch, stay home.
00:41:58
Speaker
You're home. Locking the door with me. um With what I would to like if I'm not with the ah group of friends that are trying to save the day.
00:42:08
Speaker
ah My ass is home with the doors locked windows locked and every light in the house on. Yeah. Every light. You're sleeping in the light.
00:42:19
Speaker
Yeah. Like nobody's getting in this house. That was the thing with Katie. They knew they had a broken window in the basement. They knew the person was breaking into homes and That window would have been. oh i just got the chills. Because I didn't have running up from the basement.
00:42:37
Speaker
Yeah. but I would have had all my kids, like, staying at grandma's house. or we're staying with neighbors now. we like like We're having a lock-in at the church. Like, whatever it is, everybody's, we are not, my kids would not be home alone.
00:42:52
Speaker
Mm-mm. Yeah, no, that's rough. Mm-mm. that's That's half of these kids got killed. because they won And then Caleb, dumb butt, wandering back into the grocery store while everybody else is like, I might i must have left my plume in the break room. Like, fuck your plume, bro.
00:43:10
Speaker
Just do not. Or at least take someone with you. Why did you wander off room? What happened to the bunny system? ah There were so many moments in this book where I was like, you're an idiot.
00:43:23
Speaker
And that's what I've done. Pretty much.
00:43:28
Speaker
But in the movie, the killer is revealed much later to be Zach. And his motive. Wait, who's Zach? Yeah.
00:43:41
Speaker
He's not even in the book. Nope. He was. He was the stoner in the book. Yeah, he was. He was the stoner. Okay. right But they do such like a classic like Netflix thing with like that they do with teen horror movies in this movie where it's like everyone is partying everyone is like it's just a bunch of drunk and high teenagers like like i don't like that i feel like that's very typical with like a horror movie but i just feel like it's just like okay we've done this yep
00:44:17
Speaker
Well, you even get the, you even get the, everyone's fake and I hate society for hating rich kids. Yeah. The bad guy monologue at the end. Which again ah scream coded.
00:44:31
Speaker
Yup. Yeah. Just why wasn't there a second killer? Yeah. Just saying. Yeah. that was That would have been too screen coded. Apparently. Well, do love something I really do love is when.
00:44:44
Speaker
So Ollie going back, Ollie gets arrested. Right. Because Makani is like, it's Ollie gets arrested. Then he's immediately let out.
00:44:55
Speaker
Okay. So Ollie's at the school by herself. Yeah. Makani, yeah. Why? don't know. Wandered through the halls. Yeah, Makani's at the school and by herself. And she sees, like, Ollie whipping it into the freaking at a school. And she, like, starts freaking out because she's like, I don't want to be alone with this guy because that's the killer.
00:45:13
Speaker
so And she thinks that that's, like, he's coming after her. So she goes into the high school and, like, runs into ah Caleb. And then Caleb is stabbed from behind. Mm-hmm.
00:45:25
Speaker
And then we see Ollie running. By not Ollie. Yeah, by not Ollie. And we see Ollie running behind Makani. I'm like, and that's what you get. Yep. That's what you get. Yep. Don't doubt Ollie. Yeah. He's good boy. You got it, Ollie.
00:45:38
Speaker
And now you look like a fool. And then this is where the killer hands Makani the knife. And I feel like this is where he starts trying to frame her. he he just left a witness. Like, plan yeah plan failed already.
00:45:54
Speaker
Over. Yep. Also, he hands her the knife and she just stands there and is like, thank you. Yeah. Like she's just like holding in. She's just like, why?
00:46:06
Speaker
Let it like, don't just drop it. And then she carries it with her for like the next three hours. You could have chased him down. You had the knife. Anything.
00:46:18
Speaker
Anything. Or at least when the rescue comes along to get Caleb or whatever, when the police come, you could have given them the knife. You know, be like, he he gave this to me. don't what to do with Wait, did she get to keep the killer's weapon?
00:46:36
Speaker
Yes, she carried it with her. Just as a souvenir. Yes. Like... here
00:46:41
Speaker
ah he
00:46:44
Speaker
she just wandered around with it the rest of the movie no this is why if the killer gave me the knife i would have taken it back done yes exactly he's just like thanks that it so was that was it i don't get it yep oh my gosh but then they still need to cover 30 minutes of the movie so we couldn't do that Yeah, so we had the big villain monologue.
00:47:13
Speaker
Zack had set the corn maze on fire, trapped the football team, again tried to frame Makani for his murders, even after he stabbed his dad with a sword.
00:47:27
Speaker
And then she stabs him and gives the great, you're the problem, not everyone else speech. as he dies too long like the villains always talk too long and that's why they die in the end yeah when i would when i go on my villain arc it'll be very quiet you will yeah not a peep out of me to so in the book you do feel like makani has closure after she kills david
00:48:00
Speaker
You realize you can't run away from your problems. Or that all your problems are solved by killing a man. Well.
00:48:12
Speaker
There are lessons to be learned here. Multiple lessons be learned. But yeah, Ollie survives and they have a hopeful, quiet ending.
00:48:23
Speaker
And in the movie you get graduation And couples are paired off and Makani reconnects with her old friend from Hawaii. Yeah, completely different stories.
00:48:40
Speaker
Yep. The book felt so much slower and creepier, but was definitely a YA slasher. yeah murder her Yes, it is young adult. For those who didn't know, it's adult.
00:48:57
Speaker
me And the movie is more campy and yeah teen slasher soap opera. <unk> Yeah, I agree. um So what's our final verdicts?
00:49:11
Speaker
I like the movie better. But not by much. I would say it's like 2.25. Oh, oh Yeah, it's just enough that I was like, oh, okay.
00:49:22
Speaker
but Of the people that I know that are into that kind of thing, I might say, eh, you might not hate it.
00:49:30
Speaker
Yeah. I do definitely like the relationships better in the book, though. The kills are just way better in the movie. Fair. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I think I like them kind of evenly. Yeah.
00:49:46
Speaker
I think that the movie has its moments of being more entertaining to watch. But I really, and also the movie has a really great soundtrack. i will say. It did have a really good soundtrack. It was a really, I mean, Netflix is always in their bag with the soundtracks.
00:50:05
Speaker
I will say that about that. I love it. But I really liked the relationship in the book. The relationship was so good. And it just like reminded me of like,
00:50:16
Speaker
young love, like crushing on somebody and just like, you could tell that it was a ah you could tell that it was a YA romance author writing a horror book.
00:50:27
Speaker
yeah Yeah, absolutely. Yes. Now that I know that, I see it. Absolutely. And i really liked that. I enjoyed that a lot. So I'm leaning slightly more towards book, but I mean, the movie definitely had some good moments in there.
00:50:42
Speaker
Yeah. I think I'm the same. i i want to lean a little more toward the book. Just because the movie really upset me with the killer and how obvious it was. So obvious.
00:50:59
Speaker
And you know what? There's like a cab driver. my god. Yeah, luber Uber guy in town. And his name was Dave. Or like David or something. And I was like, what are they trying to do with this guy? Yep.
00:51:14
Speaker
I will say growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, like apparently there is one Uber driver in the town where I grew up, which is kind of similar to like that size school with that kind of agricultural, you know, corn maze. Well, we have tons of cows where I grew up, you know, like so kind of that same demographic of people. And then like the one Uber driver who nobody wants to have to call because they're kind of weird.
00:51:42
Speaker
What do you do? Yeah. right yeah I liked that character. I thought it was hilarious. Yeah. i was just Weird little touch. Yeah, I was just concerned that they were going to like attempt. Like I knew it was going to be that guy, ah Zach or whatever.
00:51:58
Speaker
But I was scared that they were going attempt to make it this driver because his name matched the name of the killer in the book. and i was like, okay, don't do this. Maybe there's a sequel.
00:52:11
Speaker
No. We don't need it. ah Please no. We don't need it. Skip it. No, thanks. Skip that one. ah But that's going to bring us to our question of the episode.
00:52:24
Speaker
What was your favorite class in high school? I'm going to start with Crystal.
00:52:33
Speaker
Pass.
00:52:35
Speaker
It's been a long time. Honestly, I liked any of the like reading English literature, British literature, american literature, any of our literature classes, world lit.
00:52:47
Speaker
That was my jam. I like to read even way back then.
00:52:52
Speaker
Carrie. I took a, i had a creative writing class in high school that I really loved and really enjoyed. and i always remember that class and it kind of had like a like a journalism route with it as well, where we got to work and,
00:53:11
Speaker
on like a newspaper type thing where people would submit their stories to it and we got to put it into this newspaper and I got to work on that too and I got to work on like graphics for it and everything that's cool so I remember doing that and really loved it those are my favorite classes what about you Linz Mine would either have to be my psychology class or my advanced English literature class.
00:53:43
Speaker
Oh. If you know, you know.
00:53:50
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I was never really good. i mean, I talk about this a lot, but I was never super good with like English class and stuff, but I was always really good at math and stuff. Like i was in like AP Calc and like all that stuff.
00:54:05
Speaker
in AP physics that was like my thing i took those classes too they were not my thing I was gonna say I was good at them but just because I was good at something doesn't mean I want to do it I wasn't even good nope I was in the very basic always in the very basic like English literature all that stuff because that was like always my work and it's always I feel like a thing like you're either really good at one or the other fair yep that's true but That's going wrap us up on today's episode.
00:54:37
Speaker
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00:54:52
Speaker
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00:55:08
Speaker
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00:55:20
Speaker
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