What are the Movie Industry's Biggest Secrets?

It's called Cuba Mine, and it's based on a real story about a fifteen year old American who moves to Cuba. And this is right before the revolution. So he writes this serious script and it's in the nineteen nineties when he's writing this, and it's got executions in it and real politics, but it's also kind of a romance too. So he writes it and it just sits on the shelf for over a decade, like so many scripts do. But two thousand four somebody finds it dusted off and

finally the movie gets made. Now, the movie's title Dirty Dancing to Havannah Nights. So you're saying, Peter Sagel wrote Dirty Dancing too, I know, but the it is true. I mean, it's kind of like one of those things in Hollywood where even though Peter Segel wrote the movie, they cut out all the words he wrote. In fact, he was quoted as basically saying this, like he claims, there isn't a single line of dialogue left from the original.

They also stripped out all the political stuff, but you know, they had to put something there, so instead they just filled it all with dancing, which you know, because stays true to the name, and so it makes sense. That's

pretty funny, you know. It does remind me of those poor writers in Hollywood who make like two hundred or three hundred thousand dollars and they live in fancy houses and and dry fancy cars, but their parents are super suspicious of what they do because they only work on the fourth or fifth draft of bad movies, and these movies never ever get made. It's crazy. Yeah, it is very very strange. But anyway, thinking about Peter Segel made me wonder, like, why are movie economics so weird? How

does so many terrible movies get made? And of course why is it so hard to make a movie with lions? I know we both wondered this for a year, so I only going to answer that today, so let's dive in. Hey, their podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend Mangesh Ticketer and sitting on the other side of the

soundproof glass. This is one of my favorites. Mango dressed today as Dwayne the Rock Johnson from his favorite movie, The Tooth Theory and such a good movie, such a great actor. But that's our friend and producer Tristan McNeil, So Mango, I know, we wanted to talk about movies today, like little secrets about how they get made and kind of what makes a one star movie a masterpiece, and

other funny stories from movie sets. But before we get started, you know, one of the things I love to tell people is that used to work in a video store, because especially for the younger generations today, it kind of feels like nobody knows what a movie store is anymore. I know, it's from like a different era and and

I honestly loved video store so much. Like going there as a kid, you'd spent so much time looking at movie covers and deliberating over which movie you'd want to watch because you don't only get to pick one and and then finally picking it out like and as a clerk, I actually really loved recommending movies that I thought people would dig. But you know that this is in the side. The best part of the video store I worked at, which is called Vizar and Durham, it was that it

was this really fun and welcoming place. But everyone who worked there except for me, was a lesbian. And it was perfect because, like, I didn't know how to date or talk to girls, and and this woman joy Like she'd give me great advice on that my car broke down all the time. She'd helped me fix it all the time. And when she wasn't solving all of my life problems, we were just watching movies and talking about movies and it was so good. It's a good thing here,

part time genius. We never deal stereotype. That's great, that worked out for you. But you know, the funny thing to me was that even at like an arts movie store like that one, like and it was one of those places where movies were organized by director by country of origin, you'd still find so many terrible movies on the shelf. And you know, Jerry and I would would often flag them with these little post its that they

had around. Uh so, I think there was a terrible one of Pam Anderson and this really horrible movie and we put like scn on pps on the cover. Or there's this like horrible low budget adaptation of the Bible and it just looked so bad and we put better than the book on the cover, you know, just really super helpful stuff. I'm guessing you probably had at least a couple of frustrated customers over the years, but it was such a great store. I remember it really well

and love spending time there. But just to be clear for all of our listeners, we're not snobby movie watchers, like we love terrible movies. And in fact, I know you want to talk at some point about why tomb Raters considered such a master piece. But before we do that that there was something I've been collecting, just some quotes here. I wanted to read you a few of these quotes from Roger Ebert, and specifically about movies he hated.

So I've got a few of them written down. But here are a couple examples of just how brutal Roger Ebert could be when he talked about these quote alleged comedies, so trying to decide which ones to share here. So here's one from Freddie got fingered. So here's what he says. This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels. I don't really know exactly what that means, but it's

still just such a great quote. All right, And here's one about Spice World. Here's what he has to say about it. Spice World is obviously intended as a rip off of A Hard Day's Night, which gave the Beatles to the movies. The huge difference, of course, is that the Beatles were talented, while let's face it, the Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women under the age of thirties standing in line at dunkin Donuts. I love that dunkin Donuts is the players that you need

to find talent. Wap that that's obviously where you find it. But man, he could be brutal when he didn't like a movie. Yeah, so, so obviously being a movie critic comes with its downsides. And being forced to review movies you might not want to watch. But you know what, one of the things I think is funny is that Roger Ebert loved Laura croft Tomb Raider. He gave it three stars, and and that's despite the fact that it

was almost universally panned. So I also found some quotes like that, This is from the Washington Post and they called it quote remarkably joyless. The Wall Street Journal called it quote flavorless, drab, violent and a bloodless way, and sexy in a sexless way. And the Austin Chronicle said the game is great fun, but the movie should be taken out back and shot. So obviously people had some

pretty strong opinions of it. But whether you loved or hated this movie, what's fascinating is that it's considered a total masterpiece in Hollywood. And that's purely because of how the movie was financed. So I got this from the writer Edward j Epstein, who discussed why and and basically he showed that executives at Paramount only spent nine million dollars to finance the movie. Like this was a massive production.

It's a total popcorn movie, a cost around million dollars to make, but before the camera started rolling, Paramount actually signed away the distribution rights to six European countries for sixty five million dollars, and then it decided to shoot part of the film in Britain, which I guess allowed

it to qualify for some sort of tax relief. So there was this complicated scheme where they sold the film to British investors who got this massive tax break, it was like multimillion dollars, and then they sold it back to Paramount, so Paramount actually got another twelve million dollars that way, and then they did the same thing in Germany and before shooting a single frame, Paramount had already

collected ninety million dollars I know. And once they sold the TV rights to paramount sister company, they actually netted money before tomb Rader hit theaters, like it was actually profitable before they released it, which is just so insane to me, and it also kind of makes me wonder like, why was Laura Croft spending so much time rating tumbs when the real treasure was just finding a good accountant. That is pretty incredible. So for all you British investors

out there interested in helping part time genius. Find some tax breaks. You know, we could use twelve million dollars. Yeah, yeah, let's let's look into that. Well. You know, actually, every time we talk about tax shelters, it actually reminds me of the episode we did a while back. I think we titled it Where the Sunniest Places to Hide Your Taxes? And in doing that episode, we realized that basically every James Bond movie takes place in a tax shelter. You

think about Panama, Switzerland, Monico, the Cayman Island. It's it's pretty funny when you come up with the list of these, But I know you learned a few more unusual things about the economics of movies. So do you want to share just a few of those. Yeah. So one of the things I love is that product placement hasn't always been worth the money. So this is an extreme example

of it. But in Natural Born Killers, there's a story that Abilene Boots actually offered to give free boots to the entire cast if Oliver Stone put the name on a truck. So there's this one scene where Juliet Lewis's character is driving in a convertible and she's driving towards the truck, and to get the shot of the logo, they had to get the car and the truck passing each other at the exact same time. But you know,

Oliver Stones and artist, he wanted in one take. So they started the shot a half mile away from each other and then drove and use these walkie talkies and and they were trying to get the pace of the vehicles just right. And it didn't work out for all of our stones I it was just a disaster. So they try it again. They tried it again. They basically lost a whole day or two of shooting, and it cost them about three thousand dollars a day. It was

all just to get a free pair of boots. Isn't that the same thing was just related to this product placement. I still don't fully understand the the starting half a mile away thing. What what what would that achieve? I think you just want to get a long shot of it, like you want to get a beautiful long crane shot of it. But M yeah, I mean, and now I guess there's digital stuff that you could figure out and slip in. But at the time, dollars a day for

a pair of Boots is definitely not worth that. I've never spent that much on Boots. The other thing that's totally crazy to me, and and this might answer a little bit of the like why do terrible movies get made? Question, is that director has actually claimed that they have to water down their movies just to make them suitable for teenagers. And according to Epstein, who's you know, the Hollywood Economists, that there are a few reasons why you want to

market two teens. So some of them are obvious, like if you have product tie ins or merchandise or fast food mentions or whatever, teens are just much more susceptible and likely to buy that stuff. They're also predictably clustering around the same shows, like it's a less fragmented group, so you can buy ads and kind of reliably know

where they are to build awareness. But the big reason movie studios make movies that are PG thirteen and targeted teens is that they're the only demographic that's desperate to get out of the house, Like they're looking for any excuse to get away from their parents or their kids siblings. So they're the group that needs the least convincing to go out on opening day and buy tickets. And apparently

there's this whole marketing formula. I think marketers try to hit you up with seven ads before a movie comes out, like you need that much exposure to build awareness. And and I don't know, it's really crazy to me, but but it also makes sense. Yeah, it does make sense. And and I had a feeling that you were going to talk about teenagers and the movies, and so, you know, I keep hearing this thing from classic directors saying that they'd never be able to make their artsy movies today

because they have to cater to teens so much. In looking around at this there's actually some pretty funny stuff online. But here's a little clip. I just wanted to share it. Someone cutting up the Ten Commandments to play like a teen movie. So just take a quick listen to this fair high Ramsey's was the biggest player around, no doubt. But when the new kid in school I am a stranger in a strange land, realized hanging with the in

ground wasn't so easy, he took a stand. Man shall be ruled by law, not by the will of other men, Moses mos. Now the battle is on to see who can get the girl who will rule the school and if a zero can become a hero, so let the games begins. So that was a little mash up trailer called ten Things I Hate about the Commandments and it was by Mike Dow. I definitely go see that. And will I know you've got some great facts you want to share about animals at the movies. But before we

get into that, let's take a quick break. Welcome back to Part Time Genius where we're talking terrible movies. So will I know you wanted to tell some animal stories, which is usually my domain, but I like that you're tackling it today. But before that, can I just read you a little list of things that you used to see that the movies and you no longer see. Just comes from our old pal caricaval Chick. But here a few things you no longer see it the movie. So

some of these are obvious, like ash trays. There used to be signs that read ladies, please take off your hats everywhere, you know, just as a reminder, because that's when people used to get super dressed up for shows. But theater is also used to come with cry rooms, which were these glass enclosures and soundproof rooms in the back of the theater, and that's so that parents could take their crying babies and still watch the movie without

disturbing anyone. I didn't know what you're gonna where you're gonna go with that. I was just assuming like if people just got too emotional, that could go somewhere without out being heard. So this was for the babies. Yeah, for the babies who also get very emotional. Um. This one's also interesting to me. Theaters used to be much grander, so you think about those like red curtains that used to open up for the screens, and and just how elaborate ornate theaters used to be. But all that change

in with this Americans with Disabilities Act. They actually required that newer renovated theaters with more than two seats needed wheelchair access to all rows. So suddenly theaters started splitting up their bigger theaters or just started making smaller theaters to counter that. And it's crazy, but that's also why you started seeing three or four theaters at a place showing the same movie at similar showtimes. Yeah, I've never

thought about that. So my favorite old thing about these old theaters was that, especially during the depression, it was hard to get people to come to movies, so to get people to spend their money, they'd have these collectible dish nights. And the whole idea was that movies where luxury, but husbands and wives could both agree that they could spend for a ticket or splurge for a ticket if they could also come home with a gravy boat or a coffee cup and saucer, and suddenly it made it

more worth it. So these have been all across the nation. And uh, speaking of the depression, this is the last one that's actually part of what lifted popcorn sales. And I didn't realize this, but initially popcorn vendors would actually stand outside of theaters and they were independent sellers and it sell to the public who were coming in. But then theater's got greedy realized they can sell the stuff themselves, and now popcorn is obviously this hugely valuable thing and

keeps theaters alive. But you know, apparently ounce for ounce movie theater popcorn actually costs more than filet mignon. Oh wow, yeah, and they sell a ton of it. Yeah. I've actually read that theaters put things in the popcorn to make the smell waft more in that that's not that surprising, but I mean it does explain why when you're sitting there, it just fills up the theater makes people more hungry

for it. So anyway, all right, Well, on a different topic related to just weird things and movies and funny things about movies, I know, one of our favorite facts is is how the Cohen Brothers complained that the cat that they used in Inside Lewin Davis was so awful to work with. Of course, this comes as no surprise to me. They kind of just had to wait for the cat to do what they wanted. Like you'd find a cat that liked to jump, and then you'd put it in a scene, start rolling, and then you just

have to wait for it to jump. And it drove them crazy, and something I haven't thought a ton about, but I can only imagine how difficult that is when you've got animals and you're trying to get them to do like a very specific thing, and especially with cats, I know him with tight budgets and directors wanting to play god, you know, not having an animal act to your will as I'm sure difficult. And I actually love

stories of animals ruining scenes. There's this story from Raiders at the Lost Arc where Steven Spielberg was really irritated because instead of fleeing from a fire, the snakes kept going closer and closer to it to warm themselves, And at one point he was so frustrated that he picked up a snake, looked in the face and told him something like, you're supposed to hate fires. You're ruining my movie. Well,

I hope they listened to him. You know, I do love the care that animal handlers use on set, and it even extends to the smallest of creatures like insects for examples. There was a few examples of this. But of course, you know the old movie Shaw Shankra such a terrific movie, and you know the old prisoner Brooks. In the film, he fed a live maggot to his pet crow, and it went against all animal regulations when

he did this. So the crew actually found a grub that had quote died of natural causes and used that for the film. But that's actually not even the craziest case that I came across here. I think the best story might be from Silence of the Lambs, where they had over three hundred tomato hornworm moths on set, and and they were all treated like these little divas. So first,

when they traveled, the moss all flew first class. I'm sure this was in all of their contract riders and I don't know why we know this detail, but we do. And then they were put up in a room with perfect climate for them, so exact humidity, temperature conditions, everything that was ideal for them. But the craziest part when they were on set, they were all put in these

tiny little harnesses for those high speed stunts. And it almost makes me surprised they didn't outfit them in these tiny little helmets as well, But it's just pretty great. Like Silence and the Lamps is still held up as the prime example of how to care for animals on set, because not one of those three D plus moss was hurt on set. Plus the producers even found a retirement home for all the malls, and that they know that became roommates with the animal wrangler on set and lived

out the rest of their natural lives with them. So I love that tiny harness fact. And I never would have imagined that there were three moths involved in the filming. But you know, I am curious, what is the life band of a tomato moth? Well, I think it's like two to three weeks, But but don't pay attention to that. The key part is that they were comfortable, manga comfortable for the rest of their lives. I do like that.

So what else have you got? All right? Well, I wanted to talk for a minute about the movie Roar, which is, you know, the craziest and possibly worst movie that involves animals. Actually, there's some photos of the making of this movie from Life magazine that are just bizarre to look at. You should you should look them up online. They're photos of Tippy Hedren looking into her ridge and a lion peeking in two there's one of a lion asleep at her feet, which just makes lion looks like

these giant house cats. But then there's another one of a lion with its jaws and its paused, just kind of gently placed around the kid's head at the swimming pool. You've seen this before, just pulled us up. It's ridiculous. How is the savy's name terrifying? I have no idea, but this it actually kind of ties back to the economics here because roors considered one of the biggest disasters of indie filmmaking. Basically, Tippy Hedron, who was terrified of birds.

Of course, if you remember that's Alfred Hitchcock, took advantage of this by throwing live birds at her in the movie Birds. But she was not at all afraid of lions, like she'd somehow fallen in love with these creatures. On a trip to Africa, she and her husband at the time, his name's Noel Marshall, they dreamed up this idea of doing a movie with real lions, and the plot was about a family of conservationists who go to a home

in Africa. They're told that the lions at the place won't harm you if you just don't act scared or something like that. I mean, the movie doesn't really make sense and the plot isn't important to this story. But to make the movie, Tippy and her husband actually asked this animal wrangler to get them fifty tame lions to work with. I mean, just an absurd request, and obviously

this wasn't possible. But what he did do was he started introducing young lions to them so that they could foster these lions and then they would be growing up with humans. So for eleven years, and this was on and off, but Tippy Headron and her family actually had live lions at their home and then they shoot here and there, and they put their children in the film too.

And of course I don't know if everybody knows this, but Melanie Griffith, whose Tippy Headron's daughter, she quit the movie at one point because she saw two lions hustling in the front yard. And she then told her mom that she didn't want to lose her face to a line, which seem reasonable. I gotta be honest, Yeah, that seems reasonable to me. So I don't understand why that maybe wasn't a little bit of a wake up call. But

you know, the filming was a disaster. Not only did Tippy and her husband keep running out of money for filming, people also kept getting hurt along the way. I mean, not the animals. I in fact, I think no animals were hurt in the process of this, but something like eighty cast members were, which I think is probably a record at least was a record at that point. And the movie cost I think it was like eighteen million

dollars and then only made two million dollars. Now, I'm not an economist and I don't know a ton about movie making, but that feels like maybe that was a failure. Yeah yeah, but it just goes on and on like not surprisingly, it ruined their marriage. They end up getting divorced soon after. But there is one good thing that came out of it. So while Tippi Hedren did come out of this experience believing that lions don't make great house pets, her love for them only grew and so

she started the Shambala Animal Sanctuary. This is in California, and many big animals end up there. So when Michael Jackson's home zoo was shut down, for example, Shambala adopted

his tigers. That's insane, you know. I I heard you wanted to talk about animals, and I just assumed you were going to talk about Rentintin And you know this whole story about how he should have won the first Oscar like Susan or Lean wrote this in her book about Rentinton, that he got more votes for Best Actor in the first award ceremony, but the Academy thought it would set a bad precedent, said they rigged the awards for a human to win and uh, you know, the

New York Times report this, Susan or Lean said it was true, and everyone you know acknowledged that Rentintin was the biggest movie star at the time. But what's funny is that the Academy actually disputes this history and says Rentintin was never on the ballot at all, which you know, adds a little intrigue to this wonderful fact that everyone keeps talking about. Yeah, and it's still still a nice

story either way. But all right, Well, how about we take a little break then come back with a few of the strangest, most influence chill movies of all time. Welcome back to Part time Genius. So before we get to a fact off mango, why don't we do a little back and forth on you know, some of the strangest movies that have I guess what you consider surprising impacts on the world. And there's some easy ones that

people might already know about. I'm not sure, but for example, I think before the movie Amally came out, they were like a dozen kids named Emily and England and Wells. And then after the film came out, there were over a thousand kids a year who got the name Amalie. And you see this trend also with things like haircuts, Like this is one of my favorite facts as it

relates to movies. But all right, there's this famous story about how after Titanic came out, the Taliban shut down any barber shop that was giving out Leonardo DiCaprio haircuts because boys were just going crazy for them. Now, there is not much funny about the Taliban, but I can't help it. That is just a funny and bizarre fact. I don't think about The Titanic that much, and I certainly don't think about Leonardo DiCaprio's haircut that much. Yeah,

it's pretty great. All right, Well, what's your favorite story about a movie that had a surprising impact on the world. So I guess for a quick one, maybe something like Bandy. And I know the animation style was completely different from everything else, but I like that it might have actually launched Stephen King's career. He often refers to Bandy as the first horror movie he ever saw, but in a bigger way, I actually think Borat might have had one

of the most surprising impacts on the country. And um, obviously in the movie We've Got Sasha Baron Cohen, he's making fun of kazakh Stan. Some people saw it as harmless and nonsensical and and you know, just as a joke, but that's not at all how the Kazak people saw it. Like when the movie came out, Kazakhstan's president actually forced President Bush into a meeting just to discuss how the film was negatively depicting the country, and he actually did

the same thing with European leaders. But the interesting thing is that the film kind of had a point. So the country had at that time just fallen into corruption, and it was kind of easy to pick on the country because it hadn't formed much of a national identity post leaving the USSR. But after the film, they started working to bring in European businessmen. They started showcasing how

business friendly and progressive the country was. They worked on tourism campaigns and oddly the film actually made people want to visit. And then they even invested in their first state produced film about Genghis Khan. It was called Mongol. I don't know if you remember that. It was actually nominated for an Oscar But it was all away for the country to try to reclaim and celebrate its history while showing there's a thriving and beautiful modern industry there.

And and I think it's kind of amazing that Borat is really the thing that spurred all of this, and I'm sure that was his goal from the very beginning. All Right, well, I've got a couple more that I wanted to share, you know. Of course, you know, I love the movie The Big Lebowski, and it brought the word dude back to the world, and I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it also spawned a little cult or religion that was

called the Church of the Latter Day Dude. And I mean mostly, of course, this was a joke, but you know, it was based on things like taking long baths and bowling and of course drinking white Russians and I guess a little bit of Taoism. But you know, back in two thousand ten, the church had over eighty thousand Judas priests, which I think is no small feat. But actually I

didn't want to end on that one. I kind of wanted to end on a sweeter story, and that's about the movie Do the Right Thing, which of course wonderful and important in its own right, but it has this second legacy that it's actually the first movie the Obama saw together when they were a young couple. In fact, according to Brock, it kind of sealed their dating status and it the first time Michelle allowed him to touch

her net. And as the former president told Spike Lee when he met him for the first time, I owe you a lot. Oh I love that. So why don't we end up that note and kick off the fact off? Did you know that Steven Spielberg opted not to direct Harry Potter movies because it was too easy for him. Here's what he actually said about it. Directing those movies is quote just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your own personal bank accounts. There's no challenge. Wow.

Let's say you're in a pretty good position when you're like, you know, the millions and millions or hundreds of millions of dollars I could make from that, I'm just not that interested in that. Too easy. Wow. Actually, there was this This American Life a month or so back about him and how high school inspired him to direct amis Thought, and it was so good. Did you listen to this episode?

I haven't heard that, Yeah, but you should definitely listened to it for for all our listeners if you haven't already. All right, Well, on a completely different note, I don't think I even remembered broccoli playing a big role in the movie Inside Out, but apparently kids felt that it did, and so in the Japanese version of the movie, the vegetable was changed to bell peppers because quote, they are

more universally hated by Japanese children. That's crazy. So here's a fun one British filmmaker named Charles Lyne raised nine thousand dollars to make a ten hour movie about paint drying. And you might wonder why why would you make a ten hour movie of just paint drying? And it was basically an f you to the British Censorship Board. He did it just to force a couple of sensors to have to watch ten hours of paint drying. That's actually

pretty funny, even if it is evil. At the same time, I love that it cost nine thousand dollars to do that. But al right, well, did you know that the only time White Castle has made a vegetarian burger was for Harold and Kumar, So apparently pen is vegetarian. So White Castle obliged, but only that one time, which isn't that shocking, But it is pretty funny to imagine what this vegetarian burger looked and tasted like. I can't even imagine. I know now that I know they can make a vegete burger,

I want to try it. You should demand it. So here's a little fact I love about the movie Drive. A woman in two thousand eleven sued the movie's distributors for false advertising because quote, it had very little driving. I mean, she's got a point. So yeah, all right, Well here's a fun When I learned about the movie Sleepless in Seattle, there's a writer pitching a story in Meg Ryan's office about this guy who sells quote the greatest soup You've ever eaten while also being the meanest

man in America. And if you listen closely to this part, you know they're talking about doing a story on the Soup Nazi. And the greatest thing about this is it was actually a few years before the Soup Nazi became that, you know, big plot point on Seinfeld. That's pretty amazing. I've never heard that. It's here's one about Quentin Tarantino

when he was still starting out. At the time, he was living on his friend Linda Chen's couch, and she was a typist, and she had actually agreed to do some typing for him if he just house s at her pet rabbit. And of course Tarantino is a great scriptwriter, but not a good bunny sitter, and the rabbit sadly died under his watch. But to make up for it, he named one of the characters in the film for

the pet. But if you remember in the beginning of pulp fiction, there's this robber who goes by the name Honey Bunny, and that's actually named for Chen's rabbit. I've never heard that. All right, Well, I know we've done a few Steven Spillberg facts here, but this one's gotta be tough to be. So, he was filming Schindler's List, and obviously this is a very heavy and difficult topic, and the cast would not surprisingly get pretty depressed while

they were filming this. So every once in a while he would try to change the mood for the cast. He just call up his friend Robin Williams, put him on the speakerphone, and the comedian would immediately start reeling off jokes, and that, of course helped chair everybod audi up. Oh, I love that. I actoually miss Robin Williams, and I had a different story about him. During the filming of

Mrs Doubtfire. He wasn't sure if the costume was believable enough, so he wore it to an adult bookstore and just made all these ridiculous purchases and when no one recognized him in character, he decided the costume was believable enough. But that's pretty great. But I do think your fact is too good and you definitely went today's fact off. Wow. I don't know that's pretty good fact, Mango, but you know what, You've already given it, so I'm gonna take it.

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