Practical Magic

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I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is Practical Magic, the 90s supernatural rom-com family drama that's got more seasonal cozy vibes than than a pumpkin spice weighted blanket.

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And with us always is super producer Matt hitting us with those sweet drops.

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Plops.

Beautiful.

This is our final episode of Howl O-Peen, our dive into the world of free, spooky movies, where we'll probably make jokes about that dangly sex organ sometimes referred to as the peen.

Before we get into this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, let's talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Other free stuff.

Thank you.

As y'all might know, I really love and get a lot of inspiration from the career of Bobby Boris Pickett, the guy who wrote The Monster Mash, who wrote and performed The Monster Mash.

You know, this guy had this giant hit, a monster hit, if you will.

and then just leaned in.

This guy wrote so many fucking monster songs.

It's crazy.

Albums and albums of songs just like

rehashing and reshuffling the monster match for all these various holidays.

There's like a monster beach song.

There's a monster Christmas song.

But also like when a new trend would surface, he would do like a version of that.

But for the monster mash.

And a lot of these were kind of like lost to time, but I guess his estate or someone affiliated with him has a kind of a newish YouTube channel where they're like uploading all his songs, really nice versions of them.

And they're all so much fun and they're all so funny.

And I just wanted to play

for our final Halloween episode this year,

his 80s take on the monster mash, the monster rap.

So yeah, he recorded this in the 80s when hip-hop was a hot new trend.

And he decided that the monsters needed to get in on the act.

Shock the body, shock the body body, shock the body, shock the body, body, shock the body, shock the body, body, shock.

I've given you a voice.

Now rap for daddy.

Where the shot a million bolts in my brain now, man.

Oh my god.

He's horrible.

No rap for daddy.

Daddy.

I love it.

Just right.

Right.

It's

first of all, shock the body, shock the body, body.

It's fucking catchy.

That's a great hook.

I just tried to find out where the

hip-hop was.

It was all over.

That was born in the streets.

Rap for daddy.

Yes,

Where does daddy fit in the monster mesh?

Yeah, I guess just he, you know, he's making it very literally the daddy of the monsters.

He's the daddy of all the monsters.

Okay, okay.

I was like, yeah, you got a vampire, you got a mummy, and then daddy is right, yeah.

I guess in this, you know, he's making it very literal, the symbolism that Frank, the Dr.

Frankenstein is the monster's father figure.

So, yes, yes, okay.

Rap for daddy.

Well, yes, Bobby Boris Pickett, a legend.

He's got a monster song for every

holiday.

Hey, we're.

He's still kicking.

No, he is not still kicking.

He is

with the monsters now.

Well, R.I.P.

buddy.

I hope that you're listening to this from beyond the grave.

Dagging in hell.

With all of your favorite monsters.

That's really good, Jordan.

Thank you.

I do a pretty good Bobby Boris picket.

I sure do.

Did not help a lot on my SNL audition.

They said,

you know, we're looking for current celebrities and politicians.

Yeah, that's late.

That's what they said to Bill Hayter when he brought in an Alan Alda.

Like, I always wonder.

Okay, it works all right for Bill Hayter.

Maybe I should keep pushing my Bobby Boris picket.

You do.

I think you do.

I've got an okay Jennifer Tilley, apparently.

Okay.

Can you do it?

Can you, can you?

Well, I don't know.

Can you say Rap for Daddy is Jennifer Tilly?

Rap for Daddy.

That was good.

Thank you.

I wonder what it would be like if Jennifer Tilley met Bobby Boris Pickett.

I bet that'd be a funny situation.

Spooky.

Well, hey,

you know, we're sorry in advance when we have to end this podcast to go on Saturday Night Live.

It'll just take up too much of our time.

The Bobby Boris Pickett and Jennifer Tilly sketches that they're going to want us to do every single week.

Hey, we're going to talk about our final Halloween movie, Practical Magic.

But before we start talking about this movie, we should mention that it does include partner violence as part of the plot.

So if that's not something you want to hear about, we're going to play a little music and give you a chance to find another episode.

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We're talking about practical magic.

Yeah, maybe a little bit of like context before we

get into the movie.

I had never seen this before.

This was my first time.

Yeah, yeah.

And I guess my knowledge about it going in was this.

Kind of a like minor hit.

It has, you know, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, but it really like stuck around on cable.

It stuck around on DVD.

And now it is just this like cult hit.

And I guess they just like announced the sequel, right?

Yes, they did, which I'm like, so I also forgot that Evan Rachel Wood played one of the daughters, like Sandra Bullock's daughters.

So I'm like, is she going to be in it?

That would be so cool.

I don't know.

I'm very excited to see it.

And Stocker Channing is still with us and kicking ass.

So she better be in it.

She's an icon in this movie, too.

Do we know?

Do we know anything about who's writing it and directing it?

Are there any plot details?

I have not looked into that.

I guess I'm kind of a little

scared it's going to be not good.

I'm scared about that.

So I'm not looking at it.

Yeah, like what are the good, what are the good Lega sequels?

What are the good sequels that came, you know, like 20, 30 years after the actual movie?

Gladiator 2.

Gladiator 2.

Everyone's saying it's good.

Everyone's saying it's really good.

Yeah.

Everyone said Beetlejuice was good, and then I saw it, and they were wrong.

I have not seen Betelgeuse yet.

I'm super curious.

No, not good.

Didn't like it.

Didn't like it.

Not the right movie to do in 4DX either.

Because it was like...

No, there's no wrong movie to do in 4DX, Emily.

It's bad.

You're like sprayed?

No, I was like sprayed, and I was one of five people in the theater.

That's funny.

Like, no one was there.

And you just, there's something really funny about a bunch of empty chairs just shaking like back and forth.

No one's in it.

Yeah, there would be like a scene where someone's riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and you are just getting whiplash in your chair.

And you're like, what is this enhancing?

I don't know what this is.

I can't wait for all those 4D theaters, the theaters with like the chairs that shake and like the hoses that spray you during the movie.

I can't wait for like Oscar season where they have to do that for like whatever this year's Megalopolis.

Whoa.

I feel like

I'm in the chariot with wow, platinum.

I'm there with, God, what's Adam Driver's character's name?

How would we know?

How would we know?

We've all seen it, right?

We've all gone to, we all absolutely did go to see it.

No, I haven't seen it.

Caesar Catalina, I believe is his name.

Caesar Catalina.

Oh, my God.

That's his name.

I know.

Yeah, I mean,

George Lucas and Francis Coppola are friends.

I feel like Francis For Coppola looked at the Star Wars names and said, hold my beer.

I can give some people some dumbass fucking names.

Hold my wine that I make in my video.

Hold my canned wine.

Hold my canned wine that I apparently sold to have enough money to make this incoherent mess.

Wait, he sold his winery?

I think he sold a stake in the winery to make that movie.

Yeah.

So I think Coppola wine is now in other hands.

And but on the plus side, the world has mega opalis, the story of Caesar Catalina, where John Voight tells Aubrey Plaza to look at his boner and then pulls the sheet aside to reveal a tiny bow and arrow, which he shoots her with and kills her with one shot.

Actually, something that happens in that movie.

At this point, I'm not convinced he made the Godfather.

Maybe he did.

I know.

There's no way.

He can't have.

He can't have made it.

I'm just glad that you don't see John Boyd's penis.

I'm just relieved to hear that.

Yeah, it is.

You do, for a second, think

he's going to move the sheet to reveal.

Even Coppola knows you'd rather die.

Than see a Republican's penis.

Yeah.

Oof.

What kind of sores and legions must be on that thing?

A Republican's penis?

What kind of.

Hey, but hey, we, listen, Megaopolis,

not a classic.

This movie, this movie.

I think it's a classic.

It's not a classic.

Yeah,

I guess like when they put it on HBO Max, it like immediately became the number one movie.

So like people love this thing.

It didn't get great reviews when it first came out.

Yeah, I think kind of a disappointment at the time, but just one of those movies that like stuck around.

I just know that all the girls that I was growing up with, because this came out in 98.

So I was like 12, which is the perfect age to to see this movie.

Being 12 in the 90s and seeing this was like, oh my God, I'm a witch.

Did you go to see it in the theater?

I don't remember if I saw it in the theater, but I do know I've probably seen it about 30 times.

Okay.

I love this movie.

I watch it every year.

I've watched it three times this year.

No.

three.

Probably going to watch it a fourth time.

Is it a seasonal thing?

Is it like as soon as the leaves start to turn?

I mean, I know that doesn't actually happen in LA, but like.

It is.

It really is.

Myself and Jenna, Purdy, and Laura Morton, we like get together, watch Practical Magic.

Okay.

They have like a jar of movies.

We have like a jar with like movies written down and pull one out.

Oh, that's fun.

And then sometimes we'll just keep pulling them until we find practical magic.

We want an excuse to do midnight margaritas.

Yeah.

Honestly, yeah.

Because you can't do it unless they're doing it in the movie.

Anyway.

Yes.

So yeah, let's start talking about this thing.

We open on an old-timey pilgrim village and they're hanging a witch.

And she

has the gift of magic, says the narrator.

And the witch kind of steps off

the hanging platform, and we see the rope break, and then all the villagers, like, like, scatter in fear.

This,

I was a little, do you think there was supposed to be a special effect here, and they just cheaped out?

Because the rope breaking doesn't seem like it would terror.

I was wondering why everyone was terrified of the rope breaking.

Well, I think it just confirmed that she was a witch and she was going to come for all of them because they were all like really getting off on her dying.

They were all excited about it.

Those Puritans love to hang a witch.

They love to hang a witch.

Yeah.

All she did was like, you know.

Fuck other people's husbands.

Yeah, that's what she's being hanged for.

They go pretty much.

But they'll have a lot of close-up shots of angry pilgrim wives during this.

Yeah, and then the men were all like, oh yeah.

So she is, so she is, she is pregnant, and she goes to live on an island, and her lover never comes.

And this is like part of a curse.

This is part of a curse on their family

that their family line cannot fall in love without some sort of horrible tragedy happening.

There's a lot of time jumping in this.

Then we go to kind of like the mom of the main characters, the main characters who will be Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kitman.

And she,

her husband dies, and then she dies, and it's all kind of portended by a beetle, a creepy, clicking beetle that is kind of the like harbinger of the curse.

And then

the two girls, the two sisters go to live with their magical witch aunts, played by Stalker Channing and Diane Weist.

This is just a plot of Sabrina the teenage witch.

This is a pretty one-for-one lift.

Sabrina going to live with two magical ants.

Anyway.

I didn't even really put that together.

I think that everything in this movie is like a power of twos.

Like there's kind of a, they, Sandra Bullock has two daughters.

One of them is, you know, kind of, they're all like replications of each other.

Yeah.

The line.

So yeah.

And then if you do three witches, then it's hocus pocus.

And, you know.

Sure.

You can't, you can't copy F everybody.

You got to do five witches.

I'm sorry.

Sabrina has two ants.

There's three hocus pocus.

You got a four or above.

I'm sorry.

Let's have an original number of witches, people.

Yeah, instead of a cat, you have to have a bunch of lizards.

We can't do any, you know.

Thank you.

No problem.

So we should say, you know, this movie kind of not great reviews at the time, middling Block's Office, but Stalker Channing, who plays one of the ants, did win a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for her performance.

Really?

Yeah.

Blockbuster Video had an award show for a while.

What?

Stalker Channing.

I had no idea.

One like something for this.

I don't know.

Best actress.

I mean, she's very good.

Both her and Diane Weist are really good.

I want all of the outfits that Stalker Channing wears are exactly what I will start dressing like in about 15 years.

That is big hat.

Start now.

Get giant hats.

Listen, the titties are still up.

We're not covering them up for a while.

It's like the legs of the titties are going to be out for 15 years and then everything goes into like closing sale.

You need a hat so big, people can't see the titties.

Yeah.

Yes, as we mentioned, Stalker Channing and Diane Weist dressed very outrageously in it.

A lot of giant hats.

I think these hats are great for the characters.

I think just technically we have to hear the worst hat sting,

even though I feel positively about the hats.

Okay.

Well, play it anyway.

I think it's the worst hat.

I just very much disagree.

I think they're good hats.

I'm saying I think they're good hats, but I'm saying, you know.

You have to, yeah.

Sure.

Thank you.

Great for the character, but man, these are some giant hats.

And they have like, in some seats, they have big, like, vaginal Georgia O'Keefe flowers on them.

Yeah, it's true.

So, yeah, we see the two, the two girls.

They're all like eating outside.

They're kind of like learning the like.

learning the ins and outs of being a witch.

I just wrote in my notes, cat on the table.

There's a cat on the table.

Yay.

I'm always like, is this my favorite movie now?

I see what everybody's so crazy about.

There's a cat on the table.

Yay.

Love that cat on the table.

I know.

There's another good cat that appears at the end of the movie that Nicole Kibman's carrying.

I think that's supposed to be the cat from the table.

Oh, it's a good black cat.

I love black cats.

My childhood cat, Lucky, was a black cat.

Oh, very nice.

Yeah, my sister's cat, Frankie.

Oh, yeah.

We all love Frankie.

Shout out to my nephew, Frank.

A legend.

Frankie's a legend.

He is a legend.

So we cut to a time when I think Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are supposed to be teenagers.

A lot of time jumping in this, a lot of unclear time jumping.

This teenager scene was pretty funny because it's like they just put big dumb glasses on Sandra Bullock to make her look kind of nerdy.

And it was like, we got a 40-year-old woman and some glasses.

Cool.

What is going on here?

Yeah, I think there's a lot of people.

Why are they sneaking out?

I don't get it.

Yeah, so like Nicole Kidman's running away with this dude.

She throws like an army sack of clothes over the balcony to run away with this dude.

That's just, you know, showing their character.

Nicole Kidman is the like the impulsive wild child.

Sandra Bullock just wants to be normal.

She says it many times.

She just wants to be normal.

So she said, so Nicole Kidman like leaves home to like party.

Sandra Bullock stays in their hometown

and meets a very handsome man who works at the farmer's market.

Hey, I think it's time for Hunk Watch.

It's Hunk Watch.

I really liked this nameless, characterless man that played her husband, who, spoiler alert, will go on to die.

He just, he seemed really nice.

And he's definitely, he's definitely from, he's definitely a guy from that thing.

I didn't, I couldn't clock the actor.

He was in

some kind of, oh, God, you know, what's the channel that Suits is on and Burn Notice?

USA.

Yeah, they were at work.

It was Royal Pains, I think is the name of the show that he was in.

But yeah, he's definitely hunky.

Very like, oh, that's a daddy.

And he works at the farmer's market.

I know.

He's a cutie.

He's real cute.

But he's definitely in the running for the hunk watch for me, but we'll.

We'll find out who my hunk was.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Great, great.

Two-part hunk watch on this show.

Yeah, it is a two-fer.

Furry with ads.

A lot of hunks in this.

A lot of hunks and practical magic.

So, yeah, so they get married.

They have kids.

But then, and she's, listen, look, she's got that normal life she always wanted, and she's not teaching the girls magic.

She's not going to teach the girls magic because she wants them to have a normal life.

But, oh, you know, okay, so I guess before we talk about what happened to the husband, we'll talk about what Nicole Kidman has been up to.

She is dancing around at a pool party that looks like the pool party from Boogie Nights.

Yes.

It's cool.

Yeah.

And they're playing a good needle drop here.

I think it's got to give it up.

But it's clearly one of those situations where no one knew what song was playing.

There's a lot of different dancing going on.

Yeah.

So she's like dancing with three dudes.

She's dancing with three hot guys.

But

the

man that she cannot resist is Jimmy Angelov, a guy from Transylvania who talks like Borat

and

who doesn't end up being a vampire, by the way.

If I was a guy, just a regular guy from Transylvania, I would be insulted by all these movies, assuming, because this guy turns out to be evil, of course.

He's the villain of the movie, and of course, the one Transylvanian actor in the movie.

I don't know if he is Transylvanian.

Oh, yeah, I don't know if he's...

Yeah.

But yeah, he's got a pretty heavy accent that sounds like a lot of different accents.

Jordan is right, though.

It is is offensive to all of Transylvania.

You know, it is.

Well, yeah, to have like, why are they always evil?

Like, there's definitely someone there who's like, I am a heart surgeon.

Yeah, also, I work with orphans.

I do pediatric brain surgery.

I'm a woman in STEM.

You're so brave.

We applaud your bravery.

Musical guest.

Transylvanian villain.

Honestly, that impression along with Monster Mash Guy are kind of

the same.

Oh, yeah.

I don't do a lot of voices.

I only do a couple.

Yeah.

Musical guest.

And it all turns into musical guests at a certain point.

So, so she's Nicole Kidman is hooking up with this guy, Jimmy Angelov, but we can tell he's trouble.

He wears a lot of rings.

He wears a lot of jewelry.

He makes a lot of weird comments.

More on him later.

So we go back to Sandra Bullock living her happy, normal life, and she hears the like clicking of the beetle, the beetle that is the like, the like harbinger of the death of a husband.

He's out doing his farmer's market stuff, and she's like tearing apart the house, trying to find the beetle.

Oh, yeah, the baseboards.

When she was

a good, this is a cool scene, and you're kind of like cutting back to him at the farmer's market,

you know, with, and us, the audience, we know that like something could happen here because we know about this like beetle curse.

And so he's like dodging all the, like there's the Tour de France just comes by.

Yeah, he's a little

main town.

Yeah, he's got a cart full of produce, and he's just walking in the middle of the road.

In the middle of the road.

And this is, okay.

So.

It's pretty suspenseful.

We have Sandra Bullock tearing up the boards looking for the beetle.

We have him, you know, walking around in the middle of the street.

Pretty suspenseful.

This is the music they play.

Matt, can you play the background music to this scene?

This movie...

This movie is so dedicated to chill vibes.

Even at the most suspenseful part, they just want you to feel like you're at a wine tasting all the time.

This is what I want playing at my dead husband's funeral sure

so they're playing this music and then bam our dude just gets hit by a fucking truck um hey man it's time to play our hot new sting

person in the road who the driver doesn't see

and he accidentally gets hit by a car

Look both ways, kids.

Look both ways.

It's true.

He's just, it's, this is the third movie movie of Halloween

where we've had to use this thing.

Do we think it's a horror movie, just trope like in all spooky movies, or do we think we're going to see this later on down the line?

I mean, I know it's in Meet Joe Black.

We should do that next.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Yeah, yeah.

If it's free without you.

I've seen that GIF looped a million times of

Brad Pitt or someone being bounced between five different cars like a pinball.

I like the part where he says, everything guan be irie.

Yeah, that is.

I haven't seen that movie oh it's great it's great and it's bad

um yeah i think it's just like plot-wise it's a way to kill a character that you it's like well it's an accident you know and you don't have to go into like who killed them or why it's just like hey you got hit by a car you know and then you can kind of go on with the movie um just because it's something that happens um

yeah illness is slow An illness death is usually a slow burn.

We got to get this plot moving on.

Sure, hit the fucking husband with the truck so we can get in the mystery cop from Arizona.

Who is my husband?

Well, Aiden Quinn.

Yeah, we'll get to his very strange plot line later.

So the girls go to live with the ants, but they are forbidden from practicing magic.

Well, the girls, you mean like Sandra Bullock's daughter?

Sandra Bullock's kids, yeah.

So Sandra Bullock has two kids, one of which is young Evan Rachel Wood.

They go to live with like the ants.

aunts.

So then Nicole Kidman, kind of hearing about the death of the husband, comes to visit Sandra Bullock.

This movie has a wild tone.

Like people...

It's one of those things where it's like the husband just died, and the scene we see is Nicole Kidman talking about how much she loves fucking Johnny Angelov

instead of dealing with the death of the husband.

It's very jarring.

And she says, we stay up all night worshiping each other like bats.

I know what you mean.

You mean you stay up all night like bats, but the way you said that makes it sound like bats stay up worshiping each other.

It's, yeah.

That is weird.

You don't know that they don't.

You know what?

I guess I don't.

I don't know what bat made.

I don't know what bats do when they stay up all night.

Maybe they are worshiping each other.

One time I was at camp and we did this thing where we'd sleep over in this giant like

teepee that they made for us.

It was like, and a bat got in there, and everyone else was fine with it.

And I wasn't, I was very scared of the

gross, they're so fucking gross.

Then my eardrum exploded.

I had an ear infection, and that's my story about bats.

Do you think they're related?

Did it, did it

sonic scream it uses to locate insects, bust your eardrum?

Well, now I think that that bat was up all night worshiping my eardrum.

Cube is probably up, yes, because as we know from that sentence, Nicole Kidman says, that makes sense.

Bats stay up all night worshiping each other.

Anyway, we go back to the town, as

happens to all the women in this family.

The townspeople gather in groups to make fun of them.

The townspeople, kids, and adults get together to point and yell things at them.

Yeah.

And so the little girls are like dealing with it.

She says to one of the like kids who's making fun of her, I hope you get chicken pox.

This leads to a very funny cut later where the kid does, in fact, have chickenpox.

So Sandra Bullock

gets a call from Nicole Kidman.

Her dude, Johnny Angelov, has been hitting her.

Sandra Bullock goes to whatever city Nicole Kidman is in and like finds her in a hotel.

She's got a big black eye.

And then she goes to pick her up and drive her home.

And Johnny Angelov takes them hostage.

And he's going to like, he's heating up his ring to brand her.

It is fucking terrifying.

Yeah, this scene in the car where it's Sandra Bullock has to drive while he's pretty much tormenting her sister in the back.

It's crazy.

Yeah, but they gave him like Belladonna, I guess is what she put him to sleep with when she called Sandra Bullock.

So he like kind of has a build-up to this stuff, I guess.

It's kind of hard to kill this guy, as we will discuss.

Yeah, no kidding.

So kind of what they do about it is they

he's like taking slugs off this bottle of tequila, which will come back later, and they like put this belladonna, belladonna, this like sleeping herb in it, and he like chugs it all, like finally,

uh, finally like passes out.

They think they kill him.

They

decide not to tell anybody about it.

It's kind of unclear why.

It seems like you have this out where they're like, the town thinks we're witches, we can't, but they're like, we can't do it, we can't tell anyone.

So they just take her back to the

to the like the the ants house and they want to do like a spell on him to bring him back.

Yeah.

Because they like, don't, there's like a warning about bringing people back from the dead, but they're like, we don't care.

We just want to bring him back so nobody, nobody.

Thinks you're murderers.

But I did think about this a little bit about like, you know, it's clearly self-defense, but then I'm like, oh, the inconvenience of court in another state.

Oh, I'm sure.

Because they're not even from that state where they have to, so they're going to have to travel back to the place where they murdered this guy.

It's going to, yeah, just do a spell and bring him back from the dead.

It's more convenient to bring him back from the dead than it is to have all these court dates.

Yes,

it's less inconvenient.

And maybe in 2024, you could probably do it on Zoom, so it's probably a little more convenient.

This is, you know, mid-90s.

So you probably are doing a lot of travel.

So yeah, just bring the fucking guy back from the dead.

They put a whipped cream pentagram on his face.

They put a whipped cream pentagram in him.

That's kind of cute.

That's kind of fun when the like, I like the stuff in this movie when it's like the mundane, like house stuff kind of meets the witch stuff.

That's always really fun.

They get a whipped cream pentagram on him.

And

before they, so they're about to put some needles in his eyes.

They're about to put these needles in his eyes.

And

he wakes up and starts screaming at Nicole Kidman, I want you to be

my wife.

It's so

borat, Borat stole the my wife from this guy.

Sasha Bear and Co., and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Yeah.

Johnny Angelov walked so you could run.

I did not know that his name was Angelov.

I thought it was D'Angelo.

Oh, I could also be wrong.

I wrote down Johnny Angelov, but you know.

I mean, that's probably the right one, but I was like, D'Angelo is what I thought his name was.

No, like the RB star D'Angelo.

Yes, I don't know.

D'Angelo would never do anything like this.

He would never.

Those cum gutters would never hurt me.

No, of course not.

No, a man with cum gutters like that

could never, could never do anything wrong.

No.

So then, so yeah, so he like pops up and starts asking her to be his wife, his wife.

And they hit him with a pan and bury him.

Okay, so then, so they just, yeah, so they go from just like, we can't let anybody, we can't let anybody find out we killed him.

It's like, fuck it, just bury him in the yard.

Like, it's very much.

And then they bury him in the backyard, but then all these roses like start like

very rapidly growing over the grave overnight.

Yeah,

he's kind of he has the spell on him already.

So it's like, you know, so like bad shit's going to happen.

Nicole Kidman then comes to the PTA meeting with Sandra Bullock.

And the PTA meeting cannot believe she's here.

This woman is here.

And they start whispering that she has a snake tattoo and one on her boob.

Nicole Kidman is not dressed that scandalously.

It's one of those, and like,

and it's like the town is just like cartoonishly evil and they just hate her, but she's like, woo, and starts doing a dance in the PTA meeting and then just sits down and attends the PTA meeting.

With Sandra Bullock, because also I think we should mention the fabulous store that Sandra Bullock's character like runs.

She's got this like apothecary thing.

It's like a, you know, oceanside town.

I don't know.

It feels like it could be in upstate something.

Or yeah.

I don't know.

It's kind of Cape Cape Cotty to me, Cape Coddy.

It's pretty.

It ended up pretty, yeah.

But yeah, the little store is like everything in the 90s looked like that little store.

I feel like these little boutique stores all looked completely white, like you're at Pottery Barn.

It's got to be Monterey, though, right?

I don't know.

I think so.

I think she's in Los Angeles with Angelov.

Isn't that where they are?

I thought it was Arizona, is what I heard.

Oh, so our dude, our dude comes from Arizona, our dude later, Aiden Quinn.

But I think there's some sort of weird thing where maybe he's there because Sandra Bullet put a spell on him, and they're like, why'd you come from Arizona anyway?

But you never see them get on a plane.

They're driving everywhere.

Yeah, a lot of driving.

So yeah, it could be Monterey.

It's got a little bit of a big little lies feeling to it.

Exactly.

That's exactly right.

Very true.

Wouldn't that be funny if it was just big little lies was happening at the same time?

Ooh, with witch stuff.

Yeah, well, there's two witches.

Oh, but then Nicole Kidman would have to play two different people.

She could do it.

Let her do it.

She could do it.

Where's Nicole Kidman's clumps?

Make Nicole Kidman do a clump where she plays everyone.

Yeah, well, it's like it's the same wig, too.

So she could just

hop back and forth.

Okay, so then we have,

so everything's, yeah, so I mean, I love it.

The phone tree.

Then she gets, we get the phone tree, which comes back later.

We get the phone tree at the at the PTA meeting.

This will be

instrumental in the climax.

Yeah, it's super cute.

I will say that, like,

this movie...

ping-pongs around so wildly to all this stuff.

And it's like, it was a novel.

So you tell it's one of those things where they're trying to get in all the stuff from the novel.

And they have two stars.

I know that it was a novel.

That's interesting.

I kind of like,

when I'm like, like, what's happening in this thing?

Like, that to me is always the explanation: they're just being so

slavish to the novel.

And also, they have two stars, you know.

So, like,

you know, one of these actors can't be the supporting character.

They both need big plots.

But I am just like,

I just want this to be about Sandra Bullock running this store and finding a new love.

I wanted her to be like running the store and about her second act in life.

Like, when it goes to the murder stuff and the like ghost stuff,

yeah.

It, I'm always like, what's this movie?

Anyway, I, you know, anything, anything with the store, anything with her, like, funny, like, employees at the store is really good.

You hate the magic, you love the practicality.

I'm more of a practical guy.

I'm less of a magic guy.

Just give me a movie called Practical.

And it's about

invoicing.

It's about invoicing for a lotion store.

That's the movie I want to watch.

Every fall when the leaves turn.

That's so funny.

That is so you, Jordan.

Give me that.

Give me that movie.

Meanwhile, I want to follow Nicole Kibman around while she makes bad mistakes.

Sure, while she creates zombies.

Whoops.

Like, yeah, exactly.

That would be my story.

I would definitely be the Nicole Kibman in this story.

After that, we get the Midnight Margarita scene.

Her aunts are up doing

like you think they're doing a spell, but they're actually doing margaritas.

And there's this,

you know, kind of dance around music montage to you put the lime in the coconut.

This is very fun.

It's in a lot of, like, if you go on Instagram, if this is in your algorithm, you can be a friend of mine because that clip of the, of the drinking margaritas thing, that's in my timeline constantly.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And an iconic scene, to be sure.

So then after this scene, after they all kind of wake up for midnight margaritas, that's when we have

the cop come in.

This is Aiden Quinn.

Is it time for Honk Watch Part 2?

It's Honk Watch.

Honk Watch 2's Secret of the Ooze.

He said...

Is that

a second ninja turtle?

There's a second ninja turtle movie, Secret of the Ooze.

Did you think he was talking about calm?

Yeah.

Ooze can be calm.

I don't know.

That was the mutagen that changes animals into mutants anyway.

Sure.

There's a lot of good oozes out there.

Had a lot of crushes.

Like, I had a crush on him when he did Benny and June, too.

That's the first

time I ever saw him, and I was like, oh, he's so dreamy.

But his chemistry with Sandra Bullock in this movie is like off the charts.

It's really hot.

They stand so close to each other all the time.

I know.

And he's a cop investigating a murder.

He's just always nose to nose with her.

His weird behavior is kind of explained, I guess, by the fact that you learn later that Sandra Bullock maybe like lured him there with a spell.

But every scene, I'm like, why is he acting like he's acting so weird?

He's investigating a murder, but he just makes pancakes with their kids.

It's insane behavior.

It's insane behavior.

And then, yeah, I guess we learn later that she like summoned the perfect man with a spell.

So I'm like, she got the

ball.

Well,

it was a spell that she did as a little girl so that she'd never fall in love.

Right.

Like, she's like, the most perfect man I'll create.

That's the only man I'll really fall in love with.

But then her aunts had put a spell on her to fall in love with Produce Guy.

Yeah, a lot of dueling spells in this.

Yeah.

Which I thought that love spells were like things you can't do in magic.

Like in a lot of movies, it's like you cannot make someone fall in love with you with a spell.

Yeah.

But they're bringing people back from the dead.

You're not supposed to do that either.

So I guess these are just different kinds of witches.

And there's no Satan.

Yeah, but there doesn't seem to to be any Satan.

Well, she says it.

She's like, there is no Satan in the craft.

And I was like, well, then who is it then?

Like, what's in there?

They're really Christian witches.

There's only Christ.

It's boring Christian witches.

Yeah.

So, so this cop, he's sniffing around the crime, standing super close to Sandra Bullock.

Okay.

There's he goes into her store.

Yeah.

There's a there's a joke that I need us to talk too much about.

Okay.

This blue, I, this,

I had to rewind this five times.

Okay, here's what happens.

Can someone explain this joke to me?

Okay.

An old guy comes into the lotion store.

He says something along the lines of,

this didn't work.

I'm, I still have irritation on my scalp.

And Sandra Bullock is like, you're not supposed to put it there.

And he's like, what do you mean?

He's like, she's like, wink, wink, you're not supposed to put it there.

And he's like, oh, and turns around and leaves.

She says it in a way like, it goes on your dick or it goes up your ass.

Like, that seems to be what she's hinting at.

But what is this?

What did she sell him?

I don't remember that he said.

It doesn't go on your scalp.

Yeah.

I think that happens.

She says that?

Like the scalp thing?

I thought, okay, okay, when I watched it, and sometimes my brain will just do things for me, and I don't really make decisions on it.

But I thought he was saying it doesn't work.

I put it on my scalp.

But she goes, you don't put it on your scalp.

You put it.

Right.

I think it was supposed to be for erectile dysfunction.

I think it was supposed to be

something that made your dick.

I heard a line.

Because, right, because that's the...

That makes sense.

Yeah.

But the line about my, I still have irritation on my, anyway.

I didn't know what.

I guess I got to re-listen to that joke, but that's what I thought.

Here's my guess.

Yeah, Matt, what do you got?

I think it said on the back of the bottle, put it on your head.

And they put a little winky emoji.

But what it was.

Well, okay, well, that's irresponsible labeling.

And also, we need to know that as the audience.

It just,

anyway, drove me insane.

It's not a great joke.

No.

It seems like there's a lot of Sandra Bullock riffing in this.

It seems like,

anyway, and like, you know, Sandra Bullock,

a star,

one of our fucking movie stars.

Maybe we don't let everybody riff.

Maybe we don't let everybody riff.

Yeah, that's true.

Not everyone can do it.

So we get this scene where the cop comes over, starts making pancakes with the kids while also grilling Sandra Bullock about the murder.

Nicole Kidman puts a like poison in the syrup that they're going to give him because they're going going to eat pancakes together.

And they're going to kill the cop?

What the fuck?

I guess, yeah, I know.

They're just like,

in for a penny, in for a pound.

But the kids kind of like recognize that he and Sandra Bullock are like a thing.

So they like throw the syrup in the ocean.

This is kind of cute.

And then

a frog barfs up Johnny

Angelov's ring.

And then the cop is kind of onto him because the frog barfed up the ring.

I know.

Yeah, that's kind of a funny, like, funny cue.

And he acted like it was totally natural, though.

Like, this, they're like looking at this frog who's being weird.

Yeah.

But the fact that they're all fascinated by this frog, I would do that too.

If I ever see a lizard or a frog or something, I get so stoked.

I don't know what that's about.

It's fun.

They're fun to see.

I know.

Los Angeles has so many lizards.

I love that about this place.

It's nice.

It's always nice to see a lizard.

Like like when their little tails come off.

I love it.

That's right.

But yeah, so they're staring at this frog and he barfs up a ring and he goes, what are you two playing at?

I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Yeah, I know.

And the fact that he's like, I've solved the murder.

A frog barfed up a ring.

Yeah, how are you going to go tell the, like, I love the idea of him going on CSI Arizona and being like.

The frog barfed up a ring.

Well, what does that mean?

That means they murdered him.

That means they're guilty.

To who?

Who does that mean that to?

Yeah, and the fact that he knows it's Johnny's ring immediately,

it's such a weird leap.

Well, I think he's possibly been someone who has used that ring to do what he was going to do.

Oh, that's right.

So I guess, yeah, I guess we do know that he brands people with the ring.

So maybe they know they're already on the lookout.

Okay, that makes sense.

So Sandra Bullock goes to confess, but they just end up making out.

And then we learned that Nicole Kidman,

they've got chemistry, they really do.

Woo!

Um, Nicole Kidman, uh, we go back and she's kind of like tied up exorcist style, she's got the demon in her.

Johnny is trying to like get out through her.

Nicole Kidman is so fucking great at all the possession stuff in this.

Make a make a Nicole Kidman exorcism movie, she's so good.

Um, I want to see Nicole Kidman possessed by all kinds of demons for the duration of the film.

She's like a really remarkable physical actress, yeah.

She is, she's great, she's so great.

Yeah, she's definitely one of my top favorite actresses of all time.

And you can like see why she's such a meme, right?

Like she's, you know, arguably the most gift actor of our generation, G-I-F-D.

And but yeah, because she's like so expressive.

Also the hands when she was clapping at the Oscars.

Oh, yeah, that too.

Yeah,

so weird looking.

I remember that.

Yes, truly, truly one of the greats.

So yeah, so she's got a demon and they've got to get it out.

And we'll talk about how they do that when we come back.

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We're talking about the thrilling conclusion of practical magic.

Emily, you wanted to have a word about the house that this takes place in, the mansion.

It's the most beautiful house.

Like, I've got, I do think we should do it.

it's house watch sometime with certain movies because, like, the home alone house, I don't know, everybody's obsessed with that, but the practical magic house was like built from scratch.

They, like, built that house for the movie and then tore it down.

Oh, wow.

Isn't that sad?

But it's so gorgeous.

It's like my dream house for sure.

I feel like that's, I'm definitely of that 90s kind of era.

It's got a little greenhouse where they grow like the witch herbs.

That's very fun.

Nobody's bedroom was really featured, though.

Nobody, it's like their bedroom that we find Nicole Kibben in is two twin beds in an attic, like a dusty attic.

And you're like, what the fuck bedroom situation is this?

Yeah, that is weird.

And I feel like we see the little girls sleeping in the attic a lot.

Anyway, yeah.

It's like, look, the attic is

proper rooms here.

Sure, yeah.

I know, yeah.

Beautiful antiques everywhere.

Yeah, it is.

It's great.

It's stunning.

But also, on Etsy, there's somebody who 3D prints replicas of the house.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And I think I'm going to get one.

They're kind of pricey, though.

They're like a hundred-something bucks, but I'm like, and they're like, you know, like dollhouse size.

But I'm like, I want one of those.

Yeah.

I would love to go into the world of practical magic merch.

I wonder, I wonder, I'm sure there's all kinds of stuff out there.

Oh, yeah.

You can buy a frog that barfs a ring.

Honestly, I want a pet so bad right now, I would take a frog that barfs rings like any day.

That would be fun.

Wouldn't that be fun?

Have a little frog in a terrarium?

You could

stink.

You could pull the do they smell bad?

Yeah, well, I mean, just like water that sits all day usually ends up stinking, you know.

You got flies in the fridge, I guess.

Oh, they ain't the fridge.

They everywhere else.

Okay.

No, I'm kidding.

Just roaches.

Okay.

The frog will eat a roach, right?

Yeah, maybe.

I bet they will.

I bet they will.

Okay.

Do cats eat roaches?

Bug Bug has killed a lot of things in her day.

Bug has killed some roaches.

That's how she got her name.

She loves to kill bugs when she was smaller.

Now she doesn't give a shit.

Too old.

Now I need a cat.

Yeah, Bugs killed some lizards.

Yeah.

She, you know,

quite the killer back in her day.

Yeah, she's a legend.

The Nicole Kidman of cats.

Ah, yes.

Okay, so Nicole Kidman, she's possessed.

We got to get Johnny out of her.

So Sandra Bullock uses the phone tree, the phone tree we learned about in the PTA meeting, to call the women of the neighborhood to come by and help with this seance.

Now,

this is a fascinating scene that they never show us.

Okay, the music in this movie.

It's great.

It's on theme.

Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Crowe, Stevie Nicks featuring Cheryl Crowe.

Yep.

It's all great.

It's so oppressive to like the scenes.

There's so many montages in this.

You have two movie stars.

Let them act.

You don't need to cover them with music all the time.

And you have this fascinating thing going on, which is this town that hates witches has to band together to fight this guy using witchcraft.

Yeah.

And we just see her calling them on the phone tree while this song plays and then they all just show up.

What happened?

What did she say?

And there's a great metaphor here.

We all band together.

Like, anyway, this, like, there's so many great scenes this movie doesn't show because it's doing a fucking montage anyway.

Rant over, but I was like, they're all here, and they're just, and this is a cool scene anyway.

Um, let's just have scenes in your movie.

Make have a movie have scenes, anyway.

Um, boy, I think I've, it's, I

hear people, I've I've heard this criticism before about this movie, but I think it's,

I have no issues with this movie

at all.

And I understand.

And obviously, like, you're in the pocket for it.

And there are, like, many, many wonderful things about this movie, which I will enumerate later in my final review.

Also, I love montages.

Montages are great.

And, like, the, yeah, they are.

Yeah.

But I think that, like,

like

they should support the thing.

They shouldn't tell the story.

They should make you and you know, like all the music is great and there's so much fun.

Midnight Margarita, that's great.

But

I don't know.

It felt like they were like

using the music to tell a story that you can use writing and acting for.

Anyway.

All right.

Okay.

Rant over.

Rant over.

We have them kind of

joining together to do this exorcism.

There's kind of a funny scene.

Everybody needs a broom.

A woman brings a Dustbuster.

That's good.

But when they do the broom circle, Dustbuster woman isn't there.

That could be anyway.

She just leaves.

They do this like exorcism using all the brooms.

They pull Johnny out of Nicole Kidman and they sweep him out of the house.

They use the brooms to like sweep his ashes out of the house.

And they pour this potion onto his grave.

So he, you know, can't rise again.

And at the end, when everything's wrapping up, our boy, Aiden Quinn, shows up and says that he wants to be with Sandra Bullock, and she kind of confesses about the, like,

she confesses about the, like, spell.

And in a way, it's like, hey, I actually created this spell to find, like, the perfect man that doesn't exist.

One blue eye, one green eye.

He can flip pancakes.

Which,

not asking for much, in my opinion.

Yeah, I know.

It is two things that, like, are, I guess the I thing is a little bit uncommon, but it doesn't rule out everyone.

But yeah, no, that's true.

The I I thing is uncommon, but just like he can ride a horse backwards and flip pancakes.

I think we could find that guy.

Yeah, that guy exists.

If she wanted to find no guy ever, she should have written, find me a guy who's been to therapy.

So he shows up.

He's in.

He says, like, you know, she kind of confesses about the curse.

He's like, well, I don't believe in curses.

So everything's all good there.

And then we go to the like town Halloween party and

the whole witch family, they're dressed as witches.

There was a rumor in the town that they can jump off the roof and fly.

And then

they do it.

And the town is delighted.

And that is the end of practical magic.

So at the end of that movie, I was like, how, so the curse is gone because this guy doesn't believe in it.

So you're saying,

but her husband probably didn't know about it.

if she was trying to be, so it's like his husband was asked, her first husband was asking for it because he believed in it.

I guess.

Yeah, I know.

Oh, and Matt,

we should point out, has put on bunny dealie bobs on his head for some reason.

So that's going on.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry.

I just saw them here and I just wanted to get a little bit more.

You want to pull focus.

I get it.

Just a little bit more sick.

They are my daughter's bunny ears.

I don't just own them for myself, Jordan.

Well, hey, Matt,

you look sick as in sick as hell, bro.

Hell yeah.

Because those are fucking awesome, dealie bobbers.

We're going to rank this movie on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials, but first we're going to talk about the best lines in the movie.

I'll go first.

My best line

is when in kind of Nicole Kidman and Johnny's, like the first part of their torrent affair, he says something so fucking insanely creepy that if you didn't think this guy was going to be the villain,

you're positive now.

Matt, can you play this?

I mean, I just have to go to the bathroom.

Let's go together.

Let's go together.

Let's go to the bathroom and I will watch you poop.

I am normal.

I just want to see the pee-pee come out.

I want to know where the pee-pee comes from.

I don't understand.

There's a poo-poo hole.

And there is the pussy hole.

But where is the peepee?

I must, I must know.

I must see your shits if you are to become my wife.

Emily, what do you got as far as best lines go?

All right.

So

when Aiden Quinn is kind of grilling Sandra Bullock on where

Devangelo Diablo, I have Dangolo written in the fucking dock.

I don't know why.

Dangolo is a better name for this guy.

Dangolo is what we're going to call him.

He's asking,

did you kill him?

But the thing is, when she

created him in that, well, not like summoned him in that spell, there's something about it where she cannot lie to him.

Like there's something she just like can't lie.

So she has to make up things to kind of, you know, work around the lying.

So she tells the truth, but it's funny.

Did you or your sister kill James Angelo?

Oh, yeah, a couple of times.

I just like that one.

That's fun.

They're technically because she's telling the cusby, they zombied him and then they hit him.

So exactly.

So I liked it.

I don't know.

I just thought that was cute.

It is cute.

All right.

We're going to rank Practical Magic on a scale of one to ten Super Loud Commercials Uwimikumek.

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We're going to rank practical magic on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials.

Matt, I'll let you go first, and Emily, you can bring it home.

Okay.

I give this a seven.

I enjoyed it a lot.

It's one of those movies that I only saw a little bit of as a kid.

And I remember being kind of turned off by the lime in the coconut scene because I was like, I'm a boy.

This is for girls.

And then later in life, when I a boy would never put a lime in a coconut, yeah, no, straight into the mouth.

Shout out to Keila.

No, and then later in life, when I like, you know, started loving women,

I decided, I don't, I don't know.

You decided to put your lime in a coconut.

I decided to put lime in a coconut, and I was like, you know, this is a really good movie.

It lost only one point

because

I do not understand

the attraction to Aiden Quinn.

He is the weirdest

leading man I've ever seen.

He just looks like a normal guy, which I'm fine with.

Shout out to Norm Norms.

We're out here,

you know, not being in Hollywood movies, but I was just very confused because I was like.

That's so interesting.

I think he is so handsome.

What part?

Okay, I think he's very handsome looking.

The hair is great.

The voice is like very sexy.

He's got all that's normal.

Everything you said is just normal.

Normal hair, normal voice.

No,

I think he's very handsome.

I disagree.

I think he's a very good-looking guy.

Well, to eat their own, but I still give it a strong scent.

Also, I loved Aiden Quinn's Western-style blazer that he wears in this movie.

Oh, yeah, he looks great.

They really dress him as like Arizona cop.

This man's from Tucson.

This is the normal guy in Tucson.

So now I'm like on eBay looking for Western-style blazers.

Do you want anything good?

Not that it will fit me, but I think that there's one back home that I used to wear that was my dad's, and it was like this dark green corduroy blazer that had that kind of Western like divot thing in the shoulder and stuff.

I'm going to see if he still got it.

Jordan, it's your turn.

Yes.

So

like...

Witches and Covens, they're powerful metaphors, right?

They can be very meaningful.

And like we, as a culture, in 2024, we have so much witch shit all the time.

Like we have so much witch media and we have so many witch memes.

And like

if you if you draw strength from the like story of witches and covens,

you've got so much stuff that you can ingest.

But it wasn't always like that, you know?

Like when this came out, the idea of like a positive witch story and a positive coven story are like they're probably pretty rare like we had the craft all the willow stuff in buffy like but it's like focus pocus focus pocus so yeah it's kind of like a new idea and it's a kind of a new idea of telling a like witch story where like a witch isn't bad it equals strength and it's like which you know people people who society kind of denigrates can all kind of like come together and make this coven and get power from each other.

It's a very like beautiful idea.

And I know like why people are so drawn to it.

I think that this movie itself,

watching it for the first time in 2024 is a little janky.

I think that there's some like, it feels like kind of cobbled together.

It feels like they tried to add too many plots.

So it's like the movie itself kind of like frustrated me in parts.

But like I'm going to say it's a five, but I get it.

It's a five, but I totally understand why this movie like was impactful at the time.

And I think they could probably kill the sequel.

Not kill it as in not do it, but in make it a really great movie because, you know, we've kind of identified what people like about this.

And two of the greatest stars ever to be in movies will be in it.

Hell yeah.

Yeah, fingers crossed for the sequel.

Emily, what do you got?

I'm giving it an eight.

I love this movie.

I think that the vibes in this movie are just like unmatched.

There's just, it makes you feel like it's, like you're excited for it to be fall.

And

I don't know.

I think it's very glamorous, too.

I love the aesthetic of everything, all the costumes, the hair.

I've been trying to get my hair to look like Nicole Kidman from this movie for years.

My hair will not grow fast enough because it's so long.

They have this gorgeous long hair.

I think the romance is really sexy in it.

The chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Aiden Quinn is hot.

I like the adventure element of things.

I don't know.

I have a blast with this movie, but I totally get it.

I guess I like when things meander because I tend to meander.

So

I'm giving it an eight.

I'll probably watch it again before Halloween.

Like, I love it.

Well, that was our review of Practical Magic.

Before we go, any plugs on anybody?

I'm going to have more witchy Phlegmgems stuff out on my Etsy store.

I make jewelry and stuff, but everything's very practical magic inspired right now.

So if you want to go check that out, it's just Phlegmgems on Etsy.

It's like my last name, how you spell it.

Grab some jewelry, feed it to a frog.

Yeah!

Hey, on Saturday, November 2nd, if you're in the LA area, I am going to be at Revenge of Comics and Pinball for their block party event.

Free for everybody, 11 to 6.

I'll be there signing books.

And Jesse Thorne and I are going to do a little mini micro Jordan Jesse go for people there.

So if you want to see me and and Jesse Thorne do a wee little version of our podcast and get a bunch of books signed, go to the Revenge of Comics Creators Block Party.

That is Saturday, November 2nd, 11 to 6.

Free for everybody.

I'll be there, but also like so many fucking cool comics people will be there.

Brian Michael Bendis, Josh Gadd's going to be there.

Patton Oswald, Hannah Rose May, all kinds of cool people.

Signing books.

Good times, free podcasts.

I think there will be a food truck.

There's probably going to be a food truck.

All right.

That concludes Halloween.

Tune in next week when our movie will be the non-horror movie:

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, starring Matthew McConaughey.

This is Matt.

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