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The childhood friends saw the movie weekend after weekend upon its original release, and later spent afternoons attempting the stunts in a 7-Eleven parking lot while blasting its soundtrack on a boom box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

It felt like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'," she later recalled.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Passersby walked on as a boom box tied to the car’s roof repeatedly blared the words “The Ixil people do remember” and played the judge’s genocide verdict.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

I was tying my Nikes extra tight on the basketball court, when Duncan planted has boom box at the end of the bench.

From Salon ● May 14, 2023

She’s wearing ladybug pajama bottoms and a White Sox T-shirt, a strange match for the elegant song blasting from her purple boom box.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller


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