postyX - January 25, 2026Maple Syrup & Mayhem： Reviewing Man in the High Castle S1Ep2： Snowed in edition
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 19 minutes
Words per Minute
96.78108
Summary
The Man in the High Castle is a novel by Philip K. Dick based on the novel by the same name written in the late 20th century. It's a dystopian novel that tells the story of what would happen if the Nazis and Japanese had won World War II.
Transcript
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You are not born into this earth to be a slave to the Jews and their puppets.
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You are not born into this earth as an alien man.
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You are made in the image of God, to conquer it, to rule it, to have dominion over it.
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Immigrants to this country today are way more educated on average than the Canadians who are already here.
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Sometimes people are treated really badly because of the color of their skin, especially if it's not white.
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We're back and we are going to watch, if I can get it going, yes, it worked, we're going
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to watch the second episode of, oh my god, what the hell happened here?
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The Man in the High Castle, because we are snowed in in Unterrible here.
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Actually, I think most of the, probably U.S. and Eastern Canada, Central to Eastern Canada
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So, as long as we still have internet, I figured there's really not much else I can do right
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Where I am, it's like blizzards and sea and, you know, everything.
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So, and why would, I mean, why would you want to?
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So, if you watched this last week, basically, I'm just going to do a recap quickly about
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It's basically as if, hey, hey Lee, happy snow day.
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It's basically if the Nazis and Japanese had won World War II.
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It's kind of a, they call it a dystopian kind of novel, but I actually don't think it's
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I think it's more utopian if you're on our side of the fence.
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Of course, it's trying to make it look like it is, it would have been a terrible thing
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But this came out prior to the COVID shenanigans and stuff like that.
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So, like after you've seen the tyranny that COVID put on, this is like, you look at this
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So, anyways, I'm going to shut up for a few minutes, a few minutes, maybe.
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Yeah, I can't use, I have to find it on the internet, you know, semi-legally.
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Because the Amazon Prime that I pay for will not allow you to screen, you know, stream or
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I just want to say the kind of Nazi Japanese mixture flag was kind of cool.
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Not that I want to partner with them, but I thought the fact that they use that kind of stuff in here was kind of cool.
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So this is the Jewish boyfriend of the lady that ran off with the film from the first episode.
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It's an episode where she, I guess it's in the book.
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It's I believe it's a picture, a magazine or a book.
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But here they've made it like a film that shows if the allies had one.
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The Japanese know they live in, I guess, San Francisco or something like that.
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So it's Japanese controlled and now they're arresting him.
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So if you remember in the last episode, she met this guy and there was a little kind of Easter egg, I guess, for everybody that he is actually working with the Nazis.
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Even though he was pretending to be trying to illegally transport or transport illegal products across the border, so it would seem.
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Yeah, you don't get sunrises like this back in Manhattan.
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that waterfall is you're gonna see it right here it's coming up I think I'm a
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little bit ahead watching it over here but it's wild like this is crazy that
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waterfall like it almost looks like I want to know where I'm trying to figure
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out where it is but maybe it's not supposed to represent the exact demo
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demographics of the United States but I'm not sure
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not really a sunrise diner is it I guess not I do have one question for you what's
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that is there a mr. Trudy there's a Frank Wow he's shooting a shot already man he
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just met her yesterday see your husband that's two questions my turn what's a
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guy like you doing driving the truck ask me something else
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I'm just following in my father's footsteps what would you like to do
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what do you mean with your life if he could do anything but I can't come on
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legit sounds like me when people ask me what you want to do with your life
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anything else but it doesn't matter what I'm doing I'll always probably say that
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so thanks for the sunrise where are you going pay you back wish me luck
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good morning you want to eat you got to pay first sign in the window says you need a waitress
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you planning on staying here I don't know I could use a job I'll think about it let's
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never think about you got a job and I need one let's all play yes my game
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mr. Blake call came in for you when a few minutes ago no message
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what shall we do after school today morning mother morning Thomas morning
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we all ready for the day ahead yes and why is your textbook open the breakfast table
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I'm sorry father I have a test today you study last night I did it's just there's this boy Randolph I
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don't want him to get high score competition is healthy he's just so annoying I mean where's his hair
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passes caller challenges teachers in class nonconformist I'm proud of it makes negative comments about the school all the time
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why do you want to succeed son why do you want to do well at school
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to make my family proud to bring honor to my school
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to serve my country your goals are directed outward a boy like Randolph wants only to cry
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I freaking love this actor he's like so I don't know I just love him Rupert Sewell I can't remember what his name is but he's really good especially in these kind of movies he plays a really good Nazi
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the decadence ruined this country before the war
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I didn't realize that there's going to be stupid commercials on this
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and you don't have to deal with the ads and stuff like that
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we believe a courier is carrying some cargo from San Francisco
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now we don't know if she's headed to Cannon City
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but you're reporting immediately if you see her
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see that's the connection with her new little flame
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that's why I guess that's what brings these two characters together
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you're performing a great service for the fatherland
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We've examined the records of grandfather, Sheldon Frink.
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My grandmother was Christian. So were my mother and father.
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But our racial laws are now aligned with the Reich, so...
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but also your sister, Laura, and her children, too.
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See, even the Japanese don't like the Jews, either, so...
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Well, maybe they're not very accepting, but they're very polite.
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Trudy Walker gave it to your girlfriend, who has now fled.
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She took off from the San Francisco area, just to do a quick summary for those who maybe didn't watch the first one.
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She took off from the San Francisco area with this film that the Japanese are harassing her Jewish boyfriend for.
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There's like a central area in the U.S. called like the...
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I can't remember the word they use, but it's basically not controlled by anyone.
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But yeah, it's where there's no control of from either side.
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But everybody's kind of just ruling themselves.
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She's trying to hide out from the Japanese people who want that film.
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And I'm assuming the Nazis also want that film,
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because the premise is that it shows what it was like if they didn't win.
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So I guess it's something like most governments they want to hide, right?
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It's very, very similar kind of mentality or government control as the book or movie 1984.
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I haven't seen one of those since I was a little girl.
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You can find a lot of interesting things in the neutral zone.
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I just want to say that I do appreciate that they made the Nazis good looking.
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So true to form, like at least they didn't stretch too far away from the true, you know, the truth of the matter that they weren't like massively obese, you know, neck beards and stuff like that.
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So I'm actually rather impressed that they did stick with that at least.
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Japanese women aren't easily discouraged and they slam at those steel monsters as though they were beating up their hoods.
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Detectives Foreman and Decker investigating for the Reich police.
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4,000 marks had been reported missing from the payroll at 123rd Street Agricultural Trust.
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Just wanted to mention that October is a great month to be born.
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I think everybody who is born in October is super, super special and awesome, unless you're like a liberal or something like that.
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But anybody on our side who's born in October is definitely the cream of the crop.
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Just saying, I have no, I'm not biased or anything.
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The lock's not much good if just about anyone has access to the key.
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Stealing money from the trust, why, that's like stealing from the Reich itself.
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We are grateful to you for agreeing to this meeting.
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The visit of the Crown Prince and Princess tomorrow.
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So just so you're clear on this, this is the actual Japanese building in the United States,
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but like Japanese controlled area, because you may think it's Japan.
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They're having a visit from the Japanese Crown Prince and Princess, I believe.
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We understand you've arrested suspects, smuggling subversive films, ones produced by the so-called man in the High Castle before his death.
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We've heard rumors the man in the High Castle is still alive.
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We understand a fore suspect fled with the films they were smuggling.
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The Fuela has decreed these films be confiscated.
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Goddamn, she's got them both after her. Look out, girly.
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We recognize the sovereignty as the Pacific States, Minister.
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There are no particles that promote the control their face.
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It says all life under the sun is futile, pointless.
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So we should dedicate our life to what's beyond the sun.
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beyond which there's only a duty to one's country,
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So I'm assuming that Bibles are legal on either side,
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and this is why this is kind of like a contraband or whatever to get a Bible.
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is I actually had a piece of jewelry made out of a Reichsmark coin from that period.
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It was kind of cool, actually, just as a side note.
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But, yeah, I believe that he's giving her a hint to go to a bookstore
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because the actual Bible is considered contraband.
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And I'm guessing it's because of the stories in it
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could make films of such sophistication if he made.
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The Fuhrer is not inclined to hide all its session.
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so I'm guessing these are like modern day Antifa and trying to you know ambush
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the ice agents or the good guys this kind of reminds me of
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I honestly thought he was gonna shoot me in my head I was kind of like anticipating that
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Mr. Wyndham Mattson sir hey good morning Ed how's your grandfather it's fine sir thank you
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now this dysgenic looking fuck you're gonna see here don't you're don't worry you're not crazy
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you have seen him in other movies before for some reason like the ugliest actor well one of the
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ugliest actors I've come across seems to be in a lot of different movies and I'm not sure why maybe
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he is a superior actor but he's always playing these peripheral roles in different TVs and it's
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like the one face that well you'll always have in the back of your head and you're like I know that
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person from somewhere but you can never quite figure it out yeah it's not you you're not crazy
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that's that's just this guy hey that should have two more cases on it what can I help you with
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it's Frank Frank sir I was wondering if he phoned in sick today no he hasn't it's just that his phone
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doesn't pick up you mind if I check to see if he's okay you can dock my pay of course go on thank
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it's okay I'm a friend I gave that film to Trudy Walker and you're definitely not a friend
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you got to tell him I have nothing to do with this I'd save you if I could I can't
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and you know why he can't save you get this through your head get this through your head
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you Jew motherfucker you you only exist out here because of me I try to inject that soundbite in
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every possible stream because it's one of my favorite
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oh Randall I want your type of freedom I don't want anything
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there's things worth more than your life and you know it
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see I like when you see things like that because like these shows all these shows that happened before the tyranny that was you know the convict scheme
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they're basically giving you like and these books that were written like well this one was probably written maybe in the 60s between the 60s and 80s
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you can see this is the attitude of even the common man right like I'd rather just be comfortable and live my life and not worry about
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you know what's actually going to be good for me long term or my nation or my people I just want to
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you know let hang low do what's you know follow the rules and just you know say yes sir and just kind of live my mediocre comfortable life so
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why don't you tell them it and see what happens
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so this motherfucker's just going to sit around all day while she works
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one of the bullets lodged only two inches from his heart
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it may reassure you to liken terrorists to insects
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i guess you can say the one thing that's relatable is the
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the apartments that they live in there the one they're just uh showing or they just showed
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this is basically how you know given other 10 years with the current issues we're having in our countries we'll probably be living if we're lucky
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you've even broke the chains how do you think you're gonna get out of here
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it's three little caesar's ads like that's the other thing like all the ads are for food
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and like really bad food and it's like almost like they know that like when you're watching
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um a show or something like that because obviously this was filmed when they were
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um you know they expect people to be sitting down watching tv right it's the same thing i always see snack commercials during
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like movies if you're watching them you know on uh where there is commercials in between
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why do you think they torture us i got a feeling you're gonna tell me because they know that that film shows the world not as it is but as it could be
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yeah well in this world they flattened dc with an a bomb how you people think a film is gonna fight against that
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den enters in the resistance how many are you anyway huh
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you only think you're gonna defeat the japanese
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i mean it's kind of in the jewish nature to you know just kvetch about stuff and not do anything
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about it but i mean mind you they're very subversive and they've been able to infiltrate
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but i mean i guess when it comes to physical stuff
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it's a kind of typical behavior to just kvetch about uh it as they throw as they strike you as the meme goes
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pretty one you know she was just in here a few minutes ago
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i think he at this point is like oh shit they're on to me because he's doing something you know subversive because if the books aren't illegal like he said in that area
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um but he's so afraid of somebody knowing that someone bought it then obviously he's got he's up to some fuck shit that he doesn't want them to find out about and he suspects that this guy is a nazi spy
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damn girl i don't know if they were able to trace phone lines back then but uh you almost gave it away just because you wanted to go you know call your uh boyfriend who you left behind and you know i don't know she probably didn't know that they were going to come for him but she did know that they saw her so
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I trust your visit has been uneventful, Kanawegna.
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They're determined to find a woman smuggling a film.
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It's clear your Nazi colleagues have infiltrated our security services.
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Do you know how long I've worked to organize this meeting?
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And when he does, there'll be a war between our empires, Mr. Tegomi.
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I cannot travel twice and afford Swedish passport.
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And he's, I guess, reporting back to, or he's, he's in with the Nazis.
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And he's reporting back to the Japanese about what's going on.
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The Japanese are now suspecting that they have bugged or they have an infiltrator somewhere,
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And if that oracle of yours tells you not to go through with it.
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We have a very comfortable waiting room down the hall.
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Damn, so that's the sister of this guy they have in prison, and they took the picture to go and show him that they have them in custody to get him to confess.
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so all you need to tell us is which bus she boarded.
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But yeah, so it looks to me that they're basically trying to, I mean, they're going to, trying to reference, you know, what I guess Hitler did to the Jewish people with the Zyklon B or whatever it is that they called that gas.
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Um, and that's what they're going to pump into the room that the kids are all watching TV and all that kind of stuff into.
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So, you know, they got to make sure they throw in that reference so you guys don't forget what happened.
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Um, you know, to me mom and the holy and all that kind of stuff.
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We're out there, I'm just talking to the prisoner.
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the family arrived okay we're gonna go back a little bit because i messed up
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so we've gone back a little bit because the stupid commercials
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either way somebody you love dies or maybe you all do
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they're scared scared this film could bring this whole thing tumbling down
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any more than it matters whether you think you're a jew
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this ends only when people like us refuse to obey no matter the cost
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that's the only way that we defeat these bastards
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so now i'm starting to wonder if he was sent here just to spy on her in the first place but i mean
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how would he have known he wouldn't have known that she was going to get the movie but
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i'm trying to figure it out because it's just weird that he all of a sudden
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is like like traveling with her but also like getting into her shit to try to figure it out
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so i'm like was he a plant from the very beginning but then he didn't really know that she was going
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to end up with the film so mom if you're reading this i didn't make it back from the neutral zone
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i traveled there yesterday on a bus ticket that was originally meant for trudy
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trudi gave me a film it shows a different world a better world
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well i guess i just answered my own question he didn't know he's just trying to find out more
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info about her because he suspects she's lying atlas
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are you all ready to see the future that could have been had the bad guys not won
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they're going to show it to us soon and uh i hope everybody's all okay out there i hope nobody's
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buried in snow and i hope everybody still has the internet because or and or at least at the very
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least i hope you have electricity still i need you to tell me now now or never where is she
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This should be the last commercial. The show was almost over.
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But I guess to summarize we can say that he did not give up his girlfriend.
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He is not... I don't even know if he actually knows exactly where she went.
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I know she said she was going to the neutral zone to him possibly,
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but I don't know if she gave him the actual city.
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And it looks like his family, his sister and his niece and nephew, you know, may not make it,
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but we're going to have to see in a minute once these commercials are done.
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So this is, hopefully, forgive me if this gives you the craving to eat crazy bread.
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So I guess we're not going to see what he saw. I thought they might show it to us, but I guess he just saw it and now he's haunted by it.
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So I guess we're not going to see what he saw. I thought they might show it to us, but I guess he just saw it and now he's haunted by it.
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So we looked into this contact of yours, Joe. The man who makes the origami. Seems he's a rather dangerous fellow.
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An undercover agent for the SD. Not one of ours.
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He's apparently eliminated quite a few subversives.
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I guess he just saw it. I guess he just saw it and now he's haunted by it.
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I guess he just saw it and now he's haunted by it.
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versus i see your missions off the books joe suggests you steer clear of him i'll do that
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back when you didn't go to jail for saying that
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these motherfuckers are going to make him look through the window
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so what happened in the last episode is this this lady was on the bus with juliana and she stole one of her bags or stole something out of her bag
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and it was a film but then juliana discovered she still had a film so i think this lady switched them out
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um and maybe that juliana had fake films but she stole the the bag that had her id and she had her sister's id
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but it's not obviously the sister was killed in the first episode as well so we've been chasing a dead end
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so my thought is that they basically taught they're going to let him know that his sister and her kids are dead
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because he's going to have to live with it if they killed him then he doesn't have to live with the knowledge and the games
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guilt of knowing that it was his fault so they're gonna let him live and live out his life as a you
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know prolly and have to live with the guilt of having his or getting his sister and her two young
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kids gassed. A suspect has been arrested. What? A suspect was arrested. A woman who's a non-smuggler
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carrying Trudy Walker's satchel. Juliana doesn't have the film. So it would appear.
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We found out too late, Mr. Frink. But you are free to go.
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Okay, so my theory was wrong. They just fucked up and they just don't care, so.
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You have suffered enough. And I am not a monster.
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You ever need any more juice to kill? You know where to find me.
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So what do you think? Is everybody still alive out there in the snow?
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So yeah, basically in summary, they found this lady.
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But I don't believe that they... They haven't looked at the films yet, so I have a feeling
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that they're going to realize that those are fake films, that they were switched out or
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something. I don't know. It's all confusing. There's so many films all over the place.
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Everybody has films. Some are copies. Some are fraud. We don't know. We're not going
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to know until we do the next episode. So yes, it's not the most exciting show.
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It does get a little bit more exciting. I will not have commercials in the next one.
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I'm going to do better. You know, that's my life. Not my life goal. My New Year's resolution
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is to do better. We'll see. It's not going so far so well. Anyways, I hope you guys all
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stay safe. Snowmageddon has come. Us Canadians, we're used to this. I did see that they said
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the highest snowfall still holds for January. The highest the record still holds from 1999.
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And I actually remember that winter because I had, that January of 1999, I had a four-month-old
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son and trying to navigate strollers through the streets of Toronto. This is when Mel Gibson,
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Mel Gibson, oh my God, he wishes, Mel Lastman, who was the mayor of Toronto at the time, a Jew,
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called in the army to help clear the streets. And people laughed at him because, you know,
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we're Canada and why are we calling in the army to clean the fucking streets? But it was
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pretty bad. You know, and I think since then, maybe they bought more snow removal equipment.
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But at the end of the day, you know, we would have survived. I'm sure that there's been times
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before we had snowplow equipment that, you know, we were snowed in that much. But, you know, God
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forbid the business world is effective and people can't go to their, you know, slave wage jobs and
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serve up coffee and all that kind of shit. So they brought the army in to remove the snow. I believe
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the record, it was like 99 centimeters or something for the whole month. We're currently
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approaching 70 here, but the month is almost over. I don't know. It depends where you are
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in Canada. Well, Ontario and Quebec, I think they're going to be hit with it the most. Maybe some
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issues or some areas of Manitoba, but it seems to be lake effect. So the more south you are,
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it seems in Ontario, the more southeast, the more you're going to get. So anyways,
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get your snowblowers ready. Get your kids some shovels and you know, you're going to have to
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unfortunately remove yet another dumping of snow. And I will see you remember to join our Thursday
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Canadian nationalist space with the Canadian nationalist ladies, my favorite ladies in the
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entire world. And I may stream again this week, but we'll see how it goes. See you guys.