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Dumb and Dumber Review: Why It's Still One of the Greatest Comedies Ever Made
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Is *Dumb and Dumber* still one of the funniest comedies ever made? Join the Certified Gervais Podcast as we review the 1994 Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels classic, breaking down the funniest scenes, unforgettable quotes, behind-the-scenes trivia, and whether the film still holds up today. If you're a fan of comedy movies, movie reviews, and hilarious podcast discussions, this episode is for you. **SEO Keywords:** Dumb and Dumber review, Dumb and Dumber podcast, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, comedy movie review, Farrelly Brothers, 90s comedy, funniest movies ever, movie podcast, film review, comedy podcast, movie discussion, classic comedy, Certified Gervais Podcast
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Podcast Introduction and YouTube Challenges
00:00:40
Speaker
hello everyone welcome back to the certified jarvis podcast as always i am steven jarvis and with me as always alissa alyssa just alissa no no jarvis in there well i mean people can assume i mean they already know we're married so i don't know about that um it So today before we get into today's episode, I just want to say we are working on a new intro to the show.
00:01:13
Speaker
Me and Alyssa, we do love our intro, but it's like at the same time, it's it's not certified yet. So but that and I kind of got tired of getting copyright strike for no fucking reason.
00:01:27
Speaker
Fucking YouTube.
Upcoming Special Episode Tease
00:01:28
Speaker
um So maybe in the next near future or maybe on the special edition of our very first guest appearing on the show.
00:01:41
Speaker
Wait, we have a guest appearing soon? Yes, we do. but But more about that near the end of the show because we kind of want to do something that we really love to do.
Nostalgia for 'Dumb and Dumber'
00:01:52
Speaker
And we're going back to 1994.
00:01:56
Speaker
Alyssa's not born yet. I'm at this point probably one maybe. So we're talking about the 1994 classic Dumb and Dumber.
00:02:07
Speaker
And why it's still of the greatest comedies ever made. So Alyssa... What do you think about when someone says dumb and dumber?
00:02:21
Speaker
Hmm. I think that it's time to grab a snack, sit back, and watch a fucking movie.
00:02:35
Speaker
ah Dumb and Dumber comes off of Jim Carrey's Summer of 94, where he had not just one, not just two, but three hit movies.
00:02:46
Speaker
The Mask, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber. Three hit movies in one year. ah That I don't think will ever happen ever again. i don't even think The Rock could do it.
00:03:04
Speaker
Right. I mean, this movie, and I know some people dispute this, but this is Jim Carrey. 94 was Jim Carrey at his best.
00:03:16
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, to have three movies come out in the same year and each one's a hit. like Right. that Never. Almost unheard of.
00:03:27
Speaker
Yeah. so I have a question for you. When was the first time that you ever watched the movie? think I was like six.
00:03:38
Speaker
Okay, so you were a hell of lot younger than I was. But but I didn't watch the unrated version that they had. I watched the straight up theatrical version.
00:03:50
Speaker
And I think I came in the very first time, ah my dad was laughing on his ass off so much. And I went out to see what he was laughing about this back when we still lived on Newman Trail.
00:04:03
Speaker
when him and mom were still married and and they're both laughing in the living room. And I i peeked my head out. I'm like, what the heck? And my brother Keith is like, what's going on out there? I'm like, i don't know. So I went out there and it's the toilet scene from dumb and dumber where Harry's shitting himself.
00:04:21
Speaker
And like, I was like, is this on TV? And they're like, yeah. And it was edited. I was just like, oh, sucks. I've seen most movies when they're on TV.
00:04:33
Speaker
But here's the thing. i told my parents, I'm like, does it come back on? Because it was part of, i don't know if you remember this, but remember TBS back in like the 90s where it would like show movies all the time? Like it would be like on the weekends.
00:04:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yep. And um they they showed that. So I literally told them, like, is this movie going to be on again? And they're like, yeah, it's going to be on right after this. I'm like, can I watch it?
00:05:04
Speaker
And they're like, yeah. So then I was like, come and get me and Keith. Or come and get me when that time comes. And, course, my brother's already out there. He's seen it before I have. So he he he stays out there. I'm in the bedroom playing Sega, which was Sonic.
00:05:22
Speaker
And so when it came back on, I went out there and I, walked oh my God, I laughed.
00:05:30
Speaker
I was a mut much older than you were when I first saw it. Because the first time that I saw it was actually first time I saw it with you. well because So I was in my 20s.
00:05:47
Speaker
How your parents never let you watch that movie before is, that that's just blasphemy.
Jim Carrey's Comedic Genius
00:05:54
Speaker
And like your dad would laugh at that movie if he's never seen it. Oh, 100%. Like I would love for him to say he wouldn't laugh at it.
00:06:05
Speaker
Like I, I won't even show him the theatrical version. I'll show him the unrated version. boy. Yeah, like that, that is so fucking unhinged, like them in the hot tub scene and Lloyd's listening to the two people next door having sex through the wall with the fucking glass.
00:06:26
Speaker
And he's just, yeah, for Jim Carrey, he's up there with the king of ad libs. I think he's up there with Robin Williams. Oh, I mean, i mean, Robin Williams is still one right And jim Jim Varney is one a and then Jim Carrey can be 1B.
00:06:50
Speaker
I don't think that's a very big stretch. I think that's the best ranking you'd ever get. um Any other thing you want to go with on this?
00:07:03
Speaker
Yeah. ah When...
00:07:11
Speaker
ask me try thought um
00:07:15
Speaker
did your Did your family ever quote the movie growing up? My dad kind of did because me and my brother would always do the most annoying sound in the world when we were when he would be like driving somewhere.
00:07:29
Speaker
Oh my god. I could totally see that. Please don't do that tomorrow to me. Hey, Mark. How are you doing? Hi, Mark.
00:07:41
Speaker
Happy Friday. Happy Friday. um Yeah, like one time we went to... God, where'd we go? don't think it was Mall of America. Maplewood Mall.
00:07:54
Speaker
it was It was like a Friday night and we went to Maplewood Mall. And before the mall went to shit. Or as Mike Myers says, and so I married an ex-murderer before the colonel went tits up.
00:08:06
Speaker
And... and I remember me and my brother were arguing about something. My dad's like, figure fuck up before I turn the car over and I'm like hey dad and he's like what i'm like you want to hear the most annoying sound of world and he's like yeah you could just see him looking in the rearview mirror going like this son of a bitch is gonna do it and I did i was like just like fucking Lloyd and my dad literally slammed the brakes and went like god damn it shut the fuck
00:08:42
Speaker
can totally see that. Oh my god. ah And here's the funny thing. You ever bring that up to my dad, he'll he'll deny it. He'll deny that he went that far.
00:08:55
Speaker
So tomorrow for his birthday... i was I just might have to bring that up tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, but Keith's got to be there too because it was, it oh my god, that was funny as hell.
00:09:07
Speaker
Me and my brother at the same time just... er
00:09:14
Speaker
My poor mom.
00:09:18
Speaker
And roughly how many times do you think you have watched the movie?
00:09:25
Speaker
Probably about as many times I've watched like Blazing Saddles or Tommy Boy. Okay, so too many times to count. Got it. Still not as much as Halloween.
00:09:38
Speaker
too Too many times to count and I'm half as many times to count. It's it's just one of those movies like i don't know what it was. It was just one of those movies that just stuck with me.
00:09:52
Speaker
i think I think it's a movie that sticks with a lot of people. Mm-hmm. um
00:10:03
Speaker
Do you still get excited to rewatch the movie? Oh, hell yeah. I mean, different other quotes me and my brother used to do was the, even though this one got me in real big trouble was kick his ass, sea bass.
00:10:20
Speaker
yeah I said that because dad my dad got in. Oh, and dad, he'll deny this one too. When we were at mall or Maplewood Mall one time, this guy just kept like,
00:10:33
Speaker
yelling at my dad for some reason and my dad's just like my dad turned around and said dude like knock it off and I and just blurted out kick his ass but and the look I got from my mom like you've seen my mom pissed but like that was a look of you are grounded for like five years now that little beanie fish that we got your dad on Our honeymoon.
00:11:06
Speaker
Absolutely makes even more sense. Oh, dude. that Oh, I got to take a picture of that and put that on socials and be like, this is what my wife thinks my dad looks like.
00:11:21
Speaker
Oh, God. We still need to create like a plastic thing of glasses for that thing, too. Right. I gotta figure, i gotta find, we could go to a craft store and get it. They gotta have them.
00:11:39
Speaker
We don't need the big ones. We just need ones put over the, the. Yep. Look just like my dad.
00:11:50
Speaker
So back onto topic here. Means me kind of jumped the shark there for a minute. Um, Do you think that it deserves to be named a comedy classic?
00:12:05
Speaker
Well,
Is 'Dumb and Dumber' a Comedy Classic?
00:12:06
Speaker
yeah. I mean, you you had Jim Carrey in it. I mean, even with Mrs. Doubtfire, you know, you could call it a drama movie or or a romance movie.
00:12:17
Speaker
At the very heart, it's still a comedy. Right. And it is a classic. And to me, it's crazy to think...
00:12:30
Speaker
that classic movie
00:12:36
Speaker
can be named a classic, even though it's like our age of a movie. Well, I mean... That's just like a crazy thought to me. Yeah, you just, you gotta look at it from...
00:12:54
Speaker
like to us, it was a classic to this generation. it It may, may not be. I mean, some of the jokes for today's audience are pretty, pretty messed up, but I mean, like one of the best things I'll ever shout at my dad one day is we got no food. We got no jobs. Our pets heads keep falling off.
00:13:17
Speaker
Yeah. And then, course, my dad. you know pretty I to God we don't have to say are pet's heads fall off, but... i i You know what? i want to watch that with Dad.
00:13:33
Speaker
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be like, hey, Dad, let's watch Dumb and Dumber. And yeah see if see if he'd be like, don't know, Lloyd, the French are assholes. Which is funny, because my dad's French.
00:13:49
Speaker
yeah So here's here's a mind blowing question that I know you already know, but
00:14:01
Speaker
some of the reviewers probably don't know this. Did you know that Jeff Daniels wasn't the studio's first choice?
Casting Choices in 'Dumb and Dumber'
00:14:11
Speaker
Yeah, it was Harland Williams.
00:14:14
Speaker
And do you think anybody else could have played Harry? No. Jim Carrey even went to bat for Jeff Daniels. Because he's like, it should be someone that isn't funny.
00:14:32
Speaker
Which, hearing that about Jeff Daniels is pretty pretty funny in its own because, I mean, he held it. He held that he held his end of the bargain up.
00:14:46
Speaker
Right. I mean... 100%. i I personally can't ever see anybody else being in that role either. Like, i think they just played off of each other so well.
00:15:03
Speaker
And created this ultimate chemistry. And I really don't think that there could have been another actor that could have just blended with Jim Carrey so well.
00:15:18
Speaker
Well, yeah. I mean, Harlan Williams still did a good job as the cop in this movie, but I mean, it' just... You can't have two comedians in there doing...
00:15:33
Speaker
Because then it's it's too much. Right. Where, like, I mean, even when Lloyd does the... ah ah most annoying sound in the world watch Jeff Daniels like he didn't even know that was coming and he's trying not to laugh and then he joins in like Mike Starr tries not to laugh and that's when he reaches for the gun as his character reaches for the gun because he really wanted to fucking shoot Jim Carrey
00:16:11
Speaker
Which, I mean, i i so being in that vehicle, how many takes that probably took, I probably would have wanted to as well. Right.
00:16:21
Speaker
If I was Mike Stark.
00:16:26
Speaker
So here's here's another theoretical question. Okay. If someone has never seen this movie before, how would you convince them to watch it and not make it sound like a ridiculous movie because it is so off the wall, the, the description of the movie that you ultimately would i have to come up with.
00:16:58
Speaker
Um, just start quoting it.
Convincing Others to Watch 'Dumb and Dumber'
00:17:01
Speaker
mean, that's how I got one of my, i mean that's how i got one of my ah I don't know if you've ever met her, but I got one of my girlfriends or ex-girlfriends to watch Jaws for like one of our date nights. And she was definitely afraid of horror movies.
00:17:19
Speaker
And it was so funny having her watch that movie and me and my dad. Back when my dad drank, it would would sing the, show me the way to go home.
00:17:33
Speaker
I'm tired and I want to go to bed. And she was just like, oh my God, you too. But no, like, trying to convince someone to watch Dumb and Dumber would be like trying to convince someone to watch like either horror or like... um
00:17:51
Speaker
God, what's that one movie ah comedy movie that you don't like?
00:17:59
Speaker
Or no, it's a movie you don't like and you won't watch with me.
00:18:04
Speaker
um
00:18:10
Speaker
God, I can't even remember the name of that movie now. But no, it like it was it was like kind of doing that. Or kind of like me trying to get you to watch Monty Python.
00:18:23
Speaker
That was what it was. um Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I tried to get you to watch and you won't watch it because you think British humor beneath you. But yet you you love Top Gear. top gear You love those British guys for some reason.
00:18:42
Speaker
If I could get a listen. Yeah, that is true. um But no, i would I would just quote the movie. I agree. I think that would be the best way.
00:18:56
Speaker
Just because it it doesn't give away the full movie, but like, it's got such off the wall quotes that it really would intrigue someone.
00:19:10
Speaker
yeah Oh, yeah. And what when you were watching the movie,
00:19:22
Speaker
What was the first moment in the movie that actually made you laugh? I got worms. oh um What's the matter? A little worried about the flight?
00:19:42
Speaker
I think you're going to ask, but I, I see the plane ticket. Where are you heading? Aspen. Hmm. California. Beautiful. God. It's like read a fucking map, bro.
00:19:55
Speaker
Right. And I, I think for me, it was like the, the scene where he's driving Mary to the airport. And it's just,
00:20:07
Speaker
chaos behind him because of his driving.
00:20:12
Speaker
Well, I had this i i had a I have a cousin. Well, had this cousin. There's nothing really to worry about, Mary. there Statistics say that you're more likely to die on the way of an airport. It's like, yeah, having you drive, I can see why. ah Right, as there's a fiery semi behind him because he ran the red light. Yeah, yeah.
00:20:36
Speaker
or or one Or when he gets her out of the vehicle. I can't accept that. Hey, how about a hug? And he's just standing there like... And the funny thing is, him and Lauren Holly are married at this point.
00:20:50
Speaker
Like, those two, i feel, were made for each other. Granted, I... I hated how the tabloids in the day treated their relationship because he had just gotten out of a marriage with his first, with, I think his first wife. And then she came into the picture and she felt because the media was calling her a home record that she felt that way. And like, she's even said, she's like, I still, me and Jim Carrey still get along.
00:21:17
Speaker
Right. I love when he, I love van ah when he watches her walk
Iconic Lines and Ad-Libs
00:21:23
Speaker
away. Goodbye, my love. Hi!
00:21:31
Speaker
Sir, you can't go in there. It's okay. I'm a limo driver. What happened to you, Lloyd? oh got fired again. fired again fell off the again.
00:21:45
Speaker
so ah you you you mentioned earlier that this movie came out around the same time that Ace Ventura and The Mask came out.
00:22:01
Speaker
Do you think Jim Carrey's better in this one than either of those other two? Or do you think either of those other two were better than he was in this one?
00:22:17
Speaker
think it's a different Jim Carrey in each movie. I mean, Jim, Jim Carrey did originally want the mask to be rated R because that's the way the comics or whatever are the graphic novels or whatever you want to call them are because the mask turns stinley Stanley Stanley Ipkiss in the but excuse me, pizza's coming back um in the graphic novels or in the comics, the mask turns him into a killer.
00:22:50
Speaker
Because he's been bullied his whole life. he's And the mask helps him go against the tormentors. And like even, ah I know this a little bit talking about the mask now.
00:23:04
Speaker
But like even Doyle, the lieutenant. Or um whatever the lieutenant's name is in that one. He even wears the masks in the comic book.
00:23:16
Speaker
And like Dorian's ah wearing it is so much different. And ah Peggy Brandt, the reporter, she dies in the original cut, but because they wanted to do a sequel and was hoping Jim Carrey would come back, then that's why they didn't do that scene.
00:23:38
Speaker
They filmed it, but they didn't put it in the movie because they're like, well, If both of them come back, like, those two are supposed to end up together some, and then Cameron Diaz's character came into the picture.
00:23:51
Speaker
But she was good looking in that movie. That was actually her first movie.
00:24:00
Speaker
So, getting getting back to like Christmas, yeah let's talk about that guy's confidence, because...
00:24:12
Speaker
So you're telling me there's telling me there's a chance? Telling me there's a chance. Like in a hundred? No, more like one in a million. So you're telling me there's a chance. More like one in a trillion. Like he he he is so reaching. I love that though. So you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah. Use that line on my wife.
00:24:44
Speaker
i don't know what we were talking about that one night, but Alyssa said something and I was like, so you're telling me there's a chance. Oh, please. You say that all the time. So you're telling me there's a chance.
00:24:59
Speaker
So do you think that that line became so legendary just because It's very clearly like a line that's like meaning the exact opposite of what those words together mean. Yeah.
00:25:19
Speaker
I mean that and Jim Carrey just hearing, just literally pouring his heart out to this woman and she's just like, no, not going to happen. And in his mind, it's like, oh, so you're telling me there is a chance.
00:25:37
Speaker
all right
00:25:40
Speaker
so
00:25:42
Speaker
Wait, maybe she meant 10 o'clock at night, you think? I just thought she was a raging alcoholic. or Or the ad-libbed where he's in the bar.
00:25:54
Speaker
He looks at the thing that talks about the moon landing. Oh my god, we landed on the moon! It's like, how fucking stupid could you be? I love that.
00:26:04
Speaker
No way. That was ad-libbed too.
00:26:10
Speaker
I think there was a lot that was ad-libbed in the movie. Oh yeah. um So we've we've talked a lot about Lloyd Christmas and Jim Carrey.
Jeff Daniels vs. Jim Carrey: Performance Debate
00:26:22
Speaker
Let's switch it up and talk a little about bit about Jeff Daniels now. Okay. Do you think he was underrated? Yes.
00:26:35
Speaker
one hundred percent agree I like Like we said earlier, i think i'm I am glad that Jim Carrey went to bat for Jeff Daniels.
00:26:48
Speaker
Because like we both said, I don't think the movie would have been even remotely the same without him. The guy hawked in my burger.
00:26:59
Speaker
The fucked up thing is in the Unraid version, Seabass still eats it. Ew. um And... God damn it. You destroyed my train of thought.
00:27:11
Speaker
ah Quick! Throw a pinch over your left shoulder. just picks up the salt thing. Throws back. The whole fucking salt shaker. If that ever came out that he ad-libbed that, like i would I would be like, damn, that's smart on his part. And that didn't break Jim Carrey, then i don't I'll never watch the movie again. don't know what would. Yeah. um
00:27:40
Speaker
So, have heard that some people think that... Jeff Daniels stole some scenes from Jim Carrey. Do you think that is true?
00:27:57
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, i I see it more as maybe Jim Carrey was like, hey, you know, it would be better if Harry did this, or it'd be better if you let...
00:28:10
Speaker
jeff daniels do this like you know like let him get this i don't think you could steal a scene really from jim carrey in my opinion um right i mean one of my favorite lines is pull over no it's a cardigan but thanks for noticing he's trying to hold the beer hide the beer it's just like
00:28:38
Speaker
gar I know this is a bad time, but when you get get chance, can you pull over? Because I really got pee. What are you, a camel? And then he proceeds to fill up multiple beer bottles. Now he spills it on him and he's just like...
00:28:57
Speaker
At that point, I think Jeff Daniels was like, just wait until he's... Wait, cocksucker. Wait until they yell cut. okay Let's just hope it wasn't actual pee. Let's just hope it was water with yellow food coloring in it. It was water. There's no way in the hell you're peeing that much.
00:29:21
Speaker
If you're peeing that much in that short of time, there's something wrong. Like, your kidneys are fucked. Right. So, another question. Do you think...
00:29:36
Speaker
Lloyd was dumber? Or do you think Harry was dumber? but I think Lloyd. I think harry i agree Harry's character was a little bit smarter because, I mean, Lloyd couldn't read.
00:29:51
Speaker
Right. Well, not not only that, but just in general, the things that Lloyd did versus the things that Harry did...
00:30:04
Speaker
I just immediately thought that Harry was slightly more intelligent. Not much. Like that much more intelligent. and another And just out of the blue, she sends me a John Deere letter.
00:30:25
Speaker
So of all the movie moments in the movie... What is your favorite Harry moment? Him blowing up the toilet.
00:30:41
Speaker
yeah i Because how the hell do you pitch that without someone just going like, hey, I know the crew's in trouble, but it's not that trouble.
00:30:53
Speaker
ah and And then he proceeds to break off the fucking toilet from the entire base to dump it out the window. Like, And see, that doesn't... How it even possible? that does That part where he tears it out and dumps it does not happen in the theatrical part.
00:31:11
Speaker
The part that you see is when he's shitting on the toilet and she comes back and says, you're not using the but toilet, are you? And he's like, no, I'm shaving because the toilet's broken. Well, he throws the... ah the...
00:31:30
Speaker
the ball thing that you have in the toilet, he throws that, but you don't see him pick it up and dump it out. Like it you do in the unrated version. Huh? So like, there's so many different keys. Like even the part where hawks in the burger,
00:31:52
Speaker
you so you You don't see that. you You see him going to do it in the theatrical version, but you don't see it. And you don't see him take it. Like, they literally cut to Harry e' sitting there and then Lloyd saying, hey, I got an idea.
00:32:10
Speaker
I mean, there's there's so many scenes they took out of there, and I understand why, but I mean, if if you go out of your way and haven't seen this movie, go get the unrated version. It is so fucking funny.
00:32:24
Speaker
It is better. Oh, excuse me. I personally have never seen that the theatrical version. I've only ever seen the unrated version. Yeah, you have.
00:32:36
Speaker
we own We originally did own the theatrical version. got think that's I think.
00:32:46
Speaker
No, I think it's the unrated we've only ever owned. Oh. um
00:32:56
Speaker
Because i I only ever remember him taking taking the toilet and dumping it. I don't... Oh, okay. And then, like, another thing, like, this this isn't the only Jim Carrey...
00:33:10
Speaker
project they did like they turned this into a cartoon they turned the mask into a cartoon and they turned ventura into a cartoon although none of them had jim carrey in it which i thought was stupid i mean even they didn't even have jack uh jeff daniels come back as harry for the cartoon and they had a talking fucking beaver in it and it's like really Yeah, like, it was an animated beaver that was, like, smarter than them and, like, would help them along. And it's, like, it was another one of Hanna-Barbera's things that they tried to do in the ninety s that just, it didn't work.
00:33:52
Speaker
Huh. Or Barbaras or whatever the fuck it, Hanna-Barbaras or Barbaras, whatever the fuck it's called. Yeah, don't know how to pronounce it either. um But another few theoretical question.
00:34:07
Speaker
okay Do you think either one of us could survive a road trip with them?
Would a Road Trip with Harry and Lloyd Be Fun?
00:34:15
Speaker
No.
00:34:18
Speaker
No. I'd be too busy in the back dying from laughing. ah i I would absolutely need...
00:34:31
Speaker
headphones with music blaring. Just purely because of the most annoying sound ever. yeah And not to not to mention, they tend to ruffle feathers that I don't think I would ever want ruffled.
00:34:47
Speaker
Gentlemen, do do we have a radio? Radio? Who needs a radio? Are you ready, Harry? Yeah. Hey, look, those are some people that need a ride. Pick them up.
00:35:00
Speaker
They pick up the fucking family. i think they pick up like everybody they ever run into on the side of the road. Lloyd, she's got a gun.
00:35:11
Speaker
Did you pay the gas bill? Because, yes, the people that would run the gas company would be that fucked up. to bring a gun. Like, yeah, okay, Lloyd.
00:35:23
Speaker
you know what you've done? What should we do? when i I say bail.
00:35:34
Speaker
One iconic scene from the movie, or maybe semi-iconic, is At the very beginning of the movie, the dog scene.
00:35:49
Speaker
And the dog man.
00:35:54
Speaker
The shagging wagon? Yes. Do you think... One, do you think that Van is absolutely ridiculous looking? Oh, just the amount that he says he put into that fucking thing. Like, why?
00:36:09
Speaker
Why?
00:36:13
Speaker
Like and any company like that would give you van.
00:36:20
Speaker
Especially nowadays. Like ah when that one job that I almost got where I would be a dog walker and all that literally was going to give me a van to drive. And I kind of wanted to call him and be like, is this a shagging wagon from fucking Dumb and Dumber?
00:36:36
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Because if it is, I'm totally, I'm totally driving that fucking thing. And secondly, can we talk about what kind of a dumb move it was to go through a driveway to get hot dogs for dogs and then on top of it put all these sauces on these hot dogs.
00:37:00
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Footlong. Who's got a footlong? It becomes a little dog. Yeah, in your dreams. Yeah, right. In your dreams. And he's he's running late to get the dogs to the show. to a show, yep. Mrs. Noogie Burger. Shug of thorn.
00:37:20
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And the dogs are just full of the sauces. Because I bathe them and clip them myself. And I stand by my performance. Opens the door. You know, on second thought, you might want to run a cone through them.
00:37:34
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Ha ha ha ha.
00:37:37
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a Oh my god. There's no job. Zip. not a Yeah, unless you want to work 40 hours a week. It's like, that's your normal fucking job.
00:37:48
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Right, exactly. I wish I had. Whatever hours they were working, I would love that. Fuck. and and And then let's talk about that dead bird scene.
00:38:05
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That's another scene that they didn't show. Him killing the bird. like In the original one, he he says, i saw a putty cat, and it cuts off.
00:38:16
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While in the Unraid version, you hear him actually killing the bird. Right. And that yeah, that didn't happen in the theatrical version.
00:38:29
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So specifically the dead bird scene, though, that I'm talking about. hello As after Lloyd has sold the bird the blind kid to the blind billy kid. That poor kid.
00:38:42
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Billy from 4C. Where'd you get a few extra bucks? Sold some stuff to Billy in 4C. The blind kid? Yeah. What'd him, Lloyd?
00:38:56
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few cards, stack of marbles. Petey. Petey! Petey didn't even have a hand, Lloyd! Harry, i took carry I took care of it.
00:39:08
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Yeah, he just stuffed the fucking head in the body of the bird. and the two hitmen come by and see it. And you could tell, like, they're just like, what the fuck?
00:39:20
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Yeah, and the poor blind kid is the kid from ah The Sixth Sense. and ah kid That I see dead people kid.
00:39:33
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Can we also note that Louis took the time to actually tape the bird's head on? Yeah, yeah. yeah
00:39:47
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and then And then when they do the current affairs thing, and and she's and Mary's like, who are these sick people? And then it just shows Lloyd on the fucking bike, just maniacally laughing about what he did to his best friend. Harry, old buddy, old pal, you want to have some tea with me? Yeah, whatever helps you get over your situation.
00:40:10
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You're a regular guy. I want to keep you that way. For fast acting relief. He's just sitting there just dumping the whole fucking bottle in there. I'm doing that laugh. And it's just like, oh my God.
00:40:26
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ah So there's another funny antidote about the toilet scene. Jeff Daniels' mom or dad sees the scene and walks out. Really?
00:40:39
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Yeah. I don't know if they were offended or they were just thought it was stupid, but they walked, one of the two walked out. And like Jeff Daniels was like. Mom and dad probably shouldn't seen that.
00:40:55
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My dad would have laughed his ass off if I ever did something like that. Oh, 100%. I mean, the man gives you cards for your birthday about taking shits.
00:41:07
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So. ah One thing I want to do in front of my dad is light a fart on fire. Oh, God. You won't just light a fart on fire, you light the fucking place on fire.
00:41:22
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Well, my one of my mom's husbands, Steve, ah he tried to he lit a fart on fire one time when it fucking came
00:41:35
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back. He's like, God damn, that burned the hair off my ass. And I'm like, yeah, you're lucky it didn't go inside you and burn you from the inside, you dumbass. the
00:41:46
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That's another funny scene. We jumped the shark again. That's another funny scene where where he's he's daydreaming about fucking Mary. And he's like and just puts his head legs above his head and lights the fart on fire and all her friends are laughing.
00:42:06
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And the restaurant scene. Like okay. The restaurant scene. Who in their right mind is telling the guy that played Michael Myers in Halloween five?
00:42:22
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Oh yeah. Lloyd's going to fucking punch you in the balls a couple of times and then like literally bite your dick off and then throw you through a thing like,
00:42:34
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and how is he sitting there listening to this and thinking, yeah, this is a great career choice.
00:42:44
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I mean, the guy who he does it to, Michael Myers in Halloween the Tacoma or whatever in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, he was also in one of the three ninja movies.
00:43:04
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And it's just like, how do you like literally sit there and be told, like yeah, you're going to be punched, kicked, balls bit off, And then thrown through a... Whatever you want to call the fucking thing he gets thrown through. Like, how ah how do you not just go like, you know what?
00:43:26
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Thanks, but no thanks, and walk away. Like, I mean, how... it that That's a hard one for even me to be like, yeah, I would do it. The payday had to be great.
00:43:38
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That's all I can say. Or maybe maybe he looked at it as... When you he read the full script.
00:43:48
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He was like this movie is going to be big I want to be a part of it. I didn't care how he was a part of it. Maybe. um But talking of great scenes.
00:44:02
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Can we talk about.
00:44:06
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the
00:44:10
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I don't want to call it a crazy scene because it wasn't really that crazy of a scene.
Unforgettable Movie Scenes
00:44:14
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But the... i don't want to use iconic because I've used iconic so much.
00:44:24
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But the tuxedo scenes.
00:44:28
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Oh, yeah.
00:44:31
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Like... I thought I was going to be blinded the first time that I saw them. walk out and oh my god those colors or the when they're yeah when he's sitting at the bar talking him about mary and he's like you know the first time i met mary swanson i just had the uncanny neck that i really wanted to knit boner that's a real feeling that's a real heavy feeling lloyd a
00:45:03
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tell her I'm good looking and that I have a rapist wit. It's like, oh my god. Just shut up, dude. So, my question. Do you think anybody could get away with wearing those suits today?
00:45:19
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And I think if if I even told you for our wedding that me and Brian were going to dress up like that, you would have said, I ain't marrying you.
00:45:31
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I would have looked at you like, Are you fucking crazy? That close, by the way. That close to doing it, too. I would... I would have been fine with the coat because the coat you could take on and off.
00:45:52
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And me and Bryant were literally going to do where they sword fight with the canes. We were going to do that, too. ha ha ha ha. But then when you were like, no, no shenanigans, I was like, oh, fuck.
00:46:06
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But our shenanigans are cool. I know, I'm buzzkill. What can I say? But our shenanigans are cool and fun. Farva's shenanigans are just cruel and unfun.
00:46:18
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So they're not really shenanigans. I'm going to pistol at the next person that says shenanigans. Hey, Farva! Oh. oh yeah um
00:46:34
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another Another scene that I think is kind of underrated is the scene where they're pulling up to Aspen and on the scooter.
00:46:53
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Oh yeah, after he pissed on him? Yes. And like on top of it,
00:47:02
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um
00:47:06
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poor um
00:47:09
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poor Jeff Daniels is sitting there freezing his hands stuck and then Lloyd proceeds to pull off that he had two pairs of gloves the entire time i think i think that was ad-libbed I really do I think they were out somewhere where it was really cold And then fucking Jim Carrey's like, I got an idea.
00:47:37
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Lloyd, I can't feel my fingers. there They're na numb. Oh, yeah, they look pretty bad. Here, put on these extra pair of gloves. My hands are getting quite sweaty.
00:47:49
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You had an extra pair of gloves this whole time? Yeah, we're in the Rockies. i'm going to kill you, Lloyd. What? I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you
00:48:00
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And you know, the funny thing is, i don't think any jury would have convicted him. They'd have been like, yeah, at that point, I got could see why. Right. Exactly. and Fucking guy just doesn't even tell you. oh yeah. Hey, you want a pair of gloves? I have an extra pair on.
00:48:18
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Harry, we made it, man. Floyd, pull over. I really got to go. Just go, man. Oh, that's warm. Oh, oh god God.
00:48:35
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So, we all know that there are multiple villains within this storyline.
Villains and Plot Impact
00:48:43
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So, we've got Seabass. We've got the Gaston.
00:48:49
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i wouldn't say that Seabass is really a villain. He's more of a minor inconvenience. But like... Right, but I think he still could be on like the villain chart because... Yeah, I guess.
00:49:03
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it It was a bigger-ish scene within the movie. But like Mental, Shay, and... Ugh!
00:49:17
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Nicholas. Those three are the main villains. Right. Um... and And they kind of give it away. They kind of give it away very early on that Nicholas was a bad guy because, I mean, he literally says, well, yeah, if you call the police, who knows what they'll do.
00:49:39
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It's like, why would you say that? Right.
00:49:47
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Like, why would you want them not to call the police unless you're in on it? Right. Exactly. Exactly. um And so of the villains, who do you think is the most underrated of all of them?
00:50:03
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Mental. meant Mental or whatever. His name is in that one. I mean, how about you guys stop being a bunch of pansies and go at the same time?
00:50:18
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That sounds like a dare, Harry. That's a double dare. And then they get back at him, which, like, ow. That poor guy with his ulcers.
00:50:31
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Right. Right. And then that that whole scene when his ulcers start to kick up.
00:50:42
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Yeah, that's the scene I'm talking about. And, yep, and... They give him rat poison. The dumbasses give him... the wrong pills and like the second that he realizes it his eyes just go absolutely huge well they didn't they didn't know he had an extra set of pills so when he when he says my pills and harry grabs the first thing he didn't know right but you heard him Because those rat poison pills are in a film case. It's not in a medicine bottle. You heard him, Lloyd. people would for a prescription bottle. Even when he died, he blamed, he still blamed me.
00:51:25
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Well, I mean, unless you count the gurgling noises. Those were his last words, Lloyd. And he blamed me. i mean, unless you count the gurgling noises. Those aren't really words, dumbass.
00:51:40
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Right. So,
00:51:45
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if this movie would have been made today, how quickly do you think the movie would have ended because of smartphones, GPSs, AirTags, Google Maps, all of that?
Modern Technology's Impact on the Storyline
00:52:06
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Because undoubtedly it would be in the movie just because it's... Again, day and age. I don't think this movie would fly today. They did try and make the sequel, yes. But, i mean, it wasn't as funny.
00:52:23
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Again, it was... it They waited too long. And, you know, I don't dismiss Jim Carrey not wanting to do sequels after what he did with...
00:52:34
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um
00:52:38
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What is the second Ace Ventura? Is that when nature calls? Yeah, I think because the first one is pet detective. Yeah. And then Ace Ventura when nature calls the second one.
00:52:51
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We got review that one one day, especially the chitty chitty bang bang finding out that he ad libbed that. That he ad libbed that in that scene is it it shouldn't surprise me, but it does.
00:53:07
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Because it's so out of left field. And the actor in that scene with him is just like.
00:53:15
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But yeah. i I don't think that movie would ever be. it wouldn't be funny. Near as good. Just because.
00:53:27
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The biggest part of that movie. Was them just. Like the entire time. They were just lost. Mm-hmm. You add technology in there.
00:53:39
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It takes out that factor of being lost. Well, it's just like the Blair Witch Project. i don't I don't think you could really make that movie today. Right.
00:53:50
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Even though I think they're remaking it again.
00:53:56
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But, you know, i i do believe that this movie was so ahead of its time. And, you know, being Jim Carrey having two other hits in the same year just showed his his true staying power as a lead comedian actor.
00:54:15
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And i don't think you'll ever have that again. i really don't. Because he literally bet on himself. He did. And, you know, um we got to give a shout out to the Waynes brothers because, I mean, having him on in Living Color was underrated.
00:54:38
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would never heard about him. Right. If not for In Living Color. And, you know, that's another show I'd like to do a review on because, I mean, i wish In Living Color was still on TV today.
00:54:52
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it it would It would blow away. SNL.
00:54:59
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That and I wish Mad TV was still on too. That was funny.
00:55:05
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So I know we're coming up kind of on that one hour mark.
Nostalgia's Role in Comedy
00:55:11
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So I think we should end it with like a quick fire questions of who do you think is more the cause?
00:55:25
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Okay.
00:55:27
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Um, who do you think causes more problems? Harry or Lloyd? Lloyd.
00:55:34
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ay I disagree. I, well, wait, no. Yes, I agree. Lloyd. Um, because that comes back to.
00:55:46
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He's the one that wanted to go to bring, you bring the briefcase to her in Aspen. So. Right. Who do you think would be hard to live with? Lloyd.
00:55:58
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Lloyd. Who's funnier? Lloyd. Yeah. um
00:56:12
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who Who do you think would be harder to road trip with? Lloyd.
00:56:23
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Yeah. Yep. I think we get the point of this at this point. yeah I think Lloyd's going to take every category. Yeah. um
00:56:39
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So I think we should end it with this question.
00:56:45
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Do you think nostalgia makes this movie funnier? Yeah. Mm-hmm. I agree. I think this movie wouldn't
00:56:59
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wouldn't be anywhere without it. And that's why still to this day ah think it's still one of the greatest comedies ever made is because it i don't care what anyone nowadays thinks of the movie.
00:57:15
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it I'll be in the nursing home close to death and I'll watch this movie and laugh. like You will die laughing at it, literally. yeah yeah like No movie today has that kind of staying power.
'Dumb and Dumber' vs. Contemporary Comedies
00:57:32
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And i don't care what anyone in the comments can say it that there are movies like that, but no. Not even Super Troopers. And I love Super Troopers, but not even Super Troopers or Harold and Kumar or Pineapple Express or any other comedy made today could literally, that none of them could hold the candle to what Dumb and Dumber was.
00:57:58
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Right. And, you know, on the sort of, which I kind of want to make a, a graphic of this, but have like something where it'd be like, and on the certified meter, you know, I got to give it a five out of five. It's a perfect movie.
00:58:16
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I would go above that meter. And I would put it at like a seven. And guys, literally this same month, we're going to be celebrating 10 years of being together. And this is the shit I put up with.
00:58:36
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And this same year will be four years of marriage to her. Yeah. But you know. We're going to end it there.
00:58:49
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i do have We do have some big announcements. We got to announce this. So tomorrow's my dad's birthday. He's going to be 69 years old. So everyone in the comments. Wish him a happy birthday.
00:59:02
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And if you do. I'll make sure my dad. Knows about it. um I would love to get my dad on the podcast. I think you'd have fun.
00:59:14
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Especially if we talked about something he would like. I think he would take a little bit to warm up though. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like they think Sam Elliott would be bad on a podcast like him. It'd be like, so dad, how are you, how, how was it when you met mom?
00:59:33
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was okay. He would be the king of one worded answers. He'd be me. Like when we first met.
00:59:44
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Yep. um and
00:59:52
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July 31st which we'll start hyping this up more I know I want to create a graphic for it but July 31st will be our very first guest on the show we're not going to say the name yet that's going to be next week um and next week Alyssa what are we doing next week Hmm.
01:00:20
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To be decided. Okay, it's to be decided, I guess. um But yeah, that's us. I'm Steven Jarvis. That's Alyssa.
01:00:32
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Happily married. Questionably certified. See you all next Friday.