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Minute 108 - We Put A Shave And A Haircut On A Bagel! • Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at Once • Minute 108

Minute 108 – We Put A Shave And A Haircut On A Bagel!

Evelyn says “It’s too late, Waymond.” And then, after a long pause, reaches out and takes his hand. That single touch opens everything: the two of them as newlyweds with their hands stacked on the couch, Waymond turning from the TV to ask if she saw that (she didn’t, she was looking at him), tearing the newspaper off the windows of a brand new laundromat, twirling in their apartment, finding the remote under the couch and being genuinely delighted about it. He taps a service bell in a shave-and-a-haircut rhythm and asks what song it is. Then green light creeps across her face and we’re in the Hong Kong alley, where Foxy Waymond turns around and says: in another life.

And that’s where the minute ends. We had to cut the most famous line in the movie in half, which we assume was done to us on purpose.

We work through what “it’s too late” means when she immediately contradicts it, and land on this: it’s too late to be Jobu and too late to be Waymond, and what’s coming next is Evelyn mode. We talk about how these aren’t flashbacks — she’s actually present in these moments, which is exactly the thing Jobu swore she’d never manage again. And Kynan spent most of his research week on that service bell: shave and a haircut goes back to 1800s minstrel songs, becomes the rhythmic skeleton of Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love” and Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” and was used by American POWs in Vietnam as a knock-code because the locals didn’t recognize it.

Lester and Kynan attempt to explain, evaluate, enlighten and elucidate the Academy Award-winning film, Everything Everywhere All At Once, minute by multiversal minute!