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This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy.

And you're listening to Too Scary Didn't Watch.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch themselves. I'm Henley and I'm too scared to watch scary movies, except

not today. Not today. I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies and so I watch them so that you don't have to.

And we are missing Emily just for this little intro part. She will magically appear for the

recap. So frets not. But just Henley and I checking in today, you can jump straight to the recap if you'd like,

but first Henley, did anything scary happen to you this week?

Well, the scary thing is that I'm finally reading Lonesome Dove.

I don't know what this is.

Should I know this?

It's just a classic Western that is recently back in the zeitgeist for some reason.

It came out in 1985.

But I have been wanting to read it for a couple of years at recommendation from someone.

But I've picked it up like three times and I've never really been able to get

into it. But then I found a trick. And this is the trick that I want to share with everyone.

You have to cast the characters properly. First of all, Lonesome Dove is basically like watching

a boy movie. You're watching a boy movie. You're watching a movie that a boy would like.

And it has to have classic boy actors. So we're talking, you know,

Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, like that kind of vibe. You're thinking, you know,

Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino type of casting. And once I, and I'm not going to tell you,

because it's each his own, to each his own, I'm not going to cast it for you, but I'm just giving that little like nudge. Because once I did that, I am rip-boring, ready to go. I love it. Just so you know, Henley, Tommy Lee Jones isn't the. Oh, he's in the original. Yes, yes. I think that's probably one reason why I...

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