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A Bechdel Cast Year in Review + Tour Plug! · The Bechdel Cast

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  Speaker 1: On the Bechdelcast. The questions asked if movies have women
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  Speaker 1: and are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands or
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  Speaker 1: do they have individualism? It's the patriarchy, Zeff and best
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  Speaker 1: start changing with the Bechdel Cast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Bechdel Cast listeners, Kaitlin, it's me Jamie. So we're
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  Speaker 2: taking a week off from our normal episode this week,
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  Speaker 2: but we wanted to check in and do a few things.
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  Speaker 2: First and foremost, we're gonna plug our little tour coming
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  Speaker 2: up in January, and then we're also gonna do just
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  Speaker 2: sort of like a year in review some movies we've
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  Speaker 2: seen this year that we really enjoyed, some stuff we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to in the coming year, you know, soliciting
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  Speaker 2: requests from listeners, episodes we haven't done in movies you
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  Speaker 2: want to hear us cover, you know, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Okause, here's a little peak behind the curtain. We are
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  Speaker 3: technically supposed to only make fifty episodes a year, but
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  Speaker 3: we just simply really enjoyed making this show. So technically
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  Speaker 3: this is our week off, but we also still wanted
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  Speaker 3: to give you a little something to munch on, a
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  Speaker 3: little holiday snack.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So true, so true. Yeah, so starting
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  Speaker 2: with our tour plug Yes, we have shows in January
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, and we're doing
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  Speaker 2: something very fun. I think we're doing a combo of
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  Speaker 2: a Shrek tannic Us tour as well as on January
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  Speaker 2: nineteenth in Los Angeles, this show is also being live
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  Speaker 2: streamed and it is a Bechdel Cast celebration Jamie, tell
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  Speaker 2: them what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so excited for this. We have never really
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  Speaker 3: gotten a chance to celebrate the show. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: every time we've been about to do it, something happens
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  Speaker 3: and we can't do it, such as a deadly pandemic
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  Speaker 3: such as I think like a theater closure or something
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  Speaker 3: like that. We wanted to to just put on a
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  Speaker 3: show about the show and have all our favorite guests
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  Speaker 3: and celebrate our fans and yeah, just have like a big,
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  Speaker 3: fun beckda Le variety show for years. And so we're
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  Speaker 3: taking the opportunity to do that at Dynasty Typewriter, where
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  Speaker 3: we love Dynasty Typewriter, and it's a great chance for
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  Speaker 3: you guys if you are not in Los Angeles to
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  Speaker 3: watch the show as well. We want everyone to feel
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  Speaker 3: welcome and to feel a part of it because we
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  Speaker 3: love making the show and we want to celebrate the
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  Speaker 3: show and ourselves and you guys, everybody. My mom's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be there. My mom's gonna be there.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be so much fun. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: She's gonna act up. I can feel it so And
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  Speaker 3: we will be announcing guests for that soon. But get
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  Speaker 3: your ticket. All right, you're gonna be You're gonna be happy.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna like the way it looks, I guarantee it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh, we're that come. It's like a men's wear
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  Speaker 3: our house, not very bundle class.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. It's gonna be sexy as hell.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna wear something slutty for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 2: My titties might be out. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: My titties will probably be in, but you will be
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  Speaker 3: able to see my nipples. That's more my speed. Oh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like sheer top fives. I don't have enough titties
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  Speaker 3: to really spill out. That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, who knows how my titties out scenario
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  Speaker 2: will manifest exactly. But you have to come to the
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  Speaker 2: show to find out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Caitlin's boobs never disappoint Wow, this is and we're
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  Speaker 3: objectifying each other. Okay. So the first show Bechtel Cast Celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Livestream tickets available Los Angeles, titties.
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  Speaker 2: Out January nineteenth, January.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I meant to say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all equally important details. The second show on this
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  Speaker 2: tour is in San Francisco as a part of Sketch Fest.
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  Speaker 2: We love going to Sketch Fest. We go every year.
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  Speaker 2: This is our like fifth or sixth time or so.
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  Speaker 2: This show is January twenty third. This is a part
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  Speaker 2: of our Shrektannic US tour. So famously we did the
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  Speaker 2: Shrektannic UK and Ireland tour.
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  Speaker 3: Which I was 'tabled to be at. So this will
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  Speaker 3: be my first Shrektannic tour. I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited for you, Jamie. It's a blast if
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  Speaker 2: I do say so myself. And so this is part
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  Speaker 2: of the Sharktannic tour in San Francisco. We are covering
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  Speaker 2: Titanic and this is the only show that is not
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  Speaker 2: being live streamed as a part of this tour. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want to see us talk about Titanic, and believe.
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  Speaker 3: Me, you do.
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  Speaker 2: You have to come to San Francisco and be there
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  Speaker 2: in person again. That shows January twenty third at Club Fugazi.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we were last year. If you came to
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  Speaker 2: our SF show last year. It's a beautiful space and
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  Speaker 2: we're so excited to talk about Titanic. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we've ever actually mentioned Titanic on the show before, Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: So this will kind of be a first.
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  Speaker 3: No, as I'm saying, to be my first time seeing
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  Speaker 3: it the same. I hope it's good.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard good things.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it has an age like Milk. And then
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  Speaker 3: we're going to Portland for the Shrek portion of our
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  Speaker 3: Shrek Tannic Tour Portland, Oregon, that is, and that will
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  Speaker 3: be at our beloved Curious Comedy Theater and we will
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  Speaker 3: be covering Shrek very likely some surprise guests there as well,
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  Speaker 3: and that will be a live streamed show. So if
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  Speaker 3: you want to be at the Shrek portion of the
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  Speaker 3: Shrek Tannic Tour, you are more than welcome. And we've
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  Speaker 3: got links to everything on our link tree.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, so the Portland shows January twenty sixth I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember if we mentioned that or not. It's the Shrek Show.
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  Speaker 2: It's being live streamed, so just a note about the
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  Speaker 2: live stream shows in LA and Portland. If you cannot
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  Speaker 2: watch the show as it's being streamed live, you can
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  Speaker 2: still buy a live stream ticket and then you'll have
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  Speaker 2: access to the stream for a week afterward, so you've
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  Speaker 2: got plenty of time to check out the show on
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  Speaker 2: the stream. So, like you said, Jamie, tickets are at
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  Speaker 2: our link Tree, Link Tree slash backdal Cast, as well
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  Speaker 2: as the description of this episode. So please please please
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  Speaker 2: come to our tour. We'd love to see you. We
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  Speaker 2: always do little meet and greets at our live shows.
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  Speaker 2: We sell exclusive tour merch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's so much fun. I can't wait. So, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: the tour. Let's plug our Matreon, shall we as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I've really If you're not a member of our
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  Speaker 3: Patreon aka Matreon, huge mistake. We've been like a big
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  Speaker 3: fun year on the Matreon. This year. It's been one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite years on the Matreon because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like it's been a good mix of crowd pleasing favorites,
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  Speaker 3: movies that we just haven't covered for some reason that
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  Speaker 3: everyone wants to hear about, and more priority on directors
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  Speaker 3: who are not men, which has been I've had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun with this year as well, So I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, it's it's been a really fun blend this year.
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  Speaker 2: Did we kick off twenty twenty four on the Matron
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  Speaker 2: with the Pinocchio Wars or was that last year?
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  Speaker 3: No? That was last year, But I still think that's
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  Speaker 3: our best work today. I think if I had to
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  Speaker 3: choose a favorite episode of really any that's so horrible,
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  Speaker 3: but I loved the Pinocchio Wars. It was so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: It was a blast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this I think we had one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty episodes on the Matreon this year, which is wild
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  Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, we're having a blast over there and
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  Speaker 3: we are trying to I mean again, we upped the
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  Speaker 3: amount of community inclusion this year. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: more polls. You will if you are a member of
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  Speaker 3: the Matreon, you will have a say and what we cover,
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  Speaker 3: and we almost always honor our word. Right now, as
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  Speaker 3: we're recording this, there's drama. There's drama on the Matreon.
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  Speaker 3: We are in a fifty to fifty deadlock of our
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  Speaker 3: second December episode and very different movies. I'm thrilled it's
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  Speaker 3: between the original Black Christmas, which celebrates I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: realize celebrates his fiftieth anniversary this year. Yes, and a
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  Speaker 3: movie that came out three seconds ago that's supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be got awful called Our Little Secret, the latest Lindsay
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  Speaker 3: Lohan effort on Netflix. Right there's about eight hundred votes
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  Speaker 3: in right now, and it is literally fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 3: And to think you could be the tiebreaker if only
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  Speaker 3: you remember the Matreon Yeah, so true. And this is
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  Speaker 3: really obvious. I know we've said it a million times,
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  Speaker 3: but if you want to directly support the show, that
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  Speaker 3: is the best way, the best way, and it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the best bang for your buck as well, because it's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, five bucks a month and you get two
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  Speaker 3: bonus episodes plus one hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Other episodes, including the Pinocchio Wars.
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  Speaker 3: I was about to say, especially the Pinocchio Wars, our
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  Speaker 3: best episode. It's pretty mean of us to have our
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  Speaker 3: best episode behind a paywall.
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  Speaker 2: But that's capitalism in a society.
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  Speaker 3: We live in a society. I don't know what to
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  Speaker 3: tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some possible themes, Oh, yes. Do you have some pitches, Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's some ones that we've kind of teased or kind
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  Speaker 2: of joked about doing, but I think we actually should
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  Speaker 2: do them. And then I have a few pitches as well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so we I think very recently we're just
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  Speaker 2: talking about doing Rodent Tober, in which we.
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  Speaker 3: Will oh yes, Mike's Mike inspired.
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  Speaker 2: Theme, Yes, ratituy, and then something else, some other rodent movie.
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  Speaker 3: We could do flush the way we could do I
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  Speaker 3: think we should do Alvin and the Chipmunks. No, Alvin
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  Speaker 3: and the Chipmunks too, because that has the chip Pets.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, feminism.
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  Speaker 3: The chip Pets are feminist cannon, in my opinion, incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Another one we teased was Insect Tober, in which we
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  Speaker 2: would cover b movie and The Fly.
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  Speaker 3: Our feminist podcast. We really love the Matron is fun,
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  Speaker 3: kay I do? I God, I really want to watch
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  Speaker 3: The Fly again. I don't know why I was so
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  Speaker 3: serious when I said that, but I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Well, you're gonna it. Like came in number two
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  Speaker 2: in a poll we did recently, and it seemed like
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  Speaker 2: enough people were interested, So I think we should do it.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to pitch that as a potential month
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  Speaker 3: is movies that have almost won previous May tramples, because
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  Speaker 3: I feel like there's a few movies I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: pull an example, but like, I feel like there's a
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  Speaker 3: few that have we've almost covered like multiple times over
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  Speaker 3: the last decade, and it's just like, well, I guess
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  Speaker 3: we'll never know if in Brus's feminist or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got rodent Tober, Insectober, a few other animal
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  Speaker 2: themed ones. I don't know why, but they're just they're
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  Speaker 2: such fun movies. Because you've got Dog December, I would
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  Speaker 2: like to pitch Airbud and maybe like Beethoven or something
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. I would like to pitch Snake September,
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  Speaker 2: in which we were all animals, and then there's another
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  Speaker 2: one too, but it's look, animals are an important part.
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  Speaker 3: No I know, I show up empty handed. I show
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  Speaker 3: up empty handed with pitches and then I started yelling
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  Speaker 3: at you. Yeah, it's just interesting, it is.
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  Speaker 2: But Snakes September would be snakes on a plane and anaconda.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important that we discussed those. And then
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  Speaker 2: I'm still gunning for Mask March, in which we would
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  Speaker 2: cover Jim Carrey's The Mask as well as the Mask
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  Speaker 2: of Zoro. I think, oh wow, I used it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's really funny to me, yeah, is that
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  Speaker 3: I watched the Mask of Zero in eighth grade history.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what, That's probably not historically accurate.
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  Speaker 3: It was just it just made me laugh. For the
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  Speaker 3: love of God. Yes, I have a lot of Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I have a lot of uh proposals. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: pull them. I wanted to do a Corely month on
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  Speaker 3: the Matrear where we covered both the substance and revenge.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, French Diva month, really yeah? Or we could
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  Speaker 3: do French Deva Month and do the substance and anatomy.
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  Speaker 2: Of a fall.
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  Speaker 3: Oh right, the French gals are having a big moment.
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  Speaker 3: I also, I don't know how fun this would be,
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  Speaker 3: but so stay with me. But I would really be
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  Speaker 3: curious to do a post me to Autur month. That's
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  Speaker 3: a clunky name, and I've brought it up a lot
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  Speaker 3: of how there was like a whole slate of male
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  Speaker 3: auteurs attempting to make a feminist movie and I think
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  Speaker 3: they've all been forgotten. I'm thinking about what was that
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  Speaker 3: movie about, Like Megan Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh bombs?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like that sort of genre of movie where it's
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  Speaker 3: like man trying to be ally failing and yet winning
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  Speaker 3: an award for it. That's what I would call the month.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, Alex Garland's Men.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see that. I know you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't see that. I would never watch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, I just dive. I imagine that that is
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  Speaker 3: a title that has to be screamed. Man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like his wife man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many options, and then there's also
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  Speaker 3: I mean, on the main feed, we want to cover
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  Speaker 3: or continue to cover, really a wider slate of movies.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to cover more movies from trans directors
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  Speaker 3: in the coming years. We have in the works some
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  Speaker 3: episodes covering Palestinian films, and if you have any recommendations
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  Speaker 3: for guests for those episodes, we definitely want to hear.
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  Speaker 3: I would. I just I'm excited for the coming year
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  Speaker 3: because I don't know you would think after after eight
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  Speaker 3: years that we would not still have so many movies
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  Speaker 3: to cover, but we simply do.
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  Speaker 2: I also also on.
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  Speaker 3: The Matreon, I would love to I mean it would
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  Speaker 3: be a little heavy, but I would love to have
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  Speaker 3: like a women's mental health kind of theme.
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  Speaker 2: This is a theme we pitched years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Was it? It was a girl inter and maybe like
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  Speaker 3: a woman under the influence something like that. Like I
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing but options, but I would love to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like a focus on and hopefully movies from different eras too.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have to be good, they just have to
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  Speaker 3: be influential, you know the rules of the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so many good themes, listeners. If you
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  Speaker 2: have any Matreon themes you want to pitch, or just
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  Speaker 2: regular main feed episodes that you'd like to hear us cover,
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  Speaker 2: please let us know. We have a request form that
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  Speaker 2: you can fill out. It's on our link tree and
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  Speaker 2: so you can submit requests. There a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: like dm us on Instagram. You know, whatever way you
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  Speaker 2: want to tell us, let us know. And Jamie, you
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  Speaker 2: and I we both went to the movies this.
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  Speaker 3: Year, actually we both did it quite a bit, quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have any favorite movies that either you I
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  Speaker 2: saw from twenty twenty four or that you just happened
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  Speaker 2: to see for the first time in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't need to be a new release from this year.
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  Speaker 3: There are there are a bunch of movies that I
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  Speaker 3: saw for the first time this year. Many of them
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  Speaker 3: were for this show, as is always true. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: try to think of movies I didn't watch for the
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  Speaker 3: show specifically. I mean I, as loyal listeners will know,
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  Speaker 3: I was with my dad a lot this year before
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  Speaker 3: he passed, and we watched a bunch of movies together,
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  Speaker 3: and that was like so many really nice memories. So
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  Speaker 3: not first watches, but like really nice final watches of
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  Speaker 3: some of me and my dad's favorite movies together. So
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  Speaker 3: Pee Wee's big adventure was a big one. He watched
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  Speaker 3: a School of Rock with me. I would not say
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  Speaker 3: that's one of his favorites, but one of your favorites.
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  Speaker 3: It is my very favorite. We watched The Wizard of Oz.
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  Speaker 3: We watched, and then just like a bunch of like
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  Speaker 3: old we watched Monty Python, Holy Grail, like nice, just
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  Speaker 3: dad core favorites. And then I watched a few movies
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  Speaker 3: for the first time with him. A little earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the year. I saw The Original Manchurian Candidate, which was
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  Speaker 3: actually very good.
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  Speaker 2: It is very good.
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  Speaker 3: The Long Goodbye, which I is one of those movies
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I know it's good. But I don't
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  Speaker 3: really want to see it again. We watched a documentary
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  Speaker 3: about Paul Robison, which was really fascinating. My dad's a
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  Speaker 3: big documentary guy, so yeah, that'll be my first chunk
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  Speaker 3: of special movie experiences was watching stuff with him earlier
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely thank you for sharing that. Of course. I, on
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  Speaker 2: the other hand, just went to AMC theaters by myself
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  Speaker 2: all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I can't tell any of that too, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Go to that place.
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  Speaker 2: We come to this place for magic. We come to
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  Speaker 2: this place to laugh, to cry, to care, of course,
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  Speaker 2: and the movies that I watched at that place were,
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  Speaker 2: for example, some of my favorites. The Substance, which we already.
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  Speaker 3: Met, absolutely one of my we Oh god, I love
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  Speaker 3: what we emphatically agree on and it's so good.
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  Speaker 2: We will cover it sometime soon for the listeners who
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  Speaker 2: want to hear us cover and I know we've gotten
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  Speaker 2: many requests already.
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  Speaker 3: I saw The TV Glow was another that I really
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed in theaters this year.
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  Speaker 2: I lo Ke loved the movie Heretic.
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  Speaker 3: I still haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's good or not, but I
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  Speaker 2: loved watching Hugh Grant be basically the same villain character
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  Speaker 2: he is in Paddington II.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: But this time he's Mormon.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Question Mark, No, he's not Mormon. He well, you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get but he's critical of organized religion.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: We'll say that.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: What a diva. Yeah. I also loved Oh. This was
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: an under the radar movie that I hosted a Q
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: and A for, and I thought it was just like
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: so so good. Would hugely recommend for any body horror fans.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: If you enjoyed The Substance, if you enjoyed Night Bitch,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: you will enjoy Booger by Mary Dotterman, about a woman
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: who is slowly turning in to her recently deceased friend's cat.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Is awesome. She's a first time director.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Does she grow extra nipples? I CAUs she starts oil it?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, but I will say it's like, I don't know,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I feel like on the body horror spectrum, it is
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: like between The Substance and Night Bitch. Okay, So it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: a good it's a good feeling. I highly recommend it. Yeah,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: that was another fun one from this year. Very cool.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I'll just rattle off a few of my other favorites
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: from twenty twenty four. I really enjoyed Thelma.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I still need to see it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: It's so fun. It's very funny. I really liked Addie Kneecap.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I did enjoy Mowana too. The songs didn't quite slap
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: as much as the first one, but I had a
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: good time. I enjoyed the movie Wicked Little Letters.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Oh. I enjoyed the movie Wicked. Oh well, I enjoyed
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: that too, Wicked, Wicked fun. It's the it's that it
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: looks bad, but it sounds amazing. I love it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Also, this obviously did not come out in twenty twenty four,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: but I saw and I already talked about this on
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a recent episode. But I saw Gremlins two for the
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: first time, and wow, is it my new favorite movie.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I had a blast.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I can't we're going to cover that for their birthday. Yeah. Probably.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I had not seen or heard of that was I
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: don't know. Sometimes those Delta flights, they're like, Jamie heard
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: of this one, haven't. But it's a movie that came
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: out in twenty twenty three. I don't know if it
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: was released in the US ever in a formal way.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I hadn't heard of it. But it's called Monster. It
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: is a Japanese film. It's like a queer coming of
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: age psychological like drama. It's hard to explain, okay, but
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I thought it was really, really good. I've seen it
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: twice now. Because you know when you see a movie
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: on a plane and you're crying and you're like, was
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: it the plane or the movie? It's in fact the movie.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I would really recommend it. I didn't hear very much
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: about it in the US, but it seems like it
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: did pretty well in Japan. And yeah, it's a really
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: sweet and sad story, so I would recommend it lovely.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: There's some movies also that come out in twenty twenty
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: five that I'm very much looking forward to, natally Paddington
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: in Peru, which was supposed to be released in the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: US back in November, that got pushed to January. Now
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it's pushed to February fourteenth, which is like, why is
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that coming out on Valentine's Day? And that's a weird choice.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's good or not, and please
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: don't tell me. For those of you who might have
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: already seen the movie, because it was released in the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: UK in November already, Oh my gosh. Yeah, So, I
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: don't know why the US release date is so far away.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I'm nervous.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's bad. Don't tell me. If
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: it's good, I guess tell me. I don't know. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: just I want to experience.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: It for myseln't go too far.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Nervous, but I'll see it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for Wicked Part two obviously. Yes, other ones
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Mickey seventeen. They found. I'm very that really. Estate also
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: keeps getting pushed back in a way. That's because I
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: think it's now coming out in April or something. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: don't know. They keep changing it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Rude.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got Megan two point zero.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I know we gotta go together. Yeah, Matugantu, Yes, with
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Threegan two.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for Love Hurt, which is that action movie
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: starring Kik Kwon.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I haven't heard of it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh it looks fun based on the trailer.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Also fun based on the trailer. Is one of them
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: days that Kiki Homer and Sissa movie that comes out soon.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I didn't I'm seeing this for the first time. Del
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Toro's making a Frankenstein movie. Yes, starring Oscar Isaac. Hello, Okay,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: say no more, excuse me. Okay, I'm putting that on
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: my watch list. Thank you Letterboxed for that information. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: will I see Now You See Me three, which is
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: not called now You three Me? Yeah, I'll probably go
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: will you see it?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Okay? Well that brings me to a list I have
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: of unnecessary movies and sequels Now You three Me? I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: did put now You three Me on there, along with
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Zootopia two.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, the Revenge of Coppaganda Animals.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, speaking of which, the movie Den of Thieves is
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: getting a sequel and that comes out soon. For reasons unknown,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: why would they make a sequel of that? Another unnecessary sequel?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Jurassic World reb Birth?
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Does anyone even care about that anymore? I just like
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: they're determined to I. And if Freaky or Friday is
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: on this list, I'm going to cut my own head off.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for Freaking Friday.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, just letting you know.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: We do have two snow White movies coming out, and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I was going to pitch the snow White Wars. But
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: also one of them has Zionist Galgado in it, so
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I will not be watching that.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Watch it. I justugh, I that looks stinky, and I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I'm a Rachel Zegler fan. I just am like, oh god,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: why it does not look good? Yeah, there's going to
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: be a this is sort of entry. Did you read
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: had a Gabbler in high school? No? I didn't. It's
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: a European like proto feminist play. Okay, Norwegian Norwegian by
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Heinrich Ibsen. I had to read it in high school,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and I want to revisit it because I really liked it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I feel like it was in my like my high
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: school English teacher was big time like we're gonna read
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: women nice. Yeah. So. But Nia DaCosta, who in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: past has I mean, she directed the Marvels, she directed
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Candy Man. I'm really excited that she she's adapting had
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: a Gabbler starring Tessa Thompson, which I think sounds really good.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see her because I feel like she
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: has like low Keepen, like sabotaged with like franchise stuff,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: and I'm excited to see her do obviously had a
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Gabblers and adaptation, but it's I'm excited to see that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I will definitely go see the letter Cook is there
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: anything else, Jamie, you'd like to share.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna see Avatar three. That's why I like to
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna see it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It does sort of go without saying our King James
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Cameron three vutar precisely, I would like to personally plug.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I teach screenwriting classes, as you may or may not know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: with the master's degree that you may or may not
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: know that I have from Boston University in screenwriting that
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I've of course never mentioned, but I do use it
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: to teach both an intro to screenwriting class, so that's
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: you know, suitable for beginners or someone who needs like
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: a refresher or any kind of introductory screenwriting class. And
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: then I also teach a workshopping class, which allows students
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to bring in material that they have written or ideas
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: that they want to develop further, and you workshop that
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: with your peers and you get feedback from your classmates
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and from me. So those are classes that I teach
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and you can find more information about them on my website,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Durante dot com slash classes. Wow, Jamie, do you
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: have anything you want to plug?
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, I have. I'm excited for this cover of year. Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I don't have a master's degree and I never will.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: But well, I hate debt and you can just google things.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: That's why you should take my classes instead of going
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: back it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Save yourself six figures and take Caitlin's class.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Truly.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: But yeah, this coming year, I've really been enjoying working
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: on sixteenth Minute. If you're listening to this when it
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: comes out. We just finished a three part series on
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: the Manisphere, which was really stressful to finish. But I
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: think if you're not familiar with that space, I would
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: recommend checking out this series. It's intended to sort of
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: be like an explainer of what this space is and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: what we can kind of expect to see from it. Unfortunately,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: in the coming year now that it has been very
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: much empowered by Trump, so we're working on that. Other
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: recent subjects I really enjoyed were The Wicked Witch of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the East bro Guy, if you have ever seen that clip.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I tracked him down and he's he's a weird guy.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: We also did a series on Tessica Brown, the Gorilla
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Glue Girl. We did William Hung, we did the Tumbler
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Bone Witch, and we have Taizon Day coming up at
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the year. I also produce We the Unhoused,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: which is a show very close to my heart by
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: my friend Theo Henderson, who is a formerly unhoused man
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: who is now an advocate for the unhoused. It's a
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: story by the unhoused for the unhoused, and we've been
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: covering a lot about the Supreme Court decision that happened
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: earlier this year, Grant's Pass, which essentially makes it illegal
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: to be unhoused at all. And so Theo has been
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: covering that really, really thoughtfully, and I would recommend checking
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: that show out. And also I will be on tour
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: to some extent this coming spring because the paperback of
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: my book Raw Dog is coming out.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: So I went to I think eight cities last year
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: when the hardcover came out, and I'm going to go
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: to I think five or six more that I didn't
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: go to last time. I may made to go to Seattle.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: I may made to go to Philadelphia. I'm just if
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: there's a city that you think I should go to,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I would love to see you on my little spring tour.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's so exciting.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh yeah those are Oh and I have
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: a special coming out next year called The Tiny Man
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: is Trying to Kill Me. I'll let you know more
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: when I know more. I think we should cover Leprechaun
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: to promote them. We should just find a tiny Man movie.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen Leprechaun? No, nor have I, but
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I know enough about it that I think that would
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: be a hilarious choice.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Supposed to be gnarly right, yes, yeah.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: There's also some sequels that are very wild as well.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: From what I understand, that's like the Jennifer Aniston's first
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: movie was like Leprechaun too, right, Yes.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I think so yeah wild? So oh yeah, we'll do
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Leprechaun to promote your special Yeah. I can't wait for
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: all of that. Also, Santa University.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Santa Universities, it will be out by the time you
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: hear this, I believe.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: No, it won't, No, it won't.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: It'll be out on Christmas Eve.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you've got that to look forward to.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Listeners, Santa University eight if you can believe it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Wowie wow. I will be reprising my role as Sully,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the Boston local who is the manager of the store Lids.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Best character ever written, best character ever performed by me.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Oh I've got E got for you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Yes, thank you so much. So yeah, there
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: you have it. Listeners, thank you so much for feedback
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: and suggestions and recommendations and for just being here with us.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: We love you, We love you so much. We're excited
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: to be on tour. We're excited to see hey everybody, and.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: We're gonna watch rattaitoeing on Christmas together. Sorry.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't know what that is, look it
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: up and then grow up. You can thank us later.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Ye. Thanks for hanging out with us for a half
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: hour of enjoy your holiday if you are celebrating, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: enjoy your week. If you're not, we love you so
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: much and we'll see you next week. Bye bye.
• 30:27
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• 30:30
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