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You've Got Mail: Cliché & Computer
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Today we're watching You've got Mail?
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What is that?
What are you doing?
You're taking all the caviar.
That caviar is a garnish warning.
There will be spoilers about this nostalgic.
Yeah, old film, I mean nineties at least.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, yeah, Sienna, had you seen this before?
Speaker 1I had seen it?
I think many times?
Speaker 2Oh wow, yeah, oh my god.
Okay, can we start with your prediction then?
Speaker 1Sure?
Speaker 3All right?
Speaker 4Any times?
Yeah, oh all right, Oh I'm so interested.
Okay, Hi, Leanna, this is Sienna, I'm about to watch You've Got Mail.
Speaker 5Yeah, I guess I've seen this movie a number of times.
Classic rom com vibes.
I predict that Tom Hanks is putting what's your name's business out out of business.
It's gonna be bookstore vibes.
Nineties and cozy.
Seems like a good autumn film.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Actually, I hope everything holds up real good and that it ruppers and love and it's most healthy form.
I love you goodbye.
Mm hmmm.
Did you know in saying that that it I didn't remember it, but I absolutely guessed.
I'm like, it's from the nineties.
Also, it's who is it who writes?
Who writes these?
Nora Fron?
Yeah, so it's Nora Efron.
Which there's much lovable about those movies.
They're kind of like the classic rom com.
Yeah.
So you can be like, oh, you know, I remember this classic, but I almost every line that's like a classic line turns out to be sort of not not a good vibe now mm hmmmmmm.
Anyway, yes, somehow the vibe is bad.
Have you seen this movie?
Well, Sienna, let me play you in my prediction.
I would love to hear your prediction.
Here.
It is Hi Sienna, it's Leanna.
I'm about to watch You've got mail.
Yes, I predict this is a rom com.
I have no idea who's in it.
I mean it's gonna be white people.
Yeah, And I predict it might be about like emails, yes, y two k emails, emails.
Oh can you hear the Australian yelling no, he stopped?
And people falling in love perhaps like a cozy dish will be shared.
No, and the city as a character, so it's probably said in New York or Chicago or Seattle, huh, love you by?
They really are.
Every one of my roommates who walked by was like, oh my god, I love this movie Sleepless in Seattle.
Well, we can't talk about it yet.
Speaker 2Hey girl, No, hey girl, what's going on with you this week?
What's happening?
Happy November?
Speaker 1Happy November.
Let's see.
Speaker 5Okay, Well, I've been thinking of you because you've been on your little Pilates moment.
Speaker 1Oh yes, Pilate's bitch and I get tattooed on my ass.
Speaker 5I had a moment recently where I was like, I I'm.
Speaker 1Not I'm not.
How do I put this in a kind way, I'm not as in shape as I was thinking I was.
I just like, in my mind, I'm exercising a lot more frequently, which would be really helpful for my lifestyle.
Yeah, but like because I've been having to build a lot of things and move a lot of things, and I'm like, I'm hurting myself.
And then I realized I'm actually not exercising that much or like building muscle, you know what I mean.
So that's that's something I need to do.
Now.
I need to buy things with protein and uh and uh, I need to actually be using exercising my muscle.
So now I'm kind of working on that.
Oh my god.
So I got sort of following and getting jack I'm following your jacked kick and I'm starting a jack kick on my own.
We're getting a pump on this this winter.
You need to get a pump on.
And then in addition to that, again, remember I live in a household with for other people, and so when one person gets sick, we just all get sick.
And no, no, So it's okay, I just finished a couple of jobs and I got to be in bed the last couple of days.
But of being in bed, but I don't know if it's gonna be.
If I get sicker, I don't know what I'll do.
Last night, I had to build a talking couch.
I had to build a talking couch for somebody's play, and I couldn't get out of my car.
I was so like brain fog, like tired.
Yeah yeah, but uh but besides that, honestly, I'm doing good.
Yeah.
I love The Fall.
You know, say what you will about this movie, but kind of the reason I think people stick with it is because it makes you go, it is fall.
It's really fall.
Speaker 2It's one thing about this movie is it'll make you say it is fall, no matter the time of year.
Lehanna, hey girl, in this movie, it is fall.
Hey girl.
I'm really confronting my joints these days.
Speaker 1Okay.
Have I told you about my shoulder, my big, my giant shoulder.
Not?
And I told you about my big shoulder, my big, my huge shoulder.
No, you have told you about this?
Oh my god.
I have had a knot in my shoulder that is so bad that I can't sleep.
Oh.
Speaker 2I had the shoulder pin like a month ago, and I couldn't sleep on it.
And then I finally went to see a physiotherapist or physio as they called him here, and he diagnosed that it's it's just a medically huge knot.
No, we did not, so I have to go get it just like, yeah, this is big.
Speaker 1Yeah.
He was like, that's a.
Speaker 2Big knot you said not, I mean your sually it's a giant and it's like it won't just go away on its own, like I have to go get it medically professionally, proud it poked.
I have to get like pressed into a table thirty minutes every once a week.
It's happened twice so far.
I have little exercises to do as well.
But I can't sleep on my right side.
Speaker 1That sucks.
It's nuts.
Speaker 2Having a body is one of the stupidest things that we as humans do.
And I'm also I went to a different physiotherapist, one that's covered by my insurance for my hips, because you know, those are never where they're supposed to be.
My hips are liars.
Actually, they're always lying.
And now what I'm coming up against is the real question of did I do I actually want to get better or did I want to just go complain to a professional about being in pain?
Because for both my shoulder and for my hips.
They've given me exercises to do that will help me feel better.
Speaker 1Yeah, Am I doing them?
Speaker 2No, maybe I'll But what I will say is, I just got back from picking up some resistance bands love.
I made a purchase.
I was very brave.
Speaker 1I made a purchase.
I went and I got I got them.
There are these incredibly twee you really got into loops.
I got them.
Speaker 2And so now there's actually genuinely no excuse, and so I'm gonna learn something about myself, is what I will say.
Wow, in the next week, because I have another appointment with the physio, and a man at the Palate studio this morning said he was a physiotherapist for a time and they always know if you haven't done your exercise.
Speaker 1He said that, uh huh, they will.
Speaker 2Because I was explaining this exact situation this morning, because it's really the main thing going on in my life right now is having joints.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm so sorry, that's what That's what happens all of a sudden, it's the main thing.
Dumb.
Speaker 2It's just so dumb.
And I've got a really poppy knee.
But that's been the case forever.
But I'm like, Okay, is this actually a problem and does somebody need to am I gonna have to find a third physiotherapist for my knee.
Yeah, well, I'm just I'm spending most of my week going to the physiotherapist.
Speaker 1Off off, Mike.
I told you about my foot.
My foot is off, and I just went to acupuncture because foot is off.
The beneath you guys, Her foot's gone.
My foot is off.
It's gone.
Every now and then, I really really tweak.
Right underneath my right scapula is yours.
Underneath your scapula.
Speaker 2It is just on the inside of it, between my spine and my shoulder.
Speaker 1Oh, it's my rhomboid.
I was told.
Speaker 2Yeah, I got a naughty rhomboid.
Speaker 1Naughty rhomboid.
Naughty romboid, naughty romboid.
I feel like that's a good name for like a it's a good name generally, like a a hip hop or not a rhomboid.
Nice to media or that guy, Yeah, whoever, that guy is also interesting.
My shoulder phisio is Irish and my hips phisio is Australia.
What does it mean and what does it mean?
Speaker 2My joints are being looked at from across around the globe.
Is that kind of like where they are multiple hemispheres.
Speaker 1Where they are on the map.
Ah, if my body was the globe, yeah yeah, my shoulders, my hips are Australia because it's your left shoulder.
Nope, my right shoulder.
Okay, yes, I was gonna say that the the world threw me from the front.
Yeah yeah, wow fast.
Physios have the whole world in their hands.
The whole world, I mean my shoulder and hips to the r Yeah.
Well, Leonna, speaking speaking of things, uh mm hmmm, yeah, speaking of what problems?
Yeah yeah, speaking of problems, whether you view that it's problematic or just uh uh steaks steaks in a movie problem.
Let's move on to our to our, to our segments.
Speaker 3Yeah yeah, okay, Seanna, could you please give us a synopsis of the film You've Got Mail?
Speaker 1Yes, yes, you can hear the tiredness and my writing of it.
Oh beautiful, You've Got Mail.
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are pen pals via email.
Woo actually aol oh yeah, and business competitors, but they don't know that both those things are true.
Whoa Hank's is a big superstore corporate guy and Ryan is little shop around the corner homespun lady.
So it's sort of like they're they're they're doing their type in they're doing their thing.
And then they both go about their life and fall in New York and they don't even know the other exists.
And then Ryan is saying, this big Barnes and Noble type place is moving in in Fox Books and it's gonna try to put us out of business, but gosh darn it, it won't.
And they she meets him Joe Fox is a joke whenever Fox for Fox Books.
She goes, Oh, come on you, you really suck.
You know what, You're a terrible person.
But then she goes to she texts.
She goes and types to the little the little pen pal and says, but I think you're so sensitive little Does she know you're the same guy?
What does it mean?
Anyway, she fights hard so they won't put her out of business.
Unfortunately, they do put her out of business.
The big superstore wins.
Eventually, Tom Hanks actually realizes that she is indeed his pen pal.
They go to meet.
At one point she's already sitting there.
He goes up.
He goes, oh, oh no, oh damn it yay and uh.
But then he has the information for longer than she does, and he realizes, I have been a dick.
I need to make it, I need to be I need to become her friend.
Unfortunately, he becomes her friend mainly by comforting her about the messages which he is writing and we'll talk about that.
But eventually they fall in love because hey, they have been like each other's main confidant since the beginning.
Yeah, but also he put her out of business.
What the fuck, dude.
It's so so nineties, from the outfits, to the workplaces, to the things they're talking about the world becoming which it was absolutely right, the world did become that, oh yeah, oh yeah, and to the warm lighting.
It is a very nineties film the end.
Yeah.
Can I be honest, Yes, I did not like this movie, you know.
Can I be honest, Yes, My memory of this movie was very eye roll, and watching it this time, I was like, I actually get it.
Whoaw.
But I have to say that's after watching it actually a lot of times.
So I think it just like broke me to the other side where I've watched it through the eyes of like this is stupid and problematic and this time around, I was like, I love Fall Wow, And I actually noticed a couple of ways it was more nuanced than I remember.
Isn't that weird?
Isn't that weird to call anything about this film nuanced?
Yeah?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah it is, But I got I guess it.
To your defense, I guess what I should.
Speaker 1Also say is that, like everything I was gonna take with a grain of salt, I already knew about, So nothing surprised makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.
Oh okay, well, but yeah, I think that's a very valid feeling about this movie completely.
Is your borderline live in partner really excited to get on the computer as soon as you leave, you should probably fall in love with somebody else.
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2Let's turn the page into our phone notes, where we read the notes the other person took on their phone while watching the film.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh my god, I have like sort of a lot so just just just a lot too.
Speaker 4I don't know.
Speaker 1I guess I just had I kept having opinions.
Speaker 2Oh yes, a big question, Sianna, you asked, Leanna, did you ever I am or send chain emails, et cetera.
Absolutely, Gmail took our elementary school.
Speaker 1By still mail.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
My parents tried to get me another email and I said, no, I want a Gmail and they didn't understand why, and I explain, it's because we were doing things where I am.
Speaker 2At the email of the moment.
Yeah, you could put a status.
And did you ever do that thing where you got like a you downloaded icons and made those your like status image?
Speaker 1That was really big.
I don't know if I, but I used a lot of them, little car.
Speaker 2I was downloading, I was downloading things and I was iming.
I have I ever told you this story about I guess we'll bleep his name.
Speaker 1I don't know, maybe you did.
He was my big.
Speaker 2Crush in elementary school and we started a DM situation ship.
Speaker 1I had a situationship back then.
I was in a situationship via Gmail.
That's honestly, we were.
We were iming all the time.
What did they call it on Gmail?
Gmail?
G chat?
We were g chatting.
Yeah, maybe that's it consistantly.
And he famously in elementary school had a huge crush on my best friend, one of my best friends, and then, oh god, over the course of our messaging, he would he informed me at the end of one of our chats.
One day he said, btw, I like eighty percent and you twenty percent?
Now what the freak?
Speaker 2Okay, but that's okay, but he used to like her one yeah, And the percentages slowly over time, and we wonder why now I don't value myself?
Speaker 1You know?
That is the most middle school I think the difference between the artists and the normal people are if your middle school romance experiences affected you.
And I genuinely think that in a deep psychological way, because people who are just super chill will be like, oh, yeah, like, yeah, I had I had quote unquote boyfriends when I was like, that doesn't count.
And I'm like the fact that you think that means a lot about your experience.
Speaker 2I'm like, I had somebody who liked me twenty percent, yeah, and was happy to tell me that.
Speaker 1And I said, and I remember that, and I remember that.
Were you g chatting?
I love to g chat?
Yeah, I loved g chat.
I was mostly g chatting my softball friends from other schools, which made me feel really cool that I knew people from other schools because I wasn't.
That is very cool.
That was what was like the mark of a cool thing when you went to.
I don't know if it's at any school or particularly when you went to like a private Catholic school.
To know people from the outside was like really cool.
Yeah, I think it's always cool to appear worldly.
Yeah, someone from another school.
How do you feel about my Grian?
Speaker 2You know, happy for her that she had this amazing career of rom coms.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't think I have a strong opinion.
I think she does a really good job in them.
I like my problem with the movies is never with her.
Yeah, yeah, how about you.
I think I feel similarly.
I think she does a good job.
Yeah, she could.
It could be the adorable thing can be sort of like eye roll.
But I think she doesn't make me necessarily feel super iroll.
But there are moments, yeah, where I always feel it's more the writing than it is her performance of it.
Yeah, they're good when they're good.
Combo for these things.
When he was like, what are you doing in that photo and she goes twirling, you know that really made me laugh too.
Twirling I'm twirling, Okay, Well, yeah that's what I Yeah, but I guess he ask the keyst thing you could do?
Okay, Leon I'm gonna read.
I'm gonna read some of your notes.
You've said, wasp ask wasp asked dog name, brinnan Lee Brinkley.
Speaker 2This film was very wasp culture in many ways.
Brinkley Brinkley, I've never heard of that as a name for a dog.
Speaker 1People be naming their dogs crazy things.
What did you think of the dog?
Did you notice that there was a dog?
The dog seemed like a good dog, you know, I noticed because they had some shots just on the dog for about ten seconds at a time, and you couldn't not see the dog that is a dog.
Yeah, okay, wait, Leonna, you've said I love these people who can't wait to go have fun on the computer.
Speaker 2At the beginning, I was kind of like, yes, they're both kind of waiting for their roommate or like significant.
Speaker 1Other, just whoever's in their mat.
They have their romantic learner who they're kind of cheating on.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, they're just waiting for them to leave so they can go have fun on the computer.
Speaker 1And I was like, yeah, yeah, I get that.
I totally get that.
Speaker 2Like if I was going to be home alone or something when I was growing up, and I knew I was going to be able to just like veg in front of the Disney Channel with my hint of lime chip.
This that my excitement level was as theirs was to go have an emotional affair on the computer.
Speaker 1And that's how I did used to feel about messaging.
Yeah, Leanna, you said she carried a pumpkin to work.
I need to get into a much more whimsical mindset.
Speaker 2Really, I was realizing over the course of the film, I'm not in the space that I need to be in to enjoy this right, and that was maybe carrying a particularly clear when a woman showed up to work with a pumpkin in hand, in.
Speaker 1Arm, Yeah, an armful of pump It brought just a pumpkin to work.
Maybe No, maybe for one of your jobs.
I haven't No, well, actually no, but I see what you mean.
That's completely possible.
Actually, I'm not ruling.
I think one day you might.
Leanna, we have to talk about this.
We have to talk about this.
You've said they had Starbucks in the nineties, girl, absolutely, Starbucks was it was the night it came out in the nineties, and that's when they started the whole like takeaway coffee thing in like a big way.
Completely changed coffee culture it used to be.
I was going to ask if you remember it from when we were kids, because we would go there.
Speaker 2If don't you remember the nineties, I remember the early two thousands.
I remember Starbucks in the two thousands, right, But I would say, no, it existed in the nineties.
Speaker 1Late nineties, early two thousands.
I would say, kind of culturally.
Speaker 2I would say, I probably don't have memories from before two thousand and six.
Speaker 1So I wouldn't know.
Yeah, I see, but I had no idea.
It to me, just screams mid Mid aunts the concept of a Starbucks.
It felt kind of jarring.
I was.
I had to look up what year this was made because they were obsessed with it too.
They kept showing big shots of it.
It was like, oh yeah, huge advertisement for it.
Ironic.
Speaker 2They used to have good food promoting an independent bookstore, but then absolutely sledting out a Starbucks.
Speaker 1But then the Barnes and Noble kind of wins and she ends up going to see the kids area, and she's like, fine with it.
This is good, which I are doing good things.
There's like the nuance to that is that it's like the world goes on even as things change and become worse, Like there's still kids enjoying themselves, but it's there was a lot of this movie that was like superstores are going to take over and make the world impersonal and like make business is worse.
And they're right, that did happen.
That literally happened, and it is way worse.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Oh, by the way, Also the New York of it all, you're so right that the city is a character and literally a few times so you're enjoying seeing autumn in New York and then a few times they go like don't you just love New York and autumn.
We're like, okay, we get it.
And then later he also says to her like I hope you get better soon because she's sick.
Later he's like, I hope you can get better soon.
You don't want to miss New York in the spring, Like, guys, just get over yourselves.
It's a great city.
It feels great to be there.
Yeah, but you know you can't have every month.
Speaker 2Yeah, I guess they don't.
I guess New York in the winter is like garbage and then really bad in the summer.
So I guess they're like when I was in New York half the year.
When I was in New York, people.
Speaker 1Would be like, there's no summer like New York summer.
There is no summer like New York summer.
So they're obsessed with every season.
Just don't They're right, but they're they're using the wrong tone exactly.
They need to be saying it with fears.
I don't like how you're saying that the streets smell like garbage.
It is very It's like vapors, vapors everywhere, and you say the vapors, what is this coming from something?
I don't like that my face is when it's not just humidity, it's coming from the city.
Right, that's not good, Leona, you said sorry, she runs an independent children's bookstore and she lives in that apartment.
Speaker 3Yep.
Speaker 1Need to get into the whimsical mindset.
Yeah.
Speaker 2Every time I was like sorry, and the ibub I was like no, no, no, remember whimsical mindset.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Stop.
You can't question then because you have to just be in a whimsical mindset.
A children's bookstore in New York City, I'm sorry, are you fucking Manhattan?
Yeap on the Upper West Side?
That's not that wasn't making are you?
Are you?
And she shops at z Bars?
What?
Yeah, that makes no sense.
Oh my god, that makes no sense.
I was I just I guess.
I guess I'm really not in the mood for love right now.
And so as a result because a male comedian hurt my feelings, which is so degrading.
But as a as a result, anything to do with that, anything where it's like her is so so quirky, her home is so beautiful, all of it.
I'm like, shut up, no, it's not.
None of this is real life is hell, that's not real.
It's it gets dark at four pm.
Now, it is true.
It's terrible.
I mean she is sort of like she is sort of like in a dream state all the time.
And when she lost her work there, I was like, girl, I love that you're gonna like go find yourself, but do you have a degree?
Like this is your mom's store.
What are you gonna do?
All you did was twirl and then run the store your mom started.
Fortunately, in this universe, you're famous because you have a children's bookstore.
Oh right, so everyone wants to give you a job.
Now, I don't know.
Okay, love this, Leanna, you said, I am aligned with all of Greg Kadeer's opinions.
Man, yeah, I.
Speaker 2Know he's supposed to be the like annoying, I know, the borderline conspiracy theorist guy.
Speaker 1But he's just right everything.
He's right.
He actually is a way more in this film are correct for today.
He is the only one who's really aligned with today, except for the fact that he also is complicit in there in your thirties nineties New York cheating of it all.
That's true.
I don't know why those characters always are just like I guess.
I guess just being non monogamous was the was the default.
I don't know.
I don't know.
They're like living with their partners, yeah, in full on, but just having emotional affairs.
Yeah yeah.
And they were just like afterwards when they break up and they've been together for like at least a year, Yeah, they're like basically living together.
When they eventually break up, they're like, so is there someone else?
Speaker 3Yeah?
Speaker 1Completely chill.
Speaker 2But I loved him so much.
He was insane.
He got really excited about a typewriter.
Speaker 1Girl.
I looked at a typewriter that was on sale on a used like furniture website this week, and I considered it we should start doing our podcast on a typewriter.
Honestly, we're basically doing that name because we don't have a video element.
Yeah, and all her podcast doesn't exist.
What podcasts have become?
I don't think what this is a podcast legally speaking.
Leoni you said, closing the computer is so real?
Oh my god.
Speaker 2When she's pen paling and then he says should we meet?
And she goes oh and shuts the computer and walks away, that's so so real.
Yeah, that's like any anytime somebody likes me on hinge.
Speaker 1H, I go oh, close the app, throw the phone, so I left, I throw my phone in the sea.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I really Yeah.
I yearn for a lot of elements of that era that I spent not that many years existing during.
Speaker 1Right right, Well, I'll try.
Speaker 2To undisclosed number of years because I'm not I'm not telling you which part of that decade I showed up during.
Speaker 1Yeah, Leanna you said, how did her anger at him manage to be misogynist?
Yes?
Is this when she's like, it's like an entire generation of Coga waitresses.
Oh these stupid young bitches.
Hell was that?
Like?
Okay, what the hell I'm sorry angry at a man.
Speaker 2You're angry at a male CEO who lied to you, and you're comparing him to young women.
Speaker 1I know.
Speaker 2In this scathing way that was wild.
What also, that hadn't been like a feat of motif during the film.
No, was that just something that was going on in the nineties.
Also, those young women were like, my name is it's Sanet.
Speaker 1It's okay not to say your last name when you introduce yourself to someone.
I actually don't know what she's talking about.
I had no idea what she was talking.
I didn't say hello, my name is Siena J.
Cole to everybody I meet.
That's weird.
Was that something from the past that people were doing so you could find them in the phone book?
And I feel like, I hope most most people these days they under stand that when you're when you're when you're talking about another generation, you're also talking about someone who's twenty two.
Their brain is different.
Yeah, girl, you're smarter.
Yeah, yeah, you're in your late thirties.
Let it go, let it go, brutal, late thirties.
She is, I looked it up.
She's thirty seven movie.
Never mind, that's fine to say then Oh my gosh, I love that you just met a new guy.
Giry.
Okay, so does he lied to you recently?
Oh?
Oh he has?
Okay?
Is he corporate swilled?
Did he?
Is he like a sort of a billionaire vibe?
Oh?
He?
Oh he is?
Okay, Well, surely he didn't put you out of business though, oh he did.
All right, I'm going to give you three minutes to sort of rethink your your options here.
We'll be right back, okay, Leonnah, I'm gonna go through some of your final notes.
You've said.
Okay, well you said office move triggered.
Speaker 2Yeah, when she's in the empty store, I was like, oh wait, Leani, you said why and how does she have a piano?
Speaker 1I don't remember that.
Was she moving a piano?
No, she just has a piano in her apartment.
That is so insane.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2That's so nineties.
That's so that is so when the economy was in a different, maybe more achievable place, you could just have a piano.
Nobody just has a piano.
No, you have a keyboard.
If you have to do music for your profession.
Speaker 1You have to be a piano planted if you have a piano, because how are you gonna move a piano?
Also, never saw you play that?
Used to like storage at someone's house, at someone's house at Yeah, it was at the rich one's house, Bertie Leon.
Your final note is Okay, I didn't like that.
Sorry, Yeah, I get that.
Sorry.
I like to Toral.
I like to Tora, and I love this man who I'm talking to online.
Would he breaks down the Godfather?
Okay?
I guess we should get into badges and trages.
Oh, I mean kill him with a gun please.
Yeah, the Godfather is everything.
Let me explain it to you, which I have to say, they kind of do an accurate job of showing like what messaging on like hinges like, because that is the kind of thing it'll be.
Speaker 3Like.
Speaker 1Let me break down for you in a quirky way why the Godfather is so good and you have to go, wow, that's crazy.
Are you watching the Godfather?
I don't really agree with that, but I guess we should go on to be anyway because it is so slim pickens in this town.
Speaker 2Yeah, definitely, this early version of what is with men?
And the Godfather walked so that Bobby could run, so that what could have made me want to rewatch Barbie Harby.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, yeah, well, Godfather, should we go on to our badges and trages?
Because I feel like we can discuss further the tragic elements of this have.
Speaker 2Several I have several of both absolutely rally through it.
You are in my notes as anonymous Dumbo octopus.
I just finished reading a book about it, octopus which one it's called remarkably bright creepy.
Speaker 1Sure are you freaking kidding me?
Speaker 2I was thinking that you would like it because it's set in Washington, Yeah, and they have a view of the Puget Sound.
Speaker 1I actually I liked it because it was about a lonely woman.
I actually listened to the audiobook, and I bet that's fun.
It is fun because the woman reading it, she actually does a good job at changing the voices.
And every time she does what his name cam?
She goes like this, she looks like that.
Speaker 2Ye, that's him, that's absolutely him.
Did she Marcellus the Octopus with a British accent?
Speaker 1Oh?
Actually he was because I was picturing it.
He was actually just read by a man at it and that is the only one.
And the Scottish guy she would do a Scottish accent.
Oh hell, and then I think that the boss is supposed to be Jamaican and she just skipped that.
Speaker 2Good So she did a good job.
She's late, Okay, made all the correct choices.
Speaker 1Yep, that's right.
Yep.
Kind of too bad that they didn't just get somebody in here.
I know, if they were gonna get an octopus, but they couldn't find a Jamaican voice actor.
But they're like, we're gonna work with what we got and we're going as possible.
Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh my god, I literally finished it last night.
Speaker 1That is so crazy cute.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, welcome to badges and trages where we give badges for bookstores that are independent and trages for tricking, tricking women, tricking women, tricking women.
And that's what you did.
Oh, I have a badge for a dog.
Yeah, this was lucky you, lucky you, lucky me.
Badge for nineties Cafe Vibes ASMR is what I wrote, because you know they have those like YouTube things, like videos that are like yeah, lo fi eleven hanging out in a coffee shop and it's the nineties and it's warm.
That is what this movie is.
I think, like, this is if you're gonna if you keep watching it.
The reason is because you're like, oh, I miss when when the lighting was warm and that I could actually buy a delicious piscatti.
That's one thing that also you gotta love about New York.
They have real bakeries there.
It's hard to find a good bakery in the United States of America.
Yeah, I get that.
I get that.
Speaker 2La was the corner from where we stayed in Brooklyn that had the best cinnamon buns ever had.
Speaker 1LA only has gentrified bakeries in my area, which is a very gentrified area.
Uh, it's like, it's like this, but the cinnamon roll is shipped in and too sweet.
Yeah you know what I mean.
Yeah, where can I find somewhere where it's bag fucking pastries getting shipped in.
It's really grim.
It's really grim.
I don't like it.
Speaker 2A badge for look at this dog.
Okay, I don't think that's gonna be the last one.
Speaker 1This is funny because this shows our priorities, because my next badge is tea party slash Scones.
This is a dream.
You're noticing the dodge, I'm noticing the baked goods.
Okay, my next badges look at all these dogs.
Yay, there were so many dogs in the background of the movie.
I loved that.
I have a badge for two Harry Nilsen songs because I really like Harry Nelson a lot.
Okay, I will he's the one who sing he he did do the music for Midnight Cowboy, but don't think about that.
He also he's the one who sing the I Want a Puppy, the song that for some reason, it's about a puppy at the beginning, and then he sings in New York City.
He has a beautiful voice.
I love when men have beautiful voices.
Oh.
I have a.
Speaker 2Badge for this iconic woman who's also in Miscongeniality shop assistant I love and miss Congeniality, who says her perfect date is April twenty fifth.
Yeah, I love her.
Speaker 1I think she's great.
I will also take this moment to give a badge for the casting that it's the cast is very funny.
Oh.
And that's another reason I think that despite its problematic elements and stupidity, this movie, like it is, there's many elements that are very good and watchable because the cast is really good.
It's really funny.
Parker posey, come on, Steve zan Steve Zann when the whole bookstore comes in and they're like, hey, you stood you up.
Oh that was fun.
It's fun.
It's fun.
Oh, a badge for a map of Ireland on the wall of the wasp party they go to where they where she finds out he's actually Joe Fox Love love a map.
Okay, I will give a badge in all his deceit.
In the plan that he coordinated in which they would get lunch and he would reveal his feelings and then she would meet actual him at four pm.
In this plan that he created, at the very end, he accounted enough time for her to change and process a little bit.
I give a badge for that because I was, like, to be honest, if a man actually did this, and I'm not trying to just be cruel a generalist, but I do think this is true.
If a man actually planned this, he would have planned it for like lunch at twelve and they meet at one, which would give her no time to change and get cute for her date and also not give her time to like think about it a little bit and just like put it behind her.
Yeah, knew a lunch and then four pm, perfect amount of time.
So he was thoughtful in that way.
And that's how you can tell it was actually written by a woman because she had to change, She had a change to address, she had to get ready.
Yep, a badge for a picture of Puppy Brinkley on Tam Hanks's bedside table.
That was so cute.
My final badge because I guess I wrapped them up is I wrote this earlier on.
But there's actually a more nuance in this film than I remember.
The reason I had not good associations is because I thought of it as being very, very dumb.
But there were a few things and both those include the fact that she sells the store, which is incredibly tragic.
I get why they did it this time, where it's like she needs this has been her whole life.
She just did what her mom did basically, and like she kind of needs to find herself.
Okay, I guess that's more interesting than it being Hallmark style, and she just like gets the store at the end.
And then I did notice that he tried not to lie to her, for at the beginning, he tries not to lie to her because when he's texting, when he types or when he responds to why he was gone, he's like, I actually can't tell you yet.
And everything he says is true, it is true.
So I was like, oh, I didn't realize that before.
I guess he's not lying to her.
But then he forms a friendship.
He forms a friendship with her later that's completely one hundred percent founded on her talking about her loved her lover lover, and that's him like planting new weird thing you hate.
It was where the seat came in in a big way.
Yeah, I was like, brother, why brother, you almost made it to the home stretch.
You almost made it to the home stretch without home stretch, without being a dick.
Hmm.
You almost respected her, but you didn't so close.
Speaker 2My final badges are a badge for Steve Zann saying the line, I gotta get some eucalyptus candles because it makes my apartment smell mossy.
Speaker 1I love him.
I love A badge for bad bars, A badge for the stuffed animal babars that they had behind the counter at the bookstore.
Some of the books they had in the background excellent because they were from our childhood m and then a badge for doggies a badge for a tiny dog, and my final badge is Brinkley because he's very involved in the last scene.
He is very involved.
Trages, trages, a trage that this movie was not streaming anywhere I had to pay.
I was very surprised at that as well.
Come on, what is the point having a billion streaming services?
And Tom Hanks should be stuff freely.
There should be like a tam Hanks streaming platform.
Tom Hanks is like watch be like HBO Max accessible to all everywhere.
Tom Hanks is a human right, a basic human right.
Yeah.
Trage for this movie is afraid of a world that is indeed our actual world.
Now the bad corporate stuff did explicitly have it happened.
Uh, this guy Joe Fox was going to become a billionaire and he would be part of the class of the one percent that took us down.
He would absolutely have been funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor Oh my god, Joe Fox for Cuomo.
Trage for Boom that is about Dave Chappelle.
Ouse he became a transphobic asshole.
Yeah yep, And now every time he's in a film, I have to boo whenever he speaks all of his Yeah, all of his jokes are so mhmm the same.
Uh A trade for the line about an entire generation of cocktail waitresses.
Girl, just be you don't have to say that.
What are you talking about?
I trade for twirling?
I was twirlingling?
Sorry what we were twirling?
Okay, right, she said, as if she invented twirling.
Girl, everybody's twirled.
Have you not heard of a dervish?
I guess they're whirling?
Whirling?
Is twirling enough?
M hm h trad for the ententification of the world.
It just makes me so sad that Starbucks used to be a nice place to be.
I remember it growing up, going after church, sitting in the comfy chairs and eating delicious pastries.
And they don't have that anymore.
You can't get anything good to eat at Starbucks.
Nothing.
He's comfy.
They don't want you to be comfortable.
No, they want you to leave, and the food is And it's really sad.
But trage for that wasn't really charming at all.
The scene at Ze Bars, where the concept of it is that tam Hawks charms the cashier into allowing Magryan to pay with a credit card.
He's not really being he's kind of just being rude.
I know, I thought he was just gonna have cash be like, I'll pay for it, me too, But why didn't they do that?
He charms this woman who had a beautiful smile by the way, kind of just like bullies.
Yeah, I didn't like it, and he used his like elite rich boy status.
I would not like that.
I would not like that alf I were her trag for she had to be she had to be pretty.
Did not like that.
There's this little freak gube of like it just disgusts It disgusts me.
There was some one thing deeply the thing that makes us scared about about how heterosexual male culture works.
This is like the kind of stereotype around it that's playing into, which is that he's like because I liked her and she's nice to talk to, I knew she had to be attractive in the way that I value.
I knew it.
I knew it.
If she wasn't, that wouldn't make sense to me, because how could I like a girl and think she's cool if she's not incredibly hot in the way that I value.
That is what it was saying.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that is what he was saying.
Yeah, I didn't like it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2My next trage is for in that same scene Dave Chappelle saying she could be a real dog twice.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Yeah.
Trage for calling her a bitch, which he does, or he says like, yeah, she could be a bitch.
Don't say that, Tom Hanks.
I do not like to hear you say that word.
Do not say that word.
Speaker 2Trage for men are cowards.
He won't even go up to the restaurant without having his friend go first and tell him if.
Speaker 1She's hot or not.
Yeah, because he's afraid, and then he won't tell her the truth for the rest of the film, and are such cower uh.
Trage for talking down to Huan on the phone when he's in the elevator.
He picks up the phone, He's like, hello, who is this Huan?
Okay, now call nine one one, yes, nine one one yeaheah, that's the fire department.
Okay, all right, right, it was loaded.
Yeah.
Trage for this movie was too long.
I paused it to go pee, and I was like, it was twenty five minutes left.
It's oh, it was long.
It is two full hours.
It doesn't need that.
No, and my final trage is trage for their entire friendship is founding founded upon lying.
He tries to become her friend to make sure that that he can be a good person before they before they actually date eventually, and but that friendship is founded upon lies instead of just being founded upon their their common interests.
No good, No good.
My next tradge is a trage for dramatic irony.
I don't like dramatic irony.
I don't like know any things before characters know them.
I find it very stressful.
It's unsettling for you.
I hate it.
I hate it.
Speaker 2Trad for how does he know where she lives?
He shows up at her apartment with flowers?
If the man who put my business out of business showed up at my home with flowers, I'd say, how did you get this address?
Speaker 1I'm calling?
I don't know.
I wouldn't call the police because they would decide with him.
But uh, I'd call someone.
Speaker 4Uh.
Speaker 1Trad for why won't he tell her the truth?
I don't like this.
A trage for fat phobia.
When they're guessing, Oh my.
Speaker 2God, all the reasons his handle might be the handle that it is a trade for it was, and they're eating octopus.
Now that's because I just finished Remarkably Bright Creature and I've decided, actually, yeah, we should not be.
Speaker 1Eating remarkably bright.
Those animals are smart.
They're smart.
Well, I think a lot of animals feel way, but there is something about octopi that they like extremely feel it.
They are like, oh so many, oh god, oh god, a trade for playing the song somewhere over the rainbow.
By this point in the movie, I was like, shut up.
And then my final tragedy is he's such a freak.
This guy's a freak.
He's a freak.
It's freaky.
He's a rich he's a rich weirdo.
He's probably been to islands that you don't want to know about.
Oh that's all I'll say, Sorry, dark Leona.
Let's move on to our next segment, which is, of course, how to pretend You've seen this?
Or this is when you're just trying to enjoy a nice walk through the park in autumn, you're having a.
Speaker 2Nice Well, it's called how to pretend You've seen this film?
He said, how to pretend you've seen this?
Or And our next segment, should you watch this film?
Speaker 1Help me, help help how to pretend you've seen this?
Or have you seen this?
Or how to pretend you've seen this film.
You're walking through the park.
It's autumn.
You're enjoying a nice, beautifully self performative afternoon, just walking around looking, peeping the leaves, and Tam comes up to you and uh, he goes, Oh, can't help noticing that you like the leaves here, but you know where the leaves are the best?
New York.
Oh, New York in the fall.
New York in the fall is so good, So is so is spring?
And summer you just can't beat it.
Winter's okay, But you got to be in New York for all these or your life isn't isn't real?
Life isn't real.
It's here.
I'm gonna tell you all about this movie that I just saw about this really brave guy he he he manages to still to be a really loving partner to this woman even though she runs a really stupid bookstore, and he does everything he can.
I really feel like we should try to like understand rich guys a little bit more.
And I'm going to tell you all about this movie.
It's called it's called You've Got Mail.
Speaker 2And in order to log Tam off, we are going to give you a few sentences as you can say, to pretend you've seen the film You've Got Mail.
Yes, Tam, I've seen You've Got Mail.
Goodbye.
And then I put in my headphones and I play the song Dreams by the Cranberry's, which was in the movie.
Speaker 1Changing every day in every possible way.
Yes, Tam, I have seen the film You've Got Mail.
I was wondering about where it was shot because it was such a cute little space, and it seems like it was actually filmed in New York and or even the shop, and indeed the children's bookstore scenes were filmed at Maya Shaper's Cheese and Antique shop at Little six West sixty ninth Street.
And then this trivia piece goes on to say like, oh, yeah, they wanted the antique shop because it's quaint and homye, but but how was it cheese and cheese?
Please tell me cheese and antiques?
Interesting?
I guess cheese is antique milk?
So true?
Oh, Tam, of course I've seen You've Got Mail.
Please.
Speaker 2I wish we could suck.
We could talk about something relevant for today, like the luddite movement in nineteenth century England.
Speaker 1Okay, Greg Kinnear, sure, yes, I have seen the film.
Yes, Tam, I have seen the film You've Got Mail.
I think many of us know Tom Hanks collects typewriters.
Little fun fact about Tom Hanks.
And also Meg Ryan got her very first computer during this film.
So okay, real period moment, imagine that time, just truly.
I can't imagine a time where devices aren't everywhere.
Actually, cannot imagine.
I know.
Speaker 2Oh, Tam, of course, yes I've seen You've Got Mail.
I have to go now.
I got to get some eucalyptus candles because it makes my apartment smell mossy.
That's so fun that is Wasn't he the main character?
Speaker 1I loved him.
What's going on with him?
I want to see it into his life?
Oh no, oh this is oh god, it's just a funny, Hollywood like success story of like, oh that's good that you maybe screwed someone else over.
Uh.
Yes, Tam, I have seen the film You've Got Mail.
The movie was originally titled You Have Mail, but it changed after Warner Bros.
Consultant a Warner Bros.
Consultant found that AOL never trademarked it's famous You've got male greeting because they were They were like, oh, it's trademark.
Probably then they found that it wasn't.
They're like, hell, yeah, we're gonna use You've Got Mail, first recorded by Elwood Edwards in nineteen eighty nine.
Edwards's agent, Unsuccessful, tried to get him a voice credit on the movie Why unsuccessful, Just give the man a credit.
Speaker 2That's like how our podcast was originally supposed to have a better name.
Yeah, and probably could have.
We were going to.
Speaker 1Say, yeah, what are they gonna do now, sue us.
We're talking into a typewriter right now, we are typewriting a podcast.
Oh can we move on now?
Yeah?
Speaker 2Okay, Sienna, let's do this one.
Let's do Should you watch this or which is where we tell you our audience, if we think you should watch this movie or if you should do something else with your time?
Speaker 1Tam Tam Hanks.
I'll go first.
No, awesome, you don't need to watch You've Got Mail.
What you could do instead is you could read the book Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
But really, what you must do is hit up your local independent bookstore and buy something from there, because God, the world is hell.
Go support the little guys.
Yeah, okay, well I would say you could.
You could watch this movie.
I do think it's it does scratch an itch of if you're looking for the like nostalgic nineties autumn and New York vibe, this does scratch an itch and it's got its problems, But a lot of other automan New York back in the day was captured by like, for example, Woody Allen, and this is better than that, So you know, it's like, it is what it is.
It's very it's very ram commy vibe, and it makes you nostalgic for a time when maybe creative work was invested in a little bit more.
And movies from the nineties always make me nostalgic a because I was a child then, right for some portion of it, or early two thousands, but also because I think they literally did just invest in the movie in warm movies in a different way.
And I've been enjoying some kind of older content recently, especially animated stuff, because they used to again pay artists even a little bit.
Then we always think they're not getting paid, and then people get their cut paid cut even more and we're like, what, I guess we were a little bit.
But I just recently watched James and the Giant Peach and I remember that movie kind of freaking me out, but it was actually really it's really Good's a good Halloween film.
Yeah, that's another spider.
Yeah, she's absolutely serving, voiced by Susan Saran.
Then I did not know.
Oh yeah, explain, so that's another good one.
Yeah, if you're looking to be nostalgic for a different time when things were maybe a little less shitty somehow, like like shitty, like shoddy, they were a little ruler.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, anyway, Leanna, what would you rate this movie?
I will give you've got mail.
There's stuff I liked about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll give it two to work pumpkins out of five.
I did not like this man's behavior, and I'm not in the mood to watch people be happily in love.
But I loved the dog and the other dogs.
And they did capture a a autumnal sense, right, that was nice.
And there were little moments that did make me giggle, and I did I like a lot of the actors who are in good cast.
Yeah, Seanna, what would you like Did you give it again two to work pumpkins out of five.
Speaker 1I'm gonna give this movie three point five biscotti out of five.
I liked it more than I thought I was going to.
Actually, I thought I was gonna be more annoyed by stuff.
But you know what, I had a good dumb time.
Yes, wow, as is your right.
I'm getting I'm getting to be a softie in my old sore aching age.
I've been referring to my body as my old bones.
Late.
Our joints are not good right now on this podcast bad joints.
Well, we didn't.
Oh my god, that's it, even though all of my technology was failing me this whole time, because it's desperately trying to go back to a time where there was no technology.
It's yearning, it's pining.
Well, thank you everybody so much for listening.
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Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1Probably so timely.
This is so timely.
It is.
Do you know about this?
Oh?
I can't wait to talk about this.
Oh my god.
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I really think I hated it.
I was not in the mood.
Did you just keep going ugh?
Yes,