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I'm David Chenin with me are DaVindra Hardware and Jeff Canada and welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen.

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Today we got some follow up from last week's episode, our review of X-Men Apocalypse that we're going to be discussing.

And in the after dark, DaVindra Hardware is going to get a chance to offer his thoughts on X-Men Apocalypse.

He was with us last week because I think you're a Computex in Taiwan, right?

DaVindra? Yeah, yeah. And I listened to your review while I was there. It was very sad not to be here, but I also spent a lot of time shouting at my phone and Taiwanese people all around me were very confused.

I think so. Hopefully shouting in agreement.

Sure.

Anyway, today we're going to discuss what we've been watching as well. And then offer a brief update to our summer movie wager.

I just want to talk to you guys about that real quick. Before getting into our review of pop star, never stop, never stopping.

So we're going to do an in depth review of pop star, never stop, never stopping.

So before we get into any of that, though, let's talk about follow up from last week.

In last week's episode, I talked a little bit about seeing X-Men Apocalypse and how there were messages, you know, before and after the film, before the film thanking us for seeing the movie.

And after the film talking about how many man hours had gone into making the film.

And some people rightly pointed out that the the latter message is simply a kind of anti piracy thing of saying, hey, just so you know, a lot of people worked on this.

Don't steal from them. Now it's like positive guilt now instead of.

You couldn't download you wouldn't download a car instead of doing that. Thanks for pointing that out, but I'm not 100% sure if that's true of the, you know, thanks for coming out to the theater message that we got before.

I'm pretty sure that's still kind of a just like a feel good for making you go to the theater message versus an anti piracy message.

Did you get any such message? I think you watched this film in Taiwan, right?

I did. I did not see the pre showing like welcome. Thank you for watching this. But in the credits, I did see the, you know, this movie employed this many people thing.

Gotcha. Well, in any case, thanks for that correction. Speaking of corrections, I committed another Cardinal Sin on last week's episode of the podcast, which was confusing the terms special effects and visual effects.

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