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KPop Demon Hunters!
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Get ready to help seal the Honmoon! This week Emma & Katie dive into the 2025 global phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters!! This week they ask what happens when you combine Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Jem and the Holograms, Sailor Moon and Josie and the Pussycats; The answer is GOLDEN! There will be Shadow Daddies, a brief introspective on the KPop machine (a la Katie-style) and SO MUCH MORE! So tune in and take a sip of our Soda-Pop, our little soda-pop.
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Transcript
Opening and Humorous Banter
00:00:00
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It's Taco Tuesday. certainly is.
00:00:07
Speaker
Happy Tuesday. Honestly, every day is Taco Day for me. i agree. i could eat tacos every day, for sure. i could eat tacos every day.
00:00:19
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could eat... Tacos are a pretty good food. like If you were um given wish by troll, an evil genie, to be like, well, what? You can only one food for the rest of your life. What will it be? I don't know why he's a dude, bro.
00:00:38
Speaker
That makes sense. No, I got it. I was following you. Yeah. What would it be? Tacos. Yeah. Yeah. It would be a curse, not a wish. Sorry.
00:00:48
Speaker
That was a correction from Charles. Go upstairs, Charles. One favorite things about this podcast is that it's two people. Yes, it's two people, not three. going little crowded in here.
00:01:02
Speaker
My preferred, I mean, I prefer a taco salad, but I consider a taco salad to still be a taco, really. yeah, yeah. I enjoy a taco salad. My mom makes a really good taco salad because she makes the um the shell herself. She deep fries it.
00:01:15
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he It's really nice. Yeah. It's really good because she fancy. um How are you doing? I'm good. Good.
Car Emissions and Accents
00:01:25
Speaker
How are things? It's a beautiful day. have it have to do a bunch of shit today, but I'll be fine.
00:01:30
Speaker
I have to get my car emissions tested and I new i have to pay, you know, $200 for a license plate tag. But other than that. Don't you love that? That's my favorite. I'll tell you the one thing that we don't have to do here.
00:01:43
Speaker
That. you know you know you don't have to get You don't have license plates in Connecticut? No, we do. But we don't have to get like a city sticker. We don't have to like get an emissions test.
00:01:54
Speaker
I feel like an emissions test should be, you should probably should have an emissions Probably should, but I think it's much more important for people that live in cities than it is for people who live in the woods.
00:02:05
Speaker
Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah. It is, ah yeah, that that part doesn't bother me. The $200 for the license plate and then six months from now, another hundred and some dollars for the city sticker. That's yeah that's a lot.
00:02:19
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That's some bullshit. Especially considering I didn't have one for years. Yeah. yeah
00:02:27
Speaker
Chicago. buddy. I do constantly- Greatest city in the world. Greatest city in the world. I do constantly have people here in Connecticut that are asking me, what does a Chicago accent sound like? And i my only answer to that is, duh, bears.
00:02:44
Speaker
Duh, bulls. Yeah, that is it. It's um John Candy um is
Kansas City Pop and Culture Jokes
00:02:50
Speaker
obviously Canadian, but in- um Uncle Buck? Yeah, yeah. He's ah he's got a- ah In several movies, he's got a really good Chicago accent.
00:03:02
Speaker
Home Alone. trying to think someone's actually from Chicago who has a Chicago accent. Yeah, Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. He's doing Chicago accents and all of those. Who's actually from Chicago that has a thick Chicago accent?
00:03:15
Speaker
I mean, the guy who- Bob Odenkirk? Yeah. He does not really have a Chicago accent. Michael Shannon, you know, big Chicago, as they call him, um doesn't really huggle doesn't really have a Chicago accent as much as he has like an insane voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you imagine the Chicago accent was like, hello?
00:03:37
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Hello, I'm Michael Shannon. Yeah. um Apparently a super sweet guy. Like everybody who knows Michael Shannon loves him. but Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super, super sweet. Super lovely.
00:03:51
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He's got a bit of ah a gravitas about him. Yeah. Every actor I've found that has become super stupid successful and has chosen to make their main base Chicago or at least tries to make their main home Chicago is a super lovely nice person.
00:04:08
Speaker
Yeah. Because, i mean... Living in New York is a is a whole thing and living in LA is a different one. so Yeah. And Chicago's just I mean, anybody who lives somewhere that's not those two things. It doesn't have to be Chicago. Like, what if you're from, you know, Kansas City or something, you know?
00:04:27
Speaker
Exactly. Sorry, I'm eating my overnight oats. um Kansas City famously featured in today's film. Today's film. Mm-hmm.
00:04:38
Speaker
Kansas City famously featured in today's film. Well, mean, who knows? You could conceivably call pop music that originates in Kansas City K-pop if you wanted. mean, long have you been sitting on that one?
00:04:52
Speaker
i Not at all. Oh, wow. Yeah. You could. you You think I orchestrated the conversation to get to Kansas City just so I could say that? I did. absolutely did. that's that's some ah That's some Charles shit right there.
00:05:08
Speaker
Yeah. that No, i I don't have that kind of um a forethought in my improv. It's all off the dome, baby. I live in constant fear that I'm going to fall into a bit.
00:05:19
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Yeah. that's ah that's That's real, actually. I get that. Yeah, that's that's called marriage. ah um I mean, Bacharach was from Kansas City, you know, one of the the most successful pop ah composers of all time. Did he move back to Kansas City?
Introducing 'Go Get Your Girl' Podcast
00:05:39
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No. Oh, then why are we looking up Kansas City people? You say Kansas City pop? I put Kansas City pop musicians, and that's what it gave me. K-pop.
00:05:50
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K-pop. um Although I do think that there's a wide berth of difference between um Burt Bacharach and ah the player on the Chiefs and Genu.
00:06:05
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um yeah Kima? Oh, Genu, Genu, Genu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Genu! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who else the fuck would I be talking about but my shadow daddy, Genu? Shadow daddy. g knew shadow daddy Yeah, he's a shadow daddy.
00:06:21
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um he is. He's a hot shadow daddy. And mama's here for it. Even though this is a children's problem. And that's actually an excellent segue. Really a segue as much as it's the same subject.
00:06:38
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You and I have different definitions of segue. Okay, sure. Yeah.
00:06:46
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Oh, that's right, guys. This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie are two demon hunters who are just out to save the world from their souls being sucked up by demons.
00:07:02
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And they They do so with their powerful voice, with their guise of being in a pop band or a K-pop band, being K-pop stars, I should say, actually. Huge mega stars.
00:07:16
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Like, I'm talking Blackpink time. It's a thousand here. Have their own plane, have their own skyscraper, presumably, it seems. Yeah, yeah. It's like if you mashed up Sailor Moon and, um oh God, what's her name? um Jem. Jem.
00:07:33
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Gem. yes Gem and the holograms. this That is what you get. And you add in some sexy, sexy shattered daddies.
00:07:44
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ah
00:07:47
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ah Anyways, things go awry. Blah, blah, blah. We sing some great songs. Blah, blah, blah. Everyone has a good time. Blah, blah, blah. And that's the movie. The end.
00:07:59
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I'm Emma. I'm Katie. i'm katie And today we are talking about the um worldwide phenomenon, K-pop demon hunters here in the month of November, which yeah calling in between Z's.
00:08:14
Speaker
We are in between Z Halloween and Christmas. and We are also between Z movies that belong on this podcast and movies that don't. Yeah. We're between go get your ghoul and go get your ho ho ho's.
00:08:29
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Yeah. Yeah. So, um yeah, so Twilight, um unknowingly the pallbearer. Unknowingly. We thought the pallbearer was a rom-com, but it's really not.
00:08:42
Speaker
And K-pop Demon Hunters, we are not really in the rom-com sphere for ah for it seems like a full month. So sorry about it. They are movies that have rom, that have some elements of com.
00:08:55
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Yeah. That um aren't defined by genre. Yes, um yeah yes, yes. I also have to tell you- This musical, I would say, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This movie is a musical, and it's great.
00:09:07
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um I do have to say, Katie, after our Twilight episode, I will have you know that I i am preparing for further Twilight episodes because I started re-listening to the Twilight book. Oh, no.
00:09:22
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And let me tell you something. Bella has way more personality in that fucking book. Well, I mean, she has to. That's what we talked about in the episode. yeah There's no way she doesn't. Yeah. It's a person in the narrative. Yeah.
00:09:33
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But like, she like is way more sassy to Edward and she's like way more sassy to everybody else. And also like Edward says a lot more like red flag shit in the book that you're just like, woof, woof, woof.
00:09:48
Speaker
um But yeah, I'm letting you know I'm thinking of you every time I i turn on the audiobook. Love that. Happy for you. Couldn't be me. Oh, that was the other thing I was going to say. She doesn't say, oh my God, in the in there? Of course not, because she's Mormon.
00:10:05
Speaker
Yes. Hold on. What does she say? what yeah That's how you can spot a Mormon. Someone saying, oh, an adult saying, oh my gosh, is like, that's a Mormon right there. Right?
00:10:16
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doesn't say, oh my gosh, either. Napoleon Dynamite really crystallized that for a lot of people.
00:10:23
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Oh, was Napoleon Dynamite a big time? Yeah, that's the whole thing. That's a Mormon movie? Oh, 1000%. Yeah. I had no my, what? And the Mormons like mobilized behind it and like helped make it such a big hit. Yeah.
Media Influence and Nostalgia
00:10:40
Speaker
Oh, okay. So she doesn't say holy crap. She says holy crow. Yeah, that sounds right. Mm-hmm. And it's constant. And I'm like, who the fuck says Holy Crow?
00:10:51
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more Mormons. Yeah. Anyway, um we love our Mormon listeners. Yes, we do. ah This movie, K-pop, do you remember? K-pop. It was 2025. Woo, woo, woo!
00:11:08
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Directed by, all right, buckle in. Directed by Chris Applehans and Maggie Kang. um Animation frequently has two directors. um Usually someone is more of an animator and someone is more of a you know filmmaker. In this case, um it's Chris Applehans directed a movie called Wish Dragon, and he has a bunch of animation credits before that, um ah including, and then has story credit on Rise of the Guardians.
00:11:34
Speaker
Oh. big swing that did not make it. No, no, that's a different movie. That was a hit um That's about the owls.
00:11:47
Speaker
That one was a hit? Rise of the Guardians. Yeah, that's ah that's a fucking Zack Snyder movie. Yeah, Rise of the Guardians is the DreamWorks movie starring like Jack Frost and the Easter Bunny and what appears to be some... The Tooth Fairy, what appears to be some kind of Peacock Woman.
00:12:09
Speaker
What? Jude Law as pitch black? I don't know what's going on here. This is wild. Peacock Woman like Women's women History Month?
00:12:20
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I don't know. it's It's Chris Pine as Jack Frost, Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny, Alec Baldwin as the North Wind, Isla Fisher as the Tooth Fairy, Jude Law as pitch black.
00:12:33
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I'm guessing that that that Peacock Woman must be the Tooth Fairy? know. I don't know. There's also like a little yellow man here. I don't know what that is.
00:12:43
Speaker
Anyway, so that's Rise of the Guardians. A huge failure. Really, really destroyed DreamWorks animation. um So he worked on that. yeah um And then Maggie Kang, who doesn't have any credits. She has a couple of animation credits. Doesn't have any other writing credits except for an episode of a TV show called Home, The Adventures of Tip and O. which Oh.
00:13:04
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Okay. Never heard of that. Yep. Then there's four more directors. I mean, four more writers. So those two are the directors and they also are credited writers. So the writers appear to be three different duos.
00:13:17
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So uncredited writers are Kimbo Yeon and Erica Lippoldt, who are TV writers who worked on Star Trek and Sweet Tooth and a bunch of TV credits all together.
00:13:30
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Then the credited writers are the two directors and Donya Jimenez and Hannah McMeekin, who are also a writing duo who ah worked on pretty much nothing else except for the Ren and Stimpy reboot from last year.
00:13:45
Speaker
but they tried even know Right? What? I mean, it's still on the air. So it's it's got a second season ordered. Apparently, i don't know. Wait, what? Since when they- Apparently there's new Ren and Stimpy's. but So several years ago, I remember they did like the adult reboot of Ren and Stimpy where it's like, okay, there's going to be like nudity in this cartoon. Everybody's going to say fuck a lot. Yeah, because we're all grownups now.
00:14:09
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America was like, no, thank you. So what we don't have Ren and Stimpy for. Well, and the creator got me too, and apparently is just a horrible person. and I guess last year they did ah a children's cartoon version reboot of Ren and Stimpy without him. And that's what that is. so I never really got into Ren and Stimpy, but I wasn't a Nickelodeon kid.
00:14:31
Speaker
Yeah, it was too gross. No, it was too gross. I liked, i there were some Rugrats that I liked. i liked Doug. um likes doug um Yeah. I liked Pepper Ann. I was a big Pepper Ann girl. Oh, loved Pepper Ann. Pepper Ann was great.
00:14:45
Speaker
Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann, much too cool over seventh grade. Pepper Ann, she's like one in a million. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Thank you. um And I loved Recess. Recess, yeah.
00:14:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But not Ren and Stimpy. I did not like Redmond Stimpy. I did not like The Cowardly Dog. I did not like- Cowardly Dog, too scary. Ren and Stimpy, too gross. I liked Rocko's Modern Life. I liked Rocko's Modern Life.
00:15:09
Speaker
Rocco's that was pushing it yeah Rocco's better in life was surreal I appreciated that as a as a weird as a weird little child weird little dolly fan and don't know if you liked dolly I just yeah I don't know I that was the first surrealist was that an insult about me oh dolly I thought you were talking about dolly parton No, Dali, the painter.
00:15:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the first surrealist painter that came to my brain. No, no, that's that. I'd say most people's. I, for some reason, be maybe it's my Tennessee heritage, but you say Dali and, or Dali, and I think Dali Parton.
00:15:48
Speaker
No. Um. Oh my God. Can you imagine a Halloween costume where someone goes as Dali Parton? that That has to have been done, but that seems incredible, actually. love I love that. need that to happen.
00:16:01
Speaker
I need that to happen. I'm just going Google it real quick. Dolly Parton. There's some some horrible AI art here. Yep. I don't see any costumes. That's pretty good. Yeah.
00:16:15
Speaker
All right. All right. So that's right, guys. We've copyrighted that. So if you want to go as Dolly Parton... Make sure you let people know. This appears like this is a, oh yeah, this is a drag queen, maybe? ah Salvador Dali Parton? Yeah.
00:16:31
Speaker
Oh, nice. Fair enough.
Animation and Streaming Success
00:16:35
Speaker
yeah um Yeah, so this is sony ah Sony Animation, who has been absolutely killing it lately. Yeah. Sony Pictures Animation famously did ah the Spider-Man Spider-Verse movies. um They did um the Hotel Transylvania movies, which are all huge hits. They did a movie called, for for Netflix, they did The Mitchells vs. the Machines, which rules. Yeah.
00:17:03
Speaker
um but i heard it's good yeah well then if we look in here we've got there's some real there's some real trash in here as well yeah you know we have uh the fucking um uh what's his name um who's that horrible british guy ah that everybody hates um you have to be a little bit more specific prince andrew ah
00:17:28
Speaker
James James Corden The James Corden vehicle Peter Rabbit um yeah yeah The Angry Birds movies Okay fair enough so they've got some trash in there too But they've got this and they've got ah The Spider-Man movies um And the Hotel Transylvania movies which are also good Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:46
Speaker
And I mean, like, this is this is a huge, huge hit. Because this this came out um in September? No. It came out in the summer. July, I think. July?
00:17:58
Speaker
Came out in July and was like an immediate phenomenon. June 20th, yeah. I'm sorry, we were all wrong. It was June. And came out is ah is a weird thing because this was, um this came out on Netflix.
00:18:14
Speaker
Yeah. So it didn't come out. So like, it's interesting to think about like, if this movie had come out, because like this is, i would say culturally the biggest movie of the year. Oh, absolutely. Without a doubt.
00:18:26
Speaker
Um, it is, everyone's talking about it. All the kids are dressing up for Halloween, uh, as it, it is an unstoppable cultural juggernaut. There's yeah like, when you look it up on Netflix, there's two other versions of it now. Like,
00:18:41
Speaker
There's the sing-along version. And then there's just the music videos. Like they've really cashed in on it. So in August, Netflix decided we'll do a limited theatrical release um for, they did one weekend and it won the weekend.
00:18:57
Speaker
um they own Netflix hates to put movies in theaters. be the oscar The Oscars require them to put a movie in theaters ah in order to be eligible for Academy Awards. And so they begrudgingly do it a few times a year.
00:19:12
Speaker
yeah But it is always like like for one weekend and then it's done. Like Frankenstein is playing in like three theaters right now in Chicago. And like, I don't know. I don't um'm i'm just watch it on Netflix. I don't care.
00:19:24
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But still. um But that's, um this also brings me to the first of Emma's Fun Facts, Emma's Fun Facts. um So the soundtrack, ah which has the the first soundtrack, which only has four songs.
00:19:38
Speaker
Oh, no, wait. The soundtrack has four songs in the Hot 100s top 10 simultaneously, which is surpassing Saturday Night Fever and Waiting to Exhale, um each of which has three songs in the top 10 simultaneously.
00:19:50
Speaker
Yeah. What is the fourth one? Um, so there's. Take down golden. soda pop. And then the, um, the the other evil boys. on Uh, yeah. My idol or your my idol. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:07
Speaker
Yeah. Your idol. Yeah. And that's the one where Emma had to fan herself.
00:20:15
Speaker
Emma's so horny for the drawings of these boys. um This is, yeah so um the version that they released in theaters for a weekend, for just a single weekend, was the sing-along version, which I know people who went to.
00:20:30
Speaker
My niece went to it. Yeah, it is it was huge. It played for two days, but it played in a lot of theaters, which was the biggest theatrical release for Netflix film of all time and the highest gross, the the only Netflix film to top the box office and the highest grossing theatrical film Netflix ever released, which is why they're releasing it again, Halloween weekend, October thirty first to November second And if you think about like, so I guess Netflix is more invested in the death of the movie theater than making money.
00:21:05
Speaker
Because if they had just released this wide and let it stay, it maybe would have been the highest grossing movie of the year. Like who knows? Yeah. Yeah. But they were like, no, you know what we want?
00:21:15
Speaker
We want people to sit at home and watch movies on their phones. Yeah. we want a nebulous number that we can invent to tell you how many people watch this. They're like, um you know, all this movie, this, this, this shitty, ah you know, Russo brothers movie. Nobody watched the, um whatever it was called. And Netflix is no, no, actually 2 billion people watch that movie. It's the most successful movie of all time. You're like, really netflix is it red notice because that's what another fun fact was that this surpasses red notice and i was like no one fucking watched red notice who the watched red notice nobody's dressing up as don't even know ananda armis is she in that is that the santa claus movie
00:21:58
Speaker
What is Red Notice? It's either the Santa Claus movie or it's... No, Red One is is the Santa Claus movie. Red Notice is right... Oh, I watched Red Notice.
00:22:12
Speaker
It's not Ana de Armas. It's the much worse Gal Gadot. The worst actress ah currently getting roles, maybe Gal Gadot.
00:22:22
Speaker
a Yeah. Both as a person and as an actress. But also the fabulous Rock the Dwayne Johnson. That's right.
00:22:34
Speaker
And Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, whatever. um But I will have you know that Dwayne the Rock Johnson, um i drink his energy drinks quite frequently because they're cheaper than Celsius at um Costco.
00:22:47
Speaker
yeah And he is a lovely, lovely man. and I can tell you that through his energy drinks. Yeah. Based on his energy drinks, he's a lovely man.
00:22:58
Speaker
Congratulations. um i I find him charming. um I think, ah personally, he's, you know, ah got some political stuff that I don't agree with. But i not ah he's not ah a horrible, like, he's not a fascist or anything. so We're not going to cancel him. And we're still on the fence with Ryan Reynolds.
00:23:17
Speaker
We're still waiting for the other sheet drop. Definitely on the fence with Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds I find unsettling. yeah I used to like him. I think he made some good movies several many years ago.
00:23:29
Speaker
yeah um and Including one surprising movie that we'll watch on this podcast eventually ah called Definitely Maybe. um Nope. yeah Definitely Maybe.
00:23:41
Speaker
We'll probably watch Just Friends on this on this podcast as well. And that is not a good movie. ha ha ha. No, it's not. But is it fun? Yes. It does have Anna Faris, the best part of it everything she's in. yeah Anna Faris is fantastic in it.
00:23:55
Speaker
She's great. She's great at everything. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that being said, i forgot that I watched Red Notice. You know what I'm never going to forget? K-pop demon hunters. Demon hunters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:06
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um So, yeah. So we'll see when they release it again on Halloween to see how that does. My guess is number one at the box office. Yeah.
00:24:17
Speaker
Yeah. My entire, like, Instagram feed is just full of videos of moms being like, um tag yourself if you're also a mom who... ah Thomas, stop.
00:24:28
Speaker
Thomas. Thomas, no. That's a wire. Thomas, stop. Stop Stop it. Thomas, no. Hold on. Yeah.
00:24:39
Speaker
And then we'll take it. say tag yourself if you're a Thomas, stop. Thomas, stop. So my Instagram is all full of moms that are like, tag yourself if you spent months planning your family yeah Halloween costume only for your kids to choose to go as K-pop demon hunters now.
00:24:54
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So. it's a good it's a it's ah it's a It's a good look. you know It's very specific. um the Everybody's selling those purple like ah tattoos for your arms. yeah It's crazy.
00:25:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's good. And there's it's versatile. There's so many looks you could do. but I mean, some might say I dressed up like Rumi yesterday when I left the house wearing a hoodie underneath a peacoat and sweatshirt, sweatpants. Oh, sure, yeah. I'm i'm more of a Mira myself, obviously. Oh, yes. Yeah, I get that. I get that.
K-pop Industry and Cultural Impact
00:25:32
Speaker
i I like to fancy myself a Rumi, but I know for a fact I'm a Zoe. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:40
Speaker
I'm a Zoe. um Okay, fair enough. Yeah. um They're all great. Yeah, they're all great. It doesn't matter. they're All three of them are great. Um, ah so yes, so we have, um, we have a little bit of an opening montage here where we do like once every generation, uh, there's a trio of it's, it's Sailor Moon. It's Buffy, the vampire slayer.
00:26:06
Speaker
Um, it's, um, Josie and the pussy cats. It's Jim the holograms, you know? Yeah. It's all of these things. And, uh,
00:26:18
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It is what society was missing. yeah Clearly. Clearly. um And it's capitalizing on the um on the the popularity of K-pop, which honestly I would say has been waning in America. um Obviously, you know, very popular in other parts of the world.
00:26:37
Speaker
But the the absolute height of K-pop mania, i would in America at least, I would say was maybe a couple of years ago. And um this seems yeah to... um Two have caused a ah resurgence. So yeah good for them.
00:26:49
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, like, I know Blackpink just came out with a new single a little while ago. um But that's just because I really like Blackpink. They are in your area. They are in your area.
00:27:01
Speaker
Although I know that Lisa from Blackpink got, like, semi-canceled from the underwear she wore to the Met Gala. What? The underwear she wore to the Met Gala had um had ah ah Rosa Parks on it.
00:27:16
Speaker
Oh, Jesus Christ. um Yeah, that's not great. um um We don't like that. ah She was in a movie this year, right? What was she in? ah She was in she was in um ah which White Lotus.
00:27:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah. She was in White Lotus. Yeah, yeah. um The boring season of White Lotus. Yeah. And, like, she was fine. She was fine. I mean, again, it's hard to be it's hard to be good or bad when nothing happens ah throughout the whole time.
00:27:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I will say I am semi-obsessed with co Cat's Eye, but they're more of a global group than a K-pop group. Sure, sure, yeah. I don't know Cat's Eye.
00:27:55
Speaker
They dance real good. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah um So, yes. K-pop. um ah They, um yeah, so we learned that in every generation, there are three Korean women who are born to slay the demons and soothe the soul of the world through their music. And it shows, like, we show different, like, groups of of of women from, you know, medieval Korea through the, like, doo-wop modern K-pop.
00:28:28
Speaker
ah Through the 80s to modern K-pop. And, um So they both have secret identities as demon slayers um and are also huge megastars. Like clearly the most popular group in the world, it would seem. Yeah. Like billions and billions of fans.
00:28:47
Speaker
Like it is anytime they do anything, it is such a big deal, which is why like I think it's so funny when they're just walking down the street, like with just like hats on. hmm.
00:28:58
Speaker
Mm hmm. And I'm just like, and nobody's noticing it's them. But I mean, like, fair enough. I mean, also living in a big city. And here we'll get into my criticism of the movie. Okay. So the thing this movie weirdly doesn't quite get right. I mean, there's things that it does get right, but there's something really missing from this movie is its understanding of K-pop.
00:29:23
Speaker
Okay. Go on, Katie. and In terms of us a little but So listen, I'm not a huge K-pop fan, but, you know, Caitlin is. And I have been exposed to a lot of of K-pop and specifically like the auxiliary ah K-pop kind of like projects. And one thing that's really cool is they do do some of that. They have like, they're not filming a mukbang, but in the very beginning, they basically do a mukbang, which is a huge thing in...
00:29:56
Speaker
Korean culture in general, but specifically K-pop bands. um One thing that a lot of K-pop bands are known for, and i maybe all K-pop bands at this point, have huge internet presence, have a huge social media presence, are constantly putting out content. They're being filmed.
00:30:14
Speaker
their whole lives, um it seems. And they are filming competitions with each other. They're filming mukbangs. They're filming, a mukbang is a video which is ASMR related where people eat a lot on camera and specifically on mic.
00:30:35
Speaker
um It's very big. All the K-pop bands do it. um So what they so they do at the beginning of this movie is they have that scene of all of them eat of them eating. And what they do the um the the animation changes and everything. um Yeah.
00:30:51
Speaker
There's an anime word for that that I'm not going to remember. ah Where they become like a chibi version for a second. and Yeah, yeah, yeah. then snap back into their actual character animation. There's a word for that, but I don't know what it is.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yeah. So there's there's something, the thing that I think is missing from this, and I understand why, is any kind of critique of the K-pop machine.
00:31:16
Speaker
Yeah. um And I feel like it's a real missed opportunity that they could have gone for, and maybe they will in the sequel. um Yeah. Because they've already announced a sequel, they're definitely doing a sequel.
00:31:27
Speaker
Yeah. um But based on Sony Pictures Animation's track record on sequels, ah God knows when it'll come out. Yeah. Yeah. And I really hope Genu comes back. Well, he's we we'll get there.
00:31:39
Speaker
Yeah. But the thing, that there is an insidious nature to K-pop, and it has nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the three...
00:31:50
Speaker
giant hegemonic corporations that own the K-pop artists. And when I say own, I mean Yeah. yeah um these there's so many stories of these these children, basically, because they find them as children, like 13, 14 years old, get them into dance training, get them into singing training, and craft and create their image. They live in dorms with each other, their whole childhood, their whole adult life as well.
00:32:22
Speaker
And stay they are not free from this Until some indeterminate time in the future, depending on how popular they are. And there's a lot of cases of people being horribly abused by these people by being legally taken advantage of by having all of their money stolen.
00:32:39
Speaker
These people are suing their, their, um, the, the corporation all the time. They have all these morality clauses. They have, you know, they get kicked out for being found in a secret relationship,
00:32:51
Speaker
um Much less gay. If they find out you're gay, then you're really done. um there's ah There's a lot of... a Korea is a very conservative country. There's a lot of homophobia in the um in the corporate ah structure of these things. It's getting better. um there there There's... Because here's the other thing.
00:33:11
Speaker
So many of them are gay. Just like American pop stars. yeah I mean... So there's that. And so it's kind of, it's not super fair to critique just something that I wish was in the movie that what that isn't.
00:33:25
Speaker
Yeah. but Katie wishes. Well, hold on. But on the second viewing of this, I do find it kind of irritating how super ah pro like kind of corporate music it is, you know?
00:33:40
Speaker
It is very anti-Josie and the Pussycats. Yeah. Yes, it is. It is. and And there's also this whole thing, like, because, the yeah, the thing that grated against me was two times in the movie, they're like, we're going to take a break. And she's, and so the first time, which is the beginning of the movie, where they're like, we're about to go on this break.
00:34:00
Speaker
And then she immediately releases the single. It's like, we're not doing a break. And then at the end of the movie, they're like, oh, we're going to finally have a break. And then they see some fans in the street. and they're like, we're not going to have a break. We're going to work ourselves to death instead of ever breaking, because it's important to do it for the fans.
Huntrix: A Fictional K-pop Band
00:34:14
Speaker
yeah Yeah, um which is so though yeah it's a little... Yeah, it's it's a little grating for me, considering that there are you know lots of real people who are...
00:34:25
Speaker
you know, who who do get, you know, unlimited wealth and fame in the in the bargain, but also ah are, some of them horribly mistreated ah by their corporate overlords and really in a state of like artistic slavery, um much in the way that ah happened to a lot of, yeah, but like Britney, a lot a lot of a lot of artists in in other countries as well.
00:34:48
Speaker
um And not all the companies are like that, I should say, um but, you know. But a huge chunk of it. Yeah. Like, it is it is like a... What is it?
00:34:59
Speaker
ah It starts with an M. It's a... Monopoly? No. It's a... me I don't know. It's a... mark Okay. Anyways, so we start off.
00:35:11
Speaker
So that's Katie's Critique Corner. Sorry, that was a little... and I tried to add a little rock to it. ah Katie's Critique Corner.
00:35:23
Speaker
There we go. Very Pepper Ann theme song. Yeah. um You're welcome. And and so we we start off, we meet our our three...
00:35:35
Speaker
Huntrix is the name of the band because they are hunters. ah So we've got Rumi, who is the lead vocals. and then And she is also the um she is the daughter of a previous Hunter slash K-pop star.
00:35:52
Speaker
ah yeah who her mom died. And so now her mom's bandmate is her adopted mom. Her mom's bandmate, his name is Celine. yeah And um basically formed this whole band around Rumi's voice.
00:36:09
Speaker
And then we also get Mira and, who is the she's like the the dance queen extraordinaire choreographer um and she is i like to every time she's on screen she reminds me a lot of um rosa from um brooklyn 99 yeah she's uh she's a tall redhead with a deep voice so you'll uh you can only imagine why i would identify with her And very sarcastic.
00:36:38
Speaker
All the time. Sarcastic. yeah Everything out of her mouth is sarcastic. um And then we also have Zoe, who is the rap and lyricist, ah who is... Okay. Oh, and so I should say, Mira's thing is that she is estranged from her family because she was the black sheep of the family. and She comes from a rich family, and she decided to be ah a K-pop star, and so they don't approve of that.
00:37:04
Speaker
Yeah, they basically disowned her. And then we've got Zoe, who um I want to say was born in California. She's American, yeah. Yeah. um So she's the maknae. So maknae is the K-pop term for the youngest member of the band who's always got like a special like, you know, kind of baby designation. There's like, yeah there's stuff, there's so much in K-pop culture to to go through. And this movie like kind of,
00:37:35
Speaker
Touches on little tiny parts of it, but doesn't like have, I mean, it's only an hour and a half long. So there's only so much you can do. and Like there's a lot that's unknown. I mean, I didn't realize until I was doing like research for this, that all of the Saja boys, every single one of their names is ah as a meaning for like representation in K-pop.
00:37:54
Speaker
So eight time yeah, you get baby Saja, who is the representation of sort of like the babify culture of Saja boys. And then there's one about sort of the like, what is it called when you ah make out with someone's poster? Because you think that their image is so sexy.
00:38:15
Speaker
Yeah. um Is that romance Saja? um I think it's it's the one with the abs. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's Abby. <unk> Abby Saja. Abby Saja. abs Yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah So the Saja boys names all mean something um of that. You can look it up yourself. They're aspects of the, the various members of K-pop bands, um you know, baby romance, Abby mystery and Gino. Who's the leader. Yeah.
00:38:44
Speaker
Yeah. Gino Gino's he's special.
00:38:48
Speaker
heavens
00:38:54
Speaker
he's a drawing i know i know he's a drawing but i'm not trying to bang an animated character okay yeah fair enough just no judgment here if i was also animated and we were in an animated bar i'd go talk to him okay good i love an animated bar Right. Huntrix is at the top of the world at the beginning of this movie. They are, um they're about to, they're about to go on a, on a short hiatus.
00:39:28
Speaker
So another thing K-pop artists do is they release stuff, they go on hiatus, and then they have what's called the comeback, which is like, a big celebration and they'll do, um you know, they'll have new music come out, obviously, but they also have like new, they'll have new hair, they'll have new costumes, they'll have new choreography, they'll have new, like a special of like doing comedy or like some kind of reality program.
00:39:53
Speaker
Yeah. They'll have a huge thing. And the reason they go on these hiatuses is so they can have the comeback. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:40:01
Speaker
And so that's what they're about to do. Yeah. To build anticipation. Yeah. And to, um and to, to work on new stuff and to debut new, um new storylines too. Another thing K-pop does is they, they have a lot of story involved, especially with their music videos where their music videos throughout a, um an era will have like a plot line sometimes.
00:40:23
Speaker
It's insanely complicated. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like um it's just a so snowball that's just built over time. Yes. Yes. And some K-pop artists do it more than others. And um to be fair...
00:40:38
Speaker
um It seems that like guy groups do it a lot more than girl groups um in my experience, but also, you know, I'm not an expert. So yeah. Yeah. Right in. Let us know.
00:40:49
Speaker
Let us know. this movie is that Huntrix only has three members. And not five. And not 16. I mean, ah Twice, who does the, you know, who has a couple songs in this and does a and does a version of um Takedown, one of the songs in the movie, famously has like, you know, 11 members or something, however many members there are in Twice.
00:41:13
Speaker
I think there's eight, but there's, you know, too many. Too many. Anyway, so we start out, we're on the Huntrix private jet, and we're flashing back to their like big like goodbye um finale world tour concert.
00:41:29
Speaker
And um they are on their plane, and their manager, who is played by Ken Young, um famously from Community and other things, yeah Uh, he is calling them being like, girls, where are you? the um the concert? Hey, where where are you? Where are you? Uh, and they're just like, oh, with I thought we were, what do you mean? We're not like on track to be at the concert.
00:41:56
Speaker
All of this time. They're chowing down on some food. They're carbo loading. They're showing that they're fun, normal girls. And you get the stewardess who is acting a little weird and she's watering a plant with a coffee pot.
00:42:13
Speaker
And, uh, and then they all go, well, fuck.
00:42:19
Speaker
Guess these are demons. The plane is taking them away from the concert instead of toward the concert. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And so then they're like, ah, damn it. We don't have time for this.
00:42:30
Speaker
And they're like, what do you mean? And they're like, can we just skip to this? You guys are demons. Blah, blah, blah. Okay, we're here to kill you. Blah, blah, blah. And we start out with a fucking banger.
00:42:44
Speaker
We get our first song. How it's done.
00:42:49
Speaker
How it's dead. And it is them basically being badasses and ah killing these demons and also chopping their plane in half so that they have to sing while parachuting down to their... Not parachuting.
00:43:06
Speaker
They're just falling. thought they had... Skydives. There's some there's some um some intangible magic powers that they get from being demon hunters, really. um And being able to sort of fly is one of them. They do it a few times in ruy It's not really explained or codified, um which is good, I should say. One thing I do like about this movie is that they don't go into detail and over-explaining all the lore and everything. They just give you enough to kind of piece it together yourself. And that is...
00:43:38
Speaker
That is what good, like, supernatural shit does. Like, yeah once you, when you start laying everything out with too much exposition, you drag the the whole thing down. Boring.
00:43:51
Speaker
Another brilliant thing this movie does is it replaces all the fight scenes with musical numbers. Yeah. the They fight as a song. they can't They don't do them separately. or When they fight demons, their voice, their song is part of it.
00:44:07
Speaker
That is yeah part of their weapons. They also have literal weapons. Yeah, that come out of nowhere. They have traditional um Korean weapons, which are basically a sword, a glaive, and knives, but are... i'm going I'm not going to pronounce these correctly. I'm sorry.
00:44:23
Speaker
ah Sengyom, a ah Gokdu, and Shinkai, um which are... um Which, like i said, a sword, glaive, and ah throwing daggers. And that's what they use. But they are kind of magic also.
00:44:40
Speaker
um and can appear and disappear and stuff. And are powered by them singing. Yeah. um So what they're trying to do, and what we get at the beginning of this, is that they're trying to um to repair the Han Moon.
00:44:52
Speaker
um Which is like this kind of weave of soul that kind of protects the world. and that's a nicer way of how I was going to put it when they turn it When they turn it gold, it will seal and they'll seal off the demons forever.
00:45:08
Speaker
I was going to call it a soul condom. um Yeah. ahhuh and when they when they sing on it so much, it becomes hardened.
00:45:21
Speaker
um I heard, I don't remember what podcast this was, but I heard on podcast someone as a bit started calling them penis condoms. Penis condoms? I love the idea and that there's different kinds of condoms.
00:45:36
Speaker
I mean, technically there are. i mean, it is. Yeah. There's a, yeah. You've got a penis condom. Yep. You've got a penis condom. You've got a vagina condom. You've got soul condoms. Yeah. um You can buy condoms for your wine. Uh-huh.
00:45:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's condoms for everything.
00:45:58
Speaker
Some of them, not every single one has spermicide. I don't imagine the Hun Moon has spermicide. No, yeah. I mean, it can cause yeast infections, too. You've careful with that shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. um But yeah, so they've got their little soul condom.
00:46:13
Speaker
But every time they sing and people are fans of their music, their souls grow and glow a little lighter and it helps to add to the um strength of the Han Moon.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yes. And what the demons are trying to do is break that so that they can eat the souls because they eat souls. Yes. And we meet Kima, ah which is like the Lord of Demons, who is this like fiery mouth.
00:46:41
Speaker
um And the demons are represented by the color pink in this in this movie. So everything that's pink is kind of demon related, which like, okay. Yeah. Okay. Shots fired on Barbie, I guess.
00:46:53
Speaker
Right? And we cut down to hell. Yeah. And we see ah Kima is like, you know, talking to his demons and punishing the ones who fail to take out Huntrix when a mysterious demon um wearing a gat shows up. Gats are traditional Korean hats.
00:47:16
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, which are like round. They look kind of like what you would like call an old pilgrim hat, but without the buckle. And they have like a thing that comes. Yeah.
00:47:27
Speaker
They're also transparent. Um, almost. They're transparent. Really? Yeah. They're less so in this movie, but in real life. Yeah. They are. Um, it's very thin fabric stretched across bamboo. And so it's, you can see it's translucent, I guess I should say. Yeah.
00:47:42
Speaker
Oh, I didn't know that. um okay. There you go. The more you know. um But yeah, he's wearing one. He's rocking it. He's looking hot as hell. You cannot see his face. But you can see his sly smile.
00:47:57
Speaker
And there's there's there's five of them. And he says to Kima, um I have an idea. i a let me Let me do this. Like, we'll create a demon boy band to to battle them for the the souls of the fans. And this movie is very, like...
00:48:15
Speaker
on the nose, like pop music. Like it's all about the fans. Like the fans are the most important thing in the world. And they're battling for the, the, the soul of these fans. And like, it's a popular supernatural thing. Like belief is important.
00:48:28
Speaker
Like a lot of people all feeling of a certain emotion is a powerful spiritual weapon, which I do appreciate. Yeah. i yeah And, and Kima's like, well, why are you doing this? And he goes, I want you to take the memories away.
00:48:42
Speaker
and he's like, fine deal. I'll do that. Yeah, because you learn that um when you become a demon um and you sell your soul, your shame is what festers. It is your shame. it is yeah that That is what creates the marks on your skin.
00:48:58
Speaker
It is your internalized shame literally showing through. it Oh, right. We didn't mention. um The demons have ah these tattoos, what they call the pattern. It looks like purple lightning bolts running down their skin, and that's what identifies them as a demon.
00:49:15
Speaker
Yeah. And um we also learn that Rumi has them as well, but she's been hiding them from everyone her whole life, and she always wears high neck and long sleeves. Yeah.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah. Well, she only wears long sleeves until after Golden is released and they spread.
00:49:33
Speaker
Oh, to her neck, you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they spread to her neck and that it affects her voice. And then from the rest, from then on until like the end of the movie, she's in like turtlenecks and like high neck stuff.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yes. the entirety of the movie.
Rumi's Struggles and Relationships
00:49:46
Speaker
But we'll get, we get to that. Yeah. We'll get to that. We're kind of jumping around a bit. That's okay. I feel like everybody's seen this. If you haven't, go watch it.
00:49:55
Speaker
It's great. it's It's so fun, yeah. it's ah So yeah, they release she releases Golden without discussing it with her ah with her partners yeah and makes them not have a break or vacation at all. Yep.
00:50:07
Speaker
And they have the best, most quotable moment in the movie that they repeat again, which is just walk into your couch going, couch, couch, couch, couch. say that every day.
00:50:20
Speaker
i say that every day When I leave work. Yeah, it's couch, couch, couch. Couch, couch, couch. I love it. And they don't spend much time on the couch because every time they want to go to the couch, Ruby decides they're not. ah yeah They're not taking a break. She's workaholic.
00:50:37
Speaker
um it's a problem, Rumi. You need to learn how to get some self-care. Yeah. So then we get Golden. So we get, like, the release of their music video, which is done, ah we see, which is, like, very classic K-pop style.
00:50:52
Speaker
Um... Charlie and I used to go to this um Korean restaurant next to our condo um called Danson, which was um sort of made. I know I've told you about it a lot. If you're in Lincoln Square, go to Danson. It's fucking fantastic.
00:51:07
Speaker
It's sort of it's not ah your traditional Korean restaurant. It's made to feel like you're walking down the street in Seoul and you're just getting like street food. um but it's like a restaurant.
00:51:18
Speaker
It's really good. um And their whole thing is that all the windows are blacked out because they want you to feel like you're on a night out, even in the middle of the day. And um every single TV is just showing K-pop videos just constantly.
00:51:35
Speaker
um And that is that is the whole vibe. And so that is what i introduced me really to K-pop when I started getting really obsessed with K-pop was um when we would go to dance and was like, oh, this is kind catchy.
00:51:47
Speaker
Oh, look at them dance. Oh, look at this. I like this. um And I go home singing all the K-pop songs. So um then I had to listen to it some more. And then we had to keep going back to dancing. And it's a never-ending circle.
00:52:00
Speaker
But no, seriously, go to dancing. It's great. And I remember seeing like so many music videos that look just like this with like, oh like the streak of sun on her face, like her on the back of like, uh, they're extremely high budget, extremely, um, um, meticulously produced, um,
00:52:20
Speaker
million costume changes usually um there's a very specific like style and motif with each video and honestly with each so this is a single um but k-pop generally releases like they'll do i can't think of what they call it but it's like um what we would call an era um yeah but the era lasts usually an album and two eps or one ep and or like a trilogy of eps or sometimes two albums. It's, it's hard to say.
00:52:48
Speaker
yeah And there'll be a storyline throughout that, um throughout that era. um So this is, ah this is the start of the new era yeah for them is what it's doing. Yeah.
00:53:00
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um And so they release it. It's fabulous. Everyone's doing great. And then it cuts to them ah rehearsing because they're going to do it live for the first time instead of taking a break.
00:53:12
Speaker
um And as Rumi goes to hit her high note, she can't. It's a very high note also. It's a very high note. It's very impressive. And her voice cracks. And then we see her rushing off stage and she goes to the bathroom and you see that her patterns have spread up to her voice.
00:53:31
Speaker
And so it is literally her shame is taking her voice away. um And she's so insistent on, this is when we learned that she is half demon, half hunter.
00:53:44
Speaker
yeah ah Her dad was demon. Her Her mom, K-pop star and demon hunter, uh, fucked a demon. Yeah. Yeah. Essentially. And I want to know that story. I want that movie.
00:53:55
Speaker
Exactly. Right. yeah Um, I need to know what happened there. Exactly. because yeah, her mom is dead. We don't really know anything about it. Um, yeah so Celine, we get some flashbacks. We know that Celine, her, um, adopted mother, um,
00:54:09
Speaker
knows about her patterns and has insisted that she keep it secret, um, yeah her, her whole life. And just very, um, non-budging on this, uh, on this issue. Um, because it shows her saying like, well, maybe my, you know, maybe, um, my friends would understand. And she's like, no, no.
00:54:28
Speaker
Um, because her whole thing is that once they seal the Hun Moon, once they make it golden, um then all the demons will be, um, forced back to the demon realm and her patterns will disappear.
00:54:41
Speaker
But like, we don't have any proof for that. That's what's going to happen. That's true. They just say that. Yeah. This is just a hypothesis. um It very well could go that she could also get dragged down to the demon realm.
00:54:54
Speaker
That's true. Yeah. So like, we don't know, but ah Celine's very insistent that that's, what's going to happen. And that's, you know, it's very much like a very like, you know, helicopter stern parent. That's like, no, this is my way, the highway, like, you know, you're going to steal the honeymoon and your pounds will go away. And then we don't ever have to talk about this again.
00:55:14
Speaker
It's not like a close relationship, which she has with Selene, really. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And um so she runs away and she's freaking out. And the rest of the hunter Huntrixes are just like, it's okay.
00:55:27
Speaker
Don't worry about it. Don't stress about it. Your voice is going to come back. And Zoe's like, take you to this guy who, like, he's got these tonics and it's going to be great. An herbalist, yeah like Eastern medicine guy. Yeah.
00:55:41
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And so um they go to go see the herbalist and he's sort of like a, um what is it? Like a celeb.
00:55:54
Speaker
He's Healer Han. He has like all this stuff with his face on it. Yeah. yeah and he's Played by Daniel Dae Kim, famous Korean American actor who... Very interesting choice.
00:56:08
Speaker
Has been in a movie that we've watched on this show, maybe? Maybe not. He was. He was the boyfriend in... Always be my maybe. Always be my maybe. But an interesting choice to make, Hottie McHotpants, Daniel Dae Kim...
00:56:24
Speaker
this like crazy, like, um I don't want to say con man, but like you find out that his tonics are just great juice.
00:56:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And that like, he just like, he just does this to get pictures with celebrities and, you know um all of that anyways so they get the tonics and they're walking back and they run into this group of boys and you get this scene which is another one of emma's fun facts emma's fun facts you get the scene where the saja boys and the huntrix they meet and uh genu sort of like
00:57:07
Speaker
walks past Rumi and like brushes her shoulder and she like falls. Um, where we get sort of the song love maybe, and the visuals are all referenced to a, um, K drama called business proposal.
00:57:23
Speaker
Um, and because this is an exact beginning reference of business proposal, Um, and, uh, Maggie Kang, the director did admit that the character of Jinwoo was inspired mainly by K-drama actors.
00:57:37
Speaker
Um, she named, and I apologize for my pronunciation of this, Cha Yoon Woo and Nam Joo Hyuk as the leading men on the inspiration boards. Um, but also, uh, the lead is played by, in business proposals, played by the guy who voices Jinwoo. Um,
00:57:55
Speaker
So that's like a fun little inside. And that's on Hyo Sepp. um Yeah. Yeah. And so that's like a fun little like Easter egg for um fans of that actor. Yeah. yeah um Yeah.
00:58:11
Speaker
And so she thinks that he's going to give her his hand to help her up and he doesn't. He like brushes his hair and he goes, watch yourself. ah Watch yourself. Yeah.
00:58:22
Speaker
Which... Wow. Wow, buddy. And then we get um the other two are literally, their eyes are turning into corn because and then popcorn because of the abs.
00:58:36
Speaker
It's so good. This was a moment where Charlie literally laughed out loud. and scenario but So what's her name? of ah Zoe's eyes are turning into popcorn and are popping into a bowl that Mira is then eating with chopsticks. It's so good.
00:58:54
Speaker
Fantastic. yeah All because they are, um ah you know, just checking out this guy's abs. Yeah, it's um it's the abs and then well, well, Zoe likes mystery. Oh, yeah.
00:59:07
Speaker
Yeah, but they do. Yeah, it's they yeah. ah Mira is ah likes, likes Abby. at Well, yeah like likes hates. And Zoe ah is obsessed with mystery. Yeah, who has a hair that covers most of his face.
00:59:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So you don't know what his face looks like. Looks suspiciously like Jimin, Jesus Christ. Jimin from ah ah from BTS. Yeah. It's also said that they used the exact same, um like, model, like, animated model for all of the Saja boys, with the exception of Gino and Abby. Abby, they just, like, buffed up a few times.
00:59:45
Speaker
um And Gino, obviously, because he's, you know, ah more of, like, a main character. um Right, right, right, right. Abby looks... um ah Looks more like ah my my favorite ah member of BTS, who is Namjoon.
01:00:00
Speaker
Ah, gotcha, gotcha. He's a big boy. He's ripped. Um, but yeah. And, and so they see that and they go, who are these douchebags? Whatever. And they're walking along and, um, oh my gosh, all of a sudden, why are there so many people out? What's going on? There's a random concert that's going on in the square. And, uh, wouldn't you know it?
Huntrix vs. Saja Boys
01:00:24
Speaker
It's the boys. It's the Saja boys. And we get our second banger or sorry, our third banger, I should say, cause we've already gotten golden. Um, So we get our third banger, Song of the Summer, Soda Pop.
01:00:35
Speaker
It is. I mean, yeah, it's it's crazy. I was in like Walgreens or something and they were playing it. um Did not expect that. And Soda Pop, one thing I love about the Saja Boy songs is that they're very lyrically transparent about yeah eating your soul. Oh, yeah.
01:00:50
Speaker
Soda Pop is um is very much like, you're my little soda pop. I'm going to drink you up. Yep. You are, um I'm going to get you. But although yeah nobody's listening to that, you know? Nope, nope. All they can hear is the like the beat and how cute everybody is. And so then this has like entered in.
01:01:11
Speaker
Oh, and then they're like blowing hearts at the fans that are actually hitting them. And so yeah the girls are like, oh my God, they're demons. And Amira's like, well, let's kill them. And everyone's like, no, no, no. There's too many people around.
01:01:23
Speaker
We can't do that right now. Well, and they talk about like, well, it seems like it's just like, you know, they're making people happy. So maybe they're nice demons, um but they're not. Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:34
Speaker
They're not. They are slowly... what What you see by the such Saja boys getting popular is that their popularity and the splitting of the love for Huntrix is creating holes in the Hunmoon, which is allowing demons to come in.
01:01:50
Speaker
And then we get a really dark moment later on in the movie where you see that the amount of missing people has skyrocketed. and you're like... They're not just eating their souls.
01:02:02
Speaker
They're murdering people. Yes, they are. Yeah. Well, I mean, think. Straight Yeah, because they're on the train later and like all the people are gone. All the people are gone. That's an entire train car.
01:02:13
Speaker
Yeah. Well, here's what I think. Here's what I think. And again, one thing I like about this movie is that it doesn't get into the details about these things. It leaves it up to you to kind of decide. I think these people are not necessarily dead, but have like become taken over by the demons and later, like maybe come back.
01:02:30
Speaker
um Okay. But again, It does not say that. It does not say. For all we know, they're being literally murdered. Yeah. um ah Yeah. And so then we get like a few different scenes of them participating. They follow them to the bathhouse first. Yes.
01:02:51
Speaker
oh yeah They follow them to the bathhouse and they're like, you came to the men's bathhouse? Gross. And then they're like, they're like you're demons, we're going to kill you. And they're like, oh yeah? And so they stick a bunch of water demons on them.
01:03:04
Speaker
um Which is a cool sequence and they fight them off. But then um a really cute little bit is they walk away and then one of the old men there like sings soda pop to himself. And when he does that, a demon comes up and sucks his soul out of his back because he's got the song in his head, which is. Yeah.
01:03:22
Speaker
cool yeah but What you see in this fight is um Zoe and Mira are mainly fighting all the water demons, but Rumi is so intensely um like narrowed in on Geno. They are fighting and she's like, I'm going to kill you!
01:03:38
Speaker
And then he cuts off part of her um her costume and it reveals that she's got the patterns. And he goes, you've got patterns. And he's sort of like, you start to see that Genu is a um complex, a morally gray character.
01:03:53
Speaker
and He's not all bad. he ah He's confused. And um he she's like nervous because she's afraid that her um friends are going to see that her patterns and that's going to be a whole thing. And he sort of senses that. And so he grabs her, turns her as they're fighting and wraps a cloth around the slice that he's made in her outfit, like protecting her.
01:04:19
Speaker
And so that's when we start to get a little like, ooh, feels. Yeah. oh buddy yeah um and uh and then they they some time passes and they start to see that the city has got holes in the han moon like there's pink that's starting to appear in sections of the city yeah um and then we meet um the best character in the film Characters.
01:04:44
Speaker
Sorry. Right, right, right. It's plural. Yeah. the ah The tiger and the bird who I believe have names but are not named in the movie. They do because originally they were meant to be the narrators of the film.
01:05:00
Speaker
I think it works better this way. Yeah, it was um meant to it was sort of reworked because it works better. Number one, they thought that like getting for the American audience, like going into sort of the like um mythology of Korean mythology was like it was like a little bit too much.
01:05:17
Speaker
um and Their names are Derpy and Susie. um ah Sussy. Derpy the tiger and Sussy the magpie. Yeah. yeah ah Sussy the magpie looks so fucking cool. it's a little It's a little magpie wearing a got the hat with six eyes, but the eyes go down its neck on either side of its head.
01:05:42
Speaker
yeah And Derpy the tiger is ah ah big blue stupid cat. It's so cute. Who just loves trash cans and like little things of our. loves buckets apparently.
01:06:01
Speaker
It's very much its namesake. Derpy is very derpy. My favorite quote comes later in the movie when Gino and Rumi are meeting up and she goes, okay, here's my question. Why is the bird wearing a hat?
01:06:15
Speaker
And he goes, well, I made the hat for the tiger, but the bird took it and won't give it back. Yeah, because magpies steal things. That's their whole deal. um ah it's great they are they are so they are part of like korean mythology um they're um they're not evil uh spirits but they are uh korean supernatural um creatures that help usher people uh to the land of the dead i believe yes yeah yeah um and they look cool as hell um yeah they look cool as hell and they're adorable
01:06:47
Speaker
Yeah, this this extended comedy scene where the cat is like Derpy is walking towards her and knocks over a flower pot and keeps trying to write it but cannot. And she's like, oh, well, let me help you. Let me help you with that.
01:07:01
Speaker
It's so good. It's so fucking good. But it they it leaves it brings her messages from Genu. And it has a um it like opens its mouth and a letter slides off of its tongue. And it's like, hey, come meet me from Genu.
01:07:15
Speaker
Yeah. And so she starts like secretly meeting Genu. And they have these these conversations about, you know, fair their lives. And this is when he tells her his story.
01:07:29
Speaker
Yeah. Well, the story that he tells her. Right. And he says that he yeah you know, he's like 100 years old or hundreds of years old. He's 400 years old.
01:07:41
Speaker
Sorry. 400 years old. And his whole deal was he was super poor and he tried basking in the street to like get money for his family, for his mom and his sister But like they were always going hungry and they were always starving. And so one day, like he, his, like his shame and his, um, the voices in his head just finally got to a place where, um, the demon King could enter them. And he was like, I will give you what you want. If you give, if you become a demon for me, um, and give me your soul. And he, uh, he says, yes.
01:08:13
Speaker
And he tells Rumi that he he said yes so that he and his family could then overnight go to the palace and they their bellies were full for the rest of their lives.
01:08:23
Speaker
um Until he got turned into a demon and was sent to hell away from his his mother and sister. And Kima betrayed him in that way, which is what he tells her, which is not true.
01:08:37
Speaker
Which is not true. And that's revealed later on. That he lied and he basically um did it all for himself and was selfish and abandoned his mother and sister, which they make his mom and real young.
01:08:52
Speaker
yeah Well, I mean, it's the 1600s. Oh, that's true. So probably, yeah. People... um ah like the uh yeah yeah i thought it might have been his wife at first but he says his mom later yeah um but again we don't know how old he is he's probably like 15 or 16 um in this uh so yeah so he lived for a few years in the palace and uh but he uh his presumably his his mother and sister like starved to death um and his shame bubbled up and turned him into a demon yeah
01:09:23
Speaker
Something that we that we see happen in this movie is that um when you are full of of shame ah and um and and regret, ah Kima starts whispering to you. Yeah. um And we see that happen later on in the movie to other characters as well. Yeah.
01:09:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And like your eyes turn all yellow and stuff and, you know, you become more demon-y um because you are overtaken by your shame. um And so so we we see that they're like meeting up and stuff and Zoe and Mira are like, what's going on with you, Rumi? Like, why are you being like so – like, you know, hot and cold. And then like, cause we get like, they go to a like a reality show, ah that the Saja boys are doing and, um, they, uh, go to go kill them, but the Saja boys see them and they're just like, welcome hunt tricks. And now we're all going to play these games.
01:10:17
Speaker
they humiliate them. Yeah. And they humiliate them. And then, um, we see a signing where the Saja boys are there. They show up and they go, Hey, we just wanted to wish you well.
01:10:28
Speaker
Um, and and so they're like, everybody, we're going to have a dual signing. And then Rumi sees that it's separating the fans. He goes, no, no, no. One signing. Everybody at the same table. And it starts like all these like, um, rumors, uh, across like, you know,
01:10:45
Speaker
social media and everything of like people like shipping her and genu and shipping like everyone there's uh zoe and mystery and um mira's in a thruple ah Yeah. yeah Yeah.
01:11:02
Speaker
And i'm I'm here for it. Yeah. and and abby yeah yeah and ah And so you see that and um essentially like she's trying to balance out and work out because Genu is not all bad. And so like and she knows that she's not all bad. And so she's just like she is torn as to like what to do.
01:11:27
Speaker
It's very Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. um Because like she wants to seal the Hun Moon to get rid of her patterns. And so she comes up with a um ah proposition for Genu, which is help us.
01:11:41
Speaker
um If you help us, you know, win. Oh, this is all leading up to like the like the awards. Yeah. Yeah. The idol awards, the g Grammy awards of like the world or of Korea. I don't know. Yeah.
01:11:53
Speaker
Yeah. If it's a real award show. um But like. They ah have a bunch of award shows in Korea. Yeah. Oh, nice. And they're all huge deals. Yeah. Yeah. Just like here.
01:12:04
Speaker
Just like here. Korea. They're just like us. I would say they they they're they're much more. i mean, like, yeah, they're they're much, a they're much bigger deal in Korea than the award shows America. The music award shows in in ah in America, or at least. I mean, like.
01:12:18
Speaker
Who watches the AMAs? like That's true. No one. Not me. Nah. So yeah, so it's leading up to the Idol Awards. And um you... So the whole thing is that like if they win the Idol Awards and they like get their fans back, then they can seal the Hun Moon.
01:12:36
Speaker
That's Rumi's whole like thought process. and then um And so she's like, help us... Beat you guys. And. At the idol awards. So that we can win. And then seal the honeymoon. And then you don't have to go back to hell. You can stay. Your patterns will go away.
01:12:53
Speaker
Just like my patterns will go away. Because as they could get this really beautiful duet. Where they're like st
Romantic Tensions and Internal Conflicts
01:12:59
Speaker
singing. My one. My one issue with this movie. My one issue.
01:13:04
Speaker
There's no kissing. There's no kissing. Yeah. Disappointing. It's true. um from But they get that beautiful duet.
01:13:16
Speaker
Yes. So they have takedown. So the the girls are writing a song called takedown for the award show. And it's very much like, it's a, it's like a hard, it's a diss track against the Saja boys calling them demons saying they're, you know, they're going to, your patterns are going to show and we're going to tear you apart is the lyrical idea of,
01:13:38
Speaker
take down And then Rumi keeps not being able to get behind it. She's like, it's I don't want this to be a thing of hate. And she goes, well, we do hate them and we're going to steal the Han Moon and then they're all going to be a suffer forever. She's like, oh, eternal suffering. Sounds fun.
01:13:53
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. But she has sympathy for these people because she knows that not all of these demons are, you know, evil creatures. Like some of them are are people who were- you know, who who lost something or yeah how this, and she knows that, you know, she's part demon. So yeah, she had to like, and like some of these demons like had to like make sacrifices to, yeah um you know, survive.
01:14:17
Speaker
And so like, there are several like fight scenes that we see where I think like the one during takedown where she's like trying to talk to a demon as she's fighting it being like, are you just like Genu? Yeah.
01:14:28
Speaker
did you, do you have a soul too? Or like, do are you being held captive as well? And, um and it's just confusing and throwing off um Zoe and Mira. And they're like, I just don't understand. And this is where we get the, like the fight on the train, which is intense and insane and giant because there's like thousands and thousands of demons coming at them.
01:14:52
Speaker
And they ultimately lose. Cause the demons take all the people on the train. Yeah. Yeah. And so like, um, so Rumi is just sort of like, so they're like falling apart as a group, as well as, um, everything that Rumi has like known is like sort of deteriorating.
01:15:14
Speaker
yeah. But you also get this lovely little like romance between her and Gino in that like he says that she says that like he through their connecting and them meeting up, he fixed her voice because her voice was like her by her shame. But through them meeting up, he fixed her voice. And through them meeting up, he can't hear Kima's voice.
01:15:37
Speaker
Yeah. ki Kima's voice is strongly anymore. is It's weird because the um the romanization of it is spelled G-W-I-M-A, but they pronounce it Kima. Kima, yeah. So that's what I'm saying. it could be wrong, but it's that's that's what I get out of it, yeah.
01:15:53
Speaker
Gotcha. um message us if it is wrong and correct us and we will correct. Um, but yeah. And so like they're helping each other and they're like slowly falling in love and, um, you know, and he agrees. He's just like, yeah, I'll make sure that the Saja boys lose.
01:16:11
Speaker
Um, I'll make sure that that, works you know, happens. And then he's like dragged back down to the demon realm and, um,
01:16:21
Speaker
demon king douchebag is like, hu you thought you could trick me and like get around. Uh, no, no, no, no. Um, don't forget who you really are. And he brings up all of his past shame. And that's when you find out that he lied and, um, that everything and that like, it's like, he wasn't a great person.
01:16:42
Speaker
Um, and his shame is like resurged. And so he's like, yeah, i guess fuck that. but And then we get the Idol Awards where we get Huntrix has like come back together. They like had a heart to heart. And Rumi is like, we we should do a song that like means something to seal the honeymoon. That is about us. So we should do Golden. And so they do Golden.
01:17:05
Speaker
And they begin to perform it. And you get this fantastic performance of Golden. Mm-hmm. And um Zoe and Mira go off stage for ah Rumi's solo. And she goes up on like one of those little like circus like hula hoop things.
01:17:21
Speaker
um And as she's going up there, they see Bobby being taken away by demons. There's a bigger part in the movie than we have alluded in this. We should say we've kind of looked.
01:17:33
Speaker
ah skated over the existence of Bobby but yeah but he's there he's just he's fun uh we had to we had to steal some of his chat time for um for for Derpy yeah um ah and so he's being dragged away by demons and they go after to save him but it's an illusion ah that's so that the demons created to make him look like Bobby Bobby's fine But they're separating our girls.
01:18:01
Speaker
And um so Rumi's alone on stage and then Takedown starts playing. Yeah. And then demons who are illusioned to look like um Zoe and Mira show up on stage and they start singing Takedown. But then they, the girls, start singing Takedown to her. Like we can see her patterns and they rip her sleeves off and expose her demon patterns. Yeah.
01:18:27
Speaker
And say they're going to kill her. And so she thinks they've turned on her because she thinks it's them. And they get
Climactic Battle and Resolution
01:18:33
Speaker
into a big fight, and they which we which the news takes as them breaking up on stage. Yeah, exactly.
01:18:39
Speaker
and what And then we see... um mirror the actual mira and zoe running back to the stage only to see rumi on stage by herself like trying to cover her patterns but still having her patterns and they well it's gotten worse it's all over her face now her eye has turned yellow yeah yeah yeah and so like it's they're like so instead of this whole like oh my god are you okay they're just so um just you know overtaken by the amount of lies that she's told them and like the fact that they don't really know her at all and that just adds to Rumi's shame and so Rumi goes oh and then we get other banger your idol
01:19:26
Speaker
Right. Well, we're not quite there yet because, um yeah, so this breakup happens or whatever, and um and they leave, and she tries to find Genu, and he's like, it was all a trap. You know, pain and misery is all we deserve. And he's like, and then on the news, he's like, sorry to hear that, you know, Huntrix broke up, and so to console you, Saja boys are doing a live concert with a new song.
01:19:48
Speaker
And then... They win all the awards because Huntrix is not a band anymore, so aren't eligible. Okay. Yeah. um I don't think that's how awards work. And so they've gotten they've they've gotten everybody. Everybody's, like, turning pink, and we see everybody, Bobby and and Zoe and Mira, all hear Kima's voice in their head telling them, yeah you know,
01:20:12
Speaker
getting like getting their insecurities and everybody kind of becomes hypnotized as this pink light is everywhere. And they're all moving toward this like tower where the Saja boys are doing their final song.
01:20:23
Speaker
Yeah. And this is, this is when they, ah perform your idol, but they're like fully demons. Like they're all wearing the gats and their faces and their, their bodies are all demonified, but nobody can really see. Yeah.
01:20:35
Speaker
Nobody can really see that. um And then like, and um and while this is happening, Rumi is um writing to Selene and she's like, um the ah I don't know if like, this is the honeymoon that I want to protect. If it is sort of like you know, this sort of like black and white. I don't like that. And she's like, well, tough cookies.
01:20:59
Speaker
And she goes, well, tough cookies to you because look at me now, bitch. Yeah. And she disappears into a ball of smoke. Um, like the demons have been doing. yeah. The lyrics to your idol, uh, got your heart. Now I want your soul. I'm the, he, and also says, I'm the only one who can love your sins. Uh, I'm all you need. I'm your idol.
01:21:19
Speaker
So yeah on the nose, uh, these are bad guys lyrics. Yeah, yeah exactly. um Rumi confronts Kima and starts singing. She apologizes to her girlies and they start singing too.
01:21:32
Speaker
um And ah they have to fight Kima. And then Gino jumps in and he holds back Kima and he says, um you had you gave me my soul back. You gave soul back.
01:21:46
Speaker
And now I give it to you. And he like turns into a soul and becomes her sword. ah yeah And then she like slices Kima in half. Yeah. the And then the other girls kill the rest of the members of Saja boys.
01:22:01
Speaker
Yep. Yep. It's a little bit. appreciate. violent It's not like but like, it's not like they sing and turn into smoke or anything. They tear them to pieces with weapons. Yep. Yep. Yep.
01:22:12
Speaker
They literally go, I don't like abs are out. Yeah. Yeah. um And all the people ah start like, you know, they're they're singing while they're doing this and they're singing the the last song, um which has a name, presumably.
01:22:29
Speaker
Yeah. um It's not as catchy. This is what it sounds like. The Wikipedia page is so huge. Yeah, this is what it sounds like. Yeah. um And everybody's souls start turning From pink to blue, um a little anti-feminist, if you ask me, but whatever. Yeah, whatever. Pink and blue. are That's an American in interpretation of of male and female. That's not what they're doing.
01:22:51
Speaker
um And their souls start filling up the Han Moon. Yep. And um evil is ah defeated.
01:23:02
Speaker
And um that her tattoos turn white instead of ah purple. So they're like less noticeable, but they're still there. But she still has her shame, but she's learned to accept it and she's learned to handle it.
01:23:16
Speaker
And then they get to go to the bathhouse, which she would never do because she couldn't show her tattoos. Exactly. And then we do this bit where they're like, we're going to take a break. and they're like, couch, couch, couch, couch. And then they see these little girls wearing like Huntrick shirts. they're like, we're not taking a break. We're going to work until we're dead. Exactly.
01:23:31
Speaker
The end
Conclusion and Future Hopes
01:23:32
Speaker
of the movie. K-pop Demon Hunters. K-pop Demon Hunters. Yeah. It was a great film. I loved it. Charlie loved it. um My niece loves it. Everyone loves it. It's a fucking fun ass fantastic film.
01:23:48
Speaker
um Please give me kissing in the sequel. Yeah, we got to kiss. We got to get kissing. Yeah. You can't give mes you know cannot give me a beautiful duet where they are floating together singing about how much they love each other and not have kissing.
01:24:03
Speaker
Yeah. He needs to come out of the sword. and Yeah. That'll be the sequel. We got to get him out of the sword and then they kiss about it. then they got to get out of the sword and then he's got to get his sword. Okay.
01:24:16
Speaker
It's rated PG. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, shall we out? Or what are doing next week? Next week, we are continuing on the theme of in-between these movies that are not really rom-coms, and we are watching Magic Mike.
01:24:27
Speaker
I love that. Amazing. More like straightforward horny than K-pop human hunters, for sure. Yes. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends, and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
01:24:43
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01:24:57
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01:25:10
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01:25:21
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