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Shiland green is people

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I am the father

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what's in the box

you

you maniac

you blew it up Damn you all the hell!

Hi, welcome to the Slate Spoiler Special podcast. We are here today to spoil Joker, the new movie from Todd Phillips, giving us the origin story of the infamous green-haired Batman villain, played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Joining me in the Slate Studios, we're all here together, which is nice, is Forrest Wickman, Slate's culture editor. Hello.

Hey, Dana. And Sam, welcome. Hello. Thanks for coming in. Okay, so as usual, I like to start these

by going around the table, asking just for a very brief reaction so people know whether we loved

or hated going in. I was thinking about the reason I do that. And I think basically it's because I don't want this

to feel like we're reviewing the movie. I want this to feel like we all wrote reviews. Like pretend

that we all wrote our reviews and they're up there and people can know our basic argument. And we're

kind of hashing out stuff we didn't get, spoiling, et cetera. Anyway, so starting with you, Sam, thumbs up, thumbs down, send your friends or drive your

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