Dec. 17, 2024

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Better Watch Out (2016)

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Better Watch Out (2016)
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Cutting Deep Into Horror

In this festive episode of *Cutting Deep into Horror*, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi reunite to discuss the chilling 2016 Christmas horror film, *Better Watch Out*. As the holiday countdown crescendos, the duo offers a deep exploration of the movie’s unsettling narrative, juxtaposing typical Christmas warmth with dark themes of obsession, violence, and the often hidden scars of childhood trauma.

The episode opens with Henrique sharing his longstanding tradition of expressing feelings during the holidays, a sentiment that suddenly contrasts with the grotesque events of the film they are about to dissect. Rachael joins in with her customary cheer, setting the tone for a night that will delve into the darker side of Christmas cinema while reckoning with heavy topics like trauma and mental health.

As they situate the film within a broader context of Christmas horror, the hosts introduce listeners to the lead character, Luke, a seemingly innocent 12-year-old with sinister intentions towards his babysitter, Ashley, played by Olivia DeJonge. The pair dissects the layers of Luke’s character, illustrating the blurred lines between childhood innocence and emerging psychopathy while discussing the film's various clichés and themes. They share laughs recalling tropes established in classics like *Home Alone*, and how *Better Watch Out* flips those expectations on their head, transforming what could be a light-hearted affair into a gripping tale of lurking menace.

Henrique and Rachael transport listeners through the film’s narrative, recounting key moments—from Luke’s misguided affections toward Ashley to a series of unfortunate events that quickly spiral into violence. Rachael highlights the tension in scenes where Ashley’s attempts to maintain control devolve as the children begin to reveal their true natures. The hosts cover the rise of Luke’s dark humor and cold calculations, leading to brutal moments that leave the audience in stunned silence. The meticulous details in his planning are highlighted as the conversation draws close to the shocking climax.

With palpable intensity, the conversation intensifies when discussing the violent escalation that ensues, particularly the twisted finale and the chilling aftermath. Their commentary opens up discussions about the psychological implications of the characters' actions, the film's dark humor, and the commentary it makes on how childhood trauma can manifest in malignant ways. With visceral storytelling and layered characters, *Better Watch Out* stirs deep discussions about morality, innocence lost, and the societal taboos surrounding youth violence.

Rachael manages to keep the conversation lively despite the grave subject matter, sharing humorous anecdotes about initial misunderstandings surrounding childhood experiences and babysitters, weaving a narrative that draws parallels between their own stories and the film. The duo's chemistry shines as they effortlessly navigate from laughter to laughter, and deep discussions about heavy themes.

As they wrap up the episode, Henrique and Rachael give solid recommendations for where viewers can catch the film, ensuring that fans of both horror and holiday cinema find ways to engage with *Better Watch Out*. They encourage listeners to embrace the madness of holiday horror, reminding everyone that, beneath the festive lights, danger can lurk in the most innocent of places.

If you’re interested in exploring more cinematic turmoil and psychological depth through the lens of horror, be sure to connect with them on their social media. Tune in as they promise thrilling discussions in future episodes.

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All right, time to celebrate another year of holiday festivities.

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Yeah, I think it's been a good one.

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You know. One of my favorite traditions in the holidays,

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one that's always like touched me a lot, even since

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I was a little kid, is sharing how you really

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feel with people you care about. You know.

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No, I think that's good.

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Because at the end of the day, even if the

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person you love may not feel exactly the same way

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about you, is they as you do about them? What

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really matters is do you have a plan to get

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what you want from them and kill anyone in your

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way and still be a little angel to your mom

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by the end?

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Okay, as long.

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As that is through. It's basically like Linus's speech in

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Charlie Brown.

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Oh okay you kind of you kind of lost be

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in the second half though you've.

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Never seen Charlie Brown. What are you are?

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You?

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Are you even from this country? I am so so confused?

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Ugh, oh no, oh boy.

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This podcast is about why horror scares us, what deep,

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dark secret scary cinema shines a light on. The discussions

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are frank and involve conversations about abuse, trauma, and mental health.

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There are also spoilers, so keep that in mind too.

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Now sharpen your machetes and strap raizors, because this is

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cutting deep into horror.

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Hello and Merry Christmas, everybody. Welcome back to cutting deep

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into horror. I'm your host, Enrique Kuto here with my

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co host and holiday celebratory aficionado Rachel RODOLFI. Hey everybody,

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and you're not mishearing. We are back much quicker than normal.

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We decided we really wanted to talk about tonight's film

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so much so that we we made time for it.

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It's important to.

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Us, like Scotty said in Star Trek Generations, when something's important,

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you make the time. And we're gonna be talking about

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twenty sixteen's Better Watch Out. It's a Christmas horror film,

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and I would say it definitely hits both of those

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notes pretty very well intensely. I have a scale, a

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rating scale for Christmas movies. I don't know if you

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knew this. I came up with it about I don't know,

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two or three months ago. One to ten scale of

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how Christmas a movie is while still being a Christmas movie.

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So like a Diehard may only get a three or

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a four because it said it Christmas and it uses

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Christmas imagery, maybe a little bit Christmas music, but it's

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not like about Christmas, right as to where like A

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Silent Night Deadly Night might score like a like an

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eight or a nine. Yeah, and nines and tens are

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relegated only to films literally about Christmas, So it could

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be like Crampus would be like a ten because it's

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about a Christmas demon, or Rare Exports would be a

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ten because it's literally about Santa Claus rising, you know,

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a Santa sleigh. It's literally Santa killing everybody. So it's

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a ten out of ten. Now, you know, most films

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at best they hit like a six, seven or eight,

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and I would say Tonight's film is like a solid

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six or seven. I agree, I mean because Christmas is

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a major element. But without Christmas there could still be

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a movie. Yes, you know, it could be another night,

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but Christmas just makes it extra.

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Fun exactly so.

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But this is very Christmasy. We get a ton of

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Christmas music, a ton of Christmas decor, and I really

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enjoy the hell out of this movie. And I want

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to mention real quick where people can watch it, which

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is great news because it's recently in the last two

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years become very readily available on the free with ads services.

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So if you've never seen the film, guys, you could

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find it on twob you can find it on Peacock,

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you can find it on Pluto, Zoomo, Sling TV, and

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the Roku channel. So it's basically anywhere you watch movies

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free with ads it is. It's waiting for you there. Yeah,

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so I just want to mention that, and again, better

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watch out from twenty sixteen. So Rach, this was actually

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your pick. Yeah, yeah, we've done two of your picks

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in a row.

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I feel so special.

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Well, it's the season of giving.

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Yeah, I better not get used to it.

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Well, but what made you decide you really wanted to

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talk about this one?

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Well, you had showed it to me shortly after it

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had I think it's when you got it on DVD

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or Blu Ray, shortly after it had come out.

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to say, on shutter initially, right, how I saw it

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the first time, and after seeing it my first time,

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I went out and bought the Blu Ray immediately. Yeah.

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left an impression on me. Anyone who has seen the

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movie before will agree, and for those of you that

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are just watching it now, it will leave an impression.

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And I thought that it was a really good one

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because the first show that you and I did together

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for Cutting Deep, we did Funny Games, Yes, And when

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I watched this with you, I kind of joked that

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this is like, oh, this is like Funny Games Christmas Special.

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So I thought it was, you know, in the spirit

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of the kind of kind of movies that we like

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to talk about on this show.

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Yeah, this is not just the realm of Christmas horror.

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This is the realm of fucked up Christmas horror.

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Granted, most Christmas horror movies are pretty fucked up. I

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mean when you're having it be the holiday of Giving

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and lights and then there's horrible murder all throughout, But

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this one really leans into horrific elements and disturbing elements

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that really make it stand out. The other thing that

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makes it stand out is the excellent direction and performances.

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I do want to mention this is directed by Chris Peckover.

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I believe I'm saying that name right since it literally

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is pec k O v err, which looks like to me,

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this was his second feature film as director. Unfortunately, he

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hasn't directed in another film as far as I can tell,

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which shocks me. I don't know how successful the film

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was upon its release, but I was very impressed with it. It

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did have a pretty substantial budget for the type of movie.

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It was about three million dollars. Okay, yeah, and it

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stars Olivia DeJonge. I'm pretty sure I'm saying that, right,

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who went on to be on the TV series The

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Society on Netflix and the Elvis Presley movie from twenty

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thwety two. She's had quite a career since then. And

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I think the most impressive actor of them all would

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probably be the little boy he played by. His name

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was Luke, I believe. Yeah, and he's played by Ed Oxenbold,

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an Australian actor who was in I knew. I recognized him.

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He was an Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good,

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Very Bad Day in twenty fourteen, which I love that movie.

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It's a very good movie. I'm looking at the right

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kid actor, right, I want to make sure I might

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have the wrong one. Yeah, Oh no, that's Garrett. I'm sorry.

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I do recognize him from that Okay, I'm sorry, Yeah,

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why does it list him? He's a supporting Okay, so

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Alex Mickeck is the actor he has actually done very

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I'm so sorry, this is very confusing. No, he's where

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is the listing for Luke?

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There?

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He is Levi Miller. Sorry, the listing was really weird.

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Yeah yeah, these are you know people. Oh, he's also

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an Australian actor though, just like the other kid. But

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he plays our lead basically our lead villain. But it

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also is the movie is pretty much about him, which

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this is one of the few films in my opinion,

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where it's about the villain Petty much all the way through.

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But it keeps your attention and keeps you interested, because

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that's a big complaint I have with some movies, as

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they spend too much time with the antagonist and you

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don't really get an opportunity. Although and this one kind

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of flips it on its head because he's almost a protagonist.

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If you're a sociopath, I root for him, but.

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He's evil well, and that's kind of why I like

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the movie is for the first act, you really are

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rooting for him because you don't know what's going on.

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You're reluctantly rooting for him.

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You're like, oh, you shoot your shot, kid, you know,

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failing is part of learning well.

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And as far as films, he's been and he was

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in Pan, the Peter Pan Movie, Played Peter Pan. He

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was in Jasper Jones, A Wrinkle in Time.

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Oh okay.

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He was also in Before Dawn and in the More

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in the recently released Craven the Hunter. So sorry about that,

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I did. I All these names are new to me.

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For the most part, I don't know why it listened.

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I guess because ed Oxenbold was the biggest name, because

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he's in Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, very Bad Day,

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which was one of my favorite books growing up, and

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one of my favorite cartoons based on that book was

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Alexander in the Terrible Horrible, No Good, very Bad Day. So,

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but we're going to talk about what the film's all

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about right after this, and believe me, it may it

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may also be a pretty terrible, horrible, no good, very

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very bad day right after this. Alright, So better watch

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out from twenty sixteen basically is about a teenage boy.

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He's what like fourteen or fifteen.

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I think he's twelve, but he will be thirteen in

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a few weeks.

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It's his cell sales point. Well, I'm sure he's played

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by a slightly older actor, but I also I'm not

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good with kids like ages like, so we'd like, how

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old is he, I'll be like six to seventeen. I

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don't know. I didn't have younger siblings really, so I

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didn't really watch the progression. Yeah, this'sest thing I had

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was I watched Blossom every week. But so Luke, this young,

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this twelve year old almost thirteen year old boy has

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a babysitter whom he is infatuated with, named Ashley, and

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she's been his babysitter for quite a while, and he

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is in love with her his own words, and he

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is talking to his friend Garrett all the time about

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how he's going to get her to be in love

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with him too. She is five years older than him,

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so yeah, she's like seventeen, about to be eighteen. And

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find out when we meet her that she is getting

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ready to move away for college to Pittsburgh. I don't know.

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Do they mention where this takes place? Not to my

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memory now, well, it definitely doesn't take place in Pittsburgh

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because they act like it's far away. Yeah, so, and

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that's what really matters is that we understand that. So

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so yeah, it's it's oh it was shot in Australia.

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Huh. Okay, that would that would explain all the Australian actors.

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What well. I mean, I'm never surprised though they get

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around a lot. Right now in America, a lot of

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our big movie stars are Aussie's and English people who

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do relatively flawless American accents. Like you'd be surprised how

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many people are actually like English or Australian. It's it's

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like Idris Elba is English. I mean he very rarely

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gets to speak with an English accent, so you wouldn't

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guess it. The guy who played Rick on The Walking

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Dead is English? Really, see what I mean?

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You're kind of like what they're among us. Yeah, like

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you'd never know.

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It's gotten to the point where I start to assume

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incorrectly that some actors are English. Like for the longest time,

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I thought John Ham was English because I saw him.

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He was a humorous guest appearance on an English a

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British TV show I was watching, like he played John

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Ham in it, Okay, and I just assumed, even though

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he didn't speak like he was British in it. I

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just kind of got in my head like, oh, well,

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he must live in England if they just like, you know,

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shoehorned him in this part as a joke, I just assumed,

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you know, he was he would come from a south

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He's from like Arkansas or something from the middle of America.

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So but yeah, so not shocked, But Australia makes a

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lot of sense. I had actually initially thought Canada.

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I did too, but I think that may have just.

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Been because winter when you see winter. So anyway, our

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young Luke has some kind of plan to get Ashley

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to love him back before she moves away. And that

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that's all you can really say as far as a

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synopsis without giving away a lot. Yeah so but yeah, yeah, yeah,

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So you want to you want to dive on in.

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Let's dive on in.

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Figure out, let's figure out the deep elements of this.

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There is so much to unpack, so much, so very much.

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Well, first, you know, you've gotta you've got to chut

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check off one of the boxes for Christmasiness because when

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it opens, it literally opens on a winter scene, you know,

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in a in a neighborhood or called a sack or something, and.

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A high end neighborhood houses lots of piled snow everywhere, gorgeous,

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gorgeous and very very christmasy.

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Super and there's carrollers, you know, carollers.

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Just did you ever see carr carollers when you were younger?

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Nother well, where I grew up most of my life.

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I mean, those would be some pretty Those are the

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kind of carollers I'd be like, like, good on you,

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but also kind of are of you that you were like,

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I'm gonna carol right over in this neighborhood. Oh, good luck,

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have fun. There is no figgy pudding. You might score

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a crack rock though, oo. I mean it'll keep you warm.

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So but yeah, they're carrolers trudging around, and we're introduced

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to Ashley, who is I would say, a slightly above

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average teenage girl, Like she's clearly intelligent, but also a

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bit on the teenage girl petty side of things, because

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she's talking on the phone with I believe her mother

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and not using her headset. I love how by the way,

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we're getting to a point now where technology is advancing

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so aggressively that this movie is not even ten years old.

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Yet it'll be it's two years away from being ten.

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It's almost ten years almost, think Garrett or like Luke

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is almost thirteen. But she was, She's like, oh, I

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should put on my headset because my mom mentioned it.

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And it's a plug in thing. And now plug in

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headphones are almost completely gone from I mean, I'm sure

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people are listening to this right now on them, but like,

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but they're not standard, and no company is heavily marketing

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plug in headphones and earbuds anymore. Everybody is marketing Bluetooth.

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I try. I held off as long as I could

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stand it, but now I'm a believer in the Bluetooth headphones.

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But but yeah, so it was just it's just funny

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when you see that. It's like that dates the movie.

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Like I'll watch a movie and I'll be like, WHOA,

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their iPhone only has one camera on the back.

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What you're Ooh, yeah, well, well there are several times

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people will use their cell phones in this movie and

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you're like, oh, wow, look at that. I haven't seen

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one of those in a very long time.

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That was back when the iPhone was kind of tiny.

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So, but she's driving along her mom kind of says,

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are you using the heads you know, your headphones or whatever,

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and she goes, of course I am, and then tries

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to dig them out to start using them. She almost

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hits a black cat yeah in the road, which startles

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the carollers. They all look at her like she's in

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a moron, and she's like, sorry, nice, it's a nice

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little way to get to know her. And she's talking

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to her mom about the fact that she needs to

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start packing because she's leaving for Pittsburgh really soon.

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Yeah, and she's like, well, of course I'm not packing,

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but I do need to go babysit the learner's kid,

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like they called me and they need me to watch

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their son, Luke, and you know, kind of implies that, hey,

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this would be kind of nice because this will be

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the last time that she'll babysit them before she moves.

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Yes, she clearly has a fondness for the whole family, really,

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and they have a fondness for her. She's probably been

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babysitting for many years.

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Yeah, well I think they mentioned that she's been babysitting

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him since he was like eight, so it has been

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a very long time. And there is a very like

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a very well established like camaraderie or warmth between her

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and the parents. You know, because she she arrives and

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the dad immediately starts joking about like you didn't get

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my approval.

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She's talking about going to college. He's like, you didn't

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get my approval, and there's like that beat and then

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they both smile.

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You know, it's like no, Yeah, they know each other

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very well and they're very friendly.

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From what I've heard, when it comes to babysitters, if

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you find one that's reliable, responsible, and the kid really

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likes them, you never like ally at two you're at best.

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You get two, yeah, at best. So if you have

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all three, like yeah, you basically want to adopt them

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into your family. You're you're at that point you're like

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throwing around c notes to keep them around. You know,

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you really want them to stick around. And we get

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that vibe very much from the family. Yeah, And right

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before she arrives there, I want to mention, as the

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boys are talking to me, they're just being total teenage boys. Oh,

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they're talking about they're talking about inaccurate things about girls

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and sex and love and like looking at things on

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the internet. They shouldn't be becomes very clear that they're

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kind of each other's only friends. I think that's very clear.

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Absolutely.

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I just wanted to establish that real quick. So now,

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if I remember correctly, then she arrives at she arrives

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at the house. There's that whole exchange about like you

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didn't ask me for permission. But then Luke Mom portrayed

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by Virginia Madson from Candy Man and a bunch of

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other films, mentions that Luke has started sleepwalking again. Yeah,

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and that that's something that they have to keep an

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eye on, and because of it, Luke has put on

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a special sleeping medication. And also they're doing a little

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way of gauging how often he's sleepwalking, which is they

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put a pencil on his door.

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Yeah, like on his door now, then like balance it

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so if he gets up in the middle of the

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night and opens the door, the pencil will fall off

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or we'll move and they'll know, Okay, he got up

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last night.

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Yes, And that way they can gauge if the medication

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is helping. I guess or what have you? Yeah, Because

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I mean, have you ever heard stories of severe sleepwalkers.

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I've watched videos online. It's terrifying.

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There was a comedian I think was a Berbiglia, I

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think that was his name, who was such a bad sleepwalker.

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He jumped through the window of a hotel room while

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he was touring as a comedian. But he found out

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that what was happening was he was in a miserable

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place in his actual life as well, and it was

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making it was exacerbating his sleepwalking severely because you would

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have these nightmares about being chased and running and stuff.

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So he but the end of the movie, one of

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the funniest parts about it, I think it was called

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Sleepwalk with Me. One of the funniest parts was he

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points out that that while his sleepwalking has improved immensely

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since he got out of the bag, I think it

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was a bad marriage or something. He got out of

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that situation everything, he still goes to sleep every night

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in a sleeping bag that loops around your neck, like

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it all seems the sleeping bag with mittens underneath on

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so that he can't undo the zipper. And there was

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something really like mind boggling to me about that concept.

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It all makes sense. Yeah, Like I just started wearing

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a seatpap mask and they actually recommend if you find

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you take it off at night where mittens while you sleep. Mm,

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so you just can't absent mindedly take it off. And

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that immediately made me think of sleepwalking. But unfortunately, this

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boy has much bigger problem problems than sleepwalking, oh boy,

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And we'll dive into those right after this. So the

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parents are getting ready to leave. It's a very average

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kind of thing. You know, he's got money for pizza,

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you know, have fun. And she even says something I

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thought was really cool because Luke kind of pops in

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and he's you know, talking or whatever. Nothing he says

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seemed at that point very important. But one thing she says,

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when he's kind of like, you know, she's going away

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or whatever, she says, like just one second, we get

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we'll be hanging out in a minute. So she's she's

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so that she's that babysitter they hang out, Yeah, babysit him,

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they hang out. For the record, you probably never had

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a babysitter, did you, or at least not a consistent one,

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or did.

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You There was a while there, you know, because my

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dad would travel so often that when you know, occasionally,

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especially before I was like thirteen, because once I turned thirteen,

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thirteen I became the babysitter. So before that there was

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several older homeschool kids that would babysit us.

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So it's worth mentioning how many, I don't want to

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say the wrong number, how many siblings do you have?

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I have four siblings.

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Four that sounds right for five kids in total, two

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half and three foll Yeah. Yeah. I had a sister

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who was nine years older than me, a half sister,

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and she didn't really babysit because she was not around

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super a lot. By the time she was around all

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the time, I was like eleven, and I was I

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was a latchkey kid, like one hundred percent. And for

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those who are not familiar with my elder millennial slang,

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that basically means a kid who comes home and locks

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the door behind him and then just is home.

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Yeah.

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I was a very quiet when I was very young.

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I was a very quiet kind of hi kid, and

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I didn't get in trouble. So my mom, I don't

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know exactly how old I was when she first started

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leaving me alone at the house, but it but it's

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it's young enough that you would probably I was probably

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I was probably nearly seven or eight. Oh wow, when

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I was being very young well, and the and the

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reason I could say that was such confidence is I

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remember being left home alone at two different apartments, which

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means it had to have been before I was nine, because.

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Oh yeah, we didn't have a house until I was.

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About ten, so I was very young. But we when

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we moved to a slightly nicer neighborhood, you know, Mom

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would eased up a little bit, so I was allowed

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to order her food, like I could order Chinese food

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or pizza if I was looking after myself. But the

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rule was when the when I opened the door, I

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had to turn away from the door and go, Mom,

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the food's here, and then complete the entire transaction myself

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as a little child. Fool proof, full proof stuff. So

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that was that was yeah. But but before that, I

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did have a I had a very regular babysitter until

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I was like about six or seven years old. Her

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name was Loretta. But she was an old lady.

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Yeah you've spoken about loret Oh she was.

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Wonderful, I mean she was. All the things I didn't

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like about her when I was a kid was because

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she was just literally not like my mom and I

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she was she was much more, much older, much more

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old school, loved children, very sweet, but also a bit stern,

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a bit strict, very religious as to where we were.

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You know, we maybe went to church, you know, a

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few times a year at best, but Loretta always like

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if I was with them on a weekend, I went

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to church with them, Loretta would part my hair for

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me because I was so little and put my neck

445
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tie on. Serious. Yeah, yeah, there's pictures. But Loretta was

446
00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:56.559
awesome and her husband, Howard was really fun too, because

447
00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:59.279
they were both clearly retired, and for you know, for

448
00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:01.400
most of my life, I was like, were they And

449
00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.960
I found out that mom, just a friend of a friend,

450
00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:05.920
was like, I know a lady who just retired who's

451
00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:09.240
really good with kids. So my mom contacted her, and

452
00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:12.759
my mom hired Loretta to take care of me for well,

453
00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.880
actually it started with my sister. My sister was babysat

454
00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:18.599
by Loretta first, and then my mom got pregnant with me.

455
00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:20.039
Gotcha.

456
00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:23.400
My favorite story about Loretta was about like five or

457
00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:25.440
six days after Mom got back from the hospital, Loretta

458
00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:29.759
came to visit, and I guess Loretta had like a

459
00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:31.680
lot of I find I found this a lot of

460
00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.799
older ladies they they love they love the little boys,

461
00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:38.000
you know, for whatever reason, you know. And my mom

462
00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:40.039
said that when Loretta picked me up to hold me,

463
00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:42.079
she just like looked at me and then went, well,

464
00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:43.359
you can go ahead and go back to work. I'll

465
00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:44.799
take care of them rest of the day. Don't even

466
00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:46.960
worry about it. And my mom was like, no, I'm

467
00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:49.359
I'm gonna, I'm gonna take the full maternity leave. Can

468
00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:50.559
I just have my Can I.

469
00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:52.319
Have my sight back, give me my baby back?

470
00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:57.000
Can I have my barely formed child back? Please? But

471
00:24:57.160 --> 00:24:59.640
she was always great to me. They they they they

472
00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:02.759
used to let me have like little we would you know.

473
00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.880
They were not like so religious that you couldn't watch television,

474
00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:08.559
but that was kind of the thing. Was like you

475
00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:10.799
could watch any movie you wanted as long as it

476
00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:14.119
was on like TV, because that meant that anything offensive

477
00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:16.880
was cut out, so it was all good. So we you know,

478
00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:19.960
but not cable, you know, like like on NBC. We

479
00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:22.440
could watch whatever. So I have lots of memories of

480
00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:25.359
like watching whatever movies were on regular TV with them,

481
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:30.160
and Loretta making me stovetop popcorn and stuff like that,

482
00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.440
you know. Yeah, and Howard falling asleep on the recliner,

483
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.119
but he'd like try really hard to be into the

484
00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:37.799
movie with me until he just conked out. But my

485
00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:42.599
favorite memory, since we're talking about babysitters, was on the weeknights,

486
00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:45.359
my mother had to work two jobs and go to

487
00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:50.000
school through the mail. So my mom would work eight

488
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:53.640
to four and then work at the dayton mall from

489
00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:57.640
five to ten or ten thirty, and then on the

490
00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:01.799
weekends she would do her school work. It was rough,

491
00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:05.440
it was really really rough, and so I would often

492
00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:07.799
be at Loretta's at about my bedtime and I had

493
00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.440
a very She was always surprised I had a very

494
00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:12.240
loose bedtime. My mom was like, he'll be tired by

495
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.200
like ten, he'll go to sleep, you know. That was

496
00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.440
her attitude. So my mom's a thing wasn't like I had.

497
00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.039
I didn't have a bedtime I had. I had a well,

498
00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:21.680
I mean, I had like a be in bedtime. I

499
00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:24.400
didn't have a sleep time. Okay, So my mom would

500
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.200
be like, by nine thirty, just make sure he's comfy

501
00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.039
and and you know, covered in blankets. So they would

502
00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.319
set me up in their guest room and leave the

503
00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:35.440
TV on on nicke at night, which was my choice.

504
00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.960
So I would watch Green Acres, i'd watch Get Smart,

505
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:42.000
I'd watch Dragnet. But what hit me really crazy was

506
00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:46.440
I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And I think

507
00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.759
that's what started my like obsession with horror quite a bit,

508
00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:52.759
or what made it, you know, maybe uh galvanized it

509
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:57.240
because I was upset. I would not I would struggle

510
00:26:57.319 --> 00:26:59.400
to stay awake through Dragnet because it's a good show,

511
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.359
but very for a child. Yes, I would struggle to

512
00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:03.839
stay awake through it so I could get to Alfred

513
00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:05.920
Ditchcock Presents. And I have so many memories of like

514
00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:08.000
starting to doze off in the hearing but bum it

515
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.759
up up and waiting right up and just being scared

516
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.759
for an hour or so. But and then my mom.

517
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.039
Usually i'd fall asleep at some point, and then my

518
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:19.160
mom would pick me up at like eleven or eleven thirty,

519
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:21.440
and I have all these memories of her lifting me

520
00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:24.359
out of a bed and then setting me down in

521
00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:26.880
the seat next to her in the car, buckling me

522
00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.960
in and driving me home and then tucking me into

523
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:30.880
my own bed. And I don't think it was like

524
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:32.400
every night, but it was probably three or four nights

525
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.200
a week. It was a lot. Yeah, I mean my

526
00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:39.839
mom put in the work. So anyway, but do you

527
00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:43.640
have a favorite babysitter memory. If I don't, well I

528
00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:45.480
don't have so many siblings, You're gonna have a lot

529
00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:46.759
less babysitters overall.

530
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.359
Well, I don't know if I would necessarily count this

531
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:55.079
as a favorite, but definitely a memory that stands out

532
00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.680
is one time I had to call nine one one

533
00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.680
for my babysitter. You're not joking, I'm not joking.

534
00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.279
You had to dial nine one one, Yeah, for your babysitter.

535
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:06.759
Yeah, I was only like eight years old.

536
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.880
Oh, I mean that that might this might just trump

537
00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:11.799
the fact that what I was when Loretta was watching me.

538
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:13.319
One time I fell off a jungle gym and cracked

539
00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:13.839
my head open.

540
00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:15.119
Ooh did it please?

541
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.359
What I mean? I hope? So they gave me six stitches.

542
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.319
Oh god, so I had to go to the emergency room.

543
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.960
I got off a double gym and landed on a

544
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.960
pointed rock. And when I got up and was all woozy,

545
00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.720
I went to the back door and knocked and yelled

546
00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:29.440
for Loretta, and she came to the back door and

547
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.279
screamed when she saw me. Oh god, so I'm guessing

548
00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:35.799
it was pretty bad. I'm guessing it was pretty bad. Yeah,

549
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:38.119
And the only memory I have is then rushing to

550
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:40.160
the hospital and I just remember laying on the table

551
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.400
while they were getting ready to stitch me and hearing

552
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:47.160
my mom's work shoes clacking as she was running to

553
00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:49.440
me from she'd gotten off work and just headed straight

554
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.160
to me, you know, shoulder pads and all. But I

555
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.039
want to hear this story after we forced everybody to

556
00:28:55.039 --> 00:29:10.559
listen to a commercial A stunks. All right, tell me

557
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:13.519
why you had to call nine one one for your babysitter,

558
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.279
and then we'll get back to a babysitter who wishes

559
00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:16.720
they could call nine one one.

560
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.680
So I was like eight years old, maybe nine, and

561
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.039
it was a babysitter. I believe it was a girl

562
00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:28.519
from church that time, and she babysat a couple times,

563
00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:31.400
but this was the last time she ever babysat for us.

564
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.799
It sounds I hope you're not like So then they

565
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:36.839
took her corpse out of the house at the end.

566
00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:39.799
So you know, she came over and she had kind

567
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:42.880
of mentioned to us, you know, me and my two

568
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.400
younger brothers. When she got there to a babysit, She's like, yeah,

569
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:46.799
we kind of want to keep it low key to

570
00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.599
get today because I'm not feeling very well. Oh no,

571
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.880
and you know me and my brothers are known for

572
00:29:54.000 --> 00:30:00.920
being terrors. Yes, even now, it's almost worse now. Yeah,

573
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.720
So we tried to keep it like low key for

574
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:06.200
a little while, but it was spring and you know,

575
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:08.960
it's nice out, and we were kind of star crazy.

576
00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:11.759
So finally she was like, okay, let's take a walk

577
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:15.319
around the block so that you guys can like get

578
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:16.359
some steam out.

579
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.200
So she basically handled you guys like you were border collies.

580
00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.079
Oh my god, yes, that's it. That's probably the best advice.

581
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:25.279
So she's like, maybe if we, you know, like walk

582
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:27.319
a block or two, the kids will calm down and

583
00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.279
then they won't be like trying to break things in

584
00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.599
the house and I can get a moment's piece. So

585
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.559
we get maybe like five houses down and she turns

586
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.079
like white as a sheet and says, I really don't

587
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:43.319
feel good. We have to go back. So we start

588
00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:45.839
walking back and she starts like throwing up, and I

589
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:50.000
noticed that it's not like normal throw up color. It

590
00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:54.079
was like pinkish, and so we like rush her inside

591
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.519
and she starts like puking everywhere in the toilet and

592
00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:02.680
it's like full of blood, Oh my god. And so I,

593
00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:04.880
you know, I'm just kind of sitting there like and

594
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.799
so finally I can't remember whether she told me to

595
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:10.640
or if I suggested it, but it, you know, we

596
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.480
all came to the conclusion like I need to be

597
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.039
the one to dial nine one one. And so I

598
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.880
even remember asking her. I'm like, really, it's just nine

599
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:20.880
one one. She's like, yeah, just nine one one.

600
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.400
Like okay, that's what happens when your parents don't let

601
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:25.480
you watch TV. You don't know stuff like that.

602
00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:29.799
So I called nine one one, and you know, they

603
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.200
asked what my address was, and I gave them my address,

604
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.440
and they asked, what's what's the you know, what's the

605
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.039
nature of your emergency? And I remember being eight years old,

606
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:47.119
and I was just like, well, my babysitter's throwing up,

607
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:53.440
and the poor dispatcher's like okay, and I'm like, my

608
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.079
babysitter's throwing up and I think it's full of blood.

609
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.519
And that's when she's like, oh, okay, that's okay. How

610
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:03.720
old are you I'm like, well, I'm eight. She's like, okay,

611
00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:05.799
did she tell you to call? I'm like, well, she's

612
00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:07.960
right here. She can't get on the phone, so I

613
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.960
called myself and I realized now she was like since

614
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:13.480
she had my address, she was just trying to keep

615
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:17.319
me calm and occupied, and so then she asked, well

616
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.200
is she conscious? And I was like, what's conscious? She says, oh, sweetie, conscious,

617
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.720
is she awake? Is she talking? I'm like, yes, she

618
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.200
is conscious right now. And the lady was like, okay, good,

619
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.720
it's good that she's conscious. Okay, the paramedics are going

620
00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:34.559
to be there any minute now. I need you to

621
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:36.519
stay calm and stay on the phone with me. Can

622
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:38.680
you tell me, like what you guys were doing. It's like, oh,

623
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.759
we were going on a walk. She's like, okay, that's great.

624
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:43.000
Who else is there? Paramedics get there?

625
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:45.960
And were you the oldest You were the oldest kid there.

626
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:47.799
And I was the oldest kid there. So I was

627
00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.240
trying to like, also keep John and Michael calm, which

628
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.559
they you know, Michael was grossed out, so he was

629
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.880
like crying in the corner. John was just fascinated with

630
00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.839
the whole thing. So you know that was fine. The

631
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.599
paramedics get there and by that point she had like

632
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.960
stopped throwing up so violently, so they took her into,

633
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.079
you know, into the ambulance just to check her out.

634
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:16.200
Turns out you're probably supposed to drink water several times

635
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:22.319
a day, and shouldn't only drink exclusively two leaders of

636
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.240
Mountain dew eight two liders a day, every single day

637
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:26.839
for weeks.

638
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.759
I mean, in her defense, she was perky, she had

639
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:33.920
she had the energy.

640
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.640
So yeah, apparently she just had a ton of stomach

641
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.759
ulcers and they all started bleeding like pretty much at

642
00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.559
the same time. And so that's why she had felt

643
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.319
so bad when she first got there, is because stomach

644
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.359
ulcers and then her just walking around was like the straw.

645
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:55.920
That walking increases digestion. Yeah, so that makes sense. Yeah,

646
00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:58.119
So well, I just want to point out the difference

647
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:01.359
between being homeschooled in the suburbs and in public school

648
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:04.200
in the ghetto. You're eight years old, You're like, what

649
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.359
does conscious mean? I'm eight years old of ordering Chinese

650
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:10.119
food on the phone and pay for it at the door.

651
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.239
That is totally different worlds.

652
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.760
And we were like, we were like eighteen miles apart.

653
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.920
But yeah, so that's so good. That is one of

654
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.119
my most memorable babysitter stories.

655
00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:32.639
Is that? Do you have before we moved back, before

656
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.920
we leave this subject, do you have any babysitter stories

657
00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:39.119
as the sitter? Because I know you've sat a few

658
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:40.079
babies in your day.

659
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.840
I've sat several babies. I mean a lot of my

660
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:47.519
babysitting is for family members, right, so I think they're

661
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:51.320
like my nephew Andrew, which it's really fun now that he's,

662
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.119
you know, a young man, but when he was like

663
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:56.880
six years old, he was obsessed with Batman, and so

664
00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:59.960
we would like sit there and play his Batman action figure.

665
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.039
But I accidentally let it slip that I can kind

666
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.280
of do character voices, and then he wouldn't let me stop,

667
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:10.920
Like he'd be like, now, doude do the Joker voice?

668
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.880
Like actually like the Joker, And I'm like a kid,

669
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.880
I've been doing this for fifteen minutes, Like my voice

670
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:15.519
is gonna die.

671
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:21.760
Oh poor baby, you four thing? Uh, poor poor thing.

672
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.400
But yeah, yeah, that's that's funny. See I am fortunate.

673
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.199
I have looked like a whack a doo basically since

674
00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:30.840
I was sixteen years old. Nobody's handed me the keys

675
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.519
there kids unless they are truly desperate, and very few

676
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:39.320
direct family members have kids younger than me. So yeah,

677
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.039
I have not. I've I actually I don't think I've

678
00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:43.079
ever ever babysat at all.

679
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:45.280
It's a it's a it's a trip, man.

680
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.639
Yeah, never have.

681
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.760
Yeah, So I will say I did get payback for

682
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.280
being a terror to my babysitter, because I've babysat my

683
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:58.480
youngest brother's three siblings who are exactly like me and

684
00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:01.920
my brothers. So I did get it back. There have

685
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.679
been so many times where I'm like, well, this is

686
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:05.719
just this is just payback.

687
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:07.880
At least one of them doesn't punch me in the

688
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:12.199
stomach anymore anymore. Yeah, I'm happy. That's so. Yeah, I'm

689
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:16.239
happy that phase is over, thank god. Yeah. Well, you

690
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.360
never hugged you and then looked at you when you're fat.

691
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.119
No, that's that's the problem with kids, like they harm

692
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.280
you physically and psychologically.

693
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.079
Yeah. Yeah, I tried to handle them when my stepdad did.

694
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:33.480
I mean, aside from all the scary Mexican stuff, you know,

695
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:34.639
if I just look at him and going, you know,

696
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:36.800
if you say stuff like that, people won't like you.

697
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.480
Yeah, that did kind of blow his mind.

698
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:41.239
That did. I think it did. That's the kind of

699
00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:44.519
thing my stepdad would say though. Yeah, he would just

700
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.679
very matter of factly tell you why that ain't gonna fly. Yeah,

701
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:51.559
you know he might. He was not as gentle, but

702
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.760
he also was like with me all the time. You know,

703
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.119
he was always around, so he I sometimes I'm like, man,

704
00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:58.239
he was kind of harsh. I'm like yeah, but he

705
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.960
was always there. Yeah, out of given props. You know, Now,

706
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.199
as an adult, I understand how much of effort it

707
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.639
is to like always be around a kid and always

708
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:08.239
be there when they have a question, always be there

709
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:12.039
when they're they're mad or upset or whatever. Yeah, he was.

710
00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:15.119
It was always there unless he was away on contracting jobs,

711
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:18.440
which is one of the reasons mom needed childcare contracting

712
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.920
go out to California or Alaska, and we would just

713
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:22.400
be us.

714
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:23.480
Oh gotcha.

715
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:26.400
It happened a ton, I mean a ton. So anyway,

716
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:29.320
so back to the film, now that that was just

717
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.760
how often do you get to talk about your experiences

718
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:36.519
with babysitters? You know? Yeah, so you take it please, Oh.

719
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.599
Well, well I'll take it away, Okay. So after after

720
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:47.400
Luke's parents leave, Ashley, of course, as any teenage babysitter does,

721
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:49.360
immediately gets a call from her boyfriend.

722
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.760
Of course, but unlike most, she doesn't want him to

723
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.159
come over.

724
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.760
No, and she's actually very very adamant about it that

725
00:37:56.880 --> 00:38:00.280
she doesn't. And it's not even like she's well, she

726
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:03.480
is clearly trying to avoid him. She is clearly trying

727
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:07.039
to rip off the band aid, but also not rip

728
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.840
off the band aid.

729
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.079
Yeah, because she's moving away, and that means that whether

730
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:13.880
they've admitted it or not, their could put yeah. Yeah.

731
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:18.639
But so she kind of talks to him, and we

732
00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:22.960
get to see what we think is Luke's character because

733
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:25.320
as she's talking to her boyfriend Ricky on the phone,

734
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.159
this big spider comes out of nowhere and scares her

735
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.920
and she screams and she's like screaming for help, and

736
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:34.679
Luke rushes in and she asks him to squish it,

737
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.239
and he's like no, no, and he you know, takes

738
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:39.159
it and puts it in a jar and just takes

739
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:39.639
it outside.

740
00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:40.239
Don't do it.

741
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.079
He didn't do anything wrong. And you're like, oh, look

742
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:44.559
at the sweet little kid.

743
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:49.199
Who doesn't value property rights. That spider has no right

744
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:49.840
to that home.

745
00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:54.800
So she she hangs up with her boyfriend and Luke

746
00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:59.480
comes in and he wants to impress Ashley. So he's

747
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:01.159
found a bottle.

748
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.639
Of champagne, which he scares her half to death with

749
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:06.599
by firing off the frigging the cork. The cork, Yeah,

750
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.719
it shoots and hits the wall next to hers. Yead,

751
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:11.960
you will over And this kid is just mouth on

752
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:16.320
the end of that bottle, sucking down champagne.

753
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.519
Which, to be fair, it is delicious.

754
00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:22.440
I'm assuming. So well, we'll get to what happens next

755
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:37.920
after some more underage drinking, but first this. So now

756
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:41.159
she's demanding to get that champagne bottle back from the

757
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:45.880
twelve almost thirteen thirteen, who is chugging it straight out

758
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:48.719
of the bottle like he's at like a Kanye West

759
00:39:48.760 --> 00:39:49.760
concert or something.

760
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.519
Well, and he even insists he's like, well, me and

761
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:55.880
Garrett his friend from earlier. He's like me and Garrett

762
00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:58.920
drank a whole bottle together. He was wasted, but well,

763
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:00.239
he threw up every where.

764
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.480
It's hilarious. He can't hold his liquor like I can't.

765
00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:08.559
I can He's like eighty seven pounds it's great.

766
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:13.119
So she manages to like get the bottle away from him,

767
00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.000
and then she notices that the kitchen door is a jar,

768
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:19.159
so she goes and she closes the kitchen door. And

769
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:21.039
that's what I love is the first third of this

770
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:26.679
movie is every single trope that you can imagine from

771
00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:29.119
a home invader like thriller.

772
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:31.480
I mean, you could even go further back than that,

773
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:36.039
just the every trope from the babysitter alone with the kid, yeah,

774
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.199
which I mean, which even predates slasher movies. Mm hmm.

775
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:42.199
You know the whole concept of you know, the call,

776
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:44.960
the phone calls, and they do play that up where

777
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.400
the phone rings and scares her and yeah, she's you're

778
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:50.320
jumpy and all this stuff. Although although she never gets

779
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.480
a phone call that's like threatening or anything. No, I

780
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.079
love that they play that up. So you get you

781
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:58.719
get shades of Scream, you get shades of of that

782
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.159
movie when a stranger calls. That's a lot, yeah, which

783
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:03.960
I ow. That's such a great film. I mean it's

784
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.679
literally that movie's so old. It's literally a feature film

785
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.599
retelling of the calls coming from inside the house. Get out.

786
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.719
That's literally I'm serious though, Like, and we laugh, because

787
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.880
that's such a played out concept now, but back then

788
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:20.519
it was people told that story in Whispers, and then

789
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.440
a movie came out, well two because then Black Christmas

790
00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:27.320
also played up the coming from inside the house. So

791
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.239
it's it's a great, it's a great. It's great the

792
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.280
way they're playing up your expectations, and even the poster

793
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.599
plays up your expectations because the poster is the two

794
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.920
of them, Luke and Ashley sitting by a Christmas tree

795
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:42.960
with a knife, like they're like they're trying to defend

796
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.079
each other or protect each other. That plays up the

797
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:51.000
you know, plays up the what they want us to think. Yes,

798
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.559
until the end of the first act exactly.

799
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.519
So she's kind of startled by the door being open,

800
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.440
and Ricky calls again, kind of pleading with her, like please,

801
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.760
I want to you know, I just maybe when the

802
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:06.719
kid goes to bed, like can I come talk to

803
00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:09.519
you then, like let's let's at least talk together before

804
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.599
you leave, And she hangs up on him, you know,

805
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:16.199
kind of upset, and she you know, looking at the

806
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:19.000
bottle as she's pouring out, like what can it hurt?

807
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:21.360
So she takes a swig and catches her.

808
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:22.880
Like that as she's starting to pour it down the drade,

809
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.719
she says, I can't believe I'm doing this. I know,

810
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:26.760
it's like a really nice bottle of champagne.

811
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:29.159
Such a waste.

812
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.719
But then yeah, Luke catches her taking a sip and

813
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:32.519
he's like, uh.

814
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.840
Which which is really good because you know, we get

815
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.320
glimpses of the character he wants us to think that

816
00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.760
he is. Yes, but him catching her and and kind

817
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.800
of delighting in the fact that now they're co conspirators.

818
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.480
That's that's the real Luke.

819
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.679
Yeah, like, I won't tell if you don't. Yeah, But

820
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:58.039
then but then he immediately takes another swig out of

821
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.239
it too. It's like, dude, you're you're a little dude.

822
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:00.920
You don't need all that.

823
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:03.039
Yeah, you don't need you don't need much. You don't

824
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:03.480
need much.

825
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:03.719
There.

826
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:06.159
So that's when they get they get a call. You know,

827
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:08.480
it startles her, but no one's on the other line.

828
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:10.320
So she hangs up and she's, you know, kind of

829
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:13.880
in a huff. They sit down and watch scary movies together,

830
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.920
which I think is funny because the mom even said, like,

831
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:19.880
don't stay up watching scary movies, give yourself nightmares and

832
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:21.880
what are they doing but watching Scary One?

833
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.400
And she's scared really bad by them. Yeah, Luke is

834
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:26.800
pretty much unfazed.

835
00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:31.039
No, he's not face at all, and he's he keeps

836
00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:33.119
pushing He's he's like a dog with a bone, he

837
00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:35.440
keeps pushing it. He's like, why are you dating Ricky?

838
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.559
Like he's such a jerk, and you know, then he

839
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.239
starts talking about her ex Jeremy and what a jerk

840
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:43.760
Jeremy was, and you know how awful all these people are.

841
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.679
But he's he's the real deal. And she's like, dude,

842
00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:49.119
well known you sense you were eight.

843
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.320
She actually says like, if you were my age, I

844
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:53.840
would totally date you, and he's like really yeah, And

845
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:56.159
she doesn't even follow up the really, She just kind

846
00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:57.960
of goes back to watching the.

847
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:02.000
Movie because she's not she's she's not trying to seduce him.

848
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:05.679
She's trying to do the nice thing and be like, yeah, dude,

849
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:06.559
if I was your.

850
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:10.119
Age, gass him up. Yeah yeah, yeah.

851
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:11.159
But he's not taken it that way.

852
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:15.119
Well, I don't think anything is gonna shift his notions

853
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:18.079
of what's going on. No, no, not.

854
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:21.480
So they talk a little bit, change the subject and

855
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:23.639
they talk about, well, let's let's get something to eat,

856
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.039
and he's kind of dejected. I mean he's like, well,

857
00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:27.599
as long as it doesn't have mushrooms.

858
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:29.960
She's like, what do you want? I think she says

859
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:33.960
pepperoni or Hawaiian Yeah, and he says anything without mushrooms, yeah,

860
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.639
which made me laugh because when he had said, like,

861
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:36.880
you know, he can't hold the liquor like me, she

862
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.000
was like, I'm so impressed, but now it's like, I

863
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.519
want to see me as a man. No mushrooms please,

864
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.199
I just didn't taste good in my mouth, you know,

865
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:51.519
like the way they feel. So let's just made me chuckle. Yeah.

866
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:54.239
No, it's it's so funny because there are so many

867
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:59.400
points in this movie where Luke is trying so hard

868
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.440
to be tough, hardened adult, but then he'll instantly do

869
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:05.679
something like a little kid thing.

870
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:08.079
He's such a little la He's such a little.

871
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.000
Kid throughout, which is which is great. So then they

872
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.519
get a knock at the door and she goes and

873
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:18.960
checks it out and it's a pizza and they hadn't

874
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.119
even ordered a pizza yet.

875
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.559
Yeah, because they gotten distracted by yeah, by some of

876
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:23.320
them Tom foolery.

877
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:27.159
That was yeah, that was going on. So she's she's

878
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:29.559
a little weirded out, especially because the pizza guy like

879
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:30.880
is kind of weird.

880
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:34.360
Well, the way they show him is the weird part. Yeah,

881
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.000
because when they look through the peepole, his head cuts

882
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.000
off right at the top, so you can't see his face.

883
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:44.519
You just see a big pizza and like the upper

884
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:45.920
body of a man. He's like, you know, I have

885
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.719
a pizza for you. She opens the door and we

886
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:51.639
never see his face never, and which I again, you

887
00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:54.280
want to talk about those tropes, that would be a

888
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:59.599
heavy suggestion that the pizza man is who's terrorizing them

889
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:04.119
because they hide his face, they obscure his face. But yeah,

890
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.199
she she's like, we didn't order this. See. He asks

891
00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:08.119
if that's the address and she's like it is, and

892
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.800
he's like, well then, I mean that's where this pizza

893
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:13.199
was ordered to, and Luke jumps right and says, maybe

894
00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:14.119
my dad ordered it.

895
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:15.239
Yeah.

896
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.719
So then they bring the pizza in after Luke pays him,

897
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.239
and she's like, if your dad ordered this, why are

898
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:26.360
there mushrooms on it? And he goes, yeah, because they're vegetables,

899
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:30.199
which checks out though, like that is a dad thing. Yeah. Well,

900
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:33.880
parent thing just to get you to eat your goddamn vegetables, please,

901
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:35.320
for the love of God.

902
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:40.599
So, yeah, she's she's a little put off by it,

903
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.519
but she's sitting there, you know, eating the pizza, and

904
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.440
Ricky just keeps calling and calling and calling, and she

905
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:51.440
keeps ignoring it. And Luke is sitting there on the

906
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.920
couch with her, like trying to cozy up on her.

907
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:57.000
He like puts his hand on her thigh and she

908
00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:01.000
moves it away, like he's trying so hard delay the moves,

909
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:05.159
and she just at every turn keeps blocking it, which

910
00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:07.639
is really funny to watch it, is well.

911
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:11.199
And and he's a pip squeak, I mean little kid.

912
00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:15.280
Yeah yeah, yeah, he's shorter than her, like substantially. Yeah.

913
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.360
So as they're as they're sitting there watching the scary

914
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:23.719
movies and like eating pizza, we see a shadow in

915
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:30.039
the window and figures to just somebody standing there and

916
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.840
that's like a good little shock, and you know, of

917
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:36.840
course Luke is still trying, so he puts like puts

918
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.320
his arm around Ashley and like tries to kiss her,

919
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:42.599
and again she you know, totally shuts it down. And

920
00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:45.039
then they get another random call on the house line,

921
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.400
and this time they do hear someone. She does hear

922
00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:51.199
someone on the other line, and he says, I can

923
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.280
see you. So she goes over to the window and

924
00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:56.280
she's like, oh, yeah, can you see this, and just

925
00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:00.760
flips flips off, her flips off the whole neighborhood, which

926
00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:06.679
was great storytelling, kind of showing her her true colors.

927
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:09.559
Her tuede ye know what she can get, like when

928
00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:10.880
push comes to shove.

929
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:16.119
Because she she's, oh, she's got fire, she's a little perky. Yeah,

930
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:23.559
she's got it in her. Then so as she's at

931
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:26.559
the window and she flips it off, she notices that

932
00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:30.599
a decoration that she had moved, the Santa decoration. She

933
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:32.559
had moved it out of the way when the pizza

934
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:35.760
guy came, and she notices that it's been moved on

935
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:41.000
its own. So she goes to check it out and

936
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:45.199
she like kind of hears something and she starts to panic.

937
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:47.519
So Luke picks up her phone and tosses it.

938
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:49.280
It, puts her hand out for him to throw it

939
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:49.840
to her.

940
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:53.119
But he totally misses and it falls straight into the

941
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:53.840
fish tank.

942
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:55.480
Right into the fish tank, and of course it's a

943
00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.440
very deep fish tank. She goes to put her arm

944
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.760
down there and it can't even reach down there without

945
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.280
get it like right over top of it. So now

946
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:05.719
she has no phone and something is going on. But

947
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.079
we'll talk about that a little bit more right after this.

948
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.880
So someone is clearly messing with them from outside the house.

949
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:27.960
So what happens next, So now that they don't have

950
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:33.119
her cell phone, they hear you know, crashing, and they

951
00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:35.199
go to the front door, and they hear someone banging

952
00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.239
on the door, and then the door you know, like

953
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:42.960
flies open and someone tackles Luke and it's his friend Garrett.

954
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:44.679
Yeah, and just in a black hoodie.

955
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:48.920
Yeah, just doing shitty little kid shit.

956
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:50.480
Yeah, and he's just laughing. He's I just want to

957
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:53.119
check out you guys were doing, you know whatever. But

958
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:56.840
then they say, you know, great job hanging out creeping

959
00:49:56.840 --> 00:49:59.400
around the backyard, and he's like, I wasn't in the backyard.

960
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.920
And they hear a loud crash from upstairs, and now

961
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:05.039
they're all on edge.

962
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:10.519
Yeah, So Ashley you know, takes the lead and she's like,

963
00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:14.039
you guys stay down here. I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm

964
00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:15.800
gonna check out what's going on.

965
00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:18.639
And she tells the friend to he has a phone. Yeah,

966
00:50:18.679 --> 00:50:21.079
So she tells him, you put nine one one on

967
00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:23.079
your phone and if you hear me yell in any

968
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:25.400
way you hit hits.

969
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.400
End, hide, run and hide, and then don't come out

970
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.320
until the police get heres. Is her instructions to them.

971
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:33.679
So she starts going upstairs, and of course they do

972
00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:35.480
none of that, and they just follow immediately.

973
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:37.880
They say they're scared they heard stuff downstairs as well,

974
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:38.119
you know.

975
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:41.039
Please don't leave us downstairs by ourselves, And so she

976
00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:44.880
does the babysitter thing. She's like, okay, fine, just stay

977
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.639
right behind me. So they go upstairs and like at

978
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.119
the end of the hallway is like a window at

979
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.639
the end of the hall and the window's broken. Someone's

980
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:58.559
thrown a brick through the window and.

981
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:04.280
On the brick is written you leave you die. So

982
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:07.039
and at that moment, also his friend realizes his phone's

983
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.280
getting no reception yeah, which he even says like my

984
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:10.239
phone always works.

985
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:12.400
When yeah, my phone always works here. So they try

986
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:16.639
they try calling nine one one on the landline. No landline.

987
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:19.000
So they're like, okay, well let's try getting on the

988
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.800
internet and see what's going on. They're not they can't

989
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:26.199
connect to their internet either, and they're like not seeing

990
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:31.880
any of the wife five, so that's all really scary.

991
00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:35.800
And then the light's cut out, so clearly something is

992
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:40.719
going on, and Ashley you know, runs downstairs. She's like,

993
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:43.920
I'm going to activate the emergency alarm, and Luke follows after,

994
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:46.079
and she's like, why why don't you guys have like

995
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:49.079
security system in the house, and he even says like, well,

996
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.039
we never we needed one. It's a really safe neighborhood,

997
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:54.760
which I thought was funny because if you look on

998
00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.000
the Wikipedia name, the original title of the movie was

999
00:51:57.039 --> 00:52:00.639
safe neighborhood, which so that they said that they.

1000
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:04.440
Yeah, but and I mean they have like a circular driveways.

1001
00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:09.159
Very nice, yeah, very nice. And it's a very large house, big,

1002
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:11.920
and it's got a big this will play into the

1003
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:16.559
movie later, but it's got a big like entryway. It's

1004
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:20.920
a big foyer with like the the not quite spiral staircase,

1005
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:23.320
but you know, the big arching staircase that goes up

1006
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.320
to the second second level. So like it's a it's

1007
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:29.239
a very nice house. So you know, lights are cut out,

1008
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:33.039
and you know, Ashley realizes her front tire has been slashed,

1009
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:36.840
so even more showing that someone is this isn't just

1010
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.960
oh the power's gone out, like someone is hunting them.

1011
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.800
And she she asks Luke like do your do your

1012
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:47.159
parents have a gun? Like let's go over a plan,

1013
00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:49.760
and he's like, okay, yeah, well my parents have a gun.

1014
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.119
They keep it upstairs, like on my my dad's side

1015
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:55.000
of the bed, and and she says that okay, what

1016
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.559
they're gonna do is they'll they'll get the gun and

1017
00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:01.480
she'll keep him safe and if any one, if anyone

1018
00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:04.559
comes for them, then you know they'll do what they

1019
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:09.000
have to do. That's when Garrett comes downstairs with the

1020
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.519
brick and it reveals that it says you leave, you die.

1021
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.679
He panics, runs out the back door and is immediately

1022
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:20.239
shot by whomever is out there.

1023
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:23.400
And it's it's very you just barely see you hear

1024
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.719
the sound of like a shot, and you see like

1025
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:27.880
a little bit of red and he just flops over

1026
00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:31.599
and he's not moving, and now Luke is like, what happened?

1027
00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:33.679
Is he okay? And she just keep says she's talking

1028
00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:37.599
to him, staring at Jeremy's two feet laying in the snow,

1029
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:41.239
not moving, and she locks the door when she sees

1030
00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:44.079
that she just locks the door. So sorry, Jeremy, you're

1031
00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:45.079
as good as dead to her.

1032
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:48.559
So yeah, next got it. Got to take care of

1033
00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:51.440
Luke because I mean, after all, his parents aren't paying her.

1034
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.960
That's true, Jeremy's parents should keep her on retainer if

1035
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:54.719
he's going to visit.

1036
00:53:55.519 --> 00:54:00.039
So they Ashley and Luke kind of sneak around and

1037
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.159
the living room and they hear someone upstairs, and Luke

1038
00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:08.880
then notices like another shadow of someone like passing by

1039
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:12.840
one of the windows, so they rush upstairs. It kind

1040
00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.840
of sneak upstairs and they notice that someone's already up there.

1041
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:20.159
They've got a shotgun and they're like going room to room.

1042
00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.559
Yeah, and they have a ski mask on an all black.

1043
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:25.480
Yeah, totally totally covered so you can't see their face.

1044
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:29.119
So Ashley kind of pushes Luke into the laundry room

1045
00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.960
and they hide in there. And the laundry room has

1046
00:54:33.559 --> 00:54:36.719
one of those entrances to an atticant's the pull down ladders, right,

1047
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.840
So she pulls down the ladder and she gets him

1048
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:42.880
to go up there, and she's like, we need to

1049
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:47.320
hide here and stay safe, and he keeps insisting because

1050
00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:50.400
he's such a big tough man. He keeps insisting that

1051
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:52.760
he can go down there and get the gun himself

1052
00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:55.360
and he can keep her safe well.

1053
00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:58.039
And it is worth mentioning though. One element that makes

1054
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:02.039
this all much more believable is early on when his

1055
00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:04.679
when it turns out to be Jeremy. Like, before that happens,

1056
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:09.719
he's acting like, like way too brave, he's really over

1057
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:12.880
selling it. But then after Jeremy reveals himself and then

1058
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.239
more stuff start happening, he does or thank you Garrett.

1059
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.519
After that he starts acting way less brave. Yeah, I mean,

1060
00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:21.760
he's still acting kind of brave, and he's like kind

1061
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:24.599
of rising to the occasion, but it's much more believable.

1062
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:29.760
Yes, Yeah, and especially after Garrett gets you know shot. Yeah,

1063
00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:32.119
he even you know, is stunned and he's like is

1064
00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:35.000
he Is he dead? And she's like, let's not talk

1065
00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:35.880
about that right now.

1066
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:36.360
Yeah.

1067
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.400
So they're they're up there, hidden in the attic, and

1068
00:55:41.239 --> 00:55:43.719
they get into an argument about what they need to do,

1069
00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:47.960
and kind of as they're sitting there arguing, he pushes

1070
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:51.559
her a little bit. She falls back and nearly falls

1071
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.519
out of the attic down the trap door.

1072
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:57.079
Yeah, but he grabs he grabbed time.

1073
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:00.840
And then all these spiders all out of the attic

1074
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:03.920
and they're like fall on her, and she's sitting there

1075
00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:06.800
squirming and like screaming a little bit like say me.

1076
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:08.760
And he's like, it's okay, I've got you, I've got you,

1077
00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:11.079
and he you know, pulls her back up to safety

1078
00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:15.920
and the bad guy comes and you know, they're sitting

1079
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:18.360
there quiet, and you know they've pulled up the ladder

1080
00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:20.920
and he kind of looks around and scans around in

1081
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:23.880
the laundry room and then, you know, and then leaves

1082
00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:26.199
and you breathe, breathe a sigh of relief, but you're

1083
00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:30.599
kind of wondering, like, how did this guy not notice?

1084
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:35.880
How did he not hear any of that? So he

1085
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:40.960
Luke comforts her and he runs and gets the gun

1086
00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:45.400
from his parents' room and then runs back and the

1087
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.840
you know, as the trespasser is coming around the corner,

1088
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:50.760
that's when you kind of notice, like, wow, this trespasser

1089
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:54.599
is like really short, but people are short. Big people

1090
00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:59.679
can be short. Ashley pushes Luke through the or through

1091
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.159
the the hallway and they kind of hide in his

1092
00:57:03.079 --> 00:57:06.840
bedroom and then they hide in his closet and again

1093
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:12.360
the trespasser's coming along and going through room to room,

1094
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.800
and as Ashley and Luke are sitting in there in

1095
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:18.920
the closet, they accidentally like bump one of his toys

1096
00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:21.199
and it starts making a loud noise, and the trespasser

1097
00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:26.679
comes right into the room. And while the trespasser is

1098
00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:30.079
shining a light and they're sitting there cowering like hoping

1099
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:34.840
that he doesn't notice them in the closet, she gets

1100
00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:39.119
a closer look and she realizes that ski mask is

1101
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:46.079
Luke's and then she puts two and two together. That's Garrett.

1102
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:49.559
That's Garrett that's been walking through the house scaring them.

1103
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:53.400
So she calls out to him and she you know,

1104
00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:56.320
pushes open the closet doors and she's like, take the

1105
00:57:56.360 --> 00:57:57.239
mask off.

1106
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:03.199
Take a mask off, Garrett, and he goes what, yeah. What.

1107
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:10.159
So it's revealed that Luke put all this act on

1108
00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:14.039
just to impress her, just to scare her a little bit,

1109
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:15.960
because they know what they you know what they say

1110
00:58:16.519 --> 00:58:18.960
about you know, fear and arousal.

1111
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:20.360
Same physical symptoms.

1112
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:23.119
Yeah yeah, so I mean the kid's onto something.

1113
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:28.239
So now the question will be will Ashley the babysitter

1114
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:31.800
be angry or aroused. Well, your guess is as good

1115
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:47.119
as anybody's, but we'll find out right after this. So

1116
00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:51.679
how's Ashley the babysitter feel about this ruse?

1117
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:57.119
She does not like it. No, she is not impressed.

1118
00:58:57.480 --> 00:59:00.760
Shock of the centric who I would have thought?

1119
00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:05.480
Yeah, right, So she absolutely goes off on Luke, telling

1120
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:07.239
him that he's going to be in so much trouble

1121
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:09.400
when his parents get back home. Garrett's going to be

1122
00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:12.559
in trouble when his parents get back home, Like, she's

1123
00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.320
going to make sure they know exactly what happened, and

1124
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.239
she's going to call his parents right now, yeah, so

1125
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:22.360
that they come home early because this is not okay.

1126
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:25.079
And he follows her in the upstairs hallway and they

1127
00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:30.840
start arguing about it, and she insists, like this is

1128
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:32.880
not okay, and he says, well, I just wanted to

1129
00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:34.960
impress you. I just I wanted you to see that

1130
00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:37.840
I can be brave, and she's like brave, Like you're

1131
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.239
really stupid, Like this is the kind of thing that

1132
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.079
a little kid does. You're just a little kid. So

1133
00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:48.280
to prove that he's not a little kid, he just

1134
00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:49.239
slaps her.

1135
00:59:49.719 --> 00:59:51.599
And she falls right down the stairs.

1136
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:56.440
Yeah, very hard, and she is knocked out, yes, and

1137
00:59:56.639 --> 00:59:58.480
Garrett hears it and he comes out and he's like,

1138
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:03.480
what the fuck did you do that for? Man? She

1139
01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:10.760
comes to slowly. She's in the living room downstairs. Her

1140
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:13.320
arms and legs have been duct taped to a chair

1141
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:17.079
and she's gagged with duct tape, and the two boys

1142
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:23.000
are just kind of frolicking around. Luke rated his parents'

1143
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:28.239
medicine cabinet and gave Garrett some oxy. Yeah, he's having

1144
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:29.599
he's having a great time.

1145
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:32.039
And they're just talking about childish stuff. He's saying like,

1146
01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:32.840
who do you marry?

1147
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:33.280
Who do you?

1148
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:37.079
Yeah, they're playing Mary fuck Kill with the Adventure Time girls.

1149
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:40.639
Yeah, it's just I think was just.

1150
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:46.199
Beautiful writing for the characters, because that is the kind

1151
01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:48.719
of thing that twelve thirteen, fourteen year old boys would

1152
01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:55.119
be talking about. Yea, So she's you know, she's bound,

1153
01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:59.960
and they're kind of sitting there going over their plan

1154
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:03.000
a little bit, and you know, Luke's talking about how

1155
01:01:03.079 --> 01:01:06.320
once tonight is over, like she's not even going to

1156
01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:09.480
want to move away to college, Like she's going to

1157
01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:12.119
be so madly in love with him that she's you know,

1158
01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:16.840
not going to want to leave, and that's when Luke

1159
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:20.039
sits in front of Ashley and he starts like going

1160
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:24.920
through her purse and asking her some you know, increasingly

1161
01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:31.960
uncomfortable questions about her dating life. And he he is

1162
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.639
very upset with her because she's not acting grateful for

1163
01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:39.920
all the lengths that he's gone to to impress her.

1164
01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:43.719
So he takes lipstick out of her purse and he

1165
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.760
draws smiley lips on the duct tape.

1166
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:51.639
Yeah, bizarre. We're starting to realize that something is.

1167
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:53.760
Something's not right with this kid.

1168
01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:57.519
Dogs are yeah, And.

1169
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:03.920
That's when he says that he can take the gag off.

1170
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.320
But he pulls out his parents' gun from upstairs, the

1171
01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:11.000
the handgun, and he says that he can take the

1172
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:14.119
gag off, but he'll be forced to shoot her if

1173
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:17.559
she screams, and he really doesn't want to shoot her.

1174
01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:20.079
So she's not going to make him do that, right,

1175
01:02:21.079 --> 01:02:23.000
She's not going to make him shoot her.

1176
01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:29.960
Yeah, he's big on displacing blame yes constantly. What you

1177
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:30.480
don't like that?

1178
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:36.760
Not? No? No, So then he says, okay, well he's

1179
01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.079
taken the gag off, and he says that is time

1180
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:43.360
to play truth or dare as one does at a

1181
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:47.159
at a sleepover, of course, yes. And the first thing

1182
01:02:47.519 --> 01:02:50.880
that he does is he asks her truth, you know,

1183
01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:54.679
how many how many boys has she fucked? Basically, and

1184
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.599
she's like and she's like, well, none, She's still a virgin,

1185
01:02:59.719 --> 01:03:02.239
and he he doesn't believe it, and that's kind of

1186
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:06.039
that's one of the things that throughout this next act

1187
01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.639
of the movie is he refuses to believe that she's

1188
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:14.440
still a virgin, and he's very obsessed with that, yeah,

1189
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:18.960
to an unhealthy degree. And finally it gets to be

1190
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.079
Ashley's turn, and she wants to play truth and she

1191
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:25.639
asks Garrett if Luke ever admitted that he he's the

1192
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.599
one who killed Garrett's hamster, you know, back in second

1193
01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:33.320
grade or whatever. And this kind of fucks Garrett up, yeah,

1194
01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:37.000
because you know, he apparently loved that hamster and Luke

1195
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:40.360
again displacing blame. He's like, well, it's been two years,

1196
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.079
so like the hamster would have been dead already anyway.

1197
01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:45.719
And besides, you know, you got a cat, so it's

1198
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.840
not like it's not like you can have both of

1199
01:03:47.880 --> 01:03:50.679
those at the same time. Like, you know, this is

1200
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:52.719
this is all for the better, and this is but

1201
01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:59.360
Garrett's like, still not okay with this, And then it

1202
01:03:59.400 --> 01:04:03.000
gets to be Garrett's turn and he says, well, okay,

1203
01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:05.599
now that it's my turn, I'm gonna do dare and

1204
01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:07.840
I dare myself to make out with Ashley and this

1205
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:09.920
royally pisses Luke off.

1206
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:13.840
Well you skipped over when Luke felt her up? Yeah, yeah,

1207
01:04:13.960 --> 01:04:17.400
right before they even started Truth or Dare. He literally

1208
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:19.599
just like the and the way they depict it is

1209
01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:21.960
really interesting. It happens off camera. You just see his

1210
01:04:22.039 --> 01:04:24.360
face in her face, but he literally like reaches over

1211
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:27.159
and touches her boob and then he goes like, I

1212
01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:29.800
see what all the fuss is about or whatever, and

1213
01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:31.559
then he's and then he asked her like how do

1214
01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:33.119
you feel? And she says, I feel like a little

1215
01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:38.400
boy just felt me up, which, again given props to Ashley.

1216
01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:40.679
She's feisty and tough.

1217
01:04:41.119 --> 01:04:45.440
Yeah she got moxie, Yeah absolutely, but.

1218
01:04:45.480 --> 01:04:47.679
No, so I mean that, so that's kind of what why.

1219
01:04:48.159 --> 01:04:50.880
He then suggests like, you know, Darren, you know you

1220
01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:52.679
should dare me to like make out with her or whatever,

1221
01:04:52.760 --> 01:04:54.559
and he's like, no, you don't touch her mm hmm,

1222
01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:57.440
and and he says something very telling where He's like,

1223
01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:58.960
why do you get to have all the fun? She's

1224
01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:02.159
not gonna remember this anyway, And that's when we figure

1225
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:05.880
out that the plan is to roofy her after all

1226
01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:10.199
of this and then make it look like as she

1227
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.719
got super drunk and passed out while she was babysitting,

1228
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.480
and she won't remember anything with I guess the combination

1229
01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:19.880
of the alcohol and the drugs. Yeah, is the theory.

1230
01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:22.920
I don't know how sound that actually.

1231
01:05:22.920 --> 01:05:28.480
Is, but it's a theory. So that's that's kind of

1232
01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:34.400
their plan. While Luke and Garrett and again talking about

1233
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.719
Ashley's moxie and her attitude. While Garrett and Luke are

1234
01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:42.719
in the other room arguing about their plan about how

1235
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:45.079
they're going to deal with all this, she sees a

1236
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.519
flashlight and she manages, even though she's all tied up,

1237
01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:51.480
she manages to get this flashlight and she's blinking sos

1238
01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:52.840
out the window.

1239
01:05:52.800 --> 01:05:54.760
Yes, trying to signal anything.

1240
01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.679
Anybody, Hopefully someone will see her and come to her aid.

1241
01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:01.800
But of course the boys see her, and you know,

1242
01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:06.159
they feel really good about the fact that they caught her, yes,

1243
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:10.239
trying to escape. Luke kind of seems to get off

1244
01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:13.079
on it a little bit. Yeah, he definitely has like

1245
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:14.079
some power issues.

1246
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:18.280
Would say, jeez, that's an understatement of the year.

1247
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:25.199
So he's Luke's there with the bottle of champagne, you know,

1248
01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:29.079
having revealed his grand master plan. He's put the roofies

1249
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:31.760
in the champagne and he's trying to get her to

1250
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:33.679
drink it, and she kind of like head butts him

1251
01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:37.719
and he drops the champagne bottle and it, you know, spills, shatters,

1252
01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:41.280
spills everywhere, totally ruining his plan. So now he's got

1253
01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:44.880
to figure out some other way to make his plan work,

1254
01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:47.760
and that's going to be kind of difficult considering they

1255
01:06:47.800 --> 01:06:51.199
only you know, got one dose of the roofees, so

1256
01:06:51.199 --> 01:06:52.840
it's not like he can still go on with that.

1257
01:06:53.880 --> 01:06:56.440
But then they hear a knock at the door unexpectedly,

1258
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:01.360
and they don't they weren't well. Ashley of course wasn't

1259
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:06.480
expecting anyone. Yeah, she's been a little preoccupied smidgeon. Yeah,

1260
01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:11.559
Ashley screams, Luke gags are again because he can't have her,

1261
01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:16.400
you know, alerting anyone that would be bad. He goes

1262
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:20.519
to the door and it's Ricky, her boyfriend.

1263
01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:24.159
Just standing at the door hoping to have a talk

1264
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.400
with his girlfriend. But I don't think it's gonna go

1265
01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:30.039
the way he's hoping. But I guess we'll have to

1266
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:44.599
wait and find out till after this. All Right, we

1267
01:07:44.679 --> 01:07:49.159
are back and things are getting they're escalating very quickly. Now, Yes,

1268
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:53.840
as you'll find watching the film, they sure do escalate

1269
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.719
very basically once the first thirty minutes this movie's over,

1270
01:07:57.079 --> 01:07:59.960
it becomes a knockdown, drag out brawl of nutter new.

1271
01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:01.679
Yeah that's.

1272
01:08:04.599 --> 01:08:07.519
But yeah, So, so the boyfriend is at the.

1273
01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:13.159
Door yep, because apparently Ashley had texted him thirty minutes

1274
01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:16.079
ago saying she wanted to see him, which, as the

1275
01:08:16.119 --> 01:08:18.760
audience members will realize, doesn't quite add up.

1276
01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:20.000
Yeah, it doesn't quite make sense.

1277
01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:23.039
Quite add up. But Ricky, he's trying really hard. He

1278
01:08:23.079 --> 01:08:27.319
even brought flowers. Yeah, but Luke insists that Ashley does

1279
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:30.359
not want to see him. But if if Ricky will

1280
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:34.319
just hand the flowers through the door, then Luke will

1281
01:08:34.319 --> 01:08:35.920
make sure she gets him. But she doesn't want to

1282
01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:36.680
see him right now.

1283
01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:39.560
That's the funniest part is, like we said about like

1284
01:08:39.640 --> 01:08:42.199
moments that make it very clear Luke is a little kid,

1285
01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:46.960
so a basically grown man says, okay, well, if I

1286
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:48.880
can't see her, will at least give her my flowers.

1287
01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:50.840
He's like, okay, you can pass him to the door.

1288
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:53.039
The moment he unlocks the door, he just pushes right

1289
01:08:53.079 --> 01:08:57.239
past him because he's a little kid. And why would

1290
01:08:57.279 --> 01:09:01.399
the kid, like an adult would be like nah a yeah,

1291
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:04.319
that sounds like you're gonna you're gonna come in any way.

1292
01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:09.600
Yeah no, But he's a child, so he doesn't realize

1293
01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:11.720
that that's like the least clever way to get into

1294
01:09:11.760 --> 01:09:12.119
the house.

1295
01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:15.119
But it works, you know sometimes efficacy.

1296
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:17.479
Yeah, I mean, you know eighty percent of the time.

1297
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:18.840
That works one hundred percent of the time.

1298
01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:22.079
So Ricky pushes his way in. He's, you know, like,

1299
01:09:22.119 --> 01:09:25.199
where where's Ashley? And that's where Luke says, well, she

1300
01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:27.000
she doesn't want to see you and she's not feeling

1301
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.279
well right now. And Ricky's like, okay, that's weird, and

1302
01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:34.239
he's and Luke's like, well, it's cramps. It's menstrual cramps.

1303
01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:38.199
He says it like he's repeating health class that's part

1304
01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:41.359
menstrual cramps and Ricky.

1305
01:09:41.479 --> 01:09:43.920
Ricky's like, okay, that doesn't make sense. He starts yelling

1306
01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:46.399
for Ashley and Ashley in the other room with Garrett.

1307
01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:50.279
She's still tied up, so to try to get Ricky's attention,

1308
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:53.359
she just manages to push the chair over so that

1309
01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:56.680
she flops to the ground that Garrett like gets ready

1310
01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:57.199
to stay.

1311
01:09:57.079 --> 01:10:00.199
Quiet, and they put on a Christmas record yeah in

1312
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:01.640
the sound right before he answered the door.

1313
01:10:01.800 --> 01:10:04.760
Yeah, yeah, and and Ricky. Ricky was even like, why

1314
01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:07.159
is the music so loud? And Luke's like, oh, we're

1315
01:10:07.199 --> 01:10:12.319
having a Christmas party, you know. So Ricky goes upstairs

1316
01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:16.520
thinking maybe Ashley's laying down, so he's yelling for and

1317
01:10:16.560 --> 01:10:18.439
when he gets upstairs, he sees at the end of

1318
01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:21.000
the hallway some broken glass.

1319
01:10:21.159 --> 01:10:23.760
He's also saying, like the most boyfriend ye stuff ever.

1320
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:26.199
He's like, Ashley, I don't care if you're sick, I

1321
01:10:26.279 --> 01:10:27.600
just want to see you. Do you need me to

1322
01:10:27.640 --> 01:10:31.560
go get you tampons? Like He's like, the most boyfriend

1323
01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:32.159
stuff ever?

1324
01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:32.800
Do you need me to go?

1325
01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:34.319
He literally says that do you need me to go

1326
01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:35.359
get you some tampons?

1327
01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:38.279
Which is pretty sweet?

1328
01:10:38.479 --> 01:10:38.680
Yeah.

1329
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:43.079
Sure. So yeah, he's up there looking for Ashley and

1330
01:10:43.119 --> 01:10:46.079
he notices the broken glass.

1331
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:47.000
Yeah.

1332
01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.000
Now Luke has kind of trailed behind him, and Luke

1333
01:10:50.319 --> 01:10:52.880
ducks into his bedroom and comes back out with an

1334
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:57.439
with a baseball bat, yep, an aluminum baseball bat, and

1335
01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.600
he sneaks up behind Ricky and as Ricky's they're you know,

1336
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:05.119
kind of dawning on him that something is rotten in

1337
01:11:05.159 --> 01:11:08.399
the state of Denmark. I just wanted to have a

1338
01:11:08.399 --> 01:11:09.119
hamlet reference.

1339
01:11:09.159 --> 01:11:12.760
Sorry, that's okay, We'll allow one per year.

1340
01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:18.079
Luke just knocks him over the head. Yeah, knocks him out,

1341
01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:23.159
And Garrett comes running upstairs because he heard a commotion

1342
01:11:23.560 --> 01:11:27.119
and he sees someone down on the ground and Garrett

1343
01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:29.680
starts freaking out like this was not part of the plan.

1344
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:36.600
Meanwhile, Luke is dancing around like delighting that hit until

1345
01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:41.000
he realizes that life ain't like the movies and Ricky's

1346
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:43.880
not unconscious, He's just on the ground kind of hurt,

1347
01:11:44.239 --> 01:11:46.239
and he gets back up and comes right at the

1348
01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:49.560
pip squeak. They start wrestling around a bit. It becomes

1349
01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:53.119
very clear that if if Luke doesn't do something quick,

1350
01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:56.720
Ricky will have no problem beating the ever loving shit

1351
01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.520
out of him. And luckily, as he's knocked down and

1352
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:04.920
Ricky goes to possibly clabber him with that baseball bat.

1353
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:08.600
He finds the He finds the pencil that's meant to

1354
01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:10.800
be on his door, which is under the rug right

1355
01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:14.079
next to his door. He pulls it out stabs Ricky

1356
01:12:14.119 --> 01:12:16.840
in the face with it, right in the jaw. Yeah,

1357
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:19.479
it goes right through his cheek. And then as he's

1358
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:21.720
pulling that out of his cheek, he gets the bat

1359
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:24.760
and gives him a good whack again, and this time

1360
01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:29.039
it's he it's him real hard. Yeah, So now he's

1361
01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:30.399
actually unconscious.

1362
01:12:32.319 --> 01:12:39.720
So now they've got Ricky tied up, and Garrett and

1363
01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:44.840
Luke just start going crazy cleaning, and it's very well

1364
01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:49.399
thought out because they're both wearing gloves. Luke even goes

1365
01:12:49.479 --> 01:12:52.560
to the trouble of like the pencil, he makes sure

1366
01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:55.000
that he's sharpened it down so that there is no

1367
01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:58.680
evidence of like the blood or any flesh or anything.

1368
01:12:59.199 --> 01:13:01.720
They've cleaned up the blood like they've so they've made

1369
01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:08.079
sure that people won't be able to see exactly what happened, right,

1370
01:13:08.279 --> 01:13:11.760
And it really shows that Luke has been thinking this

1371
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:16.960
through a lot. So they've got Ricky and Ashley tied up.

1372
01:13:17.079 --> 01:13:22.640
They're sitting side by side and Ashley's begging Luke to

1373
01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:26.800
let them go, and she's like, look, me and Ricky

1374
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:30.439
need the hospital. We can just say that there was

1375
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:34.359
an accident and Garrett can go with us to the

1376
01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:37.880
hospital to corroborate the story. And Luke is like, no,

1377
01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:40.560
I'm not gonna let you do that, and that's when

1378
01:13:40.600 --> 01:13:44.640
he reveals that he had actually saved her phone by

1379
01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:49.119
wrapping it up in plastic before he threw it. Yes,

1380
01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:52.520
so that way, he was the one who had texted

1381
01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:54.760
Ricky asking him to come.

1382
01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:56.880
But the big problem was Ricky showed up about a

1383
01:13:56.880 --> 01:13:57.680
half an hour.

1384
01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:03.399
Early, so he wasn't prepared. And Garrett's now realizing more

1385
01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:10.319
and more just how deeply disturbed his friend is because

1386
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:12.960
Luke never told him that there was another part to

1387
01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:16.239
the plan. He never mentioned that anyone other than than

1388
01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:21.640
themselves and Ashley would be involved. So Garrett like wants

1389
01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:26.239
out and Luke the only way that Luke knows how

1390
01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:31.720
to keep Garrett in line is by demeaning him.

1391
01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:33.920
And threatening him, saying like it doesn't matter, We're so

1392
01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:37.039
far in now, like anything else that anything that happens

1393
01:14:37.079 --> 01:14:40.039
other than the plan, You're going away to jail forever.

1394
01:14:40.399 --> 01:14:44.319
Yeah, By you know, scaring him and so Garrett keeps

1395
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:50.880
going along with his plan because well, he's my best friend,

1396
01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:52.760
and he even he even says it later, He's like,

1397
01:14:52.840 --> 01:14:55.119
he's my best friend, He's my only friend. And Ashley's like,

1398
01:14:55.479 --> 01:15:00.520
really though, yeah really, yeah, I don't I don't think

1399
01:15:00.680 --> 01:15:07.600
so so sorry at looking at my notes. Oh that's

1400
01:15:07.680 --> 01:15:12.600
where it again. This movie goes so hard. That's where

1401
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:16.439
when Luke says that he wants to have another person

1402
01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:20.600
join the party, and he wants Ashley to call her

1403
01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:25.800
ex Jeremy and invite him over to and he even

1404
01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:28.039
goes so far as pointing the gun in her face

1405
01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:32.760
and threatening to shoot her to make her call him,

1406
01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:35.520
and she says she Nope, not going to do it,

1407
01:15:36.359 --> 01:15:39.119
not going to comply with your plans anymore. So he

1408
01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:42.279
gets fed up and he ends up calling Jeremy from

1409
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:46.439
their home phone, and it's pretty funny because he calls Jeremy,

1410
01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:50.439
Jeremy picks it up, picks up, and Luke says, I'm

1411
01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:54.920
calling for Ashley, and Jeremy says there's no Ashley here, man,

1412
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:59.479
and just hangs up, and Luke says, what a more on?

1413
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:02.720
And you know, I don't believe you dated him? And

1414
01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:05.039
Ricky who's you know, tied up and gagged and he

1415
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:10.840
kind of, you know, does it. So he calls Jeremy

1416
01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:14.560
again and he says, don't hang up, No, I'm calling

1417
01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:18.600
on behalf of Ashley. She just has been thinking about

1418
01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:21.840
you and and that's when Jeremy says, like, oh are

1419
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:24.520
you that? Are you that topee kid that lives like

1420
01:16:24.600 --> 01:16:29.239
lives down on the street, And Link's like, yeah, but

1421
01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:31.640
she's been thinking about you and she wants you to

1422
01:16:31.720 --> 01:16:35.119
come by later and you know, luing him into the

1423
01:16:35.199 --> 01:16:40.279
trap too, and Jeremy buys it, you know, hook line

1424
01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:47.680
and sinker. This whole time, Ashley's got a glass shard

1425
01:16:48.159 --> 01:16:52.079
from the broken bottle and she's been trying to slowly

1426
01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:55.520
cut away at her bonds, yes, and.

1427
01:16:56.199 --> 01:16:58.920
It's digging into her hand and causing her to drip blood,

1428
01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:02.439
which so far, luckily Luke hasn't noticed.

1429
01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:07.279
Yeah, but it's it's an increasingly growing puddle of blood,

1430
01:17:07.399 --> 01:17:12.000
so he's going to notice soon. And that's when Ashley

1431
01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:16.000
she pleads with Luke that you know, hey, you don't

1432
01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:18.439
you don't actually want to hurt anyone like you don't

1433
01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:22.720
you cried, you know, you cried when you accidentally killed

1434
01:17:23.159 --> 01:17:27.560
Garrett's hamster, and that's when Luke reveals like, no, it

1435
01:17:27.960 --> 01:17:30.000
wasn't an accident. He did that on purpose.

1436
01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:34.840
Don't worry. We're about to find out exactly what this

1437
01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:38.039
kid is capable of real soon. In fact, that's a

1438
01:17:38.039 --> 01:17:40.760
perfect segue. I didn't even mean that, but we'll find

1439
01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:56.560
out after this. And we are back with a little

1440
01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.960
bit more as things are getting very dark in better way.

1441
01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:04.840
So we know that Jeremy is going to be on

1442
01:18:04.920 --> 01:18:09.520
his way and Ashley, you know, has been trying to

1443
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:16.399
free herself but she's been bleeding and Ricky mumbles something

1444
01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:20.359
which really sets off Luke, and he you know, like

1445
01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:23.720
points a gun in his face and you know, says

1446
01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:25.760
that he's going to shoot him and rips his gag off,

1447
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.720
and you know, demands that he repeat himself, and Ricky says,

1448
01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:34.000
I got a pee, And then they realized, no, Ricky's

1449
01:18:34.119 --> 01:18:37.960
urinated himself. He really did have to pee, but it

1450
01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:39.920
may have been that he was trying to just keep

1451
01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:44.479
Luke him, keep Luke's attention because then as Luke is

1452
01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:47.720
cleaning up, he you know, cleans the urine up and

1453
01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:51.880
he's taking the trash out. That's when Ashley's like really

1454
01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:55.479
able to make headway and like really get like one

1455
01:18:55.520 --> 01:19:01.399
of her hands loose and able to get like one

1456
01:19:01.399 --> 01:19:03.760
of her legs almost loose, and she's able to take

1457
01:19:03.800 --> 01:19:05.920
off her sock and like wipe up the blood so

1458
01:19:05.960 --> 01:19:08.680
that Luke doesn't see the blood, can't see that she's

1459
01:19:08.720 --> 01:19:12.319
been trying to free yourself. Right, So Luke comes back

1460
01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:15.039
in and he starts complaining like, ah, Jeremy lives thirty

1461
01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:18.279
minutes away, like that that's forever, and he's trying to

1462
01:19:18.279 --> 01:19:23.159
think of like ways to keep himself entertained and being

1463
01:19:23.439 --> 01:19:27.960
a twelve year old kid but also being just a

1464
01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:30.760
touch of a psychopath.

1465
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:34.520
A touch, okay, just a little bit, just a little

1466
01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:35.479
bit of a psychopath.

1467
01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.960
He decides that what he thinks would be fun is

1468
01:19:39.560 --> 01:19:45.279
watching Ricky and Ashley have sex, and he says, like,

1469
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:47.199
I think, you know, I want to watch you guys fuck,

1470
01:19:47.319 --> 01:19:51.760
and then starts teasing them about how often they must

1471
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:56.439
have had sex, and again doesn't believe them when they insist, like, no,

1472
01:19:56.640 --> 01:20:02.720
they actually haven't had sex yet. And that's when I

1473
01:20:02.760 --> 01:20:08.000
think it's important to mention that, well, two things. We

1474
01:20:08.079 --> 01:20:11.079
forgot to mention that Garrett and Luke had been arguing

1475
01:20:11.159 --> 01:20:14.800
about the paint can argument at the beginning of.

1476
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:17.359
The film, Yes, from Home Alone, From Home Alone.

1477
01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:19.640
They're arguing about what would actually happen if you hit

1478
01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:20.479
someone with a paint can.

1479
01:20:20.560 --> 01:20:22.960
That's one thing from high up.

1480
01:20:23.159 --> 01:20:27.079
Yeah, So that's one thing is they they do reference

1481
01:20:27.159 --> 01:20:30.560
that pretty often as they're sitting there, you know, arguing

1482
01:20:30.560 --> 01:20:33.000
about things. They'll talk about the paint can argument. And

1483
01:20:33.039 --> 01:20:37.520
then the other thing is Luke is complaining about how

1484
01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:43.239
much Ricky's urine smelled. And he's complaining again as he's

1485
01:20:43.399 --> 01:20:46.600
you know, sitting there talking about watching them have sex,

1486
01:20:46.720 --> 01:20:50.800
which is totally normal thing, and then he realizes that's

1487
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:55.119
not urine smell, that's weed smell. And he realizes that

1488
01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:57.760
Garrett's been in the living room just smoking a joint,

1489
01:20:58.359 --> 01:21:02.279
smoking a joint to himself, and Luke freaks out because

1490
01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.399
his mom will kill him if she realizes that they've

1491
01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:09.800
been smoking weed in the house. And that's apparently like

1492
01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:12.600
the one thing that he can't clean up, which I

1493
01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.520
think is pretty hilarious that he's got all these contingency

1494
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:20.359
plans in place for you know, drugging his babysitter and

1495
01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:23.960
making her fall in love with him and holding her captive.

1496
01:21:24.199 --> 01:21:29.279
But the weed smell is no one was supposed to

1497
01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:33.279
smoke weed. It wasn't part of his plan exactly. So

1498
01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:37.279
Luke rushes into the room to you know, like scream

1499
01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:42.039
at Garrett, and Ashley struggles and you know, tries to

1500
01:21:42.039 --> 01:21:45.199
get herself free. Luke comes in with the joint and

1501
01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:49.079
he's trying to force Ricky to smoke it because he

1502
01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:53.520
insists that he wants the weed to be in Ricky

1503
01:21:53.640 --> 01:21:57.359
system so that they would assume that it's him who

1504
01:21:57.359 --> 01:21:58.159
has been smoking.

1505
01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:01.039
Well, they said that after he he was forced to

1506
01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:03.000
take a toke already, that's what he said I needed

1507
01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:05.239
in his system. Yeah, before that, you're saying we should

1508
01:22:05.239 --> 01:22:06.000
all just relax.

1509
01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:11.640
So so Luke's kind of coming up with his reasons

1510
01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:17.000
on the fly sometimes definitely. And there's a moment where,

1511
01:22:17.720 --> 01:22:20.840
you know, they forced Ricky to take a hit of

1512
01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:23.640
the joint and they realize Luke and Garrett realize that

1513
01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:26.520
the smoke is coming out of the hole in his cheek,

1514
01:22:27.119 --> 01:22:29.359
so they you know, pinch his nose and cover his

1515
01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:33.960
mouth to like watch the smoke come out. Look at that,

1516
01:22:34.039 --> 01:22:38.600
and meanwhile he's suffocating. Yeah, so then they get borded

1517
01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:42.119
that and they just drag him into the foyer, and

1518
01:22:42.479 --> 01:22:45.560
that's when Luke starts talking about they're gonna settle the

1519
01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:50.439
paint can debate once and for all, and he drags

1520
01:22:51.319 --> 01:22:56.960
Ricky on the chair to right underneath the staircase the staircase,

1521
01:22:57.680 --> 01:23:01.479
and he goes into like the you know, utility closet

1522
01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:04.119
or whatever and gets a paint can and some rope,

1523
01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:12.359
and Garrett realizes where this is going and immediately begins pleading.

1524
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.239
And this is where for me, at least, this is

1525
01:23:18.279 --> 01:23:21.279
where I really start to fall in love with Garrett,

1526
01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:25.600
because at the beginning of the film, Luke's mom and

1527
01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.560
dad had kind of mentioned back and forth that they

1528
01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:32.039
felt that Garrett was a bad influence on Luke. H

1529
01:23:32.520 --> 01:23:34.920
But this is when we start to see with Garrett

1530
01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:39.239
pleading for Ricky's life. We see that no, actually it's

1531
01:23:39.279 --> 01:23:40.000
the other way.

1532
01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:42.479
Around, definitely. Yeah.

1533
01:23:42.520 --> 01:23:47.439
So Luke, you know, runs upstairs with his with his contraption,

1534
01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:51.119
and in the other room, Ashley, unaware of what's really

1535
01:23:51.119 --> 01:23:53.680
going on. She's just trying to get out of her

1536
01:23:53.720 --> 01:23:59.319
binds just to get some help, and Luke lets the

1537
01:23:59.319 --> 01:24:05.279
paint can go and it narrowly narrowly misses Ricky. That's

1538
01:24:05.319 --> 01:24:08.760
when Ricky realizes what's happening, and he, you know, is

1539
01:24:09.119 --> 01:24:13.039
screaming and pleading for his own life now for Ashley,

1540
01:24:13.119 --> 01:24:17.039
and he's, yeah, he's calling for Ashley. And Garrett even

1541
01:24:17.079 --> 01:24:18.720
says like, I, you know, I give up. I I

1542
01:24:18.880 --> 01:24:21.680
you know, I don't want to play this game anymore.

1543
01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:24.000
Like you win the argument. You know what you said

1544
01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:30.039
is true. And Ashley manages to mostly get free, but

1545
01:24:30.119 --> 01:24:33.000
she's still attached by one arm to the chair. So

1546
01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:37.920
she grabs the parent's handgun and she runs into the

1547
01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:41.840
foyer and she kind of notices what's going on, and

1548
01:24:42.119 --> 01:24:47.079
she points the gun at Luke and he says, you know,

1549
01:24:47.119 --> 01:24:49.399
if you don't, if you don't stop right now, I'm

1550
01:24:49.399 --> 01:24:51.359
going to shoot you. And he says, we've got to

1551
01:24:51.399 --> 01:24:54.840
test this MythBusters style and lets the paint can go.

1552
01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:58.840
And well, we don't see anything. We hear it and

1553
01:24:58.880 --> 01:25:02.119
we see the reaction as we cut to Garrett and

1554
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:05.840
he gets hit with a lot of yellow paint and

1555
01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:10.560
just the smallest amount of red blood and he is

1556
01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:15.880
just in shock. Ashley's screaming and she goes into literal shock.

1557
01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:18.920
She stops making sense for a minute, and then we

1558
01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:23.760
see Ricky's shoes and they just have this yellow paint

1559
01:25:23.800 --> 01:25:27.840
ooze down his legs, with blood slowly becoming a part

1560
01:25:27.840 --> 01:25:31.039
of it too, like a Jackson Pollock. And the choice

1561
01:25:31.039 --> 01:25:33.560
of yellow was really smart. It makes the red pop

1562
01:25:34.159 --> 01:25:38.640
super super vibrantly. It's very disturbing. And then every time

1563
01:25:39.279 --> 01:25:41.199
that we are in the room where Ricky's body is,

1564
01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:45.319
they creatively try to not show you his head. Yeah,

1565
01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:50.520
And as m Luke walks down the stairs, he is

1566
01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:53.000
giddy and excited. He's like, I can't believe it. His

1567
01:25:53.079 --> 01:25:57.199
head exploded. It was amazing. And all Ashley can muster

1568
01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:02.039
is why are you laughing? Are you laughing? It's a

1569
01:26:02.119 --> 01:26:05.039
really it's this is the moment. This is the real

1570
01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:06.199
moment of the movie.

1571
01:26:06.439 --> 01:26:10.319
And she even says to the effect of like I

1572
01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:16.439
knew you as a child, like when did this happen? Yeah,

1573
01:26:16.479 --> 01:26:18.800
and to him like this is just what he's always

1574
01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:19.479
wanted to do.

1575
01:26:20.600 --> 01:26:23.079
Well, And that's the thing. It's easy to think that

1576
01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:25.560
this movie has played up strictly for dark humor, but

1577
01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:28.079
I don't think it entirely is. I think it is

1578
01:26:28.399 --> 01:26:32.760
legitimately meant to be a disturbing film absolutely, and it

1579
01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:38.039
succeeds very well. This sequence is very upsetting, and the

1580
01:26:38.079 --> 01:26:41.039
way they did it is brilliant. It's really really clever

1581
01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:44.920
to make it shocking for the audience without having to

1582
01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:48.640
go for the big gory payoff, which I'm glad they

1583
01:26:48.640 --> 01:26:50.119
didn't go for it, because most of the time a

1584
01:26:50.119 --> 01:26:53.279
big gory payoff is not memorable. It may not be

1585
01:26:54.359 --> 01:26:56.880
as good as people would hope or whatever. I'm not

1586
01:26:56.920 --> 01:26:59.680
a big gorehound guy. I'm fine that we didn't see

1587
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:01.880
it because that makes it worse in a lot of ways,

1588
01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:04.399
because it kind of makes it more real that you

1589
01:27:05.119 --> 01:27:07.800
missed it, and instead you just get to see how

1590
01:27:07.960 --> 01:27:11.199
the people who witness its brains just break, keep seeing

1591
01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:15.800
something so wholesale, gruesome right in front of them that

1592
01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:18.680
they would never imagine would happen for real in a

1593
01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:23.479
million years. But the gruesomeness really has just begun, and

1594
01:27:23.520 --> 01:27:25.680
we're going to get into that more right after this.

1595
01:27:37.439 --> 01:27:41.479
All right, we are back and the home alone debate

1596
01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:45.199
has been solved, But now there are more questions than

1597
01:27:45.239 --> 01:27:47.520
ever before, quite.

1598
01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:52.520
A few more. Yes, so, Ashley having realized or starting

1599
01:27:52.560 --> 01:27:59.840
to realize at least the extent of Luke's problems. You know,

1600
01:28:00.840 --> 01:28:03.600
one hand is still like duct taped to the chair,

1601
01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:06.439
and in the other hand, she's got the handgun. So

1602
01:28:06.479 --> 01:28:10.960
as he's you know, coming down the stairs laughing because

1603
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:16.479
he's just delighting in the carnage he just caused, she

1604
01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:18.319
tries to fire a warning shot.

1605
01:28:18.800 --> 01:28:21.520
Basically trying to get him pay attention because he's like ignoring.

1606
01:28:21.199 --> 01:28:25.920
What she's saying, and she realizes the gun's not loaded,

1607
01:28:27.000 --> 01:28:32.079
and the flip immediately switches and he goes from laughing

1608
01:28:32.119 --> 01:28:37.319
maniacally to totally deadpan and says, well, good parents always

1609
01:28:37.399 --> 01:28:39.039
keep the ammunition somewhere else.

1610
01:28:40.079 --> 01:28:44.680
I mean, fair enough. Yeah, I've had a feeling, even

1611
01:28:44.680 --> 01:28:46.479
the first time I watched this, I had a feeling

1612
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:49.319
that the gun wasn't loaded by how flippantly he was

1613
01:28:49.359 --> 01:28:52.680
pointing it. He always had his finger on the trigger,

1614
01:28:53.119 --> 01:28:56.000
he'd rest it on his cheek, yeah, on his face.

1615
01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:59.399
And also threatening to shoot someone where they sit, where

1616
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:01.840
you get mad when they pee themselves because you have

1617
01:29:01.880 --> 01:29:04.760
to clean it up. It's like it doesn't make a

1618
01:29:04.760 --> 01:29:07.159
whole lot of logical sense, Like, no, you're willing to

1619
01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:09.399
splatter their brains, but you don't want them to get

1620
01:29:09.439 --> 01:29:11.000
a little bit of urine on the ground.

1621
01:29:11.560 --> 01:29:14.119
They go, well, you gotta have you gotta have boundaries.

1622
01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.279
Yeah, fair enough, but I mean the foyer had no carpet,

1623
01:29:17.439 --> 01:29:18.279
so there you go.

1624
01:29:18.359 --> 01:29:21.960
That's easy to clean up exactly. So she realizes the

1625
01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:25.399
gun's empty, so she runs out the back and runs

1626
01:29:25.439 --> 01:29:29.760
out the back door, arms still duct taped to a chair.

1627
01:29:30.239 --> 01:29:34.640
But Luke, we're starting to realize has been planning this

1628
01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:36.720
a very long time because he put out a trip

1629
01:29:36.760 --> 01:29:41.199
wire and you know, she trips over it. Garrett runs

1630
01:29:41.239 --> 01:29:41.760
after her.

1631
01:29:41.920 --> 01:29:44.680
Well, the trip wire was to set off the paintball gun.

1632
01:29:45.560 --> 01:29:48.960
Oh that's like that Garrett got shot early. Yeah, so

1633
01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:51.960
that's one of the things we start to notice as

1634
01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:55.319
we go further in is it starts to reveal how

1635
01:29:55.399 --> 01:29:59.000
everything was done. So she realizes that that trip wire

1636
01:29:59.039 --> 01:30:02.079
after she runs the trip she gets shot, but it's

1637
01:30:02.199 --> 01:30:04.760
a red paintball, and she sees a paintball gun mounted

1638
01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:07.199
on the tree aiming in that direction, which is how

1639
01:30:07.199 --> 01:30:09.439
they pulled off that gag because a little bit later

1640
01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:12.560
we see that there's a like a little catapult and

1641
01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:14.199
that's how the brick went through the window on the

1642
01:30:14.279 --> 01:30:19.760
top floor. Like it's all been planned out so much. So. Also, man,

1643
01:30:19.800 --> 01:30:22.560
those paintballs would really hurt after they've been out in

1644
01:30:22.600 --> 01:30:25.039
the cold for a long time. I mean they already hurt,

1645
01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:26.239
but that would not feel good.

1646
01:30:26.359 --> 01:30:28.760
Frozen owl that'll leave a welt.

1647
01:30:28.880 --> 01:30:29.359
Oh yeah.

1648
01:30:29.520 --> 01:30:34.359
Ah, So Garrett comes out, you know, she's she's tripped.

1649
01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:36.920
Garrett comes out and kind of wrestles her to the ground,

1650
01:30:36.960 --> 01:30:41.199
and he's he's trying to detain her. But she's now

1651
01:30:41.319 --> 01:30:44.159
realizes that this is life and death. So she manages

1652
01:30:44.239 --> 01:30:47.359
to like break most of the chair and and get

1653
01:30:47.399 --> 01:30:50.279
over the fence and run off and she hears carrollers,

1654
01:30:51.000 --> 01:30:56.079
so she books it for the carrollers. But then she wait, no,

1655
01:30:56.239 --> 01:30:58.199
then does Luke throw the brick at her?

1656
01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:01.319
That's what stops her forgetting Yeah. Yeah, yeah, she gets

1657
01:31:01.359 --> 01:31:04.079
hit on the head. She just collapses. That's what we

1658
01:31:04.119 --> 01:31:06.600
see it first. But then they revealed the brick that

1659
01:31:06.680 --> 01:31:09.760
said you leave you die is broken in half, which

1660
01:31:09.800 --> 01:31:11.920
suggests that yeah, he threw it right at her head.

1661
01:31:12.079 --> 01:31:15.640
Yeah, so she can't get to the carrollers, and then

1662
01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:19.119
it immediately cuts to the carrollers at the front door,

1663
01:31:19.720 --> 01:31:23.119
and Luke is there all cherry and like wearing his

1664
01:31:23.159 --> 01:31:25.119
hot chalk. Give him a hot chocolate. We're in his

1665
01:31:25.199 --> 01:31:29.920
cute little holiday sweater, and just beyond it's a great

1666
01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:32.199
reveal because you know, he's standing in the door and

1667
01:31:32.399 --> 01:31:36.960
the door is mostly closed and as the camera moves,

1668
01:31:37.079 --> 01:31:41.159
we can just barely see the dead body with all

1669
01:31:41.199 --> 01:31:43.600
the paint over it in a way that the carrollers

1670
01:31:43.640 --> 01:31:45.880
would not see it. But it's, you know, kind of

1671
01:31:45.960 --> 01:31:49.319
driving home, like just behind the surface, is this, Yes,

1672
01:31:50.079 --> 01:31:54.199
And Ashley's now tied up back in the living room

1673
01:31:54.239 --> 01:31:56.439
and she's tied up with Christmas lights, which is a

1674
01:31:56.479 --> 01:31:57.000
great touch.

1675
01:31:57.159 --> 01:31:57.720
It's festive.

1676
01:31:57.880 --> 01:32:01.000
It's a fact that you know, we've we like festive

1677
01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:01.560
around here.

1678
01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:03.960
Yeah, it's good to get into the spirit of the

1679
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:05.279
season exactly.

1680
01:32:06.279 --> 01:32:09.000
So she's all tied up and Garrett's you know, kind

1681
01:32:09.000 --> 01:32:15.279
of trying to keep her quiet, and Luke comes back

1682
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.760
and he gets all creepy and he says that, you know,

1683
01:32:19.840 --> 01:32:22.399
someday she's going to learn to be grateful for this

1684
01:32:22.800 --> 01:32:26.680
because he's getting rid of all the bad men in

1685
01:32:26.720 --> 01:32:32.079
her life. And she again, she's like, you don't, you

1686
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:34.279
don't have to do this, like, you know, we could,

1687
01:32:34.359 --> 01:32:37.600
we could still end this now. And he's like, basically

1688
01:32:37.600 --> 01:32:41.359
says like she wouldn't understand because everyone likes her, and

1689
01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:44.800
she wouldn't understand what it's like to love someone so

1690
01:32:44.920 --> 01:32:46.880
deeply but they don't love you back.

1691
01:32:48.359 --> 01:32:51.439
And and she takes quite a fense to that.

1692
01:32:51.479 --> 01:32:55.720
She does. She does not like this well.

1693
01:32:55.720 --> 01:32:58.960
And meanwhile, Garrett is just basically comatose on the couch,

1694
01:32:59.039 --> 01:33:01.079
just laying there, kind of thinking about all he's seen,

1695
01:33:01.640 --> 01:33:03.520
and he makes that comment to about like, and we'll

1696
01:33:03.520 --> 01:33:05.399
get you cleaned up. You look like a hot dog

1697
01:33:05.840 --> 01:33:08.479
because he's got yellow paint and red blood on him

1698
01:33:08.560 --> 01:33:14.600
on him. Yeah, yeah, this is truly it earns the

1699
01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:17.640
title of Funny Games Christmas Special to me.

1700
01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:23.880
It really is. So Garrett. Then after Luke's makes that

1701
01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:25.800
comment about like we got to get you cleaned up,

1702
01:33:25.840 --> 01:33:29.640
you know, after we clean up everything else, Garrett asks

1703
01:33:29.680 --> 01:33:33.159
like why did why did he have to kill Ricky,

1704
01:33:33.960 --> 01:33:37.680
and Luke, again passing the blame, says well, I didn't

1705
01:33:37.720 --> 01:33:40.239
kill Ricky. You killed Ricky when he decided to smoke

1706
01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:44.600
pot in the house, his justification being, you know, if

1707
01:33:44.600 --> 01:33:45.960
you wouldn't have smoked pot in the house, then I

1708
01:33:46.000 --> 01:33:47.319
would have had to kill him, and that was the

1709
01:33:47.359 --> 01:33:49.600
only way I had to kill him. So that's that's

1710
01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:58.520
why we're doing this right ugh and outside the ex

1711
01:33:58.640 --> 01:33:59.960
Jimmy or Jeremy.

1712
01:34:00.760 --> 01:34:03.239
Yes. As Finally, it turns out he's been sitting in

1713
01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:05.159
the car for a while, like trying to think of

1714
01:34:05.159 --> 01:34:08.840
how to say cool in a cool way, Hey Ashley

1715
01:34:08.960 --> 01:34:11.520
or whatever. And I wanted to mention because I didn't

1716
01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:13.800
recognize him, and I don't think you did either. But

1717
01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:18.119
that character is played by Daker Montgomery, who became very

1718
01:34:18.560 --> 01:34:21.960
famous later that same year, even though I think he

1719
01:34:22.000 --> 01:34:26.640
made this film earlier for playing Billy Hargrove on Stranger Things, Yeah,

1720
01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:30.239
which made him a pretty big deal yea. But here

1721
01:34:30.319 --> 01:34:33.520
he is. He's just kind of decked out in like

1722
01:34:34.199 --> 01:34:37.279
I guess you'd call it streetwear. He's dressed like a

1723
01:34:37.279 --> 01:34:41.640
white wrapper. But yeah, he's like rehearsing in the car

1724
01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:45.720
and he was told to come around back when he arrives.

1725
01:34:46.960 --> 01:34:49.720
So he comes around back and he's like banging on

1726
01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:54.479
the back door and Luke comes up behind him, and

1727
01:34:54.680 --> 01:34:58.760
Luke's got a notebook with him, and Luke says that

1728
01:34:59.439 --> 01:35:02.359
Ashley he wants an apology, and he's.

1729
01:35:02.239 --> 01:35:05.159
Like for what he's like, he said, she said you would.

1730
01:35:04.880 --> 01:35:11.640
Know, yeah, which great great. So Jeremy's like, well, okay, well,

1731
01:35:11.880 --> 01:35:13.800
if you let me inside, I can go inside and

1732
01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:16.159
apologize to her, and says, no, no, no, she wants

1733
01:35:16.199 --> 01:35:19.960
you to write out an apology. So he sits down

1734
01:35:20.119 --> 01:35:22.640
on the swing that they have outside and he just,

1735
01:35:22.760 --> 01:35:27.520
you know, writes in the notebook, I'm sorry, and Luke's like, no, no,

1736
01:35:27.680 --> 01:35:31.800
you've got it. If no, what he says is that's

1737
01:35:31.800 --> 01:35:32.560
all you have to say.

1738
01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:34.800
Yeah, that's all you have to say to her.

1739
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:37.760
And Jeremy takes offense to this. He's like, what what

1740
01:35:37.760 --> 01:35:39.800
do you want me to say? He's like, no, I'm

1741
01:35:39.840 --> 01:35:42.880
not saying anything. I'm just asking is that all you

1742
01:35:42.920 --> 01:35:46.600
want to say? So Jeremy decides, okay, he's going to

1743
01:35:46.640 --> 01:35:54.000
write a actual apology note. Meanwhile, inside Garrett's having like

1744
01:35:54.039 --> 01:35:56.640
a crisis of faith in his friend. Yeah, and he

1745
01:35:57.119 --> 01:36:00.920
takes Ashley's gag off, and that's when she has the

1746
01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:02.840
moment where she you know, points out like all he

1747
01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:06.479
does is put you down, like I don't think this

1748
01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:10.199
guy is actually your friend. And he says, you know,

1749
01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:12.600
Garrett says that he's got to keep going with Luke's

1750
01:36:12.600 --> 01:36:16.760
plans because otherwise he's like Luke's gonna come after him,

1751
01:36:17.000 --> 01:36:20.000
and Ashley promises him, like, if you help me escape,

1752
01:36:20.399 --> 01:36:22.399
we can both get out of this and I'll keep

1753
01:36:22.439 --> 01:36:22.880
you safe.

1754
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:25.520
Yeah. She says that they'll both run out the front door,

1755
01:36:25.720 --> 01:36:28.199
go across the street and call for help and that

1756
01:36:28.319 --> 01:36:30.000
she would protect him.

1757
01:36:31.039 --> 01:36:36.479
So, Jeremy's outside sitting on the swing writing this apology note,

1758
01:36:37.680 --> 01:36:42.760
when Luke comes up behind him with a noose, slings

1759
01:36:42.800 --> 01:36:45.800
it over his neck and ties it to the end

1760
01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:50.359
of their lawnmower, starts the mower up and just hoists

1761
01:36:50.399 --> 01:36:51.800
him up into the tree.

1762
01:36:52.359 --> 01:36:54.760
Pulls him right up the tree, choking him out.

1763
01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:58.840
Choking him out and with the apology note that he wrote,

1764
01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:02.760
it kind of looks like a suicide, yes, which was

1765
01:37:02.960 --> 01:37:07.520
apparently his plan all along, that even Garrett didn't know about.

1766
01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:11.960
Luke goes back inside so that he can keep acting

1767
01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:12.479
as plan.

1768
01:37:12.680 --> 01:37:15.600
And it's important to point out that neither Ashley nor

1769
01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.960
Garrett know that that even happened. No, they didn't hear

1770
01:37:19.039 --> 01:37:20.920
because it was what was in the back, far back

1771
01:37:20.960 --> 01:37:24.159
part of the backyard. They didn't see anything at all.

1772
01:37:24.520 --> 01:37:26.800
They're just talking to each other. So this is a

1773
01:37:26.920 --> 01:37:30.640
kill that literally no one witnessed. At all. He just

1774
01:37:30.800 --> 01:37:36.279
quietly executed it entirely himself. But the executions are not

1775
01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:52.000
over yet, and we'll find out more after this. And

1776
01:37:52.159 --> 01:37:58.880
the laughs just keep on coming as inside our boy

1777
01:37:59.439 --> 01:38:03.199
Derek Garrett Garrett, I keep messing up his name, has

1778
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:07.800
decided he's going to cut her loose, and unfortunately it

1779
01:38:07.880 --> 01:38:10.640
turns out that the lights are kind of just for

1780
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:15.680
decoration because underneath she is duct taped. Yeah, So as

1781
01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:20.399
he's cutting it, he keeps apologizing and apologizing, which is

1782
01:38:20.439 --> 01:38:24.119
so sad. And then at one point, as he's almost

1783
01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:26.640
cut her out, he gives her a kiss on the cheek,

1784
01:38:27.560 --> 01:38:32.840
I'm guessing because he feels so unbelievably guilty for helping

1785
01:38:32.880 --> 01:38:35.279
with all this. And as soon as he's done kissing

1786
01:38:35.319 --> 01:38:37.000
her in the cheek, blame.

1787
01:38:37.600 --> 01:38:41.000
Yep, Luke saw and he did not like that.

1788
01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:43.520
No, and he shot him with the shotgun we had

1789
01:38:43.600 --> 01:38:46.399
seen earlier, which apparently did have bullets.

1790
01:38:46.560 --> 01:38:51.399
Yeah, so the shotgun was loaded and Blue Garrett clear

1791
01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:52.880
clear across the.

1792
01:38:52.920 --> 01:38:54.560
Room, Yes, into the dining room.

1793
01:38:54.760 --> 01:38:59.399
Yeah, and he's bleeding out quickly, and he's very quickly

1794
01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:03.600
coming to terms with his own mortality, and he's pleading

1795
01:39:03.640 --> 01:39:06.800
for his life. He's asking for Ashley to save him,

1796
01:39:06.840 --> 01:39:09.079
and she's still you know, duct taped and tied up.

1797
01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:10.800
There's nothing that she can do well.

1798
01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:13.000
And he says the thing that I've always heard people

1799
01:39:13.039 --> 01:39:17.199
really do say after they've been shot. He says, you

1800
01:39:17.399 --> 01:39:21.520
shot me. You shot me. Because it happens so fast,

1801
01:39:21.560 --> 01:39:24.159
you don't really get to you don't really get to

1802
01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:26.720
process at the moment it happens. You have to. And

1803
01:39:26.760 --> 01:39:28.600
he says, like, I need help. I'm gonna die, like

1804
01:39:28.600 --> 01:39:33.119
I'm gonna bleed out. It's it's not cute, it's not funny.

1805
01:39:33.640 --> 01:39:35.920
It is not And this is this is where the

1806
01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:40.119
movie gets mean spirited, very I mean, I mean, it's

1807
01:39:40.159 --> 01:39:42.319
been mean spirited the whole way, but you kind of

1808
01:39:42.319 --> 01:39:46.319
feel like there's this joviality of it being the holidays

1809
01:39:46.359 --> 01:39:49.239
and he's a kid and and all the stuff. But

1810
01:39:49.279 --> 01:39:53.000
it's this one is really where they make sure that

1811
01:39:53.039 --> 01:39:55.439
you understand the point they're making.

1812
01:39:55.680 --> 01:40:00.359
Yeah, So Luke approaches, you know, with the gun rained

1813
01:40:01.079 --> 01:40:04.079
on Garrett as he's bleeding out and pleading for his life,

1814
01:40:04.640 --> 01:40:09.000
and as this was the moment in the movie when

1815
01:40:09.039 --> 01:40:11.600
I first watched it with you, whereas like wow, they

1816
01:40:11.640 --> 01:40:17.960
go places because then Garrett tries to say I want

1817
01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:23.640
my mother, and as he's saying that, Luke shoots him

1818
01:40:23.640 --> 01:40:24.159
in the head.

1819
01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:27.920
Yeah. Again, we don't quite see it, but we know

1820
01:40:28.359 --> 01:40:30.079
that he aimed the gun right at his head and

1821
01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:32.640
he fires m and he's dead.

1822
01:40:33.319 --> 01:40:33.600
Yep.

1823
01:40:34.239 --> 01:40:37.039
And having that moment where he cries out for his

1824
01:40:37.079 --> 01:40:40.640
mother is extra cruel because it makes sure that it's

1825
01:40:40.680 --> 01:40:43.640
hid into your head, that that was a child, yeah,

1826
01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:48.439
that they're both children. Yeah. And after he shoots him,

1827
01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:51.439
there's a really interesting moment because he kind of freaks out.

1828
01:40:51.600 --> 01:40:53.840
He gets really upset, but he says like, why did

1829
01:40:53.840 --> 01:40:55.279
you make me do that? Like, why did you make

1830
01:40:55.279 --> 01:40:56.920
me do that? I told you couldn't touch her? Why

1831
01:40:56.960 --> 01:40:58.960
did you make me do that? And he like screams

1832
01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:01.520
like a little kid cantrum. But then he calms down,

1833
01:41:01.560 --> 01:41:03.399
takes a deep breath, and he goes, I was bored

1834
01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:05.840
with hanging out with you anyway, and he stomps off,

1835
01:41:06.800 --> 01:41:11.840
which is an interesting situation because it suggests he does

1836
01:41:11.880 --> 01:41:15.880
have some element of feeling and some element of attachment,

1837
01:41:16.359 --> 01:41:20.760
but he's very good at shifting that away to stay

1838
01:41:20.800 --> 01:41:23.800
and I don't know what kind of I mean, I

1839
01:41:23.840 --> 01:41:26.640
am not a therapist, but boy, would one make a

1840
01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:28.039
full career out of this kid?

1841
01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:31.119
Well, boy, somebody contact a Loomis.

1842
01:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.319
Yeah, that's what doctor Loomis needs. He's another dead eyed

1843
01:41:34.399 --> 01:41:35.119
kid to deal with.

1844
01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:39.359
And but that's kind of the thing that makes this

1845
01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:45.960
so excellent is the psychopathy of this kid. And the

1846
01:41:46.039 --> 01:41:53.119
performance is phenomenal because he does switch between being just

1847
01:41:53.159 --> 01:41:59.960
a kid and being a full blown, raging psychopath very quickly.

1848
01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:01.479
I would say, at the drop of a hat.

1849
01:42:01.600 --> 01:42:05.000
And this next scene, you know, so he says, you know,

1850
01:42:05.079 --> 01:42:06.960
I was getting bored with you anyway, and then he

1851
01:42:07.000 --> 01:42:10.520
goes and sits down next to Ashley, and she finally

1852
01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:14.000
realizes like he never had any intention of letting her go.

1853
01:42:15.199 --> 01:42:19.960
I I don't know, I I don't know.

1854
01:42:20.560 --> 01:42:20.920
I don't know.

1855
01:42:21.119 --> 01:42:23.960
Yeah, that's one part. I do believe that he always

1856
01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:26.520
had the intention of killing the two guys mm hmmm

1857
01:42:26.760 --> 01:42:29.359
and making it look like a murder suicide. But I

1858
01:42:29.479 --> 01:42:32.880
wondered if his actual intention was to leave her drugged,

1859
01:42:32.960 --> 01:42:37.119
unconscious or something so that she would survive the whole

1860
01:42:37.159 --> 01:42:41.119
thing and not remember, which, by the way, is so

1861
01:42:41.319 --> 01:42:44.560
much more cruel. Oh my, yes, I mean, imagine you

1862
01:42:44.680 --> 01:42:47.439
just wake up and it's like, oh, these two guys

1863
01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:49.840
you knew. Yeah, one of them killed your boyfriend and

1864
01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:52.680
then killed himself while you were like while you were

1865
01:42:52.720 --> 01:42:55.680
sleeping or whatever or last night, and you were drugs

1866
01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:58.159
so you didn't remember, Like, yeah, that would have been

1867
01:42:58.199 --> 01:43:00.880
the reality to her if the drug worked exactly the

1868
01:43:00.880 --> 01:43:04.359
way he said. I kind of think that was the

1869
01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:07.399
full plan. I don't think it was to kill her

1870
01:43:07.560 --> 01:43:11.800
because the way he kills her is pretty sloppy. Spoiler

1871
01:43:11.800 --> 01:43:16.720
earlier we're getting anyway, well, it's it's not even really,

1872
01:43:16.760 --> 01:43:20.119
but so as he he gets on the on the

1873
01:43:20.119 --> 01:43:22.680
couch with her and kind of snuggles up to her,

1874
01:43:24.079 --> 01:43:28.399
and he talks about how his mom, and this is

1875
01:43:28.479 --> 01:43:32.479
something that that I found really fascinating. Talks about his

1876
01:43:32.520 --> 01:43:36.039
mom used to always hold him close to him, close

1877
01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:39.319
to her and make him feel so safe, and he

1878
01:43:39.319 --> 01:43:42.079
would sleep like that, and then one day she just

1879
01:43:42.199 --> 01:43:46.000
stopped and he never knew why, and he never slept

1880
01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:49.520
well after that. And earlier, it's referenced that he has

1881
01:43:49.680 --> 01:43:53.680
a womb sound generator he sleeps within his bedroom. For

1882
01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:57.319
those who know, it's literally a white noise generator that

1883
01:43:57.479 --> 01:44:02.600
simulates the sound of a fetus might hear in the.

1884
01:44:02.520 --> 01:44:04.720
Womb, so it's like the heartbeat in the rushing of

1885
01:44:05.119 --> 01:44:06.119
fluids and stuff.

1886
01:44:06.199 --> 01:44:09.439
Yeah, exactly, which, by the ways, is basically why humans

1887
01:44:09.520 --> 01:44:12.479
like white noise, is because our earliest memory of sound

1888
01:44:12.560 --> 01:44:15.000
is basically the sound of rushing. In fact, I read

1889
01:44:15.039 --> 01:44:18.279
somewhere once that one of the reasons the whole idea

1890
01:44:18.279 --> 01:44:20.680
of like playing Mozart for your baby doesn't make any

1891
01:44:20.760 --> 01:44:24.640
sense is because inside of you, once the child has

1892
01:44:24.720 --> 01:44:28.520
ear drums, the sound of the mother's heartbeat and all

1893
01:44:28.520 --> 01:44:30.159
of that stuff going on is like, this is as

1894
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:33.880
loud as a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, you're that close to it,

1895
01:44:34.279 --> 01:44:36.640
Which is also why what do you do when a

1896
01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:44.279
baby needs to be comforted? It's simulating the sounds of

1897
01:44:44.319 --> 01:44:47.880
the womb, which are very familiar. Yeah, but that suggests

1898
01:44:47.920 --> 01:44:52.079
this kid has a major problem with his mother, with

1899
01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:56.079
feeling with abandonment and something like that. But she says

1900
01:44:56.079 --> 01:45:02.840
something so brilliant so four D Chess that every time

1901
01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:06.640
I've watched this movie it impresses me more. As he's

1902
01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:11.119
telling her that, she says, I know why she stopped,

1903
01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.359
and he lifts up his head and she just closes

1904
01:45:15.399 --> 01:45:20.479
her eyes. She just ignores him. But what he basically

1905
01:45:20.640 --> 01:45:28.000
just said was that his mother ignoring him, like ruined him. Yeah. Yeah,

1906
01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:30.760
And now's he's looking at her, he's like, open your eyes,

1907
01:45:30.880 --> 01:45:34.000
open your eyes right now, and he does something that's

1908
01:45:34.119 --> 01:45:39.000
so typical of a juvenile delinquent. He's like, open your

1909
01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:40.800
eyes right now, open them right now. And then he

1910
01:45:40.800 --> 01:45:43.319
starts saying like, tell me I'm bad, tell me I'm terrible,

1911
01:45:43.439 --> 01:45:45.640
tell me I disgusted you tell me how horrible. But

1912
01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:47.479
I but as I think about it now, I also

1913
01:45:47.600 --> 01:45:50.680
think he was trying to get her to make him

1914
01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:54.399
feel better about killing her by having her say mean things.

1915
01:45:54.439 --> 01:45:57.079
She shouldn't say a word, no, no, she just lays

1916
01:45:57.119 --> 01:46:00.640
there with her eyes closed, ignoring him so much, which

1917
01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:04.880
makes so much sense because all he wants is control.

1918
01:46:05.640 --> 01:46:10.920
Control is so important to his psychosis. He needs to

1919
01:46:10.960 --> 01:46:14.119
control his friend Garrett. He needs to control the babysitter.

1920
01:46:14.159 --> 01:46:16.520
He needs to control the people he's setting up to die.

1921
01:46:16.600 --> 01:46:18.840
He needs to control his parents by making them think

1922
01:46:18.880 --> 01:46:22.199
he sleepwalks, which he dropped just in passing that he

1923
01:46:22.319 --> 01:46:24.359
when he was trying to convince Garrett they were good friends,

1924
01:46:24.359 --> 01:46:27.399
he mentioned like who pretended to be sleepwalking when you

1925
01:46:27.439 --> 01:46:29.479
were stealing out of my mother's purse, so that nobody

1926
01:46:29.560 --> 01:46:30.560
suspected anything.

1927
01:46:31.399 --> 01:46:31.520
Like.

1928
01:46:31.720 --> 01:46:34.560
He mentions that he's covered for Garrett a bunch by

1929
01:46:34.680 --> 01:46:40.000
just being a straight up psychopathic liar. So now as

1930
01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:43.720
she's ignoring him, he decides like, oh well, and he

1931
01:46:43.800 --> 01:46:47.600
gets up. He gets right behind her, and we realize

1932
01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:49.720
that he stabbed the side of her neck with a

1933
01:46:49.800 --> 01:46:54.960
knife and pulled the knife out, and kids, that ain't

1934
01:46:55.000 --> 01:46:57.600
even the end of it, and we'll get to that

1935
01:46:58.199 --> 01:47:14.159
right after this. So now Rachel Ashley has been killed,

1936
01:47:15.039 --> 01:47:17.800
She's been stabbed in the neck and left there, and

1937
01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:19.159
now we're treated.

1938
01:47:19.079 --> 01:47:22.199
To a montage, Yeah, a music montage to.

1939
01:47:22.479 --> 01:47:23.680
I forget the name of it, but it's one of

1940
01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:27.640
the Ramon's Christmas songs. Yeah, plays out loud as he

1941
01:47:27.760 --> 01:47:30.760
is just cleaning the place, making it spick and span

1942
01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:34.319
except for the parts he wants to be found.

1943
01:47:34.520 --> 01:47:35.039
Yeah.

1944
01:47:35.159 --> 01:47:39.199
He goes about cleaning off the shotgun, getting the fingerprints

1945
01:47:39.199 --> 01:47:42.399
from Jeremy on it, putting some of the yellow paint

1946
01:47:42.399 --> 01:47:45.359
and blood on Jeremy's hands to make it look like

1947
01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.239
he did that, putting his father's gun back under the

1948
01:47:49.279 --> 01:47:52.239
mattress where it belongs because it was never actually used,

1949
01:47:52.439 --> 01:47:55.680
so it's not a puzzle piece for the whole thing.

1950
01:47:56.560 --> 01:47:59.560
And as he's doing all of this, we're seeing the

1951
01:47:59.640 --> 01:48:03.319
car and we have this really incredible above like bird's

1952
01:48:03.319 --> 01:48:06.399
eye view shot of the table where the table obscures

1953
01:48:07.039 --> 01:48:11.560
Garrett's head because he has no head anymore. And he

1954
01:48:11.720 --> 01:48:15.119
just cleans everything up. He's thought of everything. He's making

1955
01:48:15.199 --> 01:48:18.479
everything nice and neat, and then we realized that earlier

1956
01:48:18.520 --> 01:48:20.079
we had noticed he was looking at his phone and

1957
01:48:20.199 --> 01:48:23.239
had a location on it. Now we've realized that's his

1958
01:48:23.359 --> 01:48:27.279
parents' location. He's tracking their phones to know where they are,

1959
01:48:28.439 --> 01:48:31.159
so now he's seeing they're on their way home. So

1960
01:48:31.199 --> 01:48:33.800
he's wrapping everything up. But this is one of my

1961
01:48:33.840 --> 01:48:37.560
favorite things. After all of that kerfuffle, after all of

1962
01:48:37.600 --> 01:48:41.640
the hemming and hawing and planning he's about. His big

1963
01:48:41.720 --> 01:48:46.000
plan is because he has to take these really powerful

1964
01:48:46.039 --> 01:48:50.079
sleeping pills. He'll just take a sleeping his sleeping pill,

1965
01:48:50.720 --> 01:48:53.279
lay down in bed and pretend he slept through all

1966
01:48:53.319 --> 01:48:56.840
of it because it all happened after he was asleep.

1967
01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:00.880
But one thing he doesn't consider is how the hell

1968
01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:07.319
do you put a pencil on your door from the inside. Yeah,

1969
01:49:07.359 --> 01:49:09.960
and he tries like hell and can't do it. He

1970
01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:13.640
can't get it done. So what does he decides to do?

1971
01:49:13.800 --> 01:49:16.520
So what he decides to do? I mean the seconds

1972
01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:18.880
are ticking because his parents are just a few miles

1973
01:49:18.920 --> 01:49:21.560
down the road. So he goes in the hallway, He

1974
01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:25.039
closes his bedroom door, and he places the pencil on

1975
01:49:25.319 --> 01:49:28.439
the doorknob like it's supposed to be, and then he

1976
01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:32.600
goes to the adjoining room creeps out the window so

1977
01:49:32.640 --> 01:49:37.199
that he can crawl on the roof and get in

1978
01:49:37.359 --> 01:49:41.399
through his bedroom window. But while he's on the roof,

1979
01:49:42.680 --> 01:49:45.399
you know, he hadn't planned this part. While he's on

1980
01:49:45.439 --> 01:49:48.840
the roof, he starts knocking over the Christmas decorations, like

1981
01:49:49.039 --> 01:49:52.079
as his parents are pulling up the driveway. So he's

1982
01:49:52.119 --> 01:49:55.279
got to like skitter to like save the decorations and

1983
01:49:55.680 --> 01:50:00.239
not be noticed. And this is such a perfect heart

1984
01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:03.119
because the whole time, all you want is for him

1985
01:50:03.159 --> 01:50:03.840
to be noticed.

1986
01:50:04.079 --> 01:50:05.680
Yeah, all you want is for him to get caught.

1987
01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:09.000
Yeah, that's all you want in the whole world. And

1988
01:50:09.479 --> 01:50:13.840
so it is working out in his favor though, because

1989
01:50:14.039 --> 01:50:18.760
he's able to save these decorations from falling. His parents

1990
01:50:18.760 --> 01:50:21.439
are kind of distracted because they're talking, you know, his

1991
01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:23.560
dad's kind of joking about having sex later and his

1992
01:50:23.600 --> 01:50:26.039
mom's like, oh, with how much we ate? No, don't

1993
01:50:26.079 --> 01:50:27.520
even talk about it. I'm bloated.

1994
01:50:27.720 --> 01:50:28.560
Yeah.

1995
01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:32.000
So Luke manages to get in his bedroom, takes his pill,

1996
01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:35.960
lays down in bed, pulls the covers up over his head,

1997
01:50:36.159 --> 01:50:39.399
and as he's laying there, he hears his mother's screen You.

1998
01:50:39.439 --> 01:50:42.039
Forgot one important part because I like this because it's

1999
01:50:42.079 --> 01:50:44.880
how detail oriented he is. Even though he forgot something.

2000
01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:47.960
He pulls the covers up and then goes, oh wait,

2001
01:50:48.079 --> 01:50:50.920
I almost forgot and he runs over and turns on

2002
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:56.319
that fetal sound thing, yeah, which shows how detail he

2003
01:50:56.359 --> 01:50:58.760
didn't want a single thing to appear to be a

2004
01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:00.880
miss when his parents find it.

2005
01:51:01.600 --> 01:51:01.840
Hmm.

2006
01:51:01.960 --> 01:51:05.279
So he turns that on, gets back into bed, lays there.

2007
01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:07.880
Also taking his pills right then is brilliant because if

2008
01:51:07.880 --> 01:51:11.119
they suspected him, they would do a toxicology report on

2009
01:51:11.199 --> 01:51:13.000
him and see that he did in fact take his

2010
01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:16.600
sleeping pills. So really clever because there's no way for

2011
01:51:16.640 --> 01:51:18.800
them to know how long ago he took it.

2012
01:51:19.079 --> 01:51:21.399
Yeah, they would just know it's there in the system.

2013
01:51:21.520 --> 01:51:24.119
So but yes, you're right. Then he lays down. Here's

2014
01:51:24.159 --> 01:51:27.000
his mother's scream. She is panicking, screaming, and then she

2015
01:51:27.000 --> 01:51:30.359
starts yelling Luke, Luke, and runs up, bursts open his

2016
01:51:30.439 --> 01:51:33.119
bedroom door, checks on him or relieved to see he's

2017
01:51:33.159 --> 01:51:33.720
still alive.

2018
01:51:36.039 --> 01:51:40.359
So the next scene, she's cuddling him, she's holding him,

2019
01:51:40.680 --> 01:51:43.600
he's holding her sweet baby boy and telling him that

2020
01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:48.039
everything's everything's gonna be all right. You're safe now, it's okay,

2021
01:51:48.359 --> 01:51:50.239
mommy's here. He's loving it.

2022
01:51:50.479 --> 01:51:51.479
Oh yeah, you can tell.

2023
01:51:52.000 --> 01:51:53.840
And his you know, his dad's kind of off in

2024
01:51:53.880 --> 01:51:56.399
the hallway talking to the police, you know, talking about

2025
01:51:56.520 --> 01:51:59.159
Garrett and you know, his parents and what's been going

2026
01:51:59.199 --> 01:52:02.680
on and all that. And then from outside we hear

2027
01:52:02.720 --> 01:52:08.199
a commotion and then we hear we've got a live one,

2028
01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:12.119
and Luke kind of looks around and they go to

2029
01:52:12.159 --> 01:52:16.439
the window to look, and we hear the EMS talking

2030
01:52:16.479 --> 01:52:19.920
about it and they say, yeah, she got stabbed in

2031
01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:22.319
the neck and she covered it with duct tape and

2032
01:52:22.319 --> 01:52:23.600
saved her own life.

2033
01:52:23.800 --> 01:52:26.720
Which makes sense because he because Garrett had started cutting

2034
01:52:26.800 --> 01:52:30.520
duct tape off from around her, so there.

2035
01:52:30.520 --> 01:52:32.800
Was there was a duct tape there.

2036
01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:37.399
And my favorite moment of the movie. As they're rolling

2037
01:52:37.439 --> 01:52:41.279
her into the ambulance. You you tell it, you you

2038
01:52:41.319 --> 01:52:43.039
deserve to, You deserve to tell everybody.

2039
01:52:44.600 --> 01:52:47.680
So Luke's there at the window and they're you know,

2040
01:52:48.359 --> 01:52:52.199
getting her into the ambulance. She's all bloodied, but she's alive,

2041
01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:56.199
and she looks up in the window and she lifts

2042
01:52:56.279 --> 01:52:59.560
up her hand and just flips him the bird.

2043
01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:03.279
I'm right, And they close her up in there and

2044
01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:09.079
we cut to credits. Great ending. I will say, there

2045
01:53:09.119 --> 01:53:12.119
is a post. There's a mid credit sequence. I honestly

2046
01:53:12.199 --> 01:53:13.159
wish they hadn't done it.

2047
01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:15.159
Yeah, it kind of doesn't add anything, you know.

2048
01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:17.520
It add's the idea that he's still trying or whatever,

2049
01:53:17.880 --> 01:53:20.439
you know. But where it cuts to inside his bedroom

2050
01:53:20.439 --> 01:53:22.920
and he goes, Mom, I'm really worried about Ashley. We

2051
01:53:22.920 --> 01:53:26.760
should go to the hospital, which I get though, Like, honestly,

2052
01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:28.880
if they were going to do a sequel, which they're

2053
01:53:28.920 --> 01:53:30.119
not going to, but if they were going to do

2054
01:53:30.159 --> 01:53:33.079
a sequel, the ultimate sequel would have been go Halloween

2055
01:53:33.119 --> 01:53:35.359
two with it. The entire second movie is them in

2056
01:53:35.399 --> 01:53:38.439
the hospital, because it would be cool to see cat

2057
01:53:38.479 --> 01:53:41.079
and mouse of him trying to like negotiate the hospital.

2058
01:53:41.199 --> 01:53:43.640
But I will say when I watched one of my friends,

2059
01:53:43.640 --> 01:53:44.720
I don't think it was Dave, but one of my

2060
01:53:44.760 --> 01:53:47.119
friends was like, oh man, he's going to get her

2061
01:53:47.159 --> 01:53:49.840
the hospital, and my first my immediate reaction was, no,

2062
01:53:50.000 --> 01:53:52.800
he's gonna fucking fall asleep. He took like that supercow

2063
01:53:53.920 --> 01:53:57.520
so that his alifi would work. He'll probably he'll pass

2064
01:53:57.560 --> 01:53:59.159
out tuckered out in the car and wake up in

2065
01:53:59.159 --> 01:54:02.239
an interrogation room. But I love that too because you

2066
01:54:02.279 --> 01:54:04.680
didn't have to spell anything out. When she's going into

2067
01:54:04.680 --> 01:54:06.319
the ambulance, it's like, oh, dude, she's going to tell

2068
01:54:06.359 --> 01:54:09.880
them everything will happened because she witnessed basically everything, all

2069
01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:15.399
of it. Yeah, so what a great film, not twenty

2070
01:54:15.560 --> 01:54:18.840
and sixteen, although it apparently came out in seventeen. Twenty

2071
01:54:18.960 --> 01:54:23.880
sixteen's better watch out and you really? Is there anything

2072
01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:25.680
else you want to say about this film? Before? I

2073
01:54:25.760 --> 01:54:28.479
mentioned again that it's available on Roku channel, Pluto TV,

2074
01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.640
to b TV, and anywhere you rent movies as well.

2075
01:54:31.640 --> 01:54:33.600
But if you want to watch it for free with ads,

2076
01:54:33.640 --> 01:54:35.239
those are the places to check it out. Anything else

2077
01:54:35.279 --> 01:54:35.760
you want to add?

2078
01:54:36.840 --> 01:54:41.039
Drink water and don't drink exclusively. Two leaders of Mountain

2079
01:54:41.079 --> 01:54:42.399
dew every single day.

2080
01:54:42.479 --> 01:54:46.880
Do you have anything useful? I mean, fair enough, And

2081
01:54:47.039 --> 01:54:49.600
I guess I'll say, don't let kids watch Alfred Hitchcock

2082
01:54:49.640 --> 01:54:52.079
Presents unless you want them to make a bunch of

2083
01:54:52.119 --> 01:54:56.239
weird movies and host a podcast. But I guess that's

2084
01:54:56.439 --> 01:55:00.279
that's it for our holiday season horror films. Hope you

2085
01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:03.960
guys enjoyed hearing our thoughts on Better Watch Out really

2086
01:55:04.039 --> 01:55:06.159
is a great film. I think it deserves even more

2087
01:55:06.159 --> 01:55:08.800
attention than it's gotten, so please do give it a

2088
01:55:08.840 --> 01:55:12.239
watch if you haven't already. We've spoiled nearly everything about it,

2089
01:55:12.319 --> 01:55:15.439
but some people don't mind that. And I mean, you know,

2090
01:55:15.479 --> 01:55:18.520
they did a study about trailers where they did a

2091
01:55:18.520 --> 01:55:20.800
focus group on trailers that tell to a ton about

2092
01:55:20.800 --> 01:55:23.159
the movie and ones that don't. People respond way better

2093
01:55:23.199 --> 01:55:25.960
to ones that are full of spoilers, really, because then

2094
01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:28.000
when they watch the movie, they rate the scenes that

2095
01:55:28.000 --> 01:55:30.600
were spoiled and the trailer super high, and they get

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really disappointed if they don't get those scenes in the

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actual movie. Yeah, that's why trailers are the way they are. Okay,

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that and it's hard to depict a ninety minute story

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in two and a half minutes anyway, so you gotta

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do what you gotta do. So but on that note,

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we're gonna head out of here. But we want to

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say just thank you guys so much for joining us

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on cutting deep into horror. It's been really fun to

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talk about some scary movies during the holiday season. Thank

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you Rachel for spending that time with me. Sorry not sorry.

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So if you guys want to reach out to us,

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you can send us an email at Weekly Spooky at

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gmail dot com, recommend a movie, tell us what you

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think about our opinions and movies. Maybe they're garbage, I'm

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ready to hear it. You can also go to Weeklyspooky

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dot com and find out everything you'd want to know

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about Weekly Spooky, or go to Weeklyspooky dot com slash

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join and join our Patreon For as little as one

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dollar a month. You get two bonus shows every month,

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as well as exclusive audiobooks and creepypasta readings. But now

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it's time for me to get out of here because

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I still have so many more episodes, So make sure

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you tune in tomorrow for another terrifying tale from Weekly Spooky,

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and we'll see you very soon. Bye. Rach