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Welcome, listener, to Premium

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Chapter 238 of the

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QAA Podcast, the We Love

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the Starship Troopers

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Bugs episode. As always, we are

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your host, Jake Rakatansky, Trillian Fields,

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Liv Aker, and Travis View. As

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usual, I think that my co-hosts

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are not going far enough. We

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don't just love the bugs, we

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are the bugs. And today we're

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rubbing our little mandibules

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and we're chittering at each

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other in a way that communicates

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fear, excitement, and pride at

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the finest mind of our

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podcast being applied to the

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finest topic of the day.

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Another Verhoeven movie is actually

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just totally fine and

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good and not a parody because

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Verhoeven loves fascism. Which,

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you know, this is really what we should

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be doing with our time in this era,

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I think. Is discussing

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our misunderstanding of every possible

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thing and relitigating it online

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because we've had a

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new enjoyment product come out,

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a new pacifier came out.

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And as we shoved it into our mouths

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and got the nice and immediate soothing effect

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from the fentanyl that's in it, we were

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also told, but it's also a parody. And

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then our brains had to go into like

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this absolute scatter mode of just, wait,

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so I'm enjoying it, but it's also

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a parody. It's pacifying me and

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it's making me a better subject of

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capitalism. But also there's a

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hidden message inside of it that

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resists capitalism and fascism. I,

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my head is going to explode. You

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know what's wrong with this? Probably

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e-girls, the left, the breasts

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of Sydney Sweeney and other

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top The that are very important for

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politics and the concept of media literacy

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as well. That's a big one. I

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don't know what that means, but it

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sounds smart. Throwing to my co host

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who has a brain live a gar

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is me. Join who's back and is

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a bug and has a brain of

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a bug. I'm sitting on my couch.

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I'm going. hey I'm having a pretty

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good times and then I'm going to

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hate. Should I really be joining the

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sits there? I'm jacket off by why.

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but why does the bug make me

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com the bug? The bug is supposed

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to teach me and yet I'm horny

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to. I feel good and bad all

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at once. A case you haven't realized

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list as we we have replaced our

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Julian with an Ai. we're still working,

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we're still working on some other bugs

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so he will kind of short circuit

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you know every now and again Tell

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you no, no, no, no, But it's

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mostly the Julian that you love know

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and remember so don't ask any questions

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about the A. I don't ask how

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much of the patriarch money we spent

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on it and just enjoy. Just enjoy

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this going for don't. Sit on the

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couch going should I be enjoying this.

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Or it live take us away. As

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inquiry put into the the

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Julian bought to like solve all

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the bugs he misunderstood at the

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tail live kill Travis kill

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date. Do death

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threats. We. Generally think

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that satirical or acts as attempting to make

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the object a mockery look foolish, to make

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them feel as if everyone is laughing at

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them, feeds of how dumb, stupid, ugly, etc

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they are. But what happens when they don't

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react this way? when instead of saying how

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uncharitable or inaccurate the work depicting them as,

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they instead embrace it as if it's not

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a work of satire, but instead a compliment.

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Does this discredit the work of satire

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as not being mean enough? Or does

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it show how prescient it is that

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the object a mockery lack self awareness

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to such an extent that they can't

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even conceive of how obviously stupid, dumb,

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ugly, etc they are? I'm actually now

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thinking that may be in doing this

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for a whole, then like in taking

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attacks that was fucked up and them

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adapting it into a satire and a

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parody that maybe he like did what

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the producers was about like he was

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fish. What? This is a thirst for

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springtime for Hitler. This.

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Is a problem that one film released in

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the nineties that has since become a cult

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classic often runs into. Starship Troopers is an

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action comedy film the size a group of

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starry eyed patriotic high school graduates who live

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in a one world government ran by the

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military as they join up for active service

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to fight against a brutal race of alien

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bugs as attacks humanity and wiped out the

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entire city of when A Sarah's their home.

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Ah, Yes, that's such a good. Little plots,

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baking and women by this. Yes, like if

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third world I'm like succeeded. but fascism also

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succeeded. And then what does Iris is? or

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new? Like world capital? Perfect. I never understood

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that as a kid cause you know I

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was fairly young when the movie came out.

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I of course a loved it. Obsessed with

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it. Actually made it a little bit of

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a part of my personality, not because it

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was tied. Do you know any kind of

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political ideology? I just like loved the killing

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of the bugs. Of course I had to

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read the book first. Because it was raised

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our movie and so the rule in my

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house was if I wanted to see a

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movie that was are rated or a you

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know a little bit inappropriate that I had

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to read the book if there was a

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book and sometimes I even read the novel

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ization if the movie came first wave this

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could not be more perfect. So just Jewish

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mom made Eureka facist books are you could

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watch the movie that you didn't understand was

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a parody of the original tax. This is

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so for this is like if producers came

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out edu were like I want to go

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see I want to go see Springtime for

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Hitler. And your mom made you read

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mine Council for was my that. I

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think it might have been my dad.

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I can't imagine my mom pushing. Starship

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Troopers is a book. I think that's

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a that's a Jake's Dad recommendation and

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requirement. Your dad came up with that

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rule with the book. The Book Girl

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oh it was. I think it was

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a committee selected. Okay, well I was

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gonna get I thank you. But I

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think he probably would have would have

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suggested Heinlein and Starship Troopers over. Overall

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I am quieted, but I was always

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we I always I never understood. I

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was like why the way if there

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had been a series and they're white

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I don't understand this. Ah has somehow

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good man this is this is awesome.

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That's also what was they were all

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these Americans do it I just is

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it a child's mind You know doesn't

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understand shield know sexism, racism and know

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when I When I was yeah like

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really young and was Starship Troopers I

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just. Like was like this is this is

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a bad movie like like you know I

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just thought like this is bad way to

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I like the i don't like, don't like

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the vibe of this something's wrong or about

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this movie but I I was like two

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layers away from understanding is that it's I

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was like A and layers probably. I just

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like this is because I was a huge

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Aliens fan and so to me this was

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more of that it was. It was big

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guns, It was cool armor It was alien

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planets. You know we're fighting these these creatures

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that were very dangerous. They could turn you

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into soup. Very quickly. what did you think

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of their clothes and what the Starship Troopers

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is? Yeah, I knew that if they were

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kind of nazi, ask. I mean I wasn't

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an M. I mean, I knew that there

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was. There were similarities, but I really like

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Denise Richards to. So oh my god Yeah,

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no. the shower scene is. You know I

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will. That's no. that's it. That's the other,

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That's the other character played by. I can

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remember the actors meal for multiple people, new

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to his multiple people nude. But but all

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I don't need Reduces don't? I don't think

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you see Denise Richards noon. And night where

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your may be thinking of wild things

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are welcome to Mister Skyn the podcast

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we are the great you down the

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tit scenes already done a mystery skin

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podcast yet there is such a good

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fog as the idea like it or

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Ted's this is typically see it as

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vague read of your grave. we're all

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looking at it and we're we're we're

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all already. Yeah.

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I mean I feel a bit less people would miss

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on us. The movie of the Bugs had tits if

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there was a shower scene for the bugs. On.

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The surface: this Fell may sound just

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like your average size Fi action movie.

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for a meant to root for the

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here is against the Evil genocidal Aliens

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Exeter, etc and this is our majority

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according to the wiki page and the

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film upper viewers received it when it

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was initially released. As an example of

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this reaction, you're There have You made

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for the Washington Post and Nineteen Ninety

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Seven when the film came out titled

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Goose Stepping at the Movies Starship Troopers

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and A Nazi Aesthetics posted by some

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critics Stephen Hunter Silly me, I thought

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the Nazis lost the war. But here's

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the exceedingly strange. New Movie Starship Troopers

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com endearing Twenty two million American

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dollars and it's first weekend and

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certain to make Gobs more Pa

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secretly whispering sieg Heil. The

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movie recounts the adventures of a platoon

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of mobile infantry sometime in the next

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century, as it does battle with a

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race of arachnid nasties on the far

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planet of Clint. Also, it's an epic

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of bug blasting a movie whose script

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appears to have been the instructions on

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a can of raid and in some

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profoundly disturbing way, it's Nazi to the

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core. our job. I love getting almost.

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They're having the brain to get almost

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there, but then just failing to cross

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the finish line. I love that. I.

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don't mean to suggest that it's political

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propaganda in the literal sense or that

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it advocates nazi ism but it's assume

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that presupposes it it's spiritually nazi psychologically

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nazi it comes directly out of the

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nazi imagination and is set in the

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nazi universe this reminds me of i'm

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an unnamed twitter user who called the

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robocop cappadocia it hails from what would

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be year sixty four of the thousand

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and you're right a sanitized utopia heroics

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sexless young folk grandly aware of their

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role as defenders of the known reality

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and descended from the nazi pioneer generation

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of the nineteen thirties and forties of

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course the great singer has gone to

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valhalla but it's possible that in a

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home and some mountain fastness some shiny

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facsimile of holy berchtesgaden the ninety seven

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year old heinrich himmler still daughters about

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drooling and filling his depends with wastes

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ceases what why are you are you

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are you writing Why

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are you writing fucking- That's why you get to

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pay the big bucks. Fetish fucking fetish

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diaper fetish Himmler material.

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Mmmmmmm Big

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steamy Nazi bulge in

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the back of his in a- he

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bunched up his pants Uh-oh! You

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