Deep Cuts Horror Hit List #15 “Barbarian”

Summary

Podcast Summary: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present – Deep Cuts Horror Hit List #15: “Barbarian”

Date: October 17, 2025
Hosts: Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes
Podcast: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present (iHeartPodcasts)
Episode Theme: Spotlight on the film “Barbarian” (#15 on their Halloween Horror Hit List)

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Amy and T.J. continue their countdown to Halloween, highlighting hidden-gem horror films. This installment focuses on the 2022 film “Barbarian” – a movie that quickly soared into their list of all-time favorites. They dissect what makes it special, discuss its unconventional choices, examine the audience and critical responses, and recommend pairings for a frighteningly fun movie night.

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Episode Structure & Key Discussion Points

1. Introduction & Movie Selection (03:40–05:24)

• “Barbarian” is revealed as their #15 pick for Halloween.
• Released in 2022, directed by Zach Cregger, starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long.
• Premise: Young woman books an Airbnb for a job interview in Detroit, only to find the place double-booked with a stranger.

2. The Title & Premise (04:15–05:24)

• Amy: Unsure how the title “Barbarian” fits, but that adds intrigue.
• T.J.: Teases that the uncertainty is part of the movie’s fun.

3. The Suspension of Logic in Horror (05:24–07:38)

• Horror Trope Talk: Hosts joke about the necessity of bad decisions and lack of technology for horror to happen.
• Quote [06:26]:
  T.J.: “That’s the joy of a horror movie. If you don’t get that already... That’s the whole point.”
• Audience critics of “Barbarian” focus on characters’ bad decisions — hosts defend this as classic horror DNA.

4. Cast and Crew Appreciation (08:10–10:14)

• Big praise for: Georgina Campbell (called the new “final girl” and “horror queen”), Bill Skarsgård (“charming, a little quirky”), Justin Long, Matthew Patrick Davis.
• Director: Zach Cregger lauded, also directed “Weapons” and “Companion” (high Rotten Tomatoes scores).
• Noting that repeat collaborations (à la M. Night Shyamalan with actors) work especially well in horror.

5. Representation & Genre Tropes (10:14–11:22)

• Noted that Georgina Campbell, a Black woman, plays the lead. T.J. jokes that “black folks are yelling at the screen like, no way we would do that thing” — fresh take for the genre.

6. Reception: Critics vs. Audience Split (11:32–14:08)

• Rotten Tomatoes: 92% critic score, 70% audience score.
• Hosts dig into why some viewers didn’t like it — mainly frustration with unpredictable narrative and characters’ choices.
• Quote [11:12]:
  Amy: “All of the critics agree with you... the only people who found any sort of flaw with this movie were people who obviously don’t understand how horror movies work.”
• Comparison to “Star Wars”:
  • Some audience members disliked that evil gets a backstory or “humanity.”
  • T.J. [14:08]: Draws an analogy to Darth Vader’s arc in Star Wars — the idea that understanding the villain’s humanity complicates simple narratives.

7. Critical Praise: Notable Reviews (15:14–18:48)

• Read several positive critic blurbs:
  • “Inventive and unpredictable with a nervy visual style that takes note of the lurking evil beneath the banality of its domestic space.” — Amy [16:04]
  • “A twisted, sadistic, hilarious, bonkers and downright insane movie.” — Amy [16:37]
  • “If you like intense, incredibly stressful horror films, this is right up your alley.” — Amy [17:14]
  • “Many times where I laughed in delight… I was smiling ear to ear at the end of the film.” — Amy [18:24]
• Praise for the film’s ability to balance tension, unpredictability, and even humor.

8. Audience Reactions: Positive and Hilarious Negative (25:41–27:55)

• Positive:
  • “Nothing ever really scares me. But this one. I can’t even walk in the house in the dark now.” — [25:41]
• Hilarious Negative:
  • Complaints about being “scammed” by positive reviews, and annoyance at the protagonist’s “absolutely nothing but ignoring common sense.”
  • T.J. & Amy: Gleefully defend the need for bad decisions in horror — provide specific examples from classics like “The Omen,” “Friday the 13th,” “The Exorcist.” [26:31–27:40]

9. Film’s Unique Qualities (27:47–29:54)

• Incredible acting and unpredictable plot twists.
• The film keeps the audience guessing about the real villain for much of the runtime.
• Justin Long: Takes on a role with multiple twists, contributing to the film’s unpredictability.

10. Who It’s For / Not For (29:00–30:23)

• For:
  • Fans of highly-acted, suspenseful, twist-driven horror.
  • “If you like creepy, suspenseful and scary movies with innovative storytelling that takes you for a ride, enjoy. You will love it.” — Amy [29:54]
• Not for:
  • Anyone unable to suspend disbelief over character decisions.
  • “If you need it to make sense, you probably don’t like horror movies anyway.” — Amy [30:23]

11. Food & Drink Pairing (30:33–31:54)

• Wine: Referencing a bottle shared in a key scene — “Want to share a bottle of wine with the person you have sitting next to you.”
• Popcorn flick: Best enjoyed in a group, for the communal fun of collective jump scares and yelling at the screen.

12. Streaming Availability and Final Thoughts (31:54–33:42)

• Streaming: Available on Hulu and Disney.
• Group Fun: “Lots of jump scares and creepy opinion-inducing moments.” — Amy [31:54]
• Strong Endorsement: One of their all-time favorites.
• Preview: Tease for next episode — a foreign film with “some of the best death scenes we’ve ever seen” and a “campy” tone.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• T.J. [06:26]: “That’s the joy of a horror movie. If you don’t get that already... That’s the whole point.”
• Amy [07:46]: “If you are bothered by people making bad decisions in a horror movie, this movie is over in 12 minutes.”
• T.J. [14:08]: “Star Wars came out in 1977... for all those years Darth Vader is just a bad dude... and then we find out he did all this because he was trying to save the woman he loved. When that came together, I’m like, oh my God...”
• Amy [15:14]: “Cool when we can try to understand evil, man.”
• Amy [17:14]: “If you like intense, incredibly stressful horror films, this is right up your alley.”
• Amy [18:24]: “When I say that I enjoyed this movie, I mean that I had many times where I laughed in delight about the writing, the acting and the direction. I was smiling ear to ear at the end of the film.”
• Audience Review [25:41]: “Nothing ever really scares me. But this one. I can’t even walk in the house in the dark now.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:40: Introduction of “Barbarian” as #15 pick
• 05:24: Discussion of horror movie tropes (bad decisions, technology issues)
• 08:10: Cast & director notes; box office info
• 11:32: Rotten Tomatoes & reception discussion
• 14:08: Star Wars analogy for humanizing evil
• 16:04–18:24: Reading & discussion of critical reviews
• 25:41: Positive audience review
• 25:53: Hilarious negative audience review & hosts' commentary
• 27:47: Why it made their list
• 29:00–30:23: Who the film is and isn’t for
• 30:33–31:54: Food & drink pairing suggestions
• 31:54–33:42: Group viewing fun, streaming info, and preview of next episode

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Conclusion

Amy and T.J. make a passionate, insightful, and often humorous case for “Barbarian” as a standout horror experience. They defend the movie’s bold narrative swings and its embrace of horror tropes, champion the performances (especially Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård), and stress that horror’s real joy lies in unexpected turns and communal reactions. Whether you’re a hardcore scary movie fan or just want a wild, unpredictable ride, their enthusiasm makes clear: “Barbarian” deserves a spot on your Halloween queue.

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Transcript

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Had 30 agents ready to go with shotguns and rifles and you name it.

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Basically, your stay at home moms were.

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Picking up these large amounts of heroin.

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Hey there, folks. It is Friday, October 17th, and before you book your next Airbnb, do not watch this movie. That's number 15 on our horror hit list. And with that welcome to this episode of Amy and tj. We continue to count down to Halloween. Our favorite favorite horror movies that maybe you have not heard of. And robes. This is the one. This is one who features a director we love and an actor we love and a story and a movie that has. This is a fairly new one to be on our all time favorite list.

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Yes. The Release date was 2022. The name is Barbarian. And it's funny because I've never actually really figured out what the title or how it relates to the actual movie. I don't actually get it, but I don't have to.

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I was about to give you some details. I thought I was going to give away too much of the movie. We'll talk about it after.

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I mean, sure, it's barbaric, okay, maybe that's it, of course, but I just, I would never have thought that this movie would be the movie under the title Barbaric.

[B]

That's a good tease. That's actually a good tease for the movie. That's really good.

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So that. Actually I've never been able to put those two together, but the runtime, an hour 42, rated R horror, mystery, thriller. And here is the synopsis, folks. Traveling to Detroit for a job interview, a young woman books a rental home. But when she arrives late at night, she discovers that the house is double booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgment, she decides to spend the evening, but soon discovers there's a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.

[B]

Hey, stop right there. What would you do, right? Set up the scenario. And that's obviously you go, well, obviously I wouldn't stay there. But if you're desperate. Middle of the night, it's storming like crazy, bad neighborhood, you don't know where to go. What would you do if some sleep in My car. A charming guest tries to hook you up. What would you do?

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So obviously I would not stay.

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No circumstances.

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I love horror movies and I know how they begin. Like this one.

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Okay.

[A]

But it's funny because this has got gotten rave reviews. We'll go through all of the numbers. But the few audience members who didn't like it, this was one of their biggest issues with this film was what the scenario. Lots of people making continual bad decisions. My argument is that is the basis of all horror movies. There are two things that have to happen to set up any good horror movie. You cannot have any sort of technology reception. Number one, you can cannot have a working cell phone or a working wifi of any kind. And number two, your characters have to make stupid choices.

[B]

That's the joy of a horror movie. If you don't get that already. That's the whole point. Psycho. Psycho would never have been made had that movie been made this year. Because all she had to do was call on her cell phone to get help. There's nothing to talk about.

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Correct.

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So yes, it drives me crazy that people do have. It's fine if you're a critic and you need more highbrow, more realistic stuff. But it's a horror movie and it's depending on young, beautiful, hot people making stupid ass decisions in the woods.

[A]

So it's funny because all of the critics agree with you. These were just audience members. The only people who found any sort of flaw with this movie were people who obviously don't understand how horror movies work.

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Or maybe they're thinking we're the ones that don't understand. This should be art.

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This isn't reality based. This is fantasy. That's part of the fun.

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Fantasy is a good way to have.

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To suspend logic sometimes when you're watching these movies. And sometimes it's fun to scream at the characters because you know they're going to defy it.

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How boring of a horror movie if you don't get to yell, don't go in there or walk away. No, that's silly.

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No, drive away. Don't turn around and walk into fear. Yes, that is exactly a part of the experience. So anyone who.

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Yes. Yeah, no, take that into account. If, if you are bothered by people making bad decisions in a horror movie, this movie is over in 12 minutes. Because there's no continued scenario.

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Right. Because the truth is. Yes, any young woman. I don't care what the weather is. I don't care what the neighborhood looks like. I have a working vehicle. I. I am not going to spend the night with a person. I don't know.

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What if the guy though is as hot as this guy? What's his scars?

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What's scars guard. Pretty cute.

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There's three of them, Bill.

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I can't keep them all straight.

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And the dad as well. Yeah, I can't give him straight. But yeah, maybe he. When you see him, he's a little charming, he's a little quirky.

[A]

No, he's a little. So Ted Bundy was cute too? No, thank you. I. No, no. There's no scenario in which any young woman would stay there but suspend that logic and that real life scenario. And the movie is phenomenal. And the box office agreed. 45.3 million. The budget was around four and a half million. So they 10 times over made their money back. And the cast is stellar. Georgina Campbell as the young woman who made a decision none of us would have made is awesome. Bill Skarsgrd, as we just mentioned is Fox. And yes, our beloved Justin Long. And then Matthew Patrick Davis is in it as well and plays a pivotal role that eventually is. That comes into the scene and is just terrifying. Director that you mentioned, Zach Kreger. If you don't know his name, you know his work. If you love horror movies, most recently a little film called Weapons that we love that got 93% on rotten tomatoes.

[B]

That Justin Long was also in.

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You know, I love when directors like M. Night's like this. Certain directors, Stephen King's like this. When they like specific actors, you'll find them repeating in different roles in different movies. I think it's cool.

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Ryan Coogler now and Michael B. Jordan. Yes, they are a powerhouse duo.

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When a director and an actor know that they work well together, it's awesome. And Companion 93%. We loved that movie too. That's another recent one of his. So he. That's horror as well. Yes, absolutely.

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That was probably. If we had 35 movies that might have made the list.

[A]

We had to. We had to let so many go just because we thought they were too well known perhaps or too recent. But this one was just so good we had to include.

[B]

It isn't Georgina Campbell. If you all don't know her name, you'll know her face. She's becoming that horror queen. Like there are certain actresses who just nail the horror genre. She is one. She's had some credits to her name now that she is making her way up the chain and Right. She happens to be one that we were yelling at. Don't go, don't stay at the Airbnb it was a black woman. Right. Oftentimes we're looking at people make stupid decisions in movies.

[A]

They're white. Is that what you're saying?

[B]

Well, black folks are yelling at the screen like, no way we would do that thing. And this happens to be a black woman.

[A]

That's funny. So, yeah, she was in the Watchers, which is M. Night Shyamalan's daughter's bird box, which was also a good one as well. And we watched this Tim T I M, which is similar to Companion a little bit. It's about an AI generated scary situation. We. We watched that. Remember? It's.

[B]

It's Megan, but with an adult.

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Yes.

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Robot, if you will.

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Yes, exactly.

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You know what? Everybody watched that movie, Tim. Right. If you get a chance, go watch this movie, Tim. And Georgina Campbell stars in that one as well.

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Yes. She is so good. She's gorgeous. She is an up and comer and becoming like the ultimate final girl. Right. In all of these horror movies.

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Final Girl.

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But in this, in this movie, Barbarian. Rotten Tomatoes score 92%. Man. Zach Kroger is nailing it. He has got in the 90s here in the last several horror movies he's put together. But Rotten Tomatoes score of 92%. Audience score of 70%. And again, when I went and looked at the audience reviews, it was this whole notion that they were upset that people made bad choices.

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Okay, I want to hear some of those reviews.

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Yes, we'll get into it.

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70, you said?

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Yeah.

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Now that's one that surprises me.

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That surprises me. Surprises me as well because we. How many times have we watched this movie?

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It's literally on right now in the background as we're sitting here.

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We love it. All right, so critics consensus. Here you go. Smart, darkly humorous, and above all, scary Barbarian offers a chilling and consistently unpredictable thrill ride for horror fans.

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Yes, unpredictable. You don't know where this thing is going.

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And that was part of the frustration some audience members shared.

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But they didn't know where it was.

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Going, they didn't like where it went and they thought it was silly when it ended up being revealed. And I disagree wholeheartedly. I was scared from start to finish.

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Well, scared, yeah, but it also, ultimately it ended up making sense. I like when there's some even Darth Vader. Right. His darkness, it came from a place of love. He actually, when he was created, Darth Vader was in love with a woman. His woman died and it turned him into this monster. But it was all about him trying to save the woman he loved. That sounds crazy. No, this is one of those things to where you have this whatever is supposed to be the bad guy. And you know, it's coming from some place that we can all relate to. I love movies that do that.

[A]

Babe, I want to bring it up. I actually have chills right now with what you just said. You didn't read all the reviews like I did.

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I haven't. This is the one you put together. So I'm hearing them all for the first time.

[A]

So one of the audience members who didn't like this movie didn't like.

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Okay.

[A]

And I didn't put it in because I thought it was so far fetched that he connected these two. But you just did it. He said I hated. He gave it zero stars. And he basically said, I hated it as much as I hated Star Wars. He literally likened the two and I didn't put it together. And you just did. So I just had a kind of a holy shit moment when you just said that because now I understand why he was upset at the movie.

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Why upset at that, though.

[A]

He didn't like Star Wars. He was not gonna like this.

[B]

What?

[A]

Yes, he said he put it in the same category. So the fact that you just likened the two and connected them with that same notion behind the evil, that must have been where he had an issue. That's so interesting.

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Star wars came out in 1977, and for all those years of these six movies, Darth Vader is just a bad dude. He is the worst of the worst guys. And then in the last, in those six movies, we found out Darth Vader did all this because he was trying to save the woman he loved from certain death. So he was trying to get all these mystical powers so he could save her life. When that came together, I'm like, oh, my God. My whole life I've been watching this and thought this about this guy. And it's coming from a good place. Even though it went bad, isn't it.

[A]

Cool when we can try to understand evil, man.

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But to know that I know we're going a little too deep on Barbarian and Star Wars Rose, but the idea that everybody we look at in life, even if you just ask a question or get curious about where it comes from, you have a different level of humanity. This is a horror movie and a horrible thing. That's the antagonist that you find out, oh, there's some humanity in it. I love it. To say you hate that being the case.

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Because people want to hate hate. They don't want to understand it and they don't want to actually in any way romanticize it or try to justify it. And I think that makes it hard for people because it complicates things that they want to be easy. But I did not think we were going to have this conversation. But until you just said that a light bulb went off in my head when I read one of the comments that I didn't understand. That makes perfect sense. Wow. I'm kind of having a holy shit moment. All right, all right. Let's go to some of the critic reviews, which were pretty much unequivocally glowing. Okay. So here's one of them. At its best, it is inventive and unpredictable with a nervy visual style that takes note of the lurking evil beneath the banality of its domestic space.

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Yeah. Because the Airbnb looks like most like not. Not over the top decorations. Yeah. Nothing to it. And then as a part of that same home is another world it create that I didn't put it together.

[A]

It looks like a modular home. That is banal. I never thought about that. A way to describe it is that. But that's so that's what kind of it flips on its head because you're like, it's just some basic ranch in some depleted Detroit neighborhood where someone tried to do a fixer upper to make some money on an Airbnb.

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But.

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And yet. Okay, the next review. I have a couple one liners because they were just succinct and perfect. A twisted, sadistic, hilarious, bonkers and downright insane movie.

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Yes, absolutely. And Justin Long is a big, big, big part of that because you don't know where the movie's going because there's some ridiculousness with it. Does it seems like a side story almost.

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You're like, wait, what? Where did this just go? There is a point in the movie where it just completely flips and you actually are wondering what am I, am I watching the same movie?

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You almost think you're watching the wrong movie at the beginning.

[A]

Did somehow Netflix or wherever I'm watching this just switch movies on me? You. You actually are shocked that you're watching the same movie. Okay, one. If you like intense, incredibly stressful horror films, this is right up your alley.

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Even before the horror shows up, there is a. There is tension with I mean even that the storm and her trying to get out of the rain and go to an Airbnb and where is the key? And now I have to call all that stress you feel you told because.

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You'Ve been like in a similar situation where you're not sure if you're in the right place. If you don't, you don't know if you have the right address. You're unclear why the lockbox doesn't have a key in it. All of that. All right, here's the last one from the critics. And I thought this was so cool. When I say that I enjoyed this movie, I mean that I had many times where I laughed in delight about the writing, the acting and the direction. I was smiling ear to ear at the end of the film. I thought that was interesting given the fact that this is a twisted, creepy horror movie. And yet I got what this critic was saying.

[B]

Some of the thrills in this and the jump scares are more roller coasterish, meaning when you get on a roller coaster, you expect to be scared. Here comes the big drop in these things. Even when it happens in this movie, it's fun. You don't feel necessarily scared of. That's not a terrifying my skin's gonna crawl. But it's a fun. Oh my goodness. I can't believe they did that to me.

[A]

Love it. All right, so when we come back because we had so much fun talking about Star wars and Barbarian, we'll get to the audience reviews, including a hilarious bad one that I have to read word for word. And then we'll get into why it made our list, who it's for, who it's not for, and what to pair it with.

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All I know is what I've been told and that to half truth is a whole lie.

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For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

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I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

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We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

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Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky.

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Housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

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I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y' all said.

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They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her from lava for good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.

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America, y' all better wake the Hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

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Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcast, I'm Jonathan Goldstein.

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And on the new season of Heavyweight, I help a centenarian mend a broken heart.

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How can 101-year-old woman fall in love again?

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And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old. And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke.

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And he got down.

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And I remember feeling kind of a.

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Surge of like, okay, this is power.

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Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother try to solve my problems through hypnotism.

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We could give you a whole brand.

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New thing where you're like, super charming.

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All the time, Being more able to.

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In early 1988, federal agents raced to track down the gang they suspect of importing millions of dollars worth of heroin into New York from Asia.

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We had 30 agents ready to go with shotguns and rifles, and you name it.

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But what they find is not what they expected.

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Basically, your stay at home moms were.

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Picking up these large amounts of heroin.

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They go, is this your daughter? I said, yes. They go, oh, you may not see her for like 25 years.

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Caught between a federal investigation and the violent gang who recruited them, the women must decide who they're willing to protect and who they dare to betray.

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Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand and I saw the flash of light.

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Listen to the Chinatown sting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Damie Gente.

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It's Ana Ortiz and I'm Mark and Delicato.

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You might know us as Hilda and Justin from Ugly Betty. We played mother and son on the show, but in real life, we're best friends. And I'm all grown up now.

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Welcome to our new podcast, Viva Betty. Yay. Woohoo.

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Can you believe it has been almost 20 years? That's not even possible. You're the only one that looks that much different. I look exactly the same. We're rewatching the series from start to finish and getting into all the fashions, the drama, and the behind the scenes moments that you've never heard before.

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You're gonna hear from Guests like America Ferreira, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Becky Newton, Tony Plana, and so many more icons.

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Each and every one of a sudden, like, someone, like, comes running up to me and it's Salma Hayek, and she's like, you are my Ugly Betty. And I was like, what is she even talking about? Listen to Viva Betty as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.

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You get your podcasts.

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Hey, guys, it's Stephanie, Beatriz, and Melissa Fumero. And this is more Better. We are jumping right in and ready to hear from you, your thoughts, your questions, your feelings about socks with sand. And we're ready to share some possibly questionable advice. And hot takes. God, that sucks so hard though. I'm so sorry. Can you out petty them? Can you match their pettiness for funsies? Yeah, we had so much fun last season. Laughing, crying, talking to some new and old friends. Remember when we were in that scene where you guys were just supposed to hug and I was standing?

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Oh, yeah.

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And I was like, can I also hug them? I'm like, this has no friends this time around. We are. Say it, Melissa. Should I say it? Getting a little more better. Oh, finally. It's all the dressing room talk you loved in season one. All the things. Because aren't we all trying to get a little more better? Listen to more better on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, we are Talking about number 15 on our Halloween horror hit list, the movie Barbarian. It was released just three years ago, and I can't wait to watch it for another decade at least. This movie is just awesome. And so we just went over all of the critic reviews. I'll start with the positive audience review, but then I have to read you this hilarious bad one. So the positive one, which I thought was pretty cool, and I saw a lot of them that look like this from just regular folks who watch this movie and nothing ever really scares me. But this one. I can't even walk in the house in the dark now.

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Wow. Hahaha.

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Good movie. Great acting. Okay, I agree. I think that's such a good point. All right, here was the hilarious bad one.

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Do you agree with it at all?

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No.

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Okay.

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But it just made me laugh. All right, buckle up, because I just watched Barbarian and I feel like I got personally scammed by Rotten Tomatoes and everyone who told me this movie was brilliant and so unexpected. Unexpected. Yeah. I unexpectedly hated every second of it. This movie starts off like Your typical creepy Airbnb setup. Cool. Fine. I'm in. Then it proceeds to drag its feet for what feels like an hour and a half of the main character doing absolutely nothing but ignoring common sense.

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It's a horror movie. Why? What's the point? There is no horror movie if you don't make bad decisions. Name the best horror movie ever made. I mean, go through any.

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The Omen.

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Go through the Omen. Why are you here at three in the morning trying to adopt a mystery.

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Child that was born and lying to your wife saying your kid didn't die? You know that's not going to end well.

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Name enough. The one. Friday the 13th. The greatest. Yes. People go to sleep and they wake up dead. Okay, let's do that. Okay. What do you want to go with?

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The Exorcist.

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Exorcist. Oh, my sweet Lord baby Jesus. The baby just peed in front of a group of people at a dinner party. Just going to send her back up to go to sleep. The party. No, things are wrong. You have to. In every turn, you have to make a bad decision. Now, there's a great bad decision in here that even for us and watching horror movies, right? You're at an Airbnb, middle of the night, Mr. Guy upstairs. You're downstairs looking for something, and there's a door.

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Don't go in it.

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You're in the basement and there's a door that looks like it goes into a cellar. Obviously, nobody's.

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Hell, no. But everyone else is.

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But, sweetheart, if she didn't, I'd be mad because it's a horror movie. Go down there and let's do this.

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Exactly. So Wyatt made our list. Incredible acting. Phenomenal twists and turns. You can't figure out who the villain is for the first two thirds of the movie. Half the movie for sure. And, man, do we love us some Justin Long.

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Oh, he's great. Even his character takes some twists and turns that you don't necessarily see coming, but he is solid throughout. What is that? Who this one's for?

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Yeah, who? Well, that was why we liked it. But who it's for. Who it's for. Who would you say this is for?

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Well, as far as go with the first, why we liked it. The acting in this thing is. Is incredible. And I do think Georgina Campbell and Scars Gar Kid, they have some chemistry that really lends itself to the tension in this movie, because some part of it, you don't know whether to go, oh, that's cute, or watch out.

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I wanted them to get together I wanted them to be a couple. I was like having rom com vibes in the middle of it, but at.

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The same time you're screaming, I don't know about this guy. Georgina, get the hell out the house. I loved love that whole thing. Who's this one for? This is a great way. Was the next question.

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Yeah, who's it for?

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Who's it for? You know, this is a. If you're a fan of like award winning acting and I'm saying that all these performances don't deserve Oscars because I'm not going that far. But all of these people have very significant credits that you need their performances to pull this off. And Skarsgard, I've seen him in a bunch of stuff. He was the clown in it.

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Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's one of his more notorious.

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He has another one where he's a monster in as well. He just has a look. He was in a John Wick movie as a bad guy. He. I see him playing this role differently than the others because he's a little sinister, but he's almost goofy.

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He's like boy next door still.

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Yes. And almost a cluelessness to him that he has to deliver. And it's so important to this.

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There's an affability about him that he nails.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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So I would say yes. If you like creepy, suspenseful and scary movies with innovative storytelling that takes you for a ride, enjoy. You will love it. Who it's not for, I can only base it off of the bad reviews I've seen. So if you're someone who can't let go of characters making bad decisions or you're quick to call a storyline silly, then. Then don't watch this movie because don't watch horror movies. Don't watch.

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You're not a horror movie. If you need it to make sense, it's not gonna make sense.

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That's true. If you need it to make sense, you probably don't like horror movies anyway.

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And you're also gonna hate the next couple we have because the next couple of movies make even less sense than this one.

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All right. Food, drink pairing. I went with a bottle of wine because remember the scene that's the only.

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Thing I got for you.

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Yes. They. They share a bottle of wine.

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It's very important.

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Yes. Want to share a bottle of wine with the person you have sitting next to you. And I think this is a popcorn flick because it's just entertaining as hell. And every time I want to just have fun, but also am intensely watching something this Isn't like fun, like woohoo fun? This is holy shit fun. So popcorn works for all of the other.

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There are some. Sometimes we talk about eating and food. Some people have meals at the theater. You know, I hate doing that, but I hate paying attention to anything else. I hate looking down at my plate for just a moment or trying to dress the fries or you don't like.

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When people next to you order food and you have to kind of hear them eat. God, that annoys you.

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But it's also a distraction to me in a very critical moment that I have to hear something gets opened or whatever.

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We love us in Alamo. But yes, you do have to deal with people next to you chomping on like chicken fingers.

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My point here is this is one where you don't need to. You don't look down like just put your hand in a bucket and eat the popcorn kind of a thing. You have to pay attention. And it is a great experience to have with people because you will. Now, there are little details you need to hear, but this is one. If people are screaming at the screen in a moment, you're not missing anything. You're still experiencing that moment.

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And there are some screamable moments where you're like, oh my God, no. So I actually put this in Fun to watch with a group. Lots of jump scares and creepy opinion inducing moments.

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Yes. There are times where people do stuff so stupid you want to get up and leave the theater. Like, this is not. This is dumb. And it's true.

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In a fun way. In a fun way.

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Yeah, but it's fun. It's fun.

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All right. You can watch this on Hulu Disney. You can obviously tell by our enthusiasm this is one of our all time favorites. So please, please, please check out Barbarian, our next movie, which will drop tomorrow. Some people may question our choice on this, but we stand by it. It is a foreign film. We love to watch it dubbed. I just think it's fun anyway to watch it dubbed. You can watch it with closed captioning as well. But we discovered it one morning almost by accident. I would describe it as funny, campy, and has some of the best death scenes we've ever seen.

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Yes. I would also describe the best death scenes that we've ever seen juxtaposed with the goofiest, the most bizarre funny scenes. Like it's two totally separate movies. Those things should not be in the same movie together.

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And it's a confusing fun ride in a way that only this genre of horror movies can actually pull off.

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Yes.

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Does that make sense?

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I love. This is one. Okay, folks, last tease on this one. This might be the one that gets people to question us. Out of all 30 we have, this is the one. Like, guys, I was with you until that one.

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Yeah, they'll be like, I watched that one and I hated it. But we're okay with it because we stand by our next one. Anyway, thank you for listening to us on our number 15 barbarian on our Halloween horror hit list. There is so much more to come. Thank you for listening. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.

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Hello, America's sweetheart. Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless Hillbilly Heist from Smartless Media, Campside media and big money players. It's a wild tale about a gang of high functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist. Kind of like Robin Hood, except for.

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The where he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous.

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It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing. They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape. So we're sitting like, oh, God, what do we do? What do we do? That was dumb.

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People, do not follow my example.

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Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times. It starts with a dream. A nature reserve and a spectacular new home. But little by little, they lose it.

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They actually lose it.

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They sort of went nuts until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The murder of an 18 year old girl in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved for years until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

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America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

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Listen to Graves county on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts, I'm Jonathan Goldstein.

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And on the new season of Heavyweight. And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old and a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago.

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How can 101-year-old woman fall in love again?

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Listen to heavyweight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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It's Anna Ortiz.

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And I'm Markin Delicato.

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You might know us as Hilda and Justin from Ugly Betty. Welcome to our new podcast, Be My Betty.

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Yay.

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We're re watching the series from start to finish and talking to iconic guests.

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Like Betty herself, America Ferreira.

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There was this moment when the glasses went on and it was like, this is our Betty.

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Listen to Viva Betty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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This is an iHeart podcast.