Speaker 1: Three to one. It seems off, but I guess they
Speaker 1: make it work, right, they make it work. Are you recording, Yes,
Speaker 1: we're recording. I'm recording, all right. Well are you by yourself?
Speaker 1: Of course? Well, I guess I should do a regular intro,
Speaker 1: even though I think we should leave that part in
Speaker 1: because it's fun and behind the scenes. Welcome to Movie Crush,
Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. Hey everyone, welcome to
Speaker 1: Movie Crush Friday interview editions. And if you heard a
Speaker 1: nice lady speaking on the other end of the mic,
Speaker 1: that is Miranda Hawkins, who you don't know yet but
Speaker 1: you soon will. Hi say Hi. So Miranda is uh,
Speaker 1: what what are the official titles these days? I don't
Speaker 1: even know. I know you're a producer. I'm a producer. Um.
Speaker 1: I still keep the title as journalists because some of
Speaker 1: the shows I've worked on still require some of those skills.
Speaker 1: So I still say I'm a journalist and a producer. Cool,
Speaker 1: very nice. Um, So Miranda came to our network. Um, jeez,
Speaker 1: it's been a while now, hasn't it two and a
Speaker 1: half years now? What? Yeah, I know, I know. The
Speaker 1: other day I was like, oh my goodness, because I
Speaker 1: started right about my birthday. So that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: every birthday I have. I'm like, that's a two year
Speaker 1: mark and we've moved past that by a few months.
Speaker 1: We're in the post birthday mode. Post birthday mode. Yeah. So, um,
Speaker 1: you came to us though kind of it. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a weird time, but it was you and like I
Speaker 1: feel like four or five other people that were brought
Speaker 1: in all at once and then sort of sequestered this
Speaker 1: team that didn't um have a lot to do with
Speaker 1: kind of everything else. You were all working on your
Speaker 1: own stuff with one of the gentleman who used to
Speaker 1: kind of run our network. Trying to say this all
Speaker 1: in the right way. I think you're doing a pretty
Speaker 1: good job. Basically, we all came from different backgrounds, and
Speaker 1: I think only one of us had previous experience with
Speaker 1: making a podcast, and so we were all essentially thrown
Speaker 1: to the wolves and making this very big podcast. It's
Speaker 1: like okay, here you go, and then you have four
Speaker 1: months to do this, and we're all like okay, um.
Speaker 1: And that was Atlanta Monster, right, No, it was the
Speaker 1: second one. It was Monster the Zodiac Killer. Okay, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: But three of us came from journalism backgrounds, and one
Speaker 1: of us came from more of a music engineering background.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was it was a lot. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, but it was definitely figuring it
Speaker 1: out as we went. Well, the weird thing is is
Speaker 1: that we've worked together for two and a half years
Speaker 1: and I don't even know you that well. So this
Speaker 1: will be great for everyone because I can get to
Speaker 1: know you as the listeners do. Which one were you?
Speaker 1: Were you music background or journalism journalism? My background is
Speaker 1: actually investigative journalism. That's what I really wanted to do.
Speaker 1: But I had actually quit being not quit being a reporter,
Speaker 1: but I had moved over into a different position. So
Speaker 1: I moved over to the position of working on a
Speaker 1: arts and culture program here in Atlanta, and I was
Speaker 1: a producer for that when I came over here. Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was a little bit of a bit
Speaker 1: of a wayward stray over here, but yeah, and that's yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's my background for the most part. Where did
Speaker 1: you do you move to Atlanta from somewhere? Now, I've
Speaker 1: been in Atlanta. I've been in Atlanta for ten years.
Speaker 1: I've been inside the perimeter for six now. I went
Speaker 1: to Georgia State. That's where I graduated from. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I graduated with a journalism degree. But I worked at
Speaker 1: W A. B which is one of the NPR affiliates,
Speaker 1: and I was there. I was there six months after graduating,
Speaker 1: and I was there for two and a half years
Speaker 1: before I came over here. So it's cool. Yeah, where
Speaker 1: are you from? Originally Richmond, Well, not Richmond. I was
Speaker 1: born in Richmond. Originally Fredericksburg, Virginia. So I was up
Speaker 1: there for fifteen years and then my mom moved me
Speaker 1: down to Raybon County, Georgia. If anyone knows where that is,
Speaker 1: it's in the middle of nowhere. I know where it is. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well you know, but most people don't. I normally have
Speaker 1: to um if basically for those who don't, it is
Speaker 1: the north the northeastern corner of Georgia. It is twelve
Speaker 1: miles from the border of North and South Carolina. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's lovely. Yeah, well it's lovely to visit, not to
Speaker 1: move a fifteen year old with nothing to do. I
Speaker 1: hear you, Yeah, I hear you. Um. Just so everyone
Speaker 1: knows what's going on in real time too. I think
Speaker 1: this will come out probably next Friday. But as we
Speaker 1: are recording right now, it is um just to gauge
Speaker 1: our mood, it is the day after the Georgia Senate election.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little tired, I'm a little hungover. I
Speaker 1: am fly high, and right now it is literally one
Speaker 1: fifteen when you know Congress has convened to certify or
Speaker 1: not certify. Um, I know that's it's not gonna happen
Speaker 1: yet to certify to certify Biden's wins. So it's just
Speaker 1: a big day. It's a huge day. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's all anyone, you know, that's all what's on our minds,
Speaker 1: especially Georgia. Like we've had so much writing on Georgia,
Speaker 1: Like I never expected us to be the battleground this
Speaker 1: election season, and no I thought it was. We were
Speaker 1: one early is what I thought. Yeah, And honestly, like
Speaker 1: while I'm definitely one of those people who has like
Speaker 1: posted every day like vote you need to make sure
Speaker 1: to vote, and like posting all my voting selfies, I'm
Speaker 1: also very tired of all of the hi Winifred have
Speaker 1: you voted today? Like I did phone baking too. I
Speaker 1: was one of those people. But I am ready to
Speaker 1: get past this. Yes, I'm ready to not get texts. Um,
Speaker 1: they got Emily and I my wife switched out somehow
Speaker 1: because I'm getting messages in text to Emily Ly on
Speaker 1: my phone. I'm not sure how that happened, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for that to stop. Yeah. I've been Win
Speaker 1: a Fred this whole time, so that's been my like,
Speaker 1: I guess my alter egos win of Fred now. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just haven't. I think I'm fine with this.
Speaker 1: That might have to be your new nickname. What are
Speaker 1: you working on these days? Anything that you can talk
Speaker 1: about or plug? Um. So, I'm working on all of
Speaker 1: Aaron Manky shows. If you've heard of American Shadows, that's
Speaker 1: one of the shows I work on with Lauren Vogelbaum,
Speaker 1: who is absolutely amazing. It's really nice because I haven't
Speaker 1: got to work with another woman really as far as
Speaker 1: like a host our producer, I'm pretty much on a
Speaker 1: male dominant team. Um. And then uh, let's see, we're
Speaker 1: working on the second season of Strange Arrivals, which yes,
Speaker 1: is like all about aliens and things like that. Um.
Speaker 1: And I work with Toby Ball on that. He's a
Speaker 1: host of that and he's absolutely lovely and then there's
Speaker 1: a few other things I can't really talk about that
Speaker 1: are like pre pre pre produce, auction, but working on
Speaker 1: some scripts there, and we have a lot coming down
Speaker 1: the pipeline, but there's going to be a lot more,
Speaker 1: like as this year unfolds, you'll hear about a lot more,
Speaker 1: but at the moment it's all pre production stuff or
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. So that's awesome. I mean, do you
Speaker 1: like the job. Have you taken to it? I have,
Speaker 1: It's I love it because there's so much more creativity
Speaker 1: involved that I never expected. So one of my things
Speaker 1: is I loved being a reporter. It's all I wanted
Speaker 1: to do, and I got that right. I got that
Speaker 1: right out of college. I know, I was living my
Speaker 1: dream job. Unfortunately, sometimes dream jobs don't pay you a
Speaker 1: living wage. So I was like, wait a minute, Um,
Speaker 1: I'd also be reporter. No good? Yeah, Um, I mean
Speaker 1: I would go back one day maybe, but not right now.
Speaker 1: But it's also like, there's only so much creativity you
Speaker 1: can have with it because you're reporting. And then I
Speaker 1: moved to producing for City Lights with Lowis Fritesis, and
Speaker 1: I love that too, but it was still kind of recording. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I worked with She's amazing and I was only with
Speaker 1: her for a few months before I end up getting
Speaker 1: this position. But with this one, it's like you can
Speaker 1: take the reporting and like the hard facts um, and
Speaker 1: in that aspect you can still have more creativity with
Speaker 1: storytelling and how you tell it because you don't have
Speaker 1: to have like the big thing up front with your
Speaker 1: first sentence, right, you can you know, you can lead it,
Speaker 1: make a bit more storytelling. But there's also creativity and
Speaker 1: sound design. I worked on Thirteen Days of Halloween, that
Speaker 1: three D show that came out last year. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I had never in my life would have imagined me
Speaker 1: working on something that was like ambio trying to figure
Speaker 1: out like does it you know, is it coming from
Speaker 1: the left or the right? Like far away? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: close up, and like how to make those sounds work.
Speaker 1: But the creativity that goes within that was the audio things. Yes, Wow,
Speaker 1: that is so cool. I mean, is that the future
Speaker 1: or is that just going to be sort of like
Speaker 1: three D movies and like a part of the future.
Speaker 1: I think it will be more of a part of
Speaker 1: the future, because realistically, it doesn't work for everything. If
Speaker 1: you really want it to work, it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: there are certain elements that you need to make it
Speaker 1: really sound the way you want it to sound. Like.
Speaker 1: You can't just throw it into everything. It's just not
Speaker 1: going to work that way. So, um, it works best
Speaker 1: when like when the listener is central and things are
Speaker 1: moving around the listener more so than like walking steps
Speaker 1: this swear walking that way, it just doesn't work the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess tell everyone what that is, because
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people haven't listened to anything
Speaker 1: uh in the three D audio space, so just sort
Speaker 1: of what's the overview there? So the overview is imagine
Speaker 1: that you're sitting on a park bench and your eyes
Speaker 1: are closed and you're just kind of hearing the sounds
Speaker 1: around you, right like kids playing in the background, maybe
Speaker 1: to your left, and it sounds far away. You can
Speaker 1: hear the wind like wrestling through the leaves, and while
Speaker 1: it's like circling all around you, maybe you hear like
Speaker 1: the couple of leaves on the sidewalk right in front
Speaker 1: of you. So it's it's putting those things into um
Speaker 1: spatial like from the listener, like spatially where it is
Speaker 1: from you to make it sound like you're actually there,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of space and like different sounds or
Speaker 1: like if you're inside. Imagine. I had never thought about
Speaker 1: this before. Like at this moment me talking to I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in a box room that's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: panels to try to, you know, keep the sound in
Speaker 1: and keep other sounds out, so it sounds different than
Speaker 1: if you're walking down a concrete hallway. And those are
Speaker 1: the things you have to take into consideration where you're
Speaker 1: making three D audio is like, you know, what does
Speaker 1: it sound like spatially? What are you like the area
Speaker 1: sounds that kind of thing. That's awesome. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: very cool. It was a lot. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of work. Honestly, I feel like all of us were.
Speaker 1: It was a major learning curve for the entire team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's really really cool. But it sounds like
Speaker 1: kind of something that once you get the hang of it,
Speaker 1: the pace might pick up. Absolutely. I really I believe
Speaker 1: we're going to do another season. I would love to
Speaker 1: do another season because now that we've done it and
Speaker 1: I feel like we got more of a hang on it,
Speaker 1: like it would it would go a lot faster and
Speaker 1: we could do a bit more with it. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Another cool thing about our job is we have always
Speaker 1: been given a bunch of freedom to create stuff on
Speaker 1: our own and pitch and producers coming up with our
Speaker 1: own shows. Do you have you have a nice voice.
Speaker 1: Do you have any aims to to host and do
Speaker 1: your own thing? I do, I absolutely do. It's more
Speaker 1: finding something that I really have the passion the drive behind.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of ideas. I just haven't had
Speaker 1: a lot of time to sit and develop them. Um.
Speaker 1: That's that's the thing, right, because you have you have
Speaker 1: so many other other things going on. Um, But it
Speaker 1: is something that is kind of in the background on
Speaker 1: a constant basis that I have a little set up
Speaker 1: at home as well, and and um, when I have time,
Speaker 1: I sit and I visit those ideas and try to,
Speaker 1: I don't know, try to bring them more to fruition.
Speaker 1: So one of these days, hopefully soon. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I'm good with visiting like with you, and you know,
Speaker 1: working on sound design and things of that nature. Actually,
Speaker 1: do you want to hear something kind of funny? I
Speaker 1: never wanted to be an audio really never. I like
Speaker 1: swore up and down, I would never be an audio.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a writer strictly writing. I wanted
Speaker 1: to write for a newspaper yep. And then I end
Speaker 1: up getting an internship at a B and then it
Speaker 1: turned out I write really well for the ear and
Speaker 1: then I ended up getting a contract position with them,
Speaker 1: and the next thing I know, I'm here and I'm
Speaker 1: like I never would imagine this, and now my job
Speaker 1: is all audio. Yeah, it's a good network to be on.
Speaker 1: I think. I think there's a lot of opportunity um
Speaker 1: and I think having like a solid writing background, I
Speaker 1: mean that helps in every job. I was an English
Speaker 1: major and everyone was like, what are you gonna do teach?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well maybe, but it's also really
Speaker 1: good to be a good writer. I mean that helps
Speaker 1: in any job you could have, just to be able
Speaker 1: to write something, even if it's just good email correspondence
Speaker 1: with colleagues, like, it stands out if you're a good writer.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, no, I definitely agree with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: writing is definitely a great skill to have, no matter what,
Speaker 1: no matter what you do. So yeah, well, before we
Speaker 1: jump into silver linings, I think maybe let's hear like
Speaker 1: two personal things about you that might inform who you are,
Speaker 1: so everyone can know who Miranda is as we dive
Speaker 1: into this movie up to you. They could be silly, um,
Speaker 1: we're serious? Silly or serious? Well, hold on, I have
Speaker 1: to think about this real quick. I guess one thing
Speaker 1: is I love my dog, but we fight a lot.
Speaker 1: He's a Chihuahua corgy dog. What kind of dogs? He's
Speaker 1: a Chihuahua corgy mix. Okay, okay, yeah, And that's a
Speaker 1: big personality and a little like twelve thirteen Found animal.
Speaker 1: But like, it's funny because when I got him, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know how they say dogs and owners
Speaker 1: mimic each other, and he would do certain things. I'd
Speaker 1: be like, Bro, I know I'm extra, but I'm not
Speaker 1: that extra. And then as time has gone on, and
Speaker 1: then as time has gone on, sometimes I put my
Speaker 1: head in my hands and I'm like, oh god, I
Speaker 1: am that extra name. No, it's Frankie with two ease.
Speaker 1: It's what Frankie but with two spelled with two ease.
Speaker 1: Sometimes in Frankenfurter or Frank's or Frankenstein. Yeah, all the nicknames,
Speaker 1: all the nicknames he has to who had a dog name, Bro,
Speaker 1: That's why I asked, it would be pretty funny. Uh,
Speaker 1: and what else you do that? One other one? Um,
Speaker 1: the first go ahead. The first time I ever cooked
Speaker 1: a pizza in the oven, I read the directions thoroughly.
Speaker 1: And I'm one of those people if it's the first
Speaker 1: time I do something like, I go line by line,
Speaker 1: I need someone to tell me exactly how to do it,
Speaker 1: and I read them exactly the way it's said to do.
Speaker 1: And I put the pizza in the oven. And at
Speaker 1: the time, I was in a short stint living at
Speaker 1: home for about two months moving places. And next thing
Speaker 1: I know, I hear my mom yelled my name, Miranda Lee,
Speaker 1: my middle names Lee. And I was like what And
Speaker 1: she was like, what are you doing? And I was
Speaker 1: like cooking a pizza and she goes, you don't put
Speaker 1: it in there with the cardboard, And I was like,
Speaker 1: I put it in there with the cardboard because I
Speaker 1: thought the pizza was going to melt through the cracks.
Speaker 1: I did that once by accident. Yeah that's pretty good. Okay, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Miranda Lee Hawkins, you something a country singer? Oh dear,
Speaker 1: I know, definitely not, but that's okay. Uh. The other
Speaker 1: thing I was going to say I know about you
Speaker 1: because we're Facebook friends. Um, is that you roller skate?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is my newest and most love passion.
Speaker 1: I am out right, yes, it is definitely the thing
Speaker 1: roller skating has. Just like there's been like such an
Speaker 1: upswing everyone's doing it because like COVID happened and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, what am I supposed to do? So like
Speaker 1: it's great because it's outside, you know, and you can
Speaker 1: skate with other folks and everyone wears our masks and
Speaker 1: you know, and there's just so much. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: picked up quad skating specifically, so I've been doing jam
Speaker 1: skating and working on a little bit of aggressive skating,
Speaker 1: which is like the ramps and such. Um. And then
Speaker 1: I've started to do trail skating, which is really good
Speaker 1: at building up muscle to do the other types of skating.
Speaker 1: So so fun. I see those pictures in the videos
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I want to get out there
Speaker 1: with Miranda and break legs. Come on, come on, you
Speaker 1: can do it. I honestly, anytime anyone's like I want
Speaker 1: to do it, I'm like, come on, I'm ready. Anytime
Speaker 1: you're ready. It's great. That's so cool. I love it
Speaker 1: when when an old thing becomes new again, and people like,
Speaker 1: bring these fads back in style, and it's good exercise
Speaker 1: and I'm sure empowering and fun and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: It's good for the brain too, all right. So you
Speaker 1: picked Silver Linings Playbook. Uh, the great, great, great movie
Speaker 1: from from writer director David oh Russell, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite directors. Remember of what I call the percent Club.
Speaker 1: He's never made a bad movie, and um, he's in
Speaker 1: rare companies as directors go. I think every single one
Speaker 1: of his movies has been great. But um, this was
Speaker 1: based on the two thousand and eight novel from Matthew Quick, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Silver Linings Playbook, which I didn't know much about
Speaker 1: until I read up on it today. Um, a lot
Speaker 1: of big differences from the movie. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: much you know about the book, honestly, So I did
Speaker 1: a little bit of research myself. I didn't really know
Speaker 1: that there was a book. I should have because most
Speaker 1: of the time a movie like this comes from a
Speaker 1: book directly. Um, But no, I wasn't aware that there
Speaker 1: was a book. So I looked over some quotes and
Speaker 1: the quote seemed to be different. But I'm not sure
Speaker 1: of the differences themselves. I just fell in love with
Speaker 1: the movie and I was good with that. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to read the book now. But
Speaker 1: it was um like in the book, the dance competition
Speaker 1: was sort of earlier, and a lot of stuff follows,
Speaker 1: and like um, new characters in the movie that weren't
Speaker 1: in the book at all. The football thing is played
Speaker 1: up in the movie, which wasn't as big a deal
Speaker 1: in the book. Um he has I think just suffered
Speaker 1: from traumatic brain injury in the book and not um,
Speaker 1: they didn't specify any kind of specific mental illness, whereas
Speaker 1: the movie really leans into UH in a in a
Speaker 1: way that I think is really really great. Bipolar disorder,
Speaker 1: and um there was another couple of things too. I
Speaker 1: think he traveled away somewhere in the book and came
Speaker 1: back and just you know, like books, it's always like
Speaker 1: a lot more going on. But I think David or
Speaker 1: Russell really like hit on something with basing this movie.
Speaker 1: It's sort of a movie about mental illness, and not
Speaker 1: just with Brad Cooper, but with Jennifer Lawrence and with
Speaker 1: his father and like all the characters, his best friend, UH.
Speaker 1: Everyone seems to be uh if not suffering from some
Speaker 1: kind of real mental illness, just suffering in some kind
Speaker 1: of way in their head. Oh, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I love it so much
Speaker 1: is because I feel like it's one of the most
Speaker 1: accurate portrayals of mental illness, with Bradley Cooper who pays
Speaker 1: places Pat his bipolar and then Tiffany Jennifer Lawrence hers
Speaker 1: his depression, his dad. They referenced O C d um
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure, but supposedly on those lines.
Speaker 1: It's weird though with his best friend. The dynamic there
Speaker 1: is his best friend doesn't necessarily like come across as
Speaker 1: actually having a mental illness, but it's like he's wrestling
Speaker 1: with his own stuff. But yet at the same time
Speaker 1: he's like, but Pat, you know, you have your stuff,
Speaker 1: like you're the crazy one or he never directly says that,
Speaker 1: but it just shows like even if you don't have
Speaker 1: a mental illness, it's like he's still like suffering from
Speaker 1: his own just daily life, you know. Yeah, And you know,
Speaker 1: this movie is so much about the struggles that we
Speaker 1: all kind of go through um in different um in
Speaker 1: different ways. That by the way that Ronnie, his best
Speaker 1: friend John Ortiz really great, great role for him. Um,
Speaker 1: this movie is great in that it it's so funny
Speaker 1: and so heartwarming and romantic, but uh so hard to
Speaker 1: watch and so horrifying and sad. I mean, he's just
Speaker 1: he really pulls the emotional strings. David or Russell in
Speaker 1: this movie to like the fullest, I think, No, he
Speaker 1: absolutely does. I I don't even know, Like I think
Speaker 1: the first time I watched it, I might have cried
Speaker 1: a little bit, But the more I watch it, like
Speaker 1: I don't ever really cry anymore. I actually just really
Speaker 1: lean into it. Like I know, certain scenes are supposed
Speaker 1: to be really intense, but I think those are actually
Speaker 1: my favorite scenes. I think it's the scenes that are quieter,
Speaker 1: like so for example, the scene where he's trying to
Speaker 1: find his wedding tape and he can't and it just
Speaker 1: escalates and escalates and escalates. And I know this is
Speaker 1: a little weird, but I find it how they did
Speaker 1: it with slightly humorous where it's intense, but you don't
Speaker 1: feel like so overwhelmed. It's really not until the next
Speaker 1: morning where it's that quiet peacefulness and like you see
Speaker 1: him like looking at his medication and he's about to
Speaker 1: take it, and the family is like dealing with like
Speaker 1: understanding like this big thing just happened. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where you really feel the emotion is the next day.
Speaker 1: It's like in the moment when it's happening, it's just reaction, reaction, reaction,
Speaker 1: and like he said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: and he knows like something's wrong, but they can't stop
Speaker 1: it and they can't stop it, and then I send
Speaker 1: that peacefulness and that quietness that it's like, oh, that
Speaker 1: was a really big moment that really hit. And that's
Speaker 1: where I think where I feel the most emotion from it.
Speaker 1: And that's where you're like, oh, man, you know that
Speaker 1: feeling of the next day of like that shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't have happened. No, absolutely, that's that's a really
Speaker 1: good point. I think David or Russell is um in
Speaker 1: a lot of his movies. He's really masterful at chaos
Speaker 1: and these really chaotic intent scenes. And I think a
Speaker 1: really smart way to follow something like that is by
Speaker 1: making it super quiet, pulling it all back, because like
Speaker 1: I found myself like breathing so intensely during those scenes.
Speaker 1: It's a lot to handle. Um, without getting into too
Speaker 1: many specifics, there's a situation in and are sort of
Speaker 1: extended personal life with my wife and I have someone
Speaker 1: that's been going through a really bad thing for the
Speaker 1: past year, not COVID related. It's kind of sucks that
Speaker 1: it's corresponding with that because it's harder to get help
Speaker 1: and all that, but dealing with medication and all the
Speaker 1: stuff that we didn't really know much about until we
Speaker 1: were faced with having to deal with this and assist
Speaker 1: with this. Um. So I'm a crier, I'm an emotional guy.
Speaker 1: I was pretty wrecked watching a lot of this movie
Speaker 1: today and a lot of the scenes before that didn't
Speaker 1: hit home. Um, we're really hitting home. Um. That scene
Speaker 1: where they were talking about the medications at the dinner table,
Speaker 1: it was really funny. It's played for laughs, but then
Speaker 1: once you've been in around situations where people are medicated,
Speaker 1: and medication can be great and say people's lives, but
Speaker 1: it's also a tricky road. And um, that was a
Speaker 1: really tough scene for me to watch today. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: actually about my personal life as I am bipolar. I
Speaker 1: was diagnosed a year and a half ago. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: my mom was bipolar. So I grew up with a
Speaker 1: parent who was bipolar already, and I knew I was
Speaker 1: bipolar all my life, but it was manageable with quotation
Speaker 1: marks around it. So but then I actually had um
Speaker 1: a psychotic episode because I was put on something I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been put on, and I thought someone had
Speaker 1: poisoned my water and my food, and from that point
Speaker 1: it broke my brain to where like I had to
Speaker 1: get put on medication. And so for me, it's been
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the right medications and like seeing
Speaker 1: the psychiatrists and therapist. So when I see the scene
Speaker 1: of them talking about their medication, I've had that conversation
Speaker 1: with my friends, and I actually love it because it's
Speaker 1: like really nice just to be like able to talk
Speaker 1: about it openly without there being like any judgment. And
Speaker 1: then like seeing him like when he has these scenes
Speaker 1: of intensity, Like That's why I think I love this
Speaker 1: movie so much, because I'm like, that's what it's really like.
Speaker 1: It's people mistake bipolar. I was like, Oh, you're just
Speaker 1: super happy, you're super sad, or you're whatever, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's just intense emotions that you do have to find
Speaker 1: a strategy for because you feel things differently and you're
Speaker 1: going to react differently, and like so that's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons, Like I really react to this movie, and
Speaker 1: when I watched it, I actually find a lot of
Speaker 1: peace with it because I'm like, yep, that's what it's like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it's like. Like, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many times I've had that conversation. Yeah, holy cow,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Wow. Yeah, I love I love this movie
Speaker 1: so much. Yeah, well, I mean it does put a
Speaker 1: real face on things, and like I think too many
Speaker 1: times any sort of mental issues in movies or I
Speaker 1: was just done wrong. You know, it's, um it's either
Speaker 1: played for laughs in the wrong way or it's uh
Speaker 1: dramaticized in the wrong way. And I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of experience with h with bipolar from friends and
Speaker 1: family on a very personal level, but I've studied it
Speaker 1: with stuff you' you know, we did an episode on it,
Speaker 1: and this always just struck me as a movie. They
Speaker 1: kind of hit the right tone. It's like, um, intense emotion, uh,
Speaker 1: dealing like on a day to day basis with yourself. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he talks about like white knuckling. Yeah. When he
Speaker 1: talks about white knuckling, I'm like, oh, yeah, buddy, I
Speaker 1: totally get it. Like that shot of his hands when
Speaker 1: he's in the doctor's yeah, and he's just like holding
Speaker 1: on for dear life, and sometimes that's what it feels like,
Speaker 1: and it's just like, that's why again. That one that's
Speaker 1: my favorite scene is him looking for the video and
Speaker 1: when he talks to psychiatrists, and psychiatrists is like, do
Speaker 1: you think that you did that because you're feeling this
Speaker 1: emotion and this was your response to it, and you
Speaker 1: didn't know how to handle that feeling. You have to
Speaker 1: have a strategy. And I think that is like one
Speaker 1: of the clearest ways of showing what bipolar really is,
Speaker 1: of being like, he wasn't like freaking out or he's
Speaker 1: not crazy. He just like had this intense emotional response
Speaker 1: because like he wasn't sure what was happening, and so
Speaker 1: that's happened. And like and then Tiffany with like her
Speaker 1: depression and everything. The way she handles saying is kind
Speaker 1: of the same thing. Like they both have their triggers
Speaker 1: and they're trying to figure things out. Well. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite kinds of movies, too and too, And
Speaker 1: it can take many forms. It can be a couple
Speaker 1: of nerd outcasts. It can be a movie like this
Speaker 1: like We're Too sort of misfits find each other, uh
Speaker 1: and and fit together. So well. It's just I love
Speaker 1: it more than anything as a as a sort of
Speaker 1: a movie plot. And also they're just kind of great together.
Speaker 1: Like the chemistry is amazing. Yeah, Like the two of
Speaker 1: them are just absolutely phenomenal. But yeah, it is, and
Speaker 1: it's and it's different because it's like they are misfits
Speaker 1: in a certain way, but they're not. They're both just
Speaker 1: trying to like find their way, like find their own
Speaker 1: reality and the reality that everyone has created for them.
Speaker 1: You know, when she talks about but we're not liars,
Speaker 1: but we're not liars. You're lying, but you know, and
Speaker 1: it's like that is the reality and they're having to
Speaker 1: you know, everyone else is saying, well, you're crazier, you know,
Speaker 1: you're from the looney Ben and they're like, no, this
Speaker 1: is our reality, and like you it just doesn't fit
Speaker 1: what your reality is. So yeah, he even has that
Speaker 1: one great line towards the end when um uh and
Speaker 1: and I love movies to where these sort of uh
Speaker 1: just odd people from different backgrounds all come together in
Speaker 1: this weird sort of group. And he's got you know,
Speaker 1: his mom and his dad and his brothers introduced, and
Speaker 1: then his doctor is hanging out with him, and he's
Speaker 1: got his kind of funny friend, and then Chris Tucker
Speaker 1: is there, who's just great in this movie, and uh,
Speaker 1: and and Randy you know, the crazy you know friend
Speaker 1: that bets all the bets. And but he has that
Speaker 1: great line when he says, you know, maybe, and it
Speaker 1: kind of gets lost because it's another kind of semi
Speaker 1: chaotic scene, but he's like, maybe we're all the ones
Speaker 1: who see something, you know, maybe it's all of us
Speaker 1: that are onto something and you guys don't even know. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: that is a fantastic line because sometimes it feels that way,
Speaker 1: but it is. That's such a good line. Uh sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just like sitting with it because I'm like, again,
Speaker 1: all these things like hit homes so hard. I know,
Speaker 1: David or Russell is a big advocate for UH for
Speaker 1: mental illness and does a lot of work with that.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what his background is or how
Speaker 1: it affects him personally in his life or family or
Speaker 1: loved ones. But he clearly um has made this movie
Speaker 1: for that reason. Yeah, no, he definitely did. And he
Speaker 1: actually did an interview with Nami. Namis like one of
Speaker 1: the groups. Um, if you suffer from mental illness, that
Speaker 1: you can go to the groups. I actually tried one
Speaker 1: of your sessions, but the people who were going at
Speaker 1: the time when I went were in a different category
Speaker 1: like as far as like the help that they needed
Speaker 1: compared to like where I was. So um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he actually an interview with them, which I thought was
Speaker 1: really cool that he sat down and took that time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, and I really appreciate him making this movie.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, it's just like you have like
Speaker 1: this whole movie which is about mental illness and everything else,
Speaker 1: but then you also have like the lightheartedness of it,
Speaker 1: like with Danny showing up, you know, interspersedly throughout the movie.
Speaker 1: Who Like, he's so good in this. I wish you
Speaker 1: would do more roles like this. Honestly me too. But
Speaker 1: his whole thing about having the hairline and like just
Speaker 1: like dude, like I don't know he cracks me yet,
Speaker 1: but I love it because he's there just to show,
Speaker 1: like you know, like a friendship kind of thing. He's
Speaker 1: not there for any reading other reason than just being
Speaker 1: like he's like Bradley Cooper's friend in this and like
Speaker 1: he just adds like this extra element and I don't
Speaker 1: know he's he's so he's one of my favorites, honestly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's wonderful and he um. I mean a couple of
Speaker 1: scenes stand out with him, obviously, the first one when
Speaker 1: he's just sort of uh, you know, breaks out of
Speaker 1: the mental hospital and and catches a ride and he's
Speaker 1: always sort of escaping and being brought back. But I
Speaker 1: love how the family and I've known households like this.
Speaker 1: I lived in New Jersey for a little while after college,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this movie was a lot like
Speaker 1: those you know, sort of suburban Philadelphia is basically New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and uh, I knew a lot of families like this
Speaker 1: where they just had an open door at their house
Speaker 1: and anyone sort of welcome, and they had these sort
Speaker 1: of big crazy scenes with all these you know, friends, kids,
Speaker 1: friends and neighbors and like what's this guy do even doing?
Speaker 1: Or who is he? Like that kind of thing. But
Speaker 1: mom will still you know, make everyone dinner, like even
Speaker 1: if she doesn't know who all is there. And this movie,
Speaker 1: I just really love their household scene there. Um, it's complicated,
Speaker 1: you know, like that that very first scene with when
Speaker 1: he comes back with de Niro, there's that's so well
Speaker 1: acted and there's so much in it that's not said,
Speaker 1: but you sort of get it, like they love each other,
Speaker 1: but it's so fraught with layers and layers of complications,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And like I noticed that like one
Speaker 1: of the first things you see is his pictures, you know,
Speaker 1: but not on the wall anymore. Yeah, And that automatically
Speaker 1: gives you an idea. But then when like de Niro
Speaker 1: was like you okay, you okay, like you know, um,
Speaker 1: and then automatically leading into you know, like I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're back all this other stuff. But I also think
Speaker 1: it hints that how mental illness can also be like familial,
Speaker 1: and like how family is, Like I kind of what
Speaker 1: I like about this is that the family didn't really
Speaker 1: gloss over it. They weren't really scared to talk about it,
Speaker 1: Like they addressed it, but at the same time it
Speaker 1: was mildly taboo. And it's a weird line that they
Speaker 1: walked and I'm not sure like how they did it,
Speaker 1: but they did a really good job where it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're here for you, we love you, you
Speaker 1: know you have the support. At the same time, it
Speaker 1: was still just kind of like, you know, but you
Speaker 1: gotta take your meds, like you gotta like, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta get a therapy if you're going to live
Speaker 1: with us, like his mom was not having it. No,
Speaker 1: she was not having it. She's great, Jackie Weaver. I
Speaker 1: think she's I think she's British. She was a fantastic Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got nominated, I think for the first time since
Speaker 1: Red's in um Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress,
Speaker 1: Best Supporting Actress, all nominated from the same film, and
Speaker 1: I think Jennifer Lawrence is the only one who won
Speaker 1: in She was Great. I just wish I would have
Speaker 1: loved to seeing Bradley Cooper when he was so phenomenal
Speaker 1: in this movie. Honestly, he definitely deserved to win, especially
Speaker 1: the way his eyes were. He like nailed it. I
Speaker 1: love his eyes. The look in his eyes from beginning
Speaker 1: to end is just absolutely phenomenal. I just I don't
Speaker 1: know he should have won. Yeah, that scene where he uh,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll look up and see who won that year.
Speaker 1: But when he the running motif is great with that
Speaker 1: fucking trash bag, but when he is running to the
Speaker 1: high school and the and it's it's funny, but it's
Speaker 1: also just so heartbreaking. That principle or the teacher, whoever
Speaker 1: that was, was just so scared. And you know, he
Speaker 1: goes to Hugger and she's just like fucking frightened out
Speaker 1: of her life. But he's so trying to tell her
Speaker 1: that he's okay, and he says, look at my eyes,
Speaker 1: Look how clear they are. And he's so upright then,
Speaker 1: and I just I feel so bad that his past
Speaker 1: has followed him like this, you know. Yeah, And and
Speaker 1: that's like I think an important statement though, is like
Speaker 1: at and situations like this, as people who are bipolar,
Speaker 1: you know, something happens, they have the reactive you know,
Speaker 1: not to the extent of like beating someone almost to death,
Speaker 1: but just in general, and then it gets stuck with
Speaker 1: him and then all of a sudden, they're like, peg,
Speaker 1: does you're crazy or you're this or you're that, And
Speaker 1: people don't take the time to understand, like, no, it
Speaker 1: was this intense thing that happened and people are working
Speaker 1: through it. It's just you know, it's not the same.
Speaker 1: And so I think that was a really good example
Speaker 1: of that where it's like, hey, I'm you know, I'm okay,
Speaker 1: but she was like, oh dear no. I mean it
Speaker 1: was hilarious, absolutely, but at the same time, like it
Speaker 1: was like it was a good way to show that
Speaker 1: without being too heavy. Yeah, I think so. And so
Speaker 1: much of this movie is about those labels, um, because
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lawrence is fighting her own label, as you know.
Speaker 1: The former slut is what she called herself because she
Speaker 1: her husband died, and she handled that in a way
Speaker 1: that she dove into bed with people, um, seemingly randomly
Speaker 1: from her work. And I guess got fired for that,
Speaker 1: is that. Yeah, she got fired for it, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: she was like I slept with everybody at work. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, people do those things, like when you're
Speaker 1: suffering like that, and she's in depression. I've heard about
Speaker 1: people doing those things and that's not that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that's who they are, you know exactly. And and that's
Speaker 1: another thing, And I think that's what was great with
Speaker 1: the two characters is um Bradley Cooper's character saw that
Speaker 1: and that way. The scene when the guy came up
Speaker 1: to the door at her parents house and he was like,
Speaker 1: you know with the broken wing. Yeah, and he's like
Speaker 1: the broken wing, you know, she's on the It was
Speaker 1: so sweet and the guys healing right now, you gotta
Speaker 1: let her heal. He kind of strong arms and though
Speaker 1: it's great, he's like, I'm gonna walk you back down here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just the way he talks though sometimes this movie it's
Speaker 1: just like this direct, like no, this is what we're doing,
Speaker 1: Like come on, like yeah, but no, but no filter,
Speaker 1: you know. And then of course she comes like running
Speaker 1: after him, and I can't help. But I love her
Speaker 1: jacket the entire movie. I just wish I had that jacket.
Speaker 1: But she like throws in her jacket and like her
Speaker 1: tennis shoes and I was like, okay, here's this thing. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but when he does that, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's He's absolutely fantastic. But the way people handle things,
Speaker 1: it's always going to be different for everyone. But people
Speaker 1: do have to remember that that's not who they are,
Speaker 1: and that's I think that's what gets lost a lot
Speaker 1: with mental illness, you know, totally, it's very easy to
Speaker 1: label somebody and even if you're not saying the words
Speaker 1: to just sort of put someone in a box in
Speaker 1: your head. And I think this movie did a really
Speaker 1: good job at showing the different layers that people have
Speaker 1: no matter what their deal is. Yeah, and also like
Speaker 1: people like falling back. Like that's another thing is when
Speaker 1: people create coping mechanisms that aren't healthy or in general
Speaker 1: just coping mechanisms and something happens and it puts them out,
Speaker 1: then they tend to fall back like I won't, you know,
Speaker 1: give it all away. But when she sees something she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to see at the end, and she gets
Speaker 1: her feelings hurt, and so she goes back into like,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess what she would call like the
Speaker 1: slut mode of like into the bar and grabbing a
Speaker 1: drink and automatically talking to the guy. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like she fall immediately fell back on the coping mechanism
Speaker 1: until Cooper comes up to her and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we got got to do this thing, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I think you're the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, good for you, and like let's go,
Speaker 1: and just completely won't let her do it and he's like,
Speaker 1: He's like, no, we're not doing that. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: has this thing where it's um, he has the former
Speaker 1: I guess still wife, they're not divorced yet, but Nikki
Speaker 1: and it's it's one of those and I've seen it
Speaker 1: in other movies, and I think it's pretty effective, is
Speaker 1: when it's it's the idea of her more than her
Speaker 1: and she represents this thing. She's a symbol in his life,
Speaker 1: um of of if I can just get back to that,
Speaker 1: and that's who she represents to him, And you know,
Speaker 1: I think the movie does a good job of sort
Speaker 1: of teasing that out to the very very end. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's it's a wonderful surprise. And we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: end you know, later at more at length, but it's um.
Speaker 1: I I thought, even watching it today, it's been quite
Speaker 1: a few years since I've seen it, I was like,
Speaker 1: what happens there with Nikki at the dance? I don't
Speaker 1: even remember? And he did the lost in translation movie
Speaker 1: you know you whisper you don't know? I love that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it was absolutely Honestly, the first time I saw it,
Speaker 1: I had the same idea. You know, I've seen it
Speaker 1: so many times now, like I know what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: but it is one that kind of caught me. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm at a point now where I can
Speaker 1: normally guess the ending of things, so when something catches
Speaker 1: me off guard, yeah, because he's like only so many stories,
Speaker 1: so when something catches me off guard, I'm always like, heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: you did it, and this movie is one of those
Speaker 1: that did it for me. Um. I also another favorite
Speaker 1: thing that I've seen David or Russell do before and
Speaker 1: in other films. I think it's just a kind of
Speaker 1: a more clever way of telling a story is um like,
Speaker 1: you don't get his actual diagnosis until about fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: into the movie in that first meeting with as doctor,
Speaker 1: and you don't like things are told out of order.
Speaker 1: You know something's going on. You get the diagnosis later,
Speaker 1: you know something happened with his wife, uh like the incident,
Speaker 1: and then that's paid off a little bit later. And
Speaker 1: I think dropping things in there in sort of a
Speaker 1: non linear way, like these plot points instead of sort
Speaker 1: of the tired way of like at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the movie, we tell you sort of everything you need
Speaker 1: to know in the first seven minutes. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I actually didn't really think about
Speaker 1: that too much. I just remember like watching it for
Speaker 1: the first time and seeing he's in that institution and
Speaker 1: then everything else and the next thing I know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. They do take their time with unfolding. It's
Speaker 1: bit by bit, and even like you know, with Tiffany's
Speaker 1: husband and other things like yeah exactly, yeah, with pieces
Speaker 1: are just dropped throughout, so you don't really know everything.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I prefer it when stories
Speaker 1: do that rather than just giving you everything, because if
Speaker 1: you give you everything, then kind of what's the point
Speaker 1: to keep going You're like, all right, well to know
Speaker 1: what's happening. Yeah, and there's something you know, Uh, you
Speaker 1: don't find out until probably the three quarter point what
Speaker 1: happened to her husband and how he actually died, even
Speaker 1: though he asked her. That dinner scene. That dinner scene
Speaker 1: is so great where he first meets her, their first meeting,
Speaker 1: and like how they're talking to each other. It's just
Speaker 1: amazing that No, and then she's like you're gonna walk
Speaker 1: me home or what? And he's like what, and he's
Speaker 1: like so confused, and he's just like wait, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's happening. But it's also funny because what is
Speaker 1: it Julia Child's Uh is that not Child Julius Julius styles, Okay,
Speaker 1: Julius styles. She plays. I hate her character. I mean
Speaker 1: that's the whole point. But like, I never thought I
Speaker 1: could hate someone as much as I hate her, like
Speaker 1: the whole way that she has, like her sister and
Speaker 1: like everyone else, she's just horrendous and like I don't
Speaker 1: know her showing off her house and like the whole
Speaker 1: love God the iPod stuff. So I'm not and how
Speaker 1: Tiffany is like, but we're in the bathroom, like why
Speaker 1: are you gonna show the iPod for in the bathroom?
Speaker 1: And then the whole what was the other one? The
Speaker 1: like the uh fireplace, and I was just like, this
Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. That scene was really funny though. She's
Speaker 1: like it's one of those things that the morgue that
Speaker 1: you slide the body in. He's like, how would you
Speaker 1: even get a body in there? She's like it's a joke.
Speaker 1: I love his doctor so much. Um what's his name here? Uh?
Speaker 1: And new palm Ker plays Dr Patel and Uh, it's
Speaker 1: just so wonderful how he kind of and completely inappropriately
Speaker 1: kind of you know, joins his personal gang. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was definitely inappropriate. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: can't help but I loved it. I absolutely loved it
Speaker 1: and the Eagle stuff like I'm a football guy. So
Speaker 1: so often movies really portray sports and football and fandom
Speaker 1: really unrealistically, and and he just nailed He just nailed
Speaker 1: it in this movie. I think, really see, I grew
Speaker 1: up and my whole family was super into football, like
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, like the whole family sat down and watched it,
Speaker 1: and I hated it. I was so bored, and I
Speaker 1: swore up and down I would never end up with
Speaker 1: someone who liked football. And then I actually started playing
Speaker 1: flag football last year before COVID. It is so much fun.
Speaker 1: I actually finally understand like why people like football. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm the sort of football fan who's not
Speaker 1: um I'm not wearing jerseys and painting my face and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but um, it's a it's interesting that sports.
Speaker 1: I think. I think people that aren't into it don't
Speaker 1: understand that it can be the great United Uh, Like
Speaker 1: I've always said, like you'll never see racial and political harmony,
Speaker 1: like you will at the Falcons game where you've got
Speaker 1: some clearly distant Georgia sort of white redneck with his
Speaker 1: jersey on, like jumping up and down and hugging, you know,
Speaker 1: the black guy from the inner city of Atlanta with
Speaker 1: his jersey on and high fiving and like politics go
Speaker 1: out the door and race and socio economics for a
Speaker 1: few hours. Uh, And it's pretty nice scene to be in.
Speaker 1: That's why the tailgating scene when those guys, the racist
Speaker 1: guys attacked the guys with the Indian guys. Um, I
Speaker 1: guess that happened some. This is Philly, so you never know,
Speaker 1: but it's not usually how it is. Usually people come
Speaker 1: together for their team and it's kind of a beautiful thing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's scene. Actually, like those guys rewatching, I got. I
Speaker 1: think I even got angry than I did the first time,
Speaker 1: like I was angry the first time, but especially bad men.
Speaker 1: It's also because like I love doctor the doctor, like
Speaker 1: he's one of my favorite people and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Like stop it? Yeah, I think also
Speaker 1: seeing him like go um go to Pat's house and
Speaker 1: saying the family, I feel like from his perspective. I
Speaker 1: was like wondering what was going on in his head
Speaker 1: if he was like I finally understand, like seeing how
Speaker 1: his family acted and everything. I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no that's true. I mean I guess it's super inappropriate,
Speaker 1: but it's insightful. Yeah, insightful but so inappropriate, but you
Speaker 1: know what, it's it's a movie. Uh. And Jennifer Lawrence
Speaker 1: is just I mean, she's a great actor, but she's
Speaker 1: so easy to kind of crush on because she's she's
Speaker 1: beautiful and just even when you sort of know about
Speaker 1: her personal life, she just seems like she gives no fox.
Speaker 1: She's real, Um, she says what she wants and like
Speaker 1: it just has a lot of attractive qualities as a
Speaker 1: human I think, and they come through in this movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I feel like you're describing her
Speaker 1: character in the movie sort of a Jennifer Lawrence type.
Speaker 1: It it feels like, no, she definitely does. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like especially the scene in the diner, it really came through.
Speaker 1: Oh god. Yeah, but talking was awesome. That scene was awesome. However,
Speaker 1: how that escalated it was definitely difficult. I think that
Speaker 1: was another one of those like how I'm dealing with
Speaker 1: something is not how I actually am, and that's why
Speaker 1: she checked herself when and then you know after that
Speaker 1: when she starts screaming that you're assaulting me, and like
Speaker 1: I think instantly when that cop shows up, realizes what
Speaker 1: she's done and then saves him and calms him down
Speaker 1: with a breathing like again, that's another sort of David
Speaker 1: oh Russell chaos sequence played out ending in that really
Speaker 1: calming way. It's really interesting. Yeah, and they also do
Speaker 1: like interesting camera work too, whenever he's kind of going
Speaker 1: through that like the like kind of almost like a
Speaker 1: fish bowl kind of effect, I think is what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to kind of give you an idea. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: whenever you do kind of go into those trigger modes
Speaker 1: like that was, you know, it can look like that
Speaker 1: sometimes like you're like, wait, what's happening? So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the handheld camera, like he brings a lot of energy
Speaker 1: to those scenes, just in a filmmaking sense. Um. I
Speaker 1: have here one of my favorite lines too from their
Speaker 1: first meetings, when she's, uh, you know, they're kind of
Speaker 1: trying to out crazy each other or or not out
Speaker 1: crazy each other. Make the other ones seem like they're
Speaker 1: crazier than them, and she goes, you say more inappropriate things,
Speaker 1: inappropriate things, you scare people, so funny, and he does,
Speaker 1: you know, But it's like you just want them to
Speaker 1: be okay. You want them to you know that. That
Speaker 1: that's why the end, that shot of them in the
Speaker 1: chair together m so beautiful. But it's also just like,
Speaker 1: you know, what a complicated, tough path there is ahead
Speaker 1: of them. Oh yeah, And I think that's the thing
Speaker 1: is like this movie really wasn't about you know, the
Speaker 1: big finale scene right like with a dance off or anything,
Speaker 1: And it wasn't. That's not what it was about. It
Speaker 1: was about like showing this complication in general. And then
Speaker 1: yes they found peace, but like you know, it's not done,
Speaker 1: you know, and like, but that's okay and they both
Speaker 1: understand it. I think it's about really coming to understanding
Speaker 1: the other person and where they're coming from, rather than
Speaker 1: seeing just like oh the mental illness and you know
Speaker 1: these people are crazy or you're just out of the
Speaker 1: looney bean. It's more of like, hey, I see you,
Speaker 1: and I see who you really are, including like this
Speaker 1: you know thing that you have to deal with because
Speaker 1: that's what you have to deal with, um, which is
Speaker 1: why I want Yeah, no, definitely, And I also feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's and one of my favorite lines is
Speaker 1: at the very you know, at the very end, when
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, the world will break your heart
Speaker 1: ten you know, ten Aways from Sunday, and it's like
Speaker 1: it's so true, and he's like, I think in that moment,
Speaker 1: he's kind of telling you it's like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: like a nice peaceful moment, but this isn't. This isn't
Speaker 1: it like there's gonna be more things that are going
Speaker 1: to happen. But I think it's just like we're all
Speaker 1: kind of looking for that moment of peace of like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a regular day for them. It's
Speaker 1: not there wasn't anything major happening. There wasn't anything whatever.
Speaker 1: They're just you know, chilling, hanging around, like and you know,
Speaker 1: the two of them in the chair, they're just having
Speaker 1: a moment and that's it's beautiful, like they just found
Speaker 1: that moment of peace and all the chaos that they
Speaker 1: have to deal with. Yeah, it's a it's a hopeful moment.
Speaker 1: It doesn't come across to me as um, you know,
Speaker 1: these people are both mentally ill, but that's been solved
Speaker 1: because of love. Yeah. No, it's definitely not solved. But
Speaker 1: Hollywood does that. And I think David or Russell was
Speaker 1: smart enough to give you this really sweet, hopeful thing. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know that it's going to be tough for them,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, where are these people in ten years?
Speaker 1: I want to say they're together and have a couple
Speaker 1: of kids and their life as a roller coaster, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because like, what's that movie? It's kind of a funny
Speaker 1: story which was also a book that became a movie
Speaker 1: about the kid going into the mental hospital. Do you
Speaker 1: know that one? I've heard of it? Who's in that? Um?
Speaker 1: Zach gilif Nachus is in it? I did not see that?
Speaker 1: Was that good? Honestly it was good. I actually went
Speaker 1: back and read the book after that one, um, and
Speaker 1: it was pretty on part. But that's one of the
Speaker 1: ones where Hollywood kind of like was like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: you know you solved it a little bit, you know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I that one that one deals with slightly other
Speaker 1: things than this one does. But yeah, that one is
Speaker 1: more of an example of like, oh now this is solved,
Speaker 1: but not this movie. This movie stands separate. I would
Speaker 1: recommend going back and watching that, though I'll probably go
Speaker 1: back and rewatch it now too. Now that I see it,
Speaker 1: I recognize it. Um. I think we should talk about
Speaker 1: the music for a sect too, because boy, the music
Speaker 1: in it is great. The score is really really lovely,
Speaker 1: Like I really love that score. That's kind of just throughout.
Speaker 1: But um, one of my favorite cueues is when it's
Speaker 1: actually right after the diner date, uh, with the with
Speaker 1: the raisin brand and the tea, which is so funny. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then they have the big blow up in front
Speaker 1: of the movie theater. She calms them down, and then
Speaker 1: you get that led Zeppelin Q and then I think
Speaker 1: what follows is the scene at home, the really rough
Speaker 1: scene when that song just sort of starts to build
Speaker 1: and it's just the perfect use of music. I think. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: And that's another thing where music never gets really heavy
Speaker 1: or really um you know, it's like super angsty rock
Speaker 1: or anything. It always like they kind of let the
Speaker 1: scenes speak for themselves with the music build underneath. And
Speaker 1: then how they'll like also go into this kind of
Speaker 1: dead silence afterwards, Like they'll hit this point and they'll
Speaker 1: just cut it off immediately, and it's just a way
Speaker 1: to like make you focus on whatever is happening. And
Speaker 1: I noticed that happened a few different times throughout. But
Speaker 1: I loved it. And I love the music that they
Speaker 1: dance to, how they use that music from the West
Speaker 1: Side Story and yeah, yeah, their dance was just ridiculous
Speaker 1: and great. Like that's when the movie really, like I was,
Speaker 1: I love the movie anyway, um up unto that point.
Speaker 1: But when the dance stuff starts in Earnest when he
Speaker 1: meets her over at the studio, Uh, it just it
Speaker 1: really like kind of ramps it up to the next
Speaker 1: level I think of lovable, and it gives them something
Speaker 1: to focus on. It brings them together. Uh, and I
Speaker 1: think it it makes it all the better that they're
Speaker 1: neither one of them are very good dancers. No they're not,
Speaker 1: um okay, but you know, yeah they're okay. I actually
Speaker 1: read up and it turned out that they actually did
Speaker 1: the final dance scene first when filming, and so they
Speaker 1: actually did Yeah, so they did all the learning how
Speaker 1: to dance dance scenes after they had learned how to dance,
Speaker 1: and that was actually harder for them to pretend to
Speaker 1: be bad at it because at that point they already
Speaker 1: learned all the steps and so they're like wait what
Speaker 1: and so they had to go back and like figure
Speaker 1: that out. Yeah. Yeah, And when Chris Stucker comes over,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and he's like friend with a capital FA
Speaker 1: and he has put a little black in it. He's
Speaker 1: what do you even mean? He's like, you know, damn well,
Speaker 1: what I mean, He's just so great every time he
Speaker 1: comes on the scene. It's like, I just wanted more
Speaker 1: Chris Stucker in this movie. Honestly, Yeah, he was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I loved him so much. Um, the I mean, let's
Speaker 1: talk about sort of the ending. They they this the
Speaker 1: third act is so great and it kind of all
Speaker 1: coalesces with this parlay bet on the football games actually
Speaker 1: money up petition, which is just you know, unbelievable. That
Speaker 1: stressed me out so bad, Like I like, it's one
Speaker 1: of those like I can't ever I can't ever stop,
Speaker 1: Like every time I watched them, like, oh, y'all are like,
Speaker 1: y'all are stressing me. But it is super stressful because
Speaker 1: they're not good dancers and they and I love when
Speaker 1: they were working out like what the score was going
Speaker 1: to be and Brad Cooper is just like, we'll be
Speaker 1: lucky if we get a five, and she's like, we
Speaker 1: could definitely get a five. Like they're both in such
Speaker 1: different places and they're like kind of reality or confidence
Speaker 1: level about their dance. Yeah, but I love how she
Speaker 1: is the one who comes in. It's just like, let
Speaker 1: me tell you, actually, how well like the Eagles are
Speaker 1: doing every time we hang one of my favorite parts
Speaker 1: of the middle. Yeah, and it just like shuts the
Speaker 1: nero down. He goes, Okay, I like you like attitude
Speaker 1: about her. It's like, all right, I love that scene
Speaker 1: so much. And then and then also like turns it
Speaker 1: turns out like the mother actually had a hand and
Speaker 1: everything with them. Like me, I was like whoa, okay,
Speaker 1: like that really changed everything. So but yeah, that um,
Speaker 1: that third act right before leading up to them dancing,
Speaker 1: it was it was so much I don't even know.
Speaker 1: And then him like recognizing about the letter. That was
Speaker 1: a big one too. Yeah, the letter. So she has
Speaker 1: ended up being the one who wrote the letter from
Speaker 1: NICKI uh, the the way they played out the end
Speaker 1: was just so beautiful. He knew that, he knew it
Speaker 1: for a week. He he goes, after I mean, that's
Speaker 1: such a movie trope, you know, to to run after
Speaker 1: the girl at the end, But it's a trope for
Speaker 1: a reason. It's because that's what people want to see,
Speaker 1: and this is one of the great all time go
Speaker 1: get the girl moments in movies. I also think it
Speaker 1: works too because you know, towards the beginning when he
Speaker 1: was running, she was running after him, and so now
Speaker 1: you know, and so now it switches as he ran
Speaker 1: after her. So yeah, I really think about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really feel like that there's more fairness to that
Speaker 1: scene in that aspect. But I don't like so with
Speaker 1: the bipolar, you have manic episodes and depressive episodes, right,
Speaker 1: and manic aren't always fun something, but it is like
Speaker 1: when they show like the sleeplessness and his paranoia and
Speaker 1: you know these unfiltered you know, thoughts coming out of
Speaker 1: his mouth and all these things, like that's typically manic.
Speaker 1: And so if you notice, like the first two thirds
Speaker 1: of the movie is like these really kind of high
Speaker 1: intensity scenes like what's happening, Like, yeah, you have these
Speaker 1: down parts to show what happened, but it's always like
Speaker 1: something happens and like it intensifies, it goes I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and then like you have the down like
Speaker 1: show he recognizes like oh man, like I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: done that, or you know, same for her. But at
Speaker 1: the moment about the letter, which is I think, like
Speaker 1: you know, the last act like we're talking about, if
Speaker 1: you notice, this quietness comes over him and it feels
Speaker 1: like I'm not sure this is what they're trying to do,
Speaker 1: But to me, it feels like him finally coming out
Speaker 1: of a manic episode where this fixation of like trying
Speaker 1: to reach this point and he's realizing, wait, I just
Speaker 1: need to let this go, and that fixation like dissipates
Speaker 1: and now it's him being to move forward and it
Speaker 1: kind of brings him out of the manic episode. And
Speaker 1: as someone who's been in manic episodes, like sometimes that's
Speaker 1: what it takes. Like when you come out of it,
Speaker 1: it's like you're able to move forward. Yeah, because like
Speaker 1: sometimes I have fixation and I just can't let something
Speaker 1: go and it causes me lots of stress and stuff.
Speaker 1: But when I finally can, I start to feel better
Speaker 1: and like I can come out of it. Um And
Speaker 1: of course like medication helps, but yeah, but it's like
Speaker 1: he's coming out of it, and he's kind of coming
Speaker 1: more into like a balance of like where he's at
Speaker 1: with the illness. And I noticed that kind of softness
Speaker 1: till the end of the movie, and like that's kind
Speaker 1: of the same note that they end on, is like
Speaker 1: this balance rather than it's like high intensive energy. And
Speaker 1: I just thought that was really really nice, um way,
Speaker 1: just to kind of like bring it up here and
Speaker 1: just bring it down. And again, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they did that on purpose, but that's something I felt
Speaker 1: from it. Yeah, that's amazing. I'm sure it was on purpose.
Speaker 1: Um that that last shot I mean, and not the
Speaker 1: last shot of the movie, but when he catches up
Speaker 1: to that that wonderful beautiful Christmas Street and the camera
Speaker 1: spinning around them, when they have that great, great, great
Speaker 1: first kiss finally uh and he reads says his letter
Speaker 1: out loud. It's just I can't even take it about
Speaker 1: to cry right now. And then he does something really
Speaker 1: interesting with the camera there that that camera car just
Speaker 1: fucking Hall's ass away from them down the street, and
Speaker 1: it's a really unusual camera move for that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: like you would expect like this beautiful crane shot sort
Speaker 1: of lifting away up into the heavens or something like that,
Speaker 1: and it's just a camera on the back of a
Speaker 1: camera car, just peeling out of there. I've never seen
Speaker 1: that kind of use that way. I thought it really
Speaker 1: worked though. Oh no, it definitely worked. I never actually
Speaker 1: really thought about that. I guess to me, it was
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, this happened, and now like we're going
Speaker 1: to move forward to like what's next. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably what it symbolized. Yeah, yeah, I'll sit in the gas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're like all right, let's go, like we're out of here,
Speaker 1: We're done. I also really loved the moment when the
Speaker 1: free dance uh finale, when they're walking through the place
Speaker 1: holding hands. Then he goes, wait, what is this? He
Speaker 1: is what you're doing and I'm not doing and I
Speaker 1: thought you were doing it. They just like found themselves
Speaker 1: holding hands and are blaming each other for it. I
Speaker 1: just thought that was adorable. It's so cute. They're so cute. Also,
Speaker 1: like how our jackets just a little too big. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like she doesn't quite fit her, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. Yeah, And the clumsiness of the dance
Speaker 1: when they tried the big move and she just okay,
Speaker 1: you know, he ends up the face to cross. Still
Speaker 1: I still can't watch that, honestly to this day when
Speaker 1: that scene comes on and I still have to like
Speaker 1: cover my face because I gets second hand embarrassment so bad.
Speaker 1: I'm just like I can't hand. Yeah, I know, I'm
Speaker 1: one of those people just like I can't do it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad. The way they handled it was so
Speaker 1: funny because they were kind of like, we're meaning to
Speaker 1: do this a little bit, and everyone was like, what
Speaker 1: are they doing? What an interesting move? And then crawling
Speaker 1: around on the floor at each other. It's just it's
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna learn that whole routine with my wife.
Speaker 1: We're going to do that one. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: you guys should do for Halloween next year and dress
Speaker 1: up and then do that routine. Yeah, or this one
Speaker 1: now I keep forgetting Yeah, yeah, what year is it? Even?
Speaker 1: Speaking of Halloween? I do love how I love when
Speaker 1: movies are sort of framed by uh non obviously by holidays,
Speaker 1: and it has Halloween in here and then very purposefully
Speaker 1: Christmas later, and so you just sort of you know
Speaker 1: what you're dealing with, you know, you know you're dealing
Speaker 1: with a few months here, a couple of months basically. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then like in between all of that, it's all
Speaker 1: them practicing at her place and stuff. I loved. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite shots was kind of the quietness before
Speaker 1: the dance where they showed like the outside of her garage,
Speaker 1: but there was like was still scene of like the
Speaker 1: inside of her garage with a dance floor in her shoes,
Speaker 1: and just like, I don't know, it's some of my
Speaker 1: favorite shots in there. I'm just like, it just feels
Speaker 1: like very peaceful before everything happens, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes like the small moments like that in movies like
Speaker 1: this Enrichard so much. You know, a shot of an
Speaker 1: empty dance studio like it can be very impactful. I
Speaker 1: love that about movies. Yeah, no, And they definitely did
Speaker 1: a good job with that here so and yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, uh, And then you know they end in
Speaker 1: a very wonderfully romantic way of that house full with
Speaker 1: that voiceover on a Sunday afternoon with the eagles on
Speaker 1: and the and the doctor is there, and then Chris
Speaker 1: Tucker is there getting finding out how to make the
Speaker 1: crabby snacks and homemade, which my wife and I said
Speaker 1: that for like a year afterward. I love that she
Speaker 1: makes the crabby snacks, Like every time I hear it,
Speaker 1: I think of SpongeBob SquarePants like crabby patties, but she
Speaker 1: every scene, she'd always talk about her crabby snacks well.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because, like I said earlier, about the
Speaker 1: sort of misfits who find each other in in In
Speaker 1: Brad and Jennifer, but at the end, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: all kind of the misfits together. I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, they've they've they've all got their issues, they've
Speaker 1: all got their struggles, and they're all all together and
Speaker 1: not in a way that's like I said, like it's solved,
Speaker 1: it's perfect, we're all great it now. But it's like, no,
Speaker 1: but we got each other, you know, we got each
Speaker 1: other's backs. Yeah, And it's just like you feel, I
Speaker 1: feel like full and warm when I watch it, Like
Speaker 1: I'm always came to the end and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: feel really full, and I love that feeling. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's a house full of love and warmth, and like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's totally what I want to feel.
Speaker 1: When I finished this movie, you know, and then you
Speaker 1: always just end on that good note. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: like this completion like we talked about of like, oh
Speaker 1: everything's okay, but it's just like they found the love
Speaker 1: in the warmth amidst everything. Yeah, just so gorgeous. What
Speaker 1: a great movie. It's been a while since I've seen it,
Speaker 1: and I saw it I think at least two times
Speaker 1: kind of back then. Uh, And I was when you
Speaker 1: picked it. I was like, oh funk, yeah, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen this movie in a while. Yes. Yeah. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he likes this movie, but I
Speaker 1: want to watch it because it turns out we have
Speaker 1: a mutual friend in comment. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: Clay told you to tell you. I said, Hi, Clay Miller, Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh no way, how do you know Clay? Um, he's
Speaker 1: my bartender. Yeah, he's my bartender at one of the
Speaker 1: foot Yeah, one of the places I go to. And
Speaker 1: so he was like, oh, I saw you as a
Speaker 1: mutual friend and Chuck yeah and Cabbage Town at Milltown yeah.
Speaker 1: And he said that he had recommended you a movie
Speaker 1: and You're like nope, andels like okay, Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that movie is either. So that's so funny.
Speaker 1: I went camping with Clay like three weeks ago. That's
Speaker 1: what he's he It was just after you all one camping.
Speaker 1: That's great. He's Clay and I went to college together.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know all this, but that's what he
Speaker 1: told me for listeners. He's a photographer. He's actually he's
Speaker 1: a great photographer. He's a pet photographer and uh, I
Speaker 1: need to send you I'll send you the pictures he
Speaker 1: took of my dogs as they're amazing. Lease do I
Speaker 1: did not know he's a photographer. That's awesome. Yeah, Clay's great.
Speaker 1: Um bartender photographer actually it's photographer Bartender. Yeah, he's one
Speaker 1: of my old best friends. It's funny. All the all
Speaker 1: my friends from college almost ended up moving within like
Speaker 1: two or three miles from each other in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: not even on purpose. We just sort of or magnets
Speaker 1: to each other. And I think, uh, you know, Clay
Speaker 1: lives over Kirkwood. I live about a mile a halfway
Speaker 1: in Eastlake. I see him walking his dog all the time.
Speaker 1: He's the one that had the dog. Bro oh oh.
Speaker 1: It is like a small big town, so like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely one of those so um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought it was really cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to bring up about his dog
Speaker 1: Bro then be like, show me pictures. Yeah, Bro is
Speaker 1: not with us anymore, is very sad, but he's got
Speaker 1: his great nude Doberman Buddy, who was just a big
Speaker 1: one pound Doberman who like looks scary as hell, but
Speaker 1: he's the biggest sweetheart. He came camping with us. It
Speaker 1: was great. I got to hang out with Buddy. It
Speaker 1: was so cool. Um. By the way, did you ever
Speaker 1: we ever in the office when Bradley Cooper came in
Speaker 1: and all I was not And I'm so upset. I
Speaker 1: like I missed it, but like this much, and I
Speaker 1: like to this day, I'm just like, what the heck?
Speaker 1: And isn't it like an ongoing joke that like one
Speaker 1: of our boss is best friends with him or he
Speaker 1: is best friend. It's not a joke. It's real, Like
Speaker 1: that's why he was there. Uh. I mean, I've talked
Speaker 1: about it before, but our boss, the head cheese connal um,
Speaker 1: is his best friend from college. That's ridiculous. The best
Speaker 1: man at his wedding and it was funny. I was driving, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is like three or four years ago. Actually it
Speaker 1: was longer than that, because it wasn't long after this movie. Um,
Speaker 1: I was about a mile away from my house driving
Speaker 1: home and I passed somebody jogging and I went to Emily.
Speaker 1: I was like, that was fucking Brad Cooper. She was like, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I went, oh, it is, because, like I
Speaker 1: know how he jogs because you just saw that movie.
Speaker 1: He wasn't wearing a plastic bag. But I was like,
Speaker 1: that was totally Brad Cooper. And I said, I guarantee
Speaker 1: he's he's here with Connal. And I texted Connel's like
Speaker 1: his Bradentown staying at your house and he went yes,
Speaker 1: And I just saw him jogging and he went yep,
Speaker 1: So does he jog with a plastic bag or wasn't
Speaker 1: Really there was no plastic but he had that same
Speaker 1: gait and that same goddamn handsome face. I haven't met
Speaker 1: him either. Connell's always like Brad school like, all have
Speaker 1: to bring him next time he's in town. And then
Speaker 1: he comes in town and he doesn't, and I'm like
Speaker 1: a schoolgirl. I'm like, well, why didn't you bring Brad by?
Speaker 1: I want to meet him. Oh it makes me feel
Speaker 1: any better. That's how some people are when they find
Speaker 1: out I work with you. They're like, wait, Chuck, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, please know Brad Cooper. He's amazing. He's so talented.
Speaker 1: I just think, like when you're when you're wrapped up
Speaker 1: in like a handsome package like that, it's hard to
Speaker 1: I mean, trust me, I don't feel sorry for the guy,
Speaker 1: for anyone who was superlatively attractive, but you know, he's
Speaker 1: more than a pretty face. I thought A Star Wars
Speaker 1: Born was amazing, and I think he's got great director
Speaker 1: chops and writer chops and acting chops and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I'm in love. If you're listening to this, Bradley,
Speaker 1: I just stop buying just six ft Uh well, Miranda,
Speaker 1: this was so much fun. It's great to get to
Speaker 1: know you better. It's funny. I saw you yes to day. Um,
Speaker 1: you're one of the only humans outside of my family
Speaker 1: I've seen in person in weeks. Yeah, I recorded yesterday
Speaker 1: and you were in there so had to sing by.
Speaker 1: Actually end up not getting my internet set up, so
Speaker 1: I had to watch the movie on my phone. Last
Speaker 1: night at home because yeah, I know, I know. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is fine, it's whatever. Well, you've seen
Speaker 1: it so many times, I guess, yeah, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I bet that last out look great on your phone. Well,
Speaker 1: this is great. I'd love to have you back sometime.
Speaker 1: I think I would love to consider you sort of
Speaker 1: a rotating cast member. No, I would love that I
Speaker 1: had such a good time, especially like you know, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for willing to talk about one of
Speaker 1: my absolute favorite movies in the world. Of course, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone has seen it. I think this will
Speaker 1: be a big favorite because people really love this movie
Speaker 1: and those those episodes always go over really well. So
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on. All right, well, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me, all right, bye bye. Movie Crash. It's produced
Speaker 1: and written by Charles Giant and Meel Brown, edited and
Speaker 1: engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown
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