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Hello, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop,

that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone what I think many would agree is one of the greatest films of all time.

I am one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here as always with Chris Winterbauer and Chris, what do you, what do you got for us today?

Here's looking at you, kid. Here's looking at you, kid.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Didn't remember how many times we said, here's looking at you, kid, in this movie.

But we are talking about Casablanca.

As Lizzie mentioned, widely considered one of the greatest films of all time.

If you watch it on HBO Max, Ben Menkovitz does an introduction in which he calls it the greatest studio film ever made. His opinion, he reminds you. Lizzie, had you seen Casablanca before and what were your

thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for the podcast? I had not seen Casablanca since I was probably

pretty young, like arguably too young to really understand what I was watching and also what the

kind of historical implications of it were, which I'm sure we're going to get into today.

You know, it's one of those ones that I hadn't revisited and I don't know why. And I'm really

glad that I had to watch it again for the podcast. It is an incredible movie. It's, I think,

unbelievably well written, performed, directed. The thing that struck me on this viewing, though,

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