Moving Movie Therapy w/ gitelmonster

We're moving!
Everything is different. Everything will be the same.
Jordan sits with his love to talk about how movies move us through life.

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When they shot it from a mountain top, a star is born when you put a pound in top. If there's a price for unjudgment, I think I've already found that. Bell is acting. Meg is me. No man is worth the aggravation. That's ancient history. Been there done that. Who'd you think you're kidding? He is the earth in heaven to you try to bitty peep. Okay. Alright. Okay. That's good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think this is how I'm gonna be, probably. The last time when it was uncomfortable when Jude was here is because I just had to fart really bad. You know, the main thing is is like your voice towards the microphone. Yes. Yahya. Beep. Alright, so we'll just start off with uh talk, then I'll introduce the show. Great. So one thing you're doing right now, yeah. I should I should be able to do that. You're like looking around the mic, so no looking. You can look at me, but is this good? That's great. Alright, this feels more comfortable. Yeah, relax. It's like you're in therapy right now. So like you could lean, you could lay down and we could adjust the mic so that it's like that if you like. I think this is good. Yeah. Okay. I just won't look that way. Yeah. But even if I do now, at least it's more in my face. Well, the pop filter is more in your face. The microphone is still kind of uh, you know, exactly where it was. The thing in front of the mic, the little circle in front of the mic, that's not the mic. It's very complicated what you do. Yeah. Get the mic already. Alright, I'm not gonna move from core strength. I'm not gonna move from this spot. You should get comfortable, and then we'll adjust the mic so that it's best for you. This is comfortable. This is comfortable. Yes, it should be closer, maybe. I'll adjust it, don't worry. I'm not gonna move. Okay, I've got a good story to start off with that you'll enjoy, and that doesn't really have anything to do with Jude. So a friend of ours just recently got his voiceover agent back. You're aware of this? Yes, yeah, and um I saw him the other night, and he was like, How do I fix this thing? And I was like, Okay, well, what is it? Is it like an audio issue? Is it like a setup issue? Is it this? And he was like, and I'm sure you'll relate to this, and I think it leads in well to uh what we're gonna be doing today, but he was like, So I'll like get into the recording booth and I'll look at the copy and then I'll look at the breakdown and the description of what they want, and then I'll do one, and I think it'll feel pretty good, but I'll listen back and I'll be like, oh, it could be a little bit better, and then I'll record another one, and then I listen to it and I go like, well, that one should be more like what they're asking for, and it kind of just sounds too much like me. And so then I do another one, and it's so far away from me that it doesn't sound natural, and then I do like a hundred more, and then I'm so far away from like even understanding what the words mean anymore, because it just sounds like gobbledygook to me that I end up sending something because I've like reached the time limit on how long I can take to do this, and I've sent off something that I hate. So one relatable, yeah. Yes, talk a little bit about that. Thank you so much for bringing that up. Yeah, um, I feel like that is just the creative process. And speaking from experience, you do all these versions of a thing, and yeah, you might not like the version you send, but that could be the version that they actually want, and the one that actually gets picked. And you know, the more you do, the more self-conscious you get, I feel like. Yeah. Um, but I do think like there something very important is to be able to kind of edit yourself down. And I've had to learn that with having like bad bosses. Shout out to my bad bosses in the past. All you baddie bosses out there. Shout out to the baddie bosses that I hope I never see again. Um, I'm not gonna name their names, but I do love a shout-out, so that's gonna be a theme. But something I had to learn by being my own boss is you have to know when to stop. And when it looks good, you get that feeling, and you send it. Whether or not you think it's the best or not, obviously everything can always keep being edited and stuff, but you just have to send the thing, and most likely it's the good one, and they'll pick it. That's the core argument because I did say, like, okay, well, um, this is what you know, something that I'll do is I'll just like do one that's really me, and then I'll do one that's like really the copy, and then I'll give myself like five more. And then within those five, I pick three that I actually really like, you know. And then it's he was like, Yeah, but you know, I feel like I am doing that. I was like, Well, no, you said you'd do a hundred, and then you hate it by the end. And I think exactly what you're saying is you have to be able to edit yourself down to give yourself a deadline on it and be like, I'm not gonna do more than this amount. Yep. And so that by the end you're not sending out something that you just like don't even understand and hate also. And that's like what I've experienced with my baddie bosses, is that they're looking at it too much for too long and keep editing it and editing it to the point where it becomes just like a slop. And it's like, well, the and then what happens a lot of the time is you go back to like an original design because you're like, oh wait, actually that one looks good, and they're like, Well, that's part of the process. I'm like, no, that's you being a bad like leader. Yeah, like you should be able to recognize a good thing early enough where you don't waste a bunch of time doing a bunch of trash to get back to what the good thing was. I think like with my process, and it's different obviously because like I'm in graphics and like arts and stuff, but I always give myself like if they want one thing, I'm like, I'll work on three and then I'll pick the one that I love the most, and then that's it, and then I send it and then it's in their hands now. I love that too, because then you're like getting three drafts off too, right off the bat. Because like as a writer too, I'm like, I you start with a draft, but that one first draft might be like 13 different documents that you're all like working on at the same time. It's like, well, I don't have a full thing, but I do have this scene and this scene and this scene, especially when it's in like a job format, like you know, you're you're not making these illustrations for fun. It's like, you know, a thing you have to do. It's like getting three drafts out that you might hate all three, but like you don't know what's gonna come from any of them. Yeah. And in like the fast-paced world that we live in, it's like you just you gotta just do it, and like you can't just unfortunately have the time forever to keep editing and like keep thinking about it. You just have to kind of like send it off and be like, I did the thing, you know, I did the job. That's one thing that like doing this show has made me uh so much like more adept at, and I'm still like pretty bad at it. But the very short deadline that Jude and I give ourselves to write these scripts, and I think the joke was made on the last episode that uh Jude loves to just with all of his writing projects wait until the last six hours before they're due and then scream them onto the paper. Sure. Um, I'm a bit more um, you know, I have a bit more of a long process than that. But it is like I just have to like look at the deadline, how long I'm giving myself to write this, and go like, this is what I'm gonna do, and this is the amount of work I'm getting. Sometimes I'm like, I'm gonna write one long first draft, and then sometimes I go like, I'm just gonna write like six pages, but I'm gonna rewrite it maybe a couple times. Welcome to Squequels. It's a sequel podcast. Um, it's a podcast about feelings, it's a podcast about the process. We're all going through the process, and that's kind of why we're here today, is because uh Jude is currently going through a process. Uh we're currently going through a big process. Uh Jude and his lovely wife Stephanie are currently going through like a shout out Stephanie. Shout out Stephanie, going through a very big process, and so we just need to like fit in a quick episode. And here I am. I'm a filler person. She lives in the studio. So I had to do this. I'm actually currently chained to the couch, and I can't leave until this episode is over. Um, you've heard her on the podcast before. It is my lovely partner, Anna Giddleman. Hi. Uh shout out queen. Shout out queen. Shout out the shackles that are currently around my wrist so I can't leave. Shout out this podcast because it's amazing. Oh, you were shouting out Queen the Band. I was just calling you the shout-out queen. Yeah, I was like, I love Freddie Mercury, so yeah, shout out Freddie Mercury. Yeah, if you guys could see the amount of Queen and Freddie stuff that is just always consistently around our apartment. She has even kind of m forced me to keep a pretty consistent look in the time that we've been together. I was gonna say, if you know what Jordan looks like, and now that you know how much I'm obsessed with Freddie Mercury, a lot of things make sense. Um right now. I'm so happy to have you here because you are one of the funniest people I know. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Right. Yeah, I wouldn't date you either if you weren't funny. So feelings mutual. Anna, I I know you don't listen to this podcast, uh, but this is not just a podcast where we believe every movie deserves a sequel. Um, but we believe in gumping up, or we formerly believe in gumping up. I'm not gonna get too much into it, but I'm thinking of leaving gumpism behind. It's gotten really messy. I'm thinking of getting into something new. I'm looking for something hot, a hot new religion to follow. Cool. Uh we also believe in the voice. Like the show. Uh that yes. Like Adam Levine. Yeah. Okay. Um, RIP Gwen Stefani. Um, we also uh the voice is just uh it's something that speaks to you at a time. It's very clear, it's very direct, and it tells you to do things that usually save your life from like a group of robbers in an alleyway. Yeah. Or like getting into a car a night, you know, that it crashes or something. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So we believe in that that's I had a voice recently kind of when I told you about my this is maybe a controversial opinion, but Central Park is a dump. I was going to meet my friend. Shout out, James. Happy belated birthday. I love you so much. You're not a dump. The outside of Central Park is a dump. But anyway, I was following my little Google Maps to get there, and uh just outside the perimeter, I got like yelled at and lunged at by some person, and I was like, right, right, welcome to New York, we love it. And then it was gonna have me go under like that bridge, the bridge. Everybody knows the bridge in Central Park, whatever. And I just saw like what looked like a slumped over like person, and I thought maybe it was like, is this like an empty car seat? And I was like, hey, and then the voice was like, Go around. Why are we doing this? And I was like, You're right, you're right. And I didn't. I went around like the perimeter and added like five minutes. I don't care, but yeah, so I strongly believe in that voice, that gut feeling. Yeah, that little thing inside your head that's like, hey, maybe not. Yeah. I just want to make it very clear that uh when she says Central Park, the outskirts of Central Park are a dump. What she really means is that most of uh Manhattan, um, and to the extending Burroughs, uh became quite a fucking shithole under Eric Adams. Um truly like a man who sold out this fucking city. Yep. Um, because just in the time that he was in office, conditions here got so much fucking worse. Yeah. It's um yeah, it's been bad. Um thank God for mom Donnie. Yay, yay, momdani. We love him. We love Sharia Law. Thank you, Mom Donnie. Yeah. Um that's a religion you can maybe. I got really into looking at uh arguments between um Christian guys and Muslim guys on TikTok, and that's when I knew I should probably get off TikTok if it's being owned by the Israeli government. Right, which it is, yeah. So if they're like, this young white guy really started watching a lot of Islamic videos, but he looks Jewish. Something's going on, we're conflicted, just like wait. Wait, so I mentioned uh we're going through a pretty big transition right now. You very specifically are going through a distilled version of it, Anna. Yes, gentle listeners of Squeakels, Anna got a new job. Yeah, very exciting, very exciting, very uh I've been going through every emotion possible, which says a lot because I go through every emotion possible like on a regular basis. Yeah. And yeah, exactly. Jordan knows. Um, but yeah, this is uh a big it's a big move. It's a big upgrade in my career, and it's a lot of um scary things all at once. It felt right to take the job, and now I'm like, what am I doing? Actually, yeah, and I think uh, you know, a lot of corporate America is uh running on just churning and burning through people at this point. Uh shout out my bosses, yeah. Yeah, long time employees are no longer like valued to the extent that they were in like uh heyday of corporate America. Corporate America is a cesspool, it is a hellhole. Um and I think um at my place specifically, I've heard a lot of talk about how they're trying to like outsource as much as they can, like overseas, which is gonna get rid of more people, but it's already like a mess, but they don't care because it's probably cheaper to like do it's just yeah, it's it's very depressing. Yeah. And uh I think that kind of like broke down your uh confidence in yourself and confidence in your incredible art skills a bit. Yeah. Um but then you you're taking on this job, and it's very clear that like they do value um your skills and your skill set, but you are leaving New York for the first time. So that's the big thing, yeah. Yeah. I will be moving with her. I will not be moving right away. Uh so don't worry, don't worry about the podcast. Um, but for June, it's gonna be a little rocky. Um, we're gonna figure some things out uh because over the next like week and a half, two weeks, yeah, uh I am going to be helping you move down to Las Vegas. Thank you so much. I'm so excited. You're more excited than I am so nervous. Yeah. Well, you're the one actually like doing a big thing. I'm just moving. Right, right. But you're taking a lot of like the kind of heavy lifting of all the stuff that's gonna be left behind. Well, I mean, the day you leave, there's gonna be like a a street sale. Love that where I'm just gonna be like, who wants this thing? And then when I arrive, I'm gonna be like, this is the life I decided was was the right size to move across the country. But I love that, and that's like what we need because I was reading, um I did a little Google search thing that was like, you know, moving cross country, I feel these things, and then obviously like Reddit popped up, and it was like someone that posted like feeling the same things that I was, but then like a little Google AI thing, or maybe it was either way, but it was like, you know, look around and like what haven't you used in like a year, a year and a half? You probably don't need that thing. Yeah, and I'm very much of a memories person. I have like a memory box of like stuff that I've collected since I was like 15. And like I look through it every once in a while and like, oh yeah, I went to go see this movie that time. And you know, this has really got me thinking like, do I need all those things? Do I need the things that I just like that are just there that I don't really, you know, look at? I mean, I think it's a it's a big part of both the physical object and then in in like looking through it is like asking about specific items or like why am I keeping this one? Like, do is it just for a memory that I don't even really care about, but I'm holding on to it for that nostalgia? Or do I really cherish this memory? And is this something I'm going to want to keep around? Right. Like I have a little corn that it was like a carnival toy. But my friend Britney gave it to me. Shout out Britney, and every time I look at it, meanwhile, I see Britney like all the time. Like she's one of my best friends. But when she's dead, you're gonna want to want that corn corn. I think that's how you think about every little object is you're like, they're not dead now, but in 15 years they could be dead. Yeah. And I'm still gonna have this thing. Maybe the way I should go about it, because I've kept stuff from like like my first boyfriend, um, who's a piece of shit. Shout out Ryan. Um, and I've kept like ticket stubs from like when we went to go to the movies and stuff. And so maybe the way I should approach it is like I have this thing. Do I care if they die? If no, maybe I just throw it out. Yeah. Do I care if they die? That's the best. It's kind of the Marie Kondo 2.0. But also, you were pretty mean, so I probably don't need to remember that we saw Willy Wonka in theater together. Yeah. Which was also a bad movie. I use what I like to call the prowler method so that I'm not just like holding on to things in case somebody dies. Um, I wait until they die and then I sneak into their home and I find one thing that I'm like is pretty valuable. Wait, I love that. Do we know anyone that's dying? I well, I look at the obits and I'm like I kind of get it. It's just random people. I ingratiate myself with their family. It's just anyone who's it's not like people you know. It started off as people I know, but then I found out I liked it too much. Okay, well, we have a lot of really amazing things in our apartment. And you know what? Shout out to all the people who died. Like, I was wondering where all this old lady jewelry came from. You just go to like the Ferenga, and like this is a very specific Astoria thing. The Ferenga funeral home across Jack Jones. You just sit there and drink, and then you're like, ah, there's a funeral going on. You just like wander over and it all blacked. Yeah, I drink in a suit that Jack owns. Just waiting. You don't read the obituary. Sometimes it's fun if it's just like a surprise. Yeah. I had to pass by. I was walking home from the gym uh yesterday or two days ago, and I walked by Jack Jones, and then it was just like a row with like a line of people in all black passing by going to Jack Jones, and I was like, sorry. I'll let you go though. I mean, they're going to Jack Jones, they're getting ready for an Irish wake. It's gonna be wild in the Honestly. Having a bar across from a funeral home is so smart. Yeah. Be like, I've been in there so many times where there's just like a group of people dressed in like all black looking nice, and I'm like, ooh, happy hour. Right, right, funeral from across the street, on your own. Even recover even recovering alcoholics drink at funerals, you know? Is that right? Uh yeah, they get a pass for the day. Is that true? It gives them like a chip. That's like it's okay. It's a get out of the get-out the monopoly. Like keep your streak going. Today doesn't count, don't worry. Have a drink. Wait. That's actually a good idea. No, no, no. Is that we should start our own Alcoholics Anonymous where you can like have one every now and then. Alcoholics Anonymous, but like not all the time. Yeah, not like so serious. Wait, no, it it you threw me for a loop because there was like a moment in the Euphoria series finale, which I'm not gonna spoil. Shout out to Euphoria's. Shout out Euphoria, Sam Levinson. Is it series finale too? Yeah. I think it's been confirmed. Because people were like, is there gonna be another one? But the way it ended, I think it's been confirmed that this was the official series finale. I honestly don't think anyone wants to work together. Well, they're never filming the scenes together, right? It's yeah, the scenes were yeah, exactly. Like the scenes where the main people are together, it's like like Jules, for example, and this isn't a spoiler, like she's just like in the same apartment the entire series almost. And it's like, okay, whatever. But anyway, uh, we can move on. I it just reminded me of something that happened that was very specific to Alcoholics Anonymous and having a drink, and I was like, oh wait, is that a rule actually? Yeah, that you can have one when you're really sad. So you you got reminded of a part of euphoria that you don't want to spoil. Yeah. Okay. I didn't spoil anything, you guys. Right, but you were like, Oh, that actually reminds me of something I'm not gonna talk about because I don't want to. I talked about it for a little while. Sorry. Sorry, you like that. Um, go ahead. Watch the season four of Euphoria. No, it's only three. They only did three seasons. Oh, that's perfect. There was just like there were I think there was like two years in between season two and three. Yeah, shout out season three Euphoria. Yeah, it was overall good. I liked it. I think it was enjoyable. Okay. Yeah. So you know, you're working through a lot of things right now because of this move. You're watching a lot of media right now. Yes. Uh because you're sometimes going like catatonic with the anxiety. That's right. Uh, and you just need something to stare at for like three hours. That's right. Let me just say something while I have your attention. Yeah. Before we're looking in each other's eyes. Yes. Um, I'm gonna miss you so much. I knew you were so special to me uh when I told you I had the AMC pass, and I kind of gave you the soft sales pitch on it, and uh you got one. Yeah, immediately. I didn't even think twice because and this is very me. We it was I think maybe like our second, third, it was very early in our relationship, and it was when I was like meeting your friends for the first time too, because it was your birthday, and I remember like I met Alex and Jesse. Shout out to Alex and Jesse. We had shrimp beef, they know. Sorry, shrimp beef, yeah. Right, yeah. Shrimps, shout out shrimps. We were going to see um was it Quiet Place 2? It was a week, we saw Quiet Place 2, yeah. And I was like, damn, movie theater tickets are so expensive. And you were like, wait, don't buy the movie ticket. If you just get the AMC Plus membership, the movie ticket is gonna be cheaper, and the membership is like gonna pay for three tickets or whatever. And I was like, this man is so smart, and I did it, and I never looked back, and it's been incredible, and that's not the only reason I'm gonna miss you, but it is a big one. Well, it was a beautiful time in AMC Stubbs Plus membership because the price of the membership was cheaper than the average movie ticket, yeah, which I believe is still relatively the case. I think so. All you really need to do is see one movie a month to make it worth it. Truly. Um, but you get to see now four movies. This is uh we're sponsored by AMC Stubbs Plus. Um, you get to see four movies a week uh in most any format. There are some passless restricted things which we always get pissed about. Yeah. What was the most recent one you saw? Uh I was pissed that you can't see Formula One and IMAX with even if you have the membership. It's $33. Yeah. It's all this like weird license things like fathom events and stuff like that aren't um Yeah, I think like it was legally blonde, I think, or something. When they do like the um the anniversary re-releases sometimes, sometimes they're included, and other times it's like movies that otherwise they wouldn't get people into the theaters. Yeah, we were like, they're like, this is excluded. Yeah, we got tickets to a different movie. We went to go see Spinal Tap re-release in theaters, which was awesome experience. Um, but there were like five other dudes in there. Yeah. And you know, just like singing Stonehenge, and I was like, you guys wanted all of us to pay. Which, like, I mean, I guess that's how they're gonna make a little bit of money out of it, but I don't know. Yeah. I think you could get more people to those things if it's like I would bring a friend to that and I would be using my stubs and they would have to pay for their ticket. 100%. That's what I did. They did um a Queen um, I think it was live in like Quebec or something. I don't know. They like re-released a Queen concert in IMAX, and I ended up like buying my friend's ticket, and I was like, you just pay me half because like it was included in the stubs membership. And I was like, this is great. And it there was like a good amount of people in there because it's like, yeah, this is a good way to get people in, but they get weird about certain things. Everybody, especially if you're near if you're in New York, go out, get your Stubbs membership. It's worth it. It pays for itself on one ticket. You feel really special when they give the shout-out, and you know I love a shout-out um before the movie starts, and they're like, uh, shout out to all of our Stubbs members. And a very special thank you to our Stubbs Plus members. That's so good. Um you yeah, you went to see the re-release of um Spinal Tap 2. You went to see the re-release of Black Swan, a poster we have. That was included. That was included, which was amazing. Um, other art that we have on our wall. We have uh UHF, that one's mine. We have The Shining, um, which uh that is shout out to very special to both of us. But yeah, the art done by her good friend Jimmy. Uh Jimmy Scarbeck, check him out, he's very talented. We have the Brian Loves Movies Prince, that was the UHF. Um, History of the World, that one's yours. I don't give a shit about that movie. Right, right. Um Midsummer, which is very special to both of us, but once again, your friend Jimmy. Yep, Jimmy painted that. He painted the final scene of Florence Pugh, and then another Brian uh Brian draws movies of the birdcage, which is one of your all-time favorites. All-time favorites. My mom and I went to go see the re-release of that in Astoria at um, I think it was at Museum of Moving Image, or maybe it was at Kaufman, but it was fantastic because neither of us saw it in theaters, and it was just such a beautiful experience. Um, she loves it so much. She even bought tickets for us to go see it on Broadway when it was briefly on Broadway. That was probably like I don't even know how many years ago now. Le Cajafel. La Cajaffle. It was great. I was actually at um a little dive bar over the weekend, and as I was waiting for a drink, I looked up at the TV and I was like, oh my god, the birdcage is on. And I was like, wait, that's like that's not quite Robin Williams, but it looks like Robin Williams because I've never seen the original. Oh. And I was talking with um, I think she's one of the bartenders that but what that works there, but we were chatting, and she was telling me that it's like a frame by frame remake. Like the American version is like so similar to the French version. I mean, that's cool. It's amazing, and I watched it a little bit and I was like, oh yeah, they literally did just like take everything, which is amazing because that just means or that just shows how perfect it is from start to finish. It's so fun, it's so tight, and you care so much about these movies. You care a lot about a lot of movies. That's right. You and I have seen some movies recently. We're just gonna do a quick recent movie roundup. Great. I love that. Um, we watched a movie last night together. Yeah. Half of it? The one that we're about to talk about? What? Wait, what? What? Half of it or the one we're about The one we're about to talk about, is it the one that you watched like the second half of? Yes. Okay, got it. I see what you're saying. Yeah, that was I didn't. It did feel like I watched a whole movie. No, it was too long in general. Anyway. No offense to everybody that was involved. Everyone's very talented in it. Yeah, yeah. It's not the actor's fault to be sure. What's it called? Uh, Ladies First. Ladies First. New comedy on Netflix. Really clever title, honestly, for what it is. Yeah. Because it's like uh Sasha Baron Cone hits his head and he's transported into a world where um uh the the matriarchy is in power and it the most boring thing about it is that it just kind of functions very much like the patriarchy with women. Yep, yeah. Uh the men still win, so that was uh a fun twist. Yeah, but at the end he goes like I'm so sorry for everything on. He does apologize to women eventually, but for the most part, yeah, it was still um it felt very how does he still win? Yeah. And he kind of did the whole time, and it was like oh, okay. I also this is a fun fact. Um, I didn't know Sasha Barron Cohen was British. That was crazy when you revealed that to me. I had to look it up. I and then I told Jordan, I was like, well, I've only seen him where he's doing a different accent in every single movie. Where he's doing some other offensive accent. Because his British accent is honestly like very offensive. Well, that well, so honestly, I was like, this isn't even like a very good British accent. And then I looked it up, I was like, oh wait, he's British. And then the only thing I saw him where he had a British accent is probably Sweeney Todd. Yeah. And but then it's like also like Johnny Depp's accent. It's like there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a there's a lot going on in there. There's a lot of accents. Um, we saw Obsession in theaters. Incredible. Ten out of ten. Great time, ten out of ten. Everybody go see it. I have only heard, for the most part, people say really nice things, and then I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, and the guy opened it with like, everybody's raving about this movie. I'm probably gonna get a lot of hate, but it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. He's probably done something bad to a woman. I hope not. He's a very I like him a lot. Um, but uh it was like, I don't think you get it. I think yeah, and it's very rare where I personally get offended by someone not liking a movie that I feel is like a perfect movie. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I'm very like, okay, you didn't like the thing, it is what it is. Like, we can just move on. Yeah. But I feel like objectively, this is like one of the best movies. For me. For me, for me, this is like one of the best. This is probably like the best movie I've ever seen. Yeah. It might not be for everyone, but for me. I was talking to someone recently about it, and not that because to bring it back to Black Swan, one of my favorite movies of all time. Doesn't matter. I'm not even saying it's like my favorite horror movie, it's just one of my favorite movies. And I feel like Obsession had that similar vibe and feeling throughout, yeah, of just this like discomfort and eeriness, and like this person's not really a person kind of thing. And I think that's why, besides the fact that it is just a very good story and it's very well done, I think it's just like the exact kind of atmosphere and like especially when it comes to horror that I like. It's so funny because like the way up me saying like, I don't think he got it. It's like, well, I'm not that's not me being pretentious about it. I think you can be. I I mean I think you could be pretentious about this movie, but I think it's just a movie that like everybody's getting, and that's why it's so fucking popular right now. Yeah. It has like a 98 on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah. Like that's crazy. It's like critic score and audience score are like in like 96 and 98 or some shit. Yeah. Um, I'm not being pretentious when I say I don't think he got it. I just think that it's like he it I don't think he got it. Like I think so. I think a lot of not a lot, but I think there are people that like didn't quite understand that like he's the villain. And I think it's takes it into a different place when you understand that like he's the villain. Yeah, I mean she's the victim. It would be weird for anybody to read it in any other way, but also like it's just like a little weird slice of life thing. Yeah. Where like this fucking little dumb kid gets himself in over his head and buries himself and buries himself and buries himself and commits like heinous acts while he's doing it. And no accountability. No accountability, and then you know, the end shows you exactly like what will come of that. I think it's there's I I feel like there's two people's people's. There's two people in the world. There's people that know someone like him, and there's people that have luckily never had to deal with someone like him. And I feel like the majority of the population has probably known someone like him, been friends with someone like him, because as soon as he comes on screen, it's like so perfectly encapsulates like that guy. That guy in high school, that guy that like you knew that you were like you're not like inherently bad, but like there's something about you. Well he's like the nice guy, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and it's like if you've never like encountered that, or if you've never like been called out to be that person, you're not gonna understand what this movie is about. You've never like dealt with it before. I I mean I do think though that people like because like I'd never met somebody who traveled through time, but I read a book and I like uh could You get it? I got into their shoes. I don't think that you have to know somebody to do it. You can watch a depiction of them and be like, oh, I get that kind of weird guy. But like it the movie is about I think it touches so many people because everybody has had some sort of like experience that kind of connects to this, and the language of the movie is just so simple. And the parallel between this and Black Swan, because I also think comparing it to Black Swan is like very funny because of like the you know the levels of both of them, yeah, exactly. But it's also very apt because they're both movies that like just continue moving forward. Um, there's not really points where you don't have time to like think. Yeah, where people stop to go like, wait, what's going on right now? Like, what is the inherent reality of this movie? It just continues to escalate towards like this inevitable conclusion. Yeah, and that's exciting to watch. Very yeah. Yes, a hundred percent. There's nothing in Black Swan that doesn't there's no scene in Black Swan that doesn't have to deal with like the core things that are like a relationship with her mom, uh, her relationship with like herself and Mila Kunis and like that shadow play that they're doing. Yeah. Um, her relationship to ballet and her relationship to like this role, or you know, and then her turning into a fucking swat song. Yeah. Yeah. But like nothing is just about like her going to a library and like looking up like is why is this happening to me? Yeah, it's like it's just happening. You're just gonna have to deal with it. I'm sorry. And like obsession did that, I mean, there is like some explanation, but for the most part, you're just like, oh, all right. Like, I guess this is just how it goes now. Yeah, when he goes back to the magic shop, not this doesn't like spoil, but like when he goes back to the magic shop and he's like, I need to reverse this wish, and he's like, Oh no, what did you wish for? It's not like at any point the guy's like, those things don't work. What are you talking about? You're guy, you're crazy. It's just like everybody just kind of accepts the yeah, they're like, Well, you used it there. Okay, bye. It's not like a world where magic is real, but when it comes to this specific item, this like MacGuffin in the movie, anybody who's interacted with it has just been like, Well, what did you use your wish on? Yeah, that's crazy. What the f yeah, it's like, wait, you didn't just wish for like a Crunch Rap Supreme right now? That's insane. Cause like, what? And I'm like a superstitious person, so like I I feel like if I had that one wish willow, that would be the thing. I'd be like, Can I get a pizza right now? And I'd be like, oh my god, it works, and that's it. And I'd be like, Okay, I got my pizza. Just the safest wish, yeah. Right, yeah. Like, I wouldn't like go that far immediately, but I mean that just proves you know who he is. He'll go, he'll do anything to except the thing, the actual thing. Yeah, except like that's the craziest thing is the impetus of the movie is that he makes this wish because he can't just say it to her face. Many opportunities. Yeah. What a little poop. What a little poop. Uh ghosty obsession. It's fucking amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. And also, like, just one more thing, just for the most part, like new actors, like low budget, amazing, like it's just, it's so good. And barely any sort of like ad campaign. Um, a lot of yeah, my friends who have seen it either like saw the trailer and were like, I don't know if that looks good, or they never saw the trailer and then they heard from another person go see this movie. I was so excited. I remember seeing the trailer, because also like I'm such like a I love a psychological thriller, obviously, but like any like kind of like lifetime-y like movie and stuff where like this kind of stuff happens, and the trailer was so simple, and it was just like him making this wish that someone would fall in love with him, and I was like, I'm in, I was like, yeah, this is gonna be horrible, and I would love to see how horrible it can get. Yeah, it's horrible, it's wonderful, it's hilarious. It's so funny. Well, I mean, it's it's like uncomfortable funny, but there are moments where you're just like, no, this actually is funny. I mean, we some of our favorite like Midsummer, I think is a very funny movie, even though it's hilarious, you know, once again, horrible. Um, I think some of the best horror is like relatively funny, and those act those directors can like play in both spaces because like Hereditary is a darkly and starkly unfunny movie. There's like nothing funny that happens in that movie, but that is the only other movie besides this one, and I don't even really feel that strongly about obsession, but hereditary is one where like if somebody didn't like it, I was like, I don't like you. You converted me because the first that well the first time I watched it, I was so scared because it was like my one of my like first big horror movies that I watched, and I had my friend Jason come over, shout out Jason, and um he had watched it already, and he's also like very like he doesn't get scared very easily, and I got like really drunk because I was so nervous, and I was like, Okay, I think this is fine, and then I never watched it again because I like didn't really remember it, and I was like, Okay, that's safe, whatever. And then I convinced myself I didn't like it because like the bits that I did remember, like were I you know, I I don't even know. I think I just like they were horrifying. Well, yeah, the trauma my brain dropped. The things that I remember you being like, I don't like this part. I was like, Yeah, that's because it's fucking horrible. That part didn't even bother me that much. I was like, okay, but it was like the creepiness of it all. But then I think it was last Halloween, I was like, I gotta like give this like another shot and like really watch it. And we did, and it was amazing, and it was horrifying, but it was so good. And I'm glad, thank you. Well, also I want you to like me, so what's your trick too? Is when we watch a very scary movie and we're in the bedroom, you for a part you would normally cover your eyes for. Yeah, so I make sure that the blinds are all the way up and I can watch it through the reflection of our window so that when the scary parts happen, it's like kind of like blurry and like you don't like see all of it. Yeah, it's I think it's great. Thank you so much. It's like looking at Medusa through the like reflection in your yeah, I'm basically a Greek god. I um I saw I Love Boosters, the new Boots Riley movie with uh Donnie, the boss from Queen's Comfort, and uh he's that guy's just like having fun making movies, but they're also about like very serious topics. Um I Love Boosters is about a group of women who steal from um designer stores and then sell on the secondhand market to like make money and like keep the streets alive with fashion. Great, and um Kiki Palmer. Ugh, she's the best. She's a fucking star. Dude, she is she is just amazing. Uh Demi Moore. Oh, nice. Um, great, great, great characters. Don Cheadle? Don Cheadle is unrecognizable in the movie. Oh, okay. Uh Will Poulter, um Lakeith Stanfield. Great fucking cast, top to bottom. Uh it's just so like you remember sorry to bother you. Like how that ends. With the um like poisoned cocaine that transforms. Oh, yes, of course. I don't know why. Whenever we talk about this movie, I'm like, Yeah, we talked about it like three days ago, so I was like, oh, she's really gonna knock this one back. I think I confuse it because I like I do this a lot where I confuse certain things that don't have anything to do with each other, but I always confuse that with burn after reading because it's just like sounds the same in my head, and I'm like, I don't think that's very different movie, yeah, extremely different. Same with like Aaron Brockovich and John Malkovich, that's the same thing in my head. One is Aaron Brockovich and one is being John Malkovich, and in my head, John Malkovich is Aaron Brockovich, and for a long time I thought that Julio Roberts was in a movie that was about John Malkovich. No John Cusack, another John and Cameron Diaz are in a movie about John Malkovich. There's a movie about John Malkovich? Yeah, being John Malkovich. Oh, right, but I thought Aaron Brockovich was the same. Anyway, it doesn't matter. You can cut all this out. For a very long time, I thought that Julia Roberts played like John Malkovich in a movie called Aaron Brokovich because in my head it was the same name. That's that's a crazy thing to believe. Up until like a year ago, I was like, it's two different things. That's crazy. It's like me, I I thought Deshand was how you say the Wiener Drong name until like a month ago. You can't just reference. Guys, I'm sorry. So this is like a lot of unlearning that I'm gonna have to do. So this like and Jordan. That's why we're here. That's why we're sitting. Oh, everybody, this is also uh this is movie uh movie movie slash moving movie movie moving therapy with squeak wolves. Right, yes, thank you. Um so I came across this TikTok a while a a while like a couple months ago, and this girl was laughing because she was asking her partner how to pronounce like the the wiener dog, and he was like, It's a Deschonde. And I was like, Yeah, and she was cracking up, and I was like, I'm don't understand the joke. I had to go into the comments and people were like, I can't believe he pronounces it like that, blah blah blah. And I was like, What are you saying right now? And that's how I learned that that's how you pronounce Dachshund, and I thought that like when you see them in like dog shows and stuff, when they like when you look at the name, it's like their like proper name, and then like Dachshund was like the slang. I don't know. But so for 37 years I've been think I've been thinking that it's either Dachon or Dachshund, and Dachsan is like the street name. Have you ever met anybody else who said Deschande? No, yeah, you just wrote that in your head and then okay, and you never said it out loud to anybody, really. No, I would call them wiener dogs because I thought I was pronouncing Deschand wrong because it sounded too fancy. And whenever I said Deschand, people looked at me like, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, they would kick me out of their house. And I thought it was just like I wasn't saying it fancy enough. No, yeah. I was like, I'm sorry, I'm just like not elite. I mean, you're not you're not part of the German elite, we would say dogs. Well, yeah, they tried to get rid of me. That's true. Um, so alright, let's get back to your therapy. Yeah, we can cut all that. No, not all of it. So you remember how crazy the end of uh sorry to bother you is. Yes, I do remember that. So this movie, I was like expecting it to be fun and very playful and very colorful and all those things, but I was expecting more of a straightforward movie. It is in no way like it goes even bonkier and wilder, and by the end, I was like, I love that this man will just like do anything in a movie. Love that, yeah. So the costumes are like incredible. Yeah. Oh, uh Big Bud Press did the like one of the major designs in the movie. That's awesome. When we went to go see Obsession, they had at the AMC, shout out AMC again, um, a little like display case of um some of the costumes and like outfits and stuff that they wore. And it's just like gorgeous, like the pastels and like just the style of it all is just so beautiful. The stores that Demi Moore like runs or whatever, um they're very funny. And one of the things is that like each month a store is monochromatic, so it only is selling one color, and if you want to buy that thing in another color, you have to go to a different one of their stores. I love honestly, that's kind of great. And I also love like the because they had all the tags on um the pieces, and some of it was just like Zara and like HM or something, and I was like, this is awesome because it's like accessible, also, like you can like go out and like buy these outfits and like wear them, you know. You don't have to like break the bank for some of the pieces. It was really cool. Yeah, you just take like a you know, simple like athletics apparel knit cap and you pair it with something that you stole out of the front of like a Marc Jacobs or something. Yeah. Why not? Yeah, just break the window, steal from corporations. I'm so over uh steal groceries. I fully encourage that also. Grocery is theft. I talk about it on another podcast. Right. Um unless it's like a little mom and pop like grocery. Yeah, don't steal from like a cute little fruit. But also, that's gonna be like five cents versus like paying three dollars somewhere else. So like you pay them the five cents and then go to trade fair and steal a tomato. Also, if somebody if a place has automatic checkout, they should be paying you to do that labor. Uh so you are you can take a you know a loaf of bread or a bundle of bananas and not feel guilty about it. Yeah. This is actually the plot to lay Miz. It is. If you want to talk about it. I stole a loaf of bread. Give back the bread. I've never seen Lay Miz. You stole a loaf of bread. Thief. Thief Wall. Where were you shopping in? We're working on Lay Miz too. Here on Squeakels, we believe that every musical deserves a sequel. Um, movies are very important to you. Yes. Media is very important to you. The comfort of media is very important to you. I will come home and you will be watching season three of Sex in the City for the I mean 39th season. I don't even know. Yeah, I've lost count. I had to take a break because I was like running through the series so quickly that I was like, alright, I need to take a proper break and like find something else so I can miss it a little bit. When I met you, Black Swan was your comfort movie. Still is. The other night I came home drunk, and I was like, oh, when you had um your friends over and you guys are gonna play a game, and I was so drunk, and I was like, all I want to do is wrap myself in blankets and watch Black Swan, and I did, and I fell asleep so quickly, and I was so cozy. The amount of times I've come home and uh just very loudly from the bedroom, I'll hear, I'm not your little girl anymore. She's gone. What happened to my little girl? She's gone. Yeah, just that at like max volume from the bedroom television. I went with a shout out to my friend Jimmy again who painted um a couple of the art that we have on our walls. But that's like our favorite thing to say to each other. We went to the Black Swan IMAX re-release together, and it was just such a beautiful moment where we're like, it's happening. And meanwhile, it's like the creepiest stuff is going on, we're like, yay, she's gone. Um, after you saw the substance, you would come home, drunk, and you'd be like, I just want to wrap up and watch the substance. It's just like the absurdity of it all, you know? It just like it I feel like it levels me out. And then I think you said obsession might be one of the next contenders. For sure. I'd have to keep the volume down though, because that one has like, well, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Yeah. That soundtrack though. It's either, yeah, the soundtrack's incredible. It's either that or like Sabrina Carpenter music videos. There's really there's no in between. Not really. Not really, but you do have some comfort movies that you don't need to be drunk to watch. You will just sometimes at two o'clock in the afternoon watch this movie. One of them just as kind of disturbing as maybe some of these horror movies that you love. It's got Charlie's Theron in it, and uh you're always like ugly crying. Oh my god. That one's uh yeah. Um she plays like an alcoholic young adult. Yeah, she oh my god, I love that movie. I took a break from that too, because I was like, I need to miss it a little bit because I was watching it so often. She grew up in like Minnesota and became like a young adult author and like moved to the Minneapolis, which is like I don't know what they call it in the movie in Minneapolis, and then like goes back to her hometown to try like win back her like high school sweetheart, and she's just like a mess and a disaster, and it's all just like just tragic from start to which I love a I love a tragic lady. What are you gonna do? We love a tragic lady. She makes it out alright though. What are some of your other comforts? A lot of rom coms. I love how to be single is one of my faves. Yeah. Um to lose a guy in ten days. Anytime it's on TV, I'm like, sure. Um, Devil Risk Prada, classic. 13 going on 30. I actually grew up watching um 18 again, which is one of my mom's favorite movies with uh George Burns. And it was this kid who switched bodies with his grandfather. I'm upset that like for 18 again, they really focus on George Burns experience. And they don't even talk about yeah, what happens to a kid who ends up in a daughtering old man's body. It's just like a well, yeah, it's just like this creepy old man the entire time for the most part. Yeah. From what I haven't watched in a long time, but yeah. That's really I don't know. With his like young, like hot girlfriend lady, right? Happy birthday to you ooh ooh ooh ooh. Disgusting. Yeah, it's pretty gross. Yeah. Oh, and then you know, you get into like the Judd Apateau of it all, and like um, he did 40 40 year old virgin. Yeah, Judd Apateau did 40-year-old virgin. I don't think he did forgetting Sarah Marshall, but that's like probably my favorite movie of all time. So that you get into like that like comedy set. Well, you love the Russell Brand universe in general. Unfortunately, get him to the Greek. Get him to the Greek. Yeah, yeah. I watched that recently and I was like, unfortunately, I do find this very funny, and um, I don't think I should watch it anymore. It's like the worst people you could think of all together. But the song, shout out to Denise, when we lived together, we would listen to the clap all the time. Oh, right, of course. It's pretty catchy. From Jedi to how you love 40-year-old virgin all the way to this is 40, which is one that I've seen you watch a number of times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really like that. It's one of those movies where you can just watch like at any stage of your life and really discover something new about yourself. Yeah, you saw Knocked Up and you were like Mostly that you don't want to be 40. I wonder what's happening in these characters. I was very curious how Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann were really gonna get along with it. Yeah. I think I saw it in theaters. Great performance from our queen Megan Fox, of course. She's amazing. She's speaking of, um, you've never seen Jedi First Body, is that right? I have not, no. We gotta watch that. I think it's streaming on Netflix. It's streaming on one of the things that we have right now. One of my favorite movies. It's absolutely incredible. And we should a hundred percent sit down and watch that soon. I would love to. Tonight. Do you feel are there any other shout-outs to comfort movies that you want to give at this moment? Um, I think I I feel like I talked a lot. I feel like we're good. Okay, so let's imagine, you know, like you know, you're you're gonna be down there. We're moving you down there. You've been focusing on media. Yeah. What are some movies do you think that you're gonna like pull out, you know, just to like settle you in and like make you feel home? Right. That's a very good question because you know, instinctively I was like, oh, how to be single, and that always makes me happy. But that's set in New York, and I'm like, that's gonna probably send me spiraling. Um, I think I'm gonna have to lean on um Miss Catherine Heigel a lot, like 27 Dresses, the Ugly Truth, just like real real dumb stuff. You're not gonna dig into your little dark tendencies with like a Coraline or something. Oh yeah, maybe. Actually, that could probably be a very good escape because I could I should um get back into like some animated stuff. I feel like that would really like put me in like a a very different space. And an illustrator mindset, too. True. True and lots of in lots of inspiration. So you know, you said that thinking about New York once you get down to Vegas might send you into a little bit of a spiral. Maybe. So let's just shout out some of the great New York movies. You've got your Spider-Man series, which is another one of your favorites. Classic. Ugh, Toby McGuire Forever. Uh Rosie. I love this boy. Rosie, I think I'm in love with this boy. Peter Parker, brilliant but lazy. I'm something of a scientist myself. Uh Brilliant but lazy. Bilbo Baggins. Um Cloverfield. Just watch that. Oh, great. New York movie. Maybe that would be a good one to watch and be like, yeah, it's all gonna get destroyed. It's fine. I mean Black Swan, of course. Yeah. Um Center Stage. Center stage. That's gonna be a tough Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Right. Of course. Um Enchanted. Ghostbusters. When Harry met Sally. Oh class and sleepless in Seattle. Right. We love that New York movie. So now I want you to get your mind away from New York. Great. I love that. Start spreading the news. Ugh, news. You're leaving in two days. Yep, yep, yeah. I want you to start thinking about Las Vegas movies. Yes. And one of my favorite movies, actually, one of my favorite comfort watch movies that I can't watch. Don't say it yet. Because you're gonna be saying it in about two minutes. We're about to do the Las Vegas movie quiz. Yeah. Let's find a way to make our relationship into content. It'll also give us a reason to talk to each other, you know, instead of just forcing it every day. I regret this. I wanna come home. I wanna come home. Please let me come home. Yeah. It's like obsession. The plane's about to take off and then it just has to stop because you're standing in the middle of the runway. Looking like pouty, grumpy. Oh, I thought I was just gonna be one of these. You're not on microphone right now. No, I know. I know. I thought I was gonna be like shitting myself. You just did. If you cared enough about me to shit yourself, you would have done it for the pod. Pissed and shit all over that couch. That should be the last thing I do on this couch. Alright, let's hear a crack. Let's hear that crack. Okay, yeah. Shout out, oops. Shout out to wine and crime. Also, just quickly about obsession is how to do the crack. You can do it away from the microphone. Uh oh. It'll still pick up pretty well. No, no, you don't even need to be that. Yeah, let's really bust it out. I have some more, maybe. I was listening to Samurai Movie Jam, Brian and Dave. They do a ranking system, and the only movie that they've rated higher is Project Hail Mary, which I haven't seen yet. Oh, wow. People love that movie. But when it was their second highest rated movie ever in their whole ranking, they went, Yeah, that makes sense. And I was like, So good. And they gave it even like lower scores on the like design of things because they're like, well, it wasn't like an avatar. And I was like, well, yeah, it's made for three billion dollars less than avatar. So it's not gonna look like Avatar. Also, that would be weird if it did. Um, I have seen that like the one thing that people have called out is that um they used a magnetic septum piercing for um the friend. Who gives a shit? Exactly. But then people are like, if that's the only complaint that people have, this is an incredible movie. Fucking Clint Eastwood like cigarettes are at different lengths to different shots. Same with Scorsese. Yeah. Like who cares? Who cares? It's because fucking women. Anyway. It is now time for the Las Vegas movie quiz. Yay! Viva Las Vegas. So I am going to give you a short description of a movie that features the word Vegas in its title. Oh, I love that. Okay. You are going to tell me what that movie is. Okay. Surprisingly, not a ton of movies that have Vegas in the title, but ton of movies about Vegas. Okay, love it. Let's go. Four friends returned to Las Vegas hoping to relive their glory days. The hang of Oh, wait, it has Vegas in the title. Yes. Sorry. The Hang of Vegas. Vegas. The Hang of Vegas. Four friends returned to Las Vegas hoping to relive their glory days. I don't think I know. You've probably never seen it. Yeah, I don't think I have. You can think of just like a pun for Las Vegas. Las Vegas. Last Vegas. Last Vegas. Starring all the old people that are in all the old people movies. Robert De Niro. Nice. Morgan Freeman. Oh yeah. Who other old men that would bother to look up. A man moves to Las Vegas because he wants to drink himself to death. Not fear and loathing. It is not fear and loathing. Oh, I guess I don't think it's a drink. In fear and loathing, he doesn't want to drink himself to death. He just wants to live through the drugs. Right, right. Survive the drugs. Moves to Vegas to drink himself to death. I don't know. Oh, I'm doing bad at this. You've also probably never seen it. Very depressing movie, leaving Las Vegas. Uh starring Nick Cage. He's got a wooden hand. Oh. Um. We should watch that. I love Nick Cage. That's what really what really got him there, you know? Good for him. A journalist and an attorney arrive in Las Vegas with a car full of drugs. Alright, well, there we are. Yep, there we go. My favorite fucking movie. And everybody makes fun of me. But it's National Lampoons Vegas Vacation. Maybe arguably the worst of the vacation movies. What? So I I was shocked. What almost as shocked as Sasha Baron Colling being British and finding himself in a world run by women. Yeah, and uh how you pronounce Deshaunde. I thought growing up that this was one of the funniest movies ever made. And then when I talked to people who actually know and are familiar with the national lampoon universe, we're like, this is the worst of the bunch. And I was like, what do you mean? Because Papa Giorgio is so funny. Papa Giorgio is so funny. I think that when you say the people who know the Lampoon Vegas Vacation series, it's like, don't give them that much credit. Those it's a those a fine movie series. You can't be a connoisseur of these movies. But in general, people would always be like, This is a bad movie. And I'm like, Alright, I'm sorry. I liked it. Wayne Newton seducing the wife is one of the funniest things in the world. It's so funny. It's so insane. His daughter, like hanging out with the cousin too much, and like essentially or becoming a cage dancer, and he's like, This is what eight years of ballet did, and I was like, that's so funny. Is it just because I mean they're all pretty cynical from the start, but is it because of how like cynical it is? But Papa Giorgio wins all the car, he like uh does wins all the money. Yeah, he saves the family in the end. Well, no, who saves the family is the guy who I'm pretty sure is in silent movie. I don't know if that timing adds up. But anyway, the one that I won, I won! I won! And then he's like having a heart attack, and then he whispers a long time into Chevy Chase's ear, and everyone's like, What is he saying? And then it turned out he was just like, take my lottery ticket, but it like took forever, and then Oh, I don't think you got that joke. What was the joke? The joke is that he's actually like giving him some sort of like long thing. He's like telling him his like last will and testament or whatever. No, I know, but at the end of the day, and then Chevy Chase is like, Oh, you told me to take the lottery ticket or whatever. Oh because he wants to take because he's so he's gonna steal the guy's. Lottery ticket. Oh, yeah. Well he was dying anyway. Yeah. So you're saying you would have done what Chevy Chase did in Yeah, before the cleaning lady came and like swept it up. Yeah, someone should have the money. He's dying. Yeah, no. Anyway, I love that movie. And when they did the formation with the cars at the end of the movie, I was like, this is so cool. This is the kind of family vacation I'd like. And where do you put European vacation? I really liked when they're going in the roundabout forever and then you see the sun go down. European vacation is also very funny, but I haven't seen it as much as Vegas vacation. Where do you rank it next to Euro Trip? Oh, that's the one Scotty doesn't. It's got Michelle Trachtenberg R.I.P. Shout out to dead Michelle Trachtenberg. Um Scotty Doesn't Know comes on I my like Spotify daylist whenever it's like early thousands, like emo pop punk, and then it's Scotty Doesn't Know. But um you know in True Anna Fashion, I didn't watch that one much. I watched Road Trip a lot more. I mean Tom Green is so funny in that movie. I think that's when he eats the mouse. Yeah. Like puts it in his mouth. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I did watch Euro Trip kind of recently, and I was like, alright, that's that's pretty funny. But I like that they do like the little bit where like, oh my god, she's hot, and she just like is in general. Yeah. And she just like is in a bikini and all the guys are like, What? Were we what weren't you like our best friend and now you're in the middle of the room? Uh road trip movies are also very comforting to me in a lot of ways. I love a road trip movie. A lot of them end in Vegas. Finally, we have a caveman travels to Rock Vegas looking for love. Oh. A caveman travels to Rock Vegas looking for love. Got it, got it. Alright, it's the Flintstones. Go to Vegas. What's the root the No, come on. Don't don't give me that go to Vegas. Put a little, put a little spice on it. The Flintstones. Rock Vegas? What Rock Vegas? What Rock Vegas? Viva. Viva Rock Vegas. Rock Vegas. I was really looking at you. I was like, uh-oh. Viva! Rock Vegas. We should watch that. My friend uh Ben, shout out to Ben. He listens to the podcast, big fan, my friend, um, in Virginia. He just sent me a screenshot and he was like, guess the movie, and I was like, and it was like dinosaurs and people like walking around, and I was like, Well, it's not Jurassic Park, and he was like, No, a couple years later, and then he sent me another screenshot, and it was Rosie O'Donnell, and I was like, Oh, this is the Flintstones, yeah, and he was like, You have to watch this ASAP, and I was like, I've never seen it. You've never seen even the Flintstones original? I don't think so. He was very upset with me, honestly. I don't think he should be upset with you. It's not a very good movie, but I do think it's like uh a classic for our generation. He uh he texted me in the morning and he was like, Did you stay up all night watching the Flintstones? And I was like, Unfortunately, I did not. And he was like, Oh, okay. Ben, I don't like that you're texting her so much. Cut it with the I know you're listening to this. Yeah. Enough's enough. Stop texting me about the Flintstones. It's making me uncomfortable. Your movie relationship is making my relationship. Yeah. Um, I'm surprised you didn't add uh one of our favorites that we watched kind of recently. Yeah. Uh, What Happens in Vegas? Uh, we did watch that pretty recently and we had some strong feelings about it. So to close this out, you know, we're in a relationship. We are. We are kind of in an open relationship because we both have the ability to make out with a non-binary at a bar if we run into one that's hot enough. Yeah. Same gender or non-binary. That's right. And so we watched recently two movies that are essentially about people who are entered in a very similar to our relationship. No strings attached and friends with benefits. Friends with benefits. Yeah. It led us into, we had a big long thought process about it. We wrote uh we wrote a sub stack about it that you can subscribe to. But uh it was really about like how gender dynamic works differently in those two movies, um, how they approached like the writing and like the the stakes in them. We had uh it's really thoughtful kind of like critique that we we wrote on these movies. Uh once again, you can subscribe to our Substack about it, but it led us to another Ashton Kutcher uh film What happens in Vegas. Yeah. This also reminded me a lot of our relationship because that's kind of like how we met. Was like, you know, we were at a party, which a party is kind of like Vegas, like a mini Vegas in a park in Astoria. Yeah. And you know what happens at your friend's fortieth birthday party stays at your friend's fortieth birthday party. That's true. You were playing a game. Oh, it was like frisbee? Frisbee, yeah, but like to me that's like that could be like poker at a poker table. Yeah, and in the way that I catch a frisbee, it's kind of how we caught each other's eyes across the park. Yes. We talked about how Wayfair traffics children. That was one of our first uh topics of conversation. Yeah, it's what really what really drew me to you, and I was like, this guy's interesting. And I don't know if you remember, but I was you were like, oh yeah. We have like a three-bedroom, and I very like obviously was like, you and uh who? And you were like my roommates, and I was like, fabulous. And I was like, What a 35-year-old man with roommates when legs were open. Yeah, we started dating right away. Kinda, yeah. Before I knew it, he was like, Oh, I made a reservation here, I'll pick you up at this time. And he did, and we went to our little sushi date, and our sushi date was at 5 p.m. and I didn't get back home until like I think like two in the morning, and it was one of those dates where I was like see, people trust me, everybody. I'm not though I might sound like a serial killer on the audio. People like me and they trust me. Like Jude is a re for being a complete maniac when you hear him, somehow he manages to live like a pretty successful and like good life. He owns an apartment with his wife who's having a baby, and he's managing a restaurant in Manhattan. It's crazy. It's crazy that that man who I sit across from on these mics is like that good at being a human being. Yeah. Yeah. You are also one of those people who I'm like, you know, I get so goofy with, and uh then like when I think about the rest of your life that you're living, I'm like, it's so impressive that you can like do all that at that level, um, and then like still manage to have such a rich exterior life and be so goofy and so funny. Thank you. I think we um we compliment each other so well, and it's so beautiful and amazing. Yeah, but the the difference is that is that like the other life that I'm living, like whatever my work life is, it's not much different than like what's what I'm doing right here. Right, right. I have to put on a bit of a facade. Well, actually, I don't know. Eventually my personal life bleeds into my work life too, and I'm like, uh, you like it or you don't. I don't know. I think the way that you do that though is like very successful, and like, you know, I think you're a very likable person. Thank you. Yeah, we we have we share such great friends, and we're you're we're gonna miss like seeing them all all the time. Yeah. But also, like our good friends are always close by, and and Jude and I will always be close by. And so we're gonna keep the show going as as as best we can. But for June, it is gonna be a little rocky. Um, we're gonna be doing weird episodes like this. Um, there might be a little treat coming your way too. It's my birthday at the end of the thing, so that's also like I'm probably not gonna take a ton of time to like you know go like write scripts and stuff this month. Um, so it's gonna be more like weird, fun introspections. Anna, I love you so much. I love you too so much, Jordan. Um, I love uh that uh you are so you know intelligent and adaptable and successful, and I'm so excited for you to go on this, you know, new journey. I'm scared for you, but like that means that like I, you know, I care about you. Um and I'll be there whenever you need me. I'll be like right here. We're also like we kind of talked about in that BTS audio. I'm gonna turn this into content. So we're gonna do maybe like a little short episode every um I don't know. I'm not gonna plan all this right now. No, yeah, but um we're gonna drop it. Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna like continue to watch movies together because I think that's a good way to like do something that we share and then like have something to talk about at the same time. Yes. Yeah. Um we'll we'll do a movie trade where we watch each other's favorite movies. I love that. Yeah, yeah. And we can even grow and know each other more through the films that we like enjoy. I love that. You were about to say something. I was, yeah. There's um, you know, I feel like there's I think maybe Amazon does it, but you can do like the um the movie. We love to promote Amazon. Yeah, Jeff Bezos, shout out to Jeff Bezos. My favorite boy. Um but you can do like watch parties through like different Oh yeah. Because my friend Daniela, shout out Daniela, she also uh I just saw her before we did this podcast, and she said very similar things to me that Jordan is saying right now, and it was very emotional because she's one of my besties, and I don't know if I'm gonna see her before I leave, but anyway. Um, but she does that with one of her friends that uh lives out of state, and they do like watch parties and do like a little craft and do a themed cocktail every time they watch a movie together. That sounds really nice. Yeah. Maybe I'll start coming up with cocktail recipes or asking my very good cocktail friends to come up with a cocktail that we can. Yeah, we can do like a themed night, and we could do like a cocktail in a movie. Yeah. And you can watch me cry on FaceTime. We do a rift tracks. Yeah, and then you can record it and you can have that quietly in podcasts. You can all look forward to that. You can look forward to hearing Anna Sob. Um We released an episode just three hours on the podcast. Why did I do this? Take me back, please. It's just it's just a voicemail that you left that I've ignored for two weeks while you're done. Why haven't you called me back? Please, I hate it. Please answer your phone. I think that's really good.