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- 0:05Speaker 1: Trans lesbian center porn is my new kink. Oh my god,
- 0:10Speaker 1: not this one that's pregnant. I want to set the
- 0:17Speaker 1: scene for all of you virgins listening at home. Right now,
- 0:21Speaker 1: Frand and I are in a wintry wonderland. We are
- 0:25Speaker 1: both wearing huge fur coast huge, and just off in
- 0:30Speaker 1: the distance is a fawn um, a shirtless fawn, a
- 0:35Speaker 1: shirtless twink fawn. Well, I would say, o toddter right, Harry, Well,
- 0:42Speaker 1: go off of the distances a fond and then also
- 0:47Speaker 1: off in another distance as a talking beaver. Wait another
- 0:51Speaker 1: getting closer together. Wait now the beaver is sucking the fond.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Put down this live fan fiction you're writing. I was
- 0:59Speaker 1: this was against my son. I did not know. This
- 1:01Speaker 1: is where you were going. Well, where I'm going is
- 1:04Speaker 1: to the magical land of Narnia. Because today we're talking
- 1:10Speaker 1: all about the lion, the witch, the wardrobe, the twink,
- 1:14Speaker 1: the otter, the twunk, the daddy, the bear, the fisting top,
- 1:18Speaker 1: the fisting bottom, the piss, the piss queen, the pillow princess,
- 1:24Speaker 1: and the wardrobe. Because this is like a virgin the
- 1:28Speaker 1: show we give yesterday's pop culture, today's takes. I'm Rasdami
- 1:31Speaker 1: and I'm fran Toronto. God, how did we get here?
- 1:38Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving Virgins. We hope that you are surrounded by
- 1:44Speaker 1: your family, whether they be biological or chosen. Yes, we
- 1:48Speaker 1: hope that you are celebrating anti imperialism and that you
- 1:51Speaker 1: understand that this is a wretched little holiday that has
- 1:55Speaker 1: great food but otherwise is founded in a history of
- 2:00Speaker 1: you know, colonialist violence. Do you know what? I am
- 2:04Speaker 1: disciplined in those that. Like this year, I'm going to
- 2:07Speaker 1: my family in Connecticut and I just go out for
- 2:09Speaker 1: the day, but everyone else there, you know, kind of
- 2:13Speaker 1: stays throughout the weekend because they live there. I don't
- 2:15Speaker 1: usually get sent home with leftovers, And to me, that
- 2:18Speaker 1: is one of the best parts of Thanksgiving is eating
- 2:21Speaker 1: the leftovers for a couple of days and you know,
- 2:23Speaker 1: doing like a sandwich with turkey and stuffing and cranberry
- 2:27Speaker 1: sauce on it. So I'm like, where can I get
- 2:31Speaker 1: one of those? Because I'm I'm not I will not
- 2:33Speaker 1: be fulfilled with just having it one day. No, my
- 2:37Speaker 1: favorite tradition is to make like a giant sandwich like
- 2:42Speaker 1: the next day with like normal sandwich bread, but like
- 2:44Speaker 1: you know, roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, cheddar cheese, like all
- 2:48Speaker 1: of the things that like you want to put on
- 2:50Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving meals so good. Wait, speaking of leftovers, how
- 2:57Speaker 1: did you buy Chency Triangle of Sadness. I don't think
- 2:59Speaker 1: you saw. I still have not seen it. I at
- 3:03Speaker 1: this point probably won't see it in theaters, but we'll
- 3:05Speaker 1: catch it on digital at some point. Okay, I don't
- 3:09Speaker 1: want to talk about it, but I just want to
- 3:10Speaker 1: quickly like just you know, assign you homework and maybe
- 3:13Speaker 1: the Virgin's homework to watch it when you can, because
- 3:16Speaker 1: when I saw the trailer, I was like, that seems
- 3:18Speaker 1: kind of like two on the nose. The trailer makes
- 3:21Speaker 1: it feel really cheap, right, It's like, this is the
- 3:23Speaker 1: movie that eviscerated the upper class, amazing critique and capitalism,
- 3:29Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't really want to watch that,
- 3:31Speaker 1: And then I actually went to go see it, and
- 3:32Speaker 1: it's like one of the most amazing things I've seen
- 3:34Speaker 1: on screen in a very long time. Glad to hear
- 3:37Speaker 1: that it was good. It needed an editor. Let's be clear,
- 3:42Speaker 1: it is in suffering, we do, but but it was
- 3:46Speaker 1: so and rose I'm not gonna spot anything. There's just
- 3:49Speaker 1: something that happens in the midpoint that is so shocking,
- 3:55Speaker 1: and it's something that you never forget, Like it's just
- 3:58Speaker 1: it's something that happens in a movie where you're like,
- 4:01Speaker 1: I will never forget this. Um. Anyways, that's all I'll say,
- 4:05Speaker 1: so that we can actually discuss it, you know, whenever
- 4:08Speaker 1: we end up watching it. Um, what have you been
- 4:11Speaker 1: watching this this this past week? Um? You know, I'm
- 4:15Speaker 1: neck deep in my annual Gilmore Girls re watch. You know,
- 4:19Speaker 1: I have been in the middle of moving, so I
- 4:23Speaker 1: really don't kind of have any patience for anything more
- 4:26Speaker 1: than that. It's just been a lot of Gilmore Girls
- 4:29Speaker 1: on in the background while I unpacked boxes watching too
- 4:32Speaker 1: maybe I'll need to hop on and and and you
- 4:35Speaker 1: should fire for the first time into it. But I
- 4:39Speaker 1: did go to the movies last week and saw Wakonda Forever,
- 4:43Speaker 1: and so did I and I had so much fun
- 4:46Speaker 1: at it. I think the impression that I was left
- 4:48Speaker 1: with most was that, oh my god, everyone that movie
- 4:51Speaker 1: is really hot. So fine, fine, nay More is the
- 4:59Speaker 1: mod or he's the dick. Everyone should suck everyone should eat.
- 5:07Speaker 1: I literally, like, it doesn't matter how many memes I
- 5:10Speaker 1: saw about him before seeing this movie. Nothing, nothing, could
- 5:15Speaker 1: have prepared for me for what I felt in my
- 5:18Speaker 1: body when nayme Or ascended from the sea, his his
- 5:26Speaker 1: his winged little mercurial Herme's wing ass feet, fucking gay
- 5:32Speaker 1: ass mermaid god little Speedo and his like indigenous Mayan
- 5:38Speaker 1: ass ancestry and his accent and his thick little body.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Oh my god. I was alone in the theater, clutching
- 5:46Speaker 1: my face and physically breathless. That's not an exaggeration. I
- 5:50Speaker 1: was physically out of breath. What are the things that
- 5:54Speaker 1: stuck out from you from the movie, like fave parts
- 5:56Speaker 1: or things you didn't like maybe or I really like
- 5:58Speaker 1: Dreary Williams. I thought she was a welcome edition, and
- 6:02Speaker 1: I thought it made sense to bring her in because
- 6:05Speaker 1: with Chadwick Boseman gone to the movie, you know, Leticia
- 6:07Speaker 1: Right had to step into the lead role and couldn't
- 6:11Speaker 1: be like the like smart wise cracking sidekick anymore. And
- 6:15Speaker 1: re redefinitely filled that position while also being a very
- 6:19Speaker 1: compelling character with her own story and she has she
- 6:22Speaker 1: has a TV series coming, so we'll get to see
- 6:25Speaker 1: more of her. And I really liked the dynamic between
- 6:28Speaker 1: her and Sherry, which was like they definitely were into
- 6:30Speaker 1: each other. There was a vibe. Angela Bassett really chewed
- 6:36Speaker 1: every scene she was in. You know, that one scene
- 6:39Speaker 1: where she is yelling at a koy a, you know,
- 6:42Speaker 1: about how she's lost everyone in her life was devastating,
- 6:46Speaker 1: and you know, she gave an incredible performance that I
- 6:49Speaker 1: thought Letitia Right did too. I thought, you know, this
- 6:51Speaker 1: movie had this tremendous weight placed on it of having
- 6:55Speaker 1: to not only honor Chadwick Boseman's legacy, but like deal
- 7:00Speaker 1: with it in a way that was narratively fulfilling, and
- 7:04Speaker 1: so much of that was put on the shoulders of
- 7:07Speaker 1: those two actresses specifically, and I thought they really you know,
- 7:12Speaker 1: rose to the occasion. I mean, I agree. I thought that, like,
- 7:15Speaker 1: given the circumstances, like everyone in the film really carried
- 7:19Speaker 1: the responsibility of something that is kind of impossible to
- 7:22Speaker 1: do from a media perspective, which is translate real life
- 7:26Speaker 1: grief to franchise grief. Like that sucks. I feel bad
- 7:31Speaker 1: for everyone involved, like they had to literally like three
- 7:34Speaker 1: months later like hop into this and like play grief
- 7:39Speaker 1: on screen, and like part of me, like I do
- 7:41Speaker 1: love that that this film was about grief, and I
- 7:45Speaker 1: felt like it was a resonant meditation on grief. But
- 7:48Speaker 1: I also do wish that they could have just waited
- 7:51Speaker 1: and and given it some space, so that like everyone
- 7:54Speaker 1: involved could have, like I don't know, had more time
- 7:58Speaker 1: with it, because, like I thought the burial scene was gorgeous,
- 8:04Speaker 1: I did not need to see Chadwick Boseman's grave ascend
- 8:09Speaker 1: into like a spaceship like that. At the end, I
- 8:11Speaker 1: was like, I feel crazy watching that because it's so
- 8:17Speaker 1: emotionally dissonant from what myself and probably every actor there
- 8:21Speaker 1: is feeling. One of the things I really liked was
- 8:24Speaker 1: the way that they brought Michael B. Jordan's back is
- 8:26Speaker 1: kill Monger, because he was such a great villain in
- 8:30Speaker 1: Black Panther that just watching that made me remember what
- 8:34Speaker 1: an enigmatic and like compelling presence he was in that movie.
- 8:38Speaker 1: But also it worked really well for the story they
- 8:41Speaker 1: were trying to tell that Sherry was like channeling her
- 8:44Speaker 1: grief through anger, and so of course that is the
- 8:47Speaker 1: person that she would see in that moment um. So
- 8:50Speaker 1: I thought that was just like one of one of
- 8:53Speaker 1: those instances where you know the constraints of the movie
- 8:56Speaker 1: they had to make really worked with the movie that
- 8:59Speaker 1: they also wanted to make. And a place where maybe
- 9:03Speaker 1: that was not so successful was the reintroduction of Lupete
- 9:07Speaker 1: Nyongo because like, I mean, I she was. I was
- 9:10Speaker 1: so happy to have her back. But it's like so
- 9:12Speaker 1: funny that it's just like, oh, Lupeta, where have you
- 9:15Speaker 1: been in Haiti? And it's like like we all know
- 9:17Speaker 1: that she like didn't do the Avengers movie because she
- 9:20Speaker 1: wanted to be in an off Broadway play and like
- 9:22Speaker 1: hates this Avenger ship. And like Lupeta, who's like one
- 9:25Speaker 1: of the greatest actors of like our generation, like she's
- 9:29Speaker 1: phoning it in, like she doesn't give a ship about
- 9:32Speaker 1: this movie. She's I don't know, but I still think
- 9:34Speaker 1: she's You don't really see that in her performance. I
- 9:38Speaker 1: think she's very committed. Maybe I'm projecting. I felt like
- 9:41Speaker 1: I think you, I think you're projecting what you what
- 9:44Speaker 1: you see in the real maybe because I thought she
- 9:47Speaker 1: was really dialed in, like that that scene that she
- 9:51Speaker 1: has with a Koa where she's talking about why she
- 9:54Speaker 1: wasn't at the funeral. Like mean, she's an incredible actress
- 9:57Speaker 1: and she has to do so little to Fay so much. Yeah,
- 10:01Speaker 1: that's true, and and and she and she can do
- 10:03Speaker 1: a lot with a little as can like a lot
- 10:05Speaker 1: of prestige actors, and like these franchises, Um, it is
- 10:09Speaker 1: kind of wild though that spoiler alert, like in the
- 10:12Speaker 1: post credit scene, like she's like, yeah, and Chadwick knocked
- 10:16Speaker 1: me up and left me on this island and like
- 10:19Speaker 1: here's my son. I was like, what the fuck? Like
- 10:22Speaker 1: another yell. That also reminded me just how long it's
- 10:26Speaker 1: been since the first Black Panther came out in eighteen
- 10:30Speaker 1: and I don't know when what kinda forever was originally
- 10:33Speaker 1: supposed to be rolled out, like because what kind of forever?
- 10:35Speaker 1: Is the official end of phase four? Like this is
- 10:39Speaker 1: now the end of sort of the post end game fall,
- 10:43Speaker 1: and now now we're in phase five as you can
- 10:47Speaker 1: see with them laying things in the ground, like the
- 10:49Speaker 1: Julia Louis Driver's character, who that might have been My
- 10:53Speaker 1: only like real complaint with this movie is I just
- 10:56Speaker 1: every part with her and Martin Freeman. As much as
- 10:59Speaker 1: I like Martin Freeman and as much as I love
- 11:01Speaker 1: Julie Louis Dreyfus, really took me out of the movie
- 11:04Speaker 1: and like, I mean, she's she's so funny, but she
- 11:08Speaker 1: felt so out of place and even like the streak
- 11:13Speaker 1: of gray in her hair, which I'm sure is like
- 11:15Speaker 1: what she looks like in the comic books, and it's
- 11:17Speaker 1: some sort of like nod to that stylistically, it just
- 11:19Speaker 1: looked world work with her. No. Also, this movie was
- 11:26Speaker 1: very badly lit and was so dark, especially the underwater
- 11:29Speaker 1: scenes so dark. I just like, maybe they're going for
- 11:34Speaker 1: some kind of realism, but this is comic book movie, babe,
- 11:36Speaker 1: turn the lights. Yeah, realism, honey, Like, uh, these are mermaids. Um,
- 11:41Speaker 1: you know what are mermaids? Let let it be said. Yeah,
- 11:44Speaker 1: I totally agree. I mean, like I'm never unhappy to
- 11:47Speaker 1: watch Julia Louis Drifus on screen. But yeah, when Marvel
- 11:50Speaker 1: is Marveling, like just for the sake of like reading
- 11:53Speaker 1: all of these movies together, it's like, those are things
- 11:56Speaker 1: that we would cut out of if this was not
- 11:58Speaker 1: a Marvel movie, it was any other movie, like these
- 12:01Speaker 1: would be chop chop chop. I just wanted her to say,
- 12:03Speaker 1: it's me, um wait, I have a I have another
- 12:09Speaker 1: spoilery question for you. Spoiler spoiler, Did Angela Bassa have
- 12:14Speaker 1: to die. I do think, so you do. I do
- 12:18Speaker 1: think she had to die. But I didn't like was
- 12:20Speaker 1: that her death was given kind of the same weight
- 12:23Speaker 1: as Naymours, like random minion being killed, like there's things
- 12:30Speaker 1: are not my sister or something. It was it was
- 12:32Speaker 1: one of his relatives, but like he's a fish, so
- 12:34Speaker 1: he has like seven sisters, you know what I mean? Like, oh, okay,
- 12:38Speaker 1: this is like only kind of tangentially related to Black Panther.
- 12:41Speaker 1: But I did come up with a sort of wild
- 12:43Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. Okay. So I saw this movie with a
- 12:47Speaker 1: friend of the podcast him Mitchell, and we were talking
- 12:49Speaker 1: about how a year or two ago, there was so
- 12:53Speaker 1: much conversation about Letitia Right being an anti vaxer and
- 12:56Speaker 1: it was so loud, but it really kind of disappeared,
- 13:00Speaker 1: especially in the lead up to this film. I feel
- 13:02Speaker 1: like I did not see a lot of big stories
- 13:04Speaker 1: about it. I know that very recently she has kind
- 13:06Speaker 1: of come out and like disavowed it and also disavowed
- 13:10Speaker 1: a priest she was connected with who has a lot
- 13:12Speaker 1: of homophobic and transphobic views. Anyway, I'm just was so
- 13:16Speaker 1: shocked that there wasn't a bigger like fur around, especially
- 13:20Speaker 1: the anti Baxtor of it all, and I was also
- 13:24Speaker 1: thinking about how that wasn't really a big part of
- 13:25Speaker 1: the conversation when Death on the Nile came out at
- 13:28Speaker 1: the beginning of this year, which she was also in,
- 13:32Speaker 1: and then I started thinking, you know, Disney is really
- 13:34Speaker 1: evil and they knew that Sherry you know, was going
- 13:38Speaker 1: to be the lead in this movie and that they
- 13:41Speaker 1: had to you know, sort of protect their investment. And
- 13:45Speaker 1: my conspiracy is that Disney is behind the outing of
- 13:50Speaker 1: Armie Hammer as a cannibal as a way to draw
- 13:55Speaker 1: fire from Letitia during the Death on the Nile pressed
- 13:59Speaker 1: or to sort of set the stage for her to
- 14:02Speaker 1: be able to get through that without any like journalists
- 14:05Speaker 1: asking her questions during interviews, because all the heat was
- 14:09Speaker 1: on Army, so that by the time Black Panther came out,
- 14:11Speaker 1: we had already kind of moved on from it. That's
- 14:13Speaker 1: my like Galaxy brain but also brain worms conspiracy theory.
- 14:17Speaker 1: The versions can see it with my jaw is dropped. Um,
- 14:20Speaker 1: you need to put that on TikTok immediately. I mean,
- 14:23Speaker 1: there's that's crazy. There's it's very it's very like there's
- 14:27Speaker 1: no actual real logic involved in it. Um. But at
- 14:31Speaker 1: least what I think is some publicist at least brought
- 14:34Speaker 1: it up as an option at some point. Oh for sure.
- 14:37Speaker 1: I mean the Devil works hard, but Marvel pr works hard,
- 14:41Speaker 1: Disney pr because that's what I'll back to the House
- 14:44Speaker 1: of Mouse, Yes house, not the House of Mouse. Um.
- 14:49Speaker 1: I was going to remark on and often heard complaint
- 14:52Speaker 1: on this podcast. Can we talk about the blink and
- 14:57Speaker 1: you missed it? Gay kiss in this movie that I
- 15:00Speaker 1: I didn't even see. Oh I saw it. It was,
- 15:03Speaker 1: but it was it was just like a head kiss.
- 15:05Speaker 1: I had a forehead kiss. I'm so really kiss in foreheads.
- 15:11Speaker 1: And also like for this movie, what a waste of MICHAELA. Cole,
- 15:15Speaker 1: Like we could have had michaela scenes instead of like
- 15:18Speaker 1: these Martin Freedman scenes, and like I was just like,
- 15:21Speaker 1: where was mickay La? Yeah? But I you know, I
- 15:24Speaker 1: do think at least there was enough of the things
- 15:27Speaker 1: that I liked in the movie to make up for
- 15:32Speaker 1: they're not being enough of the things that I wanted
- 15:34Speaker 1: more of. I'm excited for what's next, though, I do.
- 15:37Speaker 1: I will say I did not think that Angela Bassa
- 15:39Speaker 1: needed to die. That was my primary complaint. And and
- 15:42Speaker 1: that's just because selfishly I want to see her in
- 15:46Speaker 1: every movie. And but she got so much to do
- 15:49Speaker 1: before she died. Like I was so happy that we
- 15:52Speaker 1: had so much time for her in this film. She
- 15:54Speaker 1: got some action scenes, she got a lot of great
- 15:58Speaker 1: you know monologue, and people are like, she's going to
- 16:02Speaker 1: get an Oscar nomination, which is like a girl, that's
- 16:04Speaker 1: not happening. But I mean, but not to be a
- 16:07Speaker 1: bitch though, but like, there are so many other characters
- 16:12Speaker 1: to kill that Angela Bassett, but they wouldn't. But it
- 16:15Speaker 1: wouldn't have been narratively satisfying. You have to think about
- 16:18Speaker 1: the story you're telling. I disagree. I think like a Koya,
- 16:21Speaker 1: if they had killed a Koya. There there are a
- 16:23Speaker 1: few people where I was like, no, no, no, Sherry
- 16:25Speaker 1: had to be at her lowest. She had to be
- 16:26Speaker 1: a fat, nasty and broke. She had to come on
- 16:28Speaker 1: this bitch matt as hell. I loved the lesson at
- 16:31Speaker 1: the end. I wish that we could have seen Shary
- 16:36Speaker 1: be a little evil like obviously she was really dark
- 16:39Speaker 1: the whole film. I wanted her to make a crucially
- 16:42Speaker 1: dark mistake in killing someone. I guess like, wasn't it
- 16:47Speaker 1: more as like little, wasn't it more kind of her fault?
- 16:51Speaker 1: But it was more mine, It was more Lupida's fault
- 16:54Speaker 1: because she needed to rescue Sherry. I would have liked
- 16:57Speaker 1: to see just more of Sharry as the black Panther
- 17:01Speaker 1: because it's like she she was doing lines of the
- 17:04Speaker 1: heart shaped a herb or you know whatever the fuck.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Um she micro dosed and then she like immediately not
- 17:09Speaker 1: only has the powers but kind of the skill to
- 17:12Speaker 1: use them. And like, I get that this movie couldn't
- 17:16Speaker 1: be another origin story, but I just would have liked
- 17:21Speaker 1: more time with her being superpowered and not kind of
- 17:25Speaker 1: all of her like stepping into that mantle happening very
- 17:29Speaker 1: quickly or kind of off screen. But the fight sequences
- 17:33Speaker 1: and like action were fun and like didn't get in
- 17:37Speaker 1: the way of still telling a very emotional story. Yeah,
- 17:41Speaker 1: I totally agree, speaking of emotional stories. Did you try
- 17:45Speaker 1: to get Taylor Swift tickets this weekend? Um? I did
- 17:48Speaker 1: not try to get Taylor Swift tickets because I just well,
- 17:54Speaker 1: you know, like I don't super care about seeing live music,
- 17:59Speaker 1: and I also just like didn't want to deal with
- 18:03Speaker 1: what I knew was going to be the nightmare of um,
- 18:07Speaker 1: you know, getting tickets for that show. Never could I
- 18:11Speaker 1: even have imagined the true nightmare would become though, Oh
- 18:16Speaker 1: my god. I mean the versions can read up on
- 18:18Speaker 1: like all the drama that went down about how like
- 18:20Speaker 1: people basically like couldn't get tickets and ticket Master had
- 18:23Speaker 1: to cancel its actual on sale date because of lack
- 18:26Speaker 1: of quantity. But like I I wanted to bring it
- 18:30Speaker 1: up because we have a lot of swift ease on
- 18:31Speaker 1: the pot on like on the pod who are listening,
- 18:33Speaker 1: and I feel like pressure needs to be applied because
- 18:39Speaker 1: Taylor Swift statement on this was so nothing, It was
- 18:44Speaker 1: so absolutely nothing. She put all the blame on ticket
- 18:48Speaker 1: Master and was like, yes, oh my god, it sucks
- 18:51Speaker 1: that you couldn't get tickets for the concert. Yeah, and like,
- 18:54Speaker 1: obviously she can do her part in like ad shows,
- 18:57Speaker 1: but like it's not even like it's not even like
- 19:00Speaker 1: I want her to take blame. It's that she is
- 19:03Speaker 1: the most powerful artist on the planet to some degree.
- 19:08Speaker 1: When Taylor Swift expressed her very first political opinion about
- 19:12Speaker 1: that fucking you know governor in Tennessee or I don't
- 19:15Speaker 1: even remember whatever, the fucktive. Yeah, representative, thank you. More
- 19:19Speaker 1: people registered to vote in a single day than in
- 19:22Speaker 1: any other day in the history of this country. Like
- 19:25Speaker 1: that is obscene. She can move bodies to create actual,
- 19:31Speaker 1: tangible change in a way that could fundamentally change things
- 19:37Speaker 1: for all of these other artists in the industry. And
- 19:39Speaker 1: it makes me angry that her kind of very tepid
- 19:45Speaker 1: response to Ticketmaster was ultimately a display of her allegiance
- 19:49Speaker 1: to capital and her relationship with Ticketmaster. If she was
- 19:54Speaker 1: on her ship, she would say, Hey, this is fucked
- 19:58Speaker 1: Ticketmaster and Live n should never should have merged. This
- 20:01Speaker 1: is an illegal monopoly that has now created problems for artists,
- 20:07Speaker 1: independent artists across the board, and now my fans. So
- 20:11Speaker 1: this is personal to me. Break Ticketmaster up and change
- 20:15Speaker 1: this fucking ship like Taylor is. If any artist could
- 20:19Speaker 1: do that and actually have an impact, it would be Taylor. Well,
- 20:23Speaker 1: now the Justice Department is investigating Ticketmaster, and yes, of
- 20:29Speaker 1: course we wish that Taylor would have gotten involved herself,
- 20:32Speaker 1: but like I just I'm not going to expect that
- 20:35Speaker 1: of celebrities who want to make as much money as possible,
- 20:39Speaker 1: and like there are no perfect celebrities like I certainly
- 20:43Speaker 1: don't think Taylor is a perfect celebrity, and nor do
- 20:46Speaker 1: I expect her to be one. I kind of like
- 20:48Speaker 1: like her music and keep it pushing from there. But
- 20:52Speaker 1: Swifties are powerful and because of them, this this could change.
- 20:57Speaker 1: And I saw something that was like, Swifties, can you
- 21:01Speaker 1: tackle racism and abortion next? No, Actually, swift these are
- 21:07Speaker 1: smart and are great organizers, and like, come on, let's
- 21:10Speaker 1: fucking change something. Um. I heard that you finally uh
- 21:15Speaker 1: dove into miss Emelda Stanton. Yeah. I started season five
- 21:19Speaker 1: of The Crown. Um, I'm only an episode in, um,
- 21:24Speaker 1: but I am seeing kind of right off the bat
- 21:27Speaker 1: a lot of what I've seen people talking about about
- 21:29Speaker 1: how it's gotten very soapy in a way that it
- 21:33Speaker 1: never was before. Um. But I have to say, Eliza,
- 21:37Speaker 1: I do want Elizabeth Debecky to step on me. Me.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Stans is incredible as always. I was so happy to
- 21:44Speaker 1: see what's her face? Mrs Harris goes to Paris as
- 21:47Speaker 1: Princess Margaret. That's Mrs Harris goes to Paris. What's what's
- 21:52Speaker 1: her name? Oh Leslie Manfelt as Princess Margaret? Who I
- 21:56Speaker 1: just you know, I loved that the season started with
- 21:59Speaker 1: you know, Clara Fhoy coming back to do to do
- 22:02Speaker 1: young Queen Elizabeth as she always does. But it just
- 22:05Speaker 1: made me remember how incredible those first seasons of The
- 22:09Speaker 1: Crown War and listen, I love The Crown. I will
- 22:12Speaker 1: keep watching it until it ends. But those first seasons,
- 22:15Speaker 1: you know, Claire Foy put her whole pussy into that role.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Vanessa Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret was so incredible. I
- 22:25Speaker 1: love Vanessa Kirby. I wish she wasn't just relegated to
- 22:28Speaker 1: like those weird like Fast and the Furious spin off movies,
- 22:32Speaker 1: although I am always happy to see her in the
- 22:34Speaker 1: Mission Possible movies. She I didn't even know she was
- 22:37Speaker 1: in either of those, but I didn't really know who
- 22:38Speaker 1: she was, but like, she's so good in the series. Yeah,
- 22:42Speaker 1: she's that's my I mean, of course I also love
- 22:47Speaker 1: Helena Bottom carter Um, but that's my Princess Margaret Um. Yeah,
- 22:53Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm enjoying it. And it just I
- 22:56Speaker 1: like held off on it for so long because I
- 22:58Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm not in the right headspace, Like
- 23:00Speaker 1: it's so serious, it's so dramatic. And then as soon
- 23:01Speaker 1: as they started watching I was like, I want to
- 23:03Speaker 1: sit here for the next ten hours and and just
- 23:06Speaker 1: watch this show. Yeah, I'm do wish like it's this
- 23:10Speaker 1: This season in particular is like not as like fun
- 23:14Speaker 1: like for lack of a better word, right now, um
- 23:17Speaker 1: as like previous seasons like there's less like kind of
- 23:20Speaker 1: sometimes like I enjoy the hijinks of the royal family
- 23:24Speaker 1: and this one deals with a lot of like heavy
- 23:26Speaker 1: subject matter. But yeah, I mean, Elizabeth Debecci is like
- 23:29Speaker 1: eyeliner alone, like they knew what they were doing with
- 23:32Speaker 1: the eyeliner, Like come on, I'm also so happy that
- 23:35Speaker 1: they I mean, Netflix even tweeted something about this, that
- 23:38Speaker 1: the Crown let Elizabeth Debeccy be tall, and I do appreciate.
- 23:42Speaker 1: I do appreciate that they don't have everyone around her
- 23:45Speaker 1: like standing on you know, like blocks and like with
- 23:48Speaker 1: lifts in their shoes, and that she just is taller
- 23:50Speaker 1: than everyone. If if they had c G, i'd everyone
- 23:53Speaker 1: taller like like Tom like no, like Gandalf in the
- 23:57Speaker 1: Hobbits like style, Oh my Godbeth Debecci should play what
- 24:03Speaker 1: if they what if they actually like reconstructed the entirety
- 24:06Speaker 1: of the Crown set to appear physically bigger, so that
- 24:12Speaker 1: I love that. Elizabeth Debecci should be in season two
- 24:16Speaker 1: Rings of Power. Um, if that happens, don't even with
- 24:21Speaker 1: me that Like literally, anyone like that I recognize in
- 24:24Speaker 1: Rings of Power would be great. But Elizabeth Debecci and
- 24:27Speaker 1: Rings of Power, Damn, Elizabeth Debeccy should be in the
- 24:30Speaker 1: House of the Dragon. She should be a targe Arian. Yeah,
- 24:33Speaker 1: that's actually much more worthy for for for her. Tom.
- 24:35Speaker 1: I still have not finished Drings of Power. I don't
- 24:38Speaker 1: know if I ever will. Uh, you know what, actually like,
- 24:42Speaker 1: holidays are perfect time to finish it. Holidays off holidays
- 24:46Speaker 1: are when I'm going to do my annual Lord of
- 24:48Speaker 1: rewatch and kind of and honestly kind of the last
- 24:52Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna want to do after that is watching
- 24:55Speaker 1: Watchings of Power. That's kind of that's kind of tea.
- 24:58Speaker 1: You could like put it on background while you're, you know,
- 25:00Speaker 1: making a pie or something. I don't make pies. I
- 25:02Speaker 1: hate that, I was so The Chronicles of Narnia is
- 25:26Speaker 1: a fantasy series written by C. S. Lewis. Heard of it?
- 25:29Speaker 1: Heard of it? Yes? It was one of the few
- 25:32Speaker 1: things I was allowed to consume growing up because it's
- 25:34Speaker 1: super Christian, Because it's extremely extremely Christian, I would I
- 25:39Speaker 1: would wager to say that it is uncreatively Christian. Like C. S.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Lewis was lifting plot points from the Bible and just
- 25:46Speaker 1: putting them on the page. He plagiarized the God, God,
- 25:50Speaker 1: God herself. Yes, I also read the books as a kid.
- 25:54Speaker 1: I think though, that my intro to the world of
- 26:00Speaker 1: Narnia was specifically the nine animated movie as well. I
- 26:08Speaker 1: think I've talked about this before that when I was
- 26:11Speaker 1: a kid growing up, my dad was a librarian at
- 26:15Speaker 1: a middle school, and I definitely remember him bringing home
- 26:23Speaker 1: the vhs of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,
- 26:26Speaker 1: the animated movie, so I could watch it, and I
- 26:29Speaker 1: think I like stole it. So he never brought it back.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Love you never got fined. No, he was the librarian.
- 26:37Speaker 1: What was it gonna do? Wow, I got away with it. Um.
- 26:44Speaker 1: That movie is stunning, so beautiful. The White Witch in
- 26:49Speaker 1: that movie is so fierce, the diva doll herself, God her.
- 26:55Speaker 1: She has like this beautiful fur coat and like a
- 26:57Speaker 1: skull cap kind of ye with a crown on top
- 27:00Speaker 1: up of the skull cap. Yes, iconic, It's a huge knife, yeah,
- 27:03Speaker 1: and very like grinch like, fluctuant facial expressions like sometimes
- 27:08Speaker 1: she's soft and supple and queen, like another time she
- 27:11Speaker 1: looks like a demon. Well, I think also part of
- 27:14Speaker 1: that is that the animation is not great. Well, it's
- 27:18Speaker 1: not great because it's from but it's actually really beautiful
- 27:22Speaker 1: and how old it is I feel, and there was
- 27:25Speaker 1: some very good animation made long before. Have you ever
- 27:29Speaker 1: heard of Walt Disney Studios. No, I'm realizing that you're
- 27:33Speaker 1: talking about the kind of frames, the pick images per frame.
- 27:39Speaker 1: It's choppy, yes, it's choppy, yes, but it's beautiful. It
- 27:43Speaker 1: is beautiful, and I love that version of it. And
- 27:46Speaker 1: so from there I went and read the book series, um,
- 27:52Speaker 1: the Chronicles of Narnia. So for for virgins out there,
- 27:56Speaker 1: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is technically the
- 28:01Speaker 1: second book in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia, the
- 28:06Speaker 1: only book most people recognize, but it was the It
- 28:08Speaker 1: was the first one that was released, and that in
- 28:11Speaker 1: nineteen fifty by C. S. Lewis, and then he went
- 28:15Speaker 1: back and wrote the first book, The Magician's Nephew, and
- 28:20Speaker 1: then all of the sequels that come after the Lion,
- 28:24Speaker 1: the Witch and the Wardrobe. Did you are seven books
- 28:27Speaker 1: in total? Yeah? Um, have you read all of them? No?
- 28:32Speaker 1: I have read I think three of them and retained
- 28:37Speaker 1: none of them. I feel like I definitely I might
- 28:40Speaker 1: have reread Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe because um,
- 28:43Speaker 1: as a kid, we used to listen to the audio
- 28:45Speaker 1: book and stuff like audio books of them are so good.
- 28:47Speaker 1: But like we because my family like this is the
- 28:51Speaker 1: this is the kind of fantasy and our mainstream culture
- 28:54Speaker 1: that we could like indulge in because it was so
- 28:57Speaker 1: Christian like so so Christians, which I did not get
- 29:00Speaker 1: at first. I thought it was just fantastical. And that's
- 29:03Speaker 1: why it's a great gateway drug to Christianity. I suppose it. Really,
- 29:07Speaker 1: it really is. And I let me tell you had
- 29:09Speaker 1: the reverse experience of course, like for me Narnia rather Yeah.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Actually Narnia and Christianity were inextricable. There was no way
- 29:20Speaker 1: I could consume Lyne, the Witch and the Wardrobe without
- 29:23Speaker 1: thinking about God. Wow. I didn't get any of the
- 29:26Speaker 1: Jesus stuff, even though it's so obvious. So when you
- 29:31Speaker 1: go back and look at it all, I mean, you know, um,
- 29:34Speaker 1: so my so I did read all the books at
- 29:37Speaker 1: one point. The only ones that have really stuck with
- 29:40Speaker 1: me are obviously in the line The Witch and the Wardrobe,
- 29:42Speaker 1: because it is the best. I also love The Magician's
- 29:45Speaker 1: Nephew because it gives you the origin story of both
- 29:48Speaker 1: Narnia and of the White Witch Jadis. Do you remember
- 29:52Speaker 1: any of it like I? I unfortunately don't remember the
- 29:55Speaker 1: so so the plot of The Magician's Nephew is, there's
- 29:59Speaker 1: this boy whose uncle is a magician. It is called
- 30:02Speaker 1: the Magician's Nephew, and with he, he and his friend Poppy,
- 30:07Speaker 1: I believe, find their way into this place called the
- 30:12Speaker 1: Wood between the Worlds, which is the way you get
- 30:14Speaker 1: into all these different universes, and they find their way
- 30:18Speaker 1: into this world called charn which is the homeworld of Jadis,
- 30:23Speaker 1: who becomes the White Witch. And the story with her
- 30:26Speaker 1: is that she and her sister were in this like
- 30:30Speaker 1: fierce battle for the crown um but they they said
- 30:37Speaker 1: they were not going to use magic to get the crown,
- 30:40Speaker 1: but then a Jadis's sister did, and they were like
- 30:44Speaker 1: they were kind of like about to destroy each other.
- 30:46Speaker 1: And Jadis had this um like little secret gag up
- 30:52Speaker 1: sleeve which was called the deplorable word, and what the
- 30:56Speaker 1: deplorable word would do already sounds christian would destroy everyone
- 31:02Speaker 1: in the entire world except her. Oh my god, And
- 31:05Speaker 1: so at the last moment she used it, everyone in
- 31:08Speaker 1: the world is storied, so by default she becomes queen.
- 31:11Speaker 1: But she's like queen of nothing. So what she decides
- 31:13Speaker 1: to do is use magic to preserve herself until someone
- 31:17Speaker 1: comes along and rings a bell and unleashes her. And
- 31:20Speaker 1: so obviously the first thing these kids do when they
- 31:22Speaker 1: go to her world is ring a bell and she
- 31:25Speaker 1: comes back to life, and then she kind of um
- 31:28Speaker 1: hitches a ride with them back to the Wood between
- 31:32Speaker 1: the Worlds where like her powers don't really work there
- 31:35Speaker 1: and she gets kind of sick, and then they take
- 31:36Speaker 1: her to Earth. She kind of tries to take over Earth,
- 31:41Speaker 1: but it doesn't really work out, and then finally they're
- 31:43Speaker 1: able to get her back into the Wood between the Worlds.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Before that, she like breaks off a lamp post in London,
- 31:51Speaker 1: and then she takes that lamp post. They all make
- 31:54Speaker 1: their way into Narnia as Narnia is being created by
- 31:58Speaker 1: as Land, and the Itch tries to throw the lamppost
- 32:03Speaker 1: at as Land and it plants on the ground and
- 32:05Speaker 1: grows into the lamppost from the lion the witch on
- 32:09Speaker 1: the wardrobe. Oh my god, I mean he that that's
- 32:13Speaker 1: such a gag. Now that that makes me actually want
- 32:16Speaker 1: to revisit the first one. It's so good and and
- 32:19Speaker 1: that's you know, so that that quote that that is
- 32:23Speaker 1: a meme like, do not cite the deep magic to me,
- 32:26Speaker 1: which I was there when it was written, is referencing
- 32:29Speaker 1: the fact that both the White Witch and as Len
- 32:33Speaker 1: were there when Narnia was created, and so that's why
- 32:36Speaker 1: they both know like the rules of the universe. And
- 32:39Speaker 1: also that's where you see even more of the Bible,
- 32:42Speaker 1: the biblical stuff coming in, because Jadis eats an apple
- 32:47Speaker 1: from a tree that gives her everlasting life. Of course,
- 32:49Speaker 1: of course she tries to talk the titular magician's nephew
- 32:55Speaker 1: into eating the apple, but he doesn't do it, and
- 32:59Speaker 1: that the magician's nephew is the boy who grows up
- 33:06Speaker 1: to be the old man who owns the house with
- 33:09Speaker 1: the wardrobe in it. Uh. Oh, now I understand. Okay,
- 33:16Speaker 1: I'm actually so delighted that you summarize that for me,
- 33:19Speaker 1: because I truly retained nothing and I'm such a nerd.
- 33:24Speaker 1: You really are, I'm not going to lie. But it's
- 33:26Speaker 1: also impressive that you're able to retain so much about
- 33:30Speaker 1: like huge world they're written eons ago, but nothing about
- 33:34Speaker 1: like what we recorded one hour ago. Well one thing
- 33:37Speaker 1: is important in one thing. Um. I a lot that
- 33:42Speaker 1: was in conversation around C. S. Lewis um when we
- 33:46Speaker 1: were reading the books as kids are, like when I
- 33:48Speaker 1: was consuming the ship was like the relationship between him
- 33:51Speaker 1: and Tolkien, which I feel like we talked about it.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Do you think they were a second No, I think
- 33:57Speaker 1: well they were, obviously because I'm going to go on
- 34:00Speaker 1: if there's any fiction about that. Obviously because this is
- 34:03Speaker 1: like a virgin. Of course we think that they're sucking
- 34:05Speaker 1: and fucking. But if in my heart of hearts to
- 34:07Speaker 1: actually think they were so so repressed, and I feel
- 34:11Speaker 1: like the vibe between them. I've read a lot about
- 34:14Speaker 1: their relationship, and the vibe kind of was like C. S.
- 34:18Speaker 1: Lewis like takes a lot of credit for helping like
- 34:21Speaker 1: be the what they called the midwife for Tolkien's worlds.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Like they say that like Tolkien never would have finished
- 34:27Speaker 1: his work if like C. S. Lewis didn't bring him
- 34:29Speaker 1: home or like encourage him all along the way. But
- 34:31Speaker 1: I was also like, girl, your work suffered because of it,
- 34:34Speaker 1: because like no offense, like love Chronics Narnia, but like
- 34:38Speaker 1: the Chronicles of Narnia compared to Tolkien rose like nothing
- 34:44Speaker 1: like C. S. Lewis is out here being like this
- 34:46Speaker 1: line talks and like this line is also Jesus Christ.
- 34:49Speaker 1: You get it. And Tolkien is like, how many languages
- 34:51Speaker 1: have you written? But but one is for children and
- 34:55Speaker 1: one is not. Okay, I mean there's violence in these
- 35:01Speaker 1: books too. It's like some of the you know, it's
- 35:04Speaker 1: not a children no, but these but they are children's stories.
- 35:10Speaker 1: And although you know, Tolkien also wrote The Hobbit as
- 35:16Speaker 1: a book for children, but then as his children grew up,
- 35:19Speaker 1: you know, he wanted to advance the idea of the
- 35:22Speaker 1: quote unquote fairy story into something that could be consumed
- 35:26Speaker 1: by adults, because that wasn't really something that existed at
- 35:29Speaker 1: that time. Um. You know, they they are so obviously contemporaries,
- 35:35Speaker 1: and you know their works. I think when we think
- 35:38Speaker 1: about the legacy of fantasy are the ones that are
- 35:41Speaker 1: the most in conversation with each other. And they were
- 35:46Speaker 1: literally and they definitely sucked each other off. Yeah, I
- 35:49Speaker 1: mean they were working on these like literal fan fictions,
- 35:52Speaker 1: like working on their own little fan fictions, like in
- 35:55Speaker 1: like a fucking gay bar together. I mean it wasn't
- 35:57Speaker 1: a gay bar, but it was called the Eagle in
- 35:59Speaker 1: the Child, which is a ry like it's gay. I
- 36:02Speaker 1: didn't get too deep into this, but apparently they had
- 36:04Speaker 1: a falling out. They were because they broke up. Yes,
- 36:09Speaker 1: I think they had. You heard it here first j R. O.
- 36:14Speaker 1: Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, We're boyfriends, how to break up?
- 36:20Speaker 1: And the rest is her story. But according to Tolkiene,
- 36:24Speaker 1: like their relationship only lasted I think like twelve years
- 36:28Speaker 1: or so, and then after that they had a very
- 36:31Speaker 1: fierce like falling out. I think because C. S. Lewis
- 36:35Speaker 1: apparently took a job at Okay, wait wait, took a lover. Yes,
- 36:39Speaker 1: Lewis left Oxford and took a job as the chair
- 36:43Speaker 1: of Medieval and Renaissance Literature nerd at Cambridge. And I
- 36:47Speaker 1: think that they personally said they had fundamental like differing
- 36:51Speaker 1: beliefs about like what should be taught in the cannon.
- 36:54Speaker 1: And I believe Louis was the one that's like we
- 36:57Speaker 1: should be teaching things that are like a little more
- 37:00Speaker 1: not contemporary, because they didn't. Neither of them believe in
- 37:02Speaker 1: contemporary literature. But I think that like Tolkien was like
- 37:06Speaker 1: nothing outside of the Canterbury Hills, it's like relevant, like
- 37:10Speaker 1: it is only Middle English. No, Middle English is so
- 37:14Speaker 1: fucking boring and not relevant at all to like today's society.
- 37:16Speaker 1: And I actually think it should be extract like completely
- 37:19Speaker 1: expunged from literary canons of today. I think that we
- 37:22Speaker 1: as a society should decimate anything in Middle English and
- 37:26Speaker 1: it's not relevant. Where is the sad gay period drama
- 37:29Speaker 1: about Tolken and Louis's love affair. It's probably on a
- 37:34Speaker 1: O three. I'm gonna write it and it will be
- 37:36Speaker 1: man into my policeman's style, yeah, or maybe like a
- 37:40Speaker 1: BBC miniseries. Okay, So if you think they broke up,
- 37:42Speaker 1: what is the true story of their break up? If
- 37:44Speaker 1: this is the Wikipedia version, what's the true story? Um
- 37:49Speaker 1: that they were both tops? No, they were both bottoms. No,
- 37:52Speaker 1: I don't believe in those binaries. I think that Tolken
- 38:00Speaker 1: was into some like real gross orcship and Lewis was
- 38:07Speaker 1: very kind of pure. Yeah, like wanted to commit to
- 38:11Speaker 1: the bit but couldn't really. You know. Also, Tolkien had children,
- 38:17Speaker 1: so maybe he wanted he wanted, you know, he wanted
- 38:19Speaker 1: to live in the straight world. Lewis was just his
- 38:22Speaker 1: childless fag friends and C. S. Lewis, you know, I
- 38:26Speaker 1: don't know, actually a C. S. Lewis had children. I
- 38:28Speaker 1: would imagine he did. It seems like he would. Um,
- 38:31Speaker 1: it seems like a thing he would. I'm just gonna
- 38:33Speaker 1: say they just had some like Drap McQueen breakup. They
- 38:35Speaker 1: loved each other, but it didn't work out, And who knows,
- 38:38Speaker 1: maybe if it weren't for you know, the society that
- 38:43Speaker 1: you know wouldn't let them be together, maybe they would have.
- 38:46Speaker 1: Or maybe they were just petty and jealous of each
- 38:48Speaker 1: other's work, which is like what I think happened. I
- 38:51Speaker 1: think they were both jealous of each other's work because
- 38:53Speaker 1: like if Tolkien credited Lewis to helping him create this
- 38:57Speaker 1: like big thing, like would that not create strain on
- 39:00Speaker 1: their relationship, Like if someone was helping you through years
- 39:04Speaker 1: and years and years like birth this like massive franchise
- 39:08Speaker 1: level epic. Sure, but of course they would grow to
- 39:13Speaker 1: hate each other but you know what, at the end
- 39:14Speaker 1: of the day, they were both um white men who
- 39:17Speaker 1: are dead and bald and bald wigs snatch and let's
- 39:23Speaker 1: talk about talk about the diva's they created. So we
- 39:27Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the White Witch. Okay, there's
- 39:29Speaker 1: also Aslan, who is you know, the Jesus figure. Talk
- 39:33Speaker 1: about a stunt queen. I definitely wanted to fuck Aslan
- 39:38Speaker 1: and pretty much every version of The Lion, the Witch
- 39:41Speaker 1: and the Wardrobe that's been made. Aslan is objectively hot,
- 39:45Speaker 1: but like played by Liam Neeson a little on the nose,
- 39:48Speaker 1: like they knew how hot Aslan was. Yeah, the set, Yes,
- 39:55Speaker 1: let's let's see if there's Aslin move face upport x
- 40:01Speaker 1: x X what is it? Oh my god, oh my god,
- 40:10Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, I've gone too far.
- 40:15Speaker 1: If you are scandalized that anyway, that's saying something as
- 40:20Speaker 1: Lands very hot. Also, okay, so let's talk about the
- 40:25Speaker 1: movie franchise. Um, So, The Lion, The Witch and the
- 40:30Speaker 1: Wardrobe film series the Saga. The franchise came out in
- 40:35Speaker 1: two thousand five. I think that's probably how most people
- 40:40Speaker 1: of our generation and younger were introduced to it. This
- 40:45Speaker 1: was sort of like post Harry Potter post Lord of
- 40:51Speaker 1: the Rings. I think studios realizing that there was a
- 40:58Speaker 1: first for you know, fantasy, I p and um. I
- 41:05Speaker 1: love the two thousand and five film. I think it's
- 41:08Speaker 1: so good. It gave the world several people. It gave
- 41:12Speaker 1: us James McAvoy this was his breakout? What? Yeah? This
- 41:16Speaker 1: is his breakout? Yeah? Girl, what else did you think
- 41:20Speaker 1: it was? I'm freaking out. I thought he was an
- 41:23Speaker 1: established actor by this. No, this was his big bready.
- 41:28Speaker 1: It was also Tilda Swinton's big break That's also crazy.
- 41:33Speaker 1: I did not know that either. That's crazy to me. Wow,
- 41:38Speaker 1: and they Winton just Winton wear with dreadlocks. I mean, okay,
- 41:43Speaker 1: but can we also can we just talk about the
- 41:45Speaker 1: production design in general. I rewatched this movie for the record,
- 41:49Speaker 1: so it's fresh on my mind. Stunning. It's like beautiful,
- 41:53Speaker 1: beautiful film. I remembered it being kind of generic, and
- 41:57Speaker 1: when I watched, I was like, every single aim is
- 42:00Speaker 1: actually like better than most of what I watched. And
- 42:03Speaker 1: Rings of Power, my god, the moment where Lucy pulls
- 42:07Speaker 1: the sheet off the wardrobe. I mean, honestly, everything the
- 42:12Speaker 1: Queen wears is so stunning. Aside from the dreads, but
- 42:15Speaker 1: like the fact that her icicle crown gets slowly smaller,
- 42:18Speaker 1: does the world melt well? I do kind of a
- 42:21Speaker 1: gag like I do get sad when the winter goes away,
- 42:25Speaker 1: because I think that's the countiest part of the movie.
- 42:28Speaker 1: It's a really county and it's also what you remember
- 42:30Speaker 1: when you think of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,
- 42:33Speaker 1: which is why it's canonically a Christmas film. It is well,
- 42:37Speaker 1: I mean, Santa is literally a character in the movie.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Just so once again loser behavior from C. S. Lewis.
- 42:45Speaker 1: I think like writing Santa into your story, bro and
- 42:50Speaker 1: Tolkien is over here creating like worlds of like orcs
- 42:54Speaker 1: and elves and author languages like you wrote Santa. But
- 42:57Speaker 1: I do also think that Santa in the movie hot.
- 43:02Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to say it, he's a daddy. Yeah.
- 43:21Speaker 1: Watching a lot of like fantasy stuff that we watched
- 43:23Speaker 1: today when it whether it's like Marvel or like any
- 43:27Speaker 1: sort of like you know, original they make a live
- 43:29Speaker 1: action Snow White movie or all these other things they're
- 43:31Speaker 1: trying to like make from original. I p it's like
- 43:34Speaker 1: it feels regurgitated. A lot of it or it feels
- 43:37Speaker 1: like a rushed job. And there's something about this that
- 43:39Speaker 1: just feels so it felt so fresh, and I think that, well,
- 43:43Speaker 1: it's also all practical, like now we live in the
- 43:47Speaker 1: era of everything is c G I and this is
- 43:51Speaker 1: it's even if it's all on sound stages, which I'm
- 43:54Speaker 1: sure it all is. Like outside of Aslan and some
- 43:59Speaker 1: of the end the other like talking animal characters, this
- 44:02Speaker 1: is a world that feels tangible. Well, actually, the war
- 44:06Speaker 1: is all c G I and and and at the
- 44:09Speaker 1: end of the line, the Witch and the wardrobe and
- 44:11Speaker 1: I actually but I actually think it's kind of fine
- 44:13Speaker 1: because they gave us everything else, you know what I mean,
- 44:17Speaker 1: like and I think a lot of that, you know,
- 44:20Speaker 1: a lot of like what I I just honestly was
- 44:23Speaker 1: watching this and I was like, if you told I mean,
- 44:25Speaker 1: the c G is like a little but like if
- 44:27Speaker 1: you had told me it came out two years ago,
- 44:29Speaker 1: I would believe you. But that's how stunning it was.
- 44:32Speaker 1: That moment when all the Pevenses walk through the wardrobe
- 44:37Speaker 1: for the first time into Narnia into the snow, like
- 44:42Speaker 1: that captures something about childhood and the ability for regular
- 44:51Speaker 1: things to become extraordinary, like in a way that is
- 44:56Speaker 1: so profound, and you could tell that the person don't
- 45:00Speaker 1: even know who made this movie, but like you could
- 45:01Speaker 1: tell that there was a love for the story. And
- 45:04Speaker 1: I also felt like, who ever made this movie how
- 45:07Speaker 1: to love for the animated movie. There's a lot of
- 45:10Speaker 1: things that imagistically replicate what the nineteen seventy nine just
- 45:14Speaker 1: little hints here and there, like what the nineteen seventy
- 45:17Speaker 1: nine movie did, And I love that because it was
- 45:20Speaker 1: still reinterpreted. Right, Yeah, well, probably all the different adaptations
- 45:24Speaker 1: are somewhat in conversation with each other. Have you ever
- 45:27Speaker 1: seen the BBC mini series from that from the late eighties?
- 45:32Speaker 1: Does it do all of the books? Yeah? All of them?
- 45:34Speaker 1: Did you? Yeah? I watched them. I definitely watched The Lion,
- 45:38Speaker 1: The Witch and the Wardrobe more than any of the
- 45:41Speaker 1: other ones. But I have seen all of them. They're
- 45:44Speaker 1: not my favorites. So of the film annotations that started
- 45:49Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, there were two sequels, Prince
- 45:52Speaker 1: Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for Flops,
- 45:57Speaker 1: which were kind of flops, although they did in reduced
- 46:00Speaker 1: Ben Barnes to the world that was he was in
- 46:04Speaker 1: that Netflix show Shadow and Bone. He has been in
- 46:08Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. He's like a hunky British guy.
- 46:11Speaker 1: He also is a very popular fan cast for a young,
- 46:16Speaker 1: serious black Oh and I think he's super sexy. Um.
- 46:22Speaker 1: There were plans for a fourth movie, The Silver Chair,
- 46:26Speaker 1: which is I think one of the better books and
- 46:31Speaker 1: also well, something the movies did was Tilda Swinton appeared
- 46:35Speaker 1: in all of the sequels, even though even though after
- 46:39Speaker 1: The White which is killed, like they make allusions to her,
- 46:43Speaker 1: and um, they knew how much she carried well either
- 46:48Speaker 1: even in I don't remember if it's in Prince Caspian
- 46:51Speaker 1: our Voyage of the down Treader, but in one of
- 46:53Speaker 1: them they attempt to resurrect her and so she comes back,
- 46:58Speaker 1: and that is in the book, but it's like they
- 47:01Speaker 1: talk about it, they don't actually do it. But like,
- 47:04Speaker 1: if you got Tilda, you're gonna use Tilda, yeah, which
- 47:07Speaker 1: is kind of like, I mean, I'm sure they just
- 47:09Speaker 1: wanted to like get these kids in movies as fast
- 47:12Speaker 1: as they could before they like went fully through puberty,
- 47:15Speaker 1: even though they kind of did, but like they really
- 47:17Speaker 1: should have just gone straight to Magician's nephew because that
- 47:20Speaker 1: to me. I know, I wish there was a magician's
- 47:25Speaker 1: nephew movies so badly so um. It was announced a
- 47:30Speaker 1: couple of years ago that Netflix had bought their rights
- 47:33Speaker 1: to UM Narnia and they were going to make either
- 47:37Speaker 1: a series or films series. It's still in development. There
- 47:43Speaker 1: hasn't been really any news on it. I think maybe
- 47:46Speaker 1: like COVID slowed down the plans, but hopefully it happens
- 47:50Speaker 1: one day. I wonder I would love to see it.
- 47:52Speaker 1: I wonder how Narnia. I mean, like two five wasn't
- 47:56Speaker 1: that long ago, but culturally it's kind of ago, and
- 48:01Speaker 1: I wonder how receptive the world might be now to
- 48:04Speaker 1: something that is so explicitly Christian, like, well, it's it's
- 48:08Speaker 1: so pure, and yeah, it's so pure. And the thing
- 48:12Speaker 1: about all fantasy media now is that it has to
- 48:14Speaker 1: have a level of meta nous to it. It has
- 48:18Speaker 1: to be commenting on what fantasy is in the modern era.
- 48:25Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, we have something like The Magicians,
- 48:29Speaker 1: which is a book series by Love Grossman that was
- 48:31Speaker 1: turned into a TV series on sci fi that is
- 48:36Speaker 1: very and I'm not using this word negatively derivative of
- 48:41Speaker 1: chronicles of Narnia because it's a book that sort of
- 48:44Speaker 1: remixes Narnia and Harry Potter in this way, it's a
- 48:48Speaker 1: little Harry Potter too. So um, if you have never
- 48:52Speaker 1: read the books or watched the TV show, it's about
- 48:56Speaker 1: um this guy Quentin who's like very depress ust and
- 49:00Speaker 1: gets into a magical college and the books and then
- 49:04Speaker 1: grad school in the TV show, and he also had
- 49:07Speaker 1: a childhood obsession with a series of novels that are
- 49:11Speaker 1: a stand in for Narnia, but the world is called
- 49:15Speaker 1: Phillery in the Magicians, and after he goes to magic school,
- 49:21Speaker 1: he discovers that Philery is actually a real place and
- 49:24Speaker 1: he and his friends go there and it's so meta,
- 49:28Speaker 1: like to a crazy extent, And it's basically like the
- 49:31Speaker 1: whole idea of the series is what if you were
- 49:35Speaker 1: like super obsessed with fantasy and that thing that people
- 49:39Speaker 1: are obsessed with fantasy, that that idea you have that like, oh,
- 49:43Speaker 1: one day, I'll like walk into a wardrobe and it
- 49:46Speaker 1: will take me into Narnia. Like what if that actually happened?
- 49:49Speaker 1: And would that actually make you any happier than you
- 49:55Speaker 1: were before or would you still just like be depressed
- 49:58Speaker 1: but you would be in a magical world. Those are
- 50:00Speaker 1: the themes that I like want to see if the
- 50:03Speaker 1: if like it's ever made into if like Narnia has
- 50:05Speaker 1: ever made into a series. Right, it feels like The
- 50:07Speaker 1: Magicians was kind of like the the adultification of some
- 50:13Speaker 1: of these like tropes and themes, because I think, you know,
- 50:17Speaker 1: the stories are actually like they have violence in them,
- 50:20Speaker 1: like or at least the ones that I read like
- 50:22Speaker 1: had violence in them more like adult themes or whatever. Um.
- 50:26Speaker 1: But there's room for it to go all the way
- 50:29Speaker 1: if it wanted to. But you know, I'm sure they
- 50:32Speaker 1: would never because they would if if Netflix or whoever
- 50:35Speaker 1: ever made this again, they probably want to prioritize like
- 50:38Speaker 1: a family Christmas movie. Well. Also, I'm sure that whoever
- 50:41Speaker 1: controls the rights to the books, like I'm sure there's
- 50:45Speaker 1: like a C. S. Lewis Foundation, they probably have very
- 50:50Speaker 1: strict guidelines in place about how these novels can be adapted. Wait,
- 50:56Speaker 1: we should talk about that because I feel like the morality,
- 51:00Speaker 1: this is something that we spoke about when we were
- 51:02Speaker 1: talking through our like Rings of Power recaps, that you know,
- 51:06Speaker 1: the morality and the kind of good versus bad thing
- 51:09Speaker 1: that exists in Lord of the Rings is like cranked
- 51:12Speaker 1: up to the inst degree in the world of Narnia,
- 51:16Speaker 1: like almost to a to a problematic level, like something
- 51:22Speaker 1: um I have. Oh that some people talk about is Susan,
- 51:28Speaker 1: who is one of the Pavency children. I don't know
- 51:30Speaker 1: if you've ever heard of this, but there's a short
- 51:34Speaker 1: story that Neil Gaiman wrote called the Problem of Susan.
- 51:38Speaker 1: Because so the ending of the books is really fucked up.
- 51:40Speaker 1: I don't know if you're if you know. So in
- 51:45Speaker 1: the last book you find out that all the Peavency
- 51:48Speaker 1: children died in a train accident and they all go
- 51:53Speaker 1: to basically like heaven in Narnia, and and it's supposed
- 52:01Speaker 1: to be like a good thing that they're all dead,
- 52:03Speaker 1: but they're together in heaven, except Susan doesn't get to go.
- 52:08Speaker 1: And the reasoning that as Land gives them is because
- 52:13Speaker 1: she had become obsessed with like makeup and boys and
- 52:17Speaker 1: stuff and had become like super jaded, and so she
- 52:20Speaker 1: didn't get to go to heaven with her dead family.
- 52:24Speaker 1: And oh, my god, now I need to read you
- 52:26Speaker 1: have to so this. In this short story, it's about
- 52:30Speaker 1: a student who's interviewing a professor of like children's literature,
- 52:36Speaker 1: and the professor actually is Susan all grown up, and
- 52:42Speaker 1: there's like some really great scenes of um, you know,
- 52:46Speaker 1: there's like this part where she talks about as Land
- 52:49Speaker 1: fucking the White Witch, and it's just like it's super
- 52:52Speaker 1: fucked up, and it's just like really great commentary on
- 52:58Speaker 1: you know, the like very kind of pucked up morality
- 53:01Speaker 1: of C. S. Lewis and and the way that he
- 53:05Speaker 1: did not treat especially the female character as well. You know,
- 53:09Speaker 1: they were either very pure children or evil witches and
- 53:13Speaker 1: they're kind of was no in between for women, kind
- 53:16Speaker 1: of the same way that for Tolkien it was either
- 53:19Speaker 1: like Galadriel or nothing. And it must be said that
- 53:22Speaker 1: they had this C. S. Lewis Untilkien had like a
- 53:25Speaker 1: writing group called like the Inklings or something faggy like that,
- 53:28Speaker 1: and they would not allow women in this writers They
- 53:31Speaker 1: were all fucking and I mean it was also like
- 53:34Speaker 1: I think that like Oxford didn't like allow like a
- 53:37Speaker 1: woman to like study their until like ny or something
- 53:40Speaker 1: like that. But like it's still just like it's stupid.
- 53:42Speaker 1: It's so clear what their worlds were. I'm actually shook
- 53:46Speaker 1: that there are even like women characters in like Narnia,
- 53:49Speaker 1: but like, let's I want to talk about the morality
- 53:51Speaker 1: like a little bit more because Aslan is as Jesus
- 53:56Speaker 1: is so ham fisted, and I think it's really interesting
- 54:00Speaker 1: that Aslan is kind of like one of those characters,
- 54:03Speaker 1: one of those like all seeing, all powerful characters that
- 54:07Speaker 1: has tons of information that would be helpful to the
- 54:11Speaker 1: rest of the characters, but withholds it for no reason,
- 54:13Speaker 1: like a Dumbledore or a Gandalf or you know, but
- 54:16Speaker 1: like no one it's never explained why Aslin disappeared for
- 54:20Speaker 1: ages and let like Narnia become always winter, never Christmas,
- 54:23Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm sure that's explained, like
- 54:26Speaker 1: in the actual mythology of it, but like it's so funny.
- 54:29Speaker 1: It's like and also um, like when Aslan sacrifices, well,
- 54:32Speaker 1: when he's crucified, like literally crucified like Jesus, like he
- 54:38Speaker 1: never explains to anyone why it's happening. I mean he well,
- 54:42Speaker 1: he doesn't explain it only after happening. He explains it
- 54:45Speaker 1: all after. It's like at any point he could tell
- 54:48Speaker 1: anybody in this story like hey, don't worry, I'm gonna
- 54:51Speaker 1: get die. But I'm gonna come back in like twenty
- 54:54Speaker 1: four hours. Like it's chill. But like the crucifixion scene,
- 54:57Speaker 1: like we have to say, like chriscifixion is hot. Well,
- 54:59Speaker 1: he doesn't get a crucified, he gets stabbed, he gets
- 55:02Speaker 1: on the stone table. Yes, but he's crucified. He's he's crucified, period,
- 55:06Speaker 1: Like that's crucifixion. Crucifixion is like a communal killing of
- 55:13Speaker 1: someone on the basis of like sin Pennant. So does
- 55:16Speaker 1: that not have to actually be on a cross? Um No,
- 55:20Speaker 1: I mean like it's crucial. I mean it is, yeah,
- 55:22Speaker 1: on a cross, but it is a crucifix like it's
- 55:25Speaker 1: a crucifixion, like it's it's literally nothing else like the
- 55:28Speaker 1: ritual sacrifice. Yes, and but instead of across is a
- 55:31Speaker 1: stone table, which is again another ham fisted metaphor for
- 55:34Speaker 1: like whatever the cross was. But like it's I love
- 55:37Speaker 1: that they shaved him. They shaved as lab again, they
- 55:41Speaker 1: gave him a makeover before they killed him. And then
- 55:45Speaker 1: in the movie, um, the White Witch like wears his
- 55:49Speaker 1: fur as part of her look when she charges it
- 55:52Speaker 1: when she charges into battle at the end, which is
- 55:55Speaker 1: so petty and also fierce it's a serve and she
- 55:59Speaker 1: was like, hey, you goblin over here, take this hair
- 56:01Speaker 1: and make me something aware tomorrow. Oh my god, that's
- 56:05Speaker 1: such I didn't even realize that when it happened on screen.
- 56:09Speaker 1: Did you know that not only are there film adaptations
- 56:13Speaker 1: and TV adaptations, there's also a musical adaptation of The Lion,
- 56:18Speaker 1: the Witch and the Wardrobe. And do you want to
- 56:22Speaker 1: know who might have appeared in a production of the
- 56:26Speaker 1: Land of the Witch of the Wardrobe the musical when
- 56:28Speaker 1: they were in medical school? Medical school, when they were
- 56:31Speaker 1: in middle school? Oh my god, you yes. Do you
- 56:35Speaker 1: want to know what role I played? Have I heard
- 56:38Speaker 1: this word? Were you the narrator? No? I was. I
- 56:42Speaker 1: was the professor who owns the house. No, that's it.
- 56:50Speaker 1: And you know what made it worse is that the professor.
- 56:53Speaker 1: So the way that the show is written is that
- 56:56Speaker 1: the professor and as Land are supposed to be played
- 56:59Speaker 1: by this same actor, but they only cast me as
- 57:03Speaker 1: the professor. But I have this song. I think it's
- 57:08Speaker 1: maybe like the second song in the show, and it's
- 57:12Speaker 1: called doors and Windows, and I do still remember it.
- 57:16Speaker 1: No doors and windows open and close to high door exposed.
- 57:25Speaker 1: One just waiting for you. That's just a little intrigue. Um,
- 57:32Speaker 1: wasn't good? Was a musical good? No? No, it wasn't.
- 57:53Speaker 1: Admit is such a little ship like I mean, just
- 57:56Speaker 1: the name Edmund. I mean, but yet another much like Susan,
- 58:01Speaker 1: Yet another kid that is like literally a child, literally
- 58:06Speaker 1: a child making a child's mistake, and like, yeah, but
- 58:11Speaker 1: he like sells his whole family little Judas, Yes he
- 58:14Speaker 1: is that. He is definitely the Judas for candy candy.
- 58:17Speaker 1: Have you ever had Turkish delight? Yes, that's not that good. No, No,
- 58:21Speaker 1: when it's good, it's good to you. It's like it's
- 58:24Speaker 1: like gelatine covered in powdered sugar. Honey. Literally all Turkish
- 58:28Speaker 1: delight is honey. Yes that's true. But the thing is,
- 58:30Speaker 1: it's about the flavoring. It's about the consistency. It's about
- 58:33Speaker 1: how much gelatin you use right, because if you use
- 58:35Speaker 1: too much gelatin, it gets really chilly, really gummy, really nasty.
- 58:39Speaker 1: But if you do it really light, it's soft and
- 58:42Speaker 1: melts in your mouth. If you're using like the right
- 58:45Speaker 1: ingredients and the right execution. Let me tell you, we
- 58:48Speaker 1: need to go get something good Turkish. I do remember
- 58:50Speaker 1: that when we did that production of The Lion, the
- 58:52Speaker 1: Witch and the Wardrobe. At rehearsal, one day, someone's mom
- 58:57Speaker 1: brought us Turkish delight to eat, and we were all
- 59:01Speaker 1: expecting some kind of like we were expecting to have
- 59:03Speaker 1: our minds blown. We're expecting to have our pussies rocks.
- 59:08Speaker 1: And then someone opens his tin of like powdered gelatine
- 59:15Speaker 1: and we're like the fuck. It's an extremely British delicacy.
- 59:20Speaker 1: Like Brits love like the taste of like some sort
- 59:25Speaker 1: of like gummy thing that is flavored like perfume, like rose.
- 59:30Speaker 1: Turkish light is disgusting, Like that sounds kind of good. Actually, oh,
- 59:34Speaker 1: I hate the taste of rose, especially in gelatine. But
- 59:37Speaker 1: Turkish light comes in so many different flavors. I don't
- 59:40Speaker 1: funk with Turkish light that has nuts in it, or
- 59:42Speaker 1: like pistachios. That's not like I don't like nuts and
- 59:45Speaker 1: gelatine combined. But um in the Borough Market in London
- 59:49Speaker 1: Town ever heard of it? They, you know, there are
- 59:52Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like this anymore, but when I,
- 59:53Speaker 1: you know, was there, they were like huge like lanes
- 59:57Speaker 1: and swaths that were just Turkish to live. So many ridles.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: I do love the way that she takes off her
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: little potion and drops it onto the snow, and then
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: the Turkish light just appears. Stunning, stunning, Tilda, stunning. This
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: is Tilda's best work. No, that's not true. This is
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: a role that so actually I was about to say
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: this is a role that only Tilda could do, but
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: it's actually not true. A lot of action. No, I
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: actually think it's specific to Tilda. No, I don't think
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: that's I don't think that would you cast instead literally
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: any fierce white woman to play the white wing. But
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: I think Tilda has this like this alien quality to her.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: But also a lot of those women have played witches
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: who are kind of derivative of the way, which like
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: Charlie's and The Huntsman, like Julianne Moore. There was some
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: like weird fantasy movie that she played a witch in. Yeah,
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: in Snow White as well another Snow White, um Angelina
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: Jolie as Maleficent. Like Tilda's so good as a witch.
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: I mean, if you you know that Suspiria is one
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: of my favorite films and she plays a witch, and
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: that I just think when I rewatched it, she's fear.
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: She's amazing, She's sublime. She does have the alien quality.
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I think it's
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: a role that's easy to make fierce, like I, you know, like,
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: and the production design does so much, not to de
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: great her work, but it does so much work in
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: addition to what she's doing. I don't know. I think
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: she elevates the movie, and like, yes I can, it
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: is elevated. Yes I can. I can look back and
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: and say that some of that is my bias of
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: just knowing who Tilda is, because I, you know, didn't
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: obviously when I saw this for the first time. But
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: I do think she has this quality to her where
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: she can do so much with just one look. Um.
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: There's this one moment where after she has been plotting
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: with Edmund and she sends him on his way to
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: go like lure his family back to Narnia, she does
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: this thing where she looks at him she goes, I'm
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: gonna miss you so much, and it's just like it's
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: so good I forgotten. She has lots of little lines
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: like that, like um, when she sends her wolf to
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: go find the heaven ses, she goes, you know what
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: to do? You know what to do. Um she every
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: single second of that and the fight scenes Steva sher
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: swords double swords. It's so fucking fierce a sigh being
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: driven by polar bears. I don't know why I'm like
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: shitting on Rings of Powers so much, but literally, like
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: her with two swords is cooler than anything that happened
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: the entirety of like Rings of Power. You can't compete
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: where you can't compare. Yeah, I'm sorry, Like, I'm just
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: it made me. I is watching it, and I actually
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: I turned it on to be a background watch, like
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: I thought I was going to look at my phone
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: or like clean the house or something, and I sat
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: down because I was like, damn, I forgot how good
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: this movie is. You know who I would love to
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: see as the White Witch if um the like a
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: new adaptation does end up happening. I think Michelleos the
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: White Witch would be incredible. I want to see her
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: play a villain. Okay. Something that's like not really talked
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: about is the fact that Mr Tumnus is like pretty
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: rapey in that he is a full grown satyr who
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: has brought this child into his home multiple and then
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: like does love her to sleep essentially date rape. But
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: the only thing so I guess what happens in that
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: scene is he kind of thinks he's going to give
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: her over to the witch and then has a kind
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: of change of heart and decides he can't do it.
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: He can't. You gets turned to stone and that's why
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: he gets turned to stone, which like, would you which
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: God to the girl? You would you have turned her in? Yeah?
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: For sure, because the White Witches kind of like fear,
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: Like I would have been on her side totally. If
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: I would have been team I would have been her.
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: I would have been Yeah, I would have been team Asland.
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: But if Asland has been gone for years, that sucks,
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: like your leader to desert you like God, and he's God.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: God has deserted you and then comes back. It's like, hey,
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: I'm in charge again. By the way, Edmund, you are
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: going to be crucified. J K, I'm going to crucify
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: myself and take all the credit, like all the glory
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: for that for sure. And the Witch's crew, I have
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: to say, is so much cooler than the good side.
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: Like you know when when they sacrifice as Land and
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: they show up and all those like goblins and ghouls
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: and stuff for like partying. That's like I've been to
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: parties that looked pretty much exactly like that. Yeah, Veil
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: of Kashmir, Yeah, that was spectrum totally. It was giving
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: berlin um and you know the like, Yeah, I like
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: the centaurs and stuff like, they're kind of hot. Would
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: you fuck a centaur or get sucked by a centaur? Well,
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: if you're getting sucked my center, that's like sad some
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: permanent damn it. Yeah, it's a lot of dick. We
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: talked about this in our porn episode. But like the
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: idea of wrecking my whole as I don't want to
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: yuck anybody's not my tea. I don't want to permanently
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: alter my whole, and I think that with a center
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: that is the case. Let me look up some center born. Well,
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: if you ever watched the video to death to death,
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: he died God, oh wow, oh my god, look at that.
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: I forgot they died. That's so sad. He died following
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: he died doing what he loved. To death my horn.
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: What a way to go. Let me answer your question. Actually, realistically, no,
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: in my fantasy world, getting funed by a center is
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: extremely hot. Humanoids very hot to me, centaurs and and
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: and satyr's extremely hot to me. Giant horse cock. Yeah,
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: but some which magical creature are you are you most
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: interested in having sex with? I think it would be
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: a center, if not an elf, but I feel like
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: that's kind of cheating, But yeah, I think it would
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: kind of be a humans. I think there's something. I
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: think there's something really erotic about horses. This is why
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: I was obsessed with equis as a kid. I actually
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: I'm a horse girl, not as a kid. As a
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: college student, but I did you know that I took
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: this is actually horse cock shop. This is a gag. Actually,
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever told you this. When
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: I was in college, I enrolled and took a full
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: course on horses throughout literature, and I wrote my term yes,
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: and I wrote my turn this is a horse girl podcast. Yes.
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: And I wrote my paper on the kind of thematic
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: um importance of horses in the Lord of the Rings
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: franchise and followed like several yes, and I followed a
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: few different horses through the franchise about like and what
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: their meanings were whatever. And my horse teacher, I thought
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: it was so good that she submitted my essay for
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: a contest that I won contest Shadow Facts King of
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: the Horses. Oh my god, I have so many virgins.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: This has just evolved into us looking at Oh my god.
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: I love that we can find a way to turn
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: children's fantasy literature into the conversation about fantasy horse cock
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- 1:08:12Speaker 1: a wardrobe? Which one do you identify? A wardrobe? For sure?
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: I'm a witch and if Phoebe is a lion, yeah,
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: you are a lion? Okay, and um next week we
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- 1:09:26Speaker 1: The center is pussy looks like an egg bag. Literally
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: loves the way she's holding her boob because it's it's
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: so big. It's so happy that she has just it's
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: just to suspend. Yes, yes, I love just to stand
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: on a bucket to fund this center, because the center
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: is so big.