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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with
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Trey Trenholm and Jerry Caldwell. Today is Fred Day, July
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twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. We are at the end
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of the week. I hope you've had a good week.
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If so, we're gonna make it better. If you've had
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a bad week, Yeah, we're gonna make it better. We're
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gonna make it all better inside the treehouse.
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We're gonna do that by belittling one man's grand idea.
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I love this headline.
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A Texas man moved to Russia for traditional values and
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was promptly sent to the front lines of.
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The Ukraine War.
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Wow.
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Oh, it's just I just it.
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Makes my heart swell. It really does, Derek. That sounds
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karmic in some way. Derek Huffman thought joining the Russian
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military would be a shortcut to citizenship in a way
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to earn respect in his new homeland. The Texas father
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of three uprooted his family for a fresh start in
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Putin's Russia, drawn in by promises of traditional values, conservative
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culture and a welding.
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Job, but not war.
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Now he's facing Ukraine's front lines. After just three weeks
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of rushed training, he joined Russia's military under false promises
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that he'd serve as a mechanic.
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Or war correspondent.
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Instead, he was placed in a foreigner filled unit heading
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into combat. His wife says he feels like he's being
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thrown to the wolves and is pleading on social media
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for his reassignment, while also reporting the family.
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Has not received any of his pay or bonus.
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Their journey was backed by Putin propagandist Tim Kirby's American
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Village Project, which targets disillusioned US conservatives looking to flee
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woke America. But Huffman's case exposes the harsh reality behind
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the propaganda, broken promises, financial strain, and front line danger. Now,
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like I said, this is a foreigner filled unit, so
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he's not alone. Over five hundred foreign nationals have died
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fighting for Russia crazy, from welder to soldier, from Texas
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to a trench in Ukraine. The Huffman family is now praying.
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For a miracle and a way out.
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New news is if he lives, you got a Disney
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movie on your hands. Bad news is well hopefully obvious.
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Don't move to Russia. Kids don't trust Putin? Why do
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I have to say these things?
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Wow? When did when did he move? When did this happen? Uh?
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Let me look, let's see it was three weeks of
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rushed training. I don't see specific dates on this story.
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I'm assuming though, that it was after the war with
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Ukraine had started.
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Yes, I mean, because it's been going on for a while,
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it's not exactly brand new.
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This is where history can be such a valuable teacher
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of how Russians treat their soldiers. Yeah, I mean, there's
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there's literally over a century of data that says Russians
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have very little regard for their soldiers.
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Does it say, hold, as gentleman, was he is forty six,
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which is a great age to go to war.
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Yeah.
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I'm turning forty six in a few months, and I
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have a hard time getting out of bed, let alone
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out of a trench, or let alone out of the
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way of a grenade blast.
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And you know, even even during the draft days, the
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United States military would not take you at this age.
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That's right, But the Russians happily will go. Look at
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what Putin does to his friends that get on his
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bad side. They remarkably end up dead.
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Yes, remarkably and in very unmysterious circumstances. Yeah, Like, it's
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amazing how many of Putin's friends are so suicidal?
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Yeah, or stumble upon you know, radiation.
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Yeah, it's I mean, who hasn't stumbled upon radiation while
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walking the dog?
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It's truly, truly fascinating.
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I'm looking at a different story here. I don't see
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a date of when he moved his family to Russia,
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but I'm pretty sure this is recent because every news
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story I'm seeing is within a few days of each other.
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That, you know, it's so let's see the war. I mean,
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I'm sure it's been with the last what's up. Hell,
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we're going on three years now, probably of that. M Yeah, brilliant,
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thanks for leaving Texas.
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Yeah, the confused wife claims that even after a month
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of service, so he's been in service for just over
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a month.
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Okay.
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I'm still fascinated though that this part of the story
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is well fascinating. He's a forty six year old man
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who has no prior military experience. He underwent training in
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a language he does not understand, and was promptly shipped
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off to fight on the front lines.
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But under the pretenses that he might be a war
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correspondent and he doesn't speak Russian.
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Look, there were signs that not everything was on the
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up and up. He just clearly could not read them. Nah,
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I will say this, I will say this and I
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and I don't say this lightly. The dildo of consequence
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rarely arrives lubricated.
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That was deep, man, So was it?
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I did something the other day that I would never
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ever have recommended had I not experienced it for myself.
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The baby day at Alamo Draft House.
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You heard him a strap on?
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No, No, I'm talking about the baby day at Alamo
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Draft House.
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Are you?
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Are you guys aware of this? At Alamo draft House,
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the movie place.
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I don't wear a baby day.
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I was not either until the other day. So every
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show so at Alamo Draft House, every show before two
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pm on Tuesdays is a baby day screening with adult
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movies in a baby friendly environment.
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I had no idea this existed.
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We didn't know what it was until we saw it
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on the ticket that we had already purchased online when
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we purchased a ticket to go see a movie on
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Tuesday because we wanted to go get good Alamo Draft
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House popcorn and I wanted and Tara wanted to see
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them the Superman movie. Okay, she really What really happened
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is she just wanted really good popcorn and was fine
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to see a movie.
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That's how that works in my house. And I wanted
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to see it again.
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So we went to the middle of the day showing
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on Tuesday at Alamo Draft House to Superman so she
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could get some popcorn, and it turns out we're surrounded
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by babies. Had no idea, didn't know this was a thing.
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Didn't know it was a thing until we read it
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on the ticket itself. But every show before two pm
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on Tuesdays is a baby day, screening adult movies in
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a baby friendly environment. According to the Alamo Draft House website,
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when you're a parent with a little bundle of joy
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at home, it's really hard to find the time to
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see an adult movie. Rather, it used to be really hard,
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because Baby Day is back at Alamo Draftthouse. Keep in
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mind that the whole premise of the Alamo Draft House
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is that it will kick you out if you are allowed,
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and it doesn't care who you are.
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It kicked out Madonna.
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That's part of the reason why Alamo Draftthouse became a
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national chain because the og location kicked Madonna out of
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a theater because she was being unruly, and everyone said,
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that's the theater I want to go to, because if
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they'll kick out a loud Madonna, they'll kick out anybody.
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So anyway, they've now created a safe space for you
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to take your baby to the movies. And I gotta say,
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we sat through a two hour Superhero movie surrounded by babies,
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and you know what, they were better behaved than adults
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are in movies these days.
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Not surprising.
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Not a gamble I would be willing to take.
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And normally I'd agree with you, Trey, but these days,
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going to any movie with other humans is a gamble.
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And I will say I have had way more movies
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ruined by adults than I have babies. Don't get me wrong,
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babies have ruined a couple of movies here and there.
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But leave it up to an adult to just ruin everything.
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Any special menu items or concessions or anything.
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Nope, just teara with her. Alamo Drafthouse popcorn with popcorn
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salt and real butter. And we've looked, We've looked around.
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She is the Indiana Jones of movie popcorn. Alamo Draft
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House has, without a doubt, the best movie popcorn.
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On the planet.
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I can agree with that, well, at least in North
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Texas area, because that's where we've looked so far.
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But now they actually say so again. And this is
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this is not an ad by the way, for Alamo
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Draft House.
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They technically still the foundation money from screenings we did
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there years ago. I'm just surprised that this whole thing exists.
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A period b exists at a movie theater known for,
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you know, making things quiet for the movie going experience.
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So they're carving out of space, you know, for adults
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that take their kids bankruptcy.
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You'll change a fella, It's right, it really will.
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All of a sudden, you're open to kids.
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Yeah, they say, Baby Day is all about giving parents
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the chance to see growing up movies in a baby
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friendly environment. They keep the lights a little bit brighter
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so you can find their favorite binki in the diaper bag.
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The sound is a little bit lower so they can
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snooze right through the film. And this is true because
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I saw Superman at the theater on Saint Thomas before
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we came to Texas, and that is not.
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A good theater.
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That is, that's just not That's the only theater within
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forty miles that doesn't have water separating it. So that's
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my only option, not a great theater. If I could
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compare it to a movie theater in the States, it
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would be whatever your favorite movie theater was circ in
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nineteen ninety two. Okay, Okay, So seeing it in a
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state side theater the other day, the sound was definitely lower.
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It wasn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination. I
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could just tell it was a little bit lower than
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what I had seen, you know, previously, but still very manageable.
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I was kind of surprised by that. So anyway, they
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keep the brights, They keep the lights a little bit brighter.
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The sound does a little bit lower, and they don't
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kick out anyone for crying because you know, babies. So
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just keep that in mind if you ever feel like
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a Tuesday matinee at the Alamo Draft House because you're
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gonna get babies.
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Yeah. I would think if if I were like a
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urology or stuff, that I would be handing out, you know,
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half price to the sectomies if you were somehow got
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stuck in that hell.
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Said, I don't get kicked out for craying because babies, yeah,
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or parents yeah, for that matter.
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If I walked into a theater full of babies, I
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would just literally just ask what hell is this?
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And you might you might welcome a vessectomy right there
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on the spot.
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I would probably I have been on the fence about
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getting one that I am quite sure would be the
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catalyst that just you know, pushed me over the snip.
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Yeah.
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And ironically, you'd walk into a movie theater and use
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the famous movie line, cook me big.
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Yeah, don't eve worry about the anesthesia, just get in there.
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Or back to a previous subject, now talked about the
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million dollars no sex. You walk me into a theater
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full of babies, I'd like give you the money.
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Show me the money.
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