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Spin the Wheel - The Academy Awards 'Best Picture' Losers
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You chose the category, we choose our picks, and fate decides our nostalgia review. Allow us to introduce to you our "Spin The Wheel" event. Long ago, our listeners and friends voted on which category they wanted us to do next, and ironically, the runner up category was "Academy Awards 'Best Picture' Nominees That Did NOT Win'.
We each thought long and hard about our pick that fit that category and shared why we made our pick. Then, we let fate take over as they were all randomly added to our randomizer app, Kari chanted "Spin The Wheel", and our fate was sealed. Which movie's did we pick and which one are we reviewing next? Listen and find out...
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Introduction to the Movie Nostalgia Show
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What you are about to hear was actually recorded back in November. The guys are just lazy, so give them a break. Anyways, enjoy the show.
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the world of big budget blockbusters travel back in time to explore the epic and not so epic movies of yesteryear this is on second watch a movie nostalgia podcast
Movie Selection Format: Spin the Wheel
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Welcome to our Spin the Wheel episode where we each select a movie, or in this case, movies, that fit a pre-selected category and let fate decide what movie we review next.
Carrie's Picks: 'The Sixth Sense' and 'E.T.'
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And the category for this episode is... Thank you, Carrie.
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So this category was actually a part of our survey that went out and earlier this year, I think it came in second place. So it's very fitting that we're talking about the nominees, the runners up, those that did not win the prestigious award from that terrible award ceremony. And we're going to each give two movies that we select and give a reason why we chose them. Carrie, I feel like since this was your category, maybe you should go first.
00:03:01
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Oh God, but I have so many backups. I laugh. I could have easily gone last, but I will go first. All right. Does anybody only have two? I only have two. Okay. Go figure. All right. I'm sorry. Give us a, give us one at a time and the reason why.
00:03:17
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Okay, I figured this is going to be a very open-ended category and I picked movies that were very popular for the time and I'm hoping that unlike most movies that we've watched on this, I hope it doesn't ruin it for me. For both of these. With the one I'm going to say first, the reason I picked it is because at the time it was really groundbreaking for what it did.
00:03:41
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But I don't know if it's going to hold up. So I want to see where we go with it. And as you guys all know, I'm obsessed with Bruce Willis. So I'm picking the sixth sense for my first. I am curious because like really with that one, it really was groundbreaking at the time. Nobody saw the twist coming or anything. And it's just like knowing this and having it sit for so long and having so many movies that have been able to put those kind of twists in since then. Just curious what would happen.
00:04:10
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And then the other one, I don't know, maybe I'm on a robot and alien thing, guys. I'm sorry. But I have not seen E.T. since I was a kid. And I want to see if it would still stay that classic good flick. But I'm also worried that I'm going to hate it instead of loved it as a kid kind of a thing, as we've been finding out a lot. After we did better, he's not included. I'm nervous, too. You're destroying my childhood. Seriously. I already hate the movie, so we're already
00:04:38
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Those are just the two that I picked because I figured you guys are all gonna come up with some really good ones, too Those are two solid choices there. Thank you. All right, very good Dana.
Dana's Picks: 'Citizen Kane' and 'It's a Wonderful Life'
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Thank you. Why don't we Spanish? How about you? Thank God. All right. All right, so One is I'm choosing because I've never seen it. I've been wanting to see it for a while and I
00:05:05
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Some say it's probably one of the best movies ever made, and that would be Citizen Kane. Nice. Time out. You've never seen Citizen Kane. I have never seen Citizen Kane. I haven't either. Oh my god. Carrie, you're the only one. It's in my queue, but I never got a round one. Yeah, it's exact. I've just been, I don't know why I haven't watched it. You've all seen so many movies based off of it and stuff. I know. I'm just like, mind blown right now. Any other one, because I want to ruin Portray's life, it's a wonderful life.
00:05:34
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Oh, Jesus. Son of a bitch. I'm going old school with my two picks. Now, The Wonderful Life is a good movie. Dance to it deliberately because I don't like Christmas shit until like December. Exactly. That's probably when we're going to do this. Yeah. I'll give you a... If I was watching A Wonderful Life in the middle of June, I'd be coming for you.
00:05:56
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Yeah, I know. I hope it doesn't win so I can choose it again in like non-Christmas time. You son of a bitch. Dude, I love it. These movies are great though, man. Shut up. How dare you. So there you go. Thank you. All right, Nikki, how about you?
Nikki's Picks: 'Fargo' and 'Goodfellas'
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You guys probably already know what I'm picking. First one is super obvious, I feel like, because I've talked about the Coen brothers so much, but Fargo. I was hoping somebody would, so I didn't have to pick it. I haven't seen it, but I wanted to pick it. I hope it wins. Chris has never seen it. Oh my gosh. It's a good damn movie. It's so good. It's not like The Big Alaski. You don't even have to watch it three times before you love it. It's funny. It's good the first time. Yeah, it really is. Yeah. My second movie, also, I think going to be super obvious, but
00:06:40
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good fellas because yeah it's like one of the best gangster movies out there and I love gangster movies so this movie is Oh I can watch it over and over again you know if I can't be friends with you anymore Kerry it's his favorite movie too and I just cannot I just can't
00:07:06
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This wheel is going to break our friendships. Is this just because it's like a gangster movie or just this one in particular? This one in particular, I would say. Yeah. Because one of the other movies that could have been chosen that we'll say is like really good.
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So I'm not going to say that out loud. Oh, that's disappointing, but Chris has never seen this one either. How do you feel about gangster movies, Chris? I'm good with them. I never have gone on my way to watch them. I haven't watched the Godfather series, but Goodfellas has always been on the back burner of something I wanted to get around to watching.
00:07:39
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I would say this one started my love for gangster movies. I just, I guess it's just fascinating that they're based on real stories. Like these, like people really lived this way or do, I don't know. It's crazy. Yeah. This one casino, the wise guys, like incredible. Yeah. Anyways, those are my movies. All right. All right. I guess, Chris, you're up.
Chris's Picks: 'The Help' and 'The Revenant'
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All right. So I did not go with like,
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older movies. I was laughing and giving Carrie a hard time earlier because on this giant list of movies that were available, I was very close in picking 1973 The Exorcist, keeping in trend with my love of horror, but I'm not going to do that to my friends. Thank you. Such a good movie though, man. It is. I had about 10 different movies that I wanted to pick. Yeah, I had the six. For my first movie, I'm going to pick it from 2011. I'm going to pick The Help.
00:08:39
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Oh, interesting. Did not see that movie. Me either. Very solid movie. I love the help. Yes. I happened to catch it like on a whim. It was something I always wanted to watch. I loved it. I got to talk with like my mom about it. I got the book for my mom. I just never got around to reading it. But it's something I wanted these days. I'm going to get to read and compare it to the movie and stuff. But anyways, I love the movie and it sounds like a lot of you have already seen it. But for those that you haven't, hopefully it wins. It's just a great movie.
00:09:10
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Agreed. Um, let's see. So my second one. So I was contemplating I was on a Daniel Day Lewis kick hard Say it man. I know I was either gonna pick Originally, it was gonna pick gangs in New York or there will be blood. Yes either one but but I'm Not using either one of them. I decided at the last minute to pick the revenant with the honor of DiCaprio I Am a sucker. That's not too old. Yeah, doesn't matter
00:09:40
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No, yeah, it seems that any era. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So it's 2015. But yeah, I'm a big sucker for like period pieces. And I really enjoyed. Is this the one with a bear involved? Yes, it is. Top Hardy. I also like one of the main reasons I picked this too is I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely love how they filmed this. The cinematography and the revenue is just phenomenal. And reading about how the director
00:10:08
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used like a lot of times like natural daylight and it involved a lot of weird timing to film. Just yeah, phenomenal movie across the board. So. All right. Kerry, do you want to go last or do you want to go next? I'll let you go. Okay.
Tim's Picks: 'Avatar' and 'Lord of the Rings'
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I debated this really hard because there's a lot of just movies I think everyone thought I was going to choose up on this board. I wrote it down, but I'm not going to choose Star Wars because I feel like that's a totally different thing for us to attack than our wheel here. We'd almost have to do a wheel of just Star Wars films.
00:10:43
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God. Star Wars Christmas special. There we go. So I'm not going to pick Star Wars. I was also looking at this list. I feel like I really want a movie that's got a really good soundtrack. So I started debating which ones do I really want to do here? And then I thought, Mary Poppins fits this list. But I'm like, do I really want to go musical? Yes.
00:11:03
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Yes. Yes, you do. Excuse me. This is, this is my pick. I didn't, do I want to go this route or do I want to save it for like a, a musical category in and of itself? I'm like, eh, I don't know. That could be fun to explore, but, uh, I think I'm just going to go with some. Epic films that I feel would be really interesting to explore again for better or worse.
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Why do I know what I think you're going to pick? I'm glad you went before me. Dana's a little nervous here. I got money on this. I have a gut feeling I think I know you're going to pick. Just because of what's going to be coming out soon and a lot of money and a lot of talk about this film that did amazingly well in the theaters and then dropped off the face of the planet. We're talking Avatar. Yep.
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I saw it three times in the theaters because it was just it was a beautiful thing to see in IMAX and I enjoyed the hell out of seeing it it was just
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It's a very generic film. The storyline has been done over and over again, but it's just a beautiful CGI film. And I haven't seen it since the theaters really. So I'm curious. 10 years to do it. Yeah. Shouldn't have been nice. And here we are again, James Cameron. Yeah, he's doing it again. But I'm really curious to see if it holds up. I know story-wise, it's just going to be like, meh. But I thought the score was well done, even though I think it's James Horner.
00:12:37
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Yeah, he re does a lot of his music in other films, which is annoying, but I just want to see it again to see if it holds up in 4k and all that fun stuff. So there's that. And then the other one, because I haven't seen it in forever.
00:12:54
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It's another epic film with a fantastic soundtrack. I think I know this one. And I love me some Sean Bean, so give me Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring. I was so hoping you would. Actually, I was thinking Crouching Tiger Head in Dragon. Yeah, so was I. So was I. Hard.
00:13:13
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But I was thinking that too and I wanted to do it, but that'd be like an audience of one and I don't That movie's awesome. I wouldn't I haven't seen it since I'm not gonna lie. I would much rather watch For Lord of the Rings we are defaulting to the director's cut, right? I'm gonna let that be viewers choice. I
00:13:37
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My god, you know, we're lucky dances did win No, Chris, I would have beat you that one I would have went first and I would have been my first one we did the directors cut all five hours Oh, absolutely Tim. Can we watch together? Sure. We'll hold hands and we'll watch it So much I'm glad something like half of our lists
00:13:59
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I just, I know Dana, you can't stand the franchise and you have good reason to hate it for the things that you had to endure. But I just, the soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks ever made for a film. And I just, I want to hear it and just check this film out again. So I'm sorry. You can, I'll sleep on the couch. I'll sleep while you watch it. Oh wow. Dana. I'll give you the cliff notes. Sean Bean dies. Yeah, I'll go figure. Two X speed.
00:14:31
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How dare you not me I'm gonna watch the whole thing on directors Oh, absolutely. That's only where to do it. All
Carrie's Final Choices: 'LA Confidential' and 'Jerry Maguire'
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right, Kerry. This is your category. Let's hear it Oh my god, I'm just so happy you chose it cuz I was like am I gonna have to be like my Stereotypical self and choose that and obviously there's so many other nerdy sci-fi fantasies on this list Obviously already made you guys watch last crusade so I can't pick Raiders and stuff, but that made me happy But it's on my list. Yeah
00:14:59
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I'm going to choose two of my feel-good favorite movies that I haven't seen in a really long time that are both not the most popular movies, but I enjoy them both very much. So first, I'm going to pick a runner-up from 1997.
00:15:17
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which is a good sinker movie. So don't watch this while drinking. This is one you'll have to pay attention to. That would be LA confidential. Nice. I like this movie. Yes. That was on my list. That was definitely on my list. Definitely one of my favorites. And in the same vein, in terms of timing, I'm going to pick a runner up very different runner up.
00:15:37
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from 1996, because none of you will ever let me watch sports movies. Now, I'm going to pick Jerry Maguire, which is both a chick flick and a sports movie and a comedy. Because I love Cuba Gooding Jr. in this movie. And I just love the redemption story so much. I'm a huge fan of that. Hell yeah, Carrie. Hell yeah. Solid Carrie. I like it. I like it. I don't think that there's a loser on this wheel.
00:15:59
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They're all losers. Man, I had so much money on Tim's pickin' Crouching Tiger. I know, so did I, man. I saw that. I was like, that's Tim's choice. You guys play the fucking Asian card outta me?
00:16:09
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No, because you wouldn't, dude, you wouldn't shut up about the damn movie, dude. Yeah. And you have a thing for the girl in that movie. Yeah. Tim, when you have told me your entire life that she is the only person you've ever had a crush on in Hollywood and you didn't pick it, that is shocking. Yeah. I felt like I'd be doing that for an audience of one and no one else would really enjoy it. And it wouldn't make for a good discussion. I like how you say that. It's a great movie. You're done fucked up.
00:16:37
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I guess I screwed up guys. I still wanted to pick like more. I was like, I had, I was so torn between picking like there will be blood or I wish it was like, we can choose six movies. We're going to have to do a Daniel Day Lewis wheel. Oh, for sure. So I have the wheel. This is a wheel for any work in there. It's colorful. Yeah. I didn't see them. It's blurry shit. It's not going to work very well, huh?
00:17:06
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No, just pretend that you're not lying to us. Yeah. All right. I'm pushing the record button on my phone. Are you ready, Carrie? I'm ready. All right. Here we go. Spin. Oh, it's already spinning. There's no sound.
00:17:21
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Oh no. Oh no. And the Academy Award Best Picture nominee that lost, but wins in our hearts, The Six Sins. This is like the one movie I didn't want to rewatch. We know how it ends.
Nostalgia and Impact: 'The Sixth Sense' Discussion
00:17:36
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I'm okay with it. It has been so long since I've seen this movie. I haven't seen it since the theater. Who has rewatched it after they watched it one time? I've seen it a couple of times. I only saw it the one dime, that was it.
00:17:53
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I only picked it just because of that whole, like, at the time it was really shocking. It was groundbreaking. So now I'm curious. Yeah, it really was. There was no, like, anything like that. I love Bruce Willis. It's just, yeah. I think that's probably the real reason I picked it. All right, so the sixth sense is it. I feel like I've got to save that list of movies and just spin it again later.
00:18:19
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Honestly, we should. There's a lot of good movies on there. Or we can just spin it multiple times and freebie wheel. Yeah. Just keep it going. There's some good ones on there. Actually, it almost leaned on it. It's a wonderful life. And I think Chris is about to flip his shit. Oh my goodness. There are so many good movies though that could have been put on the list. Yeah, there are. So I'll save that wheel and maybe we'll come back to it and do it for another time. But for now, for the sixth sense, Dana, you chose it. So what would you rate it for your nostalgia?
00:18:49
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I didn't think that far ahead. At the time it was like, it was really something. So I don't know, I'll give it a six. Six for the sixth sense. I unintentionally did that. Nikki, you have some apprehensions. So for your nostalgia, where are you at?
00:19:08
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Apparently in a landfill with disappointment. No, listen, I liked the movie. I just think it's going to be difficult to watch again. For nostalgia, just because of Bruce Willis, I'm giving it a six as well. Okay. Carrie, how about you? I feel like Nicky, so I'm going to give it a six as well. Six, six, six. The number of the beast. All right, Chris.
00:19:35
Speaker
Let's see, it has been a minute and a day since I've seen this movie. And I remember enjoying it a ton. I'm going to give it an eight. That's fair. Yeah, I remember enjoying it as well. I only saw it the one time so I'm going to give it a seven. So I like Chris also going to say an eight because I feel like
00:19:56
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just basing it purely off nostalgia. It was so well done that I feel like you, you couldn't, unless you were really paying attention and you knew who M Night Shyalan was before you jumped into this thing, you wouldn't have suspected this twist at the end there. It has some really creepy moments to it. It has some very well done acting, especially Haley Joel Osman, right? Yeah. Yep.
00:20:17
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for him being a little kid man he killed this role and there's just a lot of great elements to it so it was one of those films that as soon as you saw it you're like oh my god I need to see this again did I miss something and yeah so I remember seeing it multiple times in theaters maybe in the same week
00:20:34
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just to check it out again. And then I know Dana, we bought it and we watched it a few times in high school. I don't even remember. It's been that long. But it's been a while. Yeah, since we saw it. So it's interesting going into this knowing kind of the end result and how it changes the viewing experience. So I don't know. We'll see. It's been a while. And Bruce Willis can't do us wrong, right? No.
Debating M. Night Shyamalan's Film Legacy
00:21:01
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Yeah, this is one of two good M. Night Shyamalan movies split I think it was that came out Science was awful signs was great. I'd rather cut my penis off than watch that movie
00:21:17
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That movie sucks so much ass, dude. That movie sucks so much ass. Yeah, I just called it. Unbreakable wasn't too bad, but science blows. That was terrible. Fuck off on YouTube. Get lost. That movie sucked. I was angry about that movie because it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. But I liked the cinematography to an extent.
00:21:47
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I'm also blanking, there was another one I was gonna bring up, but whatever. Yeah, it was probably gonna be shit. No, I'm not a Shalaman fan, like his movies get boring, the twists are... Devil wasn't the worst. Alright, yeah, I'll give you that, Devil. I didn't realize that was him, so that's probably why. But yeah, I'm not saying the village was amazing. I'm saying... Because it wasn't.
00:22:10
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No part of it was good. I fell asleep I wish it was a pure horror movie without the stupid twist and then I would have been good I still like science, so Okay So Chris spend some time trying to eloquently explain why he likes it and spazzes over here just you just summed up our entire like friendship for the glass 20 something years and
00:22:35
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Tim and I do a lot of talking and Dan makes noises. So, there you go. Sorry, I don't have the words to say how bad the movie sucks, so I just make fart noises at it.
00:22:46
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I mean, Dana throws up every time she hears Ryan Gosling's name. So what's the difference? I hope he does something on cameo because I would spend a hundred bucks just to get a video. I would ship in. Dana, that's your next birthday gift from us. Yep. Bunny ears and a cameo. Yeah.
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:23:04
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So that takes our nostalgia for the sixth sense to a 6.8. So let's go check this one out. I'll figure out how to do a mad lips for the sixth sense. And that's going to get wrong in a hurry. Oh yeah.
00:23:15
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Unlike Batteries Not Included, which is just about the next level of uncomfortableness. All right, but thanks for tuning in. Check us out OSWPodcast.com for some more and we'll come back with our review of The Sixth Sense. Hey, so the gang decided to spin the wheel again to pick another loser. If you want to know what the next review is going to be, head to their Ko-fi page to see what's next.