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show. It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

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 Genevieve Kosky and Tasha Robinson. Keith Phipps is off running scams in Dayton,

but he'll join us on a future episode of the show. As a special treat for this recording on The Next Picture Show on Casino and Hustlers,

we've prepared a batch of delicious blueberry muffins for my co-host and our production assistant, Dan the Snake Jakes.

That attention to detail is what sets sweet emulsion studios apart from other hastily improvised basement recording spaces.

Yeah, these are delicious, Scott, and there's so many blueberries in this muffin.

Mine has nothing. Look how many blueberries she has and how many mine has. Tosh's is falling apart. Mine is completely dry. Damn it. It's like everything else in this place. I have to do it myself or it doesn't get done. From now on, I want an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin. Do you know how long that's going to take? I don't care how long it takes. Put an equal amount in each muffin. Scott, are you talking to yourself about blueberry distribution? Well, Sweet Emotion Studios is a very lean operation. Plus, only I can work up to the high muffin production standards that I've set for myself. And sometimes I have to give myself a stern talking to. While I do, can you talk about

this week's pairing? Sure. Lorraine Scafaria's new movie Hustlers is earning a lot of comparisons

to Martin Scorsese's crime dramas for its stylish depiction of exotic dancers running a lucrative

scam on their Wall Street clients. But ripping people off is also what their victims do for a living. Only

society sees one scam

as respectable and one scam is criminal. This sentiment is at the heart of Scorsese's 1995

gangster epic casino, about a time in the early 70s when the mob controlled the Tangiers in Las Vegas

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