WEBVTT - Czech Hunter (feat. Ira Madison III) 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.760 Last night when I got home from your house, I 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.240 went into the bathroom and flipped the light on and 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.360 looked up and there was a huge fighter. And I 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.759 stayed calm, and I went and saw that the Gucci 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.240 shoebox was sitting out I've been cleaning up my closet, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.439 and I took it and I opened it, and I 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.720 caught the spider in the shoebox. The chici ist capturing 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:32.519 of a spider that spiders spiders, that spider's casket that 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:40.960 spiders like. Hey, welcome to make career Rose, I, for 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:46.160 your recommendation, have been blasting Kelly Clarkson's Christmas albums um 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.720 alta watsoo. It's really putting me in the in the 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.640 Christmas spirit here. Don't you feel all Christmas right now? 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:57.240 Christmas isn't canceled justice you. Um. We are so lucky 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.720 to be carrying that Christmas spirit for word with a 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.560 little episode on last holiday with none other than Ira 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.720 Medicine to the third co host, I have to Keep 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.400 It podcast, scorned Twitter user famous for being banned from Twitter. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.040 This this movie really is in our Christmas cannon. I 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.160 would say absolutely. It is one of the few movies 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.679 I must watch every holiday season, and we are going 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.320 to break it down for you as to why it 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.320 should be in your Christmas Anne, get ready to do 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.160 a glow up and make sure you have some snacks 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:37.520 handy a big French Yeah. We are you happy to 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.560 be impell We are happy to be in plague. This 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.839 is like a version the show where we give yesterday's 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.320 pup gilt job to this take. I am and I 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.200 am plant. And before we get to IRAA medicine tap, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:01.640 let's talk about what's going on in pop Girl jail today. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.040 What is that French accent? That was my high school 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.920 French teacher who was a bitch would be so mad. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:21.120 It's the most wonderful time of the year, don't you agree, friend? 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.960 I do. I mean, my body is a little broken 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.000 from spending maybe too much time at Universal Studios last Friday, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.280 but you know, I'm definitely are you still sore? My 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.280 my shoulders still hurt a little bit from the four 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.799 times that we rode them. Oh my god, I mean 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.359 my voice is still recovering. You can kind of hear it. Well, 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:47.240 we turned into woo girls for a day who and 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.079 like and and honestly like, Yeah, it wasn't just on 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.280 the rides. It was just kind of like we were 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.200 the high girls of Universal Students. It was it was 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.520 we really us in our skims. Our skims and are 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.720 like the sunglasses. We looked like de Mentors walking around 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.240 hat set. We went with our friend Ash, and I 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.240 will say that one of my favorite moments from the 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.679 day was at the end of the day, you know, exhausted, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.960 we're trying to figure out what to do with our time, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.080 and we saw this like caricature artist that was like 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.960 drawing this couple and we were like, oh my god, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.720 should we do that? That would be so fun or 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.600 like one of y'all said that actually it was, and 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.360 I immediately was like, uh no, I'm not doing that. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.079 It will send my dysphoria of the wazoo. And then 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.839 Rose was like, oh my god, yeah, absolutely, me too, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.840 and then Ash was like, oh yeah, me too. Like 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.680 it was it was like it was it was a 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.280 dysphoria domino effect where we all were like, oh wait, 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.440 that's um, that's really taking a risk on being perceived. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.480 It really is like I don't need him drawing me 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.040 on a skateboard or something. Um. What was your favorite 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.440 part about Universal Rose. Besides the warm butter beer served 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:02.000 at Three Broomsticks. I actually enjoyed the studio tours, so 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.240 even though I think like it's kind of lame and 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.680 that it's not really a ride, but it was like 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.240 a nice little sojourn around the park with some exciting moment. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.520 Definitely one of my favorite parts of the day. I 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.520 was not excited, and at that point in the day 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.200 we definitely needed to sit for a while. Very brave 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.880 of us, honestly, to spend the whole day writing roller coasters. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.000 After the emotional roller coaster that was the Sex in 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.880 the City reboot and just like that. Let me tell 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.600 you so, you know, as you all know, last week 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.320 we talked in depth about Sex in the City and 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.240 you know, we had a lot of questions, um as 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.320 Carrie Bradshaw often does about and just like that and 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.760 what it would be and now we have some answers. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.880 We've seen the first two episodes. We found out what 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.120 the tea is with Samantha she's in London, and how 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.120 to falling out with Carrie because Carrie fired her as 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.400 her publicist, which I'm going to call bullshit on that 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.400 is the laziest writing after everything they went through together, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.560 that is not how their friendship would end. And like 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:17.440 the idea that Samantha Jones needs carries bullshit little column 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.840 money for her business, Like there's no way she's got 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.599 bigger fish to fry a baby. I don't actually need 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.719 a reason to know why Samantha like cut them off. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.599 Like there's a whole six seasons of toxicity in all 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.960 of their relationships that like we bared witness to and 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.839 to me, like it would be even more real to say, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.039 you know, we lost touch and I don't know why, 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.159 Like that's even more painful to me, like and also 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.120 more realistic, like you lose friends and sometimes you don't 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.480 know why and it sucks, and like, you know, I 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.080 totally agree with you. I think that like it was 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.679 just it didn't really hit at all. And I also 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.320 will say, like when Carrie says, like I thought we 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.159 would be friends forever, like that did like hit me 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.680 really hard. And in the first five minutes too, I 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.920 was like, WHOA, Like they really are going in when 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.600 you kind of thought that, especially after all the hype 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.599 of this reboot, that there would be more things that 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.400 they would try to avoid because it's awkward and because 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.640 there's all this drama and ta around it. The real 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:22.240 awkwardness of the reboot for me is the ham fisted 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:27.640 wokeness of it. They're just going so hard with over 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.080 correcting how problematic Sex in the City was, and like 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:37.680 it is brutal. Every scene with Sato Ramirez A. K. H. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:43.320 Diaz doing their podcast is just like it's like a caricature. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.000 And I did feel called out when carry said, oh, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.640 I have to go record a podcast. It's like doing 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.600 jury duty. Um, that felt very Yeah, that was really 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.200 funny at us. One of the jokes that made me la. Yes, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.400 there were like three jokes that I laughed out loud 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.120 at and that was one of them. But the wokeness, it's, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.760 you know, the thing is, I just don't think Sex 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.320 in the City works in the framework of like apologizing 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.200 for the things that said. Honestly, I kind of wish 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.360 that they were just making the same show and like 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:22.400 correcting in subtle ways rather than trying to like actively apologize, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.280 because it felt like I was like, is everyone non binary? 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.480 On this show? I think that, Well, I want to 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.560 get to that. I will say, like, first of all, 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.560 you're totally right, like leave the word woke out of 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.960 your scripts. And also like queer people don't talk like 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.320 don't And that's the thing that's really disappointing is that 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.920 there are no Latin or non binary writers in the end, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.200 just like that room, Like I went into this and researched, 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.000 and like what we're seeing is like a product of 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.880 Michael Patrick King's imagination of what he thinks a Latin 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.800 non binary person is. And I say this like lovingly, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.800 like I love sex in the city and I wanted 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.160 to be better, Like, but that is exactly what it 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.120 looks like on screen. Is it's not a real person, Yeah, 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.920 because that's why you have moments like Cha, whose whole story, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.040 whose whole character we've seen so far is like them 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.480 being like this non binary stand up comic rebel telling 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.680 Carrie to step her pussy up, like that they would 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.480 never say that, applying like drag terminology to this like 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.120 non binary stand up comic. Like it's just taking taking 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.160 someone who's so out of touch with real queer people, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.240 like taking their idea of what the entirety of queerness 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.160 is like and funneling it into one character. It's just 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.960 and it perfectly cast though, like Sata is great. Like, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.320 but even though everything they have to say is doing doing, 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.480 doing as much as they can with the material. I mean, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.720 you know, they're not in their thirties anymore, Like it 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.080 can't necessarily be the show that it used to be. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.559 I think that the strengths, a lot of the strengths 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.719 of what we watched are those moments of nostalgia, right, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:06.440 like Susan Sharon coming in, or like them, Susan Sharon 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:12.920 legend icon star. Susan Sharon should be in the main cast, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.959 she should be the fourth girl. But yeah, maybe I'm 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.200 not shocked to see that. Like the majority of the 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.160 sentiment around the show, at least on my timeline, was 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.680 really negative. Do I think it was perfectly executed? Like no, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.679 but like adapting to woke culture, like fumbling through a podcast, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.160 being a mother, experiencing grief, like those are the problems 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.120 of like women in their fifties, and so coming away 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.800 from it, I was like kind of thinking about the 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.760 impact of nostalgia and like how it shapes the way 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.400 we watch, you know, cultural objects like this and their reboots. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.920 Like Miranda kind of has always been awkward, right, Like 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.720 that's just how she's always been. But Like what has 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.600 changed between you know, the show ending and where we 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.520 are at now, is that Miran to became a meme queen. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.720 Everyone sees themselves in Randa. Everyone says Miranda's the favorite character. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.160 There's a book called We Should All Be Miranda's right. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.880 And so when we see like our our meme hero 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.080 failing when she's not adapting to the culture that we 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.680 have already thinks she's a part of, like it feels 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.240 kind of like tainted. And I don't know, what did 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.680 you think about the Miranda of it all? It didn't 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.960 ring true to me just because, like, yes, Miranda's awkward, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.440 but I think Miranda was always in a way, like 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.960 the most street smart of them. I mean, you know, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.600 she had some fumbles, Like there's an episode early on 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.960 in the series when her boss assumes she's a lesbian, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.800 so she takes the woman with her too into a 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.720 party and like tries to make it work. But I 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.480 think like because of that, like and because of the 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.200 fact that these women live in New York City and 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.600 have for decades, like they're acting like these are their 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:02.960 first experiences with black women, with queer people, and like 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.720 that to me, either signifies that like it's bad writing 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.760 or that like in the world of the show, these 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.240 women have truly just been so siloed by their own 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.080 privilege that I guess they are having some kind of 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:23.440 like reckoning I think, uh, speaking of heterosexual characters making 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.720 bad decisions. I did finally watch Twelve Dates of Christmas 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.440 the second season for you. Thank you, Thank you so much. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.360 I feel really seen and held by you. I love them. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.439 You basically forced me to watch it. And when we 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.920 we discussed it, you know the other night when we 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.000 were hanging out, and you didn't remember any of the 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.720 things that I was trying to tell you. No, I 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.160 didn't remember any of the people. It's really what I 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.680 wanted was for you to experience was the vibes and 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.599 the experience. Let's set it up for everyone what the 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.400 show is about. So Twelve Dates of Christmas is a show. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.400 It's a reality show that's sort of like trying to 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:04.120 replicate what happens in a holiday rom com. So there 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:08.959 are three leads um and in this iteration, there was 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.319 one straight guy and two queer people, a queer woman 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.120 and a queer man um and they are staying at 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:21.880 this beautiful um Ski lodge during Christmas. I'm saying that 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.960 air quotes because it was obviously shot in like March July. 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.720 I yeah, um. And they have a series of romantic 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.160 interests who show up at the lodge and sometimes unexpected 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.440 ways and attempt to woo them as they go on 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:41.800 twelve dates, all leading up to choosing someone to take 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.720 home with them for Christmas, which again is obviously like 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.640 shot in August, and they they put like a wreath 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.400 on their dad's that door. Um. And then this season, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:56.880 the like secondary twist was that after they took their 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.439 love interest home for Christmas, they would then spend New 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.880 Years with New York City at the top of the 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:06.880 Empire State Building. So it's it's like the Bachelor meets 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.760 the bisexual season of Are You the One? Through the 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.280 lens of love? Actually, I wish it had had more 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.800 of like the queer messiness of Are You the One? 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.360 Because Heina, who's this like non binary character that kind 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.160 of you know, gets far in the competition, is like 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.640 very important for like non binary villain representation, as they 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.800 are like kind of the person that really throws a 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.160 lot of like kind of conflicts into the arena, but 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.520 not enough conflict In my opinion. Yeah, but I thought 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.040 like it was a good example of why there should 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.240 be more queer lead dating shows because like of the 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:46.880 inherent mess of your pool of love interests all potentially 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.240 being attracted to each other, and like we saw in 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.200 Twelve Dates of Christmas, two of the two of the 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.079 gay love interests like hooked up and ended up like 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.599 saying I love you to each other after guessing with 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:06.400 like a couple, um and then leaving together. Um Tina. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.559 As we previously mentioned, like hooked up with the lesbian 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.440 who went home first. Um Heina is um Heina's pretty 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.800 big on lesbian. Have you ever seen their TikTok's? Yeah, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.760 they're they're really funy ship. I didn't know that. I'm 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.200 gonna have to tune in. Other takeaways is that like 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.800 just the just the the the awe inspiring quality of 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.600 like heterosexual dating, Like the heterosexual lead is like the 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.600 most basic and like indecisive and boring person on the planet, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.240 and like he truly is is like every episode is 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.760 the most attracted to the newest exactly because it's like, oh, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.280 shiny new thing for me to stick and every time 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.920 in the confessionals, but they like to be like he 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.560 talks about who the new girl is wo be like, yeah, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.000 you know, a lot of qualities stick out to me. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.040 You know, she's attractive, she's the right height, she's gorgeous, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.440 she's beautiful, and it's like every single time it's just 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.760 like yeah, kept talking about their height, which I thought 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.760 was so bizarre. And also like the gay guy, honest, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.920 he was he was hot. He was hot. He was hot. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.920 I mean I liked his little like gray. And there 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.400 was other like painful moments in these first dates. There 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.440 was like a moment where this girl is trying to 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.080 like talk about herself for her personality's like, well, I 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.320 I'm a big Harry Potter fan. It's like if you 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.760 were on a first date like that is actually going 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.440 to be the least interesting thing about you know, just 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.680 come to the Universal Studios. There was another moment where 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.400 that the heterosexual guy was like, yeah, you know, our 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.160 relationship is like so amazing, like we're like Jim and Pam. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:46.680 And I'm like, oh, thank you for making me watch it. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.920 I did enjoy it. Thank you for watching. I'm I'm 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.280 truly less to have you in my life and um 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.840 feel supported by you, especially after the last couple of 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.840 days have been a little sad after hearing that Anne 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.720 Rice died. It was announced by her son on on 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.440 social media that Anne had passed away at the age 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.560 of I believe eight was but we all know that 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:16.160 she was three and seventy two. Yes, Um, I don't 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.280 know what your relationship to Anne Rice is, but I 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.640 love and Rice. Like around the time that I started 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.560 watching Buffy, I like read a couple and Rice novels. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.600 Obviously loved the movie Interview with the Vampire Queen of 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.440 the Damned when it came out was huge for me. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.040 I guess like I might have even stuck around longer 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.000 in the Anne Rice fandom if it was allowed, because 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:47.600 Anne Rice was famously extremely anti fan fiction and would 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.040 in fact like send her lawyers to sue people who 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:58.160 wrote Vampire Chronicles fan fiction. But she also wrote very 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.440 like explicitly queer care aracters, like at a time when 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.719 that was not a thing you were supposed to do, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.280 like Lestat and Louis and interviewed the vampire just were gay. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.920 They were gays who adopted Kirsten Dunst. And there there 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.840 was something circling Twitter about and Rice talking about trans people. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.080 How like trans people are sacred and have like existed 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.080 in every culture and so like yes, well I may 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.439 not have agreed with and Rice's views on fan fiction, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.520 I do um you know, like celebrate her and everything 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:35.159 she contributed. I think like the modern preoccupation with vampires 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.159 like was started by her, and like you do not 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.280 hump Twilight without and Rice, and for that we lift 0:17:43.320 --> 0:18:02.040 her up in celebration. Don't, don't, don't don't don't. What 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.920 are your what's your favorite part about the holidays? My 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.960 favorite part about the holiday is is traveling. Like I 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.399 once I got my first real job and was able to, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.760 I just became a holiday traveler. Yeah, because my grandmother's 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.440 birthday is December fourteen, and my niece's birthday is the 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:32.080 same day. So I visit home then between Thanksgiving, between Christmas, 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.720 and then I just Christmas. I'm just like gone, gone, 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:47.520 you are international, smile the that girl's chip about you've 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.840 spent well, you've been to like for for the holiday summers, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.600 you go to like Paris or where else do you go? 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.199 Like I went right before the pandemic my last Christmas, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:19:02.359 I went to um Bash the Mexican Love. Okay, I 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.920 just love being you know that, like I've always aspired 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.960 to be that um, that aunt um who you know 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.200 always travels from the holidays and then shows up with 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.320 like presents. It's like, Hi, I never see any of you, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.679 and you a gift. Now I'm about to get out 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:24.560 of play big ant energy. I love that I newly 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.400 became an aunt almost a year ago, and I'm trying 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.080 I'm trying to manifest or trying to fest that same 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.439 that same wealthy aunt energy. You need to buy more 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.040 calf Dan's. Yeah. Well, I also for me, it's really 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:43.000 about the opportunity to turn my nephew against my brother 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.320 and his wife and make him hate everything that they love. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.600 That's my niece's favorite. As you just listen, you just 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.320 gotta like it's just a random day when you're feeling it, 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.119 just like hit her cash at with the money so 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.600 you buy just like I blessed I blessed the cash 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.400 app like the other day. Wow. I mean just imagine 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.879 like being like having you as your uncle. That's so 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:14.000 fucking cool. That's amazing. Yeah. Wow, well, um, speaking of traveling, 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.480 the setting for this movie that we're about to discuss 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.840 is Prague question Mark. Yeah, you all been to Prague. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.480 I have not. I'm really mad because a friend of 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:29.960 mine um just went in October and I couldn't go 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.480 because I was working. I do like in an Eastern 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:42.920 European moment. I've been to Budapest, so like like it's 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.200 it's a really hard when people do it because they're 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.399 really trying to They're really trying to show you that 0:20:49.600 --> 0:21:00.600 they are international trials. Yeah, New York City. Yeah, but 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.760 I know never been to Prague, but I would love 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.040 to go. But but like I think only if I 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.879 stayed in the kind of hotel that Queen Lativa stays. Yes, 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:12.000 you got to stay in basically a castle. Yeah, truly, 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.600 I don't know if you know this world. But unfortunately 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.520 I have been to Prague before when I was like 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.639 in like freshman or sophomore year. No, no, no, I 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.600 think it was in seventh or eighth grade on a 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.639 missions trip with me. I just took another step of 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:33.280 the I want to kill myself continue. No, it doesn't. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.760 But I was teaching check teens about Christ our Savior. 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:39.480 Did you buy any chance find out that you were 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.480 going to die um from a brain disease right before 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.119 you went? No? I didn't but the check teens that 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.600 I was teaching the Bible too were very hot, and 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.920 I remember like being like, these are some like we 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.840 were both teens. I was like teens teaching teens about Jesus, 0:21:54.920 --> 0:22:00.520 and you're a bit of a check hunter if you no, 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:08.560 I'm believing. So for those so for those who have 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.240 never seen last Holiday before, the concede generally is like 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.240 Queen Latifa finds out that she has a terminal illness. 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.840 She has what three or four weeks to because she okay, 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.879 because she slips and hits her head while working in 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.440 the department store that she works in, which has a 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:26.320 hospital in it where she gets a cat scan. Literally 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.879 has a hospital in which, you know, every time I 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:31.159 go to Bloomingdale's, I'm like, you know what, let me 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.399 get a cat scan. Well, I'm here. The insurance covers that. 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.440 I feel like it was. You half believe it because 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:41.320 growing up I always got like my eye exams and 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:46.919 things done like Sam's Club, but definitely not a hospital. 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.680 I did not question it as a teenager. When I 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.640 saw it at all, I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:55.160 So she embarks on this journey to Prague. It's because 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.480 she decides she's going to spend all of her money. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:04.120 She's saving because she has like a recipe book, right, 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:10.360 and she's like saving it her possibility. Very it's very 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:13.720 very sad um. But what's amazing is that she cashes 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.199 her four oh and kay, and they're like, oh, how 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:17.680 are you going to spend it? She's like, I'm just 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.640 gonna blow it all. And I also have to say 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.720 that when I was like extremely broke and had first 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.199 moved to New York City after my first publishing job, 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:26.800 I ran out of money and I did cash my 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.400 fur owen kay at the age of like twenty four, 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:33.440 but it was first saving. I had one once at 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.359 some point when you got a job. I look, I 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:38.520 had a four ward came when I was at BuzzFeed. 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:44.399 Where is it where? It's probably my My dad cashed 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.040 in his four oh when k and bought a house 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.639 in Costa Rica, um that I once spent a summer in. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.200 And it was a bad decision on this part. I think, 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.480 Um he has since sold the house and gone back 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:01.040 to work. It is a really beautiful depiction of I 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.080 guess like kind of that wish fulfillment trope in like 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:06.159 films of like, what would you do if you, like, 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:08.200 all of a sudden, had all this money to spend 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:10.560 in three or four weeks or whatever, and three or 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:13.520 four weeks to live as well? I don't know what 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:16.000 would you do if you found out you only you 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:18.480 had less than a month to live and had a 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:20.679 bunch of money to spend. What would you do? Well? 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:23.720 I would immediately take up smoking again cigarette case I 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:25.240 miss it and if I knew I was going to 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.560