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It is a Friday, and so I'm going to go off everything I was going to talk about and just say this first.

I was going to save this for later in the show, but I'm going to do it now because it's on my mind.

And I have no impulse control.

For the first time and forever, really since COVID hit, I went to the theater.

There have been a couple of times I intended to go to the theater to see movies in the last

few years and wound up not in large part because

the movies I wanted to go see I lucked into review copy so it is I can't go into specifics

I have to sign legal legalese and non-disclosure, but several of the more prominent film studios of

America, shall we say, have sent me in the last number of years since COVID hit review copies

of movies before they come to the theater. And instead of me having to go to a theater to see

these movies, I get a secure link and I get to see the

movies in advance or see portions of the movie. So there was one that I got to see where it was

not the whole movie. It was to incentivize me going to the theater to see the whole movie,

which I wound up not doing because

I mean it was the bulk of it. But anyway, so I've gotten these review copies, all the movies

that I wanted to see in the theater in the last few years since COVID, I've been getting

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