Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to Many Crush. Noel running late edition. That's every edition.
Speaker 1: That's not true, Oh Noel, come on one of those
Speaker 1: ten minutes late guys. All right, look in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's different. Okay, this is I lose record on a
Speaker 1: day where I have my kid and it's a little
Speaker 1: bit tricky sometimes to navigate the pitfalls of single fatherhood. Okay,
Speaker 1: is that where we're going. That's where we're going. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna post that picture on the Movie Crush page. Why
Speaker 1: because you have your fucking song. It's true, It's true.
Speaker 1: I do. How you doing? Besides, I'm a little frazzled.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I've been listening a lot to um
Speaker 1: this Purple Mountains record. Have you heard this? Have I
Speaker 1: heard it? Have you heard it? No? I got an
Speaker 1: advanced copy of that from the man himself. No ship, God, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we should. Uh we're talking about the the late
Speaker 1: David Berman. Uh, one of my idols. I didn't know
Speaker 1: his stuff very well at all. I always heard the
Speaker 1: name and knew he struggled with addiction and depression and stuff.
Speaker 1: I didn't really know his music. I knew the Silver Jews,
Speaker 1: but I heard this record his music, yeah, exactly for sure,
Speaker 1: but I heard this record, uh right before you know
Speaker 1: he passed and you know it took his own life,
Speaker 1: and uh it really it spoke to me in in
Speaker 1: a really intense way. And apparently a lot of people
Speaker 1: have that relationship with his music and his very confessional
Speaker 1: but like sarcastic and super witty lyrics, and this one's
Speaker 1: no exception. But when you when you think about it
Speaker 1: after the fact, it really does listen like a goodbye
Speaker 1: goodbye yeah, and it's it's very it's a wonderful, wonderful album. Yeah.
Speaker 1: David Berman was the lead singer and songwriter for The
Speaker 1: Silver Jewice, one of my favorite bands, which was kind
Speaker 1: of started off as a pavement side project. Bob Nistanovich
Speaker 1: and Stephen Maltamus have worked with him on The Jews
Speaker 1: over the years, and then he went away for a while,
Speaker 1: and in the interim, Bob Nistanovich put me in touch
Speaker 1: with Dave Burman because I was trying to get him
Speaker 1: on movie Crush, and I have two emails from the
Speaker 1: man that, uh, I treasure now in a big, big
Speaker 1: way because he's one of my heroes of his book
Speaker 1: of poetry and uh he he died a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and it's very very sad, really really is um.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to get too heavy here
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, but my my father
Speaker 1: actually took his own life, and so I sort of
Speaker 1: can relate in a way of knowing somebody but not
Speaker 1: really knowing somebody and kind of you know, finding out
Speaker 1: after the fact what they were really going through. That
Speaker 1: maybe it's hard for someone to even fully share that
Speaker 1: much of themselves with anybody. You know, that's right, and
Speaker 1: that is a lesson in uh, kindness and gratitude. And
Speaker 1: you never know what is going on behind closed doors everybody,
Speaker 1: so be your best self and be kind to one another. Uh.
Speaker 1: Stuff out there for a lot of people, and they
Speaker 1: don't often show that face publicly. So and the FCC
Speaker 1: is actually proposed um a three digit number for the
Speaker 1: suicide prevention hotline hasn't passed yet, but that's something because
Speaker 1: this is you know, this is an important thing. If
Speaker 1: you if you feel like someone is in trouble, um
Speaker 1: and you want to report it, you should be able
Speaker 1: to do it without having to look up any hundred number,
Speaker 1: but right now the number is right now, the number
Speaker 1: is one eight hundred two seven three, eight to five five.
Speaker 1: But look for new legislation that might replace that with
Speaker 1: the drill it into people's brains like nine one one was,
Speaker 1: and uh, I might save some lives. True, that would
Speaker 1: be great. All right, Now we're gonna move on to
Speaker 1: happier times because this is a Movie Crushers episode, which
Speaker 1: I do every now and then, where I troll the
Speaker 1: Movie Crushers page, not troll it. That makes sound like it.
Speaker 1: Just I'm troll the Movie Crushers page for just fun stuff,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's usually like social study stuff. But this
Speaker 1: time I found a couple of fun things via the
Speaker 1: Movie Crushers that I had not seen before. And have
Speaker 1: you seen this Batman AI script yet? No? But I
Speaker 1: love it already. I've seen some AI scripts. So what
Speaker 1: happened was and this was. I can't remember who won.
Speaker 1: The Movie Crushers posted this first, but a few people
Speaker 1: have at this point. This is a writer, a comedian
Speaker 1: and writer named Keaton Patty who evidently, and I really
Speaker 1: hope this is true and not just a big fake,
Speaker 1: but evidently the story goes is he forced an a
Speaker 1: I bought to watch over one thousand hours of Batman
Speaker 1: movies and then asked to write a Batman movie of
Speaker 1: its own. And he published the first page. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to read that first page and all because it's great.
Speaker 1: Would you want should we split it up? It? Is it?
Speaker 1: Multiple characters? Yeah, I mean there's a Joker and Alfred
Speaker 1: and Batman. How about I'll be Batman and you be
Speaker 1: everyone else, and I'll read the stage directions that sound good?
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right? Interior traditional bat cave. It's already funny.
Speaker 1: Batman stands next to his batmobile and uses his bat computer.
Speaker 1: He's sometimes Bruce, Wayne, sometimes Batman, all times orphan. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you haven't seen this yet. All right, Batman speaks,
Speaker 1: This is now a safe city. I have punched a
Speaker 1: penguin into prison. Alfred, Batman's loyal battler, carries a tray
Speaker 1: of goth ham eat a dinner mattressed way. An explosion
Speaker 1: explodes the Joker and to face into the cave. Joker
Speaker 1: is a clown but insane. To face is a man,
Speaker 1: but attorney Batman speaks, No, it is to face and
Speaker 1: one face. They hate me for being a bat. Batman
Speaker 1: throws Alfred at two face to face, flips Alfred like
Speaker 1: a coin. Alfred Land's head up, heads up, which means
Speaker 1: to face goes home. Batman speaks, it is just you
Speaker 1: and I, the joker, bat versus clown moral enemies. I
Speaker 1: am such a freak. Society is bad. You drink water.
Speaker 1: I drink anarchy. That's the line of the script. I
Speaker 1: drink anarchy. Batman speaks, I drink bats, just like a
Speaker 1: bat would. Batman looks around for his parents, but they
Speaker 1: are still dead. This makes him have anger. He fires
Speaker 1: a bat rocket. The joker deflects it with his sixth
Speaker 1: sense of humor, a clown lee power. I have never
Speaker 1: followed a rule. That is my rule? Do you follow?
Speaker 1: I don't? Alfred give birth to Robin. Alfred begins the process,
Speaker 1: since it is his job. The Joker now has a
Speaker 1: present in his hand. He juggles it over to Batman.
Speaker 1: Happy bat Day, beth Man. Batman opens the present since
Speaker 1: he's a good guy. It contains a coupon for new parents,
Speaker 1: but is expired. This is a joker joke, the cruelest
Speaker 1: joker joke of all. Oh Man, please let that be true.
Speaker 1: There's an Olive Garden commercial that was generated very similarly
Speaker 1: out on Twitter a year or so ago. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see that. It's great. Um, all of these are great.
Speaker 1: It is a thing. I don't know how it works exactly,
Speaker 1: Like the stage direction is a part that throws me
Speaker 1: the whole thing, like, how did I don't that's coon
Speaker 1: for new parents. But oh boy, that's great. Oh you
Speaker 1: know what I do have? Who posted that? Thank you
Speaker 1: to Jonathan McGrath, Uh McGrath, the old pal, which is wonderful,
Speaker 1: the oldest of old pals. So I needed that chuck
Speaker 1: after that Berman record. Man, Yeah, that gave me joy. Um,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. It's so funny. So next up we have
Speaker 1: from Kristen Saturly. Uh, palm Azle is what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of syllables in a row there, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make one of them silent, very whimsical last name.
Speaker 1: It's a great name. It. She posted something that she
Speaker 1: found online, which was a Buffalo Bill Tinder profile, which
Speaker 1: was great. Yikes, have you seen this? No, it's got
Speaker 1: his picture first of all, and it's sort of the
Speaker 1: shot of him when he's just casually leaning in the
Speaker 1: doorway when she pays a visit. Film Classic Bill, Pose
Speaker 1: Bill thirty three years old away. I like Curvey girls.
Speaker 1: I have a dog. Her name is Precious. She's my world.
Speaker 1: My hobbies include midnight strolls, collecting insects. Kind of nerdy,
Speaker 1: but it's what I'm into, making my own clothing, and
Speaker 1: dancing when nobody's looking. He does dance like nobody's looking.
Speaker 1: Dry skin is a deal breaker, that's true. I love
Speaker 1: bath and body works for the sole reason that their
Speaker 1: lotion comes in a basket. I date me, Oh that's fun,
Speaker 1: It's the last line, and then shout out to Luke
Speaker 1: Harkell Road in the comments for immediately posting I date
Speaker 1: me so hard, I would this shift out of me.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize the Buffalo Bill was supposed to be
Speaker 1: thirty three. In my mind, he's older than that. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. Well, that might have been a guest,
Speaker 1: but looking back seems about right. Actually maybe. I mean,
Speaker 1: he always seemed in his forties to me, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and he still does. It's hard for me, though,
Speaker 1: like age stuff like Kurt Cobain was twenty seven or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I look back now at him, and I think
Speaker 1: the think of the Beatles, for for example, like I
Speaker 1: think of them as being these like genius luminaries. They
Speaker 1: were done by and thirty six. It makes me feel
Speaker 1: like I've accomplished nothing. Yeah, I don't go down that
Speaker 1: road now. I know it's a that's a hard road
Speaker 1: to ho. I just learned yesterday that Marlon Brando was
Speaker 1: a year younger than me when he started The Godfather.
Speaker 1: They aged him out, you know, to senior citizens. But
Speaker 1: still good god yea, all right, No, well, now we're
Speaker 1: gonna move on to UHLENEA. Barnett, who posted a really
Speaker 1: good social studies that I'm surprised I had never thought
Speaker 1: of before. And it is this, she says, Okay, what
Speaker 1: are your movie no ways? Like when you know a
Speaker 1: specific theme scene or a shot as used and refused
Speaker 1: to watch it or have to leave the room. For her,
Speaker 1: it is I uff and dogs dying. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: any kind of animal death is a real trigger for
Speaker 1: Needle stuff has always been tough for me. Don't care
Speaker 1: for needle stuff. It's not so much the needle as
Speaker 1: it is the tourniquet, you know, when they'd wrapped the
Speaker 1: rubber band around and they bother you. They bother men.
Speaker 1: Very specific, isn't it. They Also I don't like cutting.
Speaker 1: I don't like cuts. I don't mind hacks like a whole,
Speaker 1: Like a clean arm cut, that's fine with me. But
Speaker 1: like a scalpel cut, or like a close up of
Speaker 1: someone getting sliced, what about it steps me out? Stabs
Speaker 1: don't bother me either. So just a slice slice interesting?
Speaker 1: So like a blood brother scene would freak you out,
Speaker 1: I don't care for that. Definitely don't like a wrist cut.
Speaker 1: Does that mean, well, well, there's a scene in one
Speaker 1: of the John Wick movies where there's a very out
Speaker 1: of the blue wrist slice and I was not expecting it,
Speaker 1: and I started, I walked away. I started pacing around
Speaker 1: the room as I I walked away. Yeah, needle stuff
Speaker 1: gets me, of course, any dogs or kids stuff now, um,
Speaker 1: the I remember very distinctly the pulp fiction adrenaline shot
Speaker 1: to the art just and you know, Tarantino wretches his
Speaker 1: ratchets up the tension so well in that scene. It's
Speaker 1: hard to sit through if you're if you're a needle phobe,
Speaker 1: and I'm still a needle phobe. I've gotten good about
Speaker 1: it now at the doctor, but it used to really
Speaker 1: really be an issue. That one's a tough one too,
Speaker 1: because it's like a stab from on high through like
Speaker 1: the breastbone. Right. Yes, so that's the that's that. That's
Speaker 1: a very tough creature altogether. Yeah. I will say that
Speaker 1: the needles these days are different from the needles when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, when I built up my phobia.
Speaker 1: They've just gotten tinier and tinier, which is great, It's true.
Speaker 1: How are you about getting blood drawn? I'm fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I've gotten over my
Speaker 1: needle phobia to the extent where I can do it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, I'm gripping the arms of
Speaker 1: the chair. I look away. I don't see I have
Speaker 1: to look. Yeah, I got to look, and yeah, i
Speaker 1: cannot be surprised by the needle. I've got to see
Speaker 1: that ship. Yeah, I look away. Interesting. I always prepare
Speaker 1: the kind nurse or technician, uh for my phobia, and
Speaker 1: let the no I do too. I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: start hyperventilating a bad don't freak out. Not hyperventilating. I
Speaker 1: just kind of breathe a little heavy caring for it.
Speaker 1: The anticipation, you know, kind of is killing me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had a bad one last. I had a physical
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and good news everyone, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: I just need to lose weight. Yes. Same. The doctor
Speaker 1: was like, dude, your labs are fine, just lose some
Speaker 1: fucking weights. Sam. He's like, it's up to you. Actually,
Speaker 1: a very frank doctor, which I appreciate. You should jog together,
Speaker 1: but I hate Johnny. We'll do something else. But where
Speaker 1: was that going with that? Yeah? So I h deal breakers.
Speaker 1: I had a bad blood drawing experience because she couldn't
Speaker 1: find the vein. She was rooting around in there, and
Speaker 1: it's like that it actually started. It was painful. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like freaking me out. It hurt right, and she
Speaker 1: was very apologetic, very kind person that was doing this.
Speaker 1: I've luckily never had that. Yeah, So I was just like,
Speaker 1: can you just repoke? I would rather that than the dig? Right?
Speaker 1: What is the dig? The dig is the needles in
Speaker 1: your arm and she's moving around looking for the main
Speaker 1: what no, no, no, thank you sir or madam. Al Right,
Speaker 1: enough of that. We were triggering so many people. All apologies,
Speaker 1: we'll start off with Sarah Stapleton. Uh, I don't even
Speaker 1: watch a movie about a dog because the dog always dies.
Speaker 1: That's good point, Margharita, Sarah Margo says, I stuff for real.
Speaker 1: I wanted to watch Brightburn, but they showed the I
Speaker 1: scene in the trailer and I new to avoid it.
Speaker 1: I don't know the ice scene. Brightburn sort of a
Speaker 1: superhero horror movie. It looks pretty cool. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: My friend Annie, isn't it? Yeah? Have you heard anything
Speaker 1: about it? I haven't seen it either. I need to
Speaker 1: see it. Our old pal Debbie Franka Ducas great name.
Speaker 1: She says, the same eyes and dogs. Really, it's like
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the that's the duo. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of dogs in here. Here you go, Noel. Brian Schlackman
Speaker 1: says slitting throats. Yeah, I don't care for that. I'm
Speaker 1: not a big fan of that either. It doesn't make
Speaker 1: me run out of the theater, but I will clench
Speaker 1: my butt hole, yes for sure. Yeah, No, I don't
Speaker 1: care for that. Did I just a butth hole? You did?
Speaker 1: Is that a movie crush? First? I think so? But
Speaker 1: hold such a great word is so much better than
Speaker 1: an asshole. I mean, asshole is what you call someone,
Speaker 1: but you don't refer to your own part as an asshole.
Speaker 1: It's a butthole, Yeah, I agree. Ruth Carrol to Hey
Speaker 1: says teeth and any animals. Yeah, teeth is obviously with
Speaker 1: my fake teeth, very much triggered by tooth stuff. There's
Speaker 1: a move. It's a little short Japanese thing. It's called haze,
Speaker 1: I think it's what it's called, and sort of like
Speaker 1: basically like takes place in a type of hell and
Speaker 1: there's a scene of this guy's navigating through this hellscape
Speaker 1: and there's one part where he has to cross this
Speaker 1: really narrow bridge against the wall with his teeth clenched
Speaker 1: over an iron pipe and a side to side. The
Speaker 1: sound effects of his teeth grinding on this pipe will
Speaker 1: will make your butthole clinch. I couldn't do it a
Speaker 1: bad times old pal. Sarah Linderbergh says anything to the
Speaker 1: bottom of the feet. She mentions the scene in Die
Speaker 1: Hard it was too much for her, the glass probably
Speaker 1: barefoot and he's she's named Fensta, Yeah, right shot the
Speaker 1: gloss uh Menal Data says a sexual assault of course.
Speaker 1: Message to the industry stopped depicting it graphically and stop
Speaker 1: using it as a plot device. Yeah, I hear you see,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that about me. If you're if
Speaker 1: as a plot device, what I mean, what if that's
Speaker 1: like the whole character arc? What if that's the point?
Speaker 1: What if that's like part of the story. Are you
Speaker 1: saying you shouldn't depict sexual assault ever because it's off limits? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not I'm not gonna speak for her, No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm'm asking. I'm speaking for the industry or just
Speaker 1: like you know, storytelling in general. So you know, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? I don't know, Like I understand
Speaker 1: like a lot of people had a problem with Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones because it had some problematic depictions of sexual islands.
Speaker 1: I get that it depends on the context for sure,
Speaker 1: because they didn't have to do it the way they did.
Speaker 1: But I think to say let's not use this ever
Speaker 1: at all as a plot device to me is sort
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know, brushing something under the rug
Speaker 1: that could be exposed in an interesting way right here,
Speaker 1: it could be discussed an interesting way, an I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is certainly, uh something people could debate. Absolutely, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Nicole Park's old Palaces, animals dying
Speaker 1: or shot of an ivy drug use. Yeah, spiking up
Speaker 1: in a heroin scene. Maybe it's partially needle. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: for again, for me, it's that tourniquet. Baby, I don't
Speaker 1: like it. You get that thing that turniquet into needle
Speaker 1: turnid in because it makes the vein pop and that's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know the pressure of that. And then the
Speaker 1: idea of like sticking the needle into like a very
Speaker 1: popped out vein, and like in pulp fiction when you
Speaker 1: see him suck the blood into the syringe and then
Speaker 1: shoot it out, you know, like that's that's how you
Speaker 1: do it. I think, Yeah, he very romantically. Uh. I
Speaker 1: think he handles that in a romantic way almost in
Speaker 1: pulp fiction. He sexes it up a little bit interesting.
Speaker 1: Lauren Feni is also on board. She says sexual violence
Speaker 1: is the only thing that's made me turn off a movie.
Speaker 1: I certainly get that. Everybody, uh Lisa pellusy Dog or
Speaker 1: kid Deaths just can't do it. I also have a
Speaker 1: really hard time watching characters that are racist, and even
Speaker 1: more specifically, characters that are the victims of racism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that gets me more than I mean the racist stuff
Speaker 1: I can kind of block out. But seeing someone really
Speaker 1: kind of any victim, not just racism but bullying and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, man mad makes me really mad, so mad?
Speaker 1: Noel Uh Dodger Phillips says domestic violence for comic effect
Speaker 1: like War the Roses or Mr Mrs Smith. I think
Speaker 1: that is problematic for comic effects. I have a problem
Speaker 1: with that. I think, Oh, I love War the Roses
Speaker 1: so much. I haven't seen that. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: dark comedy about how has been a wife that get
Speaker 1: divorced and it just gets so ugly that you know
Speaker 1: they're battling each other physically at the end. It's never serious.
Speaker 1: But but he doesn't like it. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: any anybody anybody's wrong. I'm just talking about, like where
Speaker 1: is the line? Where should the line be drawn? Is
Speaker 1: there a line, you know, in terms of like what
Speaker 1: can or can't or should or shouldn't be depicted? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh. And we'll finish out here with Lauren
Speaker 1: Barnes w She mentions the eyes, but then she also says, uh,
Speaker 1: sexual violence, especially abuse against children, obnoxious sex scenes, close upgore, blood, gushing,
Speaker 1: slapstick humor. She said, all of this has gotten worse
Speaker 1: for me is I've gotten older. Yeah, taste can change
Speaker 1: over the years, especially when you have a kid. That's
Speaker 1: I mean, I can, I can get through anything. I'm
Speaker 1: not one of those that will turn a movie off,
Speaker 1: but that ship will bother me and stick with me.
Speaker 1: And I don't mind that. Like, I'm one of those
Speaker 1: people that can. I think it's okay for a movie
Speaker 1: to upset you, and that's part of the experience for
Speaker 1: me sometimes absolutely, Like especially like I think about a
Speaker 1: movie like American History X, I don't think you won't
Speaker 1: argue that bad movie maybe the worst thing that's got
Speaker 1: it's got the teeth, it's got the racism, it's got
Speaker 1: the victims of racist That was a tough film. That's
Speaker 1: a very tough film. But it's I think, now more
Speaker 1: than ever, a pretty important film. Yeah, pretty prescient film.
Speaker 1: I mean that that stuff is very real and they
Speaker 1: depict it in a very frank in real way. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the great thing about movies. Everybody is, uh, if
Speaker 1: you don't like that stuff, don't watch it. I think
Speaker 1: it's okay for me to get upset by a movie.
Speaker 1: But I certainly get that people don't want to be
Speaker 1: upset by movies at all. You know, that's very prosionable thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I think it's important to know
Speaker 1: what you're getting yourself into before you you watch something
Speaker 1: if you're that kind of person, because you don't want
Speaker 1: to be you know, you don't want to like trigger
Speaker 1: yourself and have a bad time. Totally agree, Totally agree.
Speaker 1: All right, now we're gonna finish up this week with
Speaker 1: a quick stream this. I've been watching a couple of
Speaker 1: new shows that I would like to talk about. Are
Speaker 1: you watching The Boys? Now? I've heard it's good though,
Speaker 1: it's great cool? What is it on Amazon? On Amazon?
Speaker 1: All right? The Boys is an Amazon Prime show, and
Speaker 1: uh it is. It depicts a very realistic sort of
Speaker 1: take on superheroes, wherein superheroes are just part of the
Speaker 1: fabric of the country and they are depicted in realistic
Speaker 1: ways with all their faults and they are not always
Speaker 1: great people. It is for adults. The show is. It
Speaker 1: makes me the the setup makes me think of Watchmen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just in terms of like, let's discuss what a world
Speaker 1: with real superheroes would be like for sure, Uh, that
Speaker 1: is that is a fair comparison. Absolutely, and they have
Speaker 1: like endorsements and things like that. And yeah, they're they're
Speaker 1: superhero rose in in every sense of the word. You know,
Speaker 1: they make a lot of money, they're rich, they're sponsored. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a corporation that sort of runs the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and that's a big part of the show. It's got
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Shoe and it is a place sort of the
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess she's like the CEO of the corporation, uh,
Speaker 1: and main handler of the superheroes. But it's just really
Speaker 1: great and uh, what do you like most about it?
Speaker 1: Like as it just the acting. The writing is good.
Speaker 1: Writing is great. The writing is really really great, and
Speaker 1: it's uh it's a cool concept. The acting is really good.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't I don't know, it always surprises me.
Speaker 1: I think that's the deal. It's it doesn't go where
Speaker 1: I expected to go and the people don't always uh
Speaker 1: behave predictably, which I like. That's great. I've been meaning
Speaker 1: to check it out. I definitely you would, you would
Speaker 1: definitely like it. And the other show Noal that I've
Speaker 1: been watching is shrill Adie Bryant's show. Uh Adie Bryant
Speaker 1: from Saturday Night Live. Oh no, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: so not up on the current Saturday Night If you
Speaker 1: look her up you'd probably recognize her. She's the best. Um,
Speaker 1: just listen to her Mark Marin episode A. Long been
Speaker 1: a fan of Adie Bryant. I hope we're related. I
Speaker 1: hope to have her on movie Crush one day to
Speaker 1: talk about whether or not we're related. Although she's from Phoenix,
Speaker 1: she was from the Southeast, there might be a chance.
Speaker 1: But um, she's wonderful. Like I kind of loosely know
Speaker 1: her husband h Connor O'Malley, But um, she's great. It's
Speaker 1: a show on Hulu and she is a plus sized
Speaker 1: woman who makes a show about a plus size woman.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, let me see here, who the who?
Speaker 1: The writer was here? It is it's a Lyndy West.
Speaker 1: And the book was Shrill Colin Notes from a Loud Woman,
Speaker 1: written by Lindy West. And so what Adie Bryan has
Speaker 1: done is adapted that book but also brought her own
Speaker 1: life experience as a plus sized woman into the show.
Speaker 1: And it's I mean, it's very easy to say, like
Speaker 1: that's what the show is about. But it's really about
Speaker 1: a woman living life. It's that simple, and it's it's
Speaker 1: people remark on the fact that she's uh, that she's overweight,
Speaker 1: because you don't see shows like this. It should be
Speaker 1: unremarkable and it should just be a show about a woman.
Speaker 1: But because she's overweight, and that's part of the show,
Speaker 1: because it's part of her life, that becomes sort of
Speaker 1: the descriptor for it. Well, and it's interesting case. I
Speaker 1: think we're living in such a you know, as such
Speaker 1: a problematic time and so many levels, but also such
Speaker 1: an interesting time where body positivity is much more of
Speaker 1: a mainstream thing. And this is a great example. And
Speaker 1: I think in general, like people are encouraged to be
Speaker 1: who they are, and I think it's a lot less
Speaker 1: body shaming going on in the main you know, like
Speaker 1: even my kid, like she's really into this artist Billie Eilish,
Speaker 1: who is wears these baggy clothes and has this kind
Speaker 1: of like interesting style. But a big part of why
Speaker 1: she does that is because she doesn't want to be
Speaker 1: over sexualized by the media. Because she wears these kind
Speaker 1: of baggy clothes so you can actually see your body.
Speaker 1: So a lot of kids are like influenced by that
Speaker 1: as opposed to like a midriff you know, crop top
Speaker 1: Britney Spears kind of situations. So she's not she doesn't
Speaker 1: feel body shamed at all or feeling you know, and and
Speaker 1: my kids a little she's a she's a bigger kid,
Speaker 1: you know, and she's perfectly happy with her body type
Speaker 1: and doesn't at all. I think things are changing for
Speaker 1: the better. And uh, and part of the show too
Speaker 1: is just the the steady diet you're fed growing up
Speaker 1: and as people like our age and Adie Bryant's age
Speaker 1: of how you should look and how it was not
Speaker 1: like this at all and everywhere you look, and especially
Speaker 1: I mean it's true for everyone, but especially for women. Um,
Speaker 1: there's so much shame involved because all you see around
Speaker 1: you are those Britney Spears middrift videos and you're taught
Speaker 1: that that is beauty and there are no other options.
Speaker 1: This is the ideal. It's cool, but there's more than
Speaker 1: one ideal. There absolutely is. And this is another great
Speaker 1: example of a show that you know, we're getting to
Speaker 1: see these stories now that we were cheated out of
Speaker 1: for so long because she is the you know, writing
Speaker 1: and directing, well, I don't think she's directing, but writing
Speaker 1: this show, starting in the show show running essentially and
Speaker 1: producing this show. And it's just great, so much heart,
Speaker 1: so much humor, it's so fucking funny, and she's so
Speaker 1: adorable and uh lovable, Like I want to be her friend.
Speaker 1: I uh yeah, know everybody wants to be eighty bride Sprint.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't wait to see it. I have
Speaker 1: finally gotten into watching season one of Fleabag, and I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the smartest things I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. I think it's so funny, so approachable,
Speaker 1: so real, uh and just absolutely hilarious and also like
Speaker 1: really dark and awkward, but not in a way that
Speaker 1: makes it's in a way that makes you want to
Speaker 1: keep watching, as opposed to like make you like all
Speaker 1: like cringe e or squeamish or whatever. I think fantastic.
Speaker 1: I love it so much. Yeah, And the another kind
Speaker 1: of through line for this shrill show is shrill show
Speaker 1: is her uh and this is I think where her
Speaker 1: autobiography or the autobiography graphical element comes in is how
Speaker 1: much she wants to please people and how little she
Speaker 1: is willing to accept back from people because she just
Speaker 1: wants to fit in and be and make people happy.
Speaker 1: And she talked about that in her own experience on
Speaker 1: the Markmarren episode, which highly recommend um very relatable to
Speaker 1: the human condition, I think, uh, for for all kinds
Speaker 1: of people. So hats off to you, Adie Bryant. Love
Speaker 1: your show. It's a tight six episodes, which I love,
Speaker 1: and I believe it's already been picked up for a
Speaker 1: season two. Uh, and I can't wait for that. So
Speaker 1: keep on killing it and please come on my show.
Speaker 1: You're the best. I hope she's listening me too. Someone Tagger,
Speaker 1: please tell Lord Chuck Bryant's cushing her cutson. All right, No,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna wrap this one up. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a shorty, but uh, we have scheduling
Speaker 1: issues today, so we're gonna move on to part two
Speaker 1: coming up right after this. I'm ready for more podcasts
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