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Next Picture Show. It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast about it to a classic film

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with Keith Phipps and Tosh Robinson.

Genevieve is off anteing up on love, but she'll be back for our next pairing finally.

In her place, we brought in master Paul Schraderologist Vikram Murty. Vikram was a super intern at the Dissolve, and he is now an excellent freelance film writer out of New York. Hi, Vikram. How's it going? It's great. Good to have you on, finally. Thank you so much. So, is everybody here up for a game of blackjack? Sure. Sure. Yeah, Why not? Do you know how to count cards? Uh, no. Nope. I can't say I do. Sorry. Then you should stay away from Blackjack. But you just invited us to play. Well, the house always wins. And this is my house. I don't want to take your money. Okay, that's a nice sentiment, Scott,

but we're all adults here. You don't tell me what to do. Deal me a hand. Okay, here we go.

Dealer shows a five. Tasha, you've got 18 and I've got a five showing, so I assume you're going to

hold. Uh, hit me. This is outrageous. There's only three cards that could help you. The ace, the two or the three, or otherwise you go bust. I told you. You don't tell me what to do. Hit me. Oh, wow, a three, 21. That's great for you. But we're sending a terrible message to listeners about optimal gambling strategy. No one hits on an 18. And they definitely don't hit on an 18 when the dealer's showing a five.

Yeah, what can I say? I had a hunch. How so? You couldn't have been counting cards because this is a

fresh deck. I mean, this is a bit. And you did go on and on about how the house always wins,

and you don't want to take our money. So it seemed like hitting on the 18 would be the dramatic thing to do. Okay, that's clever. All right. Let's just see what kind of cards I get.

Okay, I had a king underneath, which gives me a 15. And because the dealer always has to hit on any

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