I am Ryan and this is Reverse Psychology Presents Die Hard.
Original introduction wording
- I am Ryan Sansone and this is Reverse Psychology Presents Die Hard.
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Pod Harder Part 1
IN THE ROOM
RyanCurtisVitaliyGuest appearance: Vitaliy
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
No final overall movie verdict is given in this episode.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
No attributed vote is recorded for: Ryan, Curtis, Vitaliy. Being in the room does not mean someone gave a vote; the archive does not assume one.
By way of introduction.
Joining me as always from the Upside Down, the man who recently dieted harder, it's Curtis. Yeah, that was a failed, failed a diet.
Original introduction wording
- Joining me as always from the Upside Down, the man who recently dieted harder, it's Curtis Sheck. Yeah, that was a failed, failed a diet.
And we also have my co-host, my partner in crime, my buddy cop, the man who would gleefully give me a ticket on Christmas. It's Vitaliy. Yo, yo, yo. How's it going?
Original introduction wording
- And we also have my co-host, my partner in crime, my buddy cop, the man who would gleefully give me a ticket on Christmas. It's Vitaly Stewart. Yo, yo, yo. How's it going?
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Hello and welcome. Tonight, Bruce Willis takes us on an unrestricted tour of the Dulles Airport. As he tries to thwart playing terrorism without the help of the TSA, we are here to break down all the action. It's time for Die Hard 2, unofficially known as Die Harder. I am Ryan Sansone and this is Reverse Psychology Presents Die Hard. Joining me as always from the Upside Down, the man who recently dieted harder, it's Curtis Sheck. Yeah, that was a failed, failed a diet. Why, you still have like a month. I mean, this will be coming out after, but I assume it, I assume you'll get your shit together. I have nieces and they are Girl Scouts, and so I was not too long ago inundated with Girl Scout cookies. Oh no, Curt. It's a problem. In the middle of trying to diet. Yeah, yeah. We're doing great. We're doing great. Did you have to get the new suit? No, just tailored. Just to let the thing out. And we also have my co-host, my partner in crime, my buddy cop, the man who would gleefully give me a ticket on Christmas. It's Vitaly Stewart. Yo, yo, yo. How's it going?
ONE SCENE AT A TIME
Scene & activity judgments.
These judgments concern the named scene or activity.
Conversation excerpt
Scene judgments · Baggage-claim fight
As we do every episode, we will do our well-established tradition of raiding a single scene from one half of the movie.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 5 recorded exchanges
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Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:04:31
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Vit, what scene are we biting into?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:04:32
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So, we're going to talk about the back area of the baggage claim.
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, the whole scene up until the cops show up.
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Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:04:43
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- Response context: Is this your Dave Ford impression?; Turning to Bernie Sanders.; That's a pretty high score.; Not the height, the rating.
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Scene judgment
7-5
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- Answer qualification: I think this is, you know, it's got a good set piece to it.; It's tension filled.; It's fun.
- Adjudication: That's a pretty high score.
- Scene judgment: Baggage-claim fight.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Scene judgment
6-5
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- Answer qualification: There was a surprising amount of char in that bite.
- Scene judgment: Baggage-claim fight.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Scene judgment
5-2
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- Answer qualification: I did like the head getting put into the gear thing.; But besides that, I thought it was pretendable.
- Scene judgment: Baggage-claim fight.
Source details
- Activity premise: This is a direct rip off Barstool Sports Pizza Reviews.
- Scoring mechanism: individual scene ratings
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
the boardroom brawl ↗
How this one works
How it works
- Bring it back edition.
- And in classic exec fashion, they will only pick the worst ideas.
- So as always, you can't vote on yourself.
- So I think we're going to do a pick the shittiest thing,
Prompt
- We will pitch the same in the tent of execs to see what things we can bring back.
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 7 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:42
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Revival or sequel pitch
Question / challenge
We will pitch the same in the tent of execs to see what things we can bring back.
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- Submission type: revival or sequel pitch
- Answer qualification: Are we supposed to be adding new things?; I don't think we're supposed to be adding new things.; You guys are going to be very disappointed in my list then.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:01
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Prompt
Question / challenge
So I think we're going to do a pick the shittiest thing,
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:21:11
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Prompt
Question / challenge
let's do some honorable mentions.
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WHAT THEY BROUGHT
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I had the iPad Nano.; The Mexican pizza; you get at school cafeteria.; Floppy disks.; I also had MySpace.; I also had AIM.
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- Answer qualification: Because they were cool back in the day.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
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Sea or a Mist?
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- Answer qualification: Story is just not quite as good.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
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Bell's bottom jeans.; Put multiple bells on the jeans.; Vans,; but the vehicle.; shoe shaped minivan.; The Statue of Liberties.; So it's one that's into; multiple liberties.; Tupac,; spelled T-W-O.; is DuckDuckGoes.; it's a web search; that you can only search for beer.; Sour beer.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:21:12
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- Response context: We're not going to attend these.; We can't comment too much,; I feel like you've taken too seriously; the hosting duties.; You don't have to be bad; at understanding the games; you come up with; for these segments.; The Statue of Liberty exists.; It didn't go anywhere.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:22:53
Recorded conversation
I'm glad we stopped at a three.
Follow the round structure (3)
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I want to bring back the Arby's chicken bacon Swiss sandwich.
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- Answer qualification: It is not the chicken bacon Swiss I grew up with, you mother.; It was a fried chicken patty with bacon and Swiss.; And then it had this really good honey mustard sauce that brought it all together.
- Response context: What's the difference between now and then, I guess?; Are we supposed to be adding new things?; I don't think we're supposed to be adding new things.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I want every movie to have an option for 4D, 5D.
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- Answer qualification: Every new movie.
- Response context: Okay, so you want to bring back 3D movies?; I'm not 100% sure I get the idea.; What do you want to do?
- Notable events: I want to experience everything that's experiencing in the movie.; You actually feel something.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Lord of the Rings 2
The trilogy, yeah.; And it's set in modern times.; So it would just be a bunch of short kings; trying to throw not one but two rings; because it's Lord of the Rings into a volcano.
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- Answer qualification: Didn't see it.; Don't know it exists.; These execs don't care about this shit.; We're doing Lord of the Rings 2.
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Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:11:07
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You care or is because I want that sandwich back.
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- Choice: Lord of the Rings 2
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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:22
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Lord of the Rings 2
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- Answer qualification: I think that's a terrible idea.
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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:34
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Bring back this garbage sandwich; because I don't understand what you both love about it.
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- Choice: I want to bring back the Arby's chicken bacon Swiss sandwich.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:00
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- Response context: This idea is way too good.; The execs are not going to go for it.; I want to bring back shorter movies.; It didn't seem like the rumbling or the movement; or any of the things it was doing connected to the movie at all.; You're saying you want a sequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Round context
- Final adjudication: Lord of the Rings 2
- Result qualification: Well, no, because we both picked your thing, right?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:12:13
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Renewed revival or sequel pitch opportunity
Question / challenge
What do you got for us?; All right, Curtis, what do you got?; Ryan, what do you got?
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- Submission type: renewed revival or sequel pitch opportunity
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
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The next thing I have is the Polaroid cameras.
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- Premise: If I want to take a picture; and instantly have a printed copy of it,; I can't do that today.; I want that back.
- Answer qualification: I didn't know this stuff existed.; I thought it was gone forever.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
But if this was like a case for your phone,; so instead of being like a separate device you have to buy,; if it was just like one of those battery pack cases; that you get with your phone,
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, but that's like a new idea.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
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I want to bring back the Honda Fit.
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- Answer qualification: I think it would be just whatever the updates are.; Just in the form factor of a fit.; I care about the environment,; so let's go gas guzzler.
- Response context: And are you making any changes?; So you're just bringing back the Fit?; The last model year of the Fit.; No, because you could probably get that used.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Torah 2
We haven't found our Messiah yet,; but, you know, ignore the Jesus stuff.; a bunch of new things for us to talk about.
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- Answer qualification: No, you're still going to treat it; like it's an old book.; You just add, like,; coffee to the paper.; It looks old.; we're a little chiller.; We're not going to forgive you, Curtis.; You're already going to hell.; We're not going to make you; feel bad about it, you know?
- Response context: A Torah Torah.; Would the third one be Torah Torah Torah?
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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:16:49
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Torra 2 doesn't make sense.; It's a less good idea.
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- Choice: Torah 2
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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:17:14
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the Polaroid camera; is the worst idea.; I don't have to explain that.
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- Choice: The next thing I have is the Polaroid cameras.
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Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:17:26
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Torah 2
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- Answer qualification: that one's the worst,
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:12:26
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- Response context: Because A, that absolutely still exists.; Yeah, but that's like a new idea.; Are you looking for, like, hybrid; or a full electric Honda Fit?; I feel like you're just talking; about the New Testament.; What was yours again, Dave?; Polaroid cameras.
- Notable events: we should do a fourth one.; but it could be called; Fora.
Round context
- Final adjudication: Torah 2
- Winner statement: so I win.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:17:47
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Final round revival or sequel pitches
Question / challenge
Ryan,; why do you go first?; what about you?; your palate cleanse us,; please.
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- Submission type: final round revival or sequel pitches
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
The Mandalinorian
we're going to do a sequel; to The Mandalorian; he'll pick up a mandolin,; and it'll be a musical; for the next one.
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- Answer qualification: I believe it's over.
- Response context: I guess I have no leg; to stand on.; that was terrible idea,; but sure.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
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Bring back Pokemon Go.
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- Answer qualification: Nobody uses it.; I want to continue; sending gifts; and getting gifts.; I was trying to battle.; Nobody was willing to battle.
- Response context: Pokemon Go is still an app; and play it right now.; Are you asking us; to play Pokemon Go with you?
- Notable events: we were in Toronto; I won it; and I kept preventing; him from doing it.; He was like 10.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I want them to bring back; Jack McClain.; Let's do a diehard six; starring the guy; who was Jai Courtney; as Jack McClain.
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- Adjudication: You nailed it.
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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:21:06
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I want them to bring back; Jack McClain.; Let's do a diehard six; starring the guy; who was Jai Courtney; as Jack McClain.
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Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:21:09
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I had to go with that one too.
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- Choice: I want them to bring back; Jack McClain.; Let's do a diehard six; starring the guy; who was Jai Courtney; as Jack McClain.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:17:57
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- Response context: because we are bringing things; back from the dead.; The Star Wars industrial complex; is very much alive.; every one of Vitaly's ideas; are things that exist,; they're just not popular anymore.; Are you asking us; to play Pokemon Go with you?
- Notable events: that he didn't say; $6 burritos at Chipotle.; Let's just recap real quick.
Round context
- Final adjudication: I want them to bring back; Jack McClain.; Let's do a diehard six; starring the guy; who was Jai Courtney; as Jack McClain.
- Winner statement: Obviously,; it's Jai Courtney.; Well done.; I had to go with that one too.
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- Activity premise: Bring it back edition.
- Adjudication method: So I think we're going to do a pick the shittiest thing,
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
Could you try a different intro, see how it might sound?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 01:30
No, it's my thing.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I may say yo, yo.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
How about you give us, like, a, like a, hey now.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Hey, yo.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
All right, now, now add to it, you're an all-star.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 02:04
You're an all-star.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
I think that could be your intro. Try that with, like, some pizzazz.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 02:22
You only yolo once?
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- Adjudication: You had so much less pizzazz.
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Obviously, they convert this small but accommodating space into a remote air traffic control center, obviously.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
I think it does beg the question, like, what would you do with your own small but accommodating church?
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What everyone brought to the table · 6 recorded contributions
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm going to say that if I'm converting any building into anything, my first choice is always going to be balloon room.
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- Answer qualification: I think I was kind of picturing myself floating a little bit.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:12
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You can float through the room.; The balloons will kind of come and go around you, but you are completely surrounded.; So you're walking through the room.; But you will be surrounded by them.
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- Question: Well, wait, wait, so how many balloons would you say are in this church?; I don't mean numbers-wise.; I mean, like, describe, like, how much balloons are you experiencing at one time?
- Answer qualification: I want more restrictions.; I want more balloons.
- Curtis: “You can float through the room.”
- Curtis: “The balloons will kind of come and go around you, but you are completely surrounded.”
- Curtis: “So you're walking through the room.”
- Curtis: “But you will be surrounded by them.”
- Ryan: “I want more restrictions.”
- Ryan: “I want more balloons.”
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:08
Recorded conversation
So, obviously, in this church, I'm making it into a brew pub.
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- Premise: But that's actually a front for my business.; But underneath, they got, like, a Batman-style, like, layer where I, like, do shit down there for, like, crime and shit.; My brewpub is making me a ton of money, and then I'm also using my bat cave for good and evil.
- Answer qualification: No, I solved the crime.; Like, the crime's done.; I just may take a little bit for my trouble.; I feel like if I solve a crime, I should get a tip.
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:33
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Your business isn't the brew pub?; I'm going to need you to elaborate on the phrase, do shit.; What shit are you doing down there?
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- Response context: He's doing, like, a chaotic neutral vigilante, I think.; You're skimming off the top of the crime.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
So, I want to do one of those, except that I want mine to be themed in space.
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- Method: You're suspended, and there's, like, a sort of gyroscopy thing or whatever.; And there's shit just all around you, and you're shooting all of the stuff around you.; It's not a real rifle.; It doesn't explode the stuff.
- Answer qualification: Yes, it's the only attraction in the whole church.; Too much.; There also is, like, a very shitty storyline.; We can't just explode stuff every time people show up.; We obviously do that every 10th customer.; We have one of those boxes as you walk out.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:45
Recorded conversation
Is this just the only attraction in the whole, like, church?; And how much are you charging for this attraction?
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- Response context: You should explode it.
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This is a total sidebar, but you said every 10th customer.
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Enough of this church talk.
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- Notable references: I think he had a lair downstairs.; Curtis, he's got a skim off the top.
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So I first learned about him on the Law and Order.
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- Activity description: So anyway, I looked into Vito.; I didn't look up Robert Patrick.; So talk to me about Ed Trudeau, played by Fred Thompson.; Curtis, what do you know him from?; I never thought I would miss Brad failing to talk about the celebrities he's supposed to talk about.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
Did you get the sense that he was this famous in other movies or does this seem like the peak fame?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
So in the third movie, it's clear that he's famous to the people that need to know him.; The cops, the people revenging on him.; Like he is known to the people he's known to.
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- Answer qualification: Totally.
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Prompt ↗
Do you assume it's because of the previous movie?
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What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It's got to be that, obviously.; It's got to be whatever happens in the first movie makes him famous.
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Ryan at least trying to do the shtick a little bit.; And Matali, the guy whose idea this was, just like 5-2 is boring.; I think we're going to keep doing that.; It was fun, even though it's bananas.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
How did you pick it?; What was your process?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I was looking for some char.
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How could the same sht happen to the same guy twice?
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Prompt ↗
Is this a Christmas movie?; Die Hard 2?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
of course it's a Christmas movie.
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- Answer qualification: It's about traveling home; for holidays.
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Join us next time; as we wrap up Die Hard 2.
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Wish involved play; Xinjiang
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I think this is Lorenzo's office.; We're on scene 12.; Yeah, I did one scroll too many.; I jumped to 18.